Cross the sea

Zhou An saw Li Chengyun again at the door of the professor's office. Through the iron gate, he heard Li Chengyun apologize to the professor in a calm tone, lightly skipped the reasons for absenteeism, and finally said that he would make up all missed classes in the next few days.

Zhou An had a lot of questions to ask. He squatted at the door of the office, thinking of countless opening remarks, but when he saw Li Chengyun pushing the door and coming out, he forgot all about it.

"What did old man Deng say?"

Zhou An stood up and looked at Li Chengyun. He hadn't changed from before, he seemed to be a little thinner, and the coat that used to fit was hanging loosely on his shoulders.

"Punishment first, and then decide whether to revoke after seeing the final grades."

Li Chengyun gathered his coat and smiled at Zhou An who was standing still, "Don't drag me if you want to skip class, I have to study hard."

Li Chengyun walked out sideways, the corridor was brightly lit, and the draft blew up the black corners of his clothes. Zhou An looked at Li Chengyun's back, thought for a while and asked him: "Are you okay?"

"fine."

Li Chengyun's footsteps didn't stop at all. Before he walked around the corner, he added with a smile: "What can I do."

He is really fine, if he has to say something is wrong, it is that he needs to work harder to make the final grades not so ugly.

The typhoon, which had been forecasted for a long time, finally arrived the next day, and all outdoor activities were banned. Most students gathered in the library and classrooms to review and chat. Occasionally, they would be startled by the sound of rain hitting the glass like an explosion.

Li Chengyun stood at the window on the top floor of the school art gallery and looked down. Outside, there were many thin-necked trees with broken pieces, and white plastic bags caught in the vortex of the typhoon.

There should be a small number of people who will also be blown away by the typhoon.

Li Chengyun withdrew his gaze, and when he turned around and walked in, he saw Shen Tingyu looking around in the backlit exhibition hall.

Li Chengyun took a few steps forward, and Shen Tingyu quickly spotted him with a smile on his face.

"I thought you were downstairs."

Shen Tingyu walked over, and the fragrance of her hair wafted into the air with the wind.

Li Chengyun looked at her with lowered eyes, and asked after a while: "Did you take that photo?"

Shen Tingyu's smile froze on his face, and the corners of his raised mouth dropped little by little, and finally returned to normal.

Li Chengyun didn't pay much attention to these, the wind whizzed past outside the window, making harsh noises through the gaps.

"Shen Sui sent it to me."

Shen Tingyu turned his head, and his eyes fell on the rapeseed flowers on the opposite wall, "I think Auntie has the right to know, after all, no one can make decisions about such... such things."

"So you think you can take care of my business?"

There were faint veins on Li Chengyun's neck, he smiled and asked: "Because you like me, you can make decisions for me, right?"

"Li Chengyun, you can dislike me but you can't..."

"How much do you like me?"

Li Chengyun interrupted her in a low voice. He turned his head and stared at the cement-colored sky outside the window, and said, "If I say I want you to drop out of school, can you do it?"

Shen Tingyu looked at Li Chengyun again. She had known Li Chengyun for a long time, and felt that there was nothing wrong with Li Chengyun, but now she only felt that he was strange.

After seeing enough leaves and plastic bags flying all over the sky, Li Chengyun turned his head, smiled at Shen Tingyu and said, "You can't do it."

After saying this, Li Chengyun stood back in front of the window, and the spotlight above his head stretched his silhouette on the ground very long.

Li Chengyun didn't know when Shen Tingyu left, and when he realized it, the sky was glowing with a strange purple, like the color of glass candy paper, piercing through the thin and shallow clouds.

Because of standing for too long, Li Chengyun's body was numb, he walked slowly towards the teaching building, through the underground passage, the cigarette butts piled up in the corner have been cleaned, only the brick red wall is still not wiped clean of black soot.

Like every day before, Li Chengyun's footsteps did not stop, and he walked straight through the narrow and long road.

The disciplinary notice was posted on the school bulletin board the next day. On the day of the posting, the school staff opened the transparent PVC partition, pasted the A4 paper on the upper right corner, and removed the enlistment announcement below by the way.

It's just that the glue sticks too tightly, and the whole paper is torn in half from the middle when it is torn off.

The material rolled into a paper tube was stuffed into the reference room, the door was closed and opened, and someone walked in.

The winter in Haishi is wet and cold. When Li Chengyun came out of the examination room after the last exam, Zhou An leaned on the railing of the stairs and waved to him. Li Chengyun zipped up his coat and hid his chin in it.

"Where are you going on vacation?"

Zhou An jumped down the steps in three steps and two steps, Li Chengyun followed behind him with lowered eyelids, paused for a while before saying: "I signed up for a class in a financial institution, and I will move to the campus in two days."

Zhou An turned his head and frowned, "Aren't you going home for Chinese New Year?"

The school gate is open, the skylight outside the building casts a slender silhouette on the floor, and every breath he exhales is wrapped in white. Li Chengyun walks out and smiles at Zhou An: "Study must be more important than New Year's Eve."

Zhou An also laughed. He felt that something had changed about Li Chengyun, but nothing had changed.

He Zhen didn't leave for a long time. At the beginning, Zhou An would wail twice before the exam, "If He Zhen was here, the review should not be so strenuous." Li Chengyun sat across the table and never answered.

After a long time, no one mentioned He Zhen anymore, the name that always hangs on the first line of the report card was changed, and someone sat in the vacant seat very quickly, as if there had never been such a person.

Li Chengyun's only change is probably that he always stays in front of the bulletin board, sometimes for a minute or two, sometimes for a few seconds.

Passing through the playground, Li Chengyun stopped in front of the bulletin board again, his face reflected on the transparent partition.

This time the stay was very short, Li Chengyun took a glance and then turned around and walked towards the school gate. After walking a few steps, they saw An Qianqiu walking towards them.

An Qianqiu always appeared with He Zhen at the same time, and when He Zhen left, the number of An Qianqiu's appearances in their academy also dropped sharply.

Zhou An raised his hand to say hello, but An Qianqiu didn't seem to see it.

"Let's talk."

Li Chengyun turned around and looked at An Qianqiu who was walking past.

A thin layer of ice formed on the surface of the artificial lake, and the yellow grass creaked every time he stepped on it. An Qianqiu stood leaning against a tree, and Zhou An stopped for a while before he took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it over.

An Qianqiu looked down and said, "No more smoking."

Zhou An put the cigarette back, stood for a while and said that he would wait beside him, watched Zhou An leave, and then An Qianqiu said, "I don't think we two have anything to talk about."

"His mother is fine. The last physical examination report showed that except for a little high blood sugar, all other indicators were normal."

When Li Chengyun spoke, his hands were in his coat pockets, and his tone was calm.

"I can't get in touch."

An Qianqiu let out a breath of white air, "The army can only make a phone call once in a month and a half."

After An Qianqiu finished speaking, the two of them didn't speak for a long time. The campus radio rang on time, which was a cheerful prelude.

Finally, it was An Qianqiu who couldn't hold back anymore. She turned her head to look at Li Chengyun, her chest heaving obviously: "Did you write Hezhen's name on it?"

Zhou An also asked this sentence, Li Chengyun shook his head.

He didn't want to explain that the same handwriting was because he practiced calligraphy since he was a child, and the source of the copybooks was Zhen Wei. Zhen Wei was so conceited about her own handwriting, that she asked Li Chengyun to write exactly the same as hers in every point.

It's all over, and it's meaningless to say more.

"Then why don't you reply to Hezhen's message? Do you know how many messages he sent you? As long as you say you won't let him go, as long as you say..."

"My mother is sick."

Li Chengyun's voice was not loud, and he couldn't even hear it unless he listened carefully, "So I didn't reply."

"Can't you reply a message when your mother is sick?"

An Qianqiu's mood suddenly became agitated, her eyes became sore, she stood in front of Li Chengyun, took two deep breaths, "If Hezhen is nothing in your heart from the beginning, why don't you fucking provoke him? You give it back He said you like to be obedient, yes, he is obedient, even more obedient than a fucking dog!"

The prelude to the broadcast was still playing, Li Chengyun looked at An Qianqiu, he found evidence that He Zhen had existed.

"Did he say anything, when he left."

"No."

An Qianqiu answered quickly.

An Qianqiu lied, Hezhen said goodbye to her when he left, and said something else in a low voice, what he said was: Tell Li Chengyun, I took his suitcase away.

But she didn't want to tell Li Chengyun, at least she shouldn't be in this peaceful scene, at least she would see a sign of collapse on Li Chengyun's face, at least Li Chengyun would ask her again.

But nothing, Li Chengyun nodded, and just walked away.

On the first night when he moved to the tutoring institution, Li Chengyun suffered from insomnia because of the wind leaking from the window.

He took a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator and drank it. The coolness flowed down his throat, and soon his stomach swelled, and then he began to uncontrollably pantothenic acid.

The cell phone beside the pillow lights up, Li Chengyun walks over, the caller ID is Li Xiangting.

Li Chengyun waited for a while before picking it up. Li Xiangting drank some wine and spoke loudly: "Are you really not coming back for the Chinese New Year? We plan to go to the north to play around, so you can come too."

"not going."

Li Chengyun turned on the speakerphone, put the phone back, and sat on the floor.

There was a brief silence on the opposite side, and the noisy background sound gradually quieted down. After a few seconds, Li Chengyun heard the person on the other side say: "You are still blaming me. I really have something to do on the day of your mother's funeral."

"It's too late, I have to hang up the class tomorrow."

What Zhen Wei said was also correct. For example, she said that Li Xiangting was a hypocritical father, and the word hypocrisy always preceded father.

When Zhen Wei was in the ICU, Li Xiangting only came once, and left after saving a sum of money. Perhaps the reporter attributed the reason for her sudden madness to their divorce.

Hezhen needs the nod of Li Xiangting, a stepfather, to join the army. He Ping can't hope that her son will give up his studies and join the army. Li Xiangting likes He Ping, but why Li Xiangting still agrees.

The mineral water bottle in his hand fell to the ground, the bottle cap was not tightened tightly, and a large piece of water flowed on the floor.

Haishi never snows in winter, and it is the same in the new year, and every year in the future will be like this winter.

It's just that he started to suffer from insomnia and always had dreams. The types of dreams were all kinds of strange, but at the end of the day, he would always see Zhen Wei's ferocious blue face and a figure from the corner walking towards Xia Tian.

The author has something to say: This part ends here, and more details will be explained later (I will definitely work hard to update! Thank you everyone)