Chapter Ten Blind Spot

  Excessive

  On Christmas Eve, the school had already set up Christmas trees in various corridors, and the festive atmosphere was getting thicker. The girls were busy buying a bunch of candy canes and apples to give away, while the boys seemed to be in another world, gathering around the TV in the classroom after class to watch football, occasionally bursting out with profanity, just because some team played badly or the referee made a wrong call.

  Xie Zhangyi never participated in these things, he seemed to have no interest in watching the ball, compared to watching the ball, he seemed to prefer reading photography magazines. Now he is sitting in Lan's position, flipping through a new magazine with great relish, Lan is speechless about Xie Zhangyi's occasional rogue behavior, reading magazines must occupy her position.

  In his words, sitting by the window and reading this magazine is more enjoyable. Lan has already gotten used to his excuse, which is nothing but a way to show off his presence.

  The bell rang for class to start, and this was geography class. Xie Zhangyi very consciously returned to his own seat, because the geography teacher liked to call on him to answer questions in class. Perhaps it was because this eccentric big boy had piqued her curiosity, or perhaps it was because Xie Zhangyi's impertinence always gave too many teachers a headache, so they all thought of ways to make him lose face.

  After a long time, Xie Zhang was the most obedient in geography class, afraid that she would shout loudly in his ear while he was sleeping, or lose face in front of all his classmates when answering questions.

  As expected, as soon as he sat down, he heard the geography teacher call out his name and ask him to answer questions about the previous lesson. Xie Zhang got up with a twisted expression, opened the textbook on his desk and flipped through it randomly. He nudged Lan Yu's arm and whispered in a low voice that only Lan Yu could hear: "Hey, what did we learn last time?"

  "It's like Africa is rich in crops." Lan smiled with satisfaction, looking at Xie Zhangyi with a pleased expression.

  "Don't be vague, can you give an accurate answer?"

  The teacher slammed the blackboard eraser on the podium and asked, "Xie Zhangyi, did you listen in class last time? What are the main crops produced in Africa?"

  "What is it?" he asked her in a low voice. Lan'er smiled secretly and wrote the answer on a piece of paper, pushing it to him across the table.

  "Scallions." Xie Zhangyi replied without hesitation as he looked at the note she handed over.

  Everyone in the class burst out laughing when they heard his answer, Blue was almost crying from laughter. The geography teacher had a look of disappointment and frustration on her face, she kept pointing at Xie Zhangyuan with the blackboard eraser and said: "What do you usually do during class? I really can't teach you anymore, you should learn from your deskmate, having such a good deskmate but still not learning well! Blue come answer this question."

  Blue looked at Xie Zhangyi with a sullen face, pulled out the chair and stood up, saying calmly: "Teacher, I don't know either."

  De Yi Men Sheng's behavior at this time made the teacher very angry. She slammed her lecture notes on the table and shouted, "You two get out and stand in punishment!"

  Two people stood outside the door, leaning against the wall. Xie Zhang was still thinking about what Lan had done to him earlier and kicked at a small stone on the ground with a gloomy expression.

  "Are you still angry? Do you need to be so petty?"

  "What is leek actually?" He was still thinking about the question just now.

  Blue? C lightly laughed and said, "You're silly, you even believe in African leeks, what about wheat and cotton?"

  "You still dare to tell the teacher you don't know!"

  "It's not just about coming out with you, every time you can't answer a question, I have to come out and stand there, so I might as well come out and chat with you for a while."

  A warm current flowed slowly in his heart, and the sense of existence suddenly burst. Xie Zhang's mouth curled up with a joyful smile, and he raised an eyebrow, "Ah, I've prepared a Christmas gift for you."

  Blue excitedly grabbed his arm: "Really? What is it?"

  "Take it yourself from my pocket."

  Blue? He hesitantly reached into his pocket and searched around, just about to curse being tricked again, when a warm palm enveloped his hand. Xie Zhang's hand stretched over from the other side of the pocket and gently grasped her icy hand.

  Lan was startled and wanted to pull her hand out, but Xie Zhangyu grasped it tightly, "Don't move."

  It was like this, on Christmas in 2008, in the somewhat chilly weather of Xicheng, at the entrance to the classroom of Class 7, Grade 1, the two people who were being punished stood with their hands tightly clasped together, warm and toasty. She didn't know why she hadn't continued to struggle, but when she saw Xie Zhangyi's slightly injured eyes, her struggling movements stopped.

  The thrill of youth is actually just such a simple thing, at a sudden moment, he suddenly holds your hand. Then you are in such a situation, nervous and incoherent.

  "Do you have someone you like?" A slightly hoarse voice came from above his head.

  Blue? He was taken aback for a moment, then pulled his hand out of his pocket, "Here."

  Xie Zhangyong held his breath and didn't interrupt her, as if waiting for her to continue.

  "I knew him since we were in kindergarten, and then he was always in the same school as me. Although his mouth is very poisonous, but he actually has a kind heart and a lovely personality. Over time, I found that I liked him."

  Xie Zhangyu raised an eyebrow, looking at her soft hair emitting a gentle glow under the light, "Is he also in this school now?"

  Blue slowly shook his head, "He went somewhere else."

  Xie Zhangyuan took a deep breath and looked at the crowd walking downstairs, smiling faintly: "Who's more handsome between him and me."

  She glanced at him and forced a wry smile: "If I said he was more handsome, you'd definitely be unhappy."

  "It's nothing, I understand, beauty is in the eye of the beholder." Xie Zhangyi shrugged nonchalantly.

  "What about you? Do you have someone you like?"

  "Of course there is." Xie Zhangyu raised an eyebrow and gazed into the distance, with a inexplicable emotion in his heart. "More than one."

  "You guys are all so flirtatious." Lan Yu disdainfully curled her lip, breathed onto the glass door, and then wrote Xie Changyu's name on it, drawing a large "X" over his name.

  Xie Zhang quietly watched her scribbling on the glass, not wanting to explain anything, just watching her constantly huffing and puffing against the glass, with a kind of amusing childishness. He was actually an extremely self-abased person, although he had a dazzling appearance and family background that others envied, but he was indeed self-abasing, sometimes feeling like a bat flying in the dark night, unable to bear the light.

  Before meeting Lan, he didn't know that there were people in this world who could tolerate his bad temper besides his family members. He had done many excessive things to her, but a piece of chocolate was enough to coax her back. On her, he finally found the long-lost feeling of being valued, so he liked to be unreasonable and wild around her. Whether it was called making trouble or intentionally causing chaos, he enjoyed this feeling. However, this feeling also made him very conflicted, because he could no longer distinguish whether his feelings for her were friendship or missed love.