little turtle in the reeds

The sports meeting is over, and when school is over, the school gate is already full of cars.Xu Yiran found the van he was sitting in, and turned around to ask Yuan Ye: "You, what, come back?"

Yuan Ye: "Me? I... I take the subway." He hesitated, Xu Yiran couldn't help being taken aback, he quickly changed the subject and said, "Which car is your car? I'll go with you."

Xu Yiran: "Over there."

He took Yuan Ye to a white van and said to Yuan Ye, "I'm going up."

Yuan Ye nodded, raised his chin towards the van, and signaled him to go up first, before leaving by himself.Xu Yiran told him to hurry up to catch the subway, but Yuan Ye said indifferently that it was still early and there was no need to worry.

Xu Yiran opened the door to get in the car, and saw that there were already several people inside, but they were all playing with their mobile phones, and no one paid attention to him.He quickly sat down, Yuan Ye opened the car door, lowered his head, stared at him and said to be careful of the wound on his leg, said it several times, and attracted a few surprised or inquisitive eyes.

Xu Yiran was a little uncomfortable, and urged Yuan Ye in a low voice: "You too, come back early."

"I know." Yuan Ye reached out and pinched Xu Yiran's cheek, "Wait for my call when you get home."

Xu Yiran hurriedly nodded in agreement.Only then did Yuan Ye let him go in satisfaction, put his hands in his trouser pockets, looked at the sky, and walked away slowly, playing an unknown tune.

Xu Yiran stared at his back in a daze for a while, closed the car door, and sat down quietly, but his heart was not calm at all.Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the girl next to her playing with her mobile phone, quietly reaching into her schoolbag, covering the inner pocket of the schoolbag like a thief, and her heart jumped.The mobile phone Yuan Ye gave him was placed there.

Xu Yiran wanted to take out the phone to have a look, but this idea just surfaced in his mind, as if he had been drunk, his thinking was confused, he had no energy, his fingers were limp, and he couldn't hold the phone at all, let alone take it out.Yuan Ye has used this phone for a long time, maybe his temperature is still on it.Xu Yiran couldn't help shivering as he thought about it.I don't know if it was his illusion, but he felt that his palms were getting hot.

At this time, the car door was suddenly opened, Xu Yiran came back to his senses quickly, and quickly moved in to make room for the new students who got on the car, and accidentally touched the hand of the girl next to him.The girl immediately withdrew her hand as if being electrocuted, and said with a sullen expression, "Pervert."

Xu Yiran was taken aback for a moment, feeling that other students were looking at him, wanting to refute, but his throat seemed to be stuck and he couldn't make a sound.He stiffened his neck for a long while, but in the end he just glanced at the girl, silently hugged the schoolbag in his arms, and didn't move anymore.

Along the way, like countless times before, he remained silent and sat motionless in his seat.He heard someone ask the girl what happened, and he also heard the girl answer "I suspect he is gay", but he just endured these arguments, stared at his schoolbag in a daze, and did not make any rebuttals.

The surrounding noise was getting farther and farther away from Xu Yiran, as if separated from him by an invisible film.The scene of Yuan Ye leaving was repeated in his mind, echoing the sound of the car door slamming shut, those images were chaotic and messy, distorted and weird.He silently glanced at the car door, and felt in a trance that when the door closed, the thick ink that suddenly appeared in his life was severely scratched out.

Xu Yiran couldn't help tightening his five fingers and gripping Yuan Ye's cell phone, as if this could convince him that the happy time this afternoon was not his illusion, but a real good day.

Yuan Ye was walking on the road when he suddenly kicked a can. He bent down and was about to pick it up when he heard the familiar sharp and arrogant sound of a horn behind him.

His face darkened.

"Ono, get in the car." The woman's voice came from behind.Her name is Zou Qianqian, logically, he should call her Auntie—even though this woman is only less than ten years older than him.

Yuan Ye picked up the can, threw it into the trash can in the distance, and accurately entered the hole.

Zou Qianqian pressed the horn again and raised her voice a little: "Xiaoye! Get in the car!"

Yuan Ye raised his head, looked at the sign of the subway station a few steps away, and heard the sound of the car door being opened behind him, he didn't move, as if he couldn't hear the outside sound suddenly.

Zou Qianqian stretched out her legs from the car, and the stiletto heels of her high-heeled shoes fell to the ground with a "thump".

Yuan Ye turned around expressionlessly, walked to the red sports car without saying a word, threw his schoolbag in the back seat, opened the door next to the passenger side, and sat in it.

Zou Qianqian retracted her legs, closed the car door, glanced at Yuan Ye's stern face, smiled, and lit a cigarette for herself.

Yuan Ye frowned in disgust, and said coldly, "Hurry up and drive."

"Got it." With a cigarette in her mouth, Zou Qianqian stepped on the accelerator, and the sports car rushed out at high speed, the roar of the engine was like the roar of a lion.

With one hand on the steering wheel, she reached to her mouth with the other to remove the cigarette, exhaled slowly, and threw the newly lit cigarette out of the car window.

Zou Qianqian: "I heard that your school is holding a sports meet these two days, have you signed up?"

Yuan Ye: "None of your business."

Zou Qianqian was contradicted by him, but she was not angry: "Don't worry, I'm your half elder. Your father is busy with business, so I'm the only one who can care about you."

Yuan Ye said coldly: "No need."

Zou Qianqian: "Why are you so angry today? What's not going well at school? Tell me to make Auntie happy."

Yuan Ye: "..."

Zou Qianqian smiled: "Just kidding, don't be angry. Seriously, who messed with you?"

Yuan Ye: "I don't talk to a person who throws garbage everywhere."

Zou Qianqian: "..."

She looked out of the window subconsciously—the cigarette had been left behind by them for a long time.

Zou Qianqian came back to her senses: "I have made progress, and I will fight back." She was quite satisfied, "You said more than three sentences to Auntie today. In fact, you are in a good mood, right?"

Yuan Ye's eyes changed slightly, and his face was a little stiff.

Zou Qianqian used to be Yuan Xingguo's secretary, and she still had the ability to read words and demeanor, and she knew it when she saw Yuan Ye's face.

Zou Qianqian frowned: "Another girl wrote you a love letter?"

She was talking about Yuan Ye's third year of junior high school.

Back then, the relationship between Yuan Ye and Yuan Xingguo was not so rigid.Yuan Ye received the first love letter in his life. Although he didn't like that girl, he was very happy because of his vanity.As a result, Yuan Xingguo saw the letter.Yuan Xingguo was furious, and insulted the girl's whole family, saying that she was undisciplined and unruly.This was not enough. The next day I called the school leader and forced him to transfer to another school.Yuan Ye had a big quarrel with Yuan Xingguo, and since then the situation has been in turmoil. He refused to go to the "noble school" arranged by Yuan Xingguo, and secretly applied to No. [-] Middle School. On the day he received the admission notice, Yuan Xingguo sent him to the hospital.

Yuan Ye: "No!"

Zou Qianqian was taken aback: "No, no, why are you so loud all of a sudden?" She thought for a while, "If, I said if, someone wrote you a love letter, you hide it from me, and I won't tell your father, it's fine ?”

Yuan Ye: "It's not your turn to deal with my affairs. If you have this spare time, you might as well watch over Yuan Xingguo."

Zou Qianqian: "I eat and drink well, why bother with him? If your mother could relax back then, she wouldn't be caught by that woman..."

Yuan Ye's expression changed suddenly, and he looked at Zou Qianqian coldly. Zou Qianqian sighed and said, "She has also received retribution, and she is already crazy. You can also let yourself go."

"It's not up to you." Yuan Ye said, feeling that the small space inside the sports car almost suffocated him, "Don't come to pick me up from now on, I'll take the subway home."

Zou Qianqian: "Who made you insist on taking the third middle school? Your school is too far away from home."

Yuan Ye: "Don't use the word home."

"Okay, it's up to you." Zou Qianqian said, "I'm not qualified to control you, but I remind you, if you really want to fall in love, be careful. Either tell me. Otherwise, if your father finds out, everyone will I can't save you. You can't fall in love early, this is a high-tension line."

Yuan Ye looked at the trees and flowers passing by outside the window, but said nothing.

He closed his eyes, as if feeling that gentle embrace again, the sweet and greasy perfume smell in the air seemed to be blown away by a light lemon-scented breeze.

Yuan Ye wanted to go back to school.