Chapter 27 Blushing Girlhood’s Growing Pains.
Many times, Bo Xia always felt that she lived in a house that could not protect her from wind and rain. Her world was wet and shaky, and everything would collapse easily with just a gust of wind.
At the age of seventeen, when every little thing seemed like the sky falling, she vaguely felt that someone had created a safe zone for her. He looked at her gently and stood there waiting for her to come over.
Behind her, she heard Wen Xin talking to her boss about looking for someone. Her friend noticed that something was wrong and touched her shoulder. Only then did she come to her senses and walked over with a breath held in her chest.
Bo Yi was not afraid when he saw her, and looked as if it was natural. Bo Xia glanced at her and then at Jin Yunyan, stammering, "Thank you, thank you."
His reply was like a drop of cool water falling on her heart: "It's a small matter."
Just as he was about to leave, Zhou Suiye came over with some snacks: "Hey? I just bought these for this little radish head. Take them."
Bo Yi was a little dissatisfied: "You are the little kid, I am not a primary school student!"
He perfunctorily replied, not even comparing the height difference between the two people: "Ah, yes, you are not a little carrot head."
The item was handed to Bo Xia. She lowered her head to take a look, and just as she was considering whether to refuse, she was suddenly hit on the forehead. She covered her forehead in pain and looked at Zhou Suiye angrily. He said, "Just take it. Don't refuse. Don't say thank you."
She had predicted this for sure.
Wen Xin immediately said, "I want one too. No special treatment allowed."
"Well, Miss, you're always there."
On the way home, Bo Yi talked about how much fun he had in the Internet cafe.
Zhou Suiye and Jin Yunyan were originally playing together in an internet cafe. Bo Yi was attracted by their skills and joined them. Zhou Suiye saw her smile and quipped, "This boss is a bit unethical. He even let in elementary school students."
"I'm not an elementary school student, I'm a junior high school student."
"Oh." His age was easily guessed, but Bo Yi didn't realize it yet.
Jin Yunyan, who was sitting next to him, never said a word. He had long been accustomed to Zhou Suiye's character of going up to play with dogs whenever he saw one. He only tried to test whether the other party was a child who ran away from home during a break in playing games. Bo Yi said that his home was nearby and he would go back soon, so Jin Yunyan did not ask any more questions.
After a long time, the game page did not move. Jin Yunyan wanted to ask Zhou Suiye why he had not yet made any preparations. When he looked up, he saw him logged into the □□ page and chatting enthusiastically with others in the group chat.
Jin Yunyan narrowed his eyes, leaning back in his chair with his neck tilted slightly. Just as he was about to ask if he was going to fight again, Zhou Suiye started questioning the little carrot next to him. After learning her name, he quietly told Jin Yunyan that she was Bo Xia's sister, and no one knew when she had sneaked out, which made him very anxious.
He then looked at the little girl and asked her if she wanted to play games with him.
The other person's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked excitedly, "Is it okay?"
Then came the scene where Bo Xia rushed over. Seeing that her sister was chatting happily, Bo Xia asked her, "Is it fun? Are you sure I won't complain to Mom? Even if I do, you can say that I took you out?"
Bo Yi paused, his thoughts predicted. "You're my sister anyway, so what's wrong with you covering for me?"
"Bo Yi, I don't owe you anything."
Over the years, she has taken care of and indulged her younger sister because of the elders' idea that "the eldest sister is like a mother", but for so many years she has had to fulfill her obligations as a mother, and has never enjoyed the right to dominate her like her mother.
They don't even get basic respect.
Bo Xia didn't let her touch her snacks. She went upstairs and saw her parents had returned. Sure enough, she was met with a barrage of accusations. When she was little, she would always speak up whenever she had a conflict with her sister, but one day, she suddenly stopped talking because she knew she wasn't favored. She was an outsider, and no one would ever stand on her side.
But many things become taken for granted because of silence.
She told her what happened today. Her mother asked her why she didn't think highly of her sister. She opened her lips and chose not to endure it as she did before: "She is not my child. Why should I be responsible for her life?"
After a few days of silence with my mother, a crucian carp dish suddenly appeared on the table near the start of school. My mother said in a stern tone, "Isn't this her favorite dish? Eat it."
It was as if the previous argument had never happened.
The strange thing is that sometimes, because of how good her parents were to her, she would start to recall every moment when they loved her, and even feel guilty, but she had no idea that she was covering herself with a damp quilt, so she could not feel completely warm, nor completely cold.
The growing pains of her teenage years were not the days and nights of painful wisdom tooth inflammation, nor the aching pain of growing bones, but the countless moments of longing for her parents' love and clinging to their love.
Soon the day of school started.
The small town has not yet escaped the ravages of winter, and the cold still fills every corner.
There was no air conditioning in the classroom. Fu Qiangmin was wrapped tightly and looked a little bloated, but no one dared to laugh at him because of the teacher's authority.
Bo Xia flipped through her books for the new semester and glanced in Jin Yunyan's direction. She knew the teacher would talk about changing seats later, and she finally had the chance to sit with him.
No one knew that she had imagined the scene of sitting with him, imagined that she could see his profile after waking up from a nap, and imagined that they could have a special alliance like that of classmates.
Wen Xin saw through her thoughts and said sourly, holding her cheek, "Student Bo Xia, you look like you can't wait to end our desk-mate relationship."
She immediately denied it: "Don't talk nonsense."
After a while, he added: "I wish I could sit at the same table with you forever. No one can compare to you."
rhetoric.
Wen Xin complained inwardly, but was also delighted by her coaxing: "Well, then, let him have the chance to be your deskmate this time."
Noticing that there was some noise below the podium, Fu Qiangmin coughed. How could he not understand what these kids were thinking? They were all very interesting people and couldn't wait to change seats.
"Let me tell you something. Everyone should change seats in the last class later."
Everyone in the classroom was agitated, including Bo Xia. She gathered her books and suddenly heard the teacher say, "But we won't be arranging students by grades this time. The school says that's not a good practice. We'll just arrange them randomly from now on."
The words seemed to still linger in her ears. Bo Xia was stunned for a long time. Suddenly, she didn't even have the energy to go to school. Wen Xin looked at her sympathetically and comforted her: "What if you get picked randomly?"
Before leaving, Fu Qiangmin instructed, "Zhou Suiye, please make arrangements. If there are any people who are too tall to be seen or who are blocked, please replace them."
"good."
After packing up, the clock pointed to five o'clock. Bo Xia slumped over the table like a deflated balloon. Zhou Suiye saw a strong sense of disgust in this action: "Does sitting with me mean you're going to die?"
She sighed, wanting to say something but not saying it.
Wen Xin knew that she was unhappy, and wanted to go out and play with her: "There is no evening self-study today, when you go back later, just say that the school is having evening self-study."
She hesitated to speak.
Wen Xin asked her what was wrong, and Bo Xia finally revealed her true feelings: "I feel like I have very bad luck."
She never gets the chance to win a prize, and this time when she finally got the prize, the event was cancelled.
Zhou Suiye was furious when he heard this: "What do you mean by bad luck? Do you know how many girls want to sit with me? You are the one who is unlucky?"
He pointed at his face and said, "Even if my looks aren't as good as Jin Yunyan's, they're still okay. No matter how good my grades are, I can still help you. Why do I have bad luck?"
Wen Xin thought he was being long-winded and stopped him from continuing: "Of course I'm unlucky. I could have won the special prize, but now I can only win the first prize. Isn't that bad luck?"
"Hey, you..." Zhou Suiye pointed at her and then at himself.
Wait a minute, what special prize, what first prize.
Wen Xin bent over and told Bo Xia seriously, "Have you ever heard that luck is conserved? If you're unlucky now, it means your luck will be saved for another day. So, even if you're lucky now, you might be overdrawn."
She winked at Zhou Suiye: "Isn't that right?"
Zhou Suiye was still thinking about the special prize and first prize, his mind was still confused. When he heard Wen Xin say something, he didn't react and nodded hurriedly: "Yeah...that's it."
Wen Xin stood up: "Let's go, go out and play."
Before leaving, a corner of the transcript on the podium was blown up by the wind caused by the closing door, and her name and the special prize were so close on it.
Because school hasn't officially started yet, they are not wearing school uniforms, but they look lively when walking together, and you can tell at a glance that they are high school students.
Wen Xin walked in front and hummed a song——
"Will you remember tomorrow
The diary you wrote yesterday
Will you still miss me tomorrow?
You used to be the one who loved to cry the most…”[1]
Originally she was just singing by herself, but she didn't expect Zhou Suiye to become competitive and compete with her. Bo Xia followed behind them and saw these two people who used to be her deskmates using their hands to make microphones as if they were singing karaoke and competing to see who sang better. She couldn't help laughing.
Noticing that the people behind them were walking too slowly, they stopped their childish behavior, paused, and said, "Let's go."
On the way, they met Jin Yunyan and Zhou Suiye dragged him along. As they walked and chatted, Zhou Suiye mentioned Bo Xia's sister and said that they looked nothing alike. Are they really related?
Bo Xia nodded seriously: "Then I might have picked it up."
Originally, Zhou Suiye just said this as a joke, and the response he got was also a joke, but he was a little overwhelmed by this sentence.
Bo Xia didn't care and asked Wen Xin where she was going.
"Arcade, gogogo."
There were elementary and middle school students everywhere. Once Wen Xin entered, she was like a wild horse that had broken free from its reins, and she even competed in dancing with the elementary school students.
Fortunately, the Spring Festival had just passed, so I still had some pocket money, Bo Xia thought. Zhou Suiye and Jin Yunyan went to top up their accounts, and she followed them. Seeing this man top up over three hundred yuan like a wealthy man, her eyes widened: "You topped up so much?"
"There's a raffle going on, and it's not just this once."
Bo Xia nodded, thinking of giving him his money later.
The staff pointed to the turntable next to them and asked them to draw a lottery. Zhou Suiye asked her to go. Bo Xia took a step back and waved her hand: "I have bad luck. I haven't won a bottle since entering the supermarket. Another one."
"I believe you. Didn't you say you've always had bad luck? Who has always had bad luck? Good luck must be coming now, quick."
She hesitated, worried that she wouldn't be able to draw anything good. She couldn't help but look at Jin Yunyan, who leaned aside and smiled lazily, "My luck is bad too."
Zhou Suiye pretended to be impatient and urged: "Don't dawdle."
"Oh." She felt as if she was being forced to do something, so she reached out and turned the turntable hard.
She didn't know if the law of conservation of luck that Wen Xin mentioned existed, but at that moment she seemed to be really blessed by good luck. After the turntable spun a few times, it stopped at the smallest square, which said that the recharged game coins would receive an extra 50%.
Wen Xin happened to come find them, and after seeing the lottery results, she hugged her from behind: "Wow, you are amazing, I said luck is conserved."
She was a little dizzy with good luck, and even caught several dolls later. At that time, she had not played those games much, and thought she was just good at both skills and luck. Later, she learned that when Wen Xin and Zhou Suiye went to catch dolls, they deliberately tried a few times but failed before letting her take over. Therefore, her chance of catching dolls was much higher.
Seeing that she was holding several dolls in her hands, Bo Xia was still a little confused. Wen Xin said, "See, who said you have bad luck."
Seeing Bo Xia smile, Wen Xin quietly stood next to Zhou Suiye and quietly high-fived him.
Jin Yunyan was originally dragged here to make up the numbers. He probably didn't sleep well last night and was a little out of shape today. He squinted his eyes and said to Zhou Suiye, "Is it over? I'm leaving first."
The boy's voice was a little hoarse.
"Wait..." Zhou Suiye pulled him, "Everyone has played, but you haven't."
“…”
He had always disdained to play games that followed the crowd, but Zhou Suiye was probably the chewing gum type, constantly pulling him away and not letting him go. Jin Yunyan wanted to finish early and go home early, so he carefully observed the pattern and casually grabbed a doll and placed it in Zhou Suiye's arms: "This is for you."
Zhou Suiye glanced at the doll in his hand: "Don't you want it yourself?"
He was about to say no when a white hand reached out. It belonged to Bo Xia. She seemed a little afraid of him, not even daring to look him in the eye. She only held up the black doll she had just caught. "For you."
Her moist eyes from that day suddenly appeared before his eyes. He didn't want to relive the scene, so he reached out to take the doll. His bony hand accidentally touched her fingertips: "Thank you."
"No need." Bo Xia gave the remaining two to Wen Xin and Zhou Suiye. On the one hand, she really wanted to give them to them, and on the other hand, it made her behavior less abrupt. After giving them away, she smiled and said, "Thank you for accompanying me today."
Wen Xin fiddled with the teddy bear in her hand: "What do you mean by playing with you? We're going out to play together, okay?"
Jin Yunyan had already walked away, and he was still holding the doll she gave him in his hand. Even though she didn't know whether he would keep it well, she still smiled.
The blush on the girl's face is more powerful than any love words.
Wen Xin wanted to make some noise, but seeing Zhou Suiye was giving up, she asked Bo Xia if she wanted to grab two more dolls, but she got a shake of the head. Wen Xin thought, well, giving a doll to someone you love is the same as catching it yourself.
On the way back, Zhou Suiye said he wanted to give Bo Xia a ride. When they were almost at the station, he gave her the doll that Jin Yunyan was holding.
She didn't think much of it, thinking he didn't want to go home empty-handed: "Thank you."
It was the doll that Jin Yunyan had caught. A smile spread across her lips, and she felt that she was so lucky. Zhou Suiye whispered in her ear, "Take it, this is your special prize."
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