Iris Wen's Heartbeat Symphony Chapter 4

When he reached the side steps of the auditorium, Asher Cheng stopped, turned around and said simply, "If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."

The brick-red walls of the auditorium are tall, and as the sun rises, the shadows cast by it are short and squeezed near the base of the wall, like straight pavement interspersed with zebra crossings on an asphalt road.

Iris Wen felt something was sudden. She pulled her thoughts away from what had just happened and responded in a daze: "Okay."

Then he added: "Thank you just now, senior."

The coolness of summer also ended abruptly, and the sun was blazing overhead.

The ceremony wasn't over yet, and there weren't many people outside. She didn't have the courage to ask him anything more, but for Asher Cheng, it probably wasn't necessary.

To him, she was just an extremely ordinary classmate.

"It's okay," Asher Cheng looked at the blank look in the girl's eyes and thought she was scared just now. But he didn't have the heart to do unnecessary things, such as comfort. He simply reminded: "Go back to the classroom. The teacher on duty will check here later to see if there are any students who skipped the ceremony."

Then turned around and left.

"Senior Asher Cheng!" Iris Wen summoned up the courage to shout, her soft voice trembling. She asked the stopped figure, "Can I pass the senior year of high school with you?"

Asher Cheng raised his eyebrows in confusion and took back the steps he took. He turned around and raised his hand to signal Iris Wen to follow. After she ran over, he casually asked: "Why do you have to pass through the third year of high school? It's quite a long way around."

"I, I'm afraid of the sun. If I've been in the third year of high school, there are many sycamore trees, which can provide shade." Iris Wen made nonsense.

Asher Cheng hummed, as if he believed it.

He lowered his eyes and glanced at Iris Wen, then walked back to the senior high school teaching building with her.

The two of them were silent all the way, walking slowly and quickly through the long staircase outside the auditorium and into the garden surrounded by the laboratory building.

The tree-lined avenue runs through the center of three connected buildings. The experimental building is four stories high and is surrounded by three sides: a formal teaching building and an auxiliary building, facing each other. The building connecting the two buildings in the middle is equipped with a water room and offices.

Other teaching buildings in Beicheng No. 1 Middle School also have this structure.

On the cobblestone path, tall bushes grow on both sides, and the trees on the left cast a cool and refreshing shade.

There are no taller green plants on the right, and the scorching sun sneaks in from above the bushes and shines down on them.

"You go this way," Asher Cheng slowed down and walked around from behind Iris Wen to her right, with light and shadow intertwined on his face, "The light is better here, I'll sort out the information."

Iris Wen moved to the left and looked at the blue folder in Asher Cheng's hand.

Thinking of something, she looked away from her flipping hands, raised her head and asked, "By the way, Senior Asher Cheng, the ceremony isn't over yet, why are you out too?"

Also appeared in the alley.

"How about you stand over here? The light over there is too strong and will hurt your eyes. It might be better over here."

Asher Cheng glanced at the names casually, closed the folder, and changed the order from memory.

He didn't look at Iris Wen, and his eyes fell on the folder calmly. He had no intention of changing it back and said casually: "Aren't you afraid of being exposed to the sun?"

After sorting it out, he turned his head and raised the documents in his hand towards her. He smiled and said, "Teacher Song asked me to take it back to the office. An extracurricular book was confiscated before. Now go to the office to get it back."

Iris Wen couldn't help but be startled, afraid of the sun?

Her face turned red again, and she felt a little embarrassed. That was what she said.

Glancing at the golden-orange sunlight on his arm, Iris Wen hid his busy heartbeat and asked curiously: "Extracurricular books? What extracurricular books do you usually read?"

But she knew in her heart that his attentiveness was engraved in her bones and did not belong to her alone.

Walking up the steps, the corridor on the first floor was silent.

Asher Cheng was walking on the right, as if considering that she was a freshman, he casually turned his thumb around the right corner, pointed in the direction, and replied, "I was watching "To Kill a Mockingbird" recently."

I didn’t say what type of extracurricular books I was reading, only the ones I was reading recently.

Iris Wen nodded, and while remembering the title of the book, he didn't ask any more questions.

He seems to have a wall, and he is not cold-hearted towards anyone, but he is alienated and has extremely boundaries. He seems to be chatting, but in fact he is just not following what others say.

Along the way, there was no chatting at all, as if everything that needed to be said had been said and there was no more topic to talk about. Asher Cheng just controlled his pace intentionally or unintentionally so that she could keep up, and rarely took the initiative to speak.

During this period, he seemed to ask casually: "Are you a little hypoglycemic? You don't look good."

After she explained, there was no further explanation. He even pointed out the location of the school doctor's office to her.

Iris Wen raised his eyes and looked ahead. Across the corridor from the water room, there were three or four small steps. Go down the small steps and then cross the fountain square in the center of the school to reach the first-grade teaching building.

And now the end of this corridor is on the first floor of the senior high school teaching building. Just walk straight there.

She needs to turn left and he goes straight.

When he was approaching the small steps, Iris Wen noticed the thin white arms out of the corner of his eye. While envious, he couldn't help but murmured: "Senior Asher Cheng, don't you even get a tan? I see you are so white, you look like you are in the desert." It'll be fine for two days."

Anyway, I don’t know if the two of them can have any more interactions, so she should be braver and bolder.

Asher Cheng turned his head and glanced at her, then looked past the girl who was asking seriously, and looked at the school square that was shining golden in the sun. He couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth: "If you are thrown into the desert for two days, no matter how white you are, you will probably turn into black briquettes." "

"Let's go from the senior hall. I have an umbrella in the locker in the hall. You hold it first."

Hold an umbrella?

Iris Wen's eyes widened and he opened his lips, trying to say it was not necessary. Something suddenly occurred to me, and I hurriedly stopped talking and happily changed my words: "Thank you, senior!"

His umbrella? Doesn't that mean we can meet again?

Return the umbrella! ! !

"So happy?" Asher Cheng raised his eyebrows, thinking she was happy not to be exposed.

He is almost used to carrying an umbrella when he goes out. Every time the queen and princess in the family go out shopping, they must be fully armed and bring sunscreen umbrellas. His father will give the queen a shot and he will give the princess a shot.

This time when school started, he had to stuff two umbrellas into his suitcase. One was a rain umbrella, and the other was a sunscreen umbrella with a high sun protection index. He had to bring it with him.

He had never used this sunscreen umbrella at all, and he just left it there.

Asher Cheng withdrew his gaze and continued walking forward.

Walking into the hall, there are a few students hanging new class signs in the corridor on the first floor, as if there is not enough staff.

Asher Cheng stopped and opened the locker. He took out the pure gray sunscreen umbrella, handed it to Iris Wen and said, "Teacher Song's office is upstairs. I'll go up first. You can use the umbrella first. Anyway, I will No need."

After Iris Wen took the umbrella, he left without looking back.

It was as if he didn't even think about asking her to return it.

Iris Wen was holding a neatly folded umbrella and was about to walk out of the hall when he suddenly thought of the bag of candies. She lowered her head blankly and looked at her two empty hands. Her brain turned rapidly and went blank for a moment.

Where is her candy? !

Thinking that when he passed by the third-year high school annex building just now, his hand was caught on the bushes that grew into the corridor, Iris Wen's eyes lit up and he returned the same way and walked into the corridor on the side of the hall again.

It must have fallen into the bushes.

Walking along the corridor, there is a corner, and there is the toilet in the annex building. Opposite the toilet is a wall guardrail. The top of the guardrail is full of lush bushes, and there is a step next to it.

This was where she and Asher Cheng walked through the garden and into the corridor before.

Iris Wen walked slowly and looked at the wall with interest. On it were profiles of key universities and messages from outstanding graduates.

She turned the corner, walked down the steps briskly, and found the bag of candy in the bushes. She was about to get up, but suddenly froze.

He continued to squat, not higher than the guardrail behind the bushes.

Listen carefully to the sounds coming from the classroom in the annex building.

"Damn it, what's Asher Cheng doing? He looks like a smiling tiger all day long, bah! If it weren't for him, I don't know how cool I would be here in Beicheng No. 1 Middle School!"

"Isn't he just the president of the student union?! What does it have to do with me fighting? Is he just arrogant with me? Did I cripple that Spencer Nie or something? His fist didn't even touch a hair. ! He just came up and grabbed my wrist hard, almost breaking his bones. "

Senior Spencer Nie?

Iris Wen's eyes were stunned. She remembered that Spencer Nie was also in Class 7, Grade 3, and was close buddies with Asher Cheng. The day she ran into the wrong classroom, she happened to sit close to him and played tic-tac-toe together for a long time.

That's how the two met.

It's just that Spencer Nie was bad at playing games and tic-tac-toe, so he asked Asher Cheng to play for him. Asher Cheng asked her opinion and continued to play with her.

That's how the forest diary came about.

It was Spencer Nie's idea to force Asher Cheng to give her the diary he just bought as a reward.

Another slightly flattering voice sounded: "Brother Fan, let's have a cigarette to calm down. Don't be like that brat! Who is he?"

"Fcuk! I've never been so embarrassed in my life. It's so damn frustrating!"

The can hit the tiles hard, making a loud noise.

The whole teaching building echoed with the echo of emptiness, and birds flew among the lush green leaves.

Iris Wen was also startled, and his palms became sweaty.

"That's right, who's the eldest boy?" The boy who sounded like his younger brother cursed and suggested fiercely: "Brother Fan, do you want to teach him a lesson?"

After the boy finished speaking, several different male voices sounded out one after another: "That's right, Brother Fan, in my opinion, let's call the brothers to block him after school today and beat him until he surrenders!"

"Yes, there is Spencer Nie, but they also have a brother in No. 3 Middle School. His name is Bennett Ye. He doesn't seem to go with them after school. I don't believe that the two of them can do more than a dozen of us."

Iris Wen's expression condensed slightly, and he turned around and planned to take a detour.

"Who's there?!"

Iris Wen suddenly stopped. If she ran away, it would definitely arouse their suspicion. It would be difficult to tell if they caught up with her.

He simply turned around, faced the probing eyes, walked up the steps, and pretended to pass by.

She turned right and looked around calmly. Five people with different postures gathered at the door of the classroom, staring at her fiercely. There was smoke around them, and some still had cigarette ashes shaking in their hands.

As she was about to turn the corner, she choked on the smell of cigarette smoke and coughed. She couldn't help but quicken her pace, wanting to get out of here quickly.

"Hey, who is this? Stand here and let's take a look!"

Iris Wen was startled subconsciously.

Felix Kang, who was puffing out smoke, laughed and said: "Hahaha, eh, it seems to have scared the classmates. eh, what class are the beauties in? How come I haven't seen her before?"

Such an upright girl, if she were in their class, he would have known about it a long time ago. Either she's not a junior high school girl, or she's just transferred here.

Hey, so damn beautiful!

Iris Wen didn't answer, but raised her eyes to look at the boy who was blocking her. He had small eyes and a big nose, and his words were sloppy.

"Classmate, please give way."