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It is very difficult to explain math problems to Xi Zhikong.

He doesn't know all the questions. The tricky thing is that he always has some impressions, so every time Jiang Yan gives him a calculation, he will go to other questions or formulas if he doesn't pay attention.

It seemed that Jiang Yan put all his patience on Xi Zhikong.He didn't find it annoying at all. After explaining a question twice, he had to ask "Are you meeting now?" Xi Zhikong was moved and still nodded and shook his head honestly - half-understood, and he himself didn't know what he understood. I still don't understand.

Then the person next to him took a pen and turned to a new page of manuscript paper, and said it again.

Jiang Yan always had to start from the beginning with the process of deriving the previous formulas for a big calculation problem. Later, Xi Zhikong himself gave up the last question and only answered the first two questions.

He lacks calculation skills, even if he knows how to do it, he can't get the correct answer smoothly. Jiang Yan taught him how to score points step by step, and told him what points the teacher usually looks at.Jiang Yan explained each problem to him several times, and he almost understood it, so he did it again by himself, and he went back and forth a few times to figure out some ways to solve the problem.

When the hour hand pointed to 11, Jiang Wen knocked on Jiang Yan's bedroom door and said that she had fallen asleep and the door was locked—meaning to tell Xi Zhikong not to go home and to sleep in the same room with Jiang Yan.

Xi Zhikong was seriously calculating the problem, and he answered without thinking carefully.He didn't notice the sly smile on the corner of Jiang Yan's mouth at all.

Ten minutes later, he put down his pen and let out a long sigh of relief, pushed the manuscript paper in front of Jiang Yan, and asked, "Is that right?"

Jiang Yan rubbed his eyes, closed the physics book in his hand, and looked at his calculation process. After hesitating for two seconds, he changed a number with a pen and said, "Here, the calculation should be 15, not 23. You can look again."

Xi Zhikong groaned in frustration, and picked up the pen again.

Jiang Yan couldn't bear it anymore, raised his hand to touch the back of his head, and encouraged him: "Do it slowly, and rest after finishing this question."

"No, wait until I count all of these—" Xi Zhikong glanced back, saw the tiredness on Jiang Yan's face and suddenly said: "Ah, if you are sleepy, go to bed first, I figured it out and put it on the table, you can just get up and read it tomorrow morning."

"I'll accompany you. You do the math first, and I'll read for a while." Jiang Yan then climbed onto the bed with the physics book in his arms, lifted the quilt and turned on the bedside lamp, leaning against the bedside to read quietly.

The time went from eleven o'clock to twelve o'clock in one minute and one second, and another hour passed, and Xi Zhikong finally finished the four big questions on the second test paper.Before he could say anything, he put down his pen and leaned on the chair, stretched his waist first, and let out a long yawn, a layer of mist appeared in front of his eyes, and the words on the manuscript paper in front of him were blurred together so that nothing could be read true.

He whispered vaguely: "I'm done! There is only one question and the answer is still different..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a slap behind him.

Looking back, Jiang Yan leaned against the head of the bed and fell asleep. The physics book in his hand rolled off the bed and fell to the ground, making a commotion.

Xi Zhikong then turned off the desk lamp, carefully pushed the chair back to its original position, walked lightly to the side of the bed and helped him pick up the book and put it on the bedside table, hesitating whether to wake him up or just help him lie down on the pillow.

Xu Shi was too tired, Jiang Yan didn't sleep well, and there was a very slight snoring sound from his throat, Xi Zhikong couldn't help smiling, he stretched out his hand to cushion his neck and dragged him half-hugged into the bed inside.

He stood by the bed and stretched again, moving his neck and wrists, turned and went out of the room to wash.

Jiang Yan's house is a standard two-bedroom and one-living room, and the layout is very well designed. With the consent of the landlord, Jiang Wen opened up the balcony and storage room for Jiang Yan to use as a study.Unlike the two bedrooms and one living room in his own house, his room was originally divided by storage, and the whole room seemed cramped and small.

Later, when his father came in, he simply moved the bed to the living room, and his whole life was carried out in the living room and kitchen.

He quickly took a shower, wiped the dripping water from his hair and quietly returned to Jiang Yan's room.It was too late and the blower was too loud. He was afraid of disturbing Jiang Wen and Jiang Yan's sleep, so he sat on the bed and wiped it slowly with a dry towel. Fortunately, boys' hair dries quickly, and he finally made it before one o'clock. sleep.

The next morning.

Jiang Wen made breakfast and woke the two of them up. She pushed Xi Zhikong into the bathroom to wash up sleepily, and went back to the kitchen to fry another egg for him.

At the dinner table, Jiang Wen poured milk for the two of them and said: "Xiaokong, you need to eat more, you have lost too much weight recently, this is some kind of supplement that Yanyan's father brought back, you can eat it, you must You can eat it too, eat more!"

"Um, I actually—"

"Are you going to say you don't want to eat it again? You child, no, you must eat it! Your mother always told me that you are picky eaters and don't like meat. You don't even grow tall..."

Jiang Yan's heart skipped a beat, and he glanced at Xi Zhikong and hurriedly changed the subject: "Oh, mom, who is your son!"

"You are all my sons, what's the matter? Do you eat Xiao Kong's vinegar? Really." Jiang Wen didn't pay attention to what was wrong with what she just said, and went to pack the freshly baked bread into a bag with a smile At the dining table, "Bring bread to school, you can eat a little when you are hungry, and buy less outside things—"

"Okay Mom, we got it." Jiang Yan put the empty cup into the kitchen after drinking the milk, and Xi Zhikong just drank half of the milk.

Recently, his diet has been irregular and his appetite is really bad. After drinking half of it, he looked at Jiang Yan begging for mercy. Jiang Yan then took the cup in his hand and drank the remaining half.At the end, he stuck out his tongue and licked the milk stains at the corner of his mouth.

Jiang Wen patted him on the shoulder and said, "You robbed my brother again!"

Jiang Yan: "..."

Xi Zhikong hiccupped and couldn't help laughing, he was still wearing pajamas, carrying a schoolbag and putting on his shoes while saying: "I'll go back and change clothes, 5 minutes, you slow down, just wait for me downstairs. "

Jiang Wen wanted to let him wear Jiang Yan's clothes, but she saw how ill-fitting the coat was on him yesterday, so she decided to give up after thinking about it, planning to buy him two sets of clothes later .

Xi Zhikong changed his clothes and came out, but Jiang Yan was already waiting downstairs at his house.

Under the backlight, he was leaning against the handrail in the stairwell, wearing earphones, and his eyes fell on the messy and intertwined wires outside.Xi Zhikong was so dazzled that he almost rolled down the stairs under his feet.

Jiang Yan turned around when he heard the movement, and when his eyes met, Xi Zhikong smiled hastily and dryly to cover up his embarrassment, and said softly, "Let's go."

The two walked side by side on the road as usual, walked out of the street and waited for the green light at the intersection. Jiang Yan took off his earphones and apologized: "I'm sorry, I fell asleep last night. I was going to show you the questions."

"It's okay—it's okay, it was quite late yesterday, and I fell asleep after I finished my calculations." Xi Zhikong pulled his schoolbag awkwardly, feeling very uncomfortable with the sudden strange and polite atmosphere.He pulled the schoolbag strap tighter and tighter until the entire schoolbag was almost attached to his vest.

As soon as the green light came on, Xi Zhikong started to walk forward, Jiang Yan followed behind and saw his schoolbag as if being carried by someone, frowned and said: "Don't pull it, if you pull the schoolbag again, you will have to carry it on your head."

Then he silently let go.

Later, during the half-term exams, Xi Zhikong went to Jiang Yan's house to "report" on time every day, and finally ate good food for a few days, and the warmth in his stomach was much better than before.After the last biology exam, Sun Chenxuan and the others seemed to be drained, including Jiang Yan and Shu Jiyue, who couldn't hide their sleepiness, only Xi Zhikong was uncharacteristically energetic.

Before the last exam, Jiang Yan made an appointment with Jiang Zhehui, and asked him to "take away" Xi Zhikong for half an hour after the exam.Jiang Zhehui didn't ask why, but pushed his glasses and agreed.

Now he was finally able to call Shu Jiyue to the empty roof of the administrative building to talk for a while.

Shu Jiyue leaned back against the railing with a pen in her hand and asked Jiang Yan, "Why, what do you need from me?"

Jiang Yan was a little unable to ask, hesitating for a long time until the end hesitant to speak, just looking at the classroom window of the second class in the building next door and sighing.

"Want to ask me about Xi Zhikong?"

Shu Jiyue walked a few steps closer to Jiang Yan, feeling that she was addicted to cigarettes, took a candy from her bag, put it in her mouth and said vaguely: "You don't just want to ask me to come up to enjoy the cold wind, do you? I'll make an appointment with your brother I'm going to eat later, so don't waste my time!"

"—How did you and my brother get into it?" Jiang Yan saw that he usually looked like a three-good student who was so obedient as to die, but in private he looked like a hooligan. He couldn't imagine his brother's "stable and mature" person. How did you fall in love with him.

"Your brother and I? What's the matter with your brother? It's fine." He wrote lightly.

"Do you think—that you are from the perspective of a bystander, Xi Zhikong..."

Jiang Yan cleared his throat, "Does he like me?"

Shu Jiyue immediately looked him up and down with the eyes of a monster, and smiled: "Jiang Yan, are you okay, you haven't said anything, you haven't done anything, what are you dreaming about?"

"...?"

"You really don't have any talent at all." Shu Jiyue immediately changed into an expression of hating iron and steel, biting the lollipop in her mouth and saying: "The best you can do now is to be jealous, how naive, Xi Zhikong I only think that there is something wrong with you who is robbing him every day—for example, me, although I am not interested in either of you, but at least in Xi Zhikong's mind, you are his number one rival in love. I think you should reflect on why you did so."

Jiang Yan pondered for a moment: "Then you mean that I was not obvious enough?"

"Brother, what did you do?" Shu Jiyue felt that Jiang Yan might be the stupidest student under him, and even began to question the blood relationship between the person in front of him and Lin Tongrui, "Are you your cousin's younger brother?"

You know, at that time, Lin Tongrui lifted up his trousers so much that he couldn't even put on his pants, and finally got him locked up slowly. Jiang Yan's unique and near-water conditions made his teeth itch with jealousy. Hey, I didn't expect this person to be so innocent Will chase people.

Taking advantage of Jiang Yan's silent "reflection", he said earnestly: "You and Xi Zhikong grew up together, you can't let him always think that you are his good brother and buddy, you have to let him understand that you treat him and You are different to others, you like him and love him--besides, making him jealous is your goal, but sleeping until this person gets his heart should be your ultimate goal, you have such a good reading mind You can understand what I'm saying, right?"

Jiang Yan shook his head dully, and his brain cells collectively went on strike when he heard "sleep until this person gets his heart".

"Sleep, sleep until he...this..."

"No, Jiang Yan—" Shu Jiyue sneered, and patted Jiang Yan on the shoulder, "That's right, for innocent children like you, the way I and your brother are really not suitable, it's too fierce."

"We are empty and small..."

Jiang Yan murmured, but unexpectedly, Xi Zhikong suddenly appeared in the classroom with a smile and broke into his sight. His voice froze for a moment and he came back to his senses, then changed his words: "I think what you said makes sense, but There is a very serious question, what if I behave too obviously and get hated by him?"

At this time, Jiang Yan had a sense of sight of "I am not afraid of the sky, but I am afraid that Kongkong will not love me". Shu Jiyue thought it was very interesting for him to become a coward for love, and added insincerely: "And you two are even friends if you use too much force." If you can’t do it, your painstaking efforts will be in vain for several years.”

"Can you expect me to order?" Jiang Yan said.

Shu Jiyue smiled, put her fist on his shoulder and tapped him, and said: "When you love someone so much that you have to, you don't even have any fantasy about whether he loves you or not. You only think that someone as good as him will be late for you." It was snatched away by others at one point, and there was no time to coax."

——A person as lovely as Kong Kong might be snatched away later.Shu Jiyue seemed to wake him up suddenly, he had never been so flustered.

Before high school started, he felt that Xi Zhikong would follow him, hold his hand as soon as he turned his head, hug him when he raised his arms, and even kiss his soft lips when he lowered his head.But he never thought about what would happen if Xi Zhikong disappeared when he turned around.

"Xi Zhikong is optimistic, kind, and persevering. Although his grades are a little poor, he is a very good person. I suggest you hold on tight." Shu Jiyue turned around and walked towards the iron gate with a big swagger. , turned his back to Jiang Yan and waved at him. His words were unbearable, but they made sense.

Jiang Yan listened to it in his heart, and stood by the guardrail for a long time in a daze, until Xi Zhikong's phone call came in, and he woke up in a gust of evening wind.

As Shu Jiyue said, Xi Zhikong is optimistic and kind, cute and simple, he can always stick to his heart, and always let people find their way in his bright and innocent smile.For such a person, Jiang Yan felt that he could not let him slip away from him no matter what, and there were already thousands of reluctance in his heart to fall on him like dust, small and dense, slowly occupying every corner of his body .

"Hello? Where are you? Are you going home?"

Xi Zhikong's voice sounded very excited, Jiang Yan held his mobile phone and looked down from the side of the guardrail, just in time to meet his eyes who leaned out half of his body.

"What are you doing there?" Xi Zhikong asked him again.

He tightened his five fingers holding the phone, and clasped the side of the phone tightly, but his voice was soft and soft: "You wait for me, I'll be right there."

Xi Zhikong agreed, and Jiang Yan hung up the phone, turned around and ran to the classroom.