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The total duration of the activity is one and a half hours. The first hour is enough to complete the two experiments of checking the existence of ions and producing ammonia, and the rest of the time is left for them to write the experiment report.Amidst the sound of paper and pen rubbing against each other, the noisy laboratory gradually quieted down, and several people who had been busy for a long time could finally sit down and rest for a while.

Xie Lian dragged a chair and sat at the end, his eyes wandering in one direction.

Jiang Ye was very quiet today, he didn't say hello, he didn't take the initiative to show his favor. Even if he had questions during the experiment, he raised his hand to get others to answer, even though he was standing in the aisle beside him at that time.

This may be a good thing.Xie Lian thought.

There won't be any intersection with Jiang today, that's fine.

——Jiang Ye thought that he would never have any interaction with Xie Lian until the end of today.

The white floor tiles are full of broken test tubes, test reagents dripping all over the floor, and small metal pieces scattered everywhere.Standing in the mess, Jiang also looked at the person opposite, and said with some embarrassment, "Lin Hua accidentally knocked the test tube with her hand, and when she lowered her head to pick it up, she also took the things off the table, and then..."

Xie Lian gave an "um" to express his understanding.He shifted his eyes from the ground to Jiang Ye's face, and said: "You and him are in the same group, stay for him and clean up with us, okay? Because we have to clean up other things, we don't have so much time, here is also Somebody has to help."

The boy named Lin Hua scratched his hand when he was picking up the debris just now, and was taken to the infirmary by Teacher Xu to be bandaged. He must not be able to come back and clean it up.So Jiang also nodded quickly, "Okay, okay, no problem."

This small episode passed quickly, and the onlookers sat back to their seats and continued to work hard.As time passed, one experiment after another was completed, and there were fewer and fewer people left in the classroom. In the end, there were only Xie Lian and Jiang Ye.

"OK, start cleaning now!" Wang Hongbo rushed to the front in a hurry and shouted: "I'm in charge of cleaning the blackboard!"

The class representative reacted immediately, "Then I will arrange the chairs!"

"Okay, okay, then our brother Lian will be responsible for cleaning the table and sweeping the floor."

"Brother Lian, if the floor is dirty, you have to wait."

"Grass," Xie Lian smiled, "You two bastards."

Jiang also stood aside blankly.He didn't know where the cleaning tools were, so he looked left and right, and finally turned his eyes to the person he knew best for help.Xie Lian was busy chatting with the other two, and would laugh from time to time, the corners of his mouth curled up in a joyous arc, and there was an undisguised smile in his eyes.This was a smile Jiang Ye had never seen before.

After hesitating for a moment, Jiang Ye still walked towards him.

One step, two steps.

Stepping on the third step, the world is pressed to turn off the lights.

Jiang Ye's footsteps stopped instantly.He was like a deer that stepped into a hunter's trap. His hind legs were caught by the trap and he couldn't move.

"Fuck!" Wang Hongbo yelled first, "What's going on?"

"Who the hell knows, I scared my father to death!"

Xie Lian cursed in a low voice, then took out his mobile phone from his pocket to send a message to the head teacher.Crisp notification sounds sounded one after another, and there were several new messages on the brightly lit screen.

Xie Lian looked at it twice, and explained, "It is said that the experimental building often trips after eight o'clock. Because the circuit and the second experimental building are connected, sometimes a large load will be activated for experiments at night, so this is the case."

"No," said the class representative, "how can I clean the pitch black?"

"Clean up, go home." Xie Lian showed them the newly received message on the phone, "The teacher said that the cleaning staff will come to clean up soon, and we don't need to worry about it." He turned his head again, using a medium-sized Volume said: "Jiang Ye, you can go too."

Jiang also hid in the darkness silently.

Xie Lian ignored him, packed his schoolbag in the dark, and prepared to leave.The moment he stepped out of the classroom door, he heard a small sound coming from the classroom.

"Xie Lian..."

Xie Lian stopped and turned his head to look over.

The faint haggard moonlight shines through the glass and onto a pair of white sneakers.Jiang Ye moved his feet nervously, as if he wanted to move forward, but something invisible wrapped around his ankle.

Jiang Ye called softly and urgently: "Xie Lian, wait..." His voice was a little trembling, and his throat was tight.

When Wang Hongbo walked to the stairs, he turned around and found that Xie Lian was still standing at the door of the classroom. He raised his voice and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xie Lian came back to his senses, "It's okay."

He left a sentence "Go home" to Jiang Ye, and then his figure disappeared outside the door.

Jiang Ye's illness was a fear of a silent dark room, and the pathogen came from the ward where Jiang Minsheng died.

Jiang Minsheng's condition was already very bad that night. He fought against pancreatic cancer for a long time, but he was still defeated in the end.Lying on the bed, he was as thin as a bone.He yelled indistinctly, Xiao Ye.Jiang also returned, hey, Dad, I am here.He yelled vaguely again, Yaoyao.Jin Yao cried and said, I am here, Minsheng, I am here.Then Jiang Minsheng laughed, the expression on his face was extremely painful and extremely happy.That night, Jiang Ye and Jin Yao stayed by the hospital bed all night, each holding Jiang Minsheng's hand, weeping against his forehead.

Jiang Minsheng left that night.

He and Jin Yao lay on the hospital bed, and Jiang Minsheng lay there silently. They wailed until their voices were hoarse and they couldn't make a sound.All the lights were turned off in the ward late at night, and the whole picture was like a tragic silent film.The moon outside the window is also covered by dark clouds, and you seem to be unable to see a little light, anywhere between the sky and the earth.

Jiang also recalled this stinging past in the darkness, and his whole body trembled uncontrollably.

Just now, Xie Lian could have saved him.Obviously, all he needs to do is stretch out a hand and lead him out of here.

But Xie Lian didn't.

Jiang also closed his eyes, remembering what happened last Sunday while feeling the trembling of his eyelashes.

After lunch, he didn't go home directly, because Feng Ruzi warmly invited him to sit in her home for a while.She pushed herself into Xie Lian's room and said to him, you young people, talk about yours, and I won't bother you.He sat by Xie Lian's bed like the first time, but this time he had an extra book of poems at hand.He asked, can I see it.Xie Lian was doing his homework with his head down, glanced at the book casually, and said to him, read it.

Poetry has the power to move people's hearts, and he couldn't help saying it softly while reading it.

"'I'll give you the poor streets, the sunset of despair, the moon of the dilapidated suburbs. I'll give you the sorrow of a man who looks at the lonely moon for a long time...'" Jiang Ye asked, "Xie Lian, what do you want?"

Xie Lian said, "I want to quietly do my homework for a while."

"Am I annoying?"

Xie Lian smiled, "You just know?"

It was only then that Jiang Ye knew that Xie Lian had always disliked him.It turns out that the real explanation is this.Refusing the chocolate he gave, refusing the cold medicine he gave, refusing everything he gave, and refusing to be friends with him, all because Xie Lian hated him.Although Jiang didn't know why at all.

But in any case, his self-indulgence really should stop here.

Xie Lian didn't save him.

——Xie Lian never wanted to save him.

Xie Lian returned home, took a shower, and walked to the dining table to eat.

"What is this?" He picked up a chopstick from the plate in front of him, "Tofu?"

Feng Ruzi pushed the dipping dish in front of him, "A new dish, tofu is wrapped in starch and deep-fried, it's delicious. Dip this in and eat."

Xie Lian smiled, and stuffed the half-baked tofu into his mouth, "It's delicious." It's actually not so bad.

"Really!" Feng Ruzi was very happy, "Mom made this for the first time, and she succeeded unexpectedly. Next time I ask Xiao Ye to come over for dinner, I will make this for him to try."

Xie Lian said, "Mom, what do you always ask him to do?"

Feng Ruzi shook her head, "You child. Xiaoye is quite pitiful. Let's take care of the neighbors. What's wrong?"

"What?" Xie Lian sneered, "I'm sorry for what happened to him."

"Xiaoye's father is gone, and his mother can only go to the out-of-town factory to pick up shrimps in order to support him, so he can only take care of himself at home. His mother is not easy, a woman does that kind of dirty work all year round. , earned hard money. Xiao Ye said that she also went out to work this month, just a few days ago."

Xie Lian felt the temples on his forehead twitch, "What the hell are you doing?"

That night Xie Lian tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

He thought of Jin Yao.The woman who was so beautiful that he thought he was his mistress was actually just a hard-working mother.Then he unconsciously thought of Jiang Ye. From being lively and loving to laughing to being cautious, pictures of the past flashed in his mind, like an old stop-motion animation.Finally, the scene of tonight came to his mind.Jiang also stood there, as if struggling, as if asking for help.But he ignored them all.

Disgust comes from speculation, and speculation comes from one's own bad nature.

So he mocked, snubbed, and avoided, like a vine crawling out of the dirtiest quagmire, stubbornly rejecting the sun.

Xie Lian let out a long breath, then slowly raised his right hand, covering his eyes with his arm.

That night, he slept badly.

Despite the poor quality of sleep, Xie Lian still needs to get up early the next morning.He went out at 06:30 as usual, but unlike usual, this time he kicked a paper bag.

He bent down to pick it up, and found a sticky note on the front, which said "For Xie Lian".

Xie Lian opened the bag, first took out two pieces of chocolate, and then a bag of cold medicine.Further down, he touched a few pieces of paper, took it out and took a look, only to find that it was the draft paper for Jiang Ye to correct the wrong questions.At the bottom of the bag was a neatly folded black T-shirt.

Xie Lian was stunned.

These are all the connections he has had with Jiang Ye so far, and now Jiang Ye has returned them all to him.