In front of the grocery store, the female classmate they had only met once was confronting a mother and daughter dressed locally, attracting many students from the United Nations University who were shopping for daily necessities nearby. All of a sudden, the streets were crowded with people.

Wen Jianning and the others listened for a while before they understood what was going on.

It turned out that when the female classmate was shopping in front of the counter, the little girl next to her actually touched her thigh along the slit of the cheongsam, and as soon as she looked down, she saw a black handprint left on the stockings. Although the other party is just a little girl, if she changes to a good-tempered female classmate, she may just swallow her anger and go back to shed a few tears, but that's not the case.

However, this female classmate is obviously not a person who will back down.

She was so emotional that she grabbed the little girl's hand on the spot and asked her to apologize, but she was slapped off by the girl's mother, and then pushed and shoved, and immediately scolded angrily. But although she was scolding loudly, she could only use a few innocuous words such as mean and shameless, and the little girl's mother scolded her directly in the local dialect, speaking very quickly.

Although the two sides may not be able to understand what the other party is saying, they also know that what the other party is saying is not a good thing, and they are getting more and more excited, and they are about to tear up, and they are pulled by the onlookers, so that they will not tear up in public.

Seeing that there were more and more onlookers, two senior sisters who looked like student officers finally squeezed out of the crowd, the tall one asked the female classmate about the situation, and the round-faced one pulled the local woman to comfort her.

Wen Jianning said to Zhong Hui: "I think that senior sister is a little familiar. ”

Zhong Hui whispered: "I also look at that female classmate a little familiar, but she shouldn't be a senior sister, it seems to be the one who left in our house." She didn't talk to Wen Jianning at all.

The round-faced senior sister listened patiently for a long time before explaining to the female classmate who was touched: "She is saying that you are too exposed, and her child wants to see what is under your cheongsam." ”

After hearing this, everyone subconsciously looked, only to see that the female classmate was wearing a silver and red long-sleeved cheongsam, silk stockings and high heels, although the color was bright, but there was nothing out of the ordinary, many female classmates present were dressed like her, suddenly heard this sentence of clothing exposed, many people were ashamed and angry in their hearts, as for the person concerned, his eyes were even round, to distinguish for himself.

The round-faced senior sister explained helplessly: "Don't worry, I'm just paraphrasing." ”

The tall senior sister next to her had already stood up and spoke to the onlookers.

Her voice was not high, but she was calm and calm, and she had a convincing bearing: "Ladies and gentlemen, because of the local customs, our clothing may seem ordinary to our own people, but to the locals it is a bad moral. Later, we will discuss with the teachers and ask the school to mediate on our behalf. But before this kind of thing is resolved, female students must pay more attention when shopping in the future, and it is best to go together. If there is a similar situation, report it to the school in time. ”

Zhong Hui was a little unconvinced, and asked loudly in the crowd: "Do they think that the cheongsam must be right? This matter is obviously their fault, at least they should apologize first, and they can't just forget it." ”

Her words elicited a response from a group of students, and for a moment the crowd was excited, and everyone began to quarrel.

Wen Jianning anxiously tugged at Zhong Hui's sleeve and motioned for her to look out of the crowd.

Only then did Zhong Hui notice that the students were all gathered here, which had caused many locals to look at this side from afar, and the indifferent eyes from all directions made people feel a little frightened, but the other students were still unaware.

She regretted it a little, and cold sweat slowly broke out on her forehead.

The tall senior sister still calmly asked, "If anyone can make them willing to apologize, they can also come forward and try." But I just want to ask, if they refuse to admit their mistakes, what are you going to do to the women and children here, and force them to bow their heads and admit their mistakes by relying on the strength of the crowd?"

The students, who were still excited, were speechless for a while.

In fact, they don't plan to bully the widows with the crowd, most of them just come to join in the fun. It's just that there are more and more students around here, and everyone is at the age of blood and strength, and a group of people are coaxing, and before you know it, the situation may get out of control.

And this pair of local mothers and daughters have not received much education at first glance, and they may not be able to understand the big truths with them, and they may even mess around and beat them up, which is really unclear at that time.

The situation was at a stalemate.

Soon, though, someone shouted, "We can reason with them." ”

The senior sister seemed to laugh: "Are you here, gather around here, and reason with them?"

Someone in the crowd shouted, "So what do you say you are going to do?"

The tall senior sister looked around and said, "Dripping water through stones is not a day's work." At the beginning of the establishment of the Republic of China, it was possible to cut braids and change clothes, and to get rid of the bad habits of the Manchu Qing Dynasty; after the May Fourth Movement, there was an open atmosphere and equality between men and women. The fact that our female classmates are able to study in universities today and wear cheongsams and high heels on the streets is the result of the promotion and ideological enlightenment of generations of people of insight in China in the past ten years, rather than a problem that can be solved in three or two sentences at this moment. In Mengzi, we are new arrivals and should follow the locals. But just because it's true today doesn't mean it will be the same in the future. I think everyone can understand what I said, so let's disperse as soon as possible. ”

The round-faced senior sister also said: "Okay, let's all disperse." Do you want to come with us to meet the teacher?"

The female classmate's face was red and white for a while, but she pursed her lips and said nothing.

Apparently she didn't want to take it to school.

The two senior sisters immediately understood, they didn't ask her name in public, only asked her which college she belonged to, and said that the school would give her an explanation later, so they took the local mother and daughter away first.

As soon as they left, the other onlookers slowly dispersed and went shopping. The locals watching from a distance saw that nothing had happened, and finally dispersed, only Wen Jianning and the others remained in place and never left. After all, the girls involved are also classmates in the dormitory with them, and when they encounter this kind of thing, they should go up and say hello.

The people around them were almost scattered, and the female classmate finally saw them.

She raised her hand to comb the broken hair on her sideburns, raised a smile, and walked over to greet them as if nothing happened: "I'm Chen Hanxiang, in the same dormitory with you, we met yesterday." ”

Everyone also hurriedly introduced themselves in turn, and everyone knew each other now.

They witnessed what happened to Fang Cai and had the heart to comfort this classmate Chen, but they didn't know how to speak for a while, but the other party smiled disapprerovingly: "It's really bad luck today, I just came to this day and encountered this kind of thing." I scolded just now, and my mouth was dry, aren't you tired of shopping, why don't you go to the restaurant to eat something?"

Wen Jianning and Zhong Hui glanced at each other, they hadn't eaten anything good at all on the train these days. I just ate some food from the cafeteria last night, but I didn't taste anything. Early this morning, they went out shopping without even eating breakfast, and now they are still hungry, and it is indeed time to pad up.

Feng Xin was also a little moved: "I heard that Yunnan's cross-bridge rice noodles are very famous, why don't we try them together." ”

Zhang Tonghui said suddenly: "I suddenly remembered that there were still some things that had not been packed up, and I wanted to go back to the dormitory first, so I won't be with you." ”

Ruan Wenyun, who had been silent next to him, also said, "I'm with you." ”

Zhong Hui opened her mouth, she wanted to say that she had a treat, but Wen Jianning pulled the corner of her clothes, and then closed her mouth and watched them go away. Chen Hanxiang watched coldly from the side, and waited for Zhang Tonghui and the others to walk away before smiling: "Let's go." ”

A group of four people looked along the long street, and finally chose a small restaurant with the most customers to get in.

It's not yet a meal, and the seats inside are not full. When everyone went in to take a look, they saw that the square tables and benches in the restaurant were obviously old and old, and some even had a few cracks. The table closest to them was also covered with a greasy layer of dirt, and a few flies had fallen on it, which was uncomfortable to look at.

Several girls looked at each other, and finally Feng Xin said: "The conditions here are simple, let's just have some." ”

They asked the shopkeeper for a towel, wiped the tables and chairs, ordered four bowls of rice noodles across the bridge, and then sat down against the wall.

This female classmate named Chen Hanxiang talked more than Zhong Hui, and she was overly enthusiastic. But after chatting for a while, they knew that she was Cantonese, her family was in the silk business, and she was the youngest daughter who was most favored by her father.

The three of them hurriedly refused, seeing that she talked so much alone, and took the initiative to talk about her own affairs.

Feng Xin was the first to answer, but she did not mention the situation at home in detail, only saying that she moved to the Shanghai Concession with her parents when she was young, and later studied at St. Mary's Girls' High School, and not long after being admitted to Tsinghua University, war broke out in Beiping. When Zhong Hui heard this, he hurriedly inquired with her, saying that the daughter of an uncle in her family was also studying in a girls' middle school, and it happened to be a senior sister of Feng Xin.

After having a mutual acquaintance, the relationship between the two became a lot closer, and they talked enthusiastically, and even Wen Jianning couldn't interject for a while. Finally, when their topic came to an end, Wen Jianning asked Feng Xin: "Since you are studying in Shanghai and your surname is Feng, you are related to the Feng family in the French Concession?"

Feng Xin was slightly surprised: "You also know the Feng family in Shanghai?"

Wen Jianning replied briefly: "When I lived in Shanghai before, I heard people mention it. ”

Feng Xin said: "The Shanghai Feng family you heard about may be our Feng family. My family is just a side branch of the Feng family, and it is not so famous in the concession. Do you want to ask me about the people of the Feng family?"

Wen Jianning nodded and shook his head, and didn't ask any further.

The other three gradually drifted to other topics, mostly talking about fashionable movies and dresses that young girls liked, but she didn't pay much attention to them, and she couldn't interject, just listened to them.

However, Chen Hanxiang and Feng Xin are both thoughtful and sociable people, and they are afraid that they will snub Wen Jianning, so they also pull her to say a few words from time to time, so as not to let Wen Jianning wander out of the topic.

As he spoke, four bowls of rice noodles across the bridge were finally served.

The flies, which had landed elsewhere, were immediately attracted and buzzed around the bowl. Before the girls even had time to wave their hands to chase them away, a few of the flies had already landed on the rice noodles.

Wen Jianning's eyes were the sharpest, she picked up a pair of bamboo chopsticks, stirred in the bowl of snow-white rice noodles in front of her, and took out two dead flies from the rice noodles that turned up from the bottom, probably accidentally falling into them when cooking rice noodles.

Everyone looked at each other, only to find that each other's faces were faintly blue.

Chen Hanxiang's face was the most ugly, she was already unlucky today, and seeing such a bowl of rice noodles again, she was even more appetizing.

Feng Xin hurriedly said: "Forget it, let's follow the customs of the locals, and follow the customs of the villagers." ”

Wen Jianning and the others didn't want to quarrel with the store, so they planned to pay money to consider themselves unlucky. The four bowls of rice noodles didn't move a single chopstick, so they called the store over to settle the account. When paying, Wen Jianning was the last, Chen Hanxiang suddenly remembered something, and said more: "Why don't I help you pay?"

Zhong Hui heard that something was wrong, and was about to reason with her, but heard Wen Jianning joking: "The first time you invited me to dinner, just invite this?"

Chen Hanxiang has always been used to being open-mouthed, and Fang Cai just asked casually, and only after the words came out did he feel inappropriate, hearing Wen Jianning say this, he immediately smiled and said: "If you have the opportunity, I will definitely invite you to eat something good." ”

After the four of them left the small restaurant, Chen Hanxiang pulled Feng Xin and went shopping to find a clean place, Wen Jianning's things had been bought, Zhong Hui naturally had to accompany her back, and the two groups of people separated.

After they left, Zhong Hui turned his head and said, "I see that person speaks openly, don't take it to heart." ”

When they were chatting just now, everyone talked about their own family affairs, Feng Xin and Zhong Hui's family backgrounds were clear at a glance, only Wen Jianning didn't mention anything. Looking at the blue cloth cheongsam on her body, although it does not have patches, it is also too simple to dress, and it really doesn't look like she has plenty of money. It is probably for this reason that Chen Hanxiang misunderstood something.

Wen Jianning smiled: "You just don't take it to heart, she has no malice." ”

The two talked and laughed and walked together in the direction of the dormitory.

(End of chapter)