Chen Yuefei was carefully stuffing the letter into the crack of the window, while also glancing around to avoid being discovered.
The window was suddenly opened from the inside, which scared him so much that he wanted to run away in the cover of night.
Jiang Jun whispered, "Chen Yuefei!"
This silly child, if Zhang Xiuying finds out, she’ll be finished!
Chen Yuefei smiled awkwardly and retreated to the window, still sitting astride the bicycle: "Hehe."
Jiang Jun raised the letter in his hand: "What do you want to do?"
"We're playing hide-and-seek." Chen Yuefei scratched his head. He really was playing hide-and-seek. "I just passed by here and picked it up."
Jiang Jun turned around and listened to the noise at home. He cut to the chase, "I have something to ask you, but I can't ask it here. Where can I ask you?"
Chen Yuefei blinked his eyes and said, "How about you jump out of the window now and I'll take you back later?"
In broad daylight, there were familiar faces everywhere, his team was spread throughout the compound, and he could be seen wherever he went.
Jiang Jun thought for a second: "Move aside, I'll come out."
He climbed out of the window on tiptoe, not daring to jump, and landed carefully on the ground.
Chen Yuefei hurriedly pushed the bicycle to her: "You go first, I'll close the window for you."
This is what he is best at. If Jiang Jun accidentally closes the window from the outside and cannot enter the house, it will be a big problem.
Jiang Jun didn't know how to ride a bike, so she could only push it clumsily forward. Just as she pushed it to the backyard door of the first bungalow, Chen Yuefei caught up with her and said, "I'll ride, you sit in the back."
There are no street lights, only natural night light, so the security in the compound is still very good. Even if many families hear a little noise, they know it is the children playing and will not pay much attention to it.
Arriving at the corner of the air-raid shelter's back door, Chen Yuefei slowed down the car, squeezed the brake, and propped himself up with his foot: "Get out."
Jiang Jun jumped out of the car and walked quickly into the shadows. The heavy weight in his heart finally fell to the ground. He took out the letter from his pocket and handed it to Chen Yuefei: "Take it back. I don't want it."
Chen Yuefei didn't answer: "Then what do you like?"
Jiang Jun asked back, "Why do you always give me this?"
Chen Yuefei scratched his head: "I saw that my mother and my sister both like this, and I thought you would like it too."
Jiang Yun looked at him with dismay, "This pattern is very unique. It's obvious that it's only available in your family. If I use it, people will know I borrowed it from you. What will I say when they ask about it? Will you steal it for me? Or that I stole it?"
Chen Yuefei suddenly realized and slapped the back of his head: "Oh, why didn't I think of it! My brother only paints these few kinds of flowers, and people recognize them at first sight."
Jiang Jun was stunned: "Did your brother draw this?"
Chen Yuefei nodded and explained hurriedly, "Yes, he loved drawing these when he was making the bulletin board. There's a bulletin board he wrote over there. He had a lot of these sheets of manuscript paper in his drawer. I thought no one would notice if one or two were missing."
"Did your brother learn English?" Jiang Jun thought of the beautiful cursive letters. "Where did he learn it?"
Chen Yuefei was surprised: "You know English too? He learned it when he was in middle school in Beijing."
Jiang Yun made up an excuse: "My dad has an English dictionary."
Chen Yuefei suddenly realized: "My brother also has an English dictionary, it's really precious, but it's locked in a drawer and I can't even get to it."
As a reference book, Chinese-English dictionaries have a very small circulation. Anyone who can own a Chinese-English dictionary must have studied English and worked as an interpreter or translator.
"What other books does your brother have?" If there are college textbooks, it would be best if you could borrow them.
Chen Yuefei didn't understand: "He also has foreign novels, many of them, but they are also locked up. If someone finds them, they will report them."
Jiang Jun was somewhat interested in foreign novels: "Can you lend me one or two?"
"Okay," Chen Yuefei agreed immediately, "I'll give it to you tomorrow night at this time."
Jiang Jun thought for a moment and said, "I'll put a note on the window. If you see the note, you can knock on the window. If you don't see it, don't knock on the window."
It is better to be safe than sorry.
Chen Yuefei said with an understanding look: "Don't worry, no one else will find out."
After all, he had seen Zhang Xiuying's loud voice. A few boys had accidentally damaged the melon vines planted by Zhang Xiuying while playing. Zhang Xiuying yelled at them with ugly words, so they simply secretly pulled out the melon vines by the roots.
Now that he was sending the book to Jiang Jun, not to mention Zhang Xiuying finding out, even if his teammates knew about it, they would definitely say he was a traitor! How could he still stay in the lead?
Jiang Jun prepared to leave: "I have to go home."
Chen Yuefei raised his hand: "Wait!"
He bent down and took a look under the big tree. Then, in the bright moonlight, he squatted down, picked up a small bamboo stick, broke it, and dug in the soil with the thin tip twice. He dug out a cicada pupa and handed it to Jiang Jun: "Cicada Monkey, this is for you. I see you often catch these."
Jiang Jun took it with gritted teeth: "Thank you."
What the hell is this, how could she like this!
Back at the window in the back alley of the Jiang family, Chen Yuefei quietly pushed the window open for her, watched her climb in through the window by pedaling her bicycle, and rode away quickly on her bicycle.
Jiang Jun tiptoed down from the table and gently pushed the window, which made a creaking sound that was particularly clear in the dark night.
The kitchen door opened, and Zhang Xiuying went out to the backyard: "Who? What are you doing?"
Jiang Jun hurriedly took off her coat and draped it over her shoulders, then turned on the light. She answered from inside the room, "I thought I heard a noise." She tore her hair loose and combed it with her fingers. She opened the door to her room and saw Jiang Yonghua and Zhang Xiuying standing in the yard. Her voice trembled with nervousness, "Dad, I heard someone walking outside, so I opened the window to check."
Jiang Yonghua asked hurriedly, "Didn't Dad tell you not to turn on the lights or open the windows if you heard any noise?"
Without waiting for Jiang Jun to answer, Zhang Xiuying rushed forward, pushed Jiang Jun aside, and walked into the small room: "You haven't slept yet!" She touched the bed with her hand, and the bed board was still cold: "You just came back from outside, right?"
Zhang Xiuying raised her hand wrapped in gauze and glared at Jiang Jun fiercely. As long as Jiang Yonghua confirmed that Jiang Jun had returned from outside, he would revoke her right of residence and let her go in and sleep with Xiaolan!
Jiang Jun pursed her lips. "I'm not asleep. I'm reading." She pulled a geometry book from a drawer and handed it to Jiang Yonghua. On it was a drawing of a flower she had copied. "I saw this beautiful flower on the bulletin board at the entrance of the division yesterday, so I drew it."
Rather than being exposed by Zhang Xiuying, it is better to turn the tables and admit that he did not sleep.
Jiang Yonghua took a look and said, "Not bad!"
Zhang Xiuying didn't believe it: "Why are you drawing this if you're not sleeping?"
Jiang Yun made up a story: "I want to knit a sweater and put this flower on it."
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