9. Warm and cold (4)
In just one night, Shao Yuanguang regained his previous indifference, the warm and harmless him last night seemed to be just a dream of Bai Shutong, a good dream is fragile, and now in retrospect, it seems that he was just a dream bubble, and he never existed at all.
Bai Shutong sat on the sofa and stared at the coffee table, unconsciously groping for the band-aid on his wrist. The band-aid is no longer the same as it was last night, and one end has fallen off a bit. Bai Shutong picked at his fingertips, thought about it and pasted it again.
Cao Feng put the food he brought on the coffee table, and did not forget to take the time to look at Bai Shutong in the middle. He saw the wound on her hand and casually asked, "What's wrong with the hand?" โ
"Oh......" Bai Shutong was stunned when he looked at Cao Feng, and then said, "It's nothing." โ
Cao Feng was wide-hearted, but he didn't take this to heart, and only showed Bai Shutong the food he brought from home: "Spicy short ribs, braised old tofu, and fish fillets, they are all your favorite foods." Cao Feng divided the rice into two parts, the extra one was kept for himself, and the less one was placed in front of Bai Shutong.
Cao Feng's movements were familiar, and Bai Shutong couldn't help but think of his childhood. She came back to her senses, picked up the lunch box, and picked up the chopsticks, but she lost her appetite inexplicably.
When he was a child, Bai Shutong's favorite was Cao Feng's bento, and what he looked forward to the most was to share the bento with Cao Feng at noon every day. At that time, not long after her mother died, the whole family was immersed in grief, Bai Shutong was not very old and ignorant, but she also knew that the days of being carefully cared for in the past were gone, and the most direct expression was that she no longer had the lunch prepared by her mother at noon every day, but could only eat the half-lukewarm box lunch in the school cafeteria.
From the carefully prepared lunch box to the big pot of rice in the cafeteria, Bai Shutong gradually noticed the changes behind this gap, and also became depressed, if it wasn't for Cao Feng taking the initiative to take out his lunch box and "share" it with her at noon one day, I'm afraid Bai Shutong would have been so depressed.
"My mother's cooking is very unpalatable, you can help me eat a little." Cao Feng brought the lunch to her and winked at her.
Bai Shutong took a look, Cao Feng's food was very rich, with fish and meat, and colorful vegetables, which made people have a great appetite when they looked at it. She licked her lips and looked at Cao Feng and shook her head.
Cao Feng didn't give up, and simply stuffed the rice spoon into Bai Shutong's hand: "You help me eat this, I'll eat your box lunch." He said and directly snatched the lunch box in Bai Shutong's hand, "This is much better than my mother's cooking." โ
Seeing that Bai Shutong was still indifferent, Cao Feng was anxious, and simply waved his small fist at her to scare her: "Eat quickly, eat clean!" โ
Cao Feng was the child king of the class at that time, and he had a good posture. Bai Shutong believed it and hurriedly ate with his head bored, but unexpectedly found that the bento made by Cao's mother was full of color and flavor.
She turned her head to look at him, a little sympathetic to Cao Feng's strange sense of taste.
To this day, Bai Shutong naturally understands that Cao Feng's sense of taste has not failed, and he does not dislike eating the bento made by Cao's mother. It's just that the more this is the case, the more apprehensive Bai Shutong becomes.
Cao Feng is her best friend in this life, and she doesn't want to lose it lightly.
Bai Shutong thought about it again, and Cao Feng had already eaten a lot. Seeing that Bai Shutong hadn't moved his chopsticks much, Cao Feng couldn't help but stop and asked her, "Why don't you eat?" Bad taste? โ
Bai Shutong looked at Cao Feng and shook his head. He didn't look very good, and after eating the spicy short ribs, the corners of his mouth still took up some sauce. She stared at the corners of Cao Feng's mouth, and Cao Feng seemed to notice it, stretched out his tongue, and wrapped the sauce in his abdomen.
"It was supposed to be given to you last night, but you weren't home." Although Cao Feng slowed down the speed of eating, he still couldn't stop his chopsticks and slipped the fish fillet from the lunch box. He swallowed the fillet and said as he ate, "Where did you go last night?" โ
mentioned last night, Bai Shutong had mixed feelings in his heart, and he couldn't figure out what it was like for a while.
She was bored and said, "I didn't go anywhere...... ...... at my grandfather's house"
Well, not far from my grandfather's house.
Cao Feng naturally didn't know what Bai Shutong had said, so he didn't feel surprised, so he casually answered: "I said too." Cao Feng said, looked at the few dishes left in the lunch box, simply put down the chopsticks, and urged Bai Shutong, "You eat quickly, I'll eat when I'm full." โ
Cao Feng eats quickly, and when the two eat together, he always eats half-full, and waits for Bai Shutong to finish eating before picking up chopsticks again. The usual bits and pieces of ordinary behavior are inexplicably magnified today, and it is just a deliberate pleaser, and the more she gets used to it, the more she can't afford it.
Bai Shutong paused as she picked up the vegetables in her hand, and a piece of old tofu had been torn apart by her. Bai Shutong stopped, took back the chopsticks and said, "...... just now," her voice was muffled, "Yu Yue said those words, why didn't you clarify?" โ
Cao Feng looked at her and was stunned for a moment, put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and leaned into the sofa. He spoke in a long voice, looking leisurely and nonchalant: "Hey, you don't know who Yu Yue is, is it useful to clarify?" The darker it gets. โ
That being said, but ......
Seeing Bai Shutong biting the tip of the chopsticks, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped, Cao Feng's heart tightened inexplicably, and then he used laughter to cover up the uneasiness in his expression. "Okay, I'll go and explain it to Yu Yue in a while." Cao Feng said, and muttered again, "Make a pair with you, you think I'm willing to ......"
Hearing Cao Feng's words, Bai Shutong felt relieved. She turned her head to look at Cao Feng, her melancholy expression finally turned into a smile, and her appetite also opened, and she ate two or three spicy short ribs one after another.
Cao Feng sighed, stretched and leaned back on the sofa. He lied that he was going to sleep for a while, but he kept squinting at Bai Shutong on the side, and his mood became heavier and heavier-
After the lunch break, Cao Feng left for the library, and Shao Yuanguang returned to the office with his back and forth.
After a cold spring rain, the temperature in the afternoon had already risen a lot, but Shao Yuanguang inexplicably brought a cold current in.
His face was expressionless, he didn't speak or make any extra movements, he just sat back at his desk and tapped on the keyboard, and returned to the original clean and neat Shao Yuanguang, who was thousands of miles away.
Bai Shutong wanted to formally thank him, or talk about being late in the morning, but after thinking about it, he felt that there was nothing worth talking about. Thank you, she has already thanked her last night, and she doesn't need to explain the reason for the vacation to Shao Yuanguang carefully. Revisiting last night's incident like this will not shorten the distance between the two, it will only embarrass each other, and embarrass Bai Shutong himself.
Bai Shutong lowered his head against the โกโก, and when he looked up, he happened to see Shao Yuanguang opposite. He lowered his eyes to look at Wen Jiร n in his hand, his thick and slender eyelashes fluttering gently.
I didn't dare to peek at Bai Shutong openly, all I could do was hide behind the computer screen and peep at Shao Yuanguang with a slight side face, which was all a boring pastime.
Bai Shutong is familiar with the road and is cautious in his actions. The angle today is not very good, and only his fingers can be seen in a limited range.
His fingertips slowly swiped across the pages of the text, leaving a rustling sound of rubbing, and after a pause for a few seconds, his fingertips swept over with the sound of the paper turning, which made him feel like a shock.
These hands made Bai Shutong suddenly think of the touch between the two last night, and then thought of the warmth of these hands. Last night, he gave Bai Shutong an illusion, an unusually real illusion.
Thinking of this, Bai Shutong's breath trembled, disturbing the calm in the room.
Shao Yuanguang seemed to feel the strangeness of the atmosphere, and raised his eyes to look at Bai Shutong.
Once again, Bai Shutong hesitated and slowly looked away.
It's been so long, and Bai Shutong is no longer as flustered as he was when he faced this kind of casual staring, and he also knows how to hide his weakness. It's just that her skills are still shallow, and in front of Shao Yuanguang, her thoughts are still fully revealed.
Shao Yuanguang looked at her, frowned slightly, and asked her, "Do you have something to say?" โ
Bai Shutong shook his head and continued to stick to โกโก.
Shao Yuanguang stared at her for a while, a straight line withdrew from the corner of his mouth, and he exhaled slowly.
After a while, he refocused his gaze on Wen Jiร n, and after looking at the two lines, someone came in outside the door.
The person who came in was a student in Shao Yuanguang's first class, Bai Shutong had seen her when she was a teaching assistant, and she was very active in listening to lectures and answering questions, such students can often leave a good impression on the teacher, I am afraid Shao Yuanguang is no exception.
Bai Shutong stuck to the โกโก and listened to the two people talking and laughing on the other side, and the little sister of Yan Yi had just started with psychology, and she was still in a state of half-understanding, and there was no lack of silly questions asked, but there were also some simple, fundamental and worthy of thinking about in the silly questions.
Shao Yuanguang reversed the cold normal, answered her doubts tolerantly, and sometimes said one or two words of appreciation vaguely.
The little junior sister heard the encouragement behind Mr. Shao's words, smiled and agreed, and then chatted with him about her future plans.
PhD? Study? Do your research? What does her life have to do with Shao Yuanguang?
Bai Shutong rolled his eyes, pushed the finished โกโก to the side, and began to check the email on the Internet.
Xu is movements were a little bigger, and the conversation between the two on the opposite side paused, and the little junior sister glanced at Bai Shutong and stuck out her tongue at Shao Yuanguang.
Shao Yuanguang didn't react, but said: "It's good that you're interested in research, and you can try it if you want to, but it's not easy to do research, you have to be mentally prepared." โ
The little junior sister seemed to be waiting for Shao Yuanguang's words, and said at the moment: "If I can follow Mr. Shao to do research, I will definitely ......."
Before she finished speaking, Shao Yuanguang waved his hand: "I haven't agreed yet." He said, his eyes flashed, and he glanced at Bai Shutong's direction, "Doing research is also talented, and I won't consider it if the foundation is too poor." โ
The little junior sister was clever and immediately said, "I will definitely not disappoint Teacher Shao!" โ
Bai Shutong listened to the conversation between the two, and couldn't help but glance at the cheerful back of the little junior sister when she left.
She naturally doesn't have the talent for research, and even the foundation of six or seven years is not strong in Shao Yuanguang's eyes, and in addition, she doesn't have the same determination as her junior sister......
Bai Shutong thought about it, and couldn't help but feel sour in his heart. If you can't get it, it's sour, whether it's research, talent, or Shao Yuanguang's praise and favor.