6
At the end of August, Shangbei was hit by a rain, which came very suddenly.

The weather forecast originally said that today would be sunny and bright, just like the usual sunny day.

After getting up in the morning and changing into military training uniforms, we all left the dormitory and waited for the instructor on the playground.
Looking at the scorching sun overhead, they all began to silently recite the rain-praying ritual, but unfortunately, it was already getting a little hot at seven in the morning.

Sheng Jiayu didn’t need to be scolded. She just stood by and watched the kettles with the seniors and helped deliver some things.

Around noon, the student union came to deliver a box of iced mung bean soup to help them cool down.

Sheng Jiayu helped the senior carry the boxes and divide them.

It was all water, and the boxes were very heavy. After working for a whole shift, he was a little tired.

It’s hard to describe his physical condition, it’s just that his physical quality is not good. He can’t be tired, can’t be excited, and there are many things he is not allowed to do. Since he was a child, he has been like a porcelain doll locked in a window. The safest thing for him is to do nothing.
But when a person goes out to study, he will not be given so many preferential treatments. He also wants to do something so that people will not think that he is seeking special treatment.

Most of the students who handed in sick notes gathered under the shade of a tree with their seniors, and would only move when something happened.
He seldom comes out to rest, and the girls who stay here are all unwell.
After all, he is a boy of about 1.8 meters in height. If he hides under the shade of trees with girls every day instead of training, it is easy for people to gossip about him.

After just two days of training, he was not used to such strong sunlight and fainted once.
But even if it is confirmed that he is in poor health, people who don’t like him will still dislike him.

After all, there is a strange chain of contempt.

Especially since he is tall and handsome, even if he is in poor health and looks frail, he is still good enough to win the hearts of girls who love appearance.

When he handed in his note and stood beside the instructor on the first day, his outstanding appearance caused the admiration of the girls from the Communication College next door.
When the bachelors from the Faculty of Science saw him, they nearly devoured him alive.

There were many people on the playground and they were talking a lot. He usually felt embarrassed to do so, so he stood closer to the team, watching his classmates and helping the instructor check the students’ movements.
Occasionally, there would be distribution of things from other colleges, and the girls who helped out would give him a few candies, a few small cakes, etc., and secretly say a few words to him.

People in the School of Science began to dislike his attraction and drove him away to hide in shady places.

However, Sheng Jiayu would not let these messy gossips affect her health.
The fact that he can live a peaceful and stable life is the greatest gift from God to him. No one can ruin his own body.

Wait until you can’t bear it anymore, then take a rest.

Just like now.
They had a large class, with more than a hundred people. When they were all divided up, their waists ached from bending over.

He passed the cups of iced mung bean soup from his fingertips one by one. His hands get cold easily, and even then, he still felt his fingers were frozen in this hot weather.

He didn’t try to cool off, but just sat under the wire mesh, rubbing his cold fingers to get his blood flowing.

He leaned his head against his back, not noticing someone approaching him until a shadow blocked his vision and a warm touch touched his cheek.

“You can’t eat ice, but won’t you be dehydrated if you drink hot drinks in this weather?” Lu Zhe put the cup of warm milk tea in his palm and sat down with him.

Sheng Jiayu looked at him in surprise, “Senior, how come you have time to come here today?”

The people who followed them in military training every day were all the officers of the college student union. He had learned about this before. Lu Zhe was from the student union and was also a cadre, so he didn’t follow them.

“We are not like the student union of the college who has to deal with these things. Of course, we can come whenever we want.” Lu Zhe pointed at the milk tea in his arms, “I don’t know your appetite, so I ordered half sugar to see if you can get used to it.”

Sheng Jiayu clenched the milk tea cup in his hand. He was not picky about taste. In fact, he had a little sweet tooth, but it was not serious. Half a tablespoon of milk tea was fine with him.
He was just surprised that Lu Zhe brought him milk tea. His eyes fell on the seniors standing in front of him and chatting. They also had a cup of each brand in their hands. It should be that Lu Zhe came to give milk tea to his friends and gave him an extra cup by the way.

But the question is, why do they have it and he has it too?

They say they are familiar, but they are not really familiar.

At first, I would return the dried clothes to him the next day.
Then it’s time to join the society.
He was a representative of the freshmen. We met a few times at the beginning when I was giving freshman speeches and revising the order of the performances on stage. Later, he was busy with military training and the two of us had no chance to contact each other.
Only at night, when he occasionally played games, would he see Lu Zhe online.

Lu Zhe would occasionally pick him up. It was their dormitory’s convoy, and they were short of one of four people.

He refused at first because he was a novice and knew only a few positions. Lu Zhe said it didn’t matter and he could fill in, but after they got there, it was Sheng Jiayu who took the initiative to fill in and practice.

But luckily he got started quickly, and they had no one playing jungle, so Sheng Jiayu played the utility man jungle position, seized the status and gained economy, and fed Lu Zhe, the ADC, so much that he started to smile bitterly, “You can also play jungle core, you have such a good rhythm, go and lead Shao Ning, the mushroom farmer in the middle lane, and make him move.”

Sheng Jiayu just smiled.

But when he thought about it, he realized.
It seems that they are indeed familiar with each other.

Moreover, the class is going to select class leaders these two days. He has been in charge of the class before, so he can often meet Lu Zhe in the counselor’s office.
But he didn’t want to do it and wanted to throw the matter away.

The straw poked open the plastic paper on the milk tea, and with a puff, Sheng Jiayu lowered his head and took a sip, “Thank you, senior. I like it very much.”

“As long as you like it. Have you decided who to pass the squad leader job to? Let me make it clear first, Old Hu won’t let you go completely.” Lu Zhe chatted with him about other things and did not explain why he brought him an extra cup of milk tea.

Sheng Jiayu nodded. Of course he knew that now that he had taken over the matter, it was impossible to completely get rid of it. The teacher was using him well and would definitely facilitate this matter and continue to use him, but the position was different, so there would always be someone who could share some of the work.

“My roommate, he’s a very nice guy and has helped me a lot recently. His grades are pretty good too, and I’m also interested in competing for the position. I’ll give him the position of class monitor. If Teacher Hu insists on me, I’ll just be a student committee member.” In fact, there are a lot of things to do, but at least he doesn’t have to take care of trivial matters. Recently, all the statistics of the tables have given him a headache.

He was already unpopular because he was able to escape military training, so it was quite troublesome when he asked people to fill out forms.

This was the first time he felt that his obedient appearance was not so appealing.

When he was in school, he always got recognition from his classmates if he had good grades. He was in the advanced class, and everyone just wanted to study, without so many twists and turns.
On the contrary, nowadays, people come from all over the world with different personalities and huge differences.

He was like a person who walked out of the castle for the first time, facing a strange world, strange friendships, and many things were not going smoothly.

As a student committee member, you can hand in your homework or not. If you don’t, you will fail the course.
He looks obedient, but he knows that he is not an obedient person in his bones. If you don’t like him and want him to cover up for others, it’s just a foolish dream. Before Lu Zhe could comment, bean-sized raindrops suddenly fell. Even the sun was not covered. When he looked up, he was blinded by the glaring sunlight, but there were also water drops on his face, which hurt him.

Before Sheng Jiayu could react, a piece of clothing was covering his head.

Lu Zhe held up his thin coat and covered the two people’s heads with it.

The rain suddenly became heavier, and no piece of clothing could stop it.

The instructors were still humane and immediately told people to stay close to the wall and hide for as long as they could.

This was the first rain since they came to school, and it came suddenly and fiercely.

The playground was bustling with people discussing whether the training would be suspended for a day.

The rain showed no sign of abating and the instructors were discussing something.

Lu Zhe had already helped him stand up, and the two of them squeezed together under the outer stairs of the gymnasium. There was only a small area, and the surrounding area was filled with students squeezing in.

They could only snuggle together tightly, feeling each other’s body temperature, which was a stark contrast to the cold rain.

Sheng Jiayu heard Lu Zhe ask him in his ear: “Do you want to skip training?”

But they were unable to escape training that day.
Sunshowers come quickly and go away quickly.

After about half an hour’s rest, the rain became much lighter and turned into a drizzle.

At that time, the training was about to end, so the instructor asked everyone to hold on a little longer to avoid additional training in the evening.

Sheng Jiayu had to move the classmates’ water cups from the ground one by one to a place where they could shelter from the rain, and then squat down and wipe them dry one by one with paper towels.

Lu Zhe stood beside him and watched everything he did.

Raindrops fell from his hair.

Tick, tick, tick.

Sheng Jiayu looked up and saw Lu Zhe looking at her like that.

He thought he should understand why.

Military training is very hard.
But it was also very lively when it ended.

On the last day, no more hard training and no more exposure to the sun.

In the evening on the playground, the square formations turned into circles, with students from each college singing military songs and performing shows.

Some were brave enough to go up and perform, while others took this opportunity to confess their love to someone they just met.

Even though they had only known each other for two weeks, they had already started to pair up and express their love passionately in front of everyone.

Sheng Jiayu, who had been a good boy since childhood, also received his first public confession from a girl in his life.

He used to be soft and his personality wasn’t what girls would like.
But now she has grown up, tall and good-looking, it’s hard not to be attracted to her.

But Sheng Jiayu subconsciously glanced at Lu Zhe, who was here for some unknown purpose. He was at the front of the team, leaning against a large speaker that was crackling and filled with electricity. He seemed to be looking at him, but also seemed not to be looking at him.

He rejected the girl’s confession very politely.
It was obvious that the other party had not thought about success and only wished that he could find happiness.

Then he was booed to perform a show.

He had to stand up, run to the front and take the microphone from Lu Zhe.

Lu Zhe’s fingertips stroked across the palm of his hand, intentionally and unintentionally, and he lowered his head and asked him with a smile what song he wanted to play.

He said, “No music, but give me a guitar.”

He is a man who can only stay at home bored, but he has studied all kinds of non-serious things, and he always has something to show for it.

Some unfinished creations, some expressions that could not be put into music, and some youthful and naive words.

He sang: “You said youth is like a flower struggling to bloom in the soil…”

(End of this chapter)