Chapter 42 41. Norwegian Forest

At the end of the class committee in the afternoon, I just remembered the get out of class bell.Chu Tiankuo dismissed the other class committee members, and asked the life committee member Chen Jianxia to stay alone, and accompany him to the school logistics to receive the newly distributed cleaning tools. "I've seen it all." Chu Tiankuo said suddenly. Seeing Xia's heart skipping a beat, she didn't panic when she realized it. Chu Tiankuo is a person who sits perfectly and is beyond reproach, but he never makes a fuss or criticizes other people's outrageous behavior.Jian Xia was sure that he would respect or ignore him, so he probably forgot about scaring her after a few words.

"If you see it, you will see it." She made a straight face. "Why didn't you ask me what I saw?" "Is it interesting?" "Your reaction is meaningless." Chen Jian Xia lowered his eyelids: "Then give me another chance." Chu Tiankuo raised his eyebrows, paused, and said again: "I've seen it all." "What did you see?" Jian Xia panicked exaggeratedly, "You, don't talk nonsense!" It was the first time she saw Chu Tiankuo smiling so heartily: "Chen Jianxia, ​​your acting skills are too exaggerated!"

The two were laughing at the corner of the corridor in the administrative area. A figure turned around holding the paper and stopped when he saw them. "Ah," Jian Xia stopped laughing, "It's you." Ling Xiangqian was only slightly stunned for a moment, and immediately smiled as usual, nodded to the two of them respectively, and left lightly sideways. Jian Xia glanced at Chu Tiankuo and explained, "We are in a make-up class." "I'm taking a physics competition class next door to you, otherwise how could I have witnessed your scene yesterday?"

"Then she went to make up classes for you? No wonder she doesn't attend lectures at all. Her grades are so good, she probably doesn't need to attend lectures." Chu Tiankuo never answered such silly speculations.After walking a few steps, he looked back at Ling Xiangqian's back. Jian Xia noticed: "Actually, you still like her a lot, don't you?" "Why do you love to gossip about me and her so much, every time you have a chance to chat, you have to mention whether it's annoying or not. Why, you are sweet and worry about others? I can remember that kid. He was the one who caused our class to be suspended. I heard that he was punished." It was his family who helped settle it. Traitor."

"Don't change the subject," Jian Xia felt guilty, "It's okay to be dignified in front of others, but you are still like this in front of me, do you really regard me as a friend?" "What is liking?" "I like it... that is, both Lu Linlin and Yu Sisi have asked you to borrow books and ask questions. Nine times out of ten, you can find a decent excuse to refuse to get away, but when Ling Xiangqian asks you, no matter how serious you are, I will also take the trouble to find a secluded place to meet her. This difference is because I like it.... I personally think."

Chen Jianxia racked his brains to say a long list, thinking that the arguments were rigorous and the evidence was detailed, but Chu Tiankuo hooked his lips and asked him in a relaxed tone: "Then I never borrow other people's books, but spend time talking nonsense to you. Say I like you too?" Chu Tiankuo walked a few steps, caught a glimpse of the stupid Chen Jianxia, ​​rubbed the center of his eyebrows helplessly, and added to himself: "...I don't like you." Chen Jianxia breathed a sigh of relief. It's strange to say that even if Chu Tiankuo really confessed his love to her before, she would never dare to take it seriously.Now, he seems to believe that he is not bad and deserves to be liked, and he gradually contracted the princess disease.

Because some people are indeed treating her like a princess now. Chen Jianxia was immersed in her own thoughts, thinking about Li Ran silently, and unconsciously put Chu Tiankuo aside, Chu Tiankuo couldn't laugh or cry. After coming out of the logistics, Jian Xia remembered the topic he had just cut off, stared at Chu Tiankuo and asked, "Then what do you think is liking?" Chu Tiankuo shook his head.Jian Xia was used to his cunning, so he was not interested in further questioning. After the bell rang for the third self-study class in the afternoon, the corridor was very quiet.When passing through a large window, Jian Xia looked over and just saw a weak winter sunset sinking into the thick clouds on the distant horizon. At this moment, Chu Tiankuo suddenly said: "Have you ever read a book called ?”

Jian Xia shook her head: "I didn't, but..." But Li Ran had read it, and when she took it over and wanted to read it, he snatched it back, saying that there were some contents in it that were not suitable for her to read. So Jian Xia guessed that this must be a very yellow, very yellow classic.Anyway, many classics are pornographic, or something... It's not like she hasn't read some parts at all. Chu Tiankuo was not in a hurry to go back to work, he piled up the new mop, broom, etc. by the window sill, looked outside and said slowly: "There is a heroine named Lvzi, who once said that she wanted to talk about a 100% in love."

"What is 100% love?" "I can't remember clearly. She gave a very small example. For example, if you want to eat a kind of cake, your lover should buy it. If she doesn't want to eat it, she will throw it away. The lover will not refuse it." I'm happy, and I don't feel that she has a bad character and a weird personality... probably that's it." "Don't you think 'like' means tormenting others and not allowing others to be unhappy?" Jian Xia teased him. "No. Those who can tolerate this kind of torture are the ones who like it," Chu Tiankuo rarely replied seriously, "But people are ugly without knowing it and can't bear the ugly side of others. How can there be such love? Well. The first liking was all an illusion, and when I found out the truth, I’m afraid I’d just throw the hard-earned cake on the unreasonable lover’s face. So what should I do? Create illusions for the rest of my life to maintain the other’s goodwill?”

Chen Jianxia digested for a while, didn't know how to answer, so he had to joke: "Oh my god, what the monitor said is really Japanese, I didn't understand "Flower Sleeping" when I was in my freshman year of high school, don't become Yasunari Kawabata. " "Why is it not like what I said?" Chu Tiankuo was a little annoyed as Mingyue shone in the ditch. "I've always thought that you should be the kind of person who can recite the constitution of the Communist Youth League fluently as soon as you open your mouth." Chu Tiankuo was successfully amused.

The atmosphere became relaxed, and Jian Xia said slowly: "Actually, people still know how ugly they are, so they pretend. But I think, if you have to pretend at ordinary times, even in front of the person you like, then What's the point of liking it or not? There is no difference at all. Maybe you will be abandoned if you expose yourself, but there must always be someone who reveals the truth first, and then there is a chance to meet the other person who is also true. There must always be someone who takes this step first One step at a time. Maybe the other party doesn't want to maintain the illusion for a long time, but you are forcing her to continue to pretend, what do you think?" In the end, I didn't even know where the point was. Chu Tiankuo was thoughtful, and finally wanted to end the incomprehensible conversation with flicking his forehead, but he retracted his hand as soon as he stretched out his hand. "What's wrong?" "Afraid of being beaten." Chu Tiankuo smiled narrowly, picked up a bunch of tools, and left first. Seeing that Xia Suo simply sat on the window sill, quietly watching the sky darken. Some people are as light as feathers falling on the water, some people are icebergs, with white and crystal-clear peaks exposed on the sea surface, and a huge truth is hidden under the water. bumped into each other. She felt that she, Chu Tiankuo and Ling Xiangqian should all be icebergs.So what is Li Ran?Cast an occasional shady cloud over the water?Let her not be roasted by the sun and melt into the ocean with blurred faces; let her order a piece of cake with confidence, and then throw it away after getting it, and she won't be disgusted... Panic swept over Chen Jianxia again. Why did everything so good happen to her.It doesn't make sense. The tough winter is finally halfway through, and the final exams come in a deadpan.Jian Xia's grades have improved slightly compared to last time, and she has returned to the top 20 in the class. Although she is still not satisfied, it at least shows that the make-up classes are still useful. The heater on the long-distance bus back to the hometown was actually broken. Jian Xia finally returned home after suffering from the cold for several hours, and caught a bad cold the next day.The illness lasted for a long time, and the fever went back and forth, repeatedly, which happened to help Chen Jianxia and his mother ease the relationship. At around eight o'clock on New Year's Eve, my parents and younger brother went downstairs to the crossroads to burn paper for grandma. Seeing that Xia had received an amnesty and stayed at home, they took this opportunity to secretly call Li Ran.Before the final exam, Li Ran asked for leave to attend the wedding of his aunt who lived in a neighboring city. According to him, he actually didn’t know this aunt at all, but when facing the final exam, he chose filial piety without even thinking about it. "During the time you've been away, you've missed a lot of interesting things," Jian Xia squatted beside the tea table, with his chin resting on his knees, curled up into a ball, and whispered softly, "The schools in our district all To participate in the group celebration, we went to the science and technology museum in groups before the exam, guess what I saw in the science and technology museum?" Li Ran deliberately: "Static ball." "Be serious!" See Xia Qi smiled, "I saw a lot of gossip!" "Just a guess. Who?" "I saw our monitor give Ling Xiangqian a hug!...Of course it may be a mistake, they are blocked by the mirror, but I think they are the same, I asked him later, he was a little embarrassed-our monitor is Taishan collapsed If you don't change your face, if you panic, it means there is a problem!" "boring." "Why, Ling Xiangqian and our squad leader are happy, are you upset?" "No, no." Li Ran smelled the danger, and hastily denied it, "I just don't care. Are there other eight letters?" "Stop pretending to be interested. Don't want to talk." "Hey, why do you love turning your face so much! Okay, okay, I swear to you..." "Okay, okay," Jian Xia was eager to gossip, and didn't continue to tease him, "I just think that I might have set them up." "Take yourself seriously." "I'm serious! I can't tell. Anyway, it's just... well, who cares, these people have too complicated brains. Oh, oh, and oh, did you mention to me that you have a friend from junior high school? His name is Lin Yang? Who do you think he was flirting with in the Science and Technology Museum? My former tablemate Yu Zhouzhou! I told you a long time ago..." "Chen Jianxia, ​​are you a bit too free? Why are you so happy to watch other people have sex, this is the hobby of middle-aged women." "What do you know?" Jian Xia twisted his toes, "I don't hope that we can have more comrades-in-arms?" "You just feel that other people fall in love with each other early, so you are not guilty." "What are you talking about!" The word "puppy love" is still Chen Jianxia's Achilles' heel, every time she mentions it, it makes her feel shameful, and sooner or later she will be stripped clean. Li Ran didn't expect that he stepped on her dead spot again, so he laughed a few times embarrassedly on the phone, and said to her: "Let's pass this winter quickly. My grandfather's condition has improved. I can go home." "Ah, that's great," she said hastily after hearing her family's footsteps going upstairs, "I'll go see grandpa when it's warmer. I'll hang up first!" The spring started very early this year, and the weather turned warm quickly. It seemed that in the blink of an eye, the trees on both sides of the street were green, tender and lovely, and the branches were swaying in the gentle spring breeze. The life of the first class is still calm compared to the lively second class next to it.As soon as the mid-term exams ended in early May, a rumor quietly spread throughout the class—the homeroom teacher Yu Dan, who took four consecutive days off, was probably not sick, but pregnant. Jian Xia was naturally not as surprised as the others.Although she doesn't like Yu Dan, she is still happy for him, at least she doesn't have to be forced by her mother-in-law and her husband anymore. Even she, a student who didn't want to say hello to Yu Dan when she met Yu Dan in the corridor, was willing to bless her, but she didn't expect other people's reactions to be very subtle. On the surface, they were naturally happy for Teacher Yu; United parents are gathering in secret, hoping to force the school to replace head teachers. Naturally, Lu Linlin told her the news. It is said that Yu Dan's due date is before the start of the second semester of the third year of high school, which is February.Before giving birth, you have to raise a baby, and after giving birth, you have to confine your child, which just delays the review period of the college entrance examination for the whole class. Isn't this a scam?As the denunciation intensified, the average score of the second class surpassed that of the first class for the first time in this midterm exam. It's really a big loss for Yu Dan to take four days off. Although Jian Xia would not be gloating, it feels good to watch the fire from the other side.Taking advantage of the desperation in the class, she and Li Ran made an appointment to visit grandpa's house on Saturday afternoon. Li Ran was waiting for her across the road from the dormitory building.Chen Jianxia deliberately put on her best spring outfit, a small light blue shirt with a small round collar turned up, and also wore the deer collar clip that Li Ran gave her, looking energetic and energetic. The taxi passed by the old residential building where the two had been together. Jian Xia poked his head out of the window and saw the star and moon symbol on the top of the mosque flashing across the buildings.She was suddenly a little nervous, what if Li Ran's grandfather didn't like her? Grandpa must be a very wise and open-minded old man. He knows so much and has experienced so much. Can he see through her pettiness at a glance?How can I show my best side?Do you want to post the school year rankings on your forehead? While thinking about it and climbing the stairs with Li Ran, Chen Jianxia panted and leaned on his knees to ask for a rest. He looked up and saw that he was only on the fifth floor. "How many floors do you have to climb? Your grandfather just got sick, can you bear climbing up and down every day?" "The top floor, the eighth floor." Li Ran was panting a bit, "Before he fell ill this time, my dad said that he would take him home and there would be an elevator. He has been talking about it for several years, and he is very happy." "why?" Li Ran tilted his head and thought for a while: "I also asked, but he didn't say anything. I guess, maybe it's because he doesn't like my mother, or maybe he thinks that if he lives with his children, he will become a burden, right? A dying old man who needs someone to look after. He doesn't want to be like that." Seeing Xia was a little sad, he took a deep breath: "Keep climbing!" When the anti-theft door was opened, she was still so nervous that her smile froze. Before she could see the old man's face, she bowed deeply and said loudly, "Hello, grandpa!" ——Almost turned Li Ran standing in front of him with his head, and his forehead hurt. When Chen Jianxia heard Grandpa Li Ran's particularly bright laughter, he suddenly calmed down. "Hello little girl, come in quickly." The old man also said with a smile. Chen Jianxia lowered his head to change his slippers, and found that his pair of cotton slippers were pink with a white kitten embroidered on them.Li Ran whispered in her ear: "I told my grandfather in advance that you would come, and he went to the mall to buy it on purpose. It's so ugly." Jian Xia felt very warm in his heart. Li Ran's grandfather is seventy-four years old. He is tall, slightly hunchbacked, with crew cut hair and glasses. His hair is almost white, and he is still a little weak. When he smiles, there are age spots between wrinkles, but his eyes are The shape is very similar to Li Ran, which made Chen Jianxia uncontrollably imagine what Li Ran would look like when he was old. Grandpa made tea for them, brought it to the tea table, slapped his forehead, pointed at Li Ran and blamed himself: "Children don't like tea, and you didn't remind me. You go downstairs to buy something, buy a Coke." Li Ran shook his head like a rattle drum: "Climbing the stairs once is enough for me, so I won't go." He turned to Jianxia who was sitting next to him: "Do you also like drinking tea? Just drink tea. So many bugs." Seeing that Xia hurriedly nodded, he began to act obediently: "No trouble, no trouble, that, what kind of tea is this, grandpa, it smells so good." Grandpa Li Ran smiled: "Can the girl drink it? This is the Lu'an Guapian that my old partner mailed to me." What is Lu'an Guapian... Shouldn't it be a kind of melon... Chen Jianxia laughed coldly, "I drank it at my father's leader's house before, and it didn't taste so good." Li Ran drooped his eyelids, you just talk about it, sycophant. "What's the girl's name?" Chen Jianxia immediately put down the teacup: "My name is Chen Jianxia, ​​and I am also studying in Zhenhua. I am a good friend of Li Ran." good friend.There was a subtle smile on Grandpa's face, he turned his head and slapped Li Ran on the back of the head: "You brat! He's grown up." Chen Jianxia blushed.It has been seen for a long time that she is still pretending here.Grandpa Li Ran didn't take it seriously. After beating Li Ran, he turned to Chen Jianxia, ​​and said with a smile, "It looks like a good student at first glance. In the future, if he messes up, kick him." kick him.Chen Jianxia looked at Li Ran, overjoyed, and spoke boldly: "Grandpa, don't worry, I will take Li Ran to study hard and make positive progress." Li Ran sprayed the tea all over his body with a puff. Seeing that Xia was a little embarrassed, Grandpa Li Ran didn't smile, as if he was a little dazed because of some memories brought up by this sentence. Despite Li Ran's strong objections, Grandpa Li Ran still brought his childhood photo album, and Jian Xia had a great time reading it, and spent the afternoon very happily.When saying goodbye, the sky was full of red clouds, and the two walked down the stairs slowly one after the other, and the setting sun shone on Jianxia's face through the small transom. "Am I stupid just now? Said to lead you to progress." Li Ran smiled and pinched her face. "You said that, it made my grandpa very sad," Li Ran said with emotion, "He must have thought of my grandma." "When did your grandma die?" "I died of a heart attack when I was very young. My grandfather used to be the eldest son of a capitalist. Later, all the assets of the family were confiscated before he became a postman. My grandmother was a poor and lower-middle peasant, and her roots were young. At that time, I Grandpa is not good enough for my grandma. But when I was young, I always heard my grandma joke, saying that she sacrificed her life to lead my grandpa to actively reform and make progress together." "Did the transformation succeed in the end?" "The one who is near the ink will be black." The two laughed together.Jian Xia poked Li Ran: "Do you think I will be spoiled by you too?" Li Ran was surprised: "How come?" Her voice was like a gnat, and her face was flushed red by the setting sun. "Marry a dog and follow the dog." But he still heard it, stepped forward and hugged Chen Jianxia tightly, and gently kissed her long hair.