Two weeks is not a long time, but it is not a short time, and the day to leave school and return home is coming in a blink of an eye.

Song Ailin went to worship, and Dai Qian and Zhu Jinfeng stayed in the dormitory waiting for the school gate to open, and they didn't go anywhere.

This is a room of about 20 square meters, with three single beds under the north wall, and on the innermost bed, Zhu Jinfeng is lazily nesting like a cat.

"Oh, I said Daisy, have you ever thought about where to dig up that mud?"

"It's not the stable, the kitchen, but I'll go to the warehouse in Hongkou first, and the mud there should be different." Daisy replied from the balcony.

"You're fine, I don't even have a stable at home, so I can only go to the kitchen and dig some errands." Zhu Jinfeng's home is in the county town of Shanghai, where there are small streets and alleys, and it is still a style of Jiangnan water town, not to mention the vertical and horizontal rivers, the key is all arch bridges, and even unicycles can't walk. If you don't want to walk after entering the county, you can only take a sedan chair or take a boat.

"That's how you want to earn that hundred silver dollars, or—" Daisy looked back at the room and laughed, "You don't really like our Mr. Chemist, do you?" You just want to get married! ”

In the past two weeks, Gao Yi's influence has not disappeared because of the temporary freshness of female students, but has continued to expand. Yesterday, he issued a task through the principal Lian Jisheng, to collect soil from all students above the fifth grade, in the home, in the garden, in the farmland, in the warehouse, in the kitchen, in the stable, in the chicken coop, in the kennel, in the birdcage, and in any weird place imaginable or unexpected, as long as someone brings him the soil that meets his needs, then he will not hesitate to reward him with a hundred oceans.

What is the concept of a hundred oceans? The monthly tuition fee is 5 yuan, the meal fee is 3 yuan, and if you want to learn piano, you need to pay an additional 2 yuan. Based on the calculation of five months in a semester, the total cost of an academic year is only 100 yuan, which also includes piano tuition. In other words, as long as a student finds the soil that Gao Yi wants, then she will get a full scholarship, and if she doesn't learn the piano, she can also get twenty yuan of pocket money.

"I'm kind of happy about him." What Dai Qian didn't expect was that Zhu Jinfeng actually said what was in her heart, and she said it so seriously that she couldn't even have the slightest bit of fun and ridicule.

"Is it just because he's good-looking?" Daisy doesn't understand this feeling of love at first sight, how can a person fall in love with another person just because of their appearance, shouldn't it be more about character? And after only seeing a few faces, how can you know the character? There are many people in this world whose appearance does not match their nature, and there are many things that know people and faces but do not know their hearts.

Zhu Jinfeng shook her head, she got up from the bed and walked out of the balcony to Dai Qian's side.

"It's better to marry someone you know than to marry someone you don't know, right?" Zhu Jinfeng said.

When Dai Qian was thinking about this brainless sentence, she heard Zhu Jinfeng continue, "The day before yesterday, someone from my family came, do you know? Another unsubstantiated sentence.

Dai Qian, who came from Zhu Jinfeng's family, naturally knew. The school rules are very strict, and visits are allowed only two afternoons a week, and they are limited to women except for their fathers and brothers. Therefore, whenever someone from someone's family comes, it is a small event for the entire dormitory.

After saying this sentence without a beginning or an end, Zhu Jinfeng stopped again, but sighed deeply.

"What's wrong, Ah Feng?" Daisy was stunned by her friend's heavy sigh and the opposite of her usual demeanor. Didn't she really fascinate that Mr. Gao Yi?

"I'm going to get married, to someone I've never seen before." Zhu Jinfeng said, leaning on the cold stone railing.

Daisy could only hug her friend from behind, leaning over the stone railing with her, looking out at it, unable to utter a word.

Under the balcony, there is a piece of roses that Lian Jisheng has recently moved out of the glass flower room, completely ignorant of the sinister nature of the world, and is blooming proudly in the cold wind, and the fragrance of the flowers is becoming more and more intense and intoxicating in winter.

"The service is over! You look at Lou Qiaoyun's appearance, he ran out before he had time, and it doesn't look like he prayed sincerely. After Zhu Jinfeng said what was in her heart, she seemed to return to normal quickly, but Dai Qian was still immersed in the atmosphere of sadness and sadness. But seeing the panting appearance of Qiaoyun running upstairs on the lawn, she felt better.

"Let's go too, this school is boring." Zhu Jinfeng said as he pulled Dai Qian back indoors.

Five minutes later, the two of them were standing in front of the porch, saying goodbye. Dai Qian was holding her bean sauce jar in her hand, and Zhu Jinfeng was empty-handed, she said to Dai Qian: "Dai Qian, you are the best-looking girl I have ever seen, don't worry about your hair and eyes, I want your eyes of this color to be missing!" ”

Of course Daisy knows that she is good-looking, but what is the use of this good-looking for herself? Isn't Ah Feng's today her future?

Dai Qian shook her head, not knowing what to say, but said, "Ah Feng, you have to be good!" Seeing that she was still riding in the taxi carriage as usual, he said, "I'll give you a ride, and you can talk more on the way......

Zhu Jinfeng waved his hand and said: "You can't send me home, anyway, when you get to the city gate, you always have to change the sedan chair, and it's the same when you take a rental carriage." With that, he waved his hand and turned to get into the carriage.

Thinking that she would be able to talk again next week, Daisy stopped insisting and just stood by the rental carriage and waved her hand until the carriage started, and then returned to her car.

After going out, Dai Qian's carriage turned left, Zhu Jinfeng's carriage turned right, and then quickly turned left at the intersection onto Tibet Road. Dai Qian took one last look at Zhu Jinfeng's carriage in the back window, and her eyes turned red for a while.

Dai Qian came in the fifth grade, and at that time, the students in the class of 1894 who were going to leave had all gone, and there were only six people left, and Dai Qian and them got along with each other for five years, thinking that everyone could work together until next year's graduation, but I didn't expect that there would be a friend to separate so soon.

The carriage was driving on the Hankou Road, and after a few steps, Dai Qian saw Song Ailin from the window with a straight spine, holding a younger sister in one hand and walking on the side of the road. Her father was a pastor at Moore Church next door to the school, on the border of Hankou Road and Yunnan Road, so he didn't have to ride in a horse-drawn carriage.

Because of Zhu Jinfeng, Dai Qian suddenly felt that Song Ailin had become cute, she opened the car window, half of her body threw herself out of the window, and waved her hand to greet: "Ailin!" And Qinglin, Xiao Meilin! Watch your step, walk slowly, goodbye! It startled the three sisters.

Among the seven of them, probably only Song Ailin can be called free. Although everyone saw her as a foreigner because of her skin color, hair and eyes, and thought she was free, on the contrary, she was no different from the others. Although her father married a wife of French descent and sent his daughter to a foreign school, it did not mean that he was a truly enlightened gentleman.

The carriage left the concession from Hongkou and soon drove towards the river onto a cinder-paved path. The path is about a long time, and there are stacks and boiling ointment workshops on both sides, which are the industries of "Guangrong Forest".

Daisy took out a handkerchief and covered her mouth and nose, the smell of boiling cream was really unpleasant, even if she closed the windows tightly, it was useless, and the smell drilled into the carriage one by one.

The reason why she had come to dig in the mud in such a foul smell was because she was really curious to see what this gentleman was going to do with the mud, and what the mud worth a hundred oceans looked like.

It's just that after the Zhu Jinfeng incident, she has actually completely lost interest in this matter, but since it has been arranged, there is no need to regret it.

After the car reached the end of the path, the smell dissipated a lot by the river breeze.

Fu Bo, who was with the car, stopped the carriage, walked to the window and said, "Miss, I want to go to the old dock first, the new dock is unloading, and it is not convenient to use it now." ”

Daisy nodded and said, "I don't have to go to the new dock, I'll dig a little bit at the old dock." ”

"I know, the wind is quite strong today, the eldest lady should be careful of catching a cold, just dig a little bit to make a difference, your husband is really, assign this kind of homework to the young ladies."

Shortly after the carriage restarted, it soon stopped at a dock. Fauber got out of the car first and called the steward who was watching the docks, and asked him to drive all the coolies away from the docks, and then asked Daisy to get out of the car.

The two grandmothers who were serving in the car also got out of the car, and Daisy waved them not to follow closely behind, and then took a medicine hoe, a medicine shovel, and a small basket full of envelopes from Fauber. She had gone to the housekeeper last night to make a phone call to her home to arrange for them.

She dug some mud next to the stackhouses on both sides of the path, and then gradually dug into it along a fork in the road, while Fauber and the two grandmothers stood at the intersection where they could see her.

Daisy put a handful of mud in an envelope and used a pencil she carried with her to mark the location of the mud. She is marked by the number of steps she takes.

Soon the mud was half a basket, and Daisy thought that she could go back by digging some more, and at this moment she happened to be at another small fork, twenty or thirty steps along the small fork, there were two lonely houses, where the dirt was rust-colored, different from what had been dug before, so she thought about going over and digging a last shovel, and then going home.

As she approached the hut, she suddenly heard a voice from inside. The voice was familiar to her, it was her father and uncle.