Chapter 27: Barbecue
Nian Nian bit his fingers and was looking at Yi Huai's chemical scroll intently.
Huaibao, who had just come in, saw that there was no one in front of her, so he sat down, turned around and looked at the long-thinking thoughts, and then he also tilted his head to look at the place where she was looking.
He didn't bother her, just sat in the front, his eyes fixed on the ground, ready to wait for her to finish.
It wasn't until class was over that the male classmate who was sitting in front came back that Yi Huai got up from his position and returned to his place.
Later, when the chemistry teacher came to talk about the chemistry test paper, she figured out the teacher's thinking, no wonder she didn't understand Yi Huai's idea of doing the questions, and she thought about it there for a long time.
"There seems to be another classmate in the class who used another way of thinking to make it, right, Yi Huai, you can come up and tell everyone about it."
The teacher asked Yi Huai to go up by name, which made Huaibao a little surprised, he pouted, he didn't stand on the podium in front of him as he said, he didn't listen to what he said at all, and he didn't know what the teacher talked about, and his own paper was still reading there.
"Teacher, it's not me, are you mistaken?"
"Isn't that you? I remember clearly that our class got a perfect score on your penultimate question, and it was not according to the general solution. ”
Oh, that's the penultimate question.
After knowing which question he was talking about, Yi Huai said a few words simply, and said his coherent train of thought more concisely, and when he finished speaking, the classmates began to write, wrote down the key steps he said, and solved them according to his train of thought when he was ready to end the class.
When school was out in the afternoon, Nian Nian still went home with Huaibao, and generally the students in the rocket class were ten minutes late from school, so there was no one on the whole road at this time.
Since school, Nian Nian hasn't said anything, seems to be a little sullen, and even when she sees her favorite oden, she is not so enthusiastic.
"Aren't you going to eat?"
Yi Huai looked at Grandma Oden's small storefront and stopped, he naturally felt that Niannian was wrong, generally speaking, after school in the afternoon, Niannian would buy oden to eat on the road, but today she didn't even look up.
"Forget it, I won't eat it today."
After speaking, Nian Nian walked ahead of himself.
Looking at her thin back, Yi Huai frowned and stepped forward.
Huai Bao silently followed behind her, never asked her, why was she a little unhappy, this is also the difference between him and the past, no longer like a little heel always around her, now he will guess, if it is not a problem of studying, it is probably his test paper.
"Huaibao, Niannian."
As soon as they walked out of the school gate, they heard someone calling them, and both of them quickly looked up and saw Xia Yecheng standing at the bus stop in front of them.
He wears a black hat, a black jacket, and a pair of light blue straight jeans on his legs.
As soon as she saw Xia Yecheng, Niannian, who had a low face just now, immediately changed into a smiling face and ran towards him, and the next second her small body rushed into Xia Yecheng's arms.
Huaibao, who was also surprised to see Xia Yecheng, rushed into his arms so happily after seeing Nian Nian saw Xia Yecheng, Huaibao didn't feel good in his heart, a little uncomfortable but okay, Xia Yecheng is his brother.
"Why are you here?"
Yi Huai cleaned up his mood, and also stepped forward, saying to Xia Yecheng, who was touching his thoughts with a smile on his face.
"That's right, brother, aren't you going to Beijing to attend the press conference in a few days?"
Because of this incident, Nian Nian was about to die of happiness, and one of her favorite cartoon painters would also go, and she also asked Xia Yecheng to help with autographs.
"Well, I'll leave tomorrow afternoon, and before I go, I'm going to take you to dinner."
He touched Niannian's head again, then raised his head and smiled at Yi Huai.
Xia Yecheng came by car, this is the first time he has driven on the road by himself after getting his driver's license, speaking of which, he got his driver's license when he graduated from high school, and it has been half a year now.
In the past half a year, he has been able to make money, and with the living expenses given by his parents, he is about to become a rich generation.
This off-road vehicle was given to him by his father for this birthday.
Xia Yecheng drove Yi Huai and Nian Nian to a barbecue restaurant in the city center.
The barbecue restaurant is newly opened, the taste is very good, he has come to eat a few times, this time it can be regarded as a farewell party for him in the club, because in the studio, only Xia Yecheng got the invitation, and he can go to Beijing this time to make a notice, but it is the wish of many little-known little cartoonists, when the time comes, he will not only be able to meet the famous cartoonists in China but also many foreign cartoonists, all of whom are international cartoonists, and this time can be regarded as an experience for him.
Xia Yecheng took Nian Nian and Yi Huai into the main entrance of the barbecue restaurant, and walked straight to the innermost private room, which was a Japanese-style room that could accommodate twenty people, and at this time there were two tables sitting inside, they were all sitting directly on the pu seat, ten people at one table, and two tables were spread out into a large table, and Xia Yecheng took the two of them to sit at the innermost table.
"Oops, you're finally here, that's your ...... Sister and brother? ”
"That's it, I've been waiting for you for a long time, if it weren't for such a cute sister and brother, I wouldn't have waited for you."
"Okay, okay, this was supposed to be Xiaoyi's farewell party, what are you making trouble?"
These people are teasing me every word, Xia Yecheng just smiled and didn't speak.
After everyone was seated, the iron plate on the table began to sizzle, and several large plates of raw meat, beef, mutton, chicken and so on were placed in front of them.
Originally, Nian Nian and Yi Huai had a bottle of beer in front of them, but Xia Yecheng took it away, and then poured a glass of orange juice for one of them.
Nian Nian may not have noticed it, but from the moment he entered the door, Huai Bao found out that the moment they all looked up, they all seemed to look at Nian Nian with a gossip look, that's right, looking at Nian Nian's expression and looking at himself and Xia Yecheng's expression, he couldn't tell, but he seemed to know something.
He tilted his head slightly, looked at Xia Yecheng, who was talking to his colleagues around him with a smile, and then looked at Nian Nian, who was looking at those barbecued meats with a desired expression, he felt a little uncomfortable again, and suddenly remembered the smile that immediately unfolded when he saw Xia Yecheng.
When he thought of this, his heart tugged.
"Huaibao? Huaibao? ”
In the end, it was pulled back to reality by Niannian's voice.
"Huh?"
He turned his head.
"Are you going to eat bacon? It's baked. ”
"Oh good."
Although Nian Nian felt that something was suddenly wrong with him, it was difficult to ask anything because there were so many people here.
Later, the people at the same table kept pulling Nian Nian to ask questions, and some people were ready to talk to Yi Huai, but he was too bored, asking what to say, it felt like he was asking and answering quickly, so they simply chose to talk to another Nian Nian who looked sweet and talked sweetly.
It wasn't until Nian Nian and Yi Huai were about to go back later that Xia Yecheng, who was already a little half-drunk, was naturally ready to stand up.
"Yo, can't you wait to send your daughter-in-law back?"
"Senior, don't be kidding."
Xia Yecheng rubbed his temples with some seriousness, although there was still a smile on the corner of his mouth.
Nian Nian had already gone out, she went to the toilet, and then she was ready to wait for them outside the store, but Yi Huai went and returned, ready to call Xia Yecheng.
He stood outside the door in a daze, his heart fluttering, and before Xia Yecheng came out, he came back to his senses and walked quickly outside.
When he walked to the hall, he slowed down, raised his head and saw Nian Nian standing outside the door, it was almost winter, the weather had turned cold, and only students were allowed to wear school uniforms in the school, even if it was a long-sleeved school uniform, it was still a little thin in the late autumn night, and she was stomping her feet constantly, and it seemed to be a little cold.
"Let's go, brother, your brother is a little drunk, let me drive you back."
Yi Huai was still standing in the center of the hall, and a girl came out behind him, and he still remembered that it was the girl sitting opposite Xia Yecheng.
Yi Huai nodded and walked out of the store behind the young lady.
Nian Nian looked at her sister in the driver's seat in front of her, and she saw this sister as soon as she entered, because she thought that this sister was good-looking, her face was a little rounder than the standard goose egg face, her eyes were also very round, and she was particularly good-looking, her nose was small, her mouth was also small, and she was also very white.
The car was quiet and no one spoke.
"What do you think your brother is?"
In the originally quiet car, the young lady suddenly made a sound, which made Nian Nian a little frightened.
"It's a good brother, although when I used to be a child, I would let us do some ridiculous things, but my brother is a good brother."
Nian Nian said while thinking, her mouth went up and down, and she felt that Xia Yecheng would not stop talking.
Huai Bao just silently turned his head to look at her, and then turned his head to look out the window.
"Then he is so good, do you think that when my brother gets married in the future, he will be happy to be his wife?"
This question really made the two people in the back seat a little stunned, and some didn't know what she meant.
However, Yi Huai should understand that it cannot be ruled out that this girl is testing her thoughts.
"I don't know."
"You can imagine that."
"I can't think of it, it has nothing to do with me, so I don't know how to imagine it."
“…… All right. ”
The girl driving the car glanced at them in the rearview mirror and didn't continue to ask.
After that, no one spoke in the car.
In the late autumn night, the wind was blowing outside, blowing small pebbles on the ground from time to time, and the small pebbles also fell towards the car window, and later, it seemed to be raining outside, and Yi Huai closed the window.
The car drove to the door of Lu Lin's villa, but did not drive in, because it was a light rain for a short time, and as soon as he walked to the gate, the rain stopped.
The young lady didn't know the way inside, so she simply got out of the car and went in by herself.
Yi Huai followed Nian Nian, walked through the park, and walked to the basketball court, although it was only eight o'clock at this time, but the basketball court was empty, the high school students who used to play here have now gone to college, and even those junior high school students have already gone to high school, and they are taking classes in school at this time.
Nian Nian walked in front, and finally stopped suddenly, and Yi Huai also stopped.
"How?"
Huai Bao tilted his head.
"Yi Huai, you didn't do the last additional question at the back of the test paper, is it because of me?"
That's what she's been thinking about, from school to the barbecue restaurant and back here, that's what she's been thinking about.
“…… Why? ”
In fact, he didn't think about it himself, what was he for.
"Since I was a child, you have always followed me, has been silently protecting me on the side, trying to make me happy, in fact, I know, because I have never done anything to make yourself happy, you obviously have such good grades, smarter than me, you should be the first in the class in elementary school, just because I said a very willful word, I said you don't test me, if you test me, I will no longer pay attention to you, so since then, you have never tested me, I am always taking the honor that belongs to you, I've always said that I treat you as my best friend, but I know that I haven't known you all along, whether it was before or now, so after you lose weight, you no longer stick to me, you don't tell me anything, you don't come to play with me anymore, I feel less comfortable, just because I feel that you have changed, you have become no longer unconditionally good to me, I don't know when you learned basketball, when you became a celebrity in school I don't know, you don't see a shadow during the day during the summer vacation, I don't know where you went, I don't know what you've done, and now I don't even know what I think of you. Yi Huai, what do you think we should do? Do you know about your fans coming to me? At the door of the toilet that day, I knew you were looking at us, you went to find Xu Yinchuan, I saw it, I followed you to the toilet, it was not the first time, I would meet it when I went to the hot water room between classes, they stood not far away and talked about me, and their eyes looked at me strangely, it seems to be because of you, what happened to me and you, although I have always pretended to be nothing, but I have always wondered, what happened to us? ”
Yi Huai listened to her quietly, without interjecting, and when she finished speaking, he didn't know what to say, he was a person who was not good at expressing himself since he was a child, but his thoughts would be shown in his actions, but now he was better at disguising himself.
If you don't know, then how can I know you? At that time, how could I have thought that you would say that kind of thing in the toilet, saying that you are the one who likes the chubby self, and you are the one who says you don't like it, am I not just starting to be myself?
What is our relationship? Neighbor? Friend? If it's a friend, you shouldn't lie to me at the beginning, just say that you don't like fat people, I won't be sad, I will work hard in the direction you like, Shang Nian, so what do you mean by what you say today?
Shouldn't I be angry? But why do I really only have anger?