Chapter 64
The life at Lantai No. 1 Middle School unfolds like a scroll of the past, and the four members of the Supernatural Society once again devote themselves to their daily studies, as if waking up from a dream.
Not long after school started, He Song ran over from the next class, grabbed Gu Qingming's hand and complained about how ridiculous the social practice his father had found for him in order to let him experience life in advance.
Gu Qingming was eating the barbecue rice that tasted a bit weird because of the salad, while listening to He Song shouting. After listening, he silently made a comment.
"Excuse me, Lao He, this is not social practice at all. I found you a summer job."
Gu Qingming sighed.
From the other party's explanation, it seems that He Song's father entrusted him to a work friend. That friend took He Song to hide in the workshop from business competitors and ambushed at the company gate to cut the money tree opposite. He Song witnessed all the dirty tricks of the adults.
"Oh, summer job, who says it's not?"
He Song sneered and stuffed a bun into himself angrily.
The buns in the cafeteria have thick skin and little filling, but they are small in size and can be eaten one in one bite, so they are not too unbearable.
"I finally understand. I am the free labor sent by the old man in my family. I heard that the old man lost a bet with the uncle, so he sent me there to work."
He Song was indignant.
"Speaking of you, Lao Gu, how was your winter vacation? You didn't stay at home all the time like before, did you? Why don't you go out for a walk?"
He Song changed the topic and pointed the finger at Gu Qingming's otaku nature.
"Well……"
Gu Qingming was a little speechless, thinking: You didn’t expect that not only did I not stay at home, but I also experienced life and death speed that you could never imagine in your dreams, and became a high school student superman.
However, the guidelines for people with superpowers are still engraved in Gu Qingming's mind, and one of the most basic requirements is that he must never take the initiative to expose the mysterious world to ordinary people.
Gu Qingming could only laugh awkwardly.
"Haha, nothing much, but I went back to my hometown with my deskmate, so I didn't stay at home all the time..."
He, who never lies, sounded inexplicably guilty.
"Oh, that's right, go out more often. You're such a stay-at-home kid in junior high school, I'm worried you'll get bored."
He Song nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly realized that the deskmate the other party was talking about seemed to be... "The deskmate you are talking about...isn't he a legend in the grade?"
He Song was horrified.
"It's only been one semester! You and him have become so close! Old Gu, you are fickle! You didn't even go out with me to hang out in the Internet cafe or hang out on the street during the winter break!"
He Song bit her handkerchief, like a young girl abandoned by a heartless man.
"No, I didn't. I looked for you several times after I came back."
Gu Qingming was firm in his attitude. He refused to take the blame. He looked for He Song several times after returning from Linling, but he didn't know what the other party's "summer job" was doing and he couldn't get in touch with him at all.
"Uh...it seems so."
He Song was unreasonable and could not let it go. He wilted and said, "It's my fault, it's my fault."
He lowered his head, stuffed the last bun into his mouth, glanced at his watch, and jumped up.
"Oh my god, how come it's already past 6 o'clock... The devil in our class asked us to gather early for the sake of grades, so I'm leaving first!"
He Song quickly cleaned up the garbage on the table. He turned around and took only two steps, then ran back and patted Gu Qingming on the shoulder as if he had forgotten to say something.
"It's enough for Lao Jiang and I to know that you are doing well. Tomorrow is another beautiful day. Come on, Xiao Ming."
He made a cheering gesture and ran towards the cafeteria entrance in a mess under Gu Qingming's amused look.
“This guy is really…”
There was no way he couldn't hear the other person's relief at his adaptation to Lantai No. 1 Middle School.
Maybe some friends are like this. They don’t need to be together often, but every time they meet, time doesn’t seem to have worn away between them. In each other’s eyes, they always remain the same as in the past.
"Hey, isn't this classmate Xiao Ming?"
A familiar voice came with resentment. Gu Qingming could imagine the other person's expression without turning around.
The boy with black shoulder-length hair carried the food tray and sat down sourly in the seat that He Song had left.
"Who is that? You look like you're having a good time chatting."
Chu Zhongyuan didn't know what he was feeling. He just felt an unclear discomfort starting to spread in his heart when he saw his classmate Xiao Ming smiling happily when talking to He Song. It was itchy, as if he was being scratched by a cat's claws.
He couldn't control himself and showed his emotions quite obviously.
"Ah, that's my junior high school classmate."
Gu Qingming didn't notice at all that the gentleman in front of him was inexplicably getting worse in mood, and just made a casual explanation.
There was absolutely no objection that she felt good being with He Song.
Chu Zhongyuan took a big bite of minced meat and eggplant and swallowed it in anger. He kept saying to himself in his heart.
He’s just Xiao Ming’s junior high school classmate. It’s normal for them to have a happy chat, right?
Just a junior high school classmate...wait, isn't this a childhood friend? ! Childhood friend!!!
The villain in Chu Zhongyuan's heart began to cry out.
What is this called?! This is not an ordinary junior high school classmate, this is a childhood sweetheart from heaven! This is a big threat to my classmate Xiao Ming's position as his best friend!
As Chu Zhongyuan ate, he became angrier and angrier, and he even spoke less.
"By the way, Grade Legend, accompany me to get the tuition form during the last class."
Gu Qingming took a few more bites, then suddenly realized something and poked Chu Zhongyuan's shoulder.
The boy's voice was clean and bright, with a slight rise at the end, like the bright sunshine after a summer rain.
He smiled and seemed to be in a good mood.
“Totally OK.”
Chu Zhongyuan instantly threw all those messy feelings behind him, and only a few words remained in his mind: He smiled at me!
Then it was updated to: He looks so good when he smiles.
It’s like when I was a kid in the woods, I waited day and night for the spring and the lush greenery.
The tuition list for the new semester was in the message room. After the third evening self-study get out of class, Gu Qingming and Chu Zhongyuan rushed to the message room while joking all the way. They counted the number of students in the class and hurried to the teaching building.
The sky was an extremely oppressive black color. Even the night seemed too dark and pitch black, as if it was obscured by a huge monster.
A thin layer of moist water vapor filled the air from all around, and the dense drizzle did not give them any chance to dodge, and it poured down from the sky almost with a bang.
"Tuition fee schedule!"
Gu Qingming was speechless. He quickly took off his school uniform jacket, picked up the tuition form and tied it up tightly.
"How come the rain starts to fall so suddenly..."
Chu Zhongyuan also took off his school uniform jacket and wrapped his jacket over Gu Qingming's school uniform, serving as the first layer to come into contact with the rain.
Gu Qingming hesitated for only a moment before the other party snatched the tuition form from him without question, leaving him no chance to regret.
"Let's go, Xiao Ming. The weather hasn't warmed up yet, so it's easy to catch a cold. Let's make two cups of ginger tea when we get back."
Chu Zhongyuan's slightly dark gray eyes were as transparent as water drops dyed with ink, crystal clear and full of sincere emotions.
"……good."
Looking at those eyes, Gu Qingming even felt a little speechless.
The two continued to walk forward under the small but dense raindrops. After rushing into the door of the teaching building, a muffled thunder exploded from a distant place, accompanied by the sound of rustling rain, which reached the ears of every student.
“Boom—”
A dazzling flash of light flashed across the dark sky, leaving a crisscross pattern of lightning. The light brought by the lightning instantly illuminated most of the night sky.
In mid-spring, there was a timely rain, and thunder began to sound in the east.
The Waking of Insects has arrived.
Spring begins to bloom on the other side of the horizon, dispelling the chill of winter one by one with its gentleness and unquestionable determination.
Ever since the rain during the Waking of Insects period, the weather in Lantai City has been like an accelerator, with the temperature rising rapidly and mercilessly transitioning towards summer.
Not long ago, Chu Zhongyuan had to make a cup of ginger tea for Gu Qingming and himself to keep warm after being caught in the rain. Within a few weeks, the warm and humid warmth had climbed up the branches. When Gu Qingming paid a little attention before school, he saw that the forsythia planted at the gate of Lantai No. 1 Middle School had bloomed in clusters of warm yellow.
The small yellow flowers are stacked together, forming small suns on the campus, attracting bees and common white butterflies to stop.
Luo Dong was pulled over by the student union again and took countless photos of the new winter jasmine flowers to be used for the school's CC public account.
The spring rain and Keobe were silent at the same time, as if they were startled by the thunder and lay dormant in the dark, waiting for the opportunity to return.
"We have a long holiday this Saturday and Sunday. Do you want to come to my house over at Qianlong Lake? My parents are not at home, and I'll be alone for the next two days. It's really boring to stay in a lake view room."
During the self-study class, Luo Dong deliberately switched seats with Lin Ze, Zheng Qiuji and Li Zhiwei also secretly moved their desks, and the four students from the Supernatural Society squatted together, whispering during the evening self-study class which was unexpectedly unsupervised.
Cao Sheng probably had something to do with his CPA, while Wang Yun was attending a grade meeting.
"Okay, I'll talk to Uncle Lu Ze after class."
Gu Qingming didn't even look up, and he agreed. Lu Ze was easy to talk to, and Gu Qingming had always been able to make his own decisions on these small matters since he joined the Supernatural Society.
Zheng Qiuji's adoptive father is a programmer. He is very busy working on programming every day and never minds Zheng Qiuji staying overnight at other classmates' homes.
Chu Zhongyuan's guardians are now in a Schrödinger state and have no worries at all, so they agreed immediately.
Perhaps it was because the teenagers were too high-spirited and even God was jealous, that before the bell for the fourth evening self-study class rang, the sound of rain like a waterfall began to fall outside.
The students sitting by the window all came over and exclaimed, "It's raining!" and "The rain is too heavy!"
The group of four looked at each other, rushed out of the classroom, and went to the main door of the teaching building in the middle of the corridor to look outside.
I saw the water pouring down from the sky like a continuous waterfall. The bean-sized raindrops had already accumulated a thin layer of water on the ground, flowing and making crackling sounds.
Crowds began to gather at the entrance of the teaching building. It had been a long time since Lantai City had seen such heavy rain. The rain was so heavy that the night sky was illuminated by lightning, and the rumbling thunder came one after another.
The rain poured down and didn't stop until the last class was over.
"It's raining too hard outside. Parents and students please be safe when going home. Be careful of the slippery roads!"
Zhang Yiwei's voice with a strong dialect accent was on the radio. The four of them got together and searched for a long time, but they could only find a raincoat.
"what to do?"
The members of the Superpower Club looked at each other.
"Rush?"
Chu Zhongyuan's eyes suddenly lit up brilliantly. He pointed at the heavy rain outside.
After all, who hasn’t had the urge to go crazy in the rain at one time or another?
When the boy pretends to be serious, he is like a quiet lake, full of unfathomable tranquility. But when he becomes lively, he is like waves rolling with fine sand, naughty but not annoying.
Gu Qingming didn't know why and thought about it carefully.
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