Chapter 31

There was a long silence in the dressing room, and even the sunlight entering the window seemed to be suppressed by some intensity.

After quiet, Chen Jiao, who was leaning against the window, suddenly sneered and turned around and looked out the window.

"Your bag contains your own cell phone and anything related to illness?"

"A medicine bottle with medical label."

"Haha... Qi Chen, you are so scary that it makes people look at you with admiration."

Chen Jiao inserted his hands into his trouser pocket, turned his head back, raised his jaw slightly and glanced at Qi Chen, "But you think too much. Do you think I will like her if you like Shi Yao?...I just can't stand you with the fact that you have any signs of happiness. Do you think you won the bet? Unfortunately, I don't like her - so from the beginning I was invincible, you won nothing, you just compensated the truth about your illness in vain!"

Qi Chen was not angry at all by Chen Jiao's words, and even his eyes were as bright as the ancient well.

He turned around and walked out. "It's okay, I don't care about the beginning and the process, I just care about the ending."

"..." Chen Jiao stared at his back tightly, and his hands clenched slightly.

Qi Chen, who walked to the door, opened the door and stopped a little before stepping out. A faint smile touched his voice.

"Whether you like her or not, you won't have a chance...that's enough."

As he finished speaking, Qi Chen pulled out his feet and walked out, and the door of the locker room slammed.

In the room.

Chen Jiao, who had put away his smile, looked out the window, and his face slightly darkened.

Looking out from the window of this locker room, it was the playground of the training base. He seemed to be vaguely able to see the little girl. Now she was probably panicking and resenting herself...

But I guess she won't even give him a chance to explain.

Chen Jiao glanced at the trash can. The memory card and mobile phone card that had been broken into pieces lay quietly.

He knew that Qi Chen didn't need to do this in front of him, and he could make him completely fall into trouble.

And the reason why Qi Chen did this was nothing more than asking him to die clearly.

...Eight years ago, the man broke his arm expressionlessly. The same was true for the time.

After eight years, he didn't know how Qi Chen's illness was treated, but the other party's thoughts were obviously getting deeper and deeper.

With a squeak, the door of the locker room was pushed open again.

Chen Jiao's teammate walked in. "Brother Jiao, why are you still dazed at the window?"

"nothing."

"It seems that you are feeling a little depressed? If you have anything to tell me, I will help you to clarify it?"

"..." Chen Jiao curled his lips silently and laughed at himself, "It's nothing, I just... I lost something."

"Oh? What's missing? Is it very important?"

"The difficult thing is that I don't know whether she is important..." Chen Jiao put his hands in his pants pockets, raised his slender neck to face the dazzling sunshine. Then he sighed a long sigh and smiled bitterly, "I don't know if I will regret it in the future."

"Will you regret it? Then you have to find it back."

"What if it's hard to get it back?"

"No, I gave up before I even tried it? This is not like Brother Jiao!"

“…”

The locker room suddenly became quiet.

Just now, my neck shrank, and I thought to myself that I could have said something wrong, and it was a bad thing to Chen Jiao?

Before he could hesitate to say something sorry to save him, he felt a sank on his shoulders.

Just now, he turned around and patted his shoulder hard—

"You are right, I was afraid of the ropes after being bitten by a snake for ten years... The road ahead is still long, and whoever loses wins and wins is uncertain."

After sighing, Chen Jiao left the locker room.

The man behind him looked confused.

...What's going on? Did he suddenly become Chen Jiao's life mentor?

*

When Qi Chen returned to the playground, he saw the girl sitting alone on the bench from a distance.

She was lowering her head tightly, and her long ponytail was almost brushing her shoulders and falling to her body. Her thin white hands were tightly held on the edge of the wooden bench, and she looked at it from the side without any blood, and was incompatible with other lively students around her.

Even if he couldn't see the girl's expression, Qi Chen could guess that Shi Yao's eyes must be red at this moment.

He sighed in his heart and walked over.

Shi Yao had just used her mobile phone to check the information about autism, and she had already guessed what Chen Jiao said before, "Even she dared to kill herself" would be like. She couldn't imagine that Qi Chen, such a perfect brother, would be a patient who had been entangled with such an incurable disease for many years, and even had self-harm or even committed suicide when she was so young.

Amid those restless cheers and laughter, she shrank herself tighter and tighter, trying to force herself not to think about those terrible things. She didn't want to reveal Qi Chen's scars, and she didn't want the other party to see what she had learned after she found out.

However, the more I want to endure, the more I can’t help it.

When Shi Yao held his tears and his chest felt aching, a soft coat suddenly covered his head.

It suddenly became dark before my eyes, and even the noisy sound seemed to be separated from another world.

Only a familiar voice sounded with a little helpless smile.

"If I picked up a rabbit with red eyes on the side of the road and looked pitiful and no one wanted it, would I be able to pack it and take it home?"

Shi Yao took up the corner of his clothes that covered his eyes, raised his pointed chin, and hit his brown pupils.

Seeing the girl's eyes filled with tears, Qi Chen's eyes dimmed. He couldn't help but reach out and pinch the girl's cheeks and said, "It's really red-eyed... Rabbit, do you think I should take you home for steaming or braising, huh?"

The moment his eyes touched Qi Chen who was so close to him, he heard the sound of pretending to be calm to comfort himself with so much, Shi Yao somehow, the emotions that had barely been kept just now suddenly couldn't suppress them, and tears fell like beads with broken threads.

Qi Chen's face was wrapped around.

This is the first time he saw his rabbit crying so fiercely that he was panicked for a moment.

"Qi Shen, it's time for us to play."

Teammates from the first round of the math group basketball game urged not far away.

The onlookers had been waiting impatiently - in their eyes, this competition was simply a confrontation between Chen Jiao and Qi Chen. Everyone wanted to know what kind of intense sparks would arise when such two prides of heaven who were not giving in to each other.

So as the person in the math group called out, they all looked at Qi Chen eagerly.

But they saw that the boy's face, which had always been calm and gentle, had a rare look of anxiety and complexity. He was holding the corner of the clothes that the girl in front of him covered the head, and whispering something.

After a while, they saw Qi Chen standing up and making several gestures to his teammates and the temporary referee not far away, and then immediately turned around and helped the girl on the bench up, as if she was about to leave.

Those who could see them in this venue were in an uproar.

At the focus of everyone's eyes, Shi Yao was pulled out for a few steps while crying. Then he suddenly stopped and reached out to hold Qi Chen.

"The bag... I didn't get the bag."

Halfway through speaking, the little girl who had been holding back tears before even burped.

Qi Chen felt both distressed and funny when he heard it.

He went back and picked up the backpack he had forgotten before and quickly helped the girl out of the venue. The protests and noises were thrown behind him.

Apart from his little girl, there are not so many people and things in this world that need to be cared about.

"If you don't participate in the competition, it doesn't matter?" Shi Yao asked in silence after his whole body became quiet.

"It doesn't matter if you have a substitute." Qi Chen glanced at the time, "Wait for me to take a leave and then send you home."

Shi Yao was stunned, with red eyes and raised his head: "But I told my parents that Sun Xiaoyu and I were going to participate in the camping organized by my classmates in the class and I will not go back tomorrow."

Qi Chen glanced at her helplessly.

"No, I have to go back today. I will accompany you back-- apologize to my uncle and aunt, and then promise not to do such a thing again."

Shi Yao pursed his mouth and didn't say anything.

Seeing the girl's eyes red with her crying, Qi Chen still couldn't bear to let her fall forever. He thought for a while, "Before getting on the bus, you can have a dessert in a nearby pastry restaurant."

"..." The girl who was still silenced just now suddenly lit up her eyes, and she raised her face and nodded quickly, "Brother, you said, won't you lie to me, right?"

Qi Chen, who has never been addicted to sweets, could not understand the girl's excitement at all, "Are you a rabbit made of candy?"

“…”

As long as there are desserts, Shi Yao feels that he can ignore Qi Chen without any concern.

As for the illness, the two of them chose to temporarily forget about the illness almost at the same time.

*

A few hundred meters away from the training base, there is a famous pastry shop.

After Qi Chen asked for leave, he simply packed up his things and rushed to the store with Shi Yao.

Because it was the weekend and it was half an afternoon again, when middle school students had nowhere to go in their spare time, before they even entered the pastry shop, Shi Yao saw the pieces of people inside.

She was a little excited - this situation shows that the pastry in this restaurant must be very generous, and may even be delicious and surprising.
To be continued...