From the perspective of self-esteem, Chu Mian couldn't understand that she was a little "nervous" when confronted with Ran recently, and would pay attention to the content and proportion before speaking to the other party, which had never happened in school before.
And now that the winter vacation is coming to an end, soon after he returned to Ronggang, he received an invitation from Yu Ran to meet him, and the uneasiness in his heart actually increased a little. The party before the winter vacation was not limited to the two of them. When thinking of other people, Chu Mian could not feel much distance.
Maybe it's because the winter vacation is long, and it's inevitable that people will become unfamiliar only by phone and internet contact. After all, he and Yu Ran have only known each other for half a year... Chu Mian quickly found a reasonable explanation.
The meeting place was set at the McDonald's on Baicao Road. Today, their purpose was not to have fun, but to finish their winter vacation homework before school started—more precisely, they copied Chu Mian's answers.
Chu Mian changed to the subway halfway, and received a text message from Yu Ran saying that he was almost at the same station, and asked him to stop and wait for him.
Chu Mian agreed and walked near the elevator. There were people coming and going on the platform, and it was difficult to quickly catch acquaintances. He didn't want Yu Ran to see him looking around, so he simply lowered his head to play with his mobile phone, his slender fingers kept swiping the screen, looking very busy.
In the noisy environment, Chu Mian vaguely heard the familiar footsteps approaching her, and her fingertips stopped suddenly.
A long time ago, he was able to distinguish Yu Ran's walking sound from others. The movement of the soles rubbing against the ground seemed lazy, but the frequency of his steps was not slow, and he had a sense of presence in the classroom.
Chu Mian still looked down at her phone, as if she was not paying attention.
Suddenly a group of black objects appeared, blocking his vision, and he took a closer look, it was the scarf he had left for Yu Ran, now it was hung around his neck from behind.
Without thinking, Chu Mian raised her hand to grab it, turned around, and sure enough, she saw the young man's handsome face, which was no different from the one in her memory.
— is smiling cheerfully to himself.
Chu Mian quickly pulled up the scarf to completely cover the smile that was naturally showing on the corners of her lips, so that Yu Ran could not discover her current mood.
But Yu Ran grabbed his cuff and jumped on the spot twice.
"What are you dancing?" Chu Mian asked.
"I don't know." Yu Ran stared at him intently, "I'm happy!"
Having not seen Chu Mian for a long time, Yu Ran wanted to jump directly on the other party, but was afraid of knocking Chu Mian down, so he jumped on the spot to express his excitement.
Chu Mian tried hard to calm the corners of her mouth, but when she looked at Yu Ran, her smile deepened. He could only wrap two more scarves to cover the lower half of his face, and said in a muffled voice, "Go downstairs and wait for the subway."
Yu Ran nodded, still holding on to the cuffs of Chu Mian's coat, as if afraid that they would be scattered by the crowd, so Chu Mian had to adjust his pace to keep up with his walking rhythm.
As soon as he got into the car, Yu Ran quickly found a place for the two of them to sit down, and said, "My home broadband is broken, I originally wanted to go to the Internet cafe to check the answers all night to do my homework, but I thought, what if I get too sleepy?" It's so unsafe if the schoolbag is stolen..."
Chu Mian asked unhurriedly, "What is someone stealing your schoolbag, the unfinished homework for the winter vacation?"
"Of course there are more important things inside me." Yu Ran unzipped the zipper, took out a dark green doll and stuffed it for Chu Mian, "I went to hold the doll before, and I made it for you."
Chu Mian picked it up and saw that the doll snake had a big head, more like a crocodile with drooping eyes. He mumbled an "ugly doll" in a low voice, turned around and put it in his bag carefully.
"Hey, Chu Mian, do you think I'm sick?" Yu Ran asked sincerely.
Chu Mian looked at him unexpectedly, "You know yourself so accurately now?"
Yu Ran sat upright and said, "I was looking forward to the holidays when I was in school, but the holidays are so long, but I want to start school every day. I haven't heard Mr. Wang scolding me for a long time, and I miss her..."
Halfway through his speech, he began to take off his coat, then rolled up the sleeves of the sweater on both sides, exposing his skin and stretching it towards Chu Mian.
Yu Ran's thoughts were clear at a glance, Chu Mian burst out laughing, grabbed his arm and twisted it twice. Yu Ran sighed happily: "I just said that I feel uncomfortable all over recently, something is missing, it turns out that my body is longing for you."
Upon hearing this, Chu Mian immediately shook his arm away.
Yu Ran shook his shoulder and begged: "The left arm hasn't been twisted yet, hurry up and satisfy me."
Passengers around couldn't help casting strange glances at them, Chu Mian hurriedly turned away, and even covered it tightly with a scarf.
Sure enough, even if the new year has arrived, Yu Ran is still that Muggle.
The two arrived at McDonald's on time, and the others had arrived earlier, and were writing and copying each other around the table covered with test papers. Seeing Chu Mian coming, they feel like they have been reborn, and they urgently need his winter homework.
By the way, Chu Mian took out the signed photo of the boy group that Cui He had promised before, she put down her pen, excitedly held a few photos in her hand, and introduced the members of aceon to Ye Xi who was next to her.
Yu Ran went over to look at the photos, and there were several boys in black leather jackets with smoky makeup, arrogant and unruly hairstyles, and arrogant expressions. Yu Ran thought they were handsome from the bottom of his heart, and quickly praised: "The world is full of wonders!"
"Get lost." Cui He waved at him, keeping him away from him.
It's been a long time since I saw my friends, so Yu Ran had to exchange some pleasantries first, and then quickly moved to Ye Xi's side. He noticed that there was a tube of condensed milk in the girl's pencil case, and it was written in Japanese, so he asked her, "What is this? Can I eat it?"
"This is BB cream." Ye Xi said a little embarrassedly, she came today because she wanted Cui He to teach her how to do makeup.
"What?" Upon hearing that term, Yu Ran immediately equated it with sanitary napkins, Fuyanjie and other products.
He frowned and let go, and eagerly took the test paper to cover the things, and scolded Ye Xi: "Hey, the things you girls use are well packed, how can you leave them everywhere! Hurry up, I'll help you block them, You hide."
He turned his head while talking, extremely reluctant to take another look at this side. Ye Xi didn't know why, so she put away her things in a daze.
The girl Yu Ran couldn't fit in, so he sat next to Fang Zhao and said, "Brother Diu, I think you've lost weight after the Chinese New Year."
"Really?" Fang Zhao touched his cheek in surprise, "But I didn't eat less during the Chinese New Year."
"I didn't say your head, I said your bottom."
Fang Zhao's face changed, and he put his legs together, "Get out, you're only fucking thinner."
"Fuck, I'm talking about your legs! Why are you so sensitive..."
"It's not that I'm sensitive, it's that you don't seem to be able to say good things out of your mouth!"
The atmosphere quickly became lively, as if it was back in school, when Yu Ran, as the bottom of the food chain, was always attacked by them. Several people copied their homework for a long time, the desktop became more and more messy, and the test papers were mixed together. They were in a hurry to find their own.
Chu Mian half-lyed on the soft chair to sleep, and listened to their conversation when she woke up, and closed her eyes again after a while. When he got enough sleep and got up, he saw that it was already evening outside the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Cui He packed his schoolbag and asked Yu Ran: "Even I have finished copying, why do you still have so many? The process does not need to be so detailed, you only need to write four lines."
"But Chu Mian wrote it very carefully. I want to have the same answer as him." Yu Ran lowered his head and transcribed Chu Mian's problem-solving process onto his test paper stroke by stroke.
Cui He sighed, too lazy to talk to him, and waved goodbye to Chu Mian who had already woken up: "Let's go, I'll treat you to dinner next time."
The other three had already left after completing their winter vacation homework, and only Yu Ran was still rushing to work. Chu Mian ordered two set meals and brought them to him to eat, waiting for him to finish copying.
Of course, you can also take your homework home, but both of them tacitly didn't mention it, as if they wanted to use this to prolong their time together.
Chu Mian stared at the messy test papers on the table, and asked, "Are you studying literature or theory? It's time to choose this semester."
Yu Ran didn't think about it, he hesitated for a long time and said: "I hate memorizing things, but I also hate using my brain, you should choose one for me."
This matter is related to the future college entrance examination, it is impossible for Chu Mian to make a hasty decision for him.
Yu Ran asked, "Then you study literature?"
"reason."
After Chu Mian finished answering, she thought that Yu Ran would follow up with something like "Then I'll choose the reason too", but Yu Ran just said "Yes" and replied, "I'll think about it after I start school."
"Okay." Chu Mian continued to eat, but the taste of the food was not as attractive to him as before, and the burger was put aside halfway through.
During the silence between the two, Yu Ran's cell phone rang, he glanced over, his eyes lit up, he quickly picked it up and called "Master" over the phone.
Chu Mian didn't listen to his phone call at first, but Yu Ran stood up and started to clean up the pens and papers on the table. Only then did Chu Mian hear him explaining the location to the other party.
After hanging up the phone, Yu Ran told Chu Mian with a smile on his face, "My master said he would come to see me."
"The one who taught you how to draw?"
"Yeah. I haven't seen him for a long time, and he hasn't returned to Ronggang for Chinese New Year..." Yu Ran swiftly put his homework into his bag, "Go, go and wait for him outside, I want to introduce you to him grandly."
Chu Mian raised her eyebrows, "Why introduce me?"
Yu Ran couldn't tell why it was necessary, but he just wanted to introduce Chu Mian to his acquaintances, as if it was a way to show off.
But Chu Mian didn't ask any further questions, put on her coat, and followed Yu Ran out.
It was dark and the street lights were bright. Within a few minutes, the two heard the roar of a motorcycle, from far to near, and finally braked to the side of the road.
Chu Mian saw a tall man driving the locomotive. After the car stopped, he took off his helmet and walked towards them.
The man had sharp eyebrows and sharp facial features. When he saw Yu Ran, he smiled and said, "I've grown taller."
It didn't mean Ran said hello, so he took out a red envelope from his pocket and handed it over, "Take it, Master is too busy during Chinese New Year, this one is late."
Yu Ran immediately shook his head, "No."
"Take it." The man stepped forward and forced it to him.
"Hey, don't!" Yu Ran resisted with both hands, and kept hiding back.
Then Chu Mian watched the two of them retreat all the way to the entrance of McDonald's, and finally Yu Ran accepted the red envelope with a helpless face and returned it.
"Master, let me introduce you." Yu Ran grabbed Chu Mian's arm, "My friend, Chu Mian, isn't he handsome?"
The man smiled and nodded at Chu Mian, and then said to Ran: "Boy, I'm going to Zhejiang in a while, and today I just want to see you. You go to school and listen to the class, don't be playful, you know?"
"Know… "
"Listen to your parents, don't be rebellious," the man said quickly, "don't smoke, don't drink, don't fall in love early."
Yu Ran sighed: "You always say that."
"Just remember it." The man smiled and put on his helmet again, "I still have something urgent to do, you and your friends have fun."
Hearing this, Chu Mian felt that his hoarse voice was a bit familiar.
Yu Ran didn't expect him to leave in such a hurry today, although he still had a lot to say, he still held back and obediently waved goodbye to Master.
The motorcycle turned around and headed into the distance.
Yu Ran is in a very good mood now, and he doesn't feel the cold even when the evening wind blows by his ears.
He was stuffing the red envelope into his schoolbag, and when he glanced casually, he suddenly found that there were two strings of numbers on the package, and when he looked closely, it was Master's six-digit QQ number and password.
There is also a line of master's sharp handwriting on the back: "I have cleared the number, and you can keep it if you like it."
"Damn!" I heard that the number of this length was out of print at the end of 1999. Yu Ran expressed his envy to his master more than once, but he didn't expect him to give it to himself now.
He was ecstatically clutching the red envelope given by his master, and wanted to celebrate, so he turned to Chu Mian and said, "Come on, let's take the Lanjiang cruise, I've never been on a cruise."
Just as Chu Mian was about to agree, she thought about it: "It's only the end of February, and the ice hasn't melted yet."
"Oh." Yu Ran didn't lose his spirit, "Then let's go together next time!"
Chu Mian smiled lightly and nodded, "Okay."
Standing by the side of the road, Yu Ran couldn't wait to log in to his mobile phone QQ to switch accounts, then read the six-digit number to Chu Mian, and urged him: "Add me, I want you to be the first friend in my account."
Chu Mian searched for the number and clicked "Add friend".
However, Yu Ran didn't receive the verification message while holding the phone for a long time, and kept saying "Hurry up".
"I've added it three times, did you mispronounce it?"
Yu Ran: "No, this is it."
Chu Mian pondered for a few seconds, then stretched out her hand, "Give me a try."
Yu Ran gave it to him with confidence, Chu Mian glanced at the friend list on this account, it was empty; he opened the blacklist again, it was also clean.
Then, he used this account to search for his own qq add, which was successful once.
Her account was blocked by the other party before—the conjecture in her heart was confirmed, Chu Mian curled up with cold fingertips, handed the phone back to Yu Ran, and said "Okay" in a low voice.
Yu Ran looked at him in admiration, "You are still amazing, how did you do it?"
Chu Mian didn't answer, and walked slowly towards the subway station. After a while, he asked, "What's your master's name?"
Yu Ran lowered his head and fiddled with the phone, followed closely beside Chu Mian, and answered word by word: "Wen Junying."
There was a staircase ahead, Chu Mian supported Yu Ran's arm, and said nonchalantly, "The name sounds nice."
The first thing Yu Ran does after adding friends is to keep sending "Hello" and "Are you there" to Chu Mian, showing off his six-digit number to his heart's content. But Chu Mian was not very interested, she sat on the public bench in the subway station without saying a word, just staring at the floor in a daze.
Yu Ran asked him for his mobile phone, and set his new account as "Special Concern" for him, and swiped the message twice. Just when she was satisfied, more content was loaded on the screen of Chu Mian's phone.
Yu Ran glanced at it indifferently, and on top of the "Hello" he just sent, there was still a chat record from two months ago.
He was surprised for a few seconds, then swiped the interface to the top and browsed it in a hurry.
The subway has entered the station, Chu Mian patted Yu Ran on the back, reminding him that it is time to get on the train.
"Yeah." Yu Ran straightened up, returned the phone to Chu Mian, and followed him.
Chu Mian has been absent-minded for half a day, so she didn't notice that Yu Ran also became silent. The two sat side by side in the carriage, with the noise of the train rubbing against the tracks next to their ears.
Yu Ran deleted Chu Mian's account from this account, then switched back to his original QQ, turned to look at Chu Mian, and saw him staring blankly at the light on the subway door.
Yu Ran first quietly stared at his side face, then raised his hand, and stroked Chu Mian's hair lightly a few times.
Chu Mian blinked her eyes, her neck was fixed at an angle, and she didn't move for a while.
Yu Ran's tone seemed to be comforting, slow and light: "As soon as spring comes, the ice will melt, and I will definitely take you on a boat."
Chu Mian didn't understand why Yu Ran repeated the appointment with him, but he still agreed again: "Okay."
When Yu Ran's palm was covering the top of his head, Chu Mian just felt sleepy, without any hesitation at all, he tilted his body and fell directly to Yu Ran's shoulder.
"Are you going to sleep?" Yu Ran asked him in a low voice.
Chu Mian shook her head vigorously.
"It's okay to sleep, at worst, I'll sit back with you when you wake up."
Hearing what he said, Chu Mian relaxed her tense nerves.
From this moment on, the familiar sense of security spread in her body, and Chu Mian could no longer find the previous nervousness. It turns out that even though we haven't seen each other for a long time, Yu Ran's shoulder still welcomes him to rest on his pillow, and this has not changed.
Chu Mian closed her eyes, feeling that the subway was going up and down as if floating on water, carrying them towards the spring when everything was revived.