stepping into the night

It's not that no one tells Qiang Wu such a big truth. He has already heard calluses in his ears from the head teacher and grade teacher.

Perhaps because of the similar age difference, he always tends to listen to the advice of counselors like Lin Jiang and Ruan Chu who make him feel completely equal.

After Qiang Wu hesitated, he still wrinkled his face and discussed with Ruan Chu: "I haven't figured it out yet, can I not memorize so many words for now? Just memorize ten. Is that ok, Teacher Ruan?"

"The decision to memorize or not is up to you," Ruan Chu was a little surprised when he saw his serious appearance, pursed his lips and nodded with a light smile, "If you want to memorize, I will give you all the memorized content every day. Come over the next day and let's use the time before the formal tutoring to check the dictation."

"Okay." Qiang Wu nodded solemnly, and thanked Lin Jiang with some embarrassment.

The time soon reached 05:30, and Qiang Wu's parents were not in a hurry to ask the driver to pick him up, as if they were afraid that the sooner he went back, the longer he would play, so there was still time for Qiang Wu to pack his schoolbag slowly Chat with two tutors.

"Teacher Ruan," Qiang Wu rolled his eyes, and smiled with two small canine teeth, "You and Teacher Lin will not sit on the left and the right side of me from now on, you two should sit next to each other."

"Huh?" Ruan Chu looked puzzled, "Why?"

"When Mr. Lin was giving me a lecture, you always passed me to see him." Qiang Wu thought for a while, but didn't notice that Ruan Chu's ears were red because of his words, and turned to Lin Jiang seriously, "Mr. Lin That's right, you always go around behind me and whisper to Teacher Ruan and make small moves."

As soon as he said this, even Lin Jiang couldn't help but her eyes flashed, and the fingertips hanging on the side of her legs unconsciously twirled, like the delicateness that she didn't touch when she was fixing Ruan Chu's collar before regretting temperature.

"And you two sit on the left and the right..." Qiang Wu threw out the last sentence without knowing it, "It makes me feel like my parents are guarding me next to me-hey, Uncle Li is here to pick me up , I’m leaving first, goodbye Teacher Ruan and Teacher Lin!”

"Goodbye." Both of them watched him leave, and when the figure was gone, the two finally turned their heads to look at each other slowly from the air that seemed to be stagnant, and then moved away from the intersection as if to cover up Sight.

The redness from the tip of Ruan Chu's ears spread to his fair neck covered by black hair. Lin Jiang couldn't help but look at his evasive eyes and his red lips from drinking water. As if scratched lightly, itchy and crispy.

Lin Jiang couldn't help thinking more about Ruan Chu's non-resisting reaction.

——Does he really have the same thoughts and feelings as himself?

This kind of thought has been rooted in his heart since the very beginning, and it has been unable to get rid of it, and now it has sprouted into a throbbing bud.

"It's time to get off work." Lin Jiang put her palm on Ruan Chufa's head and rubbed it lightly as if nothing had happened, and then brushed off a piece of hair stuck to the gold-rimmed mirror frame for him, and then stared at him without blinking. The profile of his face, he got a feedback that he had been vaguely expecting, but didn't dare to confirm.

——Ruan Chu flinched subconsciously, but then held back this shy instinctive reaction. Lin Jiang could clearly see his slender eyelashes trembling slightly, and a suspicious blush flew across his fair side face .

Lin Jiang felt a little more confident.

This discovery made him feel uncontrollable joy and lightheartedness in his calm heart.

The embarrassment of a single-parent family and all kinds of attention from the outside world made Lin Jiang build a cold heart wall at a very young age, using an indifferent appearance to resist all malice. He knew that he was so repulsive An outside attitude is not conducive to his integration into the interpersonal society and the establishment of a good network of relationships in the future, but he can only use this method to make himself seem indestructible.

Perhaps it was a sense of identity similar to "the same people who have fallen in the end of the world", which made Lin Jiang feel a sense of familiarity when he met Ruan Chu for the first time when he was an assistant class teacher, and made him subconsciously feel a sense of familiarity with this elementary school who seemed to be in the same situation as himself. Brother let go of a little guard.

I don't know if it's fate or the school is too small, since Lin Jiang met Ruan Chu because of his work as an assistant class teacher, he has seen Ruan Chu by his side more often, and he couldn't help but focus on this shy and gentle girl. on the primary school brother.

Like a soft and irresistible light color, he walked into Lin Jiang's narrow world that had been silent for a long time, like sparks starting a prairie fire, out of control.

It's normal for other colleagues who work together in the organization to meet for dinner after work, but Ruan Chu can't, he has to start working at Cyclamen at six o'clock, and now After 05:30, he had to race against time, so he couldn't muster up the courage to ask Lin Jiang, "Do you want to have dinner together later, senior?".

Ruan Chu only thought that his act of picking off the broken hair on the side of the mirror frame for him was kind. Although he was a little embarrassed, he still didn't think about it. He quickly warned himself to calm down and turned to look at Lin Jiang: "Then... Let's go, see you tomorrow, senior."

Lin Jiang moved her lips, but just looked at him and nodded slightly: "Okay, see you tomorrow."

Ruan Chu pursed his slightly raised lips and blinked, picked up his things, carried his schoolbag on his back and walked briskly away.

Ruan Chu had already done the work of Cyclamen during the summer vacation, so no further training was needed, and the proprietress still remembered him. After going to the store to change into work clothes, she started working quickly, and was busy until close to eleven o'clock when the store was about to close. Just a little free.The chef also cooked the remaining ingredients in the store into a pot, and made some desserts that were not sold out that day, and ate them with a few part-time students who stayed in the store until the end.

From having lunch in the cram school at [-]:[-] noon to cyclamen to distribute meals at [-]:[-] p.m., there are nearly eleven hours in between. Later, when I changed to a part-time job, the regular diet and routine I had brought back was disrupted again.

When he was hungry, he was busy serving food to the customers in the store, and he didn't have any appetite until after he was busy, but Ruan Chu still ate up the portion of the meal that the chef gave him, maybe because some Oil, he always felt a little uncomfortable in his stomach, but he didn't think about it, and after finishing cleaning the store with a few other colleagues, he packed up his things and rushed home.

It was almost twelve o'clock when we got home, Ruan Yun had already rested, his father had just returned from work, and was putting on pain-relieving plaster in the room, while his mother was darning father's old sweater in the living room, waiting for Ruan Chu to come home, when he heard the door open Putting down the things in his hand, he got up and went over, distressed and helpless, asking him if he had a good meal.

——If possible, she also hopes that her children can be like other children's children, go out to play with classmates and friends at such a good age, travel around to broaden their horizons, instead of going out to work so hard to subsidize the family.

This is rare. When I could sit down and have a good chat with my parents, Ruan Chu endured the drowsiness, talked to my mother about things in school, and advised her not to do extra odd jobs. Ruan Chu was relieved when she went back to the bedroom to sleep. Going lightly to the bathroom to wash up, he went back to the living room and lay down on the tatami mat that had already been laid out for him.

On the way home, the cold wind howled, it was too cold, Ruan Chu didn't think to check the unread messages on the phone, only then did he see the several messages that Lin Jiang sent him, from [-] o'clock to [-] o'clock , is almost the same as before in the daily chat content, but today, because Ruan Chu didn't reply in time, there are a few more messages of greetings, and his worries can be tasted between the lines.

Ruan Chu didn't expect that Lin Jiang would care about him so much, which made his heart filled with sweetness, and he was a little apprehensive in addition to joy, so he quickly sent the corresponding reply to every message.

Holding the mobile phone in his left hand, he turned over and lay on his side while covering his uncomfortable stomach with his right hand, and flipped forward the conversation between the two of them with nostalgia, looking at the ice flowers on the window that Lin Jiang sent him in the morning , the sunset after the rain, and a fern growing tenaciously in the crack of the wall.

What Ruan Chu liked most was the ice flower, and he quietly set that photo as the background of the conversation between the two of them. From the reflective glass surface, he could vaguely see Lin Jiang's handsome face.

Lin Jiang didn't reply to the message immediately this time, which made Ruan Chu feel a little regretful—it was too late, Lin Jiang might have fallen asleep, and he might wake Lin Jiang up when he sent a message.

Ruan Chu waited for a while with the secret expectation in his heart, but he still didn't get Lin Jiang's response. When he endured his disappointment and planned to turn off his phone and go to sleep, the screen that was dark because of the long standby time lit up again.

It's Lin Jiang.

[Lin]: Did you come home so late?

Ruan Chu was refreshed, and he hurriedly replied to Lin Jiang with his mobile phone, ignoring his uncomfortable stomach.

[Chu Ji]: I was delayed on the road for a while, it's not too late!

[Chu Ji]: How about you, senior?Haven't rested yet?

[Lin]: Well, I am reviewing and preparing for the exam at the beginning of school.

[Chu Ji]: Is there an exam for the university?

[Lin]: No, it's the placement test for the Guangqi class. I'll tell you in detail when I go to the institution tomorrow. You should also prepare for this test next year.

[Chuji]: OK

[Chu Ji]: Then the senior should take a rest after reviewing

[Lin]: It's so cold on the way back, you should take a rest.

The two people were taken aback when they saw the message sent by the other party at the same time as themselves, and then involuntarily looked at the screen and laughed.

This kind of tacit understanding will make them indulge in an illusion, as if they have already achieved what they want, and they have become lovers with a clear heart.

In the next second, the two said good night to each other at the same time, and neither of them sent any more messages, but still reluctantly scrolled forward through the message records, and read the conversation a long while ago.

When Ruan Chu put down his mobile phone, he remembered that he put it in the bedroom cabinet, the engraved seal that he hadn't had time to give to Lin Jiang.

But he didn't seem to find any reason to give it to Lin Jiang alone.

Ruan Chu was so sleepy that his eyelids were closed, but his last active thoughts before he fell asleep finalized the plan for him.

——Then try to make some puppets during the winter vacation, and give them as New Year gifts to the roommates who have been taking care of themselves.

You can also... put this thought of yours in the New Year greetings and send it to Lin Jiang.