After repeated corrections and punishments, Chu Mian finally gave up the idea of letting Yu Ran use idioms correctly.
"The score for this multiple-choice question should be taken from science."
However, in order to stabilize science scores, it is indispensable to do a lot of questions. Yu Ran focused on practicing gouache, and would rather go downstairs for a run than use his brain to solve the problems, which made Chu Mian very distressed. However, Yu Ran is quite interested in English, so every night before going to bed, he has to ask Chu Mian to read him an English poem or line, and the mobile phone playlist is temporarily changed to English.
One of Yu Ran’s favorite songs recently is the opening song “All I want is you” of the movie “Juno”. sleep confession.
—If you were the wood, I'd be the fire.
In the evening, when the sky was still dark, Yu Ran went to the public basketball court downstairs for activities, often meeting little boys in their early teens. He mixed in and taught them how to play.
"Easiest, three-step layup, look forward to it." Full of confidence, Yu Ran patted the basketball from a suitable position, leaped high and stretched his arms. Sufficient strength makes the basketball rush to the basket quickly, but the next second it hits the backboard.
The round sphere immediately rebounded, turned back along the parabola just now, and mercilessly hit Yu Ran's head. He yelled "Aww", making the boys around him laugh.
Yu Ran snorted a few times, covered his head to pick up the ball, and when he bent down, he noticed a pair of silver-white sneakers appeared in his field of vision. He wanted to raise his head to identify the other person, but suddenly the man held the back of his neck and couldn't get up.
Chu Mian picked up the basketball on the ground with one hand, let go of Yu Ran, and moved two steps forward. He aimed at the distance, raised his arms without hesitation, and his fingers were flexible and powerful, making the basketball fly out perfectly and fall into the basket.
The little boys admired and applauded. Yu Ran straightened up, walked over and put his arms around Chu Mian's shoulders, showing off to them, "How is it, my son is amazing, isn't he?"
Chu Mian calmly rubbed Yu Ran's chest with her elbow.
"Why did you leave school so early?" Yu Ran took Chu Mian's schoolbag and walked down the street holding his hand.
"Test tomorrow."
"Huh? Another exam? Why do I remember that I passed the exam two weeks ago?"
"There are many exams in the third year of high school."
Now it was dinner time, Chu Mian felt hungry, so she went to the bakery to buy a snack mat to pad her stomach. Each of them took a soft and salty croissant, and walked under the dim blue night sky, biting as they walked.
Yu Ran likes this cool weather the most, because he can wear the jacket and sneakers he carefully selected. Holding the food that was still warm, he walked past various street stalls and shops, stopping from time to time to take a look. But Chu Mian didn't pay attention to the road scenery, and when the green light turned on, she hurriedly dragged Yu Ran across the road to go home.
Yu Ran quickened his pace, "After all, you came back early today, let's go for a walk."
"Let's go shopping on the weekend, I still have a few pages of wrong questions that I haven't cleared up." After eating the bread, Chu Mian neatly folded the paper bag and threw it into the trash can.
Although Yu Ran didn't go to class, but by observing Chu Mian's recent state, he can still feel that the tasks of the third year of high school are heavy. Chu Mian now studies until twelve o'clock every day before going to sleep, lying on the bed without even having the time to say a few words, she hugs Yu Ran tightly without any explanation, and falls asleep drowsily.
In addition to the changes in work and rest, Yu Ran can always hear Chu Mian sighing when writing questions, or tired or irritable, and the air pressure around him seems to be lowered. Yu Ran didn't dare to disturb him, and would only bring him fruits or snacks, but Chu Mian usually didn't notice, and was immersed in the sea of questions.
Yu Ran began to miss his first year and second year in high school. Even if Chu Mian worked hard, he wouldn't have to work as hard as he does now, and he could play games with him and go to the shopping mall to pick out shoes.
"I recalled what I did in school before, but after thinking about it for a long time, I found that I didn't seem to do anything. Every day I went to school according to the schedule, and the days passed by laughing and joking..." Yu Ran lay lazily on the soft bed, Staring at Chu Mian's back as she was doing her homework, "I think I've almost done my painting practice. I look at the calendar and see why I haven't passed the entrance exam? Baa, I want to go back and accompany you to class."
Chu Mian stared at the test questions intently, and said, "It's very tiring to study now, you'd better memorize the outline I gave you first."
"Okay." Yu Ran agreed, getting up from the bed to read, "After a few more months, I can go to school to play with you again."
Chu Mian paused at the tip of her pen, and said with a smile, "What are you playing? You don't know what the atmosphere in the get out of class is like now. After class, almost no one talks, and everyone sleeps on the table."
"Because each class is too long?"
"Yeah." Chu Mian continued to write the question, "Anyway, it's very different now. It's basically impossible for you to find someone to accompany you to eat snacks and pass notes in get out of class, and it won't be so lively after class. Cherish your painting now It’s the stage, at least there’s enough time.”
Yu Ran hugged his book and kept silent. In fact, he had already discovered that the frequency of group chats in the class was getting less and less, and those students who usually love to talk have not updated their news recently, and some people's mobile phones were confiscated by their parents, so they simply bid farewell to the Internet.
Yu Ran really misses the carefree days of laughing and playing with his classmates, but he hopes that everyone can get good grades in the exam, so he doesn't feel sorry for not being in touch with you for the time being, but he is worried that they will be under too much psychological pressure .
The next day, Chu Mian was eating breakfast in a daze, saw Yu Ran sitting down opposite, and asked him suspiciously, "Why are you wearing a school uniform?"
"Go to school."
Chu Mian waited blankly for a few seconds, "Teacher Bai asked you to go?"
"No, I want to go by myself." Yu Ran smiled brightly, the strong morning sun just shone on his eye sockets.
This decision was approved by Chu Heng last night. He can go to school to attend classes for a few days, and he can also spend a birthday with Chu Mian by the way.
The two of them finished their breakfast and went out with their schoolbags. Chu Mian hadn't seen Yu Ran wearing a school uniform for a long time, and seeing the familiar black put on him again, Chu Mian suddenly remembered their relaxed study life in the past. At that time, "college entrance examination" and "future" were still very distant words. They didn't have to worry about their dreams, and they didn't formally work hard for it, so they only firmly believed that all dreams would come true.
"Have you told the class teacher in advance?" Chu Mian asked, "It will surprise people if you suddenly appear in the classroom like this."
"I was originally a member of the class, so I want to come to class, right?" Yu Ran didn't care, walked into Cheng Jun openly, followed the most familiar route, and pushed open the back door of the classroom.
The classroom before morning self-study is the best time of the day. Many people are doing homework while eating breakfast, and they still have the energy to make a few jokes. After Yu Ran entered the door, he was very flamboyant, dropped his schoolbag, looked around and asked loudly: "Who wrote the optimization of biology? Lend me, lend me!"
His voice sounded familiar and abrupt to others, and the students subconsciously looked back and couldn't help but be taken aback.
Then, everyone put down their work at the same time and greeted him one after another. Yu Ran was naturally overjoyed at being treated so warmly by everyone. He couldn't respond to each one of them, so he stretched out a hand and patted the air gently, as if a leader came to inspect the grassroots work and said in relief: "Okay, okay, keep a low profile."
Chu Mian sat beside her and smiled lightly, her mood became much brighter unconsciously.
Yu Ran said that he came to the class today, but in reality he couldn’t keep up with the pace of the lecture, and his eyes were almost dull, which made the teachers very concerned. After class, he specially asked him to talk and patiently told him what key points to review.
Yu Ran nodded obediently while holding the heavy test paper, and returned with a full load.
"This board newspaper is from last semester, why haven't you changed it yet?" Yu Ran stood at the back of the classroom and looked at the blackboard. The sentence "Ride the wind and waves will sometimes come, hang the clouds and sail directly to help the sea" is seriously faded, and the original lace decoration can hardly be seen clearly. up.
There are still some unused paints in the storage cabinet in the classroom. During the big break, Yu Ran wipes the blackboard, wets the brush, and draws a new blackboard newspaper.
The radio gymnastics sound outside was very noisy, Chu Mian felt it was noisy, got up and closed the window. The room immediately became much quieter, only the sound of Yu burning his chalk sketches could be heard clearly.
Chu Mian walked over and helped him roll up the sleeves on both sides, "Don't rub it dirty, the black is too obvious."
"Help me get a stool, I can't reach the top." Yu Ran said.
Chu Mian was too lazy to walk back and forth, and put her arms around Yu Ran's waist and hips a little bit forward, directly lifting his body up.
Yu Ran was taken aback and couldn't help laughing several times. But it is indeed more convenient to be hugged by Chu Mian, and he can move his position at any time. Yu Ran raised his arm, remembering that he forgot to discuss the slogan on the blackboard with the class monitor, so he first wrote Cheng Jun's school motto at the top of the blackboard—
"Don't run in the air, don't go in the empty voice."
After Yu Ran finished typing the draft, he asked Chu Mian to put himself down. However, after both feet landed, the arms around his waist hadn't been loosened. After a few seconds, Chu Mian's chin also pressed on his shoulders. Yu Ran clearly felt the other party's warm breath brushing against his ears, and the sweet smell of peaches in his hair, and his whole body relaxed.
Yu Ran stood still, Ren Chumian hugged herself, and just reminded in a low voice: "There are still cameras in the classroom."
"What's wrong?"
"Aren't you afraid of being seen?"
"What are you afraid of?"
Yu Ran laughed heartily, "Why are you not ashamed now?"
Chu Mian tilted her head and bumped him, "It's not because of you."
The radio gymnastics music outside was coming to an end, Chu Mian let go of Yu Ran, and smoothed his slightly messy hair.
"Yu Ran, I seem to know why I get bored in class recently."
"Ok?"
"I used to be able to see you at school, so I look forward to coming to school every day. But now that you are staying at my house, I subconsciously look forward to going home." Chu Mian said softly, her hand dropped and rested on Yu Ran's shoulder superior.
Yu Ran thought for a while and came to a conclusion: "Then... you want me to leave your house?"
"Of course not, Muggle." Chu Mian pinched his ears hard, "I just want to see you when I'm tired."
"I'll develop a photo for you, and you can put it on the table to look at in class."
"But that's not a living person."
Yu Ran felt distressed, "Well, yes... so what should I do? I'm not a mobile power bank, I can plug it in wherever you go to charge it."
Chu Mian turned to look at him, and said, "When I leave school, you have to come over and give me a hug first."
"Okay!" Yu Ran readily accepted the proposal, "But I will hug him very hard, for a long time, so that many people can see it."
Chu Mian smiled calmly, looked up at the empty blackboard, and said, "It's up to you."
Compared with the shyness of making out with his lover in full view, he still can't bear the loneliness of missing Yu Ran when he is tired.
Chu Mian's 18th birthday is on Wednesday. This day is the day with the most Chinese classes in the week, and club activities have been canceled in the third year of high school. The students are tense from morning to night, accepting the torture of Teacher Wang.
The only thing that can make everyone active today is to help Chu Mian celebrate his birthday. Many people in the class have grown up, and when they wished Chu Mian, they didn't say "Happy Birthday", but "Congratulations on becoming a dirty adult".
In order to save time, Chu Mian directly cut the cake for everyone, without even having time to make a wish. Fortunately, Ran was well prepared. After the first night of self-study, he took Chu Mian to the rooftop, set up candles, and lit them one by one.
Chu Mian thought that what he had prepared were colorful candles on the cake, and at worst they should be creative shaped candles sold in the store. Unexpectedly, Yu Ran took out two large bags of red and white paraffin wax from the bag and arranged them on the ground as "18" typeface. Looking around, it is festive and unlucky.
Yu Ran sat down and said, "I've been thinking about what gift to give you as a grown-up since last month. After much deliberation, I don't think there is anything worthy of you, and you don't need anything. So I just wrote you a greeting card." ,Give."
Chu Mian took it and put it in his pocket. Right now he is more concerned about the eighteen candles in front of him. Night had already fallen, and the only light on the roof was here. If people who didn't know saw it, they might think they were performing some cult ritual.
Chu Mian closed her eyes, silently recited her wish three times, then opened her eyes and blew out the candle. There are too many, and he has to take a deep breath every time before blowing it out, his cheeks are swollen, and he is said to look like a goldfish after being poked a few times on his skin.
After he blew out all the candles, Yu Ran couldn't help clapping beside him, "That's great! The lung capacity of adults is just different!"
Chu Mian's parents will come to Ronggang this weekend to officially hold a coming-of-age ceremony for him. Today, he can concentrate on spending time with Yu Ran, forgetting the pressure of exams and homework troubles for a while.
The preparatory bell for the second evening study rang, and they were still sitting on the benches on the roof, looking at the street lights in the distance. The road is constantly flowing, but the noise will not reach them.
Yu Ran glanced at the time, "Aren't you going back to class?"
"Many people hadn't finished their meal before 'Two Nights', so the teacher allowed them to be late."
Yu Ran said "OK", and after a while, he suddenly got up and walked in front of Chu Mian, then straddled his lap without saying a word, and hugged his neck tightly.
Anyway, there was no one around, so Chu Mian buried her face in Yu Ran's arms. They now use the same bottle of laundry detergent and smell the same, but that doesn't make them want to be close to each other.
Yu Ran hugged her tightly, and whispered in Chu Mian's ear, "Happy adulthood, baby."
Chu Mian's ears felt numb for a while, and her heart also heaved. He slowed down his breathing rhythm, and said to Ran: "In the future, you should listen to my grown-up more."
Yu Ran chuckled and shook his head, retorting: "You haven't grown up yet."
"When will it be counted?"
"Hmm... the legal age for marriage." When Yu Ran turned his head, his lips accidentally brushed against the side of Chu Mian's face, and he simply kissed him.
He said seriously: "Chu Mian, when I grow up, you will be my groom."
Chu Mian is always unable to resist Yu Ran's sudden ambiguity, no matter how many times, her heart beats faster and her head becomes hot.
The wind in late autumn was cold and dry, he squinted his eyes, and waited for the gust of wind to pass before he spoke: "Aren't I already here?"
"Really?" Yu Ran smiled contentedly.
Hearing the class bell ring again, he reluctantly got off Chu Mian's legs and stood up.
Chu Mian also got up, and the two of them walked towards the corridor with brighter lights. Yu Ran doesn't plan to go to the later evening self-study, he has to go back to practice painting, next month it's time for the entrance exam, so he needs to prepare well soon.
Walking to the corner, the two parted ways. Chu Mian took out the greeting card he gave her from his pocket when his figure completely disappeared from sight. After unfolding, only a few sentences were seen.
"To my beloved princess:
No matter which dark forest you are sleeping in, I will go all the way to kiss you awake. "
Chu Mian looked down and saw a line of crooked inscriptions.
"—Your eternal knight, Yu Ran."