Chapter 17 Chapter Sixteen

Yao Xiaoping said: "Don't be so direct. You immediately think of whether others can help you apply for graduate school. Isn't this too eager for quick success?" Shi Yan said shyly, "I'm mainly—I want to be a graduate student too much——can my strict father help me?" Yao Xiaoping laughed: "Look, look, you said you were too eager for quick success, right? It's completely obsessed with it. Don't ask the question of rigor as soon as you enter the door later. It's hard to say who can help you in advance. Who can't help, so we must plant widely to harvest, usually relevant and irrelevant people, we must build a good relationship, maybe someday it will be useful."

"That strict father—" "I don't know either. It depends on the relationship between his father and the school leaders, as well as on the situation at the time—let's go, let's talk as we walk, or it will be too late, and they went to find someone else to play cards—" As soon as Shi Yan heard "they", she took it for granted that they were excellent, and suddenly felt the need to dress up, and hurriedly said: "Wait for me, I'll go change clothes—" "What clothes do you want to change? You look pretty good now, you are so beautifully dressed, people thought you fell in love with him—"

She didn't know who the "he" Yao Xiaoping was talking about was, but she felt that there was no one else except Zhuoyou, because they only knew these two people, and the one who was serious and obvious belonged to Yao Xiaoping, so the only one left was Zhuoyou.She was embarrassed to bring up the matter of changing clothes again, and said a little reluctantly: "Then let's not change, in fact, it's not for the sake of beauty, the main reason is—" She couldn't think of what "mainly" was for, and she simply swallowed the words.The two set off to play cards at Yan Jing's place. Yao Xiaoping said that Yan Jing lived in the Youth Teaching Building in the North District, and the two walked there. It was still a few steps away, because the North District was a piece of farmland that the school had only bought two years ago. It's a bit far from the campus. Construction has just started, and the road is not very good.

But Yao Xiaoping seemed to see Qiongyu in Xianshan, and said longingly: "Have you seen it? The Teachers College now attaches great importance to housing construction, because the general environment of D City is not good. If the Teachers College does not improve the housing environment, then No one will come, and if they come, they will not be able to stay—” "Then our student dormitory—why is it still like this?" "Students, are you afraid that you won't be able to stay? If you are admitted to the teacher's college, it is tantamount to selling it. You have to stay here whether you like it or not. If you don't think it's a good place to live, where can you go?"

When approaching a building that had already been built and occupied, Yao Xiaoping said, "Hey, let me tell you, don't tell anyone that I'm married—" Shi Yan immediately felt a guilty conscience, as if she was the main culprit, not an accomplice, she said worriedly: "If you tell me not to tell, I definitely won't tell, but you can't hide it from him forever, you always tell him That day." "Tell him when he's absolutely in love with me—" "Then you are not afraid that he will be angry when he finds out and say you are dishonest?"

"Tell him now, don't you scare him away?" Shi Yan said old-fashionedly: "Then you——doesn't that mean you're lying to him?" "How do you call it cheating? If I like him sincerely, and he likes me sincerely, it's not cheating. It's just a little bit of art, so as not to kill a possible love in the bud. Forget it, You don’t even understand, you’re still young, you have to encounter some obstacles in society to learn a little art of life—” The two of them had already entered the building before they finished discussing the "art of living". They walked up to the third floor a little cautiously, attracting the eyes of many bachelors along the way.Although Shi Yan didn't turn her head to look at those people, she had an intuition that most of their eyes were on Yao Xiaoping.She looked at Yao Xiaoping carefully, and found that Yao Xiaoping was a little different today. Her hair was combed into a ponytail, she was wearing a short sleeve that pinched the waist, and a short pleated skirt underneath. High-heeled shoes, then the whole is a tennis girl.This pair of high-heeled shoes is also good. Although she doesn't look like a tennis girl, she still looks graceful, like a girl of eighteen or nineteen years old.

She suddenly regretted listening to Yao Xiaoping's words just now, and didn't dress up properly. Although she didn't want to find a partner among these bachelors, she still didn't want to be behind Yao Xiaoping in their hearts. Bar. A little inferior, she followed Yao Xiaoping to the strict door, and saw that the door was open, and a group of young men were playing cards inside, some of them were only wearing undershirts and shorts. ,we are coming--" "Teacher Yan" rushed out to greet them, yelled and asked those disheveled guys to go back and put on "clothes for meeting guests", and entertained them with tea and water. Standing timidly outside the door, he ran out again and asked the two of them to come in. His attitude was so enthusiastic that he almost stretched out his hand to pull them in.

Yao Xiaoping said politely: "You already have so many people, we——we won't participate today—" The boys objected together: "How can that be done? We came to Lao Yan today because we heard that you were coming. How can you just leave? Then don't we take the lead? Come, come, let's give up the seat, you guys superior--" The two girls finally entered the room shyly, and sat down in the two seats vacated by others.As soon as Shi Yan sat down, she realized that the chair was still warm. She couldn't help but get goosebumps and almost jumped up from it, but out of politeness, she finally resisted jumping.After she sat down, she realized that there was no excellence among the group of people, and none of them caught her eye. She immediately lost interest in playing cards and just wanted to find an excuse to leave.

The "opponent" with her was a short black-skinned man, and the "opponent" with Yao Xiaoping was not very good, but he was much better than her "short black".She was a little annoyed, and felt that their pairing reflected their evaluation and opinion of them, just like a married couple, a good-looking man was matched with a good-looking woman, and an ugly man was matched with an ugly man. If she is a little girl, it means that in their minds, she is not as good-looking as Yao Xiaoping. She never considered these issues, and even if she did, she never regarded Yao Xiaoping as a competitor, because Yao Xiaoping was already married, so she was not at their level at all.But now she suddenly discovered that Yao Xiaoping actually looks good. Although she is married and has a child, she still looks like a little girl, and her face does not show her age. No wonder she immediately attracted the attention of these bachelors.

She played cards patiently for a while, not knowing what she was playing at all, and her "opponent" didn't mean to please her. Whenever she made a mistake, the opponent called "Old Liao" would blame her and make trouble. It made her very upset, and felt that he was annoying from his appearance to his personality to his name.Looking at Yao Xiaoping again, not only is the "opponent" better than her, but also Yan Jing stands behind him as a military adviser. Yao Xiaoping shows the cards in his hand to Yan Jing from time to time, and asks him for doctrine in a naive way.

She suddenly realized that she was acting as a foil. Yao Xiaoping came to play poker today, not because of her application for graduate school, but because of Yao Xiaoping's own stay in school.Yao Xiaoping called her because it was her first visit and it was difficult to act alone, so she was asked to act as a foil.But in order to coax her to come, Yao Xiaoping spoke vaguely, so as to give her a false impression that they came to play cards today because of her postgraduate entrance examination. The more Shi Yan thought about it, the more annoying she became, and the more she looked at it, the more annoying she wanted to tell Yan Jing immediately: Yao Xiaoping is married! But she knew it was dark, stupid, and boring, because she herself didn't like rigorousness, and she didn't like it. Why would anyone want to expose Yao Xiaoping's lies?Just to defeat Yao Xiaoping?That was useless, because even if those people knew that Yao Xiaoping was married, they wouldn't think she was prettier than Yao Xiaoping just because of this.Thinking about it this way, she was a little thankful that Zhuo Liang was not there. If she had been there, she might have been attracted by Yao Xiaoping. Yao Xiaoping seemed to know what she was thinking. After playing cards for a while, she casually asked, "Why didn't Mr. Zhuo come to play cards?" Someone asked, "That Teacher Zhuo?" Someone replied: "It's the one who made an exception to mention the lecturer not long ago—" Someone said: "What an exception? He graduated from graduate school, shouldn't he have been mentioned?" Another said: "Who said that? It takes three years to be promoted as a lecturer after graduating from a master's degree—" Then several people sighed: "I don't know how long it will take to live in the family building—" Someone punched that person: "Do you think you can live in a family building as soon as you mention the lecturer? Family building, family building, what kind of family building do you live in without a family?" Although these people didn't explain why, but Shi Yan summed up the whole situation and came to an important conclusion: Zhuoyue was appointed as a lecturer and had a "family", so he lived in the "family building".Now she couldn't sit still anymore, as soon as she finished playing the cards in her hand, she suggested: "Yao, let's go back—" "Now? This is just the beginning—" "I still have a lot of homework to do, I have to go back—" Yao Xiaoping hesitated and said, "Then—let's go back—" Several boys made dissatisfied voices, as if they were blaming her for ruining their big pot of soup with a piece of mouse droppings.She ignored them and insisted: "Come on, if you still want to fight, then I'll go first—" After that, she stood up. Yao Xiaoping also stood up, and said reluctantly, "Then I won't fight anymore." Yan Yan said: "I'll see you off, the road outside is not easy." The group of people made various noises, some were tacit, some were full of complaints, and two of them hurriedly squeezed into the seats vacated by the two of them, as if they couldn't wait for a long time, and the one sitting in her seat even jumped up , said loudly: "Wow, the seat is so hot!" A group of people in the room all laughed and looked at her maliciously, which made her almost have a fit, and vowed in her heart that she would never come here to play cards again. Yan Jing accompanied the two of them out of the building, sent them back to the dormitory, and chatted with them from time to time, but Yao Xiaoping kept talking about her county, and when it came to the county, Shi Yan couldn't talk to her. So it was actually the other two who were talking and she was just walking along.She had never been a supporting person before, so she felt very uncomfortable, and angrily distanced herself from the other two, walking ahead quickly. She heard Yao Xiaoping calling her from behind: "Hey, Shi, what are you doing so fast? Be careful not to twist your foot—" She replied: "It's okay, you guys talk slowly, I have something to do when I go back--" As she spoke, she walked faster and faster, but she accidentally stepped on a small hole and felt the heel of her right shoe. Crooked, her right foot was twisted into a figure 7, and her ankle hit the ground. The pain caused her to fall to the ground crookedly when she yelled "Oh my god". The two behind heard the sound and rushed over, Yao Xiaoping said: "Look, look, I told you to walk slowly, why are you running so fast like a ghost chasing you, what should you do now? Can you still go?" Shi Yan burst into tears from the pain, gritted her teeth and said, "It hurts to death——" Yan Jing also asked like a reminder, "Can you go? Can you go?" She said angrily, "If I can go, will I go?" The two looked at each other in blank dismay: "Then what should I do?" Yao Xiaoping said, "Why don't you carry her on your back?" Yan Jing looked around: "Where are you going? To the infirmary? That's still far away—" "Go back to our dormitory first. There are people in the dormitory who have bicycles, so you can borrow them—" Yao Xiaoping complained after finishing speaking, "Look, look, if you listen to me and play more cards, it won't work out. So, what now?" Shi Yan said angrily: "You don't need to worry about it, you go first—" The two were a little guilty and dared not speak.Shi Yan sat on the ground, hugging her right foot, and wanted to shake it to see if it would be better, but when she touched it, it hurt so badly that she didn't dare to shake it, fearing that it might break a bone, she would shake it for a while. Shake the bones out of place. Finally, he said rigorously: "Just wait here for a while, I ran to find Zhuoyue and told him to take Shi Yan to the infirmary on a motorcycle—" Yao Xiaoping immediately agreed: "Go, go, it's more convenient to have a motorcycle, maybe the school infirmary can't cure it, and I have to go to the hospital—" Yan Jing set off to find Zhuo Liang, and said, "I'm afraid he's not at home—" Yao Xiaoping said: "If you're not at home, just ride your bicycle. It's better to have a car than no car." Said rigorously: "I know." and ran away in a hurry.