cool autumn

The countdown to the final exam is 29 days away.

As the exam period is approaching, not only the students’ schedules are tight, but also as a teacher, during the day they have to give lectures, mark key points, give examples and summaries, and in the evenings, they have to prepare lessons, look up information, and write out test papers. They are very busy every day. open hand.

It is at this time when the learning atmosphere is tense, everyone is racing against time, and the enthusiasm for learning is high;

Taking advantage of the gap between borrowing and returning materials every day, each class passed on gossip that belonged to them.For example, who is the most beautiful in school, how many love letters have been accepted today, who was rejected, and who is in a bad mood, and so on.

If there is a bit of gossip, you can't help but mention Zhou Ran.

"Hey, how many love letters do you think Zhou Ran will receive in that class?"

"It should be much better. I think this guy is quite popular with girls..."

"I heard that the beauty of our school also pays attention to him, you say..."

"........."

But in fact, Zhou Ran didn't realize it at all, the class was quiet as usual, eating and drinking, and when something happy happened, he would still mix with the crowd and laugh together, no love letter, no confession , everything is plain like that glass of boiled water.

The students in the class never mentioned this matter about love letters and confession, and Zhou Ran was even more ignorant that day.What he didn't know was that his close deskmate had made an agreement with other students in the class long ago, saying that he would stop confession and love letters. Bao is almost the same, in their eyes, it is as clean as a small white cloud, where the cats and dogs in the school can hook up casually.Cough, of course, they are doing this now just as a precautionary measure.

"Wow, here it comes, here it comes, delicious spicy noodles, hurry up, hurry up, it will be a disaster if someone finds out later." Li Mingliang rushed in as if flying in, carrying a Holding a bag of hot spicy powder, he yelled at Zhou Ran as if his butt was on fire.

Zhou Ran has been pampered since he was a child. When he was a child, there was Mr. Lin. After he grew up and was kicked out of the Lin family, there was Zhou Huaning, and later Huo Wendong. Even in school, the classmates loved his petty temper. There is something inherent in him that makes people can't help following him and coddling his natural invitation to favor, or in other words, it is also natural.

The classmate next to him smiled and pinched his nose, his tone of voice was a little weird, "Hey, Xiao Li, you have climbed the wall, you are not afraid of your Queen's majesty slapping you, hehe..."

Li Mingliang rubbed his head, chuckled, and put his finger on his mouth, "Shh, keep your voice down, I just climbed out from the back mountain, and I was almost caught by the principal, but the unlucky ones behind were not caught." So lucky, haha..."

In fact, Zhou Ran saw this spicy powder by accident when he was passing by on the way home. In his world, the chance of this thing appearing is almost zero. His daily life has always been meticulous. It's not within the scope of him to eat it in his stomach at all. Even when he ate roadside stalls with Qiu Yue in his previous life, he probably gave in to Zhou Ran more.

It was just a few days ago when I saw someone else standing on the side of the road eating food and snoring, and now I suddenly remembered that his gluttonous worms were hooked up. It’s okay to think about it. Scratching his heart and lungs like a heart-rending itch.

Zhou Ran sniffed, the whole face with crooked eyebrows and eyes softened, thanked Li Mingliang, then lowered his head and started eating, although he envied those people on the side of the road for their unscrupulous eating , a rude and casual gesture, but some things have already been carved into his bones, and he can change it if he wants to.

After taking a few mouthfuls of food, Zhou Ran started to take water from the drawer and poured it into his stomach. , Not eating much, the internal organs began to protest.

Zhou Ran frowned and was a little confused. This was the first time he ate this kind of food. The psychological attraction was far more satisfying than the mouthful. He wants to sigh, but if he doesn't stop talking, then he will probably have to go to the hospital tomorrow.

In the end, he still frowned and finished eating, but he didn't dare to touch the soup at all. Li Mingliang bit the apple Zhou Ran gave him in his mouth, and looked at Zhou Ran with a smile, "What, will your stomach feel uncomfortable? I'll just say This thing is not suitable for you, last time you ate a meat skewer, you could eat yourself into the hospital, now that you are like this, do you still want to go in or what?"

Zhou Ran raised his eyes and glanced at him, seeing that he was quite sensible and didn't disappoint him when he was eating, so he spared his death penalty and didn't bother him.

When a classmate next to him heard what Li Mingliang said, he immediately looked at Zhou Ran with some concern, "I said, Aran, are you okay? If you have a bad stomach, you should avoid spicy food. Why don't you care about anything? Come on!" , Come on, tell me now, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere, if it doesn’t work, let’s go to the hospital.”

Zhou Ran reached out and took a paper towel to wipe his mouth. The chili dyed his lips brightly, and the rosy lips looked as beautiful as rouge. Seriously."

Erbao nestled in the drawer, the chili smell seemed a bit off-putting, sniffed it twice and then sneezed all the time, Zhou Ran just wanted to take the bowl away, but the cat sneezed and sneezed on himself It was sprayed over, and the chubby body still looked dazed after it fell downside down.

"Oh, Erbao, Erbao, why is it so cute even when you sneeze, haha..." Li Mingliang stretched out his hand and held it in his palm, flicking its cat nose and laughing jokingly, Zhou Ran hurriedly threw away the plastic Bowl, open the big window to diffuse the smell.

In the afternoon, it was Zhou Ran’s turn to be on duty with a boy in his class. The cleaning area assigned to him was on the side of the playground. The girls in the class had already taken care of the hygiene in the class. They didn’t need to carry water to wipe the blackboard, and they didn’t need to care about the tables and stools. , Zhou Ran was exactly what he wished for.

When school is over, except for the day students queuing to go out, the rest of the boarding students like to gather on the playground, playing basketball, table tennis, and various sports. It is full of people at once, and it is as lively as a vegetable market. of.

Zhou Ran glanced at the low-hanging red sun, and then at the group of enthusiastic students in front of him. In an instant, he felt that the sunset was infinitely beautiful, and the nutrition was too much. .

There were students from other classes cleaning up next to him. When they saw Zhou Ran and the classmate next to him, they all smiled and said hello, but he didn't dare to do that to Zhou Ran. , I really want to neglect, the girls in his class can strangle him to death, so I really don't know how to deal with Zhou Ran at this moment.

Zhou Ran didn't care, but when he saw them greet the boy next to him, he nodded along the way, and followed suit to clean up.

The sun had completely sunk, and there was only a faint red veil left in the lonely sky, which seemed to be blown away by the wind, and slowly drifted away.

After packing up the schoolbag, Zhou Ran distributed the remaining fruits in the bag to the girls who were doing hygiene. He held Erbao in his arms and waved to them, "See you tomorrow."

"Be careful on the road, Grand Representative." Those girls said goodbye to Zhou Ran with a smile, and exchanged glances with the rest of the girls in surprise.Although people said that if you want to find a girlfriend, you must at least be better than him. This goal is too difficult to achieve, but watching from the sidelines like this, being classmates and friends with people, seems to be more reliable than having a girlfriend.

It was almost seven o'clock, and the street lights on this street were as bright as day. Zhou Ran stuffed a lot of miscellaneous things into his stomach in the afternoon, and he didn't feel too hungry at the moment. He carried a bag and hugged Erbao on the side of the road Shaking slowly.

When passing by a dessert shop, Zhou Ran subconsciously stopped. Si Yue has been clamoring for mango pudding recently, but Zhou Huaning has been very busy recently, so she doesn't have time to help her make it. Take it to heart.

Through the model samples in the window, Zhou Ran pushed the door and was about to go in. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of a figure sneaking behind him. He seemed to be a student from his own school, with long hair and good looks. , as long as he thinks a little bit, Zhou Ran can guess that this girl probably followed him all the way.

The movement of his hands stopped, Zhou Ran turned around and stood still, turning to look at her, his eyes full of doubts through the foggy drizzle on the horizon.

The girl hesitated for a while, as if mustering up her courage, she grabbed the small bag at her hand, ran over in a hurry, and stood still in front of Zhou Ran panting softly, watching her cheeks look hot.

This Mu Wei took extra precautions at school, and it could almost be said that the whole class was mobilized. However, she just missed this point in her precautionary measures——Zhou Ran is a day student, and it is not necessarily necessary to get close to Zhou Ran. Only in school.

"Is there something wrong?" Zhou Ran glanced at the girl, and asked lightly, but he glanced at the little pudding in the dessert shop out of the corner of his eyes. He just wanted to finish this matter quickly, packed the pudding and went home.

The girl followed all the way, and every time she wanted to boldly go up to strike up a conversation with Zhou Ran, but just looking at the young man walking leisurely from a distance, her heart kept beating 'bang bang bang bang', and she stood still. In front of the other party, she still felt an unreal sense of dizziness.

"Then, that, I, I'll be on the same road with you..." The girl rubbed the small bag with some dew on her hand, and said in a low voice, her voice was very low and thin, but her eyes were as bright as crystals The same shines through.

Zhou Ran knew it well, and didn't expose the girl's lies, but just nodded at her, "I want to buy pudding, just wait for me."

The girl waited nervously at the door, seeing Zhou Ran standing in front of the glass cabinet choosing puddings, paying the money, and coming out with three bags of small puddings, she came back to her senses.

"My family is not here," Zhou Ran handed one of the bags to the girl, watching the road on the street slowly being soaked by the rain, and said with warm eyes.

Seeing the girl's anxiety and embarrassment, it was just a simple sentence, "It's getting late, don't wander around outside in the future, go home quickly, I'm going back too."

The girl lowered her eyes, her fingers holding the paper bag were tensely clenched, and she felt embarrassed and embarrassed when she heard the gentle words of the young man in front of her. She knew that her small thoughts were completely seen through , but the boy has always treated her with the gentlest attitude, without any direct and sharp words, but she also knows that the boy is rejecting herself.

"I, I'm going back, be careful on your way." The girl cheered herself up in her heart, trying not to be so embarrassing, at least she should behave a little more freely to make a good impression.

Zhou Ran has always been gentle towards women. Seeing the unnatural appearance of girls, he didn't care. He just nodded slightly, then turned and left the dessert shop, and walked slowly towards home.

There are dense trees in the old residential area, and there are even more trees in the street. When it rains, the small gravel road becomes more and more quiet.

Zhou Zhiyang was the only person in charge of the Ningzi Pastry Shop today. Zhou Huaning went out for a temporary errand, and April was dragged away by her chubby classmate, and she hasn't come back yet.

It was a humid and sweltering day, and Zhou Zhiyang read the English book Zhou Ran gave him at the door. Although he didn’t understand much, he still worked hard to learn the new language that Zhou Ran taught him the night before. Knowledge, I didn't notice the old man standing outside the door for a long time.

"Ahem, is there anyone?" The old man tried his best to straighten his back and shouted loudly pretending not to care.

Zhou Zhiyang was startled, but his face was full of black lines. He was sitting at the gate, and the old man was standing in front of him, and he asked without hesitation if anyone was there?Although he was speechless, but following the principle of opening the door for business and the visitor is the visitor, he put down the book in his hand and stepped forward to meet him, "Grandpa, what do you want to buy?"

The old man pretended to look around, and circled around Zhou Zhiyang with bright eyes, as if he didn't seem to be looking at him, and mysteriously took out a photo from his jacket pocket, which was a left look. Look to the right, and after a while, he asked in surprise: "Is your surname Zhou? You are the only one in this family with the surname Zhou now."

Zhou Zhiyang was confused and couldn't figure out the situation at all. He had been here not long ago, so he really didn't know if Zhou Huaning knew anyone or not. He was afraid that the old man would say that he was neglecting him, so he hurriedly replied: "Yes, I His surname is Zhou." At present, he is really the only person surnamed Zhou in the pastry shop.

The old man squinted his old eyes, and those eyes became even brighter. He clicked his tongue twice at the photo, walked around Zhou Zhiyang twice, touched his chin and wondered, "Why do you look like this? Are you going to Plastic surgery?" Then he felt wrong, "The plastic surgery technique is really terrible, this good child is completely unrecognizable now, tsk tsk, it's so wasteful, hey."

Zhou Zhiyang's face was inexplicable, and he was speechless when he touched his face. Didn't this old man come out of a mental hospital?

Just as he was dazed, the old man clapped his hands again with a look of surprise on his face, "Oh, why is he limping, he must have fought with someone." Then he looked at the photo in his hand with a look of regret.

"No, there was a car accident some time ago, and the injury is still not healed." Zhou Zhiyang twitched the corner of his mouth at the old man helplessly, and explained bitterly.

The old man looked at Zhou Zhiyang with a sad face, "Does it hurt?" Seeing him nodding, he also looked in pain, covering his chest with grief and indignation, and muttered in a low voice, "Why did this car accident change?" It’s so big, thanks to all the hard work I’ve run here just to take a look.” Then he shook his head and sighed, looking at Zhou Zhiyang’s appearance was almost like seeing a fake.

However, afraid that he might hurt Zhou Zhiyang, he rubbed his hands hypocritically to comfort him, "It's okay, I don't despise you, really."

Zhou Zhiyang was incapable of parrying, and caught a glimpse of Zhou Ran's figure out of the corner of his eye, and hurriedly dragged his broken leg and waved forward, "Aran, Aran, there are guests at home, come quickly."

The fine shreds of rain gradually dissipated, and before entering the door, Zhou Ran patted the steam on his head casually, and couldn't help being a little taken aback by Zhou Zhiyang's begging eyes, but his footsteps did not stop at him. direction to go.

The old man turned around following the voice, and when he saw Zhou Ran, his shining eyes were as bright as flashlights. He looked at Zhou Zhiyang, then at Zhou Ran, and then took a closer look at the photo in his hand. Suddenly puzzled, he pointed at Zhou Zhiyang and complained, "Why don't you look like him, you are a big liar."

Zhou Zhiyang wants to cry but has no tears. His surname is indeed Zhou, okay?He was very curious about who was in the photo of the old man, but the old man covered it tightly so that he could not see it.

Zhou Ran looked at Zhou Zhiyang and the old man strangely, and asked suspiciously, "Who is the old man looking for?"

"Here, he, he, just him," the old man pointed at the photo and jumped, "but he has plastic surgery, and he is so complete that he can't even recognize him, woo..." The old man was quite aggrieved when he said that. She curled her lips with a childish look.

Zhou Ran was silent and rubbed his nose. He didn't know how to explain to the old man in front of him. In fact, the person in the photo was him.

When Zhou Zhiyang saw that photo, he suddenly realized that it was not him who was looking for him for a long time, causing him to talk nonsense for nothing, and he was misunderstood to have plastic surgery, and then faced with such tragic sympathy. blacken.

"Is the old man looking for something for me?" After a moment of silence, Zhou Ran took the initiative to break the deadlock and asked.

The old man stared at the photo again, and after a while, he nodded lazily, "I heard that Dingbang has a partner, why don't you come and have a look." After finishing speaking, he felt that what he said seemed a little ambiguous , and added, "By the way, look at the child of his object."

Zhou Ran was a little puzzled. He had never seen such an old man who was out of line in the column of relatives in Yuan Dingbang's file, but seeing him mention Yuan Dingbang so familiarly, and his tone of intimacy, it was not surprising. violation.

"It's getting dark today, old man, please come in first and sit down, don't just stand around in the yard." Zhou Ran was indifferent, and didn't explain the doubts in his heart, but just invited people in according to the principle of hospitality Sit in the house.

The old man gave Zhou Ran a thumbs up, and then looked at Zhou Zhiyang with a disgusted look on his face. This poor boy, he has been here for a long time and doesn't invite himself to go in and sit down first.

Zhou Zhiyang was also shot while he was lying down. He didn't know who the old man was looking for just now, so how dare he let someone in casually.

The air after the rain was very fresh. Zhou Ran put away his schoolbag and pudding before sitting on the mahogany chair. He looked at the old man anxiously, and asked in a gentle tone, "What is the old man here for?"