Jiang Chen had just come out of the bathroom and glanced at Han Yutong who was going out with his father.
When he went to the bathroom just now, Han Yutong's father was talking on the phone next to the sink. Jiang Chen didn't hear everything but one sentence.
"Don't worry, I'll go over tonight to celebrate your baby's birthday with you."
Jiang Chen frowned when he heard this.
Han Yutong's birthday is the last day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar, and even later if it falls on the lunar calendar.
It was only mid-September, which baby could her dad spend his birthday with?
Jiang Chen looked at the obedient girl who was going out with her father and wanted to chase her out, but in the end he stopped.
What can I say if I chase him out now?
He couldn't say anything, but it would embarrass Han Yutong.
Jiang Chen finally returned to his seat.
Lin Shirou was reading a book and noticed that Jiang Chen raised his head slightly after he came back, looked at Jiang Chen's frown and said.
"You seem to have something on your mind."
Jiang Chen quickly organized a response:
"When I turned away from Li Sao in the bathroom, I suddenly thought of Qu Yuan.
He was worried about the country and the people, but was not welcomed by the king and the people. In the end, he had no choice but to boulder and drown himself in the Miluo River. This could be regarded as his last protest against this terrible world. "
Lin Shirou was a little surprised.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Chen could be so sympathetic to Qu Yuan just by going to the toilet.
She nodded repeatedly:
"Yes, lonely people are always like this. Although they place their hearts on the bright moon, the bright moon only shines on the ditch."
Seeing that Lin Shirou believed his lies, Jiang Chen breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, the two poems selected by Lin Shirou had a bit of tragedy in them, so her slight expression of regret would not arouse her suspicion.
The first crisis was narrowly escaped.
Jiang Chen quickly corrected his attitude and began to review seriously with Lin Shirou.
The two of them studied until evening.
Lin Shirou was reading the last ancient poem to him, which was "Guan Ju" from "The Book of Songs".
She read slowly. At dusk, the sunlight outside the house reflected half of the girl's face, which was round and smooth from the jawline to the forehead. There was a gentle halo under the setting sun.
"It's so beautiful." Jiang Chen looked at Lin Shirou.
"Be attentive." Lin Shirou knew she meant something and answered softly without even raising her head.
"It looks good whether you focus on it or not."
"You have to concentrate on whether it looks good or not."
Jiang Chen smiled and spent the whole afternoon studying Chinese with Lin Shirou, which he was not good at. His mind had long been far away.
As Guan Ju said: A gentle lady is a good gentleman, and if you look at your wife here, you are just inheriting the wisdom of your ancestors.
Facing that unscrupulous gaze, Lin Shirou slowly closed the textbook halfway through her reading.
"Why don't you read it anymore?" Jiang Chen asked.
"If your mind is distracted, there is no point in studying anymore."
Lin Shirou glanced at the clock on the wall. It was almost half past four.
"And it's time for me to go home."
"Let me see you off." Jiang Chen said at the right time.
"No, my home is not far from here."
Lin Shirou was about to get her schoolbag when Jiang Chen took it away.
"let me help you."
After saying that, without waiting for Lin Shirou's reply, Jiang Chen put the books on the table into his schoolbag and carried them in his hand.
"Let's go. Where is your home?"
Seeing Jiang Chen's actions, Lin Shirou was silent for a moment, and let out an inaudible sigh from her throat.
If I had known earlier, I should have put on a cold face and refused him in the equipment room.
"Give me my schoolbag and let's go back together."
"I can just hold it, it won't weigh too much." Jiang Chen said with a smile.
Seeing Jiang Chen's smile, Lin Shirou knew that she couldn't resist, so she had no choice but to let him go.
The two walked through the main street and entered an alley.
The alley is very lively, with vendors on both sides, selling vegetables, fruits, trinkets, and everything.
Lin Shirou turned a deaf ear to the cries of vendors in her ears. As she walked, she silently recited the words she had memorized today.
Jiang Chen, on the other hand, was not so enterprising. He looked at the silky smooth shawl hair of the girl next to him, passed by a jewelry stall, and bought her two headbands.
"It's not necessary." Lin Shirou whispered as she looked at Jiang Chen who was catching up behind her.
"If a girl has her hair disheveled, she should at least take good care of it."
Jiang Chen rummaged through something from his pocket and stuffed it all into the back pocket of Lin Shirou's schoolbag.
"Besides, it's not expensive. It's just a gadget that costs only one yuan in total."
Lin Shirou said nothing and looked at his schoolbag.
Fortunately, I secretly stuffed twenty dollars into it while he was going to the toilet.
A cup of coffee cost eighteen dollars, and the extra two dollars was just enough for him to buy a hairband for himself.
As for Chinese medicine, Lin Shirou, who was confused about the price, planned to go back first to try the effect.
It will be paid back then.
Lin Shirou was thinking this when she heard a very penetrating female voice coming from the watermelon stall not far away.
"One piece of watermelon is a little more than a pound. Isn't eight pounds less than nine dollars? How can it be more than ten dollars? Can you count?"
Lin Shirou frowned when she heard this voice.
"What's wrong?"
"I...my mother is there."
Lin Shirou hesitated for a moment and said to Jiang Chen next to her.
"You return the schoolbag to me, and I will go home with her."
After saying that, she stopped, reached out for her schoolbag, and rushed to the melon stall.
As soon as I arrived, I heard the melon stall owner say:
"Sister, this melon is only ten yuan, so I'll give you a zero..."
The owner of the melon stall looked at his old-fashioned pallet scale and thought that he would have to replace it with an electronic scale when he got home to avoid such a shrew who couldn't read and cause trouble again.
Opposite the boss, Mother Lin, who was wearing a flowered coat and carrying vegetables, was a little tired from arguing.
Just as she was about to take a breath, she turned her head and saw Lin Shirou rushing here, and said loudly.
"Shirou, come and help me do the math. How much does this three-pound watermelon cost for eight pounds? This boss insists on saying ten dollars, doesn't he mean to deceive people?"
Lin Shirou shook her head and said to Mother Lin:
"It's ten dollars and four."
"Yes, eldest sister, look at how right your daughter is in her calculations. We, with our small business and small profits, really can't sell you eight yuan." The melon stall owner also echoed next to him.
Mother Lin gave Lin Shirou a hard look, took out ten dollars from her pocket, crumpled it into a ball and threw it on the melon stall.
"Okay, okay, take it, take it, it's like someone gave you a few dollars."
When the melon stall owner saw that the other party was not polite, he didn't have a good face. He took the money and muttered something.
"Who is this guy who took advantage of two dollars?"
Zhao Ying became even more angry after hearing this.
"Take it!"
She glared at Lin Shirou beside her, gave her the vegetables and watermelon she was carrying, and scolded her unscrupulously.
"Day by day, you don't know how to study or help me work, all you know is going out to play! If you don't get into college in the future, you might as well get married!"
Everyone in the alley turned to look at Mother Lin's scolding, but in the end they could only sigh and talk about it.
"Zhao Yingzhen is lecturing his girl again."
"It seems like there is a grudge between the two of them. Why can't they talk to each other?"
Someone who knew Zhao Ying whispered.
"I heard that their family was fined tens of thousands for giving birth to this girl..."
"No wonder……"
Lin Shirou listened to the scolding and gossip from the neighbors without saying a word, and silently took the vegetable basket and watermelon.
"Hurry back and I'll buy some groceries. I'm getting mad every day." Mother Lin left after saying this, leaving Lin Shirou alone.
Lin Shirou had no expression on her face, as if she was used to it.
She dragged her steps and walked slowly home.
The items Mrs. Lin bought weighed more than ten kilograms in total, and they were too heavy for her. She started to gasp after taking only a few steps, and her hands hurt from being strangled.
She had to put the heavier watermelon on the ground first and wanted to hold it in another hand.
Suddenly, a slightly teasing voice came to my ears.
"What a coincidence, we meet again."
Jiang Chen jumped out of nowhere and helped Lin Shirou pick up the watermelon with a smile on his face:
"Don't be brave, Lin Shirou, I'll take you back."
