Chapter 93 There's a worm! What a big worm!
After the physical education class was over, the classmates who had already taken off their schoolbags went home one after another.
After all, there are competitions to watch, so many students use the time to run.
Firstly, it is fun to watch the game, and secondly, it is also a topic of conversation when meeting with classmates the next day.
Even Teacher Niu ended the get out of class five minutes early and rode his motorcycle home to watch the game.
The ones who are most unlucky are Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi. They have to stay behind to be on duty cleaning today.
Unlike when they went downstairs together, when they went upstairs there were only the two of them, and when they returned to the classroom, there were only the two of them.
The huge classroom seemed empty at the moment. The get out of class was almost over, but it was so quiet that I could hear the teacher in the next class lecturing.
After the physical education class, Liu Zhiyi had already used up all his energy. He returned to his seat, drank some water from the kettle in small sips, and stared blankly for a while...
Fang Wei found it funny. At the beginning of the physical education class, it was indeed only him and Cai Ling who had the freedom to move around freely. But in the second half, many other students completed the exercise requirements and were released early.
Only Liu Zhiyi and a few classmates who were equally bad at exercise practiced from the beginning to the end of the get out of class...
"Why, are you exhausted?"
"Well... I need to rest..."
Fang Wei asked curiously, "Have you ever learned martial arts before?"
"I have learned it." Liu Zhiyi was very honest, but after saying it, she blushed a little.
"You've learned it twice?" Fang Wei was stunned.
The girl lowered her head even more. She was already frustrated enough! Please stop talking!
Well, Fang Wei didn’t know what to say for a moment.
After a short break, the school bell rang.
Compared with the past, the hustle and bustle of the entire teaching building can be felt more clearly in the empty classrooms today. The thin floor is shaken by the footsteps as students from each class are released.
Fang Wei walked to the back of the classroom and found cleaning tools and a large white plastic trash can in the corner against the wall at the end of the fourth group.
Seeing that he was about to clean, Liu Zhiyi stopped sitting in his seat and stood up and walked to his side.
I don’t know whether these brooms are of poor quality or the boys and girls are playing tricks with the brooms, but many of the brooms were already in tatters even though they were just bought this semester.
Fang Wei picked and chose, found two newer brooms, and handed one to Liu Zhiyi.
"Let's split up and clean. You clean groups one and two, and I'll clean groups three and four."
"Uh-huh."
Liu Zhiyi nodded, took the broom and went to group one and two to start sweeping the floor.
Liu Zhiyi did a lot of housework such as sweeping and mopping the floor. In fact, she quite liked cleaning, as it gave her an inexplicable sense of stress relief.
Most of the students are quite hygienic. Plus, there are many male and female classmates sitting at the same table in the class, so to a large extent, they are too embarrassed to spit anywhere.
But there are still some paper balls in the corners of the seats, melon seed shells that were secretly eaten in class, paper scraps, snack packaging bags, etc.
Liu Zhiyi cleaned very carefully. He bent over, stretched the broom under the seat, gently swept the garbage into the aisle, and then swept it to the back little by little.
Fang Wei looked at her and said with a smile: "Zhiyi, this isn't the first time you've moved around in such a large area in the classroom, right?"
"Ah? How is it possible..."
"Have you ever been to Group One or Two?"
"..."
Liu Zhiyi stopped talking.
It seemed... really not. Except for the first day of school when she sat in the first row of the first group for a while, she had never been here again.
It took her more than half a month to walk through the classroom, which could be walked in two or three steps!
Because he swept more carefully, Liu Zhiyi's speed was much slower than Fang's.
Fang Wei had already started sweeping the last group, and she had just finished the first group.
The girl moved the chair away and saw something long, black and red crawling in the right-angle gap between the wall and the ground. She poked it with a broom out of curiosity.
Then this thing suddenly moved, as if by magic, and two rows of densely packed orange-yellow legs appeared on both sides of its body, and it began to crawl cautiously.
Liu Zhiyi's eyes widened, her hair stood on end, goose bumps appeared on her skin in an instant, and she screamed subconsciously:
"what--!"
In the quiet classroom, she suddenly called out like that, and even Fang Wei was startled.
Looking back, Liu Zhiyi had already started dancing. Although the thing was clearly far away from her, it seemed as if it had already crawled onto her. She held the broom, screamed, and ran to the fourth group in the blink of an eye. She hid behind Fang Wei in a frightened manner.
"…What's going on?"
"Yes, yes, there is a worm! Such a big worm!!"
"Haha, it's just a bug, what kind of bug could scare you like this?"
"I didn't see it clearly... It's really big and scary!! It can crawl, it has a lot of legs, and it crawls very fast!! Centipede... Yes! Centipede!! Such a huge centipede bug!!"
Liu Zhiyi, who has always been calm and quiet, has been frightened into looking like a little quail.
If it weren't for this centipede, Fang Wei wouldn't have known that she could say such a long sentence in one breath.
"It's just a centipede, how big can it be to scare you like this?"
Looking at Liu Zhiyi who was still frightened and hid behind him, Fang Wei said angrily and amusedly: "I'll go take a look."
"Careful, be careful... the centipede is very poisonous! Don't get bit by it! It's really big!"
"How big can it be..."
Fang Wei walked to the first group's side close to the wall, bent over and looked around the corner.
Liu Zhiyi didn't dare to get close. She hid far behind him with a broom in her hand, looking as if she was facing a formidable enemy.
"No, did you see it wrong?"
"Really! It was just around there!"
“I didn’t see it…”
"...!!"
Liu Zhiyi's pupils suddenly condensed, and he pulled Fang Wei back a step: "It! It climbed onto the curtains!!"
Fang Wei, who had been taking it lightly, looked up and saw a huge centipede as thick as a finger suddenly appearing before his eyes, crawling on the curtain with its fangs and claws bared. He was less than half a meter away from it.
"Fuck!!"
This time, even Fangwei couldn't help but be shocked and got goose bumps all over his body.
The centipede he imagined was only three or four centimeters in size. A centipede this close to ten centimeters in size was extremely rare, and could perhaps only be seen in the dense forests of the island. He didn't expect it to appear in the classroom, and he was given a fright by surprise.
Seeing that the big centipede was about to crawl somewhere else along the curtain, Fang Wei raised the broom in his hand and slapped it down.
The frightened centipede crawled quickly on the floor with its claws and fangs bared.
Liu Zhiyi hid behind him, and Fang Wei chased it with a broom.
"I told you to be scary! I told you to be scary!"
"Pah, pah, pah!"
Fang Wei slapped and hit it with a broom, and soon the big centipede stopped moving.
They say that even a millipede can survive death. Right now, it is so dead that it cannot be deader...
Fang Wei finally breathed a sigh of relief and used his broom to look at the girl hiding behind him.
Liu Zhiyi looked curious and scared, and her heart was pounding.
"It's okay. I've avenged you."
"Is it dead..."
"Those who should die should not die anymore."
"That's good, it's really scary..."
After hearing what Fang Wei said, Liu Zhiyi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
What she fears most on a daily basis are these hairless things.
No matter what snakes, cockroaches, spiders, centipedes or the like, if they fall on her, she will just roll her eyes and faint.
Seeing the big centipede lying motionless and dead, she became braver and poked it from a distance with a broom, then quickly hid aside. Only when she saw that it really stopped moving did she finally feel relieved.
"There is such a big centipede in school. This is the first time I've seen it..." said Liu Zhiyi.
"There are fields and weeds and bushes behind the school, so it's not surprising that he ran into the school. Fortunately, he was discovered early."
Fang Wei took a dustpan, swept up the dead centipede with a broom, and calmly threw it into the trash can.
"Fang Wei, you are so brave. You are not afraid at all..." Liu Zhiyi said admiringly.
"..."
Who wouldn’t be afraid of this thing! …
After dealing with the centipede, the two continued to complete the remaining cleaning work.
Fang Wei was fine, but Liu Zhiyi was much more cautious than before. She would stare at every corner for a long time.
After sweeping the floor, you need to put the seats in order.
Fang Wei usually didn't pay much attention to it, but when he saw Liu Zhiyi seemed to want to measure it with a ruler, he didn't expect that he had a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder!
The table must be aligned horizontally and vertically, and the chairs must be put under the table one by one.
Seeing that she was going to rearrange the tables and chairs that he had just arranged, Fang Wei simply gave the job of arranging the chairs to her.
Fang Wei walked up to the podium and washed the rag used to wipe the blackboard.
When he came back, Liu Zhiyi had already arranged the chairs. Fang Wei stood on them. Looking from the podium, the neat and uniform arrangement was very pleasing to the eye.
So Fang Wei calmly folded the clean rag into a square shape and placed it in the center of the podium.
The human mind is so strange. If a place is quite clean and there is no garbage at all, then one would feel embarrassed to throw away one's own garbage. If one sees garbage all over the ground, then even if there is a trash can not far away, one would still throw away garbage there.
After cleaning, the last task is to take out the trash.
Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi put the broom and dustpan back in the corner, stood on either side, each holding the handle of the trash can, left the classroom together, and went downstairs to throw out the trash.
……
The brilliant sunset glow at dusk covers the entire campus.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the sound of cicadas became much less.
If you look up, you can often see wild geese flying in a line or V-formation in the sky.
On the court in front of the teaching building, someone was playing basketball, and the sound of basketballs clattering was heard;
Some students who left late walked towards the school gate in groups of two or three, talking and laughing.
The cafeteria was still busy, it was dinner time;
The dormitory building at the back was also bustling, with boys walking around and playing around with bare arms, and girls carrying buckets downstairs to get hot water for a bath, or those who had already taken a bath, with wet hair, hanging clothes on the balcony;
Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi carried the trash cans together and walked slowly in this campus scenery.
Seeing Liu Zhiyi peeking into the trash can from time to time, Fang Wei laughed.
"Don't look at it, it's really dead."
"Well... I'm afraid it might suddenly come alive."
"Then I'll kill it again."
Although it was just a casual remark, Liu Zhiyi felt safe listening to it.
"Fang Wei, what did you buy at noon?"
"Buy lottery tickets for my dad. Isn't there an Olympics coming soon?"
"Oh oh."
Liu Zhiyi nodded.
Although she was already very familiar with Fang Wei, she was still not good at starting a conversation.
In fact, for her, it was nice for the two of them to walk quietly with the trash can without talking. It somehow felt like they were taking a walk, and she wouldn't feel awkward even if they didn't talk.
"Did you watch the game?" Fang Wei asked her.
"Yes, but I only watch games involving our national team," said Liu Zhiyi.
"I thought you didn't watch the game. You never mentioned it when they talked about the game."
“Because I don’t really understand it…”
Maybe it was because she was relaxed at the moment, and there was no one else around, so when she was alone with Fang Wei, she spoke more, as if she was talking to herself, but also as if she was talking to him:
"I seldom watch games. I read books most of the time. I have been like this since I was a child..."
"Because I think reading is very interesting. After reading for a long time, I found that I couldn't keep up with the topics that people usually talked about. Then when I wanted to talk to them about books, they couldn't keep up either..."
"So, you isolated them all, right?" Fang Wei said with a smile.
"No! I, I didn't think so..."
Liu Zhiyi thought that Fang Wei and Cai Ling were indeed childhood sweethearts, even their jokes were exactly the same, but Cai Ling and Fang Wei had completely different personalities.
The reason why she took the initiative to talk about these things with Fang Wei was probably because she subconsciously felt that he would understand her better.
"It doesn't matter, actually. The most important thing between friends is to get along with each other. This is a natural fit."
Fang Wei stopped joking and said seriously: "After all, the world is so big, there will always be people who can match your soul and understand you."
Liu Zhiyi nodded repeatedly: "I think so too."
Fang Wei turned to look at her and said with a smile, "You like to write and submit articles. You probably hope that what you write can find readers who can resonate with you, right?"
"That's also what I thought..."
"It's so far away, yet so close. Why don't you show me what you wrote? Maybe we can find resonance?"
"Okay, then I... won't give it to you!"
Liu Zhiyi reacted and looked at Fang Wei's evil smile. He almost fell into his trap! He quickly added two more words: "No! No!"
"Why can strangers see it? We are friends and desk mates, so why can't I see it?"
"That's why I can't watch it."
“I’m afraid of social death.”
“What is social death?”
"It's the feeling of being alive but feeling so ashamed that you're dying in interpersonal relationships."
After Fang Wei said this, Liu Zhiyi thought to himself that it was true. Otherwise, why do so many writers use pen names? Isn't it because they are afraid of being recognized?
What she wrote was completely different from her usual personality; it was very passionate and extroverted, and her words were quite bold.
When Fang Wei saw this article, he said in surprise, "Liu Zhiyi, I didn't expect you to be such a person."
Even if she didn't write anything weird, just thinking about it makes me feel so embarrassed!
……
After taking out the trash and returning to the classroom, they picked up their backpacks and prepared to leave.
"Do you want to lock the door?"
"No, the students living in the dormitory will come over to study later. Just close the door. Let's go."
"Ah."
The two of them closed the front and back doors respectively, and looked at the clean and tidy classroom after cleaning, feeling a sense of accomplishment.
Fang Wei raised his wrist to check the time. It was only delayed for half an hour, so he was definitely not tired.
On this side of the wall, most of the other parked bicycles had been moved away, and in such a large area, there was only an orange and a white bicycle standing next to each other.
It’s the first time we go home together alone since school started.
Fang Wei and Liu Zhiyi rode side by side on the way home. It was less noisy than the usual four-person bike ride, but more leisurely and comfortable, which was also a very different experience.
"You can ride the bike very well now!" Fang Wei praised.
"It's okay~"
Liu Zhiyi smiled. She already dared to ride a bike with one hand loose, but she didn't dare to loosen both hands like Cai Ling. Perhaps she would never be able to do that in her entire life. But now that her cycling skills had reached this level, she was already very satisfied!
"Fang Wei, doesn't your leg hurt?"
"It will definitely hurt at first. You're mainly sore in your calves, right?"
"Uh-huh!"
Liu Zhiyi released one hand and pinched his thigh. It was fine when he was sitting normally, but when he was riding a bike like this, his calves and thighs were extremely sore.
"You've been sitting in your seat for too long. Walk around more, or stretch yourself when you get home, soak your feet, or something like that, and the pain will go away soon."
"it is good."
"Can I go to your house and borrow some books later?"
"Sure, what book do you want to borrow?"
"Let me take a look first. I don't know what to borrow yet. Which one do you like best?"
"...I won't tell you."
"You can't even say that?!"
"I, I like them all."
"Isn't this answer too ridiculous?"
"real!"
Seeing Fang Wei's deflated look, Liu Zhiyi chuckled.
The girl’s smile is much brighter than the sunset.
(End of this chapter)
