After dinner, Jiang Chen sent Lin Shirou home.
On the road, dim street lights were on, vehicles were constantly passing by, and a man who had just gotten off work was carrying a bag with a tired look on his face.
He looked at the male and female students who just passed him and thought of his school days.
He stopped and watched for a long time, looking at the youthful man and woman, with a trace of nostalgia in his eyes.
The evening breeze blew across Lin Shirou's face. Feeling the slightest coolness brought by the breeze, she turned her head and whispered softly.
"Thank you, Jiang Chen."
"Why did you say this suddenly?" Jiang Chen was confused.
"I feel like I'm getting better."
Lin Shirou's voice was gentle.
"In the past, this temperature was already very cold to me, but now, I just feel very cool."
"Were you right to believe what I said?"
"yes."
Lin Shirou's eyes shimmered and her tone was sincere.
"I'm very grateful to your grandfather. He is really a very good Chinese medicine doctor."
Jiang Chen almost choked when he heard this. He was thinking about when he would go back to his hometown to teach his grandfather who graduated from elementary school about Chinese medicine.
The culture strives to be synchronized with junior high school students first.
When Jiang Chen didn't speak, she quickly added.
"Of course, you are more important. Without you, I wouldn't be where I am today..."
After saying that, she felt that it was too much and felt a little embarrassed.
"Well... that's not quite right, you probably understand what I mean.
Anyway... Anyway, thank you very much. "
Jiang Chen accepted her thanks: "You're welcome, aren't we friends? Isn't it the right thing for friends to help each other?"
"friend……"
When Lin Shirou heard that word, she paused for a while before speaking softly.
"I don't have many friends."
Lin's mother didn't give her pocket money since she was a child, and she had a dull personality and didn't like to talk, so she never made friends with a few girls of the same age.
As for the boys, the friends she wanted to make were all male and female friends. After she rejected them, they never showed up again.
Therefore, as she grew up, she was always alone and seemed to be an outlier among her peers.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Chen became more energetic.
"Then am I not your best friend?"
"Of course."
"Then since we are good friends, don't dislike the things I give you in the future. How can friends be so polite?"
Seizing the opportunity, Jiang Chen began to make requests to Lin Shirou.
While Lin Shirou's guard was loosened, she had to seize the position fiercely.
"Okay, not anymore, never again." Lin Shirou nodded.
Seeing this, Jiang Chen took advantage of the victory and pursued it, and continued to ask Lin Shirou:
"Also, since we are good friends, if you are wronged outside, you should tell me and don't hold it in alone. Remember?"
"good."
Lin Shirou thought for a moment and then said.
"but……"
"but what?"
"I don't have your phone number now, and the school is very strict. Even if I am really wronged in the future, how can I contact you?"
Jiang Chen was a little surprised, but when he saw the smile on Lin Shirou's lips, he immediately understood everything.
Good guy, Lin Shirou actually knows how to trick people?
"You won't even give me your contact information?" Lin Shirou asked again when she saw that he didn't speak.
A pair of eyes were as gentle as water in the moonlight.
"Yes, of course."
Jiang Chen read out his mobile phone number.
Lin Shirou has a very strong memory. After hearing it once, she nodded and said, "I remember."
Then he said:
"Jiang Chen, if one day you see a string of unfamiliar phone numbers, don't hang up. Maybe that phone number is for you."
"Then I'm really looking forward to it." Jiang Chen replied.
On the way back to her house, Jiang Chen looked at Lin Shirou's profile from time to time.
She seemed to be smiling all the time.
After walking Lin Shirou all the way to the downstairs of her house, Jiang Chen shouted and the voice-activated lights in the entire unit turned on as he looked at the dark cave.
"Just send it here, you don't need to make another trip."
"Okay." Jiang Chen nodded.
Before parting, Lin Shirou did not forget to say:
"Happy National Day, I wish you and your friends a happy picnic, and you should eat more meat."
"I'd like to lend you some good words."
Jiang Chen was thinking that he and Han Yutong would go out for barbecue tomorrow, and hearing Lin Shirou's blessing made him feel a little guilty.
What was even more embarrassing was that at this moment, his cell phone rang.
"Master, there's a call. Answer the phone. Answer the phone quickly!"
The child on the ringtone shouted at the top of his lungs.
He raised his hand and saw the three words Han Yutong written on the caller ID. Jiang Chen's expression became even stiffer.
He couldn't imagine how loud Han Yutong's voice would be after pressing the connect button.
If Lin Shirou hears this...
"Why don't you answer the phone?" Lin Shirou asked confused when she saw that he didn't answer the phone.
Jiang Chen's mind turned quickly and he immediately found a countermeasure:
"Because now is the time to see you off, not the time to answer the phone."
As he spoke, he also turned the noisy cell phone ringtone to silent.
"You are really good at talking." Lin Shirou said sincerely, "I think your Chinese would not be bad without me."
"But I can't do it alone. I have to work hard for you to tutor me. I'd like to thank you in advance."
"Since we are friends, being so polite would be a bit alienating."
Lin Shirou said: "Don't say that again next time."
Jiang Chen was stunned and said with a smile: "You blame me, I won't be polite next time."
"Well, you should go home quickly. It's already very late. Be careful on the road."
Lin Shirou waved to him, and the two said goodbye to each other.
She watched Jiang Chen's leaving back for a long time, until Jiang Chen's back disappeared into the dark alley, then she turned around and walked upstairs.
After returning home, Mother Lin went to play mahjong as usual. The whole house was dark and there was no one.
This did not scare Lin Shirou.
She has not been afraid of the dark or ghosts since she was a child.
On the contrary, being alone at home made Lin Shirou feel more relaxed than ever before.
She turned on the light, stood in front of the mirror, raised the corners of her mouth with her fingers, and showed a sweet smile.
He seems to like it more when I laugh like this.
Lin Shirou thought to herself.
Then, she took two steps back, wanting to see her whole body.
When she saw the white washed old school uniform she was wearing, the smile on her face slowly dissipated and turned into an inaudible sigh.
…
On the other side, as soon as Jiang Chen called Han Yutong back, there were three consecutive calls of dissatisfaction.
"Jiang Chen! You don't answer my call!"
"You didn't answer my call!"
"You actually left me alone for so long!"
Hearing Han Yutong's complaint, Jiang Chen was secretly glad.
The little girl had such a loud voice that even the dog lying on the roadside glanced at him... Fortunately, she didn't catch Lin Shirou's face.
"Keep your voice down, isn't something wrong with me?"
"What else can you do at this late hour?"
The little girl's voice was still fierce, and she could still hear the sound of rushing water through the phone.
"I can't hold my phone with me all the time. I can't cut it off halfway to the toilet to answer the phone, right?"
Jiang Chen quickly found a suitable excuse to excuse himself.
"Ah? You don't even look at your phone when you go to the toilet?" Han Yutong was a little surprised.
"Isn't it true that some people still look at their phones when they go to the toilet?"
Jiang Chen found an opportunity and said in a heartbroken tone.
"Senior year is such a precious time. Every minute and every second is important. If you don't take the time to study in the bathroom, why will you surpass yourself in the future?"
In order to increase the little girl's awareness of the crisis, he did not forget to add one sentence.
"I've almost finished memorizing the 3,500 words for the college entrance examination. You haven't started yet, right?"
Actually, Jiang Chen was joking, he had just memorized the college entrance examination essay to abandon.
Han Yutong over there became anxious when he heard this: "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!"
Of course, Han Yutong didn't tell the truth either.
She would never admit to her death that her so-called composition material was actually a romance novel titled "The Sinister Schoolboy Secretly Loves Me"...
Although the author's writing was poor and the plot was old-fashioned, she couldn't stand it and just loved reading it.
She even gave a reward of 100 yuan to the novel that no one read, just asking the author to keep writing and not to stop updating.
"That's alright, you don't have time to answer the phone when you're reading the literary material, right?" Jiang Chen said.
Han Yutong was completely involved,
She then thought about Jiang Chen working very hard in self-study. He must have been reading when he went to the toilet, and his tone was no longer fierce:
"Well, I blamed you wrongly."
"It's okay, it's okay. I'm very generous. Why are you calling me?"
"You know what you're asking, what's the point of calling you at this time? Of course I'm asking you how are you preparing?"
"We have already prepared it...but it may rain slightly tomorrow afternoon, so don't forget to bring your rain gear."
"Don't worry, it's just a light rain, I'll be fine without an umbrella!"
Han Yutong was still soaking his feet. When he heard Jiang Chen's news that it would rain tomorrow, he suddenly thought of having barbecue tomorrow and said quickly.
"By the way Jiang Chen, do we have to rent a parasol for barbecue? Don't let it rain and we won't be able to eat meat!"
Just thinking about eating...
Jiang Chen rolled his eyes.
"Don't worry, I've thought about this. Even if I dig wood to make a fire tomorrow, I still have to let you eat this barbecue, okay?"
"Hehe, I was just waiting for your words."
On the other side of the phone, Han Yutong didn't even have time to wipe his feet. He sat on the edge of the bed and rocked gently.
During the shaking, water droplets rippled on the feet, sliding down the instep to the toes. The white toes were like grape grains, shining with a moist light.
She said excitedly: "I'll wait for you downstairs at six o'clock tomorrow. You can't be late!"
