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Chapter 14 Relationships

Xie Jingnian always remembered what Chen Xi said.

Probably the rebellious period that was forced to be buried in his bones finally had a chance to be revealed, and he would sit in the practice room and play the guitar silently by himself almost whenever he had time.

Zhou Yantong persuaded him several times that it would be more useful to read more books and learn more when he has this time.

"Brother Yan, do you have any other scores?" Xie Jingnian asked.

Zhou Yantong felt that he was talking to chickens and ducks, and playing the piano to cows: "Yes, there are, I will bring them to you when I have time in a few days."

Xie Jingnian didn't like him, and stared at Zhou Yantong until he obediently compromised: "Okay, okay, I'll bring it to you tomorrow?"

"Thank you, Brother Yan."

The practice room, where the windows had just been repaired, was plugged in with an electric heater, so it was very hot.Chen Kui was wearing only a black vest and sitting behind the drum set, smoking a cigarette as usual.He was holding a drum stick in his hand, his veins were bulging, and a large mist covered his face, making it impossible to see his expression clearly.

Since the last time, Chen Xi never said anything to Xie Jingnian's series of actions, but Xie Jingnian always felt that his eyes were like looking at an ignorant child.

Xie Jingnian suddenly felt helpless from the bottom of his heart, and even panicked.

"Since you want to learn, you should study hard." Chen Xi put his two flower arms on the drum set, leaned forward to look at Xie Jingnian, his expression was very serious, and said slowly, "If you plan to play the game of giving up halfway, you should do it as soon as possible. Get out, understand?"

It was the first time that Chen Xi said such heavy words to Xie Jingnian, which made his whole body tense, and he had to go through Chen Xi's words several times before he nodded.

"Okay." Chen Kui leaned back against the wall again, took out the key and handed it to Xie Jingnian, "Tomorrow you will drop by after school to get two keys, if you want to learn guitar, come and find me here."

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Xie Jingnian felt that Chen Xi's attitude towards him seemed to be different all of a sudden.

A few days ago, Chen Xi took Xie Jingnian to buy a single bed, which was just big enough for him to turn around.

Now that Chen Yu was sitting on this bed, Xie Jingnian could clearly feel the mattress sag, and even the room heated up like it was on fire.

"Why didn't you go to the practice room to find me?"

Chen Kui propped his hands back on the bed, his neck raised.His eyes first fell on the chandelier on the ceiling, and he was dazzled, then turned his head to look at Xie Jingnian who was doing his homework for a long time without saying a word.

Chen Kui hooked Xie Jingnian's calf with his toe, and asked him, "You don't want to listen to what I said yesterday?"

"No." Xie Jingnian finally couldn't pretend anymore, and got away from the math problem.From the moment Chen Xi entered the room, he never bothered to read a single word.

"It's just too much homework in school today."

A long silence followed, neither of them speaking.It would be great if silence could yield gold, but reality often only brings a sense of oppression like lack of oxygen.

Xie Jingnian was the one who could barely hold a pen and was about to die from lack of oxygen.

Until Chen Xi walked out of Xie Jingnian's room, as if he was looking for something in the living room.After a while he came back with a stack of papers and put them on Xie Jingnian's bed.

It was a piece of white paper of A4 size, but it was filled with various numbers and symbols with a black pen, densely packed.

"Zhou Yantong was afraid that you wouldn't understand, so he specially wrote a numbered notation."

Xie Jingnian didn't speak, just the simple act of holding the music score in his hand made him tremble in his heart.

"I still say what I said yesterday." Chen Xi stood in front of Xie Jingnian, blocking the light, casting a large shadow and looking up at his boy.

"Reverse Blade is not something you can come and leave whenever you want."

"I do not go."

Xie Jingnian thought, as long as Chen Xi and Zhou Yan were with him, he would not go anywhere.

So he said it again, don't go.

Chen Xi raised his hand and touched Xie Jingnian's head, and when he went out, he told him, "Go to bed early after finishing your homework."

The students had just gone through the torment of the midterm exam, and then came the long-awaited autumn sports meeting.

As soon as Xie Jingnian passed the corner of the stairs, he could hear the yelling from the class, and the sound echoed in the corridor for a long time and could not be dissipated.

"At the same table, do you want to apply for a project?" Jia Feichen came over with a registration form, and wrote his name in the high jump column.

To be honest, Xie Jingnian had never participated in a sports meeting, and he had no interest this time, so he directly rejected Jia Feichen's proposal to enroll him in the 800-meter race.

"Come on, this is our last sports meeting, right?"

The two quarrelsome people seem to have reconciled as before, Zhuang Jie poked his head from behind to see what project Jia Feichen had applied for as he spoke, "When I'm in the third grade next year, we won't have anything to do."

"That's right, we'll have to study in the classroom at that time, and we can't wait to watch them go out and have fun!" Jia Feichen slapped the table, then retracted his hand quietly, rubbing his reddened palm, "No! I signed up for you at the same table, so it's decided to be [-]!"

The two of them "helped" Xie Jingnian report an 800-meter race by talking to themselves, and when the latter had no time to respond, they quickly mixed the piece of paper with a pile of completed registration forms and handed it in.

"At the same table, I believe in you!" Jia Feichen patted Xie Jingnian on the shoulder solemnly, entrusting him with a heavy responsibility.

Xie Jingnian lowered his eyes and responded dryly.

The excitement in the class hadn't passed yet, when Ji Heyi slammed the door and walked in, his voice overwhelmed the whole class: "What are you doing! You are the loudest in the whole corridor. They won’t even go up, will they!”

The people who were already boiling were silent for a moment, and sat back to their seats honestly. Jia Feichen even pretended to take out an English book to read words. The voice was not loud, but it was enough for Ji Heyi to hear.

Normally, Ji Heyi would definitely praise Jia Feichen, but today it is obvious that his face is very bad, and some unlucky guy probably caused trouble again.

"Xie Jingnian, come out with me."

Xie Jingnian knew this road very well, and it was going to Ji Heyi's office.Didn't expect him to be that unlucky guy himself.

Along the way, he was thinking about what else he hadn't dealt with.He rejected all the subsidies, and withdrew the application for the dormitory——

"sit down."

Ji Heyi took out a plastic stool from under the desk and handed it to Xie Jingnian.

He first took a sip of water slowly, and then looked at Xie Jingnian, as if he had been talking for a long time: "Xiao Xie, tell the teacher the truth, during the midterm exam... did you help others cheat?"

"I--"

"Don't worry, the teacher won't wrong you, just tell the truth." Ji Heyi was drinking water almost all the time, and seemed more urgent than Xie Jingnian.

"You tell the teacher, who are you helping to cheat? Did he threaten you, beat you, and ask you to help him cheat? As long as you say it, the teacher will solve it for you, don't be afraid."

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