Lu Xiao only felt that something exploded in her heart, crackling like fireworks, leaving a residue all over the place.
His head was numb, and his heart was beating uncontrollably.
Those emotions just now disappeared, and even my own purpose was forgotten.
The mango taste in the mouth has not yet faded, and the icy sweetness is so strong that it makes people unable to breathe.
For the first time, he felt that he, too, would be trapped.
"You..." He moved his lips, but was speechless when he saw Ye Cheng's eyes.
It was never possible for him to think rationally while those eyes were on him.
Jiang Jin typed back the message in silence: [Congratulations, you guessed right, the glass of smoothie was not given to Brother Xiao by the girl next door.]
Tan Xiaoqi: [?]
Jiang Jin: [Brother Cheng ordered it for him.]
Tan Xiaoqi: [? ! !]
Jiang Jin: [[Eating Lemon] It’s really sour.]
Jiang Jin: [Will your boyfriend give you some smoothies in the evening self-study? If not, we can break up.]
Li Junxiao's roar came from the front row: "Jiang Jin, why do you provoke our relationship?"
Tan Xiaoqi hurried in from the door, Jiang Jin was completely dumbfounded.
Li Junxiao rushed over and picked up Jiang Jin. The movement was so loud that it pulled Lu Xiao back from her fugue state.
The classroom was in chaos, and many people gathered around to watch the excitement.
Ten minutes later, the class bell rang.
Ye Cheng yelled twice on the podium to maintain order and asked everyone to return to their seats.
Li Junxiao almost fought with Jiang Jin, the two spilled the books on the table, and the class discussed with gusto.
Lu Xiao's cell phone vibrated and received a message from Tan Xiaoqi.
[I'm sorry, brother one, don't be angry, I didn't mean to ask Jiang Jin about those things, I promise I have no malicious intentions.]
Li Junxiao asked Jiang Jin why he sent her about Lu Xiao and Ye Cheng, and even asked them to break up.
Tan Xiaoqi scratched her toes in embarrassment, so she could only bite the bullet and explain to the Lord.
Lu Xiao was not angry, and even a little curious.
Suspect X: [You have a crush on Ye Cheng?]
In his mind, only Ye Cheng, who has a crush on Ye Cheng, would pay so much attention to his every move.
Tan Xiaoqi was so frightened that she almost threw her phone out and typed tremblingly: [No, no, absolutely not!]
Who knocked on cp and even demolished the house by himself, is she crazy
Suspect X: [Then you have a crush on me?]
Tan Xiaoqi was choked up: [... My boyfriend and I have a very good relationship, and we don't have a crush on anyone.]
You don't have to be so narcissistic.
Lu Xiao was dazzled by her: [So why do you care about us so much?]
Tan Xiaoqi lowered her head and slammed the table, shit, I can't say that I want to see you guys fall in love! !
According to Lu Xiao's personality, if she listened to this explanation, she might not be able to get along in the thirteenth high school.
She tactfully found a reason: [I think you have a good relationship, and you are very eye-catching when you are together.]
Then, as if he was afraid that he wouldn't understand, he added a dog-licking character for himself: [I like to watch handsome guys [Star Eyes], such as you and Brother Cheng.]
For some reason, seeing Tan Xiaoqi's words, Lu Xiao felt a little happy in her heart.
He was not so happy when he was selected as the school grass by 3,000 votes, but at this moment, he felt an indescribable joy.
Suspect X: [You mean, we look like a good match?]
Tan Xiaoqi thought for a while, and felt that good brothers should also be able to use the word "good match", so she affirmed: [Yes, that's what it means!]
Lu Xiao put away her phone, with a faint smile on her lips.
He buried himself in his biology homework for a while, managed to make a mistake on a whole page, and then looked at the moon outside the window with his face propped up.
It's a full moon tonight, it's beautiful, the full moonlight sprinkles the silver glow all over the corridor.
Lu Xun once said something, the moonlight is so beautiful tonight, it seems to be a confession.
Haha, is it possible that even Moonlight thinks they are a good match
he thought blissfully.
Ye Cheng took a few glances at Lu Xiao on the stage, and saw that his face was intoxicated, and reckoned that he should be in a good mood.
He breathed a sigh of relief, and sent a message to Huang Sheng'an under the table: [You can pick up girls as soon as you pick up girls, can you come and get them at the school gate by yourself? Almost killed me or not.]
Huang Sheng'an: [Hey, please, Xiao Su said she gave you the smoothie, you can bring it to me after school.]
Ye Cheng: [Take your mother, drink it.]
Huang Sheng'an: [Aren't you allergic to mangoes? ! Fuck, should I call an ambulance?]
Ye Cheng sent an eye-rolling emoji: [I didn't drink it.]
He really didn't want to annoy that elementary school student a second time, otherwise it would be really troublesome.
It seems that this trick is still effective, the kid smiled for a whole night of self-study, although he didn't know what he was laughing at.
When school was over, he even invited Ye Cheng out for barbecue on weekends.
Lu Xiao is actually a very extreme person. If he likes someone, he will treat him to death, and if he hates someone, he will forget to punish him.
Radical and enthusiastic, straightforward and dedicated.
That's why his overtures to Ye Cheng are always undisguised and clearly displayed on the surface.
And Ye Cheng is just the opposite of him, it is difficult for outsiders to tell whether he likes or hates a person.
After the evening self-study get out of class, the sky was covered with dark clouds.
That night, there was a heavy rain in Nandu City.
The city goes through such a phase every summer when the rainy season, accompanied by high temperatures, lasts for several days.
The rain made the entire classroom wet, the air smelled of mud and grass, and the water traces meandered from the door to the seats.
Many people were late for early self-study, because of the special weather, the students on duty today did not remember their names.
Lu Xiao was also late, and when Ye Cheng took her to read in the morning, she never saw him.
When the bell rang for the first period, the seat next to him was still empty.
Jiang Jin turned around and asked, "What's the matter, Brother Xiao, did he oversleep? Do you want to call him and ask him?"
Just as Ye Cheng was about to pick up his cell phone, Hua Wangchun came in through the back door holding a compass.
He quickly stuffed the phone back into the table hole, and Jiang Jin immediately turned around and sat upright.
Hua Wangchun didn't pay attention to their small movements, and raised his voice: "Attention everyone, the sports meeting originally planned to be held this week is temporarily cancelled. It is estimated that it will rain for a while, and this week will definitely not be able to be held."
The students responded in disappointment, and sat down listlessly for class.
Ye Cheng quietly sent Lu Xiao a wechat message from the bottom, asking why he didn't come to class.
After a long time, there was no reply.
"Early in the morning, don't doze off, turn the book to the place where I said it last time..."
Hua Wangchun began to lecture, his tone was as hypnotic as the weather.
Ye Cheng noticed that he saw an empty seat in the back row, but did not mention Lu Xiao.
He frowned, did Lu Xiao ask for leave
It was so sudden, last night he was alive and well, and it was almost ten o'clock and he was still asking him some English questions for the mentally retarded.
After lunch, Lu Xiao's seat was still empty.
Throughout the morning, no teacher asked him why he didn't come to class, as if they all ignored this point in unison.
Looks like he was on leave.
Ye Cheng called him several times, but no one answered.
"Maybe something happened at home, so I took a full day off." Jiang Jin said, "Otherwise, Hua Wangchun would have scolded him long ago."
His sentence "something at home" made Ye Cheng feel a little bad.
He looked at the pouring rain outside and wondered why Lu Xiao didn't reply.
When school was over in the evening, Huang Shengan suddenly sent him a WeChat message, asking him to wait for him at the door.
The two of them go home in the same direction, and sometimes they walk together. But because the evening self-study in the thirteenth middle school was 20 minutes earlier than that in the attached middle school, the two of them only occasionally went home together.
The rain was a little lighter at night, Ye Cheng held an umbrella and waited for him under the street lamp.
The tall sycamore trees cast rows of reflections on the asphalt road, like the majestic imperial guards neatly arranged, guarding the sleeping Nandu City.
A flash of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating half the sky with a click.
The girls on the road exclaimed, a lot of rain splashed on their skirts, and they complained and huddled under a small umbrella.
"Chengzi! Here I come! Huh—" Huang Shengan ran over.
He ran very quickly, and a large area of his body was wet, as if there was something urgent.
"Finally get out of class is over, wait for a long time."
He reached out to wipe the rainwater from his crew cut, panting for air.
"It's okay, why are you in such a hurry." Ye Cheng said.
Huang Sheng'an swallowed, and Ye Cheng noticed the panic in his eyes: "I... I have something to do with you, let's find a place to sit down and talk."
Only McDonald's is open near this point.
So the two went to McDonald's under their umbrellas, ordered two servings of McXuanfeng, and sat down in front of the window on the second floor.
There was almost no one upstairs, and the temperature of the air conditioner was so low that it made goose bumps on the arms.
Ye Cheng stirred Mai Xuanfeng with a spoon and said, "Tell me, why is it so urgent?"
Ever since Huang Shengan saw him, the worry on his face hadn't changed.
He pressed his knuckles to his mouth and frowned, as if hesitating how to speak.
After a while, she finally said with determination: "Chengzi, I met your boyfriend last night."
Ye Cheng was taken aback, and it took a few seconds before he realized who he was talking about.
"He's not me... Forget it, it doesn't matter." He tried to defend himself, but gave up, "Where did you see him?"
First things first.
Huang Shengan looked nervous, and said seriously: "Don't be scared when I say it, don't be scared... To be honest, I kind of want to persuade you to break up with him. After all, this kind of person is a ticking time bomb. To think that he actually has…”
He was stuck in the middle of speaking, with an expression of not being able to bear to look directly.
"Don't hesitate, what's the matter?" Ye Cheng frowned.
Huang Sheng'an licked his lips and said, "That's right. Last night my dad answered the phone and hurried out, saying that there was something urgent in the yard. It started to rain at that time. He left in a hurry and didn't bring any Mobile phone and umbrella, my mother asked me to chase them out and give them to him."
Ye Cheng gradually had an ominous premonition, and asked, "And then?"
"When I went out, I found that he had already left, so I had to take a taxi to Qingshan." Huang Sheng'an's voice was very low, as if he was afraid of frightening him, "I just got off the car and walked to the door, and saw Lu Xiao in the inpatient department. Went into the building with my dad."
"They were still talking, and my dad kept patting him on the shoulder."
Ye Cheng's heart instantly lifted.
He knew exactly where Qingshan was.
Lu Xiao disappeared for a day, so she went to the hospital.
Huang Sheng'an observed him carefully and said: "To be honest, the one who can call my dad at such a late hour must be a long-term patient, otherwise..."
"Otherwise, it's impossible to invite the dean." Ye Cheng murmured.
No wonder, Lu Xiao was so familiar with Hu Jiawei's situation that he could tell at a glance that he was mentally abnormal.
His heart was up and down, like the messy rain on the glass, so wet and cold that he couldn't breathe.
Huang Sheng'an said worriedly: "It's difficult to cure this disease completely, and some people are aggressive when they get angry. That Lu Xiao has such a bad temper, and he is well-known in the thirteenth high school. Who knows if he will hurt others. I said Ye Zi, why don't you break up with him."
Ye Cheng rubbed her temples and said softly, "We're not dating."
"Really? Don't lie to me!" Huang Shengan's eyes widened.
Ye Cheng was confused and nodded perfunctorily.
Huang Sheng'an finally relaxed, patted his chest and said: "That's good, I was scared to death, I thought you were really together, so I hurried over to tell you."
"My dad hasn't come home until now. He is probably in the hospital for consultation. His condition seems to be quite serious." He said.
The rain outside the window became heavier, splashing against the glass.
Huang Shengan felt relieved, stood up and said, "That's fine, since there's nothing else to do, let's go home."
Ye Cheng stood up with him, but seemed a little absent-minded.
"It's a good thing you don't have anything to do with him, I'll tell you the truth, psychotic episodes can be scary... My dad used to have a patient who stabbed three nurses..."
Huang Shengan whispered in his ear, but he didn't listen to a word.
Lu Xiao is mentally ill
If this is the case, how could he not feel anything when he has been with him for more than three years.
But why did he go to Qingshan late at night, and when he mentioned Chen Zhen last time, he also said that he met in Qingshan.
After Ye Cheng returned home, Gao Qiulan greeted her.
She took the wet schoolbag and said, "You're finally back. It's raining heavily outside, but it worries me to death. I'm still thinking about taking a taxi to pick you up."
"I didn't get wet, grandma." Ye Cheng comforted her.
The old man is always easy to worry about it, fearing that he will be hungry and cold.
There was loud thunder outside, like thousands of troops passing through the border, rumbling down from the roof.
The rain was heavier than before, and the flowers and plants on the terrace were blown crookedly.
Gao Qiulan planted a lot of jasmine, marigold and crabapple, all of which were easily damaged by storms.
The grandfather and grandson worked together to move the delicate flowers in.
Seeing that Gao Qiulan was wet, Ye Cheng urged her to take a bath and change clothes.
Although she is still in good health, she is old and it is best to avoid getting sick.
Gao Qiulan instructed him: "I made ginger soup, you remember to drink it, you have to drink it if you don't like it."
"Okay, I will. You go take a shower quickly, don't catch a cold." Ye Cheng pushed her into the bedroom.
He went to the kitchen, lifted the lid of the pot and poured out some ginger soup.
Gao Qiulan knew that he hated the taste of ginger, so he specially put lemon and brown sugar in it, and the spicyness of ginger was diluted a lot.
Nuan Nuan drank a cup, and Ye Cheng remembered some trivial things in a trance.
Once he caught a bad cold, which was lingering for several days, and the medicine didn't help at all.
Lu Xiao didn't know where he heard the native method, so he cooked a pot of ginger soup for him.
The kitchen in their house is very different from the kitchen here. Gao Qiulan has a little interest in life. The cabinets and counters are painted in a vibrant avocado green, and the small painted tiles on the floor look very warm.
And the kitchen of the two men did not necessarily fire more than three times a year.
At home, both of them are young masters who don't touch the spring water with their ten fingers, and neither of them is willing to touch the few square meters of land.
Every time Gao Qiulan came to visit, she had to fill up their refrigerator with her own hands, for fear that her grandson would not survive.
They spend all day outside delicacies from mountains and seas, Japanese and French cuisine, but they have not eaten the three meals a day at home.
Both of them are used to this kind of life, so there has never been any disagreement.
Until that day when Lu Xiao cooked for him, he boiled a pot of ginger soup that was so unpalatable that he still felt like vomiting when he recalled it.
At the beginning, Ye Cheng refused to drink, wrapped her in a blanket and dragged her nose to drink with him.
Later, Lu Xiao became angry, and took a gulp of ginger soup, and poured it mouth to mouth.
That is to say, he drank it himself before he knew how bad it was.
Ye Cheng was dripping with hot tears and snot, her whole face was pale with a sickly blush, and she accused him of abusing herself with tears in her eyes.
Lu Xiao repented instantly, annoyed and blamed herself.
Since then, he has started to study how to process food to make it less unpalatable.
After waiting for a few months, his friends have begun to sigh how he can cook so well.
Ye Cheng leaned against the Nakajima stage, the ginger soup in her hand exuded the soft aroma of lemon.
The thunder outside the house was deafening, and the violent wind and rain swept across the city, as if the end of the world was going to happen in a second.
He stood there for a while, then got up and put the cup into the sink.
Then he dug out his mobile phone from his schoolbag, and found the biggest umbrella and took it.
"Grandma, I'll go out for a while, and I'll be back soon." He shouted to the bedroom, opened his umbrella regardless, and rushed into the heavy rain with his head down.
The subway in Nandu stopped operating at eleven o'clock. Ye Cheng ran in the rain, and when he arrived at the subway station, his back was already wet.
There was almost no one in the subway station at this point, and he entered the station face to face with the security check, his face was surprisingly calm, but his heartbeat was insanely fast.
Ye Cheng sat on the unoccupied seat, and soon received a call from Gao Qiulan.
"Hey, grandma." He shook the water droplets on his arm, trying to find some paper towels to wipe, but found that he was in a hurry and didn't bring anything except his mobile phone.
"Where have you been? You child, why are you running outside in such heavy rain!" Gao Qiulan said anxiously.
Ye Cheng lied: "Students ask me for help, you go to bed first, I will be back before twelve o'clock."
It takes about an hour to take the subway from the urban area to Qingshan.
But after this train passed, the subway should be out of service, so he could only take a taxi back.
Gao Qiulan couldn't help him, and said, "Be careful yourself, and send a message to grandma when you arrive. What kind of classmates are they, and they asked you to go out at such a late hour."
Ye Cheng listened to her chanting for a while, and coaxed her to sleep with some good words.
After thinking about it, he still sent a message to Lu Xiao.
[Are you there?]
Still no reply there.
Ye Cheng's hands gradually tightened, and the tension spread.
He seldom acts impulsively like this, but at this moment he just wants to confirm one thing, that is, Lu Xiao is fine.
Fifty minutes later, a gentle female voice sounded: "The station ahead, Qingshan Station, please get ready to get off. You can transfer to Line 1 and Line 4 at this station..."
Ye Cheng came to Qingshan for the first time, thinking that she would arrive at the hospital after getting off the subway.
But I never expected that when I opened the Gaode map, I found that Qingshan Hospital was five kilometers away from the subway station.
He tried to call a taxi, but after waiting for more than ten minutes, the app did not respond.
I can't get a taxi on a rainy day. This should be the most unlucky thing except that there is no seasoning packet in the instant noodles.
Other than that, the signal is abysmal.
He finally understood why Lu Xiao didn't reply to the message, and it was very difficult to open the page. According to his temper, he might smash the phone.
He didn't want to wait any longer, so he had to brave the heavy rain and follow the navigation with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
Before I took a few steps, the shoes on my feet were filled with water.
Why on earth did I come to this kind of place on impulse... He thought to himself through gritted teeth.
When they arrived at Qingshan Hospital, Ye Cheng had already been drenched in water.
The rain was too heavy, and the umbrella was useless at all, and it was blown over several times on the way.
The automatic door opened, and the cold air that hit his face almost made him faint from the cold.
The lights in the inpatient department were dim, and the door of the duty room was open, but no one was inside.
... Nope.
He waited at the door for a few minutes, but he still didn't see the person on duty.
The end of the aisle was pitch-black, with only the words "Safe Passage" lit in green.
It seemed that there was no other person in the whole hospital except him.
Ye Cheng usually looks quite courageous, but he has a bad habit, that is, he likes to watch horror movies.
Especially the ones that happened in hospitals, dormitories, elevators, etc., so when he lived in college, he had to be accompanied by someone outside even when he was taking a shower.
For this reason, Lu Xiao laughed at him several times.
There was no movement in the aisle, but it looked even more terrifying.
Some pictures began to emerge in his mind uncontrollably.
Fuck it, really fuck it.
Ye Cheng had recovered from her impulsiveness. She scolded Lu Xiao for more than ten minutes on the way, and all the sadness and worries in her heart disappeared.
All he wanted was—to be alive.
Finally, after calling "Is anyone there" three times in a row in a weak voice, he couldn't bear it anymore.
The inpatient department has a total of eight floors, who knows where Lu Xiao is.
Ye Cheng decided to call Huang Shengan and ask about his father. Although that would make Huang Shengan more suspicious of their relationship, there was no other way.
Just as he took out his cell phone to make a call, he suddenly heard a strange noise coming from the corridor in front.
Thin and sharp, like a baby crying.
Ye Cheng completely blew up, screamed, turned around and ran out the door.
The moment the automatic door opened, he slammed into a person.
He rushed out with his head buried, and his head knocked the man staggeringly.
But before the man had time to stand still, he took the lead in supporting his shoulders to prevent him from falling due to the excessive charge.
"Quick, run away!" Ye Cheng raised his head tremblingly, wanting to tell this brother to run away with him.
After seeing the face in front of him clearly, he froze.
Lu Xiao looked down at him, the shock in her eyes no less than his.
"Why are you here?" He looked Ye Cheng up and down, as if surprised by his distressed appearance.
The voice came again in the corridor behind,
"Whoa woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhh-"
Ye Cheng resolutely threw herself into his arms and hugged him tightly.
"Help! There is a ghost!"
Lu Xiao froze in place.