SYLM Chapter 49

Chapter 49: When did Chen Lu get here?

Chapter 49 When did Chen Lu get here?

Chen Lu and Jiang Zhen Zhen both called Fu Yi Wen but couldn’t get through. Who was Fu Yi Wen talking to?

Fifteen minutes ago, Fu Yi Wen had just arrived home.

This time was when the barbecue restaurant was busiest, and there was no one else at home besides Fu Yi Wen.

After entering the house, Fu Yi Wen immediately turned on all the lights in every room. She tried to create the illusion that she wasn’t alone.

The bright lights illuminated every corner of the house, a feeling that made the alone Fu Yi Wen feel a little better.

However, less than a minute after all the lights in the room were turned on, Fu Yi Wen went to each room and turned off the switches, leaving only the light in her bedroom on.

Electricity is expensive, and it’s not easy for her parents to earn money.

A carefree child also has a meticulous and emotionally delicate side.

Fu Yi Wen dragged her tired body back to her room, using the door to isolate all the darkness outside.

She threw her schoolbag on the ground and plopped down on the floor by the bed. She reached behind her pillow with her chubby hand and pulled out her phone.

There was a thin crack on the phone screen, which happened when Fu Yi Wen fell asleep listening to a novel and dropped the phone on the floor. As a result, the fingerprint unlock was no longer sensitive, so she had to honestly enter the password.

While thinking about whether or not to call Chen Lu or Jiang Zhen Zhen to chat, Fu Yi Wen prepared to enter the password to unlock her phone.

As soon as the phone lit up, eight or nine missed call notifications popped up instantly on the screen. Fu Yi Wen entered the password to unlock it and saw that all the missed calls were from a strange number starting with “139”, and they were all made within the last ten minutes.

Starting with 139? And calling eight or nine times in a row? Who is it?

Could it be a scam call?

Remembering the new types of telecommunication scams mentioned in recent advertisements, Fu Yi Wen sat up straight suddenly, her eyes widening instantly. She immediately opened WeChat and Alipay to check if her “small savings” had been stolen.

Luckily, her saved-up money was still there.

Fu Yi Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

If it’s not a scam, then who does this number belong to? And calling her eight or nine times in a row, could it be someone urgently looking for her?

Fu Yi Wen belatedly started brainstorming. Just as she was hesitating whether or not to call the strange number “139” back, the phone in her hand suddenly vibrated, and the strange number “139” jumped on the screen, catching Fu Yi Wen’s eye!

Another call!

The phone’s vibration made Fu Yi Wen’s palms tingle. Since ignoring it wasn’t an option, Fu Yi Wen patted her face, mustered her courage, and pressed the answer button, loudly saying:

“Hello? Who is this?”

“…Why are you shouting? You’re deafening me.”

The familiar, cold female voice passed through the receiver, from far away to close, and landed in Fu Yi Wen’s ears. The heart that had almost jumped into her throat instantly returned to her stomach!

It’s Tang Ying!

Fu Yi Wen breathed a sigh of relief and complained loudly:

“Oh my gosh, you scared me to death! Why is it you!?”

“Who did you think it was?”

“I thought it was some kind of scam call!”

“Scam you?”

A signature cold laugh came from the receiver, followed by a ruthless retort:

“What do you have worth scamming? It’s not worth the effort to scam you once; I wouldn’t even make back the cost of the phone call.”

“…”

Is this how people chat? This person called so many times just to say that?

Fu Yi Wen looked unconvinced and muttered:

“It’s because you called me so many times in a row; I didn’t know who this number belonged to… Wait, that’s not right, how did you get my phone number?”

“I’m your teacher; finding a phone number is a piece of cake.”

“Then why did you call me?”

“…”

As soon as the words fell, the other end of the phone fell into a brief silence.

Seeing no response, the impatient Aries kept asking:

“Hello? Hello? Are you talking?”

“I’m not deaf; I can hear you.” Tang Ying’s tone was still icy.

“If you can hear me, why aren’t you talking?” Fu Yi Wen asked, picking at her fingers.

“I called to ask how those five English reading comprehension exercises are coming along.”

“…”

Now it was Fu Yi Wen’s turn to be silent.

This person is throwing sand in my eyes as we chat!

…

On her end of the phone, Fu Yi Wen was humming and hawing without saying anything. On the other end, Tang Ying snorted coldly and directly used the other person’s method to treat them in the same way:

“Are you deaf? Speak.”

“Didn’t you say you would check them when you get back tomorrow…”

Fu Yi Wen stammered, her voice getting softer and softer. She originally thought that she was the one in the right, but for some reason, when facing Tang Ying, her tone had a sense of guilt, like a mouse seeing a cat.

“So you still haven’t done them?”

“I… I’ll do them as soon as I hang up the phone!”

“Fu Yi Wen, you wouldn’t dare hang up on me.”

“…?”

Fu Yi Wen’s eyes widened, wanting to retort but not daring to, and finally, her face flushed red as she squeezed out:

“Then, if I don’t hang up, when will I do them!?”

“Find the time yourself; I’m checking them tomorrow anyway.”

“?”

Fu Yi Wen was about to get angry.

She had never seen someone as “unreasonable” as Tang Ying!

But there was more “unreasonableness” to come!

“Now, explain the English grammar fill-in-the-blanks from this monthly exam to me.”

“Ah? But I didn’t bring the monthly exam paper back.”

“I have the paper; I’ll read it to you.”

“What?”

Fu Yi Wen’s mouth opened wide:

“No, even if you read it to me, I—”

Before she could say the words “won’t understand,” the person on the receiver had already started reading in a standard American accent.

Fu Yi Wen: “…”

Tang Ying’s spoken English sounded exactly like the English listening comprehension in the radio. Before Fu Yi Wen could even taste what she was saying, the American English on the receiver automatically switched to icy Chinese:

“Done reading. Say, what goes in the first blank, and why?”

“…”

Although Fu Yi Wen’s written English scores had improved, she was completely clueless when it came to listening comprehension.

Besides thinking that Tang Ying’s voice was nice, who knew what gibberish this person was just spouting!?

Fu Yi Wen racked her brains, trying to escape this “problem-solving activity” that was comparable to suicide:

“Well, actually, during English class today, the English teacher went over this grammar fill-in-the-blanks…”

“Yes, explain it to me.”

“…”

Ambiguous words didn’t fool Tang Ying; Fu Yi Wen could only tell the truth:

“But English class was the second period, and at that time, we were still in the principal’s office…”

“Explain it to me quickly; don’t waste time dawdling.”

“…”

…

For the next half hour, Fu Yi Wen was repeatedly tortured by Tang Ying, who switched between Chinese and English at any time, to the point that she was already so sleepy that she couldn’t keep her eyes open shortly after twelve o’clock.

As if she was constantly paying attention to Fu Yi Wen’s movements on the other end of the phone, as soon as Fu Yi Wen yawned, Tang Ying’s clear voice came through the receiver:

“Sleepy?”

“Yeah… My eyelids are almost closing…” Fu Yi Wen smacked her lips, having yawned twice in a row.

“Alright, hang up then.”

“Ah?” Fu Yi Wen stubbornly held back the third yawn: “Didn’t you say you wouldn’t let me sleep until I finished explaining these?”

“I’m tired; I want to sleep. We’ll talk about it tomorrow; you can’t run away.”

“… Okay…”

“Hurry up and go to bed after you wash up; don’t think about those things you shouldn’t be thinking about.”

Fu Yi Wen, drowsy, reacted a little slowly. After hearing this sentence, she propped up her sleepy eyelids and asked blankly:

“What things I shouldn’t be thinking about?”

“…”

After two seconds of silence, Tang Ying hung up the phone.

After hanging up the phone, Fu Yi Wen couldn’t keep her eyes open anymore.

She was really made sleepy by Tang Ying’s phone call.

Seeing that Chen Lu and Jiang Zhen Zhen had both sent her messages, Fu Yi Wen simply replied, then changed into her pajamas, simply washed her face and brushed her teeth, and went back to bed and fell asleep, everything about Sun Li Xia and plagiarism, were all blocked outside her dreams.

—

The next day.

Her sick leave over, Tang Ying went to work on time.

The scene of Tang Ying and Sun Li Xia arguing in the office yesterday still appeared before her eyes. Many other teachers had seen it, but today, as soon as Tang Ying arrived, Sun Li Xia was still smiling and greeting her:

“Teacher Tang is here.”

In the end, she is an old green tea that bullies the weak and fears the strong, she must have spent a lot of time inquiring everywhere yesterday.

Casually placing the heavily loaded shopping bag on the table, Tang Ying’s impatience was clearly written on her face in the face of Sun Li Xia’s overtures. She took off her trench coat and draped it over the back of her chair, directly pulled out her office chair and sat down, and busied herself stuffing certain things from the shopping bag into the drawer under her desk.

—

After the morning self-study session.

Fu Yi Wen came to the liberal arts office on time with her English reading comprehension exercises.

As she walked to the door, she ran right into Sun Li Xia, who was preparing to go downstairs to teach Class 1.

“You’re here to find Teacher Tang, right? Perfect timing, she just arrived, go on in.” Sun Li Xia proactively struck up a conversation, sounding like she was trying to find something to say.

In the past, Fu Yi Wen would never have let the words of her favorite teacher fall to the ground, but today was different. She quickly said hello in an official and emotionless tone, and without even looking at Sun Li Xia, she walked past her and pushed open the door to go into the office to find Tang Ying.

—

The first period for Class 12 was math class.

Just as the pre-class bell rang, Chen Lu saw Fu Yi Wen coming back on the dot carrying a large bag of stuff.

“Did you go to the liberal arts office or a store?”

“Office, office.”

Fu Yi Wen put the shopping bag on the ground before finally breathing a sigh of relief. She shook her hand that was being strangled until it was almost bloodless, and she muttered that Tang Ying had forcibly stuffed English exercises into it.

“English exercises?” Looking at the snacks almost overflowing in the bag, Chen Lu suspected that she was blind.

“Ugh, don’t mention it, there were originally only English exercises. When I was about to leave with the exercises, Tang Ying suddenly started rummaging through her drawers. She said she didn’t have any room in her drawers and insisted on stuffing all the messy snacks inside this bag, and also said to take it back and deal with it however I want, she finds it annoying to look at. What can I do? I can’t just throw away good food, can I?”

“Ah, I see.”

As smart as Chen Lu was, although she already heard something was wrong, she still nodded seriously.

“This person is really something, buying so much if she can’t eat it all. If it really doesn’t work out, she can give it to other teachers, she just had to make me take it back. I almost died from being tired carrying this bag of stuff! But speaking of which, it’s still good that she stuffed it to me, if she had just thrown it away, wouldn’t that be super wasteful?”

“…”

Fu Yi Wen rubbed her hand that was being strangled, while seriously complaining about Tang Ying being “wasteful”.

Seeing this scene, Chen Lu couldn’t help but sigh, she couldn’t help but sigh in her heart that her silly friend was always the one being manipulated no matter who she was with.

But fortunately, Tang Ying is a good teacher with a knife mouth and a tofu heart.

—

That afternoon, the monthly exam grade rankings were released.

Jiang Zhen Zhen was first in the class and third in the grade.

Chen Lu was second in the class and ninth in the grade.

The difference between the two was getting smaller and smaller.

Among the three, the one who improved the most was Fu Yi Wen.

From 32nd in the class last time to 12th in the class now, and entering the top 100 in the grade rankings, when her English was seriously a “weak leg” and her grades were all based on fate before, Fu Yi Wen didn’t dare to think that she would have such a big improvement.

Thanks to Tang Ying.

…

After the rankings were released, the average score in Gu Wan Jun’s two classes significantly improved, and the students liked her as a Chinese teacher more and more.

More students liked Gu Wan Jun, and reason told Chen Lu that she should be happy for Gu Wan Jun, but possessiveness dominated by emotion was at work, and she couldn’t smile at all.

Especially when she came to the Chinese office during class break to pick up her Chinese homework, and just happened to see a group of students, both male and female, surrounding Gu Wan Jun to discuss how to write a good essay…

To be precise, what they were discussing was no longer important, just seeing Gu Wan Jun surrounded by a group of people was enough to make Chen Lu feel dizzy.

It’s nothing, they’re just ordinary students coming to ask the teacher questions, this is very normal.

Before entering the office, Chen Lu repeatedly told herself.

After entering the office, Chen Lu realized that she couldn’t even get close to Gu Wan Jun.

She really is very popular.

Chen Lu pursed her lips and had to ask across the “wall of people”, “Teacher, what’s today’s Chinese homework?”

Perhaps Chen Lu’s voice was too small, or perhaps the voices of the others were too loud, Gu Wan Jun, who was in the middle of a heated conversation with others, didn’t hear her, and didn’t even notice that Chen Lu had come.

Since Gu Wan Jun didn’t hear her, Chen Lu simply didn’t ask. She turned around and went to the bookshelf of Class 12 by herself to look for test papers, and just happened to run into Teacher Li Bing, who was also at the bookshelf looking for test papers for her class.

…

On the other side.

Surrounded by people, Gu Wan Jun was discussing with several students how to sort out the written material given in the essay questions during the exam. The next second, she vaguely heard Li Bing’s hearty laughter not far away.

It seemed to be coming from the direction of the bookshelf where the test papers were placed.

While discussing, Gu Wan Jun inadvertently glanced in the direction of the bookshelf through the crowd.

But in just this one glance, at the moment she saw the person who was chatting and laughing with Li Bing, Gu Wan Jun’s smile froze on her face, and she couldn’t sit still at all!

When did Chen Lu get here??

…

“I’m telling you, the scenery there is really beautiful, you can go there after the college entrance exam.”

“Yeah, I saw some of the pictures of that place online before–”

“Chen Lu.”

Before the word “pictures” could be said, Chen Lu’s words were directly interrupted by the voice behind her. As soon as she turned her head, Gu Wan Jun grabbed her arm.

“When did you get here? How come I didn’t see you?”

“Just now.”

Meeting Gu Wan Jun’s gentle gaze, Chen Lu said in a calm tone: “I came to get the Chinese homework, and saw you were discussing essays with the students from Class 1, so I didn’t disturb you.”

Hearing this, Gu Wan Jun’s heart tightened. She carefully looked at Chen Lu’s eyes, but didn’t get any useful information from them.

The students from Class 1 who were waiting to discuss essays were all looking at them, Gu Wan Jun suppressed the emotions in her heart, and she directly pulled Chen Lu to her side:

“You’re here at the right time, can you share your experience of doing homework with everyone?”

“…”

…

While pulling Chen Lu towards her desk, Gu Wan Jun also looked back at Li Bing.

Li Bing, who was inexplicably “warned” by those peach blossom eyes: ???

Why is she looking at her?

It’s not her fault this time!

It was that little beauty class representative who took the initiative to start a conversation!

Is there any justice in the world!