It's the students' fault if they are too popular.

Bai Lu was a little moved. It was shameful to escape, but it was useful. But she didn't nod in the end, but sighed heavily:

"I... I'd better go and reconcile my parents. No matter how much they quarrel, I don't want them to get divorced." She still wanted this family to be complete.

Dong Yang smiled and said, "Well, come on."

Bai Lu lay down and also laughed.

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During the afternoon physical education class, the sun scorched the earth.

Dongyang stays at home every day and is not good at sports, which is what her aunt has done. But today's physical education class requires people to move around, and the teacher asked everyone to practice volleyball. Dongyang couldn't even juggle the ball with her hands, so she ran around to catch the ball, but the ball got farther and farther away. After finally being free to move around, she wanted to go back to the classroom, but the teacher called her back:

"You are not allowed to go back to the classroom! Exercise well in physical education class. Your body is the revolution..."

Dong Yang sat on the grass in the middle of the playground with a bitter face. After a while, Bai Lu came, sat next to him, and handed Dong Yang a bottle of drink:

"Here."

The cold drink under the scorching sun made Dongyang feel like he had found a treasure, and he quickly acted cute:

"Thank you, Sister Lulu."

Bai Lu's mouth curled up when she heard this.

They sat and watched the boys playing football in the distance. Suddenly, footsteps approached, and Dongyang turned around to see Gu Nian, who was sweating profusely.

Bai Lu also looked back. Gu Nian was standing in a daze, holding a white plastic bag with the shape of a drink visible inside.

"That... I bought it for you." Gu Nian said, taking out the drinks from the bottle. "I didn't know you had already bought it, but... you can drink this later."

Gu Nian thought they bought their own ones?

Bai Lu suddenly felt a little ashamed. She forgot to buy it for Gu Nian, but Gu Nian remembered to buy it for her.

Dong Yang had already taken the drink and said, "Thank you, it's my turn to buy it next time."

"No need..." Gu Nian said in a low voice.

Several people were standing next to each other, and the atmosphere was a little dull. Bai Lu was still feeling guilty, but suddenly she was attracted by the wall in the distance and pointed over there:

"Look at that!"

Dong Yang and Gu Nian looked over and saw a man and a woman sneaking towards there. In that corner, there was an abandoned toilet with gray cement walls and the words "male" and "female" written on them with spray paint. Sometimes the school hooligans would beat up someone they didn't like there.

"That's... Han Tingting? And Chu Jie?" Dong Yang exclaimed.

"Didn't Han Tingting fail to pursue Chu Jie?" Bai Lu wondered, looking at Gu Nian with a look that said "you're cheating on me".

Gu Nian was annoyed: "I don't like him!"

Bai Lu chuckled and said, "I know. What do you think they are doing there?"

The three little girls looked at each other, some thought of intimate things, some thought of more evil things, and shyly covered their hot faces.

They stared at that place, and finally, Dong Yang said:

"Maybe... to confess my feelings."

"They really know how to choose a place." Bai Lu complained, "It's also because our school doesn't have a grove. They are wronged."

This scene is magical. In the huge playground, three girls are sitting on the grass, staring at the toilet in the distance.

Not long after, the person behind the toilet wall came out. It was Han Tingting. Han Tingting stood on tiptoe and seemed to make a kissing gesture. The hands behind the wall hugged her waist.

"Chu Jie has been captured." Bai Lu had a blank expression on her face. "He said before that he liked our Gu Nian, but he surrendered so quickly."

"That's great." said Gu Nian.

Only Dong Yang was there, silent and looking quietly into the distance.

Chu Jie and Han Tingting left hand in hand. They were fearless in the playground where only the physical education teacher was present.

Then she spoke:

"Have you ever... kissed?"

There was confusion and curiosity in this voice. Gu Nian and Bai Lu's hearts both stopped beating. Just as they were about to say something, Dong Yang had already made his own judgment: "There shouldn't be any? I don't know what's good..."

What's so good about it that makes Han Tingting, and even her aunt and Ruan Qian, like her so much?

When the bell rang, she patted her pants and stood up:

"Let's go back to the classroom."

Extra: Winter Sun (Part 9)

“The success of a student is not determined by what he does in class, but by what he does in his spare time.”

During class, the head teacher walked into the classroom and sighed, "I always stand behind the door during breaks. People like Xu Dongyang and Gu Nian are always studying. Why do they have good grades? There are reasons for this..."

Dongyang, who was inexplicably cueed, raised his head and then pretended not to hear it.

Gu Nian's ears turned slightly red. She thought, if a boy and a girl were praised like this by the teacher, their classmates would definitely start to encourage them to be a couple.

Bai Lu was in a daze the whole time. She never took Chinese seriously, thinking that Chinese was something mysterious and didn't need a teacher to teach it. But Dong Yang would remind her to remember the key points from time to time, and she would concentrate for a while.

The get out of class was about to end, the sunset outside was turning red, and Bai Lu's stomach began to growl. There were only a few kinds of food in the school, and she was tired of eating them. She wanted to change the taste occasionally, so she whispered to Dong Yang:

"Would you like to order takeout for dinner?"

"what?"

"I order it now and I'll pick it up right after class."

The school does not allow takeout to be delivered into the school, but the delivery guys can bring the food in through the retractable doors at the school gate, and the guards are usually in the air-conditioned message room, so few people will be caught.

Dongyang hesitated. It was the last class in the afternoon and everyone was hungry. The takeaway was much better than the school meals. Although her aunt usually asked her to eat less outside...

She nodded and responded quietly:

"Ask Gu Nian, let's order together."

Dongyang glanced at the teacher, who was speaking with great enthusiasm and didn't pay attention to the gossip in the audience.

"Zhu Ziqing was also very courageous. He would rather die than eat the American relief food. In the end, he was..."

"Xiao Hei, help me pass it to Gu Nian."

Dongyang wrote a note and passed it to the black boy next to him.

The dark-skinned boy was flattered, but resisted the urge to peek at the content and passed it to his deskmate Xiao Erhei, who also had dark skin.

"Pass it to Gu Nian."

Xiao Erhei was puzzled: "Whose is it?"

He looked towards the source and saw Xu Dongyang waving at him and making a gesture of thanks.

He instantly felt a sense of mission to deliver important intelligence to the revolutionaries.

Gu Nian sat far away, and when the note was passed to Gu Nian, it had already passed through many hands. Gu Nian stared blankly at the battered note in his hand, and slowly opened it:

"Lulu and I are going to order takeout tonight. What do you want to eat? Let's order together."

She looked at Dongyang and Bailu, who were winking and smiling at her from afar.

She curled her lips subconsciously, put the note away, and replaced it with a new one:

"I ordered the same thing as you guys. It's easier to take if we send it together."

"Pass it to Xu Dongyang, thank you."

Another struggle.

When they pass notes, they will avoid those who are listening carefully in class, even though not many people are listening carefully in this class.

Bai Lu read the note, took out her cell phone, and turned it on secretly. She was the kind of student who didn't hand in her cell phone, and sometimes she could climb onto Dong Yang's bed to watch dramas with him. After ordering the meal, she made an "OK" gesture, looking forward to the bell ringing.

"jingle--"

The bell rang.

Bai Lu was the first to stand up. Unexpectedly, the head teacher said:

"Bai Lu, come to my office for a moment."

Bai Lu: “?!”

Dongyang was shocked. He didn't expect something to go wrong at this time.

"No way." Bai Lu wailed.

Dong Yang said: "It's okay, Gu Nian and I will go get it."

Bai Lu nodded aggrievedly and walked towards the office dejectedly.

Gu Nian came over from his seat and asked, "Shall we go get it?"

"Well, let's go."

Dongyang has never done anything that violates school rules since he was a child, but everything has a first time.

After leaving the teaching building and standing under a tree a few dozen meters away from the school gate, she stood on tiptoe and didn't see the delivery boy's motorcycle. Bai Lu gave her the phone, but the delivery boy hadn't called yet, so they could only wait.

"The door of the guard room is open." Gu Nian looked at the small room next to the gate with a worried look on his face, "Will they come out to catch us later?"

"I don't know." Dong Yang was unsure, "I think they are quite lazy."

The two looked at each other, and Gu Nian said:

"I'll go get it, you wait here."

Dong Yang laughed: "Why? It's not like I can't go."

Gu Nian was stuck and didn't know what to say.

Just then, a phone call came in. Dong Yang answered the call and the other end said:

"Hello, your takeaway, I'm at the school gate."

Dong Yang: "Okay, I'll be right there."

As she said that, she ran towards the retractable door, and Gu Nian immediately followed. Outside the stainless steel door, the takeaway boy saw them, Dong Yang called out the last number, and the boy immediately stuffed the takeaway into the gap.

"It seems it can't be squeezed in." The young man was sweating.

"Don't stack three boxes together, push them over one by one." Dong Yang looked at the guard room, feeling a little nervous.

Suddenly, Gu Nian trembled: "The guard is coming out!"

Dongyang tensed up and turned around. The guard was pouring a bowl of soup into the gutter and seemed not to see them. Just as she took the second box of lunch, the guard suddenly shouted at them:

"Which class?!"

It was the first time for the two little girls to do something bad. They were so scared that they ran away, each holding a box of lunch.

The security guard, who had just finished his meal and was pregnant, did not chase after me. He ran a few steps symbolically and went back to enjoy the air conditioning with his bulging belly.

"call……"

They didn't dare to stop until they ran back to the classroom.

"They won't check the surveillance footage to hold us accountable, right?" Dong Yang was still frightened.

Gu Nian was also very scared. She had never been criticized by the teacher before and was afraid that she would be criticized in the notice: "I don't think so..."

After taking a breath, Gu Nian silently put down the lunch box and said:

"I only took two boxes. What should I do? Should I go back and get more?"

Dongyang shook his head: "No, I'm not going back. You eat it. One portion is enough for Lulu and I. We used to order one portion to eat together." But it used to be spicy hot pot or something like that.

Gu Nian didn't eat it. She wanted to say, "I can have one with you and give the other to Bai Lu," but she was too shy to say it. In the end, she just whispered:

"Do you have a bowl? Divide these two boxes into three equal parts."

Dong Yang nodded: "Yes." She turned around and rummaged through her schoolbag. Suddenly, her brows furrowed, she let out a soft cry, raised her hand, and looked at her fingertips.

"What's wrong?" Gu Nian approached and asked.

"There's a thorn, I don't know when it got stuck in my finger."

Half of the thorn was still sticking out. It was probably a small wooden thorn from disposable chopsticks or a chair.