Talking tablemates chase after me

Ding Jinyu returned home, took a hot bath and poured himself into the bed, when a WeChat notification sounded beside him, he turned over and lazily touched his phone, and saw Ding Yinan's usual concern.

- Are you home?When it rains, close the windows, the old house is most afraid of water.

-Um.

He saw a small red dot on the address book at the bottom of WeChat, with a number "1" in it; when he clicked on it, the profile picture was a cute little girl with a dimple on her right cheek and a sweet smile. Like Ming Xi.

In the remarks of the friend application, he was really at the same table.

He clicked the "Verified" button, and Ming Xi's news popped up impatiently.

-are you home yet?

-are you OK?

- You need to take a hot bath when you are in the rain. It is best to make ginger tea or drink a pack of cold medicine in advance.

- Take precautions.

……

The phone was still buzzing with messages, Ding Jinyu took his eyes away from the phone screen, and roughly calculated the things Mingxi bought for him recently in his mind, then tapped the screen, wrapped a red envelope and sent it over.

He was so tired today, he only had time to turn his phone to silent, before turning on the TV, he hugged his newly bought fluffy puppy and fell asleep soundly.

It seems that the doctor said that exercise can help him improve his sleep, which is really not nonsense.

Ding Jinyu was not the only one who got tired from the dozens of laps on the playground. Wang Lei also became very quiet in the following days. The first test after the start of school soon reached the last subject.

The seats for the exam are divided according to their rankings. The transfer student Ding Jinyu had no grades before, so he was assigned the first one at the door of the classroom; and in the corner of the classroom near the window, the two seats originally belonged to Mingxi and him were respectively the last two seats in the class. Mingxi and Wang Lei; separated by a row of aisles, Zhou Hao, who is sitting in the middle of the grade.

Just when Ding Jinyu was about to hand in the papers ahead of schedule, discordant voices finally erupted from the corner of the classroom near the window.

"Whose is this?" Teacher Song asked Wang Lei with a cheat sheet in his hand.

"It fell out of Zhou Hao's pocket!" Wang Lei stared at Zhou Hao, saying with certainty, "I didn't even know what it was when I picked it up!"

"No..." Zhou Hao firmly denied, "It's not mine..."

"Ming Xi." Teacher Song asked, "What did you see?"

Ming Xi's hand that was gripping the pen trembled slightly, he raised his head and said with certainty, "It's Wang Lei's."

"Teacher Song! The two of them are usually as good as one person—" Wang Lei scratched his head anxiously, "Ask Mingxi, how could he tell the truth!"

Teacher Song scanned the surrounding students again with his eyes, "Did any of you see it?"

The people around quickly shook their heads, turned around and buried their heads in the paper.

Teacher Song pointed to Zhou Hao and Wang Lei, "You two come out with me, and the others continue the exam."

Wang Lei got up angrily, and Zhou Hao had no choice but to follow along with a limp.

Ding Jinyu sat at the door, which was still open, and he could clearly hear the arguments in the corridor.

Suddenly remembering that he was on duty today, he simply cut off the idea of ​​handing in the paper in advance.

On the other hand, Ming Xi hastily handed over the test paper to another invigilator on the podium shortly after Teacher Song took the two of them out.

"Teacher Song." He walked out of the classroom and came to Teacher Song, "Can I read the cheat sheet just now and their papers?"

Teacher Song nodded as if thinking of something, then turned around and asked the invigilator in the classroom to hand out the test papers of Wang Lei and Zhou Hao.

"Teacher Song, look—" Ming Xi spread the two papers on the window sill by the corridor, facing the cheat sheet, "This is the formula on the cheat sheet, and Zhou Hao obviously wrote it wrong; but Wang Lei's answer is exactly the same as The cheat sheet is exactly the same."

"Is there anything else to say? Come with me to the office." Teacher Song said to Wang Lei, then turned her head and patted Zhou Hao on the shoulder. affect test scores."

Before turning around, Ming Xi saw that Wang Lei's clenched hand was shaking because of anger, and turned to Zhou Hao and said, "Go in and write, I'll wait for you at the door, and I have to take you back with this foot."

During these two days of exams, Mingxi ran to Zhou Hao's house early in the morning to pick him up from school, and then sent him back after school; the two of them lived at both ends of an alley, and Mingxi always rode Zhou Hao's bicycle and carried him on the back seat.

In fact, Zhou Hao just had an ordinary sprain, and he has been much better after resting for two days. Although he is still a little limping when walking, there is no major problem when riding a bicycle.

"Why don't you send me there to pick up the car, and I'll go back by myself?" After the exam, he was carried by Ming Xi to the bicycle shed in a bit of embarrassment, "Don't you have a lot of business at home?"

"It's okay." Ming Xi thought of Wang Lei's trembling fists, his eyes paused, "It won't take a few minutes, I'll take you back first."

When Ding Jinyu finished cleaning the classroom and left, the school was already empty except for the boarding students who needed to study at night; as usual, he put his hands in his pockets and walked out of the teaching building with his head down.

As soon as he walked out of the teaching building, the setting sun enveloped him in a merciless high temperature, and he frowned slightly. Before he had time to adapt to the temperature in the air, he was bumped into by a small boy.

He wondered why since he came to the new school, there were always people with bad eyesight, bumping into him head-on and back-to-back.

But before he had time to express his doubts and dissatisfaction on his face, the little man in front of him tightly grabbed the corner of his school uniform.

"Ding Jinyu! Save Mingxi!" Zhou Hao raised his head, and Ding Jinyu saw beads of sweat on his forehead and tears in the corners of his eyes, "Please! I can't find anyone else! I beg you!"

No matter how short and thin Zhou Hao was, he was timid and cowering, he was still a boy of seventeen or eight, so what a big deal it was to cry?

"What's wrong?" Ding Jinyu asked, frowning even deeper.

"Wang Lei! It's Wang Lei..." Zhou Hao was panting anxiously, even speaking in a confused way, "He brought three people to live with us outside the school...we..."

"Mingxi... Mingxi knocked someone down with his bike, give me the bike, call me... tell me to run and call someone..."

"I'm so scared! I can't find Teacher Song...and then..."

Zhou Hao's meaning was unclear, and his voice was intermittent. Ding Jinyu no longer had the patience to continue listening.

He pulled Zhou Hao's hand away from his school uniform, and interrupted the other party's messy statement: "You ran away and didn't know to call the police?"

"I..." Zhou Hao's eyes almost popped out, "I...I'm really scared...I don't know what to do...I..."

"I'll call now!"

Trembling, he reached into his bag to fumble for the phone, maybe because his hands were shaking too much, he didn't take it out for a long time.

"It's too late—" Ding Jinyu had already strode towards the school gate, and said to Zhou Hao with his back, "Lead the way."

He didn't expect Ming Xi to stand in front of a group of people with a stick like Ding Yinan, but he didn't expect that the scene he saw when he arrived could be so miserable.

Ming Xi's left elbow and knee were scratched a lot, and the cheekbones of his left cheek were also painted, and the broken hair on his forehead was wet with sweat, almost covering his eyes.

Ding Jinyu saw him staring up at Wang Lei, who was half a head taller than himself, as if he could see the stubborn eyes of the other party on the playground that day through the gaps in the messy hair.

Ming Xi kept standing with his back leaning against the wall, his violently heaving chest and shoulders wrapped in his already dirty school uniform, showing the unique frailty and stubbornness of a teenager.

"Ming Xi!"

Zhou Hao yelled behind Ding Jinyu, and Wang Lei and the people he brought turned around in unison.

Wang Lei pulled away the people around him, took two steps forward, and stared at Ding Jinyu with anxiety and impatience in his eyes.

"you again?"

"Yeah." Ding Jinyu nodded, and casually threw the schoolbag at his feet, "Who told you that you didn't beat me last time?"

"Okay!" Wang Lei waved to the people behind him, "Then today I will teach you how to be good!"

Before his words landed, a steel pipe fell down; Ding Jinyu swayed away, and the steel pipe almost slid past Zhou Hao's face behind him.

Zhou Hao took a few steps back in fright, staggered and fell.

Before Ding Jinyu had time to look any further, he turned around to avoid the two people attacking from behind Wang Lei, and knocked down the last person who rushed forward.

Only then did he have the time to turn around and shout to Zhou Hao——

"Get out of the way!"

Zhou Hao hurriedly bypassed the mingled crowd, limped up to Ming Xi, and hugged Ming Xi who was about to step forward.

"Why are you going!"

Ming Xi pushed Zhou Hao away without answering.

He instinctively felt that he should rush over to help at this time, but he realized rationally that even if he passed by now, he might only become Ding Jinyu's burden.

During the hesitation, Zhou Hao stepped forward to stop him again.

At this time, Ding Jinyu had brought down two more people, and only Wang Lei was left to confront him. He was disturbed by Zhou Hao's voice and was distracted. When he turned his head, Wang Lei found an opportunity and struck down again.

"Ding Jinyu—"

Ming Xi looked at the wooden stick raised above Ding Jinyu's head and exclaimed.

When Ding Jinyu turned his head again, it was too late to dodge, so he simply raised his forearm to catch the stick. Taking advantage of Wang Lei's unsteady center of gravity and loss of protection when he attacked with all his strength, he kicked Wang Lei hard on the left side of the face——

This fight is over.

He looked coldly at the few people who fell on the ground and had lost their threat, bent down to pick up the schoolbag and put it on his shoulders, then turned his head and said in Ming Xi's direction: "It's okay, I'll go first."

Before Ming Xi could answer, he had already turned and left.

"Are you okay?" Ming Xi lowered her head and asked Zhou Hao.

Zhou Hao shook his head.

"Then you go to my house to buy something to eat, and look at it for me." Ming Xi looked down at the dirt and blood all over her body, "This will scare my grandma, I have to find a place to deal with it later. Just come back."

"Remember to lie for me."

After speaking, he got up and ran out in the direction Ding Jinyu left.

"and many more--"

When Ming Xi finally caught up with Ding Jinyu, the two had already reached the main street.

Ding Jinyu's bicycle fell on the side of the road, he bent to help the bicycle, turned his head and looked at Mingxi without saying a word.

"I thought Zhou Hao would go to Mr. Song or the police, but I didn't expect him to find you." Ming Xi stepped forward and stood in front of Ding Jinyu's bicycle, "Wang Lei and the others are too dangerous, I'm sorry."

Ding Jinyu had already stepped on the bicycle and said lightly: "There are only four in total."

"Then... thank you."

Ming Xi's words of thanks were a little strange.

He didn't look at Ding Jinyu sincerely, nor did he have the iconic dimples anymore, he just lowered his head and stared at his hands, which were firmly grasping the handlebars of Ding Jinyu's bicycle.

Ding Jinyu frowned incomprehensibly, "What's the matter?"

"I'm sorry..." Ming Xi gritted her teeth as if to encourage herself, and suddenly looked up at Ding Jinyu, "Can you do me another favor?"

The streetlights on the main street had already been turned on. Two blood-stained teenagers straddled their bicycles, and the other stood aside while holding on to the handlebars. Together, they were shrouded in warm yellow light.