77. Ge, wanna date?

The substitute teacher, who was forced to bend and suppress his will, failed to put forward his own aesthetic views and was somewhat disappointed.

Of course, the students in class 7 also saw that he wanted to talk, but under his strong desire to live, no one dared to come over and ask, solemnly watching their English teacher lead their big boss out of the classroom door.

“Sportswear, just order sportswear.”

The class monitor who woke up shivered, and raised his hand to wipe off the cold sweat: “No matter what you have imagined just now, put away your imagination immediately.”

“What I’m thinking of is the shirt.” The life committee member went over to take the bib and looked up curiously, “Class monitor, what are you thinking of?”

Monitor: “…”

“Are the bib numbers written? Come and get it. Don’t lose it. You have to change into it tomorrow.”

The class monitor coughed twice, and changed the topic abruptly: “Tomorrow, I will bring some food, and I don’t need to bring cushions. According to Murphy’s law, I will bring some umbrellas…”

The sports bibs will be used for the inspection and registration tomorrow, Yu Sheng and Jin Linkun left after finishing their writing. Two neat stacks were placed on the table.

The handwriting of the two people was clean and neat, one stack was tall and the other was chic. As soon as they were brought over by the lifestyle committee, everyone scrambled to go through them.

“This is the best handwriting my name has ever been written in.”

Yao Qiang was forced to report for three kilometres. With tears in his eyes, he stroked the number cloth with a strong pen: “Last time, there was a number cloth written by Sheng-ge in front of me. I didn’t cherish it. I will definitely cherish it this time. I will practise his writing ten times a day…”

“Don’t even think about it.” Duan Lei hit him mercilessly, “Have you ever heard that a fraud painting a tiger is only painting a different species of cats?”

Compared with other subjects, Yao Qiang’s Chinese is not bad, so he thought about it carefully: “Isn’t it like a dog?”

Duan Lei: “As far as your wool ball handwriting is concerned, do you still want to be like a dog?”

Lao He was chatting with the director of the education department. When he went upstairs, he caught sight of Yao Qiang, who was in his class, speeding past Duan Lei, and quickly blocked the director of the education department’s sight by turning sideways.

The director was a little dazed: “Lao He, what’s wrong?”

“Look.” Lao He put his shoulder on his shoulder calmly, pointed to the darkened sky outside the window, “Does the cloud look like the seaweed egg drop soup in our school cafeteria?”

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After a month of classes, the rare relaxation gap after the monthly exam, and the eleventh holiday.

Not only No. 3 high school, which is about to usher in the sports meeting, but almost all the schools relaxed their control over students.

Jin Linkun dragged Yu Sheng onto a bus, and when he was about to find a shopping mall to buy some snacks for his child’s sports meeting, he was startled by the huge number of students in school uniforms.

“Are there usually so many people?”

Jin Linkun clasped the person with one hand, and stood in a less crowded place: “Why don’t we go home and eat? What do you want to eat later, we can go back after eating outside…”

It doesn’t take much time to buy things. After the time for students to leave school, there is commuting after getting off work, which is probably the peak time of passenger flow.

Instead of squeezing into the bus and going from a three-dimensional plane to a two-dimensional one like this, it is better to have a meal outside.

Yu Sheng has never had any opinion on where to eat: “Whatever—”

Before he finished speaking, the bus stopped just in time, the whole carriage wobbled a couple of times unsteadily.

The capacity of the bus in the morning and evening rush hours is limited, and the people on the bus are already crowded with no place to stay, and a few more people still squeezed in at the front door with difficulty.

In a blink of an eye, the carriage seemed much more out of breath than before.

Yu Sheng was standing by the window, stepped back, wanting Jin Linkun to come over a bit, but the person opposite had already skillfully circled him in his arms, pressed against him with one hand, and propped himself on the guardrail by the window.

In the overcrowded carriage, a small space was created by a wide chest and arms.

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Then even the surrounding voices seemed to be less noisy.

Yu Sheng raised his head and looked at Jin Linkun’s eyes behind the lens.

This kind of scene is actually not uncommon, especially since this person can’t help but live in the house, they go to and from school together every day, and it’s not the first time they encounter a crowded bus.

Yu Sheng had almost gotten used to it, and didn’t feel that this time was different from the previous ones.

Two people, going shopping together, discussing where to eat at night and when to go home… It’s nothing more than a normal thing.

It was so normal that he couldn’t help it, and he had some thoughts about the future that were within reach.

“Hot pot?” Jin Linkun was still seriously looking for options for dinner, “Barbecue is also good, or find a coffee shop first…”

He was still thinking about it, when the boy’s cool fingers suddenly brushed against his ear, and fell again.

Yu Sheng stuffed an earphone into his ear, and pulled him closer: “We can walk around, eat whatever you want.”

The familiar piano music was still in the earphones. Jin Linkun smiled and lowered his head to speak, but the words suddenly stopped in his throat.

In the crowded crowd, the kid who was not allowed to move his hands and feet raised his hand which had a drawing of a watch on it and raised his head: “Ge, do you want to go on a date?”

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All the way until he got out of the car, Jin Linkun was still running these words in his head.

He even wanted to pick up his phone and change his WeChat name.

Yu Sheng conveniently confiscated his mobile phone, took advantage of the green light to cross the road, and entered a nearby shopping mall.

The sports meeting is an ancient ritual with mysterious curse power. It is mainly manifested in that every sports meeting, no matter how clear and sunny the weather forecast is, there will definitely be mysterious rainfall on the first day or even the day of the opening games.

It was still sunny when the sun was setting, but it couldn’t hold on because raindrops had started to fall on the car windows on the road.

The two of them entered the shopping mall quickly, and the rain outside had already started to crackle and smash the windows behind them.

After squeezing onto the bus, Yu Sheng didn’t have much appetite yet. Jin Linkun was not in a hurry to find a place to eat, so he bought him an ice cream cone and led them into the supermarket first.

Yu Sheng actually had no idea about the fact that he had to buy food for the sports meeting: “What do I have to buy?”

“Water, sugar, chocolate, potato chips, biscuits…” Jin Linkun counted for him casually, “Didn’t you buy them before?”

A lot of primary and high schools hold sports games during the National Day holiday. A family of three passed by them. The little boy wore a red scarf crookedly and was not allowed to mess around by his parents. He was also tiptoeing skillfully asking for snacks, asking for drinks.

The little boy said in a very loud voice, “I want this, Dad, buy it for me!”

The voice was a bit loud, Yu Sheng subconsciously glanced to the side and shook his head.

Jin Linkun’s chest felt tight, and he held his child’s hand and pulled him towards him.

Before the thought could be suppressed, his kid who was led by him continued to say: “Usually, I don’t buy it, otherwise I won’t be able to finish it.”

Jin Linkun: “…”

There was no choice, after all, Yu Sheng was famous in No. 3 high school, and the younger brothers who usually rely on him to protect them have no chance to pay protection fees, so they all seized the rare opportunity to give back during the sports meeting.

Every time there is a sports meeting, Yu Sheng will receive a bunch of beef jerky, cans of beer, squid shreds, Snickers bars that appear inexplicably, and occasionally some pink cotton candy and chocolate.

Class 7 often relies on Yu Sheng’s feeding, and anyone who has nothing to eat will come to eat it for him, and they all live a very nourishing life.

Jin Linkun rubbed his forehead and listened for a while, but still couldn’t help laughing: “Too powerful…”

“It’s all nonsense.” Yu Sheng actually didn’t take it seriously. Seeing that there was no one in the aisle, he let him hold hands and look at everything on the shelves, it’s just fighting.”

He didn’t come to the supermarket very often, so he just bought anything he needed at the backstreet snack shop. Occasionally, he goes to the supermarket to buy vegetables, rice, noodles, grains and oils, but he hasn’t visited the snacks and toys area much.

On the one hand, there is no need for this, and on the other hand, it is a bit of a heavy burden for school bullies.

As a school bully, it’s normal to go to barbecue stalls and Internet cafes. If you appear among a bunch of colourful snack toys, it’s easy to damage your reputation if others see you there.

Jin Linkun deliberately slowed down his pace, and found a trolley for him to push.

Yu Sheng looked very good-natured, the collar of his school uniform was turned up, the zipper was pulled to the top of the collar, and he looked at the rows of shelves with a little curiosity.

Tilting his head slightly, the sharp line of his Adam’s apple was covered by his collar, holding the cart with one hand, pushing it back and forth.

A good boy without any hostility.

For no reason, Jin Linkun recalled the fight that Yu Sheng fought outside the back wall before the exam that day.

It is too much to call it a fight, it’s more of a unilateral teaching to be a man. Every hit is sharp and crisp, and the strength is merciless. It can be seen that every punch has been practised, and it is terrifyingly fierce.

Obviously it is a hand that can play the piano very gently.

When he was in the education department of No. 3 high school, the director had a big opinion on Sheng’s parents, and all the words he had saved for two years were spoken to him, hating iron but not steel: “On the surface, it appears that children likes to fight, but if there are parents to help him, does he need to risk his life? Doesn’t he also want to bring his own adults to knock on other people’s doors?”

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Yu Sheng glanced at the shelves lined with all kinds of toys, and turned around to find that the person next to him was lost in his thoughts, raising his hand and shaking in front of him: “What are you thinking, you don’t have any money?”

“…Brought it.” Jin Linkun turned around, smiled, and shook his hand, “It’s nice to be thinking about my boyfriend.”

He thinks Yu Sheng is very good now.

There’s nothing wrong with being good at fighting, and there’s nothing wrong with being able to fight. The child in his family is good at learning and fighting, and is good at it. Except for the fact that they like to beat him up a little, which is a little bit troublesome, they are obviously good at everything.

Yu Sheng didn’t follow his line of thinking, glanced at him a little weirdly, and took a dinosaur model series toy from the shelf, imitating the little boy he saw before: “Then I want this, boyfriend, give it to me quickly. Buy it for me.”

Jin Linkun: “…”

There is also the habit of learning everything he sees, and the degree of imitation is actually a bit high.

There is also a little bit of a headache.

Yu Sheng just wanted to tease him, so he burst out laughing without holding back, and put the box of plastic dinosaur models back: “Okay, I was just teasing you.”

He didn’t understand why Jin Linkun suddenly had something on his mind, so he leaned on the trolley and bent over to look: “Are you in a better mood?”

Jin Linkun was stunned.

The young man’s eyes were dark and clear, falling into his eyes unobstructed.

The slight astringency in his eyes was successfully suppressed, Jin Linkun endured it for a while, and still laughed inexplicably with him, raised his glasses and rubbed his eyes: “It’s alright…it’s really good.”

Yu Sheng raised the corner of his mouth, and was about to straighten up and continue to explore the supermarket, when suddenly he was gently pulled into Jin Linkun’s arms.

The warmth came down, stuck to his neck, and rubbed twice.

Yu Sheng raised his head with his arms outstretched, and tapped him on the shoulder: “There is CCTV.”

This time, Jin Linkun wisely didn’t pull him into another intimate position, and retracted his arms a little: “Just a moment.”

Yu Sheng didn’t quite understand his idea of “as long as we hug fast enough, the monitoring won’t be able to see us”, but he cooperated with him to give him a hug quickly.

Yu Sheng was not yet familiar with the various areas of the supermarket, but Jin Linkun got the idea out of his mind in time, and took his boyfriend to walk around the supermarket earnestly.

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Jin Linkun resolutely ignored his boyfriend’s protest, bought several bags of potato chips, snow cakes and small crisps, took a big bag out of the supermarket, and stuffed it full into the locker on the first floor.

“I will eat.” After all, Jin Linkun will also attend the sports meeting as a family member, and raised his hand to promise, “I can eat everything without wasting it.”

The food does not take up much space, Jin Linkun repeatedly assured him several times, and finally persuaded Yu Sheng, and stopped him from standing at the door to distribute a bunch of snacks to the children who just entered the mall.

The two of them didn’t really know how to go on a date, so they walked around the mall strictly according to the procedures, had a meal, walked around the mall a second time, found a coffee shop, and studied two sets of papers together.

After finally waiting for the rain to stop, it was already two or three hours later.

The buses were probably out of service, so Jin Linkun asked Yu Sheng to call a taxi first, and went back to the supermarket locker by himself to pick up the stored food.

It took a long time to go there, and Yu Sheng thought that this person was lost somewhere in the supermarket again, so he almost went to the radio station of the mall to post a missing person notice.

“I went around in a circle, so the route is a bit long.”

After returning home, Jin Linkun tidied up his things first, walked around the room twice, put what should be in the refrigerator into the refrigerator, and put the newly bought clothes into the washing machine for a brief rinse: “My friend, actually, I think this one-piece pyjamas……”

“Impossible.” Yu Sheng cut off his thoughts succinctly and clearly, and fished out the two sets of Lao Wan’s performance costumes that he insisted on buying back on the way.

Jin Linkun was a little disappointed: “But when I bought them, you didn’t seem to have any resistance. Is it because you have gradually begun to accept them?”

“It’s because your eyes are almost growing on it.”

Yu Sheng didn’t really want to recall the scene at that time, and pressed his forehead: “We can’t wash it together, this one is losing fur… Forget it, I’ll wash it, you go take a shower first.”

Although it wasn’t raining much, the evening wind after the autumn rain was chilling. Jin Linkun was afraid that he would catch a cold, so he half-forced his jacket onto him, he was still a little bit cold at the moment.

Yu Sheng shooed him away, separated several clothes neatly, took out the two sets of pyjamas of the same style, and glued the floating fur on with a roller.

It may be that rainy days are more likely to make people’s minds active. After finally being quiet for a while, the family of three they saw in the mall popped up in his mind again.

In a few days he would be eighteen.

He installed the old card that he had replaced in another empty card slot of the phone. Except for the occasional spam text messages and advertisements, it was as quiet as ever.

In fact, it is not too surprising.

Yu Sheng rolled up the sleeves of the hoodie, but it still felt inconvenient, so he decided to change into pyjamas.

The bedroom door was ajar, Jin Linkun should have come out to get the towel.

Yu Sheng didn’t care, walked in while taking off his clothes, pushed the door completely open, only to find that there was still someone in the bedroom.

After Jin Linkun left the bathroom, he was holding a box in his hand and was carefully stuffing it under his pillow.

This person often stuffs under his pillow a selection of “College Entrance Examination Simulation Test Questions” and “Sprint Test Questions”. The most exaggerated one time he directly stuffed a gift box of “Five-Year College Entrance Examination and Three-Year Test Simulation”, which is twice as big as the pillow under it, there are no surprises at all.

Yu Sheng took off the sweater, went to the bedside to touch the pyjamas, and bent over to take a look: “What is it this time? Which subject…”

Before he finished speaking, his movements suddenly paused.

It is not the workbook of any subject.

Jin Linkun held a colourful cardboard box in his hand, which was the one he took as a joke in the toy section.

A layer of transparent plastic paper was wrapping it, and a row of small plastic dinosaur models were neatly lined up inside.

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    inner child

    seriously fck yu sheng parents 😒, jlk really is down bad 😭🫶🏽🤧 my kids.
    thank you for the chapter ☺️

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