Pavlov and the White Moonlight

"Lu Huai," Tang Shuhe pushed me, "show me your math homework from yesterday."

I lay on the table, snorted, sat up like an old zombie, squinted my eyes and handed him the math workbook, and fell back to sleep.

He turned and said, "What time did you go to bed last night?"

"It's not too late, it's not too late," I said, "I got up late today. Don't talk to me, I'll take it easy."

The bell was not ringing for the morning self-study, and the classroom was noisy.Tang Shuhe used a red pen to draw on my exercise book, and said, "Why didn't I write down the next few big questions?"

I was so sleepy that I didn't want to talk at all, so I snorted.

Tang Shuhe persevered: "Isn't it possible?"

I sighed, sat up, supported my head and said, "No. Wait for the teacher to talk."

He marked it with a red pen in my exercise book: "I don't think this question is difficult. You don't need the points for conic section and derivative in the college entrance examination, but you must take the points for trigonometric functions. I will write the formula and general idea for you next to it." Yes, you try to do it first, you really won’t ask me again, and then listen to the teacher again in class, so you can remember it more solidly.”

...I usually stutter when talking to me, how can I talk about it so smoothly.I was a little tired, rubbed my eyes, took the exercise book and said, "Okay."

He turned his head, looked at me and said, "So sleepy?"

I said: "No."

He glanced at his watch and said, "There are 5 minutes left, let me buy you a bottle of coffee."

I said no, it’s too late, he glanced outside and said, “It’s too late to run.” Then he got up and left, and I said, “Hey…”

It ran really fast and didn't hold back.

Yu Sihai gleefully copied Tang Shuhe's homework while laughing: "Hey, one thing is one thing, let's get it under control."

I grabbed Yu Sihai by the back collar: "You, you and Li Rui, didn't everyone in the dormitory see it? Last night I lay on the bed and memorized the global climate distribution maps until midnight. He has to take the exam today." I!"

"Who knows, we were all asleep at that time. Then you just insisted that it's not too late," Yu Sihaile said, "Why didn't you talk about what you recited until midnight."

"That makes me look like I'm out of my wits," I said.

I'm so stupid, really.I only knew that the sunset was beautiful and the wind was gentle that day, but I didn't know that since then Tang Shuhe had already started planning to take me off during the monthly exam.After the self-study these days, he will leave some tasks for me, memorize this and memorize that. Yesterday he asked me to memorize the global climate distribution map. He said calmly that this is not difficult to memorize. In the end, I wanted to lose face. I refused to admit that I really couldn't memorize it, and I forcibly memorized it until two o'clock in the middle of the night.

While talking, Tang Shuhe had already returned, holding two bottles of iced coffee, and sticking one bottle to my face, just like me.He said: "Wake up first, and if there is no task for self-study later, we will deal with your few math problems."

I said yes and yawned.

The few classes in the morning were all supported by coffee. In the first history class in the afternoon, I was really fucking sleepy. I kowtowed to our double-chin history teacher. As soon as I closed my eyes, Tang Shuhe Just pat me, and my sanity has been hanging on the line of falling asleep and waking up. I finally made it to the end of class. As soon as the bell for eye exercises rang, our class fell down, and I was the first to get down.I heard Tang Shuhe ask Yu Sihai in a breathy voice: "What time did he go to bed yesterday?"

Yu Sihai didn't speak, but probably made a gesture.Tang Shuhe was stunned for a moment, then sighed.

When the class bell rang, Yu Sihai snorted with both hands and one head, abruptly waking us both up: "Wake up you two! The preparatory bell is ringing!"

I grabbed his wrist in a daze, and sat up with Tang Shuhe with the same style of chicken nest head and dazed face. Yu Sihai looked at the two of us and said happily, "Did you two not sleep last night?"

"No...fuck," I said.

Yu Sihai smiled and turned back.I rubbed my eyes, put my little dinosaur pillow on Tang Shuhe's shoulder, and slapped my face.Tang Shuhe was a little stiff, I could feel it, but it was much more comfortable to sleep on someone's body than lying on the table, so I didn't want to move much.The sun at two o'clock in the afternoon shone through the window and just shone on our seats. Tang Shuhe sat motionless for a while, then slowly raised his hand, and gently covered my forehead with his palm.

The dazzling sunlight on the eyelids disappeared suddenly, and it was cool and comfortable.At that moment, I suddenly felt that something was not quite right—Yu Sihai and I always leaned back and forth like this before, but never had such...how should I put it, delicate and gentle movements.I leaned against him in this novel, awkward and heart-warming feeling, half asleep thinking, Tang Shuhe is so kind.

Hey, what if I already have a deskmate on the day of class division? Speaking of which, Yu Sihai also sits alone. Although he has a physique like a blind bear, he is also quite good-looking...

I wake up angry.

I said, "Yu Sihai, your uncle's."

Yu Sihai answered the words very carelessly: "Stupid, is your head swollen from sleeping?"

Me: "... Oh."

I have to say that Tang Shuhe really, really wants to improve my grades. He is like a middle-aged mother in urban light comedies who spends all day on the cracks of the door to supervise her children's studies, forcing me to yell no to him from time to time. Let your love for your child be his chains.Sometimes when Tang Shuhe went to the bathroom during class breaks, I just lay there by myself, memorizing some global climate maps and ocean current maps with irritated sighs.

"Are you tired?" Li Rui swayed over, bent down to look at my geography atlas painted colorfully by Tang Shuhe, and said with a frown, "Whoever dares to control me like that, I'll be fucked a long time ago." .”

"What you say is not human," I said, "Su Tong doesn't care if you smoke her or not?"

Li Rui was stunned for a moment: "Can it be the same?" He muttered in a low voice, "Then she must be willing to take care of me."

"What's the difference." I said, "They are not your parents, and they have no obligation to take care of you. They are willing to stretch out their hands to grab you, but you still whip them."

"Ah," Li Rui said, "I mean...it will be annoying."

I recited the picture and said: "Nonsense, who doesn't bother studying, I'm so fucking annoying, Madagascar warm current, New Guinea..."

Yu Sihai yelled: "African agriculture is underdeveloped!"

"We all use..." I reacted, "Fuck off!"

That night after self-study and school, Tang Shuhe rarely left me too many tasks, so he asked me to sort out the two math problems I didn't know during the day, and found a few similar answers from the teaching aids, so that I could If you can do it or not, you can ask him tomorrow.I looked at it, and it was only about four or five times in size, so I raised my eyebrows: "So little?"

He nodded and said, "Go to bed early tonight."

"Ah," I pulled my hair in embarrassment, "it's actually fine..."

He didn't speak, just smiled at me.

After returning to the dormitory, I glanced at the questions. They were of the same type, but they were much more difficult.I turned on the pen for a long time with the small desk lamp on there, but I only pushed out the upper half, and I couldn't go on with the bottom.Li Rui stuck his head down and said, "Lu Er, go to bed early."

I said: "I'll finish this question later, you guys go to bed first—ah, does turning on the lamp affect your sleep?"

Li Rui said, "It's okay."

Yu Sihai said, "It doesn't matter."

I turned off the desk lamp and said, "You guys go to bed first, I'll go find Tang Shuhe."

"Go." Yu Sihai said, "Hey, I can't stand the two of you. You stick together all day long and look for them at night. After two days, won't you two really sleep together?"

I saw that Li Rui was about to fall asleep, so I kept silent and gave Si Hai the middle finger.

I sent a text message to Tang Shuhe outside the door: "At the same table, did you sleep? I have a question and I can't."

He quickly replied to me: "Which question?"

I said, "Can you talk to me face to face? I'm in the hallway."

After a while, the door of Tang Shuhe's dormitory opened quietly.Tang Shuhe came out lightly and closed the door. I waved to him. Tang Shuhe came over, wearing a white old man's shirt, and exuding a fresh and wet breath just after washing.He asked me, "Which one won't?"

I hugged him and said, "Come here."

It was inconvenient to talk in the corridor, so when we walked to the stairs, I leaned on the railing, glanced at my watch, and said, "Auntie, the dormitory manager, will come up for rounds in four or ten minutes, so I have time."

He hummed, looked at it for a while under the dim light of the light bulb at the stairs, and took a pen to draw on my textbook: "Here, don't worry about Sn, first derive An, and subtract it with dislocation."

I leaned over to look: "Oh... I said why can't I get it out-hey, you just finished brushing your teeth?"

I got so close to him, almost head to head, I could smell the mint smell in his mouth while talking, Tang Shuhe hummed awkwardly, and he said, "You, you go back and take it out, just Go to sleep, don't sleep too late today."

I can't tell what's going on, but I feel like Zhang Sheng would meet Cui Yingying at night: "What's the rush, let's chat."

The stairwell was very empty, and the voices of the two people seemed faint. The evening wind in September was already cold, blowing in from the vertical and narrow windows in the stairwell, shaking off the chirping of insects all night.Tang Shuhe and I lay side by side on the railing, blowing the wind comfortably. Tang Shuhe quietly looked out of the window, not knowing what he was thinking. I sighed and said, "I've been exhausted recently."

He said, "Well," then turned around, smiled, and said, "Thank you."

"It's not hard, it's not hard, Xueba is hard," I said, "After the monthly exam, shall I treat you to dinner? Just the two of us."

He thought for a while and said, "No need, it's the end of the month after the monthly exam, and your living expenses will be tight."

"Ah, Ba Ba is too much to worry about," I said, "I have never had a chance to use the manuscript fees I have saved up over the past few years. After the exam, we will have a good meal."

I said, "Let's go."

Tang Shuhe said, "Okay."

We both looked out the window and laughed together.

I said, "What about me, if I do well in the exam, what reward do you plan to give me?"

I originally thought that according to Tang Shuhe's persona who hoped for his son to become a dragon, he would say, "Who are you learning for, are you learning for me?" But he actually thought about it seriously and said: "You want to What?"

He was so serious, which made me feel a little unreasonable and ashamed.I said, "No... Hey, after the monthly exam, there will be a sports meeting soon, and I won't buy snacks by then, so I'll rub you off."

He nodded and said, "Okay."

I laughed: "I could eat a truckload of them, let me tell you."

Tang Shuhe laughed and nodded: "Yes."

Maybe it's because the lights in the stairwell are too dim, or maybe it's because the atmosphere is too good. Suddenly, my brain twitched, and I thought that Tang Shuhe is really good-looking. Even if he wears this kind of old man's shirt for the bird walker in the park, it's still so delicate and too big. The undershirt looks like a fairy.

Ah, the bird fairy in the park.

Bewitched by Tang Shuhe's old man's shirt, I casually made a more unreasonable request.

I said: "There are few boys in the liberal arts class, so I must participate in some kind of project. Can you go to the broadcasting room and cheer for me?"

Tang Shuhe froze for a moment, and opened his mouth, almost showing a dumbfounded look of embarrassment.I hurried back to make amends: "I was joking..."

"Good," he said.

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