Chapter 22: I did something wrong. Ever since they said Xie Shi had a special feeling towards her...
Ever since they said that Xie Shi had a special interest in her, Lin Xicai would occasionally pay attention to it unconsciously with the intention of verifying it, and then she found that it seemed to be true.
Like now.
He seemed to be looking at her.
Lin Xicai walked back and asked, "What's wrong?"
"The monthly exam is the day after tomorrow," Xie Shiping said calmly, "Just a reminder."
"..." Lin Xicai pulled the corners of her lips, and the smile on her face dimmed, as if someone had force-fed her a dish she least wanted to eat, "Thank you."
Lin Xicai took a deep breath in her seat and took out her exercise book.
For the next day and a half, Lin Xicai studied frantically, almost ignoring everything else.
The next day, I even got up very early to go to school, which was unusual for me. I kept studying until almost everyone had left the school, and then I left the school reluctantly.
After returning home, Zhong Ping came back earlier than her, which was rare. She was sitting in the living room. When she saw her push the door in, her eyes lit up and she looked very happy.
Lin Xicai was slightly surprised, but without thinking much, she smiled and greeted him, saying that she needed to review her lessons, and then went into the room.
Zhong Ping seemed stunned for a moment, then smiled and said okay, and he would call her when the meal was ready.
Lin Xicai's mind was full of the monthly exam the next day. She felt dizzy and groggy. She responded, closed the door and took out her textbook.
She did (recited) a few exercises in her room, and recited half a page of English words from the vocabulary list. When she felt dizzy, there were sudden knocks on the door.
Lin Xicai was interrupted, put down her textbook and went to open the door. When the door opened, it was Fu Xuefan standing outside.
Fu Xuefan was holding a gift and a cake in his hands. He looked at her in surprise and asked, "What are you still doing in there?"
Lin Xicai yawned, her eyes drawn to the cake in her hand. She asked casually, "What's wrong? Is it your birthday?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the living room suddenly became quiet. Not only Fu Xuefan, but the other two people in the living room also looked over, with different expressions. Lin Xicai only then noticed that Fu Yanxiu had also come, and was looking at her intently with an inquiring look.
Lin Xicai's body stiffened, and she had a bad feeling. Then the next moment, she heard Fu Xuefan screaming, as if he was going to call her to account.
"What do you mean? Don't tell me you didn't prepare anything? You didn't forget Aunt Ping's birthday, did you? You are simply, you are simply too unreasonable! Brother, Aunt Ping, look at Zhong Fei, you love her so much, but she doesn't even remember your birthday..."
Fu Xuefan kept chattering as if he had caught something incredible, his tone half blaming and half gloating. Only after Fu Yanxiu glared at him from a distance did he calm down a little.
Lin Xicai was completely stunned at that time, her mind was blank.
Fu Xuefan's sharp and blunt accusations crawled into her heart, and Lin Xicai's emotions felt like being torn by millions of ants...
This was the first time she had identified with her accusation.
It is true that she and the original owner's mother have no real blood relationship, but since she came here, she has been her only support.
She had taken over her daughter's body and identity, and as an imposter, she enjoyed all the love and care she had given her, yet she didn't even know her birthday, and didn't even have the awareness to find out.
Lin Xicai thought about the expectant look she showed when she handed her breakfast when she went to school in the morning, and the unconcealable happiness and shyness she showed when she saw her after she came back from school.
She was actually looking forward to this birthday. She had been waiting, waiting for someone to say happy birthday.
But she didn't say anything, and her expectations were dashed again and again. She didn't even get the simplest "Happy Birthday".
A feeling of guilt turned into a sharp blade in an instant. Lin Xicai stood there blankly, and a rare look of fragility and helplessness appeared in her usually smart and cunning eyes - like a child who knew he had done something wrong but didn't know how to make up for it.
Fu Yanxiu stared at her, his eyes full of inquiry. It was true that this person was scheming, but he never forgot to celebrate his mother's birthday in previous years. Considering the obvious difference in handwriting and the completely different personality, everything was intertwined into a confusing mystery.
What exactly happened to this person?
"Mom, I..."
"Okay, stop messing around," Zhong Ping smiled gently. "I received the gift Feifei sent yesterday. Fanfan, Yanxiu, come over for dinner. The dishes I cooked today are all your three favorites."
Fu Xuefan raised his eyebrows upon hearing this and looked at Lin Xicai, half believing and half doubting: "What did you give me?"
"Fu Xuefan! Sit down and eat."
Fu Yanxiu lowered his voice and stopped his sister's pestering.
Zhong Ping smiled helplessly, walked forward and pulled Lin Xicai and Fu Xuefan to the dining table one by one.
"You two have been at odds since you were little..."
Zhong Ping picked up some food for the three of them and said with a smile, "I like all the gifts you gave me. Let's eat, or they'll get cold soon."
The meal was eaten in silence. Zhong Ping tried to make amends for Lin Xicai at the table without making a sound, but in the end, it was she who was comforting her. Lin Xicai lowered her head to eat, feeling more and more uncomfortable.
After dinner, when the Fu brothers and sisters left, Lin Xicai helped clean up the dishes. With red eyes, she apologized and said happy birthday and wanted to give them a birthday present. Zhong Ping smiled and agreed to all her requests, and didn't seem to mind.
But Lin Xicai knew that every token of affection had a time limit. If missed, it was missed. If expired, it was expired. Even if she made up for it with a birthday gift or said birthday wishes ten thousand times, it would not be the same.
When she returned to the room, the exercise books and textbooks were still there, but Lin Xicai couldn't read a single word.
She and her were only mother and daughter for one year, and this might have been the first and only birthday she could celebrate for her, but she missed it.
Lin Xicai considers herself not to be a person who is sensitive to internal friction, but this feeling of regret and guilt makes it almost impossible for her to dispel it.
She rolled over on the bed twice, becoming increasingly agitated. Then she changed into sportswear and ran out.
Lin Xicai ran along the street as if to vent her anger, and once again ran to the riverside.
Lin Xicai ran another half circle around the Xuling River. She was tired and was looking for a place to sit down and rest when a red mountain bike quietly rode past her.
The car was going very slowly and the people on it were riding carelessly, almost parallel to her.
Under the bright moonlight, the shadows of the two people were stretched very long and fell on the ground, giving a kind of ambiguous feeling of cuddling.
Lin Xicai turned her head to look over, and saw a cold and handsome profile. He lowered his head slightly and did not look at her.
He was not wearing a uniform, but dressed in black. The collar of his black windbreaker stood up casually, his chin buried in the collar, and his bangs hung down in front of his forehead, revealing a pair of sharp and deep eyes and a quarter of his face. His temperament was filled with natural loneliness and mystery.
Lin Xicai didn't expect to meet him here and was stunned for a moment, "Why are you here?"
He turned his head and glanced at her, his voice clear and cold, saying bluntly: "You kept me awake."
Lin Xicai's eyes were blank, she didn't understand what he was saying.
She seemed to understand that she was being scammed, but she had no energy to argue.
Lin Xicai stopped and turned to look at the river. The autumn wind blew, her hair fluttered gently in the moonlight, and her back seemed to become thinner.
The mountain bike also stopped, and the person on it sat on it in an extremely casual and lazy posture, with his hands in the pockets of his jacket and his legs supporting the ground.
He looked at her, and then she suddenly turned around. There was a rare look of confusion in her eyes, which were always smart and cunning. Her hair on her forehead was messed up, and her nose was a little red from the wind. She looked fragile and breakable.
The hands in his pockets trembled slightly, and he was stunned. It seemed that this was the first time he saw her with such an expression.
"I did something wrong," she said.
She seemed so eager to express her emotions that she had no time to consider whether the person she was expressing her feelings to was suitable.
She seemed to be waiting for him to ask something so that she could continue.
But Xie Shi just looked at her.
He looked at her face intently, but didn't seem curious about what she was saying.
It was at this time that Lin Xicai realized her own impertinence and woke up from her dream.
Why did she tell him this?
Is she expecting such a mute person to comfort her?
Lin Xicai laughed at herself in her heart, feeling that she was really confused.
Lin Xicai stretched and returned to normal. "I'm leaving first. Feel free to do as you please."
After saying that, she turned around and jogged along the original route.
Lin Xicai ran for a while with her head down, then suddenly slowed down as if sensing something. The mountain bike had been following her less than five meters behind her, but her sudden deceleration forced the bike to catch up.
Lin Xicai frowned: "Why are you following me?"
The cold and taciturn man in the car glanced at her and said a long sentence, which was unusual for him: "Running around in the middle of the night, you must be too confident in the public security here."
It's just that the tone is not very good.
Because of his bad tone, she didn't feel like saying thank you even though she knew he probably meant well.
He rode the bike slowly and followed her to the back door of the villa.
Then, like a gust of wind, it disappeared into the overwhelming darkness.
......
Although she knew that she would have her most important monthly exam the next day, Lin Xicai still did not sleep well that night.
When she went out in the morning, the original owner's mother had already prepared breakfast in the kitchen as usual. She washed up and was anxious to go out. Just like yesterday, she was afraid that she would not eat breakfast, so she packed it in a bag and placed it next to her schoolbag.
She didn't seem to have any grudge that she had forgotten her birthday. She just looked at her with a smile, gave her some kind instructions, and watched her leave.
Lin Xicai took her breakfast and left. She still felt a little dizzy until she got on the bus.
Lin Xicai took a nap in the car. After arriving at school, he ran all the way, checked the time, and went straight to the classroom where the examination was held.
Lin Xicai ran over in a hurry and found that the classroom that was supposed to be the last examination room did not have an examination room number posted outside.
Not only that, with less than 20 minutes left before the exam, they hadn't even set up the exam room yet. People were coming and going, and the students who were originally there were sitting in their seats, leisurely eating breakfast, without any sense of urgency about the upcoming exam.
Lin Xicai stood by the window, backpack in hand, looking inside with a look of surprise on her face. Someone passing by couldn't help but pat her twice, "Classmate, who are you looking for?"
Lin Xicai looked over and pointed inside, "Why is everyone still sitting in their seats?"
The enthusiastic female classmate was stunned for a moment, looking puzzled. "Uh... class is about to start, shouldn't we be in our seats?"
"Class?" Lin Xicai was confused. "Isn't there an exam today?"
"The exam is tomorrow."
tomorrow?
Why tomorrow?
When was it postponed? Why didn’t anyone tell me...
Suddenly realizing something, Lin Xicai opened his eyes wide, then took out his mobile phone from his pocket and looked down at the screen.
The moment she saw the date on the screen clearly, Lin Xicai almost couldn't help but scream. The classroom was quiet for a moment, and the people inside cast strange looks at her through the window.
Lin Xicai's expression was extremely complicated, his face was a little pale, but his eyes were surprisingly bright.
After being stunned for a moment, she turned around and went downstairs, then ran against the flow of people towards the outside of the school. Her thin and slender figure ran wildly in the sunlight, like a deer that could not hide its emotions.
Xie Shi stood at the door of Class Z classroom, leaning on the railing on the fifth floor and looking down, his eyes following the agile figure, and he did not come back to his senses for a long time.
While he was distracted, he saw the male gym teacher and another male classmate leaning against the railing not far away, their elbows resting on the railing and looking down. Then the male gym teacher's eyes lit up and he whispered to the boy next to him, "Is that Zhong Fei? It's almost time for class, why is she running off campus?"
"It looks like," another boy said, "did you forget to bring your homework book?"
The male sports committee member laughed when he heard this and asked in a familiar tone, "Would she be so serious?"
Xie Shi withdrew his gaze at some point, then glanced at the male physical education teacher lightly and walked into the classroom.
After he walked away, the male classmates and the male physical education teacher looked at each other in surprise.
The male classmate twitched the corner of his lips, "Was he glaring at you just now?"
The male sports committee member also felt it, but was puzzled: "What did I do?"
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