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In the last exam in the afternoon, Yan Ruyi was supposed to invigilate the exam, but the English teacher was temporarily replaced because Yan Ruyi was injured in the morning's fight.

Xu Nuo had no intention of taking the exam, but she always couldn't let go of Yan Ruyi. When Xiao Jing came back, she said that Yan Ruyi had returned to the dormitory. She contacted Yan Ruyi during her lunch break, but was told that she had gone to the Academic Affairs Office, and then there was no news.

Xu Nuo didn't know what kind of punishment Yan Ruyi would receive because of herself, let alone whether the injury at the corner of her eye was not as serious as Xiao Jing said, she wanted to see her like crazy.

"Do the questions." When the English teacher walked past Xu Nuo for the third time, he finally knocked on Xu Nuo's desk impatiently, pointing to Xu Nuo's test paper that only had his name written on it nearly half an hour ago. she.

Xu Nuo didn't look up, she just obediently held up the signature pen at hand, pretending to read the questions seriously, and when the English teacher walked away satisfied, she let go of her dress and returned to a listless look .

"Zhang Qiming."

Someone called Zhang Qiming's name from the back of the classroom, the voice was rough and resonant, and everyone was immersed in the questions, and the quiet classroom immediately exploded.The classmates and teachers all looked back one after another, and Xu Nuo looked sideways at the tall and tall man in a straight suit standing at the back door, feeling a little familiar.

The man had a calm face, as if he had just fought with someone and hadn't vented his anger, which made people look inexplicably scared.

"Who is this person? Li Qingan's father?"

"No. I've met Li Qingan's father before, doesn't he look like this?"

"Who is that? Zhang Qiming's father?"

"Can't you?"

"It's possible, it still looks a bit like this. This uncle looks like a rich man. Isn't Zhang Qiming the first rich second generation?"

While the people around were still discussing in low voices, Zhang Qiming had lowered his head and stood up from his seat, ready to go to the back door.

The English teacher didn't know, so he caught up and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"

The man glanced at the English teacher, his gloomy expression relaxed a little, he forced a smile and said, "I'm his father, I have something to do with him." After speaking, he turned his gaze to Zhang Qiming, his eyes All that can't be hidden is anger.

Xu Nuo looked up at the man, and suddenly remembered that when he came to the school to hold a parent-teacher meeting for Zhang Qiming when he was in junior high school, Zhang Qiming didn't do well in the exam but was also in the top five in the class, but he made a bad face all the time, scaring Zhang Qiming very much .

"It really is his father?"

"No wonder Zhang Qiming is tall and handsome. His father is good-looking, but he looks a bit fierce."

"You're such a nympho."

Zhang Qiming walked out of the classroom with his head lowered amidst the whispered discussion among the classmates, as if the person in front of him was not his father, but someone who came to judge criminals, Xu Nuo looked at his back, she wondered if she was wrong Yes, just now when Zhang Qiming walked sideways away from his father, he seemed to tremble slightly.

The father and son quickly disappeared at the back door of the classroom. The English teacher knocked on the podium to remind everyone to get back to their senses and continue to do the questions. Xu Nuo turned around and looked at the test paper in front of him. Zhang Qiming had nothing to do with it. He got angry because of himself. Although the school hadn't issued a punishment notice on this matter, but judging from the situation of beating classmates and teachers, there would definitely be demerits and punishments.And judging from Xu Nuo's previous understanding of Zhang Qiming, he was very afraid of his father, which meant that his father was very strict with him. This time he had such a big incident, I don't know how his father will deal with him.

Thinking of this, Xu Nuo became even more disturbed. She had never thought about emotional matters so complicated. She thought that liking someone was a matter between herself and the other person. She never thought that one day she and Yan Ruyi would experience this, and even more He never thought that Zhang Qiming would face those annoying problems because of himself.

But things just happened like this, without any psychological preparation for her, she suddenly didn't know what she should do.What about Yan Ruyi, what about Zhang Qiming, and what about herself?She didn't even know that this was something no one had taught her in her short 18 years of life experience. She suddenly discovered that liking someone is not necessarily, it is purely her own business. The premise of tolerance is that you are within the range recognized by this world, and she, she likes her teacher, this is something that the world despises, but, her teacher is also the same gender as her...

In the stairwell, less than 2 minutes after Zhang Qiming was called out, his father's roar was heard. Everyone was shocked by the roar, and they all raised their heads with terrified faces, looking at me and looking at you, thinking I want to rush out to watch the excitement.The English teacher knocked on the desk to emphasize the discipline of the exam, while the teachers in the back row of the classroom hurried out through the back door.

Before the teacher's back disappeared from his eyes, there was another curse from the stairwell: "Say it again?!"

No one knew what Zhang's father wanted Zhang Qiming to say. They only knew that less than two seconds after this sentence, he said another sentence: "Kill you, you unworthy thing."

After the invigilator teacher went out, the movement became quieter. Everyone thought the matter was over, but Zhang Qiming, who hadn't made any sound at first, shouted angrily: "I won't, I won't leave even if you beat me to death!"

Later, the situation became serious, the voices in the stairwell became mixed, and the people in the classroom could no longer sit still. After Zhu Yuan took the lead and rushed out, everyone stood up. Not coming back.

Xu Nuo squeezed in front of the crowd with difficulty, and what he saw was the head teacher and invigilator of the third class next door, one pulling Zhang's father and the other protecting Zhang Qiming.

The scene was chaotic, Zhang Qiming clenched his fists, his eyes were red, he raised his head with an expression of dissatisfaction: "No matter what you do, I won't leave."

Seeing him like this, Zhang's father became even more angry. He struggled to get out from behind the third class teacher, and kicked Zhang Qiming on the waist: "I see how tough you are!"

There was no strength left in that kick, Zhang Qiming didn't stand firm, and then knelt down at the invigilator's feet with a thud.

Seeing him kneeling down, Xu Nuo couldn't help but clenched his fists so frightened that his heart skipped a beat.She didn't know where Zhang Qiming said he was going, and why he didn't want to follow his father properly.Biting his lips and staring at Zhang Qiming, who was kneeling on the stairs at the corner of the third and fourth floors, sweating profusely with pain in his mouth, but still stiff neck and unwilling to be subdued, the corners of his eyes were sore.

"Wow, this is too cruel."

"Is this your own son?"

After kneeling for a few seconds, Zhang Qiming stood up with the teacher's support against the wall, raised his head, and glanced at the corridor full of people, his eyes fell on Xu Nuo's face, the corners of his mouth moved, and then he seemed to be irritated Like a wild beast, he stared at the top and shouted loudly: "Look at your mother, look at me, get out of here!!!"

Everyone was taken aback by Zhang Qiming's roar, and unconsciously took half a step back.

After the sound came out, Dad Zhang kicked again: "Is this how you usually get along with your classmates?"

Zhang Qiming finally didn't collapse, coughed, raised his hand and quickly wiped his eyes, looked towards Xu Nuo again, said nothing, then tilted his head slightly and turned his back to the crowd and stopped talking.

Zhu Yuan didn't know when he had come to the front, he stood beside Xu Nuo, leaned forward to block Xu Nuo, and whispered to her with a sullen face: "Xu Nuo, you go in first, you are here, Qi Ming will still be beaten."

Xu Nuo gritted her teeth tremblingly, and almost choked up several times to hold back her sobs. She looked sideways at Zhu Yuan, nodded heavily, turned around and squeezed out of the crowd.

Soon after Xu Nuo entered the classroom, there was no sound in the stairwell. The students returned to the class sighing, lamenting that it seems that there is no good in being a rich second generation. There is such a violent father, wearing an expensive and tight suit, but It doesn't affect him in the slightest when he hits the child hard, it's scary to think about it.Xu Nuo sat on the seat, staring down at the test paper in front of him, but finally couldn't restrain the apology in his heart, and tears fell silently and hastily on the test paper.

"Promise..." Seeing her crying, Xiao Jing was so anxious that she was helpless. She could only call her name in a low voice, and hurriedly spread a tissue on the test paper in front of her to comfort her: "Don't you cry? , promise, it’s nothing, Teacher Yan will be fine, you don’t blame Zhang Qiming for this matter, promise..."

Hearing what she said, Xu Nuo felt even more uncomfortable, and an uncontrollable sadness rushed to her heart. She lay on the desk, suppressed, but did not let out a sob, but shed tears for the whole class.In the end, she didn't know what she was sad about, but she just wanted to cry, and wanted to release all the tears that had been suppressed and not shed in her heart all these years, all at once, unbridled, and released.Maybe it was because she understood that it was useless to persuade her, and no one bothered her until the end of the exam.

Zhang Qiming never came back, and Lao Wang didn't come to Xu Nuo as he said in the morning. Everyone cheered for the summer vacation and rushed to the dormitory non-stop after handing in the papers. Invitation, one person went back to the dormitory in silence, silently packed his bed amidst everyone’s strange, probing, and mocking expressions, then went downstairs with a backpack on his back, and walked towards the playground in the opposite direction from everyone at the door of the dormitory go.

She sat alone on the empty football field for a long time until it got dark. Teachers living in the school and their family members came to the playground to take a walk and exercise. Someone started to look at her, and she heard them talking Whispering, not like a teacher, but like those gossiping girls in the class, she finds it ironic, being a teacher by example, it is not the same to see people with colored glasses.

After those people had seen enough and said enough and walked away, she slowly got up, rubbed her sore legs and walked towards Yan Ruyi's dormitory.

The small courtyard is still very lively, the students' summer vacation has already begun, and the teachers still need to stay to mark the examination papers. Amidst the noise made up of different voices from various rooms, the promised walk in from the alley did not attract much attention , she walked quickly to the door of Yan Ruyi's room, stretched out her hand and pushed open the slightly closed door, and saw Yan Ruyi sitting at the desk with her head slightly hooked, and beside her stood the class teacher in the third year of high school, Zhao Xiao .

Someone pushed the door, and Yan Ruyi instinctively raised her head. There was a piece of white gauze on the corner of her right eye, her eyelid was a little swollen, and her right eye was still bloodshot.

The first time Xu Nuo saw her, his eyes couldn't help but turn red, and he stood beside her with his head down, neither speaking nor leaving.

"Go back, thank you Zhao Xiao."

Yan Ruyi stood up, walked to the door, opened the door further, and signaled Zhao Xiao to leave.

Zhao Xiao looked at Yan Ruyi, then looked sideways at Xu Nuo, and sighed: "Ruyi, she is still young, and...you..."

"I know," Yan Ruyi pulled the door, glanced sideways at Xu Nuo, and said, "You go back, Zhao Xiao."

Seeing Yan Ruyi's attitude, Zhao Xiao sighed heavily, took a deep look at her, turned and left.

Yan Ruyi closed the door, and was hugged tightly by Xu Nuo just as she turned around.

Neither of them spoke, they just stood like that, promising to release their emotions that had been suppressed all day long in front of Yan Ruyi. She hugged Yan Ruyi tightly and cried for a long time uncontrollably. Looking at her, the palm of his hand kept brushing gently on her soft hair, raising his head and sucking in his breath, letting out moist sighs one after another.

After crying enough, the noise from the beginning has disappeared outside, and occasionally someone speaks, but they can no longer hear clearly.Yan Ruyi pushed Xu Nuo away, raised his hand with his fingertips to gently wipe away the tears from the corners of Xu Nuo's eyes, held her face and asked her softly, "Have you had dinner yet?"

Xu Nuo shook his head and replied, "I don't want to eat."

Yan Ruyi pursed his lips, bent the corners of his lips towards her, turned around and turned on the induction cooker, went out with a small pot to fetch water and put it on the stove, then went back to wash a tomato, and cut a ham sausage for her After cooking a bowl of noodles, fried eggs were placed on the top of the pan, and she brought it to her: "Eat."

Xu Nuo pursed her mouth, stared down at the steaming egg noodles in front of her eyes, her eyes that were sore from crying were moist again, she held a chopstick and tremblingly picked up a chopsticks noodles and put them on her mouth, the heat was burning her face, she Opened his mouth, choked up and said, "I'm sorry..."

She felt sorry, it was the same for Yan Ruyi, and it was the same for Zhang Qiming...

Yan Ruyi didn't say anything, raised her hand to stroke her hair, pulled a stool beside her and sat almost shoulder to shoulder with her, when Xu Nuo bowed her head to eat noodles, she suddenly stretched out her right hand to hook Xu Nuo's waist, and turned her head to the side. Putting it on Xu Nuo's left shoulder, he held her until Xu Nuo finished the bowl of noodles before letting go.

When sleeping, Xu Nuo and Yan Ruyi squeezed into her small single bed, cuddling each other.

Xu Nuo touched the gauze at the corner of Yan Ru's eyes and asked her, "Does it hurt?"

Yan Ruyi shook her head, her right eye was still difficult to open, she looked at Xu Nuo, stretched out her hand to hook Xu Nuo's waist and moved herself closer to Xu Nuo, her cold lips touched Xu Nuo's red and swollen eyes, she never left for a long time: "I Did you cry for a long time after you left?"

Xu Nuo's nose was a little sore, he buried his head in Yan Ruyi's chest, hooked Yan Ruyi's waist and said aggrievedly: "I just want to go to the doctor with you, Yan Ruyi, I know you are a teacher and have to do that, but you are bleeding ,I am afraid…"

Yan Ruyi took a deep breath, her voice became extremely moist, she hugged Xu Nuo, and kept kissing the ends of her hair: "I know, I know, I'm sorry..."

That night, the two of them had a tacit understanding and neither of them mentioned what was going to happen in the future. They just hugged each other all the time. On the midsummer night when the floor fan kept blowing the cool breeze, the sweat on both of their bodies could not be dried. Embracing each other tightly, it seems to be the most silent protest against this world, which is crueler than the severe cold and scorching heat.