4. Fire fire fire fire
After cleaning up the art building, Dongzhi took a detour to remove the garbage. He returned to the class before ringing the bell.
I didn't communicate much with the person on the stone bench.
He had a few words with Dongzhi, and saw that Dongzhi was not interested in chatting, so he lay back lazy soon.
The girl at the table slanted back was working hard, and Dongzhi went to have dinner, picked up her money, and helped her bring back one. But she returned a little later, and when she stepped into the classroom, there were only a few minutes left to ring the bell after the evening study.
The other party did not dislike him, so he hurriedly took it and thanked him one by one, and continued to rush while eating.
The class teacher appeared in the first class of evening self-study, just like usual. The difference is that he only showed his face and stared for a while and then handed over the class monitor to the discipline. This time he brought someone to him.
"A new student has come and I will stay in our class for a while. Welcome."
The class teacher led the students to applaud on the podium and asked the transfer students to introduce themselves.
The boy stood in front of the podium, his body was similar to the head teacher of 178, and he looked a little taller. He had a pair of eyes, but his eyes were single, and his whole face had the best nose. He looked better than not smiling.
The whole class sat and needed to look up slightly before looking at him. Dongzhi glanced at him when he stood in front of the podium. He seemed to see her, just like looking at others, the look of her was no different.
In the afternoon, he was lying on a stone bench in front of the art building, which was similar to now, and he was a little lazy. Especially when he smiled, there was no nervousness in his bones.
"Hello everyone, I will be classmates in the future. Please take care of me." He picked up a piece of chalk, turned around and wrote two words on the blackboard, turned around and smiled and said to everyone, "This is my name. I'm too lazy to read it. Everyone can remember it casually, it's okay if you can't remember it."
A slight laughter rang out in the class.
The two words on the blackboard are thin and written as: Wen Cen.
Wen Cen was arranged to sit in the penultimate row, and there was no place in front, so this was the space left to be made after moving back and forth.
He had no objection, and it was probably the same for him wherever he sat. After coming down from the podium, he carried a schoolbag that looked like he didn't have a lot of stuff to the back seat.
After passing by Dongzhi, his elbow accidentally touched the pencil bag at the corner of the table to the ground. He squatted down and put the things back into the pencil bag and put them back on her table.
"I'm sorry."
He smiled at Dongzhi, and Dongzhi only felt that he was tall. As soon as he stood up, the light in front of her was not that bright.
"It's okay," she said.
He lowered his head, patted the bottom of his schoolbag because the dust stained with squatted down, and walked to his seat.
...
On Tuesday afternoon, Dongzhi went home to have supper. The supper we ate at home has always been simple. In less than five minutes, Dongzhi finished his meal, put down his bowls and chopsticks and went to help Dong Qinsao.
When Dong Qinsao was on duty, she didn't have to speak. Dong Zhi would take the initiative to share what she could, but she always urged Dong Zhi to gradually develop the habit of eating at home.
The Chen family's kitchen is very large, and it is a short distance away from the main hall. No matter how far or near it, the fireworks will never float over.
Dongzhi was picking vegetables and leaves. Dong Qinsao went to the reserve room to find something. As soon as she left the kitchen door, Chen came in.
Hearing the sound, Dongzhi looked up and saw that it was him. He stopped for a moment and then followed.
Chen squatted down beside her, pursed his lips, "Dongzhi."
She didn't say anything.
Chen didn't say loudly, "Are you angry?"
Dongzhi picked a leaf of vegetable and threw it into the pot as an answer.
"I just don't want you to have a conflict with him. He is a boy, and there are so many people, you will definitely be bullied by yourself." Chen explained in a gentle voice, "I... I really shouldn't have treated you badly before I asked the story. I was just a little anxious. You refused to answer, so I..."
"Okay, I understand." Dongzhi interrupted and gently pushed his arm, afraid that his clothes would be stained by the back of his hands. "You go out, my mom will be back soon."
"If you don't get angry with me, I'll leave."
"..." Dong Zhi lowered his eyes, picked another leaf, and said lightly, "I'm not angry anymore, you go."
Chen stared at her side face, and she looked over, "You haven't gone out yet, do you want me to be scolded?"
He took something out of his pocket—the bracelet.
"You put it on, I bought it for you."
“I don’t wear it.”
"Why?"
"If you don't wear it, you won't wear it, there's no reason."
"...Is it because Zhao Lijie also bought the same one?" Chen was not stupid. Although something in the school became popular and almost every girl had one, there were people who didn't like to use the same things as others. He said, "Then I'll buy you another one, change the color? Or change the style?"
"No."
"If you don't like this one, then change it to something else." He insisted on making something on her wrist.
Dongzhi wanted to ask him why he had to give her things, but Dongqin's wife thought she was coming back soon, so she would not say anything about Chen, but she would blame Dongzhi for calling Chen to such a place.
Should Chen come to the kitchen?
Of course not.
Dong Zhi had no choice but to take the bracelet from his hand, "Okay, just this one, you go out!"
"You put it on and I'll leave."
She had no choice but to throw down the vegetable leaves and put the bracelet on her wrist, "Is that OK?"
Chen then smiled. It seemed that she accepted it, which meant that she was really no longer angry and that the matter was completely overturned.
"Then I'll leave."
Dongzhi lowered his head and continued to work hard, saying "yes" without hesitation.
Chen walked out, fell back, and leaned in from outside the kitchen half of his body.
Dongzhi squatted and looked at him with his head raised.
Before she could speak, Chen smiled before she could drive him, and told him: "It looks great, don't take it off."
...
After getting Dongzhi's answer, Chen left his stuff and went to find Dongzhi after school for three days.
When Mrs. Dong Qin was not on duty, he walked around her yard from the back door to stay for a while, and rushed back before being seen by his mother. When Mrs. Dong Qin was on duty, Chen sneaked into the kitchen.
Dongzhi never let him help him work, and even if he thought about it, she would not be willing. He could only squat beside him and say a few words to her, but Dongzhi was not a person who could chat with people in a passionate manner - at least not now. After saying a few words, he had nothing to say.
It was almost the day off, and school was over that afternoon. Dongzhi and a few classmates were called by the teacher to the science and technology building to help organize things. After returning home, all the people in the class had been exposed.
She packed up and left, and only had a book in her schoolbag that she planned to take back to read while eating, and she could carry it with one hand.
He was almost called at the school gate, and Chen ran over from the flower bed.
"I've been looking for you for a long time, why can't your phone be connected?"
Dongzhi glanced down at his pocket, and had no intention of taking it out, saying: "Conference Mode."
"I went to your class and couldn't find you." Chen said, "Okay, go for dinner."
Dongzhi frowned. He saw her confusion and said, "I went to the provincial capital to participate in the national mathematics competition. The results of the selection came out. I won the first prize and celebrate."
"I have to go home..."
"I have called Mrs. Qin and told her that it's okay." Chen reached out and took her schoolbag, "Let's go."
Dongzhi hesitated for a moment. She had never had dinner with him at school, whether it was on-campus canteen or off-campus small restaurant.
He had already walked out with her schoolbag for a few steps. Seeing him looking back, Dongzhi slowly followed.
When I walked to the other side of the school gate, the shop that Chen said was not far away. Zhao Lijie stood by the roadside waiting for them. To be precise, she should have been waiting for Chen Ji.
"Here--" Zhao Lijie smiled and waved at the two of them.
Dongzhi followed Chen and took his schoolbag back from Chen.
Chen lowered his head and glanced, letting go.
Zhao Lijie saw him helping Dongzhi come over with her bag, and also saw Dongzhi take the bag back, but she didn't say much. After meeting the two of them, she greeted Dongzhi first, and then talked to Chen.
Their topics are not in the way.
Meet the others and a group of people went into the store to sit down.
There were not many people, seven or eight. Dongzhi and Chen Ju’s friends were not familiar with each other. They were talking and laughing, but she couldn’t get into the conversation, so she quietly wiped the tableware with a tissue.
The dishes were served one after another, and the others were not familiar with Dongzhi and ignored her. They knew that Chen had some friendship with her, but for his sake, they didn't treat her badly.
Dongzhi was Chen Ju on the left, and on the right was a girl wearing glasses. When the chopsticks fell to the ground, Dongzhi's hand was about to help her grab it. She thanked Dongzhi, and then occasionally said a few words to Dongzhi, and Dongzhi was calm and returned.
Halfway through the food, Chen went out to answer the phone.
Zhao Lijie's wrist was exposed inadvertently. A person across the table saw it and thought it looked good, so he asked, "Lijie, your bracelet looks so good."
"Is that?" she said, "I bought it myself, and they all praise it for its good looks!"
Here we were talking about Zhao Lijie's bracelet, and then we saw Dongzhi with a hand on his face. At first glance, it looked exactly the same, but when we looked closely, it was exactly the same.
"The bracelet on Dongzhi's hand is the same as Li Jie's?" The girl who spoke had a good relationship with Zhao Li Jie, and the smile on her mouth was a little less pleasant and vaguely subtle.
Everyone saw it at the table, but the girl wearing glasses next to Dongzhi made a smooth move: "Dongzhi also bought one? It's normal. This style is so beautiful, and girls like it. I think it looks good too."
Dongzhi didn't say anything, and gently pulled the corner of his lower lip at her.
Chen answered the phone and came back, "What are you talking about?"
There was the quick-mouthed one: "I'm talking about the bracelet on Dongzhi's hand."
Chen turned to look at Dongzhi's wrist and saw her wearing the bracelet and bent her lips, "It looks pretty good, right? When I saw it, I thought she was wearing it very suitable, so I bought it for her."
“——You bought it?”
The people on the table looked at him, their minds were different, and most of them were surprised.
I know they know, but I don’t know that they… So that they are so familiar with each other?
Chen didn't think this was anything. Few people knew that he and Dongzhi grew up together, but he was open and honest. After so many years of love, giving Dongzhi a bracelet is nothing.
He said something and did not cover up: "Well, I bought it."
Chapter completed!