timeless

Chapter 7
He even turned his head to ask Jiang Wei, "Do you want to eat it?" when the waiter brought his curry rice. Before Jiang Wei answered, the full plate of curry rice was immediately divided up by the girls who swarmed up.Yu Xinye yelled "Hey Hey" beside him angrily and amusedly, but he didn't really stop it, and soon ordered a new plate.

Yu Xinye asked the waiter to bring two clean plates, and distributed some to Jiang Wei and Zhao Mengfan.Jiang Wei said "thank you" in a low voice when he took it from his hand.

He didn't hear it, and smiled at Jiang Wei with puffed cheeks, beckoning her to "eat it while it's hot".

Jiang Wei didn't know why he suddenly wanted to see Xia Shuo.After searching the crowd for a while, he soon saw him sitting with the girl with the label "Xia Shuo's Girlfriend".The girl was eating food from his bowl, Jiang Wei saw the boy's lips moving, as if asking her "Do you want a drink?" Large bottle of drink.

This time, those cold and soft eyes did not look over.

Jiang Wei looked sideways at Zhao Mengfan. The girl who was eating noticed her gaze and turned around with a "what's the matter" expression.

She didn't know that Xia Shuo had a girlfriend, did she?
Xia Shuo was just too gentle, he was kind enough to send her home, wait for her who was at the end of the line, watch the sunrise with her, and say "you are a nice person".

It wasn't because he had any special feelings for her at all, he was just too gentle and kind.

Even when he talked to Zhao Mengfan, it was just out of friendship, out of kindness.

"No... nothing."

On the weekend, Jiang Wei was suddenly called to school by Zhao Mengfan.Even though he didn't know what happened, Jiang Wei left without saying a word.After rushing to the classroom, I found that Zhao Mengfan, Xie Yayi and other female class committee members who were usually very active in charge of class affairs were all in the classroom.

After seeing her, several girls said "you are finally here" and walked over.Jiang Wei was a little surprised, not knowing what was going on.

"What's the matter with me?"

"It's like this." Xie Yayi, the cultural and entertainment committee member, walked out from behind Zhao Mengfan, with a very sincere smile, "You know the blackboard newspaper every semester at school. As a representative of the art class, although you are not in charge of this, I still want to ask You come to help."

It turned out to be like this.Jiang Wei glanced at Zhao Mengfan, but said to Xie Yayi: "But aren't you responsible for this?"

"Yes." Xie Yayi shrugged, "But as the representative of the art class, you are also responsible."

"It doesn't seem to be my turn." Jiang Wei glanced at Zhao Mengfan again.Sure enough, Zhao Mengfan hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly, "Jiang Wei, just help me, you are also an art class representative."

"Yeah, I can only rely on you now." Several female class committee members also chimed in.

"It will be handed in tomorrow, but our class hasn't done it yet."

"Jiang Wei, you can definitely finish it."

"We entrusted you with this task." Xie Yayi looked at Jiang Wei very sincerely, and her tone sounded extremely serious.Jiang Wei turned his face to look at the blackboard behind her, and saw that there were only some random lines and borders drawn on it, and chalk rulers were randomly piled up on the ground.

Inexplicably, the words of refusal that I wanted to say at this time came to my lips but somehow turned them around.Jiang Wei looked at Zhao Mengfan without moving.

So, was it you who suggested that they find me as a coolie?
"Jiang Wei." Still in a hesitant tone, the girl stepped forward, "Oh, just help me, what's the big deal!"

"It's not my business?"

"Because you're great at drawing." A sentence choked out after thinking for a long time, a very far-fetched reason.

Great at drawing?

Is that really all there is to it?
"Oh, you just agree!" The girl on the left who chimed in took a step forward, "Please!"

It was clearly a request, but with an impatient and perfunctory tone.

Just about to say no, Zhao Mengfan, who hadn't looked directly at her, suddenly raised his head to look at her: "Jiang Wei, what if you help me?"

In a word, it stopped her.

Jiang Wei looked at Zhao Mengfan, but Jiang Wei couldn't see through the strange emotion in her eyes.But this tone, this tone, instantly made Jiang Wei's heart cold.

She looked at her steadily.

"Okay, I'll just help." The words came out unconsciously, and when Jiang Wei came to his senses, it was too late to regret.

Several girls cheered, clapped their hands, and picked up their backpacks.Before leaving, Xie Yayi patted Jiang Wei's shoulder with a solemn expression: "Then please, you are really a good person, you are beautiful, you are good at painting, and you are also very kind."

"Wait, are you leaving?" She suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Oh, we are redundant here, and it would be bad to affect you. We believe that you can handle it alone." After Xie Yayi finished speaking, she left Jiang Wei alone, leaving a "bye", hurriedly He quickly grabbed his bag, shouted "wait for me" and chased after him.

The classroom that quickly emptied, and Zhao Mengfan who disappeared from his field of vision together, held hands by them and never looked back.

The voices of the girls who did not deliberately lower their voices came from a distance: "I knew Xiaofan, you will definitely get it done!"

It seemed as if cold water had been poured on his face until he was shivering from the cold, but he didn't understand what was going on.

After standing there for a while, Jiang Wei simply wanted to leave, anyway, it was none of his business, even if the teacher blamed him, it would not be his turn to be scolded.But these were just impulses at that moment, and I finally endured them back.

Why do you always ask me to help you clean up the mess?Why should I help you clean up the mess?

It's all about you being blindly active and trying to be brave when you can't do it. In the end, it's me who helps you do these meaningless things.

The feeling of loneliness, empty and empty, returned to me helplessly in an instant, and it seemed that it was always around me and never left.

The anger that broke out again in an instant finally stretched out soft vines and branches in the heart, covering Jiang Wei's entire heart.

Jiang Wei lowered her eyelids, and after a while, she bent down and picked up the triangular plate on the ground.

I have no choice but to keep going.

The girl held the settable and held the chalk to match it, but the drawing was crooked.Wipe it off and try again, it's still crooked.I painted it over and over again several times, but I still didn't draw it well.Jiang Wei straightened the triangular board, held the chalk and traced it again.

The dust floating slightly in the light, and the feeling of dry heartache at that moment.

He didn't pay attention to the time, and when there were footsteps that shouldn't have been heard in the corridor, Jiang Wei realized that he had been drawing from nine o'clock in the morning to one o'clock in the afternoon.There is no way, after all, I am alone, and only about a third of it has been completed.If you can't finish it, you will see the teacher's furious face tomorrow.

Hungry and tired.

Maybe it was students from other classes, or they came back, but the possibility of the latter was not so great.The footsteps came closer and closer, and finally stopped at the door.Jiang Wei subconsciously stopped the movements in his hands and looked out the door.

The figure of the young man standing by the door was cut into a thin silhouette by the light, and the moment their eyes met, they were slightly taken aback.

"Are you alone?"

"Yeah." Jiang Wei took a piece of bread that the boy handed over, "Let me make it all by myself."

Yu Xinye hunched over and tossed about in the desk drawer, and the books slammed into the drawer, making fierce noises.

"If it weren't for my homework left in the classroom, and I happened to buy some food outside, I don't think you plan to go out to eat."

"Maybe." Jiang Wei took a bite of the bread and took the milk tea from the boy.

Yu Xinye straightened up, "You're just trying to be brave. If you don't want to do it, just refuse it. It's none of your business. Going out to eat something will kill you? They're clearly playing tricks on you, can't you see it?"

Jiang Wei fell silent.

she knows.In fact, she knew all about it.

How could Jiang Wei not see the little tricks and tricks?It's like playing tricks in class, how could the intrigue between girls not be discovered.

It's just that I don't want to admit it, I'm deceiving myself and others.

A certain girl or a few girls just have a sudden idea or a whim, and then they jointly play tricks on or isolate another girl on a whim.These are all normal things, so why can't you see it?

What chilled her was that it was her best friend who helped them play tricks on her.

best friend.

Always help her clean up the mess.

Yu Xinye finished the whole book and stood up. The shadow that had originally shrouded Jiang Wei's body suddenly became smaller, as if he was planning to leave.

"You want to go?" Jiang Wei asked immediately.The milk tea is iced, put it in my hand, and the coldness seeps into the palm of my hand.

"No." He put the book on the desk, "Can you finish it by yourself?"

"what?"

"I mean..." Yu Xinye turned around and picked up Jiang Wei's triangular plate on the ground, "I'll stay here to help you. Isn't there an inspection tomorrow? Two people are faster than one."

Two people and four hands are indeed much faster than one person.

After the task was assigned, Jiang Wei continued to paint, and Yu Xinye helped her do some chores such as cleaning the blackboard, drawing borders, washing rags, holding a ruler, and fetching water.Boys always do things faster than girls, and they are much stronger than girls.

"I said, I didn't expect to be so tiring doing blackboard newspapers." Yu Xinye appeared by the door with a bucket in his hand, and cast his slender shadow on the floor, blending with the light.

"The shoulder is going to be broken!"

"Yeah, you always recommend it to girls." Jiang Wei took a few steps back holding the settable to see the effect, "It's still close...it's almost ready, there are only two people, it's great to do it like this gone."

A long blackboard is mounted on the wall.There are not many patterns, mainly text, and each section is neatly divided, which makes people feel fresh at a glance.

"Just now when I went out to fetch water, I looked at the other classes, and one class was painted with paint." Yu Xinye put the bucket on the chair, pulled another chair over, and lay down on the floor desperately. , "It's pretty nice, the colors are very bright."

"It's too wasteful." Jiang Wei brushed the little locks of hair wet with sweat behind his ears, "And it will be more troublesome when wiping the blackboard and when the weather is wet... Think about it."

The boy tilted his head and thought carefully about the scene of countless people wiping the blackboard vigorously with a rag and the paint on the blackboard being washed and melted by the flowing water when the weather was humid, and he burst out laughing.

Just as Jiang Wei was about to laugh along with him, his fingers suddenly trembled twice, and then twitched involuntarily.

Cramp!
Jiang Wei hurriedly bent his fingers, sneakily not wanting to be seen by Yu Xinye.

"What are you doing?" Yu Xinye noticed the strangeness showing from the frowning brows because of too much pain, and his eyes followed closely, "What's wrong with your hand?"

"It's okay, it's just a little cramp." Still trying to be brave.

"Let me see." He said and held out his hand.Jiang Wei retracted his hand reflexively, attracting his inexplicable gaze: "Why retract?"

"What... what are you doing!" Jiang Wei looked at the boy uncomfortably, a little disgusted by his natural intimacy.

But she saw that Yu Xinye's expression and eyes didn't have the slightest ambiguity, just a very ordinary expression of concern, a natural one.

"Isn't it cramping? Reach out and let me see, don't you feel pain?"

Don't need it?Even though he was thinking this way, Jiang Wei stretched out his hand slowly, and Yu Xinye grabbed her hand all at once.The sudden movement and scalding body temperature startled Jiang Wei, and almost shook his hand away: "What are you doing?"

"Why are your hands so cold?" Yu Xinye didn't care, and opened her fingers involuntarily. The hot palm wrapped around Jiang Wei's slender fingers, and she didn't let go because of her unconscious struggle.

"Big...it must have been soaked in the bucket for a long time." His fingers trembled, and he was too embarrassed to pull them out, so he could only let him hold them stiffly.

My face is going to burn.

Yu Xinye raised his head and looked at her, as if he didn't notice anything strange about her, he stretched out her fingers one by one, rubbing Jiang Wei's cold and stiff hands repeatedly: "Stop playing with them."

"Huh?" There was no response.

"I said..." Yu Xinye lowered his head and continued to help her rub his fingers, without looking up at her, he continued, "You are not stupid, you can clearly see it, why don't you refuse?"

"..." Did he see it?

"I'll just say you're stubborn, so what if you refuse? It's none of your business."

"..."

"I've never seen someone as paranoid as you. The so-called paranoid is talking about you, right?"

"..." The so-called naughty ghost is you.

He said something else, but Jiang Wei didn't pay attention.She looked at Yu Xinye with her head down, the boy's hair was shining brightly in the whitish light.He drooped his eyelids, sat hunched over in a chair because of his height, and continued rubbing his fingers for her.

Suddenly there is a feeling of heartache.

Jiang Wei suddenly remembered that when he was a child, before his parents divorced, there was a puppy at home. At that time, he was young, and because of his withdrawn personality, he basically had no friends, so he was with the puppy all day long.At that time, the little girl really loved the puppy very much, and the puppy also liked her very much.But later the puppy died because he ate something unclean by mistake. Jiang Wei watched his father carry the puppy's body away, tears streaming down his mouth.

That night a pot of deliciously stewed meat appeared on the dining table at home, and my father called a friend to eat with him.At that time, Jiang Wei was standing by the side looking at the pot of soup that was still bubbling with white foam. She knew it was the puppy's meat.

She didn't eat that night, and her parents, who were only entertaining friends, didn't notice her strangeness.

The nails were dug into the palm of the hand hard, and the tears kept streaming down, gathering into small droplets on the chin.The heartache at that time was rediscovered many years later, and the whole heart contracted violently.

I can still recall the heartache of despair over the loss of a friend.

"Does it still hurt?"

Jiang Wei came back to his senses, the violent twitching feeling before had disappeared, and his palms gradually returned to warmth.

"Ah, it doesn't hurt anymore."

It's just a heartache, but can he see it?

"Then switch to the other hand." Yu Xinye said and wanted to extend his hand again.

"That..." Jiang Wei didn't pull back his hand this time, but just stared at the ends of his hair turning shiny white under the light.

"What?" He didn't look up, he took Jiang Wei's other hand naturally, opened her flexed fingers skillfully, and swallowed.

The hand that still had Yu Xinye's body temperature and had returned to its original temperature curled up quietly, and the fingers were tightly knit together.

"You often..." paused, "No...do you do this to every girl?"

Yu Xinye suddenly raised his head, and the hand holding Jiang Wei's hand suddenly tightened, almost crushing Jiang Wei's hand.Jiang Wei's back stiffened, and his eyes met Yu Xinye's in the air.

There was almost a soft sourness in Jiang Wei's heart.

Do you do this to every girl?

Look at them with ambiguous eyes, and give them the illusion of being in a dream with your gentleness, your thoughtfulness, and your chicness.You think it is the strong and sweet sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance, even if it will wither sooner or later, it will still leave a lingering fragrance in the hearts and sides of those girls.

You can show up when they're at a loss, walk past them at will, and show up like a light.Then hold their cold hands with hot hands to warm their hearts that should have been chilled.And the reason you do these things is not because who is special in your heart, or it can be said that everyone is special in your heart.

Is that right?

(End of this chapter)