Chapter 15: Heartbreak

Like an underground organization, Cheng Ming and Lin Jingyi met in the alley.

Lin Jingyi leaned her bike against the wall, crossed her arms, and sternly questioned, “Xiao Ming, do you have anything you want to say?”

“Say what?” Cheng Ming asked back, confused.

“What the hell are you doing stealing chickens and dogs every night? If you don’t tell me the truth, I’ll tell your mom about sleeping in class every day. Even if the teacher doesn’t care about you, I’m going to care about you, as your temporary deskmate as well as your childhood friend, yes, that’s a childhood friend’s obligation.”

Lin Jingyi finally found a reason to convince herself to be nosy, she didn’t want to be a bitch and be hated.

“Actually, I’m studying, and I’ve noticed lately that I’m especially productive at night when I’m home alone.”

“Really? I always feel like you’re lying to me.” Lin Jingyi said suspiciously, “You study every night, then you still come to me every morning to copy your homework, you’re in your third year, this isn’t elementary school summer homework, do you still want to go to high school.”

“Go, of course I want to go to high school, haven’t I been doing okay in math and English lately?”

“This is indeed …… but it’s not an excuse for you to be lazy and not study ah, it’s because your English and math grades are up that you need to study harder, we might be able to go to the same high school.”

“You’re thinking of going to the first grade.”

“Well, there are a few students in the compound who don’t get enough grades and are already planning to go through the motions of getting into the city’s second high school, not really liking the learning culture of the second high school.”

How to say that the URA is also a state-owned enterprise department, and the oil and water is not bad, or someone can talk to the Education Bureau to bridge the gap or the leadership of the second high school.

“But don’t you have to cut your hair short to enter the first grade? Is it okay to lose all of your long, beautiful hair with a ‘click’?”

Cheng Ming raised his hand knife and gestured at his neck.

“Am I pretty?”

Lin Jingyi turned her head, her ponytail swaying from side to side, and reached up to take off her black rubber hair band and slip it around her wrist, her long, unbound hair cascading in all directions and falling over her shoulders and book bag.

It’s not yet at the waist, only up to near the shoulder blades.

“No, no, I don’t want to ask that, do you like long hair, Ming?”

“Well, I don’t like them too short.”

As far as Cheng Ming’s sexual fetish is concerned, he still likes long hair a bit. But short hair is not impossible, don’t look like a tomboy so short on the line, not feminine.

“So ……”

Lin Jingyi fiddled with her hair, and an absurd thought suddenly popped into her mind, would it be better for her to go to the city’s second middle school.

“Ming, so you want to go to City 1?”

“Of course I want to go if I can get in.”

This mileage Ming did lie, although his first volunteer is the city’s first high school, but this is what he filled in before rebirth.

Cheng Ming has been to the Third City High School for three years and doesn’t want to go there anymore, it’s all bad memories, there’s nothing to hold on to.

The rules of City No. 1 Middle School are a bit too strict, or City No. 2 Middle School, which doesn’t need to study at night, is suitable for Cheng Ming.

Cheng Ming had lived for so long that he naturally understood the meaning of Lin Jingyi’s question.

But Cheng Ming didn’t want her to go and make any changes because of herself, and stuffing a few kids in wasn’t a problem.

Lin Jingyi waved her small fist and said, “You can definitely pass the exam if you study hard, let’s cheer together.”

“Uh-huh.”

“Maybe even in college together.” Lin Jingyi whispered in a voice only she could hear.

The two pushed their bikes slowly through the alleyways, fearing that their classmates would see them as they passed the dark Internet cafes.

Lin Jingyi told Cheng Ming to wait in place, and after she went over first, he would follow, the two of them staggering.

Actually, Cheng Ming didn’t think it was a big deal for them to be seen. But if Lin Jingyi wanted to play like this, he would accompany him to the end.

Standing at the fork in the road of separation, Lin Jingyi repeatedly urged, “Don’t sleep in next week’s class ah.”

“I’ll be sure to do well in class next week.”

This week was a rush to make the hangout, and after taking care of things at home over the two-day weekend, he was relieved to make his small fortune.

Cheng Ming had just gotten on his bike and hadn’t gone far before Lin Jingyi caught up with him from behind.

“Ming, your home isn’t in this direction, is it? Are you trying to go to the game room?”

“I’m going to Zhao Lei’s house next.”

“Zhao Lei? What are you doing at his house?” Lin Jingyi said unhappily.

After hitting someone and breaking her table, Lin Jingyi certainly had a bad impression of Zhao Lei.

“Give him back the book.” Cheng Ming said as he shook the front end of his bike.

The car basket was filled with Zhao Lei’s books, but he didn’t bring home a single book of his own, he definitely didn’t have time to read this week.

“Did the homeroom teacher ask you to do this?”

“No, I wanted to do it myself, he and I are at the same table after all.”

“You’re close to him? Why are you meddling in his business, Xiao Ming you’d better stay away from him? It’ll learn the hard way.”

“In fact, Zhao Lei is not that bad, his father died early, his mother ran away with another person, leaving his children behind, he relies on his grandfather and sister, he usually behaves more withdrawn and tough is also a means for him to protect himself, and you know that a lot of schoolyard bullies are just to see that you don’t dare to fight back the more they bully you.”

It was hard to change the stereotypical impression of a person, Cheng Ming didn’t expect to change Zhao Lei’s impression in Lin Jingyi’s mind with a few words, and there was no need to do so, as the two of them wouldn’t have any interactions anyway.

“Then I can go with you to Zhao Lei’s house.”

“Uh ……”

“Can’t I go?”

“It’s not that I can’t, it’s just that his house is quite far away from here, in the north part of the city, I told my mom that I’m going to my classmate’s house, and I’ll be back late for dinner, so if you come home late, mom and dad will be worried, right?”

“It’s Friday, my parents have a drinking party to attend to and won’t be home for dinner, so I’ll go back whenever I want.”

It would be ungrateful to say no at this point.

“Keep up with me well then, but before that, let’s go to the grocery store down the road and get some snacks.”

“What are you buying snacks for? Eating on the road?”

“Oh, I’m going to give it to Zhao Lei’s sister to eat ah.”

Although right now, Cheng Ming and Zhao Lei’s relationship wasn’t so good that they needed to help her raise her sister.

But helping him raise his sister had been one of Cheng Ming’s habits etched in his bones, I guess.

Lin Jingyi asked alertly, “How old is Zhao Lei’s sister?”

“Like a year younger than my sister, fifth grade.”

“So it’s a kid, then.”

Lin Jingyi was inexplicably relieved.

The two came to the grocery store’s open-air stall set up on the road, with a wide array of snacks, strange and unusual toys hanging, and a variety of cards for sale at the head of the store.

Spicy fries, dry noodles with Water Margin good guy cards, Great White Rabbit milk candies, bubble gum with tattoo stickers ……

“Lin Jingyi, what do you want to eat? Let me treat you, thank you for waking me up these days.” Cheng Ming said generously.

“Then I’ll be polite, hehehe.” Lin Jingyi rubbed her hands together and said.

In fact, her pocket money is very little, want to buy new clothes or hair accessories, her parents are small leaders, small cadres, fishing for oil business not their share, the New Year’s festivals and busy to the people above the gift, the more you live in the silo, the more uncomfortable, parents would like to save up to buy a house to move.

It would be nice to move near Cheng Ming’s house.

Lin Jingyi reached out her hand to the long, skimpily packaged chili sticks, ten cents a piece.

“You’ll get pimples on fire.”

Cheng Ming’s words were like the devil’s whispers echoing in Lin Jingyi’s ears, she immediately withdrew her hand and touched her cheeks, her nose had grown a small pimple earlier, causing her to almost not want to go to school.

Lin Jingyi picked up a lemon flavored Zenith bar and a few lard candies.

“Eating candy will give you cavities, and if you get cavities after you change your teeth, you’ll lose all your teeth, and you’ll be a toothless granny in your old age.”

“Oooh …… then I’ll just eat the dry noodles and give you the card inside.”

“It’s going to get fat, right?”

“Kotomine! Shut the hell up! You’re teasing me on purpose! No saying such horrible words to a young girl.”

An exasperated Lin Jingyi grabbed Cheng Ming’s arm with one hand and covered his foul mouth with the other hand.

Cheng Ming’s hot, wet breath sprayed on Lin Jingyi’s palm, tickling it.

Their eyes met, and parts of their limbs were pressed together.

Lin Jingyi’s heart instantly messed up, and quickly let go, pulling away a small body position, the face floated a faint flushing, like a thief looking left and right, to see if there are classmates and teachers, before putting down the heart.

Lin Jingyi topped a big red face, venting her anger like burying her head and wildly taking snacks, hugging a full, intending to ruthlessly knock Cheng Ming a sum of money to make him break the bank.

But there was some reluctance to spend his money, but it hurt just as much as spending my own, and I was afraid of being hated for it.

While teenage girls are always more delicate and sensitive, Cheng Ming simply finds it fun to tease girls.

Lin Jingyi ended up picking only some of her and Cheng Ming’s favorite foods.

As for Zhao Lei’s sister, she had long forgotten about it.