Chapter 348: When Friendship Is a Thing of the Past (Part II)
Hearing that Qiao Lu had a very close friend, Li Lanzhi felt very relieved. But when she learned that her friend was Wang Chao, she immediately euphemistically expressed her worries.
She said that according to her years of teaching experience, it is easy for her to make a judgment - Wang Chao is a very scheming person, and Qiao Lu is too simple, I am afraid that she will be deceived.
Qiao Lu, who was obedient to her parents, showed a dissatisfied look in front of her mother for the first time. Qiao Nan and Qiao Lin were still young at the time, and they couldn't tell the good from the bad, and they also felt that their mother was nosy.
Li Lanzhi didn't want to interfere too much in the lives of the children, but every time she thought of what happened later, she would always regret it - she should have been tougher at that time, and she couldn't let that person ruin her daughter's future.
Qiao Lu didn't take her mother's obstruction to heart, and during the summer vacation, she became closer to Wang Chao. When Wang Chao asked her for notes, she didn't hesitate to lend her them, but when she went to Wang Chao's house and saw a lot of exercise books that she had never seen before, she didn't open her mouth to borrow them, but just flipped through them roughly, Wang Chao would be very panicked, and even a little unhappy, because Qiao Lu looked through her things without her permission.
"Ah...... Lulu, I'm sorry, I'm too sensitive...... If you want to see it, I'll buy you a new one! I've done it all, and there's a lot of graffiti......."
How could Qiao Lu possibly let her buy a new set? She saw her good friend's embarrassment, so she smiled indifferently: "It's okay, I can't finish the rolls issued by the school, where can I have time to read the others?"
Wang Chao breathed a sigh of relief: "That's it, I'm just doing it blindly when I'm idle......
Qiao Lu still smiled faintly and did not expose her - in that era when homework can't be done, where will there be idle time?
Girls, it's inevitable that you'll be a little cautious. Qiao Lu didn't want to be too harsh on her good friend, so she pretended not to know about her little thoughts.
For the first monthly exam after the start of school, the night before the exam, Wang Chao suddenly called and hurriedly looked for Qiao Lu. At that time, it was Jolene who answered the phone, and she said that her sister was taking a shower and it was inconvenient to answer the phone. Wang Chao was about to cry, and Qiao Lin had no choice but to call her sister out.
Qiao Lu's hair was still dripping with water, and she walked out wrapped in a bath towel. Wang Chao was crying on the other end of the phone, and asked breathlessly, "Lulu, are you okay?"
"I'm fine, what's wrong?"
"I just took a nap and had a really bad dream...... Forget it, you have an exam tomorrow, so I won't tell you. β
Qiao Lu smiled: "Aren't you more appetizing to me? β
"I ...... I dreamed that you fell into the water and got electrocuted......"
ββ¦β¦ Dreams are dreams! Don't worry too much about it, just get some rest!"
"Well, anyway, you pay attention to water and electricity these two days!"
"Got it. β
After hanging up the phone, Qiao Lu was still very grateful to her good friend, and dreamed of this bad thing, and specially called her, which was indeed very caring.
When she went back to the bathroom again, one of them was careless and almost slipped on it. Thanks to grasping the radiator, I was able to maintain my center of gravity, but my arm was stretched until I finished wiping my hair, and there was still a faint pain.
She brushed her teeth in the mirror, slowly moving her aching arms, and remembered the phone call Wang Chao had just madeβobediently, did they really reach the point of heart-to-heart communication? Even in a dream, they could predict the danger she was about to face?
Restless, the word suddenly flashed through Qiao Lu's mind.
They are all single-seaters in the exam, and Qiao Lu sits firmly in the top spot in the class, and every time she sits in the position closest to the door, that is, the first position after entering the door. At that time, the facilities of the second middle school were very old, and there was a dilapidated socket on the wall next to her, and students occasionally used it to recharge, but when they plugged it in, it would spark.
That morning, the teacher briefly charged the battery for a while, and before the exam, he unplugged the power supply, and immediately the sparks flickered, and the teacher was bitten by the electricity, and snorted lightly, Qiao Lu was also startled, and stayed away from the socket.
She remembered the phone call last night, so she subconsciously glanced back at Wang Chao. Not far behind her, Wang Chao was intently reading his notes and didn't pay attention to her.
It's all a coincidence!
Qiao Lu thought so, but she was still a little unsettled.
The invigilator saw her uneasiness and asked her with concern what was going on. Qiao Lu said it was fine, but she looked tired. She tried her best to concentrate, but in that exam, she was still overtaken by Wang Chao, she was not even second in the grade, but tied with a classmate for the third or fourth grade.
Before Wang Chao had time to celebrate, he comforted her first: "Lulu, this exam can't explain anything! After all, school has just started, and everyone's state hasn't been recovered, so I'm just lucky." β
Qiao Lu bit her lip and nodded slightly.
"Lulu, you're not going to be angry with me, are you, I've tested you this time!"
Qiao Lu pillowed her arms tiredly and said, "I'm not so careful. β
Qiao Lu's defeat caused great panic among the teachers, after all, she was a player who sprinted to Qingbei that the school focused on cultivating. At that time, the port city was really a very small city, and at most two or three people could be admitted to the highest universities every year. Therefore, for a seed player like Qiao Lu, the teachers did not dare to slack off at all, some did ideological work, some gave her make-up lessons, in short, did everything they could to restore her confidence, so that she would not doubt herself because of this defeat.
Qiao Lu felt very tired of such a life, and the time to discuss Leslie Cheung with Wang Chao suddenly increased. Before the second monthly exam, Wang Chao called again in a panic, this time it was Qiao Nan who picked it up, and it happened that Li Lanzhi was also at home. Hearing that Wang Chao was looking for Qiao Lu in a hurry again, Li Lanzhi made a gesture at her son and asked him to say that her sister was asleep.
Qiao Nan was very surprised, and looked at the bathroom, where his sister was washing, but he still said according to his mother's train of thought: "My sister is sleeping, just tell me if you have anything." β
"Then, I'll fight later!"
Qiao Nan looked at the time and said very straightforwardly: "It's too late, our family is sleeping, you can fight again tomorrow." β
The people over there seemed to be very unwilling to hang up the phone, and Li Lanzhi was so angry that she threw away the dishcloth: "Calling your sister before the exam three times and twice, isn't it just to disturb the morale of the army?"
"How can a phone call disturb the morale of the army?"
"Say some scary things, can your sister have the heart to take the exam?"
Qiao Nan blinked his eyes - why did Wang Chao call his sister before the exam and say something alarmist? Why was my sister affected so that she played abnormally?
Alas, the girl's intrigue is simply eighteen bends in the mountain road. Others say he's smart, but he's really unpredictable about the fight between girls. If he goes to Gongdou, he may not even survive an episode.
However, Qiao Nan felt that he had done one thing right, that is, late that night, he slept on the sofa, and when he was awakened by the midnight ringtone, he said a domineering word to the other end of the phone - don't call like this in the future, our family needs to rest. If there's anything, just tell my sister directly, anyway, you two are in the same class.
When I got up the next day, Qiao Nan also said a few words to my sister - sister, I still called in the middle of the night, she just sincerely wanted you to fail the test, you should not be frightened by those nonsense remarks.
Qiao Lu didn't believe that Wang Chao was disturbing the morale of the army, but the timing of the two calls was too coincidental, and she also kept an eye on it. Before the exam, when Wang Chao eagerly told her something again, Qiao Lu smiled and said, "Let's talk about anything after the exam! β
Wang Chao silently clenched his fists and glared at Qiao Lu secretly.
Qiao Lu was silent and returned to the top of the list. And since then, I have never missed the first place again.
Wang Chao didn't show Qiao Lu her angry appearance, and after the phone incident, she also wrote a small note to Qiao Lu: "Lulu, are you blaming me for the phone call? I was really a little brainless, and I was worried about you, so I told you directly." If you're angry, don't pay attention to me. β
The innocent Qiao Lu believed in her again, the friend she finally got was not so easy to lose. The two continued to be at the same table, and made an appointment to go to Beijing together. Wang Chao also said: "You will definitely be admitted to Tsinghua University, and I will be content if I can be admitted to a school like Beihang University, and I will go to Tsinghua University to play with you when the time comes." β
Qiao Lu never doubted her strength, but she also expressed her modesty appropriately: "It's not certain who can be admitted, let's just work together." β
The time is soon in the second semester of the third year of high school, and the overall situation of the college entrance examination has almost been decided. In May of that year, a brief construction was underway on the school's laboratory building. At that time, the No. 2 Middle School had been calm, and the teachers did not expect any accidents. Besides, the girls of that era were very conservative, if they suffered a small loss, they would never make a noise, and a little accident would not be spread at all.
Qiao Lu has always been in charge of the hygiene of the chemistry laboratory, she likes it very much, and she is full of joy when she sees those bottles and cans. It has almost become her exclusive area, and Wang Chao also accompanies her to clean it.
That afternoon, after the classmates had left, they went to clean up with a smile. As soon as Qiao Lu walked to the bathroom, she heard some girls whispering, saying that they felt like they were being peeped at. Qiao Lu also joked with Wang Chao: "It can't be a pervert who sneaked into the school, right?"
"How come? The security guards in our school are so good that the parents of the students are not allowed to enter!"
"Yes!"
They continued to talk and laugh, and Wang Chao suddenly said that he was thirsty and wanted to go to the commissary to buy a bottle of water. Qiao Lu didn't think much about it, she flushed the mop in the bathroom alone, and asked her good friend not to worry, and take her time after buying water.
On that day, the May sun was very bright, and Qiao Lu was humming a song and rushing to the mop. The girl's figure is delicate and her singing voice is gentle and rippling, enough to make some bastards lose their minds, and she doesn't even notice it. After she turned off the faucet, she suddenly saw a dirty man standing behind her.
"Ah!!h
Qiao Lu screamed in fright, ignored the mop, turned around and ran.
The man pulled the sleeve of her shirt by surprise, and the school uniform that she had worn for several years had a little loose buttons, and when he pulled it, two buttons fell off, and Qiao Lu's underwear loomed.
Qiao Lu was frightened and cried, and suddenly fell to the ground, while the dirty man turned around and ran, quickly disappearing at the staircase. Qiao Lu didn't have any strength in her legs, and she cried for a while before she saw Wang Chao standing at the other end of the corridor.
She stood there, not out of breath, not panicked, as if calmly admiring a farce that had nothing to do with her. It wasn't until Qiao Lu's teary eyes caught a glimpse of her that she ran over in a panic and asked, "Lulu, are you okay?"
Qiao Lu has long been dispossessed, as long as someone comes to help her, she is very grateful. She grabbed Wang Chao's hand, still shaking, and said, "Give me, buy me two paper clips!"
As soon as Wang Chao lowered his head, he saw her open chest. Even if she was seen by the girl, Qiao Lu still felt very ashamed, she hurriedly grabbed her collar, and Wang Chao stood up and said nonchalantly: "I'll buy you a paper clip." β
Qiao Lu was comforted a little and stopped trembling. She didn't dare to go to remote corners anymore, nor did she dare to walk in crowded places. She stood at the end of the hallway, clutching her collar and waiting for her friend in trepidation.
Wang Chao observed secretly for a long time, and when this little dragon girl-like girl showed her appearance, she ran a few steps, ran out of breath, and then handed her the paperclip and said, "I'm sorry, I searched for a long time to find it, so I kept you waiting." β
Qiao Lu didn't blame her, hurriedly thanked her, and pinned the neckline. Looking at the time, it was almost class, and it was too late to clean it. Wang Chao took her hand back to the classroom, and Qiao Lu suddenly begged, "You...... Don't tell anyone!"