"I know." Xu Tangcheng said.
He couldn't say why he believed this, but when he found out that YiZhe was shutting down, the first thing he thought of was that the phone was out of power, not that the owner of the phone took the initiative to cut off contact with the outside world out of bad emotions. He looked YiZhe up and down and determined that his current condition couldn't get any worse. The thin school uniform trousers were stuck to his legs, and his chest was also wet, fully showing the outline of the human body. Frowning, he just looked up to blame, but Xu Tangcheng found that the eyes that were looking over seemed to contain something different.
Guilt, anxiety, all, but not completely.
Hesitating for a moment, he didn't say anything.
"I came out through the wicket... I'm sorry."
"Sorry for what?" Seeing his annoyed expression, Xu Tangcheng said with a smile, "I didn't get in touch in advance, so it's normal to miss it."
YiZhe was stepping out of the car. Hearing this, he pursed his lips and lowered his head, and quickly squeezed the brake twice.
The rain seemed to have a tendency to increase. Xu Tangcheng heard the sound of creaking and dragging behind him. Looking back, he found that the school gate had been closed.
"Come on, let's put your bike over there first."
Opposite the school is a square. Xu Tangcheng remembered that there used to be a 24-hour paid parking lot there. He looked across the road and asked Yi Zhe, "Can we still park overnight?"
"Yes." YiZhe nodded and followed him forward, while Xu Tangcheng raised his hand slightly, holding the umbrellas above their heads.
In fact, he had another umbrella in his hand, but YiZhe wanted to push the cart, so he didn't give it away.
Some of the water at the gate of the school had leaked away, and there were cars one after another on the road. The lights were shining brightly, piercing the rain curtain. When crossing the road, Yi Che inadvertently glanced to his side, and suddenly saw that Xu Tangcheng was half wet on his shoulders, and then looked up, only to find that the umbrella above his head had been tilted to his side.
Raindrops rolled down the umbrella page and shattered to the ground.
"I'll fight." He held his hand above the umbrella handle and touched Xu Tangcheng's hand.
"It's inconvenient for you to push the cart."
However, YiZhe worked hard on his hand and moved the umbrella directly into his hand.
"convenient."
Before that, no matter how sudden or heavy the rain, he had never held an umbrella with others. When he turned the umbrella to the other side to cover the entire body of the other person, YiZhe suddenly felt a little complacent in his heart, which was probably similar to sneaking the strawberries on the strawberry cake to the other person's plate. , or in the commissary in the hot summer, secretly gave up the last bottle of ice water.
Insignificant, secretly happy.
Back in the car, Xu Tangcheng found out that there was a missed call from Zhou Hui. He called back and told her that she would be home soon, and by the way asked her to cook a pot of ginger soup to ward off the cold.
"Brother Yizhe, did you come home and come back?" Xu Tangxi turned around and asked in surprise.
YiZhe was wiping his hair with a dry and soft towel. Hearing the question, he nodded and replied, "Yeah."
"Just let my mom call me."
Xu Tangxi's puzzled voice was exactly what Xu Tangcheng puzzled. After learning the ins and outs from Zhou Hui's mouth, he couldn't understand why Yi Zhe was so pivotal, a problem that could be solved with a phone call, why he had to go back and forth in such heavy rain.
Looking in the rearview mirror to see YiZhe, who had his hair in a mess, he couldn't help but nag: "It's so rambunctious, you've already arrived home, what are you doing here? What should you do if you catch a cold all night? , the college entrance examination is coming soon, if there is a problem with the body, how big the impact will be."
"It's alright." Whether it was intentional or not, YiZhe avoided the first half of his words and only replied, "I'm in good health, so I can't catch a cold."
"I can't help you to be in such trouble if you are in good health. I don't care if you think you'll catch a cold or not. When you go back later, you go home and take a hot bath, and then I'll bring you the ginger soup. My mother said to drink ginger at night. The soup is not very good, but 'the lesser of two evils', I think you should drink a bowl." After speaking, he turned to Xu Tangxi again, "You too, hurry up and take a bath when you go back."
"Oh." Xu Tangxi agreed.
"No, it's too much trouble..."
Halfway through speaking, he was glanced at.
"Oh, good." YiZhe changed his mouth.
After turning to the left, Xu Tangcheng drove the car on the road.
This hot bath took YiZhe's fastest speed ever, completely ignoring Xu Tangcheng's instructions to take him a little longer. After taking a shower and waiting for Xu Tangcheng to arrive, he quickly tidy up the living room again—the clothes were thrown into other rooms, and the coffee table was too dirty, so he found a wet towel to wipe it, and there were scattered pieces on the floor. Melon seed shells, sweep away...
After cleaning up, he felt that he still needed ginger soup, and he was already sweating. Even Xu Tangcheng was stunned when he saw him when he entered the door: "Why did I take a shower so my face was flushed?"
He put the ginger soup on the coffee table, walked over to Yi Zhe, and touched his forehead: "You don't have a fever, right?"
Touching his own with the other hand, the two seem to be fine.
YiZhe lowered his eyelids, rubbed his hands behind his back, and said nothing.
Ginger soup was served in a round glass lunch box, the lid was opened, and hot air came out immediately. Xu Tangcheng pushed the lunch box in front of YiZhe and warned, "Be careful of the heat."
After only one sip, he frowned uncontrollably.
"taste not good?"
Too much ginger.
But the words came out, but it was: "It's a little hot."
The first step to pleasing people is to speak inappropriately.
Xu Tangcheng smiled: "Didn't I tell you that it's hot, you blow it up."
As a result, the soup in the bowl had water lines, circling around and rushing to disperse.
Xu Tangcheng picked up a book on the coffee table, which was an exercise book for English reading comprehension. He leaned his arms on his legs and flipped through a few pages, and found that the entire book had been completed. There were red handwriting errors on the pages, as well as annotations of some unfamiliar words and the structure of long sentences. analyze.
A book of reading comprehension exercises would not naturally appear on the coffee table in his living room. YiZhe secretly glanced at the people around him with his peripheral vision, held the fingers of the lunch box, and began to tap the glass wall restlessly.
Xu Tangcheng didn't notice his small movements, and after watching it for a while, he asked casually, "How are you doing? There are more than ten days before the exam."
"It's alright," his fingers stopped, and YiZhe blew another breath. Following Xu Tangcheng's example, he leaned his arms on his legs. "The last few mock exams have been quite stable, and the top five in the grade."
In fact, it is the top four, which is modest.
"Amazing," Xu Tangcheng's eyes flashed with surprise, and he turned to ask with great interest, "Is there a target school? There is a wide range of choices, so you can choose carefully."
"School… "
Yi Zhe muttered, Xu Tangcheng thought he meant it without thinking, and joked: "Otherwise, you should consider A major. The teachers are strong, the style of study is excellent, the campus is beautiful, and you can still be my apprentice."
After speaking, Xu Tangcheng himself began to laugh at his self-promotion. YiZhe on the side was beating his heart, the skin on his face gradually began to not obey, and was moved by Xu Tangcheng's emotions. He pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled, changing the direction of the lunch box in his hand.
A completely meaningless action, revealing the tension in his heart. After that, pretending to be casual, he said, "Okay."
Xu Tangcheng still laughed after hearing this: "Really?"
"Well," YiZhe raised his head this time and looked at him in the bright light. He boldly asked, "Can I be your apprentice?"
The beginning of this conversation was because of a joke by Xu Tangcheng, and at the end, he still only took it as a joke, so he said yes with a smile, and then covered him later. But he didn't know that for him, every word that YiZhe said was always taken with twelve points of seriousness.
One night of self-study in the last few days before the exam, YiZhe was called out by the head teacher. When he got to the office, he realized that the content of the conversation was "individual students' psychological stability before the exam."
"Yizhe, your grades in the third year of high school have improved a lot. To be honest, I didn't expect this. I knew you were smart before, but after talking about you for a long time, you couldn't take your heart back. Now you're wondering. , I am very happy to know that I have learned."
Lao Du's words were sincere, but it was rare for Yi Zhe to listen carefully. He admitted that he did get into a lot of troubles, and it was because of Lao Du that he was not kicked out of this experimental class. Speaking of the demerit that time, he was standing in the vice-principal's office and saw Lao Du humbly saying good things to others.
"Actually, I don't worry about you in the college entrance examination. I think you have a good psychological quality and are not afraid to go to the examination room. So as long as you stay steady, believe me, any university will be fine."
Hearing Lao Du's words, Yi Che breathed a sigh of relief, which he didn't even think of himself.
After a while of silence, he asked, "Really?"
"Ah?" Old Du didn't expect that he would respond to him, and was a little stunned all of a sudden.
YiZhe repeated: "Is there any problem with any university?"
"Really," Old Du immediately slapped his thigh and said loudly. After smacking the voice carefully, he came up with something deeper, "Why, do you have a goal in mind?"
YiZhe lowered his head, the index fingers and thumbs of both hands were facing each other, forming a quadrilateral frame, just to frame a cross-shaped edge on the ground.
"I'm going to take the A major."
It's not that I want to take the exam, it's not that I want to take the exam, it's that I take the exam.
A major, communication engineering.
He doesn't know what others are like, but as the college entrance examination approaches, this goal has almost filled his whole heart, to the extent that he can't wait. I can't wait to get to that campus, I can't wait to go in and out of the same teaching building with him, I can't wait to meet him in the cafeteria when I'm hungry.
After saying to Lao Du that "I am going to take the A university entrance exam", he felt relieved and looked forward to it. The secret that has been held down for so long will finally be revealed to the world, and that little budding thought will finally have to be supported.
He was so excited that the night before the college entrance examination, he lost sleep, tossing and turning on the bed with his eyes open, and in his head alternately appeared ancient poems to memorize, English composition templates, Chinese reading comprehension questions answering points... and occasionally The flashed Xu Tangcheng. After tossing for a long time, the sheep counted two hundred, but still could not fall asleep.
It's not a problem for candidates to lose sleep. A few walls away, people who have been away from the college entrance examination for many years, are rolling over and over on the bed.
Xu Tangcheng has been seriously debating whether or not to pick up Yizhe in the past two days. He wants to send it. He also thinks that people say that the college entrance examination must pay attention to normality. , He also felt uneasy. Everyone else had someone to send and someone to pick up. On a hot day, Yi Zhe was still riding a car back and forth, and he might not be able to eat well.
After struggling for a long time, there was no result. The most obvious consequence was that the pitiful drowsiness was completely eliminated. He couldn't sleep anyway, so he simply raised his feet, sat up straight, and ran to the window to smoke a cigarette.
In the end, Xu Tangcheng still didn't send YiZhe, YiZhe woke up in the morning and found two messages on his phone, both of which were a simple "Come on".
He replied "you too" to Zhao Weifan, but when it was Xu Tangcheng's turn, he was stunned for a while, and only replied the word "um".
After exiting the text message interface and putting the phone in his pocket, he still felt unwilling.
Turned it out again and saved a draft box.
Two days, in fact, quickly passed. Before returning to Beijing, Xu Tangcheng stood downstairs and smoked a few cigarettes. He was not addicted to smoking, but he was always anxious for the time he waited. If he was not careful, the cigarette burned too much.
I also saw a few candidates who came back one after another. From their mouths, Xu Tangcheng vaguely heard things like "Math is very difficult" and "English is quite easy". The same excitement or frustration. He pursed his lips, squeezed out the smoke from his mouth, and anxiously guessed in his heart how YiZhe did in the test.
What do you think, it should be the one who said "the question is easy"
He kept waiting in circles, looking in the direction of the gate many times. It was almost seven o'clock when he finally saw the person who came back slowly by bicycle. He still had earplugs in his ears, and the wheel did not go in a straight line, but made "S"-shaped bends on the road.
Xu Tangcheng tilted his head, stood up, and waited for him to come over.
The sun at seven o’clock was still bright and warm. YiZhe held a transparent document bag in one hand. The document bag was washed over and over by the sun, and the 2B pencil and black pen were engraved with a layer of afterglow. The traces of the struggle are still clear.
He stood still, not making a sound. It wasn't until the two were close enough that the rut entered Xu Tangcheng's shadow, and Yi rut finally raised his head.
Under the tension, Xu Tangcheng couldn't even tell exactly what kind of light he had flashed, only to see him stop and cocked the corner of his mouth towards him.
It's a relaxed and happy expression.
Xu Tangcheng exhaled heavily.
"Have you not returned to Beijing yet?" YiZhe asked, no longer restraining the smile on his face.
Probably because he was in a good mood, he didn't get out of the car, but kept riding slowly as if playing, circling around Xu Tangcheng.
"Wait for you." Xu Tangcheng wanted to take another puff of cigarette, raised his hand, but found that the cigarette had been deformed, and the cigarette butt was tilted in a small arc, like a hidden check mark.
Seems like a good sign.
"Your college entrance examination, I was nervous for two days." He looked at the sky and sighed.
YiZhe was still circling around him, the circle was getting smaller and smaller, but he was always the center of the circle.
"So happy," Xu Tangcheng shook his head from side to side, looking at him, "Did you do well in the test?"
"Extremely good."
YiZhe smirked at him, and he continued to let him turn.
I don't know how many times to turn around, Xu Tangcheng finally felt dizzy, and reached out and grabbed him: "Okay, don't turn, dizzy."
YiZhe's "It's very good" directly brought Xu Tangcheng a good mood. When he started the car, he accidentally stepped on the accelerator very hard. The aunt walking by the side was taken aback and shook her palm to stare at him. Xu Tangcheng reached out and apologized: "I'm sorry, Auntie, I'm sorry!"
The car was about to slide out of the compound, and suddenly a figure of a crouched and mad cyclist appeared in the rearview mirror. Before he could react, YiZhe had already chased him by his side.
He lowered the window: "what's the matter?"
"It's okay," the boy's face was slightly red and sweaty. He raised the corner of his mouth and lowered his head, saying, "I'm so happy."
Xu Tangcheng laughed.
Turning to look at him, he swallowed the words in his mouth when his eyes touched the rearview mirror.
In the rearview mirror is a setting sun, he is a boy who can hold the sun.