Chapter 31 Section 5

The TOEFL test took place on a Saturday in late August, and the weather was extremely hot.The test center is located in a university in the city.Shao Yimin referred to the tips on the Internet and Liu Hongyu's suggestion, prepared the test equipment, brought chocolate and bottled water, and rushed over early.After the morning exam, it was a severe test of physical strength, and she was a little dizzy when she came out. The noon sun outside was shining directly down, scorching hot and dazzling.Candidates who knew each other and didn't know each other exchanged their test results while walking outside. Some people complained about the poor quality of the headphones in the test room, and heard a "rustling" noise as soon as they were put on.She smiled wryly, and sat down on a stone bench under the shade of a tree, planning to leave later, so as not to squeeze the bus with a lot of people.

She thought carefully about the test just now. The listening part was her relative weakness. She felt uncomfortable when she put on the earphones. After listening to it with pain and tinnitus, she felt very affected. It is estimated that it is impossible to get a good score in this test. Everything else It's normal.But after all, the time for preparation is limited, and she has to explore all by herself, so she is not sure about the final result.Thinking about it again, I couldn't help shaking my head. If I did well in the exam, I wouldn't be able to apply for a school this year, so I had to comfort myself. At worst, I'll take the exam again next year.

Shao Yimin was lost in thought when suddenly a figure covered her eyes, blocking the sunlight that shone through the shade of mottled trees. When she looked up, she couldn't help being surprised, it was Su Zhe standing in front of her.He was looking down at her with his usual indifferent expression, and handed her a bottle of mineral water: "How did you do in the exam?" "Average." She hesitated, "Why are you here?" "I came over at eight o'clock in the morning to watch you enter the examination room." He said calmly. "Is there a problem?"

He looked at her like an idiot, she was dumb, knowing that her question was too boring, but her head was still full of exams, she really didn't know what to say to him. "I'm not addicted to waiting at school on a hot day, so, yes, I'm busy." Shao Yimin frowned and looked at him in confusion, rubbing his ears.Su Zhe was a little irritated by this gesture: "Even if what I say is meaningless to you, you don't have to make such an obvious gesture of distrust?" "I'm sorry, I just... have tinnitus a little recently. If I don't trust it, then I don't trust my ears." Yi Min put down her hand with a wry smile, "My listening test probably failed."

Su Zhe looked at her with a sullen face. After a long time, he stretched out a hand to pull her up: "Let's go." Shao Yimin was a little puzzled when she got into his car, but looking at Su Zhe's tense face, she knew that no matter what she said now, she might inevitably quarrel, and she didn't have any strength or mood to quarrel with others, so she simply kept silent . Su Zhe didn't speak, and directly drove the car to a Chaozhou restaurant to stop, but she said bluntly: "No appetite, don't want to eat." He was also rude: "You have to eat if you don't have an appetite, look at yourself as a refugee now."

Recently, she hated the smell of oil. Of course she knew that she was too thin to be thinner, so she could only be discouraged: "Change the head office, I want to eat something light." He started the car and drove to a porridge restaurant, without asking her anything, ordered her a longan and lotus seed porridge, and himself a seafood porridge, and then ordered a few light dishes.But he hardly ate anything, just watched her eat without expression.The look in his eyes made her feel terrified, but the porridge was still very delicious, which matched her lack of appetite now, so she ate it a little angrily.

After eating, the two walked out of the restaurant. Shao Yimin stopped and was about to speak when Su Zhe turned to stare at her: "You don't necessarily have to leave after eating and wiping your face." "If you want to quarrel with me on purpose, let's change the time, okay? I'm really tired today, and I have to go to work tonight. Now I just want to go back to the dormitory and have a good sleep." She saw his face darken even more , but couldn't control himself for the first time, and added, "And I thought the goodbye we said was the kind that we would never have to see each other again."

"Go to sleep at my place. I guess the dormitory should be hotter than a steamer." He didn't get angry. He squinted his eyes and looked at her. Seeing her disapproval, he added coldly, "You don't think I I took you back just to sleep with you, right?" "I don't have that much confidence in my body. It shouldn't be too much trouble for you to find someone to sleep with. You don't have to come to me so difficult for this reason. But I have too much confidence in your body. I said it even more Just be direct, I'm afraid I'll remember you too deeply, especially now, I've almost forgotten you."

"Before I forget you, you better not forget me." Shao Yimin stared at him dumbfounded: "What is this? I didn't pull your sleeves to prevent you from leaving, so I hurt your self-esteem?" "My self-esteem is not that fragile, and I don't need you to sacrifice it to maintain it, and I never expected you to have a bitter scene with anyone." Su Zhe still said coldly, "However, we must stand on the sidelines now. Arguing under the sun?" The noon sun was shining hotly on the two of them at this time, and after a while, both of them were already sweating profusely.

Before she could speak, he held her hand and walked towards the parking place, opened the car door, and pushed her in. A wave of heat rushed out of the car, even though the air-conditioning was turned to the maximum as soon as he got in the car, it took a while It just cooled down. Su Zhe drove the car into the tree-lined avenue leading to his house. The dense shade of the trees blocked the sunlight into soft light and shadow. The hot local summer came here, which was strangely greatly diluted.He turned into the community and parked, and Shao Yimin got off.The sunlight pierced through the cracks in the leaves, dazzled her eyes.This was the first time she came here since the beginning of summer, and she could only hear the long chirping of cicadas one after another. It was not noisy, but it added a little lazy feeling that is unique to summer afternoons.

The air conditioner is turned on in the room, the temperature is very low, the window screen is half closed, the light is soft, and the wooden ceiling fan in the living room turns slowly, making it a bit chilly when you walk in. "Go take a shower and sleep for a while. I'll call you when the time comes." Su Zhe turned and entered the guest room without looking at her. Shao Yimin stared at the door he slammed for a while, then put down her schoolbag angrily, feeling that she was sticky with sweat, so she walked into the master bedroom and saw her pajamas were lying on the bed.She honestly took it into the bathroom to take a shower, came out to think about it, and set the phone alarm clock to five o'clock.The city's high temperature of over 37 degrees Celsius has lasted for a week. At night, she and Luo Yin and Jiang Xiaolin brought a mat to sleep on the roof. Of course, it can't be said that she slept well. Now she is lying in a room with a room temperature of only 23 degrees Celsius. He fell asleep almost without thinking about anything. When the cell phone rang on time, Shao Yimin was dreaming about the exam. In a large empty classroom, there are scattered faces all around.There was a stack of test papers in front of her. The topics seemed to be functional analysis, complex variable functions, etc. She didn't pay attention to these things at all, but now she couldn't finish it. She was in a hurry, but the bell rang for the end.She jumped up in fright, and it took a while to regain her senses. She stopped the phone and rang, her heart was pounding, and she was a little bit dumbfounded. The exam made a nightmare. Su Zhe walked to the bedroom door and looked at his watch: "It's still early, don't you go to work at six?" "I have to go back to school to get my work clothes first." She frowned thinking about the dream just now, and felt that it was really incomprehensible, so she could only shake her head, got out of bed, picked up her clothes and ran into the bathroom to change. When she came out, Su Zhe had already taken the key and her schoolbag and stood at the entrance, looking like a standard boyfriend, as if there was no quarrel between them, and everything was the same as before.She felt that her strange dream was obviously not over yet, but she didn't have time to say anything to him right now, so she followed him downstairs to the car without saying a word. Su Zhe drove the car to the North Gate of Normal University familiarly. The holidays here are relatively loose, and foreign vehicles can drive in directly.He drove the car to the dormitory building and parked it: "If you don't want to be late, you can get down within five minutes. I will take you to eat before going to work." She was completely helpless with his self-talk.She went out in the morning wearing a T-shirt, a denim knee-length skirt, and sandals. The store's policy was long pants and sneakers, so she had to rush upstairs to change and pack her work clothes. Luo Yin wandered around with a social news reporter and a photojournalist for most of the day today, covering the so-called comprehensive news about all walks of life in society and the continuous high temperature and heat.The two reporters, a man and a woman, are veterans. They went to office buildings, companies, markets and other places to interview, and sent her to interview passers-by, small business vendors, and migrant workers waiting in line for the bus on the scorching sun.Luo Yin's clothes were soaked with sweat several times, his skin was sore from the sun, he drank several bottles of water non-stop, and felt dehydrated.While almost all the interviewees under the scorching sun complained angrily and were impatient, she still gritted her teeth and finished the task. The reporter teacher, who was always harsh, looked at the usually delicate and cheerful little girl with a pale face, and finally moved her heart. She rewarded the agency for praising Luo Yin, finished her interview first, and promised that a section of the comprehensive report would arrange this for her. The intern signed independently, and then asked her to go back to school early to rest. Luo Yin was in a good mood, and felt that although his clothes were almost covered with a layer of salt crystals, his whole body smelled of sweat, and his skin was so tanned that he felt distressed, but it was not in vain.She walked towards the dormitory while eating an ice cream cone. After a while, she saw the Jetta parked under the dormitory. When she got closer, she saw the man smoking and talking on the phone next to the car. Her heart ached. Suddenly jumped up. She tried to maintain a normal speed and walked towards the dormitory. When she got closer, she couldn't help but look at him. Just when Su Zhe turned around to look at the dormitory, his gaze passed her inadvertently, and then turned around and continued to make a phone call: "Yes, ten minutes, um, good." The voice came into Luo Yin's ears in a deep and pleasant voice. He was wearing a white T-shirt and dark trousers, with the same indifferent expression as last time. He squeezed the smoke between his slender fingers, slowly took it away from his mouth, and exhaled a puff of smoke.Luo Yin only felt that her whole body and mind seemed to be drifting away with the smoke. She was ashamed of this overly literary idea, and walked into the dormitory with quicker steps, almost bumping into Yi Min who was walking out with a backpack. "Hi, are you going out?" Luo Yin said without words. Shao Yimin nodded, then pointed to the ice cream in her hand: "Be careful." As soon as the words fell, Luo Yin felt a chill on his chest, and a large ball of melted ice cream dripped onto his clothes.Shao Yimin found it funny: "Let's go first, goodbye." Luo Yin walked up the stairs, and there was a large mirror at the corner.She stopped and looked at herself in the mirror. Her short hair was disheveled, part of it was turned up, and part of it was stuck to her forehead with sweat. Her skin had already been tanned in the summer. She was wearing a big bag on her back, and she was drenched in sweat. His T-shirt was crumpled and shapeless, with a chocolate-colored stain on his chest. She looked at herself, stuffed the cone into her mouth, and thought: Well, she has to thank this man for just a casual glance at herself.Even though she didn't have any courage to strike up a conversation with him at this time, and guessed that it would be impossible to do such a thing in the future, she still didn't want to fall into his eyes in such a mess. The sound of a car starting came from outside the dormitory. Luo Yin walked to the corner window, just in time to see the Jetta turning around in front of the dormitory neatly.She said to herself, other people's men, other people's love, being an audience is already very boring, and being infatuated can only be described as pathetic.