desolate

After the two exams in the afternoon, the sun had already sunk below the horizon, and it was cloudy recently, so the sky was already very dark. If I had to describe it, the city was like sinking into the sea.

Ultramarine.

As soon as the exam was over, the students ran out happily, especially in the last exam, there were a lot of people who handed in the papers in advance, but Zhou Ze was not among them.He answered the essays very seriously, as if he was competing with someone. After finishing the papers, he naturally survived until the end of the exam, so that there were only two or three sleepers and two or three stubborn ones in the whole classroom besides him.

Oh, Pei is also there.

In the two games in the afternoon, Zhou Ze passed some answers to him, and the other party also answered them, but he didn't know if he copied them properly.

After finally handing in the papers, the students who had been waiting outside the classroom rushed in in a swarm. Zhou Ze squeezed out against the crowd, just behind Pei Ye.

He was holding the fishing rod mentioned earlier, which made him stand out from the crowd of students.

"Damn it, did you really bring it to school? Are you afraid of being accepted?" Xu Duozhi, who was taking the exam in the examination room next door, had already been waiting outside. As soon as he saw Pei, he greeted him, "Yes, I Come to think of it, Strict Li will also invigilate the exam this afternoon, right? That’s okay, let me touch it, how much is it?"

Pei Ye slapped his hand off with a slap: "Don't f*cking touch, and... what is strictness?"

"Stingy!" Xu Duozhi grinned, "... Strictness is the nickname given to Director Yan by those girls. I think it's easier to pronounce than Yanjian."

Pei also rubbed his nose: "boring."

"Wait, what's in your hand?"

With his sharp eyes, he immediately saw a few crumpled notes in Pei Ye's hand.

Pei also let him pull it from his hand, and said, "It was given by someone else."

When Xu Duozhi saw the content, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his jaw: "...I said why you haven't handed in the test, I thought you fell asleep again, who gave it to you?"

Pei didn't say anything, he knew that Zhou Ze was walking not far behind him, and he was afraid that the good student would care about cheating and it would be embarrassing for him to say it.But if he didn't say it, it doesn't mean Xu Duozhi couldn't guess.

Xu Duozhi suppressed his voice and said, "...The young master gave it to you?"

This address made Pei Ye's eyebrows twitch, and he immediately elbowed him: "Don't yell."

Xu Duozhi rubbed his stomach: "If you don't bark, don't bark. Why do you do it...then you asked him for this?"

When passing by the trash can at the top of the stairs, Pei Ye threw away all the cheat sheets in his hand, and when he looked up, he happened to see Zhou Ze passing in front of them.

Really not squinting, concentrate on walking.

"Why do you care so much?" Pei Ye went downstairs with a fishing rod, not wanting to continue the topic, "Call Wen Jialang and tell him to hurry up!"

"I know, I know..." Xu Duozhi followed him while pulling out his phone.

At the corner of the stairs on the fourth floor, Zhou Ze caught a glimpse of the backs of the two in the gap between the stairs. They were perverse and unruly. They looked like other students, who were dazzled by the two-day vacation and rushed to the next level. entertainment.

"Zhou Ze!" Director Yan came down from upstairs and saw him immediately.

Zhou Ze was shocked by the shout.

Director Yan strode up to him, he couldn't say he was angry, but he didn't have the kindness he had when he saw him a few times ago: "Come to my office."

After a while, the school was already half empty, not only the students, but also the teachers were busy going home from get off work, but Director Yan stayed late because he still had high school seniors to take care of.

"You don't want your mobile phone anymore?" As soon as he entered the office, he asked him directly with the first sentence.

The shattered mobile phone was placed on the desk, Zhou Ze didn't have the nerve to take it, and he didn't have the nerve to answer it.

"What's the matter with the Chinese test in the morning?" Director Yan pulled him to sit face to face, "Ms. Zhao told me that I didn't believe you cheated, but why did you leave the paper blank?"

Zhou Ze said after a while, "...I didn't have a good rest yesterday."

This was an excuse he'd been thinking about all day.

Director Yan let out a long "Oh", I don't know if he believed it or not: "Then do you want me to apply to the school and arrange a make-up exam for you?"

Zhou Ze curled up his fingers and shook his head: "No, it's not fair to the other students to take the exam again, so let it be."

Quite a high-sounding statement.

Director Yan didn't say anything else: "Okay, take your phone back. Although the school doesn't clearly stipulate that you can't take it with you, you still have to put it away during class time. It's not an example!"

Zhou Ze took back the phone, but threw it into his pocket like a hot potato.But when he walked out of the office, he glanced out of the corner of his eye and saw a pile of extracurricular books and mobile phones in a cardboard box by the wall, which were usually confiscated by Director Yan.

Oh—it turned out that he was tolerated again.

Zhou Ze withdrew his gaze and walked out of the office calmly.

The food vendors at the school gate will stay there from the afternoon before school is over until the third year of senior high school for self-study in the evening. The boarding students originally have to go to the self-study with the senior high school, but there are teachers in the third year of high school urging them not to do so, so the boarding students don’t know about it by default. I chose to go a few times, but because the weather is getting late into autumn recently, and the classroom is cold at night, I didn't go.

It's time to eat now, so he randomly found a fast food restaurant on the side of the road to deal with it.

The phone was turned on a long time ago, and there were no missed calls or unread messages from Ma Wenjing. Instead, there was a message from Qin Yan on WeChat half an hour ago.

Qin Yan: [I saw you went to Director Yan's office, how is it? 】

Zhou Ze: [It's okay, I'm sorry to make you worry. 】

As soon as the news was sent out, Qin Yan replied in seconds: 【Really?That's great, you are all classmates, don't be so polite, you have a good rest on the weekend, and we will see you on Monday! 】

It also comes with a cute expression pack.

Zhou Ze knew that she had misunderstood.If you know that your zero score is a foregone conclusion, I'm afraid you can't be so happy.

"Boss, pack two bowls of fried rice noodles - ouch! I stumbled to death, who put the stool in the middle?"

At this time, a person came in at the door, and just after finishing his verbal order, he was disturbed by a lame red plastic stool in the middle of the road.

Zhou Ze sat in the innermost corner with his back to the door, and he heard the man's voice without raising his head, which was very familiar.

"Airplane, is something ready?" Another person came in from behind.

"Ang, what's the matter?" Li Hefei had a cigarette in his ear, and he looked like a gangster outside the school.

"Boss, do you have iced mung bean soup?" the person who came in after asked.

"No!" The boss, who was busy shaking the spoon, replied loudly, "Oh my God, there are still iced ones, but there are hot ones! The only cold ones are those in the freezer, you can see for yourself!"

The man didn't speak, but strode to the freezer against the wall, picked out a bottle of green tea in two seconds, and then, when he looked up, he accidentally collided with Zhou Ze's eyes.

Pei Ye raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, and with a little force on his wrist, he slammed the freezer door shut.

Zhou Ze smiled politely.

"Why are you still not well?" Another person entered the door, and the voice became more familiar.

——His tablemate Wen Jialang.

As soon as he came in, he urged the boss to pack the meal: "Please hurry up - it will be difficult to drive in the car after dark. The road is difficult to walk. I borrowed this car from my uncle. If it is scratched I can't afford it, so why don't you think of other ways."

Li Hefei said: "If it's hard to walk, don't drive! Can the motorcycle walk?"

Pei also put his drink into a plastic bag: "I can walk, but my car can't hold four people."

Li Hefei lifted the curtain with his things: "It's okay, my car has been repaired."

The voices of several people fell with the crackling of the plastic curtain, and they were far away all of a sudden, until the sound of the car engine rang, and they were completely inaudible.

It seemed that a group of them were going fishing at night.

Zhou Ze inexplicably felt a little absurd.

These people are different from other peers he has come into contact with. Although some of them are lively and playful, they can't do things like take a fishing rod to school or drive on the road without a driver's license.

The phone suddenly beeped.

A phone call that had frightened him all day finally came at the end of the day.

But Zhou Ze stretched out his hand out of nowhere and turned off the phone.

……

When I got back to the dormitory, it was dark, and there were three stars hanging on it lonely.

But he didn't go back to his dormitory.

Although the first night of living in school did not cause any major conflicts, it was no secret that he had a bad relationship with his roommates. The students spread the word to everyone in Class [-]. Qin Yan originally planned to help him and the teacher He communicated to change the dormitory, but was rejected by Zhou Ze.

Maybe he thinks differently from others—others think that Li Hefei and his like are all day-to-day gangsters, and a conflict with them is equivalent to a death feud, so they are afraid, but Zhou Ze thinks it's nothing Of course, the main reason is that it is troublesome.

Anyway, these two people are not often in the dormitory, and they often come back before the lights are turned off, so there is no need to worry if they can't meet each other.

But today was not a coincidence, before Zhou Ze even opened the door, he heard Guo Chao's voice inside.

It seems that Li Hefei didn't take him with him this time.

Zhou Ze listened to the movement at the door for a while, and found that Guo Chao had brought back a large group of people, surrounded by a case of beer, apparently planning to stay up all night.

Quite a headache.

He turned around, not intending to spoil his interest, but bumped into someone head-on.

"sorry."

"sorry…!"

Two voices sounded at the same time.

Li Pingan opened his mouth slightly, looked at He Min, then at the "demons and ghosts" in the window, and immediately understood his situation.

"...Would you like to stay in my dormitory for a while?" Li Pingan invited him unnaturally, as if he said this for the first time.

Zhou Ze hesitated a little, but couldn't think of a better place to go, so he asked, "Will it disturb the people in your dormitory?"

Li Pingan waved his hand: "It's okay, I live alone."

Actually lived in the dormitory as a single room.

Zhou Ze even thought regretfully, if he had arranged himself in Li Ping'an's dormitory at that time, it would have saved a lot of trouble.

Seeing his surprised face, Li Pingan was a little shy, but did not explain, and just walked ahead to lead the way.

"...You live in 109?"

Zhou Ze stared at the door in front of him, remembering what Pei Ye said to him during the day.

"Yeah." Li Pingan opened the door, "Sit wherever you want."

Li Ping'an's dormitory is the same as his people's, clean and tidy, and the items are put together in an orderly manner. Even if there are three empty beds, there is no intention to use the extra space.

"..."

The two stood at both ends of the table, and they didn't speak for a while, feeling that the air was strangely silent.

"You... you can sit whatever you want." Li Pingan was a little at a loss, "You can stay here until they leave, anyway, I live alone."

"it is good."

Zhou Ze also smiled awkwardly, and in a blink of an eye, he saw a set of papers on the table.

"Are you...preparing for the competition?"

That was the real question in last year's English competition.But as far as he knew, the Sixth Middle School did not engage in competitions.

The reason is nothing else, but it is not necessary. From the school leaders to the teachers and students, they all feel that it is unnecessary. If there is time for competition, it is better to teach the class well, get two more points in the college entrance examination, and strive for a better second book .

As if he had seen the secret, Li Pingan quickly covered the clothes in his hand.

"No! Just... do whatever you want."