Not surprisingly, Yu Ran developed a fever the next day after being exposed to the rain.
Yu Jin was also sick at the same time, because Yu Ran drove him to sleep in the living room last night, and he was blown by the wind all night, and woke up with sneezing and runny nose. Li Guirong had to take time off from work to take care of her sons, boiled a pot of millet porridge, and ran back and forth between the two houses to feed them.
Li Guirong blew on the spoon, handed it to Yu Jin, and asked, "Why did your brother get caught in the rain last night?"
"He said he was dirty."
"Then go take a shower."
"He said he had a heart."
Li Guirong rolled her eyes, put the bowl in Yu Jin's hand, and went to fill a new bowl of porridge for Yu Ran to drink. After she entered the room, she saw Yu Ran lying on the bed with his eyes closed, muttering like sleepwalking, so she bent over and listened carefully—
"A brother is a mountain, a brother is a sea, I go up the mountain of swords and go down into the sea of fire for my brother..." Yu Ran murmured deliriously, "A brother's daughter-in-law cannot be robbed, and a brother's wife cannot be taken..."
Li Guirong woke him up by shaking him, "I asked your homeroom teacher for leave just now, you drink some porridge, take medicine and sleep, you can see that you are screaming sick now."
Yu Ran opened his eyes in a daze, looked at his mother, and said earnestly, "Mom, I want to change my name."
"Change what you want, you can call it this, I don't have time to toss you."
"I don't want to be called 'Yu Ran' anymore." Yu Ran said sickly, "I should be called 'Yu Xin' because I feel ashamed of my heart."
"Ashamed of your heart? Why don't you just call me a wolf-hearted dog! Talking nonsense with me again... drink porridge!"
Yu Ran's mouth is dry now, and he can't taste any food, so he can only eat mechanically to fill his stomach. After taking the medicine, he lay on the bed and looked up at the clear blue sky outside the window. Occasionally, a bird gliding past in his vision, a burst of envy sprouted in his heart.
It would be nice if I was a little bird, so I wouldn't suffer from betraying my brother.
Yu Ran recalled it for a long time, and he didn't know when he had a special feeling for Chu Mian. They stumbled and stumbled in daily chores, and it took almost a year to get into the tacit understanding, but he let the seeds of evil grow and mutate without knowing it, and he didn't wake up until today.
He played "There is a kind of love called letting go" loudly on his mobile phone, and he couldn't help singing along with the song. Whenever he uttered a word, his left half of his teeth ached, as if reminding him that he had made an unforgivable mistake. accept the punishment of pain.
What made Yu Ran's heart sour was that he was afraid that Chu Mian would know the horrific truth, he was afraid that the other party would be sad, he was afraid that the other party would be angry, so he might as well bear the pain silently.
Yu Ran continued to play the sad love song. When he sang "Just let me stay on the edge of reincarnation and wait for a light", the music paused for two seconds, and the phone reminded him that there was a new text message.
He picked it up and saw that it was Chu Mian's greeting: "Is it better?"
The tears that Yu Ran suppressed for a long time finally welled up in his eyes.
He took a deep breath, hugged the phone tightly in his arms, and let Chu Mian's text message stick to his chest, as if it could alleviate the illness.
After a few minutes, he replied solemnly: "Although I have not recovered from my illness, but with your concern, I can make my brother come back to the shore!"
Chu Mian's text message came again soon: "After taking the medicine, go to sleep and cover up with the quilt."
Yu Ran sighed, the more Chu Mian cared about him, the more ashamed and uneasy he became. My best friend is so sincere and gentle, but what about him? Now he is dreaming, hoping that Chu Mian can cover him with the quilt with his own hands!
"Let's go, let me go..." Yu Ran begged the devil in his body, closed his wet eyes, and fell asleep slowly.
He slept until five o'clock in the morning the next day, and squinted his eyes for another hour, just in time for Li Guirong to get up and go to work. Yu Jin's cold has recovered, he changed his clothes and washed to get ready for school.
Yu's burning subsided, and his body temperature was normal, but he still lay still on the bed. Li Guirong yelled several times, and finally went to drag him personally, "Hurry up, I'll be late for school later."
"I'm not going." Yu Ran fell back on the bed.
"Your head is not hot anymore, why don't you go? I asked your class teacher for a day off yesterday."
Yu Ran resisted facing Chu Mian, tensed his body, and refused to get up to go to school. Li Guirong was rushing to work, so she didn't have time to vent her anger with him, so she compromised: "You can go to school at noon at the latest, you can't go if you don't, your final exam is almost here."
Yu Ran didn't say a word, and retreated into the bed to gain a sense of security.
However, this way of avoiding him didn't last long. Teacher Dai kept calling him to urge him to come to school. Yu Ran was annoyed by this substitute head teacher the most. He couldn't help but miss the good-tempered Bai Yuzhu. Unfortunately, she won't be back until next semester.
Next semester... Yu Ran suddenly remembered about class division. It was because of Chu Mian that I decided to take the experimental class. Now that I think about it, I am afraid that this decision was out of selfishness.
He patted his forehead in frustration, and muttered to himself: "Yu Ran, Yu Ran, you really sold your soul to the devil."
Today's sunshine is particularly glaring, Yu Ran specially chose the lunch break to go to school. As soon as he entered the class, many students greeted him warmly and asked him if he had a fever.
Although Chu Mian looked at him for the first time, she showed no extra emotion and just nodded with a light smile.
The moment Yu Ran's eyes touched that face, he hurried away, not daring to look directly at him.
He walked to his seat and sat down, packing up the test papers absent-mindedly. When he thought that Chu Mian might be examining him behind his back, he felt like sitting on pins and needles, for fear that the other party would become suspicious.
Of course Chu Mian immediately noticed that Yu Ran was in a dull mood than usual, thinking that he was just sick and had no strength to mess around, so she didn't pay much attention and didn't bother him.
Yu Ran was always fidgeting, turning his head to peek at Chu Mian from time to time. The other party's face was as heroic as ever, and even when he was doing homework, he naturally showed an elegant temperament. Now he understands what Chu Mian said about "that person's eyes are all over him", and now even his sidelights are completely filled by Chu Mian.
"Yu Ran, look at this," Fang Zhao walked over to show him what's on his palm, "Limited edition 'Zi Zi', the body glutinous rice cake."
Yu Ran looked down and saw a metal brooch lying on Fang Zhao's hand, which was painted with white paint and made into the appearance of Chengjun's mascot "Zizi". Ten and previous champions in a single subject can be owned.
"Oh." Yu Ran didn't look any further.
Fang Zhao originally thought that Yu Ran would be envious with envy, but he didn't expect him to react so coldly, "What's the matter with you, did you come to class before you recovered from your illness?"
"It's okay, it's ready." After Yu Ran finished speaking, he stood up, "Let's go to the canteen."
Yu Ran didn't buy snacks for himself this time, but felt guilty and wanted to find something Chu Mian likes to eat to make up for the guilt in his heart. He walked back and forth in front of several shelves, but he didn't find many that Chu Mian liked.
He remembered that Chu Mian loved to eat nuts, so while it was still early, he contacted the vendors in the vegetable market and asked them to deliver some to the school gate.
On the way to pick up nuts, Yu Ran asked Fang Zhao in confusion: "Brother Diu, if you don't dare to talk to someone, what should you do to avoid communication?"
"Don't dare to speak?" Fang Zhao pondered for a while, "Let's take a detour."
"Can't get around, it's too close to me."
"Then just pretend that you are busy with something. If you are on the phone, no one will bother you."
Yu Ran suddenly realized and nodded, "What you said is very true..."
He returned to the classroom with a bag of walnuts and walked directly to Chu Mian's seat. Chu Mian was concentrating on solving the sequence problem when suddenly there was a "cracking" sound of hard objects on the table, which made her a little startled.
Looking up, the red plastic bag is full of walnuts.
"Come, eat, I'll make it for you." Yu Ran took out the tongs, and cracked the hard shell of a walnut with two clicks. He took out the whole nut inside, looked at its irregular shape and texture, and sighed: "It is said that eating walnuts nourishes the brain, alas, I just eat too little of this stuff!"
After speaking, he put the walnut directly into his mouth.
Chu Mian raised her eyebrows and asked him, "Didn't you tell me to open it for me to eat?"
Yu Ran's chewing movement froze, and he was stunned for two seconds, covering his mouth with his palm.
Chu Mian's expression changed, and she hurriedly stopped him, "Don't vomit, don't vomit, you continue to eat."
Fang Zhao didn't like walnuts, so he took two walnuts and rolled them in his hands. When he had enough, he stuffed the two walnuts into his clothes and stuck them on his chest. Then he proudly rushed to Yu Ran and raised his head, "Look at how round my breasts are!"
Yu Ran glanced casually, and raised the corners of his mouth perfunctorily.
This kind of behavior of stuffing things into the chest and pretending to be big breasts requires the cooperation of several people to be interesting. Fang Zhao saw that Yu Ran was not interested, and immediately took out the walnut, "Fuck, why don't you let Yu Ran go! It will make me look stupid!"
Yu Ran is so focused on atonement now that he doesn't care about eating, drinking and having fun at all. And his way to solve the guilt is to be more considerate and caring to Chu Mian, which can be regarded as a kind of compensation for Chu Mian.
Men, talk less and do more.
Yu Ran kept pinching walnuts for Chu Mian, even in class without taking a break, reaching the state of selflessness. The sound of the shell cracking attracted the attention of the whole class, so everyone could often see Yu Ran carefully taking out the nuts, wrapping them in a napkin, and finally saving them for Chu Mian.
Few would believe that pure friendship could reach this level of selfless devotion.
Chu Mian was ashamed of being stared at by so many eyes. When Ran Zai turned around and handed the walnuts, he lightly pressed Yu Ran's shoulder and whispered, "Enough is enough, don't pinch it."
This time the other party's opportunity to care was stopped by himself, so Yu Ran had no choice but to put down the walnut folder angrily, and eat nuts to nourish his brain.
Even if he eats all the walnuts, he will not become wise immediately. He clearly warned himself not to have any unreasonable thoughts about Chu Mian, but he still couldn't help but want to get closer, even when Chu Mian was sleepy walking and was about to fall asleep, he would open his arms to support Chu Mian more worriedly than before.
Yu Ran is very afraid that if he continues like this, he will be hopeless, fall into the abyss, and become a heinous and unforgiving demon of love.
In the afternoon, during the big class break, he sat alone on the steps at the entrance of the teaching building, listening to the song "Damn Tenderness" played from his mobile phone.
In the past, Yu Ran seldom listened to Chinese songs, no matter how nice the melody was, the lyrics would inevitably be romantic and vulgar. But now he just clicks on a classic playlist, and any word he hears resonates, which makes him helpless and disappointed.
He looked dimly at the clean sky, and suddenly heard Chu Mian calling himself softly behind his back: "Yu Ran."
Caught off guard, Yu Ran turned off the music player in a panic, not wanting to be found by Chu Mian listening to "Dear That's Not Love".
He was in a state of disarray right now, and it was not suitable for him to talk to people. Seeing Chu Mian approaching, he remembered the method taught by Fang Zhao—pretending to make a phone call.
Then, Chu Mian saw Yu Ran draw a "six" close to his ear, and pretended to ask, "Hey, Xiaoli? What are you having for dinner tonight?"
After asking, he realized that something was wrong, Yu Ran quickly grabbed the phone on the ground, and pressed the screen to the side of his face, "Hey, Chu Mian..."
In desperation, he actually blurted out the name of the person in front of him.
Chu Mian couldn't help laughing, walked to Yu Ran, bent down and held his wrist.
He lifted half of Yu Ran's arm, and then felt a coolness in his palm. Withdrawing his hand and looking, it turned out that Chu Mian put a "Nuozizi" brooch in his palm, which is a mascot that only top students can have.
"Is it yours?" Yu Ran sat sideways on the steps, looking up at Chu Mian.
"Here you are."
Yu Ran opened his eyes wide, "This is a limited edition!"
Chu Mian was very dissatisfied with his surprised expression, as if it was a rare thing for her to give away such a small thing. He looked at Yu Ran condescendingly, and said in a soft and slow voice, "It's because of the limited edition that I gave it to you."
The meaning of limited edition is "precious".
Yu Ran was startled, and immediately clutched the metal brooch tightly.
Chu Mian frowned and turned around. Before she had gone far, she heard the song "I Have to Love" coming from Yu Ran's phone.
Those are songs that have been spread all over the streets and alleys many years ago, and now people will still listen to them in 2013, Chu Mian just shakes his head dullly and walks away.