I still don't want to go to school today

The touch of the waist made Fu Luojia curl up violently from the tailbone to the nerve endings of the Tianling Gai.

For a moment, he felt that his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose were covered by a wet and smelly black garbage bag, unable to speak or see.

He forcibly broke free from the suffocation under the head cage, threw off the man's arm, and pushed hard on the man's shoulder.Under the counterforce of this push, he almost fell back to the floor again. The man staggered back a few steps and bumped into the mother who was holding a child in a family of six.

The mother raised her arms across the child's head and screamed, "Crazy!! Are you responsible for hitting the child?!"

Everyone in half the hall looked over, and the end of their eyes was Fu Luojia.

The man took a few steps back with his hands behind his back, skillfully blended into the crowd of onlookers, stood not far or close, and looked at Fu Luojia with a strange expression.

Fu Luojia faced his direction, and when he spoke, he found that his voice had changed, and it sounded extremely stern: "Get out!"

The crowd was in an uproar.

The hospital security guard who ran out from nowhere asked him what was wrong, and his tone was "don't make trouble".

Someone pointed at him and said something to the effect that he skipped school and beat his parents.The man spat at the side, turned and walked out.

"What are you doing? Are you looking for a doctor or someone? I've seen you hanging around here for a long time!" The security guard grabbed his arm, "Is it No. [-] Middle School? It's class time now?! I know you teach Director, be careful I call him!"

"...I," Fu Luojia turned his head until he could no longer see his back, took a deep breath, and his heartbeat was still ringing in his ears, "I came to see the doctor after asking for leave from the teacher.... Please ask Wait, where is the pharmacy?"

Fu Luojia's eyes turned black, and he almost touched the pharmacy all the way.

When he arrived, Xu Zhijian had just lined up at the window.The queue for getting the medicine was very long, and an old man at the end stopped him holding the prescription slip: "Yaoer, help me to see, what is written in the third row on it?"

Fu Luojia took it and looked at it for a long time—most of the time was spent focusing on scattered eyes—finally, he barely recognized the first two words "Mei Tuo", and guessed based on a little memory of the antihypertensive medicine his grandmother took: "It seems Is it metoprolol?"

"Oh, thank you."

When the old man turned around, there were a few more people in the front line at some point. "It's still a long time to wait." She muttered.

After Xu Zhijian took the medicine, he turned around and looked at him accurately. "How did you come here?"

"...It's okay, come and take a look after waiting for a long time." Fu Luojia pursed his lips, "Let's go."

"Can you still persist? Take some medicine before leaving."

In fact, Fu Luojia just wanted to leave the hospital quickly, but under Xu Zhijian's insistence, he went to get a paper cup and got water from the water dispenser next to the pharmacy.Xu Zhibian helped him unpack the medicine box, cut out different numbers of different pills out of the plastic-aluminum plate according to the instructions, and finally put them together in the palm of his hand and handed them to Fu Luojia.Fu Luojia took it, and swallowed it all at once with a small sip of water, Xu Zhijian looked at him from the side.

"Your complexion is getting worse and worse—do you want to find a doctor again and hang up a bottle of water in the hospital before leaving?"

"No need, just go home." Fu Luojia took the bag in his hand.

Xu Zhibian's car was parked under a recently dead banyan tree outside the hospital, and next to it was a bench with a few old aunts sitting on it to enjoy the shade.The old aunts wore uniform fluorescent uniforms, and the words on them were physiotherapy centers.

The car drove out from the shade of the tree, followed by a small pink battery.The old aunt in the fluorescent clothes set up an arbor with her hands, and greeted the people on the battery car with a smile: "You left early today?"

The person on the battery car replied: "Yes, this morning."

The battery car was too close, and the voice of the voice seemed to be close to the ear.

Fu Luojia shook his hand, and the medicine box in the bag made a sound.

He glanced back quickly.

He couldn’t remember his face, but he wasn’t too sure just by his clothes—middle-aged men in the county were dressed almost the same way. In summer, they almost always wore T-shirts, black beach pants, and open-toed sandals, not to mention that he didn’t pay attention at all. See what the guy in the hall is wearing.

The bicycle passed the flower bed in front of the hospital steadily, and sped along the sidewalk, and the battery car was slightly pulled away.He supported Xu Zhijian's back and turned his head frequently.

This person seems to be a little bald too?

He also seemed to have a strange smile on his face.

Is he looking this way?

But someone greeted him.

That battery looks like a little girl in kindergarten coquettishly asked her father to choose.

What if he was just an off-duty doctor?

Fu Luojia's mind was dizzy, and countless thoughts and emotions were mixed together, completely unable to distinguish the original appearance.But one of them was what he knew well - fear.

Not from the physical deterrence of an adult male, but from himself, unspeakable, unspeakable, and inexplicable, so that the grass and trees are like soldiers.

"What's the matter?" At the entrance of the vegetable market, the vegetable sellers' burdens of selling vegetables filled the whole street.The bicycle shuttled between the weights and the vegetable leaves, Xu Zhijian had to slow down and drive carefully, and at the same time, he also noticed Fu Luojia's nervousness.

The man is still behind them now.At this point he would have been much more relaxed if he had stopped to buy some groceries--at least he could have convinced himself that the man had just happened to be on the way--but he just kept going as if he was really following them.

Is this normal?How long has it been?

"...It's nothing." Fu Luojia looked down at the front wheel of the bicycle rolling over the broken egg shells on the ground.

"Your mother isn't home these days?"

"……how do you know?"

"I guess, you didn't remind me of the time. How are you feeling, do you want to eat now?"

I don't know whether Fu Luojia's nervousness diverted his attention or the medicine he took had an effect. The nausea caused by the cold seemed to have really subsided. "good."

"Then what do you want to eat? Let's eat here before we go."

"... My mother actually prepared it, I just heat it up."

"Then do you want to eat that?"

Fu Luojia's attention was finally on Xu Zhibian's side, and he answered quickly and firmly: "I don't want to. It's terrible."

"There is a Japanese grocery store in front, let's try it?"

After leaving the vegetable market, Xu Zhijian took a small path on the side.

Fu Luojia turned his head and stared at the intersection, but the battery car did not follow.

There are many sushi restaurants that also sell milk tea in the county town, but there are very few serious Japanese food restaurants——Xu Zhijian only knew of such a restaurant after he told him.

This Japanese grocery store is more like that than he imagined.Xu Zhibian stopped the car under a white paper lamp, just as Fu Luojia recovered his breathing, when he raised his head, he was shocked by the store's decoration again.

Like a serious izakaya, there is a beige noren curtain hanging down at the entrance, and there is a circled Chinese character "柳" in the middle of the noren curtain.The whole store faces the street with a glass wall, but the log columns erected under the eaves dilute the modernity of the glass.

Lifting the curtain to go in, the stereo in the store plays Japanese style retro vapor wave, and the wallpaper is made up of countless pictures of ladies imitating Tang Dynasty.The light was adjusted to a dim yellow, and it hit a long row of tall and narrow wooden tables in front of the bar.

At the counter stood a man in a kimono apron and several young girls in similar kimonos—probably store employees.Fu Luojia looked around and felt that the biggest failure of the whole store might be the staff uniforms with obvious studio style and shiny fabrics.

But even if they were wearing casual clothes, the store was still out of place in the county.

This may be one of the reasons why there are not many customers here.

The man in kimono greeted Xu Zhijian: "Why did you come so far to eat, little boss?"

"Friends are going to the hospital, and they will drop by when they come back." Xu Zhijian nodded at them, "Should you be on duty today?"

"The boss's talks with the newly recruited people have collapsed, and now no one is changing shifts with us." The man shrugged.

"Sister-in-law still disagree?"

"Yes, they think that just buying goods from other places will drag down the business just because of the freight. They don't believe it when they say they will pay."

Xu Zhijian didn't answer, but turned to Fu Luojia: "Is it okay here, then here?"

"It will be all right."

Xu Zhijian took a menu from the bar. "There is still room inside, let's go there."

He led Fu Luojia into a small private room separated by bamboo curtains, and turned on the spotlight on the table familiarly. "Sister-in-law, she's here—"

"—there are shares." Fu Luojia continued.

"To be precise, it's the boss." Xu Zhibian waved his hand, "No one wants to do this joint venture with her."

Fu Luojia slumped on the bamboo chair and let out a slight sigh of relief.

"Does the hospital environment make you feel uncomfortable?"

Fu Luojia propped his temples with his hands. "A little bit."

"Feel better now?"

"……Um."

"Because of what?" Xu Zhibian laughed. "Want to eat with me?"

"You today..."

"I didn't drink."

"...Oh." Fu Luojia slightly raised the corner of his mouth, "Because of eating."

The unagi rice Fu Luoka ordered was not finished in the end.It wasn't that there was any problem with his appetite, but that he could make the fish meat so sweet that he didn't expect it, and he couldn't accept it for a while.Fu Luojia ordered an extra plate of tuna nigiri sushi, but he ate a lot.

At the end of every meal, Xu Zhijian put the chopsticks and waited for him. "You eat very fast."

"Fortunately, the main thing is that no matter what you eat, you are very serious."

"..." Fu Luojia hadn't discovered this yet.

"It's still the same, let's take you home first." Xu Zhijian leaned on the handlebar and stared at the pedals, "Have you been eating the food your mother left at home for the past two days?"

"Tomorrow my grandma will come over to cook twice."

"Ah, then shall I come over to deliver your meal in the afternoon?"

Fu Luojia shook his head without hesitation, "It's so far away, you take your own class."

"Our class basically doesn't have much class these days."

"You don't study?"

Xu Zhijian raised his eyebrows, "Could it be that you know how to review at home?"

"..." Fu Luojia was silent.

"It's not very far away, and it takes more than an hour for dinner."

"Let's talk about it then."

It was only 12:30 when we arrived at his community, and there were students from No. [-] Middle School who came back late on the road.

"Don't run into Meng Yue." Xu Zhibian looked around, "She usually goes home at this time."

Fu Luojia also glanced around, his eyes suddenly fixed on a certain position.

"... Hurry up," his breathing became disordered in an instant, "Don't look back, go to the neighborhood—"

"No way, am I right?" Xu Zhibian asked while speeding up.

"...No." Fu Luojia bit his lower lip numbly.

Not far away, a bald man stood in front of the small pink battery, leaning on the flower bed in front of the green belt and looking around.