Salad Days

Chapter 18

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Qing Lingzi's painting was placed on the office table intact. Although it was just a line draft, Jiang Shen could recognize it as a dog's hair face at a glance. The head teacher, surnamed Chen, is a young female teacher. She usually has a good temper, but she is serious and careful in teaching and educating people.

"Do you know that you can't randomly flip through your classmates' desks in the future?" Teacher Chen taught with a serious expression, "It's very impolite and unqualified."

The squad leader lowered his head, as if he had just cried, his eyes were also red: "Got it..."

Teacher Chen: "I want to apologize to classmate Chen Qingling."

The squad leader struggled for a while, then turned his head and whispered "I'm sorry" to Chen Qingling

Chen Qingling did not agree.

Teacher Chen didn't force it, she smiled and handed the drawing paper back to Chen Qingling, and said, "Teacher, I checked it for you, and it's not broken at all."

Chen Qingling finally showed a little smile. She carefully put the drawing paper into the file bag, raised her eyes and said, "Thank you teacher."

Teacher Chen touched her head: "Go to the hobby class."

Along the way, Jiang Shen actually wanted to ask about the painting, but Qing Lingzi seemed unwilling to say anything. The two walked separately downstairs of the Cultural Palace, and Jiang Shen was already late for a while when he arrived at the dance room.

Teacher Lin asked him to warm up alone, and after a while Bai Jinyi found him again.

Jiang Shen was a little embarrassed: "There are no eggs today..."

Bai Jinyi handed him the lunch box: "It's okay, you eat."

Jiang Shen thought for a while and asked, "Do you want to eat strawberries?" After speaking, he seemed afraid that Bai Jin would refuse, "We planted it ourselves, and we don't need money."

Bai Jin raised his eyebrows: "Do you still grow strawberries?"

Jiang Shen nodded: "Grow it, it's almost ripe recently, you can pick it and eat it."

Bai Jin thought for a while, nodded and said, "Okay."

Jiang Shen was happy, he still had to go to warm up, he couldn't chat with Bai Jinyi for too long, Bai Jinyi made a phone call before leaving: "Let's talk in the evening."

Because of being late, Teacher Lin dragged Jiang Shen alone for a while. After the end, Jiang Shen didn't have time to put his shoes in his bag, so he hung them around his neck to catch the bus.

The driver master has known him for a long time, and also knows that boys learn to dance. Every time Jiang Shen gets in the car, he will ask, "What did you learn today?"

Jiang Shen: "I learned from the white-haired girl."

The driver smiled: "Do you want to dance to Xi'er?"

Jiang Shen touched his head in embarrassment: "I'm a man... I'm not dancing Xi'er."

Driver master: "Why can't you jump, how handsome you are!"

Jiang Shen blushed, and fled quickly after arriving at the station, he was too embarrassed to say hello.

The bookstore next to the station was still open, the old man squinted his eyes and saw him say hello: "I'm back."

"I'm back." Jiang Shen said, he stuffed his shoes into his bag and asked, "Is grandpa still closing the shop?"

The winter vacation is going to be in one month, and it is obviously getting colder this day. The small bookstore is open for a long time in summer, but the old man can't bear it because of the cold weather, so he always closes the door early to rest.

The old man glanced at him, put out the cigarette, and started to clean up slowly: "Just shut it down, you go back quickly."

That being said, the old man didn't close the shop immediately when Jiang Shen left. He stopped cleaning up, raised his hand, and tremblingly raised the lamp under the curtain.

The dim light scattered on the only asphalt road in the village, illuminating the boy's way home.

In a hurry to finish the meal, Jiang Shen moved a small stool and sat next to the phone. He was reviewing the dance notes in his hand, and looked up at the phone after a while.

Tan Lingling passed by a few times, and couldn't help but say to him: "I don't know when people will call, why are you waiting now?"

Jiang Shen muttered: "Maybe I'll call in a while."

Tan Lingling: "You guys make an appointment next time, so that you don't feel like you're looking forward to the stars and the moon."

Jiang Shen still wanted to refute, but the phone rang suddenly, and the boy quickly picked it up: "Hello."

Tan Lingling who was on the side almost didn't succeed in suppressing her laughter, but was glared at by her son with a petulant temper.

"..." Chen Maoxiu's voice was a bit disgusted, "Why is your hello so disgusting today?"

Jiang Shen said guiltily: "...it's you..."

Chen Maoxiu: "Who do you think it is?"

Jiang Shen had no choice but to ask: "What's the matter?"

Chen Maoxiu: "Did Qing Lingzi encounter anything recently?"

"No." It's much better to lie through the phone line, and Jiang Shen is not so burdened, "Qing Lingzi is a girl, there must be some little secrets."

Chen Maoxiu: "...you listened to who said this, what a bitch."

"..." Jiang Shen had no choice but to say, "There are many girls in the place where I go to class, they told me."

Chen Maoxiu's thinking is simple, but he doesn't doubt him: "Really?"

Jiang Shen said firmly: "Really!"

Gou Mao couldn't think of anything else, but he was also happy, and said excitedly: "You don't know, the little girl has been so sweet recently, she keeps calling me brother." Gou Mao imitated Qing Lingzi's tone, and said in a sharp voice, "'Brother, I want to drink yogurt', 'Brother, I want to eat strawberries', 'Brother, I want to watch chicks' Ouch, you are so good."

...Jiang Shen is not willing to hit Gou Mao, but it looks like this... Qing Lingzi still eats her brother to death.

Two seconds after hanging up with Gou Mao, the phone rang again. Jiang Shen thought it was Chen Maoxiu looking for trouble again, so he picked it up without thinking: "What are you doing again?!"

"..." Bai Jinyi said indifferently, "Who did what?"

Jiang Shen: "..."

Bai Jinyi: "Who were you calling before?"

Jiang Shen really wanted to die: "My friend... is the neighbor I told you about before."

"Chen Maoxiu?" Bai Jinyi's memory is very good, especially Lai Song also mentioned this person to him.

Jiang Shen didn't expect him to remember so clearly, and said from the bottom of his heart: "You are so smart."

Bai Jin let out a "hum".

Jiang Shen chuckled, holding the phone and changing his ears: "What are you doing?"

Bai Jinyi: "Look at the chicken."

Jiang Shen: "Have you grown up?"

Bai Jinyi: "Yes, I measure its weight and height every day."

Jiang Shen: "..." He is not very good at evaluating Bai Jinyi's standards for raising chickens.

"Does it need to be vaccinated?" Bai Jinyi asked suddenly.

Jiang Shen was stunned for a while: "No, don't you need it?"

Bai Jinyi: "You don't fight?"

Jiang Shen said helplessly: "The chickens in the village are all free-range, let alone vaccinated. You have never measured your weight and height every day."

Bai Jin's tone was not very good, and he taught: "You guys are too careless in raising them."

Jiang Shen was speechless.

"Have you picked strawberries?" Bai Jinyi was concerned about other things.

"In a few days." Jiang Shen suddenly thought of something and became active, "Do you want to come to our village to play during the winter vacation? I can let you pick strawberries."

Bai Jinyi was silent for a while, then said, "Not this year."

Jiang Shen said unexpectedly: "Why?"

Bai Jinyi: "I'm going to the United States for Chinese New Year this year, and I'm going to meet a professional boxing coach."

Jiang Shen opened his mouth, and suddenly he didn't know what to say. The words Bai Jinyi said were actually not complicated, but whether it was the so-called "America" or "professional boxing coach", they were far away from Jiang Shen. s things.

They were like stars, shining brightly. He looked up at them enviously, but in the end, he didn't even have the courage to reach out.

"Little swan." Bai Jinyi suddenly called him.

Jiang Shen let out an "ah".

Bai Jinyi waited for a while before slowly saying: "You don't have to think too much."

Jiang Shen squeezed the microphone tightly and did not speak.

Bai Jinyi suddenly said: "You dance very beautifully."

Jiang Shen's face was a little hot, and he said embarrassedly: "Not anymore..."

"In my eyes." Bai Jinyi interrupted him, "You are also like a star or a moon."

Jiang Shen: "..."

Bai Jinyi said seriously: "You have to wait for me to come back, you can't eat my strawberries."

Jiang Shen agreed with a "hmm", and he grinned: "I won't eat it, I'll leave it to you."