Chapter 45: Understanding

Bai Yu and Hao Ying asked her to go and play. There was no game in the morning, but Bai Yu had brought two decks of cards and was already waiting on the lawn below the school building to play a game of landlord, and whoever lost would have their brains smashed.

Qiao Lan, with the phone in her hand, looks on tiptoe towards the small parking garage outside the sports ground, past the students coming and going, and sees the familiar Cayenne that takes Tan Mo to and from school every day.

Qiao Lan's eyes lit up and she quickly headed outside the sports ground while letting Bai Yu and the girls go first, "You guys play first, I have something to do."

"What is it? Do you want me to accompany you?" Bai Yu asked her.

"No," Qiao Lan waved his hand and walked out of the stadium without looking back. Hao Ying couldn't help but look back, but some of the boys he played with laughed and dragged him away, "Don't look, your eyes are almost out."

"Fuck off", Hao Ying laughed and kicked the boys and everyone laughed.

From the beginning of the school year, Hao Ying took the initiative to find Qiao Lan to be her tablemate, and later on, she played with Bai Yu, who was close to Qiao Lan, and went to Qiao Lan every day when she had time to ask her questions.

Everyone knows what Hao Ying means to Qiao Lan.

At first, some of his buddies even laughed at Hao Ying, who would have thought that there would be times when Hao Ying would be chasing around girls and spending his days chasing after them.

But if this girl is Qiao Lan, it's no wonder.

After today's walk, the school's posting board, which was not very active, exploded. The whole school knew the name of this beautiful student, and the original joke selection thread was bumped up, with nine out of ten new replies being nominated for Qiao Lan.

There were seniors who just came over specifically to inquire about it.

It's no wonder that Hao Ying, who used to be calm and brushed up on her goodwill with Qiao Lan every day, is now a bit restless.

The meat and potatoes are now in high demand and Hao Ying is in a hurry.

The few people who are close to Hao Ying know him well. He usually seems to be laid back, but he is very decisive when it comes to business.

Tan Mo watched as Qiao Lan quickly ran out of the playground, around the surrounding railings and appeared at the car in less than a minute.

She bent down and knocked on the window. Tan Mo slowly lowered the window and watched Qiao Lan's face come into view bit by bit, the first thing he saw was over his favourite eyes, then to his nose, to his crimson lips.

She was slightly unfamiliar with her make-up on, but the smile on her face remained familiar.

Qiao Lan greeted Uncle Chan with a smile and turned to Tan Mo and said, "When did you get here? You didn't tell me earlier."

"Just arrived," Tan Mo says, watching Qiao Lan get into the car and take the seat next to him.

When they went out or came home together, Qiao Lan sat next to him, and earlier in the day they even stayed in the same room to read and talk, Tan Mo only knew that he liked the feeling of being in the same space with Qiao Lan, and that he always felt more relaxed and comfortable when he was with her.

But lately, at some point, the feeling of being with Qiao Lan has changed little by little.

Tan Mo is too slow to perceive changes in feelings and emotions, and even when she notices something is different, she doesn't know exactly what is different.

It was not the first time he knew Qiao Lan was good looking, but it was the first time his heart beat faster because she was so good looking.

And now, for some reason, Tan Mo felt that the small space in the car made it hard for him to breathe. He liked to look at each other's faces and into each other's eyes as he spoke, and he looked at Qiao Lan as he usually did, but then he met his eyes as if he had been burned by a spark and hurriedly averted his eyes, somewhat overwhelmed.

Tan Mo's fingers trembled, and when he looked down again, he saw two long, bare, extremely beautiful legs.

Tan Mo couldn't identify the emotions she was feeling at that moment, so she turned her face away and closed her eyes.

Tan Mo can only change the subject by instinct, but he still doesn't dare to look at Qiao Lan.

"Is there a game in the morning," Tan Mo asks.

"Yes, at eleven," Qiao Lan said, glancing out of the car window where the multi-jump competition at the far edge of the playground had already started, "the eight hundred metre preliminaries."

"So what do we do now", Tan Mo presses on, not even knowing what he is saying, like a machine that follows the conversation along.

"Bai Yu brought cards and took a place on the lawn next to the school building, saying that we could play cards together later", Tan Mo didn't know what she was asking. "Tan Mo, do you want to play with me?"

The people she asked to play poker with were some of her best friends, Qiao Lan's certified friends, and Tan Mo had a good time getting to know them.

Tan Mo stiffened, eyes glancing at Qiao Lan's white next door, and refused stiffly, "I won't."

"I'll teach you if you don't know," Qiao Lan said, "you're so clever, you'll learn it once or twice, we're a family, I'll teach you to play."

Tan Mo's heart fluttered slightly at the words "our two families", and as he hesitated, Uncle Chan in front of him said cheerfully, "I think it's good, it's fun to play cards, and if the young master learns, we can play at home when LanLan comes. "

Tan Mo was silent for a moment before finally agreeing.

Qiao Lan was happy but had to change out of this outfit and remove her make-up before going big. After a trip back to the dormitory, all cleaned up and back again, Tan Mo looked at Qiao Lan who was back in her school uniform and finally dared her eyes to fall back on her.

However, when he looked directly into Qiao Lan's eyes, he subconsciously tried to look away.

On the other hand, Qiao Lan has been gone for nearly half an hour, and Hao Ying Bai Yu and the others have already played several rounds of Landlord, playing as if they were particularly lively, but in fact Hao Ying is a bit distracted, glancing back every now and then.

When he finally saw the person he wanted to see return, Hao Ying was stunned to see that it was a different person.

Qiao Lan left alone, but came with one, Tan Mo.

Tan Mo's arrival brought an instant silence to the crowd, probably because no one expected Tan Mo to come to the school during the sports day, but after a few seconds of silence, they said welcome.

Hao Ying looked at Qiao Lan's and Tan Mo's faces for a long time, but finally fell on Qiao Lan's face, thinking that she was still so beautiful after taking off her make-up.

Another deck of cards was unwrapped, "Two more people have been added, so let's add another deck, Qiao Lan, why don't you sit here?"

"No", Qiao Lan moved a chair and sat next to Tan Mo, "I'll sit here, Tan Mo and I are one person, what were you playing before, landlord?"

"Ah yes, Landlord", one of the boys looked at Qiao Lan and Tan Mo for a second before continuing, "Qiao Lan, how are you at poker, are you good, if you are, get Hao Ying off, it's impossible to play."

There were a lot of people playing, so we agreed that whoever lost would play, but Hao Ying never went down from the beginning.

Hao Ying looked at Qiao Lan with a smile on his face, Qiao Lan looked away and smiled lightly, "I'm an average player, I just know how to play", and turned to Tan Mo and whispered, "I'll play a couple of games first, you can watch and learn, it's easy. "

Tan Mo let out a "hmm" and turned his head to look in Hao Ying's direction, only to be met by her glance.

Tan Mo's eyes darkened and he looked away, returning his gaze to Qiao Lan's hands.

Qiao Lan's stool was close to Tan Mo's in order to allow everyone to sit down, and she moved a little to Tan Mo's side so that Tan Mo could understand, causing the students next to her to look twice.

Qiao Lan didn't think anything of it, she said that she was an average player, she didn't have any modesty at all, she rarely played these things, she only knew how to play Landlord, the cards she got weren't very good and her poker skills were average, Hao Ying grabbed the landlord and beat the two of them and quickly won the game.

Playing cards is not the point, the punishment is, especially now that the punishment has been meted out to Qiao Lan.

Another girl covered her arm and asked Hao Ying to hit her more gently, but Hao Ying slapped her finger on it.

Qiao Lan graciously held her arm out and Hao Ying touched her finger to it, and for a moment the roar grew even louder.

"Hao Ying, you make a difference."

"That's not what you just did."

Hao Ying looked at Qiao Lan with a smile in her eyes and turned back to scold her with a laugh. Qiao Lan took a deep breath and withdrew her hand, feeling Tan Mo's rigid body next to her arm when she picked up her cards again.

Qiao Lan turned to Tan Mo and asked her if she was unwell.

The second game started with three minutes to go and Qiao Lan lost again.

Qiao Lan received another gentle slap to the face amidst the uproar, and when the third game began, a pale hand suddenly took Qiao Lan's cards. "

The crowd was instantly silent again, and someone muttered in a whisper, " Tan Mo lost who dares to beat him, and is not afraid of beating him up"

"It's on me if he loses," Qiao Lan said with a sour look on his face, "All right."

The man who spoke looked at Qiao Lan, then at Tan Mo and finally at Hao Ying, frowned and stopped talking.

Hao Ying shuffled his cards expertly and frowned, but didn't say anything after all.

Qiao Lan stared at Tan Mo's fingers, which were even more beautiful than the girls in the room, and when she got tired of sitting there, she just put her arm on Tan Mo's wheelchair and watched Tan Mo play cards.

"The cards suck," Qiao Lan whispers to Tan Mo.

"It's okay," Tan Mo said.

Qiao Lan laughed, "Of course it's okay with you, I'm the one getting beaten up, play nice."

Tan Mo gave her a look and whispered, "No."

Qiao Lan looked at Tan Mo's bad hand and thought it was going to be over.

The result was Tan Mo's first hand, giving the landlord a block to send a tile to another farmer, who ended up winning.

Later, Qiao Lan understood what Tan Mo meant by "no".

In the second hand Tan Mo got the landlord and with a very good hand held the other man to two cards.

On the third hand Tan Mo deliberately didn't want it, fooling another player into taking the landlord, and then Tan Mo took his chance and cleared in two hands.

Qiao Lan is dumbfounded.

At first, everyone thought Tan Mo had a good hand, but after Tan Mo broke Hao Ying's winning streak and monopolized the game, Hao Bai Yu finally put down his cards and rubbed his red wrists, exclaiming, "I'll jump off a building if I play poker with the god of learning again."

Hao Ying The buddy next to me was impressed, he said he didn't know how to play, but he didn't know how to finish like this

Qiao Lan asked Tan Mo in a whisper for a long time, "Don't you know how to play?

"Indeed it won't," Tan Mo said, "it can count cards."

Qiao Lan

After a few more games, Bai Yu looked at the time and turned to Qiao Lan and said, "LanLan, it's almost 10:30, do you have to go check the records?"

"It's time to go then", Qiao Lan stood up, "you guys keep playing, I'll go check the records."

Hao Ying dropped the cards in his hand and also stood up, "I've had enough of playing for so long, I'm going to the supermarket to buy some things and go over to watch the game, are you still playing?"

"No more games", Bai Yu and the girls naturally went to watch Qiao Lan play and Hao Ying and the boys went in the direction of the supermarket.

Qiao Lan looked down with Tan Mo and said, " Tan Mo , let me send you to Uncle Chan first."

She has to go to a match later and she can't manage Tan Mo.

Tan Mo gave a "hmm", took out his mobile phone and dialed Uncle Chan's number, and soon Uncle Chan rushed over.

Qiao Lan had just entered the playground when she bumped into Qiao Yuan head-on.

Qiao Yuan, who had not seen her for half a year, had grown fatter, and rushed over, grabbing Qiao Lan's arm under the astonished gaze of the crowd, "Come with me.

Bai Yu frowned and thought nothing of pushing the little fat man away, "Who's that? You're sick, right?"

"I'm her brother," Qiao Yuan returned impatiently, having just been playing around with his classmates when a few boys encouraged him to bring Qiao Lan over.

Qiao Yuan didn't want to waste time with Qiao Lan, "Let's go, let's go, let's go and meet my classmate."

Qiao Lan's face did not hide his disgust as he jerked his arm out and turned to go, "No."

"I've promised my friends that I'll take you there, and I'll have to buy them dinner if you don't go"

Qiao Lan stopped and suddenly turned around with a laugh, "Then invite them, you have stolen money to invite them to dinner not once or twice before", Qiao Lan was in a good mood, once she saw Qiao Yuan she suddenly became bad again, she did not want to waste time with Qiao Yuan. "If you dare to let me go over there, I dare to tell your friends where you got the money."

He said he would not talk to Qiao Yuan, who was so scared and blue, and walked with Bai Yu to the playground.

Tan Mo on the other side watched Qiao Lan's back from afar as he finally walked away, never saying a word. Half a day later Uncle Chan asked him tentatively, "Why don't we also go and see how LanLan is running? I'll see if I can go up on the other side of the stage, there are less people there."

Tan Mo looked up and over at the stands and nodded.

Uncle Chan pushed Tan Mo to the grandstand area, where Tan Mo sat on the high side and finally saw the checkers standing on the starting line.

She's not wearing her school jacket, but a loose white short-sleeved top, standing on track one at the far end, talking to Bai Yu, who is even more nervous than Qiao Lan next to her.

Tan Mo recognises many of her classmates from Class 18, as well as a number of unknown boys, the most prominent of whom is Hao Ying, who has just left but has returned.

A few boys were sitting behind Tan Mo playing a game when they looked up and suddenly said, "How come this place is so busy all of a sudden, so many people.

"Running my ass, can't you see it's a women's race"

"So what's Hao Ying doing here?"

"It probably depends on who's competing."

See who

"Qiao Lan Ah", gossip can never be hidden, especially from the supposedly popular people in school, and the boys sitting behind Tan Mo, coincidentally, were students in the class next to theirs.

"Hao Ying has been chasing Qiao Lan lately, I fucking knew it, didn't you?"

Tan Mo's body stiffened abruptly.

In the distance, shots rang out.

The course was even more lively than before, with students lining both sides of the track, Bai Yu running behind Qiao Lan and shouting cheers, while a figure quickly passed by.

The boy was tall and handsome, wearing a black t-shirt, simple in style but extraordinarily stylish, his two long legs striding out to quickly overtake Bai Yu, causing the girls next to him to turn around frequently.

Hao Ying is running with.

Hao Ying, who has only ever been chased, volunteered to run with a girl.

No matter how many girls are envious and jealous, Tan Mo's cluttered and coiled mind is left with one sentence.

Hao Ying is chasing Qiao Lan, don't you know.

He doesn't know.

It was only at this moment that Tan Mo suddenly realised the source of her inexplicable and intense animosity towards Hao Ying.

But the next moment, Tan Mo had only one thought.

Tan Mo stiffened and clenched his hands together, unable to stop the tingling between them from squeezing so tightly.

Qiao Lan was fast and she held on to first place and was the first to finish. Tan Mo watched as the boys who followed quickly followed, unscrewed the cap and handed her the water.

He couldn't run with her, he couldn't even stand up, and he couldn't go up and hand her a bottle of water because there were so many people around her that he couldn't even get close.

They were talking and laughing, so close together, only he was sitting here, far apart.

The few boys behind them had stopped even playing the game and were talking about gossip.

"I didn't expect Hao Ying to take the initiative to chase someone, as many girls had never said yes to him before."

"Hao Ying really likes Qiao Lan, so the girls who used to chase him are going to be devastated."

"Qiao Lan is so good with girls, she's a good student and pretty, it's normal to like her to be honest."

"If Hao Ying is so obvious, what does Qiao Lan mean?"

"I don't know, I think I like them too, I heard they are quite close, after all, Hao Ying is so handsome, right?"

It was still the athletes' march in my ears, so loud and so noisy, but for a moment, Tan Mo couldn't hear anything in her ears.

After an unknown amount of time, maybe five, maybe ten seconds, hearing came back with a bang.

It was like something in my head, a blast.

Hao Ying is chasing Qiao Lan and Hao Ying likes Qiao Lan.

His inexplicable hostility was not at all motivated by possession of his friend.

Possession, possession, this does not describe friendship at all.

Friendship is like what everyone once wrote in their essays, they all said that friendship is selfless friendship sharing.

To own, to possess, to have no room for a third person, is never friendship, it is a word that Tan Mo does not dare to think or say when she suddenly understands it.

That's love.