The Lost City of Alien Beasts

Chapter 88 Alma Mater
Ten minutes later, Gao Yang stood at the gate of Yushan Elementary School, somewhat lost in thought.

He looked at Wan Sisi beside him: "Could this be..."

"My alma mater." Wan Sisi nodded with a smile.

"What a coincidence, it's also my alma mater." Gao Yang felt a little incredible, "If you also went to elementary school here, I wouldn't know you at all!"

Wan Sisi nodded and smiled, but did not answer.

There is a cold drink shop next to the school gate that is running a promotion. An artificial ice and snow mascot is soliciting business on the roadside. It holds a selfie stick in one hand and a sign on its chest: Take photos and eat free cones.

Wan Sisi deliberately changed the subject, "Gao Yang, do you want to eat the cone?"

"Okay." Gao Yang said.

Wan Sisi quickly stepped forward and took two photos with the mascot. Then he received two cones and returned to Gao Yang, "Here."

Gao Yang took the cone and took a bite, "It's very sweet."

Wan Sisi also quickly took a bite and rolled her eyes, "Hmm... so sweet!"

Wan Sisi looked inside the school gate and said with a slight request, "Gao Yang, I want to go to my alma mater."

"Okay, there's still time anyway." Gao Yang suddenly felt nostalgic. He hadn't returned to his alma mater for many years.

Yushan Primary School is not big. They walked through the overgrown playground and arrived at the old teaching building full of ivy. The two walked into the first classroom on the first floor. The door lock fell off, the walls were mottled, the desks were covered with dust, and there were still residues on the blackboard. There are traces of blackboard newspapers and colorful chalk dust, which looks a bit old.

"Is there no one in the elementary school?" Gao Yang originally thought that the elementary school was on holiday, but now it seems that the school is deserted.

"Well, there are fewer and fewer children in the town. The primary schools have been merged into one. Yushan Primary School was closed last year." Wan Sisi felt a little sentimental.

In the evening, the setting sun slanted down, coating the classroom with a lonely burgundy color.A gust of wind passed through the hall, ruffling Wan Sisi's bangs. She secretly looked at Gao Yang's side face, her eyes gentle and blurred.

Gao Yang turned around and said, "Let's go."

"Ah, okay..." Wan Sisi hurriedly looked away.

The two walked out of the classroom and returned to the playground. After walking for a while, Wan Sisi suddenly stopped and looked at the wall outside the playground. There was an obvious gap in one of the walls, making it shorter.Gao Yang was deeply impressed by this. Many students like to climb over the wall from here to go out to play. Behind the wall is a small hillside, and there is a large ginkgo tree on the hillside.

"Gao Yang," Wan Sisi turned around, her voice filled with cautious expectations, "Do you really... don't remember me?"

Gao Yang was stunned for a moment. The moment his eyes met with Wan Sisi's, his mind moved, and some distant and vague memories emerged.

"Ah!" Gao Yang was surprised, "You can't be...Liu Xiaoli!"

……

Liu Xiaoli, that is really a very distant memory.

When Gao Yang was in the second grade of elementary school, there was a buck-toothed girl wearing glasses named Liu Xiaoli in the class.

It is said that Liu Xiaoli's father was a construction worker and died in an accident on the construction site when she was four years old. Her mother was idle and playing cards every day and didn't pay much attention to her. The school did not pay her tuition fees.

Liu Xiaoli wears the same clothes almost every day. Because she cannot change, she always has a sour smell. In addition, she is "ugly" and has no friends in the class. Female classmates don't like to play with her, and naughty male classmates will bully her.

He caught caterpillars and threw them into her pencil case, tore up her homework, and hit her with a slingshot made of rubber bands.Another time, a male classmate in the class stole a lighter from home and burned Liu Xiaoli's hair.

Gao Yang couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to stop him. As a result, he was beaten up by several male classmates until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen.The class teacher called the parents, and the matter was very loud. Several male students accepted the criticism and wrote self-criticisms.

After that, the male students, forced by the teacher's prestige, no longer dared to bully Liu Xiaoli, but they began to isolate Gao Yang and Liu Xiaoli in a strange way, paired them up, and made up an unpleasant jingle to mock them.

——"Gaoyang has an ugly daughter-in-law! Her teeth are buckled and she smells bad!"

Li Weiwei, who was in the same class, and Gao Yang were childhood sweethearts. Although she was beautiful and popular, she was also implicated because of Gao Yang's affairs.

Li Weiwei had a brief struggle and finally chose to side with Gao Yang.

That summer, the three of them always played together, and they were quite happy.

I remember one time in a physical education class, the three of them were ostracized by their classmates. They were not allowed to play either girls' or boys' games.

Li Weiwei was very creative. She pointed to the ginkgo tree on the hillside outside the playground wall and said, "Let's compete! Let's see who reaches the top of the mountain first!"

The three happily climbed over the wall and climbed to the top of the slope.

Gao Yang No.1, Li Weiwei No.2, Liu Xiaoli No.3.

Li Weiwei and Gao Yang collected some change and went to a nearby small store to buy the most beautiful candy box in the store, a tin box with seven fairies printed on it. Inside the tin box were seven fruit gummies of different colors. Gao Yang and Li Weiwei were alone. Eat two and give three to Liu Xiaoli. After Liu Xiaoli finished two, she was unwilling to eat the last candy and secretly put it into her pocket.

After eating, the three of them talked about the future, about what they wanted to do when they grew up, and who they wanted to be.

Li Weiwei had another idea. She stood up with her hands on her hips, took out a crayon from her pocket, and picked up three candy wrappers on the ground. "Let's write down our dreams when we grow up and bury them under the tree, so that they will definitely come true." Got it!"

"Yeah!"

Gao Yang and Liu Xiaoli clapped their hands in agreement.

The three of them took crayons, each wrote their wishes on the candy paper, folded it in half, and put it in a tin box. Then they dug a small pit under the ginkgo tree and buried the tin box carefully and religiously.

A few days later, Liu Xiaoli did not come to school. The head teacher said that Liu Xiaoli had transferred to another school. She left in a hurry and did not have time to complete the transfer procedures.

Later, Gao Yang heard the adults chatting and learned that Liu Xiaoli's mother had found a stepfather named Wan for Liu Xiaoli and took Liu Xiaoli to live out of the city.

Not long after, Gao Yang and Li Weiwei also moved to Licheng and left Yushan Elementary School.This childhood agreement has long been forgotten by him in the long river of time.

Memories came flooding back, and Gao Yang fell into a trance.He looked at Wan Sisi in front of him. She had a beautiful face, fair skin, neat teeth, and clear eyes. There was no shadow of the dirty buck-toothed girl before, but her timid eyes were always like a deer. It is indeed exactly the same as Liu Xiaoli back then.

"When did you recognize me?" Gao Yang asked Wan Sisi, "And Li Weiwei, did you recognize me too?"

Wan Sisi nodded slightly, "I recognized you two on the first day of military training in the freshman year of high school, but you didn't recognize me."

"You have changed so much." Gao Yang smiled apologetically, "You recognized us, why didn't you tell us?"

"I don't know either." Wan Sisi tilted her head and smiled, "I originally planned to say it, but I couldn't find a suitable opportunity, and then I didn't know how to say it."

Gao Yang had mixed feelings, "I'm so happy to see you again."

"Gao Yang, actually, there is a question I have always wanted to ask you." Wan Sisi raised her head and looked at Gao Yang. This time, her eyes were no longer timid, but glowed with determination.

Gao Yang pursed his lips slightly and said, "Say."

(End of this chapter)