until the last minute

Li Qing didn't go too far, he went down to the first floor, and saw the teacher from another class was going upstairs with a stack of exercise books, so he took the initiative to help.Before leaving, he saw that the class had run out of bottled water, and the two girls could not carry a bucket of water together, so he changed the bottled water.

When he left, he harvested a bag of candies, Li Qing went to the nearest bathroom on this floor to wash his hands, and when he came out, he saw Ruan Weichu at the door.The two stared at each other for a moment, Ruan Wei handed him a tissue, Li Qing thanked him, took it to dry his hands, and finally sighed: "You are really elusive."

Ruan Wei muttered dissatisfiedly, "I followed you because I cared about you."

Li Qing walked towards the nearest staircase, he turned around suddenly, grabbed a handful of candy from his pocket, stretched out his hand in front of Ruan Wei, and spread his palm, "Here, here it is, just as a thank you for caring about me."

Ruan Wei was stunned for a few seconds, and suddenly burst out: "Don't think that I didn't see that it was given to you by another girl, but you actually forwarded it to me, it's too much!"

Li Qing withdrew his palm and said with a smirk, "Am I stupid? I just do stupid things."

Li Qing was smiling when he said this, but his expression made Ruan Wei feel inexplicably sad, she reached into Li Qing's pocket and grabbed all the candies, "Give it to me, I don't think you're stupid ,Is this okay?"

"No, you don't have to be so nice to me."

Li Qing restrained his expression, looked at Ruan Wei, thanked and apologized again solemnly and earnestly: "I should thank you, others are avoiding me, so you dare to approach me, but don't do this in the future, stay away from me That's better. Also, I apologize again for my neglect."

Ruan Wei looked at him, "Let me ask you something, you said that Zhou Yin didn't like you, so do you like him?"

"Yes."

"Then why did you..."

"This is between me and him."

One sentence made her lose the need to speak all she wanted to say, Ruan Wei's eye circles were a little red, she turned her back suddenly, her trembling voice revealed her emotions, "I accept your apology, and I accept your apology too. proposal, I will stay away from you."

Later Li Qing went to the playground alone, it was really not a good place to be in a daze, the playground soaked in the night is a hotbed for campus couples to have a tryst, no matter where you go, you will see scenes of you and me.

At first, he could turn a blind eye to it, but everywhere, he became more and more irritable, and after walking a few steps on the track, he changed to running.He ran faster and faster, surpassing couples walking one after another. He was the only figure walking like flying in the dark playground, and he was the only one who could be caught in the night.

The bell for evening self-study in the second quarter rang, and Li Qing got off the track. Someone he didn't know handed him a bottle of mineral water, claiming that the person who was standing here just now asked him to hand it over.Without guessing who it might be, he took it and drank half of the bottle with his head up, pouring the remaining half on his face, which wet the front of his clothes.

He took off his school uniform jacket, hung it on his arm, strode towards the teaching building, and stepped into the classroom 5 minutes after the evening self-study started.Some students who were sporadically immersed in their homework looked up at him, and more people focused on doing their own things.Li Qing returned to his seat and sat down. After calming down, he felt that Zhou Yin had made a wrong calculation.

Not many people will pay attention to him. He may have overestimated the impact of those things. Maybe there will be new news after a while, and no one will hold him back.

There is no need for Zhou Yin to jump out and act like a living target.

Thinking of what he did just now, Li Qing's face became even more ugly. Although he was resentful at Zhou Yin's behavior of trying to draw a line with him, he couldn't believe that he pushed Zhou Yin to the opposite side.

The front desk turned his head and put the envelope on his desk. Li Qing glanced at the envelope, stretched out his hand and pushed it back, "It's not mine."

"Hey, you take what is given to you, isn't it a part-time salary? Why are you struggling with money?"

Li Qing insisted: "It's not mine."

The front desk didn't take it seriously, and said casually: "You threw the money at others but picked it up one by one. If I accept it, it will be regarded as mental damage fees, but why do you have to deal with such people? I heard His family is very rich, are you short of money?"

Li Qing didn't say a word, he stared at the thick envelope, unable to imagine Zhou Yin picking up the money scattered on the ground one by one.He put the envelope away in the desk drawer, and the front desk had already turned around and continued with its own business.He was right, no one would continue to pay attention to a stranger, and the talk would not always be the talk.

But Zhou Yin tried his best to exclude him from the discussion, should he follow his arrangement?

But Zhou Yin clearly said that there would be no change in their relationship.

After the evening self-study, Li Qing went to a convenience store to work part-time as usual.That night, it happened that the water in the nearby community was cut off, and more people came to the convenience store to buy mineral water and drinks than usual.He doesn't have much free time, and after paying the bills to the customers, he moves and restocks, organizes the shelves, and cleans without stopping.

After staying up until four o'clock in the morning, Li Qing closed the store, and when he walked out of the convenience store, he realized that it was very cold outside, and most of his sleepiness was driven away by the cold wind.He wrapped his school uniform jacket tightly, put his hands in his pockets, touched the phone and realized that the phone had been quiet all night and had not received any text messages or calls.

Before he left, he looked around. There were trees and shadows, and street lamps cast long shadows on the ground.There was no one else in the radius of a hundred miles except him, and Zhou Yin, who had been looking for him every night for the past few days, did not appear.

When he returned to the rental house, the water in the rental house was also cut off. He boiled the unfinished water in the kettle last night, poured it into a bucket of water stored in the morning, and barely took a shower.

Before falling asleep, he looked at his phone again, without any expectations, but Zhou Yin's name flashed on the screen that suddenly lit up without warning, he answered the phone, and hesitantly gave a hello.

There was a blank space of nearly ten seconds, and then Zhou Yin's crying voice came into his ears. Li Qing suddenly jumped up from the bed, and hurriedly suppressed all the tension and asked softly: "What's the matter? Tell me what's the matter?"

Zhou Yin only let out a whimper accidentally when he just picked up the phone, and he didn't make any sound after that.Li Qing held his breath and listened carefully, but could only hear indistinct sobs, Zhou Yin seemed to cover his mouth or put down his cell phone, and all the voices were pulled far away at once.

Li Qing couldn't wait any longer patiently. He changed his shoes in the dark, took the key wallet, and said to Zhou Yin on the other end of the phone before going out, "Wait for me, I'll be there right away."

He remembered Zhou Yin's words that were covered up by crying, and after thinking about it, he was sure that it should be "Li Qing, come and find me quickly".

There were no taxis on the street after four o'clock in the morning, and he walked for a long time, giving up the idea of ​​continuing to look for bicycles or motorcycles.Before he thought of a solution, his body had already made the choice for him, and he rushed out like an arrow off the string, forgetting all the long-distance running skills that his coach had taught him in the past.

He thought about going faster, and going faster, so he always rushed the fastest and fiercest at the beginning.The classmates who watched the long-distance running used to laugh at him as stupid, and they were sure that he would be overtaken by others, and their predictions came true. He did lag behind others in the second half of the race many times.

The coach scolded him for being stubborn, and he couldn't explain it or refute it—it was probably an instinct similar to that of wild beasts to fight, hunt, and flee. He couldn't learn to save strength in the face of a glimmer of life.

Fortunately, there are no opponents or crowds of onlookers. The destination and only goal in his mind is extremely clear, Zhou Yin.

Li Qing held the phone in his hand, he knew the way to Zhou Yin's house, it was not too far, and he would arrive soon.

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I'm sorry I've been working too much overtime these days and I don't have much time to write _(:з」∠)_ I will be more diligent in the new year! !happy new year everyone