She came to Qingxi Middle School from the mountain village, bringing cakes baked by her mother and a snakeskin bag full of books. Lu Yang came from the town on his bicycle with a fried dough stick in his mouth, and his laughter spread across the corridor into the classroom. One is so quiet that people ignore his existence, and the other is so noisy that people want to cover their ears. They would not have crossed paths, but fate arranged for them to sit at the front and back tables.
Qingxi Middle School is an ordinary rural middle school. Day students and boarding students live under the same roof, but they seem to be living in two worlds. Here, "getting into a good high school" is everyone's goal, but everyone's starting line is different. His Chinese language performance was the best in the school, but he couldn't even wait for a family member to attend the parent-teacher conference. Lu Yang repaired the school's public address system, but the teacher said, "No points will be awarded for repairing things." Two teenagers with very different personalities went from being dissatisfied with each other to becoming true friends. Together they experienced the budding friendship, the confusion of choice, the crushing adversity, and the anger of questioning, and finally each found their own direction.
The whole article uses realism to connect the five-year complete growth arc of rural middle schools - establishing relationships, learning to choose, withstanding adversity, daring to question, and heading for the right direction. It looks at educational equity, the gap between urban and rural areas, family expectations and the worries of teenagers through the eyes of teenagers. It does not sell counterattacks or instill chicken soup, but only writes about a group of ordinary people who clumsily and sincerely find their own way in the most ordinary days.
Mission: Every young man deserves to be seen, and every road deserves to be respected