Stereotypes

Halfway through the first lunar month, the New Year flavor of the small county has dissipated a bit.

There were a few packed pedestrians sparsely on the street, and some burnt fireworks boxes were piled crookedly on the side of the road, covered with a layer of dirty snow.

Tang Gu rested his head on the backrest of the back seat, holding the half-turned "Solutions to Math Competition Problems" in his hand.The scenery outside the window quickly reversed.It seems that the whole world is gray.

Dusty roads, green belts and pedestrians.

Suddenly a gust of cold wind penetrated into Tang Gu's neck, and along with it, a few fluffy cigarette ash floated over from the front row.

Tang Gu pushed back his slid glasses, closed the book, and stared at the rearview mirror expressionlessly.

Dad noticed his gaze in the rearview mirror, and quickly "hissed" and pushed Lao Deng who was smoking with the window open beside him: "Hey, Deng Xianjun, what's the matter with you, my son is still sitting in the back Now, what are you smoking?"

"Okay, you are all decent people, can I stop smoking?" Old Deng threw the cigarette out and closed the window.

The car drove all the way into the city, and the dashboard was ticking in the small, quiet space.

When he was about to arrive at another school, my father parked the car at the gate of a community called Lanyuan.

Tang Gu packed his schoolbag and got out of the car.

"Xiao Gu, what time will I pick you up?" Dad rolled down the window of Lao Deng's car and called to him.

"12:30, let's call." Tang Gu waved to him, turned and entered the community.

Although this community looks quite high-end, the security system is too unreliable.Seeing a stranger like him walk in, the security guard sitting in the security booth just took a look, and didn't even bother to ask what he was doing.

Tang Gu went straight to the elevator in the second building on the right, reached the door of Wen Ting's house, and rang the doorbell.

It was Wen Ting who opened the door, smiled at Tang Gu, and pointed him to a place in the kitchen: "Just sit there, there are too many people, you can't fit in quickly."

Tang Gu walked in and saw that the small living room was crowded with five or six students, and there were two or three students on the balcony. He came late, so he could only squat in the kitchen except for the toilet.

Tang Gu is on the third day of this year and is studying in a foreign middle school.In the third grade of junior high school, there was a math competition. If you won the first prize, you would be admitted to the best key No. [-] middle school in the city and go directly to school.Wen Ting is one of the teachers in charge of this math competition, and he gives free remedial lessons to some of the contestants in some classes, and Tang Gu is one of them.

Tang Gu's performance in the competition was not top-notch, and he was selected to participate in the competition only because he was at the top of the class in mathematics and qualified.He has a good foundation, but his thinking method lacks vitality and is not suitable for competition.Therefore, Tang Gu has a very negative attitude towards such supplementary lessons.

He walked towards the kitchen, unexpectedly, there was already a person sitting at the small table inside, wearing a red and white winter jacket, with short and refreshing hair, and his long hands and feet seemed out of place in the narrow kitchen.

He knew this person, but he was familiar, and even his name was a bit vague.

The seats in the foreign and middle school exams are arranged according to their rankings. Tang Gu hangs around the first exam room all year round, and he can be seen every time.

Tang Gu put his schoolbag by his feet, sat down opposite him, took a test paper from Wen Ting, and started working.

"Not bad, Qu Zhaoyuan." Wen Ting looked at his test paper, nodded and said, "The level is higher than mine."

Qu Zhaoyuan raised his eyebrows, smiled at him, and continued to do the questions.

Oh, it's called Qu Zhaoyuan.

Soup thought.

Thinking about it, my thoughts drifted away from the geometric diagram in front of me thousands of miles away.

This morning, grandma clearly told him that the clothes had been washed and dried, so why did the clothes stay in the washing machine when he opened it?And last night, she went out to dance the square dance and knocked on the door for a long time when she came back, only to find that the key was in her pocket.

What happened to grandma recently?

"Connect AC."

Someone lowered his voice and said to him.

Tang Gu raised his head and saw Qu Zhaoyuan smiling at him, showing two pointed canine teeth.

This man really looks like a Shiba Inu.he thinks.

Tang Gu ignored him, put away his thoughts, and continued to work on the problem.

As a result, Qu Zhaoyuan didn't finish, and continued to talk to him in a low voice: "Really, AC, you can do it with these two points, trust me."

Tang Gu felt that he was very noisy, so he put the eraser in his hand on the table, raised his eyes to look at him, and said word by word: "I can do it myself, I don't need you to remind me."

"Then you stared at this question in a daze for a long time, I thought you encountered difficulties." Qu Zhaoyuan said.

Tang Gu stopped talking.

When Qu Zhaoyuan finished half of the paper, he glanced at Tang Gu. He had almost finished answering the first two pages. Fast and quality.

It's rare to meet a top student who is similar to me.

Qu Zhaoyuan was thinking while writing, and couldn't help but look at Tang Gu's face.

The skin is very fair, the hair is a bit curly, single eyelid, wearing a pair of small round glasses, with an indifferent expression, a nerdy look, looks like an old accountant in ancient times.

However, he is also a handsome accountant.

Qu Zhaoyuan was amused by his own thoughts and couldn't help laughing.

Tang Gu looked up at him.

Qu Zhaoyuan quickly restrained his smile and focused on the test paper.

"I'll talk about the topic in half an hour. If you haven't finished it, hurry up." Wen Ting walked around the balcony, kitchen, and living room with his hands behind his back.

Before Tang Gu had time to finish the penultimate question, half an hour passed.

Wen Ting dragged out a small whiteboard and used the remaining one hour to finish the paper, and it was almost 12:30.

"Okay, today is the first day, let's finish early and go home to eat something good. Tomorrow is still on time at nine o'clock, don't forget."

The students all went out in twos and threes with their schoolbags on their backs.Only a few who were extremely serious still took the test papers and grasped the Wenting questions.

Tang Gu packed his schoolbag, said goodbye to Wen Ting and went out.

He took out his phone and saw that it was only 25:[-]. He knew that his father would never pick him up earlier, so he decided to wait in the supermarket at the gate of the community.

Sure enough, as soon as I opened the cap of the yogurt bottle I bought, my father called, saying that he had just picked up a customer in the south of the city and wanted to send it to cement. It was too cold outside and asked him to wait at the teacher's house for a while.

It's not good to go back after all out, and I don't know the teacher very well.

Tang Gu drank yogurt and stood in the small space between the shelf and the door.The area of ​​the supermarket is too small, and the door is still covered with a thick layer of army green cloth curtains. The boss is a thin old man, standing behind the counter with his chin in his hands, frowning and looking at Tang Gu.

"Wait for my dad to pick me up, can I stay here for a while?" Tang Gu smiled politely at him very unskillfully.

The old man muttered a few words, looking reluctant, but he didn't drive him away.

Tang Gu pretended to be swiping his phone and kept his head down, when he suddenly felt that the door curtain was lifted.He looked up and saw Qu Zhaoyuan walking in.

"What a coincidence, how about waiting for your parents to pick it up?" Qu Zhaoyuan smiled at him, took a can of instant noodles and a light bulb from the shelf and went to check out.

Tang Gu said "hmm" and didn't speak again.

"Let's go first." Qu Zhaoyuan said, and then opened the thick curtain and went out.

Why buy a light bulb?Go back and change it for Wen Ting's family?

Soup couldn't figure it out.

After 10 minutes, Dad's car finally arrived.

Tang Gu fled and left the small supermarket, opened the car door and got in.

When I got home, my grandma was squinting her eyes and watching TV with the remote control. She was very happy to see the soup coming back, and hurried to the kitchen to scoop out the warm soup.

"Grandma, don't wait for the two of us next time, eat by yourself first." Tang Gu took off his coat and hung it on the back of the chair.

"I see you two eating, so I have an appetite." Grandma smiled.

Tang Gu turned on the rice cooker and found that there was no rice, so he turned to his grandmother and asked, "Have you cooked the noodles yet?"

"No, I cooked the rice." Grandma walked over frowning, looked at the empty rice cooker, slapped her forehead as if suddenly enlightened, and said regretfully, "I forgot! I was thinking about washing the rice just now." , I forgot when I picked up the phone! Ouch, my ass brain!"

Tang Gu put his arms around grandma's shoulders and comforted him, "It's okay, I don't like to eat either."

The father who turned his back to them put the food into his mouth, with a familiar look: "It's not just that the rice is not cooked, and the salt is not added. Old lady, you want us all to return to an ordinary life."

The three looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

The next day was still a make-up lesson, so Qu Zhaoyuan came early and took up the place in the kitchen to do the test papers.After 10 minutes, Tang Gu came up slowly with a schoolbag on his back, and there was still only the kitchen.He sat down opposite Qu Zhaoyuan, took out a black gel pen and pencil and began to work on the questions.

Tomato-colored down jacket.

Qu according to the original idea.The color of the little old man's clothes is quite bright.

On the third day, Tang Gu came over to make up lessons in a bright red down jacket.

On the fourth day, Tang Gu wore a dark blue down jacket with sports stripes.

On the fifth day, a tomato-colored down jacket.

On the sixth day, a big red down jacket.

On the seventh day, a dark blue down jacket.

……

While Qu Zhaoyuan made it a habit to observe what kind of clothes Tang Gu wears every day, Tang Gu also wondered why the man named Qu Zhaoyuan on the opposite side wore the same red and white dress seven days a week Winter clothes, nothing can be shaken.

"This question is easy to understand, just use equations," Qu Zhaoyuan returned Tang Gu's pencil, "Try it."

Tang Gu grabbed the pen that was warmed by Qu Zhaoyuan's hand, and glanced at him: "Thank you."

Today's paper is difficult, so I don't have time to analyze it after finishing it. I can only focus on the key points, and let the students who are more advanced and those who don't understand complement each other.

After finishing the lessons, Tang Gu received a message from his father when he left the house, and he was half an hour late to pick him up.Dad is a taxi driver, and it is common for someone to take him to another place on the way.

Today is the coldest day in the first month. It is impossible to hide in the small supermarket and wait for Dad to pick him up like last time. Tang Gu is not too happy to let the old man's complicated eyes cast on himself again, so He decisively chose to stand in the cold wind at the door.

Someone passed by him, amused: "Why are you standing here stupidly, isn't it cold?"

Tang Gu turned his head and saw that it was Qu Zhaoyuan.

He put up the hat of his winter clothes to cover his head, turned around and went into the small supermarket.

After a while, he ran out again, holding a can of instant noodles in his hand.

"Go to my house and wait, it's minus ten degrees today."

Qu Zhaoyuan looked at him.

Tang Gu understood, Qu Zhaoyuan also lived in this community, no wonder he went to the supermarket to buy a light bulb after finishing his last lessons.

But he really didn't want to go to the house of someone he didn't know well and wait for half an hour.

"Go ahead, within a few steps, I guess your ears will get frostbite in less than 5 minutes." Qu Zhaoyuan looked at his red ears from the cold and smiled.

Tang Gu didn't refuse again, because what Qu Zhaoyuan said was true.

The hood of the down jacket he was wearing today was taken off by his grandmother to wash, but he forgot to put it back on. There was nowhere to cover it, and his ears felt like they were about to fall off.

Tang Gu followed Qu Zhaoyuan into the community, turned a corner, and went up to the second floor of the third unit building.Qu Zhaoyuan took the key and opened the door.

"live alone?"

Soup asked.

Qu Zhaoyuan's small suite has all internal organs, including a balcony, bathroom, bedroom and kitchen, but it is still a little narrower than a family of three or four.

"Well, the rented house is close to other places, and I'm not used to living on campus."

Qu Zhaoyuan tidied up the messy clothes on the small sofa, smiled and said, "Sit down."

The trash can next to the coffee table contained almost full boxes of instant noodles. Tang Gu looked up at him: "Aren't you good at cooking?"

"Yes, I'm too lazy to do it."

While talking, Qu Zhaoyuan poured him a glass of water.The temperature was quite high, Tang Gu took it and burned his palm.

Then neither of them spoke again.

Qu Zhaoyuan entered the kitchen, bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bong don't know what to do, Tang Gu sitting on the sofa alone is not too awkward.

It was like this for half an hour.

Dad's call finally came, Tang Gu got up, walked to the door, thought for a while and said to the kitchen: "My dad is here, thank you for taking me in."

Qu Zhaoyuan came out of the kitchen with wet hands, wearing a light gray apron.

He smiled and said to Tang Gu, "Come again next time."

Tang Gu also smiled, turned around and closed the door for him.

Qu Zhaoyuan fried two dishes of side dishes for himself, and heated up a bowl of egg custard. After eating with rice and a ball game, he opened the exercises and started to work.It took almost two hours to complete a set of competition papers.He turned on his phone and found an unread message from Qi Cheng 15 minutes ago.

"Come to my house to eat glutinous rice balls tomorrow, and school will start the day after tomorrow."

"It is necessary." Qu Zhaoyuan replied with a smile.

Tang Gu was in the room with his head down, doing his homework, when suddenly someone knocked on the window several times hastily.He got up and opened the window, and Duke's big steaming and eager face appeared in front of him with a chill.

"Hurry up, open the door."

Tang Gu opened the door for him, and went back to the room on his own: "It's useless to be anxious, I haven't finished writing, you have to wait to copy."

"I knew you didn't write it well." Duke threw him a dozen white copy papers, "I borrowed Ding Shishi's answer to make a copy, so hurry up, I rushed to give your uncle a confession just after copying. "

Tang Gu flipped through the answers and smiled, then turned to Duke and said, "Yeah."

"Fuck off, don't be nasty. Dad, I don't want to eat this." Duke half-lyed on his bed and flipped through a comic, "I wouldn't have come if I didn't see how pitiful you were when you were arrested and sent to make up classes just after Chinese New Year. Send you the answer."

Tang Gu turned on the stereo casually and played the song.

Anyway, now that he has the answer, the rest of the homework is physical work for him, and he doesn't bother thinking about it.

Duke sighed as he hummed along.

I think when I was in elementary school, Tang Gu was the kind of invincible and self-conscious standard five-good boy who insisted on implementing the principle of "doing homework as soon as you get home before playing". The behavior of madly making up homework late at night is always scoffed at.

Unexpectedly, after entering junior high school, Tang Gu would be able to use this method of scoffing at him more proficiently than Duke.

It is common to make up homework before school starts, but Tang Gu is usually calmer than him. He often promises him that he will get up at 07:30 tomorrow to solve the math homework and copy it for him, and then the next day Duke There was no movement until after seven o'clock in the evening, and I wanted to ask if it was too hard to make up the homework, so I called him tremblingly with a little guilty heart, but when the grandson picked up, his tone was still It was sleepy, so it turned out that I had slept for a whole day without burden. …and then woke up at 07:30 fucking.

"Do you know Qu Zhaoyuan?" Tang Gu asked suddenly as he quickly copied.

"I know you, isn't it the good-looking student bully from Class [-]?" Duke said.

"Oh." Tang Gu thought for a while, "I think it's okay too."

There is no atmosphere on the streets during the Lantern Festival. This year's winter is too cold, and the joy of the people in the county town is frozen.

Qu Zhaoyuan got off the bus and pulled up the collar of the sweater to cover his chin.

As soon as he reached the fourth gate, he saw Qi Cheng walking towards him wearing a furry snow cap with two small twisted tassels.

"What's your taste?" Qu Zhaoyuan tugged at his little twist.

Qi Cheng raised his eyebrows: "My mother insisted on letting me wear them, saying she was afraid that my ears would get cold."

"Isn't it better to buy earmuffs for cold ears?"

"That's right." Qi Cheng smiled, "I guess they raised me as a daughter to make up for the lack of having a daughter."

"No, if you take your appearance for a walk on the street, others will think you are a woman." Qu Zhaoyuan said.

"I'll fuck you!" Qi Cheng made a gesture to kick him.

Qu Zhaoyuan and Qi Cheng were good friends who grew up together from kindergarten to elementary school, but after entering junior high school, Qu Zhaoyuan went to Foreign Middle School, and Qi Cheng went to the Experimental Middle School next door to Foreign Middle School.

Qi Cheng has looked quite feminine since she was a child, and her facial features are more beautiful than many little girls.In addition, his mother couldn't realize her wish to have another daughter, so she raised him as a girl.Qi Cheng himself is a straight man who can't be straighter, but he doesn't know what stimulates him to wear long hair and tie it into a ponytail. Not only is his gender often misidentified, but his sexual orientation is also suspected.

When passing by the basketball court in Qicheng Community, Qu Zhaoyuan took out his hand that was tucked in his pocket: "Let's play a few times later, I didn't move for the whole winter vacation."

"Okay," Qi Cheng smiled, "Bibi, you're so cute."

After eating the Lantern Festival, Tang Gu was urged by his grandmother to go to the supermarket opposite the neighborhood to buy tissues.

"I want the six-pack of Qingfeng." Grandma said.

When he was walking towards the community with toilet paper, he passed the basketball court, and there were two people playing in the court with few street lights.

The guy laying up couldn't see his face clearly, he was tall, and his movements were nimble and agile when he dribbled the ball past the other, and finally he jumped up and threw the ball into the basket accurately, with a beautiful posture.The boy turned around, gave the other party a high five, and smiled brightly.

This time Tang Gu saw clearly that it was Qu Zhaoyuan.

The broken hair in front of Qu Zhaoyuan's forehead was wet with sweat, and water droplets flowed from the eyebrows into the eyes, and the eyeballs under the eyelashes sticking into a small lock looked very bright under the sparse light.

The bridge of his nose is straight, half covered by the shadow of the lamp, giving him a vague three-dimensional feeling.

"Ash is in your eyes, hurry up, you're going to be blind." Qi Cheng rubbed his eyes.

"Where is it?" Qu Zhaoyuan threw the ball and walked over, and leaned over Qi Cheng's face to blow his eyes.

This boy, Tang Gu, had seen him several times in the community, and he was more impressed because he had a ponytail and looked like a girl.

The unhesitating intimacy between the two made Tang Gu think: "It's probably a couple."

Qu Zhaoyuan...forget it.

He stopped standing there stupidly, carrying toilet paper and going upstairs without looking back.

The author has something to say:

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