driftwood

Chen Xing slept very restlessly last night, always feeling that someone covered him with a quilt all night and sat by his bed watching him.When he got up in the morning, Chen Xing grabbed his hair and remembered that he couldn't help crying last night, and he seemed to have bitten Zhou Chen. He jumped up with some guilt, and walked out the door lightly.Zhou Chen hadn't left yet, and was heating milk in the kitchen.

Chen Xing yawned and leaned against the kitchen door: "What do you want for lunch?"

Zhou Chen turned off the fire and poured milk into the cup, then turned to look at Chen Xing: "Are you going to do it?"

"Well, what do you want to eat?"

Zhou Chen thought about it carefully: "Can you know sweet and sour pork ribs?"

Chen Xing nodded: "Yes, what else?"

"Boiled pork slices."

"anything else?"

"Enough?"

"Not enough, say two more."

"Mushroom greens, shredded cabbage."

"Okay, I'll do it at noon."

During the entire conversation, Chen Xing was carefully observing Zhou Chen's expression, as if there was no embarrassment or anything like that, so he was a little relieved.

After Zhou Chen left, Chen Xing sat in the study and finished his homework. He glanced at his watch, it was ten o'clock.Holding the key, he saw Zhou Chen's 200 yuan on the tea table. After thinking about it, he stuffed a hundred yuan into his pocket and went out the door.

This time he wisely didn’t go to the supermarket, but went straight to the vegetable market. There were not many people in the vegetable market. He quickly bought vegetables, cut meat, and spare ribs. Unfortunately, on the way back, he met Li Man, who was supported by a few girls. When Li Man came out of the mall, Chen Xing turned around and was about to pretend not to see him, but Li Man hurriedly called out to him: "Chen Xing." A few girls stared wide-eyed to see what the school girl looked like, and Chen Xing stopped. Without turning back, Li Man continued to shout from behind: "I sprained my foot, can you take me home?"

"No, I'm sorry, I can't." Chen Xing shouted in his heart, but when he said it, it became: "You call a taxi and go home."

Li Man jumped up in a panic and grabbed his sleeve. Chen Xing frowned. The clothes still belonged to Zhou Chen. He pulled Li Man's hand off and said in a cold voice, "I'm sorry, I have something to do. You call your friend." Let me take you back."

After Chen Xing finished speaking, he went straight to the side of the road, took a taxi, got in and left.He can only refuse, if he helps once, Li Man will think about the second time.In this way, the relationship between the two will never stop.

Zhou Chen stood at the door and just took out the key and opened it from the inside. Chen Xing wore an apron and asked him with a smile, "Am I sure?"

Zhou Chen's eyes fell on the apron, and he closed the door with a smile, "Sure."

"Let's eat." Chen Xing took off his apron, went into the kitchen and came out with two bowls of rice. Four dishes were steaming on the dining table.Zhou Chen opened the stool and sat down, and asked Chen Xing with a smile, "Where did you get the apron?"

Chen Xing took a bite of the rice, lowered his head and said, "The small supermarket downstairs costs five yuan each."

"Why don't you choose another color?" Zhou Chen wanted to laugh when he saw Chen Xing wearing an apron.

Chen Xing said casually: "There are only pink broken flowers left, oh, there is another one, which is green and red peonies."

"Oh." Zhou Chen nodded solemnly: "This is quite suitable for you."

As soon as Chen Xing's butt touched the bench in the morning, the class leader stood at the door and shouted: "Chen Xing, the head teacher is looking for you."

Chen Xing stuffed his schoolbag into his desk pocket, took out his vocabulary and spread it out in front of him, and asked the monitor, "What do you want from me?"

The class leader shrugged: "I don't know, anyway, the class teacher's face is not very good."

Walking on the road, Chen Xing thought about his recent whereabouts. After checking, he confirmed that he had not committed any violation of discipline recently, so he straightened his chest and called out a report confidently.

"Come in." Liu Xiaoxia's voice was cold.

Chen Xing pushed open the door, only Liu Xiaoxia was the only teacher in the office, Liu Xiaoxia raised her head from the lesson plan, her face was extremely serious, her eyes shone somewhat harshly through the narrow lenses, she quickly glanced at Chen Xing face, knocked on the table, with a serious tone: "Sit."

Chen Xing went over and sat down on the stool in front of her. Liu Xiaoxia usually treated him very well, and he had never seen Liu Xiaoxia like this before.

"Do you know why I called you here?"

Chen Xing "..." You are really interesting, you called me here yourself, and I don't have mind reading skills, how would I know what you asked me to do.

"do not know."

"I don't know? You don't know what good things you did yourself?" Liu Xiaoxia's voice raised several degrees, sharp and thin, just like the unbearable noise when scratching a blackboard with her fingernails, and went straight to Going with Chen Xing's eardrums.Chen Xing frowned from the noise, and said coldly, "What good did I do?"

"Puppy love, Chen Xing, you have disappointed the teacher too much, do you know that this may ruin you!"

Chen Xing was stunned, puppy love?He broke up a long time ago, why did Liu Xiaoxia say it now.

"Who said that?"

Liu Xiaoxia pushed the mobile phone in front of her to Chen Xing, and sighed: "Look for yourself."

Chen Xing took the phone suspiciously, and there was a post on the phone, "The third senior high school student and his girlfriend, the school student Chen Xing is so handsome!" There are a few pictures under the post, and Chen Xing zoomed in to see that it was himself On the day I happened to meet Li Man on the street, in the picture Li Man was holding his arm, and his other hand was holding Li Man's wrist. It seems that he is holding Li Man's wrist. It seems that the two of them are really ambiguous.

Chen Xing rubbed his brows helplessly: "Teacher, this is fake."

Liu Xiaoxia snorted mockingly: "Fake? I've already asked someone, and everyone said that you and Li Man are in a relationship."

"It's a long time ago." Chen Xing was too lazy to say, he felt that Liu Xiaoxia had already started messing around.

"Don't say anything, bring your parents this afternoon."

Chen Xing said coldly, "There are no parents."

"I haven't seen your parents come to so many parent-teacher meetings. What are the parents worrying about? Don't you still have an uncle? Let him come."

"I like to call you, it's none of my business." Chen Xing left without listening to Liu Xiaoxia scolding him, "I don't know what to do, I'm not responsible for myself."

Standing outside the door, Chen Xing just wanted to laugh when he heard this, he was in a daze, didn't he live like this all the time, no one taught him how to be responsible for himself.

As soon as Zhou Chen entered the office, the phone rang, but there was no caller ID.After connecting, Zhou Chen said "Hello?" A middle-aged woman's voice was over there: "Hello, hello, is this Chen Xing's uncle?"

Zhou Chen was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, he hesitated and said, "Yes."

The woman over there seemed to be relieved, and her speech speed also increased: "Your child has a puppy love, and the parents will come to school in the afternoon, and they cannot be contacted. When you asked Chen Xing for leave last time, I gave you your number." Save it, do you have time to come to school this afternoon?"

"Chen Xing asked you to find me?"

The woman sneered and said: "Chen Xing of your family is now very violent, and his temper is very violent. People say that there is no one in his family, so I can only find a way to find you."

Zhou Chen frowned slightly, and sighed softly: "Okay, I'll go in the afternoon."

When Wang Yu walked past Zhou Chen with a teacup, what he saw was Zhou Chen's expression of bitterness and hatred towards the blacked-out mobile phone screen. He freed one hand and patted Zhou Chen's shoulder boldly: "Your sister-in-law Let me invite you to my house for dinner this afternoon."

Zhou Chen smiled apologetically: "Brother Wang, I may not be able to go, I have something to do in the afternoon."

Wang Yu winked at Zhou Chen: "Actually, your sister-in-law wants to introduce her cousin to you. I don't think you have a girlfriend."

The girls who came to ask him last time were all listening to the movement here, Zhou Chen smiled: "I have a girlfriend."

"Ah, yes, I think her cousin is very good, she is beautiful, and she is also very clever. The little girl looks good with you, so I want to introduce you." Wang Yu felt a little regretful, thinking What I said was not right, and I hurriedly added: "It's good to have it, and it's good to have it."

Zhou Chen's mind was full of the matter of going to see the teacher in the afternoon, and his mind was in a mess. Just thinking about the scene of being pointed at his nose and criticized by the teacher made his scalp tingle.

Chen Xing stayed at Zhou Chen's house for two days on weekends. When he was standing at the door of the house at noon, he couldn't help reaching out to touch the door frame. When he heard the crisp sound of the metal colliding with the ground, he seemed to be convulsed from all the strength in his body. Cleaned up, uneasiness mixed with panic swept over him and quickly overwhelmed him.It seemed that a piece of the heart was missing, even if it was a piece that had rotted away a long time ago, when it suddenly peeled off, it hurt ten times and a hundred times more than expected.Those so-called don’t care are fake, they are used to comfort myself, tell myself that I don’t care, so let’s all go, it’s okay to go, I will still have a good life, but the sad thing is, I have been They all clearly know how important they are to themselves.

His mother left, and his father had a family outside. All the resentment and disdain in Chen Xing's heart turned into disappointment in the end, towards his parents, towards the family, and even towards love.

There is only an old sofa and a TV cabinet left in the living room, and the tea table was torn apart during the last war.Chen Xing pushed open the door of his parents' bedroom. It was empty, with a big bed, a wardrobe, and nothing else. Chen Xing leaned on the door frame and thought about it carefully. Pinghe Hanya's wedding photo, why is there nothing now?

During the break, Chen Xing was struggling with a physics problem. It seemed to be the most common model, but now he couldn't figure it out. ; There was a sudden noise at the door of the classroom, laughter, footsteps, and a lot of people gathered behind the classroom playing truth or dare, and all the noise entered Chen Xing's ears, disturbing his restless heart think.He dropped his pen with a thud, closed his eyes and rubbed his fingers at his temples, trying to calm himself down.

"Let's go, let's go." Xu Xin yelled loudly, and ran all the way from the front door, pushing away the crowds and running to Chen Xing, holding Chen Xing's table with his hands, opening his mouth and being unable to speak, he could only gulp panting.

"Hurry up to reincarnate?" Chen Xing teased.

"Zhou, Zhou Chen, come, come," Xu Xin was still panting heavily, unable to finish a sentence in a hurry.

Chen Xing suddenly had an ominous premonition. He stood up and ran out. The teacher's office was on another building. When he ran to the door of Liu Xiaoxia's office, he suddenly understood why Xu Xin was breathing so hard just now.

The door of the office was ajar. Chen Xing looked in through the crack of the door. A man was sitting with his back to the door. He was sitting on the stool he sat on this morning. He was wearing a gray sweater. Sitting there upright, like a poplar, very tall and straight.There are several small light spots on his back, bright and dazzling.The outline of the body was indeed in the shadows, it was already late autumn, with so little clothes on, wouldn't he be cold?

This man, when his parents came to see the teacher, sat respectfully in front of the teacher, listened to the teacher's complaints and nagging, occasionally nodded in agreement, and occasionally responded to express that he was listening. The voice from this room was extremely clear. It entered Chen Xing's ears, slightly hoarse and calm, how could it sound so nice?

Chen Xing guessed the expression on his face, serious and respectful, polite and alienated.This person seems to be like this all the time. He smiles at strangers, politely and with distance. What about him?Chen Xing thought about it carefully, Zhou Chen seemed to have smiled sincerely in front of him, and it was many times.He thought carefully, he should be different to Zhou Chen.

Chen Xing didn't go for the exercise between classes, he just stood outside the office, listening to the harsh words from the teacher, to himself, to Zhou Chen sitting in front of the teacher, and hearing Zhou Chen apologizing for him in a low voice, he Suddenly, I felt that I was such a jerk.

Chen Xing stood outside for half an hour before the door was opened. Chen Xing didn't look up. The people in front of him blocked the light, and he was instantly shrouded in shadow.

"Raise your head." Zhou Chen's voice sounded in his ears, gentle yet stern, like pebbles washed countless times by water waves, without edges and corners but thick as hell.

Zhou Chen stood with the backlight, Chen Xing couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, and had no way of knowing his mood at the moment, would he be angry, or would he not care?

"In a bad mood?" Zhou Chen raised his eyebrows, the corners of his mouth curled up and he immediately returned to seriousness.

Chen Xing replied sullenly: "Well, what are you doing here?"

"Look at my nephew causing me trouble at school, and the teacher discovering my puppy love, you have grown up." Zhou Chen's voice was smiling, and he was not angry. Chen Xing was overjoyed at this discovery, and said cheerfully Sentence: "It's not all your own curse."

Zhou Chen frowned and searched in memory, ah, he seemed to have said such a sentence: "Children can't fall in love early, be careful when the teacher calls you a parent."

Zhou Chen: "······" The work was very successful.

The two stood facing each other like this, the downstairs became lively for a while, Chen Xing glanced down, after running and practicing, there was a lot of people's voices, and the students were now moving from the playground to the teaching building in big waves.

The mobile phone in Zhou Chen's trouser pocket rang, "Go back to class, we'll talk about it in the evening." He connected the phone, turned around and went down the stairs. When he was downstairs, he looked up and saw that Chen Xing was really standing by the railing. move.He waved to Chen Xing angrily and with a smile, Chen Xing turned around and walked back.

The author has something to say: I don’t know why yesterday, but I haven’t passed the review all day in the manuscript box, and Jinjiang is still convulsed today...