Chapter 56

She thought about it, there really weren't any friends around her worth contacting.

Shen Li's personality was too indifferent; the high school head teacher also said before that she was a person who couldn't get close to anyone and wanted her to contact more to expand her interpersonal communication.

For three years of high school, she was always alone.

After the college entrance exam, other people in the class sent her messages.

Most of them asked…

Why she didn't appear in the exam room that day.

Which university she applied to.

Shen Li rarely chatted in the group.

As the class monitor, what she sent in the group were messages the head teacher asked her to notify.

She didn't reply.

The messages were left there.

During that time, everyone was posting their university admission letters in the group.

While chatting, someone mentioned her intentionally or unintentionally.

A classmate who was in the same exam room as her before said something about her in the group.

"Shen Li? I was in the same exam room as her, I just saw her take the Chinese exam, and then I didn't see her again."

Later, what did they talk about.

Shen Li didn't know either.

She quit the class group.

She didn't log into her previous account again.

She didn't contact the people from before either.

…

After hanging the clothes, Shen Li sat back at her desk to do problems.

She hadn't written for long when Zhao Zhouyuan suddenly walked to her side; Shen Li raised her eyes, met her gaze, and stopped her pen.

"I apologize for last night," Zhao Zhouyuan's voice was light, carrying an apology, "Sorry, I was too harsh when I spoke."

Shen Li curled her lips into a shallow smile, her tone peaceful: "It's okay, I didn't mind."

Zhao Zhouyuan didn't say anything else, just glanced at the English Level 4 test questions spread out on Shen Li's desk, went to the bathroom, and when she came out, she went to bed, preparing to take a nap.

She took out her phone, clicked on the few unreplied messages at the top of the list, her fingertips hovering on the screen without moving, but her peripheral vision fell under the edge of the bed.

Shen Li's back was quiet as she did problems.

She wrote for over an hour.

Shen Li lay on the desk and slept for a while.

…

In Wuchuan in late October, it suddenly started to cool down, and the temperature difference between day and night dropped by more than ten degrees at night.

By the afternoon, the weather started to get cold.

She came to Wuchuan to report, and there were almost no thick clothes in her suitcase.

Shen Li was wearing the long-sleeved shirt she wore when school started; it was cold, or that gray hoodie jacket, but fortunately there was air conditioning in the classroom.

Footsteps came from the back of the classroom, someone walked in while talking on the phone, her tone carrying a bit of spoiled complaint: "Mom, I won't go back this weekend, the road is too far, the high-speed rail fare for a round trip is 600."

"You can just mail the thick clothes to me directly."

"By the way, my living expenses are almost bottoming out, transfer some more to me."

"Two thousand a month is not enough to spend at all."

The girl next to her was a bit envious: "Your mom is really good to you, I ask her for some living expenses, fifty yuan is hard. Not to mention buying new clothes, she tells me to get lost home and get them myself on the weekend."

She: "Forget it, just this little living expense of mine is not enough for her mahjong money for a month."

Shen Li was used to sitting in the corner of the first row, and they all sat with her.

Xu Zhouyuan and Zhang Zixin sat in front of her, Qiao Lang and Zhou Mingyu sat next to the second row.

Xie Qin still shamelessly squeezed into the outside seat next to her; he was a tall guy, and he took up a lot of space.

But fortunately, when in class, he basically didn't bother her.

And he was also quietly playing games with Xu Zhouyuan and the others.

Zhang Zixin turned around and asked her, "I see you haven't gone back on the weekend, it's cooled down recently, you'd better go back and bring some clothes over, it's going to cool down in Wuchuan in two days, it's still quite cold at night."

Shen Li: "I plan to go back this weekend to bring clothes."

Zhang Zixin: "Are there any good specialties in Haishi, remember to bring some back for us to taste."

Shen Li responded lightly: "Mm, okay."

Xie Qin's bangs fell on his forehead, he turned his eyes to look at her, his expression relaxed, "Is there a share for me, good classmate?"

Shen Li: "I will bring more for you."

Xie Qin bought her a lot of snacks, even if he didn't say it, she would bring them for him.

"I'm very picky…" Xie Qin put down his phone, crossed his long legs, leaned his body back toward her, put his other hand on the desk, and then he said: "Bring what you like to eat, let me taste it."

She: "Mm."

Hearing this, Xie Qin's eye corners raised slightly, his lips curled into a shallow and warm curve, his eyes shining like they were rubbed into the afternoon's broken light, light and true.

Zhang Zixin suddenly remembered something and asked casually: "I remember Haishi, it doesn't seem to snow much, right?"

"Rarely." Shen Li nodded.

Zhang Zixin told her: "You can look forward to it, it snows every year here in Wuchuan, I'll take you skiing then, some scenic spots here are still quite good… once it snows, it's really beautiful."

She hadn't seen snow.

Shen Zhaozhao had seen it.

The day she got the recommendation quota, she said she wanted to go to Antarctica to see the aurora.

Shen Li saw the photos she took in her social circle.

It was on that cruise ship, they were eating breakfast, her father and mother were sitting opposite, introducing the scenery of Antarctica outside the cruise ship window to her.

Later, they stayed in a resort, it was snowing heavily at night, and there were snowmen they built at the door.

She also…

Really wanted to see snow once.

After class started.

Xie Qin fell asleep on the desk as soon as he lay down, his arm cushioning the black jacket Shen Li had washed for him.

…

In the afternoon badminton elective class, the teacher first let everyone jog around the court once to warm up.

Xie Qin had very long legs, but he deliberately ran very slowly, just following Shen Li's side, running side by side with her.

He suddenly said: "…Stretch out your hand."

Shen Li: "Hmm?"

Xie Qin: "If I tell you to stretch it out, stretch it out."

Seeing she was still dazed and hadn't moved, he simply reached out and gently pulled her hand, stuffing a White Rabbit milk candy wrapped in candy paper into her palm, his fingertips inadvertently brushing her palm, warm.

So soft!

Shen Li pinched the round milk candy and raised her eyes to ask: "Where did you get the candy?"

Xie Qin's lips curled into a smile: "Fell from the sky."

Xu Zhouyuan and Zhou Mingyu, who were jogging in front, also came over. Xu Zhouyuan glanced at the candy in Shen Li's hand and laughed, tearing down his platform: "Fell from the sky, this dog thing keeps candy in his pocket every day to quit smoking." He said, glancing at Xie Qin with disgust, "Now there's a smell of milk candy on him, it's simply too sissy."

Zhou Mingyu reached out to beg: "Brother Qin, any left? Give me one to taste."

Xie Qin slanted his eyes at him: "Who are you?"

Zhou Mingyu: "Fine, fine, playing like this, right? Not even giving one candy, I'm fucking breaking up with you."

Xie Qin: "Whatever."

Shen Li didn't really like to eat it; she used to eat too much candy, and her teeth hurt for a long time, so she didn't dare to eat it anymore.

Seeing him want it, Shen Li gave it to him: "This is for you."