Chapter 10 One day, everyone will recognize him by her palm lines...

Xu Shen looked at Li Su in surprise, his dark eyes like cotton wool falling on the tip of a person's nose.

"You have to hand in your weapon." Li Su emphasized in a serious tone, with a soft breath and a calm and persistent look.

"What?" Xu Shen frowned.

Li Su was still pulling his sleeves, holding them tightly, which made him feel like a kite tangled in a string.

He struggled almost clumsily, but his strength was so weak that he seemed to be afraid that the other party would be angry, as if he was confirming her direction.

"Compass!" Li Su seemed to be coquettish and angry, and her tone was firm. She stretched out her hand to him, and on her delicate palm, three palm lines were unusually clear.

Ah? !

Xu Shen's mind was blank for a moment, followed by nervousness, helplessness, and attempts to cover up. He felt as if he was really tied up by someone, and his whole body was full of shackles that could not be escaped.

"Don't I know you?" Li Su was still in that persuasive manner. She looked at him and gently and playfully bumped his arm.

Her tone was joking, as if she was a gangster blocking the road. She laughed like a villain and said, "Little brother, hehe, if you don't give it to me, I'll snatch it away."

It was like a normal fight between friends. She was clinging like a rogue. But not annoying.

Xu Shen tried to adjust his breathing. He took a deep breath and was caught off guard by the smell of Li Su.

It diffused at the tip of his nose, like a slowly peeled sour orange placed at the bottom of the nose of a person suffering from motion sickness. Slowly, it became less uncomfortable and even produced saliva in the mouth.

The fresh and refreshing smell was surprisingly familiar. Like the extra bottle of orange juice in his bag.

"Xu Shen?" Li Su tried to touch Xu Shen's pocket.

With almost no other choice, Xu Shen pursed his lips, and finally reached into his pocket and took it out at will.

He spread the compass on the palm of his hand and handed it to her.

"Really?" Li Su's eyes widened in surprise, as if he had accidentally cheated and it turned out to be successful.

"..."

For a moment, Xu Shen didn't know what expression to make.

The first feeling was a bit speechless, and the next moment, he felt that this scene of each other trying to control each other was really funny.

Thinking of this, he imitated Li Su and knocked back lightly with his elbow.

"Ah hey——" Unexpectedly, Li Su deliberately pretended to be knocked back, stepped on his right foot with his left foot, and took two steps with his head sideways, with a funny look and amusement.

"Great!" Li Su looked at Xu Shen, clasped his fists and waved at him, and praised him without guilt: "It was really a hearty duel between masters!"

"Fart!" Xu Shen commented concisely. The bottom of his heart was secretly itchy under the sunlight.

"You put it? I don't mind the stink." Li Su walked back to him happily.

She smiled at him, bright and pure, very cute.

"Ahem." Li Su cleared her throat and suddenly started to sing: "I want to see the farthest place, dance with you and talk about dreams, as if I have never been disappointed or hurt..."

The girl's singing was a little off-tune, but it was very clean and ethereal, like the clear water flowing in the valley, pouring on the stones heated by the sun, and the listeners felt cool and comfortable.

"Why are you singing suddenly?" Xu Shen wanted to understand her.

"I want to be creative. I'm a young person, and I don't know why, I feel that adding some BGM to myself now will be very interesting when I recall it later." Li Su explained and made a face at Xu Shen.

At the same time, she took something out of her pocket and gently placed it in Xu Shen's palm, replacing the compass.

Li Su turned around and stood next to Xu Shen, smiling at him gently and softly, "Good classmate, lend me your compass. I'll return it to you in the afternoon when I go to school."

Singing, making trouble, and all the nonsensical behaviors were instantly explained: Li Su was very much like the kind doctor who tried his best to divert your attention by playing tricks when you were giving injections when you were young.

Xu Shen looked at his palm, and the compass was replaced by an orange-flavored lollipop.

"Okay." Xu Shen agreed meekly.

He looked at Li Su's clean eyes and innocent expression, and what he really thought was: he would not be deceived by her innocent appearance again.

Li Su took the lead and walked forward a few steps. They walked side by side in the best sunshine.

It was just the right warmth, not too cool, nor too bright and burning. It shone on them, and the road under their feet was golden.

Autumn is actually a very good season, with abundant fruits and harvests. Everything is the result of cause.

Xu Shen's legs are long, and one step out is equivalent to two steps of Li Su.

Li Su glanced at Xu Shen's steps calmly, and occasionally jumped a few steps. With a lighter and more frequent step, to fill the gap. No one deliberately accommodated the other.

Li Su put on her glasses again, she stepped on Xu Shen's shadow twice, glanced at him again and again, and finally couldn't help asking: "Does your shoulder hurt?"

She was asking about the punch that Xu Qie knocked him down, and about the injuries on his body.

"Bang——" Xu Shen slapped the lollipop, and after the explosion, the packaging bag collapsed completely. He took out the lollipop and put it in his mouth.

The sweet taste filled his mouth, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

Xu Shen also looked at Li Su, and then looked at him again. He raised his hand and hit the branch above his head.

"What about you? Why... help me?" Xu Shen looked at Li Su without blinking, and saw her watery eyes through her thick and rigid gray-framed glasses.

"..." Li Su looked at Xu Shen, the boy in front of him, like a handful of water under the moon, a crescent moon in his palm.

Such Xu Shen made Li Su soft-hearted and ashamed.

She first met Xu Shen when she was 15 years old and went to the Academy of Arts for further studies.

She witnessed with her own eyes that the young masters headed by Xu Qie used extremely vicious words to attack the origin of a teenager.

Li Su almost dared not recall the one-hour humiliation, but there was one thing that left a particularly deep impression on her.

The man named Xu Qie repeatedly emphasized "Why are you still alive?", "Why don't you die?"... Every word was almost sincere, which was the unbelievable evil of human nature.

Li Su will never forget that the bullied teenager was surrounded in the middle, lowering his eyes, handsome and silent.

She was one of the onlookers, and one of the people who did not stand up...

Li Su went to find a teacher, but the teacher told her: Li Su, this is someone else's family affair, don't bother. Not only you, but even I can't control it. This is a lifelong matter. ——Xu Shen has been suffering such punishment since he was a child. It will be the same in the future, forever and ever.

The teacher told her: Don't think you are the savior, Li Su. An ordinary girl like you, a girl who walks into the crowd and merges into the sea like a drop of water, so that no one can find her, is not worthy of being involved in the love and hatred of the powerful and noble families. You are not even qualified to be a cannon fodder.

The teacher's avoidance and reality completely burned Li Su. She didn't dare to come out, and could only shrink in her shell, listening to the secrets of the world in the crowd. And listening to the hurt.

Countless times, words came to her throat, but she couldn't step out, couldn't open her mouth, and she did nothing. She even trembled.

Until the end of the training, until she left.

Li Su tried to forget, forget the cowardly self, forget the lonely figure standing on the cusp of the storm, but she always regretted countless times when she woke up in the middle of the night, revised the dialogue for counterattack countless times, and stood up countless times.

It ended in failure. Li Su thought everything was over.

Until the first semester of the second year of high school, when she saw Xu Shen transferred to her high school, saw Xu Shen got the first place in the monthly exam after admission, and saw Xu Shen was invited by the teacher to speak on behalf of the students at the flag-raising ceremony next week.

There are no rumors, no one knows where he came from, he can get glory and praise with his own strength.

Just thinking about it, Li Su is happy for him.

Xu Shen ushered in the hopeful age of 17. This is great, isn't it?

So, when the basketball hit her, when she saw Xu Shen's upright back gradually collapse, when she saw the faint tears in Xu Shen's eyes...

she finally stood up.

Even if she would be beaten, even if she would get into trouble, she still insisted, saying what she wanted to say as if she had rehearsed countless times in her dreams.

She thought that this matter could finally end here, but...

now, she stood in front of Xu Shen, she thought she could finally straighten her spine and face it calmly, but for some reason, she felt as if she was bent even more.

"I... I..." Li Su was hesitant to speak, she puffed up her cheeks, and pushed the lollipop in her mouth from the left to the right, and from the right to the left, and so on.

The unspeakable look made Xu Shen's heart feel like being stabbed by thousands of needles. His lips were wetted by him, and his toes were quietly turned outward, as if he was surrounded before hunting.

"Oops!" Li Su bit the lollipop into pieces, and the creaking sound was her upset, "Xu Shen, I'm sorry."

"Why apologize?"

"I..." Li Su's eyes hesitated, she lowered her eyes without a beginning or an end, and her attitude was full of apology, and she stammered: "I'm sorry, I... I didn't stand up at the first time... I'm too ordinary, not brave enough..."

"Are you ordinary?" It took Xu Shen a long time to react. He couldn't help but look at Li Su again. Really face her and look at her directly.

It seems that in the values ​​of the general public, Li Su is just a very ordinary girl. So ordinary that almost no one can feel her existence.

It's ordinary grades, ordinary talent, optimistic attitude, and mellow personality. She is not outstanding in everything, which also means that she can't be favored.

It is actually very difficult for such a person, such an ordinary, dusty person, to stand up when seeing injustice.

Because no one will defend her courage, and no one has the patience to understand her justice.

Therefore, knowing that she might be hurt and wronged, Li Su still...

There is no doubt that Li Su's courage is commendable.

Xu Shen said firmly: "I only know that you are the only one who stood up. You are unique and unparalleled in the world." "

Besides, in an infinite wait, there is no lateness, only broken appointments. As long as someone comes - thank you for choosing to stand on my side."

"Ah?" Li Su paused for a long time, and his eyes flashed with grief, pity and relief. Countless emotions mixed together to form a smile of sudden enlightenment.

She turned to him and became lively again. She clenched her fists and beat his arms, like beating drums, which was exciting and powerful. She said, "Thank you, thank you, thank you for your understanding!"

"Talking about this..." Xu Shen stared at her strangely with his eyes slanted. He pulled the corners of his mouth lightly, like a newly opened lotus bud in March, refreshing on the face, noble and reserved, "It's boring..."

"Then I'll say something interesting!" Li Su pushed her feet hard on the ground, stood upright, and put her hands on the seams of her pants. Her smile was so light that it had a serious meaning. She looked at him very seriously.

Li Su said, "Xu Shen, one day, everyone will be proud to know you."

The sun shone in completely. It shone into every dark corner, no longer cold.

Li Su stretched out her hand to Xu Shen, smiling as elegant as spring, pure and beautiful.

"Let's get to know each other. - I know you, but you probably don't know me. My name is Li Su, Muzi Li, Su who is at ease. Hello, Xu Shen, hello!"

Xu Shen looked at the pair of white and delicate hands. He remembered her palm lines and her salvation. He stretched out his hand and shook hands tightly.

From then on, he was pulled out of the abyss.

- Hello, Li Su.

"Bang--" A shot from outside the line hit the basketball backboard from a distance and tumbled into the basketball hoop. It was a three-pointer, the highest score in one shot.