It was customary to raise the flag on Monday morning, but it suddenly rained on the road.
There was only one umbrella in the car, Xiao Zhang sent the two to the school gate, Cao Feng got out of the car quickly, opened the umbrella, held the car door with one hand, opened a sky for him, bent over and waited for Duan Yuche to come out: " There is water on the ground, be careful."
The spare umbrella in the car is not very big. Cao Fengren is tall and tall, and the space under the umbrella is more and more crowded. He is afraid that Duan Yuche will get rained, so he carries his schoolbag in front of him, and reaches out to take Duan Yuche's schoolbag. come down and hold. Duan Yuche got out of the car, stepped over the standing water, hid under the umbrella, looked up at him, Cao Feng was as tall as his former French classmates.
When he got to the teaching building, he saw that the other half of Cao Feng was wet from his shoulders to his arms.
Ma Xiaobo informed that the flag-raising ceremony was canceled, and a group of people copied homework indiscriminately in the classroom. Their class was full of scumbags. Duan Yuche's classmate's homework was very popular. Someone is urging: "Hurry up, hurry up, did you copy it?"
The representatives of each subject were collecting their homework. Duan Yuche scoured several different homework versions from the front, back, left and right. Taking advantage of the early reading time, he copied a little of each, and this subject copied the next subject.
The hardest part of the first year of high school is that there are many subjects and a lot of homework, but it is very fast to copy - copy and copy, but Duan Yuche finds that he can't find the math and physics workbooks anyway, he rummaged through The bag was not found.
Just when he was mad about whether he didn't bring it, Cao Feng, who was highly valued by Ma Xiaobo and was supervising early reading, passed by him and silently placed two exercise books on his desk, plus notes. and a note.
Duan Shumin used to buy notes and sticky notes and store them at home. He hardly used them. Now they are all cheap for Cao Feng.
Looking up at his tall, tall and silent back, Duan Yuche spread out the note.
It reads: Xiao Che, your workbook landed with me yesterday, I wrote it, and the subsection is the process of my problem-solving thinking, you can understand it at a glance.
Duan Yuche remembered that his handwriting was neat, like copying the cursive characters in class. Why is the handwriting on this small piece of paper a little crooked
Shouldn't it be okay
Yesterday he closed the door so hard, he must have been seriously injured...
Looking up again, Cao Feng had already circled to the other side, but when he raised his head, Cao Feng seemed to feel it immediately, turned his head to look at him, and smiled at him.
Duan Yuche quickly lowered his head and opened the exercise book. He had already written his homework. It was written in imitation of his handwriting. The imitation was very similar—the person who refused to copy his homework yesterday actually helped him. wrote
Even with a finger injury.
Duan Yuche felt a little uncomfortable, and always felt that he owed Cao Feng something.
Soon, after reading it early, he handed in his homework. Ma Xiaobo came in with a heavy English-Chinese dictionary and said, "This Oxford English-Chinese dictionary is very suitable for the students in our class. I suggest that one person be hired. Ah, vocabulary is very important. With only ten words a day, you can memorize nearly 4,000 words a year, which means you can reach the English level of the college entrance examination. However, for students who have to take IELTS, TOEFL and A, 4,000 words are not enough... "
After he repeated his old tune about how important vocabulary is, he finally got to the topic: "There is a certain discount for the unified purchase of English-Chinese dictionaries in the class. It costs 98 in the bookstore, and 68 after the discount in the class. Students who want to buy it, hurry up today. Register with the squad leader."
Duan Yuche didn't need this and didn't care. Two days later, when the dictionary was sent to him, he was very puzzled and asked the squad leader, "I didn't register and didn't give money. Is this dictionary wrong?"
The monitor opened the window to check, and then said, "Look, here is your name. You paid the money. Oh, it was Cao Feng who paid for you... Hey, he paid for you, but he didn't." The monitor remembered. , "I asked him the other day if he didn't want it, and he said no."
Duan Yuche was stunned: "...Oh."
He went to Cao Feng with the dictionary in his arms. Cao Feng was doing the physics questions, and Duan Yuche put the dictionary on his desk: "You help me pay, why don't you ask me?"
"This is the study material," Cao Feng raised his head, "I thought..."
"I don't need a dictionary." Duan Yuche knew that he was very poor and was reluctant to spend money. Several times he accidentally saw Duan Shumin give Cao Feng money. It seemed like he kept saying that he still had money in his bag.
Even in the evening after school, he bought a piece of roast sausage at the gate of the school, but Cao Feng refused to eat it. He bought half a catty of chestnuts and gave him one.
A person who is so economical, actually paid for the material fee for him? .
"But… "
"It's nothing." He interrupted Cao Feng, glanced at the price at the back of the Oxford Dictionary, gave him a one hundred yuan, and then put the new dictionary on his desk: "When I give it to you, I'll use it anyway. No, you can use it."
"I have it, I have it, you can use it." Cao Feng grabbed his wrist and took out his dictionary from the desk drawer with the other hand, "Look, brother has one."
Duan Yuche looked down and saw that it was also an English-Chinese dictionary, but it looked a little different from the color of the new one, the version was different, and it was even older, the shell was discolored and peeled, and the hard blue shell was still I wrote a name with an oil-based pen, not Cao Feng.
Duan Yuche seemed to understand: "Isn't this second-hand?"
"Well... I bought it from the seniors. It's cheaper, and there are notes on it. It's better than the new one."
Duan Yuche's mood became more complicated, and he directly picked up the second-hand dictionary on his desk and held it: "Cao Feng, don't spend money like this next time, I won't use it either."
Cao Feng didn't take his money, Duan Yuche threw it on his desk and left.
The girl who was sitting at the table in front of Cao Feng and had a few words with him couldn't help but turn her head and ask him, "Huh? You and Duan Yuche have a good relationship. I saw you two come together in the morning and go together after school."
Cao Feng also only found out in the last few days that Duan Yuche was so good-looking and his background sounded great. He became famous as soon as he entered the school.
When he went to the toilet that day, he also heard an unremarkable boy in his class saying to another: "He is my junior high school classmate, from our first school, and he became famous as soon as he came. We call him the walking ATM. machine."
Another classmate asked, "So rich?"
"Yes, he is rich. He won the second prize in the composition competition shortly after entering the school. The title is "My Bank President Dad", and he wrote it like a kindergarten composition..."
Last week, Cao Feng and Duan Yuche went out of school together. They met some girls who sent love letters, some snacks, more than one, but he wouldn't accept them. In PE class, he would find other classes coming to see him secretly. Ringing the bell and running, as soon as he turned his head to a group of little girls, his face flushed. Seeing Xiao Che's appearance, he was used to it, and he was not embarrassed at all, but he seemed not interested in puppy love at all and never accepted it.
Cao Feng knew that he was very popular.
But Duan Yuche didn't want people to know their specific relationship.
Cao Feng replied to the girl in front, "I live relatively close to Yu Che."
The girl gave a "wow" and looked at him up and down, with a "can't tell" expression: "Are you actually neighbors? Does their family live in a big villa?"
Cao Feng didn't want to answer this kind of personal question, but he didn't know how to refuse politely, so he took out the Oreos that Duan Shumin had bought earlier from his schoolbag, and gave her one: "Do you want to eat?"
The girl took one and said thank you.
Duan Yuche, who had returned to his seat, looked back and saw this scene.
That girl is an art student, tall, thin, and temperamental, with a smile like a flower.
Cao Feng looked shy, but he was also smiling and touched the back of his head.
... this Cao Feng.
Duan Yuche cursed inwardly for being dishonest, how long has it been here
In the afternoon gym class, Cao Feng took advantage of Duan Yuche to go to the toilet and there was no one in the classroom, so he secretly stuffed a hundred yuan back into his wallet.
Duan Yuche didn't know how much money he had in his bag, so he didn't know about it at all. After school, he packed up quickly, his schoolbag was empty, he tucked the water glass into the side pocket and left the classroom without waiting for Cao Feng.
Cao Feng reacted, Duan Yuche had already left.
He had no choice but to go to Duan Yuche's place and help him find out the exercise books he was going to do today and put them in his school bag.
Going downstairs, Cao Feng walked towards the back door. From a distance, he saw Duan Yuche in the bicycle shed, talking to a petite female classmate with black hair.
Not from their class, a pretty girl. If Cao Feng stayed at this school a little longer, he would know that she was a sophomore in high school.
He stopped, wondering if he should walk over in the distance.
After hesitating, he saw that the girl handed Duan Yuche something that looked like an envelope.
love letter
Immediately Cao Feng saw that Duan Yuche, who never paid attention to girls, took the envelope and put it in his schoolbag.
***
"Okay, I'll take a look later when I go back, thank you, Senior Sister."
Seeing that he received the letter, Lin Huishi smiled and said, "There is also a link to register, you can also directly search for the keywords of the competition. By the way, if there is anything you don't understand, feel free to call or send me a text message. No, let's add a friend first, if there is anything you don't understand, you can post it on QQ... You should have this, your number... "
"Sorry, senpai, it's not long since I returned to China, I'm not used to using this, and I don't bring my mobile phone." Duan Yuche was already a little impatient - at this moment, he suddenly saw a fool not far away under the bypass light of the teaching building , Cao Feng, who looked lonely and lonely.
As if seeing the savior, Duan Yuche immediately waved at him: "Cao Feng! Cao Feng!"
Cao Feng's eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately ran towards him.
Duan Yuche said to the senior in front of her, "My classmate is here, I'll go first, bye."
The senior said "Oh": "Then you remember..." Before she could say anything, Duan Yuche pulled Cao Feng, who came over, and turned around and left, regardless of what the senior said, and asked Cao Feng, "Why did you go like this? slow?"
"I..." Cao Feng was confused, his brother left without waiting for him, why did he ask him back? Feeling the strength of my brother's grasp on his wrist, even through the school uniform jacket, the touch and temperature were transmitted to the body through the thin fabric, and goose bumps instantly covered the whole body, I was very nervous, and it was difficult to speak: " I was just… just helping you pack today's exercise book."
"It's too late to copy it tomorrow morning."
Cao Feng wanted to ask him about the girl, but he couldn't get the words out of his mouth. It didn't seem to have anything to do with him.
"There's not a lot of homework, I've already written it, and I've made some important notes. If there's anything you don't understand, I can tell you..."
"Don't talk about it," Duan Yuche shook his head like a rattle, "I can't understand the teacher's lectures in class, I'm sure I can't understand even more when you talk about it, it's useless to talk about it, anyway, I won't be able to use this knowledge in the future..."
Cao Feng wanted to tell him that it wasn't useless. The knowledge learned in class was very useful and could be applied to life, but he was stupid and didn't know how to tell him.
After leaving the school, Duan Yuche took him to buy a fried chestnut and two sausages. Regardless of whether Cao Feng wanted it or not, he directly handed him a bunch of sausages dipped in peppers.
Cao Feng knew that because of his younger brother's character, if he didn't eat it, he would throw it away. He did this last time, as if he did it on purpose.
As a last resort, he could only reach out to take it, say thank you, and take a bite.
Duan Yuche thought that it must have killed him, but he asked him, "Is it delicious?"
A little hot, Cao Feng couldn't speak, so he nodded.
The hot dog was freshly baked, hot, spicy and fragrant. He had never eaten such a delicious thing before, and he almost swallowed his tongue.
"Delicious?" Duan Yuche asked again, "Is it spicy?"
Cao Feng was so hot that he still had to shake his head and say no.
"Hey, isn't your chili pepper spicy?" No, he heard that it was a devil's chili pepper, and he thought he would see Cao Feng crying, is it really not spicy? He looked suspiciously at Cao Feng's calm expression: "Then let me taste some." Then he touched his grilled hot dog on Cao Feng's hot dog full of chili peppers, and dipped a little chili pepper.
After taking a bite, Duan Yuche's expression was normal at first, but his expression soon changed.
The feeling of a volcanic eruption exploded on the taste buds, straight to the forehead.
His eyes were so hot that he opened his mouth to fan his tongue with his hands, took out a water glass from the side pocket of his schoolbag, and stared at Cao Feng, "You lied to me."
There was only a drop of water left in the water glass, and it didn't help.
"Little Che..." Cao Feng was at a loss for words. How did he know that Duan Yuche would come to have a taste, and he didn't know that he was so afraid of being so spicy that he quickly took out his teacup, "I have water here."
Duan Yuche never touched other people's cups, and always felt a smell, but he really needed water to dilute the hot taste, so he asked Cao Feng to pour the water into his thermos cup and gulp it down.
"Do you still want it?" Cao Feng poured him another cup, and then took out a candy, "I still have candy, do you want it?"
Still hot in his mouth, he drank all the remaining water in Cao Feng's water cup: "Yes."
In the mouth, this intense spicy taste was slowly suppressed.
He found his own car parked in the old place, the two got into the car, Xiao Zhang started the car, and waited in line behind the crowded traffic at the red light.
Cao Feng rummaged through his schoolbag and found another plum candy, which he put on his lap without saying a word.
Duan Yuche glanced at him, then quietly peeled off the candy wrapper and ate it.
Watching his movements, Cao Feng found out the Oreos he hadn't eaten today from his schoolbag and handed them to him.
Duan Yuche didn't answer.
Cao Feng was puzzled, "Huh?" Duan Yuche turned his head: "I don't want to eat this, you can eat it yourself."
Cao Feng: "Oh."
Cao Feng: "...Is it still spicy?"
Duan Yuche glanced at him.
Cao Feng scratched his head, somewhat incomprehensible.
At the gate of the community, before the car drove in, Cao Feng said that he wanted to buy something: "I'll go back later."
He got out of the car with his bag on his back.
Duan Yuche wanted him to bring a pack of cigarettes: "Wait."
Cao Feng asked, "What's wrong?"
There was also a driver in the car, Duan Yuche didn't know what to say, so he hesitated: "Forget it."
He asked Cao Feng to put down his schoolbag: "Don't carry it so heavy."
When he got home, Duan Yuche found that Duan Shumin was not at home, and asked Xiao Zhang, Xiao Zhang said that Duan Shumin was entertaining at a certain hotel, and he would pick him up later.
Duan Yuche went back to the room on the front foot, and heard the doorbell on the back foot, opened the door, it was Cao Feng.
"Don't you have the key?"
"The keys are in the schoolbag, but I don't have any water to drink, do you still feel spicy?" Cao Feng said, giving him a pack of plum candies he just bought.
Duan Yuche was stunned for a moment: "Did you just buy this?"
"I think you like it." Cao Feng nodded, sweat beaded on his face, he should have run back.
"...Thank you." Duan Yuche returned to the room with the candy, and after a few minutes, the knock on the door rang again.
"Who is it?" Duan Yuche was lying by the window smoking a cigarette, when he heard the voice subconsciously put out the cigarette, and waved his hand to fan the smoke out of the window.
"Xiao Che, it's me." It was Cao Feng's voice.
Duan Yuche likes to lock the door, he opened the door and asked something.
Cao Feng held a few exercise books, teaching materials, and notes, and said, "Today's homework."
"Oh." Duan Yuche opened the door and let him in. His room was a bit messy. There was a huge puzzle blanket on the ground. On it were piled up the puzzle pieces that had just been assembled. Three thousand pieces were scattered together.
After sitting down, he was about to pick up his pen to copy, and found that he only had his own blank exercise book, not Cao Feng's.
Cao Feng sat next to him, opened his notes, and explained, "I wrote all these practice questions in the afternoon. They are mathematics. I have sorted out the relevant formulas, examples, and problem-solving ideas. It's very simple. You can read it once. Understood." He turned a page and said, "It's physical, the answer to history can be found in books, Unit 2, pages 22 to 25, here, the establishment of democracy in Athens, this is geographical, in In the book…”
There are a total of nine courses, and seven of them have left homework today. Except for English, Cao Feng helped him sort out clear ideas for solving problems at a glance.
The obvious intention is more intentional than the direct copying of the homework - even if Duan Yuche can't accept this method deep in his heart, he thinks it is better to copy it directly to him, but this kind of careful and thoughtful method is beyond ordinary. He was so considerate that he couldn't bear to attack Cao Feng and told him that he didn't need it.
But he really didn't want to write.
Duan Yuche opened his notebook and pretended to read: "Hey, does your hand still hurt?"
The corners of Cao Feng's mouth curved up, saying that he was healed, and the pain was no longer there.
"It's fine as long as it doesn't hurt." Duan Yuche deliberately opened his laptop and pushed it to Cao Feng, "Then I'm doing my homework, do you want to play with the computer? Or read English?"
Cao Feng hesitated and said, "Computer."
Duan Yuche smiled, thinking that Xueba is nothing more than that—isn't he still defeated by the computer? Cao Feng is good at learning, it must be because he has not been exposed to these fun things before, so he can only learn.
"I'll give you the mouse too, why don't you go back to the room to play?" Duan Yuche is not addicted to games. He occasionally plays online games, mainly to collect skins. Other than that, it's not interesting. The computer is placed here. Also watch the video.
"I could just be right here..."
"You are here to disturb my study."
He was stunned for a moment, as if he realized something, got up and said, "Well, then I won't bother you, I'll recite the words."
Duan Yuche said, "Don't, just put the computer on, and take it back to your room to play casually."
Cao Feng hesitated: "Well, thank you brother."
Duan Yuche waved his hand, saying you're welcome. Cao Feng walked away with the computer in his arms. As soon as the door closed, he quickly dropped the pen, put the workbook aside, and sat on the ground to continue playing the puzzle he just took apart.
This was a birthday present sent to him by his aunt who was far away in England, and it arrived more than a month in advance.
The puzzle is 3000 pieces, Jumbo's Mystery uzzle series, just out of the new.
My aunt's friend told him that Jumbo's just-released series also has an event. After finishing the fight, take a picture and send it to the official mailbox. If the top 50 succeed, they will get a prize. The aunt also said: "When you have finished, the aunt will come back to China to see you."
Duan Yuche knew that she was just talking, and even if he didn't succeed, as long as she had time, she would definitely come back to see him.
He likes the process of piecing together a piece of scattered objects into a whole, especially the difficult ones. It took a lot of time for this package of puzzles to be sent from the UK. Even if this is an unpopular game, the world is as big as he is. There are not many people who like to play the Mystery series, and I don't know if they can catch up with the top 50 prizes.
According to past experience, it would take him at least a month, maybe two months... or even half a year to spell it out alone.
Jumbo Mystery is the most difficult puzzle in the world.
He lay on the ground and pulled piece by piece. There was no skill in the puzzle. He just started from the outer frame, and started from the part with similar colors from the outside to the inside.
After an hour passed, he found two pieces and rewarded himself for eating two pieces of chocolate—a very good record.
At this moment, someone suddenly knocked on the door, Duan Yuche: "Who is it?"
Cao Feng said, "Little Che, can I come in?"
Duan Yuche paused and thought about whether he should pretend to do his homework, but he was too lazy to get up, so he didn't move: "Come in, what's the matter?"
Cao Feng pushed open the door and came in with the computer in his arms: "The computer suddenly went black."
"It should be out of power, the charger is on the bedside table, you can look for it." He looked for the puzzle piece without looking up.
Cao Feng saw him concentrate on playing puzzles, and there was an open box of chocolates on the ground next to him, so he walked in, put the computer on his bedside, and couldn't help asking, "What is this?"
"Which one?" Duan Yuche looked up at him and saw that he was talking about jigsaw puzzles, so he looked at him like a fool, "Puzzles, have you never played?"
"No." Cao Feng blushed a little. Of course he knew it was a puzzle. Although he had never played it before, he also knew that he just wanted to talk to his younger brother. He sat down and asked him, "Is it difficult?"
"Well... it's a bit difficult." Duan Yuche saw that he didn't seem to want to leave, so he said, "You don't play on the computer anymore?"
Cao Feng shook his head: "Have you written your homework?"
Duan Yuche: "..."
He quickly changed the subject: "Have you never played a puzzle before? Let me teach you. You can help me find a piece, and we will fight together. If you find a piece, I will reward you with a piece of chocolate, how about it?"
"Okay!" Cao Feng responded immediately.
He was very interested in his brother's puzzle last time.
"This puzzle is called Jumbo, it's..." He was thinking about how to translate the word, and paused, "Suspense series."
"Well." Cao Feng listened carefully.
"This is a clue." He showed the outer packaging to Cao Feng. "It's called..." After a pause, he translated, "The biggest difference between a very suspect and an ordinary puzzle is that the picture of this outer shell is just a clue. The picture does not look like this. No one knows what the finished picture will look like before it is completed, unless, of course, someone uploads the finished picture to the Internet after it is finished."
If you fight against the picture, the fun will be greatly reduced.
As early as in elementary school, he spent a whole year building 33,200 animal jungles by himself at home. After that, he never touched ordinary puzzles again.
Last year, he spent half a year putting together 3,000 pieces of pure white hell. This year, he changed it to Jumbo's suspense.
Cao Feng listened attentively to his explanation of jigsaw puzzle skills, nodding from time to time to show his understanding.
Duan Yuche gave him a small portion of the "corpse": "Let's start."
It was already late at night, but Duan Yuche didn't feel sleepy in the face of the game he was interested in. Cao Feng was a novice, so he found a piece and asked his brother, "Is it this one?"
"No, the colors don't match. If one piece is missing, you can find it again."
Soon, more than an hour passed, and both of them forgot the time until Cao Feng's stomach suddenly "gumbled...".
In a quiet room, the sound is very noticeable.
Cao Feng's face turned red when he brushed it. Duan Yuche didn't even look up. He tugged at the puzzle pieces, and silently threw him a piece of chocolate. There are also a lot of snacks bought by Duan Shumin. When you are hungry, you can eat a piece of beef jerky.
He shook his head and said, "I haven't found it yet."
Duan Yuche was a little puzzled: "Let's look for it later, aren't you hungry?"
"You just said..." Cao Feng paused, "I will only be rewarded if I find the correct spell."