When Lu Xiao called for the first time, Ye Cheng didn't dare to answer.
He slowly held back his tears, calmed down, and then picked up the phone to dial back.
Just then, a second call came in.
Ye Cheng connected and put it next to her ear, "Hello."
His voice is still a little hoarse, with a strong nasal sound.
Lu Xiao was taken aback for a moment, and then asked sharply, "What's wrong with your voice?"
"Well, I have a cold." Ye Cheng casually found an excuse.
With the recent change of seasons, it is the high incidence of colds. Many people in the class have a stuffy nose. It is understandable that he was infected.
"Why did you catch a cold? Did you get caught in the rain?" Lu Xiao's tone became anxious, "No, it hasn't rained recently, so you kicked the quilt again at night."
Obviously Ye Cheng was the older one, but after being nagged by him, he instantly felt like a child with degenerated limbs and unable to take care of himself.
He coughed and said, "I didn't kick the quilt."
"Nonsense, it must have been kicked, you have a cold."
"No kick, you are so annoying!"
The two talked for a while, then hung up the phone.
It's really strange today, Lu Xiao didn't force him to say something like "Goodbye, I like you the most", "Mu, brother Lu Xiao will see you tomorrow", and hung up decisively.
After finishing the phone call, Ye Cheng got up and sealed the envelope, and put it on the third floor of the bookcase.
It was already dark outside, and Ye Gaoyang was accompanying him in the hospital tonight. After reading that letter, he really wanted to ask Ye Gaoyang if he knew about the relationship between Yu Tian and Qu Tian.
After hesitating for a long time, I gave up.
So what if you know, so what if you don't know.
He failed Yu Tian, this is an undeniable fact. If he knew, it would only be more disgusting.
In fact, before Ye Cheng was five years old, Ye Gaoyang in his impression was a good father who loved his wife very much. Unknowingly later, some changes happened—he stopped rushing back after work, and rushed into the house to kiss Yu Tian and Ye Cheng. Then drinking and socializing became more and more, and they would not take them to the park to play badminton on weekends.
Yu Tian has a principle, which is not to quarrel in front of the children.
On this point, she is fundamentally different from Meng Li.
Lu Xiao has lived with her mother's complaints against her father since she was a child, but Ye Cheng has never heard Yu Tian say anything against Ye Gaoyang, including when she was most distressed.
The first time he found out that something was wrong with his parents was when he overheard Yu Tian calling her best friend. At that time, she already knew that Ye Gaoyang had cheated, but she didn't know who the other party was. Her best friend encouraged her to seek justice from Xiaosan.
Yu Tian went out after making the phone call, and when he came back, he was so haggard that he slumped on the sofa.
Ye Cheng staggered and ran up to help her, that was the only time he saw Yu Tian lose his composure like this.
Marriage and family, unsupported by trust, are veritable graves.
Sometimes he even wondered if it was because he and Lu Xiao both had a fragmented growth environment, so they couldn't trust each other unreservedly. Lu Xiao concealed something from him, and he was not honest enough. After finding out, he still pretended to be stupid and didn't want to solve it, so the hidden gap became deeper and deeper.
Neither of them found this problem in their previous lives.
But five years later, ten years later.
Will it also end badly
Ye Cheng shook her head, unwilling to continue thinking, got up and took a shower.
He had just changed his pajamas and lay down when he heard the rustling sound from the window.
Ye Cheng thought it was the neighbor's orange cat, and got up to search for earplugs.
The neighbor fed a stray cat, bathed it to deworm it, and served it with delicious food, but the cat refused to enter the house anyway.
He had no choice but to build a small nest outside, because he couldn't catch it and couldn't sterilize it. So when it comes to spring night, it screams in spring.
Before he could find the earplugs, he heard a familiar voice outside.
"Hiss-his-handsome guy inside, come quickly and open the window for me."
Lu Xiao made a signal sound like a snake, trying to attract the attention of the room.
Ye Cheng walked over and opened the curtains, and saw the shining face outside the window.
"... What are you doing at night? Don't tell me if you want to come." He was startled, opened the anti-theft window with a key, and let people in.
"I told you, okay?" Lu Xiao muttered as she skillfully opened the window.
Ye Cheng was speechless, "Why don't you go through the main entrance?"
Lu Xiao said, "It's half past twelve! What if grandma wakes up by walking through the main entrance?"
Ye Cheng was defeated by him: "You also know that it's half past twelve, why are you here?"
Lu Xiao jumped in, closed the window behind her back, shook the bag in her hand and said, "I'm here to bring you cold medicine."
Ye Cheng was stunned, Lu Xiao leaned over and touched his forehead, and said to himself: "Fortunately, I don't have a fever. To be on the safe side, I bought antipyretics."
Ye Cheng didn't expect that with a single word from himself, he made him run all the way from Jiulong to Baize.
It was so late, and he didn't think it was troublesome to buy medicine and take a taxi to deliver it.
The tip of his nose was sore, he was a little moved, and he just wanted to speak.
Lu Xiao suddenly looked at him and said, "Wait a minute, I haven't finished what I just said, why didn't you receive the message I sent you?"
"Ah... maybe there are too many messages, so I didn't see it." He jumped so fast that Ye Cheng couldn't keep up.
Lu Xiao said suspiciously: "Did you not put me on top?"
Ye Cheng said awkwardly: "You didn't ask me to be the top either."
Lu Xiao's glass heart was broken, and Lu Xiao was about to groan.
He stuck his neck and threw the medicine on the table, and said angrily: "Isn't it necessary to be on the top when you are in love! I put you on the top before I was with you, how can you not put me on the top?! "
The touch in Ye Cheng's heart dissipated immediately, and she picked up the phone with a headache and said: "Okay, I see, I will put you on the top right away."
"Do you mean that I'm forcing you?" Lu Xiao snatched his mobile phone, swiped it twice, her expression became even more annoyed, "What kind of note did you give me? Lu Xiao, I only deserve to be called Lu Cool, right? Why can Huang Shengan be called Shengan?"
Fuck, you might as well not come, Ye Cheng secretly said.
The last time Gao Qiulan borrowed his mobile phone to bargain and make orders, he was afraid of revealing his secrets, so he temporarily changed the remarks, and later forgot to change them back. I can't explain it now.
"I'm changing now..."
He reached for the phone, but Lu Xiao waved it away.
"I'll change it myself, you go and take the medicine first." His face was full of displeasure.
Ye Cheng didn't want to offend the angry person, obediently poured water and took a vitamin tablet, then ran over and hooked him by the shoulder from behind.
Lu Xiaozheng poked at the phone randomly, put her WeChat at the top and changed it to "Qiqinbaby", and then changed Huang Shengan's note to "Stupid little flat head".
During this period, because he was too excited, he accidentally turned off the screen.
"Open it for me." He directly handed the phone back.
Ye Cheng went over his shoulder and pressed four numbers with his index finger: 1013.
He pressed it next to Lu Xiao's ear, and saw his earlobe turn red immediately.
"Aren't you angry?" Ye Cheng blew into that red ear.
Lu Xiao shrank her shoulders and said with bluff: "What's the matter, my mobile phone password is also your birthday."
Tsk, still so innocent.
After tossing with him for a long time, Ye Cheng yawned and said, "I'm so sleepy, go to sleep, I have to go to school tomorrow."
As soon as the word "sleep" was mentioned, Lu Xiao felt uncomfortable.
"I came here after taking a shower, do you have pajamas?" he asked.
Ye Cheng gave him a set of pajamas. Although Lu Xiao was several centimeters taller than him now, most of his pajamas were loose-fitting, and they fit well.
He kept a lamp, and got under the soft quilt, only his head was exposed.
Lu Xiao swallowed, and asked carefully: "Is there any extra mattress? I want to make a floor berth."
Ye Cheng frowned and looked at him outrageously: "It's not like we haven't slept together before."
Didn't they all sleep together in Qingshan and Yingcheng
Lu Xiao pinched the corner of her pajamas and faltered: "The past was the past, and the present is the present. In the past, you could stick to me, but now as soon as I hug you, I will... will..."
Ye Cheng recalled that night in Yingcheng, it seemed that she was indeed too cruel to male high school students.
It was okay when he didn't expect it, but when he thought about it, he couldn't help it.
He had no choice but to resign himself to his fate, got up and rummaged through the boxes, and made a floor bunk for Lu Xiao.
The young master condescendingly nestled next to his bed, more like a big golden retriever.
The golden retriever also asked him in a low voice: "You lean over here, don't get too far away from me."
In the end, he slept under the bed, Ye Cheng slept on the edge of the bed, and even stretched out a hand for him to hold.
Damn, in his previous life and this life combined, he has never done such a young and sour thing.
The lamp light was dim, Lu Xiao blinked her eyes and looked up, and asked softly, "Are you asleep?"
Ye Cheng closed her eyes, but the drowsiness was gone, "No, I can't sleep for a while."
he said helplessly.
"Is your throat still hurting?" Lu Xiao said.
Ye Cheng almost forgot about her "cold", she paused for a moment before saying guiltily: "It's much better, thank you for the medicine."
Lu Xiao became happy, and shook his hand twice.
Ye Cheng rested her chin on the back of the other hand, pulled the edge of the bed to look at him, and asked, "Does Auntie know you're coming?"
Lu Xiao said: "I don't know, she won't find out. She wakes up very late, and won't wake up until eleven or two at noon."
"How is Auntie?"
Lu Xiao was silent for a moment, and said, "It's not very good. Maybe she is really suitable to find a place to rest. Every time she goes home, her condition will get worse."
Ye Cheng was surprised and said: "Why is this happening? Shouldn't it be more comfortable to go home, and you are with her."
Lu Xiao shook her head, "I always feel that her condition in Qingshan is much better than now. She becomes suspicious as soon as she returns home, always saying that there are two eyes staring at her."
Ye Cheng couldn't listen to such nagging words, and shivered slightly.
Lu Xiao squeezed his hand: "Don't be afraid, she's talking nonsense. My grandparents have passed away for many years, and grandpa is still abroad now, um... her assumptions are a bit serious."
"Master... Does your grandfather plan to return to China recently?" Ye Cheng always felt that the old man was a life-saving straw, and hoped that he would return to China as soon as possible. If there was a conflict with Lu Yaoshan at that time, at least there would be an elder who could uphold justice. .
"No, he's busy with business in Europe, and he probably won't return to China within a year or two," Lu Xiao said.
Ye Cheng sighed inwardly, forget it, let nature take its course.
He talked to Lu Xiao one after another, and finally said that he was sleepy, and his head was staggering by the bed.
In the hazy sleepiness, Lu Xiao got up and put his head back on the pillow, and covered him with the quilt.
She seemed to want to endure, but she couldn't hold back, and kissed him on the forehead.
Ye Cheng smiled in his dream, and gradually fell into a deeper sleep listening to his suppressed breathing.
The next day, the two went to school together.
When they arrived at Shanhai Road, they separated at the same time and entered the classroom one after the other.
Some of the desks in the classroom have been removed, and today's morning self-study has also been cancelled, and the whole day's class has been changed to a cultural festival.
The students spent half a day setting up two venues, the classroom and the playground. Speech contests and reading salons are held in the classrooms, while charity sales and various small games are held on the playground.
The items for the charity sale are small objects that people don’t usually use, or handicrafts that the teacher led them to make together. All the money from the charity sale will be donated to the mountain.
No. 13 Middle School has never held such an activity. Everyone felt that it was very novel and meaningful, and the participation and enthusiasm were very high.
Under the instruction of Hua Wangchun, Ye Cheng participated in a speech contest on the theme of environmental protection.
He stood on the stage to give a speech, and there were several judges and teachers sitting under him.
Outside the classroom with bright and clean windows, there were a group of people from his class and boys from the basketball team. Lu Xiao made a "come on" gesture to him, and Tan Xiaoqi even brought some ribbons.
Ye Cheng wanted to laugh a little, but felt warm in her heart.
The teacher turned around and said seriously: "Be quiet, haven't you seen the number one in the grade? You have to run over to watch after you give a lecture."
Everyone roared with laughter.
This is Ye Cheng's most relaxed and "informal" speech.
He spoke technical terms and data easily, but his eyes drifted to the boy waiting for him outside the window more than once. He also answered the teacher's questions with ease, but with a warmth and smile in his eyes that he would not have in a company speech.
In the end the teacher nodded and said approvingly: "As expected of the 'Light of the Thirteenth High School', your eloquence and writing skills are top-notch. I haven't met such a fluent student for a long time. You are quite well prepared."
There was deafening applause outside the window.
Jiang Jin kept cheering "Awwhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
"The results will be announced in the afternoon. Go out first and call No. 33 in." The teacher said.
Ye Cheng bowed politely to the people below, turned around and left.
As soon as he walked out of the classroom, everyone from Class 20 surrounded him.
"Let's go, monitor, let's go to the playground to play games."
"Congratulations, Brother Cheng, you spoke well!"
"Squad leader, we'll be waiting for you."
The crowd surrounded him and left talking and laughing. No. 33 belonged to Class 18. He was still nervous a second ago, afraid that he would make a fool of himself in front of so many people.
The next second, the corridor was empty.
No. 33: "..."
Doesn't anyone from Class 18 come to see it
When everyone arrived at the playground, they scattered to various booths to play games.
Jiang Jin and Lu Xiao Yecheng walked together.
Lu Xiao boasted: "Our Chengcheng is so good, we are speechless from what the teacher said."
These days, he is as restless as the orange cat. After several proposals to call Ye Cheng "Baby" were rejected, he began to stubbornly call him "Cheng Cheng" in public.
Ye Cheng failed to resist, so she could only comfort herself that "Chengcheng" is better than "Baby", so she let him go.
Jiang Jin's eyes almost rolled to the sky, and he couldn't help but said, "He's not in a debate competition, what do you mean by 'making the teacher speechless'?"
Lu Xiao lowered her face: "I praise my partner, it's none of your business."
Jiang Jinsheng said without love: "I'm leaving, you can play by yourself."
Before he could take a step, Lu Xiao slipped back with his collar.
"Go ahead, three people are the best cover, understand?" Lu Xiao said mercilessly.
During these days, he and Ye Cheng had to drag Jiang Jin into everything they did, because what happened in the last post had aroused Xu Chao's suspicion. So Lu Xiao felt that as long as Jiang Jin was around, it could be seen as "the laughing and squabbling of three brothers".
Poor Jiang Jin's daughter-in-law is not around, and she has to endure the torture of being stuffed with dog food all the time. In this world, it is simply impossible for people to live.
When he saw the ring game, he suddenly felt evil.
Jiang Jin is best at playing rings, and the owner of the amusement park who used to play rings chased him. And what Lu Xiao is least good at is ringing and catching dolls. It can be said that the skill point of picking up girls is 0.
Jiang Jin said decisively: "Let's go play the ring, there are a lot of small pendants."
Since you force me to eat dog food every day, I want you to be embarrassed today.
Just as Lu Xiao wanted to veto it, Ye Cheng said in approval, "Okay, I want to try it too."
Jiang Jin complacently bought a fifty-dollar ring, thinking that you would be so embarrassing! You pretend again! Hahahahaha, I see how arrogant you are! !
He generously gave one to Lu Xiao, and encouraged him: "Brother Xiao, come and try. Brave Brother Xiao, you are not afraid of difficulties."
Lu Xiao hooked the circle with her fingers, and asked the girl who set up the stall thoughtfully, "Is there something in the trap, and that thing belongs to me?"
There are mobile phone cases, stands, and various small ornaments on the booth. The girl nodded shyly and said, "Everything in the case belongs to you."
Lu Xiao smiled, took Ye Cheng's hand, and put a trap on his hand.
"It's mine." He said seriously.
The girl opened her eyes wide and covered her mouth as if she was about to faint at any moment.
Jiang Jin: I...fuck...