Boiled water
The next day, Monday, Fu Xingchuan returned to class. A good news was posted on the bulletin board: No. 1 Middle School had avenged its previous defeat by defeating No. 7 Middle School. Director Wang was beaming as he was patrolling.
During the break, Lin Luo and Xu Yangyang went to the restroom. She had argued with Fang Shao, and on the way back, she kept telling Lin Luo about it. "He obviously has a girlfriend like me, so why doesn't he keep his distance from his friends of the opposite sex? And they even went to the movies together, just the two of them."
"If I hadn't discovered it, Fang Shao would have kept it a secret from me. I heard from others that athletes are quite extravagant. Xiaoxiao, is he a scumbag?"
"It's possible." Lin Xiao spoke frankly. She didn't want Xu Yangyang to suffer any loss. "So you have to have a good talk with him about this."
As she spoke, she saw Tong Yun and Zhu Changyu walking towards them. Zhu Changyu was holding a homework book in both hands and walking side by side with Tong Yun. He looked at Tong Yun and asked her, "Tong Yun, I don't know how to do a few questions. Can you help me?"
"Sure!" Tong Yun replied and greeted them, "Xiaoxiao, Yangyang."
Xu Yangyang finally noticed them. Seeing Zhu Changyu holding two stacks of physics workbooks, one for Class 9 and one for Class 11, she returned to her normal tone, "When did you become so interested in physics?"
"Fu Xingchuan won first place in the physics competition. As his friend, I was inspired and decided to study physics well. Is there a problem?" Zhu Changyu replied to her.
Xu Yangyang was very sensible. After she started dating Fang Shao, she kept her distance from Zhu Changyu, and they became noticeably more distant.
"No problem, just don't waste Tong Yun's time." Xu Yangyang had explained the questions to Zhu Changyu before and knew that it would be very difficult to teach him.
Tong Yun smiled and said, "It won't delay us. We are helping each other."
When Zhu Changyu heard her words, the look in his eyes became even gentler when he looked at her.
"Class is about to start, you guys should hurry to the office! We'll go back to the classroom." Xu Yangyang shook Lin Luo's shoulder. She had been distracted since just now.
Fu Xingchuan's performance in the physics competition was so outstanding that he was praised repeatedly by the teachers and the director. His reputation improved a lot, and more girls stuffed love letters into his desk.
Lin Luo's angle was just facing Class 11, and she could clearly see Fu Xingchuan's seat. Next to him sat Zhu Sui'an. When Fu Xingchuan came back, she also followed him to school.
She remembered what Xu Yangyang once said, "Maybe Zhu Sui'an would settle for second best and be with Fu Xingchuan." Seeing them talking and laughing, her heart inexplicably tightened.
Lin Luo was very conflicted as she didn't want them to be together, but she also didn't want such a good person like Fu Xingchuan to be a backup.
But in fact, whether it was those girls or Zhu Sui'an, everything had nothing to do with her. Fu Xingchuan never belonged to her, and she might not even be considered Fu Xingchuan's friend of the opposite sex.
"Xiaoxiao, let's go!" Xu Yangyang took her and said goodbye to Tong Yun before returning to the classroom.
Ruan Ye walked ahead of them into the classroom and saw Zhu Sui'an sitting in his seat. He looked sullen and asked, "Did you get my permission to sit in my seat?"
Zhu Sui'an's smile froze on his face, and he quickly stood up and said to him, "I'm sorry."
Fu Xingchuan looked at him sharply, and inadvertently glanced at Lin Luo behind him.
The girls in the class liked to get together and chat, and they often sat in the boys' seats. Zhu Sui'an thought she could just sit there without asking. She said softly to Ruan Ye, "I'm really sorry. I didn't know you minded."
As she spoke, she took out a handful of candy from her pocket and placed it on his table. She smiled and said, "I'm giving you some candy to apologize. Next time I sit in your seat, I'll definitely ask for your permission first."
She has a very good attitude and is really a warm girl. Lin Luo even wants to say a few words for her and ask Ruan Ye to be more friendly to her.
She was just about to remind Zhu Sui'an that Ruan Ye didn't eat candy, when she saw Ruan Ye respond with "hmm" and accept the candy.
"Cheng Kaizhong is here." Xu Yangyang said to them, Zhu Sui'an left, and Lin Luo also returned to his seat.
In class, Cheng Kaizhong spent half the class talking about the final question and was still stuck on the second question.
Lin Luo followed his rhythm and got herself dizzy. Just when she was about to start over again, she moved her body to the left and touched something. She turned her head and found it was Fu Xingchuan's hand.
He was sleeping, his head resting on his hands, and wearing a hat. Lin Luo couldn't see his face, but he should not be awake.
Lin Luo moved away, her eyes still fixed on his hand, which had a band-aid on it. His wound had not yet healed.
A gust of wind blew, and the draft paper on his desk was blown. Afraid that the rustling sound would wake him up, Lin Luo gently closed the window.
After closing the window, she noticed a piece of draft paper dropped on the ground. She picked it up and saw two words written on it: narrow-minded and petty.
Lin Luo guessed he was describing Ruan Ye and put the paper back on his desk. As soon as she put it down, he opened his eyes, and their eyes met. He sighed, and Lin Luo said softly, "I didn't mean to wake you. You dropped something."
Fu Xingchuan glanced at the paper, and Lin Qi continued, "I didn't see anything."
"Are you nearsighted? Can't you see such big words?" he frowned.
"I..." He said bad things about people, how bad it would be for her to see it! Lin Luo said in her heart.
"Lin Luo, what are you doing?" Cheng Kaizhong didn't know which step had the problem and couldn't figure it out. He was very worried. He saw Lin Luo with her back to him and shouted at him on the podium.
Lin Luo turned back hurriedly, her heart pounding.
"Teacher, I dropped something and she was just kind enough to help me pick it up." Before she stood up, Fu Xingchuan explained, "You wrote the wrong condition in step five."
"Oh, so that's how it is!" Cheng Kaizhong immediately changed his expression and said in a friendly tone.
Lin Luo devoted herself to study again.
Zhu Changyu, sitting in front of me, had promised to study physics diligently, but when faced with a physics problem, he dozed off like he'd taken a sleeping pill, his head bobbing up and down. Xu Yangyang, sitting next to me, sighed, and there was a huge interferon behind him.
Lin Luo was attacked from three sides, but he tried his best to stay calm and not be affected by anything.
In the afternoon physical education class, they had to run 800 meters as a physical test, and Lin Luo started to worry about it at noon.
In her second year of high school, she did morning exercises on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. If it rained, she would stay in the classroom to study. She had two physical education classes per week, divided into table tennis, badminton, and basketball. She didn't specifically run, at most running two laps to warm up. As a result, her running didn't improve much; it was still slow and laborious.
Xu Yangyang was just worried and had no place to vent. Running 800 meters was easy for her. She felt no pressure at all and ate her meal with big mouthfuls.
Lin Qiao had just put down her chopsticks when she saw Tong Yun looking for them with a plate in hand. She raised her hand to signal her, "Tong Yun, this."
As soon as she sat down, Lin Luo noticed that something was wrong with her. She looked haggard and pale. "What's wrong with you?"
"I'm fine. I just threw up a few times after running 800 meters."
Seeing that her face was lifeless and there was still not much food on her plate, Xu Yangyang handed her a chicken leg and said, "You should eat more."
"Thank you..." She wanted to say thank you, but Xu Yangyang said "Hmm?" and she changed her words, "I'm still okay. Some people fainted."
Lin Xiao suddenly lost her appetite. "Yangyang, what if I faint later?"
"I'll carry you to the infirmary!" She was very righteous. After saying this, she stuffed a few mouthfuls of meat into her mouth. "I need to eat more to replenish my energy. I don't want you to fall halfway while I'm carrying you."
"I'm scared." Lin Luo's hand holding the chopsticks began to tremble.
"Don't be afraid." They both said in unison, "It's just a physical test, just run slowly."
Lin Luo clearly remembered their words and repeated them to herself in her heart, but after Liu Liangfei gave the order to start running, Lin Luo still unconsciously followed the footsteps of others.
At the beginning, everyone was full of energy and took big steps. Later, after running half a lap, Lin Luo could not keep up. Gradually, other people fell behind like her, and the amplitude of her hand and foot movements became smaller.
After running a lap, Lin Luo felt exhausted. Her hands and feet were no longer under her control, as if they were moving on their own. She could hear nothing, but she could see Fu Xingchuan standing on the podium, where she was about to run past.
When they were about two hundred meters away from passing the rostrum, Lin Luo saw Zhu Sui'an fall down and Fu Xingchuan ran away with her in his arms.
Lin Luo felt that her breathing was becoming increasingly difficult. Someone in front of her on the same track slowed down. Lin Luo should have passed her, but she did not have the strength. Some people behind her who had accumulated energy from the previous lap passed by her and sprinted at a very fast speed.
"Hurry up, hurry up." Liu Liangfei's voice came, but Lin Luo couldn't run any faster at all. She felt that she would trip over her left foot and fall to the ground in the next second.
"Xiaoxiao, come on! There are only a few dozen meters left." After finishing the run, Xu Yangyang came back to cheer her up.
She persevered until she crossed the finish line, then lost her balance and fell to the ground. Liu Liangfei said to her, "Don't sit down, stand up and walk around."
She couldn't stand up, so Xu Yangyang helped her up. "Do you want to go to the infirmary?"
Lin Luo didn't answer her. Her vision went dark and she heard a voice in her ears.
"婋婋."
"Can you get her to the infirmary by yourself?"
"Yes, I'm strong."
"OK."
*
The school doctor said Zhu Sui'an fainted due to low blood sugar. She woke up soon after. Fu Xingchuan asked her, "Why didn't you have lunch?"
“…I’m fat.”
"Do you still like Xu Qinghong?"
"No, I've forgotten that bastard a long time ago. I just feel fat and I want to become more beautiful."
Fu Xingchuan thought she was being ridiculous and raised his voice, "You're giving it up for a beautiful body, right?"
"Don't be angry, I will pay attention next time." She said coquettishly.
Fu Xingchuan was still furious, with his back to Zhu Sui'an. On the table in front of him was a pet cage with the same rabbit he had seen last time in it. It was playing on the carousel, round and round, and slowly his anger subsided.
"Don't do this again. You're not fat at all, and you're very beautiful. I just want you to be healthy."
"Coward." Zhu Sui'an muttered softly.
"Doctor, come and see my friend who has fainted." Xu Yangyang came in carrying Lin Luo on her back. Her face and neck were covered in sweat. Lin Luo was lying on her back with her eyes closed. Her hair was messy and there were beads of sweat on her hair.
"Put it on the bed."
"good."
When Lin Luo opened her eyes again, she saw a white ceiling. The scene seemed familiar, and she knew she was in the school infirmary.
Turning her head, she saw Fu Xingchuan sitting opposite her, feeding the rabbits with grass. Zhu Sui'an was sitting on the bed next to her. Seeing her, he said sweetly, "You're awake."
Her throat hurt and there was a taste of blood in her mouth. She couldn't speak, so she nodded and pushed herself up to sit up.
"Xiaoxiao, you're awake." Xu Yangyang came in, biting a popsicle. "I was so worried about you. Fortunately, you're okay, otherwise... uh, otherwise I wouldn't be able to eat the popsicle."
Xu Yangyang hugged her, and the popsicle almost rubbed against her clothes. Lin Luo pushed her away. Xu Yangyang saw Zhu Sui'an staring at her with a pair of big eyes, and Fu Xingchuan was also there, and felt a little embarrassed.
Lin Qiao's head ached, and he frowned. Zhu Sui'an said to Xu Yangyang, "I envy you."
"What are you envious of?" Xu Yangyang looked at the popsicle in her hand and shook it at her. "Do you want to eat one too? Just tell me! I'll buy you one."
"no."
Perhaps unwilling to listen to the girls' conversation, Fu Xingchuan walked away.
Lin Luo looked at the place where he had just sat and felt very uncomfortable.
"Because you have a healthy body." Zhu Sui'an said, opening her hands. Her palms were white and bloodless. "I was born with a heart disease. I have to go to the infirmary if I don't eat a meal."
Xu Yangyang and Lin Luo didn't know that she was sick, and Cheng Kaizhong never mentioned it. The two pairs of eyes looked at her with more heartache in their eyes.
"Thank you for believing in us," Xu Yangyang said, melting the ice in her mouth. "We envy you, actually. You have an optimistic and positive attitude. You're like a little sun, smiling at life every day. That's amazing."
"What you see is just the surface. I am quite fragile inside." Zhu Sui'an said with a wry smile.
Lin Qi spoke hoarsely, "There are twenty-four hours in a day, but the sun isn't always there. The moon also takes its turn. No one can be happy all the time, so the moon and the sun need to rotate."
"You don't need to be strong all the time. If you feel your head is too heavy, it's okay to lower your head and take a rest." She doesn't preach big principles, she can only say some simple words.
"Your throat is like this, you don't want it anymore, right?" Fu Xingchuan suddenly appeared with a glass of water in one hand, and handed it to Lin Luo first, and then to Zhu Sui'an.
Lin Luo took it. The water was warm and her throat felt better after drinking it.
"Oh! I was wondering what I forgot!" The popsicle in Xu Yangyang's hand was about to melt, and her hands were stained with cream. Lin Luo handed her a piece of paper.
Fu Xingchuan returned to his seat to feed the rabbit. The school doctor came in and saw this and asked him, "Since you like it so much, take it home and take care of it."
“Who likes it?”
"What do you mean by naming it if you don't like it?"
"What was his name?" Zhu Sui'an asked.
The school doctor said, "Tiger."
Zhu Sui'an chuckled, "Naming a grass eater a tiger, Fu Xingchuan, you're quite funny."
"Do you want to take it home and raise it? If you can't get up in the morning, I can help you feed it." she asked.
Lin Qi was wiping Xu Yangyang's hands while listening to the noises over there. Xu Yangyang whispered in her ear, "Are they both living together?"
Lin Luo choked on his saliva and coughed twice.
Fu Xingchuan said without thinking: "No."
The school doctor asked, “Why?”
Fu Xingchuan didn't say anything, but Zhu Sui'an didn't give him face: "If a rabbit dies, he'll cry. We used to have a dog, but when it died at old age, he cried so hard! After that, we never dared to keep such animals again."
Lin Luo was quite surprised. He usually looked quite ruthless, but she didn't expect him to be so emotional.
The school doctor finally understood what she said, "So you are brother and sister!"
Brother and sister
Xu Yangyang shouted out loud, "Brother and sister"
"Yes!" Zhu Sui'an nodded. "Why are you so surprised? Don't we look alike?"
"Not at all." Xu Yangyang said.
"But we are twins! One has the mother's last name and the other has the father's last name."
"Then why didn't you tell me before?"
"No one asked! I thought you all knew. Otherwise, what do you think our relationship is?"
Xu Yangyang knew they were siblings, but she didn't dare to speak out her previous speculation about them, "childhood sweethearts or something like that."
"That's fine!" she said.
Lin Luo lowered her head and drank the water with a grin on her lips. She wondered how the boiled water poured by Fu Xingchuan could be sweet?
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