When Li Yubing returned home, he found that his parents hadn't slept yet.
The lighting in the living room was dimmed, and the two of them stayed in the living room, and the atmosphere seemed to be conspiring.
Then, since Li Yubing appeared, his parents' eyes never left the pink dinosaur in his arms.
"It was given by someone else." Li Yubing explained.
"Who gave it?" Li's mother asked.
Li Yubing didn't answer.
Mama Li changed to a more subtle way and asked, "Are men and women?"
"female."
Li Yubing didn't want to take the dinosaur back to his room, so he put it on the corner cabinet in the living room.
Then he said goodnight to his parents and went upstairs. There are some things he needs to think about quietly.
After the son left, the Lai and his wife stood side by side in front of the corner cabinet and looked at the dinosaurs.
"He lied." Mama Li said suddenly.
Dad Li patted her on the shoulder: "no matter what the child chooses, we respect him. The most important thing is his happiness, right?"
Li's mother straightened up, "You should quit the bar after the new year."
"it is good… "
—
On New Year's Eve, Tang Xue lived an unprecedentedly peaceful life. Go to grandparents' house for New Year's Eve dinner, and then watch the Spring Festival Gala with the whole family. Looking at it, I fell asleep.
Then Principal Tang woke her up and told her to go back to her room to sleep.
Tang Xue slept soundly, and was very unhappy when she was woken up. She walked into the room in a daze, and when she got into the quilt, her thoughts were: If Li Yubing would have woken her up, she would have been brought in directly. .
uh, what are you thinking...
Tang Xue's mobile phone was left in the living room, ding ding dong dong, and it sounded a bit annoying, so Principal Tang immediately muted it.
The next morning, when Tang Xue woke up, she saw many missed calls, and she knew it was a New Year's call.
She went back one by one.
The first one, Xia Menghuan.
"Hey, Concubine Meng, Happy New Year, did you see the red envelope I sent you?"
"I see, thank you, Your Majesty! That, Your Majesty..."
"Um?"
"You and Li Yubing... Cough, I mean, Li Yubing hasn't bullied you recently, has he?"
"No, he has fewer illnesses now. I feel that he will soon be conquered by my charisma."
"Ah, Your Majesty! Did you finally see it?"
"That's it. I feel that Li Yubing will join me in my luxurious attendant package just around the corner."
"… "
"Good, don't fight for favor, in fact, he is older than you."
"… "
The second, Liao Zhenyu.
"Hey, Liao Zhenyu, happy new year, did you see the red envelope I sent you?"
"Boss, don't say the two-cent red envelope in such a proud tone?"
"Isn't two cents money? There is no gratitude at all."
"Boss." Liao Zhenyu's tone suddenly became mysterious.
"Huh? What's wrong?"
"If you're willing to give me three pairs of limited-edition sneakers, I'll tell you a big secret!"
"Okay, take my gossip lotus brush, and I'll draw it for you now. What brand do you want? Adi or Nike?"
"… "
The third, Li Yubing.
"Hey, Bing Dog, Happy New Year, did you see the red envelope I sent you?"
"Yeah." Li Yubing was smiling.
Tang Xue made up a picture from his laughter. In the picture, Li Yubing lowered his eyebrows and smiled, gentle and intoxicated, and his appearance was quite delicious. Tang Xue blushed and asked him, "What are you doing?"
"I'm at home, I'm going to visit relatives tomorrow. How about you?"
"I'm at my grandparents' house. I'll be waiting to collect the money for a while, hehe."
Li Yubing laughed again. The two of them said something commonplace like this, and they were all light as white water, and they didn't even feel bored.
After hanging up Li Yubing's call, Tang Xue looked at the caller list again, and the rest of Yu Yan, Bian Cheng, etc. She didn't really want to talk to them, so she made up a sincere New Year's message and sent it over. .
—
On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Tang Xue went to visit Teacher Du, who gave birth to a baby.
After the Chinese New Year, many people have something to do at home, and some are not even in Hucheng. Therefore, there were only about ten classmates who came to see Mr. Du.
Teacher Du used to be a slender beauty, but now she has gained a lot of weight, like blowing up a balloon. However, the smile on her face has increased, and she is in good spirits after giving birth. Teacher Du wants to invite the classmates to eat at home. She is still in confinement, which is very inconvenient. Everyone does not want to cause trouble to Teacher Du, and plans to go out to eat together later.
Before saying goodbye to Mr. Du, everyone took a group photo with Mr. Du and the baby.
After coming out, they discussed where to have lunch. Among the people who came together today was Zhou Ran, and the hostile relationship between Tang Xue and her was on the bright side. Seeing that Zhou Ran was interacting well with several other classmates, Tang Xue did not want to participate, she waved her hand and said, "My family There is something else, you eat first."
"Don't," Zhou Ran grabbed her, as if he knew her very well, "Everyone has passed the exam, so it's rare to get together, so let's eat together?"
"Today my little uncle came to my house and started with a thousand yuan for the New Year. Would you like to make up for this loss?"
Zhou Ran let go of her silently.
Tang Xue didn't eat, Liao Zhenyu felt that if he stayed, he would be a traitor, so he left with Tang Xue.
On the way back, Tang Xue saw that Zhou Ranfa had posted a circle of friends, which they took at Teacher Du's house just now. Zhou Ran made others look better, so she didn't give it to Tang Xue, and even Tang Xue felt that she might have done it in reverse and made her even uglier.
This is another reason why Tang Xue doesn't like Zhou Ran - she likes to be clever and scheming, and she never dares to be confrontational.
In fact, Zhou Ran didn't have a good relationship with the few left behind, they were all superficial sisters.
When Tang Xue was in the subway, she received two or three people over there who broke the news to her one after another, all saying that Zhou Ran had said something to them, and it was not a good thing anyway. She said that Tang Xue was domineering and bullying her new classmates, that she was eating vinegar and occupying Li Yubing, and that she had two boats blabla...
How wonderful.
The more Tang Xue watched, the more unhappy she became. She was thinking about how to teach Zhou Ran a lesson when a video was suddenly sent over there, which made her completely blown up.
In the video, Zhou Ran said ambiguously: "She opened a room with a boy who studied figure skating in our school, and was caught by Li Yubing. This was a big trouble. I heard that the boy was affected and dropped out of school."
Tang Xue didn't plug in her headphones. The video was on public air. Liao Zhenyu was close to her and heard it. After listening to it, she was shocked: "What else? Boss, why didn't I know?"
Tang Xue was so angry that her chest heaved violently, her face was sinking like water, her eyes were fierce, and she looked quite scary.
Liao Zhenyu also reacted, "Boss, she spread rumors!"
Tang Xue hurriedly stood up and walked towards the door.
Liao Zhenyu quickly followed and asked, "Boss, what are you doing?"
Tang Xue got off the subway without saying a word, walked to the opposite side, and wanted to sit back.
Liao Zhenyu was not at ease, so he left behind and secretly called Li Yubing and whispered, "Hey, Li Yubing, come here, my boss may be going crazy!"
…
Tang Xue rushed to the place where Zhou Ran and the others were having dinner, found the box number, and kicked the door.
boom!
The people inside were talking and laughing, and they were all taken aback, all looking towards the door with a smile on their faces.
Tang Xue walked in, glanced around, and finally settled on Zhou Ran, and said to the others, "You guys continue to eat, don't worry about me."
Bian Cheng stood up and called her, "Tang Xue..." He was not in a good mood, and he looked a little sad at her.
Tang Xue raised her hand towards Bian Cheng, "Don't worry, I'll chat with her."
She walked a few steps back and forth around Zhou Ran, stared at Zhou Ran nervously, her face turned pale, and said, "Where did I offend you?"
Tang Xue saw the beer on the table, she grabbed a bottle of beer that was almost bottoming out, and knocked hard on an empty chair next to her!
Clap la la, the beer bottle shattered, and the dark green glass blocks scattered all over the floor, hitting the ground with a messy crunch.
Everyone here was startled again, and some girls even covered their ears and screamed.
Tang Xue held the remaining half of the beer bottle in her hand, and the broken glass was uneven and sharp. She pointed the beer bottle to Zhou Ran, the glass tip was very close to Zhou Ran.
Zhou Ran was frightened enough. I want to resist, but I don't dare, I want to run, but I'm afraid of accidental injury. Now I sit stiffly in the chair, shaking my lips and saying, "What, what are you doing?"
"Do you know why I have to practice sports?" Tang Xue slowly blinked her eyes and said lightly, "It's because you can reason with reasonable people, and with unreasonable people," after a pause, evil spirited With a smile, "It doesn't make sense." Saying that, he was about to step forward with a beer bottle in his hand.
Zhou Ran was so frightened that she covered her head and screamed, and stepped back frantically, "Ahhhh!"
Bian Cheng and the other boys hurried forward to stop him.
At this moment, Tang Xue suddenly felt someone hug her from behind.
A large, warm, and unquestionable embrace hugged her tightly, as if the sea embraced a shark. Immediately afterwards, her hand holding the bottle was also caught. His palm clasped her, and with a little force with his fingers, he opened her hand and took out the half of the bottle.
Then, above her head, she heard the familiar bass, beautiful and gentle: "Don't be angry."
It is Li Yubing.
He didn't accuse her or stop her, just told her not to get angry.
Tang Xue suddenly became less angry. Not only angry, but even a little moved.
She was in Li Yubing's arms, her body relaxed. Others were greatly relieved when they saw it.
Only Bian Cheng looked even sadder.
Li Yubing released Tang Xue and threw the half bottle into the trash can.
Tang Xue pointed at Zhou Ran and threatened her: "If you dare to spread rumors about me again, I will destroy your face!"
Zhou Ran's face was blue and white, and it was hard to see the extreme. She peeked at Li Yubing, and when she saw Li Yubing looking at Tang Xue, her expression was pampering and pampering... Zhou Ran was even more aggrieved.
Tang Xue's threat of force was more effective than the law. Zhou Ran didn't even have the courage to defend herself at the moment, so she hoped that Tang Xue would leave quickly.
Li Yubing looked like he was worried about Tang Xue's troubles, he clenched her hand and pulled her out of the box.
Tang Xue followed behind Li Yubing, her head lowered, and in sight was his brown coat, light blue jeans, white sneakers, and the hands they held together.
The bottom of her heart was suddenly soft, like wheat in early spring, being blown by the spring breeze, it blew thousands of miles of tenderness and crispness.
When Li Yubing walked out of the hotel, she let go of her hand.
Tang Xue touched his hand, and there was still his residual warmth on it.
"Why is it so atmospheric?" Li Yubing asked.
Tang Xue waved her hand and said, "I'm just trying to scare her, I don't really want to beat her. Let me tell you, Zhou Ran is a villain who bullies the soft and fears the hard, so she must be tough."
"Is it because of Bian Cheng?"
"what?"
Li Yubing looked into her eyes and asked, "Afraid Bian Cheng would listen to those rumors?"
"What's the matter with Guan Biancheng?" Tang Xue shook her head, "I'm actually a little worried that these rumors will spread to my dad. Zhou Ran can tell his classmates today, and he can tell the teacher tomorrow. My dad knows all the teachers in my high school. If the old man listened to the slander, he might beat me to death. I still have a lot of New Year's money confiscated, so I can't just be beaten to death... "
Li Yubing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and pushed her head, "That's all for you."
Tang Xue tilted her head to look at Li Yubing and asked him, "What are you doing this afternoon?"
"do not know."
"Skating? Last time you invited me, this time I will invite you."
"OK."
—
Tang Xue did not expect that one day she would also have a crow's mouth. She played for a long time in the afternoon, and when she came home for dinner at night, she saw her father sitting on the sofa in the living room with a gloomy face.
Mom sat next to her and kept winking at her.
Tang Xue... I don't understand.
She got closer and saw a few photos scattered on the coffee table, so she craned her neck curiously and found that the photos were the ones she had been secretly photographed at school before. The shape lying on the grass is really a bit unbearable to look directly at.
Although I know it's not like that, I still feel ashamed when I see it. And she was a little more ashamed this time than the last time she saw it, which is really strange. Tang Xue pointed to the photo and explained, "These are all fake."
"Why are you getting older and more ignorant!" Principal Tang knocked on the coffee table, "You are a girl, how can you do this? It's too frivolous! Do you think people will like you like this? Wrong! He will only I look down on you! You are destroying yourself!" The old man seemed to be very angry, and only said a few words, blushing and thick neck.
Tang Xue pointed to the photo and said, "Where did this come from?"
Tang's mother explained: "Someone sent it by express. Your dad's students were also there. Your dad opened the express without thinking about it, and the result..."
As a result, everyone saw the wonderful performance of his daughter.
Tang Xue pinched her forehead irritably.
"Your father's mobile phone mailbox also received a set of pictures," Tang's mother added, "it will move."
Tang Xue blushed when she thought of Li Yubing's teddy-like ground breaking. It's really hard to explain now, she shook her head and said, "Dad, why don't you think about why someone else sent this to you, it's obviously just trying to divide our father-daughter relationship, right?"
"Don't give me a vague focus!"
Tang Xue held up three fingers, "This is all fake, I swear with my conscience."
"Do you still have a conscience? Who believes?"
"I swear by my personality, it's really a misunderstanding, Li Yubing just wants to see the scar on my head."
Principal Tang shook his head, sighed deeply, and said, "My mother and I usually care less about you because you think you are old and understand the truth. I'm afraid that we will be too nagging and annoy you. But now , look at you," he said, pinching the photo and tossing it, "you still don't think you're wrong?! What do you want me to say about you? You've disappointed us so much!"
Tang Xue was angry and aggrieved by what he said, "I'm not wrong, and I think there is something wrong with you. You believe in a few photos but not your daughter, so what you see must be true? Usually not Don’t believe in rumors, right? Do you know that when you are deceived by rumors, you are also an accomplice of rumors.”
"you… !!"
Principal Tang was so angry that he wanted to get up, but Mother Tang hurriedly grabbed him and said to Tang Xue, "Why are you talking to your father, child? Apologize quickly."
"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I don't think I did anything wrong." Tang Xue said, turning around and walking out.
Tang's mother asked behind her, "What are you doing?"
"I'll go out and calm down."
After Tang Xue left, Mother Tang was worried and wanted to go out with her.
Principal Tang stopped her, "Don't worry about it. I don't think she will come back."
If it were normal, if Principal Tang dared to speak to his wife in such a tone, he would have gotten a fan from his wife long ago. But at this moment, mother Tang was considerate of him and didn't mind. After sitting down, she said, "Okay, you can also calm down. She is just a child. Who can walk well at eighteen or nineteen?"
Principal Tang was so angry that he knocked on the table again, poking his index finger at Li Yubing's handsome face in the photo, and said angrily, "It's this stinky boy, who has a bad stomach and a lot of heart! Tang Xue was very good, but when he saw him, he was stunned. The belt is crooked!"
Mother Tang picked up the photo and looked at it, and said strangely, "Isn't Li Yubing very good before? I only remember Tang Xue bullying him."
Principal Tang snorted, "Knowing people and faces but not hearts."
"The boy looks good."
"Let me tell you, if this kid dares to enter our house, I'll break his legs."
Mother Tang was delighted, "Just blow it, you don't even dare to kill a fish."
—
After Tang Xue went out, she called Li Yubing.
On the phone, her voice was a little choked up, and she didn't say what was going on, she just said she wanted to see him.
Li Yubing was startled, took a taxi and came over.
Tang Xue stood in the cold wind for more than 20 minutes. When Li Yubing saw her, the tip of her nose was frozen red.
She looked at him aggrievedly, in that way, pitiful and a little funny. Li Yubing wanted to hug her in particular, but was worried about being abrupt. He stood in front of her, looked down at her, and said, "Are you stupid and don't know how to find a warm place to wait?" Although he was complaining, his tone was very gentle.
Tang Xue said, "I don't know where to go."
"Headquarters at home?"
"Homeless."
Yo, poor. Li Yubing held back his smile and said, "Then why don't you go home with me?"
Tang Xue shook her head with a look of hopelessness on her face.
Li Yubing took her to the barbecue place and ordered something from a table. He sat opposite her, holding a clip, and listened to her pouring bitter water while turning the barbecue. After the meat was roasted, he placed it on her plate.
Tang Xue talked about tonight's quarrel in one breath.
What she couldn't bear the most was that her parents didn't believe her, and they said that she let them down, which was so heartbreaking.
But Li Yubing's focus was on the other side. He stopped flipping the barbecue and asked Tang Xue, "Who sent the courier? Which courier company? As far as I know, the courier company hasn't even gone to work yet."
"I don't know," Tang Xue shook her head, "but it's obviously a conspiracy. My dad has been smart all his life, how could he be confused in the end."
"Caring is messing up, and the photo is too real to explain. In your dad's eyes, no matter who sent it, the truth is the truth."
"Humph."
Li Yubing said, "Who do you think it will be?"
Tang Xue thought for a while, "I guess it's Zhou Ran. I scare her today, and she holds a grudge and wants to take revenge on me."
Li Yubing pondered for a while, "The photo is just me and you, no metaphors? Nothing else?"
"No."
"That's not Zhou Ran."
"why?"
"If Zhou Ran does this, her purpose is to anger your dad and embarrass you, then adding photos of you and Yu Yan will only get better results, or print out the bloody gossip on the Internet. …”
When Tang Xue heard this, she compared her hand to the top of her head and said, "That way my dad will be so angry that he will smoke and turn into a chimney."
Seeing that she was finally in the mood to joke, Li Yubing smiled and looked at her, "Aren't you angry?"
Tang Xue was stared at by his gentle gaze, her ears were inexplicably warm, she lowered her head and took a sip of lemonade, and when she bit the straw, she gave a soft "um".
Li Yubing continued to analyze in the sound of sizzling barbecue: "So, the purpose of sending photos is not to anger your dad, or, not just."
"Then what else?"
"If, I mean, if we were really together, what would your dad's reaction be when he saw these pictures?"
"Uh... break us up?"
"Yeah." Li Yubing nodded, complaining in his heart.
If they are not together, they will be separated.
How to please Principal Tang is the biggest problem he has faced in his life.
Li Yubing sighed faintly, "Eat the meat." As she said that, she clamped the freshly grilled beef tenderloin with iron clips and put it on the plate in front of her.
There's a lot of meat already piled up there.
Tang Xue peeked at Li Yubing.
He lowered his eyes, and under the soft yellow light of the restaurant, the lines of his face were much softer than usual. Sakura-colored jelly lips pursed slightly, not knowing what she was thinking.
Tang Xue looked at his mouth, and she licked her lips like a hooligan.
Li Yubing put the meat away and looked up at her.
Their eyes met, and when their eyes touched, no one avoided them.
She saw his black eyes, bright as fire and clear as water, looking at her steadily, earnestly and tenderly. She was caught in the soft waves of his gaze, and for a moment felt that the whole world was retreating, leaving only them each other.
Bang, bang, bang—
Tang Xue heard her own heartbeat. So heavy, as heavy as a drum; so light, as light as flowers.
Heart pounding.