evening tide

After dinner, the sky had already darkened, so Chao Xin sent him to the dormitory.

Walking slowly in the tree-lined avenue, the fastest speed is no more than a jingling bicycle. Some people wear sportswear to go to the playground for a run, and some people carry a quarter of watermelon and eat popsicles from the canteen.

Xiang Wan was attracted by the slices of cantaloupes strung on sticks, walked to the canteen, and walked around for a while.

The snacks were nothing new, but she saw many seniors skillfully taking mung bean smoothies from the freezer, so she followed them in line.

After taking two glasses, he picked up two more straws, went to the cashier and swiped his card to pay, and then handed one of the glasses to Chao Xin.

"It's too late." Chao Xin instinctively wanted to refuse to eat sweets so late and it was so cold.

"Try it, there are so many people queuing up, it must be delicious."

Chao Xin took it, and didn't rush to drink: "You think of me as your classmate?"

"?"

"At my age, my stomach isn't that good. Eating ice at night is prone to stomach flu."

"Oh." Xiang Wan didn't expect this layer, and reached out to take it back.

Seeing that she was a bit disappointed, Chao Xin inserted the straw and took a sip: "But once in a while it's not a big problem."

"Is it really possible?"

Chao Xin suddenly realized that Xiang Wan looked at her like looking at an old man.Suddenly, I felt a little self-inflicted.

So he didn't speak, and walked forward while sucking on the smoothie.

Downstairs, standing around the inseparable young couple, Chao Xin chewed on the crushed ice balls and moved his fingers: "Go up."

There are couples embracing each other on a bench in the garden.

"Where did you park your car?" Xiang Wan asked.

A couple is kissing next to them.

"At the school gate, on the side of the road."

There was a couple next to each other holding hands and shaking gently.

"How about I go with you?"

A couple next to each other is rubbing each other's hair.

Chao Xin thought for a while: "No, you'll come back later by yourself."

"I'll go to the school gate to buy a bag of roll paper."

"Didn't you buy it at the canteen just now?"

"forget."

"Then, let's go." Chao Xin straightened the fishbone braid again, lowered his head, sucked the smoothie and walked towards the school gate with Xiang Wan.

When we got to the car, just finished drinking, Chao Xin threw it into the trash can and unlocked it with the key: "I'm leaving."

"OK Bye Bye."

"Bye bye." Opening the door and getting into the car, Chao Xin wanted to say something, but didn't. He turned on the starting lights and drove away.

In the rearview mirror, I saw Xiang Wan standing for a while, but instead of turning around to go to the supermarket, he walked towards the gate in the opposite direction.

Passing through the crowd of lovers again, Xiang Wan went upstairs unhurriedly, returned to the dormitory, and greeted his roommates. Except for Lou Pingping who was lying on the bed and swiping her phone, the rest were down below, playing computer games with her knees in her arms.

"Are you back?" The boss was picking up the dirty clothes.

"Ah."

"Shall I take a shower early?"

"how?"

"Didn't you say yesterday that there are too many people and you feel uncomfortable? You ran home temporarily. It's only eight o'clock, there are few people, and the big troops are at ninety o'clock. If you want to go, hurry up." The boss picked up the basin .

Xiang Wan was a little grateful: "Thank you."

After resting for three to five minutes, I took my pajamas and a basket filled with toiletries and went to the bathroom.

Sure enough, there were not many people, so Xiang Wan quickly took off his clothes, locked it in the cabinet, and then faced the wall, took a shower with a little fear, came out wrapped in a towel, made a mess, and slipped back to the dormitory with a blushing face.

She remembered that Chao Xin said that he was "wild and wild" on her, but it was not the case.She has a very thin skin, and she doesn't know why she treats Chao Xin differently.

There are always those who want to do whatever they want.

Thinking of Chao Xin, he sent her another WeChat message: "Are you home?"

"Here we are." He replied quickly.

"doing what?"

"Coax the cards."

"?"

"She said, I always go out with you recently, regardless of her."

"Then... will you bring her with you tomorrow?"

"Let me see if she has anything to do at school after she reports tomorrow morning. If she doesn't, she will go with us at noon."

Hearing the trivial words behind her, Xiang Wan turned her head and saw the eldest was video-chatting with her family and introducing the situation of the school to her mother.

Looking at the bed next door, Tan Xiaobai was also waving at the phone, and then turned the camera around in the dormitory.

Xiang Ban bowed his head, held the phone in both hands, and typed a sentence: "Can I video with you?"

The other end was quiet for almost 30 seconds, and Chao Xin's name changed to "typing..." and then changed back to his name.

Immediately, Chao Xin received a video request.

"Why video?"

After connecting, Chao Xin drooped his eyelids and glanced at the camera, and it was just these lukewarm words.He was undoing his braids when he spoke, as if he was sitting in front of the dressing table in the master bedroom, with his mobile phone standing next to the mirror.

"My roommates are all videoing, and I want to too." Xiang Wan moved closer and whispered.

Due to the close distance, only half of her face was shown, and when she suddenly zoomed in, she could clearly see the eyelashes at the end and her unpretentious eyes, which made Chao Xin's heart skip a beat.

Closing her lips and moving her neck, Chao Xin reminded her: "Put on the earphones."

"Oh."

Xiang Wan bowed his head, carefully searched for the earphones in the drawer, and smoothed out the tangle of threads, his eyelashes trembled, as if waiting for a touch.

Chao Xin loosened the braids that had been dismantled, and raised his head to brush his messy curly hair.

After plugging in the earplugs, Xiang Wan raised his eyes: "Okay."

"Put on the earphones, what are you going to say?" she asked.

Chao Xin pondered: "It seems that I've finished talking, or I'll hang up."

"You asked me to find a headset," Xiang Wan disagreed, "talk to me for at least 3 minutes."

Chao Xin didn't speak. He stared at Xiang Wan in the video, tilted his head slightly to the right, and squinted his eyes.

"Look what I do?"

Chao Xin smiled a little: "Suddenly I feel that you are very different in the video."

"What's the difference?"

"The pupils are darker, with a little light shining, and the small horizontal dimple on the chin is more obvious."

And her face is a bit blurred, it looks very close and far away.

"Why is your face so red, have you taken a shower?"

"Yes, hurry up while there is no one."

"Yeah." Chao Xin played with the perfume bottle on the table.

"Teacher Chao." Xiang Wan called her suddenly and solemnly.

"what happened?"

Xiang Wan frowned: "Do you think I'm a little annoying?"

"why do you say so?"

"I ran to find you last night. Today I want you to accompany me to school, and I invite you to dinner in the afternoon. After dinner, I want to pick up the car with you. It's only late at night, before nine o'clock, and I have a video call with you again." Xiang Wan His eyebrows are pointed and protruding, like two uneven hillocks.

She was also troubled and a little out of proportion.

"Oh, so we've met so many times." Chao Xin gently raised his brows with a gentle smile.

"So, why is this happening?" she asked again.

"I don't know," Xiang Wan shook his head, "I just want to."

"Well," Chao Xin nodded casually, "Just do what you want."

What this means is that she doesn't think there is any problem.

There is even a hint of encouragement.

Xiang Wan pursed his lips and smiled, folded his hands on the table, and sat up straight. Before he could speak, Chao Xin said lazily, "Thank you again?"

"How do you know?" He smiled.

Chao Xin didn't answer, he curled his fingers, propped his chin on the heels of his palms, and looked at her quietly.

Then put the fingertips of the little finger into the gap between the lips, and gently pressed the lower lip.

This movement was very small, but it reached Xiang Wan's heart very precisely. She looked at the pressed lips and said, "I want to touch it too."

"what?"

"Here." She stretched out her index finger and tapped the screen.

She knows the smell there best, it's very soft, even softer than Chao Xin's words when he pampered her.

But she was a little sleepy, so she decided to owe it first.