Chapter 72
Chuxia returned to her seat and sat down.
She took a deep breath, didn't think about anything else, opened the book and continued to review.
Lin Xiaohan looked at her back for a while.
Then he also withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes and continued reading his book.
A small indentation had been made where his pen tip had stopped just now. Now he did not lift the pen tip and continued to draw the wavy line at the indentation.
At half past nine, night school is over.
The classroom was filled with noise, and everyone packed up their bags and left in groups.
Lin Xiaohan finished the half-finished question in his hand. When he put down his pen and closed the book, he raised his eyes and subconsciously looked towards the seat in the third row in front of him, and found that the seat was empty.
So he was no longer in a hurry.
He slowly collected the paper, pen, books and materials on the table, picked up his bag and left.
The night he came back from the countryside, he did not go home after leaving the train station, but stayed in a guesthouse for one night. When he returned home the next day, he found that his room was no longer equipped with a bed, desk, or wardrobe. All the things he had left at home were gone. There was only a ping-pong table in the room.
He didn't find it surprising.
So without any emotion, he found a hammer and smashed the ping-pong table into pieces with a relaxed expression.
Then, amidst his stepmother's frightened expression, his beloved brother's howling, and his biological father's scolding, he threw down the hammer, clapped his hands, picked up his travel bag, and left.
I reported to the factory the next day and started living there.
***
Lin Xiaohan left the night school classroom a little late. When he returned to the factory dormitory, everyone else had already gone to wash up. So he didn't waste any time, went to wash up and came back to continue reading.
But the dormitory is not a place to study after all, especially in a dormitory with many people, it is impossible to have complete quietness. Lin Xiaohan was a little annoyed by the noise, so he threw down his book and went to bed.
He sleeps on the upper bunk.
I lay down on the bed but didn't close my eyes to sleep.
Instead, he rested his head on his arms and stared at the ceiling in a daze.
What he was thinking about in a daze was not the college entrance examination and the review, but the person he saw and confirmed the identity of in the night school classroom tonight - Chu Xia.
Because Chuxia knew that he was working in the watch factory, he thought Chuxia would come to see him when he just came back. After all, after she learned that she had the quota in the countryside, she was very reluctant to leave him. She stuck to him crazily every day and even secretly looked at him on the train on the way back.
But after coming back, Chuxia did not come to see him as he expected.
Realizing that Chuxia would not come to see him, he thought again that he must be overthinking it. The reason was that he had some unnecessary expectations in his heart, and this was not a good thing for him.
So he once again extinguished the little flame in his heart that shouldn't have been lit.
He originally thought that he would never meet Chu Xia again.
Who knew that because of the college entrance examination review, I would meet her again in night school tonight.
What he didn't expect was that she had changed so much after returning to the city, and she even pretended not to know him.
Naturally, he was very confused.
It has only been ten days since they returned to the city. How did she become like this?
Thinking about it again, the girl he caught a glimpse of in the crowd outside the bookstore yesterday morning, whose face looked very similar to Chu Xia but was much prettier than her, must be her.
At that time, because she looked like Chu Xia, he took a special look at her.
He also remembered that when they were in the countryside, Chuxia had shown distress and concern about her face and appearance, and she looked in the mirror and obviously wanted to become beautiful.
Especially in the few days before returning to the city, she would ask him almost every day if she had changed.
Could it be that the reason she kept sticking to him wasn't actually to relieve the loneliness of being isolated?
Rather, what special effect might he have on her that could make her very beautiful?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Lin Xiaohan subconsciously felt that he was being outrageous.
He was born in New China and grew up under the red flag. He also followed the revolution to fight against feudal superstition for ten years. How could he come up with such a weird thing?
But when he denied this idea.
I couldn't help but feel that this idea was too logical.
Then he couldn't help but think -
OK, OK, OK.
As I wished, I became pretty and beautiful.
I won't need him anymore when I return to the city, so when I see him now, I just pretend not to know him.
***
After the night school ended, Chuxia did not go back to the factory dormitory with Feng Jingzhi.
She would have to review for a while after she got back. The study environment in the dormitory was definitely not as good as her home, so she rode her bike home.
When she returned home and entered the second door, the lights in the east and west wing rooms were no longer on.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei had not gone to bed yet, and the lights were on in their rooms.
Chu Xia trotted into the main room and knocked on Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei's doors first, then said to them through the door: "Mom and Dad, I'm back."
Wu Xuemei heard the sound and got out of bed, opened the door, and asked her, "Why are you back so late?"
Chu Xia explained to her: "The factory has organized a night school and invited professional teachers to help everyone review before the exam. I went to night school after get off work and will be back late in the future."
Wu Xuemei nodded and said, "Okay, don't be too tired."
Chu Xia smiled and said, "I'm fine. No matter how tired I am, it will only last for a little over a month."
Tang Haikuan's voice came from the room again, "Take a shower and go to bed early."
Chu Xia smiled and walked into the room and said, "You and mom should go to bed early."
Tang Haikuan added: "I didn't ask about the review materials today, I'll continue asking tomorrow."
Chu Xia responded: "Okay, thank you, Mom and Dad. It doesn't matter if I can't borrow it."
Chuxia explained the situation to Wu Xuemei and Tang Haikuan, and then hurried to wash up.
Wu Xuemei and Tang Haikuan turned off the lights and went to bed, but Chuxia did not go to bed immediately after washing up. She studied under the desk lamp for another two hours. She turned off the lights and went to bed only when she could not stop yawning.
I got on the bed and fell asleep as soon as I touched the pillow.
The next day, I wake up with the alarm clock and do the same things as I did that day.
After work in the evening, she and Feng Jingzhi rushed to the cafeteria to eat and then rushed to night school to grab a seat.
The two of them hurried to the night school classroom and took a quick look inside after entering the door.
Chu Xia originally glanced to find an empty seat, but she not only saw the remaining empty seat in the third row, but also saw Lin Xiaohan who was sitting next to the empty seat.
Chuxia and Feng Jingzhi ran here in a hurry, with smiles on their faces.
But after meeting Lin Xiaohan's eyes, the smile on her face subconsciously faded.
In order to avoid embarrassment, Chu Xia naturally pretended not to know Lin Xiaohan.
She retracted her gaze, pulled Feng Jingzhi to the aisle, passed by the third row as if there was a landmine, and sat in the empty seat in the fourth row at the back.
Lin Xiaohan lowered his eyebrows and sneered.
After Chu Xia took Feng Jingzhi to sit in the back, Feng Jingzhi took off her schoolbag and asked Chu Xia in confusion: "There are still seats in the third row, why don't you sit in the third row?"
Chu Xia cleared her throat and said, "It feels a bit too close to the blackboard. The fourth row is just right."
Feng Jingzhi glanced at the blackboard and said, "It seems so."
Since they were already seated, the third and fourth rows didn't make much difference, so Feng Jingzhi didn't say anything more. She took out some materials from her schoolbag and said, "It's so hard to borrow a review outline. I haven't heard of anyone in our factory having one. I'm afraid I can't borrow one."
Chuxia also took out the review materials she needed from her schoolbag.
Feng Jingzhi continued, "Then focus on reviewing the knowledge points that the teacher teaches every day."
Feng Jingzhi nodded and agreed: "This is the only way for now."
After saying these few words, they stopped chatting and calmed down to focus on their studies.
Soon, the classroom was full of people. When the teacher came over, they put down their pens again, raised their heads and listened to the teacher carefully.
Chuxia sat diagonally behind Lin Xiaohan.
Sometimes when I look at the blackboard, because of the angle, I can see his profile.
And every time she saw it, she would subconsciously hold her breath and then continue to listen to the class attentively.
I listened to the lectures carefully, memorized the lessons carefully, and did the exercises carefully. The three hours of night school passed quickly.
When it was time to go home from school, everyone in the classroom packed up their bags and left again. Some people yawned while talking.
Before Chuxia had packed her schoolbag, Lin Xiaohan, who was sitting in the front row, got up and left.
The moment Lin Xiaohan stood up and left, she subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and even the action of packing her schoolbag became much easier.
We had spent so much time together in the countryside before.
It was easy to keep a distance from him, but it was impossible for her to completely ignore him, especially since he had been in her sight tonight.
After secretly breathing a sigh of relief, Chuxia picked up her schoolbag and left the classroom with Feng Jingzhi.
Just like last night, Feng Jingzhi walked back to the factory dormitory, and Chuxia went under the carport to ride her bicycle home.
There are not many bicycles under the shed.
Chuxia went to her bicycle, unlocked it, and pushed it out of the shed.
After pushing the cart out of the carport and taking two steps, she suddenly saw Lin Xiaohan standing not far in front of her.
Chuxia was pushing the cart when she suddenly froze and even stopped walking subconsciously.
She looked at Lin Xiaohan and blinked.
Lin Xiaohan asked, "We haven't seen each other for just ten days, and you don't recognize me?"
Chuxia looked at him and blinked again, then turned her head left and right to look around.
Not seeing anyone else around, she finally looked at Lin Xiaohan: "Are you talking to me?"
Lin Xiaohan: “…”
He replied to her: "Am I talking to a ghost?"
“…”
Chu Xia looked at him and choked for a while.
Then she asked in a deliberately distant tone: "What do you want from me?"
Lin Xiaohan did not answer Chu Xia's question.
He took a few steps closer to her, looked at her face carefully and asked, "What's wrong with your face?"
Her face?
Chu Xia was subconsciously stunned for a moment.
Recently, no one mentioned her becoming more beautiful, and her mind was full of thoughts about the college entrance examination, so she forgot about it.
She realized it, so she quickly pretended to be stupid and asked back: "What's wrong with my face?"
Lin Xiaohan looked at her and said directly: "It seems that nothing has changed, but it seems that everything has changed. I can't tell why, but I have become very beautiful anyway."
When she heard him say that she had become very beautiful, she actually wanted to laugh in a pathetic way.
She pursed her lips and held back, steadied her expression and said, "Maybe my mood has improved since I returned to the city, my state of mind has changed, and my appearance and temperament have changed as well."
It is useless to ask this question any further.
Lin Xiaohan then changed the question and asked, "Why are you pretending not to know me?"
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