After I quit the Shura field, I'm really sweet to my rival

Chapter 40

Zhao Chenxing actually learned English very quickly. In the past, he didn’t study hard. Now he picks up from the basics. He has a general understanding of grammar. Once he has more words and more reading, it only takes a few minutes to get his score from ten to one hundred. Two months of work.

But at the level of [-] points, he got stuck.

Go up, can't go up; when doing questions, you will still encounter a few questions that can make you feel bald every time.

Since Zhao Chenxing woke up from the dream, he has not been fooling around with his life, and the same is true for the questions, otherwise he would not have frequently gone to Shen Lv, who was his former rival in love, to ask for advice.

At this moment, the crescent moon hangs high outside the window with half-closed curtains, and the cold wind is chilling.

Zhao Chenxing frowned, clutching an English simulation paper irritably, his knuckles were almost white, the reading in front of him was still incomprehensible, and he didn't know how to start the composition.

According to the past, he might have already rushed towards 606 with the rewards and papers, but now his hands are stiff and his feet are wooden, he just can't move a step.

Ever since he got drunk and slept overnight and had that dream again, he seemed to be reluctant to contact Shen Lv face to face.

Zhao Chenxing didn't think about the reason for this thought, but pushed open the window angrily, blowing the chilly wind with a sullen face.

……

Shen Lv received Zhao Chenxing's call at around ten o'clock at night and close to eleven o'clock.

Shen Lv pushed aside the book in his hand, brightened the light of the desk lamp, swiped his index finger, and pressed the button to answer.

Zhao Chenxing originally took a breath, but when he saw the call was connected, the breath stopped abruptly under his tongue, and he paused for a few seconds before he slowed down, and asked in a muffled voice: "...Have you written the English paper yet?"

Shen Lv glanced down at the small stack of test papers that had been put aside, and said "um", "Is it possible?"

Zhao Chenxing flipped through the test paper, turned the pen again, and said a second later: "Yes, I didn't understand the third reading comprehension, and..."

He dragged on for a long time, and Shen Lu didn't ask him why he didn't come to ask, after all, Aunt Liu also went back, so she couldn't disturb anyone.

He just asked in a low voice: "Need a one-on-one video explanation? It's free for a limited time."

Shen Lu's voice sounded colder and lower at night, and there was no hint of sales at all.Zhao Chenxing was originally blowing cold wind, but the tip of his ear was slightly numb by the shocking sound, and his mind became a little clearer.

Zhao Chenxing stared at the paper for a while, but said nothing.

The surroundings suddenly became quiet, so quiet that fallen leaves could be heard.

Shen Lv just waited quietly for a reply and didn't rush him.

Zhao Chenxing suddenly reached out his hand and hung up the phone.

Two seconds later, the video invitation suddenly filled the screen.

Shen Lu twitched the corner of her lower lip, took the phone a little further away, pulled out the English test paper, glanced at the blank and clean page and ticked off a few strokes, then pressed the green button on the screen, and looked up.

On the screen, the picture flashed, and a pair of straight and white hands came into view, with a wide ring on the index finger.

Those hands adjusted the angle of the phone, and when they were lifted up, the bridge of the nose, lips, and mandible appeared, and the eyebrows and eyes framed out of the screen, with no traces to be found.

Zhao Chenxing randomly placed the angle, regardless of whether the other party could see it or not, he flattened the folded test paper, twirling the pen in his hand, and announced the question number one by one with his lips.

After he finished his report, his gaze dropped from his long eyelashes, and he caught a glimpse of Shen Lv's drooping half face in the video.

——Under the light, it is almost transparent, and the outline is softened, giving it a different kind of beautiful beauty.

Zhao Chenxing's Adam's apple slipped unconsciously, quickly retracted his gaze and returned to his senses, followed the other party's words and replied: "...Well, so what is the choice for this question?"

"Tigan is a familiar word with a rare meaning, that's why you don't understand it correctly..." Shen Lu was speaking, occasionally raising his eyes, and glanced at Zhao Chenxing's hand holding his Adam's apple in the video. Visible flakes of powder.

Shen Lu took the water glass on one side, took two sips of water, and continued to write: "Is the English paper that I taught this morning still there? The last two are actually very similar to the one above. Take it out and compare it."

"Okay." Zhao Chenxing unconsciously stared at the moist lips on the screen, his eyes darkened, and his voice sank.

……

Zhao Chenxing learned English online by video link for two nights in a row.

Shen Lu's English is good, but he doesn't blindly instill it according to his own learning method, but first guides through some simple problem-solving skills, and then adds some knowledge points.

Zhao Chenxing was encouraged by him, even if his mind was messed up when he was studying, he still knew the general idea, and it was much easier than before when doing the questions.

But apart from this video teaching time, the contact time between the two is so small that it can be counted in minutes.

It wasn't until the morning of the third day that Zhao Chenxing came to the classroom with his bag on his back, and stayed there for a long, long time from morning reading to the end of get out of class. When he looked back and saw the empty tables and chairs, he realized that Shen Lv had already set off for the competition.

But did not greet him.

The phone in the belly of the table turned on, Zhao Chenxing fished it out, and two Taobao text messages popped up one after another on the screen.

Zhao Chenxing stuffed the phone back casually, took the water glass from the table and poured it straight up.

At the bottom of the water glass, there are two slices of lemon sliced ​​by Guanrong. The slightly sweet and sour white water is bland and tasteless in the mouth at this time, and astringency slowly emerges on the base of the tongue.

When school was over in the evening, Zhao Chenxing had just packed up his books when he saw Dai Fengyu kick his desk leg.

Dai Fengyu winked, "I don't have much homework today, how about going to play?"

In the past, it was impossible for Zhao Chenxing to consider this proposal at all.

Dai Fengyu's basketball is notoriously bad in class A, whoever takes him will be unlucky.

But maybe it's because the whole day today is really dull, Zhao Chenxing nodded his chin, and turned on the phone screen to check the time.

Seeing that he agreed, Dai Fengyu immediately put the book into his bag. As soon as he carried it on his shoulders and was about to get up, he saw Zhao Chenxing turn off the phone screen expressionlessly, and then walked away with his hands in his pockets.

Seeing that something was wrong with him, Dai Fengyu quickly stopped him, "Aren't you going to play?"

Zhao Chenxing paused, and seemed to have just remembered what happened, turned his face back to him, "I have something to do at home, let's go first."

Dai Fengyu stared at his back and slowed down, "Damn!"

He put down the bag and carried it in his hand, put on the school uniform that he had taken off, and muttered, "If it weren't for seeing you not unhappy all day, who would want to play ball? Isn't he good at games?"

Dai Fengyu muttered in his mouth, but suddenly stopped while walking, like a flash of inspiration.

The phone in his trouser pocket vibrated twice suddenly, and Dai Fengyu quickly took it out to look, and quickly pressed the voice message with one hand to reply, grinning, "Wanwan is free today? I don't have much homework today, and I'm on my way home now. Wait for me."

After a while, the sky gradually darkened. The weather in Changhuai City has been overcast for the past few days, with occasional light rain and fine mist.

At this time, the street lights were not on yet, Zhao Chenxing swiped the screen with his hand, and light came out from the edge of his fingertips.

On the screen was a message sent half an hour ago, with the name clearly displayed in the upper left corner.

Shen Lu: - My mother made something for you, and Aunt Liu sent it to your home.

Zhao Chenxing didn't stop, looked at the screen for a while, then turned it off again, pursed his lips and threw it into his pocket.

He was very annoyed by the feeling of being out of control. It seemed that all he could control now was his facial expressions, and his pace was getting faster and faster.

He remembered that Shen Lu had mentioned to him earlier that Ms. Yi Zhi was a designer, so there were many precious little things at home and some objects in Shen Lu's collection were designed by Ms. Yi Zhi herself.

Approaching the front of the house, Zhao Chenxing suddenly slowed down, gathered his original strides, and walked leisurely.

He seemed to be secretly restraining something, gradually sinking it into the bottom of the abyss, blocking its light.

When Zhao Chenxing unlocked and turned the doorknob, he seemed to be pulled by some kind of force. He glanced back at the door of 606, then quickly retracted it, opened the door, and lowered his waist to change his shoes.

Guan Rong happened to come out of the kitchen with a bowl of fish soup, and when she saw him, she smiled and said, "Auntie Liu brought you something, she said it was from Shen Lu's mother, it was a small box, I didn't open it, I put it in your room inside."

Zhao Chenxing responded heavily, got up and walked to the bedroom.

Guan Rong was still talking, "You said their family is too polite, should we return some gifts? What should I give?"

Zhao Chenxing stepped into the bedroom, and when he raised his eyes, he caught a glimpse of a navy blue gift box half the size of a palm on the desk, with two off-white ribbons interlaced around the periphery.

There are no frills, and it's not even easy to guess what's in the box.

Zhao Chenxing sat down on the engineering chair by the table, resting his hands on the armrests casually, his body swayed to the left and right in a regular manner following the chair's wheels. Mou stared at the gift box without opening it, just stared at it until the phone on the bed buzzed, then came back to his senses, took the phone, glanced at the caller, and answered.

"Did you see it?" Shen Lu's voice was a little heavy, and the ending trailed off slightly wearily.

Zhao Chenxing pinched the side of his ear before freeing his hand to pick up the gift box, "I see, what's inside... Forget it, I'll open it myself."

It was a little clumsy to unpack the package with one hand, Zhao Chenxing tossed for a while before untying the ribbon, and raised a corner of the box lid with his fingertips.

Shen Lv remained silent, listening quietly to the movement of him opening the box.

There was a faint silver light leaking from the gift box, Zhao Chenxing was taken aback for a moment, stopped his fingers, remembered and asked: "Why did Auntie give me something?"

Only then did Shen Lv speak out, with a slight smile, "She said last time that she was missing a gift from you. She drew the drawings on the weekend and went to the master in the studio to make them. It didn't take much effort, and the materials were not precious. "

Of course Zhao Chenxing would not listen to his polite words, he pressed the lid of the box with his thumb, slapped it away, and then froze slightly.

The navy blue gift box was covered with a layer of off-white silk interlining, and a silver ring lay horizontally in the middle of the interlining.

The box is larger and flatter than ordinary ring boxes, so that Zhao Chenxing never expected to see such a result at first.

One end of the ring is attached to the interlining and is slightly embedded in the underlying sponge. Due to the excessive width, the interlining is extruded into a small circle of bright folds.

The style of the ring is quite simple, with simple elements.

Zhao Chenxing curled his index finger, hooked it in his palm and twisted it, looking down.

The entire ring is like two twisted lightning bolts colliding and entangled with each other. Sometimes the arc is smooth and smooth, and occasionally it bends sharply, scraping a sharp angle, but this corner is closed by another lightning that comes opposite. Inside, it seems that the hostile energy is blocked, so that it cannot cause any harm to the outside world.

The surface of the ring is not smooth, but has some ferocious curved veins, and the tail of the lightning is somewhat like fine relief scales.

It has to be said that Zhao Chenxing couldn't help but like this design, but he felt a little awkward in his heart.

A deep and low voice came from the ear.

"My mother likes jewelry and other designs. Last time she saw you wearing a ring, she thought you should like this kind of design, so she made this for you."

As he said that, he added in a raised tone, "If you don't want it, she might be sad and try to find a way to give you something else, so keep it."

Zhao Chenxing licked his teeth with the tip of his tongue. Due to the force, his tongue was a little tingling. He scratched the back of his neck and asked, "What does Auntie usually like?"

Even if you have to accept it, you have to return a gift.

Shen Lu smiled and said, "Do you want to return the gift?"

Shen Lv seemed to be outside, and the background sound was a bit noisy, so the laughter sounded vague and vague.

"I thanked you for you. She doesn't need anything. If you really want to give it away, why don't you go to a show or a game with her someday. She often argues that no one will accompany her."

It is true that Ms. Yizhi has everything materially, and most of her favorite recreational activities are abroad, so there are not many opportunities to find time to go together.

Upon hearing this condition, Zhao Chenxing stopped to think for two seconds, then frowned and asked, "Is there no other way?"

Shen Lu murmured, "Hmm... She has seen the Star Destroyer model you gave me in my storage room, and she seems to like it very much."

Zhao Chenxing was silent for a while, "This won't work."

Shen Lv was obviously in a good mood, with a smile engulfed in the air, and numbly passed through the handset of the phone to his ears, "Then don't give this, you can just give something that you often give to the elders, she won't pick."

While speaking, Shen Lv tapped the table under his hand.

Yi Zhi really fell in love with the model on the shelf in his storage room. At that time, his eyes were fixed, and he said, "Give this to me, and I will make you a pair of rings like this."

Shen Lv only said, "This is a gift from him, and he made it with his own hands", Yi Zhi suddenly shut up, and of course, Duo Jie disappeared.

Zhao Chenxing breathed a sigh of relief, and heard Shen Lu ask him again, "Any questions you can't understand tonight?"

"...I taught myself."

Shen Lv was noncommittal, just raised his eyebrows, raised his eyes to glance at the glowing sky outside the window, paused for two seconds, thought of something, and asked, "What time do you usually get up in the morning?"

Zhao Chenxing scratched his hair, "Six o'clock."

Shen Lu: "Okay."

Zhao Chenxing was speechless for a moment, his fingers hung down on the table, rubbing the rough and uneven lightning joints on the ring with his fingertips, and he didn't know when he hung up the call.

The sky is getting dark outside the window, and the thick tree shadows are cast in by the lit street lamps.

Zhao Chenxing raised his hand to turn on the desk lamp, lowered his head, and slowly tried to put the ring on his finger.

The inner diameter of the ring was larger than he had imagined, and it didn't fit properly at the base of the finger until it was buckled into the middle finger.

Guan Rong's voice calling for food was heard outside the door, and Zhao Chenxing stared at the ring next to the Eye of God on his index finger again, the corners of his mouth turned up unconsciously, and then he was stunned for a second before standing up and removing the ring. Ring, turn around and walk away.

……

Zhao Chenxing previously thought that when Shen Lu asked him what time he got up, it was just like asking if he had eaten, skipping the topic or drawing out the topic, but he found out early the next morning that it was not.

The six o'clock he said is usually not on time. Because he sleeps late at night, he always has to lie on the pillow for a few minutes or even ten minutes in the morning to fully wake up, and then speed up his washing and eating.

Guan Rong was used to him for a long time, and never urged him to get up, and usually prepared light and uncomplicated food for breakfast, which could be eaten in a few minutes.

At 6:29, Zhao Chenxing will have finished washing and changing clothes, his hair is still messy, and there are a few sticks sticking out from the top of his head, like the unique antennas of old-fashioned TV sets.

So at 6:30 on time, Zhao Chenxing was very at a loss when he saw Shen Lv's video invitation popping up on his phone, and subconsciously gathered the loose neckline of the sweater.

Zhao Chenxing straightened his arms and quickly hung up, took the phone, only to see that Shen Lv had sent him two messages on the chat page [-] minutes earlier, and he didn't know if it was sleepwalking or what, so he replied one period.

like a tacit consent.

Zhao Chenxing stared at the small circle that he didn't know when he closed his eyes and replied, he suddenly stood up and looked at the full-length mirror, brushing the raised hair back of his head, dialed the call back again, thought for a while, and put the phone on the On the table, the camera is facing the ceiling.

"What's the matter?" As soon as the call was connected, Zhao Chenxing asked, with such a hint of concealment.

Because I didn't sleep well last night, my voice was slightly nasal.

Shen Lv's face did not appear in the video, and the picture trembled slightly, as if he was on the road, but the deep voice came out clearly, and it was so gentle and outrageous.

"The sunrise in Bencheng, don't you want to see it?"

Zhao Chenxing was stunned for a moment, and then followed his words to remember that the sunrise in Bincheng is considered a scene in East China, a famous place for film and television, and every year during the tourist season, most of the popular photos on Weibo are at this moment here.

"Are you going to the beach early in the morning?" After Zhao Chenxing finished speaking, he realized what kind of question he asked without thinking.

Shen Lu didn't mind at all, and explained: "The hotel I live in is very close to here."

He walked forward a few more steps before he stopped, and he spoke a little angrily, "A few people came to the place where I was standing just now, it was a bit noisy, so I changed the place."

Zhao Chenxing watched the picture shake in the video, from the tree at an angle to the cloud dyed with rosy clouds, and finally a light-colored lip, a clear jaw line, and a plain white neck connecting downward flashed past.

The camera flipped suddenly and turned into soft white sand all over the place. The phone was raised and covered two reefs not far away, as well as the shallow and deep sea surface, and then to the sky above...

"The sunrise has begun, did you see it?" Shen Lu's voice seemed to be sent by a slightly cold sea breeze, light and fluttering, with a whirling sound at the end.

Zhao Chenxing involuntarily followed his words, leaned closer and stared at the screen.

The colors in the video are gorgeous, like a flowing oil paint, peaceful and grand.

The morning sun swirled slightly, gold and red overlapped and spread all over the sky, and the sea waves slowly lifted the fiery red skirts, rushing along with the trajectory, like rushing to a grand banquet.

The close-up of the lens presents a deep dark blue, the sky is light, and the reef is dry blue.

Zhao Chenxing's pupils opened slightly, and he quietly watched the moving pictures on the screen.

There are still a few faintly glowing stars in the sky, and the clouds are lying horizontally, dyed with thick or light colors one by one.

There is a thin sound of the sea wind coming from the earpiece, as if circling around the body, caressing and circling.

The sound of the waves came one after another, carried along by the sea breeze, and seemed to carry a salty breath.

After staring at it for a while, Zhao Chenxing narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the sun wheel jumping out of the sea in the distance in the video, sat with his legs bent, and listened to Shen Lu's warm voice, a certain thought in his heart suddenly disappeared. In the ups and downs of the waves, it is suddenly calm, sometimes turbulent, rushing to the highest point of the tide.