Liu Xingchen rode to the gate of Jiulong Community, turned a corner, and found the rental disc house, but it was already closed, and he suddenly realized that it was already more than twelve o'clock in the evening, and he had to go home quickly, otherwise his parents would worry that something had happened to him. He stuffed the disc into the jacket pocket of his school uniform, rode hard, and thought to himself that Ai Mengmeng's cooking was quite delicious.

The chairman's wife sat on the sofa with her hands folded and her eyes closed, and muttered: "Amitabha, Buddha bless ......"

The chairman of the board of directors went to sleep first as if nothing happened, and his son had not come back yet, so where could he sleep.

The beautiful winding mountain road is like a long shining snake entrenched on the densely vegetated hill under the street lamp. The silver fir leaves have fallen, and there are also red maples and larchs, and when the wind blows, large areas of red maple leaves and pine needles are sprinkled on the ground like snow. The sky overhead was like a whole piece of blue-purple ore, embedded with dotted treasures. At this time, there was no one on the winding mountain road, and Liu Xingchen rode the car and recalled the beginning and end of the entire carnival night over and over again, which was the most memorable night in his eighteen years.

Uncle Paul ran back from outside and shouted, "The stars are back!" The stars are back! ”

The chairman's wife ran down the stairs of the small flower hall in slippers and pajamas, looking at her son with teary eyes. Liu Xingchen leaned his bicycle against the creeper wall, walked over with his head down, and said guiltily: "Mom, I was wrong. ”

The chairman's wife cried and rushed over: "Son! ”

Uncle Paul stood to the side with a big belly, his eyes a little moist.

The mother asked, "Son, where have you been?" ”

"I'm going to eat at my classmates."

"Have you eaten? When you're full, can you eat a little more? ”

"I'm full."

At this time, the chairman of the board of directors opened the window from the second floor, poked his head downstairs and said, "Xingchen, you come up!" ”

The mother put her hands on her son's ears: "Warm up for a while before going up." ”

Liu Xingchen changed his sneakers, took off his coat, and didn't dare to delay for a moment to go upstairs to listen to the scolding.

The chairman sat on a chair in the study in his long pajamas and said, "Why are you only coming back now?" ”

Liu Xingchen stood at the door wearing slippers: "I went to my classmate for dinner, and after eating, I wrote my homework and forgot to look at the time." ”

"And what about your school bag?" The chairman asked.

Liu Xingchen thought to himself, it's over, my father saw me riding back upstairs and found that I didn't carry my schoolbag at all...... His tongue trembled a little, and he lied, "Falling behind, falling on the same classmates." ”

"I forgot to take my schoolbag, do you still have studies in mind? I don't think you need to continue studying in this high school, just send you abroad, and then no one will care about you, and you can do whatever you want freely, isn't that great?! ”

Liu Xingchen lowered his head, feeling powerless, even if he tried hard now, it was useless, when it came to the final exam, his father would still say so, and he would definitely do what he said by then.

After a pause, the chairman said, "Which classmate have you been to?" Give me their phone number and I'll check it. ”

Liu Xingchen knew that the heavy weapon of destruction was behind, and this was it. He raised his head abruptly and said, "It's so late, everyone is sleeping, and besides, his parents are not at home today, so he asked me to accompany him." ”

"Huh?" The chairman felt that there was something wrong with this, and his son seemed to be hiding something.

Liu Xingchen thought, it must not be said that he went to the girl's house, in that case, his father might get angry and beat people.

The chairman took out an envelope from the drawer, pulled out a photo from the envelope, put it on the table, and asked sternly, "Are you going on a date with this girl?" ”

Liu Xingchen looked at the photo in astonishment, the girl on it - isn't it Wu Jiao?

In the photo, Wu Jiao picked up a handful of white snow with both hands, pursed her lips and blew the snow, looking innocent and very likable.

Dad said, "Don't sue me that it's not yours, your mom found it in a drawer in my office, who else but you will keep this?" ”

Liu Xingchen looked at the photo without saying a word, and quickly searched for a few brief contacts with Wu Jiao in his mind, as if he had never seen her play with the snow...... Who the hell is this trickster? How did this picture come about? What a mess. However, after a few seconds of thought, he bowed his head and admitted, "Well, it's mine." ”

Dad said angrily: "It's only been a little over a month since I changed schools, right?" ”

Liu Xingchen didn't speak, gritting his teeth and bones.

Dad asked bluntly, "What have you come of?" ”

"It didn't develop to the point of being a normal classmate."

Dad's palm slapped heavily on the table: "Do classmates send photos to each other?" ”

"That's what I secretly photographed."

Dad was so angry that the top of his head was about to smoke, and a good top student from an aristocratic school wanted to transfer to a civilian school to repeat his sophomore year of high school, saying a lot of reasons to deceive his parents, it turned out to be for a girl! It's really unproductive! Just now, when Liu Xingchen hadn't come back yet, my father inevitably thought in his heart that if his son and this girl had developed an uncontrollable relationship, then parents must make a decision immediately. But when he saw his son coming back, his father thought that he might not be ridiculous enough to be that Cheng dù, but he had to be treated strictly, otherwise it would be very dangerous!

Dad said, "What's her name, I'm going to talk to your homeroom teacher." ”

Liu Xingchen suddenly raised his head and said, "I secretly photographed others, and it has nothing to do with them!" Why be angry with the innocent? ”

Dad looked at him and said word by word, "Because, I don't believe you." ”

Liu Xingchen's starry eyes suddenly dimmed, and there was a fierce ideological struggle in his heart, did he want to drag Wu Jiao into the water? Do I have to let Wu Jiao out in order to protect Ai Mengmeng? I really shouldn't have admitted it. If you don't admit it, you can't do it, Dad will take the photo to the pig's large intestine to verify, if so, it's better to know from my mouth.

Dad put away the photo and said, "Okay, you don't have to tell me, but I will know, what is her name, what grade she is in, which class she is in, what is the situation in her family, when did the relationship between her and you begin, and what has it become, even if your homeroom teacher doesn't know this, I can ask this girl, I must get to the bottom of this matter!" ”

"Dad!" Liu Xingchen's voice was almost crying: "I can sue you, please don't go to her, okay." ”

Dad took the envelope and looked at him indifferently.

Her name was ...... Wu Jiao. Liu Xingchen clenched his fists vigorously when he spoke, he was really forced to be helpless, there was no way, Ai Mengmeng had no parents to support her and couldn't bear everyone's condemnation alone, who let Wu Jiao be her good tablemate, let Wu Jiao relieve her this time, at least Wu Jiao's parents are not divorced, although they live a little far away......

"Wu Jiao, is it?" Dad looked at the cute girl in the photo and asked, "What grade is it?" ”

"It's from our class, me and her...... In fact, there was nothing, she didn't know that I liked her, so she developed to this Cheng dù. ”

Dad felt that these words were still more credible, nodded and said, "Okay, I won't go to your homeroom teacher for the time being." ”

"Thank you, Dad." Liu Xingchen lowered his head and wiped his tears.

Dad said, "Did you go to this girl's house today?" ”

"No, it's a boy." Liu Xingchen knew that his father got what he wanted, so he wouldn't ask about these details anymore.

Dad really didn't ask any further: "This matter is over here, you have to take this as a warning, quickly take back your thoughts, do you hear?" ”

Liu Xingchen shed tears because he felt wronged, he wiped his tears again and nodded: "I heard it." ”

"Go to sleep."

Liu Xingchen was still standing in place, muttering, "Okay...... Can you give me the photo back? ”

Dad said, "I'm going to see your final exam results for the time being, and if your results can prove that you've put your mind to school, I'll give it back to you at that time." ”

Liu Xingchen suddenly felt that this world had become so dark and lightless.

When he turned away with a look of chagrin, he found his mother and Uncle Paul lying on the doorframe, one on the left and one on the right, both blinking and listening with big teary eyes. The mother felt very uncomfortable, because her son had a crush on the girl in the class, and the girl didn't know that the son took all the responsibilities on his shoulders in order to protect her, and the mother felt that the son was very pitiful. Uncle Paul was also very uncomfortable, the chairman gave Xingchen such a lot of pressure, can Xingchen withstand it, once the final exam is not satisfactory, he will be sent abroad by the chairman, imagining the scene of sending Xingchen to the airport, he is particularly reluctant.

In the middle of the night, Liu Xingchen couldn't sleep, remembered the restricted CD, and he had to take a detour to return it tomorrow, he had to break the disc in half in front of the owner of the rental disc house, and then tell him in the most domineering tone possible, no deposit!

The next day, the senior, who had slept only two or three hours last night, was late for school for the first time. Unfortunately, the first class happened to be the class of the head teacher, Mr. Chang.

Ai Mengmeng poked Wu Jiao and whispered, "Did you find out, the senior didn't come today." ”

Wu Jiao said: "I found out a long time ago. ”

Ai Mengmeng pouted: "Yo, do you care about him so much?" ”

Wu Jiao said: "Aren't you the same? ”

Ai Mengmeng said: "I don't care about him, I think he's been a little strange lately." ”

Wu Jiao said: "Don't talk, listen to the class." ”

Ai Mengmeng continued to talk to herself: "He seems to be in unrequited love, and there seems to be no hope...... Who could it be, not you, not me, not any of the girls in our class, could it be some boy......"

Wu Jiao couldn't help but say again: "Don't talk nonsense. ”

At this time, a voice came from the quiet corridor: "Report." ”

- This voice?! This voice?!

Teacher Chang turned his head and saw Liu Xingchen's slightly apologetic face through the glass window on the classroom door.

"Come in."

Liu Xingchen walked in with his head down. Everyone began to talk to each other, wow, wow, the senior is so deep and stylish today! But is this handsome little melon seed face swollen and a little puffy for the hairy eye bubbles?

Teacher Chang said, "What's the matter with you? ”

Liu Xingchen said: "I slept." ”

It's noisy down there, and the senior is in bed, so cute, ah-

Ai Mengmeng looked at the tooth flower, and her eyes stared at Liu Xingchen's lowered face: "This guy won't watch the overnight restriction level, right?" ”

"Say what?" Wu Jiao asked.

Ai Mengmeng stretched out her five fingers and spun around in the air: "I visually saw that the senior didn't do a good job last night, most of them were watching some obscene things, so, look at him, his eye bubbles are swollen, isn't it?" ”

Wu Jiao smiled and knocked her chicken paws down: "Don't make trouble." ”

Teacher Chang motioned to Liu Xingchen: "Pay attention next time." Come back to your seats. ”

Although he was late to break into class, the seniors were different, and those few steps were still super stylish. The classmates were all uninterested in class, and from time to time someone looked back at him. Liu Xingchen always lowered his eyelids, and as soon as he raised his eyebrows, he touched Ai Mengmeng's "You are a thousand times more obscene than I imagined" eyes.

"Zhuang outfit." Ai Mengmeng made a lip shape for him.

Liu Xingchen was calm in his heart, he didn't understand it at all, and looked at her inexplicably. Finally got through the first two Chinese classes, Liu Xingchen lay on the table as if he was about to fall asleep, in fact, he had been thinking about things, and suddenly his train of thought was interrupted, someone gently patted him on the shoulder, he looked up and saw that it was Wu Jiao.

Wu Jiao held a hand warmer that had just been unplugged from the power supply and said, "Senior, use this to apply to your eyes, right?" ”

Liu Xingchen shook his head with a smile: "No need, you can keep your own hands." ”

Wu Jiao said "oh", but she didn't insist, and walked away with the hand warmer.

Liu Xingchen said: "Thank you." ”

"No thanks......" Wu Jiao turned back again, sat on the empty seat at the front table, and asked in a low voice, "Did something happen?" ”

In fact, as soon as the chairman's wife appeared that day, she was recognized by several classmates who had good things, and some people found out that the chairman's wife was observing Wu Jiao, and later someone sued sù Wu Jiao, saying that it was Liu Xingchen's mother. So Wu Jiao always felt as if something had happened.

Liu Xingchen thought about it for a while and said, "Wu Jiao, if I ask you something, it's for Ai Mengmeng's sake, would you like to hear it?" ”

Wu Jiao folded her arms on her chin with interest: "Of course I do, what's wrong with Ai Mengmeng?" ”

Liu Xingchen turned his face to look at Ai Mengmeng's seat, it was empty, she might have gone to work to talk about gossip. Liu Xingchen whispered to Wu Jiao: "After a while, it is possible that my father or my mother will come to talk to you, I mean it is possible......"

Wu Jiao opened her mouth in surprise: "Huh? Yes? ”

"Don't worry, listen to me. I probably already know who the person who gave you the roses is, but I'm not sure yet, so let's find a way to lure him out and make him appear automatically, okay? ”

"Hmm." Wu Jiao nodded vigorously, and her unaware expression looked very interesting.

Liu Xingchen continued: "So, the two of us need to temporarily play boyfriend and girlfriend, that is, the kind of pretending, in fact, we want to lure that villain out, and at the same time protect Ai Mengmeng, do you think this is a good way to have the best of both worlds?" ”

"Uh-huh." Wu Jiao blinked her eyes and listened very seriously.

"Did you say yes?"

"Hmm." Wu Jiao nodded deeply.

"Okay, from today onwards, remember it's pretending, I'll accompany you to dinner every day, and then send you back to the dormitory, not the kind that sends you outside the school, it's before the rain that sends you to the dormitory building below, and then you have to stand there for a while and then break up, remember, stand a little longer, the kind that is silently relative, and I won't repeat it when the time comes, because someone will be watching us from a distance, try to act as naturally as possible, can you?"

"It works." Wu Jiao frowned slightly, and asked, "Senior, what is the danger of Ai Mengmeng?" ”

"Hmm......" Liu Xingchen thought for a while and said, "If I say that she is in danger of being expelled from school, do you believe it?" ”

"Faith!" Wu Jiao actually didn't tell anyone, she had already had nightmares like this several times.

"If you don't help her, she'll be in danger, and your plans for tutoring, picnics, and adventures will be a pipe dream."

Wu Jiao raised her hand and said, "Senior, I want to ask a question, is it okay?" Do I just need to pretend to be the senior's girlfriend to help Ai Mengmeng? Why do these two things sound unrelated? ”

"You'll know when the time comes." Liu Xingchen smiled slightly, and at this time, Ai Mengmeng came in from the door, and he hurriedly gave Wu Jiao a look: "She's back." ”