The next morning, when Yu Rui and Yu Li finished their breakfast, the man in the master bedroom hadn't woken up.
Yu Rui has become accustomed to it, just pretending that person doesn't exist. The two brothers and sisters packed their bags and went out together. Downstairs, they happened to meet the old couple who were neighbors on the same floor.
"Hello grandma, hello grandpa." Yu Li obediently dragged her schoolbag belt and said hello to the two old people who came back from a walk.
"Is it Xiaoli? Are you going to school with your brother?"
"right."
"The longer the pear is, the cuter it gets..."
Yu Rui also greeted the two old people. After saying goodbye, Yu Rui and Yu Li walked outside the building. Among the two old people who went upstairs, the voice of the old lady with some ears back came back with a sigh.
"Hey, they are really two good children, why is there such a drunkard father? Yu Li is small, and it would be better if he has a brother to take care of. But Yu Rui is growing up. I heard Xiao Cen from the next unit say that he does it every week. Two or three tutors are part-timers, and I have to work at home and school, how can I survive this?"
"Okay, okay, it's not your grandchildren, so you can say a few words less."
"You dead old man, don't I feel sorry for the two poor children? At such a young age, being a father is really a sin..."
Yu Rui and Yu Li walked out of the corridor, and the voices behind them also disappeared.
Yu Rui's brows and eyes were gentle, as if he didn't hear anything, but Yu Li couldn't help but raised his head and looked at him along the hand that he was holding.
"elder brother."
"Well, what's wrong?"
The girl was silent for two seconds, then shook her head and lowered her head, "It's okay."
Yu Rui's expression moved slightly. After a few seconds, he sighed softly, walked around to Yu Li, stopped and squatted down. Yu Rui arranged the red scarf on Yu Li's chest before raising his gaze, looking at the disturbed girl in front of him tenderly.
"Xiao Li, what Grandma Zhang said was kind, but you don't need to think about it. My brother said that he would protect you, remember?"
"But I... Yu Li also wants to protect my brother."
Yu Rui smiled and raised his hand to touch the top of Yu Li's head, "Well, my brother is looking forward to it. But before that, we Xiaoli have to grow up first."
"I will!"
"Um."
After Yu Rui sent Yu Li to Machishui Elementary School, which was very close to his home, he went to school by bicycle. Dezai is not far from Machishui, but it still takes some time to go back and forth. So when Yu Rui arrived at school, it had already been nearly ten minutes since the morning self-study had started.
Tian Xueqian, the head teacher, was conscientious and conscientious. On the first day of school, he stood outside the classroom door and caught being late.
Yu Rui went upstairs, saw Tian Xueqian standing at the door, and consciously slowed down.
"Teacher Tian, I-"
"Mr. Bi told me that you can't catch up with your early self-study time. I understand. Let's go in."
The teacher Bi mentioned by Tian Xueqian is obviously Bi Songliang, the head teacher of Yu Rui's first year of high school, and the other party does have a better understanding of Yu Rui's situation.
"Thank you, teacher."
Yu Rui's eyes widened, he put down his backpack and walked into the classroom.
The early self-study on the first day of school was relatively quiet because the teachers of each subject had not had time to assign memorization tasks. Except for those who were busy writing and making up homework, the students were doing nothing.
The late Yu Rui was stared at by many classmates as soon as he entered the classroom. Someone wanted to take the opportunity to speak, but saw Tian Xueqian come out behind Yu Rui, his eyes swept dignifiedly.
The person who wanted to desert immediately froze, and all retracted his head.
Yu Rui returned to his seat smoothly, but did not sit down.
The whole class was shocked by Tian Xueqian's majesty, but there were always some who slipped through the net: in the eyes that fell from Yu Rui's entrance into the classroom, there was a bunch of "nail" on him that was about to materialize, even Tian Xueqian's glance Didn't let that person restrain half a point.
As for who has such courage, this is really a question that Yu Rui doesn't even bother to guess.
The gentle smile on his face faded, Yu Rui turned his back to the whole class, and his face was expressionless.
He raised his eyelids. In line of sight, Xie Li supported the table with one hand and was smiling at him.
Four eyes facing each other.
"Good morning, squad leader."
"… "
Yu Rui really hated Xie Li's smile.
In all fairness, Xie Li's facial features are three-dimensional, his eyebrows and eyes are much deeper than those of his peers, and his dark eyes are so deep that they can suck people in. The thin lips are picked and hooked, and the smile is always a bit more unusual.
If Xie Li could laugh at everyone like this, then Yu Rui would not doubt that the "school grass" that the students privately rated him last year would be divided into half of the supporters by Xie Li.
But Yu Rui just didn't like Xie Li and Xie Li's smiles, it was almost animal instinct.
From the first time Xie Li showed him such a smile, Yu Rui felt dangerous—the darkness in those eyes was too deep and deep, as if hiding a creepy desire to peel him off and suck blood .
On the way home last night, Yu Rui pondered for a long time and never figured out when he had offended Xie Li. He even thought about how to ease the relationship between the two of them—after all, they would still be in the same class for two years—but in this mood, he was very excited. Seeing such a smile that made him feel even worse early in the morning, Yu Rui's face became even more expressionless.
Fuckin' ease the relationship.
Why would he reconcile with such a sick man who likes to look at him like a lunatic
Yu Rui put down his schoolbag and turned around to sit down.
Then his arm was clamped violently and pulled back. Unprepared, Yu Rui was almost pulled down and staggered.
There was dead silence in the classroom for a few seconds, and someone started to turn around.
After receiving the gossip glances that came to him when he noticed something was different, Yu Rui was annoyed: I knew this person was sick enough to care about even saying "good morning"... He shouldn't care about him.
Yu Rui endured his emotions and turned his head.
The words that entered the ears of the students were calm and gentle: "Xie Li, you..."
Xie Li's eyes were gloomy, his eyes fixed on Yu Rui's right cheek.
Hearing Yu Rui speak at this time, Xie Li seemed to recover, and his eyes lifted, moving from Yu Rui's face to his eyes.
Xie Li's voice was cold: "What's wrong with your face?"
Yu Rui was stunned.
Before going out, he deliberately looked in the mirror. The slap in the face that Yu Congsheng slapped last night was not light, and because of his sensitive physique, it was easy to leave red marks, so it didn't completely fade away this morning.
But it's definitely not obvious, otherwise he wouldn't go out, and it should be almost invisible now.
Seeing Yu Rui's silence, Xie Li repeated it again, his voice an octave deeper: "What's wrong with your face."
More students come here.
Yu Rui frowned and whispered in a compromising voice, "Sleepless."
"… "
"let go."
Xie Li still did not speak.
More and more sights exhausted Yu Rui's patience to maintain modesty. He pressed his elbow hard and let go of Xie Li's control.
Then Yu Rui lowered his eyes and warned Xie Li coldly and silently.
Xie Li's thin lips pursed tightly, and his brows jumped violently.
For a moment, Yu Rui felt that he saw a spark in the black volcano that was about to erupt in Xie Li's eyes - as if Xie Li was suppressing some terrifying, about to erupt emotions.
But the volcano remained silent.
"Sleepless," Xie Li lowered his head, Yu Rui couldn't see his expression for a second, only heard him chuckle, "It's amazing."
Yu Rui: "..."
Yu Rui stared at him blankly: "Thank you for the compliment."
"I'm not complimenting you, I'm complimenting your pillow."
"?" Yu Rui, who was ready to sit back, smelled something unusual in his tone. He looked back to see, but Xie Li didn't give him a chance to look at each other.
The man was still smiling, his voice hoarse, "Why do you keep such a waste pillow? When there is a chance, I will tear it up for you."
Yu Rui paused for two seconds and narrowed his eyes.
"Don't bother, I'll do it myself."
—
After confirming that Xie Li had an unidentified hostility towards him, Yu Rui began to consciously avoid Xie Li: including but not limited to reducing the chance of seeing and communicating between the two as much as possible, and automatically filtering all targeted words and deeds against Xie Li, Pull in as many unrelated third parties as possible when forced to be alone…
After working like this for a week, Yu Rui finally felt that Xie Li no longer acted aggressively towards him.
The price is that, no matter in classrooms, playgrounds, corridors between classes, or any other school venue for group activities, when Yu Ruiyan stood in the middle of his classmates with a smile and a gentle smile, he could always feel an intensifying slap in his back from a certain direction. look.
This gave Yu Rui a headache.
In his life, he had never met such a difficult and difficult "adversary".
In such unprecedented dire straits, Yu Rui stayed up until the last class on Friday: the class meeting.
Tian Xueqian summed up the affairs of the teaching class for a week, and after thinking for a few seconds, he tapped on the blackboard.
"After a week, everyone should be familiar with the classmates in the class, right?"
"Yes-"
"Well. Then the rest of our class will mainly deal with one thing. This week, some classmates reported to me that the seats are not suitable. Since everyone is familiar with it, we will make a seat adjustment."
"Teacher, do you want to change?"
"Of course not. Personal opinion is the main thing, and you can make no changes. Students who want to change positions can make adjustments if they agree with each other."
"… "
After hearing Tian Xueqian's words, the classroom immediately became commotion.
Xie Li was not interested in going to lie down at first, but before he could bend over, he saw Yu Rui silently picking up the books on the table at the front desk, putting them in his schoolbag and getting up.
Xie Li figured for a while.
A few seconds later, he raised his eyes and saw a girl with glasses walking by and stopped beside Yu Rui's table.
Yu Rui's voice came back, "Are you sure you can sit here, will it be too far back?"
"It's okay." The girl's voice was soft and low.
"Well, then thank you for being willing to toss with me."
"No... it's fine. I just want to sit by myself too."
From Xie Li's point of view, it was obvious that the girl's fair face was blushing.
Xie Li's eyes sank. He raised his hand suddenly, got up and squeezed the girl's wrist.
"Ah—" The girl was forced to stop and looked up at Xie Li in horror.
Yu Rui was stunned, turned around, frowned, "Xie Li, what are you doing?"
Xie Li was silent for two seconds, his laziness faded, and he showed a provocative smile, "Monitor, are you not going to lead by example if you say the teacher?"
Yu Rui rolled his eyes, "What's wrong with me?"
"He said just now that changing seats requires mutual agreement."
"I've agreed, Pei An'an also-"
"But I don't agree."
"..." Yu Rui choked, almost couldn't help but want to grit his teeth, "What does it have to do with you when we change positions?"
"You are my front desk, and the only one around me, classmate." Xie Li's lips twitched, and the smell of gunpowder was strong in his smile, "Now I have to change people at the front desk, what do you think it has to do with me? ?"
"… "
The rest of the students were basically replaced, and the classroom was almost quiet. Yu Rui knew very well that after a few seconds of stalemate, the restlessness would be quiet, and then everyone would have to pay attention to the situation here.
For the first time, Yu Rui felt powerless towards his peers.
But his inner personality has never been rigid, and this emotion will only arouse his hatred at the deepest level.
While there was still chaos in the classroom, and when few people were paying attention—Yu Rui turned around, raised his hand and grabbed Xie Li by the collar, pulling the person in front of him.
Eyes facing each other, the distance suddenly returned to zero.
The boy's gentle camouflage shell was completely peeled off in this second, there was no expression between the good-looking facial features, and the dark eyes were cold.
His voice was cold.
"When did I provoke you, so you are so hostile to me?"
Xie Li was stunned for a second.
A second later, the hottest black fireworks exploded in his eyes, revealing the grimness of desire inside.
Sheryl laughed.
"Am I hostile to you? No."
He licked the tip of his canine teeth and bit slowly, the bloody smell dissipated, and the words were about to come out from his lips—
I just miss you.
Right now, right here.