When we arrived at the school gate, many people had already entered the examination room.
Chu Ye did not waste any time, greeted Jianwen and Mu Jiajun, and headed to school with his cloth bag on his back.
Following the examination room number on the admission ticket, she quickly found the place. It was on the second floor of the school's teaching building. There was already a teacher guarding the door of the examination room, reminding the candidates to pick up their stationery and enter the examination room.
When it was Chu Ye's turn, she handed over her admission ticket. After the invigilator carefully compared the real person with the photo, she emptied her pockets to make sure she didn't carry any cheat sheets before she was allowed to enter.
More than half of the seats in the examination room were occupied, and there was an invigilator standing on the podium. This teacher Chu Ye had never seen before, and he must have been sent by another school to invigilate the exam.
After Chu Ye took his seat, after a while, more candidates came in one after another, and the classroom was quickly filled.
It turned out that there were so many people taking the exam, Chu Ye sighed inwardly, but she was not discouraged. Her hard work in the past few months made her believe that she was no worse than others.
After a while, the bell rang outside, and the invigilator began to announce the rules of the examination room and distribute the test papers. A few minutes later, another bell rang.
The invigilator said: Start answering the questions.
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At the door, after Chu Ye entered the campus, Jianwen originally wanted to take Mu Jiajun back with him, but he waved his hand and refused, saying that he would spend the day wandering around the town and wait for Jianwen to pick him up in the afternoon before leaving.
After that, he took out five yuan from his wallet and handed it to Jianwen. He smiled and said that he was too heavy and that it was hard for Jianwen to rush. He asked Jianwen not to dislike him for taking the car in the morning.
Although this was out of courtesy, it was somewhat out of character. Jianwen agreed to send Chu Ye to take the exam out of kindness and did not accept anything in return.
So he decisively refused and hurriedly drove the bullock cart home.
Mu Jiajun, on the other hand, was sitting at the gate of the campus, and soon he was chatting animatedly with the guard, Uncle Wang.
Uncle Wang also called him to the shade, and they sat together.
Mu Jiajun has a cheerful personality, and he can quickly do business with others whenever he wants. Moreover, he has good looks, and outsiders are willing to chat more when they meet him.
Half a day passed quickly, and just as Uncle Wang was talking about how when he was young, he and several boys from the same village shot a wild boar in the mountains, the bell rang in the campus.
The first exam is over.
Seeing this, the two of them looked at each other in confusion. Uncle Wang also stopped talking and told Mu Jiajun that he would continue talking to him in the afternoon, and then got up and opened the campus gate.
Mu Jiajun also found a small corner at the door, stretching his head and waiting for Chu Ye to come out.
After a while, the candidates came out like water, and there was a crowd. Some had gloomy faces, and some were talking in groups.
There were not many people waiting at the school gate, and most of the candidates came alone. Therefore, the scene of Mu Jiajun waiting at the school gate was particularly eye-catching.
There are already several girls hiding nearby, wanting to see who he is waiting for. Among them is the girl who was pulled by his companions - Qiao Mingzhu.
Qiao Mingzhu is from the next town. Her parents are employees of a chemical factory, and she has two older brothers. She is the youngest in the family.
In addition, there are few girls in this generation of the family, so she is also very favored at home.
Just like today, among the blue and green coarse clothes, she was the only one wearing a white floral floral shirt and a pair of white shoes on her feet.
When she came out of the examination room just now, she attracted the attention of countless people. After all, she was good-looking and fashionable, and she was the crush of adolescent boys.
Now she was suddenly pulled aside by a girl from the same village. She was a little unhappy at first, but when she saw Mu Jiajun's figure, she remained silent.
They all wanted to see who this man with a mixed-race face was waiting for.
And their curiosity was quickly answered.
I saw the man who was still stretching his neck to look at the campus suddenly shook his arm, a bright smile appeared on his face, and then a thin girl ran up to him, and the two talked and laughed together.
After seeing the girl's appearance and the clothes she was wearing, Qiao Mingzhu and the others felt bored for a moment. They originally thought that the person waiting for such a handsome boy would be a beautiful woman with a good family background, but they didn't want to look bad.
Qiao Mingzhu looked down at her shirt, then at Chu Ye's old coarse clothes in the distance, snorted coldly, turned around and walked towards the street.
The others followed her, whispering.
Here, when Chu Ye stepped out of the school gate and saw Mu Jiajun, she was also very surprised. She thought Mu Jiajun would follow Brother Jianwen back in the morning.
She originally planned to finish the exam in the morning, find a cool place in front of the school, eat steamed buns, read a book, and then enter the exam room in the afternoon.
But now that she saw Mu Jiajun, she was embarrassed to let Mu Jiajun follow her and squat at the school gate. Besides, she only had one steamed bun left, which was not enough.
She had no choice but to tell Mu Jiajun her original plan, but Mu Jiajun was not surprised at all after hearing this. He took the leather bag in his hand, walked out as soon as his footsteps fell, and asked Chu Ye to follow him to the restaurant.
"How is this possible? You go ahead and I'll just eat at the school gate." Chu Ye refused. She didn't have any money with her, so she didn't want to go out to eat.
"No, you won't be full with just one steamed bun. Besides, I can't watch you eating the steamed buns. I'll go to the restaurant." Mu Jiajun ignored her refusal and took her cloth bag away when she wasn't prepared. , along with the steamed buns inside, walked towards the town.
After walking a few steps, he turned his head and urged, "Follow me, I've been hungry for a long time. Let's finish the meal quickly, and you can read a little more."
Seeing that Chu Ye was still hesitating and hesitating, he raised the cloth bag in his hand with a proud smile on his face, "I have your steamed buns here. If you don't eat, you won't get good grades in the exam if you're hungry in the afternoon. Besides, you You owe me nothing less than this meal.”
"If you want to pay it back, you can give me a big red envelope when you make money in the future. I've agreed in advance that I won't accept the red envelope if it doesn't help."
After saying that, he strode forward, leaving behind Chu Ye who smiled helplessly, finally put aside the hesitation in his heart and followed. Although there were students hiding in the shade along the way and eating the lunch they had brought, there were also many who had given money from their families and chose to eat in restaurants.
Mu Jiajun found a noodle shop not far from the school, walked straight in, and ordered two bowls of shredded pork noodles.
Chu Ye just came over and had no time to refuse, when he saw Mu Jiajun took the change, found a seat and motioned for her to sit down.
Chu Ye looked distressed, "I can just eat clear soup noodles."
"That won't work. If my family knows that I invited you to dinner and let you eat clear soup, they will scold me." Mu Jiajun put down his bag and asked Chu Ye to take a rest.
The two of them were still arguing about which noodles to eat, but what they didn't notice was that the table next to them was a group of people who were curious about who Mu Jiajun was waiting for at the school gate.
The moment Mu Jiajun stepped into the restaurant, a girl noticed it with keen eyes, and then motioned to her tablemates to watch together.
The group of people who were still chattering about the morning exam suddenly fell silent when they saw Mu Jiajun and Chu Ye, and they looked at their words and deeds together.
When the noodles for the two of them were served, Chu Ye looked over and saw two bowls of steaming noodle soup, with a spoonful of fried golden shredded pork on top, mixed with green vegetables and carrot shreds, and a circle around the bowl. It's smeared with oil and makes you appetizing just by looking at it.
Chu Ye wasn't hungry at first, but now that he was sitting here and smelling the smell, the glutton in his stomach was immediately aroused.
Seeing that Mu Jiajun couldn't wait to eat, Chu Ye also buried his head in eating.
"How is it? Doesn't it taste good?" Mu Jiajun asked.
The tip of Chu Ye's nose was covered in fine sweat due to the hot air, and her originally pale face turned rosy. She nodded vigorously, but there was still noodles in her mouth and she couldn't speak, so she extended her thumb to express her approval towards Mu Jiajun. .
"Hey, you are really a country boy. You have never eaten good food." A female voice came from the side, but the tone of her voice was not pleasant.
Chu Ye swallowed what was in his mouth and turned his head, just in time to see a girl in a white floral shirt looking at him with an unhappy expression.
The man had an oval face, pink and phoenix eyes, and raised the ends of his eyes. He looked at people with a bit of arrogance unconsciously. This man was none other than Qiao Mingzhu.
Chu Ye looked at their table. The other girls lowered their heads and wanted to bury their faces in their bowls. Only Qiao Mingzhu glanced at them disdainfully, then folded her hands around her chest, straightened her back, and glanced vaguely. A glance at Mu Jiajun.
Chu Ye naturally saw her actions. She glanced at Mu Jiajun, who was sitting opposite and engrossed in eating, then looked around her, and finally confirmed that this person was talking about herself.
She remembered the girl's clothes. When she came out of the examination room, she saw the girl walking in front of her.
She looked at the girl carefully to confirm that she really didn't know her, and wondered why she suddenly targeted her.
However, no matter why she targeted him, Chu Ye was not a good person. She had just been immersed in studying in her next life and did not want to deal with other things, but this did not mean that she was a soft persimmon.
Chu Ye immediately counterattacked, "Then you are from the city? Now you are still eating in the same restaurant as me, a country boy, and you don't know how powerful you are."
Chu Ye didn't look at her, he just talked to himself, but his voice was just right enough for the next table to hear.
After saying that, she continued to eat. In her eyes, this delicious bowl of shredded pork noodles was like Chinese New Year, and she wanted to finish it thoroughly.
Opposite her, Mu Jiajun, who was having a good meal, suddenly heard her speak. He raised his head in surprise, frowned, and looked around, not understanding what was going on.
"You! If someone hadn't paid for you, would you have been able to afford it?" Qiao Mingzhu immediately fought back, but when she saw Mu Jiajun's gaze, she reached out and touched her hair, raised her chin, and snorted coldly. He said, "Who knows what the relationship between you two is?"
The words were cryptic, but everyone present had read books and no one was a fool. It was easy to hear the implication: Who knows whether you two have an improper relationship between a man and a woman.
Mu Jiajun understood now. It turned out that someone was talking bad about them. He glanced at Chu Ye and saw that Chu Ye was still eating, as if he didn't want to talk to this girl anymore.
But he, Mu Jiajun, is not a vegetarian. How can he let others throw dirty water on him, so he said, "That's why I rushed to spend money for her. The elder brother bought a bowl of noodles for the younger sister, and there were others. Broken mouth.”
He glanced lightly, then looked away again, as if he didn't want to look any further, and continued, "Only people with unclean hearts will see everything as dirty."
When these words came out, the surrounding environment was silent, no one dared to speak at this time.
And Chu Ye's mind was filled with what Mu Jiajun said just now: These are the noodles that the elder brother bought for his sister. She felt a little awkward and subconsciously wanted to refute, but after thinking about it carefully, she realized that Mu Jiajun didn't say anything at all. wrong.
He is indeed two years older than me, so he can just call him brother.
So she didn't refute and continued to eat the noodles.
Qiao Mingzhu here saw that she had been humiliated, and a look of anger rose on her cheeks. She had always been supported wherever she went, but she had never been treated like this.
She spoke again, her voice sharp, "You are not gentlemanly!"
In her opinion, this sentence was a big killer. In the past, when a boy had a bad attitude towards her, if she said this sentence, that person would be more gentle towards her.
But today she hit a hard wall.
Mu Jiajun has never claimed to be a gentleman. He has been pampered by his family since he was a child and has always lived by his heart.
Seeing that Chu Ye had eaten everything in his bowl, he stood up, picked up their bags, and walked out without even looking back.
"Gentlemanly manners are reserved for worthy people."
(End of chapter)