The story of red and green bean paste
Tianya Academy was founded by Jincheng Wanyun Group Co., Ltd. It is a very famous private junior high school in Jincheng.
Many of the students who come here to study are from wealthy families in Jincheng, but there are also some who are admitted based on their academic performance.
Jiang Shuang entered the classroom, dribbling a basketball. As soon as he sat down, Li Chaozheng came over and said, "Look, that transfer student keeps looking at you."
Jiang Shuang looked in the direction he pointed and saw a girl sitting in the third row. Her face was not dark, but it looked like it was covered with a layer of dust. It was rare to see such shabby students in private middle schools. She was actually quite good-looking.
When she realized he was looking at her, she turned her face away quickly. After a second or two, she turned back slowly and glanced at him like a deer.
Jiang Shuang was amused by her reaction. He started school very late for some reasons and was almost four years older than his classmates. There was a gang of hooligans in the private school, and he was also a member of it.
With his good looks, both good and poor students would rush to talk to him. They all knew that he liked to take the initiative and was straightforward. It was rare to see such a shy girl.
During the physical education class, Lin Yu, who was short, stood in the first row. Only then did she realize that the handsome guy was actually the physical education committee member. He was so tall that he looked like an adult.
After the free time, the girls around Lin Yu went to the supermarket together. She had no money to join them, so when she saw her deskmate, she hurried over and followed him.
Noticing someone following him, Tao Xingye turned around and saw his rustic deskmate. "I'm going back to the classroom to study. Why are you following me?"
Unlike usual, his tone of voice was very aggressive. Tao Xingye actually didn't dislike this transfer student at first, but the homeroom teacher deliberately arranged her to sit next to him because he was the class monitor and expected him to take care of her, which made him a little annoyed.
He originally thought that Lin Yu was a sensible person and knew that he didn't like her, but he didn't expect that she would dare to follow him.
"Then I'll go back and do my homework too. I haven't finished my math homework yet." Lin Yu noticed that his tone was wrong, but kept telling herself not to think too much.
She had just arrived at the school and was unfamiliar with the place. She only knew this one person, and she sincerely hoped to make friends with her deskmate.
When Lin Yu returned to the classroom, he was surprised to find that it was not quiet. Several unfamiliar students were sitting on the podium. The smart blackboard used for lectures had a game downloaded on it. A group of people were noisily gesturing on the blackboard. The third row was full of people, and his seat was also occupied.
She thought Tao Xingye would chase away those who misused the whiteboard. The teacher had emphasized in class many times at the beginning of the school year that people should not misuse the whiteboard, and they would be scolded if they were caught.
But Tao Xingye didn't say anything and went up to play with them.
Lin Yu walked to his seat, quietly took out his homework, and sat in an empty seat nearby.
When Jiang Shuang came in with the ball, he saw several brothers from other classes playing with the whiteboard. He glanced around the classroom and found a little country girl doing homework in the corner.
"Lin Yu? Is that your name?" Jiang Shuang sat down opposite her and lowered his head to Lin Yu's exercise book.
The little girl looked at the exercises without even raising her head.
"Hello, my name is Jiang Shuang." He smiled and moved his gaze to her calm face, but it seemed that she was not very calm in her heart. Her ears were red.
Lin Yu didn't dare look up. She was an introvert and had never seen such an active approach. Although she was a little uncomfortable, she was still happy. This was the first time someone had taken the initiative to introduce themselves to her in the week since she came to this school.
"My name is Lin Yu, thank you."
Thank you? Jiang Shuang was confused by her unreasonable thanks. Then, remembering that he came here to tease her, he was about to ask her what she wanted to thank him for.
But as soon as he looked up, he was stunned. The setting sun was very bright, shining through the window onto Lin Yu, and her whole body was covered with a layer of light.
The noise from the podium seemed to be isolated, and Jiang Shuang remembered the words - "Wherever my heart is at peace is my hometown." Her face became redder and redder, and Jiang Shuang quickly withdrew her gaze, stood up and left.
Perhaps because he had lived alone since he was very young, Lin Yu was very good at observing people's expressions and quickly discovered the rules of this school.
In this junior high school with very expensive tuition, studying does not seem to be what most students care about.
There are very few truly "good" students. Most of them come from wealthy families and do not like to study. There are even many small groups.
In the first monthly exam after transferring to this school, Lin Yu performed surprisingly well and ranked tenth in the grade.
However, Lin Yu did not plan to tell her parents about this news. They did not care about Lin Yu, even though Mei Jinfeng had told Lin Yu more than once: "In our hearts, you and your brother are the same."
Lin Yu still knew something was different, she knew her brother always came first.
Her younger brother was born in another city by her parents and has always been with them. He has countless toys and clothes since he was a child. However, she carefully calculated her living expenses every month and stayed alone in her hometown to go to school.
She is not jealous, but she is also a girl who has not grown up. When she sees cake, she will want to eat it. When her classmates go to buy snacks together, she really wants to go with them. Even if she only buys a small bag of cookies, it is better than going back to the classroom alone.
I don’t just want to eat snacks, I also hope to talk more with my classmates and integrate into them faster.
In this private school, it seems that the only way to truly begin to integrate with them is to spend money together.
She also wanted to have someone to talk to at school, to make some friends. She even wondered if she was too vain. Her parents had worked so hard, and it was already a great honor for them to send her to this expensive private school.
But what could she do? The city was too prosperous, she had never seen anything, an unaccepted transfer student, her whole body exuding poverty, even if she bought an extra cup of porridge in the morning, she would have no money for dinner in the evening.
She is not jealous, really not jealous, but it is inevitable that people have ulterior motives. If you don't have a lot of money, then please give me a lot of love.
But why is it that even the love you give me is so rare and even painful?
Lin Yu gripped the report card so tightly that a hole was torn in it. A hand reached out and snatched the report card away: "Why are you crying when you did so well in the exam?" Lin Yu looked up and saw Jiang Shuang.
Seeing Lin Yu's face covered in tears, Jiang Shuang quickly tore the paper on her desk to wipe her tears: "Why are you crying? Talk to me. I'm the boss who protects this area.
"I'm almost out of toilet paper and you're still tearing so much. I don't have money to buy more." Lin Yu couldn't stop crying when she thought about having to forgo a meal to buy toilet paper.
"No, don't cry. Can I give you the toilet paper? I'll bring you all the toilet paper in my dormitory tomorrow." Jiang Shuang thought Lin Yu was joking when she said she had no money to buy toilet paper.
For some reason, Lin Yu made him feel very close, just like his own family. No matter what, you would never laugh at your family.
"No need to get it for me. There are still two classes before the holiday. I will go back and buy it myself." Lin Yu calmed down and took the report card back to tear it into pieces.
Jiang Shuang didn't expect her to do this, and returned to his seat without saying anything. The classmates gradually gathered, and no one saw what happened in the classroom where only two people were.
During class, Jiang Shuang couldn't help but keep looking at Lin Yu. Although it could be seen that she was listening carefully, she was no longer sitting straight as before, but hunched over the table.
We had classes for two consecutive weeks and most of the students in the class were boarders. In the last class, they all couldn't wait to start packing their bags.
Tao Xingye glanced at Lin Yu, who was still working on her homework, like she was missing a nerve. "Why aren't you cleaning up?"
"Ah?" Lin Yu didn't react. She looked up at him with a pen in her hand. This was the first time Tao Xingye took the initiative to talk to her.
Under normal circumstances, she would definitely be happy, but now, when she thought about going home and being alone again, she was not happy anymore.
"I haven't finished the questions..." Lin Yu lowered his head guiltily, only then he realized that the exercise paper was soaked by the pen, and the ink was spreading across the white paper.
She hurriedly took the paper and started wiping it, but a sense of low pressure came from around her.
Lin Yu surreptitiously glanced at Tao Xingye from the corner of his eye. His school uniform sleeves and chin were covered with ink beads...
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to throw it on. Let me wipe it off for you..."
"Get up!" Tao Xingye slapped Lin Yu's hand that was stretched out on his face. She actually wanted to wipe it off his face with her hands?
Everyone in the classroom looked at the two of them, and Lin Yu's face grew redder and redder in embarrassment.
Tao Xingye angrily took off his school uniform and threw it on the table. "Why are you shrinking your head? Did I bully you or something?"
It’s no big deal to get a school uniform dirty. She doesn’t need to wipe it, just throw it away and buy another one.
How could she panic like this over such a trivial matter? Tao Xingye felt even more disgusted with this transfer student.
When the bell rang, no one paid attention to the farce anymore. They rushed out of the classroom with their schoolbags and made a commotion.
Tao Xingye ignored Lin Yu, didn't take his schoolbag, and walked out without looking back.
Lin Yu lowered her head and sat in her seat, looking at the school uniform that fell on the table, tears falling one after another.
She grabbed Tao Xingye's school uniform guiltily. She would wash it. Why was he so mean to her?
A hand suddenly appeared and pulled the clothes out of her hand.
Lin Yu looked up and saw Jiang Shuang helping her stuff the test paper into her schoolbag.
"What are you doing?"
"The schoolbag is quite heavy. Do you want me to help you carry it?" Jiang Shuang didn't wait for her to answer. He threw the schoolbag on his shoulder and took her hand to walk out.
"What are you doing!" Lin Yu pulled her hand away, "Classmates, there will be misunderstandings." Tears were still in the corners of her eyes, and her voice was intermittent.
"Just don't misunderstand me." Jiang Shuang took her hand again, "Don't think too much. I wouldn't even like a girlfriend one year younger than me."
"Are you in a hurry to go home? I'll take you somewhere to discuss something. It'll only take half an hour."
Lin Yu didn't say anything, and Jiang Shuang realized that this girl's silence meant consent.
"That's strange. Does your silence mean you agree?" Jiang Shuang rode out his scooter, asked Lin Yu to sit in the back, and handed her a helmet. "You hold our schoolbags."
Lin Yu took it and held it in his arms.
"Well, that's really what you agreed to. Sister Xiaoyu, you can't do this. You need to explain more about what you think. Not everyone is as understanding as your brother Jiang."
"You are not considerate." Lin Yu finally spoke the first sentence in a dull voice.
It seems she is still sad, Jiang Shuang thought.
"Okay, I'm not understanding. By the way, why were you crying over your report card this morning?" Jiang Shuang was riding very fast. Lin Yu, holding his schoolbag, freed one hand to hold the box at the back of the bike, and only then was he able to keep his balance.
"I did well on the test. I'm happy."
"I don't believe it."
"I haven't finished yet." Lin Yu's voice was awkward: "I'm happy, but no one cares about my grades. So I feel bad."
"Does it matter whether they care or not? Let me tell you, the old man in my family doesn't care about me at all. Only my grandfather is good to me." Jiang Shuang braked suddenly as soon as he finished speaking, and Lin Yu hit his back.
"Come down quickly, let's go try this." Jiang Shuang took their schoolbags, pulled Lin Yu into the store, pointed at the menu on the wall and said, "What do you want to eat? It's my treat."
It was a milk tea shop. Milk tea had just become popular that year, and there were many small brands like Yiyi Milk Tea Shop.
Lin Yu had never let anyone invite him before, and he always refused right away.
"Twenty bucks is nothing. Hurry up, or I'll buy everything on the menu for you to choose from."
Yes, in my opinion, ten or twenty yuan is a lot of money, but Jiang Shuang and the others don’t care at all. No wonder some people say I am poor.
"If you don't choose, I'll give you all of them, boss. Give it to me..."
"Mung bean milk." Lin Yu interrupted Jiang Shuang, "I want mung bean milk."
Jiang Shuang turned around and glanced at Lin Yu. "You like mung bean soup? What a coincidence."
After ordering, Jiang Shuang pulled Lin Yu to sit next to him. He was quite tall, and even when he sat down, he was a little taller than Lin Yu. He leaned over to be on the same level as Lin Yu.
The two of them were quiet, neither of them spoke. The boss brought them desserts, and Jiang Shuang found it was red bean paste with milk.
"You ordered red bean paste, and you said it was a coincidence. How could it be a coincidence?" Lin Yu finally took the initiative to speak for the first time, and it was this kind of thing, which surprised Jiang Shuang a little.
"Red and green are the best match, do you understand?" Jiang Shuang didn't use a spoon, he just held the bowl and drank.
"What do you want to talk about?" Lin Yu asked Jiang Shuang.
"Finish this first." Jiang Shuang finished a bowl of red bean paste in the blink of an eye and stood up to pay. He ran into his friend at the counter and chatted for a while before returning. Lin Yu had also finished her portion.
"Let's go." Jiang Shuang carried two schoolbags and pulled Lin Yu out.
"Where is your home? I'll take you back." Jiang Shuang got on the tram and motioned Lin Yu to get on.
"Don't you want to discuss something with me?" Lin Yu didn't get in the car.
"Let's discuss it. Do you think red and green are the best match? Come here quickly, I'll take you home." Jiang Shuang waved to her to come quickly.
"My home is not in the city, it's in the county, you can't take me there." Lin Yu wanted to take his schoolbag back, but Jiang Shuang dodged him.
"Who said I can't take you, Brother Jiang? Do you underestimate my tram?" Jiang Shuang didn't wait for Lin Yu to hesitate and directly pulled Lin Yu into the car.
On the busy street, no one paid attention to the fast-moving tram.
On a sultry afternoon with the incessant chirping of cicadas and Jiang Shuang's occasional questions, for the first time, Lin Yu did not hate this overly long journey home.
The houses on both sides of the street became shorter and fewer, and Lin Yu became happier and happier.
No matter why you treat me like this, Lin Yu thought, thank you, Jiang Shuang.
Lin Yu got out of the car when he was still a few hundred meters away from his home. Jiang Shuang waved and turned around to walk back.
That night, Jiang Shuang's name appeared in Lin Yu's diary for the first time:
"He took me to eat mung bean soup. Actually, I didn't order it because I liked it. I had never eaten mung bean soup before. I just didn't recognize the other dishes on the menu, such as mango pudding and sweet taro shoots. I only knew what mung bean milk was, so I ordered this.
I don’t know what he thinks of me, so please allow me to think of him as a friend. Please allow me to think that today is my good friend who saw that I was sad, so he came to accompany me to eat sweet mung bean paste and sent me home to comfort me.
Just think of it as me making such a good friend. Please be kind to me and don’t let him say in person that he doesn’t consider me a friend, so that I can keep deceiving myself that I have friends.
I also have friends, and I don’t need to deceive myself to make friends, but my friends are all in another place and I can’t see them.
Why did you send me to this school? You think you're doing me a favor, but you don't understand this school at all. It's really terrible. It would be much better if I could go to school in the county. I could be with my friends every day, without having to worry about money, being laughed at, or having no friends.
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