The secrets we missed in time

Chapter 23
From the first semester of senior high school, the school has changed to a single holiday: a half-day class is added every Saturday morning, and two hours of extracurricular group activities are added in the afternoon.

This Saturday, after the afternoon training, Xu Yuan called Bai Ang, Wen Lei, Wen Miao, Wang Xinning, and Jiang Chao together, and the six of them walked out of the school in a mighty manner, ready to go out and get together.

There is a small river next to the experimental middle school, which is a tributary of the river that passes through the city.At the beginning of this century, it was a Qingshui River with lush trees and beautiful scenery on both sides of the river.Later, the city's sewage continued to increase. It was polluted and turned into a well-known stinky ditch. In the early 90s, the municipal government launched a comprehensive treatment project, turning the old stinking ditch back into the Qingshui River, and built many riverside landscape parks along the river, making it a green landscape in the city again.

Xu Yuan and the six of them walked along the riverside park towards the pedestrian street commercial center not far away.

"Yuan, Xinning, my family will move to that community next month, please come and play then!" Wen Miao said, pointing to a newly built villa community near the park.

"Wow, Brother Miao, do you live here? You are rich! Please hug your thighs." Jiang Chao said exaggeratedly, "This neighborhood is full of high-end villas, and the location is in the city center. How much does it cost?"

"I don't know, it was developed by my family." Wen Miao has no scheming, and she doesn't know how to hide her family background. From her point of view, there is no secret between friends. "What, your family wants to buy it? Let me help you ask." ah."

"Don't, don't, don't! I can't afford it, I can't afford it!" Jiang Chao waved his hand quickly, thinking dumbfounded: Those who can afford the villa here are either rich or expensive, let alone developers, this Wenmiao and his family How rich!

"Miaomiao, it's okay to tell us a few, don't tell others about your family's situation casually in the future, people's hearts are not ancient, you will easily suffer like this." Wang Xinning said quietly to Wen Miao.

Xu Yuan also nodded and said, "That's right, you are just too naive and easily deceived."

Wen Miao didn't feel that having money in her family would have any impact on her interpersonal relationship, but since her two best friends said so, she just nodded in understanding.

Bai Ang walked behind several people, and after hearing what they said, he sneered contemptuously in his heart, thinking: Those couple are doing well in business now, who would have thought that they would not even pay for their grandfather's funeral expenses back then!
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt guilty going out with the brothers and sisters of the Wen family, and he felt sorry for his grandfather who loved him the most.So he stopped and watched the backs of the other five people go further and further away, no one even noticed that he was behind, and the sense of loneliness that haunted him since he was a child once again enveloped him.His nose was sore, but there were no tears.Ever since his grandfather passed away and his mother married this person, and since that person came back drunk for the first time and did something to the mother and son, Bai Ang decided to never cry again, to be strong, to protect himself and his mother.

Bai Ang, who was watching the river gurgling by himself, thought in his heart: since when did I, who was burdened with such a fate, start thinking about intimacy?To actually call the enemy's child brothers and sisters is simply degenerate to the extreme.All this is thanks to that "little enemy"!He plans to put away his self-pity from now on, and restore the invulnerable and unruly self. Anyway, he has kept a safe distance from other people for so many years, isn't he also alive normally?

"Damn idiot! What are you doing here?" Behind him, a pleasant voice sounded, "I've been looking for you for a long time!"

This sentence "dead idiot" made Bai Ang's cold heart burn again.He decided that this girl who appeared at the moment when he wanted to give up was the weakness and armor in his heart.

"Little enemy..." Bai Ang showed a sad smile, not knowing what to say to Xu Yuan.He had a lot to say, but he couldn't say a word.

"What's wrong with you? What are you thinking here?" Xu Yuan sensitively saw Bai Ang's strangeness, and thought to herself: Did something stimulate him just now?Could it be because Wen Miao talked about her family, which reminded Bai Ang of his own life experience? "Just now, Wen Miao, she..."

"Little friend, I have someone I like." Bai Ang suddenly interrupted Xu Yuan, because just at that moment, he made what he thought was the bravest decision in his life—to confess his love to Xu Yuan.

"Ah..." Xu Yuan was stunned, unable to react for a while, "So it's because of this?"

"Don't you ask who it is?" Bai Ang looked at Xu Yuan expectantly with a pair of slender eyes filled with water vapor.Under his face as calm as a windless lake, there was just a little bird that was about to break out of its shell, pecking at his chest—that was his heart.

"Who is it? Someone I know?" Xu Yuan asked, then slapped her head, "Wait a minute, don't tell me, let me guess!"

Bai Ang was taken aback: "You know?"

"Li Ying—it's your deskmate Li Ying! Isn't it?" Xu Yuan was complacent, with an expression of "my eyes see too much".

Bai Ang was instantly pissed off with anger, and said angrily, "What a big-headed ghost to you! How could I fall in love with such a silly girl like you?"

As soon as these words came out, both of them were dumbfounded.

Bai Ang thought to himself: It's over, girls like romance, how can someone say "Why do I like you, silly girl" when confessing?What girl would be happy to hear that?Even if it was a temporary confession, it would be too hasty.

He stole a look at Xu Yuan, and found that she was frozen in place expressionlessly, like a dumb chicken.He didn't know that Xu Yuan's head was as blank as a piece of paper at this time, and there was only one line written on the paper: He likes me? !
"Hey, little friend." Bai Ang pulled the corner of Xu Yuan's clothes, and asked tentatively in a low voice, "What... what do you think?"

Xu Yuan couldn't recover from the shock, and replied in a trance: "Impossible."

Hearing what Xu Yuan said, Bai Ang's heart full of expectations immediately became depressed, and he recovered the low self-esteem that was originally low in the dust - fear of being rejected, fear of being unworthy.He laughed at himself and told himself: You just don't deserve it and deserve to be rejected.

"Impossible, how could you like me? You were joking with me, right?" Xu Yuan said like she was dreaming.

Bai Ang has shrunk into a hedgehog, regretting the feat of opening his heart just now.Since he has a harder backstab than others, he has a softer heart than others.That heart will never be revealed easily, if you don't grasp it firmly at the moment of revealing, you will only miss it-how could he foolishly expose his shortcomings again?

"Yeah, I'm just teasing you, don't you take it seriously?" Bai Ang put on a mocking expression on purpose, and rubbed Xu Yuan's hair, "Idiot!"

"Damn idiot, scare me!" Xu Yuan regained her senses and beat Bai Ang vigorously, "You like Li Ying, right?"

When Bai Ang heard Xu Yuan mention Li Ying again, he was inexplicably annoyed, one was angry at Xu Yuan's incomprehensible style, and he was also angry at his impulsiveness.He was very frustrated, dropped the sentence "I don't like anyone!" and left alone.

(End of this chapter)