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Wen Yu stayed at Shi Can's house for several days.

Dad has been worrying about the company going public for the past six months, so he has no time to take care of him, but in Dad's mind, he has always been an excellent son who doesn't need to worry too much.Occasionally, it was not a big deal for Dad to ask to stay overnight at a classmate's house. Wen Yu set a precedent, and after staying for one night, he felt that it was nothing, so he simply stayed with Shi Can before receiving his grades.

They said they were sleeping together, but Shi Can begged for mercy after only one meeting. He didn't spend the night at Wen Yu's house before, and neither of them had lived in school. They were used to sleeping in spacious beds, so they squeezed together and started fighting.

Shi Can complained that Wen Yu was usually like a tortoise whose life was at rest, but it turned out that he was so ruthless in grabbing the quilt and kicking people.Wen Yu himself didn't know about it, at first he felt that Shi Can was making it up, until the other party rolled up his trousers and showed him a bruise on his thigh, then he realized the seriousness and apologized repeatedly.Shi Can didn't say anything, just snorted, a little arrogant.

As a result, Wen Yu thought that he would sleep in a different place the next day, so Cui Shican went to make the bed again after playing games until after eleven o'clock.This time, two quilts were divided, and the situation improved, at least not so embarrassing.

Cui Shican's body temperature is high, and when he sleeps, it feels like he is next to a fire through the quilt. In the cold winter, it is so warm that it makes people sleepless all night.

Not many things can be learned in a few days. During the day, Wen Yu accompanied him to the market to buy vegetables-this was an unprecedented novel experience for Wen Yu. People couldn't help thinking about it——in the afternoon as an escort in the hospital, Wen Yu sat in the corridor with a book and read.

The hospital is not as cold as he imagined, and the inpatient department is occasionally noisy, but it is better than a big house with no one else except himself.

Shi Can didn't talk too much, he was good at cooking, not to the point of opening a restaurant, but the level of several home-cooked dishes was very good.Wen Yu helped him, and was kicked out of the kitchen several times.

"Good students don't come in!" Mr. Shi Can said, "Read your book."

Wen Yu wondered how could there be so many good books.

Such a day is different from going to school, it is more peaceful and pure.

Ji Yue approached them a few times, saying that they went out to play together, but Shi Can refused on the grounds of caring for patients.Knowing that he was in a special situation, Ji Yue muttered something annoying, and never made an appointment again.Cut off from the news of other students, without those irritating love letters and nagging from the head teacher, Wen Yu felt that Shi Can seemed more at ease, but he couldn't tell what was wrong.

Maybe in his subconscious mind, he still puts the college entrance examination that is not far away at the top of his mind, and after calculating, they will be in their third year of high school after the summer.Doing nothing like this seems to be too lax - he didn't tell Shi Can, and he knew that Shi Can would have a face full of "You are sick".

Faster than the third year of high school is the final exam score.

Cui Shican briefly forgot that he had handed in his English test paper before he finished it, and was stunned for a moment when he got the report card.The seat was casual, Shi Can patted Wen Yu at the front table: "Are you mistaken..."

Then show him your report card.

Wen Yu rolled his eyes back at him: "Did you forget that you only did half of the questions?"

Shi Can: "I rely on it."

He leaned back on the table and poked a red pen at the blank space of the report card, his hair spinning a little depressed.Wen Yu rubbed absently, then turned around and continued to listen to the winter vacation homework assigned by the English teacher.

This time, the end of the term is the city's unified examination. Although they are ordinary classes, the school is not bad after all, but the grades have passed the rankings, and the results are surprising.The key liberal arts classes accounted for half of the top ten in the city, winning in quantity but worrying in quality.

Wen Yu's name was written at number two on the red list.

The position of the first place was specially bolded, and the first place was Xu Qingjia, who had just been invited by her parents the day before the exam.

The angry roar in the office is still in my ears, what "affects learning" and what "scores have plummeted".Wen Yu sat in his seat, listening to the discussions among his classmates, wondered for no reason whether Lao Yu's face hurt or not.

For a moment, I felt that Lao Yu, who was spitting all over the podium, was a bit aggressive.

The red list was posted on the bulletin board at the corner of the corridor on the second floor. After receiving the winter homework, everyone dispersed. Wen Yu saw Xu Qingjia there, taking pictures with his mobile phone.

He walked over curiously and took a look: "What are you shooting?"

"Transcript and ranking." Xu Qingjia said, showing him the mobile phone screen, the bright WeChat chat box, "Show my mother, she heard what Lao Yu said before, and felt that it affected her grades, saying that she didn't get the first place in the city's unified test. We must break up."

Wen Yu was speechless: "You agreed?"

Xu Qingjia's smile was very shallow, but very sincere: "Of course, it is impossible for me to fail the first place in the exam."

This big talk was heard by Cui Shican and several male classmates who had just walked in. They looked at each other and immediately booed around Xu Qingjia tacitly. He was surrounded by people and went downstairs.Wen Yu looked at it and wanted to laugh, but felt that such Xu Qingjia was very strange.

When everyone dispersed, Wen Yu was hooked by Shi Can's shoulders, and he asked, "Xiao Yu, are you going home today?"

"Go home. My grandma and the others will come to live here in a few days. It's almost the Chinese New Year." Wen Yu said, seeing Xu Qingjia sliding down the stairs quickly with his schoolbag on his back, he couldn't help asking, "When did your relationship with them get better?" of?"

I still remember when I asked him to play basketball together, Shi Can still ignored the answer and felt uncomfortable all over.

Shi Can tilted his head, like a certain internet celebrity dog: "I don't know, maybe it will get better after a while. Then they kept asking me to play together, and it's been almost a semester... The revolutionary friendship on the court, you Plants whose feet grow in the soil don’t understand.”

Wen Yu said, oh, I really don't understand, and he walked down a few steps with his arms around him, and asked, "What do you think of them now?"

Shi Can didn't realize it: "Who are they?"

Wen Yu stretched out his hand: "They."

The silhouettes of the distant figures on the playground can still be seen. They were not wearing school uniforms in the cold winter wind, and all of them wanted to be graceful. The down jackets were opened, and the north wind blowing in them swayed like flags.The natural curl on the far right should be Chen Qian. He cursed "I'm so cold", and he was the first to admit that he wrapped his clothes tightly.

Although he couldn't hear the sound, he seemed to be able to imagine his tone, and Shi Can couldn't help but smile: "Chen Qian and the others, they are good students, and they play hard... Anyway, they are not as rigid as I imagined. .”

"There are all kinds of academic masters." Wen Yu said.

Shi Can looked at him leisurely, waiting for the next sentence.

Wen Yu pointed to himself, and pointed to the few people who were almost out of sight one by one: "Those who smoke and drink, those who fall in love, those who stay up late and play games and go to bed the next day, those who have the guts to talk back to the teacher after class - don't laugh." , although there are all kinds of shortcomings, but do you know why the teacher turns a blind eye?"

Shi Can was a little depressed by what he said, and lowered her head and muttered in a low voice: "The score is good."

Wen Yu looked at him quietly, Cui Shican glanced at him, feeling that Wen Yu was serious today.He understood what Wen Yu wanted to say, and cut off his eyebrows with blank eyes: "Don't expect me to be like them, Chen Qian skipped class and rebuked the teacher, but he really worked hard to learn-I can't, I always Seeing those words makes my head hurt, and it's not like you are going to enter a prestigious university."

I haven't heard much long speeches on this topic, because Wen Yu didn't bother to talk to him before.

Wen Yu was dizzy when Cui Shican gave him a slap, thinking "I don't care what he is doing" while feeling aggrieved, "Isn't this all for your own good?"

He doesn't care if it's someone else, only Cui Shican can make him care at this moment.

Maybe Lao Yu's fake former general mobilization has influenced him, and the loud voice echoed in his ears: "After the next semester, you will enter the third round of high school review. Before you get back to your senses, you will immediately take the college entrance examination! Baiju is too late, understand? ? The basic skills are not solid, I will see who can keep up?!"

There was another voice, thin and firm, it was Ji Yue: "He wants me to go to Yancheng with him to go to university, just take the exam, Xu Qingjia said yes, then I must be able."

The cold wind blew over the top of his head, making his temples hurt suddenly, Wen Yu pulled up his down jacket and hat.With such a simple action, he suddenly understood many things.

He hopes to maintain this kind of relationship with Cui Shican - intimate, no lies, people always say best friend - not only in junior high and high school, but if possible, to four years of university, and later, to...

lifetime.

These three words jumped out without warning, and Wen Yu was stunned.He took it for granted that this was no problem, even elementary school students would say "I and so and so will be good friends for life", and he also wants to be with Cui Shican.

At least now he really wants to go to university at the same place as Shi Can.

With such a mood but unwilling to wrong herself, Wen Yu would be so harsh when Can said indifferently, "I don't want to go to a prestigious university", "I don't care about first-line", "I'm not a good student".

There was an unknown fire in his heart, very suddenly and inexplicably.

"By the way, Xiao Yu." Shi Can said, not knowing that his fire had already started, and he put his hand on Wen Yu's shoulder, which was no different from usual, "I fell again in the English test this time... What did you give me during the winter vacation?" Do I make it up?"

Wen Yu was sulking and lowered his voice: "No."

Shi Can looked at him with question marks all over his face: "What's the matter? Here again, wasn't it fine just now?"

The bus drove slowly from a distance and stopped. Wen Yu slapped Cui Shican's hand away suddenly, jumped on it in three steps, swiped his card and went back to the last row, squeezed himself in the corner, looked out the window, and walked for a long time. Let out a long breath.

There was a special strange smell in the car in winter, not too bad, but it made him uncomfortable at this time.

Soon the students on vacation filled the entire carriage, the driver loudly maintained order and asked them to go in, Wen Yuba occupied the seat, hugged his schoolbag to his chest, and buried his head on it.

Someone patted his head, and Wen Yu looked over angrily.

Cui Shican sat down next to him in a slow manner, not knowing how he squeezed through a car of people and found that there was still an empty seat here.He took out the candy in his pocket and passed it to Wen Yu: "Huh?"

Wen Yu turned to look out the window: "Don't eat."

Shi Can peeled off the candy wrapper by himself, stuffed the fruit jelly into his mouth and chewed: "Did you fail in the exam and feel bad... It shouldn't be, Xueba, this time the city's No. 2 or No. 3. Xu Qingjia for Chasing Jiyue, then why did you fall into our class before? It can't be for me!"

He talked to him as if nothing happened, Wen Yu's heart seemed to be cut into two halves and stuck to each other, one half was still burning with an unknown fire, and the other half had calmed down first, and seized all the right to speak while the other party was not paying attention.Putting his hands on his knees and moving, Wen Yu felt that his tongue had touched his teeth and counted his teeth, and he was finally able to speak.

"Bullshit," he said, very aggressively, "I'm fucking out of my mind."

Shi Can: "I see."

Wen Yu stared at him with an expression of disbelief.

Shi Can pushed his arm again: "Make up lessons, I'll be happy if you make up lessons for me."

Wen Yu said, "Damn."

The ending was stained with laughter, and the light short syllables extinguished the fire like a gust of wind.Coming and going quickly, Wen Yu vaguely grasped the conflict between him and Shi Can, and was coaxed back by the other party calmly before it had time to explode.

He quickly forgot the ins and outs, but the feeling lingered in his heart for a long time before it was quietly buried in the depths.

It's not about hating iron but not steel, nor is it the contempt from top students.

Many years later, Wen Yu encountered the same thing, and after thinking hard, he could understand the complexity of this emotion—wanting to accomplish something, wanting to pay, and wanting to fight for it, but he punched cotton with his fist.

The other party said plainly: "I don't need it."

Whether he thought about the reason for his anger or not, Cui Shican easily coaxed the anger down, turning it into a ball of dead ashes and blowing in the wind.When Wen Yu realized it, he had already arrived at the agreed place with a pack of books on his back.

Originally, I wanted to make an appointment at my own home, but considering that Shi Can's father was in the hospital, he had to take care of him occasionally, and needed to save time on the way back and forth.Wen Yu checked his phone for a while, and finally settled on a cat cafe in the north of the city near the city center.

It turned out that the cat coffee was worse than he had imagined.

There are not many breeds of cats, the most expensive is a fat and long-haired Chinchilla, and the rest, such as Sanhua and Jupang, are mostly native cats.According to the introduction on the Internet, this cat cafe used to be a cat shelter. Except for Jinjila, they were all stray cats picked up by the boss.

Wen Yu sat down opposite Shi Can and thought, "No wonder the minimum consumption is only 20..."

But Shi Can was much happier than him, as soon as he put away his schoolbag, a three flower jumped onto his lap.He exaggeratedly shouted "Wow, so cute", and immediately hugged and rolled up.

Wen Yu tapped on the table with a pen.

While stroking the cat, Shi Can drew out her right hand, opened the exercise book, and began to fill in the blanks crookedly.

The steps of their tutoring are nothing more than doing questions and lecturing, a habit developed from junior high school.The weather is not too good. In the afternoon of weekdays, there are fewer people coming to Maoca. When Sanhua was stuck with Shican, he jumped off his knees and walked away after a while. The clerk sat behind the bar and watched videos. The environment is better than the library Noisier than the study room, but also suitable for study.

"Here's my notes, you can copy them and memorize these phrases and phrases, and then fill in the blanks by at least [-] points..." Wen Yu said, marking a large block on the notebook with a red pen.

The muted screen suddenly lit up.

Shi Can bit the cap of her pen and raised her chin towards him: "Your phone."

Wen Yu frowned, glanced at the notification of the incoming call, and retracted his finger that was about to answer the call.He seemed to have stepped on the ground all of a sudden, floating in the clouds, and the answering on the screen was like a reminder, but Wen Yu was stiff and refused to click.

Shi Can stretched his neck and glanced, then lowered his voice: "Let's pick it up."

When it comes to what he said, it's not that he doesn't understand the truth at all, but he just responds in his heart.Wen Yu struggled for a long time, and finally pressed answer.Immediately, his throat started to feel uncomfortable. After coughing a few times, he took the phone and walked outside the cat cafe, worried that Shican would see more of his gaffe.

Wen Yu didn't say until he went out and stood on the side of the noisy street, looking up at the leaden sky in winter, "Hello?"

"Xiao Yu." The woman on the other end of the phone called him.

Reluctantly withdrawing his gaze and staring at his shoe toe instead, Wen Yu responded to that sentence for a long time.

"...Well, Mom."