Years are warm

The week after returning to school, Li Siyuan went to the science class to find Zhao Mingzhe to apologize. The boy scratched his head and said it was okay, as if he was not used to her sudden change of attitude.

But after this incident, it can be regarded as an extra nodding acquaintance.

Heat waves come back over time, and even in an air-conditioned room, the heat can make you drowsy and unnerving.

If it is said that going to physical education class in winter can still bask in the sun, then going to the playground in summer is an out-and-out torture.A group of people ran two warm-up laps under the bright sun, and finally saw the physical education teacher waved them to the basketball court.

Recently, there was a class basketball game. The basketball court was much more lively than the gymnasium. In some free-moving classes, the boys ran to practice, and there were many girls watching.However, most of these activities have nothing to do with the liberal arts class. After all, there are 45 students in the class, of which there are only ten boys, and half of them can't play basketball. Normally, there are not enough people.But the school's requirement is that each class must send out a team, so the physical education teacher still dragged their group of students from the liberal arts class to the basketball court, euphemistically calling it cramming.

Boys are sure to hit it twice, girls are free to do so.

Xu Huaian was too lazy to join in the fun, and squatted in the shadows with Zhang Xin watching the few interested girls in the class pondering how to play.

Xie Zhiyao still wanted to invite her to join him, but she waved her hand and refused.

She would rather go back to read than to be exposed to the sun.She is really not interested in sports or anything.

Next to it is a few members of the school basketball team who are training. It is said that there is a game and they have asked for leave, and there are bursts of cheers from time to time.

Xu Huaian got up and stretched, and was about to buy a bottle of water, but just as he walked out of the field, he saw a ball flying to his feet next door.

She raised her head and met the eyes of the boy who was playing on the court over there.

"Ah, I'm sorry, classmate, can I trouble you to throw the ball over?" Seeing her looking over, the boy spread his hands with a smile, and said enthusiastically, "As compensation, do you want to play ball? I can teach you."

The few boys behind him booed together, obviously planning it long ago.

Xie Zhiyao told the class, trotted over and said, "What's wrong?"

Xu Huai'an frowned, took her wrist and walked a few steps forward, and said coldly, "Thank you, I don't need it."

However, the boy quickly ran up to them and stopped them, as if he still wanted to strike up a conversation, but before he could speak, he heard someone behind him speak.

"Apologize to others."

Those who watched over because of the commotion just now followed the voice and started whispering again.

The boy who spoke was wearing a black T-shirt with a small logo embroidered on the left chest.He is tall, and at first glance, he has a sharp-edged face and a very handsome appearance.

Xie Zhiyao was taken aback for a moment.She recognized the sign. If I remember correctly, it should belong to the school basketball team. At this time, most of the students who attended class with them were freshmen in high school. Anyone who apologizes has to be a freshman.

At this time, there is only one class 7 in the second year of high school, so it is not difficult to guess who this person is.

The captain of the school basketball team, one year older than them, is called Xiang Yuzhou if I remember correctly.

For some reason, she always felt that the other person's face looked familiar.

There was a burst of whispering from behind, which was mixed with another name. Xie Zhiyao was still wondering where he had seen this person, when Zhang Xin who was walking beside him pulled off her sleeve.

"That, post bar vote, remember?"

It's him... Xie Zhiyao suddenly nodded.

When the boys saw him coming, they clicked their tongues tediously, said sorry, and then scattered. He turned his head and picked up the basketball on the ground, and nodded at them.

"The post really doesn't deceive me. He's a nice guy, and he's pretty handsome." Li Siyuan came over and hooked Zhang Xin's shoulder, and said with emotion while rubbing the face of the little girl.

"It's not bad." Xie Zhiyao agreed objectively.

Xu Huai'an raised his eyes to look over there, and said, "There's nothing to see, let's go."

There are generally no activities in the second half of the semester, and it is always easy to give people the illusion that it is over in a blink of an eye.The sound of cicadas began to sing outside the window. When a group of people recovered from their heavy studies, they realized that it was time for the final exam.

With the division of arts and sciences, their exam time was naturally shortened by half a day.

It was raining during the exam, and the thunder was muffled, which inexplicably added a bit of gloom, but fortunately, the sky had cleared up by the time the last exam was over.

Someone in the classroom was checking the answers, and when they saw Xu Huaian came back, they asked a question.

"Huai'an, what is the third option for reading the last article?"

Xu Huai'an paused to pack up her things. She recalled the paper and said, "I chose D."

"Huh? I chose C... It's over, it's over..."

"It's agreed that BC won't make a decision..."

A group of people who answered the answers suddenly became happy and sad. Those who chose the same answer were of course happy, but those who chose the same answer were almost all gloomy.

"You are almost becoming a standard answer template." Xie Zhiyao pulled the bag on his back and couldn't help laughing.

Xu Huaian walked out of the classroom side by side with her, shook his head and said, "You are not much different, so don't mention me."

The difficulty of the paper this time is not very high, and a rough calculation shows that the ranking of the two people will not change much. At most, there may be a difference of one or two points between the schools, which is not a big problem.

The two went back to the dormitory to get their things, and said goodbye to the other two people in the dormitory.

The sun was shining brightly, Xie Zhiyao squinted his eyes, and opened the door with a thick stack of books in his arms.

Unexpectedly, Xie Yuanhong was at home today.

It's not a weekend, even if there is no class for him at the Polytechnic University, he should still be leading a project or revising a thesis in a meeting. This kind of situation at home is really rare.

She had just returned to her room and put away her things, when she turned around, she was surprised to see Xie Yuanhong standing at the door of her room.

Xie Yuanhong looked at her with no smile on his face.

"I had dinner with your Uncle Xu two days ago, and he showed me a photo taken by Xiaoyang."

The Xiaoyang he was talking about was the boy who was experimenting during the New Year's Day holiday, named Xu Yang.

Xie Zhiyao panicked for a moment for no reason. She was about to speak, but she heard the other party ask next.

"You, do you have anything to confess to me?"

Xie Zhiyao looked down at the picture on the phone, his face suddenly turned pale.

What I took was the grade ranking on the bulletin board, not the current one, but the mid-term one.

Xie Yuanhong had a panoramic view of the changes in her expression, his heart sank suddenly, and he understood what had come.His face turned cold, and his voice became severe: "Your second, is it science or liberal arts?"

He seldom educates people in such a harsh tone, even when facing troublesome students, he is always gentle and polite, so this reprimand immediately made Xie Zhiyao's shoulders tremble.

Her lips twitched, and she forced herself to calm down: "Wen Ke... I'm sorry, Dad..."

"You! What did you tell me then?!" Xie Yuanhong tapped the edge of the desk with his fingers, with anger in his eyes, "I'll call your class teacher now, and you transfer me back to the science class!"

"Dad!" Xie Zhiyao raised his head abruptly, grabbed his sleeve, shook his head and said, "I don't want...I don't want to learn, please don't call..."

Her voice had already dropped at the end, she sniffled with sobs, her eyes were red.

Xie Yuanhong turned his head and frowned deeply: "You don't think you are wrong, do you?"

"Yes, I shouldn't have lied to you." Xie Zhiyao's hand holding onto his cuff fell down little by little, she backed up a few steps, sat down on the bed, and said in a trembling voice, "But, I asked you... ..."

"I don't want to, I really don't want... I'm sorry..." But she can't help it. How many times she said it, how many times she wanted to sit down and talk with them, but...it didn't work.

She really can't help it.

After a long silence, it seemed that only the sound of deep breathing remained in the air, which was so depressing that people wanted to escape.She lowered her head, clenched her hands on her knees, and her eyes fell on the tips of her shoes.

Just when she thought this repression would never end, Xie Yuanhong finally made a move.

No blaming, no yelling.

He turned around and walked to the door, and said in a deep voice, "You let me down so much."

The door was closed heavily, Xie Zhiyao shook his shoulders, covered his face and bent down.

The suppressed sobs overflowed her lips and teeth, her eyes were red, and she tried hard to calm herself down, but it was in vain.

This cold war lasted until the next morning.

Seeing her coming out of the room, Xie Yuanhong didn't say a word, took his things and turned to go to work, Xia Lan looked at her hesitantly, but finally just sighed.

Xie Zhiyao's eyes darkened, and his heart throbbed in pain.

There was no breakfast left for her in the kitchen. She lowered her head, thinking that she had no appetite anyway, and was about to go back to the house when she heard a knock on the door.

She thought she was pulling something and went to open the door, but she didn't expect to be stunned the moment she saw the person outside the door.

"How did you come?"

Xu Huaian took off the earphones, glanced at her red eyes, frowned slightly and said, "I called you last night and you didn't answer, let's take a look."

last night?Xie Zhiyao belatedly remembered that the phone had indeed rang several times last night, but at that time she was only concerned with crying and ignored it.

"I just... met my uncle and aunt." Xu Huai'an closed the door, raised his hand to wipe away the tears from her eyelashes, "Have you eaten yet?"

Xie Zhiyao shook his head.

Xu Huai'an nodded in understanding, she walked into the kitchen to look around, and asked her, "What do you want to eat?"

"……It will be all right."

Xu Huaian pursed his lower lip, and went to cook her a bowl of wontons.

"Eat first, and I'll take you somewhere after eating."

It rained a few days ago, and today is still cloudy. The sea breeze blowing in Haiwan Park dissipated the heat from the south.

Xu Huaian took her to sit down on the trestle bridge by the sea, and sighed, "How long have you been crying?"

Eyes are still a little red.

Xie Zhiyao pursed her lips tightly, she lowered her head, looked blankly at the rocks under the trestle bridge, and said in a hoarse voice, "It's... the first time I heard him say he was disappointed."

"But... what did I do wrong?" Why did I just do what I wanted to do, but it deviated from the other party's expectations, why could the other party use such hurtful tone and words to...

Could it be that such a thing can negate everything in the past?

"If you're at fault, I'm at fault with you." Xu Huai'an touched her head, his eyes filled with pain.

The sea breeze blew her thin forehead hair, revealing a smooth forehead. Xie Zhiyao rested his chin on his knees, staring at the other person's face seriously.

Xu Huai'an also looked at her, his dark eyes were clear and gentle.

The usual indifference and alienation have faded away, and when this face is smiling, it is actually gentle and delicate.

It's just that she doesn't smile like this often, and the only person in Xu Huai'an who seems to be able to see this look is Xie Zhiyao.

Xie Zhiyao leaned closer to her shoulders and closed her eyes. The breeze blew on her cheeks, and she could smell the faint fragrance of laundry detergent on the girl's body.

"Huai'an." She called softly, her voice was very low, "Say, should I do the same as they said?"

If she wasn't so close, probably only she could hear this sentence clearly.Instead of saying this question was about Xu Huai'an, it was better to say that it was about herself.

Xu Huaian turned his body slightly so that she could lean more comfortably. Instead of answering her directly, she raised her eyes to look at the distant waves.

Although Shenning is a coastal city, it is not a very famous tourist destination. At first glance, the sea water is not as clear and beautiful as it is shown in many tourist promotional videos.

But the salty smell of the ocean and the sound of the waves hitting the rocks in the sea breeze made people's hearts calm down a little bit unexpectedly.

Just when Xie Zhiyao thought she would not answer, she heard the girl's cold voice ringing in her ears.

"If you listen, you must be right?"

Xie Zhiyao was stunned for a moment, then raised his head to look at the profile of the girl Wenxiu.

She put her hands on her knees, her eyes still fell on the distant coastline, and her voice was soft: "If you think you are better at studying literature and feel that you are happier, why make yourself sad just to make others happy? "

"But they always have a reason, and they always say that their choice is better." Xie Zhiyao clenched his hands subconsciously, "The detours taken by the predecessors should be avoided by future generations."

"The detours of the predecessors... must be of the descendants?" Xu Huai'an finally turned his head to look into her eyes, her voice was still soft but firm, "Do you still remember what you said when you persuaded me? Is it? There are no two identical people in this world, the important thing is that you are yourself."

"Of course I believe that uncles and aunts have their considerations as people who have experienced it, but their suggestions are just suggestions. Yao, the person who chooses your future in the end is still yourself. Even if your choice may still be wrong in the end, but if If you don’t choose, if you don’t hit the south wall, you won’t know that it will hurt if you hit it, and you won’t think it’s wrong. If you think your choice is right...then prove it to them.”

Xie Zhiyao blinked, chuckled and said, "Why didn't I realize that you are so good at comforting people?"

The corners of Xu Huaian's mouth curled up slightly, he raised his hand and patted her forehead, and said, "I learned from you. If you still want to cry, I will lend you my shoulder."

"If you cry again, I'll be a rabbit when I wake up tomorrow." Xie Zhiyao rubbed his eyes, suppressing the heat in his eyes.

"That's all right?"

"Yeah." She smiled shyly, just about to say something when she saw the people around her stand up.

Xu Huaian patted the hem of his clothes, stretched out his hand to pull him up, and said, "Then let's go."

"Take you home."