Chapter 307 Counselors and Secrets
Xinhang Apartment, Building A, three bedrooms and one living room.
Lin Lu was lying flat on the bed, with her cell phone held high above her face, not afraid of accidentally hitting her face.
She deliberately didn't tell Cheng Zhu that this dinner was her birthday dinner.
That is why she did not talk about the meal with everyone in the group, but chose to chat privately.
Because everyone else knows that she was born on Christmas Day, so it's easy to remember.
"This big stupid pig definitely doesn't know what day my birthday is." Lin Lu giggled, and two of her signature cute dimples appeared on her face.
Little did he know that Cheng Zhu had heard the news from Shen Qingning on the day the new students entered school, and he silently memorized the date in his heart.
The girl didn't want Cheng Zhu to spend money and time preparing a gift.
"It would be great if he could spend my birthday alone with me on December 25th!"
Of course, she even boasted: "So thoughtful!"
She soon received a reply from Cheng Zhu on WeChat: "Okay, it's been a long time since we had dinner together."
When this bastard saw that she didn't mention her birthday, he pretended not to know.
This makes subsequent operations easier.
Some men and women, unable to hold back, might ask on the spot: "Are we going to have a birthday party a day early, and then eat cake and sing birthday songs in the early morning?"
Cheng Zhu wouldn't be like that. He is very capable and very bad.
Of course, Lin Lu has also been holding back this month, and it’s a big one!
She had made up her mind to express her feelings directly to Cheng Zhu.
For a straightforward and enthusiastic girl like her, it would be very uncomfortable for her to not express her love clearly.
She would feel uncomfortable and suffocated if she couldn't express it clearly, so in her daily interactions with Cheng Zhu, she would often express her love to you secretly when she couldn't help it.
She also tells you that if I like someone, I will often chat with him and talk to him in various ways, even if what I say may be nonsense.
She will also tell you "Yes" when you ask her "Did you talk to the person you like today?"
Even when you ask her "what did you say", she turns into a little stutter and tells you: "I said it: I said it!"
The little deer is always sincere.
At this moment, Lin Lu put down his mobile phone, picked up the pig doll with the words "Cheng Zhu" on it on the bedside table, and punched it twice.
"Huh! You really don't know my birthday!"
"Beat you! Beat you!"
Perhaps this plush toy never thought that it would have to endure so many punches when it left the factory.
The manufacturer may not have thought that the dolls we make with such high quality are actually used to take beatings and be used as punching bags.
But after she finished playing, she hugged the pig doll in her arms and rolled on the bed.
It rolled to the side of the mobile phone she had thrown aside.
She held the doll between her arms and her swollen chest while continuing to chat with Cheng Zhu on her cell phone.
Well, we were still chatting about meaningless nonsense, sharing some trivial things that happened tonight.
Although she didn't plan to tell Cheng Zhu that her birthday was coming up, she still felt a little disappointed when she found out that he really didn't seem to know.
But as they chatted and watched Cheng Zhu making jokes and saying a lot of things that she found interesting, all these disappointments soon disappeared.
For Xiaolu, sometimes, liking someone means: it’s easy to feel wronged, but it only takes a moment to be happy.
On the other side, Cheng Zhu was lying on the bed in the dormitory. He said good night to Lin Lu before putting down his phone.
Of course he remembered Lin Lu's birthday, and he had even bought a birthday present.
Now they are just ordinary good friends, but their relationship is also very clear and extremely ambiguous, so choosing gifts is a technical job.
Moreover, when Cheng Zhu gives gifts to others, he likes to give practical things.
It can be expensive, but it must be practical and useful, rather than something fancy.
Giving birthday gifts is actually a mutual thing.
I'll give you one on your birthday and you'll give me one on my birthday.
If we all give each other some impractical things, wouldn't that be a waste of money?
This also led him to think for a long time about what gift to buy.
"It's Wednesday now, and there's still a week until Lin Lu's birthday dinner." Cheng Zhu thought.
Of course, what was more difficult for him was: "Ning Bao must be at Lu Bao's birthday party."
"And Shen Minglang and Jiang Wanzhou, these two troublesome guys!"
"And Lin Lu can't just have us as friends. There must be other friends coming to her birthday party. Then there will be some people I don't know and don't understand."
“These people will also be some uncertainties.”
"Besides, she has a younger brother at home. Oh, he is in his third year of high school and he definitely won't come. That's better."
"Tsk, it really feels like a den of dragons and tigers." Cheng Zhu thought.
But what kind of storms hasn't he experienced?
As usual, it is better for Lu Bao and Ning Bao to keep pace with each other.
Well, I have my own rhythm!
So, after analyzing it for a while, he soon fell into a deep sleep, being super calm.
The next day, afternoon.
The temperature in Hangzhou has warmed up today. Chen Jieyu put on Cheng Zhusong's camel coat and carried Cheng Zhusong's new bag, preparing to go out to buy some gifts for her teacher's house.
Well, she didn’t dare to wear the little white shoes.
"Dean Zhang is a naughty boy who often gets excited on impulse. When I'm talking to him about something, he might ask me to call Cheng Zhu over. It would be a bit embarrassing if he also wears the same shoes." Concubine Chen thought.
Before leaving, the counselor looked in the mirror.
She didn't think that after meeting Cheng Zhu, she had transformed from Cinderella into a real princess.
But it was also obvious that under his influence, he seemed to have really changed from [poor and refined] to [really refined].
At least that's true for today's outfit.
Just like the coat she is wearing, it is expensive but has no obvious logo to let people know what brand it is, making it look extremely low-key and luxurious.
Ordinary people would never choose this brand of coat if they were to spend such a large sum of money, because they would like the brand logo on the clothes to be as big as possible, so that people can see it from across the street, so that everyone knows how fucking expensive this coat is.
This difference in consumption concepts can actually reflect a huge gap in strength.
Does Chen Jieyu like this dress?
Of course I like it.
Not only because of its style and comfort, but also because it was specially selected by Cheng Zhu.
But sometimes, she also felt that it was telling her all the time that there was a real class gap between her and Cheng Zhu.
Even if I am a counselor and he is just a student.
Chen Jieyu often wondered, "What can I do for Cheng Zhu?"
Besides doing that a few times a month.
What else can I do?
Today is the answer.
When Chen Jieyu was in school, she saw a sentence on the Internet.
“The people you have helped may not necessarily help you back, but the people who have helped you are very likely to help you again.”
When she was young, she didn't quite understand this sentence, but as she gained more social experience, she began to gradually understand this sentence and felt that it did make sense.
At first, she thought that what this sentence meant was that those who had helped you were those who had invested their energy and efforts in you, so they were willing to help you again.
Sort of like a sunk cost?
Later, she had a deeper understanding of this sentence because she read Eisen Podmer's memoirs and saw a sentence:
“Many people believe that the best way to win the kindness of others is to do them a favor. In fact, this is a misunderstanding of human nature. In reality, the people who are truly kind to you are those who have done you a favor.”
Chen Jieyu was very clear: "Strictly speaking, both the teacher and her husband, Dean Zhang, actually meet the above two points."
They provided help to Chen Jieyu when she was studying.
Because they pitied her and admired her.
But after finishing her studies, she has always maintained close contact with them. On the one hand, it was because of the deep relationship between master and student that she was truly grateful to them from the bottom of her heart. On the other hand, they could also feel that Chen Jieyu was a good child and was truly grateful, and did not have any other intentions towards them.
People of their level and age are all very smart.
They can sense who is being nice to them with ulterior motives and who is being nice to them without ulterior motives.
Even the fact that she was able to become a counselor at the School of Information was not because of her connections with Dean Zhang as rumored by the outside world.
After a long time, everyone actually becomes like half a family.
Chen Jieyu is a woman who has experienced the warmth and coldness of human nature since childhood. She knows very well in her heart that because of this relationship, if she really goes to the teacher and Dean Zhang to help her with something, they will definitely help her to the best of their ability.
And they don’t feel that they owe anyone a favor.
But, here comes the problem.
If she asked them to do someone else a favor, the nature of the matter would change immediately.
But she still chose to help Cheng Zhu.
At this moment, Chen Jieyu went to buy some fruits, and then bought a box of cod, and a box of pure milk.
After arriving at the teacher's house, she rang the doorbell and it was the teacher who opened the door.
Chen Jieyu’s teacher had a rare but nice surname, her surname was Jian, and her name was Jian Wanyu.
She is an old lady who looks very elegant and gentle.
But Concubine Chen knew very well that Dean Zhang was actually very afraid of her.
After entering the house, she naturally went to help in the kitchen, just like the younger generation in the family.
After dinner, the three of them sat on the sofa, and Concubine Chen began to mention Cheng Zhu to Dean Zhang, turning the topic to him.
"Um, Dean, do you still remember Cheng Zhu?" She spoke quite shyly, after all, it was her first time doing such a thing.
When Jian Wanyu heard it was a male name, she was still joking and asked, "Cheng Zhu? It sounds like a male name. Jieyu, who is he to you? Why haven't you mentioned him before?"
Chen Jieyu is a woman of marriageable age. She is shy and seems a little embarrassed to mention her name, so Jian Wanyu deliberately joked about it, as if everyone was just talking about some family matters.
"Who is he to me?" Concubine Chen was stunned by the question.
This is a question that cannot be truly answered.
Yes, Cheng Zhu had the most intimate relationship with her.
He is also one of the few people in Hangzhou who knows Chen Jieyu's family situation.
At the beginning, he called himself the best male friend because he knew too many of Concubine Chen's secrets.
So, what now?
——[A person who is used to confide secrets has become a secret].
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(End of this chapter)
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