Tao Xi started daily oral training. Lin Qinhe would read and record the English material and send it to him. He used his mobile phone to listen while imitating Lin Qinhe's pronunciation and intonation.
In the morning, he got up earlier, and after having a quick breakfast in the cafeteria, he ran to the basketball court near the school gate, and practiced oral language for half an hour in the harsh morning breeze in December.
Tao Xi glanced at the time, took the English word booklet and walked from the basketball court to the school gate. Lin Qinhe should be there in a few minutes. He stood in the corner next to the guard room, bowing his head and reciting the words in the booklet. .
When he was reciting a very complicated word, Tao Xi suddenly felt dark in front of his eyes and was covered by a soft object. He pulled the object down and exposed his eyes to see that Lin Qinhe was looking down at He had a smile on his lips.
Looking down again, there was a black cashmere scarf around his neck, and there was still the temperature belonging to Lin Qinhe.
Lin Qinhe stretched out his hand and tidied up the scarf, wrapped the neck of Tao Xi tightly, looked at his bright eyes and said, "Don't wait for me in the morning, the weather is very cold."
Tao Xi shook his head in the soft and warm scarf: "I want to come out anyway to practice speaking, and my head will be more awake if it's colder."
Lin Qinhe glanced at Tao Xi's cold fingers, frowned in disapproval, but said nothing.
The two walked along Xiangzhang Road to the teaching building together. In the past few days, Tao Xi would prepare oral language materials every night. He spoke English with Lin Qinhe on the way with Lin Qinhe in the morning.
Lin Qinhe will correct the wrong place in his pronunciation, and then randomly assign exam questions for him to play on the spot.
Tao Xi racked his brains to answer Lin Qinhe's question. After answering, he found that Lin Qinhe had taken him off the way to the teaching building and came to the door of the convenience store.
"Do you want to buy breakfast?" Tao Xi asked.
Lin Qinhe didn't say anything, he went directly into the convenience store, Tao Xi followed, and saw that Lin Qinhe took a pair of gray plush gloves, and then went directly to the cashier to settle the bill.
Lin Qinhe walked outside the convenience store, unpacked the package, and handed the gloves to Tao Xi.
Tao Xi took the gloves in a daze. These gloves are fluffy, and there is a bear on the back of the hand, which is very similar to the bear they caught before.
Seeing Tao Xi staring at the gloves in a daze, Lin Qinhe thought he didn't like it, so he said, "Let's go first."
Tao Xi raised his eyes to look at Lin Qinhe, handed him a glove, and said with his eyes bent, "Let's have one for each of us."
Lin Qinhe refused: "I don't need it."
Tao Xi put on both gloves, lowered his head and opened his fingers to look back and forth.
After class at noon, Tao Xi and Lin Qinhe went to the cafeteria to eat together. This was one of his favorite things in the past. Now he follows Lin Qinhe to cook in the cafeteria. The hand is not steady.
Today, a group of third-year students came to visit the school. The cafeteria was full. Tao Xi was looking for a seat with Lin Qinhe with a plate. Many people were quietly looking at the two along the way, mainly girls. Tao Xi did not know where They were whispering something and didn't care.
"Brother Qinhe!"
Tao Xi's heart sank when he heard these three words, he turned his head to look, and saw that Yang Duole was also looking for a seat with a plate on his plate, and his roommate Xu Ziqi was on the side, looking back and forth between him and Lin Qinhe After a few glances, his face turned ugly for a moment.
Yang Duole's eyes fell on the black cashmere scarf around Tao Xi for two seconds. He pursed his lower lip, walked to Lin Qinhe and asked with a smile, "Are you looking for seats too?"
Lin Qinhe nodded and glanced at Tao Xi beside him.
Tao Xi's expression didn't change, and he even said hello to Yang Duole and Xu Ziqi.
Xu Ziqi looked at Lin Qinhe, hesitated for a while, pointed to a table not far away, and suggested to Lin Qinhe, "I think those people are almost finished eating, we can sit there together."
Tao Xi frowned indistinctly, a rush of irritability surged in his heart.
Yang Duole also glanced at the table over there, and said to Lin Qinhe, "Why don't we just go there, there are just four seats."
Lin Qinhe said indifferently, "No need, let's find another seat." He paused, looked at Tao Xi and said, "Let's go."
Tao Xi breathed a sigh of relief and followed Lin Qinhe away, seeing Yang Duole staring at him before turning to leave.
After Xu Ziqi and Yang Duole sat down, they glanced at Yang Duole's face and said, "That person can only stay here for a year, and he will go back to the valley in the third year of high school, so it will have nothing to do with you in the future."
He knew that Yang Duole, like himself, didn't like Tao Xi, and even more disliked that Lin Qinhe had a good relationship with Tao Xi.
Yang Duole lowered his eyes and couldn't see his expression clearly, and only said, "He has nothing to do with us now."
Seeing the opportunity, Xu Ziqi agreed: "Yes, he and we are not from the same world."
With the advent of several cold waves in December, the temperature in Wenhua City dropped again and again. Tao Xi changed into his winter school uniform early, and got up early every day to study. He thought it was a fallacy that puppy love would affect his studies. , and even learn better.
During this period, he successfully joined the Qinghua Association and was pulled into a WeChat group with hundreds of people. Vice President Guan Fanyun took the initiative to add him to WeChat. Only then did he remember that this woman was Yang Zhengming's lover he met at the art exhibition.
During the lunch break at noon, Lin Qinhe went to the school's temporary competition sprint class for training. Tao Xi couldn't help but click Fanyun's WeChat Moments.
Most of Guan Fanyun's circle of friends is a selfie, or showing affection, such as sharing gifts, but no photos of Yang Zhengming have appeared, and there are a few paintings by herself. Tao Xi took a closer look and found that it was very ordinary. Sui is not at the same level, I don't know how to get into the vice president, and I don't know how Yang Zhengming will use her as Fang Sui's stand-in.
Tao Xi felt bored, quit WeChat, turned off his mobile phone, took out a pen and started to do TOEFL reading questions, not long after a boy came over and said to him:
"Tao Xi, when I went to the doorman to pick up the courier, I ran into your father and asked you to go there."
Tao Xi squeezed the pen in his hand: "I see, thank you."
"It's just that I was delayed on the way back, maybe your dad waited a little longer, sorry." The boy apologized.
"It's ok."
Tao Xi thanked the boy again, and pulled out a money roll tied with a rubber band from the middle of the schoolbag. This was the money he had prepared a long time ago, just to wait for Tao Jian to come to him again one day. .
Tao Jian may have found a job before, but he must have lost everything in gambling and came to him to get money. He knows this "father" too well.
He knew it might be a bottomless pit, but he had to fill it, even temporarily.
He does not allow anyone to destroy his life here with Lin Qinhe, never.
Tao Xi quickly walked to the guard room with the money, but he didn't see Tao Jian's shadow. The security guard knew him well because he read English at the school gate every day, and waved to him:
"Your father did come half an hour ago, but left again."
Tao Xi frowned, and for some reason there was a bad premonition in his heart.
He was silent for a while and asked the security guard, "Did he say anything?"
The security guard sighed, seeing Tao Xi's dignified expression, he stopped talking for a few seconds, and finally said, "Nothing, go back and prepare for class."
Tao Xi was full of doubts in his heart, he nodded, and before leaving, the security guard whispered to him: "In the future, try to keep your father from coming to school as much as possible."
Tao Xi pursed his lips, lowered his eyes and said, "Sorry for causing you trouble."
He thought that Tao Jian might be the same as last time. He made a big noise in the guard's room, and the security guard was justifiably annoyed.
The security guard waved his hand and said euphemistically, "It's okay, I don't mean anything else, it's just that your dad seems to be easily emotional, and I'm also worried that your study status will be affected."
Tao Xi thanked the security guard, turned and left.
When the security guard saw Tao Xi had gone away, he sighed to the colleague who came in to change shifts: "This kid looks like a good kid, but his dad doesn't feel normal."
The colleague asked curiously, "I quarreled with you again?"
The security guard shook his head and said, "It's not with me, it's with..." He paused and sighed, "Forget it, just a rural person with no culture, let's not talk about it."
In the morning, he was on duty in the guard room and saw Tao Jian come in wearing a pair of leather shoes. Because of what happened last time, he didn't like this father very much. Just as he was about to tell him that he could not enter the school without the permission of the head teacher, he saw Yang Duole come in. .
He immediately asked with a smile, "Yang Duole, are you taking leave to go home again?"
In the end, before Yang Duole could answer, Tao Jian walked up to him with a few strides and asked loudly with a strange expression, "What's your name? Yang Duole?"
At that time, Yang Duole seemed a little frightened, glared at Tao Jian and said, "Who are you?"
The security felt something was wrong, but before he could protect Yang Duole behind him, Tao Jian grabbed Yang Duole's right hand and rolled up his sleeve, revealing the red birthmark on his right wrist.
He couldn't describe Tao Jian's expression at that time, he only remembered clearly that Tao Jian's face was flushed, like drinking alcohol, staring at the birthmark, then staring at Yang Duole's face, his eyes were shining and his mouth was vague. chanting "my son".
Yang Duole was still struggling. He seemed to have heard what Tao Jian said, and his face turned pale in fright. His lips were shaking, and he forgot to even struggle.
The security guard thought the man was crazy and rushed forward to separate the two, but Tao Jian quickly let go of his hand, he looked up and down at Yang Duole, and suddenly pointed at him: "Come out with me, I have something to tell you."
The security guard kept Yang Duole behind and said angrily to Tao Jian, "Didn't you come to see your son Tao Xi? Someone else might be on his way, and this student has nothing to do with you!"
Tao Jian impatiently took out a cigarette and said, "How do you know that Lao Tzu has nothing to do with him?!" He lit the cigarette, pointed at Yang Duole with his cigarette holder and said threateningly, "You won't come out. , I told you right here."
After speaking, he walked out of the guard room, smoking a cigarette outside the door and waiting for Yang Duole to go out.
The security guard turned to look at Yang Duole, ready to ask him if he knew this person, but found that Yang Duole's face was ashen, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, and his eyes were empty, as if he had just woken up from a nightmare. Come.
He murmured, "He came to find Tao Xi?"
The security guard said worriedly: "Yes, he is Tao Xi's father. If you don't know him, don't go out. Go back to school first and wait for your family to pick you up."
Yang Duole paled even more, shook his head dully, and was about to go out, but before walking out the door, he suddenly turned to him and said, "Uncle, can you not tell others about this?"
A pair of eyes dark and dull.
The security guard was stunned for a while, then nodded subconsciously and said "Okay", but still asked out of concern, "Is it really okay?"
Yang Duole opened his bloodless lips, turned around and walked out without saying anything.
The security guard watched Yang Duole and Tao Jian walk away uneasily. Yang Duole seemed to have been avoiding Tao Jian like a snake, but he didn't completely shake him off. The two began to quarrel fiercely halfway through.
He guessed for a long time but couldn't figure it out. He wanted to call President Yang, but remembered that he had promised Yang Duole, so he had to give up.
When Tao Xi returned to the classroom with a sullen face, Lin Qinhe had already come back to sit in his seat, he sorted out his facial expressions, returned to his seat and asked Lin Qinhe briskly, "So what? Training is almost over?"
Lin Qinhe didn't answer, looked down at Hui Tao Xi's eyes, stretched out his hand to squeeze his chin, put his thumb up on the corner of his mouth, and asked:
"why you are not feeling happy?"
Tao Xi was stunned. He first looked around to make sure that no one was looking back before he was relieved. He avoided Lin Qinhe's hand, put the TOEFL training questions on the table on Lin Qinhe's table, and said:
"Wrong a lot of reading questions."
Lin Qinhe didn't ask any more questions, and started to teach Tao Xi the reading questions.
In addition to the lunch break, Tao Xi will also set aside a fixed time to practice English during the rest time before the evening self-study. Whenever Lin Qinhe is free, he will usually be there to tutor him.
"You seem to have a phone." In the evening, Tao Xi tapped on Lin Qinhe's arm, and he heard Lin Qinhe's phone vibrating.
Lin Qinhe put down the pen in his hand and took out his mobile phone to see that it was Luo Zhengyin's call. He frowned slightly and said "it's my mother" to Tao Xi before connecting.
Tao Xi was thinking whether he should avoid it, but Lin Qinhe took his hand with the other hand and pinched his fingers back and forth under the table, making his fingertips itchy.
"Okay, I'll be right back."
Lin Qinhe frowned deeply, he thought for a while, and said to Tao Xi, "I have something to do at home, I have to ask for leave to go back at night."
Tao Xi raised his heart and asked, "Is it serious?"
Lin Qinhe shook his head, held Tao Xi's hand tightly, and whispered, "Don't worry about the TOEFL test, it doesn't matter if you fail the test once, you can test it many times."
Tao Xi didn't expect that Lin Qinhe still remembered that at noon he said that he didn't do something unhappy because of the reading questions. He scratched at Lin Qinhe's palm and said with a smile, "I'm not nervous anymore."
Lin Qinhe got up and packed his schoolbag, said "see you tomorrow", then turned and left the classroom.
Tao Xi watched Lin Qinhe's back disappear completely, and put the money roll in his pocket back into his schoolbag.
Why on earth did Tao Jian come to the school and go back halfway
He didn't believe Tao Jian because of a sudden conscience discovery.
Tao Xi thought about it for a while, but couldn't come up with a reason.
The author says:
Yang Duole often has nightmares that he is not the child of his parents, as I mentioned earlier