summer and roses

The gray-white teaching building stands awe-inspiring, and the shade of trees separates the teaching area from the playground. The camphor and plane trees become more lush with the intoxication of the spring breeze, blocking the eyes of the teenagers in the classrooms on the lower floors from looking at the stadium.

The countdown to the college entrance examination posted on the wall was torn off again. Since the three-digit number became a two-digit number, the time seemed to suddenly speed up.The yawning student on duty wiped away the messy drafts left on the blackboard by self-study the night before. She put away the chalk ends and looked up. The wall clock at the back of the classroom pointed to 07:30.

Qi Shanshan put down the soy milk, took out a book and walked up to the podium: "It's early self-study, stop for breakfast—"

Just like every calm morning, the sound of reading immediately rang out, without order.Some people are reading English compositions aloud, some are covering their ears and reading about materialism and dialectics, some are silently writing the history of major events from 1949 to the present, and occasionally there are a few weird ones, arguing at the top of their voices about math problems that were not solved yesterday.

Looking energetic, Mucha was lying on the table, surrounded by the black energy of resentment that hadn't woken up.

The boy at the front table is reciting ancient Chinese, with one leg resting on the edge of the seat, and he is reciting sideways, muttering: "...only the breeze on the river, and the bright moon in the mountains, the sound of the ear, and the color of the eyes. It is the creator. The Endless Hidden-"

"And my son and I are compatible." Mucha subconsciously said.

A pair of puzzled eyes appeared under the Chinese document, and you looked at him as if surprised that he would endorse: "Huh?"

Mucha kicked the table frame weakly: "Ah, what, didn't you say it right?"

"That's right. It's a little strange that you're not sleeping..." You Yi tapped his fingers rhythmically on the book cover, and when Mu Xia said angrily that he couldn't sleep, he suddenly realized, "I remembered, have you checked your grades soon? ?”

Mucha made a "hmm" sound, and You Yi continued, "No wonder I heard you tossing and turning underneath last night. I said you were very stable before. Why, there is a lot of pressure..."

"You talk a lot, if you have the time, you might as well memorize a few paragraphs of ancient prose." Mucha interrupted him, took out a piece of draft paper from the exercise book, and began to silently write words.

You Yi: "It seems that the tutoring is very effective. If I pass the exam later, I must treat Lin Zhan to dinner."

Anyway, no one paid attention to their small talk, Mu Xia pretended to block it with the book, and said disgustedly: "What's the matter with Guan Linzhan, Apple asked Xie Zeyuan to make it up for me, he will go abroad in June, the offer has already been obtained, and he doesn't even need to take the college entrance examination .”

"So you go to spend time alone with him every night?" You Yi feigned surprise, "Don't tell me, it's not good!"

Mucha rolled his eyes: "Apple is here too. He speaks English composition, you can recruit money with him when you have time... Teacher Chen asks for a leave of absence, let's go together. It's this time, I still want to do something."

Originally, he was just joking, but he didn't expect Mucha to send out such an invitation. After hearing the words, You Yi hesitated for a while, and made a choice without thinking: "Okay, I'll go too."

They muttered, their voices became louder and louder, but they did not escape the monitor's eyes.Qi Shanshan, who was on the podium, rolled up the Chinese papers and walked to the end of the classroom, and gave one person angrily: "Endorse the book well!"

"Hey——" The voice was drawn out to be perfunctory, You Yi covered his head with the book angrily, and stuck out his tongue at Mucha.

There are more people in the private tutoring class every night. In the cafe near the downtown business district, Xie Zeyuan copied both hands and leaned against the booth: "Do you really treat me as free labor?"

It was Lin Zhan who first mentioned the matter of asking him for tutoring, but the real executor was Lin Po.After all, Xie Zeyuan is in the same class as her, so it's easy to get in touch with. Hearing Mu Xia said that he can't keep up with the school's review rhythm, and now he's looking for a cram school because he's afraid of being cheated out of money. on.

Several of them are in different schools, left and right Mu Xia and Lucky Cat have a good relationship, and they had the convenience of being an art student before, and it was easy to pick up leave slips, but the more they got to the college entrance examination, the school had more loopholes in its jurisdiction.

After the final sum, it became to choose a place in a convenient location between the two schools to do the questions together.

Lin Po rolled out a math paper, and said to Xie Zeyuan angrily, "I will also explain one and two, and I will help you—Xiao Yi is my brother's roommate."

I don't know if Lin Zhan's name has a special magical power, but Xie Zeyuan suddenly lost his temper, took out a blank piece of paper, and wrote a few English example sentences on it.He looked up at the three people who were watching him, frowned his delicate eyebrows, and tried his best to clarify: "I'm all looking at Lin Zhan's face."

"Understood." Lin Po said, waving at You Yi, "He's just like this, don't worry about it. Xiao Yi, you and Mucha finish reading these three articles first, and I'll dictate to you."

You Yi said "hmm", and turned his attention back from Xie Zeyuan to the paper, and his curiosity also subsided.

They took the test papers of foreign language schools, because they sent foreign students all the year round, and the scores of foreign schools in English were indeed better than No. [-] Middle School for all to see.The two schools do not easily exchange test papers. He rarely encountered self-proposed questions from other schools, and he scratched his head in reading comprehension in a few articles.

An article with hundreds of words, each line only knows a few basics.You Yi felt deeply frustrated, and when he was frustrated, he was prone to get angry, and immediately began to test the edge of the fried hair after getting angry.

The pressure has been pent up in my heart for a long time and I haven't vented it. A few days ago, Mu Xia was in a critical moment of single-handed moves, and You Yi learned to control his temper without a teacher.But his level was limited, and he was not able to be completely open-minded. The English reading that he couldn't understand was the last straw, and his back was suddenly bent.

"What the hell are these—" You Yi seemed to be surrounded by black air, he threw the ink pen to the side, and even the test paper was swung off the table by him, "What the hell are you writing! Don't do it!"

Lin Po and Xie Zeyuan had never encountered such a battle before, and they were all taken aback. Fortunately, there were few people in the cafe, so they didn't attract much attention.

Mu Xia looked up calmly, then glanced at the English roll that he had crumpled and floated to the ground, and said calmly, "If you don't study hard, you won't be able to pass the university entrance exam in June."

"Joke, there's no way I can't pass the exam."

"Who wants to go to college with me?" Mucha said, still drawing between the lines with the pencil in his hand, "If you go to any school at random, you will have a long-distance relationship in college."

You Yi: "...Hello."

Mucha immersed herself in writing the title: "Long-distance relationships are easy to break up."

You Yi gasped, his expression immediately changed.

The conversation and quarrel between these two people is not like a quarrel, nor can it be described as "reasonable" or "pissed off". A few cold conversations make people worry that they will directly fight in the next moment.

Perhaps because no one mentioned the word "breakup", You You subconsciously didn't think about it at all, and when he said it from Mucha's mouth unexpectedly, he couldn't deal with it, so he ignited an unknown fire out of thin air. The atmosphere suddenly dropped to freezing point.For unknown reasons, Lingo hid aside and shivered, and didn't dare to intervene for a while.

No one knows if Mucha is joking or serious about saying something like this even though he directly stated the relationship.

"That..." Xie Zeyuan cleared his throat. He was an outsider who had to bite the bullet and speak out, purely wanting to get out of the siege, but he couldn't say anything practical, "Actually, this..."

Before he finished speaking, he was scratching his head and scratching his head thinking about the next article, when You Yi suddenly stood up.

Lingo instinctively wanted to stand up with him, thinking that he was going to hit Mucha.Unexpectedly, Youyou pressed the knuckles of his fingers, and after a while, he bent down to pick up the paper and flattened it again.

Ringo laughed dryly: "Oh, I thought what were you going to do."

You Yi ignored her for the first time, and glared at Mu Xia who was still calmly working on the question: "What right do you have to criticize me? If you can't write it, don't go back to the dormitory and howl, what's wrong."

Mucha smiled: "Hey, isn't this all right?"

Lin Po, who watched the whole process, heaved a sigh of relief, as if remembering that You You's character used to be like this, but it has changed for so long recently that she has forgotten the days when he was shrouded in uncertainty.She curled her lips, typed a line under the table, and poked Xie Zeyuan's hand to show him: "Are all you gays so capricious?"

Xie Zeyuan: "I'm not, I don't, don't talk nonsense."

Ringo was lying on the table laughing until his shoulders were shaking.

At night when the lanterns come on, after the cloudless day, the cool wind blows through the treetops.

The next day is Saturday, and it is customary to study all day.Mu Xia was dizzy from the test paper sent by Xie Zeyuan the first day, and he was still sleepy while lying in front of the desk. Seeing the teacher surrounded by students who asked questions, Mu Xia simply fell asleep.

He didn't realize anything when he was half asleep and half awake, and when he was pushed awake, he was still a little confused about the dividing line between reality and illusion.

You Yi stood by the table and pointed to a girl at the back door: "Li Shu came to you and said that your art test results came out."

Mucha stood up in a jerk, the movement was too sudden, he didn't eat breakfast, his vision was dark and he almost lost his footing.Youyou held his arm and said in disbelief, "Is it so scary?"

"Do you have anything to eat? Give me something... low blood sugar." Mu Xia rubbed his temples, stood in place for a while, and then regained his sight of the desk in front of him and You You's hand supporting him.

A ray of sunlight fell on his shoulders, and then the candy that You You brought came into view: "Eat it."

The lemon-flavored lollipop was unpacked and contained in his mouth, and Mucha always had the illusion that he had a cigarette in his mouth.He glanced at the countdown to the college entrance examination next to the blackboard, trying to remember the date, but he couldn't see clearly, so he was dragged over by You Yi.

The corridors are no longer bustling with the excitement of the sophomore and freshman years, and most people would rather take a nap in their seats.

Li Shu was not wearing a school uniform, her long brown hair was cut short, and the tips of her hair were slightly curled around her face, looking more and more like a young girl.She was lying on the balcony, and when she heard footsteps, she looked back, shook the phone at Mucha, and teased him: "You can't even forget this?"

"I really forgot." Mucha said, when he took out his phone, he found that his trouser pocket was empty, "Damn... I didn't even bring my phone, I left it in the dormitory to charge it too late yesterday."

Li Shu: "It doesn't matter, I just asked Teacher Li to get the admission ticket number of the students in the second middle school in the class, you can copy it."

Mucha agreed, and poked his head into the window to find a classmate to borrow a pen.Li Shunian, he just wrote, a few strings of numbers fell on the paper, and when Li Shu borrowed his phone, the score checking website was loaded on the screen.

Mu Xia was nervous for no reason, he looked up at You Yi, the young boy was leaning against the wall on the other side of the corridor in a dawdly manner, he smiled after noticing his gaze, bit his lower lip to avoid his eyes.He noticed that Youyou's exposed hand clenched the seam of his trousers, obviously nowhere to send it to him.

The words from last night are still ringing in my ears, "distance" and "breakup" are all unbearable pain for the time being.

When Mucha entered the test number, his hands were shaking, his heart was pounding, and he stayed away from other things for the time being, the sun was shining on his back, and his back was already slightly scorching.The tree wants to be quiet, but the wind doesn't stop, and his ears are hot, as if all of a sudden the whole world is only the sound of the wind.

The sound of breathing paused for a beat, the sweet taste on the tip of the tongue continued to spread with a bit of fruity aroma, Mucha looked at You Cruise.

"Which school did you get into?" You Yi said, crossing his arms, his palms were a little sweaty, he wiped the sleeves of his school uniform while Mu Xia was not paying attention, trying to make himself look as if nothing had happened.

Mucha choked up, looked at Li Shu again, and returned the phone to her silently.

When Li Shu took it, the screen went dark, she instinctively unlocked it again, and let out a short scream when she saw the score clearly: "Wow!"

You Yi couldn't pretend anymore, strode over and leaned towards Li Shu: "Show me!...I'll go, this score is really auspicious, 266...is it good or bad?"

Li Shu: "The full score is 300. He should... If he can get into the school he applied for, he will pass the professional courses."

You Yi repeatedly confirmed the score, but he had no idea about it, and said for a while, "That's amazing, my brother Xia is really amazing—Muchia, why are you in a daze?"

As if the person who had been silent since returning the phone was finally woken up by his slap, he staggered on the spot, holding on to the balcony to stand firm.Mucha greeted Youyou with the same starry eyes as Li Shu, always felt that they were looking up at Xueba, and suddenly began to feel uncomfortable, rolled his eyes, and organized his words.

"This...isn't this just...well, it's just the basic operation." At the end of Mucha's speech, she couldn't help laughing.

"Hey you man, why are you still pretending!" You You wrapped his arms around his neck, as if he was infected by Mu Xia together with Li Shu, he couldn't restrain the joy in his heart, and hammered Mu Xia's chest.

The laughter in the corridor startled the classroom, Lin Zhan poked his head out: "What's the matter, so noisy?"

You Yi immediately compared his hands to six: "My Brother Xia's grades came out, the best Academy of Fine Arts, with a perfect score of 300, he got 266 in the exam! How about it, isn't it super—— amazing, my family, okay!"

Lin Zhan didn't realize what he said at first, but then he was taken aback, his eyes full of admiration: "Amazing, Xia."

Mu Xia pursed her lips reservedly, and was about to say a few words of humility to Lin Zhan, when You Yi suddenly answered, "My Brother Xia said, this is the basic operation, do you understand, the basic operation!"

Lin Zhan: "..."

He didn't know what to say, so he could only shout "666" with Li Shu.

For the next whole day, You Yu was immersed in inexplicable joy, humming softly in the front row in the self-study class, singing the peninsula tin box while doing the English paper that he didn't like.Mucha told him a few times, and You Yi promised well on the surface, but turned around and continued humming, as if he was on the wrong channel with someone else.

It wasn't until the car on the way home after self-study that Mucha asked, "Can you stop?"

Relying on the crowded bus, You Yi hung it on his back with a slap to act as a human follower: "No! I just realized that your grades are not very good, you are so good at drawing—"

"What, do you want to be honored?" Mucha came up with a four-character word, which unfortunately was used quite correctly, and she was shocked.

You Cruise: "Special!"

He paused, as if he was very reluctant, but he couldn't let go, and carefully mentioned other things: "Didn't you only get the results here, and there are a few other art schools that haven't got out? Are you also making good use of other things?" Li Shu said that you can go wherever you want, and you must go to the best school."

"I know." Mucha said, and added sadly, "Don't worry, I still need to watch the cultural class."

You Yi couldn't listen anymore, he buried himself on Mu Xia's shoulder, and secretly bit the side of his neck.The spring clothes gradually became thinner, this time the flames were stirred, Mu Xia patted his waist to signal to stop making trouble.

He didn't say any nonsense that "you're definitely fine", because You Yi knew in his heart that Mu Xia's culture class was actually a bit big.Instead of making him flutter with beautiful words now, it is better to save some effort and have a wonderful weekend first, and then slowly boast when he gets the admission notice.

Mucha hooked Youyou's waist with one hand, and hung the other on the armrest. He looked out the car window.

At that time, he was taking the single-recruitment color test in H City. After reading the proposition, he knew it in his heart.Other people around were immersed in color correction, or thinking about the composition, and drafting, and Mucha added a flower to the bottle mouth with a pencil.

He didn't dare to say how many points this flower got, at least the ending was not far from what he expected.

And now it's the season when the city is full of flowers.

Mucha thought: "I have to make a phone call."

In the mobile phone address book, a certain name has been squeezed to the back because of infrequent contact.Mucha rummaged for a while, and when he found it, he lost the desire to communicate directly, so he simply sent a text message.

"I recruited alone, you don't have to worry about the tuition fee." He deleted, edited, and sent only a few words.

In the addressee field, fill in Lao Mu's name.At this moment, Mucha wanted to reconcile with him very much, but in the blink of an eye, he felt that it was unnecessary. He could never forgive his father for hurting his mother in his life.

If he doesn't forgive, learn to get rid of it.

Mucha sent another WeChat to announce the good news to his mother who was taking pictures far away on the plateau, and by the way, copied the screenshot sent by Li Shu to Li Yan, counting it as an explanation to her and Yuan Ye.There is no limit to learning the sea, he has already succeeded in half.

After doing this, Mucha let out a breath slowly, turned her face and kissed You Yi's hair.

"Ok?"

"Let's... go buy small glutinous rice cakes later." Mucha said, "There are still two stops to go."

"I invite you to celebrate."

Mucha said yes.

The author has something to say: I will have an operation in a while, try to finish the text before