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In the days after the accident in the lotus pond, she was always afraid to face her, and when she couldn't bear the mental distress, she wished she could get away from her.
However, the sisters went to the same school, the same class or the same table, and they went home together after school, came home to eat together, and after dinner, they had to tutor together under the supervision of a private tutor.
Twenty-four hours a day, except for night's bedtime, she felt like she was with her most of the time. She is like her own shadow, she can't avoid it, and the mental pressure is also with her. She was by her side all the time, but she felt that she was a transparent person, or rather, a superfluous person in her arrogant world.
As time passed, she regretted her impulsiveness more and more, and her words became less and less.
Sometimes, she still ponders some boundless reverie - if only her strength was greater than herself, or if she pretends not to have strength, then she is the one who is pushed into the water. Isn't it just choking, you can't die anyway, Chenzi Mountain will go down to save it. If the person who was pushed into the water was really herself, it would not be her who won Chenzishan's sympathy.
She also understands that fantasy is just a kind of self-comfort, and self-comfort can only comfort herself, not others.
The person she wanted to comfort the most was her, but she couldn't even communicate normally.
Clearly the closest person, she felt that she was even farther away from her than strangers. There is a distance between them that no one else can see, and she always draws circles around this distance, wandering and wandering again and again, she can't go out of the circle, tossing and turning between love and hate.
Finally, one day, she could no longer bear it, and she made up her mind that she could be moved by all kinds of courtesies and forgive her mistakes. She firmly believes that even if her heart is made of stone, it cannot resist the fiery courtesy.
In the days after the accident in the lotus pond, although her body was fine, the psychological trauma was inevitable.
She found herself becoming more and more reticent, especially when it came to her.
She couldn't help but want to scold her, and as soon as the vicious words came to her mouth, she thought about it, even if she scolded her bloody, what could she do?
This evil breath is scolded, it is better to hold it in her heart more painfully, and she will be more painful.
In the past, she was always "on an equal footing" with herself, and the rebelliousness in her bones made her feel that she was a head shorter, but now, she actually felt like she was above her.
This unprecedented overriding seems to have made up for all the bullying in the past.
If she could, she wanted her to feel guilty like this for the rest of her life, because her guilt would inevitably keep her away from her relationship with Chenzishan.
......
One day during recess, she suddenly asked her, "Sister, why don't we sign up for a swimming class?"
Her pretty eyes stared straight at the blackboard, "Don't report it." β
She said coquettishly, "Go sister, isn't it more interesting to have multiple skills?"
She replied coldly, "Don't go, I don't have time to take the high school entrance examination." β
"The pressure of studying is so great, you should find a sports program to relax, and the efficiency of learning will be unexpectedly improved. β
"To go to yourself, to improve yourself. β
She put on a cute grimace, also to hide the embarrassment in her heart, "Are you really afraid of water? Have you been bitten by a snake once, and have been afraid of the well rope for ten years?" β
"You're so right, I'm afraid of water, and I don't plan to touch water again in my life. β
"Oh, don't say it so absolutely, you won't wash your face or take a shower in the future?"
She turned her head to glare at her, "What do you mean, you want to find something again?"
She hurriedly waved her hand, "No, no, I want to say that both of our names are related to water, and we are afraid that we have an inseparable fate with water in this life." β
"People can't live without water, and people can't live without water to live, not to die in water...... A drop of rain falls into the water, but it is about to be swallowed by the water, and there is really an 'inseparable' fate!"
She muttered softly, "A snowflake falling into the water is not the same as being swallowed? The water made us, and we will return there one day sooner or later." β
"What are you babbling about?"
"I would like to say, it's not as exaggerated as you think, you learn to swim and you don't have to be afraid of water anymore. β
"I said, I'm not going, you're going to go yourself. β
She really couldn't convince her, but her face didn't show any loss, and these days, this encounter can only be counted as one of countless encounters.
After a while, her sultry contact lenses looked at him behind her, "Chenzishan, tomorrow is a weekend, do you have time?"
"What's wrong?"
"If you have time, can you teach me how to swim?"
"I can't swim. β
"And said you wouldn't. β
"Not too much. β
"How did you manage to rescue my sister from the water that day?"
"I don't really know, I jumped in, fluttered a few times, and I floated on my own. β
"It's not as simple as you say, not only did you float on your own that day, you rescued her. β
"I can't explain what swimming is all about, I just think that if you learn to swim, it may not be very efficient, but if you use it all of a sudden, you may understand it all of a sudden. β
"I'm sure you've got it. β
"Seems like a little. β
"That's enough, I don't even have one. Her pupils flickered, "You can teach me tomorrow, okay?"
These days, he tries to avoid contact with their sisters, and as soon as the school bell rings, he picks up the school bag he has already packed and rushes out of the classroom first.
In the short term, he does not plan to join the sisters unless they reconcile.
And the pair of rippling and moving beautiful eyes in front of him made him feel love and pity, and even made him forget the obsession he insisted on.
"Just the two of us tomorrow?"
He could hear the conversation they had just now, and he knew that she had rejected her intimacy countless times, and he wanted to tell her what he wanted to do with this question, and he wanted to see how she would react.
"I just asked, and she wouldn't go. β
Judging from the back of her buried head, she should be tempted, and he gently touched her shoulder, "Don't you want to overcome your fear of water?"
She turned to him and said, "It's not that I don't want to go, you probably don't understand the scary feeling, I'm really afraid of water." β
He said slowly, "The swimming pool is not a pond, the swimming pool has a shallow water area, so let's learn in the shallow water area." β
"Yes, the water in the shallow area is very shallow. β
She looked down in thought, the fear on her face still not dissipating.
"Sister, if you buy a swimming ring, you won't be afraid if you put on a swimming ring. β
"Don't worry, with me, you'll be fine!"
Hearing his words, she opened her bright eyes, and she came up with one in her mind, so that she had the motivation to touch the water again, "I just have a question, see how you answer, if your answer satisfies me, I will definitely go with you!"
He frowned, "What's the problem?"
"A clichΓ© question can no longer be clichΓ©, similar to the question of which one will you save if your mother and girlfriend fall into the water at the same time. β
She suddenly understood something, "Sister, shouldn't you ask, if we both fall into the water at the same time, who will Chenzishan save first?"
She nodded earnestly.
He looked at the two pairs of equally expectant eyes in front of him, as if he felt like he was back in the gazebo of the lotus pond.
"You say. β
"Say it quickly. β
He gritted his teeth, this time he must not be as ambiguous as last time, so that the sisters are constantly quarrelling, this time he must be decisive!
"I'll save you first, because you're more afraid of water than your sister, so it's okay, you can go." β
She smiled.
And she chose to be silent.
......
The place they chose to learn to swim was a public swimming pool.
In the main pool of the swimming pool, seven colored floating rails divide into eight swimming lanes, 50 meters long, with a depth of 1.5 meters at the beginning and 2 meters at the end, and the signs above the floating rails clearly mark the depth of the front and back ends of the swimming lanes. In the middle of the lane is a slope that increases in depth.
There is also a jumping area and a shallow water area in the swimming tube.
Two three-meter and five-meter diving platforms stand at the end of the diving water area, and there are warning signs around the diving water area, which read: Non-professionals must wear life jackets when entering the diving water area. The red letters below the warning sign read: The depth of the water area of the diving platform, five meters.
The shallow water area of 1.3 meters is reserved for non-swimmers and children.
He entered the swimming pool first from the men's aisle, and while waiting for his twin sisters, he remembered his twin sisters' previous proposal with nothing to do.
They suggested going to their father's commercial club, and the twin sisters told him, "The swimming pool is well-equipped and there are few customers. β
He politely refused, "Your father's club is so high-end, there must be a professional swimming coach, I won't follow you to join in the fun." β
He thought back to the flustered looks on his sisters' faces, and thought it was amusing and cute for them.
He waited for another ten minutes, and the twin sisters finally arrived in the hall through the ladies passage, and their arrival confused the hot-blooded men in the hall.
The twin sisters' dexterous and chic buns, dignified and noble looks, fair and tender skin, and their bikini swimsuits show the bumpy and hot to the fullest, and I don't know how many men by the pool have jumped into the pool, just to hide the shyness of the swelling.
The boy next to the twin sisters, the white boy holding the swimming ring in his hand, has once again become the object of jealousy of hot-blooded men.
They knew that they had become the focus of the audience again, and her pretty face revealed a shy flush, "I said don't buy a bikini, you want to buy it." β
"Sister, the dress-style swimsuit you chose is too rustic, and aunts and aunts wear it like that. β
"You ......"
"When I bought a swimsuit, I didn't force you to buy a bikini, you can choose a dress-style swimsuit, you bought it yourself with me. β
"You've bought it all, can I still buy it?"
"Whoever dictates what I wear, you have to wear. β
He sensed that something was wrong, and immediately interrupted their dispute, "There is a shallow water area of one meter and three meters ahead, let's go to the shallow water area first." β
"Zishan, my sister doesn't need a swimming ring in the shallow water, you can throw it away. β
She twisted to the other side, "Zishan called so kindly, as if people had something to do with you." β
She snorted coldly and ran to the shallow water alone.
She looked at the bottom of the pool, the refraction in the water made her unable to judge how deep the pool was, and the pool edge and the water surface were still more than half a meter high, which was still a little scary for her first contact with the pool.
She noticed a steel ladder next to her, and instead of going down the elevator, a tall man jumped into the pool.
There was a "poof", the water splashed, and for a brief moment, she disappeared from the water in their eyes, and they were so frightened that they took a step towards the edge of the pool, trying to find her trace.
Her head suddenly came out of the water, and seeing their nervous looks, she couldn't help laughing, "Look at your scare, the water depth here is really one meter three, and I am one meter seven, you see, it's just up to my chest." β
Seeing that they were indifferent at the pool, she said to them again, "What are you still rubbing on it, come down quickly." β
He placed the swimming rings on the seat next to him, and there happened to be a few floats for swimmers, and he picked up two and jumped into the pool following her movements.
Splashing water all over her face, she mischievously slapped his strong shoulder, "Nasty, why are you jumping next to me." β
He smiled apologetically, "Here's this for you." β
"What is this?"
"Practice swimming with a float. β
"I don't need it, you better give it to her. β
He turned to her who was stunned by the pool, and said, "This water is not deep, you can come down quickly." β
She shook her head vigorously.
She said, "If you don't dare to jump, go down the straight ladder." β
She looked at the straight ladder that plunged straight into the pool, but shook her head.
He walked over to the pool, "Aren't you going to come down?"
"Or ...... Why don't you carry me down?" β
Standing in the pool, she muttered to herself, "It's really contrived, there is no need for a straight ladder, I have to let Chenzishan hug you." β
He put down the float in his hand and stretched out his arms to her, "Okay, I'll carry you into the water." β
She sat on the edge of the pool and stretched herself out to him little by little.
He put one hand around her white and silky back, and the other hand around her fair and tender legs.
She wrapped her arms around his neck tightly, and little by little she entrusted her body to him.
Her plumpness rubbed against his chest, separated only by a thin cloth in between, and her softness could feel the firmness of his chest, likewise, the softness of his firm breasts was softened by hers.
She blushed cheeks, and he caught a glimpse of the depth beneath him, and hung his head shyly.
They never knew how many men and women in the museum were jealous of the princess standing in the pool.
In the pool, she clenched her fists, and her jealousy developed into anger, "Isn't it enough, how long do you have to hold it?"
At her shout, they immediately restrained the throbbing in their hearts, and he slowly lowered her into the water, and shyly clubbed them side by side in the pool.
He always held her waist, he was obviously shy, but his hands did not obey at all, he always liked to stick to her body - he had never touched her body, he had never experienced the softness of a girl, it was the wonderful touch and emotion that made him unable to extricate himself.
She was 1.7 meters tall, she could stand alone in shallow water, and she didn't need his support at all, and she didn't take his hand away - she liked the feeling of being touched by him, and she was particularly intoxicated by the numbness that permeated her whole body.
He looked down and asked her, "Are you still afraid of water?"
She shook her head.
"We ...... Start practicing?"
"Hmm. β
He picked up the floating board and handed it to her, "Personally, I think it's best for us to practice ventilation while looking for the feeling of floating, so that we can learn faster." β
She nodded.
"You hold the float with both hands, and I'll prop up your body and keep your body balanced on the water, and we move forward little by little, and you slowly understand the feeling of floating. During the movement, you maintain a good rhythm of breathing, exhale when your head is plunged into the water, inhale when you lift up from the water, never be busy, inhale when entering the water, inhale when you come out of the water, you must remember. β
She just nodded.
He supported her lower abdomen with one arm, lifted her thigh with the other arm, and with the buoyancy of the water, it didn't take much effort to support her, "Let's slowly master the rhythm of ventilation in the water, and slowly master the feeling of floating, understand?"
She gripped the float firmly with her outstretched hands, "I see, let's get started." β
He carried her through the shallow water four times, although the buoyancy of the water had saved him a lot of strength, but for a long time to support her body, her arms were really sore.
On lap five, he began to lose control of his arms.
Not only did she not learn to breathe and float, but she choked on several mouthfuls of water in between, and he suspected that his methods might not work for her.
"Let's go up and rest for a while. β
"Okay...... You say, I'm stupid. β
"No, I think you're still afraid of water, let's go up and rest for a while, and think about what we can do to help you curb your fear. β
"Okay. β
As they were about to leave the shallow pool, he suddenly noticed that someone was missing from him, "Where's your sister?"
She looked around and didn't notice her, "I patronized the practice, I didn't notice her." β
Just now, he also wondered why he always felt that there was something missing in the process of focusing on teaching her to practice swimming. He was so involved in teaching her how to swim that he didn't think much about it himself.
He looked around, but couldn't find her.
A girl in a bikini should be very conspicuous in the swimming pool, but he couldn't see anyone for half a day.
He muttered to himself worriedly, "Where the hell did she go?
"No, if she's gone, it's impossible not to say hello to us. β
"If you're angry, what do you say hello when you're angry? β
"You may not know her very well, she is my sister, I know her, if she gets angry, she will definitely not leave quietly, if she wants to leave, she must make a move to leave. β
At this time, several shouts came from the direction of the jumping platform, "Come down!"
"If you're not wearing a life jacket, you're not allowed to jump on the platform!"
They shouted and looked at the top of the jump, where she was standing on the springboard, and it was the highest jump!
He didn't have time to think about it, so he quickly climbed the elevator and ran as fast as he could get to the edge of the pool, but the ground in the hall was so slippery that he couldn't make sure he was running at full speed without falling.
He found the non-slip mat, he stepped on it, and ran even harder.
He was bent on seeing her, regardless of the overdraft of his physical strength, the pain coming from the soles of his feet, and the fact that he had thrown her behind him.
Standing on the springboard, she looked from afar, high, and finally left her and finally ran to himself.
He was getting closer and closer to her, and in the silence of the swimming pool, the sound of his stampede growing clearer, and she smiled.
She glanced down at the water under her feet, and she subconsciously took a step back - the five-meter-high jumping platform, standing below and looking up, did not have a high feeling, but when you looked down from above, it was frighteningly high.
He had already run to the bottom of the diving platform, and out of breath, he threw his head up and shouted, "Do you know that you are standing on a five-meter diving platform! You have not been trained, you have not mastered the diving posture, are you not afraid of injury?"
She replied loudly to him below, "Of course I know, Chenzishan, but you are wrong! The five-meter platform is not terrible, but the water depth of five meters is terrible! Because I can't swim, and I don't wear a life jacket......"
"You come down first, and we'll talk about it below. β
"Didn't you say that my sister was more afraid of water than I was?" didn't you say that you had to save my sister first?" ......she chuckled softly, and then jumped lightly.
When she jumped underwater, she found countless small bubbles blooming around her. She sank in, and the little blisters scrambled to get away from her, drifting farther and farther away into the water.
The buzzing in her ears, the pain in her upper body, and the desolation in her heart made her feel that the underwater world was so wonderful.
She slowly closed her eyes - sister, no wonder you have been unhappy, in fact, you have missed so much beauty. Haven't you noticed these beautiful things because pity has blinded you? Or is it that being pushed into the water is different from diving yourself? But the feeling of drowning should be the same as the feeling of despair. Could it be that the two of us are not the same bold...... Sister, I seem to understand that the beauty I see when I die may be the evil you were born to see...... You and I are twin sisters, how can there be such a difference?
Thinking of this, she stretched out her arms and let her body fall into the depths of the pool.
She sank to the bottom of the pool, and a hand took hers.
He lay her on the edge of the pool with his shoulders on his shoulder, and he listened to her snort, he frowned, and slapped her pale face a few more times, but she didn't react at all.
He panicked and was at a loss for a moment.
They were surrounded by a crowd of people watching the fun, and one of them said, "Boy, is she drowning?"
Another interjected, "Needless to say, it's like a dead fish, it must be drowning." β
"If you're drowning, you have to do artificial respiration quickly. β
"Does anyone here do?"
A man in a red shirt stood up from the crowd, "I'm a lifeguard, let me come." β
He gave the lifeguards a place out of the way.
Just as the lifeguard's mouth was close to hers, she suddenly opened her eyes and yelled at this ugly face that was close at hand, "You open it for me!"
The lifeguards were so frightened by her that they sat on the ground.
"Let me ask you, what kind of lifeguard are you? How did I get up without a life jacket? Who rescued me? Now that I think about saving people, do you want to save people, or do you want to take advantage of me?"
The crowd turned to the spearhead again and began to point fingers at the lifeguards.
She got up, she tried to get out of the place that had done her evil, but the sharp pain in her lower abdomen caused her to lie down again.
"Chenzi Mountain, take me out of this hellish place. β
He gently picked her up and said as he walked, "You act like you, I thought you were drowning." β
"I didn't act, I really almost died, if...... If you don't save me in time......"
He looked at her red upper body, and then reprimanded, "People dive with their feet first, but you can pour well, your body enters the water first!"
"Jumping all the time, who can control so much. β
"I really don't understand what you're trying to do with yourself like this. β
She looked at him affectionately and snuggled into his arms to her heart's content, "Chenzishan, if I don't jump, will you hug me like you hugged my sister?"
He was completely speechless.
......
The silent night, the bright moonlight, they looked at it and forgot where they were.
The waves in their ears seemed to be a sad song, and they couldn't help but pick up the memories of the past as they listened.
Immersed in the past, she cried loudly, as if she had released all the depression that had accumulated for a long time, "You are obviously Chenzishan, why do you lie to me? Why is it you who is alive? Obviously, you are always sacrificing yourself, why is he the one who dies in the end? Why is this? Why!"
She was tired of crying, and said slowly, "You still ...... You might as well die with him, at least I will live with that immortal love, with that deep remembrance, and I won't be as entangled and painful as I am now. β
"Why, I'll tell you why!" he said slowly, "At that age, you never considered his thoughts, did you consider his feelings in your endless fighting? Will he be able to confide his thoughts in front of your sisters?"
"At that time, he could say to you in the past, 'I'm sorry, the person I like is your sister, please stay away from us', or say to your sister, 'I'm sorry, the person I like is your sister, please don't bother us again', and now I come to ask you, can he show himself in front of your sisters!"
She wanted to say something, but she wanted to say it.
He continued to say to her, "He can't bear to see any of your sisters hurt because of him. At that time, I had been forced to drop out of school by the principal, and you, you were also forcing him to drop out. But can he drop out of school, he is the only hope for our Chen family. He is caught between you every day, left and right, in a dilemma! He not only has to face the oppression brought to him by the principal's gang, but also has to face the bullying brought to him by Sun Hao's group of rabbit cubs! Have you sisters considered all this......
"As for your sisters, you only care about fighting each other, only caring about your head and bleeding, don't you have to sympathize with his feelings bit by bit?"
He buried his head and smiled miserably, "You rich people's world will always be paid for by us poor people, even if it is feelings, it will make us pay a painful price...... When we are bruised, you are still only interested in your own pleasure. It's a pity, the poor will always be poor, and a lot of worries can't be put down, unlike you rich people, who can afford to put it down!"
"So we deserve to be trampled on by you. β