The old-fashioned air conditioner in the teaching office was blowing cold air, and the Haier Brothers stickers on it were even more warped.
Hua Wangchun sat at the desk, facing the father and son on the sofa.
He has been a teacher for decades and has seen countless families with different relationships, but he has never seen such a strange one.
Let's talk about intimacy, there is nearly half a sofa between the two, as if no one wants to be next to each other;
Let's talk about alienation, their relationship can still be seen on the surface, and they don't have bad looks at each other.
After the conversation just now, Ye Gaoyang was still very concerned about his situation at school, and Ye Cheng also felt a little uneasy about seeing his parents.
But after the two sat down, they didn't communicate at all, not even exchanging pleasantries about what they had for lunch.
Hua Wangchun cleared his throat, broke the silence and said, "Since the child is here, let's continue our conversation."
"About your question, I'm here to answer it. I'm sorry and sorry, the school failed to apply for a recommended quota this year." He said with regret, "But judging from his grades, he can take the 985 exam for a key school. There is no problem."
Ye Cheng thought to herself, if this school can apply for recommendation, there will be ghosts.
The places are limited, not all schools can get a share.
He also gradually understood in his heart that the reason why Ye Gaoyang appeared here was probably because of Zhu Yufen's home visits on the phone.
"I'm not worried about his grades, I'll have to ask the teacher to take care of him in the future." Ye Gaoyang said.
Hua Wangchun didn't know him very well, but he saw his outfit as soon as he entered the door, and he presumably was a respectable person, so his attitude was very polite.
"Don't bother, this is what we should do. Also, the issue of changing the head teacher you mentioned just now is like this. The head teacher of their class has asked for a month's leave, and I will temporarily take over this month." He explained.
Ye Gaoyang frowned: "The children are almost in their third year of high school. If they change teachers frequently, it will do them more harm than good. I hope the school can understand this."
Hua Wangchun nodded again and again: "Yes, I know this, don't worry, I won't change it if there is no accident in the future."
Ye Cheng felt a little bored, once he was eager to hear this kind of conversation, it was a symbol of Ye Gaoyang's concern for him.
However, now he just feels like chewing wax.
Ye Gaoyang was still talking bureaucratically with Hua Wangchun, while Ye Cheng stared at the crumbling label on the air conditioner opposite.
The dilapidated sign was dangling in the wind from the air conditioner, and he was seriously wondering when this thing would fall off.
"You are right, I will arrange to change seats as soon as possible."
"Director Hua, don't get me wrong, I just don't want him to be influenced by irrelevant people."
"I understand, I understand everything... Just like this morning, neither of these children came to class. Lu Xiao, I know, she asked for leave."
Ye Gaoyang turned to Ye Cheng: "What did you do in the morning? You didn't ask the teacher for leave."
Ye Cheng gradually came back to his senses, and the two adults looked at him together.
He had no choice but to say indiscriminately: "I went to find Lu Xiao last night, it was too rainy to come back."
Hearing this name, Ye Gaoyang's expression changed: "Where did you go, does your grandma know?"
"I know, I told her." Ye Cheng was reluctant to reveal about Qingshan, and said lightly, "Dad, it rained too much yesterday, and we were late in the morning because we couldn't get a taxi."
"You're late? You've been absent from class all morning." Ye Gaoyang seldom spoke in such a harsh tone, and the more he thought about it, the more something went wrong, "Xiao Cheng, you were not like this before. You have been very obedient since you were young. , the teacher has never looked for me and your grandma because of this kind of thing."
He was passing through Nandu on business, and just happened to come to the school to take a look, who knew that something like this would happen.
Before, Zhu Yufen told him on the phone that there was a student named Lu Xiao in their class, who was a gangster who had the lowest grades and was demerited once, and was very close to Ye Cheng.
Ye Gaoyang couldn't help but think of that time, the drunk person who came to the house should be Lu Xiao. He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.
Ye Cheng never let him worry about his studies since he was a child, and the friends he made were all decent people.
It seems that since he changed schools with his own will last time, his behavior and things have become very different from before.
Ye Gaoyang didn't know if it was in a place he neglected, his son had quietly entered the rebellious stage, he thought that no matter what, he should avoid letting him go astray.
Ye Cheng looked at him quietly for a few seconds, his indifferent gaze was completely different from when he was a child.
When was the last time he looked at each other like this, in junior high school? Or elementary school
Suddenly, Ye Cheng smiled, and said without any panic: "Dad, you are so humorous. How many times have you been to school since you were young, and how many times have you returned home?"
The atmosphere in the office dropped to freezing point in an instant.
The label on the air conditioner finally couldn't withstand the wind speed and fell to the ground with a clatter.
Hua Wangchun felt a little embarrassed when he witnessed the family affairs.
"Well, let's talk properly, Ye Cheng, pay attention to your tone of voice with Dad." He hurriedly smoothed things over.
As the head of discipline in the 13th Middle School, he has seen parents beat their children many times in the office.
The most famous one was that Lu Xiao had a fight with his father in the principal's office.
At this moment, he didn't want the father and son to fight in his office.
Fortunately, Ye Gaoyang's upbringing was pretty good, even though his chest was heaving up and down with anger, he didn't curse or do anything.
He pointed at Ye Cheng with trembling fingers and said: "Look at your attitude now! It's not that you can be unscrupulous if you have good grades. What I told you, the most important thing is to learn to be a man and learn to respect others. I think you are I was spoiled by that Lu Xiao!"
"Really, learn to be a human being and learn to respect others. May I ask if you have set an example?" Ye Cheng looked at him coldly, "There is no need to implicate innocent people. He is not what you call a 'bad student' at all."
Ye Gaoyang quickly stood up from the sofa, his face turning blue.
Hua Wangchun also stood up hastily, dissuading him: "Mr. Ye, please calm down."
He turned to Ye Cheng: "Don't quarrel with your father, this matter needs to be discussed by the whole family. Or, you can call your mother? If she is free."
With multiple women present, these two people would never be so aggressive.
Ye Cheng got up and said blankly, "I don't have a mother."
Then he slammed the door and went out without looking back.
Hua Wangchun stood where he was, subconsciously opened his mouth, a little dumb.
After a long time, he said apologetically: "Ah... this, this... I don't know Mrs. Madam... I'm sorry."
Ye Gaoyang took off his glasses with a headache, rubbed his temples, and said: "It's okay, it's because our child is too worrying."
He put his glasses back on, sighed and said, "His mother passed away when he was five years old, so he has a bit of a stubborn personality. It's also my fault that I don't care about him so much. You will have to pay more attention to him in the future."
The school just experienced someone jumping off a building, needless to say Hua Wangchun would also take care of Ye Cheng.
He solemnly said: "Don't worry, I will talk to the students every week. I will go to the class later and arrange for him to sit in the front row."
"Thank you very much." Ye Gaoyang shook hands with him wearily.
His cell phone rang, so he greeted Hua Wangchun and connected while going out.
"Hey, Tiantian, what's the matter?"
"...No, something happened in Xiaocheng's school. What, she coughed up blood? Did she go to the hospital?"
Hua Wangchun couldn't help shaking his head.
After Ye Cheng came out of the teaching office, she didn't go back to class, but went to the playground for a walk.
The rain has stopped.
The sky is still gray, and the plastic runway has been washed clean, showing a bright red color.
The air is fresh and moist, sweeping away the sweltering heat and dryness of the previous two days.
Whenever he is in a bad mood, he goes for a jog, which helps him relax.
It was lunch break, and there was no one on the playground.
He circled the outer track, running lap after lap.
When running to the fifth lap, a person suddenly followed behind.
Ye Cheng heard footsteps and breathing, turned her head and glanced back.
Lu Xiao didn't know when she appeared, and ran behind him at a constant speed.
"I thought it was enough for you to run two laps, but you became addicted." There was dissatisfaction in his tone.
Ye Cheng remembered that he hated running the most, seeing him reluctantly following her, felt a little funny.
"What are you doing here?" He slowed down, his voice panting a little.
Lu Xiao ran to his side and stood side by side with him, "Hua Wangchun went to class just now and said he wanted to change seats."
"I know." Ye Cheng said.
It is really unheard of for the dean to change seats in person.
Lu Xiao said: "There is a man standing at the door for a long time, is it your father?"
Ye Cheng curled her lips: "Probably so."
"I think so, because he has been staring at me." Lu Xiao looked at him quietly and said.
Ye Cheng said, "He's looking for you?"
"That's not true, but he's still at the door now."
Ye Cheng stopped slowly, breathing calmly.
"If he comes to you, ignore him." He said to Lu Xiao, "Zhu Yufen has sued him before, and he has prejudice against you."
Lu Xiao didn't respond, she lowered her head and kicked the stone: "Even if Zhu Yufen didn't say anything, he wouldn't like me, after all, I went to your house to stay with you after drinking like that last time."
Ye Cheng was stunned.
Lu Xiao said, "I know your family doesn't want you to get close to me, but it's the same in Chen Zhen's family."
He said it naturally, but it made people feel nervous.
Ye Cheng's eyelids twitched: "What do you mean?"
"It means, you should stay away from me, and don't let your parents worry about it." Lu Xiao said sullenly.
After Ye Cheng returned to class, she saw Ye Gaoyang at the back door.
With a bag of things in his hand, he was pacing back and forth while talking on the phone.
Ye Cheng walked over and heard him saying into the phone: "Secretary Li, help me cancel the three o'clock meeting. Well, it's not a postponement. I won't go to the meeting today. I don't have time here."
Ye Cheng quietly waited for him to finish the call, Ye Gaoyang turned off the phone and walked towards him.
"Where did you go, and you didn't answer the calls." His tone became much calmer, and he handed over the bag in his hand, "I heard that your voice was hoarse just now, so I went to the infirmary to buy some cold medicine and took it .”
Ye Cheng took the bag silently.
Ye Gaoyang sighed: "Okay, don't be angry with Dad. I know, I owed you too much before, and Dad apologized to you."
Ye Cheng felt like a dead dog in his heart.
It's really funny. Is there any candy for a fussy child
He was so obedient and sensible before, but he couldn't even get a look from Ye Gaoyang. Now it is rare to be a "problem student" and be immediately "concerned".
It's ironic when you think about it.
Unfortunately, he no longer desires this kind of "care".
"I'll be busy with work later, so I won't be able to accompany you." Ye Gaoyang said, "After the final exam, I will pick you up and live in Shengzhou for a few days."
Ye Cheng frowned, and was about to speak when he said again: "I've seen your winter camp information, it only starts in mid-January."
Ye Cheng was speechless.
"Go ahead and get ready for class. Dad won't bother you anymore. The teacher said that you don't have evening self-study on Friday, so I'll pick you up from school in the evening and have a meal together." Ye Gaoyang patted him on the shoulder unskillfully, Turned around and left.
Ye Cheng looked at his back, and after a while, she walked into the classroom.
As soon as he entered the door, he found that the seat had been completely changed.
A total of three groups, he was transferred to the second row of the third group.
Lu Xiao was still in her original position, but it turned from the window to the aisle.
Jiang Jin switched to the third row of the second group, just forming a diagonal line with them.
Ye Cheng's new deskmate is Yu Kun, a top-notch science student.
He sat down to pack his things without looking in the direction of the back row.
After a while, the phone vibrated.
Jiang Jin: [Brother Cheng, did you quarrel with Brother Xiao? Why don't you talk? [Poor]]
Ye Cheng looked at Hua Wangchun on the podium, and quickly typed: [There is nothing to say.]
After sending it, you don't look at your phone anymore.
Hua Wangchun scanned the brand new classroom with satisfaction and began to teach.
That afternoon, gossip spread all over the forum.
Hot post: [Surprised! Xiaocheng be? ?]
Landlord: The first brother's girlfriend fans can support themselves. According to reliable information, the seat chart of class 20 has been greatly changed. Unfortunately, the pair of desperate mandarin ducks, Xiaocheng, were beaten and warned with sticks, and the two have ignored each other now.
1L: ? ?
2L: Eat melons, why does Class 20 have such incidents of arresting horses every time.
3L: Sister Rong, it’s not your post, is it, Sister Rong
4L: Fuck you, I didn't post it, I was shocked too, okay
…
23L: Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu I'm from class 20, and I testify that they haven't spoken to each other all afternoon.
24L: I cried hard, be daba daba! Why did I get be when I knocked on a real person for the first time
25L: It seems that Ye Meili's father came to the school, emmm, I said they can't be real, otherwise why even the parents came
26L: Upstairs... It's not true that we're kidding, but the look in the eyes of the first brother on the stage clearly fell into it, okay
…
38L: This building is poisonous, why did everyone start to txl
39L: A bunch of idiots, thank you for the straight steel guy, he likes me.
40L: I vomited in the speech upstairs, and you know that the first brother is a straight man? Don’t you know that the same-sex marriage law will soon be passed to discriminate against gays
41L: Don't quarrel, everyone...
42L: I don't know if the first brother is straight or not, but Ye Meili is definitely not straight, hehe, if he bet with the first brother, I will go after him.
43L: Help, when did this forum become like this!
Tan Xiaoqi powerlessly put down her phone and lay down on the table, her eyes were red.
She looked at Ye Cheng who was doing homework indifferently, and then at Lu Xiao who was scribbling around with a pen in the back row, and felt that her fragile heart had been hit hard.
These two people really didn't look at each other again.
As if a stranger.
woo woo.
Is the cp she knocked really be
Hua Wangchun observed the back door for a while, then turned and left with a smile on his face.
He called Ye Gaoyang and said repeatedly: "Yes, he is reading now."
"I just said that they are just children playing and messing around, just sit separately."
"Okay, don't worry... don't invite me to dinner, really don't, this is what I should do."
When the get out of class bell rang, Ye Cheng picked up her schoolbag and walked out of the classroom.
When passing by the back door, he didn't even look at Lu Xiao.
Jiang Jin was in a hurry, and rushed to Lu Xiao's side with his schoolbag.
"Brother Xiao, what's the matter with you two? Aren't you all right this morning?" He asked in fear.
Lu Xiao slowly stuffed the game console into her bag, without raising her head, she said, "It's nothing serious, just play if you can play together, and forget it if you can't play together."
"... You, you have a fever?" Jiang Jin's eyes widened, "How else can I say that."
Lu Xiao: "Get lost."
As soon as Ye Cheng walked out of the school, she saw a familiar black Bentley parked at the door.
Ye Gaoyang pulled down the window of the back seat and waved to him.
Except for the Spring Festival every year, Ye Cheng has hardly seen this car in Nandu.
It took more than three hours to drive here from Shengzhou, but it is actually not far away.
But whether a person can go home or not depends on whether he is willing or not, not on the distance.
Ye Gaoyang took him to Jiulong's private kitchen for dinner, and Gao Qiulan was with him.
During the dinner, Gao Qiulan kept asking about Ye Gaoyang's recent situation, and he also mentioned something related to Qu Tian, but he didn't mention anything about Qu Tian's daughter.
Ye Gaoyang knew very well that the old man only recognized Ye Cheng as his grandson.
After Ye Qiaoqiao was born, she didn't even hug her.
One dinner, the leaf orange I ate almost had indigestion.
Gao Qiulan agreed to take him to Shengzhou for a few days during the winter vacation, but he lived in another house, not his and Qu Tian's.
Ye Gaoyang could only wish for her to agree to this matter.
Since he married Qu Tian, Gao Qiulan has never given this daughter-in-law a good look.
The time that Ye Cheng remembers the most is when Qu Tian came to visit with New Year's goods, but was thrown out by Gao Qiulan.
At that time, he was still young, and the firecrackers sounded outside during the New Year's Eve, and Gao Qiulan hugged him inside the room and wiped away his tears.
"Be good and don't be afraid. Grandma kicked that bad woman out and won't let her bully you."
He later found out that Ye Gaoyang had already cheated before his mother died of cancer.
His mother was a rich lady, she was arrogant and unwilling to reveal her scars, so she only left him a letter and an inheritance, which could be legally inherited when he became an adult.
However, he didn't see the letter before because it was taken away by Qu Tian.
Not long after, his grandparents also passed away, so he could only follow Gao Qiulan.
Ten years have passed, and Gao Qiulan has always taken good care of him. There is still a year before he turns eighteen, and Qu Tian seems to have started to act.
After eating, the driver drove them home.
Ye Gaoyang didn't have the nerve to go to the hotel again, so he also stayed at home.
He will go to the branch office for a meeting tomorrow morning, so he will probably stay at home for two days.
As soon as Ye Cheng got home, she entered the room, took off her clothes and went to take a shower.
After wearing the school uniform for half a day, I can finally take a good bath.
He was lying in the bathtub, thinking about how to get Ye Gaoyang to get out of here quickly.
Otherwise, poke the switch
When he came out of the bath after dawdling, he heard faint noises in the living room, probably because the two of them were still asleep.
Ye Cheng temporarily suppressed her vicious thoughts, so as not to scare Gao Qiulan, and picked up the vibrating cell phone.
Wechat has received several new messages—
Suspect X: [Are you home yet?]
Suspect X: [Do you eat barbecue on weekends? Last time I said I would invite you, but I haven't yet.]
Suspect X: [Won't reply to my message?]
Suspect X: [You won't be really angry, are you narrow-minded.]
Suspect X: [Really angry?]
The last one was posted twenty minutes ago. Ye Cheng was about to type when another one popped up on the screen.
Suspect X: [Is the one with the light on your room? The window has wisteria flowers.]
Ye Cheng was stunned, and hurried to the window to open the curtains.
He had a towel over his head and a bathrobe wrapped around him.
As soon as the curtain was opened, he saw the shadow outside, which almost scared him to death.
There was a small yard in their house. Lu Xiao walked in from the outside of the fence, and was standing at the window with an irritable expression.
"Damn... why are you here?" Ye Cheng almost cursed.
Lu Xiao shook the anti-theft window, "Could it be fucking dismantled, otherwise how would I get in. No, why do you still have to install this in your house?"
Ye Cheng said: "Are you an idiot, don't you install security windows on the first floor of your house?"
"Fuck, I'm just standing outside feeding the mosquitoes!" Lu Xiao was a little annoyed, "Your community is full of trees, I was bitten three times."
Ye Cheng really wanted to punch him in the face: "Keep your fucking voice down! My dad is in the living room!"
He couldn't help being led to scold others, reached out and took out a small key from under the window, and opened the anti-theft window.
Lu Xiao deftly jumped in through the window.
He stretched out his hand to tickle, and asked complainingly: "Is there any toilet water, spray some on it for me."
Ye Cheng went to find toilet water for him, looked him up and down and said, "You are awesome, you have only been here once, and you can still find your way."
The terrain of this community is intricate, and their home is close to it, so I don't know why Lu Xiao has such a good memory.
Lu Xiao touched her nose embarrassingly, but said nothing to him.
After spraying toilet water, he said, "You're not angry with me, are you?"
Ye Cheng squinted at him.
Lu Xiao said again: "Just to fool the teacher and your father, I didn't talk to you."
"So?"
Lu Xiao coughed and said, "It was you who said that I wanted to fool your father away quickly, so I came up with this idea."
"I treat you to dinner, isn't it okay?" He compromised.
"The barbecue is what you promised to invite before."
"Tsk, please have another meal."
"I seem to be able to bribe you with two meals?"
"Fuck, ten meals, ten meals if two meals are not enough!"
Ye Cheng finally couldn't help it, and burst out laughing.
Lu Xiao blinked her eyes, then reacted, and flew into a rage: "Are you kidding me? You're not angry at all!"
"Hahahaha, are you out of your mind, and you came to my house specifically?" Ye Cheng was so happy.
Sweep away the unhappiness of the day.
Lu Xiao blushed, approaching him and said, "I sent you a message and you didn't reply, I really thought you misunderstood! Be yourself!"
He got closer and closer, with the posture of settling accounts after autumn.
Ye Cheng sensed that something was wrong, and quickly retreated to the bed, raised the toilet water in her hand: "Come here again, be careful I'll spray you!"
"Try spraying one." Lu Xiao's face was gloomy, and she pounced on it.
"Don't force me, ah..." Ye Cheng stumbled on the carpet with his heel, and fell backwards unsteadily.
Lu Xiao grabbed his waist quickly with her eyes and hands, but was pushed forward, and both of them fell on the bed.
His hand barely supported the bed sheet so as not to hit Ye Cheng's face.
The tips of their noses almost touched, and they could hear each other's breath.
Lu Xiao's face was flushed red, and she stared blankly at those light brown eyes, which were so clear that she could clearly see her own reflection.
Ye Cheng was also dumbfounded, she never expected such an accident to happen.
This perspective... He was only lucky enough to see it when he slept with Lu Xiao before.
Falk.
Suddenly, the door lock moved.
Dong dong dong, the visitor knocked twice in good faith, then opened the door and entered.
"Xiao Cheng, Dad wants to talk to you..."
Ye Gaoyang walked in as if he had made up his mind, his words got stuck in his throat halfway through.