Chapter 44 :The Pause Button on the Axis of Time.
Lin Yang was taken aback by her. Yu Zhou Zhou’s mood changed so quickly that he was unable to react in time. Just then, the snowman that was still sitting on the horizontal bar with a blank look and calm tone seemed to have been lit alight with a passion that came out of nowhere.
However, he was very happy. He didn’t like Yu Zhou Zhou touching his head while saying some weird things. The things she said were like a barrier, separating them far apart.
“Hurry up and do it!” Yu Zhou Zhou urged Zhan Yan Fei who just looked at Lin Yang in embarrassment.
“Why do you need to kill me to silence me?” Lin Yang raised his head angrily and looked up at the menacing Yu Zhou Zhou sitting on the horizontal bar.
Yu Zhou Zhou paused for a moment before using the gloomy voice of an uncle she saw on TV, “Because, only the dead can keep secrets.”
“Nonsense! Do you only know killing as the only option?” Lin Yang shouted.
Zhan Yan Fei asked realistically on the side, “Then what should we do?”
Lin Yang suddenly took a step forward, reached a hand out to grab Yu Zhou Zhou’s sleeve and pulled her down from the horizontal bar into the snow. As the snow flew everywhere, he smiled brightly, a smile that he thought had long withered.
“You can drag me into the water!”
Yu Hou Zhou was stupefied. The energetic classmate Lin Yang didn’t need to be dragged in at all, he happily threw himself into the ditch.
Zhan Yan Fei who had just been clueless because of her timidness also laughed, “Captain, you’re really bad.”
When Lin Yang surrendered to their side, he took over the leadership position. Lin Yang took Yu Zhou Zhou’s hand and looked around the court excitedly, “We need to go out otherwise we’ll be seen by the other students. Right now it’s the third class of the afternoon, we can skip two classes and then we need to go straight back to class to grab our schoolbags. If anyone else asks, we’ll say that the Brigade Leader told us to go to printing room on the other side to pick up the school newspaper. After waiting for a long time, we discovered that there was nothing and we were tricked. The gates haven’t closed, go, go, let’s go and play!”
Yu Zhou Zhou was completely astounded.
“Lin Yang, is this the this your first time skipping class…”
Zhan Yan Fei was focused on a different matter, “Captain, you’re so excited…”
Lin Yang just realized that in a burst of excitement, he said a lot just like a continuous burst of gunfire. He embarrassedly rubbed the back of his head and after holding back for a long time, finally said, “Once I skipped an art class…to go home to watch a soccer match…”
Yu Zhou Zhou started to worry, it turns out that the one who need to be silenced in the end might be her.
She gave a long sigh, her breath white, like a small airplane soaring into the air.
“So,” She stretched out her left hand to grab Zhan Yan Fei’s hand. Her right hand was tightly held by Lin Yang. She took a deep breath and shouted, “Now…let’s run away!!!”
Running in the deep and soft snow was not an easy task but Yu Zhou Zhou rushed forward happily. The two people who didn’t react in time were a step slower, like reins, forcing back her speed. Yu Zhou Zhou suddenly remembered the planes that she would always see in the sky when she was younger. There were always three planes flying forward together in the form of an equilateral triangle, just like they were now.
After running out of the big iron gates, she slowly came to a stop and let go of Zhan Yan Fei’s hand to bend over and pant.
Zhan Yan Fei tilted her head and smiled, “Captain, how come you’re still holding onto Zhou Zhou?”
Lin Yang quickly let go of Yu Zhou Zhou’s hand like he was scalded. Yu Zhou Zhou also froze for a moment and lowered her head, blushing subconsciously.
Little Sparrow was also covered in snow. Two dimples appeared on her chubby cheeks as she watched the two embarrassed people in front of her, smiling meaningfully.
Lin Yang quickly changed the subject, “There is an abandoned building close by. My dad told me about it last time when he drove past a small alley. Let’s go and have a snowball fight there.”
Yu Zhou Zhou shook her head and said bearing a grudge, “I can’t beat you.”
Zhan Yan Fei nodded in agreement, “Let’s go, the two of us can form a group together and fight two to one!”
The abandoned building was like a natural playground. Lin Yang dragged over a big tire from somewhere and pushed it up with effort to the top of a mound of residual soil. The mound of residual soil was covered with a thick layer of snow was like a little snow mountain. Lin Yang stood at the top of the mountain and waved towards Yu Zhou Zhou, “Come up, I’ll push you down.”
Yu Zhou Zhou was dejected, sure enough, he was going to kill her.
Plus, he had asked her to take the initiative to seek death.
The fearful and cautious expression on her face made Lin Yang not know whether to laugh or cry, “I’m saying, you can sit inside the tire and I’ll push you down from the slope. It’s really fun, if you don’t believe me – Zhan Yan Fei, Zhan Yan Fei, try it first!”
Zhan Yan Fei stepped back, “Captain, you’re too biased. How come you’re using me as an experiment because she’s scared?”
Lin Yang blushed once again and angrily pointed at them, “Look at how timid you are, watch me!”
As soon as he finished talking, he leaped up and sat down inside the tire. The momentum made the tire slide quickly down the tall snow heap in circles. Accompanied by Yu Zhou Zhou and Zhan Yan Fei’s shrieks, he safely slid to the bottom. Luckily, the part of the ground he slid down to was covered in ice so his speed slowed and finally slid to their feet.
“How was it? Fun right?” Lin Yang beamed and looked up at Yu Zhou Zhou with an expression of offering up a treasure.
Yu Zhou Zhou was expressionless. She stepped on the edge of the tire with her right foot and kicked it fiercely. Lin Yang who was sitting on the tire slid forward towards the cement pipe and was thrown off his feet.
“It really is fun,” She said with a smile.
A minute later, she was dragged by Lin Yang as if dragging a dead body up the snow mound. Lin Yang threw her into the tire and stepped on the edge of the tire with his right foot, making the tire wobble. Looking at Yu Zhou Zhou who was pale with fright, he smiled evilly.
“Let me play as well.” After speaking, he kicked the tire down…
When even Zhan Yan Fei wasn’t afraid of this tire version log flume ride, they finally became tired and lay on the snow disorderedly, allowing the fluttering snowflakes to bury them.
“It would be good if time stopped here.”
Zhan Yan Fei’s voice was as soft and sweet as when she was a child. Yu Zhou Zhou suddenly remembered when she first saw her, she wasn’t able to see her face over the group of people and could only hear the gentle and beautiful voice, like a hand touching the bottom of her heart.
She grabbed Zhan Yan Fei’s hand, gently stroking it then tightly held it.
Lin Laugh laughed, “But I want to grow up. How good is it to grow up, what about you Zhou Zhou?”
Zhan Yan Fei stood on the side and smiled interested, “Zhou Zhou, Zhou Zhou, Zhou Zhou, Zhou Zhou… Captain, you like Zhou Zhou right?”
She didn’t hear the rebuttal she had expected. Usually, the boys and girls would be cheered on by a group of people laughing around them. Then, the two people would loudly deny it while blushing, at the same time, they’ll add a few shortcomings about the other person to prove that they “definitely don’t like someone like him/her”, ushering the second round of attacks and laughter.
There was nothing. The two people seemed to have even stopped breathing, as if they were afraid they would scare the rustling sound of the snow. The whole world was quiet and pale, soft and beautiful.
Zhan Yan Fei held her breath for so long, she seemed to have forgotten what she had just said.”
“…Mhm.”
“Eh?” She was shocked and unconsciously made a questioning sound.
“…Mhm.” Once again.
The soft sound was shy but gentle and certain.
Captain, you like Zhou Zhou right?
Mhm.
It seemed to be the simplest fact in the world, just like how the earth revolves around the sun.
Zhan Yan Fei however, found it very hard to sit up and laugh and gossip further or shriek out is it real Captain… She felt that the current atmosphere was hard to put into words, it was tense, delicate yet it made people want to unconsciously smile.
See, even time has stopped –
After a long time of silence, Yu Zhou Zhou suddenly jumped up to her senses and started patting off the snow on her back and bottom with energy while loudly shouting, “We’re done, we’re done, what time is it?”
Zhan Yan Fei’s heart sank. She hurriedly pulled out the electronic watch in her pocket and took a look, “Four, four ten.”
Selfishly stopping the time was punishable, it will go by at double the speed. Yu Zhou Zhou and Zhan Fei hurriedly patted away the remnant snow on each other while Lin Yang stood there blankly, as if a part of his soul had not yet come back.
“Why are you standing there stupidly, hurry up and tidy up, don’t let the teachers see that we went snowball fighting!”
Lin Yang gave an “Oh” but continued to stand there without moving. He didn’t know what Yu Zhou Zhou had just been thinking in the silence but right now, it was very clear that fear had ignited both Yu Zhou Zhou and Zhan Yan Fei and the loftiness that was used to say they’d skip class was wiped out. When he was still standing there blankly, Yu Zhou Zhou had already rushed over to frantically pat him on the back.
“It hurts!” His bum had received a hard slap from her, “Are you taking revenge on me?”
“What do I need revenge on you for?”
“Revenge on me for saying I like…” He paused, his face flushed red with embarrassment.
The Yu Zhou Zhou standing opposite him widened her eyes with a few snowflakes still stuck on her eyelashes, as she blinked in panic, it was like a white butterfly, flying up and down in front on Lin Yang’s eyes.
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