Chapter 7
The military training ended on Friday, and Joe got up late in the morning and just missed the military training summary meeting.
Fortunately, no one talked about this.
The freshman courses are not very intense, most of them are public courses. Unlike Xue Xiaochen, who is a study maniac, Qiao is also a procrastinator. She will never touch the books until the last minute for all her studies.
Even college is the same.
When she arrived at the classroom, the math teacher had been standing at the podium and speaking for a long time.
She found an empty seat in the last row and sat down. Without saying a word, she stood her textbook up, hid behind the book and began to take a nap.
Sitting next to him were a few boys from other classes, probably from the same dormitory. The game they were playing was a recently popular competitive mobile game. The game that Qiao had played in the Internet cafe before was the computer version of this game.
Even though several people were wearing headphones, the quality of the headphones was so poor that she could hear the sound of them kneeling down through the headphones.
When they lost for the seventh time in a row, Qiao finally couldn't help it. She scratched her ear, looked at them impatiently, and said, "Is this game that difficult? You can lose seven games in a row in duo queue?"
Boys: “…”
One of them scratched his head awkwardly, "Um, classmate, did we disturb you?"
"No." Joe also said.
Hearing her say this, several people breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. But before they could completely let go, they heard Qiao continue, "You guys are worse than me."
“…”
As he spoke, Qiao took out his cell phone and entered their fleet using the room number.
Joe, who was originally drowsy, immediately became energetic after starting to play games.
The boy thought she was just an ordinary player, but her familiar operation in the game was completely at the god-level.
For the entire class, Joe led them to victory without any effort.
Until the end of the get out of class, Xue Xiaochen came to her with a book and signaled her with his eyes that he was leaving.
Only then did Qiao put away his phone and prepare to leave.
"Hey hey hey. Wait, let's add each other's contact information and play together later." A boy called her.
Joe also shrugged and passed it over.
After all, it’s just a matter of adding another gaming partner.
It was only then that she realized that the two boys were from the class next to her and also from the Department of Mathematics.
However, the boy was also very surprised when he saw her name, "So you are Qiao Ye from next door."
Qiao Ye: "? Am I famous?"
"Not really, I just saw you on the instructor's list. I didn't expect you to be so good at games."
After hearing what he said, Qiao instantly lost interest. She thought there was some legend about her circulating in the mathematics department that she didn't know about.
He casually threw his cell phone into his pocket, then put his hands in his pockets and followed Xue Xiaochen, walking out in a nonchalant and unhurried manner.
They only had one class in the morning, so Qiao planned to go straight back to the dorm. Then she remembered something and walked over to her friend. "When I was posting about my love for University A, I seemed to have come across some recommendations for good food near the school. Should we go eat there?"
The other party just paused, then shook his head and refused: "You go. I won't go."
Qiao Ye: "Ah, okay. So where are you going now?"
"Library. Today's math problems are quite interesting. I'll go back and study them."
“…”
She shouldn't have asked this question.
The two people parted ways at the bottom of the dormitory building.
A University has a special dormitory building, and next to the dormitory building is the school’s main gate.
It was through this door that Joe went out to find food.
She wasn't very hungry if she was left to eat alone, so in the end she just bought a popsicle, put it in her mouth, found a tree to sit down, and didn't know what she was thinking about.
"Meow~Meow~Meow~"
The kitten's voice called her out of her own world. Joe looked around several times but still couldn't find the source of the sound.
I listened carefully again, and finally stood up and walked to a corner outside the school. I saw several kittens eating cat food with clean water beside them.
Obviously, someone came here specifically to feed it.
Since the kitten had just started eating, it meant that the person who fed it had just walked away.
Sure enough, she saw a familiar figure not far away.
Seeing her, Qiao was also stunned. He didn't expect to meet her here.
By the time she reacted, she had already walked behind the man and found a shady place to sit down.
Noticing the movement behind him, the other person turned around. When he saw her, he was surprised and subconsciously asked, "Why are you here?"
Surprisingly, the person who had been discharged from the hospital was Pei Qing.
Qiao also hummed twice, pretending to be coincidental, and said half-seriously, "It was God's guidance that brought me behind you. Do you believe it?"
Pei Qing: “…”
She turned around helplessly, not looking at her, but just quietly watching the kitten eating.
Qiao also looked at her, somewhat puzzled: "You can barely even support yourself, and you still have the mind to feed these cats?"
Hearing this, Pei Qing paused, glanced at her, then returned his gaze to the kittens. He said, "Their mother died in a car accident not long ago. These little guys must have just been weaned at that time. If no one feeds them, they won't survive."
Joe also opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
"Actually, I didn't really want to feed them. After all, like you said, I can't even feed myself." Pei Qing smiled bitterly, "But then I was thinking, if someone happened to help them when they needed help the most, wouldn't their lives be easier and they wouldn't die halfway?"
"Everyone has their own destiny, and cats are no exception. Surviving is their fate. Death is simply natural selection."
As soon as these words came out, Qiao felt that she might not really be suitable for comforting others, even though her starting point for saying these words was indeed to comfort her.
Fortunately, Pei Qing understood what she meant. She looked at the kittens with a slightly compassionate expression, but Qiao didn't notice. "But humans always want to interfere, don't they? These kittens will never know that they don't have a mother."
The girl was silent, which was rare. She walked to a small supermarket not far away and prepared to buy a bottle of iced soda for her.
As a result, when I was paying, my hand was stopped.
Pei Qing's voice then rang out behind her: "Boss, a bottle of room temperature mineral water will be fine."
Qiao looked at her in disbelief, then opened his phone to check today's temperature and showed it to her: "No, the highest temperature today is 34 degrees Celsius. You drank room temperature mineral water? You really won't get heatstroke?"
Pei Qing: "Iced soda will only burden your stomach. Didn't your biology teacher tell you that when you were in high school?"
“…”
As she said that, she took the bottle of mineral water handed to her by the boss and walked outside.
Joe could only take the iced soda and follow her.
After walking for a while, Pei Qing finally couldn't help but turned his head to look at her, "Why are you following me?"
Qiao Ye: "I'm watching what you're going to do,"
"What's so good about this? If you really have some free time, why not feed the kittens? It's better than your idea of 'survival of the fittest'."
Her words made Joe stop and not follow her.
Pei Qing continued walking forward, and when he noticed that the person behind him had not caught up, he stopped and turned around to look.
There was no one behind him.
For some reason, she felt empty inside, as if she had lost something.
But now is not the time for her to think about it, she still has two part-time jobs to do today.
Qiao Ye returned to the place where he had just met Pei Qing. The kitten was no longer eating cat food, but was playing by itself not far away.
Pei Qing’s words just now kept echoing in my mind: "But these kittens will never know that they no longer have a mother."
She still didn't understand why she had such feelings for some kittens.
In her opinion, they are just a group of kittens. Nature is fair. Whether they live or die is a matter of "survival of the fittest."
She tried to walk towards the kitten closest to her. It was a calico cat, very beautiful, and although a little gray, it was not shy.
When he saw her coming, he even dared to come up to her and stretch out his little head for her to touch.
There is a different feeling under the palm, it is furry.
She blinked, feeling very strange.
But she didn't touch it for long, because the kitten heard the vibration of the phone message and quickly ran away, hiding in the pile of junk and watching her.
Qiao also took out his phone, and on the screen was a message from Xue Xiaochen: "Please bring me a fruit platter when you come back. I want watermelon, pineapple, and cantaloupe. All at room temperature. Thank you."
Then a transfer came in with a note saying "the extra money will be considered as errand fee".
Qiao Ye, who was originally thinking about how to refuse, deleted all the words in the dialog box after seeing this sentence, and sent a single word: "OK."
She put away her phone and walked in another direction, ready to buy the platter that Xue Xiaochen wanted.
As a result, she didn't walk far before she stopped, turned her head, and saw the little calico from afar, sticking its little head out and looking at her.
It seemed as if he was watching her leave.
This feeling... is very novel.
Joe didn't go back, but left directly.
A's fruit shop is famous throughout Jiangcheng. Apart from being expensive, it has no other drawbacks.
I ordered a quarter of each of the three kinds of fruit, and it cost me nearly a hundred yuan.
Fortunately, she didn't spend the money herself, so she didn't feel any pain.
When Qiao Ye returned to the dormitory, Xue Xiaochen was not doing his homework, but holding his cell phone, not knowing what he was doing.
Qiao also looked at her as if he had seen a ghost: "You...are you still the Xue Xiaochen I know? Why are you playing games? What's wrong with this world?"
The girl coughed dryly and explained, "It's not what you think. My niece's weekly practice results are out, and I promised her that if she improved, I'd grant her a request. She did pretty well this time, and she asked me to play games with her, so I downloaded a game and played with her."
After she said this, Qiao also understood and joked, "So that's how it is. I thought our study maniac was starting to fall."
"Do you think everyone is like you?" Xue Xiaochen rolled his eyes. "Also, the calculus teacher gave us homework today, remember to finish it."
"I know, I know. I'll definitely finish it by the deadline."
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