In the afternoon, the wind stopped, the trees stopped, and the air seemed to stop flowing. The carbon dioxide exhaled by the whole class seemed to have settled under the classroom, and the oxygen in the air was so thin that it made people feel dizzy.
The seventy main machines in the computer room were running at the same time, making a buzzing sound that was extremely depressing.
Not long after the English passage played in the headphones ended, the shrill yet inspiring bell for the end of get out of class rang from the loudspeaker box, echoing throughout the classroom.
Answer sheets were passed up from the back row one after another. Alex Xu took off his headphones, and his ears were covered with sweat from the thick earmuffs, becoming red and hot.
After class, the whole class rushed out of the classroom happily, scrambling to breathe in the cool breeze and fresh air outside.
Alex Xu walked out of the classroom with a red face and ears, and just happened to see Dylan Xiao walking alone in front of him. Alex Xu caught up with Dylan Xiao in three or two steps and smiled: "Let's walk together, Dylan Xiao."
Dylan Xiao turned around and nodded gently: "Yeah."
"Wake up, wait for me!"
Nathan Wang caught up from behind, panting, and started to pant after running a short distance.
Alex Xu mocked him mercilessly: "You're out of breath after just this short walk? Isn't your girlfriend anxious when she sees you like that?"
Nathan Wang has a chubby round face that is fair and rosy, and her skin is smooth and delicate, but fortunately it doesn't look greasy.
Nathan Wang muttered back, "There's no rush to lose weight. I have to eat and drink well in my senior year of high school so I can cope with the college entrance examination. When I get into college, I'll go to the gym every day to punch in~"
Alex Xu treated Nathan Wang's words about losing weight as nonsense.
Dylan Xiao pursed his lips to hold back his laughter and said, "Fat people are all potential stocks. Zi Cong has good-looking facial features and has great potential."
However, Nathan Wang, who was praised for this, now feels that his armpits are pinched even when he keeps his arms hanging down, and his armpits are about to get prickly heat. In summer, he relies on snake powder bought by his girlfriend to get rid of prickly heat and relieve the itching.
Nathan Wang didn't want to talk about this sad thing. He smiled foolishly and said to Alex Xu and Dylan Xiao: "I'm going to the bathroom first. Xingxing, can you help me bring the headphones back to the classroom?"
As soon as Alex Xu heard this, he felt the urge to pee from Nathan Wang and said, "I want to pee too."
The toilet in the Science and Technology Building is known as a five-star toilet among students. It is an independent single room with a floor covered with regularly shaped tiles that echo the color of the walls. There is also a large half-length mirror above the sink, and the cleaning staff wipes it clean and shiny every day.
Even though it takes more than ten minutes to go from the Science and Technology Building to the Teaching Building, there are still many students who would rather run all the way here to use the toilet than squat in the dirty and smelly teaching building.
Alex Xu washed his hands and came out of the bathroom. He saw Dylan Xiao standing outside the corridor waiting for him and Nathan Wang. He walked over and said, "My deskmate hasn't come out yet?"
Dylan Xiao heard this and turned around and said, "Well, it should be soon."
Alex Xu shook off the water droplets on his hands, walked to Dylan Xiao's side, and asked casually: "What are you looking at?"
Dylan Xiao: "No..."
His eagerness to refute was even more suspicious.
Alex Xu stood at the edge of the corridor and looked, and sure enough, he saw a man and a woman standing on the overpass connecting the Science and Technology Building and Teaching Building A.
The girl had her back to Alex Xu and the others, with her long wavy hair reaching her waist; the boy was leaning against the low wall of the overpass, standing face to face with the girl.
It’s Jiang Jize.
Alex Xu couldn't help but steal a glance at Dylan Xiao who was standing next to him. He saw that he had his eyes lowered, one hand pinching the zipper head of the hem of his school uniform, and the other hand pulling the weeds growing in the green plant pot above the corridor fence.
Alex Xu has always wanted to find an opportunity to talk to Dylan Xiao about Jiang Jize.
Ever since the morning experience on the playground where Dylan Xiao's name was shouted loudly, and the red line changed significantly just because the two of them looked at each other inadvertently, Alex Xu couldn't wait to know whether the red line would give more feedback if there was interaction between the two of them.
Alex Xu looked at the man and woman on the overpass and pretended to be surprised and asked: "Are those two people over there confessing their love?"
Dylan Xiao replied in a low voice: "I don't know..."
Alex Xu added: "I've heard of that boy, I think his name was Jiang Ze, or Jiang Ze or something, eh---"
Alex Xu racked his brains for a long time, but to no avail. He looked very miserable and sad.
Perhaps Dylan Xiao couldn't bear to see Alex Xu so troubled, so he added softly, "Jiang Jize."
Alex Xu suddenly understood and clapped his hands and laughed: "Hey! It's Jiang Jize, do you know him?"
Alex Xu applauded himself for his clever move of entering the topic without leaving any trace.
Dylan Xiao nodded, glanced at Jiang Jize, and said, "We went to the same junior high school, and almost all the teachers and students in the school knew him."
Alex Xu asked curiously: "Why? Did he do something that shocked the whole school?"
There are only two types of people who are famous in school: one is the one who gets into fights so badly that he is publicly criticized by the whole school and his deeds become the topic of conversation after dinner; the other is the one who has excellent academic performance and is firmly in the top few positions in the grade. He will go on stage at the commendation meeting at the beginning of each semester to receive certificates and scholarships from the principal.
And Jiang Jize has a face of a "first type of person".
Dylan Xiao looked at the handful of weeds in his hand and said softly, "Jiang Jize, he... is a good person."
The reason why the name Jiang Jize became a sensation in junior high school and was known to everyone was that when Dylan Xiao and his classmates were in the second year of junior high school, on a morning in late autumn, the school performed radio gymnastics as usual. There were two leaders on the podium, one male and one female, and every move was performed extremely standardly.
Jiang Jize was standing in the first row of the team, gesticulating sleepily when he was suddenly attracted by the excited exclamations of several boys nearby. During the radio gymnastics exercise, when the girl on the podium was doing the kicking exercise, her school uniform pants "hissed" and split along the seam at the crotch, and the boys facing the podium began to whistle in excitement.
Before the teachers patrolling the exercises could react, Jiang Jize quickly took off his coat and stepped onto the podium with his long legs.
Jiang Jize put his coat around the girl's waist. The girl was shocked by his action. Jiang Jize covered the torn trousers of the girl tightly and explained to her: "Classmate, your trousers are torn."
When the girl heard this, her face turned red instantly. She turned around and saw the boys in the audience cheering and laughing. She tightly grasped the school uniform that Jiang Jize had tied around her waist, and her eyes instantly turned red.
The whole playground was in chaos because of this incident. Upon hearing the news, the teacher rushed over to appease the girls. Jiang Jize jumped off the podium and fiercely kicked the boy who led the commotion, cursing: "Do you have a brain? How can you make a commotion about something like this?"
Jiang Jize felt relieved by the kick, and also because he was so handsome when he took off his clothes in public to cover the girl, he immediately became the ideal type admired by all the girls in the school.
After hearing this story, Alex Xu had to look at Jiang Jize with new eyes and exclaimed: "He's only in the second year of junior high school... but his emotional intelligence is quite high."
Dylan Xiao nodded, then shook his head and said, "He had a girlfriend at the time. Because of this, the girl got upset with him, so he broke up with her directly. Then...the girl who led the stage became his new girlfriend."
Alex Xu: ...
The plot took a sharp turn for the worse and he couldn't pick it up.
Dylan Xiao smiled helplessly: "He is the kind of person who never refuses anyone who comes..."
After saying this, Dylan Xiao's gaze drifted towards the two figures on the overpass.
Alex Xu clearly felt that Dylan Xiao was hesitant to speak and there was something else to say.
"correct."
Dylan Xiao did not forget to explain: "Although we went to the same junior high school, he didn't know my..."
When Dylan Xiao said this, his eyes drooped habitually. Since a while ago, his fingertips had been restlessly stroking the plastic zipper head on the hem of his school uniform.
Dylan Xiao didn't say it explicitly, but Alex Xu could already guess 70% in his heart: Dylan Xiao liked Jiang Jize. In the second year of junior high school, Jiang Jize became the ideal type of all the girls in the school. At the same time, he suddenly broke into Dylan Xiao's life like a god descending from heaven, completely disrupting everything for him.
The sky was clear and the breeze was light.
He is also very careful about his likes.
Alex Xu looked at Dylan Xiao in front of him, and then looked at Jiang Jize who was chatting with the girl, hesitating to speak. He wanted to comfort Dylan Xiao and told him not to feel sorry for himself. Even if the red thread between them was strange, it was fate after all, and they would definitely meet each other.
Although Alex Xu could not understand why Dylan Xiao fell in love with a boy, he was not very opposed to homoS3xuality. Instead, he felt that Dylan Xiao was very pitiful. He secretly had a crush on Jiang Jize, but did not dare to say it or pursue her. When he met Jiang Jize on weekdays, he was afraid to even let him look at him casually.
Alex Xu had an idea and pulled out a piece of dry grass and held it in his hand as a cover. While passers-by were not paying attention, he folded the red line behind Dylan Xiao in half and put it on his hand. He pinched the middle of the red line with his fingers and silently pulled the loose red line to a straight state.
A straight line is the shortest distance between two points---
Alex Xu pulled it hard, and the red line glowed slightly red.
Immediately afterwards, Jiang Jize and Dylan Xiao raised their heads at the same time, guided by the red line.
One was standing in the corridor on the fifth floor, and the other was leaning on the railing of the overpass, and the two were looking at each other from a distance.
The subtle feeling made Dylan Xiao blush a little.
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