After saying goodbye to Wu Xinyu and her daughter, Chen Qiao did not immediately go to the teaching building to find his sister, but went to the girls’ dormitory area at the back of the school first.
There are two rows of simple large bungalows with white lime walls and neatly tiled roofs.
The rain flowed down the grooves of the tiles, forming a curtain of water.
A row of eaves columns stood in the corridor outside the dormitory.
The doors and windows of the dormitory were green.
There were colorful washbasins and buckets in front of the door, and two rows of towels were hung.
One dormitory looked quite large and should be able to accommodate twelve people.
However, when Chen Qiao was studying, these two rows of bungalow dormitories were no longer in use and the teachers’ dormitories were vacated for students to live in.
A clothesline is welded on the open space in the middle of the dormitory for students to dry their clothes and quilts.
The dormitory on the left is closest to the bathhouse and toilet at the back mountain.
It is separated from the back mountain by a three-meter-high red brick wall that was specially built to retain soil.
After all, there was a minor landslide last year, and we built stepped slope protection systems, which means we have done everything we can.
It is estimated that the school has also had some warnings and precautions, and has not done nothing.
However, nature sometimes won’t listen to reason with you.
If Chen Qiao keeps reminding people again and again, it will probably be annoying.
If something really happens, he will be suspected, which is not worth it. “well……” Chen Qiao sighed.
It seemed that he could only call Sister Zhirou more often and let her act as a messenger.
The first floor of the junior high school teaching building was full of empty classrooms, piled with broken desks and chairs.
There were far fewer students, only twenty-five classes in total, including one class in the high school department.
There were eight classes in one grade.
By the time it came to Chen Qiao’s class, there were even fewer, with only six classes in one grade.
At the corner between the first and second floors there is a full-length mirror for students to tidy up their appearance.
Chen Qiao looked at himself in the mirror and turned around, wondering when he would grow up.
The teaching building for Grade 8 is on the third floor.
My sister is in Class 6, right next to the stairs.
Chen Qiao wanted to go to his sister’s classroom to stop her so that they wouldn’t miss each other.
When Chen Qiao arrived at the third floor, the school bell rang.
In an instant, the boys rushed out of the classroom, ran down the stairs and ran to the cafeteria.
They were not good at anything except eating, which the dean once criticized.
Chen Qiao peeked in at the door and immediately saw his sister sitting at the third table in the fourth row, cleaning the table, and Xia Zhirou, who was lowering her head and was obviously playing with her cellphone.
Xia Zhirou looked up and saw Chen Qiao at the door.
She poked Chen Feifei beside her with her elbow and pointed at Chen Qiao happily and asked, “Feifei, isn’t that your brother?”
“Ah? Why is he here at school?”
Chen Feifei thought something had happened to Chen Qiao and he was bullied by a girl again?
Chen Feifei quickly ran to Chen Qiao and asked, “Ah Qiao, why are you here?”
“Sister, didn’t you bring an umbrella? I’m here to take you home.”
Fortunately, the rain outside had not stopped yet, otherwise Chen Qiao would have been embarrassed.
“Wow, what a good brother who cares about his sister. So enviable.”
Xia Zhirou teased Chen Feifei with a smirk on her face.
She was really envious.
Not only Xia Zhirou, but other female classmates in the class also gathered around curiously and asked questions.
Some local classmates knew that Chen Feifei had a younger brother, but more than half of the students in the junior high school class were from other villages.
“Is it really your brother?”
“Your brother is so cute.”
“Your brother is too well behaved. My brother is always annoying.”
He is simply the nation’s good brother, and Chen Qiao felt a little embarrassed by the praise.
“Brother, do you know how much you’ve caused us?”
Xia Zhirou rubbed Chen Qiao’s face and said, “There are endless papers to finish every day.”
“When your grades improve, just be happy secretly.”
“Zhirou, can you lend us an umbrella? We can’t go home.” asked two day school girls.
“Oh, but I have to go back to the dormitory to get an umbrella first. Otherwise, I will be soaked like a drowned chicken.”
Xia Zhirou said with a flash of inspiration while clapping her hands.
“I got it. Let my brother and I go to the dormitory to get an umbrella first, and then I will lend it to you. Feifei, lend me your brother and umbrella first.”
Xia Zhirou hooked her arm around Chen Qiao’s shoulders, pressed half of her soft breasts against him, and pushed him out of the classroom and down the stairs.
The female boarding student in the same dormitory also asked her to help hold an umbrella. “wait……” Chen Feifei stretched out her hand but found nothing.
She put her hands on her waist, rolled her eyes and complained, “Why don’t you just go to the dormitory with your umbrella? Why do you have to bring my brother with you?”
There is no need to worry that Xia Zhirou will run away with the umbrella and never come back.
“Brother, you are so brave that you dare to come to the middle school classroom alone.”
Xia Zhirou held an umbrella and hugged Chen Qiao tightly to prevent his body from getting wet by the rain.
“What’s there to be afraid of? I even dare to go to an Internet cafe.”
“You’re still so arrogant. What kind of metal is your mouth made of?”
Xia Zhirou pinched Chen Qiao’s mouth and stretched and flattened it.
“What time does Sister Zhirou usually take a bath?”
“Little devil, are you trying to peek at me taking a bath? Do you believe me or not, I will tell Feifei about it?”
Xia Zhirou hugged Chen Qiao tighter, as if to teach him a lesson.
As a result, the two of them got closer and Chen Qiao’s face was pressed against her chest.
“I’m just curious about what life is like as a boarding student. I might have to board when I go to high school.”
“I usually take a shower in the evening. Although I still sweat a little during evening self-study when the weather is hot, I don’t know about the boys. Many of them sing and take a shower together in the bathroom during evening self-study. The girls across the street look over at what they are singing. It’s so noisy and unpleasant to listen to.”
Chen Qiao laughed dryly, “Ahahaha, Sister Zhirou, can’t you wash after evening self-study get out of class?”
“It’s too late, and I’m not at home. My hair dries slowly, and we can’t use hair dryers in the dormitories. And there are many people taking showers at night, so we have to queue up. If we go too late, the school will shut down the lights and the hot water, and we will be kicked out in the middle of showering. It’s so uncomfortable, and taking showers is one of the few hobbies I have.”
“Sister Zhirou is from the Hot Spring Village, right?”
“How do you know?”
“Didn’t you tell me that yourself?”
“Oh, it seems to be true. There is a hot spring in my house. I soak in it every day when I am at home. It is so refreshing. Come to my house with your sister to soak in the hot spring someday.”
“We will definitely go!”
It would be best if three people take a bath together.
It’s impossible to wear swimsuits in your own hot spring.
It’s too formal.
“We’re here. This is my dormitory.”
Xia Zhirou took out the key and opened the dormitory door.
The dormitory was right next to the bathhouse.
What luck.
There are three iron bunk beds, two six-door student lockers and a desk on each side of the dormitory.
The cabinets are not big, they are square, and each cabinet has a lock.
Xia Zhirou took out three umbrellas from the desk drawer and asked Chen Qiao to hold them.
She then locked the dormitory door again.
She was still very afraid of theft.
When passing by the teachers’ dormitory and the kitchen area, Chen Qiao wondered what expression Wu Xinyu would show if she saw him still at the middle school.
Unfortunately, there was no such encounter.
When they returned to the teaching building, their sister was waiting on the first floor, pacing back and forth anxiously.
When she saw Chen Qiao, she immediately pulled him from Xia Zhirou’s arms, snatched the umbrella from Xia Zhirou’s hand and said, “We should go home, otherwise mom will worry.”
Even though Chen Qiao had three umbrellas in his hands, Xia Zhirou still shared an umbrella with Chen Qiao and did not think of holding one alone.
I don’t know what she was thinking, but Chen Qiao could feel her plump and soft breasts, so he naturally didn’t mind squeezing them a little under the umbrella.
As soon as Chen Qiao and Chen Feifei left, the rain, which was originally a little light, suddenly became heavier, and there was wind, and it turned into slanting rain.
Chen Qiao moved closer to his sister’s arms, put his little hands around his sister’s slender waist, and hugged her.
He didn’t dare to do such intimate actions with an outsider like Xia Zhirou, so he could only be passive, but he could naturally do it casually with his family.
Because the rain had gotten heavier again, those who had originally wanted to run home in the drizzle were stuck at the school gate, unable to go up or down.
The lucky ones may be able to catch a classmate they know and walk with him/her, or wait for family to pick them up with an umbrella, or wait for the rain to stop.
“What did you and Zhirou talk about on the way?”
“She said she wants to invite us to her house to take a hot spring bath. Do you want to go?”
“Oh, you wanna go?”
“I want to go. I’ve never been to a hot spring in my life.”
Halfway through the journey, the rain had let up a little, and they saw their mother coming to pick them up with an umbrella.
“I thought you guys wouldn’t be able to come back because you didn’t bring an umbrella, so I came to pick you up. Let’s go, your dad is waiting for us to go home for dinner.”
On rainy days, some dirt roads are very bad, and dump trucks loaded with heavy objects may slide into deep ditches and get stuck.
We may have to call for rescue.
By that time, the money earned from one trip is not enough to cover the rescue fees, so my dad has to drive home early.
My sister took the umbrella that my mother handed over and went out alone with it.
Chen Qiao put away his umbrella and got into his sister’s umbrella, holding her arm and said, “I’m too lazy to hold an umbrella, your umbrella is a little bigger.”
My mother gave a helpless smile but didn’t say anything.
Children are just a little unreasonable.
I went back home and hung the umbrella in the lobby.
The sky gradually brightened and the rain stopped.
The dark clouds dispersed, and a few white clouds floated in the washed blue sky.
The air after the rain exuded the fragrance of earth, and white mist shrouded the distant mountains.