Lu Zhinian was already soaked when he got home. He gave Beibei a bath before entering the bathroom himself.
Heat filled the bathroom, and Lu Zhinian stood under the shower with his eyes closed.
"Every year, my mother and I have to leave here."
"Where to?"
"Grandma's house."
Jiang Suichu's grandmother was in Xuancheng. One year after Jiang's father passed away, she was taken to Xuancheng by her mother.
Lu Zhinian slowly opened his eyes and wiped the water from his face. Maybe he really recognized the wrong person, or maybe he missed her so much that he magnified some similar little habits in others and turned them into what he thought was familiarity. .
on Monday
Lu Zhinian saw the umbrella neatly placed on the desk.
The classmate next to him was a dormitory student. He turned around and said, "A girl brought it."
Lu Zhinian: "When?"
"It's about six o'clock. She was at the door when I came. Then she asked me to help put the umbrella on your table."
Six o'clock is quite early. It seemed that he was deliberately avoiding him.
"Thank you." Lu Zhinian put his umbrella into his desk and took out the books he needed for his morning self-study.
A few minutes later Tang Zi walked into the classroom with a breakfast.
"A Nian, go on."
A parabola was thrown from a distance. Lu Zhinian was still sitting in his position without moving. He raised his hand and firmly caught the yogurt thrown by Tang Zi. It was Yunyou, a local brand in Yun City.
"White peach flavor, brother, I understand you." Tang Zi gnawed on the bun and sat down next to him, with an expression on his face asking for credit.
Lu Zhinian smiled, unscrewed the bottle cap and took a sip, it was a bit sweet.
"I really don't know how you, a boy, like yogurt." Tang Zi took a sip of the steamed buns and a sip of pure milk, "I think pure milk tastes better."
Lu Zhinian glanced at the yogurt in his hand and smiled, "I was used to drinking it when I was a kid."
When Jiang Suichu was a child, she often stayed at their house. She liked to drink these sour and sweet things, especially Yunyou's white peach yogurt. At that time, her yogurt was the most in the refrigerator at home, and his pure milk could only occupy a small corner.
At that time, she always drank with her mouth full, like an old man with a white beard, and she would always hug him and rub him until his face was covered with yogurt before she would let him go.
Lu Zhinian smiled lightly. Xuancheng didn't have this brand, and he didn't know if she still liked to drink it.
Not long after school started, the water dispenser bought by the class had not yet arrived. After lunch, Jiang Suichu and Liang Yi went to the canteen to buy water.
"The braised pork in the cafeteria today is too salty. Salt is free of charge." Liang Yi complained as he picked up a drink in front of the refrigerator.
Jiang Suichu pressed his dry lips, which were indeed a bit salty.
"Sui Sui, what are you drinking?"
The freezer was sponsored by Yunyou, and there were several layers of Yunyou yogurt. Jiang Suichu could see the white peach flavor on the top at a glance. At eight yuan a cup, the price of yogurt that originally only cost three yuan has actually increased to eight yuan.
Jiang Suichu scanned the price tags one by one. The cheapest drinks in this refrigerator were only five yuan.
"I drink mineral water, you choose first." The mineral water is in the refrigerator on the other side.
Liang Yi picked up a bottle of strawberry and a bottle of mulberry and started to wonder, "I want to drink both flavors, what should I do?"
Jiang Suichu smiled and said, "Then you buy both, drink one at noon and one in the afternoon."
Liang Yi pursed her lips, "I don't have much pocket money this week, so I don't dare to spend it like this."
After saying that, she looked at the yogurt in her hand with a confused look on her face, wondering which one to choose. Jiang Suchu didn't rush her and just stood aside and waited.
At this time, bustling voices came from the door, and Jiang Suchu looked for the sound. Two brothers, Lu Zhinian and Tang Zi, and a boy not wearing school uniform walked in, talking and laughing. Brother and sister Tang Zi were playing around in front, while Lu Zhinian and the boy were walking behind.
Lu Zhinian put one hand in his pocket and the other on his mobile phone. The boy who was not wearing school uniform put his hand on his shoulder and smiled and said something in his ear. He lazily raised his eyelids, then smiled and used his elbow. I punched the boy in the stomach.
The boy seemed to have known that he would be like this, and jumped away with a smile.
It seems they have a good relationship.
Liang Yi also heard the sound and was stunned for a moment when he saw the person at the door. Then she put down the strawberry yogurt in her hand and chose the mulberry flavored one.
"He is Pei Shuo, from No. 4 Middle School next door."
"You said the one in black is Pei Shuo?" Jiang Suchu looked in disbelief.
Liang Yi felt that Jiang Suchu's reaction was a bit strange and looked at her hesitantly, "Yeah, what's wrong?"
"No, it's okay." Jiang Suichu just couldn't believe that the tall, thin boy in front of him could be the chubby little boy when he was a child.
Pei Shuo walked to the freezer with ease and picked a drink, "Let's go out to eat tomorrow. The school cafeteria is really terrible."
Tang Zi stood under the air outlet of the canteen to blow the air, and said: "Our canteen is pretty good, but the braised pork today was a bit substandard."
Pei Shuo started shouting after hearing this and said, "That's a bit loud? It's almost killing me."
Tang Mi walked to the freezer with a smile. As soon as she opened the door, the air-conditioning hit her face, "That's much better than your cafeteria."
The cafeteria of No. 4 Middle School is notoriously unpalatable, so Pei Shuo has come to No. 1 Middle School for lunch almost every day since the beginning of school.
Thinking of the cafeteria of No. 4 Middle School, Pei Shuo curled his lips in disgust and said, "I wouldn't have played games if I had known that, but I was assigned to No. 4 Middle School just three points away."
Lu Zhinian smiled and put away his phone, his voice a little hoarse, "Yeah! I knew there was an English test the next day, but I still stayed up all night playing games."
Jiang Suchu looked at him across the four rows of shelves. His face was not good and he looked a little unhappy.
Pei Shuo couldn't argue, "It just happened to be the day of the competition."
Pei Shuo loves playing games and can be considered a semi-professional gamer. The night before the last English test in the high school entrance examination happened to be the quarterly league. He thought that it would only be twelve o'clock after finishing the game and it would not affect the exam the next day. As a result, after the game, I was so excited about winning the game that I actually lost sleep. I was so excited that I didn't fall asleep until three or four in the morning. Finally, he fell asleep during the English test and didn't have time to write the essay. Originally, his score was only a few points away from entering the No. 1 Middle School, and it was not impossible to get into the No. 1 Middle School if he paid the school selection fee, but Pei Tian directly let him slip to the No. 4 Middle School in order to let him remember.
Fortunately, No. 4 Middle School is very close to No. 1 Middle School.
Pei Shuo took two bottles of Coke and turned around and asked, "Pepsi or Coca-Cola?"
Tang Zi: "Pepsi."
He looked at Tang Mi and saw that she had already taken a bottle of oolong peach, so he looked at Lu Zhinian.
Pei Shuo: "A Nian, what about you?"
Lu Zhinian's throat felt a little itchy. He put his fist on the tip of his nose and coughed a few times, "Mineral water."
Pei Shuo nodded, took a bottle of Evian and walked to the cashier, "You have a cold?"
"No, I just feel a little uncomfortable in my throat."
Lu Zhinian rubbed the tip of his nose, as if he felt something. When he looked up, he could only see a blue and white silhouette behind the shelf.
Jiang Suchu didn't expect that he would suddenly look over and quickly turned his head.
Tang Zi: "What are you looking at?"
Lu Zhinian glanced at the figure with his back turned, looked away, and said calmly: "It's nothing."
The cashier asked several people if they wanted to pay together. Pei Shuo took out his mobile phone and said, "Together."
When they left, Jiang Suchu faintly heard Tang Mi asking Lu Zhinian if he wanted to go to the infirmary to get some medicine.
Liang Yi took Jiang Suichu's arm and went to get mineral water, "The four of them have been inseparable since they were in junior high school. It was no accident that they were all in No. 1 Middle School in high school. I don't know how Pei Shuo managed to fail to pass the unified admission line of No. 1 Middle School. Went to No. 4 Middle School.”
Jiang Suchu was thinking about other things and didn't notice the strangeness in Liang Yi's tone.
Did you catch a cold because you got caught in the rain?
Thinking about it, Jiang Suchu couldn't help but feel a little upset. She should have insisted on not wanting his umbrella yesterday. He had been in poor health since he was a child. He would always catch a cold when the weather got cold, and he would run to the hospital every two days. It rained a lot yesterday. I must have caught a cold because of the rain. The more Jiang Suichu thought about it, the more worried he became. He had hated taking medicine since he was a child, and Aunt Shuyuan had to coax him for a long time every time he took medicine. Listening to their conversation just now, she guessed that he would not go to the infirmary.
Jiang Suchu: "Liang Yi, I have something else to do. You should go back to the classroom first."
After that, he walked out of the canteen.
"Hey, where are you going?"
But the entrance to the canteen had long since disappeared. Liang Yi looked confused and turned around to check out. After thinking about it, he picked up another bottle of mineral water.
Jiang Suichu rushed back to the classroom at the end of lunch break. Liang Yi looked at her sunburned face and took out a few tissues and gave her, "Where have you been? You haven't come back from lunch break."
Jiang Suchu stuffed the things in his hands into the desk, took the tissue and wiped Han's forehead, and said, "I asked for leave at noon to go out."
The infirmary only had granular pills. Lu Zhinian didn't like taking medicine, especially pills. After thinking about it, she asked for leave and went to a pharmacy outside the school to buy granules.
Liang Yi didn't see clearly what was in her hand, but he saw the big words on the plastic bag: Fangyuan Pharmacy.
Liang Yi: "Are you sick?"
Jiang Suichu licked his dry lips and said, "I feel a little heatstroke, so I bought some heat-relieving medicine."
"It's really hot today." Liang Yi nodded, took out the mineral water he bought and handed it to her, "My mother said this is called Autumn Tiger, and it will cool down after a while."
Jiang Suichu took the water and said thank you, "How much does it cost, I'll transfer it to you."
Liang Yi rolled his eyes at her, "What are you going to do? Just a bottle of water."
"But...."
Jiang Suchu felt a little uncomfortable holding the water in her hand. She was not good at handling this kind of thing. She couldn't enjoy other people's treats with peace of mind, and she couldn't just invite them back without caring.
Because she has no money.
"Oh, don't worry, drink quickly, class will start soon."
Jiang Suichu had no choice but to tighten the bottle cap, put the water on the corner of the table and took out the books for class.
Forget it, I'll return it later when I get the chance.
After the evening self-study get out of class, Jiang Suichu packed his things slowly and waited until everyone had left before walking upstairs with his schoolbag.
Everyone in Class 7 has left, the lights in the classroom have been turned off, and only the lights from the playground outside shine through the windows from a distance.
When returning the umbrella in the morning, she noticed his seat, which was in the second-to-last row by the window.
Jiang Suichu tightened his grip on the shoulder strap of his schoolbag, glanced around a few times to make sure no one was around, then gently opened the back door and walked in.
Jiang Suchu carefully avoided the tables, chairs and benches and walked towards his seat. The classroom was a bit dark, with a small stack of books on each desk, and the scent of ink seemed to float in the light.
There are also a few books on his desk, piled in the upper left corner of the desk. The bookshelf and the edge of the desk are perfectly aligned and neat.
This obsessive-compulsive disorder is still the same as when I was a child.
Jiang Suichu curled his lips and gently opened the top English book.
Lu Zhinian.
It's not the kind of upright regular script, but more of his casual and lazy style.
The first word she learned to write was his name. At that time, Aunt Shuyuan taught him how to write, starting from learning to write names, but she did not teach them to write their own names, but to write each other's names.
Therefore, the first thing Lu Zhinian learned was her name.
Her handwriting was not as good as his when she was a child. Over the years, she had neglected to practice amidst the busy farm work and endless housework, and her handwriting, which was originally dotted, had long been changed beyond recognition.
Barely able to see.
She put the books away, took out the medicine she bought from her bag and put it on his desk, then quietly closed the door and left.
