He Yu and his friends came out of the studio.
When he went home and passed the big playground, he saw Jiang Xiaozhen walking in front, carrying a garbage bag in each of his left and right hands. The princess dress that has remained unchanged for thousands of years made him quickly recognize her.
Jiang Xiaozhen is fatter than ordinary people, and the shadow reflected by the setting sun is also two circles larger than others. The things she carried were probably not light, and she was walking slowly. The strange black mass followed her closely, like a demon lying on the ground.
He stared at her back, his friend looked at her, and recognized her just as quickly.
"Is that the ugly girl who disgusted us in the cafeteria?"
He Yu glanced at him: "Your speech is too ugly."
The friend didn't understand where the coldness in his eyes came from, so He Yu took the initiative to explain.
"She is an acquaintance of mine."
"Huh?" The friend's jaw dropped in shock, he looked at him and then at the ugly girl, but he couldn't think of these two people together.
He Yu said, "I've known her since I was five years old."
He waved to his friend, and he took a step ahead.
"I'll help her, you go back by yourself."
The friend was at a loss for words, and when he saw He Yu running over, he really started talking to that ugly girl.
"Jiang Mingzhen."
She trembled when she heard these three words.
Turning her head, she saw a handsome guy with a bag on his back, greeting her.
"Live... He Yu."
Jiang Xiaozhen smiled at him: "Hello! It's really a fate, I just found out about our school yesterday, and I met today."
"Hello," he had already walked to her side while speaking, reaching out to pick up her trash: "Are you on duty today? Let me help you."
"I'm a sanitation committee member, and I'm the one who throws out the garbage every day."
She dodged his hand and said, "You don't need your help, the bag is not clean, and you will get dirty later."
"fine."
He Yu directly lifted the garbage bag, releasing the weight from her hands.
Jiang Xiaozhen couldn't say anything more, so she thanked her.
The two walked for a while.
"He Yu," she cleared her throat, and suddenly said, "The next time you see me at school, can you call me Jiang Xiaozhen? I changed my name. Small is small, and Zhen is Zhenzi's Zhen."
"Ah, yes."
He Yu knew about her name change, so he realized that he called her Jiang Mingzhen just now.
However, he wondered: "Why did you change your name?"
"Just... some reasons."
Jiang Xiaozhen spoke vaguely, they happened to reach the trash corner, and she wanted to pick up the trash bag again.
"I'll go in and throw it."
Stretching his legs, He Yu turned into the smelly garbage dump.
"You're waiting for me at the sink."
He took out the trash and they finished washing their hands.
Jiang Xiaozhen raised her glasses, raised her head, and stared at the sky.
"The sunset is beautiful."
He Yu followed her voice.
Sparse clouds gave way to the setting sun, and the distant sky was golden.
"I enjoy this moment most of the day," she said.
The setting sun also wrapped Jiang Xiaozhen in warm orange and orange colors, and the plastic hairpin on her head was shining brightly.
At that moment, He Yu had a strange feeling: he felt that Jiang Xiaozhen in front of him was a little strange.
Probably because of her calmness.
She watched the sunset, just watched quietly, with no expression on her face.
It made her look a lot like a normal person. But precisely because she looks like a normal person, it is not normal for Jiang Xiaozhen.
She looked away and asked He Yu, "Can you wait for me?"
"What's wrong?"
"I'll go back to the classroom to get my schoolbag," Jiang Xiaozhen smiled at him, "As a reward for helping me, I have something for you."
The illusion that she was normal disappeared.
Jiang Xiaozhen's words seemed to be that a young lady was tipping a hard-charging driver for his work. The same is true of her tone, which suddenly makes people feel bad.
He Yu directly rejected her reward: "It's a small effort, no need."
"No, you wait for me."
She put down her words, ran to the teaching building without any rejection, and took her schoolbag.
He Yu had to wait for her.
Soon, Jiang Xiaozhen appeared on the playground with a big schoolbag on her back.
As soon as the schoolbag was placed on the ground, she opened the zipper and pulled out a large plastic bag. As soon as the plastic bag was pulled out, the schoolbag was almost empty, and there were not many books in it.
"Here, you choose."
Jiang Xiaozhen opened the bag to show him, it was full of snacks.
She is very generous: "You can eat as much as you want."
He seemed to be back on Friday when he was in kindergarten. When she was with him, she would let him be the first to share her snacks every time. Many years have passed, and her method of buying people's hearts has not changed at all, but He Yu is no longer the little boy who would cry when he was hungry for snacks.
"No." He refused again.
"If you don't eat it, you will be eaten by others. I will bring new ones to school tomorrow." Jiang Xiaozhen forcefully stuffed an egg yolk pie into his arms.
He Yu didn't understand: "Why?"
"My mother will buy it for me." She stuffed another packet of shrimp crackers.
It would cost a lot of money to buy these things every day... He thought about it, but swallowed the words.
"You take it home, your parents will eat it."
He put the shrimp cracker pie back in her plastic bag.
"They specially asked me to bring friends."
Seeing his firm attitude, it would be boring to push and push, so Jiang Xiaozhen gave up.
"Okay, don't forget it, I'm going to find my friends in the girls' space."
He Yu knew the shop she was talking about, he had seen her and the girls coming out of the shop last time.
Jiang Xiaozhen packed her schoolbag and walked to the school gate with He Yu.
There was two arms' distance between them, and they didn't speak to each other. It was fine when they took out the trash just now, but the atmosphere changed to this in a blink of an eye.
The only tacit understanding between the two is that they want to say goodbye to each other quickly, and they walk faster than the other.
The girls' space, whose outer wall is painted in powder blue, is just across the street.
He Yu stopped and said goodbye to Jiang Xiaozhen.
"Have fun and see you later."
It seems that except her since childhood, everyone thought he was gentle, polite and good-tempered.
But if he was really good-tempered, Jiang Xiaozhen thought, she wouldn't be invincible all over the world, but she would always be so angry with him.
She could feel his politeness with a hint of aloofness that resisted her, it was clearly aloofness, he took a step back to draw the line, and told her from this reserved distance that you are not my kind.
It has been since childhood.
Jiang Xiaozhen didn't say goodbye. He guessed that he didn't accept the things she wanted, and she was dissatisfied with him.
If you don't say it, don't say it, He Yu is going to leave.
She turned her face away, unable to bear it anymore.
Jiang Xiaozhen muttered, she didn't know if he had left or if he was listening.
"At the beginning, I think you have changed a lot compared to when you were a child. When you were a child, you had a round face, like an ordinary steamed bun; when you grow up, you look so good-looking. Your face is angular and not round at all. I saw you twice, and every time I could see that you hesitated to speak, you were not like this when you were young."
"I always remember that you and I are friends."
After a pause, she smiled self-deprecatingly.
"In retrospect, it doesn't seem to be the case, not when I was a child."
Jiang Xiaozhen took a deep breath.
"Forget it, let's go."
"It's not good to spend your parents' hard-earned money." He said anyway.
"Friends can't be bought by spending money on gifts. You should also consider your parents more. In the past, your family had money, and they used to spoil you. They can afford it. Is it still the same now? You can go to this school and how much tuition you paid. Do you know? I saw you, did not cherish the days of school. When you come to this school, you spend your parents’ money to make friends and compare with others. Your schoolbag is full of food and play, and you have no thoughts after school. Study. These are my one-sided speculations, if I am wrong, I am willing to be scolded by you, and I am willing to hear your clarification."
At this moment, He Yu released all the prejudice under gentleness and politeness at once, and the words he said were cruel and poisonous, showing his sharpness.
There was no smile on that pretty face, he raised his chin slightly and said to her.
"If I'm not wrong... To be honest, Jiang Xiaozhen, I look down on you."
Just like the phrase "I will never marry you" more than ten years ago, the tone of He Yu's last sentence made her feel extremely cordial.
"Yes, yes, you are right."
Jiang Xiaozhen shook her head and spoke playfully, her expression was winking, which was extremely exaggerated.
"I don't cherish my school days at all. I don't want to go to school. I just want to make friends and play with them. My life pursuit is to be happy every day. You understand everything correctly, hahaha."
"But the comparison... Are you talking about giving them things? My mother asked me to bring them, and I was helpless. I couldn't finish them. Or did you mean the time in the cafeteria, did you hear me?"
He Yu didn't deny it, so Jiang Xiaozhen continued talking.
"You see we are poor now, but my family was really in good condition before, and what I said is all the truth."
You laugh at others for being unreasonable, but they always have a set of self-consistent logic.
Can't tell who's logic is right or wrong, we're all human, there's no God in it.
It can only be said that people are different, and those who cannot get along are not the same people, so it is better to go their own sunny way.
Compared with the tense He Yu, Jiang Xiaozhen looked more openly. She patted his shoulder with a smile on her face.
"If you don't look down, then look down on it."
She said, "What happens to me is none of your business."
It's really time to go now.
Jiang Xiaozhen said goodbye to him, and crossed the road without looking back.
The powder blue shop exterior matches her powder blue princess dress very well.
He watched her leaving back.
Jiang Xiaozhen bounced up the steps, the lace flowers on her skirt swaying with her steps. She opened the door of the store, and the wind chimes on the door swayed, and the shells, pearls, and feathers shattered into a bunch of notes.
She did look happy.
The instant enjoyment of living in the moment and the delayed happiness of suffering first and then pleasure are all up to personal choice.
She's right, it's none of his business.
He Yu stopped looking, loosened his shoulders, and walked in the opposite direction.
In the shop of Girls' Space, Jiang Xiaozhen's arrival unexpectedly received a great welcome.
"My God, Xiaozhen! Do you know Senior He Yu?"
Her "friends" surrounded her tightly, and through the glass window just now, they all saw that Jiang Xiaozhen was talking to He Yu.
"Yes." Jiang Xiaozhen recognized frankly.
"Ah, really?" The girls stomped their feet excitedly, eager to get some more words from her: "How did you know each other?"
Her words were like a match, igniting their desire to gossip.
Jiang Xiaozhen said honestly, "I've known you since childhood."
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