Too much

The office on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is often the busiest. Shen Zeming went there not too late, and there were already a bunch of snacks such as zongzi brought by the teachers from home on the desk.

Fortunately, he had already prepared this year, thanked him and distributed the candied fruit he brought from home to the teachers one by one, and the last one was left. After Shen Zeming thought about it, he put it on Qi Jingchen's desk.

In previous years, on the day of the holidays, the teachers discussed most about the trivial matters of parents and visiting relatives, but this year it was different, and the object of discussion became Qi Jingchen.

Shen Zeming had no intention of participating, but he also listened attentively for a while.

It was originally about the blind date between Qi Jingchen and Director Liu's niece yesterday.I don't know what Tang Xiao told Director Liu when he went back, but almost all the teachers in the office knew about Qi Jingchen's liking for men.Even the Chinese teacher, who has always been ascetic, has a gossip expression on his face.

Listening to Director Liu lamenting that his niece was unkind, Shen Zeming thought about what happened after the coffee shop.

Hearing those words at first, Qi Jingchen's face was tense, his face was gloomy and terrifying, he didn't answer the words, but there seemed to be some torrential rain brewing in his eyes, and for some unknown reason, he didn't attack Shen Zeming for a long time.

The two confronted each other silently. Perhaps the ignorance of the Dragon Boat Festival night gave him a lot of courage. Shen Zeming even smiled and looked back frankly.

After a while, Qi Jingchen lit a cigarette, frowned and took a few puffs. The misty white smoke drifted obliquely across Shen Zeming's brow bone. He raised his hand and waved it a few times. Throwing a cigarette into the ashtray on the table.

At this time, Qi Jingchen's emotions have completely subsided, and he has returned to his original gentle appearance, but the eyes hidden behind the lenses are like stones soaked in frost and snow.

The cold chains hung loosely on both sides of his sharp jawbones, he hooked his lips, and said in a soft voice, "Mr. Shen is quite enlightened."

Pausing for a moment, Qi Jingchen smiled at Shen Zeming again, but his voice and eyes suddenly turned cold, "I hope you don't regret it."

The memory was interrupted here, Shen Zeming looked up and saw Qi Jingchen who was called by Director Liu to the corridor outside just as he walked in the door.

Director Liu's voice was already loud, even though he deliberately lowered it now, his voice still spread into the office.

"Xiao Qi, I don't care if you like men or women, but you have to be honest, don't you?"

Director Liu was very angry, but he was used to the bureaucratic accent, and he still used the same set of angry words, "You said that there are many girls, and I introduced you to you with good intentions, but you deceived us. Is this your fault? ?”

"Sorry, it's my problem." Qi Jingchen looked sincere, "I'll treat you to dinner another day."

The voice of the conversation in the back gradually became quieter, and a group of teachers in the office listened to the gossip, but unfortunately they didn't hear a few words that were useful. Director Liu patted Qi Jingchen on the shoulder, and came in with him with a happy smile.

Although the acceptance of homosexuality in this era is slightly higher than that of ten years ago, it is still unavoidable that some people have strange eyes.The middle-aged teachers who had been clamoring to introduce someone to Qi Jingchen before saw Qi Jingchen walk in, their expressions were a little unnatural.

But Qi Jingchen didn't care, he smiled politely at the teachers, and walked towards his desk with a smile on his lips.However, as soon as he sat down, he saw several middle-aged teachers making eye contact with each other. Among them, a math teacher surnamed Niu was pushed out and walked towards him awkwardly.

"I'm sorry, Doctor Qi." Teacher Niu came over and said hesitantly, "We didn't know you before...you like...men, we won't introduce you to a partner in the future. "

Perhaps she felt that it was inappropriate to say this, and at the end she quickly added: "No, no, then what, if you are looking for...cough young man, we can also help to talk about it."

After finishing speaking, Teacher Niu looked back at the teachers who encouraged her to come over, but unfortunately they all lowered their heads in embarrassment and ignored her.

Qi Jingchen smiled when he heard that, "Okay, thank you Teacher Niu first."

So Teacher Niu breathed a sigh of relief and ran back quickly.

Shen Zeming watched the whole process, maybe he didn't realize that the corners of his lips were curled up, so when Qi Jingchen pinched his jaw, he was stunned.

They are located in the corner by the window, and with the opaque partitions around them, even if they do something openly on the table, they rarely attract attention, let alone such small actions hidden under the desk.

Qi Jingchen didn't turn his head, his eyes were still on the black notebook on the table, he seemed to be concentrating on preparing for the lesson, but his left hand hidden under the table grabbed Shen Zeming's right hand tightly.

The two hands were intertwined in an extremely ambiguous gesture, as if they were simply holding hands, but also seemed to have a little more flavor.With slightly scalded fingers covering the surface of the skin, Shen Zeming subconsciously curled his fingers, as if he was intentionally pandering to it.

Sure enough, Qi Jingchen hooked his lips.

Shen Zeming cursed in his heart, and then he was about to pull out his hand, but saw that hand slipped an inch, and tightly clasped his wrist.

Can't get it out at all.

Qi Jingchen looked at the vigorous handwriting on the notebook, but said to Shen Zeming: "Mr. Shen is in a good mood?"

Shen Zeming just felt inexplicable, and turned to look at him, "How can you be in a good mood when you take a leave of absence to go to work?"

"Then what are you laughing at?" Qi Jingchen finally met his gaze, his voice lowered, "You are happy to be known about my liking for men?"

"No." Shen Zeming quickly denied it, and said lightly, "This is your private matter, and it has nothing to do with me."

"My private affairs?" Qi Jingchen squinted his eyes, stared at him, and said in a low voice, "Isn't the first man I like, you?"

Shen Zeming was speechless. After a while, he bit by bit Qi Jingchen's hand and said expressionlessly, "Then what does the man you like later have to do with me?"

For some reason, Qi Jingchen laughed lightly as if he couldn't help it.

At this time, the class bell rang, and Shen Zeming snapped off Qi Jingchen's fingertips that were still on his wrist, and got up to go to class.

the first day of vacation

In the first class, the mental state of the students was quite poor. When Shen Zeming walked into the classroom, most of the class was lying on the table to catch up on sleep, and the other half were either catching up with homework or wandering in a daze.

He sighed, put down his textbook and knocked on the desk, and said loudly, "Class."

The squad leader belonged to the group who were catching up with homework, and jumped up excitedly when he heard the words, "Stand up!"

There was a sound of rubbing tables and chairs in the classroom, and the students stood up reluctantly. Seeing that Shen Zeming was not angry, they all began to stretch and rub their eyes. After about 30 seconds, Shen Zeming called to sit down.

Shen Zeming is not the kind of head teacher who likes to gossip with students. He has always been strict and talkative, whether it is in class time or after school time, he will never say a word of nonsense.After briefly explaining the precautions after returning from the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, and asking the class representatives of each subject to carefully check the homework, he began to attend class.

The content of today's lecture was a bit boring, and the students below gradually became drowsy. Seeing that more and more people could not hold on to sleep on the table, Shen Zeming had no choice. Auxiliary tools.Shen Zeming stopped and chose an English song with a strong rhythm from the USB flash drive to play.

Intense drumbeats pulled the sleeping students back. After a song was played, Shen Zeming continued to give lectures. The accident happened at this moment.

The back row didn't know what happened, but Zhou Xiao cursed loudly, "Fuck your mother", and the next second he raised a stool and slammed it at his deskmate, Peng Qu.

He was very strong, one leg was broken from the stool, and a lot of blood gushed out from the back of Peng Qu's head in an instant.

Shen Zeming was in a trance, Peng Qu fell to the ground, Zhou Xiao stood at a loss, the scene was very chaotic, all kinds of voices mixed together, together with the back of Peng Qu's bloody head, like a knife kept stirring in Shen Zeming's mind.

Some students had already run to the office to inform Director Liu. Shen Zeming's face turned pale, he closed his eyes hard, called 120 first, and mustered up the courage to walk off the podium.

No one knew he was bleeding.

The closer he got to Pengqu, the more bloody smell came to his nostrils. Seeing the thick dark red blood on the ground, Shen Zeming inevitably remembered the experience of being held down in the hospital to draw blood a long time ago, tinnitus and dizziness followed one after another, A large amount of liquid gushed out of his throat, and when he realized something, his ears were filled with exclamations one after another.

I don't know how long it took before my hearing recovered, and a deep and familiar voice flooded into my mind, "Shen Zeming! Wake up!"

Shen Zeming struggled to open his eyes, and what he saw was Qi Jingchen's frowning brows and worried eyes. He froze for a moment, and many images of the past appeared in front of his eyes.

He stared into Qi Jingchen's eyes for a long time, and Shen Zeming didn't move his eyes until another person's voice appeared.

It was a doctor from the school infirmary, "How is Teacher Shen feeling? Is there any other discomfort?"

Shen Zeming moved his body slightly, only then did he realize that Qi Jingchen was leaning on the narrow hospital bed, and he was lying in Qi Jingchen's arms, with one hand even tightly grasping the other's fingers.

Shen Zeming's face turned hot immediately, he shook his head, hurriedly let go of his hands and straightened up to leave Qi Jingchen's embrace, "No more, thank you."

The school doctor nodded, "That's good, when you fainted just now, you really scared everyone."

"Sorry." Shen Zeming pursed his lips, recalling the scene before he fainted, and asked quickly, "How is Peng Qu? Has he been sent to the hospital? Where's Zhou Xiao?"

"Peng Qu has been sent to the hospital. I don't know what the situation is right now." Qi Jingchen sat up straight slowly, with his chest inadvertently pressed against Shen Zeming's back, "The parents of both parties have been notified that Zhou Xiao is also in the hospital. Director Liu and the school leaders followed dealt with."

At this time, someone shouted outside, and the school doctor took him out. Qi Jingchen grabbed his arm, and Shen Zeming froze for a moment, but he didn't break free easily, "You...why are you here?"

Qi Jingchen didn't answer, and asked in a low voice after a while: "Why do you feel dizzy?"

Shen Zeming didn't know, after he passed out, his whole body was trembling, he tightly held Qi Jingchen who came over after hearing the news, curled up in his arms and sobbed softly, as if he was going through some terrible scene.

"It's been many years." Shen Zeming didn't intend to talk too much, and said lightly: "It may be a physical problem."

But Qi Jingchen obviously didn't intend to just let him go, he raised Shen Zeming's left arm, pointed to a small needle hole on the elbow and said, "What is this?"

Shen Zeming wore short sleeves today, so he could clearly see the needle holes left by last week's blood draw. If Qi Jingchen turned up again, he would probably be able to see a bruise and purple marks left by long-term needles.

Shen Zeming quickly withdrew his arm, lowered his eyes and said, "It's nothing."

"Shen Zeming." Qi Jingchen's eyes darkened, "Are you... sick?"

For a few seconds, Shen Zeming's nose was sore, but he quickly collected his emotions, glanced at Qi Jingchen lightly, and said in a bad tone: "Does it have anything to do with you? We are just colleagues, you have crossed the line."

Qi Jingchen didn't speak, his eyes slowly turned cold, he stood up without saying a word, took the coat on the back of the chair, closed the door and walked out.

Shen Zeming stared at his leaving back, stunned for a moment, got up and rushed to the hospital.

When he arrived at the hospital, Director Liu was negotiating with Peng Qu's parents. Zhou Xiao was standing in the corner with his ears twisted by Zhou Huixin. When he caught a glimpse of Shen Zeming, he called him in a low voice at a loss.

Shen Zeming nodded, and Zhou Hui was also very tired. According to the doctor, Peng Qu's condition was not very good, and Zhou Xiao almost killed half of Peng Qu when he hit it.

"What happened then?" Shen Zeming said, "Why did you attack Peng Qu?"

Zhou Xiao flattened his mouth and stubbornly turned his head away from speaking.

Seeing this, Zhou Huixin slapped Zhou Xiao on the head again, "Mr. Shen asked you something, please speak carefully! What's the matter with you child?"

It just so happened that after Director Liu finished speaking with Peng Qu's parents, he walked over with an unlit cigarette in his mouth. He nodded to Zhou Huixin and waved to Shen Ze.

Shen Zeming walked over. Director Liu sighed and said, "The situation is a bit complicated now. Peng Qu's parents don't accept the compensation. They must sue Zhou Xiao for intentional injury and send Zhou Xiao to jail."

"Zhou Xiao is the same. Ask him and don't say anything." He rubbed his face by mistake, "Peng Qu is like this again, alas."

Shen Zeming encountered such a situation for the first time since he became a teacher, subconsciously blamed himself, "I'm sorry, Director Liu, I—" "What are you apologizing for?" Director Liu glared at him, "This is not your problem, Don’t take everything on your own head.”

The two stood for a while, and Director Liu urged him to go back and rest, "It's useless for you to be here, didn't you faint just now? Go back and rest for a while, and you have to go to class in the afternoon."

Shen Zeming had no choice but to take a taxi back. After getting off the taxi, he bought some food at the snack bar at the entrance of the community and walked back.When he reached the junction of the second and third floors, he frowned and stopped.

It was only eleven o'clock in the morning, but Shen Zelin, who was supposed to be in school, squatted in front of his house with a schoolbag in his arms.

Shen Zeming stepped up the steps, took out the key from the bag, and said without expression: "What are you doing at my door?"

"Your house?" Shen Zelin stood up abruptly, his eyes widened and he shouted, "Why is this your house?"

I don't know why he went crazy, Shen Zeming didn't speak, just looked at him quietly.

Three seconds later, Shen Zelin turned pale, "You and Qi Jingchen live together?"