When the lights came on, Chu Mian returned to the Hanning Mansion in the center of Ronggang.
Warm water flowed from the faucet, and he slowly washed away the foam between his fingers. My aunt called to herself from outside: "Baabaa, your mother called me this afternoon and said that she arranged a lounge for you in the school and asked you to take a nap there in the future."
Chu Mian flicked her fingers.
The aunt didn't hear him respond, so she asked, "Baabaa, did you hear me?"
Chu Mian couldn't help but sneered. He shook the water off his hand and said loudly, "She might as well build a dormitory building at school. Doesn't it make it more convenient for me?"
My aunt was silent at the dining table, vaguely hearing the humming of the hand dryer in the bathroom. After Chu Mian finished washing her hands and came out to sit down, she tentatively asked, "Then I'll call her back later and say you'll figure it out, okay?"
"Don't bother with her." Chu Mian slowly mixed her vegetable salad and put a plump tomato in her mouth, "She always makes a big fuss, exaggerating to the school how much my illness has affected my life, and now everyone The teachers have taken special care of me.”
Chu Mian swallowed the sweet tomato juice, and continued in a neutral tone, "Did you know that the school cafeteria still has a window for me alone, what is she thinking, so that I can enjoy other people's attention at lunch every day?" ?”
I don't know since when, when talking about his mother, a layer of helpless indifference unconsciously shrouded the young handsome face. As an aunt, Chu Heng took his exposed emotions into her eyes and tried to give her the greatest degree of comfort: "After all, she is not by your side, so it is inevitable that the way of pampering you is inappropriate. When you have time, go talk to her, or I'll help you convey... "
"No, I told you, just ignore her." Chu Mian looked directly into the young woman's eyes, "She just wants to be a young lady, but she always feels guilty about being a parent, so she never ends. Wanlei used this so-called 'concern for her son' to satisfy herself and embarrass me, do you understand?"
As soon as the young man's voice fell, Chu Heng felt the pressure coming from his cold eyes. She was in a trance for a moment, and when she regained her composure, she looked at Chu Mian again. He had already pursed his lips and bowed his head, concentrating on cutting the beef on the plate into small pieces, and eating it gracefully.
Chu Heng secretly sighed at the calmness of this boy beyond his age, and she also fully agreed with Chu Mian's statement, so she simply changed the topic that would make him unhappy, and the chat atmosphere returned to the usual relaxed atmosphere: "Hey, "Harry The studio of "Potter" is open to the public this year, let's go play after your National Day holiday? I see that many people posted pictures on Instagram, it's very interesting."
Chu Mian was not very interested, but she agreed to the itinerary. After eating, Chu Heng happily went back to the room to plan the route. Compared with Chu Mian, a fifteen-year-old nephew, she was obviously more playful.
Since the third year of junior high school, Chu Mian has moved into her aunt’s house on the grounds that “it feels too stressful to stay with her parents”. Chu Heng is a webtoon artist with relatively free working hours. In her spare time, she helps Chu Mian study the nutritional balance of her diet. . In addition, she is only twenty-five years old, so the generation gap between Chu Mian and Chu Mian will not be too deep, and the relationship between the two is more like friends who can play together and take care of each other.
"The bowl you drank soup from..." Chu Mian frowned halfway through eating, and looked at Chu Heng hesitantly.
Chu Heng looked down at the bottom of the bowl, and found that Chu Mian had written five words with a marker on the white porcelain at some point: baa baa soup bowl.
"Oh, they all look so alike... Occasionally I get it wrong."
"Why don't you take a look before you take it? It's not once or twice that you are careless."
"All right, all right, I'll go buy a new set for myself tomorrow, and I'll give you everything at home." Chu Heng teased, "Let you write whatever you want, okay?"
Influenced by his mother's education, Chu Mian likes to distinguish his own from others' things since he was a child, and he has a slight obsession with cleanliness, so he will try to name the tableware and cups he imports to prevent others from misusing them. When he was at home, he seldom shared the same items with his aunt, so Chu Heng would often see post-it notes with the words "baa-baa's remote control", "baa-baa's cushion" and "baa-baa's juicer" appearing Everywhere in the house, it seems to be the silent warning of the teenager.
As night fell, Chu Mian sat resting on a soft chair on the balcony, looking out at the bright lights of Ronggang business district and the sparkling Lanjiang River, and the evening wind crossed the water, gently blowing on her cheeks. He held a snow-white boa constrictor in his arms. Among the polygenic mutant ball pythons, its all-white appearance was specially named "White Wedding Dress", and Chu Mian named it "Fiona".
Fiona can be called Chu Mian's closest family member. She has a good appearance and a gentle temperament. She often shrinks into a ball. She has been taken care of by Chu Mian since two years ago, and now her body is almost as thick as a teenager's arm.
Chu Mian stroked its smooth scales, let it sit on her forearm, got up and went to the living room to get her schoolbag.
Chu Heng was lying in front of the computer and watching the reports on the filming site of "Harry Potter" on the Internet. She was wondering whether to wear a Gryffindor uniform to get on the plane. When she turned her head, she saw Chu Mian hugging The snake calmly entered the room. She was instantly terrified as if seeing Voldemort, screaming and holding the keyboard to resist Avada Kedavra.
"Candy?" Chu Mian flicked a bunch of Alpine lollipops in his hand, and when Chu Heng nodded in shock, he deliberately took a step forward with Fiona in his arms, causing Chu Heng to jump onto the bed and wave the pillow in fright.
The corners of Chu Mian's mouth seemed to rise, revealing a calm and innocent expression, and gently threw the candy over.
"Didn't you quit sugar a long time ago?" Chu Heng asked him while shrinking in the corner.
"It's given by others, you can eat it for me."
"Student?" Chu Heng's eyes brightened, "You made friends so quickly?"
"Not friends." Chu Mian denied, and a fuzzy face automatically appeared in his mind, "How should I put it, he should be a person who is inexplicably warm to others."
"That's good, you need to get in touch with this kind of lively child more, so that you will also become cheerful." Chu Heng stared at Chu Mian, and said earnestly, "Don't refuse to make friends just because maintaining friendship is too troublesome. Friends won't think you're troublesome, baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Chu Mian lowered her head to avoid the sight of her shooting, and her calm mood suddenly became irritable in an instant, and her fingertips rubbed Fiona's skin texture a little awkwardly, as if she was calming herself by soothing her.
"That's a lot of nonsense." Chu Mian said lightly, holding the snake out of Chu Heng's sight.
Chu Heng tore open a grape lollipop and put it in his mouth, inevitably worried about his nephew's situation. In her memory, Chu Mian was also a rambunctious boy when he was a child, and occasionally he couldn't stop laughing when he succeeded in playing tricks on adults. Now that he grew up, he became quieter and reserved, and even treated others coldly.
In fact, the main reason is his "narcolepsy", which not only cannot restrain sleep, but also is accompanied by cataplexy symptoms. This kind of cataplexy usually occurs when laughing or when she is extremely sad or angry, so Chu Mian has to maintain a stable mood at all times, otherwise, if she gets a little excited, she may fall to the ground weak. Usually, if you want to laugh out loud, you have to hold on to the support in advance to avoid hurting your body when you fall down.
Except for very rare cases, every time Chu Mian suffers from cataplexy, she is in a state of clear consciousness and can talk to people normally. So during the summer vacation after the senior high school entrance examination this year, in order to train his ability to control his emotions, Chu Mian specially asked his aunt to read "Complete Jokes" and funny jokes from the Internet to him.
When Chu Heng read "I lived for 42 years, they are the most boring people I have ever seen", Chu Mian bit her lower lip to prevent herself from laughing out loud, but she still lost her strength and fell on the bed .
A minute later, Chu Mian returned to normal and sat up straight.
Chu Heng asked him affectionately: "Do you still want to listen?"
"want."
Chu Heng couldn't bear it: "Then let me read you something that isn't too funny... It was written by that Professor Yin—"
"Ha..." The corners of Chu Mian's mouth curled up, and she lost her strength and fell down on the bed again.
Since he was not born with a good sense of humor, Chu Heng read him a full 30 pages until he was too tired to laugh again. Afterwards, no matter how interesting the content was, Chu Mian just lay on the bed weakly. He boasted "it's funny".
Ordinary people's "laughing" is a symbol of happiness at the moment, but for Chu Mian, it is a risk of both happiness and pain, especially in a lively and happy atmosphere. If he suddenly falls to the ground, not only Embarrassing yourself in public can also confuse others.
So in addition to taking anti-cataplexy drugs, he also compulsively stabilizes his mood changes within a safe range, which means that he must be cautious when engaging in recreational activities.
Doing so did relieve the symptoms of cataplexy, but Chu Heng was worried that Chu Mian would miss the opportunity to play with her classmates for the sake of her so-called self-esteem.
However, Chu Mian didn't seem to care about this. After being pulled into the class group by the monitor, he directly blocked the group messages. When some classmates added friends, he only used automatic reply to greet each other. Compared to building friendship with them, Chu Mian still cares more about studying—being stunned in public is not the most embarrassing thing he thinks, but failing to get the first place in an ordinary high school like Cheng Jun is.
Because he sleeps longer than others every day, he has to work harder in his waking hours. He put Fiona back into the snake box, sat at the desk and recited "The Preface to the Pavilion of the King of Teng" and the notes under the book carefully, trying to master all the required items in the five Chinese books before the end of the National Day holiday.
After reviewing today's lesson, Chu Mian took out a dark leather notebook as usual, on the title page was the neatly written words he wrote a long time ago, "baa baa everything you hate".
The nickname "咩咩" was what Chu Mian's family called him before he was seven years old. It is said that when he first learned to speak, he always pronounced "Chu Mian" as "Chubaa", so everyone used "咩咩" to refer to him. for him.
After elementary school, the parents seemed to agree that the boy was beginning to have a sense of independence, so they simply called him by his full name, lest Chu Mian complain that the nickname they gave him was too sweet. But in fact, Chu Mian still prefers adults to call him "baa baa", but now only his aunt is willing to call him that.
Chu Mian turned "Everything I Hate" to the most recent page.
[August 2012]
1. The mung bean soup made by my aunt is unpalatable.
2. Mobile phone case, thick and heavy.
3. Mosquito coils, choking.
4. Bluetooth earphones, ear-piercing.
5. Carbon ink.
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38. Youth League committee, intuition.
39. Cheng Jun's get out of class bell has a sad melody, obviously everyone likes get out of class.
40.
After habitually writing down a rounded number, Chu Mian picked up the pen and thought about what to use to fill this position. The tip of the pen paused first, and then it landed smoothly on the paper, forming four neat words.
"Yu Ran, Muggle."