Chen Mo has been quite popular recently, which is reflected in the fact that people look at him sideways when he walks. Most people in the class will call him Brother Mo when they run into him outside the classroom, while those who secretly come to the door of the experimental class because they heard the news just to catch a glimpse of the new school bully can only see the back of his head most of the time.
This school bully is not very impressive.
Not only is he lazy, but he always does only one thing during class breaks – sleeping.
And he was really asleep.
“Sometimes I wonder if he never slept in his previous life?” Qi Lin occupied the second-to-last row, looked at Xi Siyan’s accustomed face, pointed at Chen Mo, and asked in a low voice: “Since the morning self-study session, he has slept for at least half an hour, right?”
Xi Siyan glanced to the side.
All I could see was the boy’s messy and fluffy hair, and the red tips of his ears pressed against his elbows.
Xi Siyan retracted his gaze and looked at Qi Lin, “Why do you care about this?”
“It’s not just me who’s concerned.” Qi Lin smirked. “Come to think of it, before, most of the girls who peeked in at the door of our class were there to see you secretly, but now at least one-third of them are there to see Chen Mo. To be honest, how come no one noticed that Chen Mo is actually quite good-looking before? He’s threatening your position as the most handsome guy in Suicheng No. 1 Middle School, don’t you have a sense of crisis?”
Xi Siyan looked at him expressionlessly.
Qi Lin automatically muted his microphone.
Frankly speaking, we can’t afford to offend them. Now, this place in the corner of the classroom is like two huge Buddhas suppressing us. No one comes here easily.
Just then, two stupid big guys rushed in from the door, and the back door slammed against the wall with a bang, waking up the sleeping person next to it.
Qi Lin looked at the person who rubbed his arm twice before looking up, and almost said directly: Yes, yes, that’s it, this is it, this feeling of being woken up by someone and looking at people with a sad face, it’s so cool, it’s the most popular among girls.
Xi Siyan suddenly asked: “There are rats in the dormitory?”
“Huh?” Chen Mo was stunned for two seconds before realizing that he was talking to him.
Chen Mo: “What rat?”
“Without mice, you don’t sleep every day, and you can’t wake up during the day?”
Qi Lin approached Chen Mo and said, “Sleeping God, I’m also curious. Where did you learn this magical skill of being able to fall asleep on a table? Can I become your disciple?”
Chen Mo yawned, hiding the sleepiness in the corners of his eyes, and said, “Just give up.”
“Huh? What?” Qi Lin indicated that he didn’t hear clearly.
Chen Mo glanced at someone who was holding his hands in the narration and gave Qi Lin an example, “It’s like your brother Yan, who works hard every day to be the first in the grade, shoulders the tasks and expectations assigned by teachers of various subjects, and is the future of the family and the pillar of the country. Above all, all, just give up.”
There was a slight sneer from the side.
Qi Lin was almost brainwashed, but he remained awake. “Lao Yan is not a normal person. Just based on what you said, his sleep quality is so abnormal. He goes to bed at 8 o’clock on weekends and gets up at 6 o’clock in the morning, plus he goes for an hour of long-distance running.”
“That’s great.” Chen Mo clapped his hands perfunctorily, and laid back on the table, saying, “I can’t do that. If I don’t wake up, my brain will shut down.”
Qi Lin began to envy his mental state and was almost about to grab him.
He asked without shame: “The internal competition in the experimental class is quite serious, aren’t you anxious?”
“No.” Someone leaned on his arms and closed his eyes again.
“What about the college entrance examination? Doesn’t your scalp tingle when you hear that?”
“When I think about the fact that there are still two years until graduation, my scalp gets even more numb.”
“Okay.” Qi Lin used his trump card, “Don’t you want to compete with Yang Shule? I see that he has been working very hard for the next monthly exam. He doesn’t even bother to look for Brother Yan. Don’t you want to avenge your past? Let your family members look at you in a new light? Let those who say you got in through the backdoor get slapped in the face?”
Chen Mo first opened one eye and looked at Qi Lin.
Then he leaned to the side and said, “Your brother fucked me in the face, can you please stop it?”
Xi Siyan raised his eyebrows, “I am his father?”
“He could be your son.”
“Thank you.” Xi Siyan said, “I don’t have such a son.”
Chen Mo looked back at Qi Lin and taunted, “Did you hear me, you rebellious son? Listen to what you just asked, to humiliate me? Now, stand up. You can choose between rolling back or crawling back.”
Qi Lin was stunned by the conversation that just went on.
Xi Siyan is not new, but he humiliated Chen Mo? He asked him if he wanted to work hard, and he said he humiliated him?
Who is humiliating whom?
Qi Lin left in humiliation and quickly returned.
“Cycling in Nanshan this weekend, are you coming, Mr. Mo?”
Chen Mo was stunned. “Invite me?”
“Yeah.”
Just as Chen Mo was thinking about the rumor that someone had died in a car crash at Nanshan, he heard Qi Lin speak up boldly: “Compared to car racing, I think cycling, a popular sport at a sunset age, should be suitable for you. Let’s have a race this weekend and let grandpa teach you what real humiliation is.”
Chen Mo began to look suspicious.
Is this person in front of me really Qi Lin, the guy who was later rumored to have slept with countless Xiao Lings in the gay circle of Suicheng? This overwhelming straight man vibe. Chen Mo thought he relied on his emotional intelligence, but from what he has seen so far, is it because of his big penis?
Chen Mo’s eyes unconsciously moved downwards, and he heard Xi Siyan speak again: “If you don’t want to go to the club’s entertainment activities, then don’t go.”
“Racing club?” Chen Mo tilted his head.
Xi Siyan glanced at him and said, “Most of the cycling clubs that have cooperation with the school are students.”
Chen Mo hesitated, then nodded: “Then… go ahead.”
“Go?” Xi Siyan questioned, “I thought you would prefer to sleep at home on weekends.”
Qi Lin suddenly realized what was going on and immediately mocked Chen Mo, “Yeah, I almost forgot that we have to gather at six in the morning. Can you get up?”
Chen Mo grabbed a handful of hair and raised his eyes, “Well, you don’t have to sleep. After all, my weekends are more inclined to teach you how to be a good person.”
“Fuck.” Qi Lin rushed forward, as if preparing to shake Chen Mo’s neck.
Xi Siyan kicked the table, and the table moved forward just to hit Qi Lin’s legs, stopping the fight between the two people who looked quite familiar with each other.
“It’s time for class.” Xi Siyan threw the books for the next class on the table and asked Qi Lin, “Are you still standing here, waiting for me to see you off?”
Qi Lin left cursing.
Chen Mo chuckled.
Before she could stop smiling, she realized Xi Siyan was still looking at her.
Chen Mo looked back.
Xi Siyan: “Is it fun?”
“Who made him react so funny? He’s a big guy, he can’t stand the slightest provocation.”
Chen Mo kept talking. In fact, for him, going to Nanshan means beautiful scenery, fresh air, and the opportunity to ride a bicycle when he has nothing to do. It perfectly meets his ideal weekend state.
Xi Siyan seemed to know his true intentions and kindly said, “People who cannot stand provocation will not give up until they get a result.”
After all, Qi Lin is known to be impulsive and aggressive on the court.
Looking at the person next to me, I unscrewed the thermos cup on the table and could still vaguely smell the faint scent of chrysanthemums…
Xi Siyan pressed his brow calmly.
He could no longer recall what it was like when he first met Chen Mo.
Perhaps it was the pair of eyes like a trapped beast that were pressed to the ground by the police in the heavy rain, surrounded by three layers of human walls inside and outside.
Surrounding it are backward villages and livestock pens.
The air was filled with the fishy smell of rain mixed with an indescribable odor that was thick and pungent.
The tears of the Yang couple were not fake.
The woman who was probably Chen Mo’s adoptive mother was pulling the police and shouting at the top of her lungs. Lying on the ground was his adoptive father Chen Jianli, whose face was bruised and swollen from being beaten by Chen Mo and whose original appearance could no longer be seen.
It’s a complete farce.
Yang Shule, who was sitting in the car, looked pale.
He asked: “Ah…Brother Yan, that is Chen Mo, right?”
Xi Siyan withdrew his gaze and looked at the roof of the car.
Even thinking, for the last time. The old lady was soft-hearted and forced him to come and see.
The fact is, it’s just as expected.
It is unclear whether Chen Mo has been spoiled, but one can see the abyss in his eyes at a glance. If the Yang family is willing to maintain superficial peace, perhaps they can get a temporary illusion of family harmony. If they cannot maintain it, this found son is obviously not someone who can be manipulated at will, and the final result is unpredictable.
Yang Shule’s voice beside him sounded trembling, as if he was talking to himself, or as if he was asking him: “Why? Why me? I don’t have biological parents like that, and I will never acknowledge them.”
Xi Siyan’s tone was calm.
It also sounded like sarcasm: “You’re probably not the only one who wants to know why.”
This was the biggest reaction he could give to this matter. The Xi and Yang families had done their best to help someone find their son, and he didn’t care about anything else.
Less than a month later, the Yang family really made some noise.
Withdrawing the lawsuit does seem like something the couple would do, and Yang Zhi might be more suitable to be in charge of the Yang family. Unfortunately, for a family like theirs, it is obviously more appropriate to “spoil” a seemingly well-behaved younger brother.
Perhaps we don’t know when, in what occasion or gathering, the end of this play will come.
Unexpectedly, they saw Chen Mo running a high fever in the alley behind the Internet cafe.
His words were sharp and impolite.
Xi Siyan thought about when he had offended him.
Then he realized that almost everyone who seemed to have a connection with the Yang family was unforgivable in his eyes.
And then what?
Things seem to be going a little bit different than expected.
The Chen Mo I met later was the same, yet very different.
You say he doesn’t fight or compete, but he never wants to suffer a loss. You say he is still as ambitious as before, but you can no longer see any trace of that in him. The change is subtle, but you can’t help but notice it.
Like now.
Today’s maximum surface temperature is 35°.
A man who woke up early in the morning and couldn’t wake up, and caught up with the unlucky guy Qi Lin and started attacking each other, now held his blue-gray thermos cup that looked ordinary and low-key, and bent his head to blew into it.
Try taking a small sip.
Being burned, he whispered: “Fuck!”
Take another sip.
He frowned and muttered, “It’s so bitter, there must be something wrong with the instructions.”
Xi Siyan endured for a long time, and finally asked: “Do you really have to drink this hot water?”
Someone looked over.
“Like you guys, sweating profusely and slamming a bottle of ice water?”
Xi Siyan twitched his lips and said, “Perhaps there is a kind of water in this world called room temperature.”
“You can’t make it at room temperature. Chrysanthemum can clear internal heat. Can I give you a pack?”
“No need.”
Chen Mo and Xi Siyan have been sitting at the same table for almost a week.
Excluding his current and possible future relationship with classmate Yang, as his deskmate, Chen Mo no longer had any opinion about him.
It’s quiet, free, and I can copy homework.
After all, there is a lot of homework in high school, and even if he knows how to do it, he is too lazy to waste his brain on it.
I don’t know what happened today?
Does drinking hot water bother him?
Chen Mo held the cup, his eyes full of suspicion: “Are you jealous of my healthy life?”
Xi Siyan seemed to have heard some ridiculous joke.
I laughed out of anger.
“Jealous of your cigarettes and black tea?”
“Ice pack for disfigurement?”
“Drinking hot water while staying up late?”
Chen Mo: “…Shut up.”
Two seconds later, the math teacher stepped onto the podium with a serious step, wearing a pair of standard black mid-heel shoes.
She held a stack of test papers in her hand and pressed them on the desk, making a dull sound.
“This exam.”
“Overall satisfactory.”
The female teacher was in her thirties, with her hair neatly combed.
The light grey business suit seemed to put her into a fixed shell, rigid, solemn and unpleasant.
“But there are some people I want to seriously criticize today.”
As soon as these words came out, the class began to buzz.
As if he had anticipated this, Chen Mo met the teacher’s piercing gaze and heard her say, “Chen Mo, 125 points, this score is barely acceptable in our experimental class, but tell me, how did you solve the last big question?”
“Is there any problem with my solution, Teacher Bai?” Chen Mo stood up from his seat slowly.
There seemed to be indifference in his eyes, but in fact, there was a layer of haze in his eyes.
Bai Suxiu was also Chen Mo’s math teacher in his previous life.
Chen Mo still remembers that sentence.
——Yang Shule has always been an excellent student with a lot of trophies in various competitions. He didn’t accuse you of cheating and even smoothed things over for you! What about you?
That was not an in-class test, but Chen Mo’s first monthly exam after transferring to No. 1 Middle School.
He didn’t live on campus in his previous life.
As the math class representative, Yang Shule took the math test paper that he accidentally brought home from the office the day before and explained to Bai Suxiu, “Teacher Bai, it was my fault.”
In the teacher’s office, Bai Suxiu accused Chen Mo in a matter-of-fact tone: “Chen Mo, our No. 1 Middle School is not as difficult as your previous high school. You got the same score of 149 as the class representative, and you got the same question wrong. You tell me it’s a coincidence? As long as you apologize today, I will pretend that this never happened.”
It is impossible to apologize.
Zhou Yaoqing was called over that time.
The woman was dressed exquisitely, and her face was full of guilt: “I’m sorry, Teacher Bai, I didn’t discipline the two children well.”
Bai Suxiu softened her tone: “I know Shu Le, it has nothing to do with him. For someone like Chen Mo, it’s a good thing to want to make progress, but he has to take the right path.”
“Yes, yes.”
In the car on the way home that day.
Zhou Yaoqiong looked as if she was afraid of hurting his self-esteem, and said, “Xiao Mo, I didn’t tell your father and your brother. They will definitely be very angry if they know.”
Chen Mo sneered: “You can tell them.”
Because of this sentence, Zhou Yaoqing believed that he was guilty and ignorant.
Later, Chen Mo’s grades in all subjects improved steadily, except for mathematics. He could no longer listen seriously to any of her classes.
The final score difference in the college entrance examination was also due to this.
Today.
It was as if the past was happening again.
And a little different.
Chen Mo still remembers the last big question.
The additional questions were not difficult for someone like him who had taken advanced mathematics in college. When he saw them, he didn’t think much about it and just wrote down the steps to solve them.
Chen Mo thought he would be accused of cheating.
I don’t know if it was because of what happened before, but I only heard Bai Suxiu say, “You put the test papers up by yourselves. The class representative’s paper was on the podium at the time, and someone saw you writing the questions with a pen on the podium. Moreover, your thinking and steps in solving the questions were exactly the same, which was not even taught in high school.”
It’s almost like saying he plagiarized.
“Who saw it?” Chen Mo asked.
The class was silent.
Chen Mo looked around and said, “Who saw me copying someone else’s paper when I was on stage?”
This was the first time that Chen Mo showed such distinct emotions in class.
These days, everyone is about to forget that this new transfer student who slept all day had just beaten a group of people into the school hospital a few days ago.
Bai Suxiu said sternly: “Chen Mo, who are you threatening? If you are not copying other people’s answers, then what are you writing?”
Chen Mo sneered: “The questions are too easy, I was afraid of scaring the teacher, so I corrected a lot of mistakes. Is there a problem?”
“You are simply unreasonable!”
A hand pressed on Chen Mo’s suddenly tensed shoulders.
The palms are broad and the fingers are long and beautiful.
The index finger of this hand gently pressed twice on the shoulder, and Chen Mo unexpectedly felt a hint of calmness.
Soon the people around him stood up.
“I watched him finish the last question, Mr. Bai.” Xi Siyan’s tone was a little careless. “He only wrote half of the answer, and he corrected it once. In the remaining half an hour, he drew a turtle next to the stem of the additional question.”
Someone in the class couldn’t help but burst out laughing.
Bai Suxiu actually picked up the top paper and flipped through it.
Then his face turned ugly.
Chen Mo looked at Xi Siyan and wondered if this man’s eyesight was 5.0.
Xi Siyan spoke again, even with a smile: “So, Mr. Bai, for such a sudden and groundless accusation, shouldn’t you also apologize to the students who were misunderstood?”
At this moment, the whole class was as quiet as a chicken.
Only Yang Shule, who was sitting in the front row, clenched the pen in his hand after hearing Xi Siyan’s words.
In fact, this math teacher is not popular.
Most people didn’t like her rigid teaching style, but Chen Mo knew that she taught mathematics in the experimental class until graduation.
Chen Mo also knew that Bai Suxiu subconsciously thought he plagiarized because she had heard about his relationship with Yang Shule and thought he had ulterior motives. She also didn’t think that a student who transferred from a backward county high school could answer such a question.
The atmosphere was a bit tense, and Chen Mo knew that she would not apologize.
This time it was Chen Mo who pulled Xi Siyan’s sleeve.
Xi Siyan hummed through his nose and looked at him in confusion.
Chen Mo let go and looked towards the podium.
“For the next monthly exam, the top ten in the grade will be selected. If you make it, I’ll stay. If you don’t, the teacher will keep you.”
Chen Mo just didn’t want to be disgusted with a main subject teacher who he had to face every day. This disgust had not lasted for just one or two days, but for a long time, many years, and it was a face that flashed back in his mind countless times. He originally thought that he could just close his eyes and let it go this time, but it made him feel like he had eaten a mouthful of shit, so disgusted that he had to vomit out the food he had eaten the night before.
Either she leaves or he leaves.
One has to roll.
Of course, it can be basically concluded that he left on his own.
The math teacher’s face turned pale, obviously he didn’t expect Chen Mo to dare to be so arrogant.
The whole class fell silent.
“Do you need a written report?”
Only a certain squad leader ignored everyone and taunted Chen Mo: “You don’t count.”
This can be understood as him saying that Chen Mo is extremely bold.
However, the classmates who have been with Xi Siyan for a year or two are very clear that in this matter, it seems that their class monitor intends to protect him to the end.