Chapter 43: End

It has been six months since I last left the Qiao Family, and in that time there has been no contact between Qiao Lan and the Qiao Family, except for one contact from Qiao's mother, according to the senior class teacher.

She lives in the dormitory during the week, but on weekends Aunt Chan will call her to have dinner at her home.

On the weekend of another week, Bai Yu, who is close to Qiao Lan in the same dormitory, casually asked her, "Are you going home?"

"Yes" is actually going to Tan Mo's house.

Bai Yu quickly gathered her things, "Come and play at my house next week, my mum said she wanted to meet you."

"What's the point of seeing me, what did you say to your mother?"

Bai Yu winked, "Let's just say my top bunk is the best studying and prettiest girl in the class."

Qiao Lan almost spat out a mouthful of water, "Stop it I'm scared of you."

"What are you afraid of, I'll be honest", Bai Yu was happy for a long time, "I'll leave now, remember to go home and tell your parents to come to my house next week."

"Got it", Qiao Lan waved her hand and had to go back to pack her school bag and leave the school, Uncle Chan and Tan Mo had been waiting in the car for a while.

After getting into the car, Uncle Chan and Qiao Lan chatted and Tan Mo listened to them quietly as usual. After waiting for a while, Qiao Lan remembered Bai Yu's invitation and turned to Tan Mo and Uncle Chan and said, "I almost forgot, I won't be coming next week because I have something to do."

"Yes," Tan Mo asked her, turning her head.

Uncle Chan also looked at Qiao Lan in the rear view mirror, "Your parents called."

"That's not true", Qiao Lan said, "My housemate said she wanted me to come over to her house next week."

"So," Uncle Chan nodded, "that's good, you young people should make more friends."

Tan Mo's hand, hidden to one side, clenched unnaturally as he looked out of the car window in silence at the rapidly skimming landscape, no one knew what he was thinking.

Every week when Qiao Lan comes, Aunt Chan prepares a special feast for her, and when Qiao Lan finishes eating, she tries to help Aunt Chan wash the dishes, but Aunt Chan kicks her out and tells her to go talk to Tan Mo.

Qiao Lan smiled and went out of the kitchen to find Tan Mo, who was again reading a book.

Qiao Lan sat with her head cocked for a good long while and said, " Tan Mo , sometimes you can look at something other than a book, a TV show movie, much more intuitively than you can read a book dedicated to the emotional interpretation of a character."

Tan Mo closed the book and said in a bland tone, "Look at what."

Qiao Lan was just giving her opinion, but she didn't expect Tan Mo to take it on board so quickly. After some thought, she said, "I think you'd be interested in sci-fi films, but I'd recommend watching something emotionally oriented."

Love, family, friendship, etc., all are possible.

"I can't think of anything specific at the moment, so look online sometime and find those classic films, they're all great."

Tan Mo took out his mobile phone and searched for a number of titles, all of which were world-famous films, such as Pianist at Sea, Titanic and Edward Scissorhands.

So Qiao Lan sat with Tan Mo and Uncle Chan Aunt Chan in the living room that day and watched Piano Man at Sea.

Watching the film is a process, the main purpose is to let Tan Mo perceive the feelings that the film is about, the pianist's love for music, the innocence of what he loves, being born on that big ship and being silenced with it in the endless sea.

Aunt Chan looks on with tears in her eyes, Uncle Chan sighs incessantly and only Tan Mo is as cold as ever.

After the final wreck, Qiao Lan asked Tan Mo if he knew why the pianist hadn't chosen to get off the ship, and Tan Mo, still staring at the screen, gave the exact answer.

It makes Qiao Lan happy that he can speak of innocence and freedom.

However, Qiao Lan was disappointed to see the end of the film, which still left him indifferent.

Qiao Lan exhaled to console himself that he couldn't eat a fat bite, everything had to be done slowly, it was good enough to feel the emotions that the pianist aspired to, the emotions that the audience should have and could progress slowly.

"In the future, when you have time, find a film and if I'm not around, look up the reviews and compare what the difference is between what you've seen and what others have seen."

Tan Mo subconsciously wanted to ask where you were going when you weren't there, but then she remembered that Qiao Lan would be going to her roommate's house next week, so she pursed her lips and didn't say anything.

By the time we got back to school the following week, the approach of November had the students getting restless again.

Apart from the November break, what makes everyone more excited is that three days before the November break, the school is preparing for a three-day athletics meet.

What does a sports day mean? It means no early mornings, no classes and the freedom to bring your mobile phone

The sports committee stood at the podium to count the students who had signed up for the games, while the class teacher stood to one side for ready reference.

Chen Yaoyang and Hao Ying liked to play basketball, but unfortunately the secondary school was having an athletics meeting and not a basketball game, so they both wilted.

"What's the point of being so long and tall and not participating, one for each"

Hao Ying , Chen Yaoyang et al.

In the end, Hao Ying and Chen Yaoyang chose to throw the discus and the long jump, leaving the running to a few others.

Qiao Lan had a bad feeling about this, and the next minute she was called by the teacher.

"Qiao Lan I heard you run every night, how come you signed up for a 100m relay to participate all a bit more actively, add an 800 for Qiao Lan."

Qiao Lan ""

All the boys and girls in the class gave Qiao Lan a look of how you were miserable.

Qiao Lan sighed and ran, so be it, she did have to run several laps around the playground every night, she just didn't want to participate, that 4x100m relay, or there just weren't enough people to make it up there.

There are just too few girls in science classes.

When all the registrations had been completed, the class teacher called Qiao Lan and gave him a job.

On the day of the sports day, each class had to walk in a square, and each class chose a girl to walk in front and hold up a sign, the class teacher didn't let anyone choose, she just decided on Qiao Lan, and several boys cheered afterwards.

There is no other reason, because the one who holds the sign has a fixed dress code.

There were girls in the class who were envious, but no one disagreed with the class teacher. For a girl like Qiao Lan, who was a top student, good-looking and tall, there was no way to disagree.

After the class was over, the students who walked past the class casually joked with Qiao Lan, and Qiao Lan turned to Tan Mo when he was clear and asked, "Are you coming to the sports day?"

Tan Mo doesn't even come to study in the evenings, so there is almost a 100% chance that he won't come to the games.

Tan Mo kept his pen in his hand and said, "No."

He couldn't get involved in what he came to do, and the two movements would have nothing to do with him at all.

Qiao Lan had expected this, but was disappointed that she wanted Tan Mo to have more contact with everyone, but then again it was torture for Tan Mo to see everyone else on the field walking like a champ.

When I think about it, Qiao Lan thinks that Tan Mo might as well stay at home and read a book or watch a movie.

Qiao Lan sighed as she leaned over the table, trying to persuade Tan Mo to get treatment sooner rather than later, as she could still feel the nerves in her leg, but it might be too late to save it.

But she was not quite brave enough to say so.

Uncle Chan said that the scar on Tan Mo's leg was stabbed by Tan Mo himself when they forced him to undergo treatment.

In the evening, Bai Yu went for a lap, and in the morning, after morning study, Tan Mo brought some fruit cut by Aunt Chan to Qiao Lan.

Qiao Lan handed Tan Mo the very sweet fruit as usual and ate while listening to Tan Mo's daily lectures on the subject.

Qiao Lan remembered how she felt when Hao Ying was asking her questions recently and suddenly asked Tan Mo, "Tan Mo, do you get bored of giving me questions like this every day?"

Tan Mo looked up, his pretty eyes fixed on her, "Why do you ask."

Qiao Lan glanced to the left and right, then moved closer to Tan Mo and said in a voice that only two people could hear, "Because Hao Ying keeps asking me questions and I'm a bit annoyed."

Tan Mo was stunned and suddenly laughed.

The sun reflected lazily on Tan Mo's body, and the boy's cold features were dazzlingly beautiful beneath his smile.

Sitting behind Qiao Lan and Tan Mo, Xiang Xiaohan is reminded of the first day he met Tan Mo.

That day too, in the early morning light, Tan Mo's eyes curved and he was struck by the youth's exquisite face, frozen in place.

By some miracle, she took the seat behind Tan Mo and Qiao Lan.

But it's been nearly a month and Tan Mo has never said a word to her, and even when she has taken the initiative to greet her, Tan Mo has not responded, let alone smiled at her like that.

Xiang Xiaohan suddenly felt some irony.

She's not as good as Qiao Lan, she's not as good looking, and that's fine with everyone else, but who is Tan Mo to think that?

Xiang Xiaohan sometimes wants to be sarcastic, but every time he sees Tan Mo's gentleness and patience when dealing with Qiao Lan, all his discontent is instantly changed.

Just now Tan Mo smiled at Qiao Lan again, Xiang Xiaohan bit his lips, cleared the complicated expression from his face, his voice sounded natural and cheerful, " Tan Mo, you give Qiao Lan tuition every day, help me to do the same when you have time."

Qiao Lan glanced at Tan Mo, whose smile was instantly withdrawn and he gave Xiang Xiaohan a cold look.

Xiang Xiaohan was pinned in place by Tan Mo's unmistakably cold gaze, and the smile on his face was suddenly unable to hold up.

"No time."

Tan Mo said, before turning his head to refocus on Qiao Lan.

Xiang Xiaohan hurriedly looked around and saw that someone was already looking this way, so he scratched the corner of his shirt in embarrassment.

Xiang Xiaohan feels aggrieved that Tan Mo is talking to Qiao Lan, who is spending all his time with him.

But why is Tan Mo so good to Qiao Lan?

I heard from many people that Qiao Lan took care of Tan Mo when she was a senior, so Tan Mo was always very good to Qiao Lan.

But that's really all

Qiao Lan is so pretty after all, even a guy like Hao Ying is interested in her, so will Tan Mo think so?

But how could a man like him dare to think about Qiao Lan and could Qiao Lan actually know something?

Xiang Xiaohan shuddered, looked up at Qiao Lan and Tan Mo, and thought about what he had just thought, and a strange feeling came over him.