The Silent World, And Him

Chapter 12

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Today is the happiest day for Pu Chen in the past four or five years. She returned home happily carrying two large bags of stuffed toys she had caught.

Pu Wanli hurriedly opened the glass sliding door for his daughter. The cold wind kept blowing into the room. He touched his daughter's head, feeling sorry for her for not wearing the hood of her down jacket.

Bought so many dolls

Pu Chen: I caught them in the video game arcade. There were a lot of claw machines there. The ones the three of them caught were given to me in the bag.

She didn't say it was given by Qin Yuyiren.

I don't know what's going on, and I feel a little guilty.

Pu Wanli hadn't seen his daughter smile so much in years. This happiness emanated from her heart.

If you like these dolls, go and play with them with your classmates often during holidays.

Pu Chen doesn't plan to go again. Catching dolls is addictive and he can't waste money like that.

It’s no longer fresh if you go there often.

She changed the subject: Dad, have you had dinner

Pu Wanli: I have eaten. I am not busy tonight. I made century egg and lean meat porridge and left a bowl for you as a midnight snack.

Pu Chen put the two bags of dolls on the chair. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew into her neck from behind. She turned around and saw her father opened the door and let the daughter of the owner of the dry cleaning shop next door come in.

The little girl is four years old. She had been lying on the glass door looking inside. Pu Wanli was afraid that she would be cold, so he asked her to go into the house.

"Sister." The little girl saw Pu Chen holding so many toys at the door of her own store just now, and she followed her uncontrollably.

She touched the two big bags of toys, her eyes full of joy, and raised her little head to ask: "Sister, you have so many dolls? Sister, where did you buy so many?"

Pu Chen didn't know how to express it. The little girl knew only a limited number of words and couldn't understand gestures.

She is so old that she wants to have so many dolls, let alone a four-year-old child. Tonight, Qin Yu came out of the video game city with these dolls on his back. Along the way, there were countless girls who envied him and looked back at him every few steps.

Pu Chen gave two of the dolls she had caught to the little girl. The dolls Qin Yu gave her also had these two little bears. She was willing to give away duplicates, but only the ones she had caught. She would not give the ones Qin Yu gave her to anyone else.

The little girl hesitated, wanting to do it but afraid that her mother would scold her.

Pu Chen poked her little face with two little bears and stuffed them into her arms.

The little girl couldn't resist the temptation of the toy and said happily, "Thank you, sister."

At this time, the little girl's mother came over with a serious expression: "Baby, those are my sister's things, you are not allowed to take them."

Pu Chen pointed to his two big bags: It doesn’t matter, there are still so many, I’m the one giving them to her.

As they were old neighbors for many years and they got along well, and the gift was not expensive, the little girl's mother did not refuse. After thanking them repeatedly, she took her daughter back to her store.

Pu Wanli closed the door and said to his daughter: When I have time next time, Dad will catch two little bears for you.

Pu Chen shook her head and quickly explained: I still have the ones I gave to my sister. She pointed to the bag.

Pu Wanli didn't say anything, just smiled.

After finishing the work for the day, he turned off the air conditioner and went home with his daughter.

It was cold, and the streets were quieter than usual.

Pu Wanli put the hat on his daughter's clothes on her and said to her: Your classmates have given you so many dolls, remember to give them gifts in return.

Pu Chen: No need to reply deliberately, just wait for the right opportunity.

After returning home, Pu Chen poured out the dolls and started looking for places to put them. She filled up any empty space on the bedside table and bookshelf, and she also hung a few more on the glass.

The small bedroom instantly becomes cozy.

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The day before returning to school, Lu Baisheng finished his work and went straight to the auto repair shop after leaving school in the evening, where he met Qin Yu at the entrance of the alley.

He looked at Qin Yu: "What are you doing here?"

Qin Yu put one hand in his pocket and played with his phone with the other hand, and asked, "Besides eating here, what else do you think I can do?"

Lu Baisheng was speechless.

The two walked in side by side.

Qin Yu looked at him and said, "But you, you visit the car repair shop every now and then. Do you know how much pressure Pu Chen has to bear when visiting so many homes?"

Lu Bosheng paused for a few seconds before saying, "I don't visit homes every time."

Qin Yu choked him: "If it's not a home visit, are you going to repair the car? Uncle Pu doesn't seem to know how to repair cars."

Lu Baisheng didn't say anything.

Speaking of going to the repair shop, I don't know when it became a part of his job. He comes here at least twice a week. If he comes less often, he feels like he's lost his soul.

Just sitting there, I feel at peace even if I don’t talk about anything.

He couldn't tell Qin Yu more about these.

Pu Wanli was busy at the moment. When he saw Lu Baisheng coming, he put down his work and went into the house to boil water and make tea.

Qin Yu didn't go to eat, but followed Lu Bosheng to the repair shop.

Lu Bosheng turned around and asked in confusion: "Why are you following me if you're not going to eat?"

Qin Yu: "Listen to Mr. Lu's teachings."

Lu Baisheng: "..."

Sooner or later, Qin Yu will anger him to death.

Coincidentally, Pu Chen was also in the store today, reading an old book with great concentration.

Pu Chen was immersed in a book and didn't notice that her father was boiling water to make tea. She only looked up when the light was blocked by a figure at the door.

"Teacher Lu."

Out of habit, she would always smile silently and call out to Lu Baisheng when she saw him.

"What book are you reading?" Lu Baisheng asked with concern.

Pu Chen put the bookmark on it and handed the book to Lu Baisheng. She stood up and took two stools and placed them by the door. Lu Baisheng sat down without hesitation, and Qin Yu sat on the other side.

"This book is good. I have one too. Your version is more precious."

Pu Chen wrote on the whiteboard: Director Sun lent it to me.

Lu Baisheng nodded. He had heard that Director Sun had a large collection of books at home.

Pu Wanli made two cups of hot tea and brought them over, placing them on the movable low table next to him.

"Thank you, uncle." Qin Yu said this only to remember that Pu Wanli couldn't hear any sound at all.

Lu Baisheng told Pu Wanli in sign language that he came by today and had nothing to do, so he chatted casually with Pu Chen and told him to go about his own business. Then he remembered to introduce Qin Yu, saying that he was his relative's child.

Originally, he wanted to say that Qin's grandfather's family and his family were old friends, but he didn't know such complicated sign language, and it would be troublesome to beat around the bush, so he just said they were relatives.

Pu Wanli was in a hurry to repair someone's car. With his daughter chatting with them, he could focus on his work.

Qin Yu was curious: "How do you know sign language?"

Lu Bosheng: "I learned it from Pu Chen's father."

Qin Yu nodded thoughtfully. He found that Lu Baisheng could always break his cognition. In such an impetuous society, Lu Baisheng could put aside everything in the world of fame and fortune and come here to be a teacher. Now he has also learned sign language.

He never drinks tea, but today he followed Lu Baisheng's example, picked up the teacup, blew on it, and planned to taste it carefully.

Teacher Lu, are the final grades out? Pu Chen is looking forward to his score.

Lu Bosheng took a sip of tea. "The total scores and rankings just came out this afternoon. You ranked 25th in the class, an improvement of 10 places. You scored 128 in English, which is pretty good."

Pu Chen couldn't wait to run outside to share the good news with his father.

Pu Wanli was wearing gloves that were covered in black engine oil. He touched his daughter's head with his wrist, expressing his happiness for her great progress and wanting to thank Teacher Lu.

It was windy outside, so he urged his daughter to go inside.

Inside the room, Lu Bosheng was scolding Qin Yu: "Look at your score, you are getting more and more capable."

Pu Chen pushed the door open and Lu Baisheng stopped him in time.

Teacher Lu, who is the first in the grade this time? Pu Chen was afraid that Lu Bosheng would scold Qin Yu again, so he found a topic to help him out.

Lu Bosheng said: "Peng Jingyang from Class 1 scored full marks in physics and chemistry, but lost two points in mathematics." This was all he remembered.

So amazing.

Pu Chen then asked Lu Baisheng: How much did he score in English

Lu Bosheng thought about Peng Jingyang's English: "It seems to be 145, I can't remember clearly."

Qin Yu leaned against the wall and looked at Pu Chen. She was interested in everything related to Peng Jingyang.

"Sister?" At this time, a soft little girl's voice came from outside the door.

Several people looked over there.

It was the daughter of the owner of the dry cleaning shop next door. The little girl was holding two teddy bears and resting her forehead against the glass door, looking inside to see if Pu Chen was there.

Pu Chen waved to her, and the little girl found her and immediately smiled happily, "Sister!"

Lu Baisheng sat next to the door. He motioned for the little girl to stand still and gently pushed open the glass door.

The little girl looked at Lu Baisheng and then at Qin Yu, and walked timidly to Pu Chen: "Sister." She hugged the two little bears with one hand, and used her free hand to take out two pieces of chocolate from her pocket.

The chocolate was given to her by a kid from kindergarten for her birthday today, but she couldn't bear to eat it and saved it for Pu Chen.

"Sister, here you go. Thank you for the little bear."

Pu Chen smiled and made a heart shape to her.

The little girl looked up and saw her big brother, who was sitting against the wall, staring at the toy bear in her arms, which she was holding tightly.

Qin Yu recognized the two little bears. He caught two of them at the time. They were different colors and wore different clothes. He put them together as a pair and then passed them to the hands of a child.

The little girl thought Qin Yu was going to snatch her toy, so she ran away in fear.

Lu Baisheng sat in the store for a while, and after finishing a cup of tea, he said goodbye to Qin Yu.

After coming out of the store, he asked Qin Yu what he wanted to eat in the evening and he would treat him.

Qin Yu: “Not hungry.” No appetite.

He had worked so hard to catch the little bear, but she didn't cherish it at all and just gave it away.

If it was given to her by Peng Jingyang, she would definitely treat it as a treasure.

Lu Bosheng looked at him: "Are you really not hungry?"

"Yeah." Qin Yu didn't plan to eat and went home to play games.

Seeing that he didn't seem to be joking, Lu Bosheng believed him.

Before reaching the entrance of the alley, Qin Yu received a message from Pu Chen. She explained: The two little bears I gave to the little girl next door were caught by myself, and the doll you gave me is at home.

Qin Yu was so focused on her mood that day that he didn't notice that the dolls in her arms were also two little bears. It turned out that he had misunderstood her.

He replied: It doesn’t matter, the little girl is so young, you can give it to her even if it’s a toy I give you.

He looked up and said to Lu Bosheng, "Teacher Lu, I'm hungry again. I'll treat you."

Lu Baisheng stopped and looked at him with a frown, "What's wrong with you, kid? One moment you're not hungry, the next moment you're hungry again."

Qin Yu: "Just think I'm sick."

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The next day, the day to go back to school.

You don’t have to attend morning reading classes, just arrive at school at 8 o’clock.

Pu Chen knew her score in advance, and now she sat in her seat with peace of mind reading the book lent to her by Director Sun. She had already finished two books, and this was the third one.

Qin Yu was still the last one to arrive in the class. Lu Baisheng walked into the classroom from the front door, and he came in from the back door as the bell rang.

The classroom fell silent, and Lu Bosheng briefly analyzed the results of the final exam. The average scores of each subject in their class had improved, especially English. Except for the two intensive classes, their average score was third, and the number of students with high scores was much higher than that of other classes.

"I won't report the scores. You can check them for yourselves." Lu Baisheng held the report card in his hand. On it was the grades in each subject, total score, and class and grade ranking of everyone in the class. He made four copies, one for each row.

"Write down your score and pass it on." He handed out the report cards to the first row.

After Pu Chen got the transcript, he took a photo with his mobile phone and handed it to Qin Yu.

After looking at her own grades, she began to look for Qin Yu's test scores. She always remembered the bet she made with Qin Yu that if he scored 80 points in math, physics, chemistry and English, she would write his winter vacation homework.

Qin Yu's name was easy to find. He was the last in the class and ranked more than 1,000 in the grade. With him, Zhao Shu no longer had to worry about her grades being at the bottom.

Pu Chen felt unhappy when he saw Qin Yu's grades in various subjects. How did he manage to get 80 points in all four subjects, including math, physics, chemistry and English

She turned quietly to look at him.

Qin Yu asked: "What's wrong?"

Before Pu Chen could type, Lu Baisheng called Qin Yu to go outside.

Lu Baisheng went straight to the point: "I saw your test paper. For the four subjects, you got one correct question in the first 80 points, but one wrong question in the last one." He was probably afraid of the good points. In the English composition, nine out of ten words were wrong, and none of the grammar was correct. It was completely irrelevant.

What made Lu Bosheng angry was: "Since you did it seriously and figured out the correct answer, why didn't you choose the right option instead of the wrong one?"

Qin Yu lay on the guardrail, remaining silent.

Lu Baisheng calmed down for a moment and realized that he had acted too hastily. In this final exam, Qin Yu did not fill in the correct answers on the test paper, but he carefully went through the questions on the draft paper.

This is a good phenomenon.

It's just that he's still struggling with himself and feels that nothing is interesting.

"I have asked around and found out that Chen Zhilun's daughter is already seeing a psychiatrist. Chen Zhilun may have come to his senses and is spending half a day at the company and half at home accompanying his daughter."

"Qin Yu, this is an emotional entanglement between adults. It's not your fault, nor is it the girl's fault. Don't be stupid again. Don't punish yourself with your life and your future."

After a long while, Qin Yu said, "I didn't punish myself."

Lu Bosheng apologized: "I used the wrong words. You two kids found the wrong outlet. But it's a good thing to be able to vent the emotions that have been pent up for so many years."

Qin Yu suddenly sighed, "I finally see it clearly. Only when I was lying in the emergency room with my life or death uncertain, my father and mother could completely put down their work and feelings, and not care about anything else but stay by my side in the hospital."

It must have been true that they were sad and worried at that time.

But when he woke up after the operation and was no longer in danger of life, they only stayed with him in the hospital for half a day, and then went on with their other tasks. They went to the hospital three times in one month.

These are his parents.

Lu Bosheng asked: "Have you figured it out?"

Qin Yu said "hmm", and it was only in these few days that he finally figured it out.

Even if his mother still wanted to marry Chen Zhilun, it had nothing to do with him.

As for my father, if he wants to get married for the fourth time, that is his freedom. Just like my father said, he has not violated the law or violated the moral bottom line, and he cannot fall in love and get married if he is single.

Lu Baisheng didn't say anything, not knowing what to say.

"Teacher Lu," Qin Yu turned his head to look at Lu Bosheng, "I decided to do a new thing for your sake. I will start from next semester and study hard to become a top student."

Lu Baisheng laughed dumbly: "Thank you for thinking highly of me." He said casually: "You never cared about whether someone was a top student or not."

Qin Yu didn't say much.

He really didn't care before.

But now, he wanted to be a good student for Pu Chen so that she could ask him questions at any time.