Xia Huai's Book

The summer when I was seventeen years old always carried an inexhaustible heat. The shadow of the old locust tree stretched so long on the playground of No. 6 Middle School, and the chirping of cicadas never stopped from morning to night, as if I wanted to wrap my entire youth into this noisy and gentle season. Gu Zhixia is recognized as a "special case" in No. 6 Middle School - not because he always occupies the top spot in his grade, but because of the almost indifferent quietness about him. His desk is always in the first row of the classroom by the window. The desk is so clean that only textbooks and notebooks are placed on it. The formulas on the notes are written more neatly than in print. When class was over, his classmates would gather around to chat, and he would either lower his head to answer questions or go to the library with his books in hand. Even when passing by the playground, he would not take a second look at the figures running on the basketball court. Some people say that he is "like a piece of ice that cannot hold any heat", while others envy him for being able to immerse himself in his own world without any distractions. But only Gu Zhixia knows that he is not indifferent, but is used to using silence to isolate himself from the disturbances of the outside world. Until that evening, when he was walking to the classroom holding the books he had just borrowed from the library, his back was suddenly hit by a powerful object, and the books were scattered on the floor. When he turned around, he ran into a pair of sweaty eyes - it was Lu Yechi. Lu Yechi was more famous than Gu Zhixia in No. 6 Middle School, but in another way. He is the main player of the school basketball team, and his jersey number "7" is particularly conspicuous on the court; he is also a "frequent visitor" to the teacher's office, not because of fighting and causing trouble, but because he is always caught in self-study classes to make up for missed homework. Some people are afraid of him and say he is the "school bully", but no one has seen him really bully anyone - the last time the junior students were blocked in the alley by gangsters from outside the school, he followed them quietly and protected them behind him; when the aunt in the cafeteria gave him an extra spoonful of food, he would smile and say "thank you", and would also help the girls in the next class carry heavy books. The collar of his school uniform always has two buttons open, and the strands of hair on his forehead are wet with sweat. He speaks with a careless tone, but it's not annoying. After the "basketball hitting someone" incident, there were some unexpected "intruders" in Gu Zhixia's life. During morning self-study, a bottle of ice-cold orange soda would suddenly appear in the table, with water droplets still on the bottle; he would find a line of scrawled but clear handwriting on his notebook after school for the key points he accidentally missed in class; during free activities in physical education class, he would sit under the locust tree to do questions, and there would always be a figure leaning against the trunk of the tree, shaking the basketball in his hand at him: "Scholar, do you want to watch something exciting?" Lu Yechi began to put his school uniform that was stained with grass clippings after training on the back of Gu Zhixia's chair. When he couldn't solve a math problem, he would awkwardly hand over the scratch paper full of graffiti and say, "Change your thinking, don't struggle"; Gu Zhixia was also slow Manchu was used to putting review materials with key points in Lu Yechi's drawer when he was late for training. When he was dejected after losing a game, he would hand him a bottle of warm water and say "win it next time" in a voice that only the two of them could hear. The leaves of the old locust tree have fallen and grown longer, and there are more and more little secrets hidden in the chirping of the cicadas. A small basketball pattern began to appear on the edge of Gu Zhixia's notebook, and Lu Yechi had a card full of English words in the pocket of his sportswear; they would walk home together after evening self-study, and the street lamps stretched their shadows very long, and occasionally the evening breeze blew by , carrying the fragrance of locust leaves; Lu Yechi would tell Gu Zhixia interesting things about the basketball court, and Gu Zhixia would also tell Lu Yechi the stories he read in books. They were obviously two completely different people, but in this hot summer, they found the frequency that belonged to each other. Some people say that they "don't look like the same people", but only Gu Zhixia and Lu Yechi know that in the collection of wrong questions they shared under the locust tree, in the bottle of soda they drank together, and in the countless nights they walked side by side, they had already quietly written the summer of seventeen as "our" story. It turns out that the most precious thing in youth is not an unchanging trajectory, but someone who is willing to break into your world with enthusiasm and accompany you to turn the monotonous days into a poem filled with the fragrance of locust flowers. Purpose: Using the midsummer of seventeen as the background, to depict the mutual influence and transformation of the two people - Gu Zhixia, led by Lu Yechi, stepped out of the closed world of learning and learned to feel the blood of running and the gentleness of the evening breeze; Lu Yechi, in the company of Gu Zhixia, picked up the awe of knowledge and learned to fight impetuosity with patience. Their growth is not a unilateral change, but like the leaves of the old locust tree and the summer wind, they set off and achieve each other, hiding the most touching "two-way redemption" of youth.