Chapter 04 Marginal Characters
The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Lin Yushan was dragged up.
Xu Mengzhou went to the breakfast shop outside to buy buns and eggs, handed them to her, and stuffed her into the car with her suitcase.
The sky was gray, and the car was driving steadily on the high speed. Lin Yushan saw the two dark blues under his eyes through the light reflected from the car window.
The two of them, did they have a ...... last night?
After living in his house for five years, except for the quarrel between husband and wife, she has never heard any unspeakable sounds.
Never mind. Who knows? They are legal husband and wife, they can do whatever they want, and they have nothing to do with her, an outsider.
The more I thought about it, the more speechless I felt. Lin Yushan turned his head to adjust the angle and rolled his eyes heavily at Xu Mengzhou in the rearview mirror.
"I can see it."
Lin Yushan hurriedly sat down.
Xu Mengzhou turned the steering wheel while paying attention to the road conditions, chatting with her with or without a match, "Didn't you sleep well last night?" ”
"As you have seen, thank you for what you have given." Lin Yushan didn't expect that he had been observing himself with his peripheral vision, so he had to retract his eyes stupidly, "I don't have a class today, can't I let people sleep more?" ”
"You don't have classes, but I still have to go to school." Xu Mengzhou smiled, looking at her slightly sideways like a child, "It should be that I haven't come back for too long and I'm not used to sleeping, so let's sleep more in the car." ”
He came to his own conclusions. Lin Yushan laughed in his heart when he heard this, but he didn't answer him, he raised his head and squinted for a while.
Jingzhou University is only an hour's drive from Xu Mengzhou's home. Staggered the morning rush hour and there was no traffic jam, and it arrived smoothly. After getting out of the car, Lin Yushan lifted the trunk from the trunk, turned around, and almost hit a solid chest, it was Xu Mengzhou.
The snort catches a fresh smell of laundry detergent, which is faintly inaudible. She felt her heart skip a beat.
"Here you go."
Xu Mengzhou opened the car door, took out a brown booklet from it and handed it to her, the booklet was very old, it looked a little old, and the cover was slightly damaged.
"Why are you suddenly willing to lend it to me now?" Lin Yushan saw that this was the survey manual she asked Xu Mengzhou for yesterday.
"Actually...... The content in this is basically written under the guidance of Professor Lin. Xu Mengzhou pursed his lips, "This is not my manual alone, and part of it also belongs to your father." ”
When she was still living at Xu Mengzhou's house, she found this manual in his study. From then on, as long as she finished her homework, she would take this booklet and ask Xu Mengzhou curiously, and he would answer her patiently little by little. It's just that I didn't expect this booklet to have such a relationship with my father.
The tip of her nose was a little sour, "Why do you just say it now." Didn't you refuse to give it to me before? ”
"You've almost finished moving your things, and this booklet is also a relic of Professor Lin, so let's take it with you."
Lin Yushan raised his eyes to look at him unwillingly, "Is it true that we won't meet in the future?" ”
Xu Mengzhou smiled, gently stroked her hair with his palm, and rubbed it like a small animal, "Stupid." How could it be, you moved away and didn't get married......"
He felt that he was probably tired of getting up early and driving, and said such things inexplicably. Stop this out of place topic in time.
"What will happen to you if I get married?" Lin Yushan took a step closer to him, and flames ignited from the depths of his eyes, scorching out his senses other than hearing. She eagerly awaited Xu Mengzhou's answer, her clenched fists wet with slippery sweat.
The topic was provoked by himself, Xu Mengzhou couldn't, so he had to answer positively, "It's still early, I know that you are a very assertive person, and you will not make hasty decisions about major events in life." ”
He lifted the frame on the bridge of his nose, "But when it comes to the day of marriage in the future, you still have to bring it back to show me, so that I can rest assured." ”
It was as if a stopped area in her heart was suddenly activated, and she asked unwillingly, "Are you uneasy...... Not worried about what? ”
"Okay, I still have classes in the morning. Fast in. Xu Mengzhou pushed her with her suitcase in the direction of the school gate.
Without oxygen, the flame goes out.
She had long known that Xu Mengzhou would not give an answer, and she was still unwilling to get a clue from him that he cared about her.
The wind of the early March morning was extremely cold, but her back was blocked by his body, and it was warm.
Lin Yushan's legs seemed to be filled with lead, and he couldn't take a step when he pushed him. She simply turned around and pushed the suitcase aside.
"Teacher Xu, I ......"
"Huh?"
"Teacher Xu, take care."
She seemed to have made a lot of determination, and added: "Be wary of the people around you, and don't let anyone have a chance to hurt you." ”
"What?"
"It's nothing, it's just not worth it for you." Lin Yushan pursed his lips. She felt a little stuffy in her nose, and in a second the tears in her eyes would fall. "Okay, let's go, don't be late, I'll watch you go."
The nineteen-year-old in front of her overlapped and intertwined with the small figure of the thirteen-year-old Lin Yushan, and finally separated. His lips twitched slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't ask more.
After waving goodbye to her, Xu Mengzhou drove the car into the busy street, quickly blended into it, and disappeared.
Lin Yushan breathed a long sigh of relief. She picked up the worn-out survey booklet, tears dripping down her eyes as if she were relieved. She understood that in her own capacity, she could only do this for him.
Sometimes she fantasizes that if she had been born a few years earlier, she would not have fallen into the spell of "I was born before I was born, and I was old when I was born".
Xu Mengzhou has always had many labels for her-
She secretly loved someone for many years, a gentle and generous teacher, a nurturer who was not related by blood, and her father's favorite student.
and, the last thing she wants to face is a label - a married man.
But she obviously knew Xu Mengzhou earlier than Huang Ying.
The mistakes in this world have never stopped for a moment.
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A cloud of red light approached, and Xu Mengzhou stepped on the brakes in a panic. Just now, he almost rushed out to the red light in front of him.
The strong recoil of the sudden braking made him almost lean forward, and after the violent braking. The head also fell heavily on the saddle pillow with inertia.
If it weren't for this seat belt, I might be lying in the hospital today.
"Di Di ——!!!"
Behind him came the sound of a hurried car horn, accompanied by the shouting and scolding of strangers. "Front! What the hell? Does Nima drive? Suddenly give me a sudden brake in front of the red light, do you want to touch the porcelain!? ”
Xu Mengzhou took a long breath, his hands slipped heavily from the steering wheel, his body leaned straight on the seat, and his eyes closed.
Why didn't you say goodbye to Lin Yushan just now?
If today is the last time we meet, then my responsibility to her can really end here?
Is his own care for Lin Yushan a habit or what?
I don't want to dig deeper. This is what she owes her, and she can't pay it back for the rest of her life.
The green light turned on, Xu Mengzhou stepped on the accelerator and quickly blended into the traffic flow in the early morning rush hour.
Jingzhou No. 1 Middle School, inside the office.
Xu Mengzhou teaches high school geography. Since I am not a class teacher, I don't need to have too much in-depth contact with students other than attending classes. In the morning, when I arrived at the office, I only needed to prepare for the class and organize the materials for the research project. He randomly stuffed himself with two slices of bread to solve breakfast, and then opened the PPT to be used later to prepare for class.
Hands tapped quickly on the keyboard. His eyes saw a vague figure quickly passing by the office window, and the sound of footsteps came from far and near, and a girl appeared at the door of the office. Her hands were tightly clutched at the door frame, her forehead covered with sweat as she ran too fast, panting hard, and her back heaving violently.
Xu Mengzhou recognized the girl as the president of the class he was going to class in the afternoon.
"What's wrong? Take your time. He immediately put down his workstation and got up.
"Teacher Xu, fortunately you are here, our homeroom teacher is not here." The girl gasped and cried. "There were two people in our class who got into a fight, and it was so bad, both of them were bleeding. Mr. Xu, go and have a look! ”
"Okay." Xu Mengzhou closed his laptop, "I'll take a look, you call your homeroom teacher immediately, and then go and notify the teaching director to come over." ”
Leaving the office, he almost raced past. When I arrived at the classroom, it was already full of students watching the excitement outside, and no one went up to stop it. Xu Mengzhou only felt that something was wrong, and he forcefully opened the onlookers before he saw the scene inside.
The two teenagers grabbed each other's collars, one of them was pressed under the other teenager because of his weak size, and both of them had colored faces, their noses were blue and swollen, and blood was oozing from their nostrils. At this moment, the young man above had the upper hand, and he swung his fist hard at the people below him.
The boy below couldn't dodge and was dazed by the punch. He shook his head and tried to regain his senses, spitting out a mouthful of blood, gritting his teeth and throwing a punch at the boy who was pressing above him with the remaining strength of his body. However, his physical strength was not as good as that of the other party, and his fist was immediately clamped by the person opposite, and then he was punched in the abdomen. The boy curled up in pain, but when the other party withdrew his fist, he found an opportunity to bite the other person's arm.
"Shhh...... Your mother is a prostitute who doesn't want money, the kind that anyone can play. I've had enough of my dad, so let me play too! The boy above was bitten by this bite and was completely enraged. He held down the other's head and slammed it down the hard floor.
If it is smashed like this, the consequences are unimaginable.
Xu Mengzhou didn't leave himself time to think, he immediately used his hands to protect the head of the vulnerable teenager. Due to the other party's death, his hand was smashed into the hard floor together.
"Bang!"
There was a muffled thud, and his hands were slammed to the floor.
The two students reacted and accidentally injured the teacher, so they had to stop and look at him at a loss.
The instantaneous pain stabbed him, and a chill rose in his nerve endings, and then his hands seemed to be paralyzed.