Bamboo Horse Cultivation Manual [Rebirth]

Soon it was the day of the sports meeting.

Because the school arranges the class seats, the first, second, and third classes in the first year of senior high school are arranged one after the other in the auditorium, just adjacent to each other, so Qiu Mu found a place where class one and class two meet, Sitting with Ye Li.

It's only been a week since the last accident, and Ye Li's ankle is still not fully healed.Due to his ankle injury, the deputy squad leader took the initiative to take on Ye Li's duties, busying him around.That's why Ye Li can sit safely on the circular stone chair next to the big playground at this time, and be an ordinary spectator, watching the game with peace of mind.

Originally, if it wasn't because of Ye Li's injury, the one sitting next to Qiu Mu should not be Ye Li but Gu Yu, and Qiu Mu should be sitting at the other end where the second and third shifts meet.But now beside Gu Yu——

"Chen Siqi is here?"

Ye Li asked.

Qiu Mu's tone was tired: "Yes."

The seats next to them were full of classmates, and it was inconvenient for the two of them to continue their in-depth conversation.After a few short sentences, I understood what the other party wanted to express, so I didn't say any more.

Qiu Mu expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that today was a sunny day, and wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "It's so hot."

Ye Li glanced left and right, and found that many girls were sitting there holding umbrellas, and said, "Shall I borrow an umbrella?"

As soon as the words fell, a shadow above the head covered the two of them.Qiu Mu and Ye Li coincidentally turned their heads and looked back.

Ma Li, who was holding an umbrella, looked at the two of them with a smile, and explained, "How are you~ I'll come to my brother's place for a sit down."

Ma Bin was sitting next to Ma Li, and a row behind Ye Liqiumu, and rolled his eyes without saving face.

Ma Li had a smile on her face, but unceremoniously poked Ma Bin's lower abdomen hard with her elbow. Ma Bin covered his stomach in pain and bent down, gasping for breath.

Qiu Mu: "..."

Ma Li said courteously, "Ye Li, I have potato chips here, do you want some?"

Ye Li has always been indifferent to this kind of puffed snacks: "Thank you, no need."

"That's it..." Ma Li took back the potato chips regretfully, and then continued persistently: "It's so hot today, I have a small electric fan here, do you want to blow it?"

This time Ye Li paused for a second, and then said: "It's okay, you can keep it for yourself."

Ma Li's eyes lit up, and she said positively, "It's okay, I brought two! Here's one for you."

She handed the small blue hand-held electric fan to Ye Li.

Ma Bin: "..."

If it was Qiu Mu, at this time, he would definitely say "use it for your brother" or something like that, but Ye Li would not, and directly reached out to take it: "Okay, thank you."

Ma Li said generously, "I'll give this to you, you don't have to return it to me."

Ye Li raised his eyebrows slightly, and said, "Really? Thank you—by the way, I have some drinks here. If you want to drink, you can take it."

Anyway, they were all given by the students just now. He and Qiu Mu don't like to drink these, so it's useless to put them here.

Ma Li immediately beamed with joy, as if she had picked up a treasure: "Okay! Then I want this..."

After taking a bottle of juice, Ma Li said, "Ye Li Ye Li, do you and Qiu Mu and Gu Yu go to the same junior high school?"

Ma Li put the umbrella in a high position, besides herself, it also covered Ye Li and the two of them by the way.There was an umbrella held by Ma Li to shade her head, Ye Li turned on the small fan and placed it between him and Qiu Mu, looking at ease, said: "Yes, and it's still in the same class."

Ma Li kept getting close to Ye Litao with the information she knew a long time ago: "I see Gu Yu goes back with you every time, doesn't he live very close?"

Ye Li: "Yes, Xiao Mu and I live together, and Xiao Yu lives next door to our house, and it's only a few tens of meters away."

Ma Li wanted to say something else, but here Ma Bin took out his mobile phone and looked at the text message he just received, and said to Ma Li: "Mom said she is already at the school gate and is walking towards us."

Ma Li was pleasantly surprised: "Really?"

"I also brought a bento, we can eat together at noon." Ma Bin said with a smile.

Ma Li clasped her hands happily: "That's great~"

While talking, the deputy squad leader came to inform the boys that the 4×100 project was about to start.A class of students who participated in this competition stood up and prepared to end. Qiu Mu patted Ye Li on the shoulder and stood up: "Look at your performance."

Ye Li hammered him angrily: "Hurry up and go."

"Haha." Qiu Mu hid away with a smile, and then looked towards Gu Yu.

"..." Gu Yu on the other side was still staring at Chen Siqi intently, not in the mood to pay attention to the movements on the court, let alone remembering that it was already time for his good brother to leave the court.

Looking back, seeing Ye Li's eyes still on her, Qiu Mu smiled.

"Come on, I'll sit here and watch you." Ye Li said.

"Ah."

Walking off the field and standing on the soft yet hard plastic track, Qiu Mu came to the crowd belonging to her class.

In the first class not far away, there should have been a position that belonged to Ye Li. In order to be able to compete on the same stage, Ye Li deliberately changed the position of the first club to the same four clubs as Qiu Mu, hoping that they could change together after playing. A good race to see who is faster.

Unfortunately, this time it was not possible.

Sometimes when I think about it, I find it strange that Ye Li is actually not the kind of character who likes to be the first in everything.For him, as long as things meet the standard of "enough" in his mind, then he will stop at the end and will not waste time to go further.

For example, art and music, which are minor subjects in school, will not be included in the final grades in the junior high school exams, so Ye Li just gets an "A" evaluation every time, and won't say how perfect he has to be.

Ye Li never said "I want to do the same" when he saw that other students were proficient in rhythm, or painted a painting with ingenuity and lifelikeness. He didn't care about such things at all.

Another example is sports that pay more attention to winning and losing. Ye Li never shows too much annoyance or joy every time he loses in a school game. For him, it doesn't matter whether he wins or loses. Either way, it's all unimportant.

It just so happens that Ye Li is like this, but every time he takes a subject test, he always wants to compete with him for the first place, and gets angry if he fails the test.Secretly hiding the height measurement list during the annual physical examination for comparison, thinking that Qiu Mu didn't know.Even when cooking a dish, he thought it would taste better than his cooking, so he deliberately learned cooking skills from Aunt Huang for a long time.

Now I say I want to see who can run faster in the relay race...

Thinking of Ye Li's mentality of only seeing himself as an "opponent", Qiu Mu couldn't tell if he wanted to laugh or what, but he thought Ye Li like this was very interesting.

The women's 800-meter race next to her has ended, and the name of the next race rang out on the radio.Under the guidance of the teacher, Qiu Mu and her classmates walked to their respective positions, and stood 100 meters apart.

On the left is a class of students who look a little familiar.

Qiu Mu smiled at him, and got the same smile back.

Looking up at the seats in the auditorium, I couldn't see the expressions of everyone in the auditorium clearly, and I couldn't find Ye Li's position.

But for some reason, Qiu Mu just felt that Ye Li would definitely be looking at him at this time, because he said, he would always be looking at him.

He couldn't help raising his hand, making a move that Qiu Mu himself thought was very childish, waving his arms and gesturing towards the place full of people.

Then when the gun rang, he slowly lowered his arms and looked at the students who were running in an instant.

One stick, two sticks, then three sticks.

It's almost time to get to him.

Qiu Mu put his hands back, and started to trot when the three sticks were about to approach. The palm of his hand felt the moment when the objects were handed over, and he suddenly accelerated and kept running forward.

It was only a matter of ten seconds, and as far as the eyes could see, there were no other people on the runway at all.The cheers and encouragement from the auditorium in all directions sounded in my ears. As if I couldn't hear it, Qiu Mu automatically blocked the enthusiastic sound like a tide. No sound could get into my ears, and I only focused on the runway in front of me.

"Qiu Mu, come on!"

The moment the soles of his feet stepped into the finish line, Qiu Mu heard a familiar voice.

It was Ye Li's always stern voice without too much ups and downs, who cheered him up.

Then the cheers of the crowd flooded into my ears quickly, covering the little voice that I didn't know if it was an illusion or real.

"..."

Turning around, looking at the auditorium, the dense crowd could not see anything.

The classmate with the three sticks behind arrived the fastest, ran over and gave Qiu Mu a tacit high-five, and said the result with a smile: "Great, we are number one!"

Qiu Mu smiled quietly, and responded with "Great".

The acceleration of the short journey made his breathing a little unsteady, and he handed the baton to the teacher standing beside him. Qiu Mu suddenly felt a little anxious for some reason, and he wanted to hurry back to his seat and tell Ye Li that he had won.

Jogging back to the upper seat, he heard many familiar faces congratulate him along the way, Qiu Mu hurriedly responded with a nod and a smile, without stopping.

Sure enough, Ye Li had been watching him from afar, watching Qiu Mu approaching, and handed him a bottle of mineral water when he was about to take his seat.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Qiu Mu took the water bottle with a smile, twisted the cap, and found that the cap had already been opened with help - he said, "I am the first."

Ye Li smiled and said, "I see, it's really good."

Qiu Mu said: "This time the championship did not fall to anyone else, it was one of us after all."

Ye Li nodded and said: "Yeah, it's a good thing you won - just now the last of the four clubs in our class accelerated so fast, it was really dangerous."

Qiu Mu smiled and said, "Haha, it's impossible, I didn't see him on the road."

Ma Li sat in the back, a little confused.

What's going on, aren't Qiu Mu and Ye Li from two different classes?How come it seems that after Qiu Mu wins, Ye Li also wins.

Qiu Mu said: "I seem to have heard you call my name at the last second, did you?"

Ye Li thought for a while: "I don't remember."

Ma Li interjected quickly: "No, no, Ye Li has been looking at you, but he hasn't spoken to you from the beginning to the end."

Ye Li and Qiu Mu looked at Ma Li together.

Ma Li explained with a guilty conscience: "I just noticed——Ye Li has been looking at you since Qiu Mu you left the court, without blinking. Didn't you wave to him later? Ye Li also responded to you."

Qiu Mu smiled and said, "Really?"

He looked at Ye Li, who still had a calm expression on his face, and said, "I happened to notice it, so I responded to you."

This "coincidentally noticed" happened to Ma Li and Ye Li at the same time, which is also just enough.

While speaking, Ma Bin stood up and shouted into the distance: "Mom, we are here!"

The three people next to her turned their heads in unison. After a while, Ma Li also stood up, left her seat with a smile, and came to a woman.

After standing and saying a few words, the mother and daughter came to Ma Bin's side together.

This is a woman in her 30s, wearing a big British-style white sun hat and a knee-length light blue slim dress. She is very attractively dressed.

"Xiao Bin."

Before the person arrived, I heard her gentle voice with a smile first.

Ma Bin said, "Mom, you are here."

The woman said: "The weather is very hot, mom bought two bottles of ice water outside, do you want to drink?"

Ma Bin took the drink: "Thank you, Mom."

He gave up his seat and let the woman sit down.Ma Li held an umbrella to shade the woman, and held a small fan to blow the wind together.

"It's time for my next game." In front of the woman, Ma Li stopped calling Ma Bin's name directly, and her appearance became much better: "He has been practicing for a long time."

Speaking of this, Qiu Mu thought that since Ma Bin wanted to run away, Gu Yu must also end.The line of sight can't help but quickly turn to Gu Yu's side.

Gu Yu was holding Chen Siqi's hand, the two left their seats chatting and laughing, and were walking towards the playground below.

"..."

He didn't look this way at all.

Obviously, he had been looking forward to it for a long time, hoping to take the opportunity to see Gu Yu's handsome posture running to his heart's content, but because of such a scene, his interest was suddenly turned off.

Ma Bin talked a few words with the woman, he was in high spirits, and prepared for his end with a red face.

The woman watched Ma Bin leave, sat in Ma Bin's seat, and asked Qiu Mu and the others, "Are you all Xiaobin's classmates?"

Qiu Mu didn't know whether it was because of the hot weather that she was lazy and didn't want to talk much, or because of the scene she saw just now, she really couldn't cheer up, her expression was a little perfunctory, and she seldom talked.

So Qiu Mu, who was supposed to be Ma Bin's classmate, came to answer the question. Ye Li answered for Qiu Mu: "Yes, Xiao Mu and Ma Bin are classmates, and I'm in the class next to Ma Bin."

Ma Li interjected: "But they are in the same class as my brother in elementary school."

"That's it." The woman said in surprise.She looks very nice when she smiles, and she doesn't look like a person in her 30s with children who are already in high school. "What a coincidence...Xiao Bin must have been naughty when he was a child, right? But both Xiao Bin and Lili are very kind-hearted. I hope you can get along well with them and be good friends."

Ye Li said: "Yes, Auntie. Both Ma Li and Ma Bin are fine."

Ma Li seemed to have eaten honey, knowing that most of the things she said on this occasion were polite, but it was because of Ye Li's words that she was so excited that she blushed.

The woman found the small fan in Ye Li's hand, and suddenly felt a little familiar: "This..."

While speaking, she glanced at Ma Li.Noticing that her daughter's face was flushed, she suddenly seemed to understand something, and just as soon as she said something, she immediately put it back, and changed to another topic: "Xiaobin, he used to..."

Qiu Mu didn't care to pay attention to the movement of the three people here. Seeing that Gu Yu was about to leave the game, there was another Chen Siqi who seemed to be everywhere beside him, which made him very unsteady.

Standing up, Qiu Mu said, "I'll go...I'll go drink some water."

Ye Li: "There is mineral water here."

Qiu Mu hesitated for a second, then said absent-mindedly, "Well, I suddenly want to drink coffee."

Ye Li: "That's it... the coffee beans are in my schoolbag, and they're ground and put in a small box, you go and get them."

Qiu Mu: "Okay."

Ye Li: "If you want to cook, just go directly to the library. There is a coffee machine in the tea room over there. Remember to bring milk balls—it's also next to the coffee beans."

Qiu Mu didn't pay attention to the content, and nodded casually: "OK."

After greeting Ma Li and Ma Li's mother, Qiu Mu left the hustle and bustle of the big playground and walked step by step to the quiet and empty campus.

It seems that I can still hear the noise of the crowd in my ears. Qiu Mu tried his best to make himself forget about the things behind him. Just like his current body movements, he deeply understands that his heart is also doing the same thing of escaping at this time. .

Just be patient a little longer, at most one year, Gu Yu will be promoted to the second year of high school, and Chen Siqi will face the third year of high school.Under the pressure of further education and the choice of graduation, Chen Siqi will take the initiative to break up.When the time comes, when the time comes...

"..."

Will he really have the courage to say the words "I like you" by then?

Have it?do not have it?

Qiu Mu doesn't know, but at least compared to his previous life, his current situation has made great progress.

Not long ago, because of Ye Li's suggestion, Qiu Mu enlightened Gu Yu through "Brokeback Mountain".

Together with Ye Li, he invited Gu Yu to come to his house as a guest, and then the three of them sat in the room and finished watching the movie.

After watching it, Gu Yu's reaction was the same as Ye Li expected. After experiencing the initial embarrassment, speechlessness, and awkwardness, Gu Yu slowly read the plot, and his expression changed from embarrassment to seriousness.

He is a very emotional person, and sometimes he would rather feel wronged than see others suffer.This movie does not point out "love between men", but focuses more on "because the other party is the other party, so I have loved for so many years", so the relationship seems more pure.

Seeing the first parting of the two protagonists, the protagonist crouched in front of the wall and broke down crying, the corners of Gu Yu's eyes began to moisten.Waiting for the back camera to show the various pains and sorrows between the two of them in detail time and time again for Gu Yu to see, Gu Yu has already cried into tears, choked up exaggeratedly, completely disregarding the subject matter in front of him and the surrounding environment .He covered his mouth and sobbed continuously.

Ye Li's proposal was correct. Because of this movie, Gu Yu left a deep and regretful image in his mind when he first came into contact with the term "homosexuality".

Such is the charm of movies and stories, which can make people cry, laugh, think seriously, and change their minds.Gu Yu didn't even have time to think about "approving or not approving this kind of behavior", but didn't even have a choice, so she couldn't wait to stand by the protagonist's side. When watching a movie, she even wanted to squeeze into the screen to stop anyone who tried to hurt them.

Seeing Gu Yu's reaction, Qiu Mu's eyes turned red, and his heart was filled with relief.

The words that he had never dared to mention in front of Gu Yu in his previous life can finally be said to Gu Yu in this way.

And Gu Yu's reaction was also very good, it was really a good start.

All thanks to Ye Li.

Ye Li, on the other hand, except for the first time he saw the ending, he sighed deeply in front of the screen.When I watched it for the second time, I didn't even change my expression, I just sat there without saying a word, looking extremely cold.

Gu Yu asked Ye Li at that time: "You won't object to them, will you?"

Ye Li said, "I haven't."

Gu Yu's "If you hate them, I will never talk to you again", and Ye Li looked into Qiu Mu's eyes and said "Not everyone can be like you, cry when you want to cry, laugh when you want to laugh , what you think in your heart can be expressed immediately", which left a deep impression on Qiu Mu's heart.

Qiu Mu likes this work for a reason.

Because until the moment of his death in the previous life, he deeply felt that the end of the protagonist in the movie was a reflection of his reality.

You can't mention it to others, but you can only hide it in your heart for a lifetime, quietly hiding in your own world, and be an alien who is incompatible with the people around you.

He is very inferior, and because he is aware of his inferiority complex, he is even more inferior.

Contrary to Gu Yu, who is full of sunshine and energy and always chasing bright things, he does not have the courage to carry out his inner thoughts regardless of everything.

If it wasn't for Ye Li's help, he probably wouldn't take the first step now, and would just repeat the mistakes of the first ten years—in fact, he has already spent another five years like this.

In this life and the previous life, apart from getting to know one more Ye Li, how has his life changed?

When I walked to the teaching building, there was no one in the corridor.

Coming to Ye Li's class familiarly, he found the box containing coffee beans and milk balls from his neatly organized schoolbag.

Holding the things, Qiu Mu recalled what Ye Li said on the playground just now.

"The pantry near the library..."

Yigao's library is not far from the cafeteria and turns left.Almost every student knows that there is a very stylishly decorated pantry near the library of their school.There are several vending machines for teachers and students in the school to use at will, as well as various equipment and 24-hour hot water supply.

Qiu Mu had only heard about it, but had never actually been there.Knowing that there is a coffee machine there, one day Ye Li suddenly came to him with a cup of hot coffee and asked after asking.

Qiu Mu likes to drink coffee, and he likes to drink the kind of coffee that can be tasted immediately after it is steamed and has a strong aroma shortly after it is hand-brewed.

It's just that I usually go to school, so I can't drink as much as I want, and the coffee I brought from home is almost cold as soon as I get it to school.Even if you can choose to reheat it, the makeshift taste is so bad that Qiu Mu would rather not drink it.

Although the coffee made by the coffee machine provided by the school is not as good as manual brewing, it is much better than the canned coffee sold in the vending machine.

Ye Li brought ground coffee powder and milk balls to school every day, obviously it couldn't be for himself, but for him.

Because when he was at home, Ye Li would often make a cup of coffee suitable for him and put it in front of him, so the place was changed to school, and Qiu Mu accepted it with a smile.

Standing in front of the coffee machine, Qiu Mu studied the switch and the place where the coffee powder was placed, and took out a small plastic box.

"..."

The inside is actually rigorously filled with coffee powder, which is of uniform height and height, and the portion has been planned.

I checked the amount of ground coffee with my eyes, and it was about the size of a cup... No, it seemed to be a little less than the amount of manual brewing at home.

But why did Ye Li use such an amount to soak?

Choosing to trust Ye Li's decision, Qiu Mu picked up a small grid, poured the powder into the handle specially used for powder and pressed it well, then took the disposable paper cup used by random students next to it, poured in the appropriate amount of water, and pressed Turned off the switch and waited silently.

One minute later, the brown liquid fell drop by drop from the outlet and gathered in the cup below. Qiu Mu opened the milk ball and poured it in, then shook it.

Picking it up and taking a sip, Qiu Mu raised her eyebrows slightly.

It is this concentration, which is very close to the taste of coffee brewed by hand at home.

It is estimated that machine-brewed coffee is different from hand-brewed coffee when extracting the essence of coffee beans, so the amount of powder is deliberately reduced.

It is indeed in line with Ye Li's style to be so considerate in this kind of attention to detail.

Standing in the tea room, I took two sips of coffee slowly.Take the coffee machine powder bowl and handle with residue, wash it under the faucet on one side and put it back.

Finally, holding the warm half-full paper cup, he went to put the coffee beans back in Ye Li's seat.

On the way back, a person was walking on the road, halfway there, Qiu Mu suddenly noticed something was wrong.

When I came here, I was looking for the way, so Qiu Mu didn't have a good intuitive feeling of how much time it took.

But on the way back, Qiu Mu found that the journey was not as short as expected.

If you walk at a normal pace, it will take about five or six minutes to get back to the teaching building.

In other words, it takes exactly 10 minutes to go back and forth...but the length of a break between classes is exactly 10 minutes.

Ye Li usually gave him the ordinary cup of coffee during class, if he hadn't trotted to the tea room after class, it would take 1 minute to make the coffee, and then deliver it before class. to his words.

It's too late.

Obviously it took a lot of time to prepare, but why Ye Li's feeling in front of him was so casual, as if it was too easy to mention.

I actually completely ignored such a detail, thinking that it was really just for him to bring along.

Ke Yeli, why did he do this?

Qiu Mu tilted her head in doubt, looking at the coffee cup in her hand.