it takes a little effort

"Your sister," in order to prevent Ling Chuan from mistakenly thinking that he was scolding, Jiang Kai added, "It's... inconvenient."

A few seconds later, Ling Chuan leaned against the door and said, "She's gone back."

Jiang Kai opened the door a crack, and wanted to reach out to pick up something, but Ling Chuan grabbed the door and pushed hard, just like that.

"Where's the bowl?" Ling Chuan held a bowl of glutinous rice balls in his hand, "I have to take the bowl back."

"In the cupboard." Jiang Kai pointed to the kitchen.

His head was still dripping, he went back to the bathroom, took a towel to wrap it up, and then ran to the room to put on his clothes and pants. When he came out, Ling Chuan was already washing the dishes, and there was a steaming bowl on the table. dumplings.

"Sesame stuffing, do you want to eat?" Seeing him coming out, Ling Chuan said while shaking the bowl in his hand.

"Well, thank you." Jiang Kai doesn't pick what to eat, any stuffing is the same for him, as long as he can eat it.

"That's good," Ling Chuan walked up to him and sniffed, "It smells like milk."

Jiang Kai took a step back with his eyes wide open, bumped his thigh against the corner of the table, raised his arm and smelled it, "The smell of shower gel."

"Oh, it smells good," Ling Chuan smiled, "Eat slowly, I'm leaving, good night."

"Good night." Jiang Kai said.

The glutinous rice balls seem to be homemade. They are different in size and taste quite good. The skin on the outside is very waxy and thin, and the sesame stuffing overflows when you bite into a small mouthful.

After Jiang Kai finished eating the glutinous rice balls, he drank two sips of soup, which was sweet and had a faint fragrance of osmanthus.

This sudden concern from a stranger moved him a little.

It was almost ten o'clock when he lay down on the bed, and he would usually read a book at this time, but he didn't want to move as soon as he lay down today.

very tired.

The exhausted kind.

It has been more than a week since my grandfather passed away, but I still feel that I have not recovered. It’s not that I don’t believe in reality, but I can’t accept it. In that space, everything around me is still the same. will appear somewhere.

It wasn't until lying in this strange room and looking at the strange things around that I suddenly had a real feeling.

Probably because I think about too many and complicated things during the day, and the dreams I have at night are also fragmented.

There are grandpas, people from the village, and Gu Weidong. I can’t catch the intermittent content. I only remember the last scene where I stood on an unfenced bridge and looked down. Sounds in stone.

The body was light and light, and I really wanted to back up, but found that I had no strength in my feet, and I couldn't move.

It was windy and he was a little unsteady.

Then he fell headfirst.

Before the feeling of weightlessness appeared, Jiang Kai woke up with a start.

He wiped the sweat from his forehead, and turned on the small electric fan beside the bed to blow it on for a while.

The small alarm clock on the bedside table told him that it was already 07:30 in the morning.

Logically speaking, the biological clock must wake up at five o'clock in the morning, but in another place, even the biological clock is not accurate.

Jiang Kai quickly got up and changed his clothes.

Even though he was late for school at this point, even if he took a rocket to school, he still rushed into the bathroom to wash up very carelessly.

When I looked in the mirror, I found that I was quite refreshed.

In the document bag that Gu Weidong gave him was a small map, the location of the school’s home was marked out, as if he was afraid that he would get lost, and there was also a newly opened bank card, and even the business form filled in for the card was still rolled up. inside.

The card balance is [-].

Jiang Kai was taken aback when he saw the deposit receipt.

He remembered that Gu Weidong said that this was his living expenses, and that it would be charged on this card in the future.

Although it is not clear when the next payment for living expenses will be, Jiang Kai feels that the money will be enough for him for a year.

It can be seen that Gu Weidong is still very generous to him, but Jiang Kai has no plans to use the money for the time being, he threw the card in the drawer of the bedside table and went out with his bag on his back.

When I locked the door, I found a plastic bag hanging on the handle, which contained deep-fried dough stick buns and soy milk, and a small note was pasted on it: Good morning, Xiao Jiangjiang.

He glanced back at the opposite door, and unconsciously raised a shallow smile at the corner of his mouth.

The bus stop at the gate leads directly to the school, and Jiang Kai squeezed onto the bus with seven or eight grandparents carrying vegetable oil and rice.

There were already quite a lot of people in the car, but it became even more crowded when the rice and oil barrels were placed in the aisle. Jiang Kai felt like a sardine in a can, and he could stand firmly without using his hands.

The uncles and aunts behind them chatted loudly, where the supermarket vegetables are cheap, whose cat has given birth, chattering and spitting all over the place.

"Go to the back!" The driver uncle frowned, looking helpless, "the back is empty! Go back!"

Jiang Kai was pushed back by a wave of people, and after standing still, he saw the words Yucheng No. [-] Middle School through the glass window.

It was Ling Chuan's high school, and his aunt had mentioned it several times last night, and he accidentally remembered it.

The next stop of No. [-] Middle School is foreign language.

"If you haven't handed in your homework, stand up for me!" The teacher on the podium stepped on high heels about ten centimeters in length, and slammed the textbook rolled into a trumpet shape on the blackboard several times.

The originally noisy class fell silent in an instant.

"There are still those who copied the answers, those who copied the classmates, stand up for me!" No one stood up below, and the teacher continued to shout from above, "Don't think I can't see it, everyone thinks that they are going to college. Well, if you don’t listen to your homework in class and don’t do your homework, your parents’ money for your education is just throwing money away, so it’s better to buy fodder to feed pigs and kill them to eat.”

At this point, a burst of small-scale laughter broke out.

Jiang Kai was holding a stack of new books he had just received, standing at the door, neither entering nor retreating, feeling that he came at the wrong time.

While hesitating whether to call for a report, the person behind the podium finally realized his existence, turned to look at him, and asked, "New here?"

Jiang Kai nodded.

"Don't be late for my class in the future," the teacher motioned him to enter the door with his eyes, "Let me introduce myself."

Jiang Kai turned around and wrote his name on the blackboard.

"The handwriting is good," the teacher casually pointed to an empty seat, "You can sit in the back there."

Jiang Kai bowed his head and walked in the direction of her finger. Out of the corner of his vision, he could feel the hot gazes around her, as if walking on a red carpet.

He hated the feeling of being surrounded by people, so he walked very fast, with a small whirlwind behind him.

The deskmate is a girl named Zhou Xiaolu, it may be Xiaolu or Xiaolu, but he has already automatically set her as Xiaolu in his mind, because her eyes are quite big, and she really looks like a deer.

"Your handwriting is beautiful." Little Lu asked softly, tilting his head.

"It's average." Jiang Kai said modestly.

"It's also...very good-looking." Zhou Xiaolu glanced at Jiang Kai.

It was the first time Jiang Kai heard such a straightforward compliment, and he was a classmate who had just met. He was a little embarrassed, snorted softly, and said perfunctorily again: "It's average..."

"Will you say anything else?" Zhou Xiaolu looked at him and suddenly laughed.

"Listen to the class." Jiang Kai sighed, just for a short while, the person on the podium had glanced over twice, the girl didn't realize it at all, and was convinced.

"Oh..." Zhou Xiaolu lowered his head in disappointment, and didn't speak for the whole class.

Jiang Kai thinks this is very good, he likes to be quiet and not be disturbed, and hopes she can keep it well.

"Ling Chuan!" Teacher Xue pointed to Ling Chuan who was still eating meat buns in the last row, "Stand up for me!"

Ling Chuan probably guessed the reason why he was called up, but he still stuffed the last morsel of buns into his mouth before standing up.

Lao Xue is their class teacher, a bald old teacher who is about to be in his fourth year but has never been in a relationship because of his unsatisfactory appearance and height. Everyone guesses that he will spend his whole life alone in education.

"It's too embarrassing to eat," Teacher Xue raised the paper in his hand, "Do you know how much you scored in this test?"

"I don't know." Ling Chuan said.

"Congratulations, you broke the record again." Teacher Xue pushed his glasses, and clapped his palms on the podium so loudly that it hurt to hear it.

"Thank you." Ling Chuan responded in a low voice, and the people around him let out a burst of scattered laughter.

"You're welcome." Teacher Xue rolled the math paper into a ball and wanted to throw it at Ling Chuan, but he couldn't get it right. After bouncing it on the blackboard, it fell on Yang Fan's desk next door. "Seventeen points! My teacher Up to now, I haven’t met you who are so awesome. You can make all mistakes in the multiple choice questions. Isn’t your rubber sieve very delicate? A zero?"

Ling Chuan smiled cheekily and said nothing. He glanced to the next door. Yang Fan had already spread out his paper and gave him a thumbs up.

He rolled his eyes across, Yang Fan immediately smiled obsequiously, and presented the test paper with both hands.

"I'm too embarrassed to ask you to call me your parents. You come here eight times a month, so you might as well put up a sign-in sheet."

The laughter in the audience was no longer unbearable, one after another, like the tide of the Qiantang River, could not stop. Teacher Xue pointed at Ling Chuan with wide eyes, "This class is standing up, and you will give me all my classes in the future." Stand up!"

To Ling Chuan, there is no difference between standing and sitting, and he doesn't understand them anyway.

Mathematics is the kind of thing that can't be picked up after a little drop. Of course, he can't pick up other subjects either.

When the teacher stopped paying attention to him, Yang Fan next to him threw a small ball of paper to him.

[The man who hooked up with the sister-in-law is a foreign language, his name is Li Yu, if I read correctly, he should be in the third class. 】

The sister-in-law Yang Fan mentioned is Ling Chuan's girlfriend, who speaks a foreign language next door. The two have known each other since junior high school, one year younger than Ling Chuan.

It is said that they are sister-in-law, but in fact, the relationship between the two is still at the level of holding hands. The last time they held hands was a little long ago, and Ling Chuan can't even remember.

In the same way, he still can't remember many days.

For example, what is the [-]-day anniversary of dating, the first anniversary of knowing each other, her birthday, her dog's birthday, her favorite singer's birthday...

And these are the reasons for their quarrels. What Ling Chuan has to do every time is coax, buy, buy, buy.

The love relationship has lasted for more than a year... It's been almost two years, and suddenly one day after school, I ran into a man giving flowers to his girlfriend.

Of course, the person who bumped into this scene was not Ling Chuan, but his hair boy Yang Fan. If it was Ling Chuan himself, he would have already punched him.

[Got it, go and block him at night. 】

Ling Chuan threw the ball of paper back, Yang Fan glanced at it, and started writing on the bottom again.

【I'm with you. After all, it's not our territory. If he calls someone, you'll have to take care of him. 】

Ling Chuan didn't intend to fight with Li Yu, but just wanted to remind him a little bit, don't move what shouldn't be, after all, he has been closely watched by the class teacher recently, and he was punished for going over the Internet cafe on the wall last time He didn't want to cause trouble in the toilet for a week, but Yang Fan seemed more excited than him, which meant to exercise his muscles and bones.

He thought for a while, and gave Yang Fan an OK gesture.

Zhou Xiaolu was quite sensible, and he didn't talk to Jiang Kai all day except to ask Jiang Kai to borrow a pen.

Of course, after Jiang Kai said "Listen to the class" three times.

In fact, he doesn't dislike Zhou Xiaolu, but he just thinks it's a waste of time to chat awkwardly. It's better to listen to the class and read books than to know what color and drink the same table likes. It's not easy for parents to make money.

After the school bell rang, the head teacher Li Yuanqing went into the classroom and chattered for a while. Jiang Kai still had a good impression of this head teacher. He was kind, close to the people, and easy to talk to.

"Jiang Kai," Li Yuanqing pushed away a lot of hungry wolves pouring out of the door, and shouted at Jiang Kai, "wait a minute."

Jiang Kai stood at the door with his bag on his back.

"How do you feel this day, can the course keep up?" Li Yuanqing asked.

"Yes." Jiang Kai nodded. The progress of the courses here is not as fast as the previous school, but the content of the teacher's lectures is very detailed.

"That's right." Li Yuanqing patted Jiang Kai's shoulder with relief, "The teacher knows that you are a good seedling. I hope you can maintain your current state and work harder to win honor for the class."

Jiang Kai nodded, not knowing what to say, staring at the three-story cedar outside the corridor in a daze.

"I've seen your previous grades, and you're good in science. There was a math competition recently. After I discussed it with your teacher Zhao, I plan to arrange for you to participate with Li Yu." Jiang Kai didn't show any emotion on his face, Li Yuanqing's There was a trace of doubt in his eyes, "If you get a ranking, you will be rewarded, and it will help you to go to school in the future... Of course, you can decide for yourself, if you don't want to, you don't have to force it."

"No force," Jiang Kai's face remained expressionless, his lips parted slightly, "When?"

"The preliminary competition is next month." Li Yuanqing seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, "So you are ready to participate?"

Jiang Kai nodded, it is a fool to have money but not make money.

"That's good," Li Yuanqing glanced into the classroom, and said to himself, "Hey, Li Yu isn't here."

Jiang Kai didn't speak.

"I'll look for him later," Li Yuanqing smiled gently, "Come with me to the office to fill out the registration form."

After filling out the registration form, the class teacher explained to him with heart and soul, Jiang Kai walked out of the office and found that the entire class, no, the entire grade was empty, and even the students on duty were gone.

When Jiang Kai went downstairs, he was a little confused.

The school is very large, divided into junior high school and high school.

The teaching buildings are row after row like dominoes. In addition, fountains, rockeries, gardens, clock towers, small lakes and other designs that should appear and should not appear can easily affect people's sense of direction. In this campus.

It gives people a feeling of "it's time to buy an electric car" as soon as they enter the door.

It is true that the campus is beautiful, but Jiang Kai's sense of direction is also facing great challenges.

He usually judges the direction as front, back, left, and right, but the addition of these messy buildings and lakes means that the road will turn...

The left side in front of you is not necessarily the left side just now, and the road behind you is not necessarily the road you just walked.

A kind security guard brought him in in the morning.

However, he was a little nervous because he didn't see any security patrols after walking all the way.

This seems to have passed by this sparkling artificial lake for the third time.

He wanted to retreat in the opposite direction, when he suddenly heard someone talking behind the rockery.

At this point in time, the dormitory students have gone to eat what they should eat, and have gone home for day and school. The people who will hide and chat in such a romantic place are nothing more than those young couples who fell in love with each other early.

He was in no hurry to get home, so he didn't intend to disturb them.

Just as he was retreating, he heard a boy's voice screaming, "Fuck. You. Damn. You can't understand people's language, right?"

Jiang Kai is insensitive to direction but extremely sensitive to sound. He was very impressed by this hoarse and magnetic voice that just evolved from the voice change period.

Very recognizable, just heard it last night, but not 100% sure.

It was not difficult to judge the next voice - it was a fight.

There was a lot of punching and kicking, interspersed with short yelling and what sounded like sobbing.

Jiang Kai felt a little embarrassed, even more in a dilemma than when he stood at the door in the morning.

Reason told him not to meddle in his own business, but he still couldn't suppress his surging curiosity.

He wasn't curious about the reason for their fight, but whether that voice was Ling Chuan.

He wondered if his ears were working well.

"This is a warning, let me see you touch my girlfriend again..." The person who said the harsh words saw a black shadow out of the corner of his eye, and when he turned his head, he was startled and almost bit his tongue.

The one squatting in the grass and holding his head was also surprised, and turned his head back.

Jiang Kai stood aside with his hands in his pockets, glanced at Ling Chuan, and then exchanged glances with the one in the grass.

It looks familiar, but I can't remember the name.

It looks so unremarkable.

But the one in the grass seemed to remember him, and scrambled to hide behind him, panting heavily.

"Go ahead." Jiang Kai didn't want to stay any longer after confirming that it was Ling Chuan, and calmly turned around under the astonished gaze of the person on the ground.

"Look at that!" Ling Chuan took two steps forward and pulled Li Yu's collar, who hadn't recovered from his surprise, "Silly, do you think people will talk to you?"

Before Li Yu could speak, Ling Chuan's fist hit his stomach.

Ling Chuan didn't use much force in this punch, and he felt that he didn't have [-]% of his strength, but Li Yu still let out a heart-piercing cry like a Beijing opera.

Jiang Kai, who had already walked ten meters away, suddenly remembered the name of the person on the ground, and almost moved himself to tears.

Since Li Yu was a classmate with him and a top student, he decided to go back and save him.

When I turned around, I happened to see Li Yu resisting, punching Ling Chuan on the left side of the face, grinning, it looked like he was using his strength, and at the same time, the No. [-] figure suddenly rushed out from behind to hug him. Lived in Li Yu.

He didn't notice just now that there was actually a person behind the rockery, who seemed to be on the side of Ling Chuan.

Li Yu's feet flew into the air, and the whole person was lifted up.

Jiang Kai took a deep breath, and instantly had the feeling of 'It's over, I can't save him now'.

However, he still rushed over at the moment Ling Chuan was about to punch. He originally wanted to catch the fist with his bare hands but found that the difficulty factor was too high, so he hugged Ling Chuan directly from behind.