Chapter 12: Do You Like Him (1)
The squeaky fan above his head was still spinning, the thin breeze obviously didn't play a big role in the crowded classroom, and the air was still full of stuffy heat, Fang Ruo sank his shoulders, put down the pen in his hand, and decided to go to the toilet pool to wash his face.
Zheng Yuqian was still sleeping on the table, she didn't know why she went to bed late last night, and she was listless this morning.
Fang Ruo walked out of the class, walked along the corridor towards the toilet, and when she reached the door of the third class, a person suddenly stood in front of her, blocking the way.
Fang Ruo was stunned, and looked at the person who came, it was the girl who occupied the seat last time. Her mouth was red, like a bright pomegranate flower.
"Hello, we met at the basketball game last week, I don't know if you remember?" She said straight to the point.
Fang Ruo felt a little inexplicable, "Well, do you have something?" ”
"It's nothing, I just want to ask you, do you like Xu Zhuoyuan?" The girl is straightforward and aggressive.
Fang Ruo felt that what she asked was even more inexplicable, what kind of question was this, she and Xu Zhuoyuan had no guesses since they were children, and they had long been accustomed to each other, of course she liked him, she liked to play with him and talk with him......
But Fang Ruo knew that the girl in front of her was asking about liking, and she only felt that this question had touched a certain sleeping nerve in her, and her heart couldn't help but tremble.
Do you like it? It's a likeness of that feeling... She asked herself, but she didn't know how to answer.
The girl saw that she didn't speak, and sighed, "I know that you have a good relationship, you are his good friend, the last time I grabbed your seat, can you not tell Xu Zhuoyuan?" ”
Fang Ruo looked at her with incredulous eyes, what does this have to do with Xu Zhuoyuan.
"Why?" Fang Ruomu asked.
"Because I like him." There seemed to be a fire in the girl's eyes, and it was burning.
"I apologize to you, it was my fault to occupy a seat last time." Her tone was softened, and the expression on her face was sincere.
Fang Ruo really didn't know what to say, she felt a mess in her heart, and at this time, the crisp class bell rang and saved her in time.
"It's class, I'll go back first." Fang Ruo turned around and walked briskly towards the classroom.
Fang Ruo, who returned to her seat, felt unrelenting, she didn't know what she was recalling, whether it was the sentence "Do you like him", or her sentence "I like him", what kind of liking should be, why the girl can be sure that she likes him in confidence.
Because he likes him, he wants to have a better impression in his heart, even if he hasn't paid attention to her, and he doesn't even know her name.
Young people like this is so simple, I like you, this sentence seems so immature and beautiful.
Fang Ruo felt upset, she had never really thought about this problem before, today under the girl's concise and straightforward question, many of her complicated emotions poured out, and there were countless pictures in her mind being projected, only to feel that her heartbeat was speeding up at this moment, and her breathing became faster.
"Fang Ruo, are you uncomfortable?" Zheng Yuqian looked at her absent-mindedly.
Fang Ruo came back to his senses and said, "No, it may be too hot." ”
"Yes, it's hot, isn't it cool?" Zheng Yuqian took the fan in her hand and slapped her twice.
"I'm fine, thank you."
"I want to ask you, how do you know you like someone?" Fang Ruo leaned in and whispered in her ear.
Zheng Yuqian's face was a little ashamed, "I don't know how to describe that feeling, but I often think of him, and if I want to see him, I just... I want to talk to him, and then I will be happy. ”
"Oh, like that." Fang Ruo nodded as if he understood.
"What's the matter, why are you asking this?"
"I'm just curious, it's fine."
Fang Ruo felt that she still needed time to think about this issue.
But from that day on, it was as if a seed had quietly sprouted in my heart.
A long time later, Zheng Yuqian told Fang Ruo a story, when a person held quicksand in his hand, he just wanted to clench his fist hard, thinking that he could keep it, but the more strength he had, the more fine sand slipped through his fingers, and in the end, all that was left in his hand was a few rough gravel.
Maybe from the very beginning, people should choose to let go, although the sand in their hands still can't be kept, but in doing so, it can go where it wants to go, and it's also a relief for itself, isn't it?
All people and things in this world have their own destiny.
But when they were young, they didn't know this, some of them didn't hit the south wall and didn't look back, they hit the south wall and demolished the determination to continue walking, and the courage of being young and frivolous was the most unique and beautiful memory in the memories of youth.
The dreary sky seemed to be about to rain heavily, dragonflies flew low, and swallows wandered.
With the sound of the whistle at the end of the exam, Fang Ruo closed the lid of the pen, put the test paper and walked out of the classroom.
Finally, the holiday is coming, and the life of the summer vacation is very comfortable, and Fang Ruo feels that the time is slow every day.
In the afternoon, she was eating watermelon and curling up her legs to read the novel in her hand, when the landline phone at home rang, and Fang Ruo's mother got up to answer the phone.
"Ruoruo, a classmate is looking for you." Fang Ruo's mother shouted in the direction of her bedroom.
"Here we are."
"Hey."
"Fang Ruo, it's me!" Zheng Yuqian's voice was a little excited. It's been more than two weeks since the summer vacation, and they haven't contacted each other yet.
Fang Ruo was also very happy, and the two little girls chatted for a while.
"By the way, will you go to the gymnasium tomorrow afternoon to play badminton?" Zheng Yuqian's obvious drunkard intention is not to drink.
Fang Ruo understood her thoughts, and she laughed twice, "Okay, I'll call Shangxu Zhuoyuan and Xiang Zichen, and the four of us will be together." ”
"Okay, then you remember to inform them." Zheng Yuqian's hands holding the phone were sweating.
"Got it, I'll see you at the gymnasium tomorrow, and I'll call you when I go out."
"Okay, see you tomorrow."
Fang Ruo put down the phone and prepared to go to Xu Zhuoyuan first.
As soon as she went downstairs, she happened to take a photo with Xu Zhuoyuan, and he also came to look for her, and the two of them smiled tacitly when they saw each other.
"I just wanted to go to your place to get something, but last time my annotation on this article fell to you again," Xu Zhuoyuan scratched his head.
"You wait for me, I'll go upstairs and get it for you, and then we'll go find Xiang Zichen together."
"What are you going to do?"
"Zheng Yuqian asked us to go to the gymnasium to play badminton together tomorrow." Fang Ruo smiled at him.
"Okay, I haven't exercised for a long time, and they haven't come out to play basketball recently." Xu Zhuoyuan said angrily.
Fang Ruo turned around and ran upstairs, and after taking the book, he quickly ran down, and the two of them walked towards Zichen's house with a smile.
"Hurry up! Attack here! It's this way!! Ah! I'm dead!! ”
"Who died, you stupid boy, Fang Ruo and Xu Zhuoyuan came to play with you." It was a door that opened to Zichen's mother.
Xiang Zichen put down the keyboard in his hand, turned his head to the two of them and said, "You guys are here, I just played a game, my teammates are really good!" ”
"You can rest for a while, day by day." Xu Zhuoyuan stepped forward and sat beside him.
"Are you going to the gym tomorrow to play badminton?" Fang Ruo also sat down.
"How are the three of us playing?" Xiang Zichen laughed twice.
"Zheng Yuqian will go tomorrow, we are four people, will you go?"
"Go, my mom just bought a new pair of rackets a few days ago, and we'll play with them tomorrow." Xiang Zichen stretched his waist.
"Didn't you go to cram school this summer?" Fang Ruo looked at him with a lazy look.
"Shh Xiang Zichen hurriedly lowered his voice, pointed to the direction of the living room, and said with a very hideous expression, "Don't let my mother hear it, read it to me every day for this matter a few days ago, and these two people were at peace for a while, so that she heard it and started talking again." ”
Fang Ruo couldn't help but cover his mouth and laugh twice when he saw him looking nervous and hurried, "I have to let you go!" ”
Xu Zhuoyuan smiled: "Then if you don't go to class, you will go crazy at home." ”
Xiang Zichen smiled twice, "I wish this was the case!" I wish I had 48 hours a day when I played! Helplessly, there are only 24 hours a day, and you can only rely on yourself to seize every minute! ”
Fang Ruo and Xu Zhuoyuan were both amused by his words, and both of them laughed and scolded a few words back.
Xu Zhuoyuan quipped: "Your excellent time management can be used for studying, and Einstein will give you three points!" ”
Xiang Zichen waved his hand, and said with a smile, "That's not good, if I study hard, you will have to give way to the ranking list." ”
"Hahaha, I can't ask for it, I can't ask for it!" Xu Zhuoyuan got up and raised his hand towards Zichen and waved respectfully.
Xiang Zichen smiled and stretched out his leg and kicked him in the ass, "You kid, you will laugh at me." ”
After the three of them laughed and joked for a while, Xu Zhuoyuan and Fang Ruo got up and prepared to leave, Fang Ruo still had to go home to wash the dishes, her mother was busy with work and taking care of her younger brother, and Fang Ruo had to share some more housework.
Some time ago, grandma came to the house to see her brother, holding her brother and refusing to let go, a baby in one mouth, with a loving face, Fang Ruo knew that grandma didn't like her, and the relationship between them had long been alienated and indifferent over the years.
Family affection, even if it is said that blood is thicker than water, but in the final analysis, it is something that will become dull and tasteless if you don't contact and don't move around, but it will be a pity to abandon it.
Grandpa died early, she had never seen her grandfather, and she had never enjoyed a trace of love from her grandmother over the years.
She still remembers that when she was a child, Xu Zhuoyuan's grandparents still lived in his house, and every time after kindergarten, it was the grandparents who came to pick up Xu Zhuoyuan home, and the kind grandmother would buy him bean candy, and the grandfather who loved his grandson would buy him a fun villain book, Xu Zhuoyuan would run around blowing bubble gum, and his grandfather would ride a bicycle to take him to the park to play, and take him to the Children's Palace to watch the show.
Young Fang Ruo was envious of this, because every time she was one of the last few children waiting for her parents to pick her up, watching other classmates happily being picked up by her family, she only remembered that she was sitting there watching the cartoons of the gourd baby over and over again, always counting down the numbers in her heart, the teachers were waiting impatiently, and her mother hurried to pick her up when it was dark, and complained all the way.
She didn't dare to blame her mother for being late, because she knew that her parents were very busy, and at that time the teacher would tell them stories about the abduction and abandonment of children, and she was very scared, so she thought that as long as her mother didn't abandon herself, she would wait for her mother in kindergarten, and it didn't matter if she was late.
She would also ask her mother why her grandmother didn't like to come to the house, and her mother would blacken her face and scold her for being troublesome, and she didn't know why she would make her angry when she asked like this, but she didn't want her to be angry, so she didn't ask again.
Once, during the Chinese New Year, she went to her grandmother's house with her parents, and after a nap, she felt a little hungry, and her parents were not there, so she wanted to go to the kitchen to find her grandmother to order something to eat.
She leaned against the door and poked her head out, and said timidly that she wanted her grandmother to help her cook an egg, but grandma didn't look up, she wiped the oil stains on the stove with her back, and spit out a few words from between her fingers, "If you want to eat it at home, the chickens will lay eggs, and your mother will give birth to one." ”
This sentence happened to be heard by the parents who had just come home, and the adults had a quarrel that day, and the mother also wiped her tears and returned home.
From that day on, the young Fang Ruo knew that his grandmother was different from Xu Zhuoyuan's grandmother, and her grandmother didn't like her, because she was a girl, and she could only be more sensible, more well-behaved and obedient, and adults would like her more.