The parent-teacher conference would not be over in a short time, and the students were not allowed to enter the classroom, so they had to stand outside in the cold weather. The students could not wait any longer, so they simply called their friends and prepared to sneak away.
Anyway, it's vacation time, so even if the teacher wants to teach them a lesson, there's nothing he can do. Who will remember this little thing when the next semester starts
When Xie Ruan and Bo Jin came back from the small garden, they happened to see Sun Haoxiang and He Mingjie dragging Pan Yu towards the school gate.
"Hey," Sun Haoxiang stopped and teased when he saw the two of them, "Did you two go on a private date without telling us?"
The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it to heart. Bo Jin was thick-skinned and didn't think anything of it, but Xie Ruan's ears suddenly turned red.
He has fair skin, so the redness is particularly noticeable.
Sun Haoxiang looked at him as if he was in a foreign scene. He looked at him twice and said in surprise: "No, Xiao Xie, why are you blushing? Are you really like Brother Bo..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Xie Ruan kicked him in the calf. He gasped in pain and said, "Damn it! Be gentle! It's going to break."
He Mingjie gloated at the side: "You deserve it. You're just talking nonsense."
Finally there was one person left among these beasts. Just as Xie Ruan was about to nod in approval, he heard He Mingjie say, "What do you mean by a world for two? Are you unsophisticated? They were just on a date, a date!"
Xie Ruan: “…”
Xie Ruan closed his eyes, raised his legs and turned in the air, then ran straight towards He Mingjie.
He Mingjie was smarter than Sun Haoxiang. He jumped back and barely avoided it. He then smiled at Xie Ruan in a mean way, which made Xie Ruan so angry that she chased after him and insisted on hitting him.
Bo Jin stood there with one hand in his pocket, looking at his angry back, the corners of his lips curled up uncontrollably.
"Have you two decided?" Pan Yu asked Bo Jin while tidying up his torn school uniform.
Bo Jin raised his eyebrows and said nothing.
Pan Yu understood immediately: "I see, so you haven't caught her yet."
"Why are you in such a hurry?" Bo Jin took out two candies from his pocket, gave one to Pan Yu and threw the other into his own mouth, smiling contentedly, "Sooner or later, they will be my family."
He looked around and couldn't find a trash can, so he turned around and stuffed the candy wrapper into Pan Yu's hand.
Pan Yu: “???”
Pan Yu pinched the candy wrapper between his fingers and said to him with a wooden face: "Give me an explanation?"
"What's there to explain?" Bo Jin lazily flicked the candy in his mouth with the tip of his tongue, his eyes still fixed on Xie Ruan in front of him, "I'm giving you candy, isn't it natural for you to help me throw away the trash?"
After that, he walked past him and grabbed Xie Ruan by the collar: "Let's go. It's getting cold out here. Let's find a place to hide from the wind."
Pan Yu: “…”
Pan Yu's voice softened by more than a degree. He picked up the candy wrapper himself, chuckled, and turned his head away expressionlessly.
The old dog is so stupid. I hope he can’t catch up with anyone even after graduating from high school!
"You two should go back." Sun Haoxiang was big and his face was sweating after moving around for a while. He raised his hand and wiped his forehead. Bo Jin said, "You can go with us. There are no family members around. Why are you pretending to be so good?"
"Why not?" Bo Jin raised his eyebrows and put his arm around Xie Ruan's shoulders, "Isn't this it?"
Sun Haoxiang, He Mingjie, Pan Yu: "..."
He can still be so extravagant, the old rogue really lives up to his reputation!
A few people were too lazy to pay attention to him anymore. If he didn't want to leave, then forget it. They didn't want the two of them to show their affection, so they walked away pulling each other.
"Could you please stop talking nonsense?" Xie Ruan broke free from Bo Jin's hand. She was really impressed by him.
Others would try to hide their early love affairs, fearing that the teacher would hear about it. But he was different. He didn't do anything yet, but he wanted to publicize it to the whole school.
"Why am I talking nonsense?" Bo Jin peeled a piece of candy and stuffed it into Xie Ruan's mouth, then crumpled up the candy wrapper and put it in his pocket. "Are reserve family members no longer family members?"
Bo Jin's fingertips were slightly cool, and they brushed lightly across his lower lip as if accidentally. Xie Ruan shuddered, and it took him a while to come back to his senses from the terrifying feeling and understand what Bo Jin meant.
How could he be so sure that she would agree to him? Xie Ruan felt a little embarrassed and tilted his head and said, "That's not necessarily true. I didn't nod."
Bo Jin pushed open the glass door of the teaching building and let him in. He chuckled and said, "Is it so difficult to catch up?"
Xie Ruan felt that he had turned the tables and raised his lips: "It's good that you know."
Bo Jin looked at his smug little model, and after enduring again and again, he finally couldn't help but rubbed his head hard, and before he got angry, he smiled and said, "It's okay, I'll chase you for a while, but you have to give me some sweetness first."
Just as Xie Ruan was about to ask what the benefit was, Bo Jin grabbed her hand and held it in his palm.
"You!" Xie Ruan's first reaction was that this was a teaching building, and there were so many parents and teachers coming and going. What if someone saw him? He hurriedly tried to break free, "Let me go!"
Bo Jin was unmoved, and led him upstairs, saying nonchalantly, "It's not okay, man. You have to hang a carrot in front of the donkey to make it work."
Xie Ruan was so angry that he laughed: "Are you a donkey?"
Bo Jin paused, he looked Xie Ruan up and down for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Which part are you in?"
Xie Ruan was stunned for a moment, and then his entire face and neck turned red.
"Fuck", this guy is simply...
"What a shameless person." Bo Jin sighed. He was so embarrassed by just a joke. What would he do when the real fight comes in the future
After he comes, he will have to work hard for a while, so help him exercise well.
Bo Jin took out the key, opened the door of the small classroom, and pushed Xie Ruan in. He knew that today would be bad, and if he continued to tease her, she might get angry, so he started to get down to business: "Have you packed your things to take back? I'll help you get them after the parent-teacher meeting?"
Xie Ruan hummed, took a paper cup of hot water to warm his hands, paused, and poured a cup for Bo Jin as well.
Bo Jin held the paper cup in his palm, and the warmth spread from his fingertips. He lowered his eyes, and there was a smile in the corners of his eyes and eyebrows.
The parent-teacher meeting lasted for two hours and ended before noon. Parents came out of the classroom one after another, with expressions of joy and worry, which fully indicated their children's performance.
Xie Ruan got his schoolbag, said hello to Bo Jin, and took the train back home.
It was lunch time, Chen Wei was cooking in the kitchen, the house was filled with the aroma of food, He Jinqing was lazily lying on the sofa smoking, the cigarette ash was all over the coffee table.
He Chen was playing games on his phone next to him. When he heard the noise, he looked up. When he saw Xie Ruan, his eyes lit up immediately and he put away his phone and ran over.
I don't know what he was thinking of. He paused, suppressed the joy on his face, put on a stern face, and walked over with his hands behind his back: "Brother, you're back."
Xie Ruan put his schoolbag on the shoe cabinet, bent down to change his shoes, and said "hmm" without any emotion.
Xie Ruan always had this attitude, neither cold nor warm. He Chen was used to it and didn't think it was a big deal. He was happy as long as his brother was there. While Xie Ruan was putting his shoes away, he rushed to pick up his schoolbag.
Although he was young, he was quite strong because he had been taking Taekwondo and fencing classes. Even though Xie Ruan's schoolbag was stuffed full, he was able to carry it easily.
He Jinqing got angry when he saw his son's puppy circling around Xie Ruan. He didn't know what was wrong with the kid. No matter how many times he punished him in private, it was useless. He just loved to stick to Xie Ruan.
He Jinqing crushed the cigarette butt, coughed and said, "Chenchen, come here. Let your brother carry the schoolbag himself."
Why should his son work for that encumbrance
He Chen turned a deaf ear to his words and walked forward with his schoolbag in hand.
This little heartless boy, He Jinqing was so angry that he almost cursed. But he was thirty years old when he had such a son, how could he bear to give him up. Xie Ruan became even more annoyed.
He looked around and immediately came up with an idea when he saw the ash on the cigarette. He stood up and called Xie Ruan, "Xiao Xie, your mother is busy cooking, so you are free, so why not mop the house?"
Dragging is not a hard job. In the past, Xie Ruan would have done it without saying a word.
It's not easy to rebuild a family, and he doesn't want to put Chen Wei in a dilemma.
But now... Xie Ruan lowered his eyes and sneered, whoever wants to do it can do it.
He reached out and took the schoolbag from He Chen, then walked straight to his room: "I have homework to do and don't have time."
He Jinqing got furious after being confronted by him neither softly nor harshly: "Stop right there! What's your attitude? I provide you with food and drink, but you're telling me to take revenge on me?!"
Chen Wei finished cooking and turned off the range hood. When she heard the noise in the living room, she rushed over with a shovel in her hand: "What's wrong?"
"You, you give birth to a good son!" He Jinqing was furious and directed all his anger at Chen Wei. "You think you are wronging him by asking him to do something within his ability? I have raised him for so many years, and even a dog knows how to wag its tail at its master!"
Chen Wei stood up Xie Ruan today and felt sorry for her eldest son. Upon hearing this, she hurriedly said, "He just came back. Let him rest for a while. I'll mop it up later."
"You're the one who spoiled me!" The more Chen Wei defended Xie Ruan, the more He Jinqing scolded her, "Xi Xi is no good, you can't do anything, you should come down and work as soon as you graduate, don't stay at home and eat and drink for free."
Chen Wei was furious with her husband and looked coldly at her eldest son. She was in a dilemma and finally said hesitantly: "Xingxing, how about you drag..."
Before he could finish his words, Xie Ruan interrupted him: "I'm eating and drinking for free at your house?"
Thanking Chen Wei for the dark green jade bracelet on her hand, her voice was neither light nor heavy, but it was like the calm before a storm, so suppressed that it made people frightened: "Mom, I remember that Dad bought it for you, how much did it cost?"
He raised his eyes to the exquisite gemstone earrings made by Chen Wei. "And his jewelry, do you want to tell me the price as well?"
Xie Ruan didn't care about money and never cared about these things. Those jewelry were given to his mother by his father, and he never thought of sharing them, but the premise was that they didn't go too far.
Chen Wei's body stiffened, and He Jinqing seemed like a duck with its neck strangled, unable to make a sound.
Xie Ruan smiled: "I was young back then, it's not that I don't remember anything."
After that, he raised his hand and threw the bag forward. The huge bag brushed against He Jinqing and fell on the coffee table with a thud. He gave He Jinqing a cold look and said, "Don't mess with me." He walked into the room without looking back.
He Jinqing was so frightened by him that he almost thought Xie Ruan was going to rush over and punch him.
He is a typical petty bourgeois who loves to bully the weak and fear the strong. He is usually ruthless in words, but when it comes to fighting, he is quicker to back down than anyone else.
The living room was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. After a while, He Jinqing suppressed his fear and cursed loudly: "Fuck - what a bastard! I should have thrown him away earlier!"
Chen Wei's face turned red and white after her son exposed her true colors in front of her, but she did not stop He Jinqing.
For a moment, the room was filled with his insults.
"Don't scold my brother!" The child's sharp voice interrupted He Jinqing's voice. He Chen stubbornly said to He Jinqing, choking and repeating, "Don't scold my brother!"
"You!" He Jinqing cursed other people's sons in a vicious way, but when it came to his own son's turn, he couldn't utter a word.
He Chen walked over with red eyes, picked up Xie Ruan's schoolbag and ran away, leaving He Jinqing and Chen Wei staring at each other.
No matter how soundproof the house is, the cursing can still be heard. Xie Ruan was too lazy to curse with He Jinqing, it would be cheap. Just when she was about to record a clip for fun and send it to Bo Jin, she heard He Chen defending her.
Xie Ruan was slightly stunned. He knew that He Chen liked him, but he didn't expect that the child would stand up to defend him at this time.
There was a knock on the door, followed by He Chen's muffled voice: "It's me."
Xie Ruan took off the headphones and said, "Come in."
He Chen walked in with his head lowered, put his schoolbag on his bed, and was about to leave without saying anything.
When he turned around, Xie Ruan was so sharp that his eyes turned red.
Xie Ruan's heart suddenly softened for this kid. He called He Chen: "Wait a moment."
He Chen stopped leaving immediately, but didn't say anything.
Xie Ruan laughed, rummaged in his schoolbag, and took out a few pieces of peanut nougat.
That was something Bo Jin had given him before, and he had never been willing to finish it.
Xie Ruan coughed, and threw the candy to He Chen uncomfortably: "Take it and eat it."
His brother bought him candy!
All the inexplicable grievances and irritability in his heart were instantly swept away. He Chen tightly grasped the candy in his hand, with the same awkward expression as Xie Ruan on his face: "Thank... Thank you, brother."
"Um."
Xie Ruan suddenly took action. From that day on, He Jinqing no longer ordered him to work all the time, and Chen Wei no longer came to him and said things like "Mom is doing this for your own good".
But the atmosphere at home has never been very good, especially when we sit together for dinner, it’s so awkward.
Having known Bo Jin for such a long time, Xie Ruanshao had grown shameless enough to pretend that he didn't know. Apart from eating, he basically spent his time playing games in his room.
After being on edge for a while, he suddenly relaxed when a long vacation came. He played games with Song Xinghe for three consecutive days and was so happy that he didn't want to leave.
That morning, Xie Ruan was sleeping soundly when his cell phone suddenly rang.
He didn't go to bed until three o'clock last night, and was very sleepy now. Without even opening his eyes, he reached out from under the quilt and hung up the phone.
But the other party was very persistent. He pressed the button again and again, as if he would not give up until the call was connected.
Xie Ruan had no choice but to open his eyes and grab the phone, then said "Hello" in a bad mood.
A familiar low laugh came from the other side. It was Bo Jin.
"It's nine o'clock and you're still sleeping."
Xie Ruan was in a daze and didn't want to talk at all. He just said "hmm" as an answer.
"Are you addicted to playing games?" Bo Jin's voice was light, but it gave Xie Ruan a start and made him sober up instantly.
"Sure, Xie Ruan, you'll have three days off. If you don't call me or reply to my messages, I'll have to go to your bed and pull you out, right?" Bo Jin smiled.
"I..." Xie Ruan's throat was dry, and he said guiltily, "I replied."
Bo Jin lit a cigarette and took a puff, then snorted and laughed: "Did you go back by yourself?"
Xie Ruan got up and hurriedly looked through the chat history. This made her head pound. He really didn't reply!
How could it be like this! He clearly remembered to reply.
"Well," Xie Ruan cleared his throat and tried to explain, "I replied with my mind."
"Oh, then you also agreed to my confession with your mind." Bo Jin dragged the ashtray over, exhaled a cigarette, and said in a sly tone, "Come on, call me husband."
Xie Ruan: “…”
"you!"
Bo Jin half-smiled: "What's wrong with me?"
"I was wrong." Xie Ruan really couldn't handle him, not to mention it was indeed his fault. He had been so engrossed in playing games these days that it was the first time he admitted his mistake so readily.
"It's too late," Bo Jin leaned back on the sofa, stretching his long legs lazily, "Everyone can say nice things, but take practical action now."
Xie Ruan had a hunch that it was not a good thing, but since he was in the wrong first, he could only bite the bullet and continue: "What action?"
Bo Jin: "When you have a holiday, you are like a herded sheep, you are nowhere to be seen." After a pause, he directly raised the subject, "At the very least, you are not paying attention to Xi, and at the most, you are giving up your future!"
Xie Ruan: “…”
How could he give up his future? !
Xie Ruan: "I didn't. I didn't! I started practicing right away today."
"Men can't be trusted in bed."
Xie Ruan: “???”
He scratched his messy hair. His mind was still a little confused after he woke up. He subconsciously followed Bo Jin's topic: "What do you want me to believe?"
"Hearing is false, seeing is believing," Bo Jin bit his cigarette holder, leaned back, and chuckled, "Come to my house and let me know if you are lying."