In my sophomore year of high school, my body began to grow like a budding sapling, and my height jumped up all of a sudden.

High school life is peaceful, maybe I don't have much affinity, and my classmates are cold nodding friends.

Bai Yiqing often said to me: "You don't just smile at your grandfather all day long, and show more expression to others, so that people will get along with you and chat more." ”

I frowned slightly: "Don't you feel awkward to smile at people you don't know very well?" ”

Bai Yiqing sighed: "When I didn't say that the Provincial Cultural Festival was held this year, I heard that the school would have to make a few programs. ”

I took a sip of a cold drink: "It shouldn't have much to do with me." ”

However, after chatting with Bai Yiqing in the cafeteria at noon, the literature and art teacher found me, and several classmates were rehearsing the drama.

The literature and art teacher fiddled with me for a long time before saying, "You guys, just play a little tree, it's just suitable." ”

There was a burst of muffled laughter, and I was relieved, pretending to be a tree and standing there, not needing any lines, it might be more suitable for me.

As a result, I was covered in a prop and couldn't say a word. It seems that nothing is easy, even standing there without saying a word is a great test of will.

The drama rehearsal didn't have anything to do with me, but it didn't affect my studies, and then when I went to participate in the rehearsal, the male protagonist of the drama had been replaced by Bai Yiqing.

Seeing him change into a knight's uniform, I opened my mouth for a long time, and I almost didn't recognize it.

He is usually unkempt, and he has no image in front of me. But when you dress up, it's really like that.

"Xiaobai, I can't see that you are quite handsome."

Bai Yiqing was praised for a long time: "Only you can't see my handsomeness and sunshine!" Anyway, I'm also recognized as a school grass, so I was ignored by you for no reason. ”

"Uh......" I blinked, "when I didn't say anything." ”

They rehearsed twice in earnest, and the teacher kept shouting to me: "The one who installed the tree, don't move, don't move!" You have to remember that you are a tree!! ”

"Oh...... "There was a mosquito biting just now, and it was really itching.

Finally got up to the rest time, I took a bottle of water and hid in the background, unscrewed the bottle cap and drank water, the sun has been very hot recently, Chu Nantang has rarely appeared during the day, although the sunlight can't cause him substantial damage, but it is very damaging to his spirit.

I gasped for breath and wiped the fine sweat from my forehead, when suddenly I heard a rustling sound from somewhere, something strange.

I thought it was a mouse, so I quietly approached behind the black curtain, but I saw a picture of a male and female classmate hugging each other and kissing passionately.

"Shocked!" I stumbled two steps, tripped over a prop on the ground, and fell on all fours.

"Who?!" The boy rushed out angrily, saw that it was me, and threatened with half-squinted eyes: "Don't talk about what happened just now, otherwise I will make you look good!" ”

"yes, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, I'll go."

After running a long way, I breathed a long sigh of relief, but for some reason, I kept recalling the scene I had just seen.

Thinking about it, the boy's face became Chu Nantang's, his eyes were gentle, he hugged me and smiled, and whispered in his ear: "Madam......"

It seemed to be very good, and there was a soft call in my ears: "Lingsheng? Zhang Lingsheng! What are you thinking? ”

"Huh?" I turned my head in fright. I don't know when Chu Nantang appeared beside me, thinking that just now he was fantasizing about something that shouldn't be, and his face was red.

just shook his head desperately at him: "No, I didn't think about anything." ”

He looked at me suspiciously, "Really? ”

I was too weak to look at him: "Really...... You don't have to ask anymore. ”

He laughed lowly, and the pleasant laughter flowed through his heart like a clear mountain water, which made people feel comfortable: "Okay, I won't ask." ”

I rarely dream, not the female ghost in red, I basically slept all night without dreaming until dawn. But that night, I had a dream related to Chu Nantang.

In the dream, I did a lot of unspeakable things. I don't know why I have this kind of dream, and I don't even dare to face Chu Nantang.

But Chu Nantang is such a delicate person, and he can see that something is wrong with me recently.

"Madame, you have been ...... lately Seems to be hiding from me? ”

As soon as he asked, my heart was beating so fast that I couldn't speak: "No, no!" I've been studying lately and I'm about to take a small exam. ”

Chu Nantang didn't believe it, supported his cheek with one hand, and stared at me worriedly: "If you don't want to say it, just leave it." Attend the class with peace of mind. ”

In addition to attending classes, she often takes on a job as a graphic model and appears on the cover of the campus newspaper.

The boys who pursued her were almost lined up from the school gate to the intersection in front, and she would occasionally come to me at school to talk to me, but nothing good.

"Zhang Lingsheng, I have a location to shoot today, you can help me write a homework~"

I glanced up at her: "You're so popular, just find a boy to help you write, I'm going to review recently, I'm very busy." ”

"Why are you like this?!"

"That's how I am, isn't it good for you to look for me?"

She always went her own way, and threw the homework book on my desk: "Anyway, it's settled, I'll pay you." ”

"Fang Yanzhi!!" I watched her leave helplessly, and sometimes I really wanted to beat her, but she really wanted to put her face forward and let me hit her, but I couldn't do it.

"You can have half of her willfulness, and your life is much easier." Chu Nantang let out a long sigh.

I pursed my lips and looked at Chu Nantang beside me: "In your eyes, what do I look like?" ”

He lowered his eyes, cast two rows of silhouettes on his eyelids with long eyelashes, lazily propped up the side of his head, thought about it and said: "He is a very stable person, with his own ideas and insights." A lot of times, you know what you want and what you don't want. It's not a good thing to live too clearly. ”

"So, what else?" That's not what I want to hear.

"And?" Chu Nantang seemed to think of something, and evoked a light smile: "Little stuffy gourd." ”

I hung my head in frustration and silently packed my backpack to go back.

"Angry?"

"Nope."

"Really?"

"Really."

……

It's really not angry, it's just a little lost.

The roses in the garden were about to bloom again, and I quietly came to the window and saw Shen Qiushui as in previous years. Fertilize the roses in the garden, water and prune.

He seemed to feel my gaze, and subconsciously looked up, not smiling, not sad, just deep and silent.

At dinner, Mr. Shen suddenly asked more: "I heard from Changzhi, are you rehearsing a drama?" ”

"Ahem...... Ahem...... "To be honest, this kind of thing is really not a glorious deed that can be brought out and said, I fixed my mind and said: "It's just a small tree." ”

"Really?" He laughed, but then comforted, "Don't underestimate the role of this little tree. It is also very heavy. When I'm free, I'll go see you rehearsal. ”

I was a little flattered: "Mr. Shen is so busy, no need." ”

"It's not been very busy lately." He smiled at me, and then went on with his dinner in silence.

"That, Mr. Shen, I may need to rehearse a drama after school recently, and I will go home a little later."

He didn't look up at me, but just replied softly, "Okay, do you need a driver to pick you up?" ”

"No, I'm fine walking." I pursed my lower lip: "Mr. Shen, I may have done something to disappoint you before. Please don't worry about me. ”

"I don't need honorifics for me." He laughed: "It's me who takes you too closely, I can give you enough freedom and space, if this is the way to keep you around, I can compromise." ”

In fact, I have said many times that he doesn't need to do this for me, I would rather he be ruthless or domineering, and completely push me away, so that I won't feel so much guilt about him.

In more than two months, I will be able to go back to my hometown to see my grandmother, I take the small square box in my hand, and take it out when I have nothing to do. Although I didn't recognize the runes on it, it was deeply imprinted in my mind.

"This thing looks old." Chu Nantang appeared in front of my bed and said.

"Well, according to my grandmother, it has been passed down from generation to generation in the family. No one has ever been able to open this little box and wonder what's inside? ”

I thought about it, handed the cyan bronze box to Chu Nantang, and smiled at him: "Grandma said that you can only open it if you meet someone who is destined." ”

Chu Nantang smiled, took the bronze box from my hand, carefully held it for a long time, and said: "The text on it is like a different script from the ancient country, and maybe you can find some related literature." ”

He tried to twist the box, but it didn't move: "I can't open it, it seems that I am not this destined person." ”

He smiled and gave the box back to me: "Maybe there will be an opportunity in the future to unlock the secret of this box." ”

It's just a joke, but there is a little loss in my heart: "Where is its destined person?" ”

"When fate comes, it will naturally appear." Chu Nantang lay down on my side calmly and closed his eyes comfortably.

I gently glanced at Chu Nantang, who was lying beside me, put away the bronze box, thought about it and asked him, "Nantang, have you ever loved someone before?" ”

"Huh?" Chu Nantang closed his eyes and remained silent: "Why did you suddenly ask this?" ”

"I want to know what it's like to love someone."

He smiled, opened his eyes, and tilted his head slightly to look at me, his eyes shining as bright as stars: "Love?" It's more like than like, deep like. ”

My heart is beating, and I seem to like Chu Nantang a little more than I like it deeply, but sometimes I feel that he is like a gust of wind, unpredictable.

"So, have you ever liked someone deeply?"

His smile froze on his face, and he was silent for a long time, and then replied, "Yes." ”

The heart was stabbed so hard that it was even difficult to breathe: "What is she like?" ”

His eyes flashed, as if he had fallen into a long memory, and then his tone was tinged with sadness and longing: "She's a ...... Very kind, very persistent, and very warm people. ”

"You still love her?"

"No......" he smiled, his expression a little confused, and the smile on his face gradually faded. That was the first time I saw him out of control: "It's been too long, and I don't think about many things anymore." ”

His expression was so sad that I didn't even have time to feel my heartache, and hugged him tightly: "I will accompany you, forget about the past." ”

"Little fool......" his muffled voice rang over my shoulder, and then fell silent, engulfed in endless darkness.

The next day after school rehearsal, Mr. Shen really came, standing at the door of the rehearsal room and did not come in, as if he was afraid of disturbing our rehearsal.

I hid myself in a prop. Looking at the man leaning against the door from a distance, with a shallow smile, a neatly folded blazer on his wrist, calm and handsome, that kind of composure and nobility emanated from his bones.

It's like a jar of wine, the longer it lasts, the more mellow it is, and the longer it gets, the more intoxicating it becomes.

I silently withdrew my gaze, took a deep breath, and waited for the rehearsal to end.

Coming out of the locker room, he ran into Bai Yiqing head-on, and he asked curiously: "Who is the man at the door?" I've been staring at you, and I doubt his eyes can get you out of two holes! ”

"He is Shen Qiushui, I mentioned it to you."

"Oh~ it's him!" Bai Yiqing raised his eyebrows thoughtfully: "Then you go quickly, he is still waiting for you." ”

"Well, I'll go first, see you tomorrow."

"See you later." He waved his hand and walked into the locker room.

When I ran to the door, Mr. Shen was on the phone, and I stood aside and waited, and he looked back at me, and then hurriedly said something to the person on the phone. He hung up.

Walked up to me and took out a black and white checkered handkerchief to wipe my sweat: "Don't be in such a hurry, I won't leave first." ”

"Hmm." After walking a few steps, I was alert to something: "Mr. Shen, I have to go back, and I lost something important." ”

"Then you go, I'll wait for you here."

"I'm sorry." As he spoke, he turned around and ran back to the locker room, just in time to see Bai Yiqing coming out of the locker room with the square bronze box in his hand.

"Xiaobai, that one I just fell on."

"Yours?" Bai Yiqing thought about it. I was about to give it back to me, but before my hand could touch the box, a powerful force shook my hand away, and I staggered several steps to my feet.

When he looked up again, the box actually emitted a strong white light in Bai Yiqing's palm, and the white light seemed to emanate from the box, so powerful that it penetrated the copper box.

Bai Yiqing was enchanted, his eyes were dark red, and he smiled weirdly, like another person, very strange.

"Xiaobai!!"

I could feel a powerful surge of energy, as if something was about to break through the obstacles and break through the Nine Nights.

But suddenly, that energy gradually weakened and then disappeared completely, and Bai Yiqing seemed to drain the strength in his body and fell to the ground.

I rushed forward to pick up the box that fell on the ground, and helped Bai Yiqing: "Xiaobai, Xiaobai, wake up!" ”

At this moment, Shen Qiushui broke into the door and found Bai Yiqing who had fallen to the ground, with a solemn face.

"What was that? I saw a white light burst through the sky, but it quickly vanished. ”

"I, I don't know, let's send Xiaobai to the hospital first."

Mr. Shen and I sent Bai Yiqing to the hospital, and the doctor said that it was only a temporary shock, and his body was in a very tired state, and he would be fine after a few days of recuperation.

"Who is he?" Shen Qiushui stared at Bai Yiqing on the hospital bed and asked.

"It's classmates, but it's a different class, and the people are very welcoming." There are some things that I don't want to say too much to Shen Qiushui, especially when it comes to the existence of Chu Nantang.

"Really?" Shen Qiushui pursed his lips, thought for a while and said, "This person is full of weirdness, it's better not to get too close in the future." ”

"Mr. Shen, don't worry, I'm measured."

Shen Qiushui sighed: "I know, you don't like to control you, but I also care about you!" ”

"Mr. Shen, I don't mean to blame you, I also know that you care about me, but Xiaobai is my little friend, he won't hurt me."

After that, Shen Qiushui didn't ask about it again, and asked a nurse to come over to accompany me, and I was guarding Xiaobai in the hospital.

After Shen Qiushui left, Chu Nantang appeared.

"The power just now is terrifyingly powerful." As he spoke, his eyes fell on Bai Yiqing, puzzled: "Could it be that he is the person who is destined?" ”

"However, the box was not opened, so it was not."

"Maybe there is something special about opening this box."

I took out the bronze box and looked at it carefully for a long time, twisted the lid of the box, and still didn't move: "Nantang, I think it's a dangerous thing." Didn't you see Xiaobai's appearance at that time, as if he was controlled by it, and he didn't look like him at all. It's like a different person. ”

Chu Nantang took the box and put it in the palm of his hand, trying to urge the energy in the box again, but his palm trembled slightly, but that's all, there was no reaction.

"It's like an ancient forbidden spell......" he looked solemn and returned the box to me: "Take good care of it, don't lose it again, otherwise it will be very troublesome." Once this forbidden spell is released, it is not known what kind of catastrophe it will cause. ”

"Forbidden spells?" Ancestral things, how could it be? I sighed to myself and put it in my backpack.

Chu Nantang put his hands around his chest and looked at Bai Yiqing: "This box only seems to have an induction when it meets Xiaobai." ”

When Xiaobai woke up, he didn't seem to have woken up yet, and his brows were almost knotted while holding his heavy head: "My head hurts!" ”

"Xiaobai, are you awake?"

He shook his head: "What happened?" How do I ...... Will it be in the hospital? ”

Chu Nantang said: "You were ghosted. ”

Bai Yiqing exclaimed: "What?!" How could I be ghosted? That thing appeared, why didn't I feel it at all? Oh no! ”

"If you don't remember, don't worry about it anymore, Lingsheng hasn't had a good rest for a day and a night in order to take care of you."

Bai Yiqing looked embarrassed: "Lingsheng, I'm sorry, let you take care of me." ”

"Don't see outside, you're my friend, I have to go back to school, you can recuperate in the hospital, I'll ask for leave for you."

On the way to school with Chu Nantang, I couldn't help but ask him in confusion: "How did you deceive Xiaobai?" ”

"No one can explain this kind of thing, so here, I hope nothing else will be involved."

"Well, that's right." I smiled at him, "Or you think about it." ”

"Thank you, Madame, for the compliment."

My face was hot for a while, and I remembered what he said that night, and my heart was full of bad feelings: "You call me Mrs. in your mouth, but you don't actually think I am who you are." ”

"How do you say that? You're my most important sweetheart right now. ”

"Sweetheart?" I cautiously raised my eyes and asked him.

"The person who is spoiled on the tip of his heart is not his sweetheart?" He twisted the blood-colored rosary in his hand and smiled calmly and elegantly.

The one who is spoiled is not the one who is loved...... Maybe I'm too greedy and want more.

"Nantang. What do you think of Mr. Shen on me? I couldn't help but ask him, I just wanted to find out how sincere he was.

"Madame, it's not appropriate to ask me about this kind of thing." Chu Nantang rarely made a straight face, was silent for a while, but said: "He treats you very well, better than me." ”

I paused suddenly, bit my lip desperately, and endured the sourness on the tip of my nose: "I also think that Mr. Shen treats me better, better than you." ”

He didn't look back at me, the red tassels hanging from the rosary, following the hem of his robe. Swaying in the morning breeze.

That whole day, Chu Nantang didn't appear, I was so uncomfortable that I was about to breathe, what kind of existence am I to Chu Nantang? I have never been able to see through what he is thinking in his heart.

Even Shen Qiushui's mind was not as deep as he hid.

On the surface, the wind is calm and calm, and he doesn't feel at ease about anything, but after getting along for a long time, he knows that it is just the appearance of his disguise.

I waited for the day when he could confess everything to me, but it seemed like I was taking myself too seriously.

When I went back, I saw Shen Qiushui fiddling with something in the hall, and when I got closer, I realized that he had cut a lot of roses that were ready to be put in the bottle.

When he saw me coming back, he smiled and said, "Go wash your hands and wait for you to eat." ”

I reached for a rose, handed it to the tip of my nose and sniffed it, as if the sentimentality in my heart gradually dissipated.

"Is it pretty?" He pushed the vase of roses in front of me, and I nodded, "Beautiful." ”

"What? Got something on your mind? He took off his gloves. Asked with concern.

"No......" I hung my head, holding back the tears of the day, dripping down and smashing on the bud to bloom.

Shen Qiushui's good-looking brows tightened, and he gently hugged me: "Who made you so sad?" I'll clean him up for you. ”

I bit my lip and choked: "I failed the ...... test"

"Then take the test well next time."

"It's the end of the semester next time."

"Silly girl, it's okay, you just take a few salt duck eggs back, and grandma won't scold you."

I cried out loud and vented all my grievances and sadness until Shen Qiushui's shirt was soaked.

"Lingsheng, I hope you have something on your mind. Can you talk to me...... No matter when and where, I am behind you, my shoulders are leaning on you, you are tired, sad, you can come to my side at any time. ”

"I'm sorry Mr. Shen, for worrying you."

"Don't cry. Wash your face and let's eat. ”

……

After eating, doing my homework, lying on the bed was extremely annoyed, why did I run to Shen Qiushui and cry? Perhaps at that moment, his tenderness touched the most fragile emotion in my heart.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with Shen Qiushui, but why do I like Chu Nantang? Why......

"Chu Nantang, you dishonest guy, I've already decided not to want you!"

I pulled up the quilt and slept with a negative breath, but suddenly someone crawled out from under the quilt, and I was so scared that I almost screamed.

"Madame, I've made you sad."