Chapter 18 Powerlessness

In the end, he was forcibly dragged to the Internet café by Yu Xiao, so he played with Yu Xiao for a while, the interstellar gameplay was there, ignoring the picture, Cheng Ran was still able to put it in, seeing that the time had moved to nearly nine o'clock, Cheng Ran caught Yu Xiao, who was reluctant to go, and got up and went home.

twisted the key and opened the door, Xu Lan had been waiting in the living room for a long time, and now Cheng Ran had enough free time, such as playing football on Friday or playing with Yu Xiao and coming home from school a little later, he usually didn't ask. But today's posture made Cheng Ran a little surprised, and keenly felt that there was something unusual.

"A girl called you earlier, and I said you haven't come home yet...... Who's going to go back to someone else......"

There was a pause, "Isn't that the one in Rongcheng, Jiang Hongshao?"

Jiang Hongshao's name is no secret to Cheng Feiyang and Xu Lan, I have seen her letter to Cheng Ran before, and vaguely from some people in the compound, I know that this girl is a former junior high school, very popular, and once came to their yard to play, but later went to Rongcheng to study.

Xu Lan didn't let go of any change in his facial expression, Cheng Ran nodded, "I'll go to my room to fight." ”

Xu Lan's voice came from behind him, "Hey, it's here, what's the ...... that can't be fought in front of me?"

......

Cheng Ran has four telephone lines installed at home, and there is a telephone in his bedroom, which uses Fulong's "multi-channel", so each phone can not only talk to each other, but also have independent lines, and there will be no string or string listening without privacy, Cheng Ran returned to the room and closed the door.

Before that, the two had not spoken on the phone for nearly a month. The letter seems to have come and gone three times, this month, it seems that Rongcheng No. 10 Middle School is also a lot busy, Jiang Hongshao's reply is also slow, every time he receives Jiang Hongshao's letter, Cheng Ran writes it and sends it the next day, but it often takes a long time before responding.

The most recent letter was received on Wednesday, and when Jiang Hongshao wrote the letter on Monday, the letter said that there have been a lot of things recently, and her grades have declined, and she is trying to make up for it, and she is slow to reply...... Let's talk on the phone after 8 p.m. this Friday night.

Originally, it was agreed that the call with Jiang Hongshao would be after eight o'clock, and Cheng Ran promised Yu Xiao to go to the Internet café for this reason at that time, as long as it did not exceed ten o'clock, it should be regarded as this period.

In the past, most of the calls between the two sides were made by Cheng Ran, but I didn't expect Jiang Hongshao to call in advance this time.

dialed Jiang Hongshao's home phone.

The other end was only half-ringing, and it was picked up.

Cheng Ran was stunned for a moment, could it be that Jiang Hongshao had been staying by the phone? This discovery made his heart ripple slightly.

As if guessing which direction Cheng Ran might be thinking, Jiang Hongshao said shallowly on the other end of the phone, "The cordless phone was brought to my desk, and I happened to be doing my homework, so I was at hand...... I called you, your mom got it. ”

"Got it, so I called as soon as I could. was pulled by Yu Xiao after school and came back a little late. ”

"Where did you go?"

"Internet café. ”

"Oh...... Don't you want to review?" probably had some opinions about Cheng Ran playing the game so late, and her voice could hear some reproach, but after a while, she asked again, "What are you playing, is it fun?"

"A game called StarCraft. Future...... It may be on fire for a long time. ”

"Then I'm going to play. ”

"You have a computer at home, just install one. ”

Jiang Hongshao muttered, "But I won't......"

"There are tutorials. ”

"I have a very poor understanding in this area, and I may need a good teacher. ”

Believe in you to have ghosts.

But Cheng Ran still said, "Then next time...... I'll teach you to play along. ”

"Okay. Jiang Hongshao's tone became brisk.

Cheng Ran smiled on the other end of the phone, in fact, if an existence like Lao Jiang really wants to play, how can he not.

"How's it going......"

"There are a lot of club activities, which leads to a little distraction in the exam, and of course I make up for it in the end...... I was a little annoyed some time ago, so I couldn't reply quickly, so I won't be angry, right?"

It's this all-encompassing tone again.

She used to get along with people and deal with people, she was polite and decent, as if she could take care of everyone impartially, just like Cheng Ran felt in the past, even if it was just a small intersection back then, she could feel that her interaction with you was very sincere, listening to you, giving opinions, and even joking and communicating with you.

Studying, socializing, she seems to be at ease. But this is also the case, which will make smart people understand the real distance between them and her, which is really not the slightest idea of transcendence. Once at a party, I learned that there were many people who liked her in the first year of junior high school, but they all stopped appreciating.

To appreciate is to accept the distance between each other, so they look at each other from a distance.

Cheng Ran laughed, "I'm angry." ”

"Huh?" was evident in the call.

"Unless you tell me what's going to bother you. ”

"Ah......" Jiang Hongshao's voice was calm, "Okay, it's nothing." Someone wants our family to do something for them, and they come to me and want me to be a lobbyist...... It's not good, I still refused. Also, in the school, some people will always come to the door and say some strange ideas...... That's all this nonsense. ”

Jiang Hongshao said this and stuck out her tongue, but Cheng Ran couldn't see this action.

"What weird ideas?"

Old Jiang paused, "That's it, you're not allowed to laugh...... A man made a thick and beautiful notebook, on which he posted some photos of some famous national tourist attractions that he had traveled to and had not yet visited, and then told me that those places he had visited, hoping that I could go again with him in the future, and other places in the world, he also wanted to take me to appreciate them one by one...... Are you laughing, you're still laughing...... I won't say anything. ”

Of course, some ordinary overtures, Jiang Hongshao just smiled and politely declined. But recently this one is different, it is a peer of their family who knows each other, Jiang Hongshao used to regard him as a friend, but probably the other party thinks that he is the right person and he is qualified, so he disclosed his thoughts to her, after all, he is a young man, and sometimes he acts under hormonal impulses, which is not so thoughtful, which leads to everyone in that circle to know, and there is a bang.

There are those who encourage their peers, and there are also those who have the audacity to carry out washing, derogatory, and hold her Jiang Hongshao high. On the side of the adults and elders, everyone knows about it, but most of them regard this matter as an interesting thing, and the elders on the other side still beat the person, and they don't know what they can do...... But once this kind of idea is raised, at that level, there is naturally a force that will push it, and Jiang Hongshao sometimes has to make a clear attitude towards some tentative relatives and friends at home, and if this kind of thing is done too much, it can't help but feel boring and noisy.

Cheng Ran remembered that Yu Xiao said that Jiang Hongshao was very popular, Rongcheng No. 10 Middle School was a battlefield and a love field, and the battlefield described the competition of the "Burrow Cottage", and the love field was naturally to explain the inheritance of the "Confucian Temple" since ancient times, which was famous throughout the province, and the eardrums had long heard calluses.

In that environment, Jiang Hongshao's own stand out will naturally attract a large group of people to take the initiative to surround her.

Cheng Ran knows that this kind of thing involves other people's self-esteem and secrets, and some people will go around promoting it as their own medal, but for Jiang Hongshao, it may not be said to anyone. You like me, and I respect your liking, but the only thing I can afford to give you in return is to keep that like a secret. So if it weren't for that buddy who messed up himself and made it known to everyone, at least it wouldn't be leaked from Jiang Hongshao.

Secondly, she is also a troublesome thing, she is not willing to confide in others what annoys her, because it will not only not help, but will add burden to others.

It was only because Cheng Ran asked, and threatened her to reply to the letter and get angry slowly, that she might have said it.

Cheng Ran was really laughing, but listening to Lao Jiang's tone, he still tried to hold back at this time, "Okay, okay, no more laughing." ”

"It's useless if you don't laugh...... Anyway, no, say. ”

"I haven't heard you talk about similar gossip...... It's interesting, you didn't tell me before, let's do it again. ”

"Then you say, exchange. ”

Cheng Ran was dumbfounded, it turned out that he was waiting for himself here, thinking that Lao Jiang had never tried to inquire about other people's privacy, but here in Cheng Ran, it seemed that he had found a fair way to exchange it.

"I think about it...... Some time ago, the music teacher who taught us participated in the Shanhai Music Festival, and then shined in it, and now the album has been released to Hong Kong and Taiwan, dominating many charts ......"

"You mean Qin Xizhen?"

Cheng Ran was stunned, thinking that Lao Jiang knew.

"Qin Xizhen is well-known at the Shanhai Music Festival, and her father is Qin Keguang, who was very famous back then...... There were people at school who liked her very much, and I thought about it at the time when I knew that she was a teacher at the first high school...... You don't know. ”

"Ah, teach us class. ”

Qin Xizhen's rise in the Shanhai Music Festival, in the province where she is the home field, the natural reputation will spread even more, and in Rongcheng, which is developed in all aspects of information, it is not surprising that Jiang Hongshao heard about it.

"How is she...... Are real people good-looking?"

"It's okay. Compare the door. ”

"Hey, you can't talk about others behind your back......"

"Picking the door is to save money and run for dreams, and now it is a good situation...... Your turn. ”

"Hmm......" Jiang Hongshao on the other side of the phone thought for a while, "Some time ago, I was hospitalized, myocarditis, and I continued to have a fever...... The person was very uncomfortable, and he was infused every day, and he tossed for a long time before he slowly got better. ”

"When is it?" Cheng Ran was stunned, Jiang Hongshao's reply this month was not only slow, nor long, nor emotional, at that time he thought that she was busy in reality...... But he didn't think about what she might be sick about.

Jiang Hongshao is certainly not a Transformer, she will still be defeated.

That's why the two didn't make an appointment on the phone, she deliberately distanced herself because she was afraid of his greetings. And this week, I'm afraid she just got better, so she made an appointment with him.

For a while, Cheng Ran didn't know what it was like in his heart, and he felt a little distressed in his heart.

Cheng Ran's voice was low, with some blame, "Why didn't you say it at the time, it's not serious?"

"It's fine," Jiang Hongshao said with a smile, "I'm fine." ”

Her voice is clear and calm, with the power to soothe.

It's just that she didn't respond positively to Cheng Ran's question.

Cheng Ran's words naturally couldn't continue.

Because both people know why they don't need to tell each other about the embarrassment, embarrassment...... The worries of every moment of life.

It's like sometimes, it's raining in the other party's city, and I want to ask if you have an umbrella with you.

When the words reached his mouth, he finally swallowed it again, because he was afraid that the other party would respond that he didn't bring it, and he couldn't do anything about himself on this side of time and space.

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