ninety-nine twelve

In mid-October, the mid-term parent meeting was held in the grade. I knew that my dad would not have time to come, and I didn't plan to tell my mom. The class teacher never asked me, and I didn't take the initiative to say anything to her.

The two self-study classes in the afternoon and the evening self-study are all on holiday. The students in the class clean up after school, tidy up the desks and podiums, and a few girls in charge of entertainment write and draw welcome slogans on the blackboard .

My parents won't come, I have nothing to fix, and I don't know if I should help.

I'm not nervous, excited, or feeling anything.

Seeing everyone busy back and forth, I simply put on my bag and slipped to the playground for a run as soon as possible, so as not to stay in the classroom embarrassingly.

While running, I looked to the sidelines absent-mindedly, waiting for someone intentionally or unintentionally.

The parent meeting, the parents all came, Wu Haoyu was sent by the head teacher early in the morning to be a guide at the stairs and the elevator on the fourth floor, it was not easy to get out.

I'm not in a good condition today. After running [-] laps, I was so tired that I couldn't stand up straight. I didn't want to take a step, I just wanted to lie down.I bent my waist and supported my knees, gasping for breath, sweat flowed into my eyes, salty and irritating, I squinted my eyes, cursing fuck in my heart.

"What's wrong with you? Are you done running?"

A stone was kicked on the toe of my shoe, and at the same time a familiar voice came from the top of my head. I squinted my eyes and barely opened a crack. I was in the same school pants and school shoes, but I knew it was Wu Haoyu.

"Why did you come here?"

"A bunch of crap."

"Is it over?" I pointed to the parent meeting.

"Not yet, it's six o'clock, let's go." Wu Haoyu stretched out his hand and pulled me up.

I wiped off the sweat from my forehead, shook my hands, and looked at him with my hips on my hips, "Where are you going, are you waiting for your mother?"

"Go home, my mother told you to have dinner together at night."

My aunt came back from the parent-teacher meeting and cooked a few dishes for the three of us to eat together.I've had a lot of meals here at Wu Haoyu's place. Auntie is always afraid that we usually eat less vegetables, and the dishes we cook are basically vegetarian dishes. Compared with the big fish and meat outside, I would rather eat more grass.When I sat at the dining table with Wu Haoyu and his mother to eat like this at the beginning, don't mention how awkward it was, but now I come more often, and I can wash the dishes familiarly.

Auntie didn’t say anything about the content of the parent-teacher meeting. We chatted the whole time, telling her anecdotes about the school, and at the end she told me not to go home if it was too late, and let me stay at ease.

After my aunt left in the evening, I went back to the room. Wu Haoyu was doing homework at the desk. I sat next to him, coughed unnaturally, hesitated to speak, and after deliberating for a long time, I asked him cautiously: "Wu Haoyu, I've always wanted to ask, where's your dad?" I've been to Wu Haoyu's house so many times, but I've only seen his mother, and I've never seen anyone with the identity of "father".

"My dad?" Wu Haoyu stopped writing. He was puzzled at first, but then he seemed to understand, "My dad went to the Northwest for a business trip. He works in electricity. The unit transferred him to do technical support for a year, probably in May of this year. It’s in the past, maybe I’ll come back for a while during the Chinese New Year next year.”

After listening to it, I suddenly realized "Oh" and made a long sound, and I must have looked a little embarrassed.

Seeing my reaction, Wu Haoyu teased: "Why, do you think my dad is gone?"

I didn't expect him to say it so directly, so I choked up unnaturally, and said falteringly, "Because I've always met Auntie, I'm a little curious..."

"It's okay, what's the matter, but you are the first person to ask this."

"Huh? Everyone knows that your dad is on a business trip?"

"No, no one knows. You are the first one to know when you are on a business trip." Wu Haoyu raised his eyebrows and teased with a half-smile: "It's just that everyone knows that I have a father, and you are the first one who doesn't."

What he said made me so embarrassed that I didn't know what to do, so I had no choice but to scold him angrily: "Don't speak in a weird way."

Wu Haoyu laughed loudly, "Okay, click here, I didn't think it would be interesting to tease you."

"You know how to stop."

"Well, I see, let's not talk about it. When my dad comes back next year, I will let you meet him."

Early the next morning, Wu Haoyu and I went to school together. As soon as we entered the classroom, we heard several voices: "Happy birthday, Haoyu!"

I looked at the person beside me in amazement, and asked in disbelief, "Is your birthday today?"

"correct."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier!"

"There's nothing to say about that."

Wu Haoyu and I walked to the back of the classroom one after the other. He thanked everyone all the way, and finally got to his seat. There was a cup of milk tea on his table, which was still hot.

Wu Haoyu picked it up to have a look, then looked around, and asked, "Whose milk tea?"

A girl in the first few rows turned her head and replied loudly to Wu Haoyu: "The girl from another class sent you off!"

When everyone heard it, they deliberately yelled and made a fuss. Wu Haoyu was a little embarrassed, and continued to ask: "Who is it?"

"I don't know. A boy in Class [-] sent it over. He said that a girl from another liberal arts class entrusted him to deliver it."

"Wow, it's so mysterious, and the secrecy work is so good, don't you want us Haoyu to flip the sign?"

"Haoyu, check to see if there are any love letters or anything else."

"Which man from Class [-] sent it over? I'll go back and torture him for you."

I watched them gossip, and when they dispersed, I caught Wu Haoyu and asked unhappily, "Why didn't you tell me your birthday is today?"

"There's nothing to say, it's not my birthday."

"So everyone knows, but I don't?"

Probably because my expression was too sincere, Wu Haoyu stopped what he was doing, and turned to look at me, "No, what's wrong with you? I just don't want to celebrate my birthday. The less people know about it, the better. I hope this day will pass quickly, isn't it? I still want to publicize it everywhere, today is my birthday, you all come to wish me happy?" He lowered his voice a little, "This situation is embarrassing enough for me, I really don't like birthdays , it’s not that I won’t tell you alone.”

The dissatisfaction in my heart subsided a bit, but I still didn’t answer. Seeing that I was silent, Wu Haoyu continued: “I’m in the same class as everyone in the second year of high school, and some of them are classmates in the third year. Fill in the medical examination form and exam admission card, the date of birth is basic information, it is too difficult to keep people from knowing, if you have been in this class since the second year of high school, you will know."

I snorted softly, calmed down and sat down, "Okay, don't explain, anyway, I'm the last one to know now, I just think you don't even consider me a friend if you don't even tell me this. "

Wu Haoyu also sat down, and suddenly said to me seriously: "Zhang Tianle, I really regard you as a friend, so don't tell me happy birthday today, don't make me make a wish, and don't ask me what gift I want. Yes, just pretend you don't know anything."

I responded again and again, but became more and more curious, and asked Wu Haoyu why he didn't like birthdays.

"Actually, there's really no reason, no shadows, and no stories. I just don't like it. I don't like when people say happy birthday to me. Then I have to say thank you and some polite words. It's too embarrassing and I can't stand it."

What he said was quite reasonable, I nodded half-understood, sat back comfortably, flipped through my schoolbag to get the test paper, after a while the more I thought about it, the more wrong I was, and I quickly patted the person in front of me and asked: "Oh, no, Wu Haoyu, you How old is this birthday?"

"Eighteen."

"Damn it!? Are you today? Are you older than me?"

Wu Haoyu turned his head, looked at me inexplicably, and said, "Can't you?"

I was hit hard.In this way, Wu Haoyu is one year older than me, which is actually seven months, but these seven months are enough to make me feel weird, but I can't say whether it is a good or a bad thing, we are obviously the same age, I Occasionally Yuge called Yuge, I didn't expect him to be my brother, but he gave me a different feeling from my peers in the past, like an older brother and a younger brother.

Wu Haoyu said it wasn't his birthday, so he really didn't have a birthday. I said treat him to a good meal at noon, but he didn't appreciate it. In the end, as usual, we ordered a bowl of noodles at a roadside snack bar.At dinner time, I wanted to invite him again, but this time I didn’t even run, and I went back to the classroom to call him after training, but I met him, Xiao Junlei, and other people in the stairwell coming down, and I asked him where he was going, He said he was going to eat, and then he went downstairs with them, which made me very angry.

But after thinking about it, I still feel that Wu Haoyu's birthday can't just pass by like this, it's his birthday, he's an adult from today, so he should celebrate it, at least commemorate it.But he is stubborn, he won't let people say happy birthday to him, don't let him ask him what birthday gift he wants, let alone celebrate something, I think carefully about Wu Haoyu's words, he won't let me ask him what he wants, but he didn't say no Someone gave him a gift, didn't he also drink the milk tea that the girl gave him in the morning, so I began to think about what Wu Haoyu had to accept after giving it out, and couldn't return it to me, he seemed to have nothing missing, I didn't think he usually had anything that he particularly liked. After much deliberation, I charged his game account with two sets of 648, which should be enough for him to play for a while.

In my opinion, this idea is really perfect. Wu Haoyu must be very moved and happy after seeing it. In this way, I have some credit for his cultivation. If he is singled out in the future, his conscience will hurt.

When Wu Haoyu came back from dinner, I didn't talk to him, but kept watching him secretly, watching when he took his mobile phone, when he played games, and when he found the big gift bag I gave him.

In the second half of the evening self-study, Wu Haoyu still didn't move, lying motionless on the table, wondering if he fell asleep.It was quiet in the corridor outside the window. At this point, the teacher on duty for the evening self-study had already left work, and there were only a few figures going back and forth to the toilet occasionally.

After a while, several more people passed the corridor, and as they passed the last window, one of them tapped on our glass.

I took a closer look, and it was Xiao Junlei again.

Wu Haoyu moved, sat up slowly, put on his coat, put on his phone and went out.

I watched from behind, 1 puzzled, not sure what was going on, and then the more I thought about it, the more something went wrong. I have never seen Wu Haoyu escape from evening self-study, but today he escaped. Could it be that he went to his birthday?

Thinking of this, I couldn't sit still anymore, grabbed my coat and hurried out of the classroom, but those people had long since disappeared. I checked the colonel's gate and the playground, but found no one, so I had to go back to the classroom and wait.

As soon as the bell rang for evening self-study after school, Wu Haoyu came back. The class had already started to be noisy, but it still couldn't hide what Wu Haoyu walked past the front rows of seats, one of the girls said: "Oh, Wu Haoyu, you Go smoke again."

My hand to collect the schoolbag stopped, and hung the paper over the schoolbag for a while, neither putting it away nor putting it away.

Wu Haoyu said a few perfunctory words, walked back to his seat, saw me staring at him, and asked me strangely: "What are you doing, who messed with you?"

I didn't answer, and took a step forward to get closer to him. I smelled his scent, and asked word by word: "Have you gone to smoke?"

"I don't smoke." Wu Haoyu said as if nothing had happened, as if he wasn't lying.

"You fucking smell like cigarettes and you say you haven't smoked?"

I said this a little louder, and the people around me were silent for a second or two, and all cast their eyes on us.

Wu Haoyu looked to both sides, and waited until the surrounding noise resumed, then he looked at me frankly, "I really don't smoke, they smoke, my clothes are just stained, don't believe you smell it." He said Put your hand in front of the tip of my nose, with the back of your hand facing me, there is indeed no stronger smell of smoke between your fingers.

I couldn't figure out which sentence was true and which sentence was false, so I grabbed his wrist and asked seriously: "What does 'again' mean? It seems that this is not the first time you have gone, and you didn't smoke this time." , before that?"

Wu Haoyu looked at me calmly, and said: "I didn't smoke, not this time, never smoked before, never smoked, I went with them because I didn't want to go to the evening self-study, sometimes I went sometimes not , Just like the big snake sometimes calls me and sometimes doesn't call me, he is not the only one who smokes, and I am not the only one who does not smoke. It is best to have more people in this kind of thing, and help each other to watch, so as not to Got caught. That's it, do you have anything else to ask?"

Wu Haoyu was well-reasoned and well-founded, not only did he appear to be loyal, but he also seemed to be making a fuss. I had nothing else to say, so I could only continue to ask: "Then you are not afraid of being caught?"

"No, the teacher probably knew about this a long time ago, so he just turned a blind eye."

I was taken aback, "What? The teacher also knows? You are so fucking good, why don't you take drugs?"

Wu Haoyu glared at me, but didn't answer. Before the matter was finished, I thought that he didn't even want to go for a run with me, but he just yelled and left after smoking second-hand smoke. Thinking of this, I got angry again, and asked : "Can't you not go?"

"The only thing the teacher turned a blind eye to was this matter. I committed a crime in a group so I wouldn't be caught. If I slipped out alone because I didn't want to study at night and didn't come back for more than 10 minutes, I would go to the police station if I was caught. Office."

"Then if you don't want to have sex in the future, you tell me, I'll smoke, and you can go out to the head office with me."

Wu Haoyu hesitated, and asked me with a little surprise: "Do you smoke?"

"I can smoke." I was still trying my best, and I didn't care whether I could smoke or not, so I wanted Wu Haoyu to admit his mistake.Tobacco has a great impact on the physical fitness of athletes. In the past, when the coach led the team, everyone was strictly prohibited from smoking, but I also secretly smoked once or twice with my buddies in the team. Haven't smoked.

"The big snake... the teacher can't control it, so I don't care, but don't mess around." Wu Haoyu tilted his head, as if he was making a compromise, and finally he said: "I won't go in the future, honestly go to evening self-study, that's fine. Bar."

Hearing what he said, although I was satisfied, I was still angry, and I couldn't lose face. I stuffed the test paper into the bag indiscriminately, threw the bag over my shoulder, walked first, and threw "whatever you want" to him .

When I took the subway home, I leaned in the car and felt bored. Wu Haoyu's birthday still didn't come true in the end.

The phone suddenly vibrated at this moment, I took it out and saw Wu Haoyu's new message was displayed on the screen, a series of question marks, I just remembered the value I had recharged him in the game, I felt much better all of a sudden, it seemed that he was finally I found the big gift bag, but I couldn't say "Happy Birthday" to him, so I could only reply with a smug expression.

Wu Haoyu didn't know what he was doing there, and it took a while before he replied to me: If you are so capable, why don't you charge me [-]?

When I was younger, the wish I made was to win medals in international youth competitions.

I've played, I've placed, the trophies and medals are in a cabinet in the coach's office, and I leave without taking any of them.The first time I won the championship was in the first grade of junior high school. Five schools launched a joint challenge competition. I excitedly went to tell my parents, but in the end only the coach accompanied me to participate in the name entrusted by the parents. When receiving the award, hang up. The medal around my neck is an ordinary rectangular metal plate, without the name of the game, without my name, not even the date, only a simple "No.1".I showed the medal to my parents, and they said "not bad", the school praised me for winning the school and asked me to hand in the medal. Later, I went to the coach, pointed to the wall clock on the wall of his office, and asked if I could be handed over. The medal was hung on the back of the clock, the coach agreed, but instead of hanging the medal behind the clock as agreed, he got a display cabinet from somewhere, and the medal is still placed in the middle of the cabinet. In the middle, put it together with all the heavy trophies and medals.Its quality is very poor. Over time, the golden color has oxidized to black, but the three characters "No.1" are engraved deeply and are always clearly legible.

Enthusiasm can be quenched.

That competition was pointless, and the medals won were pointless.All along, except the coach, no one thinks that I may have some talent, and no one is optimistic that I will win better and bigger awards. In fact, I don’t like studying very much, but I can’t show the strength enough to become a professional athlete.

In the beginning, Wu Haoyu asked me if I like running. At that time, I said I didn't know. I think I was more unwilling. It was the same if I changed to playing football, swimming, or playing the piano.Human emotions are always wonderful. When I used to train, I ran every day, and I had to run if I didn’t want to. Laziness would definitely be punished. When it was a task on me, I hated it, but now I finally When I was free from this task, I realized that I couldn’t get away from it at all. I would miss the days of hard training, the track and the field. It seems that running is the most natural state of my body.

So close, but I have no desire.

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