Feng Ning sipped from a straw, leaning his arms against the table, concentrating on memorizing a book of short questions in his hand.
She stretched her legs out and placed them on the aisle at an angle, swaying left and right on tiptoe to the rhythm of the music in the store.
The wind chimes at the door rang, and someone pushed the door open with a ding-dong sound.
She looked up when she felt a light kick.
Jiang Wen sat down opposite him. He had a little sweat on his forehead, but his face was still white after being exposed to the sun for so long.
"Wow, you're back."
"Um."
Feng Ning signaled with his eyes, "Your mango coconut milk sago, put in a straw and drink it yourself."
Jiang Wen took a look but pretended not to move.
She continued to look down at the information, humming a tuneless song like a carefree little god.
"What are you looking at?"
"Memorize the small questions intensively, and the explanations of the small test points are very comprehensive."
Feng Ning quickly finished reading the two questions, and did not forget to brag about himself, "With my attitude towards learning, I am so smart and hardworking. Who wouldn't admire me? Who wouldn't be amazed? Even the Iron Lady would cry when she saw it! I can only say that I deserve the title of the top student in the grade."
She finished her long speech like a jingle, and concluded solemnly, "Yes, I am worth it."
Jiang Wen's expression was unusually gentle. He turned his head and smiled faintly.
She casually asked, "How are you and your little girlfriend doing?"
Jiang Wen was about to speak.
"—Don't!" Feng Ning suddenly lowered his head, stretched out his five fingers in front of him, made a stop gesture, and narrowed his eyes, "Don't say it, let me, the famous detective Ke Ning, guess it!"
Jiang Wen leaned back in his chair, feeling a little amused. He crossed his arms, stretched out his chin, and motioned for her to speak.
"Based on the look on her face when she called you out just now, you two must be breaking up?"
"Um."
"But you are very calm and relaxed now. So judging from your expression, you had a good conversation just now."
Jiang Wen continued to nod, "Not bad."
"Oh... I see."
"Know what?"
"You two are reconciled again."
Jiang Wen's face darkened, "No."
Feng Ning raised an eyebrow, looking like an outsider who had nothing to do with the matter, "Oh, you broke up?"
Jiang Wen said very modestly, "I don't like her." Then he added calmly, "No one likes her anymore."
Feng Ning almost laughed out loud, "What? Are you going to give up all love and only live with the Buddha for the rest of your life?"
Jiang Wen didn't say anything.
After a while, Feng Ning realized how conspicuous it was to sit in a milk tea shop with a famous figure in the school.
She recalled other people's comments, saying that Jiang Wen looked like the male protagonist of a girl's comic. His appearance was indeed a little too handsome and delicate. Feng Ning put away the palm-sized information and waved her hand, "Let's go."
Amidst the furtive glances of a group of girls, Jiang Wen also stood up.
She pointed at the untouched milk tea and asked, "You don't want to drink it?"
Jiang Wen condescended to take a look and said unhappily, "I don't want to drink."
"Carry it." Feng Ning ordered, "You are even more ignorant than Shuangyao's brother who is three or four years older."
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"Although he is young, he knows not to waste food. He can get whatever he wants to eat." She said with a hint of other meaning, "Other children are very sensible. Look at you."
After listening to her, Jiang Wen said calmly: "How old are you?"
"15. I'll be 16 by the end of the year."
“Your birthday is at the end of the year?”
"Yes, December."
"I'm older than you." Jiang Wen said seriously, "I will also be an adult before you. I'm not a child."
His voice was a little low and hoarse. Feng Ning seemed to understand something, "Do men mind when others say they are small?"
"Um."
Jiang Wen quickly agreed, and caught a glimpse of Feng Ning's ambiguous and obscene expression. He thought about it for two seconds, and then realized that he had fallen into someone else's trap. He was angry, annoyed, and a little embarrassed: "You..."
Feng Ning laughed out loud.
She grew up in the streets and could tell dirty jokes, whether they were vulgar or not. She could tell them at will.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I forgot that you were still young and polluted the pure and clean mind of a young boy. It's my fault, I deserve to die, I should slap myself in the face." Feng Ning slapped his mouth lightly on both sides, just like the lackey eunuch in the TV series.
As they walked outside, Jiang Wen was irritated by her. No matter how she teased him, he just refused to say a word.
"Can you please stop being angry?" Feng Ning was a little helpless. "It was just a joke. Why are you so petty?"
Jiang Wen said without thinking: "I don't like you saying I'm small." After saying that, he paused, "I'm not saying small, I'm saying..."
Feng Ning hummed twice, blinked his eyes, and asked in confusion: "Oh oh oh oh, then what part of you is not small?"
Jiang Wen's brain short-circuited for a moment.
She burst into laughter and pounded the wall with laughter, unable to even straighten her back.
Jiang Wen was angry, so he quickened his pace and walked forward, completely ignoring her.
Feng Ning hurriedly chased after him, still laughing as he said, "Go ahead and tell me, I'm really not joking anymore, I really am not, I swear."
I don’t know if it was because the weather was too hot or he was really angry, but even his neck and ears were red.
"Okay, don't be angry." Feng Ning now thinks Jiang Wen is particularly cute when he is angry. "Come, sister will take you to a good place."
She felt a little emotional.
Some people may appear serious on the surface, but they are actually very good and honest people. They are very fun to tease.
Jiang Wen was annoyed by her messy words and insisted, "I'm older than you."
"Okay, okay." Feng Ning quickly changed his tone and coaxed him shamelessly, "Then I'll take brother to a place."
She moved forward, but he did not move.
The sun was shining down, Feng Ning bent his hands to block his eyes, and turned sideways: "What's wrong?"
Jiang Wen took a few seconds to react and moved his feet.
I chewed the word "brother" over and over again twice and kept it in my heart.
She took him through many twists and turns and finally stopped in front of a store.
Looking up, I saw a small red sign that read: China Welfare Lottery
It was small and cramped inside, with no air conditioning and only two broken fans whirring. The proprietress was wearing flowery shorts and was watching a popular palace drama on her computer. When she saw two high school students coming in, she lazily greeted them.
There is not even a place to sit here. There is only a narrow path that can barely accommodate four or five people.
Jiang Wen glanced at the surroundings, a little disdainful: "What are you going to do?"
"Robbery."
Jiang asked: "..."
The lady boss asked, "Do you want to buy scratch tickets or double-color balls? Each ticket costs two yuan, and you can choose your own numbers."
"When is your birthday?" Feng Ning pulled him.
“11.14.”
"Oh, Scorpio, no wonder you hold grudges so much." She thought for a moment and said with a smile, "You know, we Capricorns are the only nemesis of you Scorpios."
Jiang Wen did not comment.
The proprietress pressed keys on the computer and entered the number that Feng Ning had reported.
After leaving the lottery shop, Feng Ning held it up, looked at it in the sunlight, and handed it to Jiang Wen, "Here you go."
Jiang Wen glanced at the number above:
92459111499959
"What does this mean?" he asked.
Feng Ning said mysteriously, "It will be interesting if you guess it yourself."
"... Do you often buy lottery tickets?"
"Yes." Feng Ning chuckled, "I buy a ticket occasionally, just to wait. I don't ask for tens of thousands, I just want five million."
Jiang Wen put the lottery ticket away and sneered.
"What are you laughing at?" Feng Ning said seriously, "Sometimes when you buy a lottery ticket, you are not buying a lottery ticket, you are buying hope, do you understand?"
They entered the class together.
Only about half of the people were in the classroom. Zhao Binlin was playing the video game with his head down. When he saw the two of them come in at the same time, a vague smile appeared on his face.
Jiang Wen was in a good mood the whole afternoon, and the person sitting next to him felt it most clearly.
You know, some time ago, for a whole week, Jiang Wen didn't know who he was angry with. Anyway, the whole person was like a time bomb that could explode at any time, which made Zhao Binlin almost depressed.
After playing basketball with a few people from the basketball team in the evening, a group of people rested on the sidelines for a while. Xi Gaoyuan looked around and said, "Hey, why didn't I see Cheng Jiajia bringing water to Jiang Wen?"
"We've split."
He was late in getting the news, so he was quite surprised, "Ah, you broke up?"
Jiang Wen hummed.
"It's only been a few days and you're breaking up? Love comes too fast like a tornado, what a pity."
"What a pity?"
"It's a pity that you didn't get to experience the feeling of love."
"What's the point of dating?" Jiang Wen snorted and took a big gulp of water. "It's boring."
Zhao Linlin said sarcastically: "Tsk, please stop saying one thing and thinking another."
Walking out of the brightly lit basketball hall, it was getting dark outside. It was almost October and the temperature got cold very quickly at night.
Xi Gaoyuan shuddered and sighed, "Lin Ru and I should keep a low profile, so as not to make you single guys envious."
"Ugh, uh, uh, please stop it."
"Xi Gaoyuan is a Sagittarius man, and I am an Aries woman. Our compatibility index is 100%."
Some people laughed at her, "You still believe this."
Lin Ru pouted, "This is about the astrolabe, it's very accurate."
Zhao Binlin became interested. "Then can you help me calculate what the star sign of my soulmate is?"
After several people finished calculating, Xi Gaoyuan pointed at Jiang Wen and said, "You can calculate for him as well. He has the most difficult love life among us."
"What's his zodiac sign?"
Zhao Binlin answered instead: "Scorpio."
Lin Ru exclaimed, "Ah!" She was a little surprised. "Scorpios have a strong desire for possession and conquest. Scorpio men usually look low-key on the outside, but they are actually passionate and reserved on the inside. I used to be a huge fan of them."
Xi Gaoyuan cleared his throat, "Your boyfriend is still here, talk nicely." He suddenly smiled slyly, "By the way, does the Scorpio sign have a strong sexual desire?"
Jiang Wen glanced at him and said indifferently, "Your head is full of yellow garbage."
"Why are you pretending to be pure and indifferent?" Xi Gaoyuan elbowed him, "You... have you never had a wet dream, or had any reaction?"
He had just finished playing ball, and his claws were black. Jiang Wen dodged to the side, his eyes full of disgust, "Don't touch me."
Xi Gaoyuan was so angry that his face twisted. He said aggrievedly, "Fuck it, a girl drank too much and vomited on you and you didn't mind it, but your brother wouldn't even touch her. Your mysophobia is selective?"
Lin Ru typed on the keyboard, then looked up after a while, "I figured it out."
Zhao Binlin was eager to try and took her phone and read from it: "The three zodiac signs that are most compatible with you are... Cancer, Pisces, and Taurus."
While others were still wondering if there were any Cancer girls around, Jiang Wen suddenly asked, "Where's the Capricorn?"
In fact, the question was quite abrupt, but fortunately no one cared. Lin Ru replied: "Capricorn seems to be only suitable to be friends with Scorpio, and the family matching index is relatively high."
Amidst the uproar, Jiang Wen said coldly, "It's a garbage website."
Lin Ru looked at his back as he walked away and was speechless for a moment.
The author has something to say: 1. Occasionally buy a ticket, just for waiting, not for thousands, just for five million network sentences
2. I don’t know if the lottery numbers are correct, I made them up myself
3. I also made up the zodiac pairings myself