Under Fang Zhao's coercion and lure, Yu Ran finally told him the truth, of course not directly saying "Chu Mian spread rumors that your penis is detachable", but showing him a piece of Wangwang crushed ice.
"That's where you are." Yu Ran held both ends of the popsicle with both hands and broke it with a "click", making Fang Zhao's legs tighten unconsciously.
Fang Zhao looked at Chu Mian in disbelief, then patted Yu Ran on the shoulder with righteous indignation, and reprimanded: "It's all your fault! You have led the male god into ruin!"
"Come on, his nature has been exposed." Yu Ran faced Chu Mian and handed him the broken half popsicle, but Chu Mian gave him a disgusted look.
Yu Ran simply sucked both of them into his mouth, the crushed ice melted into water and slowly flowed down along the soft plastic shell, he stretched out the tip of his tongue to lick it clean without thinking. When Chu Mian caught a glimpse of this scene from the corner of her eye, she still felt nothing, but Yu Ran couldn't help making a refreshing sound after drinking a few sips of ice water, and Chu Mian hurriedly stepped away from him.
Yu Ran held the popsicle shell in his mouth and asked, "What's the test in the afternoon?"
Fang Zhao: "Politics and history, open-book exams, don't worry, the class is all focused."
"Oh, I didn't draw." Yu Ran looked at the two of them, "Let's go back quickly and borrow me to copy the notes."
The three of them didn't stay outside for too long. When they returned to school and walked to the corridor, they found that the class seemed abnormally quiet. Yu Ran went in through the back door, did not see the teacher staring at the lunch break, but a strange girl without school uniform sitting in the middle of the classroom.
Yu Ran only saw her back, her long straight black hair was casually draped behind her, her top was also black, and her white and thin shoulders were exposed. She raised her head and said to a girl with slender eyes in the class: "It's you, your parents didn't teach you not to touch other people's things casually? You didn't know how to clean up after you secretly used them. Are you deliberately embarrassing others? Born wicked?"
Yu Ran has never heard such an aggressive tone among his peers, every word is sharp and mean. It was the Youth League Committee of the class who was scolded by her head and face. It seemed that because she had never encountered such a situation, she stood there dumbfounded for a while.
The class monitor couldn't stand Xiang Xuehua anymore, stood up and said, "I'm sorry, because you haven't been to school, we always use your set of desks and chairs..."
The black-haired girl immediately interrupted her explanation: "Even if I didn't come to the school, can you use my things as you please? The tables and chairs are public property of the school, except for the teacher who is entitled to sit here for a while, why do you touch them? You are the class monitor, right, you ask all the people who have used my desk and chairs to come out and apologize one by one, otherwise this matter will never end."
After she finished speaking, she crossed her arms in front of her chest and leaned back impatiently in the chair. The classroom was completely silent, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what to do, the atmosphere was frozen to the extreme cold.
At this time, a refreshing male voice took the lead to break the stiff atmosphere: "I'm sorry!"
Everyone followed the sound and saw Yu Ran walking towards the girl, and sincerely apologized: "I have sat with you a few times, because my desk is too messy and I have no place to sleep."
"Sleep?" The girl became even more irritable when she heard a boy's voice, "Don't you know that there is a difference between men and women? Even if no one has been here before, you think it might be a girl's seat, and you don't mind?"
She frowned tightly, ready to unleash a new round of malice.
But when she turned her face to face Yu Ran, and found that the boy's facial features were so handsome, she quickly swallowed back the bitter words.
She frowned, waved her hand nonchalantly at Yu Ran, and said, "It's okay, seeing that you are handsome, I forgive you."
——It is the basic principle of her life to judge people by their appearance.
Chu Mian had been silently staring at the girl since she entered the classroom, but now she finally lost her composure and walked over to kick her chair.
This action was tantamount to provocation, the girl immediately glared at him sharply, but froze her face.
Her anger dissipated without a trace, and she asked Chu Mian with trembling lips, "Why are you here?"
Chu Mian was condescending, looking at the smudged eyeliner at the corners of the girl's eyes, "Have you been drinking? Go out and wash your face."
The girl was a little dizzy. She didn't know whether it was the effect of alcohol or because she saw Chu Mian. She lowered her head and rushed out of the classroom through the crowd. She didn't come back for a long time.
As if witnessing the end of a farce, everyone slowly returned to their original positions. The Youth League Committee who was scolded the most by the girls just now remembered getting angry, and began to complain endlessly, and then was persuaded by Xiang Xuehua to review.
When the atmosphere in the classroom became lively again, Yu Ran asked, "Who is it?"
"The one in our class who hasn't come to class... Cui He?" Fang Zhao recalled her name and looked at Chu Mian, "Is she okay?"
Chu Mian took out her history book and handed it to Yu Ran, and replied casually, "She just likes to find trouble for nothing, don't worry about it."
Yu Ran asked, "Did you guys go to the same school?"
"No, but we have often participated in competitions since we were young, so we knew each other very early."
"She's so fierce." Yu Ran lay down on the book and scratched, "Just now I was startled, I thought she was going to hit me."
Chu Mian looked at him, "You even beat the vice principal's nephew, what are you afraid of doing?"
"She's a woman. I'm a big man and I'm going to fight with such a thin girl. Would you mind doing it for me?"
The open-book exams for the two subjects in the afternoon are very easy, and the class notes can be used as answers. Yu Ran's eyes signaled Chu Mian to hand in the paper ahead of time, and the two went to play badminton on the playground.
"Nirvana—Phoenix Flame Ball! Look at the trick!" Yu Ran threw the badminton high up, swung the racket with all his strength and hit it at Chu Mian, and was caught by the opponent perfectly before hitting back, "Damn it, you saw it through My blindfold..."
During the continuous exercise, Chu Mian's cheeks swelled, and there was a faint pink halo. After playing several rounds, both of them were tired, and they put down their rackets and gasped for breath.
Yu Ran raised his eyes and saw a person sitting on the steps outside the teaching building in the distance, also looking towards him.
He reminded Chu Mian: "Cui He seems to be looking for you, I'll go buy water first, and I'll be back later."
Chu Mian nodded, picked up the racket for Yu Ran, and walked towards Cui He.
Cui He chewed his gum, the first sentence was still the previous question: "Why are you in Chengjun?"
"I got in the exam." Chu Mian sat down and explained casually, "I overslept in the senior high school entrance exam, and didn't write many questions."
"I don't believe it." Cui He didn't hesitate, "How could you make such a low-level mistake, you must have taken medicine in advance."
"If you don't believe me, just ask the teacher about my senior high school entrance examination results." Chu Mian took off her school uniform jacket and put it beside her, and lifted the hair on her forehead with her fingers, which made her feel cooler.
Cui He was silent for a moment, she stared straight at Chu Mian's face, as if trying to find a trace of guilt from the boy's eyes. But Chu Mian was still stingy about showing any emotions, which made Cui He helpless, so he could only ask him tentatively, "Are you trying to hide from them?"
"Who?"
"Just your junior high school teachers and classmates." Cui He said, "Don't you hate them?"
"You're not in the same school as me, so you don't understand the situation." Chu Mian took out a wet towel and wiped her hands slowly, "Whether I hide from them or not, I won't be able to pass the entrance exams. Cheng Jun is my true level now."
"Nonsense. Why don't you walk?"
"No quota."
"what?"
"I didn't have a quota for the No. 1 Middle School and the Experiment. I gave up the recommendation from outside Hong Kong because I wanted to learn the theory." Chu Mian quickly explained, and before Cui He could ask, he directly brought the topic to her: "Your exam this time Are you coming to class after the test?"
"I don't know... Damn, I'm so annoying. My dad actually called the head teacher the day before yesterday to ask me about my school situation." I didn't come to class for a month, and I almost broke my leg when I came home."
As she spoke, she rolled up her trouser legs and showed Chu Mian a look at the bruises on her skin.
Chu Mian frowned, "So you asked for leave before school started..."
"I found someone here pretending to be my father." Cui He sighed, "Forget it, let's not talk about idiots."
Chu Mian looked away and said to her, "Come to class on time from now on."
"How boring..."
"Is it interesting to pretend to be a bad girl?" Chu Mian's voice was cold, "You look so stupid at noon."
His familiar dissatisfied tone made Cui He burst out laughing, and in the end, the joy turned into sadness, and he accidentally swallowed the chewing gum. She immediately pinched her throat and tried to retch, tears oozing from the corners of her eyes, but unfortunately the chewing gum finally slipped down her throat and into the esophagus.
She let out a long, mournful breath.
Then, Cui He remembered another thing: "Who was that handsome guy who played with you just now? Your friend?"
"Yu Ran." Chu Mian introduced the names to her, and then denied that there was a "friend" relationship between them, "It's just that I've gotten acquainted with him recently, and friends... are not really counted, anyway, when the time comes, we will be divided into classes." There will be no more contact—"
Before he finished speaking, a burst of drowsiness struck him quickly.
Cui He turned around and found that Chu Mian had closed her eyes and her body was deeply bowed. She quickly grabbed his shoulders to prevent him from falling forward and falling down the steps.
Yu Ran came back with water and saw Cui He looking around in a daze, the two of them met each other, the girl smiled and waved at him familiarly, calling him to come and help.
Yu Ran walked over without saying a word, put the two bottles of pulse on the ground, and raised his hand to embrace the sleeping Chu Mian into his arms. Naturally, Cui He didn't react to this action for a moment, and after a few seconds, she looked at Yu Ran in a daze, and asked, "Are you going to take him back to the classroom?"
"Ah? Just let him fall asleep first." Yu Ran took it for granted, "I'm so comfortable on my body, I can't let him lie on the ground."
"..." Cui He was speechless, and quickly laughed, feeling novel about Ran.
"Are you two friends?"
Cui He asked Yu Ran the same question again, and the other party gave her an affirmative answer without hesitation: "Of course."
Cui He asked again: "At school, do you often take care of him?"
"Almost, he sleeps every day."
"Don't you bother?"
Yu Ran asked in confusion, "What's the trouble? My eleven-year-old brother is much more troublesome than him."
Yu Ran saw the girl laughing, her face was heroic yet soft, just like the heroines of those Hong Kong martial arts movies he had watched when he was a child. Cui He stood up, patted the dust on the back of his pants, and said, "Okay, then I'll trust you first, don't bully Chu Mian, or I'll beat you."
She turned and walked up the steps, and took off the hair tie, and her hair fell loose again. She walked a few steps and stopped, turned her head to stare at Yu Ran, and asked again: "Are you sincerely willing to make friends with Chu Mian?"
Yu Ran raised his head, just gave a heavy "hmm" and didn't say much. But his eyes were sincere enough, Cui He no longer doubted, smiled at him and walked away.
Chu Mian slept very deeply this time, and many students who had passed the exam did not wake him up after school. It was only after the last smear of the setting sun in the sky dissipated that he slowly regained consciousness. He rubbed his face against some familiar fabric and found that it was Yu Ran.
His neck was sore from sleeping, and he was too lazy to move, so he continued to lean on Yu Ran's chest and asked, "Where is Cui He?"
"Everyone went home from school for dinner." Yu Ran said softly, "I called you several times, but you didn't wake up."
Chu Mian closed her eyes and meditated, her voice was a little hoarse: "What did she tell you?"
"It's nothing, just ask me if I regard you as a friend."
Chu Mian suddenly opened her eyes, and could smell the refreshing scent of laundry detergent on Yu Ran's school uniform in her breath. He straightened up, rubbed his tired shoulders, and changed the subject: "Let's go, don't waste too much time."
When he picked up his schoolbag and lowered his head, he found that Yu Ran was still in place, so he urged, "Still leaving?"
Yu Ran's voice lacked the usual cheerfulness, and was low and strange: "Chu Mian, I just discovered something."
"what?"
The night fell, and their field of vision was dark blue, and no one could see each other's faces clearly. As the cool wind blew, Chu Mian's fingers curled up unconsciously, and her fingertips rubbed against her palm.
Then, he heard Yu Ran say slowly: "You were crying when you fell asleep."