small town story

Chapter 17

Su Youqin tossed and turned on the bed for over half an hour.

The quilt in early winter was a bit cold, before turning off the lights, she put a thick dress on the quilt, and she tossed and turned to remove it twice.When she sat up to pick up her clothes for the third time, she turned on the light, buried her face in her hands and yelled silently.

Putting the "ring" on Shen Qianyao and herself at the same time was originally just a whim, but the words that the other party leaned close to the ear made this action instantly full of ambiguity.

Shen Qianyao doesn't really like herself, does she?

Su Youqin was startled by this conjecture, and quickly denied it.Although she took advantage of Shen Qianyao because of her emotional relationship that time, the relationship between the two of them hasn't changed since then, it's the way friends get along...

Is it the way friends get along?

right?

Right?

Incandescent lamps illuminate the entire room.

The face touching the palm gradually became hot, Su Youqin straightened up and let out a long sigh.

She can be sure that she and Shen Qianyao have always been friends, but her two actions surpassed the distance of friends, one was to kiss Shen Qianyao, and the other was to wear the same "ring" with Shen Qianyao today.

Therefore, I blame myself for the insomnia tonight.After all, when the ears heard "I like it so much", Su Youqin couldn't ignore the rapid beating speed of the heart - that was the feeling of heartbeat.

It may be that I haven't experienced the feeling of heartbeat for too long. This heartbeat lasted for several hours after Shen Qianyao finished saying that sentence.It made Su Youqin have to turn on the light in a daze when he should be sleeping.

At four o'clock in the morning, she turned over and sat up when the alarm clock sounded, got up in a trance, washed and went downstairs.It was only after seeing Sister Cui by the door that she slowly woke up, realizing that she had only slept for three hours.

While yawning, she squeezed the skin folds of the bun, secretly despising herself for being hopeless because of a heartbeat and insomnia.

The sequelae of insomnia often appear on the third day.

After the breakfast shop closed, she fell asleep on the sofa. When she woke up from the dream, the kindergarten had been out of school for more than ten minutes. She hurried to the school and met Shen Qianyao at the school gate.

Both of them stared blankly at each other.

Shen Qianyao was the same as usual: "Kindergarten has been out of school for more than ten minutes."

Su Youqin nodded.Looking down, she found Shen Qianyao hiding her left hand behind her back.Taking a suspicious look, she rushed to pick up Xiao Jin and left first.

Leading Xiaojin to the school gate, the little teacher who was with her mentioned that there were senior students fighting, and the teacher went to stop the student who hurt his hand. She suddenly thought of Shen Qianyao's hand hidden behind her, picked up the mobile phone and typed. : "Which teacher is it?"

The little teacher didn't know either.She was not at the scene, but just listened to the report from the teacher who led the class who went to the meeting.

Su Youqin didn't ask any more questions.

Say goodbye to the little teacher, and take Xiaojin to a restaurant on the street for dinner.

Xiao Jin had never eaten in the restaurant before, so he looked around curiously, seeing Su Youqin holding a piece of paper to write the names of the dishes, he slid off the chair quietly, and looked around.

After Su You finished ordering celery, Xiao Jin stood sideways in the restaurant, where a screen was opened to block the people eating inside.

Listening to the voices are several men.

She quietly walked to Xiao Jin's side, and poked the child's shoulder with her hand.Xiaojin turned around, called her sister, and took two steps back, just to get inside the screen.

Su Youqin went to hold him.

Behind this screen is a big round table, sitting on the round table are four men and a child about the same age as Xiao Jin, Su Youqin's figure is half exposed inside the screen, Zhu Cheng looked at her in surprise: "Youqin?"

Except for Zhu Cheng, the other three people at this table are policemen from the town's police station. One of them, Su Youqin, has seen it. It was the two policemen who came after the elementary school teacher Wu was beaten by her husband when the school just started. Shen Qianyao called the police. The young and middle-aged one is called Jiang Yize.

Jiang Yize stared at Su Youqin with curiosity, and he first invited Su Youqin to have a meal with them, but Su Youqin refused because he didn't want to disturb them and had already ordered food.

She took Xiaojin to finish the meal and walked home slowly.

The weather is cloudy today, and there are fewer pedestrians on the road and street.

There is a small alley next to Gonglu Street Middle School. The alley is only about one meter wide, and it is the road leading to the surrounding villages of the town.

Su Youqin led Xiaojin through the alley. At a place not too deep in the alley, several male students in middle school uniforms surrounded two slightly taller elementary school students. Half pressed against the alley wall.

Seeing this scene, Su Youqin's first reaction was to open her mouth to stop it, but when she opened and closed her lips, she remembered that now she couldn't scare people with shouts.

Fortunately, she held the mobile phone in her hand all the time. She pulled Xiao Jin back to the side of the thick telephone pole, and quickly took a photo with the mobile phone.

The photo was taken relatively clearly, and the faces of a middle school student and two primary school students could be seen.

She put away her mobile phone, and a big brother came towards him. She smiled at him and pointed to the alley.

The eldest brother looked at her suspiciously, stepped forward a few steps, and looked in the direction she was pointing at. A thick voice sounded instantly: "Hey, what are you students doing?!"

The junior high school student glanced this way, pulled the primary school student up and ran quickly into the depths of the alley.

Su Youqin originally thought that her elder brother would catch up.The eldest brother just shook his head, cursed a few words and left.

Xiao Jin shook Su Youqin's hand.She withdrew her gaze from the depths of the alley, and then sent the photo she just took to Shen Qianyao: "Do you know these students?"

"The two wearing red scarves are from elementary school, right?"

"Did you get bullied by middle school students?"

Shen Qianyao's news came back quickly: "Where did you get this photo?"

Su Youqin: "The alley next to the middle school."

Shen Qianyao: "It's a primary school student. The two had a fight at school yesterday and were taken home by their parents. Today they asked for leave and stayed at home."

"I'll go find their teacher. It's okay, just leave it alone."

Su Youqin did not reply to any further messages.

The primary school and middle school in the town are not far away, and the music and physical education teachers from the primary school were transferred to teach in the middle school.The teachers are very familiar with each other, and they can quickly find out the reason when they see the photos.

She returned home in peace.

In the afternoon, she and Sister Cui had just prepared the ingredients for the next day's breakfast.Shen Qianyao showed up at the door of the breakfast shop with three teachers.

One is Teacher Feng, a fifth grade elementary school teacher, and the other two are middle school teachers, Teacher An and Teacher Huang.

Teacher Feng and Teacher Huang are both head teachers who can clearly see faces in the photos taken by Su Youqin.

After Shen Qianyao showed the photo to Teacher Feng at noon, Teacher Feng quickly reported it to the grade director, and the school attached great importance to it. ——Before the interest class yesterday, the two students and the sixth-grade students fought on the side of the playground, holding a thumb-thick stick, and almost swung it at the passing lower-grade students. Fortunately, Shen Qianyao and another teacher heard about it. When the news came, Shen Qianyao raised his hand to block the swinging stick, and the stick hit the back of her left hand.

The teacher educated the students immediately and called the parents to take the students home.

Two students in the sixth grade came to school today, but not in the fifth grade. They did not expect to be bullied.

The grade director of the fifth grade of the primary school immediately contacted a vice principal of the middle school, and soon, the middle school student in the photo was determined to be in the class.

Su Youqin typed out what he saw at noon, without missing any details.

Several teachers listened seriously, especially Teacher Huang, he was a fairly friendly male teacher in his forties, his brows were tightly frowned, and most of the gentleness on his face was gone.

He kept checking with Su Youqin if there was any mistake, Su Youqin just felt helpless, she didn't know the students, so could the photos be combined?

When everything that should be understood was understood, several teachers said goodbye to her and left.

Shen Qianyao was at the end. She saw Su Youqin's dislike for Teacher Huang, and explained in a low voice: "The middle school has recently entered an advanced school in the evaluation area. Teacher Huang is worried that this will affect the school. Don't worry about it."

Su Youqin nodded.

She remembered what Teacher Feng said, and glanced at Shen Qianyao's left hand, a red mark was clearly visible on the back of the latter's hand.

Sensing her gaze, Shen Qianyao raised his left hand and waved it slightly, and left behind the three teachers.

That red mark took root in Su Youqin's eyes.She went upstairs and sat on the sofa, looked up at her left hand, and guessed the force of the blow and the pain that would produce that red mark.

The blow is definitely not light, and the pain is not low.

She wants to send a message to ask.Thinking of the reason why I was tossing and turning for several hours the day before yesterday, I held my phone and looked at it for a long time, but I still had no choice but to put it down.

She knew she was being awkward.If she met someone who moved her heart in the city, she would take the first step to try anyway, but when she met someone in a small town, she dared not take that step at all.

Shen Qianyao likes girls, not straight girls.Logically speaking, Su Youqin shouldn't have any worries, but she was afraid.She didn't know how long she would stay in the small town. If it was a short period of time, she didn't want to delay Shen Qianyao, but if it was a lifetime, how would she face the people around her.

Does she dare to come out in front of everyone in the town?She didn't even dare to say that she liked girls in front of her family, otherwise, how could she come up with the bad idea of ​​dating and marrying a man in exchange for freedom for the rest of her life?

I am a coward.Su Youqin typed this line on Weibo and threw the phone aside.

She thought that she should stay away from Shen Qianyao.

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For several days in a row, when Shen Qianyao came to buy breakfast, Su Youqin was immersed in frying pancakes.In the past, although the two did not chat, they met several times and communicated with their faces.

In the first few days, Shen Qianyao didn't realize it. After all, Su Youqin kept flipping the pancakes in her hands. She lowered her head, and it seemed to outsiders that she was concentrating on her hands.

Until Shen Qianyao got up early that day, the sky was still dimly lit when she arrived at the store.

The electric baking pan was not plugged in, and Su Youqin stood behind the steamer cart to adjust the heat.Looking up to see Shen Qianyao, she was obviously taken aback, then smiled at her, and quickly averted her gaze.

Shen Qianyao saw a little rustiness from the fleeting smile, she didn't pay much attention to it, and said with a smile that she had time today and could sit and have breakfast in the shop.

Su Youqin nodded.Putting on the mask pulled down to the chin, he brought her breakfast on the plate.

Shen Qianyao sat at the table closest to the steamer trolley. She sat with her back facing the steamer trolley, slightly sideways, with Su Youqin's waist on the side half of her arm.

Because she will always stand behind the electric baking pan and steamer cart, Su Youqin will not wear a coat when she is busy.Today she is wearing a fitted beige sweater with a sharp waist and a white apron tied at the waist.

Shen Qianyao looked at the drooping little bowknot, and stretched out her hand in a strange way. She touched the knot, then put her hand on Su Youqin's waist, and sighed: "There are five classes today, so tired, Boss Su."

Su Youqin trembled slightly, as if startled, then froze immediately.She looked back at Shen Qianyao with disbelief in her eyes.

"Pfft", Shen Qianyao laughed, and withdrew her hand: "I was scared. I'm sorry, I'm just..." Before she finished speaking, Su Youqin gave her a look, and put the plate containing the buns in front of her.He walked into the kitchen and replaced Sister Cui.

Shen Qianyao thought that Su Youqin was shy, so she finished her breakfast in a happy mood, chatting with Sister Cui without saying a word on the way.

Until she finished her breakfast and left, Su Youqin, who was standing behind the electric baking pan, didn't look up at her.She leaned close to Su Youqin, her eyebrows curved: "Boss Su, I'm leaving."

Su Youqin didn't raise her head, she lowered her eyelids, signaling that she knew.

Shen Qianyao didn't move, just stared at her, teasing her: "I'm still angry, I wanted to joke with you, untie the belt of my apron."

Su Youqin raised his head, nodded, then lowered his head, his eyes remained unchanged.

Shen Qianyao sensed something was wrong, and while waiting for the cold oil to heat up, she walked up to Su Youqin's side and asked seriously, "What's wrong?"

Su Youqin looked at her suspiciously, then turned to collect the dishes on the table.

The sky is getting brighter, and more people come to buy breakfast.Everyone saw Shen Qianyao standing at the door and greeted her one after another.A student carrying a schoolbag walked by the door, she looked back at Su Youqin's busy figure, and suddenly remembered that the words Su Youqin sent back to her in the past few days were also very simple.

The two didn't chat much.

Did something happen?

After a day's class, Shen Qianyao was so tired that she lay on the desk for half an hour, her mind blank.When the school bell rang, she was startled suddenly and thought of going to Su Youqin to ask if there was anything wrong.

As soon as she walked to the school gate, a small white car stopped in front of her with the windows down. Liu Ancan greeted her sullenly.

"What's wrong?" Shen Qianyao saw that her expression was wrong, and asked, "Where did you go?"

Liu Ancan didn't answer, and turned his head slightly to one side.Through the window, Shen Qianyao saw a person sitting in the back seat, sleeping with his head up and his eyes closed.

Seeing the man's face clearly, Shen Qianyao understood instantly: "Are you going to Rong'an Village again?" In the poverty alleviation mission issued by the town, a pair of elderly people in charge of Liu Ancan and Bian Chao were in Rong'an Village.

Liu Ancan pursed his lips, stuck his head out of the window, and whispered, "I wanted to kick him all the way down." He was naturally referring to Bian Chao who was sitting in the back seat.

Shen Qianyao smiled helplessly.The two didn't say much, Liu Ancan greeted her, and drove away: "Go for a walk on Guolin Road at night, I'll talk to you."

Shen Qianyao went home to put away her things first, and then went straight to Su Youqin's house.It took a while after she knocked on the door before Su Youqin opened it.

Su Youqin held the mobile phone in his hand, with a very impatient face. When he opened the door, a middle-aged woman's voice came from the mobile phone: "We will come back this year for the Chinese New Year, and we will talk about it when we come back."

Shen Qianyao didn't say a word of greeting.Seeing Su Youqin rolled his eyes at the phone screen, he raised his hand and hung up the video.

She looked a little irritable in her eyes, and looked at Shen Qianyao, who easily understood what she wanted to ask: What are you doing here?

Shen Qianyao didn't move, and said with a smile, "I want to ask Boss Su if he's calmed down?"

Su Youqin stared at her several times, raised her hand and typed on her mobile phone to send her: "I'm not angry."

Shen Qianyao smiled: "Really? Just don't get angry. Who did you chat with on video just now?"

Someone passed by in the stairwell and greeted the two men standing by the door.

Su Youqin took a step back, stepped aside, and motioned for Shen Qianyao to come in.She walked to the sofa and sat down. The computer on the coffee table was in standby mode, and colorful bubbles were flying on the screen.

Shen Qianyao came in and sat down, looked at the computer and asked, "Are you busy?"

Su Youqin remained silent.

There was a long silence between the two.Shen Qianyao moved to Su Youqin's side, looked sideways at Su Youqin, and said in a coquettish tone, "Boss Su, what's wrong with you?"

She dragged on the last word very long.The distance between the two was too close, Su Youqin's heart beat faster, and she narrowed her eyes to see the helplessness and pampering on Shen Qianyao's face.

Indulge?

Su Youqin was taken aback by the words that popped up in her mind.The unhappiness I had just received from my mother's video was frightened away.She averted her eyes and moved her body to the other side.

She is hiding from herself.With a flash of white light, Shen Qianyao instantly figured out Su Youqin's behavior in the past few days. She responded concisely and avoided her eyes. Aren't these all hiding?

Shen Qianyao put away the expression on her face.Both eyes and body followed Su Youqin, and said seriously, "Boss Su, are you hiding from me?"

silence.

After being silent for at least half a minute, Su Youqin forcibly suppressed the thoughts in her heart, her mind turned quickly, she looked up at her with a strange expression, and then picked up her phone to send a message: "Yeah."

Ok?

Shen Qianyao was surprised: "What do you mean? You are really avoiding me, why?"

why?

Su Youqin's downcast gaze stayed on the red mark on the back of Shen Qianyao's left hand that had almost disappeared.She suddenly thought, what are you doing?Thinking about it from another angle, shouldn't it be a good thing to have a crush in a small town?Why do you have to be so awkward?

Shen Qianyao gently pestered her with his elbow: "Speak up, Boss Su, I'm a little flustered when you're like this."

Su Youqin took a deep breath, looked up at Shen Qianyao, her lips moved slowly, and silently said four words.Then picked up the phone and typed: "I'm kidding."

"Want to have dinner together?"

Shen Qianyao didn't know what Su Youqin was talking about, her intuition was a bit important.She looked at the words on the phone and stretched her eyebrows: "Okay, what do you want to eat?"

Just after dinner, Liu Ancan sent a message that she had already set off for Guolin Road.

Shen Qianyao asked Su Youqin if she was going for a walk?

Su Youqin looked at the computer standby screen, reached out to move the computer to her lap, and refused.

After the door closed, Shen Qianyao left.Su Youqin recalled in his mind the scene when neither of them spoke during the meal just now, they just watched TV. After a long time, he sighed slightly.

She just confessed her love, but Shen Qianyao didn't know.

I don't know well.If they don't know, it's enough for the two of them to maintain the most common friendship.

There are far fewer people walking on Guolin Road at night in winter.Mostly elderly people, in small groups discussing political topics on the news.

Shen Qianyao and Liu Ancan walked slowly on Guolin Road.When passing the top of the cliff, the wind blows head-on with coldness.Liu Ancan stretched his arms and shouted: "God, cool me down and freeze me to death."

Shen Qianyao watched her go crazy, and said helplessly, "As for it? Didn't you just work as a driver for a day?"

Liu Ancan curled her lips: "I have no complaints about being a driver for others. Being a driver with the surname Bian is a disgrace in my life. Tell me, how can there be such a man in this world?!"

Today, she and Bian Chao went to visit the poor households supported by their counterparts.She drove the car from home, and originally planned to switch driving with Bian Chao, because the road to Rong'an Village had a lot of twists and turns and was narrow.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he got in the car, Bian Chao sat straight on the back seat.Liu Ancan asked him to sit in the co-pilot, but Bian Chao shook his head and said no, it's better to sleep in the back seat!

Almost pissed Liu Ancan to death.

"This is treating me as his driver! Sister, I will drive here and I will be his driver!" The more she thought about it, the more she couldn't figure it out. After running a certain distance, she turned around and shouted at Shen Qianyao: "You said he Strange thing, will anyone like him?"

Shen Qianyao: "You can't tell for sure, radish and cabbage, each has his own love."

Liu Ancan rolled his eyes quickly to the sky: "I can't imagine. People who like him should go to the ophthalmology department and the mental hospital."

"Don't say that." Shen Qianyao continued, "Don't insult the mentally ill."

Shen Qianyao's poisonous tongue obviously pleased Liu Ancan.The two laughed heartily on Guolin Road, and several old people passing by looked at them and laughed too.

Enough laughing, Liu Ancan was in a happy mood, walked back, and said to Shen Qianyao, "Qianyao, I just like chatting with you."

Shen Qianyao shook her head: "Do you like chatting with me or do you like me scolding Bian Chao?"

Liu Ancan tilted his head slightly, jokingly flattering him: "I like all of them. Teacher Shen is very good, and I like you."

To ridicule means to break through the sky.Shen Qianyao froze when the other party's voice fell.The distance Liu Ancan walked back was an uphill slope, and Shen Qianyao's gaze had been on the lower half of her face just now.She clearly saw the shape of Liu Ancan's mouth when he said he liked you.

She stopped: "What did you just say?"

Liu Ancan looked at her suspiciously.

Shen Qianyao sped up her speech: "You say 'like you' again."

ah?Liu Ancan's expression was complicated, she thought Shen Qianyao was narcissistic.But the expression on the other party's face was very serious, so she said, "I like you."

"Like you?" Shen Qianyao followed up, "I like you", she said it twice, the corners of her mouth and eyes curled up, and a happy smile appeared on her face.

Liu Ancan looked at her in surprise: "What? What happened?"

Shen Qianyao's smile grew bigger and bigger, she turned and walked back and forth: "An Can, go back, I have something to do."

Shen Qianyao knocked on the door of Su Youqin's house for the second time today.

The sound of the doorknob being unscrewed exploded in her ears, and her heart beat fast. Seeing Su Youqin's surprised face in front of her, she took the initiative to walk in and close the door.She stood by the door, staring at Su Youqin with bright eyes: "Boss Su, can I ask you for a favor?"

It turned out to be looking for help.Su Youqin breathed a sigh of relief and nodded.

"Tell me, I like you."

!!!

Su Youqin's eyes widened and he didn't move for a while.

Shen Qianyao looked straight at her with a smile on her face.

Su Youqin was seen with nothing to hide, she avoided the other person's sight, walked back to the sofa, grabbed the phone twice before picking up the phone, she only felt her heart beating fast, and the heat on her face was gradually rising, she didn't know that there was something wrong with her face. There is no red.She typed on her mobile phone: "What do you mean?"

Shen Qianyao walked to her side, couldn't hide the smile between her brows and eyes: "It's nothing, I want to see how I like your mouth shape."

Su Youqin's hand holding the phone trembled slightly.When she turned her head, she happened to see the cunning in Shen Qianyao's eyes that couldn't be concealed.

She was teasing herself.She knew what the four words she said were.

Su Youqin, who realized this, was shy, flustered, and embarrassed. Various emotions came together, and she didn't know how to react.In the end, he lowered his head and lightly bumped Shen Qianyao's shoulder with his head. Shen Qianyao directly raised his arms to hug her, and said with a light smile, "I like you. It's so nice to say, Boss Su."

"I like you too."

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