Salad Days

Chapter 5

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Once Bai Jin was called by the coach, he turned his head reluctantly. He has upturned eyes and long black eyebrows, exuding a sense of arrogance. Calculated at his age, he has not grown up yet, but it doesn't seem to affect his inherently contemptuous expression and morality.

"What are you looking at?!" the coach yelled.

As soon as Bai Jin didn't speak, the boy beside him smiled eccentrically: "He's looking at those little swans."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone around laughed, and the laughter was obviously not friendly.

The coach sternly said: "Laugh ass! The one who laughs goes around the field and does squats!"

As soon as Bai Jin didn't move, the other boys reluctantly left, and some even unceremoniously pushed his shoulders when passing by, and lowered their voices to complain: "Ao, what Ao, isn't it because the family is rich?"

Bai Jinyi still looked like he was too lazy to talk, he sat aside to wrap bandages on his hands, and when he looked outside, the gang of little swans had already run away.

Surrounded by the girls, Jiang Shen chattered all the way back to the dance room. Teacher Lin stood at the door with arms folded, frowning and said, "Going out to make trouble again, have you warmed up yet?"

The oldest girl was Song Xin, and she spoke like an adult: "It's done, Jiang Shen's figure is really soft, what do you want him to dance, teacher?"

When Jiang Shen heard his name was mentioned, he was very nervous, and he stood up straight without daring to move his hands and feet. Teacher Lin smiled and thought: "If there are boys, we can dance "Sleeping Beauty" and "The Moon Reflected in Two Springs" gone."

Jiang Shen: "..." He didn't know these two at all, but no one seemed to care whether he asked or not. The girls spontaneously stood in a row by the horizontal bar in front of the dancing mirror, and Song Xin called him: "Come here, Jiang Shen." .”

Jiang Shen had no choice but to stand behind her. Teacher Lin played the music and called out the rhythm: "1/2 raise your hand! Take a deep breath! Tighten your abdomen! Press your feet hard, straighten, and bend down."

Jiang Shen didn't dare to err on the sidelines, and followed Song Xin's movements. Teacher Lin walked up to him and put his palms on his back: "Straighten up, don't lower your neck."

Jiang Shen did as he did, his toes were so tense that he stopped halfway and dared not let it go.

Teacher Lin looked up at him: "Can you hold on?"

Jiang Shen nodded vigorously: "Yes."

Teacher Lin laughed: "It's so cute."

In fact, a class is only more than 2 hours. After dancing, Jiang Shen can't occupy the dance room to continue practicing. He dare not do it first, and the second bus will be gone.

It took a long time for the girl to change clothes, so he took advantage of this time to practice what he learned today again. Teacher Lin came in after changing clothes and saw Jiang Shen lying on the ground with his legs upright shaking and memorizing things.

Teacher Lin leaned over and asked, "What are you writing?"

It was too late for Jiang Shen to hide the book, he stood up, blushing a little: "That "The Moon Reflected in the Second Spring" and "Sleeping Beauty"..."

Teacher Lin understood: "I'll bring my computer tomorrow, how about showing it to you?"

Jiang Shen's eyes brightened: "Really?"

Teacher Lin couldn't laugh or cry: "Of course it's true."

After changing her clothes, Song Xin happened to come in. Seeing that Jiang Shen was still there, she said happily, "Will you clean up with me?"

Of course Jiang Shen was eager. He checked the time, quickly changed his clothes, and went to the storage room to get a mop and broom. While walking through the corridor with a bucket in hand, the boxing gym on the opposite side suddenly opened the door, and a person came out.

Bai Jinyi was sweating all over, probably because he had just taken off his headgear. His sticky hair was piled up in uneven layers. His gloves were not taken off. When he looked up, he saw Jiang Shen.

Bai Jinyi: "..."

Jiang Shen flinched, and mustered up the courage to say hello: "You, hello."

Bai Jin frowned: "Who are you?"

Jiang Shen said honestly: "I learned to dance next door."

Bai Jin raised his thick black eyebrows: "Little swan?"

Jiang Shen blinked.

Bai Jinyi: "Swans still have males?"

Jiang Shen didn't know how to answer this question. He held the bucket in both hands and looked at him weakly.

A voice came from inside the boxing gym: "Hey, who is Bai Erdai talking to?"

Bai Jinyi's expression turned cold, he turned around, blocked Jiang Shen with his whole body, and said in a mocking voice, "You still want to fight?" After speaking, he turned his head and said impatiently to Jiang Shen, "What are you doing here? ?”

Of course Jiang Shen didn't want to cause trouble, he bowed his back, and ran away with water in a desperate manner. After he couldn't see Bai Jinyi completely, he got entangled again and forgot to say thank you just now.

"What are you doing?" Song Xin looked at him holding a rag, "Who did you meet?"

Jiang Shen thought for a while and said: "I met someone from the boxing gym."

Song Xin asked curiously, "Which one?"

Jiang Shen made a gesture of his own height: "It's about the same height as me, call, Bai, the second generation of Bai?"

Song Xin made a long "oh" sound: "Bai Jinyi, he's from the foreign language school, that's the one we're talking about who is very fierce and glaring. Does he have particularly thick eyebrows?"

Jiang Shen touched his eyebrows subconsciously.

"Don't pay attention to him when you see him in the future." Song Xin raised her chin proudly, "We are all little fairies, understand?"

Jiang Shen didn't catch the last bus until late at night. He was so tired that he didn't want to move with dancing shoes hanging around his neck. He sat all the way in the countryside where he almost fell asleep. Slowly swallowed the car with eyes closed.

The small bookstore in the town was still open, and Jiang Shen jumped in following the shadow of the street lamp. The old man was smoking a cigarette, and looked up at him: "Are you back?"

Jiang Shen took off the dancing shoes hanging around his neck: "I'm back, Grandpa, do you know "The Moon Reflected in the Second Spring" and "Sleeping Beauty"?"

"What?" The old man's eyes widened. "A blind man, Bing, told a fairy tale. Why do you ask this?"

Jiang Shen: "No, the one dancing."

The old man sighed: "What a mess." He complained, paused, and said, "Wait a minute."

Jiang Shen obediently waited outside.

The old man went in and searched for a long time, and came out with a copy of "Chinese Ballet and Opera Encyclopedia".

"Do you want to see it with me?" asked the old man.

Jiang Shen was a little embarrassed: "I haven't eaten yet..."

The old man urged him: "Come back after dinner, I will save my book for you."

Jiang Shen took a deep breath and moved, "Grandpa, you are so kind! Grandpa, I will beat your legs later!"

The old man knocked on the cigarette rod and said angrily: "Get out of here, you bastard! I was almost limped by you before!"

Tan Lingling had cooked dinner long ago and was waiting for her son. Jiang Shen shouted to wash his hands as soon as he got home. Jiang Luoshan had already served the table, peeling peanuts and throwing them to Tony at the courtyard gate.

The pheasant was happy to eat, and it really jumped up and down, spreading its wings and fluttering, and flicking its colorful tail like Yangko. Tan Lingling saw Dole and said, "Look, our chickens are all talented in dancing."

Jiang Luoshan couldn't help beating his daughter-in-law: "Where is this going? Are you dancing to the sound of chickens?"

Tan Lingling rolled her eyes: "I'm uneducated, just use idioms."

Jiang Shen was thinking about the book, and he wanted to pour it into his mouth when he ate. Tan Lingling couldn't help it: "Slow down, what are you doing?"

Jiang Shen stuffed his mouth and said inarticulately, "Go to Su (book) store and read Su (book)."

Jiang Luoshan frowned: "Didn't you say you don't want to read comic books? Why are you still going?"

Jiang Shen finally swallowed the meal: "It's not a comic book, it's about dancing."

Tan Lingling: "What did you practice today? Is it difficult?"

"It's not difficult." Jiang Shen put down the bowl and wanted to leave as soon as he wiped his mouth, "I'm going."

As a result, the dog hair came to him before he ran out of the yard.

"Where are you going?" I don't know what trend has affected Gou Mao recently, and he refuses to cut his hair. Now his bangs are almost covering his eyes, and he can hardly recognize it at night. "Where's the chicken?"

Jiang Shen pointed to the yard and shouted, "Tony!"

The pheasant raised its neck "swish" and croaked vigorously.

Gou Mao was taken aback: "What are you calling?! I made sure it was there, and I didn't ask you to call it out!"

Jiang Shen: "It doesn't peck people now, but it's good, and let me hug it."

Gou Mao snorted: "You are sick and like a chicken."

Jiang Shen was too lazy to quarrel with him, afraid that the old man in the bookstore would not wait for him if he went late, but Gou Mao couldn't go with him, so he asked patiently, "Why are you here?"

Gou Mao seemed to have finally remembered what was going on, flicked his bangs, and finally revealed his eyes: "Want to go to the movies?"

Of course Jiang Shen was not happy: "Where is Qing Lingzi?"

Gou Mao snorted: "Abducted by Shu Bao." After finishing speaking, he seemed to be unconvinced, and said angrily, "Shu Bao used to call her a girl, but now it hurts so much."

Seeing his posture, Jiang Shen thought that he was destined to be unable to get rid of it tonight, so he had no choice but to say: "I'm going to the bookstore, will you come?"

Gou Mao stretched his arms around his shoulders, and said glibly, "Come on! Brother loves you so much!"

Jiang Shen: "..."

The old man left a light on the door curtain, and when he saw Jiang Shen coming, he was about to get up and turn on the light inside, but when he saw the dog hair behind him, he pulled his face down.

Gou Mao has a thick skin: "Grandpa is good."

"Okay you ghost!" The old man took the waste newspaper and threw it at him, "Tell me about you! How many books do you owe me? Where are the books?!"

Dog fur covered her hair and pretended to be pitiful: "It's not like you don't know my mother's temper!"

The old man blew his beard angrily: "Miao Hua'er still has to call me uncle!"

"Yes!" Gou Mao perfunctory, "You teach her for me?"

The old man spat: "Unfilial son!"

Gou Mao only pretended that he was deaf and squeezed into the store. He also liked to read comics, so he got into the innermost place as soon as he was short.

The old man was so angry that his chest was panting. Jiang Shen was really afraid of causing disaster, so he rolled up his sleeves preemptively and was about to beat his legs. Bar?!"

Jiang Shen muttered pitifully: "No..."

The old man threw the book to him: "Go away and read it!"

Jiang Shen immediately took the book, and happily ran to the side.

Old man: "..."

Because he was afraid that the dog hair would come out suddenly and find that he was reading a dance book, Jiang Shen deliberately took out another comic book and put it under the book. After confirming several times that Gou Mao didn't have time to take care of himself for a while, Jiang Shen felt relieved and turned it over seriously.

After an unknown amount of time, the old man looked back at the child.

Jiang Shen was fascinated by it, and he didn't know what he saw. He sniffed while turning the pages, and his eyes turned red.

The old man adjusted his glasses, smiled silently, and flipped the desk lamp in the corner very lightly.

The hazy yellow light shone on half of Jiang Shen's face, and the silhouette of his eyelashes was reflected cleanly on the book.