Xie Lian asked, "Why do you ask this suddenly?"
Qi Chen sat up straight, rubbed his eyes and said, "I had a dream."
In fact, as soon as the words came out, Qi Chen felt that he had made a slip of the tongue. He was only five or six years old at the time, and Xie Lian would only be younger than him. With both parents present, it made no sense that he would be locked in the room and not allowed to go out.
And it's just eyes, after so many years, he must have not woken up before admitting his mistake.
Gradually convincing himself, Qi Chen recounted the dream just now as a joke, "Actually, it's not that I can't even remember it in a dream. I was so naughty when I was young..."
Xie Lian glanced at him, "It's quite skinny."
As soon as the voice fell, the bell rang, and the teacher stepped on the bell and came in, interrupting the conversation between the two.At the time, he didn't feel anything was wrong, but Qi Chen realized afterwards that there was obviously something wrong with Xie Lian's tone at that time.
The consequence of being distracted in the morning was that Qi Chen barely managed to make up the missed lessons until the evening.
Back home from school, when she got off the car, she happened to meet Pei Ruoyan who had just returned from the hospital.The two walked in silently, the atmosphere was filled with embarrassment, Qi Chen took the initiative to say hello, "Auntie, are you awake?"
Pei Ruoyan let out a "hmm", "I woke up this afternoon."
Qi Chen asked a few more questions one after another, and Pei Ruoyan answered them very briefly.Seeing that he was about to walk to the front of the villa, Qi Chen tentatively mentioned, "What happened yesterday..."
"I didn't ask any more." Pei Ruoyan paused, "The doctor told her to rest."
Qi Chen unconsciously thought of Xie Lian again, and his thoughts drifted away.It wasn't until Pei Ruoyan called him twice that he finally recovered, "What did you just say?"
"I said..." Pei Ruoyan took a deep breath, subconsciously squeezed the bag he was carrying, stared into Qi Chen's eyes, and said in a tight voice, "Are you asking me these things to thank Lian?"
Pei Ruoyan watched Qi Chen's expression change from bewildered to helpless, and also vaguely revealed a little guilt.I just feel like my heart has rolled around in a pan of oil, and it seems to be run over by something.
Bring shame on yourself.
Nothing could be more appropriate than this sentence.
Pei Ruoyan took a step back unconsciously, gave him a last look, as if he was about to engrave him, and then opened the door and entered without looking back.
Looking at his back, Qi Chen moved his lips, and sighed in his heart, but he still didn't stop him.
After being hospitalized for observation for a week, Mother Pei asked to be discharged from the hospital.But after more than half a month, Qi Chen didn't find any connection between her and Xie Lian.
And Pei Ruoyan seemed to be concerned about her fainting last time, so she didn't take the initiative to mention it.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year. Qi Chen successfully entered the re-examination after the results of the preliminary round of the chemical competition, and Xie Lian was the same as him.The other three scores in the attached middle school were not bad, but they were still close to the re-examination.
Everyone went to the chemistry group office to collect their grades, and the others congratulated them. Seeing that Xie Lian was discussing with the teacher, Qi Chen stopped and said a few words to them.
A girl said: "I have a friend from No. [-] Middle School. Someone in her class also entered the semi-finals. Otherwise, if you add me as a friend, I will recommend her to you to form a group?"
Qi Chen doesn't really like adding people to WeChat, and was thinking about how to refuse, when a voice from the side suddenly interjected, "The school will recruit people uniformly during the training camp."
Helping to decline the girl's invitation to add WeChat, Xie Lian looked in Qi Chen's direction, "Go back to work?"
Qi Chen responded, said goodbye to the remaining three people, and followed them quickly.
Leaving the office, Qi Chen whispered thanks, then looked curiously at the prize paper in his hand, "Which place are you in?"
Xie Lian said, "First."
"Oh, first...first?"
Qi Chen's eyes widened slightly, and he pulled out the paper in his hand in disbelief, it really is No.1...
The preliminary competition is a provincial league, and the ranking is only in the province, but even so, the first place in the province is already very good.
Originally thought that he would be very good if he got fifth in the exam, Qi Chen was in a bit of a complicated mood, and muttered in a low voice, "Your grades are so good."
Xie Lian took the award paper back without exaggerating, "I've learned this since I was a child, so it's normal to do better than you in the exam."
Qi Chen froze for a moment, then remembered that Father Xie was a chemist, and it seemed reasonable that Xie Lian was talented in this area.
The weather at the end of the year was already a bit cold, and a gust of cold wind hit our faces when we stepped out of the corridor.
Qi Chen turned up his collar to keep out the wind, thought for a while and asked, "Then how is your experiment doing?"
The re-examination included not only a written test but also practical exercises. Although Qi Chen did well in school, it was not of the same order as the competition questions, so he had to prepare in advance.
Xie Lian glanced at him, figured out the meaning behind the words, and deliberately gave an ambiguous answer, "It's okay."
Qi Chen blinked, "Then teach me when the time comes."
"Okay."
Xie Lian's tone was slow, with a half-smile on his face, he leaned over to his ear, and said softly, "Who told you to be my boyfriend?"
Unexpectedly, Xie Lian would bring this up suddenly, and the place where Qi Chen's breath brushed over Qi Chen's ears warmed up, and slowly burned out.In the cold weather, he felt a little hot standing outside.
Ever since the two of them announced their relationship, Gu Mingye hasn't mentioned the matter of confession anymore. Although he occasionally looks at him with that pitiful look, his demeanor and behavior are restrained and stay within the range of friends. , without crossing boundaries.
And Pei Ruoyan retreated even harder, if not for being under the same roof, Qi Chen felt that he would treat himself as a stranger.
Also because of the change in the attitudes of these two people, the fake relationship between Qi Chen and Xie Lian almost existed in name only.Qi Chen occasionally wondered if Xie Lian had forgotten about this relationship, but it wasn't until the other party mentioned it suddenly that he realized that the other party hadn't.
It was still class time, Xie Lian opened the door and went in after teasing, Qi Chen hid outside and let the wind blow for a while, until the temperature behind his ears completely subsided, then sneaked in like a thief.
The time for the semi-finals was set before the final exam. Because it was the national joint exam, the location of the training camp was also set in City B, and the time was tight. They had to start after New Year's Day.
Qi Chen packed his things ahead of time, and Qi's father came back from a business trip the day after New Year's Eve.
Everyone had a meal together, and during the meeting, the matter of the rematch was mentioned. Qi's father heard that there was someone in the attached middle school who was with Qi Chen, so he asked if he would like to pick up that classmate when sending him to the airport.
"Cough, no need."
Qi Chen almost didn't get choked, glanced at Mother Pei's direction, and thought that Mother Pei would have to faint on the spot when she saw Xie Lian, and after deliberating half-truths said: "We will gather at the school then, and then Let's go to the airport together."
The school's arrangement was indeed like this, but Xie Lian proposed to set off with Qi Chen on his own just like last time.Even the economy class originally booked by the school was upgraded by himself.
Fortunately, there were only the two of them going to the middle school this time, so there was no need to worry about other people's emotions. Qi Chen privately transferred the money for the upgrade, but Xie Lian confiscated it. When the time limit expired, the system automatically refunded it.
On the day of departure, Qi Chen asked the driver to take him to the gate of the attached middle school. After seeing that the car had disappeared, he pulled the suitcase to another car parked on the side of the road and stopped.
The driver was the same one who came to pick them up from the bar last time. When he saw him coming, he got out of the car and helped carry the luggage.Qi Chen didn't recognize him, thanked him politely, opened the back door and went in.
Xie Lian was flipping through a book in the back seat, and frowned slightly after seeing him come in, "You wear so little?"
"The coat is in the bag." Qi Chen sat in and closed the door, explaining, "The main reason is that it's not cold here, and I'm afraid I'll get hot if I wear too thick."
Xie Lian said: "City B is very cold in winter, there are not enough coats, have you brought other thick clothes?"
"Bring it."
Qi Chen took out his mobile phone and called up the weather forecast in City B to take another look, "But it should be okay, I checked it a few days ago, and it's not below zero yet."
Xie Lian thought to himself that City S is not cold in winter, and there are not many thick clothes for sale offline, so it would be the same to buy them again in City B, and the two of them are about the same size, so they would wear the same clothes, so he didn't persuade him any more.
After several hours of flying to City B, Qi Chen consciously took out his coat before boarding the plane and put it on when he got off the plane, but when he got out of the terminal, his face was still frozen by the cold wind, and he rolled and crawled into the ground. In the bus sent by the training school to pick up people.
Xie Lian was reluctant to sit here at first, but Qi Chen was unwilling to go out again, so he had no choice but to give up.
Almost all the people who participated in the training camp came in the past two days. It was already afternoon, and half of them were in the car. Xie Lian went to the front row and asked about the departure time. When he learned that he would leave in half an hour, he reluctantly persuaded himself to go back. .
With the heater turned on in the car, Qi Chen was not so cold, but he also felt a bit uncomfortable. Seeing Xie Lian's eyebrows wrinkled, thinking of the other party's cleanliness, he hesitated for a while and said in a low voice, "Why don't you take a taxi first?"
"No." Xie Lian shook his head, "I'll be with you."
Qi Chen pondered for a while, "Then let's change positions."
Xie Lian didn't ask, got up and changed with him, and sat on the inside by the window.
The two of them were noticed during their actions, and it was rare to meet a handsome guy, and there were two of them at the same time, the girl in the front seat lit up, "That..."
"Excuse me, please wait a moment."
Qi Chen replied to her, leaned over after Xie Lian sat down, opened the window a small crack, and used the car curtain to block the extra gap on the roof, leaving a small space for ventilation, and asked the people around him Humanity: "Can this be better?"
Xie Lian's expression softened a lot. Looking at his face, he stretched out his hand to touch the temperature behind his ear, and asked in a low voice, "Is it still cold?"
Qi Chen shook his head, sat back in his seat, and then remembered the girl who had talked to him before, "Sorry, what did you want to say just now?"
"...It's nothing." The girl showed a patterned smile, turned her head and sat back.
After waiting for about 10 minutes, the car finally started and drove to the training camp.
Unlike the preliminary training in the academy, the training venue for the semi-finals is a school.The reason why it was selected as a training ground is because the facilities in its laboratory are the most advanced and complete.
Most importantly, the place is big.
The car drove all the way into the school gate and drove for about ten minutes before stopping in front of a gate.
After learning that this is only a part of the campus, many people were shocked and amazed.When Xie Lian got out of the car, he wanted to change his jacket with Qi Chen, but Qi Chen didn't agree, and just dragged him into the dormitory building first to get the key.
The dormitory here is also a two-person room. The two originally belonged to the same school, and they were the first batch to come in, so they were naturally assigned together.
After Qi Chen entered the dormitory building, at first he rushed up, wanting to go back to the room and turn on the air conditioner, but after entering the elevator, he felt something was wrong, stretched out his hand and tugged at his neckline, wondering, "Why does it feel a little hot?"
Xie Lian couldn't hold back his laughter, and stretched out his hand to help him unzip his coat, "Don't you know that there is floor heating indoors in the north?"
Qi Chen, who has never spent winter in the north since growing up: "..."
I am very envious.
Qi Chen sat up straight, rubbed his eyes and said, "I had a dream."
In fact, as soon as the words came out, Qi Chen felt that he had made a slip of the tongue. He was only five or six years old at the time, and Xie Lian would only be younger than him. With both parents present, it made no sense that he would be locked in the room and not allowed to go out.
And it's just eyes, after so many years, he must have not woken up before admitting his mistake.
Gradually convincing himself, Qi Chen recounted the dream just now as a joke, "Actually, it's not that I can't even remember it in a dream. I was so naughty when I was young..."
Xie Lian glanced at him, "It's quite skinny."
As soon as the voice fell, the bell rang, and the teacher stepped on the bell and came in, interrupting the conversation between the two.At the time, he didn't feel anything was wrong, but Qi Chen realized afterwards that there was obviously something wrong with Xie Lian's tone at that time.
The consequence of being distracted in the morning was that Qi Chen barely managed to make up the missed lessons until the evening.
Back home from school, when she got off the car, she happened to meet Pei Ruoyan who had just returned from the hospital.The two walked in silently, the atmosphere was filled with embarrassment, Qi Chen took the initiative to say hello, "Auntie, are you awake?"
Pei Ruoyan let out a "hmm", "I woke up this afternoon."
Qi Chen asked a few more questions one after another, and Pei Ruoyan answered them very briefly.Seeing that he was about to walk to the front of the villa, Qi Chen tentatively mentioned, "What happened yesterday..."
"I didn't ask any more." Pei Ruoyan paused, "The doctor told her to rest."
Qi Chen unconsciously thought of Xie Lian again, and his thoughts drifted away.It wasn't until Pei Ruoyan called him twice that he finally recovered, "What did you just say?"
"I said..." Pei Ruoyan took a deep breath, subconsciously squeezed the bag he was carrying, stared into Qi Chen's eyes, and said in a tight voice, "Are you asking me these things to thank Lian?"
Pei Ruoyan watched Qi Chen's expression change from bewildered to helpless, and also vaguely revealed a little guilt.I just feel like my heart has rolled around in a pan of oil, and it seems to be run over by something.
Bring shame on yourself.
Nothing could be more appropriate than this sentence.
Pei Ruoyan took a step back unconsciously, gave him a last look, as if he was about to engrave him, and then opened the door and entered without looking back.
Looking at his back, Qi Chen moved his lips, and sighed in his heart, but he still didn't stop him.
After being hospitalized for observation for a week, Mother Pei asked to be discharged from the hospital.But after more than half a month, Qi Chen didn't find any connection between her and Xie Lian.
And Pei Ruoyan seemed to be concerned about her fainting last time, so she didn't take the initiative to mention it.
In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the year. Qi Chen successfully entered the re-examination after the results of the preliminary round of the chemical competition, and Xie Lian was the same as him.The other three scores in the attached middle school were not bad, but they were still close to the re-examination.
Everyone went to the chemistry group office to collect their grades, and the others congratulated them. Seeing that Xie Lian was discussing with the teacher, Qi Chen stopped and said a few words to them.
A girl said: "I have a friend from No. [-] Middle School. Someone in her class also entered the semi-finals. Otherwise, if you add me as a friend, I will recommend her to you to form a group?"
Qi Chen doesn't really like adding people to WeChat, and was thinking about how to refuse, when a voice from the side suddenly interjected, "The school will recruit people uniformly during the training camp."
Helping to decline the girl's invitation to add WeChat, Xie Lian looked in Qi Chen's direction, "Go back to work?"
Qi Chen responded, said goodbye to the remaining three people, and followed them quickly.
Leaving the office, Qi Chen whispered thanks, then looked curiously at the prize paper in his hand, "Which place are you in?"
Xie Lian said, "First."
"Oh, first...first?"
Qi Chen's eyes widened slightly, and he pulled out the paper in his hand in disbelief, it really is No.1...
The preliminary competition is a provincial league, and the ranking is only in the province, but even so, the first place in the province is already very good.
Originally thought that he would be very good if he got fifth in the exam, Qi Chen was in a bit of a complicated mood, and muttered in a low voice, "Your grades are so good."
Xie Lian took the award paper back without exaggerating, "I've learned this since I was a child, so it's normal to do better than you in the exam."
Qi Chen froze for a moment, then remembered that Father Xie was a chemist, and it seemed reasonable that Xie Lian was talented in this area.
The weather at the end of the year was already a bit cold, and a gust of cold wind hit our faces when we stepped out of the corridor.
Qi Chen turned up his collar to keep out the wind, thought for a while and asked, "Then how is your experiment doing?"
The re-examination included not only a written test but also practical exercises. Although Qi Chen did well in school, it was not of the same order as the competition questions, so he had to prepare in advance.
Xie Lian glanced at him, figured out the meaning behind the words, and deliberately gave an ambiguous answer, "It's okay."
Qi Chen blinked, "Then teach me when the time comes."
"Okay."
Xie Lian's tone was slow, with a half-smile on his face, he leaned over to his ear, and said softly, "Who told you to be my boyfriend?"
Unexpectedly, Xie Lian would bring this up suddenly, and the place where Qi Chen's breath brushed over Qi Chen's ears warmed up, and slowly burned out.In the cold weather, he felt a little hot standing outside.
Ever since the two of them announced their relationship, Gu Mingye hasn't mentioned the matter of confession anymore. Although he occasionally looks at him with that pitiful look, his demeanor and behavior are restrained and stay within the range of friends. , without crossing boundaries.
And Pei Ruoyan retreated even harder, if not for being under the same roof, Qi Chen felt that he would treat himself as a stranger.
Also because of the change in the attitudes of these two people, the fake relationship between Qi Chen and Xie Lian almost existed in name only.Qi Chen occasionally wondered if Xie Lian had forgotten about this relationship, but it wasn't until the other party mentioned it suddenly that he realized that the other party hadn't.
It was still class time, Xie Lian opened the door and went in after teasing, Qi Chen hid outside and let the wind blow for a while, until the temperature behind his ears completely subsided, then sneaked in like a thief.
The time for the semi-finals was set before the final exam. Because it was the national joint exam, the location of the training camp was also set in City B, and the time was tight. They had to start after New Year's Day.
Qi Chen packed his things ahead of time, and Qi's father came back from a business trip the day after New Year's Eve.
Everyone had a meal together, and during the meeting, the matter of the rematch was mentioned. Qi's father heard that there was someone in the attached middle school who was with Qi Chen, so he asked if he would like to pick up that classmate when sending him to the airport.
"Cough, no need."
Qi Chen almost didn't get choked, glanced at Mother Pei's direction, and thought that Mother Pei would have to faint on the spot when she saw Xie Lian, and after deliberating half-truths said: "We will gather at the school then, and then Let's go to the airport together."
The school's arrangement was indeed like this, but Xie Lian proposed to set off with Qi Chen on his own just like last time.Even the economy class originally booked by the school was upgraded by himself.
Fortunately, there were only the two of them going to the middle school this time, so there was no need to worry about other people's emotions. Qi Chen privately transferred the money for the upgrade, but Xie Lian confiscated it. When the time limit expired, the system automatically refunded it.
On the day of departure, Qi Chen asked the driver to take him to the gate of the attached middle school. After seeing that the car had disappeared, he pulled the suitcase to another car parked on the side of the road and stopped.
The driver was the same one who came to pick them up from the bar last time. When he saw him coming, he got out of the car and helped carry the luggage.Qi Chen didn't recognize him, thanked him politely, opened the back door and went in.
Xie Lian was flipping through a book in the back seat, and frowned slightly after seeing him come in, "You wear so little?"
"The coat is in the bag." Qi Chen sat in and closed the door, explaining, "The main reason is that it's not cold here, and I'm afraid I'll get hot if I wear too thick."
Xie Lian said: "City B is very cold in winter, there are not enough coats, have you brought other thick clothes?"
"Bring it."
Qi Chen took out his mobile phone and called up the weather forecast in City B to take another look, "But it should be okay, I checked it a few days ago, and it's not below zero yet."
Xie Lian thought to himself that City S is not cold in winter, and there are not many thick clothes for sale offline, so it would be the same to buy them again in City B, and the two of them are about the same size, so they would wear the same clothes, so he didn't persuade him any more.
After several hours of flying to City B, Qi Chen consciously took out his coat before boarding the plane and put it on when he got off the plane, but when he got out of the terminal, his face was still frozen by the cold wind, and he rolled and crawled into the ground. In the bus sent by the training school to pick up people.
Xie Lian was reluctant to sit here at first, but Qi Chen was unwilling to go out again, so he had no choice but to give up.
Almost all the people who participated in the training camp came in the past two days. It was already afternoon, and half of them were in the car. Xie Lian went to the front row and asked about the departure time. When he learned that he would leave in half an hour, he reluctantly persuaded himself to go back. .
With the heater turned on in the car, Qi Chen was not so cold, but he also felt a bit uncomfortable. Seeing Xie Lian's eyebrows wrinkled, thinking of the other party's cleanliness, he hesitated for a while and said in a low voice, "Why don't you take a taxi first?"
"No." Xie Lian shook his head, "I'll be with you."
Qi Chen pondered for a while, "Then let's change positions."
Xie Lian didn't ask, got up and changed with him, and sat on the inside by the window.
The two of them were noticed during their actions, and it was rare to meet a handsome guy, and there were two of them at the same time, the girl in the front seat lit up, "That..."
"Excuse me, please wait a moment."
Qi Chen replied to her, leaned over after Xie Lian sat down, opened the window a small crack, and used the car curtain to block the extra gap on the roof, leaving a small space for ventilation, and asked the people around him Humanity: "Can this be better?"
Xie Lian's expression softened a lot. Looking at his face, he stretched out his hand to touch the temperature behind his ear, and asked in a low voice, "Is it still cold?"
Qi Chen shook his head, sat back in his seat, and then remembered the girl who had talked to him before, "Sorry, what did you want to say just now?"
"...It's nothing." The girl showed a patterned smile, turned her head and sat back.
After waiting for about 10 minutes, the car finally started and drove to the training camp.
Unlike the preliminary training in the academy, the training venue for the semi-finals is a school.The reason why it was selected as a training ground is because the facilities in its laboratory are the most advanced and complete.
Most importantly, the place is big.
The car drove all the way into the school gate and drove for about ten minutes before stopping in front of a gate.
After learning that this is only a part of the campus, many people were shocked and amazed.When Xie Lian got out of the car, he wanted to change his jacket with Qi Chen, but Qi Chen didn't agree, and just dragged him into the dormitory building first to get the key.
The dormitory here is also a two-person room. The two originally belonged to the same school, and they were the first batch to come in, so they were naturally assigned together.
After Qi Chen entered the dormitory building, at first he rushed up, wanting to go back to the room and turn on the air conditioner, but after entering the elevator, he felt something was wrong, stretched out his hand and tugged at his neckline, wondering, "Why does it feel a little hot?"
Xie Lian couldn't hold back his laughter, and stretched out his hand to help him unzip his coat, "Don't you know that there is floor heating indoors in the north?"
Qi Chen, who has never spent winter in the north since growing up: "..."
I am very envious.
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