The next day, Chi Xiaochi was led to school by Lou Ying.
The head teacher was not surprised when he saw that Lou Ying was here.
In the past, the head teacher had also made several home visits, and knew what Chi Xiaochi's parents were like.
At the beginning of the first day of the new year, the head teacher asked parents to participate in the teaching work, check and sign the homework completed by the child every day.
But Chi Xiaochi's homework was marked by himself, and the signature was also in his own name.
After the teacher reported this situation to the head teacher, the head teacher talked to Chi Xiaochi.
Chi Xiaochi explained that his parents said that they were so busy every day that if he, the son, had a little conscience, don't bother them with this kind of shit.
So, the head teacher took this out and talked to his parents during his home visit.
As a result, the Chi family's parents seemed to know about this for the first time, and they apologized to the teacher and scolded Chi Xiaochi all the time.
Chi Xiaochi, who was sitting on the sidelines, silently rolled his eyes, making the head teacher have a bad impression of him, thinking he was lying.
As a result, when Chi Xiaochi's homework was handed in again, the experienced classroom teacher could see at a glance that it was a hard copy of the handwriting of an adult.
So during the second home visit, the head teacher deliberately gave a strong dose of medicine and spoke very seriously. He asked Chi's parents if they did not intend to participate in Chi Xiaochi's education. If the parents did not care, then the school did not. It is necessary to spend more time educating them.
As a result, the next morning, Chi Xiaochi's seat was empty.
He was beaten up by his parents for "disgraceful and thrown into the house".
It was fine at night, but the next morning, his arm hurt and he couldn't get out of bed. When he went to the hospital for an examination, he found out that the bone in his left arm was injured. He took a long leave of absence, and it was not until the afternoon that he showed up in class in a simple plaster cast. superior.
The head teacher felt that something was wrong, so he tried to inquire about the situation. In the end, he learned from Chi Xiaochi's elementary school classmates that Chi Xiaochi's parents had never cared about his homework since he was a child, regardless of his grades, whether it would embarrass them.
After the head teacher learned of the situation, he regretted it very much, but he couldn't wipe his face for a while to apologize to Chi Xiaochi.
As time passes, there is no need for an apology.
What the head teacher regrets most is that since that incident, Chi Xiaochi no longer cares about reading.
He is smart enough, like a businessman with enough capital, but he just doesn't want to invest any extra money in "learning".
After this incident, a name called "Lou Ying" began to appear in his workbook.
At the parent meeting half a month later, the head teacher found that among the tired faces of many middle-aged people, there was an upright and quiet high school student.
The head teacher stopped him after the show.
The young man said gently: "Hello, teacher, my name is Lou Ying, and I'm Xiaochi's neighbor."
The head teacher always felt that the name "Lou Ying" was familiar, and when he met someone, he remembered that he was one of the top three students in the city last year, and the photo was also published in the local newspaper.
He was wearing a dark gray sweater and held a notebook with many relevant notes in his hand.
At a young age, he already had a calm and gentle temperament that was rare among adults.
He tore off a piece of paper and scribbled a number on it: "Teacher, this is my phone number. Before, Xiaochi didn't want to tell me about his troubles. In the future, I'll take care of him if something happens."
Yesterday, after Chi Xiaochi left the hall for no reason, Lou Ying quickly called the head teacher, took the responsibility first, and said that he was hit by a car while leaving school at noon. Fortunately, he only made a cut and sent it to Chi Xiaochi in the hospital. I texted him that he would go back later in the evening, but Chi Xiaochi didn't believe what he said. He thought he was seriously injured and was overly worried. He made a misunderstanding and delayed the teacher's teaching work. I'm really sorry, so and so on.
Today, he specially came to send Chi Xiaochi to school, which is a good attitude.
He carried Chi Xiaochi's schoolbag, pulled Chi Xiaochi to knock on the head teacher's office, and apologized first.
The head teacher knew that the two of them had a good relationship, and seeing that Lou Ying was really wearing a bandage on his hand, the original eight-point letter was successfully raised to ten.
He said to Chi Xiaochi: "Be careful in the future, don't skip classes for no reason. The summer vacation will be in a few days. If you run out like this again and something happens, you will be in vain for the whole summer vacation, do you hear?"
Chi Xiaochi looked down at the bandages that Lou Ying had hit on his fingertips, and said "uh".
The head teacher asked, "Have you written your homework?"
Just as Chi Xiaochi was about to open his mouth and say "No", Lou Ying opened his schoolbag and took out seven homework.
The head teacher was completely satisfied: "Don't give it to me. Leave it to the representatives of each subject."
Chi Xiaochi followed Lou Ying out of the office, holding the workbooks and flipping through them one by one.
"After you fell asleep yesterday, I contacted your classmates and asked about homework." Lou Ying walked ahead, turned his head and asked him, "Is the handwriting similar?"
Chi Xiaochi imagined the scene after he fell asleep last night.
—Lou Ying sat under the desk lamp, called his deskmate, answered the call with one hand, and copied the exercises assigned by the teacher on the blackboard with the other. ' short syllables.
Chi Xiaochi closed the book: "It needs to be improved."
Lou Ying stopped in the corridor, turned around in the sound of the morning reading, and asked with a smile, "Is this an affirmation of me?"
Chi Xiaochi opened his mouth.
The person in front of him, with this face, said something that Brother Lou in his memory could not say at all.
Lou Ying didn't say that much. Most of the time, he was quiet and quiet. Most of the words he said were to praise him, encourage him, and tolerate him, like a ball of light, gently wrapping around Chi Xiaochi.
His kindness to Chi Xiaochi is like the sun, because the sun doesn't ask people for anything in return.
Now, this group of light is still shrouded in Chi Xiaochi, but if there is nothing to pull him, pull him, hug him, want him to always be aware of his existence, want to make him care about him.
Chi Xiaochi thought, is this his brother Lou
… Although it wasn't what he imagined, it was surprisingly not bad.
Chi Xiaochi took the schoolbag, slammed his back, and squinted at him: "Want to know?"
Lou Ying was stunned.
This tone reminded him of Chi Xiaochi who used to be so energetic when he didn't know his identity.
When he came back to his senses, Lou Ying's heart was subtly relaxed: "Of course."
Chi Xiaochi walked past him: "I think for myself."
Lou Ying laughed: "after school today, I will hand in an answer to Mr. Chi, okay?"
Chi Xiaochi: "Don't come pick me up after school, and take good care of your hand. If Lao Huang sees you again, he will definitely be suspicious."
Lao Huang is his head teacher.
Lou Ying nodded gently: "Well, remember. Teacher Chi, can I go."
Chi Xiaochi waved his hand casually: "Go."
After saying goodbye to the real Lou Ying, Chi Xiaochi took the system Lou Ying into the classroom.
He pretended that Lou Ying was not there, and Lou Ying also pretended that he was not there.
Sitting in the classroom, Chi Xiaochi gradually realized the benefits of youth.
He can use the time of a language class at will, and think about his thoughts at will.
Time seems so slow, so long, and life is divided into regular 45 minutes, three quarters of a circle on the dial.
Chi Xiaochi drew the layout of Zhu Shoucheng's room in his memory in the textbook.
This class was in classical Chinese, and it was extremely boring. The same table used a stainless steel water cup to reflect the light outside the window. I was tired of playing. When I turned around and saw that Chi Xiaochi was painting vigorously, I asked him, "What are you painting?"
Chi Xiaochi said calmly, "Pharaoh's latissimus dorsi."
Lao Wang is a passionate Chinese teacher on the stage, with a waist circumference of 1.6 meters, and a whole piece of abdominal muscles unique to a middle-aged man trembles with his movements.
At the same table, there is no interest at all.
After a while, he said, "Why did you go yesterday?"
Chi Xiaochi said, "I found myself reborn."
Deskmate: "Fuck. Then tell me the lottery numbers for the next lottery?"
Chi Xiaochi: "You are really low-level interests, so you can't have high-level pursuits? For example, ask us about the composition questions of the college entrance examination that year. I remember this."
At the same table: "If I had money, I would have to take the college entrance examination. I would buy two diplomas, one from Peking University and the other from Peking University. I can attack and retreat."
For the first time, Chi Xiaochi discovered that his roommate was a talented person.
Before Brother Lou died, he always played with Lou Ying, watching his peers was like watching a group of chicks.
After Brother Lou passed away, he had nothing in his heart, 110,000 people walked in front of him, and few people really lived in his heart.
After a friendly opening remarks, the two started a traditional folk classroom entertainment project, Gobang.
Chi Xiaochi is the circle party, and the same table is the cross party.
Chi Xiaochi: "I didn't see you talking to me before, I thought you were annoying me."
The same table said: "Just kidding, which man in the class doesn't bother you."
Chi Xiaochi: "Why? Because I'm handsome?"
Deskmate: "Go away."
Deskmate: "...you don't know it yourself. Boys in our class have a crush on a girl, and a girl says she has someone she likes. Ask who it is, and answer, you. Fuck, you've made at least half of the people in our school green."
Chi Xiaochi: "I take the liberty to ask, have I greened you?"
Deskmate: "No. Right now I like myself quite a bit."
Chi Xiaochi pursed his lips and said, "Then you don't hate me?"
"I don't hate it now." The tablemate said honestly, "Because I found out that you are also insane."
Chi Xiaochi smiled politely and connected five circles on the grid.
Their short-lived friendship broke down.
The heat of early summer is slowly accumulating in the classroom.
After the final exam, everyone was absent-minded. Even if they knew that they would face the first important turning point in their lives in one year, most of the young minds were reluctant to settle down.
Pharaoh on the podium pulled a white towel to wipe his sweat.
His suit was soaked wet, sweating on his body, but this did not prevent him from scolding the students who came to the stage to write on the blackboard: "Is that word of an old hen's chicken claws planed? Is this in Chinese or English? ?"
There was laughter in the classroom.
The fan was about to break again and was spinning limply.
The Chinese class lasted for two consecutive sessions. After the get out of class bell rang, the boys couldn't stand the heat, and they rushed out to breathe. Chi Xiaochi and his new friend ran to the canteen that had just opened, and used an old popsicle to bridge the friendship. I brought back a bottle of ice water for Pharaoh.
Young boys eat ice cream with big mouthfuls, biting, chewing, and swallowing, as if there is a fire in their bodies that is eager to put out.
Pharaoh sat at the podium and frightened them: "Eat, eat, let your head teacher see it later and buy one for everyone."
A bottle of ice water was wrapped tightly in Lao Wang's wet white towel.
Lou Ying silently looked at everything in front of him and smiled lightly.
Even when he looked at the information he was looking for, he couldn't hide the smile on his lips.
Zhu Shoucheng's son has a very glamorous job. He works for a famous pharmaceutical company and is currently a pharmaceutical sales manager.
According to the traces of the company's activities in the market, the pharmaceutical company may be preparing to list on the New York Stock Exchange, and take this opportunity to send a batch of fresh blood and talents to the US branch.
Originally, Zhu Shoucheng's son Zhu Zhixing had planned to submit a job application to the United States, but because of his father's sudden "accident", he had to give up this opportunity considering his father's advanced age.
Lou Ying spent half a day sorting out their company's huge business database.
Then, he easily entered Zhu Zhixing's work computer, clicked on the work plan he was writing in the United States, and made fine and perfect revisions and additions to many details.
In the previous tasks, Chi Xiaochi always did it himself.
This time, Lou Ying wanted to replace Chi Xiaochi and complete their revenge.
After he finished making corrections, Chi Xiaochi also left school.
Chi Xiaochi walked to the school gate and was a little disappointed when he found that Lou Ying was indeed not outside.
He clearly knew that Lou Ying was in his body. As long as he screamed, his voice would ring in his ears, but the feeling was still different from the feeling of actually seeing him.
He wanted to take a look at Lou Ying, the real thing that could be touched.
But he immediately started laughing at his hypocrisy.
The home at the same table is in the same direction as him, and there is at least a 800-meter walk.
This is Chi Xiaochi's first attempt to go home with others since he was eight years old.
Not in a hurry to go home to see Brother Lou, not in a hurry to finish homework and play games and watch movies with Brother Lou, but to chat slowly and pass the boring time, this feeling is right Chi Xiaochi is very novel.
He and his tablemate walked slowly along the alley, kicking a stone all the way from the school gate.
Without Lou Ying's reminder, he didn't even realize that the person who had disappointed him just now was sitting astride a bicycle, smiling quietly at him from the other end of the alley.
In the past, Lou Ying had the ambition to use waste materials to make a bicycle of his own.
Now, he has spent a whole day sorting out the information of Zhu Shoucheng's son, revising and adjusting his work plan, and finding all the tools to make a bicycle that he never had the chance to do before.
Chi Xiaochi didn't want him to pick him up, but he wanted to see Xiaochi early, and he didn't want to destroy the new friendship he forged today.
So he secretly came here without telling Chi Xiaochi.
The alley was very narrow, and Chi Xiaochi and his new friend quickly disappeared from that end.
The teenager rode a bicycle and walked along the trajectory of Chi Xiaochi on the other side, ringing the bell, avoiding the pedestrians returning from shopping for the evening market, stopped in front of the next alley, braked with one foot, and waited for Chi Xiaochi. Koike appears.
About four minutes later, Chi Xiaochi appeared at the other end of the alley.
He bought a salt-water popsicle and was biting one end, tilting his head and talking to the tablemate beside him.
Lou Ying only saw his profile.
After he disappeared again, Lou Ying set off again, waiting for a goodbye at the next intersection.
Next time, when Chi Xiaochi reappears, he will be alone.
The same table went home, and he ate most of the saltwater popsicles in his mouth, standing in front of the trash can at the other end of the alley, speeding up his sucking.
Lou Ying was wondering what he was doing, when Chi Xiaochi threw the plastic popsicle shell into the trash can and ran away.
... He wants to go home early to see Brother Lou.
Lou Ying vaguely guessed something, the tip of his heart seemed to be dipped in a little honey, and it was so sweet.
Chi Xiaochi didn't run slowly, Lou Ying even had to speed up to make sure to pass the same alley parallel to him and take a look at his profile.
Two people in the sunset, one running over there, the other chasing here, just to glance at the slightly sweaty side face in the same lane.
Lou Ying himself felt that he was too stupid and inefficient. He calculated according to the maximum efficiency. After Chi Xiaochi separated from his classmates, he should ride over and take Chi Xiaochi home to create more opportunities to get along.
But feelings, it seems that there is no reasonable formula.
He just wanted to look at him from a distance, guessing what the man was thinking on the other side of the alley.
Thinking about it, my heart is like a sunset with a rough edge in the sky, and it melts with him wonderfully.
Chi Xiaochi arrived at Tongzilou a little earlier than Lou Ying.
Noticing that Lou Ying's house was still dark, and the light was on in his house, Chi Xiaochi thought about it and went up.
He has already accumulated a wealth of relevant experience. If he doesn't go home one night, his parents will not care about him, but if he stays overnight at Lou Ying's house for two consecutive days, he doesn't come back to report and show his face, and wait for him. When they go back home, they will definitely be angry and say things like other people's homes are so good, why don't you just move out.
Unexpectedly, he was unlucky and opened the door to hell.
Zhu Shoucheng was sitting at the dining table of his house, the apricot light sprinkled on his face, reflecting his smile warm, bright and false.
"… Xiaochi, why did you come back so late?"