This was the first time that Lan Zhan agreed to Wei Ying’s request. He did not say “no way” or “cannot” for the first time.
Wei Ying even had an illusion of auditory hallucinations.
For a moment he thought to himself that this was just an ordinary request for Jiang Cheng, but he was like a baby.
But he still couldn’t help being happy.
He tried to suppress the smile at the corner of his mouth, but he couldn’t hide the brisk footsteps.
He felt that he had snatched Lan Zhan from Jiang Cheng. Although there was only a little time, it was enough for him to be happy for a long time.
This was even worse than when it rained heavily on one day in his third grade. At that time, he was happy to see Yu Ziyuan holding an umbrella at the school gate to pick him home after school.
However, he soon discovered that Lan Zhan’s path was not the shortest way to the infirmary.
On the first day of school, Wei Ying remembered the map of Gusu High School clearly with good memory.
The infirmary was in the southwest corner of the school. The nearest road from the school field was through the “Huashi Garden”.
The road that Lan Zhan took obviously had to make a big turn.
Could it be that this man was a road idiot?
Wei Ying turned his head to look at Lan Zhan, he couldn’t help but said, “Let’s go around like this, okay.”
But as soon as the words came out, he regretted so much that he wanted to bite his tongue and killed himself.
Fuck, even the joy was full of sorrow.
He also told Jiang Cheng just now that he didn’t know where the infirmary was.
Lan Zhan turned his head and glanced at him, with a look in his eyes, as if he was expecting him to expose himself and asked knowingly, “Do you know the nearest way to get there?”
Wei Ying was taken aback, suddenly a little annoyed. He didn’t hold back the sloppy anger and choked: “Did you do this deliberately?”
After finished speaking, he felt that his tone was not right.
With a big turn in the tone, he said in a low voice, aggrieved: “Intentionally or not, as long as you’re happy.”
“No.” Lan Zhan’s tone seemed a little speechless, and continued, “I don’t like Huashi Garden.”
Wei Ying was startled and asked in confusion, “Why? Are there not many beautiful flowers there?”
As its name suggested, the Huashi Garden was meticulously planted with various flowers and plants. It was fragrant throughout the year.
When Wei Ying saw on the first day of school that there were many pink roses in the Huashi Garden, and he also thought that he would have time to sketch in the future.
Lan Zhan frowned, as if thinking of something that made him uncomfortable.
Wei Ying’s mind turned quite fast now. He asked: “You don’t like flowers?”
Lan Zhan gave a hum, frowning his brows. It seemed that he not only disliked it, but disgusted of it.
“Oh, it turned out to be like this.” Wei Ying nodded.
What he thought was, it was over. Every letter he wrote to Lan Zhan was painted with peach blossoms.
He even sent a gouache painting of peach blossoms and flowing water on the Yanping River that he painted and titled the painting “Lan Hua Manxi” with great wit.
Fucking accurately stepped on thunder.
Fortunately, he pretended to be a babbling girl in the letter.
After arriving in the infirmary, the female school doctor in her forties seemed to know Lan Zhan.
She smiled at him and nodded, then looked at Wei Ying and asked curiously: “Are you his classmates? I don’t seem to have seen you.”
Wei Ying sat on the chair and brushed off his bangs with his hands, wondering if it was a good thing to be recognized by the school doctor.
But he replied obediently: “I just transferred. His tablemate.”
The words “his tablemate” were pronounced briskly by him, as if it was a very glorious identity.
It was a pity that the school doctor didn’t continue to ask. She took the medicine and cotton swab to clean Wei Ying wound while asking Lan Zhan.
“Xiao Juanmao hasn’t gotten sick recently, right?”
The obvious in the question was Jiang Cheng, and it seemed that Lan Zhan often accompanied him to the infirmary.
Wei Ying’s briskly jumping heart sank instantly, his lips tightly pressed.
Lan Zhan stood aside and said, “He had a fever a few days ago, but he comes to school today.”
“Hey, that kid is really too weak. Tell him, it’s gonna be fall soon, so use less air conditioning, don’t…”
The school doctor was about to continue telling something, but she heard the kid whom she was treating exclaimed in exaggeration.
“Doctor, you do it slowly, it hurts me.”
She was stunned. She had dealt with this kind of small wound too many times, and no boy yelled like that.
Moreover, her hands are always very light, so she said, “Just bear with me and it will be fine. Boys don’t be so squeamish. Your classmate Mao’s body is weak but he’s strong.”
“…”
Fuck, Wei Ying was so angry.
Looking at Lan Zhan, it was clear that he still had that expressionless face, but no matter how he looked, he felt that this person was laughing at him.
After coming out of the infirmary, Wei Ying followed Lan Zhan on a detour to the canteen.
After a long silence on the road, he suddenly said, “When I was a child, I used to play on the mountain. You probably didn’t know that there are so many snakes and insects on the mountain. The thin snake is not poisonous, but the long weird one is scary. It is easy to get bitten when you go to the mountains in summer.”
Lan Zhan didn’t respond, obviously not interested in this topic.
Wei Ying continued to make gestures without giving up: “I went to the mountain to chop ragweed in the fifth grade of elementary school, and I was bitten by that kind of snake. I did a simple treatment of the wound, and calmly cut the ragweed before going to the old Chinese doctor in the village to get some herbal medicine.”
After finishing speaking, he was afraid that Lan Zhan didn’t understand what ragweed was so he explained, “The hogweed is the grass for the pigs. The pigs in our place don’t eat feed.”
He didn’t feel ashamed of life in the countryside, he was only anxious to prove one thing.
“So?” Lan Zhan’s tone was flat.
Wei Ying choked and said anxiously, “So I am not afraid of pain, nor am I squeamish!”
For him, being said to be squeamish was much more serious than saying that he was poor. That belonged to the personal attack!
He carefully endured his bad temper and put away the thorns all over his body, just to make Lan Zhan think that he was also very good and well-educated.
This time, a school doctor said that he was more squeamish than Jiang Cheng. This was intolerable and unbearable!
Lan Zhan stopped suddenly, looked down at him slightly, and asked in a cold voice.
“You’re not afraid of the pain. So when the ball came, you could avoid it, but you deliberately ran into it?”
Wei Ying froze in place for an instant.
The blood in his body seemed to disappear suddenly and a few seconds later it suddenly rushed to his brain.
Lan Zhan saw that but his eyes were bright and calm, but Wei Ying felt as if he was cut open and there was no room for a bit of sophistry.
Obviously, he was the best at making nonsense and perfunctory remarks, but in front of Lan Zhan, it seemed that he couldn’t do it.
He clenched his fingers tightly, his throat was astringent, and he said, “… I just want to find a chance to talk to you, and want to be…become friends with you.”
He said the word “friend” with difficulty, but he felt that the word seemed not enough.
He wanted to hear Lan Zhan say anything other than “no” to him, and wanted to know Lan Zhan as well as Jiang Cheng.
What else… he hadn’t thought of it yet.
“If you really want to be my friend, you should be in the top fifty in the midterm exam and stay in the first class.”
Lan Zhan looked at him indifferently, “It is not easy for you to come to Gusu No. 1 High School. Don’t waste time doing things that don’t make sense.”
“If you have something to say, say directly to me in the future, I will listen. Don’t use this boring way, let alone use Jiang Cheng.”
Lan Zhan turned and left after saying this.
Wei Ying stood still, and it took a long time to find the air and start breathing quickly.
He stretched out his hand to cover the gauze just taped on his forehead. He was obviously not afraid of the pain, but the wound suddenly became sharp and painful.
The pain became more and more painful, until the heart seemed to be rubbed hard by a hand, and his vision began to blur.
He suddenly remembered that when he was ten, the seven-year-old Wei Yanli was playing with the water pipe in his grandmother’s house and forgot to turn off the tap, causing the water from the pipe to flow into the cellar containing sweet potatoes.
After Yu Ziyuan knew that, without questioning, he took a bamboo cane and chased him.
He cried and said that it was not him but Wei Yanli. He even begged the grandmother who knew the facts to testify.
But grandma only hugged Wei Yanli in silence and did not protect him at all.
Wei Yanli did not dare to admit it because of fear.
Yu Ziyuan beat him severely.
He had forgotten the pain of the swinging cane on his body, but the feeling of aggrieved heartache was still fresh in his memory.
Just like now.
He was so wronged. The phrase “Don’t use Jiang Cheng” made him so painful that he couldn’t even breathe.
Lan Zhan didn’t wrong him, he did use Jiang Cheng.
Lan Zhan knew that it was not easy for him to come to Gusu No. 1 High School, so he should not waste time doing meaningless things.
But Lan Zhan would not know that he was the meaning of his hard work here.
Lan Zhan didn’t even know that he should be Jiang Cheng.
He should have Lan Zhan.
From that day on, Wei Ying never dared to talk to Lan Zhan anymore and no longer secretly glanced aside during class.
After class, he devoted himself to his homework.
In physical education class, he also sat on the bench like a sister, reading and studying, no matter how Nei Huaisang encouraged him to play.
After studying at night, he quickly rushed back to the bedroom with books and materials, as if there was a dog chasing behind.
Then he discovered that Lan Zhan hadn’t changed much. From beginning to end, he was jumping around like a flea, and now he stopped jumping, Lan Zhan was still in peace and quiet.
Several days passed, Nei Huaisang also found something wrong.
“Ying ge, how do I feel that you are becoming estranged with Xuesheng?” Nei Huaisang picked out the garlic from the dinner plate with his chopsticks while saying that.
Wei Ying had finished lunch a long time ago.
He was studying Mathematics teaching materials.
He was silent for a while, and said, “I have never been familiar with him.”
Nei Huaisang let out a cry, but he always felt that there was still some resentment in Wei Ying’s words.
He originally thought that the relationship between Wei Ying and Lan Zhan would be better after the last time he played basketball.
These days he sat in the front of them and felt the low air pressure between the two tablemates at the back.
“Oh, I feel akward to turn around and talk to you now. My tablemate doesn’t like to talk to me, I’m suffocated.”
Wei Ying turned a page and said lightly: “Did you forget what you say to Lan Zhan for him to play last time?”
Nei Huaisang was taken aback, but he really forgot.
He sighed faintly: “I am the little mermaid in Andersen’s fairy tale. I found the sea witch to exchange a beauitful voice for a pair of walking legs.”
As soon as he finished his words, he saw the witch and Jiang Cheng on the opposite side walking towards the cafeteria after eating.
He was guilty and beckoned and said with a smile: “Hi Xuesheng! Hi Yogurt!”
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