Chapter 9 Chapter 9 was caught.
After the morning self-study get out of class, Chen Lu went to the art classroom in the old building first. He stood by the window and saw Ji Maili running like a little fool with his hair flying. When he came in from the door, he put his hands in his pockets and pretended to be nonchalant.
Shen Lu smiled.
Quite pretentious.
The table was wiped and there were some papers on it, with two servings of dumplings and a bowl of tofu pudding on it.
Shen Lu walked towards the window with a cup of soy milk, "Are you here?"
Ji Maili glanced at him and asked, "Why are you here so soon? Are you skipping class?"
Shen Lu said: "I am not you."
I don’t know how Chen Lu did it, the breakfast and tofu pudding were still warm.
Ji Maili asked as he ate, "No one saw you coming over, right?"
Shen Lu sat at the table next to him and drank soy milk. "No, why did it seem like we were having an affair just by meeting you?"
Ji Maili stuffed a bun in his mouth and said, "Are you mentally ill? You are not a woman."
Shen Lu said: "Otherwise, you wouldn't let me talk to you at school, and you secretly ran to a place like this when we met."
Ji Maili ate his buns in silence. "I have a bad reputation. If people knew about our private interactions, it would have a bad impact on you."
Shen Lu asked knowingly, "How bad is it?"
Ji Maili glared at him and said, "I find you are particularly indebted now."
Shen Lu smiled and said, "It's too late. It's too late to return the goods."
Shen Lu came over, pinched Ji Maili's chin and looked around, "Your face is quite blue, why don't you go to the school clinic?"
Ji Maili tutted and slapped his hand away: "The buns are all greasy after eating, and you dare to touch my face!"
Shen Lu rubbed the back of his hand: "Are you really not afraid of disfigurement?"
Ji Maili pressed the bruise at the corner of his eye and said, "What should I be afraid of as a man? But I've been hiding from my mother these days. She'll definitely cry if she sees me."
Shen Lu nodded, "It seems that you inherited your crybaby nature from your aunt."
Ji Maili took a bun and stuffed it into his mouth, "You really deserve it."
All morning, Chen Lu ran out after class and only came back on time when the bell rang. During lunch, Tao Dacheng asked him, "What are you doing running back and forth all morning?"
Shen Lu said: "Date."
Tao Dacheng's mouth twitched: "...What the hell?"
Shen Lu ignored him.
After being in the cafeteria for a long time and not seeing Ji Maili coming over, Shen Lu sent him a WeChat message to ask where he was. Ji Maili replied quite quickly, but with just two words: "Something happened."
What could happen to a little fool in the middle of the day?
Shen Lu put down his phone and ate, "I'm going to make an appointment with Sha Zu."
Tao Dacheng almost stuffed the spoon into his nose, "Are you crazy?"
Chen Lu: "What if we don't deal with Fourth Sister? Let her hide every day?"
Tao Dacheng glared, "Don't use Fourth Sister as an excuse, you are doing this for Ji Maili, right?"
Shen Lu didn't deny it either, "It has to be resolved anyway, does it matter for whom?"
Tao Dacheng: "Of course it's important. It's related to whether I should thank you or not."
Shen Lu: "Of course."
Tao Dacheng snorted, "Why? You avenged your old lover, why should I thank you?"
Shen Lu smiled, "Old lover?"
Tao Dacheng had an expression of disbelief on his face, "Is it funny? I insulted you like this, and you don't beat me up?"
Shen Lu said: "I'm in a good mood, so I'll let you go."
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Ji Maili, who had not skipped classes for a few days, started skipping classes again. In the first class in the afternoon, Chen Lu received a "report" from Zhou Luyang saying that Ji Maili did not come back to class.
The second class in the afternoon was physical education. Halfway through the class, Ji Maili was seen staggering out from behind the teaching building.
The back wall of the school was a holy place for skipping classes, and many people climbed over it. Ji Maili squatted in the shade and watched Chen Lu and the others running laps, with two cups of milk tea in his hands, one he was drinking and the other he was carrying.
Tao Dacheng said to Shen Lu as he ran: "Your old lover skipped class again. He is so damn arrogant, just squatting there."
Shen Lu glanced at the person squatting at the bottom of the wall and smiled, "There's milk tea."
"Milk tea?" Tao Dacheng was puzzled and glanced at Ji Maili again, "Fuck! Just admit it, you two are definitely having an affair!"
When the lap was almost over, Ji Maili walked towards the old building with milk tea in hand.
As soon as the group disbanded, Shen Lu left without even saying goodbye.
Tao Dacheng asked him, "Where are you going?"
Shen Lu: "Get takeout."
Tao Dacheng tutted his words, "Tell him to buy an extra cup next time. He's so stingy."
As Shen Lu walked, he said, “Exclusive takeout, you are not qualified.”
At the entrance of the old building, Ji Maili sat on the steps, chewing pearls with his face tilted up. Chen Lu came over, picked up the milk tea, put a straw in it and took a sip, "Taro Bobo?"
"Yeah." Ji Maili handed him a tissue, "Wipe the sweat."
Chen Lu took the tissue and wiped it a few times. Ji Maili looked at him with disgust, "When did you become so rough? Wipe it carefully, here." Ji Maili took the tissue from his hand and wiped his neck.
The fingertips passed across his neck, and Shen Lu suddenly dodged.
Ji Maili held up his hands and was stunned. "...What are you doing?"
Shen Lu wiped the sweat off his neck with his sleeve, "You're too busy, you'll be dissatisfied if I rub it on your hand."
Ji Maili looked at him for a while, then threw the paper to him and said, "You are the one who is fussy."
The atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
Ji Maili turned his head and drank milk tea in big gulps.
Chen Lu asked Ji Maili: "Where have you been?"
Ji Maili didn't look at him, "Something's going on."
Shen Lu: "What's the matter?"
Ji Maili: "None of your business."
After Ji Maili finished speaking, he realized that if he continued chatting like this, they would start arguing again, so he glanced at Chen Lu.
Shen Lu held the milk tea in both hands, rested his elbows on his knees and tilted his head to look at him.
Ji Maili said: "Go out and buy some milk tea."
Shen Lu looked at him, "Yeah."
Ji Maili: "You don't believe it?"
Shen Lu: "What do you think?"
Ji Maili's eyes darted around as he felt guilty. Chen Lu pressed his head down and asked, "Did you go out to have a fight?"
Ji Maili was stunned for a moment, "How do you know?"
Shen Lu: “Now I know.”
"......" Ji Maili pushed his hand away, "You've been working in the student union for so long, so there must be something wrong with you, right?"
Shen Lu didn't listen to his nonsense: "With whom?"
Ji Maili said, "The guys from the sports school didn't get along with each other before."
Chen Lu turned his head and drank his milk tea. "What you were talking about before was all about last semester, right? Those guys who followed you last semester were so annoying. Are you the only one to deal with all the trouble they caused?"
Before Chen Lu, Ji Maili disdained making other friends. But after Chen Lu disappeared for over a year, Ji Maili realized his childhood method of using snacks to win friends was no longer effective. He found a new way to make friends by helping others with their chores. But in the end, all the chores were his, and the friends he made ended up with nothing.
Ji Maili didn't want him to know too much about these things, it was embarrassing, "I can handle it, don't worry about it."
Shen Lu looked at him, "I can't take care of your business?"
Ji Maili: "How are you going to manage this? You can't fight. If you stop me from going, where will my dignity be? You're making me look like a coward. How am I going to survive in the future?"
He said so much in one breath, wasn't he just trying to say that he had to go? Shen Lu nodded, "Okay, at worst you can come back and cry to me, and I'll comfort you."
Ji Maili rolled his eyes, "Who wants to cry to you?"
Shen Lu stretched his legs and said, "Who knows? There is a person who loves to cry at every turn, and even after crying, he still refuses to admit it."
Ji Maili covered his mouth, "You talk too much!"
After class, Zhou Luyang received instructions from Chen Lu to trick Ji Maili into revealing something, and he actually did.
Tomorrow afternoon at 1:30, at the black internet cafe behind the school.
After learning about Ji Maili's duel location, Chen Lu organized the student union to go outside the school to catch students who skipped classes the next day. Their target was the black Internet cafe behind the school.
The student union came in a large group, and the one leading it was actually the dean of studies. When the dean of studies heard that the student union was going to arrest someone, he rolled up his sleeves and was ready to go along.
Shen Lu tried to stop it, but failed.
Chen Lu had a headache. If the dean of studies caught the man, it would be no better than getting a beating.
Before leaving, Chen Lu sent a WeChat message to Ji Maili, telling the dean that he was going to arrest someone. Ji Maili was playing games in an Internet cafe and didn't pay attention to his phone, so Chen Lu's tip-off was of no use at all.
At the entrance of the Internet cafe, Chen Lu said to another student union member, "My throat is uncomfortable. I'm going to the pharmacy across the street to buy some medicine. You go first."
Student Union girl: "Are you okay?"
Shen Lu: "It's okay, I'll go buy some medicine and be back soon."
In the Internet cafe, someone tapped Ji Maili on the shoulder. Ji Maili thought the guys from the sports school had arrived, so he turned around and jumped up to run.
The dean grabbed him and said, "Run? You still want to run? Ji Maili! Who told you to play games here during class?!"
Ji Maili: “…” Shit!
The raid was quite effective, and the dean of studies caught more than ten students who skipped classes in one fell swoop.
In the office, the dean's roar was deafening. "You all don't want to go to class, right? If you don't want to go to class, then go run around the playground, twenty laps each! After you finish running, write me a thousand-word self-criticism, and read it one by one at the flag-raising ceremony next Monday!"
Ji Maili: “…”
Not only did he have to run laps, but he also had to write a thousand-word self-criticism... He hadn't even written a thousand words in two semesters combined!
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