"Baabaa, your birthday present from your parents has arrived in the afternoon, and I put it in your room."
Chu Mian went back to the bedroom and saw two beautifully packaged boxes on the table, probably watches or earphones. Parents' gifts are always expensive but ordinary, Chu Mian temporarily put them aside, and took out a few things from friends from her schoolbag.
He left Yu Ran's gift until the last to unwrap, the wrapping paper was neatly folded, and inside was a white quill pen.
Not a surprise, just a bit of a surprise.
Probably because he called Yu Ran "Muggle" so often, he thought he was a fan of "Harry Potter". Chu Mian took out the pen and dipped it in ink to try it out, but it wasn't smooth enough, so it wasn't suitable for daily use, but it would be good just as a decoration.
He put away the pen and put it in a drawer to prevent the white feathers from getting dusty.
Chu Mian flipped through the book full of birthday wishes page by page, even students in the third grade, and the number of participants was far more than he imagined. Even though everyone does not know Chu Miansu, they are not stingy with kindness when writing.
Chu Mian opened the middle page of the notebook, and finally found the words written by Yu Ran—
"To Chu Mian: Just wait for me, one day, I will let the whole world wish you a happy birthday."
"By anyway you know who I am so I won't write my name"
Chu Mian raised the corner of her mouth, and read the two rows of crooked handwriting a few more times.
"Baa baa, I bought you a cake, come out to eat?"
Chu Mian raised her head and shouted, "I ate at school."
"Oh, good." Chu Heng understood now that his nephew was celebrating with his classmates, so he was naturally happy for him, and then he swallowed his fresh cake with peace of mind.
With the increasingly intensive schoolwork, the days are getting faster and faster, Ronggang is full of cold air, and 2012 has come to an end without knowing it.
"Is the real Nima the end of the world? CCTV news reports that at around 2:00 this afternoon, an asteroid named 'God of War' will move to the closest position to the earth, 6.9 million kilometers, and is flying at a speed of 35,000 kilometers per hour. Come on, it takes 197.14 hours to reach the earth, which is 8.214 days...that is, the morning of December 21!"
On a sunny afternoon, users from all over the country can quickly find this talk when they open QZone.
The students retweeted the most positively, and some of them dismissed this gimmick, saying, "When the end of the world comes, it will come, there is nothing to be afraid of" and "If you die, you will die". Show your heart so that you will have no regrets after you die.
And Yu Ran is obviously the third type of person. He is afraid of the asteroid hitting the earth in a few days, but also firmly believes that he can save his life through unremitting efforts, so before December 21 officially arrives, he actively prepares for evacuation.
"Yu Ran, have you emptied the canteen?"
Fang Zhao was dumbfounded. He saw the food piled up on the table, such as bread, biscuits, ham sausage, wafers and nuts, and Dorayaki. They all felt full. There were three barrels of 1L mineral water at his feet.
Yu Ran allocated them according to the number of days and labeled them as dry food for his last breath after the doomsday.
He still didn't forget to take out two Snickers bars, stuffed them into the pocket of Chu Mian's school uniform, and solemnly said: "Take it well, and when there is a flood, use it for a day, and I will swim to find you."
Chu Mian was working on a problem, so she tore open the chocolate packaging and took a bite.
"Hey! It's your lifeblood!" Yu Ran anxiously shook Chu Mian's shoulders, "Why are you eating it now!"
Chu Mian was aroused by him to be rebellious, and immediately took another bite, her cheeks were bulging.
Fang Zhao persuaded Yu Ran: "Don't be rude, you smug monkey. Have you finished writing the physics optimization? Random checks in the evening self-study."
"It's almost the end of the world, why do homework?" Yu Ran stretched out an index finger and swayed left and right, "I want to live freely these few days."
However, the teachers will not let their freedom go easily. The homework load at the end of the year has increased again, and the students are miserable. Many people give up and look forward to the end of the world, so that they can avoid the exam.
Everyone regards the prophecy of the Mayan civilization as a strange story, and everyone still talks about it after school on Thursday night, teasing each other, "This is the last time we meet", "I must come to school alive tomorrow", and soon tell this Things are forgotten.
Only Yu Ran was still very energetic at two o'clock in the middle of the night. If there was any disturbance outside the window, he would get up vigilantly and raise the curtain to observe for a few minutes. Fortunately, there were no flames or meteors falling in the sky, and the night was still peaceful.
Yu Jin was already sound asleep next to him, grinding his teeth and kicking his legs, Yu Ran covered him with the quilt several times before he lay down and closed his eyes.
In the middle of the night, the wind died down, Yu Ran relaxed his vigilance and fell asleep slowly.
The next morning, Yu Ran was awakened by Yu Jin.
"Brother! It snowed last night!" Yu Jin excitedly knelt on Yu Ran's lap and looked out the window, "The snow is so thick."
Yu Ran raised his leg to kick him away, turned over and continued to sleep. He vaguely remembered that today is the end of the world, suddenly opened his sleepy eyes, jumped up from the bed, "I'm still alive."
"Brother, look at the snow!"
Yu Ran turned his face to look, his eyes hurt from the white snow in his vision, he quickly squinted his eyes and looked for the clothes beside the bed to wear.
He was glad that the world was safe for the time being, but he was also disappointed that he had to go to school today, and he was also worried that the weather would change drastically at any time.
The classroom was as noisy as ever, and everyone was chatting and making up homework. "The end of the world" is today's hot topic. Recently, many people have put on the "crooked neck" cartoon QQ avatars. It is said that if everyone crooked their necks together, the earth would tilt, thus avoiding the impact of asteroids.
"Let the earth tilt?" Yu Ran, who survived until noon, was inspired by this idea, "If everyone jumps up together, can't the earth be further away from the planet?"
Fang Zhao squatted on the ground and threw a small snowball at him, "What do you want?"
"Come on, let's save the world." Yu Ran stretched his legs and jumped up, "Boom! You all jump! Jump—"
Chu Mian squatted next to Fang Zhao, squeezed a palm-sized snowman, gently placed it on the ground, and built a wall around it to protect it.
Just when he was secretly satisfied with this work, Yu Ran, who was jumping up high behind, suddenly let out an "oops".
Chu Mian followed the prestige and saw that Yu Ran fell to the ground with an unstable center of gravity, and slid forward for a short distance, kicking his legs straight towards the little snowman's wall. In an instant, the snow flowed from its head and turned into two glutinous rice balls.
Compared with improvisation being destroyed, Chu Mian was more concerned about Yu Ran's safety, and hurriedly stepped forward to help him up.
Yu Ran struggled to stand up and brushed off the snow on his clothes. Soon, I realized that my hand was a little sore. When I turned it over, I saw that the palm of my hand was scratched and bleeding.
"Take you to the infirmary."
"It's okay, just wash it off."
"Take some medicine, don't get infected." Chu Mian pushed Yu Ran's shoulder and led him into the building.
Yu Ran didn't care about this small wound at first, but the school doctor sprayed him with something, and the palm of his hand instantly swelled with pain. He said that it healed quickly, but Yu Ran felt that his flesh and blood seemed to be dissolving bit by bit.
After the school doctor put on the Band-Aid, Yu Ran made a request: "Wrap me in a bandage again."
"No need, it's not that serious."
"Please." Yu Ran stretched out his hand, "I want to make it look more serious."
Chu Mian glanced at him from the side.
After wrapping up the bandage, Yu Ran returned to the classroom, his whole body became active again, and he showed his injured hands to the surrounding students: "This way I don't have to write silently, I'm so smart! Oh yes, my God—"
He stopped Xue Zifan, stepped forward and said in admiration: "Your prediction was accurate last time, saying that I would have a bloody disaster today, and it really happened!"
"Come on, Yu Ran, this is not a bloody disaster, you have brought it on yourself, and you insist on jumping in the snow." Fang Zhao retorted, looking down and seeing that Yu Ran's hands were tightly wrapped, he couldn't help being surprised, "Didn't you just fall Did you fall? How did you wrap it in so many layers?"
"Oh, this..." Yu Ran's face became serious, and he looked at his palm sadly, "I was worried that the magic power would be lost along with the blood, so I suppressed it hastily first."
Then he frowned again, "Ah", and shook his right wrist with his left hand, smacking his tongue and said, "Tsk, is that devil calling me again?"
As soon as the words fell, the Chinese teacher's voice sounded like a bell at the door of the classroom: "Yu Ran! Did you ask me for a silent silence today? Ah? Hurry up!"
Yu Ran was caught off guard and his heart trembled, and the confidence he had just acted like dissipated without a trace.
He raised his hand resentfully: "Mr. Wang, my hand is disabled and I can't write..."
"Then come and carry it for me!"
"Oh… "
No matter how miraculous the so-called doomsday prophecy is rendered by the Internet, when this day really comes, people will find that it is no different from the ordinary past. They still have to get up early and late to work and go to school. The worries and busyness are not reduced by half, but today's atmosphere Obviously more lively.
In the afternoon, someone announced loudly in the class: "Good news! There is too much snow today, so there will be no class in the afternoon!"
The class exploded in an instant, but they were afraid that the joy would be in vain, and everyone questioned the authenticity of this matter.
"Really, my parent's phone number filled in my number. The head teacher just sent a text message to notify her. She will definitely come to the class and say it later."
The whole class was overjoyed, cheering and packing their schoolbags.
Amidst the noise in the classroom, Chu Mian asked Yu Ran, "Does the hand still hurt?" But the other party didn't hear it at all, and just focused on stuffing the doomsday food reserves into the backpack.
Chu Mian couldn't help raising his voice, and after asking twice, he still didn't respond, so he simply leaned over and called Yu Ran's name.
"Ah?" Yu Ran was taken aback by him.
"I'm asking you something." After finally being able to talk this time, Chu Mian was inexplicably impatient, "Does your hand still hurt?"
"It hurts, I've been enduring it." Yu Ran answered honestly, and stretched out in front of Chu Mian, "Why don't you brag to me?"
Chu Mian subconsciously avoided her gaze, and absently flipped through the neatly arranged books with her head down.
Whether from the perspective of a friend or a boy, Chu Mian felt that Yu Ran's casually joking request...was unusual. He can often feel that there is a subtle difference between Yu Ran's way of speaking to him and other boys. For example, Yu Ran never said to Fang Zhao, "You carry me on your back" or "You listen to me"; In front of him, Yu Ranke blurred the "boundary" between some boys from time to time.
This difference is very strange, but Chu Mian is not disgusted, but troubled how to respond naturally.
"It really hurts." Yu Ran moved closer, his voice gradually softened, "Just blow it, I'll recover quickly."
Chu Mian's thinking was completely dispersed, and the state of hesitation a second ago turned calm at this moment, but the temperature on the side of her face was rising. He didn't look up into Yu Ran's eyes, and slowly moved his mouth closer to the other's palm, taking a light breath.
When he was about to exhale, he suddenly found two words written on the bandage in Yu Ran's palm—
Niubi.
Chu Mian's breath got stuck in her throat instantly, and she coughed violently.
"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!" Yu Ran broke his skills in a second, sat down and patted the table and laughed loudly, "Chu Mian is bragging! Chu Mian is bragging!"
Chu Mian's face flushed from coughing, he angrily grabbed the books on the table and threw them at Yu Ran.