don't force me

Chapter 11

When Du Xuan threw the phone on the table, she found an unread text message from Sun Rui, and asked him where he was.

Du Xuan sent a voice message via WeChat: "What's the matter?"

Immediately, Sun Rui's WeChat message came back: "Are you using a smartphone, are you not at home?"

"No."

"Then where are you? Why didn't you come to class?"

Du Xuan scanned the store again. The young man was sitting behind the cashier reading a thick book. He said to his mobile phone, "Who said I didn't go to class?"

"Fuck!" Sun Rui raised his voice, "Am I blind? I didn't see you in a room with a bigger fart."

"I'm the third one in the first row by the door, see?"

Sun Rui paused: "Understood, I saw you."

Du Xuan sent an "OK" emoji.

After a while, Sun Rui asked, "Du Xuan, have you thought it over yet?"

Du Xuan held up her mobile phone, her eyes suddenly went blank.

Sun Rui waited for a while without getting an answer, and said, "It's still early anyway, so think about it."

Du Xuan was silent for a long time, and then slowly replied: "I see."

Putting away the phone, Du Xuan looked at the noon sun outside the window, ordered a sandwich, ate a couple of mouthfuls, and lay down on the table again.Just waking up like this, he occupied a sofa booth in the corner of the dessert house for a whole day.The dessert shop's business is very good. The young man has been busy arranging the shelves and greeting customers. When he is free, he will come over to help Du Xuan pull the thin blanket that has slipped down and close the blinds. Du Xuan is light-footed. Actually has not noticed.Du Xuan didn't fully wake up until the sun started to set and the lights in the store were turned on.He felt his arms were sore and numb, and his neck was sore, but fortunately his head was gone.

He paid the bill and took a taxi home. He stood at the door of the apartment building and looked up. The floor-to-ceiling curtains on the second floor had been drawn, and the room was lit with warm lights. Occasionally, shadows of people could be seen on the curtains.On the upper floor, the windows on the third floor were filled with darkness, icy cold and hopeless, making people daunting.

But, no matter what, you have to go home.

Du Xuan looked up for a while, his eyes were sore, and finally he dragged his feet upstairs.

There was a dead silence in the room, Du Xuan didn't turn on the light, closed the door and went directly into her room.He locked the door, took off his clothes and lay down under the quilt.

Operation?fuck him!

Recite words?Whoever loves to carry on the back!

piano practice?Get out!

Du Xuan turned over and closed her eyes.

When Du Xuan left the house on Monday, he felt that his cold was getting worse. Even after putting on that thick coat, he felt chills all over his body. He felt that he was probably going to have a fever.

Zhou Man stood at the door and handed him the schoolbag, reached out to touch his forehead and said, "Is it burning?"

Du Xuan froze for a moment, her mother's palm was very warm, with a faint fragrance, which was one of the expensive perfumes on the dressing table.Du Xuan subconsciously leaned forward, letting his forehead stick closer to his mother's palm. At that moment, he felt that he was no longer cold.

"Yes... a little bit." Du Xuan hesitated for a moment and said, looking at his mother longingly, his heart beating a little anxiously.

"Is there two physics and two mathematics sections today?" Zhou Man frowned and asked, "Evening self-study is also mathematics?"

Du Xuan's heart sank, and the bone-piercing cold wind penetrated into his body from every gap, but he still nodded calmly: "Yes."

Zhou Man sighed: "Then let's persevere."

Du Xuan lowered his eyes, and closed them hard with the gesture of bending over and lifting the shoes.

Zhou Man touched his son's head: "It's fine if you take other courses, but your physics and mathematics are the weakest subjects, so you can't miss these two courses."

Du Xuan straightened up and said, "I know."

Zhou Man nodded approvingly: "My son is awesome." Then she said, "If you have a fever and can't hold on any longer, please ask the teacher for leave and call me again."

Du Xuan nodded and said hoarsely, "I see."

Zhou Man opened the door, patted his son on the back and said, "Persevere, this is the case in the third year of junior high school, just be admitted to the Normal University."

Du Xuan almost gritted her teeth and didn't shout out: Affiliated to Normal University, are you talking about the Affiliated to Normal University, which has the highest enrollment rate and course load in the city?Why didn't I see that it would be "good" if I passed the exam?

When Du Xuan walked out of the house, she was shivered by the cold wind. When she reached the second floor, Lin Tingan was just going out.Probably because he was afraid of the cold, he dressed himself into a ball, and put on a scarf and gloves.

"Morning." Lin Tingan jumped on the spot twice, "It's too cold."

Du Xuan couldn't help laughing: "You... you're wearing too much."

"Is that too much?" Lin Tingan looked at the clothes on his body, "I almost took out the quilt."

"You have to get used to it." Du Xuan said as he walked, and put his hands in his pockets.It's November, and it's really cold.

Lin Tingan glanced at Du Xuan, sniffled and asked, "Did you catch a cold?"

Du Xuan coughed and cleared his throat: "Can you hear it?"

"Of course, how hoarse is your voice?" Lin Tingan said, "Why don't you ask for leave?"

Du Xuan curled his mouth and said nothing.

"You can't be so exaggerated in the third year of junior high school, right?" Lin Tingan said to himself, "You study so well, what can you do if you take a day off? You don't need to work so hard, you still let others..."

Du Xuan looked up at the gloomy sky, and interrupted Lin Tingan: "Don't worry, if it doesn't work, I will ask for leave."

When he walked to the gate of the community, Lin Tingan looked around: "Why didn't you see Sun Rui today?"

Du Xuan smiled: "Recently, he goes out at 10:[-] minutes every morning and walks around Ziyu's home to pick up people."

Lin Tingan made a long "oh" sound: "He is really busy, shouldn't he be very busy in the third year of junior high school?"

"He's fine. He plans to take the third middle school exam. According to his grades, he's pretty sure, and the pressure isn't too great."

Lin Tingan clicked his tongue: "I heard from my mother that you want to take the entrance examination for the Normal University?"

Du Xuan frowned, but said nothing.

Lin Tingan sniffled again: "Isn't our No. [-] Middle School also the city's key point? Why do you have to go to the Normal University? The Normal University is so difficult to pass the exam. The world of your top students is really fantastic. Challenge new difficulties is the rule of life, right?"

Du Xuan took his hands out of his pockets, rubbed his hands together and said, "It's really cold today, I guess it's time for a winter long-distance run next week."

Lin Tingan wailed: "The most annoying long-distance running."

Du Xuan smiled: "I'm annoying too."

At the flag-raising ceremony, Director Feng talked about "integrity" on the stage. Du Xuan stood at the end of the line and coughed lightly. He felt that the cold was getting worse.

Sun Rui turned his head and whispered, "Take leave and go back to work. You'll get a fever after a while."

Du Xuan shook her head: "It's almost over."

Sun Rui clicked his tongue: "Is it cold?"

Du Xuan shrank his neck. He forgot to bring out the scarf, so he had to turn up the collar of his coat.But inside the coat was a sweater with a round neck. Even if the collar was turned up, it could not stop the cold wind from pouring in. Du Xuan felt that his chest and back were cold.

Sun Rui pestered the person in front of him: "Are you wearing a scarf? Borrow it."

The boy in front of Sun Rui shook his head: "No."

Du Xuan tugged Sun Rui, and pointed to the leader's platform opposite: "Farewell, we will disband in a while. If Lao Feng sees it, it's not enough for him to ramble."

Lin Ting'an was standing less than two meters away from Du Xuan, and Du Xuan's cough was carried by the wind and burrowed into his ears.He kept stealing glances at Du Xuan, and found that Du Xuan's shoulders had shrunk, and he was shaking a little.

Lin Tingan touched the scarf inside his coat, it was made of cashmere, super warm.

But he struggled a little, and always felt that it was weird for him to take off the scarf and hand it over.Don't look at the two people living upstairs and downstairs, but the relationship can't be said how close.

How close can a bag of plums, a piece of chewing gum and a bottle of pulsation be related?

Besides...

The second and third grades of junior high school always seem to be separated by an era.

As a child in the second grade of junior high school, he played wildly and seemed free and undisciplined. In fact, he followed the rules and didn't even dare to sneak out of the school gate or take out his mobile phone.

I am a teenager in the third grade of junior high school. After working hard to study, I will feel nostalgic for the years of youth, and then hook up with a girl to make excuses and dare to escape the evening self-study.

Totally two worlds.

The third grader dislikes the second grader as a brat, and the second grader despises the third grader as a learning machine.

In the third year of junior high school, I forgot how a second year I am in the second year of junior high school;

So Lin Tingan never thought of talking to Du Xuan, who was next to him, during the exercise.Besides, when he thinks that Du Xuan is the kind of "man of the hour" that attracts everyone's attention, he automatically and consciously pokes himself blind during the gymnastics, without looking at Du Xuan.

But today is different.

Lin Ting'an looked at Director Feng, who was leading the drill talking all over the place, touched his scarf again, and squinted at Du Xuan, whose face was pale.

Lin Ting'an thought: would it be too embarrassing to hand the scarf to Du Xuan? It's a bit eye-catching.

Lin Ting'an thought: He won't have a fever, why don't we give it to him.

Lin Tingan thought: Fuck you, what a big deal.

He raised his hand and opened the zipper of his coat, and pulled off the warm scarf from inside. Just as he was about to call Du Xuan in a low voice, Director Feng raised his voice on the stage and said, "Stand at attention, disband!"

Fuck!

Lin Tingan held up the scarf in one hand, and stood there in a daze.

Zheng Ziyan was very surprised: "You are not cold, why did you take off the scarf?"

Lin Tingan watched Du Xuan shrinking his neck and shoulders and walking forward with the crowd, and put the scarf on again resentfully: "It's okay."

Han Mo came over and hooked Lin Tingan's neck: "Brothers, Hu Kun is looking for you, you go to the sports team after school this afternoon."

Lin Tingan frowned strangely: "Why is he looking for me?"

Han Mo said: "I guess I want you to join the track and field team. There will be a city competition in March next year."

"I won't go." Lin Tingan said without thinking, "I want to kill me, but if I don't get on that pirate ship, I won't be able to get off."

Zheng Ziyan said slowly: "Think about it again, I think it would be better to participate."

"Why?" Lin Tingan stared, "The track and field team has to train every day after school, and the warm-up starts at 1000 meters. I don't want to do it. What can I do when I have that little time?"

Zheng Ziyan pushed his glasses, and the instructor's demeanor appeared again: "Lin Ting'an, have you thought about going to any high school?"

Lin Tingan shivered in fright, for fear that Zheng Ziyan would say something: "Why don't you go to the Normal University for exams."