2014, Jincheng

The school bus full of freshmen was racing on the road. During this hot summer and autumn social interaction, the roar of the motor made the atmosphere even hotter.

The road here is not spacious, and fortunately there are not many vehicles traveling with them. The buses just lowered their heads and ran, and the low mountains with red light on both sides kept leaping backwards. Many newcomers who had never come here looked at the red land in surprise, and they were all bare. Looking around, they could not find any vegetation.

The school bus has been driving for more than an hour, and the surrounding scenery is becoming more and more desolate. A few days ago, at least some vegetable gardens could be seen, but now I can’t even see the vegetable gardens. There are only hills and loess, and further away, you can see the wilderness Gobi unique to the Northwest... To be honest, this scene has greatly impacted the freshmen’s longing for university.

The freshmen's eyes were full of shock. They really couldn't understand why their school was in such a remote place. The school bus was not only freshmen, but also their parents. At this moment, their parents were also curiously looking around. Several adults from all over the world gathered together and chatted.

"Son, why don't you repeat the school..." A parent stared at the desolate Gobi outside and said earnestly. The freshman sitting next to him widened his eyes, recalling the terrible senior year of high school, and shook his head in horror.

Several adults around him laughed, and someone advised: "It's better to be remote in the school. They just want to play, but they have nowhere to play. Nowadays, it would be amazing if the children are stricter..."

"Yes, many universities have moved now and moved to the suburbs to prevent students from going out frequently and slutching outside."

The adults started talking again, and the freshmen also gathered together to chat. There was a lonely student at the back of the school bus, which was particularly eye-catching. It can be seen that this was also a freshmen, sitting alone by the window. He had broken hair and a pair of deep eyes on his smooth and fair face, but in terms of appearance, it was still very lethal to the girl.

But he looked very strange. Since getting on the bus, almost all the freshmen have met friends and talked happily, only this one, he turned his head and looked ahead in a daze, silent, as if he was a sculpture... This is very abnormal, and for more than an hour, he has been like this, motionless. Facing this strange classmate, the freshmen around him have not taken the initiative to talk.

Of course, his strange behavior also aroused the curiosity of many people. Among them, there was a girl sitting behind him. The girl had short hair on her shoulders and a pair of glasses on her white and melon-shaped face. She looked very quiet. She was very white and too white, just like milk.

The girl stared at the strange boy in front of her with paper and pen in her hand, and was writing something quickly. However, she quickly realized that her actions were too eye-catching, so she came forward, glanced at the boy in front of her and continued to write.

It is not easy to write in this shaking bus. She has drawn long lines on her laptop several times. The girl would frown and think, nod and shake her head from time to time.

The adults were still chatting, and their topic gradually began to talk about the school itself from this desolation. "Although Jinda is not a top institution, the teaching quality is still good. My child did not do well in the college entrance examination. I plan to ask him to study here for four years first, and then go to Beijing for graduate school..."

"Oh, when we were young, Jincheng University was still very good, and it was just that I was lonely for the years... When I was in college..."

A middle-aged man wearing a gold watch and suit and tie began to recall the past. Several adults looked at his decorations and stopped to listen to him, "The disciplines of history and law at Jinda are still very good. Jinda is also a very historical university. You don't know, Jinda's history can be traced back to a hundred years, and it was first... Well, it was originally in 1911, called the Law and Political School... At that time, the Qing Emperor had not yet abdicated."

"I officially called Jincheng University in 1946, and I have been calling it until now..." The middle-aged man held up his glasses and said confidently. The adults around him were surprised by his erudition, nodded, and agreed repeatedly. The middle-aged man humbly talked about the development history of the university in the future, and his experience of studying here. It turned out that this man graduated from Jinda, and his son was considered to be a son who inherited his father's business.

He spoke faster and faster, his tone was always very dull, but the arrogance hidden in his words could not be hidden. He talked about his life after graduation from his college career, which was a very old-fashioned legendary story of "from picking up trash to owning his own company".

“September 17, 1909.”

Just as the middle-aged man was talking loudly, someone suddenly interrupted him. Everyone was stunned and turned their heads. The strange newborn spoke. Xinsheng still looked ahead dumbly, his eyes seemed to be focused on his feet. He didn't even look at the adults around him. Everyone was stunned for a moment and didn't say anything.

The middle-aged man frowned and asked in confusion: "What?"

"The Law and Political School was established on September 17, 1909, not in 1911." The boy would not turn his eyes even when he was talking, and his expression was as dull as ever, which made him look a little weird.

"This...", the middle-aged man looked at the boy in front of him in a daze, looked at it for a moment, then turned his head and didn't say anything. He had already seen that something was wrong with the child, as if... there was something wrong with his brain.

The other few people also quieted down and didn't say anything. The school bus became strangely silent. Everyone looked at the boy secretly, looking at each other, and someone whispered: "What's wrong with this child... Isn't it..."

“Disable?”

Several adults exchanged eyes, gestured on their heads with their hands, shook their heads, and stopped talking about the boy.

The quiet girl sitting behind the boy widened her eyes at this moment. She hurriedly took out her cell phone and began to search for the School of Political Science and Law. After seeing the results, she raised her head in surprise, looked at the boy more carefully, then took out a pen, crossed out all the things she had just written...

After crossing out the previous record, she started writing again, with an excitement on her face and a blush on her fair face. Her hands were trembling slightly, and her eyes looking at the boy were even more intense.

After waiting for a long time, the school bus finally arrived at the so-called university town. Although there are no high-rise buildings in the metropolis, fortunately, all kinds of food and entertainment venues are complete, which makes many students feel relieved.

When the school bus entered the university, the freshmen stretched their necks, looked at their school, and exclaimed from time to time... When the school bus stopped, the parents began to get up and salute. The children followed behind them. Everyone walked off the school bus with a smile. The strange boy always sat in his position. He stood up, picked up his salute, and walked off the school bus.

When he got off the school bus, the boy looked at the surrounding environment blankly. The person who got off the bus looked at him secretly. They found that the boy never looked at anyone, and his eyes seemed to never be from the same angle as others... The freshmen went to the registration office with their parents. From their conversation, the boy learned that the freshmen's registration was in the basketball hall.

The boy did not notice that there was a girl standing in the distance, secretly observing him.

The basketball hall was crowded with people, and the sound waves kept bombarding the crowd. Here you could see various different characters, including many different academies. The boy was searching for them. Suddenly, he stopped and saw a unique character, which was written in traditional Chinese characters.

The boy looked up his head for the first time, looked at the letter carefully, staring for a long time, and then walked up... A man and a woman sat on the table under the banner, yawning, looking particularly bored. Until the boy stood in front of them, the two people raised their heads in surprise, "Are you here to sign up?"

The boy turned his head and looked at the table and chairs in front of him in a daze. His vision was not on both of them. He nodded gently.

"Admission notice, ID card..."

The boy took out the admission letter and ID card from his backpack and placed it in front of them. The two looked at it and looked at the boy in front of him, "Chen Ai? Well, the 14th level history class, this is your campus card. The campus card has your dormitory number. You can use this card to open the door, eat, and enter the library... Come, hold it, this thing is very important, don't lose it."

"A few days ago, there was an unlucky guy in our college. After getting the campus card in the morning, he lost it in the afternoon... If he lost it, he had to go to the basement of the library to re-issue... I am the chairman of the college student union, my name is Zhang Bing, and the dormitory is upstairs. If you have any difficulties, you can find me at any time..." The boy said, while the girl sitting next to him just looked at Chen Ai curiously.

The white shirt, clean jeans, clean and beautiful, but... it looks a bit weird and not very normal. The girl interrupted her companion and asked, "Are you from Dongzhou? Why didn't your parents come to see you off?"

Chen Ai turned his head, his face a little confused, as if he didn't know how to answer, or if he didn't know which question to answer first, he fell silent like this. The president of the student union and the girl looked at each other. After a moment, the boy spoke, "I am from Dongshan Province."

"My parents are dead."

The two people on the table and chair were speechless, and the girl even hurriedly got up and said at a loss: "I'm sorry, classmate...I..."

Chen Ai looked a little surprised, but he still turned his head and asked in confusion: "Why do you want to apologize?"

The girl was stunned for a long time and said, "My name is Su Zhihui, I am a classmate with you..." She stretched out her hand as she said, and Chen Ai slowly raised her head and looked at the girl from a strange angle. Her eyes only touched her for a moment before she moved away. The girl was far taller than other girls, with a ponytail, a baby fat on her face, and a slightly fat figure, but this also made her look plump.

The black short-sleeved and denim skirt were tightly pressed against her body, and the plump legs under the skirt attracted the attention of all the boys present, except Chen Ai, with strong confidence on her face, her eyes were also very bright, with a smile, and a strong aura... However, Chen Ai did not shake hands with her. Su Zhihui waited for a while and withdrew her hand in embarrassment.

"Student, do you need me to give you a gift?"

"Why?"

"Forehead...."

Su Zhihui had never seen such a person before. Her face turned red. She took a deep breath, adjusted her mentality, then raised her head and said with a smile: "Then let's see you in class!"

The two kept watching Chen Ai leave, and until Chen Ai walked out of the basketball hall, Su Zhihui breathed a sigh of relief. She muttered, her cheeks became as round as squirrels. She said unhappily: "Senior, you should come to receive the freshmen tomorrow from now on... I have offended almost all my classmates these two days. I have done bad things with kindness, but they don't appreciate it! I don't want to come again tomorrow..."

Zhang Bing smiled, "Today is the last day of registration, and tomorrow is not used..." As he said, he became serious again. He looked at the direction where Chen Ai left and pondered: "This classmate Chen Ai... seems to be a little...uh..."

“There is a mental problem?”

"It can't be said to be a mental problem... Uh..."

"Psychological problems?"

"Probably, right."

"Did you think he suffer from severe depression because of his parents' death?"

"It doesn't look like depression... the feeling he gives him... it's a bit like..." Zhang Bing pondered for a moment, then suddenly patted his knee and shouted: "Newt Scamander!"

"That expression, that look, is right, it's like Newt Scamander!"

"Who?" Su Zhihui looked confused.

"A student at Hogwarts."

"Then how did he do later?"

"He was expelled from the school!"

"oh...."
Chapter completed!