Chapter 41: Seeking to be scolded As
soon as Jing Xiaoran left, Principal Wang organized a meeting for the teachers in the afternoon.
"I can't contact Teacher Zhou right now. I asked her family and they said she will be back before next Wednesday. There is still a week left. During this week, four teachers will take turns to cover for the class. Teacher Xia just came and is responsible for supervising the children's self-study."
Principal Wang began to divide the work. Fortunately, there were two days off on Saturday and Sunday, so five small classes a day could be arranged. -Jing Xiaoran waited at the door after school. She observed that Xia Mi's bicycle had not appeared in the shed in the past two days.
Principal Wang and Xia Mi are the only ones in the school who can have bicycles.
Principal Wang's car was rusty and easy to identify. She deduced that it must be Huo Jingchen who came to take Xia Mi to and from get off work.
She stood at the school gate and wandered around, looking up from time to time.
Twenty minutes after school, Huo Jingchen appeared in Jing Xiaoran's sight riding a bicycle.
She raised her lips and looked at the man who was getting closer and closer, and gradually he overlapped with the boy in her mind.
Jing Xiaoran reached out to stop Huo Jingchen, "Brother Jingchen, I have something to tell you."
Huo Jingchen was forced to stop, and he quickly stepped on the foot brake with one foot to balance the car body.
"explain."
Jing Xiaoran was surprised that Huo Jingchen was so easy to talk to today, "I'm leaving tomorrow and going back to the capital."
"Okay, have a safe trip." Huo Jingchen responded quickly.
"Is there nothing else besides this?"
Huo Jingchen raised his eyes, his eyes full of alienation, "You can't control your mouth here, I advise you to control your mouth when you go back."
Although the man's tone was calm, Jing Xiaoran felt a sense of oppression coming from behind and enveloping her.
"I know you don't like me now, but I still want to say something as a bystander. You and Uncle Huo were angry and came to this remote island, which has wasted your best youth. Now you have married someone who is of no help to your career."
"Returning to the capital is your best choice. Uncle Huo and Aunt Zhao have been hoping you would go back these years."
"It seems that you have a clear understanding of your own position. The behavior of a bystander who talks too much is called meddling in other people's business." Huo Jingchen glanced at Jing Xiaoran.
He sneered suddenly, his eyes cold, "I have spent six years on my own to get to the position of battalion commander. Those are real military achievements, and you say I wasted my time?"
"Jing Xiaoran, based on what you just said, I can definitely take you back to the army for ideological education, or write a letter to inform your work unit that your thoughts are not correct. Which employer will dare to hire you in the future?"
In the past, Huo Jingchen couldn't understand why he was not interested in this sister who had been with him since childhood, but suddenly at this moment he had the answer.
She never understood him. She liked the Huo family, not Huo Jingchen.
Jing Xiaoran's face turned visibly pale. She stammered and explained feebly, "I didn't deny your military achievements. I just think you shouldn't do this."
"If everyone thinks like you, will there still be people guarding the borders of our country? Now, do you still think your idea is correct?"
"I, I didn't, Brother Jingchen, that's not what I meant. I just want you to go back to the capital. I don't want you to be angry with Uncle Huo because of Grandma Huo's matter anymore!"
Jing Xiaoran was frightened and spoke out what was in her heart while trembling.
Huo Jingchen's originally calm mood began to crack at this moment, and his eyes became gloomy and cold.
"Jing Xiaoran, I'm only sparing you this time for Uncle Jing's sake.
This is the last time, go back to where you came from. If I hear any rumors about the island from the imperial capital, I will blame you, regardless of whether you said it or not."
Jing Xiaoran was frightened, her legs went weak, and she looked up at the person in front of her in horror.
"Captain Huo, respect to the teacher?"
Zhao Xiaoying's voice saved Jing Xiaoran. She quickly calmed down and pretended to be calm.
"Captain Huo, come and pick up Xia Mi. She left her things in the office. Come out soon." Zhao Xiaoying was only enthusiastic towards Huo Jingchen. After saying hello, she left with the bucket.
Jing Xiaoran said nothing and left dejectedly.
She looked at the sea in the distance with her heart pounding. Hatred and anger intertwined and gradually devoured her sanity.
When Xia Mi came out, she noticed that Huo Jingchen had a cold expression and his brows were furrowed.
"I'm not happy to come pick me up?"
Hearing the woman's voice, Huo Jingchen regained his senses and his tense face softened instantly.
"No, the temperature has risen and there are flies on the island."
Xia Mi felt strange when she heard this. Huo Jingchen seemed to have mentioned last time that there were many flies in the imperial capital.
"Then just go buy some fly stickers. Will there be a lot of mosquitoes on the island in summer?" Xia Mi also hates mosquitoes.
"No, not much, just drive them away."
Xia Mi was puzzled. He hated flies so much, could he just chase them away? She thought he would kill them all. -It was still early, and Xia Mi was going to try her luck at a nearby beach. The beach was big last time, but the competition was also big.
She went out wearing bucket boots, and halfway through her walk, she vaguely heard someone calling her from behind.
When I turned around, I found that it was Fan Chunhua and Liu Cailan.
The two were dressed similarly to Xia Mi, with Xia Mi wearing a woven straw hat and both of them wearing headscarves.
"Xia Mi, you should buy two headscarves when you have time. This straw hat doesn't work. You'll get migraines after using it for a long time. You won't even be able to wait until you're old."
Fan Chunhua looked at Xia Mi's hair blown by the wind and felt nervous.
"I still have some cloth at home. I'll have two pieces when I get back."
Hearing about it gave me a migraine, and Xia Mi kept the matter of the headscarf in mind.
"I see that this thing of yours is quite professional. You city people can also go sea fishing?" Liu Cailan looked at the tools in Xia Mi's bucket curiously.
"No, I learned a little bit from my school teacher."
The two were not surprised. It was well known that primary school teachers had low salaries, and it was normal for school teachers to often go fishing and do business at the supply and marketing cooperatives.
When they arrived at the beach, there were many more things on the beach than the last time Xia Mi came.
The three of them separated at the beach and each went about their own business.
Xia Mi went there for further studies last time, and now she can easily catch crabs and identify the holes of razor clams, cat's eye snails lying in the sand, and clams lying in the sand.
There are dozens of kinds of seafood on the beach, among which the most common are jellyfish that are scraped up. After being exposed to the sun, many jellyfish are no longer edible and are piled up in a transparent mass on the beach.
With other people around, Xia Mi didn't dare pick up too much, so she started recycling when half of the things in the bucket were gone.
Every time he disguised himself as a newbie, the things in the bucket were just enough for one meal in the evening.
Xia Mi didn't notice that most of the bucket was filled with oysters, with only a few shrimps and snails.
Fan Chunhua and Liu Cailan's expressions gradually became subtle. On the way back, they teased Xia Mi while holding back their laughter.
"Xia Mi, can you pick up so many oysters and take them back?"
Xia Mi didn't react. She looked at the large, delicious-looking oysters and said, "It looks like a lot, but there aren't many. I can eat quite a lot by myself."
Wait, she looked at the two people's meaningful smiles.
Suddenly I remembered the saying that oysters are like gas stations for men and beauty salons for women.
In her previous life, she simply loved eating grilled oysters, and she planned to take the oysters home to make garlic paste in the evening.
Liu Cailan covered her mouth and laughed, "It's good if you eat more. I'm just worried that Captain Huo will eat too much."
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