Chapter 21 Returning to School
Before they left, You Yu cleaned the room up and down, put the newly bought kitchen utensils in the cabinet, stuffed the quilts into the wardrobe, and re-covered the bed and sofa. It was as if they were leaving temporarily and would soon return here.
The snow on the road was almost melting, and in the small yard behind the house, there was only a small pile of snow under the loquat trees that had not yet melted.
When it was snowing before, Chi Tang built a very deformed snowman here. When You Yu was washing dishes in the kitchen, he wanted to laugh every time he saw the little snowman under the loquat tree through the window.
After a winter, the loquat trees were full of buds. When the two left and closed the door, Chi Tang suddenly remembered and asked, "When can loquats be eaten?"
"Around April and May." You Yu answered her, guessing in her heart whether Chi Tang was also reluctant to leave here?
They went to take the bus together. Along the way, Chi Tang closed his eyes and wanted to fall asleep, but You Yu saw that her throat would occasionally move, which meant that she was not asleep and was still feeling uncomfortable due to motion sickness.
You Yu was not asleep either. The bus was driving forward slowly. The surrounding scenery became a little familiar. She turned to look at Chi Tang's face buried in the down jacket, and couldn't help but think of that question in her heart:
How can we be kind to this person and make her happy?
As long as she can study and earn some money to support herself, she will be happy, but Chi Tang seems to have nothing to want and wants nothing, so nothing can make her happy.
The first friend I met in my life was so good that she didn't know how to repay her.
The car stopped, which meant that their escape journey had officially ended. When they got out of the car, Chi Tang still looked like he was motion sickness and had not recovered. He drank two sips of water and said, "You go directly to the head teacher's house, I've told him."
Seeing that she was about to leave, You Yu grabbed her and stared in her eyes seriously, "What about you, are you going home?"
Chi Tang pulled the corner of his mouth: "I'm going back."
You Yu: "Then, are you okay?"
Chi Tang waved his hand indifferently: "What's wrong? It's not the first time I ran out suddenly. My dad has been used to it. Even if he gets angry, can he still beat me to death?"
You Yu saw that she got on the bus again, and after a while, she frowned with some worry.
Really...is it okay?
Fortunately, they were about to start school, and only two or three days were left. Even if Chi Tang was unhappy at home, he would soon be able to live in the school again.
She went to the head teacher's house, bowed to him and apologized twice.
The head teacher sighed helplessly: "You are a child, why do you apologize? We can't help but apologize about your father. Don't apologize. You and Chi Tang are both, you two children, alas."
After two days of school, everyone returned to school. You Yu went to the classroom early, waiting for Chi Tang while reading. This was probably the first time she was reading so unscrupulously that the words could not enter her mind and only remembered a few sentences in scattered ways.
I just returned to school during the holiday, and the classmates in the classroom were laughing and laughing. They seemed to be unintentional to study and couldn't calm down for a long time. Some of them were late. Chi Tang was one of them. When class was about to begin You Yu Yu saw her carrying a small bag and slowly walked into the classroom.
She wore a sweatshirt in her down jacket, a hat on her head, and a mask on her face. You Yu felt relieved when she saw her, and raised her again when she saw her face.
She came in very quiet, and no one else in the class paid much attention, but You Yu noticed at a glance that a little blue and purple reveal was faintly revealed under the mask Chi Tang was wearing.
Chi Tang sat in her seat and looked out the window without saying a word. After a while, she felt that You Yu's eyes were still on her body. She turned her head helplessly and simply pulled off her hat, "What's wrong? I won't know me if I haven't seen each other for two days."
She didn't tie her hair today, she was covered with hair that was long to her shoulders, and there was hair on her cheeks, which together with her mask half-covered the marks on her cheekbones, but the marks were too big to completely cover them.
You Yu hesitated for a while and reached out to pull her mask. Chi Tang retreated. Thinking about it, he probably felt that he was too embarrassed to do so, so he simply kept his face and stopped moving, allowing You Yu to gently pull off her mask.
There were obvious blue-purple marks on her left face, swollen into a ball.
“…You were beaten.”
Chi Tang simply put away the mask and "took it." Although it was a little heavier.
You Yu: "..."
Chi Tang: "It's okay, it's not the first time my dad hit me."
In this life, when you are in your teenage years, you will want to grow up immediately when you are the most helpless. You Yu looked at his friend as if nothing happened and said nothing, and thought, he really wanted to grow up immediately.
You Yu: "I'm sorry."
Chi Tang: "What do you have to do to be sorry for me?"
You Yu: "You help me, I can't help you."
Chi Tang: "I don't need others to help me. Can others help me? Can you beat my dad? No, he hit me and I've fought back."
Class was soon started, and the two of them didn't talk much. However, during class, Chi Tang felt that her deskmate had been looking at her subconsciously. She was holding her cheekbones with her hands. She couldn't help but write a sentence on the homework paper and threw it over - listen to the class carefully.
It’s also strange. It wasn’t her turn to say this to the top student deskmates, and they all reminded her quietly.
You Yu disappeared for a while at noon. Chi Tang returned to the dormitory to put things on his back and ran into You Yu with a small bag. When she saw the things in the bag, she stepped back with caution, "I don't apply this thing, it's nothing. The more I apply it, the more serious it looks."
You Yu was rejected before she could speak. She was used to being rejected and said, "I'll do it with you."
Chi Tang: "...You haven't been beaten yet, why are you applying this potion?"
Inexplicably, she looked purple and red. Is it beautiful? The classmate in the class whispered in the morning that she was fighting with bad young people from other schools on holiday. In the afternoon, You Yu's face was also purple and red. That would be funny. The two of them were ridiculed together.
You Yu seemed to be able to guess what she was thinking and said seriously: "I'm not afraid of being laughed at, nor are they afraid of what they say. If you think this is not good, I'll do it with you."
This guy is even more cruel than himself, and Chi Tang also made a cruel decision: "Okay, if you like Tu, just do it with me."
Who is afraid of whom?
The class teacher who came to class in the afternoon looked bad. After looking at them several times, he decided what was on their faces. As expected, after class, he rewarded them with one-day office trip.
Chi Tang was ready to ask her the head teacher what was going on with this injury. She might call her father like the former head teacher to try to mediate, but the head teacher Lao Fang did not ask her family questions in the end, but just instructed You Yu to help her classmates more this semester and learn and improve together.
Chi Tang: Learning progress??
The head teacher turned to her and said in a kind tone: "Chi Tang, your grades are good. You have made progress in the final exam last year. You must work hard this year and try to advance a few more places, okay?"
This good word is a bit hot, Chi Tang couldn't say it. She actually didn't want to study hard and was very annoying. But You Yu next to her didn't want to be hot, so she agreed seriously, as if she had already regarded her as her task and burden.
The head teacher looked at them with relief and nodded: "Yes, what can change a person's life destiny is learning. No matter how difficult it is now, when you grow up, look back, you will just laugh it off."
Chi Tang was at an age who didn't like to listen to middle-aged and elderly people making chicken soup. He was not moved by this and was taken back to the classroom by his deskmate with a cold look on his face.
Her simple deskmate seemed to be encouraged by chicken soup, and she devoted herself to study seriously again, much more serious than in the morning, like a bottle of water filled with stars, which settled down again.
Chi Tang waited for a long time but didn't wait for the supervisor to urge her to study hard. She thought You Yu would be more crazy about her studies this year than last year. If she really did, Chi Tang would definitely be impatient, but she suddenly ignored her at all, and Chi Tang felt strange again.
She took out her mobile phone and played secretly, took out a novel and read a few pages, but You Yu didn't respond.
"You won't urge me to study hard anymore." Chi Tang asked.
You Yu pursed his lips and whispered in a serious voice: "I've thought about it. You can do it if you don't study. I'll study for you. I can support you when I work in the future."
Chapter completed!