Her Little Dimples - Chapter 54

The mobile phone was confiscated and turned off and placed on the coffee table in the living room.

After taking a shower in the evening, Xu You sat on the window sill with her knees hugged, and was stunned for a long time.

The light of the street lamp was dim, smearing the surrounding weeds and trees.

The sparse and dim stars do not illuminate the dark road in the distance at all.

When Xu You went to school on Monday, there was a heavy shadow under Xu You’s eyes.

After studying early, Yu Yi asked Xu You what was wrong, and his face didn’t look good.

Xu Youqiang cheered up and shook his head, “I’m fine.”

She packed up her things and went out of the classroom to Class 7.

Xu You waited outside the classroom, the girl sitting by the window poked her head out and said, “Thank you for not coming to school.”

“Not here?” Xu You was taken aback. She lowered her eyes for a while and then asked, “Is Song Yifan here?”

The girl looked back again, and went around, “I didn’t come.”

“…….it is good.”

She shuffled back to her classroom.

The second day, the third day, the fourth day…

Thank you for not coming to school. Song Yifan also didn’t see anyone.

Xu You went again this afternoon and ran into Xu Xiaocheng. He happened to be out of the classroom, turned around, and saw Xu You standing in the corridor. He was taken aback for a moment.

He was still there, and Xu You walked over.

She and Xu Xiaocheng didn’t say a few words, but knew that he had a good relationship with the resignation, “Classmate, do you know where the resignation has gone in the past few days?”

“Huh?” Xu Xiaocheng smiled, with a relaxed tone: “Aci, he has been addicted to a game recently, so he skipped class and went to the Internet cafe. It’s really a dog that can’t change eating shit, sister-in-law, don’t be angry, we will help you scold him at that time .”

“Do you have a thank you call?”

Xu You looked into his eyes, her expression unchanged.

Xu Xiaocheng gradually stopped smiling. Slowly, he shook his head.

“Give me your phone, and I’ll just say a few words to him.” Her tone was calm.

“It’s not… it’s…” He became more guilty.

“—I can’t find him.”

This sentence successfully stifled Xu Xiaocheng’s words. He didn’t say a word for a long time.

After a long while, Xu Xiaocheng sighed and handed out the phone.

Xu You held the phone in both hands and dialed several times, but there was still no one to answer, then the busy tone. She doesn’t believe in evil, press redial over and over again.

“Xu Yo, don’t fight.” Xu Xiaocheng said.

As if she hadn’t heard it, she mechanically repeated the movements of her hands.

“I won’t accept the thank you words.” He said.

Xu You still didn’t listen, staying the same, not moving.

“Really, don’t fight, it’s useless…”

Xu Xiaocheng couldn’t bear to look at her expression, and slowly said, “Thank you, he is hospitalized.”

This sentence was like thunder on the ground, and she was instantly stunned by the explosion.

Hospitalized?

Thank you for being hospitalized?

Seeing Xu You in a trance and unable to speak, Xu Xiaocheng really couldn’t keep it secret, and hesitated to say to her: “I’ll take you there…”

Get out of school, get in a taxi, and go to the hospital.

She didn’t say a word along the way. It started to rain again outside, and the sky dullly covered the entire city, and countless drops of water poured and collided. After getting out of the car, neither of them had umbrellas and got soaked.

In fact, Xu You wanted to say thank you before.

Her mobile phone was confiscated, and she may not be able to speak with him every day.

She wants to tell him, hope he will be more patient.

She will not restrain him, but if he is willing to wait, they can still be together after the college entrance examination.

She would tell him that before hanging up the phone that night, Xie Ci asked her the answer.

She wants to tell him in person that she will not look down on him, and she never dislikes everything related to him.

She wants to help him get better, even if he can only take three exams in the end, she has to learn to live hard.

She is a person who takes her feelings seriously, and she always remembers his kindness to her.

She was worried that when she saw him, she could not tell him what she really wanted to say.

She thought that he might get furious, thought about how he would be in a cold war with her again, thought about him refusing to agree, thought about him…

But she didn’t expect it to appear in front of her last.

He was lying on the sickbed, so fragile that he would be torn apart in the next second.

Xu You covered her mouth with her hands, and for an instant, she was so painful that she didn’t dare to breathe.

She tried her best to comfort herself, don’t think about anything, don’t think about anything, don’t think…

The thank-you note was still drowsy, wearing an oxygen tube, with a needle inserted in the back of his hand, and a wire-wrapped instrument beeping beside him.

She walked slowly, her calves trembling, approaching him.

However, there was no movement at all in the thank-you speech, and she did not see her happy appearance again. Crisp and thin pale complexion. He closed his eyes, and there was a shadow under his eyelashes, as if he had fallen asleep.

Xu You suffered a severe heartache, and only felt the world spin, his feet soft, and he squatted down on the edge of his bed.

Someone seemed to walk in behind him.

She really couldn’t stand this, her voice almost collapsed, and she yelled, “Thank you…”

“His life is in danger.”

Zeng Qilin stood behind her, leaned down, and said softly, “You can’t stay here, get out first.”

On the bench in the corridor of the hospital, I sat idly all afternoon.

Zeng Qilin was next to Xu You, with his legs apart and his head on his hands, talking to her intermittently.

“Our school had a conflict with the second high school before….Last weekend there was a little dispute, and then it became a bit big. One of them called someone from the society…”

“It was a bit chaotic at the time. A Huang Mao took advantage of everyone’s unresponsiveness and stabbed a knife directly into the stomach of the thanks.”

Having said that, Zeng Qilin closed his eyes, as if he did not want to recall the scene that day. He held his hair with both hands.

The scream of the crowd with red blood.

The appearance of the thank you speech finally falling to the ground.

“I’m sorry for him…” Zeng Qilin murmured.

Xu You’s spirit seemed to be numb. She said nothing, and put her hands on her knees.

When the people around her finished speaking, she asked softly, “Is that person in the police station.”

“…” Zeng Qilin was taken aback and asked “What?”

“The man with the knife.”

Xu You was very calm, looked at the ground with full attention, and repeated the words again, “Did he enter the police station.”

She was drenched, her hair stuck to the sides of her cheeks, and cold air rose from the soles of her feet.

“It’s in.” He replied.

After a while, she nodded, “Okay.”

Then the two stopped talking.

I don’t know how long it took.

The light outside the window slowly dimmed, and the incandescent lamp above his head turned on pale and pale.

There are different people coming in and out, coming and going. Xu You didn’t know how to leave in the end.

The memory of that day is too vague.

Just remember the rain on your body, it’s so cold.

The mind and body are very tired, but the heart is surprisingly calm.

It’s like the silence after a heavy snowfall.

——-

It didn’t take long for this matter to be spread everywhere in the school. There are many versions circulated, as long as it is gossip, everyone doesn’t bother to clarify the true and false stories.

After Xu You went to the hospital that day, she never went to Class 7 again. She sat in her seat after class, and went home directly after school. Some classmates around talked about it, so she left silently, listening to or saying nothing.

Sometimes when you walk on the road, you will receive the insights from all walks of life.

In fact, Xu You found that she was quite strong, at least in the eyes of her classmates, in front of teachers, and in front of her parents, but her words became a little less.

Just a few days later, during the break between classes, Xu Xiaocheng came to her and said that her sense of thanks had been restored.

I went to the hospital again, and the resignation had been transferred from the intensive care unit to the general ward.

He was wearing a blue and white striped medical gown, with one hand wrapped in white gauze, half leaning against the bed.

Xu You entered the ward, and the moment the two met their eyes, they were shocked for a few seconds at the same time.

She took a few steps forward, “Thank you, are you better?”

A few steps away, he said thanks, his voice seemed to be polished by sandpaper.

He didn’t dare to look at her, his eyes fell away, and said, “Xu Yo, you can go.”

She was stunned and stopped.

Xu You tightened the strap of the schoolbag.

Xu Xiaocheng was behind him, his eyes widened, his mouth opened and closed again.

“…Thank you?”

After a while, she finally found her voice.

The thankful eyes looked out the window, and although his face was pale, there was still no ups and downs.

“Let’s go.” He repeated it again, his voice faint but clear, word by word reaching her ears.

“—I won’t go to school anymore.”

The person next to him didn’t react for a while, and the ward was quiet.

Xu You looked at him incredulously.

Others heard this sentence, and Xu Xiaocheng couldn’t help but speak, and stepped forward: “Thank you, are you crazy?!!!”

Xu You froze in place, not knowing what to say, and it took a long time to find her own voice, “No matter what happened to you, before you say these things, you still have to think about it. I’ll go.”

After she finished speaking, she turned to leave.

“Xu Yo.”

Thanks for saying her name behind her, and after half a second, she asked, “I am very disappointed, right?”

He was actually very weak, even his voice could be heard, and he was weak.

For a moment, Xu You was really sad. The heart seemed to fall straight down like this.

“I’m not disappointed, thank you.”

Xu You knew she hadn’t shed tears yet, so she turned around and looked into his eyes.

I wanted to talk but suddenly choked up, “No one is qualified to be disappointed in you except yourself.”

After speaking, she paused for a while, then lowered her head to remove the schoolbag from her shoulder.

Xu You held a math paper full of process in his hand and gently placed it on the table next to his bed, “What you dropped.”

“Thank you, there are many things you don’t want to make lightly. When you really think about it, you can send me a text message.”

The door was closed.

He lay back on the bed. His eyes were staring straight ahead, and the wound began to hurt again.

The wind came in through the window, and the squeezed math papers blew loudly.

There seemed to be another person standing behind him.

I don’t know what I’m still expecting, but my heart tightens suddenly. After holding on for a long time, he still couldn’t help turning his head.

Zeng Qilin looked at him quietly, looking a little unbearable.

The two people are too close, and Zeng Qilin can even clearly see the frustration in the eyes of the thanks.

He asked, “Why are you crying?”

Thanks, turned his back, put down the phone, and wiped away the tears from his eyes with the palm of his hand.

“What did the doctor tell you.”

There was a long silence, and the thank you words were motionless, staring intently at what Xu You left behind.

——-

In the evening for self-study, Xu You asked for leave. She was caught in the rain a few days ago and coughed all the time, until today she has a complete fever.

In the office, Wang Xiadong saw her blushing cheeks, touched her forehead, hot and scary, and immediately opened a request for leave.

“Can you go back by yourself? Would you like your classmates to see you off, or call your parents.”

Xu You took the leave slip with both hands and bowed to Wang Xiadong, “No, thank you teacher.”

“That’s fine.” Wang Xiadong put aside the pen in his hand, “Go back alone and be careful.”

There is no one in the family.

The living room is dark and the curtains are closed. The room was dark, Xu You step by step walked to the sofa and sat down.

She just sat quietly when the light didn’t have the strength to turn on. I don’t know how long it took, her eyelashes trembled, she leaned out and picked up the mobile phone on the coffee table.

Turn on.

The blue light from the phone screen illuminates a small area with the last ten percent of the electricity. Time to read the last text message.

She pushed it away with her thumb.

——

[Xu Yo, let’s break up. 】

“Ah, help me write a physics homework.”

“You deliberately fell into my arms twice a day.”

“Tsk tut, you’re still angry, don’t you just let you call out brother?”

“You want to bribe me with just one candy?”

“Hey, your face is quite soft, I didn’t bite, or just took a bite…”

“Don’t be afraid.”

“No, I just want to ask you a question, when are you my girlfriend?”

“I don’t have a temper because I like you, you know?”

“Wait until you waited for a day without eating. It snowed in the afternoon and I was going to freeze to death. Can’t you get down?”

“Do you look down on me, and my friends, dislike our poor grades, think that our life is extravagant, and our tastes are vulgar?”

“Xu Yo, don’t you like me?”

“The cold war is okay, I don’t agree with the breakup.”

“Xu Yo, I wear school uniform, don’t it look good…”

“You have a handsome boyfriend like me, are you happy?”

“Seriously, to give you a life advice, just stay with me.”

……

Thanks for making the choice he felt was right. So Xu You respected him.

She was shaking her hands as she typed the word.

–it is good.

Thanks, I promise you.

After that, you will be fine on your own.

——-

In later days, there seemed to be nothing. Xu You seemed to have nothing happened, and lived every day peacefully.

The phone was locked in the cabinet, deep in the place, and there was no expectation.

On campus, I can still meet Song Yifan and the others occasionally, but he is no longer there.

Only occasionally one day, after doing exercises. Several girls bought yogurt and snacks, passed by her, and talked as they walked.

“Hey, it seems that I haven’t seen the resignation for a long time…”

A person whispered: “He dropped out of school in his second year of high school…you don’t even know…”

“Yes, such a big thing happened…”

They walked farther and farther, until they couldn’t even see the figure, Xu You still stood in place.

High school passed so fast, everyone was very busy. In front of the classroom, on the stairs, there are red inspirational quotes posted everywhere. Starting from the unified examination, and then to the Hundred Days Oath Conference, one model, two models and three models.

Xu You’s words became less and less, and her grades became more top-notch. She listened to what her parents said and what her teacher said, and did not touch the competition again.

She told herself, don’t look back, don’t think about it. Be strong no matter what difficulties you encounter.

Every night at that time was quiet.

In the last week, on the countdown board, finally there was only a bright red 7 left. The classroom in the third year of high school will be used as the college entrance examination examination room. When the examination room is arranged, all the things on the walls are pasted with white paper.

The teacher left someone to clean, the dust in the classroom was flying, someone choked accidentally, coughing and coughing up tears.

The first and second high school students are on vacation, so they move to the newly built teaching building in the first year of high school, on the other side of the playground.

There is a river in front of the classroom corridor, and a piece of grass has just grown on the opposite side.

The stairs and corridors on each floor are crowded with senior high school students. The white paper cranes folded from book pages flew all over the sky, and some fell in the river and drifted away. Someone yelled into the distance, causing laughter from a building.

Xu You walked through the crowd, entered the classroom with his schoolbag on his back, and found a new position to sit down. This is the position by the window, the last bit of sunlight can fall in.

The class was noisy, she lowered her head to pack her books, and suddenly someone stood beside her.

Xu You looked up and saw Qiu Qingqing holding a classmate in her hand. She shook her hand and asked playfully, “Can you write one for me?”

Qiu Qingqing put the paper on Xu You’s desk.

“Ah, good.” Xu You whispered.

Qiu Qingqing stood beside her, waiting for her to finish writing.

“Xu You, I actually envy you.” Qiu Qingqing suddenly thought of something and laughed out of it.

“what?”

“Thank you.” Qiu Qingqing’s voice was very relaxed, as if she had let go, “I was actually quite uncomfortable before.”

“………”

Xu You held the pen tightly in an instant, and the blood on his face faded away.

Qiu Qingqing stared at Xu You in a low voice.

“It wasn’t until later that I saw the appearance of the thank-you note and you were in love, that he had never liked me.”

————

The classroom in the afternoon before the college entrance examination was empty. Books and water glasses were piled up on the desk in a mess. Someone scribbled a line of lyrics with chalk on the blackboard.

You always say that graduation is far away,

In a blink of an eye they went their separate ways.

Happy Graduation.

June 7th, June 8th. In a flash.

The bell rang after the English test, and all the candidates poured out of the test rooms, with a relaxed look on everyone’s face.

After 12 years of hard work, I was finally relieved at this moment.

Holding a bottle of water and stationery, Xu You walked out of the school along the flow of people.

everything is over.

Finally, when the results came out, the teacher first called to congratulate. The two parallel science champions in the city are both in the 30th class of the first high school.

Xu You is one of them.

At that time she was packing her things in the bedroom. Chen Xiuyun walked in holding the phone and told Xu You the news with a smile on her face. It didn’t take long for relatives to learn about this and congratulate them. Chen Xiuyun and Dad Xu were sitting in the living room, dialing the phone one by one. The atmosphere at home has not been so harmonious and happy for a long time.

What happened later, Xu You can’t remember clearly. It was very tired that day. She went to sleep immediately after taking a shower. She lay on the bed, thinking nothing in her heart, and emptying her head. She slept until almost noon the next day.

Chen Xiuyun watched her get up, put down her work, smiled and asked: “What do you want to eat, do you want to eat out?”

“Mom, I’ll go to the kitchen to order dumplings, and then go out in the afternoon for something.” She said.

Chen Xiuyun frowned, “You finally finished the exam, eat something good, what are you doing with dumplings.”

Xu You said, “Suddenly I want to eat.”

The dumplings were put in a thermal insulation box, and Xu You took them with them, and they walked out of the gate of the community and got on a bus around the city.

The car was bumpy, she leaned her head on the glass window and looked at every corner of the city.

An old grandfather next to him asked, “Little girl, what’s the matter with you?”

“Ah, I’m fine, I just lost something.” Xu You halfway through talking, tears fell first, and she hurriedly wiped it off with the back of her hand.

Grandpa laughed, “Oh… if you lose everything, don’t cry, maybe you can get it back later.”

The car swayed through the streets and alleys, there were children running by in shorts laughing and laughing, there were vendors selling things, and the hot summer wind blew everyone. The sun shines through the brown branches to reflect the green leaves, the broken ice in the milk tea shop, the teenager who rides a bicycle, and his shirt is blown by the wind.

Xu You sat down and spooned the dumplings one by one and put them in his mouth.

I choked up while eating.

She lowered her head and ate while crying.

Wait for the car to the end. She should have finished eating, she forgot. 54