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On the Sunday after the autumn outing ended, Xu Nuo still returned to school early from home. The weather was good that day. On the row of big-leaved magnolia trees, there are all crystal light spots that have not been reflected by the raindrops that have not been blown by the autumn wind.

When Xu Nuo entered the school gate with his schoolbag on his back, the school was so quiet that only chirping birds could be heard.Probably because it was close to noon, all the teachers' families living in the school were eating lunch, and there were very few students like her who came to school early.From the school gate to the teacher's apartment, she couldn't see a single person.

When the autumn wind was blowing, Xu Nuo smelled a strong aroma of roasted pork ribs with potatoes in the humid air. The familiar smell was the fragrant glutinous rice that she loved many years ago but never tried again.She couldn't help frowning, and quickened her pace to move forward.

When passing the classroom apartment, she habitually glanced at the alley leading to Yan Ruyi's room, but stood with Zhenghe and another teacher she had met in the junior high school when she was working as "Green Fly". Yan Ruyi, who was chatting at the entrance of the alley, happened to raise his head and look this way, and came face to face.

Yan Ruyi still had a bright smile on her face when she saw her, and she was obviously taken aback when she saw her, then she waved to Xu Nuo: "Xu Nuo, come here."

Xu Nuo looked at Yan Ruyi smiling and waving at her from a distance, she was happy but contradictory, she was a little hesitant, she and Yan Ruyi broke up at Sanxingdui that day, but now she suddenly met like this, she felt a little embarrassed .Although she knew that Yan Ruyi greeted her like this, most likely because she was having a child's temper that day, and she chose not to care about herself from the position of an adult and a teacher, but the more she had such thoughts, the more she couldn't calm down Accept, she is not willing to have unequal status with Yan Ruyi.

"Come on," when Xu Nuo approached, the smile on Yan Ruyi's face became more obvious. The scar on her left face had dried up, and new tender red flesh had grown in some places, but, even so, in Xu Nuo's eyes Here, she is still the beautiful Yan Ruyi.

Yan Ruyi stretched out his hand to hold Xu Nuo and stood beside him, and signaled Teacher A standing in front of him to look at Xu Nuo with some air in his eyes.

The promise was a little inexplicable, she didn't know why Yan Ruyi suddenly showed herself to her friends like her report card, but the warmth of Yan Ruyi holding her wrist, and the bright smile in the corner of her eyes made her willingly Accept this inexplicable display.

"Who is she? Is she a student? Which class?" Faced with Yan Ruyi's sudden proud movements and expressions, Teacher A showed the same blank expression as Xu Nuo. She tilted her head and smiled at Xu Nuo, and asked her .

"Promise!" Yan Ruyi raised her voice slightly, as if reminding her friend, but unexpectedly the other party still didn't respond.

Seeing that Teacher A couldn't remember Xu Xu's name, Yan Ruyi became a little anxious. She raised her right hand and waved it in front of the teacher's eyes: "You forgot, I told you yesterday that Class [-] has a dark horse."

It wasn't until Yan Ruyi raised her right hand that Xu Nuo saw that she was actually holding a spatula, which was still stained with oil.

The image of Yan Ruyi made Xu Nuo feel funny, because for some reason, even though Yan Ruyi was so good-looking, she suddenly thought of the charter woman when she saw the spatula in her right hand.

She sneaked a glance at Yan Ruyi from the side, and pictured in her mind the appearance of Yan Ruyi with hot instant noodle hair, wearing a nightgown and stepping on slippers, and couldn't help lowering her head and giggling.

Yan Ruyi listened to her smile, turned her head to look at her, squeezed the hand holding her wrist lightly, motioned her to be more stable, and then said to Teacher A: "It's her, my favorite student. I thought I would be wiped out in the senior high school entrance examination, but the teacher in the key class next door said that they did very poorly in the exam, and the average score in biology was only 60. I thought my two classes were even worse, but unexpectedly, I got a perfect score."

From the moment the words "Proud Student" came into his ears, Xu Nuo listened to Yan Ruyi's next words seriously and piously, and remembered them word by word in his heart. His heart was as excited as a kite flying into the blue sky on the wind. Wanting to fly higher, but also excited that she has become Yan Ruyi's pride, the sudden good news made her original embarrassment in front of Yan Ruyi disappear, and Yan Ruyi was all excited talking about her time The look of joy.

It turned out that studying well by herself made her so happy.

Later, the two young teachers forgot about the existence of the promise.He didn't talk to her the whole time, Xu Nuo stood beside them, tried his best to show himself as transparent, didn't speak, even breathed carefully, because she was reluctant to leave, Yan Ruyi seemed to forget that she was still holding her hand.

When the two of you were discussing which class is obedient and which class is easy to teach, Xu Nuo smelled a faint smell of paste in the air. In the taste, there is a bit of bitter taste mixed in.

Xu Nuo lowered his head, looked at the spatula in Yan Ruyi's right hand, frowned and thought for a while, and finally had to raise his head and asked her, "Teacher, are you cooking lunch?"

The conversation stopped abruptly, and Yan Ruyi suddenly stopped talking and didn't move, like a wall clock that was swinging suddenly without electricity.

Xu Nuo watched her eyes roll around, as if searching for some information in her mind, and then she let go of Xu Nuo's hand and said "It's over", then turned and ran into the alley .

Xu Nuo stood where he was, and smiled awkwardly at teacher A. Just as he was about to turn around and walk away, he heard Yan Ruyi shouting to her from behind: "Xu Nuo, come here."

"Go ahead, I guess I have something to ask you and I forgot it just now." Teacher A smiled at Xu Nuo, then turned and walked towards the teacher's dormitory in the junior high school.

When Teacher A walked away, Xu Nuo turned around and looked at the empty alley. He didn't feel that the corners of his lips were curled up. The way Yan Ruyi ran away in panic just now was exactly the same as her screen name. She was undoubtedly a cute little rabbit. up.

Yan Ruyi's cooking pot was an induction cooker placed on the laundry table in front of the dormitory. When Xu Nuo walked into the small courtyard from the alley, what he saw was Yan Ru hurriedly shoveling the part of the food that was stained with the pot into it. The heartbroken sighing by the trash can next to it was a bit funny.

The yard was quiet and no other sounds could be heard, so Xu Nuo looked around and found that only Yan Ruyi's door was open, and she knew the two clothes hanging in the middle of the yard to dry, and they belonged to Yan Ruyi.Xu Nuo took two steps forward strangely, stood behind Yan Ruyi and asked her:

"What about the others? Why are you the only one?"

"You haven't come back yet." Yan Ruyi poured cold water into the pot to soak it, took a bowl with vegetables and turned around to look at Xu Nuo, beckoning her to follow him.

"Where did you go?" Xu Nuo followed Yan Ruyi into the house, but did not realize what Yan Ruyi meant by not coming back.

Yan Ru put the dishes on the small table, and sighed faintly: "I just went home, and haven't gone back to school. Most of their hometowns are in nearby cities, and they go home on weekends." Talking, she Looking up at the empty courtyard outside the door, his expression became a little disappointed: "Every weekend, I am the only one in this courtyard."

Xu Nuo stood by Yan Ruyi's side, looking at her somewhat melancholy side face, the sun fell on her face, she could clearly see the fine hairs on her tight skin, originally she thought that the skin is like creamy skin, it's just To describe the heroines in those beautiful novels, she never expected that one day she would stand beside Yan Ruyi and look at her side face illuminated by the sunlight through the curtains, and suddenly think of this word.

"Yan Ruyi." She murmured, and unconsciously called Yan Ruyi's name.She really likes Yan Ruyi, she is so eloquent in class, she is quiet like a virgin by the lake, and she is flustered when she just found out that the food is not cooked, she is so obsessed with her.She felt that she was about to be unable to hide her feelings, and she desperately wanted to tell her and get her response.

Yan Ruyi looked back at Xu Nuo, and said to her solemnly: "You kid, no matter how old or young, you always call me by my first name. Be careful, I will beat you." waved.

Xu Nuo smiled, she lowered her head and touched her arm in embarrassment, suppressing the throbbing in her heart, pointed to a few small dishes on the small table and asked, "Yan Ruyi, can I have lunch with you?"

"Of course." Yan Ruyi nodded briskly, bent down and pulled out two square stools from under the table to signal Xu Nuo to take off her schoolbag and sit down, "I asked you to come in to have lunch with me."

"Thank you." Xu Nuo wanted to help serve the rice, but was stopped by Yan Ruyi and had to sit down. When Yan Ruyi handed over the rice bowl, she followed it with both hands.

"Now I'm more polite." Yan Ruyi laughed at her, and put a piece of pork ribs in her bowl, "Taste it."

The charred pork ribs had a faint bitter taste, Xu Nuo reluctantly swallowed it, and the honest Chaoyan Ruyi shook his head: "It's mushy, it's a bit bitter."

Yan Ruyi smiled awkwardly, Xu Nuo originally thought she was going to do a little self-criticism about overcooking a good dish, but she didn't expect that the person who was embarrassed one second would flash a look in the next second Sly light.

The alarm bells rang in Xu Nuo's heart, and before he could change his words and say it was delicious, Yan Ruyi had already smirked at her: "The teacher worked hard, of course it was hard, you should eat more." Put it in a promise bowl.

It was too late to promise to cover the bowl, so Yan Ruyi arranged a few pieces of ribs, so he could only look at Yan Ruyi with a bitter face, pursed his mouth, and whispered: "Okay."

It was the first time for Yan Ruyi to see such a pitiful and aggrieved look on Xu Nuo's face at her age. She stared at Xu Nuo's kitten-like docile and pitiful expression, and suddenly reached out to touch Xu Nuo's face. She raised her cheekbones, and said with pity, "Xuanuo, the way you are now is the way you should be."

Before she could swallow the food in her mouth, Xu Nuo looked into Yan Ruyi's eyes, she saw that look on Yan Ruyi's face again, she hated that kind of pity, it made her feel that she was living a ridiculous and pitiful life, she She should reject Zhang Qiming's pity as proudly and indifferently as before, but she couldn't bear the warmth of Yan Ruyi's palm. She really liked her so much that she could hardly be her original withdrawn self in front of her again.Just like just now, she will subconsciously want to act like a baby like Yan Ruyi.

She didn't want to leave, so she could only hold the bowl and lower her head quietly.

Yan Ruyi noticed the change in her mood, stroked her hair lightly, and comforted her: "You can treat me as your friend, the kind who can say anything."

Xu Nuo raised his head and asked with a serious expression, "Can you say anything?"

Yan Ruyi thought that he let her down her vigilance, as if to promise her, she slightly raised her voice happily: "Yes."

"Will you be angry? No matter what I say, won't you ignore me?" Xu Nuo put down the bowl in her hand. At this moment, she had figured out what she was going to say next, and she secretly took a deep breath in her heart. She decided to wait for Yan Ruyi to answer, and then she would confess to her. Although in such a scene, it would appear a little immodest, but she was unwilling to wait any longer.She likes her, she likes Yan Ruyi, it's a secret she doesn't want to hide from her anymore.

"Of course," Yan Ruyi replied briskly, "You are my student, you are still young..."

"I like you."

What Yan Ruyi hadn't finished speaking was forcibly stuck in her throat. Her expression couldn't even be described as surprise. Xu Nuo couldn't tell whether her sudden expression was more surprised or frightened, and the air suddenly fell into silence. After a long time, Yan Ruyi came back to her senses. She stared into Tangtang's eyes and asked, "What?"

"I like you, Yan Ruyi, I like you."

"Ha? Haha," Yan Ruyi smirked awkwardly. She put down her chopsticks and stood up, facing the door with her back facing Xu Nuo and murmured, "The teacher likes you too, Xu Nuo, you like the teacher, which makes the teacher very pleased." ..."

Teacher, teacher, Xu Nuo stood up a little annoyed, she hated Yan Ruyi calling herself a teacher, she said she was a friend, and when she turned around, did she forget?

"I said I like you." Bypassing Yan Ruyi, Xu Nuo stood in front of her, raised his head slightly, and forcibly met her eyes. "You clearly understand what I mean by liking."

"I understand, Xu Nuo, the teacher understands, you like the teacher, just like many classmates like the teacher." Yan Ruyi dodged Xu Nuo's eyes, took two steps back, and sat down on the chair next to the desk.

Xu Nuo felt that her heart suddenly ached like someone was cutting the flesh inside. She raised her head, stared at the roof beam above her head, clenched her hands tightly and took a deep breath, then used all her strength to drum Gather up the courage to rush up and hug Yan Ruyi, "I like you, Yan Ruyi, I really like you."

Yan Ruyi screamed like an electric shock, and pushed her away violently: "Go, you go, promise, you go!"

Xu Nuo was pushed back a few steps. She leaned against the door, looked at Yan Ruyi's flustered expression in despair, and laughed dumbfounded. Tears broke through the line of defense and slid down her cheeks and dripped down her feet. Wiping his eyes with his trembling left hand, he reached for his schoolbag, turned and walked into the empty yard.