Gu Xuelan's birthday is the day after tomorrow.
Xie Yu didn't go back to live not because he couldn't bear it mentally, but because he couldn't bear to part with the whole box of study materials under the bed in the dormitory.
After hearing this, He Chao said "Oh", and then said in a confused way: "Happy birthday."
"..."
He Chao obviously wanted to say something else: "Good health and everything goes well". The killer interrupted mercilessly.
"Okay, that's enough, thank you." Xie Yu made a gesture of clasping his fingers towards He Chao, "Stop it."
"Your movement is similar to the emoticon package Shen Jie sent me." He Chao imitated it, He spread his fingers again and said, "Let it go."
Xie Yu said: "..." Let it go.
He Chao had no idea what the Chinese homework Tang Sen had just assigned was.
He sat in his seat and wandered for a while, then patted the shoulder of the classmate sitting in front of him, borrowed the classmate's homework notebook and copied it over.
The classmate in the front seat was very puzzled. The whole class knew that He Chao basically did not do homework, so he boldly asked: "Do you want to do homework?"
He Chao said while copying: "What if. You can't tell, it depends on fate. Well, maybe some homework looks particularly pleasing to the eye, and even fate can't stop it."
It was probably the first time that the classmate heard this serious "the theory of homework being random", and he was amazed.
He Chao copied two copies, returned the record book to the front seat, and slapped one copy on Xie Yu's desk: "Take it, in case a miracle happens."
Xie Yu looked down at the paper and couldn't recognize it. The shit words, I thought I couldn't even understand them, and if a miracle would happen, it would be a ghost.
He folded the paper, couldn't find a place to throw it away, and stuffed it in his pocket. He heard He Chao ask again: "When is your birthday?"
Xie Yu turned his face back, really upset when he saw him. The shadow still lingers. A row of heads poked out of a row of windows, looking at them with dumbfounded expressions.
Wanda even covered her eyes, as if she didn't want to see anything wrong with her.
He has never had any weird scandals with anyone in his whole life. After meeting He Chao, he discovered that the world is full of strange things.
"Students who stay on campus during the weekend must strictly abide by the rules for dormitory students." Tang Sen found a chair and sat down. He seemed to want to chat with them until school was over. "We have to believe in science. I almost forgot about the dormitory building last weekend. Wanda, don't lower your head, I really can't see how thoughtful you are. "
Qiu Hou settled the accounts.
Their teacher Ban Tang's reflex arc is particularly long.
Sometimes I thought he really didn't care, but when they relaxed their vigilance and felt that everything was over and things were calm and peaceful, they were suddenly taken away by Old Tang and lectured: "Hey, you guys last month"
"You will die if you talk about it " ," He Chao turned his head to look at Xie Yu, and leaned down to be at the same level as him, reaching out to touch his hair, "When is your birthday?"
Xie Yu said, "I will die."
He Chao did not continue. After persisting in this question, within a few minutes, the topic changed from the date of your birthday to "When are you born? You must be younger than me."
Xie Yu is now particularly sensitive to the word "little", such as "child".
So Xie Yu sat up, with a bad look on his face, and asked: "Why are you so young? Where the hell is he so young?"
As a result, the two compared their birth years, and He Chao was one year older than him.
"Call me brother," He Chao said with a smile, "I told you that you are young and you still don't believe me."
Xie Yu always felt that He Chao was setting a trap for him.
He Chao leaned back with his legs crossed, the front legs of the chair underneath him tilted up, his posture was slouched, his center of gravity shifted to the back, and his whole person looked a bit wobbly.
He Chao raised his head and looked forward, his eyes passing through the backs of the heads of the classmates in the front row and falling straight on the blackboard. On the blackboard were several lines of neat handwriting. The sound of Tang Sen chanting sutras in his ears suddenly became farther and farther away from him.
After a while, Xie Yu heard He Chao say in an understatement: "You must be younger than me. I repeated my
studies in the third grade of junior high school." Xie Yu's first reaction was: No wonder no one said he cheated in high school with He Chao's grades.
Back then, Xie Yu's name spread throughout the grade, but He Chao had nothing to do with it.
It turned out to be a reread.
It makes sense to re-study. A scumbag student with terrible grades, re-study and some bad luck, finally got to the end of college.
Xie Yu looked at He Chao's casual look, holding the pen in his hand and twirling it with a few fingers.
The 10-minute math paper was still spread out on He Chao's desk. It had been corrected, but he just copied two lines before getting distracted for a while, and the handwriting was messy and looked messy.
Xie Yu was a little curious: "How many years have you re-read?"
"" He Chao said, "One year, what's the matter ?
"
He was not very comfortable: "How am I? Aren't you similar to me? Secondly, can you touch your score and talk about it?"
While he was talking, the bell rang for the end of class.
Everyone cheered, and Wanda even stood on a chair waving the test paper and shouted: "Liberated - liberated comrades!"
Tang Sen interrupted his speech, shook his head, stood up and gave the last words: "Don't leave in a hurry, pack everything." "Don't leave it behind. The students on duty should clean up the classroom before leaving today."
Xie Yu didn't have anything to pack. He Chao stayed at school during the weekend and continued to rock on the chair, even leaning back and waving to him: "Goodbye, kid." ."
Xie Yu didn't say anything. When he passed behind He Chao, he kicked him up and said, "Try to shout again."
He Chao lost his balance and was about to fall backwards with the chair. He had quick reflexes. When he fell down, he found the most handsome landing position and put one hand on the ground: "Fuck."
The chair fell down and hit the ground with a loud "bang".
Wanda waved the test paper for a while, then on a whim, she folded the paper into a paper airplane, put it to her mouth and breathed: "——Come on, fly, free bird."
Liu Cunhao saw it and folded the math test paper on the table. Standing up: "Dada, let me show you something even more powerful."
Tang Sen had just walked to the door, and the class was already in such chaos. He put his hands behind his back, holding a cup of middle-aged and elderly health tea, and said with emotion: "Young man, you are so passionate."
Xie Yu didn't take anything, he just slept for two nights and went back to school.
Gu Xuelan was more attentive: "Just carry a schoolbag and bring your homework and everything. Other families have them."
"I know, I'll take care of it myself." Xie Yu had nothing but his cell phone and change. Forgot to throw away the miracle worksheet.
After leaving the school gate, I made sure that no Zhong family driver was waiting in a luxury car at the door, and then I walked to the bus stop.
"It's so hot that you don't want anyone to pick you up. You have to be basking in the sun and crowded with people," Gu Xuelan said. "Be careful on the road."
Xie Yu said "yes" and hung up the phone.
Xie Yu actually had no idea about birthdays. There was no cake in the birthday in his memory, and there were no shocks or surprises. It was not a lively scene.
Just a bowl of hot noodles.
In order to save money, Ms. Gu doesn't celebrate her birthday, but every year on Xie Yu's birthday, Ms. Gu will give him a bowl of noodles.
After eating it, my whole body felt hot. I couldn't explain why, I just felt that my whole body felt warm.
Zhong Jie came back over the weekend. After he went to college, besides school, he interned with Zhong Guofei in the company and would soon take over the company.
Xie Yu has been in Zhong's family for three years, and there has been no disturbance and silence. Everyone knows that he cannot help Adou. In addition to being unhappy, Zhong Jie also feels a little happy in his heart.
"I heard that you did well in the monthly exam this time?" Zhong Jie asked angrily as soon as Xie Yu entered the door.
Xie Yu changed her shoes and put her hands on the shoe cabinet. She lowered her head and couldn't see her expression clearly: "Thank you."
Gu Xuelan walked out of the living room. Knowing that her son was coming back today, Zhong Jie happened to be there, so she cooked several dishes herself. Cai: "The food is ready, hurry up and eat."
Zhong Jie sat on the sofa and sneered, not knowing what he was laughing at.
Probably due to the influence of He Chao, Xie Yu found that his temper had improved a lot. With the attitude of "you are angry, I am not angry", he actually finished the meal quietly.
And Zhong Jie found that Xie Yu was becoming more and more difficult to deal with. From being angry at one point to making sarcastic remarks, Zhong Jie came back this time and simply ignored him and treated him like nothing.
After the meal, Gu Xuelan took Xie Yu and planned to cut a few plates of fruit for them to take upstairs to eat.
Xie Yu helped her wash the fruits together. The two of them crowded in the kitchen, and the water washed over their fingers, which made them a little cold.
The two of them didn't talk much. They basically asked and answered each other, and finally fell into silence.
Xie Yu washed the last apple and handed it to Ms. Gu.
"Bring this plate to your Uncle Zhong first," Gu Xuelan said. "He has been very busy with the company these days. When he came back, he didn't even eat a few bites and just stayed in the study."
Zhong Jie was also in the study on the second floor. Xie Yu walked to the door of the study and heard the fierce quarrel inside - it was a bit muffled through the door panel, especially Zhong Guofei's weak and angry voice.
"I hope you are well, and you, can you also hope that I am well?! Your Aunt Gu can live with me, I am very grateful to her."
Then Zhong Jie said hoarsely: "Then my mother Where did she go? Who is she in this family now? "
I don't know how this topic has developed over the past three years.
Xie Yu felt that the two people were talking a bit noisily. He lowered his head and inserted a small piece of apple with a toothpick and put it in his mouth. It was a bit sour when he tasted it.
When Gu Xuelan heard the noise upstairs, she joined forces and went upstairs to break up the fight.
"Don't go," Xie Yu stood at the door of the study, holding a fruit plate in one hand and holding Gu Xuelan's arm with the other, "Let them quarrel as much as they like."
How could Gu Xuelan ignore it? She was anxious He hurriedly opened the door and went in.
Another restless night.
Xie Yu stood under the shower, soaked to the skin, closing his eyes and trying his best to ignore the sounds outside.
He raised his hand to wipe his face, turned off the switch, opened the sliding door and walked out. The water droplets flowed down his hair, across his back, and finally pooled on the tiled floor, where a trace of color was played by the warm light.
Before throwing the changed clothes into the dirty clothes basket, Xie Yu habitually touched his pockets to see if there was anything he had forgotten. Then he touched the piece of paper folded into a square shape.
On it are the words He Chao staggering this way and that, his pen wishing to fly out, "It's hard to find."
Xie Yu stared at it for a long time and couldn't recognize a single word.
He turned the piece of paper over and found a smiley face drawn on the back. The curved mouth looks a bit mean with an upward stroke.
Xie Yu looked at it and suddenly leaned against the edge of the pool and smiled.