Chapter 82 Your Voice is Too Soft
"Why did you suddenly think of running with me in the future?"
Fang Wei looked at her curiously. The bright light of the morning sun fell on the girl, dyeing her golden.
"Don't you hate running?"
"It just... suddenly felt pretty good."
"Aren't you tired?"
“It’s tiring, but also very relaxing.”
Liu Zhiyi said something that seemed somewhat contradictory.
Others may be confused when listening to this, but Fang Wei, who runs every day, can understand this feeling.
He smiled and said, "You're physically tired, but you feel inexplicably relaxed inside, right?"
"Yeah! Do you feel the same way?"
Liu Zhiyi asked curiously: "So this is why you run every day?"
"Not entirely. On the one hand, it's definitely for physical exercise. On the other hand, when I'm running, I feel that my attention is particularly focused. I can use this time to think, whether it's about study or life. Many things that I don't understand will become clearer. What about you?"
"I didn't think of anything..."
"That's good too."
Fang Wei nodded: "Then let's make an appointment. From now on, every morning, if it doesn't rain, we will go jogging together and come here to watch the sunrise!"
"Okay. What time is it every day?"
"I usually leave home around five o'clock, and it takes about six or seven minutes to get to your house."
"Well, then I'll wait for you at the door at five o'clock every day..."
"Did you get enough sleep?" Fang Wei blinked.
"You are the same..."
Liu Zhiyi said: "It's okay, I go to bed early at night and I can rest at noon."
"That's right, it should be enough. You usually have trouble sleeping at night, right?"
"Um……"
"Then it's a good opportunity to exercise more, so you can sleep better at night. Have you had breakfast?"
"not yet……"
"Your physical strength is not very good. Next time before running, it's better to eat something to fill your stomach, but don't eat too much. Wait until you finish running and then go back to eat something." Fang Wei reminded.
"it is good."
Liu Zhiyi nodded.
After chatting for a while, her strength had almost recovered, and she noticed that her little hand was still on Fang Wei's arm.
Fang Wei's arms were not strong, but her palms could feel the sticky sweat stains on the surface of his arms, which brought a strong sense of reality. Being in such close contact with him, the girl's mood, which had just calmed down, could not help but be stirred up again...
While he didn't seem to be paying attention, Liu Zhiyi quickly and calmly withdrew her little hand.
In fact, Fang Wei still noticed it. When he saw her pull her hand away, he reminded her, "Don't sit down. Stand for a while and move around."
"oh oh……"
Liu Zhiyi nodded, her pretty face slightly blushing.
Fortunately, she had just finished exercising, and her face was already red, so nothing could be seen.
"Hey~ Yeah~"
Fang Wei stretched his body vigorously to relieve the muscle soreness after exercise.
Looking at the brilliant morning sun between the sea and sky in the distance and bathing in the refreshing sea breeze blowing in your face, this experience is really pleasant.
As usual, he faced the sea and recited the text with great emotion:
"There is a large garden behind my house, which is said to be called Baicao Garden. It has long been sold to the descendants of Zhu Wengong along with the house. It has been seven or eight years since we last saw each other..."
It is Mr. Lu Xun's "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore", an article that Teacher Wen recently asked us to recite.
Liu Zhiyi was a little surprised to see Fang Wei reciting as if no one was around. In fact, at first, she didn't realize that he was reciting and just thought he was talking to her.
Liu Zhiyi had already memorized this text.
During the morning reading sessions on weekdays, it is not uncommon to see Fang Wei reading aloud the text.
But unlike in the classroom, here on the beach, his reading was louder and more emotional.
Liu Zhiyi watched and listened with some curiosity.
Maybe this is why she feels comfortable with Fang Wei? He is relaxed and at ease, never deliberately doing anything, and doesn't care what others think. He runs when he wants to, and reads aloud when he wants to.
Liu Zhiyi inexplicably had a feeling that Fang Wei was the one who was truly being himself.
Everyone is himself, but not everyone lives like himself. In fact, most people just live for how others see themselves.
Even she is like this.
It was not until Fang Wei finished reciting the entire article that Liu Zhiyi asked him curiously:
"Fang Wei, do you recite like this every day?"
"Yes, have you seen that movie by Stephen Chow? I just wanted to give it a try at first, but I didn't expect the training effect to be quite good. It helped me practice speaking and my courage."
Fang Wei turned around to look at her and invited her, "Why don't you try it too?"
"Ah I……"
"Give it a try. There's no one else here. You usually read too quietly during the morning reading class."
"I'm sorry..."
"Don't be scared, come and try, I'll recite a paragraph, and you take over!"
Just like inviting her to watch the sunrise and running together, now I invite her to recite in front of the sea!
The young man in front of her seemed to have the power to bewitch people. Liu Zhiyi didn't know why she agreed to his invitations repeatedly. If it were someone else, even Cai Ling, she would definitely shake her head and refuse such an invitation.
But at this moment, she felt eager to try it, and nodded for some unknown reason.
"There is a big garden behind my house, which is said to be called Baicao Garden..."
Fang Wei finished reciting the first paragraph quickly. Then he turned around and looked at her.
Liu Zhiyi took a deep breath and began to recite:
"Not to mention the green vegetable plots, the smooth stone well curbs, the tall honey locust trees, and the purple mulberries..."
She hadn't even finished reciting when Fang Wei interrupted her:
"Unqualified!"
"Eh?"
Liu Zhiyi was stunned. She should have recited it correctly.
"It's not that I recited it wrong, but your voice is too soft! I only heard the sound of the waves, not your voice!"
"Not to mention the green vegetable patch..."
"Louder." "Not to mention the green vegetable patch...!"
Liu Zhiyi mustered up his courage and recited it almost half-shouting.
After reciting this passage, she felt her pretty face getting hot. She first looked around to see if there was anyone around. Seeing that no one was paying attention, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at Fang Wei. The meaning in her eyes was very clear: Is this loud enough?
"Haha, the voice is barely good enough, but you read too emotionlessly, like a reading machine!"
"It's useless to just open your mouth, you have to open your heart as well. Don't say there's no one else around right now, even if there is someone else, what does it matter?"
“Rating: Unqualified!”
"I……"
Liu Zhiyi, who had always been gentle, also became stubborn after hearing Fang Wei's ruthless comments.
Fang Wei's guess was correct. She had actually always secretly regarded him as her rival. She didn't mind other people's comments on her, but when Fang Wei commented on her like this, the girl felt a little uncomfortable.
I thought, am I so bad in his eyes?
Although she seems to be non-competitive on the surface, she also has her own pride.
Without waiting for Fang Wei to say anything else, she adjusted her posture and began to recite again:
"Some people say that the root of Polygonum multiflorum is shaped like a human, and eating it can make you immortal..."
Fang Wei's eyes lit up. Listening to Liu Zhiyi's recitation at this time was completely different from before!
He waited quietly until she finished reciting the entire text, then applauded.
But he didn't say anything to praise her, and just started reciting the next article without warning:
"The moon on Mount Emei is half full in autumn, and its shadow is reflected in the flowing water of Pingqiang River."
He turned and looked at Liu Zhiyi.
She was very clever and continued the sentence in perfect harmony:
"I set out from Qingxi to the Three Gorges at night, thinking of you but not seeing you in Yuzhou."
……
The two of them spoke back and forth like a duet on stage, reciting poem after poem with great emotion.
It can be seen that Liu Zhiyi became more confident the more he read aloud, and his whole demeanor became more outgoing;
Fang Wei was getting more and more frustrated the more questions he asked - how come she could always recite every sentence he recited? !
How many books have you memorized secretly? You can even answer questions that are beyond the syllabus? Why don't you attend the Ancient Poetry Competition?!
Fortunately, Liu Zhiyi had no intention of asking questions first, otherwise Fang Wei felt that he would be in trouble.
I looked at the time and it was already half an hour after sunrise.
In fact, it was still early, not even six o'clock.
"Let's go, let's go jogging tomorrow. It's almost six o'clock." Fang Wei said.
Liu Zhiyi, who was still waiting for him to continue asking questions with great interest, was stunned for a moment, then he noticed that time had passed so quickly.
After resting for a while, Liu Zhiyi's complexion and physical strength returned to normal, but when he lifted his legs to walk, he felt his legs were a little heavy and sore.
Looking at her slightly stiff steps, Fang Wei smiled and said, "Are you okay? Can you walk back? Do you want me to carry you?"
"I can walk!"
The girl's pretty face turned red. She felt so embarrassed just thinking about him carrying her back, so she didn't want to do that.
"Then let's go. We just finished running now. You'll feel your thighs and calves are sore later."
"fine."
The two walked together on the beach, slowly following the way back.
When they had almost walked the whole distance, Fang Wei started to run slowly again. Seeing this, Liu Zhiyi did not want to fall behind and also started to run slowly after him.
The girl's physical strength was really not good. After running for a while, she was sweating and panting.
Fang Wei had no choice but to continue walking slowly with her.
When we returned to Shayang Village, Uncle Liu was sweeping the floor in front of the yard.
The old man was stunned when he saw the two young boys and girls walking towards him from the direction of the woods, sweating profusely.
"Zhiyi, Awei, where have you been so early in the morning? Why are you sweating all over..."
"Uncle, I'm taking Zhiyi for a run!"
"Run, run?"
It turned out that he was going for a run. Uncle Liu breathed a sigh of relief.
……
At eight o'clock in the morning, Fang Wei and Xu Cailing rode their bicycles to Liu Zhiyi's house together.
The bicycle belonged to Fang Wei. Xu Cailing was riding it, and Fang Wei was sitting on the back seat. In the basket of the bicycle were the homework books that the two of them had brought with them.
I originally wanted to ask Ah Sheng to come over and do homework with me, but when I got to his house, he was still asleep.
Unlike Cailing, Asheng won't do his homework until the last minute of the holiday. He says that only the sense of urgency of meeting the deadline can stimulate the potential for doing homework.
"Don't you have a car yourself?"
"My sister wants it!"
"Where is Sister Caiwei going?"
"I went to town to do some shopping."
Xu Cailing was carrying Fang Wei, and with a slight side drift, she braked the bicycle and stopped it steadily in front of the gate of Liu Zhiyi's house.
The two of them looked into the yard curiously. It was the Mid-Autumn Festival, but her house was quiet.
"Zhiyi should be at home, right?"
"You'll know if you just shout twice."
Xu Cailing was not shy. She rang the bell and shouted at the top of her voice:
"Knowing the meaning——"
"Knowing the meaning——"
As if shouting "Open Sesame", Uncle Liu, who was wearing reading glasses in the living room, appeared first when he heard the noise outside, but soon, another petite figure trotted out of the house.
"Cai Ling, you guys are here."
"Yeah! I thought you weren't home just now!"
"I'm at home. I'm in my room."
Liu Zhiyi hurried over to open the gate of the courtyard and invited Xu Cailing and Fang Wei to come in.
Maybe she was sweating in the morning, because when I saw her again, she had changed her clothes. She was wearing a loose beige T-shirt on the upper body and a pair of school uniform pants on the lower body. They were not the school uniform of this school, but probably her previous school uniform. After all, school uniform pants were really comfortable to wear.
They would pass by her house every day going to and from school together, but this was the first time Fang Wei and Xu Cailing entered Liu Zhiyi's home.
After parking the bicycles in the yard, the two took out the homework books from the basket.
"Cai Ling, Awei, are you here to play with Zhiyi?" Uncle Liu also came out, smiling happily.
"Uncle, come over and do your homework together!"
"Okay, come in."
(End of this chapter)
