Small Town Rebirth: Starting From Birth

On the internet, people often commemorate their childhoods. Chen Bing, a young man from a small town who was one of them, found himself back 24 years ago, in the small town of his birth, after his ...

Chapter 244 Envy

Only after confirming that Xiao Shang was truly full did Chen Bing give up the idea of ​​continuing to feed him.

"Okay, we're full, so let's stop eating. Don't stuff yourself." Shang Yunmiao gave Chen Bing a resentful look after hearing this.

"Ahem, are we still going to watch them play ball here?" After coughing lightly twice to ease her embarrassment, Chen Bing asked Shang Yunmiao.

"No, it's cold outside. I want to go back to the classroom and sit down."

Chen Bing readily agreed, and the two held hands, picked up their unfinished snacks, and headed towards the classroom.

The people staring intently at their departing figures were Ma Shaolong and his friends. After exchanging glances, one of them asked, "Shall we continue playing?"

"Why are you playing ball? I'm starving while they're eating. Let's go, let's go get some braised chicken at the school gate."

"It's fifteen yuan a meal, do you have any money on you?"

"I have twenty yuan, enough for a whole braised pork belly. Anyone else want to go eat braised chicken with me?"

"Godfather, could you lend me some money to buy me a pancake?"

"Me too, Godfather! The food in the school cafeteria is absolutely awful!"

"Forget it, I'll just go back to my dorm and make myself a packet of chicken and mushroom instant noodles."

"Still eating that? It smells awful."

"If it tastes bad, don't eat it."

"Eat! Of course we'll eat! Wait for me to go to the cafeteria and steal a few steamed buns. We'll dip them in the soup and eat our fill!"

With just a few words, the basketball group quickly disbanded. Some went off-campus to eat braised chicken, some returned to their dorms for chicken stew with mushrooms, and others reluctantly went to the cafeteria, only to find out that dinner was spicy chicken.

Back in the classroom, Chen Bing and her companion were surprised to find that the classroom was quite dark when they approached it.

What's wrong? It's not even dark yet, why are you drawing the curtains and not turning on the lights?

Curious, Chen Bing craned her neck to walk into the classroom. It turned out that Zhang Anran and her group of girls had gotten tired of watching boy bands and had found another movie to watch.

After watching for a while, Chen Bing recognized the movie as the one that was a huge hit in 2019. Yes, the movie you're thinking of.

Surprisingly, these girls have poor taste in dance, but good taste in movies.

If we were to rank the most interesting things from high school, scrolling through TikTok would definitely be near the top, and watching movies, as a variation, was also a great experience. When there weren't many people in the class, students could choose any empty seat they liked without asking the previous occupant's permission—this was practically an unspoken rule.

At that moment, two girls were sitting in Chen Bing and Xiao Shang's seats.

After giving Shang Yunmiao a look, Xiao Shang took a step forward, gently patted the two girls on the shoulder, and gave them a kind smile.

When Zhang Anran and Han Xingyue turned around and saw that the person who was supposed to be sitting there had returned, they immediately stood up with a smile and handed the potato chips they were holding to the two of them.

In return, the two women gave them snacks they had bought outside.

Everything was so joyful and harmonious, everything was so orderly and peaceful.

After returning to his seat, Chen Bing began to quietly explain the plot of the first half of the movie to Shang Yunmiao, who leaned closer to listen carefully.

To outsiders, they appear to be very close. Of course, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that this is not the case.

After turning her gaze away from the two men, Han Xingyue said to Zhang Anran beside her with an envious look, "That's so nice, I want a boyfriend like that too."

If someone said something like that in elementary school, they'd probably be laughed at to death. But now it's the third year of junior high, and everyone's not so naive anymore. Han Xingyue's object of envy is Shang Yunmiao, so there's nothing to laugh at.

“They’ve been childhood sweethearts since they were little, you can’t envy that.” Zhang Anran had a similar thought when she was looking at Chen Bing and the other person.

Unlike Han Xingyue, she didn't voice her envy. Instead, she thought to herself that the other person was her childhood sweetheart, something she could only envy. Now, she used this reason to persuade Han Xingyue.

After a brief silence, Han Xingyue continued enviously, "That's great. She can ask Chen Bing anytime she doesn't know something. And Chen Bing is so handsome. Shang Yunmiao must feel very proud when she walks with him."

When school started, didn't Chen Bing give a speech at the opening ceremony? I saw several first-year junior high girls staring at Chen Bing with wide eyes.

Later, quite by chance, I saw those first-year junior high students witness Shang Yunmiao and Chen Bing walking hand in hand. You wouldn't believe it, their expressions at the time were quite interesting.

As she spoke, her initial excitement gradually subsided, and a look of disappointment crept onto her face.

Seeing her best friend so downcast, Zhang Anran kindly comforted her, saying, "Don't you have a boyfriend? Ding Chengxin from Class 6, isn't he pretty handsome?"

"Don't mention him. His only redeeming quality is his good looks; everything else is a flaw." Han Xingyue regained her earlier excitement at the mention of this topic. Zhang Anran watched as she began to list her boyfriend's various shortcomings, such as his lack of hygiene, constantly wiping his nose, and his utter lack of manners.

For example, he's stingy. When we went out on a date and ate at a hot pot restaurant, he wouldn't even take more of the dishes she wanted, and in the end, we split the bill!

Another issue is that her grades are particularly poor; the total score of all her subjects combined is not as high as the total score of her three main subjects.

Finally, he would wear a pair of smelly, worn-out shoes all day long and hang out with all sorts of shady characters.

"Your boyfriend is exactly the 'shady' person you're talking about," Zhang Anran thought to herself, but outwardly she calmly comforted him.

In the end, Han Xingyue even said that she would send him a message to break up tomorrow, no, right now.

Knowing that if this message were actually sent out, and Han Xingyue regretted it after today, the first person she would blame would be herself, Zhang Anran decided to try to persuade her.

"Never mind, he's a good person too, and he's very good to you, isn't he?"

"What's so good about him? He's a real miser."

Although she said that, Han Xingyue's expression softened somewhat.

"Forget it, let's not talk about him anymore. I get angry whenever I mention him. Oh, by the way, have you ever seen that on Fridays after school, there are often very high-end cars picking up Chen Bing and Shang Yunmiao, and the cars are often different?"

You said Shang Yunmiao's mother is our Teacher Yun, and her father is supposedly a leader in the Education Bureau, so the person who drove the luxury car to pick them up must be Chen Bing's parent, right?