As usual, he looked away, ignored her, and walked out of the office.
She was small, and she didn't know how such a loud sound could come out of her body. Every time he played basketball, she would shout at the top of her voice: "Li Nanyan, come on! Come on!"
After the winter exams, the school was closed, and he went to the city library to review his lessons. Unexpectedly, he came across Xieyi. Since then, he has never stopped, appearing in front of him at regular times every day.
"My mother works here," she explained cheerfully.
He didn't listen carefully, but just buried his head in reading.
"You're very hardworking. I heard from our teacher that you're going to apply to M University?" She found another topic to chat.
"Your name is really nice, but it's boring if everyone calls you that." She sat opposite him, her chin resting on the table, staring at his drooping eyelashes with relish.
From beginning to end, she was the only one talking to herself in a low voice, and he ignored her.
"Why don't I think of a new one?"
She loves giving people nicknames.
The two characters "Dongdong" in Zhan Dongzhen's name are already very polite. For example, when she calls her deskmate Bi Haihu, she simply calls her "Beautiful". Fortunately, she is a girl, so she is quite elegant and there is no loss.
However, there was another classmate named Yan Zhenghua, who gave a nickname to a big boy called "Rouge Flower". Later, the whole grade knew that there was a dark-faced boy in Class 7 named "Flower", but they forgot his original name. Once during a physical education class, this boy was chatting with someone in the back row, and the physical education teacher was so angry that he shouted, "Rouge Flower, stop talking!" The whole class was stunned at the same time, and then burst into laughter.
In fact, his last name was Li, which made her want to call him "Chestnut", which was simple and catchy, but she definitely couldn't use that name, otherwise his gaze might tear her to pieces on the spot.
She racked her brains.
"Ayan," she said, "I'll just call you Ayan."
The tip of his pen paused slightly as he was writing.
"My name is Li Nanyue," he declared.
"Ayan sounds really nice." It was rare for her to come up with such a nice name that was not offensive.
Unable to bear it any longer, he stood up, packed up his things and left.
She continued to explain, "The wife of Huang Yaoshi is called Feng Heng. Originally, this name is very ordinary, but Huang Laoxie called her Ah Heng. Ah Heng, it's so heartbreaking to call her that. She suddenly became a great beauty."
Xieyi was immersed in the conversation, and when he came to his senses, he found that the other person had already walked quite far away.
Later, his father came to visit him in City B and invited his friend Shen Zhihong to dinner. He asked him to go with them, and the families sat together in harmony. Shen Zhihong had a little daughter who was fair and clean. Although she was sweet-mouthed, you could still tell at a glance that she was a child spoiled by adults.
When Shen Zhihong found out that he was studying at No. 16 Middle School, he couldn't help but ask, "Do you study there, too?"
Before leaving, Shen Zhihong suddenly said to him in private: "Nan Yan, my Xie Yi also goes to your school, Grade 1, Class 7. Have you met him?"
"I have met you." He always answered his elders honestly, but he didn't understand what kind of relationship Shen Zhihong and Su Xieyi had.
"So you are really the A Yan that she mentioned to me when she came back?" Shen Zhihong shook his head helplessly.
Ayan? Ayan.
He didn't know how to reply, so he just nodded.
"She told me that Ayan wants to apply to M University, so she wants to apply to that school too." Shen Zhihong laughed and patted his shoulder, "Young man, teach her more."
Just this one sentence made Xieyi feel justified in pestering him. As a result, throughout the winter vacation, there was a girl chasing after him, calling him "Ayan, Ayan".
That day was the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, and he remembered the time very clearly.
Xieyi was squatting on the roadside as usual, ready to continue to follow him to the library. She was carrying a schoolbag, wearing a short pink down jacket and white pants, a ladylike outfit, which was rare. It snowed heavily the day before, and she was waiting for him alone in the snow, her nose and face were frozen red, and she called him loudly from a distance across the road.
In the library, after being treated coldly by him several times, she learned her lesson and stopped harassing him. She quietly took her homework to do. When she encountered a problem she didn't know how to solve, she asked him about it, but he didn't have the patience to explain it to her. He just figured out the answer and threw it to her. Unexpectedly, she was very smart and could understand about 60% to 70%. She worked hard for a while and finished the homework in no time. Then her ADHD started to flare up again. The only way to treat her ADHD was to talk to him.
"Ayan."
Of course, she couldn't wait for him to agree to her willingly, so she continued to talk to herself: "Am I annoying?"
He raised an eyebrow, she finally had self-awareness.
Xieyi was lying on the table feeling a little disappointed. Somehow she suddenly saw the pen he had left there. She thought it was very beautiful and took it apart to have a look. The pen was a little different from the way ordinary pens draw ink. She twisted it curiously and wondered. Unexpectedly, when she twisted it hard, there was a slight click and the straw broke.
He looked up at the sound and saw that his beloved fountain pen was broken into two pieces in Xieyi's hand, and the ink inside had spilled all over the table and even dripped onto the reference book he had lent her. He was a book lover who didn't even want to fold a fold, let alone spill a tube of ink.
She smiled awkwardly, "I... didn't mean to."
He couldn't bear it any longer, "Su Xieyi, stay away from me."
"Ayan, I really didn't mean it. At worst I can treat you to a popsicle." It was minus eight or nine degrees Celsius outside that day, but she always liked to eat popsicles in this kind of weather. Unfortunately, not everyone has her bad taste.
She took out a tissue from her schoolbag, wiped the book carefully, and handed it to him for inspection.
"Keep doing your homework," he said.
"But it's done."
"Then you should go home."
"I'll wait for you." she said timidly.
He glanced at her, opened the textbook, and ticked some of the easier questions at the back for her to do. He also said, "Don't talk or make small movements while doing your homework. Copy down the parts you don't understand and ask me again after you have focused on them."
Xieyi nodded with a smile. From then on, this strict tutor named Li began his multi-faceted education work for Xieyi that lasted for several years.
They sat there for several hours, and when they came out of the library and walked on the road, he always felt that someone was pointing at him from behind. He turned his head, and the girls covered their mouths and laughed secretly, and turned away quickly.
I always feel something is fishy.
When they reached the intersection, Xieyi shouted, "Ayan, hurry up, the light is about to turn red." Then he rushed across the road.
He stayed here. When Xieyi ran to the middle of the road, he suddenly saw a large red spot on her pants, which was shocking against her white pants.
His mind suddenly clicked and he understood.
"Hey!" he shouted and rushed towards her, but he didn't expect that the light was red halfway through the run. Cars on both sides rushed past him at a high speed, and he almost had an accident and hit him.
He had no choice but to stop and walk, dodging left and right before he got to the other side.
Xie Yi smiled and said, "Oh, so you were going to run a red light, A Yan."
He glanced at her coldly: "You..." The words came to his lips but he didn't know how to start.
He was almost an adult at that time, and was no longer unfamiliar with such things about girls, nor was he curious about them. Of course he knew what was on the pants.
"What's wrong with me?" She tilted her head and looked at him strangely.
I guess she didn't even know what was going on, and he wasn't her health teacher.
He took off his coat, handed it to her and said, "Put it on."
"I'm not cold at all," she wondered.
"I told you to put it on!" he emphasized.
Xieyi had no choice but to take it and put it on with hesitation. The coat was very long, almost reaching above her knees, which of course covered the embarrassing part.
"Aren't you cold?" Xieyi asked. He looked a little strange walking in the snow wearing only a sweater.
"Go home quickly!" he said sternly.
"What's wrong?" she asked as she walked.
"You'll know when you get back." He said impatiently, his face slightly red.
"By the way, I'm going to treat you to some popsicles."
"Why are you still eating popsicles? Go home!" He was really angry this time.
It was Xieyi's first menstrual period, but she was careless and unaware of it. Moreover, some people started to develop in high school. She was young and ignorant, and she was not considerate. She didn't know that he gave her clothes and walked with her in the cold wind for a long time in a thin sweater at a temperature of several degrees below zero.
Later, he was admitted to M University. He usually got along well with his classmates, but unfortunately he had some habits of a rich kid and did not like living in the dormitory, so he lived alone off campus, hoping to live a quiet life for a few years.
On New Year's Day, he took advantage of his holiday to go to the vicinity of City C alone to see the sea in winter.
The next day when he came back, his fellow villager Hou Xiaodong met him on the road and said, "Someone came to the school to look for you yesterday. Did they find you?"
He asked blankly: "Who?"
"A little girl." Hou Xiaodong smiled maliciously, "Li Zeliang, I never thought that our school beauties usually don't catch your eye. It turns out that you are interested in young girls."
When he returned, he saw no one, so he went into the house, closed the door, cooked, and read. At noon, he was going to the supermarket to buy something. When he put on his coat and opened the door, someone fell in. It was Xie Yi. She seemed to have been sitting in front of the door and almost fell asleep, so she fell on her back when she opened the door.
She was lying on her back on the ground. When she saw him, she was stunned for a moment, then suddenly she pouted and cried, "Ayan!"
She came from City B without her mother's knowledge, asked from the station to the school, from the school to the dormitory, and then asked his roommate for the address. She squatted here until dark yesterday. Fortunately, the aunt on the second floor helped her find a hotel to stay overnight. In the morning, she bought some snacks and started squatting here again. But he had already returned.
Xieyi got up from the ground, put her hands inside his coat, hugged his waist, and burst into tears.
A fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl traveled 1,100 kilometers alone just to see him. She traveled thousands of miles to a strange city, knew no one except him, and saw that it was getting dark and she still had no whereabouts. She must have been very scared, right? But she held back until she saw the person she wanted to see before she cried.
"Are you hungry?" he asked.
"I'm not hungry. I'm full from all the snacks."
"Do your dad and the others know you're coming?" He had a bad feeling.
She stammered and talked about all sorts of things.
"Do they know or not?" he asked again, emphasizing his tone.
Xie Yi finally confessed honestly: "They... don't know."
Hearing this, he immediately pulled her up and was about to send her back.
"No." Xie Yi grabbed the corner of his clothes tightly.
She wiped away her tears, raised her stubborn face, and said, "They had a fight and asked me to call Aunt Ren mom, I don't want to go back!"
He stopped, turned around, and looked at her silently. In just half a year, she had grown a lot taller and lost some of her childishness.
He knew that she was the illegitimate daughter of the Shen family. In fact, he had always admired Shen Zhihong, but he did not expect that he, who was at the peak of his career, had such a messy relationship. He kept in touch with the Shen family while taking care of her.
During the day, he brought a small burden with him to class. Once he entered the school gate, he ordered, "I'll walk in front, and you follow me behind. But you are not allowed to talk to me, understand?"
She nodded like a chick eating rice.
She knew that if she disobeyed, she would definitely be sent home the next day. Fortunately, their management department had large classes at that time, with hundreds of students, and she couldn't recognize all of them. She was arranged by him in the most inconspicuous corner of the large classroom, concentrating on doing the homework assigned by the tutor named Li.
Only Hou Xiaodong, a fellow villager from City A, knew this secret.
"Xiao Xieyi," Hou Xiaodong said, "We won't do homework. Brother Monkey will skip class this afternoon to take you on a pirate ship."
When Xieyi heard this, her eyes lit up, "Pirate ship? I used to..." She was excitedly saying halfway, but when she saw his eyes sweeping over her, she lowered her head and said, "I... still like doing homework. A Yan is doing this for my own good, and I can't cause him any trouble. Only by studying hard can I realize my dream and become a useful person to society to repay my parents." She recited these words by heart very consciously.
After hearing this, he packed his things with satisfaction and took her home. However, Xieyi accidentally got her clothes wet during lunch. She looked terrible in his clothes, so he had to take Xieyi to buy some clothes. He was too embarrassed to go shopping in a women's clothing store, so he asked Hou Xiaodong to go with him.
Hou Xiaodong said, "It's rare that the study committee member would take the initiative to ask me to skip class. If you had told me, I could have skipped class and brought her here. I wouldn't have kidnapped her and sold her. Besides, this kid is very smart."
At this time, Xieyi changed into her coat and came out to show them, "How is it?" she asked.
He touched the fabric, "The material is uncomfortable, I guess it's not warm enough, change it."
She obediently went in to change.
There was a girl on the street holding a string of candied haws, and Xieyi looked at her envious. Hou Xiaodong was very observant and immediately said, "Xieyi, what do you want to eat? Brother Monkey will buy it for you."
Xie Yi didn't dare to agree immediately, but looked at Li Zeliang timidly, "How about a bunch of strawberries?"
He said, "You'll have toothache again if you eat it." It was obvious that he disagreed.
"oh."
The conversation ended promptly.
Hou Xiaodong stood between the two of them, looked at Xie Yi, and then looked at Li Zeliang.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Li Zeliang, not just today, I've wanted to say something about you for a long time." Hou Xiaodong shook his head, "Do you know that you've been like an old hen raising children lately, overprotecting the next generation?"
A few days later, after Xieyi finally gave in, Shen Zhihong came to pick her up. When she got in the car, she poked her head out and said confidently, "Ayan, I must pass the exam to come here next year."
As a result, I failed the exam in the first year.
She was younger than the others. She was not stupid before, but she did not study hard. Fortunately, after a year of tutoring, she was admitted. When she finally came to C City to study, he was already a senior and was preparing to go to Germany. She said with a sad face: "Ayan, I am so tired." She was so tired of chasing him.
By then, she had grown taller and no longer looked like a chubby boy. When she saw Hou Xiaodong, she no longer called him brother properly, but just called him "monkey, monkey" randomly.
"Who is this? Isn't she Li Zeliang's burden? How come she has grown into a big girl? I still remember that year when someone forced me to accompany you to buy underwear." Hou Xiaodong teased her.
"Bah, you still have the nerve to yell about such things. You even take advantage of the child. If I tell your girlfriend, you will be in big trouble." Xieyi said.