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"I'll go help you!" Xia Yuan shouted.
"Let me go." Lin Youxi said.
"I was the one who hurt Ah Fang, so of course I should go." Xia Yuan argued.
"You don't know where Afang's medicine box is, so I'll just go there." Lin Youxi's argument was very convincing.
"You two, are you trying to be lazy? Just stay here and practice driving. I'll handle it when I get home."
Mei Fang said seriously, "If I come back and find that you two haven't made any progress, don't blame me for being rude to you!"
"Well……"
"How could this happen!"
Mei Fang left Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan behind and trotted home to treat the bruises.
In fact, in some recent events, he has already smelled a strong bad smell and began to actively interfere or get involved in some issues.
Moreover, Lin Youxi, who had always obeyed Xia Yuan's words, has now gradually begun to have his own ideas.
What happened to the promise to focus on studying? One by one! Stop arguing over me!
Mei Fang did not enjoy the feeling of being fought over. He felt it was best to remain innocent as before.
However, his mind has matured, but Yuanyuan and Youxi both have to go through a long process of growth, which is an inevitable and necessary transformation.
Just like ordinary people learning to ride a bicycle, it is difficult to truly learn to ride a bicycle unless you fall a few times and learn your lesson.
If we always over-protect them like we do when they are learning to ride a bike, isn't it actually of no benefit to them?
But at least... there are some issues that really shouldn't be brought to light right now.
call……
I don't know how long I can hold on.
Chapter 106 The Little Tail of 2009
Mei Fang spent two weeks of weekends accompanying Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi in driving practice. During this period, Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi would also find time to practice on their own.
By the third week, the two of them were able to ride their bikes to and from school, but they would ride together as a group of three, with Mei Fang and Xia Yuan standing outside to protect Lin Youxi, who was not very experienced yet.
The winter of 2009 was as cold as the previous year, but the weather was mostly sunny, so the ground was not slippery. The three of them rode their bicycles to school together on such days.
Working day and night, getting up early and going to bed late.
Waiting together in the cold wind for a companion who slept in.
We bought various snacks together at the shop at the campus gate.
Delicious hot thousand-layer cakes and sauce-flavored cakes;
The cakes look delicious, but are always prohibitively expensive;
The ridiculous prices of 5 yuan for 3 and 10 yuan for 5 for pan-fried buns;
Inexpensive and good quality sweet oatmeal porridge for 1 yuan a cup with refills.
Although he was mentally prepared for the study life after the second year of junior high school, he still couldn't help but sigh that it was so hard when he was studying.
Now he is not obsessed with a certain game like in his previous life.
He squeezed out his spare time to maintain the website with Lin Youxi, and found time to practice guitar with Xia Yuan.
Of course, the most important thing is that he is busy maintaining the stability of his academic performance.
He previously thought that the questions in junior high school were mainly theoretical knowledge, and it would not be difficult for him to learn them by himself.
However, the questions he practiced in the enrichment class tended to be Olympiad questions, and occasionally he would spend a long time pondering over some problem-solving ideas that he couldn't understand.
His grades in his previous life were average, and he was not considered particularly smart. It was only because someone urged him on (Xia Yuan and Lin Youxi) and he wanted to study hard that he packaged himself as an excellent student.
In fact, the relationship between Mei Fang and Zhang Ming in this life is a little duller than when they met in high school. After all, they are not deskmates now, and the friendship they had when playing games together in the past has not been established because Mei Fang devoted all his free time to accompanying Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan.
However, the friendship between junior high school boys does not care about the depth of the feelings. Two people can become very familiar with each other just through daily communication and conversation.
Compared to Du Zihan, Zhang Ming is not as resistant to girls. On the contrary, he is quite popular among the girls in the class because he is a good guy.
Because students are not allowed to leave the school during class hours, and many students are tired of the school cafeteria which has few choices, they will run to the fence outside the school to buy breakfast bought by aunties. Zhang Ming is one of them, and he will bring breakfast for the girls.
Sometimes when Mei Fang saw Zhang Ming being ordered around all the time, he would remind him that if he didn't want to be led around, he should learn to refuse. However, Zhang Ming thought that it was no big deal if he was just doing it by the way, so Mei Fang stopped trying to persuade him. He thought that one day Zhang Ming would feel unhappy about these things, so he could just give him a push then.
Although she could take classes with her beloved Mei Fang and Lin Youxi, Xia Yuan's study in the gifted class was not going well. The difficulty of the math and physics questions she encountered in this class increased sharply, and her test scores were sometimes so embarrassing that she dared not show them to others. She also put more attention on her studies on weekdays, so much so that sometimes she could not take guitar lessons with Mei Fang.
Another problem that Xia Yuan faces is the pressure from Lin Youxi's excellence.
Lin Youxi was the monitor of Class 9 and had always been the top student in the grade, so it was natural for her to become the monitor of Class 1 for gifted students. She almost always got scores that made the top students in the gifted class stare in amazement. In the gifted class, Lin Youxi was always surrounded by many classmates who asked her questions.
As Lin Youxi's exclusive deskmate, Xia Yuan would be more or less affected mentally by the comparison between them. Mei Fang saw all of this, so she would discuss questions with her whenever she had the chance in class.
Lin Youxi probably also noticed Xia Yuan's discomfort, and later on, students who came to her for questions were often rejected by her or were put behind the questions Xia Yuan wanted to ask. Gradually, everyone stopped hanging around Lin Youxi.
Although it is somewhat different from the process of shaping her into a cold and aloof character in her previous life, Youxi is indeed changing along a similar path.
The website operation of Station C is currently in a lukewarm rising period. Because its sections are basically based on Station A, it has gradually formed a stable user group.
Mei Fang's user screening for Station C is as strict as it was in the early days of Station B in his previous life. However, unlike the early days of Station AB, which only opened registration on specific holidays, he and Lin Youxi discussed putting a lot of multiple-choice questions related to games and the second dimension in. Only those with a correct rate of over 95% are allowed to register as members of Station C. Only members of Station C can contribute videos and send barrages.
The current official uid0001 of C Station is [山有林兮]. Usually, Lin Youxi only uses this account to post some website update announcements, but Mei Fang will use this account in the name of Lin Youxi to chat with users on the website and collect suggestions.
In fact, Mei Fang also had experience in community operations when he was a planner, and he himself was also a second-dimensional person. Although he was usually busy with study and other life, as soon as he appeared in the forum post bar, he could always get along well with everyone.
The way Mei Fang spoke in the webmaster persona she created for the outside world imitated Lin Youxi's usual tone, showing the appearance of a cool little princess. However, netizens in the community took it for granted that the webmaster of Station C must be a technical geek. Lin Youxi only found this interesting because she discovered that Mei Fang imitated her very well. The online community is really amazing.
Of course, in addition to this, Mei Fang also secretly sent free registration invitation codes to many UP hosts on Station A in the name of the webmaster of Station C. Many UP hosts responded to Mei Fang's call, but few of them actually posted video drafts on Station C. Only the subtitle groups invited by Mei Fang would diligently submit the animation videos they produced, hoping that their favorite animations could be spread more and more.
The reason why the domestic ACG culture ecosystem has been able to expand to the level of 22 years is inseparable from the early ACG culture enthusiasts who worked for love, especially the promotion of the subtitle groups. Their enthusiasm and efforts made Mei Fang, who chatted with them, sigh for a long time.
This time, when Mei Fang brought Lin Youxi to run C Station, he actually didn't intend to go for commercialization. He thought that as long as it could maintain operations, even a small loss would be acceptable.
Maybe that site will come as scheduled in the future, or someone will imitate them and create a more commercial and successful website, but he does not intend to easily change the current beautiful and harmonious cultural atmosphere of this circle.
What Mei Fang was thinking was that if this C Station could stick to its original intention and go all the way to the end, withstand the pressure to maintain the purity of its user screening, and take a different path from the B Station that he had known for 22 years, in a sense, would it also be making up for the frustration of that generation of two-dimensional fans who could not find a home for 22 years?
After the winter snow, the new year comes again.
The ice and snow are melting, and spring is gradually awakening.
The year 2010 passed quickly. After the relatively short winter vacation, Mei Fang and his classmates in the second year of junior high school quickly entered the next semester.
Chapter 107 New Classmates
At the beginning of the new semester, Lin Youxi and Mei Fang both received a new bicycle as a birthday gift from their parents on their birthdays before the New Year.
In addition, Mei Fang received a birthday gift bought jointly by Lin Youxi and Xia Yuan, which was a tasteful quartz watch. It was said that both of them thought of giving a watch, but watches were not like scarves that could be changed and washed, so they just bought them together.
Compared with the cheap watches you can buy in boutiques, this watch costs between two and three hundred yuan, and it is obvious that a lot of thought was put into its selection.
Of course, he also did not forget the birthday gift that Lin Youxi had asked Mei Fang for last year.
It’s just that Hao Ge’s songs are mostly love songs. If Mei Fang wants to have a good time, she can’t send a song that seems to be praising love. So it took a while to decide to send Lin Youxi a song "Nanshan Memories" by Hao Ge.
This song is about mourning, expressing the singer's longing for the deceased. The deceased in the lyrics can be parents, friends, or most likely lovers.
Therefore, if I give it directly to Lin Youxi, Yuanyuan will definitely be jealous when she finds out.
I, Mei Fang, may not be good at other things, but I am quite knowledgeable when it comes to keeping things fair.
So Mei Fang imitated yesterday's story and slightly modified some of the lyrics of the song that expressed love, and gave it to Xia Yuanlai, the former Chinese class representative and the one with the best Chinese grades among the three, to enjoy.
"Let me tell you in advance, this poem is about Youxi and her mother..."
Mei Fang was like a student writing a self-criticism, waiting for Teacher Xia Yuan to respond.
[Enjoying the fireflies under the moon to illuminate a lonely piece of paper]
【Recalling those times when you said you loved me】
[Flowers bloom and then fall, and there is no result in reincarnation]
[The snow on the moss tells me that you have never come back]
As a result, Mei Fang's poem made Xia Yuan cry first, and Mei Fang spent a long time comforting Xia Yuan before she recovered.
"Sometimes inspiration strikes and this is what comes out... Of course, it always feels a bit weird to give a poem with this theme as a birthday gift, but I really can't write anything better. None of the others are as good as this one."
"I don't think it's weird at all. Youxi will definitely like it."
Xia Yuan rubbed his eyes. "When you think of writing something for Youxi, you think of her and her mother, which proves that you care about her very much. But don't be silly and tell Youxi the theme like this, that would be too deliberate. Just say that it was a free expression and let her understand it herself."
Xia Yuan helped Mei Fang copy the poem, and Mei Fang took the initiative to find Youxi and handed her the poem. Unlike Xia Yuan, Lin Youxi didn't want to open it and read it in person. After receiving it, she thanked him and took it home.
However, when Mei Fang saw her the next day, he noticed that her eyes were obviously red and swollen. Mei Fang was a little embarrassed and took the initiative to bring up the gift last night and asked her if she didn't like it.
"Your poems are...very well written, I like them too."
“It’s like a poem for me to write to my mother.”
"Can I read it to her next time we visit the grave?"
"Yes, yes... Of course..."
Mei Fang apologized again for giving Youxi a birthday gift that made her cry, but Lin Youxi obviously didn't care much. Instead, he tried to comfort the hypocritical Mei Fang, which made him feel very sorry.
The winter vacation of 10 came to an end.
The second semester of the second year of junior high school is a connecting node, and this busy semester welcomes a group of new students.
In fact, a group of new students were admitted to the class in the first semester of the second year of junior high school. Those new students were basically the second-year junior high school repeaters who did not go directly to the third year of junior high school.
It was actually not popular to repeat the junior high school entrance examination in that era. In 22, it was unbelievable that only half of the students in the class could go to high school. Those students who repeated the second year of junior high school did so because they wanted to enter key high schools. Students from ordinary high schools could basically be promoted directly.
The students who transferred in next semester were all from Class B. They were all top students in Class B, but their scores were not high in the grade. When they were assigned to Mei Fang's class, they were only ranked around tenth.
"Since there are new students in our class, we need to readjust our groups. Tomorrow we will re-elect the class committee and divide the groups. If anyone does not want to be the original class leader, or wants to run for the position of class leader, they can register with the class leader Lin Youxi. Of course, if you think you want to try for the position of class leader, you can also register with Lin Youxi..."
As soon as Li Shibing finished speaking, the class burst into laughter. It seemed that everyone felt that competing with Lin Youxi for the position of squad leader was absurd and beyond one's ability.
"How can you be so useless! Anyone with a dream is great. In life, there are things that you have to fight for. For example, Mei Fang, I am very optimistic about you. You have always been ranked second in the class and can never beat Lin Youxi. You must be very unconvinced, right?"
"what?"
Mei Fang stood up and scratched his head. "I... I'm fine. The squad leader is invincible. It's normal that I can't beat him."