That night, it snowed all night in City A, and the temperature dropped a few degrees without anyone noticing. Because it was the last day at school and the exams had just ended, the school deliberately set aside the morning for the students to pack up so that they could leave with their suitcases after the parent-teacher meeting in the afternoon.
Chu Qing didn't wake up until after nine o'clock. She stayed in bed for a while before slowly getting up. When she ran to the balcony to wash up, the wind outside blew in through the window. She couldn't help but shiver. She squinted her eyes and looked outside. Only then did she realize that the world outside was already covered in snow.
Chu Qing's eyes lit up, and she finished washing up in the shortest possible time. She turned around and ran back to the house to call Qi Muyang: "Call the traitors and let's go down and have a snowball fight together."
"No, I have to pack my things. There are too many things to take home." Qi Muyang said lazily.
Chu Qing was dissatisfied: "Why are you in such a hurry? It will be the same if you clean up in the afternoon."
"No, I have to attend a parent-teacher meeting with my grandmother in the afternoon. I don't have time." Qi Muyang refused.
Chu Qing then remembered that there was a parent-teacher conference and immediately said sourly, "You are so awesome! My mom didn't even hold a parent-teacher conference for me, but she held one for you."
Qi Muyang paused for a moment, knowing that his mother's old illness had come back, and sighed helplessly and said, "I'll take the time to pack the things at noon. Let's go downstairs and play snowballs. Wear something thicker."
"Okay!" Chu Qing was happy again. She quickly tied her hair into a high ponytail, took out her thickest down jacket, and ran downstairs fully armed.
Although she went out quickly, she was not faster than that group of elementary school kids. When she got downstairs, Qi Muyang and others were already waiting for her. What was surprising was that not only Gu Quan came, but Qi Weichen was also there.
"Good morning, Mr. Chu." Chen Xiu greeted him obediently. In just a short while, the tip of her nose had turned red from the cold.
Chu Qing laughed: "You want to play too?"
"I'm very powerful, don't underestimate me." Chen Xiu knew what she wanted to say as soon as he heard it, and immediately said unconvinced.
Chu Qing glanced at him sideways, and finally her eyes fell on Qi Weichen: "Are you participating too?"
"A game for elementary school students." Qi Weichen commented calmly and stood aside.
Chu Qing knew that he would not participate, and did not intend to persuade him. She picked up a piece of snow from the ground and threw it directly at Gu Quan. Gu Quan was stunned for a moment, and immediately fought back, and a melee began. Qi Muyang naturally wanted to follow his mother, so he hit Gu Quan without hesitation, but accidentally hit the fat man and the traitor.
The two refused to give in and defected to Gu Quan's team. Seeing this, Chen Xiu quickly joined Qi Muyang and the other two and officially began the confrontation. Several people laughed and screamed from time to time, with wanton smiles on their faces. Even Chen Xiu laughed loudly, which was rare.
Perhaps it was because those few people were too contagious, more and more people joined in the melee, and it finally became a carnival for all the students in the dormitory. Qi Weichen stood quietly in the corner, watching Chu Qing and Qi Muyang throwing snowballs at others, or being hit by others, with the smile in his eyes almost gone. For the first time, he felt that elementary school students' games were not bad.
Chu Qing's face was almost frozen from laughing. When she looked up, she met Qi Weichen's smiling eyes and immediately threw a snowball at him with ill intentions. Qi Weichen paused for a moment, and the next second someone rushed over, and he subconsciously hugged the person.
"Yohoo!"
Someone screamed, and suddenly there was a jeer from the surroundings. Chu Qing buried her face in his arms embarrassedly, and said in a low voice with regret: "I was too excited just now, what should I do..."
This is so embarrassing. Is she out of her mind? She actually asked Qi Weichen for a hug in front of so many people.
"Do you regret it?" Qi Weichen asked.
Chu Qing said unhappily: "Nonsense!"
"Then close your eyes."
Chu Qing paused: "What are you going to do?"
"run."
After Qi Weichen finished speaking, he took her hand and ran out of the dormitory gate. The people who had been making the fuss reacted and started throwing snowballs at them with laughter. The two of them held hands in the midst of the snowballs and ran out laughing.
Qi Muyang looked at their gradually disappearing backs with a sour look on his face, and suddenly he felt that the snowball in his hand no longer tasted good.
"Boss, I'm sorry for your condolences." The little fat boy looked sympathetic. It was so tragic that his half brother was in love with his half sister.
Qi Muyang forced himself to glance at him: "I'm fine, why are you mourning?"
Gu Quan couldn't help but sneer when he heard this. Qi Muyang immediately got angry and rolled up a snowball and threw it at him. Gu Quan didn't want to suffer this loss and immediately started to fight back. The little fat man and the treacherous minister rejoined the war. Only Chen Xiu was in a daze, "When did they get together?"
Chu Qing and Qi Weichen ran a long way before stopping. Chu Qing smiled widely but couldn't help complaining, "Why didn't you refuse me when I pounced on you just now?"
"I can't refuse." Although the weather was freezing, Qi Weichen's eyes were as warm as spring.
Chu Qing thought of the people's teasing just now and her face turned red again: "It's good now. The whole world knows that we are dating."
"That's good. At least no one will force things upon you anymore." Qi Weichen obviously still remembered the love letter.
Chu Qing looked at him helplessly and couldn't help laughing for a while.
"What are you two doing here?"
When the head teacher's voice sounded, Chu Qing quickly looked over and laughed unnaturally, "We..." Just as she was stuttering, she saw the large piece of paper in her hand and saw that the two of them had accidentally run to the bulletin board. She immediately had an idea, "We are waiting to see the ranking."
"You are the only one who can make up lies." The head teacher sneered, but didn't intend to argue with her. "Since you saw it, come and help."
"Okay, teacher." Chu Qing hurried forward to help. Qi Weichen went over before her and posted the rankings with the head teacher. Chu Qing had no choice but to pass the two of them some tape or something, and after they were posted, she would look at the first position first.
The head teacher said unhappily, "Don't look. I had already checked when I came here. Qi Weichen is still number one. If you have the time, you should look for your own name."
After her thoughts were exposed by the head teacher, Chu Qing smiled embarrassedly and really started to look for her name, but she started from the last name and looked upwards.
"Look at your potential." The head teacher said to her with a smile and began to look at the ranking seriously.
Qi Weichen quietly started looking from the front row, and the three of them fell silent. Chu Qing became more and more nervous as she looked up. When she found the position of the 700th person, her heartbeat became much faster. When she found the position of the 600th person, her fingers were shaking. After a long silence, she exclaimed.
"How about it?"
"How many?"
Qi Weichen and the head teacher spoke at the same time. Chu Qing looked at them with sparkling eyes: "I found Chen Xiu's ranking, 623, which is more than a hundred places higher than last time."
"He's really got it this time," the head teacher was pleased. "What about yours? Haven't found it yet?"
"No."
As soon as Chu Qing finished speaking, Qi Weichen said calmly: "Found it."
The head teacher and Chu Qing immediately looked at him. Qi Weichen turned his head to look at Chu Qing, with a clear smile in his eyes: "Mu Yang 417, you 485."
Chu Qing opened her eyes wide in shock, and after a while she cheered and rushed towards him. Qi Weichen hugged her with a smile in his eyes.
“Hey...you two!” The head teacher was so angry that he glared at them for a long time. In the end, he pretended that he saw nothing and walked away with a stern face.
Chu Qing's excitement wore off, and she began to worry again: "Now it's over, not only do our classmates know that we are having an affair, but even our class teacher knows about it."
"Are you scared?" Qi Weichen asked.
Chu Qing thought about it and smiled: "Don't be afraid."
Qi Weichen rubbed her hair and talked to her for a while. Until more and more people gathered in front of the bulletin board, the two of them went to find Qi Muyang and told him about his grades.
When Qi Muyang heard about his results, he was so excited that he secretly called his grandmother to tell her the good news without waiting for the parent-teacher meeting. His grandmother praised him a lot.
After a noisy morning, the parents' meeting finally arrived. Chu Qing sneaked into the boys' dormitory to find Qi Weichen again, and sat on the balcony, listening absent-mindedly to the noise coming from the auditorium.
"Want to go?" Qi Weichen asked.
Chu Qing pursed her lips and answered honestly after a while: "I want to see what my mother will look like in 20 years, but I'm a little scared... She loves beauty so much, she shouldn't be too old, right?"
Qi Weichen patted her shoulder comfortingly: "Go and take a look and you will know."
"... Is it okay?" Chu Qing was a little nervous.
Qi Weichen nodded slightly: "Let Mu Yang find a way to get her out of the auditorium, and you hide in the corner and watch."
Chu Qing was moved, so she took Qi Weichen outside the auditorium and waited nervously in a corner. Qi Weichen had already sent a text message to Qi Muyang, and reminded him again after they arrived.
"Can Qi Muyang bring the person out?" Chu Qing looked nervous.
Qi Weichen said slowly: "He said that if he pretended to lose his phone and asked grandma to go out with him to look for it, it should be fine."
As soon as he finished speaking, Qi Muyang came out. When he glanced at the corner, his eyes accidentally met Chu Qing's, and Chu Qing immediately shrank back. Qi Muyang nodded calmly, and then when the old lady came out, she immediately said nervously, "It fell nearby."
"Are you sure? You are so careless." The old lady with gray hair on her temples scolded Qi Muyang anxiously and unhappily.
Qi Muyang immediately acted like a spoiled child: "Good grandma, please help me find it first, don't rush to scold me."
"Okay, okay, I'll help you find it. If you can't find it, grandma will give you another one. It's not a big deal." The old lady's expression improved after being coaxed, and she was too lazy to argue with him.
Qi Weichen hid in the corner and watched the interaction between the grandparents and grandchildren. Then he realized that the little girl next to him was too quiet. He paused and looked over, only to see Chu Qing crying silently.
Realizing that Qi Weichen was looking at her, Chu Qing sniffed and choked up softly, "Her hair has turned white, and her height seems to have shrunk. She used to be so strong, but now she looks so thin and small. Has she really turned into an old lady?"
When she heard her voice on the phone before, she couldn't tell her age. But when she saw the wrinkles between her eyebrows and eyes, she suddenly realized that her mother was old. But in her memory, her mother was only in her forties, in the prime of her life, wearing high heels with a fierce look, and the most difficult aunties in the community were afraid of her. But when did she accidentally become an old lady
"People will always grow old. Aging is not a scary thing. When we return to 2019, you will have more than 20 years to slowly go through this process." Qi Weichen whispered to comfort her.
Chu Qing shook her head, tears falling like pearls: "I don't like aging, and I don't like death. I love her so much, and I'm so afraid that she will leave me."
Nothing is more frightening than facing death and aging. Qi Weichen suddenly regretted bringing her to see his mother 20 years later. Just when he didn't know how to comfort her, the old lady took out her cell phone and dialed a number in a few seconds. Then the cell phone rang in Qi Muyang's pocket.
A family of three: “…”
The old lady was silent for a moment, then angrily slapped Qi Muyang on the back. Because hitting like this would easily hurt her hand, she took off one of her snow boots and beat Qi Muyang until he screamed.
Chu Qing: "My mom is really... still as powerful as ever."
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