youth and time

It was already [-]:[-] when the evening self-study was over, and it was ten o'clock soon, and the school gate was still bustling. In order to adapt to the students' work and rest time, the milk tea shop on the opposite side extended its business hours. At this moment, the milk tea shop and convenience store were crowded. With the shoulders on the back, I went to the opposite side to buy milk tea, buy fried skewers, laugh and laugh and make a fuss for a while, and then talk about going home.

The street lamps on the street shone brightly, and the light was pale, shining on the person, making Jiang Yufan's already fair complexion even paler.

There was a lot of noise around, but it didn't seem to have anything to do with the three people walking forward under the street lamp.

Shen Tianyu and Qiao Yunfei are both seniors, and their evening self-study ends at [-]:[-], which is half an hour later than that of the first and second graders, so Zhong Chaozhou, Jiang Yufan and Shen Yi'an went home immediately.

Shen Yi'an was caught between two low air pressures, feeling very depressed.

He glanced left and right, and couldn't help asking: "What's the matter with you two? What's your expression? Who messed with you two? Or did you two quarrel?"

"Arguing? How is it possible?" Zhong Chaozhou sneered, "I have such a good relationship with Jiang Yufan, how could we quarrel?"

Shen Yi'an broke the casserole and asked: "What's the matter?"

Zhong Chaozhou pursed his lips and licked his back molars. His voice sounded a bit depressed, as if it came from between his teeth: "A fool!"

"Idiot? Who?"

"Hu Yuchen!" Zhong Chaozhou rolled his eyes, "Besides him, who else would I call an idiot?"

Shen Yi'an was stunned for a moment, and realized later: "...he...what's the matter with him?"

Zhong Chaozhou ignored Shen Yi'an, walked around to Jiang Yufan, and patted his arm: "Hey, are you okay?"

Jiang Yufan: "Me? What happened to me?"

"Aren't you feeling uncomfortable? Are you not angry? Just now... Hu Yuchen was like that..."

"No." Jiang Yufan shrugged, "Not everyone deserves my anger."

As soon as the complaint box was opened, Zhong Chaozhou no longer held back: "Hu Yuchen is an idiot! Why are you talking to him? If he doesn't hand in his homework, you just don't rush him!"

"No." Jiang Yufan refused in a crisp voice, "It is one of the responsibilities of the study committee to urge students to hand in their homework."

"..." Zhong Chaozhou blinked, and looked at Jiang Yufan strangely, "This doesn't look like your style."

"Then what is my style?" Jiang Yufan asked back, but without waiting for Zhong Chaozhou to answer, he said, "Since you are a study committee member, you should be a good one. The responsibility is entrusted to me, and I have no reason not to take it."

Zhong Chaozhou: "..."

Shen Yi'an: "..."

There was no sound around him for a long time, Jiang Yufan turned his head and took a look: "...What expression do you two have?"

"Huh? No...nothing." Zhong Chaozhou shook his head, "I just think...you have a high level of ideological awareness in what you said! You are worthy of being a study committee member! It is very worthy of our study!"

Jiang Yufan: "..."

Jiang Yufan's mouth moved, forcibly suppressing the swear words that were about to come out.

Shen Yi'an listened to it for a while, but still didn't understand what happened: "So... Brother Zhou, is Hu Yuchen looking for trouble?"

"Probably!" Zhong Chaozhou gave an ambiguous answer.

"What's the matter with you and him?" Jiang Yufan asked, "I think the two of you should know each other, and you probably had a festival before."

"Ah? Well, yes." Zhong Chaozhou replied, "There is a holiday, and it's a very boring holiday."

Jiang Yufan: "How to say?"

It was still in the first year of high school. In the first year of high school, Hu Yuchen and Zhong Chaozhou were in brothers' class. At that time, Hu Yuchen liked a girl in their class, but that girl liked Zhong Chaozhou, a rival in love. It's normal not to like it, but Zhong Chaozhou didn't know That girl liked her, and she had to endure Hu Yuchen's intentional or unintentional provocations every day. Zhong Chaozhou was annoyed at first, thinking that this person was an idiot, but at that time, although the two of them looked down on each other, they were at peace.

The conflict escalated later. One day, the girl made up her mind to confess her love to Zhong Chaozhou, but Zhong Chaozhou didn't feel that girl at all, and didn't even know her name, so she refused, although the way of rejection was very tactful and very tactful. Gentle, but the girl was still uncomfortable and cried a lot. Hu Yuchen found out about this, and she was so unhappy. After school that night, Hu Yuchen blocked Zhong Chaozhou in a dead end outside the school, and asked Zhong Chaozhou why Zhong Chaozhou didn't agree to the girl's confession, and Zhong Chaozhou was very puzzled. In addition, he hated Hu Yuchen in the first place, so he said something rushed, and there was lightning and thunder between the two, and the sparks flew out. There was no fight, but since then, Zhong Chaozhou and Hu Yuchen have been at odds, and when they meet, they will fight.

I don't know what luck it is to be assigned to the same class this time.

Jiang Yufan: "..."

Jiang Yufan asked again: "Then...why did he bother you?"

"This one..." Zhong Chaozhou suddenly showed reserve, "This one... are you sure you want to listen to it? It's more boring, and it's ridiculous."

Jiang Yufan: "..."

·

Hu Yuchen searched for many things, big and small, but the only one that left a deep impression on Zhong Chaozhou was in the first semester of high school.

At that time, Hu Yuchen was the disciplinary committee member of the class, and this disciplinary committee member was just a name. He usually didn't care about anything, and sometimes even messed up with others.

However, there are occasional times when he will work. These few times, he targets Zhong Chaozhou.

At that time, Zhong Chaozhou was sitting in the corner of the classroom, and Hu Yuchen was sitting near the front door. The seats for the two of them were a diagonal line. As a result, one day, the head teacher called Zhong Chaozhou to the office and said, "The disciplinary committee recently reported that you often What's the matter with making strange noises in the self-study class?"

Zhong Chaozhou: "???"

To be honest, when Zhong Chaozhou had a feeling in his heart

——People are sitting at home, the pot comes from the sky, and there is a big, black and round iron pot.

Zhong Chaozhou has a cheerful and generous personality, he is acquainted with himself, and he is always attracted by people everywhere. He is very popular in the class. The students who sit near him, regardless of gender, have a good relationship with him. I don’t know, I was startled when I asked, and each of them held up three fingers to swear on their own personality. Zhong Chaozhou never made any strange noises, and even a few brave ones questioned the objectivity of Hu Yuchen’s work in front of the class teacher. In terms of sex and credibility, someone also told the head teacher that Zhong Chaozhou and Hu Yuchen had a bad relationship. This matter was too targeted, too subjective, and the credibility was not high.

Regarding this, the head teacher called Hu Yuchen and Zhong Chaozhou to the office again, and asked Hu Yuchen how he heard Zhong Chaozhou making strange noises in class because he was so far away from Zhong Chaozhou.

Zhong Chaozhou was already mentally prepared for Hu Yuchen to say "I just heard it" or "someone reported it" to shock the world. He never thought that the extent of Hu Yuchen's random fabrications far exceeded the scope of shocking the world: "I I think he's making weird noises."

Zhong Chaozhou: "..."

head teacher:"……"

Zhong Chaozhou and the class teacher looked at each other, and they both saw the helplessness in each other's eyes.

Since then, the homeroom teacher also understood that this matter was probably fabricated by Hu Yuchen, and she didn't want to waste any more time, so she went through a cutscene, said a few words to Zhong Chaozhou gently, and the matter was over.

However, Hu Yuchen still felt that he had won, and the teacher's favorability for Zhong Chaozhou declined, and he even went to Zhong Chaozhou to show off his might intentionally or unintentionally for a week.

Zhong Chaozhou: "..."

This further strengthened Zhong Chaozhou's idea and belief that this person is an idiot.

After going through this incident, this idea has finally been successfully promoted from an idea to the stage of truth.

Jiang Yufan: "..."

Zhong Chaozhou spread his hands: "Look, I said it was boring."

Shen Yi'an knew what was going on, but at this moment he still couldn't help laughing twice: "This can't be described as 'boring' anymore."

"So, stay away from that idiot Hu Yuchen from now on." Zhong Chaozhou originally wanted to hook Jiang Yufan's neck, but realizing that Jiang Yufan didn't like physical contact very much, he retracted his hand halfway, stuffed it into his pocket, and continued, " Don't urge Hu Yuchen to urge homework. That grandson is the classic negative example of not doing homework and failing to improve. He has given up on himself and is still so stupid. Let's just go through the motions and finish the job. If it doesn't work, let me tell you what the teacher wants to say, and I'll urge him to do his homework for you."

Jiang Yufan asked domineeringly: "And then? Can I see you two directly on the yellow list?"

Zhong Chaozhou: "..."

Shen Yi'an: "..."

Fuck, this really hit the nail on the head.

"It's not me who should stay away from him." Already at the door of the house, Jiang Yufan stepped up the steps, put his hands on the door panel, turned his back to Zhong Chaozhou and Shen Yi'an, kept quiet for a while, and then said, "Zhong Chaozhou, you should Stay away from him, and don't make trouble for yourself."

"..." Zhong Chaozhou was stunned for a while, "Do you care about me?"

Without thinking, Jiang Yufan blurted out the words of denial: "How is it possible?"

It was dark, and the lights in Guhuai Alley were dim, so it was hard to see his face clearly, but when Jiang Yufan entered the house, he tripped over the crossbar at the door and almost fell, Zhong Chaozhou and Shen Yi'an could still see clearly Clear.

The two stood at the door of Jiang Yufan's house, looking at the closed door, they fell silent together: "..."

"Hello, brother Zhou." It took a long time for Shen Yi'an to recover his voice, he was still staring at the door, and patted Zhong Chaozhou's arm with the back of his hand, "Jiang Yufan... really cared about you just now, right? ?”

Zhong Chaozhou didn't speak.

Shen Yi'an was too late to respond, so he turned his head to look, only to find that Zhong Chaozhou lowered his head, covered the upper half of his face with his hands, and his shoulders were shaking, as if he was crying.

Shen Yi'an was startled: "Fuck! Brother Zhou, what's wrong with you? Are you all right?"

"Huh? It's all right." Zhong Chaozhou put down his hand and waved at Shen Yi'an, only then did Shen Yi'an realize that Zhong Chaozhou was smiling.

Zhong Chaozhou stood there and smiled for a while, then walked to the next door, ready to go home: "Okay, I'll go back first, you should go home early too, good night."

The ending sound rose, and any fool could tell that Zhong Chaozhou was in a good mood at the moment.

Shen Yi'an: "..."

Isn't it because Jiang Yufan cared about it?As for being happy like this?

Immediately, Shen Yi'an thought of what Jiang Yufan said on the second morning of Dongying and school, and immediately nodded to himself, saying to himself: "Okay, that's really it."

An Ruosu just came out of the kitchen after warming up the milk, and was about to take it to Jiang Yufan's house, when Jiang Yufan came into the house.

"Hey, I came back just in time, the milk has just warmed up, you... eh! What are you doing? Run so fast! Your milk!"

But An Ruosu's call was useless, Jiang Yufan had already "swish", ran back to his room like a gust of wind, and closed the door with a bang.

An Ruosu: "..."

Thinking about his son's usual extremely indifferent appearance, such a gaffe today is really rare in a century.

So something just happened?

When Jiang Yufan returned to the house, he even forgot to take off his schoolbag, and just stuck it tightly against the door of the room. The books in the schoolbag were a bit painful, but he didn't care at all. He just took a deep breath hard to calm down his mood .

Damn I don't know what happened to me just now.

As soon as he heard that Zhong Chaozhou and Hu Yuchen were not on the same page, and when the two of them were about to pinch each other when they met, his heart skipped a beat for no reason, and he subconsciously reminded Zhong Chaozhou to be careful.

He really wouldn't do this before. It doesn't matter to him what happens to others, and he doesn't know what's going on this time.

Is it because of a good relationship?

But they have only known each other for less than two months, and Zhong Chaozhou has been unilaterally ... "harassing" Jiang Yufan. When it comes to feelings and relationships, Jiang Yufan thinks he is not that close or that good .

Then this is...

"Xiaofan! Xiaofan!" An Ruosu knocked on the door outside the house, "Xiaofan, open the door and drink the milk."

Jiang Yufan came back to his senses, threw his schoolbag on the sofa, turned around and opened the door: "Mom."

"What's wrong with you?" An Ruosu stood outside the door and asked with a smile on his face, "Go back to the house as soon as you enter the house, or rush back to the house, it's rare to see you like this."

"Huh? No... nothing, I just... just..."

"I'm just asking, why are you so nervous?" An Ruosu turned sideways into the room and put the bowl on the table, "Oh, it's rare to see you so... like a young man, not like before, young and old, It's fine, don't be nervous, it's fine."

Jiang Yufan was stunned: "...Huh?"

An Ruosu: "Well. I think you have changed a lot since we came to Guhuai Lane. You talk a lot and your personality is more cheerful than before. Now I really think that your dad and I decided to move to Guhuai Lane Lane really made the right decision!"

Jiang Yufan: "...Have I changed a lot?"

"The authorities are obsessed with the onlookers." An Ruosu patted Jiang Yufan's shoulder meaningfully, "Especially Xiao Zhou, you have indeed changed a lot when you are with him every day this summer vacation, and you are not so rigid and serious."

Jiang Yufan scratched his head.

Oh.

Is it because of this that I care about people?

Is it because you have been affected and changed a lot?

but……

Have you really changed a lot?

I don't feel like it.

Jiang Yufan was still thinking about this question until he lay down on the bed and turned off the light.

In the yard, Jiang Lin, who had just returned from self-study in the evening, was talking with An Ruosu in a low voice. He couldn't hear what he was saying, but he could roughly tell which brat was looking for trouble again from the tone of his voice.

There are still cicadas on the tree, the chirping of cicadas and the sound of small conversations spread into the room through the cracks in the windows, and fell into Jiang Yufan's ears, like a lullaby, Jiang Yufan's eyelids became heavier and heavier.

I have no time to think about why I care about others, and I have no time to think about whether I have changed.

Jiang Yufan's last thought before losing consciousness was simple——

I am very happy today.