Chapter 024
Under the pressure of Lin Xiaohan's eyes, Chu Xia couldn't bear the courage to continue pretending to be stupid.
Her heart was beating so fast that she couldn't stop it. She just made up her mind, lowered her head, closed her eyes and said, "I'm sorry."
Lin Xiaohan looked at her with a gloomy face and eyes, but did not ask her the reason.
After a moment, he said in a low voice: "I don't care what you are thinking, and I don't care what you want to do. Anyway, stay away from me in the future and don't follow me on purpose."
Chuxia huddled tightly in the corner, looking like a kitten that had made a mistake and was cornered.
She still lowered her head and closed her eyes, and whispered, "I know."
Seeing Chu Xia's expression, Lin Xiaohan didn't emphasize it anymore.
He took a deep breath, turned around, opened the office door, and sat back at his desk.
After Lin Xiaohan left, Chuxia was still standing in the corner.
The oppressive feeling that had been looming over her disappeared, and she let out a long breath in silence.
Then she leaned against the wall for a while to adjust her mood and state, avoiding Lin Xiaohan's eyes, and subconsciously moving her body as far away from him as possible, and sat down at her desk.
After sitting down at the desk, she lowered her head again, covered her face with her hands, and adjusted her breathing and heartbeat for a moment.
She was indeed frightened by Lin Xiaohan just now.
The main reason was that she was in a good mood and relaxed the previous second, thinking that he agreed to go to the market with her tomorrow, but she didn't expect that he would do this to her the next second as soon as she entered the office.
She was so stupid. How could she think that Lin Xiaohan smiled at her and agreed to go to the market with her?
Feeling that he had almost adjusted, Chuxia breathed a sigh of relief.
After exhaling, her heartbeat, breathing and complexion returned to normal. She took out the schedule to look at today's classes, and then prepared her lessons carefully.
The children in the village have been attending school for five days. Now most of them have almost adapted to the school life and rhythm, and some even come to school earlier.
Before the morning bell rang, the school was already filled with the noise of children.
After the preparatory bell rang, the remaining children came one after another and sat down in the classroom. Some of them started laughing and playing together, while others read aloud the knowledge they had learned.
Although it was clearly stated at the beginning of the school that lateness is not allowed.
But in fact, over the past five or six days, there are children late almost every day.
Children in the countryside naturally do not have the same blessings as children in the city.
They are late not because they sleep in or play too much, but because they have housework to do.
For example, if your family asks you to go out and collect a certain amount of manure in the morning, you will not be allowed to eat if you do not collect enough.
They get up before dawn every day, finish their work and then rush to school.
Especially now that they have to pay for their studies, they need to work even harder.
In the eyes of most villagers, work points and money are always the most important things.
However, the rules set by the school are rules.
If discipline is violated, no matter what the reason is, a minor punishment will still be imposed.
Otherwise, the school will soon be in chaos.
After the iron plate under the eaves of the office was hit several times by hammers, the sun rose high in the eastern sky. Chuxia entered work mode and no longer thought about what happened in the morning.
When it was her turn to teach, she went to the classroom to teach the children.
It was Lin Xiaohan's turn to attend class. She did not make excuses to go to the classroom today. Instead, she sat in the office and took care of her own things. After finishing her work, she looked at the middle school materials and did some exercises.
I was a little tired from doing the exercises, and my attention was attracted by the little gray tit bird on the windowsill.
Chuxia put down her pen, propped her face in her hands, and watched the birds on the windowsill relax. As her eyes shifted, she saw the girl carrying the baby on her back quietly entering the school gate.
During the first few days of school, this girl comes here almost every day.
Every time she came, she would choose a class time, quietly enter the school gate, quietly hide outside the classroom to listen to the class, and then quietly leave the school.
Every time Chu Xia saw her, she would pretend not to see her.
I turned a blind eye and let her stand outside the classroom and listen to the class with peace of mind, although I didn't know if she could learn anything this way.
The bells for classes start and end alternately, and the morning half day passes quickly.
After the school bell rang, the children came out of the classroom mischievously and lined up to go home as usual.
Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan watched them leave the yard in groups.
The children from the tenth production team joined the team and left, and the yard became completely quiet.
Chu Xia took a deep breath and turned to go into the office without saying anything to Lin Xiaohan beside her.
Lin Xiaohan went into the office to pack up and leave. She didn't rush to grab her schoolbag and follow him out like she did before.
Lin Xiaohan walked out of the office and to the gate of the yard.
When I turned around to lock the door, I found that Chuxia was sitting in the office and hadn't come out yet.
He paused, remembering what he had said to Chu Xia in the morning.
Since she wasn't coming out, he didn't lock the door and just turned around and left.
The reason why Chu Xia stayed in the office and didn't leave was naturally because of what Lin Xiaohan said in the morning.
He already had such feelings for her, so of course she couldn't continue to follow him or get close to him.
She thought about waiting at school for a while.
She would go back after Lin Xiaohan returned to the educated youth center and had dinner.
I've been busy the whole morning and now that I'm off work I just want to take a break.
Chuxia took out a mirror from her schoolbag and looked at her face in the mirror.
It was naturally useful for her to stay with Lin Xiaohan all this time.
She is now making expressions in front of the mirror, and her expressions can be seen more clearly, but of course her specific outlines are still not visible.
She looked in the mirror and thought that she was indeed too impatient and followed Lin Xiaohan too closely.
As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and this made him angry.
She looked in the mirror, took a deep breath, and told herself not to be too anxious and to take things slowly.
What if she really angered and offended Lin Xiaohan, making him want to kick her away, and he had some bad intentions to deal with her and plot against her, such as losing her job, then wouldn't she lose more than she gained?
She had to stop immediately while Lin Xiaohan was only warning her verbally.
Anyway, as long as she works with Lin Xiaohan, and he calms down, she will have some time to spend with him every day. Although it is not much, it is better than no time at all.
Moreover, Han Ting has now left her alone and let her "torment" herself. For the time being, she does not need to worry about being bound by the settings of the novel, unable to refuse Han Ting's request, and being Han Ting's scapegoat.
Of course, she couldn't think that everything was fine just because Han Ting ignored her for the time being.
If the constraints of the novel's setting on her are not completely removed, then after all the twists and turns, she will most likely still follow the plot set for her in the original novel.
Early summer exhaled into the mirror again.
Keep telling yourself in your heart - don't be anxious, take your time.
It’s always better to be steady.
After reflecting on his inappropriate behavior during this period and thoroughly adjusting his mood and mentality, Chuxia put the mirror back into his schoolbag, put the schoolbag on his back, and got up to return to the educated youth point.
If you don't say you're in a hurry, then you will naturally calm down and take it slow.
In early summer, I slowly returned to the educated youth point, lingering on the weeds and wild flowers along the way. When I saw beautiful wild flowers, I bent down to pick two and held them in my hands to play with them.
There was a group of gray-feathered ducks in the creek we passed by.
They swam in groups across the river, leaving circles of ripples behind them.
When Chuxia slowly returned to the educated youth point, Han Ting and Lin Xiaohan had all eaten.
She walked to the gate of the fenced yard and happened to meet Lin Xiaohan coming out.
When she saw Lin Xiaohan, she quickly lowered her head and moved aside, opening the door for him to go first.
Lin Xiaohan stopped and looked at her for a while, but said nothing and walked out with an expressionless face.
Chuxia breathed a sigh of relief and went to the kitchen alone to cook.
If she didn't need to use Lin Xiaohan to break free from the constraints of the novel's setting, she wouldn't want to shamelessly cling to him. She felt that being alone was fine and she could do anything with ease.
Even if she needed to find a friend to relieve her boredom and loneliness, she would not look for Lin Xiaohan.
Making friends with Lin Xiaohan is pure torture; he is arrogant, conceited, and doesn't want to make friends with anyone.
If he is nice to someone, it must be just for fun and he has some ulterior motive.
If one day she is completely free from the constraints of the novel's settings, she will definitely stay away from Lin Xiaohan as soon as possible.
I will never get close to him again and be criticized by him.
***
Smoke rose from the kitchen chimney.
In the boys' dormitory in the east room.
After dinner, Han Ting and his friends got together to play again.
Seeing Lin Xiaohan go out after dinner, Chuxia came back and went into the kitchen alone.
Li Qiao touched Chen Sisi and asked gossipingly, "Did they break up?"
Before, they went in and out together every day and did almost everything together. They were really like shadows.
But today, Lin Xiaohan came back first and Chuxia came back later, so the time was completely staggered. Moreover, when they met at the gate of the yard just now, they didn’t say hello to each other. It was obvious that something went wrong.
Chen Sisi was slow to react. Before she could say anything, Gu Yuzhu took over and said, "I'm afraid Lin Xiaohan thinks she's stupid and doesn't want to bother with her anymore after taking advantage of her. With her brain, it's normal for her to be tricked by Lin Xiaohan and then kicked away, isn't it?"
Others also saw the situation between Chu Xia and Lin Xiaohan, and heard the conversation between Li Qiao and Gu Yuzhu.
Chaozi looked at Han Ting and asked, "Should we go see Chu Xia?"
"No need." Han Ting said without hesitation.
Let her learn a lesson from this.
Chaozi naturally listened to Han Ting.
Just pretend you didn't ask anything.
***
After finishing her meal in the kitchen and collecting the dishes, Chuxia went back to the dormitory to rest.
Li Qiao and the others were all in the boys' dormitory. The girls' dormitory was quiet, and it was peaceful and comfortable to rest there.
During the break, Chu Xia habitually guessed where Lin Xiaohan had gone.
There was no work to do in the private plot today, so he probably went to school.
Of course, no matter where he went, Chuxia would not go to find him today.
After dinner, she took a nap peacefully in the dormitory, planning to take a short nap before going to school, preferably in time for the afternoon class.
After Lin Xiaohan finished his meal and left the educated youth center, he did go to school.
He felt that the boys' dormitory was too crowded and noisy, so he returned to the school office and sat down to read some books.
He was the only one in the school at the moment, and it was very quiet inside and outside.
He has always been a person who likes quietness and solitude. Sometimes he wishes he were the only one left on the earth. But today, he doesn't know what happened. He always feels that something is weird and wrong.
After reading two pages of the book, I felt a little bored.
He closed the book and threw it on the desk, looked at the time on the horse-head clock, then turned to look at the desk next to him.
The moment my eyes fell on the desk, I suddenly realized something was wrong.
Because in his subconscious mind, there should be someone sitting on the desk next to him, that person might be quietly reading or doing homework or quietly sleeping, in short, it shouldn't be empty like it is now.
Taking a deep breath, Lin Xiaohan withdrew his gaze and looked back at the Matou Bell.
Then he leaned back in his chair and just stared lazily at the hands of the horse-head clock.
Three blooming peonies are printed on the lower half of the glass on the horse-head clock cover.
The pendulum under the glass swung back and forth rhythmically, and the minute hand on the clock dial moved one grid after another.
It takes five minutes to walk through one large grid, and fifteen hours to walk through three large grids.
A quarter of an hour later, five minutes later, students began to come in from outside the gate of the courtyard with their schoolbags on their backs. The quiet ones went to the classroom, while the naughty ones kicked, chased and cursed at each other and rushed into the classroom.
Students arrived one after another, and the minute hand moved forward another large space on the clock face.
Lin Xiaohan withdrew his gaze, took a deep breath, stood up, picked up the small hammer and left the office.
He stood in front of the thick iron plate under the eaves outside the door, raised the hammer, and knocked the preparatory bell heavily on the iron plate.
She thought coldly in her heart - if she was late for one minute, she would ask Liang Youtian to deduct one cent from her!
As a result, just as he rang the bell, Chuxia came in from the gate of the yard.
Lin Xiaohan held the hammer: "..."
Yes, I can tell time without a watch.
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