Ronan's Moonlit Journey Chapter 9

The blackboard is placed on a bracket in front of the classroom. It is made of several long wooden boards and is painted black. Because it has been used for a long time, the paint has been worn away in some places, revealing the true color of the wood board, which is dotted with stars and looks like a flower. Coupled with the shrinkage of the wooden boards, gaps appeared at the joints. Through the skylight outside the door, the entire blackboard became a celestial map. When you wipe the blackboard after class, wipe it with a wet rag, and the chalk dust will spread out. When it dries, it will look like white clouds rolling in the sky. Wipe the blackboard again and the white becomes much thinner. This is a blackboard situation.

Before the exam that day, I took advantage of my classmates to play pinball outside. I was the only one in the classroom and I walked to the front and tried to move the blackboard forward (to the side of the seat). It took a lot of effort to push the two legs on one side of the stand out an inch or two, causing the floor to squeak and the heavy blackboard to sway on it. After moving it to the left, I didn't dare to move it to the right. It would be troublesome if the blackboard fell down. Besides, no matter how I move it, it won't help. Unless I move the blackboard to the second row, then I will be in the first row. And this is completely impossible.

At the beginning of the exam, I squinted my eyes and even after guessing, I was able to recognize the words written by my husband. Although only one side of the blackboard moved inward by an inch or two, the angle changed and there was no longer any reflection on the blackboard. The gentleman also noticed this small change. He was writing on the blackboard, but he always felt something was wrong. When he looked down, he found traces of movement of the blackboard bracket on the ground. He thought it was caused by the collision of students when they were playing around. He called Chang Hao and Chuanri, the two oldest students (and therefore the strongest) from the back row, and asked them to lift the blackboard toward the back (toward the wall).

Chang Hao and Chuanri moved the blackboard a big step back, making it much closer to the wall than before I moved it. In order to please the teacher and show their strength, they did not take one step and had no intention of letting go. They wanted to take the second step while carrying the blackboard, but the teacher stopped them. The husband said: "Okay, okay, if you carry it again, you can carry it outside the door."

Chang Hao, Chuan Ri returned to the seat in the last row. The husband asked: "Do you see the words written on it?" The two shouted in unison: "You can see it, you can see it!" The husband thought: Since the last row can be seen, the ones in front will be no problem. I didn't have the courage to report to my husband that I couldn't see. On the day of the Chinese language test, I had no choice but to hand in the blank paper.

During the arithmetic test I learned my lesson and decided to wear glasses for the test. I thought again: I can’t just wear my glasses on the day of the exam, right? Wouldn't that be too sudden? You have to let others adapt. So a week before the arithmetic exam, I started wearing glasses to school. Before going to school, I went to Chang Hao's house. In my plan, I first had to make peace with Chang Hao.

Chang Hao was standing by the pigsty drinking porridge and was a little surprised to see me. What surprised him was not that I had an extra pair of glasses on my nose, but that I came to reconcile with him. Naturally, I brought a lot of benefits: I gave him candies and peach cakes to eat, and allowed him to wear my glasses to play with (I learned the lesson from not borrowing my rain boots last time).

Chang Hao put on my glasses to look at his pig and said, "Oh, why has it become smaller?" Obviously he was unhappy.

I explained that glasses for myopia make things smaller, while glasses for presbyopia and hyperopia make things bigger. I told him that we have a pair of reading glasses at home, and promised to bring them to Chang Hao next time so that he could see his pigs.

Chang Hao went back to the house to get Chang Zhen's wife's mirror to see how he looked wearing glasses. This alarmed Chang Zhen's family, and they all came out to see Chang Hao's appearance: he was wearing a pair of city glasses and holding a mirror used by women. Chang Zhen and his wife laughed so much that their rice gushed out. Their dog was also restless. It barked and jumped at Chang Hao and no longer recognized him.

Chang Hao felt dizzy and almost stumbled on the threshold. He took off his glasses, blinked his eyes, and did not hand the glasses back to me. He said to Chang Zhen: "Brother, please wear it." Chang Zhen put the bowl on the ground, wiped her hands on her clothes, took the glasses, finally hung the spectacle legs on her ears, and asked her wife to take the mirror. ... Seeing Suoshaozi looking up at him, he asked: "Do you still recognize your father?" Suoshaozi burst into tears. Chang Zhen said: "Don't cry, don't cry. I'll give you glasses. In the future, you can study and go to school as a city dweller."

My glasses were obviously too big for the three-year-old Lockshade, so Chang Zhen had to hold the glasses with one hand and hold Lockshade's head with the other. Lockshaft's eyes were blurred with tears, and the world he saw through the lenses must be terrifying. He screamed strangely, struggled desperately, and moved his hands to move his glasses...

After a round, Chang Zhen’s wife and Father Fei also wore my glasses and looked in the mirror. They all responded that they were dizzy. If it weren't for the inconsistent specifications and the uncooperative behavior of the cats and dogs, Chang Hao would even be prepared to let them wear my glasses. He thinks that myopia glasses make things smaller and he won't grow bigger after wearing them. Otherwise, he will let their pigs wear my glasses. When he returned the glasses to me, he didn't forget about the reading glasses: "Tomorrow you can wear some for our pig. It will make it feel that everything outside is big, and it will not dare not to grow up."

I put my glasses back on and found that they were not as clear as before. The lenses were covered with the fingerprints of Chang Zhen’s family. I wiped the lenses clean with the lens cleaning cloth in the glasses case, and then went to school with Chang Hao wearing my glasses.

My classmates were not particularly surprised when they saw me wearing glasses to school. Our whole family wears glasses, and they have already been surprised. It was natural for me to wear glasses, it was a matter of time. Their attitude towards glasses is like my rain boots. They have never worn them before, so they want to wear them, and they have never worn them before, so they want to wear them for fun. Their requests were generally stopped by Chang Hao. When Chuanri wanted to wear my glasses, Chang Hao told him: "Glasses can only be worn by people with bad eyesight. People with good eyesight will have worse eyesight if they wear glasses. I just wore glasses, and now I can't see anything." I don’t know, I’m afraid I won’t be able to serve as a soldier in the future.”