Time makes you fall

◎Protection (second update)◎

Shang Xiaoran sat down on the bench, right where Qu Qingcheng had just sat.

She opened the tendon and rummaged through it unconsciously: "Who is following you?"

Zhu Yao stood in front of her, staring at the movements of her hands: "You."

It's you.

Because a girl like you never takes a walk alone, walks across the playground with her slender fingers brushing the broken hair hanging from her forehead, enjoys the eyes of boys pretending not to look over, and has a crush on herself The boy whistled.

The Qingzhao Building, which is too remote and secluded, is like a corner where the sun and envy cannot shine. It does not belong to you, but only belongs to me, the gloomy, taciturn, inconsolable me.

Shang Xiaoran smiled and said, "I really didn't follow you, after all I have a side you don't understand, right?"

She handed the glutinous muscle to Zhu Yao's eyes, shaking: "Which color looks better?"

"Which color suits me best?"

"Shang Xiaoran."

"Huh?" Even the calves dangling by the bench were delicate.

"What do you like about me?"

Shang Xiaoran smiled and said, "Actually, I hated you at first."

"what……"

"Zhu Yao, you are really strange." Shang Xiaoran looked at Zhu Yao and smiled: "From the time I met you in the first year of high school, I have a face that looks very noble, what are you talking about? "

"At first, I thought you were pretending on purpose. I just wanted to see how long you can pretend? If you don't care about you, you don't care about others."

Zhu Yao: "I didn't pretend."

"I know." Shang Xiaoran nodded: "I found out, you really don't care what others think, and you don't care what others think of you."

"why?"

Zhu Yao was stunned for a moment: "I just...don't care..."

"Look, I just hate the way you look." Shang Xiaoran smiled: "Why can you easily do what I can't do?"

Zhu Yao looked at Shang Xiaoran's cheerful smile, which was rarely mixed with complicated things, and fell silent.

It turns out that there is only a thin line between "like" and "hate" between girls, like the two sides of a mirror, one side reflects the sunlight and shines brightly, and the other side is painted with dark paint and falls alone.

Connected by something called "yearning", the yearning that can be obtained is like, while the yearning that cannot be obtained becomes hate mixed with jealousy and becomes a bloody scar that cannot heal in the bottom of my heart.

Zhu Yao suddenly realized that this was the biggest thing in Shang Xiaoran's adolescence, which was full of frilly skirts and lacquered leather shoes, perfect test papers and confession love letters.

Like, yearn for, dislike, envy.

The compass pointing to Zhu Yao, after a circle of rotation, will eventually freeze in which direction.

Faced with Zhu Yao's silence, Shang Xiaoran, who was used to it, didn't find it strange, and only asked with a smile, "Which one suits me best?"

"what?"

"It's a rubber band!" Stretched it out in front of Zhu Yao's eyes and shook it again: "Which color?"

Zhu Yao glanced at it: "It's purple."

The surface is gentle and dreamy purple.

Dark and mysterious purple inside.

So you are such Shang Xiaoran.

"I also think purple looks good." Shang Xiaoran smiled and took out the purple rubber band: "Just now, Teacher Qu showed you the video on how to tie a ponytail. Did you learn it?"

Handed the purple rubber band to Zhu Yao: "You help me put it on."

When Zhu Yao didn't reach out, Shang Xiaoran stuffed the rubber band into Zhu Yao's hand: "Take it."

Zhu Yao raised her head, and Shang Xiaoran's slightly curly ponytail was dangling in front of her eyes, wondering if she had slightly permed it with a curling iron.

Slightly raised fingers, still can't imagine, such slightly curly hair sliding over his fingers.

Qu Qingcheng, on the other hand, has long, black hair hanging down one shoulder in the tattoo parlor...

Zhu Yao was taken aback by this sudden thought, and pushed the rubber band back to Shang Xiaoran like an electric shock: "Maybe I'm not very skilled yet..."

Shang Xiaoran smiled, took off the ponytail by himself, and combed it back up with his fingers.

Zhu Yao silently watched the tendon that Qu Qingcheng had given her, one of which was flying between Shang Xiaoran's fair fingers.

Shang Xiaoran tied her ponytail and asked with a smile, "Zhu Yao, do you really not care about anyone?"

"This one……"

"Where's Teacher Qu?" Shang Xiaoran looked at her quietly: "Don't you care about Teacher Qu at all?"

******

Zhu Yao didn't know how he came up with the idea of ​​"wanting to protect Qu Qingcheng".

Meeting Zhu Yinglan at home that night was probably the first reason.

Zhu Yao came home from study in the evening and saw the yellow lights lit up in the usually dark home, he frowned first, but couldn't help but walk over: "Mom."

"You're promising, you." Zhu Yinglan sneered with a glass of red wine: "If you want to treat Mr. Qu on his birthday, why don't you go?!"

"It's all about this kind of violation..."

"Even if the violation is investigated, it is Mr. Qu who is punished and not you. If you are warned, you will not be at ease as your student. Do you understand that you must protect minors?" If you want to die, what can you do?"

Zhu Yao's heart skipped a beat.

Zhu Yinglan was still rambling on: "Do you know how much I paid for the R western restaurant? Do you know how much I paid for gifts?"

"mom."

Zhu Yinglan stopped and looked at her: "I am more promising than your father, and you are more promising than me."

"Your company is short of money recently?"

Zhu Yinglan drank the red wine in the glass in one gulp: "That's not your child's business."

"You do a good job in your studies, and if you don't do it well, you can pave your own way."

******

At that time, Zhu Yao hadn't realized the great changes that were about to take place in her life, and a movie that was screened in the evening self-study was an earth-shattering event for her.

It was the second reason that gave her the idea of ​​"wanting to protect Qu Qingcheng".

During the Chinese evening self-study on Thursday, Qu Qingcheng walked up to the podium with a stack of papers and smiled: "This monthly exam, the results are actually not bad."

Yi Siyuan took the lead in booing: "What is it? We are very smart, okay?"

Qu Qingcheng smiled: "Isn't it because I teach well?"

When Qu Qingcheng said this, Shang Xiaoran took a look at Zhu Yao.

Zhu Yao put on a blank expression.

"I'll give you a small reward." Qu Qingcheng said with a smile, "Tonight's self-study will not teach papers, but will show you a movie."

"real or fake?"

Excited, Yi Siyuan led the boys to pat the table: "Teacher Qu! Teacher Qu! Teacher Qu!"

Qu Qingcheng stopped it with a smile: "Don't quarrel, don't quarrel, if you make other classes complain to the dean, you won't be able to see it."

Qu Qingcheng asked the class monitor to lower the big screen of the projector and connect it to his computer.

"Turn off the lights."

The faint light from the screen lit up Qu Qingcheng's face before he could walk away.

Zhu Yao only watched that extremely famous movie once, and after he separated from Qu Qingcheng, he deliberately avoided it as if he never watched it again.

Many plots have become blurred in memory. The understanding of Zhang Guan Li Dai became a joke when chatting with friends. At that time, Zhu Yao, who had become very famous and had to wear a mask when going out to eat, smiled quietly behind the mask.

The only scene in the movie that made her fresh in her mind came to mind.

On the night of watching a movie in the second year of high school, all Zhu Yao's attention was attracted by that scene——

The heroine's satin pajamas slowly slipped off her shoulders.The black pajamas made the woman's skin glow even more, and all the sun, moon and stars in the sky and the earth, confusing the meaning of time, were all picked up and hidden by the perfectly curved shoulders.

Zhu Yao only glanced at it, then looked away from the screen.

Just like at the tattoo parlor on Qu Qingcheng's birthday night, Zhu Yao only took one look and then looked away from Qu Qingcheng's back.

To be honest, the heroine's shoulders in the movie are nothing like Qu Qingcheng's shoulders.The heroine is fit and plump, while Qu Qingcheng is white and slender.

The only thing that is the same is the light shining from the satin-like skin, which seems to quietly ignite something that has been hidden in Zhu Yao's heart.

It was absolutely impossible for Zhu Yao to let such a thing happen. After looking away, he took a guilty look at Qu Qingcheng.

It was this look that stunned her.

Qu Qingcheng stood at the end of the classroom with his arms folded, leaning against the wall, staring blankly at the movie screen, and then looked away again.

Zhu Yao discovered one thing——

The way Qu Qingcheng looked away made her feel very familiar, because it was too similar to the way she looked away just now.

What is the movie scene that will ignite in Qu Qingcheng's heart?What is it that Qu Qingcheng dare not face?

******

After all the results of the monthly exam come out, the mid-term parent meeting will be held.

Zhu Yao called Zhu Yinglan: "It's okay if you don't come..."

"Are you crazy?" Zhu Yinglan yelled, "You will be a senior in high school next year, and I will come no matter what!"

In fact, Zhu Yao didn't know if Zhu Yinglan came to the school, would she do something that made her feel so embarrassed that she wanted to find a seam? She didn't know whether she would feel more bored or happy.

After hanging up the phone, I realized that I still felt more happy.

The small bubbles in my heart, like cola filled with carbon dioxide, gurgled out again.

The third thing happened at the parent meeting that made Zhu Yao "want to protect Qu Qingcheng".

When the parent meeting was about to start in the afternoon, Zhu Yao stared at the time on the phone screen, wondering if Zhu Yinglan would miss the appointment again. .

In fact, there is no way to tell the direction. Zhu Yinglan is such a shrewd person, but she managed to find Qu Qingcheng's office on Teacher's Day.

Zhu Yao was more willing to understand this as a rare coquettish act of her mother, complaining about "why is it so troublesome", while still hurriedly walking towards the school gate.

Small bubbles like cola popped out of my heart again.

But when they saw a figure, they suddenly broke apart collectively.

Zhu Yao felt cold all over, before he could get to the school gate, he ran towards the car shed, took out his bicycle and rode towards the school gate.

He turned a deaf ear to the shout of the security guard behind him, "Students are not allowed to ride bicycles in the school".

Riding into the school gate, the figure that made Zhu Yao feel cold all over just now reappeared within sight, and Zhu Yao rushed over on the bike——

Black leather jacket, high boots, charming long curly hair hanging down one shoulder, casually flirtatious.

Zhu Yao, who was riding fast, had red eyes——

Isn't this Yang Shenghan?

Yang Shenghan actually ran to the school to find Qu Qingcheng?

******

Looking back many years later, Zhu Yao doesn't know whether it was because of his ignorance at the age of 17, that he still couldn't understand the butterfly effect in the adult world, or because of his natural cowardice.

At that time, she thought that the decision of "wanting to protect Qu Qingcheng" was extremely correct, but afterwards it seemed extremely wrong.

As a result, she and Qu Qingcheng took many detours when they were adults.

It's just that Zhu Yao, who was 17 years old at the time, rushed towards Yang Shenghan with the unique courage of young people.

She wasn't crazy enough to hit someone with her bicycle, she just aimed at a shoulder-to-shoulder distance from Yang Shenghan.

The campus had just been sprinkled with water in order to welcome the parents' meeting. It was not so easy to dry in the late autumn temperature, and small puddles were formed on the concrete floor.

When Zhu Yao rushed over, the gray water in the small puddle splashed all over, and flew towards Yang Shenghan's light-colored jeans and drooping shirt streamers.

"What's the matter?" Yang Shenghan complained just out of his mouth, when he saw the girl who just passed by her and fell to the side of the road.

One drop, two drops of clear red blood dripped from the girl's scratched palm onto the cement gray ground, and was quickly absorbed, turning dark red.

When the girl struggled to get up, a piece of her eyebrow was scratched, revealing bright red flesh and blood, so that her originally pretty face turned weird.

Yang Shenghan was taken aback: "Are you all right?"

She went to help him: "Did you hurt your bones?"

A crushed Coke can next to it was thrown here by someone, and it was the culprit that caused the girl to fall hard.

The girl sat on the ground and tried to move her hands and feet: "The bones should be fine."

Yang Shenghan asked, "Can you go? I'll take you to the hospital."

Zhu Yao remembered that Zhu Yinglan was still waiting for her at the school gate: "Wait a minute, I'll make a call."

"Mom, I'm hurt..."

Zhu Yinglan's scolding on the phone was so sharp that Yang Shenghan, who was a step away from Zhu Yao, could hear it clearly: "What? Did you hit a drink can while riding a bike? Why are you so stupid!"

The next sentence is still: "Where are you, wait for me to come and find you!"

Yang Shenghan watched the girl hang up the phone with bleeding from the corner of her eyebrows, and smiled, feeling that the scene was getting weirder.

The middle-aged woman who hurried over had brown hair, and her face was [-]% similar to the girl sitting on the ground, but under the package of that shrewd expression, she didn't look so similar.

She looked at Yang Shenghan who was squatting next to Zhu Yao, pointed to her nose and asked, "Did you hurt my daughter?"

Yang Shenghan raised his hands to signal his innocence. In fact, the girl rushed towards her inexplicably and splashed water all over her body.

Zhu Yao: "Mom, I accidentally rode my bicycle..."

"You're stupid! You don't know your brain and your hands and feet are stupid! You are exactly the same as that Qi Shengjun!" The woman squatted down quickly while scolding: "Can you stand up? My car is outside."

Zhu Yao slowed down again, and struggled to get up with Zhu Yinglan's support. Yang Shenghan also wanted to help, but Zhu Yinglan slammed her open.

Yang Shenghan folded his arms and stood aside and smiled.

She has seen a woman like Zhu Yinglan, who was forced by life to become a sharp hedgehog, who would attack any external stimuli with the thorns first, and even she herself had forgotten how to place her soft belly.

Zhu Yao suddenly said, "Let's go together."

Yang Shenghan: "Huh?"

"How can I say that I was injured because I was hiding from you... let's go together."

Yang Shenghan smiled heartily: "Okay, I'll lose money if I have to."

Zhu Yinglan glared at her: "Is this a matter of losing money?" Helping Zhu Yao to leave.

Yang Shenghan looked back at the teaching building, and followed the backs of the mother and daughter.

******

Zhu Yao, who was sitting in Zhu Yinglan's car, was very grateful for the injury.

Her original intention was to splash dirty water on Yang Shenghan's body. If Yang Shenghan cared about his image in front of Qu Qingcheng, he would definitely not just appear in front of Qu Qingcheng like that.

But what if Yang Shenghan came to quarrel with Qu Qingcheng aggressively like last time at R Western Restaurant?What if Yang Shenghan didn't care about such trivial things as dirty clothes?

Zhu Yao hasn't figured out what to do yet. She is full of thoughts about what happened at school the day before yesterday. The bicycle crashed into a Coke can——

"Have you heard? A teacher was fired in the third year of high school."

"Why? Isn't it a taboo for military strategists to change coaches just before the battle? Why is the teacher in the third year of high school temporarily dismissed?"

"It's said that the thesis that evaluates professional titles is suspected of plagiarism or something, actually..."

"what? What?"

When the three words "gay*xing*love", which had been suppressed infinitely low, came to Zhu Yao's ears amidst the sound of "true or false" pretending to be surprised and gasping.

Zhu Yao lowered his head and pinched the phone, and the three words that Qu Qingcheng said to Mr. Zheng in R Western Restaurant rang in his ears: "I'm sorry."

Zhu Yao was wondering if Qu Qingcheng understood what she was facing?

In this era where same-sex relationships are commonplace, hooking hands on the street has even lost its attractiveness, but once such a relationship occurs within the system, or is discovered by the older generation One's own children are closely related, that is a completely different situation.

Qu Qingcheng knew it.

After all, she never expressed anything in school.

Zhu Yao's brain cells were overactive in a burst of surprise stimulation——

Zhu Yinglan said: "Even if the violation is investigated, Teacher Qu will be punished, not you." The violation, what regulation was violated, Qu Qingcheng has entered the system, and there are red lines that cannot be crossed everywhere.

In addition to receiving gifts in private, Zhu Yao has already seen the fate of more serious violations.

She thought of Qu Qingcheng avoiding the movie screen during his evening self-study.

At that time Shang Xiaoran came to Zhu Yao's table with a smile: "Why are you in a daze?"

Zhu Yao looked up, the purple rubber band was shining on Shang Xiaoran's slightly curled ponytail——

"Zhu Yao, do you really not care about anyone?"

"What about Teacher Qu? Don't you care about Teacher Qu at all?"

At this time, the driver ran over something, and the car body bumped violently, and Zhu Yinglan scolded: "One or two of them don't have eyes! Why are they running over things on the road?"

After referring to Sang and scolding Huai, he turned his head and glared at Zhu Yao.

Seeing Zhu Yao's smirk, he asked cursingly, "Are you bloody stupid?"

Zhu Yao thought in his heart: It's great that he accidentally bumped into a Coke can and got injured.

On the dark side of the moon that Qu Qingcheng failed to notice, she quietly took away the landmine that might have injured Qu Qingcheng.

******

The surgeon was also taken aback when he saw Zhu Yao: "Why did the young girl fall like this? Don't be afraid of losing your appearance!"

Zhu Yinglan said from the side: "She has no brains!"

He still held Zhu Yao's shoulder with his hand, as if he was afraid that she would not be able to sit still.

Zhu Yao leaned back, leaning on Zhu Yinglan with a little body weight.

This is the second reason she is thankful for this injury.

When scolding and silence became the way of communication between her and Zhu Yinglan.

When Zhu Yinglan slapped her, it became the only physical contact between mother and daughter.

The 17-year-old was proud and awkward and didn't know how to express himself, how to walk up to Zhu Yinglan's arm as if nothing had happened.

Crying like a baby and saying "Don't go and stay with me" is a privilege only for five-year-old children. Zhu Yao's skill has long been dusted in the dark and empty house.

Lost in ten years of estrangement, there is no possibility of displaying it.

It wasn't until today that Zhu Yinglan helped her all the way under the cover of being "injured" that she realized——

After the layers of annoying perfume, the sweet scent of osmanthus on Zhu Yinglan's body has not changed for so many years.

The smell she'd smelled since she was a child at her grandmother's house.

******

The doctor "threatened" Zhu Yao when bandaging her: "Be careful next time you ride a bike! Look at your bandaging this time, you will shave your eyebrows off!"

Zhu Yinglan began to really worry about Zhu Yao's scar, and asked the doctor, "What should I do?"

"I'm scaring the little girl." The doctor said, "At most, there will be a small spot in the eyebrow, it won't be very obvious."

The doctor's professional judgment was correct. After Zhu Yao recovered from this injury, his eyebrows gradually grew back. Looking in the mirror, Zhu Yao found a small white spot only at the end of the eyebrow.

Two eyebrows are missing, and I don't know if they will grow in the future.

Later, those long years of leaving Qu Qingcheng gave her the answer: the two missing eyebrows, accompanied by Zhu Yao's ridiculous and miserable injury, disappeared completely and never grew back.

This small defect, which was originally insignificant, became serious after Zhu Yao became a hot star.

Countless makeup artists stroked Zhu Yao's eyebrows, and said with regret, "Why is there a lack here?"

They felt that Zhu Yao's delicate and stubborn face looked better without makeup than with makeup, but the small gap in the eyebrow was like a white jade with a slight blemish.

The agent, Sister Mao, once suggested: "How about tattooing two eyebrows?"

In this way, Zhu Yao, as the artist with the most attractive appearance under her command, would not be afraid to participate in those shows without make-up removal at all, and it would be appropriate to buy a "beautiful beauty" draft.

Zhu Yao touched her eyebrows in the mirror: "No need."

"I kinda like this little thing."

Sister Mao glared at her: "Are you sick? Tired of being pretty?"

Zhu Yao just laughed.

The reason why she couldn't say it was that she felt that the gap in her eyebrows was like a small medal, which was the secret proof that she had fought for Qu Qingcheng in her youth.

She protected Qu Qingcheng in her own way, even with bloody wounds.

******

Zhu Yao's examination report came out, and the doctor's sentence reassured Zhu Yinglan a little: "The bones are fine."

Yang Shenghan was on the sidelines answering the phone: "Hmmmmmmmm...the reverberation and echo were not right last time...let's re-record it, it's okay to spend some money...I have something to do, I'll come over as soon as I finish it. "

She hung up the phone, and Zhu Yao asked, "Are you a singer?"

Yang Shenghan smiled: "Playing in a band."

"Lead vocal? Guitar?"

"I play bass."

"The band is looking for you? Go get busy."

"You're almost done with the examination, right?" Yang Shenghan glanced at Zhu Yinglan who was asking the doctor Xu Xu in the consulting room: "How much is the medical bill? I'll pay it to you."

"No, you didn't hurt me in the first place."

"What's going on?" Yang Shenghan smiled: "Didn't you just say that you were injured because you were hiding from me, so you dragged me here?"

Zhu Yao: "I thought about it carefully, it's not you."

"You kid is really... weird." Yang Shenghan stuffed Zhu Yao with a business card: "Then I'm really leaving, please contact me if you have anything to do."

Zhu Yao nodded.

Looking at Yang Shenghan's back, recalling that she said "you little boy" in the old Beicheng accent just now, Zhu Yao's mind is full of Qu Qingcheng's soft and gentle southern accent——

"You little boy."

As a child, I also have my own way.

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