[Please answer 1988] Sangmundong scandal

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With a towel hanging around his neck, Cui Ze opened the door of his room with a head of hair that had not been completely dried.He reached out to touch the light switch, and the originally dark bedroom suddenly lit up.

Cui Ze's father heard the sound and came out of the bedroom, "Ah Ze, go to bed early after taking the medicine."

"Well, you should go to bed early too." Cui Ze turned his face sideways and nodded towards him.

After closing the door, Cui Ze sat down cross-legged, put the prepared medicine on the small table, poured another glass of warm water, and slowly swallowed a sleeping pill mixed with the water.

Just take a sleeping pill today.

His sleeping state has always been very poor, often unable to close his eyes all night, and sometimes he has to rely on sleeping pills to force him to sleep.He didn't sleep well at night, and he didn't have the energy to play chess the next day, so he had to take medicine.But sleeping pills are not candy. If you eat something as soon as you say it, it will easily lead to dependence after a long time. This is simply a vicious circle.

The medicine was taken, and the bed was made.

Cui Ze got into bed, closed his eyes, and prepared to fall asleep.

10 minutes later

He lifted the quilt and got up and sat up.

Do you want to eat another one?

……

It was nearly eleven o'clock in the evening, and I could clearly hear the cicadas chirping from outside the window, one after another, as if it had never stopped throughout the summer.

A few comic books were piled up at Cui Ze's feet. Judging from the traces of flipping the pages, these books were very popular with the owner.

"...Huh?" Cui Ze almost scribbled through the comic in his hand, and when he was about to read the next one, his hand was empty.

I have nothing to do and can't sleep, except to find something to pass the time, it seems that this is the only way to go.Cui Ze thought, opened the cabinet behind him, and took out a few comics from the bottom compartment. He took out several comics in a row, but he couldn't find the next one he just read.

Just like that, Cui Ze flipped through the textbooks he had when he was a kid.

Elementary school... At that time, he was still in school.

The textbook was already wrapped in some yellowed paper, and the two big characters "Mathematics" were written in ink on the surface. However, these two characters were not as straight as expected, and the end of the stroke was inevitably a little crooked.

After all, she was only in junior high school at that time, and it was already very good to write like this.

Before his mother passed away, his textbooks were always packed by his mother, and later, it was Liu Mingxi.

……

"—Nuna!"

Hearing the sound, Liu Mingxi subconsciously turned around and stopped, "Donglong, and Aze."

"Nuna! We're handing out new textbooks!" Liu Donglong pulled Cui Ze forward excitedly.At this age, he doesn't have that much aversion to studying.

Cui Ze also nodded at the side, and he, who has always been shy and introverted, also raised a smile.

"Nuna, will you pack the books for me?" Liu Donglong really didn't want to dislike his father, but he was too much of a loser, because he is still a teacher.

"Understood, I'll pack it when I get back." Liu Mingxi replied with a smile, and turned her eyes to Cui Ze who was aside. She remembered that Cui Ze's father came home late recently, and Cui Ze's lunch was always asked by his good mother.

Liu Mingxi bent down and smiled at Cui Ze, "Ah Ze, can Nuna wrap your textbooks for you too? It will be beautifully wrapped."

"Yeah!" Cui Ze, who only reached her shoulders, nodded heavily, and the corners of his eyes turned slightly red.No matter how sensible a child is, he is still just a child, and his expression cannot be hidden after all.

Liu Mingxi didn't say anything, just touched his head lightly, and then took his own hand, and the other hand took the hand of his younger brother, "Let's go home for dinner, Aze, too. , Nuna will cook something delicious for you."

"Noona! I want eggs!"

"Where's Aze?"

"…I also can."

"Oh, I see."

……

In addition to the group of friends who have played since childhood, in Cui Ze's memory, Liu Mingxi's existence is also special.But it was obvious that in his heart, she was different from them.

But as for the specific differences...he couldn't say for sure.

As the properties of the sleeping pill gradually increased, Cui Ze closed his eyes in a daze. Before he lost consciousness and fell asleep, he suddenly remembered the scene he saw tonight.

The dark night, the little smoke, the tip of her brow, and the smile on her lips.

The next day

It wasn't the alarm clock that woke Cui Ze up, but the chirping of birds outside the window.

This time he woke up, and no matter how much he lay down, he couldn't fall asleep.Looking at the ceiling, Cui Ze thought so.

As usual, after taking a bottle of milk, Cui Ze pushed open the door of his house. The outside was clean, obviously Cui Ze's father had already cleaned it.

"Oh, it's so early, Aze." Liu Mingxi was carrying a backpack, looking as if he was going to go out.

Cui Ze was stunned for a moment, he didn't know why he suddenly felt guilty, and subconsciously glanced to the side, "Ah, is Nuna going out so early?"

Liu Mingxi didn't seem to notice what was wrong with him, nodded and said, "Get ready to go to the study room."

Her gaze accidentally fell on Cui Ze's milk, and she suddenly laughed.

"We, Aze, really drink milk well, and we are as tall as me." As he spoke, Liu Mingxi deliberately took a few steps forward, came to him, and looked at him at the same level. She stretched out her hand and gestured two The height of a person is exactly half the head.

Cui Ze looked at Liu Mingxi, who was only half a step away from him, and stayed in place for a while, his body seemed to be out of his control, and his ears suddenly turned red.

Liu Mingxi quickly backed away, Cui Ze had always been shy, she didn't find it too strange, "Nuna go first."

"Well...goodbye..." Cui Ze blinked and smiled.

That smile is a little silly, a little white, and a little sweet.

Well, silly and sweet.This was Liu Mingxi's first impression of Cui Ze when he left.

Of course, after a long time, Liu Mingxi completely overturned this impression of him.

"—Ah Ze, breakfast is ready." Cui Ze's father's voice came from inside the room.

"Here we come." Cui Ze walked into the house while drinking milk.

Besides drinking milk, he thought about whether he should take some time to exercise so that he could grow taller.

Well, he's going to grow taller.