Chapter 191 Extra 2 (10)
Extra 2 (10)
Jiang Nuo: “…………”
Nuozi was speechless: "Why are you distracted again?"
Gu Jiangkuo blurted out in denial: "Ah? I wasn't distracted!"
Nuozai almost rolled his eyes, but he didn't bother to pay attention. He just pulled his phone back and muttered to himself, "What's wrong with you? You've been so absent-minded lately."
In fact, Gu Jiangkuo himself also realized that he was not in a good state recently. Ever since he dreamed of Nuonuo last time, everything about him was not right, so much so that he wanted to talk to his father.
Jiang Nuo plugged his phone into the charger beside the bed and yawned. "Sleep?"
Gu Jiangkuo looked at the large "triple bed" and hesitated: "I'm not sleepy yet, you go to sleep first."
"Oh." Jiang Nuo skillfully pulled Gu Jiangkuo's pillowcase over her eyes and said, "Go ahead and play. No need to turn off the lights."
Sleeping with the lights on prevents the body from producing melatonin, leading to poor sleep. Blindfolding your eyes is the perfect solution. Jiang Nuo learned this theory from doing some English reading and dragged him along to share it. But Gu Jiangkuo knew his son was simply being considerate and worried that turning off the lights would disrupt his playtime.
Gu Jiangkuo felt sad and guilty.
What a good Nuonuo, closer than a brother! But he always couldn't help but have such thoughts about him. If Nuonuo knew that he subconsciously thought of him as a girl, he would definitely be so angry that he would break up with him.
It’s not that Gu Jiangkuo isn’t sleepy, he just doesn’t dare to indulge himself in being overly intimate with Nuonuo.
But sooner or later he still had to lie down to sleep. Gu Jiangkuo turned off the lights quietly and lay down carefully at the edge of the "three-person bed". The middle was very spacious, so it was no problem to put three more Nuozai in it.
However, no matter how careful he was, when he woke up the next morning, Gu Jiangkuo could always feel that he was holding Nuozi tightly in his arms - Jiang Nuo's sleeping posture was too bad, and Gu Jiangkuo could not use reason to restrain himself in his sleep.
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Gu Jiangkuo was so immersed in a mixture of joy and guilt that he couldn't help but get distracted during class.
"Gu Jiangkuo! What are you daydreaming about?"
A piece of chalk was thrown at him, and Gu Jiangkuo dodged it like a conditioned reflex. His deskmate, Old Xie, murmured a "Beautiful!" The teacher became even more angry, but he just glared at them and got back to business. "Do you understand the new seating order? It will be implemented starting from the next monthly exam. Okay, class dismissed."
"?" Gu Jiangkuo, "What is it?"
"That's what the teacher just said," Xie Jinxin said, "because so many parents complained that they couldn't see the blackboard, and so many people wanted to sit in the front row, so after the monthly exam, we'll rotate seats from the first row to the last row—"
Before he could finish his words, Gu Jiangkuo said with a lack of interest, "That's wrong. Whoever wants to sit in the front row can sit. I won't sit anyway."
"Who said it wasn't!" Xie Jinxin muttered softly, "I don't like sitting in the front either. The back row is so comfortable. I can do whatever I want and the teacher won't see. It's a pity, Brother Gu, I can't sit at the same table with you anymore."
Gu Jiangkuo: “?”
Xie Jinxin: "Oh, right, the teacher just said that the third row is a bonus seat for the top eight students in the class. They don't have to rotate. Since you have such good grades, you will definitely be in the third row. Maybe you will sit with Xiaoqiang... Eh? Brother Gu, where are you going?"
"Of course they're going to confiscate the love letters." Boy A nearby poked his head in and gossiped, "Xiao Qiang brought another love letter back for Jiang Nuo!"
"Hiss!" Boy B said, "If Nuozi wasn't a boy, I would have suspected that Brother Gu had a crush on him. Look at him, he's watching him so closely, like he's watching his wife."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Xie Jinxin explained for Gu Jiangkuo, "They are childhood friends. Brother Gu has a mission. Jiang Nuo's mother asked him to watch over Jiang Nuo and not allow him to have a premature relationship."
"Well, I understand. After that photo was released, Nuozi became so popular. Look, that thick stack of love letters!"
A few boys who were whispering to each other stretched their necks to look forward with a bit of envy.
Just as Xiao Qiang was holding a stack of colorful love letters, they were all snatched away before they fell into Jiang Nuo's hands.
"Hey!" Jiang Nuo protested.
Gu Jiangkuo slapped Jiang Nuo's head like a kitten and spoke only to Xiao Qiang: "That's all for today?"
Little Wall: “…”
Little Wall said timidly: "That's all for now."
"If you have any new ones, don't give them to him, give them to me directly." Gu Jiangkuo grabbed all seven or eight love letters with his big hand, turned around and left.
Jiang Nuo: “…”
Little Wall: “…”
"Tsk tsk, Brother Gu is too serious. Mother Jiang told him to watch, and he really watched. So it seems that Nuozi has had no romantic opportunities in the past few years of his youth, and all of them have been cut off? It's a bit pitiful."
Not only did the boys in the back row talk about it, but even Xiao Qiang, after Gu Jiangkuo left, quietly complained to his deskmate: "Isn't your brother too overbearing?" Although the relationship between a brother and a childhood sweetheart of a family friend is special, this is too much of a waste of time, he is almost as good as a little dad.
Jiang Nuo: "Yeah, it's a bit overbearing."
Xiao Qiang also felt sorry for his deskmate, but he didn't dare challenge Brother Gu's tyranny, so he whispered, "Next time you have a new love letter, I'll secretly hide it in my schoolbag and give it to you when he's not around."
Jiang Nuo said, "No need."
Xiao Qiang patted his chest and said, "Don't worry about what I'll do. He won't find out and won't have the chance to complain to your mother!"
"...That's not what I meant, it's just..."
However, Jiang Nuo inexplicably felt that the way Gu Jiangkuo refused to let him accept other people's love letters was a bit pleasing to the eye.
Sometimes, if the person involved is unwilling to be controlled, that is called "forcing" and "lack of quality", but if the person involved is willing and even enjoys it a little, then it can be "half-hearted" and "hit it off".
"No need." Jiang Nuo emphasized again, "Next time you have a love letter, give it to me in front of him before he confiscates it."
A small wall? "????"
What did you say, deskmate? Are you stupid because of being bullied?
Jiang Nuo: "I mean, let him confiscate it. That way, gradually, no girls will write me love letters anymore. I don't want to fall in love too early in the first place. If I accept it, I will have to reject them, which is very embarrassing and will easily embarrass the girls. It's better this way."
Xiao Qiang gave a thumbs up: "So that's how it is. That's quite a big deal, Nuozi. Such a gentleman!"
"But," Xiao Qiang said regretfully, "Do you really not want to fall in love? Let me tell you in secret, the one who wrote you a love letter before was our school beauty, and there was also a senior from the high school who was asking about you. She's a young lady named Jiang Xia..."
"Let's not talk about it." Jiang Nuo said seriously, "Premature love will affect your studies!"
Little Wall: “…”
Little Wall: “…………”
I never expected that this silly straight guy would be around. Xiao Qiang was speechless and could only complain silently in his heart: What a waste of such a good-looking guy! What a waste of talent!
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In the high school department, Jiang Xia is not the only one who is interested in the fresh-faced boy Nuozai in the second grade of junior high school. Ding Pingzhou in the third grade of senior high school is also interested in her.
The next semester is about to enter the intense review sprint stage. Many people will take advantage of the last free time to go crazy and confess their love to the person they like. Ding Pingzhou is no exception.
He sent a love letter to Jiang Nuo last year, but never received a response, so he gave up the idea and was even a little secretly happy: he only left his mobile phone number but not his name.
Speaking of which, Nuozai was still a child at that time, and his age was like that of an ancient pederast. After the impulse, when he thought about it again, he felt that he could not bring himself to do it. It was too sinful.
But now, Jiang Nuo has grown up, shed the last bit of baby fat left from her childhood, and has rosy lips and white teeth, standing tall and graceful.
He saw his photo on Tieba and, as expected, fell in love with him again.
And there was also a mysterious sense of familiarity - not the kind of familiarity of childhood friends, but it was as if he had known him for two lifetimes. The more he looked at Jiang Nuo, the more complicated his emotions became.
Admiration and love, but more than that, there is an inexplicable sadness and guilt.
Just looking at the photo, his heart ached. Ding Pingzhou felt that if he didn't confess his feelings once and fulfill this wish, he might not do well in the college entrance examination.
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Ding Pingzhou used the excuse of the "New Year's Eve Party" to find the junior high school department openly. Jiang Nuo and several other students in the class who could play musical instruments were called to the teacher's office together.
"It's a tradition for No. 1 Middle School to have the high school perform at the New Year's Eve party. It's also an opportunity to bring honor to the class. Who among you is willing to cooperate?"
Several students lowered their heads and no one spoke.
The teacher coughed lightly and said, "This performance is in conjunction with the senior students from the Moon Dance Company."
"I!"
"Teacher Liu, I'm going!"
Two boys were eager to try it out right away.
Most of the members of the Moon Dance Troupe are art school students, and it can be said to be a gathering place for goddesses of Yanlin No. 1 Middle School.
Teacher Liu glanced at them speechlessly. "You can go, but don't cause trouble! Don't let it interfere with your studies! They're seniors from the high school department, but they're looking at you like you're elementary school students. Don't go and embarrass yourself. I'm warning you."
"I understand, teacher."
Teacher Liu: "Where's Jiang Nuo?"
Jiang Nuo was reluctant. He had finally passed the piano exam, and he never wanted to touch it again in his life. "I'll just..."
Teacher Liu: "Just practice during physical education class and self-study class. There's no need to use up more of your spare time."
Jiang Nuo immediately said: "Okay!"
If you don’t have to take physical education classes, you can play the piano!
Jiang Nuo is one of the very few "weird kids" who doesn't like physical education classes, especially in the summer when the sun is scorching. He sweats easily whether he is running, standing in line, or playing ball. He doesn't like sports and hates sauna days even more. If he could replace the physical education class time with staying in an air-conditioned room and playing the piano, he would be able to tolerate it.
"Okay." The homeroom teacher said with satisfaction, "Then go with the seniors to look at the venue now. After you're done, come back to study. Don't delay."
At this time, the legendary "senior" was called in and looked at Jiang Nuo with burning eyes: "Hello."
Jiang Nuo: “!”
Isn’t this Ding Pingzhou?
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When Jiang Nuo returned to the classroom, he was surprised to find that his deskmate had been replaced by Gu Jiangkuo.
Xiao Qiang is obviously a fat little man who is wide horizontally and vertically, but his presence is far less noticeable than Gu Jiangkuo.
Dajiang, has your brother grown taller again?
"What brought you here?"
"Why did you just come back?"
They both asked at the same time.
Gu Jiangkuo: "Nothing, just trying to get a feel for what the front row is like. The teacher isn't here for this class anyway."
When the teacher was not around, some students would occasionally change seats. Jiang Nuo turned around and saw his deskmate in the last row as expected. Xiao Qiang looked at him aggrievedly.
Jiang Nuo turned around and said, "We have to get into the top eight, so why not try out the bonus seats in advance? How does it feel to be in the front row?"
Gu Jiangkuo said honestly, "Not very good. I'm too close to the podium. I'm not used to it. I feel like I have no privacy at all."
"Oh." Jiang Nuo flipped through the workbook and silently pondered what auxiliary lines to add to the geometric shapes. He said, "Then you can deliberately do worse on the test, or just ask your teacher to sit in the back row."
Gu Jiangkuo held his chin with one hand, twisted his body to look at him, and suddenly said, "Don't you think it's not bad for us to be deskmates?"
Jiang Nuo drew a long, straight auxiliary line with his bare hands and quickly applied the formula without lifting his eyelids, his long lashes drooping. "That's not certain. Even if we make it into the top eight, we'll still be assigned seats based on our rankings. How can we guarantee that we'll be next to each other?"
"The square root of 2." Gu Jiangkuo said.
Jiang Nuo: “?”
Gu Jiangkuo raised his eyebrows and signaled him with his eyes to continue calculating.
Jiang Nuo put the last two steps of the formula into the equation and found that the length of the last side was indeed the square root of 2. Gu Jiangkuo's calculation was correct.
"Great." Jiang Nuo gave him a thumbs up out of support.
Gu Jiangkuo is a very smart guy, especially in math. He can quickly calculate the answer in his mind without listing the process. But Jiang Nuo is different. Nuozi considers himself an exam-oriented candidate. He will not miss any steps that can be written, and he must get full points for the steps.
Even the handwriting is very neat, as rigorous as he is.
"Getting a high score is nothing special," Gu Jiangkuo said slowly. "Have you heard? Being able to control the score is what's truly impressive."
Jiang Nuo: "What do you mean?"
Gu Jiangkuo: "Do you dare to try something big? After the first few courses are finished, we can compare the answers and calculate the scores. Then we can set a score for the last course to eliminate any errors. In the end, we can have the same total score. How about that?"
Jiang Nuo: “…”
Gu Jiangkuo: "Nuonuo, you don't dare? I thought you were a genius student."
"...I'm not a genius student." Jiang Nuo said objectively, "My grades are all thanks to my mom paying for extra lessons."
Gu Jiangkuo: “…”
Gu Jiangkuo didn't expect him to not respond. Just as he was about to continue provoking him, he heard Jiang Nuo say, "But don't underestimate me. It's just controlling the score. How difficult can it be?"
"Okay! It's a deal!"
Gu Jiangkuo happily returned to the last row. The chased Xiaoqiang was finally able to return to his seat. He asked curiously, "Brother Gu, are you really going to help me control the score?"
Jiang Nuo: “?”
Xiao Qiang: "Xie Jinxin told me that Gu Jiangkuo wanted to sit at the same table with you, but he was worried about your grades, so he came up with a trick to get you to match his score. Did you see through him?"
Jiang Nuo: “…” Of course, it’s too obvious.
Perhaps only Gu Jiangkuo himself felt that his method of provoking was successful.
However, Xiao Qiang seemed to have misunderstood: "You didn't see through it, did you? You promised him? No wonder Brother Gu was so happy just now."
Jiang Nuo: "...well, I didn't react and agreed to him."
Xiao Qiang said reluctantly: "Don't agree to him, maybe we can still sit at the same table. I can't bear to leave you." There is also the job of delivering love letters for you, and every time you can get some snacks from those girls as hard work fee.
Jiang Nuo said in distress, "But I promised him, I can't go back on my word. What if he thinks I don't have the ability and gets scared?"
Xiaoqiang: "Yeah, okay QAQ"
"Yeah." Jiang Nuo pretended to return his attention to his workbook, but he couldn't help but doubt himself: What was going on? Why was he always trying to subconsciously pamper Dajiang? He knew he was trying to trick him, yet he pretended not to notice and fell for it.
Are all childhood sweethearts like this? Is this normal?
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That day, Gu Jiangkuo forgot to ask Jiang Nuo why the teacher called him over, but he got the answer soon after.
Today is the day when the monthly exam results are released. The scores for the three main subjects, Chinese, math and English, are the first to come out. There are always a few curious students who can't sit still and run to the teacher's office again and again, enjoying the news of the average score, the highest score, how many people failed, etc.
There are many high scores in Chinese and English, but the math problems are difficult and a large number of students fail. Currently, the only two students who get full marks in the whole grade are in their class.
"Gu Jiangkuo and Jiang Nuo get full marks!!"
"How can you get full marks on such a difficult question?"
"It seems that the scores for Chinese and English are similar, both in the excellent category. I wonder who will get first place."
"Jiang Nuo! Someone's looking for you!"
Jiang Nuo looked up and saw a familiar figure standing at the door. He couldn't help but frown slightly. Why did Ding Pingzhou come to the class? Didn't they usually meet in the music classroom over at the high school?
Gu Jiangkuo, who was sitting in the last row with his feet arrogantly on the desk, stopped putting his feet up, stood up and chased after him.
He has a good memory and can remember things that happened many years ago clearly, like the guy named Ding Pingzhou who bullied his son Nuonuo. When he was little, he tricked Nuonuo into taking off his pants to show him. When he grew up, he tried to steal Nuonuo's pocket money. It was because Dajiang witnessed this guy bullying Nuonuo that he decided to learn Sanda to protect Nuonuo. They say a child's character can be seen at the age of three, and bad guys are mostly born that way. Don't look at how he looks now, he might be harboring evil intentions.
He had to go and take a look, otherwise he would feel uneasy.
Unexpectedly, he actually saw a show that left him stunned.
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Jiang Nuo followed Ding Pingzhou reluctantly, but he was actually a little resistant in his heart.
The Ding family used to have a good relationship with his family, but later they gradually became estranged. Although Jiang's father never said bad things about Uncle Ding and the Ding family in front of him, Jiang Nuo could feel that his parents thought that their family's character was worrying. What's more, he vaguely remembered that when he was a child, Ding Pingzhou blocked him and bullied him at school, and he was almost robbed of a huge sum of pocket money of dozens of yuan!
Now that everyone has grown up, it is not appropriate to bring up the past, but Jiang Nuo still instinctively remains a little more cautious.
So, as soon as they walked past the small square and turned into the tree-lined path in the green area, Jiang Nuo noticed something was wrong. "Senior Ding, this is not the way to the music classroom."
Seeing that he didn't leave, Ding Pingzhou had no choice but to stop and chuckled: "Why are you always so wary of me?"
Jiang Nuo became more alert.
It’s not his fault that he was on guard, it’s just that their childhood was not a happy one, and now, Jiang Nuo couldn’t explain why, but he always felt that Ding Pingzhou’s attitude was weird.
"Hey," Ding Pingzhou sighed, "Xiao Nuo, you didn't call me 'Senior Ding' before, you always called me 'Brother Pingzhou'."
Jiang Nuo: “…”
Gu Jiangkuo, who had been following all the way and hiding in the dark, said: "..." His fists stiffened.
Jiang Nuo: "...if you have something to say, just say it."
Ding Pingzhou was unwilling to speak directly. He kept talking about piano music and the dance studio, and then he said that this would be the last activity he organized and that he would be fully preparing for the college entrance examination next semester. Jiang Nuo was very impatient when he heard this: "What on earth do you want? It's okay, I need to go home. Our monthly exam results just came out, and the teacher might have to review the test during self-study class."
"Wait!" Ding Pingzhou suddenly stopped him. "Xiao Nuo, don't you really understand what I mean to you?"
Jiang Nuo: “???”
Gu Jiangkuo, who was hiding on the side, said: "???"
Ding Pingzhou took a deep breath and said with some difficulty, "I've always wanted to ask, did you read that letter later?"
Jiang Nuo: "What letter?"
Gu Jiangkuo also cursed in his heart. This idiot even wrote a letter to Nuonuo?! How come he didn't know?
Seeing Jiang Nuo's naive look, Ding Pingzhou was actually a little happy. "Why didn't I think of it? So you didn't see it, so you didn't contact me, right? If I had known earlier, I should have handed it to you personally..."
"What letter?" Jiang Nuo asked, and he had a vague answer in his heart, but he felt it was impossible. It was too outrageous! He was a boy, and Ding Pingzhou was also a boy. How could a boy write a love letter to a boy?
"I wrote this to you..." Ding Pingzhou still didn't say the word "love letter" and hesitated, "I'm afraid of scaring you, so I'm explaining it slowly. Xiao Nuo, I heard that you never accept love letters or gifts from girls. Is it really because your family is strict? Have you ever been attracted to any girl?"
Jiang Nuo: “…”
Gu Jiangkuo: “!”
Gu Jiangkuo was suddenly inspired. He took out his cell phone and found a phone number without any notes in the address book. He had originally written this number down in a notebook, but later when he bought a cell phone, he somehow saved this number.
I don’t know what he wanted to do with it. Maybe he just cared about it at the time, cared about the guy who was the first to write a love letter to Nuonuo.
Ding Pingzhou's cell phone suddenly rang.
"Sorry, I have to answer the phone." Ding Pingzhou was worried that it was a teacher who wanted to talk to him about rehearsal, so he answered the strange number, but there was no sound from the other end.
Gu Jiangkuo listened to Ding Pingzhou's voice in the receiver, and was struck by lightning. He stood there motionless and hung up the phone silently.
"Maybe it's a wrong number," Ding Pingzhou muttered. "Xiao Nuo, let me continue... Have you ever doubted that you don't like women at all?"
"!!" Gu Jiangkuo felt that every word Ding Pingzhou said was like a bolt of thunder, piercing through his Ren and Du meridians.
Don't like women? How can you still be like this?
Ding Pingzhou: "I wonder if you've ever read some... inappropriate novels or movies, and seen those descriptions of love between men and women, and you weren't moved at all. Is that the case?"
Gu Jiangkuo: “!”
Jiang Nuo: “!”
Nuozai and Dajiang, two young kids who were not very worldly-wise, exclaimed "Fuck" in their hearts at the same time and stood there in a daze, but Jiang Nuo was in the open while Gu Jiangkuo was in the dark.
But Gu Dajiang could only see Jiang Nuo's back.
His heart was swirling with emotion. He had never imagined that his first enlightenment would begin under such circumstances! Many thoughts flashed through Gu Jiangkuo's mind like a movie: No wonder he hadn't reacted to Xie Jinxin's treasured pornographic book before, only finding it boring. No wonder he always couldn't help but want to be close to Nuonuo, to have such dreams, and to have such a strong possessive desire for her, which had long gone beyond the scope of ordinary friendship.
It turns out that boys can like boys.
Ding Pingzhou was much more experienced. Looking at Jiang Nuo's expression, he knew his guess was almost right. He continued to persuade her, "Xiao Nuo, I'm just like that. If you're not sure, I can lend you some of my collection. There are live videos and movies. Don't be shy. Every adolescent boy goes through this process. You first have to decide what type of person you like. Are you free this weekend? Come to my house and I'll show you the door to a new world."
If the first part can be regarded as enlightenment education, the latter part is a naked deception of children.
This is intolerable! Gu Jiangkuo appeared from behind a row of evergreen trees and threw a punch without saying a word.
It was not until Ding Pingzhou was knocked down that he realized there was a tall figure in front of him.
Gu Jiangkuo covered Jiang Nuo's ears like a hen protecting her chicks, "Don't listen to this pervert's nonsense. Let's not go to his house!"
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