Reverse Approach

【14】

Liao Nanqing was able to come to City B thanks to Xu Yanyan's help.It was Xu Yanyan who asked his cousin to pretend to be a parent and took Liao Nanqing out of the school.The method is good, but if you take a risk, you will be punished if you are not careful, but last night Liao Nanqing couldn't control so much.

Early in the morning, the head teacher called.

Su Beimo and the head teacher had exchanged phone calls. Liao Nanqing's family was special, so the head teacher didn't know.Last night, she was careless and didn't leave the phone number of that 'cousin', so she could only find Su Beimo.

All I want to do is to care about Liao Nanqing's health. Has the fever subsided?The more dedicated she was, the more embarrassed Liao Nanqing became.

Su Beimo replied politely.

Liao Nanqing stood beside him without saying a word, picking at his school uniform pants with his fingertips.Su Beimo didn't expose him, and followed what the teacher in charge said to make things right, and said that Liao Nanqing would be able to go back to school in the afternoon.

After hanging up the phone, Liao Nanqing whispered, "I'm not leaving."

Su Beimo reprimanded him: "I heard that your grades have not been satisfactory."

Liao Nanqing blinked his eyes, the corners of his mouth were turned down, and he twisted and didn't speak.

Xu Yuanming, who happened to come to the hospital, saw this scene and said amusedly, "I saw you training my brother when I came here. I didn't expect Xiao Su to have such a strict side."

Su Beimo said, "Brother Xu, do me a favor and take him to the station."

Xu Yuanming brought breakfast: "Your brother came here in the middle of the night for you, and he probably didn't sleep long all night. Look, his eyes are swollen. You are too unreasonable to drive people away early in the morning."

Looking at Liao Nanqing again, he stood where he was, with tiredness on his face.He followed Su Beimo and slept next to each other on the bed for two or three hours, when the head teacher called.

He rubbed his eyes a little, the bags under his eyes were indeed a bit big.Xu Yuanming handed him the breakfast, Liao Nanqing's stomach growled when it was time, he accepted it with a flushed face, he was too shy to say thank you, and silently handed the breakfast to Su Beimo.

Xu Yuanming said: "Eat by yourself, aren't you hungry?" In a blink of an eye, he thought of Su Beimo, "Look at you, you scared your brother like a child bride."

Liao Nanqing hurriedly said, "He doesn't scare me."

"..." This is still on the line.

Su Beimo turned his face away and raised the corners of his mouth.Then, he turned to Liao Nanqing with a serious face: "I'll call your homeroom teacher, you can go back tomorrow. But don't come here like this next time, I'll be worried." He planned to let Liao Nanqing go to his small apartment Take a break and get a good night's sleep.Otherwise, people will be tossed and ruined if they go back and forth like this.

After Su Beimo's inspection report came out, there was no serious problem.

Xu Yuanming acted as the driver and took them back to the apartment.Su Beimo knew that Liao Nanqing was also picked up by Xu Yuanming last night, so he thanked him repeatedly.Xu Yuanming waved his hand: "I'm also responsible for what happened to you. It was I who proposed the dinner party. I chose that damn place perfectly, and there happened to be a child jaywalking across the road."

Knowing that Xu Yuanming was talking politely, Su Beimo didn't take it seriously, so he chatted with him casually.

Liao Nanqing and Su Beimo sat in the back seat together without making a sound.He stared at the scenery outside the car window, staring intently at the prosperity of the big city.Different from a small town, and also different from the urban area of ​​No. [-] High School, the city center of City B has countless high-rise buildings.

Seeing him dazzled, yearning, maybe because Su Beimo is also here.

And Su Beimo's company is among them, and it only occupies a very small part.

In view of the injury on Su Beimo's head, he had to rest at home for a few days before going to work.But the data he was working on was not easy for others to take over, so he specially asked Xu Yuanming to help him go to the company, thinking about going upstairs to get the data.

Even if it was a rest, Su Beimo didn't intend to be idle.During the few days he planned to rest at home, he did all the work that should be done.

Liao Nanqing and Xu Yuanming were left in the car.

Probably because he was afraid that Liao Nanqing would feel embarrassed, Xu Yuanming chatted with him casually.But the two of them didn't know each other well, so they had nothing to talk about, so they talked about Su Beimo.

"Xiao Su is really restless, and this week is also the same. He is so empty that everyone is on vacation, and he comes to the company to work with me." Xu Yuanming has always talked a lot, "Fortunately, there is not much work in those days, otherwise I can't stand even the axis turning."

After finishing speaking, he smiled to himself.

Liao Nanqing was startled, raised his head, opened his mouth, and asked after a long time, "Did you not work overtime for a week?"

Xu Yuanming was taken aback, thought badly, and said that he had slipped his tongue.Su Beimo had been deliberately ignoring Liao Nanqing for the past few days, perhaps using overtime as an excuse.Xu Yuanming had a headache, coughed, and hurriedly changed the subject: "Does Su Beimo usually give you lectures? Your third year of high school is particularly hard, right? Hey, I think back in our time, the third year of high school was even more tiring, and the classroom didn't even have an air conditioner... ..."

He kept on saying that Liao Nanqing didn't care to listen to anything, his mind was full of the fact that Su Beimo didn't work overtime.Xu Yuanming couldn't continue, so he simply shut up.

After the silence, Liao Nanqing asked repeatedly: "Is it true that you haven't worked overtime all day and aren't you busy?"

Xu Yuanming wiped his face in distress: "Yeah, no, I'm busy occasionally."

Liao Nanqing remained silent.

As an older single male youth in his 30s, Xu Yuanming has always been a bit nosy.He saw Liao Nanqing's disappointed expression in the rearview mirror, and suddenly felt that Su Beimo's worry was right.This child is indeed too attached to Su Beimo. This kind of dependence is a good thing for his growth.

Everyone wants to leave the society. Xu Yuanming associated Liao Nanqing with his younger brother, so he inevitably said something extra: "You are too dependent on Xiao Su, boy, it is always better to be independent. Xiao Su does this, too. For your own good."

As soon as the words were finished, Liao Nanqing loosened his clenched hands in a daze, and his face turned pale for no reason.He seemed to be still, and the sound of his gentle breathing became smaller and lighter.Xu Yuanming was frightened by his appearance and didn't dare to say anything more.

Liao Nanqing didn't speak again, even when Su Beimo got into the car behind, Liao Nanqing didn't say a word.

His head was bowed, his broken hair almost covering his gray eyes.

No matter how dull a person is, he can know that Su Beimo's alienation this week is deliberate.The scene that Liao Nanqing was always worried about finally appeared, Su Beimo's disgust, Su Beimo's departure from him.

But he didn't know anything, and kept pestering Su Beimo foolishly.All of this, perhaps in the eyes of Su Beimo, is a trouble, a joke.What happened to Liao Nanqing when he was a child made him especially good at looking at people's faces, so why did it not work when he came to Su Beimo's place.He became dull and indecent.

These fatal willfulness were enough to make him lose Su Beimo completely.

To lose him is to lose light.

He will be left in the dark, beyond redemption.

This terrifying thought was tossing back and forth in his mind like a bell, and the sound was urging.

Liao Nanqing recalled that in the hospital just now, Su Beimo wanted him to go back this afternoon, and his heart felt sore.His stepfather is right, he is a burden, who wants to carry it around for a long time?

But Su Beimo, who didn't know it, put the information in the bag, and stretched out his hand to brush Liao Nanqing's hair: "Your hair has grown, and I'll take you to the barber shop to fix it later. What do you want to eat tonight, downstairs in the community There's a nice restaurant, where should we go?"

Liao Nanqing paused for a while, hiding his eyes evasively. He pressed Su Beimo's hand and gently took it away.

"It suddenly occurred to me that the monthly exam and the midterm exam are too close together. So tonight's self-study class, there are mock papers to take."

This is the second time he has lied to Su Beimo seriously.

Su Beimo's gentleness made him so ecstatic that he forgot his true self.

He is the 'famous' Liao Nanqing.

In the afternoon, Liao Nanqing went back to school, and he insisted on going back alone.

As soon as he went back, he fell into a busy study.

Fortunately, the learning atmosphere in No. [-] High School is good. The third year is arranged in a separate building. Whether it is lunch time or dinner time, it is staggered with the first and second year to avoid wasting time.

Liao Nanqing's class has entered a new round of review. The head teacher of his class is the strictest teacher in the entire third year of senior high school, and he is the leader in getting results.Except for a few in the class who really don't want to study, they are all immersed in the "care" of the test papers.After Liao Nanqing passed the monthly exam, he was criticized very badly.

He was determined to immerse himself in his studies and put away his thoughts of relying on Su Beimo.At least, he didn't want to disappoint Su Beimo.

However, his weak foundation made him have to work harder than others, and he lost a lot of weight in just a few weeks.

In order to make himself look not so thin, Liao Nanqing was not so frugal in ordering food in the cafeteria.

But often, he is still counting the money carefully.

Xu Yanyan couldn't stand it anymore, and occasionally ordered three full meat dishes, and deliberately distributed some to Liao Nanqing.

Liao Nanqing didn't know how to repay Xu Yanyan, so he had to try his best to help him copy the notes and review them for the second time.He suppressed his usual habit of sending messages to Su Beimo and forced himself to concentrate on studying.Even if Su Beimo took the initiative to send a message or call, Liao Nanqing couldn't help but not look at it or think about it. In the end, he refused all of them with the excuse of being too busy studying.

Once, he looked at the message sent by Su Beimo, and stood on the balcony of the dormitory with his mobile phone for a long time.

It was so long that Xu Yanyan felt that something was wrong, and when he walked over to have a look, he found that Liao Nanqing's expression was very dazed, without any clue.

"You, what's wrong with you?" Xu Yanyan was caught off guard by his crying expression.

Liao Nanqing shook his head.

"Someone bullied you? The old class said you again?"

Liao Nanqing still shook his head, he would not complain to Xu Yanyan and the others.

The third high school was the new life that Su Beimo gave him, and he didn't want to mess it up, nor did he want to waste Su Beimo's kindness.Even if he is muddled, he still has to work hard to finish this senior year.

In fact, Liao Nanqing has always had low self-esteem. He has lived in a different environment from others since he was a child, lacking in love and self-confidence.No one was nice to him, but as long as someone started being nice to him, he recognized that person.It is an instinct to grab hold of life-saving straws.

He also longs for light, hoping that he will be born facing the sun.

But all of this would be meaningless without Su Beimo.

It was Su Beimo who brought all the light, but now he has to retreat and stay away from himself.

During the lunch break, Liao Nanqing went back to the dormitory depressed, wanting to lie down for a while.While taking off his shoes, Xu Yanyan complained that his English listening comprehension in the morning was too difficult.He kicked the end of the bed, squatting: "Liao Nanqing, let's memorize English words!"

"it is good."

The rest of the roommates objected: "You guys should take a good rest for a while!"

Xu Yanyan was dissatisfied: "Are you jealous that I did better than you in the exam?"

The roommate lay down sideways: "You can pull it down."

Liao Nanqing closed his eyes and meditated.

Outside the dormitory, the homeroom teacher came suddenly. Everyone hid their phones and pretended to be asleep.Liao Nanqing went to open the door, and the head teacher happened to be looking for him.In order not to disturb the classmates, the two walked to the other end of the corridor, and the head teacher handed him the phone.On it was a number that had just been dialed, and Liao Nanqing was very familiar with this number.

"Your brother said that something happened at your house, so it's inconvenient for me to convey it." The head teacher handed him the phone and walked away by himself, "I'm with the dormitory downstairs. After you finish calling in a while, return the phone to me." .”

Liao Nanqing was at a loss, wondering what happened at home, and had to ask Su Beimo to remind him by contacting the head teacher.

Then I thought, did he cause trouble for Su Beimo again?

He nervously held the phone close to his ear, and Su Beimo said worriedly on the other end: "Liao Nanqing."

"Ok?"

"Why don't you reply to my message or answer my phone call?"

Liao Nanqing didn't understand what Su Beimo meant, didn't he keep him away?

Seeing that he didn't speak, Su Beimo asked, "Why didn't you send me any more. I'm worried about you, I..."

Something was getting more and more wrong, Liao Nanqing interrupted in time with a sour voice: "Su Beimo."

"Ok?"

"I can no longer rely on you."

"...What did Xu Yuanming tell you?" Su Beimo thought of it all at once.

That day he just went to the company to get a document, Liao Nanqing was fine before getting off the car, but when he came back, Liao Nanqing even changed his demeanor.

Su Beimo said in a deep voice, "It's not what you think."

"..." Liao Nanqing remained silent.

Su Beimo was anxious and paced back and forth. He never knew he could be so anxious.Liao Nanqing deliberately distanced himself, silently, but it was as uncomfortable as scratching his heart.Su Beimo regretted his insistence on going his own way back then, and was also angry with Xu Yuanming for talking too much.He finally understood that it was not that Liao Nanqing relied on him, but that he couldn't do without Liao Nanqing.

He didn't want Liao Nanqing to disappear into his world.

He also clearly understood that he seemed to like this feeling.

Su Beimo couldn't hold back anymore: "I admit, I did have this idea before."

Liao Nanqing's heart was tightly pulled, and the pain was severe.

"But now, I regret it. I regret it. These don't count." Su Beimo stroked his hair, regardless of whether he was in the company or not, his appearance was a little impetuous, indescribably childish .He is like a young man who has just begun to fall in love and doesn't know how to be a good boy, blind to his height and age in vain.

Liao Nanqing didn't know how to answer, he was stunned and couldn't react, he just understood that Su Beimo didn't mean to get rid of him.

He thought for a long time, but still answered the words wronged: "Then what counts?"

"I miss you." Su Beimo said, "That's what counts."