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Chapter 5 The Past

Gather at 05:30, I agreed with Li Xiao to wait at the school gate at 15:07, and usually arrive at school at 30:07 at the latest, and I will get up at 30:3, take the bus from bottom to bottom at the door of my house, and then walk for [-] minutes to transfer The bus takes six stops to the school. Because the road conditions are good in the morning, I can usually arrive at the school at [-]:[-], buy breakfast in the cafeteria, and walk to the classroom at [-]:[-], so I calculated the time, and it was [-]:[-] If I get up at [-] o’clock, it’s enough to go out at [-]:[-], but I obviously haven’t learned what the peak is. This bus is probably a little faster than walking, and it almost didn’t kill me. Think about it later. After graduating and stepping into the society, I will also become one of them. I really can only wipe off my sweat and hope for luck. Finally, after [-]:[-] and more than [-] minutes, I finally arrived at the station and ran all the way. Li Xiao was already standing at the school gate , saw me waving at me: "You slow down, there is still time"

I was out of breath from running, and I almost died in the middle: "Oh mom, I'm sorry, I got up at seven o'clock, the road is too congested"

Fortunately, Li Xiao didn't care: "Let's go, have you had breakfast?" He asked.

"I ate it, I ate it on the way, but I have almost digested it after running this way, how about you?"

"I ate it, I thought you didn't have time to eat, so I brought you some"

I saw two scallion pancakes, and took them from him: "Thanks, hey, they taste good, better than those near our house."

He smiled and asked me: "Do you want to get up early in the morning?"

"Yes, I got up at seven o'clock today, the road is too congested, it seems that I have to go early tomorrow"

"If you are not happy to get up early, you can stay at my house"

"That's not bad, you can consider it" I continued to eat the cake, not paying attention to his casual remarks.

We walked and chatted, and he hadn't arrived when we arrived at Mr. Song's office. We waited at the door for a while, and Mr. Song arrived soon: "How long have you been waiting?" He asked us as he took out the key to open the door.

"We just arrived too," Li Xiao replied.

"En..." Teacher Song took a work permit from his office drawer and hung it around his neck, and took us to the place where the papers were corrected.

In fact, it is a teaching building, but the desks have been rearranged. Teacher Song took us into classroom 105. There was already a teacher there. When we entered, there were two students inside. It seemed that they were here to help. The teacher was there Unpack the test paper bag and stack the bound test papers into four.

Teacher Song took us in and greeted the teacher: "This is Teacher Li, you are here to help Teacher Li, I will call you at noon"

We nodded, he chatted with Mr. Li again, and left the classroom.

Teacher Li didn't waste time, and started to explain the process to us directly. After crackling, he pushed his glasses and started.

So we started to approve the papers. Before I came here, I was imagining whether I would get my own papers approved, but it turned out that I was thinking too much.

First of all, the people who approved the papers and the papers were completely messed up. They were divided into several groups, and all the papers were bound. According to my observation, the papers I got should not be our majors, and they don’t seem to be in our grade. However, This doesn't affect my enthusiasm today, and to be honest, I think it's quite interesting.

Although we only need to correct multiple-choice questions and true-false questions, two-person teams, first grade our own, then exchange and check, and finally fill in the grades of the graded part, ten papers for one person, and twenty papers for a day in a team of two, not counting Many, but it is related to other people's grades, Mr. Xu asked us to be serious.

We all nodded. Although this is not an exam related to other people's lives, it is also a serious matter. The few of us also started working seriously.

It was noon in a blink of an eye, and Teacher Song came to call us and took us to the cafeteria for dinner.

Several windows were opened in the cafeteria, and Mr. Song said: "Take what you want to eat, take what you like, and don't waste it."

This feels good, the free buffet, although it is not a seafood barbecue, but it has meat and vegetables, and the aroma is bursting, which makes people appetite.

In the cafeteria, there are three types of meat, three small types of meat, and five types of vegetarian. Actually, I wanted to order a little of each, but I was afraid it would be too ostentatious. I only took a piece of deep-fried pork chop, a little tomato scrambled eggs, a little stir-fried vegetables, and a little fried tofu with cabbage. , and took some fried pork, and when I finished drooling around, Li Xiao had already waited for me in front of me.

I walked over: "You just took two dishes." I looked at the fried octopus and a large pile of cabbage fried tofu in his bowl.

"Who is like you, I think you can't wait to come all over again."

I smirked and said he knew me better and better.

We were about to find a seat to sit down. Li Xiao looked through me and raised his eyebrows. I looked in his direction. Damn, three pieces of fried pork chops, three pieces of braised pork, a pile of rice, looked at the owner of this lunch box Go, it was as shocking as the lunch he brought.

I twitched the corners of my mouth.

Li Xiao said: "Don't look at it, the parents' body needs nutrition"

I have a black line on my face, or maybe it is.

During the meal, Mr. Song chatted with us for a while, and told us that we will be in the third grade at the beginning of school, and we have to get the certificate for the exam, and we have to start thinking about our future career plans, and we can go to the employer in the fourth year After the internship, Li Xiao and I listened quietly, and gradually felt a little pressure.

Teacher Song left after eating. Before leaving, he told us that the rest time was one o'clock. During the break, we could go to the reading room or the computer room.

Li Xiao asked me: "Are you going to play computer?"

I said no, just an hour, and I am not obsessed with computers, so I might as well find a place to rest.

Li Xiao nodded.

We found a shady place near the playground and sat down: "Ah, it's really comfortable. It's the most comfortable to bask in the sun after eating." I squinted my eyes and rubbed my stomach.

Li Xiao sat down next to me and didn't speak.

After a while he said, "Aren't you calling your mother?"

"Ah?" What are you calling my mother for?It took me a while to realize that maybe it was about asking me to live in his house.

Li Xiao looked at me without speaking, as if waiting for my answer.

"Is it convenient for me to go, you don't go with your family..."

He interrupted me lightly and said: "I live alone." He couldn't hear his heart, and he looked through me and looked into the distance and continued: "My parents have passed away."

I was speechless for a while, thinking of those rumors in the class at that time, I didn't forget that they said that Li Xiao had lost his mother, but I didn't know that his father was also gone. . .

Probably my expression was really ugly, Li Xiao said: "Don't worry, I've seen it for a long time, and I'm used to it, don't have that expression"

I was in a panic. To be honest, I was a little incapable of accepting the death of my parents. I didn’t have this kind of situation around me. I grew up so big. I only attended my grandma’s funeral when I was very young. I was really too young, so my memory is fuzzy, I only remember my mother crying sadly holding the coffin, and this kind of thing never happened again, so I don't know and never thought about what it would be like to lose a loved one, but I can imagine that pain and helplessness.

Although our family is not very rich, but I am the most precious son of my parents, and their life is centered on me. If I were Li Xiao and lost the two relatives who loved me the most, I am afraid that I would not know how to live.

I wanted to say something, but I couldn't find the right words, so I had to pick up the phone and dialed my mother's phone while my mind was still short-circuited, and I said, "Mom, I want to talk to my classmates. Stay at home for two days, convenient to go to school”

My mother didn't object, but just asked me: "Have you brought a change of clothes?"

I shook my head blankly: "No"

"Then you must come back today, otherwise what are you wearing?"

"Oh yes"

I hung up the phone and told Li Xiao: "My mother told me to go home today and pack some clothes. Can I go to your house tomorrow?"

"Okay, up to you" Then he said: "Don't worry about what happened just now"

I looked at him, my mind was still a mess, from just now to now, even I was confused by myself.

During dinner at night, my mother asked me: "Which classmate's house are you going to live in?"

"It's the math class representative"

"Oh, there's no mother, right?"

I nodded: "You still remember?"

"Remember, I lost my mother at such a young age, what a pity"

I pursed my lips: "I heard that his father is gone, and now he lives alone"

My mother opened her mouth and sighed regretfully: "This is really..."

"You used to be careful in what you said and what you did, don't act like you're at home, like an ancestor," my mother finally told me.

"I know"

After finishing the work the next day, Li Xiao drove me home on his bicycle.

His house is really close to the school, and it takes a quarter of an hour to ride there. He lives in an old-fashioned community with six households. I followed him up to the fifth floor, opened the door, and took in everything. The innermost part is the room, and the outermost It is the kitchen. The protruding part on the left side of the kitchen is the toilet. Because the area is too small to fit the bathtub, only an area has been designated for showering. Next to it is the toilet and a small washbasin. There is no extra space. Go into the bedroom , there is only a bed, a TV, a wardrobe, a square table, and an old-fashioned computer. It seems a bit monotonous, but everything is organized by Li Xiao very clean and organized.

I was suddenly very touched, and I was in a different place. If my parents were gone, would I be able to live a good life like him and continue to go to school, and always supervise my grades?

"Are you hungry?" Li Xiao opened the refrigerator and picked something inside.

"Oh, not yet, what's for dinner? Do you burn it?"

"Then you still burn it?"

I'm a little embarrassed: "I won't"

Li Xiao laughed, "I've seen it a long time ago." He took out the dishes from the refrigerator and said, "Go and wash your hands first, and help me clean up the dishes. I'll cook them tonight."

Li Xiao is very skillful in picking vegetables, obviously he does it often, I couldn't help but ask him: "You cook it every day?"

He looked at me strangely, "What do you eat if you don't burn it?"

I blushed for asking such an idiotic question "Oh, that's right, no wonder you started doing your homework in school, otherwise you wouldn't have enough time at night."

Li Xiao looked at me with raised eyebrows and said, "I'm more efficient."

I was amused by his serious self-praise, and I replied to him: "Do you have to be thicker, buddy?"

For dinner, Li Xiao made three dishes and one soup, which tasted very good. They chatted while eating, and all was cleaned up in a short while.

I rubbed my stomach and sighed: "You are really capable, you can go out of the hall and into the kitchen."

Li Xiao just smiled and ignored me, and started to put away the bowls and chopsticks.

I quickly stood up, "Hey, let me come, you cook the food"

"No, I only have a few bowls. If I break it, I can only serve it directly in the pot tomorrow."

I blushed: "Fuck you, if I can't even wash the dishes, then I can die too."

After washing the dishes, I came in and found that Li Xiao was writing something. I walked in and saw the summer homework, "Damn, you are too self-conscious. You have just started doing your homework since the summer vacation."

Li Xiao continued to work on the questions without looking up, and said, "Don't worry, I'll copy it for you when I'm done."

I laughed and sat down next to him: "You are so hardworking, you are preparing to take the university entrance examination."

Li Xiao looked up at me, and then continued to work on the questions: "I still have a lot of things to do, so I shouldn't take the exam. I will use them in the future. How can I just forget them after I finish studying for the exam?"

Well, sure enough, self-conscious top students have different ideas from ordinary people, and I can only admire them.

Li Xiao said, "Go take a shower first, you've sweated a lot."

"Okay." I took out a change of clothes from my bag and went into the bathroom.

When I came out, Li Xiao had already put away his homework, and there were two bowls of mung bean soup on the table. When I touched it, it was still cold.

"Drink it, I've already finished drinking, put the bowl away after drinking, I will wash it, you can watch TV for a while"

I sat at the front of the table and took a sip of the mung bean soup. It was very refreshing, and I couldn't help but praised: "Li Xiao, you are so awesome. If I have a younger sister, I will definitely not be able to take advantage of others."

Li Xiao's voice came from behind me casually: "It's useless if you have a younger sister."

I looked back at him, only to see that the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, and he looked at me and said with deep meaning: "I'm not interested in women."

Then under my innocent eyes, he continued: "I like men"

I shook my hand, and all the mung bean soup on the table fell on me.

"Ouch!" I jumped up from my chair.

Li Xiao sighed and walked over: "Go wash it again, I'll clean up here"

"sorry"

"It's okay, you go wash up"

I was covered in mung bean soup, so I had to wash it off to the toilet.

After I changed my clothes and came out of the toilet, Li Xiao took the clothes and went in to take a shower.

He didn't say a word about everything just now.

"Watch TV for a while," he said.

"Oh, good" I actually wanted to apologize to him, even if he is different from ordinary people, I shouldn't react so much.

When he came out of the shower, I was staring at the TV in a daze.

He rubbed his hair and asked me: "Is it hot?"

I said, "It's okay, are you hot?"

He shook his head: "My house doesn't have air conditioner, I'm afraid you'll be hot"

"When it's not hot yet, just have a fan"

He nodded, and naturally sat down beside the bed: "You like watching these?"

"Which ones?" In response, he was asking me about the content of the TV programs, and I said, "No, I'll just watch them casually."

"Li Xiao...I"

"Then what do you usually watch at home?"

I don't know if he wanted to change the subject on purpose, so I had to answer first "It's just anime or something, I don't actually watch TV a lot"

We chatted without saying a word, neither of them mentioned the little episode just now, I don't know if I should mention it again, maybe, he wanted me to act as if nothing had happened, but I always felt that Li Xiao didn't care at all, I was a little at a loss, and always felt weird.

But the topic is really over, forget it, I thought, let's see.

I only found out when I went to sleep at night, I thought it was easy, because Li Xiao said: "You can sleep on the bed, I will just sleep on the floor"

I looked at him and blurted out, "Why are you sleeping on the floor?"

Li Xiao looked at me with complicated eyes, but he didn't say anything.

I reacted immediately, and felt guilty when I saw his complicated expression. He has no parents, and his sexual orientation is different from most people. This is probably the reason why his personality is different. He could have said nothing. Yes, but he took a risk and told me, and I behaved that way.

I looked at him and tried to show that I didn't care: "Why are you sleeping on the floor? It's because you like men. Don't be funny. It doesn't matter. We are friends, no matter what happens."

I felt that he was observing me. We stood face to face, Li Xiaowei raised his eyebrows and did not speak.

He saw that I lacked confidence, so I scratched my head and continued: "I'm sorry, I reacted so badly just now, because I don't have such a person around me. I was a little surprised when I heard you say that, but I guarantee with my personality that I don't look down on you in any way. You may dislike your meaning, really"

Li Xiao sighed and sat down beside the bed. He still looked at me seriously, with unpredictable emotions in his eyes.

Casually he smiled calmly and said, "I'm not afraid that you will look down on me, I'm just afraid that you will feel uncomfortable"

"What's so uncomfortable, come on, come up to sleep"

Li Xiao didn't say anything more, and lay on the bed beside me.

The night was extremely quiet, surrounded by the sound of Li Xiao's even breathing, I closed my eyes and prepared to sleep.

"Have you thought about which direction to develop after graduation?" Li Xiao asked.

I opened my eyes and replied: "No, my mother will figure it out. As long as I get my diploma, she should help me get a job."

"Is there anything in particular you want to do?"

I thought about it, and then said, "No, the job is the same anyway. I really want to be a teacher. I have winter and summer vacations every year. It's so cool, but I also know that being a teacher like this is really misleading people. Well, let’s leave it to my mother to decide about work, anyway, their decision is always for my own good.”

Li Xiao smiled lightly: "You are such a good baby that you will never meet in a thousand years."

I also laughed: "Put it down, don't you just want to say that I have no ambitions, don't be embarrassed, what about you, what do you want to do after graduation?" I remembered that he said that he still has a lot of things to do.

Li Xiao was silent. I thought he didn't want to say anything, and was about to say something else when his voice came slowly: "I have one thing that must be done. Since the accident at my house, this thing has become my only thing." life goals”

I had already closed my eyes, but when I heard this, I couldn't help but opened my eyes and turned to look at him. Li Xiao was lying beside me, with his eyes looking at the ceiling, and he calmly talked about his past.

From how his mother was tricked out by a fellow countryman to be his father's surrogate, to being forced to stay with that man and live a life of being taken care of, from his strangeness to his father when he was a child and his desire for father's love, to later because of his father's The inheritance turmoil caused by the sudden death, from his mother's death in Huangquan to protect him to his aunt's painstaking effort to change his household registration, forged a paternity test and took him out of that city.

My heart kept beating violently because of Li Xiao's past and what happened to him.

Li Xiao said: "The only goal in my life is to make those people pay the price."

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