Summer rainstorms always come so hard that it feels like the city is about to be toppled over.
From playing a prank on others to Lin Weixia's counterattack, and then to seeing the ridicule from the bystanders, with their eyes saying "you have come to this day", Liu Sijia felt like she had gone through a war of attrition, exhausting all her strength.
She knew she was in a very embarrassing situation, but she still straightened her back and maintained her outward pride.
Liu Sijia supported her chin with her hand while thinking about the problem, but she soon smelled the stench coming from her clothes. She felt very sick and got goose bumps on the back of her arms.
With a "swish", the chair was pulled away, and Liu Sijia walked out without caring about anything in front of everyone. Everyone looked at her back and began to talk quietly.
Ning Chao was hiding behind the bookshelf playing a violent fruit-cutting game. His cell phone made clicking sounds from time to time. He glanced at the figure hurriedly walking out of the front door, put the phone in his pocket, and followed him out.
The rain stopped and Liu Sijia stood beside a row of faucets in front of the teaching building, with water rushing into the sink.
She got some water and wiped her wrists and neck. Liu Sijia felt like a red phoenix flower that was wet on the ground, wilting.
She had never been so embarrassed.
When Ning Chao appeared behind Liu Sijia, she was startled. The queen rolled her eyes and said, "Why? Why are you here instead of comforting your deskmate?"
"Is this pool owned by your family?" Ning Chao asked bluntly.
Ning Chao stood beside him, bent over to turn on a faucet, and washed his hands. Liu Sijia was in a bad mood. She kicked the boy and suddenly asked, "Hey, which side are you standing on?"
Especially in this case, she was splashed with water in public even though she clearly did not do it. Once something happened, everyone pointed the finger at her.
At this time, the sun tore a golden ray from the dark clouds, and a small sun shower began to fall. Ning Chao did not answer. His dark eyes glanced at Liu Sijia who was washing clothes and was dying, and said, "Let me help you."
Ning Chao bent down and picked up a watering pipe on the ground. When he passed by her, he raised his foot and stepped on the switch on the ground.
Before Liu Sijia could react, he pointed the water pipe at Liu Sijia and poured water on her from inside to outside. Liu Sijia was completely dazed, her eyes and mouth were filled with water, and her clothes became heavier and heavier.
Cold, cold and uncomfortable.
Second embarrassment today.
The water was still rushing towards her. Liu Sijia wiped the water off her face. Unable to bear it any longer, she walked forward and pushed Ning Chao. She endured the discomfort and the pain she had just swallowed finally burst out at that moment. She yelled with red eyes: "Are you sick?"
Ning Chao turned off the switch, threw the water pipe aside, looked at her and asked, "Are you awake?"
"I say, Liu Sijia, forget it..."
Liu Sijia was stunned for a moment and then realized that she had put so much thought into this and it turned out that they were waiting for her here. She felt extremely aggrieved and unwilling, and her chest was heaving violently. Everyone stood on Lin Weixia's side. Her mother compared her to others, and the boys she liked only saw her. Now even a bad boy was lecturing her.
Can this world just die
She pushed Ning Chao's shoulder hard and spoke in a proud and unforgiving tone:
"You don't really think that just because I went to your food stall, we are friends. My family provided me with generous conditions and the best education so that I could stay away from people like you. But you F students are all so pretentious."
"Excuse me, who are you? Are you qualified to teach me?"
Ning Chao let Liu Sijia push his shoulders back continuously. Compared with the fights he had fought before, this amount of force was nothing. It was just that Liu Sijia's words were like reefs on the coast.
Every word hit his heart.
A strange emotion flashed across those bright and deep eyes, which disappeared in a moment. Ning Chao lowered his head and laughed at himself. It was also the first time that he called her seriously:
"Liu Sijia, I really misjudged you."
After saying that, Ning Chao brushed her shoulder and left. Liu Sijia stood there in a daze, recalling the look in his eyes just now, which made her feel very uncomfortable.
There was not much expression on that cold and beautiful face. Suddenly, she felt nauseous and quickly found a trash can to vomit.
But she hadn't eaten anything in the morning, so her vomiting was just dry heaving, but the nausea was so uncomfortable that she subconsciously shed tears as a result of the vomiting.
Liu Sijia maintained the vomiting posture, the light after the rain shone behind her ears, and she hadn't moved for a long time.
A new week, after the heavy rain, the sky is clear.
The atmosphere in Class 1, Grade 2 of Shenlan No. 1 Middle School has returned to normal, without the tension of the past few days. The group of students who made trouble and bullied others have not come to school for a week.
Either there were problems in the negotiation process of the family company or there were problems with the social network of the elders. When the parents found out about this, they severely punished their children.
Who did it.
It was Ban Sheng who did it. He asked his family to pass on the message.
After suffering a loss in this battle, the girls no longer tried to bully Lin Weixia. When they saw Lin Weixia, they would take a detour and everything returned to normal.
The bullying game was curbed, and even Zheng Zhaoxing, who bullied Fang Jiabei from time to time, became more quiet.
The boundary between Student A and Student F is more clearly drawn, and they do not interfere with each other.
There are often undercurrents beneath the calm and vast sea.
The same goes for groups of girls. If it breaks out again, it will only be more dangerous.
The students had quizzes these two days, and they were dismissed at 4pm. Since they didn't have to go to evening self-study, Ban Sheng asked Lin Weixia to continue watching Game of Thrones at his house.
They had only watched two episodes of the American TV series when they started playing games. The living room of Ban Sheng's house was very large. The boy sat on the sofa, slightly hunched over, with his strong arms against his legs holding the game controller. His expression was relaxed and he looked very comfortable.
Lin Weixia sat on the carpet with her back against the sofa, her white floor socks stacked up, revealing a section of her white, round calves, and the corners of her lips were slightly curved.
There is a can of Coke on each coffee table, with a blue and red straw respectively, with a layer of ice mist adsorbed on them, showing a close intimacy without paying attention to others.
Soon, Lin Weixia lost two games and was punished with a brain-blast. She was afraid of the pain, begging for mercy with her eyes, and clasped her hands together to deliberately provoke him: "Please let me go, and shouldn't boys give way to girls?"
Ban Sheng chuckled and answered slowly, "Don't you know that men love to compete in games?"
After saying that, a figure pressed down. Before Lin Weixia could react, Ban Sheng suddenly leaned down, bent over and locked her neck from behind. His hot and warm breath wrapped around her from behind. The familiar ebony scent wafted from his body. Lin Weixia's heart skipped a beat and she felt her skin numb where he touched.
Lin Weixia pretended to struggle and tried to run away. Ban Sheng chuckled softly, grabbed her head, and stretched out his hand to flick her forehead.
There was a sound of a door being pushed open not far away. Ban Sheng raised his eyelids and looked over, his smile frozen on his lips. Aunt Qin hurried out to greet him. She bent down and stretched out her hand to take the handmade suit that the other party handed over, and said in a surprised voice:
"You are finally back. Chairman, you haven't been home for more than a month."
Lin Weixia felt Ban Sheng's movements stiffen for a moment, and the force that was holding her back loosened, and the pleasant ebony scent also faded away.
"Dad." Ban Sheng called him.
Mr. Ban held the phone in his hand and looked down at it. When he heard his son, whom he hadn't seen for more than a month, he didn't even raise his head and just said "hmm" lightly.
Something is wrong. This is not the way a normal father and son should get along.
Ban Sheng didn't seem to care. He put the game controller on the table and somewhat restrained his carefree aura. This time he cleared his throat and raised his voice a bit, with a certain solemnity:
"Dad, this is my classmate, Lin Weixia."
At this moment, Ban's father finally looked up, and Lin Weixia was able to see his face clearly. He was wearing a pair of glasses and looked gentle and handsome. She guessed that Ban Sheng should look like his mother, with deep facial features and superior bone structure, but the cold expression on Ban's father's face was exactly the same as Ban Sheng's.
"Oh, hello." Mr. Ban greeted him indifferently.
Unlike other parents who were full of enthusiasm when seeing their children's classmates, Mr. Ban didn't even have the desire to ask any questions, but simply said hello.
Just as Ban Sheng was about to say something, the cell phone in Ban's father's hand rang. He answered it, walked straight past the two of them, pushed open the door to the right of the floor-to-ceiling window, and stood in front of the lawn in the courtyard to make a phone call.
Ban Sheng chuckled, picked up a green apple on the table, threw it in the air and it landed steadily in his palm. He turned the fruit knife in his right hand and began to peel the apple aimlessly.
To be honest, it's not about peeling the apple, it's about prying the apple open.
Aunt Qin came over, wiped her hands on the apron she was wearing, and asked, "Master, do you want to add the chairman's meal to dinner?"
"Add it." Ban Sheng answered absentmindedly. He was still struggling with the green apple.
Aunt Qin nodded and turned to walk towards the kitchen. Ban Sheng paused and spoke in a casual tone: "Aunt Qin, add some coconut chicken soup with water chestnuts."
"Okay."
Lin Weixia sat back on the sofa, wanting to save the green apple in Ban Sheng's hand. Just as she opened her mouth, a figure passed by. Ban's father walked to the entrance, took down the suit from the coat rack, and turned back to talk to Ban Sheng:
"Your Aunt Wang has something to do. I'll go over there."
The door closed with a "click", and the empty living room was overly quiet. The tall and slender figure of the young man beside him did not move much. There was a long silence, and the only sound was the buzzing machine of the workers mowing the lawn outside the courtyard.
"Let's go out for a walk." Lin Weixia broke the silence.
There is a wide view outside the house. There was a shower in the morning and the ground was wet. The emerald green palm and coconut trees were close to each other, with branches and leaves growing wildly, blocking the small piece of sky above heads.
As far as the eye can see, there is endless damp and sultry green.
Ban Sheng walked beside Lin Weixia and smoked a cigarette after asking for her permission. He didn't look very happy and looked lazy, but he still answered her questions patiently.
Ban Sheng knows a lot of things. He can tell her which tree was transplanted from Southeast Asia and which tree corresponds to which year. He also told Lin Weixia that in the bay 3 kilometers away from his home, there are the most seagulls flying in the morning, and their styles are also beautiful.
The two were chatting when they heard a series of sharp barking sounds from not far away, each one louder than the last. Lin Weixia's heart skipped a beat and she hurried over.
She stood under a palm tree and saw, across the lush greenery, a middle-aged man in his forties standing at the door of his house, beating a small German Shepherd with a stick.
The man's expression was cold and cruel, and he spat on the ground while beating:
"I'm going to beat you to death, you bastard!"
"You beast, how dare you!"
The dog looked underage and had no intention of resisting. It was tied to a tree with a collar around its neck. Every time the owner hit it with a stick, the puppy would struggle forward unconsciously, its neck would be bloody, and it would let out miserable cries.
Finally it lay on the muddy ground, with tears in its eyes, whimpering, and there was a pool of blood on the ground.
Lin Weixia breathed heavily, her chest rising and falling violently, and she uttered a curse word: "Beast."
After saying that, she was about to intervene in the owner's beating of the dog, but unexpectedly, her arm was grabbed by a hand. She turned back impatiently and met a pair of dark eyes. Ban Sheng put out the cigarette from his fingertips and helped her analyze:
"If you rush in like this, believe me, there will be no good results."
Lin Weixia struggled in vain. Ban Sheng held her tightly all the time. She could hear the sharp barking of dogs in her ears. Her eyes were hot. She glanced at him. Ban Sheng's face was expressionless, without even any emotion.
She said, "Can you just stand by and watch indifferently after seeing it? That's right, you have always been indifferent."
Ban Sheng raised his eyebrows in surprise, then chuckled, squinting at her: "The world is black and white? How naive."
What Lin Weixia disliked most was Ban Sheng's attitude of "I don't care if you die before my eyes" and she looked back at him with her amber eyes:
"Really? You are so shrewd and smooth, and you are indifferent to everything. What do you get?"
Lin Weixia regretted it the moment she said it. Almost instantly, she felt the strength in her arms loosen and Ban Sheng slowly let go of her. Although they were standing very close, she felt as if the distance between them had suddenly widened.
Ban Sheng was thin, and he stood there, smoking a cigarette. A flash of orange-red fire shot out of the silver lighter from his palm, and a puff of white mist came out from his thin lips.
The boy glanced at her, then looked away and said:
"what ever."
After saying that, Ban Sheng turned his back and left her alone there. He was thin and had a cigarette in his wet hands. The scarlet flame kept rising as if it was going to burn her finger bones.
The black silhouette in the distance is about to merge with the dark green palm trees, revealing a sense of loneliness.
When she came to her senses again, Lin Weixia wanted to go up and save the dog, but the German Shepherd and the man were gone. She looked for them three times but couldn't find them, so she returned home disappointed.
When she got home in the evening, Lin Weixia sat at her desk and did her test paper. She looked at the question and read, "Nearly 100 million sharks are caught around the world every year. After they are caught, people..."
As she was reciting, Lin Weixia began to daydream. She picked up the phone that was placed aside to see if Ban Sheng had sent her a message, and clicked on the black avatar.
He didn't send any message.
In the past, Ban Sheng would always say good night to her at this time, but not now. After coming to this conclusion, Lin Weixia felt depressed.
After working on the questions for half an hour, the progress was slow. Lin Weixia was distracted while answering the questions. She thought of Ban Sheng's lonely and cold back in the afternoon.
The more I looked at my phone, the less messages I received. The more upset I became, as if something was blocking my chest and I couldn’t breathe.
Lin Weixia simply went to take a shower. After taking a shower, she was blow-drying her hair in the bathroom. She vaguely heard a cell phone in the room. She hurriedly put down the hair dryer and ran into the room. Her heart was beating very fast and randomly.
She rushed to the bedside in a hurry and answered the phone without even checking the caller ID. Her throat was dry from nervousness, and she whispered:
"Hello."
"It's me, Ning Chao. Can you bring me breakfast tomorrow? I suddenly want to eat the rice rolls from your place."
Lin Weixia lowered her crow-feather eyelashes. It turned out to be Ning Chao. Water droplets kept dripping down her hair, wetting her back and making her feel cold.
"Oh, sure." Lin Weixia replied.
Ning Chao seemed to have caught something and made a joke: "Why do you look so disappointed when you hear my voice?"