Chapter 21: Meng Jiayue's Birthday

"Huh? Your seat is in the middle, better than mine, huh? Ruan Yu turned his head to look at the front row, then turned back to look at Zhang Xuemin, tilting his head and showing doubts.

The smile on Zhang Xuemin's face remained unchanged, and said, "I want to sit by the window, the wind can blow here, can you change it?" ”

Ruan Yu turned sideways to avoid her gaze, shook her head and said, "It's better not to change, I don't want to move again." ”

At this point, Ruan Yu thought that Zhang Xuemin would give up on the situation, but she didn't seem to hear Ruan Yu's refusal, so she said to herself: "It's not so troublesome, just move the book, if you are troublesome, I will help you sort it out, when can you change it?" ”

Ruan Yu raised her eyes to look at her, feeling a little unhappy in her heart, feeling that she was forced to change her seat, her brows wrinkled unconsciously, and her tone was a little stiff: "It's good that I'm sitting here, I really don't want to change, you can ask others!" ”

"Really? I'd love to sit by the window. ”

"I really don't want to change."

In the end, Ruan Yu's tone was a little impatient, to say that she usually wouldn't speak so directly, but she was at the same table as Meng Jiayue, and the bench was not hot, so she really didn't want to change seats at all.

But when she said it, Ruan Yu regretted it a little, afraid that this would not hurt Zhang Xuemin's self-esteem, but it was impossible for her to comfort others immediately, at least she couldn't say anything. Ruan Yu looked at Zhang Xuemin, wondering what her reaction would be, but Ruan Yu rejected in such a bad tone, but Zhang Xuemin didn't look annoyed at all.

"Oh well! I'm going to ask people. After speaking, Zhang Xuemin turned his head and left.

Ruan Yu looked up at her, and saw that Zhang Xuemin didn't ask others to change seats, but returned to her place, but at this time, there were very few people in the class, and a few classmates sitting by the window had also left early.

After going back, Ruan Yu and Meng Jiayue talked about it, but he didn't react, just listened to it, and Ruan Yu didn't care about him anymore, and the next day he left the matter of changing positions behind.

But after class a few days later, Ruan Yu was talking to Li Yanyan in the corridor, and she suddenly asked Ruan Yu: "What's the matter with you and Zhang Xuemin?" I heard that you gave her a look, saying that Zhang Xuemin wanted to sit by the window and wanted to change seats with you, but you didn't change, and your tone was still very bad. ”

"Huh?" Ruan Yu was stunned for a moment before she reacted, and hurriedly said: "I don't know, it's that she wants to change seats with me, but I don't want to change, I originally refused, but she still had to change, and then I was a little impatient, and my tone was a little bad, how do you know?" ”

"Zhang Xuemin is so well-known, who doesn't know her on this floor? I guess everyone who knows about changing seats knows, I thought you knew too! After Li Yanyan finished speaking, he leaned into Ruan Yu's ear and asked in a low voice, "Do you like Meng Jiayue?" ”

"What do you like or dislike? We're neighbors, and you don't know it. Ruan Yu said strangely: "I told you a long time ago, have you forgotten?" ”

As soon as she heard this, Li Yanyan knew that she didn't understand, so she changed the question and asked, "Then are you at the same table as Meng Jiayue?" ”

Ruan Yu nodded: "That's right!" ”

"Don't you know that Meng Jiayue likes Zhang Xuemin?"

Ruan Yu blinked, she didn't come back to her senses from these words for a long time, how did she not know that Meng Jiayue still liked Zhang Xuemin?

Li Yanyan looked at her stunned, looking obviously still out of the situation, and said hurriedly: "It's already spread all over the place, and the next few classes know it, I heard that Meng Jiayue also confessed to Zhang Xuemin, and some people saw them holding hands in the playground." ”

"Is there one?" Ruan Yu still didn't believe it, and she hesitated a little to speak.

"Why not? I heard them say behind their backs that you like Meng Jiayue, so you don't want to change seats. ”

"Nope!"

"That's what everybody else says." Li Yanyan's eyes were anxious, and his voice became louder unconsciously, causing the classmates standing next to him to look here several times.

Ruan Yu was speechless when she said this, she frowned and didn't squeak for a while, Li Yanyan still had something to say, but as soon as she got up, she heard the class bell ring suddenly, so she shut up, said goodbye to Ruan Yu and went back to the classroom.

Ruan Yu returned to the class in a daze, Meng Jiayue was already sitting in his seat, he didn't go out when he got out of class, he was writing math materials, as soon as Ruan Yu came back, he got up and asked her to go in first, and then sat down again.

"What's wrong? What did Li Yanyan say to you? Meng Jiayue looked at her in a daze, and before the teacher entered the classroom, she lowered her head and asked in a low voice.

Ruan Yu couldn't hide her thoughts in front of him, what was written on her face, and she now saw that Meng Jiayue still had a stomach full of doubts to ask, but she was not easy to speak in the class, so she only said that she would go home, and then held it until she hurried home after school, and asked when she asked Meng Jiayue to do her homework at night.

"Do you like Zhang Xuemin?" Ruan Yu asked straight to the point.

Meng Jiayue laughed when he heard this, looked at her and asked, "Where did you hear that?" I didn't know I liked Zhang Xuemin? ”

"But Li Yanyan told me that others were rumoring that you liked her, and that you confessed to Zhang Xuemin, and what else was there to hold hands in the playground." Ruan Yu was puzzled: "What's going on?" ”

"How do I know?" Meng Jiayue rubbed Ruan Yu's hair, hugged her to her lap and sat down, and asked, "Do you care about all this?" ”

Ruan Yu shook his head: "No, I just heard them say so." ”

"Then don't care, be good, let's practice calligraphy!"

"Okay."

Meng Jiayue took out the pen and paper and spread it out on the table, now Ruan Yu basically doesn't need to copy the calligraphy anymore, she writes directly on white paper, writes two articles a day, and writes the ancient poems that Meng Jiayue found for her, the articles of the Eight Great Families, etc., and she can memorize a lot of ancient poems when she writes more.

Because of Meng Jiayue's words, Ruan Yu didn't take the rumors that Li Yanyan told her seriously, every day when she went to and from school, what should she do, she usually didn't have anyone in the class who could speak, so she really didn't pay attention to some things in the class.

After the eleventh holiday, Meng Jiayue's birthday is approaching, Ruan Yu doesn't know what birthday gift to give Meng Jiayue, she has been thinking about it for the past few days, but she still has no clue.

Just after class that day, Meng Jiayue went to the teacher's office to hand in his homework, and after he was promoted to the sixth grade, the class also re-elected the class president, and Meng Jiayue also ran for the election, and it was unanimously approved. Today, the representative of the Chinese class asked for leave and did not come, so he collected the Chinese homework on his behalf, and he handed it over to the teacher after class.

However, as soon as Meng Jiayue left, Ruan Yu had no one to speak, and he was very bored sitting in the seat, fiddling with the eraser for a while, and inadvertently saw that Meng Jiayue's pencil tip was dull, so he took a pencil sharpener to help him sharpen the pencil.

As soon as I cut it, I heard a girl talking behind me, and she said it very loudly: "Take someone's pencil without someone's consent, do you know how to be polite?" Uneducated. ”

Ruan Yu didn't expect that she was talking about herself at first, but it took two or three seconds to realize that she realized it later, she subconsciously turned her head to look behind, and saw that the girl sitting behind Meng Jiayue turned her face and didn't look at her, with a faint disdain on her face.

"I'll help him sharpen his pencil." Ruan Yu raised the pencil sharpener in his hand and explained.

"Cut! It's not my pencil, what do you say to me? After the girl finished speaking, she got up and left.

The classmates who heard the movement around all looked this way, and a few of them covered their mouths and laughed secretly, and as soon as the girl left, they all looked at Ruan Yu with a lively expression.

Ruan Yu withdrew his hand embarrassedly, pinching the pencil and feeling the hot straight hair on his face, seeing that people were still looking at him, he hurriedly turned around and sat down, just when Meng Jiayue came in, everyone took their eyes back again, but Ruan Yu didn't dare to look up, and hurriedly sharpened the pencil and put it back.

"What are you doing with your language books in the next music class?" Meng Jiayue came back to see that Ruan Yu still had the textbook from the previous class on the table, and reminded him with a smile.

Ruan Yu answered, took out her schoolbag from the hole in the table and took the book.

Meng Jiayue sat down in his position, picked up the pencil and turned it around in his hand, turned his head to look around, and finally he looked at Ruan Yu without saying a word.

In the last physical education class in the morning, after doing radio gymnastics, the teacher added another project, requiring girls to do 30 sit-ups and boys to do 50 push-ups, and asked the class leader to take a pen and paper to record their personal results.

Because the boys and girls do it separately, the teacher asked the physical education class leader to be in charge of the boys, and the girls were handed over to Meng Jiayue to be in charge, and they could move freely in the playground after they were done.

Ruan Yu's sports have always been bad, and she can't do sit-ups, when it's the girl's turn, she starts to hide back, and when Meng Jiayue calls her name, she remembers to find someone to help press her feet, because she can't do sit-ups alone.

"Feng Mingchen, you can help me press my feet!" Ruan Yu didn't know a few people, so she looked around, and finally found her table mate when she first started.

Feng Mingchen grabbed the girl next to him and said, "No, I just promised to help Liang Qi press, and she will do it later." ”

"Oh well! I'll ask again. Ruan Yu smiled and turned around to ask someone else for help.

didn't know what was going on, Ruan Yu asked around, either to help others press or not be available, or to dodge directly, which made Ruan Yu embarrassed and overwhelmed.

"You'll do it last!" Meng Jiayue had been paying attention to her situation here, and didn't say anything when she saw this, patted Ruan Yu on the shoulder and asked her to wait in the back first.

Ruan Yu bit her nails and looked down at people, walked quickly to the green belt behind, stood under the camphor tree and hid, although it was already October, but the sun was still a little sunny at noon, Ruan Yu's nose was a little sweaty, she raised her hand to wipe it, only to feel that her hands were shaking.

Dozens of girls in front of them were chatting together endlessly, shouting and joking together, Meng Jiayue took advantage of the free time of a few girls to play, went over to hand Ruan Yu a small packet of white rabbit toffee, and rubbed her head before going back.

Ruan Yu quietly breathed a sigh of relief while holding the candy, and a smile appeared on her face. She pulled two pieces of toilet paper out of her pocket and put them on the tiles on the edge of the green belt, and sat down to eat candy. Ruan Yu didn't look up in the middle, so naturally she didn't notice that most of the girls in the class were secretly looking at her.

Meng Jiayue whistled and shouted loudly, "Go on, next, Zhou Yue." ”

Halfway through the test, the school bell rang first, and there were still classmates in the class who didn't do it, and the boys over there had already hula a group of people who ran first, and the physical education class leader couldn't shout, and finally the teacher let the girls out of class. Meng Jiayue didn't rush to leave, as soon as the teacher said that he would go to Ruan Yu after class.

"Is it hot?" Meng Jiayue saw that Ruan Yu was sweaty on her forehead, and took out toilet paper and reached out to help her wipe it clean.

"Okay." Ruan Yu stood up and asked him, "I haven't done it yet!" Meng Jiayue, do you want to do it again in the next class? ”

Meng Jiayue smiled: "You are usually tired and half-dead when you run, have you done sit-ups?" You! Anyway, I'm recording the results, just add it for you, don't worry. ”

"Is that okay?" Ruan Yu was a little uneasy, and felt that this was wrong, so she was a little conflicted in her heart.

"Obedient, good."

Ruan Yu nodded: "Okay!" ”

Meng Jiayue smiled with satisfaction, took the sugar bag in Ruan Yu's hand, there was still a toffee in it, he opened the candy paper and fed it to Ruan Yu, took her hand and walked out: "What snacks do you want to eat?" ”

Ruan Yu tilted his head and thought for a while before saying, "Beef jerky." ”

"Okay, I'll buy it for you in the afternoon. What about other than this? ”

"Nope." Ruan Yu sucked on the candy, suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked, "Meng Jiayue, what birthday gift do you want?" ”

"This one!" Meng Jiayue didn't answer her immediately, but said, "You let me think about it, and I'll talk about it in a few days, anyway, it's still a while before my birthday." ”

Meng Jiayue said that it was a few days, but the result was until the day before his birthday, it happened to be Friday, as soon as school ended, Meng Jiayue pulled Ruan Yu on a strange bus, saying that it was strange, because Ruan Yu had never been on it, and the car did not pass by the road at the school gate, across the street.

As soon as Ruan Yu got in the car, she walked to the back window position, there were not many people in the car, the back seats were empty, Meng Jiayue sat next to her, Ruan Yu opened the window and looked outside and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Buy pen, ink, paper, inkstone." Meng Jiayue smiled, very mysterious.

"What?" Ruan Yu blinked, then grabbed Meng Jiayue and whispered, "I didn't bring any money, I only had two yuan on me." Although she had saved up for a long time to buy gifts for Meng Jiayue, she kept it at home, and she didn't take it with her.

"Stupid, I'm going to buy it." Meng Jiayue couldn't help but smile and flicked a finger on her forehead.

Ruan Yu puffed out his cheeks and said angrily: "Tomorrow is your birthday, what kind of gift do you want?" ”

Meng Jiayue shook his head and still didn't tell her, and said mysteriously: "I'll tell you when I buy pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." ”

"Really?"

"Of course."

Ruan Yu thought about it and decided to let him go for the time being, anyway, tomorrow Saturday, she had time to buy gifts.

After taking the bus for nearly half an hour, Meng Jiayue took Ruan Yu to an antique street, the street has been around for some years, the houses are made of horse-head walls characteristic of southern architecture, and the shops on both sides are equipped with door-style doors, and the things sold are also pen, ink, paper, inkstone, tea, embroidery, pastries and other things.

Ruan Yu couldn't take his eyes off it, and the smile on his face never stopped, if he hadn't been held by Meng Jiayue, he was afraid that he would have been lost.

Meng Jiayue took her to a shop that sold the four treasures of the study, and as soon as Ruan Yu entered, she was attracted by the brushes, inkstones and other objects placed on the display table, and looked down the door one by one. Before she could finish reading it, Meng Jiayue had already bought a set of entry-level scholar's four treasures recommended by the clerk.

He carried the box, ignoring Ruan Yu's pitiful eyes, and dragged her out of the store.

After returning home, Meng Jiayue spread out the pen and water writing cloth, put the inkstone away, poured water into it, and stuffed the brush into Ruan Yu and said, "You don't need a gift, but from today you have to practice calligraphy." ”