As usual, Gu Tao didn't come back the next day after he went out.
At night, after cleaning the room, Gu Chaoming took a shower, rinsed off the dirt on his body, put on clean clothes and lay on the bed with squinting eyes. Tired and fell asleep in no time. In the morning, I dragged my unrested body to get up. The alarm clock on the mobile phone rang, and Gu Chaoming was sitting on the bed in a daze. Yesterday, Gu Tao wiped his tears away like a dream. Feeling a little pain in his head, Gu Chaoming still turned off the alarm clock to get up, and did not continue to sleep.
Today is Saturday, Gu Chaoming has to go to the supermarket part-time.
After a brief wash, Gu Chaoming stretched his neck towards the vanity mirror, and kept the most complete mirror in the vanity mirror that was broken into cobwebs to check the injury on his face to see if there was any disfigurement.
There are signs of swelling around the eye sockets. Yesterday, I couldn't open my eyes. Today, I feel more comfortable. I hope the swelling will disappear by Monday. Gu Chaoming doesn't want to be chased by Old Chen.
After hurriedly solving breakfast and changing clothes to go out, the bus swayed Gu Chaoming almost fell asleep in the car, but the feeling of swelling in his head made him unable to fall asleep.
Got a cold? Or was Gu Tao injured in the head? Gu Chaoming looked at the changing scenery outside the car window and thought, Gu Tao didn't hit his head yesterday, it should just be a cold.
Walk into the supermarket to start the day on guard. Gu Chaoming stood behind the cash register and put the items on the cash register into bags one by one.
There were more people than usual in the supermarket today, and there were even long queues. After a long time of work, I finally saw off the last guest.
The pain in the head still exists, and the music played in the store is not too dry, which can rest Gu Chaoming's aching nerves.
The induction door of the supermarket opened again. Gu Chaoming was not feeling well. He sighed tiredly. He raised his head but said to the door of the store with a smile on his face, "Welcome."
Looking up to see the person coming, Gu Chaoming said in surprise, "Why are you?"
"Why did you come here?"
"I have something to do here." Lin Jianfan said.
"Oh." Gu Chaoming responded, not wanting to know what happened to Lin Jianfan coming here, this is someone else's private matter.
"Aren't you in a hurry?" Gu Chaoming asked.
Lin Jianfan shook his head: "No hurry, I'm done."
"Oh, that's it." Gu Chaoming said.
Someone wanted to settle the bill, and Lin Jianfan backed away. Gu Chaoming was at work, and it seemed like it would be a hindrance for him to stay here. He hesitated whether to tell Gu Chaoming that he would go first, but seeing that Gu Chaoming's eyes were swollen and bloodshot unnaturally, Lin Jianfan looked at Gu Chaoming's swollen eyes with concern and did not say what he said to go first.
After paying the customer's bill, Gu Chaoming glanced at Lin Jianfan next to him, and found that Lin Jianfan was staring at his swollen eyes, Gu Chaoming turned his face cautiously.
Gu Chaoming could not wait to cover his swollen eyes with his hands, and when he saw Lin Jianfan's eyes looking at his wound, he met his dark eyes, and last night's phone rang again.
His mind full of bloody thoughts was warned by Lin Jianfan Yitong's bell.
Today, when he met Lin Jianfan's eyes again, Gu Chaoming recalled the blood and his own sins that he didn't want to recall.
The ringtone is in the ear, and the person who dialed the ringtone is in front of him.
Can Lin Jianfan see through his flesh and blood to see through the filth and sin in his heart? Gu Chaoming knows that everyone can't do it, but every time he is always frightened, he can always think that they can on top of his self-consciousness, and then he will deny himself.
Seeing that Gu Chaoming turned his head to look at himself without saying a word, Lin Jianfan stepped forward and asked with concern, "Are your eyes okay?"
Lin Jianfan didn't know which pot he was holding without opening, and where to step on the mines.
Gu Chaoming begged Lin Jianfan to leave him alone, but Lin Jianfan still spoke.
"Nothing." Gu Chaoming replied coldly.
Gu Chaoming was reluctant to say "don't worry about it" to Lin Jianfan directly. His words were a bit hurtful. Gu Chaoming hoped that Lin Jianfan would be able to detect it for himself from his calm tone.
Perhaps this was too difficult for Lin Jianfan to detect, but Lin Jianfan still cared, "How did you do it?"
"I fell myself." Gu Chaoming said.
If he lied and didn't make a draft, Gu Chaoming said it casually, how could he fall like this.
Gu Chaoming didn't know if Lin Jianfan really believed him or if he heard his lies and didn't expose it.
Lin Jianfan was concerned one after another: "Have you been to the hospital?"
"It looks painful."
"Go ahead and apply medicine."
"..."
Lin Jianfan looked like he really cared. Gu Chaoming couldn't tell whether he was flattering or caring, but the feeling that someone cared was really... good.
Like last time in the hospital.
It was Lin Jianfan who was waiting outside the hospital last time, and now it is Lin Jianfan who is concerned about him.
The mother doesn't want herself, and the father, who doesn't want to stay together, wants to stay by her side.
Now he is truly abandoned.
Regardless of whether Lin Jianfan was genuinely concerned or falsely pleasing, Gu Chaoming was willing to believe it once.
Who cares, it doesn't matter if he was deceived by Lin Jianfan, just this time.
Just once.
Just like last time, Gu Chaoming heard Lin Jianfan's constant inquiries in his ear, and Gu Chaoming heard "the joke told to him by the doctor in the hospital" again. Gu Chaoming laughed and couldn't help laughing.
He was still working, and the smile in his heart turned to a polite smile facing customers.
Lin Jianfan was still staring at his swollen eyes. Lin Jianfan's eyes were naturally gentle, without any impurities.
Gu Chaoming settled the bill for a customer, and turned his head unintentionally to meet Lin Jianfan's gentle gaze staring at him.
Gu Chaoming was never the type of person who would back down after meeting someone's eyes. He would only go further, but Lin Jianfan was not.
Lin Jianfan's first reaction to Gu Chaoming's eyes was to move away, but he was worried about Gu Chaoming's injury.
Hesitating, Lin Jianfan heard Gu Chaoming ask, "Do you like me?"
Gu Chaoming couldn't tell whether Lin Jianfan really cared about him or if he was fake, and Lin Jianfan couldn't tell how much of Gu Chaoming's words were joking or how serious.
Lin Jianfan automatically regarded this sentence as 100% serious. With a shocked and surprised expression on his face, he slowly replied: "...No...no..."
"Then why do you care so much about me?" Gu Chaoming asked with a smile.
The latter sentence is enough to prove that the former sentence is also a 100% joke.
Gu Chaoming looked at Lin Jianfan, and Lin Jianfan sighed for some reason.
He must have been frightened by his words, Gu Chaoming thought, no one suddenly asked if he liked it or not.
"Hahahaha..." Gu Chaoming smiled and patted Lin Jianfan's arm with his hand, "Don't take it seriously, it's just a joke. Do you think that when we play with Cen Xili, we must be the same as Cen Xili?"
Lin Jianfan shook his head, and said very seriously and seriously, "No, it doesn't matter if you are the same as Cen Xili."
Hearing Lin Jianfan's words, Gu Chaoming gave him a meaningful look: "Don't you hate it?"
It has been a while since Lin Jianfan came here. He has heard rumors in the class, and Wu Shan also told him about these things after he helped him pick up books and became friends. Lin Jianfan didn't want to hear Wu Shan say these things. He didn't believe Wu Shan, neither refuted nor agreed with Wu Shan's words.
Lin Jianfan shook his head again: "Actually, I... um... "
"You?" Gu Chaoming asked rhetorically, a hypothesis flashed through his mind.
Gu Chaoming is straightforward and quick, and his mouth often runs in front of his head, and he says casually: "You won't be the same as Xili, will you? You transferred schools for this reason?"
God knows how much Gu Chaoming regrets saying these thoughtless words. If you want to ask, don't ask so casually, it's too embarrassing.
Lin Jianfan's face solidified with doubts and clearly explained that Gu Chaoming's thoughts were wrong. Gu Chaoming immediately smiled and apologized for his words: "I'm sorry, I just twitched my head."
"It's alright," Lin Jianfan said lightly, and after a while of silence, he said lightly, "That's not the reason why I changed schools."
Gu Chaoming saw that Lin Jianfan's tone had calmed down, and thought that Lin Jianfan had some hidden secret. Gu Chaoming asked cautiously in case he hit Lin Jianfan's sore spot, "Then why did you transfer to our school? Can you tell me?"
Lin Jianfan looked at the cautious Gu Chaoming and smiled calmly, as if Gu Chaoming's cautiousness was too exaggerated to cause him to smile.
Lin Jianfan smiled and said, "There's nothing I can't say. The reason I transferred here is so ordinary that it couldn't be more ordinary."
"What's that for?" Gu Chaoming then asked.
"My dad's job transfer is just for the reason." Lin Jianfan said.
"That's it."
The sensor door of the supermarket opened, and a large number of customers entered. Gu Chaoming interrupted the conversation with Lin Jianfan and said welcome to the customers who entered the door.
Seeing so many people coming in, Lin Jianfan didn't want to disturb Gu Chaoming anymore, and told Gu Chaoming that he had left beforehand.
The sun was soft today, Lin Jianfan was wearing a hooded jacket, and the ends of his soft hair were exposed. Gu Chaoming looked at the back of Lin Jianfan's thick hair.
Lin Jianfan turned his head, his watery eyes curled up, and he smiled: "Then I'll go first."
"Okay." Gu Chaoming nodded.
The automatic sensor door of the supermarket sensed the presence of Lin Jianfan and opened, Lin Jianfan turned his head, Gu Chaoming raised his arm and waved at Lin Jianfan, standing behind the checkout counter to look at Lin Jianfan's back.
Lin Jianfan's back melted into the autumn light.
Gu Chaoming didn't want to take it to school because of the swelling on his eyes. He heard Su Bing say that ice compresses can be effective, but it seems to have little effect.
In the afternoon after Lin Jianfan left, Gu Chaoming continued to work in the supermarket, and Su Bing came to see him in the store.
Gu Chaoming felt that both Su Bing and Lin Jianfan were very good at picking time. He was beaten by Gu Tao only yesterday, and the two came to care about his injury in batches one morning and one afternoon the next day.
Su Bing didn't know what happened last night. He came to the store purely to chat with Gu Chaoming. Seeing the injury on Gu Chaoming's face, Su Bing was surprised: "Fuck, Gu Shuai..."
Su Bing looked at Gu Chaoming's face and asked with concern, "Your dad beat you again?"
"Is this something that doesn't happen often?" Gu Chaoming didn't seem to care.
He didn't want to convey his negative emotions to others.
"Tsk tsk, it hurts when I look at you," Su Bing couldn't bear to look directly at the swelling in Gu Chaoming's eyes, "Have you taken medicine? Do you want to go to the hospital?"
Gu Chaoming said casually: "It's nothing major, just a little hurt."
"Aren't your parents divorced? Why didn't you go with your mother?" Su Bing asked.
Like Lin Jianfan, Su Bing came to the supermarket to see Gu Chaoming on the same day, and also at one point, which pot was not opened and which pot was raised.
Gu Chaoming lied: "My mother is not stable yet, I don't want to follow her."
Su Bing was puzzled: "Your mother is not stable, so it's better than following your father."
Gu Chaoming didn't speak, Su Bing thought of a good idea and got close to Gu Chaoming: "Your dad is too scary, why don't you stay with me for a few days?"
Su Bing raised his eyebrows and looked at Gu Chaoming expectantly.
Gu Chaoming glanced at him and wrote on his face, "Do you think it's possible?"
Su Bing said: "Of course I don't live in my house. I can find a house for you. We two brothers live together. It would be nice if we could call Xili again."
"Xili's family will definitely not agree." Gu Chaoming said firmly.
Su Bing sighed: "Xili's family too, I want to scold You Xin again."
"Come on, curse," Gu Chaoming said.
"I want to say how good it would be for the three of us to live in the same house for a few days, or go on a tour." Su Bing still didn't give up the idea of the travel that was rejected at the beginning.
Gu Chaoming snorted and said, "You think so well, your dad will take you back in a few days."
Su Bing leaned on the shelf and watched Gu Chaoming place the goods: "It's good to think about it."
As Gu Chaoming expected, the swelling on the eyes still did not disappear until Monday, but it was not as swollen as the previous two days, but it still looked obvious. After sleeping, the pain in the head basically disappeared, but the swelling in the eyes didn't go away.
After brushing his teeth, Gu Chaoming stood in front of the vanity mirror and pulled his eyelids. No matter how he looked at it, it was obvious that he couldn't hide from Old Chen's fiery eyes.
Old Chen, who was reading the class early, saw his swollen eyes at a glance, and frowned, he walked to his desk and knocked on his desk. Gu Chaoming understood what Lao Chen meant, put down the book and followed Lao Chen out of the classroom.
The injury was on his face, and Gu Chaoming couldn't hide it. He received a lot of attention in the morning. He was called out of the classroom by the head teacher, and the classmates who read in the morning also sent him off with attention.
"What's wrong with his eyes?" The classmates whispered.
In the classroom corridor of the morning reading class, Lao Chen also asked the same question as the classmate: "How did you get your eyes?"
Gu Chaoming didn't answer directly, and didn't explain the reason. He just said casually as he did to Su Bing that day: "It's nothing."
In Lao Chen's eyes, Gu Chaoming said nothing was like asking him when to take off his hat at the beginning of school.
The grades are not false, but the temper and the attitude of speaking are really the same as before.
"Nothing can make this happen?" Lao Chen asked with his hands behind his back.
Gu Chaoming didn't speak, and Lao Chen approached to check his swollen eyes carefully: "Does your family know?"
Gu Chaoming: "..."
Gu Chaoming still didn't speak. Old Chen knew at a glance that his family definitely didn't know about it, and he said sternly with his hands behind his back, "I want to inform your parents."
When he heard that he was going to notify his parents, Gu Chaoming hurriedly said: "Brother Chen, no, I'm going to fight, don't tell my parents."
Gu Chaoming didn't want to trouble Qu Yingyi to go to school and let Qu Yingyi know that he was injured, and some unnecessary things would definitely happen again. Gu Chaoming thought about it for two days. Since Qu Yingyi can't take her there, let her live her own life there, and don't have anything to do with Gu Tao.
As for yourself, take a step by step, and you can always get it done.
Gu Chaoming didn't want Qu Yingyi to come to school, nor did Gu Tao. Not to mention whether Gu Tao can find someone, if he really comes to the school, he still doesn't know what will happen.
The two of them, Gu Chaoming, didn't want them to come, and Gu Chaoming, the parent meeting after the mid-term exam, also tried to get away.
Lao Chen looked at Gu Chaoming, who didn't want to tell his parents. Gu Chaoming didn't explain the real reason. According to his personality and the injury on his eyes, most people would think that his injury was caused by a fight, and Lao Chen inevitably thought the same.
Old Chen persuaded bitterly: "Look at your face, you don't want this little life. How long have you been studying hard? Going to fight again..."
After being lectured by Old Chen, Gu Chaoming felt relieved. He walked into the classroom and found a large pharmacy plastic bag on his desk. A plastic bag with the name of the big pharmacy contains various anti-swelling medicines, and there is a bag of snacks next to the plastic bag.
Medicine and snacks, Gu Chaoming remembered the last time Lin Jianfan "local tyrant" a stack of Band-Aid.
It was this "local tyrant" routine again, Gu Chaoming didn't want to accept it, and thought of returning it to Lin Jianfan.
Cen Xi next to him saw Gu Chaoming staring at the snacks and medicine on the table, and explained, "My mom gave it."
Seeing the surprised expression on Gu Chaoming's face again, Cen Xili asked, "What's wrong with you?"