cover me

The results of the chemistry competition came out that night, and the competition at the high school stage was such a race against time. At the end of the oral test, written test, and experiment, the total score of the three parts added up to the top of the [-]th, and won the gold medal.

This is an expected result, as the chemistry teacher said, they have never lost.

After getting off the podium, the other three team members insisted on letting Chen Yan hold the trophy, so that they could pass on the magical skills to the next batch of participating teams.

It's a pity that this competition is held every two years. By the next time, Chen Yan has already graduated from high school and can no longer shoot the answering machine.

But they decided to ask Chen Yan to keep a hand model, and put it up next to the trophy, with a line engraved on it, "Shooting me is a great achievement" or something like that.

When Chen Li returned to school, he was greeted by his classmates again. Zhang Leilei and others insisted on throwing him up and cheering, but Lin Yanxing couldn't stop him.

Mr. Lin yelled anxiously: "Don't touch him! I'm going to give him a life-saving pill. Are you still throwing it away? ... Still throwing it?! Stop it for me!!"

Zhang Leilei shouted: "Why don't we have a personal wave with the whole class? Have you ever been to a rock music scene? Chen Yan stood on the podium and dived, let's take him for a while?"

"Wait your dad! Let him down!"

……

At the flag-raising ceremony on the second day, the principal made a routine speech, and named and praised Chen Yan, a student from Class 1, Grade [-]. He didn’t say that he didn’t have a turn to answer a question in the oral examination, but that he had made outstanding contributions in the XX cup chemistry competition. Worthy of special mention!

The praise for the other three was only passing, because those three had always been excellent, and the headmaster was tired of pronouncing their names.

Now that Chen Yan was really famous, students from dozens of classes in the whole school flocked to see him, and found that this kid was... pretty good-looking.

Chen Li is taller than when she was in her first year of high school. She is 1.7 meters tall. Although she is still slender and has a small face, she looks much taller and taller.

In addition, he is indeed good-looking. In the past, he kept his head down and no one noticed him, but now he is found to be both talented and beautiful.

The point is that he doesn't have the kind of pretentiousness that top students often have. He still slithers around the wall after winning a gold medal, and blushes when he is called from a distance.

So he received the first love letter in his life—or a letter of appointment—because the words were quite incomprehensible, and he couldn't understand what he was talking about after studying for a long time.

The content is as follows:

Hello, classmates, I watched the whole process of the XX Cup chemistry competition, and your majestic appearance left a deep impression on me!

The ancients said that an inch of time is worth an inch of gold, and an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time. With your encouragement, I decided to seriously face the challenge of learning, climb the peak of life, and never give up!

When I am strong enough, I will challenge you, please accept it!

I want to abandon the burden in my heart and cross the moral boundary with you!

Can you add a button friend?My button number is: xxxxxxx, remember to step on my space!

……

"..." Chen Yan showed the letter to Lin Yanxing, who tore it to pieces.

"What are you doing?" Chen Yan complained, "Leave me a memory anyway."

Lin Yanxing said angrily: "Leave a fart as a commemoration, the name is all wrong, is your name Chen Zhua? You still want to chase someone at this level?!"

Chen Eun said: "At least let me see the signature, and I can return a gift or something in the future."

Lin Yanxing then took the letter out of the wastebasket and spread it out on the table, only to see that it said "a young man who admires you" at the end.

"Young man!" Lin Yanxing roared, "I'll add him to Koukou, and make an appointment to beat him to death!"

He really added it, but the other party didn't dare to pass and refused countless times.

It took about a week for the aftermath of the chemistry competition to subside. At this time, it was also the monthly exam week, and everyone was only nervous about themselves. Finally, Chen Li didn't have to be stared at during class, and felt much more comfortable.

Another Sunday, when he was writing a question at Guan Tsinghua's home, he saw the button on the teacher's computer turned on, and thought of the stubby boy who admired him, so he curiously wanted to add it.As a result, after logging in, a dialog box popped up, but someone else added him.

Only Lin Yanxing, Yu Ming and a few other people knew his account number. Usually, he had no chance to chat, and it was very deserted. Who would call him?

He looked at the other party's screen name——Yanyan, and he was completely clueless.

He was staring at the computer screen in a daze. Teacher Guan approached from behind and helped him click the agree button: "What are you hesitating about? I added this kid too."

"You?" Chen Yan asked in surprise.

Teacher Guan said: "This is Lin Yanxing's junior high school classmate Xia Yanyan. She sat with us when we watched the chemistry competition that day. Although she was not from the eleventh high school, she slapped red for you."

oh her!

Chen Yan remembered that when Lin Yanxing celebrated his birthday in the first year of high school, he and Xia Yanyan had dinner together, and the other party was a healthy and lovely girl.

Teacher Guan said: "In order to ask for your QUQUAN number, she spent a long time with Lin Yanxing, but Mr. Lin refused to give it to you. In the end, Yu Ming gave it to you."

Chen Yan was amused in her heart, and secretly scolded Lin Yanxing for being a narrow-minded bastard, and was still afraid that he would pick on his female classmate.

Teacher Guan said: "Anyway, let's talk with her. This little girl is very simple and friendly, but her grades are not good. I have done a few sets of questions for her in the past two days, and she has never scored more than [-] points. If I don't work hard, I guess The college entrance examination is suspended."

Chen Yan added Xia Yanyan, the other party was online, and within ten seconds a message was sent: Chen Yan!

Chen Rin: Yes.

Xia Yanyan: You are awesome!First in Chemistry Competition!

Chen Rin: The collective is the first, I did not contribute.

Xia Yanyan: Don't be modest, if it weren't for the three of you, you wouldn't be able to grab the chance to answer the question.At that time, we were all nervous down there, our hands were sweating, and Lin Yanxing almost dug a hole in the front seat back!

Chen Ren: Haha, what's the matter?

Xia Yanyan: Yes, my classmate wants to meet you.

Xia Yanyan: Actually, you two have met before. She also had dinner with Lin Yanxing on her birthday. Her surname is quite rare, so you can call her Xiaoya.

Chen Ren: No need, thank you.

Xia Yanyan: Why?

Chen Ren: Forget it...

Xia Yanyan: You two are both weirdos, she said she wanted to get to know you, and I said no problem, I'll introduce you, but in the end she balked and regretted it.

Xia Yanyan: When it comes to your side, okay, just refuse!

Xia Yanyan: I don't even know what you two are doing?

Chen Yan sighed, thinking silly girl, you don't understand, that Xiaoya is not interested in me at all, at first I tried to get close to Lin Yanxing through you but failed, now I want to use me to save the country, what kind of thread are you leading? What kind of bridge?

Xia Yanyan: Bah, I don't want to talk to you anymore!

Chen Yan also felt that she was going too far, they were all friends, almost enough, so why bother to be serious?

So he sent a two-sentence apology, but Xia Yanyan really didn't reply, no matter how innocent and friendly a child is, he still has a temper.

Chen Yan sighed, and Teacher Guan asked, "What's wrong?"

"I pissed her off."

Teacher Guan held the health-preserving teacup and said, "Seeing that you are seventeen or eighteen, you still don't know how to make girls happy. Do you really want to follow my old path?"

Chen Yan then asked with interest: "Teacher Guan, I haven't cared about it for the past few months. Is your date settled?"

Teacher Guan also let out a long sigh.

Recently, there are a lot of blind date opportunities, all of which are forced by Mr. Xu, but Mr. Xu is good at attracting girls who are free, playful, and very sassy, ​​and he has nothing to do with a science guy like Mr. Guan. Going to my son, all previous blind dates have not lasted more than half an hour, and it is still the girl who gave Mr. Xu face.

In fact, Mr. Guan washed his hair, took off his glasses, and changed his wrinkled old man's jacket into a handsome guy, but he was not happy.

"But I still have hope." Teacher Guan said, "My beloved must be waiting for me at T University!"

Chen Yan smiled and said, "You have such a beautiful dream."

He was chatting nonsense with Teacher Guan while brushing up the questions, but he never thought that the few words on the button would be the last conversation he had with Xia Yanyan in his life.

No one would have imagined that there was a huge aneurysm hidden in Xia Yanyan's healthy body.

An aneurysm is not a tumor, but a weak point on the wall of an artery. It bulges out because it cannot withstand the pressure of blood, and it looks like a small tumor.

It's probably the worst thing that can happen to an artery, like a bulge before a car tire blows.

Xia Yanyan's aneurysm is in the brain, it is born.

She practiced aerobics all the year round, and increased her training for provincial competitions. So one cold winter morning, after a violent continuous jump with insufficient preparation, she fell down and never got up again.

It was a rest day, and she stayed alone in the school dance classroom. She was discovered by the teacher three hours after the accident, thus missing the best time for rescue.Then she lay in the ICU for five days due to cerebral hemorrhage, and finally died.

Chen Li didn't know all of this, he and Xia Yanyan were not friendly yet, no one told him, he got the news because Lin Yanxing suddenly called him in the middle of the night.

His habit is to turn off the phone every night when the lights in the dormitory are turned off, and he didn't turn it off that day, maybe he had a premonition.The time when Lin Yanxing called was 01:30 in the morning. Normally, he would have yelled, "Have you drank too much?", but he didn't scold that day.

"...Huh?" He was awakened from his sleep with a strong nasal voice.

Lin Yanxing was silent.

"what happened?"

Lin Yanxing's voice was far and floating, as if thousands of kilometers away: "...Chen Yan..."

"Ah? Yes."

Lin Yanxing said: "Xia Yanyan, she..."

Chen Yan's heart skipped a beat, thinking that he had been accused of refusing Xia Yanyan's mediation and being accused of going to Lin Yanxing's place, and quickly explained: "Don't blame her, blame me, I don't know how to speak well, I..."

"Xia Yanyan has passed away." Lin Yanxing said.

Chen Yan lifted the quilt and sat up, vaguely feeling something was wrong: "...What does it mean that it has passed?"

Lin Yanxing's voice was so cold: "It's gone, it's gone, I'm going back."

In some dialects, "going back" is a euphemistic expression of death, the living is a passer-by, the dead is a return, and all life is temporarily placed in the world.

The mobile phone fell from Chen Yan's hand and fell on the quilt. He was stunned for more than ten seconds before picking it up again. Lin Yanxing was still waiting silently on the other side.

"Why?" he asked.

"...Ill." Lin Yanxing said.

"Where are you?" Chen Yan asked.

"...Where am I?" Lin Yanxing was raving, "It seems to be in Linhu Park."

Lin Yan Xingjia is located in Linhu Park, but it is just a specially circled villa area, ordinary citizens who visit the lake or park cannot enter.Linhu Park is an open park. In summer, homeless people who have spent the night often fall asleep on the benches.

"Wait, I'll come to you." Chen Yan said.

"How come?" Lin Yanxing asked drowsily.

what else?Climb over windows and walls, bypass dormitory management and school guards.

"Don't worry about it," Chen Yan said, "I'm here."

He quickly got up, put on his clothes and put on his shoes, grabbed Yu Ming's bicycle key on the table, and put it back: Yu Ming's car was parked in the school, and if he wanted to get out of the school at this time, he had to climb out of the broken railing on the other side of the playground and walk by bicycle. no.

He decided to run to Linhu Park.

Fortunately, the park is not far from No. 10 Middle School, and it is within [-] minutes on foot. After he came out of school, he wrapped his cotton clothes and ran all the way. His legs were upside down, because he was worried about Lin Yanxing, he ran more and more anxiously.

Finally arrived, but he is not familiar with Linhu Park. In the middle of the night, the forest in the park is deep and deep, cold and deserted. He dare not look for it in a dark place, so he calls Lin Yanxing under the street lamp, but the other party always I don't answer either.

He became more and more anxious, thinking that this buddy would not be overwhelmed, right?

Lin Yanxing belongs to the cold-outside and hot-inside type. He looks indifferent, but in fact he is quite affectionate.

He is not in love with Xia Yanyan, but such a fresh and beautiful life suddenly passed away, even Chen Li, who only met once, feels heartbroken, let alone him as a good friend?

"Answer the phone..." Chen Yan was trembling, half because of panic, half because of cold.

After a few minutes, he gave up and was going to contact Mr. Xu.

Lin Yanxing must have sneaked out after the family fell asleep, the nanny couldn't control him, and Mr. Xu.

Chen Li pressed the last number and was about to dial when someone approached suddenly from behind. Before he could turn his head, he was hugged into a strong embrace.

Lin Yanxing's breath surrounded him, his forehead pressed against his cheek, but it was colder than ice.

"...I threw away my phone." Lin Yanxing said.

"Where did you throw it?" Chen Yan asked, "I'm looking for you."

"Throwing around, I couldn't think about it for a while just now..." Lin Yanxing pressed his face on his shoulder, "That's why I came to find you..."

Then no one spoke, just snuggled up in silence.

Above the dim street lights is the dark cloud-covered night sky, and the shadows of the withered trees are shaking in the cold December wind, and frost has begun to bloom.

Lin Yanxing's arms were wrapped around Chen Yan's waist, tightening as if out of proportion. Chen Yan was strangled by him so hard to breathe, but he didn't complain, instead, he sank into his arms even more.

Lin Yanxing needs this, body temperature, breathing, the same regret and pain.

Chen Yan even wanted to kiss him, but unfortunately he didn't dare.

Finally Lin Yanxing spoke, hoarse and tired: "I didn't go to school in the afternoon and evening, and I didn't tell you, why didn't you ask?"

"I guess something is wrong with your family." Chen Yan said.

"I went to see Xia Yanyan for the last time in the afternoon." Lin Yanxing said, "In the ICU of the hospital, the doctors and nurses took her ventilator apart...and then...it's gone."

Chen Ren turned her face away and met his eyes. He had cried, more than once, and his eyes were bloodshot.

Chen Ren stroked his cheek with her fingers, and he looked straight at it, crying: "Your hands are so warm...they used to be cold..."

"I ran for 10 minutes." Chen Yan said softly.

"Let me hold..." Lin Yanxing said, "I don't want to let go."

"Let me hug you." Chen Yan pushed him into his arms, and was even willing to suddenly have a fever of 39 or [-] degrees, which would be hot to the touch, as long as Lin Yanxing was not cold.

Lin Yanxing spoke intermittently: "I just found out that Xia Yanyan was hospitalized today... Liu Jian called me and asked me to see her for the last time... He said that the tumor in his brain had burst, and he had been rescued for five days, and he was declared brain-dead... I don't know, no one told me."

"I'm dumbfounded, really dumbfounded... I heard Liu Jian crying on the phone, so I ran to check the calendar. Today isn't April [-]st. Why is April Fool's Day celebrated in winter?"

"Stop talking." Chen Yan couldn't bear it.

But Lin Yanxing wanted to say: "... Xia Yanyan chased me back in junior high school, but I didn't want to. She didn't know how to turn around when she hit a wall, so she insisted on being my friend. Well, after getting along for a long time, I found that she is quite nice..."

"...we only have feelings when we play together, and it fades away when we break up. Before we met in the chemistry competition, I hadn't contacted her for more than half a year. She seems to have another boy she likes. In a few years we might even forget about each other, but..."

"But she's gone..."

"I'm just sick. When I went to see her, she was lying on the bed. Her hair was shaved. There was a craniotomy on her head. Her face was swollen to the point of disfigurement...I'm so sick, the last time we met she was fine...she hurts Doesn't it hurt?"

Lin Yanxing buried her head and wept.

"Don't talk about it," Chen Yan put his arms around him, "She has gone back, and she is still a beautiful girl, always dashing and heroic. Don't worry about her injuries, she doesn't hurt."

Chen Li knew it all too well, the last few days really didn't hurt, if there were no such troublesome rescue methods, it would be more peaceful than ever, especially Xia Yanyan was still suffering from encephalopathy and was unconscious the whole time.

"...Does it really hurt?"

"It doesn't hurt." Chen Yan whispered, "Why does it still hurt when I'm about to go home?"

Lin Yanxing sobbed: "Hold me for a while...don't go."

"If you don't leave, you can hold her for as long as you want." Chen Yan said.

He is more than ten centimeters shorter than Lin Yanxing, no matter how he looks, he looks like throwing himself into his arms, but he doesn't care, he is even willing to open his chest, and tell Lin Yanxing with a warm heart, as long as you need, I will not let go .

Lin Yanxing was very painful. This was the first time in his life that he faced life and death directly.

He is so lucky. His parents and elders are all healthy and vigorous, and they seem to be able to live to be over a hundred years old. The old cat and dog raised by his grandmother are also quite long-lived.He didn't know that death took away a person so quickly and ruthlessly, completely disregarding her age, her cuteness, and how many people were reluctant to part with her.

"How long will you hold me?" Lin Yanxing asked.

Chen Yan thought how childish this question was: "Then I'll hold you until tomorrow morning?"

"No, I made a mistake, I want to ask... Will you suddenly abandon me like Xia Yanyan?" Lin Yanxing asked hoarsely, "How long will you stay with me?"

Chen Li never expected that this sentence would come out of Lin Yanxing's mouth, and she was stunned and fell silent.

He has thought about this question countless times, how long can he stay with him?

The conclusion is always short, one and a half years in terms of the rest of high school, and maybe half a year of phone contact after that.Life is always accompanied by separation, those who abandon me, those who mess with my heart.

How important Lin Yanxing was to him, but as long as Lin Yanxing wanted to leave, he would watch him and try to show open-mindedness and tranquility.

He said: "As long as you want, stay with me until you get bored."

Lin Yanxing lowered his head and quickly stared into his eyes: "I won't get bored."

"Really?" Chen Yan asked.

Lin Yanxing's graceful back arched up, his arms were almost pinching the opponent's waist, and he swore viciously: "Never!"

He was right, he didn't know at this time that the aftermath of Xia Yanyan's sudden death would be hidden for many years, and it would hit him hard during the rising stage of his career. Without Chen Ren, he couldn't avoid it at all.