The Blaze of Xueba

Boyhood (25)

No. [-] Middle School is not too big, and the layout of the high school is quite satisfactory. On both sides of the road are evergreen trees in all seasons. The snow that fell a few days ago is still on the green leaves. Leaving the most crowded place in the teaching building, the further you go, the whole campus It looks more and more bleak.

Li Lie is also a flamboyant walker, which really embodies the shameless essence of pretending to be unrestrained. Zhou Yan really wants to say that he doesn't know this person.

In the bitterly cold winter, this guy actually walked sideways like Ziling in Yilian Youmeng. Zhou Yan felt that his eyes had suffered ten thousand points of damage, so he shouted impatiently to Li Lie, "Can you walk more normally? There is still snow on the edge here, so it is easy to slip!"

As soon as Zhou Yan finished speaking, Li Lie staggered and slipped. Fortunately, Zhou Yan was mentally prepared and caught him in time.

Zhou Yan said angrily, "Teenagers still do things like children, do you have any brains?!"

Li Lie stuck to Zhou Yan's body, smiling broadly, "Oh, Lie Lie just wanted to get angry, why are you so angry, come and give Lie Lie, a three-year-old child a smile."

Zhou Yan saw Li Lie, who was tall and strong in class, acting like a baby in this cold and windy winter. He had goose bumps all over his body, and his stomach was extremely uncomfortable. He really wanted to find a place to vomit.

Zhou Yan shook off Li Lie and walked forward alone with a disheveled face. Li Lie chased after him, laughing and laughing with him without changing his face, but Zhou Yan didn't say a word. Seeing his ugly face, Li Lie asked anxiously, "Zhou Yan? , what's wrong with you, is there something uncomfortable?!"

Zhou Yan has a cold physique, and winter is his devil. No matter how thickly he is wrapped, he will still be shivering in the bitter winter.Zhou Yan's lips were darkened, he shook his head, and said in a low voice, "I'm fine."

"It's okay, how could it be okay!" Li Lie saw that Zhou Yan's body shrank from the cold, trembling all over, and his teeth were still rattling from time to time, he held Zhou Yan's icy cold hand on his own initiative, and shouted in shock , "Fuck! You - why are you so cold?!"

Zhou Yan instinctively wanted to pull out his hand, but it was so strong that it held him tightly like pliers.Li Lie's heart ached, and he didn't want to care about the consequences, so he held onto his hand firmly and stuffed it into his warm pocket.

Li Lie's clothes are not thick, he didn't expect the pockets to be so warm, it's like a hot water bottle for walking!Zhou Yan gradually felt better, and his trembling heart gradually calmed down.

Li Lie had never thought that this damn school was so small, it seemed that he only held Zhou Yan's hand for a few minutes before he had to let go at the school gate.

Li Lie said gentlemanly, "Don't get me wrong, I was helping those in need just now, and I have no other plans."

Really, there is no silver 300 taels here.Zhou Yan let him go, and was grateful to him, but he was afraid that this guy would get carried away, so he said coldly, "Uh. You live in the same place as me, do you want to go home together?"

Li Lie waved his hand, "No, I have something to do this afternoon."

Zhou Yan lowered his head and let out an ooh, as light as a needle dropped in the snow.

Li Lie felt that the inadvertent talk last time was really too much. This is the second time Zhou Yan sent him an invitation to go home together, but he refused. He had to refuse because his home was not there at all. , just casually pointed, Li Lie was going to rack his brains to get rid of this panic.

He pretended to be arrogant and patted Zhou Yan, "Okay, don't be disappointed, don't be coy like a girl, you have to go back home together. From today on, you should grow up too, you have to Learn to go home alone, you know?"

He has been home alone for 15 years, isn't that enough?

The icicle in Zhou Yan's heart shattered, and then began to collapse one after another. He said goodbye with difficulty maintaining a cold appearance.

After taking three steps, Li Lie followed him again, gave him something and ran away immediately, Zhou Yan felt that the thing was hot, and when he saw it, it turned out to be a hot water bag that had just been filled with hot water.

Really... There are some unspeakable emotions in the speechless.

Looking back, I heard Li Lie shout, "Hero, I will take the first step, and there will be a later date. Oh, and happy new year!"

After speaking, this guy ran away without a trace, like Li Xiaoyao possessed by someone who owes debts and is chased by someone.

Holding the warm hot water bottle, Zhou Yan smiled and murmured, "Happy New Year."

Zhou Yan would go to the bookstore every holiday, and this time was no exception.There are some magazines on the outside of the bookstore, mostly "composition materials", "perfect composition", "crazy English", "innovative composition", etc. There are a lot of colorful ones.

Zhou Yanxin opened "Creative Composition", and turned to the column of in-depth analysis of current events and hot spots. It was the murder case in the dormitory that caused heated discussions, Hu Zi's teaching, and Yu Dan's chicken soup. These three current events are all related to education. When it came to the title page, it was indeed the portraits of "Zheng Yuanjie", "Yu Dan" and "Han Han", with large close-ups added.

The content of the controversy is either scolding China or flattering the West. Everyone is heartbroken. No one can hate China. Then comes the key point. How to integrate current politics into the composition of the college entrance examination. Oil.

Zhou Yan flipped through a few pages and put it down decisively, thinking that there would be no result in arguing about these things, and seeing it would only increase his annoyance.He walked in and saw Haruki Murakami's new book "If Our Language Were Whiskey". He thought it would be a novel, but he didn't expect it to be just a travelogue with rich pictures and texts, all kinds of wine and wine. The development of wine tasting tastes and such.

Zhou Yan was not interested in wine, so he flipped through it quickly and easily, but finally he was reluctant to put it back on the shelf, because it was written by Murakami after all, so he should buy it back.He went to the innermost room and bought several sets of mathematics and physics papers, and he also took a fancy to a set of ancient poetry appreciation books, plus a history book.

Carrying so many books, Zhou Yan only felt that he was going to be crushed to death by these things. No wonder the ancients had to bring a book boy to read, so it was tiring to carry such heavy books by himself.

Zhou Yan returned home and tidied up the books in an orderly manner. He poured a glass of boiling water, stared blankly at the gloomy sky outside the window for a while, then went back to his room and started to do his homework.

At night, the family sat together to eat, Cheng Fang was in high spirits, Zhou Shuzhi was in a daze, and Zhou Yan was silent.Cheng Fang said loudly to Zhou Yan, "Xiao Yan, your final grades have just been sent to your dad's mobile phone."

Before Zhou Yan could react to the news, Cheng Fang was already blown away, "First in grade! How many first in grades! My son is the first in grade in No. [-] Middle School!"

Cheng Fang has given Zhou Yan an elite education since he was a child, but unfortunately it has been fruitless. Just when she was about to give up, Zhou Yan suddenly jumped into the dragon's gate, and her grades rose so fast unexpectedly, so she thought it was her strict education There was a problem with the method, plus Zhou Yan's grades had been stable, and she had grown up again, so it was inconvenient to take care of her, and she had been busy making money all these years, and she didn't have the heart to take care of him anymore, and she didn't care about her son's words, deeds, and thoughts. Unaware, in other words only caring about your own feelings.

Zhou Yan is used to his mother's tricks, and this year's Chinese New Year will definitely take him out again, talking politely, wishing that everyone would come to flatter her, or in his name , really upset.

He calmly finished his meal, nodded, and said politely like a stranger, "Mom and Dad, I'm going back to my room first."

Although Zhou Shuzhi felt that Zhou Yan was withdrawn since he was a child, he still chatted with him about literature from time to time, but why did this child become completely autistic when he entered high school, and he didn't even talk to him.He is a little worried.

After the meal, Zhou Shuzhi knocked on the door of Zhou Yan's room and went in after hearing "Come in". He showed a fatherly smile and saw Zhou Yan wearing a plush pajamas sitting on a chair reading a book. He was sitting on the bed. See you, put down the book, and ask, "Dad, what do you want from me?"

"Why, I can't find you if I have nothing to do?" Zhou Shuzhi said with a smile.

The scene was instantly awkward. Originally, he and Zhou Yan were not the kind of playful and unseemly father and son. Not only did this intimate words not act as a good buffer, but it made both him and Zhou Yan restless. .

Zhou Shuzhi coughed once or twice, and seeing several new books on the bookcase, thinking that he had a reason to start a conversation, he picked up Murakami's "If Our Language Is Whiskey", "A new book from Murakami?"

"Yeah." Zhou Yan replied.

"Is it good? Have you finished reading it? Tell Dad about it." Zhou Shuzhi fiddled with the book with great interest.In the past, Zhou Yan liked to share with him what books he had read recently. He was full of joy and prepared to have a literary talk with him, but Zhou Yan seemed completely uninterested, so he just said lightly, "Dad, if you want to read Lend it to you."

Zhou Shuzhi seemed to have been hit by a bolt from the blue. He stabilized his disappointment with an adult heart, and sighed in his heart. He had lived his entire life in a satisfactory manner. If there were no accidents, he would die in a stable civil servant position.This kind of indifferent temperament becomes "Hey, I can't help it. I tried my best. Everyone has his own life."

He told Zhou Yan not to stay up late and take a good rest, and then left.Zhou Yan put the book in the original place, sat on the chair and continued to work on the questions. It seemed that there was no disturbance, but his heart was overwhelmed. Weird people, who can be blamed...Everyone has his own destiny, let everything go according to fate.

Li Lie was extremely busy, and there were three things he needed to complete urgently.

First, he wants to complete his part-time job as a tutor. He will find another job when business is good during the Chinese New Year, and try to get some money before the Chinese New Year to spend the New Year well.

Second, his friends in the underworld and the white world will take advantage of this time to drag him to a gathering. After all, he is still a human being, and it is not easy to mix in the society.

The third and most troublesome thing for him is how to deal with Li Huafeng during the Chinese New Year.Usually, we do not communicate with each other, but during the Chinese New Year, which is a festival of profound significance to any Chinese, no matter how cold it is, it is still under the same roof, which is really unreasonable.

Forget it, I still have to bow my head and admit my cowardice first, just put up with that person with a smile on my face, and then humiliate him again on New Year's Eve and invite him to the dining table to make a meal together.Li Lie decided in his heart.

Not only for himself but also for Li Zhi and his grandma who has always been good to him, he let go of the mortal grievances of the Chinese New Year as long as he can, entangled in the bottom of his heart, after all, he is petty, not a dignified man.

At this juncture when everything is entangled, his mother, You Yan, came to add a knife to him again.You Yan hadn't contacted him for many years, but this year she took the initiative and forced her to get together with him.

Is the wind blowing north?Li Lie felt weird when he received his mother's call, but he still agreed.