rain trail

"Swallow, your level is too low!" Zhao Fangfei was furious.

"I have zero foundation!" Liu Yanzhi shouted to excuse herself.

"I don't care, you have to practice this part before tomorrow." Zhao Fangfei said and packed her schoolbag: "My mother asked me to go back early."

Your mother asks you to come back early every day.Liu Yanzhi thought about it, but didn't say it out loud.

"That's right." Zhao Fangfei reached into her schoolbag, took out a handful of snacks, and handed them to Liu Yanzhi.

She hesitated for a moment, then walked towards Luo Jiayi by the window.

"Here you are." She said softly, and put a handful of snacks on the windowsill.Before Luo Jia could say anything, she fled in despair.

As soon as Luo Jia stopped playing the piano, her eyes were confused.

Liu Yanzhi was happy: "Leave her alone, she has a good heart, but she is timid and shy."

Although Luo Jiayi was still wearing a mask, her smile could be seen in her eyes.

Liu Yanzhi spun hard following the movements on the DVD, and accidentally fell down on the big horse.

Luo Jiayi hurried over to help her: "Are you okay?"

She was still playing the piano with her back to her just now, but she came quickly.Liu Yanzhi thought happily, then simply tilted her head and leaned on her: "It hurts."

"Where does it hurt?" Luo Jiayi asked anxiously.

"Everything hurts, head, arms, legs..." Liu Yanzhi hissed, as if she couldn't lift her eyelids, Luo Jia was so anxious that she died.

"I'll take you to the infirmary!"

I can't play anymore, and I can't play anymore.

Liu Yanzhi patted her arm: "I'm fine."

Luo Jiayi's eyes suddenly changed, a little embarrassed and a little relaxed.

"I suddenly discovered that you also have a birthmark." Liu Yanzhi raised her hand, gently brushed away Luo Jiayi's bangs, and tapped the little red patch.

Luo Jiayi flinched, but did not escape.

"It's beautiful." Liu Yanzhi circled the birthmark with her fingertips: "A small butterfly, a big butterfly." She went to pull her mask again, and Luo Jia pulled away one by one, forgetting to hold on Liu Yanzhi.Liu Yanzhi fell heavily to the ground again.

"Yanzhi!" Luo Jia regretted suddenly, and quickly helped her up again.

"Sooner or later, I will be thrown to death by you." Liu Yanzhi grinned and complained.

"sorry."

"But for the sake of calling me by my name for the first time, I forgive you." Liu Yanzhi said with a smile.

"Speaking of which, my parents took my brother to my aunt's house." Her expression was very pitiful: "Can I go to your house for dinner?"

Before Luo Jia could react, she had brought Liu Yanzhi into the house.Liu Yanzhi greeted her mother happily, and walked into her bedroom with ease.

"Although I don't understand much, this chess game looks very powerful." She sat down in front of her chessboard.

Luo Jiayi sat opposite her and looked at her with soft eyes.

Liu Yanzhi looked up at her for two seconds, reached out and took off her mask, ignoring her shameful expression, and threw the mask into the trash can.

"You don't need to wear a mask in front of me." She said nonchalantly, and then took the chess in a non-standard posture: "Can you teach me how to play chess?"

"Are you... interested in Go?" Luo Jiayi clenched the chess in his hand.

"I'm interested in anything related to you." Liu Yanzhi said naturally: "How do you decide who uses black and white, rock-paper-scissors?"

Luo Jiayi showed a very restrained smile, but it disappeared very quickly, like a superficial touch.

"Guess first." There was a little excitement in her voice.

It is rare for Liu Yanzhi to get along with Luo Jiayi peacefully like this. Normally, their communication is either Liu Yanzhi teasing each other, or it is mixed in the noisy sound of the violin and the TV.Luo Jiayi playing chess reminded Liu Yanzhi of Luo Mu dancing. They were all so focused and self-forgetful, as if they were shining.Luo Jiayi even put her hair behind her ears casually - this is an action she would never do normally.

"Understood?" Luo Jia raised her eyes and asked her, her fair face was blushing with excitement, with a cheerful look.

Liu Yanzhi was a little confused, did she really want to use shogi as a way to subsidize her family as she said, and she didn't like it at all?

"I'm smart, of course I understand." Liu Yanzhi said proudly.

"Then we can rest. If you still want to learn, I will continue to teach you next time." Luo Jiayi smiled again.This time the smile was truly captured by Liu Yanzhi.

"But I still have tasks to complete." She said with a bitter face, "I haven't practiced my dancing well yet."

"How about you practice with me, I need a dance partner." She said to Luo Jiayi.

Seeing Luo Jia's distressed face, she began to complain with a contrived cry: "It's all Zhao Fangfei's fault, she doesn't care about me, she's not a friend, she's not a human..." Her voice became louder and more angry , like Meng Jiangnu who cried on the Great Wall.

Afraid of attracting Luo's mother, Luo Jia hurriedly stopped her in a low voice: "Stop, I'll just accompany you."

"Student Luo Ayi, can you tell me why you can dance so smoothly every day when you play the piano with your back facing us?" Liu Yanzhi had a sly smile on her face.

Luo Jiayi blushed and bowed her head in silence.

She was much taller than Liu Yanzhi, when they embraced each other, Liu Yanzhi could smell the faint fragrance of washing powder on her body, with a woody freshness and a little bit of sweetness, very similar to her.

"Actually, Liang Zhu's story was not like this at the beginning." Liu Yanzhi was thoughtful: "The stories of the close grave and the butterfly transformation are all fabricated by later generations, so how could they be entrusted by the spirits of infatuated men and women?"

"But in the end they lived together and flew together, even if they were not tolerated by the etiquette, they were free." Luo Jiayi replied hoarsely.

"I always thought that no matter what, you have to live. If you lose your life, you will lose everything. It is sad and beautiful, but it is also really unsatisfactory."

"Perhaps there is no other way?"

Liu Yanzhi sneered: "If that day really comes, I will go to Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring with my lover. If that person can't go with me, I will wait there. When it comes, we will stay together for the rest of our lives."

"You're right." Luo Jiayi grinned.It was the first time Liu Yanzhi saw her smile so brightly.In fact, Luo Jiayi's facial features are very beautiful, and the only defect - two birthmarks is not a defect in Liu Yanzhi's eyes. In her movements, she looks like two fluttering butterflies.Liu Yanzhi couldn't help holding her breath, she was a little crazy watching.

Zhu Yingtai didn't pretend to be a man this time, but Liang Shanbo turned into a fake man.

The sad thing is that she, the fake Liang Shanbo, is as afraid to look at Guanyin as the real Liang Shanbo.

"It's time to eat!" Luo Mu opened the door and came in, and the two of them hurriedly stopped.

The smile on Luo Mu's face disappeared, she pursed her lips, looked back and forth between the two, and then went out without saying a word.

Arriving at school the next day, the first thing Liu Yanzhi did was to find Luo Jiayi and ask if her mother had treated her after she left yesterday.

"Of course not, don't think about it."

"By the way, my mother said that if you can't dance well, she can teach you." Luo Jiayi said slowly.

"Really!" Liu Yanzhi almost jumped up happily: "Your mother is a master who can be seen by a layman like me!"

"Really." Luo Jiayi smiled.

Liu Yanzhi cheered and ran back to her seat.

"It's ok, you're making great progress. It looks like you've practiced." Zhao Fangfei applauded Liu Yanzhi, only to give her another little red flower.

"Thanks to Jiayi, right Jiayi." Liu Yanzhi looked at the person in front of the window.The person playing the violin was bathed in the twilight, she turned around and responded softly: "Yes."

Zhao Fangfei still left early.By the time Liu Yanzhi and Luo Jia came out of school, it was already dark.

"Jiayi, teach me how to play chess today."

Luo Jia raised her head and met Liu Yanzhi's bright eyes.She couldn't refuse her: "OK."

"Say a few more words as if it could kill you." Liu Yanzhi scolded her with a mutter.

Luo Jiayi couldn't help laughing: "Okay, I will teach you how to play chess today."

"That's about it." Liu Yanzhi raised her chin.

Walking beside Luo Jiayi, she felt that she had grown taller in a daze.Take a closer look, no, it's not that she has grown taller, but her back has straightened up.

"Jiayi!"

"Huh?" Luo Jiayi turned her head away without knowing why, and Liu Yanzhi pulled off her mask.

"What are you doing?" She covered her face in horror.

"Don't panic, no one is there."

Luo Jia looked around hesitantly, and sure enough, there was no one in the huge campus.

"Go to the school gate and I'll give it to you." Liu Yanzhi put the mask in the hand that was not leaning against her.

Luo Jiayi let go of her hand suspiciously and followed her.Liu Yanzhi really kept her word, and returned it to her at the school gate.Luo Jia put it on in a hurry, like a thirsty fish entering the sea.

"One day, you won't need it anymore." Liu Yanzhi said briskly.

Will that day really happen?