Chapter 36 First Snow
From then on, Song Nuannuan would come to study with them almost every week. She was very well behaved and didn't cause any trouble or noise for them.
Chi Jinjin and Nan Xuqiu were like two teachers, taking turns explaining the questions to Tang Shi and the others in front of the blackboard.
Chi Jinjin was happy about it. Because of this incident, she had more opportunities to see Nan Xuqiu than usual. Moreover, when he was lecturing, she could look at him openly without having to hide anything.
"What is the answer to this question?" Nan Xuqiu asked Song Ci.
Song Ci calculated for a long time and replied hesitantly, "Eighty?"
"It's ninety." Song Nuannuan, who was sitting on the sofa next to them, turned around and said.
Song Ci said disdainfully, "You're just a junior high school kid, what nonsense are you talking about?"
Nan Xuqiu said coldly, "Xiao Song is right."
"That's impossible." Song Ci questioned.
Song Nuannuan was speechless and said, "Brother, Brother Xuqiu has explained this problem to you twice. I just added a few numbers, but you still got it wrong. I understand everything..."
Tang Shi and the others immediately started laughing.
"Little brat, go do your homework, why are you talking so much?" Song Ci muttered to Song Nuannuan awkwardly.
Song Nuannuan stuck out her tongue, then came to Chi Jinjin and said, "Sister Chi, I don't understand some of the questions. Can you come to my house next weekend and teach me? I think you're really good at explaining questions, much better than my other tutor. Although I haven't even started high school yet, I can understand all the questions you explain. Come and teach me, just for one weekend, please!"
She begged with her round eyes blinking. Chi Jinjin couldn't resist such sweet coquettishness and nodded, "Okay."
"Sister, you are so nice. I will ask my driver to pick you up this weekend!" Song Nuannuan said happily.
Chi Jinjin smiled and couldn't help but touch Song Nuannuan's round little head. She was so cute, like a furry little pet.
In the evening, Chi Jinjin took out a notebook from the drawer. In the notebook were the various goal plans she had set for herself since elementary school. There were only a few pages left in the notebook. She turned to the last page, which was also filled with dense writing, leaving only one empty space. The word "university" was written in front, followed by a colon.
"Senior, when you graduate from high school, which university do you want to apply to?"
"Restore China."
The scene of that day emerged in his mind. Chi Jinjin was silent for a while, then he took the orange pen, opened the pen cap, and wrote the two words "Fuhua" slowly and solemnly after the colon, stroke by stroke.
This was the first and boldest decision she made after coming here. Although her grades were not very bad, she knew that if she wanted to reach the score line of Fuhua, she was not even close to it. It could be said that she was a little overestimating her own abilities, but she still wanted to give it a try.
Perhaps, liking someone really makes a person blind and impulsive, but she wants to be blind and impulsive, what if it comes true?
People are always like this, wanting to fight for that one chance. Even if they can't be 100% successful, at least they won't have any regrets. Chi Jinjin doesn't want to have any regrets in the future...
On the weekend, Chi Jinjin was waiting at the school gate for Song Nuannuan's family's car to pick her up, but she got Nan Xuqiu's car instead.
He lowered the window and said to her, "Xiaochi, get in the car."
"But Nuannuan said that he would call a car to pick me up..." Chi Jinjin hesitated. If she got in his car, then Song Nuannuan's driver would have made a wasted trip.
Nan Xuqiu unbuckled his seatbelt, opened the door, and stepped out of the car. He walked around the front of the car, reached out and opened the passenger door, then turned to Chi Jinjin and said, "Xiao Song asked me to give you a ride. Her driver is sick and can't come today, and I happened to be going to see Song Ci."
"Oh, so that's the case. Thank you, senior." Chi Jinjin thanked him.
Nan Xuqiu gestured for her to get in the car. Chi Jinjin nodded and carefully sat in his passenger seat.
Although it was not the first time she sat next to him, Chi Jinjin still couldn't help feeling nervous. But what was even worse was that she forgot to have breakfast in the morning. After sitting in the car for a while, she suddenly felt dizzy and couldn't help feeling nauseous. Chi Jinjin tried hard to restrain herself.
"Do you have hypoglycemia?" Nan Xuqiu turned his head to look at her and asked while waiting for the traffic light.
"No, no..." Chi Jinjin said stubbornly.
Nan Xuqiu said with a smile, "Your face is a little pale, how could you not have hypoglycemia? Maybe you forgot to eat breakfast."
Chi Jinjin laughed awkwardly.
Nan Xuqiu took out a handful of candy from his pocket and handed it to Chi Jinjin, saying, "Eat this slowly."
"Thank you, senior." Chi Jinjin took it with both hands.
She peeled one and put it in her mouth. Sure enough, she felt much better after eating some candy.
"Senior, do you like eating candy very much?" Chi Jinjin suddenly asked curiously.
Nan Xuqiu asked back, "Why do you ask that?"
"Because I feel like you always have candies in your pocket." Chi Jinjin said. The last time Song Nuannuan had hypoglycemia, he also took out a lot of candies.
Nan Xuqiu smiled faintly.
After arriving at Song Ci's house, Song Nuannuan greeted them warmly and pulled Chi Jinjin into her room.
Chi Jinjin had just taught Song Nuannuan a question when there was a knock on the door. Song Nuannuan ran to open it and saw an auntie outside, holding bread and milk. She said, "Mr. Xiaonan just said that Miss Chi hadn't had breakfast yet, so he asked me to bring some."
"Okay." Song Nuannuan made way.
Auntie placed the milk and bread in front of Chi Jinjin and said, "Please enjoy."
"Thank you." Chi Jinjin thanked him.
Looking at the bread and milk in front of him, Chi Jinjin didn't expect that he was still thinking about the fact that he hadn't had breakfast.
"Sister, why are you just looking at it and not eating it? Don't you like eating these?" Song Nuannuan tilted her head and looked at her puzzledly and asked.
Chi Jinjin came back to her senses and said quickly, "No, no, I was just thinking about something else. I like eating these."
As she spoke, she picked up the bread and slowly began to eat it, her heart filled with an indescribable sense of happiness.
After breakfast, Chi Jinjin continued to teach Song Nuannuan her homework, while Nan Xuqiu was also teaching Song Ci on the other side.
"Sister, I'm going to the bathroom." Song Nuannuan said suddenly.
Chi Jinjin nodded.
She got up and ran to the bathroom. Chi Jinjin put down her pen and rested her eyes.
At this time, a gust of wind blew in from the window, blowing off the silk cloth on the drawing board in the corner.
Chi Jinjin stood up, picked up the silk cloth on the ground, and walked towards the drawing board. She originally wanted to cover it again, but when she got closer, she saw that there was a sketch of Ji Yang on the drawing board!
Chi Jinjin suddenly seemed to understand something. Thinking back to the previous days, Song Nuannuan always seemed to be looking in one direction silently, and that direction was exactly the direction of Ji Yang. It turned out that her love for doing homework there was fake, and her real desire to see Ji Yang was real.
She covered it with silk cloth and returned to her original place. After Song Nuannuan came out, Chi Jinjin didn't say a word about what had just happened.
A girl’s secret is precious, and whether to reveal it to the sun should be decided by the girl herself.
In the afternoon, after Chi Jinjin had dinner at Song Nuannuan's house, Song Nuannuan asked Nan Xuqiu to take Chi Jinjin back to school.
Chi Jinjin sat in the passenger seat of Nan Xuqiu's car again. She looked out the window. The car was passing by Qinghu Lake, and several people were riding bicycles to relax.
"It's so wonderful to ride a bike by the lake at this time." Chi Jinjin looked at it and couldn't help but say enviously.
Nan Xuqiu said, "If you like, we can go for a walk."
As he said that, he pulled over and stopped the car.
Chi Jinjin was stunned, then quickly turned back and said to Nan Xuqiu, "No, no, I was just saying it casually, and I can't ride a bike..."
"It's okay, I can give you a ride." Nan Xuqiu unbuckled his seat belt and got out of the car.
Chi Jinjin had no choice but to get off the car.
There happened to be a row of shared bicycles in the distance. Nan Xuqiu took out his phone, scanned one, and rode in front of Chi Jinjin. He looked back at the back seat and said to her, "Little Chi, get on. Don't worry, I'm a very good bike rider too. I won't throw you off."
Chi Jinjin nodded and shyly sat down slowly behind him, but she didn't know where to put her hands.
Nan Xuqiu glanced at her, then suddenly grabbed her hand, placed it on his waist, and said, "Hold on here, otherwise no matter how good my driving skills are, you will fall."
Chi Jinjin hesitantly grabbed his white shirt with both hands. After Nan Xuqiu made sure she was seated firmly, he slowly rode forward.
Chi Jinjin looked up and silently gazed at the back that was full of a sense of security, the back that could be recognized at a glance in the vast crowd, and it carried the girl's full heartbeat.
The breeze blew the boy's hair and the girl's skirt, the sunlight was broken up by the evening and sprinkled on the sparkling lake. The anglers on the shore were silhouetted, and the red sun in the distance seemed to be walking side by side with them. They moved forward in the rosy glow, and the maple leaves on the branches swayed gently in the wind like hands, looking back to say goodbye to the tourists. The ground was covered with red fallen leaves, and the wheels rolled slowly by.
He and she were like the front wheel and rear wheel of a bicycle. One day, the rear wheel fell in love with the front wheel, and then the rear wheel quietly kissed every piece of land that the front wheel rolled over.
Fortunately, people’s eyes don’t have real temperature, otherwise, the boy’s back must be extremely hot at this moment.
The sky blushed until the sun set in the west, and the girl's cheeks also turned red.
Perhaps it was because the moment was so beautiful that she suddenly wanted to tell him the secret hidden deep in her heart, but she hesitated. She didn't want it to end before she said it, but she was also afraid that it would end as soon as she said it.
She was afraid that he knew, but also afraid that he didn't know. She was even more afraid that he knew but pretended not to know...
Nan Xuqiu asked Chi Jinjin, who was lying quietly behind him, "Little Chi, is this your first time riding a bicycle? Otherwise, how come you don't even know where to put your hands?"
"Is that so?" Chi Jinjin replied woodenly. It was indeed her first time to ride in the car of someone she liked.
Nan Xuqiu took her around the entire lake and finally returned to the starting point. The two leaned on the railing by the lake to rest and enjoy the breeze.
"Are you happy?" Nan Xuqiu asked her.
Chi Jinjin nodded and replied, "Happy, thank you, senior."
"Senior, have you ever taken other girls here to relax before?" Chi Jinjin turned to face the lake, pretending to be nonchalant, but actually testing carefully.
Nan Xuqiu shook his head and said, "No, you are the first one."
Chi Jinjin felt a surge of joy in her heart, as happy as if she had won a scratch-off lottery ticket when she was a child.
She smiled at him, her eyes and brows curved in a smile that softened the bright sunshine.
Nan Xuqiu suddenly remembered a saying: a young girl's eyes should be filled with clarity, righteousness, and gentle sunshine. Just like the girl before him, Chi Jinjin's eyes were always so clear and warm. Although her appearance was not very good-looking, her smile could make those around her feel happy, as if the sun was shining and the world was bright...
After autumn, the weather became colder and colder. People changed into thick clothes and began to speak with white smoke coming out of their mouths. The air was filled with the aroma of roasted sweet potatoes and sugar-roasted chestnuts.
Finally, one afternoon, the classroom suddenly became noisy. Chi Jinjin followed everyone's gaze and saw snowflakes floating outside the window, landing gently on the ground like goose feathers.
This was the first time Chi Jinjin saw snow in this city. She excitedly ran out of the classroom to watch, but still felt it was not enough, so she left the teaching building and ran to the rooftop of the library. Sure enough, the snow here fell even heavier.
She stretched out her hand, and snowflakes floated down slowly into her palm. She looked up at the sky, and saw white snow all over the sky, like fallen leaves, like the afterglow of the setting sun.
Chi Jinjin was walking backwards, staring at the falling snow, when she suddenly felt someone bump into her from behind. When she turned around, it was Nan Xuqiu.
He also looked up at the sky, then slowly looked at her.
"Senior, come and see the snow too." Chi Jinjin said.
Nan Xuqiu said with a smile, "It seems that we have the same idea and have come here to see the snow."
Chi Jinjin smiled and lowered her head, then looked at him secretly. She wished she could turn into a piece of snow so that she could fall on his shoulders.
What is love? Probably like now, he is looking at the snow, and she is looking at him.
Snowflakes fell on Chi Jinjin's hair and Nan Xuqiu's hair without any sound.
Chi Jinjin suddenly remembered that she had heard someone say before that if you confess your love in the first snow, it would be easy to succeed.
So, shall I say it?
Chi Jinjin was in a state of confusion and struggled for a long time. She slowly said, "Senior..."
Nan Xuqiu looked at her again and asked, "What's wrong?"
"There's something I...I want to tell you..."
"What's the matter?" Nan Xuqiu waited for her answer.
Chi Jinjin wanted to say something, but her lips trembled involuntarily. The word "like" was on the tip of her tongue, but she couldn't utter a word. Just as she was still struggling, Nan Xuqiu's phone suddenly rang. After he answered the call, he turned and left.
Chi Jinjin stood in the heavy snow, watching his leaving back, and sighed deeply with helplessness.
She was timid after all, and she still lacked the courage.
Chi Jinjin looked at the falling snowflakes and prayed, "God, can you give me a little more courage? I really want to tell him that I like him."
Chi Jinjin likes Nan Xuqiu...
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