Late ripening

Standing at the door, Jing Yan took a few deep breaths, his hands were a little sweaty, he wiped it off, and then raised his hand to knock on the door. "Please come in." The counselor's voice came from inside.Pushing the door open, this teacher he rarely saw was writing something at his desk.

"Hi, teacher, I'm Lin Jingyan..." He stood at the door and said something, wondering if he should go forward. "Oh, classmate Lin, right? You sit on the sofa and wait for me for a while."

He sat down on the small sofa in the office, his hands and feet neatly side by side.Jing Yan didn't see teachers very often, and he hadn't been invited by parents in three years of high school, but according to the description Yao Yihang gave him, being called to the office by the teacher alone was definitely not a good thing.

The counselor put down his pen and poured him a glass of water. "Wait a minute, I'll ask Director Li to come here too." Jing Yan put down the hand that had just picked up the water glass. He had never met the director, but he was sure that something bad happened.Even when he was given a scholarship, he never saw so many teachers.

Soon the counselor came in with another teacher, and Jing Yan stood up to say hello.The director waved him to sit down, "Lin Jingyan from the physics department, right?" Jing Yan nodded. He had never seen this teacher in class, so he didn't know what he taught.

"I'm Director Li from the party branch of your college. I came to you today just to know something about you." The director took a sip of water and put down the glass. "Last time you had a dispute with those students who were expelled. I dealt with it. At that time, your family was in the hospital, but a lawyer surnamed Fang came to solve it with us, and I also learned a little about your situation from him. "

Jing Yan is very sensitive as long as he hears about family matters, but when it comes to Lu Qian, he is more vigilant like a lion cub preparing for battle. "You have been boarding at your father's friend's house since junior high school, right? We can also understand that you have never been with your parents, and you need more care and company in your emotional life."

The director paused for a while, not sure if he was giving Jing Yan time to think or thinking about what he would say next.But Jing Yan was very confused, and didn't understand what the teacher meant by understanding.

The two teachers looked at each other, and the director said slowly, "But recently we have received several anonymous complaints from students, saying that they suspected that you had some improper business relationships with people outside the school, and felt that you had done some... Obtaining living expenses by doing things that violate morality and the law has seriously affected the school's atmosphere."

The counselor seemed to think that the director's speech was a little too much, and he was busy trying to ease the atmosphere, "We also believe that you will not do such a thing, you also received a scholarship last year, and your grades in all subjects are also very good, you are not that kind of student The director just wants to know if you have any difficulties in life and study recently, or have you encountered any troubles?"

Jing Yan felt that the current feeling could not be described with thorns on his back.He wasn't fidgeting, nor was he panicked.He didn't do what they said, so there was nothing to hide from.

But he felt humiliation and disappointment more. He sat here under the questioning eyes of the teacher, trying to justify a crime he didn't commit.The origin of everything is that in the eyes of others, he should not fall in love with Lu Qian.

It turns out that the two of them are so unequal in the eyes of the outside world that it is unbearable and dirty to list them together.

But I have long been used to it, he said to the two people in front of him in his heart.Someone had told him long ago not to bother with the unworthy.I will explain to you, not because I care too much about your opinions, but to protect the people I care most about.

I don't need your forgiveness, but I can't let him bear this kind of groundless accusation like me.

Seeing him sitting with his head bowed and not speaking, the director thought he was passively resisting, so he found a photo from his mobile phone and put it on the desktop.Jing Yan glanced at it, and it was taken secretly from a place far away from the teaching building, and he could vaguely see the two figures in the car.

He was actually a little relieved, only himself was photographed in the photo, and Lu Qian was well blocked by him, with only a little hair showing.

"Is that you in this photo?" Jing Yan raised his head and clasped his hands together. No one else here can give him strength, he can only rely on himself to stabilize his emotions as much as possible.

"It's me. But that's not the person who took care of me, it's my boyfriend. I have no way to prove that I didn't do this. On the contrary, those who complained about me, whoever doubts who should give evidence, should let them come up with evidence Yes." After he finished speaking, he felt a little happy, it seemed that he had really stayed with Lu Qian for a long time, and he could still finish his speech under such circumstances.

The director didn't seem to expect that this cowardly-looking student would talk to him like this, and the rebuttal in his tone made him a little uncomfortable.He asked him with a straight face, "Then your guardian knows that you are with...does he know your current situation?"

Jing Yan felt that the director really needed to learn some legal knowledge, "Teacher, I am an adult now, and there is no need for guardianship, and my legal guardian has passed away. If you are talking about my homestay host "He turned his head and looked at other places, and said lightly, "He is very busy with work and often travels on business, so I don't see him very often."

He made up his mind not to let Lu Qian know about it, so he simply told a little lie that he thought was harmless.The director choked on him and wanted to get angry, so the counselor quickly stood up to smooth things over. "Then let's do this. Next time when your family members come back, we will come to the school to discuss how to solve it. After all, the Internet has caused some adverse effects on the school's school spirit and discipline. Lin Jingyan, you should pay attention to it during this time."

It was almost time for the afternoon class, Jing Yan stood up on his legs as if he had finished a battle, and bowed slightly to the teacher, "Then I'll go back to class first."

After he walked out of the office, he realized that he hadn't eaten yet, and the reaction of hypoglycemia came slowly, and now it was too late to go to class when he went back to the dormitory.

He found a direct-drink water dispenser, lowered his head and took a few swigs.It was the sunniest time of the day, and few students walked outside.Jing Yan sat down at the toilet door with his back against the wall, buried his head in his knees and arms.

This is a gesture he often uses when he is uncomfortable, but he usually only allows himself to stay like this for a while when he retreats into the room by himself.He got over the intense dizziness and weakness, stood up and wanted to find a campus convenience store to buy two candies.

Walking to the corner of the lecture theater, he saw a group of people gathered around the flower bed and didn't know what they were doing.He wanted to go around, but he heard Yao Yihang's voice from a distance. "I warn you, quickly delete those photos on Weibo, who allowed you to secretly take pictures of others? Do you understand that this is an infringement of privacy!"

Several people were arguing with him noisily, but Jing Yan couldn't hear clearly and took a few steps forward. "You don't need to go online like this when you talk, what kind of privacy right? Didn't you just take two photos. Besides, he usually goes in and out of the school gate so many people see him. Some people have long suspected that he is abnormal. I tweeted Bo asked if anyone knew what was wrong?"

"Then what do you mean by ringing the school's official Weibo account? You just want to make trouble, right?" Yao Yihang held up his mobile phone and was about to throw it at him, when someone put a hand on his shoulder.He looked back and saw Jing Yan standing behind him with no expression on his face.

When the people around saw him, they all shut up.Jing Yan brought Yao Yihang's phone over to look at it, and someone on Weibo posted the photo he saw in the office just now, with the popular caption "I accidentally saw a boy in blue on x month x day x day After my girlfriend went to the bathroom, I kissed her best friend in orange, if anyone knows, please help retweet” such an eye-catching genre.

It's just that the content has been replaced with sentences such as "a college student in a sweater" and his "mysterious benefactor who comes to pick him up and drop him off to school every day".

Yao Yihang took the phone back from his hand, and Jing Yan's palm was cold when it touched Jing Yan, and his fingers were trembling slightly.He turned around and yelled at those people in a panic, "You are all crazy! If you post any more indiscriminately, I will call the police. At that time, none of you will try to hide."

Behind him, a few people who didn't know what was going on and were just watching the excitement also surrounded him. Jing Yan was stuck in the middle of the crowd, and he felt a little difficult to breathe.He pulled Yao Yihang down, "Let's go, don't tell them." But there were people all around, and he couldn't find the exit with his head down.

Although Yao Yihang's voice was loud, the deterrent effect in his words was not much.A girl on the opposite side mocked him coldly, "I think you don't know your friend at all, even the seniors in his club know what kind of person he is."

Both of them froze for a moment, Jing Yan was more panicked, he looked up and scanned the crowd, Deng Tingwei stood not far away and looked at them with arms folded.He couldn't hear what others said, he just stared at her, begging her not to tell Lu Qian.

Someone held the phone in front of Deng Tingwei, she glanced at Jing Yan, "It's really him, he wore this dress to participate in our activities. And I seem to have heard that someone bought it as a gift His, this brand is quite expensive, I don’t know much about it.”

She still spoke in the usual delicate and pretty way, and she didn't feel uncomfortable about what she said in the slightest.Yao Yihang wanted to rush over angrily, but Jing Yan held him back again.Senior sister didn't lie, which thing on him didn't Lu Qian buy for herself?

The people around were a little restless, but the sun shining on Jing Yan's head didn't make him feel warm at all.His lips turned pale, and he just wanted to leave this place quickly and find a place where no one was around to sit down and relieve the pain in his body.

"What are you doing here, you don't have to go to class?" A familiar voice came from outside the crowd, and Song Bo came out of the classroom, still with that impersonal and cold look on his face, with some displeasure on his face that his lesson preparation was interrupted.

Someone recognized him, called out to Mr. Song and slipped away, the crowd gradually dispersed, and someone bumped into Jing Yan when he passed by.He was already shaking and couldn't stand still, so he knocked his legs on the corner of the flower bed and knelt down.

There was a brown mark on the knee of the trousers, and the corner of the flower bed was very sharp, Jing Yan thought it must have been punctured.As soon as the wound stuck to his clothes, he felt a sharp pain. Yao Yihang supported him, and he gritted his teeth and stood up with the last bit of strength.

Song Bo came down from the stairs and saw that his face was pale, and his forehead was still sweating in such a cold day. "Are you hypoglycemic?" He walked back to the classroom, took a sandwich from his bag and handed it to Yao Yihang. "Take him to the infirmary. You don't need to take this class. Remember to write a leave note and give it to me next time."

Before the two of them could say thanks, they turned around and went back to class. Jing Yan sat by the flower bed and took a few bites of bread, and let Yao Yihang help him limping away.

When he got home at night, he told Mrs. Yu that he accidentally fell while walking, and Mrs. Yu insisted on rolling up his pants to see how big the wound was.There was such a big purple-black bruise, and the gauze was still faintly stained with blood, "Why don't you tell Mr. Lu... how painful it is."

"No need, he'll be back tomorrow. The wound should heal quickly in winter, and it doesn't look so serious." Jing Yan didn't eat anything all day, but he didn't have an appetite at night, so he just picked up a few chopsticks and put down the noodles. up.

Before going to bed, he had a fever for no reason, and Mrs. Yu had already returned home. Enduring the headache, he got up and found some antipyretics, and sent Yao Yihang a message to ask him to ask for leave.I poured another large glass of water and put it on the bedside, covered my body with the quilt tremblingly, covered my head and tried my best not to think about anything, tried my best to forget everything that happened that day.

He didn't know what time it was, but he felt a slight depression beside the bed, and someone was sitting beside him and looking at him.Jing Yan tried his best to open his eyes, and Lu Qian went home.He was still in a daze to see clearly, so he reached out and grabbed his hand subconsciously.

Lu Qian's upper body didn't move, he just sat upright and looked at him.Jing Yan was a little dissatisfied that he didn't hug him, so he pulled him hard, and Lu Qian fell on top of him.

"How have you been these few days?" Lu Qian's voice became hoarse, and he asked this question as soon as he opened his mouth.

Jing Yan closed his eyes again, and smelled the smoke on his collar, "It's good, I just miss you so much. Other than that, everything is fine."