Chapter 15: That Afternoon
After school at noon the next day, the classmate who came to find Lin Haiyuan last night came again. He stood beside Lin Haiyuan, touched him with his elbow, and said to him, "Let's go." "It looks like there's something going on for him.
Lin Haiyuan was doing his homework seriously, and he replied without raising his head: "Wait a minute." So the man stood by and waited for him, watching him do his homework. After waiting for a while, Lin Haiyuan stood up and left with the man.
After school that night, that person came again, still like noon, urging Lin Haiyuan to leave. Before leaving, I glanced back, and the man was sitting next to Lin Haiyuan, watching him wait. I suddenly had a strange premonition: this person is not going to come again, is he?
Sure enough, for several days after that, that person came to our class every day at noon and after school in the evening, and every time he urged Lin Haiyuan to leave quickly. Lin Haiyuan's habit is to do homework in the classroom for a period of time after school before leaving, he doesn't seem to like this person to urge him, he will deal with it well at first, and after a day or two, he will directly express his impatience.
However, what was a little strange about that person was that even though Lin Haiyuan refused his urging, was very impatient with him, and still left the classroom very late as usual, he didn't leave, but just sat on the edge of Lin Haiyuan, waiting, and waited until Lin Haiyuan got up and walked with him. After school at noon, Lin Haiyuan often has to do his homework until he is a little faster before leaving, even if someone urges, it is generally not earlier than half past twelve, that person has been doing this and waiting, but he can really wait.
However, why did this person wait for Lin Haiyuan? For the first two days, I thought I was looking for him, but judging from his behavior in the next few days, this explanation doesn't make much sense. Every time, it is that person urging and Lin Haiyuan dragging it, how does this look like two people have something to do together? Besides, even if it's a day or two, everyone is a student who studies all day, why does it take so long? So, probably that person wanted to find Lin Haiyuan by himself.
I don't know that person, what he wants to do, it has nothing to do with me, but it's not good for him to find anyone, but he wants to find Lin Haiyuan. With him guarding on the side, how can I still chat with Lin Haiyuan to "enhance feelings"? What's even more odious is that he not only pesters Lin Haiyuan every day, but also comes twice a day! I want to go home to take a shower and eat after school in the afternoon, time is tight, and there is relatively plenty of time after school at noon or evening, which is also a good opportunity to chat with Lin Haiyuan, but this person is here, how can I chat? I felt a little "resentful" in my heart, and I hoped that he would not come again, but he seemed to be getting more and more energetic, and he did not seem to stop at all.
Well, I don't care if he comes or not, I have to think of something else on my own.
When we got to high school, we had classes six days a week, and we could go straight home after school on Saturday afternoons. Every Saturday after school, some people stay in the classroom for a while to do their homework before leaving. Some people live in the school by themselves, have no transportation at school, and their homes are far away, so they can only wait for their parents to pick them up; There are also people who think that the atmosphere of the school is more suitable for doing homework, anyway, they are not in a hurry to go home after the holidays, so they will do some homework at school before leaving. Among these people, Lin Haiyuan belongs to the former, and I am the latter.
It's a hot summer day, an ordinary Saturday.
On Saturday afternoon, school ends earlier than usual, almost in the middle of the afternoon. After a commotion, the people who were about to leave were almost gone, and in the classrooms of each class, only the students who were still planning to do their homework were quietly bowing their heads.
"The shade of the trees is quiet", I guess this is the scene. The summer sun shines brightly, falling on the trees on the campus, and the thick green branches and leaves stretch to the fullest, inheriting the gift of God, leaving shadows under the trees. In the rows of houses, in the windows, it was quiet, and everyone was light-footed, unable to break the unique sunny silence of this summer afternoon.
Good times always seem short. "The light of the pool moves on the wall, and the shadow of the sun slanted against the window", before we could even notice it, the sun had quietly shifted to the west, ready to end its day's journey.
I looked up from the book, it was already past five o'clock, and before I knew it, the rest of the people in the classroom were gone, and there were only two people left in the classroom, me and Lin Haiyuan. I was both pleasantly surprised and surprised to suddenly have the opportunity to be alone with the people I liked.
Turns out he'll stay so late, I thought to myself. It's rare to have such a chance to be alone with him, what should I do?
Before I could come up with a reason, all of a sudden, Lin Haiyuan came to the podium by himself. I suddenly became alert: Huh? What is he here for? As he walked to the corner of the classroom, I immediately understood: Oh, he was going to fiddle with the experimental equipment left by the chemistry teacher last time.
A few days ago, the chemistry teacher brought some instruments and reagents to demonstrate them to us in the classroom, and left them in our classroom after class, so that we could familiarize ourselves with the process of titration and the use of the instruments in our spare time.
Lin Haiyuan moved the iron frame with the two burettes fixed to the podium, and then began to tinker with these instruments. At this time, I also jumped on the podium and watched him "play" with the experimental equipment.
The preparation was fine, but after the leak test, I watched him slowly pour the dilute hydrochloric acid solution left by the teacher into the acid burette. However, something went wrong during the subsequent formal titration.
When performing the titration operation, the correct way is: hold the bottle in the right hand, control the with the left hand, the thumb in front of the tube, the index finger and the middle finger in the back, and gently hold the handle with three fingers, bend the fingers slightly, and buckle the inward; However, Lin Haiyuan held the flask with his left hand, and pinched the with his right hand and rotated it with only his thumb and index finger. During class, the chemistry teacher specially explained that he couldn't be like him, using the wrong left and right hands, and still holding "orchid fingers", but he would still make such a low-level mistake?
I hurriedly spoke up to stop it: "Lin Haiyuan, your method is wrong. Do you see what the book says? Then he showed him the book. When he looked at it, he realized that he was wrong, "Oops, I made a mistake, I'm sorry." ”
I took the opportunity to "teach" him: "Such a simple thing has been clearly written in the book, have you read it well?" Moreover, the teacher has repeatedly emphasized in class, why do you still have an orchid finger? Have you ever attended a lecture? ”
I do think it's strange, this is just a basic content, with his strength, he shouldn't make this kind of mistake, right? And, didn't he listen to the lectures? At this time, a conjecture appeared in my mind: he should be doing various questions in the textbook while listening to the class, and sometimes when he hears it, he will echo it twice, so it sounds like he is very serious in class. And he usually does a lot of questions, and he has basically done all the question types in the exam, so he can naturally pass the test, so his grades are so good.
So I asked him, "Ah, I see, you must be doing your homework while listening to the lecture during class, right?" ”
He smiled and said, "Hehe, you guessed it right." ”
And so it was. In that case, isn't he half-self-taught? Alas, there is no way, who makes the family a scholar? I guess the teacher didn't have a problem with him.
The red color of the reagent in the flask disappears and the titration is complete. Lin Haiyuan said suddenly: "This seems to leak a little when it rotates, and my hands are stained with ......."
"Ahh Go wash your hands! I interrupted him yelling.
He didn't react at once, and he was a little stunned.
"What are you doing? Go wash your hands! "What he got on his hands was hydrochloric acid, even if it was very dilute hydrochloric acid for experiments, it would corrode his hands!
"Oooh!" He reacted immediately and quickly ran to the bathroom. Leaving me alone in the classroom, it was both angry and funny, he looked like this, what should people say? It's really inexplicable that he feels a little "silly", but he's very cute. Alas! How can I let go of him from my heart?
I walked to the window and looked out at the view. Attention was suddenly drawn to something on the windowpane.
What is it? There are some small black dots stuck to the transparent window pane, which looks particularly conspicuous. Oh, I see, it's eggs. In the afternoon, I saw a big insect parked on the glass for a long time, and it turned out that it was laying eggs.
I walked over and took a closer look at the pile of eggs. They should not be deliberately arranged neatly, but they do not appear messy because of the even space between the eggs. Hey? If you look closely, these eggs are arranged in the shape of a heart! Although it is longer than the average heart shape and its shape is not very uniform, its concave shape can indeed be said to be a heart shape.
I was as excited as if I had made some great discovery. On this afternoon, when I was alone with Lin Haiyuan, I saw a bunch of heart-shaped insect eggs on the window pane of the classroom! Does this mean anything?
At this time, Lin Haiyuan came back. I happily said to him, "Lin Haiyuan, come and see!" I found a bunch of heart-shaped eggs! ”
He walked over, took a look, and then his reaction was beyond my expectations.
He didn't say anything, he immediately turned around, picked up the glue bottle on the podium, and used the cap to crush the pile of eggs.
By his destruction, there are not many eggs left. I simply didn't have time to stop it.
I wondered, what was he doing? When I asked him why he was doing this, he replied, "Because I feel very uncomfortable when I see this dense mass of stuff." I don't know why, it's just hard anyway. "He also talked about how he saw a dense swarm of little insects when he was a child, and then how he destroyed them, how and how. I suspect he may have the legendary "dense phobia", but none of us know much about it and can't draw conclusions.
In this way, this pile of heart-shaped eggs was destroyed not long after they were laid, and I felt a little sorry. However, at the time, I just felt a little pity, after all, when I liked someone so strongly, his words and deeds seemed to be added with a beautiful filter, and I paid special attention to them, who would think so much about a bunch of worm eggs? Only when we recall the past will we sigh that everything is providential.
It was almost six o'clock, and I asked Lin Haiyuan, "Are you waiting for your parents to pick you up?" Why didn't you come so late? ”
He replied that on Saturday afternoons, his mom would come to pick him up, but not until after she got off work. Then he asked me why I stayed so late.
I thought to myself, if it weren't for you, I would have left a long time ago, and I wouldn't have stayed until now. But on second thought, it was a good opportunity for him to stay at school for so long every Saturday after school, so I might as well stay a little longer in the future.
So I said, "I like to stay a little longer, I don't want to go home so soon, I have nothing to do when I get home anyway, and I'm not playing with my phone." ”
I'm duplicitous again. But I'm not exactly lying, if I can be alone with him like this all the time on Saturday afternoons, then I don't want to like it anymore, and I'd like to let me go home as late as I want.
We chatted like this for a while, and Lin Haiyuan's mother came to pick him up. I said goodbye to him, and I was reluctant to give up.
After he left, I went to the window again and thought, "If his mother's car is parked under the school building, will they pass under this window later?" Sure enough, it didn't take long for an electric car carrying Lin Haiyuan, his mother and his brother to appear in my field of vision. I silently watched the car drive past the main road of the school, hoping that Lin Haiyuan would look up in the direction of our classroom on the third floor, and I was a little nervous in anticipation.
But he didn't. The car drove away and quickly disappeared in front of my eyes. He didn't look up after all.
There was a little bit of loss in my heart.
I lay alone in front of the window for a long time. When the sun sets, the scenery is dyed with a layer of shallow twilight, although it is not autumn, but it gives people a feeling of "the trees are all autumn colors, and the mountains are only sunset". After all, we are in the south, and most of the trees do not lose their leaves, even in autumn.
"The long elm is shining, the high willow twilight cicada is singing", the last sunset is about to leave, and the cicadas on the tall trees are grasping the last rays of sunshine and are making their last chirp. Blowing in the cool evening breeze, I quietly enjoyed the view of this garden school. Why didn't you realize that the scenery by this window was so beautiful? I'll definitely see more in the future, I think.
Lock the classroom door and leave.
The moon had risen and my bike was driving into the traffic on the road. "The sky rises from the dark, and the cage field scatters light smoke", and the sunset sky is gradually replaced by a dark blue canopy.
What a beautiful afternoon. I thought to myself.