Huainan orange

Chapter 21

The next day was gloomy, as is often the case in spring along the Huaihe River, with a few days of overcast followed by light rain and then a few days of overcast followed by heavy rain.

After Chen Chi fell asleep, he didn't think about what happened yesterday. Tang Liwei felt that he had done something wrong and didn't leave the classroom all day. He also stayed in his seat to write and draw during extracurricular activities.Seeing him like that, Li Zhi didn't ask him to play basketball together. He went out with the rest of the class to form a team.On the other hand, Wang Yi, although he didn't directly ask Chen Chi what happened, he was filled with righteous indignation and told Chen Chi how to deal with scoundrels and nonsense people like girls next time. Chen Chi thought of it after seeing her gentle appearance The tricks were all so vicious that they poisoned the fish and shrimp in the East Lake. I felt that I couldn't offend her in the future.

Zhou Lu didn't show up for a day, and some students in the class who were keen on information found out that Zhou Lu seemed to be depressed all day because of something.Looking at Tang Liwei's performance in the same way, I immediately thought of many twists and turns. The most popular version is that Tang Liwei rejected Zhou Lu (this is what everyone has been looking forward to), but Zhou Lu is a girl who feels that she is condescending. Xinxin was already very ashamed, but she was rejected by the boy, so she made a fuss on the spot. Tang Liwei was too gentlemanly, and felt that he was sorry for her, so he felt guilty, and he was in a bad mood all day.

Rumors are just rumors, not many people believe them, and Chen Chi will never believe them.

After this incident, Chen Chi brought his previous worries to mind again.After Tang Liwei's uncontrollable confession during the winter vacation, Chen Chi thought, after all, they are not a love that can walk in the world openly, maybe the love is too far away, let's talk about feelings.Youth is ignorant and it is inevitable to be curious about some other things, no matter the opposite sex or the same sex.Girls are even worse, good friends all walk hand in hand, but the way boys express their affection is different.Can't hold hands and go to the bathroom together, but will play ball with you, call you brother, make you happy, squeeze a bed, grow bigger than something, and grow thicker than whose beard.But this is all normal, the only one who says he likes you may not be within the scope of everyone's cognition.Men and women have been united since ancient times, and men and men have no ability to reproduce the next generation, no ability to coordinate the balance between the sexes, and Chen Chi doesn't know how to solve the physiological needs.He never knew about these things, but now that the girl said it, he began to think about it.

Tang Liwei acted as if he was serious or even serious at all.He may not have thought about it for a long time, but he has always been used to being independent, and he will take what he likes, and the same is true for feelings.But I don’t know if he can maintain his original intention in the long run and devote himself to the relationship he started to like. Don’t learn from those children who are tired of playing with clay and play with plasticine, because plasticine is infinitely recyclable and high-end without dirty hands.And people, when they are better, they always want to find a better match for themselves, nothing less.

Niu Tao knew Chen Chi well, and he knew that the biggest reason why Chen Chi didn't mention this matter might be that he cared about it, and this was what Niu Tao was afraid of seeing.After getting along with him, he felt that Chen Chi was pure and unintentional, and he was calm but didn't have a good way to deal with things.It is even more difficult to parry the menacing feelings.It's okay if you don't pay attention to it. As the saying goes, a slap can't make a sound, and Tang Liwei may retreat after a long time.But after Chen Chi got along with Tang Liwei for so long, it was obvious that he gradually melted together. With his character, if he seriously estimated that he would be smashed to pieces, he would be smashed together with him. When something happened, it would be a lose-lose approach.Niu Tao was worried but had no solution, and he couldn't comfort Chen Chi with words, so he could only hope that he would figure it out by himself.

After that incident, Chen Chi and Tang Liwei were not so clingy anymore, and Tang Liwei would no longer sleep together with Chen Chi intentionally or unintentionally at night.When Tang Liwei felt that he and Chen Chi couldn't be bothered, he wanted to solve it.But Chen Chi didn't want to talk to him. Every day after class and after class, he went back to the dormitory with a few people. He really couldn't find the time to talk to him alone, so he could only talk to Niu Tao about this matter.

Niu Tao originally thought it was hard to talk about it, and it was not easy to solve it simply by comforting Chen Chi, and Chen Chi would say that he was fine.But he knew the reason for Chen Chi's boredom every day, but he couldn't point out the comfort, scratching his heart all the time.

The fourth class in the morning is geography. The teacher asked everyone to study by themselves, and then left.Niu Tao wrote a note and asked the students in the front row to pass it to Chen Chi one by one.

[The boss is speaking, I have something to discuss in detail, see you in the library after lunch. 】

Chen Chi wondered why Niu Tao also started to take the mysterious route, shook his head, crumpled the note and threw it into the desk pocket.

Several people had lunch together, and after Niu Tao finished eating, he told Chen Chi to let him accompany him to the library, and no one else wanted to follow him.Chen Chi felt that Niu Tao's passing of the note had nothing to do with what he said and what he said now, the passing of the note was superfluous.

The two sat on the floor in the corridor on the top floor of the multimedia teaching building.

"Boss, is there any important matter that needs to be discussed here alone?" Chen Chi opened his mouth first.

"It's nothing, I just wanted to talk to you."

"I guess you want to tell me."

"Well, yes, I guess you can guess the reason."

"However, I really have nothing to do. You see, I didn't even delay studying, eating and sleeping."

"Then you don't think so in your heart, don't I know that others don't understand you?" After Niu Tao finished speaking, Chen Chi stopped talking, and put his hands on his legs and fingers intertwined.

"Do you know that you are mentally unhealthy? Qu Ban has said that adolescence is most likely to have a lot of ambiguity, misunderstanding and deviation because of one sentence, which leads to unstable mentality, complicated thinking, and weird behavior and thinking." Niu Tao After finishing speaking, he reached out and touched Chen Chi's head. He felt guilty when he touched Chen Chi. He wondered if Boss Niu treated him like Tang Liwei.He quickly shook his head in denial.

"Did you hear me?" Niu Tao looked at him in a daze, obviously deserting.

"I heard." Chen Chi answered simply.

"For example, many students in our class feel that they are sorry for their parents by spending money to go to school. Some families even borrow money to go to school. After school, students dare not eat or drink, even the most basic canteen meals. I keep saying that it is embarrassing and wrong to spend my parents' money. What do you think?" Niu Tao asked Chen Chi.

"I don't think so, but I think it makes sense." Chen Chi spread his hands and didn't know what to say.

"Look, you are wrong. We are in high school, not to mention that everyone is still underage. Even if we are late, now we are adults, but we are still high school students. How many high school students can get rid of the shackles of their families? Completely take care of themselves. Parents have the obligation and responsibility to provide their children with a good education, but before we are minors, we are stupid children who do not have all the power to exercise all rights independently, so our parents are our guardians, providing food and clothing The cost also takes into account family education.”

Chen Chi looked at Niu Tao who was speaking and felt that he knew a lot.

"When you go to college and you have the ability, you have to give back to your parents and society. At this time, the only thing you can do is to take your parents' obligations and responsibilities to do your own thing, that is, study, in the school and in the family. Yes." Niu Tao finished speaking and looked at Chen Chi, and Chen Chi also looked at him and waited for him to continue.

"So, when a person slanders someone because he said a sentence of nonsense, the person who was slandered should not take it to heart. It's very simple, why bother to carry things that don't exist."

"But it's two different things to go to school. It's not just one person who hears it, but also onlookers. They don't know the truth and easily believe it and then follow suit. Yue Fei died under the charge of 'unnecessary'. The great writer Zhang Ailing said that 'people's words can be wrong'. Afraid." Chen Chi retorted Niu Tao.

"The scope is too large. Yue Fei is not the only one who died unjustly, but few people can be called a national hero like Yue Fei. What I want to say is that you can't just because of an innocuous false statement made by someone you don't know. The words trap me. The person who said that may not remember what you look like. The onlookers only know that there is such a sentence but they don’t know who verified the truth of this sentence. All around us are students. , After a day, or two days, everyone is busy again, who knows you by memorizing words and doing math problems? But what about you? It hurts my heart because of this. So what if it’s true, it doesn’t bother him if you don’t eat him, right?” Niu Tao said in the end that he felt that he had completely become an “old rascal” or a “shrew”. Well, it's none of your shit, none of my shit.

When Chen Chi heard what Niu Tao said, his heart pounded: Niu Tao didn't know about his relationship with Tang Liwei, but why could he guess that he was sad because of this matter?He couldn't figure it out.

Seeing that Chen Chi didn't speak, Niu Tao thought that his words should have reached him.

The two sat for a while and thought for a while, no one spoke, Chen Chi looked down at his hands and feet, Niu Tao leaned against the wall and looked up at the ceiling.

"What should I do in the future, don't avoid anyone when you talk or do things, and don't care about anyone. You should also communicate with Tang Liwei during meals and classes." Niu Tao tilted his head and said to Chen Chi for a while.

"He asked you to come and tell me this?" Chen Chi asked Niu Tao when he heard Tang Liwei mentioned.

"Him? He still doesn't need me, but he has told me about this matter in the past few days. He feels sorry for you. This is the second time." Niu Tao said and stretched out two fingers to touch Chen Chi. Dangle in front of your eyes.

"He still talks to you like this, it seems that he trusts you quite a bit." Chen Chi smiled.

"How many people in the dormitory don't trust me? Otherwise, what kind of boss would I be?" Niu Tao also smiled.

"That's right, the boss is the boss. I promise you, but I really didn't take it to heart." Chen Chi made a gesture to stand up.

"Those who know are like that, those who don't know are like Tang Liwei, who can't think about it when you don't talk to him every day." Niu Tao got up and gave him a hand.By the way, he patted the gray marks on his pants.

"He's like that, a little paranoid, it's okay. Let's go back."

The two finished their conversation quickly, and Chen Chi just felt that because of this matter, he happened to be indifferent to his relationship with Tang Liwei, so he would be misunderstood.But that's okay, after what Niu Tao said, he didn't care much about some nonsense.

Rumors stop at the wise, this should be the most practical words.After reading the book for a few years, I still understand a little bit.

In the evening, Chen Chi took the initiative to talk to Tang Liwei during the evening self-study, and the big rock that was pressing on Tang Liwei's heart was also loosened.But he still planned to have a good talk with Zhou Lu about their future relationship.After all, as the person being pursued, no matter how you ignore it, you still can't get rid of the relationship.

He handwritten a sealed note to her, which described in detail the direction of the relationship between the two of them in the future, and made it clear that it would be best if they could only become simple ordinary friends.In the end, he also said that he has someone he likes, and he has an agreement with her.Tang Liwei used 'she' on purpose.

When Zhou Lu got the note, she was happy, but after reading the content, she immediately felt depressed, and her unhappiness was all written on her face. She is also a smart person, but she didn't expect that Tang Liwei had already had a "puppy love" with someone , This was unexpected to her, but she is still quite smart, and she no longer intends to have anything to do with him after reading it. If you are chasing someone, don't lick your face and be ordinary friends with them after you refuse, they may not take you seriously.So she tore up the note and threw it into the trash can.

In a blink of an eye, the days of the first year of high school came to an end, and the rainy season came when the final exam was over.Those who went home during the holidays only memorized a few books, and the division will be done after the second year of high school.Everything is unknown.

Chen Chi, Niu Tao, Li Zhilu, and Luyuan bid farewell to each other, and everyone discussed the matter of choosing subjects for the second year of high school: Niu Tao must be academic, and Lu Yuanyuan also decided to choose rationale after consideration, Chen Chi studied literature, and Li Zhi was careless and didn't know what to choose Just wait until the school starts and wait for the final grades to come out before choosing.

Several people left the school one after another and returned home.Chen Chi was kept by Tang Liwei for a day, and the next day he insisted on going to his house with Chen Chi with two bags on his back, but Chen Chi had no choice but to take him with him.

Compared to the last time when Tang Liwei went to Chen Chi's house, he was quite familiar with it. Along the way, he talked to Chen Chi about his future plans when he came to his house. Finally, Chen Chi got annoyed and asked him directly: "You want to come to my house?" How many days?

"I'll spend more than a month with you before I go to the training camp." Tang Liwei was full of expectations for the days when he and Chen Chi would live alone in the future.

"I don't have time to accompany you when I come to my house during the summer vacation. I have a lot of things to do." Chen Chi left relatively quickly.

"I'll accompany you and help you with things. I won't let you teach me." Tang Liwei already felt that he was from Chen Chi's family.

Chen Chi was speechless. The two of them walked home on the dirt road. Tang Liwei was still wearing sandals at first, but later he took off his bare feet and walked on the road.Due to the continuous rain for several days, the smooth and soft mud on the road surface was washed away by the rain, and the ground was hard, making it very comfortable to walk on.

Tang Liwei yelled as he walked, how had he ever experienced such a thing, both sides of the road were rice fields of other people's homes, and at a glance, the unevenness and uniformity were all green rice seedlings, and there was a river along the road, accompanied by the flowing river. With the river water and a few young people fishing with fishing nets, Tang Liwei felt that living here was really comfortable.

When the two arrived home on the dirt road, the door was wide open.After Chen Chi entered, he shouted, "Grandma, I'm back!" He scooped some water from a bucket in the yard and washed his feet. He took off his muddy sneakers and went into the house barefoot.

Tang Liwei also imitated him, scooped up a gourd of water and rinsed his feet back and forth.

The water in the bucket was put by grandma in the yard to catch the water from the roof. When it rained, the water from the flat roof merged into two streams and poured down from both sides of the eaves, splashing everywhere. Grandma took two buckets to catch it. It happened to be a temporary wash.

"There is no one at home, grandma is probably picking vegetables in the vegetable garden." Chen Chi said to Tang Liwei after looking back and forth between the two rooms.

He put Tang Liwei's bag and his own bag in the room to the west of the main room, which was still the room where the two of them slept during the winter vacation.Tang Liwei washed his feet and sandals, and followed Chen Chi's lead into the house barefoot.

The two were rummaging through the bag in the house, and grandma entered the house with a basket on her shoulders.

"Xiaochi, are you back?" Grandma put down the basket, which was full of vegetables and melons.

"I'm back, summer vacation, two months, this is my classmate, come to my house to play." Chen Chi heard grandma's words and turned his head to look for the sound, and introduced to her.

Tang Liwei followed Chen Chi in the same way, "Grandma, I'm Xiaochi's classmate, and my name is Tang Liwei." Tang Liwei greeted him with a smile.

"Oh, good. I came to play with Xiaochi! The kid is so tall and handsome." Grandma saw Tang Liwei and immediately gave a pertinent evaluation. Tang Liwei laughed from ear to ear when he heard what grandma said. I'm even happier.

"Grandma, don't praise him, he's so proud." Chen Chi spoke to his grandma in his native dialect with a strong accent.

"You kid, the old man is not good to praise the child." Grandma turned her head and left before she left. Before she left, she said, "You two have a rest first. There are cantaloupes and vegetables in the basket. I'll go and get some meat dishes for Jun boy." eat."

"Grandma is so nice. It seems that she likes me very much, otherwise he wouldn't praise me and call me handsome boy." Tang Liwei said in front of Chen Chi dancing.

"Grandma thinks you are a guest, and I'm afraid you won't boast about your birthright. Old people like to praise others, and other people in our village also praise me every day." Chen Chi rolled his eyes at Tang Liwei, then turned to look at the vegetables in the basket .

"I don't care, grandma praised me anyway. As for you, hehe, can I not be praised for what I like?" Tang Liwei followed behind Chen Chi's buttocks and imitated him, squatting in front of the basket and staring at Chen Chi.

"..." Chen Chi didn't want to talk to him at all.

He picked out all the vegetables in the basket, including white-skinned melons and yellow melons with patterns.And cucumbers, tomatoes, long beans, peppers.Grandma always picks the melons that are ripe soon. She is afraid that those melons will be spoiled if they are ripe, so she basically picks them once every two days.This is the case in the countryside. When it catches up with the rainy days, the vegetables in the vegetable garden grow gratifyingly. There are all kinds of seasonal vegetables that you can’t eat every day. You can eat them in different ways. Sometimes you will go to the town in the morning to bring some to sell. The main reason is that there are so many Can't eat it.

Chen Chi took out the cantaloupe and put them in another bamboo basket, and took out the rest of the vegetables and put them in small bamboo baskets on the big table, and arranged them by category, waiting for cooking later.

Grandma came in after a while, with a rooster in her hand, and called Chen Chi to bring a knife and a bowl, and put some water in the bowl.

Feeling curious about the unknown situation, Tang Li ran to the yard to look at it and asked grandma: Grandma, what happened to this chicken?

"We'll eat after killing for a while, but you didn't have any good food when you came here. It happened to kill a chicken for meat dishes. I'll buy meat tomorrow and kill a duck to make a good meal. Let's make do with it today." Grandma said to him laugh.

When Tang Liwei heard that the food was for him, he immediately said with fear on his face: "Grandma, I'll just eat vegetables, I don't eat chicken, you don't want to kill the chicken, how pitiful it is."

"Look at what you said, the chickens at home are just for cooking, so it's okay if you don't eat them. We can't eat them all for you alone."

At this moment, Chen Chi took a kitchen knife and came over with a bowl, and said, "Stop talking, this chicken was born for you, if you feel sorry, just help her pluck her hair and comfort her later." It's gone." Chen Chi was used to these things, and looked at Tang Liwei, who had no smile on his face, and found it funny.

Grandma stepped on the two paws of the rooster with one foot, clamped the wings with one hand and put the backhand on the back of the rooster, and at the same time held the head of the rooster and leaned back. With her free hand, she plucked some hair from the neck of the rooster to expose the neck The meat part, and then pick up the kitchen knife and prepare to kill the chicken.

Tang Liwei listened to his grandma chanting words before the knife was cut, and he listened carefully and found it very pleasant, just like a jingle.