Lovely Allergen - Chap 46
(This is the second update. If you click on the latest update, you might miss the previous update.)
Looking at the screenshot sent by Song Yu, Le Zhishi frowned.
[Le Zhishi: Your screenshot is so ugly. It’s all blurred.]
[Brother: Don’t change the subject.]
Le Zhishi thought about it and felt that this was the perfect opportunity to call Song Yu. He was about to call him directly, but he accidentally clicked on the wrong button and it turned into a video call.
In his panic, Le Zhishi wanted to quickly hang up and call Song Yu again before Song Yu could react. Unexpectedly, Song Yu picked up.
In the camera, Song Yu’s head was dark as if the lights had been turned off. The only source of light was the phone screen, which was only enough to illuminate Song Yu’s face.
Strangely, under such a light source, Song Yu looked particularly three-dimensional. The camera was very close, and his facial features were magnified. It was as if he was leaning next to him.
Le Zhishi was in a daze for a while. His phone vibrated. He exited and saw that it was a message from Song Yu.
[Brother: Why do you want to video call?]
[Brother: The lights are off in the dorm. We can’t talk.]
Le Zhishi exited the video call interface and made an OK gesture to Song Yu. Then he told him, “I wanted to make a voice call, but I accidentally clicked on the wrong button.”
His phone vibrated again.
[Brother: I’m hanging up then.]
Le Zhishi immediately shook his head. “No, no, no. I want to video call you. Just for a while.”
[Brother: Don’t you have anything to explain?]
Seeing this, Le Zhishi remembered the original intention of the call. “Oh, right. You said that I play games. I don’t play games anymore. I haven’t played since I came back. The person in the screenshot is indeed the classmate who played games with me. I told you about it, but how did you know? ”
In the video call, Le Zhishi could see Song Yu’s pursed lips. He didn’t look very happy. He softened his voice and called him brother. Then, his phone vibrated.
[Brother: I guessed.]
“You’re amazing. You guessed it right. But I’ve only fought with him two or three times. He fought with the other boys in our class more often. ”
[Brother: Are you close?]
Seeing this sentence, Le Zhishi picked up the yogurt on the table and took a sip. He said casually, “It’s okay. I have a good relationship with everyone.”
Song Yu edited a few words and finally deleted the reference and replaced it with another person.
[Brother: Compared to Jiang Yufan.]
Le Zhishi’s answer was almost without hesitation. “We still can’t compare. We just got to know each other in the second year of high school. Of course, Jiang Yufan and I are the closest.”
Seeing this sentence, Song Yu felt the breath he had been holding relax.
He didn’t know if his intuition was accurate or not, but he didn’t feel good when he saw the video.
The opportunity to video call did not come often. Le Zhishi took the opportunity to tell his brother a bunch of things that had happened recently. He talked about how much weight Marshmallow had gained and how much canned food Tangerine ate in a day. In the video, Song Yu’s expression didn’t change much. However, he seemed to have chosen a more comfortable and relaxed sleeping position.
Staring at the screen, Le Zhishi unconsciously laid down on the table and rested his head on his elbows. Looking at this close, Song Yu’s eyelashes were very clear. His silhouette was right in front of his eyes.
Le Zhishi felt like he was back to the night when he and Song Yu were trapped in the rain.
“Brother, why are you sleeping so early? Are you tired?”
After listening for a while, Song Yu was in a daze. He forgot that he couldn’t talk and nodded.
“Then I won’t talk for too long. I don’t want to disturb your sleep. I’m going to memorize too. ” Le Zhishi was afraid that he would still think that he was playing the game, so he said, “I’ll uninstall that game later. I’ll come back after the exam.”
Song Yu didn’t say anything. The smile on his face eased a little. Le Zhishi smiled at him. “Then go to sleep. Goodnight.”
“Goodnight.”
Song Yu subconsciously said in a low voice, and the other end hung up. Suddenly, he heard sneaky laughter coming from the dormitory. He turned around in confusion. Three flashlights were pointed at him. It was like a trial.
“Who are you saying goodnight to, handsome? You’re so considerate. Your cold image is shattered.”
“You’re thinking too much. He’s definitely saying goodnight to me.”
“F * ck, is another one of our dormitory going to be single?”
“You guys are so boring.” Song Yu put on his earplugs and closed his eyes to sleep.
The college entrance exam was imminent. On the upper right corner of the classroom’s blackboard was a large countdown number. It changed every day and became fewer and fewer. Everyone came earlier and left later and later. They put all their energy and time into the final sprint of revision.
The air seemed to be compressed. It was so heavy that it was difficult to move. Together with the endless knowledge points, it weighed on everyone’s shoulders.
Le Zhishi was relatively calm compared to the others. His deskmate had already cried twice. The first time, she was hiding from Le Zhishi. After she cried in the ladies’ room, she came back with red eyes. Le Zhishi knew that she was under a lot of pressure, so he gave her the Rainbow Candy he had just bought. The second time, she cried directly on the table.
“Zhang Yueyue, you’re crying before the exam.”
Hearing someone make fun of her, Le Zhishi said seriously, “Crying is an effective way to release stress. It’s better to cry before the exam. It’s too late to cry after the exam.”
Just like that, the last ten days before the college entrance exam passed in a flash. In a flash, it was the last night before the exam. The homeroom teacher stood in front of them and told them about the embarrassing things that happened during the college entrance exam. Le Zhishi was a little absent-minded as he listened.
He hated waking up early and going to bed late every day. He hated memorizing the same knowledge points day after day. He also hated doing the same questions over and over again. He looked forward to the end of these boring, boring, and stressful days every day.
But when the day came, Le Zhishi felt very reluctant.
Half a minute before the end of the evening self-study session, a boy in the class shouted, “Grade 12 (10), do your best!”
The others followed suit. This kind of sound penetrated the walls and spread to the next class.
For some reason, the entire Grade 12 began to shout. It resounded through the building as if they were cheering each other on.
Riding home, Le Zhishi drank a cup of warm milk according to Lin Rong’s instructions. He washed up early and went to bed. He checked all the things he would bring to the exam tomorrow and then prepared to sleep.
It was only 10: 30 at night when he lay in bed.
He couldn’t sleep at all.
After tossing and turning for a long time, Le Zhishi found that his heart was beating very fast. His mind was constantly thinking about tomorrow’s events. The more he thought about it, the more energetic he felt.
He was too nervous.
He took out his phone and the locked screen lit up. The background was the main entrance that he took when he went to W University last time. In the darkness, he stared at it for a long time. He only came back to his senses when Song Yu’s message appeared.
[Brother: Remember to check if each pen is easy to use. Relax.]
How could it be that easy? Le Zhishi felt depressed. When Song Yu took the college entrance exam, he was the one who was so nervous that he fell sick. Now that it was his turn to take the college entrance exam, he was still so nervous. He only took the exam once. It was a loss to be nervous twice.
He felt that he couldn’t sleep at all. After hesitating for a long time, he finally couldn’t help but call Song Yu. The phone only rang once before the call went through.
“What’s wrong?” Song Yu’s voice sounded particularly gloomy over the radio waves. In the dark night, it gave Le Zhishi a concrete comfort. It was like a gray cloud. It looked very cold, but one could touch it when one reached out and touched it.
Le Zhishi snuggled under the blanket and turned over. “I’m a little insomnia.”
“Can’t sleep?”
He heard that Song Yu’s voice was deliberately lowered.
“Yes. I’ve tried. Maybe I’m too nervous. Can you talk to me and divert my attention? ”
Song Yu was silent for two seconds. “Are you sure that if I talk to you, it won’t make it harder for you to sleep?”
Le Zhishi thought about it and felt that what he said made sense. However, there was an exception. “When you teach me math questions, I get sleepy easily.”
Song Yu seemed to chuckle. Le Zhishi caught it, so Le Zhishi also laughed.
“Where can I find a question for you now?” Song Yu’s tone revealed some helplessness.
“That’s true.” Le Zhishi closed his eyes and imagined that Song Yu was next to him. “Then can you pretend to be a math teacher and read something that will make me sleepy?”
There was some noise in the earpiece. It sounded like the sound of someone looking for something. Soon, Le Zhishi heard Song Yu get up. It seemed that he had moved to another location. The environment and background sound were different. It was much more spacious.
After a few seconds, he heard Song Yu ask in a low voice, “‘Oxford Reader: Mathematics’. What do you think?”
“This name sounds very hypnotic,” agreed Le Zhishi.
He heard the sound of pages flipping. Then, Song Yu spoke in a deep voice. His voice was very low and did not fluctuate much. However, it had a very pleasant resonance. It could soothe Le Zhishi’s restless emotions.
“… When we examine the solution to a physics problem, there is an 80% to 90% chance that we can draw a clear line between the scientific and engineering parts and the mathematical contributions …”
The words he read were obscure and difficult. However, when it reached Le Zhishi’s ears, the words seemed to be peeled off and turned into simple audio waves that poured into Le Zhishi’s heart. He rose and fell with the frequency of the waves. His breathing slowed down and his limbs relaxed. Finally, he entered a stable and calm state.
“… It turns out that even a very simple interaction particle model’s behavior is extremely complicated. It will lead to extremely difficult and, in fact, unsolvable mathematical problems.”
Song Yu heard the sound of steady breathing from the other end of the phone. He slowed down and slowly stopped.
The most complicated and difficult problem in the world seemed to have temporarily calmed down.
“Good night.”
Song Yu stood in the empty hallway and gently closed the book in his hand. He stood there quietly for a moment before returning to his dorm.
The time for the college entrance exam seemed to flow at a different speed than other times. He felt like he had just stepped into the exam hall and watched the invigilator open the sealed bags. In the blink of an eye, a day had passed.
After the first day of the exam, Le Zhishi felt that it was not bad. There were a lot of questions in the mathematics paper that he had organized. Peiya arranged for a school bus to take them back to school. The students on the bus were all comparing answers. He did not want to listen, so he put on his headphones and listened to music.
When Le Zhishi heard that their exam question was trending, he was not in the mood to read it. He only opened the chat box with Song Yu.
[Le Zhishi: The book you read to me yesterday was very hypnotic.]
[Le Zhishi: Do you read it when you can’t sleep?]
When he was about to get off the bus, he received a reply from Song Yu. Song Yu’s words revealed his helplessness.
[Brother: I don’t read this kind of book to sleep.]
Le Zhishi laughed at his phone.
The next day, English and comprehensive literature were his strengths, but Le Zhishi still begged Song Yu to read the book for another day, and Song Yu agreed.
The senior sister in the same laboratory saw Song Yu get up and carry a thick book to the pantry next door. She thought he wanted to rest. After all, he had been busy the whole day to finish the data processing as soon as possible. He didn’t even have time to eat dinner.
She thought about it and opened the drawer. She took out a pack of instant oatmeal and Oreos and got up to give them to her junior.
When she walked to the door of the pantry, she saw Song Yu’s back. He was wearing headphones and reading a book at a moderate pace. His voice did not change, but it was completely different from his usual tone in the laboratory. It was not cold and emotionless.
This was very subtle because he wasn’t reading a prose poem. It was more like a boring mathematics textbook. However, the flowing emotions hidden in his voice were obvious.
Chen Yushan’s intuition told her not to disturb him. She gently closed the door of the pantry and put the oatmeal and biscuits that she did not send out on Song Yu’s empty desk. She suddenly felt that this quiet junior was actually not that different.
He tried his best to compress the workload that he might not be able to finish in three days into two days. He was probably in a hurry to do something or meet someone.
The reading at night made Le Zhishi full of energy. The next day’s exam subjects were all what he was good at. The weather was good, so everything went smoothly. When the final bell rang, he took one last look at the name on the paper.
He felt like he was participating in a long-distance physical test. He ran forward desperately in the team, following the rules and the expectations of others. He constantly struggled with his willpower.
At the last second, the stopwatch pressed to stop. All the strength in his body was sucked away, and he left the track that trapped him.
It was finally over.
Everyone was much calmer than expected. Only one student shouted something after leaving the exam room. Le Zhishi followed everyone out of the exam room in the bustling crowd. There were many parents outside. His eyes were unfocused, and he searched repeatedly with a vague idea in his mind.
Finally, he accidentally made eye contact with a pair of eyes.
Song Yu was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans, and the same baseball cap that Le Zhishi wore when he went to W University to see him. He gave him a very faint smile.
His clothes were obviously very ordinary, but Le Zhishi felt as if all the light had fallen on him.
He ran forward and stopped in front of Song Yu.
“Looks like you did well.” Song Yu gave a simple evaluation of his condition.
Le Zhishi could not hide the smile on his face. “It’s very close to my first college entrance exam wish. It seems that W University’s koi fish still bless me.”
Song Yu raised his eyebrows. “You stepped on it, and it still blesses you. It’s really a fish that repays evil with good.”
As the two of them talked, they saw Lin Rong and Song Jin not far away and waved at them. It was rare for the whole family to be together. Lin Rong sat in the front passenger seat and chatted happily. Le Zhishi felt that time had entered a certain cycle. It was as if he had returned to three years ago. Uncle Song was driving, and Aunt Rong was sitting in the front passenger seat, very seriously planning the post-exam plan.
“Let’s go home and eat later. I made your favorite dishes, cheesecake, and manna.”
Le Zhishi nodded. He saw Song Yu leaning against the back of the sofa and whispered to him, “When did you get here?”
“Just now. I took the subway here.” Song Yu said very briefly.
It must have been very tiring to take the subway. Le Zhishi asked again, “You didn’t drive?”
“I’m a little tired.” Song Yu put his elbow on the car window and held his chin. “It’s more dangerous to drive.”
Le Zhishi leaned closer to him. He tugged at Song Yu’s arm and patted his shoulder. He looked at him as if he was very reliable. “You can lean on me to sleep.”
Song Yu glanced at him and looked away. “I’m not a child like you.”
Lin Rong, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, couldn’t help but laugh. “Then you’re wrong. Le is the oldest in our car today. ”
Song Jin drove and asked why. Lin Rong said again, “Because the examinees are the oldest.”
“Yes.” Le Zhishi tugged at Song Yu and pulled him to his shoulder. “Lean on me and sleep for a while. We’ll be there when you wake up.”
As if afraid that Song Yu would not agree, Le Zhishi moved closer to his ear and whispered in a very soft voice.
“Take it as a return gift for the past two days. Didn’t you help me hypnotize you too?”
Le Zhishi grabbed his shoulder and felt that Song Yu’s body seemed to stiffen for a moment. Fortunately, he still agreed. This statement seemed to have worked. Song Yu leaned down reluctantly and adjusted himself. He didn’t seem very satisfied. Le Zhishi thought that he was going to get up and was a little flustered. “Is my shoulder bone too protruding? It’s not comfortable, right? ”
“Yeah.”
The next moment, Song Yu, who thought that he would sit up straight, pressed down on the brim of his cap and leaned down again. But this time, his target wasn’t the shoulder but Le Zhishi’s leg.
“This is much better.”
