On the first night of 413, Xue Ping, who had been silent for a long time, fell into a deep sleep in an atmosphere that almost made him die of anger.
Even in his dream late at night, Chen Mo was actually doing his homework.
It was like the college entrance examination that year, with the sound of pens rustling on the test papers everywhere.
He looked at the last math problem that he couldn’t solve no matter how hard he tried. He was so nervous that his heart seemed to be squeezed and he had difficulty breathing. The sound of the wall clock on the podium became clearer and clearer.
Tick-tock, tick-tock. He guessed there couldn’t be a more terrifying sound in the world.
The invigilator began to urge students to stop writing and hand in their test papers.
Chen Mo thought, it’s over.
I haven’t finished the last question yet, I have to finish it quickly.
Open the test paper and take a look.
It was blank. It wasn’t that he didn’t write the last question, he didn’t write any question.
“Bang!”
“Fuck!” Chen Mo immediately reached out and pressed his head, as if the crisp sound of his head hitting the iron frame at the head of the bed was still lingering in his ears. He opened his eyes and looked at the black sky, and then he realized that he was sweating coldly.
“Are you having a nightmare?” a question came from the bed next to you.
The sound was clear and close, as close as if it were right next to my ear.
The two beds were next to each other, and as a sign of respect, their respective orientations were such that their heads were barely separated from each other by two iron frames.
Chen Mo let out a long sigh, relaxed his whole body and collapsed on the bed. He opened his eyes and looked up at the top of his head and said in a daze: “I used to think that the most terrible nightmares in the world are nothing more than two kinds: living wrong but unable to die. Who the hell knew that there would be an option of handing in the college entrance examination paper and finding that the paper was blank. Isn’t it outrageous? I almost had a heart attack.”
The man next to me paused for a moment, and then seemed to laugh, “I thought that even if you didn’t write it in your dream, you should be able to confidently slap the blank paper in the invigilator’s face.”
“I don’t know.” Chen Mo said weakly, “I didn’t take any photos.”
After a few seconds, I recovered.
Chen Mo took out his cell phone and looked at the time. It showed two o’clock in the morning.
The moon should be quite bright tonight, and even with the curtains drawn in the dormitory you can still see the faint moonlight.
Chen Mo leaned back and asked, “Did I wake you up? Or were you not asleep at all?”
“Not asleep.” The person next door turned over.
Chen Mo: “Are you not used to the new place?”
After asking this question, Chen Mo thought, that’s right, the Xi family probably doesn’t have the concept of living on campus. Thinking about it this way, whether it was the last time in the hospital on that small accompanying bed or living on campus, it was more or less related to him.
Chen Mo just felt guilty when he heard Xi Siyan say, “I just finished dealing with the matter and haven’t fallen asleep yet.”
Chen Mo remembered that before he fell asleep, Xi Siyan was sitting on the bed with a notebook on his knees, typing something.
Subconsciously asked: “Starting work so early, is it a tradition of your Xi family?”
“What are you thinking about?” Xi Siyan said, “Lao Xiang asked me to draft a letter of intent for school-enterprise cooperation. I have to give it to him tomorrow morning.”
Chen Mo stopped talking.
The nightmare made his mind unclear, and he subconsciously thought that the adult Xi Siyan and he, who is still in high school, were the same person.
In fact, high school life is not that complicated.
Chen Mo turned on his side and prepared to sleep. Just as he closed his eyes, something warm and cool touched his face.
Xi Siyan’s voice was lowered in the darkness, sounding slower and deeper than usual. He said, “Drink some water and go to sleep, new one.”
Chen Mo grabbed the water bottle on his face and saw a shadow above his head retracting his hand.
This time, the night fell completely silent.
At six o’clock in the morning, the school wake-up bell rang on time.
Chen Mo was the last one to get up.
When I got out of bed, the people in the dormitory were either brushing their teeth or washing their faces.
He stuffed his feet into his slippers and groggily grabbed a handful of his hair. He heard Qi Lin ask across from him, “Did you bump into the bed last night?”
“Did you hear that?” Chen Mo looked over and asked.
Qi Lin nodded: “I seemed to hear it. I also heard you talking to Lao Xi, but I didn’t hear it clearly.”
Chen Mo walked to the balcony, “It’s no big deal. If I didn’t answer the questions in the college entrance examination in real life, your brother Yan said that I would be able to slap the blank paper in the face of the invigilator with a clear conscience.”
Qi Lin was stunned: “…Old Xi finally thinks you are hopeless?”
Shutting out the other people’s discussion of what he meant in the dormitory, Chen Mo went to the sink to brush his teeth. As soon as he got there, he found that his various toiletries were thrown into the basin next to him.
Chen Mo looked at it for two seconds and tilted his head: “You did it?”
“Yes, it’s me.” Xue Ping, who was washing clothes early in the morning, turned around and looked at him with a bit of contempt, “I hope you can face the reality sooner. This dormitory is not suitable for you.”
Chen Mo leaned on the sink with his hands folded.
The laziness from waking up early has not yet dissipated, and I seem lazy when asking people questions.
“Is it bothering you?”
“You didn’t bother me!” Xue Ping was still a little excited, and his wet hands even danced towards Chen Mo’s face. Chen Mo tilted his head to block them, and heard him continue: “The learning atmosphere of the experimental class has been dissipating since you came! You wanted to drive away the math teacher Bai Suxiu, and led the experimental class to fight. Now you are living in the dormitory and asking Xi Siyan to tutor you. You are simply… simply a disaster!”
Chen Mo waited patiently for the other party to finish speaking.
He stood up and patted Xue Ping on the shoulder, “You didn’t spend the whole night thinking about these words, did you? You must have worked hard.”
Xue Ping seemed a little shocked by his reaction.
Even asked him directly: “Why aren’t you angry?”
“What you said is not true?” Chen Mo took out toothpaste from the basin, squeezed it onto the toothbrush and stuffed it into his mouth. He looked at Xue Ping, who was obviously wilting, through the small glass mirror and immediately said, “But don’t give up. Regardless of anything else, your goal is unshakable and it cannot be affected.”
Just then the bathroom door on the right opened.
After taking a shower, Xi Siyan walked out of the hot mist wearing shorts and a towel.
He didn’t know whether he heard the conversation in the bathroom. The first thing he did when he came out was to glance at the toiletries Chen Mo had placed in the basin, and then glanced at Xue Ping.
When Chen Mo saw him, he could only sigh that this guy had such a great figure.
Xi Siyan doesn’t have exaggerated muscles, but he has good skin, broad shoulders and long legs, and perfect proportions. The muscles in his waist and abdomen are only slightly prominent without exercise. It’s especially pleasing to the eye when water drops drip down his hair, slide over his shoulders, waist and abdomen, and finally disappear at the edge of his hidden black shorts.
“What are you looking at?” Chen Mo was still holding the toothbrush in his mouth when a slightly deep voice sounded.
Looking up at Xi Siyan’s rather oppressive glasses, Chen Mo said, “Of course it’s you.”
“Does it look good?” Xi Siyan asked.
While asking, he grabbed the T-shirt hanging at the door and put it on casually.
Chen Mo watched him get dressed and nodded: “I have to admit that from yesterday till now, I have seen all the semi-naked people in the dormitory except Xue Ping. In comparison, you look exceptionally outstanding.”
“Brush your teeth.”
Xi Siyan threw away the towel, looked into his basin again, pushed open the balcony door and went in.
Chen Mo realized at this moment that he didn’t even know when Xue Ping left. He only vaguely heard Xi Siyan say a few words in the dormitory. Chen Mo guessed that it was probably about Xue Ping throwing his things away.
Sure enough, when Chen Mo finished washing up and entered the dormitory, Xue Ping lowered his head, said sorry to him, and then was the first to leave the dormitory.
Jiang Xu commented, “This is a pretty stupid thing to do.”
“Don’t pay attention to him.” Bai Cheng also said to Chen Mo, “He’s just a bit nervous, but he’s not the kind of person who would do anything behind the scenes.”
Chen Mo didn’t have any feelings.
If he got angry about something like this, he would have been angry to death in high school in his previous life.
“Let’s go, it’s time for morning self-study.” Chen Mo said with another yawn as he didn’t get enough sleep.
As a result, he had just spoken.
“It’s Monday.”
“There is no morning self-study.”
“Yes, go to the playground and gather there for the flag-raising ceremony.”
At this point, I don’t know who was the first to realize the problem, but in the end it was Qi Lin who asked him, “Seeing that you are determined to go into the classroom, let me ask you quietly, Brother Mo, have you written your self-review?”
Now even Xi Siyan, who was pulling a book from the table, turned around to look.
Chen Mo said slowly: “Check, ask for a book?”
“Okay, I get it. You didn’t write it.”
“Director Lai is going to be pissed off.”
“Did you forget about the fight you had? Get ready to stand in front of the whole school today. Life is short, just be patient and it will pass.”
…
It was a sunny day with not a single cloud in the sky.
It was no different from every other Monday. Just after seven o’clock, almost all the students in the school had gathered in the playground.
But today is a little different.
The school leader was speaking on the stage and raised his hand to suppress the noise several times, but the restlessness in the student group soon arose again.
The school leaders who had stepped off the stage were all confused and asked the teacher next to them: “What happened today?”
“Not surprising.” The teacher next to him saw the steps next to the stage, pointed at the people walking up, and said with a smile: “Today, the second grade representative will give a speech.”
As the person walked onto the stage, the unrest below became more obvious.
After all, from the outside, the man in the white shirt on the stage always looks like a gentleman. His sleeves are rolled up properly, revealing his well-shaped forearms. He looks clean, handsome, and has a nice voice.
Even the hand that was holding the loudspeaker on the podium was exceptionally slender and as precious as jade.
He bent down slightly, leaned closer to the loudspeaker and said, “Dear leaders, classmates, teachers, good morning…”
He smiled faintly when he greeted her, which attracted the attention of the high school girls in the front row, who all looked over and whispered.
Xi Siyan attended the event as a representative and gave a speech, which was the most lively part of this dull morning.
This is also the time when students’ emotions are at their highest.
After he finished his speech, the flag-raising ceremony was basically over.
As a result, the school leader who took over his position, perhaps because he was so popular, simply stopped him and let him stay on the stage. He continued, “In order not to delay your 8 o’clock class, I will not waste any more time. If I waste a few minutes of your time, we will let the students who violated the rules and regulations last time come up to the stage and read their self-criticisms.”
At this point, as if afraid that the students would get impatient, he smiled and said, “I’ve left the people here for you. Just look at them, but don’t make any noise.”
The crowd was excited.
The excitement gradually subsided, and four or five boys walked up to the podium one after another.
Those who are able to violate disciplines and rules have a bit of rebelliousness in them. For example, those who go on stage wear baggy school uniforms, either without zipping up or just tying them around the waist. I guess their self-esteem is at work, as they lower their heads and look listless.
This low point continued until the last person came on stage.
The atmosphere changed a bit.
The boy wore a loose black T-shirt underneath, and his school uniform was unzipped, but you wouldn’t think he was dressed too shabby.
He walked slowly and draggingly, more like he was still sleepy.
His hair was a little messy, and the skin on his forearms with his sleeves rolled up was so white that it was a little dazzling in the sunlight.
“Who is this?”
“She’s pretty good-looking.”
“You’re all sophomores, right? Don’t you guys visit forums? As for Chen Mo, I heard he beat up more than ten people by himself last time. Otherwise, why do you think he was reading a self-criticism?”
Various voices rang out.
“It was the young master from a wealthy family who was taken away by mistake and caused quite a stir a while ago?”
“Yes, he is a real young master.”
“Where’s the fake young master? Where is he?”
“I don’t have the face to come today. I heard someone say that last weekend…”
No matter what the people below were saying, Chen Mo on the stage listened to the people around him reading their self-criticisms one by one in an orderly manner, and the microphone was handed to him.
Then everyone watched him take out an A4 paper.
A clear and rustling voice came out again.
Dear Leader:
After a night of reflection, I promise that I will do this every day in the future…
That subconscious “tsk” sound reached everyone’s ears through the microphone.
It seems speechless, and also seems absurd.
Then everyone watched him put the paper back into his trouser pocket again, and then he faced the audience and began to speak: “I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have hit anyone, I deeply realize my mistake, I’m… I’m sorry, Chen Mo from Class 1, Grade 2.”
No one thought it was a big deal, as it sounded quite normal from beginning to end. But most people would soon realize that Chen Mo’s impromptu self-review was basically a mixture of what the previous few people had put together on the spot.
It’s like, how can it be so outrageous, and yet there seems to be no fault to be found.
The review session is finally over.
The leader’s summary speech.
The few people who had just read their self-criticisms on the stage stepped back consciously and stood in a row with the second-year high school representatives.
The leader was still passionate, “Dear students, time flies, the future is promising, we…”
Everyone on the playground saw two equally attractive people standing together at the back, seemingly talking about something, and from their expressions it was obvious that they were not getting along.
Chen Mo said with a cold face: “Qi Lin, that unreliable guy, that’s not a self-criticism, that’s just a fucking love letter.”
Xi Siyan glared at him, “I told you to print it yourself, did you listen?”
“Then I have to eat breakfast.”
“Had you stayed in bed for ten minutes in the morning, you would have finished your breakfast long ago.”
“I said don’t be mean, it’s so early in the morning.”
“Starting tomorrow, get up twenty minutes earlier and review the key points of the cram school lesson the day before.”
“Are you human?”
The school leader shouted, “Disband where you are!”
There was a corner of the stage that attracted an unknown amount of attention. Countless people saw the school bully who was about to leave the stage and was almost knocked down by someone on purpose. Fortunately, the person walking behind him grabbed him by the collar and lifted him up.
The image of Xi as a gentleman collapsed instantly. He looked at the person who bumped into him with eyes as cold as ice.
Many students passed by there.
The school bully seemed to want to fight back, and said with a slanted look: “Are you so cynical? Just because of that crappy self-criticism that came out of the same Baidu entry?”
“Shut up.” Xi Siyan, who had just grabbed his collar, gave a warning look to the few people, dragged the person in his hand down the stairs, and cursed: “You didn’t even use Baidu, I owe you.”
People around: Is the relationship between these two people good or bad?
