Tentative

Li Tuzhi is sitting in the office writing lesson plans.The two idle female teachers next to each other were holding a thermos cup, drinking tea while chatting about school affairs.Teachers deal with students the most every day, of course, so most of their topics revolve around students.

"That problematic student in our class... Hey, I get angry when I mention him."

"The one who skipped class?"

"Yeah, I started skipping classes in the first year of high school, so I might as well not read it."

Hearing their conversation, Li Tuzhi stopped writing, and said gently: "That can't be said, they are all good in nature, as long as they are well guided..." "Mr. Li, you are young and don't know yet. Some students are just hopeless.”

"That's right, look at Shen Yizhuo in your class, and then look at that Jiang Yuzhao," this teacher is not only the head teacher of another class, but also the physics teacher in their class, "Man, it really depends on talent."

Li Tuzhi just smiled and didn't answer any more.

"Is Jiang Yuzhao the one from the bottom of the total grade?"

"That's right, he handed in blank papers in physics!"

"Tsk tsk, this kind of student..." The female teacher took a sip of water from the teacup and continued, "Wasting time at school with parents' money."

"Dong dong."

There was a sudden knock on the door, and the physics teacher pretended to clear his throat and said, "Come in."

"Is Teacher Li there?" The physical education teacher strode in, went straight to Li Tuzhi's seat and said, "Students in your class had some conflicts in physical education, and someone brought them here for you."

After he finished speaking, he glanced behind him. Zhang Nana, Qu Zhe, and the leading boy walked into the office slowly.Li Tuzhi put down his pen, puzzled: "What's going on?"

"I don't know the details, I'll leave it to you." The physical education teacher said hastily, "I still have class in the next semester, so I'm leaving first." "Okay, you go first..." Li Tuzhi glanced at Zhang Nana, The girl's eyes were red and swollen, obviously she had just cried; then she looked at the boy next to her, one with her head down, and the other with an irritable face, "Come here and say."

The cause and effect of the matter were quickly clarified, and the two female teachers sat at their respective desks as if they were watching a play, not talking to each other, and wanted to see how Li Tuzhi would solve it.It's nothing more than adolescent boys and girls who have a wrong understanding of "like", coupled with others fanning the flames, girls are thin-skinned, so they cry.It was a small matter, but Zhang Nana's attitude made it difficult for Li Tuzhi to end.

"It's...it's them..." Before she could say a few words, tears began to flow out again.

"Teacher, can you ask them to apologize to you?" Li Tuzhi coaxed softly, looked at the two boys, and signaled them to apologize quickly.

"sorry."

"Yes, sorry..."

Qu Zhe heard the unapologetic sound of apology from the boy next to him, and apologized without looking up.In contrast, the boy next to him looked ugly, and seemed to be disgusted by Zhang Nana's attitude.

What's the big deal? !Crying and crying all the time, making yourself look like a victim to whom?Thinking of this, the boy turned his eyes away and looked out of the window impatiently.

Zhang Nana apologized as if she didn't hear her, and was still crying, and Li Tuzhi was helpless against her.Hearing the teacher's repeated persuasion to Zhang Nana to no avail, the boy finally couldn't help it, and suddenly raised an issue: "Is it annoying to cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry, cry? I apologize, it's just a joke! It's not that you like Shen Yizhuo to catch up on your own." Come here, how can there be anything behind?"

"You! You!" Zhang Nana cried even harder when her thoughts were exposed without warning. Li Tuzhi couldn't cope with the chaos in the office.Only Qu Zhe still stood with his head bowed, as if nothing outside could affect him.He just stood there, his thoughts drifting to nowhere.

After all, it was not a big deal. In the end, Zhang Nana asked for leave and returned home because of her bad mood. Qu Zhe and the boys were put back in the classroom to continue class.

The boy who was caught embarrassing in the office because of such a trivial matter was very annoyed. As soon as he entered the classroom, he began to tell his friends how hypocritical Zhang Nana was, how she was acting.Others also listened with great interest, and occasionally asked a few words: "Qu Zhe really likes Zhang Nana?"

"What's wrong with liking Zhang Nana?" The boy laughed jokingly, "I don't know how many people like Zhang Nana, she has such big breasts and is so coquettish."

The students with these problems were all sitting in the back row of the classroom, and their voices were slightly suppressed, but it did not affect the hearing of the surrounding students who were watching.

"Hey, Qu Zhe likes Zhang Nana, it's funny no matter how you think about it," someone continued, "It's so funny."

"Don't Zhang Nana like Shen Yizhuo?"

"Then what's the matter? Is Qu Zhe having a crush on someone?"

"It's not secret love now, it's open love...haha..."

Although Qu Zhe couldn't hear what they were talking about, judging from the strange smiles on their faces and the movements of looking at him from time to time, it was probably talking about him and Zhang Nana.

He doesn't like Zhang Nana at all, or he hasn't looked at Zhang Nana's appearance since the beginning of school.

After Shen Yizhuo comforted Zhang Nana at first, he ignored the matter again.Qu Zhe's peripheral vision lingered uncontrollably on his back, and he could see him staring at the scenery outside the window in a daze with his hair propped up.

There are gray and black geese circling in the air in a line, and then fly away.

It would be nice if he could fly away anytime.

Sunday morning.

"Qu Zhe, go buy something for me!" Lin Xiuyan was wearing plastic gloves to brush shoes in the toilet, when the handle of the plastic brush she had been using for a long time broke suddenly, causing her to stop.Qu Xiaoyu sat on the sofa with his legs crossed and watched TV, when he heard the shout, he yelled, "Mom told you to go shopping!"

Qu Zhe came out of the room in a daze, and asked softly, "What to buy?"

"I don't know, you can ask Mom." Qu Xiaoyu said, staring at the TV behind him, and complained impatiently, "Don't stand there, you're blocking me."

Qu Zhe had no choice but to walk to the door of the toilet, looked at Lin Xiuyan who was squatting on the ground and asked, "What to buy?"

"Buy another brush and come back," Lin Xiuyan put the unfinished shoes in the basin, took off the plastic gloves and stood up, washing her hands while saying, "Just buy five yuan, and bring a bottle of soy sauce back, I want light soy sauce .”

"okay."

Hearing what the two said, Qu Xiaoyu suddenly remembered that he also had something to buy, and raised his voice, "By the way, help me buy some hand cream!"

Lin Xiuyan wiped her hands, took out ten yuan from her pocket, handed it to Qu Zhe and said to Qu Xiaoyu, "You don't know how to buy it yourself?"

"Then he just wants to go out?"

Qu Zhe took the money, so he had to ask in detail: "What kind of hand cream?"

"I want the BNG ones, the ones with lemon fragrance." Qu Xiaoyu said, "You can give me the money, and I'll give it to you when I get back."

He doesn't care about the money, but he doesn't know what brand the so-called BNG is and what the logo looks like.He asked in embarrassment, "Where can I buy it?"

"On the first floor of Wanshi Department Store, there is a special counter, 50 yuan."

"Why do you want to buy such good hand cream, prodigal son!" Lin Xiuyan cursed dissatisfiedly, "If you want to buy it, you can buy it yourself, I won't give you money!"

"Wanshi Department Store is too far away, I just shop downstairs..." Qu Zhe said.

Just when the TV cut into the advertisement, Qu Xiaoyu smacked his lips impatiently, and stood up abruptly from the sofa: "If you buy it yourself, you can buy it yourself, just wait for me, I will go out with you."

"Oh." While Qu Xiaoyu went back to the room to change clothes, Qu Zhe looked in the toilet again, "Is the shampoo and shower gel almost used up..."

Lin Xiuyan took the laundry basket and walked towards the washing machine: "It seems to be!"

"Then I'll buy it by the way."

"Okay." She threw the dirty clothes into the washing machine, quickly poured the washing powder, pressed the switch, went out and pulled another [-] sheet and handed it to Qu Zhe.

Qu Xiaoyu changed into beautiful clothes and went to the street. Qu Zhe didn't care about wearing pajamas and only put a down jacket on his body.The two brothers and sisters seemed extremely incompatible, and Qu Xiaoyu was unwilling to talk to him, so he walked in front silently.Since we are going out together, we must accompany my sister to Wanshi Department Store, which is a little farther away. There is a large supermarket on it, and I can just buy these random daily necessities.

"You wait for me at the door, and I'll go shopping with you later." Qu Xiaoyu said.When she said this, she involuntarily looked at Qu Zhe from the beginning to the end in front of her—her brother, curled up as if he could never stand up straight; his eyes dodged when he spoke, like a pickpocket.

In fact, Qu Zhe was not like this before. In Qu Xiaoyu's memory, Qu Zhe would send her to school when she was in elementary school. At that time, many classmates envied her for having an older brother.But it's different now. The older Qu Zhe grows up, the worse his temperament, and his height can't keep up with his peers. No matter how you look at it, it's disgusting.

Especially his resignation appearance, always made Qu Xiaoyu inexplicably annoyed, and even felt that having such an older brother... was a very shameful thing.

"Okay." Qu Zhe nodded, and really stood there waiting.

Not long after, Qu Xiaoyu came out with a delicate bag, and the two went to the supermarket together.During this process, they were silent, and the atmosphere was as indifferent as two strangers.In the daily necessities section of the supermarket, there are a wide variety of toiletries. Qu Xiaoyu picked up the cheap brand that he used to at home and was about to throw it into the shopping cart. Qu Zhe suddenly said, "Wait, don't buy this."

"Then what to buy?"

He didn't reply, just stood between the two rows of shelves, watching as he walked.

The heating in the supermarket was fully turned on, and Qu Xiaoyu took off the scarf after walking for a while, and handed it to Qu Zhe, "Help me hold it, it's so hot."

Qu Zhe took the towel according to his words, and suddenly caught a glimpse of a red mark on her neck: "What is this?" As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to touch it. Clothes, covering that area: "What are you doing?!"

"What's that on your neck?"

"It's up to you, do you want to buy something or not!" Qu Xiaoyu's cheeks were flushed, and after a few harsh words at him uncomfortably, he walked straight forward, leaving only his back.

With such a mark, at that position, Qu Zhe could easily imagine what it was - on her sister's neck, there was clearly a hickey mark.Maybe it's more than that, maybe other traces are hidden in the clothes. 15-year-old Qu Xiaoyu was studying in a girls' school. Qu Zhe couldn't figure out why there were such marks on her neck.

But my sister is no longer the little girl who pestered me to go out to play when I was a child. Even if he asked questions, he would not get an answer.

His attention returned to the shelf, and he quickly found his target.He reached out and took the thing into his hand, carefully looked at the brand and description on it, and after confirming that it was consistent with the content in his memory, he leaned over to the bottle cap and smelled it.

It was the brand used by Shen Yizhuo, and a faint scent could be smelled through the bottle cap.

If you close your eyes and feel it, when you smell this smell, it seems that Shen Yizhuo is right in front of you.

Counting last weekend, he hadn't spoken to Shen Yizhuo for several days.The closest distance is just sitting behind him, there is no chance to smell him at all.

"This is very expensive, why are you buying this!" Qu Xiaoyu's voice interrupted his thoughts, "How much money does Mom give you, why do you buy this?"

"I think it smells good, do you like it?"

"good."

Qu Zhe put it in the shopping cart.

A small bottle of shower gel costs 100 yuan, plus shampoo, more than [-] yuan.Qu Zhe still chose the smallest bottle. If he bottled it according to the big bottle used at home, even if he added all the living expenses into it, it might not be enough.

Most of the meal money for the next week will go in, but Qu Zhe doesn't care at all.As long as he looked at the outer packaging of the bottles in the plastic bag, he felt that his restless heart was gently comforted.

"What are you buying here, huh?" Back home, Lin Xiuyan looked at the receipt and scolded, "Is your skin made of gold for such an expensive thing? Do you think your father is printing money or something?" ..."

Qu Zhe didn't speak, just took the clean clothes and went to the toilet to take a shower.

"I took a shower last night, and I took a shower again. The water doesn't cost money?" Lin Xiuyan scolded while doing housework.

"Mom—keep your voice down, I can't even hear the TV."

"None of the two brothers and sisters is worry-free. They can't make money when they earn money. One spends more money than the other..."