My deskmate makes me unwilling to study

Wen Xiao withdrew his hand first.

Avoiding Ikeno's sight, he asked, "How about this basketball?"

At this moment, the cold voice startled the dust in the equipment room.

"It's okay, let me try." Chi Ye stood up, and the almost frozen air between the two suddenly began to flow again. He patted the ball twice, "That's right, that's it."

On the playground, Xu Rui could already stand up and was flexing his wrists.Seeing that Xiao and Chi Ye came back with the ball, they became excited again: "The ball is finally here! Brother Chi, why are you so slow? If you are 2 minutes late, get out of class will be over with the whistle."

Unusual, Chi Ye didn't say anything, just twirled the basketball with his fingers and raised his chin: "Will you play?"

"Of course we have to fight! Exercise is good for your physical and mental health!" Xu Rui rubbed his fists, then remembered again, "By the way, is there another expert in the cloaked mound next to him? I just saw the school's security guards gather in the past."

"I saw it just now, I guess it was," Zhao Yiyang jumped on the spot twice, "Why, friend, do you want to go exciting again?"

"No, no, no," Xu Rui waved his hands frantically, "I won't go! I've got a shadow, that place is not suitable for me! Come, come, play!"

The bell rang for the end of get out of class, and the physical education teacher blew his whistle to gather, and announced the dissolution after a few words.

Ikeno had already taken off his school uniform jacket, and only wore a light-colored short-sleeved T-shirt. The part soaked in sweat was dark in color, and the whole dress was mottled. His muscular arms were exposed, and the prominent arc was very attractive. people.

Wen Xiao's neck was covered with a layer of fine sweat from strenuous exercise, as if a layer of water had been applied to the jade face.Chi Ye glanced at him, moved his fingers, then looked back restrainedly, and asked his deskmate, "Are you going to the supermarket? Buy water."

"Go, let's go."

During the big break, many people ran to the supermarket. Wen Xiao was almost hit twice, but it was Chi Ye who grabbed his arm and dragged him to the side.

The skin under the clasped fingers made him a little irritable, and Chi Ye stared at the sweat overflowing from Wen Xiao's temples: "Aren't you hot?"

"It's okay." Wen Xiao pulled down the zipper, and the blue and white sleeves of the school uniform were rolled up at the elbows, which was much rarer than usual.

Chi Ye grabbed the school uniform with his left hand, and put his right hand on the shoulder of his deskmate, "Speaking of which, Zhao Yiyang bombarded me crazily last night, asking me over and over again if I knew you were good at fighting. He said he ate two hamburgers Suppresses the shock, but the effect doesn't last, and I can't fall asleep in bed when I go home, so I have to ask clearly to be sure."

Wen Xiao didn't struggle, let him hold her, turned her head and asked, "What did you say?"

Chi Ye pursed his lips, showing a bit of anger: "I said, of course I knew it a long time ago, because I taught Wen Xiao personally."

"..." Wen Xiao pondered in his mind for a long time before he picked out a word: "Shameless."

There were too many people, and the supermarket had to line up to pay for drinks. Wen Xiao took two bottles of iced Coke and paid for them together.Standing outside the supermarket, Wen Xiao habitually unscrewed the bottle cap and handed it to Chi Ye, then took the other bottle and unscrewed it.

Ike Ye swallowed a sip of Coke, and his whole body felt comfortable with the cold and irritating feeling.He tossed the plastic bottle cap he was holding in his hand, and smiled, "At the same table, you made me get used to it, what should I do in the future?"

Knowing that he was referring to the matter of opening the bottle cap, Wen Xiao lowered his eyelashes: "In a year and a half, your hand injury should be healed."

One and a half years.

The Coke that Ikeno drank suddenly tasted bitter.

His deskmate said that they were willing to open Coke for him in the year and a half before graduating from high school.

A certain place in his heart suddenly felt aching, Chi Ye squeezed the plastic bottle, his palm ached, and took a big gulp of Coke to suppress all the bitterness rising from the depths.

Chi Ye climbed over the wall and Wen Xiao returned to the classroom.When I sat down in my seat, it was several minutes before the bell rang.

Xu Rui rolled his notebook into a cylinder and faced Wen Xiao, almost writing "I'm too curious" all over his face.He cleared his throat: "May I ask, is Brother Chi teaching you the basics of fighting on the basketball court downstairs of your house every night when the wind is high?"

Before Wen Xiao could answer, Xu Rui continued to ask excitedly: "So the last time you had an appointment with Brother Chi on WeChat, it wasn't because of enmity, nor was it because of a decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City, but it was similar to the monthly and weekly exams. The reason why the teacher made an appointment is to let the teacher, Brother Chi, see your recent practice results, right!"

Wen Xiao was silent - what exactly did Chi Ye say to Zhao Yiyang?

At the same time, Chi Ye, who was walking towards Ningyuan Elementary School, suddenly had an itchy nose—could it be that his deskmate missed him?

After picking up Yaya, Chi Ye took her home first, put away her schoolbag, and changed her clothes again.

The pink and white rabbit ears on the hat hung down, and Yaya followed Chi Ye like a small tail, raised her head and asked her brother, "Are we going to see mother?"

Chi Ye threw the school uniform into the washing machine, and when he opened the closet to get the coat, he saw the school uniform hanging in the corner——Wen Xiao was wearing the one on his body, and the blood on it had turned a heavy rust color.

After closing the closet door, Chi Ye replied to Ya Ya: "Yes, the doctor called and told me to go."

Yaya sat on the edge of the bed, kicked her legs in white stockings upwards, her eyes lit up, "Is mom feeling better, uncle doctor wants us to chat with mom?"

Chi Ye tightened his fingers holding the coat, and soon loosened it again. He relaxed his tone: "Maybe it is like this."

I just happened to stagger the off-duty rush hour and arrived at the hospital smoothly all the way, and then I was blocked at the elevator entrance and queued for 10 minutes.

Looking at the floor map of the wards posted above the elevator buttons, Ikeno thought that the church and wards were indeed the places where he had heard the most prayers and confessions.

Ya Ya bit a strawberry-flavored paper stick lollipop, and tugged Chi Ye's hand, "Brother, what's wrong with you?"

Chi Ye couldn't smile for a while, he held Yaya's warm hand, "It's nothing, let's go, the elevator is here."

On the 27th floor, Ya Ya was handed over to the nurse for temporary care, and Chi Ye turned the doorknob by himself and entered the doctor's office.

"Your mother's latest test results have come out. Because the situation is not optimistic, I couldn't tell you clearly on the phone this morning, so I specially asked you to come to the hospital." The doctor wore a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and the splayed lines on both sides of the nose were very sharp. Shen, he took out a film from the brown paper bag, "This is the report from the radiology department."

Chi Ye was no stranger to such a scene. He sat on a cold chair in the hospital, his eyes fell on the doctor's face, trying to capture a few traces of emotion from it.

"The treatment plan has been changed several times since your mother was transferred to the hospital, but the effect is not satisfactory." The doctor squeezed the edges of the examination results, and even avoided Chi Ye's questioning eyes.

Taking a slow breath, he was a little suffocated by the smell of disinfectant.Chi Ye's thumb pinched the bent knuckle of his index finger, and the pain made his brain extremely clear, "You can just say it."

The doctor fixedly looked at Chi Ye, discerning anxiety from his slightly green face, knowing that his procrastination was only increasing the psychological burden on the family members, he said, "Please...be mentally prepared."

Like a sentence.

Several bruised and purple nail marks had been pinched on Chi Ye's knuckles, and the ground under his feet seemed to be falling apart in an instant, making him feel in a trance that he would fall down without limit.

Chi Ye couldn't hear the next sentence the doctor said, and he tried to concentrate, "What did you just say?"

"I just said that there are two ways now. One is to continue to live in the current ward and maintain the current treatment. The other is to transfer to the RICU, the critical ward. However, in order not to affect the treatment and avoid infection, there are regulations on visiting hours. "Here, the doctor couldn't bear it, and said, "and the cost will be higher."

Ikeno understood the meaning of this sentence - to maintain the current treatment, in other words, to give up.

He stretched his fingers, without hesitation, "Go to the critical ward, my family can afford the money."

The doctor wanted to persuade again: "You should be aware of your mother's current situation. There is a high probability that there will be no improvement in transferring to RICU, or even—" Seeing the boy's expression, he couldn't continue, only sighed softly. Take a breath.

"She is the mother of my sister and I." Ikeno said sincerely, "You have bothered me. I understand your kindness, but I insist."

"Then I won't persuade you anymore. If there are any problems in the later stage, we will discuss them later."

Chi Ye's voice was slightly hoarse: "Thank you."

Coming out of the office, Ya Ya was chatting with the nurse at the nurse station. Seeing Ike Ye approaching, she jumped off the stool, "Brother, I'm here!" She turned to talk to the nurse again, "Nurse sister, isn't my brother very handsome? I My classmates say that my brother is very handsome, and when I grow up, I will definitely be very beautiful too!"

The nurse teased her: "Why must you be beautiful?"

Ya Ya raised her chin proudly, and the braid on the top of her head drew an arc in mid-air: "Because my brother and I were born by the same mother, and my mother made us look so beautiful!"

Chi Ye waited for her to finish speaking before waving, "Do you want to go with me to see mom?"

"Can I go see it?" Yaya was very happy, "Did the doctor say that mom is better?"

"Well, yes, so let's go to see my mother. After that, my brother may be very busy and can't come to the hospital often." Chi Ye thanked the nurse who looked after Gu Yaya, and took his sister's hand to the ward.

The nurse was sitting by the bed watching TV, when she saw Chi Ye and Ya Ya coming over, she stepped aside.

Shen Lanting was in a drowsy state with the tube intubated, and the monitoring equipment beside him made regular beeping sounds.The blue curtain beside the hospital bed blocked half of the light, and heavy shadows fell on the hospital bed.

Ikeno stood by the bed, looking down at the person lying on the bed.Her eye sockets were sunken, and only the contours of her face could tell the beauty of the past.

He still remembers that when he was a child, he was always very proud, because during the parent-teacher meeting, his mother was the most beautiful and gentle, and many parents of classmates would ask what maintenance methods his mother used.

Raising his hand, Chi Ye carefully touched Shen Lanting's forehead.

Ya Ya gently held one of Shen Lanting's fingers, because there was an indwelling needle on the back of her hand, she didn't dare to use force or move, she called Chi Ye in a low voice: "Brother, mom's hand is so cold."

Chi Ye tried his best to smile: "Then do you want to warm mother's hands?"

"Okay!" Yaya nodded, covering Shen Lanting's cold fingers and wrists with her short hands, she was very serious, and she was muttering something in a low voice.

Ike Ye looked at the overlapping hands, the upper hand was very small, and there were round dimples at the base of the fingers.The hand below is very delicate, but thin and dull.

His heart constricted suddenly, and he couldn't breathe in pain.As if in a deep sea without light, his limbs and chest were all wrapped and tightened by dark green seaweed, which made him feel so painful that he almost knelt down for a moment.

When Wen Xiao went out to drink water from the bedroom, grandma was watching the rebroadcast of the news that she missed that night. It said that an astrophysicist had submitted a report at an academic conference held in Berlin.

Under the camera, people with different skin colors focused and serious expressions, listening carefully to the speech on the stage.

Grandma had a beige thin blanket on her lap, leaned forward slightly, and listened intently to the voices coming from the TV.After listening to the content, she slowly leaned on the back of the sofa when there was applause at the scene.

Seeing Wen Xiao standing aside, she asked with a smile, "Have you finished your homework?"

"Not yet, two papers short."

"Well, it's almost there. I can rest after finishing the paper." Grandma's wrinkled hands stroked the soft surface of the thin blanket. Even at night, her hair was neatly combed.The news program on TV had already cut to the next screen, and she seemed to look far away, before she whispered after a while, "The report just submitted is your mother's research direction. If she is still alive, she will definitely receive it. The invitation letter for the meeting, go to the scene."

She seemed to have thought of that scene, and there was a gleam of light in her slightly cloudy eyes, "Here, maybe we can still see your mother taking notes on the TV news."

As she spoke, she bent her eyes and smiled.

Wen Xiao stood by the sofa, looked at the gentle smile on grandma's face, and said softly, "I will definitely. At that time, I can take pictures of the TV with my mobile phone and show it to her when she comes back."

"That's a good idea." Grandma folded the thin blanket neatly and put it by her side before standing up, raised her head and told Wen Xiao, "It's getting late, I'm going to bed, Xiao Xiao, you should go to bed earlier after you finish your homework." ,do you know?"

Wen Xiao nodded: "Okay."

Back in the bedroom, put the water glass on the desk, under the white light of the eye protection lamp, the heat curled up.

Wen Xiao sat down on the chair, took a pen and twirled it in his hand, lost in thought.

Until there was a muffled "boom" on the window glass.

Wen Xiao got up, pushed open the glass window, and leaned over to look down.

It was too late and there was no one there.

On the side of the street, someone was standing by the street lamp, his facial features and expression were unclear, but he could see the warm light on his shoulders and back.

It's Ikeno.

When Wen Xiao went downstairs, Chi Ye was waiting at the door, holding a small plastic bag with a handful of soil in his hand.

"Where did you find the soil?"

"In the flower bed downstairs, I was digging the soil, and a wild cat ran over and stared at it. I wanted to give it a live explanation and teach it how to dig the soil." Chi Ye showed the small plastic bag in his hand , "Throw it up and smash your window, it won't break the glass."

Wen Xiao: "How did you think of using this primitive method?"

"The phone is out of battery. I can't stand downstairs and shout, 'Wen Xiao, come out and see me!' Is it a bit like that kind of sour and sticky idol drama? I can't shout." Chi Ye smiled easily, "So, the original method is the best."

The two took a few steps forward, "Did you go to the hospital today?" Wen Xiao's words were not questions, but affirmative ones.

Chi Ye's expression froze for a moment, and then pretended to be relaxed: "How do you know? Are you following me?"

"You smell, the smell of disinfectant from the hospital." Wen Xiao suddenly approached Chi Ye, sniffed, "I can't smell it now."

"Maybe it was blown away by the wind." Chi Ye suppressed the smile on the corner of his mouth, "My mother is admitted to the RICU, the intensive care unit."

Wen Xiao's footsteps froze for two seconds.

Under the dim light, the person in front of him seemed to be carrying a heavy burden. The young man's shoulders were not yet broad, which made people worry that he would be crushed at some point.

Meeting Wen Xiao's eyes, Chi Ye's voice was as soft as fog floating in the night, and a little hoarse, wrapped in a bit of confusion that he couldn't explain himself.

"So, I want to see you."