Chapter 14: Even Sleeping So Conspicuously
The weather is very good today and I am in a good mood too.
I will always remember that black water-based pen without a cap.
——"Zhen Hao Diary"
Because it had rained, Zhen Hao and the others rode slower than usual, and because they waited for Yan Yunshu for half an hour longer, it was already 6:30 in the evening when they arrived at the dormitory.
They hurried to the bathroom. It looked like they would be too late for dinner, so Zhou Chunrui took out three loaves of bread and three bottles of milk from his cupboard and handed one to Zhen Hao: "Take this for now. After evening study, we'll go to the cafeteria for a midnight snack."
Zhen Hao hesitated and didn't answer immediately.
"Okay, why are you just standing there?" Zhou Chunrui pushed the bread and milk in front of her again. "If you don't hurry up, you'll be late. I also brought some for Yunyun. I wonder if she's had dinner yet."
"Okay then, I'll treat you to a midnight snack tonight." Zhen Hao said as he took the food.
She was always like this, never owing anyone a favor. If someone was kind to her, she would want to pay them back tenfold.
Zhou Chunrui knew her personality well, so he didn't refuse: "Okay, I want to eat fried white rice cake."
"No problem." Zhen Hao then tore open the bread bag and started eating it in small bites.
The bread was soft and sweet, the best Zhen had ever tasted, and the milk was the most fragrant she had ever drunk.
It must be expensive. Is the money for a bowl of fried white rice cake enough to repay Ruirui?
This was the thought that popped into Zhen Hao's mind when he took the first bite.
The two of them ate while rushing to the teaching building.
Firstly, there was indeed not much time left, and secondly, Yan Yunshu was not in the dormitory, so they wanted to quickly go to the classroom to see if she had arrived early.
There is a small banyan tree forest between the student dormitory and the teaching building. As soon as Zhen Hao walked out, he saw Yan Yunshu standing at the classroom door and looking towards the dormitory from afar.
"Ruirui, Yunyun is there." Zhou Chunrui's eyesight was not as good as Zhen Hao's. If Zhen Hao hadn't told her, she wouldn't have noticed Yan Yunshu.
Zhou Chunrui held the straw in his mouth, squinting slightly as he looked in the direction of Zhen Hao's finger. After seeing clearly, his voice was filled with surprise: "It's really Yunyun! That's great, Yunyun is fine!"
Yan Yunshu also saw them and trotted towards them, but the worry in his eyes did not dissipate at all.
She has a cold and aloof appearance, with big but slender eyes, a hump nose that makes her facial features more three-dimensional, and thin lips with a hint of pink, which makes her look a little cold when she is not smiling.
She stood in front of Zhen Hao and the other man and began to apologize: "I'm sorry, I broke my promise today."
"It's okay, it's okay. As long as you're okay, I'm glad." Zhou Chunrui patted her shoulder indifferently.
"Have you had dinner?" Zhen Hao asked, changing the subject.
"Not yet." Yan Yunshu turned around and pointed to the classroom, "I prepared three desserts and milk tea. You can eat them secretly during class later."
"Okay, okay!" Zhou Chunrui suddenly felt that the bread in his mouth no longer tasted delicious.
She was craving the desserts and milk tea that Yan Yunshu mentioned. Yan Yunshu was the most demanding among the three of them, so the ones he picked must be delicious.
The three of them were at the age of growing up, so it was not difficult for them to eat two desserts and drinks.
Yan Yunshu did not explain why he broke the appointment, and Zhen Hao and the others did not ask any further questions.
They walked back to the classroom together, talking and laughing, as if nothing had happened.
Just before the class bell rang, Yan Yunshu had just finished distributing the desserts and milk tea in his hands to them.
You can drink milk tea openly on the desk, but for dessert you can only cover it with a textbook from time to time or pretend to lie down and then take a bite secretly.
Human nature is strange; it always tastes better when you eat secretly. After finishing the bread, milk, dessert, and milk tea, Zhen still felt unsatisfied.
She began to look forward to the end of get out of class and to eating another serving of fragrant fried white rice cake.
From the moment she saw Yu Ling in the classroom, she deliberately ignored her. On the surface, it seemed that there was no change between the two of them, but in fact, that vague sense of distance always existed.
But she soon stopped thinking about it because the devilish math teacher handed out three papers and said seriously, "Paper 1 will be explained in class tomorrow. Please complete it carefully."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of complaints from the audience.
But there is no point in complaining, as I have to do all the papers I need to do.
Zhen Hao spent the first two evening study sessions writing furiously.
After the second class, Zhou Chunrui asked her to go to the bathroom together. When she reached the front door of the classroom, she subconsciously glanced at Shixu's seat.
The seats of the time sequence are arranged next to the podium, the legendary golden throne.
He usually disappears after class and is actually sleeping.
The boy's sleeping face was facing the door without any cover.
Even sleeping is so flamboyant.
Zhen Hao just thought that he had played too much on the weekend and was catching up on his sleep after class, and didn't think too much about it.
During the third evening study session, she was still busy doing her homework.
It wasn't until the last class that she finally breathed a sigh of relief. It wasn't just her; the entire class was no longer as quiet as they had been in the previous three periods. Their voices were even getting louder.
However--
The sudden appearance of the homeroom teacher interrupted the chit-chat: "I can hear you guys talking from the next class. Have you finished your homework?"
The classroom suddenly fell silent.
That was a close call.
Zhen Hao breathed a sigh of relief silently.
Just before the head teacher spoke, she was about to talk to Zhou Chunrui, but fortunately she ended up writing a note instead.
As soon as the note was delivered to Zhou Chunrui, the head teacher came.
After making sure that the head teacher had disappeared without a trace, Zhou Chunrui dared to carefully unfold the note. It only read: "Please help pass it on."
Zhen Hao wrote two notes, one to Zhou Chunrui, and the other to...
She looked up at the boy who was five desks away from her and frowned slightly.
Initially, she didn't think anything was wrong, but the problem arose after the third period, when she bumped into Shixu in the hallway. He, however, acted as if he hadn't seen her, passing her by like a ghost.
This timing was not right. According to his personality, he would have grinned and called her "good job".
Although she deliberately kept a distance from him, they were still friends and classmates who grew up together. After much thought, she decided to care about him.
So there was this note.
This was the first time she took the initiative to write a note to Shi Xu. The content was very brief: "You don't look well. Are you okay?"
Not only did Shi Xu lie on the table after class, but even during class he would support his cheek with one hand and twirl a pen with the other hand, looking listless.
After receiving the note, his lifeless eyes instantly brightened up, he stopped writing and sat up straight.
Zhen Hao, who was observing him subtly, thought the head teacher had come again and subconsciously lowered his head to recite the word "abandon..."
When she looked up again, it was Zhou Chunrui who passed the note back to her.
Shixu's reply was also brief: "I'm fine, thank you for your concern."
After hearing that he was fine, Zhen Hao felt relieved.
She wanted to emphasize to him again that he shouldn't ask her to be good, but after thinking about it, she gave up.
The back-and-forth conversation ended just like that.
It started with Zhen Hao and ended with her.
When her mind was empty and she was not thinking about anything, she was suddenly hit on the forehead by a piece of chalk.
The slight pain slowly spread, and she looked up and forward.
Pei Xiaohai was looking at her with a smile on his face, saying sorry but without a trace of apology: "Sorry, my hands were shaking and I threw it crookedly."
Since he said so, Zhen Hao didn't know what to say.
Yu Ling glanced at Pei Xiaohai, their eyes met briefly, then quickly moved away.
Zhen Hao had just lowered her head to continue memorizing words when another piece of chalk hit her.
She looked up again and saw Pei Xiaohai turning around and smiling at her like a chrysanthemum.
The boy replied the same way: "Sorry, sorry, my hands are shaking again. Just lie down. I'm not going to throw you."
This time, Zhen Hao chose to be patient, and really did as he said, bowing slightly and lowering his head.
But before she could rest for two seconds, the third "headshot" followed.
If it's a hand tremor once, a hand tremor twice, and she still believes it's a hand tremor three times, then she can really go see a neurologist.
She finally couldn't help but stood up: "Pei Xiaohai, are you done yet?!"
Her voice was a little loud, attracting the attention of her classmates.
The outburst just now was just a momentary burst of courage. When Zhen Hao realized that he was completely exposed to the eyes of the whole class, his face turned red and his heart began to beat fast.
Pei Xiaohai obviously didn't expect her to suddenly yell at him. He was stunned for a moment, and stammered for a long time: "I...what's wrong with me? I didn't do anything..."
At the end of his speech, he felt a little guilty and didn't even dare to look at Zhen Hao.
In fact, Zhen Hao already regretted standing up, and even her palms were sweating slightly.
Just when she didn't know how to respond, Zhou Chunrui fought back for her: "Pei Xiaohai, if you bully us again, do you believe I will beat you up?"
"Who... who bullied her?!" Pei Xiaohai denied it with his neck stiff, but it was not convincing at all.
"Forget it. I don't want to bother with such a villain." Zhen Hao finally backed down and sat down again.
This feeling of being the center of attention made her feel uncomfortable and she just wanted to escape quickly.
As she sat down, she also tugged at Zhou Chunrui's school uniform.
"Well, for a boy like this, the nicer you treat him, the more he will take advantage of you!" Zhou Chunrui turned around and said to her.
Zhen Hao knew what she was talking about, but...
Zhen Hao lowered his eyelids slightly and chose to keep the peace: "Let it go. I don't want to get involved in any scandal."
On the one hand, she admitted that it was because she was timid and afraid of things; but on the other hand, she really felt that it would be disgusting to have a grudge with someone as mean as Pei Xiaohai.
"Ah! Who hit me?" Pei Xiaohai covered his forehead which was hit by something and cried out in surprise.
Zhou Chunrui laughed out loud: "Serves you right. This is called retribution in this life, don't you understand?"
"Zhou Chunrui, don't be so arrogant. I tell you something." Pei Xiaohai looked around the classroom, but didn't see who had attacked him.
The attacker was currently solving a problem seriously while holding a pen without a cap, as if he was a bookworm who was oblivious to the world outside and was only focused on reading the books of sages.
The person who threw the pen cap at Pei Xiaohai was Yan Yunshu.
Her movements were smooth and her aim was excellent, hitting the target with every strike.
Zhen Hao happened to see this scene, and an indescribable feeling of emotion surged in her heart.
She quietly poked Yan Yunshu's back with a pen and whispered, "Thank you, Yunyun."
Yan Yunshu didn't turn around, but raised his right hand and shook the water-based pen with the cap missing at her.
Zhen Hao's good mood miraculously improved with this pen that had no cap but was able to demand justice.
I was in a good mood and my stomach joined in the fun, growling twice.
As soon as school was over, she smiled and said to Zhou Chunrui and Yan Yunshu, "Come on, I'll treat you to fried white rice cake tonight."
However, they were unable to eat the fried white rice cake because as soon as the three of them walked out of the back door of the classroom, Zhen Hao was blocked by someone.
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