Ch 10

“Do you dare? Huh? You dare?” Lou Cheng held him down. At first, he wanted to punish and disgust him. But when Ding Xuerun didn’t move, he stopped. Then Lou Cheng felt Xiao Ding’s breath very clearly and it sprayed on his skin. 

Lou Cheng suddenly felt very itchy, and an electric current flowed into his mind for an instant.

He was stunned for a while, Ding Xuerun reacted first, and came out of his clothes with a flushed face: “Lou Cheng, you…”

Ding Xuerun’s skin is very white and cold-toned. Lou Cheng hasn’t seen him blush before. There is a bit of a strange feeling in his heart. Then he laughed and raised his eyebrows: “Xiao Ding? Why are you blushing?.”

The smell still lingers on the tip of Ding Xuerun’s nose, which confounds with the cold air after the winter solstice and rushing into his nose one after another.

The school’s maple leaves fell, and the school bell rang. Their school bell was Kai Li Jin’s saxophone, soothing and gentle.

Lou Cheng heard Ding Xuerun say something, but he didn’t hear clearly. He leaned over slightly, “What did you say?”

“I said——” Ding Xuerun seemed to feel the scorching temperature, spreading to his limbs, his hands were shaking, and said, “You smell so fucking bad.”

“…”

It was the first time Lou Cheng heard Ding Xuerun say such uncivilized words, which meant he was a bit of a hooligan. Lou Cheng was stunned for several seconds: “You’re so fucking, you…” You breathe on my fucking chest!

“What about me?”

“…It’s nothing.” Lou Cheng even forgot to ask him for his school uniform. “I’m going home, bye.”

Ding Xuerun took his school uniform back to the dormitory and put it on his desk. After a while, he dried the blue and white school uniform on the sunny high place.

The school uniform made him miss a class, and there was still the smell of Lou Cheng, but not the smell of sweat.

Ding Xuerun sighed lowly.

There were two consecutive English classes in the afternoon and the English teacher also took up one section of self-study. Ask the class representative to hand out a set of simulation papers before the class.

Although they are only in the second year of high school, their class progress is very fast, coupled with subjects such as English, so they do the real exam papers for the college entrance examination.

The English teacher said: “Like other exams, you are not allowed to whisper or use your mobile phone, no books on the table, do the questions quietly and hand them in when the class over in the afternoon.”

Because of the exam, Lou Cheng disappeared. The English teacher stared at the only empty seat in the classroom and shook his head.

Lou Cheng doesn’t go to class in the evening, and the teachers all know that he has gone to TOEFL class.

But with Lou Cheng’s English level, it’s a fart TOEFL.

Ding Xuerun is very fast in answering the questions, and he had previously written this set of test papers issued by the teacher, he also bought this set of real test papers for the college entrance examination.

The English teacher gave him three sections. He finished the second section before the end of the class. He checked the answers and started to do other things.

The phone buzzed.

Ding Xuerun ignored it and then buzzed a few more times.

He realized that it might not be a text message from a mobile company, so he took a look at it.

Sure enough, it’s a message from Lou Cheng.

“Xiao Ding, I forgot to give you the meal card.”

“But I’m already outside of school.”

“I’ll give it to you tonight. Wait for my call, I will call you.”

Ding Xuerun looked at his message and wanted to tell him that it was just a steamed bun. He had money in his meal card, but… he typed a few words and deleted it, and finally sent a message: “Why do you have to eat steamed bun tomorrow?”

“I just want to eat, do you have a problem with that?”

His childlike tone made Ding Xuerun don’t know how to reply. His phone screen was on. He hung his head and thought about it. Maybe Lou Cheng… didn’t want to eat just steamed buns, but wanted to eat the steamed buns he bought.

“Okay, I’ll wait for your call.” He replied.

Everyone was doing the questions quietly. Ding Xuerun’s actions of playing with his mobile phone are quite obvious. The academic committee Chen Zhibang walked to the back to pick up water and suddenly saw a bright light on his desk.

He passed by Ding Xuerun, but the other party didn’t respond.

Chen Zhibang glanced at him contemptuously, then went to the podium, bent down, and said to the English teacher: “Miss Di, it seems that someone cheated.”

The English teacher who is making PPT courseware raises her head directly: “Who?”

Chen Zhibang said, “Lou Cheng’s deskmate, Ding Xuerun, I saw him using his cell phone…”

The English teacher looked over, and she found something was wrong. She frowned and stepped down from the podium.

Noticing the teacher is walking down, Ding Xuerun locked the screen of the phone and gently covered it with the test paper.

The English teacher walked to him, then stopped and knocked on his desk. Ding Xuerun didn’t respond, and he held the pen in silence.

“Did you use your cell phone?” Her voice was serious.

Ding Xuerun knew that she must have seen it, and knew that it was definitely useless to lie. His expression was very calm, and he said “Um” in a low voice and said he used it.

Although Miss Di and Ding Xuerun’s voices were very small, but in the quiet classroom where you could even hear a needle drop, their movement caught the attention of the whole class.

“What happened?”

“I don’t know… it seems… he cheated with his cell phone?”

“It seems to be true? Miss Di took Ding Xuerun’s mobile phone…” It’s not that they haven’t caught students who cheat in their school, but in a class like Class 4, the top student disdain cheating. They study hard, so when something like this happened, they immediately change their opinion of this transfer student.

Ding Xuerun turned off the phone and handed it in, then handed in the test paper, explaining word by word: “I have finished writing the test paper. I am not checking the answer with my mobile phone, and I didn’t cheat. I just took out my mobile phone to play because I finished writing the test paper.”

“It’s just over an hour now.” The English teacher doubted what he said. Not only cheating but also lying, she hates this kind of student very much, and raises her voice: “You said you finished writing? Did you write it yourself?”

Ding Xuerun nodded calmly, looked into her eyes without fear, and said sonorously, “I didn’t cheat.”

“I’ll take the mobile phone.” She took away Ding Xuerun’s test paper, “Come  to me for your mobile phone at the end of the term.” After speaking, she turned and walked back to the podium. Then, she walked down the stage again with a test paper and placed it on Ding Xuerun’s desk with a stern look: “You write it for me in an hour.”

Ding Xuerun lowered his head and smiled. He pulled off the cap of the pen and wrote his name on the test paper. The standard of cursive handwriting is like the printing of calligraphy.

The classmates whispered: “What’s the matter? Did Miss Di take another test paper different for him to write?”

“He really cheated?”

“I thought he was a top student. When the teacher asked him to answer questions, he could answer them all.”

“He said that he finished writing the test paper and said he did not cheat. How could it be possible? I just finished writing.”

The academic committee said: “Deception can’t last long, just wait and see, he will be beaten back to his original form.”

“How dare he pretend to be a top student?”

The students despise cheating people very much.

Ding Xuerun was not in the mood to eavesdrop on what others said about him. It happened that he had done this test paper again, and it’s really helped him in answering it.

On the podium, the English teacher glanced at Ding Xuerun every once in a while and saw that he had been writing without any other actions.

She looked down at Ding Xuerun’s test paper and found that the accuracy rate was ridiculously high.

There are many people who can get a perfect score on the English test. She doesn’t distrust students, but playing with mobile phones during the test whether there are search questions or not, is regarded as cheating.

She is not clear about Ding Xuerun’s details. Sometimes this student is serious in class and sometimes absent-minded. Moreover, the teacher in all subjects can see his appearance when he first transferred. His face is blue and swollen, and he doesn’t look like a good student.

After a while, she walked off the podium and looked around, and when she walked behind Ding Xuerun, she stood deliberately for two minutes.

It’s a long stay.

Ding Xuerun is writing the completion to fill in the blanks. His reading speed was very fast and surprising. He chose the correct words very quickly. Without hesitation, he wrote very surely.

The English teacher was unavoidably surprised, thinking that maybe Ding Xuerun really didn’t check the answer, he was doing the questions too quickly, so he started playing after he finished writing.

She bypassed Ding Xuerun in silence. Soon, when the class was over. She stood up and said, “The students who haven’t finished writing should stop writing and handed in the test papers.”

After Ding Xuerun wrote the last word of the composition, and S was drawn elegantly on the pad of the test paper.

He handed in the test paper, and the English teacher read it roughly, then called him: “Ding Xuerun, this teacher has wronged you, but the phone cannot be returned to you. After the final exam, you can come and ask me for it, I will keep it for you.”

“Thank you, Miss Di. It’s my fault to play with my phone in the exam.” Ding Xuerun took the initiative to admit his mistake so that the English teacher would not be embarrassed.

The other students didn’t know what they said, but in their eyes, it’s not a good thing.

Chen Zhibang complained loudly in the class: “It’s alright if you don’t study well. If you don’t know the answer, then don’t answer. What’s the point of cheating and not admitting it at the same time?”

Ding Xuerun walked past him.

Now he is facing another problem. His mobile phone has been confiscated. He uses the APP to do some exercise on weekdays, but now he is afraid that he may not be able to do so, and his live broadcast can only be temporarily interrupted.

Today, Lou Cheng said that he would call him tonight and give him a meal card.

With Lou Cheng’s temper, if the phone fails to get through, he will have to face him the next day.

After the evening self-study at nine o’clock, Ding Xuerun packed his schoolbag and left the school with it on his back.

The small shop opposite the school is very lively at this time. The shop is very neatly lined up, and many students who are off school eat midnight snacks in it.

Ding Xuerun followed the people out of the school gate and turned right.

On the right is a nice-looking community. From the outside, the community should be full of villas. When a villa is developed in a place like a school, generally no one except the parents of the students will buy it, because the school is too noisy.

Ding Xuerun walked directly to the security room at the gate of the community and asked: “Uncle, I want to send something to my classmate, but I forgot to bring my mobile phone.”

He was wearing the uniform of the Liu Zhong high school and glasses, he looked very gentle, like a good student.

“My classmate rides a motorcycle. It’s should be royal blue. Has he gone home yet?”

When he talked about motorcycles, the security had an impression: “Oh, you mean him. He comes back very late every day, but I don’t know if he will come back today. This little student, do you remember his house number? Why don’t you go knock on the door and ask?”

Ding Xuerun didn’t know the house number. He went to the office to find the registration form and took a look. Lou Cheng’s address was not the neighboring community at all.

In fact, if he asked, it was not difficult to get Lou Cheng’s phone number, but he didn’t ask anyone.

Ding Xuerun nodded and said to the security guard: “Then I will wait for him here for a while, thank you.”

He stood in the bleak night breeze, and the school uniform was blown up by the wind, making it look very thin.

After the snow fell, the weather began to cool down slowly, and the temperature began to drop rapidly after the winter solstice. Ding Xuerun usually stayed in the classroom, but he didn’t expect that it would be so cold outside. He couldn’t help pulling up the zipper of the school uniform and stomping his feet.

The security guard saw him frozen like this and couldn’t bear to say: “Little student, do you want to come in and wait? It’s warmer inside, it’s too cold outside.”

Ding Xuerun said no, he walked under a big tree next to him and stood there, he could see the school and the community gate at the same time.

He stood and waited. His hands were frozen and slowly his feet were too cold to move, his whole body was cold.

Fortunately, Lou Cheng came back before 11.00 pm. Ding Xuerun heard the pleasant engine sound of the motorcycle from a distance. Lou Cheng made a phone call while riding his motorcycle, and at the same time burst out a swear word: “Turning off the fucking phone.”

“Did you hang up the phone?”

“Damn, did you block me?”

“WeChat phone calls are not answered either…”

Lou Cheng’s motorcycle stopped at the school gate, the lights were bright, his long legs propped on the ground. He took off his helmet and tried to make a phone call. Seeing the darkness on the campus, Lou Cheng also gave up, muttering: “You wait for Lao Zi,  I’ll take your last name if I don’t clean up tomorrow!” As soon as his voice fell, he caught a glimpse of the man standing under a tree outside the community.　　

He fixed his eyes and saw that the dazzling white skin and the slender boy in loose school uniforms were Ding Xuerun.

Lou Cheng put on his helmet again. He hid in the warm and sultry motorcycle helmet and said silently: “Forget what I said just now, I won’t take his last name!”

Ding Xuerun leaned against the tree and put his hand in the pocket of his school uniform. His chin was half-covered by the wide school uniform collar, and his face lost its color.

Ding Xuerun called him: “Lou Cheng.”

Lou Cheng took off his helmet, revealing his messed up black hair, and said in a careless voice: “It’s okay if you don’t answer my phone.”

“My phone was confiscated,” Ding Xuerun looked at him quietly and shrank a little cause of the cold. “In the afternoon, when you sent me a message, she saw it.”

Lou Cheng was silent at first, and then a little stunned. He stared at Ding Xuerun and found some tiny details-Ding Xuerun seemed to be frozen.

“…How long have you waited here?” His motorcycle let out a deep gasp when he was still, and everyone who knew about motorcycle loved the sound that symbolized money.

Ding Xuerun replied: “It wasn’t long before I came out after class.”

“Why don’t you borrow a mobile phone to call me? You can ignore me if you don’t have a mobile phone. Anyway, I can’t get through to you, so I went home.”

“I forgot, I’m afraid you can’t get through, so I come out and wait for you.” Ding Xuerun held his arm, shivering involuntarily because of the cold, “I will go back if I can’t wait.”

It was the first time that Lou Cheng met someone with Ding Xuerun’s personality. High school students were very simple and easy to see through, but his deskmate was not like that. He gave Lou Cheng a complicated feeling.

And he is very trustworthy in such small things.

Lou Cheng saw that he was so cold that his nose was red and he felt guilty inexplicably, “Then why not sit in the security room of the community?”

A leaf was blown down by the wind, and even his eyelashes seemed to be frozen, his eyes blinked suddenly, and he looked up at Lou Cheng as if ice and snow had merged. Ding Xuerun said: “…I forgot.”

“…A scumbag is a scumbag with a low IQ!” Lou Cheng turned off the motorcycle and raised his chin presumptuously: “Let’s go, brother, invite you to eat Hot Pot.”