Chapter 9
Although she had the director's meal card, Jiang Rong still chose to use her own meal card. However, she originally thought that 200 yuan would be enough to get by for a semester, but now 200 yuan has become a tight squeeze.
Fortunately, the food in public school cafeterias is good and cheap.
While Jiang Rong was buying food, Lin Yue went to the canteen to get two drinks. She placed them on the table and introduced them, "This drink tastes good. Try it."
Jiang Rong's cheeks flushed as she held a drink she had never drunk before and whispered, "Thank you."
Lin Yue smiled nonchalantly: "What's the big deal? It's normal to exchange gifts."
The two of them started eating. It was Jiang Rong's first time eating face to face with someone. She noticed a rather obvious gaze not far away. She opened her mouth and finally said, "What happened between you and that friend of yours in class?"
"I remember you were chatting together before I left. If you have dinner with me, will she..."
Jiang Rong frowned and asked with a troubled look on her face, but she didn't finish her words because she hadn't thought of the right words.
She didn't intend to cause trouble, but she was afraid that others would quarrel because of her.
Lin Yue chewed the beef in his mouth and stared at Jiang Rong for a while before swallowing the food in his mouth. He smiled calmly and said, "Nothing, I just found that our values don't match."
Jiang Rong said "Oh" in a daze. The topic she had finally thought of ended again. She could only purse her lips and start thinking about what to talk about.
Lin Yue raised her eyebrows, lowered her head slightly, and then looked up and asked, "By the way, can we still have dinner together in the future?"
She didn't know if it was an illusion, but Jiang Rong felt that she looked a little pitiful. She also heard that she wanted to invite her, but... she didn't dare.
She didn't dare to gamble.
Jiang Rong pursed her lips, deliberately not looking at her expression, turned her head away and refused: "No, I'm used to eating alone."
After saying that, he realized that his words were ambiguous, and added: "It's not that I don't like you, nor that I don't want to owe you a favor, it's just that, generally speaking, being too nice to me doesn't lead to good results..."
She spoke more and more quietly. Lin Yue raised an eyebrow, looking incredulous. "Your family didn't tell your fortune and found out that you were doomed to be a tyrant, a disaster, and then you started blaming yourself, right?"
Jiang Rong opened her mouth. It seemed to make sense. When she was a child, she really had a strange fortune-teller like that. But she still felt something was amiss. She couldn't help but say, "It's not that I'm blaming myself. It's mainly because she did..."
Before the girl could finish her words, Lin Yue, who was sitting opposite her, laughed. "Impossible! If you were really that powerful, you'd be used as a secret weapon by the country. This is only a small-scale biological weapon. But to be honest, this is the first time I've seen it in real life. I thought this kind of setting must only appear in novels."
Jiang Rong looked at Lin Yue in a daze. This was the first time she had received such a different answer from someone else. She couldn't help but think of what Shen Jianye said when he stood in front of her that day. The kindness she had felt recently made Jiang Rong feel inexplicably warm in her heart.
But she still didn't have the courage to tell Lin Yue everything that had happened to her. Seeing Lin Yue's outstretched hand, she subconsciously shrank back, pursed her lips and said, "I know you may not believe it, but it's true!"
Lin Yue didn't force it any further. She smiled as she took her hand back: "It's okay. It's okay for me to eat alone in the future."
She spoke pitifully, her eyes glancing at Jiang Rong. She knew Jiang Rong was easily moved. After a moment's silence, Jiang Rong simply said, "Then I'll go back and think about it."
Lin Yue smiled and said "hmm", then lowered her eyes to look at the food in the bowl: "But you were able to grab these popular dishes today, which is really amazing."
Jiang Rong blushed and pursed her lips, not wanting to say that she didn't actually steal anything. She just ate steamed buns and the free soup in the cafeteria every day. This had been the case every day for the past few years. Although she didn't spend much, only buying two steamed buns, she was already a familiar face in the eyes of the cafeteria aunties.
When she heard that she was going to treat her classmates to a meal today, the aunt quickly scooped a spoonful of these popular dishes from the teacher and gave them to Jiang Rong, indicating that Jiang Rong must eat well.
Jiang Rong felt embarrassed. She didn't know what was wrong with her these days. She always met these nice people. But it seemed like it all started from that night and that piece of cake.
Jiang Rong bit her lower lip to stop thinking about the random things in her mind, took out her meal card and paid the bill. Although the director insisted on giving her the meal card, he didn't know whether he would use it or not.
It's always been like this. Jiang Rong raised the corner of her mouth slightly, noticed the dull gaze of the girl in front of her, and smiled awkwardly: "Nothing, it just happened to be available when I went there. Come on, eat it, lunch time will be over soon."
Hearing this, Lin Yue quickened his eating pace. After the two of them finished their meal and put the empty plates into the sink, Jiang Rong was then dragged by Lin Yue to a "secret base".
It is said to be a secret base, but it is actually a small garden behind the school. The branches and leaves here are very lush. Unless you go inside, you will not realize that there are many people hiding inside.
It was also the first time that Jiang Rong knew that after lunch, so many people did not go back to the classroom, but came here to chat. In particular, there were several pairs of men and women who gathered together holding hands, and no one knew what they were doing.
But Jiang Rong didn't recognize any of them. Before she could even take a few glances, Lin Yue pulled her to her usual spot. She expertly made Jiang Rong squat beside the bench and whispered, "If we hide here, the teacher won't be able to see us."
Jiang Rong licked her lip, feeling that there was something wrong with what she said. Although it seemed like she was comforting herself, she also had a feeling that the teacher was about to appear.
But before Jiang Rong could even begin to wonder, Lin Yue had already taken out his cell phone, turned it on in no time, and opened a pornographic software.
Jiang Rong was familiar with this software. When she was at the noodle shop, several people would open this software to scan coupons for themselves. Jiang Rong curiously leaned over and watched Lin Yue's operation.
After all, she didn't know much about mobile phones. When she worked part-time at a noodle shop, she saw many people swiping their fingers up and down the interface while eating, as if they were inseparable from their phones. She was curious about buying one before, but when she went to the store to ask, she found out that the cheapest one cost several hundred yuan, so Jiang Rong gave up the idea.
Anyway, life will still be like this without a mobile phone.
Jiang Rong watched Lin Yue fiddle with it for a while, then handed the phone to her with shining eyes: "Look, this store is pretty good, the prices and reviews are good."
Jiang Rong asked in confusion, "What were the comments?"
Lin Yue picked a few at random: "Just say that the craftsmanship is very good, the cutting is very good, and it can understand what people say."
"Besides, the negative reviews only said that the barber looked a bit fierce and the barber shop was a bit small. I think this kind of negative review should be acceptable, right?"
Jiang Rong nodded. She was more concerned about: "How much does a haircut cost?"
Lin Yue glanced at the average price per person and said, "It's only about thirty or forty. It depends on what you do. Besides, if you cut your hair and sell it, it will definitely be enough to pay for the haircut."
"Would you like to see for yourself?"
As he handed over the phone, Jiang Rong smiled awkwardly and refused: "I don't know how to use a mobile phone. My family has never bought me one. If you think it's okay, then it's fine."
Lin Yue didn't understand what he said and quickly started to make arrangements: "I'll find you some before and after photos of other people's haircuts."
"By the way, give me an address so I can see how far your home is from this place, and mainly how to get there."
Since the girl knew where she lived anyway, Jiang Rong simply gave her the address. Just as she typed it in, before the two of them had time to look at it, Jiang Rong heard a familiar voice outside the grove: "What are you doing? Sneaking around. You want your parents to be called, right? Come out now!"
"I've been away for a few days, and you've already developed a premature love affair?!"
With him shouting like that, no one would stand still. They all scattered, but before they could take two steps, they heard the man's loud but threatening voice: "Run! I've taken pictures! Run! I don't know if you know that hit-and-run is an even more serious crime!"
The man clearly didn't raise his voice intentionally, but everyone stopped in their tracks. Lin Yue had originally grabbed Jiang Rong's hand and was about to run away, but upon hearing his words, she retreated and whispered to Jiang Rong, "It's okay, he won't be able to find us."
Jiang Rong pursed her lips and murmured "hmm" in response.
Mainly because of the tree blocking the view, Jiang Rong couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, but her voice sounded very familiar, like the head teacher who gave her the meal card.
Seeing several young couples forced to write down their names and then return to their respective classes, there was no sound outside the grove for a while. As the lunch break drew closer, Lin Yue stood up, quietly poked her head out, and tapped her numb legs. She first checked the distance to Jiang Rong, explained the store name and transportation, took a deep breath, and held out her hand: "Let's go."
Jiang Rong didn't refuse again and again, and belatedly she realized she was afraid of being discovered by the teacher. As the two of them walked hand in hand through the last green belt, they heard the head teacher's voice overhead: "Hey, you two are still here, right?"
Lin Yue quickly raised her hands: "No, teacher, we are not in love."
Jiang Rong nodded beside him, and the teacher laughed angrily: "I didn't say you were in a relationship, so you're so scared. But it's true now. Men and men, women and women, no one can be let off."
Lin Yue wanted to say something, but the head teacher said directly: "You're almost late for class, why don't you go back quickly."
She quickly put her facial expression to rest, smiled, and said, "Thank you, teacher." Without a second thought, she pulled Jiang Rong away. She quickly handed the meal card in her pocket to the director, "Then, teacher, we'll be leaving first."
It seemed like she was asking, but in fact, Jiang Rong was dragged away by Lin Yue the next second, without giving the director a chance to reply.
On the way, Lin Yue scratched her head, unable to help but curious. The two people's actions just now were in her blind spot, so she only saw the interaction between Jiang Rong and the director, but she didn't see what was given. However, she was more curious: "Jiang Rong, are you familiar with the director?"
Jiang Rong didn't answer, but just silently quickened her pace. Unfortunately, the class bell rang just as she entered the door.
What was even more coincidental was that Teacher Wang was on duty at noon, and the two girls were punished to stand at the door for the whole afternoon. However, the two girls who did not escape the bell for class stood at the door and smiled at each other.
Although Jiang Rong didn't want to admit it, Lin Yue was indeed different from her previous classmates.
After the bell rang, the two of them were free and returned to their seats. Seeing that Jiang Rong did not answer, Lin Yue did not continue to ask, but just gave Jiang Rong a note with the address written on it during the break.
Jiang Rong rushed there as soon as she got out of school. The price was indeed not very expensive, but she was a little uncomfortable with the fact that she had lost a lot of hair. However, when she left the barber shop, everyone in the shop kept praising her for her good looks, and people passing by kept turning their heads, which made Jiang Rong shy and expectant.
However, her good mood did not last long. A sudden heavy rain soaked Jiang Rong's body. She ran to the station in a hurry.
I finally took the bus back to the back door of the community. I planned to go home to put down my schoolbag and change clothes, and then go to the coffee shop to look for a job. But when I ran in the rain and quickly got back, I found that there were several uninvited guests at the door. My face, which was originally slightly flushed with shyness, turned pale in an instant.
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