Chu Mian's chest suddenly felt tight. He raised his knuckles and touched his eye sockets, but found no trace of moisture, which probably dried up long ago.
He was relieved and found an explanation casually: "It's nothing, it's just a nightmare."
Although I can't remember the specific content, it is commonplace to get emotional in dreams, which is inevitable. It's just that he was afraid that he would unintentionally lose his composure in reality, especially he didn't want to lose face in front of Yu Ran, an idiot.
"Did you dream of a monster or a villain?"
"Probably... all of them." Chu Mian focused on recalling, it seemed that he hadn't dreamed of acquaintances for a long time, and they were all abstract images of strange powers and gods. Even if he is awake now, he still has strong unease, his heart fluctuates up and down, and he doesn't consciously resist anything he sees.
Yu Ran thought of a way for him: "Then...do you want to think about me more?"
He put his schoolbag on his back, picked up his sportswear and handed it over, "Think about it every day and dream at night, so that next time you have a nightmare, I can help you fight off monsters and bad guys!"
His tone was very serious, Chu Mian couldn't help laughing, and said lightly, "Forget it, I'm only terrified when I dream of you."
But no matter what, Yu Ran's serious nonsense can still easily bring Chu Mian back to reality. He put on the school uniform handed over by the other party, and noticed that the weather had started to get cold recently.
Every day after school, Yu Ran would accompany Chu Mian to cross the road, and then he would turn back to the bus station and wait for the bus. The distance from the school to the Hanning mansion is only a few hundred meters. After getting used to the presence of Yu Ran in the first half of the road, Chu Mian feels that the time becomes long when he goes home alone.
When passing the trash can, Yu Ran quietly threw away the ball of paper that wiped Chu Mian's tears before, followed quickly, and asked Chu Mian where to go during the National Day holiday.
"Review at home."
"What are you studying for? You'll finish the exam tomorrow."
"There will be mid-term and end-of-term next." A calendar automatically appeared in Chu Mian's mind, and many days on it were circled in red by him. "I am not proficient in three types of function questions, and the seven days of National Day can just be consolidated."
Yu Ran gave an incomprehensible "ah", stopped and said, "If you are tired from studying, remember to call me to play League of Legends on Q, I am waiting for your call anytime!"
The corners of Chu Mian's lips curled up. He found that Yu Ran often turned up his volume while speaking, and basically shouted out the last sentence. This small problem probably didn't even notice to Yu Ran himself.
Chu Mian told him: "I can't play team games, and falling asleep halfway through the game will slow me down."
Yu Ran didn't mind this, "It's okay, I will carry the audience and protect you."
It was "protection" again, Chu Mian savored the word repeatedly.
He has heard "protection" from Yu Ran many times. Whenever it involves collective action, Yu Ran feels that he is inseparable from him, and will take the initiative to ask him "are you sleepy?" "Now sleep for a while, I will watch you." , although he is still nervous, he shows meticulous patience in many details.
If it were someone else who cared for him, Chu Mian would definitely have a strong psychological burden, but Yu Ran gradually became an exception amidst all the chatting and laughing all day long. The reason, Chu Mian thought it was because Yu Ran seemed too low a risk factor, so he let his guard down.
But if you think about it carefully, after all, Yu Ran really has no evil intentions, and he still relies on his appearance to pretend to be innocent, Chu Mian actually has no definite conclusion in his heart.
"Yu Ran." Chu Mian finally couldn't help but stop and call him.
"Ok?"
Chu Mian stared at the ever-flowing road, and asked, "Have you ever hated others?"
Yu Ran looked up and recalled, "I hated it...but I don't remember who it was."
Chu Mian asked him again: "Then have you ever hated me?"
Yu Ran obviously didn't react, he looked at Chu Mian hesitantly after a few seconds and shook his head.
"Not once? Or you feel that I always cause you trouble, and taking physical education is cumbersome and a waste of your time... etc. You must have this kind of feeling at ordinary times, right?" Chu Mian sped up her speech a little, "It's okay , if you tell the truth, I’ll just ask casually.”
But at the end of the sentence, even Chu Mian felt guilty with the tone of the words "just ask".
He just desperately wants to get a positive answer from Yu Ran, and it is best to tell him honestly, "Yes, I do think you are a bit troublesome", or "It's not too annoying", which is a frank and decent truth, So that I can safely and boldly give up the idea of making friends with others, and stop wavering for the illusory sense of security in my heart.
Yu Ran took his hand out of his pocket, walked up to Chu Mian, raised his head and said, "I didn't hate it before, but now I do."
Chu Mian froze, then pursed her lips silently. While hesitating, his collar was suddenly grabbed by Yu Ran and pulled hard, his body could not help but lean forward, almost bumping into the other's face.
"So what the hell are you causing me trouble? You're my friend, can I still blame you?" Yu Ran stared at him firmly, "What's the matter, do you think you 'owe me' again, don't you? It's only three years , I didn’t care about it last time, and I’ll forgive you this time too, but if you fucking care about this with me again in the future, I’ll tell you, Chu Mian—”
The other party's warm breath was close at hand, Chu Mian focused on listening to his next words.
"I can only beg you!" Yu Ran snorted angrily, and let go of his collar.
"..."
Yu Ran's understanding of the relationship between boys is very simple. It's normal for friends to cause trouble for each other. You can't apologize or thank you easily.
What he hates the most is that acquaintances are different from him, and they are polite like adults.
Chu Mian lowered her head and smoothed out the wrinkles on her clothes.
"Also," Yu Ran kicked Chu Mian's shoe toe, and his voice slowed down, "Just tell me when you encounter unhappy things, even if you cry with me, I won't laugh at you."
When these words were said solemnly, Chu Mian's throat suddenly tightened. He turned his face away, avoiding Yu Ran's gaze, and said softly "OK".
How to define the relationship of "friends", Chu Mian has not yet found a standard, he only knows that human emotions are uncontrollable, they will always rush out before the rationality notices, or converge into a stream, or flood, or form rely.
What Chu Mian hates the most is "depending on others".
Very annoying. Very annoying. Very annoying. It is the hate that will be written in the Top1 level of "Annual Summary of Everything I Hate".
He didn't speak for a long time, and even forgot that he should go home now, until he heard Yu Ran talking to himself triumphantly beside him, he came back to his senses—
"Oh, as expected of me, Chu Mian can be flattered with just a few words, it's like raising the skill of talking to the full level."
Chu Mian accurately noticed the "flattered" in his words, so without thinking, she raised her hand and pushed Yu Ran away, telling him, "Don't be too sentimental."
Yu Ran stared: "Why? Didn't you just have a storm in your heart just now? I think you are ready to surrender to me, right?"
Chu Mian couldn't get used to his irritating words the most, so she reached out and pinched his soft cheek, and pinched him hard, "Yu Ran, you need to show some embarrassment."
"You let go, do you want to let go?" Yu Ran grinned because of Chu Mian's tugging. At this moment, he lowered his eyes and stared at the other's legs, "You don't want to let go, right?"
Chu Mian noticed that he seemed to be playing that kind of dirty trick again, so she quickly let go of her hand and grabbed her schoolbag to block her body. Yu Ran couldn't help laughing out loud at this defensive action, which made Chu Mian angrily throw off her schoolbag and bump into him.
Taking advantage of the green light, Yu Ran ran away and quickly returned to the bus stop opposite the zebra crossing.
Chu Mian breathed a sigh of relief, he looked over and saw Yu Ran standing under the warm yellow street lamp, laughing and waving goodbye to himself.
The evening breeze was gentle, as always.
After the monthly exam, the whole country ushered in the National Day holiday.
Yu Ran hasn't opened his schoolbag since the holiday, and has played games for several days in a row. When the holiday came to an end, he and Yu Jin wailed and frantically made up their homework, stayed up all night, and continued to catch up with work the next morning.
"Why are there so many languages in this language? I'm going to die, I can't finish copying." Yu Ran wrote until he was out of breath, dropped his pen and lay down on the table, "I'm exhausted, where's my mother? I want her to come over and help me copy. "
Yu Jin wiped away his tears and said, "She went hiking with her boyfriend, and she won't be back until tomorrow, when we all start school."
"Oh." Yu Ran straightened up in disappointment. He managed to finish the copying homework of translating classical Chinese. When he opened QQ to look at the homework list in the class group, his head suddenly became dizzy again, "Fuck, there are homework for chemistry."
Moreover, there are no reference answers for science homework, so I can only rely on myself. Yu Ran frantically swiped through the chat list, found Chu Mian's dialog box, and sent a message: "Have you finished writing chemistry, physics, and mathematics?"
"let me see."
"elder brother."
"dad."
Chu Mian replied, "What are you in a hurry for? You will hand it in after the military training."
Yu Ran: "Fuck, I forgot that there is military training! Hahahahaha!"
This unexpected surprise made him slap the table and get up, flaunting his might and circling around Yu Jin, "Brother, didn't you think so? Brother will abandon you first."
"Then, write something for me!"
"Impossible. In front of homework, my six relatives don't recognize me."
Yu Jin was crying and writing over there, while Yu Ran lay comfortably on the bed holding his mobile phone, and sent a message to Chu Mian: "You bring your science homework tomorrow."
In fact, Yu Ran didn't have much hope. After all, Chu Mian's usual catchphrase is "you are dreaming", and he always scoffed at such things as copying homework. But after Yu Ran sent the message, the reply he got was: "You don't want English?"
"Yes!" Yu Ran made a row of exclamation marks, "Chu Mian, from today on you are my half-brother, thank you Dad!"
Chu Mian on the other side couldn't help laughing when he saw the messy address. He put down his phone and got up to sort out his homework. During the period, the phone kept ringing on the bed, and he didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was Yu Ran who was expressing his gratitude with all kinds of compliments.
When he went over to pick up his phone and took a look, he found that it was a message from Qzone—
[Life classic motto]: I only believe in three types of people in my life: one is the person who shares with me through thick and thin, the other is the person who helped me up when I fell, and the third is the person who will never leave me when I have nothing! People can be illiterate, but they can't be illiterate! A tree is so tall that it does not forget its roots, and a man who is brilliant does not forget his kindness!
—The wolf hid the anti-dog @了你: Show it to the brothers!
[Encyclopedia of Hot-blooded Quotations]: What is a friend? A friend is a pair of pants, it contains you in all your ups and downs; what is a brother? Brother is a condom, no matter how much you poke it, it will carry you around! Those who have friends and brothers around, turn around!
—The wolf hid the anti-dog @了你: Tell my brother about it!
Yu Ran happily flipped through the Jianghu Quotations, whenever he saw words such as "brother" and "friend", he forwarded them to Chu Mian, so as to strengthen the friendship between the two.
[Most embarrassing sentence in 2012]: Brothers are like siblings, women are like clothes, a real brother is your clothes when you run naked!
—The wolf hid the anti-dog @了你: Give brother a thumbs up!
Chu Mian was expressionless, and blocked Yu Ran without saying a word.
The world is quiet.