Chapter 10
Ever since he knew that Chen Miao and Meng Qinyang were cousins, Lin Jiu paid less attention to them.
She had originally thought that with Meng Qinyang's temper, something would happen between them. After all, Meng Qinyang's attitude towards Ji Xin was not very kind.
Every time in class, whenever there is a difficult question that the teacher asks Ji Xin to answer, Meng Qinyang will take the initiative to answer the next question, and he must be in the spotlight.
When the two met after class, as soon as Meng Qinyang saw Ji Xin, his originally smiling face would immediately turn gloomy, as if Ji Xin owed him money.
Ji Xin is innocent. He did nothing wrong. It's just because he is good-looking, has good grades, and is too dazzling that Meng Qinyang hates him.
However, Ji Xin never took Meng Qinyang's covert targeting seriously and basically didn't care.
His indifferent and even ignoring attitude made Meng Qinyang dislike him even more.
Lin Jiu thought that Meng Qinyang would still be unhappy with Chen Miao's arrival, but... the two of them had a very good relationship.
Later, when she heard Tang Yue say that they were related by blood, she suddenly understood.
There are three handsome guys in the class, but none of them is approachable and seems difficult to get along with.
Fortunately, Lin Jiu had no intention of contacting or making friends with them, he just wanted to admire their beauty from a distance.
Time flies.
Lin Jiu has been in school for nearly a month and has become accustomed to the pace of life here.
She basically goes back and forth between school, the cafeteria and the dormitory every day, and occasionally goes outside the school.
Her regular partner is still Zheng Ying.
The two of them always went together, eating together, going back to the dormitory together, and hanging out outside the school together...
Perhaps because they had been together for a long time, Lin Jiu felt that they had become good friends.
Unexpectedly, problems arose in the seemingly stable friendship.
One day at noon, Lin Jiu and Zheng Ying were having lunch when a girl suddenly came up to their table with a tray and asked, "Can I eat with you?"
Lin Jiu looked up at the person who came. It was Zheng Ying's deskmate, Sun Zhengqing.
She was about to agree when she heard Zheng Ying say, "Sure, why are you alone?"
As Sun Zhengqing's deskmate, Zheng Ying had known for a long time that Sun Zhengqing always acted with her friends from the next class. She didn't expect that she was here alone today.
After getting permission, Sun Zhengqing walked to the empty seat next to Zheng Ying and sat down, explaining: "My friend's mother is at home recently. She will bring her food starting today, so I can only eat alone. It's so pitiful." She also pouted and looked very pitiful.
Zheng Ying said sympathetically, "It's okay. You can eat with us during this time. Right, Lin Jiu?"
Lin Jiu smiled politely with a pursed mouth.
Sun Zhengqing was very surprised and smiled sweetly: "Wow, that's great, thank you."
"It's okay," Zheng Ying said, "We sit at the same table, so it's convenient for us to eat together."
Sun Zhengqing and Zheng Ying often chat during breaks and always have endless topics to talk about.
Suddenly, Sun Zhengqing seemed to remember a topic that they had not finished discussing, and started discussing it with Zheng Ying as if no one was around. The atmosphere was very good.
Seeing that they were chatting enthusiastically, Lin Jiu did not interrupt and just ate his meal in silence.
After eating, the three of them returned to the classroom together.
Zheng Ying and Sun Zhengqing walked and talked hand in hand, looking like good friends. Lin Jiu walked beside Zheng Ying and didn't say a word.
The following days were also like this, all three of them. Most of the time, Lin Jiu was like an outsider, playing the role of a listener.
Until one day, Sun Zhengqing's friends started eating with her again, and Lin Jiu and Zheng Ying returned to their relationship.
The two of them walked together again. Lin Jiu spoke less and was much quieter. Zheng Ying still felt a little uncomfortable about making new friends.
After all, Zheng Ying is the only good friend in her heart, but Zheng Ying can have many good friends.
Making friends is Zheng Ying's freedom. She can't say anything and has no reason to stop her.
She couldn't ask Zheng Ying to only be friends with her just because she regarded Zheng Ying as her only friend.
So, although she was a little unhappy, Lin Jiu still had dinner with Zheng Ying as usual. After all, they were still friends and there was no conflict between them.
Until one day, something happened that was neither big nor small.
After lunch that day, Lin Jiu took his lunch box to the sink outside the cafeteria to wash it.
She had bought this lunch box specially outside the school because she felt that the bowls in the school were shared and not very hygienic.
Perhaps because she was so skilled at washing, she cleaned it in two minutes. After turning off the tap, she looked around the cafeteria entrance. There were only a few people in the open space in front of the door, but Zheng Ying was nowhere to be seen.
In the past, Zheng Ying would wait for her at the cafeteria door.
Stopping at the cafeteria door, she frowned for a few seconds, feeling a little overwhelmed.
She thought that maybe Zheng Ying saw that it was too sunny outside and ran into the cafeteria.
She decided to go in and look for it.
Just as I was about to take action, a voice suddenly sounded behind me: "Don't wait, the girl you had dinner with just left with someone else."
She looked towards the person coming from the direction of the voice.
It’s Chen Miao.
After hesitating for a few seconds, she looked at him and asked, "Are you talking to me?"
After Chen Miao came to the class, the two of them had not spoken to each other. Perhaps, these words were not meant for her.
But looking around, it seemed like Chen Miao was indeed talking to her.
"Don't look, I'm talking to you."
He was wearing the same blue and white school uniform as her, with one hand in his pocket, standing about one meter away from her. He had a calm expression on his face, but he looked like a friendly classmate.
Lin Jiu's heart skipped a beat.
If Chen Miao really told her that, it would be equivalent to saying that Zheng Ying did not wait for her and left with other people.
She hadn't anticipated this.
On second thought, anything that has not been fully verified may not be true.
After calming down, Lin Jiu asked softly, "Did she go to the classroom?"
Lin Jiu wanted Chen Miao to understand who this "she" referred to.
Chen Miao didn't say anything, but just nodded slightly, confirming her guess.
"Thanks."
After saying that, Lin Jiu turned around and quickly set foot on the road that would lead him to the classroom.
"What are you looking at?" Meng Qinyang went downstairs and saw Chen Miao standing at the door like a stone pillar.
Following Chen Miao's gaze, he saw nothing.
"nothing."
Looking at the snacks Meng Qinyang had just bought, Chen Miao asked, "What did you buy?"
Meng Qinyang looked at Chen Miao's nasty face as he stretched out his hand to ask for food, and wanted to throw the food in his face. But he didn't have the courage, so he had to hand it over obediently.
Afterwards, he didn't directly answer Chen Miao's question, but just sighed unhappily, as if he was very helpless: "I just climbed up and down the third floor to get food for the two of us! You didn't even ask me if it was hard work, and you just wanted to eat the ready-made food. My young master, you are so lucky."
If an audience who didn't know the truth heard this, they would definitely think that Chen Miao was enslaving him for food.
In fact, Meng Qinyang was dissatisfied with the food during his meal, so he went up to the third floor to buy some snacks.
Fortunately, he knew there was someone by his side.
Before leaving, he glanced at his cousin and asked in a very perfunctory and symbolic manner: "Do you want me to bring it to you?"
Seeing Meng Qinyang like that, Chen Miao was happy to tell him something and find something for him to do, so he asked him to bring a similar one.
So, it became the current situation.
“…”
Opening the bag, Chen Miao looked at the greasy meat pie and Meng Qinyang's sour remarks, and immediately lost his appetite.
He really couldn't understand why Meng Qinyang wanted to eat this.
Putting the cake back into Meng Qinyang's hands, Chen Miao said, "I won't eat it anymore. If you like this one, have another one."
"It's so greasy, who would like it?" Meng Qinyang frowned. He spoke too quickly and accidentally let it slip.
Chen Miao asked sharply, "Why did you buy this if you don't like it?"
Facing Chen Miao's scrutinizing gaze, Meng Qinyang was speechless and choked: "I..."
In fact, he had already eaten what he wanted upstairs, but he couldn't say it.
The one in his hand now was specially selected by him upstairs, and he bought it purely to disgust Chen Miao.
Seeing Meng Qinyang's guilty look, Chen Miao guessed his bad idea.
So Chen Miao forced Meng Qinyang to finish the meat pie in front of him.
......
Zheng Ying, Sun Zhengqing and the others walked very slowly, so slowly that Lin Jiu saw their backs before they even entered the corridor on the first floor.
Chen Miao said that Zheng Ying left with someone else. She guessed it might be Sun Zhengqing, but she didn't expect it was really her, and... them.
At this moment, she felt mixed emotions, even a little absurd and ridiculous.
Not long ago, she and Zheng Ying were good friends.
Now, Zheng Ying left with others without even saying hello.
So, what is she?
A clown?
Five or six meters away, Lin Jiu didn't call out to Zheng Ying and the others. She just slowed down her pace, watched them walk into the corridor, and then disappeared.
Lin Jiu didn't plan to go back to the classroom for the time being. She felt she needed to sort out her thoughts.
She found a stone block sheltered by a big tree and sat down, and she recalled the first time she met Zheng Ying.
At that time, Zheng Ying was really very silent, completely different from her enthusiastic mother.
Perhaps it was because Zheng Ying was the first person she met after entering school.
Lin Jiu was not as cold as others, but rather extremely enthusiastic.
So, when the two of them walked together, it was mostly Lin Jiu who did the talking.
Sometimes she would chatter on and on about some interesting things happening around her, gossip she heard from Tang Yue, or TV shows and novels she had watched before.
Sometimes, when she was sharing enthusiastically, she found that Zheng Ying had little interest in these things, had no desire to understand at all, and seemed not to want to listen, with a perfunctory attitude.
However, every time Zheng Ying shared something with her, she always responded actively and showed great interest.
Occasionally, she would feel a little angry when comparing the attitudes of the two.
Why should she listen to Zheng Ying carefully, but Zheng Ying can choose not to listen to her carefully?
However, although she was angry at that time, she didn't think much about it.
Now it seems that perhaps this friendship was originally unequal.
Perhaps, in Zheng Ying's heart, she never considered her a good friend. She was just a friend who was slightly higher in rank than her classmates. In her heart, Zheng Ying was her only good friend.
Now, Zheng Ying wants to make new friends. And judging from her attitude, new friends seem more important than her.
Lin Jiu thought, maybe Zheng Ying was not wrong, it was she who was wrong.
She wants the best place in her only friend's heart and hopes to be more important than others.
However, everything did not go as she expected, which made her feel disappointed.
The best thing for her to do was to treat Zheng Ying as an ordinary friend who could be replaced.
But this is no longer important.
The most important question now is why Zheng Ying left without saying a word to her while she was washing dishes.
Zheng Ying was too casual with her.
It doesn't matter. Lin Jiu feels that he is not even a friend in Zheng Ying's heart. He is dispensable and there is no need to care about him.
They were clearly eating together, and they weren't just random dining companions who met in the cafeteria.
If Zheng Ying saw Sun Zhengqing and the others and wanted to leave early, Lin Jiu would not be so angry if she had told him.
But Zheng Ying didn't do that. She didn't give any explanation at all, as if she had forgotten about Lin Jiu.
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During a break in the afternoon, Lin Jiu went to the toilet and washed his hands, and stayed for a while.
She saw Zheng Ying on the way here and was waiting for her to come out.
After Zheng Ying washed her hands, Lin Jiu naturally walked to her side.
After walking a few steps, Lin Jiu glanced at Zheng Ying and asked with a hint of emotion, "Why didn't you say hello to me at noon? You left with the others?"
Lin Jiu's question was very direct and specific.
Zheng Ying seemed to be completely unprepared and was stumped by the question.
Lin Jiu waited for a few seconds and saw that Zheng Ying seemed to be hesitant to speak, as if he didn't know how to answer.
She sneered, quickened her pace, and didn't want to wait for Zheng Ying's answer anymore.
She thought her question wasn't a difficult one, but Zheng Ying couldn't come up with an answer. It seemed the answer might not be easy to come by, nor would it be pleasant to hear.
On her way back to the classroom, Lin Jiu felt unusually calm. She had let go of... this brief friendship.
It was also from this time on that Zheng Ying was automatically downgraded in her heart and became just an ordinary classmate.
After class, Lin Jiu didn't wait for Zheng Ying to eat as usual. Similarly, Zheng Ying didn't look for her specifically.
They didn't quarrel, but they both knew in their hearts: they had broken up.
Lin Jiu ate dinner alone. Although he looked lonely, he was very happy.
Living alone is not unfamiliar to Lin Jiu.
When she was in junior high school, she didn't have a fixed dining partner and basically ate alone.
She won't feel lonely, but free instead.
Sometimes her thoughts are always changing. Maybe on the way to the dormitory, she suddenly wants to take a walk in the playground, and she will take action.
If there were other people around, she might have to consider their schedules and give up the idea.
Although Lin Jiu is always alone, she is actually very popular.
Probably because he looks innocent, keeps to himself, doesn't take sides, and has no relationship conflicts.
Many people are willing to share some interesting stories or secrets with you.
Most of the time, Lin Jiu would be a good listener, provide some emotional value, and keep some of their secrets secret.
Although she met many nice people in junior high school, she still didn't want to get in-depth with them and become friends.
In her impression, if someone is a true friend, he or she will share his or her joys and sorrows, and will most likely talk about family.
However, she didn't want to talk about her family affairs with others.
A deceased father and a crazy grandmother are some sensitive topics.
Once these things are spoken out loud, it is equivalent to handing the most hurtful knife into someone else's hands, and there is always the risk of being hurt.
She wasn't willing to gamble on whether someone else would wield the knife.
The best way to protect yourself is always to never give out that knife.
So she is unwilling to make friends.
Before entering high school, she didn't think about making any good friends in high school.
As for Zheng Ying, it was an accident.
Their backgrounds were somewhat similar, both were admitted from the town, and they were also the first people Lin Jiu knew each other, which made him feel a sense of mutual understanding.
So she wanted to try to make some friends, friends that didn't involve her family for the time being.
This friendship was really short, so short that it ended abruptly before she opened her heart completely and showed the knife that could hurt her.
Lin Jiu felt that this might be a good thing.
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