Chapter Eight Graduation

  The warm sunlight that hung in the western sky spilled over the campus, even the edges of the green grass were dyed with a light yellow hue. The last day of school for the third middle school's junior high department's graduating class was also coming to an end.

  The classroom was left with only the last lesson, and teachers of various subjects also came one after another. In addition to making a final summary, they also went through the middle school entrance examination procedure two days later. Each student had their own admission ticket number. At that time, the admission ticket was not made entirely of cardstock like it would be in a few years, but was still a white strip of paper with the name and admission ticket number printed in bold black font. Then, according to the tail number, they confirmed the school class seat.

  On the day of the high school entrance exam, all students in the city will be on holiday, and each school will be set up as an examination room. The location of each student's exam is also shuffled. Su Can was assigned to the exam room at First Middle School, which was his first time going to the best school in the city. The hardware facilities and environment inside were indeed much better than those of Third Middle School where he was studying.

  "The exam venues will be scattered all over the place, I really don't know where I'll end up. If I get assigned to Municipal No. 1 Middle School for the exam, does that mean my luck will be much better too?" The classmate sitting next to him muttered unconsciously while praying as they received their admission tickets and venue assignments.

  At that time, Municipal No. 1 Middle School was an object of admiration. Su Can remembered someone mentioning a beautiful class flower girl in a certain class, and as a result, someone in the crowd suddenly said, "Save it, she has a boyfriend, and her boyfriend is from First Middle School!" Nine out of ten times, those reckless people would shut up.

  Hearing his deskmate's murmured prayer, Su Can couldn't help but smile slightly, "Don't worry, if I'm not mistaken, you should be at the First Middle School exam venue."

  The girl who sat next to him because of her resemblance to an owl, was given the nickname by Su Can behind her back at that time. This also made Su Can remember this deskmate many years later. If he had traveled back in time to eleven years ago and nothing had changed, then when his deskmate's admission letter arrived, it would have been for the First Middle School exam venue. However, it seemed that it did not bring her good luck as she wished, and this deskmate was still left behind. When they were both attending the Third Middle School high school department, they were still classmates.

  "It's really in Yizhong! How did you know?!?" The deskmate who had gone to get the admission ticket number came back, looking at Su Can with surprise, and indeed, her admission ticket number was from First Middle School.

  "It's just a guess." Su Can smiled, and the class teacher read out his name, took the admission ticket, and eleven years ago, the development law indeed fit the history. He, Su Can, was still in the examination room of No. 1 Middle School.

  Su Can knew what this meant, the input of the test number was randomly drawn, and even this random rule conformed to history, so it explained that the events that occurred eleven years later would also appear faithfully one by one, such as lottery numbers for each period, stock market fluctuations...

  Okay, Su Can admits that this is a cliché plot, and the most crucial thing is that Su Can has never paid attention to lottery tickets and doesn't even know what the correct numbers are for which issue. His memories of stocks are also a mess, after all, who would have thought he'd suddenly return to his own eleven years ago!

  "Soo-chan, I've found that you're different from before." The classmate sitting next to her suddenly said. From earlier when she saw Soo-chan and Deputy Class Monitor Dong Qingyun arguing, to just now when he spoke confidently about his own exam performance, it made this owl-like classmate who originally looked down on Soo-chan because of her usual grades being higher than his, have a new opinion of him.

  "What? What's different about me from before?"

  The classmate stared blankly at Su Can for a few moments, then shook his head, "I don't know, anyway... you seem to have become a different person."

  Su Can sighed to himself that he hadn't changed into a different person, but had simply experienced everything in the future for no reason. He had gained over a decade of experience out of thin air in this information society where knowledge was exploding. Now, when he looked at things and considered them, there were many more aspects to take into account... Of course, the biggest change in him now was that he was filled with hope for the future.

  The class song was sung under the lead of the head teacher, in the slightly old and third floor teaching building. The sunset sunlight penetrated through the glass window, forming a beam of light in the classroom, shining on those young faces with a hint of childishness that belonged to Su Can more than a decade ago. Dust and lint floated in the classroom, the ceiling fan and fluorescent lamp above were coated with golden dust. All these things looked so retro and old-fashioned in Su Can's eyes, yet they seemed so clear and real.

  "Without experiencing wind and rain, how can you see the rainbow? No one can succeed easily... Cherish every touching moment in life, and warmly embrace your loved ones..." "True Hero" was one of the most popular songs at that time, and also the class song of Su Can's junior high school class. The singing floated out, many people shed tears, including Dong Qingyun, who was the most annoying person, looked at the teacher of the third year of junior high school with watery eyes, and was excited.

  Several female teachers had red eyes, this session seemed to be the first batch of junior high school students they taught after graduating from university, and their feelings were also the deepest. As for the later students, their passion gradually faded away.

  In my impression, everything about graduation is filled with an indescribable beauty, the melancholy and expectation for the future, the regret of unspoken love, all mixed into a fine wine that will be savored in the rest of life.

  This is also the best time, when it's time to go back to school to receive the notice, at that time, how happy and how sad, can't go back to this day, this beautiful stay.

  Other classes could also hear it **very clearly, and faintly came the sound of crying. The beautiful days in middle school seemed to have come to an end like this.

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  Throughout the first and second years of junior high, students would look at this group with a hint of envy as they finished their junior high school lives several classes earlier, also giving birth to expectations and longing for graduation.

  They just didn't know that the junior high school students who were used to having extra classes would envy those students who could leave school on time every day after class.

  Class teacher Xiao Zhou wished everyone good luck in the middle school entrance examination, which would determine their future destiny. When it was time to dismiss class, Su Can only then discovered that his desk was piled high with books.

  Originally, Su Can's junior high school grades were not good, and it was also related to his usual laziness. He would pile up a lot of books on the table, only taking away the textbooks related to that day's homework. As a result, when he graduated now, Su Can found himself stuffing his backpack full of books, barely managing to fit them all in. When he finally put on his heavy backpack and looked around the classroom, he discovered that there were only a few people left, like him, sorting out their things, while Tang Yu was already gone.

  Su Can's heart suddenly cooled down, if Tang Wei forgot the appointment with him this morning, Su Can couldn't get those internal practice questions for each subject. If he had to study on his own and review the difficult points of junior high school knowledge for three years, the effect would definitely be greatly discounted. Su Can no longer had confidence that he could guarantee himself a stable admission to No. 1 Middle School.