three feet away

"Promise, why did you recommend me to be the class representative?"

Going back to school on weekends, Xu Nuo met Xiao Jing, the representative of the biology class, at the milk tea shop in the snack street in front of the school.

After that, the little girl who had almost no contact with Xu Nuo in the past year, whether in the seat or friendship, finally spoke to Xu Nuo for the first time.

At that time, Xu Nuo was clutching her stomach and closing her eyes slightly, leaning on Zhu Yuan's thick shoulders like a big sister, asking him to remind the little brother in the milk tea shop not to add ice to her.

Xu Nuo rested on Zhu Yuan's arm, raised her eyelids and glanced at Xiao Jing, her eyes were round and her eyelashes flickered like Xu Nuo's only doll when she was a child, very cute.

"I said it, because you are down-to-earth and hardworking."

Xiao Jing blushed, and then asked a little coyly, "You...why do you think so?"

Xu Nuo was in the midst of a visit from a relative once a month, and she was a little tired. After returning to school in the afternoon, she was roasted on the stove-like bus for nearly an hour, which made her feel even more uncomfortable. She raised her head from Zhu Yuan's shoulder and said seriously He glanced at Xiao Jing with a sincere expression: "Because you are like my doll."

"... "

Xiao Jing was at a loss, before she could react, Xu Nuo chuckled and said two words with a sigh: "Unfortunately..."

"what?"

"It's nothing." Xu Nuo answered listlessly, then rested his head on Zhu Yuan's shoulder again, and did not speak again.

Xiao Jing knew that she couldn't find out why, Xu Nuo usually belonged to the class who didn't take the initiative to make trouble but had a good relationship with the group of students who didn't learn well and made fun of teachers and classmates, such as Zhu Yuan and Zhang Qiming. I don't like it, the classmates don't like to see her, and the classmates who are a little ideal in the class basically put her in the no-friends zone.

But she didn't care, she even seemed happy and pure, she seldom talked to anyone, and Xiao Jing, who was unknown to everyone throughout the whole year of high school, never said a word to her.

It's just that Xu Nuosheng is very good, with long hair reaching her waist, and she is quiet and happy. When she is not talking, she can always give people a sense of quiet beauty. She is a life-like beauty. There are many suitors in school. She came to give gifts, but she was extremely cold-tempered, aloof and indifferent to everyone, so people often run into a wall and run away in desperation. Later, everyone knew that there was a beautiful girl with a withdrawn personality in Class [-] and [-], a boy. Girls don't dare to contact her.There is another category, which is a harmless and quite ordinary adolescent boy who regards promise's indifference and aloofness as envy, and because of her good looks, treats her as a teenage idol.For example, Xiao Jing.

Xiao Jing held back for several days, but finally couldn't help asking her. She promised to answer irrelevant questions like this, but in fact, it was already a great gift to her.

"Then, goodbye." Before leaving, Xiao Jing might be too nervous, but she blushed and bowed 45° to Xu Nuo.

This time, Xu Nuo didn't even lift his eyelids, waved his hands weakly, and didn't speak.

"This girl is usually quiet and inconspicuous, but she looks so cute today." Zhu Yuan handed the milk tea in his hand to Xu Nuo, shrugged his shoulders and signaled her to stand up straight, and followed Xiao Jing's gaze. His back chased for a few meters.

Xu Nuo took the milk tea, stood up limply, and rolled his eyes at him: "I think you are pretty cute too, you two are suitable."

"Hey, my brother thinks so too. Haha."

Zhu Yuan leaned on his shoulder and made a promise, with a bright smile on his face.

Xu Nuo twitched the corners of his lips and didn't speak again.

In the evening self-study after the holiday, the homeroom teacher Lao Wang temporarily changed the biology teacher to help with the class. When Yan Ruyi entered the classroom, the setting sun was just beginning to set, hanging low in the sky, and the red rays of light passed through the inner playground Those dense camphor tree branches landed on the podium.The teacher's chair cast a slanting shadow in the red light, Yan Ruyi just walked in, then sat quietly on that chair, opened the textbook she brought in and started preparing lessons.

Xu Nuo fell asleep and woke up in a daze. The first thing he saw was Yan Ruyi's hazy shadow surrounded by the golden red sun. It was a bit blurry, but it looked like an elf in a fairy tale.

There was a lot of noise in the classroom, but it wasn't because Yan Ruyi came in to be quiet. Before the class bell rang, Yan Ruyi entered the classroom 10 minutes earlier.

Some were reciting English words aloud, some were reading classic Chinese texts in a low voice, and more people, just like Zhu Yuan at this moment, were looking for people to talk to.

Xu Nuo clasped her lower abdomen with her left hand unnaturally, supported her chin with her right hand, and looked at the direction of the podium for a moment. In her field of vision, the three-foot podium was a mass of crimson red, but her thoughts flew tens of millions of miles away. A place where no one knows.

It wasn't until the bell for evening self-study rang, the sun set, the rays of light quietly changed positions, and the halo on the shadow in her vision also disappeared, Xu Nuo fell from the clouds that had just wandered away. She blinked and saw Yan Ruyi put down her hands stood up slowly, and tapped the podium with the blackboard brush: "Everyone, keep quiet."

This action of knocking on the podium was repeated three times before the classroom slowly entered a quiet state. Yan Ruyi stood on the podium, and his eyes slowly scanned from the right side of the classroom to the left side of the classroom.

When Xu Nuo was about to see her direction, she suddenly became nervous and lowered her head abruptly.

"Squad leader, there are two students who haven't returned to school?"

It wasn't until Yan Ruyi called the squad leader to count the people who didn't show up that Xu Nuo sneaked up to look at the podium. Today's Yan Ruyi changed into a crisp sleeveless knee-length skirt, and there was an air of aura that Xu Nuo yearned for all over her body. The breath that life can bring, that kind of life is called freedom, and that kind of breath is called youth.

Yan Ru pointed to the vacant seat in front of Xu Nuo and asked, "Student Xu Nuo, what's the name of the male classmate in front of you?" Xu Nuo felt a little embarrassed, but also a little happy. Counting the students who didn't come, but suddenly ignoring the class monitor's question to him, to his joy, Yan Ruyi actually remembered his name?

She stared at Yan Ru for a second with complicated hearts, and just when she was about to answer, she felt a shadow passing by outside the window.

Zhang Qiming pushed open the classroom door in the next second, and shouted loudly to Yan Ruyi who was on the podium with a smile on his face: "Report!"

Yan Ru looked sideways at Zhang Qiming, glanced at him, and finally landed on a colorful translucent gift bag in his hand. After thinking for a moment, she raised her hand to look at her watch, and nodded to Zhang Qiming. head, and said softly, "Come in."

Zhang Qiming nodded quickly, swept into the classroom like a gust of wind and rushed to his seat, before his butt was fully seated, the gift bag in his hand had already landed on Xu Nuo's desk.

Xu Nuo was a little annoyed, she took a quick look at Yan Ruyi, and found that she had turned her head to look at another place, she was slightly relieved, picked up the gift bag on the table and threw it back into Zhang Qiming's arms without even looking at it: " I do not want."

Zhang Qiming was in a hurry, dragging the bag in front of Xu Nuo, panting like presenting treasures: "Why don't you? Nuonuo, my dad went to Chongqing to discuss business today, and I went with him on purpose just to pick a gift for you, don't you always say Was there a cute doll when you were young? I guess now that you don’t like dolls anymore when you grow up, I just picked out a figure specially for you. Look, how beautiful it is. It’s genuine. It took my brother two full months of pocket money. money."

Xu Nuo glanced at the exquisite hand-made packaging in the bag, and just about to speak, she felt that she was being watched from a distance. She raised her head suddenly, and her eyes collided with Yan Ruyi's in mid-air. Yan Ruyi saw a playful expression on Yan Ruyi's face, that smile was a bit ambiguous.

Xu Nuo's ears are hot, Yan Ruyi must have misunderstood!

She was a little anxious, and stretched out her hand to push Zhang Qiming: "Sit down, go to self-study." After speaking, she lowered her head and opened an exercise book casually.

"Wow, Xu Nuo," Zhu Yuan stared at Xu Nuo as if he had heard a big joke, "What did you just say? Did you ask Zhang Qiming to go to self-study?"

Xu Nuo put his hands on his face and covered his ears, and asked, "No?"

"You are Xu Nuoye, you are the Xu Nuoye who remembers the gender and name of all the text teachers. You actually asked Zhang Qiming to go to self-study, and you are going to make a workbook?"

Zhu Yuan looked at Zhang Qiming, who also had an inexplicable expression, in horror, and stretched out two fingers artificially to twist the exercise book under Xu Nuo's arm and glanced at it: "English? Xu Nuo, do you know how many letters there are in the English language?" ?"

Zhang Qiming was not happy when he heard this, and stared at Zhu Yuan with his chest straightened out, and said proudly: "What are you talking about? Let me tell you, that is, if our family Nuonuo doesn't want to learn, she wants to? The whole school will be in minutes." First, do you believe it or not? Who do you look down on? You? It’s not me bragging. When we promised to go to junior high school, it was..."

Xu Nuo couldn't stand Zhang Qiming's rant about the past, waved his hand, and angrily stopped him from continuing to speak: "Okay, do you want to read the book or not?"

Zhang Qiming choked up, smacked his lips in embarrassment, and instantly revived with blood, and lifted the rotten curtain on his forehead with a smile: "Look, of course? Nuonuo, come to my house on weekends to study with me? I'll give it to you." My mother said that I had changed classes, and she found two teachers for me. Since you want to study, come to class together. I asked them to help you with tutoring for those who fell in the first year of high school? So we can go to college together in the future. "

Xu Nuo was already depressed because of her menstrual period, and seeing Shangyan Ruyi's half-smile expression just now, Zhang Qiming kept nagging in her ears, which made her even more irritable. She lowered her head and clenched her hands into fists , slammed it heavily on the textbook, and yelled at Zhang Qiming with a suppressed voice: "Are you annoying? Why do you have so much to say? Whether my grades are good or not, what does it matter to you if I fail to study? Who cares about going to college with you?" ?”

Although Xu Nuo had restrained his voice as much as possible on the verge of jumping, it was still a bit harsh in the quiet classroom. Everyone, including Yan Ruyi who was sitting behind the desk preparing for the lesson, looked up and looked over here.

Zhang Qiming was taken aback by the yelling, and looked back at the curious gazes from all directions. He couldn't hold back, and his face turned pale for a while. He turned his head and looked at Xu Nuo again, the corners of his mouth moved, hesitant to speak, and finally embarrassed Touching his face, he sighed and turned around holding the gift in his hand.

She let out a burst of anger, but the boredom in Xu Nuo's heart did not ease in the slightest. On the contrary, Zhang Qiming's aggrieved back added a feeling of self-blame in her heart. He did nothing wrong in the first place.

Yan Ruyi looked at her unblinkingly, with probing eyes, but she didn't ask any questions after all, she just tapped on the podium lightly with her fingers to emphasize that the evening self-study has started.

Let go of her clenched fists, Xu Nuo let out a sigh of relief, lowered her head, Yan Ruyi's gaze on her head did not move away, she could clearly feel it, but she ignored it, closed the exercise book indiscriminately, and lay on her stomach Sleeping on the desk.

Yan Ruyi didn't come to bother, like all the other Kewen teachers.

Xu Nuo was lying on the table, but her mind was messed up, Yan Ruyi was a new teacher, she didn't care about sleeping by herself in the self-study class, she was probably in the office, she often heard bad things about herself from other teachers, right?

But so what?

She promised that she was not a good student in the first place.

Thinking of this in her heart, she felt a little calmer, her lower abdomen was aching, she lay on her stomach, she really felt drowsy, and fell asleep in a daze.

Waking up again, it was already after a class, the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Xu Nuo rubbed his eyes, got up and went to the toilet.

At the door of the classroom, she rubbed shoulders with Yan Ruyi who came down from the podium.In the midsummer of September, Yan Ruyi's body temperature was icy cold, the first time he touched it, a layer of goose bumps appeared on Xu Nuo's left shoulder.

Without even thinking about it, she lowered her head and turned sideways to make way, but she saw Yan Ru's white feet in a set of sandals standing still.She raised her head, tilted her neck slightly, and Yan Ruyi's beautiful face fell into her eyes.

Yan Ruyi was smiling, that smile was exactly the same as when she saw Zhang Qiming giving her a gift just now, it was still a playful smile, and it still annoyed Xu Nuo.

Xu Nuo lost his temper, and deliberately used his honorific title to say to Yan Ruyi who was about two centimeters taller than her: "Teacher Yan, are you not going out?"

Yan Ruyi raised the corners of her lips, and her smile became even brighter. She suddenly raised her hand to stroke Xu Nuo's hair, her eyes sparkled, "I'm honored, you remember my surname is Yan."

"..." Suddenly being attacked with such a pampering gesture, Xu Nuo shrank her neck uncomfortably, she was a little speechless, what kind of answer is this?

Seeing that Xu Nuo did not speak, Yan Ruyi smiled and blinked, and said in a relaxed tone like a friend: "Xu Nuo, the teacher does not object to campus love, but falling in love cannot affect your studies. Also, in the next self-study class, you can't do it again." I'm sleeping."

"..." So she was watching?Xu Nuo's ears turned red, and he wanted to explain to her that his relationship with Zhang Qiming was not what she thought. He opened his mouth, but found it funny. What's the use of explaining what other people think?She raised her head, nodded to Yan Ru indifferently, and then rushed out of the classroom quickly.