Sludge to the Mountain Ghost

Chapter 81

After going downstairs, Xu Rui put a sofa pillow on a chair, and he took advantage of the opportunity to sit on that chair.

"Didn't I ask you to call me half an hour later in the morning?" Lin Pai asked.

Xu Rui looked at him without knowing it, and asked, "When did you ask me to call you?"

"No... Maybe I fell asleep when I thought of this sentence."

"You're really good." Xu Rui handed him a pair of chopsticks, lowered his head and took a sip of the noodle soup, and asked, "Why don't you take the afternoon off as well, to see how limping you are."

Lin Pai paused, put a handful of coriander into the bowl, and emphasized in a muffled voice, "I just walked around the house a little more casually!"

In the afternoon, Lin Pai arrived at the classroom in time before class.

Zhou Ning slept on his desk in the morning, and didn't get up until the class preparation bell rang. When he saw Lin Pai came back, he carried a boxy package by his feet.

"It was sent to you again. It arrived at noon yesterday. The doorman Lao Chen was in a hurry to get off work, so he asked me to hand it over to you." Zhou Ning watched him unpack the package curiously, and continued, "Why do people always send you things? , why no one sent it to me?"

"Don't look at it, just go about your business." Xu Rui gave Zhou Ning a bag of biscuits, and now he was the only one left to watch Lin Pai open the package curiously, "Who sent this from?"

"I don't know, just take it apart and have a look." Lin Pai opened the outer package, and inside was a thick stack of paper, no wonder it was so heavy, a bookmark was sandwiched between the stack of paper, which divided the things into two halves that were easy to distinguish.

Lin Pai gave half of it to Xu Rui, beckoning him to help find out what it was.

Xu Rui carefully flipped through a few pages at the beginning, then skipped the rest of the content hastily, "These seem to be... study materials? Mathematics, physics, chemistry... are all science subjects, and there are university materials, and these are... ...astronomical data?"

"My side is also full of study notes for various subjects. It seems that there are no astronomical materials you mentioned, and there is also a letter to me."

"Huh? I also have a letter here, but it's for Dong Wenwen." Xu Rui looked at the envelope back and forth, and put it into the file.

Lin Pai opened the envelope. There was only one page of letter paper inside, and the content was not long. He read the signature first, then turned around and said, "It's from Brother Yucheng."

"I won't read the ones sent to you two." Xu Rui put away half a stack of papers and letters, and seeing that Lin Pai's desk was crowded, he put them on his own desk first.

When the class bell rang, Xu Lin, the English teacher, stepped onto the podium and began to analyze the test papers of the previous two days' exams. Lin Pai secretly read the contents of the letter under the table:

"Lin Pai, I'm sorry to trouble you in this way. There are two study materials here, one is for you and the other is for Wen Wen. I have clearly marked them on the envelope.

I'm not in China now, I asked my friend to organize these, I checked, and it should be synchronized with your textbooks, I hope it will be helpful to you.

The reason why I ask you to pass it on is because something happened between me and Wen Wen. If I send it directly to him, he will probably not accept it.

Nothing else matters, the astronomical information is of great use to him, as I promised before.

I went abroad in July this year, and even if I go back to China after that, I probably won't go back to Heshan Town again.

I don't know if you still remember the last time we met, it was New Year's Eve of the Chinese New Year.

The rain stopped later that night, but the water vapor continued to condense into clouds, creating many barriers between Wen Wen and me.There will always be an end, and we all need to look ahead.

I think, maybe with your hands, he can calm down a little and won't throw it away in a fit of anger.

If he really doesn't want to accept it, it doesn't matter, I am already very grateful if you are willing to run for me.

I hope Wen Wen and you are all well. "

Lin Pai folded the letter back and heard Xu Rui cough twice, thinking that he also wanted to read the letter, so he passed it under the desk, but Xu Rui coughed worse.

"Why? Can't you see..." Lin Pai turned his head away, looked at him wonderingly, followed his line of sight and noticed the fiery gaze from the podium—Xu Lin was lecturing nonchalantly, while raising her eyes to stare at him .

After meeting her eyes, she stopped the lecture, walked towards Lin Pai and said, "A class lasts for 45 minutes. Some students can't bear such a short time. They must whisper in class..."

Xu Lin got closer and closer, Xu Rui snatched the letter from Lin Pai in front of her, and held it in his palm.No matter how much Xu Lin reached out to ask for it, he just refused to hand it over.

"Xu Rui!" Xu Lin roared, "Is this how you are a student? Take out the note!"

"I know, go out and stand and listen to the class, right?" Xu Rui stood up and nodded calmly, "I'll go right away."

Xu Lin was speechless, she turned to Lin Pai, and before she had time to attack, Lin Pai also stood up spontaneously, "I, I will also stand for punishment."

Xu Lin held her breath and continued to give lectures, but the students in the classroom were watching the excitement and whispering to each other.

Xu Rui smiled at Lin Pai in the corridor, and returned the letter in his hand to him.

"Look." Lin Pai whispered, not answering the letter.

After Xu Rui finished reading the letter, he quietly moved to Lin Pai's side and asked, "The two of them broke up... or did they break up?"

"I don't know either..." Lin Pai shrugged, "Come with me to the second year of high school later, I'll move those things to Dong Wenwen."

Xu Rui nodded in response.

They finally waited until the end of get out of class. They thought that Xu Lin would educate her earnestly in the corridor, but she just took one more look when she left, and went straight to the office.

In this school, this kind of situation is not uncommon, like Xu Rui, it can even be regarded as cooperation, she has long been familiar with it.

Dong Wenwen's seat was by the window. He raised his head when he heard the voice, and was a little surprised when he saw Lin Pai standing outside the window. After he stood up, he found that Xu Rui was also there with something in his hand.

When he came out of the classroom, Lin Pai simply relayed a few words of Yu Yucheng's words, he hesitated a little, but still took the stack of papers from Xu Rui.

"Did he say anything else?" Dong Wenwen asked.

"No more..." Lin Pai shook his head, pointed to the top envelope with his eyes, and said, "Other words should be in the letter to you."

"Okay..." Dong Wenwen lowered his head unhappily, and briefly flipped through the stack of papers in his hand a few times.

Lin Pai was at a loss for words and couldn't find any other words, so he turned his eyes to Xu Rui who was leaning on the railing for help.

Xu Rui stretched out two fingers towards him, imitating the movement of walking, Lin Pai understood, and said to Dong Wenwen, "Since everything has been delivered, let's go back first."

"Oh, well...thank you."

That afternoon, Dong Wenwen skipped class.He sandwiched the letter between the papers, and hid in the room with a stack of papers.

He sat cross-legged on the floor in front of the bed and read the letter over and over until the sun set and his figure was infinitely elongated.

When he just opened the letter, he was ready to cry, but as time passed, he found that he just accepted the fact that Yu Yucheng had left peacefully.

This secret love did not end without a problem, Yu Yucheng's farewell was proper and caring.

There were two knocks on the door, and it was his mother calling him to eat.Dong Wenwen opened the door and showed his head, saying that he had no appetite, and then continued to lock himself in the room.

His mother sighed and didn't ask any more questions.

When Lin Pai received the call from Dong Wenwen, he was coming out of the cafeteria after eating with Xu Rui.

"Dong Wenwen's phone..." Lin Pai held up his phone to show him the caller ID, and said, "Let's go to the playground."

"Listen to you..." Xu Rui walked there with him, and jokingly added, "Although I don't really want to see... the red plastic track recently."

Lin Pai bumped his elbow with a smile and picked up the phone.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a long time. At first Lin Pai thought that the signal was not good, but later he thought that Dong Wenwen had dialed by accident.

Just when he was about to hang up the phone, Dong Wenwen said the first sentence, "Lin Pai, is it convenient for you to talk now?"

"It's convenient, tell me." Lin Pai sat on the stand, Xu Rui took two steps forward, and leaned over the railing.

On the playground, as usual, there were trained students, but they were all from the lower grades, and Xu Rui could only recognize a few.

"I'm sorry, I lied to you before..." Dong Wenwen said with some hesitation, "There is no sister who goes to school in Beijing. I've always been talking about Brother Yucheng. Actually, there is no need to tell you this, but I'm just your friend, and I want to get back all the lies I told before."

"It's nothing, you don't need to apologize." Lin Pai looked up at Xu Rui, "What I think is that anyone can like anyone. You can't say that you feel strange because you are different from most people."

"Do you know everything?"

"I don't know, maybe I can guess a little bit."

"For a while, I even wondered if Brother Yucheng liked you. I realized later that his eyes were admiring. You, like him, are the type who will shine when standing in a crowd... Lin Pai, I've decided to move."

"Moving? Why so suddenly?" Lin Pai asked in surprise.

"It's not sudden. My dad mentioned this before. I've been procrastinating. It's time to think about it now."

"Well...you just make up your mind, when will you leave? I'll see you off."

"I should wait until the end of this semester, and I'll tell you when it's confirmed."

"okay."

Lin Pai heard Dong Wenwen say a few more words, and when he hung up the phone, he stood up and gently hugged Dong Wenwen from behind while no one was paying attention.