Chapter 13: Affection

In mid to late November, the ginkgo leaves on Ginkgo Road turn from emerald green to pale yellow and golden yellow, and only Ginkgo Road is the most beautiful in this season. The sycamore leaves of the Sycamore Road are basically gone, leaving bare branches, and the cherry blossom road is listless, only the Ginkgo Road is thriving. Walking on the ginkgo road, Qin Xiaotian would want to dance with the swirling and falling ginkgo leaves, his eyes were full of gold, and Qin Xiaotian's heart was also golden.

Coming out of the library that afternoon, Qin Xiaotian walked to the ginkgo road again, relaxed, and let his eyes take a vacation by the way, the natural scenery is the best rest for his eyes. When I walked to the end of the basketball court, I found a somewhat familiar figure sitting on a stone bench under the ginkgo tree.

It seems to be Mr. Yuan. Qin Xiaotian was hesitating whether to say hello, but saw that the figure had already stood up. "Whew!" Qin Xiaotian exhaled lightly, and was about to lower his head and turn around and pretend not to see it, but when he turned around, his voice sounded.

"Isn't this Qin Xiaotian?" Yuan Dutian asked deliberately behind Qin Xiaotian.

Qin Xiaotian had no choice but to turn his body back, and smiled embarrassedly and unnaturally: "Oh, it's Teacher Yuan, I'm sorry, I didn't notice!" ”

This guy actually dares to deceive people, and he pretends not to see it when he sees it and wants to run, hum, am I that terrible? Yuan Dutian was a little unhappy in his heart, and couldn't help but want to play tricks on Qin Xiaotian.

"Really? I thought you saw me and wanted to run! Yuan Dutian approached Qin Xiaotian.

Qin Xiaotian took a small step back and said curtly, "How could it be? ”

"You don't want to run? Want to deliberately pretend you didn't see me? Yuan Dutian continued to provoke her.

"No, no, why should I run, I really didn't see you." Qin Xiaotian could only continue to pretend.

"Are you afraid of me, so you want to hide?" Yuan Dutian asked deliberately.

"Afraid of you? Who's afraid you're hiding from you? Qin Xiaotian looked up at Yuan Dutian, a little anger appeared in his eyes, but he tried his best to avoid confronting Yuan Dutian head-on.

Yuan Dutian's heart blossomed, this little girl was annoyed by him, hahahaha, he laughed wildly in his heart. There was still a look of disbelief on his face.

"Not afraid of me? Then come and sit together! Yuan Dutian ordered.

Qin Xiaotian secretly complained in his heart, there was no choice but to follow Yuan Dutian to the stone bench. Walking behind Yuan Dutian, she found that Yuan Dutian's left elbow was bandaged and tied all the way to the palm of her left hand.

Before he could sit down, Qin Xiaotian asked curiously, "Teacher Yuan, what's wrong with your hand?" ”

Yuan Dutian looked down at his left hand, and said indifferently: "It's nothing, the basketball hand is injured, and it needs to be fixed with a plaster cast for a period of time." After speaking, he glanced at his left hand nonchalantly.

"Huh? So how long will it take? Qin Xiaotian heard him say that he was injured, and she felt a little uncomfortable, she wanted to run just now. Mr. Yuan injured his hand and couldn't play on the court, so he came here to sit and watch them play.

"Maybe two or three months." Yuan Dutian replied nonchalantly.

"Huh? So long? Won't your left hand be useless during this time? Qin Xiaotian looked at Yuan Dutian's left hand and felt that he was so pitiful, for a person who loves sports, he couldn't move for two or three months, which was undoubtedly the same as going to prison.

"Can't use it?" Yuan Dutian was made to laugh and cry by her words.

"Oh, Mr. Yuan, I didn't mean that, I mean, your left hand will be inconvenient during this time." Qin Xiaotian hurriedly explained.

"It's not inconvenient, but fortunately, I can still use my right hand, I can write, and I can swing a racket." Yuan Dutian looked calm, as if it was not someone else who was injured.

"Are you seriously injured? Did it hurt the bone or something? "Qin Xiaotian really wants to care about him, his left hand is tied like this, it's not even easy to wear clothes, right?

"It's okay, it's not too serious, it's a little cracked, my wrist is twisted, and I'll be fine after a while." Yuan Dutian's voice softened.

"Does it still hurt?" Qin Xiaotian asked cautiously.

Yuan Dutian was stunned by her sudden question. Is he a child? I also asked him if it hurts, which is really funny, but my heart is warm.

"It doesn't hurt if you don't move it now, it still hurts when I was hit that day." Yuan Dutian touched the hard white bandage.

"Can I touch it?" Qin Xiaotian had never put on a plaster cast and wanted to try it.

Yuan Dutian stretched out his hand in front of Qin Xiaotian, and Qin Xiaotian gently and slowly scratched the white bandage twice, except for being able to feel the rough gauze, there was no other feeling. Qin Xiaotian pressed it with his fingers, it was hard, probably a plaster.

Qin Xiaotian raised his eyes and asked a little puzzled, "Don't you feel it?" ”

Yuan Dutian shook his head and said, "I don't feel like you're touching my hand at all." ”

Qin Xiaotian smiled all of a sudden, it was so funny, she took Yuan Dutian's hand and pressed it left and right, and punched it down.

"Ahh Yuan Dutian screamed and looked at Qin Xiaotian angrily.

Qin Xiaotian didn't know why, and asked weakly, "What's wrong?" ”

"It hurts!" Yuan Dutian only said one word.

"Didn't you say you didn't feel it?" Qin Xiaotian was so stupid that he wanted to give himself two blows.

"Do you still hurt when you pound like that? It's okay to pinch it, but it's still hammering, do you really think that my hand is useless and unconscious? Yuan Dutian yelled at her.

Qin Xiaotian was frightened and hurriedly apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Teacher Yuan, I didn't mean to!" He apologized and gently touched the gauze.

Yuan Dutian didn't want to worry about Qin Xiaotian anymore, besides, she didn't do anything wrong, she was too sensitive, so she yelled at her. Yuan Dutian stopped talking, and looked directly at the figure running on the court in front of him. Qin Xiaotian looked at Yuan Dutian's side face and was distracted. The piercing eyes had an unknown coldness, a slight brow, a high nose, dark red lips pursed together, a right hand with a pestle on the chin, and two eyes staring at the court. He probably wanted to go up and play, but unfortunately he could only stare dryly from the sidelines. Qin Xiaotian thought.

"You'd love to play, right?" Qin Xiaotian asked.

Yuan Dutian's eyes kept staring ahead, nodded his head and said, "It's just that I can't fight now, I'll meet them when I'm ready." I also played badminton yesterday, would you like to try it? ”

"Me?" Qin Xiaotian pointed and always felt his nose.

"I've been an athletic idiot since I was a kid, and I don't know anything about the ball." Qin Xiaotian's head was big when she heard the ball, and she was afraid of being smashed by the ball. She doesn't like to exercise when she is young, she hates running the most, basketball, badminton, table tennis is limited to knowing how to play, but she almost doesn't play, she is hit by a ball every time she passes by the court, and she is hit by a ball on her own mat in volleyball class, which has left a deep shadow in her heart.

"Let's go, I'll invite you to play badminton!" Yuan Dutian didn't know why he wanted to play badminton on a whim, did he want to run too much?

"No, Mr. Yuan, I won't, I really can't...... And your hand" Qin Xiaotian couldn't find the words to express his refusal, he hesitated for a long time, and pointed to Yuan Dutian's hand, that is, he couldn't say the words "I won't go" or "You are looking for someone else to fight".

Yuan Dutian looked down at the shoes Qin Xiaotian was wearing, the casual board shoes she was wearing today, a long-sleeved T-shirt + jeans, and a thick windbreaker.

Yuan Dutian nodded and said, "Well, yes, you can enter the field like this, anyway, it's just a casual play, I just want to move." ”

"Huh? Hey, hey, hey...... "Qin Xiaotian was messy, she went to play badminton with Yuan Dutian like this, what's the use of feeding for half a day, Teacher Yuan had already stood up and walked towards the badminton hall.

Qin Xiaotian had no choice but to follow.

Entering the badminton hall, Yuan Dutian skillfully asked the middle-aged man who was watching the court at the service desk to ask for a locker key, because he was a frequent visitor, Yuan Dutian rented a locker, put rackets and other supplies inside, so that he could come to exercise at any time, and the key was left at the front desk management, anyway, he didn't worry about losing things. The middle-aged man at the front desk glanced at Qin Xiaotian several times, a little incredible, he had never seen Qin Xiaotian, and he had never seen Yuan Dutian play with a strange woman.

"Warm up before you get ready to start so you don't get injured during the exercise. You bend over and move your arms so that you don't suddenly move your joints and ligaments. Yuan Dutian moved his neck, bent over and kicked his legs, and ran and jumped in small steps.

Qin Xiaotian also followed his example and did warm-up exercises.

"Give, take! This beat is a little lighter, you are good to take. Can you serve and catch? Yuan Dutian handed Qin Xiaotian a crimson and white racket, Qin Xiaotian checked it, and replied with a wooden voice: "I will catch the ball." Actually, she thinks the racket is still a bit heavy. Yuan Dutian saw her thoughts, and said: "I'm heavier, there's no lighter, you use this first, tell me when you're tired, just stop and rest." ”

Qin Xiaotian nodded and walked to the middle of the green plastic field, Yuan Dutian waved his right hand at the other end, motioning for her to stand next to her. "The singles serve is diagonal, and the two stand diagonally!" After speaking, he lost the ball with his right hand and waved his right hand to lightly send a ball, Qin Xiaotian hurriedly ran to catch the ball.

Qin Xiaotian ran back and forth, left and right, looking at Yuan Dutian completely like he was playing with her appetite, how could he catch the ball in a few steps over there, it seemed effortless, causing her to run around here. Qin Xiaotian complained in his heart, he wanted to throw down the racket and say that he was tired and stopped playing, and he couldn't pull it down for fear that Yuan Dutian would underestimate him. After a game, Qin Xiaotian was already sweating.

"Swap the field!" Yuan Dutian walked over and shouted.

"Won't you take a break?" Qin Xiaotian asked.

"If you want to take a break, take a 5-minute break!" Yuan sat on a plastic chair on the sidelines. Looking at Qin Xiaotian's sweat, he found that he had forgotten to buy water.

"Wait a minute, I'll buy water." After saying that, he walked towards the information desk. After a while, Yuan Dutian turned back.

"Here, drink some water and rest, don't drink too fast, drink slowly." Yuan Dutian bought two bottles of water and handed one to Qin Xiaotian.

Qin Xiaotian didn't think much about it, opened the cap of the bottle and began to swallow it. Yuan Dutian stopped her right hand when he saw it.

"Tell you to drink slowly, and you can't drink hard during strenuous exercise and just after exercise."

When Qin Xiaotian heard this, he put down the bottle and didn't dare to drink it.

"Enough rest? Play two more rounds. Yuan Dutian got up.

"What? Two rounds? Teacher Yuan will play another game, right? I can't play two rounds! Qin Xiaotian begged for mercy, she actually didn't want to play any more games. Gosh, is this the saying of someone who can only play with his right hand alone? Qin Xiaotian suddenly felt that he was stupid to the point of home, how could he follow a disabled person to play badminton?

Yuan Dutian didn't listen to her, and walked straight into the venue. Qin Xiaotian drooped his head and stood on the other side of the field. Yuan Dutian looked at her lazy appearance, threw the ball with her right hand and swung the racket, and a spinning ball came over, which shocked Qin Xiaotian and could only respond.

Qin Xiaotian didn't know how to generate the perseverance to knock down the ball in the third game, in fact, he had only played forty or fifty minutes, Qin Xiaotian felt like he had run a few eight hundred meters, and he just wanted to rest on his stomach.

"Here, wipe the sweat." Yuan Dutian handed Qin Xiaotian two tissues.

Qin Xiaotian didn't want to say anything now, just wanted a place to lie down and let her sleep. Who is Yuan Dutian? How can you wrap one hand and still be so powerful? The point is to see him play so easily, not at all like her bouncing around in the half, his injury is fake, right? Thinking about it like this, the words also blurted out.

"You're pretending to be hurt, aren't you? Are you okay with your hands? How do you fight like a normal person? ”

Yuan Dutian raised his left hand to gesture, and said disdainfully, "Is it necessary for me to pretend?" It's that your level is too bad, and one hand is more than enough to deal with you. ”

Qin Xiaotian was ruthlessly despised like this, although she was reluctant in her heart, she had to admit that she was a rookie, but this Yuan Dutian didn't know how to say good things to give face.

"Let's go, for the sake of you playing with the ball, I'll invite you to dinner." Yuan began to pack his things.

Out of the badminton hall, Qin Xiaotian put on a thick windbreaker, and the wind blew to the sweaty place, and there was a chill. The two walked outside the south gate, and Yuan Dutian looked at both sides and asked, "Do you like to eat pasta?" ”

Qin Xiaotian nodded and said, "Anything." ”

"Let's go, I'll take you to a Shaanxi noodle restaurant." Yuan Dutian walked to the left to lead the way.

This Shaanxi noodle restaurant is not big, because it is almost 8 o'clock, and there are not many people.

Teacher Yuan likes to come to these humble shops to eat? Last time the skewers were the same, how did he find such small restaurants? The aesthetic level of this food is completely out of tune with his tall appearance. Qin Xiaotian thought about it, so he entered the store and sat down.

"One dumpling, one dumpling, one bun." Yuan Dutian stopped his voice and asked Qin Xiaotian, "What else do you want to eat?" ”

"I'd like to try this oily noodles." Qin Xiaotian pointed to the menu posted on the wall.

"I want a small bowl of oily noodles and a tomato and egg soup!" Yuan Dutian then shouted to the people standing at the door.

After exercising for so long, Qin Xiaotian was already hungry. As soon as the dumplings came up, I stuffed two in one bite. "It's actually stuffed with shepherd's cabbage, I like it, hehe!" Qin Xiaotian laughed while chewing.

Yuan Dutian wanted to tell her to eat slowly, stuffing two in one mouth, is she so hungry? And also completely disregard for the image. But he likes to see her eat so much, which makes others very appetizing.

After sending the oily noodles into his stomach, Qin Xiaotian touched his bulging belly and said, "Oh, I've eaten too much, I'm going to gain weight!" ”

"You're not fat!" Yuan Dutian looked at Qin Xiaotian who was sitting opposite him, Qin Xiaotian was not fat, he was a petite person.

Qin Xiaotian glanced at Yuan Dutian and said, "Teacher Yuan, don't you know, girls like to be thin like a bolt of lightning?" ”

Yuan Dutian shook his head and said, "It's not good to be too thin, like I don't like girls who are too thin." ”

As soon as he heard that Yuan Dutian actually mentioned his personal preferences, Qin Xiaotian chased after him and asked, "Then what kind of girl does Teacher Yuan like?" ”

Yuan Dutian knew that Qin Xiaotian wanted to follow the vine to find out his details, and he didn't mind.

"I like healthy, smart girls."

It's obviously not her type, Qin Xiaotian thought. Then there was a little sour feeling of unknown origin in her heart, and sure enough, Yuan Dutian didn't like her type, so she still didn't want to be extravagant.

"And was your previous girlfriend that type?" Qin Xiaotian thought of Yuan Dutian's rumored ex-girlfriend and couldn't imagine what she looked like.

"Almost! She is the number one tennis women's singles player in our school! Yuan Dutian said this sentence without any emotion, just stating a fact.

"So powerful? It seems that powerful people have to be with great people, otherwise how can they be worthy? Qin Xiaotian sighed. My heart has denied myself.

"Awesome? What is awesome, but it just happened to meet together. Yuan Dutian said lightly, as if talking about something a long, long time ago.

"Then why did you break up?" Qin Xiaotian asked without giving up.

"Before graduation, she originally said that she wanted to go back to Xiangcheng, but I didn't agree at the time, but then I came here, but she went to the United States." Yuan Dutian lowered his eyes, and Qin Xiaotian could see that he was reminiscing about the past, and he was a little regretful.

"Then why don't you go to the United States to chase her?" Qin Xiaotian asked stupidly.

Yuan Dutian shook his head, trying to cover up what happened between him and Ren Jingya. "If a person wants to hide from you, even if you find the ends of the earth, that person may not come out to meet you. When I arrived in Xiangcheng, I realized that she was ready to leave. ”

Qin Xiaotian concluded that there was a misunderstanding between Yuan Dutian and Ren Jingya and many things that were not known to the outside world, which made Yuan Dutian so concerned and so reluctant to mention it.

"Then you haven't inquired about her whereabouts?" Qin Xiaotian really wants to know the result, just like reading a novel or series, he really wants to skip the middle process and watch the ending, just to see if the hero and heroine are together.

"I asked, but I'm not sure if she's in that place."

"You didn't want to look for it?"

Yuan Dutian paused, did he want to go over and look for it? I thought about it, but I didn't do that. His intuition told him that even if he went to find Ren Jingya, Ren Jingya might not come back with him, so he didn't dare to look for it.

Qin Xiaotian saw that Yuan Dutian didn't speak for a long time, thinking that he didn't want to mention or reveal any questions about his ex-girlfriend again. She had been a little too probing today, and she was also surprised that Yuan Dutian was not angry.

"If she hasn't looked for me, she may not want to see me, so she left me a message with her friend, saying, 'Don't come to me, if I want to see you, I will naturally look for you; Don't worry about me, I'll take good care of myself, and if I can, I hope we can start a new life. Yuan Dutian's eyes were deep, and he couldn't see the true emotions in his heart.

"And that's how you broke up?" Qin Xiaotian is a curious baby.

"Sort of!" Yuan Dutian replied.

In fact, there has always been a hurdle in Yuan Dutian's heart, that is, Ren Jingya, she left too suddenly, although she was sad because Yuan Dutian was unwilling to return to Xiangcheng with her, but when he came, she was leaving, and the two never officially mentioned breaking up, although there was no contact for more than two years, Yuan Dutian finally felt that Ren Jingya would come back.

"Let's go, it's too late." After talking about so many things in the past, Yuan Dutian felt very tired. He didn't know why he would talk about so many things that were unknown to outsiders to a female student he hadn't met a few times. At least in Xiangcheng, almost no one knows about his past.

Qin Xiaotian wished that time was too slow, and he was hearing the highlights, but Yuan Dutian was reluctant to talk about it. She was glad that he could tell her that he didn't treat her as an outsider, maybe as a friend.

Yuan Dutian sent Qin Xiaotian back to the girls' apartment, from the south gate to the east gate, you can pass through a begonia forest that few people usually walk at night. In winter, the begonia trees appear short and thin, and the slender branches are scattered in the air, lifeless, a depressed scene. Yuan Dutian and Qin Xiaotian didn't know how to walk into this forest. The small white street lamps shone on the dead branches and the ground, and it was lonely, because it was cold and there was no figure to be seen at this time of the night. Qin Xiaotian felt as if he had entered a maze array, as if a ghost was about to appear at any time. Look around.

"Ahh Qin Xiaotian didn't know what was running in front of her eyes, a black shadow rushed past her feet, frightened her reflexively raised her two feet, but as soon as she was nervous, she stepped on a stone on the dirt road and threw herself forward when her feet landed.

Just when she felt like she was going to fall and eat, Yuan Dutian grabbed her arm from the front. Yuan Dutian was also frightened by Qin Xiaotian's exclamation, but he saw her tilting to the right and turning forward, and he rushed over in two steps and one step to catch her hand, so that she was not planted on the ground.

Qin Xiaotian planted on Yuan Dutian's body, and Yuan Dutian held her hand, but because of inertia, her body still didn't obey the call and threw herself forward, and fell on Yuan Dutian's chest.

In an instant, she smelled the faint smell of sweat on Yuan Dutian's body mixed with the smell of medicine bandaged on her left hand, the smell was so unique that she even felt Yuan Dutian's snort. Her heart jumped to her throat all of a sudden, and reason told her to quickly push him away and stand firm, but her body was stuck as if she was greedy for Yuan Dutian's arms, and she wouldn't move.

Yuan Dutian lowered his chin and could touch Qin Xiaotian's hair, he didn't do it, he just let Qin Xiaotian's hair fragrance and body fragrance enter his nostrils, and his heart was a little numb.

"Are you alright?" Yuan Dutian still helped Qin Xiaotian away.

"I ...... No, it's fine! Qin Xiaotian left Yuan Dutian's body in a panic, she couldn't react for a while, she was still intoxicated just now, and it was broken in a few seconds.

"Just now, something ran past my feet, I don't know if it was a mouse or a cat or a wolf or something, it scared me to death!" When she was nervous, she even said the wolf, and when she said it, she felt like she was going to laugh off her big teeth, where would there be any wolf here!

"It's okay, just follow me!" Yuan Dutian settled down, turned around and walked forward again. After walking a few steps, he found that Qin Xiaotian was not moving, so he turned around and asked, "What's the matter, aren't you leaving?" ”

"Go, go, right away!" Qin Xiaotian wanted someone to lead her away.

"I, I...... Mr. Yuan, can I take your bag with me? Qin Xiaotian saw the diagonal bag on Yuan Dutian's body, and had a whim.

Yuan Dutian looked at the front, thinking that there was no one, and the light was not very good, so it was better to let her pull the shoulder of the satchel and take it away.

"Come on!" Yuan Dutian agreed.

Qin Xiaotian walked in small steps to Yuan Dutian, grabbed the shoulder strap on his satchel with his right hand, and followed him forward, so that he was much more at ease.

When he arrived outside the begonia forest, Qin Xiaotian consciously let go of his hand.

Yuan Dutian sent Qin Xiaotian downstairs to the dormitory and told her to rest early, and then she was ready to go back to the bachelor apartment to rest.

"Teacher Yuan!" Qin Xiaotian stopped him.

"What's the matter?" Yuan Dutian asked.

"Thank you just now!" Qin Xiaotian is sincerely grateful.

Back in the dormitory, Qin Xiaotian touched his heart that was still beating at an accelerated pace, not daring to think back to just now, nor daring to think about it. She found that she wished that time had stopped in that moment, and if it had been a little longer, would she have wrapped her arms around his waist. Qin Xiaotian didn't want to admit it, and reason told her that no, it couldn't, but in her heart, her body had already told her that there was an exclusive affection between men and women spreading in her. If she doesn't stop it, she will get on fire, does she want to stop it? She closed her eyes and couldn't find an answer. Forget it, let this young and bitter, only her own feelings swallow her!