crown you

Chapter 25
1
"How can you think of her like this?" After many years, Zhi Ai got up and knocked over the cup in his hand with a bang, the hot tea soaked into the carpet and steam rose.

She ran upstairs.

In the remaining silent living room, Xi Wenle sat on the sofa, lowered his head, and shook the water droplets from his hands.

Shi Yin's condition improved slightly after a week.

She still refused to go out, and sat on the bed in a daze from morning to night. The blows one after another drained her tears and she couldn't speak.

Alan went into the room to clean and drew the curtains for her. The first ray of sunlight in a week hit the head of the bed. She closed her eyes and turned her head away.

Alan noticed that looking at Xi Wenle at the door, he shook his head, and Alan closed the curtains again.

Then he brought in a basin of warm water from outside the room and put it on the edge of the bed. Just as he was about to lift the quilt on the bed, Xi Wenle said, "You go out, I'll come."

Alan froze for a moment, quietly exited the room, and closed the door.

The quilt on Shiyin's legs was lifted, and his knees and waist were wrapped by his arms, and he carried her to the edge of the bed.

She remained silent, Xi Wenle held her ankles and put them into the warm water. He squatted down, put both her feet into the water, and rubbed her feet gently with his hands.

Shi Yin went from being in a daze to gradually looking down at him.

The temperature slowly spread from the soles of her feet to her body, and her senses revived a little. She looked at Xi Wenle, and at him squatting in front of her... the once so proud man.

She quarreled for a week, and he stayed with him for a week, only to find out that he was there all the time.

Shi Yin put his hand on his cheek, the more he thought about it, the more it hurt, his heart that had been dry for a long time was finally moistened, a tear fell out and fell into the basin.

He saw that the force of the massage had eased a little, and asked her, "Is it too hard, now?"

"So," she said hoarsely, "all the suffering I suffered in the first half of my life was just to meet you at this time."

After the words fell, Xi Wenle's hands stopped.

After a while, the water basin moved away, and he picked up Shi Yin from the edge of the bed, Shi Yin hugged his neck, and was led by him to sit on the sofa, he put her on his lap, and embraced her completely in his arms inside.

Shiyin also hugged him. .

"No more breakups," he said.

She just clung to his neck tightly and didn't return.

"Time tone."

"Could you let me get over it first..." She said in a muffled voice, "I'll stay by your side after I get over it."

"Didn't get over it?" He put his forehead against her side forehead, wiped her tears with his thumb, "Didn't get over it, huh?"

There was a deep meaning in the words begging her to take back the original words, but she didn't stop the tone, didn't speak, just shook her head.

The two were entwined in the room, and a wounded woman comforted his pain in his arms. The two hugged each other close to each other. At last, Shiyin said, "I can go to school now..."

He wanted to talk, but she covered her mouth, she said quickly with red eyes: "I know you don't want me to go, you hate the way people look at me more than I do, but if I don't go, I can't get over it, Xi Wenle? Okay? it is good?"

Half a month later, mid-December, early winter.

Shi Yin returned to the school again, and the atmosphere had changed. The students put on winter uniforms, and their hearts were wrapped more tightly. The cold wind gusts, and the tone of the whole school seems to be dimmed by winter.

When she got out of Xi Wenle's car, she vaguely felt the gazes gathered in the freshman corridor. He closed the door for her, held her shoulders and said, "I'll take you to class."

Shi Yin walked a few steps away from him, and he frowned and looked at her.

"Don't stand with me, I don't want others to have that association."

He didn't listen, and took another step towards her, and she stepped back: "Xi Wenle, don't come by my side."

"I said I'll take you to class." He paused for a while, and without talking nonsense, he took her hand and walked away, "Going up by yourself is different from me sending you up."

Shiyin grabbed the handrail when going up the stairs: "I said I'll cross by myself..."

"I just want to cross with you."

"Xi Wenle!"

He didn't listen at all, he changed her hand to his other, pulled her to stand by his side, and put his original hand on her shoulder, half-supporting and half-embracing her into the corridor like this.

There was no class yet, and the students moved around frequently, so he switched hands and led her to the classroom.

Walking against the current all the way, many people passed her by. Xi Wenle was there, and that strong deterrent force was there. Even the oncoming students immediately turned their eyes away. An attitude full of taboos, even Shi Yin, who is the person involved in the incident, is also full of awe.

He didn't let her go until the door of the classroom.

When Shi Yin entered the door, the normally normal classroom seemed to have broken the vocal cords. Everyone lowered their voices, and Xi Wenle leaned on the door frame with his shoulders behind her. An invisible warning to everyone made the whole class calm down.

Huo Wei also avoided her, supported her forehead, and bounced the polo vigorously on the ground.

Zhi Ai came up to pick her up, Xi Wenle left a message next to Shi Yin's ear before leaving: "Call me if you have anything to do."

She nodded, and then he thought of something else, turned back as soon as he left the classroom, and continued to whisper in her ear: "Call me if you have nothing to do."

2
After he left, Shi Yin was led by Zhi Ai towards her seat.

She couldn't fully face everyone, she could only look at the ground within three steps in front of her, when a boy met her in the aisle, she leaned sensitively to the side, the boy's footsteps paused, and walked past her .

She faintly felt the boy's inner eyes sweeping over her body. This kind of glance was like an ant crawler biting her. She felt uncomfortable and uncomfortable. Zhi Ai patted her on the back shoulder to comfort her.

As the boy walked, he looked back at her tensed shoulders and wiped his nose.

This morning, everyone was silent about her matter.

The first person in the classroom to talk to Shi Yin was Bai Lu. She brought a box of warm fruit juice, put it on her desk, and said, "Mu Shiyin, I will accompany you and Zhi Ai for lunch at noon."

Shiyin didn't speak.

Seeing her reaction, Bai Lu realized, "Oh, you should be able to follow Xi..."

"Don't say his name." Shi Yin glanced at her, then looked aside, the girls gathered around the back window and whispered.

They noticed her gaze and quietly dispersed.

Shi Yin retracted her gaze and clenched her fingers together. Zhi Ai called her at this time: "Sister."

"Today's lunch I made two bento boxes, both of which you like. Let's find a place to eat together at noon."

She nodded.

Before leaving, Bai Lu patted Zhi Ai on the shoulder, intending to ask her to comfort and take care of Shi Yin.

Near noon, Shiyin's mobile phone received a text message from Xi Wenle, saying that he would pick her up and Zhi Ai to have lunch at his place later.

Shi Yin quickly replied, "I'll go there by myself."

As soon as it was sent out, it was edited immediately: "Don't come here."

It’s okay in the villa, but when I arrived at school, I was very repulsed to contact him. I was afraid that as soon as I walked with him, people around me would think of photos and videos, and associate with him. I couldn't help keeping a distance from him, and didn't even dare to mention it.

To go to the private restaurant on the sixth floor, you will pass through the first to second floors. At noon, Zhi Ai and Shi Yin passed by. When you go up to the second floor, you hear the girl at the table closest to the stairs talk: "So the scratch on his chin is Mo Shi Did the sound come out? So fierce, my lord..."

"Some people say that she was the woman who chased after two months in high school."

Zhi Ai bumped the bento box against the wall, and the noise made them look at it, and when they found the sound of time, they immediately stopped talking.

In the crowded hall, there were eyes everywhere. Shi Yin wanted to leave quickly, but suddenly heard some sensitive voices in the air. She couldn't move, and she whispered: "Zhi Ai..."

The voice lingered in her ears, she was helpless, and when Zhi Ai came to her side, she said weakly: "Someone is patting me..."

Zhi Ai glanced over.

"Still shooting." Shi Yin said, and couldn't help avoiding behind Zhi Ai, Zhi Ai couldn't see, but Shi Yin heard it, heard the shutter sound of the camera, I don't know from which angle she was photographed, but it was in this hall , still shooting, still shooting...

She closes her eyes.

What she didn't know was that Xi Wenle walked behind her the moment she closed her eyes. He came up the stairs and walked directly towards the third dining table not far from her. He lifted the tablecloth and pulled out the camera hidden in it. At the same time, he grabbed the collar of the only boy at the table and threw it to the ground. There was a commotion around him. The boy fell down unprepared and looked up at him in horror. He lowered his head to check the camera. He threw the camera forward with a blank expression on his trouser pocket. The boy was almost hit and collapsed on the ground, unable to get up.

No one thought that he would take care of this matter in person, so when he appeared, when his aura became so cold, everyone who discussed or imagined the old-fashioned sound trembled with guilt.

"Sister!" Zhi Ai shouted from the stairs, and he looked over.

Shiyin has gone.

3
Later, he found her by the flower garden in front of the first floor of the south courtyard of the school.

She sat on the wrought iron bench under the tree, put the bento that Zhi Ai gave her on her lap, opened it, and ate it alone.

He watched from the balcony on the second floor.

Only one school gardener wearing a mask and hat was working in the flower garden. Shi Yin picked up the chopsticks, put the food in his mouth, tasted it slowly, and then watched the gardener loosen the soil.

At this time, there were no noises around her, and there was some stability on her face.He watched her finish her lunch on the second floor, put away her bento box, and leave by the flower garden.

He looked at her back.

Has been, has not called her.

For the next few days, Shi Yin ate lunch at that place, and she didn't want Zhi Ai to accompany her. Every time, she put the bento on her lap and ate slowly by herself before leaving.

From that day on, he hardly spoke or contacted Xi Wenle. Although he would come to the villa for dinner at night, he would not stay at night——Shiyin would not stay with him.

She even locks the door.

The school is like being covered with a huge net. The surface of the net is as calm as water, but the bottom of the net is restless.

Another week later, Shiyin began to speak the first words to the gardeners in the flower garden.

"Is this June Snow?"

The gardener turned her head, wiped the sweat from her forehead with the sleeve of her overalls, followed her gaze at the small bushes beside her, and nodded.

Then he continued to tidy up the flower garden, and after a while, he said: "One... average, ordinary students can't recognize..."

He stuttered and his voice was muffled. One was wearing a mask, and the other was probably because he was used to working hard and listening to the footsteps of students coming and going, so he was a little nervous when he turned into a direct answer.

She nodded, not intending to continue the conversation with him, she covered the lunch box, got up and left.

Another three or four days passed.

At noon, the gardener pruned the bushes, and Shiyin ate lunch. When he pruned out the prototype, she asked, "Did you also prune the bushes in the rose garden behind the first floor of the north courtyard?"

He nodded with his back to her.

"Where is Rose?"

"It's also...me, I planted it."

She nodded, took a few mouthfuls of rice, and closed the lid of the lunch box: "Although the roses are out of season, the garden looks very beautiful."

After finishing speaking, I left.

After countless lunches here, he finally took the initiative to ask her the first words.

"You...why, why do you...eat, eat here every day? Then...there are student meals and restaurants over there."

"This is not your place."

"I... I'm not, I didn't... I didn't mean to..."

"I know."

While pouring water, he looked at Shiyin and stopped talking.

There were some girls playing in the distance, their footsteps were coming this way, Shi Yin got up, but the too sudden movement knocked over the bento box on his lap, the box rolled to the railing, and the food spilled out.

She looked at the lunch box, then at the pile of girls who were getting closer, she didn't pick it up, and left from the other side.

After that, I didn't go to the flower garden for two consecutive days.

I didn't return there until noon on the third day, and brought a new bento box. Not long after I sat down, that person also came.

He held the hose in his hand, and today's task was still watering. Seeing her, he put down the hose, took off his gloves, rubbed his hands on the overalls, unzipped the clothes as he walked over, and stretched his hands in.

When Shiyin noticed him approaching, she was startled, stood up sensitively, and a box of meals on his lap fell onto his shoes. Out of her old bento box.

awkward.

Shiyin took the box, and he took a few steps back, looking down at the greasy shoes.

She gave him a tissue from her pocket, and he wanted to take it, but when he saw Shiyin's delicate long hair and clothes at close range, he saw that she was raised by a rich family, so he took it back, took out gloves from his pocket, squatted down to wipe shoe.

Shiyin put the tissue back into his pocket and stood there watching him. After a while, he noticed something in the old bento box. When he opened it, there was a layer of milky white dried flowers inside.

"Junexue." She took out a small flower and saw it.

June snow blooms only in June. It is an ordinary shrub in other seasons, and it is full of small white flowers in summer, just like snow in June. Shiyin likes this kind of flower.

He said, "Put it in...inside, incense."

"This is a box for eating, what are you doing with the flowers." She said softly.

He realized now that he couldn't answer for a while, so she covered the lunch box and said, "Thank you."

When Xi Wenle arrived that night, dinner was already being made.

Alan and Abing called "Young Master" when he entered the door, and while serving dinner on the table one by one, they said to him: "Miss cooks by herself today."

Shi Yin was making tomorrow's bento with Zhi Ai, he went into the kitchen to pour tea, and looked at the two bentos that her men had just finished, and she was making the third.

Zhi Ai carried the soup to the dining table.

He opened one of the lunch boxes and picked up the chopsticks. Shiyin saw it and said before he put down the chopsticks, "Wait a minute."

Xi Wenle looked at her.

"This isn't for you." She came over and closed the box again, put away his chopsticks, and asked him to go to the living room, "Supper is over there."

He went out of the kitchen, she was still making bento, he was watching at the door, and Zhi Ai happened to come over, he asked: "Who is the third one for?"

"I don't know," Zhi Ai thought for a while, "It's Bailu's."

4
Not for the white deer.

On the second day, Shi Yin sat on the bench, waited for the man to come, walked over purposely, and handed him the lunch box through the railing.

He looked at Shiyin.

Afterwards both of them sat on the bench and he opened the bento.

Shi Yin kept a distance of half a meter between him and put the food into his mouth with chopsticks. While eating, he looked at the flower garden he was tending.

It's winter, and a few wintersweet plants in the flower garden are in flowering period. The pure yellow flowers exude a strong fragrance, adding a touch of color to the cold campus.

After watching the flowers and looking at him, he didn't move his chopsticks, still wearing a mask and work cap.

"Have you eaten lunch?"

He doesn't answer.

"Take off your hat and mask."

He doesn't move.

Shiyin put the chopsticks on the side of the lunch box, stretched out his hand, and took off his hat.Just a gust of wind came, and the dead leaves of the sycamore tree behind the bench fell, and fell on the navy blue sweater outside Shi Yin's uniform, and also fell on his hair that almost covered his eyebrows.

Seeing a little bit, I saw that he was younger than the average gardener. He was 28 and nine years old. His hair had not been taken care of for a long time, and his hair was curly and uninspired, his skin was rough, and there was fine sweat on his forehead. The hat she had taken off was taken from her hands and put on again.

Then he got up and left with his lunch box.

After he left like this, Shi Yin sat alone in the same place and continued to eat her own lunch. Her face showed no emotion, as if he came and went, it had nothing to do with whether she was lonely or not.

When the leaves of the sycamore tree fell again, a shadow was cast in front of her. That person came back and said to her, "Thank you."

It must have been brewing for a long time to stop myself from stuttering, and I didn't raise my voice, as if saying to myself: "You are the only one in the whole school who doesn't know me."

He held out a bouquet of tulips in front of her.

Shi Yin's eyes were suddenly filled with this large bouquet of crimson tulips, and another winter wind blew, the fragrance of the flowers wafted through the gaps in the long hair on his shoulders, and the leaves of the sycamore tree fell on the man's work hat.

She looked up at him, he was still wearing a mask and work cap, she looked at the flowers again, and took them slowly.

"Why are there tulips this season?"

"Wen... the warm room, I'll take care of it."

There are still dewdrops on the petals, and they are very well grown. Shiyin lowered her head to smell, without speaking, a very shallow smile appeared on her lips.

(End of this chapter)