Yu Qiao and Du Shang were outside the window, holding Lin Qile up. Lin Qile told them that she found out what Jiang Qiaoxi's name means yesterday, and it came from a poem. But she couldn't remember what the poem was: "It's a very beautiful poem!"
Lin Qile's hands were small, and he stretched out his arms with great effort, barely able to reach the crack in the window of the principal's office.
Suddenly, the window was pushed open a little from the inside, and no one noticed anything unusual except Lin Qile.
Duchamp was still mumbling below: "Nice to listen to? But no matter how nice it sounds, it's just like ours, picked up."
Jiang Qiaoxi pushed open the window of the principal's office from the inside. He lowered his head condescendingly, first looking into Lin Qile's eyes, which had just been red from crying, and then looking down, he saw Cai Fangyuan, Yu Qiao, and Du Shang.
Cai Fangyuan blinked and rubbed his eyes as if he couldn't believe it. Du Shang was holding up Lin Qile's shoe soles and was just saying "bad things" about Jiang Qiaoxi. When he saw Jiang Qiaoxi appear from above like a ghost, he subconsciously took a step back: "I, I'm not..."
He couldn't retreat. Lin Qile was standing so high, stepping on the hands of him and Yu Qiao, so he couldn't stand steadily.
Lin Qile's body suddenly fell down. "Ah!!" Her eyes widened.
She thought she would fall from the second floor to the ground, breaking her legs, bruising her head, and turning into a pink meat pie or a big roll. But just as she fell, a force from above grabbed Lin Qile's hand that touched the window gap.
Lin Qile felt a pain in her arm. She raised her head with great effort and saw Jiang Qiaoxi holding the balcony with his left hand, leaning out his upper body and stretching his right hand down to grab her. Jiang Qiaoxi frowned and stared at her face, as if he couldn't understand -
Lin Qile had just had a fight with Qin Yeyun. She scratched Qin Yeyun's face, and Qin Yeyun also scratched her neck until it bled.
Both of her ponytails were crooked. In Cai Fangyuan's words, Lin Qile was a fool.
"She can't even tie her own hair!"
Cai Fangyuan once said this to Jiang Qiaoxi.
"You see, every time she gets into a fight at school, the two braids on her head are crooked and not symmetrical at all. Yu Qiao combs her hair more symmetrically than she does herself! Do you think she is a girl?"
The old principal wanted to come back to see how Jiang Qiaoxi did on his math test. They said he was a top-notch math genius in the province, but the old principal had never seen one in his entire life at the small Qunshan Power Plant Employee Primary School. He opened the door to the principal's office, but before he entered the inner room, he heard a noise outside the window.
The window was suddenly opened. The old principal didn't even look at the window next to him. He stared at the people downstairs.
Cai Fangyuan and Du Shang were still standing stupidly at the foot of the wall. Yu Qiao had his hands raised, and no one knew what he was doing, but now he suddenly put them down and put them behind his back.
"It's you guys again!" The old principal wanted to yell, but considering that Jiang Qiaoxi was still taking the exam inside, he gritted his teeth and lowered his voice, "Stop right there!"
Yu Qiao cursed inwardly, turned around and ran down the path and disappeared. Cai Fangyuan saw the principal disappear through the window, probably going downstairs, so he also ran out quickly.
Only Duchamp was at a loss. He stopped three or five steps away, afraid that the old principal would come down to arrest him. He also felt that it was not good for Lin Qile to hang on the second floor trembling like this.
"Cherry!" he shouted fearfully, "Jump down!"
Lin Qile was hanging in the air, her brows slightly furrowed, kicking her cloth shoes: "You... you guys don't run yet! Wait for me!"
She was not tall, and her feet were quite a distance from the ground. If she fell, she would at least fall on her butt.
It was already very difficult for Jiang Qiaoxi to catch Lin Qile like this, and it was unlikely that he could drag her into the window.
What's more, the old principal didn't leave. He was making a phone call outside, probably to the dean of studies. He might come in at any time.
Lin Qile raised her head from the window and looked at Jiang Qiaoxi pitifully. Jiang Qiaoxi looked at her first, then at the path outside and how high the principal's office was.
Jiang Qiaoxi held the window frame tightly with his other hand, and suddenly he stepped onto the windowsill by stepping on the radiator.
Just like when Lin Qile suddenly flew in from the window.
Lin Qile didn't see anything clearly. She just felt a black screen in front of her eyes. She fell downwards. After falling for less than a second, a hand pressed on the back of her head, and then she fell softly to the ground.
The distance from the second floor to the first floor was too short, and Lin Qile landed as soon as he came out. There was no time for wings to grow on his back as he fell.
When Lin Qile closed her eyes, she saw darkness. When she opened her eyes, she saw darkness again. She looked carefully again and found that the darkness was not ordinary darkness, but the darkness on Jiang Qiaoxi's coat.
Du Shang stood three or five steps away, staring at the transfer student Jiang Qiaoxi with wide eyes, and was already in a state of stupefaction.
Lin Qile was still thinking about getting up quickly and then helping Jiang Qiaoxi up from under her. In the end, Jiang Qiaoxi stood up with his hands on the ground and ran away, still holding Lin Qile tightly with his hands.
Jiang Qiaoxi knew that he was not unique to anyone, whether it was to his parents, teachers, friends, or a little girl in the city of Qunshan.
It turned out that Yu Qiao did not run away on purpose. He and Cai Fangyuan ran out shouting and screaming, and ran a long circle along the playground, attracting the dean of studies and the old principal to come to the playground from afar to catch them.
Lin Qile was fine. When she ran into the dean, she was praised by him, saying, "Lin Yingtao did a good job today! She didn't go along with Yu Qiao and Cai Fangyuan." She got a box of alcohol cotton balls from the school clinic, but she didn't know how to use them. Facing the small scratch on the back of Jiang Qiaoxi's head, she was really timid and panicked.
Jiang Qiaoxi didn't think it was a big deal at first, and it didn't hurt too much, but when she wiped it, it hurt ten times more.
"Don't... don't wipe it anymore." Jiang Qiaoxi discussed with her.
Du Shang was sitting next to him, still in shock. He opened his schoolbag and took out a Band-Aid. His schoolbag had the most Band-Aids. Du Shang walked to Jiang Qiaoxi and said, "Last time I fell from a tree three stories high! I was fine!" He quickly tore open the Band-Aid and handed it to Jiang Qiaoxi, saying generously, "Here, here, put it on quickly!"
Lin Qile had a depressed face and her two ponytails were crooked. The physical education class was over and she sat in her seat, still looking very self-blaming.
Yu Qiao and Cai Fangyuan came back from the playground after being scolded, and seeing her like that, they asked her what was wrong. Lin Qile raised her eyes to look at them, shook her head, and said nothing.
Yu Qiao thought this was something new. It was impossible for Lin Qile to hide something from her.
The old principal walked to the door of the fourth grade class one, looked inside, and said, "Jiang Qiaoxi, why did you come out during the exam?"
"I've finished writing, Principal." Jiang Qiaoxi said, he put down the book in his hand and stood up.
Cai Fangyuan watched Jiang Qiaoxi follow the principal out the door, and the two of them walked all the way to the principal's office. Cai Fangyuan also sneaked out and squatted at the corner of the stairs.
He was afraid of being discovered, but he couldn't help but keep looking out. The principal's office was at the end of the corridor, and the door was too difficult to enter.
Lin Qile also walked out of the classroom slowly. She squatted beside Cai Fangyuan, hugged her knees with both hands, and buried her head in them.
Her reaction made Yu Qiao, who was out playing basketball, even more confused. Yu Qiao asked Du Shang: "What's wrong with her now?"
The door to the principal's office opened.
Cai Fangyuan watched Jiang Qiaoxi come out.
A book, with a calendar wrapped in its cover, was secretly taken out by Jiang Qiaoxi inside his math test paper. Judging from Jiang Qiaoxi's expression, he didn't quite know what it was, and it was no big deal to take it out secretly.
Cai Fangyuan and several boys in the class were so excited that their faces turned red, and they surrounded Jiang Qiaoxi. Lin Qile also stood up. She didn't know when Cai Fangyuan told Jiang Qiaoxi about this, how Jiang Qiaoxi agreed, and how Jiang Qiaoxi found the book so easily and avoided the old principal.
To show his gratitude, Cai Fangyuan wanted to lend Jiang Qiaoxi his favorite photo album called "Angel Heart". He said that even children in the provincial capital had few of them: "I bought this from Taiwan! It's an original and authentic copy!"
Jiang Qiaoxi listened, thought about it, and took it. He put the book into his square leather schoolbag and also put the latest issue of the sports newspaper that Yu Qiao gave him.
This schoolbag was the first time it was filled with extracurricular books and newspapers since it came into Jiang Qiaoxi's possession, and even Jiang Qiaoxi himself was not quite used to it.
At noon after school, Jiang Qiaoxi, Yu Qiao and the other two walked home together. Lin Qile tiptoed to buy ice cream at the store in front of the school. She turned around and asked, "Jiang Qiaoxi, do you want some ice cream?"
Jiang Qiaoxi didn't know she was asking him at first, and Cai Fangyuan answered from the side: "Eat!"
Lin Qile turned her head, with two crooked ponytails hanging on her shoulders.
"Hey, why can't you hear me when I tell you I'm eating?" Cai Fangyuan asked puzzledly.
Lin Qile walked beside them, happily eating the small milk cake in her hand. Lin Qile's cherry-like lips were also stained with milk. She licked her own mouth, which was very sweet. She said to Cai Fangyuan: "If you want to eat it, can't you buy it yourself?"
Cai Fangyuan walked beside Jiang Qiaoxi, staring at her.
When they arrived at the gate of the staff dormitory of the Qunshan construction site, a man on a bicycle came towards them and rode past Jiang Qiaoxi at a very fast speed, almost hitting Lin Qile who was behind him.
Lin Qile dodged it himself, but the half-eaten ice cream fell to the ground. Lin Qile couldn't help but yelled, "Don't you look at the road!"
Jiang Qiaoxi heard the noise and turned around. It happened that the man on the bicycle had turned around and rode back from the outside of the gate. He was a man with a long and thin face, prominent cheekbones, and a large nose. Especially when he smiled, it felt like his face was full of angles.
An image suddenly popped up in Jiang Qiaoxi's mind: "Andy Lau who is several times uglier."
Cai Fangyuan had been walking without looking around, but when he saw this man riding back, he unconsciously moved to the other side of Jiang Qiaoxi and hid behind Yu Qiao.
Yu Qiao raised his eyes and looked at Wei Yong on the bicycle.
Wei Yong walked around, looking at the timid little fat boy, then at Lin Qile who turned his head away and ignored him. Wei Yong also glanced at Jiang Qiaoxi, and probably found that this person was unfamiliar. He rode away.
Lin Qile ran home with her schoolbag on her back. The first thing she did was to sit in front of the mirror and let her mother braid her hair again. Lin's mother had just got off work and when she saw her daughter's hair, she asked, "Who did you fight with again?"
Lin Qile took out the broken amber from the pocket of her skirt and put it on her leg to straighten the broken part. She responded to her mother's questioning by acting like a spoiled child: "My amber's string is all broken..."
During lunch, Lin Qile, with two newly tied ponytails, asked her father, "Why didn't Jiang Qiaoxi come to eat?"
Father Lin bit the jujube flour bun in his mouth and said: "He can't come for every meal. He went to the city to eat with his father today."
During nap time, Lin Qile lay in his little bed.
She placed her hands on the pillow, closed her eyes, and tried to sleep.
But I tossed and turned and just couldn't fall asleep.
When Jiang Qiaoxi first appeared, he seemed unwilling to say a word to Lin Qile. His skin was so white, too pure, like a character in a comic book, drawn white, not real white. No matter how Lin Qile thought, he could not imagine that skin like that would be scratched on the ground and bleed like theirs.
If a comic book is torn up, will the characters bleed
When Lin Qile took the initiative to shake Jiang Qiaoxi's hand, Jiang Qiaoxi's hand was a fist, and he refused to open it for a long time. But when Jiang Qiaoxi reached out to grab Lin Qile, his hand opened again and held her tightly, causing her hand to hurt.
Lin Qile sat up from her little bed.
The lights were off in the bedroom. Mom and Dad were taking a nap on the double bed on the other side of the closet.
No one knows what Lin Qile is thinking.
Lin Qile opened the curtains beside the bed, squinted her eyes and looked out the window. The sunlight was strong.
Lin Qile tied a red scarf around her neck and asked her mother, who had just gotten up, to help her tie her hair back. She carried her small schoolbag and walked aimlessly along the rows of dormitories on the mountain construction site.
School doesn't start until 2pm, and now it's 1pm, in the middle of the day, everyone is hiding at home, except for Lin Qile, no one wants to face the scorching sun. The roads are empty, standing at the crossroads looking north, south, east, west, and east, there is only Lin Qile on this road.
This is her "kingdom".
Lin Qile, clinging to the wall, wandered around the construction site alone, like a king inspecting his city. She passed the rows of clotheslines full of men's vests and work clothes, walked past the construction site library with a sign saying "Three new sets of the Complete Works of Lu Xun, welcome to borrow them", and walked to the abandoned construction site fountain covered with water plants.
Lin Qile squatted down beside the fountain and carefully observed the water striders paddling on the water.
Lin Qile went around to the back of someone else's yard, stood on tiptoe, and saw how many seeds the sunflowers planted there had produced this year.
One, two, three...
Is it more or less than last year
Lin Qile walked past Jiang Qiaoxi's house and looked around. Jiang Qiaoxi was still having dinner in the city and had not returned yet.
Lin Qile couldn't understand why no matter where she went, she always couldn't help but turn to Jiang Qiaoxi's house and look up to take a look.
Why did she feel unhappy? Just because she didn't see Jiang Qiaoxi at lunch.
These questions were too profound and it was difficult for Lin Qile to figure them out.
Dushan had taken a nap and it was time to get ready for school. He came out of his house in slippers to take out the trash.
When I looked up, I saw Lin Qile sitting alone on the steps in front of the Workers' Club, looking dazed.
Lin Qile was a strange little girl. The reason why Duchamp thought she was "strange" was because he could never guess how many strange thoughts were in her head. It was really hard to guess.