Floating in September

"Minister, you haven't come to the club for several days, we are all worried about you! I heard you are sick?"

At five o'clock, Bai Chuan knocked on the door of the club activity room punctually with doubts. He didn't expect that everyone in the club hadn't gone back yet. It's no wonder that next Monday is the day when various clubs recruit new recruits. As a minister, he won't come How about working hard with everyone?Besides - she wanted to learn something from Ge Yi's mouth.

In the deepest part of the room, two desks were pushed together, and Bai Chuan saw at a glance that Ge Yi was drawing a blackboard newspaper for recruitment and stuffing snacks into his mouth.Others seem to be in a panic at first glance, but in fact they have a clear division of labor - some are sorting out gifts, some are making a list, and some are decorating the activity room... In short, everyone is working hard for the future. Get ready for Monday.

"Here we come! I'm busy with my hands, so I won't welcome you back! After I finish my work..."

"Hey! Deputy Minister! You are too long-winded!" Someone interrupted.

"Ah! No... let's continue..." Ge Yi, who is in the same class as Bai Chuan, is also a member of the Literature Department and holds the position of deputy head. In terms of relationship, Ge Yi and Bai Chuan have known each other since junior high school. There are not many, but the relationship is not bad.

Ge Yi was pushed and shoved by the staff around him, and immediately grabbed a handful of biscuits and threw them into his mouth to chew.

For some reason, Bai Chuan felt a strong warm current in his heart.

"Ge Yi?" No matter what, she couldn't suppress her inner doubts, "Did anything happen in school recently?"

"It happened! Do you know that unattractive girl in the next class? She confessed to the boy from the sports club in the third year of high school!" Ge Yi was very interested when he talked about this, and his eyebrows brightened, "The thing is like this, that day..."

"No, I'm talking about that!" Bai Chuan reluctantly picked up two biscuits and stuffed them into Ge Yi's mouth.

"Why are you so mysterious? If you have anything to say, just talk about it. How old are you and you still bite your ears?" While talking, he didn't forget to chew, the dregs at the corners of his mouth trembled in the air, and finally scattered on the board painting .

"The math teacher was killed..."

The moment Bai Chuan blurted out these words, she immediately regretted it, but what she never expected was that Ge Yi was completely calm, and Bai Chuan was taken aback.

Ge Yi shrugged and picked up the paint, finally opened the lid, paused for about three or four seconds, "Haha! Is this a new joke? I'm so cold! Okay! If you don't feel well Just go back and rest! What are you afraid of when I'm here!"

"No... not... Jiang Sen... he..."

"It's nothing! Just tell me if you're not feeling well! Why are you working so hard! You're stupid!"

"No!" Bai Chuan became very excited. She didn't believe it. Even the people in her class didn't know about such an earth-shattering event!After all, it is a human life!How could it be so hasty!She grabbed Ge Yi's hand and asked solemnly: "Then do you still remember that I was called up by the teacher for reading extra-curricular novels in math class last week?"

"What's wrong with you? Don't you! Did you forget? I was the one who was called up! Didn't I get called up because I was discussing the red dress of that beautiful woman with you? Really! It turned out that only I was fined to write a self-criticism." After speaking, Ge Yi dejectedly continued to paint.

Ge Yi's tone didn't seem like he was deliberately hiding something, nor did he seem to be lying. Bai Chuan fell silent. If Ge Yi really didn't lie, it means that the woman was always giving lectures..."Maybe Ge Yi You're right, I should go talk to this current math teacher..."

Taking advantage of the few minutes that Bai Chuan was distracted, Ge Yi had already stuffed Bai Chuan's schoolbag into her arms, still in a simple and rude manner, and pushed her from behind the table to behind the door in two or three strokes, and the others followed suit. He booed, "Just talk about it if you feel uncomfortable, don't be embarrassed, we are still here!" Everyone's words and eyes were sincere and firm, and Bai Chuan thought that it would be too unreasonable to push away other people's kindness Instead, they were rejected.

"Come on everyone! Treat everyone to ice cream tomorrow!" Bai Chuan giggled as if he was fine.

After perfunctory farewell, she walked alone in the long and narrow corridor, her shadow was stretched slender by the setting sun, if a gust of wind blows, this fragile shadow will be broken in the middle.

"Did beep, beep..."

The sound of beep beep was made by the sole of the shoe hitting the marble floor tiles. Bai Chuan thought of Gao Zequan again. If that guy was there, would he have the same question as himself?

Before she knew it, she had walked to the tree-lined path outside the school in a daze. The red sunlight shone through the leaves, and the asphalt road was covered with a veil of mottled tree shadows.

"Hey! Let's go together?"

A familiar and distant voice came from behind Bai Chuan, accompanied by the unique crisp bell of a bicycle.

"Oh! It's you! Why did you just go home?"

"I read the book for a while, and didn't care about the time. After I finished reading the book, I realized that it was already this time." Gao Zequan rode the car to Bai Chuan's side, originally thinking that he could give her a ride, but was politely refused He simply put his schoolbag on the seat and walked together with Bai Chuan.

Knowing that it was pasted on the tree trunk, maybe it wanted to confide some unknown whispers to these two people, one on the left and one on the right.

"Where have we met before?"

It was Bai Chuan who spoke first. If neither of them spoke, the atmosphere would be too awkward, "Why do you treat me so well?"

"Is there a rule in the book that if I haven't seen you before, I can't treat you well now?"

"No..." Bai Chuan realized that his words were so pale.

"If it weren't for those things before... sympathy, probably, it would be nice to have someone to talk to me once in a while."

"But aren't you very popular?" God knows where Bai Chuan asked so many questions, "A few girls seem to have a good impression of you, right?" Then he remembered the thing about playing tennis together that day.

Gao Zequan did not speak, his eyes were fixed on the corner of the street ahead, which was the direction of Bai Chuan’s home, and there was a small playground on the right, where several children were squatting in a huge sandpit and piled up castles, most of them were elderly Gathered on the stone chairs and played chess.

"Take a break!" Bai Chuan suggested.

Gao Zequan nodded, and she parked her bicycle in an open space not far from them, while Bai Chuan walked straight towards the swing.

"Here you are! Thank you for your hard work these past few days!" Bai Chuan remembered the strawberry-flavored milk in his schoolbag. When Gao Zequan took the milk, he hesitated for a moment, revealing an embarrassed expression.

"tasty!"

"Yes! I like it very much!"

"That... I'm sorry I accidentally saw Mori Hiroshi's book in your schoolbag just now. Do you like his works very much?"

"That's not true. There is only one edition of this series of books, so it's considered out of print now... Actually, I haven't bought it for long." Said, Bai Chuan took out the "Poetic Killing Intent" from his schoolbag. "Handed it to Gao Zequan's face, "Have you read this book too?"

"The ending is amazing!" Gao Zequan squinted her eyes and smiled. She opened the book, put her nose close to smell the unique ink in the book, and her chiseled cheeks shone with a unique charm.

Soon, the sun was covered by clouds, Gao Zequan's short bangs were blown by the wind at dusk, the playground was chilly, and only the children were left playing hide-and-seek in twos and threes.

After a while, there was only a ruined sand castle left in the playground, and almost the entire face of the sun was hidden by the clouds.

Just like this, you talked to me, and the two of them held a carton of milk in their hands and began to trace back what happened that day.

"It's the same for you, right? No one ever mentioned the matter of the teacher being killed..."

Gao Zequan didn't say anything about it, drinking milk quietly.

"What are people trying to hide? I can't understand that kind of thinking at all!" Bai Chuan became emotional again.

"Your lips are so dry."

"what?"

The sudden turning point made Bai Chuan completely confused, and his vision began to alternate between far and near—at some point Gao Zequan was already standing behind him, pushing himself gently with both hands, like Maxwell mentioned in the book. She also does regular exercise, which calms her down a lot.

"Are you home alone?" Gao Zequan's voice was soft.

"Um……"

"Ah! Sorry! I didn't mean to ask this! I can feel the loneliness in your heart just by looking into your eyes. You are obviously lonely and fragile, but you still pretend to be happy and strong. That feeling is really hard... I'm actually the only one in my family... That's why I..."

Even if he is embarrassed to say the second half of the sentence, Bai Chuan can roughly guess why Gao Zequan treats him so well, because they are the same people, and everyone understands such a simple problem as that people like to flock together.