After the smoke goes out

Sunlight wandered into the painted wooden window in the classroom and shone on the seat next to the window.The sound of cicadas swept in like a wave, carrying the unbearable sultry heat in summer.The large ceiling fan on the ceiling was whistling, blowing the paper of textbooks rattling.

While still in class, the students had already started whispering to each other. The teacher was so angry that he had nothing to do with them, so he had to finish the boring content of the lesson plan quickly.

Yu Chen and Wen Suda hadn't spoken much since the first day. Although they didn't talk, they still wanted to hug their thighs.As soon as the teacher started to talk about the questions, Wen Su turned his head to look at Yu Chen, and then copied Yu Chen's answers verbatim into his textbook.

Yu Chen was not annoyed, and moved the textbook to Wen Su's side. This tacit understanding was formed within a few days of meeting.He rested his cheeks on the blackboard, and occasionally lowered his head to jot down some key points on the draft paper.

As soon as get out of class was over, the corridors were crowded with people. There was the sound of basketballs bouncing from the playground, and the girls standing in the corridors watching the ball would occasionally boo.

Wen Su shuttled between the opponents and passed the ball to his teammates. After running a few times, his back was soaked with sweat. He pulled up his clothes and buried his head to wipe the sweat from his forehead , and then ran after him.

Before the class bell rang, they won a ball. Wen Su grinned, and just about to give a high-five to his teammate standing beside him, his hand was already raised, but the guy ran to the teammate standing next to him. A girl holding mineral water at the stairway.

Wen Su shrugged, and stepped on the bell to return to the classroom.Panting heavily, he sat on the seat, reached out his hand to dig in the drawer for a while, and finally took out an empty mineral water bottle. He stuffed the empty bottle back into the drawer, and pressed his lips tightly. He looked extremely thirsty.

Yu Chen turned his pen while reading a book. The pen was like a fluttering butterfly. He turned his head and glanced at Wen Su, then took a bottle of unopened mineral water from the drawer and put it on Wen Su's desk.

Wen Su froze for a moment, and asked, "For me?"

Yu Chen said "Mmm" without looking back.

Wen Su immediately laughed, put his arms around Yu Chen's shoulders, and said, "Thank you, brother." Then he withdrew his hand and unscrewed the bottle cap, and gulped down a few mouthfuls .Maybe because the water was given by the new tablemate, it tastes extra sweet.

He drank the water too quickly, and Wen Su choked all of a sudden. The collar was already wet with sweat, but after such a toss, a large piece of fabric on his chest was tightly stuck to the skin.Wen Su curled his lips, rolled his clothes up to his navel, then took a book and kept fanning.

The clothes stick to the skin and feel uncomfortable. Wen Su was absent-minded throughout the class. He opened the textbook but didn't read a word. He raised his hand and tore the clothes off, staring straight at the tree outside the window.

The teacher was lecturing on the podium, but Wen Su was very bored. He didn't know what the teacher was talking about, and even the textbook in front of him was a page that he opened casually.He leaned on the chair and looked at Yu Chen, lowered his voice and said, "Which school are you from?"

Yu Chen didn't turn his head, his eyes were still fixed on the textbook, and he replied, "Sichuan wind."

Wen Su let out a short "ah", and looked at Yu Chen with his mouth open in surprise.Chuanfeng is the worst middle school here. The style of study there is very bad. The students are notoriously bad. It is rare for someone with good grades to be excluded.He hardly dared to imagine how a student as good as Yu Chen could come from Chuanfeng, he swallowed his saliva and said, "Are you kidding me?"

"No." Yu Chen replied calmly, without emotion in his words.

Wen Su grabbed the pen on the table and tapped on the edge of the table, holding back for a long time before he could speak: "Then you are really good... Hey, is Sichuan Wind really that bad?"

"En." Yu Chen wrote down a note in the textbook, and then said.

The teacher standing on the podium could tell at a glance which student was not attending the class, so she naturally saw Wen Su, so she kept looking at Wen Su with sharp eyes.

Wen Su inadvertently exchanged glances with the teacher, quickly retracted his gaze, raised his hand to cover his mouth, and asked, "Then do you know how to fight?"

Yu Chen didn't speak, and didn't even give Wen Su a look.

Over the past few days, Wen Su has long been used to Yu Chen's lukewarm attitude. He was so bored that he propped his cheeks in a daze. After a while, he turned his head to see what Yu Chen had written in the textbook. He copied it into his textbook.

After writing for a long time, Wen Su turned his wrist and dropped the pen on the book. He leaned towards Yu Chen again, just like a broken pole. He moved to Yu Chen's ear and asked: "Then can you play basketball?"

Yu Chen paused for taking notes, and after two seconds of silence, he replied, "Yes."

Wen Su laughed, as happy as if he had discovered the New World, and said, "Then you have to fight with me after school, you won't be enough friends if you don't fight."

"Okay." Yu Chen said casually.

After school, Yu Chen really didn't leave, but waited for Wen Su to pack his backpack, and then went to the basketball court surrounded by iron nets behind the fish pond.

There is no one in the stadium. After the new stadium, there are only a few people who come to the old stadium.It is obviously the time when the flowers and leaves are just right in summer, but it gives people a somewhat bleak feeling from a distance.

Wen Su put the backpack under the basketball hoop, then threw the ball in his hand to Yu Chen.Without a whistle, this game with only two players started without warning.

Not long after the opening, the two men drowned in this game without referees, spectators, and cheers.All the sweat and soaked clothes are purely for pleasure.

After nearly an hour, Wen Su only snatched a ball from Yu Chen. Even if the ball was in his hands at the beginning, Yu Chen would snatch it after a while.

Wen Su was sweating profusely, and his clothes were all soaked. Seeing that the ball in his hand was snatched by Yu Chen again, he stopped and sat on the ground in despair, waved his hands and said, "No more playing!"

Yu Chen hugged the ball and put it at Wen Su's feet, and asked, "How is it?" He raised his jaw, and sweat flowed down the side of his face to his neck, leaving a winding trail of water.

Wen Su gasped and said, "You are amazing." He lifted up his clothes and wiped the sweat from his forehead.After a few rounds, he admired Yu Chen completely. This new tablemate not only had good grades, but also played well.

Yu Chen still had that down-and-out appearance, not even panting as if he wasn't tired at all, he waved his hand and said, "Go home."

"Oh ok, see you tomorrow, try again tomorrow!" Wen Su stood up, grabbed the backpack under the basketball hoop, clamped the basketball to his waist, and grinned at Yu Chen.

The scorching sun shone on the entire basketball court. Occasionally, a warm wind blew past, and the mottled tree shadows on the ground shook a few times and then stopped still.

In an instant, Yu Chen was the only one left on the basketball court.He looked down at his watch, probably not in time for the meal in the cafeteria.