don't force me

Regarding the question of why Du Xuan didn't have a girlfriend, Lin Ting'an felt that it was not a big deal to ask directly based on his relationship with Du Xuan, but after trying a few times, he swallowed the words again.He himself could not explain why the question was so difficult to ask.Boys chatted about these things simply by opening their mouths. He also heard someone ask another male classmate if he had kissed his girlfriend.At that time, he also smiled secretly, and didn't feel that he was "obscene" at all, but when he asked Du Xuan, it was a bit "difficult to say".

But if you don't ask, I can't let go.

One day, while having lunch in the cafeteria, Yang Lemeng gave Zheng Ziyan all her braised pork, and Zheng Ziyan gave Yang Lemeng her yogurt.Lin Tingan sighed and said, "You guys, it's almost enough, this is a bit too much."

Sun Rui, who was joining in the fun, also sighed: "I am in a different school relationship, it hurts in my eyes."

Zheng Ziyan snorted: "Lin Ting'an, you look for it too, who stopped you. The little girl in class last Thursday looked for you."

Du Xuan raised his head and glanced at Lin Tingan.

Lin Tingan pouted: "Don't be funny..."

"What's the matter, I don't like it." Zheng Ziyan smiled, "The girl is pretty, she's in the dance team, and she's better at studying than you."

"Hey," Sun Rui said, "Lin Ting'an is being chased by someone."

Lin Tingan: "No, they just came to me to borrow a chemistry book."

Everyone laughed and the topic was over, but Mr. Lin Tingan looked at Du Xuan and finally couldn't hold back and asked, "Do you have a girlfriend, Du Xuan?"

"No." Du Xuan said frankly, "Do you still need to ask?"

"Why?" Yang Lemeng said, "Many girls like you."

Lin Tingan almost knelt down to Yang Lemeng and shouted "Save the suffering and rescue the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva", thank you for asking for me.

Du Xuan swallowed a mouthful of rice and said calmly, "I don't like it."

Sun Rui said: "Du Xuan, you are about the same, too crazy and detrimental to character."

Yang Lemeng also said: "Du Xuan, you are enough. There are so many girls, but you don't like any of them."

Du Xuan said calmly, "Well, I don't like it."

Zheng Ziyan asked Sun Rui: "What does he like?"

Sun Rui thought about it for a while, then slowly said: "Ah... I really don't know."

"How could you not know after you have been with him for nine years?"

"I... really don't know." Sun Rui turned his face to ask Du Xuan, "Hey Du Xuan, what do you really like?"

Du Xuan pointed to the dishes on Sun Rui's dinner plate: "How can you not stop your mouth when you eat?"

Sun Rui pulled Du Xuan's hand away: "No, no, or I didn't pay attention, have you never met someone you like?"

Du Xuan said angrily, "I'm busy taking the first place in the exam every day, so I don't have the time to fall in love."

"Then I'm not busy now, let's talk about it, it doesn't mean that girls all over the world are bad."

"Who said that?" Du Xuan said seriously, "Wen Yao is very good, and Yang Lemeng is also very good."

Yang Lemeng pursed her lips and smiled: "Thank you."

Zheng Ziyan rolled his eyes: "Don't flirt."

Du Xuan smiled and lowered his head to eat. Lin Tingan, who had been listening silently, felt relieved at this moment and took a breath.

Sun Rui was choked and went back without speaking. He silently picked up the rice on the plate, then turned to ask Lin Tingan: "Is the third day of junior high school fun?"

Lin Tingan gritted his back molars and said, "What a joke."

What broke Lin Tingan the most in the third year of junior high school was that most of the classes were taken consecutively. It was nothing if he took two consecutive math classes, but two consecutive Chinese classes would really kill him.Coupled with Mr. Qiu's drowsy tone, Lin Tingan started fighting with Duke Zhou within 15 minutes at most.At the beginning, Lin Tingan could still force himself to stand at the back of the classroom and listen to the class with an attitude of "working hard".After a long time, the enthusiasm will be vented, and Du Xuan is too busy in the student union to keep an eye on him, Lin Tingan's enthusiasm for learning will naturally disappear.

At the same time, in order to meet the championship and the physical examination for early promotion in March next year, the training of the track and field team has intensified, especially for the junior three players, the training volume is even greater.Their evening self-study has all stopped, and they run around in circles on the playground every day.

Looking out from the high school building, Du Xuan could only see the curve of the runway. Sometimes, standing there, he could see Lin Tingan passing by.Sun Rui stood at the door of the classroom several times and shouted: "Du Xuan, I didn't hear you when the bell rang. Hurry up and go to self-study."

When Du Xuan returned to the classroom, Sun Rui would ask, "What are you looking at?"

"It's okay, rest your eyes."

"Fart, that playground guy, see who can rest his eyes?"

Du Xuan didn't answer the question and said, "What should I do, I can't finish my homework."

"Who? Me?" Sun Rui said, "Don't worry, when you finish writing, lend me your English to copy."

Du Xuan casually threw away her English homework book, and Sun Rui opened the book while copying and said, "Du Xuan, I think you've been out of shape recently."

"Huh?" Du Xuan finally looked at Sun Rui.

Sun Rui stopped writing, squeezed his eyes and said, "Do you have something on your mind?"

"Yes." Du Xuan said generously, "The monthly exam is coming."

"Exam?" Sun Rui casually threw a notebook over and smashed it on Du Xuan's head, "Are you worried that Super No. 2 will be too low?"

In the first monthly exam in mid-September, Lin Tingan took the tenth exam in the class, relying on the foundation of the summer break.Ma Jing wanted to beat the gongs and drums to send a silk banner to Du Xuan, and Lin Tingan was also quite proud.

Du Xuan said to Lin Ting'an: "Don't be too happy, you are not good at foundation, you have time to recite more things and do some questions."

Lin Tingan nodded happily and agreed, "Don't worry."

Du Xuan: "If you say that, I'm really worried, especially worried."

Lin Tingan clicked his tongue: "What do you mean? I can study hard now, and I hand in my homework every day."

Du Xuan said: "You divide the time, one and a half hours lunch break at noon, four ten minutes to eat and rest, half an hour to sleep on the table, and the remaining two ten minutes to memorize a piece of classical Chinese or a class of vocabulary. "

Lin Tingan responded vaguely: "Understood."

Du Xuan felt like Mrs. Xianglin, but she couldn't help but reminded her again: "It's hot now, and you have a lot of training, so don't run wild outside at noon, go back to work and sleep on your stomach, or else you'll have to sleep in the afternoon." You have to sleep to death in class."

Lin Tingan smiled: "Oh, Du Xuan, I know, you are stricter than my mother, so don't worry."

Du Xuan forced himself to shut up in his heart, not to say another word, it would be too annoying, but he still didn't hold back and said: "Eat more, you have lost a lot of weight recently."

Lin Tingan stood at attention and saluted, "yes, sir."

But the more he said that, the more worried Du Xuan became.How honest can a person like Lin Tingan, who feels uncomfortable every day if he doesn't groan, be honest?

One day at noon, Du Xuan left chemistry class to help the teacher move the equipment back to the laboratory. At [-]:[-], she came out of the complex building and walked across the playground to the cafeteria.

Just 10 minutes after class ended, the playground was already overcrowded, and the ball flew like an arrow.

There are not enough basketball courts in every school in the world. During the lunch break, you can throw your head and blood to grab the court, not to mention not eating a meal, and there is nothing to eat in the cafeteria.

While paying attention to avoiding the missed ball, Du Xuan walked quickly to the cafeteria.Suddenly, his eyes swept away, and a familiar figure broke in.

Du Xuan stopped, squinted his eyes and looked at a person under the basketball hoop against the glare of the sun: the dark green school uniform trousers were a little short, and a section of ankle was exposed when he jumped up, and the top seemed to be a little short. When raised, it reveals a very tight and sharp waistline.That boy has a pair of smiling eyes, even if he is staring at the ball fiercely, it still makes people feel happy to see it - at least Du Xuan thinks it is very happy.

He held the "Comprehensive Interpretation of Chemistry Textbook" under his arm, watched with interest Lin Tingan cast a "three non-stick" with a beautiful posture, and kicked the basketball hoop angrily under the laughter of his friends.Du Xuan looked at his watch. It was 12:30, and there would be no food in the student cafeteria in 10 minutes.He simply walked slowly to the edge of the drill platform, found a step and sat down, watching Lin Tingan move left and right across two basketball courts.

The October sun was still hot, and there was no wind. Du Xuan put the thick "Queen Xiong" under his buttocks, and sat more comfortably. He watched Lin Tingan laugh, run, and jump, with his arms raised high, orange The colored ball crossed a beautiful arc, hit the basket accurately and popped out, and then Lin Tingan's face would become very ugly.

But Du Xuan is very happy. He likes to watch Lin Tingan play basketball, with his unrestrained spirit, beautiful movements, and slim and slender body. As for whether the ball is scored or not, who cares?

Du Xuan took out her mobile phone from her trouser pocket, turned her body slightly and covered it with her school uniform jacket, and started texting Sun Rui. After a while, Sun Rui came over with a bottle of Pulse and a bag of hamburgers.

"You have to wait on you all day long, and you have to drink lime flavor, why are you so busy?" Sun Rui said, "There is nothing delicious, I just bought you a hamburger, although it is a bit unpalatable Son, but at least you can eat enough."

The so-called hamburgers sold in the cafeteria are two pieces of dough that need to be torn apart by wolf teeth, with a piece of lettuce leaf that looks older than my great-grandmother, and a piece of peppery meat patty.But "unpalatable" is a relative term. If compared with the boiled cabbage in the cafeteria, it can be regarded as "delicious".

"It's okay, I'm not eating anyway." Du Xuan said.

"Who did you buy it for?" Sun Rui followed Du Xuan's gaze, "That kid Lin Tingan?"

"Yeah." Du Xuan nodded.

Sun Rui sneered: "Du Xuan, don't you think you're being too lenient? Doesn't he know he's hungry and goes to the cafeteria to eat?"

Du Xuan didn't say a word.

Sun Rui continued: "You are enough. I have known you for nine years, and I have never seen you care about me so much."

Du Xuan smiled: "You are so reassuring. By the way, what are you eating in the cafeteria today?"

"Rice is said to be bean sprouts fried with shredded pork, fish-flavored carrot shreds, and a piece of tofu. I think our cafeteria is very benevolent. It helps us eat vegetarian food to accumulate blessings and character." Sun Rui complained.

"You have braised pork with sauced pork ribs for dinner every day, and vegetarian for lunch." Du Xuan stood up, took off her school uniform jacket and hugged it in her hands, blocking the hamburger and pulse.Then he threw the "Wang Houxiong" under his butt to Sun Rui, "Help me take it back."

"Why are you going?" Sun Rui watched Du Xuan walking towards the basketball court, "Don't forget to silent your words at [-]:[-] noon, the old cow will beat you later."

Du Xuan waved his hand: "I'm not going to be silent this round."

Sun Rui was stunned for a moment, remembering that Du Xuan's average score in the last round of silent writing was above 95, and Lao Niu allowed him to be exempted from silent writing for this round. There are only five people in the whole grade who have received this treatment.For this matter, Lao Niu also taught Sun Rui a lesson and asked him to learn from Du Xuan. After all, Sun Rui's dictation can never be completely correct once.Sun Rui waved his fist at Du Xuan viciously from behind, and cursed: "Damn it, I'm going to beat you up sooner or later."

Du Xuan stood on the edge of the second basketball court, cleared his throat and shouted: "Lin Tingan."

Lin Tingan intercepted the ball and was about to dribble across the midfield. He was subconsciously looked up by the voice, but the inertia under his feet brought him forward and almost twisted his waist.

"Ah!" Lin Tingan yelled, supporting his waist in excruciating pain, and the basketball rolled away.

"Du Xuan, what are you calling my waist?"

"He looks quite full and has a waist." Du Xuan said with a smile, "Come here."

"I only play once in a while," Lin Ting'an muttered, and obediently walked up to Du Xuan, "I'm planning to go back to class and do my homework in a while."

Du Xuan felt a rush of hot air, mixed with the smell of sweat. It was a special smell, which belonged to Lin Tingan alone.

Du Xuan squinted her eyes, took a wrong step by avoiding the sun, and distanced herself from Lin Tingan: "I didn't let you play, just play for a while if you want. Have you eaten yet?"

"Eat it." Lin Tingan said without hesitation, then added after a pause, "It's really unpalatable."

"It's unpalatable?" Du Xuan showed a gentle smile, "I think today's chicken wings are okay, but a little spicy. I think you should like it."

"Ah, that's called 'spicy'." Lin Tingan naturally took over the conversation, and said in a disdainful tone, "In my hometown, this level can only be called 'no spicy'."

Du Xuan asked, "Are you full?"

"I'm full." Lin Tingan finally felt that there was something wrong with Du Xuan's words today, and asked obediently, "What are you trying to say?"

"It's okay," Du Xuan said lightly, "I bought an extra hamburger for lunch and I can't eat it anymore. I thought I would give it to you first if you were hungry."

"Ah..." Lin Tingan moved his feet a little uncomfortably, "I played ball for a long time."

"And then?" Du Xuan looked at Lin Tingan's expression and wanted to laugh.

"Well, playing golf will make you hungry."

"Oh." Du Xuan nodded, "Did you digest all your lunch? It's only been less than an hour?"

Lin Tingan scratched his head and remained silent.

Du Xuan took out the hamburger and pulse from under the clothes and put them into Lin Tingan's hands: "Let's treat it as a snack during the break."

"Thank you." Lin Tingan nodded and bowed with a hippie smile.

Du Xuan asked, "What time do you usually come to play at noon?"

Lin Tingan quickly replied: "After dinner, it is usually 10:[-], and I will go back after [-] minutes."

Of course Du Xuan would not believe it, so for three consecutive days, he sat on the edge of the drill table and watched Lin Tingan appear on the basketball court before [-]:[-], and then rushed to the basketball court at [-]:[-]. Go to the small shop in the cafeteria to buy a piece of bread or two packs of crispy noodles, and then run back to the teaching building at a speed of [-] meters. Often, the morning inspection bell will ring at [-]:[-] the moment he steps into the teaching building.

Dare to show all his training results in the track and field team here.

The next day, Du Xuan's last morning class happened to be physical education class. He stood on the edge of the basketball court early and "waited for the forest". Not long after the bell rang, Lin Tingan rushed out in a hurry, and rushed to the equipment store to hug him. A basketball, and then grabbed the best location on the court.

Du Xuan wandered over when he was trying to shoot the fourth three-pointer: "Lin Tingan."

Lin Tingan was tongue-tied: "Du, Du Xuan."

Du Xuan: "It's pretty quick to eat. Even those who have finished their physical education class like me haven't eaten yet."

"That, that." Lin Tingan wiped off his sweat, "I'll take a place first, and I'll go eat when they come later."

Du Xuan said, "Oh, are two bags of crispy noodles enough?"

Lin Tingan hissed and stopped talking.

"Are you going to eat?" Du Xuan asked.

Lin Tingan groaned: "Eat."

"Let's go." After speaking, Du Xuan turned and walked towards the cafeteria, Lin Tingan followed behind.After walking two steps, he couldn't help giving himself a hard "pooh" in his heart, he had never seen such a cowardly person.

Lin Tingan actually wanted to poke his neck and say, what happened to my playing?breaking the law?Du Xuan, are you being too lenient?

If it's another person, with such a short effort, I'm afraid a fight will be over, and I will definitely laugh at the situation.

But this person is Du Xuan, Lin Ting'an can only silently admit this cowardice.

In the cafeteria, Sun Rui had already occupied a seat and was eating chicken legs.He opened his mouth and said, "Why did you two come here? Lin Tingan, why are you sweating? The last session of yours wasn't sports, right?"

Lin Tingan glared at Sun Rui, thinking how he couldn't even stop his mouth with chicken legs.

Sun Rui didn't notice Lin Tingan's eyes, and said to Du Xuan: "You said you went to Lin Tingan for something. Has he gone to play?"

Du Xuan hummed.

Sun Rui pouted: "Du Xuan, you are almost becoming Lin Tingan's mother."

Lin Ting said with peace of mind, where is my mother as scary as him?

Du Xuan said, "Anyway, I'm in the third year of junior high school, so I also read books."

Lin Tingan raised his head triumphantly: "I'm tenth in the monthly exam, just watch, I can also be on the announcement list at the end of the semester."

Du Xuan said, "If you don't make it to the list, you should first go to the Moral Education Office to apply for removal of the punishment."

Lin Tingan replied, "Thinking about it now, the fight back then was really inexplicable."

Du Xuan: "Is Zhou Chen still competing with you now?"

"Of course, I always compete with me in math. I am taller than him occasionally, but he usually wins." Lin Tingan curled his lips, "I'm too lazy to compete with him, and I don't win the house or the land. What a nonsense comparison. "

Du Xuan patted Lin Tingan on the head: "You should also pay attention, I don't want you to compare yourself with Zhou Chen, but don't forget that you have to take the third middle school exam, and special students also need points."

Lin Ting'an raised his hands above his head and lamented, "Okay, I know, please stop talking."

Sun Rui stopped the hand that was pawing the rice, and glanced at Du Xuan, his eyes full of inquiry.When Du Xuan turned his head and met Sun Rui's gaze, his face suddenly changed.

In mid-October, the city's primary and secondary school track and field championships kicked off.

Lin Tingan received a new team uniform, which was a white T-shirt with gold school name, team emblem and name inside, and a red sportswear outside.Lin Tingan took the clothes to show off to Du Xuan, while pretending to complain: "The T-shirt should be made black, and the gold pattern is not obvious on the white background."

"It's not like you're going to walk the runway, the most important thing is to run out of rankings."

"Are you going to see me run on Sunday?" Lin Tingan asked eagerly.

"Go." Du Xuan nodded.

"Then can you go in? Can Mr. Hu find a pass for you?"

Du Xuan smiled: "I can go in without a pass."

Lin Tingan said in surprise, "You climbed over the wall?"

"Of course not." Du Xuan took out a certificate with the official seal from his pocket, "I got a certificate from the Moral Education Department in the name of the Propaganda Department of the Student Union to be an on-site reporter."

"Great!" Lin Tingan waved his fist, "Can you enter the field to watch this time? Just watch, I can definitely run into the top three."

"Top three in the 200m and top five in the 400m." Du Xuan said.

"Small idea." Lin Tingan said proudly, "Master, I don't run several kilometers for nothing every day."

Speaking of this, Du Xuan couldn't help feeling worried.Due to the excessive amount of training and the schoolwork burden of the third year of junior high school, Lin Tingan obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm. Recently, he couldn't even finish his homework.Du Xuan helped him sort out the knowledge points of Chinese, and recently he was sorting out chemistry, but he didn't know when Lin Tingan would have time to sit down and study.Du Xuan was a little anxious. The Chinese recitation assigned to Lin Ting'an in September was not finished yet in the middle of October.But seeing Lin Tingan's high spirits, he couldn't bear to say anything, so he said, "No problem, I trust you."

On Sunday, reporter Du Xuan and athlete Lin Tingan took the school bus to the city gymnasium.Hu Kun called Du Xuan to chat beside him.

Hu Kun said: "I don't want you in high school. Your grades in high school won't make you into the school team."

Du Xuan smiled and said, "Thank you for letting me go. I'm almost exhausted watching Lin Tingan run every day."

Hu Kun stared and said: "That kid is too lazy and undisciplined, you have a good relationship with him, you should talk about him more."

Lin Tingan, who was sitting in the back row, said dissatisfiedly, "Mr. Hu, why are you talking bad things about me in front of me?"

"Isn't it true?" Hu Kun said, "You're just too lax, and you can do everything with 'almost'. If you don't get better in the future, you have to give yourself a goal."

"My goal is so clear, isn't it just to get the ranking?" Lin Tingan hugged the back of the chair in the front row, approached Du Xuan and said, "Du Xuan, don't trust Mr. Hu."

Lin Tingan was very close when he spoke, and his hot breath was blown into Du Xuan's ears. Du Xuan couldn't help shivering, subconsciously dodged for a while, his face was a little hot.

This time the schedule is still running 400 in the morning and 200 in the afternoon. Lin Tingan was especially careful this time after turning around once. As soon as he arrived at the scene, he went to measure his steps and divide the intervals, and walked around the track lap after lap.

Du Xuan hung the school's SLR camera around his neck, and took pictures of the performances of the players on the outside of the track. Eight out of ten photos were of Lin Ting'an.

At ten o'clock, the 200-meter shot was fired. Du Xuan was standing near the finish line, and the camera was always aimed at Lin Tingan on the 7th track. From the moment Lin Tingan stepped on the starting block, Du Xuan's fingers were pressing the shutter continuously. For more than twenty seconds, he watched Lin Tingan quickly approaching him through the camera, and gradually he could see his figure, face, expression, and eyes clearly.

Fully focused and full of passion.

The moment he hit the line, he even had time to look sideways at the people on the next track.

Du Xuan was so nervous that his fingers were almost convulsed, and he kept pressing on the shutter, and the sound of the shutter that clicked and clicked could be heard all over his ears.It wasn't until Lin Tingan rushed past him, and his camera turned to capture Lin Tingan lying on the runway, that he slowly relaxed and let go of his fingers one by one.

He opened his palm, which was full of sweat.

The referee came over to register the results one by one, and Du Xuan was surprised that he didn't know where Lin Tingan ran.From the beginning to the end, there was only one figure in his frame and his eyes, and there was only one person's breathing in the entire stadium.

Everything around Lin Tingan disappeared.

Du Xuan was restricted to the interview area and couldn't go there. She could only judge by Lin Tingan's expression that she seemed to be running well and should be ranked.

What number?Du Xuan spread out his hands and made a questioning expression.

Lin Tingan raised two fingers and made a V. Du Xuan was not sure whether it meant second or victory. He stomped his feet anxiously and shouted loudly, "Which one is the first?"

Lin Tingan waved his hand, said something to the referee, and then pointed impatiently at the number cloth on his chest. The referee pointed at Lin Tingan with a pen in warning. while running.

When Du Xuan saw him open his arms and rush towards him with joy, he couldn't help but open his arms to welcome him.

The teacher who maintained the discipline smiled and removed the barrier. Du Xuan took two steps forward and directly took Lin Tingan into his arms.

"What number?" Du Xuan asked, hugging Lin Tingan tightly.

"Second." Lin Tingan clasped Du Xuan's shoulders, and Du Xuan's breathing was all around his ears.

"It's great!" Du Xuan tightened his arms again, holding Lin Tingan tightly in his arms.

Lin Tingan smelled of sweat and the rubber smell of the runway under the sun. He was restless and enthusiastic, overwhelmingly enveloping Du Xuan.Du Xuan vaguely remembered that she once hugged Lin Tingan like this, and at that time she only dared to let him go by pulling him to the stands.Hugging him now, Du Xuan felt her heart twist into a ball.

"Du Xuan," Lin Tingan didn't let go of his hand, he put his head on Du Xuan's shoulder, and said slowly, "Hey, I'm running away to death."

"There's another one in the afternoon." Du Xuan put his hand on Lin Ting'an's back, and under his palm was a violent heartbeat.

"I can win!" Lin Tingan said, "Let me rest for a while, and I can win."

"Okay." Du Xuan said, feeling that the clothes on her chest were a little wet, which was soaked by Lin Tingan's sweat.

Lin Ting'an raised his head from Du Xuan's shoulder, looked at Du Xuan with a flushed face, "I'll run second."

"Well, second." Du Xuan patted Lin Tingan's shoulder vigorously, "Top five in the afternoon."

Lin Tingan let go of his hands and stood up straight. Du Xuan felt that his arms were empty, and could not help frowning.

Lin Tingan gasped and said, "Du Xuan, I..."

Du Xuan raised an eyebrow.

Lin Ting settled down, shook his head and said, "I...I just feel...very confident that I will be able to run well this afternoon."

Du Xuan patted the camera: "I'm waiting to take a picture of your heroic appearance."