Chasing Summer - Chapter 33

The infirmary suddenly became extremely quiet.

Lin Zhexia hardly dared to breathe.

She didn’t expect that Chi Yao’s skills not only remained unchanged, but even increased.

The girl was obviously choked, and couldn’t say a word for a long time, and finally said something hastily: “Sorry, sorry to bother you.”

But Chi Yao could still accept this sentence as if nothing had happened: “It’s quite disturbing.”

…

After a while, the girl probably left, and it was completely quiet outside the curtain.

Lin Zhexia was trying to pretend that she had just woken up, but before she started pretending, she heard a sentence:

“Wake up and get up.”

“…”

She sat up from the bed, “How do you know I’m awake?”

Chi Yao: “Pretending to be asleep and still moving around, people who don’t know may be blind.”

She didn’t move much either.

It’s just a little movement, and it can be found.

Lin Zhexia didn’t continue this topic, and opened the curtain: “I don’t feel so much knee pain, let’s go back to the stands.”

Chi Yao supported her: “Can I go?”

Lin Zhexia tried to walk two steps: “Yes, but it will be a little slow.”

After returning to the stands, Chen Lin and Tang Shuxuan immediately surrounded them.

Chen Lin checked her injury: “What’s the matter with you, is it still hurting? I was so nervous when I saw you fall.”

Tang Shuxuan: “What did the doctor say?”

Lin Zhexia shook her head: “It’s nothing, it’s just a bruise, it’s my own carelessness, it’s what caused our class to take the last place…”

Chen Lin: “Nothing, Lao Xu still praises you.”

Lin Zhexia took over the words: “What are you praising me for? Complimenting me for my disability?”

Chen Lin: “… almost the same meaning.”

Lin Zhexia: “…I knew it.”

The sports meeting is drawing to a close.

The project in the afternoon is a bit special, the participants are all teachers.

Some school officials took pictures with cameras, and the students sat in the stands to watch the game as required.

During this period, a girl from the school next door who was passing by suddenly ran over to talk to her.

The girl saw that she had heard the rumors in the infirmary just now, and came up with one sentence: “Is Chi Yao’s family very poor?”

Lin Zhexia: “…”

She was silent for a moment, then decided to join in: “Very poor.”

“When he was a child, he almost couldn’t continue his studies because he couldn’t afford the tuition fees. At the age of seven, he started picking up plastic bottles in the trash cans of the community and selling them for money. When he was ten years old, he went to work as a child laborer. At the age of twelve…”

“Okay.” The girl couldn’t listen anymore.

She turned her head and said to another girl next to her, “This is too poor.”

“You can’t have someone so poor.”

“…”

After the group of people left, Lin Zhexia was idle and bored, secretly chatting with Chi Yao on her mobile phone.

-I just helped you stabilize your poor personality

– After all, everyone is a good brother, I can’t expose you in public

-Would you like to hear my wonderful play just now?

Chigou replied with two words: I don’t want to

After this topic was over, Lin Zhexia shifted the topic to the off-stage competition.

– I don’t think Xu, the old man in our class, can’t run fast.

-The last time he went to an off-campus Internet cafe to catch people, but he didn’t catch anyone

– After he came back, he secretly told us that he was very embarrassing

– but he shouldn’t have a problem

-Because his opponents don’t look too strong

…

Lin Zexia turned into an off-court referee, and started broadcasting the game with Chi Yao.

While talking, she casually typed: Why are you so dry in the afternoon.

After chatting for a while, she cut out again, reluctantly perfunctory He Yang.

Da Zhuang: fell? all right

Da Zhuang: After a while we don’t have to follow the bus back to school, we can disband freely. How about you, let’s go together later?

Lin Zhexia replied to him: It’s okay, I don’t know, maybe.

Da Zhuang: I advise you to chat less with Chi Yao.

Da Zhuang: Near ink is black.

Lin Zhexia:.

Da Zhuang: You still “.”, you have grasped the essence of my brother Yao’s chat.

Lin Zhexia bowed her head and typed: I can be more refined

Da Zhuang: how to say

Lin Zhexia: Annoyed again

Da Zhuang was convinced: … Awesome.

She and He Yang often arrange Chi Yao in private like this. In the middle of her chat, something very light suddenly pressed down and covered her head tightly. Her eyes went dark for a moment. At the same time, the originally hot The sun is also completely covered.

It took two seconds for her to realize that there was a coat covering her head.

“It’s too hot,” Chi Yao appeared behind her at some point, he got up after throwing away his coat, and said as if he was storing something, “Help me carry it.”

“…?”

Lin Zhexia pushed back the coat a little, turned to look at him, “Can’t you take it yourself?”

Chi Yao: “Too lazy to take it.”

Lin Zhexia still wanted to say something, but Chi Yao had already gone down the steps of the stands.

She sat with the coat on for a while, and found that the coat really shaded the sun.

After covering for a while, it is not as dry as before.

…

So he just came here specially to give her a coat.

She thought as if expecting an answer.

Lin Zhexia flipped through the chat records between her and Chi Yao just now, and among the densely packed game broadcasts, her casually typed sentence “Why are you drying in the afternoon” was lying inconspicuously in it.

However, in the next second, she denied herself again.

What the **** is she thinking.

The sports meeting was over, and since there was no need to go back to school, the three of them went back by car together.

Lin Zhexia still had a knee injury, and she was okay when she was sitting in the stands. The distance from the station to the community was still a bit long for her, and her moving speed was getting slower and slower.

In the middle of the journey, Chi Yao wanted to carry her on his back, but Lin Zhexia suddenly felt a twist in his heart, ashamed to get too close to him: “I can go by myself.”

He Yang admired: “My Brother Xia has a steel-like will.”

Lin Zhexia: “…”

The three of them slowed down and walked towards Nanxiang Street.

He Yang mentioned the matter of their class and asked Chi Yao: “I heard that you met our classmate in the infirmary?”

Chi Yao was too lazy to talk about this.

He Yang continued: “It’s just a girl, she’s pretty good-looking, and she’s very popular in our class. After I came back from the infirmary, I yelled at you in the class group.”

Chi Yao: “I don’t remember.”

“…”

As a best friend for many years, He Yang couldn’t help sighing: “You were on our school’s confession wall before, anyway, after this time, the girls who originally wanted to ask you for your contact information are gone. Your reputation is not as good as it was in junior high school. It’s exactly the same.”

He Yang added: “No, it should be said to be better.”

Lin Zhexia didn’t know much about their junior high school years, only the phrase “don’t get close” in the post, and the few words He Yang said to her before.

She couldn’t help asking, “What reputation?”

He Yang: “The notorious handsome guy.”

“…”

very apt.

“It’s also a skill of his.” He Yang said, “I’m blinding this face for nothing.”

While speaking, the three of them had already walked to the street sign of Nanxiang Street.

The sun was shining through the shade of the trees, the bluestone slabs on the road were very hot, and the air was stuffy and hot, but Lin Zhexia was actually a little happy.

It shouldn’t be rational at all, but I still can’t control the joy that comes from an extremely secret place.

He Yang asked again: “By the way, there will be a long vacation soon. What arrangements do you two have? My parents want to travel, but in this weather, going to travel is crowded.”

Lin Zhexia and Chi Yao spoke almost at the same time—

Lin Zhexia: “Study at home.”

Chi Yao: “There is a competition.”

“You have a competition,” Lin Zhexia turned to look at him, “I don’t know what kind of competition it is.”

“Physics Competition.”

Chi Yao simply said, “Going to Haicheng City, three days and two nights, Lao Liu will lead the team.”

Lin Zhexia said “Oh”, “It’s so far away.”

Back home, Lin He and Wei Ping were also chatting about the long vacation.

“Xia Xia,” Lin He’s voice immediately came from the living room when she heard the sound of her opening the door, “Your Uncle Wei and I plan to go on a trip during the long holiday, and I’m asking you what you think.”

Lin Zhexia had the same thought as He Yang: “I think it’s too hot, you go, I’m doing my homework at home.”

Wei Ping: “It’s rare to have a vacation, why don’t you go out for a walk?”

Lin Zhexia: “If I want to go out, I would rather write an extra set of test papers.”

Wei Ping still wanted to say something.

Lin Zhexia hurriedly said: “It’s a rare opportunity for you to leave me at home and enjoy the world of two people. I advise you to cherish this opportunity.”

Seeing her resolute attitude, Lin He and Wei Ping no longer insisted.

While talking, Lin Zhexia moved from the entrance to the living room, and appeared in front of the two of them. Lin He asked her in surprise, “What’s wrong with your knee, and… where did you get the clothes on your body?”

“I accidentally fell while running, nothing happened.”

Lin Zhexia finished explaining the first sentence, but she didn’t react to the second sentence.

Following what Lin He said, she looked down and saw the oversized black sunscreen on her body.

“Oh, it’s Chi Yao’s.” She realized that the clothes hadn’t been returned to Chi Yao, and explained, “We’re sitting on the bleachers, it’s too hot, so I borrowed it to block the sun.”

Hearing that it was Chi Yao’s clothes, Lin He didn’t say any more, just answered: “So careless…be careful when you take a shower later, don’t soak in the water for too long.”

When Chi Yao was mentioned, Lin He asked again: “Is there any arrangement for Chi Yao’s vacation? If there is no arrangement, you can do homework with him, and I will feel more at ease after I go out with your Uncle Wei.”

“He’s going to a physics competition during the holidays.”

Lin Zhexia added, “Don’t worry, I’m not a three-year-old anymore, I’ll be fine at home for a few days.”

“That’s it,” Lin He said, “I remember that he liked physics very much before, and he seemed to have said when he was a child that he wanted to be a physicist.”

Lin Zhexia also remembered.

That was the second year they had known each other.

At that time, an essay was arranged on the weekend, and the title of the essay was “My Dream”.

Lin Zhexia scratched her head and scratched her head. At that time, she was too young to know what her dream was.

She scratched her hair for a long time, and finally wrote reluctantly on the composition paper: My dream is to protect the environment.

She chose this angle not because she was too idealistic, but because it was better to use this angle. She condemned the phenomenon of littering on the main road.

Chi Yao wrote the composition faster than her. She originally wanted to learn from it, so she snatched it secretly and glanced at it, and saw two words: physics.

“Your dream is so strange, why do you like this?”

At that time Chi Yao said: “Because it’s interesting.”

Lin Zhexia couldn’t figure out what was so interesting.

But she was not very satisfied with the composition she had just written at the beginning, and wanted to rewrite it, so she lay down on the table and started to be in a daze.

She was scribbling and drawing on the draft paper with a pen, and suddenly a thought came to her mind: “If I don’t have a dream yet, is protecting someone else’s dream a dream?”

…

Lin Zhexia was lying on the bed at night, and when she swiped her mobile phone, she swiped into the circle of friends of their class Lao Xu.

Lao Xu reposted an article in the school’s official account. The title of the article was: Our school sent a competition team to participate in the third high school physics competition in Lianyun City.

Lin Zhexia clicked in, and the article was full of pictures and texts.

She saw the names of many key schools in it, including Lianyun No. 1 Middle School.

After watching it, she found that the scale of the competition was much larger than she had imagined. The team that won the first place in the previous competition was even featured in the newspapers. On the day of the competition, many media filmed and reported it, and the scene was very formal.

After reading the article, she quit and sent a message to Chi Yao.

– when are you leaving

Chigou: the day after tomorrow

Lin Zhexia: What time is the day after tomorrow?

Chi Yao seemed to realize that there was something in her words.

-?

– have something to say

Lin Zhexia typed and replied: As your beloved old father, of course I want to watch you off.

The opposite side came back quickly.

– No need for the lame old father to watch with a cane

Lin Zhexia: …

However, she decided to skip this question: your coat is with me, I forgot to return you

The other side replied with a “.” to show that he knew.

Lin Zhexia thought of the way he was ordering her to fetch clothes in the afternoon, and typed with her head down: I charge a storage fee for storing clothes at my place, how to pay the storage fee.

After posting, she was ready for Chi Yao to reply her with some annoying replies.

However, it was rare for Chi Yao to say a word this time.

– in your pocket, take it yourself.

Lin Zhexia:?

Lin Zhexia: What.

-Storage fees.

Lin Zhexia put down her phone and went to pinch the pocket of her coat.

Through a thin layer of sun protection clothing, she felt something hard.

Lin Zhexia put his hand in with some hesitation, and then took out…a piece of unopened candy.

– where is the sugar

– How can you have sugar in your pocket.

Chi Yao didn’t reply yet.

While waiting for a reply, Lin Zhexia opened a candy and found it was lemon flavored.

She bit the candy in her mouth, and tasted the unique sourness and irresistible sweetness of lemons in her mouth.

For no reason, she suddenly thought of that can of soda last summer.

— That can of ice-cold, sizzling lemonade.

After a while, the phone vibrated slightly and received two new messages:

– from the canteen

– I didn’t expect that someone didn’t find out for half a day

The relationship between her and Chi Yao seemed to start with that can of soda, and after that “click”, there was an extremely subtle chemical reaction.