three feet away

When Xu Nuo jumped off the bus going home on Friday afternoon, she ran into Yang Zhou, a neighbor boy who was one year older than her.Standing under the bamboo forest beside the trail with his schoolbag on his shoulders, he looked at Xu Nuo with a smirk, without speaking.

Holding up the parasol, Xu Nuo took a deep breath of the freshly-cut rice stumps in the nearby field, which was sweet and reassuring.

When Xu Nuo walked to his side, Yang Zhou stretched out his hand and pulled a handful of hair around her ear. The movement was neither light nor heavy, but it was enough to make Xu Nuo turn to look at him.

"Hey, what are you doing? You don't even call when you see your brother?"

Xu Nuo made a speechless expression to him, and pouted forward: "Hey, Ma Bao, your mother in Sanli is afraid that you will be melted in the sun. Look, she is riding an electric car to pick you up."

Yang Zhou's face turned red and white after listening to the words, and finally he grinned awkwardly, rubbing the back of his head and explaining in a low voice: "I told her many times not to pick me up, but she didn't listen."

Under the sun, his skin was so dark that it shone brightly, but he looked extremely healthy, and his row of white and neat teeth was very beautiful.Xu Nuo pursed his lips, did not speak, and walked forward silently holding an umbrella.

When Yang Zhou's mother's electric car parked beside them, Xu Nuo greeted them politely in a low voice, without saying a word, turned his back to Yang Zhou and continued to move forward.

Although Yang Zhou was not happy to be called Ma Bao by Xu Nuo, he hopped on the electric car obediently and let his mother sit behind him to drive. When the car brushed against Xu Nuo, Yang Zhou honked the horn and promised to go on the way Leaning together, because of the presence of parents, she forced a smile at the two, and then watched indifferently as the shadows of the mother and child became farther and farther away, getting smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared behind the village in front.

The dazzling sun at five o'clock in midsummer seemed to suddenly lose its temperature. Xu Nuo put away the sun umbrella in his hand, folded it and put it in his schoolbag, and walked home step by step with his head bowed in the scorching sun.

When the cooking smoke rose straight from the green tile house, Xu Nuo finally pushed open the courtyard door.

The watchdog in the backyard started barking wildly when he heard the movement, Xu Nuo smiled wryly, and walked towards his room without raising his head.

"Are you back so late?"

When entering the room, she bumped into the old man who heard the noise and walked out of the hall. Standing under the eaves, she asked Xu Nuo: "Didn't get out of class end two hours earlier on Friday? Why are you back now?"

Xu Nuo took off his schoolbag, raised his head and explained to the gray-haired but hale and hearty old man in front of him: "I missed the bus, it was too crowded, and I waited twice."

"Girl dolls don't run around outside, those male dolls don't matter, you are a girl, people are watching jokes, you have to be obedient."

The same words would reach Xu Nuo's ears in different scenarios every week, and she regarded them all as her grandma's concern for her, so every time she replied seriously and sincerely: "Got it."

Before the door closed, she heard the old man behind her sigh mournfully. She felt depressed for a while, but her hands were still moving slowly. Even when the door was closed, she pressed her finger on the door frame to avoid making too much noise. sound.When she sat down at the desk, she closed the curtains, and the room became darker by a few degrees.After that, she took off her schoolbag, opened the bench and sat down.

She feels oppressed, and every time she returns to this place, her heart feels like being squeezed by someone's hands and it's hard to breathe, but she has to face everyone in the house with a blank expression or a relaxed expression. Grandma, and her parents who only come back here every weekend like her.

The setting sun came in through the gaps in the undrawn curtains, and the reddish rays of light cast a faint halo on her lowered head. She felt a little dizzy and a little chilly.

Near 06:30, her parents' car was parked outside the yard, and she heard grandma smiling and beckoning her parents to enter the house, including the big yellow dog that ran out of the backyard, wagging its tail to behave.

Xu Nuo sat in front of the desk, watched a group of people enter the door indifferently through the narrow gap, feeling dizzy and chills more and more.

"Has Xu Nuo come back?" As soon as she entered the door, Xu's mother asked Xu Nuo, and she turned her head to look at Xu Xu's room while speaking.

Xu Nuo was startled, and instinctively hid behind the curtains, then quickly walked to the bed, took off his shoes, jumped on the bed and pulled the quilt to pretend to be asleep.

The sound of high heels was getting closer and clearer. Xu Nuo closed her eyes and heard the sound of the glass windows being pushed open and the curtains being drawn. When her closed eyes felt a different light from the previous room, she wrote Horn's hands trembled.

"Promise, mom and dad are back, don't sleep, have dinner."

Loosened the hand holding the quilt, pretended to be sleepy, and made a promise, but didn't move?

It wasn't until the sound of high heels came from outside the window again, and the sound became farther and farther away, that she lifted the quilt and sat up, staring blankly at the window for a while before going out.

The atmosphere of the dinner was very good. Parents and grandma talked about the family's good and bad. Occasionally, Xu's mother would add food to Xu Nuo, and Xu Nuo ate silently without any advice.

"Xuannuo, how is your study going?" After dinner, the family was watching TV in the living room. Father Xu asked Xunuo who was sitting on the chair next to him another meter away while blowing the tea leaves floating on the teacup.

"It's okay." Xu Nuo replied after being silent for a moment.

"Work hard, you have to go to a university anyway, let me tell you, the children of our colleagues in our unit all take the famous brand test, and now you are the only one in our family, Dad can only count on you. You used to study so well, you didn't I know what's going on with you, you passed the high school entrance examination like that, and you still don't let your mother find a school for you at a high price, so you have to go here now."

"Understood." Xu Nuo lowered his head, looked at his toes that were close together, and answered very clearly.She felt a little nauseous, and the few mouthfuls of soup she had for dinner seemed to break her throat and rush out.She took a few sips of water from the water glass to temporarily suppress the nausea, and continued to talk to her parents with her head down.

"Nuo Nuo, you're only a sophomore in high school now, and you still have time. Why don't your mother go to school some other day to ask you and transfer you to No. [-] Middle School?" Mother Xu handed the peeled grapefruit to Xu Nuo, staring at it. she asked tentatively.

Xu Nuo took the grapefruit, tore off the skin and ate a bit reluctantly, the sweet and sour taste became a little pale in her mouth, and she felt her tongue was a little numb.

"No, my grades are not good, and I can't keep up with No. [-] Middle School." After she finished speaking, she got up and walked into the yard.She heard Mother Xu sighing in the living room, but she didn't look back.

The cool wind blows into the courtyard from the field, and caresses Xu Nuo's face head-on. With the starlight in the sky, she opens the courtyard door and stands under the courtyard wall, looking up, trying to find the brightest star. She felt a numbness in her mouth and a tumbling stomach. She rushed to the edge of the field and vomited.After vomiting, she felt a lot more comfortable in her stomach. She raised her hand to look at the grapefruit she had just eaten and was still pinching in her hand. Throw it into the rice pile field.

Before going to bed at night, Xu's mother brought Xu Nuo a new mobile phone and came in. Xu Nuo was a little confused, glanced blankly at the phone case and then at Xu's mother without saying a word.

"Call mom if you have anything to do at school," Xu's mother raised her hand and touched Xu Nuo's face, tidied her ear hair and pinned it behind her ear, looked down at her and continued, "It's okay, next night It's self-study, class is over, and I miss my mother, so I can also play."

Xu Nuo felt her nose a little sore, she held the phone tightly and did not speak.

After Xu's mother went out, she promised to open the phone case. It was a very popular Nokia slider phone, red and white, chubby and cute.

Xu Nuo slid open the phone, and on the screen was a photo of a family of four from a few years ago. Xu Yan smiled and showed his missing front teeth, which was extremely dazzling.

When the tears were about to fall, Xu Nuo raised his head and looked at the roof, inhaling and exhaling heavily, taking a deep breath, forcing the moisture from the corners of his eyes back deeply.

She randomly found a picture in the random pictures on the phone, replaced the background picture, and then logged into the mobile phone QQ

As soon as he went online, Zhang Qiming sent a question mark, and then another sentence: "Promise yourself?"

Xu Nuo felt depressed, and only replied with one word: Yes.

"Have you bought a mobile phone?"

"Ah."

"Give me the phone number."

Zhang Qiming sent a smiling face, promising to imagine the happy expression on his face at the moment through the screen.

"I don't know, just tell me your number, and I'll dial one for you."

The two quickly exchanged mobile phone numbers, but Xu Nuo still couldn't lift his spirits, so he said good night to Zhang Qiming.

This was Xu Nuo's first mobile phone, and she held it in her hand, but she didn't feel very happy, as if she was holding a ballpoint pen worth one yuan and two yuan in her hand.After saying goodnight to Zhang Qiming, she took another look at the class group, silently watching a group of classmates who hadn't slept talking in the group.

Later, someone suddenly talked about the biology teacher, and more than a dozen boys and girls gossiped about Yan Ruyi's love life together.

Xu Nuo watched silently as the three words Yan Ruyi jumped out of her eyes again and again, and was drowned by other words, and then jumped out again, and was drowned again. This went back and forth many times and no one gave any real news. But started to feel sleepy.

Just about to quit to sleep, but saw a boy in the group mysteriously say that he has Yan Ruyi’s QQ account, everyone booed for a while and asked why the teacher’s private QQ would be given to you, the man explained for a long time, and everyone laughed for a long time, Let it go.

Xu Nuo stared at the unfamiliar name for a long time, and finally clicked on his profile picture, applying to be added as a friend.

The other party quickly agreed and sent a terrified expression asking her if she promised.

Xu Nuo replied yes, and then asked straight to the point: "You said you have Yan Ruyi's QQ?"

The boy was a little surprised and sent several terrified expressions, expressing that he couldn't believe that Xu Nuo would take the initiative to add him, and asked him for the teacher's QQ number: "The classmate next door gave it to her, it should be hers. What's wrong, do you want it? "

"Give it to me, please."

After the person sent a string of numbers, Xu Nuo silently read the string of numbers several times in his heart and then searched for friends. A dialog box popped up, and the name of the other party was: Flying Rabbit.The avatar is a fat pink rabbit head.

Flying bunnies?

Xu Nuo conceived the fat rabbit with the head portrait in his mind, imagining the appearance of the rabbit's chubby body flying in the sky, and felt a little funny.She bent the corner of her mouth, slandering that Yan Ruyi's QQ avatar and name really didn't match her in reality, while applying to add friends, the reason for the application was: Hello, Yan Ruyi.

Xu Xu herself didn't know why she didn't call Yan Ruyi Teacher Yan but called her by her first name. She didn't want to call her teacher, at least at that moment, she didn't want to.

Yan Ruyi agreed to the promised friend application half an hour later and at the same time sent a series of question marks asking who she was.

Xu Nuo hesitated for a moment, then directly changed the subject: "Can rabbits fly?"

"Yes." Yan Ruyi was directly biased by a question promised, and answered her question honestly.

"How to fly?"

"As long as you're not too fat, you can fly."

"How fat is too fat?"

"There are only a hundred good girls."

"Can you fly?"

"I'm too fat..."

When the words "I'm too fat" appeared in front of her eyes, Xu Nuo finally couldn't help but hugged the quilt and smiled silently. She lightly tapped the pink rabbit head on the screen with her fingertips punishingly. He said to himself: "Yan Ruyi, you are lying..."