Restlessness

The last second seemed to be stuck between the lines of Li Ranran's words about "monthly exam" a week ago, and the next second Xu Yue was sitting on the stool in the exam room with a pen in his right hand. He suddenly began to enjoy this long-lost sense of honor, Especially seeing Lao Yang standing on the podium holding the paper and looking at him with pride.

The mechanism of the monthly exam is exactly the same as that of the previous test. Xu Yue sat in the middle of the second group, looking at the neatly tidied desk under his elbow, with his fingertips gently sliding across the desk without even a trace of dust. , There is a white note with "13" on the upper right corner.

Class A and Class 15 are completely in opposite corners of the zigzag teaching building. Xu Yue couldn't help but glance back through the glass window near the corridor.Lao Yang handed out the test papers piled up on the podium next to the seat list 2 minutes before the official test, but surprisingly, all the candidates just flipped through the papers a few times, and no one picked up the test papers on the table in advance. pen.

Gu Yuan's examination room has moved up several classes following the ranking of the last preliminary examination, but his mind seems to never be on these trivial things that should not be, even if it is the surprise in the eyes of the teacher who came to invigilate him. , or whispering in the examination room as a candidate like him.

Gu Yuan felt that none of this had anything to do with him. He lowered his head and turned his pen a few times, whispering a few ancient prose that he had just memorized in the morning.

The only difference is that this monthly exam does not take up the weekend like the previous test.The time for the parents' meeting was set on Friday afternoon. In the eyes of all the students in the attached high school, this was probably regarded as a kindness from the school to them, but to Xu Yue and Gu Yuan, it was an unspoken secret.

On the day when the last subject of the monthly exam ended, Xu Yue just found a place with few people and called Xu Lu.He briefly summarized the exam and the parents' meeting that must be present in a few words and told Xu Lu. After a few minutes of silence, Xu Lu responded.

"Okay, Dad will definitely come to participate."

After saying this, Xu Lu was dumbfounded, and answered a few more words slowly before Xu Yue hung up the phone.

"Xiao Yue, Dad has something to tell you face to face. Let's go have a meal together and call that boy named Gu Yuan."

……

Xu Yue was a little surprised. He froze for two seconds and then nodded. Thinking that Xu Lu couldn't see it, he responded casually with a few words.

He probably knew what Xu Lu wanted to say...

Standing on the rooftop, Gu Yuan hesitated for a long time before sending out a line of text.

The recipient's note is only a single word.

"mom"

Yuan Yuan wants to hug: Mom, the school will hold a parents' meeting this Friday.

It must have been half an hour, more likely closer to four or ten minutes.Back in the classroom, the phone in Gu Yuan’s pocket finally vibrated twice. The frequency of the vibration was not high, but he still felt that the skin close to the phone was still numb and itchy through a thin layer of fabric. Inadvertently, Gu Yuan lowered his head and looked down.

Sure enough, it was all in his expectation.Even the punctuation marks were as he had guessed.

Mom: Ah Yuan, Mom may have dinner that day, do I have to go?

Gu Yuan turned off the phone screen and turned to look at Xu Yue who was looking out the window. He took a deep breath and unlocked the phone, and slowly entered a few words in the chat box just now.

Yuanyuan wants to hug: Well, the head teacher said that he must come.

I don't know how long it took, but the message sent by Gu Yuan was finally answered again, but this time the topic has completely deviated from the parent meeting.

Mom: I'll check the time when the time comes.

Mom: A Yuan, you haven't been home for a long time.

Mom: Since I still have a lot of time in high school, if I can move back to live in the third year of high school, I will come back as much as possible.

Gu Yuan casually flipped through the chat records of the two of them. In just a few sentences, the system prompts specific to the time, minutes, and seconds were mixed in the blank space in the middle.

A little higher is the sentence "Where are you?" on New Year's Eve, and then there is a line of system text "No news".

Gu Yuan didn't reply, and his mother didn't ask any more questions, so it was left alone.

All the teachers in the second year of high school worked overtime and stayed up half the night in the marking room, and finally counted the results of each subject and the school ranking on Friday morning.

Xu Yue's grades moved up 7 places compared to last time, jumping from the previous 13th in the whole school to the top 10 in the second year of the attached high school.With a high score of 148 in Mathematics, he won No. 1 in the school's single subject. Lao Yang tremblingly held Xu Yue's math paper, and he could vaguely see some reflective fog spots in his eyes.

Li Ye stood aside and couldn't help laughing. She picked up the report card of the whole class on the desk and handed it to the school director. Lao Yang tilted his head and glanced here.

"Since the two changed classes, I have rarely seen Gu Yuan skip class or fall asleep in class, and his grades in all subjects have been improving all the way. The English score of this monthly exam, our attached high school unexpectedly came out with a full score paper. Xiaoyu Teacher, take a look at this paper." Li Ye took out an English paper from nowhere, and handed it to Yu Xiaoting who was standing aside.

This test paper has no wrinkles, it is very flat, and there is not even any modification on the entire paper, including the final composition page. The handwriting is neat, the logic is clear and the sentences are coherent.

Yu Xiaoting stared at this paper for a long time, "We saw this paper when we were grading the paper, and the teachers in the entire English group praised it all over. Some of the sentences in the last composition of this child can only be learned in college. The content I read, and the coherence is very strong, it doesn't feel like writing, but rather like telling some stories by myself... Whose paper is this paper?"

Li Ye smiled, "Look at the header yourself."

Yu Xiaoting turned the entire paper to the first page, and straightened the beginning of the paper with both hands.

Class: Class A of the second year of high school.

Name: Gu Yuan

Subject: English

Examination number: xxxxxxxx

"This is... Gu Yuan's paper??"

"That's right, it belongs to Gu Yuan." Although Lao Yang was a little surprised, when he saw the class name at the beginning of the scroll, the water in his eyes seemed to become heavier again, "I really didn't expect that Gu Yuan This kid can actually..."

Suddenly stuck in the middle of the conversation, Lao Yang suddenly choked up. He was the only gay man in the whole office. Out of face, he suddenly turned around and sniffed, and his shoulders heaved up and down.Li Ye patted Lao Yang's shoulder lightly a few times to express his comfort.

"At the parent meeting in the afternoon, Gu Yuan... His parents will also come, right?" Li Ye had lingering fears. After all, the whole school knew about the incident in the first year of senior high school. "Or, separate him from other students? I can talk to him alone. Talk to Gu Yuan's parents. When the time comes, you guys will also come to my office...it's a small parent meeting."

"That's fine too." Lao Yang is someone who has experienced it, and Li Ye's words are not unreasonable, so he quickly agreed. "It also prevents other students from seeing the gossip."

When Gu Yuan was called out by Li Ye, there was no expression on his face, and even the light from his eyes looked lifeless.Li Ye felt a little distressed in his eyes, but he just repeated the things that had been arranged in advance.After speaking, with a smile on his face, he analyzed Gu Yuan's monthly exam results on the spot.

Gu Yuan seldom heard words of praise from Li Ye, so that he listened to the next few words of praise in a daze, his eyes full of disbelief.But soon Gu Yuan returned to his previous expressionless face, agreed casually, turned around and entered the classroom.

"Li Ye said you again?" Xu Yue turned around and beckoned at Gu Yuan. Seeing him return to his seat, Xu Yue turned sideways and glanced out of the window, just in time to meet Li Ye's meaningful eyes, "It doesn't look like it... What did she say?"

"I told you about the results of this monthly exam." During the 10-minute conversation, Gu Yuan only picked out the part about the grades, and did not tell Xu Yue about the parent meeting at all. "If I said that Li Ye called me Go out and praise me, do you believe it?"

"Of course." Xu Yue said, "It's not that I can't see how hard you've worked so hard during this time, and it's not just you, Li Ranran and Zhou Hui are also... But you don't look very happy? Why?"

Why……

Gu Yuan glanced at the blackboard behind him, and the certificate that he and Xu Yue pasted up with their own hands pierced deeply into his pupils.

Even the report table of this rapid progress did not bring Gu Yuan any relief, only inexplicable panic gathered together.

When Gu Yuan's mother, Gao Li, appeared in Li Ye's office without missing a second, Gu Yuan himself was not surprised at all.He knew very well that once there was room for negotiation between him and Gao Li, she would definitely arrive on time.

The two standing together is extremely amazing, but there is only the strangeness and silence of not seeing each other for a long time.

Also in the office were Lao Yang and Yu Xiaoting. The three main subject teachers were present. After scanning the office, Gao Li sat down on the sofa on one side. What always appeared on his face was a mechanical look. smile.

Gu Yuan stood aside, leaning his back lightly on the wooden door of the office, shaking it casually left and right, he could hear the wooden material hooking the clothes from behind and making a soft ripping sound.Gu Yuan couldn't help but frowned and took a step forward.

That location happened to be close to Gaoli.

The small parent meeting prepared for him is going on in front of him at this moment, without any shyness at all.Gao Li has always been sitting upright, with her head raised high, the ends of her hair curled up casually spread on her shoulders, looking from Gu Yuan's direction, the one side leg on the sofa with her hands on her legs looks very An elegant woman, her profile is exactly the same as Gu Yuan's.

No, not exactly the same.

Gu Yuan lowered his eyes.

He inherited many things from the woman in front of him, including her looks, height, and temperament.

The only thing that was gradually erased was the arrogance that could not tolerate anything in his eyes.

"Our family, Ah Yuan, fought again at school?" Gao Li raised his eyes and glanced at Li Ye, then turned his head and smiled at Gu Yuan, "Be honest with your mother, did you make a mistake again at school?"

Gu Yuan remained silent, and moved his eyes to the only place on the upper right corner of Li Ye's desk where the sun can shine.It was clearly the beginning of summer, but he suddenly felt that the atmosphere in the whole room had dropped to freezing point, and cold air was oozing out everywhere.

"Mother Gu Yuan, your family Gu Yuan didn't make any mistakes. Our class teachers all know that you are usually very busy, so we are a little surprised to be able to attend his parent meeting today..." Lao Yang He scratched his neck a few times, feeling a little embarrassed. After all, he was the culprit for the unhappiness in the first year of high school. "Gu Yuan didn't fight. I called you here to let you know about Gu Yuan's academic performance in school and other..."

"Teacher Yang, since he didn't make a mistake, what's the real point of holding this parents' meeting?" Gao Li turned cold, and moved his sideways leg a small step forward, with the same smile on his face.

"Uh, actually, Gu Yuan's monthly exam results have improved a lot this time..."

"That's thanks to the teachers of all subjects. Since A Yuan didn't make any mistakes at school, I'll leave first." Gao Li got up and shook the curly hair at the back of his head, and nodded politely to the three people in front of him. , and then put his arm around Gu Yuan. "Ah Yuan, mom has a meeting to attend later. Let's see mom off?"

Gu Yuan threw his coat over his shoulders, and glanced at Li Ye behind him.

"Sorry, teacher, let's go first."

There were not many people on the tree-lined road in the afternoon, and the cicadas chirped intermittently.The wind that blows through the gaps between the branches and buds is full of irresistible heat.

Gao Li is not short, just quietly following beside Gu Yuan.

Speechless all the way, Gu Yuan looked up and saw the gate of the attached high school and the shiny silver-gray Bentley Azure parked across the road.

"Here we are." Gu Yuan didn't raise his head, and gently pulled away the arm held by Gao Li.

Gao Li was a little surprised, but quickly recovered her previous expression. She turned sideways and straightened the badge on Gu Yuan's school uniform.

"Ah Yuan, find a time to move back home. In less than a year, you can..."

"I know." Gu Yuan suddenly raised the volume and directly interrupted Gao Li. He laughed a few times and raised his head to look at the dark sky above. Gu Yuan raised his finger and pointed to the security duty room at the school gate, "It's about to rain Now, go to the gate and tell the uncle in the duty room, and the school gate will open...I'll go back to the classroom first."

Gu Yuan turned around and took a few steps back, then turned his head to look at Gao Li.

"Mom, you don't care about my grades, someone else will."

After speaking, Gu Yuan ran towards the teaching area, the whistling wind sounded depressing.

Xu Yue raised her head and glanced out of the window. The sun that had been flickering just now had completely disappeared in the thick clouds, and the sound of the wind drove the leaves from the tree-lined path to near and far, like a muffled roar.

Soon the huge raindrops fell obliquely in the wind, and Xu Yue reached out and closed the glass window.

Gu Yuan returned to Class A when there were many people on the stairs between classes. He neither attracted the attention of others nor skipped class on purpose.

Xu Yue was holding a pen and drawing a few circles on the white paper, and glanced at the back door of the classroom from time to time. When the same action was repeated for the 17th time, Gu Yuan appeared in the classroom.

"So fast?" Xu Yue was stunned for a moment, and put the pen in his hand between the textbooks, "It's over? It's only been less than 15 minutes. Lao Yang didn't chat with your mother for a while?"

"Well, it's over..." Gu Yuan said.

"Then... where's your mother?"

"I'm going back, she has other things to do." Gu Yuan casually took the exercise booklet from his desk pocket, and flipped through the last few pages, "What about you? The parents' meeting is going to be in the afternoon. Uncle should be on his way now." ?”

Xu Yue turned on the phone and read the message record that Xu Lu sent not long ago to Gu Yuan.

"Xiao Yue, Dad will be on the highway soon." After Xu Yue finished speaking according to Xu Lu's usual tone, he turned off his phone and rested his elbow on Gu Yuan's neck, "And my dad said, when he arrives, Invite us to dinner."

"Us?" Gu Yuan was stunned.

"to us."

I don't know how long this class has passed, the sound of rain mixed with the voice of the history teacher's lecture, Xu Yue's cell phone vibrates a lot faster, over and over again, the strong touch tells him that these are not like a few WeChat messages at all.Holding the pen holder in his right hand, he was still recording the knowledge points left by the teacher on the blackboard, and took a look at his phone from his trouser pocket with his left hand.

It's Xu Lu's call.

Xu Yue pressed the hang up button, ready to reply a message, but before he finished typing half a line, the phone rang again.

He glanced at the teacher on the podium, and pressed the hang up button again.

It wasn't until the fourth call 15 minutes later that Xu Yue managed to find a reason to leave the classroom and turn to the stairs.

"Hello? Dad? We're in class and you..."

"Hello, are you Xu Lu's family members? Can I trouble you to come to Shanghai No. [-] Hospital now..."