Chapter 68: Prelude

The weather is getting cold, but even the cold doesn't seem to affect the boys' enthusiasm for basketball. Although the teachers keep warning us not to play basketball because the ground is harder than usual in winter and it's easy to get hurt, as long as it doesn't snow, there are always people on the basketball court.

Qiao Lan passes by the basketball court every day, but it's full of unrecognizable underclassmen, seniors in the same grade who don't have time to play basketball anymore.

Walking towards the classroom as usual, while talking to Bai Yu, I glanced over to the basketball court and saw the fat white guy in a group of tall and skinny boys.

Qiao Yuan.

It's been a long time since I've seen Qiao Yuan, and he's gotten a lot taller, but he seems to have lost some weight, and instead of being a short, round fat guy, he's become a tall, strong fat guy, and the figure of Qiao Yuan running on the court with a basketball in his arms looks particularly tiring.

Qiao Lan was a bit surprised, not really expecting Qiao Yuan to play basketball, but she thought about it for a moment, and then turned around and put it behind her.

It wasn't until almost ten more days had passed that the sound of an ambulance suddenly rang out in the school, causing many of the students to look out curiously.

The ambulance came and went quickly, the next class everyone was curious to ask what happened, and then in the afternoon, almost everyone in the class knew, it seems to be a freshman student, playing basketball when the fall, the fall is quite serious, the physical education teacher was scared directly dialed the 120.

All the teachers were dragged to an emergency meeting, and when class started, the homeroom teacher used the incident to strictly prohibit students from going to play basketball again, and a group of boys sighed and sighed, even if they wanted to play, they didn't have the time to play ah, the senior year of senior high school, even the physical education class is gone.

Senior year is so boring.

Physical education classes had all been taken over by other teachers, and all kinds of entertainment programs had been canceled, such as the New Year's Day party that other grades had prepared with great fervor, and the seniors had been successfully excluded, and even the three days of vacation were only one day left.

The whole class is practically wailing, and Qiao Lan glances over at Tan Mo, who has another thick book on his desk.

Tan Mo has been reading this book every day, Qiao Lan took a look at it and saw that it was a professional book on stock speculation, and it was not a beginner's book, but one that already had a lot of depth. Qiao Lan also flipped through a few pages, but even if she had studied finance, she still stumbled over it.

Bai Yu sighs that only Tan Mo can read other books and still maintain the top grade in his senior year of high school. After sighing, he asks Tan Mo why he suddenly started to study stocks, and Tan Mo speaks with a light expression, "It's fun."

Qiao Lan propped her chin on her hand and looked at the teenager's delicate side face, remembering not long ago when Tan Mo specifically asked her why she wanted to study finance.

She said because she was a bit interested in speculation.

Although it was only after studying finance that I realized that studying finance doesn't really help much in speculating on stocks, but when I used to apply for the exams, it was really for that reason, so Tan Mo asked her and that's what she answered.

If she remembers well, Tan Mo started reading books on the subject the very day after she said that.

Although Qiao Lan had warned herself more than once not to be so self-absorbed, she still couldn't help but wonder if Tan Mo had gone to school specifically because of her.

Qiao Lan rested her head on her arm and stared at Tan Mo, the homeroom teacher, who was anyway, at the moment, pulling the wool over the eyes of her grieving classmates.

Tan Mo was already sensitive to people's sight, not to mention Qiao Lan has been staring at him for a while, heart beating speed and indisputably faster for a moment, fell on the book fingertips unconsciously rubbed a bit, eyes slightly moved lips seemingly seem to contain a touch of laughter.

Lowering her head a little, she turns her head to meet Qiao Lan's gaze, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, it's okay," Qiao Lan busily averted her eyes and shook her head, pointing to the book in Tan Mo's hand, "Momo, remember to teach me when you learn it."

It was supposed to be learned just to teach you.

Tan Mo silently said in his heart, but nodded his head without showing any sign on his face.

Qiao Lan stared straight into Tan Mo's eyes, still not seeing a single abnormality in those beautiful eyes.

Tan Mo's face was rarely expressive, so Qiao Lan usually watched his eyes, but since when, Qiao Lan realized that it was hard for her to see anything in Tan Mo's eyes, which were always smiling when he was looking at her.

Qiao Lan shook her head, clearing it of the jumble of thoughts, lying, pretending these difficult behaviors, how could Tan Mo possibly be any of these.

On New Year's Day, there was only one day off, so Aunt Chen called Qiao Lan and asked her to come over for dinner.

On Saturday morning, after the tuition class, Qiao Lan and Tan Mo left the school gate together, and many people watched as Qiao Lan and Tan Mo got into a car and drove away, but now that their "relationship" is known to all, everyone has gradually become numb to their initial surprise.

Qiao Lan's visits to Tan Mo's house have been much less frequent since her senior year of high school. It's not easy for her to come once in a while, and Auntie Chen tries to find ways to give Qiao Lan a nutritional boost.

After dinner, Qiao Lan went to Auntie Chen's room to read a book. It was twelve o'clock when Qiao Lan packed up her things and went to bed, but not more than ten minutes after she had gone to sleep, she wanted to go out again to have a drink of water. Qiao Lan thought that everyone should be asleep, so he didn't turn on the lights to avoid disturbing Auntie Chen and the others. As a result, when he came out of the house, he bumped into Tan Mo, who had just come out of the room after taking a shower.

Qiao Lan slammed his head into Tan Mo's chest, who quickly grabbed Qiao Lan's arm with one hand and turned on the corridor light with the other.

The light orange lights come on and Qiao Lan looks down at the strong right hand and arm gripping her arm.

It was too hot at home, the underfloor heating was not much hotter than the heating at school, Qiao Lan wore short sleeves and a short skirt at home, the teenager who had just finished his shower was also dressed coolly, wearing a sleeveless t-shirt on top, his arms that were already covered in a layer of muscles were exposed brightly, with beautiful muscles and strong wrists.

Hair half wet half dry teenager careless with a towel rubbing hair, exquisite face is still hanging beads of water, with the volume of water vapor has not been dispersed, Qiao Lan suddenly looked up, the teenager seems to be taller than before, condescending to look down on her, ambiguous and indescribable strong breath steeply Qiao Lan wrapped up.

It was a blushing hormone that belonged to boys.

Qiao Lan was dumbfounded for a moment, then in a flash, sensed the warmth on her cheek.

Tan Mo grabbed Qiao Lan's wrist and didn't want to let go, so he pretended not to notice and asked her if she had bumped into it.

I don't know if it was Qiao Lan's illusion, she always felt that Tan Mo's voice was slightly lower than usual, and in such an atmosphere on such a night, it caused her ears to burn more and more, so she hurriedly shook her head and said that it was fine, and looked up to Tan Mo's room, and changed the topic with a sense of composure, "Why aren't you asleep yet? "

"Uh-huh," Tan Mo said as she gently rubbed her fingers over Qiao Lan's wrist before letting go, "Just about to go to sleep."

"Oh," Qiao Lan glanced down at her wrist and then at Tan Mo who was looking normal and didn't dare to look at Tan Mo's face again, "I'll go to the kitchen for a drink of water, Momo, you have an early night too."

After drinking a glass of water and hearing Tan Mo close the door on her way back to her room, Qiao Lan sat in her chair for a while before going back to sleep.

As a result, she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and when she closed her eyes it was the touch of Tan Mo's arm gripping hers versus her own bumping into Tan Mo's chest.

Tan Mo has really changed, grown taller, firmer, lost his former ignorance and childishness, from the boy he once was becoming more and more like a man, his body is full of hormones that she can't resist.

Qiao Lan buries her head into her pillow in annoyance.

Hold it, hold it, control it!

Study, study, study well!

But the more you try to forget something, the more you remember it, and Tan Mo, for some reason, is walking around the house wearing another black sleeveless t-shirt that shows off her well-shaped arms.

When Bai Yu returned to the dormitory, he saw Qiao Lan lying on the bed, and happily went over to her and asked her what was wrong. Qiao Lan was silent for a long time, and sincerely cried out.

"I'm so hard."

You're hard what ah, Bai Yu shocked.

Alas, it's nothing, Qiao Lan got up from the bed, "Let's go, go to the classroom, study hard and learn every day!"

Bai Yu: "......"

Waiting for New Year's Day to pass, turn is the winter vacation, but the senior winter vacation short shabby, the school regulations must make up classes until the twenty-eighth of Lunar New Year, such as the end of the rest of the grades after the end of the year to go home happily, seniors lying on the window sill to look at the faraway younger siblings speechless and choked.

The only thing that makes people feel comforted is that there is no need to run morning exercises, so every day to school a little later, we can sleep a little more, and in addition to this, the recent school control will not be too strict, there are students to order takeout, the gatekeeper's grandfather also turned a blind eye not too much control.

Tan Mo has behaved himself and come to class, although he is still not listening to the class and is still working on his stocks.

Qiao Lan curiously asks if he's tried it.

"Yes," Tan Mo said, adding, "with money from your card."

My card?

Qiao Lan then remembers that she gave her bank card to Tan Mo in the first place.

"If you lose, it's on me, if you make, it's on you," Tan Mo smiled, "Don't worry."

Qiao Lan laughed, she is not uneasy ah, the most she has left in the card is more than 10,000, 10,000 is too little for Tan Mo. Qiao Lan guessed that Tan Mo had speculated on his own, and then brought a little of her money along with him.

Qiao Lan was a bit curious, Tan Mo is so smart, I wonder how he is in this area, quite interested to ask him, "How is the market?"

Tan Mo thought about it and then said, "It's okay."

Tan Mo's okay is definitely more than okay, Qiao Lan sighs, it's really Tan Mo, she's so good at everything she does.

While they were talking, a classmate suddenly called Qiao Lan, saying that someone was looking for her outside. Qiao Lan casually asked who it was, and the classmate said, "I think it's your mom."

The smile on Qiao Lan's face suddenly vanished cleanly.

After a moment of silence, Qiao Lan turned around and left the classroom.

The others didn't feel anything, even Hao Ying who was always watching Qiao Lan didn't feel anything wrong, only Bai Yu and Tan Mo who knew the situation of Qiao Lan's family, Bai Yu's face didn't look too good, he turned his head and was about to ask Tan Mo, but he saw that Tan Mo had already stood up and followed Qiao Lan to go out.