Xu Hui quickly quieted down.
Ignore Bai Lu, and even ignore herself.
He dragged himself to the edge of the window sill and sat down against the wall.
With elbows resting on bent knees, he bowed his head, his face buried between his arms.
It was dark outside.
The rain showed no signs of abating.
Bai Lu let go of the doorknob, turned and entered the room.
She sat next to Xu Hui.
This feels a little strange.
Ten centimeters away from him is another person's body, which seems to have heat and shallow breathing.
Bai Lu hugged her knees, not feeling the coldness of the ground.
"My friends say that I'm not to blame..." Xu Hui said after an unknown period of time.
His voice was surrounded by his own arms, low and stubborn.
"Weird." Bai Lu was simpler.
Xu Hui turned his head sideways, revealing a bewitched eye from the crook of his arm, half-closed, looking at the ground.
"Don't blame me... Blame them themselves..."
In a blink of an eye, Bai Lu's eyes behind the huge frame were as cool as having been washed by the rain.
"You haven't answered me yet."
"… what."
"Are you treating your brother well?"
Xu Hui rubbed his head back and turned away without saying a word.
Bai Lu said, "Or I'll ask you another way. Have you been nice to your brother?"
Xu Hui's face was buried even tighter, and he squirmed slightly, like a chick about to shrink into an egg.
"... Let's have a good time." Bai Lu looked at him and said sentence by sentence.
"Otherwise, how could they like you so much... They cling to you, want to be by your side, and can remember every word you say."
Xu Hui hugged his knees, tightened his hands, and breathed heavily.
His exposed neck joints are prominent, and his skin is icy white and delicate.
Bai Lu watched quietly and said, "You know you are different."
Xu Hui sneered, moved his body lightly, and slowly sat up straight.
The sneer on his face still hasn't dissipated.
He said indifferently, "Why is it different, I have two heads?"
Bai Lu's voice fell on Xu Hui's slightly drooping eyelashes.
"You know that others will fall in love with you so easily."
Xu Hui was stunned.
The alcohol made his face look much kinder, and when he was in a daze, there was an air of bewilderment lingering.
Bai Lu: "Take it if you want, throw it away if you want, have you looked back?"
Xu Hui retracted his chin, stared at the ground, and suddenly lost his temper.
"You don't talk to me."
Bai Lu also lowered her neck, trying to look into his eyes. Xu Hui didn't let her succeed, and turned his head away for a second before looking at each other.
Bai Lu's eyes followed him closely, and she turned her body sideways. Her voice was not loud, but every word entered Xu Hui's ears.
"Have you looked back once, even if you don't do anything, just see how they are doing now."
Xu Hui's voice suddenly became louder, and he looked up at her.
"Don't look! Why should I look? It has nothing to do with me. I asked for it!"
Bai Lu looked at him without blinking, which made Xu Hui even more irritable.
"Did I make him like me? Did I force him to give me a birthday present? I didn't promise anything. He did what he wanted. Why should he blame me if something goes wrong?"
Bai Lu couldn't help it anymore, she suddenly smiled, and nodded while laughing.
"Ok."
Xu Hui clenched his teeth.
Bai Lu pursed her lips, as if she suddenly remembered something, and said softly, "Your brother must have been ten years old at that time."
I don't know if it's "brother" or "ten years old"—
In short, there must be something in this sentence, which shattered him the moment it was uttered.
Xu Hui's breathing was uneven, his shoulders were loose, and his eyes were burning, but he still held back.
A second before the tears fell, Xu Hui stood up from the ground and pointed to the door.
"Get out... I won't use it anymore."
Bai Lu patted her clothes and walked to the door with her head down.
As the weather eased, Bai Lu held up an umbrella at the door of the building and walked slowly into the rain.
But after walking a few steps, Bai Lu stopped.
Still under that electric pole.
Dim street lights, dripping rain, a boy holding an umbrella.
He seemed to be on his way, but was startled by an inadvertent glance, and stood there in a daze.
Bai Lu stopped for only a second, then continued walking forward as if nothing had happened.
When passing by Wu Hanwen who was carrying a large schoolbag, he reacted and wanted to call her, but his voice was covered by the rain and the horns of passing cars.
Bai Lu walked past him with her head down, and Wu Hanwen followed.
The footsteps behind him were a little heavy, which is understandable. Wu Hanwen is addicted to studying and has to carry a 20-pound schoolbag to and from school every day.
Bai Lu knew that Wu Hanwen had the habit of coming to the school study room to read at night, but she didn't know why it was so late.
After entering the school gate, Bai Lu walked towards the dormitory building.
"Hey!" Wu Hanwen finally stopped her.
Bai Lu turned her head, "What's wrong?"
"you… "
The lights on the campus were even darker, and Bai Lu couldn't see his face clearly, so she asked, "Why do you come to school so late?"
"Ah, I was at school during the day to help Teacher Bao with the test papers, and when I left, I found that I forgot something, so I came back to get it."
"It's too late, you go back and be careful."
"...It's okay, my house is close."
Bai Lu nodded, turned and left.
This time Wu Hanwen didn't stop her.
One autumn rain and one cold, the rain stopped in the early morning of the next day, and the campus was full of flowers and leaves, and finally there was an autumn atmosphere.
This table is very quiet today.
Bai Lu herself didn't talk much, and Wu Hanwen, who used to like to chat with her classmates, also immersed herself in reading from morning to night. Even Li Siyi's questions were written down in the notebook and returned.
Li Siyi joked a few words at the beginning, but later realized that something was wrong with the atmosphere, so he honestly hid it.
After the last class, the classmates went to eat one after another. Bai Lu turned a corner on the way to the cafeteria and came to the back of the cafeteria.
Turning around, Bai Lu smiled when she saw Wu Hanwen without any surprise.
"Want to invite me to dinner again?"
Wu Hanwen looked serious, frowning like the head teacher Bao Jianxun.
"What's going on?" Wu Hanwen asked.
Bai Lu: "What's going on?"
Wu Hanwen: "You know what I'm talking about."
Bai Lu lowered her head quietly. Wu Hanwen was a little anxious, "What's going on? How did you get out from there?"
Bai Lu raised her eyes, "What's wrong there?"
"Where is—" Wu Hanwen hesitated to speak, "Yes, it's his house."
"Whose family?"
Wu Hanwen took a deep breath, "Xu Hui's home."
Bai Lu said, "How do you know where he lives?"
"The house I'm renting is also nearby. I've met him before. At least he went to a junior high school—" Wu Hanwen explained a few words, and suddenly felt something was wrong, so he quickly brought the topic back.
"I'm asking you! How did you get out of him? Do you know Xu Hui?"
Bai Lu pursed her lips and hummed lightly.
"I know you, we are friends."
Wu Hanwen was shocked by her understatement, "No, you, you...he..."
Bai Lu said, "I met by chance." She walked towards the cafeteria, "It's nothing, just pretend you didn't see it."
"impossible."
Bai Lu stood still.
He not only knows how to study, but when the autumn wind blows, he wakes up a rational study committee member.
"You are not friends." Wu Hanwen was certain of this.
He has a flexible mind, and in this short period of time, his thoughts quickly flew away.
Bai Lu realized something, she tried to interrupt him.
"Go back, don't think about it."
"No, no..." Wu Hanwen raised his hand, he remembered more and more things, so many that his shoulders were sweating in the already cold night.
"You asked me about him when we were eating, did you ask on purpose?"
The first thing I recalled gave the 18-year-old boy a muffled blow.
"You wanted to ask him, didn't you?"
Bai Lu pursed her lips.
Wu Hanwen walked around in place a few times, and then said, "Did you also..."
Bai Lu didn't speak, but her eyes clearly gave her the answer.
Wu Hanwen pinched his waist with his hands, he was so anxious that he was a little hunched over, his face wrinkled together, and he said sadly:
"How did you get together with him! Don't you know what kind of person he is? You didn't remember Jiang Ru's big fights on him? Thanks to me, I also helped you hide it from Mr. Bao. !"
Bai Lu shook her head, "You think too much."
"I think too much when I think about it? It was night, you came out of his house, and you told me how to think less?"
Bai Lu looked at him silently, and Wu Hanwen's eyes gradually became serious.
"You explain?"
Bai Lu: "You should explain it first."
Wu Hanwen was taken aback, "I explain? What do I explain?"
Bai Lu: "Why do you care about my affairs so much?"
Wu Hanwen seemed to be choking on a steamed bun suddenly, his eyes flickered and he hesitated.
"I, I am, just asking."
"Is there such a question?"
"...you are my deskmate after all."
"thanks."
Wu Hanwen looked up and saw Bai Lu's gaze, "Thank you for caring about me."
There was no mocking tone in her words, Wu Hanwen gradually settled down.
"you… "
"It's not what you think."
Wu Hanwen met Bai Lu's gaze and finally found his voice.
"What am I thinking?"
Bai Lu raised her eyes, "That's it."
"But you won't go for nothing—" Wu Hanwen stopped suddenly in the middle of speaking, and his eyes lit up for a moment.
Bai Lu had seen this expression on his face many times before, it was the expression that appeared only at the moment when a problem was solved.
"Because of Jiang Ru."
Wu Hanwen was still hesitant when he guessed, but the moment he finished speaking, he was suddenly convinced.
"Because of Jiang Ru, right?"
After a long while, Bai Lu took a light breath, and said in an emotional tone, "Amazing."
Wu Hanwen was a little flustered by the praise just now, and suddenly realized that he is not doing a test paper now.
Holding his waist, Wu Hanwen paced back and forth, feeling that he had a lot to say, but he didn't know where to start.
Bai Lu couldn't help but said, "Aren't you dizzy?"
"No!" Wu Hanwen glared, and then left.
"Then I'll go first."
"stop!"
Bai Lu turned around, "It won't be too late for dinner."
Wu Hanwen stared: "You still want to eat!"
"Aren't you hungry?"
"I-"
Bai Lu shook her head, "Come on, I'll treat you to dinner."
Wu Hanwen stood on the spot. Bai Lu urged again, Wu Hanwen was speechless, scratched his head, and followed.
The two walked to the cafeteria together, Bai Lu: "Ah..."
"Don't even think about inquiring about Xu Hui anymore!" Wu Hanwen jumped out like a cannonball.
Bai Lu opened her mouth halfway, and looked at Wu Hanwen in surprise, "What?"
Bai Lu's expression made Wu Hanwen feel that he was a calculating person, and he said with some embarrassment, "No, what's wrong?"
Bai Lu: "Oh, what do you want to eat?" She smiled as she spoke, "Don't be too expensive, please be merciful."
"Don't worry!" Wu Hanwen said bluntly, "Let's go with the sliced noodles."
Wu Hanwen began to talk about the next exam.
Stepping up the steps with her head down, Bai Lu listened to Wu Hanwen's words, her lips were pursed, and the color of her lips was light.