If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon

Chapter 775
"Chu Zihang" the girl's voice sounded behind him.

Who is calling him?

"Chu Zihang?" The voice was a little weak, not very real, it was far away, far away, fluttering like catkins.

It was a very familiar voice, but why couldn't he remember the face associated with it.

"Chu Zihang!" She was a little angry, but she didn't jump up and down, more just complaining.

I'm right here, he thought.

"Chu Zi."

The sudden ear-piercing sound of cicadas interrupted everything, and the black insects flapped their wings and screamed loudly, as if they were crying hoarsely. Dozens of cicadas chirped together, and the cries were drowned out by the tide like wind and rain. everything.

Chu Zihang's raised right hand paused, the black ink on the tip of the signature pen condensed into tiny dots, and the sun shone through the transparent plastic pen holder like a kaleidoscope, shining scattered light spots on the bibliography on the wooden table.

Outside the push-type wooden windows of the old house, in the shade of the sycamore tree that covers the sky, cicadas are screaming desperately, and beyond the red tile and brick wall is the porcelain blue sky with the scorching sun in summer.

The sun shines through the white T-shirt, outlining the boy's well-proportioned body line, the sweat gathers from the side face to the chin to form drops of pen and ink, and the cool wind slips into the house against the roots of the sycamore tree in the yard, blowing The drop of sweat fell down and dripped on the bibliography, blurring the black writing.

The memory is like a strong wind blowing, large wild horses rushing across the grassland, and like ice water in the scorching sun soaking the whole brain along the throat, the buzzing ears can only hear the humming of cicadas, the picture in front of Chu Zihang has changed from Distorted blur focused all the way to the summer hazel sycamore leaves outside the window
"You called me?" Chu Zihang said.

His voice echoed in the empty old house, and for a moment he didn't know who he was asking, after all, he was the same person from beginning to end in his memory.

"No." But someone really answered him.

It was the voice of a girl, very young, with a voice reminiscent of silver wind chimes hanging from the windows.

The voice sounded right behind Chu Zihang, very close, which meant that they were in the same space, the same room.

Chu Zihang looked back, he was sitting on a chair, so he lightly supported the back of the chair with his right hand and turned around, the white T-shirt was pressed on his sweaty torso, revealing some healthy flesh color, his sight also Then it fell to the center of the house.

There was really a girl there, wearing a black tight-fitting exercise suit. She was sitting on a yoga blanket and doing a front handspring dismantling movement at a slow pace. It must be close to the lower abdomen and waistline.The sunlight outside the window reflected her silhouette on the wall. Her slender neck and legs were also slender. Every curve was written with youth and beauty, clean and clean, reminiscent of a black swan treading water.

The breeze blew over her neck and lifted a few strands of hair, under which was crystal clear and moist sweat. Her skin was as delicate as a baby hidden under the black tights, like a spring bud buried in the soil.

She was always there, dancing silently, without making any sound, until Chu Zihang at the table asked her.

Chu Zihang stared blankly at the girl, for a long time, until the whole movement of the girl was last night, standing tall on the yoga mat, with her ponytail hanging behind her back, she looked at the boy strangely and asked, "What's wrong...? "

"No, it's nothing." Chu Zihang realized that it was not polite to keep staring at the sweating girl, so he turned his head and put his gaze on the table again. Books of reference books were stacked together. The words "" were pasted on the spine of the book clearly, and he looked down at his white T-shirt, which had been washed countless times. Underneath was the boy's young, healthy and strong body.

"Could you come over and help me?" the girl said.

Chu Zihang stood up and saw that the girl was doing leg presses on the yoga blanket. Her two slender legs were in a straight line. Her thigh muscles without fat were drawn out of the curvature of the hill by the exercise clothes, but her crotch was far from the ground. Then some distances can't be perfect.

"Leg pressing?" Chu Zihang was no stranger to this exercise.

"The school's cheerleading team will have a final next week. As the captain, I can't be more slack than the team members!" The girl clenched her fists on the ground and waved.

Chu Zihang walked up to the girl and gently pressed her waist, thinking that your team members are probably eating ice cream in the CBD area while picking out fashionable sandals and bags, and you are probably the only one who is so serious at home Practice gymnastics.

"Summer vacation is coming soon, isn't your school team going to play the city game soon? Do you need our cheerleading team to cheer you on?" The girl asked while looking at Chu Zihang's figure sideways.

"City competition?"

"Isn't it?" she asked, "During this time, the boys who like basketball in school are very excited. Everyone is very optimistic about your school team and thinks that you are the only face of Shilan going out of school. After all, in terms of sports, we only have Basketball can be compared to other schools."

Chu Zihang vaguely remembered that this happened, but those memories hovered in his mind, sometimes roaring like a horse, and sometimes like the wind, he climbed over the hills and hid behind the back slope of the grassland, only the cicadas outside the window kept ringing in his ears , The endless ringing is a bit disturbing.

"What time is it? What are we doing?" he couldn't help asking.

"At 01:30 on Sunday afternoon, we just ate Lanzhou ramen at the noodle shop outside. I complained that the beef was so thin that the light could not be eaten. You asked the boss to add ten yuan more beef to me, and now you are pressing my legs Are you suffering from heat stroke?" The girl stopped pressing her legs and turned around neatly to face Chu Zihang, sitting cross-legged and looking up at the boy, the sweat beads on her neck and cheeks were not as bright as those black eyes.

"I'm asking about the specific time." Chu Zihang seemed to have sensed something, and looked away from the window to the plane tree whose branches and leaves were trembling with the wind. There were split spots of light between the shades of the tree.

"Does it need to be accurate to the year, month, and day? Brother Chu, are you afraid of being late to return to the alien spaceship?" The girl asked with a narrowed smile, her willow eyebrows and pupils resembled crescent moons.

"Today is June 6." Chu Zihang's memory suddenly became clearer, and his mouth and nose seemed to float out of the water.

"Yeah, June 6nd is just after Children's Day, which is also your birthday. Yesterday we were BBQing in your yard." The girl stood up and was a bit shorter than Chu Zihang but also tall. , she reached out and touched Chu Zihang's forehead and then touched her own forehead, "You don't have heat stroke, right? I'm just sorting out reference books by the window."

"I remember your name should be..." Chu Zihang looked at the girl, and after a long time, he said, "Xia Mi."

"Wow, Senior Brother Chu remembered my name, I'm so touched." The girl looked sideways at the boy's dull face in front of her, and said in a completely unsurprised tone, "Should I feel honored? Being remembered by Senior Brother Chu Can I enter the TOP10 list of girls in my heart?"

The following words were a little tricky, but it also highlighted the girl's detached character. Chu Zihang stared blankly at the girl named Xia Mi as if she was still digging up the ups and downs in her mind, but for a moment a cold touch It stuck to his cheek, pulling all his chaotic thoughts back, and his eyes were fixed on the girl in front of him again.

"Brother, you are eating popsicles. Although you don't have heat stroke, you really look like you have fainted from the heat. If other people find out that you come to my house as a guest and you don't even have to serve popsicles, I will definitely be scolded to death." Xia Mi put the old popsicle in a plastic bag into Chu Zihang's hand, took two steps back and walked briskly to the refrigerator in the corner, bent down and took one out for himself, and put it in his mouth. The trajectory of the shadow moving on the wall is as flexible as a black cat.

Holding the popsicle, Chu Zihang sat back in the chair, turned his head several times to look at the girl who was eating a popsicle while practicing on the yoga blanket, and before he could speak again, the girl asked first, "Oh right, brother, I've always wanted to say , can I ask you one thing."

"What is it?" Chu Zihang asked subconsciously.

"Ah, it's nothing serious, just introduce someone to me." The girl who had been cheerful before suddenly became quieter, even though Chu Zihang didn't look at her, her gaze was a little erratic.

"Who is it?" Chu Zihang couldn't understand his thoughts for a while, so he could only passively follow the girl's topic. The signature pen was twirling in his hand, and light and shadow twirled into flowers on the pages of the book.

"It's that tall guy from the basketball team who appeared at your birthday party yesterday, that boy who is similar to you." Xia Mi tilted his head, and when Chu Zihang looked back, he could actually see something unknown on her cheek. Is it the temperature of the sun or the warm red that emerges due to emotions.

"You're talking about Lin Nian." Chu Zihang almost blurted out the name.

"Yes, Lin Nian, that's the name." Xia Mi suddenly turned his head to look at Chu Zihang, "Brother, can you introduce him to me?"

"Why?" Chu Zihang looked at her and said.

"Does it have to be so straightforward?" Xia Mi's expression turned bitter.

"You like him." Chu Zihang said again, staring at Xia Mi, his words hit the nail on the head and killed him.

"Hmm." Xia Mi couldn't help covering his heart, "Brother, to be honest, you are really astute in some places (gossip) that are not like yourself."

"Why do you like him?" Chu Zihang turned his head back slightly, this topic did not shock him too much, as if this kind of question had not appeared for the first time.

"Is there any reason why you like it?" Xia Mi tilted his head and looked at Chu Zihang's back, "Maybe he looks cool when he rushes to the front to break through the defense, and the way he scores is cool, right?"

Chu Zihang was silent for a while and said, "He is a forward on the basketball team. Penetrating defenses and scoring are the work of a center forward. He doesn't often score."

"Well, who is the center of the basketball team?"

"it's me."

"Oh, then I guess I was wrong, you two sometimes look too much alike." Xia Mi slowly tilted his head and said with a chuckle.

"So you like him because of basketball."

"There are other reasons. For example, he has always been indifferent, doesn't pay much attention to people, and has few friends. Girls like this kind of cool boy, and he feels like Rukawa Kaede."

"Who is Rukawa Feng?"

"I'll go. Senior brother, you play basketball so well that you don't know Rukawa Feng?"

"Sounds like a Japanese." Chu Zihang hesitated, "Comics? I don't read comics. I have watched American cartoons at most, such as "Shrek."

"I know, I know, yesterday you let it go at home, but not many people looked at it, everyone was scrambling to grab the barbecue." Xia Mi hugged his straight legs in front of him.

"How do you want me to introduce you?" Chu Zihang said hesitantly, "I have no experience in this field."

"Wow, do you need any experience to introduce a girl?" Xia Mi exaggerated, "Don't boys just ignore the process and only think about the result when they hear that a beautiful girl is introduced to them?"

"You think you are a pretty girl." Chu Zihang caught the point.

"Senior brother, don't you think I'm pretty?" Xia Mi didn't hesitate, but asked directly.

"I don't know." Chu Zihang replied in a very standard manner. It was the best answer not to answer some sensitive questions.

"Boring." Xia Mi sighed.

Chu Zihang thought for a while and then asked, "Have you never talked to Lin Nian?"

"Said."

"Why don't you just introduce yourself."

"There is no chance. The only chance to talk to him last time was when I was drinking water from a thermos in physical education class. I accidentally burned my mouth and splashed him all over."

"He should take the initiative to send you to the infirmary. This is an opportunity." Even Chu Zihang, who doesn't read comics, can deduce the development of some classic kingly plots.

"No, he just chased me and asked me what brand the thermos was for a class, and he wanted to buy one for his sister's birthday as a present." Xia Mi took a deep breath and looked at the ceiling in a daze.

"It is indeed what Lin Nian can say." Chu Zihang nodded, and then fell silent again, "Then he probably doesn't like you."

"What kind of topic terminator are you?" Xia Mi was stunned and looked down at the boy's black hair. "Are you talking something that a girl in Huaichun can listen to?"

"He has always only contacted people he is willing to contact. If he likes you, then you should be friends at that time." Chu Zihang said softly.

"It's really like this. I fell in love when I was still in a crush?" Xia Mi scratched his head and looked confused, "Does he talk a lot when he is with you? Senior brother, you seem to know a straight man like him very well." .”

"What is a straight man?" Chu Zihang's knowledge blind spot was touched again.

"Those who don't understand the style and don't understand the meaning of the words are called straight men." Xia Mi squinted at Chu Zihang.

"He's very smart, he's always been smart, and he can read a lot of potential information." Chu Zihang said after a pause.

"Where can you tell?"

"We don't talk on the court, just make eye contact and he knows I want him to pass the ball or break through."

"Oh my god." Xia Mi fainted a little.

"Give up." Chu Zihang glanced at Xia Mi and suggested, "If you pester him, he will only think you are crazy."

"How about sticking around longer? Is there any chance that he will also become crazy?" Xia Mi's brain circuit was strange.

Chu Zihang really thought about this possibility, and then nodded expressionlessly, "It's possible, but it will take a long time."

"...Brother, can you give me some constructive suggestions and let me shorten this 'quite long'?" Xia Mi raised his right index finger and thumb, pinched the distance and stuck out his tongue.

"That's why you asked me to organize your reference books for you today." Chu Zihang turned his head and looked at the books on the table as if he understood something.

"Hey." Xia Mi smiled, without any shame of being exposed.

"Why do you think I know Lin Nian very well?" Chu Zihang was not annoyed, but just picked up the signature pen again and began to write and draw. The girl who had finished warming up behind him began to dance lightly on the yoga blanket.

"Because many people say that the two of you are very similar, whether in character or ability."

"So you think I know Lin Nian like I know myself."

"It's a bit confusing, but it's probably the reason."

"Then what should I do to help you?" Chu Zihang stopped writing, "In your words, you are now discussing with a straight man how to pursue another straight man."

"Senior brother, you really seamlessly replaced the character design. No wonder you can always get full marks in reading comprehension." Xia Mi admired Chu Zihang for labeling himself a straight man without any resistance.

"Did I say something wrong?"

"No! Maybe brother, you just need to teach me how to chase after you?" Xia Mi smiled, "Since you are no different from Lin Nian, maybe the way you can impress him can impress you."

"I don't know how to impress myself. I have no experience." Chu Zihang replied calmly and truthfully. Many people think he is a rock, including himself. And methods will be pierced by water drops.

"This kind of thing. We can't find it slowly? Brother, you are really stupid." The girl laughed, her voice echoed in the room with a hint of teasing and frivolity.

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Chu Zihang didn't know what to say, the cicadas chirping outside the window became louder and louder, he was quiet for a long time, he turned his head and opened his mouth to say something, but at this moment, he found that he was facing an empty room, The clock was hanging on the wall, and the wall was full of silhouettes of sycamore branches and vines.

"Xia Mi?" Chu Zihang shouted.

No one answered him.

There was no one on the yoga mat in the room, only his shadow was cast on the ground in the whole room, and he was alone, as if the person 'Xami' never existed in the world, and all the previous conversations were just his delusions.

The chirping of cicadas outside the window is getting louder.

(End of this chapter)