TL: Hua
On Monday, he looked at him from a distance during the flag-raising ceremony.
On Tuesday, he saw him and his friends walking through the flower corridor from the window.
Wednesday is cloudy, so the students can have free activities.
Because last time the physical education class was changed into a math class, the whole class was full of complaints and seethed with unwillingness. This time, no one dared to do so. A few boys rushed into the playground just after the last class ended.
It was a cloudy day today. When Shen Boyan arrived at the playground, he saw Xia Shu’an standing on the edge of the stands. He was very close to the basketball court—so close that he could see the boys running on the field when he looked up.
“Shen Boyan, do you want to play ball?” His deskmate asked casually.
“Play.”
“Don’t want to play? Ok. Wait…what? You said play just now?”
“Yeah.” The tall boy responded in a low voice.
“Let’s play.”
Shen Boyan doesn’t play basketball much in this class, but that doesn’t mean he was like this before. When he was in his hometown, he wasn’t as lonely as he is now. After all, they are all acquaintances in his hometown, and he doesn’t need to disguise himself. No one knows what’s going on in his family anyway.
As soon as he came to the court, he directly stole the ball from the opponent and started a craze with a dunk. Dunks and three-pointers are said to be the dream of every basketball teenager, and dunks are extremely explosive and entertaining, and can be said to be suitable for both men, women, and children.
His deskmate ran over and yelled, “You are so awesome; why don’t you usually play ball?”
Xia Shu’an stopped to take a breath, and from a distance, he saw a teenager mixing among the sophomore students. When looking in the direction of the court, his eyes were shining with envy and admiration. There was a hint of electric current, like wiping a dry sweater with his fingers before going to bed in the autumn. With a thunderbolt, a spark ignited in Shen Boyan’s heart, causing a tingling sensation in his chest and a constant stream of strength in his body. The young boy took a breath and vented his endless energy and restlessness on the field.
Shen Boyan played basketball for one class, and when class ended, he saw the teenager and a girl walking back to the classroom.
Recently, this girl has always appeared next to the boy. She is very beautiful, tall, and has a sweet smile. She is said to be the beauty of their class. Once, when Shen Boyan walked past the two of them, he heard them talking about black holes in the universe. They seemed to match each other very well.
“Shen Boyan, water.”
Shen Boyan took the water from a classmate, unscrewed the bottle cap, raised his head expressionlessly, and his Adam’s apple rolled up and down.
After cleaning on Thursday, Shen Boyan didn’t go to the cafeteria at the right time and couldn’t see him.
On Friday, because it was the last day before the holiday, the whole class was a little excited. At noon, Shen Boyan was walking back to the classroom from the cafeteria and found that there were several people surrounding the entrance to the teaching building in front of the flower corridor, and no one said anything. But instead of human voices, there were “meow meow,” “meow meow,” and other cries that only cats could understand.
Shen Boyan was tall, and when he looked inside through the swaying head, he saw a black and white kitten standing dignifiedly on the flower bed with white tiles, its ignorant and noble eyes facing the crouching and kneeling cat. The big cat meowing in front had a look of confusion on its face.
“Wow, how cute!”
“Don’t scare the cat!”
“Look at the cat’s ears; they are also cow-colored and so cute!”
What the hell is cow-colored? Does it mean black and white1Yes, cow-colored means black and white. The word came from the dairy cow breed. Chinese words are so creative xD?
After meeting the little kitten, these girls, who are in the sensitive adolescent period, have lost their usual image. Shen Boyan knew that girls especially like cats. When he was in his hometown, his tough lady neighbor, who could beat three of her scumbag husbands, also talked to the cat sweetly like this.
Shen Boyan was about to lift his feet when suddenly:
“Wow, it’s Meow Meow!”
The boy exclaimed.
“It’s a cat, so cute!!!”
“Meow~”
Shen Boyan: “….”
Boys and girls mingled together. The palm-sized kitten was like a superstar being stared at with blazing eyes. Some even tried to put their hands on it. There was a girl who had a cat at home and used skillful techniques to stroke the cat. After being stroked for the first time, the kitten finally completely lost its dignity and was moved around by human hands.
“So soft, so soft~”
“So chubby”
Looking at these people, who were falling into madness, Shen Boyan resisted the urge to roll his eyes. He turned around and looked up to see outside the crowd. A teenager was looking at the group of people with envy as they touched the cat. His face was written with:
I want to touch it too. I want to touch it too.
Let me come!
Meow meow meow!
The girl next to him pulled his sleeve excitedly and shouted: “Xia Shu’an, look at the cat; it’s so cute.”
“yes.”
“Let’s go and touch it too.”
Then he heard the young man say regretfully: “No, I’m allergic to animal hair.”
“Is that so?”
The girl also looked regretful: “Then you won’t be able to have pets in the future.” It’s unknown what she was thinking, but her expression suddenly became shy.
The boy just said regretfully, “Yes.”
Shen Boyan listened and walked into the teaching building silently.
Saturday finally arrived. On Saturday morning, Shen Boyan was dragging his feet at the school gate until he finally saw the figure in sight. The teenager and a friend were heading to the station. Shen Boyan mixed in the crowd and got into the bus. The bus stopped near the previous bookstore, and the two of them entered the store.
Shen Boyan took off his school uniform and lowered his head, looking very inconspicuous. He frowned and looked at the young man standing in front of the bookshelf in the foreign language column, his fingers turning over the original books with texts he couldn’t understand.
Suddenly, the young man’s eyes lit up, and he quickly pulled out a thick book from it.
The young man read it as if he had found a treasure and did not make a second choice. After a while, his friend came over to call him, and he went out with the book.
After the boy left, Shen Boyan walked to his place and took out a thick original English book with some difficulty.
Half a minute later, he sighed and walked to the counter with the book in hand.
“Thank you, guest; please visit again!”
The boy looked up at the sky and let out a long sigh.
Shen Boyan didn’t go directly back to where he lived. He was going back to his uncle’s house for dinner today. His uncle is a good guy. He took him in when he had nowhere to go, paid for him to go to school, and tried his best to keep him here when he said he wanted to move out.
But it can be seen that the old man’s grandchildren are afraid of him, and even a few adults are secretly guarding against him. That kind of opposition isn’t because they fear that he will steal the family’s property, but because of the simplest and most basic part of human nature: concern for the personal safety of oneself and one’s family.
Shen Boyan didn’t want to become a time bomb in their eyes, so he simply moved out. He still had a part-time job and had few places to spend money. He could manage his own life, but he still accepted the pocket money from his uncle.
He can be a “bad guy,” but he can’t stop others from being good guys.
It took him nearly forty minutes to get to his uncle’s house, and before he stepped into the door, he felt that the atmosphere inside suddenly became stiff. Shen Boyan walked in with his eyes lowered. His face was really not very good-looking. Even if it was expressionless, it still looked very scary. But it’s also impossible for him to put on a friendly and gentle smile.
The meal was really not a happy one. Even though the old man tried, the unfamiliarity and defensiveness were obvious. Shen Boyan maintained a superficial peace with them and left quickly after the meal.
As soon as he got home, he threw off his school bag and took out the book from it.
Within half a minute, he raised his eyebrows, and this time they were deeper than before.
After another two minutes, he put down the English book and picked up the unfinished space adventure novel on the table.
Forget it. Let’s take it slow.
Shen Boyan brought the thick English novel with him when he went to work the next day. He was working as a temporary unloader for a wholesaler, and his wages were paid daily. There are many things to do on weekends. He has a tall and powerful stature, so this job is just right for him.
During the work break, several people were resting nearby. Someone saw the usually taciturn boy taking out a book and couldn’t help but ask: “What are you reading?”
The man looked at it intently, and the next second he exclaimed: “Oh, you are reading a foreign language book. You are such a good student.”
“What, what, who’s reading an English book?”
Although these people didn’t recognize English words, they could still recognize English characters, and they repeatedly sighed “good boy,” which made Shen Boyan frown in discomfort, but he didn’t say anything.
At the end of the day, the boss gave him one hundred yuan more than usual.
“”
The new week is still the same as before. Now Shen Boyan can’t tell whether he feels that time is passing fast or slowly. He enjoys weekend work and leisure time, is thirsty for books, and also likes to meet him suddenly somewhere every day. At that time, there seemed to be no difference between weekends and weekdays. For Shen Boyan, they were full of surprises.
However, when he looked up words in a thick English dictionary during class, he still attracted a lot of fuss and shouts from those around him. It wasn’t until Shen Boyan impatiently shouted at them that they finally shut up.
Shen Boyan knows that his appearance can intimidate people. If he behaves more aggressively, he will become a school bully. But he has no interest in this; he has no interest in anything, and he has never thought about what will happen in the future. Maybe, like his father, he will live a mediocre life.
But no matter what the future holds, Shen Boyan is still chewing on the thick English book with difficulty, trying to get closer to the boy’s heart.
This Monday, it was the youth’s turn to give a speech again. Amidst the voices of others shouting “unfair” behind him, Shen Boyan found himself understanding half of it and feeling the genuine joy of the youth. He felt very happy and even picked up a book when he returned to the classroom. He was either reading this book or that book all day long.
His deskmate told him that he had really changed, and even the teacher noticed it. He called him to the office alone and gave a gratifying speech, telling him that as long as he continued to work hard, going to college wasn’t just a pipe dream.
Shen Boyan hesitated to speak, but in the end, he didn’t break the teacher’s beautiful fantasy.
Shen Boyan also discovered something; that is, Xia Shu’an now rides a bicycle instead of taking the bus home. There was a section of road in front of the school that was under construction, and it was difficult to ride on, so the boy pushed the bike and walked slowly.
Shen Boyan slowly followed behind. Although this was a narrow path, because it was next to the school, the street lights were well equipped, and there was a commercial district just across the street. You could hear the bustling noise coming from the other end.
Shen Boyan followed behind unhurriedly, as if his brain were air-proof and as if it were full of the figure of the person in front of him. Suddenly, he seemed to hear a cat meowing. The young man in front also heard it, stopped, and looked both ways.
An orange kitten walked out of the grass with light steps. The whiskers next to its mouth looked very cute, like dragon whiskers, making people want to play with them. Its body is light, its steps are noble, and its furry body has an aristocratic elegance.
It stopped gently in front of the young man, seeming to be observing this large human being, who looked pretty good in terms of human appearance. Suddenly, it opened its mouth and “meowed” at the male human.
Xia Shu’an was silent for a moment, lowered his eyes, and suddenly his lips opened slightly.
“Meow~”
