hang out

Chapter 21

Tanghe District is in the west of the city. It is the quietest and most peaceful of the five districts in the city. Most of the people living here are elderly people.

Lin Jinglei looked out of the car window along the way, and when he felt that there were few pedestrians and even few entertainment places, he knew he was almost there.

There are few buildings here, and most of them are bungalows, which will give people the illusion of being in the urban-rural fringe.

In fact, it is not the case. Just looking at the expensive cars parked in various courtyards, you can tell that there are many powerful people here. Lin Jinglei heard from his uncle before that many old cadres from the municipal and administrative bureaus mostly choose to live here after they retire. spend old age.

As a result, a phenomenon has formed. Most of the people in the east of the city are office workers and student parties who work from [-] to [-], while the elders in the west of the city are living a slow-paced life.

Because it is a resource-based city, most of its economic development depends on coal mines. Although the population and density can reach the standard for building a subway, it cannot start construction at the risk of ground subsidence.Therefore, public transportation in the city relies entirely on ground transportation.Countless intricate bus routes go around the entire city. When the morning and evening peak traffic is heavy, it is convenient for young people to avoid the crowds of old people.

The taxi stopped at the intersection, but the driver didn't say anything, saying that it was inconvenient to reverse because of the narrow road.Lin Jinglei had no choice but to pay and get out of the car.Seeing the school bus sign of No. [-] Middle School next to the roadside stop sign, I felt kind.

He walked along the bluestone road and looked at the courtyards with the same layout.Very regularly, it was a compound surrounded by three houses. He looked carefully at the house number and found No. 120.

The houses here look very clean, with the colors of blue bricks and red tiles, and the design style is a fusion of modern and retro, giving people a comfortable feeling.Coupled with high vegetation coverage and pure and fresh air, compared with the forest made of reinforced concrete, it is really a land that people yearn for.The developer really likes to use their brains, and fully grasps the city people's longing for tranquility and comfort under the modern development.

Lin Jinglei turned around, and when he found No. 120, he ran over happily.

There was a small door on the left side of the dark iron gate for people to pass through. He pushed it and it was locked.He took out his mobile phone to ask Lin Tai to open the door for him, and then remembered that it was Monday, when Lin Tai was in class.

So he called his aunt instead, and before he could find the number, the door opened from the inside, and a woman came out with a garbage bag.

Lin Jinglei immediately moved away, and then entered the courtyard through the crack of the door.

"Who are you looking for?" The vigilant voice of the woman who came back from taking out the trash sounded.

Lin Jinglei didn't answer, he was sure that the voice of his aunt was in the house with open windows he was walking towards.

Tong Yuying was on the phone, when she heard the movement from the window, she turned her head and looked over, and then quickly said to the phone: "Mom, don't worry about it, my child and I are fine, I won't tell you, just hang up. "

Lin Jinglei stood in front of the window, looked into the room with a smile, and wanted to greet warmly but turned into a weak bass voice: "Auntie."

"How did Jing Lei find this place?"

"Lin Tai told me, I just want to see where you live."

"You guys know each other," Lu Yao also walked to the window, and said with a smile, "Oh, look at me, and think he's gone by mistake."

Tong Yuying opened the door and came out, and introduced to the two people outside: "Your name is Aunt Lu, Xiao Lu, this is my nephew."

Lu Yao's smile became stronger, and she carefully looked at the boy who walked into the room: "This boy is really good-looking, he must be in high school."

Lin Jinglei didn't like others to say he was good-looking since he was a child, so there is no way to praise a boy for his good-looking.

Tong Yuying took the words: "Yes, I'm in high school."

"Hey, that's about the same age as my daughter," Lu Yao looked at Tong Yuying and said, "I'm going back to the house. If you need help with anything, don't be polite. I'm idle and I'm idle. I can come and help you."

After thanking Tong Yuying, she closed the door behind her hand, and said to the young man standing there looking around, "The sanitation has not been cleaned thoroughly, you find a place to sit."

On the whole, the interior decoration and layout are much better than what Lin Jinglei imagined when looking at the exterior of the house. It is spacious and bright, but there are fewer objects.

"What do you think?" Tong Yuying handed her nephew a bottle of yogurt.

Lin Jinglei held the yogurt bottle in one hand and lightly tapped the palm of the other hand, turned around and looked at the room: "It's good, it's good, I just don't know if you can get used to it."

Tong Yuying quickly responded: "I'm used to it."

Tong Yuying chose this place as her new home. Firstly, it was close to No. [-] Middle School so that Lin Tai could go to school. Second, she saved part of the money she brought out during the divorce for her son鈥檚 future education, and the rest just happened to support the house.

The seller was very nice, knowing that she was divorced and came out with her child, she lowered the price a bit, and left behind the few pieces of furniture that she didn't take away.

It's not a problem if she can't get used to it, she has to get used to it.

Lin Jinglei is also well aware of this.

When asked why he didn't go to school, Lin Jinglei was perfunctory and didn't answer directly.

Lin Jinglei used to do nothing at home, and he didn't even throw away the garbage bags at the door when he went downstairs, but this time he rolled up his sleeves and followed his aunt to move things back and forth.

Even though his aunt kept him for lunch, Lin Jinglei still left, saying that he would come over to help paint the walls on the weekend.

Tong Yuying stood at the gate and asked: "You have to study hard in class, do you hear me?"

Lin Jinglei nodded casually: "Understood."

All the way out of the alley, he lowered his head and fiddled with his phone to ask Tang Shan to come out to play.A girl riding a bicycle came face to face, Lin Jinglei thought to himself after seeing the person clearly, isn't this Yan Zizheng's girlfriend.

Remembering that he wanted to hook up with this girl because he didn't get along with Yan Zizheng before, he gave up a good doll, and I don't know if she still remembers him.

The girl looked at him and smiled when she passed him by bicycle, Lin Jinglei also smiled, and then the girl rode the bicycle very fast, her eyes were still dodging, which was very strange.

Ma Liangli can also eat in the school cafeteria like other students, but she is worried that her mother is alone at home, so she goes home to eat at noon every day.

Seeing Lin Jinglei was the happiest thing for her today. When the young man smiled, his ice-blue eyes were slightly curved, which was very attractive, and his gestures of a gentleman were warm and rebellious. She was totally the type, or It is said that too many girls like this type.She wanted to get to know him, but she was inexplicably afraid. She didn't dare to get too close, afraid that he would see the freckles on her face, afraid that he would find that she was not beautiful, and even more afraid that she would be too nervous to speak, but she was so happy. Want to talk to him, especially.

The car rode farther and farther, the girl suddenly slammed on the brakes and almost shot her thin body, she turned her head and said, "Hey!"

The boy standing by the road turned around and pointed to himself: "Call me?"

Ma Liangli smiled and nodded: "Thank you for giving me the gift last time!"

Lin Jinglei didn't even respond, the girl continued to ride away without looking back.This hot-tempered character is a bit interesting.

Tang Shan didn't come out until after a class in the afternoon, Lin Jinglei had already played a few rounds of games in Aurora.

When he saw someone coming, he asked, "Where's the cold noodles? Didn't I ask you to bring me a copy?"

Tang Shan put the guitar and schoolbag by the foot of the table: "I don't have the hands to get you cold noodles."

"Why did you skip class and bring so many things?"

Tang Shan smiled: "There is a rehearsal tonight, so I won't go back after thinking about it, just go directly."

Lin Jinglei clicked his tongue and said, "You can escape with so many things, you are lucky."

"I didn't climb over the wall," Tang Shan said proudly, "I walked through the main entrance."

Lin Jinglei was slightly startled: "The main entrance?"

"Thanks to Yan Zizheng," Tang Shan continued, "he has a leave note, and he took me out with him after we met."

"Why did he take you?"

"I didn't know. I saw that he was also carrying a musical instrument, like a cello. After he got out, someone drove by the side of the road and waited for him. I didn't even say thank you, he got in the car and left."

Lin Jinglei's eyes were all on the computer screen, and he didn't know if he was listening. He urged: "Hurry up and get online, our team is short of one person, you go."

Although Tang Shan played the same online game as Lin Jinglei, Lin Jinglei was a hardcore player who never brought a rookie like him to play together. It was a pleasant surprise to be able to invite him on his own initiative. He replied: "Okay, I will try my best I won't hold you back."

Zhaoyu began to resist the last two classes in the afternoon. He had only participated in the training for two days and was seriously sure that he would not be able to persist. He wanted to ask for leave today, but the training team has rules that boys do not give leave.

This feeling of inequality between men and women makes him very unhappy, but today's training list is full, he doesn't want to go and has no choice but to go, if he just runs away, Liang Jinlong will definitely sue Zou Jing, and Zou Jing will definitely sue his father .

Thinking of Zou Jing, he had an idea and came up with an idea that he thought was quite logical.As soon as the get out of class bell rang, he went to Zou Jing's office, but he still didn't knock on the door to enter.

Unlike before, that person didn't read a book, didn't correct his homework, and was sleeping on his desk.

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, the sunlight is no longer strong, and it becomes more gentle after being filtered by the light blue curtains, and it turns into a thin shimmer on the sleeping person.

Zou Jing fell asleep lying on the table with his arms pillowed on his head. One side of the coat draped over his shoulders slipped slightly, making the whole dress precariously falling to the ground at some point.

You Zhaoyu wanted to wake people up, but he opened his mouth and closed it again. He walked to the desk and stood condescendingly looking down at the young man with his eyes closed.

Zou Jing wore a V-neck white sweater. The outline from the neck to the shoulders was thin, and the muscles were tightly wrapped around the slender bones. The proportions were slender and the lines were graceful.

This is the first time that Zhaoyu has observed Zou Jing so closely and carefully, and found that Zou Jing is actually very good-looking. He hates this nosy man so much that he doesn't want to see him at all, but suddenly he can't help but want to touch that beautiful neck.

Suddenly, the dark coat on Zou Jing's shoulders slipped off, and he tried to grab it reflexively, but it landed straight on the man's arm.

Zou Jing felt that something was poking him, and he didn't react when he just opened his eyes, staring blankly at the man who bent over him and stretched out a strangely motionless arm: "What are you doing?"

You Zhaoyu quickly withdrew his hand, because of his personality, he would not explain that I wanted to help you catch the falling clothes, but it failed. He cleared his throat and took a big step back: "I want to ask for leave."

Zou Jing sat upright and pressed his temples with his hands: "What leave?"

You Zhaoyu confidently said the excuse he had thought up in his heart: "Today the city orchestra has a performance, and I want to see Yan Zizheng."

Zou Jing asked casually, "What time is it?"

"Four o'clock, so I can't participate in today's training, you have to help me and Liang..."

"lie."

You Zhaoyu was in a hurry to finish, but Zou Jing refused to let him finish. He was so depressed that he frowned and said, "I haven't finished yet."

Zou Jing took a sip of water from the water glass, and then glanced at the boy: "Yan Zizheng asked for leave. He said it was seven o'clock. The reason why he left early was for rehearsal."

In You Zhaoyu's mind, [-] mud horses were trampling on him, his head turned slowly, and he couldn't adapt to changes, so he could only act in a hurry.

"You don't want to train again?"

You Zhaoyu almost nodded.

Zou Jing saw through the boy's expression: "Well, I'll give you two choices."

"Can I not choose?"

"If you don't choose," Zou Jing looked at his watch, "then participate in training in 10 minutes."

You Zhaoyu said, "Speak."

"Either you train normally and then go to see Yan Zizheng's performance, or you finish the few questions I left today in the exercise book and go to the performance."

Yu Zhaoyu chose the second one, and he can do whatever he wants without training. In fact, he doesn鈥檛 want to watch the performance, he just wants to find an excuse to leave, otherwise he can鈥檛 even remember the specific time of the performance.

"What is our class this class?"

Zou Jing laughed after asking casually, how could he ask someone who would never know.He took a look at the timetable, then took the exercise book on the side and threw it to the person who was still standing in front of his desk: "127 pages, a total of six major questions, when I finish it, I will sign a leave note for you."

You Zhaoyu asked incredulously, "Doing it here?"

Zou Jing affirmed: "Just do it here."

Seeing the boy holding the exercise book in a daze, he took out a pen from the pen holder and handed it over, then pointed to the door: "There is a chair over there, take it and sit on it."

You Zhaoyu regretted choosing the second one, and it would be better to go for a run while sitting opposite Zou Jing to do the questions.

The boy's slow and hesitant movements made Zou Jing chuckle and continued: "It's too late to regret it now."

You Zhaoyu didn't want to lose face, so he turned his gaze to the question that he couldn't even understand the stem of the question.

He was slow to write, and the room was too quiet, causing him to look up at the person on the other side of the desk who was reading with his head down.

Zou Jing frowned: "At your speed, let's go to Yan Zizheng's performance next year."

You Zhaoyu dropped the pen: "You are obviously embarrassing me, and I don't know how to solve this problem!"

Zou Jing tilted his head: "Do you think you won't be very reasonable?"

Yu Zhaoyu choked, and after a few seconds of staring at the man, he picked up the pen again.

Zou Jing leaned forward, and circled the important conditions on the question stem with his fingers as a reminder. Seeing that the young man still didn't understand, he looked embarrassed and sad. Just let you go."

You Zhaoyu's eyes lit up: "Really?"

"real."