Chapter 29 28. Arctic Snow

The place for "remedial lessons" is McDonald's near the school.Li Ran pushed open the heavy glass door in front, Chen Jianxia smiled generously and said, "I've never eaten McDonald's, I only have KFC over there." As soon as he entered the door, he saw Yu Dan leading his daughter with his left hand and holding a McDonald's take-out paper bag with his right hand, walking towards the door.Chen Jianxia's heart skipped a beat, and he instinctively wanted to turn around and leave, but Yu Dan had already seen her. "Chen Jianxia?" Seeing that Xia was so nervous that he was almost stammering, he smiled dryly and said, "Hello, Teacher Yu."

Yu Dan's eyes paused for a moment on the face of Li Ran who passed her by. When he found that Li Ran didn't even see Xia and went straight to order food, he finally realized that the two of them didn't know each other and just happened to enter the door together.Yu Dan's face relaxed a little, and he just frowned slightly when he saw Xia: "Why don't you go to the cafeteria?" Is it a luxury to eat McDonald's?I also often eat KFC at home.Jian Xia was a little displeased with Yu Dan's rigidity, and even felt that she looked down on him as a foreign student.

"Because I want to eat McDonald's." Without even thinking about it, his temper leaked out from his mouth.Seeing Xia Yuguang, Li Ranxiao, who was ordering food with his back turned to him, bent over. Yu Dan was also very surprised, but he didn't say anything. He asked "Go back to the dormitory early" and took his daughter away. Chen Jianxia instantly became annoyed.She replied bluntly, and she didn't kneel down to praise Yu Dan's daughter. Whose parents don't want others to yell and praise their child when they meet each other, "It's so cute and beautiful. How old is it? What's it called?" The name is so cute"... On the contrary, she acted as if she had never seen someone with a child at all, why is she so incapable of being a human being.

The door was closed, and seeing Xia still turned his head to stare, he thought about it in a daze, until Li Ran hit his forehead. "I don't know what you want to eat, and I couldn't ask just now, so I just ordered some." Li Ran first grabbed a hamburger and took a bite, then put it down, tore off the lid and used it as a plate, filled with tomatoes Sauce. Jian Xia picked up the French fries and dipped them absent-mindedly: "You react so fast." Li Ran smiled: "I'm used to it. If you do too many shady things, of course you will hide from the teacher."

"What's so shameful about us eating together." Jian Xia stiffened his mouth. "I have to ask you!" Li Ran ate until his cheeks puffed up, "If you think you can meet people, why didn't you call me in front of your teacher just now? 'Li Ran, I want to eat a Big Mac!' —you are shouting!" Li Ran squeezed his throat to imitate Chen Jianxia's speech, but Chen Jianxia kicked him from under the table. Chen Jianxia wiped her mouth with a paper towel when she was full, and commented condescendingly: "French fries are good, nothing else is as good as KFC."

"I think Xindi is okay." “Not as good as a sundae.” "You wait!" After Li Ran finished speaking, he got up and went out, leaving Jian Xia alone on the seat looking at his schoolbag, and ran back within five minutes, holding a cone in each of his left and right hands. "Come on, take a sip of each." Jian Xia blinked her eyes, obediently took a bite of each, carefully screened them, and reluctantly pointed to one of them: "This one." Li Ran laughed so hard that his mouth almost crooked: "This is from McDonald's!" Seeing Xia's face was a little red, she poked her neck and said, "I haven't finished talking yet, I mean this...is not as delicious as that."

Li Ran didn't continue to argue with her, and handed her the KFC cone, and ate the McDonald's cone by himself, taking the first bite on the gap that Jian Xia had bitten. Chen Jianxia felt that this bite had bitten her heart. She lowered her head and took out the basic Chinese knowledge manual from her schoolbag, and said softly, "Hurry up, it's time to study." Giving lectures to Li Ran is a particularly troublesome thing, because he doesn't care about what he should pay attention to at all, but he asks endlessly about what he shouldn't pay attention to, and he always argues with her.When Chen saw Xia talking about Lu Xun, Li Ran said that Lu Xun had divorced his eldest wife, and that the eldest wife still served her in-laws all her life.

"What are you doing! It doesn't matter if he doesn't flush the toilet after going to the toilet! If you want to carry it, you can carry it!" Chen Jianxia finally lost his temper and put the book directly on Li Ran's face.It was already 8:30, the provincial capital in winter was always very lifeless, there were very few pedestrians on the street, and they were the only diners left in the restaurant. "I have a few exercise books I haven't done yet, and I have to talk about it in class tomorrow, so what are you talking about here!" Jian Xia began to collect things angrily.

Li Ran took the book off his face, carefully smoothed out the wrinkles and returned it to Jian Xia, holding her hand to collect things: "The door closes at ten o'clock, you can write here, I won't disturb you. Yes Now, you take out the CD, let's listen to the music! Have you brought it?" Chen Jianxia blushed, pulled out her hand quickly and reluctantly, and nodded. Li Ran took the CD and handed the power cord to Chen Jianxia: "You put this away, the battery ran out today, go back and charge it yourself. It should have been given to you long ago." "Is it okay if you just give me a CD player?"

"You asked me a few months ago, Moji is dead." "At that time, it was because you gave me Yu Sisi's CD, and you felt sorry. Now you have avenged me, and the matter is over. I can no longer keep your CD." Li Ran observed Chen Jianxia's expression: "Are you still angry with me?" Jian Xia instinctively felt that this question was a bit strange, as if they were very close - she was a little happy, but on the surface she remained indifferent: "I... I asked you something, you answer carefully." Li Ran sniffed out the danger, and immediately shook his head like a rattle: "Don't ask, it must be nothing good, don't you want to do the questions? Do it quickly."

Chen Jianxia lightly tapped the table with the pen tip, and was stunned for a while. What can she ask?Did you like Yu Sisi very much back then?If it weren't for your buddy Liang Yibing standing on the moral high ground to obstruct it, wouldn't the two of you have a good chat?You like any pretty girl, Ling Xiangqian or Yu Sisi...but I'm not pretty. How do you feel about me?Others can't say anything, I want to listen to you. However, Chen Jianxia did not dare to try again.She used to be afraid that the answer would be no, but now she was afraid that the answer would be yes - that would make her unable to end, and it was ten thousand times more thrilling than meeting Yu Dan at McDonald's today. The guilt in his heart suppressed Chen Jianxia's curiosity and jealousy.Sure enough, she stopped asking, and reached out for an earphone, put it on herself, and lowered her head to read "Wang Hou Xiong's Chemistry Handbook". Jay Chou is still in the earphones, but with a different album.Jian Xia was obsessed with the background sounds, the sound of machine guns, helicopter propellers... it made her write quickly.Today's test was very smooth, I don't know if it should be attributed to the good mood brought to me by the boring guy next to me. "You don't come home so late, are you okay?" "They don't care." "Oh." Jian Xia closed the chemistry workbook, opened the mathematics, and continued to find the inverse function. Li Ran played snake-eating and whack-a-mole games with his mobile phone while resting his cheeks, and suddenly turned to look at her.Under the bright white lights of McDonald's, Chen Jianxia's side profile is not very good-looking, her pointed nose is still a little oily, and she looks like she is working hard on the questions.It's just that the drooping eyelashes are so cute, trembling slightly with the posture of writing. Chen Jianxia still lowered his head to calculate, but his face was slightly flushed because of his gaze: "Look at me." "I thought you were so serious about the questions that you couldn't feel it." "I have peripheral vision, thank you." Li Ran closed his phone, lay down on the table, and said out of nowhere: "From now on, you can study at McDonald's." "Why?" Jian Xia instinctively asked back, stunned for a moment, and then shifted his gaze from the textbook to the listless Li Ran. It looks a little pitiful. "Can you do it?" Li Ran asked again, raised his eyes to look up at her, and squeezed out the wrinkles on his forehead. Seeing Xia nodded, he stretched out his hand out of nowhere and patted Li Ran's hairy head. At 9:30, the clerk began to turn the stools upside down on the table by area and wipe the floor back and forth with the mop.Chen Jianxia felt a little embarrassed to sit down again. Only then did she realize that Li Ran had fallen asleep lying on the table.She took off the earphones and heard An Tian's breathing from him. Chen Jianxia was a bit reluctant to pat him awake. After a while, the clerk wiped the floor nearby and touched Li Ran's feet. He got up in a jerk: "What time is it?" "It's time to go," Chen Jianxia said, "It's closing time." Li Ran put on a thin down jacket, picked up his schoolbag with his arms open, and was stopped by Jian Xia: "Zip up the zipper, you will catch a cold if you go out right after waking up, why don't you wear more!" She thought for a while, took off her scarf, and tiptoed to wrap it around Li Ran's neck.Li Ran was stunned, and when he realized it, he hurriedly pulled it down: "Why do you give it to me, put it on yourself!" "I'm fine. Put on the hat and pull the zipper to the top. Look, it's protected all the way to the mouth. Does it look like an astronaut?" Chen Jianxia quickly armed himself, and then stretched out his hand again to help him wrap the scarf tightly. A little shy, "It's a pity that it's made of chemical fiber, not wool, and it can't withstand the wind. You, you can just wear it." Li Ran didn't evade any more, and somehow calmed down. His entire face was retracted into the scarf, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and after a while he said in a low voice, "Let's go, I'll take you back." As we walked, snow began to fall, sneaking into the light from the darkness, finely crushed, and fell coolly on the face.The whole world is like a silent hourglass, two long shadows are covered by time. Chen Jianxia kept walking with her head up, staring obsessively at the messy snowflakes under the orange light, as if she was approaching a dream, she just smiled and couldn't restrain herself at all. "Why are you still wearing earphones?" Li Ran asked. Jian Xia took it off immediately on purpose: "I'm sorry I forgot, you didn't intend to give me the earphone." Li Ran was confused for a long time before he remembered the scene of their first meeting.When we parted, in front of their monitor, he angrily snatched the headset back from her hand. He was embarrassed: "I plan to give it to you this time, otherwise how would you listen when you go back." "I'm kidding you, I have the earphones of the repeater, and I can listen to them as well." "This one is from Sony, and the sound quality is good." "Yes, yes, everything about you is fine." Li Ran stretched out his hand to pull the earphones on one side and put them on for himself: "Of course mine is fine. Come on, let's listen together." They're thickly clothed, they walk awkwardly, like half-witted conjoined robots connected by thin headphone wires. The music that sounded was "Arctic Snow", this year's new album.Li Ran was surprised: "Don't listen to Jay Chou?" "I've cycled through it twice, and found that you still have a copy of Kelly Chen, so I'll give it a try." "It's not mine, someone else left it behind." "Who are the others?" "Why do you always manage so broadly?" Chen Jianxia's face darkened and he stopped talking. A man and a woman in the earphones were singing "Maybe my tears and my smile are just perfect performances", Chen Jianxia suddenly understood that sometimes it is better to act.She once felt that Li Ran was thorough and sharp, and thought that she could always remain natural in front of him, listen to music whenever she wanted to, never had McDonald's, she never had McDonald's, she didn't need to pretend anything - but Yu SiSi showed enthusiasm Doesn't simplicity also move his heart?Between people, it is always necessary to hide the real roughness so as not to scratch the fragile bond. "It's Xu Hui. Don't worry about it." Just as she finished her self-reflection, there was an awkward sentence over there. "What do I have to worry about?" Chen Jianxia didn't have a long memory at all, and asked again. "You know it in your heart." "I don't know." Chen Jianxia vomited after she finished speaking, why did she start to say such boring and idiotic words, as if she was acting in a TV series. But Li Ran got excited: "Then what's the matter with your hypocritical squad leader? Why did he slap your head? His hands and feet are not clean." Chen Jianxia almost burst out laughing.Dirty hands and feet - who can connect this comment with Chu Tiankuo?In the whole world, I am afraid that only Li Ran can say that about Chu Tiankuo. It's for her. None of them thought about what position they stood in to judge and interfere with each other, but they were very familiar with it, and no one would tell the truth, allowing that little bit of domineering to ferment in their hearts. A thought that had been silent for a long time came to Chen Jianxia's mind inappropriately. She turned her head to look at Li Ran, thought twice, and asked again: "Last time, when I went home, did you hear the quarrel on the phone?" "What's the fight?" "Stop pretending," Jian Xia lowered her head and said softly, "The more you do this, the more embarrassing I will be." Embarrassed by his poor performance, Li Ran scratched his nose: "Who doesn't quarrel at home, what's the matter?" "But not all of them are so ugly." Li Ran did not comfort her.In the silence, Chen Jianxia's heart sank little by little. Why do you have to bring it up yourself?Bring shame on yourself.In that pale noon, the tearing up between mother and aunt was vivid in his mind, what would Li Ran think when he heard those middle-aged women's sharp howls and continuous swearing? Jian Xia's breathing made frost on the zipper of his nose.She didn't wear gloves, one hand was in her pocket, and the other was hooked to her food pocket. Although the down jacket sleeves covered most of the back of her hands, her exposed fingertips were still cold. Li Ran noticed: "Is it cold, what is this, carry it for me." "It's not cold, it's okay. This is the rice bag." "The school has a cafeteria, why do you bring meals?" "It's fruit. I wash some apples and oranges by myself every day. I cut them into pieces and take them with me. I can eat them between classes." "give it to me." "You're not wearing gloves, either." Seeing that Xia Xia's voice hadn't finished yet, Li Ran's warm palm covered the back of his hand carrying the rice bag.He wrapped her whole hand and held it tightly. "Then let's carry it together." Li Ran said. Chen Jianxia only heard the sound of her own heartbeat in the hood of the down jacket, rumbling like a buckled drum, ringing in her ears. The dormitory building is right in front of you.Why is it so close.