Chapter 16 6. Blooming flowers

Yu Meilin's counseling and tutoring for Pei Xiaolong are usually placed when the psychological counseling room is free.On Saturday morning, the school has a half-day "additional class" and "small stove" for the sophomores.After that, Xiaolong went to the tutoring room for one or two hours of tutoring. He is a little distracted today.He found a strange birthmark under Yu Meilin's left neck, which seemed to be closely intertwined with her smooth skin, showing a darker purple-red color. In the surrounding whiteness, this mark was like a violet or alfalfa , in fact this is a beautiful mole.

He lowered his head and leaned forward a little, as if he wanted to touch the birthmark.Suddenly a shy thought came to him for no reason, and he retreated into the armchair, blushing slightly, and slowly lowered his eyelids, as if hypnotized. Yu Meilin felt eyes cast on her neck, and felt a little hot under her chin. She sometimes touched her neck by herself, especially behind her ears, but she was very calm and natural.She neither welcomed nor expelled the vague gaze, and her eyes did not leave the teaching materials and reference books on the table. In a daze, Pei Xiaolong heard the rapid ticking of the clock on the wall of the counseling room, and the rushing sound of his own blood.He found it strange that these two speeding rhythms were almost as slow as a snail compared with his ever-changing thoughts.

Seeing that he was distracted, Yu Meilin asked him, "Xiaolong, which university do you want to go to in your dream?" Pei Xiaolong still lowered his eyes, not daring to look at her and said, "I haven't made a final decision yet. I want to apply for the Central Academy of Fine Arts, but my mother wants me to apply for the Medical University." "Oh, so you're very talented in painting, aren't you?" Yu Meilin asked with great interest. Pei Xiaolong's eyes lit up immediately, like the bright sunshine, as if he came back from another beautiful world.He took out a picture album from his schoolbag, which contained all his studies.There are gouache paintings and ink paintings, and most of them are landscape paintings, still life paintings and portraits.He became radiant, and began to speak eloquently. He told her which painting was the award-winning work in the city's youth art competition, and which painting was sent to the national middle school students' art exhibition.

"Wow, your paintings are so beautiful." Yu Meilin exclaimed in surprise from her heart. She liked the student's artistic talent very much, and said, "It turns out that you have such a wonderful brush. He will be recommended to transfer to our school to study." "However, my mother said that painting takes too much time and will affect my studies and grades." Pei Xiaolong defended himself. Yu Meilin found a very special work called "Autumn Song" in the album, and she praised: "This painting is so beautiful." Pei Xiaolong told her that this painting was going to be enlarged to participate in the city's youth art exhibition competition, and it was just a draft of a drawing.

Yu Meilin looked at the painting carefully: on the field was a maple forest with brilliant autumn colors, silent and mysterious, and under the sunshine, it was like a burning flame all over the mountains and fields.In this raging forest, a skylark, full of fruits and drunk by the sun, flew out.Autumn, this gorgeous autumn, mixes its gold and purple with the last remaining bright green of the field, as if the sunlight melted into drops from the sky and fell into the grass, singing with a few flying bright red maple leaves. The first autumn song. "It's like being in a dream." Yu Meilin was full of joy, and she couldn't help touching the picture with her hand, "I really wish I had a painting too!"

"Teacher, I will give this painting to you!" Seeing that she liked it so much, Pei Xiaolong suddenly made up his mind and said. Yu Meilin was a little surprised. She smiled and said, "How is this possible? A gentleman does not take away someone's love. Besides, this is your entry. What I want to say is, when you have time, draw me a picture Portraits. But remember, you can only paint more beautiful, not ugly!" Yu Meilin said sincerely that her personality is full of love for art.Pei Xiaolong happily agreed.Yu Meilin added: "Today's tutoring time should not be too long. I heard that your mother is going abroad this afternoon. You should hurry home now and go to the airport to see her off."

Xiaolong said: "My mother took care of me and told me to do homework. She said that from now on, I should cherish every minute of my time." "How is this possible?" Yu Meilin said seriously, "Even my father and Professor Qin called your mother yesterday to say goodbye. In fact, you were the one who missed her the most before she left. She was just afraid of delaying your time." Just study. There is a saying, poor parents in the world. If you really don’t send her off, she will feel uncomfortable instead.” Pei Xiaolong saw that the teacher's analysis made every sentence reasonable. Although he missed this moment very much, his attachment to his mother forced him to leave early.

At this time, Yu Meilin thought of another thing, and told Pei Xiaolong: "From the middle of next week, a new teacher from the Normal University will come to the psychological counseling room for an internship. During this period, the study counseling will be temporarily transferred to my home." "Then, I can still draw a portrait for you!" Xiaolong was very happy. At noon, there was a torrential rain, and then it turned into a very fine autumn rain that could not be discerned, which soaked people's spirits and clothes.Because Pei Xiaolong was in a hurry to rush home to see his mother off, after escaping the torrential rain, he ran into the small drops of misty rain from the couple.

As soon as he ran out of the school gate, he saw some girls in the class holding umbrellas, stopped him laughingly, and handed him a note.He unfolded it and saw that it read: I've been kidnapped in the "Haunted House", come and save me! Huang Minmin Pei Xiaolong looked at the note and felt confused.He thought that this clever ghost girl would be "kidnapped" in broad daylight, and he wouldn't believe it if she was killed! "Haunted house" refers to the school's biological specimen room, where there are many specimens made of animal limbs, as well as imitation human skeletons, etc., because the senior students deliberately told some horror stories to scare the girls when they were doing experiments there. They gave it the code name "Haunted House".

What did Huang Minmin do in the "haunted house"?What the hell is this girl doing?Pei Xiaolong thought to himself, let's go and find out.He turned back and went back to the school, and ran to the biology room to see that the door was locked, and there was no light or sound in the room.He knocked on the door, but still nothing happened.In the midst of being suspicious, I saw a note on the window sill, and opened it to read: I'm by the iron gate in the backyard of the school, come quickly! Huang Minmin He quickly ran to the back garden of the school, saw Huang Minmin suddenly turned out of the tree, clapped his hands and laughed and said, "It's fun, it's fun, you really are here!"

"Are you sick? You took the wrong medicine! What's the fun, it's so boring!" Seeing that he was being tricked, Pei Xiaolong became angry from his gallbladder. "Don't be angry!" Huang Minmin begged for mercy, and said coquettishly, "Is he just trying to play tricks on you?" "You are playing the game of 'Wolf is coming', be careful to lift a rock and shoot yourself in the foot." Pei Xiaolong turned around and left after finishing speaking. Huang Minmin hurriedly begged him, "Don't go, don't go! I have something important to discuss with you." "I don't want to hear it!" Xiaolong continued to walk forward. Huang Minmin rushed in front of him, stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "There is indeed something important. I organized a few students in the class who love sketching to go on an outing in autumn. Don't you like painting very much? How about going together?" "No!" Pei Xiaolong said angrily. "Wow, don't be so lonely, how about you look unfeeling and righteous? Are you sick? By the way, it's called autism." Huang Minmin said sharply. "Yeah, you're right! I'm sick, so I'm—not going!" "Could it be that Poppy called you, so you go?" Huang Minmin said coldly. When Pei Xiaolong saw that she used the nickname "Poppy" to call teacher Yu Meilin, he felt a hint of hostility in her voice, which made him very surprised and surprised!He felt confused and didn't want to get too entangled in these things. "Whoever calls, I won't go!" He pointed at Huang Minmin with his finger, gritted his teeth, raised a fist and waved at her threateningly, and said, "Don't follow me anymore! I have something to do, be careful I will beat you!" After speaking, he ran away.Huang Minmin looked at his back, turned around and looked at the window of the psychological counseling room in the school building, and said with some hostility: "Wait, I don't believe it..." Pei Xiaolong hurried home, and his mother had already gone to the airport.She left him a voice recorder and told him not to come see her off and spend all his time studying. His mother's loving and tender eyes flashed in his mind again, it used to be his air, his nourishment, but he didn't even know it.A strange thought arose in his heart, maybe he would never see his mother again after a long time, he was taken aback by his fearful thought, the childhood attachment to his mother suddenly seemed like lightning The words quickly passed through his mind.He looked at the time, suddenly dropped his schoolbag and ran out of the house. On the street, he hailed a taxi and headed to the airport.He feels that time flies too fast, and he hasn't chewed it carefully minute by minute... Is it too late?Can he catch up... All kinds of thoughts swirled in his mind like a whirlwind. The taxi was already running fast on the expressway, but Xiaolong felt that it was still too slow!He kept urging the driver, begging him to speed up, speed up! Under the blue sky, the building of the airport looks like a giant ship on the ocean. Its roof is like a full sail on the blue sea, shining in the sunshine after the autumn rain, dazzlingly bright.The departure lounge of the airport is very crowded, with luggage everywhere, and passengers file by.Pei Xiaolong couldn't find his sense of direction in the living room. He started looking at every check-in desk, no, no!He ran to the boarding entrance again. There were quite a lot of passengers and they were very supportive, but he didn't find his mother. At this time, he remembered a somewhat superstitious and absurd game he played when he was a child, called "casting a spell". Whoever is in your mind, just say the "spell" a few times and pray, that person will appear. Pei Xiaolong didn't believe in this kind of game for a long time, but today he seems to have returned to his childish and virginal childhood, and he can't help but concentrate on this kind of "magic". He closed his eyes, put his hands together, and prayed: "Mom, show up, show up, let me see you!" Xiaolong opened his eyes. Maybe it was a miracle or a coincidence. He saw the figure of his mother at the luggage checkpoint at the entrance. She smiled and waved to him, as if telling him something, but the voices in the hall It was so loud that he couldn't hear what she was saying.He wanted to run into the entrance, but was stopped majestically by a security guard. When I looked again, my mother's figure had disappeared.At this time, there was a strong hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw his father standing beside him affectionately. Feeling lonely and annoyed, he involuntarily approached his father's shoulder, and there was a big, imperceptible crystal teardrop secretly rolling in his eyes... On the way to Yu Meilin's house for tutoring lessons, Pei Xiaolong suddenly remembered that today is the Mid-Autumn Festival in the lunar calendar, and he wanted to give the teacher some gifts or something. He saw a flower shop and went in.They are all grown in greenhouses.The branches of calamus are about two feet high, and the light red flowers are like carmine, protruding vertically and horizontally among the densely wrapped branches and leaves. Although he likes it, he feels that it is inconvenient to carry it. And roses are naturally the king of flowers and the queen of flowers, they emit a strong aroma, large pink, golden or scarlet flowers, on dark green stalks in full bloom, almost surprisingly vigorous.Xiaolong felt that they were like beautiful women with disheveled hair, so he didn't like them.Tulips are too expensive, Phalaenopsis is too small and delicate, like a group of chicks, they are fluttering and will fall from the branches at any time... Chrysanthemums of various colors are so tight that they cuddle together, like a group of chrysanthemums holding spears The army, with bright colors like fire, unyielding and proud, seems to have a power to seduce people's hearts. Xiaolong finally chose a few lilies, they were not fully bloomed yet, a few slender petals shyly curled around its moist heart, and a few crystal drops of water were shining on the petals.It is said that their flowers are white, but I don’t know how many shades of colors they have—and they are so moist, like pearls... Xiaolong came to Yu Meilin's house, he hoped that the teacher would be pleasantly surprised when he saw his gift.He knocked on the door, but the door was not locked, and he went straight in. Yu Meilin was busy preparing lessons and writing lesson plans in the study, when she heard Pei Xiaolong's voice entering the room, she didn't bother to raise her head, and said, "It's Xiaolong." Is it? You review your homework in the living room first, and I will finish what I am doing later, and then I will tutor you. " Seeing that she was busy, Xiaolong ran quietly to the kitchen without saying a word, trying to find a vase to put the flowers in the water.He searched all around, but he couldn't find any vases to hold water. Finally, he saw a white porcelain vase on the window sill of the living room. There were some flower arrangements in it, but the petals were shriveled and withered, like an old woman with unkempt hair.He threw away the flowers inside and was about to insert the lilies.At this time, there was another knocking and opening of the door. He turned his head and saw a man holding a bouquet came in. This was Yu Meilin's boyfriend Cheng Yifen.He held a bouquet of densely-flowered roses, brightly colored and fragrant, like a radiant, proud and gorgeous lady. Xiaolong quickly hid his lilies behind his back, stood motionless by the corner of the window sill, feeling very nervous. Cheng Yifen was surprised at first, then he seemed to think of something, and said: "You are probably the student who came to make up lessons, your name is Pei Xiaolong? Mei Lin told me about it." Xiaolong nodded, but he still didn't say a word, standing motionless. The boyfriend asked again: "What subjects do you make up for? English, math?" "English." Xiaolong replied in a low voice. "Oh, you don't have to be so nervous." The boyfriend looked towards the study and said, "Is she preparing lessons?" Xiaolong nodded, covering the flowers with both hands behind his back, moving around the corner like a primary school student who has done something wrong.Cheng Yifen happened to see the empty white porcelain vase on the window sill at this time, so he put the rose in the vase and said, "You know I'm coming, have you prepared it in advance?" Then, he made another grimace, patted Xiaolong on the shoulder, and said softly, "What did you do wrong to stand here? She is a terrible teacher, isn't she?" Xiaolong smiled awkwardly, but this smile was frozen and lacklustre.The boyfriend walked towards the study room and muttered, "You are playing with your life! Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival and your birthday. Are you risking your life to not let others take a breath? It is better than the outstanding teachers in the country..." Yu Meilin was in the back room, and when she heard him complaining, she shouted: "You are too impatient! Who told you to come so early? Well, I will invite you to have dinner with Xiaolong tonight." At this moment, Xiao Longan quickly put the flowers in her hand into the vase, and they were set off by roses, and they looked pure, dignified, and peaceful by the window sill, like a slim young girl standing among a group of beautiful women , maybe these flowers will fight to the death with their own beauty...