Chapter 35: No Boy Around [VIP]
August 12, 2006, the first day after leaving Zhenhao.
——"Chronological Diary"
When he arrived at the familiar classroom door, Zhen Hao unconsciously gripped the strap of his backpack, feeling nervous.
She was a little hesitant to go in, fearing that she would not see the person she wanted to see.
She was also looking forward to meeting someone she hadn't seen for a long time.
For a moment, she couldn't tell whether she was afraid of not seeing Shixu more, or looking forward to seeing Shihang more.
"Okay, why don't you come in?" Zhou Chunrui stepped into the classroom first, and found that Zhen Hao did not follow him, so he turned around and asked curiously.
Zhen Hao didn't say anything and just took a step forward.
When she was in the classroom, the first direction her eyes went to was the seat at the podium.
It was empty there, without any trace of time.
Maybe it's not time for class yet, so he hasn't come yet.
Zhen Hao told himself this.
After she sat down, she turned her gaze towards Shi Hangyu's seat.
Neither he nor his deskmate Pei Xiaohai showed up.
Aunt Shi married Pei Xiaohai's second uncle, so in name, Shi Xu became Pei Xiaohai's cousin.
Pei Xiaohai might know something.
Zhen Hao forced himself to calm down, took out his English book and prepared to review the words.
Zhou Chunrui didn't give her a chance to calm down: "Could it be that Shixu has transferred to another school?"
Like Zhen Hao, she took a look at Shixu's seat as soon as she entered the door.
Yan Yunshu hadn't arrived yet, so she could only turn around and talk to Zhen Hao: "How heartless is he? He didn't even say a word!"
"The class hasn't started yet. Maybe it will be here soon." Zhen Hao said this to comfort her and himself.
"That's right." Zhou Chunrui murmured.
At this moment, Yan Yunshu happened to appear at the classroom door and was walking towards his seat.
"Yunyun, you're here!" Zhou Chunrui was overwhelmed with excitement upon seeing Yan Yunshu, whom he hadn't seen for two months. "I missed you so much."
During the entire summer vacation, Zhen Hao went to help out at a relative's house, and Yan Yunshu was locked up at home to study. She was the only one with nothing to do, and she was so bored.
It’s better to go to school, there are many people to eat and play with.
At home, she had no interest in the games played by her older and younger brothers. As for Zhou's father, who had become addicted to fishing in his middle age, she was even less interested.
She felt that she would never be able to appreciate such a boring activity as fishing.
As Yan Yunshu got closer, Zhou Chunrui quickly discovered another important point: "Yunyun, you've lost a lot of weight! I'm so envious! Look at me, I've gained weight, woooo--"
Yan Yunshu gave her a forced smile: "Not much weight loss."
She couldn't possibly tell Zhou Chunrui that she was still struggling with the sea of homework until two in the morning last night.
Others’ summer vacation is a paradise, but hers is a tribulation.
She often wondered, if she was not Yan Shi’s daughter, or if Yan Shi was not a university professor, would she also be able to have a relaxed and happy study life?
The answer is unknown.
All this was just her delusion under high pressure.
She will be Yan Shi’s daughter for the rest of her life, and Yan Shi’s identity as a university professor will never change.
The class bell rang soon, abruptly ending their conversation.
Zhen Hao looked at the wall clock pointing to seven o'clock, and his heart slowly sank.
Shixu did not come to class.
"That kid Shixu didn't come at all." Zhou Chunrui turned around and said to Zhen Hao while the teacher was still not in the classroom.
"Maybe he took a leave of absence." Zhen Hao pretended to be indifferent.
Annan has a tradition of conducting a baseline test at the beginning of the school year, and students are not allowed to ask for leave unless there are special circumstances.
Maybe the timing will appear the next day.
While Zhen Hao was thinking about this, Teacher Chen walked into the classroom and the room immediately became quiet.
During the first evening study session after the holiday, most of the students were not paying attention, and many were gossiping and passing notes.
Zhen Hao sat in his seat, not having memorized many words, and glanced at the seat next to the podium several times.
Shi Xu and Pei Xiao Hai were both absent from evening study, which made her feel a little relieved. After all, the probability of the two cousins taking leave together was still very high, even though they were not real cousins.
Throughout the evening study session, Zhen Hao's heart was shaky and he felt uncomfortable all over.
The next day.
On the first day of the pre-school placement test, all students in the school were in their original classes.
Before entering the classroom, Zhen Hao was full of hope to see the boy.
Unfortunately, the facts disappointed her.
The seat next to the podium was still empty.
The timing still didn't show up.
But Pei Xiaohai came.
An ominous premonition rose in her heart.
However, the tight pace of the exam left her no time to think too much. When she was completely free from the sea of questions, it was already the evening study session on the second day of school, but there was still no sign of time.
As soon as she sat down, she heard Pei Xiaohai's loud voice: "Brother Shixu has transferred to another school, didn't you know?"
He was speaking to Shi Hangyu.
There was trace of Zhen Xiaohai's voice, but maybe his voice was too soft and she didn't hear it.
Hearing Pei Xiaohai's words, his bottom was extinguished and his shoulders collapsed instantly.
, simply lying sideways on the table, staring out the window with lifeless eyes.
Zhou Chunrui also heard what Pei Xiaohai said. Li Zizhi transferred to another school! He didn't even tell us. How could he contact him? I'm so angry!
Zhen Hao didn’t buy a mobile phone, but she did!
Shixu has her contact information. Could you please ask her to pass it on to Zhen?
Zhou Chunrui clenched his fists, indignant on Zhen Hao's behalf: "I'd better not let me see him again, or I will beat him up!"
Zhen Hao was in no mood to listen to what she said.
Over the years that she had known Shixu, she had long been accustomed to him being around her all the time. Suddenly realizing that he might never appear by her side again, she felt an empty heart, as if a part of her soul had been taken away, and she felt lost.
On the second and third days of the exam, Zhen Hao still felt that the scheduled transfer was like a dream, and it didn't make sense no matter how he thought about it.
During the evening study session after the exam, Teacher Chen walked into the classroom holding the Chinese test paper.
Zhen Hao was still the Chinese class representative and was called up to distribute the test papers.
Walking to her seat next to the podium, her eyes lingered on the desk for a second before she took the thick stack of test papers from Teacher Chen's hand.
It was also at this moment that Zhen Hao finally accepted the fact that Shi Xu had transferred to another school.
Teacher Chen’s next words made her face this fact.
Teacher Chen said to her, "Student Zhen, please adjust your seat and sit next to the podium."
She subconsciously asked, "What's wrong?"
"Well, there's a transfer student in our class," Teacher Chen said, looking at Yu Ling. "I've arranged for her to sit at the same table with Yu Ling. Since they're both transfer students, it'll be easier for them to look after each other."
Neither Zhen Hao nor Yu Ling raised any objection to this.
Only Zhou Chunrui wailed, "No, my dear, I can't bear for you to leave me..."
Her exaggerated expression and tone made Zhen Hao laugh, and the depression caused by the transfer of school schedule also dissipated a lot.
In this way, Zhen Hao inherited Shixu's seat.
Sitting in his seat, she had a strange illusion. It was as if the boy was sitting in the same seat in another time and space, listening to the same quadratic functions and chemical equations as her.
In her diary, classmate 683 appeared less and less frequently, and was gradually replaced by the two letters sx.
One day after evening self-study, Zhen Hao cleaned up his desk as usual and prepared to go to Mr. Qiu to learn Nanyin.
When she lowered her head to check her pencil case, she suddenly felt a shadow covering her.
She paused and looked up subconsciously.
The boy looked down at her condescendingly, his face colder than she had ever seen, even a little... disappointed?
What is he disappointed about?
"Teacher... Shi Hang and his classmates?" He suddenly came closer, and Zhen Hao became a little nervous. "What's wrong?"
There was no one in the classroom at that time. Zhou Chunrui and Yan Yunshu said they wanted to go to the toilet first, and the three of them would gather at the school gate later.
"Classmate Zhenhao, I don't owe you anything." Shi Hangyu's tone and demeanor were contradictory. "Please also stop interfering in my affairs from now on."
"Stop minding your own business?" Zhen Hao was puzzled. "What is it?"
"You know what you did, and I don't want to say any more." Shi Hangyu despised people who told tales the most. "Anyway, this matter ends here."
He was originally tormented by the fact that he had wrongly accused Zhen Hao, but she actually complained to the head of the grade, slandering him for dating the class beauty from the next class... In this way, the guilt in his heart disappeared without a trace.
He didn't owe her anything.
Zhen Hao was completely confused.
However, after the boy said this, he turned around and left without giving her a chance to explain.
She opened her mouth, wanting to call out to him, but found she had no way to argue.
She didn't even know what he was talking about, so where should she begin?
She didn't even want to ask, because at that moment, she suddenly felt that everything was so boring.
The next day, Zhen Hao just walked into the classroom and ran into Pei Xiaohai who was about to leave.
He glanced at her with a hint of disgust, then said three words lightly: "Tattler."
"What did you say?" Zhen Hao suspected that he had misheard.
"I'm saying..." Pei Xiaohai said word by word, "Snitch, do you understand now?"
"What are you complaining about? I didn't..."
Zhen Hao's rebuttal was interrupted by Pei Xiaohai: "Stop pretending. If you like our Hang Yu, there's no need to accuse him of dating the class beauty from the next class, right? He got invited to a political class by the head teacher, and his parents were called. How could there be such a disgusting snitch like you?!"
"I didn't..." Zhen Hao's face flushed with anxiety, and even his voice choked with sobs, "It wasn't me..."
"You're still saying it wasn't you? The evidence is irrefutable." Pei Xiaohai snorted coldly, "Besides, why are you blushing if it wasn't you? It's obvious you're guilty."
After hearing what he said, not only did Zhen Hao blush, but even his eyes turned red.
She couldn't argue with him at all, and didn't want him to see her in such a mess, so she lowered her head and didn't say a word in defense.
Instead, a fierce and impatient voice rang out: "Pei Xiaohai, who are you talking to?"
"Who else can I blame? Just blame whoever it is." Pei Xiaohai didn't mention Zhen Hao's name, but the look and direction in his eyes made it clear that the snitch was Zhen Hao.
"Bullshit!" Song Jing cursed directly, "How could classmate Zhen be a snitch? If you call her that again, believe it or not, I will beat you up."
"Oh, Brother Jing, you're so nervous, could it be that she is..." Pei Xiaohai pretended to avoid the question and deliberately didn't finish his words.
"What are you thinking?" Although Song Jing denied it, his red ears quietly revealed something. "I just think that classmates should be united and friendly, helping each other. What's more, she's a girl. Do you have any shame to bully a girl?"
"Okay, okay, I'm scared of you. I'm shameless, I'm shameless." After saying that, Pei Xiaohai slipped out the back door.
Zhen Hao glanced at Song Jing gratefully and said softly, "Thank you, classmate Song."
Song Jing scratched his head embarrassedly and chuckled, "Why are you being polite? I haven't even repaid you for helping me with the problem..."
What neither of them saw was that Yu Ling's eyes were almost spitting fire as she watched this scene.
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