growing up

Teacher Zeng looks to be about 50 years old. He is about 1.8 meters tall, with a fat body, a big beer belly, and a little thinning hair. When he speaks, he speaks in a deep voice but speaks very slowly.

He always had a smile on his face and when I saw him in the office yesterday he was sitting there and he was very nice.See you today, still the same.

Ling Chao listened to this class a little absent-mindedly, his eyes would always glance at Gu Yuan's seat, it was always vacant, and Gu Yuan didn't come back until the get out of class was over.Ling Chao became more and more worried whether the school knew about what happened yesterday.

Ling Chao wanted to send Gu Yuan a wechat message to ask about the situation, but he also thought that he was called away by Du Lin, and the next class would be English, so he would probably come back if there was nothing else to do.

Just wait!

Ling Chao lay on the table, pressing his phone boredly.

The WeChat page went back and forth, and went back and forth more than a dozen times.The avatar of the night sky with a full moon is on the front page.The two of them haven't been in touch on WeChat since the calligraphy competition, and the message record is still the conversation that day.

Ling Chao clicked on it, flipped through the record, and read it sentence by sentence.

In fact, they didn't chat for a few words, Ling Chao seemed to be able to imagine Gu Yuan's appearance when he sent a message to him, so plain.

Sure enough, when the class bell rang, Gu Yuan followed Du Lin in.There was no difference in his face, and he still had that faint look.

When Gu Yuan came down, he raised his head and met Ling Chao's eyes, and saw that the corners of his mouth slightly curved upwards, as if there was nothing there, and soon Gu Yuan withdrew his gaze, returned to his seat and sat down.

At the beginning of class, Ling Chao found that Du Lin was speaking in English, and Ling Chao was surprised by her pure English accent.

Lingchao went to a bilingual school for primary and junior high school, and went to a public school for high school.Listening, speaking, reading and writing in English is not difficult.It's just that in this key high school in the north that can only be called a third-tier city, it is refreshing for Ling Chao to have an English teacher teaching in pure English.

Du Lin's speech speed was not slow, but it was not fast either. It could be heard that she did it on purpose.Her pronunciation is very accurate, and the slowing down of her speech speed should be to allow students to understand as much as possible.

Ling Chao found that everyone in this class was very serious, even more serious than before.Because Du Lin has no Chinese teaching at all, people have to devote themselves to her context and listen carefully.

Du Lin was talking about their final exam paper last semester.Ling Chao and Wang Tian looked at a table together, and Gu Yuan in front of him was also relatively close to his tablemate.

Wang Tian's English is not very good, the total score of 150 is only 117 points.Ling Chao roughly scanned the test paper. It was not too difficult for him. After all, except for the occasional loss of one or two points in the previous English test, Ling Chao almost always got full marks.

When talking about reading comprehension, Du Lin asked Ling Chao to read the text. When Ling Chao finished reading, there was a burst of admiration in the class.

Seeing Gu Yuan, he deliberately turned his head to look at him, smiled slightly, but didn't do anything else.

School ends at 12 noon, with a two-hour lunch break in between.

After the bell rang, Du Lin told the students to take a good rest at noon. Originally, there were two physics sessions, one chemistry session and one PE session in the afternoon schedule, and the physical education class was temporarily changed to biology next Monday.It is said that it is to let the teachers of all subjects come to explain tomorrow's exam.

No one in the class raised any objections to this arrangement. Anyway, changing classes is very common everywhere. It is already a very good arrangement for Du Lin not to cancel the physical education class directly.

When Du Lin left, everyone was ready to go to the cafeteria, to go to the cafeteria, and to go home.For a while, the classroom became lively.

Gu Yuan didn't get up, he put his hands on the table and lay face down, as if he was going to sleep.

After all the students in the class had left, Ling Chao stood up and walked to Gu Yuan's front desk.When the sound of dragging the chair sounded, Gu Yuan lifted his head up, revealing only a pair of big eyes looking at the person in front of him.

Perhaps because of the pillow on his arm just now, Gu Yuan's double eyelids crease deeper.There was a trace of fatigue and bewilderment in his eyes, like a Persian cat waiting for its owner to pluck its fur.

Ling Chao squeezed his hands behind his back, suppressing the urge to touch his head.It took several seconds before I sat down, looked at him and asked him, "Aren't you going home?"

"Well, I'm not going back, I want to sleep." Gu Yuan's voice was very soft and a little hoarse.

"Is Du Lin looking for you because of yesterday's matter?" Ling Chao still asked.

Gu Yuan moved, and leaned on his head with his left hand propped up: "No, I didn't finish some things before I skipped a grade."

"Oh." Ling Chao finally let go of his heart, and simply followed him to support it with his hands, and the two faced each other: "Then you are going to sleep here? You don't even eat."

Gu Yuan smiled, not knowing what he was laughing at: "It's a bit far to go back. I'm too lazy to move, just sleep here for a while."

"Well, I don't even know where your home is? Then you live on campus directly, so you don't have to run around." Ling Chao said.

Most of the students in the No. [-] Middle School came from the counties below, and some were from the countryside. Only a small number of students from the urban areas were day students.

"It's not convenient for me to live on campus." Gu Yuan moved as he spoke, and was about to lie down again: "You go back to eat, the other students have left."

Ling Chao looked at him and didn't get up, and said after a while: "Why don't you come with me to sleep at my place, sleep on this desk for two hours, your hands will be useless, and you still have injuries."

Gu Yuan wanted to talk, but Ling Chao didn't wait for him to open his mouth and said: "Auntie Chen cooked for lunch, I can't finish it by myself, and I'm bored, just come with me, don't refuse."

In the end, the words that came to his lips could not be uttered.

It seems that Gu Yuan didn't know how to reject Ling Chao from the beginning.Go to the hospital, go to the calligraphy exhibition, take him shopping, have dinner with him, and the fight that Ling Chao insisted on going to fight with him yesterday.

It has only been a few days since I met the person in front of me.Ling Chao is always smiling, so he should be a very good-tempered person.When he was with him, Gu Yuan felt a kind of peace of mind that he had never felt before.

Gu Yuan didn't have many friends since he was a child. He was very busy, he wanted to learn and do a lot of things, and he had to take care of his younger sister.He has no time to play with his friends, and his personality is getting colder and colder. Some people can't understand him like this, and they always think he pretends to be noble. When he was young, Gu Yuan was very thin and not tall, and those people always troubled him, even And bully my sister.

He began to use violence to solve these problems.In the beginning, he was always injured. Every time he was injured, he would not make a sound, and dealt with it secretly by himself. When his sister found out, his sister would cry.He has developed a strong tolerance for pain, and gradually became stronger, and fewer and fewer people dare to trouble him.But he still has no friends and still walks alone.

The appearance of Ling Chao brought some fluctuations to his peaceful life.It was the first time he helped him fight, maybe it was just that Ling Chaolu saw injustice and he was not used to the big board and they bullied the few.But in the next few contacts, Gu Yuan felt that he had a natural feeling of closeness to Ling Chao.He couldn't refuse Ling Chao's request, and there were many smiles on his usually cold face.

Ling Chao still maintained that posture and looked at him, Gu Yuan stood up and took the school uniform jacket on the backrest and said to Ling Chao, "Let's go."

The smile on Ling Chao's face deepened.He got up and followed Gu Yuan, ran back in two steps to get the lunch box for the morning, and then chased after him.

At this time, the students all went to the cafeteria to eat, and there was no one in the teaching building.The two went down the stairs, and they couldn't help but look at them occasionally when they met a few classmates walking together on the road.

They were also wearing school uniforms. Ling Chao was tall and handsome.Although Gu Yuan next to him had a calm expression, his whole body was full of aura.Two handsome guys walked together, everyone wanted to see more.

Aunt Chen finished the meal and left. On the table were pot-wrapped meat, ground delicacies, cola chicken wings and seaweed egg soup.Ling Chao was afraid that the rice would not be enough, so he wanted to cook some noodles, but Gu Yuan stopped him.

"I'm not very hungry, just eat whatever you want, no need to cook."

Ling Chao could feel Gu Yuan's sleepiness at this moment, so he didn't insist anymore, put the noodles in the cabinet, took out two more bowls, and joked with a smile: "Did you become a thief last night? You are so sleepy .”

Gu Yuan took the bowl and filled a bowl of rice for Ling Chao, filled another half of the bowl for himself, and walked to the dining table with it: "I didn't go to bed until after two o'clock at night."

The two were still sitting on both sides. Ling Chao picked up the chopsticks and frowned a little: "Why did you stay up so late? You still have injuries!"

Gu Yuan scooped up some soup and soaked it in the rice, and lit it with his chopsticks: "I have work at night. Yesterday, my brain was better, but it took a little longer. The injury is fine, and I changed my medicine in the morning."

Ling Chao didn't ask him what kind of work he needed to do until two o'clock in the middle of the night.This is his private matter, but judging by his young age, he is helping out in restaurants and teaching tutors during the summer vacation. These are not just as simple as coming out to experience life.

Gu Yuan finished eating the rice in two or three mouthfuls, didn't eat any food, put down the bowl and chopsticks and said that he was full.

Ling Chao just started eating, but he didn't try to persuade him: "Then go to bed first."

Gu Yuan stood up and went directly to the sofa in the living room, put a pillow under his head, and fell asleep face inward.

Ling Chao wanted to tell him to go to the bedroom to sleep, but Gu Yuan lay down and didn't move anymore. After thinking about it, he couldn't speak anymore.

The room is very quiet, even the sound of chewing is very obvious.Gu Yuan lay there motionless, unable to see if he was asleep.

After eating, Ling Chao cleaned up lightly, without washing the dishes, for fear of disturbing Gu Yuan's sleep.

It had been a long time since he had taken a serious nap, and he didn't feel sleepy now, so Ling Chao simply went back to his room to surf the Internet.

He clicked aimlessly for a while, not knowing what to play.Usually he doesn't play games very much. There are only a few stand-alone fighting games on the computer. In order to avoid the crackling sound of typing on the keyboard, he just hangs out on some forums.

Time passed quickly, the alarm clock set at 01:30 in the mobile phone, he pressed it off as soon as the vibration rang.

Ling Chao turned off the computer and came out, and saw that Gu Yuan was still asleep in that position, without moving a bit.

Fortunately, the sofa at home is big enough to sleep on it by himself. Gu Yuan buried his head very low, his back was slightly arched, his knees were bent inward, and his hands were wrapped around his chest, like a fetus curled up in the womb.

Ling Chao approached and called him softly, but got no response.

He bent down slowly, and could still hear Gu Yuan's thin breathing.

Gu Yuan's side face is very good-looking, on the clean skin, a layer of fine fluff is very clear under the daylight.

The ears with distinct helixes were still a little red.His earrings are beautiful, not big, but round and stylish.Ling Chao discovered that Gu Yuan still had a pierced ear, which was empty, like a small black mole dotted in the middle of the pendant.

The long eyelashes curled outward, casting a small shadow on the closed lower eyelid.On the straight bridge of the nose, there is a small black mole on the inner side of the nose.It was beating up and down with the breath.

Gu Yuan's lips were a little pale and dry, maybe it was because he didn't drink enough water.The bruise on the chin was also obvious. I don't know if Du Lin really didn't ask how the injury came about.

Ling Chao stared at it in a daze, the phone in his hand vibrated again, it was an alarm clock every 5 minutes.She just leaned on the sofa and watched him for 5 minutes.

Time was running out, Ling Chao had no choice but to push Gu Yuan's arm: "Gu Yuan, wake up, we're going to be late."

"Hmm..." Gu Yuan snorted in a low voice, finally turned around, lay down flat, raised his hand to cover his eyes, and there was no movement again.

Ling Chao was a little amused, he didn't expect Gu Yuan who was sleeping to be so cute.I had no choice but to push him again, which was much stronger than before.

Gu Yuan moved his arm upwards, and opened his eyes after blinking. The bloodshot eyeballs were not used to the sudden light, so he covered them with his hands for a while.Not sure if it's fighting getting up or thinking about where I am now.

After a few seconds, it was much better when the hands were removed.Ling Chao took a step back before he sat up, rubbed his hands along his brows a few times, raised his head and asked Ling Chao: "What time is it?"

Ling Chao turned on the phone and showed it to him. Gu Yuan didn't seem to be fully awake yet, but he also knew that time was running out.Stand up and go to the bathroom: "I'll wash my face and leave."

Ling Chao went to the door to change his shoes and waited for him, this time it was quite fast, Gu Yuan came before the shoes were put on.The face is covered with water drops, even the hair standing in front is also.

The two stood at the elevator entrance, Ling Chao handed him a pack of toilet paper, Gu Yuan took it, and said thank you softly.

Ling Chao looked at Gu Yuan who didn't sleep well, and felt a little distressed, and couldn't help but ask the question in his heart: "What do you do at night, do you have to stay so late to rest?"

Gu Yuan threw the paper to wipe his face into the trash can next to him.Turning to look at Ling Chao, he said, "I took a job to help other companies make the homepage of the website. Time is tight recently."

"Huh?" Ling Chao was a little surprised, "You know how to program?"

"Fortunately, I'm not particularly good at it, I can do it in general. I just learned it for a few years, not many know it." Gu Yuan replied.

"This is amazing. When I play on the computer, most of the time I play games, look up information and visit forums." The elevator came up, and Ling Chao said as he entered.

He had thought about many kinds of jobs he might do before, but Gu Yuan was young, so there were not many jobs he could do, but he never thought that it would be programming.

Gu Yuan smiled, and stood behind Ling Chao, leaning on the elevator railing: "I'm very interested, so I'll learn, and my master has a friend who runs an IT company, and he can introduce me to outsourced work." Gu Yuan paused, and his voice was softer: "I really need money. This is the one that gets me the most money among the things I can do right now."

Ling Chao pressed the button on the first floor, waited for the elevator door to close, and walked to Gu Yuan's side to lean on: "You, where are the family members? Why do you have to rely on you to make money?"

In fact, Ling Chao regretted it when he asked.It's an invasion of privacy.Ling Chao quickly said again: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to inquire about something, you don't need to say it if you don't want to say it."

Gu Yuan looked at him, Ling Chao looked to the side unnaturally, and turned back to look at Gu Yuan's upturned mouth and the dimple on the side of his face.

"There's nothing I'm sorry about. My sister is not in good health, and it costs a lot of money to see a doctor. My father passed away, and my mother works alone in other places. It is very difficult to pay for our studies and medicine. I don't If you are young, you can earn a little bit."

Gu Yuan didn't look different.In fact, he doesn't tell people much about this, and not many people know about his family's situation.Except for the school and those who helped him, no one in his usual classmates knew about it.

The elevator suddenly became very quiet, until it showed that the door was opened when it reached the first floor.The two walked out side by side.

"Well, can I ask, what's wrong with your sister?" Ling Chao couldn't help but want to know.

"Heart disease, congenital." Gu Yuan replied, "My sister and I are twins, and she was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot when she was half a year old."