deep in time

Chapter 7 (1)
[one]
White clouds drifted over the tops of the sycamore trees one by one.

The light in the corridor was dense, like clouds of water vapor.

After class, the two walked side by side to the math teacher's office.

The atmosphere between the silent, non-existent girl and the tall boy beside her was slightly awkward.Turning his head slightly, the sunlight sifted through the gaps in the trees and fell on the boy's hair, and Baili's heart slowly filled with warmth.

It is not very good to start the chat with "Why help me lie to the teacher", but they are not too familiar with each other, and there is no common topic.On the other hand, the sudden pain from Baili's abdomen distracted some of her thinking power.

My aunt is probably coming in a few days.

"Does it still hurt?" At the corner, the boy suddenly broke the silence.

Baili suddenly stopped in his tracks, looking at Ji Nan beside him, as if he wanted to see him through.

The boy just folded his hands in front of his chest, with a smile on his lips, and jokingly said: "Baili, your admiring gaze makes me feel ecstatic."

Baili was a little embarrassed, and looked away. After a long time, he realized that the boy was asking about the small wounds on her hands and feet that were cut by the bark when she ventured to climb a tree yesterday to fetch her schoolbag, rather than the X-ray-like vision. Find out her menstrual cycle.After thinking about it, Baili's face blushed slightly: "It doesn't hurt...thank you."

The boy scratched his head, completely unaware that the girl on the opposite side had changed from "annoyed" to "embarrassed", so he just smiled, as if he didn't care at all: "Thank you for helping me? Don't ask me why I helped you, I do not know either."

Compared with the noise outside the corridors of classrooms, the long corridors of office buildings are eerily quiet.I remember that when we were in elementary school, we always loved to lean against the teacher, trying our best to make the teacher notice us, wishing we could be in the teacher's sight 24 hours a day.As soon as I went to junior high school, I wanted to take a detour when I saw the teacher. When I met him head-on, the greeting of "Hello, teacher" was as small as a mosquito.When I went to high school, the relationship with the teacher showed a delicate balance. I treated the school as a miniature society, and tried to imitate the behavior of adults. I didn’t reject the teacher like I did in junior high school, but I also followed the principle of "enough is enough".

There is a toilet at the corner further ahead, and the math teacher's office is more than 100 meters after the turn.

"what is this?"

A whole row of gourd bamboos are planted on both sides of the corridor, and the summer light makes the bamboo leaves have a jade-like luster.

It was Ji Nan who saw the things hanging on the calabash bamboo first, and when he took a closer look, his expression gradually sank.A [-]-size mathematics workbook is spread out like an umbrella and draped on gourd bamboo. On the paper pages that have been altered beyond recognition, "Go to hell", "X Foul words like your mother", "bitch", "get out of X".

It's 289 pages long, and every single one of them is scribbled over.

Baili's eyes were full of complex light, biting his lips, just about to reach out to take down the exercise book, but the boy with long hands passed her and took it off easily.

There is no need to ask, Baili's expression has clearly stated "this is my" math homework.

After a long silence, the boy said softly, "Ah Chen didn't do it."

"I know." Baili's voice trembled with suppressed anger.

"Who the hell? You've only been in X for two weeks, so you can't offend anyone!" At this moment, Ji Nan couldn't think of anyone else, except for Cheng Lichen who was facing Baili's needlepoint. Baili is not pleasing to the eye.Seeing a series of strange and unreasonable things happen one after another, the method is naive, but it successfully makes Baili angry, sad, suspicious, and frustrated.

The already unharmonious relationship between Baili and Cheng Lichen deteriorated further.Don't say that Ji Nan didn't doubt Cheng Lichen, but when this idea first came up, he was killed by the boy's instinctive "trust in friends".

Cheng Lichen is not such a dark person, even though he is indifferent, not good at talking, and has an expression of "no one in the world bothers me", but Ah Chen is actually... a person whose heart is softer than anyone else.

In the teacher's office, the mathematics teacher looked suspiciously at the exercise set in front of him, unable to imagine that these dark and dirty words would appear in a homework that should have been filled with answers.

"Do you know who it is?"

"I don't know." Baili shook his head.

"Since Ji Nan proved that you handed in your homework, the teacher believes that someone deliberately destroyed your homework. Let me check." The math teacher's "check it" is ethereal and pale, "Let's leave this matter for now."

"Teacher, then I will..." Baili tilted his head.

"Each student only has one exercise book. I'll report it to the Academic Affairs Office to see if there is still a copy."

"Teacher, I'll take the exercise set back." Before leaving the office, Ji Nan copied the exercise set in his hand.

"...Okay." The teacher, who was obviously confused when Ji Nan wanted to take away a practice set that had no use and the only end was to throw it in the trash, nodded.

What Baili didn't expect was that after the first class of the next day, Ji Nan walked to Cheng Lichen's desk, leaned on the desk and chatted with Cheng Lichen, and suddenly leaned his whole body against Baili's desk , looking at Baili with chestnut eyes, and slowly stretched out the hand behind his back to the front, and a brand-new XX key high school math problem set was handed to Baili.

"this is for you."

"...Ah, did the teacher ask you to bring it to me?" Baili's first reaction was normal.

Ji Nan's eyes flickered, and just as he was about to speak, Cheng Lichen next to him had already put on his signature mocking smile, "Haha, you must be wrong."

"..."

"You don't have to thank him." Cheng Lichen looked out the window, but he was speaking to Baili.

Ji Nan, who had quickly recovered from the embarrassment, smiled self-deprecatingly: "Yeah, who gave me a father who is the principal? Of course it's a matter of course to find a problem set for my classmates."

"That... Thank you anyway." The girl biting her lip said softly.

Ji Nan's eyes were shining, like a flash of lightning, and he said solemnly: "It's meaningless to say thank you verbally, you have to take action."

"You're really out of breath when you say you're fat." Cheng Lichen jumped up and punched Ji Nan.

The two boys chased after each other around the desk.

Baili smiled with eyes wide open.

After picking up Cheng Lichen's schoolbag that day, it seemed that Cheng Lichen's attitude had quietly changed, and he was still so cold, but Baili no longer felt that undisguised disgust.

This is a good start.

——Baili, new campus, new life, you have to work hard!
The ending sound is an "oh" with the corners of the mouth turned up, rather than a dazed and low "ah".

[two]
We often have many fantasies about a tomorrow full of unknowns, such as "give me a baby who can predict the future, so that I won't be at a loss about tomorrow", or "pray to the shooting stars that all tomorrows will have good luck ", another example is "Can you design the future yourself like a novel"...

Such unrealistic imaginations are our subconscious fears about the future.

No one can control tomorrow.

If it is said that homework is painted as dirty cats, saliva spit from upstairs is stained on the body, and schoolbags are hung on tall trees, it is a bullet, then the atomic bomb that everyone can't imagine will be released in September. .30 broke out overnight.

The day before the [-]th long holiday is also the day before Baili will return to Yanlang Island.

Because the head teacher went to another school to attend classes and didn't come back in time, the loose atmosphere broke out to the peak in the self-study class in the afternoon. "Three days off! NC has released a new movie and I must go to support it!" "I just want to sleep for three days and three nights." "I was possessed by a sleepy bug!" "Haha, you nerd, these three days off Don’t they all go to the bookstore again?”

Sentences composed of various voices rolled like waves of sound.

"Ah Chen, how are you going to spend the three-day long vacation?" Ji Nan rested his chin with his hands, and blinked brilliantly at Cheng Lichen.

"Anyway, I won't be with you." It was still an impatient response.

"What? Do you have someone you like, are you going on a date?" Someone who looked like he was abandoned.

"Put away your resentful woman appearance, so as not to be misunderstood." Cheng Lichen's face was cold, but there was warmth in his eyes that was amused by his friends, "I am a male high school student who is very healthy both physically and mentally."

"Do you know Sora Aoi?"

"Yes. I've heard of it." Cheng Lichen replied unusually calmly, and made a "really pediatric" expression.

With a smile on his face, Ji Nan said slowly, "Can I ask a hotter question?" Then, Jin Nan's voice became obviously louder , just enough to make the surrounding girls who are pricking up their ears listening to their chats hear, "Ah Chen, are you still a virgin?"

What Ji Nan, who was about to see Cheng Lichen's embarrassing and speechless embarrassment, didn't expect was——

Cheng Lichen asked nonchalantly and lightly, "Don't tell me you're not anymore?"

Ha ha.complete victory.

The corner of Cheng Lichen's mouth slightly raised an arc, causing a certain girl who happened to see the grim man's smile to be stunned, and the thought "So Cheng Lichen's smile is even more fascinating than Ji Nan's" was born.

While the two friends were chatting, the sound in the classroom seemed to change in an instant, and it seemed to start from a certain corner and then burn like a flame unstoppably.

"No way? It's so hot!"

"Refresh refresh refresh, shit, this broken phone can't open all the pictures."

Ji Nan leaned over curiously, a boy was holding a mobile phone, browsing the posts on the school BBS.

"I will definitely regret it if I don't watch it: the most outstanding and shocking annual event in X."

Nondescript words, but it is the best way for headline parties to attract attention.

The boy holding the mobile phone is obviously one of the few preemptive ones, and all the opened pictures are displayed on his large-screen mobile phone.

When Ji Nan leaned down to watch, he happened to see a scene that could make the blood of "a male high school student who is extremely healthy physically and mentally" jump.

In the empty and quiet girls' toilet, the shadow of the whirling tree casts speckled shadows on the girl's body. The camera angle is very good, just tilted at a 45-degree angle to illuminate the girl's thin white T-shirt wetted by water on the upper body , two bud-like protrusions are clearly visible.

light.temperature.Dripping hair.The school shirt jacket that was taken off next to her.

"Wow, is it the temptation of the real version of the uniform in X?" The boy holding the mobile phone excitedly said to himself.

"This girl seems to be someone from our class." The ambiguous tone echoed.

It's not just this one photo, there are about six or seven more in the scroll down.

Just when a few boys surrounded him, Ji Nan suddenly lost his temper.

"what the hell!"

When everyone was puzzled and had no time to react, Ji Nan snatched the phone lightly, snapped off the battery with lightning speed, squinted his eyes slightly as if aiming, and "popped"—the battery of the phone was accurate. It was thrown out of the window on the third floor.

"Jinan, are you crazy?" The boy who finally woke up rushed over and snatched the phone from Ji Nan's hand.

"This lunatic, he really might have thrown my cell phone downstairs." - In the next ten minutes, the boy was terrified.

[three]
Baili was immersed in the world of mathematics in the noisy self-study class as usual.

She had just solved a difficult problem, and a wonderful sense of accomplishment brought a faint smile to her lips. She hadn't noticed at all that she had inexplicably became focus.

Baili at this moment, how could she have thought that the scene where she was spat on by sticky liquid downstairs in the teaching building, ran to the toilet and desperately washed the saliva off her hair and clothes, would be secretly photographed.

(End of this chapter)