Rust II

Chapter 10

Life is not as sad as imagined. Compared with the exhilaration and joy of reunion, the pain of parting seems to be closer to the true meaning and normality of life.

So after a long night of tossing and turning, Friday seemed no different than usual.

In the brand new morning, the traffic on Huaide Road was still noisy. When Lin An appeared in the classroom of Class 7 of the morning reading, the students all looked towards the door, and then whispered, Lin An smiled slightly at the class, After looking around for a week, he walked into the class and walked slowly through the neatly arranged aisles of desks with his usual expression.

When she walked to the penultimate row, Xu Yuan's figure suddenly appeared in her sight. She was wearing a school uniform neatly, her hair was neatly tied behind her head, and the pen in her hand was spinning rapidly between her fingers. Brazenly pressing an unfinished math exercise book, she seemed to have completely ignored Lin An who was standing behind her, and openly said fiercely to the math representative who was halfway across the desk: "Hey, How to do the last question on page 30, "Look at the pictures and talk"? Hey, forget it, the process will be skipped, just tell me the answer, hurry up." Zhou Tao, who had been harassed by her all morning, quickly winked at her, Then she looked at Lin An who was standing diagonally behind her as if asking for help, Xu Yuan turned her head following the other person's line of sight, was slightly stunned when she saw the person coming, and then pulled out a rogue smile without changing her face, full of energy Greeted politely: "Mr. Lin, you are here, good morning."

Lin An looked down at the geometry problem that she jokingly called looking at pictures, and responded with a smile: "Morning."

After speaking, he looked around at Xu Yuan's surroundings who were paying close attention to what was going on in Xu Yuan's room, and after telling everyone to read at ease, he turned around and asked Xu Yuan, who was still looking at her with her lips pursed, "Can't you do it if you have a problem?"

Xu Yuan shrugged her shoulders, and said frankly without any hesitation: "Yes, teacher, it's not that you don't know. I have poor foundation and bad brain. It's strange that I can do such a perverted question."

There was a slight sneer from all around.Although Xu Yuan's words were respectful, what she expressed was a real provocation. The sound of reading aloud around her gradually disappeared, and everyone secretly paid attention to the interaction between the two people in the back seat.

But what was disappointing was that Lin An wasn't angry at all. He smiled gently and asked softly to Zhou Tao who was peeking at "Big Demon Xu", "Have you collected all your homework?"

Zhou Tao nodded quickly, and then looked at Xu Yuan's direction bitterly. Lin An successfully received it, and said with a smile: "Then move to Mr. Peng's office first, and Xu Yuan asked her to stay and do it slowly." , don't hand it in yet."

Zhou Tao, who had been threatened and intimidated all morning, heaved a sigh of relief, immediately stood up, picked up the exercise book and ran away.

Xu Yuan rolled her eyes at the fleeing back of the other party, cursed secretly, "I don't care", then turned around with a smile, spread her hands at Lin An and said, "Mr. Lin, are you openly encouraging me to violate the school rules?"

Lin An glanced at her, reached out and tapped her table lightly, and said, "Come out with me."

Xu Yuan raised her eyebrows.Throwing away the fountain pen, he stood up, followed the other party under the gloating gazes of the onlookers, and swaggered towards the door of the class.

The morning sun still had a shy red light, half covering behind the library of Central X not far away.Lin An stood with the backlight, Xu Yuan narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked at him against the breeze and sunshine.

"Mr. Lin, what's the matter? Just say it if you have something to say. Anyway, you are clever, and I, Xu Yuan, am willing to bow down. From now on, I will definitely obey your advice."

The little girl really lacked patience, and Lin An couldn't help but sarcastically said when Lin An didn't speak after a while.

Lin An knew that she was alluding to the appointment with the parents that she left in her home-school contact book half a month ago, and it was true that after that, the other party's behavior gradually became more regular, and she almost stopped leaving early and arriving late. I more or less made up all the homework, thinking that when I had the courage to leave a message to Xu Yuan's parents, I didn't know that the "parent" was actually not Xu Zhong, but Xu Xin. Will it...

Lin An caught his thoughts of running around again in time, collected himself, and said softly to the impatient Xu Yuan: "There will be a large-scale provincial composition competition in the city at the end of next month. The teacher wants to invite you to represent the school. To participate, of course, you have to pass several school tests and selections in advance, and be with students selected by other teachers in the grade."

As he spoke, he smiled gently at Xu Yuan, who had a ghostly expression on his face, and continued to ask, "Are you willing?"

Xu Yuan's reaction was as if she had been struck by lightning. She looked at Lin An in disbelief for a while, and then she smiled even more mockingly, and asked him in an extremely rude manner, "Teacher, what are you talking about?" ? The students can't hear clearly."

Lin An had been "fighting wits and courage" with her for almost a month, and he had a thorough understanding of the other party's shrewdness and mischief. He ignored Xu Yuan's disdain, and just bowed his head and took out a test paper stuck in the textbook, and handed it to her. It was given to Xu Yuan who had her hands in her pockets.

Xu Yuan pursed her lips, reached out to take it, shook it away, and glanced at it. It turned out to be the blank paper that she handed in yesterday to cope with the impromptu exam. No, maybe she shouldn't say that. on top.

Could it be that this is another new trick that the stupid head teacher in front of me came up with?

Want to take advantage of the composition competition to ridicule her crap?

Overtly praise and secretly criticize?Fuck, does she, Xu Yuan, look like someone who can suffer from that boring loss? !

After clarifying the other party's purpose, the little girl's whole demeanor changed. Unexpectedly, just as she was about to make an attack, Lin An suddenly smiled at her again, and then said: "The teacher approved the test papers of more than half of the students in the class last night. You It is very special, the writing is fluent, humorous, and the angle is novel. Although it is not completely without shortcomings, the teacher believes that as long as you practice a little, you will definitely have better works and grades."

Lin An knew that it was not easy to persuade Xu Yuan. This was originally just a flash of thought when he saw the other party's composition last night, and now it is just a chance to say it.

Sure enough, Xu Yuan was completely unmoved. You must know that the composition she handed in yesterday was one of her major killers in the past. Among the teachers I have seen, there is no one who is not so angry, as if she is afraid. She will rush out to kill and set fire in the next second, also, which great gardener would be happy to see such a "good work" that dismisses "brightness and harmony", but desperately praises the "dark side of society" that cannot be put on the table "?

Except this one in front of you.

If you have nothing to show affection, you can either rape or steal.Xu Yuan rolled her eyes decisively, and refused straight away, "No."

Then he turned back to the classroom and disappeared into Lin An's slightly disappointed sight.

However, within half a day of this incident, Xu Yuan found that her judgment seemed to have made a mistake.

At [-] o'clock in the evening, she was sent back to the villa by Ding Hua. She was severely criticized by Xu Xin and deprived of "outdoor entertainment". As soon as she got home, she went upstairs and locked herself in the bedroom, lying listlessly on the table in a daze.The class during the day was really boring. She struggled all morning, finally surrendered after lunch, and fell asleep until school was over.

This has led to a very serious problem - today she is largely incapable of mathematics, physics and chemistry.

Alas, I, Xu Yuan, am not this material!She was precise about her position and time, and comforted herself for a while without being frustrated. She was bored, and suddenly she had a flash of inspiration, and she turned out the paper returned to her by Lin An in the morning. She remembered that she took this thing at that time. When it was time, it seemed to see what the other party wrote on it.

The moment the soft rolled noodles were spread out on the table, Xu Yuan was stunned.

Lin Anjunxiu's comments and handwriting were neatly written on the correction column on one side. Where there could be a little touch-up, where it could be described in depth, where it was brilliant, and where it was slightly inappropriate, they were all carefully and honestly listed on the side. Those who don't know the truth may think that this is an analysis of a contemporary masterpiece.

Xu Yuan's heart shook, the mockery in her eyes was gradually replaced by disbelief and ecstasy, as if she had finally found a like-minded confidant, she suddenly jumped up from the table, rolled on the bed with the paper in her hands, and then quickly sat up again , read those words very carefully from the beginning to the end, especially Lin An’s summary of the sentence at the end of her article that seems to be sentimental: the world is not black and white, my heart is clear, 'black' What is there to fear, my heart is dirty, what is the luck of 'white'?Xu Yuan, may your "dreams" come true and never change your original intention.

Xu Yuan was so excited, her face was slightly flushed, she sat on the bed and smirked for a long time, and when she was excited, she couldn't help deeply admiring the uncle she had regarded as an idol since she was a child—no wonder, no wonder, no wonder Xu Xin followed up After seeing Lin An for the first time, when she came back, she told her that she must improve her academic performance, and that Chinese should bear the brunt of the brunt. At that time, she thought her uncle's brain was flooded, or he had taken some wrong medicine. It turned out that it was not unreasonable.What a smart eye!

Xu Yuan spent the entire weekend in a state of madness amidst this excitement. She brought out the fairy tales or biographical novels of certain characters that she loved to read when she was young, and changed her previous negative state of not going out or giving birth to death. , I honestly "read a lot of books" at home, and even found out the weekly diary that I had never handed in, and wrote it passionately.Ding Hua took time to visit her several times, but was scared out of his wits along with his aunt at home.

Brother Xu is not in City C, and this girl Xu Yuan is so self-conscious. Could it be that something is about to change?Amidst such doubts, the trembling family finally ushered in the next round of working days.

Xu Yuan deliberately got up early in the morning and rushed to the school excitedly. Half an hour later, under the astonished eyes of the team leader, she threw down her weekly diary book, held a pen in her mouth, and said to the other party in a hurry: "Remember, put the I put the first one."

As for the 50-minute Chinese class, she was also extremely excited, staring intently at Lin An, who was "gentle and gentle" on the podium, and even volunteered to raise her hand when the other party asked questions but no one answered them. Although the answers were mostly outrageously wrong, and the effect seemed to be not much different from making trouble, it still couldn't stop her innate sense of pride.

The teachers and students of class 7 were collectively stunned. This kind of anecdote is even more inconceivable than what terrible disaster the devil in the world has caused outside.Soon, even Feng Ping knew the news of Xu Yuan's "big sex change", and joked with Lin An and Peng Chunlin in the office: It seems that our teacher Lin will reach a new peak in the mid-term teacher satisfaction survey Yes, from the previous 99% to 100%, with Xu Yuan's vote, Mr. Lin, you are complete.

Lin An smiled embarrassingly, but he was also very puzzled in his heart. Like everyone else, he didn't understand why Xu Yuan's sudden change came about. Or maybe it was just a whim of a young man's heart. back to normal.

But four or five days passed, and Xu Yuan remained enthusiastic, but soon everyone discovered that this persistent enthusiasm seemed to be only for one class of Chinese. Although the girl stopped making trouble in other classes, she still had to eat. Eat and sleep when you should, unambiguously, don't even think about disturbing her when Mr. Ren Tianwang comes.

While Lin An was flattered, he was also a little uneasy - Xu Yuan's change undoubtedly greatly reduced his pressure, but the absence of news and silence from another person for several days made him more nervous and embarrassed every day.

There was no news from Xu Xin again. From one Friday to another, Lin An didn't dare to admit that besides being worried and afraid, what was more important was the nervous anticipation that was inflated day by day.

In the dead of night, he even wondered if Xu Yuan treated him so favorably because of that person?However, whenever a similar thought popped up, he would immediately stop it at a faster speed, and then an inexplicable feeling of shame and hotness rose all over his body. Such repeated emotions almost made it difficult for him to sleep all night.

The string of numbers on the phone never lighted up again, neither the long beep when the phone rang nor the vibration when the text message came, Lin An always blushed inexplicably when the palm-sized thing made a movement , And every time it is confirmed that it is not Xu Xin, I can't help but lose my mind.

Even before school ended on Friday, when he handed out the diary to Xu Yuan, he almost had the urge to check out that person's whereabouts several times.

Xu Yuan didn't know what was going on in Lin An's mind. After taking the book from his hand, she immediately opened it and looked at it. After her eyes touched the large comments written by the other party with a serious attitude, she happily assured: "Teacher Lin, don't worry. Next week's diary, I, Xu Yuan, promise to hand it in on time!"

Lin An met the other party's sincere and warm eyes, put away the ulterior emotions, and smiled apologetically.

Ge Jing went to Linshi to hold a seminar last Friday, which lasted for ten days, so the plan for the school celebration that he was supposed to hand in was delayed again and again. It was almost here, and Lin An, who was restless, decided to simply stay in school at night to improve the plan, so as to get rid of the hesitation and anxiety that had accumulated in his heart.

Back in the empty office, Lin An casually ate some milk and bread, set his phone to vibrate and put it aside, and began to force his heartbeat to calm down for some reason, and sat at the table to turn on the office computer , PPT slowly changed its original appearance under the click and drag of the mouse and the tap of the keyboard.

Lin An was sitting on the seat with a calm surface, but the movements of constantly looking at the screen of the mobile phone revealed the restlessness and anxiety that he had tried his best to hide.

After seven o'clock, Peng Chunlin came back to clean up after finishing the evening self-study for the third year of senior high school, and left.

After eight o'clock, after Feng Ping sent the courseware file shared by the language group on Q/Q, the profile picture went dark.

At nine o'clock, Lin An smiled wryly at the unalterable PPT, reached out and rubbed his forehead, and took out the floppy disk, as if he had finally given up on something, got up and picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair , but unexpectedly at this moment, the cell phone, which had always been quiet, vibrated crazily.

Lin An was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly turned around, and the familiar number appeared on the lit screen.

Lin An put down his coat, and quickly took a step forward to pick up the phone.

"Hello." After the words were out of his mouth, he realized that his tone seemed too urgent. He blushed slightly, feeling at a loss for the joy that he forgot to conceal.

There was silence for a few seconds, and then a gentle chuckle came out.

The longing voice came from the earpiece, it was obviously far away, but it seemed close at hand, Lin An's throat was dry, and his ears were burning again.

After a while, he heard the person ask the other party: "Mr. Lin, I want to ask you a question." After a short pause, he said: "'In the first half of my uncle's unrestrained and reckless life, I have done the most righteousness to my brother. One of the things that makes people change is that they are not afraid of treacherous heroes to save beauty.' Is there something wrong with this sentence?"

Lin An was startled, and his heartbeat suddenly became extremely fast. He vaguely remembered that this was the place he circled when he corrected Xu Yuan's paper last week. He licked his lips subconsciously because he made a mistake in his words, and was about to answer when Xu Xin continued to ask him, "Did I not save you?"

Lin An was taken aback for another moment, and after understanding the object of the other two sentences, his face turned red.

He murmured, his brain went blank under this plausible question.

Xu Xin smiled again at the other end, and said softly: "I'm at the gate of Cuifangyuan, come downstairs and walk with me?"