Chapter 14: Springtime
Ai Mengmeng followed Chen Qingxue for about five minutes and came to the door of a house.
The white walls, black tiles, red columns, and the two gates in the center are also red, and the black plaque above the gate reads "Tai Chi Martial Arts Hall".
"This is your family's martial arts hall?" It was the first time for Ai Mengmeng to come to the martial arts hall.
"Yes, the martial arts hall is closed for rest today, the students are not here, there is a bathroom here, you can take a shower here," Chen Qingxue walked to the door, stretched out her hand to push open a door, and pulled Ai Mengmeng in.
Walking into the door, Ai Mengmeng saw houses on three sides, bungalows on the left and right sides, and a two-story building facing the gate, and a large stone screen was erected in the middle of the first floor of the building.
In the middle of the house is a large open space, paved with bluestone slabs, and in the center is a large taiji diagram.
"Follow me," Chen Qingxue pulled Ai Mengmeng around the stone screen and entered the first floor of the second-story building in the middle, came to a room at the end of the west, pushed open the door and walked in.
The room was not very large, but it was clean, with black and white tiles on the floor, half a frosted glass wall separating the room, and two dressing closets next to the door.
"Qingxue, won't the water stop here?" Lemon asked.
"There are two water pipes here and at home, and I took a shower after exercising here in the morning."
Ai Mengmeng let out a light "oh", everyone in the Chen family will practice martial arts, and Chen Qingxue is naturally no exception, Ai Mengmeng knows that the exercise Chen Qingxue said is that she will come to the martial arts hall every morning to practice martial arts for an hour.
"This locker is for me, the bath towels and slippers in it are clean, you can use it directly, and the toiletries are there," Chen Qingxue pulled Ai Mengmeng to the locker and opened the door of a locker on the right side and said.
"Oh, got it".
"Okay, you wash, I'll wait for you at the door," Chen Qingxue said and walked to the door and opened the door.
"Qingxue, isn't there really anyone else coming here?" Ai Mengmeng asked a little uneasily.
"There is also a bathroom in the east for the students, they will not come here, this bathroom is only used by me and my brother, my second brother has already returned to his orchard in the morning, today the martial arts hall is resting, my eldest brother went to the school for martial arts classes, you can rest assured to wash, I will guard you at the door," Chen Qingxue walked out and closed the door after speaking.
In addition to physical education, Qingfeng Town Middle School also has a martial arts class, which students and teachers can take together, the purpose is not to practice martial arts but to let everyone fitness, the teacher is Chen Qingsong, who was hired by the school as a guest teacher.
Ai Mengmeng only learned about this situation from Ma Jinsong yesterday, and she understood why she was able to meet Chen Qingsong in school, and everyone called him Teacher Chen.
Listening to Chen Qingxue's words, Ai Mengmeng was relieved, she took off her clothes, wrapped herself in a bath towel and walked into the room.
The shower room is not big, and there are bath supplies neatly placed on a shelf next to the shower as Chen Qingxue said.
Thinking that Chen Qingxue was waiting for her at the door, Ai Mengmeng finished rinsing it at a fast speed, returned to the locker, put on her close-fitting clothes, and was about to put them on when the bathroom door suddenly opened.
Ai Mengmeng never thought that the door would suddenly open at this time, and the person who was about to step in was Chen Qingsong.
Chen Qingsong didn't expect that there were people in the bathroom, and he saw such a scene, he was stunned for a moment, and Ai Mengmeng was stunned, and it took two seconds for her to react, and quickly grabbed the bath towel and blocked it on her chest, and at the same time let out a frightened scream.
Chen Qingsong also reacted, quickly closed the door and walked away.
Chen Qingxue was originally standing at the door of the bathroom, after receiving a call from a friend, she walked to the corridor at the corner, and was chatting happily with her friend, when she suddenly heard the scream of Ai Mengmeng in the bathroom, she was startled, quickly hung up the phone, and came to the door of the bathroom.
"Mengmeng, what's wrong?" Chen Qingxue stretched out her hand to push the door.
The emergency just now was because she forgot to lock the door just now, and at the moment when Chen Qingsong closed the door, Ai Mengmeng quickly locked the door, and now when she heard Chen Qingxue's voice, she didn't dare to open the door.
"Wait a minute, wait a minute," Lemon said in a trembling voice through the door.
"Mengmeng, what's going on?" Chen Qingxue heard that Ai Mengmeng's voice was wrong, and couldn't help but worry.
"It's okay, just wait a minute," Meng Meng quickly got dressed before opening the door.
"Mengmeng, what's wrong? Did you slip and fall? Chen Qingxue hurriedly walked in, pulled Ai Mengmeng and swept her from head to toe.
"No, I saw ......" Chen Qingsong has seen such a shameful thing, Ai Mengmeng is really embarrassed to say it, and her whole face is flushed and she doesn't dare to say it further.
Chen Qingxue saw that Ai Mengmeng's expression was a little strange, and couldn't help asking, "What do you see?" Could it be that someone ran in? Probably not, I just went to the cloister to answer a phone call, and I didn't see anyone coming to Chinese medicine! ”
Ai Mengmeng was wondering if Chen Qingxue said that she was at the door of the bathroom, so how could Chen Qingsong push the door and come in? It turned out that Chen Qingxue went away to answer the phone, and she was secretly annoyed in her heart, blaming herself for forgetting to lock the door just now.
Chen Qingxue said this, she definitely didn't see Chen Qingsong coming, and Ai Mengmeng didn't dare to say it, so she had to shake her head again and again: "No one came in, I saw it just now...... Saw cockroaches! ”
Chen Qingxue breathed a sigh of relief and said funny: "You are screaming like the end of the world is coming, I thought something earth-shattering had happened, it turned out that I saw cockroaches!" ”
Chen Qingsong almost saw himself at a glance, isn't this called the end of the world?
Ai Mengmeng didn't dare to say this, so she could only say miserably in her heart.
Seeing that Ai Mengmeng still looked frightened, she felt that she really looked like a child, and couldn't help but smile and comfort: "The south is more humid, and it's not strange to have cockroaches, but this cockroach won't bite, you don't have to be so afraid."
It doesn't bite, but it's worse than biting!
Ai Mengmeng quickly put the changed clothes into the bag, and pulled Chen Qingxue to leave the bathroom, she was afraid that Chen Qingsong would appear again in a while, and she was embarrassed to meet him at this time.
Chen Qingxue grabbed her: "Wait a minute, your hair is still wet, you will have a headache if you go out to blow the wind like this, I have a hair dryer in the locker, I will help you blow your hair."
"It's okay, your hair can be dried by the natural wind," Lemon just wanted to get out of here quickly.
"Why don't you take care of your body at all? It's not good for your body to blow the wind with wet hair during your menstrual period, come, sit here, I'll help you dry your hair and we'll go."
Chen Qingxue pulled Ai Mengmeng to sit on a stool next to the locker, then took out a hair dryer from the locker, plugged it in, and helped Ai Mengmeng start to blow her hair.
"Mengmeng, has your hair been dyed and permed?" Ai Mengmeng's hair is not black, but chestnut brown, and Chen Qingxue wanted to ask her before.
"No, my hair is naturally curly, my mom said I was born with this color."
"Wow, natural! Are you a half-race? “
"No, my mom and dad are both Chinese."
"Then is there anyone in your family who is a foreigner?"
"When I was a child, I also suspected that I was a mixed-race child, and I deliberately checked our family's ancestral home, and no one was a foreigner."
"Then you're a mutant!" Chen Qingxue joked with a smile.
Ai Mengmeng also laughed, and chatted with Chen Qingxue for a while, and her nervousness relaxed, but her eyes were still staring at the door, and she was still worried that Chen Qingsong would push the door and walk in again.
After the two were talking for a while, Chen Qingxue had already helped Ai Mengmeng dry her hair: "Okay, blow it."
Chen Qingxue put the hair dryer into the locker, Ai Mengmeng tied her hair up with a hair ring, and the two went out of the bathroom together.
When passing through the open space in the middle, Ai Mengmeng deliberately glanced around, but she didn't see Chen Qingsong's figure, she pulled Chen Qingxue and sped up her pace and left the martial arts hall.
After tossing around like this, it was time for school to get out, and after the lunch break, Ai Mengmeng went to school.
In the afternoon, she didn't have classes, so she stayed in the office to correct homework and prepare for class, but her mind kept thinking about what happened in the martial arts hall at noon, and her stomach was still aching, and she spent the afternoon in a trance.
After returning to Chen's mansion after school, when he walked into the patio, he saw Chen Qingsong walking upstairs to go back to his room.
Hearing a sound behind him, Chen Qingsong turned his head and saw that it was Ai Mengmeng, and a trace of unnaturalness flashed on his face.
He didn't say anything, turned around and was about to continue upstairs, but Ai Mengmeng suddenly said: "That...... Wait a minute".
Ai Mengmeng walked over quickly, and saw Chen Qingsong standing on the steps in the middle of the stairs, and she also went up two steps.
"Well, I didn't mean to go to the martial arts hall...... It was because the water was cut off at home that Qingxue took me over," Ai Mengmeng lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Chen Qingsong.
She thought about it for an afternoon, and felt that the cause of the "disaster incident" that happened at noon was still herself, the martial arts hall was taken care of by Chen Qingsong, and it was normal for him to appear in the martial arts hall, he probably didn't expect that she would go there to take a bath at that time, so he pushed the door and entered without even knocking on the bathroom door.
The reason was that she had broken into his territory without greeting him, and Lemon felt that she should explain to him that she had not trespassed in.
"Qingxue?" There was a trace of doubt in Chen Qingsong's voice, he didn't see Qingxue at noon, otherwise he would never have pushed the door in.
I guessed that Chen Qingxue ran to the corridor to make a call, Chen Qingsong didn't see her, how could things be so coincidental? What an unlucky day today!
Lemon grumbled in her heart.
"I told Qingxue that what I saw was a cockroach...... Ai Mengmeng felt that she couldn't let others know about this, so she stopped Chen Qingsong.
She said it casually at noon, and now that Chen Qingsong said it in front of her, she reacted suddenly, she was saying that Chen Qingsong was a cockroach.
She raised her head abruptly and looked at Chen Qingsong and hurriedly explained, "I don't mean your cockroaches, I mean ...... That's it...... You should have seen cockroaches! “
The noon events were simply unspeakable, and Ai Mengmeng didn't know what to say, and her whole face was as red as if it was bloodshot.
Hearing her words, Chen Qingsong raised the corners of his lips and wanted to smile, but when he saw her embarrassed look, he immediately straightened his expression.