desolate

Pei also didn't come to class for a week.

This is not unusual at all. If Wu Guang hadn't mentioned it suddenly during the last class meeting on Friday, maybe half of the class would not have noticed.

After all, this classmate is too sharp, and most people are afraid to get angry and avoid him. In addition to his usual attendance rate, it is not uncommon for him to not see anyone for a week.

So if you don't come, you don't come.

The textbooks on the desk are two-thirds turned up.

Zhou Ze drew the key circles, and wrote notes neatly and briefly in the blank space - although there were many circles and drawings on the whole page, it looked clean.

"Li Ping'an, someone is looking for you outside the door!"

During the break, a student in the same class was stopped at the door of the classroom. When the other party probed again, he suddenly threw a stone into the water.

"Oh--"

"Li Pingan—"

"Who is who!"

"I saw it, Meng Xiaohua and a woman!"

Booing sounded one after another.

Li Pingan was alone and helpless in these voices, at a loss for a while, and finally had to stand up and face it.

It wasn't Meng Chuyu who was looking for him, but that other girl.

Zhou Ze was lying on the table to catch up on sleep, and felt that the surroundings were too noisy, so he took the time to glance there.

I didn't expect it to be familiar.

To be precise, I met him once, but thanks to his good memory, he quickly matched the memory with the person.

"Brother Mosquito~"

At this moment, Xu Duozhi also approached him in a strange manner: "Meng Chuyu is here too, why don't you go out and have a look?"

Wen Jialang kept his eyes from wandering, and only secretly glanced at a certain aspect when he was talking, trying to cover up.

"Hey, come on, don't disturb me playing games!"

"Just pretend!"

Wen Jialang is indeed pretending. Ever since he refunded the concert ticket in order to pay back the money last time, he has no embarrassment to chat with the goddess again. Who would have imagined that the distance between the two will get farther and farther as time goes on, and he somewhat understands , It was all my unilateral pursuit before, as long as I stopped, the relationship between the two would come to an end.

Sad and a little resentful.

Wen Jialang was very aggrieved in his heart, and on the surface he tried to maintain a calm look.

Fortunately, this poor strength was broken immediately.

"Hey, school belle~"

As soon as Meng Xiaohua walked this way, Xu Duozhi couldn't wait to say hello.

"Hi, Curly?" Meng Chuyu was not stage fright at all, and greeted them openly, "I'll accompany Wei Jin to find Li Pingan to get things." She pointed behind her.

"Oh!" Xu Duozhi was stunned, "Then you can just walk around and look around."

Meng Chuyu covered her lips and laughed: "What's so interesting, aren't they all the same?"

"It's different! It's different!" Xu Duozhi walked behind Wen Jialang and slapped him on the shoulders, "There is a love in our class, that's so different!"

Meng Chuyu couldn't understand what he meant, but she pretended not to understand: "What kind of love?"

At this time Wen Jialang had no choice but to stand up bravely: "It's nothing, don't listen to his nonsense."

"Oh..." Meng Chuyu nodded with a half understanding.

"you……"

"Why didn't you see Pei Ye?"

The two spoke almost at the same time, but Wen Jialang fell silent after saying the first word.

He paused, and then said: "He has something to do at home, so he may not read it anymore."

"Huh? Why?"

The tone sounded a little lost.

But neither Xu Dazhi nor Wen Jialang explained to her.

"Xiaoyu, add it, let's go back!"

At this time, Wei Jin walked over holding the phone, with a flat expression and an uncontrollable excitement and excitement.

"Eh? All right."

When the two left, Xu Duozhi suddenly put his arms around Wen Jialang, and comforted him, "It's okay, brother, isn't he just a school belle? Gaiminger, I'll go to the first grade and find you a primary school girl!"

Now Wen Jialang was in a worse mood.

"roll roll roll!"

He pushed Xu Dazhi away and invited a few boys in the back row to go to the toilet to smoke together.

Xu Duozhi pointed his middle finger at his back, then sat down on Wen Jialang's seat, buried himself in the shocking news.

"Hey, what about his story club..."

Zhou Ze reached out and knocked on the table, and pulled out what he was looking for from the math book.

"Oh, thanks."

Xu Dazhi took the book and prepared to leave.

But Zhou Ze suddenly stopped him.

"...Well, why didn't Pei Ye come?" Seemingly abrupt, he added, "I have something to return to him."

Of course, he has a WeChat account, so if something happens, just send a message.

But since the last time we went back from the hospital together, Pei also seemed unhappy and ignored people on the way, as if he had offended him.

He wanted to apologize, but couldn't open his mouth.

Xu Duozhi heard from the side that Pei Ye introduced a part-time job to Zhou Ze. Since the two had a relationship, they naturally didn't ask any more questions, and didn't find it strange, so they said roughly: "There is something wrong with his family." It's a matter, I guess I'm going to drop out of school."

He didn't go into details, so of course Zhou Ze couldn't ask in detail: "Then he's been at home these days?"

Xu Duozhi said: "It should not be here. If you are in a hurry, I will bring it to him for you."

"It's okay, there's no rush." ​​Zhou Ze refused, "He always has to come back to go through the withdrawal procedures, and it will be the same for him when the time comes..."

Xu Duozhi originally wanted to say that Pei Ye might not come back, but seeing that Zhou Ze had stopped talking, he scratched his head and left.

When school was over in the evening, Zhou Ze unexpectedly received a call from Zhou Haiyang.

As the crowd of students moved towards the school gate, except for the ups and downs of the dark heads and the "long-haired" moon above the head, the rest could not be seen clearly until they walked out of the school and the students let out the flood. It seems to spread out.Only then did Zhou Ze have room to find someone.

"Xiao Ze, here!"

Zhou Haiyang, who was crooked under the tree, saw Zhou Ze from a long distance away.

Since Zhou Ze lived in school, it was the first time seeing his nephew and uncle. Zhou Haiyang didn't know where he went or what he was busy with. He looked haggard and darkened a lot. His chin was covered with blue stubble. His brown leather jacket was scratched in several places.

Zhou Haiyang still drove that old SUV. The car hadn’t been washed for some time. The black car was turned into a mud car, and the windshield of the whole car was still in its original color. He said on the phone that he came here to show Zhou Choose to have a meal.Zhou Ze didn't doubt that he was there, and followed the car, but when he got to the place to eat, he felt something was wrong again.

The first time the two met for dinner, Zhou Haiyang only chose a fly restaurant on the side of the road, but now Zhou Haiyang took him to a star hotel.

Are the two of them coming here for dinner?

Obviously not.

But when he walked into the private room and saw Ma Wenjing sitting upright, Zhou Ze understood everything.

"Your mother will be here in the afternoon and has been waiting for you, but I forgot to tell you earlier." Zhou Haiyang saw the coldness between the two of them, and wanted to smooth things over with an outsider, so he regretted helping him in the first place, "... sit down Sit down, don't stand up."

Zhou Ze was pulled by him to sit next to Ma Wenjing.

He looked at Ma Wenjing uncontrollably from the corner of his eye - he hadn't seen her for more than a month, her hair seemed to be short again, she was wearing a tight black top with long sleeves pushed up to the elbows, and her hair was draped over the back of the chair. A khaki trench coat and a black handbag.

Looking sharply at him from his long and narrow eyes, Zhou Ze blinked quickly and turned his head away.

"Where's your schoolbag?" Ma Wenjing asked after looking at him twice.

"I live at school... I didn't bring it with me." Zhou Ze replied.

"Didn't they let you live with your uncle?" Ma Wenjing frowned.

"I..." Zhou Ze didn't think of words, so he got stuck.

Zhou Haiyang couldn't stand it anymore, and immediately helped him explain: "He told me that it's convenient to study by yourself at school-it's okay, it's the same everywhere..."

The heavy door of the private room was slowly pushed open by the waiter from the outside, and the meals were served on the table one after another. The action of setting the meals covered the sight and temporarily interrupted the conversation of the three people.

While waiting for the waiter to leave, Zhou Ze glanced at his phone.

He has to go to work in the Internet cafe before twelve o'clock today, but I don't know if Ma Wenjing's arrival will disrupt this matter.

"Since when did you develop the habit of eating and playing with your mobile phone?" Ma Wenjing had a panoramic view of his movements.

Zhou Ze immediately stopped typing and put away the phone calmly: "...News from the class."

Ma Wenjing suddenly asked, "How many people are there in your class?"

"55."

"Then what is the average score of your class?"

"..."

Zhou Ze stared at the tablecloth in front of him without saying a word.

Because he wasn't sure what Ma Wenjing's reaction would be if he had an average score in the early [-]s.

"Okay, sister-in-law, don't talk about it when you eat, let the children eat first." Zhou Haiyang started to talk about it when he felt uncomfortable.

"You don't need to call me sister-in-law. Zhou Tiankuo and I have been divorced for more than ten years." Ma Wenjing interrupted him, "...you can eat later, but children cannot be educated later." She looked at Zhou Ze again.

"Hey..." Zhou Haiyang rubbed his hands and sat back.

"The laboratory is on vacation for two days. I came all this way, but I heard Professor Lu say that you have only been there twice." Ma Wenjing folded her hands on her chest, "If you are unwilling to treat and study , Come back to Seoul with me tomorrow."

"Then what, I'm going to buy a pack of cigarettes..." Zhou Haiyang learned about the cause and effect from Ma Wenjing, and knew that this was a matter between the mother and the child. He was an outsider and it was not good to stay around, so he found an excuse and left.

Only Zhou Ze and Ma Wenjing were left in the entire private room.

"I'm not going back to Seoul."

Ma Wenjing frowned: "Why?"

Zhou Ze replied stiffly: "Don't I still need medical treatment? How can I go to Seoul for treatment..."

"But you went there twice in total, and you yourself said at the beginning that you are not sick, so why are you staying here?" Ma Wenjing refused to say a word, "Why don't I speak for you? ——If you stay here, no one cares about you. If you want to learn, you can learn, if you don’t want to learn, don’t learn, right? Zhou Ze, when did you become so playful! "

Is he playful?Zhou Ze thought, he should not be playful, but why did Ma Wenjing say that about him?

"Didn't you say last time that as long as I keep my grades, you can let me be here?"

"That's because I didn't know you transferred to liberal arts!"

"I……"

"You feel like no one cares about you here, so you can make your own decisions?"

He lowered his head slightly and retorted: "No one cared about me before."

Ma Wenjing said: "I don't care much about you, that's because of the special nature of my job, and my mother can't do anything about it; but when you are at school, the teacher can take care of you, and the surrounding environment can take care of you-you are in this school, there are people who take care of you." You?"

The atmosphere in the room dropped to freezing point.

The corners of the tablecloth were twisted into a small ball by a pair of hands, and when there was no way to continue, they unfolded crumpledly.

Ma Wenjing saw that Zhou Ze remained silent for a long time, so she asked, "Tell me honestly, why do you have to stay here?"

Why do you have to stay here?

To be honest, even Zhou Ze himself didn't know the reason.

In the past, it was to compete with Ma Wenjing; now he doesn't want to leave.

Someone here can accompany him.

But these were not enough to convince the other party, so he chose to remain silent.

Helpless, Ma Wenjing had no choice but to ask uncertainly: "You—have you fallen in love early?"

Apart from this reason, she couldn't figure out what else would make her well-behaved and obedient son become like this.

Zhou Ze thought it was funny.

But he suddenly thought of a reason.

He asked Ma Wenjing: "Mom, do you remember the boy I pushed down the stairs?"

"Of course I remember, it was their son who harassed him first." Ma Wenjing recalled, "The money has already been lost, why do you mention him?"

Zhou Ze raised his chin, but lowered his eyes.

"It's not that he harassed me, we were in a relationship at the time."

"I like men."

"so--"

"I don't want to go back."

"I'm really sick."