When Xie Ruan received the call from Bo Jin, he was still outside.
He was charged a huge fee by Song Xinghe, and now he was willing to pay and serve his master without complaint.
"Let's eat outside," he tilted his head, holding the phone between his shoulders, and walked forward with the food tray in his hand. "What's up?"
Yes, school had just ended, what else could Xie Ruan do besides eating? Bo Jin held his forehead, feeling that he was too impatient. He took a deep breath and smiled, "Well, is there something going on? Send me a message when you come back?"
"Is it urgent?" Xie Ruan put the family bucket in front of Song Xinghe and raised his chin towards him, indicating that he should eat first and not eat by himself. "Or should I go back now?"
"No need." Bo Jin intended to delay his meal. Besides, the courier had arrived and he could use it when he got back. "Let's talk after you finish eating."
Xie Ruan's appetite was completely whetted by him, and he couldn't help but ask: "What's the matter?"
Hearing his curiosity, Bo Jin chuckled, but he planned to clear his doubts now. How could it be a surprise if he revealed it in advance? He just said, "You'll know when the time comes."
What are you doing? It's so mysterious.
Xie Ruan muttered, but the dog still knew how to laugh, which meant it wasn't a bad thing. He pulled out a chair and sat down: "Okay."
After hanging up the phone, Xie Ruan was about to reach out for a chicken wing, but when she raised her eyes, she met Song Xinghe's burning gaze.
"…" Xie Ruan kicked him under the table and said, "If you have something to say, talk."
Song Xinghe immediately put down the half-eaten chicken leg and came over to him, gossiping, "What's going on between you and Bo Shen?"
Xie Ruan took a bite of the chicken wing and was puzzled: "What's going on?"
"Tell me the truth, I promise not to tell anyone else," Song Xinghe almost put his ear close to his, suppressing the excitement in his heart and whispered, "When did you two get together?"
After all, he is his brother. He can even get the God Bo. He is so awesome.
"Ahem," Xie Ruan said as a mouthful of chicken wing got stuck in his throat, nearly choking. "You're talking nonsense, how is that possible?"
Xie Ruan was puzzled: "Where did you come to this conclusion?"
Song Xinghe was even more incredulous than him: "You two held hands, gave each other gifts, you stayed out all night several times, and now you even called to check on me, but your friendship is just pure classmate friendship?"
Song Xinghe looked at him coldly: "Are you stupid or do you think I'm stupid?"
Xie Ruan: “…”
Although he had done all these things, they were indeed related to that side.
"It's not what you think." Xie Ruan lowered her eyes, trying to ignore the turmoil in her heart after hearing the word "getting together". She pretended to be calm and said, "We are classmates and desk mates. He has been tutoring me during this period, and we are very close."
"Oh." Song Xinghe chuckled, "Which aspect of counseling requires holding hands? Dating?"
Xie Ruan was speechless. Seeing that he could no longer hide it, he could only whisper, "I was afraid of heights that time."
Song Xinghe: “…”
That’s all after all this
He still didn't give up, and continued: "Then if you didn't come home that night, didn't you go to Bo Shen's dormitory?"
It was so secretive, Xie Ruan admitted: "Yes." Song Xinghe spoke again and took the initiative to say, "But I came here to do the questions."
Seeing his frank expression, Song Xinghe felt guilty and finally couldn't help but curse: "... Fuck!"
"No," Song Xinghe said helplessly, "Don't you like men?"
Xie Ruan: “Yes.”
"That Bo Shen is always in front of you. Don't you want to bring him to your home?"
What the hell, he had to study hard every day and investigate Bo Jin's suicide, so he didn't have the mood to think about those messy things.
Xie Ruan shook his head and said sincerely, "I don't want to."
Bo Jin didn't know about the conversation between Xie Ruan and Song Xinghe. He was in a good mood and felt very comfortable looking at Zhao Caiming's wrinkled face. He smiled and went over to greet him. Zhao Caiming was so scared that he almost thought he was poached by another school and was so enthusiastic because he felt guilty.
Bo Jin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After repeatedly explaining to Zhao Caiming his intention to transfer schools, he wanted to call to ask when the express delivery would be delivered, but then he received a call request from Wen Yong.
"Brother Yong." Bo Jin answered the phone as he walked towards the school gate.
Since Xie Ruan was not there, he simply went directly to the mailroom to deliver the package.
"Xiao Bo," Wen Yong's voice on the other end of the phone was uncharacteristically anxious, "I have a document to be stamped at the orphanage, and I need it right away. It's too late to mail it. Can you help me get it and scan it for me."
Bo Jin paused, the smile on his face gradually faded: "Brother Yong, this is the second time this year."
"I'm sorry, Xiaobo," Wen Yong apologized, "but I really can't..."
"You can ask the dean to go out and scan for you." Bo Jin interrupted him.
Wen Yong said, "The dean can't leave."
Bo Jin did not move: "Then ask the dean to find someone to help you sweep."
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment before Wen Yong's difficult voice rang out: "Xiao Bo, you know I changed my name because I didn't want too many people to know that I had been there."
"What about me?" Bo Jin took out a cigarette from his pocket and asked, "What do you think of me..." He sneered, "Do the dean and others want to see me in my situation?"
"Feel sorry."
There was a sudden silence between the two.
After a moment of silence, Bo Jin said, "This is the last time."
Bo Jin put the burning cigarette back. Xie Ruan said before that he didn't want to be exposed to secondhand smoke. He probably didn't like the smell of cigarettes. He had been patient for a long time and didn't want to lose everything because of this.
Bo Jin said calmly: "If you need something urgently, send it over early, don't let the time limit get in the way."
"Thanks, Xiaobo. I owe you one."
Did Bo Jin care about that time? If it was someone else, he would not care about it today. But Wen Yong was different. Bo Jin was very tolerant of this brother who had been protecting him since childhood.
He took a taxi and headed straight for the orphanage. He sneered at the street scene that was rapidly receding outside the window, wondering if Wen Yong would be able to catch up with his son.
The last time he was asked to go to the orphanage to help was before a math competition. This time was even more outrageous, not only was it the final exam, but it also happened before he confessed his love.
All of them are critical times. This is... the reincarnation of a stopwatch.
The orphanage is not far from Sega High School, and the taxi fare is the starting price.
Looking at the door, Bo Jin calmed himself down before walking in.
Although he had not been back many times, he was still a familiar face in the orphanage. The security guards knew his situation and naturally would not stop him. Therefore, Bo Jin went to the director's office smoothly.
The office door was open, and the dean was bending down to get some water when he noticed that there was another person in front of him.
Bo Jin reached out and knocked gently on the door.
The dean raised her eyes, and the moment she saw Bo Jin, her hand trembled and the cup fell to the ground with a bang.
After the panic, there was surprise. She didn't bother to pick up the cup, and walked over quickly: "Xiao Bo, why are you here now? Class?"
"Come and help Brother Yong get the materials," Bo Jin smiled, and politely lowered his eyes, not looking at her, and not standing opposite her, "Brother Yong told you?"
The dean was stunned: "Yes."
Bo Jin frowned slightly. Is Wen Yong doing this? Didn't he say that Yicai would come over during the dean's time
As he was thinking about it, the dean's cell phone rang. It was Wen Yong calling.
Bo Jin subconsciously raised his eyes and saw that the dean was standing in an unnatural posture despite trying his best to control himself. He smiled, turned around and left the office, standing in the corridor: "You answer the phone, I'll wait."
The dean's nose was sore, and he cursed himself inwardly. He took a deep breath and pressed the answer button.
Bo Jin had no intention of eavesdropping on their conversation. Just as he turned around and was about to walk away, a woman in her fifties or sixties suddenly ran over in a hurry: "Dean, there is a child—"
The voice stopped abruptly the moment it saw Bo Jin.
Bo Jin called out, "Aunt Feng."
Aunt Feng is the aunt who kept telling Bo Jin how valuable platinum was when he was a child.
"Xiao Bo is here." Aunt Feng subconsciously straightened her back, combed her hair, and said awkwardly, "You must have something to ask the dean. I won't bother you anymore."
After saying that, Bu Bojin couldn't wait to leave, as if there was a ferocious beast chasing him.
Bo Jin looked at her back for a long time, then pulled the corner of his lip.
When he was a child, he was ignorant and thought that he was very powerful because of his good memory, so he told everything.
From small things like what color clothes the dean wore half a month ago, where his hair was messed up by the wind, to the embarrassing things that happened to his aunts and uncles. At first, his family praised him for being smart, but over time they realized something was wrong.
After he was diagnosed with hyperthymesia, people in the orphanage who knew about it began to avoid him intentionally or unintentionally.
This is human nature. People want their every move to be recorded by another person, as if they were living under a camera, with nothing hidden.
Bo Jin understood that this was the reason why he never returned to the orphanage.
It is enough to know that each other is doing well. It is not necessary to show up and make the family uncomfortable.
"Xiao Bo," the dean came out with a document and explained to him, "Your brother Yong called me at noon and told me that there were a few new children in the hospital. So I decided to use my time. The problem is, there's no time difference in scanning. If he had come again, there would be no need to bother you with this trip."
"I'm closer to you." Bo Jin felt that something was wrong, but he didn't think much. He took the information from her and raised his eyes again, "Then I'll go first. I have to go back to the evening study."
The dean came to try to keep him, but after hearing what he said, he immediately changed his tune: "Okay, then go back and study hard."
After a pause, he added, "Come back often. My family...my family actually misses you a lot."
"That's right," Bo Jin put away the information and smiled, "How can people miss me after seeing my face?"
The dean was still upset about his recent behavior, but when he heard this, he was immediately amused. He scolded him with a smile, stuffed a piece of bread into his hand, and then let him go.
After leaving the orphanage, Bo Jin went to a copy shop to scan the documents and gave them to Wen Yong, then returned to school.
The express has arrived. The small Bai Ze pendant is delicate and beautiful, fierce and cute, and looks very much like Xie Ruan. Bo Jin lowered his eyes and looked at it for a while. He couldn't help but smile. His mood, which had just become depressed in the orphanage, improved.
It was pointless for others to avoid him, at least Xie Ruan took the initiative to approach him.
Xie Ruan likes him, and in order to find out about his childhood, she even endured her fear of heights and crossed the overpass...
The more he thought about it, the faster Bo Jin walked, and in the end he almost ran. He wanted to see Xie Ruan, and he wanted to see her now.
However, to his surprise, Xie Ruan was not in the class.
Maybe he went to the toilet
Bo Jin sighed. He didn't want to confess in the bathroom. It was too pretentious. He approached Sun Haoxiang and found that the notebook Xie Ruan often used had fallen to the ground.
Bo Jin laughed, seeing how anxious this little classmate was. He bent down to pick up the notebook, and just as he was about to close it, he suddenly stopped when he saw the content on it.
The handwriting on the fully filled page was messy and sloppy, but one could still make out a few underlined keywords at a glance.
"Stop suicide", "Depression" (x), "Sunshine Orphanage", "Wang Ban's Tea Restaurant".
Bo Jin tightened his grip.
What does this mean