[Shen Tingbai & Qu Manting]
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Xie Xiang didn't dare to meet him like this, and she couldn't take care of so much right now, so she quickly said to Tan Xiaojun: "That person, that person is my classmate!"
"Ah? No way!" Tan Xiaojun didn't expect things to be so coincidental, followed by widening her eyes and shrugging her shoulders.
"Manting, this is my brother Shen Junshan. He just came back from overseas. You saw him as a kid and played together. Do you remember?" Shen Tingbai walked to the table and said softly to Qu Manting.
Qu Manting nodded and looked up at Shen Junshan, "Shen Junshan? I remember he was not as tall as me at that time, he was verbose and crying, chasing behind you all day, dragging a snotty nose, ha ha, really like two people, I can't recognize you at all."
The teeth are still the same, and the mouth is sharp.
Shen Tingbai laughed when he heard it, and looked at Shen Junshan. Shen Junshan was not angry, and smiled along with him.
The three of them turned their eyes to the two girls on the other side. Xie Xiang couldn't stand. She lowered her head stubbornly, and her hair was hanging down to cover her face. At this moment, it was futile to say anything else. She rolled her eyes and covered her face. She walked away quickly with her hand on her stomach, and said as she walked: "Excuse me, I'll go to the bathroom."
Tan Xiaojun nodded apologetically to several people, and hurriedly followed, "I will accompany her."
She ran all the way into the bathroom, Tan Xiaojun followed. As soon as she closed the door, Xie Xiang couldn't help thinking, "What should I do? That Shen Junshan is my classmate. Did I just behave unnaturally? Will he recognize me?"
Tan Xiaojun took her to stand, and comforted, "He whouldn't have noticed you. Besides, you changed into women's clothing and wore a wig. It wouldn't be that easy to recognize."
Xie Xiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "And your celebrity friend, I met her in Palimo that day! I'm dead this time."
Tan Xiaojun was calmer than her, rubbing her hands and thinking, "Calm down, don't frighten yourself, and now you go first, I will go back and observe the situation."
"Is this all right?" Xie Xiang stretched out her hand to hold her, as if holding the straw, Tan Xiaojun nodded, "It's okay, I'll say you went home in advance, anyway, they don't know you, at most they think you are a bit rude. By the way, you will go back to my house after walking on the street for a while, and I will go back soon after I chat with them for a while."
So far, it can only be so.
Xie Xiang and Tan Xiaojun bid farewell, sneaked out of the bathroom, and left by the back door of the restaurant.
There was people coming and going on the street, and a high-end car passed by her. Xie Xiang didn't see Gu Yanzheng in the car, but Gu Yanzheng face showed a different color and he turned to look over.
It's a pity that Xie Liangchen, who was in women's clothing, quickly went far away.
Tan Xiaojun's family is in a long street with a good location. Her mother is very enthusiastic. When she sees Xie Xiang, she greets her and almost treats her as her second daughter. As she missed the high-end dinner, in exchange for it, an apologetic Tan Xiaojun cooked the noodles herself, Xie Xiang heard that Shen Junshan did not recognize her, and was a little relieved. While eating the noodles, she educates her good idiotic friend who is going crazy over Shen Junshan. "Where did you see him being gentle, you haven't seen him start a fire!"
Tan Xiaojun was unmoved, but excitedly asked: "What, what? You tell me quickly, is he very brilliant, very handsome, and emits a strong aura?" It was obvious that this afternoon's gathering made her face Shen Junshan with a very good impression.
Xie Xiang burst into laughter, "Anthomaniac!"* She stretched out her hand towards her while sucking the noodles, and lightly pinched Tan Xiaojun's face.
(T/N: 花痴 flower enthusiast; girl who is into good-looking guys/looks)
Tan Xiaojun smiled and refused to give up, "Tell me about it."
Recalling Shen Junshan's great achievements, Xie Xiang said helplessly: "He's very overbearing, what is their background? Looks pretty awesome."
"Very powerful? Of course they're quite powerful! Master Shen is the president of the Shunyuan Chamber of Commerce. In Shunyuan City, he is a man with hands and eyes, who eats black and white.* Their family and the Qu family are family friends, and Master Shen has been fond of Qu Manting since he was a child, but I don't have much contact with him."
(T/N: a man with hands and eyes have connections and eats black and white means he knows people from both sides of society, the government and then the "underworld")
Xie Xiang nodded, Tan Xiaojun glanced at her expression and tentatively said, "Xiang Xiang, I heard my dad say yesterday that the current situation is getting worse and worse. The newspapers are talking about where and how many people have died in the war every day, it sounds scary. Now that you have entered Arsenal Military Academy, will you be on the battlefield in the future? You are a girl after all, aren't you afraid?"
When it comes to this topic, the atmosphere is always extraordinarily solemn, the room suddenly quiets down, Xie Xiang lowered her head and ate the noodles without making a sound.
Tan Xiaojun sighed, and finally said, "If your brother was here, he wouldn't want to see you like this."
Gege...... (T/N: this feels more sentimental somehow ^-^)
Xie Xiang was silent and shook her head gently.
The elder brother in her mind was smiling brilliantly, and in a blink of an eye, it turned into a burnt-out photo. How could Xie Xiang not know the danger of disguising herself as a man, but she could only hold on to the present, even though she was sitting on pins and needles.
The beautiful holiday was fleeting, and she bid farewell to Tan Xiaojun and her enthusiastic aunt, Xie Xiang took the tram back to the Arsenal Military Academy.
As soon as she entered the door of the dormitory, she ran into Guo Shuting walking out with two thermos bottles humming. After greeting loudly, Xie Xiang subconsciously hid the snacks given by Xiaojun's mother behind her. But how could this kind of small gesture escape Guo Shuting's eyes? He looked at the food behind Xie Xiang, and then at the name tag on the thermos in his hand. On the pure white label, Gu Yanzheng and Xie Liangchen, these two black printed fonts are particularly conspicuous, and Guo Shuting pointed at her directly and said, "You and Gu Yanzheng are punished together."
"Ah?"
Xie Xiang looked blank. She knew that there was nothing good when he mentioned Gu Yanzheng. She immediately burned up with anger and hurried towards the dormitory. As soon as she arrived in the corridor, she collided with Huang Song and Zhu Yanlin who were opening the door.
"Liangchen, you just came back. Gu Yanzheng brought wine from outside the school. Let's drink together." Huang Song excitedly took Xie Xiang and ran to the dormitory.
"Wine? How did you bring it in?" Xie Xiang frowned, vaguely guessing.
Zhu Yanlin brought two packs of peanuts and leaned over to her and said, "He brought it in in a thermos bottle, hey! He really has it in him."
At this moment, even a fool understands the whole story.
"No need to go!" Shaking off Huang Song's hand, Xie Xiang ran to the dormitory quickly.
"Why?" Huang Song and Zhu Yanlin heard neatly questioning voices behind them.
The two did not know that the kettle had been discovered by Guo Shuting and confiscated.
"Because he wants death now!"
After she finished speaking, Xie Xiang kicked the door of the dormitory and rushed in, and then viciously rushed towards Young Master Gu, who still didn't know the situation......
The small dormitory that had been silent for two days regained its vitality. With the sound of ping-pong-pong fighting, everyone felt that this is daily life. Today is another very normal day.
People were beaten up and out of anger, and there was no escape from the work that should be done.
Xie Xiang picked up the mop and poke fiercely on the cement platform of the toilet. She seemed to see the concrete platform as Gu Yanzheng, as if she could poke a white tile out of a hole with such force.
"What's the matter, Xie Liangchen, Gu Yanzheng has annoyed you again? So angry."
When Xie Xiang heard the sound, she turned her head and saw Ji Jin and Zhu Yanlin standing there to relieve.
She was a girl anyhow, she blushed when she saw this, and turned around and didn't dare to look back: "Hurry up, get out when you're done! I want to clean the toilet."
Ji Jin looked calm: "We won't delay you when we go to the toilet."
If Xie Xiang was a man, it wouldn't matter. Throwing the mop away, Xie Xiang turned and left, went out of the public toilet and went straight to the training ground. In the past, during lunch breaks, Gu Yanzheng would lie on the lawn leisurely and soak up the sun.
"Why did I go to clean the toilet? I am obviously the victim of being involved." Xie Xiang found him and stood in front of Gu Yanzheng, shielding him from the sunlight above his head.
Gu Yanframe didn't consider her anger in her eyes at all, she still looked like a fool, "You don't have to clean it, and I didn't force you."
"You..." Xie Xiang was depressed, knowing he couldn't be persuaded, had to sit down and stand in a stalemate with Gu Yanzheng: "You don't want a solution, I won't go!"
This sentence is very deterrent to Gu Yanzheng. After all, basking in the sun is a matter of enjoyment. If a person sitting next to him keeps staring at him, then this matter will become a kind of suffering. Gu Yanzheng turned his eyes as he calculated in his mind, and dragged Xie Xiang away, "You come with me."
Young Master Gu had more ideas and more methods. After a while, a waterwheel stopped in front of the public toilet. Gu Yanzheng jumped out of the car and handed the water gun to Xie Xiang. He also held one in his hand. Two people stood side by side, opened the valve, and began to rush toward the toilet. The wall gradually faded from the original yellowish color and became white and translucent, and even the stains in the cracks of the bricks were washed thoroughly. When the valve was closed, the two laughed with each other and the hearty laughter hovered over the toilet for a while, then stopped abruptly.
The innermost compartment of the toilet slowly opened, and Lu Zhongxin, who was soaked all over his body, walked out, and the water droplets on his hair slowly flowed down the iron-blue face. It was obviously in the dog days of summer,* but Xie Xiang felt cold all over and shivered.
(T/N: 三伏天 three periods forming the hottest parts of summer, from mid-July to mid-August)
Today, it is suitable for marriages and funerals, not to go out, especially with Gu Yanzheng!
After being yelled at by the angry Lu Zhongxin, the two of them squatted up in the quagmire carrying a log one after another. Gu Yanzheng kept complaining: "Why didn't you go in and see if there was any people inside?"
"Why didn't you go and check it out!" Xie Xiang said grimly, having been in bad luck since meeting him.
When the five hundredth squat was over, Xie Xiang suddenly put down the log and ran towards the canteen. Gu Yanzheng might as well be smashed one by one. Hearing this painful cry, Xie Xiang relieved her breath with a smile, and then quickened her pace.
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I'll be putting the notes for terms right after the specific sentence starting from this chapter ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ