chapter40
"Give."
Only Yu Sisi and her companions were left in the milk tea shop. Tan Jinxue pushed a small cake towards Jiang Xuan.
The small white porcelain plate is painted with European-style golden patterns. On the top is a tender yellow lemon cake. The tempting jam is very full. Cut a corner with a small fork and it will flow out slowly. The soft cake layer is trembling. Enough to imagine the sweet and sour soft taste.
Jiang Xuan was taken aback.
The boy sitting opposite smiled slightly, "Happy birthday."
Jiang Xuan still didn't move.
She seldom celebrates birthdays, so that after Tan Jinxue reminded her, she didn't remember what day it is this year. Because of the family's financial reasons, every penny has to be split into two halves. Jiang Xuan doesn't want her mother to spend money, and she doesn't want her to blame herself for her birthday.
But for a little girl of this age, who doesn't value the annual birthday.
This is the first time someone gave her a cake to eat.
Seeing that she didn't eat, Tan Jinxue thought that the girl was worried about money, so she said, "Eat, I bought it, it's not expensive."
Jiang Xuan glared at him, and said in a teaching tone: "Spending money blindly."
But he picked up a fork and ate it.
[Ding—the love value of the heroine Jiang Xuan: 85]
It was raining lightly outside the window.
"Hey, we don't have an umbrella!" A clear female voice came from the side, and the short-haired girl poked Yu Sisi.
The girl frowned and looked outside, "Class will start in a few minutes."
Tan Jinxue looked at Jiang Xuan and asked her, "Do you want to go back?"
Jiang Xuan quickly put the last bite of cake into her mouth, with a small fork in her mouth, her cheeks puffed up, and she nodded like a chipmunk.
Tan Jinxue found two umbrellas from the store, and said, "You two students, let me take you back to the classroom."
It was almost time for the afternoon class, and there was no one in the store.
Yu Sisi blushed, "Please." She looked at Tan Jinxue expectantly.
Tan Jinxue smiled politely, then handed the umbrellas to the two girls respectively, and then took out a raincoat to put on Jiang Xuan, "Let's go."
Yu Sisi was stunned: "You...don't you use an umbrella?"
Tan Jinxue shook her head and said, "There are only two umbrellas in the shop, you can use them." She smiled, "I'm not afraid of Lin."
The short-haired girl beat Yu Sisi with her elbow again.
"I, I'll hold on with you." Yu Sisi whispered.
But Tan Jinxue turned her head just now, and didn't see her good-looking appearance with courage, and didn't seem to hear what her sweet voice said clearly.
Jiang Xuan was looking worriedly at the stagnant water outside. She was wearing the new shoes Tan Jinxue bought for her before she came to the city.
Someone patted her on the shoulder, turned her head, and just met her brother's smiling eyes, "Why are you in a daze, come up."
Yu Sisi and her companion watched Tan Jinxue bend down and pick up the dark and thin little girl in a ridiculous bright pink raincoat.
"I know you are afraid of getting your shoes dirty." There was a kind of pampering in his voice, "Let's go!"
The little girl didn't react, she almost fell, and hurriedly stretched out her arms to wrap around the boy's neck.
The rain was dense, and Jiang Xuan could only pull on her raincoat hat as best she could to help Tan Jinxue cover some of the rain. She heard the boy's rapid breathing.
[Ding—the love value of the heroine Jiang Xuan: 90]
Let the two girls with umbrellas go back to the teaching building of the high school by themselves, Tan Jinxue sent her sister to the junior high school, and then turned around to go back.
"Wait a minute." Jiang Xuan said suddenly.
The two stood under the eaves of the gate of the teaching building. Jiang Xuan took off her bright pink raincoat and put it on Tan Jinxue's rain-wet coat involuntarily.
"It's a bit short, but it's still usable." Jiang Xuan said, she looked a little unnatural: "Brother, please slow down on the road."
Then I saw great joy bursting out of the young man's eyes, and he gathered up the seriously inconsistent pink plastic raincoat on his body, as if it was a treasure that could withstand all wind and rain.
"I know." Tan Jinxue said with a smile, and suddenly raised her hand to rub Jiang Xuan's hair, then turned around and quickly rushed into the rain again.
The little girl stood at the entrance of the corridor and watched him run away without a trace before returning to the classroom. Inexplicably, she reached out and stroked her somewhat messy hair, a sweet smile appeared on the corner of her lips.
[Ding—the love value of the heroine Jiang Xuan: 95]
Tan Jinxue kept walking in the rain, but the smile on her lips widened a bit.
The heroine of this world is still a child after all, and she still yearns for warmth. When she was truly accepted as her elder brother, the increase in favorability immediately became faster.
Tan Jinxue returned to work briskly.
"It's so ugly." Zong Zi folded his arms and leaned against Tan Jinxue's table, looking at her bright pink raincoat with disgust on his face.
He watched Tan Jinxue take off his raincoat, only to realize that the other party was already soaked through, with water dripping from the tip of his hair.
"What's the matter with you?!" Zong Zi raised his voice, almost violently, "You don't have any points for your own body?! You're drenched like a drenched chicken, is the raincoat useless to you?!"
Tan Jinxue looked innocent, "There was an umbrella."
Zong Zi opened his mouth to say something again, but was choked back by Tan Jinxue's next sentence.
"I'm afraid you'll be jealous." Not only did this guy look innocent, but his voice was aggrieved. She looked at Zong Zi with a look of disgust with wet eyes.
The boy was stunned for a long time, and then he said "Pooh" angrily, "You are talking nonsense!" He quickly avoided Tan Jinxue's gaze, not noticing the wicked smile on the corner of the opposite person's lips.
"Go back and change clothes." He said in a tone that could not be refuted, the roots of his ears were still red.
Then it was somewhat surprising to find that Tan Jinxue did not raise any objections.
Back at the house opposite the school, Zong Zi took out a set of brand new clothes from the cabinet and threw them to Tan Jinxue, "Hurry up."
Tan Jinxue had already taken off her coat, holding Zong Zi's clothes in her hand, looking at him.
"Aren't you going out?"
Although she can maintain a man's appearance, Tan Jinxue doesn't intend to put on a strip show in front of the male lead.
Zong Zi was a little impatient, "Why are you so busy." But he turned angrily and went to the living room under Tan Jinxue's gaze.
This guy won't catch a cold again in the rain, Zong Zi thought, and went to the kitchen to boil a pot of **** soup.
——Tan Jinxue was stupid and didn't want to come back with Yu Sisi under an umbrella, and it had nothing to do with him! I just looked at the drenched chicken so pitifully that's all.
Right, that is it. Successful brainwashing.
Tan Jinxue quickly changed her clothes, and before she could straighten up, Zong Zi pushed the door open and entered.
The "boy" still has some dampness on his body, the shirt is sticking to the skin, and the corner of the clothes has not been smoothed, revealing a smear of skin in the psoas.
Zong Zi's throat rolled.
"Drink." He ordered Tan Jinxue: "Put your clothes in order."
Tan Jinxue didn't care, walked over to take the bowl in Zong Zi's hand, poured down the **** soup, then stuck out her tongue at him and smiled: "It's so spicy."
Zong Zi snatched the bowl away, turned around abruptly, and walked away as if fleeing.
"I'm going to take the college entrance examination early." Tan Jinxue said calmly behind him.
Zong Zi stopped in his tracks and said in disbelief, "Brother, you are only a sophomore in high school!"
"That's why we say 'in advance'." Tan Jinxue said, "I want to reduce some of the burden on my family."
She smiled at Zongzi, "Mom has improved a lot, and I can return the money to you soon."
Zong Zi stared at her, as if there was some deep hatred between the two of them. He really wanted to ask Tan Jinxue - did he just leave early? ! But found that he was not qualified.
After a while, Zong Zi said, "Does what you said before still count?"
"Of course." Tan Jinxue said.
Zong Zi said coldly: "Very good." He looked at Tan Jinxue with a fierce look, and lingered on her lips.
night. Hospital.
Tan Jinxue told Jiang Xiuhua about taking the college entrance examination early.
"Axue, is this okay?" Jiang Xiuhua was a little worried, "Don't force yourself because of money, Mom's health is already good."
The woman still had a plaster cast on her leg, but she had asked to be discharged from the hospital many times. He said he was worried about the chickens and pigs at home, but he was actually worried about the cost of hospitalization. But every time he was "rejected" mercilessly by his own daughter.
Jiang Xiuhua clearly felt that the two children had grown up and could even support this poor and dilapidated family.
She was both relieved and sad.
Tan Jinxue said comfortingly: "Okay. I have already told the class teacher that you can just sign up for the exam when the time comes." She smiled relaxedly, "If you fail the exam, it will be considered as training in advance."
Seeing that he looked confident, Jiang Xiuhua was a little relieved.
After taking care of Jiang Xiuhua, who was handicapped, she washed and rested, and Jiang Xuan sent Tan Jinxue to the entrance of the hospital. It was her turn to accompany the bed tonight.
"It's embarrassing to fail the exam." Jiang Xuan said suddenly.
Tan Jinxue sat down on the steps in front of the hospital gate, looked at the girl with a smile, "It's nothing to be ashamed of, and there's no need to feel pressured to be the first in the exam."
Jiang Xuan sat down next to her, a little dissatisfied, "I'm not under pressure, it's just that those people are jealous of me."
Tan Jinxue said: "You are not the real you in the eyes of others." He paused, "Our family is poor, but it doesn't mean we will be poor forever. We have nothing now, but it doesn't mean we are failures."
Jiang Xuan looked at him: "You still need to explain this truth to me?"
"I want to tell you that this world is far bigger than a chicken and two pigs in Liangtian Village, bigger than the monthly exam results of a key middle school and a few little girls who are jealous of you." Tan Jinxue said, "There is something bigger. The world is worth seeing and exploring."
Jiang Xuan yawned, and leaned her head on Tan Jinxue's shoulder, so natural that she didn't even notice it.
"Tell me again and I will fall asleep." The little girl murmured.
But there was a gleam in her eyes.
The sky of the city was divided into broken pieces by high-rise buildings made of reinforced concrete, but she could still accurately identify the positions of the stars. It's like sitting in the chicken coop and reading countless nights at home in Liangtian Village.
The sky is full of stars, like another world.
"Be big-hearted." Tan Jinxue continued to "preach". What happened at the milk tea shop today made her realize that she lacked understanding of Jiang Xuan. Girls at this age, no matter how independent and strong they are, will inevitably be a little narrow-minded, care about other people's opinions, and feel inferior and uneasy about their own status quo.
She has grown fast enough, but it is easy to fall into a paranoid dead end. If a person with a high spirit does not have a big heart, he will inevitably become cynical and narrow-minded.
Jiang Xuan looked at the twinkling stars in the small sky, and said casually: "I'm just a girl." She felt that Tan Jinxue was using the standard of a "man" to demand her.
—Why should she tolerate those bad boys with vicious mouths? Why should she not fight with others or be jealous?
"This has nothing to do with gender. I want you to ask yourself this way because I believe," Tan Jinxue said softly, "You will become an excellent, powerful, and meaningful person to the world."
[Ding—the love value of the heroine Jiang Xuan: 99]