"That's right, you haven't been out with us for a long time, and you'll have dinner with her."

"That Zhou Yao is a lame man. If she runs and falls or something, don't you feel embarrassed? I..."

The voices of talking in the pavilion were all unfamiliar with Zhou Yao, but she knew very well the names mentioned in their words.

Zhou Yao's hand holding the paper was slightly pressed. She lowered her head, smiled as if nothing had happened, and planned to turn around and walk away from the other path.

Before she could move her steps, a familiar voice suddenly sounded from the pavilion:

"You guys, please pay attention to your words?"

"Listen, Zhou Yao is my friend. If I hear you say bad things about her, I will not talk to you like this again."

It was the voice of Ying Nian. Her angry tone was slightly higher than the tone of her usual speaking. Zhou Yao had heard it several times, just like now.

"It is very unethical to talk about others behind the scenes, so I'll just say it."

"And, it has nothing to do with Zhou Yao's feet, it's her business."

"What, you are so good at feet. I'll take a look after running for 800 meters. If you can't win the championship, it's just a waste snack in my opinion!"

The pavilion was silent, and those people seemed to be frightened by Ying Nian's swearing. Ying Nian, wearing a blue pleated skirt under the school uniform, stood up, no longer wanting to talk nonsense to them anymore -

"My Zhou Yaohe is beautiful, has a good and gentle personality, has a smart mind and always gets first in the exam every time, and never speaks bad things behind her back. She is so good. What qualifications do you have to laugh at her?"

For the sake of previous relationships, Ying Nian did not say more unpleasant words, but rolled her eyes at the group of people, went down the stairs on the side of the pavilion, and quickly left.

...

Chen Xuze and others originally wanted to go to the playground. They had to pass the Shide Building to go to the playground. Near the pavilion, just like Zhou Yao, they happened to hear Ying Nian talking to the group of people.

No one spoke up during the whole process until they parted. Jiang Jiashu pretended to wipe the corners of his eyes, "My stupid | I still have a cute moment. I feel very comforted, I feel very comforted!"

Chen Xuze next to him had no reaction. After Jiang Jiashu finished his work, he touched his elbow curiously, "What's wrong with you? Are you angry? Hey, there is no need to pay attention to those people's words, they are all stupid | forks..."

"No." Chen Xuze said, "I'm just thinking about things."

"What do you think?"

Jiang Jiashu asked casually, thinking that Chen Xuze would not answer, but he didn't expect him to speak: "Do you remember asking me before, the cartoon pendant on Zhou Yao's pencil case?"

"Oh, that one, it's quite dirty, the one that's even dirtier when thrown into the trash can. When will she change it?"

"That was given to her by her friend in elementary school."

"friend?"

"Yeah." Chen Xuze nodded, "She only has that friend."

Jiang Jiashu was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

Chen Xuze said: "At that time, Zhou Yao was still young and had not long been injured. She had just started practicing how to walk like a normal person. Because she was not skilled, she often showed strange postures. Many people in the school laughed at her, and there was only that girl. She was the only person who didn't mind Zhou Yao walking strangely. She often played with Zhou Yao, cut paper together, and bought popsicles together after school. Zhou Yao liked her very much."

"What about it later?"

"later……"

Chen Xuze's eyes became deeper, as if there was an indelible fog, thickly gathering together, trying to wrap something tightly around it and strangle it to death.

"Later, Zhou Yao discovered that the girl laughed at her with other people. Because Zhou Yao liked her, she took her home and practiced how she learned to walk in front of the mirror in front of her. That posture was ugly, stupid and stupid. And that girl, in front of those people, joked and said to them - 'I tell you, this is how Zhou Yao practiced walking at home, like this, isn't it stupid!"

Jiang Jiashu's eyes widened when he heard this: "My slap, why are you so cheap!"

"At that time, we were all young, and we were all elementary school students. The concept of good and evil was very weak, and we didn't have much empathy." Chen Xuze glanced at him, "Even now, how many people do you think are there that understand these?"

Jiang Jiashu was silent.

"The cartoon pendant was given to Zhou Yao by that girl. Since that day, they have never spoken again, and the girl has not come to Zhou Yao to apologize or explain. The two of them have become strangers tacitly."

Chen Xuze said: "Zhou Yao has never thrown that pendant, and it is always hung in the place where you can see it, on the keychain, or on the zipper of the pencil case."

"Why? How great it was to throw it away!"

"Maybe--" Chen Xuze said, "It's to remember."

...

After Ying Nian left, the few people who stayed in the pavilion did not dare to say anything more. Even though Ying Nian had already left, they were still scared and sat for a few seconds and dispersed.

Zhou Yao stood under the obstruction of the branches for a long time, and the form paper was pinched and deformed by her. Then, she slowly let go of her hands and smoothed the wrinkles.

Every time we have dinner together, Ying Nian would say to her: "Smile, yao, smile, how beautiful you look when you smile! I like beautiful girls when you smile!"

She always symbolically pulled the corners of her mouth as a reaction to Yingnian.

That afternoon, on the way back to the teaching building from Teachers' Ethics Building, Zhou Yao stood alone under the shade of the flower bed and laughed for a long time for no reason.

As Ying Nian said.
Chapter completed!