Long grass warbler flying

Everyone has a different impression of the college entrance examination.

The heat of midsummer, the slight roar of the air conditioner, the wind gliding by the window, the ponytails of the students at the front desk, the serious face of the invigilator... everything seems to have a special meaning, leaving a strong stroke in life .

For Chu Lan, the college entrance examination turned a corner in the middle, from a numb sweltering heat to a thunderstorm.

Mathematics is much simpler than he imagined, and he must have picked up a huge bargain.The next day's essays and English will only be more enjoyable. Chu Lan spent more than an hour writing the English test paper, then lay down on the table, and unconsciously drew a few unclear lines on the draft paper with a black pen in her hand.

He didn't have the habit of handing in the papers in advance. In the seat by the window, Chu Lan turned his head sideways, and the sky was gloomy, as if it was about to collapse.

Chu Lan suddenly felt a little sleepy, he closed his eyes, and his consciousness wandered on the verge of waking up.After an unknown amount of time, suddenly there was a thunder from the sky, Chu Lan sat up straight suddenly, and looked out of the window in disbelief.

Immediately, the heavy rain poured down, which became Chu Lan's final impression of the college entrance examination.

The bell for handing in the paper was almost covered by the pattering rain. The invigilator stood up, and the girl in the front row stretched.Chu Lan gathered her things away, wondering whether his mother would come to pick him up or not.

Mixed in the crowd, she walked down the stairs blankly, Chu Lan took out her mobile phone, but there was no signal for the time being, and finally checked out the unread messages, but it was Fan Fan, who cried and said that the scheduled carnival was ruined by the heavy rain.

Chu Lan thought of Ji Xiao inexplicably, he was shocked at first by the other party's random intrusion into his mind, and then extremely disturbed.He walked aimlessly, and was blocked by the heavy rain at the stairs of the teaching building together with the crowd.

Many students whose parents came to pick them up put their schoolbags on their heads and rushed to the school gate. These people became the majority. When they finished running, Chu Lan looked around, and a few people chatted together.He's like a superfluous, unpopular and out-of-group person.

Chu Lan didn't think so at first, but now seeing the people in the next class at the same school who couldn't even say hello, she finally calmly admitted that she seemed a little difficult to get along with.

But Ji Xiao...what does he like, if he doesn't say it doesn't mean that Chu Lan doesn't know.

Compared with this pimple, the college entrance examination is simply too childish.Chu Lan sighed, Li Wenyin just sent a message on the phone, saying that he would not come to pick him up, and asked him to take a taxi to go home quickly, Chu Lan pouted, thinking, "I really am not my own."

He looked up at the dense rain again, frowned, thinking about waiting a while.

His eyes wandered from the iron-gray sky to a lush plane tree outside the teaching building, and he looked along the branches all the way to the root. Chu Lan was condescending, and at the end of the steps, Ji Xiao was standing there, holding an umbrella in his hand.

He seemed to have waited for a long time, and finally saw Chu Lan, so he smiled softly.

The string in Chu Lan's heart was so tense that he couldn't bear it anymore, and his anxiety and uneasiness were maximized—he couldn't convince himself to speak sarcasticly to Ji Xiao, and he couldn't lose his temper, so he reluctantly accepted Ji Xiao's kindness. It's really not Chu Lan's style, even he looks down on him.

He was still immersed in unspeakable entanglements, but Ji Xiao walked up the steps briskly: "Where are your parents?"

"It's stocked." Chu Lan said helplessly.

"Then I'll take you to a taxi?" Ji Xiao opened his umbrella, "Just now, I was thinking that if I meet a classmate who doesn't bring an umbrella, I can give you a ride, and you came out—fortunately, I didn't hand in the paper in advance."

Chu Lan let out a "huh" and walked towards the school gate side by side with him.

At this moment, the candidates who were supposed to leave had almost left, and the unfinished broadcast and the movement of the invigilator could be faintly heard in the teaching building.And it seemed that there were only the two of them left in the surroundings. The rain was hitting the surface of the big black umbrella, crackling, and it was shocking.

"By the way," Chu Lan asked suddenly, "I heard from Xin En that you don't like liberal arts at all..."

"Well, I'm best in physics, followed by math."

Chu Lan didn't look at him, looked straight ahead, and said in a flat tone, "Then why did you choose liberal arts later?"

It was a long time ago, and Chu Lan was not familiar with Ji Xiao, or even knew nothing about it.He picked out the most unreliable guess from his wild thoughts, trying in vain to get Ji Xiao's confirmation.However, so what if it is confirmed, it seems that there is no way to draw a conclusion, but Zuo has changed from "breaking contact cruelly" to "breaking contact with guilt".

If their meeting in the first place was not an accident, Chu Lan wondered if she could say goodbye to him decisively.

Ji Xiao didn't know what he was thinking, so he just laughed and mumbled in his throat, "Who knows, my brain is flooded, otherwise what reason do you want to hear?"

Chu Lan didn't dare to ask anything, but fortunately, she had already reached the school gate while speaking.

Taxis are very good at attracting business, Chu Lan got into one of them as if avoiding it, and waved at Ji Xiao perfunctorily.After driving a long way, Chu Lan pinched her palms, her mind went blank, which was unprecedented.

The torrential rain in midsummer came and went quickly. When Chu Lan arrived home, it had already changed from pouring to pattering. He was drenched in the rain. When he got home, he found Fan Fan was there.

He bent down to change his shoes and asked her, "How did you do in the exam?"

Fan Fan: "That's it - why do you have such a bad face, did you fail the exam? Didn't you finish writing?"

Chu Lan: "No, come here, I have something to ask you."

Fan Fan worried, "Son, what's wrong with you? I don't owe you money, do I?"

Chu Lan couldn't bear her usual behavior of taking advantage of her mouth. Today, for the first time, she suppressed her rude words, and gestured for Fan Fan to come to the room, and then locked the door with a slap.

Chu Lan sat down directly on the floor. Seeing that everything was abnormal with him today, Fan Fan couldn't help squatting down, and took a pillow: "What's the matter? Didn't pass the exam? It's okay, you can pass the exam with your eyes closed." My score is high...or is it because the invigilator is too ugly? Ah Lan, you have to say something."

He looked around his room, there was a shirt hanging on the hanger, it was still folded by Ji Xiao that day and put into his suitcase.

"It's just... the classmate I told you about..." Chu Lan muttered for a long while, dawdling, and finally shook off the mental activities of the past few days, and he didn't let out a breath as he imagined Relaxed, but more and more heavy, the expression did not land and added, "How can I tell him... I... will not contact him in the future."

Fan Fan rolled his eyes: "So for so long, you have not rejected, accepted, or acknowledged him—Chu Lan, do you know that you are a scumbag?"

Chu Lan has no objection to this title: "It's too much, so I want to stop it now."

It was the first time Fan Fan found out that he was so self-aware on the issue of not allowing any concessions. He was surprised at first, and then slowly said: "Actually, I always think you have a crush on him, don't you?"

"how is this possible!"

Fan Fan took a pomegranate, peeled it carefully, and said, "Don't refute so quickly, use your brain to think about it, just change someone who treats you well, even if it's been so long, and if you don't like it, you can still issue a card. As for dragging it like this? Student Chu Lan, you are too old-fashioned. You used to talk about equal rights with me, didn’t you just follow suit? Why did you fall into feudalism when it fell on yourself—brother, he died early in the morning. Does it matter if it's a woman?"

Chu Lan: "..."

Fan Fan: "By the way, is he handsome?"

Chu Lan: "It's...not bad..."

Fan Fan showed an expression of "I still say I don't like it", a smile that is not a smile.

Chu Lan was almost caught by her trick, and when she realized it, she was furious and pointed at the door: "Go out."

Fan Fan didn't care, put half of the pomegranate into Chu Lan's hands, and rolled away.He was sitting where he was, eating the pomegranate, the sour and sweet juice bursting in his mouth, which fit his current state of mind very well.

"Will I have a good impression of Ji Xiao? Even if I do, what can I do? He is a man, and I am also a man. I don't like the same sex, if it is not suitable, it is not suitable."

I heard the thunderstorm outside the window, and the leaves of the ginkgo trees were washed to a clean green color, but it may not always be sunny after the rain.

Later, when Chu Lan went back to the dormitory to remove the remaining things, Ji Xiao had already left.Another roommate said that Ji Xiao spent the night after the exam, and the next day he moved things home by himself, and he was very independent.

Chu Lan thought absently, of course he is very independent, he can handle everything with ease.

The answers to the college entrance examination were widely uploaded on the Internet. Chu Lan checked the answers and chatted with Zhai Xinen for a few words.The girl had just changed her mobile phone and excitedly pulled a few acquaintances into the WeChat group. Chu Lan was the first to join the group. When he saw Ji Xiao coming in, he almost choked when he was eating.

Li Wenyin was extremely contemptuous: "Don't play with your mobile phone while eating, Xiao Chu."

Chu Lan pretended not to hear, and made a smiling face in the chat box, and then Ji Xiao replied "cute".

Peeping at Chu Lan's screen from the side, Li Wenyin put a piece of beef in his bowl, and asked normally, "Are these all your high school classmates? Ji Xiao is here too?"

Chu Lan asked strangely, "How do you know Ji Xiao?"

Li Wenyin: "It's not that you often mention him at home? Ji Xiao buys you breakfast and fetches hot water for you... It's been a long time, and I don't know a few of your other classmates, but I know this name very well. We have a good relationship. ?”

At this point, Chu Lan didn't know whether it was a good relationship or not, so she gave a vague "um" and put the phone aside to continue cooking.Li Wenyin didn't like to educate him, and always advocated letting Chu Lan develop on her own. Seeing this, she guessed that her son might have something on her mind, so she said a few words, and then let him go.

She didn't see Chu Lan's gloomy face for a moment, so she couldn't understand that it was his self-loathing.

"Fan Fan is right, I am a scumbag." Chu Lan thought.

They have been getting along with each other in peace and stability according to what they thought before until graduation, and if there is no accident after that, they should gradually cut off contact with Ji Xiao, not to mention what kind of mood they will think about in the future, they can't go on like this anymore.It sounds too cowardly to act emotionally, he is not such a person in the first place, if he wants to change, it is not because of Ji Xiao.

A voice in his heart asked, "What if you regret it? What if you suddenly find out that you don't have to be so unfeeling?"

Chu Lan put down the chopsticks: "I'm full, mom eat slowly."

——Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain.

The carnival of graduates just kicked off.

Ji Xiao, who had been paralyzed at home for two days, was called by Zhai Xinen to go to Haidilao. He felt that "Perhaps Chu Lan" was there, and finally tore himself off the bed, and walked all the way to the agreed place.

Although there are many people in the whole grade, the two key classes of arts and science are very familiar.Before the division of subjects, they share the same subject teachers, and after the division of subjects, they also cooperate in activities from time to time, so it is almost logical to have breakup meals together.

Several teachers of the main subject were there, and Xiao Yingchun was so happy that she could not close her mouth from ear to ear, as if she had finally relieved a heavy burden, and even looked at them with enigmatic kindness.Ji Xiao greeted the teacher one after another, and consciously hid at the table with Zhou Yang and sat down. He looked around, but he didn't see Chu Lan, so he asked Zhou Yang who else was there.

"I still want to ask you!" Zhou Yang was poking the bowl with his chopsticks, and answered absently, "Aren't you best with him?"

Ji Xiao: "...I haven't contacted him much after the exam. I was worried if he went out to play, and I didn't see anything on Weibo."

Zhou Yang wondered, "Chu Lan has Weibo? Come on, let me have a look around."

It wasn't long before Weibo was launched, Ji Xiao saw Chu Lan using it once, and downloaded it.He is not used to using too many social software, and usually only has an ins account, and occasionally sends some mobile phone photos as archives, and he follows a few service accounts on Weibo, and then Chu Lan and Xin En.

Ji Xiao handed the phone to Zhou Yang, who flipped through a few pages and said dullly, "Chu Lan is still so boring."

"The realm is different." Ji Xiao took the opportunity to taunt him, "You can't understand the books he reads—hey, why are you here?"

He said the last sentence to Jiang Xinghe. The other party had just walked out of the encirclement and sat down at their table naturally.

Jiang Xinghe breathed out: "Why doesn't Ban Ju allow me to come? Where's your Chu Lan?"

Ji Xiao: "..."

Why do both of them like to ask him about Chu Lan?On the one hand, he was embarrassed, but on the other hand he was overwhelmed with inexplicable joy. He smiled and slapped Jiang Xinghe: "Don't talk nonsense, what is my house...he didn't come, I'll send a message to ask."

Chu Lan's reply was quick, Jiang Xinghe squeezed over to look at it, and read word by word: "I don't have time for dinner, I'll come back later... so cold."

Ji Xiao pushed his head away: "Don't look, that's just how he is."

The surroundings are bustling, and the classmates who are close to each other have already started eating.Their table didn't seem cold because Jiang Xinghe and the other two boys from the science class joined, probably eating hot pot would never be embarrassing, even Zhou Yang, who thought Xinghe was not a normal person before, shut up for the first time.

With a smile on the corner of Ji Xiao's mouth, he boiled tender beef for a few buddies, occasionally interjecting a few words, the atmosphere was harmonious and joyful.

Jiang Xinghe was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, so he leaned into his ear, glanced meaningfully at Ji Xiao's cell phone, and whispered, "You haven't confessed to Chu Lan yet? If you don't, Chu Lan will dump you."

Ji Xiao tilted his head in doubt, motioning for him to continue.

"Hurry up before you fill out your application yet." Jiang Xinghe's peach blossom eyes were narrow but sincere, "I think he should be interested in you... After all, seeing Chu Lan and you now, the more you watch, the more interesting it is."

Ji Xiao said don't make any trouble, and distributed the freshly blanched beef in the colander to everyone, but his heart became alive because of his words.

From the time he went to the examination room, from the time when Chu Lan passed Song Shiyong without looking sideways, Ji Xiao thought that he had taken the courage to guess what Chu Lan was thinking.

If other people have the same feeling, does it mean that he can really give it a try?

Anyway, always say it.