Chapter 111
"Tell the truth quickly!"
Joyson pretended to be serious and put on a serious face, trying hard to maintain a "cold" expression in front of Jiang Yunu.
The red-haired boy looked serious and questioned Jiang Yunu: "What on earth is going on?"
Jiang Yunu, however, had no awareness of being on trial.
The white-haired girl held her chin and even yawned.
She said, "That's pretty much what you saw."
Joyce's voice rose three degrees in disbelief, "What did I see? What happened? Explain clearly—that scene just now, that, that, could that really happen?!"
The source of Joyson's disbelief was a scene that had occurred in Engel's South Canteen early in the morning not long ago.
Qiao Yisen and Jiang Yunu hadn't seen each other for a long time. Something had delayed them last night, so the two of them didn't get to meet. So today he got up early on purpose, and rarely did he stay in bed. He went to the cafeteria first and ordered the set meal that Jiang Yunu usually liked. He found a good seat in the cafeteria, and then called Jiang Yunu to come for breakfast.
Jiang Yunu had not arrived yet. Qiao Yisen was checking his personal terminal, paying attention to where the other party was in real time. Suddenly, a shadow fell on his side.
Someone stood next to the table.
...This definitely cannot be Jiang Yunu.
Because just a minute ago, in the dialog box that Qiao Yisen had not yet closed, Jiang Yunu told him: [I'm going down the dormitory stairs]
Even if Jiang Yunu could fly, he couldn't fly from the dormitory stairs to the cafeteria table in just one minute.
Joyson looked up in confusion and met a proud and cold face.
The owner of the face seemed to have pride in his bones. Even if it wasn't intentional, he was looking at people with his chin. His eyes dropped from the corners of his eyes, and it was hard to see that he was looking at Joyson's face in a friendly way.
Joyson: "? Hello, what's up?"
Xie Shi said, "You are Jiang Yunu's brother, right?"
Joyson didn't know what this person was here for, but he had an impression of him. He remembered that this person had sneered at Jiang Yunu in the cafeteria, and he also remembered that the other person was a member of the Engel school team.
Joyson said in a rather impolite manner, "If you have something to say, just say it."
Shesh seemed offended by his attitude, pursing her lips in displeasure. She then asked in an unfriendly tone, "Are you going back to District 19 today?"
Joyson: "What's it to you?"
Xie Shi: "...Do you have a special car to pick you up? If not, there's space in my car."
Joyson: “…”
Joyson: “?”
After confirming it twice, the red-haired boy didn't dare to trust his ears at all. He was afraid that his ears would receive incredible information without his permission and make him mistake other people's provocative words as friendly inquiries.
As a result, Xie Shi's face was still the same, his expression was still that expression as if everyone owed him a large amount of star coins, and his tone was still that bad tone.
But he did ask whether Jiang Yunu and Qiao Yisen would have a special car to go home today.
Joyson said, "We take the public interplanetary train."
The expression on Master Xie's face was like a mockery for a moment, but he suddenly realized something and suppressed it, curbing his arrogant nature.
"That's slower, isn't it?" Shesh said. "The public bus is over an hour slower than the private vehicle."
Without waiting for Qiao Yisen to continue, Master Xie threw down a sentence: "Wait until Jiang Yunu comes and ask her."
He glanced vaguely at the meal that Joyson had prepared for Jiang Yunu, then turned around and walked away as if nothing had happened.
Jiang Yunu just arrived at the cafeteria door.
When she heard that breakfast was ready, she rushed over from the dormitory like a whirlwind. When she arrived at the door of the South Canteen, she saw Young Master Xie walking away from Joyson's table.
She even thought Xie Shi saw her coming, but the young master pretended not to see her. His eyes suddenly fixed strictly on the other person in front of him, and he walked out of the other door of the cafeteria without looking around.
Jiang Yunu sat down next to the stunned Joyson.
Joyson stared at the direction where Xie Shi left for a while, and then stared at Jiang Yunu for a while.
Then he jumped up, caught Jiang Yunu and started to interrogate him, which is when he said the opening sentence - "Tell the truth quickly!"
Jiang Yunu had already eaten the set meal prepared for her in advance. She said vaguely, "I went out to play a game. I guess we're almost friends now."
It is gratifying that Master Xie, like Master Xue Zhanxing, has entered the "counting friends" queue.
"...Does he look like someone who'd be easy to make friends with?" Joyson was full of doubt. "I think he looks like the type who says, 'You common people don't deserve to be my friend.'"
Jiang Yunu shrugged: "He also said that there is no threshold to being friends with me. Don't try to guess what the young master is thinking."
It's useless to guess.
Joyson grew up in a dilapidated street and was not interested in the term "young master". He could not understand why Xie Shi suddenly showed favor to Jiang Yunu, but he felt that what Jiang Yunu said was right.
"How strange." The red-haired boy concluded simply and asked tentatively, "Then let's go home..."
"It must be the old way, taking the public train." Jiang Yunu answered decisively.
Joyson was relieved.
If Jiang Yunu wanted to agree, he would definitely prioritize Jiang Yunu's ideas and support any decision she made. But thinking about having to face Xie Shi's face for several hours on the way home...it seemed like it would affect his digestion of breakfast.
That must have been a terrifying experience!
Fortunately, Jiang Yunu was not easily tempted by the young master's sudden kindness.
However, although she did not accept Xie Shi's sudden kindness, when she learned that the young master was willing to give her and Joyson a ride in his private car, Jiang Yunu still sent him a message later, thanking him for thinking of her and caring about the long journey home.
Shesh gave her a proud full stop in reply.
Jiang Yunu attributed this ambiguous symbol to "Don't try to guess what the young master is thinking."
The two took the public train back to Chat City as usual.
On the public train, Joyson was confused again.
He asked, "Why did Teacher Lei suddenly ask you to go to the office before we left school?"
Jiang Yunu's eyes narrowed slightly, and she replied in a normal voice, "There are some finishing touches related to the league."
Joyson was not particularly interested in this kind of activity and nodded, "Oh."
So I stopped asking.
However, in reality, Reis Daniel called Jiang Yunu to the teacher's office temporarily. His original words were: "Student Jiang Luobo, go home and have a good rest this weekend. When you return to school on Sunday, remember to come to the office again. The teacher has something to tell you."
Jiang Yunu felt that Teacher Lei was trying his best to act gentle as usual, but the other party's words and the subtle attitude that seemed to have hidden meanings... seemed to have set an invisible flag for her.
Jiang Yunu was quick-witted and asked, "Can't you tell me now?"
Reiss Daniel coughed and said, "If I tell you now, it might lose some of the... sense of surprise."
Jiang Yunu felt that the word "surprise" from the teacher's mouth sounded rather forced, as if he was trying hard to force it out while trying to convince himself.
But Jiang Luobo didn't press the issue any further. She blinked and said sensibly, "Okay, let's talk about it when we return to school on Sunday."
What was Reisdaniel going to say to her?
Jiang Yunu knew nothing about this, but strangely, he had already anticipated its direction.
She remembered Xue Zhanxing's previous instructions, and also remembered the sudden stop that Reis Daniel gave her when the school bus arrived in Enger.
——But none of this prevented her from returning to Chat City right away.
No matter how big the event, unless it was a meteor storm about to hit her house, she would go home first and eat the stew made by Aunt Daisy!
Jodie was waiting for them in the familiar building at No. 78, a dilapidated street.
The old circular rail bus that lets you watch the sunset, the robotic conductor who takes off his hat and then his head, the old platform with its fading paint, the streetlights at the intersection that flicker after the fourth one, their wiring failing. And then there are the slate tiles that regularly hide hidden secrets, the slate tiles that, on rainy days, guarantee a splatter of mud all over your pants if you step on them...
Passing these familiar scenes one by one, the gate of the small building at No. 78 Ruoluo Street is right in front of you.
The door to the small building was already open. Jodie was leaning against the door frame, standing there casually with her arms folded. The lady said, as if she wasn't waiting for anyone, "As soon as I heard the running footsteps, I knew you two little bastards had arrived."
"Oh my." Jiang Yunu was still the first to run to the door. She laughed when she heard Aunt Daisy's words, "Aunt Daisy, I've only been out playing in the league for a month, and I've already turned from your dear little crossbow into a 'gadget'?"
The red-haired lady snorted softly: "If you delay coming back for another week or two, you will not only be a small thing, but also a little piece of shit."
It was she who had supported Jiang Yunu's decision to leave and strive for a chance at the inter-school competition, but when her child finally left, it was Qiao Daisi who missed him terribly after not seeing him in person for over a month. Being a parent is prone to this kind of conflicting mentality.
"Fortunately, I got back in time." Jiang Yunu said with a frightened look on her face.
"What if I continue to play outside for too long and Aunt Daisy refuses to let me in when I come back?"
Qiao Daisi's posture soon broke down, her brows relaxed, and she helplessly flicked Jiang Yunu's forehead.
"Impossible," she said. "Stop talking nonsense like that. I won't let you go in even if I tell Joyson not to."
Joyson, who had just run to the door breathlessly, said: "??!"
Jiang Yunuo had been out for the inter-school competition for over a month, and the physical gap between the two seemed to have widened a bit. It wasn't that Joeyson was slower than before, but it was that it took Jiang Yunuo less time to run from the street corner into the depths of the street.
After entering the room, I put down my luggage, washed my hands, and then helped Qiao Daisi, who was already halfway through preparing the meal, to continue preparing the meal.
Three figures crowded into the small kitchen, each in charge of a process. The small family assembly line ran smoothly, and in between, Qiao Daisi's questions to the two children were interspersed: concern for Jiang Yunuo's league life, questioning about Qiao Yisen's recent studies, and interrogating Jiang Yunuo about whether he had lost weight because he hadn't eaten well...
Qiao Daisi's concern for Jiang Yunu turned into urging her to eat at the dinner table, which made Jiang Yunu's belly so full that she felt it would be difficult for her to leave the Qiao family's house with her body upright tonight.
"Then don't leave," Aunt Daisy said. "We can clean up a small room upstairs. You can sleep there tonight. Your room hasn't been cleaned for over a month. You'll have to clean it up before you go back to sleep."
To this day, neither the mother nor the son of the Qiao family has ever set foot in the small building opposite, and they have no idea what is going on inside.
After Jodie made her suggestion, she thought about it carefully and was afraid that the little girl would still feel that it was inconvenient to live in their place and would prefer her own place, so she changed her suggestion: "Or - I will go back with you later and call Joyson to help you clean up the house?"
Jiang Yunu suddenly remembered her accommodation conditions and woke up from feeling dizzy from eating.
"...I think this place is great!" the white-haired girl said firmly, "I don't even want to leave tonight. I can help tidy up the room here with Auntie."
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