Chapter 24 Twenty-three, breakpoint

Chen Jianxia's first reaction when he saw him was to run away. She turned her head and was about to flee to the door of the class, which was only a few steps away, but Li Ran had expected it. As soon as she got up, he said from behind: "I'm calling your name very loudly now, don't you think so?" Can all the classes on this floor hear it?" Chen Jianxia stopped quickly. "What's the matter with you?" She was ready. Mingming was happy in her heart, and she was relieved to see that he could still greet and joke with her so familiarly; however, her attitude became hard uncontrollably, and she didn't know why.

Is it because of shame?Afraid of being humiliated, so he took the lead in building a cold city wall? The more unbearable people are, the better at disguising high imitations. "Did I offend you?" Li Ran looked confused, "What did you see me running?" Chen Jianxia felt depressed.How can this question be thrown to her?Could it be that she was allowed to talk about the scandal in her own family?What's more, it's been so long, and he hasn't come to her, text or call, nothing, why should she talk to him? Thousands of words rushed in her heart, unable to break through, and finally turned into a constipated face.

Li Ran still tilted his head and waited for her answer, but Chen Jianxia just shook his head: "I'm going back to self-study." "Because I haven't looked for you for a long time, are you angry?" What's going on with this guy, he doesn't save face! Chen Jianxia could feel that her ears were scorched by flames, and instantly burned up, her face was also hot, so she could only hide in the shadow under the wall. Li Ran chuckled and was a little embarrassed: "My buddy's girlfriend was stolen by someone. I helped him go to the place. Who knew that guy was so cowardly and actually called the police. I'm the only one who's going to be the one to blame. The Pianer police were arrested, my dad went to fetch me, and there was a fight, so angry that I shaved my head."

Li Ran touched his round cut head: "It finally grew out, and I took a leave of absence for more than a week and didn't go to school." "Is it because you are not good at school?" Chen Jianxia smiled. Li Ran shook his head: "I'm handsome even with a bald head. Isn't this afraid of scaring you!" A flower bloomed in Chen Jianxia's heart in an instant, it was small, and it was particularly eye-catching in the desolation. She didn't know what to say in response, and hesitated to step forward, for fear of stepping on it with a rash step. After a while, she lowered her head and said, "I'm going back." After taking two steps, she turned around and added, "I'm not afraid."

She didn't see Li Ran's expression and ran away quickly. When he returned to the class and sat down, Chen Jianxia was a little annoyed.Why not add an extra word?I'm not afraid - I'm not afraid of "you".Say one more word, will it be different? But what exactly did she want to convey, and what did she want him to understand?Chen Jianxia held the pen and stared at the chemistry exercise paper on the desktop. The lines of element symbols were drawn into circles, slowly rotating in front of his eyes, and spiraled deep into his mind. She couldn't hold back, and secretly sent a short post.

"After school today, are you free?" Li Ran's text message was answered quickly, "Where will I see you?" She almost laughed. Li Ran is always like this, whenever she is coy and takes a small tentative step towards him, he can always run to her openly, quickly and without hesitation, before she changes her mind . She lowered her head and typed word by word: "Six o'clock, the side entrance of the school." The happy little heart was thumping, and all the elemental symbols were shaken out of his mind, scattered and disappeared. Maybe it was because he was in a good mood, or maybe it was because Chu Tiankuo kept his promise, the cleaning in the third class in the afternoon was not as difficult as Chen Jianxia imagined.

The classroom is a concrete floor, which has not been cleaned for a period of time. The oil droplets from lunch and the dust brought in from the outdoors have condensed on the surface. Every time, a special cleaning method is required-move all the tables, chairs and benches outside the door, and then pour a large bucket of water , Mix it with washing powder, wet the broom and draw a circular brush on the open space.Chu Tiankuo took the lead and led the four boys to bury their heads and brush the floor; seeing that Xia Hao happened to be wiping both sides of the same piece of glass with Lu Linlin, it made her feel extremely uncomfortable every time she met each other's eyes.

For some reason, a girl like Lu Linlin has such a face that people can't remember clearly, but she has such a pair of judging eyes, as if every look, every sneer, represents the aspirations of the people. Jian Xia squatted on the ground picking up waste newspapers, looked up and saw Yu Sisi walking past her carrying a stool, her eyes fixed and her mouth smiling. Yu Sisi always had a smile on her lips, and she would laugh loudly when she was happy, but she was not rude, just like the first time Jian Xia spoke to her in the infirmary.On the surface, the Baibang incident did not affect Yu Sisi's popularity in the class, nor did it damage her aura - if it were Chen Jianxia, ​​it might be a different situation.

This is Yu Sisi's ability.Gritting his teeth and smiling, he never evaded.Gradually, some unfavorable remarks against Chen Jianxia became rampant. Fortunately, Jianxia had almost no close friends in class, so no one could fully tell her the slander.However, the few words Lu Linlin revealed were enough to make her sullen for a long time. It was Yu Sisi who mobilized such a group of Lu Linlins to encircle and suppress the cautious Chen Jianxia.But Lu Linlin and the others have no stand. When Yu Sisi suffers, they always turn their faces to see her jokes, like a group of piranhas swarming past, killing the living and the familiar, and those who see it will suffer.

Chen Jianxia thought sadly, mechanically rubbing a small piece of glass with a newspaper, but didn't notice that the paper surface was worn out. At this time, a boy accidentally kicked the bucket over and splashed on Chu Tiankuo's trousers. Yu Sisi stood by the podium and hurriedly pulled out a clean cloth to meet her: "Boss, wipe it!" Chu Tiankuo thanked him with a smile, and was patting back and forth with a dry cloth with his head down, when suddenly there was silence around him. Ling Xiangqian appeared at the back door of Class 1, and the cleaning activity in the classroom seemed to be paused. Many boys did not dare to look at her blatantly, but they all stopped in unison.

"Chu Tiankuo, the director is looking for you." Ling Xiangqian smiled, took a step back after speaking, and did not leave. She just stood a little farther outside the door and waited openly, as if she didn't see anyone in the room because of her. There was no sound. With a lackluster student life, it is not surprising that a beautiful foreigner receives such attention.The strange thing is that the girl who is being watched is shining slightly, clearly taking a group of other disheveled girls out of appearance, but neither hiding her clumsiness nor showing off, behind that usual look is the arrogance in her bones, Chen Jianxia knew it Never learn. But she still subconsciously imitated Ling Xiangqian's posture, straightening her back and relaxing her shoulders, like a bluffing swan. Chu Tiankuo threw down the dry cloth, and walked towards the back door gracefully. Before leaving, he didn't forget to say: "Jian Xia, you lead everyone to continue cleaning." Only Yu Sisi was still standing abruptly in the center of the open space in the classroom. This position looked a bit awkward, and she was also dumbfounded.Jian Xia heard Lu Linlin let out a slight sneer. "Yu Sisi likes our monitor," Lu Linlin squinted at Chen Jianxia, ​​"Did you see that? It's no use." Look, the piranhas backfire so quickly. While talking, Yu Sisi walked straight towards them, took the dry cloth that Chu Tiankuo used to wipe his trouser legs, and smiled at Lu Linlin: "Linlin, go clean the blackboard slot, I'll do it." Lu Linlin put down the newspaper with great reluctance, turned her head three times a step at a time, Jian Xia couldn't bear that greedy look, and almost promised her that she would turn the whole conversation into storytelling, and asked her to go there with peace of mind. When Lu Linlin was far away, Yu Sisi slightly closed the window towards her, and pulled Chen Jianxia affectionately: "Come on, let's see if it's clean." Together they looked at the dark gray sky outside through the glass, and Yu Sisi examined it seriously: "Well, it's good, there are no fingerprints." Seeing Xia nodded in confusion, Yu Sisi moved closer to her ear and said cheerfully: "Li Ran likes Ling Xiangqian, do you know that?" "What's none of your business?" Chen Jianxia asked back. Are people's stress reactions more or less genuine?Just as Chen Jianxia blurted out "it's none of your business", not "it's none of my business". Yu Sisi's eyes were dim, she picked up the newspaper on the window sill, played catch, and said with a faint smile: "In the past, Ling Xiangqian took the No. 5 bus home, and Li Ran would follow along on a mountain bike, like a knight guarding a princess' car. , everyone in the High School Attached to Normal University knows." Chen Jianxia didn't pay attention to Yu Sisi, but passed every sentence through his ears.She concentrated on cleaning the window lattice, and commented indifferently: "Then you must be very sad." Yu Sisi was stunned. "The people I liked before liked Ling Xiangqian, and the people I like now also like Ling Xiangqian. You are so pitiful." Seeing that Xia threw down the rag after finishing speaking, he became unreasonably lighter. For the first time in his life, he pointed at the two boys aggressively and said, "I asked you to replace that bucket of water a long time ago, it's all black like that. How can you throw a rag!" She suddenly looked like a competent labor committee member.Breaking a can and breaking a can is sometimes synonymous with courage. Chen Jianxia turned her back to Yu Sisi, no one knew what expression she had on her face at the moment. In the last self-study class in the afternoon, Chen Jianxia finished ten reading comprehension articles in the special English training in one go. After finishing writing, he turned to the end of the workbook and corrected the answers—starting from the third question, there were fifty options in ten articles. Only four questions were correct. Seeing Xia Meng, staring at the red page at a loss.The tablemate Yu Zhouzhou picked up the cup to drink water, squinted at her curly face, and said, "Is the answer correct?" really.From the third question onwards, she read the wrong chapters, and continued to make mistakes along the answers to the next topic. It was so obvious that someone else had to remind her. "Thank you." Yu Zhouzhou glanced at her and frowned slightly: "Are you okay?" "What's wrong with me?" "Looks like I'm about to cry." Chen Jianxia wiped her eyes, but the back of her hand was really wet.It embarrassed her.Just now she was sleepy and tired and refused to lie down on the table to take a rest, just holding back her energy, fearing that Yu Sisi in the back row might misunderstand that she was crying at her desk.But emotions can't lie. She said embarrassedly: "I..." The other party's An Ran's gaze made her protracted "I" finally turn into a hasty smile, and she suddenly turned around: "I think Ling Xiangqian is so beautiful." Chen Jianxia didn't know what she meant when she mentioned Ling Xiangqian.Femininity was guiding her. Yu Zhouzhou nodded: "Yes." After one word, it's gone.Chen Jianxia was embarrassed, she really chose the wrong opponent for gossip. Unexpectedly, Yu Zhouzhou asked softly again: "Do you like Chu Tiankuo?" Seeing that Xia was so frightened that she almost knocked over the water glass, she was in a hurry to stabilize herself. Fortunately, the self-study class has not been quiet for a few months since the start of school. The buzzing voice in the classroom is like a safety net. Even Lu Linlin didn't notice that she and Yu Zhouzhou secret conversation. She blushed and shook her head: "No. Of course not." But she wasn't surprised that Yu Zhouzhou would ask this question.At least half of the girls in the class inquired about Ling Xiangqian because of Chu Tiankuo. Chen Jianxia thought it was funny, how could it be because she liked Chu Tiankuo——but then she was frightened by another fact: what was that because of? She stared at the water glass, completely dumbfounded, obviously stupid. What followed was deep depression. She always thought that the connection between herself and Li Ran was isolated from Zhenhua's tangled and huge wool, and it was a separate thread, weak but special.Only today did I realize that only she herself is a point outside the ball of wool, a lonely point. Chen Jianxia finally stopped holding on, and lay down on the table wearily.