- I don't know if Li Wei will always wait for him at home hungry, he shouldn't be so stupid, right
But when she thought about his mental state, she couldn't relax at all.
Zhang Man frowned and looked at the needle stuck in his left hand, and said anxiously, "Mom, I really have something to do. I agreed with my classmates to go to his house to make up lessons today."
Zhang Huifang glared at her disapprovingly: "Let me go back and lie down! Is there anything I can't say tomorrow? It's half past eleven, your classmate should have gone to bed long ago."
Is it already so late? She thought it was only seven or eight o'clock in the evening.
Zhang Man glanced at the thick night outside the window, then walked back to the bed and sat down. She turned on her phone, but helplessly remembered that she didn't save Li Wei's home phone number.
Zhang Huifang glanced at the back of her hand and took a deep breath: "Hey, I made you mess around, and your blood has returned. I asked you to take leave for tomorrow's day class. You are so sick this time that your fever has not completely subsided. The doctor advised to stay for another day."
She said, hanging the infusion bottle higher.
The back of his hand was a little swollen, but Zhang Man didn't care about it, he just shook his head: "No, I have to go to class tomorrow, I'm much better."
She was afraid that Zhang Huifang would not let her, and added: "If you ask for leave as soon as school starts, I am afraid that I will not be able to keep up, and the next class in physics and mathematics will be difficult."
Zhang Huifang thought about it for a while and felt that what she said was quite reasonable, so she nodded: "Then go home after hanging this bottle, and come back tomorrow night."
. …
That night, Zhang Man thought about Li Wei's affairs, and was so uncomfortable that he stayed up all night, and opened his eyes to and fro until dawn.
The next day, with two dark circles under her eyes, she arrived at school early.
The rain of the previous two days has completely disappeared, and the air has returned to the sultry heat and humidity of the past.
Before it was time for the morning class, the students came one after another and sat down to discuss some things that happened over the weekend. Zhang Man heard that they seemed to be discussing Li Wei, and they talked about "posts", "terrible" and so on.
She didn't care, staring at the door of the classroom restlessly, waiting nervously for Li Wei to come.
Zhang Man felt anxious and anxious at the moment. Obviously the relationship between the two finally made some progress on Saturday, but yesterday she let him pigeon for a day.
At 6:55 in the morning, the teenager stepped on the bell of the morning reading class and arrived in the classroom. Some students around saw him come in. The previous whispers stopped abruptly. Those who read books read books, and those who did homework did their homework, but they still looked at him from time to time. Floating on his body, with a curious inquiry and a fear of not daring to approach.
Zhang Man's eyes lit up, he immediately stood up and let him in, carefully observing his expression.
"Li Wei, are you here?"
Unexpectedly, the young man didn't look at her at all, he sat down with a blank face, took out his textbook and spread it out. There was no other look in those dark eyes.
No blame, no questioning, no anger, as if she had completely forgotten about the fact that she said she was going to cook for him yesterday and let him go.
Seeing his reaction, Zhang Man bit his lower lip, digging back and forth on the edge of the wooden chair with both hands, not knowing how to speak.
Her heart fell to the bottom, and it was painful.
He must have been disappointed in her.
Or rather, he had no hope for anyone in the first place, and she has now been listed as one of the many irrelevant people by him.
His indifference meant that the relationship between the two had dropped to freezing point.
For a long time, she lowered her head and tugged at his sleeve carefully: "... Li Wei, I was sick yesterday, so I didn't go. You... don't be angry."
The teenager gave way to the window, avoided her touch, nodded and didn't speak, as if he didn't want to know the reason why she didn't come.
He has always liked to be clean, but in order to avoid her, the sleeves of his school uniform rubbed against the white wall next to him.
When Zhang Man's palm was empty, his heart felt even more uncomfortable, and he blamed himself for not being able to live up to his expectations.
Did he wait for her at home alone for a long time yesterday... Later, she didn't go there, was he restless? She promised to cook for him, so he didn't eat until late...
Or did he imagine his mother coming back to cook for him
At this time, the young man said in a hoarse voice: "I can understand all of this, and you won't use it in the future. You keep the exercise book I gave you. There are many summaries I wrote on it, which are still useful."
He spoke softly, with no hesitation in his tone. I didn't look at her during the whole process, and after I finished speaking, I read the book on my own.
Listening to his words, Zhang Man did not understand what he meant, but he said that he could understand.
understand what
Suddenly, the chatter of other classmates and the unkind eyes that looked at him suddenly came to her mind. She was shocked, and her messy thoughts made a thread.
It turned out that he had misunderstood... Misunderstanding that she, like everyone else, had heard those rumors, kept him at a distance, and dared not go to him again.
He thought she was sick, but it was actually an excuse, the purpose was just to stay away from him.
How much unfair treatment does it take to form such a conditioned reflex
He is used to it, he is used to being distant and isolated from others.
Zhang Man's heart pounded, and he cursed himself several times in his heart. She can't wait to go back to yesterday morning. If she knew that he would misunderstand like this, she would tell him no matter how badly it burned.
She approached him anxiously, and simply put her left hand in front of him: "It's not like this, Li Wei, look, I didn't lie to you, I was really sick yesterday, and the eye of the needle is still in my hand."
The young man was quiet for a moment after hearing the words, then lowered his eyes and looked at the girl's white hands in front of him.
Her hands were small and thin, and her nails were neatly trimmed. The skin on the back of the hand was so white that it was almost transparent, so that the blood vessels on it were obvious, like winding green vines.
On one of the blood vessels, a purplish red needle eye was scabbed, and there was a circle of bruises next to it, which looked a little shocking.
Her tone was anxious, with grievances and anxiety. It seems that he doesn't believe her, and she will keep fighting for it until he believes it.
It was as if his belief was so important to her.
Li Wei suddenly remembered the tears she shed at his house that day.
It's really strange, he is usually such a quiet and slow-moving person, but sometimes he is so wronged.
He silently pushed the girl's hand away, but still didn't speak, but a certain emotion that had been going on from yesterday morning until now, a manic emotion that was about to be uncontrollable and was about to rush out, seemed to have suddenly calmed down at this moment.
—Like the violent thunder, the heavy rain failed in the end.
The boy turned his head and looked out the window. It was the rising sun of summer outside, and the scorching light made him feel a little dizzy. He raised his hand and pressed the place where his heart was beating, and a strange sour and tense feeling passed away quietly.
Zhang Man couldn't see any change in his expression. Seeing that he pushed him away, he thought he still didn't believe it. He was even more anxious, and there was a bit of crying in his voice, "You still don't believe it? Li Wei, I don't have anything for you... "
Her words were interrupted.
- "Three more hours next Saturday to make up for yesterday's class."
Zhang Man was stunned for a while, and it took a long time for him to react. He quickly said yes with a smile, and the heavy thoughts from last night to the present were instantly relieved a lot.
It's good that he still wants to believe her.
. …
Zhang Man's good mood didn't last long.
After a Chinese class, it was a big break. She went to the pantry at the end of the corridor to help Li Wei get water, and ran into Dai Qian and another girl in the class, Zhou Xiaoqi.
Zhou Xiaoqi is the representative of the English class in the class, and she also came to talk to Li Wei two days ago.
Zhou Xiaoqi was in line behind her. Seeing her holding Li Wei's cup, she asked curiously, "Zhang Man, I think your relationship with Li Wei is pretty good. Did you two know each other before?"
Zhang Man turned on the faucet, took half a glass of cold water first, and shook his head: "I don't know. He is injured. I am his tablemate, just doing something within my power."
Zhou Xiaoqi nodded when she heard it, but Dai Qian made a "cut", clearly not believing it, and shook the cup in her hand: "I understand you, who is Li Wei who is so handsome and smart. If it weren't for him... I might have chased after him. By the way, haven't you read our school post? You don't know, Li Wei has too much material on his body, I heard that he still... "
Zhang Man took another half cup of hot water and interrupted her rudely: "I'm done, I'll go first."
Without waiting for them, he turned around and left.
She knew that everyone's attitude towards Li Wei would take a big turn, but when she heard it with her own ears, she felt uncomfortable.
It's better to be out of sight and out of mind.
Back in the classroom, she put the water glass on the corner of the boy's desk, lying on the desk without speaking.
She felt bad for their behavior, but couldn't say anything. You can't grab everyone and tell them that Li Wei is not terrible and won't hurt them, right
People are like this, they have an inexplicable fear of things they don't understand, not to mention the already terrible "schizophrenia".
This is true for adults, not to mention a group of sixteen or seventeen-year-old children.
After this day, the attitude of the classmates really changed greatly from before. The classmates on duty subconsciously avoided Li Wei's position, and even the group leader did not take the initiative to accept him when he was collecting homework for each subject.
They naturally isolated him from the class. Although there was no direct language and personal attack, such cold violence often made people even more devastated.
Zhang Man's heart was aching when he saw it, but Li Wei didn't care at all. He still read and wrote on his own, and occasionally looked at the lawn outside the window when he was tired. It was quiet, just like before.
Since it was already expected, it will not be disappointed.