After tearing it, he felt much better.
The small green sticky note was shattered into pieces in the blink of an eye and spread out in his palm. Jiang Wen retracted his hand, calmly stuffed the scarf chocolate into the drawer, and stood up from the chair.
The cultural and arts committee member was standing on the podium directing several boys to move tables and chairs to make room for the New Year's Eve party.
Zhao Binlin finished talking to someone else and turned around to see that Jiang Wen's seat was empty. He tilted his head to look for him but couldn't see him. He sent a WeChat message:
Why have you been
“Take out the trash.”
I don’t know why, even though the car was driving so slowly, the return trip seemed particularly short.
When she arrived at her destination, Meng Taoyu almost didn't recognize the gate of Kai Tak. The driver honked and she suddenly came to her senses.
She held the two plastic bags with some difficulty. As soon as she closed the car door, her hands suddenly felt light. She turned her head.
Meng Hanmo took the big bag. He stood casually, about 1.8 meters tall, and her snow boots were very thick, barely reaching his shoulders.
Meng Taoyu blinked and thanked him in a weak voice.
They walked side by side, and she could smell the faint scent of cigarettes on him. Today was New Year's Day, and there was no access control at the school gate, so Meng Hanmo went in directly.
Just as I walked downstairs, a boy from Class 9 passed by. He glanced at them, then stopped and said in a loud voice, "Meng Taoyu, who is this? Your boyfriend?!"
The word "boyfriend" suddenly popped up, making her already confused heart even more confused.
"No!" Meng Taoyu explained anxiously, "He's not my boyfriend, don't talk nonsense..."
Meng Hanmo was very calm and lowered his voice: "Everyone has left."
Meng Taoyu uttered an "ah" and looked at him for two seconds, as if waking up from a dream, "Oh oh."
She was staring at the tassels at her feet when suddenly someone grabbed her arm.
He was very strong, his knuckles were rough, and his middle and index fingers were covered with thick calluses. Meng Taoyu looked up in surprise, and saw a stone pillar right in front of her.
He withdrew his hand, "Watch the road."
Annoyance welled up in her heart. Meng Taoyu was extremely frustrated, not knowing why she had made such a fool of herself today. In front of him, she was so flustered that she couldn't even speak.
Through several layers of clothes, the arm seemed to still have some residual touch. Meng Taoyu suddenly lost the sense of reality.
Everything that happened today seemed like a dream.
From a distance, Jiang Wen saw Feng Ning standing at the door of the classroom.
He paused.
Her ankle had not yet fully healed, and like a landlady, she moved a chair to the corridor and sat there, looking up and talking to a man.
The moment he saw Meng Hanmo, he recognized him.
When Jiang Wen passed by, she was talking happily with a silly smile on her face, and she didn't even look at him.
She looks really ugly when she is happy, Jiang Wen thought expressionlessly.
Feng Ning heard about what happened in East Street today and cursed, "Damn, what a black-hearted taxi driver. He saw that Changzheng was far away from here and deliberately took a detour, thinking that you students were easy to bully."
On her knees was a large bag of snacks that Meng Taoyu had just bought. Feng Ning picked out a few small-packaged plums and stuffed them into Meng Hanmo's hands. "Here, for you, for you."
After giving it to him, he tilted his neck, looked around cunningly, and asked Meng Taoyu quietly, "This doesn't count as misappropriation of class funds, right?"
"It's okay." Meng Taoyu also looked around, "You... your brother likes to eat this?"
Feng Ning nodded vigorously: "Yes, this is his favorite food!"
Hearing her say that, Meng Taoyu hurriedly grabbed a handful of cash from the pocket of her down jacket, "I still have some." She spread her hands and handed them to Meng Hanmo, "Here you go."
Feng Ning narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Xiao Meng, what's wrong with you? You gave everything to my brother. What will the classmates in the class eat?"
"No, no." Meng Taoyu quickly explained, "This... I also like to eat this. I bought these with my own money."
Meng Hanmo surprisingly did not refuse and picked two from her hand at random, "Thank you."
"You don't want the rest?" She was a little disappointed.
Meng Hanmo seemed to smile and said, "I don't fight with kids for snacks." His features were cold and hard, and his smile was emotionless.
"Okay." Meng Taoyu felt embarrassed by his words.
He glanced at his phone and put it away: "I'm leaving now, you guys go play."
Feng Ning hummed twice and waved to him: "Be careful on the road."
"-etc!"
Meng Taoyu suddenly shouted.
Meng Hanmo turned his head to look at her first, then at the hand that was holding his clothes.
Then Feng Ning also looked at her.
His profile was handsome, and Meng Taoyu's expression instantly became unnatural. As if she had been electrocuted, she immediately let go. "Um, can you wait for me for two minutes? I have something to give you."
She ran into the classroom, rummaged around in her seat for a moment, and then hurried out again, in fact it was probably less than a minute.
What I held in my hand was a New Year's card, which I had written a week ago. In fact, I had also written one for Christmas, and I had originally wanted to ask Feng Ning to deliver it, but I hesitated for a long time, thinking that no matter how I did it, it would be awkward.
"Thank you..." Meng Taoyu panted softly and handed the card to Meng Hanmo. She paused, not knowing how to say, "Thank you for helping me today."
While waiting for a car on the side of the road, Meng Hanmo reached into his pocket for his lighter and felt a hard piece of paper. He then pulled out the greeting card.
I slowly opened it and saw that the little girl had beautiful handwriting. She wrote every word very carefully, without even a single stroke.
Meng Hanmo recalled her face, then looked at the three words "Meng Taoyu" written stroke by stroke in the lower right corner, and he smiled.
Even so, Feng Ning still couldn't figure out anything fishy, so there must be something fishy going on.
Meng Taoyu was still looking out the window, distracted, when a slow voice came to her ear, "Mr. Meng."
"Um?"
"I'm back to my soul."
She didn't say anything, but Meng Taoyu understood. She looked as if her secrets had been exposed and didn't know where to put her hands.
Feng Ning asked: "Do you know how old my brother is?"
"How big..."
"23? Almost 24."
Meng Taoyu tried to make her expression as natural as possible: "You are so old... Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Sister-in-law?" Feng Ning pretended to think, "My brother doesn't seem to have a girlfriend, but he does have a few sex partners."
"Fuck buddy?" Meng Taoyu was puzzled.
Feng Ning teased her deliberately, "That's it, a good friend who has sex in bed."
Meng Taoyu took two seconds to react. After she understood what he meant, her face first turned red, then pale. "Oh, oh, how many..." She stuttered and repeated, "How many?"
Seeing that Meng Taoyu was about to lose her words, Feng Ning bent over with laughter and stopped teasing her, "Why do you believe everything I say? I was just joking."
The host of the New Year's Eve party began to announce the program. The incandescent light above was turned off, and the dim classroom really created a good atmosphere. Feng Ning ate melon seeds and enjoyed the show for a while.
She suddenly thought of something and pulled out a notebook from her schoolbag. She crossed the mountains and limped to sit down next to Jiang Wen.
It was a busy time, and no one noticed the noise here. Jiang Wen was watching a video with headphones on.
Feng Ning knocked on Jiang Wen, and when he looked over, she pointed at her ears, signaling him to take off his headphones.
Zhao Binlin saw her and asked, "Hey, Fengning, who was the person who was talking to you at the door just now?"
"My brother." Feng Ning casually flipped through the fat boy's notebook. He wrote very seriously. There were crooked notes under each chapter, indicating which page of the book it was on. She laughed and her lips curled up.
Jiang Wen's hand stopped in mid-air as he took off his headphones. "Isn't he your boyfriend?"
Closing the notebook, Feng Ning glanced at his serious look and said, "When did I say I have a boyfriend?" She handed the notebook to Jiang Wen and said, "By the way, this is written by Zhao Fanyu. Take it home to your sister and ask her to read the book for the time being. There are also homework assignments."
I only heard the first half of the conversation.
Jiang Wen took it and paused for a moment. He couldn't help but feel a little happy. He felt very cheap, so he forced himself to suppress this sweet and slightly bitter emotion.
But another thought immediately popped up.
"Who does she like then?"
Jiang Wen would not ask, because if he did, she would laugh at him. He had to control himself. So he said calmly, "I'm sorry, I misunderstood you."
He was referring to what he had said before about her being indecisive.
Feng Ning said generously: "It's okay, I forgive you."
The next program was the New Year's greetings from the Class 9 Alumni Directory. The monitor bent over and opened the video file on the computer desktop.
After more than a dozen people were released, there was a sudden loud noise in the class. Jiang Wen casually glanced at the projector, and with just one glance, he almost exploded.
The background of the video was a banquet at the Jiang family. Jiang Wen was probably only four or five years old, like a white jade ball, with a red mole on his forehead, round and soft. When he was teased, he said in a baby voice, "Happy New Year."
Everyone's eyes swept over and stopped at Jiang Wen's face. Some people tried to hold back their laughter, while others couldn't help themselves and burst out laughing.
Zhao Binlin and Xi Gaoyuan looked at each other, and both of them howled loudly, almost jumping up.
"What the hell are you doing?" These words were almost forced out from between Jiang Wen's teeth.
That’s fucked.
Jiang Wen, who usually seldom showed his emotions in front of others, couldn't control his expression at this moment. His handsome eyebrows were almost twisted together with anger.
Xi Gaoyuan laughed and pounded his thigh: "We asked for it from Sister Yun. Isn't this for New Year's Eve fun?"
Feng Ning took pictures with his phone and laughed as he did so, “Hahahaha oh my god!!”
Zhao Binlin came over to tease him, and Jiang Wen turned around and gave him a heavy elbow. Zhao Binlin covered his stomach in pain, "Top girl, you are so cruel to me."
Jiang Wen stepped on his joint aj and even ran over it, "Are you sick?"
"Fuck, you bastard, you've gone too far!" Zhao Binlin loves shoes like his life, and immediately jumped up excitedly. He pressed his legs on Jiang Wen, and the two of them started to play around, and Xi Gaoyuan also came up to join in the fun.
The three of them struggled for a long time, and Jiang Wen pushed the two of them away from him. He was panting, with his hair messy, looking very embarrassed, but also a little cute.
The episode is over and the next show will start soon.
The physical education teacher started singing "Old Boy" by Chopstick Brothers in a hoarse voice, and someone in the audience made fun of him.
Amidst the laughter and joy, Feng Ning stood up.
Everyone was so engrossed in the performance of the Sports Committee that no one cared where she went.
But Jiang Wen was not concentrating on watching the performance.
My ears were filled with the cheers of my classmates and the sports committee member’s roar: “Youth is like a rushing river.”
He didn't hear a word I said.
The feet stepped on the unmelted snow, making a slight crunching sound.
The campus was immersed in the night, there were few students wandering outside, and there were no extra sounds around.
Feng Ning was sitting on a bench with a tree behind her. She was smoking, casually puffing out light white smoke, and counting the stars in the sky.
He was standing not far away.
She puffed out smoke and flicked the ash expertly, and Jiang Wen's mind reappeared that night. Feng Ning stood in front of them with a very sophisticated and unrestrained attitude, and drank bottle after bottle of wine.
His heart suddenly felt a real pain.
Jiang Wen didn't know why he followed her out and stood there. She ignored him and he didn't leave either, just like a fool.
Or a pervert.
After a while of silence, Feng Ning suddenly turned his head and said in his usual joking tone, with a little bit of coldness, "What are you doing standing here?"
"I'm going to the bathroom, just passing by."
She smiled slightly, put her hands back, looked up, and said lightly: "Then go ahead, I scared you to go to the toilet because of my smoking, little friend."
He got angry when she said that.
After a long silence, Jiang Wen took away her cigarette.
Feng Ning didn't mind, "Why did you come to see me?"
"You..." Jiang Wen thought of an excuse on the spur of the moment, "You deleted my photos."
"What photo?"
“Just taken.”
He paused for two seconds, as if he found it ridiculous. Seeing his expression, Feng Ning actually took out his phone and operated it for a while, "Deleted."
Jiang Wen spread out his hands, "Give it to me."
"What again?"
He wanted to check if she had deleted it completely.
The light here was very dim, Jiang Wen squinted his eyes to adjust to the bright white screen of his phone. The main interface of the album was a short video of Zhao Binlin performing Michael Jackson's space dance at the New Year's Eve party.
He flipped through a few more photos, all of which were from the New Year's Eve party. He searched through these photos and finally found one of him entering the country, when he was playing with Zhao Binlin and the others.
Jiang Wen was a little annoyed. How could her crappy phone make him look so ugly in the photo
He deleted it without hesitation.
It was actually very uncultured and uncivilized to just flip through other people's cell phone albums. Jiang Wen would never do such a thing under normal circumstances. But at this moment, he was like possessed by a demon and couldn't stop.
After nearly two minutes, Feng Ning lazily asked, "Have you finished reading it?"
"Right away." Jiang Wen finished checking. He was about to turn off his phone when his finger slid to the side out of habit, and suddenly a photo that didn't fit in with the scene popped up.
—It’s a naked back.
Her white and thin butterfly bones stood out, and her wet black hair hung on her shoulders and neck. Feng Ning was wrapped in a bath towel and turned her face slightly to look at the camera.
My brain took 0.1 seconds to process this image. My heart was beating hard in my chest and my eyes felt like they were on fire.
Just at this moment, Feng Ning came over and said, "You haven't finished the examination yet..."
Jiang Wen was unable to stop in time, and in panic he tried to press the lock screen button, but ended up pressing the volume button instead.
Feng Ning stopped talking, snatched the phone away with sharp eyes, and accused: "What are you doing! I was wondering why you were looking at it for so long!"
Jiang Wen immediately denied: "I didn't see this."
Feng Ning yelled: "Luckily I discovered it in time, otherwise you would have seen my innocence!"
"I... am not..." Jiang Wen's mind went blank.
"You are not what you are." Feng Ning's voice echoed in the quiet campus: "You little pervert!!!"