(xii)
The rain in late autumn was cool, with withered yellow fallen leaves, sprinkled on Liu Zhixi's long hair, a little cool and indifferent. Liu Zhixi didn't hold an umbrella, walking alone in the rain, she enjoyed this moment of tranquility a little, she liked this feeling of free wandering, no need to think about heavy studies, no need to pay attention to those prickly eyes.
The road was a little long, but she walked very slowly, because she really didn't know where the road ahead was leading, and where she would go, it seemed that she could only resign herself to fate, turning from one small post station to another, and what kind of destination she would reach, she only felt helpless and powerless.
"Zhixi!" A pleasant bass sounded in his ears. She turned her head to see that Leng Jiang was wearing a sportswear and holding a basketball in his hand. "Come and see me play." Leng Jiang couldn't help but pull her towards the gymnasium, his hands were cold, but her heart was instantly warm.
On the court, a group of lively big boys, dressed in neat jerseys, were practicing the ball. Leng Jiang stepped forward with an arrow step, stepped into the basket in three steps, and the ball presented a beautiful parabola in the air, and then fell into the basket steadily.
Several boys blew their whistles, and the girls watching from the sidelines also clapped their hands excitedly and shouted. Leng Jiang turned her gaze, the first to Liu Zhixi, her face flushed, she didn't dare to look at him, but she couldn't stop being happy in her heart.
They walked side by side on the way back to Country Garden, Liu Zhixi's eyes were a little uneasy, but she cast a small joy that could not be hidden, Leng Jiang suddenly stopped, pulled her, and carefully took a fallen leaf from her hair. It is the leaf of the French plane tree, which has withered and curled up at this time, like a butterfly floating dead in the wind.
When Leng Jiang leaned down, Liu Zhixi felt his snort, and seemed to be a little anxious, and the sound of his rhythmic heartbeat was just a distance away from her turn. She closed her eyes, then opened them again, clipping the suffocating moment with her long, black eyelashes.
"Zhixi, why haven't you gone home yet?" Su Huai's somewhat shocked voice came from behind him. Liu Zhixi slowly turned her head and saw Su Huai standing upright on the street with a Nike schoolbag on his back, and Jia Xin followed him step by step. "I'll see you at the game." The corners of Leng Jiang's mouth hooked an arc, and he said to Su Huai lightly, Su Huai didn't look at his deep eyes, and stared at Liu Zhixi angrily.
Jia Xin stood by and watched the development of the situation as if he were watching a play in the cinema. Su Huai stepped forward and grabbed Liu Zhixi, and couldn't help but drag her forward, he held her hand tightly, as if as soon as she let go, she would disappear, and there would be no possibility of meeting again.
"Eh, hey, he saved my life." After walking a distance, Liu Zhixi whispered. Su Huai let go of his hand, his eyes were like torches, illuminating Liu Zhixi's face hot. "Their family is not a good family, and they will have less contact with him in the future." Su Huai said slowly, and the speed of his speech returned to calm.
"Why? I think he's very pitiful, and his family doesn't care about it. Liu Zhixi tried to argue for Leng Jiang. No-why-what-. Su Huai lengthened his tone, but showed a doting smile. Come, eat Häagen-Dazs. Passing by a shopping mall, Su Huai bought three cups of Häagen-Dazs, and the three of them stood on the cold and howling streets, chatting while tasting delicious food, watching the lights of thousands of homes, the lights of the city, and the neon lights of the city lighting up the night.
The night breeze blew, blowing through Liu Zhixi's hair, a fresh fragrance rushed to her face, Liu Zhixi was wearing a pink coat, slim, like a lotus blooming. "The little lotus has only shown its sharp corners, and there have already been dragonflies standing on its head", Su Huai couldn't help but think of this poem, yes, he was dreaming that he could become the lucky dragonfly, and the holy lotus flower could be guarded by him and not let anyone desecrate.
He looked at Liu Zhixi quietly, walked quietly, and thought quietly, Liu Zhixi suddenly turned around, and his two bright eyes were like a quiet lake, reflecting the swaying silver sea.
At eleven o'clock in the evening, Liu Zhixi sat at the table, thinking about what happened during the day, with sweetness surging in her heart and faint pain. Su Huai knocked on her bedroom door and brought her a cup of mellow coffee. She stirred with a small spoon and took a sip gently, with a faint sweetness in the bitterness, Su Huai looked at her in a daze, her expression seemed to be admiring Van Gogh's oil paintings.
"What's wrong?" Liu Zhixi couldn't help asking, "No, it's nothing", Su Huai, who had always been calm and composed, suddenly felt a little flustered, but he could see the admiration passed between his eyebrows. "Alas, Su Huai, I know, you are very good, but we are impossible after all." Liu Zhixi sighed, and Su Huai's eyes instantly looked like a candle with its wick twisted, "Why?" He asked in a low voice, hurting.
"There's no why." Liu Zhixi's attitude was a little awe-inspiring, she stood up and handed him the coffee cup, "I'm sleepy and want to rest." She looked indifferent, Su Huai left with interest, looking at his depressed back, she had both the pleasure of revenge and the heart-rending pain in her heart, the two emotions were intertwined, like water dripping on the floor merging with each other, unable to distinguish each other, but tumbling in her heart.
When the sky was slightly white, Liu Zhixi finished eating the exquisite nutritious breakfast made by the nanny, stepped on the morning dew, smelled the fragrance of the laurels on both sides of the street, and rode a bicycle out. When she arrived at the door of the classroom, she met two female classmates who knew each other and were about to say hello, but the two girls had strange expressions and disdainful eyes, as if they had seen something unclean, and deliberately lowered their heads to avoid her.
She was a little puzzled, and walked to the classroom, where the students who were reading in the morning instantly quieted down, followed by a dull indifference, and then a presumptuous laughter cut through the surface calm, and everyone read aloud again, but mixed with a feeling of indescribability.
Jia Xin is unwell today and asks for leave, one morning, no one takes the initiative to talk to Liu Zhixi, she sometimes unintentionally meets the eyes of other people, but those eyes are indifferent, ridicule and ridicule. Often when she opened her mouth, the other party deliberately turned her face away, unwilling to deal with her, she obviously felt that she was excluded, but she couldn't figure it out.
After school in the afternoon, the sky was already a little dark, Liu Zhixi felt bored staying in the classroom, so she packed her schoolbag and wanted to go to the basketball court to see Leng Jiang practice. Walking on the streets at dusk, the crimson sunset seems to be rendered by love, kissing distant mountains, trees and flowers, gilding them with a layer of dazzling gold, beautiful like a foreign country, and like a fairy tale world.
Liu Zhixi wandered slowly, Ren Wanfeng lifted her white clothes, and a sense of desolation suddenly arose in her heart, in this huge world, she was already invisible, standing alone, even if she was smiling, she couldn't hide the pain and sadness in her heart, even if she was in the crowd, she felt lonely and lonely.
"Zhixi!" Leng Jiang's unique voice conveyed a kind of warmth, which instantly made her feel flattered by the indifferent world. Her tears couldn't help but flow, for some reason, she was afraid that Leng Jiang would see her vulnerable side, so she buried her head and refused to raise it. As if unintentionally wiping away her tears, she cheered herself up in her heart, and then looked at Leng Jiang with a casual smile.
"What's wrong?" Leng Jiang still noticed her strangeness, she smiled hard, magnifying her smile to the maximum arc, "It's nothing, it's just that the sand has lost my eyes." Leng Jiang wisely stopped asking, suddenly stepped forward, and hugged her gently when Liu Zhixi was caught off guard.
Her hair fluttered in the wind, exuding an intoxicating fragrance that immersed Leng Jiang in it. Leng Jiang's chest was very warm and steady, and Liu Zhixi's heart was uneasy at first, but the moment she heard his heartbeat, she became stable and nostalgic.
I don't know how long it took, time seemed to stand still, the world didn't seem to turn anymore, Liu Zhixi still greedily didn't want to separate, this throbbing gentleness gave her a sense of solid security under the fence, as if she was returning to a happy and comfortable home, just like many years ago, when grandma and mom were there.
"Slut!" Liu Zhixi looked at the text message on her phone, tears filled her eyes, and she deleted the message without hesitation, and added that person's number to the blacklist. The stadium was crowded with people, cheering and shouting one after another, deafening, the game entered the white-hot stage, and the orange well team led by Su Huai and the music student team led by Leng Jiang fought for the final battle for the championship and runner-up.
Leng Jiang made a beautiful turn, dodged the opponent's feint, and then jumped slightly, the basketball was thrown out of his hand, and after a graceful arc, it fell into the basket completely. The audience was boiling, and the girl shaking beside her couldn't help but wave her flag and shout. Liu Zhixi's hands were clenched tightly, she hoped that Leng Jiang could win the championship smoothly, and she also hoped that Su Huai could get her wish.
But in fact, she was wrong, neither of them cared about winning or losing the game, what they cared about was the position of themselves and the other party in Liu Zhixi's heart. "Win!" The girl next to her cheered loudly, Leng Jiang made a dashing shot, and the music cadet team won the game.
A large number of people poured onto the basketball court, and Leng Jiang was surrounded and walked out of the stadium, but he frequently turned around, searching for Liu Zhixi's figure. The fans of the Tachibana team were a little sullen, but they still shouted "You guys are the best!" Su Huai is also very general-like, and after shaking hands with the coaches of the conservatory team, he put on his coat and walked out of the competition venue calmly.
"Zhixi, tonight we celebrate the feast, you can come too." Liu Zhixi's mobile phone vibrated for a moment, it was Leng Jiang. "I'm sorry, not tonight, we have dinner with Lin Sujin's family tonight." Liu Zhixi thought about it for a while and replied to Leng Jiang. "You win the game, let Su Huai win the favor." Liu Zhixi edited another message and sent it to Leng Jiang, who did not respond for a long time.
"Zhixi, you know what, I play so hard, not only because I want to win, but also because I want to see him lose." At the scene of the celebration banquet with a lively atmosphere, Leng Jiang stood downstairs in the hotel under the pretense of going to the bathroom, the wind was cold, and there was some rain, he closed his eyes, imagined Liu Zhixi's beautiful face, and said to himself.
"Die! Slut! Liu Zhixi rested in front of the desk, the bright eye-protecting light poured on her face, the lines of her face looked particularly soft, like a precious treasure, dusty for a long time, after passing through thousands of years of wind and sand, it was discovered by hard-working archaeologists, with a calm and calm attitude.
The phone on the table rang at an inopportune time, she swiped through the text message interface, and the unsightly words were repeated, and the sender changed to a new mobile phone number.
She was full of grievances, and she didn't know what to do, and the hot tears fell one by one and slipped into the corners of her mouth, which was a slightly bitter and sour taste. She simply picked up her mobile phone and dialed it directly, but the phone was quickly hung up after a "beep" sound. She continued to dial like crazy, and the phone was turned off. After a while, another unfamiliar number sent another abusive text message.
She finally couldn't help it, desperately smashed her phone on the ground, and cried bitterly. Su Huai heard the sound and anxiously knocked on her bedroom door. She sobbed, briefly sorted out her mood, and opened the door, but tears poured down her face. Su Huai's eyes were also red, and his expression was a little haggard, Liu Zhixi told him about the matter, and he, who had always been good-tempered, clenched his fists angrily.
As he spoke, Wen Li walked out of the cloakroom in a new fashion, and let out a disdainful "hum" from his nostrils, his eyes aggressive. Wen Li stepped on the black shiny leather stiletto heels, "dong dong dong" walked out, the driver was already waiting outside the villa, Liu Zhixi suddenly felt that it was like a gun, a gun was in the center, and it was like a needle, pricking her keenest nerves.
"Shameless." When Wenli turned to go out, the extremely contemptuous whisper happened to be stuck in her throat, but Liu Zhixi read the meaning from the corner of her mouth. Liu Zhixi stood up suddenly, Su Huai looked at her worriedly, there were cracks in her heart, she longed for a clear spring, but the sky was filled with acid rain, corroding her tired heart ventricles, so that the warmth and hope that grew in her heart soil were extinguished.
Liu Zhixi shook her head weakly, and said to Su Huai with a reluctant smile: "It's just a prank, it's okay." With that, she waved her hand and went back into the bedroom, and the moment the door closed, she sat down on the floor with a deep memory of the past.
It rained lightly in the night, and the sound of the rain hitting the leaves was like a magical elf tap-dancing. Liu Zhixi was groggy, she walked on a long path, and she was still a child who did not know anything about the world at that time. A beautiful woman called her name behind her, but instead of calling her "Zhixi", she was never mentioned in real life, "Wanchen", that name was so unfamiliar, but it was like thunder.
The woman took her to a familiar place, where there were green trees, red bricks and white walls. She cried for a lollipop, so the woman left her alone in that place, and promised to buy candy and come and pick her up, but she waited for a long, long time, and from noon until sunset, the woman did not appear again.
She stayed alone in the same place, and from time to time she was asked about her, and she stubbornly refused to answer. Night fell, and out of the courtyard came a kind old man, who was a grandmother. Grandma didn't seem to know her, but she still caressed her little furry head kindly and kindly, and took her back to her warm home.
At home, she also saw her father and mother, who was so young, repairing the TV in the living room, and who was so virtuous, knitting a big red sweater, and they saw herself, and their eyes were full of joy and love.
"Di Di Di", the sound of the alarm clock rang in her ears at an inopportune time, and she opened her eyes in a daze, realizing that everything just now was just a dream. She pressed the switch of the wall light at the head of the bed, changed her clothes, opened the curtains, and it was still dark. She finished washing up in the bathroom in her bedroom and walked out the door.
Su Huai was already sitting in the restaurant for breakfast, his hair was a little messy, his expression was slightly tired, as if he was troubled by something, she didn't know if it was because of her euphemistic refusal, or because of the text message.
However, no matter what the reason, from the bottom of her heart, she didn't want him to be sad, even if she hated, even if sometimes she wanted to take revenge, but she understood that the object of hatred and revenge should not be him after all.
She smiled a rare cheerful smile, as bright as the spring sun, the clear autumn sky, and he looked at her inquiringly, but also smiled kindly. It's just that she still saw a trace of worry and worry in his eyes.
Liu Zhixi picked up a slice of bread from the dining table, dipped it in some jam, and walked out of the villa. The morning wind was a little cool, the thin mist was like a wedding dress, and the wind was the wedding priest, whispering the ode to love. From time to time, migratory birds flying south cross the sky, constantly changing formations and making clear chirps.
Liu Zhixi brushed the hair that was blown by the wind, a silhouette, the slender figure was frozen in the dawn of the autumn cold, the dew rolling on the grass beside the road, if there was vision, it would also sigh the miracle of the Creator, and if the laurel trees on both sides of the road could sing, they would also tremble because of Liu Zhixi's otherworldliness.
"Shameless." Liu Zhixi walked to the door of the classroom, the bustling sound inside stopped abruptly, her ears picked up this insult, and everyone's eyes looked at her in unison, like a searchlight. She took a deep breath and walked straight to her seat, pulling out her English textbook from her bag, trying not to care about the attitude of the people around her, and engrossed in the grammar questions.
The hour hand pointed to eight o'clock in the morning, and Liu Zhixi noticed that Jia Xin's seat next to her was still empty. During the recess, she thought about it and edited a text message to Jia Xin, but it was a long silence, or a strange silence.
"Zhixi, you wait." After school in the afternoon, Zeng Xiao stopped Liu Zhixi, and she remembered that she hadn't gone home with him for a long time. "Zhixi, is it true that you live in Su Huai's house?" Zeng Xiao's expression was a little nervous. Liu Zhixi was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded.
"Zhixi, do you know, Jia Xin spread rumors everywhere, saying that you, you, seduced Su Huai, and even took pictures of you." Liu Zhixi's smile froze on her face, and her mind was a little blank.
"Still, I believe in you, and I know you must have something to hide. No matter what others say, at any time and under any circumstances, I believe you unconditionally. Zeng Xiao stared at Liu Zhixi, word by word, sonorous and categorical.
"Thank you, Zeng Xiao." Liu Zhixi's eyes were a little damp, her heart, like a stubborn stone, felt a warm breeze in spring, even though her heart was still cold, but there were already green plants growing on the surface.
"I'm sorry, Zhixi, we shouldn't just listen to rumors." In the QQ group of the class, many classmates Aite Liu Zhixi said that they blamed her wrongly and should not believe Jia Xin's words. And Jia Xin's avatar has always been gray, no matter how everyone talks about it, he has not made a single remark online.
She is like a gray area, although inconspicuous, but so abrupt. Liu Zhixi told everyone frankly that the reason for living in Su Huai's house, the classmates all expressed understanding, and there were also girls who were easily moved by emotions, and they made expressions of crying and hugging. Everyone chatted enthusiastically in the group, and unconsciously forgot the time.
Before going to bed, Liu Zhixi lay comfortably on the soft big bed, feeling that the stone in her heart really felt the vitality of spring, even if it was possible to weather, but the dust that fell would melt into the whole of the earth, becoming a piece of soil, which could be planted with a happy vision.
Liu Zhixi casually looked at the chat interface and saw an icon that was forever gray, it was Yao Yao. She couldn't help but feel a wave of uneasiness, Yao Yao, is she okay? She was supposed to be a happy and carefree girl, showing off her wisdom, family harmony, and popularity, but that incident destroyed everything for her and collapsed her future, can she recover from the pain of her body, can she be freed from the hurt of her heart?
Liu Zhixi prayed silently for her in her heart, and even had a feeling that although her family was ruined and adrift, she still kept the most precious thing as a girl. With such the most worthy of protection, she is happy, free and rich, she is happy because of her original intention, free because of her purity, and rich because of her beliefs.
Liu Zhixi wrote a message and wanted to greet Yao Yao, but after thinking twice, she still deleted it and didn't send it. Liu Zhixi wrote "Leng Jiang, do you know, the change I am most afraid of is that when I wake up, the world is completely different", she decisively chose "Leng Jiang" in the name column and sent it without hesitation.
She immediately received Leng Jiang's reply, "I have long been accustomed to the impermanence of the world, my world, someone is coming, I warmly welcome it, if they want to leave, I will not keep it." The text is followed by the image of a rose.
"It's good to have you, Leng Jiang." Liu Zhixi said emotionally.
"My goal is to get all the bad guys the punishment they deserve. I won't let anyone hurt you, Zhixi. ”