until the last minute

The southwestern gate of the school is locked all the year round, and there are few guards and teachers to inspect it. The courtyard wall connecting the gate is relatively short, and some people have built bricks half a person's height inside and outside the wall to make it easier to climb over the wall and get out.Over time, the Southwest Gate has become a secret holy place for students to climb over the wall.

Turning out from here is a seldom-visited alley.Zhou Yin remembered that it rained that night, the ground was wet, and the walls on both sides were covered with moss.He stood under the street lamp at the end of the alley, waiting for the smell of cigarettes to dissipate.

Roaring and the sound of sticks came from far and near. He looked over and saw a group of fighting people pushing and shoving into the alley.

He was not interested in being nosy, and was about to climb over the wall and go back to school. When he stepped on a brick, he suddenly heard a girl crying terribly.He got down immediately, took out his mobile phone to call the police, and walked forward against the wall.

The rancid smell of moss rushed straight into his nostrils, and he couldn't help speeding up his pace. His good night vision allowed him to see clearly that a group of people were concentrating on besieging a certain person, and the crying girl was slumped on the ground.

He hid in the dark, picked up half a brick from the ground, raised his arm and threw it forward.The brick hit the ground with a muffled sound. Although it missed anyone, it happened to startle the group of people.

They watched helplessly as they dragged the hapless bastard on the ground to transfer the battlefield, but luckily the girl was left behind.

He rushed to the girl and helped her up. The girl was very emotional and yelled for him to help fight.He thought he didn't have this skill, but he was also worried that people would be killed at the other end, so he had to rush out of the alley.

It was at that time that Zhou Yin met Li Qing face to face. He was extremely hasty and didn't remember any details.When he saw the police approaching from a distance, he ran away in time, not wanting to be involved.

The alley was dark and long, and the green brick pavement was slippery. Every step he took was trembling with fear, his heart was pounding, and it seemed that there was a time bomb in his chest.

At the moment when his mind was most confused, he recalled without any sign the pair of eyes he saw just now, extremely black and extremely bright.

Later, Zhou Yin recalled over and over again, but he was still unable to complete that face.It seems that this kind of eyes can't be seen from anyone's expression, including Li Qing who is standing in front of him at the moment.

Li Qing said to him: "You were the one who called the police that night, right, thank you."

"You remember me after seeing me once?" Zhou Yin asked suspiciously, he shook the water off his hands, and twitched his mouth, "You have a really good memory."

"I remember you but I don't know your name. It was the girl who said that night."

"Oh, then what else did she say about me?" Zhou Yin looked at Li Qing with great interest, Li Qing's appearance instantly became cramped, and he began to stammer: "I didn't say anything, they were just irrelevant words. "

"It doesn't matter how much, tell me, what did she say about me?" Zhou Yin's face was slightly cold, and the corners of his lips curled up into a faint smile.He knew that when he smiled half-smile, he would look very mean. He deliberately made things difficult for the person in front of him, and wanted to see how he would react.

Li Qing let out a deep breath, wiped the water on his face with the towel hanging around his neck, and saw water dripping down Zhou Yin's cheek, he said in a strange way: "Don't you wipe it off?" Wipe it? The collar of the clothes is wet."

Zhou Yin rolled his eyes, angrily snatched the towel from Li Qing's hand, and rubbed his cheeks hard.

Li Qing's brows relaxed, he covered his chest, and said, "I thought you were angry."

"Why are you angry? Do I look like such a stingy person?"

"No, of course you are not." Li Qing's expression was extremely serious.

"What about you? You have been demerited, and the classmates are talking about you. You didn't cause the trouble that night, did you act bravely?"

Li Qing scratched the back of his head, and briefly described what happened that night. It was another story of standing up for injustice. Zhou Yin was not surprised by this at all.

"Why don't you tell the teacher that you fought to help others, and ask that girl to testify for you."

"She said no. The group of people troubled her because of emotional disputes. This cannot be revealed, otherwise she will also be demerited."

Zhou Yin sneered, he threw the towel on Li Qing's chest, and looked at him in disbelief, "So you're just taking the blame? You're such a good person."

Li Qing spread his hands and said helplessly: "It doesn't matter, this punishment can be revoked if you perform well."

Zhou Yin looked at Li Qing's face carefully, trying to see through what this person was thinking, and finally he sighed——Li Qing is so easy to understand.Under his gaze, Li Qing looked quite uncomfortable, his eyes flicked involuntarily, and his Adam's apple slid up and down.

It was Zhou Yin who took a step back first. He found a hair dryer from the washroom and handed it to Li Qing, saying, "Dry your hair and get ready for dinner."

When it was Zhou Yin's turn to take a shower, he closed the bathroom door, stood under the shower head, and let the water flow straight towards his body.The swift and violent current ran over every inch of skin in the body, washing away those irrelevant charming thoughts.

The hair dryer continued whirring outside, Zhou Yin inexplicably recalled the eyes he saw that night amidst the noise, he felt sorry, and regretted that he would never see him again.

Dinner is served at [-] o'clock in the evening. The dinner is three dishes and one soup. The staple food is mother's specialty preserved meat claypot rice.Li Qing had a good appetite, and ate a big bowl full of it.Zhou Yin didn't have much appetite, he kept fiddling with the rice in the bowl with his chopsticks while swiping his phone wearily.

At the dinner table, there was only the conversation between Zhou's mother and Li Qing. Li Qing's basic situation, such as the number of people in the family, what jobs his parents did, the ages of his younger siblings, and the school, were all inquired clearly.

Zhou Yin was dissatisfied with his mother's excessive questioning, and pretended to cough, but his mother ignored his hint and continued to ask: "I heard that you transferred here this semester, why?"

"The high school conditions in our town are not very good. The head teacher suggested that I change schools, and my parents agreed."

"That's right, I think your school is quite good now, with a good environment and good teachers," the mother opened up, and said what should be said and what should not be said, "I don't understand why Zhou Yin keeps saying that he wants to transfer Principal, you are on good terms with him, can you take care of him more in the future."

"Mom, I don't need anyone to take care of me."

"Auntie, I will."

Zhou Yin lowered his face and didn't speak.Mother went to the kitchen to serve soup, and asked Zhou Yin to finish the meal before getting up.

After his mother left the dinner table, Zhou Yin raked his hair, and whispered to Li Qing, "You don't have to talk so much to my mother, don't listen to her." As soon as he finished speaking, Li Qing put down his chopsticks, and suddenly stretched out his hand. Yin was stunned for a moment, and then felt his chin was gently scratched by the pulp of his fingers, and the rice grains stuck to his chin were wiped off.

Zhou Yin blushed instantly to the root of his neck.

Li Qing rarely showed a smile. He pointed to Zhou Yin's leftover half bowl of rice, "Can't you eat anymore?"

Zhou Yin explained without confidence: "I ate too much in the morning."

"Give it to me, don't waste it."

Li Qing transferred the leftovers from Zhou Yin's bowl to his own, Zhou Yin muttered to hurry up and don't let my mother see, the two moved furtively, Li Qing buried his head in the rice, choked on eating too fast, Zhou Yin sat over and patted him on the back, and the two heads came together unconsciously.

Mother Zhou who came back with the soup saw the backs of the two cuddling together.

After dinner, it rained heavily without warning, and the wind and rain beat the window panes.Zhou Yin stood by the window to observe the rain, and confirmed that even if the umbrella was not blown over at this time, people would be drenched in water.

He turned around and said to Li Qing: "Don't go back tonight, go to school with me tomorrow."

Li Qing was still hesitating, Zhou Yin continued to persuade him: "You said you are renting a house by yourself without your parents looking after you, so what are you afraid of?"

After thinking about it for a long time, Li Qing still refused, Zhou Yin was unhappy and didn't show it on his face, he just said coldly: "Then you can leave later, wait for the rain to stop before leaving."

Going upstairs to the bedroom, Zhou Yin squatted in front of the closet and fiddled with it for a long time. He refolded the messy clothes, and tried to smooth out the folds of the clothes as if he was obsessive-compulsive.He has no hobby of tidying up the closet, he just likes to squat in the narrow aisle between the closet and the bed.

Li Qing stood by the door looking at him, and suddenly asked: "Is your injury healed? Have you taken the medicine prescribed by the doctor?"

Zhou Yin held his breath in his heart, continued to compete with a crumpled shirt, and didn't want to talk to Li Qing.Xu Shi saw that he hadn't responded for a long time, so Li Qing called his name, Zhou Yin stopped what he was doing, and Li Qing called again: "Zhou Yin."

"Do you have to stand at the door and talk to me?"

Zhou Yin threw away the shirt that couldn't be straightened no matter how he tried it, and turned his head to look at the tall figure by the door.The lights in the bedroom were not turned on, and Li Qing blocked most of the light from the corridor, making the corner where he was even darker.

With one hand in his trouser pocket, Li Qing asked, "Can I come in?"

"What do you think?" Zhou Yin was a little annoyed. He knew that the anger was unreasonable, but Li Qing, who had a calm face, really made him very angry.Li Qing strode in, walked up to him and knelt down, and said, "I saw a hospital bag on the table, but you don't smell like medicine, didn't you rub it?"

"Is it not hurting?" Li Qing asked again.

Zhou Yin didn't answer.

Li Qing stood up, brought over the untouched medicine that the desk brought back from the hospital last week, untied the plastic bag, and took out a voltaren ointment.

"Shall I wipe it for you?" Li Qing looked at Zhou Yin condescendingly, Zhou Yin was still squatting, he had to raise his head to see Li Qing's face clearly.Li Qing casually touched the light switch on the wall, Zhou Yin immediately stopped him: "Don't turn on the light."

He changed his posture, turned around and lay half on the bed, wondering whether he should lift his clothes to expose the wound, but this action was wrong anyway.His mind was in a mess, while wondering whether Li Qing had seen through him long ago, while reckoning that he would get up in a few seconds.

Act like nothing happened.

Fortunately, Li Qing approached very quickly, lifted up his clothes with one hand, small bumps appeared on his back due to contact with the cool air, and then covered his exposed back with the other hand.

Li Qing asked in a low voice: "Does it hurt here? What about here?"

Zhou Yin rested his face on the soft mattress, and only let out a soft "hmm".He couldn't say any more. The cool ointment was applied to the skin, and was rubbed away by Li Qing's warm palm, and he kept massaging it.

He couldn't feel the pain, but only felt an itch that had nothing to do with the fall, as if thousands of feathers were scratching at the same time, and Li Qing's thick hands aggravated his itching.

Unable to bear it for another second, Zhou Yin suddenly straightened his body, turned his face, and his eyes hit Li Qing's deep pupils.

There was a loud thunder outside, foretelling that the rain would pour again. Li Qing looked at Zhou Yin's face who was close at hand, and there was an extremely clear thought in his mind. It was raining too much, and he couldn't walk.

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Another chapter good night ^^