CHAPTER XVIII

After getting off work, Zhang Xuemei returned to the single dormitory, took out the note that Chen Wenhai gave her just now from her coat pocket and read it carefully, thinking:

"This Chen Wenhai is also true, others mistakenly thought that the two of us were in love, and you still want me to go out for a walk with you at night, doesn't this make others further misunderstand the two of us?

"I'd love to go out for a walk with you, but do you know that people are terrible? I'm a girl, how can I go out and date you casually at night?

"The headmaster is already suspicious, if I go out on a date with you at night, it's strange that he doesn't scold me to death!

"However, this Chen Wenhai is indeed pitiful, how can I break his heart again?

"I heard from others: Chen Wenhai had pre-schizophrenia when he was in school, and he can't be stimulated anymore, if I reject him outright, will he be stimulated again?"

The more Zhang Xuemei thought about it, the more annoyed she became.

"What are you thinking?"

Zhang Xuemei looked up and saw that Wang Rongrong had come back from work, and hurriedly replied with a wry smile:

"Didn't think about anything."

"Liar!" Wang Rongrong hugged Zhang Xuemei's neck and said with a smile, "I've heard everything!" ”

"What have you heard?"

"It's about you and Chen Wenhai falling in love!"

"That's someone else's nonsense!" Zhang Xuemei said seriously, "Actually, the two of us have nothing to do!" Zhang Xuemei said distressedly, "Some people like to chew the root of their tongue!" ”

"Are you angry?" Wang Rongrong let go of Zhang Xuemei's neck and restrained her smile, "Don't you like him at all?" ”

"To say that I don't like him at all is a lie." Zhang Xuemei's expression became solemn, "You know, I love Luo Guoqiang so much, I really can't erase him from my heart!" I thought: it is because of this that I can no longer love others! ”

"Does this include Chen Wenhai?"

"......" Zhang Xuemei nodded silently.

After a while, Zhang Xuemei asked Wang Rongrong with a solemn expression:

"You say, should I be friendly with Chen Wenhai?"

"Do you need to ask?" Wang Rongrong couldn't help laughing, "He's so talented, of course you should get along with him amicably!" ”

"The question is: if everyone doesn't understand and thinks badly of Chen Wenhai, then if I get along with him amicably, won't I become a complicity?" Zhang Xuemei frowned, "I don't want to make myself a bunch of stinky shit!" ”

"......" Wang Rongrong didn't know what words to use to comfort Zhang Xuemei for a while.

After a while, Zhang Xuemei told Wang Rongrong:

"I'm in a problem right now!"

"What's the problem?"

Zhang Xuemei took out the note that Chen Wenhai gave her just now from the drawer and handed it to Wang Rongrong.

Wang Rongrong read it again, and then said with a smile:

"It's a real problem!"

"If only we had a rural area not in the city!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"What I mean is that if we are in the countryside and Chen Wenhai and I are educated youths, then I can go out for a walk with him generously." Speaking of this, Zhang Xuemei's eyes lit up, "When I was in the countryside, although life was very hard, I didn't have so many worries, and I was in a happy mood in many cases!" I really want to go back to that era, that carefree time! The more Zhang Xuemei spoke, the more excited she became, "At that time, the friendship between educated youths was pure, everyone cared for each other, loved each other, and helped each other, and there was not so much calculation and intrigue!" ”

"Relationships between people are indeed more complicated now than they were back then!"

"Now, our country is carrying out reform and opening up, the purpose is to make our lives better, however, I always feel that there seems to be a lack of trust between people! Perhaps, as some have said, it is the after-effects of that campaign! ”

"Yes, during that movement, for the needs of the class struggle, people hated and fought against each other, and normal human relations were completely destroyed! In such a situation, how can there be a sense of trust between people? Speaking of this, Wang Rongrong took a sip of tea, and then continued, "However, my dad said: society is progressing, and with the progress of society, there will be a sense of trust between people again!" ”

In the evening, Chen Wenhai came to Zhang Xuemei's bedroom, and Zhang Xuemei hurriedly said to him:

"Tell me what you have in this room!"

Chen Wenhai saw that she was reluctant to go out, so he had no choice but to say goodbye to her.

Chen Wenhai thought as he walked: Zhang Xuemei seemed to be a little unhappy just now, why is this?

When I walked to the school playground, I happened to meet Principal Zhai, so I had an idea, "I have something to find Zhang Xuemei, please call her down!" ”

"You go up and call him personally!"

"She's still a girl's family, and it's inconvenient for me to go to her."

Zhai Lin came to Zhang Xuemei's bedroom, her face full of unhappiness, "Chen Wenhai wants you to go down!" ”

"I don't want to go down!" Zhang Xuemei lowered her eyes and said.

"You'd better go down!" Zhai Lin said in a sarcastic tone, "Look at what kind of medicine he sells in Chen Wenhai's gourd!" ”

"You say that about him, can I still go down?" Zhang Xuemei asked rhetorically with a gloomy face.

"What, you're angry?" Zhai Lin hurriedly accompanied the smiling face, "Actually, I'm worried about you, I'm afraid that you will fall into his trap!" ”

"In that case, why did you tell me to go down?"

"If you don't go down, how can you know what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd?" Zhai Lin smiled and said, "You go down, I will send someone to protect you!" Then, he said in a contemptuous tone, "I forgive him Chen Wenhai and don't dare to act rashly in front of you!" ”

"What kind of person do you imagine Chen Wenhai to be!" Zhang Xuemei couldn't help laughing. "You go, I'll be fine!" Zhang Xuemei issued an eviction order.

After Zhai Lin left, Zhang Xuemei walked to the window and saw Chen Wenhai still waiting for her downstairs.

"Should I go down or not? If you don't go down, it's not a matter to let Chen Wenhai wait downstairs! His body is so thin, it must be very cold outside now, what if his body freezes to death? I can't go down, because my relationship with him has not yet developed to that point after all, and if he insists on me taking a walk with him, how can I be embarrassed to refuse? However, if I do not refuse and agree to go for a walk with him, how can I answer if someone else runs into me on the road?

"Let's go down first, anyway, I, Zhang Xuemei, have let it out this time, it's a big deal that I marry him!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Xuemei gritted her teeth, and then went downstairs "all the way".

"It's so hard for you to invite, you deserve to be the daughter of the commander's family!" When Zhang Xuemei came to Chen Wenhai, Chen Wenhai smiled and said to her, "I waited for you for half an hour, and I thought you wouldn't come down again!" Luckily, you didn't completely disappoint me, and it came down anyway! ”

"I'm not afraid you'll freeze your body!" Then he added, "I'm a soft-hearted person!" ”

Listening to Zhang Xuemei's words, Chen Wenhai was very moved, "Your heart and eyes are so good!" If I can marry a girl as kind as you in my life, I will be satisfied! ”

Chen Wenhai's heartfelt words made Zhang Xuemei's heart pound, she felt her face hot, and asked in a trembling voice:

"What the hell are you looking for me?"

It's night now, although Chen Wenhai can't see the other party's face clearly, he seems to see Zhang Xuemei's hot eyes, and it seems that he can still hear Zhang Xuemei's fierce heartbeat!

"It's not a big deal, I just want to have a casual chat with you!" Chen Wenhai smiled and said to her, "How about we go to the railway?" ”

"I'm very timid, this black light is blinding, I don't dare to follow you around!"

"How can you call it a blind run?" Chen Wenhai said with a smile, "You are still an educated youth, how can you be so timid?" Don't lie to me! Then he added, "I know you're afraid of gossip, but now it's so dark that even if someone bumps into us on the road, they can't see both of our faces!" ”

Zhang Xuemei hesitated for a moment, and then said to him:

"Why don't you go sit in the office?"

"Of course you can!"

So, the two of them walked into the office one after the other.

When the two of them sat down on the chair, Chen Wenhai found that Zhang Xuemei looked more beautiful under the light, and there was a youthful charm unique to young girls! Chen Wenhai praised with a smile:

"You're so beautiful!"

"What's pretty?" Zhang Xuemei said with a smile, "The girl who cut the queue with me back then was beautiful!" ”

"There must be a lot of boys pursuing her?"

"......" Zhang Xuemei smiled and did not answer.

"I heard: You had a good relationship with Luo Guoqiang in the past, is that so?"

"......" Zhang Xuemei nodded wordlessly.

"What are you going to do in the future?"

"I haven't thought about it yet." Zhang Xuemei picked up a magazine on the table, flipped through it and said with a smile, "Anyway, it's a day!" ”

"Why are you so pessimistic?" Chen Wenhai half-joked with her, "This is not like what a young man said!" ”

"My old man!" Zhang Xuemei joked.

Hearing Zhang Xuemei say this, Chen Wenhai couldn't help but laugh with a "flutter", "What did you say?" How old are you? How can anyone in their 20s say they are old? ”

"Although I am a young man in terms of age, my heart is already old!"

"I don't understand what you mean by that!"

"My heart is already cold!"

"Can you be specific?"

"It's not because of me and Luo Guoqiang!" Speaking of this, Zhang Xuemei couldn't help but feel sad again, "At that time, I had such a good relationship with him, but my mother wanted me to leave him!" It was such a blow to me! Zhang Xuemei's eyes rolled with tears, "Since I left him, I vowed not to think about love and marriage again!" ”

Seeing Zhang Xuemei so uncomfortable, Chen Wenhai couldn't help but almost shed tears!

After being silent for a while, Chen Wenhai smiled at Zhang Xuemei, "I heard: Your relationship with Huang Guoqing is okay now." ”

"He is the head teacher and secretary of the Youth League branch, and I, a political teacher, a member of the Youth League branch and a counselor of the brigade, in order to support his work, I spend more time with him." Zhang Xuemei asked with a smile, "Are there many people talking about the two of us?" ”

"......," Chen Wenhai nodded.

"You say, is it possible for me and him?"

"I know that!" Chen Wenhai comforted, "Some people like to spread rumors, you don't have to care!" ”

"But, after all, I'm a girl!"

"I can understand that!" Chen Wenhai said with relief, "As the saying goes: 'As long as the body is right, you are not afraid of crooked shadows', what kind of girl you are, there will be a public opinion!" ”

"That's what I think too, so I'm not afraid of what people talk about at all!"

After a while, Chen Wenhai asked Zhang Xuemei with a smile:

"Do you have anyone you like right now?"

"Not yet." Zhang Xuemei smiled and asked, "How can you think of asking me this question?" ”

"I'll just ask." Chen Wenhai half-joked with her, "What do you think of me?" ”

Zhang Xuemei blushed and lowered her head to fiddle with her braids.

"You really look like a lady in a feudal society!"

"A lot of people think so!" Zhang Xuemei smiled, "Do you think I'm good like this?" ”

"Of course!" Chen Wenhai said with a smile, "I just like you like this!" ”

After a while, Zhang Xuemei smiled and said to Chen Wenhai:

"I don't know you well enough right now."

Chen Wenhai discovered: Zhang Xuemei looks very good-looking when she smiles, and she is very beautiful and moving!

"Then you'll keep getting to know me in the future." Chen Wenhai asked with a smile, "Would you like to continue to understand me?" ”

"Of course I do!" Zhang Xuemei said with a smile, "You should also continue to understand me." ”

Next, these two young people in their prime talked about the life path they have walked: how to spend the primary and secondary school years, the ups and downs of the life of educated youth, and some life experiences in normal colleges......