The next day, Chen Wenhai thought of publishing a blackboard newspaper, so he got up early.

After breakfast, Chen Wenhai came to the school with excitement.

Zhang Xuemei hasn't come yet, Chen Wenhai thought: Maybe she was too excited to read the novel I wrote last night, slept late, and is still sleeping lazy!

Chen Wenhai felt very lonely alone with the blackboard newspaper, and hoped that Zhang Xuemei could come soon!

After a while, Zhang Xuemei walked towards him with a charming smile on her face. She had just washed her hair, and her soft black hair was draped over her shoulders in waves, like a black waterfall cascading down.

Zhang Xuemei walked up to Chen Wenhai and said to him:

"I'm sorry to wake up late this morning and let you go out on the blackboard alone!"

"It's okay, it's Sunday!" Chen Wenhai looked at Zhang Xuemei and said to her with a smile: "You still have the smell of soap in your hair!" You just washed your hair, right? ”

"Yes! I wash my hair every two days. It's just that the hair is too long, and it's a bit troublesome to wash. ”

"Your hair is well maintained! You're refreshed and refreshed! After a while, Chen Wenhai continued: "I didn't expect you to ask me to help you publish the blackboard newspaper!" ”

"You should have thought of it! Didn't you once tell me that when you were in middle school in Shanghai, you were in charge of the blackboard newspaper in your class, and almost every issue of the blackboard newspaper had articles written by you? ”

"The head teacher attaches great importance to me, and he is reluctant to let me leave Shanghai!"

"It's good if you don't leave Shanghai!"

"Who's to say it isn't! Blame my mother for being blind and having to leave Shanghai! ”

"I heard that you saw Zhang Peony recently, have you been unable to let go of her?"

"If it weren't for my mother's obstruction, I'm afraid Zhang Mudan would be my daughter-in-law now!"

"You've always loved her, haven't you?"

"She is a Shanghai girl, and I have always wanted to marry a Shanghai girl!"

"I understand."

"Have you been to Cao Xiaoyan's house again recently? What the hell is going on with her brother? I heard that the two of you are arguing a lot! ”

"You know that! You're still well-informed! ”

"It was Zhu Zhenhua who told me. He knew Cao Chunfu. Zhu Zhenhua seems to have a very good opinion of you! He also has relatives in Shanghai, and he has a close relationship with Wang Zhiyuan. Both of them told me a lot about you. Wang Zhiyuan said to me: When you were a child, you once stole a rotten apple from a fruit stall and thought you had a brain disease. I don't understand: why do you want to take a rotten apple instead of taking a good apple. You really can't make it! You took a rotten apple and became a handle in Wang Zhiyuan's hand, and you can pinch you as much as you want! Qu Ying often goes to Wang Zhiyuan, and when she talks about you, Wang Zhiyuan talks endlessly, and almost every time she mentions your matter! When chatting with others, Wang Zhiyuan never forgets to mention you! Now a lot of people know about you! Your reputation is over for the rest of your life! ”

Zhang Xuemei gushed endlessly, and Chen Wenhai just listened silently and was not surprised.

"Did you already know this?"

"Yes! He's a brute! ”

"You're going to curse like that! You seem to be polite, why are you so careless when you scold people? This doesn't seem to be in line with the temperament of a literati! ”

"What kind of literati am I! I'm not a literati anymore! That terrible illness completely destroyed my fate! ”

"I didn't get it!"

"You don't have to understand!"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because you're not my daughter-in-law!"

"I want to be your daughter-in-law! I was timid when I saw your mother! How can your mother be like that! ”

"She's just going to mess around, don't be like her!"

"Once, when she came to me, she didn't know what I said annoyed her, so she lay on the ground and rolled and wailed, which attracted a lot of people to watch the excitement, and surrounded us both three layers inside and three layers outside! Fortunately, Xie Jihong relieved my siege! ”

"No wonder you've been avoiding me for a while! You're scared of my mother, aren't you? ”

Speaking of this, Liu Qiaozhen came over and said to Zhang Xuemei:

"There's your call, it seems to be Xie Jihong calling."

So, Zhang Xuemei went to the office to answer the phone.

After making the call, Zhang Xuemei returned to Chen Wenhai's side.

Zhang Xuemei said to Chen Wenhai:

"Xie Jihong told you to be careful! She called me just now and said: Your mother is looking for Qu Ying again! The two of them are talking about Li Yafang! Li Yafang may come to our school to find you! ”

"If she wants to come, let her come! I won't marry her anyway! ”

"Why?"

"Because she knows about both of us! She wants the two of us to get married! ”

After a while, Chen Wenhai asked Zhang Xuemei:

"You read that novel I wrote last night, right?"

"Of course! Your novel is so well written, I was so touched after reading it! Actually, you should be a writer, and teaching will bury your writing talent! ”

"I don't think so, but I think I'm a good fit to teach because I love being around students! Whenever I'm with students, I'm in a really good mood! ”

"But a lot of people think you're not fit to teach, what do you think about that?"

"This is caused by many factors, some people look at the problem very one-sidedly, and some people only look at the superficial phenomenon, in the final analysis, it is a question of national quality!"

"Are you going to teach for the rest of your life?"

"As long as the objective conditions allow, I will never leave the world of education! I am very passionate about education and am willing to work hard for Chinese teaching in secondary schools for the rest of my life! It's just that I'm in too bad health right now, so I can't teach Chinese well! ”

"Zhang Xiuying and Wang Guifang often talk about you, they both understand you very well and are very sympathetic to your current situation!"

"Can you understand and sympathize with me?"

"Of course I can understand and sympathize with you, otherwise would I still ignore you? My level is limited, not as good as Wang Guifang! You forget, I only have a secondary school diploma, how can I compare with you college students! ”

Zhang Xuemei was correcting her homework, and Feng Baoyu came over.

He asked Zhang Xuemei with a smile:

"When will I get to eat the candy you two?"

"It's coming, it's coming!" Wang Xiulan, who was sitting opposite Zhang Xuemei, hurriedly said:

"Can Zhang Xuemei's candy be missing you?"

After Feng Baoyu left, Zhang Xuemei said to Wang Xiulan:

"You shouldn't have played such a joke with him just now! If Chen Wenhai takes this joke seriously, then the misunderstanding will be a big one! Maybe it's going to cause us even more trouble! ”

Zhang Xuemei was not bad at all, Feng Baoyu really turned around and went to find Chen Wenhai.

Feng Baoyu came to the office where Chen Wenhai was.

He walked up to Chen Wenhai and said to him:

"When are you two going to have a happy event?"

"Who is having a happy event with whom?" Chen Wenhai felt inexplicable!

"You're still pretending to be garlic in front of me! It's you and Zhang Xuemei! ”

"What the hell is this! She never said she wanted to marry me, how can she talk about having a happy event? ”

"Maybe she's too embarrassed to tell you directly, maybe she's going to surprise you!"

"How is this possible?"

"How could it not be? Just now I asked her for candy, and Wang Xiulan said that I was indispensable! ”

"Is this true?"

"What am I lying to you for?"

"Actually, I really hope she can marry me!"

"Now, isn't the ideal about to become a reality? You should be happy! ”

"Am I not happy? I couldn't be happier! I can't wait to have a wedding with her right now! ”

Not long after Feng Baoyu left, Zhang Xuemei came, and Chen Wenhai hurriedly asked her:

"Are you joking with someone that we're going to get married?"

“……”

"What's wrong with you? Why don't you speak? ”

"The person you were introduced to by Principal Qu, why don't you agree? Your words don't count! ”

"How can I talk and not count?"

"Didn't you tell me to find another one if there was a suitable one?"

"The problem is that what Principal Qu introduced is not appropriate at all!"

"What exactly are you looking for?"

“……”

"I don't want to be with you anymore!"

"Whatever you want! I don't care! ”

"Don't ask too much, it's almost enough!"

"What do you mean by almost, can I treat marriage as a child's play?"

"Are you really going to wait for me?"

"I didn't wait for you! Who are you listening to say that? ”

"That's what everybody else says!"

"But did I say that to you?"

"Needless to say! Didn't you already tell me about your actions? ”

"So you think so! No wonder you ignore me so often, you think you won't be able to live without me, right? ”

"I've never thought so! You're a college student, and you're from a big city, what am I? ”

Zhang Xuemei was preparing for class, and Zhang Xiuying came over.

She said to Zhang Xuemei:

"I heard that the two of you quarreled again, why?"

"No why, it's fun to be noisy!"

"You two are like a pair of children who will never grow up! You two have to be good and quarrelsome, when are you going to be a head? ”

"Yesterday, my mother wrote to scold me again!"

"Why?"

"It's not Chen Wenhai who hurt me!"

"What does this have to do with Chen Wenhai?"

"Why doesn't he get married?"

"Who are you marrying?"

"Someone else!"

"You're really unreasonable sometimes! You know he loves you, and you still have to say that! ”

"What can I do? My mom always disagreed! ”

"Then you're not going to convince her?"

"I don't have Chen Wenhai's eloquence!"

"And what are you going to do in the future?"

"What else can I do? Leave it to fate! Someone always muttered in front of my mother: Chen Wenhai didn't get married just to wait for me! Do you know how much stress this causes me? ”

"Then you shouldn't keep forcing Chen Wenhai to make do with a random one! Do you really love him? You two have been doing this for a while and for a while, and you really confuse me! ”

"What's the use of me loving him? Some people don't believe that he will fall in love with me at all, because he once said that he doesn't need vases and embroidered pillows, he needs confidantes! In the eyes of some people, I have become a vase and an embroidered pillow! ”

"It's actually a social prejudice and it's unfair to pretty girls!" Zhang Xiuying is full of sympathy for her!

Revised March 22, 2022