Xu Tingbai felt that he was sick.
Just like the last time I stood next to a broken cake for a long time, the problem came suddenly.
Otherwise, why would he be so confused that he nodded.
The two of them slowly walked up the stairs. Xu Tingbai listened to the slight breathing and footsteps beside him, and slowed down his movements in taking the key.
Lin Qingle couldn't suppress the joy in her heart throughout the whole process. She even forgot the pain in the wound on her hand, because Xu Tingbai's consent made her feel that they could finally be closer.
As she went upstairs, Lin Qingle looked around. Xu Tingbai's old building was deep in the alley. His house was on the top floor, the eighth floor. The corridor was very dark, and she felt a chill even on a hot day.
She still remembered that when she first went to Xu Tingbai's house as a child, she was stunned for a long time. At that time, the little girl was simply stunned by his residence. It was a very big house with a separate entrance and a large garden with plenty of sunshine.
At that time, he was like a little prince, polite and gentlemanly, untainted by the dust, and was well protected in the castle.
Recalling the past, Lin Qingle's eyes fell on the figure in front of him.
Now the little prince had no castle, and he fell into the mud, looking very miserable.
But she would not ignore him just because he didn't have a castle. She thought, no matter what he was like, as long as he was Xu Tingbai, she would be patient and gentle like he was when they were children.
"You'd better go and go to the clinic." The key was already inserted into the keyhole, but Xu Tingbai suddenly said.
Lin Qingle was startled and said in panic: "But I don't have any money..."
Xu Tingbai: “…”
Seeing that he hesitated, she whispered, "Let's not waste money, okay? Just apply the medicine yourself. It's not that serious."
We? Why us
Xu Tingbai sneered in his heart, but turned the key subconsciously.
The door was opened against my will.
"Where did you put the mercurochrome for disinfection?" Lin Qingle's voice became a little more cheerful because the door was opened.
Xu Tingbai walked in silently and put the blind stick in a fixed place.
"Sit down, I'll get it."
"oh."
"Don't move things."
"Um!"
Xu Tingbai was very familiar with the structure of the house and groped his way towards the bedroom.
Lin Qingle didn't sit down either, just looked at the room.
The place where Xu Tingbai lives has two small bedrooms, a dining room and a living room. But it is called a living room, but in fact it just has a small, shabby sofa on the side, and next to the sofa is the dining table. In fact, the two areas are integrated.
It's very small here, but fortunately there is a balcony. The light coming in from the balcony makes the whole house much brighter.
And it was surprisingly clean. She had originally thought that his father was not at home, and it would be difficult for him to clean the house alone since he couldn't see anything.
"Lin Qingle."
"Yes, I'm here!"
Xu Tingbai came out with a box in his hand. He walked to the side of the dining table, touched the edge with his hand, put the box on it, and said impatiently, "Get it yourself."
Lin Qingle glanced at the palm of his hand and said, "Can I use the faucet to wash it first? My hands are covered in dust."
"casual."
"Um."
Lin Qingle ran to the kitchen to wash her hands. Xu Tingbai stood there without moving, as if waiting for her to finish applying the medicine and then kick her out.
Lin Qingle looked back at him, and then concentrated on washing her hands. The wound was stinging when it came into contact with water, so she took a few deep breaths and spent a long time cleaning all the dust particles on the wound.
Returning to the dining table, Lin Qingle sat down on the chair and found the red medicine and cotton swabs: "You have a lot of disinfectants and abrasion medicines at home."
And there are so many different kinds that they fill up the box.
Xu Tingbai said indifferently: "Hurry up and leave once you're done."
"… oh."
If it was painful to rinse with water just now, then applying disinfectant mercurochrome now is extremely painful!
Lin Qingle just touched it with a cotton swab and gasped in pain: "Ah...hiss..."
Xu Tingbai frowned: "What are you calling? Be quiet."
Lin Qingle's eyes were red: "It hurts so much..."
It really hurt. He could hear a slight cry in her voice, soft and sticky, with a hook at the end.
Xu Tingbai was slightly startled, and said stiffly: "Who told you to meddle in other people's business?"
Lin Qingle: "This is not just a trivial matter..."
"Oh."
Xu Tingbai stopped talking.
Lin Qingle continued to apply medicine with a bitter voice. Her wound was mainly on her right hand, and she finished applying the medicine on that one area very quickly.
She put down the cotton swab and blew gently on her arm. When the pain subsided a little, she looked up at Xu Tingbai.
He still stood there stubbornly waiting for her, not leaving but not sitting down either.
The sun was about to set, and it was getting dark outside. But because of the bright balcony, Lin Qingle could see his eyes clearly.
His eyes were very light in color, and because he couldn't see, they looked lifeless as if covered with a layer of fog. But this didn't affect the fact that his eyes were beautiful.
Lin Qingle felt that his eyes were more beautiful than those of Yu Jiayou, the school hunk described by Jiang Shuyi, and they were the kind of beauty that made it impossible to look away once you took one look.
"Are you done?" Xu Tingbai spoke out, perhaps because he felt that it had been a little too long.
Lin Qingle didn't answer, but just asked: "What are you going to eat tonight?"
"It's none of your business."
Here it comes again. Xu Tingbai still doesn't want to chat with her.
But Lin Qingle thought that today was already a big progress, and she shouldn't be too anxious.
"Okay, I'll be leaving now. Remember to have dinner. Um...thank you for letting me use your potion."
Lin Qingle stood up and walked towards the door.
After walking a few steps, she suddenly remembered something very important and turned back immediately -
Xu Tingbai was thinking about closing the door, so he followed in that direction. He didn't see Lin Qingle turning around, so he went straight to meet him.
"Hmm..."
Lin Qingle turned his head a little too hard and hit him directly in the chest.
After a bump, she lost her balance and bounced back. Xu Tingbai paused and subconsciously reached out to help her, but she screamed out loud.
"ah!!"
"…?"
"hand!"
He grabbed her randomly, and by chance, grabbed her arm that had just been medicated! Xu Tingbai immediately let go after understanding and said angrily, "What are you doing?"
Lin Qingle said aggrievedly: "I didn't know you were so close to me..."
Xu Tingbai took a deep breath and said, "If I don't look at you, you won't be able to see it. Why are you looking back so suddenly?"
"I remembered something."
Xu Tingbai felt that the tips of his fingers were a little damp from scratching her arm, and he didn't know how much medicine she had applied, or... how serious her wound was.
He frowned, feeling increasingly irritated, and subconsciously said, "When will you change your irritable habit?"
Lin Qingle was stunned for a moment, then she realized what this sentence meant. A smile suddenly appeared on her face: "It's not so easy to change a person's habits."
He really still remembered the days when they used to study and play together.
Xu Tingbai snorted coldly: "Say what you want to say."
Lin Qingle: "It's like this, I want to ask if you have a cell phone. Give me your number so it will be easier to contact you in the future."
Xu Tingbai's face turned cold again. He reached out to touch the door and quickly opened it: "No."
This year, smartphones were not yet popular and flip phones were still the trend.
Because Lin Yufen had to work away from home for a long time, she gritted her teeth and bought a copycat phone worth two or three hundred yuan for Lin Qingle so that she could contact him when she was not at home.
Lin Qingle thought that Xu Tingbai's father was often not at home, so he would definitely give Xu Tingbai a mobile phone.
Lin Qingle: "I won't call you normally, don't worry, I will only call you if there is something."
Xu Tingbai: "Did you say that? Get out."
"… "
Lin Qingle reluctantly moved to the door.
Xu Tingbai stood behind the door with empty eyes.
"Lin Qingle."
She thought he changed his mind and wanted to give her his cell phone number, and her eyes lit up: "Huh?"
Xu Tingbai: "Don't come again, I'm not the person you remember me as."
**
After returning home, Lin Qingle's hand was soon seen by Lin Yufen.
"What's wrong with your hand?"
Lin Qingle: "I just accidentally fell on the road."
"How old are you? You can still fall while walking?!"
"I just bumped into someone and fell. I've already gone to a nearby clinic to get some medicine."
"Is it serious? You know this will affect your studies, right? Be careful."
Lin Qingle retorted in a low voice: "It's not the head that's injured, it's just the hand, how can it affect your studies..."
"You can still write with your hands like this?!"
"Yes, don't worry." Lin Qingle felt a little annoyed. He quickly ate a few mouthfuls of food and went back to his room.
"Tsk, you're already impatient after just a few words?" Lin Yufen's voice came from outside, "Who did you inherit this temper from?"
…
So noisy.
Lin Qingle lay on the bed and covered his ears.
Who did it inherit from? If it wasn’t you, then it was that person.
Her arm was still stinging, and Lin Qingle put down her hand only after the people outside stopped nagging. She looked at the wound and remembered applying medicine at Xu Tingbai's house today.
"Don't come again. I'm not the person you think I am."
She knew that he was a little different than before, but no matter who it was who encountered a major change in life, it would not be exactly the same as at the beginning, not to mention that during those three years, he might have gone through many sad things that she didn't know about.
Lin Qingle stared at the wound for a long time, and said stubbornly: "You are still the same in essence... Otherwise, you wouldn't let me go to your house today."
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The days at school were peaceful and busy. Although she was only in the first year of high school, Lin Qingle did not dare to relax at all. She was not a genius student and she needed to work very hard to maintain good grades.
It was Wednesday, the second physical education class in the afternoon.
In this PE class, the physical test was 800 meters. Lin Qingle was in the first group and Jiang Shuyi was in the second group. After she finished running, she went to the canteen to buy water and bought a bottle for Jiang Shuyi.
After running 800 meters, she was thirsty and her mouth was dry. As soon as she walked out of the store, she couldn't bear it anymore and opened the bottle of mineral water and took a few sips.
"Huh..." After drinking it, she felt comfortable all over and screwed the lid on with satisfaction.
"Fuck, I thought you must be from our school, so I spent some time looking for you. But you showed up in front of me before I even started looking."
Just then, a male voice suddenly came from the front.
Lin Qingle looked up in confusion, only to see someone who looked familiar walking towards him.
She immediately clenched the mineral water bottle in her hand.
The man was actually the one who blocked Xu Tingbai and Zhang Yikun last time.