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The dates for the large-scale exams in this semester are particularly concentrated. After the mid-term exams, the joint exams of the six schools and the monthly exams will follow. High school life.

As soon as the midterm exam was over, Lao Zhang was already mobilizing for the next exam: "Listen to the slogans on the other side, are you encouraged? Are you excited about the upcoming senior year?"

It's not that exciting, it's just that when I go to bed at noon, I will always be woken up by a burst of slogans that seem to be beaten with chicken blood, which is quite annoying.

The students in the building opposite are all high school seniors. They have entered the final sprint stage. Every day at the end of the self-study at noon, they will shout slogans to cheer themselves up.

"Increase one point and kill a thousand people."

"Break the boat and fight for the sunrise and sunset."

The sound of slogans at noon every day made Hao Ai and his class feel a little tense. After all, in more than a month, they will move to the opposite building to become senior three students.

Hao Ai and Zhong Xiu returned to class after lunch, and heard Lin Rui and Lu Fayan discussing about renting a house.

Very few high school seniors live on campus. They either choose to go to school or rent a house near the school. Living in the school dormitory requires queuing for almost everything, which is a waste of time. For high school seniors, time is the score.

Lin Rui said that he had already greeted the senior seniors in advance, and as soon as they left, he would move directly into the newly vacated house.

"It's too early to plan," Hao Ai sat down on the seat and said, "Isn't it too early?"

"If you don't prepare well now, when the senior senior students leave, the vacant house will be snatched up by the prospective senior senior students." Lu Fayan said.

Hao Ai asked: "You all go out to rent a house? Have you decided?"

"Yeah, after all, it's the third year of high school, and when you're tired from studying, you can go out and surf the Internet." Lu Fayan said.

Hao Ai said with contempt: "The latter sentence is the key point."

"You don't panic at all," Lin Rui said, "I asked yesterday, and now there are no vacant houses for rent in the family courtyard behind the school, and they have all been booked in advance by the sophomores."

"Let's talk about it." Hao Ai didn't really want to rent a house. It would be troublesome to look for a roommate to share with him. There was a ready-made house not far from the school, but he didn't want to live in it.

Zhong Xiu's heart skipped a beat, and he glanced at Hao Ai.

Yang Yingqiong's friend has a house near the school. When discussing living on campus with Zhong Xiu, Yang Yingqiong mentioned it, but Zhong Xiu refused. At that time, he felt that since he lived in the house arranged by Yang Yingqiong, it represented himself. Did not escape her control.

But now he doesn't think so.

Zhong Xiu sent Yang Yingqiong a message: Mom, where is the house that your friend told you that you can rent to me?

Not long after, Yang Yingqiong sent a reply: Lijing Huafu seems to be quite close to your school.

Coincidentally, it's quite close.

It happened that Hao Ai also lived there, and the two could be neighbors, and if Hao Ai wanted, they could also be roommates.

Today is Monday, and Hao Ai did not come to the evening self-study as usual.

When Hao Ai left, Zhong Xiu glanced out the window, it was dark, it seemed that it was going to rain.

After evening self-study, Zhong Xiu sent a message to Hao Ai: Are you coming back?

But no reply was received.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Zhong Xiu finished his homework and looked at his phone again, there was still a text message that no one answered.There was a sudden muffled thunder in the dark sky outside the window, and a moment later, heavy rain poured down.

The wind blew fiercely against the glass windows of the dormitory, and the big raindrops fell on the iron raincoat, rumbling.

He called Hao Ai twice, but he was still unable to get through.

Did Hao Ai go there on a motorcycle?How did he come back when it was raining so much outside?

Zhong Xiu went to the balcony to get an umbrella, and quickly pulled out a coat from the closet, ready to go downstairs.

The roommate was still lighting up the lamp to review. Seeing that he was going out, he asked strangely, "Why are you going out when it's raining so heavily outside?"

In fact, Zhong Xiu didn't know where to find Hao Ai. He guessed that Hao Ai might go to Lijinghua Mansion, so he wanted to go there first.

"It's something, if the dormitory manager comes to check the dormitory, he will say that I have asked for leave to go home." Zhong Xiu ran out of the dormitory after finishing speaking.

The rain curtain cut the sky into pieces of dark nets, hanging in front of the eyes, and the street lamps were also listless, barely withstood the wind and rain, as if they were going to go out in the next second.Zhong Xiu opened the taxi-hailing app at the school gate to call for a taxi. After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was no one who took the order at this point.

Zhong Xiu was about to give up taking a taxi and walk to Lijinghuafu, when the darkened phone screen lit up.

Hao Ai: The phone turned off automatically when it was out of power. I saw it when I charged it. I just arrived at Lijing Hua Mansion. Are you asleep?

When Zhong Xiu saw Hao Ai's message, he breathed a sigh of relief, and replied: No, you go to bed early.

He put his mobile phone in his trouser pocket and walked back under the umbrella. The rain gradually became lighter.

After walking a few steps, the phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

It was Hao Ai's call, Zhong Xiu glanced at it and quickly answered it.

"Hey."

Hao Ai heard the sound of rain on the opposite side, a little strange: "Are you outside? Why do I hear the sound of rain?"

Zhong Xiu lied: "Take a walk downstairs."

"...I'm so excited," Hao Ai glanced at the dwindling rain outside the window, and said, "You don't even know that it rained heavily on the way back from my grandma's house. I feel like the water on the road is almost flooding the car." No, Zheng Chuan's drainage system is really bad."

"Really?" Of course Zhong Xiu knew how heavy the rain was, so he asked again: "How did you come back?"

"Of course it's by car," Hao Ai said with a smile, "If I still dare to ride a motorcycle in this weather, I probably won't have to go to school tomorrow."

Zhong Xiu calmed down, thinking about it, it really felt like a draft just now when he came out in the heavy rain to find someone.He is a rational and sober person, but not always like this. Whenever he encounters something related to Hao Ai, he will be hot-headed and lose all reason.

This may be the case when liking someone. There have been ecstasies and sorrows, and I have tasted thousands of flavors, but they are all happy.

He reminded: "Take a hot bath first, and then take a pack of cold medicine to prevent colds."

"Okay, I got it." Hao Ai said obediently, "Don't walk in the rain, go back to sleep early."

"Okay," Zhong Xiu said, "kiss me."

"mua!" Hao Ai hung up the phone as if shy after speaking into the receiver.

"Good night." Zhong Xiu said softly to the phone that had already hung up.

After returning to the dormitory, his clothes were drenched by the rain. After taking a shower, Zhong Xiu threw the wet clothes into the washing machine, and then lay down on the bed to sleep. After such a toss, he no longer had the energy to wait for the clothes to be washed before drying them on the balcony Go, or wake up tomorrow and fish it out of the washing machine.

The next morning, it was almost time for class, but Hao Ai did not come for a long time.After Zhong Xiu finished reciting the book, he stretched his waist and looked out the window, and happened to see a most familiar figure.Hao Ai ran in hastily with a pack of yogurt in his mouth, behind him was the dean of teaching, Lao Wang, with an angry face.

It rained all night last night, and the rain washed the leaves outside the window, making them shiny and green.The sun is out, and today will be fine weather again.

Hao Ai stepped on the class bell and walked in from the front door, threw the yogurt paper bag in his mouth into the trash can and sat down on his seat.

The Chinese teacher on the podium began to talk about the classical Chinese to be learned today.

Zhong Xiu turned around and handed him a small note: "Have you had breakfast yet?"

After a while, someone poked his back, Zhong Xiu quietly stretched out his hand to the table behind, and took the small note.

"No (T_T)"

So Zhong Xiu took out the small biscuits, bread, energy bars and a bunch of snacks that he had prepared earlier from the table hole, and stuffed them to him together.

"Absolutely, wife." Lu Fayan beside him sighed.

Hao Ai was very happy in his heart. Although he didn't quite understand what Lu Fayan meant by "wife", he still glared at him: "What are you talking about, are you jealous of me?"

"Where there is nothing, don't dare to dare." Lu Fayan said hastily.

During lunch, Zhong Xiu and Hao Ai went to the snack street outside the school, not with Lu Fayan and the others.

Hao Ai picked up the hot and sour noodles in the bowl and said, "My grandma won't go to the clinic anymore, and I don't need to pick it up anymore. She will have a minor operation in a few days."

Grandma's leg needs an operation, so she won't have to go to the doctor's office after that.He didn't know exactly how the operation was performed and what its benefits were. When he found out about it, his uncle had already signed the consent form for the operation.

Grandma is already at this age, and the doctor's advice is conservative treatment, but this operation is just a very common minor operation with little risk, so I finally decided to have an operation.

He couldn't tell what was going on in his heart. No one discussed with him or informed him in advance that his grandma was going to have an operation.In fact, it was useless to tell Hao Ai. He was still dissatisfied and had no way to sign the consent form for the operation.But even so, you should tell him.

At this time, he desperately hopes that he can grow up quickly and become an adult with the right to know and make decisions.

Zhong Xiu carefully observed Hao Ai's face, and found that he was calm, as if he didn't have any sad emotions.

"Is it not serious?" Zhong Xiu asked.

"It's not serious, didn't I say it? Minor surgery." Hao Ai took a sip of powder, and then raised a smiling face.

Zhong Xiu looked at Hao Ai's smiling face and realized that he was not happy, because it was not like this when he laughed from the bottom of his heart.

"Be happy, huh?" Zhong Xiu pinched his face, "Grandma will be fine for sure."

"En!" Hao Ai nodded heavily.

Before my grandma had the operation, Hao Ai spent a day nursing in the hospital. My uncle hired a nurse and sent Hao Ai back to school.

Grandma's illness is not limited to her legs, she also has cardiovascular and heart problems. These are common diseases of the elderly. They are not very serious, but many minor diseases can be enough to torture people.

After the operation, he still needs to be hospitalized for observation, and then rest in bed for a period of time.

Although the operation was successful, Hao Ai still felt faintly uneasy. During the few days when his grandma was in the hospital, his chest was always suffocated. He knew that the life of the elderly was one day less, so he still had to stay with her more.

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