A little thing
After buying the book, Gao Liyang came out and saw Zhou Xi standing on the side of the road in a daze.
"Uh, what a coincidence, what are you doing here?" Zhou Xi turned around.
“Here!”
Gao Liyang gestured to the bag in his hand and looked up to block the light from the cars on the road. "There's an essay competition, so I bought a reference book to study for. But look, I have the same bag, but why don't I see you?"
"That is, I'm fast and you're too slow."
When Zhou Xi took a book off the shelf in the bookstore, she caught a glimpse of the back of a tall man wearing a Yuxiu school uniform through the gap. The figure looked very similar to his. She admitted that the school uniform looked good on Gao Liyang, and it showed the youthful vigor and vitality of a young man.
"Okay, I'm slow, I'm the slowest. You really are such a cold woman. You didn't even say hello when you saw me."
"Okay, I'm indifferent, the most indifferent." Zhou Xi didn't disobey Gao Liyang anymore, or he would get angry again and piss her off.
Gao Liyang continued to speak with satisfaction: "Besides, it's because I love reading. Once I enter the bookstore, I can't move. Why are you walking so fast? I have to read again when I get back to school. I'm exhausted. Don't mention that I haven't even gone to the office to pick up my homework book yet."
Zhou Xi hid in the shadow behind Gao Liyang. "Yes, children who love reading are all good children. I have to go there later. The teacher said that there are printed math exercises to be distributed after evening self-study."
"Well, let's go together. It's nice to have someone to accompany me. Every time I pass by the senior high school area, I feel like everyone has a zombie smell and a faint sense of madness. It's really creepy."
"Ah, no, when we go back, I'll go into the classroom first, and you can go in after I hand out the notebooks. Otherwise, when the class sees me going in with you, and because of the homework in your hand, they'll want to kick us both out of Class 1 and 2. I don't want to be disliked. I'm afraid, hahaha!"
Gao Liyang was gloating over the misfortune of the teacher, as it was his fault that he loved handing out homework so much, and then he implicated Zhou Xi, the class representative.
Every time Zhou Xi held his homework, he would receive small knives from all corners.
Zhou Xi felt the shadow disappear, and looked up to see Gao Liyang sitting on the stone block next to him, his long legs crossed, looking so leisurely, not even afraid at all.
"Well, that's pretty smart. Okay, I won't implicate you. I'll take it. When did you talk about the competition?"
"Ah? Oh, that's what I said. Why change the subject so quickly?" Gao Liyang patted the stone block next to him, and he had to raise his chin slightly to see the people.
"Just sit down for a while."
"No, stand..."
Before Zhou Xi could finish his words, he was pushed down and his butt sat firmly on it.
“…”
"Very strong."
Zhou Xi took a taxi back to school, and of course, Gao Liyang also got a ride.
"Could you lend me your book? I'd like to take a look.
Zhou Xi asked Gao Liyang a few minutes before the evening self-study class. She flipped through the notice and found out that the competition was organized within the school and three grades were judged together. Although it was not very fair, the prize money was not low, and who couldn't resist money?
"Here you go." Gao Liyang casually took it out from the table.
A pair of bony hands reached out, and Zhou Xi was puzzled.
"Aren't you looking now?"
Gao Liyang supported himself on the table with his other hand, his voice deep and full of laughter, "No rush."
Seven parts lazy and three parts complacent, as if everything was under control. The distance between the two tables was a little close, and Zhou Xi felt it was dangerous.
Fairy Tail is about to be revealed.
Suddenly I remembered that there were girls often passing by their class. They seemed nonchalant on the surface, but in fact their eyes were full of emotions.
"Oh, okay, I'll read it and return it to you as soon as I can."
Turn your head without hesitation.
Gao Liyang rubbed his eyes. His eyes didn't itch, but his hands did.
Gao Yuanyuan was biting the pen beside him. She tried several times to talk to Zhou Xi, but didn't know how to start. It was like a fishbone was stuck in her throat, which she couldn't swallow or take out. She turned her head and her eyes fell on the tree outside the window.
Gao Yuanyuan never said that she knew Zhou Xi, but Zhou Xi didn't know her. At that time, she had just transferred to the town's middle school and was placed in the last class because she had missed the start of school.
She was not adapting to the school and her monthly exam results were at the bottom of the grade. The first time she saw Zhou Xi's photo was on the conspicuous honor roll.
On the big red honor roll, the girl was fair-skinned, had two beautiful dimples when she smiled, and her eyes were bright like the sun.
The first place was out of her reach, so she placed Zhou Xi in a very high position, wanting to work hard to catch up, so that one day she could stand behind her and say "hello".
She had seen Zhou Xi from a distance in the crowd several times. She was tall and indeed beautiful, and there was a very beautiful girl next to her. A white swan should play with white swans.
Later, the reversal of events was like a white swan turning into a clown duck. She was inadvertently involved and was very scared.
Her conscience told her that she had made the right choice, but she had underestimated the importance of power and had gotten herself into trouble, struggling in darkness.
It's such a small world.
"Sister Zhou, I..."
never mind……
Friday is the flag-raising ceremony and the opening ceremony of school, and it is also the students' favorite seven-day National Day holiday.
School has already started for a month, but Yuxiu High School wants a sense of ceremony and makes up for the belated opening ceremony.
Xiao Xiaoyu glanced at Zhou Xi, whose round head was all she could see, and couldn't help but sigh, "It's like drilling a hole in the wall to borrow light!"
Zhou Xi smiled and said nothing.
"Hey, what do you think of seeing the boss?" He reached out and rubbed Gao Yuanyuan's face, "It feels so good!"
Gao Yuanyuan blushed and stuffed the novel into the drawer: "No, it's another one, a martial arts novel."
"Ah, this one, okay, I haven't read this one yet. By the way, Yuanyuan, didn't you say there was a pen stain on the back of your school uniform? How about I draw it for you? It's the handwriting of Painter Xiao!"
"Um, the student council is checking appearances. Doesn't it say that drawing on uniforms is not allowed?"
Gao Yuanyuan said this, but her hands honestly pulled down the zipper, revealing the pig-shaped long sleeves underneath.
"It's okay, you're just making good use of it. Otherwise, it wouldn't look good with such a long black line on the back of the uniform. It's all the fault of that wicked person. He was just walking down the street, and when he got squeezed, this happened. And the school requires us to wear the uniform every day. It's so ugly!"
"Well, thank you for your help."
"Be good! Call me daddy!"
Gao Yuanyuan didn't laugh and punched Xiao Xiaoyu: "Call, Mommy!"
"Call me grandpa!"
"Call me grandma!"
"Call me a villain again..."
Xiao Xiaoyu and Gao Yuanyuan became mute.
"Hello, leaders, teachers, and students! It's my honor..."
The host's standard Mandarin sounded clear and loud in the auditorium, full of confidence.
The original seating arrangement in the auditorium was that freshmen sat at the front, sophomores next, and seniors at the back, but because their class arrived late, they only had seats at the back.
Zhou Xi didn't want to listen to his leader's long speech, so he simply sat down next to the door.
Looking up, I saw all black heads, wearing red and black school uniforms.
Because the school was closed after the opening ceremony, cell phone checks were less strict. Zhou Xi hid his phone in his school pants pocket, using his baggy school jacket as a cover. His loose hair covered the small earphones.
Gao Liyang was going to speak, so he didn't sit with his classmates and waited backstage.
There were two whole pages of manuscript, pieced together from all over the Internet. He flipped through the manuscript over and over again out of boredom and was not in a good mood at all.
"Now, please welcome Gao Liyang from Class 1-2 to speak!"
After the male host finished speaking, he hurried down from the side. At the moment when the black suit and red school uniform intertwined, Gao Liyang took the heavy microphone and went up.
"Dear leaders, teachers and classmates, hello everyone, I am..." A deep male voice echoed throughout the auditorium through the microphone.
"Wow, who is this? What a nice voice!"
"Hey, hey, hey, I heard this is from the first year of high school!"
"So handsome, so handsome."
“…”
There was a lot of whispering in the audience, and everyone's eyes were cast on the dazzling boy on the stage.
The loose school uniform fit him perfectly, and the jacket couldn't highlight his broad shoulders and narrow waist, but his face was even more eye-catching.
He has the youthfulness of a high school student, but also the budding aggressiveness, a bit of laziness, or because he is speaking on the stage, he appears serious.
"Tsk tsk tsk, Gouyang is just like he was in junior high, still such a philanderer!" Xiao Xiaoyu rolled her eyes at Gao Liyang who was pretending to be dead on the stage, with a look of disdain on her face.
"That's right. I can't help it. I just like this one." Lu Zisheng replied casually without even looking up while playing the game.
“…”
"That's all I have to say, thank you." Gao Liyang stepped down from the stage and handed the microphone to the person in charge. He folded up the manuscript, turned around and left.
When Zhou Xi came back from the bathroom, he noticed from a distance that someone had taken over his room. He was very arrogant, with his hands on his chest and his legs stretched out casually. The light was not good, and his facial features were half hidden in the darkness. It seemed that he was resting with his eyes closed.
"Move aside." Zhou Xi bent down and kicked the person.
Gao Liyang knew who it was as soon as he heard the voice. He didn't bother to care about the kick. He opened his eyelids, moved his legs, and let her in.
"Finished?"
"Ang!" The tone was muffled and a little emotional.
Zhou Xi's sixth sense told her that she had stepped on a landmine and shouldn't speak, but after staring at Gao Liyang's profile for a while, she still felt that she should let him go, after all, she was the one who dodged it.
"Listen to documentaries?"
He handed over a pair of small blue headphones.
"Okay." Gao Liyang didn't want to listen to the chattering around him anyway.
"Huh? English?" Gao Liyang was a little surprised and put it on carefully.
Zhou Xi met Gao Liyang's eyes, which shone in the darkness, and reached out to move the earphones that were about to fall off: "Are you having trouble hearing?"
"No, it's no big deal. But do you understand?" Gao Liyang sighed in his heart. What a challenge! If he doesn't work harder, he might lose his English throne.
well!
It's not easy to survive these days. There are wolves in front and tigers behind, and there are a few blind idiots blocking the way in the middle.
"I'm fine too, it's just a small thing."
Not long after, Gao Liyang pulled Zhou Xi's coat corner and secretly left the auditorium early.
The reason was that if he ran away alone, there would be no one to cover him if he was caught, so he would drag Zhou Xi, a good student, along with him.
Of course Zhou Xi wanted to too.
The school was practically deserted now, with only the chirping of cicadas in the trees and the faint sound of microphones in the auditorium, and an occasional breeze. The sun climbed above their heads, but it was no longer as scorching.
"Happy National Day, bye!" Gao Liyang stood in the sun, which was a bit dazzling, with his eyes slightly squinted.
"The same to you."
The girl walked slowly and steadily, as if she didn't belong to her age.
Gao Liyang touched the manuscript in his pocket, took it out and spread it out. There were traces of deletions and revisions on it with a black pen. The paper was glowing white. He suddenly remembered that there was one sentence he had not said.
See you the day after tomorrow.
Gao Zhiyuan was standing on the balcony talking to a client when he heard some noise at the door. He turned around and met Gao Liyang. With his eyes slightly narrowed, he looked Gao Liyang up and down sharply, having been involved in legal cases for many years.
"Dad." Gao Liyang couldn't turn a blind eye, so he concealed his discomfort, greeted him lightly, and looked away.
Wen Huiling just came out of the kitchen carrying dishes: "Yangyang, you're back."
Put down the dishes and wipe up the water stains on the table.
"You're back just in time, it's the last dish, come wash your hands and eat!"
"Okay, that's it for now. I'll go back to the case..." After hanging up the phone, Gao Zhiyuan looked at his son again. He had grown taller. "How's your study been lately?"
"fine."
The family of three sat at the same table, feeling very awkward. They had little to talk about and their answers to questions were formulaic and dry.
Gao Liyang chewed the hot rice, thinking that his mood today was a little happy because he escaped from the auditorium early, but when he looked at his phone and learned that his parents were going home, his mood dropped to negative points.
I really don't want to stay at home for a moment.
"Pick up your bowl, it's table manners."
"Yes, I'm the most rude." Gao Liyang picked up the bowl, cleared the rice from it, and stood up. "I'm not coming back tonight. I'm going to Lu Zisheng's place."
Gao Zhiyuan swallowed the rice in his mouth, pressed down hard with the hand holding the chopsticks, and a crisp sound came from the glass table.
"Why, we have to hide out when we come back."
"Gao Zhiyuan!" Wen Huiling rolled her eyes.
"No, Lawyer Gao is overthinking it."
"I made an appointment with Lu Zisheng and the others to go to the stadium to watch a game tonight. It ended quite late, so I was too lazy to bother."
"Okay, Yangyang, it's nice to go out and play with your classmates. Just be careful on the road."
"Bang!"
The door is closed.
Gao Zhiyuan and Wen Huiling also withdrew their gazes.
Gao Zhiyuan lost all restraint, his thick eyebrows shouting, "Look at what he means. He's clearly looking for an excuse to go out and hide from us!"
Wen Huiling sighed and stared at her hands, which were covered with small age spots. "You know why you're still throwing a tantrum? If he doesn't want to see us, let him go. At least he'll be happy."
Wen Huiling felt that she and her husband were ashamed of Gao Liyang, and this was an indisputable fact.
I was busy with my career and left my son to the babysitter, missing out on his growth. Later, I felt a little empty and remembered that I still had a son, but suddenly I realized that he had grown up and I couldn't be close to him anymore.
It's boring. It seems that it's hard to pretend to be a good wife and mother.
"Humph, no matter what, we are his parents. How can such a son be older than me? It's like going to heaven, right?"
"I don't want to argue with you. You know that your stubbornness won't change the facts. You bring your attitude at work home with you. Is it fun to have a stern face? What? Yangyang is your subordinate?"
Wen Huiling was used to being at the top of the power hierarchy and was not a pushover either. She couldn't stand Gao Zhiyuan getting angry at her.
The dishes were so bad in both taste and appearance that it was hard to swallow. Wen Huiling's delicate brows were tightly knitted.
"If you want to lose your temper, I don't want to hear it."
"Wen Huiling! How dare you? You cooked something so awful, and now you want to run away and make me eat it!"
"Hasn't Lawyer Gao been eating too much delicacies? It's perfect for you to try some home-cooked food."
"Didn't I tell you at the beginning that since you haven't cooked for so long and you're not very good at it, don't waste your time going to the supermarket and buying vegetables? Now look, who's going to eat them? I don't want to eat them. I want the last bucket of braised beef!"
Wen Huiling was so tired that she didn't want to say anything nice. She pushed Gao Zhiyuan away and said, "First come, first served. Get out of here. I bought the instant noodles."
“…”
In the end, no one got to eat the instant noodles because the two of them were pushing and shoving each other, and the instant noodles couldn't stand it and rolled into the trash can.
Can Wen Huiling tolerate this? No.
Can Gao Zhiyuan tolerate this? No.
They each packed their own suitcase and flew away.
"Miss Xiao, please let me stay overnight." Gao Liyang decisively rang the doorbell of Xiao Xiaoyu's house.
"You're so funny!"
He did lie to his parents and didn't want to stay at home.
Gao Liyang skillfully went up to the third floor and pushed open the door of the guest room at the end of the corridor.
"Tell me, how many times has this happened to you? Are you ashamed?" Xiao Xiaoyu was wearing a skirt and could not keep up with Gao Liyang's long legs, and was left behind.
"A man and a woman living alone in the same house, I still have some shame to tell others about it."
"Okay, I'm shameless. Our Miss Xiao is so kind as to not hold my faults against me. I just want a place to stay." Gao Liyang lost all temper after being told that. He went straight to the locked window as soon as he entered the room.
It’s okay to live under someone else’s roof. A real man can bend and stretch.
"You can't stay here for free. Help me work tomorrow and prepare for the party the day after tomorrow."
"No, can't you hire someone to do it? You're not short of money." Gao Liyang didn't want to work. He was too lazy to do it and wanted to lie in bed for two days, leaning against the door frame like a boneless person.
Xiao Xiaoyu threw the pillow in her hand over and sneered: "What do you know? It makes sense to do it yourself! You have nothing to do, and I don't know you yet. You just want to stay in bed. Besides, even if you stay in bed, you can't sleep. You might as well go out and work!"
"Okay! Do you have any milk left at home? I'd like some."
"Yes, go get it yourself. Drink more. Don't come knocking on my door if you can't sleep at night."
Xiao Xiaoyu stroked her hair, thinking that Gao Liyang was right. Her family had plenty of money, so they could just hire someone to do this kind of thing. But she just wanted to do it herself, and needed to be busy to numb herself.
There were early birthday wishes from my parents on my phone, a large amount of pocket money, and unopened birthday gifts piled in the corner.
They are all hypocritical and selfish. If they really cared about her, they would not fly away and build a new nest, leaving her in this cage.
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