Xiaoman

After exchanging four and a half sentences with Xia Liang in front of the convenience store, the total number of which did not exceed fifty characters, Liu Xiaoman was still unable to speak up when he returned home.

Although since Liu Yong and the others came back, he usually couldn't say a few words at home, but it was the first time he could lose his mind while watching the Spring Festival Gala on the [-]th night of the year.

After a skit was performed, the camera cut to the audience applauding. Aunt Mei laughed so hard that even Liu Yong was peeling peanuts and saying "hehe", he didn't understand what he was laughing at.

At this time last year, he was with Xia Liang.

Liu Xiaoman started to lose his mind again.

Grandpa was still in a coma at the time, and Xia Liang's face was covered with colors. The two of them put together a capitalized "miserable", but they felt very at ease, tired of watching the Spring Festival Gala on the sofa, so sleepy that their eyelids were closed reluctant to sleep...

"Is Xiaoman sleepy?" Aunt Mei pulled Liu Xiaoman back with one sentence.

Liu Yong followed him with a glance, and leaned over to touch the remote control on the sofa.

"No need." Liu Xiaoman hurriedly shook his head and stood up, "Look, I'm going to my grandfather's room to do my homework."

"Your father is asleep, and Cancan is asleep too," Aunt Mei snatched the remote control and turned it off, stood up from the sofa to pull the folding bed, "You go to sleep too, your dad and I have to get up early tomorrow too Go to the temple to burn incense."

As soon as the TV screen went black, the living room suddenly fell silent, Liu Xiaoman didn't say anything, and went to play with Aunt Mei.

"I'll do it." Liu Yong came over and pushed him away.

Liu Xiaoman had no choice but to hug the quilt.

He hugged the quilt with one hand, and his entire face was almost covered behind the quilt. When he returned to the living room, he heard Aunt Mei smile and ask him, "Will you come with us?"

"Ah?" Liu Xiaoman showed half of his face from behind the quilt. The last time he went to the temple to burn incense was with his grandfather, and he couldn't remember how many years ago.

Maybe it's really time to say goodbye. It hasn't been going well since last year.

But after thinking about it, he still refused.

Aunt Liu Yongmei and the others belonged to the same family, and he felt awkward adding him.

Sure enough, the next morning, she heard Aunt Mei and the others getting up to tidy up. Liu Xiaoman was too embarrassed to continue to sleep, and he was too embarrassed to get up and squeeze into the bathroom with them to wash, so he sat on the edge of the bed in a daze.

He didn't sleep well yesterday, he forgot to dream about some messy things, he couldn't remember, his mind was light, he just took out a book and memorized it, trying to wake up his mind.

No matter what mood you are in, as long as you tell yourself that you are going to study, you will be able to devote yourself immediately.I don't know why I'm so lazy today, my eyes are still staring at the book, and my mind starts to freeze again.

After being stunned for a while, he remembered Xia Liang looked into his emotionless eyes yesterday.

what--

Liu Xiaoman lowered his head and rubbed his face, not in the mood to care about Aunt Mei and the others walking around the house, leaned on the bed tiredly and sighed.

This doesn't work.

School starts in a few days, and the start of school means that one foot has already entered the examination room of the college entrance examination. Isn't this state of nonsense?

In fact, after breaking up in one go, they disappeared without seeing each other, and the bits and pieces of the past relationship were forcibly suppressed. As long as we don't think about it carefully, the time passes day by day.

Happened to meet at this time.

Not only did he meet, he also went to talk to Xia Liang with a shy face.

What's the matter...

Liu Xiaoman slumped on the bed and kicked his legs weakly, he suddenly felt a little wronged, not because Xia Liang ignored him, but because he felt...

what?

I can't feel anything either.

It's just feeling uncomfortable in my heart, panicked, the kind of sadness that I know that I have no right to be sad while feeling sad, and there is nothing that can't be redeemed.

Thinking that he and Xia Liang would become strangers like this in the future, he couldn't even breathe, and felt a pain in his chest.

People are still greedy.

Liu Xiaoman forced himself to turn over.

In the past, he was pretty good, and he thought that when Xia Liang didn't like him, he would stay far away and never disturb his normal life.

Now I know it's not that easy at all.

Now he would rather not have those feelings and get along with Xia Liang, and he can be his deskmate, just like the first few days of school, just sitting together without talking, he is willing.

He was originally lying on his back, but when he turned over and met Cancan's gaze, he realized that Aunt Mei had also lifted Cancan up from the bed.

"Brother, I'm sorry." Cancan was standing at the door of the bathroom, and Aunt Mei rubbed her face with a hot towel like rubbing something on her face, shaking her face several times, pointing at Liu Xiaoman and said vaguely.

"Don't disturb your little brother." Aunt Mei unscrewed a small bottle of Xiangxiang and stuffed it into Cancan's hand, "Wipe it yourself."

She turned around and went into the bathroom to wash towels, Cancan continued to look at Liu Xiaoman, tapped her forehead and cheeks a few times with her fingers dipped in Xiangxiang, and patted her hands after she finished.

Liu Xiaoman sat up a little embarrassed, and when Aunt Mei came out and saw it, she said "Hey": "Xiaoman, sleep on your bed, get into bed! I'll wipe my face and take him away."

"I'm not sleepy." Liu Xiaoman shook his head, he was just hypocritical and wanted to lie down, but being stared at by Cancan for a long time, all that hypocrisy was stared at him.

"He wants to apply incense." Cancan turned to Aunt Mei and said.

Aunt Mei smiled, "Huh?" Liu Xiaoman didn't know how he came to this conclusion, and couldn't even sigh.

"Are you ready?" Liu Yong went to finish talking with his grandfather, and asked them while changing his shoes while standing by the door.

"Go, go downstairs with your dad first." Aunt Mei pushed Cancan on her back, wiped her hands and went into the house to put on her coat.

When she came out again, she had a small red envelope in her hand, she called out "Xiaoman", came over and stuffed the red envelope into Liu Xiaoman's hand: "New Year's money."

Liu Xiaoman was stunned.

"You and Cancan are alone. I will take care of his, and you will keep it yourself. It's not much. It's just a meaning. Buy whatever you want, with your father's money." Aunt Mei smiled naturally.

After she finished speaking, she didn't wait for Liu Xiaoman's response, turned around and left, and when she closed the door, she was still telling him to sleep a little longer, and that he didn't need to do homework on the first day of the new year.

"...Ah." Liu Xiaoman stood up holding the red envelope, subconsciously wanting to give it away.

Before she could move her legs, Aunt Mei closed the door halfway and then pushed her probe away: "There is breakfast in the pot, let your grandfather get up to eat later, we will come back after burning the incense."

After she finished speaking, she quickly closed the door and left. Hearing the sound of Aunt Mei going downstairs, Liu Xiaoman stood in the living room for a while before returning to sit on the bed.

He rubbed the seal of the red envelope and took a look, it was a red note.

It's very thin, but it feels a little hot when you hold it.

Although Aunt Mei has been getting along very well this year, he still always feels that Aunt Mei is an "outsider", and taking red envelopes from outsiders makes him feel a little... strange.

There are some other feelings that cannot be explained in the strangeness.

I should say thank you just now.

Liu Xiaoman thought a little angrily.

Then, he uncontrollably remembered the red envelope that Xia Liang sent him for the Chinese New Year last year.

I don't know if I will be beaten this year.

This year's New Year's Day, Aunt Mei not only gave Liu Xiaoman a red envelope, but also brought him a small amulet after burning the incense.

It is said to be a talisman, but it is actually more like a small red envelope made of delicate fabric, with a pattern of gold thread printed on the fabric, tied with a small gold rope, wrapped in plastic skin, and "Please purchase price 50" is pasted on the back of the plastic skin.

Liu Xiaoman stared at the "50" for a long time with a bit of a smile.

"I begged in the temple. I don't know if your temples here are ineffective. I think there are many people who beg. For those who are born in this year, I went with your father to get you a learning... learning talisman?" Aunt Mei turned her face away. Look at Liu Yong.

"Study." Liu Yong was making tea, correcting her with a helpless expression.

"It's all the same. I asked if I would guarantee the college entrance examination, but the monk said yes, that's fine." Aunt Mei smiled indifferently, took the amulet from Liu Xiaoman's hand, and went to find his schoolbag, still muttering, "He said it should be tied to the schoolbag... Let me see how to tie it for you, don't drop it..."

"There's one more!" Cancan yelled while holding a bag of chocolate beans.

"Come here and bring it to your master!" Aunt Mei was busy tying the talisman, and shouted back without raising her head.

Cancan immediately went to look through Aunt Mei's bag, and took out a small cloth bag with no difference except the pattern.He was still holding the chocolate beans in his hand, took out a talisman and dropped half of the bag, and hurriedly picked the bag carefully to pick up the beans.

Liu Yong took the talisman away from his hand, went over to show his grandfather a look, and said that it was for longevity, and he wanted to press it under his pillow.

"It's a lot of money..." Grandpa grinned, he said that the concatenated words were still a little fuzzy, and his face was twitching, but Liu Xiaoman could tell that Grandpa was in a good mood.

Liu Yong smiled, and went into the bedroom to release a talisman for his grandfather.

"You all have them, but I don't!" Cancan yelled loudly while still picking beans.

"When will you grow up to the college entrance examination!" Aunt Mei came over with the schoolbag tied with talismans, and slapped Cancan's buttocks, "It's so annoying, I've been raised for so many years and still be so small...Xiao Man, after two years Just carry it when school starts."

Grandpa and Liu Yong both laughed, Liu Xiaoman took the schoolbag, and without holding back, he rolled his eyes at Aunt Mei: "Thank you, Auntie."

Aunt Mei said "Hey", "My family, don't talk about this."

Liu Xiaoman didn't know whether the academic talisman bought back for 50 yuan was useful or not, but every day when he saw this little red bag after school, he would feel a little soft in his heart.

Grandpa was always reassured about his studies and never asked him much. Of course he hoped that Liu Xiaoman would do well in the exam, but it doesn't matter if he doesn't do well, peace is a blessing.

For the first time in so many years, Liu Xiaoman felt that besides himself, there were people at home who were also looking forward to caring about his studies.

Thinking of this, he used the fastest speed to gather his thoughts and temporarily cleared everything that had nothing to do with the college entrance examination from his mind.

Such as Xia Liang, Xia Liang, and Xia Liang.

In fact, Fan Yiyang should be counted among those who have always had expectations of him in his studies.

Liu Xiaoman still thinks of Fan Yiyang a lot of times—he can’t even think about it, he uses Fan Yiyang’s notes, those neatly organized words and sentences are as neat as Fan Yiyang’s lectures to him for so many years, there is no nonsense, everything is straight to the point On the most core knowledge point.

Liu Xiaoman didn't see Fan Yiyang from the time he came back to the time he left this holiday, mainly because he didn't know what to say when he saw him, which made him a little uncomfortable every time he opened Fan Yiyang's notes.

Especially on the day when the school held a [-]-day swearing-in for the third year of senior high school, when I came home, I met Fan Yiyang's father at the gate of Uncle Song's supermarket. Fan's father still called him "Xiaoman" very kindly and naturally, and said to him: "Brother Yangyang, you still have a lot of love that day. Let me ask you, is it almost the same?"

Liu Xiaoman was almost unable to speak.

"Yes." He could only smile and nod.

"Take a good exam. I'll go to the same school as you, Brother Yangyang." Father Fan also said with a smile.

It is more difficult to take the same school as Fan Yiyang. Fan Yiyang even saved his own test papers for the first, second and third exams last year for Liu Xiaoman. The difficulty of the two sets of papers is about the same. cut.

But at this time, it is indeed the stage of checking for omissions and making up for vacancies. The points he lost are indeed weak items, so he just stared at the knowledge categories that lost points and studied hard.

At this time, he couldn't help but think about Xia Liang again. He wondered how Xia Liang was doing now, how he was doing in the exam, how he was getting along with his mother, how he was doing in the study, and whether he could remember what they said , to test a school.

These problems have to be controlled, and I dare not think about them too much, otherwise my heart shrinks and there is no end to it.

But as April approaches, this kind of endless miss has reached a peak.

Xia Liang's birthday is coming.

Liu Xiaoman began to feel anxious from the last week of March.

Thinking of Xia Liang's mood on his birthday last year, his fingertips were numb, and the more he told himself not to think about it, the more he thought about it.

On the morning of April [-]st, even Wang Chao was startled when he said, "I caught a cold the day before." He raised his head and asked, "Has Xia Liang come?"

"Are you crazy?" Li Meng turned to look at him, "Why is he here when he has nothing to do?"

"Let's have a physical examination." Wang Chao thought for a while, "Before he said that he had to go back to school for the physical examination, and after that he had to go back to school for the graduation photos."

"Ah?" Li Meng blinked, "When are we going to have a physical examination?"

"Who knows." Wang Chao shook his head, "No. [-] Middle School was checked two days ago. I don't know what number will be our school. It should be soon."

Liu Xiaoman was stunned in his seat for a long time. He was doing the history paper in the second class. A few minutes before the end of get out of class, he took out the draft book from last year and added He said: Be happy this year too.

When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, he just put down his pen, and before he could put on the cap of the pen, there was a sudden knock on the window, Liu Xiaoman was startled, he dragged the book to cover the draft pad, and turned his head to look out.

"You are Liu Xiaoman, right? Bald donkey asked you to find him in the office." Outside the window was a student from Class [-].

"Bald..." Liu Xiaoman didn't react, "Dean?"

"Ah, it's just him, hurry up!" The man left after speaking.

Liu Xiaoman stood up in a daze, not understanding why the dean could ask him, so he hurried over in a daze.

When he came back from the office again, he took a few extra forms in his hand. It was the policy on the disabled in the college entrance examination. The bald donkey didn't go into details, and he didn't have much interest in listening. Shang Liangshan asked him a few days ago. Just let him go over and confirm his personal situation.

Returning to the class from the dean's office, he slipped on the sole of his foot when going up the stairs, feeling flustered for no reason.

Fortunately, I didn't get stuck on the stairs like Ma Shuo, and I couldn't get up when I got up.

Unable to remember, followed by a series of Xia Liang, Liu Xiaoman walked to the classroom in a panic, thinking that his draft book hadn't been closed, so he quickened his pace.

As a result, he passed by the window, and before he entered the back door, he saw someone standing by the table, reading his draft.

Liu Xiaoman's heart skipped a beat, and he hurried in through the back door, but he was completely stunned.

Xia Liang turned his head from the table and looked straight at him.