imaginary rival

When Yan An went to wash the dishes, Jiang Shiyu and Xie Lanlan sat on the sofa and teased the cat.

Little Hail has grown fat, and he can feel its weight when his paws step on his legs. Jiang Shiyu inspected it visually. Although he can still put it in his coat, it is definitely not like when he just picked it up. Put it in the coat, at least four months pregnant.

"Come on, let me ask you." Mother Yan brought a plate of fruit and asked with a smile, "How many points did you score in this monthly exam?"

"Auntie, it's easy to hurt feelings by asking this." Xie Lanlan poked an apple with a toothpick and ate it.

"Oh, I'm afraid of hurting my feelings." Yan's mother gave Xie Lanlan a look of annoyance, "If you want to ask for a score, it will hurt your feelings, and we are useless."

Xie Lanlan laughed aloud twice.

"Honestly, I'm asking about your scores." Mama Yan glanced at the kitchen, presumably at Papa Yan who was making tea, "I'll have a way to persuade you when Uncle Yan beats Xiao An later." Spend."

"Degree?" Jiang Shiyu didn't understand.

"Hey, it is based on the difference in our scores to determine how Xiao An will be beaten. If there is no comparison, there will be no harm." Xie Lanlan swallowed the apple in her mouth and patted Mama Yan's knee, "Auntie, don't worry, this time We didn't pass the exam."

Yan's mother laughed for a long time, and said that this is nothing to worry about. One day, you will be really relieved if you pass the exam.

Jiang Shiyu pinched Little Hail's chin and didn't speak. After Xie Lanlan said her score, Jiang Shiyu said his own. Although everyone is bad, Jiang Shiyu's badness is relatively slight. After all, English and mathematics It surpassed the passing mark quite a bit, and was named and praised by Yan's mother.

After eating and sitting for a while, they had to go back. Yan An sent Xie Lanlan home, and then sent Jiang Shiyu to the gate of the community. She raised her hand and shook it in front of his eyes, then put it on his shoulder: "Are you so afraid of your father?"

"It's not fear, it's respect," Yan An said, "The main reason is that he hits me hard every time."

"Then you should study hard," Jiang Shiyu said, "Work hard and at least surpass your previous performance, won't he stop beating you?"

"That's right," Yan An looked at the sky and sighed, "I think so every time I start school."

Jiang Shiyu looked at him.

"Think about it when school starts. This semester, I must listen carefully and finish my homework on time. I want to become the best student in this class." Yan An lowered his head and raised two fingers when he rushed to the river, " Within two days, I immediately returned to the state of eating and waiting to die."

"There's no pressure," Jiang Shiyu said softly, "If there's no pressure...it doesn't matter how badly you study."

"Who said that?" Yan An squinted at him, "I was under a lot of pressure when my dad beat me up."

Fear of bad grades, fear of being beaten, fear of various impacts caused by bad studies, but I just don’t study hard.

When I think about it that way, I'm pretty rebellious.

Yan An laughed silently, and walked back home by himself after watching Jiang Shiyu go away.

The south has entered the rainy season, just a few steps from the gate of the house to the gate of the community, the rain clouds have accumulated and are about to fall, the ground is wet, it is the trace left by the last rain, there are puddles everywhere, the air It is also moist, and when the wind blows head-on, I feel that my face is covered with water mist.

Jiang Shiyu went downstairs to his own house and realized that the pen was out of ink and had to go back to buy a pen. He sighed and tightened his clothes. He couldn't bear the dampness of the night. It's all wet and sticks to the body, which is very uncomfortable.

He thought he was used to the south, the winter without snow, the spicy and sweet food here, and the arrival of the rainy season brought him back to his original form.

Didn't fit in at all.

There is no way to adapt, he cannot quickly switch from the northern life he has lived in for ten years to the state here and integrate into it.

Also, no one told him what to do.

No one would tell him in advance that it is common for underwear to hang out on the balcony for four or five days without doing anything. Taking off the underwear and putting it on directly will have the sticky feeling of putting on clothes without drying them in the shower.

After all, he is living alone.

There was a small supermarket outside the community. Jiang Shiyu opened the curtain and walked in, asking, "Hello, do you have a pen?"

After asking, I was stunned.

Ruan Yu was also stunned for a while standing at the cash register, and quickly realized, nodded: "What kind of pen do you want?"

"...An ordinary gel pen will do." Jiang Shiyu said.

Ruan Yu responded, turned around and took a box of pens from the counter behind for Jiang Shiyu to choose.

Jiang Shiyu randomly picked a black pen, thought for a while, and said, "Bring me a pack of cigarettes."

"Huh? Okay," Ruan Yu replied, "What kind do you want?"

Jiang Shiyu glanced at the shelf and pointed to a brand he usually smoked. Ruan Yu handed him the cigarette and a lighter by the way, saying it was a thank you gift. There was nothing to refuse, and after saying thank you, he left the canteen, and the two of them didn't say anything else during the period.

Ruan Yu should be working everywhere.

Barbecue restaurants, food stalls, working part-time during various breaks.

Jiang Shiyu put the things he bought into his coat pocket, silently, thinking, forget it, it's none of his business, it's important to go back and do homework.

Jiang Shiyu didn't do his homework after returning home. Jiang Shiyu squatted on the balcony and lit a cigarette, looking at the dotted window panes lit up outside. Green smoke rose from the sparks at his fingertips. When he was in a daze, it burned to ashes, and Jiang Shiyu lit a second one.

The moment the lighter was pressed, there was a sudden sound of unlocking the door. Jiang Shiyu was taken aback, looked at the cigarette that had just been lit in his hand, and quickly pinched it out. The ashes and butts were all contained in a small porcelain bowl. Kicked to the corner and walked back to the living room, my mother was carrying her luggage into the house.

"You," Jiang Shiyu paused, then suddenly cleared his throat, "Are you back?"

"Well," Mom looked tired, and glanced at Jiang Shiyu, "What are you doing on the balcony?"

"...No reason," Jiang Shiyu said, "Just... just stare for a while."

Mom took a look at him, put the suitcase in the house and walked out, stood in front of Jiang Shiyu and smelled it.

"Have you smoked?" Mom sighed, "I heard that your monthly exam results have come down, and you didn't do well in the exam?"

"Ah." Jiang Shiyu responded blankly.

"Is it because you don't adapt to the environment here, or the way of education?" Mom asked, "You used to get good grades, what's the matter?"

"...I'm not used to it." Jiang Shiyu said.

Mom sighed again and didn't say much.

Jiang Shiyu was sitting on the sofa in the living room. He didn't know what he was thinking, and his mind was a little distracted. When he came back to his senses, his mother had come out of the shower and was going back to the room to sleep.

"Are you still leaving?" Jiang Shiyu asked suddenly.

He didn't even know why he asked this sentence, and when he asked, he unconsciously clutched the other hand.

"It depends on the company's arrangement," my mother said softly, "Do you still have any money?"

"...Yes." Jiang Shiyu said.

"Okay." Mom nodded.

Just when he was about to turn around and go back to his room, he suddenly asked, "Have you changed your glasses?"

Jiang Shiyu raised his head and stared at his mother with wide eyes.After a while, he said, "It was changed a month ago."

Mom was obviously stunned for a moment, but quickly adjusted her expression back, frowned and asked, "Why did you suddenly change your glasses?"

"It's nothing." Jiang Shiyu pursed his lips and said in a low voice, "Xie Lanlan said the thin frame looks good, so Yan An took me to change it."

"Are you on good terms?" Mom asked.

"...Yes." Jiang Shiyu said.

My mother didn't say anything else, she told her to go to bed early and went back to the room. After the door lock sounded, Jiang Shiyu suddenly leaned back on the sofa, took off his glasses and threw them aside, raised his hand and rubbed his eyes vigorously.

The glasses were changed a month ago when school started.

Mom was on a business trip for at most two weeks, and she didn't go home for the first three days, but Jiang Shiyu still saw her many times.

But now she realizes that she has changed her glasses.

Changing from a black frame to a thin frame, the difference is quite big, and she only discovered it now.

Jiang Shiyu dropped his hands to one side, looked at the ceiling and twitched his mouth.

How fucking hypocritical.

The phone vibrated at this moment, and Jiang Shiyu took it out to see that it was a message from the group that Xie Lanlan had created with only the three of them.

Yan An sent a note: My God, my friends, my dad didn't beat me up.

Xie Lanlan quickly replied to him: Do you understand the calm before the storm?

-He made me do my homework and then go to sleep, my mother he really wasn't going to beat me up, I was out of my head.

-Think about it, if it is going to wait for you to fall asleep and then wake you up, the degree of fear will be super doubled.

- Xie Lanlan, can you shut up.

There is an emoji package at the bottom, which is a cute picture of a little penguin staring at the side, but there are two words at the bottom: what b.

When the word "b" is matched, it makes the whole little penguin look extremely mocking.

Jiang Shiyu stared at the little penguin's emoji for a long time, thought for a while, and clicked on Yan An's dialog box.

There was nothing to say, Jiang Shiyu clicked on Yan An's profile picture twice, and a message immediately popped up below, "I patted the eyeballs of 'Yan An'."

Jiang Shiyu always found this reminder inexplicably funny.

The upper dialog box quickly showed that the other party was typing, and soon, a question mark was sent over there.

"Show me Little Hail." Jiang Shiyu sent a voice message.

After Yan An clicked on the audio and listened to it, he turned his head and grabbed Little Hail without hesitation, put it on the desk, pointed at its forehead with his finger, and said, "Don't move, brother Xiaoyu wants to see you, I'll give it to him." Send a video over."

Little Binghai pulled his hand away in disgust, flicked his tail, didn't know if he understood, and didn't move, but Yan An was not allowed to touch its head during the filming.

The video was shot quickly, and Yan An sent it to Jiang Shiyu. Jiang Shiyu didn't know what to reply, so he found the emoticon package that Xie Lanlan had sent before and sent it. Wake up, immediately drop homework and start fighting.

Jiang Shiyu didn't have so many emoticons to fight with him, he couldn't post them anymore, so he simply looked at the group, Xie Lanlan was questioning why Yan An disappeared suddenly, whether he was beaten to death by Uncle Yan, if necessary, she can come to help blow it up Broken suona.

Jiang Shiyu thought for a while, and tapped Xie Lanlan's profile picture twice.

I patted "Xie Lanlan"'s leg hair.

Xie Lanlan sent a question mark.

"Xie Lanlan" patted me.

I patted "Xie Lanlan"'s leg hair.

"Xie Lanlan" patted me.

Jiang Shiyu thought for a while, scrolled through the chat history a lot, and found Yan An.

I patted the eyeballs of "Yan An".

"Xie Lanlan" patted the eyeballs of "Yan An".

Yan An sent a question mark.

Jiang Shiyu looked at the question mark, and finally made a smile.