Time makes you fall

◎Farewell◎

New Year's Day holiday, but only three days.

Three days later, when he returned to school, there was not even a thin layer of dust on the desks and desks. Zhu Yao, who was only 17 years old at the time, felt as if he had passed away.

Not unflattering.

Zhu Yao didn't bother to wipe the table, and when she sat down at the desk with the pancake fruit, the neighbor next to her took a look at her.Not only that, when she approached the classroom, Shang Xiaoran also took a look at her.

And Zhou Ang, when he came to look for her between classes, he called out exaggeratedly.

Zhu Yao was a little helpless—isn't it just that he didn't wear a ponytail?As for everyone having such a big reaction?

Zhou Ang asked her: "Why don't you wear a ponytail? You're more energetic that way. You didn't wear a ponytail before, and you kept your head down and disheveled all day long. I didn't even know you were in the second class!"

Zhu Yao: "I'm too lazy."

"How can you be so lazy as a girl!"

"Yes, yes, I don't apply pomade as often as you do."

"..." Zhou Ang was going to refute Zhu Yao's sarcasm about him applying pomade to see the captain, staring at Zhu Yao's face, but only asked, "Are you okay?"

"What's the matter with me?"

"Then stop laughing!" Zhou Ang folded his arms, looking very cold: "You said that you usually don't like to laugh, why laugh when you have nothing to do! Laughing makes my hair stand on end."

"If you know it, you have passed a year, but if you don't know it, you think you have a second child."

Zhu Yao was taken aback.

Is she smiling?

Is it to cover up something that the body has activated such a hypocritical instinct?

******

The first day back from the long vacation is Tuesday, and the fourth quarter is Chinese class.

When Qu Qingcheng walked into the classroom and glanced at Zhu Yao, he was also taken aback for a moment.But that was just an extremely subtle micro-expression, fleeting.

Zhu Yao felt that apart from her, no one in the class could see it, maybe even Shang Xiaoran couldn't see it.

Maybe Shang Xiaoran didn't pay as much attention to her as Zhu Yao thought, and even, didn't pay as much attention to Qu Qingcheng as Zhu Yao thought.

Still, Zhu Yao took himself too seriously.

After class, Zhu Yao habitually procrastinated at the last one, procrastinating downstairs to go to the cafeteria.

When she reached the stairs, a voice called her.

Zhu Yao lowered her head, her long hair hanging down, completely covering her face.

That gentle and special voice with a little southern accent, who else could it be except Qu Qingcheng.

"There's no need to look like this, right?" Qu Qingcheng walked behind Zhu Yao and said.

"Which one does it look like?"

"No hair tie."

Zhu Yao thought, his behavior must be extremely naive in Qu Qingcheng's eyes.

Qu Qingcheng asked, "Are you listening to class with earphones on again?"

"No, I'm just too lazy to tie my hair." Zhu Yao said and was about to run away: "I'm going to the cafeteria to eat."

"Wait a minute." Qu Qingcheng said, "Do you still have homework? You still did it yourself, didn't you copy it?"

Zhu Yao let out a "huh".

"Good..." Qu Qingcheng seemed to want to say this word, but he swallowed the second half of the syllable after saying it, as if he felt that Zhu Yao would be disgusted.

Before Zhu Yao ran away, she quietly turned and left.

At that time, Zhu Yao was still young, and he still couldn't fully understand how his words hurt Qu Qingcheng.

Maybe give her a little more time, after witnessing the shock of Yang Shenghan and Qu Qingcheng's embrace subside, she can gradually react, maybe everything is not what she thought in her dismay.

Maybe give her a little more time, she would be very willing to walk to the door of Qu Qingcheng's office, maybe at noon in the end of winter, maybe in the morning of early spring, and say "I'm sorry" to Qu Qingcheng.

At that time Qu Qingcheng thought of her as a child, maybe Qu Qingcheng would be angry for a long time, maybe Qu Qingcheng would forgive her for making trouble out of no reason in the end.

In that way, the two of them would be able to speak in a few words, in bits and pieces, like before, in the corridor outside the classroom, in the cafeteria, by the playground, and in the Qingzhao Building, saying some insignificant but profoundly meaningful words to Zhu Yao.

However, Zhu Yao has no time.

Therefore, the conversation at the stairway at noon on January 1 became one of the only two conversations between her and Qu Qingcheng in the next five years.

Because of two things that happened soon, Zhu Yao's life took a turn for the worse.

******

The first thing happened at Zhu Yao's house.

Perhaps all major events happened suddenly without any warning.

For example, on January 1th of the new year, Zhu Yao remembered that it was a Monday, and the evening self-study was Chinese, and there were still seven days before Zhu Yao's birthday.

During the recess that morning, Zhu Yinglan made a rare phone call to Zhu Yao and asked Zhu Yao what birthday gift she wanted.

Before that, every year, Zhu Yao's birthday and Zhu Yinglan would not be asked, and they would always buy a set of hardcover classics and pay directly.

And the fate of those masterpieces is to be dusted in the study, and become useless decorations together with Japanese samurai swords, antique calligraphy and paintings, and Huzhou brushes.

Zhu Yao didn't read a single page.

So this year Zhu Yinglan's question of "what do you want for your birthday" made Zhu Yao unprepared, he hesitated and said, "whatever you want."

It sounds like impatience, but there is a little joy hidden in the impatience.

Zhu Yinglan said "Oh": "Then I will let the secretary figure it out."

It turned out to be a secretary.

Zhu Yinglan wanted to hang up the phone, but Zhu Yao called her, "Mom."

Zhu Yinglan asked, "What's the matter?"

In fact, Zhu Yao wanted to say that Zhu Yinglan hadn't been home for a long time.She hadn't seen Zhu Yinglan for nearly two months since the day of the last parent meeting and when she left suddenly in the hospital.

The news about Zhu Yinglan was told to Zhu Yao by the secretary who came to deliver or pick up things.

Went to Singapore.Went to Thailand.Went to Hong Kong.

Zhu Yao wanted to ask Zhu Yinglan: "When will you go home?" The words came to his lips, but he couldn't ask.

Just like the ten years of alienation in the middle, she has long lost the ability to hold Zhu Yinglan's arm and act like a baby.

Zhu Yinglan is very used to Zhu Yao's silence, and scolded on the phone: "Why are you always hesitating? You don't look like a child who speaks directly. It makes others think that you are scheming and not pleasing at all!"

Then he muttered to himself: "Do you know that bastard Qi Shengjun, and his little honey, are not at all shameless, you must never take him as your father..."

Zhu Yao called out again: "Mom."

"Hang it."

Zhu Yinglan hung up the phone.

So when Zhu Yao was standing in front of the house now, looking at the two seals on the door, he was completely dumbfounded.

what's the situation?

Obviously when Zhu Yinglan called her this morning, the voice was still normal?

Looking at the red stamp on the seal, Zhu Yao knew that it was not a joke, so she didn't dare to take the key to open the door rashly. She took out her mobile phone and called Zhu Yinglan, but no one answered.

She called again, but no one answered.

He called Zhu Yinglan's secretary again, by this time, Zhu Yao's hands were already shaking a little.

When the second call was made, the secretary answered: "Zhu Yao?"

"My mother, what happened to her?" She squeezed the phone tightly with trembling fingers.

The voice over there was also very surprised: "Why, you still don't know anything?"

"Nobody informed you?"

Zhu Yao's voice was hollow, and seemed to echo in front of his own villa: "...No."

The half hour of sitting on the steps waiting for Secretary Zhu Yinglan to come to her was probably the most difficult half hour in Zhu Yao's 17-year life.

Even when Zhu Yinglan and Qi Shengjun divorced when she was seven years old, she didn't have such a difficult time, because at that time she was facing known fears instead of unknown fears.

Finally, Zhu Yinglan's secretary rushed over and said, "You can't stay at home, go to a hotel and get a room, do you still have money in your card?"

"You can't live in a five-star hotel like before, you can live in a chain hotel."

After arriving at the hotel and opening a room, the secretary asked Zhu Yao, "Can you get used to it? Please feel wronged."

Zhu Yao said at the time: "It's okay."

At that time, she said that because she was not so picky about her living conditions, not because she knew that in the next three or four years, the room in this express hotel was the best place she had ever lived in.

That night, from Secretary Zhu Yinglan's mouth, Zhu Yao knew how much trouble Zhu Yinglan had made.

And Qi Shengjun.

The two people's business ideas are in the same line, so they were both tricked by the same unreliable partner, and they were also involved in an economic fraud case.

Originally, Qi Shengjun didn't invest much at the beginning, but under the instigation of the so-called Xiaomi, the snowball got bigger and bigger.It's not that Zhu Yinglan didn't suspect that there was something wrong with this matter, it's just that Qi Shengjun's jealousy has not been really let go for so many years, and it has become a strong competitive heart.

If she doesn't enter the game, she will only be thrown further and further away by Qi Shengjun.

Now once the incident happens, the amount of money involved is not something that Qi Shengjun and Zhu Yinglan can afford to pay, so both of them will be judged very quickly.

Zhu Yinglan admitted her mistake without denying it, and all her family property was used to fill the hole, but she still had to go in for a few years.

Half a month later, three days before New Year's Eve, secretary Zhu Yinglan came to pick up Zhu Yao, and went to the former villa to pack things for the last time. He was a little bit embarrassed: "Zhu Yao, from now on, you and Mr. Zhu will have no home."

Zhu Yao gave a low "hmm".

She simply packed up her belongings, and went to the rental house with the secretary.

It was rented by the secretary for her at a very cheap price. The greasy wallpaper had lost its stickiness due to age, and its corner was limp and drooping, revealing the yellowed and mottled wall.

Even in the dry Beicheng, there is a layer of green mold growing in the corner of the toilet facing the poor.

Zhu Yao asked the secretary, "What are your plans for the future?"

The secretary spoke with emotion: "I went back to my hometown."

I don't know if Zhu Yinglan wanted to protect him. He really didn't know that Zhu Yinglan got into that unreliable situation, so he escaped punishment.

After the secretary left, Zhu Yao became completely alone.

It was already winter vacation at that time, and every day Zhu Yao saw someone in the class group talking about going to Sanya, Yunnan, and the United States for the New Year with his parents.

Coincidentally, on the day she moved to the rental house, Shang Xiaoran posted a photo in the group. It was her and her parents at a Michelin-starred food shop in Tokyo, holding a king crab that was two circles bigger than her face, and smiling. The face is bright.

Qu Qingcheng rarely replied in the group: "I've been to this restaurant too, it's delicious."

A smiley emoticon.

Zhu Yao silently put down the phone, and turned on a small TV in the rental house that couldn't be smaller.

I don't know which year it is an antique, and the picture has become strips, which is completely unclear.

Zhu Yao walked over to take a few shots, and the screen simply went black.

Zhu Yao stood silently facing the TV for a while, reached out to turn off the TV, walked back to the piece of peeling fake leather sofa and sat down, picked off the pieces of red fake leather stuck to her jeans, pinched it, and into powder.

What is Qu Qingcheng doing at this time?Are you at her parents' house, smelling incense, playing the piano and painting?

Zhu Yao knew that the "I'm sorry" that had been brewing in her heart for many days, could no longer be said to Qu Qingcheng.

From now on, she will only avoid Qu Qingcheng more thoroughly.

Inferiority is like a poison born in the heart, and dark flowers bloom on dark purple vines.

She has since lost the qualification to approach Qu Qingcheng's world.

The peaceful and peaceful world that doesn't have to suffer.That world is within reach if you follow Zhu Yao's normal life trajectory.

From then on, Qu Qingcheng could only stay inside by himself.

However, Qu Qingcheng didn't even give Zhu Yao the chance to hide.

Because in the second semester of the second year of high school, the Chinese teacher in the class suddenly changed.

Qu Qingcheng resigned.

The author says:

This chapter is short so don't panic! hh will add a new chapter tonight~ The high school period is over, and the timeline has finally come to the present!

感谢在2021-10-0412:45:54~2021-10-0511:34:40期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who cast the rocket launcher: 1 Huosen;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: Mu Chenyan, child, 223206501;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!

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