Ch 9

In fact, Lou Cheng doesn’t like any steamed buns. He has a picky mouth, but he thinks that the steamed buns bought by Ding Xuerun tasted okay.

Ding Xuerun bought it for him for so many days, and suddenly he didn’t buy it for him. He was not used to it. He wanted to ask why, what happened, and did he offend him? He obviously the one who puffed smoke in his face that night. He was wronged, okay!

But when he asked, he seemed to be very fussy.

It’s just a steamed bun, or a vegetarian steamed bun-Lou Cheng comforted himself and took a bite of a cookie happily.

During the second class, the headteacher Dou Zhiwei entered the classroom. He put down the projection screen and said: “You all know about the midterm exams on Thursday and Friday, right?”

“Yes.” The students replied in unison.

“The mid-term exam is nothing special. The city’s joint exam is not more difficult than our monthly exam in our school. Just relax your mind. However, because it is a joint exam, there will be a city-wide ranking. It was said at the meeting yesterday that those who enter the city’s top ten this time will be rewarded.”

“Wow.”

The whole class clamored: “What’s the reward?”

“It’s money.”

“But the prize money is definitely not as good as some competitions. The selection of the math competition will begin next month. It is best for all the students in the class to sign up and have a try. Next month there will be a 

senior high school entrance examination on the 7th, and students who did not sign up should stay in school and have normal classes. Well, Chen Zhibang.” He called out the name of the academic committee, “Send out all the application forms and collect them tomorrow.”

This class is self-study. Teacher Dou sent out a test paper to let them write. Others were sitting on the podium and playing with their mobile phones. The academic committee member Chen Zhibang went down to register the names of the students one by one and sent them an application form to collect the registration fee.

Starting from the first row of the first group, in order not to disturb other students’ self-study, he asked one by one, “Do you want to register? The registration fee is 25.”

“I want to! I’ll give you the money, 25, right…”

Chen Zhibang registered one by one. Those who paid the money put a tick after their name, and those who did not pay the money drew a circle. Everyone chooses to sign up.

The academic committee should have asked everyone about it, but when it comes to Ding Xuerun and Lou Cheng who were at the same table, he ignored them directly.

Lou Cheng was playing with his mobile phone and didn’t even lift his head.

Ding Xuerun was writing the test papers and saw Chen Zhibang walk past them directly. He reached the table in front of them, bent over, and handed them the application form, so he stopped writing, “Academic Committee.” He shouted, “I want to sign up.”

“What?” Chen Zhibang turned around, “You want to sign up for math competition?”

“Yeah.” Ding Xuerun nodded. His previous school was in a small county, and there were few competitions they could participate in because the teacher would not notify the students that there was a competition. However, Liu Zhong high school is different, and competitions in various subjects are very popular in this school.

Chen Zhibang lifted his glasses as if Ding Xuerun was talking nonsense. He even smiled: “Do you want to sign up with your deskmate? Although 25 yuan is not a lot, it is still a waste of money not to go.”

“No waste, isn’t there a 5000 yuan reward?”

“That’s the provincial first prize! You?” Chen Zhibang didn’t forget that when the transfer student first came, he copied the answers all night. The homework was handed in next day the, and the teacher praised the transfer student.

He sneered, and then said: “Okay, here’s an application form for you, 25 yuan.”

“What are you reporting?” Lou Cheng next to Ding Xuerun raised his head.

“Competition,” Ding Xuerun said, “Are you going?”

Lou Cheng said disinterestedly: “No, I won’t go.”

Ding Xuerun: “If you don’t sign up, you will have classes at school all morning on the day of the competition.”

“You can sign up and you don’t have to go to class?” Lou Cheng’s eyes lit up. “Hey, Xiao Ding, you are so witty.”

Ding Xuerun smiled slightly and turned to Chen Zhibang and stretched out his hand: “Please give me two application forms.”

He takes out the wallet in his schoolbag, took out a 50 yuan bill, handed it to him, and said: “The registration fee for me and Lou Cheng’s.”

Lou Cheng blinked when he saw his initiative to pay for money, opened WeChat, and sent him a red envelope.　　

In fact, he hadn’t paid much attention to Xiao Ding for several days. He always wanted to ask Ding Xuerun why he didn’t buy him breakfast and whether he is out of money.

But he never asked.

Ding Xuerun didn’t play with his mobile phone. He didn’t have the habit of taking a look at it anytime and anywhere. The sound of the mobile phone was turned off. If he didn’t need to do exercise, he would not look at the mobile phone for a day.

Lou Cheng kept waiting for him to look at the phone, but he never looked at it.

Perhaps because of the mid-term exams, teachers began to hand out papers for students to write.

The fourth class was physical education. Lou Cheng stood up lazily and stretched his waist. He grabbed the school uniform with one hand and put it on, grabbed Ding Xuerun’s head with the other, and put a hand in his hair: “Xiao Ding, stop writing, and let’s go to PE class.”

Lou Cheng doesn’t like playing with good students, he just likes Xiao Ding.

Ding Xuerun put the test paper away and stood up. The students in the classroom walked sparsely towards the playground. Lou Cheng hooked his shoulder with one hand. Because Ding Xuerun was shorter and thinner, it seemed as if he was being held in Lou Cheng’s arms.

Lou Cheng lowered his head and smelled it for a while, and smelled only a fresh and warm aroma. The refreshing aroma of soap on the clothes, and the warm aroma of Ding Xuerun’s skin.

“You didn’t smoke today?” He lowered his voice.

“No,” Ding Xuerun groaned a bit and frowned, “Lou Cheng, don’t do this, don’t hug me.”

Lou Cheng sighed: “Why are you so shy, like a little girl.”

Ding Xuerun was unhappy with the adjective and pushed him away with his elbow very hard. This time he pushed it away. Ding Xuerun ignored him and walked forward. Lou Cheng had long legs and caught up with him in two steps: “You are quite temperamental.”

“Did you transfer school after being beaten because of your bad temper?”

“Yeah, so don’t mess with me, he was brought into the hospital by me.” Ding Xuerun’s voice was so relaxed that it sounded like a joke.

But the student of Ding Zhaowen was originally detained for the crime of intentional injury, and because he was already an adult, he would be sentenced. In order to delay the time, his family sent him to the hospital directly.

Lou Cheng didn’t believe it at all, and let out a mocking nasal sound: “Brag as much as you can.”

He didn’t wait for Ding Xuerun’s response and continued: “Obviously can’t do anything, and deal with homework all day long. To whom are you pretending ah.” He stretched out a finger and poked Ding Xuerun’s forehead.

Ding Xuerun was poked by him previously, turned his head, and glared at him: “Are you bored?”

Lou Cheng snorted: “Why don’t you play with your phone? Is the phone out of power?”

“There’s power”

“Then why don’t you play?”

Ding Xuerun said, “I have to do homework and study. I don’t have time.”

Lou Cheng was speechless, despised in his heart, and said, “Then it’s PE class now. You can take it out to play.”

“What are you trying to say?”

Lou Cheng held back, and said: “I sent you a red envelope, and it will expire if you don’t open it.”

Ding Xuerun said “Oh”, knowing that it was the 25th registration fee. Seeing Lou Cheng’s persistent appearance, he took out his mobile phone, turned on the data network, and received Lou Cheng’s red envelope.

He stared at the red envelope number and paused.

“Send so much?”

Lou Cheng happened to be looking at his reaction, so he looked away when their eyes meet, and said uncomfortably, “My hands slipped.”

Ding Xuerun’s expression was faint: “Oh, then I will return it to you.”

“Don’t return!” Lou Cheng snatched his mobile phone.

Ding Xuerun looked at him again.

Lou Cheng scratched his head a little irritably, “Don’t return it, I have money.” He stared at Ding Xuerun, his narrow eyes under his thick eyebrows lazily, “Hey, you take this money to buy breakfast for me tomorrow.”

Ding Xuerun was silent.

“You haven’t bought me breakfast for a week, isn’t it because you are short of money?”

“I don’t need veggie buns, but meat buns.” He asked, “The veggie buns you bought for me before are too bad. I have never eaten such a bad steamed bun since I was a child.”

When Lou Cheng spoke, he seemed to have forgotten how he ate the veggie buns every morning.

Ding Xuerun lowered his head and did not speak, not knowing what he was thinking.

Lou Cheng poked his forehead again: “What are you doing? Do you hear me? I order you to buy me breakfast.”

“Lou Cheng, can’t you speak well?”

Lou Cheng exhaled from his nostrils, and showed a beautiful jaw curve when he turned his head sideways: “No.”

Ding Xuerun stretched his jaw and said, “Don’t send me red envelopes. I will return them to you. The money in WeChat cannot be withdrawn.”

“You want cash?”

“You give me your meal card, and I will bring it to you tomorrow.”

“I don’t have a card,” Lou Cheng remembered when he finished speaking, and patted his head, “Oh no, I have a card.” He seemed to be happy and smiled. When he smiled, the brutality brought by the facial features would melt into water, and the curved lines of the eyes are like two crescent moons: “I’ll give it to you later.”

After finishing the radio gymnastics in a physical education class, it was a free activity. Lou Cheng was called by other seniors to play basketball.

Lou Cheng replied loudly: “Here.”

He took off his school uniform and threw it directly to Ding Xuerun. Ding Xuerun subconsciously catches it and was stunned after receiving it.

Lou Cheng is wearing a black jersey. Although it is loose, you can still see that he has a good figure, with wide shoulders, narrow hips in an inverted triangle.

“Look after the school uniform.”

Before Ding Xuerun could speak, Lou Cheng ran quickly to his group of friends.

There are many benches next to the basketball court, which is full of girls, because there are no seats available, there are even girls sitting on the ground with school uniforms. As soon as Lou Cheng ran over, there was a wave of “Aaaaahhhhh!!!.”

Lou Cheng is very popular with girls, and he is a unique stream in this Liu Zhong school, which is famous for studying.

Ding Xuerun held his school uniform and walked towards the basketball court. Unlike many boys, he doesn’t understand this sport, so he is an outsider standing next to the basketball court. He can only look at Lou Cheng’s heroic appearance like those girls. 

Every time Lou Cheng scored a goal, he would get a wave of screams. Lou Cheng ran around the court. When he saw Ding Xuerun, he smiled at the other and rolled up his jersey to show off his coquettishness.

Ding Xuerun looked for a while and left with his school uniform in his arms. Lou Cheng was dribbling the ball. When he saw Ding Xuerun leaving, he was panicked, and the basketball stuck to his hand was taken away.

“Brother Cheng! Ball!”

Ding Xuerun walked across the playground to the cafeteria. The cafeteria is already open. The students in the fifth session of the physical education class usually take advantage of the free time to eat lunch, so as not to squeeze in later with the high school and junior high school.

Because he didn’t have to wait in line, he went straight to the window to have a meal, and he finished eating quickly.

When he finished eating, the class was almost over. Ding Xuerun went to buy a bottle of water. He heard the whistle and walked over to gather.

Lou Cheng had just finished playing basketball, his jersey was soaked with sweat, his black hair was drenched, and many girls chased him to give him water: “Lou Cheng, here.”

Facing the mineral water delivered to him at the same time, it was wrong for Lou Cheng to picked up any bottle.

Coincidentally, he saw Ding Xuerun coming over, holding his school uniform in his arms, and a bottle of mineral water that seemed to have never been opened——

“Thank you, my friend bought me water.” After speaking, Lou Cheng ran to Ding Xuerun, leaving a few girls with disappointed faces, but secretly happy because the school grass talked to them.

“Xiao Ding!” Lou Cheng shouted loudly. When he ran, he blew a hot wind and ran in front of Ding Xuerun: “I’m so hot.” He snatched the mineral water from his hand and twisted it open and poured it into his mouth.

Before Ding Xuerun could react, Lou Cheng poured down half a bottle of water. He raised his head, and the beautiful curve from the chin to the neck was slightly agitated. The sweat dripped down, and his adam’s apple was moving. Ding Xuerun stared at his neck and gently didn’t open his eyes: “Lou Cheng…”

All the people in the physical education class went to gather, only Lou Cheng and Ding Xuerun were still on the basketball court.

Lou Cheng almost finished drinking the water. He tossed his hair. The sweat accidentally splashed on Ding Xuerun’s face. Lou Cheng opened a pair of energetic eyes after the movement: “What?”

“I have drunk the water.”

Lou Cheng’s face froze slightly, his black hair was all wet, and the sweat trickled from his forehead to his eyelashes, and then dropped down.

Ding Xuerun looked into his eyes: “And I also smoked.”

Lou Cheng: “…”

For about two or three seconds, Lou Cheng didn’t speak. After that, he gritted his teeth and lifted his sweat-soaked jersey. Clutching Ding Xuerun’s head and stuffed him in his sweat: “Xiao Ding, you have a lot of nerve.”

Ding Xuerun didn’t expect him to do this at all, because Lou Cheng pressed his head, so his entire face was pressed against Lou Cheng’s chest. His face was wet, and the smell of sweat was covering him.

His mind was dizzy and his heart was beating fast.

Lou Cheng’s hormones seriously paralyzed his nerves.　

The author has something to say:

Lou Cheng: If you dare to stink me with cigarettes, I will smother you with my masculine chest muscles!