Bayberry popping beads

The Spring Festival at the age of 17 was boring.

The first time my mother was away, the house was still packed, without any embarrassment.Grandparents came from the suburbs and lived in his house for a long time. Various relatives visited frequently, and the living room was lively all day long.A few people sat there, and the parents made a short talk, and couldn't get down for several days because of the heat.

Wen Yu never participated, at most he dealt with the guests when they came in, helping to boil water and get some fruit, then hid in his room and no one would answer.He couldn't avoid it, so he just sat and played with his mobile phone as if there was no one else around.

He couldn't tell whether he was Xijing or not. He obviously had a lot of fun hanging out with Ji Yue and the others before, and they often made trouble together.Waiting for the relatives to gather around the living room, chirping and asking him how he got such a good score in the exam, he was very annoying.

So grandpa told others that Xiaoyu in our family was relatively introverted. When he said this, Wen Yu was chatting with Shi Can on his mobile phone.

It is no different from the previous winter vacations. I do my homework, give out two or three yuan red envelopes in the classmate group, watch TV, complain about the Spring Festival Gala, and absent-mindedly wonder which is more fulfilling between the start of school and the holiday.

What is gratifying is that Shi Can's father was successfully transferred to the general ward a few years ago, and his winter vacation was fully accounted for between home and the hospital.Wen Yu once accompanied the old man to get medicine, and met Shi Can briefly, and had a conversation.

This was the only time they saw each other during the holidays.

And school always comes.

Before getting enough sleep and visiting the newly opened commercial streets, teenagers and girls were overwhelmed by snowflakes of homework during the winter vacation, and stayed up frantically for several nights in order to hand in their homework on the first day.

Wen Yu yawned and put a few exercise books and test papers on the podium. When he lowered his head, he saw Xu Qingjia sitting on the seat—not his desk—scribing furiously.

Wen Yu craned his neck to take a look, almost stunned: "This is Teacher Yang's winter vacation homework?!"

"Hmm." Xu Qingjia didn't delay writing when chatting with him, "I played too recklessly during the holidays, and I just remembered this morning. Is Ms. Yang still human? Twenty essays, we didn't have any during the winter vacation." 20 days!"

Wen Yu reminded him against his will: "Yes."

Xu Qingjia: "Could you not be so serious at a time like this?"

Wen Yu: "... that's fine too."

While chatting with Wen Yu, he clicked the last period, got up, closed the notebook and threw it on the podium.As soon as the front foot was handed over, there was a loud bell-like sound outside the classroom. Xu Qingjia shrank her neck, fearing that she was not found in her seat, and ran away quickly with her schoolbag.

"... These bastards, we have to fight wits and courage with them again!" Lao Yu turned his head and finished with a smile, watching the head teacher next door enter the office, his expression changed as soon as he turned his face, and he peeled Maitreya Buddha's face clean Jing said, "Why are you just staring blankly? Finished your homework? Go back to your seat. The school meeting will be held in 10 minutes. Let me say a few words first!"

The classmates were not surprised by his appearance, and sat down with a sigh.

Lao Yu stood next to the podium: "Before the official class, we changed seats. Originally, we arranged them on a voluntary basis and with grades. But last semester, some students told me privately that some students who were 1.8 meters tall deliberately sat in the classroom. Right in the middle, blocking other people from listening... Cui Shican, it's you, why are you laughing!"

Shi Can: "Report, I didn't do it on purpose, I'm short-sighted, so that classmate should be talking about Yi Jingxing."

Another person who was named was full of innocence: "Teacher Yu, I am wronged!"

Old Yu looked at them helplessly, tolerated the bickering of the teenagers, and just kept sighing: "Shut up both of you. We still have to consider our size this semester...Wen Yu, move back a few rows, what did you eat during the winter vacation? So tall."

Wen Yu: "Huh?"

Lao Yu ignored the question mark on his head, and looked for a seat to give orders: "You sit there, Chen Qian goes to the front table."

The natural curly boy who was named immediately raised his hand: "Teacher, I don't want to sit at Wen Yu's back table. I'm under a lot of pressure."

Scattered laughter came from the classroom, Lao Yu didn't get angry after hearing his outrageous remarks, put on that helpless expression, thought for a while and said: "Okay, let's see what you did in your math test last semester." Give some rewards for the only full score in the grade. Wen Yu is still sitting there, Chen Qian, you can change with Cui Shican, and you will get lost."

"Yeah!" Chen Qian compared his hands with scissors, and quickly started to pack his things, turning his head and winking at Shi Can who was across the aisle.Shi Can stuck out her tongue at him, rolled her eyes and made a grimace, Chen Qian said "Damn" in a low voice, and the scissors hand instantly turned into a middle finger.

On the podium, Lao Yu couldn't stand it: "Chen Qian!"

He hurriedly carried a stack of books to change seats, and Quan Dang Lao Yu's words fell on deaf ears.

Wen Yu was very surprised. The first thing he did after moving to the new seat was to whisper to Shi Can: "Old Yu has changed his sex? That's it, why don't you scold me for 5 minutes?"

"I'm not used to it either." Shi Can leaned forward a little and could speak in a whisper, "I always feel like he enrolled in a remedial class like 'how to get along with adolescent children' during the winter vacation..."

"It's hard to say." Wen Yu lowered his head and smiled.

Maybe Lao Yu really studied educational psychology behind their backs, or maybe something else happened. Starting this spring, although the head teacher's voice remained the same, he stopped firing at people at every turn.

He seemed to have changed his teaching mode overnight, and began to communicate calmly with a group of rebellious teenagers.

Lao Yu was always earnest, but his method was always inappropriate, and his classmates couldn't listen to what he said.When he no longer blows his beard and stares, pats the table and hits the bench, and sits down seriously to make a cup of tea with his classmates, the effect of those mother-in-law and mother-in-law's long speeches can be seen immediately.

At least there are more and more people asking questions around him after class. In the second half of the second year of high school, the teachers of various subjects repeatedly emphasized the importance of learning, and the learning atmosphere in the classroom finally reached the level that Lao Yu wanted.

The purple-leaved plums outside the window were full of trees, and small clusters swayed in the wind.

After Wen Yu asked a math question, he spread the draft on Shi Can's desk: "You copy it—there's no next time, and you can ask it yourself later. I was talking about this question there today, and Lao Yu's eyes... ..."

Shi Can said "Well", and opened the notebook to copy the steps.

Wen Yu: "Do you want me to tell you again?"

Shi Can: "In a while."

He said yes, and sat down on the table, his eyelids drooping heavily.

After this class was the last self-study class added in the afternoon, Wen Yu was reluctant to take it, but it would be nice to have time to do some homework.It's just that I have been tossing hard about other subjects, so it is inevitable that I will get tired of studying, and I can't skip class openly, so I have to pretend to sleep.

Chen Qian, who was in the next aisle, and the table in front of him were muttering about the geography papers they had just finished grading. Wen Yu pressed his arms against his eyes, listening to them arguing about a certain point in a daze, and someone behind him smiled.

"What are you laughing at?" Chen Qian heard, and wanted to ask Cui Shican for an explanation.

Shi Can raised his hand in surrender, and his voice was still clear in the noisy self-study class: "I am so convinced that I can still get red-faced when I have a standard answer."

Yi Jingxing smiled: "I just think there is something wrong with this answer, but he doesn't believe it."

Shi Can scratched her head: "I can't understand the world of your masters."

"Then don't understand." After slapping Yi Jingxing across the face, Chen Qian said, "You write your questions, if you don't know how to do it, just ask. Shout out, Jing Xing and I will explain it to you."

Shi Can: "With our Wen Yu here, there's no need to ask you!"

Chen Qian's tone was yin and yang, and the words were repeated vaguely: "Our family is warm, oh——"

Shi Can grabbed a ball of draft paper and threw it over to him. There was laughter in the corner of the classroom, and Xu Qingjia, who was in charge of maintaining order on the podium, didn't have the slightest awareness of being a class leader. She looked up and didn't know what to do.

The classroom faces north and south. At five o'clock, the setting sun will pass through the gaps in the tiny branches and leaves of Ziye Li, casting a large spot of light on the desks and the terrazzo floor, like a maze, with overlapping shadows and the fragrance of flowers in the wind.

Wen Yu didn't sleep soundly at this time, lying on his stomach, the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground from time to time, and the small whispers of his classmates pulled his nerves and at the same time kept his consciousness drifting between clear and fuzzy boundaries.As if floating in mid-air, he flew lightly, unable to use his strength, and would fall into the abyss from a high altitude at any time.

Sudden weightlessness.

"... Mmm." Wen Yu changed his arm to pillow, unable to open his eyes.

His two legs were put back on the seat rails, and he was a little numb. In the half-dream and half-awake state, something stuck to his ankles and rubbed against his bare skin——in spring, when the sun is warm and the flowers are blooming, A bit of coldness suddenly stimulated the boy who was still dreaming, and he sat up all of a sudden.

"Hey!" Shi Can yelled in a low voice behind him, "You scared me to death."

Wen Yu looked around in confusion, then lowered his head to study what was going on, but was stunned for a moment.

A pair of black basketball shoes with red trim.

He rubbed his eyes.

White socks, ankle bones, sticking to his legs.

Wen Yu woke up completely.

"Cui Shican, what are you doing?" He turned his head and said angrily, his voice was very low, and he added a wronged complaint, "The legs are too long, can you donate them to those in need?"

"Can't hear." Shi Can covered his ears and hummed a few times, "I'm doing my homework."

"You write a fart." Wen Yu stared at Shi Can's hair twirling, and just as he finished speaking, his ankle was touched again.

This time I added a little more strength, and together, they circled him and pressed against his two feet.

He suddenly couldn't speak, and turned his head hesitantly, allowing Shi Can to be so imprisoned.

It wasn't until the self-study was over that Shi Can let him go, stuffed a few exercise books into his schoolbag carelessly, and spread his hands towards Wen Yu as if nothing had happened: "English, history, math, lend me a moment."

Wen Yu didn't bother to talk about him anymore, and pushed all the workbooks in front of Shi Can.

"Thank you, brother!" Shi Can said, bending down to look at his face, "You're hot, your face is so red."

Wen Yu gritted his teeth: "Repay my homework."

Shi Can jumped three meters away: "That can't be done, I want it based on my ability—"

The spring sun is gentle, and one or two soft flowers fall from time to time on the stairs after school, like feathers and snow.They walked through the corridor, fought all the way to get the bicycle, sprinkled a series of crisp bells, and swayed into the distant horizon.

On the last day before Qingming, the heavy rain that suppressed the entire early spring poured down.

"It's been noon until now, are you still going to ride a bike today?" Ji Yue leaned against the desk and asked Cui Shican.

Shi Can was concentrating on playing with a piece of the jigsaw puzzle: "Let's leave school, Wen Yu and I take the bus - what do you do with this, I can't take you, let Xu Qingjia take it."

Ji Yue kicked his desk: "It's so annoying."

Shi Can seemed to have discovered the big secret, and patted Wen Yu on the back, and lowered his voice after he turned his head, but couldn't hide his excitement: "What's wrong, Sister Yue, Xu Qingjia bullied you? It's okay, tell us, I'll help you You beat him!"

Ji Yue raised her brows upside down: "How dare you?!"

Cui Shican begged for mercy immediately: "I was wrong."

Ji Yue rolled her eyes: "Wen Yu, don't laugh either, it makes my hair stand on end."

Wen Yu said good-bye graciously, then turned his pen and asked her: "Then what's the matter with you, did you quarrel? I see that the two of you haven't eaten together at noon recently."

"You observed carefully enough." Ji Yue laughed dumbly, "There is no quarrel, he has been busy with math competitions recently. It's not because of this, Qing Jia persuades me to study hard when I have free time, damn it, I haven't worked hard enough Well, he didn't skip class, he didn't arrive late, and I even handed in my homework, is he a bit too demanding?"

Shi Can: "He's the champion. As the girlfriend of the champion, you have to bear the pressure that you shouldn't have at your age."

He spoke seriously, and Wen Yu was listening beside him, feeling that the bullshit didn't make any sense, and Cui Shican would definitely be beaten in the next second.But Ji Yue frowned and thought for a while, then solemnly pointed her thumb at Shi Can: "It makes sense!"

Then I ran away, maybe to do the questions seriously.

Watching Ji Yue leave, Shi Can also gave Wen Yu a thumbs-up: "Let's go Brother Yu, you don't participate in the competition, play with me."

The upcoming spring basketball game, May [-]th Cultural Festival, high school can participate in the last semester of the program, adding a touch of summer carnival.Club activities flourished, and the school let go of the last self-study period for the second year of high school.The key class doesn't like to participate, but they play in the ordinary class so much that they almost forget their last name.

Because of his height, Shi Can was dragged by Chen Qian to sign up for the basketball game. Chen Xueba was all-rounder, so he borrowed the key to the indoor basketball arena in such a rainy day.

The powerful rain hit the roof of the gymnasium, crackling, and the basketball was clattered on the clean floor.

Wen Yu sat in the auditorium, took out his mobile phone and played the game "Greedy Snake" for the mentally handicapped.He didn't raise his head, and his class was practicing against a science class next door. From time to time, a few words of communication such as "return to defense" and "pass" came to his ears.

He occasionally rested his eyes to look at the field for a while, and Shi Can cooperated with them very well.

Shi Can was not wearing a basketball uniform, and the ordinary school uniform stood tall on Shi Can's body. His school trousers were rolled up to his knees, revealing a section of slender calf. He jumped up to grab a rebound, and the hem of his clothes was also lifted, showing his strong but flexible waist.

Wen Yu remembered that there was a scar there.

Shi Can was too messed up in junior high school, overturned his car while slipping on the handrail of the stairs, his clothes and others were scratched in a large area, and he was urgently sent for tetanus.Later, I saw it a few times when we were swimming together, and the scar about four or five centimeters was getting lighter and lighter, and he thought it was gone now.

But it's not all as people think, and some traces remain for a lifetime.

"Let's come here today!" Yi Jingxing shouted, and the others said "bye" and dispersed.Yi Jingxing was hooked around the neck by Chen Qian, and he walked out in a tugging manner, and he didn't forget to wave goodbye to the only audience.

"Xiao Yu, let's go—" Shi Can clasped his hands around his mouth and made a horn.

Wen Yu stood up, carried the schoolbag for Shi Can, and jumped over the guardrail.

The rain did not mean to decrease in the slightest. Cui Shican and Wen Yu waited for a while at the entrance of the gymnasium. He flicked Wen Yu's head and pointed to the raindrops rising in the pond: "Run out?"

"What..." Wen Yu glared at him when he heard the unbelievable words, "Run in the rain?"

"Yeah, running in the rain!" Shi Can couldn't help but take off his sneakers, spread out the school uniform jacket hanging in the crook of his arm, covering the tops of the two people's heads, with Wen Yu's schoolbag on his chest, "One, two, three, rush ——!”

Before he could react, there was a push from behind and the hand holding the arm, Wen Yu couldn't help being pulled by Shi Can to take a step forward, the sound of the rain suddenly became louder, coming from all directions, instantly soaking the trousers and the upper of the shoe.

His eyes were blinded by the rain, Wen Yu yelled at him: "Cui Shican!"

Shi Can laughed loudly: "Isn't it great? Run, run!"

Only the playground with the sound of rain is left, and the thin bell after class is submerged in the lead gray sky.The thick cloud covered his shoulders, Wen Yu wiped his face, and ran two steps along, Shi Can hugged his shoulders with one hand, with his head covered by his school uniform jacket, he looked up at the people around him, his face full of It's water marks.

"You're getting wet!" Wen Yu raised his voice, afraid that Shi Can would not be able to hear.

He lowered his head and rubbed the tip of his nose affectionately against Wen Yu's ear: "I know, it's okay—"

A heavy rain in April, accompanied by the sound of thunder in the sky, awakened the whole land.

The mist, the sound of the rain, the wet vision, the wind blowing on the cool shoulders, the heat of Shi Can's palm is like the sun hidden behind the clouds.

The bus stop was close at hand, Wen Yu stepped up, his head was immediately covered by the school uniform, and Shi Can wiped it carelessly for him.

"Be gentle, you hit me on the nose..." Wen Yu blocked his movement, got out from under the coat, tore the pile of clothes onto Shi Can's shoulder, and frowned at him.

The short hair was completely collapsed, sticking to the forehead, and there were still some drops of water hanging from the tip of the nose.The short-sleeved school uniform was soaked through, and the blue and white color was stuck to the body, and the outline of the body could be seen indistinctly.

His shoulders are broad, and although his chest is thin, it can be seen vaguely.

The drops of water dripping from the schoolbag suddenly fell into his hands, Wen Yu looked down and wiped the wetness on his palms.

The lights of a bus traveling in the opposite direction in the distance shine a beam of light on the asphalt road. There are no other platforms, and the leaves sing along with the sound of the wind.This scene was like pressing the pause button, Wen Yu glanced at the digital screen, there were still three stops on the 108 bus they were going to take.

"It's really annoying on rainy days." Wen Yu muttered, seeing that Shi Can hadn't spoken for a long time, he found an excuse for him, "Tomb-sweeping Day is a three-day holiday, where are you going to play? Or..."

Before he finished speaking, a shadow suddenly covered his eyes, his eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he simply forgot what he said later.

With the soft but real touch on the lips, Shi Can immediately let go of his arm.

Confused, short-circuited, at a loss.

After thinking a lot, I fell into a blank for a moment, the sound and bizarre images were like a movie.

The basketball landed, the ankles touched, the hand holding the pen, the refreshing fragrance of washing powder on the school uniform jacket covering the head, the red cross lights reflected in the water outside the hospital, and the words "Happy New Year" on the zebra crossing.

There was a "swipe" sound, and purple-white lightning flashed across the sky.

The sound of thunder rolled past my ears.

Forget it all.

Only his voice could be heard clearly: "Fuck... I'm... that, I'm not..."

Suddenly regaining consciousness, Wen Yu was startled belatedly, wiped his mouth, and glared at him immediately after realizing what happened just now: "Play basketball, get wet in the rain, you are fucking stupid!"

Shi Can coughed twice: "Ah...I'm a little excited today—it's nothing, right..."

The bus whistled and arrived slowly. There was no speaking for a long time in the rain, and Wen Yuhe stood cheek to cheek.He turned his head to look at the asphalt road illuminated by the headlights, and there was the smell of water-soaked grass and trees everywhere.

"……nothing."