Chapter 5: Cold Rain
Autumn was slightly cool, and there were not a few serious rains that had just passed, and the air was exceptionally dry.
Xiao Ting changed into a goose yellow long-sleeved top, a pair of plain jeans, there was no extra decoration on the whole body, a long black hair was draped behind her like a waterfall, occasionally a small breeze blowing, and a few restless wisps would run in front of her, and they would be taken back by Xiao Ting's hand.
On the road in the morning, Bai Chuan still didn't think about whether to write a reply letter to Xiao Ting. Xiao Ting, who was beside her, looked at the gray sky in the east as she walked, and asked Bai Chuan very seriously
"Will it rain today?"
"I don't know, you have a TV at home, but I don't have one, you didn't read the weather forecast last night." Bai Chuan looked up in the direction Xiao Ting was looking. According to the usual time, there should be at least a fish-white dawn exposed, but now there is nothing to see, and the dark clouds, which are not very thick, move slowly and leisurely to this side.
"It should be a little lower, we don't have an umbrella with us, so let's hurry up." After Xiao Ting finished speaking, she trotted up. This time it was bitter for Bai Chuan, all the way to follow, or the schoolbag stuffed with two people's textbooks, big and heavy, running like a turtle carrying an asymmetrical shell, up and down, shaking irregularly.
"You wait...... I! Slow down......" Bai Chuan gasped, holding the strap of his schoolbag with one hand and his waist with the other, chasing after Xiao Ting.
As soon as I entered the classroom, it was raining outside as scheduled.
"It's dangerous! Slow down a little bit and we'll be soup chickens! After speaking, Xiao Ting calmly put her head out of the classroom door, while holding the door frame with both hands, her pretty face was raised, her eyes were slightly closed, and her mouth was stretched out with her tongue, wanting to catch the rain that was not falling, but drifting.
"Are you stupid! Can you drink rainwater, I won't send you a leave slip for diarrhea! Bai Chuan looked at Xiao Ting after smoothing his breath in his chest.
"You just have diarrhea, don't you know that the first rain of autumn is very sweet?" Xiao Ting retracted her body and snorted, as if she was very satisfied with the taste of the autumn rain, of course, she didn't see it if she received the rain or not.
"Sweet? What a reason! Shirakawa's mind was really thinking about it.
"Sweet or not,...... You'll know if you taste it. Xiao Ting quietly detoured behind Bai Chuan, and pushed her hands in the posture of a hero on TV, so Bai Chuan tasted the taste of autumn rain, cold and cold, but it did have a little sweetness. (At that time, it was indeed sky blue and transparent, and there was no pollution at all.) )
As long as it is his class, he will always arrive at the classroom a few minutes in advance, first from the small hall between the back wall of the classroom and the classroom, quietly detour to the back door of the classroom, and see through the glass that there are those students playing the most hilarious, until the class bell rings, he will tidy up his clothes, and walk into the classroom with a serious face with the textbook.
Although not long after the start of school, more than a dozen students dropped out of school early for various reasons. However, the remaining 60-odd people have to memorize the language class one by one, and I am afraid that one lesson will not be enough. In this way, the few people who were targeted by the head teacher, as long as they couldn't recite it, they would be punished for standing for a class.
Today, the head teacher had an extra black umbrella in his hand, stomped his feet a few times at the door of the classroom, and dropped a few points of rain cement on his leather shoes. Put away the umbrella and look around habitually before stepping up to the podium. opened the textbook, and didn't look at the classmates below who were like facing the enemy, and said slowly:
"Have you all come down with the texts that asked you to go home to the north yesterday?"
"Memorize it" The audience replied loudly and neatly, of course, this is also the request of the head teacher, the answer to the question should be loud, of course, whether it is memorized or not is another story.
The head teacher raised his head and seemed to be quite satisfied with the answer below, smiling and nodding. It's a bit like the big landlord's smile in some movie.
Today, the god of luck befell Shirakawa, Shirakawa was already nervous, and the texts that he memorized at home were familiar, as long as the teacher asked a question, he would stumble on the back, and the long essays would be memorized into short sentences. As usual, as long as the teacher finished reciting, he would still let Bai Chuan sit down, but today the teacher didn't let him sit down, so he ordered another classmate to get up and carry it. Bai Chuan, whose face was flushed with a burn, felt a little embarrassed in his heart, and Xiao Ting on the side stood up the textbook as usual and sat in front of Bai Chuan, who was standing stupidly, with a grimace for a while.
After forty-five minutes of a class, it was okay to stand at first, although it was embarrassing, but it was still necessary to pretend to be listening carefully. But in the last twenty minutes or so, Shirakawa's legs began to go numb, and he wanted to move his feet back and forth if he didn't obey the call, and the head teacher had finished speaking, and sat on a stool in front of the podium and looked intently at the textbook, and only the sound of reactionary textbooks remained below.
Xiao Ting looked at Bai Chuan, who was uncomfortable, looked up at the teacher again, and then slowly put her textbooks on Bai Chuan's stool, one layer was not enough, and then a stack of rubs, it was not enough, Xiao Ting turned around directly to get the books on the desks of the classmates behind her, and also "forcibly" requisitioned. Folded it until it was close to Bai Chuan's buttocks, and then lowered his body and dragged Bai Chuan's pants with his hand to signal him to sit down, Bai Chuan didn't dare, so Xiao Ting took out the silver dangling long needle again.
Shirakawa had no choice but to obey, his butt sank slightly, and he sat on the book, and with a place to borrow, Shirakawa's two legs were finally a lot more comfortable, and the desks at that time were higher than now, and Shirakawa was a little short, so sitting on it, even if the head teacher looked at it, he couldn't see anything. Of course, because of Xiao Ting's prestige, some people in the class didn't dare to make a small report when they saw it.
At noon, the rain still did not stop, but the wind was a lot stronger, as a reward for Xiao Ting, Bai Chuan volunteered, and he was distressed to be responsible for Xiao Ting to go to the canteen 800 meters away to eat, volunteering to eat, and distressed that his pocket money for a month was gone. Xiao Ting took it for granted that she was meritorious, and unceremoniously ordered what she wanted to eat.
The last class in the afternoon is self-study, and the teacher did not come to supervise, and the class became a mess of porridge, of course, there is still to be guard, and this task is generally carried out by the farthest one by the window.
Xiao Ting looked at the heavier and heavier rain and the heavier and heavier wind outside the window, her brows tightened, but her tone was very gentle and said to Bai Chuan: "This rain can't stop after school, my parents have gone to the county seat and no one will come to pick me up, what should I do!?" ”
"My dad will come to pick me up, and I'll take you with me when the time comes!" Bai Chuan is not too worried, his family spoils him like a little emperor, and he will definitely come back to pick him up on such a rainy day.
"Just your dad's broken bicycle with no back seat, why can you bring the two of us, one on the back of the car! A ride on the neck? Xiao Ting didn't have the anger to reply to Bai Chuan.
"What then!" Bai Chuan stopped preparing to pack his schoolbag in advance, and also learned Xiao Ting's tone of worrying about the country and the people.
"Or, you accompany me ......" Before Xiao Ting finished speaking, Bai Chuan had already understood what Xiao Ting was meaning with a wicked smile on her face.
"Good...... Okay, I'll walk home with you" Bai Chuan began to stumble again, and the afterglow of his eyes had already swept to the hidden needle in Xiao Ting's hand. "It's just a schoolbag, so that the books will get wet when you go home?"
"It's okay, look at me." Xiao Ting got up happily and walked to the big table where the squad leader had bullied her, Bai Chuan didn't hear what they said, only that Xiao Ting patted the table and came back with a few more plastic straps.
"Bring the bag! The books are all in there! Xiao Ting came back and sat down and snatched Bai Chuan's schoolbag.
"Well, it's all in there......"
"Your bag is a little too big!" Xiao Ting complained a little, but she still used plastic tape, one set, one set, and eight books wrapped tightly. In the end, the two largest white plastic bags were left, and he stabbed three large holes with a knife and handed them to Shirakawa.
"Xiao Ting brand one-piece raincoat, give you one!"
Bai Chuan thought it was fun, took it, and tried it on his upper body for a long time, "You're really good!" ”
"That's ......" Xiao Ting didn't finish speaking, and the bell rang crisply and deafeningly.
The class crowded to the door all at once, some with umbrellas, and with schoolbags on their heads, some even didn't even take their schoolbags, just because of the rain to get books, so they didn't have to do their homework. After a period of hecticism, there were a few remaining days on duty to stay on duty and sweep the floor, leaving Bai Chuan and Xiao Ting.
"Put it on and try it on"! Xiao Ting expressed great expectations that her work could be worn on Bai Chuan.
Bai Chuan first compressed the schoolbag as much as possible, carried it up, and then twisted left and right with Xiao Ting's assistance and finally put on the "raincoat", but the neck was a little too tight, and Xiao Ting tore it a little with her hand. didn't suffocate Shirakawa to death.
After both of them put on their belts, they were left with their heads, and Xiao Ting coiled her long hair and covered it with a small bag. also helped Shirakawa get a bag that cut out his eyes, nose, and mouth. The two of them are dressed as robbers who want to rob a bank.
Xiao Ting turned around with satisfaction, as if she had just bought a new dress to try on, but she was missing a mirror. Just ask if Shirakawa is good-looking?
"Good looking, good looking, you look good in whatever you wear." Bai Chuan was worried about the rain, and his somewhat perfunctory tone provoked Xiao Ting to reach out and twist Bai Chuan's ears.
Bai Chuan subconsciously shrank, evaded Xiao Ting's poisonous hand and ran out of the classroom, the oncoming rain followed the wind and suddenly drilled into Bai Chuan's mouth, so cold that his heart and body couldn't help but shiver.
"Don't make a fuss, let's go!" Bai Chuan motioned to Xiao Ting not to open her mouth, and she also repeated her wrong way of going out.
The gravel pavement was not waterlogged, Xiao Ting still pulled up her trouser legs slightly and walked into the rain cautiously. The school gate was crowded with adults who came to pick up the children, all of them were monochromatic raincoats, bicycles with large sorghums, and it was rare to see a few motorcycles honking their horns in it that were both uncoordinated and arrogant.