MVP in the next examination room

Ren Yuzhen opened his eyes instantly.

Tang Ran and Yuan Che turned their faces away, one pressed his right hand to his mouth, and the other took a deep breath, suppressing the urge to laugh.

... This "ghost" is quite cute.

After a hiccup, the original erratic crying finally turned into a wail, only to hear a male voice crying with great aggrievedness and saying: "I don't want to live on campus... I just don't want to live on campus... "

The three of them saw a chubby figure appearing at the stairway, lying on the window sill opposite the stairwell with his back to them, holding a mobile phone and talking on the phone.

... The little fat man was not light, but he basically didn't move when he walked, and the faint crying sound completely covered the sound of his extremely light footsteps.

The parent on the other end of the phone was supposed to be the boy's parent, who was so angry by his crying that he yelled, "Cry, cry, cry! You know how to cry when you're a grown man! You're useless!"

——The voice was so loud that the three people hiding in the stairwell could hear it clearly.

The chubby little boy was even more aggrieved, crying softly, "I want to go home! I just don't want to stay here..."

Tang Ran: "...This seems to be the one who worried about being starved by school that day?"

Yuan Che took a closer look, but wasn't quite sure - after all, he was looking down from the second floor that day, and tonight it was from behind again.Although the sound can also be used as a basis, there is still a certain gap between the sound of people crying and the sound of normal speaking.

The male voice on the mobile phone yelled again: "How old are you?! Huh? Don't you just live in a school and give me a lot of nonsense every day! It's all your mother's habit! You haven't weaned yet?!"

The little fat man sobbed and said: "I want to talk to my mother, I want to go back..."

The male voice over there said something again, this time the voice was not too loud, Tang Ran and the others couldn't hear it clearly.

The little fat man was crying so hard that he couldn't complete his speech intermittently, but he repeated the words "I want to go home" and "I miss my mother". The man over there probably ran out of patience and didn't even want to yell any more. Locked up the phone.

——The sound of disconnection was not so obvious. Yuan Che and the others became hoarse when they were young, and they clung to the phone and listened for two seconds. slipped down to figure it out.

Tang Ran said, "It's that chubby, I'm sure."

The chubby boy sucked his nose hard a few times, lay down on the window sill, buried his head in his arm, and let his left hand, which was still holding the phone, hang limply aside.

The whimpering sound came from the crook of the arm again.

Several people sighed inwardly at the same time, stepped into the corridor lightly, and walked carefully against the wall towards Ren Yuzhen's bedroom.

As far as this psychological quality is concerned, if I know that my cowardly appearance just now has been seen by others, I can't cry out.

As soon as he entered the dormitory, Tang Ran asked them incredulously: "Is the food in our cafeteria really so bad?"

Yuan Che said, "No."

Ren Yuzhen said, "I think it's okay."

Tang Ran: "Seeing that the one just now was crying because of the taste, I thought there was something wrong with my sense of taste."

Ren Yu wondered, "How do you know that he cried because of the unpalatable food in the cafeteria?"

Tang Ran briefly talked about what he heard and saw from upstairs that day.

Ren Yuzhen smacked his lips: "Maybe it's a Michelin chef who cooks at home."

Yuan Che asked Ren Yuzhen: "He also lives on the fourth floor? How many people?"

"Ah," Ren Yuzhen was stunned for a moment. Although they should live on the same floor, he really didn't have any impression of the little fat man. "Maybe, I didn't notice it."

It was only after Ren Yuzhen finished answering that he realized that there was something wrong—Yuan Che usually seemed indifferent to everything, but it was really strange that he took the initiative to ask him about that boy just now.

"Brother Yuan, why did you think of asking this?" Ren Yu couldn't help but ask.

"He should have called his dad just now," Yuan Che said, "His dad said he was 'babbling every day'."

"Well, there is this sentence," Tang Ran asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's only been a few days since school started," Yuan Che said, "If his dad can say 'every day', then he should have called more than once in the past three nights."

"Will you hide in the corridor and cry every night because the food in the cafeteria is not to your liking?" Yuan Che asked Tang Ran, "It's not difficult to order takeaway now."

Ren Yuzhen nodded in agreement: "I also felt that something was wrong just now, but I just didn't realize it... If he is not used to eating in the cafeteria, why can't he order a takeaway before evening self-study?"

Tang Ran asked directly to the soul: "What if his father pays for his living expenses?"

"..."

The two academic masters got stuck together, and after a while, Ren Yuzhen said: "...well, I think the family can afford a Michelin-starred chef, so they shouldn't even have money for a takeaway..."

Tang Ran: "...Tietou, you usually write your own assumptions when you come up with questions?"

Ren Yuzhen's eyes widened in surprise: "Brother Ran, you can actually say such things?!"

Tang Ran: "???"

Ren Yuzhen: "This sentence doesn't look like your style, but rather...Brother Yuan."

Tang Ran and Yuan Che were silent for a while.

The mutual influence between people is indeed subtle, like Tang Ran's sudden "Yuan Che" remark, or... Yuan Che's longer and crooked smile.

"That's not the point." Tang Ran forcibly changed the subject, "So what exactly did you deduce?"

The latter sentence was directed at Yuan Che.

"It's just an excuse that the food in the cafeteria is not to your liking," Yuan Che said, "The accommodation conditions at the school are not bad either. I guess it's his roommate who made him feel so uncomfortable."

"Roommate?" Tang Ran thought for a while, "You mean, his roommate pushed him away?"

Yuan Che: "It's possible."

Ren Yuzhen hissed: "It is possible. But he is so big...can he be bullied by others?"

Yuan Che said nonchalantly, "You don't have to do anything to exclude people."

Exclusion is about isolation, and there are many ways to isolate a person.

It is often used in TV dramas to make things difficult and bully in every possible way, as long as you catch the opportunity, you must go up and step on it.

But in reality, "cold and hot" is commonly used, or in other words, most of the time is dominated by cold violence.

Yuan Che probably knows better than Tang Ran what it's like to be cold and violent.

In the years of junior high school, he acted like an autistic, but it was not just because of his family and personality.

Living for a few years in an environment where he is rejected by the whole class and usually wants to stay eight meters away from him, fearing that he can't be avoided, no one will give birth to a warm heart.

Tang Ran asked, "How did you come up with this?"

Yuan Che: "Just guessing."

The power was cut off in the dormitory, but luckily the balcony and the bathroom were running continuously. The three of them lighted the flashlights and washed up briefly before going to bed.

"Don't you think it's a bit stuffy," Tang Ran said, "I want to open the window to let some air in."

"It's a bit," Ren Yuzhen glanced at the balcony, "but the windows on the balcony are already open."

Tang Ran walked to the door of the dormitory and unscrewed the small window on the door: "The door will be closed later, don't you mind?"

"do not mind."

When Tang Ran finished opening the window and returned to Qin Shuo's bed, Yuan Che had already laid down, sleeping on the inside.

Breeze leaked in through the small window on the anti-theft door, carrying the aroma of unknown flowers.

Tang Ran lay down on the outside, but within a minute, he suddenly asked Ren Yuzhen on the other side: "Tietou, are you asleep?"

Ren Yuzhen: "No."

Yuan Che actually didn't fall asleep either.

With his eyes closed, he felt the person next to him get off the bed in a hurry.

...Tang Ran rushed to Ren Yuzhen's bed in two steps, lifted his quilt and crawled inside.

Ren Yuzhen exclaimed: "What are you doing?!"

Tang Ran said, "It's a bit crowded over there."

Yuan Che: "..."

squeeze?

Although it is a single bed, the bed in the dormitory is wider than the small hotel where I stayed during the winter vacation.

And the sleeping position of the two is obviously very average.

If there is any difference, it is that they were all lying on their backs just now, and they seemed to be a little close.

But it's not too crowded, is it?

Ren Yuzhen: "No, these two beds are the same size... Do you want to go back and feel it?"

Tang Ran: "No need, let's sleep together."

Ren Yuzhen howled very tragically: "Mr. Tang, no, we can't—"

Tang Ran directly covered Ren Yuzhen's mouth with his hands: "Don't shout, you woke up Yuan Che!"

Ren Yuzhen: "..."

As soon as Tang Ran withdrew his hand, Ren Yuzhen said in a tragic voice: "Brother Yuan, Brother Ran forced me to do this——I didn't do anything, please don't kill me tomorrow—"

Tang Ran: "..."

Yuan Che: "..."

Another scent of flowers came in.

Tang Ran felt that the ventilation was about the same, so he was about to get up and close the small window on the anti-theft door.

The sound insulation effect of the bedroom door is good, but only if the upper window is not opened.

Otherwise, even if only a small slit is opened, a little noise outside will be heard clearly.

Therefore, the boarding students will screw up the small windows before going to bed.

Just as Tang Ran stood up, there was a burst of light footsteps outside.

Slowly getting closer and closer, and soon passed their dormitory, and headed further into the corridor.

Tang Ran kept the posture of propping up her body, and asked Ren Yuzhen next to her in a low voice: "Did you hear that?"

Ren Yuzhen shrank into the quilt subconsciously: "Did that fat man go back to the dormitory just now? Damn it, it must be..."

The footsteps got farther and farther away, and gradually disappeared in the corridor.

After a while, there was a soft "click" sound of the door opening outside.

Yuan Che, who was lying on the other bed, suddenly opened his eyes: "Who sleeps over there?"

Ren Yuzhen was so frightened that he took the bed with him, and Tang Ran beside him was trembling.

Ren Yu was so frightened that he put on a vibrato effect: "...Brother Yuan, you, you, are you awake?"

Yuan Che: "...just woke up."

He simply sat up and asked again: "How many people sleep over there?"

Ren Yuzhen said: "Over there...it seems to be for two people, I remember that the four-person room is on the side near the stairs."

Tang Ran: "So, that chubby lives in a double room—there is also a double room squeezed out?"

He said the last sentence half-jokingly, but Yuan Che frowned instead of laughing.

After a while, he said, "I still feel that he doesn't get along with his roommates... Intuitively, I can't explain why. Another new guess is that his distaste for the food in the cafeteria on the first day of school may be an excuse, in fact, he rejects living on campus... Or rather, he was afraid of someone living at the school."