Inferior by Nature

Lin Sheng came over and picked up the bag on the ground for me.

"What a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet here."

Staring at the slender white hand, I took the bag stiffly, and it took me a while before I remembered to answer his words.

"Ah, yes, what a coincidence..."

Eight years have passed, he seems to have completely forgotten what I have done, and he treats me like an ordinary old classmate.Polite, but not warm.

Biran Qingzhuang's attitude is not a little bit better.

"You look unwell, are you feeling unwell?" He put his hands in the pockets of his white coat and asked.

"Small problem, it's just a cold." I subconsciously tightened my hand holding the bag.

"Oh, you..." Lin Sheng was about to say something more when the cell phone in his pocket rang. He glanced at it and immediately picked it up, "Okay... Got it... I'll be right back."

After hanging up the phone, he smiled at me apologetically, saying that he had something urgent to go first, and then took out a business card for me, asking me to call him on the mobile phone.

"Fu Ci, do you want to go back with me now, or go back later by yourself?" Lin Sheng turned around and asked the man in the wheelchair.

While I was talking to Lin Sheng, the man was staring intently at the sparkling water in front of him, silent and lifeless.Lin Sheng asked him, but he didn't respond right away, as if he had set up a barrier around his body to automatically block all foreign objects.

It wasn't until Lin Sheng raised his voice helplessly and called his name again that the man raised his eyelashes and looked towards us.

"Get out." He opened and closed his thin lips, and the pronunciation was very standard.

Lin Sheng was not angry, he raised his hands with a smile, turned around and was about to leave.

Looking down at the business card in his hand, and then looking up, Lin Sheng had already walked several meters.

"Wait!" Before he could figure out what to do, his heels and mouth moved first.

I chased after two steps and called Lin Sheng to stop.He turned around a bush and looked back at me, suspiciously.

I hesitated, but still asked: "Do you still remember Ran Qingzhuang?"

No wonder Ran Qingzhuang suddenly gave me the contact information today. It turns out that everything is determined by God.God has already arranged this reunion, I am just a sounding tube, a 502, responsible for serving as an important prop, witnessing the precious love lost and regained by the protagonists.

I tried my best to compensate Ran Qingzhuang, but no matter how much material compensation I can offer, how can it compare to returning Lin Sheng to him?

Lin Sheng's expression immediately turned a little pale when he heard this: "I'm still wondering when you will ask."

Just a few steps away, a few words, his attitude is completely different from just now, his tone is still soft, but his voice suddenly cools down.

"You have revenged and revenged, what else do you want?"

I stared at him in a daze, and stopped taking out the phone from my pocket. I felt astonished, but it seemed...not so astonished.

It's strange, I obviously didn't have much contact with him before, and only got to know him sporadically through Ran Qingzhuang, why am I not surprised that he has two faces?

"He still misses you very much." After thinking for a while, he added, "I still have your ring."

"Who, Ran Qingzhuang?" Lin Sheng raised his eyebrows, and then he looked clear, "Are you two together?"

I pursed my lips, and in my pocket, the pads of my fingers rubbing the surface of the business card quickly broke out in sweat.

"No."

Lin Sheng smiled, and suddenly approached me, and said in a provocative tone: "Then you are such a waste. I bought a broken ring worth 20 yuan on the roadside, which can remind him of these years. You have done so much, Didn't even go with him?"

I knew that the ring was so ugly and worthless at all.

What's the use?Ran Qingzhuang likes it, even if it is 20 yuan of junk, he treats it like a treasure; Ran Qingzhuang doesn't like it, even ten thousand yuan of real gold and silver, he also discards it like a shoe.

"What happened back then was my fault..." My fingers were clenched into fists, and the business card was bit by bit smashed by me.

Obviously, the confession to Ran Qingzhuang could be said so easily, but in front of Lin Sheng, it felt like a stick in his throat, and he had to squeeze out every word.

I knew I shouldn't be like this. He was a victim just like Ran Qingzhuang back then. It was my mistake that caused them to miss each other for eight years.It doesn't matter what kind of person he is, as long as Ran Qingzhuang likes it.I have to have the self-consciousness of being an "important prop", and all I have to do is to fix the mistakes I made back then.As for whether the other party is worth it... It's not a question I need to think about.

And as a victim, his attitude towards me is also reasonable, and it is abnormal to be so friendly and polite at the beginning.

"Okay, just do it. Since you made the decision yourself, don't act like someone else is forcing you." Lin Sheng interrupted me, opened the distance between them again, and said backwards, " Tell Ran Qingzhuang not to miss me, I now... have someone else I like." After speaking, he waved his hand at me, turned and left gracefully.

I took a step forward and wanted to chase again, but felt it was unnecessary, so I finally retracted my feet, stood there for a while, turned around and continued walking in the previous direction.

"Are you the man before him?"

Passing by the man in the wheelchair, he spoke suddenly, his voice was difficult and hoarse.

I stopped and turned to look at each other.

The man propped his hands on the armrest of the wheelchair, resting his chin, quietly watching the fish wagging their tails leisurely in the pond, like a tree rooted on the shore.Although the appearance is still tall and straight, the inside is gradually withered and dying.

If it wasn't just me and him here, I can't believe he would talk to me.

"You belong to Lin Sheng..."

Based on what Lin Sheng said before leaving, I have some guesses about the identity of the man in front of me.He was able to ask such private questions, at least his relationship with Lin Sheng was not as simple as that of an ordinary doctor and patient.

"I was the one who asked you first." He squinted at me, even though his bones were broken, he remained strong.

"No," I said, "we're just high school friends."

He looked away and continued to look at the fish.

"That's right, he shouldn't be interested in you." He said with a calm and pale face, "His kind of bitch likes to touch things he can't touch. Other people's husbands, parents' friends , a dying patient...Maybe the more unethical the relationship, the more excited he is on the bed."

I thought he and Lin Sheng were in a relationship, but it seems...it seems not?

We were just strangers who met on a narrow road. After talking a few words, I had nothing more to say. After I nodded slightly to him, I continued to walk along the path.

When I passed a trash can, I took out the business card that I had crushed in my pocket, recorded the mobile phone number on it into the mobile phone, and then threw the business card away.

When he returned to the car, Ran Qingzhuang lowered the back of the seat, resting his arms on his head, opened the sunroof, and was in a daze while listening to music.

Seeing that I was back, he sat up, straightened the back of the chair, closed the skylight, and turned down the music accordingly.

"Sorry, have you been waiting for a long time?" I said, and I put on my seat belt.

"Fortunately, not long." Ran Qingzhuang started the car and slowly drove out of the parking space.

The words came to my lips several times, but I didn't know how to export them.

Lin Sheng is back, do you want to meet him?

I have his contact information, why don't you call him and ask him out for dinner?

Can not be done.Lin Sheng has now found a new love. Although the new love does not look good, the two are considered a good match.I pulled the thread at this end, wouldn't it be my fault that the marriage was broken at the other end?

Don't wait and see...

Ran Qingzhuang's current state is not suitable for romance, and besides, they have a long time to come, and they still have a lot of time to squander, so it won't hinder anything if they reunite a few days later.

I figured it out, and my heart was settled.With the soothing music, I dozed off and fell asleep after a while.

The sun is hanging in the middle of the sky, and the playground is full of enthusiastic cheers.

I sat in the corner of the auditorium, drying my injured legs and hands, watching the long-distance runners crossing the finish line from a distance, feeling envious in my heart.

If only I were as good as them, so I wouldn't lose so uselessly in the match just now...

I lowered my eyes and saw that my knees were still bleeding, so I stood up while supporting the front seat, and limped towards the infirmary.

Gently pushing open the door of the infirmary, a faint smell of disinfectant came over my face.

Ran Qingzhuang was leaning against the window, and when he heard the movement, he turned around, still biting a chocolate bar in his mouth.

He originally had a careless expression, but when he saw my distressed appearance, he suddenly changed, threw the chocolate bar in his hand aside, and immediately ran over to help me.

"What's the matter with you, did you fall?"

He helped me sit down on the bed, looked carefully at my wrists, and checked the injuries on my knees, and said, "Fortunately, they are all flesh injuries, not serious. Why are you so careless?" As he spoke, he skillfully He took out the first-aid kit from the metal cabinet, dragged a chair to sit in front of me, and began to treat my wound.

Every time he wiped my wound with gauze soaked in normal saline, I couldn't help but shrink my hand, the pain made my facial features distort.

"I fell during the relay, which caused our class to lose..."

Ran Qingzhuang firmly held my wrist, not allowing me to back down, and asked, "Which class did you lose to?"

"Class three."

"Ha, look, I'll win it back for you later."

His tone was relaxed, as if he said that if he won, he would definitely win, and he didn't pay attention to the other contestants at all.

I couldn't help laughing: "It's not our class's score if you win."

"The enemy of an enemy is a friend, do you understand?" He finished cleaning the wound, carefully applied iodine with a cotton swab, and then put on a band-aid, and then continued to treat my knee, "Fortunately, the hand injury is not serious. What to do? Don’t touch things that you are not good at, just let someone who is good at them do it...like me.” When he said the last sentence, he raised his head and smiled at me.

The afternoon sun is bright and hot, even if it shines on the skin through the glass, there will be an illusion of being scalded after a long time.

I curled my fingers and asked, "Are you hypoglycemic again?"

"No, I'm just being lazy." He said frankly, "Recently, someone brings me breakfast every day. I don't know which girl it is. Thanks to her, I haven't had hypoglycemia for a long time."

My eyelashes fluttered, and my knees moved sideways uncontrollably because of the pain.

Ran Qingzhuang took hold of my knee and clamped that leg between his, his hands were a little lighter.

"Hurry up, hurry up, bear with it." He gently blew on my wound, letting the cool wind take away some pain.

I stared at his drooping eyelashes and asked, "How do you know it's a girl?"

Hearing this, the corners of his lips twitched faintly: "The man gave me banana milk and red bean bread? Is there something wrong?"

He quickly treated my knee injury. At this time, someone came outside to ask him to prepare, saying that the 100-meter race was about to start.

He got up and went out, came back in the middle of the walk and threw me the half-eaten packet of chocolate bars on the table.

"Eating sweets will improve your mood."

I watched his leaving back until I could no longer see him. I looked down at the chocolate bar in my arms, took out one and chewed it in my mouth.

so sweet...

The rich sweetness melts between the lips and teeth, flows into the limbs and bones, and the internal organs seem to be assimilated, soaked, pickled, and the breath is full of sweetness.

The mood does... feel a little better.