Chapter Forty-Eight: The Kiss Once Upon a Time
The first month of school flashed by in a hurry, after all, the first half of the year was missing such an exciting holiday as the National Day, and Liang Chen and they were only transitioning in patience.
Thursday's English evening self-study was given to us to watch movies because of the first place in the last monthly exam.
Zhou Sang and a group of boys wanted to watch "Transformers", but their opinions were voted down by most of the girls, Tang Ying found a popular youth romance film on iQiyi - "You at the Same Table", although Liang Chen only echoed Zhou Sang and a few people, but when he was still young, he watched this kind of youth movie, and he couldn't get the sentimentality of the past. Of course, Zhou Sang and the others felt bored, so Liang Chen, Liu Bingjian, Zhou Sang, and Lao Maozi took Tang Rui to set up a table lamp and play the Three Kingdoms Killing.
After playing for less than an hour, Liang Chen lost interest again, Zhou Sang was unlucky tonight, whether it was the lord, the thief or the traitor, he couldn't win once, he pulled Liang Chen and didn't let him go, Liang Chen muttered to Jiang Zhiyun in a low voice, and Zhou Sang let go of his hand stupidly.
Liang Chen returned to his seat and watched Zhou Dongyu and Lin Gengxin on the curtain for a few minutes, he didn't recognize them at that time, but when the movie was played, Xue Ji told him that these two people played them.
Xue Ji turned his head, looked at Liang Chen's bitter melon-looking face, turned around, leaned on Liang Chen's table with his hands on his pillow, and said, "You are still bitter and bitter after taking the 101 exam, you shouldn't be happy!" β
Oh, yes! should be happy, when Tang Ying sent the test paper to Liang Chen, he smiled and said congratulations, but Liang Chen was only happy for a while, and then took Xue Jiao's answer sheet to repeatedly confirm whether his 101 was correct. He couldn't believe that two days ago, he and Xue Jiao were still arguing between to, the, and on, and he actually scored 100 points for the first time in his life two days later.
"I can't decide what movie to watch even after taking the one hundred and one exam!"
"It's not that I don't have the right to decide if I took the 128th exam."
Liang Chen looked at Tang Ying, who was staring intently at the curtain, and said to Xue Ji: "Only more than one hundred and thirteen people are the real rulers. β
"Hey!" Xue Ji stared at Liang Chen's eyes as if he was about to announce a big event, he was a little shy, his face was a little bloody, and the dark environment in the classroom covered up Liang Chen's blush.
"Lin Gengxin's lines - do you have feelings for me?" Xue Ji spoke smoothly and with a smile, but Liang Chen stammered when he heard it.
Liang Chen replied simply, "No, I don't want to talk about any bullshit movie stories now, I just want to take the 13th exam now, what's the use of envying others, we have to act on our own, and do better than others in the exam, so that we have the right to decide what movie to watch." β
Liang Chen learned Zhang Shihao in "Can't Escape" and told jokes seriously, even if the flowers were in full bloom, he would not hand them to Xue Ji in this dark night, Liang Chen also had his careful thoughts, he was taking revenge on Xue Jiao's "heartlessness" a few days ago. In the evening self-study at the end of the math exam, there was a gossip about Liang Chen lingering among the dense blades of grass - a certain girl in the next class liked Liang Chen. Liang Chen remembered that Xue Ji was so happy when he told him, like a bystander, or a guest in the audience at the wedding. Liang Chen was looking forward to Xue Jiao saying something against himself with an unhappy look, he hoped that Xue Jiao would be a little jealous, but the reality was always bloody, Xue Jiao's heartlessness really made Liang Chen a little disappointed, he held his breath like a pufferfish, and swelled into a big balloon. Liang Chen had a temper, and he also learned from Xue Jiao's heartless appearance and teased her in front of everyone.
"I always wanted that person to be you."
After Liang Chen finished speaking, he covered his eyes and imitated the crying scene in the Korean drama, and his mouth made a choked sound, he looked like an amorous scholar who was let down by love.
Xue Ji blushed at Liang Chen's words, and coupled with the coaxing of the onlookers, Xue Ji was a little shy. The ghost knew that Liang Chen was joking, Xue Ji vaguely felt happy, it was obviously a joke to avoid gossip, but Xue Ji heard the taste of the text.
The dark night covered Xue Chen's angry look, and she asked Liang Chen a serious question, but was beaten back by his joking lines. Xue Ji dispersed her anger and didn't care about Liang Chen in the next few days, Liang Chen too, accompanied Xue Ji to play tricks, she didn't speak first, Liang Chen never spoke, except for the inescapable English recitation and investigation, the two had no communication, the two were like the Soviet Union and the United States in the Cold War, but they couldn't smell the pungent smell of gunsmoke. Liang Chen is not stingy, he is just waiting for time to slowly digest this grievance, and when the smoke clears, he will clean up the mess.
In the past few days, Zhou Yin has been chirping around Liang Chen like a little sparrow, openly and secretly persuading Liang Chen to bow his head and admit his mistakes, but Liang Chen can always find something to block her mouth, she is out of line.
The time in Liang Chen's heart has come, Zhou Yin's behavior in the past few days is like a messenger from an enemy country to persuade him to surrender, and this envoy has clumsy methods, showing his feet from time to time, revealing that the master behind her is surnamed Xue Mingjiao. In the end, Liang Chen wanted to reconcile with Xue Ji along the steps, but the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and the reform of the high school entrance examination made Liang Chen lose time. This year's junior high school graduates have to take the geography and biology exams first, Teacher Mu is a new official, Liang Chen and Tang Rui have become her pawns, busy with a lot of trivial things for her, and Xue Ji's affairs have been left behind.
The day before the graduation exam of the third year of junior high school, when cleaning up the classroom, Liang Chen always smirked at Xue Jiao, he missed the best opportunity to apologize to Xue Jiao on an equal footing, so he could only declare to Xue Jiao Xue Jiao with a low attitude of a defeated country that he was fully responsible in the Cold War.
Xue Ji still couldn't help but sneer at Liang Chen like a child, Liang Chen thought that she had accepted the request for peace talks, Liang Chen thought about the next conditions that Xue Ji offered, he would inevitably lose some "sovereignty", but things are always unpredictable, Xue Ji is always a difficult bone to gnaw, she didn't give Liang Chen any expression, Liang Chen sighed in his heart for the first time that there was a crisis of "losing the country".
Liang Chen made an excuse and dragged Zhou Yin to the garbage, he wanted to poke out some breath from Zhou Yin's mouth.
"Xue Ji is not a little dissatisfied with me!"
"Liangzi!" Zhou Yin changed her name, she usually only called Liang Chen's squad leader or team leader, Liang Chen didn't care about these, but Zhou Yin's exclamation was like a word analysis for reading comprehension, and she showed her sympathy for Liang Chen.
"I see that you are not busy in the morning and panic at night to get up in the middle of the night to mend your crotch, I have already paved the way for you, you have to make some hardships yourself, now you know that you regret it." Zhou Yin sighed.
"I didn't tell you on QQ, and you also saw that I've been very busy lately." Liang Chen's tone was full of regret, he really didn't expect things to come to such a point.
"If you don't help me, I'll invite you to drink milk tea." Liang Chen flattered Zhou Yindao.
"Now you know that you begged me, but when you prevaricated me, you had a tough attitude!" Zhou Yin raised her eyebrows and vented her dissatisfaction.
"That's a little ignorance, how can you have a lot of knowledge like me."
"Team leader, you are so good, admit your mistakes with a positive attitude, for the sake of you begging me so much, I will say a few kind words for you." Zhou Yin continued: "But milk tea is indispensable. β
Liang Chen gestured with his hand in an OK posture and said, "This is natural." β
Back in the classroom, Xue Ji was still sorting out his books, because of the exam, Liang Chen and they had to bring all the books back to the dormitory, Liang Chen still smirked at Xue Ji, and Xue Ji gave Liang Chen a roll of his eyes as usual and then put his books into a large cardboard box.
Liang Chen had been looking for an opportunity to talk to Xue Jiao all afternoon, and Xue Jiao was occasionally annoyed by his chatter, and he impatiently replied to him a few words that were not painful. Liang Chen's courtesy was fruitless, Zhou Yin touched Xue Chen's heart, and when she entered the classroom, she winked at Liang Chen, a smug smile flashed at the corner of her mouth, and when she walked by Liang Chen's side, she moved her lips, but she didn't make a sound, only Liang Chen understood that she was reminding herself not to forget her milk tea.
Xue Jiao's attitude towards Liang Chen eased a lot, although he still didn't speak, Liang Chen felt a relaxed atmosphere in the air.
"Miss Xue, do you want to help in the afternoon?" Liang Chen asked Xue Jidao.
"Why not free labor." Xue Ji's tone was very impulsive, but he finally accepted Liang Chen's overtures, Liang Chen smiled and clenched his fists, knowing that the revenge of the previous day was to move a stone to hit himself in the foot, and Liang Chen was silent.
In the last self-study class of the afternoon, Xue Ji took revenge and put himself and Zhou Yin's books together, the large cardboard box with paper in the commissary was stuffed with books by her, Liang Chen tried to pick up the box, and walked in small steps, just out of the classroom, Liang Chen had no strength, and the big beads of sweat on his forehead were blown to the ground by the cold wind, Liang Chen gasped while thinking about how to move this damn thing away in his mind, Zhou Sang and they had already helped move their books back to the dormitory, and now he was the only boy left in the classroom, If he really knows how to do kung fu like dragon elephant praruogong, then he is still worried here, Liang Shaoxia is a powerless scholar like Zhi Duoxing after all.
"Squad leader Liang, you can't walk at the first step of the Long March, can you do it?" Xue Ji leaned against the classroom door and sarcastically said to Liang Chen.
Liang Chen wanted to go to the fourth floor to find Du Ruo's help, but when he heard Xue Ji's words, his blood surged up, and he didn't know where he got the strength, picked up the box and strode forward in front.
"Men can't say no."
Liang Chen gritted his teeth and stopped and walked the more than 100-meter distance from the comprehensive building to the girls' dormitory, and when Liang Chen rested, he told Xue Ji about carrying sweet potatoes and corn on the mountain with Du Ruo when he was a child.
"Du Ruo was stupid when he was a child, his sweet potato field was halfway up the mountainside, Grandpa Du dug sweet potatoes quickly, and wiped the soil on the sweet potatoes quickly, I was responsible for putting the sweet potatoes in the box of the two of us, Du Ruo had to dig a person and wipe a person, he saw me and Grandpa Du filled their picks and baskets, he was lazy not to wipe the soil sticking to the sweet potatoes, and put them into his own back basket, which was originally just a basket full of sweet potatoes was forty or fifty pounds, and it was not particularly tiring to walk downhill, But Du Ruo's back basket with sweet potatoes with soil filled the gap, enough more than ten pounds, a trip or two he did not feel tired, but one afternoon, Du Ruo was like a puppy under the scorching sun in summer, sticking out his tongue and panting, the last trip, I and Grandpa Du pretended to go down the mountain first, we rested under the mountain for half an hour, the sun was about to set, Du Ruo has not come back, Grandpa Du was afraid that something would happen, picked up the hoe and took me to the mountain, who knew that we went up the mountain, and saw Du Ruo lying in the sweet potato field with a big red lotus and falling asleep, There was also a half-basket of mud in the back basket. β
"That shows that Du Ruo is honest and capable." Xue Ji didn't laugh with Liang Chen and Zhou Yin, but praised Du Ruo's stupid behavior, and Liang Chen didn't think it was strange.
When entering the girls' dormitory, the dormitory manager aunt pointed to the eight big characters outside the door, "Girls' dormitory, boys stop" and stopped Liang Chen.
"Auntie, I can't move this box of books!"
Zhou Yin also chimed in, "That's right! It's a bit heavy. β
"I don't care what you think, there's only one rule, boys are not allowed to enter." Regarding Xue Jiao's and Zhou Yin's request, the dormitory manager aunt was unmoved.
Liang Chen and Xue Jiao soaked outside for more than ten minutes, and let him say all the good things Auntie only said no, and finally it was Teacher Mu who said lightly, "They are my students", and Liang Chen was allowed to go upstairs.
As soon as Liang Chen put down the box in the bedroom, Xue Ji eagerly urged him to go, and Liang Chen's body came out of nowhere with the strength of a hooligan, and he was stunned to lie on Xue Ji's bed and didn't leave. Liang Chen was like a kidnapper, threatening Xue Ji that he would not leave until he had drunk water, and that it had to be pulsating. Xue Ji was going to buy it, but Zhou Yin and Zou Li grabbed Xue Ji and said that the two of them would go. Liang Chen got up from the bed, he walked forward, and Xue Ji followed behind him and also forward; He was to the left, and she was to the left; Liang Chen ran to the window, and Xue Ji also followed.
The sun was setting in the west, and the evening light outside the window floated between the two hills, swaying like molten iron, and time was fading little by little. Liang Chen recited a poem: The beast swallows the sunset, Xue Ji still looks angry, staring at Liang Chen deadly, as if he is taking care of the most cunning criminal in the world, it would be good if Liang Chen did. The criminal can kiss her lips without any scruples, Liang Chen looked at Xue Jiao's eyes stupidly, and the moment he met Xue Jiao's eyes, Liang Chen's heart was pounding, and there was fire in his heart, Liang Chen swallowed a mouthful of saliva involuntarily, and Xue Jiao's face was flushed. He slowly approached her face, he felt that his hands and feet were as light as a piece of paper, and without a trace of strength, a fresh breeze might lift Liang Chen up and throw him out of the window. Liang Chen tensed up, he went to meet her lips in a hazy and half-conscious, listening to the sound of his heartbeat silently counting the time, and he didn't know where his hand was. Xue Ji closed his eyes, gasping for breath, his lips that were drained of water by nervousness and anticipation touched her, but when the world was spinning, it was just a dragonfly, and there was no time left for Liang Chen to feel.
The sound of Zhou Yin pushing open the door was like a pair of scissors, cutting the tight bowstring in Liang Chen's heart. He shook his head violently and hit the window frame, clutching his head in pain, but not in physical pain, but in his heart countless complaints. Liang Chen took the water from her hand and fled like the wind, without even having time to look at Xue Ji.
Throughout the evening self-study, Liang Chen was reminiscing about that sweet moment in the afternoon, the whole person seemed to be suffering from dementia, Zhou Sang told him that he shouldn't have been for a long time, he was stuck in the quagmire of memories. At the end of the evening self-study, Xue Ji threw a small note on the cardboard box where Liang Chen packed the book, which read, "Invite me to dinner".
The silence was like a chime, swaying at the end, and the living things around it were condensed in it. Liang Chen and Xue Ji finished eating two bowls of hot and sour noodles in the cafeteria, but no one said a word, Liang Chen's mind was in a mess when he came, the canteen didn't copy his hands tonight, Liang Chen still asked for a bowl, Auntie said three times, he still said stupidly, "I eat and copy hands", and in the end, Xue Ji and Auntie said the same as her.
Xue Ji chose a table in the back, and the light was dim. When he sat down, Liang Chen wanted to tell a joke like Ximen Qing "Girl help", when he was a child, Old Man Li often taught him some stories about the life of adulterous lovers, and the first sentence of the demon king in the flower picking master saw his beloved woman was the same thing. Liang Chen swore never to say such stupid things, but in the end, the only love words he had memorized were this sentence that he would never use, and Liang Chen was speechless.
"I'm your man."
This is Liang Chen's lame words after holding back a dinner, he is a mediocre talent, he has so many rich feelings hidden in his heart, and in the end he can only say some clichΓ©d words that do not match the preface, but fortunately, Liang Chen still said it, a sentence similar to Zhou Sang's "You are so beautiful".