gentle reunion

This time Xu Zan brought a bunch of small flowers to Lan Tianran's house.

Lan Tianran took the handful of small snow-white bells and said, "Linglan? It seems to be commonly used in weddings. Before Xiaotao and Yintian's engagement banquet, there were many of these."

Xu Zan: "I don't know, I bought it because I thought it looked good."

The aunt came over and praised the little flower for its beauty, and then helped find a small vase to hold it.

Lan Tianran looked around, the gardenias brought by Xu Zan last time were still blooming on the dining table, this bottle of small flowers should be placed on the display shelf.

He put the vase next to the framed picture on the display shelf.

Xu Zan's gaze followed him all the time. When he put down the vase, several photo frames next to him came into Xu Zan's sight, and he was slightly taken aback.

The nanny in the photo of Lan Tianran and her nanny when she was a child looks very familiar. She seems to be Zhao Hong's mother?

He had just seen the photo of Zhao Hong's mother this afternoon, and he was still very impressed. This woman has a characteristic, her smile is very real - although her teeth are not very neat, she still grinned happily.

Xu Zan took out his mobile phone, walked to the display rack, and took pictures of several photo frames next to him under the guise of taking pictures of flowers.

He turned back to look for Lan Tianran, and saw that he was talking to his aunt in the kitchen.

After a while, Lan Tianran came out of the kitchen and looked at Xu Zan who was staring blankly at him: "What's wrong with you?"

"Ok?"

"You look like—" Lan Tianran hesitated, "It's okay."

He changed the subject: "Do you want some wine tonight, is red wine okay?"

"Don't drink, I want to drive. What exactly did you want to say just now? How can you only say half of what you said?" Xu Zan didn't follow Lan Tianran's rhythm, but dragged the topic back to its original place, "I promise, no matter what you say Tell me, I'm not angry."

"It's nothing." Lan Tianran said, "I just felt that you were a very fresh flower when you first entered the door, but just now it suddenly became wilted as if it had been exposed to the sun."

Xu Zan laughed, he didn't expect Lan Tianran to compare him to a flower.

"No wilting, just some shock."

"What's wrong?" Lan Tianran asked.

"I remembered something from the past." Xu Zan didn't say anything, but asked, "You are from Mingcheng, right? How did you transfer to Nandu High School?"

Lan Tianran was silent for a few seconds before saying uncomfortably, "Because I can't get along well with my classmates, they think I'm weird and there's something wrong with me."

Xu Zan frowned: "They are the only ones with problems."

Lan Tianran looked at him and relaxed a little: "When I was studying in Mingcheng, the parents of my classmates were from my parents' circle. My parents thought that I made them embarrassing, so they wanted to send me to another place. Someone told them that there is a good school in Nanjian, so they sent me to Nanjian."

Xu Zan didn't comment on anything, and didn't ask for details, but just paid attention to a small question: "I guess it must be the school that Wang Ting's family recommended to your parents, right?"

"Yes, Wang Ting's family is from Xinming City, and their ancestral home is from Nanfan."

"You and Wang Ting have known each other since childhood?"

"Well, he said I was like a fool when I was young."

Xu Zan scolded: "He is a fool."

Lan Tianran showed a little smile: "In terms of IQ, I am better than him, but not necessarily in other aspects."

Xu Zan laughed, and only Lan Tianran was so "reasonable". If he had known Wang Ting since he was a child, he would have beaten Wang Ting a hundred and eighty times.

"What are you laughing at?" Lan Tianran asked.

Xu Zan didn't answer his question, but walked over to hold his wrist, pulled him to sit by the sofa, then let go, and sat down on the sofa next to him.

"Do you have a good relationship with Wang Ting?"

"You asked me before." Lan Tianran said, "Later, I thought about this question seriously. I think my relationship with him should be better than ordinary people. We are relatives, and he didn't do anything to me."

Xu Zan nodded: "Well, it's not bad that I didn't bully you. I can imagine how difficult it was for you when you were young."

He said this because he felt the same way, and it was hard to remember when he was a child.

Lan Tianran said, "Actually, it's nothing. When I was young, I reacted very slowly, and I basically didn't realize that others hated me."

Xu Zan looked at him helplessly, his heart was sore and soft, and his throat began to swell. He took a breath, suppressed the boiling emotions, and said, "I am on the contrary, I am very sensitive to other people's dislike."

He leaned back and sank deep into the sofa as if he wanted to hide himself: "My parents have a bad reputation. In my family, it can be said to be 'notorious'. When I was young, I only wanted to play with people I didn't know well. , and only those who are not familiar with it can play.

"Like in the first two months of junior high school, I could play happily with everyone. After two months, they would hear about my family from various channels, and then they would talk about me. At the same time, I would Encountered all kinds of bumps and bumps. I suddenly fell to the bottom, and no one dared to step on me..."

Lan Tianran's eyes turned red: "How could they do that?"

Xu Zan said with a smile: "Of course I won't let them bully me. I will redouble my counterattack and beat them hard. Those who are subdued can live in peace, and those who are not convinced will continue to beat them next time."

Lan Tianran showed a little smile.

Xu Zan looked at him: "You don't know how to fight, how did you get here?"

It's a pity that he didn't know Lan Tianran when he was a child, otherwise he could help him fight.

Lan Tianran: "I haven't encountered your situation. The school where I study does not allow violence against classmates."

But instead of hitting you, there are many other ways to punish you, the most common being verbal attacks and cold violence.

The world is divided into two halves, one half is you and the other half is separated by a screen with a camera that never turns off. You are the passive audience and the object of observation, and the others are active performers and monitors By.

Xu Zan thought for a while and understood that Lan Tianran should have been studying in a good private school before going to Nanfan.

There are few students and many teachers, so they can take care of them, so that disadvantaged students will not be exposed to obvious violence.

Lan Tianran: "Our high school is also very good, no one fights, everyone is very gentle."

His high school career was difficult compared to his classmates at the same time, but compared to his previous campus experience, it was considered very good.

Xu Zan: "Well, although our high school is public, the entrance barrier is high and the management is strict. Everyone is busy studying and has no time to mess around with it—unless they are 'special students' like Wang Ting."

In fact, there is only no serious school violence, and minor ones still exist.

Xu Zan will take care of it if he sees it, but there are always times when he can't see it.

Xu Zan got up and walked to Lan Tianran.

Lan Tianran looked at him suspiciously.

Xu Zan raised his right leg, knelt down on the sofa beside Lan Tianran, then bent down and hugged Lan Tianran.

"I think at this time, it is necessary to hug."

Lan Tianran hugged Xu Zan back.

Xu Zan suddenly said: "Who is not a baby?"

After he finished speaking, he snorted nasally.

Lan Tianran laughed. Although he didn't know what Xu Zan meant, he thought Xu Zan's contrived tone was funny, so he laughed.

Xu Zan said again: "You have the scent of peaches on your body, it smells good."

His head moved on Lan Tianran's shoulder, and his short hair rubbed against Lan Tianran's neck, which made Lan Tianran laugh even harder because of the itch.

He smiled and explained seriously: "I ate a peach before you came."

"I wish you were this happy every day." Xu Zan said.

Lan Tianran said with a smile: "I'm fine now, there is nothing unhappy."

"That's good." Xu Zan let go of Lan Tianran, stepped back a few steps, and sat down on the sofa next to him.

Lan Tianran watched Xu Zan's movements.

Xu Zan looked back at him.

The eyes of the two met, but they didn't really look at each other. Xu Zan was looking at Lan Tianran, but Lan Tianran looked deeper, like an X-ray, trying to penetrate the surface and see the inner things clearly.

His overly direct gaze would be uncomfortable for most people, but Xu Zan just smiled and asked, "Look at me?"

Lan Tianran realized that he was looking too hard at people, so he restrained himself a little, and his gaze softened as if a filter had been applied.

"There's no clear purpose," he said.

Xu Zan joked at him: "You should say: You are so handsome, what's wrong with letting people see?"

Lan Tianran hesitated for a moment, then took his words: "Well, you are very handsome."

"Hey, I'm blushing." Xu Zan covered his face deliberately.

Lan Tianran laughed again.

Xu Zan watched his smile from between his fingers, and smiled too.

After leaving Lan Tian's house, Xu Zan called Zhao Hong: "Old Zhao, is it convenient to talk?"

"Brother, Lao Zhao went to the bathroom." It was Xiang Xiang's voice.

"……why you?"

"We are watching a drama together tonight. Brother, do you have something to do with Lao Zhao?"

"It's not important, you guys can play."

After a while, Zhao Hong sent a message to Xu Zan: What do you need from me?I just went to the bathroom.

Xu Zan: I have something to do, but there is no rush. We can talk about it another day.

Zhao Hong: OK, let's make another appointment.

Later, they made an appointment on Saturday afternoon, and still met at Zhao Hong's office.

There was no one else in the office except them, so the two sat down and talked in the comfortable reception area, which was much more comfortable than Zhao Hong's cramped office.

Zhao Hong boiled water and made two cups of tea: "This tea was given to me by a customer, and it is said that it is several thousand yuan a tael."

Xu Zan then said: "Then you have to taste it carefully."

The two spent some time tasting the tea, and then Xu Zan said, "You and Xiang Xiang get along well, and you go to the drama together?"

Zhao Hong shook his head: "I'm doing charity work. It's a very old small theater that serves the low-level migrant workers. The plays performed in the theater are rehearsed by themselves, and the audience is also their own people. I used to go to Answer some legal doubts for them."

"Why did you go in person? Wouldn't it be good to send a little lawyer to see?"

Zhao Hong was helpless: "Your brother personally asked me to go, what can I do?"

Xu Zan laughed: "It's better than he actually asked you to watch a play."

Zhao Hong smiled wryly, and said again: "However, he is different from the kind of dude I imagined. He is willing to do public welfare by himself - for people like them, it is easy to spend money, but it is very rare to be willing to spend energy of."

Xu Zan nodded.

"You taught him many things, right? He never leaves you." Zhao Hong said, "You have a very stalwart image in his eyes."

Xu Zan was a little embarrassed, and smiled dryly: "Because of his family background, he is a little innocent."

"Simple is not enough. It should be said to be bright. People who have not experienced suffering and have received a good education are very open and comfortable to get along with."

"..."

Xu Zan felt that there might be something wrong with Zhao Hong's eyes, similar to the problem of "beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

"Old Zhao, don't have any thoughts."

"Where are you going?" Zhao Hong picked up the teacup, "Just like this tea, no matter how expensive it is, it doesn't suit my stomach."

"I'm just saying, I can't control you if you have ideas." Xu Zan said, "Everyone has their own way they want to go, and others can't stop it."

Zhao Hong didn't answer, looked at him, and asked, "What are you looking for today? Old or new?"

"It's an old thing."

But instead of the past events of Wang Ting Wang's family that Zhao Hong thought, what Xu Zan wants to ask is: "Your mother was Lan Tianran's nanny?"

"Yes." Zhao Hong pushed his glasses, "Lan Tianran told you?"

Xu Zan shook his head: "No, I discovered it by accident. You and Lan Tianran have known each other since childhood?"

Zhao Hong also shook his head: "No, after my mother was diagnosed with cancer and was hospitalized for treatment, Lan Tianran came to see her, and we met."

"When was that?"

"I was about to graduate from college at that time. He should be a sophomore in high school. You were in the same class in high school, right?"

"Yes." When he was a sophomore in high school, Xu Zan recalled, "What happened in June?"

Zhao Hong nodded: "He told you?"

"No."

From March to June in Nannan, there is a lot of rain. The rain curtain hangs between the sky and the earth, and there is a shallow layer of water on the ground. When you step on it, the water splashes everywhere.

"Look, someone is running on the playground, is he sick?"

When Xu Zan walked to the floor where their dormitory was located, he heard some students say so.

There is a large balcony at the top of the stairs, which is a public area where students often gather to chat.

"Who is that?" a classmate asked.

"Lan Tianran, that freak."

Xu Zan walked to the balcony, approached the rain-soaked balcony railing, and looked in the direction of the playground. There was indeed a figure running in the rain.

"Why can't you run in the rain?" Xu Zan said with a smile, "Have you never been in the rain?"

"It's been drenched...but it's weird to go for a run in such heavy rain."

"What's wrong? It's not a delicate girl. What happened to the boy when it rained?" Xu Zan stretched his hand out of the balcony to catch the rain, "I feel very good."

"You can't be heard by girls in our class."

"I didn't mention them. Why are the girls in our class so delicate? They're all tigers, and it's okay to be exposed to the rain every day."

"Hahahaha, if the tiger hears your words, the tiger will eat you..."

Back in the dormitory, Xu Zan opened the drawer and brought out a few packs of ginger tea. He went to the next door and put the ginger tea next to the book on Lan Tianran's desk while the students were not paying attention.

just now.

Xu Zan said: "Then you helped me because of Lan Tianran, right?"

Zhao Hong nodded.If it wasn't for Lan Tianran, he wouldn't even know Xu Zan, so how could he help him.

Xu Zan had mixed feelings, first sighed, then smiled: "Why didn't you tell me?"

"He said that he wanted to help you, and you don't owe him anything, so there's no need to tell you."

"Hmm." Xu Zan replied sullenly, leaning on the armrest of the sofa with his body tilted, and covering his eyes with his palms in the posture of propping his forehead with his hands.

The first time Xu Zan met Zhao Hong was after he smashed Wang Ting.

After hurting Wang Ting, Xu Zan didn't run away at first. He didn't know that Wang Ting was about to die, so he planned to go to class normally. When he was walking on the campus of Ming University, Zhao Hong came to stop him.

Zhao Hong told him that the Wang family would come to trouble him soon and asked him to hide first.

After hiding for a few days, Zhao Hong asked him to go to another place to avoid the limelight, and return to Ming City after the matter calmed down.

When Xu Zan left Mingcheng, Zhao Hong went to see him off, and brought him tens of thousands of cash, saying that he would lend it to him.

Xu Zan didn't want it.

That money should be blue and natural.

If time goes back, he will definitely accept the money without hesitation.

After a while, Xu Zan came back slowly, he cleared his throat: "I asked you why you helped me, and you said, 'The enemy of an enemy is a friend', I thought you also had a problem with Wang Ting or the Wang family. "

Because he wasn't sure why Zhao Hong helped him, he still couldn't fully trust Zhao Hong, but he could trust him even more in the future.

"There is a festival." Zhao Hong was a little twitchy unexpectedly, "I never told anyone about that."

Xu Zan chuckled, "What's so hard to say?"