Rust II

The shadow under the lamp stretches among the trees, adding a bit of depression to the already dim light.

Lin An raised his head, looked palely at Xu Xin, who was staring down at him with a gloomy face, for a long time, raised the corners of his mouth, and smiled.

The rain fell on the umbrella surface, making a messy and dull sound.

With the seemingly invisible roar in the sky, people's mood became more disturbed for no reason.

Xu Xin's voice sounded hoarse amidst the wind and rain, "...why don't you go back."

With an uncontrollable anger, "Are you crazy!"

Lin An didn't answer, but only raised his right hand, but because he touched the wound, he frowned slightly and put his hand back halfway.

Xu Xin noticed it, and followed the movement of the other party, and saw that the original white gauze had already been soaked with blood, and after being washed by the rain, it was dried and stained on the wet gauze.

Xu Xin's eyes were stunned by the different shades of mottled eyes. After a long while, he turned his eyes away and continued coldly: "...you didn't hear clearly what I told you in the hospital during the day, did you?"

Lin Anzhi remained silent.

Xu Xin took a deep breath, and his voice became more and more cold and deep, "I told you to leave City C immediately, but I didn't understand it, did I?"

Lin An remained silent, still only looking at him intently.

"Okay." Xu Xin closed his eyes and opened them again after a while. His dark eyes were colder than the biting night wind outside the umbrella. "Then I'll say it again."

He stared fiercely at the thinner figure in front of him in the wind and rain, and repeated clearly word by word: "Lin An, since you were transferred to X, everything was just a well-arranged bureau. We met at Olympic Sports, I saw you off after Ding Hua got you drunk, and I got closer to you step by step afterwards, all of them."

Xu Xin said, his voice gradually lowered, "And I never thought about being with you, let alone being with you... Heh," Xu Xin suddenly sneered mockingly. Next, after laughing, it suddenly became quiet again, and after a few seconds, it continued expressionlessly, "So do you understand now?"

After a pause, he asked again, "Can I go?"

He stared at the other party, trying to find a trace of pain or loss from those eyes that seemed to be covered with mist,

But the other party changed from the previous panic during the day, and just looked at him silently and abnormally, as if he was dumbfounded, as if he didn't hear what he said just now.

And there was even a faint smile on that bloodless face.

Xu Xin couldn't stand it any longer, and after looking at each other for a while, he took the lead to look away again in a slightly embarrassed way, then put the umbrella into the opponent's hand, and said coldly, "Don't come to me again, it's meaningless.", He wanted to turn around and leave.

However, just as he turned around, the person behind him who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke.

"Brother Xu."

Be caught off guard.

It was so weak that it seemed that it would be gone with the wind in the next second.

Xu Xin paused, and the rain fell on his close-fitting shirt.

After Lin An called out, he fell silent again, and only spoke again after a few seconds, but what he said was a random sentence: "...Actually, I did it on purpose that day."

Xu Xin didn't hear clearly.

"...I did it on purpose." The other party's weak voice continued to sound from behind.

Xu Xin didn't know why, so he just stood silently in front of the car door, with only a pair of brows frowned unconsciously on his expressionless face.

However, Lin An seemed to be stuck in the memory of a certain moment, staring at a certain direction in front of him obsessively. I've been gambling since very early on." Yu Bi seemed to have seen something in the vast night, and the corners of his pale lips curled up slightly.

"...Do you still remember... You asked me 12 years ago, knowing that there was danger, and knowing that Ma Yifu had evil intentions, why did you follow him to that abandoned garden and put yourself in danger. "

Lin An spoke slowly, his eyes narrowing little by little on the tall figure in front of him, "...Because from that time...no...maybe earlier, I started to gamble. Bet on yours Sympathy, bet on your pity. Bet that you will eventually hate what I hate, anger what I am angry... I also bet that if you, who have always been righteous and passionate, can witness my experience and situation more quickly and directly, then such an impact , will completely break all your coldness and defenses towards me. From now on... from now on, I will not be able to easily remove me from your wings."

Xu Xin didn't make any movement, but slightly pursed his lips with his back to the other party.

In the winter night with only the sound of rain left, the voice behind him seemed to have a short smile, "...Fortunately, I won all the bets."

However, in the next second, there was an imperceptible tremor again, "...But I don't know why, Brother Xu."

Lin An stared at the figure a short distance away motionlessly, the rainwater from the tips of his hair meandering across his face.He murmured, he didn't know whether he was speaking to the man standing still in front of him, or to the messed-up self, "... I don't know why, when I really saw it for me from behind the door of that factory building, You rushed here, but in my heart... there is only confusion and pain left."

Xu Xin stood quietly behind the rain curtain illuminated by the twilight without saying a word.

It is reflected in the eyes of the people behind, but it is like a lonely lamp in this long night.

Lin An's voice suddenly fell silent, and after a short pause, Fang spoke hoarsely again, "...So when you told me in the hospital this morning that my acting skills were still as good as ever after all these years, I really... …I can’t think of any excuses or reasons to defend or refute myself.” Lin An slowly lowered his gaze, stared blankly at the frequent ripples on the ground, and said sadly: “Because these are all An unchangeable fact...Even for me like this, maybe I shouldn't even be qualified to be sad and disappointed. Because even now...I'm still deceiving myself, fantasizing, and expecting my harm to you It has long since ceased to exist, and you don’t have much anger about the past, and you don’t care about it anymore. Those mistakes that I dare not even face up to, in your heart, may be just a paragraph of nothing worth mentioning. episode of..."

Xu Xin listened quietly, the hand hanging by his side clenched into a fist at some point, but still did not express anything.

Lin An suddenly stopped talking, as if waiting for something silently.

Silence accompanied by the pattering rain gradually subsided in the air. It took a long time before Xu Xin, who had always been silent, opened his mouth.

"You stood here for so long just to tell me this?"

Lin An didn't answer.

Xu Xin looked at the fuzzy image reflected on the car window in front of him, remained silent for a while, and then seemed to smile.

"I've already said it, Mr. Lin," Xu Xin paused for a moment, and at the same time took a deep breath, his tone changed from the previous doubts and sarcasm to indifference and coldness, "it doesn't make sense."

After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand and clasped the doorknob in front of him, saying: "...don't waste your efforts. Please go back."

But just as the car door was opened a crack, the voice behind him followed closely, "I know."

Lin An seemed to be prepared for the other party's reaction long ago, but still couldn't hide his disappointment, muttering and repeating, "I know..." After finishing his speech, he looked up sadly at Xu Xin's face. Xiang Xiang murmured: "How could I not know... I... should have woken up long ago..."

Then he showed a bleak smile, and continued in a low voice: "I know better than anyone what it feels like to hate and hate someone, and I experienced it earlier, so why should I think that I have been bitter about it for so many years? You can give up something you can't forget so easily?"

Lin An murmured, "So I'm not here today to redeem anything, I'm just for...just for..." But for some reason, the voice that was slightly depressed and restrained from the beginning to the end, at this moment Suddenly, a layer of choking and excitement became uncontrollable.

Xu Xin didn't interrupt him again, just remained silent, waiting for the unfinished words of the people behind him.

After a while, the voice behind him finally regained his composure: "To see you again. And also to... give myself one last chance to be completely honest with you." With tears in her eyes, she said: "...Brother Xu, I don't want any pretense or deception to exist between us after tonight, after tonight."

After Lin An finished speaking, the sadness in his eyes slowly disappeared, replaced by a tenderness and attachment stronger than ever before.

He stared at the tall and straight figure who was only a short distance away, and with the help of the faint light, he traced the outline of the other party in detail.

After a long time, he opened his mouth and called out the name hidden deep in his heart again in a low voice.

"Xu Xin."

His expression was so solemn that he seemed to be saying a silent farewell.

Xu Xin's hand holding the car door suddenly tightened with this soft call, and a few seconds later, his heart beat suddenly in this short silence.

Lin An's eyes flickered, his lips moved slightly, and it seemed that thousands of words were about to pour out, but at the last moment, they were only weakly and restrained into three words: "I'm sorry."

Then he smiled slightly with relief, and said softly: "And... thank you too."

The last few words were like a heavy blow, hitting Xu Xin's heart suddenly, forcing his breathing to lag suddenly, and a brief and inexplicable confusion appeared in his mind.

Xu Xin firmly suppressed the sudden rush of emotion in his chest, and he didn't know how long it took before he was able to get out of the sudden emotion, but after he calmed down for less than 2 minutes, he couldn't help but press his throat and ask : "...Thank you for what?"

What answered him was a silence where even the sound of the wind disappeared.

Only then did Xu Xin realize that the sudden and violent winter rain had quietly stopped at some point.

He paused, and suddenly, as if he had sensed something, he turned around abruptly.

But he saw that there was no figure under the magnolia which was a few steps away from him. In the interlaced light, only one was placed under the tree, facing the top of his black umbrella.

And the thin figure who was stubbornly standing under the lamp a few minutes ago and refused to leave, has shrunk into a blurry silhouette at the intersection not far away.

Xu Xin shook his head, stared at the empty road motionlessly for a long while, and then sat back in the car again.

The street that has just been swept by a rain at night is like a relief painted with a new layer of paint. Under the illumination of the street lamps, the dim light flickers and looks like new. The sudden upsurge was gradually extinguished, making the figure and even the voice lingering in the mind before dissipating, like an illusion that appeared out of thin air and then disappeared.

So everything that happened that night seemed to be reduced to an absurd and treacherous dream, and after the next day's sunshine, it all turned into an elusive phantom.

Lin An did not appear again.

Whether it's under the lush trees, in front of the bamboo garden, or the vibrant Huaide Road, or the crowded red plum garden...

All the traces left by the other party seemed to be quickly and ruthlessly erased by an invisible hand in the rotation of the sun and the moon.

After more than half a month, Chen Jianliang brought the news that the person had officially resigned with regret.

"It only took a few days from the submission of the application to the approval. I have never seen the efficiency of the Education Bureau so high." At the end, he shook his head and sighed: "Oh, what a pity, it was just a month ago that X was selected as popular. The teacher with the highest degree, the two classes he led, 100% turnout rate, unprecedented in history, and just helped plan the open day. I didn't expect... something like this happened, even if I wanted to stay, I couldn't stay... "Chen Jianliang sighed regretfully on the phone: "You don't know, the students in his class knew that he was leaving, one after another, they all ran to my office one after another, and even made some kind of joint signature letter spontaneously." Sent it to my office. Principal Ge laughed angrily, and went to battle in person at the flag-raising meeting. On the command platform, he named and criticized their class leader and acting class teacher, saying that they did not study well and were all gangsters in the school. Engaging in a cult of personality, guiding a bad atmosphere, and almost getting a warning."

At that time, Xu Xin was sitting opposite to Ma Jiaqi. Under the shade of the lights, the other party was fiddling with the soup in the bowl and dish, looking at the front, his eyes were full of smiles, and he didn't see any displeasure when the chat was interrupted midway. .

Although since the two of them sat down, almost all the time they have been chatting hard without words, and the other party occasionally responds with smiles that are too shallow to reflect emotions.But Ma Jiaqi didn't care. In her opinion, the other party's willingness to go out with her for this second meal after the night of the winter solstice was already a great encouragement.

Chen Jianliang's voice continued to ring on the phone, with no intention of stopping.Xu Xin didn't interrupt, just lowered his eyelids and listened quietly without saying a word.

"Of course Xu Yuan's name is indispensable." After a pause, he added with mixed emotions: "It can be seen that she is the one who misses Teacher Lin the most."

Xu News said that the eyes fixed on the edge of the table finally moved.

Chen Jianliang talked a little bit about Xu Yuan's situation in the school, and hung up the phone after a few minutes.

Ma Jiaqi was sitting by the window, watching Xu Xin's movements quietly. Seeing that he had finished the call, he still lowered his eyes in silence, staring at the phone motionlessly, and couldn't help smiling and pretending to be casual. He asked, "What's the matter? You frown when you answer the phone." He blinked playfully as he spoke, "Did the subordinate ask you to report on work?"

Xu Xin withdrew You Si, raised his head and smiled faintly at the opposite side.

Ma Jiaqi put her hands on her chin, sighed infinitely melancholy, and said helplessly: "Oh, every time my dad and brother answer the phone calls at work, especially the calls from the people below, it's always your expression It is said that men who work hard are the most handsome. If you want me to say, handsome is not necessarily handsome, but it is true that the hardest life is true. Those who worry about here and there all day long can live a comfortable life..." He said with a smile, "It's still like It’s best for me to be idle.”

Xu Xin buckled the phone screen on the table, and only smiled slightly after listening.

Ma Jiaqi looked at the other party's face and saw that he was still not in high spirits. After answering the phone call just now, he seemed even more absent-minded. She pursed her lips, feeling a little disappointed in her heart, but she was not too sad. It's just that I made an appointment inadvertently on a whim at noon, and I didn't expect the other party to agree so readily, it was a surprise.Seeing that the other party seemed to have something on his mind, he speculated that maybe something difficult happened in the company, and this was just a normal lunch break during the working day, and both of them still had work in the afternoon, so they didn't want to bother them any more. After taking another two mouthfuls of the soup in the bowl, he took the initiative to smile and said, "Okay, I won't waste Boss Xu's precious time any longer. It seems that almost all the dishes on this table should be eaten. Let's move out?"

Xu Xin nodded, got up and put on his coat, and walked out of the private room together with the other party.

When they reached the entrance of the hotel, Miss Ma suddenly turned around again, gestured to him with a smile on the phone, and proposed the next invitation, "Then...we will contact you again on the weekend?"

Xu Xin thought about it quickly for two seconds, but there was no objection.

The smile on Ma Jiaqi's face became brighter, she turned around and happily got into the car waiting on the side of the road, and disappeared on the asphalt road illuminated by the sun after a while.

Xu Xin stood under the steps of the hotel entrance, watching the shadow of the other party's car go away, then stood there for a while facing the bright sun, turned around and turned back in the direction of the company.

Chen Jianliang's phone call undoubtedly added to the sense of reality and concreteness that Lin An was about to disappear from his life again. At the same time, it also broke the seemingly peaceful days of the past half month.

After finishing work in the afternoon, Xiao Wang, who returned from the holiday, sent him back to the bamboo garden as usual, and handed him a cowhide envelope before he got off the car.

Xu Xin took it, and the moment he tore off the seal, something seemed to shake slightly in the paper bag, making a light ding.

He froze slightly, shook his hand, turned the paper seal upside down, and a bunch of keys slipped down.

Xu Xin raised his head and looked at Xiao Wang who was facing him.

"This is the key to the suite you renovated in Cuifangyuan before. The intermediary there asked me to get it after I delivered it to you this morning. They said it was..." Xiao Wang took the initiative to explain, and paused for a while. Taking a look at the expression on the boss's face at this moment, he swallowed back the three words "Mr. Lin" that just came to his lips, and changed his words: "It is said that the previous tenant has checked out, and the formalities were just completed yesterday."

Xu Xin didn't react too much, he just quietly looked at the key chain in his hand, until the cold touch of his palm turned warm, then he let out a low "hmm".

Xiao Wang said again: "Also... I contacted Mr. Shen from the Ministry of Education according to your instructions, and brought this back." Xiao Wang hesitated, and took out another sealed file bag from the briefcase on the side , After the coil was disassembled, a copy of the personal application materials was extracted from it.

Xu Xin reached out to take it, and his eyes stopped on a photo of the ID in the upper right corner of the form.

Xiao Wang said softly: "...he... After the application for resignation from X was approved, he immediately submitted the report of applying for teaching support. The destination is Province J, Ganzhou City."

Xiao Wang reported carefully, looking at Xu Xin who was expressionless and silent in front of him, but for some reason in his heart, he felt a little guilty for a while.

He was ordered by the boss to investigate this Lin An, not once or twice.At first he thought that this Mr. Lin had some quarrel with Xu Xin, or that he was a business rival, so he quietly asked himself to investigate him, but when he thought that his boss finally When he was about to clean up the house, he saw that Xu Xin was painstakingly transferring work for the other party, and secretly arranging the residence himself, so he had to temporarily change his mind, thinking that the two were probably not old enemies but old friends, although he couldn't tell if they were friends. , Why did Xu Xin deliberately hide his whereabouts when doing these things for the other party.

But now, Xiao Wang feels that he is lost again.

He had heard a little about the recent accident that happened to Lin An. Logically speaking, such an incident was indeed special and difficult to deal with, but if Xu Xin really wanted to intervene, there was no reason why he would be unfair, but his boss not only He didn't care about it, and even asked someone to bring a message, so that the Education Bureau "processed quickly" the other party's resignation application.

What's the difference between this move and adding fuel to the flames?

Xiao Wang shook his head repeatedly in his heart, and while he was amazed, he no longer dared to speculate on this confusing relationship without authorization.

"Have you passed? Apply." Xu Xin, who had been silent for a long time looking at the application form, suddenly asked.

Xiao Wang came back to his senses, thought about his words, and after pondering for a moment, he restored Shen Jimin's words: "As long as the resume is good, there are very few voluntary applications like this. Not to mention... it is Mr. Lin who has rich experience and strong will. Young teachers rarely receive them, most of them are students who have just graduated or want to take advantage of winter and summer vacations. So..."

Xiao Wang observed the increasingly cold look on Xu Xin's face, and couldn't figure out whether it would make the other party happier to say "approved" directly, or to say "still under review".

So the sound also becomes smaller and smaller.

Fortunately, Xu Xin didn't make him too difficult, the gloomy mood only leaked out for a moment, and the next second, he quietly restrained his mind, and returned to his usual indifference and indifference.

The pulled out paper was stuffed back neatly through the seal, and then handed back to Xiao Wang's hand.

"Let's deal with it." There was no ups and downs in the explanation, and after a pause, he said, "You don't have to keep staring at it anymore." After speaking, he opened the door and got out of the car.

It was six o'clock, and night had fallen.

When she walked into the living room, Xu Yuan happened to be out of school, and when she passed the yard, she slouched and said hello to Xiao Wang who had just parked the car and came out of the garage.

"Uncle Wang."

Xiao Wang hadn't met this little ancestor for a long time, and these days after he came back from his hometown, he was busy following Xu Xin all day long, so the task of taking Xu Yuan to and from school every day fell on him. He was exempted, so after a lapse of more than half a month, he suddenly bumped into this little overlord who had tormented him a lot in the past, and suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of survival after the catastrophe.

At the same time, it still feels a little fresh.

It's just because this Miss Xu, who has always been full of energy and shows her off as a demon king, gave people a downcast and listless sense of decadence tonight.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Wang asked with a smile.Put the keys away, followed up in two or three steps, and went up the steps with Xu Yuan—if Xu Xin came home from work just in time for dinner, he would usually stay and have dinner together.

"School exam?" After thinking about it, she felt that Xu Yuan would not be a "ordinary" person who was troubled by these things, so she smiled again and changed her guess, "That means being picked up by your Director Chen again." out?"

Xu Yuan didn't answer, she just pulled the strap of her schoolbag on her shoulder and silently shook her head.

Then he raised his head suddenly, stared viciously at the half-closed door a few steps away, and asked through gritted teeth, "My uncle is back?"

"Yes." Xiao Wang suddenly realized, couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, and said with relief: "It's okay, your uncle has been very busy recently, and he always thinks about business matters when he eats. Don't talk at the table later, he won't look for you. You trouble."

Unexpectedly, Xu Yuan, who had always seen Xu Xin like a mouse or a cat, suddenly sneered, stepped forward a few steps, pushed the door with a bang, and threw her schoolbag on the floor tiles of the entrance like venting her anger the next second. , flung off his shoes and walked in aggressively.

Xiao Wang was startled, and hurriedly followed, but just after changing his shoes at the door, he saw three people, two big and one small, looking at each other strangely in the living room.Among them, Xu Xin was calm and indifferent as always, while Aunt Yuan, who came out of the kitchen after hearing the sound, was helpless.Only Xu Yuan, with a pretty face full of murderous looks, if she was given a knife, Xiao Wang even suspected that this girl would rush towards Xu Xin sitting directly opposite her without hesitation.

But in the end, nature is hard to change. Facing my uncle who has always existed like a natural enemy, Xu Yuan was finally defeated, and her arrogance gradually died down under Xu Xin's unhappy gaze. With a loud voice, "Aunt Yuan! I'm not hungry! I won't eat tonight!"

Then he glanced in Xu Xin's direction as if pointing, and snorted, "Even if you eat, you won't be with some people who have bad conduct and will only give up in chaos."

After speaking, he stomped upstairs, and there was a loud bang when the door was slammed shut, which made Xiao Wang, who was already stunned on the first floor, tremble.

Xu Xin didn't seem to hear it. After the upstairs was completely quiet, he stood up from the sofa indifferently and walked towards the restaurant. When he passed the embarrassed Aunt Yuan, he ordered softly: "Dinner."

"Okay." Aunt Yuan hurried back to the kitchen, and a few minutes later, several steaming and fragrant dishes were brought out.

The three of them sat around the table in silence, eating their own food. Xu Xin didn't say a word, and Xiao Wang and Aunt Yuan naturally didn't dare to talk too much. It wasn't until the dinner was coming to an end that Xu Xin went out to answer the phone due to the inexplicably heavy atmosphere. The gap eased down.

Xiao Wang quickly took this opportunity to ask Aunt Yuan what happened, why did the situation at home change after he didn't come for two weeks?

Aunt Yuan shook her head and sighed again and again, but couldn't explain why, she just whispered that Xu Yuan seemed to be a different person within two days since he asked for leave. In the room, no one could yell out. Last week, the level was suddenly upgraded. When I saw Xu Xin, it was like carrying/explosive/drug/bag. What's even more strange is that Xu Xin, who has always been strict with her, didn't say a word about it. He endured it no matter what the child did, and he never got angry.

Really strange.

Xiao Wang and Aunt Yuan thought in unison.

However, Xu Yuan, who was sitting sullenly in the room upstairs, didn't think so. In her heart, her anger that lasted for almost seven or eight days was justified!

Xu Xin didn't dare to take her fault, it was all because of a guilty conscience.

Xu Yuan sat cross-legged in a chair blankly, thinking of what happened one after another in the school these days, her eyes couldn't help but feel sore again, especially when she recalled the familiar back that she accidentally saw in Chen Jianliang's office a week ago , a hundred kinds of feelings surged up in my heart.

Surprise, doubt, uneasiness, panic, and disbelief and anger after that unimaginable tossing conjecture was confirmed.

Others may not know, and the processing speed in X was fast enough on the night of the incident, and Xu Xin's follow-up cleanup was obviously thorough enough, but no matter how quickly the photos were deleted and the video recordings were removed quietly, For Xu Yuan, who is very familiar with every plant and tree in her home, she still recognized the silver-gray car in the photos exposed on the campus network at that time—that car is not something that any ordinary citizen of City C can own. , but it belongs exclusively to her uncle Xu Xin, and it is still parked in a corner of the garage at home until now.

Xu Yuan couldn't help thinking of the two intimate figures next to each other in the photo, one clear and the other blurry.

For some reason, thinking about it, tears fell again.

Xu Yuan also couldn't figure out why she was so sad, she just remembered the night when the campus network fryer, when she accidentally saw the car in the photo and the half-exposed license plate, she was so shocked that it couldn't be added. , It is not an exaggeration to say that it was thunderous.

And when she tried her best to digest the news alone, and then waited in Xu Xin's study full of anger to confront her face-to-face in the middle of the night, but what she got was the other party's acquiescence as if it had nothing to do with her. Talk about an unexplainable sadness and disappointment.

"Uncle, Mr. Lin hasn't shown up for four or five days." Xu Yuan said in a hoarse voice, "...There are rumors in the school that he will be expelled."

Xu Xin's footsteps towards the desk only stopped for a moment, and then he continued to move forward calmly, took off his coat, took off his tie, threw his bag on the desk, and then habitually shook it out of the cigarette case as if nothing had happened. a cigarette.

"Uncle!" Xu Yuan was in a hurry, her voice suddenly raised an octave, and she seemed to be worried about something, then deliberately lowered her voice the next moment: "Is there nothing you want to say?"

Xu Xin was caught in the halo illuminated by the lamp, and didn't respond for a long time, until he realized Xu Yuan's determination not to give up until he asked for an answer, then he raised his head and glanced at her, and replied lightly: "Your new teacher is today Send me a message, saying that you haven't written the text of today's text?" But it is an irrelevant sentence.

Xu Yuan was uncharacteristically unfazed, and just continued to stare at the front stubbornly. After being silent for a while, she suddenly sneered at Xu Xin, who was obviously avoiding her, and asked, "You came back so late tonight, did you follow me?" Did Miss Ma go on a tryst?"

Xu Newsyan frowned slightly.

"Don't try to deny it, I already asked Uncle Ding when I was out of school." Xu Yuan insisted, "Oh, you are really good, the old love is still in dire straits, and you have already formed a good relationship with another."

"Xu Yuan!" Xu Xin, who had always been calm, finally showed a trace of anger.

Xu Yuan, however, met his gaze without any fear, and took advantage of the momentum to vent out the anxiety and evil fire that had been pent up in her heart these days, "Am I right? Do you know what kind of life Mr. Lin is living now? Other classes are spreading rumors that he is a pervert, a pervert who likes men! There is also Zhou Tao, the math class representative who committed suicide in our class...he...he... ..." Xu Yuan said here, thinking of the morning when she suddenly lost all color because of a bad news, her voice choked up, her eyes were red, "His mother even made a fuss at school... saying that her child was killed by Teacher Lin. He was indirectly killed." Xu Yuan couldn't help but shed tears as she said, she grabbed the hem of her clothes, stubbornly maintained her composure that was about to collapse, and asked in a low voice: "I don't understand, Uncle, if Teacher Lin is a pervert, then what are you, the other protagonist in the photo?"

The room was dead silent.

Xu Xin's eyes staring ahead were dim, and it took an unknown amount of time before he slowly calmed down the turbulent waves hovering in his eyes, and gradually regained his composure and indifference.

"Have you finished?" Xu Xin took the document at hand without any explanation, "Go to bed after talking."

The tone was flat as if the questioning just now was innocuous.

Xu Yuan's scorching gaze was completely darkened by this unmoved indifference. She stared blankly and disappointedly at Xu Xin who had already begun to look through the documents for a while, then suddenly turned and went back to her room.

"Dong dong", there were two knocks on the door suddenly, Aunt Yuan stood in the corridor with the food specially reserved for her, and said worriedly: "Yuanyuan, come out and eat a little bit."

Xu Yuan came to her senses, her mind was still in a mess, filled with all kinds of indescribable emotions.

She didn't answer, just leaned on the table with her head bowed.

"Hey, you kid, why are you having an awkward fight with your husband? Even if you have a fight, you have to eat. People are iron, and food is steel. How can your body handle it like this..." Hearing that there was no movement inside, he twisted his hands The lock could not be opened, so he continued to coax, "Quick, be obedient, come out and have a bite."

Xu Yuan rubbed her arm sullenly twice. She hadn't eaten well all day, and she had no appetite in the morning. At noon, she was in a panic at school with the new head teacher who had pushed Lin An down. She stayed until night, saying To be honest, if Xu Xin hadn't been so angry when she saw Xu Xin at first sight, she would have been hungry a long time ago.So he stopped coddling, kicked the puppet that fell to the ground bitterly, got up and opened the door to let Aunt Yuan in.

But he still couldn't help but yelled viciously while eating: "What about punishing rape and eliminating evil!"

As he said that, he inserted a chopstick into the meat that was dripping with red oil, and continued: "What kind of chivalry!"

"Bah! It's all a lie!"

Aunt Yuan listened to her swearing and cursing vaguely, "Little man!" She swallowed her food with puffed cheeks, and cursed again: "Count!"

"Dare to do it but dare not admit it!"

"Will die!"

"Frivolous and ungrateful!"

Cursing and cursing, her eyes were a little sore, she quickly ate and drank a few mouthfuls, waved her hand to ask Aunt Yuan to take it away, closed the door and lay down on the table thinking wildly again.

When I thought about it, I thought of midnight.

Xu Xin didn't know what to do again. After eating at seven or eight o'clock, Xiao Wang sent him out again, and he didn't send him back until it was nearly twelve o'clock.

Xu Yuan lay on the bed tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep, and for some unknown reason, she deliberately left a big gap in the window of her bedroom, stood up her ears against the cool wind, and always paid attention to the movement outside.

Finally, a light flickered on the window, and tens of seconds later, there was the slight sound of the garage closing in the front yard.

Xu Yuan curled her lips, turned over on the bed, and waited to hear when Xu Xin would go upstairs and return to her room.But waited left and right, but did not wait for the slightest movement.

She hesitated for a while, then sneaked up from the bed impatiently, opened the door, tiptoed to the stairs, stretched her neck while holding her hands, and looked towards the living room on the first floor.

I saw Xu Xin sitting quietly with his back to the direction of the stairs, and the suits and ties that he had just taken off were stacked messily on the large sofa.

Aunt Yuan has gone back to sleep, so in the huge living room, only one wall lamp embedded in the left front wall is still on.

Xu Yuan hid behind the handrail and observed quietly, but saw that in the dim light, the tall figure who always showed toughness and indifference was rarely very tired.

A halo of yellow will cast shadows on the wall