Painting blackboard newspapers with watercolor paints is far more vivid and lively than chalk, and the waves of the sea are so vivid that the teachers who entered the class couldn't help but praise a few words when they saw it. It was only then that the students discovered that Yu Ran, who was usually carefree, had an artistic talent, so they couldn't help but admire him.
"It's fine if you take drawing in the mid-term exam. There are no questions in this paper." Yu Ran lay down listlessly on the table, wiping the paint on his fingertips vigorously with a wet towel. He had several chemistry test papers under his face, and the highest score did not exceed forty, so he was called by the teacher and went to the office to make up lessons during his lunch break until he passed the midterm exam.
He thought for a while, then turned to face Chu Mian, with his chin resting on the other's table, "Chu Mian, put some questions for me, I'll go home and memorize them."
Chu Mian was doing her homework, and she answered casually, "The mid-term exam will be given in the district, unlike the previous monthly exam where the original homework questions will appear."
Then he put down his pen, raised his eyes to look at Yu Ran, "Give me the notes, and highlight the key points."
Yu Ran misses the days before the National Day very much, when there was not much homework and class tests were easy. Now that the mid-term is approaching, teachers of various subjects have to ask students to go to the office to give lectures every day, and the knowledge content is getting more and more difficult. He often doesn't even have time to drink water, and he wanders around several offices after class. He is still the subject of the teacher's spot check during class. After a day's class, he understands what "exhaustion" is.
Fortunately, every Wednesday night there is club activity class, which is one of Yu Ran's few expectations at school.
He is now a nominal member of the basketball team, so he can't participate in the girls' training, so he can go to other clubs every week as he likes, and today he plays badminton with Zhou Weixi.
"Yu Ran, why are you so dazed? It's your turn to serve."
"Oh." Yu Ran responded slowly to Zhou Weixi, but his eyes were still fixed on the direction of the school's back gate wall.
— Someone is coming in over the wall.
It was already dark, and Yu Ran couldn't see the face of the person in the distance, but he knew that the person must not be from the school, otherwise he should enter the school directly through the back door.
Yu Ran temporarily put aside his curiosity, swung the racket, hit the shuttlecock, and repeatedly passed it to Zhou Weixi.
The ball fell out of the field, and while Zhou Weixi went to pick it up, Yu Ran couldn't help but look back at the wall, and found that there were students waiting for the outsider. The back is very familiar, I saw it this morning.
It was Cai Hanchuan.
Yu Ran couldn't help frowning, although he hadn't been troubled by Cai Hanchuan for a long time, but he knew that this person had been in contact with Huang Feng recently, so he couldn't take it lightly.
Zhou Weixi was ready to go on the opposite side of the net: "Yu Ran, if you catch it this time, I will call you father as your father!"
Yu Ran was distracted just now, after listening to Zhou Weixi's words, he hesitated for half a second before lifting the racket, and the badminton had already passed quickly over his head and landed several meters behind him.
Yu Ran turned around to pick it up, glanced up, and found that Cai Hanchuan and the others were walking towards this side. Not sure if the opponent noticed him or not, after picking up the ball, he immediately turned around and continued with Zhou Weixi.
Because he is a little absent-minded now, Yu Ran failed to catch the ball several times in a row, and now he is even more unhappy. When he watched the shuttlecock pass by him again, he turned around and found that a group of people had already approached him.
Huang Feng's face came into sight, Yu Ran was taken aback, the ominous premonition in his heart just now finally settled at this moment.
"What's the matter?" Yu Ran asked calmly.
"Don't be nervous, Yu Ran," Huang Feng stepped forward and put his arms around Yu Ran's shoulders with a familiar look, "We don't plan to touch you today, so just come here obediently, let's discuss something."
While speaking, he crushed Yu Ran's shoulder with five fingers, and pinched it painfully.
Yu Ran didn't frown, even though he was conflicted in getting close to them, under Zhou Weixi's gaze, he didn't want to have a conflict so quickly, so as not to worry his friends. He turned his face and winked at Zhou Weixi as if nothing had happened, then picked up the schoolbag on the ground, and followed Huang Feng and the others.
They thought they would take him out of the school to talk, but instead they entered an abandoned equipment room in the school. The room was airtight and had a pungent damp musty smell.
It seems that they want to clean themselves up in such a place that is not easy to be noticed.
Yu Ran is not surprised, but very puzzled.
Not just this time, since junior high school, Yu Ran has been puzzled by the basic ecology of bullying among boys. In the No. 44 Middle School where problematic teenagers are concentrated, the reason for the establishment of hatred among classmates is very simple. Any little thing in life can gradually evolve into conflicts, easily dividing people into camps.
And "apology" and "reconciliation" do not exist in the dictionary of boys like Huang Feng. They have recognized the most negative perspective of the world from adults since they were young, and believe in "violence can solve all problems", the stronger they are , There is no room for sand in the eyes.
In the past, Yu Ran was often regarded as a scorn by some boys. He was always unwilling to obey orders, was out of gregariousness, refused to give in, let alone admit defeat, even if he was violently tortured, he still kept his spirit. This is the most likely to attract the disgust of those boys of.
Fortunately, he tried to get into a normal middle school, and now he finds that most of the boys are peaceful and tolerant, and Huang Feng is a minority.
"Single-on or together?" Yu Ran dropped his schoolbag and asked.
"I told you, we won't touch you today." Cai Hanchuan sat on the cushion, had nothing to do, so he flipped through Yu Ran's schoolbag, "Call Chu Mian, and you can leave. "
Yu Ran's heart sank, he didn't know why: "How do you know him?"
Cai Hanchuan raised his hand and lifted his hair, allowing Yu Ran to see the bandages, "That bastard almost gave me a concussion, it's good that I didn't ask him to pay for it, now it's not too much for me to pay back, right?"
Yu Ran frowned: "Don't talk nonsense, why don't I know that Chu Mian and I are together every day?"
"During military training." Cai Hanchuan put down his hands, his eyes were dark, "If you don't believe me, ask your class Cui He."
Yu Ran was at a loss and couldn't understand this sudden situation. In short, he couldn't call Chu Mian here according to their request, and let the two people in front of him make trouble for no reason.
The schoolbag had already been transferred to Huang Feng's hands, he buckled it upside down so that all the contents inside spilled out, and then kicked it even more messily with a smile.
"Are you still drawing, Yu Ran?" Huang Feng picked up the doodle book in the pile of homework, opened it to have a look, "I remember you drew every day when you were in junior high school, it's not bad, you drew quite a lot. "
Yu Ran hesitated to speak, staring at the movements of his hands.
"Call that Chu... over here." Huang Feng shook the drawing book at him, "Don't worry, my brother Han just wants to return the fist he got last time. After all, he lost his position in front of the girl. If he is a human, he will swallow it." Can't you take this breath? For your sake, we won't strike too hard—"
Before he finished speaking, Yu Ran calmly said: "If you want to vent your anger, you can find me."
Huang Feng let out a "huh", "You guys really have a good relationship, but we're just looking for him today, it's useless to replace you."
Yu Ran secretly clenched his fists, stared at the two of them, and said, "I don't have to fight back."
"Don't be silly." Huang Feng took out the lighter from his pocket and pressed the switch, holding the graffiti book in the other hand, "If you want to be fucking obedient if you want this money."
Yu Ran's face froze.
The night falls, the Chengjun playground is brightly lit, and the community activity class has been in the middle of the session.
Chu Mian was sleepy before class, so she temporarily slept in the classroom for a while. Now that she wakes up very refreshed, she doesn't bother to go to the rooftop to blow air, so she takes out Yu Ran's notebook and continues to help him draw the key points.
Every page of Yu Ran’s notes is incomplete, and there are many sentences that are too lazy to memorize when they are half written. Chu Mian had to fold the corners for him so that he can remind him to fill them in later.
In the quiet classroom, there was only the sound of her pen tip swiping. Chu Mian looked up at the empty space in front of her, thinking about how to remind Yu Ran to lend her the graffiti book.
Obviously I agreed last night, but I didn't take it out all day, I'm afraid I just forgot to bring it.
Just as she was guessing, Chu Mian heard someone running in the corridor, the footsteps getting closer and closer, and stopped at the door of the classroom. He looked up and saw Zhou Weixi who was out of breath, and the other party said "You are in the classroom".
Zhou Weixi ran back to his seat, took out his forgotten mobile phone from the bookcase, and called the head teacher.
Chu Mian didn't care, and continued to focus on her own affairs. She didn't expect to hear Zhou Weixi mention Yu Ran's name soon, and her attention was directly attracted.
After Zhou Weixi put down the phone, he turned around and found that Chu Mian had stood up.
Chu Mian asked, "Where is Yu Ranren?"
"I don't know. After he left, I went directly to the teacher."
Chu Mian didn't ask any more questions, and left the classroom immediately.
He has a fairly good understanding of the school's structure, and he can remember some blind spots of the cameras. After searching one by one, there is only the unremarkable old equipment room left. The door is usually locked here, but now there are two boys wandering around, as if watching the wind.
Chu Mian walked over, unexpectedly not being stopped by those two people. After that, he pushed open the door without thinking, and a wave of damp smell hit his face.
The people inside subconsciously turned their heads to look over, and when their eyes met, both sides froze for a moment.
Seeing that Yu Ran was standing there safe and sound, Chu Mian felt relieved for the time being. But Yu Ran didn't expect Chu Mian to appear, and didn't know how to react for a while, so he just told him in a low voice: "You hurry up."
More surprised than Yu Ran were Cai Hanchuan and Huang Feng. Just now they were thinking about how to get Yu Ran to call, but now Chu Mian came to him without any mistakes. Cai Hanchuan asked Yu Ran in surprise: "Fuck, why did you call him here, telepathy?"
Chu Mian looked at Cai Hanchuan, her voice could not detect any emotion: "Is there something wrong, senior?"
Cai Hanchuan gestured to his accompanying followers, and they immediately held down Yu Ran's arms and shoulders, preventing him from moving.
"You did it that time and left me with sequelae." Cai Hanchuan pointed to his head, "You fucking honestly ask me to return it today, and we will write it off."
Chu Mian glanced at them coldly and said, "That has nothing to do with Yu Ran."
Before Cai Hanchuan could respond, Yu Ran cursed at them directly. He wanted to continue to say something, but he was directly covered by several people around him, and held him in a corner.
Huang Feng was still fiddling with his lighter, he tore off a page of graffiti and lit it, and that page was quickly reduced to ashes.
Chu Mian didn't notice him at first, but after smelling the burning smell, she suddenly realized that all the items scattered on the ground were burning, including the graffiti book in Huang Feng's hand.
It turned out that Yu Ran brought the album today...but he didn't have time to read it.
Chu Mian was stunned, and blurted out a sentence: "Don't touch his things."
Huang Feng raised his eyebrows and raised his head, holding up the drawing book in his hand, "This?"
Chu Mian knew that it was something that carried Yu Ran's dream.
- Make an agreement with yourself to realize your dreams together.
His chest was a little stuffy, and he tried his best to endure the anger that was rising at the moment, and said darkly, "Don't touch it."
"Okay, you behave yourself and let my brother Han give enough gas, and I won't burn the rest." Huang Feng raised his thumb from the lighter, and his eyes moved to Yu Ran who was in the corner, "Yu Ran, you just burn it." Take a good look."
Chu Mian remained silent on the spot and did not speak. Cai Hanchuan assumed that he had acquiesced to the negotiated terms, smiled and moved his wrists to get up and walk in front of him.
Yu Ran was held in a corner by several high school sophomores, trying to break free with all his strength. He no longer has any thinking ability in his brain, only the idea of "don't let anyone hurt Chu Mian" is left. Just hearing Huang Feng's tone of threatening Chu Mian, anger quickly accumulates in his internal organs.
He opened his eyes wide, and saw Cai Hanchuan's fist swinging straight towards Chu Mian's profile—
With a muffled sound of "bang", everyone in the equipment room couldn't help being stunned.
Cai Hanchuan instinctively opened his mouth wide to breathe, his nose was in severe pain one after another, and his vision became blurred. He tasted a strong bloody smell in his mouth, which seemed to come out of his nose, and fell to the floor one after another.
Yu Ran forgot to struggle for a moment, and stared at Chu Mian intently, watching him kick Cai Hanchuan's knee, causing him to half-kneel on the ground.
"Fuck, you're fucking courting death." Huang Feng stood up with his eyes wide open, the graffiti book in his hand had been forgotten by him and slipped from his hand.
Chu Mian didn't speak, and didn't have time to react, so the other party took the opportunity to punch her in the stomach. The pain was tolerable, Chu Mian didn't back down, she raised her elbow neatly and hit Huang Feng's Adam's apple, making him retch with sore eyes.
Chu Mian held her breath to avoid inhaling too much bacteria in the room. He took a step forward and grabbed Huang Feng's collar, relying on inertia to make him take a few steps back, and then raised his leg to attack the hip bone.
Huang Feng tried to fight back, but Chu Mian not only could bear the pain, but could continue to attack the sensitive vitals of the human body without sparing any effort in the next second. Especially the throat and stomach, once they feel uncomfortable, they will weaken their strength with their arms. Huang Feng was a little unprepared, and his head was directly knocked to the ground by Chu Mian.
He opened his eyes and saw the boy's gloomy face.
In order to keep her emotions from fluctuating too much, Chu Mian now has to let her mind go blank to avoid cataplexy. His slender fingers pinched Huang Feng's neck, and then said slowly: "Don't touch burning things, and don't threaten me."
Chu Mian's voice was so low that it was almost hoarse, and even Yu Ran almost didn't recognize it was him.
The few people who had restrained Yu Ran had unknowingly relaxed their strength, and some of them hadn't even realized that Cai Hanchuan and Huang Feng were so easily defeated by the gentle-looking boy in front of them.
Chu Mian stood up and walked to the side, bent down and hurriedly stuffed Yu Ran's things back into her schoolbag, then turned to look at him.
The two looked at each other silently.
It was completely dark, the students went home one after another, and the playground was empty.
Several parents gathered in the bright office, and even the director who had already left work rushed back to the school to investigate the situation with the person concerned.
When Chu Heng found Chu Mian, he saw him sitting in the stairwell with another boy beside him. Worried, she walked over to help Chu Mian up, carefully looked at his exposed skin, "baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaible did you get hurt?"
"I'm fine."
"Where is your director's office, baa?" Chu Heng anxiously covered his forehead, "Is the classmate you hit okay? Has he arrived at the hospital yet?"
"Yeah." Chu Mian nodded, "It shouldn't be too serious... Don't worry."
Chu Heng didn't have time to catch his breath, and immediately went to the place where the director was.
Chu Mian sat down next to Yu Ran again, and the two continued to look through the graffiti.
Chu Mian pinched the thickness of the book. It was about 200 pages, all of which were filled with drawings. There were many anime characters and pure scenery. Although not every picture was detailed, the lines and colors were complete.
The last page of the book is the campus scene under the blue sky and white clouds, surrounded by lush green trees, rich and unobtrusive colors, it looks very refreshing.
Chu Mian asked, "Is this painting of your junior high school?"
"The location of the teaching building is, but the others are not." Yu Ran said, "My junior high school didn't have so many trees, the walls were not clean, many glass windows were broken, and the sky was always cloudy."
"The cloudy day has nothing to do with your school, it's not like you're cursed."
Yu Ran immediately straightened up, with a serious expression on his face: "Really, when I recall junior high school now, the picture is full of cloudy and rainy days, it's evil!"
After he finished speaking, he bent his shoulders, looked at the campus he had drawn, and told Chu Mian, "My ideal school is like this. There are no exams, no homework, and I can be happy every day."
Chu Mian glanced at him, "Now you have homework and exams, are you unhappy every day?"
"Happy, isn't that because I can play with everyone." Yu Ran replied sincerely, "Going to the cafeteria every morning is the same. It doesn't matter whether I make up homework or not. As long as I see my friends here in the morning, I feel good."
Chu Mian continued to turn back, and saw the incomplete page, only a row of jagged narrow edges remained.
"What was this page before, remember?"
"Hmm... I don't have any impression." Yu Ran shrugged and said relaxedly, "Anyway, I drew the whole book at random. If there is one page missing, one page will be missing. It doesn't matter."
The more Chu Mian thought about it, the more regrettable it became. If only he had reminded Yu Ran to give him the album when he came this morning, so that he wouldn't be trampled and burn a page.
After the brain consciousness became clear at this time, the anger in his chest finally accumulated and took shape.
His fingers softened, and while he still had the last bit of strength, he fell on Yu Ran's shoulders.
Yu Ran hugged her worriedly, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Chu Mian breathed a sigh of relief, "It's just a stupor, I'm a little tired."
Yu Ran noticed that Chu Mian's hair was a bit messy, so he stretched out his hand to smooth it out for him, "Will your aunt scold you when she comes home?"
"No, she has always been gentle to me, since she was a child." Chu Mian's mouth was very close to Yu Ran's ear, so she lowered her voice, "Drawing is also very important to her, if she knows that others tear up your works casually If she falls, she will only blame me for not hitting hard enough."
Yu Ran nodded, and asked again: "Does she usually like animals?"
"The snakes I raise have to be 20 meters away from her, and she seems to be quite afraid of other animals."
Yu Ran was puzzled: "Then why does she always meow at you like a sheep?"
Chu Mian was dumbfounded, a sudden burst of embarrassment appeared on her face.
In order to prevent Yu Ran from realizing that it was her nickname, Chu Mian quickly found a reason: "She... likes to pretend to be tender."