Chapter 52: Crush Your Oranges...
The route of bus No. 91 was rerouted two years ago.
Normally, it takes about 40 minutes to get from the terminal station, Huxi No. 1 Middle School, to Laixin Street near Jian'an Lane, passing two junior high schools and a primary school along the way.
It was afternoon school dismissal time and the bus was packed with students from No. 1 Middle School, leaving no seats.
Tao Siyun stood by the car window, staring at the blue and black school uniforms of his junior classmates, his eyes full of sympathy.
Although the winter school uniform looks like a thickened jacket, it is actually very thin. The shallow layer of fleece inside only makes the clothes uniform and has no warmth-retaining effect at all.
One of its characteristics is that it is particularly spacious, like a sack, with enough space for students to add clothes inside.
Compared with their previous "sandwich" dressing style of wearing a sweater and a fleece hoodie inside the autumn school uniform, and then a down jacket and cotton jacket on the outside, the subsequent school uniform reform of No. 1 Middle School was obviously a failure.
When Tao Siyun was studying in France, she had a very good relationship with an Italian classmate. She still remembers that they once talked about school uniforms during a fashion discussion.
The Italian girl expressed her envy at the time.
Although Tao Siyun didn't understand what she was envious of, he still briefly told her about the school uniform culture in modern China and the reasons why students hated wearing school uniforms.
After complaining, she showed her graduation photos taken when she graduated from elementary school and junior high school in her school uniform.
This was also the first time that Tao Siyun felt the cultural differences.
Perhaps in the eyes of foreigners, the uniformity of Chinese school uniforms and the comfort of sportswear are more attractive and more important.
…
People were so crowded that it was difficult to turn around.
Tao Siyun held on to the handrail behind him tightly. His fingertips turned white from holding on for so long, and his head was lowered as low as it could go.
The corners of Xu Ji's mouth curled up slightly, as if he was about to smile.
He was tall and could easily hold the ring on the horizontal bar with one hand. He leaned his left leg forward, his back against the pillar, and stood in a casual and unrestrained posture.
Tao Siyun lowered his eyes and stared at the little ball of fur on his shoes, as if he was in a daze.
She was wearing a pair of maroon shallow-mouthed snow boots with a soft white lambskin lining around the shoe openings.
The dark red shoelaces were woven with a small amount of white and maroon threads. She had tied them into a bow when she went out in the morning, but not too tightly. Now they had begun to loosen and were sliding down the shoe surface quietly, as if they would come apart at any time due to friction.
The two stood facing each other, their sneakers covering their snow boots.
As if it was intentional.
The little white balls on the shoelaces swayed gently with the bus, and they always accidentally touched the black and white sneakers on the opposite side.
One is soft and the other is hard, which seems inexplicably ambiguous.
Seeing this, Tao Siyun felt a little embarrassed. He wanted to move his feet inward, but there was no room to move...
She hurriedly withdrew her gaze, and when she looked up, she found Xu Ji squinting at her.
…
She didn't know how the driver drove today. He braked suddenly from time to time. She was so embarrassed that she almost fell into Xu Ji's arms several times.
Although Xu Ji was ready to catch her at any time, fortunately Tao Siyun used all his strength to stabilize his center of gravity and did not let himself lose this person.
Xu Ji had to put down his raised hand again, as if some hope he had held on to was dashed again.
After a few times, Tao Siyun was too embarrassed to look at him and could only lower his head.
The door opened and passengers got off, moving slowly, one person close to another. The carriage was empty for only a moment before the passengers who got on through the front door swarmed to the back.
It's even more crowded than before.
The bus was swaying all the way, and it was difficult to stand still. Suddenly, there was an emergency brake, and the thing that Tao Siyun had been worried about finally happened -
"ah!"
"ah!!"
"ah!!!"
Due to inertia when decelerating, Tao Siyun leaned forward and closed her eyes in despair amid the exclamations of the passengers in the car. In a hurry, she only had time to grab Xu Ji's clothes and then pounced on him!
The bus braked suddenly, and the two people lost their balance and fell in the opposite direction at the same time!
The sound of "Sizzle——" was particularly abrupt.
Fortunately, Xu Ji reacted in time and quickly grabbed the railing behind Tao Siyun to support her body, reducing the impact and preventing her from hitting the handrail.
However, the students squeezed in the middle of the carriage were not so lucky. A large number of them fell down amid the screams.
Xu Ji frowned and groaned, then leaned over to Tao Siyun's ear and panted softly, then laughed softly, "Don't blame me! You rushed over on your own."
Tao Siyun raised his head stiffly, his chest heaving violently, his hands clutching the multi-function pocket on top of Xu Ji's coat as if grasping a lifeline. He stared at her, and she was at a loss as to what to do, her face flushing red.
It took a long time for the soul to return to its place and return to the body. In a daze, he said: "Then... I'm sorry?"
Xu Ji saw a mixture of shyness, embarrassment, social frustration, and so on on her shocked face.
Then he slowly uttered four words: "It's my turn."
Tao Siyun was stunned for a moment.
His first reaction was to quickly shake off suspicion, his face revealing an extremely innocent expression, "It's not me..."
Xu Ji raised his eyebrows and just looked at her.
Tao Siyun realized it a little later, that was...
"Sugar Orange..."
After finishing her lunch in the cafeteria, she ate one and put the other one in her pocket. Now it was sticking out between their bodies.
Its presence is so strong that it cannot be ignored even if you want to.
If they were a little further apart, Xu Ji would have seen a noticeable bulge in her coat.
Tao Siyun put himself in Xu Ji's perspective and imagined the scene from his angle. He suddenly regretted wearing this coat with mini pockets and very shallow pockets today.
If I were wearing a down jacket, it wouldn't be so embarrassing. Even if I put on two more tangerines, it wouldn't be noticeable...
She thought that she must take out the oranges after getting off the car.
But at this moment, he asked calmly in a concerned tone, "Did your orange get crushed?"
“…”
This person is really...
It's obviously a normal sentence, but when he says it, people can't help but think in a wrong way...
Tao Siyun was so frightened that his ears turned red.
Could you please stop talking?
She really wanted him to shut up.
"No..." Tao Siyun held it in for a while, his voice muffled, he turned his head to look out the window, silently praying in his heart that the tangerines would be intact.
Otherwise, if it gets squeezed and damaged...it would be even more embarrassing, right?
The bus passed over the speed bump and its body shook violently.
Xu Ji seized the opportunity, grabbed the handrail under the window sill, turned his body 45 degrees to the right, and created a very limited space with his body.
Just enough to squeeze one person in.
Tao Siyun stayed in this seemingly safe corner and managed to keep his balance.
Somehow, a strange idea suddenly popped up in her mind -
If he stretches out his arms and can keep them from shaking, then does the mathematical concept of "the stability of a triangle" become concrete?
Xu Ji's body was pressed against her, and his breath occasionally blew over her head. Tao Siyun's cheeks felt hot and she had difficulty breathing.
Suddenly, I had the illusion that he was pressing me against the wall in the corner.
Workwear-style windproof jackets have large pockets, but they are usually zipped up because they are just for decoration.
Tao Siyun stared at it for a while, then suddenly realized something. He loosened his hand, then clenched it silently.
After confirming it, he lowered his eyelashes guiltily and his breathing became cautious.
The multi-function pocket on his clothes opened, and the zipper seemed to be broken, and it fell into his palm.
To be more precise, she must have torn it off at some point just now...
Tao Siyun's heart suddenly became nervous, as if he had done something wrong and was afraid of being discovered.
Finally, after a fierce ideological struggle, she took the initiative to open her hands.
The black U-shaped metal puller, with a small cloth strip of the same color as the jacket tied around the loop, lay quietly in the palm of the hand, slightly deformed.
She also tore off the arrow-marked Velcro on the top of her pocket...
Xu Ji glanced at her lightly, his eyes drifting back to his open coat pocket, and after a few seconds, he looked at her again.
It was just a questioning look, but it seemed to say everything...
Tao Siyun tried to explain: "I just... accidentally..."
The man stared at the top of her head, slowly curled his lips, and a laugh escaped from his throat: "Why are you holding on so tightly? Can't you be gentler? You've torn my clothes."
Tao Siyun's hand shook and the Velcro accidentally fell to the ground.
Xu Ji lifted his foot, stepped on it, and took the opportunity to take a step forward.
***
Any emotion only occurs when a person is in a state of abundant energy. When she is tired, let alone being embarrassed, she even has to think for a long time about what these two words mean...
I got up very early in the morning and stayed in school for almost the whole day. There was a traffic jam on the way back and I stood on the bus for more than an hour. I was exhausted after the day.
After entering the elevator, Tao Siyun suddenly felt sleepy.
Now she just wanted to get home quickly and lie comfortably in bed. She had no energy to think about anything else.
Just as the number on the screen was about to change from "6" to "7", the ascending elevator suddenly shook violently twice and then stopped abruptly on the sixth floor.
Tao Siyun was startled by the bumpy ride, and his sleepiness disappeared immediately, and he became awake in an instant.
In the few short seconds that she was stunned, Xu Ji had already pressed the door opening button, the emergency button, and the alarm phone.
"It must be an elevator malfunction." Xu Ji frowned and patted the elevator door. "The door open button didn't respond, the emergency button didn't work, and the alarm phone didn't respond."
Tao Siyun had only seen this kind of situation in safety-related science videos before and never thought it would happen to him.
"What should we do then?"
Xu Ji glanced at her and said calmly, "Wait for rescue. It's after get off work now. If the neighbors find any problems with the elevator, they will notify the property management immediately."
Tao Siyun immediately took out his cell phone and his first reaction was to call Tao Qian.
I didn't use it much throughout the day and it still had 90% battery left.
Xu Ji asked: "Is there a signal?"
"No……"
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