Chapter 10: Throbbing

"Anyone?" I shouted.

"Is there anybody—anyone—anyone—anybody—"

It was the girl, dressed in a school uniform, barefoot, and with long hair.

"Classmates!"

"Ah, boy, why are you here?"

She heard what I said and trotted over to me.

"Who are you?" I still can't tell who she really is.

"Thank you!" She smiled and beckoned to me.

Suddenly, a seven-story wave rose behind her.

"Be careful!"

"Ahh She turned around and screamed in fear.

I rushed forward with an arrow step, and hugged her tightly with my not wide body, making sure that I could act as a barrier for her, blocking this huge wave that was dozens of meters high and did not know where the holy power was stirred up.

"Ahh The waves crashed against my back, much harder than I had ever imagined.

"Hey, Yujie, you're hurt......" She gradually restrained her smile and said to me.

Drops of blood dripped from my body, and soon the puddles were faintly blood-red.

"What's going on! What the hell is going on! ”

My eyes quickly turned blood-red, and the girl in my vision faded away, replaced by a darkness that slowly spreads......

"Yujie, what's wrong with you......"

"Don't!" I woke up from my dream.

"What's wrong?" Yirui, who was sitting on the sofa staring at the screen of her mobile phone, asked suspiciously.

"Nightmares......"

"You're going to have nightmares." She smiled.

I was lying on the very grand chaise longue in the living room of Eri's fellow student, and had just left the side of my book to take a break, but before I knew it, I fell asleep and had a nightmare.

As for why I was at her house - because I protected Yirui-san, she said that she would compensate me. In the past few days, I have come to Yirui's house under the pretense of going to my classmates to study, and she has poured water for me and cooked for me, and even helped me do the work I was going to work at night - in fact, I am not so serious, it doesn't matter what I do or do work, but she keeps telling me to sit still, so I will also thank this love. In this way, the situation after the injury is not as bad as I thought.

Of course, I didn't want to go to her house every day to eat and drink for nothing these days, and on the day of the homecoming, the head teacher seemed to explain to the class that I should actively form a study group with my classmates and supervise each other. Because of my awkward situation in the class, only Yirui was able to form a study group with me.

"So there should be a lot of people who invited you to form a group, right?" I asked, looking at the ceiling.

"Of course."

"However, I refused them one by one, and I decisively refused the boy's invitation, and my girlfriend was in trouble."

"If these boys knew that I was in a group with you, they would probably beat me up again."

"If you hadn't been hurt for me," she said, turning her head to the side, "who was going to take care of you...... My girlfriend almost broke up with me. ”

In the past few days, I originally planned to go around the garden together, but because the plan did not catch up with the change, in the end, everything in the garden could only continue to be taken care of by Zhang Zhendong alone.

"But you're still in my group, aren't you?"

Instead of continuing to answer me, she locked the screen, put on her cotton slippers, and stood up.

"Uncle, you're almost rested, isn't it time to get up and study?"

"Ah, I've been studying for so long in the morning!" I rolled over in the recliner.

"Please, I'm done with the housework, okay? Haven't had enough rest? ”

It turns out that while I was asleep, she also finished her housework!

She walked up to me, with a look of disgust on her face, and stretched out her petite feet to kick me off the chair.

"Then pull me up." I deliberately pretended to be tired and curled up my body.

"Do you want me to pick you up?" She retracted her dangling feet and put on her slippers.

"That's fine. After all, it's not like you haven't hugged me. ”

She froze for a moment, then immediately turned her head to the side, and from the side she could see that her face was flushed. She was obviously so domineering just now, but she was actually knocked down by me all of a sudden.

"How many times have you said it, don't mention it again last time, it's too shameful!"

She covered her face with her hands, kept her head down, and jumped back and forth in some rage.

"Forget it, I'll get up myself!"

As I spoke, I jumped up from a carp on the recliner.

"How have I ever done such a thing......"

Looking at her shy look, I smiled maliciously. Of course, I was joking about letting her hug me again or something. It's enough for me to be an ordinary friend with Yirui, and her hug is still reserved for someone who is lucky enough to accompany her for the rest of her life, I said to myself secretly.

"Alright, let's start learning!"

"You're such a nuisance." She still stood there with a frown, her head bowed and muttered to herself.

"Okay, can't I apologize to you, I promise never to talk about it again."

I went to the kitchen table and sat down, opened the book, and turned to the page that I had just folded.

She stood there and didn't follow, but looked at me stupidly.

"You're such a weird man!" The corners of her mouth rose slightly, as if she was talking to herself, "Obviously a 100% 'autistic teenager', sometimes he is quite gentle in doing things, which makes people feel quite reliable." But sometimes it's quite stupid, and I'm so stupid that I get into a fight with the boys in my class and hurt myself. ”

"Huh?"

"Well, I'm also a ghost, and I'm stupid enough to hug you......"

The smile on her lips turned eerie.

"Didn't you say don't talk about it again?"

"Oh, yes," she said, ruffling her hair back and looking up at the ceiling, "I hope my boyfriend will be like that in the future......"

She didn't continue, but quietly walked back to her seat and sat down, and soon opened the book and took notes, still smiling badly looking at her face.

The surroundings were quiet all of a sudden, and I could only hear the sound of the central air conditioner sending air to the surroundings, and I wanted to say something to her, but I wanted to say something several times. Although I opened the book, I didn't even read a word from the beginning. However, Yirui, after saying something strange, immediately returned to normal, and quickly entered the state of learning. I tried my best to rewind in my head, replaying what Yirui-san said just now, I don't know why, I always felt that Yirui's words just now were very strange.

"Hurry up and read a book!" She suddenly broke the silence and brought me back to my senses, "It's not okay to desert......

"I'm sorry." I exchanged a quick glance with her, then quickly flipped the book back a page and pretended to be serious.

She then took the language book that had been placed in front of me, flipped it forward, and looked up at me.

"Is there a linguistic problem with the sentence 'to avoid unnecessary waste'?"

"Don't make unnecessary waste......" I looked at her, "that's right......"

"Wrong, that's a sick sentence. Waste is unnecessary, redundant. Next. ”

"This ......"

"Is there a speech problem with 'It's not my fault'?"

She looked up at me again, her eyes extremely sharp.

"It's not my fault, it's wrong!" I didn't feel anything was wrong at all, what was wrong with these seemingly ordinary sentences?

"'Non' is a written word, which itself means 'no', and the ingredients are redundant." She closed my language book and gently put it back in front of me, "That's not good, I didn't read it at all, what were I thinking just now!" ”

"I know it's wrong......"

She patted the seat next to her with her hand and said, "Sit down on my side, I will have to supervise you." ”

Now, I can't desert, any of my small movements can be easily captured by her afterglow.

"That's not good."

I felt that I was so close to her that I could feel the fragrance of her body and her slight gasp.

"As your partner, I have to be responsible for you."

"Eri ......"

"Alright, let's get serious about the second 'two-hour plan' of the day."

She looked at me and smiled softly. Somehow, my heart involuntarily calmed down.

"That's right......" she muttered quietly.

"Son, you're back!" Mom heard the door open and called out to the kitchen.

"Yes, Mom." I changed into my slippers and threw my bag on the edge of the couch.

"How's it going to be with that girl?"

After I was injured, Yirui went to explain the situation to my parents, and after my mother saw her, she kept praising her for being a good girl, good-looking, polite, and good at learning, in short, I liked it very much.

"It's not bad, after all, she's a top student. Under her supervision, not to mention how efficient it is! ”

"You, cherish the opportunity to be with her," my mother said to me as she stir-fried the contents of the pot, "after all, you are usually such a person who does not fit in with the class, and you can really be considered a big bargain to have such an excellent classmate as your partner." ”

"Please, I see."

"You kid is really, I think you're very energetic now, and you really let her help you work!" While my mother was chopping vegetables, she said to me, "From tomorrow onwards, you don't bother her, you are really not ...... words."

"But this is his or her willingness, and I didn't force her!"

"Look at what you should say for a man...... "Mom said, picking up the spatula next to her and pretending to pat me on the head.

"Okay, okay, got it!"

"If they can come together in the future, it will be really a blessing for our family, such a good girl." She began to mumble to herself again.

"What nonsense, Mom! It's called 'toads eat swan meat'! ”

"Don't you want to try to catch her?"

"Not really. Please, Mom! I'm just a student, okay, let's say this is not appropriate! ”

I felt that I could no longer communicate with my mother, so I walked out of the kitchen, closed the kitchen door, carried my bag back to my room, and closed the door.

I spread out on the bed, spread my hands, and looked through the gap between my fingers at the dim fluorescent lamps on the ceiling.

"It would be nice if Yirui's desired boyfriend was me!"

Although I always remind myself that I should treat Yirui-san as my ordinary friend, even if I am very close to Yirui-san, I can't think anything wrong about her. But looking back, is there any boy in the whole class who wouldn't feel moved by her? I'm such an ordinary and ordinary person, let alone that. Hey, I'm really a contradiction!

The warm smile of Yirui's classmates kept coming to my mind, and gradually, the scene in front of me came to the flooded grassland again......