Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

Sit on the chair, and reminded, "The chair has just been wiped and is wet."

Xu Rui frowned and stood up, looked around the room, only the bed could sit on it, but he had just moved things, and his body was covered in dust, he thought of being scolded by Lin Pai pointing at his nose, he thought it was better to forget it.

Finally, Xu Rui stood in front of Lin Pai, raised his chin, and looked around.

Lin Pai stopped, raised his head in cooperation and gave him a kiss.

"Hmm... what's in this book?" When Lin Pai put down the photo frame, he touched the threaded book that he often saw.

Xu Rui turned his head and glanced, subconsciously snatched it from his hand, and regret flooded in his heart after snatching it.

"If you don't read it, don't read it, cheapskate." Lin Pai pouted, stood up from the suitcase, picked up the rag and continued to wipe other things.

Xu Rui poked his back with his fingers and asked tentatively, "Are you angry?"

"No, why am I angry with a book?"

Xu Rui embraced him from behind, handed the notebook to his eyes, and said in a soft tone, "Let me show you."

Lin Pai took the notebook, put it back in its original place without hesitation, and said nonchalantly, "I don't want to read it."

"Then look at me." Xu Rui snatched the rag from his hand, threw it aside, and lowered his head to kiss the back of his neck densely.

Lin Pai turned his head to the side to hide, Xu Rui deliberately pushed and bumped against the foot of the bed with him, and the two of them fell on the bed as he wished.

Lin Pai pushed him away, and said with disgust, "You just finished moving things, you are covered in dust and sweat..."

Standing by the bed, Xu Rui lowered his head to his chest, thinking that he really wanted something.

After a while, towels and clothes were stuffed into his arms, and then he was pushed into the bathroom by Lin Pai.

There was the sound of rushing water in the bathroom, Lin Pai got up and walked back to the desk, picking up the photo frame that had just been put down.

He stroked the edges and corners of the photo frame carefully. For him, ten years ago was the beginning of a home, but today is the beginning of a second home.

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At the end of October, Xu Rui's competition happened to coincide with the school's monthly exam.After Lin Pai finished the last exam in the morning, he rushed to the city where the competition was held without even having time to eat lunch.

After checking the admission ticket for the staff, he squeezed to the front row of the stands, but found that the view from the front row was too low, so he went around the crowd and found an empty seat in the back row.Fortunately, we made it to the finals.

At the referee's order, the athletes' number plates fluttered in the wind on the red plastic track, and Xu Rui gradually distanced himself from them.

The moment he crossed the finish line, Xu Rui was majestic again.

Cheers erupted from the auditorium, and Lin Pai waved his arms and cheered with them.In his eyes, Xu Rui will always be a flamboyant and distinctive 17-year-old boy.

65. Chapter 65

Lin Pai was leaning against the railing outside the arena. Occasionally, there were one or two familiar faces among the people passing by. He raised his eyes and glanced at them, but neither the boys nor the girls paid attention to him, and he continued to stare down at the toes of his shoes.

"Do you know that person?" Xu Rui came out after changing his clothes, raised his chin and pointed at the two people, and walked forward with his shoulders on Lin Pai.

"I don't know him. It seems to be someone from the previous school. I felt familiar, so I took a second look."

Xu Rui nodded and didn't take it too seriously, "The school really insists on having monthly exams in these two days, so that you didn't see my preliminaries... By the way, tonight, Lao Gao will treat you, Do you want to come together?"

Lin Pai turned to him with a bit of distress, and asked, "Your coach treats guests, isn't it too strange for me to eat?"

"It's not surprising, they also brought their girlfriends to accompany them, and they also ate together."

Lin Pai still shook his head, turned his head to avoid the face he deliberately rubbed against, and punched him on the shoulder, "Well...it's still very strange. Besides, I have to go to class tomorrow, and I will go to the station after I accompany you back to the hotel gone."

"What kind of crappy school? I just finished the exam, and I have to go to class the next day. Is there any humanity? Let me tell you..."

Xu Rui was complaining, when someone shouted his name from behind.Lin Pai followed and looked back. The man was still wearing the game vest and only a short coat. He guessed that he should have just finished the game like Xu Rui.

Xu Rui walked towards him, and the two were talking not far away, and they kept gesticulating with their hands.Lin Pai couldn't hear clearly, so he simply looked around in a daze on the street.

The two familiar faces I saw before also stopped on the side of the street. They were wearing the school uniforms of Nanxing No. [-] Middle School, lying on the railing and looking at the fountain in the center of the square. The boy secretly held the girl's hand by his side.

Li Chanjuan mentioned before that this monthly exam is the city's joint exam, and her purpose at that time was to explain that the exam was too difficult.

But Lin Pai thought that maybe it was because of the entrance exam, the exam time was the same, so those two people were able to have a half-day off on Thursday.

Just when he lost interest, the boy took the empty milk tea bottle from the girl and turned to look for the trash can, leaving the girl alone by the railing.

A little girl selling flowers seemed to have been lurking for a long time, so she took the opportunity to step forward, took out a bunch of flowers and stuffed them into the girl's hands.

Lin Pai continued to observe, the girl didn't intend to accept the bouquet of flowers at first, and waved her hands repeatedly to refuse.

But the little girl explained something to her, and she didn't see the girl take out the money, so the little girl ran away after delivering the flowers.

Lin Pai originally thought that the story would end here, but the little girl ran towards him again. He was stunned for a moment before realizing that it was the boy who had finished throwing the trash and passed right behind him.

The little girl ran up to the boy to stop him, raised her head and said with big watery eyes, "A bouquet of flowers only costs 15 yuan."

Lin Pai glanced at Xu Rui's direction, he was still talking there.Lin Pai lowered his head and covered his mouth calmly, moved to the side, and tried his best to hold back his laughter.

He continued to hear the conversation between the boy and the little girl.

The little girl talked nonsense, but the boy was confused and thought she was a liar.However, the little girl refused to tell the story of cheating the girl into taking flowers, so in the end, she still didn't get the 15 yuan from the boy's pocket.

The little girl was not discouraged, she ran back to the girl again, said something to her, and snatched the flower back from her hand.

When the boy ran back to the railing and breathed with the girl, both of them blushed in embarrassment.

Is the trap finally over here?Just as Lin Pai was about to look away, the scene he least wanted to see happened——

The little girl ran to Xu Rui's knee and handed him a bouquet of flowers in the same manner.

Lin Pai helped his forehead helplessly, he took a deep breath, and planned to step forward to stop the scam.

However, Xu Rui didn't pick up the bouquet of flowers, but chatted with the little girl in a familiar way.

Just as Lin Pai felt that he couldn't understand the situation, the little girl turned around suddenly, looked around the street, and the moment she met his eyes, she began to run towards him with small steps.

"Big Brother, this is the most beautiful bouquet of flowers I have here, for you!"

The little girl handed him a bouquet of flowers expectantly, the petals were still stained with water, maybe it was just the water sprinkled on at noon, Lin Pai thought to himself.

"Thank you, but I don't buy flowers." Lin Pai waved his hand and didn't pick it up.

"It's not for you, it's for you." The little girl grabbed Lin Pai's wrist, stuffed the flowers into his palm, and said with a sweet smile, "It's not that only girls can receive flowers. It looks so beautiful, it is as beautiful as flowers in this world."

"Uh...but I really..."

"Brother, just accept it..." The little girl pinched his fingers and made him hold the bouquet tightly, "Remember, you are as beautiful as flowers!"

The little girl ran away quickly while Lin Pai was still in a daze.Immediately afterwards, just like Lin Pai imagined, she happily ran back to Xu Rui, and after saying a few words, Xu Rui glanced at him and paid the money.

The little girl left contentedly.

After Xu Rui finished speaking with that person, he walked back to Lin Pai. Lin Pai asked curiously what his little girl had said to him.

"At the beginning, she handed me a bouquet of flowers, saying she was going to give it to me, but I didn't want it, and then..." Xu Rui deliberately kept it a secret, waiting for Lin Pai to ask questions.

"Not at the beginning, but when you paid for it later."

"Oh, she said, you like that bouquet very much, let me buy it for you."

"She lied to you..." Lin Pai stuffed the flower into Xu Rui's arms, broke his body, put his hands on his shoulders, and said with a sigh, "She forced this flower to me. If you don't pay , she will snatch it back, you have been cheated!"

Xu Rui pushed his hand away, walked towards the fountain in the center of the square with his arms around his waist, and said nonchalantly, "Come on, let's go see the fountain."

"I told you that you were cheated, why did you..."

Lin Pai half pushed and half pushed to the side of the fountain, and a two-person-high water column was sprayed into the air, drawing beautiful parabolas, and the water splashed on the marble next to it, and a few drops of water splashed on the petals.

Xu Rui suddenly leaned into his ear and said softly, "Lin Pai..."

"Huh?" Lin Pai slightly turned his head to look at him.

Xu Rui leaned over and put his chin on his shoulder, and said in a voice that only he could hear clearly, "You are a more beautiful existence in this world than flowers."

The sweet voice of the little girl seemed to float in his ears again, Lin Pai opened his eyes and was stunned, only then realized that he was the one who had been fooled.

He put his palm on Xu Rui's forehead, and pushed him into the water of the fountain, "I said you didn't react at all when you were cheated, so you are with her!"

While avoiding falling into the water, Xu Rui grabbed Lin Pai's hand indiscriminately and held a bouquet of flowers in the other hand. He smiled and said, "Don't be so mean, I just see that you haven't been doing well recently. If you are happy, I will come to coax you."

"Where am I unhappy?