You are my proper foothold

Chapter 18

Wei Zhiyu is a playmate who has known Jiang Xin since wearing open crotch pants. He is one year older than Jiang Xin and one level higher than Jiang Xin. The two lived opposite each other before Wei Zhiyu went to high school, and they were inseparable every day, going in and out together.

To say when the close relationship between the two of them began to change, there is no doubt that it must have started in Wei Zhiyu's second year of junior high, when Hui Xiaoyou transferred to their junior high school and became a classmate with him.

Before Hui Xiaoyou came, Wei Zhiyu had been firmly occupying the first place in the grade, which made him feel very proud when he was only 14 years old at the time, and because of this, he was defiant, besides Jiang Xin, the first grader who was one grade lower than him, He doesn't like to talk to others.

However, such a strong sense of superiority was ruthlessly crushed after Hui Yue came back.

Wei Zhiyu still clearly remembers the day when his name appeared on the second line of the report card for the first time. He was so humiliated that he couldn’t even make a friendly expression. Almost everyone around him could see that he was unhappy. , and he was very upset. He almost burst into tears when the teacher commented on the results. In order to take into account the mood of his good student, Mr. Dai, the head teacher, only talked about the situation of the whole grade and did not mention the exam. And in the class meeting after that, I also consciously or unconsciously enlightened them to calm down and work hard, the result is not important.

But how could it be unimportant?

Wei Zhiyu was really about to cry, and what made him even more angry was that after the class meeting, the "culprit" actually said very coldly when everyone gathered around to express their admiration to him. One sentence: "There is no difficulty, nothing to be proud of."

I!Depend on!

Wei Zhiyu sat on the seat that day and dismantled all the pens in his pencil case to pieces. His deskmate was frightened by him, and he didn't dare to say a word to him until school was over.

When he finally finished this humiliating day, Wei Zhiyu went to go home with Jiang Xin after the last class, Jiang Xin was surprised when he saw his face, and asked him: "What's wrong with you? Bullied?"

When Wei Zhiyu heard him ask such a question, the grievance that he had held back for a long time surged up in an instant, his eye circles were red, and he rushed forward angrily and said, "I got the second grade in the exam this time!"

Jiang Xin was stunned for a moment, and hurried to catch up with him: "Isn't it good to be second, don't get angry."

"I'm angry! I haven't passed the second exam since I was a child!" Wei Zhiyu pursed his lips and told himself desperately that boys should not cry or they would be useless, but tears were already rolling in their eyes.

Seeing him like this, Jiang Xin pulled him and said, "Don't cry, how about I invite you to eat oden? I'll buy you sesame seed cakes tomorrow morning? Spicy sesame?"

"Then I want two!" Wei Zhiyu turned his head abruptly, but his eyes suddenly froze, staring behind Jiang Xin as if he had seen a ghost.

Jiang Xin looked at him strangely, then turned her head to look behind her, and saw a thin boy who was about his height walking towards them.

He is so good looking.This was Jiang Xin's first reaction.

He should be the one who passed Wei Zhiyu this time.This was Jiang Xin's second reaction.

Seeing the boy walk by as if he didn't see the two of them, Wei Zhiyu called out impatiently: "Hey! Yan Xiaoyou!"

Yan Xiaoyou?It turned out his name was this.

Although I don't know which words it is, but it sounds good.This is Jiang Xin's third reaction.

At this moment Hui Xiaoyou raised his head and glanced at Wei Zhiyu lightly, "Is there something wrong?"

"I can't call you if I have nothing! You don't know who I am, do you? I'm—"

"Wei Zhiyu." Hui Xiaoyou accepted the words calmly, and added: "I know, the one in the same class as me, the one who got second in the exam this time."

"You——" Wei Zhiyu blushed, as if he had been poked at a sore spot, and ignored the fact that Hui Xiaoyou was just stating the facts, and shouted at him angrily, "First place in the exam is amazing! That's it!" It’s only once, what are you proud of! Isn’t it just that you can go back and show off to your parents—”

"Zhiyu." Jiang Xin suddenly pulled him hard, covered his mouth and said to Hui Xiaoyou: "I'm sorry, he is in a bad mood today."

Hui Xiaoyou pursed his lips, said lightly that it was all right, and then walked around them.

He didn't let go of Wei Zhiyu who was struggling in his arms until he was far away from Jiangxin. Wei Zhiyu looked at him with the eyes of a traitor and shouted: "What are you doing just now! It's fine if you don't help me, and you still apologize to him? !"

Jiang Xin thoughtfully looked at Hui Xiaoyou's leaving direction, and said calmly, "When you mentioned 'Parents' just now, his expression didn't seem right."

"What's wrong with facial expressions?! Do you think you are the only one who can read words and expressions!" Wei Zhiyu was so angry that seeing Jiang Xin still looking at the man who had disappeared, he became even more angry and pushed him hard Said: "Do you want to go? If you don't go, I will go by myself!"

"Go." Jiang Xin expressed helplessness to him, "Careful."

"you--"

"Two biscuits each in the morning and the morning after tomorrow."

Wei Zhiyu: "...that's about the same, let me let you go first."

Jiang Xin smiled and didn't continue to argue with him, he didn't know why he kept thinking about that figure who walked away silently.

The expression he pursed his lips before he left was obviously a little lonely and a little hurt.

Is there anything he's not happy about?

***

Gossip spreads fastest among students.

Within a few days, the news that "Yue Xiaoyou's parents are divorced and he's staying at Teacher Dai's house" spread throughout the grades, and the level of attention quickly surpassed that of him becoming the new No. [-] in grade.

When everyone talked about him, the modification was no longer "the first one in the third class this time", but became "the boy from the single-parent family who just transferred."

At their age, the attribute of "single-parent family" is obviously much more concerned than the quality of their grades.

Some people began to sympathize, some began to ridicule, some began to subconsciously isolate, and some began to make malicious jokes.

Almost no one cared about whether Hui Xiaoyou could do all the extra questions in the math homework, even if they did, they would ask him in a serious tone: "Yue Xiaoyou, did you turn your grief into something because of your parents' divorce?" Strength is the only way to learn so well?"

Also, "Your grades are so good and your parents are going to divorce? Don't they care about you?"

"What's the use of studying well? I'd rather be at the bottom of the exam than separate my parents."

"That's right. It is said that children from single-parent families work harder than normal children. If I were also from a single-parent family, then maybe I would be the first in the grade."

"Hahaha you're right..."

……

Children often can't tell the line between jokes and malice. They don't know that words can hurt people, and they don't know that there is a limit to everything, and this is the scariest thing.

Hui Xiaoyou lived more and more silently amidst the waves of noise.

He wished he could become a transparent person, and let these people look away from him, whether it was sympathy or irony, it made him feel uncomfortable.

As his classmate, Wei Zhiyu naturally witnessed how all this happened step by step.

Wei Zhiyu didn't join the crowd that made Hui Yue feel uncomfortable, he even felt a little guilty when he thought of his inappropriate words and deeds after school that day.

But he didn't want to help him, he didn't want to come forward, because these things had nothing to do with him, and he didn't like Yan Xiaoyou either.

As for why he doesn't like it, besides being surpassed by him, there is another more important reason is Jiang Xin.

Ever since the day they met, Jiang Xin seemed to have been obsessed with Hui Xiaoyou, and always came to him to ask him about various things about Hui Xiaoyou, which made Wei Zhiyu very upset.

When I was young, I asked myself about my "old enemy" every day, and it was obvious that I didn't have the same attitude as him. Can this be tolerated? !

Wei Zhiyu originally used the coping strategy of "one question, three ignorance", but one time he was really anxious to be asked, so he couldn't help telling Jiang Xin all the messy things, and finally warned him: " Stay away from him, people say that people in single-parent families are withdrawn and prone to extremes, don't let him lead you down."

"What are you talking about." Jiang Xin was very dissatisfied with his statement, and even looked at him with disappointment, "Zhiyu, how could you treat him like this."

"What did you do to him?! I didn't do anything!" Wei Zhiyu felt extremely wronged.

However, Jiang Xin stared at him and said seriously: "Don't you think those people are too much? Or do you actually agree with their actions?"

"Of course I don't agree... I sometimes feel that he is quite pitiful..."

"Then why don't you stop it?" Jiang Xin's voice became stern, and Wei Zhiyu felt guilty by him, "As the class monitor, you know that they are doing wrong things and that they are bullying your classmates. Can you turn a blind eye? Are you worthy of being the squad leader?!"

"...Why are you blaming me?? Is it my turn to take care of this matter? He lives at Teacher Dai's house, why didn't he tell Teacher Dai to let him take care of it!" Wei Zhiyu was so wronged that he jumped.

A flash of distress flashed in Jiang Xin's eyes, he stared at Wei Zhiyu for a long time, then sighed, "Just because he didn't betray you, doesn't mean what you did was justified."

"How did you become 'you'?! I didn't have anything—" Wei Zhiyu saw Jiang Xin turning around to leave as he was speaking, and hurriedly called him: "Hey, where are you going??"

"Go home." Jiang Xin turned her head and gave him a cold look, "I want to go by myself in the past few days, so don't come to me."

"Jiang Xin! Hey! Why are you turning your elbows outwards!!!" Wei Zhiyu was about to die of anger from Fa Xiaoji, he turned around and scolded Jiang Xin, saying, "Don't talk about loyalty, wolf-hearted, and serious Light friends, eat inside and outside", but in the end he scolded and scolded all his anger on Hui Xiaoyou's head, making him kick hard at the telephone pole that Yan Xiaoyou had made up in his own brain, and he was puzzled. After making up several feet, he cursed angrily: "It's all your fucking fault!"

Of course, Hui Xiaoyou didn't know that he had done such a thing to him behind his back.

But the next morning, when everyone started to eat breakfast in the early self-study, someone was talking sarcasticly next to Hui Xiaoyou, and the squad leader Wei Zhiyu suddenly yelled loudly: "Say it every day, talk every day, it's all fucking right!" There's no end to it! You guys don't fucking understand what is right and wrong! Can't you be more kind?! In the future, I will see who dares to say that if I catch him once, he will be punished once, and if he is caught more than three times, he will be handed over to the police immediately. Teacher Dai, let you know what is right and wrong every day when you are not doing business! Boring!"

The whole class, including Hui Yue, were stunned.

It wasn't until more than ten seconds passed that some people realized that those who had been "dropping in" all returned to their seats to eat in silence, and someone lowered their voice and said to the people next to them: "It's a young birthday, and the squad leader has lost his temper."

Wei Zhiyu: "..." If you don't show your power, you all treat me as a sick cat, especially that little bastard Jiang Xin.

"Hello." Someone patted on the shoulder suddenly.

Wei Zhiyu turned his head impatiently: "Who--" He closed his mouth after seeing Hui Xiaoyou.

Hui Xiaoyou's expression was a bit subtle, he stared at him for a few seconds, as if he had put in a lot of effort to finally manage to say: "Thank you."

"...No need." Wei Zhiyu waved his hand, thinking that I wasn't doing it for you either.

But Hui Xiaoyou still insisted on staring at him, and after a long while, he suddenly smiled at him slightly.

Wei Zhiyu was taken aback for a moment, this smile made him inexplicably warm, as if he didn't hate this person so much all of a sudden.

Seeing that Hui Xiaoyou was about to go back to his seat after laughing, Wei Zhiyu struggled hard in his heart, and finally gritted his teeth and called him: "Hey, wait."

"Is there anything else?" Hui Xiaoyou turned around and asked him.

"Well..." Wei Zhiyu felt that if he said the next thing, he would regret it in the future, but if he didn't say it, he would regret it now, so he should focus on the present...

"Well... If you have nothing to do at noon, let's have dinner together... Go to the cafeteria, and I have a friend." Wei Zhiyu said awkwardly.

Hui Xiaoyou thought for a while, "Is it the one I saw last time?" He still remembered the boy who stood next to Wei Zhiyu and said sorry to him tenderly.

"It's him." When Wei Zhiyu thought of Jiang Xin, he became angry again, thinking that he would have to use Yan Xiaoyou as an excuse to call him out later.

"Okay." Hui Xiaoyou readily agreed.

Wei Zhiyu heaved a sigh of relief, and waved him back, but felt in his heart that he had made a wrong decision.

In fact, in the next ten years, he has been regretting this decision.