Chapter 41: Refusal
After school, Xiao Yao finally made up his mind to stop Ouyang Qianqian.
Ouyang Qianqian wore a number of pigtails on her head today, wearing a shortened school skirt, knee-length white stockings and small white shoes.
"Today? Not available. Ouyang Qianqian replied while pressing her mobile phone: "Maybe tomorrow ...... I'll take a look at ......"
"It's okay, then let's talk about it." Xiao Yao casually turned his ankles.
"Okay." Ouyang Qianqian didn't leave the classroom much without much mud.
When passing by the playground, Xiao Yao saw Zhang Jialong and Daiyu playing basketball with shouting.
"Brother Yao!" Far away, the hairtail fish shouted.
"Brother Long, Brother Daiyu." Xiao Yao nodded solemnly.
"What Brother Yao!" Zhang Jialong deliberately scolded loudly: "To be called a love saint!" β
"Love Saint!" Several people shouted together.
"Uh......" Xiao Yao didn't want to get too close to these little hooligans, so he slipped out of the side door of the school before a few of them blocked their gossip.
Today's weather is fine, and the four or five p.m. sun shines on the streets.
The stomach is not very hungry, Shen Tianyun should not have arrived home at this point, Xiao Yao is not in a hurry to go back.
When I first came to the magic capital in the first year of high school, the most I was waiting for at home was a simple dinner left by my grandmother, not to mention a beautiful girl
γ Moreover, Modu's high school ended earlier than his junior high school, so every day after school, he either wandered around the school, or wandered in the green space around the school, and sometimes even went to the Bund to take a ferry.
As long as 5 dimes, you can go back and forth to both sides of the Yellow River many times, listen to the whistle in the center of the river, overlook the steel forest full of desires on both sides, and sigh at the vastness of heaven and earth, and the insignificance of human beings.
Many of his poems were written on ferries.
However, today's Xiao Yao does not have this Yaxing.
He wandered casually and came to the green space opposite the junior high school.
The so-called green space is actually a small park without walls and borders, because it is located between many junior high schools, high schools and vocational schools, so it will become a paradise for students at this time.
I still remember when I came to this green space for the first time last year, Xiao Yao was for that team by team...... Ah, sorry, one-on-one, with a red scarf around his neck (author's note: unlike other parts of China, Modu junior high school students also wear red scarves), wearing school uniforms, holding hands, the guys walking around were shocked.
After all, although there are people who secretly fall in love in junior high school in other places, they are rare after all, and they will not be so arrogant.
Now, after living in the magic capital for a year, Xiao Yao has become accustomed to the civilized atmosphere of this international metropolis - although he still does not have a girlfriend.
Ignoring the surroundings, Xiao Yao sat down by the small fountain in the middle of the green space.
In this hot season, listening to the sound of the fountain, feeling the coolness coming from the back, and occasionally a few drops of water splashing on your body, it is really refreshing.
If Yu Luying came here for a walk, would she refuse now? Xiao Yao leaned over and put a hand into the water, thinking as he played with it.
The spring water was crystal clear, and a cold chill from the tips of his fingers rushed down his arm to the Tianling Gai, making Xiao Yao couldn't help but want to take a big sip.
Then, he felt a slap on the back of his hand, and quickly lifted it up again, shook off the water, and wiped it twice on his school uniform.
Then, Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone and dialed the number.
Toot-toot-toot-
The wait was so long, and when Xiao Yao was ready to call again, the other party finally answered.
"Hello?" A girl's voice with a cold attitude came from the phone.
"Hello? Busy? β
"Busy."
Xiao Yao took a deep breath and didn't ask her what she was busy with: "Shen Jie, I want to see you." β
The only answer to the "......" was silence.
Xiao Yao looked around: "I am now in the green space next to our school, the scenery here is very good, it is very suitable for walking......"
"I'm almost home, and I'll have to make up for the private lessons later." Shen Jie cleared her throat and said slowly.
"Oh...... I said, "Why haven't you replied to me since morning?" Xiao Yao pretended not to care.
"......" is again an obnoxious silence.
"Ah, by the way, have you read all the messages I sent?" Xiao Yao really had no choice but to throw this question.
"Looked." Shen Jie replied clearly.
"Well, I know you're busy, but why don't you get back when you're free? You tell me? Xiao Yao felt that his tone was like a seductive old Yao.
"I try." The girl said in a stiff tone.
"Hiss......" Xiao Yao was determined to burst the bubble today, and asked to understand: "Anyway, I always feel that you have been ...... since you returned from the KTV that day It doesn't feel the same, is something wrong? β
"Is there one?" The girl's tone had a hint of warmth, as if she laughed softly: "No......"
"If there's anything, tell me."
"It's okay, it's really nothing."
"Are your friends not like me? Did I ruin your interest somewhere that day and make you lose face? β
"What do you want," Shen Jie said, "nothing." β
"So, is it because of Yu Luying?" Xiao Yao continued to ask.
"Huh? What does it have to do with her......" On the other end of the phone, Shen Jie seemed to change one ear: "I'll go downstairs, go up first, and I'll talk to you later." β
"Don't hang it yet!" Xiao Yao spoke quickly, for fear that the other party would hang up again if he said slowly: "When will we come out to play next time?" β
"Hmm......" the girl seemed to be thinking, "Let's talk about it after the final exam?" β
"Okay, let's both do our best." Xiao Yao decided to accept the blank check.
"Hmm. So, hung up? β
Xiao Yao knew that he should just get off the donkey down the slope, but somehow, the ghost made another sentence: "How about the beach?" Or Tropical Storm Water Park are you interested? β
ββ¦β¦ Ah. Shen Jie suddenly snorted in an irritated tone.
"What's wrong?!"
"It's okay, there are a lot of mosquitoes downstairs, I'll go around the fence and feed them."
ββ¦β¦ Haha," Xiao Yao laughed dryly: "Then you go up quickly, text it." β
Shen Jie didn't hang up the phone and didn't speak.
Xiao Yao was about to hang up the phone, but the girl called softly: "Xiao Yao." β
"Well, what's wrong?" Xiao Yao is a spirit.
"I'm going to take IELTS classes in the summer, so I'm going to be very busy." Shen Jie pondered the words.
"Hmm...... Everyone is working hard. "Wait, that guy walked in front of you, is it...... Ouyang Qianqian?
"I'm going to be in my third year of high school after the start of school, and although I don't take the college entrance examination, I'll still be very busy because I have to prepare for studying abroad."
"I know." White stockings to the knees, little white shoes, a bunch of pigtails on the head, and a "healthy" complexion, who else could it be if it wasn't Ouyang Qianqian?
"Your news, I will try to reply to you when I see it in my free time, and I will also take the time to come to your house to see Tianyun."
"Okay." Xiao Yao agreed while looking at the boy Ouyang Qianqian was holding...... Well, it's really a bit of the flavor of the Southern Bon Country Oba.
"But when you hang out together, you may not really have the time." Shen Jie finally said the point of expression.
"......" Ouyang Qianqian saw Xiao Yao and waved at him, but the latter buried his head.
"Hello?" Shen Jie's voice returned to its usual clarity.
"No, I'm here." Xiao Yao tiredly touched the upper part of his face with his palm: "I just don't know what to say all of a sudden." β
"It's okay, I'll have a chance to go out again in the future." Shen Jie said in a pretending relaxed tone: "Friends, get together when you have time, and let it flow when you're busy......"
"Friends." Xiao Yao reread those two words.
"Or else?" Shen Jie asked rhetorically in a natural tone.
"I thought you were my future wifeβ"
"Maybe." The girl's accent fell on "maybe": "But even if it is, that's a matter of the future, and it will be said later." Since you believe in a predetermined fate, let it be. β
"I don't understand." There was a hint of anger in Xiao Yao's tone.
"What do you not understand?"
"Ever since I was in junior high school, I've always wondered who my future wife would be and where she would be now." Xiao Yao stood up and walked towards the lawn: "I will imagine whether she has long hair or short hair, whether she is tall or short, where she is at this moment, whether she is sitting or standing, or lying down." β
Xiao Yao glanced at the two people lying on the grass, head to head: "Maybe she is thousands of miles away, and another boy is in Qingqing and me, maybe ten minutes later, ......"
He glanced at the girl who was crouching down to tie her shoes: "I'll meet her around the next corner, half-crouched on the ground to tie her shoes...... And then pass by. β
It was darkening, and it seemed that few stars could be seen.
"You're a poet." Shen Jie said.
"Are you sarcastic about me?"
"I'm stating objectively."
"Have you never had such a dream?" Xiao Yao squeezed the phone tightly.
"I want to think about ......" Three seconds later, the girl gave her answer: "No." β
"Okay." This answer was really a bit unexpected to him, but Xiao Yao continued according to the typed draft: "So I want to tell you that I'm glad that Tianyun can tell me who you are. I'm also glad to meet you, and from the first time I saw you, I was so happyβ"
"So what?" Shen Jie interrupted him impatiently: "What do you want me to do?" Is it worthy of your husband and wife? β
What kind of hanging tone is this?!
"I'm not against that." He replied in a stiff tone.
"Husband." The girl screamed crisply.
"Poofβahem, ahem."
"Husband, do you like me?"
"I like it." Xiao Yao stopped coughing and replied without hesitation.
"What do you like about me?" There was a hint of disbelief in the girl's tone.
"Does love need a reason?" Xiao Yao took out the tone of Bodhi Ancestor in "Journey to the West".
"Yes." Shen Jie replied affirmatively.
"Do you need it?" Bodhi Ancestor continued to ask rhetorically.
ββ¦β¦ I went up. β
Xiao Yao raised his hand in surrender: "I like you to be beautiful, have a good temperament, like you to be generous and considerate, like your versatility, like you-"
When he was still racking his brains to think, Shen Jie had already picked up the conversation: "I'm curious, if the mirror tells you that your future wife is a short and fat dun with black skin and a big cake face, will you still be so happy?" I'm afraid I'm desperate for the rest of my life, right? The girl's tone sounded a little sad: "Because, ah, you have been deprived of even the little right to look forward and look forward to the future in ignorance." β
"What do you mean?" Xiao Yao was stunned: "I'm a short and fat dun with black skin and a big cake face?" Deprived of your hope and longing? β
"I didn't mean that."
"So what do you mean?! I'm not handsome, but I'mβ"
"You don't like me," Shen Jie said word by word: "You just want to find someone to fall in love, you are not in love with Shen Jie, but in love." β
Did Bear say something similar? Xiao Yao thought.
"You're wrong, I like you. I don't deny that I'd love to be in a relationship, butβ"
"This academic year is very critical for me, I really don't have time to play love games with you," Shen Jie's tone was a little tired: "What's more, I will go to Australia to study in the future, and it is impossible to accompany you." β
"I can study hardβ" Xiao Yao argued weakly.
"If that predetermined fate is unchangeable, then wait until I return home." Shen Jie made the final decision.
"I don't agree." Xiao Yao immediately appealed: "We can all overcome these practical problems, I really like you, I want us to be together now." β
Ten seconds of silence seemed like an hour.
Then, Shen Jie spoke faintly: "Then have you asked, do I like you?" β
"Oh! Guess what! Xiao Yao patted his head and replied in a relaxed and humorous tone: "In such a short time, I guess you haven't liked me yet, but you definitely don't hate me." β
"Xiao Yao," the girl said softly, "Actually, you are a very good boy." But ......"
Here it comes! It's coming! Finally forced out! Drip! Good guy card! Familiar taste!
"But, since you're the one I'm destined for, we'll be able to spark." Xiao Yao continued.
The person on the phone chuckled: "Junior brother, you are really confident." Have you forgotten that I said that I don't like men who are younger than me? β
"Yes, did you say that?" Xiao Yao reminded: "I'm only one year younger than you, and we all get along very happily. β
"Even if you're only a year younger, you're immature. And, have you ever thought about a possibility, is it possible, I mean possible, it's only you who is happy, and I've been playing the role of a little ...... to please you? Small......? β
"No way, why are you pleasing me?" Xiao Yao's tone was not very confident.
"Perhaps, get used to it?"
"Uh...... Belch? β
"Ever since I was born, I've had a life plan in front of my eyes. In it, I want to become a qualified heir to the family," the girl's voice was like a dream: "To realize the expectations of my parents, to win the affirmation of my teachers, to maintain the friendship of relatives and friends, and now, thanks to you, this plan is much thicker than myself, much thicker than my parents and friends thought, and it is as thick as a lifetime...... Can you imagine, that feeling of being able to see the end at a glance? Career, love, husband, daughter, wrinkles around the mouth and gray hair on sideburns, everything is planned and written in it......"
ββ¦β¦ Shen Jie," Xiao Yao was a little flustered: "Are you crying?" β
"Nope. I'm sorry," the girl's voice was visibly choked: "I ......"
ββ¦β¦ Never mind. Xiao Yao replied gently: "Shen Jie......"
ββ¦β¦β
"Shen Jie?"
"Hmm."
"I ...... I'm sorry, it's me who was too selfish and trespassed into your life," Xiao Yao decided to retreat into advance: "I, if you don't want to see me, I won't bother you anymore." You, you just didn't show up with me, fall in love with the guy you like, and live the life you want to live. Later, later, later, ...... later"
He held his breath.
Listening to Shen Jie's exhalation, Xiao Yao continued to organize the language.
He was afraid of a "good" word coming from the other side of the earpiece.
"I don't hate you, like you said." Thankfully, the girl said this.
YESοΌ
"I don't know what it's like to like someone, I've never liked any guys, and I don't have that in the plan. What kind of feeling is it? β
"Like it, like it is ......"
"Okay, I'm really going up," like the Roman governor Pilate, Shen Jie threw out a question, but didn't seem interested in knowing the answer: "I already have bags on my legs." β
"Okay, then you can go up quickly." Xiao Yao said: "Let's talk by text message." β
"Nope." Shen Jie said: "Let's not contact each other anymore recently, let's calm down and think about it." β
"It's fine." Xiao Yao scolded his mother desperately in his stomach, but he tried to maintain a warm tone on his lips: "Then, after the final exam, let's contact again?" β
ββ¦β¦β
Xiao Yao took a deep breath.
ββ¦β¦ Well. Shen Jie reluctantly agreed, "Goodbye." β
Xiao Yao kicked the phone back into his pocket, pretended to curse a swear word in a chic manner, and pretended to be calm and stretched.
Rejected by a girl for the fourth time...... Right?
After all, it's my personality to be 100% rejected.
At least this time, there is still room in Shen Jie's words...... Right?
Right?
It's okay, give her some time.
The little mandarin ducks on the green space gradually dispersed, and the stars also closed their eyes, leaving only half a lonely moon still hanging on the treetops, sprinkled with a cold light with the white street lamps.
Xiao Yao lay down on the lawn.
He was stunned for ten minutes, recalling the phone call just now, and he didn't feel too many negative emotions such as discomfort, despair, loss, frustration, etc.
On the contrary, he has peace of mind.
There is even a kind of unreasonable darkness and pleasure.
Even, those two "husbands" can chew a little sweetness of sugar cane.
To put an end to the two weeks of not going up or down, to spread out all the emotions and experience, to say all the words clearly, this kind of refreshing feeling is like...... After the exam, I was worried for three days, and finally saw the failing results, and then a hanging heart fell to the ground.
Xiao Yao got up, didn't bother to pat his buttocks and back, and walked straight in the direction of the school.
When he walked to the bicycle parking lot outside the school gate, his phone vibrate.
Xiao Yao hurriedly picked it up and looked at it, and when he found that the information was sent by Yu Luying instead of Shen Jie, he felt a little lost for some reason.
"Why haven't you eaten dinner yet? I'm going to start rehearsals here, so you should go back early. β
Xiao Yao replied with a "go back now" and kicked the support of the bicycle up.
Comrade Shen Jie, if I get close to Yu Luying now, it won't be considered a betrayal of you, right?