Chapter 5: Secrets

When I was in high school, many people silently looked forward to the weekly flag-raising ceremony. After all, only at this time can you blatantly take a look at the person you don't usually see and secretly like.......

Even if you just look at his side face, you can be happy for a long time.

I love watching the flag rise with the national anthem. Especially when the last word "enter" of the national anthem ends, and the national flag happens to rise to the highest point, you can't help but feel happy.

"Praise the flag raiser, the card is really accurate."

A girl next to me spoke my mind.

An Yuqiu stood on my right-hand side, staring at the flag-raising platform with blazing eyes.

This guy who slipped away every time during recess, but the flag-raising ceremony never fell.

Mu Xi is the flag-raiser of the national flag team, wearing an army green uniform, standing upright on the flag-raising platform, holding a bright five-star red flag, and saluting the teachers and students of the school with a smile.

Under the bangs of moderate length, a pair of peach blossom eyes smiled warmly. The smooth and fair face is angular; The two light eyebrows are bent into the moon, clean and refreshing.

"It would be nice if there was a flag-raising ceremony every day." An Yuqiu's eyes flickered, and he stood beside me and whispered to me, "This way, I can see him every day." ”

"When I look at him, it's as if all the sun is falling on him. Little pigeon, do you understand this feeling? An Yuqiu's eyes softened into a ray of moonlight.

Maybe there will be such a special person in the heart of every young person, who can make you humble to the dust.

In front of Mu Xi, An Yuqiu has always been so docile, and in his eyes, it seems that he can only see Mu Xi alone. (except for that time...... )

Every now and then, I can only shake my head and talk about helplessness, but I envy her in my heart for daring to love and hate.

The flag-raising ceremony is much easier than running exercises, and there will be a 20-minute break after that, when I used to go to the water room to fetch water and eat throat lozenges to make my throat recover as soon as possible.

The boiling water slowly flowed into the cup, and I watched in a daze as my reflection shattered, flowed, and coalesced in the flowing water.

Even if my voice is better, I can't sing anymore.

Ever since my throat was broken, my mother had become completely desperate for me, and she always said that she was busy with work and gradually faded out of my life. Is my existence just a continuation of her dreams? Once I lose that value, she'll ignore me like she is now.

If I could do it all over again, I wish I had never been born......

Just as I was losing my mind with the glass, my body felt like it had hit a soft wall, and the heat in front of me pulled me back from my sad emotions.

The man grabbed me with quick hands so that I wouldn't fall into the pool.

"I'm sorry."

This voice is so familiar......

My gaze shifted from the slender hand that grabbed me to his face.

It turned out to be Zhang Huaixu.

"I didn't ...... It's okay. ”

He was slightly stunned for a moment, then took off his coat, put it over me, and put one hand around my shoulder.

The moment his hand touched my shoulder, I just felt like an electric shock, and I was very uncomfortable, and I didn't even dare to swing my hands and feet at will.

When I'm nervous, my other senses become extra sensitive.

There was a faint smell of shower gel on his coat, with a little residual warmth of his body, which suddenly enveloped me.

When I was young, my mother would put her coat on me before I participated in the competition, and said to me with a smile: "Xiaoge, you are all the hope of your mother, you must work hard......."

The warmth of that time will be remembered for the rest of my life.

It's just that since that accident, my mother has never behaved like this, and she keeps a cold face to me all day long, until now, I can't even see her face.....

"Take you to the infirmary to see if you have any burns." His tone was not at all uncomfortable, but it was very familiar.

Probably because my hands and feet were wooden, and my legs couldn't keep up with his pace, he noticed my skewness, and the hand on my shoulder shrank slightly, and his face flushed with a hint of redness.

He turned around and coughed softly, then slipped his hand into the pocket of his school uniform.

"I'm sorry."

"It's fine. Thank you for helping me out last time. "When I saw him turn his head away, I kept my head down, and my heart beat hard.

It's been a long time since I've spoken to a guy, and looking into his eyes makes me nervous.

Just as I was stunned as I looked at my toes, he suddenly put something in my school uniform pocket.

"It's ......"

"I've got all the candy for you, it's an apology."

I didn't expect this cool-looking boy to carry candy with him.

I pulled a candy out of my pocket and raised my hand above my head so that it slowly coincided with the sun.

The afternoon sun was slightly harsh, and I squinted my eyes and saw through the colored glass candy wrapper that the white sugar was lying inside, sleeping quietly under my mother's embrace like an embryo.

"It's so pretty......."

There was a small sense of happiness in my heart, so I couldn't help but smile.

At that time, this candy wrapped in colored cellophane was very popular. After eating the candy, you can fold the glass candy paper into a thousand paper cranes and give it to the person you like.

It is said that if you stack a thousand paper cranes, the person you like will also like you.......

I was superstitious once......

School Doctor's Office.

I have to say that Fengling is a well-equipped school, and the medicine cabinet in the school infirmary is full of medicines, but it's just ......

The school's infirmary is closed all year round, and once or twice you can bump into the school infirmary open, but you don't see the scruffy school doctor.

Zhang Huaixu and I stood at the door of the school doctor's office and looked at each other, his expression looked a little embarrassed, the breeze brushed his hair, I could see his eyebrows slightly furrowed, as if he was not very happy.

I guess I wasted his precious sleep.......

I said to him a little apologetically, "Let's go back...... The water is not very hot. ”

He turned his head and looked at me.

"It's okay, I have a solution."

He led me around the back door of the school infirmary, banged on the somewhat broken wall, and then, through a gap, pulled the bricks out of it with ease.

As more bricks fell to the ground, a large hole appeared in the wall that could accommodate one person.

Zhang Huaixu patted the dust on his hands, climbed into the cave first, and after checking his head with a probe, he stretched out his hand to me.

"Nobody, come in."

The hands were white and slender, with distinct joints, and they were extremely beautiful.

I panicked for a moment, and my hands trembled and stretched out and pulled back, nervous.

"Forget it, it's almost class."

"Let you in, come in."

Without saying a word, he grabbed my wrist and pressed his other hand against a corner of the broken wall, allowing me to climb in unscathed.

Those hands are very gentle and reassuring.

Although I don't get along with Zhang Huaixu very much, I trust him as much as I trust An Yuqiu. Although he seems cold, I know that he is a warm-hearted and gentle boy.

It's just that the personality is a little awkward.

"Thank you."

My eyes quickly fell on his face, and then I quickly lowered my head.

There was a lot of ash in his hair, and there was a slight abrasion on his forehead.

I seem to be in trouble with him......

The door to the school doctor's room was empty and empty.

He paced calmly in front of the various medicine cabinets, picked up a few medicines, dragged an old chair to the table, took some clean cotton cloth, and poured some thick syrup into it.

"What is this?"

"It's thick syrup."

Zhang Huaixu handed me the cotton cloth dipped in syrup with tweezers, and said:

"Put it over the wound and apply it externally. The concentration in the syrup is very high, which will dehydrate and die of bacteria, play a role in preventing infection, and the sugar in it can provide certain nutrients for wound growth and repair, and speed up wound healing. ”

He explained to me as he put the medical supplies back in their place.

If he had a white coat on his body at this time, he would have looked like a doctor who saved lives.

"I don't see it, you still understand this."

"It's just common sense of chemistry, it's strange if you don't know."

“.........”

Well, the level of thinking of a scholar is not understandable to mortals like me.

I went to the back room and looked at the injuries. Actually, it's not a big deal, it's just a little bit red.

When I finished tidying up and walked out, Zhang Huaixu was already standing outside waiting for me, with two boxes of medicine in his hand.

"Your throat lozenges are almost gone, you can take this box to cure your throat." He handed me one of the boxes of pills.

Strange, how does he know that I only have the last plate left of my throat lozenge?

In addition, I am also curious, what is the other box of medicine in his hand, and who is he going to give it to?

But doubts are doubts, this is someone else's private matter after all, I am embarrassed to ask, and I didn't delve into it.

After both of us crawled out of the hole, Zhang Huaixu restored the bricks one by one, covered them with a wooden board, and restored them to their original state.

"This hole was dug by Jianren, remember to keep it secret." Zhang Huaixu clapped his hands and instructed me.

"Jianren?"

"It's the fat guy who bullied you on the first day of school."

Oh, it turned out to be him. Since that day, he doesn't seem to have laughed at me again, and he still greets me lately. I don't know if An Yuqiu's deterrent power is too strong, or if the smile tactics she taught me have worked.

"It's almost class, let's go........"

"Zhang Huaixu, why are you helping me?"

He turned his head, smiled indifferently, and said:

"Secret."