Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

He lowered his head and bumped into Lin Pai's arm hanging by his side, "Hurry up and help me remove everything that fell on my head."

Lin Pai leaned back, one arm was pressed by Xu Rui, so he could only use the other hand to comb his hair, he raised his chin and struggled to find the vegetable leaves on Xu Rui's wobbly head, "Hey, I... ...don't...do you have an electric drill on your head?"

Xu Rui paused, and said in a muffled voice, "Have you ever heard of a mental patient who always thought he was a mushroom?"

"So? You're an electric drill with the bit on it?"

Xu Rui acted as if he didn’t hear it, as if he really regarded himself as an electric drill, and began to drill on Lin Pai’s arm again. After Lin Pai picked the vegetable leaves, he flicked the back of Xu Rui’s head twice to confirm that it was clean, and then He pulled his arm out forcefully.

Xu Rui suddenly lost his strength and fell into Lin Pai's arms. Lin Pai raised his hands subconsciously, as if expressing his innocence in a gesture of surrender.

Lin Pai looked down at his hair spinning for a moment, he frowned to stop Xu Rui's slapping hands, and carefully pushed him away from his chest.

Xu Rui sat back to his original position, neither of them spoke, and the space on the tablet suddenly fell into an embarrassing silence.

After a while, Xu Rui moved silently to the side of the iron guardrail, with his back to Lin Pai, lying on the iron guardrail and taking deep breaths calmly, slightly calming down the reddened ears due to lack of oxygen, as well as his own blood pressure. I can't even figure out the indescribable emotions.

Old Uncle Cai's pickup truck was still driving in the countryside. The road had just been poured with cement last year. Although it was narrow, it was still considered flat. He glanced at Fu Yanye, who was sitting in the passenger seat, and the latter had tilted his head and started fighting. drowsy.

This season is no better than summer, when you looked around, it was full of lush greenery, and you couldn’t tell the boundaries, but now the paths intertwined in it are almost completely exposed, and some fields that have just been harvested are bare, with bundles of crops piled on them, Every once in a while, there are scarecrows with arms raised, and the old clothes wrapped around them are fluttering in the wind.

Lin Pai was still sitting where he was just now. He lowered his head and counted the folds on the white short sleeves. Most of them were made by Xu Rui just now. The heart in his chest seemed to have been elongated by a reflex arc, and only now began to "bang" , bang" jumped up wildly, he lowered his head and sniffed the sleeve of the clothes that Lin Pai rubbed against, it seemed that there was still an ambiguous breath on it.

He raised his head back, closed his eyes and leaned against the back wall of the carriage, and took a few deep breaths.

Only when the cold air poured into his lungs did Lin Pai feel that his heartbeat had returned to its normal speed.

He opened his eyes and turned his head to look at Xu Rui. There was only a narrow part of his profile in his back, and he couldn't see his expression clearly.

Lin Pai stood up, slowly moved to Xu Rui's side, and then slowly squatted down while leaning on the iron guardrail. With this movement, he was half a head taller than Xu Rui.

Xu Rui noticed his footsteps, but didn't look back until he felt Lin Pai approaching, and then raised his head to meet his eyes.

Lin Pai frowned slightly, and looked very focused. He tilted his head and approached Xu Rui little by little, holding his hands firmly on the iron guardrail, without letting the bumpy truck affect the rhythm at all.

Xu Rui didn't know what to do at first, but stared at Lin Pai's eyes slowly. The process was like an ant circling around his ankle. , he couldn't catch it all.

Until the warm breath passed over his skin, Xu Rui could clearly see the fine hairs on Lin Pai's skin, which shone with a faint light and swayed very lightly in the breeze. The scenery on both sides of the road became the negative of the film , was pulled vaguely, at this time the senses became dull, but the time seemed to be infinitely stretched.

Lin Pai did not continue to approach, but kept a distance of several centimeters. The sound of the truck engine lay in the nearly frozen air between them. They looked into each other's eyes, trying their best to capture the emotions that wandered in their eyes.

After a stalemate for about half a minute, Xu Rui's Adam's apple rolled up and down. In order to conceal this movement, he kept silent and looked away.

Lin Pai still kept his original position. He lowered his eyes and waited for Xu Rui to lean back on the iron guardrail, then found a place not far away and sat down, lying on the iron guardrail and looking in another direction.

In this way, the small truck bumped all the way to Heshan Town in the atmosphere that changed from lively to quiet.

Old Uncle Cai sent Fu Yanye to the door of his house, walked to the tablet behind the pickup truck and asked, "Where do you two live? I'll drop by... Hey!"

Xu Rui jumped off the tablet right under Uncle Cai's eyes. He patted the ashes on his hands and turned around to raise his hand to catch Lin Pai, but the latter had already jumped off by himself, so he had to withdraw his hand silently, "Uncle Cai , we can go back by ourselves, you should hurry home and eat."

"It's just a short distance, I'll drive there quickly!" Uncle Cai waved at them, driving them towards the tablet like ducks.

Lin Pai came out from behind Xu Rui, but was not rushed by Mr. Cai. He adjusted the backpack on his back to his chest, nodded at Mr. Cai and said, "I really don't need Mr. Cai, I'll just go back Just a few steps away, you don't have to worry about the two of us."

"Ok, ok, ok..." Uncle Cai readily responded and walked to the driver's seat, and waved to them before getting into the car, "Then I'm going back."

Lin Pai and Xu Rui stood at the door of Fu Yanye's house and watched Uncle Cai leave. The pickup truck chugs twice, turned around and drove forward, gradually leaving their sight, and they followed suit. Without speaking first.

When he reached the fork in the road, Xu Rui asked hesitantly, "Do you want me to see you off?"

"No need." Lin Pai took out a stack of papers from the backpack on his chest and handed them to Xu Rui, "I took the test paper from the classroom yesterday, but I don't seem to have time to do it."

Xu Rui reluctantly took the test paper. Just seeing the ink on it made him feel dizzy. He rolled the thing into a roll and put it in the pocket next to his schoolbag casually, "Just now..."

"What happened just now?" Lin Pai asked nonchalantly.

"It's okay." Xu Rui couldn't think of anything else to say for a while, he raised his hand and patted Lin Pai's arm, then turned and walked towards his home.

Lin Pai watched Xu Rui turn a corner and disappeared into the night. He lowered his head and sniffed the arm that Xu Rui patted just now, but there was no smell, only the cool night wind whispering in his ears.

17. Chapter 17

In the guard room, the security guard was listlessly lying on the table and playing with his mobile phone. The vehicles entering the school honked their horns several times, and the automatic lift bar of the car passageway at the door was lifted limply.

The number of people coming and going in the school did not change, but it was obviously much quieter than usual, and even the sound of the female teacher's high-heeled shoes stepping on the ground was much slower.

On the first day after the long holiday, sleepiness and laziness enveloped the whole school.

Lin Pai walked into the classroom, and unexpectedly found that almost everyone in the classroom had arrived. He looked down at his watch. It was not far away from class, and he arrived at about the same time as usual.

Xu Rui, who has been on the spot for thousands of years, has also arrived. Lin Pai walked to his seat and saw him patting Zhou Ning's back, lowering his head and reading something, saying, "2009-2010 semester Nanxing City XX Give me that one during school term. "

"Which subject, Brother Rui?" Zhou Ning turned his head slightly, indicating that he was talking to Xu Rui, while the other side was still staring at his test paper, and the pen in his hand seemed to be wound up, without stopping for a moment .

"math."

Zhou Ning rummaged through a pile of test papers on the table, and finally turned around and said, "Li Cheng took that one just now, here, he is in the third row!"

Xu Rui gave a "tsk", pushed the top test paper on the table to the bottom, and then said, "Forget it, give me the chemistry one first, um... the comprehensive one."

"The chemistry one is particularly difficult. Just now the study committee member said that I made a few mistakes, so I took it back and corrected it."

"Then what do you have!" Xu Rui knocked on Zhou Ning impatiently, the latter didn't turn his head back, just immersed himself in writing, Xu Rui sighed and said, "Give me the ones you copied first." Is it all right?"

"I copied it and handed it to others... There is also a Chinese test paper here, the class representative's, the original one!" Zhou Ning took out a test paper and handed it to Xu Rui.

Xu Rui took the test paper, moved the multiple-choice questions "ABCD" on the first page to his own test paper, then squinted his eyes, flipped the test paper left and right, and couldn't find where to start writing. "This is densely packed with words, and it will be Chinese New Year when I finish copying..."

Zhou Ning half turned around, his eyebrows, eyes and nose were all wrinkled together, and he said bitterly, "That's why this one is hoarded here..."

Xu Rui paused, slapped the original test paper on the corner of the table, and sent Zhou Ning to take it back.

He leaned on the back of the chair and watched the grand scene of writing in the classroom, and simply threw the fountain pen on the table, and suddenly became calm and breezy.

After listening to their conversation, Lin Pai had a rough idea. He reached out to pick up the Chinese test paper that Xu Rui put on the corner of the table, opened it, and flipped through it. The handwriting of the class representative was very beautiful. Every reading question was fully answered, and the given horizontal lines were not enough to answer. , write the characters very small and squeeze them into two lines.

He remembered that his previous Chinese teacher said that this kind of reading questions are all based on points and points, and writing too long means too much nonsense, but it is easy for the marking teacher to be impatient and only give a roughly average score...

Xu Rui glanced at Lin Pai, and said remindingly, "Hey, that one is from the representative of the Chinese class, and it's all written in words. You can change it to the one from an ordinary classmate. If there are fewer words, it will be easy to copy..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Pai took that