Chapter 83: Little Mute

When Yao Yi went up with hot water, Fu Chuan leaned against the head of the bed with his eyes half closed. Pale and haggard looking.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, Fu Chuan turned his head and looked out the door, his voice was joyful but powerless: “Yao Yao, you are here.”

Yao Yi felt uncomfortable seeing him like this, so she just walked in without answering.

“Yao Yao, didn’t you have class today?” Fu Chuan asked, taking the cup and medicine from Yao Yi’s hand.

Seeing that Fu Chuan didn’t cover his quilt properly, Yao Yi clumsily reached out to adjust the quilt. Usually she couldn’t even take care of herself properly, so now she was naturally clumsy when taking care of others.

Fu Chuan originally wanted to take advantage of his illness to make Yao Yi feel sorry for him, but Yao Yi’s distraught appearance actually made him feel sorry for her.

After taking a few sips of the medicine, Fu Chuan placed the cup on the bedside table and took Yao Yi’s hand: “Yao Yao, why are you unhappy?”

Probably because of the high fever, Fu Chuan’s voice was still a little hoarse, and she could tell that he was not feeling well.

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“R esd’v jdso.” Zys Zk rswvle, “Ebs vsze usw vs cl pknj.”

“So…” Fu Chuan’s voice was warm, “In Yao Yao’s heart, am I more important than studying?”

Yao Yi looked at Fu Chuan, whose face was pale before but now had a trace of vitality, and snorted inexplicably.

Forget it, he is the person I like, it doesn’t matter if you let him act like a baby, sometimes it is necessary to coax your lover, not to mention that he is still sick now.

Thinking of this, Yao Yi replied directly: “You are more important.”

Sure enough, Fu Chuan smiled even more happily. Yao Yi nodded inwardly, she was right.

All of a sudden, Yao Yi didn’t have any desire for the first place ranking in the grade, as long as Fu Chuan didn’t get sick.

A big stone in her heart fell to the ground, and Yao Yi also breathed a sigh of relief. Only then did she have time to look at Fu Chuan’s room.

At a glance, she saw three ugly ceramic dolls on another bedside table. Very familiar, at least two of them were very familiar.

Yao Yi recalled in her mind, remembering that she gave Fu Chuan two ceramic dolls.

On the far right was the oldest and ugliest ceramic doll. Yao Yi couldn’t remember when she gave it to Fu Chuan.

Fu Chuan followed Yao Yi’s gaze, his heart skipped a beat but he didn’t speak.

Yao Yi couldn’t help standing up, and went to pick up the doll on the far right: “This one looks like something I made before.”

She examined it, but suddenly found her name on the bottom of the doll.

Yao Yi was taken aback, it was her own handwriting. Although the handwriting on it was immature, it could be seen that it was her ugly handwriting which had been swaying for ten years.

Yao Yi subconsciously looked at Fu Chuan, but Fu Chuan was still silent, looking at her quietly.

In an instant, the door of memory that had been dusty for a long time opened up suddenly. Yao Yi held the ceramic doll tightly, and murmured blankly: “Little mute?”

Sometimes there would be no stimulation point, and the memory would only ever be hidden in the depths of the mind and would never appear. But once it was triggered, all the memories would rush to your face.

Yao Yi looked at the ceramic doll in her hand, then looked at Fu Chuan who was silent on the bed, and said firmly, “You are little mute.”

Fu Chuan, who was originally silent, suddenly had a smile on his handsome and clear face: “I’m not mute.”

Yao Yi frowned: “If you weren’t, why did you have this doll? I only gave this to the little mute.”

Fu Chuan stretched out his hand towards Yao Yi: “The little mute is not mute.”

Yao Yi stared at Fu Chuan in a daze, finally understood what he meant, and slowly held Fu Chuan’s hand.

Fu Chuan pulled Yao Yi towards him forcefully, causing her to fall to the side of the bed.

“Yao Yao, you finally remembered.” Fu Chuan originally thought that Yao Yi had completely forgotten about himself. Otherwise, how could they have gone to the tree on Lugu Mountain but receive no response at all.

Yao Yi opened her mouth a few times and finally didn’t know what to say. She could only look down at the ugly doll.

“Did you take me there on purpose during the Lantern Festival last time?” Only then did Yao Yi think of the ginkgo tree, where they met for the first time.

“It’s a pity that Yao Yao didn’t remember it at that time.” Fu Chuan smiled lightly, leaning his head on Yao Yi’s shoulder.

Originally, Yao Yi had felt guilty for wanting to plot against Fu Chuan to bring him down from the first place in the grade. Now that he made such a move again, she was almost overwhelmed by guilt.

“I’m sorry.” Yao Yi said mournfully with her head bowed.

Fu Chuan picked her up and said softly, “Yao Yao, you didn’t do anything wrong to anyone.”

The tender moment between the two was quickly interrupted. Uncle Li ran upstairs quickly after receiving a call: “Master, the parents of the little classmate called.”

Yao Yi was a good student, she never missed class, arrived late or left early. As a result, today when the physical education teachers gathered for a roll call, they finally found that Yao Yi was missing.

Yao Yi’s name was known to everyone in No. 1 High School, and the physical education teacher attached great importance to this matter. He immediately found Lao Han. Lao Han was also taken aback, completely unaware of what happened. A group of teachers vigorously searched around the school, but still did not find Yao Yi.

Lao Han hurriedly called Father Yao to ask, but they also didn’t know, so them both of them panicked.

Finally, the chemistry teacher stood up: “Is Fu Chuan here?”

“No, he’s sick.” Lao Han knew about this. He saw someone from the Fu family pick up Fu Chuan during the exam that day.

“Then why don’t you call Fu Chuan and ask?” the chemistry teacher suggested confidently.

Everyone looked at the chemistry teacher suspiciously. However, because they couldn’t think of any other way, they had to try.

Uncle Li answered the call, and Lao Han asked directly, “Is Yao Yi there?”

Uncle Li didn’t react for a second: “Yao Yi? You mean little classmate. Wait a minute, I’ll let her answer the phone.”

Going upstairs quickly, Uncle Li handed the phone to Yao Yi, and murmured in a low voice, “Little classmate, your teacher is calling.” Then he exited the room and closed the door.

Yao Yi was caught skipping class the first time, panicked, and looked at Fu Chuan involuntarily.

Fu Chuan took the initiative to take the phone over, and dealt with Lao Han on the other end of the phone: “Yao Yi came to visit me, mhm, I’m fine.”

…

A group of teachers in the office looked at Lao Han.

“How is it? Is she there?” the language arts teacher asked with a frown.

Lao Han nodded: “Yes, she went to visit the sick Fu Chuan.”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and when they came to their senses, they couldn’t help but look at the chemistry teacher standing beside him, drinking tea calmly.

“How do you know that Yao Yi went to Fu Chuan’s house?” Lao Han asked.

The chemistry teacher leisurely dusted off the tea leaves floating on the cup lid: “Young people, I understand.” After speaking, he turned his head and left the office, leaving behind an unfathomable figure.

Upon knowing where Yao Yi was, Lao Han immediately notified Father Yao.

“She skipped class to see Fu Chuan?” Father Yao was a little outraged. She had always been a diligent, studious and positive daughter, but now she actually skipped class because of love.

Mother Yao, who was next to him was not angry, but smiled instead: “Young children, they have a good relationship.”

“This is puppy love! Puppy love!” Father Yao retorted angrily.

Lin Xiuyu gave Father Yao a blank look: “I don’t know who it was back then, who said that if only we knew each other in high school, then we could start dating from high school.”

“I…” Father Yao suddenly felt that he couldn’t reply.

Yao Yi only skipped class once, and because of this, all the teachers in the school knew about it. The next day, Fu Chuan and Yao Yi went to class together, and the teachers of almost every subject had to glance at them before class, feeling complicated.

This… the internal digestion was also very good.

It was originally just a rumor, but Yao Yi skipping class completely confirmed it.

The class president came in after fetching water, just in time to see Fu Chuan and Yao Yi talking together. He sat on the seat sadly: “It’s a lie that puppy love affects study. I, a good student who doesn’t date, don’t have better grades than those that are dating!”

The deskmate glanced at him: “Come on, you don’t care who has a puppy love relationship with whom. If you go into a puppy love relationship, you will fall out of Class Zero in minutes.”

Who knew if it was because Yao Yi figured it out, or because of the addition of the little mute memory, Yao Yi had been paying special attention to Fu Chuan recently.

Whenever she was free, she would hold Fu Chuan’s hand, as if she was afraid that her little mute would leave.

Although the two of them didn’t do anything, the atmosphere could be seen to be so sticky and greasy that others couldn’t get in. Han Jiaojiao looked at them strangely.  Fu Chuan had already fallen from the first place ranking in the grade, how could Yao Yi still be so close to him?

Finally, Han Jiaojiao found an opportunity, pulled Yao Yi to the side and asked, “Have you guys not broken up yet? Fu Chuan is no longer first place in the grade.”

Before Yao Yi could speak, Han Jiaojiao suddenly realized: “Ah, yes, this is just one exam, and there are many exams to come. Do you want to keep dating Fu Chuan until the end of the college entrance examination?”

“No.” Yao Yi interrupted her, “I like him.”

“???” Han Jiaojiao was stunned, speechless for a long time.

It took her a long time before she could ask again, “Who do you like?”

“Fu Chuan, I like him.” Yao Yi said seriously, “We won’t break up.”

“Yiyi, you must be entranced by him.” Han Jiaojiao frowned, “What if your grades drop, Fu Chuan would still take first place.”

“My grades won’t drop.” Yao Yi denied, “It doesn’t matter if Fu Chuan is still in first place or not.”

The person you like won the first place, you should be happy. This was Yao Yi’s thought process after she figured it out.

Han Jiaojiao looked at Yao Yi who had already gone away, feeling unhappy: Sure enough, Fu Chuan is very annoying. Return her cute and serious Yiyi!

In the next few months, Fu Chuan still dominated Yao Yiyi by virtue of his small advantage in essay composition, ranking first in the grade.

Yao Yi and Qin Li also started to prepare for the IMO. They still needed to go to the capital for training, and they also met the child from before.

The child lost some weight and grew taller. However, now, he didn’t have the arrogance he had before, and his eyes were full of sadness.

Yao Yi saw him, stepped forward to say hello, and took advantage of her height to pat the child’s head: “Come on.”

Liu Min touched his head with his hand, and finally followed.

The author has something to say: The story of their childhood will be told outside the story, and the main novel is really coming to an end. Also, we don’t drive in high school (TLN: ahem, it means like more in depth love if you know what I mean)~ Fanwai (TLN: extra chapters)… maybe? (? ???ω??? ?)?