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When Li Xu went downstairs after taking a nap, Yao Yilei was still soaking in the kitchen.He leaned against the kitchen door and watched for a while, Yao Yilei opened the oven and took out a chiffon cake that looked like eight inches in size.

"Come back for dinner tonight?" Yao Yilei took off her gloves, "Xiaojue's birthday is today, he..."

"You mean to disgust me, don't you?" Li Xu sarcastically said.He hooked his backpack, swung the car keys and strode away, but he closed the side door forcefully.

It was wise for Bai Shuang to choose to die on the last day of September. She let Li Wenxuan spend every birthday of her illegitimate child with guilt towards her, and she made Li Wenxuan unhappy forever.

Li Xu thought viciously, even if Bai Shuang is gone, he still refuses to admit that Yao Yilei and Li Jue are part of his family. One day, he will drive the vixen and her precious son out of Li's house door.

The wind from the street whizzed by both sides of the streetcar, Li Xu turned a corner and drove into the school gate, and stopped firmly in the carport.

Because of the Sports and Arts Festival, many students put aside the burden of study for the time being. The wake-up bell rang for a while and there was no commotion in the dormitory area. It seemed that they wanted to take advantage of this rare day to catch up on sleep.

Li Xu returned to class, sat down and glanced at Shu Yuan's seat. The things on the table were placed in exactly the same position as when he left last night—the math workbook was pressed under the pencil case, and the white edge of the paper was exposed under the workbook , A draft notebook was spread out in the center of the desk, and a function graph was drawn on the notebook.

This is either not going back to school, or coming back but not touching anything related to study.

Li Xu flipped through Shu Yuan's draft book, originally only wanted to see the other's handwriting, but stopped when he turned to a certain page.

In a geometric figure that was randomly smeared out with a black marker pen, Li Xu found four small characters.

--I feel terrible.

If you don’t read carefully, these words can be easily overlooked, but since Li Xu was so impressed by Shu Yuan’s all-black artwork, he paid special attention to every black area left by Shu Yuan.

I wanted to look through other places to see if there was something like this written, and someone came in at the front door, Shu Yuan's front seat Quan Haolang and the school committee in the class.

"Tong Ran ran away as the leader of the women's group, and called all the boys in the class to cheer her up at three o'clock." Quan Haolang said.

The school committee smiled maliciously: "Just say you like her, and don't admit it."

"Fuck you, I call it unity consciousness!" Quan Haolang patted the arm of the school committee, "Will you go?"

"Go, go, go, I'll write her a domineering and leaky fueling script by the way, and let the radio station read it, okay?"

Quan Haolang made an OK gesture, and then saw Li Xu's face in the circle circled by his index finger and thumb.He put his hand down embarrassingly.

Li Xu closed Shu Yuan's draft book and sat upright.

"Hey," he raised his chin towards Quan Haolang, "Did Shu Yuan come back today?"

Quan Haolang and the school committee looked at each other, and the school committee said: "He asked for leave, Teacher Cui asked me to find time to help him send homework for the National Day."

Li Xu raised her eyebrows: "You live very close to him?"

"Teacher Cui said my house is the closest to him, what's the name..."

"Jiaxi's famous mansion." Li Xu said.

"Oh yes, I'll check a few stops." The school committee said as he took out his mobile phone, and raised his head after a while, "Brother Xu, why do you know better than me?"

"Who will be at the same table with him?" Li Xu smiled disdainfully, "It's done, let me deliver it for you, and you send the homework to be done to my phone."

By the way, I want Shu Yuan's contact information.

Anxious to see Shu Yuan, Li Xu drove to the outside of Jiaxi's mansion, took out his phone, pressed a few numbers, thought about it and deleted it.

***

While drowsy, the phone in Shu Yuan's hand vibrated repeatedly, pulling him back from the consciousness that he was about to dive into a dream.

Shu Yuan picked up the phone: "Mom."

"Did you finish hanging the water?" Liu Mian asked, "Let me know when it's almost ready, and I'll pick you up."

Shu Yuan raised his eyelids and looked at the infusion bag: "I'll just return it myself."

"You're still sick," Liu Mian refused, "I'm boiling Chinese medicine for you, and I brought you back just enough to drink."

"I'm much more energetic, and I can go back by myself." Shu Yuan rubbed his eyes, sat up straight and sank into the single sofa, "Aren't you still taking medicine, and you won't be able to leave for a while."

After convincing Liu Mian, Shu Yuan hung up the phone and rang the bell to call for a nurse to pull out the needle.

Gee.

Li Xu pressed the hang up button, who is he talking to? It's been so long.

He changed his posture and leaned against the street car, and conveniently lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth.The backpack on his right shoulder was heavy, and it was full of Shuyuan's homework. Li Xu had never stuffed so many things into the bag, making himself look like a top student.

Waiting is not an option, Li Xu clicked on the addicted group, took a picture of the street scene and posted it, and appreciated it after posting, the photography skills are not bad.

Han Qiyun was the first to speak in the group: "Big mouth milk tea, express printing, Aunt Bao's breakfast shop, shit, there is also a waste recycling station, where are you?"

Song Yuenian analyzed: "Near the residential area, the closer these small shops are to the residential area, the more profitable they are."

Gu Xiang chatted with Li Xu in private: "Didn't you say go back to school?"

"I'm sorry," Li Xu said, "Shu Yuan asked for leave."

"Then you are...?"

"It's near his house. His phone line is busy and he can't get through." Li Xu put the cigarette between his fingers to his mouth and took a puff, exhaling the lingering smoke from his lips.

While Gu Gu was typing, Li Xu exited the chat box, switched to the dial interface and dialed the number again.

This time it got through at least, but the other party hung up directly after a short while. Li Xu stubbed out the cigarette and edited the text message quickly with both hands.

I will bring you the National Day homework...

Before he finished typing the three words "I'm back", Li Xu saw two shoe tips stop in his field of vision.

Going up the shoes, past the two trouser legs and the white T-shirt, is Shu Yuan's face.

"Looking for me?" Shu Yuan asked.

Li Xu is taller than Shu Yuan, and the other party has to tilt his head slightly when standing in front of him, but his usual aura will always be at its weakest when Shu Yuan appears, and his always sharp eyes will soften.

"Yes," Li Xu took off his bag, "Why didn't you go to school today?"

"I'm sick," Shu Yuan frowned, "You were the one who called me just now?"

"It's me," Li Xu said, "what's wrong?"

"How do you know my contact information?" Shu Yuan asked almost displeased.

The conversation between the two was not on the same channel at all. Li Xu stopped asking questions and handed over her bag: "Ms. Cui asked me to send the homework for the National Day for you. She gave me the contact information."

Shu Yuan took the bag dubiously and opened the zipper to take a look. It was indeed his own textbooks and exercises.

"Why call you to see it off?" Shu Yuan asked.

Li Xu smiled: "Because I have a car, it's convenient."

Shu Yuan didn't speak, and wanted to transfer the things in the bag to his hand, but the hand that had been drenched in the water had no strength, and it was too weak to grab a few books.

But Li Xu still stuffed so many books.

"Don't be so troublesome," Li Xu couldn't stand it anymore, stuffed the book back, zipped it up, took Shu Yuan's hand, passed the shoulder strap of the backpack through his arm, and put it on his shoulder, "Baby loan Give it to you, just give it back to me after the holiday."

He caught a glimpse of the medical tape on the back of Shu Yuan's left hand, and sighed almost inaudibly: "Did you hang the water?"

"Yeah." Shu Yuan put on the other side, "Thank you."

"How about..." Li Xu hesitated, but finally swallowed the suggestion of adding a friend.He stepped onto the streetcar, put on his helmet, "I'll send you homework when I get home, remember to read the text message."

"En." Shu Yuan turned around and took two steps, rubbed his nose, and looked back.

Li Xu was no longer seen at the intersection, and the passing vehicles seemed to have taken away the image of the man riding a black streetcar.

Even the very faint smell of incense that he caught accidentally was swept away by the breeze.

After returning home and smelling the smell of traditional Chinese medicine all over the room, Shu Yuan completely forgot about the smell of incense.

Liu Mian brought over a bowl full of traditional Chinese medicine, and Shu Yuan immediately pinched her nose.During the one-year absence from school, Liu Mian often boiled various traditional Chinese medicines for him on the grounds of recuperating his body, which caused him to feel conflicted when he smelled the smell.

He swallowed a piece of rock sugar, endured his nausea and drank all the Chinese medicine under Liu Mian's supervision, picked up his backpack, rushed into the room and closed the door.

Li Xu didn't know if it was on purpose or if he really didn't know how to clean up his homework. It seemed that he had brought back his entire desk, not a single textbook and exercise book for the main subject.

Shu Yuan simply turned the bag upside down, shook all the books inside onto the bed, and made the bed with crackles.The backpack suddenly lightened, and finally an ID card fell out, and it slid from the pile of books to Shu Yuan's knee.

——Li Xu.

— September 1996, 7.

One year younger than him...

The photo on the ID card is as crazy as the person himself, but it doesn't detract from his appearance.The foundation of the face is good, and it can look good without deliberately modifying it.

The sound of the phone vibrating came from under the pile of books, Shu Yuan put down his ID card, opened the book and turned on the phone.

It was Li Xu who sent the text message, probably due to the character limit, he sent it in two parts, the first one was in Chinese, mathematics and English, and the second one was in general.Other than that, there is nothing superfluous, as if getting his contact information is really just to carry out the task entrusted by the head teacher.

What the other party did made Shu Yuan blame himself. He always thought that Li Xu's various actions towards him had ulterior motives, but in reality he was worrying too much.

He gathered the pile of books and stuffed his ID card into the dark compartment of the backpack.

"Your ID card was left in the bag." He texted back.

There was no reply there.

***

"I'm so sad," Li Xu tore off a piece of paper from Song Yuenian's staff book, and after writing these words, he scratched them out with a pen, "I'm so sad?"

"What's the pain?" Shi Chengjin leaned over and asked.

"Thinking about something, let's go." Li Xu turned his pen around. If this sentence contains Shu Yuan's thoughts, what is the effect of writing it out?He changed his mind and wrote a sentence on the paper: I hate her.

Shi Chengjin was about to come closer again, Li Xu hurriedly erased this sentence.

He understood that under the cover of a black area were secrets that he did not want to be discovered.

Write it out to vent.

--I feel terrible.

Because it was so uncomfortable, I wanted to find a way to vent it.

Because he didn't want people to find out, he used silence to cover up his despair.