The next day, Lin Weixia brought breakfast to her deskmate, and Ning Chao thanked her with a smile. This is a great thing about high school friendships. As long as you stay in the same class, you can eat breakfast near classmates who live in different places.
During breakfast, the classmates watched as Ban Sheng's milk, which he had to drink every morning, was given to Lin Weixia. Everyone in the school knew that he only gave Lin Weixia this special privilege.
But what everyone didn't know was that the two were in a cold war.
Ban Sheng gave her milk, but he didn't talk to Lin Weixia much, and even their eye contact was cut off by him from behind. These years made Lin Weixia feel uncomfortable.
On Tuesday, after finishing her morning exercises, Lin Weixia returned to her seat to rest. Qiu Minghua came in with a smile on his face, handed her a box of milk, and said with a smile:
"Give."
Lin Weixia didn't answer. She lay on the table, feeling a little depressed. She raised her head and asked softly, "Where's he? Can't he come to me himself?"
"Hey, classmate Lin, please don't make things difficult for me. If you don't accept it, my boss will chop me into pieces and throw me into the sea to feed the sharks." Qiu Minghua forced the milk into her hands and ran away as if his feet were greased.
Lin Weixia rested her fair arms on the table, staring at the milk in her hands, then turned her head to face the window. Ban Sheng was leaning casually on the railing of the corridor playing with his drone, and the spinous process on the back of his neck slowly protruded as he lowered his head.
She sighed softly.
They didn't say a word to each other for three whole days. Lin Weixia still looked calm and indifferent on the surface, but she was often absent-minded and would lose her focus when listening to people talking.
Fang Mo quickly noticed that something was wrong with her, tugged at her sleeves, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
"Ah, it's okay." Lin Weixia replied.
Lin Weixia decided to go talk to Ban Sheng, but he disappeared every time after school, so she planned to go to the No. 6 basketball hall to see if she could find him.
In the evening, the sun is scorching, like a paint tray overturned by God, leaving a thick and colorful stroke in the sky.
Lin Weixia stood at the entrance of the basketball hall, feeling the cool air blowing at her feet, feeling extremely comfortable. She walked in, her amber eyes quietly looking around the court.
Ban Sheng was not there. There were only a few boys playing ball there, and Li Yiran, who was lying on his back on the steps. He had a face that looked like he was just going to eat and wait for death.
He lay there like a vampire who relied on his handsomeness to commit crimes.
But Lin Weixia soon discovered the basketball with the words "Ban Sheng's" painted on it, and his wristband.
But the person is not there.
Lin Weixia walked by, a thin layer of sweat on her forehead, and asked:
"Senior, where is Ban Sheng? I have something to discuss with him."
Li Yiran slowly raised his eyes to look at her, and said something provocative: "He won't see you."
Lin Weixia didn't stay any longer. She never fought a protracted battle. She turned around and walked away. After she had walked a few steps, an indescribable voice came from behind her:
"I heard that you made my sister and her gang cry a few days ago?"
Although Li Shengran did not participate, she hung out with Liu Sijia's gang.
Lin Weixia stopped and turned around, thinking that Li Yiran was here to settle accounts with her, but she didn't expect him to be lying there, giving her a thumbs up and praising her:
“Well done.”
"You are different from Li Shengran." Lin Weixia commented.
Li Yiran's dark eyes flashed with viciousness, and he smiled slowly: "My sister is different."
"It's none of my business if she dies."
After he said this, Lin Weixia felt that the rumors about the two siblings not getting along were indeed true. Li Yiran continued to speak, throwing the beer can beside him into the trash can, and said:
"Ah Sheng has a bad temper, but he's very nice to you."
Li Yiran lay back on the floor and said something that hit the nail on the head: "He never cares about other people's business, but you—he cares."
"What did you do to him in the end?"
He didn't want to say any more unpleasant words, and closed his eyes casually, indicating that she could leave.
Lin Weixia did not refute him. She turned around and walked forward, her long drooping eyelashes hiding her endless thoughts.
After a while, Lin Weixia regained her senses and realized that she had gone too far. She didn't know what he had been through, but she saw how he and his father got along and felt about each other.
If she continued to say such things, she would be handing a knife to Ban Sheng.
Ban Sheng is a cold and defensive person. He handles things with ease and a bit of smoothness. He always follows the principle of "if no one offends him, he will not offend anyone". But such a person, when she faced school bullying.
For her, he stood against everyone.
Saving animals in danger is different from hurting people with her words. As for the latter, she was indeed wrong. Lin Weixia sat in her seat and subconsciously looked at the tall and slender figure of the boy not far away, with distress in her eyes.
Lin Weixia, you have no conscience.
But Lin Weixia had been thinking about how to apologize to Ban Sheng. She always had a headache when it came to coaxing people.
Before she could figure out what was going on, the school launched a vigorous campaign to collect cell phones. The reason was the 16-character education policy proposed by the relevant provincial departments, and people were recently sent down from above to collect data on cell phone usage among middle school students in various cities.
Therefore, Shenzhen High School has recently cracked down on the illegal use of mobile phones. During this period, the school is so strict that even senior high school students are not spared. For a time, all the students in the school complained, but they had no way to express their suffering.
The school has significantly stepped up its crackdown in preparation for this major inspection and will ban their cell phones, at least in the short term.
Before the first class in the afternoon started, Lao Liu received a sudden notice from the school. He rushed in and asked the whole class to stand outside the corridor, preparing for a surprise check of mobile phones.
The student union cadres checked in batches, sweeping the tables and chairs, every corner, and finally found more than a dozen mobile phones, and even the socks that Qiu Minghua had hidden in the drawer, causing everyone to look at Qiu Minghua with disgust.
Old Liu was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "Look, your socks are so smelly that they are hard. Do you think school is your home?"
"School is my home, everyone loves it, isn't that what you said?" Qiu Minghua kept talking nonsense.
Old Liu was so choked that he couldn't say a word. He waved his hand and told the students to hurry in. Liu Xiping called four students to the stage, handed each of them a detector, and began to check whether they had hidden mobile phones.
Lin Weixia was also called up by Lao Liu. She was in charge of the fourth group, which happened to be the group that Ban Sheng was in. She stood on the stage, looking in the direction of Ban Sheng through the crowd of figures.
Qiu Minghua was standing there dishonestly, with his neck tilted to the side and kept talking to him. Ban Sheng looked nonchalant, leaning against the wall and drinking his Coke slowly.
Perhaps Qiu Minghua talked too much, Ban Sheng grabbed the Coke can, tapped the bottle with his index finger, and looked at him indifferently, and the latter automatically fell silent.
Lin Weixia checked a group of classmates, and the second one happened to be Li Shengran. Seeing her impatient face, the latter deliberately threw the book on the table, making a noise, causing others to look back at them frequently.
Even so, Li Shengran had to open his arms and cooperate, looking calm and composed.
There was no expression on Lin Weixia's face. She bent down and scanned Li Shengran's shoulders, arms, and waist with the machine. The test results showed nothing.
Li Shengran exuded a sweet scent of perfume and had a smug expression on her face. She glanced at Lin Weixia, and the others sneered when they saw this.
Just when she wanted to sit back, Lin Weixia grabbed her, squatted down, and scanned Li Shengran's feet with the detector. Beep - beep, the sound of metal being detected rang out rapidly.
Lin Weixia looked straight at her. Li Shengran's breathing became heavier. He bent down reluctantly, took out a cell phone from his square-toed leather shoes and threw it into the basket with a "bang".
Lin Weixia checked them one by one, and when it came to the last group's turn, what came into view was a broad chest with a nameplate on the left side engraved with the words "Ban Sheng".
Ban Sheng stood in front of her lazily with his hands in his pockets. Lin Weixia held the detector with her thumb tensed and walked forward. The distance between them suddenly shortened and she felt the silent oppression.
Neither of them spoke.
The boy automatically stretched out his hands, and Lin Weixia took the instrument and scanned his shoulders, back, and quickly scanned his waist from the side before wanting to turn off the power.
A slightly deep voice came, very faintly: "Can you give me some water?"
Lin Weixia had no choice but to bite the bullet and examine him again carefully. She was facing him, and when she turned sideways, she scanned Ban Sheng's waist and legs one by one. The two of them were very close.
She smelled the familiar cool ebony scent on him, and her cheek accidentally brushed against the clothes on his chest, which was like an electric shock, but he did not react at all and looked calm.
The posture of the two looked very much like a hug, but Ban Sheng did not tease her like he did before, or talk nonsense like a frivolous gangster.
His expression was cold and distant, and he even looked past her and fixed his gaze on the questions on the desk.
An awkward and strange feeling arose in my heart.
Like sparkling water, it makes you feel very uncomfortable once it enters your spleen and stomach, and you can't suppress it, yet it's hard to ignore.
When Lin Weixia was withdrawing from Ban Sheng, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the globe on his desk. The gap in the middle showed signs of being pried open by an artist.
After hesitating for a moment whether to ask for verification, Lin Weixia finally pretended not to see it and turned off the detector.
After the inspection, Liu Xiping walked away with a box of various electronic products, which attracted a lot of complaints from the students behind him.
After a whole day of classes and due to the weather, Lin Weixia felt a little dizzy from the heat. In the evening, she planned to go to the convenience store outside the school to eat some cart noodles.
As soon as the school bell rang, people filed out of the school, and the sounds of chatting, bicycle brakes, and car horns mixed in. Lin Weixia stood at the school gate, and someone bumped her shoulder from behind and apologized in a low voice.
She smiled and said it was okay. When she looked up again, she accidentally caught a glimpse of the tall figure not far away and stood there in a daze.
Ban Sheng stood in front of the bus stop. His crisp school uniform made his zygomatic bone look smoother. He smoked a cigarette and checked his phone from time to time.
He seemed to be waiting for someone.
Soon, a girl with long chestnut hair ran up to him. Lin Weixia, who was not far away, felt her heart tighten. It seemed to be the senior who came to see him before.
Ban Sheng turned his eyes away from his phone, glanced at her, and took out a phone from his trouser pocket and gave it to her.
The senior student looked surprised, shook her phone, and took out a can of ice cola from behind and gave it to him as a token of gratitude.
Lin Weixia concluded that it must be the cell phone that Ban Sheng helped her hide in the globe in the morning.
The fiery clouds in the sky were in the shape of fish scales, and the orange hue was cast on the two of them. Ban Sheng was still casually scrolling through his phone, without even raising his head, and reached out to take the Coke she handed over.
Holding a Coke in his hand, his bony fingers clasped the pull ring. With a slight force, the veins on the back of his hand bulged, revealing a brutal and powerful strength.
With a "da" sound, white bubbles gushed out. This time the senior student was not scared away. Her pair of bright eyes only looked at Ban Sheng.
It seemed like someone had sent a message. Ban Sheng leaned against the platform, holding his phone in one hand, lowering his neck to type, and handing a Coke to the girl next to him with the other hand.
Meaning he prescribed it for her to drink.
The girl's expression was one of surprise and helplessness.
Lin Weixia, who was not far away, saw the whole scene. She didn't even want to look closely at the senior's next move. The air was hot and stuffy, and it seemed that breathing was not smooth at all.
Lin Weixia has always been cold and emotionless. Even if they are close to her, she will not have excessive connection with them.
This is her self-protection.
When did you start to care
Now she felt jealous and concerned, like seeds that had been watered and transplanted into a greenhouse with changed growing conditions. The bad emotions were growing wildly and wantonly.
I don't want to see him with other girls.
I don't like him opening Coke for other girls.
Ban Sheng is indeed good at manipulating her emotions.
He did it.