"Peach Branch Bubble"

Text/Qi Jian

Chapter 1

The wind is cold in the September night in the north, and the lights in the Xicheng District are dim, and there are occasionally two or three people.

Tao Zhi leaned against the traffic light post at the crossroads, watching the boy squatting on the roadside not far away lighting cigarettes.

The boy took out the lighter from his pocket, and the tiny flames gathered in his palm. The darkness at night was stained with a very thin layer of warm red light.

Very skilled.

Tao Zhi took out the phone and called a missed call.

After two seconds, the boy a hundred meters away lowered his head and looked at his phone, and answered it: "Hey——"

"Are you here?" Tao Zhi asked.

The boy was still biting a cigarette in his mouth, and his voice was vaguely dragging his long tone: "I'm here, I've been waiting for you for a long time, so you can let me wait."

"You said, when you were a child, you were so pretty every day when you went to kindergarten and had to tie your hair. Then I asked me to wait," he suddenly recalled the past in the curling smoke: "You sleep in when you go to school, I still have to wait."

"Even if I was born, I would have to wait for you to be pulled out. If I hadn't been for my tenacious vitality, I would have been suffocated to death."

The boy finally summarized with vicissitudes of life: "Tao Zhi, you are the woman I have been waiting for all my life."

“…”

Tao Zhi rolled his eyes, walked over, raised his hand and slapped him on the back of the head: "Is it over?"

Ji Fan whistled, holding a cigarette in one hand and turning back with the phone in the other.

The woman he had been waiting for all his life was standing behind him, with her eyelids hanging down and staring at him without any expression.

Ji Fan raised his head, and half of the ashes fell from the cigarette in his hand.

"Hehe," he giggled twice, "Come on?"

Tao Zhi hung up the phone and held the phone, and squatted down.

Ji Fan leaned back and hid behind him with his hands holding the cigarette, but he forgot that the person was standing behind him.

Tao Zhi lowered his head and watched the hand with cigarettes reach out from under her nose, stretching it out to her eyes with a striking force.

Then a slap and another piece of ashes fell off.

Tao Zhi: "..."

Tao Zhi called him: "Ji Fan."

"Ah." Ji Fan shivered, and the person was a little panicked.

"Do you know what disease our second uncle got in the end?" Tao Zhi said, "lung cancer."

“…”

Ji Fan quickly pulled his hand back, and the cigarette butt was extinguished on the floor tiles. He walked to the trash can and threw it in, and then turned back to wait for a lecture.

Tao Zhi glanced at him: "It's not about quitting."

"...It's not that easy." Ji Fan scratched his head, "I'll quit, don't scold me."

"If you are useful, you will be good at both academic performance and good at learning," Tao Zhi rolled his eyes, and said unconcealed disgust in his tone, "I heard that you scored nine points in math in the final exam? Are you all the school tyrants in your affiliated high school like this?"

Ji Fan asked, "How many exams are you doing?"

"Twenty." Tao Zhi said.

“…”

Ji Fan looked at her indescribable, and didn't know how this person could be so confident in dislike him after taking the 20s: "All the top students in our affiliated high school scored nine points."

Tao Zhi: "Then the school tycoon of our experiment will have to take the exam for 20. Remember to think of some ways to make up for these 11 points after you transfer to school."

Ji Fan moved away with Ji Jin at junior high school. He was crying and making a fuss and didn't want to leave. Now a few years have passed, and he has friends he can't bear to leave and a familiar living environment there, and he is about to be driven back.

He didn't want to come back, Tao Zhi knew it, but he couldn't help it.

Children have no right to speak. Do you want this kind of thing to have no effect on adults’ decisions, and if you let you go east, you can’t go west.

No one spoke for a while, and the two of them squatted on the side of the road, staring at the sparse traffic at night, for a while, Ji Fan sighed.

"When will you go back?" Tao Zhixian asked.

"It's time to go," said Ji Fan, "it seems to be almost done with the procedures."

Tao Zhi supported his head with one hand, put his fingertips on his lips, and looked at the boy's face that was barely similar to her, and comforted him with mercy: "If you think about it, you can be in the same school as me in the future."

Ji Fan's emotions had calmed down a little, but he heard this and felt despair again: "I don't want to go if you say that."

“…”

Tao Zhi's teeth were itchy, and she grinded her teeth and resisted the desire to beat him. After thinking about it, she said, "Our school doesn't need to do homework. Sometimes the teacher is in a good mood, so she won't check it."

Ji Fan turned his head and looked at her for no reason: "What homework? Are you still doing homework?"

“…”

Tao Zhi felt that his dignity as a bad girl was trampled to death under his questioning eyes.

"Of course I won't write," said Tao Zhi, "why am I doing my homework while I'm idle? I'm too lazy to copy."

-

September 2nd, the first day of school starts.

Class 1, Grade 2.

The morning wind rushed in with a slight coolness and bulging the curtains. Just after 7:00, most of the people were sitting in the classroom.

Tao Zhi sat in the penultimate row against the wall, with a stack of test papers spread on the left side, and the answers were dense, and the other stack on the right side was exactly the same and blank.

The girl was biting her pen cap and holding a black pen in her hand, quickly copying the answers on it.

The dark eyes swept to the left, and the pen in the right hand was in a row again, with almost no pause in the middle, as smooth as an engine that had just been loaded with lubricating oil, very skillful and fast.

After copying one page, she turned over the page and kicked the leg of the man in the front row on the chair.

With a light "clang", the boy's chair sitting in front of her rubbed forward and quickly turned around carefully.

Tao Zhi was still writing quickly in his hand, and he didn't raise his head, holding a pen cap in his mouth and asked vaguely: "You used to be from Lao Wang and his class?"

The boy nodded and said "ah" again.

"When does he usually like to collect his homework?"

Experimental No. 1 Middle School is divided into two subjects, twelve science classes and seven liberal arts classes, and the class teachers and teachers of each subject will also be reassigned.

Tao Zhi had never attended Lao Wang's class before, but only knew that he was teaching physics and was very fierce. In the past, he could often hear him coaching students in the office in the corridor.

The new semester and new atmosphere must at least start with the smooth delivery of holiday homework. She is different from Ji Fan. She is a positive and bad girl.

She is very sunny.

If you can copy a little, you can't copy it all, there is nothing you can do if you can't finish it.

At least tried hard.

The points can be low, and sincerity must be in place.

Anyway, Ji Fan doesn't know it now.

Tao Zhi, in the idea of ​​being able to copy one subject, got up early and came to school to write holiday homework early. She quickly wrote fill-in-the-blanks. The boy in front of him spoke: "Teacher Wang usually comes at some point, but sometimes he will come early to see morning self-study and other things, and he will collect homework before class," paused, and the boy added, "Today's first class is physics."

Tao Zhi paused his pen tip, raised his head, frowned and looked at him with a "ah".

Li Shuangjiang was a little surprised.

She is quite famous in school. She is rich and beautiful, and she is good at fighting. She is an ancestor who is a bit fierce.

But at this moment, my ancestor was sitting in the back row holding his Chinese paper copying, frowned and looked at him with a little distress, worrying about the problems that high school students all over the world would worry about: "What should I do? There are too many of them, I can't finish copying."

"Or I'll copy physics first and give Lao Wang some respect," Tao Zhi said while sweeping the Chinese paper to the side, "Physical papers, lend me a copy?"

Before she could finish her speech, Li Shuangjiang had already taken out the physics paper and handed it to her.

Tao Zhi took it over, said thank you, opened it and continued to write quickly.

She copied carefully and focusedly, and seemed to be no one else, as if she had already copied to a state of selflessness.

I don't know how long it took, but she faintly heard a little noise in the class. The good brother who borrowed her homework to copy was coughing at the front desk, and she didn't care.

At this moment, she was completely immersed in her diligence.

As he copied it, Tao Zhi felt something seemed to be wrong.

I always feel like someone standing next to me.

Tao Zhibi didn't stop looking up and looked at her, facing a face full of pleated ones.

Tao Zhi still remembered the last physical formula and answer on the front desk paper I just saw. He did not stop his hand and did not bow his head. He looked at the furrowed face while finishing the last question.

Wen Zi looked like a middle-aged man in his forties. Tao Zhi had seen him several times in the physics, chemistry and biology office. He was initially judged that he was Lao Wang.
To be continued...