looking back inadvertently

After the official start of the school year, the work of Liang He's class representative began, helping the teacher to send and receive homework every day.

"Hey buddy," Wen Hao blocked the hand he stretched out to ask for homework, "5 minutes."

Liang He slapped the homework collected by the team leader on the table: "You are the only one left."

"I know, isn't there a question here?" Wen Hao laughed and licked his face, "Lend me a copy."

"Okay, you." Liang He curled his lips unwillingly, but he didn't stop him from taking the homework from his hand.

The homework that Wen Hao brought over belonged to Shen Zhe.Shen Zhe left the classroom after handing in his homework. He didn't know where he went. Now the seat in front of Wen Hao is empty.

Liang He took a quick glance at the homework. The words on it were very beautiful. They were neat, connected, and relatively mature characters that neither he nor Wen Hao could write. Unfortunately, the last big question had all the wrong ideas.

The mathematics in the liberal arts class is relatively easy, and the daily homework focuses on the basics. It is not difficult to do everything correctly. Shen Zhe will make such obvious mistakes. Liang He guessed that his mathematics is not very good.

"Wait," Liang He said to Wen Hao who was about to write the last question, "he made a mistake in this question."

"What's wrong? Why can't I see it?"

Liang He sighed: "Shall I tell you what to do?"

"Farewell, Lao Luo will be here in a while," Wen Hao wrote down without hesitation, "If you are wrong, you are wrong. It is not normal for me to be right."

Liang He: "..."

A little while after the morning reading started, Shen Zhe came in from the outside.He holds a kettle in each of his left and right hands.

Basically, each class will use the class fee to buy a water bottle for everyone to drink water.However, there is no hard and fast rule on who is responsible for fetching water, and it is not the task of the students on duty. It all depends on the students themselves.In Liang He Gaoyi's class, except for him, almost no one thought about it. Occasionally he forgot, and it took a day for the kettle to be empty.

Today's English morning reading does not require Shen Zhe to lead the reading.He put the kettle back under the rear window sill, then returned to his seat and took out his textbooks.

From the second year of high school, in addition to the midterm and final exams, monthly exams are added every semester. The first monthly exam is arranged before the National Day holiday.During the afternoon meeting, Luo Mingyu reminded the whole class of this incident again, urging everyone to take it seriously and have a good start to the new semester.

In the afternoon, there were two Chinese classes in a row. After Luo Mingyu finished one class, she arranged classroom exercises, which took up the break time. She waited until the bell rang for the end of the second class before she said to the students below: " Alright, I'll ask the class representative to send everyone the exercises I'm going to do tonight, and class is over now."

Liang He's throat was so dry that it was on fire.He is afraid of heat, sweats a lot, drinks a lot of water, and carries a thermos every day.The cup was almost empty, and as soon as Luo Mingyu left the classroom, he hurried to the back row to pour water.

There is only enough left in the kettle to fill half of it. The water drawn in the morning has been left in the kettle for a day, and it is no longer so hot.Liang He drank a couple of sips, thinking that there was still a self-study class later, he should take this opportunity to fetch some water.

He bent down and grabbed the handle of the kettle on the right, and the one on the left had already been picked up.It's Shen Zhe.

"There's no water," Liang He thought he wanted to drink, so he said embarrassedly, "You can pour it after I call back."

"I just want to fetch water." Shen Zhe's eyes fell on Liang He's hand, and he raised his chin, "Why don't we go together?"

Liang He let out a "huh" and walked out together with him, stepped out of the classroom, suddenly felt uncomfortable, used to fetch water by himself, and went downstairs side by side like this, like elementary school students going to the bathroom together.But Shen Zhe's expression was normal, even because Liang He was two steps too slow, he stopped and waited for him.

The water room is next to the teaching building, and there are several people in front of it, waiting for half a minute.Liang He carefully aligned the spout of the pot directly under the faucet, and waited until the switch was adjusted and the water flow stabilized before lowering it.

"Do you often come to fetch water?" Shen Zhe next to him asked.

"Ah."

"I said, just now I wanted to remind you to be careful," he smiled, "I was burned a few times last year."

Liang He wanted to say that he had never been burned before, and felt that it was nothing to show off, so he didn't know how to respond. You can't say that you are stupid.

Anyway, during get out of class time, there is a lot of chaos around, so it's not embarrassing not to answer.

They came in with the bell ringing for the self-study class. There was no teacher in the classroom for the time being, and most of them hadn't returned to their seats.

"You need to pour water quickly." After putting down the kettle, Liang He reminded Shen Zhe.

"I don't need to pour water," he replied, "there is still in the glass."

"Then why did you remember to fetch water?"

"Someone else is drinking." He said nonchalantly.

That's right, he also knows how to serve Banmin, Liang He would not have followed if he had known.

The two returned to their respective seats. After Luo Mingyu came in, she asked Shen Zhe to move homework, and the classroom fell silent.Liang He completed mathematics and most of his English homework in the self-study class. He is not good at Chinese, so he always saves his Chinese homework until the end.

The commissary hired new employees, and Liang He was promoted to the sophomore year of high school. Qin Ying felt that the emphasis should be on studies, and she refused to let him help take care of the business.Liang He went straight home after school. The cat food that was changed in the morning was placed outside the door on the third floor, and it hadn't moved at all. Ah Hua didn't come back today.

Qin Ying was preparing dinner, when she sensed Liang He's entry, she grabbed the door frame of the kitchen and asked, "Did you see Ah Hua?"

"No." Liang He also wanted to ask, "It didn't come today?"

Qin Ying fell silent, and nodded slowly after a long time.

Liang He was afraid that she would be thinking wildly, so he comforted him: "It always likes to run around, and it will come here in a while."

"Oh," Qin Ying suddenly sighed, "Ah Hua is getting old."

"What's the matter?"

The cat was quite big when they picked it up, and now so many years have passed.

"Maybe my brain is not very bright." Qin Ying said.

Liang He laughed: "Cats also have Alzheimer's disease?"

"There is no essential difference," Qin Ying said pointedly, "They all will grow old one day."

Liang He was not feeling well, maybe he is young now and has an instinctive resistance to the topic of birth, old age, sickness and death.Grandpa was still there when I first picked up Ah Hua, but within two years, there was one less person in the family.

Qin Ying still didn't see the cat after eating, so she explained to Liang He and went to the shop.

Liang He returned to his room and spread out his homework on the table, when he suddenly heard a faint whimper coming from outside the door.He hurried over to open the door, Ah Hua buried her head in the food bowl to eat, but its posture was very strange.

Liang He squatted down and inspected carefully. Its hind leg was injured and bleeding, and the injury was serious.

"Are you going to fight?" He wanted to touch its back, but it shrank its neck vigilantly, and after looking at Liang He, it leaned over again and returned to its docile posture.

Ah Hua didn't eat much, probably the leg injury made it uncomfortable, and she cried out "meow".

Liang He picked it up carefully, the wound was horrifying, maybe it is common for wild cats to be injured, but Liang He had never seen it come back with such a serious injury, so he was worried for a while and wanted to take it for medicine.

There is no pet hospital nearby, and the shop that used to do the neutering surgery for Ah Hua has long since closed down. The pet market in City C is not doing well, and it is difficult for the relevant shops or clinics to last long.

He called Ye Minjuan, who had beans, to find a suitable store.Qin Ying was still downstairs, and Liang He carefully held the cat in his arms, and told the old man lightly that it hurt his foot, so he took it to have a look.

In the small clinic, only one doctor is busy.Liang He looked a little mature among his peers, but he could still be seen as a child at a glance. The doctor probably had never seen a child bring a pet to the doctor, so he asked curiously, "Is this your cat?"

"Ah."

"It's pretty old."

Qin Ying was still thinking about these words just now, but when they came from the doctor's mouth, they must have a more serious meaning. It's all too clear what "older" means to an animal whose average lifespan is only a decade or so.

"All right."

Liang He recovered, and the doctor returned the cat to him.

After all the tossing, it was already very late when I got home, the employees of the commissary left, and Qin Ying was packing up, preparing to close the shop.

"How is Ah Hua?"

"Let's go up and talk about it."

Qin Ying originally thought the cat was just scratched, but when she went upstairs and looked at its hind legs carefully, her heart skipped a beat: "What's the matter, what is this?"

"It's inevitable to run outside all day," Liang He said as lightly as possible, "At least I'm back today, otherwise it's even more worrying."

Ah Hua went to the door to rest, it didn't like to stay in the house.Qin Ying put a double-layered old shoe rack outside the door, covered it with old towels, and it became Ah Hua's nest, where she was often seen sleeping.

Qin Ying rested on the sofa for a while, raised her head and asked Liang He, "Have you finished all your homework?"

"Ah," Liang He slapped his forehead, "It's almost there."

"Why don't you go back to the house quickly?" Qin Ying felt a little awkward after delaying his running all night, "You, let's not worry about other things in the future."

"Okay," Liang He stood up, "I'm going."

The windows of Liang He's room were not closed, and the night wind in early September brought in a little coolness slowly.The place where I live is an old building with dense residents, there is no community, and at night I can still hear the people downstairs talking, and the smoke from the barbecue sales goes straight up.As various vendors and shops closed down one after another, the hustle and bustle finally subsided, leaving only the upright street lamps, shining as if echoing each other.

The piercing light of the desk lamp shone on the table, and the Chinese homework barely moved.He fiddled with the pen a few times, staring blankly at the ancient prose exercises, before writing a few words, his eyelids began to twitch.

Forget it, make it up tomorrow