Chapter 59: that night

Chapter 59: that night

Jian Ming, who was beside her, gave her a piece of spareribs, and said with a smile, "What are you thinking about? I've been wandering around all afternoon!"

"Huh? Oh... nothing..."

Jiang Nuan bit the ribs, like biting someone's bone.

"Are you scared by me in today's practice?" The concise fingers tapped lightly on the table.

Jiang Nuan suddenly recovered, and the chopsticks fell off the table.

"Looks like she was really scared." Jian Ming smiled and picked up the chopsticks for her.

"How can she be so useless?" Jiang Huai said with a smile.

"No... I'm not scared, I still think it's quite enjoyable! If I can stand upright in front of you, who else can I be afraid of!"

"Really?" The simple voice rose slightly.

"Of course it's true." Jiang Nuan quickly stuffed rice into his mouth.

"I thought you were more afraid of Lu Ran."

Just the word "Lu Ran" seemed to crash into Jiang Nuan's less awake world, and she spit out all the food.

"Xiao Nuan! You eat deliciously! It's everywhere!"

"I'm sorry..."

As Jiang Nuan was talking, Jian Ming, who was beside her, helped her remove all the rice grains from her cheeks.

After eating, Jiang Nuan helped Luo Chen put away the plates and bowls in the sink, and couldn't wait to go out.

"Xiao Nuan, where are you going so late?"

"I remembered that there is a question that I don't know, go upstairs and ask!"

"Ah?" Luo Chen was inexplicably standing in the same place, "Going to the question blankly? And the final exams are over... How can she still be so motivated to study?"

Jian Ming narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice, "Why is it more like going to a teacher to ask for guilt?"

"Hey, she's always been frizzy. To be honest, I'm surprised that Lu Ran can be so patient with her." Luo Chen shook his head, "But Xiaonuan has improved her grades so quickly this semester, thank you so much. Lu Ran. She asks Lu Ran with her homework almost every day."

"Really?" Jian Ming chuckled, "Wasn't you worried that Xiao Nuan likes Lu Ran?"

"Ah? Will it?" Luo Chen seemed to think.

Jian Ming smiled even more clearly: "Master, are you really starting to worry? Xiao Nuan has a temperament that can't come out once her mind is immersed in one thing. If she goes up to find Lu Ran, don't have any plans, she will take the time. If you want to get into trouble, can your grades go up?"

Luo Chen also laughed: "Yes! You can see through Xiao Nuan's head at a glance."

Jian Ming turned his face to the side, with a hint of helplessness in his voice: "Yeah... Who wants her to write everything on her face?"

Jiang Nuan pressed the doorbell of Lu Ran's house hard, and Aunt Yuan immediately came to open the door for her.

"Oh, it's Xiaonuan! Why are you here?"

Although Jiang Nuan was in a hurry, he still resisted the impulse and was polite to Aunt Yuan: "Good evening Auntie, I have a question for Lu Ran."

"Oh, come in, come in. Lu Ran is washing the dishes. You go and sit in his room." Aunt Yuan was accustomed to Jiang Nuan's arrival.

"it is good!"

Jiang Nuan entered Lu Ran's room. She had been to this small space countless times, but this time, she inexplicably felt that her back was straight. She felt that Lu Ran must have lied to her, and it must be Lu Ran's fault.

She tilted her head and thought hard, besides fetching water and riding a bicycle, what else?

Jiang Nuan patted his head, thought hard for a long time, and suddenly didn't think of it.

At this time, Lu Ran had already opened the door and came in, and said lightly, "There is no homework assigned after the final exam. What questions did you come to ask me?"

Jiang Nuan couldn't hide his words, so he said, "Hey! I remember something! I don't think I chased you back at all last semester!"

Lu Ran didn't sit at the corner of the bed and talk to her like before, but was silent for a long time.

He looked at Jiang Nuan, his eyes as if the whole sky was about to fall from the boundless night.

Such silence consumed Jiang Nuan's patience.

"When did I say you were chasing me? What did you remember?" Lu Ran propped up the corner of the table with a slight force and sat on the table. He turned his face sideways, lowered his eyes, and looked at Jiang Nuan.

The originally warm lamp light was blocked by Lu Ran's figure.

Under the backlight, Lu Ran's facial features became elusive.

"I remember the agreement between me and you!"

"What agreement?" His voice was indifferent, but his other hand was clasping the edge of the table.

Although his expression did not waver at all, Jiang Nuan faintly felt that he was nervous.

And... was very nervous.

Although he suppressed it well, Jiang Nuan felt that his voice was trembling slightly.

"If I get into the top three exam rooms, you won't give up fencing! Don't you want to study abroad to study communication engineering?" Jiang Nuan looked at Lu Ran's expression hard, as long as he showed a little gap, she would be ruthless Dig in hard and dig out all the secrets he didn't say and all the hidden secrets.

"So haven't I always followed my promise? Even if you don't remember, I didn't give up. You entered the top three exam rooms last semester, and I'm still holding a sword." Lu Ran said word by word.

He is very serious, and this seriousness makes Jiang Nuan suddenly feel that he is not so reasonable.

"No... it's not just like this! You teach me questions at a price. Every time I ask you five questions, you will remember a 'positive' character, and then I will agree to you a condition!"

"Oh, what's the problem?" Lu Ran asked again.

"Of course there is a problem! You ask me to turn on the water for you every time you break between classes, and the whole class thinks that I am interested in you! You also asked me to buy a bicycle to accompany you to and from get out of class, and hang my schoolbag on my bicycle! Then there was another topic that I liked you! And that woolen scarf, I told you that I couldn't knit, but you insisted that I knit by hand! So I knitted there during my recess, and everyone laughed at me because I like you and do useless work again, you don’t have a word of denial! You are using this method to force me to give up! You want me to feel embarrassed, embarrassed and ashamed of being misunderstood by my classmates, so I won’t come to you Then I can't learn it myself! I can't get into the top three exam rooms!"

"But don't you still want me to teach you?"

"Yes! I also asked if you did it on purpose! You said, 'If you don't want to turn on the water for me, if you don't want to ride a bike with me to and from get out of class, if you don't want to clean the blackboard for you, if you don't want to be on duty for you, forget it.'"

"Do you know when you moved me the most?" Lu Ran looked into Jiang Nuan's eyes and approached her slowly. The closer he got, the brighter the light behind him, and the only thing she could see clearly was the his eyes.

"What... when..."

"That's what you said... You don't care how others misunderstand you, and you don't care about what I ask to make you misunderstood. You say you can do it, I hope I can be like you, don't care about other people's comments and evaluations, and do what you think should be done. What you have done. You are righteous, and you look like 'dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water', you are the cutest."

Jiang Nuan was stunned.

Lu Ran once thought she was "cute"?

"The cuter you are, the more I want you to do those things for me."

"Ah... what?"

"The most important thing, you still can't remember." Lu Ran stretched out his hand and covered Jiang Nuan's eyes, "I lost to Jianming in the club league last year. I just sat quietly on the chair in the backyard, yes You came here by yourself. You remember the things I told you to do, but not what we really agreed upon."

Jiang Nuan was stunned, her thoughts were pulled by Lu Ran, as if she suddenly had a direction, she sank all the way, when Lu Ran moved his hand away, her shoulders trembled slightly, as if something was going backwards Into her mind, as if to hold her head open.

It seems that once, she only scored 74 points in the 150% math paper, which is one point away from 50%.

It's really a life-and-death experience.

She folded the paper, put it in her pocket, and went to the yard downstairs to blow the air, intending to go to her mother to sign it when she mustered up the courage.

As soon as he walked to the back of the yard, he saw a figure.

The street lights in the backyard were very dim, and she could only see one figure faintly, but even then, she knew that the person must be Lu Ran.

Because she has never seen other people's figures with the same straight and steep temperament as Lu Ran.

What surprised her was that there was some light in the darkness that appeared and disappeared. Jiang Nuan was stunned as soon as she approached, because she saw Lu Ran sitting on the bench, hugging her legs, and the evening wind occasionally fiddling with it. His hair, his eyes half closed, he was smoking!

It felt like my heart exploded.

She rushed over and stood in front of him: "Lu Ran! You actually smoke!"

Lu Ran didn't care at all, he raised his eyes unhurriedly, and didn't mean to speak to her at all.

"My dad doesn't allow his students to smoke at all! Smoking affects the physical fitness of athletes!" Jiang Nuan was surprised at the time.

Lu Ran's impression in her mind was that no matter what others said, he always had his own set of rules, and he restrained his self-discipline and would never be out of line.

"Then tell your father." Lu Ran replied.

Jiang Nuan was blocked. She had to believe her father when she said it.

"You can go to your father now, and I'll show him the same." Lu Ran's eyes were indifferent, he didn't care about everything.

For Jiang Nuan, his father spent so much effort on Lu Ran that he was smoking downstairs! Jiang Nuan has a feeling that the father's love that he should have been wasted!

She went home without saying a word. When she was about to rush into the study to tell her father about this, she heard that father was chatting with mother.

"I've said it a long time ago, let Lao Lu not put so much pressure on the children. Lu Ran is already very good, but Lao Lu is still worried that this time Lu Ran lost to Jianming! Today Lu Ran told me that he does not plan to Fencing! Don't you know, he took the IELTS test behind his father's back, scored an 8 on the first test, and applied to the school himself! He refuses to continue learning fencing! How can you persuade him! "

"Lu Ran is a good candidate for reading. In fact, if communication engineering is what Lu Ran likes, why must he force his children to fencing? Lu Ran is talented in fencing. You are truly lucky to choose what you love!"

When Jiang Nuan, who was standing outside the door, heard this, she felt like she had been slapped with countless punches, and she rushed out the door and downstairs.

All his mind was that Lu Ran really wanted to give up fencing!

Lu Ran was still there, with the finished cigarette **** beside the chair, and he had already lit the second one.

He looked at Jiang Nuan, who was panting and ran in front of him, and said lightly, "Where's your dad?"

Jiang Nuan couldn't help but grabbed his collar and asked, "Do you really want to stop fencing?"

"I didn't like it at all," he replied.

"I don't believe it!" Jiang Nuan said.

However, Lu Ran directly exhaled a cigarette, Jiang Nuan turned his face away, and he easily broke Jiang Nuan's hand.

"Don't believe what?"

"I don't believe you don't like fencing!"

"You're not me, do you know if I like it or not?" Lu Ran leaned back on the back of the chair, raised his head halfway, and looked at Jiang Nuan with a little disinterest.

"Because I watched this final between you and Concise!"

"Then you already know the result."

"If you don't like fencing, just relying on your talent, how can you fight Jian Ming to that point?"

"Because my dad forced me."

"My parents also forced me to go to key universities! I also worked hard, but I just don't like math, physics and chemistry, and I still can't get into the top three exams in my grade! Only talent and hard work, if you don't love it, you won't be at all. use!"

"Yeah, only talent and hard work are useless if you don't love it. So I lost two major tournaments to Concise in a year.

So I haven't beaten him in a big match since the first time I played against him. Doesn't that mean I don't love it? "

Jiang Nuan grabbed Lu Ran's hand and didn't care that the hot soot fell on the back of his hand.

"what are you doing?"

"Let's have a fight! You're going to give up anyway. I'll never see another Lu Ran who can push Jian Ming to the last stand. You have a fight with me!"

"You are not my opponent."

"Yes! I'm not your opponent! But I like fencing more than you! I don't know how much I want to get the support of my father and stand upright in the swordsmanship!"

"I'm a boy, even if you go on the court, you can't be my opponent."

"But when I saw you and Jian Bing, I wanted to be you so, so much! I used to watch Jian Bing before, without you, I thought - my God Jian Bing is amazing, he is a future Olympic champion, Brilliantly shining! But I almost slapped myself in the ear when I saw you - this guy is going to pull Jane down one day! This guy will defeat Jane! Then I look at you! Learn all about you! Yours Cross steps! Your lunges and long stabs! Your transfer counterattacks! I secretly imitate them! You are so arrogant as if you are in the clouds every day, I am ashamed to even say a word to you! Anyway, now you are about to give up! Then give me a chance to experience it for myself! If you can't even win against me, then you can just give up!"

Lu Ran, who was being dragged by Jiang Nuan, let out a chuckle.

There is a hint of loneliness in the coldness.

"You beat me?" He looked at her sideways, with a hint of mockery in his stern features.

"Yes!" Jiang Nuan said with red eyes.

"Okay, I'll give you five swords. In other words, if you can take ten swords from me first, I'll count as you win."

"Okay! If I win! You have to promise me a condition!"

"Yes. If you lose, don't worry about me anymore. Most importantly, don't follow me, don't use me as your model, because simplicity is more appropriate." Lu Ran lowered his head, snuffed out the cigarette butt, and threw it away. into the trash can.

At ten o'clock that night, they went to Huaifeng's fencing hall.

All the people left, and the hall was empty.

Lu Ran turned on the lights in the pavilion, and they started their first fight in the fencing pavilion with no spectators and no referees.

She tried her best to get ten points from him, every sword was thrilling, and she swore in her life that she had never been so brave.

She remembered the last sword she hit Lu Ran. He stood there without any reaction, as if he had been expecting to be hit like this.

She was so tired that she lay on the ground, took off her mask, and looked at Lu Ran from the bottom up.

She thought Lu Ran would leave, but he lay beside her instead.

"If you stayed in China, which university would you go to? Or where would you go for the exam?" she asked him, not expecting an answer at all.

"Probably go to the Imperial Capital."

"Oh, then you can often compete with Jian Ming! You said you don't like fencing?" Jiang Nuan squinted at him.

"Not as loving as you are."

"I also want to go to the Imperial City. That way, I can see you and the concise battle on the spot."

"You are a fan of Concise."

"No, I think I like your fencing more." Jiang Nuan turned to look at him, "Don't give up fencing, okay?"

"why?"

"I'm not as good as you in my studies, and I'm not as good-looking as you. I'm not as good as you in everything, but only in fencing. When I win some women's elite or some league championship, I can say to my dad, You see, I'm no worse than Lu Ran in fencing."

"If you have the ability to enter the top three examination rooms at the end of the semester, and the top 90 in the grade, I will not give up."

"What does the exam have to do with fencing! And I've been hovering in more than 100! You want me to get into the top three exam rooms, aren't you embarrassing me?"

"You beg me."

"Didn't I just beg you not to give up? What else do you want me to ask for?"

"Please let me teach you math, physics and chemistry."

"what?"

"Didn't your dad say that if you didn't get into the top three exams of the grade, he would never sign for you to participate in the competition? If so, even if I didn't give up fencing, you wouldn't have a chance to catch up with me."

"Then I must study hard! You don't want to go abroad! Let's go to the imperial capital together! The communication engineering in the universities in the imperial capital must be very good! You can continue to fencing while studying the major you want!"

"If you come to the imperial capital, in such a big flowery world, you can still look at me and say you want to keep imitating me? If I can't win Jianbian after that, can you still say that you have been imitating me?" Looking at her.

"By that time, you won't know."

- This is the most complete memory of that night.