SYLM Chapter 25
by VolareChapter 25 “Besides me, do you like other teachers too?”
Fu Yi Wen’s soul-searching four questions made Tang Ying laugh. She didn’t know where this little chubby girl got so many newfangled words.
The thought of teasing her flashed through Tang Ying’s mind in an instant. Tang Ying leaned one hand on the back of the chair and casually pinched the ear of the person in front of her with the other.
The next second, a pig-like scream echoed in the liberal arts office!
“Damn! Why did you pinch my ear?!” Fu Yi Wen covered her ear and took two steps back sharply, her mouth opening wide enough to fit an egg!
Tang Ying was stunned for a moment, then said matter-of-factly:
“Who told you to talk so much, like a telegraph machine, giving me a headache.”
“So you pinch me!?”
“What are you yelling about? I didn’t use much force, just a light pinch.”
“You call that not using force!?”
Fu Yi Wen silently touched her poor ear and complained frantically:
“If you had used any more force, you would have twisted my ear off!”
“Feels good, a bit like pig ear, chewy.”
“…”
Could some official please do her justice? It wasn’t that she was being excessive towards Tang Ying, but who pinches someone’s ear and then says it’s like a pig’s ear? This annoying pest was too infuriating!
…
In the next ten minutes, the two didn’t speak.
Fu Yi Wen squatted on the ground checking papers, while Tang Ying sat at her desk rolling up the checked papers, wrapping them with white paper and glue, and writing the name of each set of papers in a flamboyant style.
Having been the Politics Representative for three semesters in a row, Fu Yi Wen was really fast at checking papers, no joke.
Listening to the rustling sound of checking papers beside her, Tang Ying stopped wrapping papers and turned her head to look at the little chubby girl in the distance who was buried in checking papers.
The ear that she had just pinched looked noticeably red.
Her thumb and forefinger rubbed together unconsciously. Tang Ying began to wonder if Fu Yi Wen was just not resistant to pinching or if she had really used too much force just now.
After checking another set of papers and answer sheets, Fu Yi Wen got up and prepared to deliver them to Tang Ying’s desk.
As soon as she approached, she saw Tang Ying suddenly raise her hand. The person who had just been pinched reacted instantly, immediately covering her ear and taking half a step back, looking wary!
“What are you going to do again?”
“…”
Fu Yi Wen’s jumpy behavior startled Tang Ying. The hand that had originally intended to take the papers paused, then changed direction and smoothed her wavy long hair over her shoulder:
“Didn’t you just say that if I used a little more force, I would twist your ear off? I’m testing if I can twist it off.”
“???”
Was this human language!?
Fu Yi Wen felt more and more that Tang Ying was simply a devil!
Seeing Fu Yi Wen getting so angry that her face was red and her neck was thick, Tang Ying found it a little funny, and the cold tone of her voice became more relaxed:
“Does it hurt that much?”
“What do you think!”
“Come here.”
“I won’t!”
Interpreting ‘come here’ as another warning about ear-twisting, Fu Yi Wen retreated repeatedly, only to bump into Sun Li Xia, who had just opened the door and came in.
The existing balance was broken. Seeing Sun Li Xia, the slightly warmer expression she had moments before instantly froze again. Tang Ying subconsciously straightened her shoulders, turned her face to look at the papers, and tried to ignore her.
…
As soon as Sun Li Xia arrived, Fu Yi Wen seemed to transform into a sunny doll, her upturned mouth never coming down.
Other Politics, History, and Geography teachers also arrived in the office one after another, each accompanied by a class representative. Strangely, the Politics Representative from Class 1 never came.
Sun Li Xia half-squatted on the ground checking papers. Perhaps because of her age, she stood up several times to beat her waist and back in the middle of checking. This scene made Fu Yi Wen anxious to death. Even though her speed of checking papers was already taking off, there were simply too many papers. She had been checking for so long, and she hadn’t even finished her own class’s yet.
The same was true for other classes. They hadn’t finished checking their own class’s papers yet, but considering that Sun Li Xia was a senior teacher, several teachers wanted to help, but in the end, they were all politely refused by Sun Li Xia with a smile.
Originally, Tang Ying was wrapping papers while pondering why the Politics Representative from Class 1 dared not come and whether there might be a trap involved. But the next second, out of the corner of her eye, she saw Fu Yi Wen staring intently at Sun Li Xia, who was beating her waist, while checking papers.
That chubby little round face looked as if she had encountered a great disaster, and her tightly furrowed brows never relaxed.
So worried.
Tang Ying ground her back teeth.
The heat patch on her lower abdomen was still heating up, but the next second, it was torn off and thrown on the table.
…
Hurry up and check faster, ahhhhh!
Fu Yi Wen, who was checking papers while secretly glancing at Sun Li Xia, frantically complained to herself in her heart. Just as she wished she could grow two more hands, Tang Ying’s cold voice suddenly floated into her ears:
“Take them, I’ll check. You go help her.”
“…”
The person who had been sitting in the office chair checking papers was now squatting next to her at some point, holding a pen for checking papers in her hand. Fu Yi Wen was startled, then realized what Tang Ying had just said.
Tang Ying’s voice wasn’t small, and several teachers and students nearby heard it.
Judging by the distance, Sun Li Xia should have heard it too, but she didn’t seem to react at all, as if she hadn’t heard it.
Sunlight piercing through the clouds shone into the office through the window, reflecting Sun Li Xia’s shadow on the floor within Fu Yi Wen’s sight. At the same time, she heard Tang Ying’s rustling sound of checking papers, and at the same time, she clearly heard her own heart beating like a drum.
The devilish annoying pest or her Teacher Sun.
Fate had handed the power of choice to Fu Yi Wen.
—
Five minutes later.
Chen Lu came out of the Literature office, holding a dry rag in her hand, ready to go to the water room.
The office hadn’t been used for a long time, and there was a layer of dust on the bookshelves. She had to wipe them clean before she could put the papers on them.
There weren’t many people in the hallway. As she passed the corner of the stairs, Chen Lu vaguely heard voices. She subconsciously turned her head to look in the direction of the window, only to find that the speaker seemed to be Sun Li Xia. The other person was standing in front of the window, with her back to her direction, and seemed to be on the phone.
Chen Lu didn’t have the habit of eavesdropping on other people’s phone calls, but before entering the water room, she inadvertently heard Sun Li Xia call out the name Yu Shu Yi, followed by a sentence like ‘come to school right now’.
Yu Shu Yi, the Politics Representative of Class 1.
That is to say, the Politics Representative of Class 1 didn’t come, only Sun Li Xia came?
Crap, Fu Yi Wen couldn’t bear to see her Teacher Sun working hard the most. Wouldn’t she get a hot head and go directly to help Sun Li Xia check papers?
Then what about Tang Ying?
Cold water soaked the rag, and Chen Lu couldn’t help but worry about Fu Yi Wen’s current situation.
—
Liberal Arts Office.
The torn-off heat patch lay pathetically on the table. Tang Ying sat back in the office chair, with Fu Yi Wen standing beside her, checking answer sheets.
Glancing at the little chubby face next to her that was wrinkling into baozi folds, Tang Ying’s mood was complicated.
Just now, Tang Ying had asked Fu Yi Wen to help Sun Li Xia, not because Tang Ying was worried about Sun Li Xia’s hard work in checking papers, but because she was annoyed by Fu Yi Wen’s dying act that looked like she was about to cry as soon as she saw her.
Help whoever she wanted to help, she wasn’t missing an arm or a leg and couldn’t check papers herself.
At that time, Tang Ying was clearly carrying some resentment.
She thought that after hearing this, Fu Yi Wen would go directly to revolve around Sun Li Xia like a puppy, but this little chubby girl held it back for a long time, her face almost turning liver-colored. In the end, she forced out a sentence to Tang Ying: “Why did you come over again? I said I can check it myself, you go sit down and rest.”
The moment Fu Yi Wen said these words, not only the teachers and students who heard this, including Sun Li Xia, were shocked, but even Tang Ying suspected that this little chubby girl had some weakness in her hands.
After Fu Yi Wen finished speaking, a moment of shock and incomprehension flashed in Sun Li Xia’s eyes, and then it was a faint look, as if nothing had happened.
Two minutes later, Sun Li Xia left the Liberal Arts Office with her mobile phone.
Whether out of a sense of responsibility as a class representative or considering Tang Ying’s period, this was the first time Fu Yi Wen had not prioritized Sun Li Xia in a situation where she had to choose between the two.
Recalling the cold look Sun Li Xia gave her before leaving the office, Fu Yi Wen’s brows furrowed so tightly that she could have pinched a mosquito to death.
It’s over, it’s over, will her Teacher Sun be angry with her? Did she really say that just now? Was she crazy!?
Fu Yi Wen sighed in a troubled manner. Tang Ying couldn’t stand it anymore, and her cold voice, though late, arrived:
“Regret it?”
“…”
Fu Yi Wen didn’t say anything, but the look she gave Tang Ying when she turned her head was more or less resentful.
“What are you looking at me for? I didn’t stop you from being solicitous.”
“…”
Fu Yi Wen’s eyes were about to pop out. She really wanted to retort, “If it weren’t for your period today, would I have rejected Teacher Sun!”, but when it came down to it, she also understood that she was the Politics Representative of Class 12, and checking papers was something she was supposed to do, so she couldn’t blame Tang Ying for this.
She could only blame herself for being unlucky.
And blame the Class 1 Politics Representative who hadn’t shown up yet.
—
One hour later.
Each office was nearing the end of organizing papers.
Fu Yi Wen and Tang Ying cooperated with each other, one checking papers and the other wrapping them, and finally packed four whole cardboard boxes.
When other classes were almost done checking papers, the Class 1 Politics Representative, Yu Shu Yi, arrived late.
Originally, Fu Yi Wen wanted to help Sun Li Xia after checking her own class’s papers, but these four boxes of papers had to be moved to the tutoring location, and she certainly couldn’t let Tang Ying move them alone. Now that Yu Shu Yi was here, her Teacher Sun should be able to relax a little.
Before leaving, Fu Yi Wen looked at Sun Li Xia several times, with a reluctant and tangled look. Tang Ying rolled her eyes when she saw this and walked out the door.
“Hey, wait for me!”
Thinking that Tang Ying was going downstairs, Fu Yi Wen couldn’t care about anything else. She quickly carried a box of papers and followed.
…
After leaving the office, Tang Ying did not go downstairs, but knocked on the door of the Literature office, which was a dozen steps away.
Literature papers were known for having a lot of pages. Under the highly efficient and tacit cooperation of Gu Wan Jun and Chen Lu, they finally packed six large cardboard boxes. When Tang Ying knocked on the door, they were just about to seal the boxes with transparent tape.
Tang Ying’s bad personality was famous throughout the school. When the teachers in the Literature office saw her standing at the door knocking, they immediately stopped talking.
Even Li Bing, the most active loudspeaker in the office, silently switched herself to silent mode.
Tang Ying was already used to this kind of scene. She herself didn’t care, but she was just afraid of implicating Gu Wan Jun and ruining her reputation. Just as she was distracted thinking, “She doesn’t even want to enter this broken office,” Gu Wan Jun was already standing in front of her with a smile: “Have you finished checking?”
“Yeah.”
“We still need to seal the boxes. Come in and sit for a while. We’ll leave together after we’re done.”
“…”
The gentle and enthusiastic voice seemed to melt all the ice. Meeting Gu Wan Jun’s smiling eyes, Tang Ying took the initiative to look away. She was just about to say no when a ‘thump’ came from behind her. Fu Yi Wen, who had chased after her, threw the cardboard box in her hand on the ground, panting:
“Hey, I said, how come you’re here? If I hadn’t heard voices here, I would have almost gone downstairs with the box!”
“…”
—
Half an hour later.
Tang Ying drove the car from the parking space opposite the school into the school. Gu Wan Jun led Chen Lu and Fu Yi Wen downstairs to move the boxes.
There were a total of ten boxes of Literature and Politics papers, plus the four of them. Tang Ying’s BMW couldn’t fit them all, so they had to call another taxi.
…
In front of the trunk of the BMW.
“Teacher Tang’s car has one more seat in the passenger seat. Which of you two wants to go?”
This was what Gu Wan Jun asked. In fact, she subconsciously assumed that Fu Yi Wen would go.
But Fu Yi Wen didn’t want to sit in a car alone with the annoying pest. As soon as she heard that they had to split up, her mind turned faster than a globe:
“Teacher, you sit with Teacher Tang, I’ll take a taxi with Chen Lu.”
“The people who stay behind will have to load the boxes into the taxi later. I have to stay. Fu Yi Wen, you go sit in Teacher Tang’s car. Chen Lu and I will take a taxi later.”
“No, no, no, look, Teacher, Chen Lu’s little body can’t do heavy work. How about this, let Chen Lu go sit in Teacher Tang’s car, and I’ll stay and move the boxes with you.”
For Fu Yi Wen, moving boxes was better than sitting in a car alone with Tang Ying. In this life-threatening situation, she could only temporarily apologize to her Chen Lu.
However, how could Gu Wan Jun agree to let Chen Lu sit in Tang Ying’s car?
Chen Lu, who was caught between the two, was in a dilemma and didn’t express her opinion. She wanted to sit in a car with Gu Wan Jun and understood Fu Yi Wen’s reluctance to sit in a car with Tang Ying. As a result, she could only silently interject:
“Or should we all take a taxi…?”
“Hey! I think Chen Lu’s idea–”
“Have you finished discussing after so much dawdling? Who’s coming to die?”
“!”
The three people’s conversation was interrupted. Tang Ying, who was in the driver’s seat, got out of the car at some point. At this moment, she was leaning against the car door, her eyes so cold that they were about to drop ice shards.
Judging by this strange tone, Tang Ying had obviously heard the conversation between the three just now.
Her cold gaze swept across the faces of the three people, and finally settled on Fu Yi Wen’s face:
“Alright, stop dawdling, it’s you, little chubby girl, get in the car.”
“?!”
Fu Yi Wen was stunned for a moment, and the anger came up!
Could this annoying pest speak properly! Who was she calling a chubby girl!?
—
About twenty minutes after Tang Ying’s car drove away, Gu Wan Jun and Chen Lu also packed the papers and got into a taxi.
On the way, thinking of what Tang Ying had said in the noodle shop before, Gu Wan Jun turned her head to look at Chen Lu and took the initiative to say:
“It must have been hard to have you stay and move the papers with me.”
“It’s okay, it’s not too heavy, and…”
Chen Lu paused. She met Gu Wan Jun’s beautiful peach blossom eyes and said sincerely, “I wanted to sit in the same car as you, Teacher.”
“…”
Gu Wan Jun had to admit that she really liked this straightforwardness.
She couldn’t suppress the upturned corners of her mouth. Gu Wan Jun raised her eyebrows, coughed lightly twice, and continued:
“But Teacher Tang likes you very much. Didn’t she also say she wanted you to be her class representative?”
“Teacher Tang was just joking.” Seeing Gu Wan Jun’s gentle appearance with her eyebrows curved, Chen Lu also unconsciously raised the corners of her lips.
“What if it’s true? What if she really wants you to be her class representative?”
“I won’t.”
“Why?”
Looking at the expectation that was about to burst out in Gu Wan Jun’s eyes, Chen Lu suddenly had a ‘bad’ idea. She said in a serious tone:
“Because I’m not feeling well.”
“Just because of this?”
“Does Teacher want to hear something else?”
“…”
Meeting those dark and bright eyes, Gu Wan Jun was stunned for a moment. She belatedly realized that she seemed to have been tricked by this child.
Although she was a little embarrassed, they had already talked about this topic, and giving up halfway was not Gu Wan Jun’s style. She ignored her slightly hot face and took the opportunity to ask:
“I want to hear it, tell me.”
“Besides you, I don’t want to be a class representative for anyone else.”
“Why?” Gu Wan Jun asked knowingly.
“Because you’re my favorite teacher.” Chen Lu gave a cautious and straightforward answer.
“Favorite?” Gu Wan Jun raised her eyebrows and said in a faint voice: “That is to say, besides me, you like other teachers too?”
“…”
This sentence directly stumped Chen Lu.
Who would have thought that Gu Wan Jun would ask such a question?!
…
Seeing Chen Lu’s face turning red at a speed visible to the naked eye, Gu Wan Jun, who had regained some reason, realized what she had just said.
Wait, was she just jealous?
Do teachers also get jealous because students like other teachers?
This seemed to be not the first time, it was also the case in the noodle shop before…
Was this normal?
Gu Wan Jun’s face heated up. She forcibly suppressed the inexplicable emotions that had risen in her heart and became the gentle and lovely Literature teacher again when she spoke again:
“I was just joking just now. Our class teachers are all very good, it’s normal for you to like them.”
“…”
Facing Gu Wan Jun’s 180-degree change in attitude, Chen Lu blinked her eyes, a little unsure of the reason. As a result, she heard Gu Wan Jun say again:
“You just said you like me the most, right?”
“Yeah.”
“Really?”
“Of course it’s true.” Chen Lu nodded, there was no doubt about this.
“Then keep it up, don’t let anyone surpass me, otherwise I’ll be sad.”
As Gu Wan Jun spoke, she raised her eyebrows, and the gentle smile in her pair of peach blossom eyes would make anyone who looked at it sink into it and be unable to extricate themselves.
After this sentence was said, Chen Lu couldn’t hear what Gu Wan Jun said after that. She felt as if something had collapsed in her mind, shaking her ears buzzing, and the flowing time seemed to stop at this moment. The huge world seemed to only have her and Gu Wan Jun left.
If Chen Lu was not sure what kind of feelings she had for Gu Wan Jun before, then at this moment Chen Lu was sure and affirmed –
She had fallen in love with Gu Wan Jun.
This kind of liking was not just the admiration and respect of a student for a teacher, but also a selfish, possessive, paranoid, strong, worried, and uncontrollable complex emotion.
She liked Gu Wan Jun, the kind of liking between lovers.
She hoped that Gu Wan Jun’s eyes would always look at her and only see her.
—
On the other side, in the black BMW.
Compared to Gu Wan Jun and Chen Lu’s intimacy and enthusiasm, the atmosphere on Tang Ying and Fu Yi Wen’s side dropped directly to freezing point.
After getting in the car, Tang Ying drove with a cold face, and Fu Yi Wen looked down at her mobile phone. Neither of them spoke.
She finally found the QQ account of Yu Shu Yi, the Class 1 Politics Representative, in the school’s big QQ group. Fu Yi Wen, who was eager to know how Sun Li Xia was doing now, immediately clicked to add her as a friend. But from sending the friend request to now, Yu Shu Yi had not passed it.
Did this Yu Shu Yi not look at her mobile phone? Or did they not finish checking the papers yet? What time was it already?
Thinking of Sun Li Xia squatting on the ground and checking papers with a hard look, Fu Yi Wen was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, unable to sit still at all!
…
Glancing out of the corner of her eye at the little chubby girl in the passenger seat moving around, almost twisting into a hemp rope, Tang Ying reached out and lowered the car’s air conditioner, saying in a cold voice:
“What’s wrong, is your butt on fire? Do you want to go down and run two laps in the snow?”
“…”