Lin Xiaomai
As the note unfolded, the smile on Tao Xingye's face froze, Lin Yu's forehead was sweating, and his heart was beating fast.
"I will pay you back the money I owe you, but you can't slander me. If you don't like me, let's break up and not bother each other?" Tao Xingye read out the words on the note. His eyes became colder and colder, but the smile on the corner of his mouth became more and more obvious. It was unknown who he was laughing at.
"Slander you? Me?" Tao Xingye rolled up the note. "Lin Yu, I'm pretending I didn't see this note. I'm giving you a chance. Just say it again in person. If you can make it sound coherent, we'll be clear."
Speak fluently? Lin Yu was instantly embarrassed. She looked at Tao Xingye with red eyes, biting her lips, with resentment and unwillingness in her eyes.
She opened her mouth to breathe, as if she had made a great decision. However, the moment she spoke, she failed after saying just "I", and her tone was so stammering that it sounded like crying.
"I, I wrote it, you see, read it, why..."
"What why?" Lin Yu was stopped by Tao Xingye. The man raised his eyebrows, just like the black face on the stage, and his whole body exuded a low pressure.
Lin Yu's lips were almost bitten to the point of bleeding.
"Lin Yu," Tao Xingye crossed his arms and looked down at her calmly, "You are a little stutterer who can't even speak clearly. What ability do you have to pay me back?"
It's because she is incompetent. Lin Yu glared at him, tears falling down one after another, but Tao Xingye was still aggressive. He pulled Lin Yu's wrist and insisted on holding her in place.
"No, don't touch me." Lin Yu clenched her fingers in self-abandonment, unable to even speak. She really deserved to be laughed at by others.
Tao Xingye ignored her crying and pinned the hairpin on her head. His actions and emotions always followed his heart. He looked at the pearl hairpin with satisfaction.
"Lin Yu, you are not allowed to pick them without my permission." He went out to eat with his hands in his pockets in a good mood, leaving Lin Yu sitting alone in the classroom.
There was a bloody taste between Lin Yu's lips. She lowered her head and her crying became quieter and quieter.
When Tao Xingye finished lunch and returned to the classroom, Lin Yu was gone.
It was lunchtime. In order to save time, she always took a nap on the table. Where was she going now?
Tao Xingye frantically searched the floor twice, but still couldn't find Lin Yu. "I don't care where you go. It's none of my business if you die in the sun outside!"
He sat back down in a huff, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the dried and red marks on Lin Yu's stool...
Lin Yu huddled in the corner of the bathroom, holding his stomach and looking miserable, when suddenly a loud noise was heard.
This was followed by the sound of kicking the door one after another. She held onto the wall, stood up and wanted to see what was going on outside, but the door was kicked open.
The screws were loose and it hung precariously in the air.
The atmosphere was frozen, with only the creaking of the wooden door remaining.
Tao Xingye's cheeks and ears were terribly red, but his eyes were filled with accusation.
This is the women's restroom, how could he come here? Lin Yu shrank back in fear, but Tao Xingye's face became increasingly gloomy, with some inexplicable emotions.
He took out a black bag from behind and threw it at Lin Yu. Lin Yu subconsciously hugged it. It was soft, yet square.
When I opened it, I found it was something with very clean packaging, pink in color, with many flowery words on it. I had no idea what was inside.
There’s no mention of the taste, but instead words like “smooth-sucking” and “dry” are written.
"You...you're having your period." Tao Xingye's eyes swept across the bright red on her white school uniform pants, and his face became even redder, almost bleeding.
Lin Yu looked at Tao Xingye in confusion. He lowered his head, looking very embarrassed. "Menstruation?"
"Oh, it's menstruation. Every woman has it." Tao Xingye turned around, his tone irritable but more urgent, as if he was talking about something difficult. "Look at the picture behind and change it yourself. I'll go out and wait for you."
As he said that, he put the school uniform jacket in his hand on the sink and said, "Come out and put it on."
Tao Xingye left the bathroom in a hurry, looking embarrassed.
Lin Yu looked at the bag again. There were several packets of that stuff and a piece of paper inside.
The characters above are sharp and angular, and are the running script that Tao Xingye has cultivated since childhood.
"Menstruation is a normal physiological bleeding cycle for women..." Lin Yu's face became redder and redder, and finally became the same as Tao Xingye's.
No wonder he looked so strange. He was the one who was teaching me such a girl's private affairs.
Lin Yu was holding a few packs of sanitary napkins, her head was dizzy and her cheeks were hot.
Outside the door, Tao Xingye leaned on the railing and waited for almost half an hour before Lin Yu came out reluctantly, with his school uniform still wrapped around his waist.
Tao Xingye noticed her red ears and cleared his throat awkwardly, "I was just guessing. I've heard some of it before."
Lin Yu's head lowered lower and lower. Tao Xingye couldn't bear to watch it any longer and reached out to lift it up for her. "Anyway, I know everything. What are you still shy about? I'm so fed up with it!"
He rubbed Lin Yu's hair with disgust on his face and said, "Grow it out quickly, it's so ugly."
He turned and walked towards the classroom, and Lin Yu followed him holding the black plastic bag.
That afternoon study session, just like before, the students all went to the study room to take a nap.
There was only one more person in the classroom, Tao Xingye.
Perhaps it was due to menstruation, but Lin Yu felt more and more dizzy while doing her homework, and finally she fell asleep on the table uncontrollably.
Tao Xingye heard her regular breathing and for some unknown reason stopped writing and looked at her.
There has always been a 38th parallel between the two of them. He dislikes Lin Yu and doesn't allow her to get close to him.
She was very obedient and always sat in the corner farthest from him. Even when she was sleeping, she was far away from him.
Her hair was swaying in the air, and the pearl hairpin was stuck in her hair, which was inconsistent with her temperament and looked like it was photoshopped in for fun.
However, Tao Xingye was stunned. She was not actually dark, not to mention that she had become a little whiter without realizing it over the past few months.
Her skin has a rough and grainy texture, but without any major blemishes, just like a full and energetic grain of wheat.
Isn't she just wheat? Flowers and plants are too delicate to describe her. Her temperament is exactly like that of green wheat kernels in flowering period.
She was young, clean, and quiet, with a temperament completely different from the rich girls he had met.
She is ordinary, so she is not worthy of being described with delicate flowers and plants; she is timid, so she is even less suitable to be described with lush, straight trees.
Her temperament is as soft and gentle as plants, yet also has an imperceptible yet extremely persistent stubbornness.
"Lin, Xiao, Mai." Tao Xingye was excited and secretly took out a notebook from her drawer and wrote down these three words without any hesitation.
Lin Yu turned over and suddenly blocked the desk.
Tao Xingye was just about to stuff it in, but quickly raised his hand - fortunately he didn't wake her up, but... the notebook couldn't be stuffed back in.
Tao Xingye had no choice but to put the homework book in his desk.
It seemed that from this day on, Tao Xingye became much more polite towards Lin Yu, and showed the tenderness that should be shown to a girl, even if it was only a little bit.
Before, he always only cared about his own thoughts, but from that day on, he also had the patience to listen to Lin Yu finish his words slowly.
Tao Xingye remembered that when Lin Yu first came to school, although he spoke little, he was very smart and did not stutter.
Listening to her strange tone and punctuation, he suddenly felt a little regretful, an emotion he had never felt towards Lin Yu before.
This was foreign to him, he couldn't handle it.
His attitude towards Lin Yu also became changeable, which made Lin Yu even more uneasy than his previous outright irritability.
He was like a small dark cloud, which would suddenly stop over Lin Yu's head and start raining at any time.
The rain was not heavy, but it also did not dry up the forest too quickly. Sometimes it would linger and drizzle for many days in a row.
After the last exam of the second semester of eighth grade, the head teacher organized the students to clean up.
Tao Xingye suddenly handed a notebook to Lin Yu. Looking at the familiar blue dolphin cover, she realized it was the notebook she had lost and had never found.
"Why are you there?"
"I took it." Tao Xingye said as a matter of course, "Use this notebook to write to me this summer. You like to keep a diary, don't you?"
Why did she only write about Jiang Shuang and not him? Thinking of the girl's diary in the bedroom safe that she couldn't finish after reading two pages, he felt dissatisfied. Jiang Shuang had only known her for a few days at that time, and the whole diary was full of praise for Jiang Shuang.
"I don't want to write." Lin Yu bit her lip. What would happen after she wrote it? Would they use her diary to laugh at her again when school starts again?
From then on, she never dared to write a diary again, and even developed a resistance to writing a diary.
When she mentioned these two words, she seemed to be back to that embarrassing afternoon, surrounded by circles of people, listening to the words she wrote being shouted out by others in a mocking tone.
"Just write when I tell you to." Tao Xingye glared at her, then flipped open the cover of the book as he thought of something. "Here, Lin Xiaomai, that's the nickname I gave you. Isn't it nice?"
Lin Yu bit her lip, not sure what the nickname meant. But she was sure that in the eyes of a playboy like Tao Xingye, wheat was definitely not a good symbol.
How could he do this, using the beautiful word "wheat" to insult himself.
"I have a name." She said in a depressed tone, looking down at the table. "My name is not Xiaomai, and I won't write to you."
"How dare you!" Tao Xingye slapped his palm on the notebook. Lin Yu trembled with fear. Only then did he calm down a little. "I'm not asking for your opinion, I'm not asking for your opinion!"
He looked at Lin Yu arrogantly, thinking he was being gentle. "I'm telling you to write a diary for me, and I'm telling you to call me Lin Xiaomai from now on!"
He was Tao Xingye. This was the first time he had taken the initiative to give someone a nickname. Not only did she not thank him, she even dared to refuse!
"Lin Xiaomai, I'll collect your work when school starts. One article a day. If you dare not write, or write one less article, I won't forgive you!" He looked at the pearl hairpin on Lin Yu's ear and felt a sense of satisfaction.
Since she listens to him so much, she will definitely write all the letters carefully and wait for him to check them at the beginning of the school year.
Lin Yu lowered his head and said nothing. Tao Xingye was busy going home to play basketball, and asked the driver who came to pick him up to help pack his luggage.
Lin Yu sat in her seat and took advantage of the driver's inattention to wrap the 1,800 yuan she had saved for a long time and the pearl hairpin in a cloth and stuffed them into the small pocket of his schoolbag.
He likes kittens and had shown Lin Yu the photos he had taken of the cats when he was in a good mood.
He had printed many pictures and put them all in that little pocket. She knew that was where all his treasured things were kept.
He looked down upon the money and hairpins, but she wanted to ensure that they would not be lost when he found out.
This was the proof that they were cleared, and he had to know it.
The sun was not very strong that afternoon when Lin Yu walked out of Tianya Academy. The metasequoia and bamboo planted on the roadside blocked out most of the sunlight.
A damp wind blew across Lin Yu's cheeks, and the swallows flew very low. Although the sun was shining brightly, it was gloomy, and it was going to rain.
This is a rare sun shower that comes and goes quickly.
Goodbye, Tao Xingye. Lin Yu thought that in his life, he should be like a sun shower that came and went in a hurry.
This rain will become less and less powerful as time goes by...
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