Still tide

"I don't think I can bear you," Chen Guangda looked sideways at his son while driving, and joked with him, "I thought you couldn't make any friends here for three years, but I didn't expect it. It's like when I was young. Posture."

"That can't be compared to you." Chen Chao took a bottle of water and unscrewed it, and handed it to his father, "If you cough, smoke less."

His father took a sip from Chen Chao's hand and said, "Ding Wei's son is exactly the same as when he was a child, 1.8 meters and [-] catties."

"He's not that fat, he can't reach two hundred." Chen Chao thought about Ding Wentao's strong figure, and changed his words, "It's about the same."

"His father was two hundred and two at the time. Once we jumped over the wall, he stamped my foot with his heel. At that time, I thought I had lost my toes." Chen Guangda recalled that time, cursed with a smile, and said, "Damn me I lay at home for two days, couldn't walk, and limped for half a month."

At that time, people were also very skinny, and now I have to go to the hospital to take an X-ray, maybe it is really a crack in the bone.

"Then you don't know how to hide," Chen Chao said halfway, the phone rang in his pocket, and he took it out, "Will you just stand there and wait at the top of the wall?"

"I just jumped off and haven't had time to leave yet!" Chen Guangda said.

"Come back next year?" Chen Chao asked while looking at his phone.

"Go back if you want," Chen Guangda replied indifferently, "That's not up to you."

Chen Chao bowed his head and replied: Maybe during Chinese New Year.

Miao Jiayan got up early in the morning, and now everyone was gone, lying on the bed with her pillows in her arms, her eyes closed, feeling a little drowsy.

The phone vibrated twice briefly, and a text message came in.

Miao Jiayan touched it and put it in front of her eyes.

His chin rested on the pillow after watching, and he pressed the keyboard slowly with both hands. He hadn't used a mobile phone much, and he wasn't very proficient in typing.

—That's another year.

Chen Chao looked at the new message on the screen, replied "Yes", and locked the screen.

"I think the kid from Miao's family is very easy-going, he doesn't look like his father at all." Chen Guangda was bored while driving, and kept looking for something to talk to his son.

Chen Chao said, "Good temper."

"The child looks good." Chen Guangda commented.

Chen Chao didn't respond, Chen Guangda looked at him and asked, "Really?"

"Very good." Chen Chao answered calmly, taking it for granted.

"Then I think you two didn't talk at first, and I thought you two were not good." Chen Guangda said.

"Okay," Chen Chao looked out the window and said, "That's my little brother."

Miao Jiayan hugged the pillow and slept for a while, then slept comfortably under the quilt, and had a soft dream.

After waking up, he looked at the text messages Chen Chao had sent before, put away his phone, stretched his arms, and yawned sleepily.

During Chen Chao's short trip back during the winter vacation, it seemed that nothing had changed, and it seemed that many things had changed invisibly.

When the spring semester started, Miao Jiayan got up early in the morning to pack up, her hair was tied up, and she went out with her schoolbag.

"I'm leaving, Grandma," Miao Jiayan said loudly, "Going to school!"

"Go, what do you want to eat tonight?" Grandma Miao asked.

"Eat noodles!" Miao Jiayan replied, "Noodles in hot soup are enough, there is no need to do anything else!"

"Got it." Grandma Miao replied.

The students came back from a holiday, and many of them came to make up their homework in the morning.

The boy at the back table patted him on the back: "Copy my English homework for me!"

Miao Jiayan took it out of her schoolbag and said at the back table, "Thank you!"

When a female classmate greeted him, Miao Jiayan smiled and echoed "Good morning".

Miao Jiayan is a person who has no sense of presence. In elementary and junior high schools, this lack of sense of presence is a state of being forced to form. She is isolated and excluded, and can only walk alone.But now it comes from his quietness and indifference. He seems to be watching on the sidelines a lot of the time. Even though the environment is much more friendly to him now, Miao Jiayan still maintains this state.

However, starting from this semester, Miao Jiayan smiled more than before, and she seemed less defensive and "cold".

It seems to be in a good mood every day, which is a significantly more positive state.

"Do you know this question?" The girl at the front desk asked Miao Jiayan while holding the physics paper back.

Miao Jiayan said yes, then asked what she didn't understand.

"I've never learned acceleration very well, and I've always done wrong acceleration of gravity."

Miao Jiayan showed her the process of her answer and said, "Look at it first."

The girl glanced at his paper, her brows and eyes froze: "Your words are too..."

Miao Jiayan smiled and said, "It's quite messy."

"It's very different from your image," the girl returned the paper to him, "You should write more delicately."

This was a bit unanswerable, Miao Jiayan smiled and didn't reply.

"You are really beautiful," the girl boasted sincerely, "It's very... different, don't change it."

The seat was newly adjusted this semester. Miao Jiayan had never spoken to this girl before. The girl was transferred from the city, a very lively little girl.

Miao Jiayan is actually not used to chatting with people like this, but Miao Jiayan still feels grateful for the obvious friendliness and kindness given by others.

"I'm serious," the girl emphasized earnestly, and asked him again, "Did someone tell you that you look good?"

Miao Jiayan originally wanted to say that only a few elders in the family had mentioned it, but before she spoke, she thought of something, so she said, "I have."

"Have good eyesight." The girl pointed outside, gestured a small circle with her fingers, and said in a low voice, "I thought all of you here are...well, you can't accept other people's differences."

The two looked at each other, the girl didn't continue to speak, Miao Jiayan knew what she meant, the two of them agreed, Miao Jiayan said with a smile in her eyes, "He's not from here."

Miao Jiayan turned on the phone every day during this time, and would check it after school.Although she never heard from Chen Chao again, Miao Jiayan obediently did not shut her down again.

The mobile phone is placed in the drawer, and occasionally there will be useless text messages and wrong calls, and Miao Jiayan's number will never be answered.

This thing is really useless to him, every time Miao Jiayan opens it, she doesn't know what it can be used for.

Chen Chao's next message was sent in April.

Miao Jiayan is used to every text message being a spam message, so he didn't click to read the message just after it came, and was still working on the questions.

The phone rang suddenly in the drawer, and Miao Jiayan was interrupted while she was doing a question. I don't know who made the wrong call.He sighed a little helplessly, opened the drawer and took out the phone.

Miao Jiayan was stunned by the bright "tide" on the screen.

"...Hello?" Miao Jiayan pressed the answer button and said uncertainly.

"Me." Chen Chao said over there.

Miao Jiayan breathed with a slight tremor, and said "I know".

"You looking for me?" Chen Chao asked him.

"Huh?" Miao Jiayan said confusedly, "I don't have any..."

Chen Chao said, "I thought it was something wrong with you."

Miao Jiayan was confused, sitting at the table, looking out of the window blankly, but it was already dark outside at this time, and the lights in Chen Chao's room were not on, so Miao Jiayan could only look out of the window. To himself reflected in the window.

Chen Chao seemed to be walking, and he could hear the sound of breathing while walking.

Miao Jiayan said, "I didn't do much... I was doing my homework."

"Never reply to text messages." Chen Chao said, "Didn't you study late?"

"Yes." Miao Jiayan replied, "I didn't go, it was too late to go home at night, I don't want grandpa to pick me up so late every day."

After hearing that, Chen Chao said "um" and said, "Then don't go to school, go home early after school."

They all remembered that Miao Jiayan was blocked on the road to take advantage of it. Miao Jiayan is now a little older than then, taller and stronger than then, but as she grows older, Miao Jiayan is also more beautiful.

He is no longer a child at all, the childishness of a child has been removed from his height and appearance, and the cuteness in childhood has gradually turned into a different kind of beauty.The inner double eyelids draw a soft arc to the end of the eyes, the bridge of the nose is slightly straight, and there is a small bony joint on the bridge of the nose, the lips are not the kind of extremely thin lips, and the lower edge of the lips circles a shallow arc lip line.

Miao Jiayan in this period looks a lot like his mother when she was young.

"Did you just leave school?" Miao Jiayan asked softly, hugging her knees.

"Yes, get out of class ends at 10:30 for evening self-study." Chen Chao said while walking, his voice sounded relaxed, "Ding Wentao said someone was looking for me, I thought it was you."

Miao Jiayan quickly said, "It's not me, Brother Chao."

He answered questions and answers on the phone, and he sounded very good.

There was a little smile in Chen Chao's voice, and he said, "Okay, it's not you, I understand."

Miao Jiayan recognized his tone, and scratched the fabric on her knee with her fingertips, not knowing what else to say.It's a rare phone call, but I can't bear to hang up.

"Do you finish class at this time every day?" Miao Jiayan asked again.

"Yes." Chen Chao said hello to someone, said "bye", and said to Miao Jiayan, "We're going to live in the classroom, if we don't have to let us go back to sleep, we can't wait to lock us up in the classroom inside."

"You guys have worked so hard." Miao Jiayan sighed.

"That's it, that's all."

It has been two months since Chen Chao came here, except for the two text messages on the day he left, the two of them have not been in touch again.

But the phone call that night didn't make each other feel like they met during the Chinese New Year. Instead, they spoke very familiarly.Chen Chao misunderstood the phone call, and simply chatted.Miao Jiayan asked a lot of questions, and each question could lead to a few minutes of chatting.

It took Chen Chao a normal 15-minute walk home from school, but this day he was on the phone while walking, and he still hadn't arrived after walking for more than 20 minutes.

"Aren't you home yet?" Miao Jiayan said, "It's really far away."

"It's downstairs." Chen Chao looked up. Chen Guangda was at home, and the lights were on.

"Then you go upstairs, brother Chao." Miao Jiayan said, leaning her arms on her side.

"Well, I'm going upstairs." Chen Chao said.

Miao Jiayan pinched the already hot phone and said softly, "It's late, you should go to bed early."

Chen Chao said "Yes".

Miao Jiayan said: "Then hang up."

Chen Chao then said "um", and the sound of breathing was obvious when he went upstairs. He said "sleep", and then hung up the phone.

The phone call came out of nowhere but it was joyful. Miao Jiayan's phone was down to the last battery, so she took the charger out to charge it up.

Chen Chao on the phone spoke slowly, with a sense of relaxation, and the two of them slowly spoke meaningless words, making the night peaceful and soft.

Miao Jiayan leaned her arm on her face and stared blankly for a while, while unconsciously turning the pen with the other hand.After a while, I continued to finish the unfinished homework just now.

Ding Wentao was really very happy that Chen Chao said someone was looking for him.

He sent three messages to Chen Chao in succession, on QQ.

—Brother Chao.

—Brother Chao, someone is looking for you!

—Brother Chao!

Chen Chao didn't look at his mobile phone during self-study last night. After school, he saw that it had been more than an hour. Chen Chao replied with a "?", and Ding Wentao never returned.

Chen Chao didn't take it seriously at first, and he didn't bother with the phone anymore.However, after leaving the school, I didn't know what I thought of, but I called Miao Jiayan.

This matter was rushed, and Ding Wentao didn't send it out on purpose and didn't reply, but the teacher caught him playing with his mobile phone during self-study at night, and immediately confiscated it.

For the next few days, Ding Wentao went to the teacher to discuss with him every day, but the teacher didn't return him.The school does not allow mobile phones to go to school, especially for Ding Wentao, who is so thorny, it is even more impossible to return them to him.

Ding Wentao's entire mobile phone is rare like a big baby every day, and now it has been confiscated, it seems that he has lost his energy.

Miao Jiayan met him on the school playground and greeted him: "Guner..."

Ding Wentao glared at him without waiting for his second pronunciation.

Miao Jiayan quickly changed her words: "Brother Tao."

Ding Wentao withdrew his staring eyes, then switched back to a listless look, and hummed from his throat as a response.

Miao Jiayan lowered her head and wanted to leave, Ding Wentao called him sleepily: "Hey."

Miao Jiayan turned her head: "Huh?"

Ding Wentao asked: "Has anyone bullied you?"

Miao Jiayan didn't expect him to ask this, paused, shook her head and said, "No."

"Oh." Ding Wentao waved his hand to let him go, "Let's go."

Ding Wentao's posture at school is very different from his scruffy state of eating and drinking at Chen Chao's house. He can be regarded as one of the "big brothers" in high school now, and he is very aggressive.

Halfway through his conversation with Chen Chao, there was no movement. Chen Chao had long forgotten about it, and Ding Wentao was still thinking about it.But there was nothing he could do about it, he couldn't get in touch with Chen Chao now.

Miao Jiayan usually sleeps on her stomach on her seat after lunch at school at noon. There are not many people in the classroom, and day students usually do not go home at noon.

He just fell asleep at noon that day when he heard someone calling him.

Miao Jiayan sat up and saw someone at the door asking, "Which one is Miao Jiayan?"

It was a boy whom Miao Jiayan didn't know.

"Are you?" The boy looked at him, raised his eyebrows and asked.

Miao Jiayan didn't know what the other party was going to do, so he stood up and walked out.

The boy was tall, wore jeans and sneakers, and had a scar on his chin.When Miao Jiayan walked to the door, the boy asked him, "Miao Jiayan?"

Miao Jiayan replied with a calm expression, "Yes".

Someone in the classroom was watching the excitement. Miao Jiayan was standing at the door of the classroom. Although she didn't know when she had offended anyone, her eyes were open and open, and she didn't hide at all.

"Do you know Chen Chao?" the boy asked.

Miao Jiayan didn't show any expression until now, and looked at the other party with a little surprise.

"Ask you, why don't you talk?" The other party frowned slightly, looking unhappy.

Miao Jiayan sized him up, didn't answer him, and asked instead: "What do you want him for?"

"I have something to do." The other party didn't want to talk to him, "You give me his number."

"I don't have one." Miao Jiayan said while standing up straight.

"It's so hard?" The boy said "Tsk", "Hurry up and give it to me."

It was impossible for Miao Jiayan to casually give Chen Chao's contact information to others, and he didn't even know who the other party was, so why did he seek Chen Chao.

No matter how the boy asked Miao Jiayan, he said he couldn't find Chen Chao. Later, the boy seemed to understand something suddenly, and asked dumbfoundedly, "You didn't think I was going to fight with him, did you?"

Miao Jiayan didn't reply, just looked at the person.

"Don't fight, that was my neighbor before." The boy said for a long time that he felt that Miao Jiayan was not good at anything, so he had to say, "Well, you can go back and ask him, my name is Jiang Xun, see what he said. Or you Just give him my number..."

Miao Jiayan interrupted him, and said again: "I can't get in touch with him."

The boy waved his hand and said, "Come on, don't talk to me, I'm in Class [-], if you want to find me, come to my class."

He was about to leave after speaking, Miao Jiayan asked, "How do you know that I know him?"

"Ding Wentao asked me to find you, otherwise I would not know." The boy raised his arms and left.

Miao Jiayan wanted to ask Ding Wentao why he didn't give him Chen Chao's number directly, but she never met him.

After school at night, he took out his mobile phone and sent a text message to Chen Chao.

—Brother Chao, someone named Jiang Xun is looking for you, do you know him?

Chen Chao returned very quickly, and Miao Jiayan's cell phone rang after a few minutes.

— Yes, he goes to school with you?

Miao Jiayan typed back slowly: Yes, he said it was your neighbor.

Tide: It used to be.How did he find you there?

Miao Jiayan replied: Ding Wentao asked him to ask me. I didn't know what he was going to do, so I didn't tell him.

Chen Chao didn't have class in the evening self-study, took advantage of this time to send a few messages to Miao Jiayan, when the bell rang for self-study, Chen Chao sent a message: It's all right.It's time for self-study.

The next morning, Jiang Xun came to look for Miao Jiayan at the door of the class again, Miao Jiayan

Seeing him, Yan lowered his head and tore a piece of paper from his notebook, and wrote Chen Chao's phone number to him.

Jiang Xun also joked with him: "Didn't you say you don't know?"

Miao Jiayan doesn't like to talk to outsiders, and she doesn't explain.

Jiang Xun took out his mobile phone and saved the number, and said to Miao Jiayan: "We have been playing together since we wore open crotch pants, you don't have to think that I am going to trouble him, we didn't know you when we were playing .”

Miao Jiayan thought it was Fa Xiaoer.

But Jiang Xun and Chen Chao don't look very much alike, and Chen Chao doesn't look snarky at all.

"Okay, thank you little girl." Jiang Xun shook the number paper in his hand, then turned and left.

This "little girl" sounded a little insulting.The voices of boys and girls are different, even if they are in high school, even if they look at their faces and hair, they can definitely tell that Miao Jiayan is a boy as long as they listen to the words. "Little girl" was obviously not because he recognized him as a girl, it was just calling him.But seeing that the other party didn't care at all, it didn't look like it was intentional, so Miao Jiayan didn't take it seriously.

At that time, Miao Jiayan and Jiang Xun were not familiar, or even knew each other at all.Jiang Xun was originally a person who liked to tease cats and dogs, and sometimes he got into trouble.

He is also completely different from Chen Chao in this regard. Chen Chao hardly takes the initiative to talk to outsiders, and when he speaks, he is also alienated and cold.

Only after getting acquainted with him can you know that under the stinky face is actually a gentle person.

One day in May, as soon as Miao Jiayan opened her eyes in the morning, she heard the phone ringing in the drawer.

He got up to look, it was Chen Chao.

Chao: Miaoer?

Miao Jiayan: Brother Chao.

He didn't know why Chen Chao was looking for him so early, he thought he had something to do.Standing there with the mobile phone waiting for a while, the news came again.

Miao Jiayan clicked on it, and there was a line of words that seemed inexplicably cheerful——

Chao: Happy birthday, grow up fast.