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Both the college entrance examination and the summer vacation were postponed due to the earthquake.There were complaints in the class, but several people in Xu Nuo's small circle showed different attitudes from everyone else.

Several people had their own thoughts, and no one expressed dissatisfaction with Lao Wang's announcement that the summer vacation would be postponed for half a month.

Xu Nuo is willing to stay at school because she has Yan Ruyi here, and because summer vacation is always too long for her.

Promised to be in a good mood recently, this is the feeling everyone has.She began to be very active in speaking in class, especially biology class.Yan Ruyi often commented on the test questions and asked the answers to this and that question.Promise and the answer will be shouted out below.Afterwards, the other people either did not know why or vaguely echoed the answer promised to shout again.At this time, Xu Nuo was mostly looking at the podium with a smile on his face, while Yan Ruyi nodded contentedly.

Xu Nuo went back to the days when Yan Ruyi went to the corridor to wait for her every class.It's just that compared to the introverted and cautious before, her eyes have become more presumptuous now, and she has met more times outside the classroom. Yan Ruyi began to pay attention to this matter. After that, it was originally a promise to a person. The waiting thing changed from the promised lowered gaze to the two people's staring at each other.

She likes to watch Yan Ruyi come out of the office. Most of the time, she holds the lesson plans in her hands. Once she enters the inner playground, she will raise her head and look at the corner where Xu Nuo stood. There is a huge camphor tree between the two of them. The protruding branches are far away from each other, and they can't really see each other clearly, only a vague outline, but this kind of gaze still fascinates them like poppies.

Yan Ruyi has a new habit. She likes to step down from the podium when interacting in class or when students are studying by themselves. No matter whether she starts from the aisle on the left or the right, she will stand still at the promised table at the end, leaning slightly Leaning on the pile of books stacked high in front of Xu Xu, she can't read Xu Xu, but the chalk in her hand will always leave a round white spot on the corner of Xu Xu's table.

Usually at this time, Xu Nuoduo would lower his head, look at Yan Ruyi's dry fingers stained with chalk dust, and then unconsciously curl the corners of his lips.After Yan Ruyi left.She will gently wipe the chalk dust on the white spot to her fingertips with the pulp of her index finger, and then slowly rub it with her fingertips. She enjoys the process of rubbing the chalk dust, just like Yan Ruyi enjoys being on her desk. Like chalk dots.

In fact, she and Yan Ruyi didn't spend much time alone, so the silent communication in class was a kind of confession of missing each other that she and Yan Ruyi hadn't discussed, but kept silently together.Silent, but extraordinarily sweet.

Xu Nuo thought that she would spend the rest of the year in this middle school with such a sweet Yan Ruyi. She thought that she was mature enough, and she just needed time to accumulate the love between her and Yan Ruyi to bear fruit.It's just that she doesn't understand the green young man at all. What many people expected has become what they were disappointed in the end.

In physical education class on Thursday afternoon, after Xu Nuo followed his classmates to complete the basic exercises, Zhang Qiming and his group watched them play on the table tennis court. When Xiao Jing and Zhu Yuan faced each other, Zhang Qiming shook his head and shook his hair. The cold water from the tap fell on Xu Nuo's hands bit by bit, Xu Nuo glanced at him, didn't say anything, just wiped his hands.

Zhang Qiming stared at her and smiled, pulling up his T-shirt with both hands, as if wiping off sweat, revealing a pair of good abs.

Xu Nuo lowered her head slightly, took out her mobile phone from her jeans pocket, and opened it. It was very hot, and she was a little restless. The half of the class was about to pass, and that person hadn't sent her a message yet.

Zhang Qiming thought she was embarrassed to look at her belly.Smiling, she put down her clothes and touched her strong muscles and asked, "Nonuo, are you shy?"

Xu Nuo stared at the gray rabbit head on the phone, feeling more and more anxious. Yan Ruyi was the only physical education class in a week, and she could go from the playground to the inner playground when others were not paying attention I went to Yan Ruyi's dormitory to meet her when there were few people in class, but just now Yan Ruyi said that a teacher was talking in her room and told her to wait a while before going. Twenty minutes later, she panicked, but there was nothing she could do.In fact, she didn't realize that there was anything wrong with Zhang Qiming's actions just now, and she didn't even notice his showing off his abdominal muscles, all she could think about was why Yan Ruyi didn't reply to the message.

For that question, she unconsciously replied with the word "um". Zhang Qiming looked at her and smiled even more proudly. He leaned against Xu Nuo and poked his head to look at the screen of Xu Nuo's phone. Xu Nuo was startled and quickly put the phone away. At first, I was worried that Zhang Qiming would see something that I shouldn't see, and annoyed at his behavior of not respecting people's privacy, so I opened my mouth and cursed: "Zhang Qiming, you hate it so much, do you know? Do you understand what it means? privacy?"

Zhang Qiming was stunned by the scolding, and didn't realize what was going on for a while.On the contrary, Zhu Yuan and Xiao Jing put away their rackets when they heard the movement and looked over blankly.

"I did it subconsciously, but I didn't see anything at all." Xu Nuo's complexion was not good, he was really angry, Zhang Qiming touched his nose embarrassingly, and explained awkwardly and cautiously.

Xiao Jing stood by, staring at Xu Nuo's phone for a few seconds, without speaking.

Zhu Yuan stretched out his hand and hooked Zhang Qiming's neck, and he smiled and said, "Oh, it's a big deal, promise you have a boyfriend? Do you have a little secret for us?"

"No." Xu Nuo knew that she had overreacted, which is actually even more strange. She doesn't have any friends. This is a fact that both Zhang Qiming and Zhu Yuan know. Hiding the phone like this is actually more suspicious.But she can't make Zhang Qiming really see anything, it doesn't matter if she is a student, but Yan Ruyi is different, she still has to teach here, and she still has to be a teacher's face, although she thinks.She was as good as Yan Ruyi, and she did not do anything harmful.

Xu Nuo looked up at Zhang Qiming's gloomy face, couldn't help but sighed, said sorry to him, and then took the opportunity to say that he was going back to the classroom.

Seeing that she was going to leave, Xiao Jing put down her racket and followed her.Zhu Yuan rubbed his scalp with the racket inexplicably, squinted his eyes and looked at Xu Nuo's back and asked Zhang Qiming strangely: "What's wrong with her, she always feels like she's changed recently, can she laugh alone for a long time in front of the phone?"

Zhang Qiming sighed, and said resentfully: "Maybe online dating? I don't know. I always feel that she is getting farther and farther away from me. I may not be able to catch up with her in my life."

Zhu Yuan followed with a sigh, and leaned on the table and said gloomily: "We are both degenerates in the world, this Xiao Jing also has an expression on me, although she looks weak and weak like a particularly uninitiated person. Girl, but in fact, I think she knows what she wants better than anyone else. I confessed my love a few times, and she refused a few times, but she never refused to be with me. Sometimes I feel that I am perverted, because I occasionally feel that her expression on Xu Nuo is so affectionate."

When Zhang Qiming heard this, he grinned, punched Zhu Yuan on the shoulder, and joked with him, "Are you afraid that you are full of food and have nothing to do? Come on, practice."

Zhu Yuan shrugged: "Practice, practice."

When the two of them swung their rackets and vented their anger on the innocent bright yellow ping-pong ball, Xiao Jing followed the promise and returned to the inner playground.

Xu Nuo put her hands in her jeans pockets, clutching her cell phone, and the vibration that was a reminder of a letter from ** never came out. She felt a little uncomfortable, but she still persuaded herself to accept the reality that she couldn't find Yan Ruyi in today's class.

Xiao Jing followed her, raised her head slightly and looked at her profile and asked her, "Are you waiting for someone to send you a message?"

Xu Nuo glanced sideways at Xiao Jing, then shook his head: "No."

"I thought you were waiting for someone to call you with your mobile phone all the time." His eyes fell on Xu Nuo's hand in his trouser pocket.

Xu Nuo turned his head away from looking at her probing expression, and walked upstairs.Xiao Jing suddenly raised her voice behind her and said:

"At noon, Teacher Yan asked me to go to her dormitory today to pick up the workbooks. I remember that she has no class for this class. Promise, can you come with me and help me carry some? It's too heavy."

Xu Nuo set her pace, she was a little puzzled by Xiao Jing's approach, she never asked herself to do similar things for her, this hard work usually fell on Zhu Yuan.It was strange today, Zhu Yuan didn't go with her just now, but now she asked herself to go.

Xu Nuo agreed. Although she was puzzled, she had an honest reason to go to Yan Ruyi's dormitory. Of course, she would not let go of the opportunity. It would be great to go and see Yan Ruyi even if she didn't do anything.

The two came to the small courtyard behind the teacher's apartment one after the other. Most of the teachers had gone to class, and the small courtyard was very quiet.

Xu Nuo glanced at Yan Ruyi's room from afar, the door was open and she was inside.I don't know which teacher came to talk to Yan Ruyi, but she was so good at talking. After almost a class, Xu promised to wipe her nose. She calculated in her heart to see who that person was, and asked Yan Ruyi not to talk to her in the future. She talks so much.

"Teacher Yan?"

Xiao Jing first promised to walk to Yan Ruyi's door in two steps, then stood straight outside the door and shouted inside.

"Xiao Jing, are you here?" Yan Ruyi's voice came from inside, with an unusual timbre.

"Well, let me hold the exercise book."

The time Xiao Jing nodded towards the door, Xu Nuo had already walked behind her and bumped into Yan Ruyi who was smiling awkwardly at Xiao Jing.

As soon as Yan Ru saw her, her expression changed suddenly, and then she pretended to be natural and pointed to the exercise book on the desk for Xiao Jing, and whispered something that she didn't know if it was a question or a statement: "Did you change your assistant today?"

"Well, Zhu Yuan and the others were playing, and they happened to be here, so they asked her to help."

"Oh." Yan Ru nodded, and looked up again at the silent Xu Nuo, with an ugly expression.

Xu Nuo entered the door sideways from Xiao Jing's side, went straight to the desk and picked up half a stack of exercise books, turned around and returned to the yard without saying anything.She didn't walk away, she just stood in the yard, looking at Yan Ruyi's embarrassed and flustered face expressionlessly.

Yan Ruyi's eyes were very red. Before she and Xiao Jing came, she had cried, because Xu Nuo sitting in the room, who had never seen him before, wore a pair of rimmed glasses and looked very refined with a bookish air all over his body. young man.It looked familiar, but she couldn't remember where she saw it, but she was sure that this person was not a teacher at the school.

When she entered the room, she saw the man smiling embarrassedly at Xiao Jing.

She said that a teacher came to chat with her, and the chat was so touching that she even cried.

Xu Nuo pursed his lips, and looked coldly at the man in the room. He looked a bit reserved, as if he had made some mistake, and his lack of responsibility made Xu Nuo feel contemptuous.

When Xiao Jing came out with the exercise book in her arms, Xu Nuo followed her and turned around and walked out.She was very cold and didn't want to stay here for even a second.

"Promise!"

Yan Ruyi followed out the door, stood on the eaves and shouted at the backs of the two of them.

Xu Nuo turned around, looked at her and her figure cast by the sun on the white wall behind her with a blunt expression, without making a sound.

"It's nothing." Yan Ruyi stared at her for two seconds, and then waved his hands weakly, indicating that she could leave.

"Do you know the man in Teacher Yan's room?" Xiao Jing asked gossipingly on the way back to the classroom.

Xu Nuo shook her head, she didn't want to talk, after she came out of the small courtyard, she began to feel the dull pain in her cold heart as if it had melted thousands of miles of ice, she thought, if Yan Ruyi's expression was normal, maybe she could still find a reason Said nothing, but she clearly cried.What are they talking about, what are they talking about for so long, and what is it that makes her cry?

Xiao Jing carefully glanced at Xu Nuo, saw that she didn't have any special expression, and continued: "He should be Teacher Yan's boyfriend. I saw a photo of them together in Teacher Yan's room last year, it seems that they had a quarrel, Teacher Yan was wiping her eyes when I entered."

"En." Xu Nuo muffledly replied, boyfriend?Having said that, she suddenly remembered that last year when Yan Ruyi was drunk, she hugged herself and cried and called someone's name: Wang Hao.