Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

A passenger reminded, and the driver pressed the door open button.Xu Rui got into the car and found that although the car was not as exaggerated as yesterday, it was still crowded with a lot of people. The car was noisy, no wonder the driver took so long to hear it.

He squeezed in sideways, and reached about the middle of the car, and saw a familiar face, so he stopped at this position, propped one hand on the back of the seat to keep it stable, and waved the other hand in front of the person sitting in this seat.

Lin Pai looked up along his arm, and saw Xu Rui's face as expected. He took off the earphones and leaned up to ask, "What did you say?"

"I said..." Xu Rui raised his voice, leaned slightly towards Lin Pai and said, "Where are you going so early in the morning?"

Sitting next to Lin Pai was a fat man with a strong physique. He glanced at Xu Rui in surprise and expressed his dissatisfaction with his sudden increase in volume. Xu Rui only glanced at him, as if he rolled his eyes. Return to the pose facing out the window.

"Go to the city to be a tutor." Lin Pai replaced the next question with his eyes.

"I went to the city for training. I had a day off yesterday, and I came back." Xu Rui supported the backrest, the bus bumped, and he swayed accordingly. Lin Pai raised his hand to support his arm, " Did you also go to the city yesterday?"

Lin Pai nodded, "Yesterday was later than today, how do you know?"

Xu Rui was sure that the person he saw through the car window yesterday was Lin Pai, and secretly marveled at how good his eyes were. Instead of telling Lin Pai what he saw yesterday, he asked, "Do you have to go back and forth like this every day?"

Lin Pai nodded again.

The two stopped talking without saying anything.Gradually, the people in the car became quiet from being noisy at the beginning, and sleepiness seemed to spread throughout the car. Except for a few whispers, most people fell asleep with their heads tilted.

Lin Pai took out a book from his schoolbag and flipped through it. There was music playing in his earphones, but he didn't put them on the ear near Xu Rui.

Halfway through a very bumpy gravel road, followed by a stone bridge with a certain arc but not much length, the whole carriage seemed to be on a roller coaster, waking up the drowsy people.

After finally driving through this rough road, the driver slammed on the brakes again, and the carriage could not stand firmly, and the people without seats instantly became crooked and became a mess.

Xu Rui was bumped by a person carrying a large backpack behind him, and he staggered two steps towards Lin Pai, but his feet were caught again, so he rushed straight towards Lin Pai, holding the hand on the back tightly Grabbing, trying to maintain stability, the whole person finally turned around the arm with the back of the chair as the center.

Lin Pai tilted his head to avoid him, Xu Rui bumped his head into the back of Lin Pai's ear, it looked like he was leaning over to hug Lin Pai, he had no time to take care of this, the kneecaps of the two collided As he was doing it, Xu Rui suddenly felt that half of his legs were numb.

"Damn, it's a roller coaster..." The fat man next to him glanced at Xu Rui and got up to get off the car.

Xu Rui supported the back of the chair and stood halfway, but his back was still not straight. The driver made another sharp turn. The leg he just hit was still numb. He couldn't stand still and sat on Lin Pai's lap. Then he threw the fat man who had stood up back to the seat.

"Hiss... leg numbness..." Xu Rui pointed to his knee, stood up awkwardly and said, "I just hit it."

After another half a minute, the bus finally stopped at the stop, and the fat man rubbed his lower back bumped in the confusion and walked out. In the process, Xu Rui was used as a handrail, and he squeezed his arm out of the aisle .

After the fat man left, Xu Rui patted Lin Pai on the shoulder and pointed to the vacant seat with his chin. Lin Pai raised his leg so that he could walk in.

Xu Rui was stunned for a while, then pushed Lin Pai's arm and said, "Move inside."

Lin Pai moved cooperatively, and Xu Rui sat comfortably in the position he had just now. He hammered his knee and said, aren't your legs numb?Doesn't it mean that the effect of force is mutual? "

"But the location of the force is different. If you are interested, you can study which nerves are next to the knee."

Lin Pai didn't raise his head, he straightened the folded corners of the book in his hand, just now Xu Rui bumped into him too fast, he just avoided his head and didn't have time to put away the book.

Xu Rui supported his forehead, scratched his head twice, then suddenly put down his hand to change the subject and said, "What time do you usually come back?"

Lin Pai paused for a moment, glanced sideways at Xu Rui, and continued nonchalantly, "About four or five o'clock in the afternoon."

"Oh, I might come back around four or five o'clock on the seventh day, so we can be together if we happen to be there."

"En." Lin Pai responded.

Not long after, the bus drove through a bridge hole, it was pitch black, and the glass of the window reflected the inside of the carriage.

Xu Rui put his backpack on his lap and glanced idly at the darkened carriage. His gaze finally stopped on the window. Lin Pai was reading with his head down. Xu Rui could only see the back of his head and the back of the seat. There was a narrow slit in the car window, the dark car window had dots of stains, but Lin Pai's clean profile was reflected on it.

There seems to be a scar on his cheek?Or just a dust on the window?

Xu Rui narrowed his eyes slightly, shrinking his sight to only Lin Pai's silhouette. Before he could take a closer look, it was already bright daylight in the car, and the bus drove out of the bridge.

Being dazzled, Xu Rui raised his hand to block it, Lin Pai noticed the movement beside him, turned his face away and looked at him probingly.

"What song are you listening to?" Xu Rui met his eyes and asked casually.

Before waiting for an answer, he did not treat himself as an outsider at all, took off Lin Pai's earphone, put it to his ear, waited for a while, and asked in a daze, "Is there anything in it?"

"Well, nothing."

Lin Pai has been waiting quietly. After Xu Rui finished his curiosity exploration, he took the earphones, put them in his ears again, and continued to read with his head down.

Xu Rui leaned back and leaned on the back of the chair. Every time the bus stopped, he counted how many people got on and how many people got off.

Gradually, he lost interest in this way of passing time, and turned his head to the side, watching Lin Pai turning the pages of the book from behind Lin Pai's ear, as if he could follow the words on the book from such a tricky position. of.

13. Chapter 13

Feeling that someone was patting him on the shoulder, Xu Rui opened his eyes and saw that Lin Pai had already sorted out the books.

"I'm here." Lin Pai explained, wrapped up the earphone cable and put it in the bag.

There was no time for the passengers in the carriage to start, so Xu Rui moved out to make way for him. The two greeted each other, and Lin Pai walked past him stoopingly and got out of the car.

The outer side of the window was not cleaned often, and a thin layer of dust had accumulated, which made it look gray. Xu Rui looked out the window and could only see Lin Pai's blurred figure, which gradually disappeared in the bus as the bus started. in view.

A few minutes later, the phone vibrated in his pocket, and Xu Rui took it out to see that it was a text message from Fu Yanye: "The queue has started, where have you been?"

Xu Rui typed a lot of words in the input box, tangled up and deleted them all, and finally sent a message, "The car is driving too slowly, we will be here soon."

"You are really good. You dare to be late on the first day of joint training. I saw the coach bring some rosters over..."

"Say it for me."

Xu Rui didn't get a reply after sending this message. He guessed that Fu Yanye must have been caught and queued up.

After another 2 minutes, the bus finally stopped and opened the door. Xu Rui was the first to get off the bus ahead of the passengers. .

When Xu Rui arrived at the training ground panting, the participants in the training camp had already lined up in several neat square formations.

Xu Rui stretched his neck and ran for a while on the runway, found the square where Fu Yanye was, and ran over.

In the second phase of the training, a coach was changed and he didn't know Xu Rui. He saw Xu Rui hesitantly walked a few steps beside the phalanx, looked up at the tall boy with a slightly puzzled expression, and Xu Rui followed suit from the beginning. He looked himself up to his feet, and then met his gaze, and the two of them stared blankly.

"I'm sorry coach, I'm late." Xu Rui stood still and looked at him resentfully.

The coach opened the roster and asked, "What's the name?"

"Xu Rui."

"Why are you late?"

"I ran into a small car and crashed into a small three-wheeler, and was stuck in a traffic jam for half an hour."

Xu Rui panted, speaking seriously, his expression was not only very sincere, but also full of helplessness, everyone in the phalanx who didn't know him believed it, and didn't take his lateness seriously, only standing in the last stand Fu Yanye, who was in the row, buried his head in front of his chest, holding back his smile quietly.

The coach also came from the student days, and he knew all about the little things of the students, but he couldn't verify it for a while, so he waved Xu Rui back to the team, "You have extra practice after the morning, and you are late for one minute. There are 1 laps in total. , go to eat after running."

"Yes, coach!"

Xu Rui silently accepted the arrangement and moved to the seat next to Fu Yanye. Fu Yanye raised his head as usual, gave Xu Rui a thumbs up in front of his stomach, and was slapped off by Xu Rui.

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Throughout the National Day, Lin Pai repeated the days of going back and forth between Heshan Town and the city in the morning and evening, while Xu Rui was locked in the school where the training camp was held. In the blink of an eye, it was the penultimate day of the end of the holiday.

"I announce that this intensive training course is over, please attend the closing ceremony tomorrow afternoon on time!"

As soon as the coach finished speaking, cheers erupted in the phalanx.