Xin Zhai

Hearing him call himself that, Tong Yan felt as if a certain finger had been bitten by a bug, and then this tiny discomfort began to magnify and magnify to all parts of his body.It's not pain, it's not itching, it's an indescribable discomfort.

He has been called a teacher for many years, and he is used to it.His students, his leaders, school security guards, cleaning aunts, and factory managers who cooperate with the school all call him that.He has, for the most part, claimed the title from all sorts of people.Sometimes it signifies reverence, sometimes respect, sometimes just seriousness.This appellation can be associated with many emotions and can be called anywhere.But when this name was called out by his students on his bed, Tong Yan felt that many things around him began to be misplaced.

The boy lying under him was about the same age as his distant nephew.But this child, at this time, returned the middle part of the clothes by himself, and after drying for a long time, he was still lying obediently.He covered his eyes with his arms, his body still seemed to be shaking slightly, and the dark hair underneath was covered with white turbidity.

He reached out and removed two paper towels, and wiped them carefully, for fear of hurting him, he only dared to touch the most sensitive part of the top lightly.

Ye Li put one hand on his lower abdomen, his breathing was still not steady.After Tong Yan finished wiping, he tugged at the underwear and pants on his legs.

"Ass lift."

Ye Li lifted his butt.Tong Yan pulled up his trousers, buttoned them up, and put on his belt.

Only then did Ye Li put down his knees, straighten his legs, and let out a sigh of relief.

Tong Yan lowered his head and asked with a smile, "Is it comfortable?" He heard Ye Li snort like a mosquito, and he didn't know whether it meant yes or no.

The two lay side by side.Tong Yan waited for his body to return to normal, and remembered what he had told Ye Li earlier about letting him study abroad.

"As I told you last time, the school in Australia has a good department of self-control, and the department of physics is the best in Australia. It's not impossible to transfer there."

He just said a few words, Ye Li turned over, turned his back to him, took one of his arms and put it under his head as a pillow.

"At my age, you will know that ordinary people only have the opportunity to go out to study when they are in school."

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, you know? It's great to see something different, it's different everywhere."

He talked to himself alone, and said all the good things he could think of.At his current age, if he wants to go abroad again, it is not impossible, but he has to give up too much.The department attached great importance to him, and the dean treated him well, and when his career was booming, there was no reason to go out.Not to mention, his current status, his research results in the institute, and going abroad will all be troublesome.

Students who go to college don't feel, don't know that they have a lot of freedom at that time.After working, settling down and starting a business, how can there be so many possibilities?

"If you really like doing research, go abroad, the level is much higher than here."

In fact, this is what Tong Yan cares about very much, and it is also a fact that he has discovered little by little during the past few years of work, but he is unable to change it.What he said to the student he cared about most now was actually to let him live a more exciting life than his own.

"After graduating from senior year and coming back, if you still want to..." Tong Yan tried his best to organize his words, thought for a long time, and then sighed, "Well, in fact, after graduating from senior year, you can go to a better school to study for a Ph. far away."

Just as he was talking, Tong Yan noticed that Ye Li was motionless and didn't respond at all.

"Hey, are you listening?" Tong Yan patted him and found that Ye Li was really asleep.He glanced at his watch, eleven o'clock.

"Don't sleep, get up, it's eleven o'clock."

Ye Li gave a "hmm" and said in a daze, "Can I sleep here? I'm sleepy."

"No, what do you say when they ask you where you have been tomorrow?" Tong Yan straightened up, "Go back to the dormitory."

Ye Li begged again: "I want to be here."

"You stayed here overnight, what do other people think?" Tong Yan was anxious, "Get up."

Ye Li was a little annoyed at the moment, sat up, stared at him and asked, "Are you... scared?"

The room was extremely quiet, and the sound of other teachers walking to the bathroom came from the corridor.After waiting for a while, Tong Yan took a deep breath and said, "I'm afraid."

Ye Li felt as if his heart had been hit by a hammer, and he became sober in an instant.

He swayed, got off the child's bed, stood up, and found that his shirt was wrinkled and his belly button was cold.He frantically tucked his jacket into his belt, the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't tuck it in.

He was looking for his down jacket while he was cleaning his clothes. He searched around and found that it was crushed out of shape and shrunk into a ball in the corner of the bed, just like him in a mess.

He returned to the dormitory with the night breeze blowing.It's the weekend, so don't turn off the lights.Several people have been drinking, and they are all playing games at the moment, swearing while playing.Ye Li saw that they were fighting with another guild.

He wasn't in the mood to watch, so he climbed onto the bed, and after a while he heard Shi Jingchen answering the phone and yelling into the phone.

"Zhou Shi, what do you mean? Two years later, why should you think about it now? Isn't it good to be happy now?"

"I don't have any other hobbies, don't I just play games?"

"Do you like someone else?"

"Tell me in person tomorrow, call me and tell me what's going on!"

The next day, I had class all morning, and after class, Ye Li went to have dinner with Su Xiaoqian and Pu Liang.After the meal, Ye Li felt that there was nothing to do. He hadn't felt this kind of idleness for a long time, so he followed the two of them back to the dormitory wearily.A few minutes after sitting down, Shi Jingchen came back cursing.

"Fuck, her family is from Beijing, so her parents want her to find someone from Beijing! Fuck, why didn't you say it in the first place? Tell me this now!"

The three looked at each other.Pu Liang comforted and said, "Oh, it's no big deal. Your family is in the local area, and hers is in Beijing. There is a high probability that you will score after graduation."

"I, it's not like I'm not being chased by anyone, right?" Shi Jingchen babbled, "The girl from the mathematics department still sends me messages! If I hadn't fallen in love with her as soon as I started school, I..."

"Yes, you are rich and beautiful, do you still have trouble finding a girl?"

"Fuck!" Shi Jingchen became more and more angry as he spoke, and kicked a shoe next to the chair flying, "I'm fucking defeated by her hands!"

Ye Li and Su Xiaoqian were taken aback.Pu Liang hurried over and patted him on the shoulder: "Come on, come on, you'll forget about it after a while in the arena! Find a more beautiful one in a few days."

Shi Jingchen scolded for a long time, went crazy and tired, sat on the stool, staring at the bookshelf without speaking.After a while, I suddenly pressed the power button of the computer.

"Liangliang, Yongye, the arena!"

The two finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned on their computers.Ye Li glanced at Shi Jingchen, he was holding the mouse with his right hand, his thief was on the screen, he saw his left hand quickly wiped his eyes, and then clicked the login button.

Then comes another month of grueling exams.The results of the samples that Ye Li tested last time were sent to the manufacturer, and now the project is considered to be at a stage.So he followed Su Xiaoqian to the library for self-study every day, and later Pu Liang also joined their team. In the last two weeks, Shi Jingchen also went to study by himself for the first time.

Ye Li bought the ticket to go home a long time ago.I didn't go back during the summer vacation, but I must go home during the winter vacation.He didn't go to the department hall for more than three weeks, and he didn't take the initiative to find Tong Yan.Tong Yan chatted with him on WeChat several times.Once to ask him how he did in the exam, and once to explain to him what happened in the class.In the last week of the exam, Tong Yan asked him when he would be home.He couldn't see much emotion from Tong Yan's typing, and he had always been the one who took the initiative.He answered him in a businesslike manner.Ever since he came back from Tong Yan's place angrily that night, Ye Li had experienced a long period of emotional depression, and the atmosphere in the whole dormitory was very depressed, and he slowly recovered after the exam.The day before he went home, he had to give Tong Yan the class summary for this semester, so he decided to come to the department hall to find him.

He was quite nervous at first, but when he arrived at the department building, he found that the door of Tong Yan's office was locked.He searched the labs upstairs and downstairs, but found no one.

Tong Yan gave him the key to the office very early on.Ye Li opened the door with the key, and saw that the furnishings in the room had not changed.A table and three chairs.The table was still a mess, exactly the same as the first time he came here.

"I'll hand in the class summary, you're not here."

He sent Tong Yan a message, then turned to look at the potted flowers on the windowsill.Although only the anthurium is still in bloom, the pots are considered to be full of branches and leaves, and there are no dead leaves. It seems that someone has been taking care of it.

While he was watering the flowers, he saw Tong Yan's reply.

"I'm at home. Your train tomorrow morning?"

"Ah."

"Have a good rest during the winter vacation, celebrate the New Year well, and stop earning money desperately."

Ye Li thought, grandma is gone.Going home means celebrating the New Year with my mother and younger brother. Apart from making money, there is nothing to do.Thinking about myself is quite boring, I finally have a hobby, or long-distance running, there is really no communication and interaction with people.

For the first time, he felt lost in Tong Yan's room alone.