Oral period

"So, what are you going to do?"

Zhen Xiao refers to the entrustment letter that Xia Jingzhe received yesterday—of course it does not refer to the one he wrote himself, but another one with the theme of "Finding Lost and Found", which specifies the content and contact information according to the regulations commissioned.

"I don't know, I haven't figured it out yet," Xia Jingzhe took a bite of the bread, and said, "Last night, I contacted her on WeChat and added friends, and said that she lost it near the playground. During the physical education class the afternoon before yesterday... "

"Please help me find my lost keychain, it has a yellow and blue pendant in the shape of an astronaut with an engraved star in his hand, it was a birthday present from my best friend for my birthday It’s really important to me, please, I’m willing to pay anything.”——This is the content of the commission.

"Can't we check the monitoring?"

"Monitoring is not something that ordinary students can check if they want-I asked, and she said that the teacher in the monitoring room is very fierce. Not only does she not help, she also threatens to call her parents in the name of not doing her job properly. This is how this school is. It's boring and rigid. Terrible, while trying to change the status quo, while oppressing students all the time, it's very boring."

Uncompromising about his criticism, Zhen Xiao imitated his example, slowly eating the piece of butter in the middle of the butter bread, and said vaguely: "You can't check the surveillance, a keychain is so small, it will be fine if it falls into any corner." It's hard enough to find, and the possibility of being picked up by mistake is not ruled out... Do you have to accept this kind of commission?"

"Well," Xia Jingzhe said concisely, suddenly remembered something, and looked at him with a little vigilance, "Why do you care about this, you have nothing to do..."

"No, I'm just playing nice with long-term meal tickets."

"What the hell?"

Zhen Xiao raised the buttered bread in his hand, and said innocently, "You, long-term meal ticket."

Xia Jingzhe: ...

Was this guy this funny before?

"Getting down to business," stuffing the last bite of bread into his mouth, Zhenxiao crumpled up the wrapping paper and stuffed it into his hand, pretending to be serious, "If it's absolutely necessary, I don't recommend taking the method of 'taking physical education class during that time'. The stupid way for the class to find out and ask one by one is too inefficient, and with the degree of their prejudice against you, even if you ask, you won’t be able to get the result.”

The thoughts in his heart were seen through, Xia Jingzhe grabbed his hair a little annoyedly, and said angrily: "Then what do you want to do?"

"a meal."

"Get out," Xia Jingzhe suddenly said after throwing the ball of wrapping paper that Zhen Xiao stuffed over at some time into the trash can instead of himself, "Yes, I'll beat you up near the playground, and if you refuse to admit it, the school will I went to check the surveillance..."

"You are thinking about my safety," Zhen Xiao said indifferently, "and you will be punished for fighting. Aren't you afraid that your family will know that you committed crimes?"

"……Too."

"I can beat you instead."

"It's not impossible... Wait, what should you do if you are punished?"

"It doesn't matter," Zhen Xiao's expression didn't look like a lie, "As long as I can beat you up and let me drop out of school... But I have an idea, do you want to hear it?"

"Ok?"

"One meal." Zhen Xiao raised an index finger and waved it in front of him.

Resisting the urge to break off this finger, Xia Jingzhe nodded without looking away.

"It's similar to your thinking, but it's not a fight, it's an accidental injury." Zhenxiao lifted the hair on his forehead, revealing the gauze sticker on the forehead, "I'm prone to dizziness as a result of this injury. It’s fine to just faint like that in the store—people will have hallucinations when they are unconscious. My “hallucination” is that someone pushed me, so out of fear or anger, I want to check the monitor to find out the real culprit, so that I can monitor After all, if someone really deliberately harmed and caused the injury to worsen, the school cannot escape responsibility, what do you think?"

"Sounds okay..." Xia Jingzhe thought for a moment, and said, "But there is a problem, they can't let you alone in the monitoring room to check what you want to check, after all, it's a fictional thing, and you won't be really monitored If it is photographed, it will be revealed if you check it..."

Zhen Xiao twitched the corners of his mouth inexplicably, as if he was smiling, but there was no smile in his eyes: "Then really fall once."

"But……"

"It happened the afternoon of the day before yesterday, so I went to fall again this afternoon, and I will check it tomorrow—" the boy looked at him and explained, "I can't remember the date, so I have to check it every day since the beginning of school... Don't worry, No one would blame a sick person here for misremembering the date."

He raised his hand, put his slender and fair index finger against Xia Jingzhe's temple, and tapped it lightly.

His eyes opened slightly wide unconsciously, looking at his own figure reflected in the other person's eyes, Xia Jingzhe forgot to dodge for a while, thinking in a strange way, when this person smiles, he seems to be pretty good-looking.

The forehead hair is kept in a naturally disheveled state after being lifted up, revealing clear eyebrows and eyes, even if it is just a smirk, those beautiful eyes will be slightly narrowed, and the end of the eyes will show a charming arc, the eyes are focused, making people look I can't see through the emotions in it, and I think of the vast starry sky for no reason, or the bottomless dark cold pool.

No wonder those girls blushed inexplicably when they talked to him...

"Is it so good-looking?" After a long time, the instigator withdrew his hand, tidied up his messy bangs, and asked with a smile—this time, although the smile was so blurred and almost hard to catch compared to the fake smile pulled out by the pose, it was straight Straight into the eyes.

"No, stop being narcissistic, I'm just not used to being touched by others..." And looking at him so intently.

Zhen Xiao was noncommittal, glanced at the slightly reddened ear tips of the other party, unreasonably thinking of the manga I read last night——Xia Jingzhe's serial works, just in time to see the plot of the protagonist's confession.

Art comes from life...?

The cartoonist himself didn't care about his thoughts. He stood up distractedly, put the leftover packaging bags and cans of the two of them into a plastic bag, and threw them into Zhenxiao's arms. Your classroom, don't forget to go to the playground to dive at two o'clock in the afternoon."

"I'm not going back." He said firmly.

"Do you want to be beaten?" He held back his anger.

"It's better to be beaten than to go back. I can only do the same questions I have done before. It's too boring," Zhenxiao put the plastic bag back on the table, leaned back, and found a comfortable position to nest in the corner of the sofa, with a tone of voice Lazily emptying himself, "Come on, punch me, and then let me take a nap here."

Xia Jingzhe: ...

Regardless of whether he is willing to do it or not, the person in front of him claims to have a sick head and will faint at every turn. Looking at the pale face and the gauze patch on his forehead, it doesn't seem like a lie. I don't want to be responsible for this kind of person for life.

"Go to sleep." After all, he compromised.The boy sighed, decided to ignore the people around him, turned on the computer blankly, and started drawing a new chapter of the manga.

I don't know if it's an illusion, but compared to the tense confrontation they had on the first day they met, they seem to be in a much more harmonious state now, and they are more like friends fighting each other than enemies - Xia Jingzhe looked at the corner of the computer screen Reflecting the figure, thinking aimlessly, this seems to be the first person in so many years that he deserves to think about "social relationship".

An exception that suddenly appeared, like the child he met when he was eight years old, suddenly appeared in his world, and with a glance at each other, he became the only exception in the panic and loneliness.

Zhen Xiao is so similar to the playmate who betrayed him when he was a child, even if he knew it was not the same person, he would inevitably hate Yu Xu, so he had to remind himself not to vent his anger, so as not to hurt Chi Yu.

However, it is precisely because of the similarity that he sees the shadow of the past in Zhenxiao and tastes the long-lost peace of mind born of familiarity.

This kind of peace of mind does not need a clear reason, let alone the so-called "black envelope office" or other disguises. This person standing there and looking at him is enough to make him put down his guard temporarily, believing that even if the sword is drawn, the other party will not Really hurt yourself.

Enough to make him not so lonely, quietly extinguished in the long silence where no one was close.

No expectations, no sincerity, even if the other party can meet his occasional unknowing expectations, and can arouse his silently overflowing sincerity... He is not a rational person, and he is unwilling to break the status quo. After a long time of contemplation, Finally gave up thinking.

Wait until the day when you make the same mistake again, and then stop the loss in time.It's just making friends, good brothers, good buddies, it's not that scary - the boy looked at the word "friendship" annotated in the corner of the drawing, and thought so.