In Wu Xinyu’s eyes, Chen Qiao is indeed a boy she is relatively familiar with.
It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most familiar to her, and he is also the boy who talks the most on weekdays.
First, the younger brother caught her eye because of his sister’s status.
Because of their duties as persuasion team members, the two of them have been together day and night for almost two years.
They have to stand guard together at the school gate almost every month, not to mention that they are now deskmates.
But in Wu Xinyu’s short life of twelve years, she came to this small town with her parents to study in the second grade and met Chen Qiao, who has always been following her, and this is already half of her life.
As for Chen Qiao, his unfamiliarity was from the perspective of his nearly thirty years of experience.
His encounter and acquaintance with Wu Xinyu was just a flash in the pan.
She disappeared from his world after graduating from elementary school.
The address she left in the student book was the middle school teachers’ dormitory.
She didn’t have a Penguin account, and her phone number was her parents’.
I am not very familiar with her past, future, or even present.
Unlike Tian Zhen, whom I had known since kindergarten, we had been in the same school from junior high school to high school.
Although we gradually lost contact after high school, I only looked for him to exchange gold coins when I got married.
He is not like Penguin netizens like Lin Na.
Even though the two have never chatted, Lin Na will post her own drawings in the space, and occasionally post some depressive and sentimental literary remarks, which she will delete after a day or two.
Finally, one day, all the albums in the Penguin space were locked, and all the remarks were deleted, sealing this dark history.
Chen Qiao also had an experience similar to Lin Na’s.
He posted his own drawings, said some childish lines, liked each other’s posts, and finally deleted all the traces.
What should I do?
Should I apologize if I said something wrong?
Or should I coax her?
Chen Qiao only has experience in coaxing children, and Xinyu is very sensible most of the time and won’t throw tantrums.
But Wu Xinyu seems to be just a little girl?
Although she is smart, she is still a little girl.
“Um… Wu Xinyu, when I say I’m not familiar with you, I mean…” “I don’t want to hear it, you bastard.”
Wu Xinyu covered her ears and shook her head left and right.
Chen Qiao turned to a new page in his notebook and wrote: “We are not good friends yet.”
Chen Qiao pushed the notebook in front of Wu Xinyu.
At first, Wu Xinyu turned her head away and refused to look, but after being angry for about a minute, she blushed a little.
She felt that she was being too childish and a little unreasonable.
Chen Qiao thought it was normal for Wu Xinyu to have a little princess temperament.
Growing up in such a family made her even more adorable.
Of course, this only applies to little Lolita.
Wu Xinyu looked down at what Chen Qiao had written, picked up a pen and wrote back, “It’s definitely not.”
Wu Xinyu felt that her only good friend was Lian Shumei.
They often went to and from school together and were neighbors in middle school.
They had been friends and competitors since childhood.
Their parents often compared them with each other, but Wu Xinyu rarely failed in exams.
Lian Shumei would occasionally stumble in mathematics, and one wrong question would widen the gap.
But after being assigned to a different class in the sixth grade, Lian Shumei got along better with other girls in the new class.
Wu Xinyu’s relationship with her is not as good as before.
Although she still invites Wu Xinyu to go with her after school, they no longer walk together as a group, but as a group.
They talk about love, boys in the class, and TV dramas, which are not topics that Wu Xinyu is interested in.
Ever since Wu Xinyu refused Lian Shumei’s offer to go with her after school that day, she never invited herself again.
When going to school in the morning, she either let Wu Xinyu go first or went alone.
I don’t know if it was Wu Xinyu’s illusion.
Lian Shumei seemed to be avoiding her.
Was Wu Xinyu also reflecting on what she had done to make her unhappy?
I can’t think of it.
Is it because she refused that day?
But isn’t it almost the same with or without her?
“That means there’s a lot of room for improvement in our relationship.”
“Yeah.”
Wu Xinyu nodded and wrote.
“We can get to know each other and become good friends.”
“Are you and Lina good friends?”
Wu Xinyu took the initiative and started asking questions.
“I think so.”
It’s hard to say what Lin Na is thinking.
Maybe she feels that she is not worthy?
“Just good friends?”
“Otherwise, what?” “oh.”
Wu Xinyu, who had always been taciturn, finally spoke.
She wanted to ask if they were in a relationship, but she gave up thinking that Chen Qiao would definitely not admit it.
“Please help me correct what I wrote.”
Chen Qiao showed Wu Xinyu the short paragraph he had just written.
Chen Qiao was not idle either, as he took out another book and continued writing his novel.
“What’s next? Very interesting.”
This is already a very high evaluation.
Chen Qiao expanded the story in later forums, Zhihu and chat groups.
“I’ll write it now.”
“What about the other book? Haven’t you been writing it all the time?” asked the sharp-eyed Wu Xinyu.
“This one is a bit vulgar, you may not like it, and the content is also a bit incomplete.”
“Let me take a look first.”
Wu Xinyu’s desire to read was somewhat aroused.
Just as Chen Qiao said, she was already a little tired of the content for the graduation exam, and she was not in a hurry to learn the junior high school content.
Using junior high school knowledge to solve elementary school problems would be a joke, and it was not recommended.
Even if the result was correct, she would still not get any points in the end.
“Don’t get angry again after reading this.”
Chen Qiao first gave Wu Xinyu a shot of prevention.
“No, it was an accident. I’m sorry. How about I step on your foot too, then we’re even.”
Wu Xinyu said as she stepped over with a blush on her pretty face.
There is a physical education class today.
Wu Xinyu cooperated and put on pink and white sneakers, while Chen Qiao still wore a pair of sandals when going out.
“It’s not good to dirty your shoes. Anyway, you didn’t hurt me. You see…” Chen Qiao didn’t want to step on it, but wanted to touch it, provided that it was washed clean.
He could take off the socks and wash them himself.
My sister reads slowly and would fill in the missing parts in the middle by herself by referring to the context.
But Wu Xinyu was not like that.
She insisted on knowing what happened in the middle and asked Chen Qiao for details.
“You have a younger sister?”
Wu Xinyu asked while reading a novel.
“In the future there will be.”
When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Chen Qiao shook his numb hands and, not caring that the eye exercises were still playing, prepared to go and check on Lin Na immediately.
Wu Xinyu was so absorbed in watching the show that she didn’t even do any eye hygiene and even forgot that she was still sitting on the edge of the bench.
As soon as Chen Qiao stood up, the bench lost its balance and tilted up.
Wu Xinyu screamed “Wow Wow” and slid off the bench, falling heavily to the floor with a dull thud.
Chen Qiao quickly held the bench steady to prevent it from hitting Wu Xinyu and causing secondary injury.
“I’m sorry, I wasn’t paying attention. Are you okay?”
Chen Qiao extended his hand toward Wu Xinyu.
Wu Xinyu, who was supporting herself on the ground with her hands, brushed off the dust on her hands, accepted Chen Qiao’s kindness, and took his hand to stand up from the ground.
Wu Xinyu’s little hands were soft, smooth, and even a little cool, but a little dirty.
It was somewhat similar to the scene on the playground that day, except that the roles were reversed.
“It’s okay… I don’t blame you, I was the one sitting there.”
Wu Xinyu brushed the dust off her butt again, and it still hurt a little.
For a moment, she didn’t dare to sit back in the chair, nor did she want to walk because it hurt if she moved.
“Excuse me for a moment. I’m going to look for Lin Na.”
Chen Qiao passed sideways from behind Wu Xinyu.
Because there was little space between the desks, he almost passed by her body, allowing him to rub against her.
Wu Xinyu pouted and whispered, “I really don’t want to wait even a minute.”
“Lin Na, have you finished all the questions I gave you?”
Chen Qiao asked, lying beside Lin Na’s desk.
“You’re done, Chen Qiao. Why don’t you do eye exercises? What if a teacher comes over?”
As Lin Na handed over the notebook, she looked uneasily out the window and toward the back door, and a figure wearing glasses came into view.
“Chen Qiao, it’s the principal.”
Lin Na quickly grabbed Chen Qiao’s arm and pulled him into his seat. “ah?”
Caught off guard, Chen Qiao had to pretend to do eye exercises.
He sat on the bench with half of his buttocks pressed against Lin Na’s body.
The skin of his arms and buttocks were touching each other, even closer than when they were sitting at the same table.
I hope the principal won’t react when he sees the three of them sitting at the same table.
In fact, he can just pretend to be the committee member supervising the whole class doing eye exercises, or pretend to be collecting homework.
There are many ways to fool them, so it’s better not to let Lin Na down.
Well, nothing happened.
The principal was just walking around for nothing.
Chen Qiao stood back in the aisle.
He couldn’t just sit there, otherwise Wu Xinyu’s former deskmate would be angry.
“I was scared to death.”
Lin Na said, patting her chest.
“I’m scared to death by you too. Let’s start explaining the questions. How about we go to our place?”
Chen Qiao suggested.
There are still people coming and going in the first group, it is very lively and conspicuous. “good.”
Wu Xinyu saw Chen Qiao explaining the problem to Lin Na from a close distance, and asked in surprise: “Have you been teaching Lin Na?”
After school, from a distance, Wu Xinyu thought they were talking about love and felt that her method of changing seats was useless.
“Well, it just started last week, after you accidentally hit me in the face with a basketball.”
“I’m so sorry!”
Wu Xinyu’s words were filled with a hint of anger.
“I don’t mean to blame you. On the contrary, I want to thank you for turning this into a blessing in disguise.”
“Thank you.”
Lin Na echoed.
This kind of gratitude made Wu Xinyu feel like a matchmaker.
What did this mean?
She was clearly the bad guy who broke up the couple.
“You did everything right. Great, great. It seems you understood everything I said after school.”
Lin Shu said, touching Lin Na’s little head.
“Hehe.”
Lin Na narrowed her eyes and smiled foolishly.
“Let’s go, we’re going to physical education class. The physical education teacher still has to take roll call, so bring your art books and pencils and stuff, and we’ll draw and observe the school on the playground.”
Most of the male students have gone crazy on the playground, taking out all kinds of balls from the sports warehouse to play with.
They can kick any ball as a football and shoot any ball as a basketball.
I originally wanted to observe whether they were really in a relationship during the physical education class, but I didn’t expect that plans could not keep up with changes.
Now there is no need to observe, it has been set in stone.
Going down the stairs, Chen Qiao and Wu Xinyu walked side by side, while Lin Na was one step behind them.
Chen Qiao asked calmly: “Wu Xinyu, do you know why the head teacher asked you to switch seats with Lin Na?”
Wu Xinyu’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, and her body trembled slightly.
After all, it was the first time for her to do such a bad thing.
She pretended to be calm and asked back, “Have you asked the teacher?”
“I asked her, and she said it was so that we could supervise each other’s studies, and that we were the persuasion team members, but is this necessary? We’re almost graduating, shouldn’t this be arranged at the beginning of the sixth grade?”
There is no precedent.
Chen Qiao and other students did not do poorly in the exam.
Someone must have taken the initiative to find the class teacher to do this.
And it must be someone who has a lot of influence in the class teacher’s place, such as…”I asked the head teacher to change the seats.”
Wu Xinyu bit her lower lip and confessed.
“Chen Qiao and Lin Na, are you in love?” “ah!”
Lin Na was so shocked that she missed a step and fell on Chen Qiao’s back.
Chen Qiao stretched out his hands, holding Wu Xinyu’s hand with one hand and holding the wall with the other hand to steady his body.
Fortunately, Chen Qiao and Wu Xinyu had already reached the platform on the first floor, so they did not fall.
Otherwise, the three of them would have had to play like a ball rolling down the stairs.
“How do you know that?”
Chen Qiao asked with a smile.
Thinking back to Wu Xinyu’s abnormal behaviors, it turned out that she suspected that he was in a relationship.
Well, he did have that in mind, and a lot of it.
“You touched Lina’s head and held her hand…” “That’s all. Am I not holding your hand too?”
Chen Qiao said, lifting up their two hands holding together.
Wu Xinyu quickly pulled her hand back and hid it behind her back.
“This doesn’t count.”
“What’s not counted?”
“Real lovers kiss. Did you see us kissing?”
“Tell me… maybe we kissed where I couldn’t see.”
Wu Xinyu was so embarrassed that her ears turned red, and she almost shouted this.
“We really don’t. Chen Qiao can’t possibly like me. I’m so… ugly.”
Lin Na waved her hands in panic.
The misunderstanding on her side was even greater.
She had actually heard some rumors, especially after the position change.
Many people came to her to ask if Wu Xinyu and Chen Qiao were in a relationship.
Because sometimes people won’t verify this kind of thing with the person himself, especially since Wu Xinyu has an aura that makes you afraid to ask.
Chen Qiao rolled up the art book into a cylinder and stuffed it into his trouser pocket along with the pencils and other things.
He freed his hands, took Lin Na’s hand and said, “First of all, you just don’t look good now. Girls change a lot when they grow up, you know? I didn’t say I don’t like you.”
If Lin Na is eliminated now, Chen Qiao’s plan will be ruined.
Wu Xinyu had an expression that said “as expected” and said that they were not in a relationship.
She didn’t say that she didn’t like him, but that just meant she liked him.
“I like you guys. You are all my good friends, aren’t you?”
Chen Qiao took Wu Xinyu’s hand with his other hand and asked back.
“Huh?”
Chen Qiao pulled the two stunned people out of the shadow of the teaching building and came to the playground under the sun.
The bell for class had already rung.
At this point, it has been a week since Chen Qiao was reborn, and it is also the one-year anniversary of him being hit by the basketball.
Another basketball flew towards him, and he saw the trajectory of the basketball, spinning and spinning.
But Chen Qiao didn’t want to let go of the girl’s hand.
The next second, Wu Xinyu and Lin Na broke free from Chen Qiao’s hands, stood in front of him, reached out to catch the basketball and pushed it away.