The distance is too close so after several turns, in seven to eight minutes the taxi arrives at the front of He Li Zhen’s apartment. She pays for the taxi fee and pulls Wan Kun out of the car.
“Get off….” He Li Zhen has a small body and Wan Kun is too drunk. It’s too hard for her to pull him. “Wan Kun, don’t sleep anymore!” He Li Zhen keeps on talking about it.
Wan Kun is so drunk, he is unsteady. He Li Zhen feels that she is dragging a big panda. It’s too difficult for her.
This panda is too very irritating because he is too heavy. Because he is too heavy, He Li Zhen starts to be unable to hold him steadily. He keeps on swaying, he holds He Li Zhen’s shoulders. Wan Kun’s hands are so big. He speaks up and says irritatingly: “Walk steadily!”
He Li Zhen is shouted by him, she could feel his breath on her. She is criticizing him for a while, then she feels that it’s too bad to fight with a drunkard. She frowns and drags him to her apartment.
Zhang Shen (Auntie Zhang) is washing her veggies in front of her apartment ‘s door. She notices that He Li Zhen is dragging a man. She says nothing, but she examines them for a while. He Li Zhen notices it and explains: “This is my student. He is drunk, I couldn’t contact his parents. I’m afraid that something bad will happen to him so I bring him home.”
Auntie Zhang smiles and says: “Oh, okay.”
He Li Zhen suddenly feels a bit regretful, she looks at Auntie Zhang’s expression and just realizes it’s better to not explain it.
She drags Wan Kun inside the apartment quickly and closes the door. He Li Zhen lets him sit down on the sofa. Then she goes to the fridge to take a bottle of yoghurt.
“Wan Kun, Wan Kun?” He Li Zhen sticks in the straw and passes it to Wan Kun. “Drink this and be sober. Hey!” Wan Kun stays on the sofa and doesn’t respond to He Li Zhen’s words.
“Wake up. Don’t sleep anymore.” He Li Zhen pushes his body, Wan Kun frowns impatiently. He moves his hand. He Li Zhen avoids his hand hurriedly.
He turns his body and lays down on his side.
“You——“
He Li Zhen has no way, she just puts the yoghurt on the table. She hasn’t had her dinner. Now her tummy is making sound.
He Li Zhen goes toward the kitchen and cooks a bowl of noodle.
Because the apartment is small, the living room and the kitchen are connected. The sofa is placed beside the kitchen. He LI Zhen is looking at the boiling pot for a while. She is daydreaming. The time she regains herself, she looks around and notices Wan Kun is awake.
He sits up and drinks up the yoghurt.
He Li Zhen looks at him. “You are awake?”
Wan Kun doesn’t answer her, He Li Zhen says again: “Are you done with it?”
Wan Kun lifts up his head, he is holding the yoghurt bottle and plays with it.
He Li Zhen couldn’t help but to ask. “It’s late why did you go outside and drink? What about your parents?”
Wan Kun says nothing and just puts down the bottle of yoghurt. He just sits down there silently.
He Li Zhen turns her body and takes her backpack. “Let me call Hu Lao Shi (Teacher Hu).”
She goes to her table and looks at her phone to find the contact information. Suddenly her wrist is clutched.
Wan Kun is tall, in this small apartment, with only of them inside, He Li Zhen looks so petite.
“Don’t find him….”
Finally Wan Kun speaks up, his voice is deep and low. She could feel something hot and the alcohol scent from him. She has a goosebump.
“Let me go.” He Li Zhen says.
Wan Kun doesn’t let her go, instead he turns He LI Zhen’s body so they stand face to face.
He Li Zhen is a bit angry.
“I ask you to let me go!”
Wan Kun suddenly laughs. He Li Zhen feels her wrist to be in pain.
Wan Kun pushes her body toward the kitchen vanity and kisses her.
Finally He Li Zhen knows what he wants to do. In an instant, without her knowing, she pushes him. Wan Kun isn’t aware of it and he is pushed away. Then He LI Zhen just lifts up the boiler and throws it to Wan Kun’s direction.
Wan Kun dodges but he couldn’t avoid it. The boiling water sprays to his back.
“Go away.”
He Li Zhen says: “Go away.”
Wan Kun stands there silently and looks at He Li Zhen.
He lowers his head down, his hair falls down and blocks his face.
He Li Zhen notices that he is sober right now.
“Hu Lao Shi (Teacher Hu) is right.” He Li Zhen says: “You are really a brute.”
Wan Kun hears this and doesn’t answer. He just stands there and laughs. At first he laughs lightly but then he laughs loudly.
He Li Zhen looks at him alertly.
When he is done, he pants and lifts up his hair. He looks at her on the eyes.
It’s the first time for He Li Zen to look at his face.
Because he is drunk or because of the hot water, his eyes are a bit red, his gaze is dangerous. But his lips are crooked up.
He looks indifferent.
Wan Kun looks at He Li Zhen and smiles: “…. Really?” He is calm. She doesn’t know whether he admits what Hu Fei said or not.
He Li Zhen’s heart is beating so fast.
It’s clear that she is furious because Wan Kun makes mistake. But now, she feels that she is in weaker side. Wan Kun stands in front of her and examines her.
The wind outside is blowing hard. There’s someone yells: “It’s raining!” And it’s right the rain starts pouring.
“Lao Shi (Teacher)….” Wan Kun suddenly says.
There’s water remaining inside the pot. He Li Zhen calms down: “You still know that I am your Lao Shi.”
Wan Kun lowers his head and suddenly lifts it up again, he laughs and says: “Thank you for your yoghurt.”
He Li Zhen narrows her eyes.
“I’ll leave first.”
He Li Zhen is startled, Wan Kun has turned his body. He Li Zhen notices that his back is wet and there’re several noodles sticked on his back. She also notices that his neck is red.
Wan Kun opens his door. Wan Kun narrows his eyes and leaves.
“Wait!” He Li Zhen stops him.
Wan Kun stops in front of the door and looks at her. He Li Zhen takes an umbrella and passes it to Wan Kun. Wan Kun takes it, it’s a pink folding umbrella.
Wan Kun looks at the umbrella and turns his head to look at He Li Zhen. He says lazily: “Goodbye, Lao Shi.”
He opens up the umbrella and walks away. He Li Zhen closes the door and watches him from the window. It’s raining quite heavily.
After he is gone, He Li Zhen just turns her body away and cleans up the noodle on the floor. She wipes it clean. The time she is cleaning up, from time to time, she stops and looking at her goldfish.
Wan Kun doesn’t leave too late but because of the rain and the weather is dark, Wan Kun is wet because of rain. He waits on the road side for a while to get a taxi.
His places is twenty minutes away from the school. After he gets on the car, the driver orders him to not lean back on the chair. Wan Kun ignores him and just leans back. The driver doesn’t say anything.
Wan Kun feels that his back is hurt, but he doesn’t care. He just watches the scenery outside.
He lives at the small apartment that has several other people too. The time Wan Kun is back, Wu Yue Ming just finishes his shower.
“Wan——“ Wu Yue Ming calls after him, but he says nothing.
Wu Yue Ming and Wan Kun have known each other for a long time, both of them have mutual understanding about each other. Wu Yue Ming knows that he is in the bad mood. Wan Kun just goes to the restroom.
Wu Yue Ming pouts and returns to his bedroom.
Wan Kun stands up in front of the washing stand, he lifts his eyes and looks at the mirror. He is wet, his clothes are sticky.
He takes off his clothes. He looks at the washing machine and just opens the lid and throws it inside. Then he leaves.
During the working time, the people in the office are in heated discussion. She comes over and Peng Qian greets her: “Come, come, come, He Lao Shi (teacher He), there’s new document here.”
“What kind of document is it?”
“It’s the audition of teaching and research.” Peng Qian says: “Next weekend, let me see the group for literature and language is —-“ Peng Qian flips open several pages: “Here, ah, we will be at the same school.”
He Li Zhen puts down her bag and comes over.
“Which school?”
“Yu Ying.”
“Yu Ying Zhong Xue (The middle school of Yu Ying).” He Li Zhen says. “Isn’t it close by?”
“When would it be?”
“Wednesday to Thrusday.”
He Li Zhen nods and says: “It’s great we could listen to other people’s teaching.”
Peng Qian laughs and says: “It’s useless.”
He Li Zhen hesitates: “Actually ——“ He Li Zhen wants to speak up, Liu Ying wants to get into the room.
“He Lao Shi (Teacher He), have you seen the news?”
“Ah, I’ve seen it. From Wednesday to Friday go to Yu Ying.”
“Em.”
Peng Qian doesn’t ask anything, He Li Zhen also stops discussing about that matter.
Before the class starts, He Li Zhen stops in front of the classroom. She forces herself to forget about what happened that night.
Wan Kun and Wu Yue Ming come to the school today, it’s just Wan Kun just lays on her table since the time He Li Zhen got into the classroom. He Li Zhen glances at him, she starts to flip open her attendance list. She starts to call the students one by one.
The time it’s Wan Kun’s name to be called, Wan Kun says nothing.
He Li Zhen lifts up her head and reads his name once again.
Wan Kun doesn’t answer. Wu Yue Ming raises up his hand and says to He Li Zhen: “Lao Shi, he is sick.”
88tangeatdrinkread 