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When Jiang Chu returned to school, the evening self-study was almost over.

Facing Gu Zhi's questioning, he said several times in a row that it was all right.

But Gu Zhi was not stupid, of course he wouldn't believe him, but because he hadn't finished class yet, he didn't dare to speak too loudly.

Affected by Jiang Chu's magnetic field, he was a little uneasy. He couldn't even control his brain and hands, and frequently wrote wrong questions.

Xu Jing originally wanted to ask Jiang Chu two questions, but when he turned around and saw Jiang Chu's expression was not quite right, he retracted his head and bit his pen.

It was not easy until the evening self-study was over, Jiang Chu was carrying his clothes and was about to leave at the same pace as the bell, but Gu Zhi stopped him first, and even made a very bad excuse: "You help me silent a classical Chinese essay."

Gu Zhi's words were sincere, his expression was kind, and there was no room for rejection.

After finishing an essay in classical Chinese, everyone in the classroom has already left.

Gu Zhi looked around for a while before asking him, "Can we talk now?"

Jiang Chu: "Say what?"

Gu Zhi raised his hand and pointed at Jiang Chu's eyes: "Why did you go? And how did you get here?"

Jiang Chu frowned and touched the corners of his eyes.Originally, the wind blew all the way, and the wound was already numb and unfeeling, but because the sweat from the fingers touched the wound, the wound was immediately covered with a layer of burning tingling pain.

The corner of his eye twitched lightly and said, "Jiang Xu...my dad knows."

Gu Zhi immediately stopped breathing.

He originally thought that he would hear the story of Jiang Chu Zhidou's glorious injury to a certain little hooligan, but he never expected to hear such a sad news. I don't know what he thought of, and he was immediately stunned.

Gu Zhi's momentary astonishment happened to be captured by Jiang Chu's eyes, and the stinging pain in the corner of his eyes spread down to his heart, and was pricked all over by invisible fine needles.

Gu Zhi blinked quickly, then turned his eyes away and stared at a certain shadow on the ground for a long time before asking, "So, he hit you?"

His voice was low and hoarse, with some uncertain doubts, Jiang Chu said "Hmm".

In fact, he really wanted to explain to Gu Zhi that there was a very complicated matter, not only because of this reason, but he just opened his mouth, but didn't say anything.

Because he found that he was not good at expressing at all, he could not explain clearly the gap between him and Jiang Xuyang, nor could he explain Bai Lu Song's illness and death.

He and he also felt that if Gu Zhi knew about these things, there would only be disadvantages and no benefits to their relationship.

So after he finished "um", he added another sentence: "But he has already gone abroad, so there will be no problem."

As if comforting, Jiang Chu asked him: "Are you afraid?"

Gu Zhi wanted to refute, what do you say?

But he didn't say anything, he just raised his eyebrows, Jiang Chu's calm face didn't show a single wave, he said there would be no problem, as if everything had been settled.

Gu Zhi saw Qingming in his determined eyes, and his heart was suddenly pinched hard, and it was suddenly sore.

He suddenly thought, if he stood in Jiang Chu's position, what would happen to him if Gu Qian knew about him, he thought about it for a long time but he didn't understand, because he was not Jiang Chu, and Gu Qian was not Jiang Xuyang.

He wasn't sure if Jiang Chu looked as fearless as he is now when Jiang Chu's father unveiled it in front of Jiang Chu.

Gu Zhi dug out a band-aid from the belly of the table, Gu said to him: "What are you afraid of, young master, who am I afraid of?"

According to psychology, the more nervous a person is, the more he will pretend that he is not nervous. Such lies are easily detected by others.

The moment the Band-Aid stuck to the skin, there was a slight stabbing pain at the wound, and Jiang Chu blinked habitually.

"Does it hurt you?"

"No."

Jiang Chu said, "Your hands are cooler."

"Oh." Gu Zhi stroked the Band-Aid after finishing posting it: "You just said that your father went abroad? Why?"

He actually wanted to ask, did he go abroad because of this matter?But he thinks it should be impossible, probably something else.He remembered seeing Jiang Xuyang in He Wen's office before, and he could tell from his clothes that he was quite a formidable person, so he probably went abroad because of work.

"Going to have a baby." Jiang Chu felt that it was troublesome to talk about his family's situation, so he said concisely: "His wife is going to give him a Yankee."

Gu Zhi didn't realize it, how could two Chinese have a Yankee, he didn't know much about such things at that time.

Jiang Chu urged him to go back to the dormitory without further explanation.

Gu Zhi saw that he didn't want to talk, and he didn't ask more questions.

When we went back, the dormitory was pitch black. Xu Jing and Li Mao went to the convenience store. There were no two oboe singers in the dormitory. It was suddenly quieter. Gu Zhi went to the balcony to answer the phone. When he came back, Jiang Chu had already The bath.

"My mother called and said she would come pick me up tomorrow, but I refused." Gu Zhi still held the phone in his hand, explaining embarrassingly.

I thought Jiang Chu wouldn't say anything, but when Gu Zhi took the towel and was about to go into the bathroom, he heard Jiang Chu ask under his throat, "Are you going back every week?"

Gu Zhi went into the bathroom with a "hmm".

The door in front of him slammed shut, and Gu Zhi's voice and figure disappeared together.

Like that weekend, Gu Zhi came home on time every week after that. At first, Jiang Chu wanted to ask him why he suddenly wanted to go home. Become "hesitating to speak but stop".

In the last week before the winter vacation, Xu Jinghe was very excited as if he drank fake wine, because this semester, under Jiang Chu's explanation, he had inexplicable confidence in the upcoming final exam, and vowed to call a year-end party in the class .

In order to make up everyone's time, in fact, it was mainly to match Su Nuo's time, because Su Nuo had to go out after the exam and came back almost the day before the Spring Festival, so they set the party time for the noon of the New Year's Eve.

In this way, many people really had no choice but to go, but Xu Jing, with the posture of "I have the final say on the situation of the Laozi group", ignored the wailing of a few people.

"You, Jiang Chu and Li Mao must be here." Xu Jing stretched out his index finger one by one.

Gu Zhi made an ok gesture to indicate that there was no problem, Jiang Chu always kept his head down and kept silent, Xu Jing automatically regarded him as acquiescing, Li Mao made a few symbolic jokes, and finally expressed under Xu Jing's coercion that he had to wait for the final exam grades.

However, the two of them failed to go to this party in the end.

The day before the exam, everyone was busy packing their luggage. The long hours in school made people feel numb, and the half-month holiday that fell from heaven made people somewhat excited.

"In half a day, I can sleep in an air-conditioned room until I wake up naturally, eat until I am full naturally, and the game is suspended by the system, just think about it."

"I can't, I have to go to another place, I'm so envious of sleeping until I wake up naturally."

"Envious of sleeping until I wake up naturally"

On the last day, in the evening self-study, not many people were reading and writing questions in the classroom seriously, and they were all looking forward to the upcoming vacation.

There is a tacit agreement between teachers and students in No. [-] Middle School. The two-day evening self-study for the final exam is real self-study, and the teacher will not enter the classroom.

Many students are presumptuous because they are familiar with this rule.

In the classroom, there were still a few brave ones fighting in the aisle, but the noise was not too loud.

Jiang Chu lowered his head to write and draw on the draft paper. Someone behind him was on the phone, and he covered his mouth and whispered, "I won't be able to see you for half a month during the winter vacation."

Jiang Chu frowned and turned his head to look at the girl on the phone, but the girl didn't notice his eyes, and was still coquettish and complaining.

Jiang Chu paused at the tip of his pen, turned his gaze away and asked Gu Zhi: "Do you need extra lessons during the winter vacation? Mine..."

"No need." Gu Zhi was doing the paper, and said without raising his head, "It's finally a holiday, so don't torture me."

"Oh." Jiang Chu continued to work on the question.

He is still not good at speaking directly from his heart, and no one can understand the thoughts hidden behind the words he uses as a shield.

Gu Zhi was probably tired from doing the questions. After finishing a paper, he just lay down on the table, squinting his eyes and falling asleep.

On winter nights, the air is cold, but this does not affect his drowsiness. He vaguely feels that someone has put a coat on his body. He closes his eyes and closes his eyes. He feels that there is still residual body temperature on the coat. The warmth was so strong that I fell into a dream in seconds.

As the saying goes, thinking day by day, dreaming at night, it may be because Jiang Chu said that my dad knew about it that day, he was too calm, and in the next few days, Gu Zhi would occasionally see Jiang Xuyang beating Jiang Chu in his mind. Although Jiang Chu didn't mention it.

However, such a picture ran into his dream again.

The scratches on the corners of Jiang Chu's eyes are still there, but Jiang Xuyang is not there. There are many familiar people around them, He Wen, Dong Xin, Xu Jing, Li Maosu Nuo, many classmates, even Gu Qian and Gu Zhuowei are in the crowd .

They all had almost numb expressions, asking him if he was crazy with the indifference of a bystander.

Gu Zhi doesn't dream often, and he only has the experience of being awakened by a nightmare once. That time was a visual stimulation, and this time it was a sensory shock.

Less than two seconds after he woke up, his eyes suddenly went dark.

He jumped up from his seat in shock, and the desk was dragged vigorously by him, making the sound of moving.

Someone in the dark grabbed him.

"Gu Zhi." The familiar voice did not make him feel at ease.

"What?" He replied in panic.

Gradually, I felt that it was no longer a dream. Someone pulled my wrist lightly, and then the voice said again: "Why are you panicking because of a power outage?"

It was Jiang Chu's voice, and then there was a sudden noise of screams from people around him. Someone took out his mobile phone, and his eyes hurt from the chaotic lights all over the classroom.

After Gu Zhi sat down again, he was still a little dazed, and after taking a breath, he realized that the hand that was holding his wrist just now had slipped to the back of his hand at some point, gently holding him as if to comfort him.

Jiang Chu held back his palms, felt that Gu Zhi was still trembling, and asked tentatively, "Cold or afraid of the dark?"

The phone's light was too weak, he couldn't see Jiang Chu's expression, only a vague outline, Gu Zhi shrugged his nose, and stopped saying, "It's cold."

Jiang Chu was stunned for a moment, because he never let go, so he knew the temperature of Gu Zhi's hand.

He bent down to pick up the coat that had just slipped on the ground: "Go back and sleep again."

Gu Zhi nodded self-consciously, and then realized that the surroundings were too dark for Jiang Chu to see.

After a while of silence, when Gu Zhi raised his head again, Jiang Chu suddenly leaned over, almost whispering in his ear, his voice was cold in midwinter, and asked, "What are you nervous about?"

The dark clouds were very thick that night, and the moonlight was tightly blocked, so that it was not clear at all. The shadows swaying outside the window were probably caused by the wind blowing up the dry treetops, but it was not clear to the naked eye.

Even the little light in the phone dimmed for some time, and was still for a few seconds. In the darkness, Gu Zhi lowered his head, as if he was thinking about the question Jiang Chu asked him just now. It was also like avoiding his sudden panic.

He felt the sticky layer of sweat on Jiang Chu's palm on the back of his hand, and also felt the familiar breath gushing out from close at hand.

He had felt it on many dark nights like this, but not once in "the public."Nor was there ever a third person present.

As if it was intentional, the entire teaching building was powered off for 5 minutes, and then suddenly called again like a ghost.

The moment the light was turned on, the numb faces in the dream became clear, and the noisy, shouting, and shouting all suddenly became richer. Before he had time to think about it, he subconsciously pulled out his hand and felt guilty. Push the person in front of you.

Jiang Chu didn't expect him to react so strongly, so he staggered unexpectedly.

For a moment, Jiang Chu's eyes revealed disbelief, but soon he sat back and packed his books as if nothing had happened.

There was a phone call in the classroom, and everyone screamed like crazy.It's like a huge carnival dedicated to the end of the term.

It's just that the more lively it is, the easier it is for people's loneliness to be magnified. They were picked out by this sudden carnival and forgotten in the corner.

For a moment, Jiang Chu's heart was colder than the cold night in midwinter, as if he was hit hard by someone and then thrown out, exposed to the cold night and gradually lost consciousness.

Gu Zhi glanced at the people in the classroom, except for the two people who had their own concerns, everyone in the classroom was smiling and fighting, no one noticed the subtlety hanging between them in the darkness. , until this time, he belatedly realized that the reaction at that moment was too obvious, and had already deeply hurt Jiang Chu.

Realizing that he had overreacted, and when he wanted to get it back again, it was too late, and his half-stretched hand was still hanging between the two of them.

The next moment he saw Jiang Chu got up and left the classroom.

The author says:

Happy Lantern Festival……