round spring

In the deep winter of that year, the snow began to fall so uncomfortably.

——An Yuan's Diary

An Yuan folded her arms, leaning on the concrete pillar at the corner next to the gate of the girls' dormitory, her eyes kept rolling, looking around, until it was dark, and she never saw Wu Qian come back.

It was already dinner time, and it began to snow again, and the wind was blowing hard and fast. An Yuan sniffed, pressed down the hat on his head, and tightened the rope under the hat, covering the collar of his coat. With his chin and half of his face covered, he finally looked around unwillingly, and after confirming that he couldn't see anything clearly from a little further away, he turned and walked back. He had to go back to the dormitory to get a lunch box and go to the cafeteria to get food for Shen Xingchun.

The road was too slippery, although An Yuan walked very carefully, he still fell downstairs in the dormitory, and was covered in snow foam mixed with dirt and mud, and was still wiping his face with the back of his hand when he entered Shen Xingchun's dormitory.

Shen Xingchun was lying on the bed reading a book, but when he saw An Yuan's mess, he was startled, put down the book and sat up with his arms propped up.

"Xiao Yuaner, what did you do? Did you get into a fight?"

"There was no fight, it was snowing outside, the road was too slippery and I accidentally fell." An Yuan took off his cotton-padded jacket, took off his hat, and put it on the railing beside the bed.

Shen Xingchun was originally worried that the people who picked on him outside the school before would find An Yuan again, but just now he saw that An Yuan was covered in mud and was terrified, and he was relieved when he heard that it wasn't a fight, "Where did you fall, does it hurt?"

An Yuan rolled up the sleeves of his sweater, walked towards the pool, grinned and said, "It hurts me so much, I just fell on my head and my ass hurts. Fortunately, there are students helping me." I got up."

"It's snowing and the road is slippery, walk carefully."

After Shen Xingchun finished speaking, he picked up the crutch beside the bed, stood up on one foot under the creaking nest, walked slowly step by step to the pool, and stood beside An Yuan to watch him wash his hands and face.

After An Yuan washed his hands, he took a handful of water and washed his face. With his palms propped by the sink, he looked at Shen Xingchun from the mirror, looked at his crutches and asked, "Brother, where did you get your crutches?"

"Bunle brought it back to me when get out of class was over."

An Yuan's face hadn't been wiped yet, the drops of water dripped from his chin to his neck, he quickly lowered his head, and washed his face twice, after washing, he took Shen Xingchun's towel from the shelf and wiped his face.

"Brother, don't stand still, go back and lie down."

"It's okay to have a cane." Shen Xingchun didn't go back, he took a small step to the side while supporting the cane, and raised his chin at An Yuan in the mirror, "There's still some mud spots on the back of his neck."

"Where?"

An Yuan's upper body leaned forward and approached the mirror. He turned his neck and looked at it. There were really mud spots on the back of his neck. He took Shen Xingchun's towel and washed it. He wiped his neck with a wet towel. Pulling down the collar of the sweater, he showed Shen Xingchun his neck, "Brother, help me see, is the back of the neck clean now?"

An Yuan tugged at the collar of the sweater, revealing a bit of her straight collarbone and half of her shoulders. An Yuan was very thin, her shoulders were small, and she could hold it with one hand. The skin under the sweater was delicate and fair, and the skin was thin and transparent. A little light pink contrasted sharply with his flushed cheeks.

Shen Xingchun looked at it for a long time and said, "This time the neck is clean."

An Yuan let go of the fingers holding the collar of the sweater, washed the towel and put it on the rack to dry, then turned around and helped Shen Xingchun, "I'll help you to bed, I'll change clothes and go down to cook for you."

"There's no need to fight for lunch," Shen Xingchun said, "Just now when Wen Le came back from get out of class, I saw that you weren't in the dormitory, so I went to fight with our lunch box."

An Yuan helped Shen Xingchun lie on the bed, Shen Xingchun turned to the serious topic, looked up at An Yuan and asked: "Xiao Yuaner, haven't you gone to get some air these days, are you going to find Wu Qian?" gone?"

An Yuan pursed her lips, lowered her eyelids and said, "Brother, how do you know?"

"Someone in our class saw it just now. They didn't know you. They knew Wu Qian. They said they were dragged by a man and wanted to find the teacher. I guessed it was you."

Seeing that Shen Xingchun already knew about it, An Yuan didn't hide it, "Brother, I just want to find Wu Qian and ask her to go to the teacher to clarify."

"If my legs are good now, I will definitely go to Wu Qian to ask for clarification, and I have to bring a recording pen to leave evidence or something, but I have bad legs now, so don't go to her yourself," Shen Xingchun said, "I The person who suspects someone to beat me should also be Ge Chuan, don't go to Wu Qian by yourself, just in case you run into that Ge Chuan again."

"This is a school, what else can he do? Can't beat me?" An Yuan pouted.

"It's better to be careful. Besides, it's only a matter of time before the school investigates this matter clearly. In the past few days, it's impossible for the school to make a decision based on Wu Qian's words. Moreover, Ge Chuan's letter was obviously vindictive. We are unlucky." , There’s nothing you can do about this shit, there’s always a solution, if it’s really not working, just like you said, just call the police.”

Shen Xingchun gave An Yuan an analysis, and was afraid that An Yuan would not listen, so he repeated, "Don't go looking for Wu Qian yourself, do you hear me?"

An Yuan sighed, sat on the edge of Shen Xingchun's bed, slumped his shoulders, drooped his head, and nodded his chin unwillingly, "Understood, brother, I won't go looking for Wu Qian myself."

When the dormitory door was knocked, An Yuan was lying on Shen Xingchun's leg in plaster, looking, "Brother, I can't see anything."

"Through the plaster, what can you see?"

The wounds on Shen Xingchun's face and neck were almost healed, and he didn't need to wrap gauze on his hands anymore. The wound was still a little red. After An Yuan disinfected him, he applied medicine, and as usual, he squatted beside Shen Xingchun's bed, watching him slap On the plastered leg, after looking around, he raised the quilt under Shen Xingchun's calf, bent his index finger, and tapped lightly on the plaster.

"Brother, does it hurt?"

Shen Xingchun put down the book in his hand, put it upside down on his stomach, and said with a smile, "It doesn't hurt."

"Dong dong dong" several knocks on the door, Shen Xingchun asked An Yuan to open the door.

An Yuan's legs were numb from squatting, he stood up and stomped his feet before walking towards the door, "Brother Wen Le should be back from eating."

An Yuan opened the door, the people who came were not Wen Le, but Geng Bai and Qi Yunfeng, he smiled and called out, "Brother Feng, Brother Bai, it's snowing outside, it's so cold, why are you two here?"

Qi Yunfeng and Geng Bai carried several insulated lunch boxes in their hands, and raised them in front of An Yuan's eyes, "I haven't been back for a few days, so I'm here to deliver food to you two."

An Yuan gave way, and when Qi Yunfeng and Geng Bai came in, Shen Xingchun held his fingers on the bedside railing, and stretched his head to look at the door.

"Brother Feng, Xiaobai, why are you here?"

Qi Yunfeng looked at Shen Xingchun's leg in plaster at a glance, "Ouch", walked to Shen Xingchun's bedside and asked, "Dachun, what happened to your leg? Did it break?"

"It wasn't broken, but it was slightly fractured, and I got into a fight with someone." Shen Xingchun said.

"Fuck, who bullied you? Campus bullying?" Geng Bai's eyes widened.

Shen Xingchun explained: "It wasn't at school, but outside the school, I met a few gangsters on the road, and then we started fighting."

"I said, if you keep silent, you won't go back." Qi Yunfeng said.

Shen Xingchun: "I'm afraid you are worried, it's nothing serious, the plaster will be removed after a while, it's not serious."

Qi Yunfeng walked around in the dormitory, and put the lunch box on the table beside Shen Xingchun's bed, "Have you two eaten?"

"I haven't eaten yet," An Yuan walked over, "My brother's roommate went to the cafeteria to get some food."

Geng Bai also put the lunch box on the table, "Then let's eat together when the roommates come back from Dachun. We brought a lot, counting your roommates, seven or eight people's meals."

After Geng Bai finished speaking, he looked at An Yuan: "By the way, Xiao Yuan'er, Grandma Shen called this morning. She thought you two were still with us. I heard that you were not here. Let me send you a message." , Said to find you something, and asked you to call her back on the weekend or sometime."

"My grandma called me? Did you say something on the phone?" An Yuan asked.

"I didn't say anything on the phone," Geng Bai said, "I asked you to call her back on the weekend."

An Yuan found Shen Xingchun's padded jacket and put it on, "Don't miss the weekend, I'll go down and call her back right away, there's a phone downstairs."

Shen Xingchun gave An Yuan the phone card in his bag, then picked up his hat from the bedside and threw it to him, "Don't worry, it's definitely not an urgent matter to ask you to come back on weekends, put on your hat, and be careful of the slippery steps when you go downstairs. Stop falling."

An Yuan put on his coat and hat and went out, saying as he walked, "Understood brother, I won't fall again."

An Yuan made three phone calls to his family, but no one answered. When he put down the phone and wanted to leave, he suddenly remembered that his grandma was not at home, she should be at Shen Jianjun's house. He called Shen Jianjun's house again, and someone answered this time. It was Shen Jianjun who picked it up.

"Hey, who is it?"

"Hi Uncle Shen, I'm An Yuan, I'm looking for grandma."

Shen Jianjun said "Okay", then turned to call Grandma Shen who was playing with Shen Rui on the sofa: "Mom, An Yuan is looking for your number."

When grandma heard that it was An Yuan, she asked Shen Rui to play by herself first, smiled and stood up to answer the phone. After answering the phone, she first asked An Yuan about trivial matters in Beijing, asked him if he was cold, whether he was used to eating, Where did they go to play, and asked Shen Xingchun if it was important to study.

An Yuan talked with Grandma Shen on the phone for a long time, and finally asked her: "Grandma, you called Brother Bai's house earlier and said you have something to do with me, what's the matter?"

Grandma Shen said: "What is that? Last night, after two o'clock in the night, a phone call came. It was a woman. She said her name was Linda, and she also had the whole foreign name. I didn't understand her name at first. , She said it several times before I understood that it was Linda who was looking for you. I asked her what was the relationship with you, but she didn't say anything. You are not here, and I asked where you are, and I told her that you are in Beijing now, and then she hung up the phone without saying a few words."

An Yuan held the phone and thought for a long time, but she couldn't remember the woman named Linda, so she said to her grandma, "Grandma, I don't know Linda, and I don't know who it is."

Grandma Shen thought of something and said, "That Linda asked me for your phone number, and I also gave Xiaobai's phone number."

An Yuan clenched his fists to his mouth and let out a sigh. He suddenly remembered what his father had said about his family relatives when he went to the prison to meet him, and said to Grandma Shen on the phone: "Grandma, I know, I'll go back Tell Brother Bai to keep an eye on the phone, and I'll write a letter to my dad in the evening to ask."