SYLM Chapter 60

Chapter 60 “Is the teacher treating me like a child?”

Chapter 60 “Is the teacher treating me like a child?”

Why didn’t you wish my sister a Happy New Year?

Faced with Gu Wan Jun’s questioning, Chen Lu knew that the teacher was jealous. Chen Lu maintained a calm expression, but in her heart, she was ecstatic. She tried to suppress the corners of her mouth, deliberately changing the subject:

“The dough is kneaded, Teacher, please hand me the kitchen knife.”

“?”

Seeing the cunning little rabbit exerting her strength, Gu Wan Jun raised her eyebrows, a little anxious:

“Don’t change the subject, you haven’t answered my question yet. You call my sister ‘sister’, why do you call me ‘Teacher’?”

“If I don’t call her ‘sister’, what should I call the teacher’s sister?”

“…”

Faced with Chen Lu’s sudden question, Gu Wan Jun was taken aback, but she didn’t get caught up in the question:

“You can call her ‘sister’, I’m asking why you can’t call me ‘sister’ like you call her?”

“I called you that before.”

“Just that one time!”

“Is the teacher very concerned about this title?” Chen Lu blinked, looking serious: “Do you like me calling you ‘sister’?”

“…”

The word “like” sprinted a hundred meters to her lips, but at the moment she met Chen Lu’s bright and direct eyes, the answer that was about to come out came to a screeching halt. Gu Wan Jun suddenly couldn’t say anything.

Yes, it’s just a title, why would she care so much?

She clearly likes it, why does she feel unable to say it when the words are on the tip of her tongue?

Gu Wan Jun was a little confused about her feelings.

But after all, she was an experienced woman who could handle anything with ease. Although she didn’t understand what was going on for the time being, Gu Wan Jun still adjusted her emotions in time and gave a proper explanation:

“I said before that I would treat you like my own sister. Since you call my sister ‘sister’, then of course I have to be fair and call me ‘sister’ too.”

“…”

Listening to the overly reasonable explanation of the person in front of her, the light flickering in her crescent eyes gradually faded, replaced by an imperceptible sense of loneliness.

Knowing that Gu Wan Jun, as a homeroom teacher at this stage, could only treat her as a student or a younger sister, Chen Lu couldn’t help but wonder countless times, from the first time they met until now, after experiencing so many things together, was there any moment when Gu Wan Jun would have some unconventional feelings for her?

Each harboring their own thoughts, they let the topic turn over in silence.

“My math scores were pretty good in the first year of junior high school.”

A few minutes later, Chen Lu suddenly spoke, breaking the silence, and the hand stirring the dumpling filling slowed down unconsciously.

Why Chen Lu had always held a lazy and negative attitude towards mathematics was a question that had been pressing in Gu Wan Jun’s heart since she took over Class 12. She wanted to ask countless times, but she didn’t think she should put pressure on Chen Lu. She believed that she would always wait for the day when Chen Lu was willing to tell her on her own initiative.

That day finally came.

Gu Wan Jun looked sideways at Chen Lu, the girl’s sharply contoured profile was excessively pale, and when reflected under the light, it had an indescribable morbid beauty. Gu Wan Jun asked softly:

“Then what happened, did something happen?”

“In the second semester of the first year of junior high school, the class changed to a new math teacher. That math teacher was a sexist person. If boys did well, it was because they were smart, and if girls did well, it was because they were lucky. He also often instilled in everyone the wrong idea that girls simply couldn’t learn math, physics, and chemistry well.”

Mentioning the past, Chen Lu’s tone was obviously a lot colder, and Gu Wan Jun, who was on the side, also frowned. This kind of person with skewed values ​​was simply not worthy of being a teacher.

But sadly, there are many such “teachers”.

“After a few monthly exams in the first year of junior high school, the female students in the class who did well were called to the office by the math teacher to talk. He basically said something like the math in the first year of junior high school is simple, and it’s normal to get high scores. Don’t think you’re so great because you got a certain score. When the difficulty increases in the second and third year of junior high school, the gap between boys and girls in math will widen, and so on. In short, he kept denying and suppressing girls.”

“In the first semester of the second year of junior high school, during the midterm exam, there was an additional question at the end of the math paper. Before the exam, the math teacher asserted that probably only a few boys he thought were smart could do that question, and he sarcastically told the girls not to try it, lest they delay the time and not even be able to fill out the paper.”

“As a result, after the exam results came out, the math teacher was slapped in the face. Only a few of us girls got that additional question right.”

“Actually, that additional question wasn’t that difficult, it just needed to be calculated carefully a few more times, but that math teacher insisted that we cheated, and even called the parents.”

“That math teacher was very good at talking, and he was also very good at manipulating parents. He said that he was of course happy that students got high scores, but cheating was wrong. After he said that, some parents already believed it, but my grandma didn’t believe it.”

Mentioning her grandmother, Chen Lu’s voice had a few subtle tremors. She tried her best to control her emotions:

“My grandma said that she hadn’t gone to school and didn’t know a single word, and she didn’t know what an additional question was, but she knew very well what kind of child her family was. She believed that I could never cheat, and she also said that the math teacher should take out evidence of cheating. If there was no evidence, he should apologize to us girls.”

The slight tremor in Chen Lu’s voice was still becoming more and more obvious. Listening to the girl’s description, Gu Wan Jun had already imagined an old woman who had endured the hardships of life for most of her life and was bent over by real life, desperately standing in front of her granddaughter to fight for a truth and fairness for her.

“My grandma argued reasonably, and the math teacher felt that he couldn’t save face, so he started to rage impotently, saying that he couldn’t afford to offend, but he could hide. If he was in this class, I couldn’t be, and if I was in this class, he couldn’t be.”

“This matter caused quite a stir at the time. Later, Jiang Zhen Zhen’s parents found someone to settle it, but the math teacher also had connections above, and was finally transferred to a school in the city. He didn’t lose anything. My grandma also had a knot in her heart because of this incident, plus her heart was already not good… For a while, I always felt that I had killed my grandma…”

Chen Lu blinked rapidly, and the sad and lonely tone made Gu Wan Jun’s heart almost break. She reached out and put her arms around Chen Lu’s shoulders, gently hugging her in her arms, and tried her best to comfort her:

“How could it be, don’t think like that. Grandma loves you the most, she always believes in you. The old lady is always watching you from heaven, she definitely doesn’t want you to be sad.”

“Yeah.”

Chen Lu wiped the corners of her eyes with her wrist. She looked up at Gu Wan Jun, her tone with a bit more relief:

“When I was caught writing novels in math class and went to the office to talk, Teacher, you told me not to let a hateful person affect my life. Besides my grandma, Teacher, you are the only person who said these words to me.”

“…”

Gazes intertwined, and the girl’s eyes flashed with love like fireworks, burning directly into Gu Wan Jun’s eyes.

Chen Lu’s look…

Thump, thump, thump.

The heartbeats of the two people were out of sync at the same time.

A certain thought flashed through Gu Wan Jun’s mind like a meteor, fleeting. She wanted to grab it but couldn’t;

On the other side, perhaps because she finally opened up the deepest fragility and softness in her heart to the person she liked, Chen Lu, who had been enduring it for days and days, couldn’t help but feel an impulse to stop hiding at this moment. She knew that her gaze was too hot, but Chen Lu just couldn’t take her eyes off Gu Wan Jun…

Seeing that the atmosphere was about to develop in an uncontrollable direction, a sudden phone call poured a basin of cold water on the subtle atmosphere between the two.

Their eyes averted, Chen Lu picked up the phone on the table, which was from her good friend Jiang Zhen Zhen.

After answering the phone and chatting for a few words, although she knew that Chen Lu would spend the New Year with Gu Wan Jun this year, Jiang Zhen Zhen was still a little worried about Chen Lu, so she made this call to care about her.

Listening to Jiang Zhen Zhen’s voice, Chen Lu lowered her eyes, and the temperature on her face that had just been burning gradually dropped.

She was too impulsive just now, she almost messed things up.

On the other side, while Chen Lu was on the phone, Gu Wan Jun lowered her head and calmly continued to stir the dumpling filling, but the out-of-sync heartbeat was blatantly shaking her internal organs in her chest.

What’s wrong with me?

Why is my heart beating so fast suddenly?

Could it be that I’m emotional?

Gu Wan Jun bit her lip.

It’s probably because she feels sorry for Chen Lu’s experience and thinks this child is not easy.

Yes, when she heard Chen Lu say those words just now, her heart really ached. Yes, it was heartache, it must be heartache.

…

After the phone call, the two tacitly turned the topic over and changed to some lighter topics. They chatted while starting to make dumplings.

The Spring Festival Gala on TV became an unnoticed background sound. Chen Lu and Gu Wan Jun chatted from childhood anecdotes to the present, from the past to the future. The two seemed to have endless topics to talk about.

There was still half an hour before midnight.

The water boiled and turned, and the white and plump dumplings neatly placed on the tray were crackling into the pot.

While cooking the dumplings, Chen Lu’s phone rang again, this time it was from Fu Yi Wen.

Gu Wan Jun took over the tool for scooping dumplings and smiled, signaling Chen Lu to answer the phone. Scooping dumplings was a simple job, and she would do it when they were cooked.

A few seconds later, the phone rang from the kitchen to the living room, and was finally picked up.

“Hello.”

“Lu Lu Lu Lu, how is it? Are you with Gu Wan Jun? Did you make dumplings?”

“It’s pretty good, we’re together. We made dumplings, they’re already in the pot.” Chen Lu answered one by one.

“That’s good, that’s good, I was worried that you would have to spend the New Year alone again this year.”

Across the screen, Chen Lu could imagine Fu Yi Wen’s pursed lips.

According to past practice, this person should ask if she can go out to play tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

Chen Lu guessed like this, but she didn’t know that she guessed wrong this time.

Hearing that Chen Lu was with Gu Wan Jun, Fu Yi Wen’s hanging heart was directly let go. She said, “I’m not worried if Gu Wan Jun is with you,” and then she was about to hang up the phone.

“Wait a minute, you’re going to hang up?” It was the first time the phone was hung up so quickly, and Chen Lu was a little unaccustomed to it: “Don’t you have anything else to say?”

“Um, nothing, what else is there to say?”

“… How many sets of math papers did we leave for these holidays during the New Year?”

“Three sets, why are you suddenly talking about this during the New Year–”

Halfway through the sentence, Fu Yi Wen on the other end of the phone suddenly reacted, and her tone was a little dumbfounded:

“No, I said, Lu Lu, you suddenly asked this kind of question, don’t tell me you think I was kidnapped by someone?”

“…”

She wasn’t kidnapped, and she didn’t seem to have a fever.

Then why does it sound so wrong?

Chen Lu drew a question mark in her heart. She originally wanted to ask, but Fu Yi Wen on the other end of the phone seemed to be in a hurry to hang up the phone.

“Okay, I’m really going to hang up if there’s nothing else, it’s almost twelve o’clock.”

“What’s wrong with twelve o’clock?” Chen Lu glanced at the clock on the wall and suddenly thought of something: “Are you in a hurry to call someone at twelve o’clock?”

“…”

On the other end of the phone, Fu Yi Wen was silent, and when she spoke again, she mumbled and agreed vaguely, and finally ended with a carefree and impatient “goodbye”.

Looking at the disconnected page displayed on the phone screen, Chen Lu could easily guess who Fu Yi Wen was eager to call at twelve o’clock.

But the key is, is Fu Yi Wen’s relationship with Tang Ying already so good that they call each other at twelve o’clock on New Year’s Eve?

Fu Yi Wen didn’t even say that she would call Sun Li Xia at zero o’clock on New Year’s Eve before…

Some strange points buried deep in her mind surfaced again and again. Chen Lu thought about Fu Yi Wen’s affairs while turning around and returning to the kitchen. When she walked to the door of the kitchen, she saw Gu Wan Jun carefully scooping dumplings.

The steaming dumplings were brought to the table, just in time for the Spring Festival Gala host’s countdown on TV. When they counted to “1”, Chen Lu and Gu Wan Jun turned to look at each other at the same time:

“Happy New Year.” “Happy New Year.”

The voices overlapped, one clear and one gentle, and both engraved each other in their smiling eyes.

When eating dumplings, Chen Lu ate dumplings with money five or six times in a row.

“Wow, the sixth coin, you will definitely be successful in everything this year and all your wishes will come true.”

Gu Wan Jun’s gentle smile warmed Chen Lu’s heart. When she picked up the seventh dumpling, Chen Lu looked at Gu Wan Jun and then at the plate of dumplings next to her, and seemed to have discovered something:

“Teacher.”

“Hmm?”

“You didn’t scoop all ten dumplings with coins into my plate, did you?”

“…”

As soon as she finished speaking, a trace of embarrassment after being exposed flashed quickly in Gu Wan Jun’s eyes. This emotion was accurately captured by Chen Lu, and her crescent eyes surged with a honey-like smile:

“Is the teacher treating me like a child?”

“You are a child.”

“I’m eighteen years old this New Year, I’m an adult.”

Chen Lu seriously emphasized that she has her own persistence in the age issue. Gu Wan Jun only felt that Chen Lu was like a small rabbit gnashing its teeth and emphasizing that it was already a big rabbit. She smiled and echoed:

“Okay, okay, Little Chen Lu has grown up, but whether you are a child or an adult, I want to make you happy, can’t I?”

“…”

Gu Wan Jun said these words without any distractions, but Chen Lu’s ears turned red quietly after hearing them. She put the remaining few dumplings with coins in the plate into Gu Wan Jun’s bowl.

“Hmm? Why are you giving them to me? These were specially picked for you.”

“I also want to make you happy. Let’s all be successful in everything and have our wishes come true together, isn’t it good?”

“…”

The dumplings kept steaming, and both of them ate this New Year’s Eve dinner with their ears burning.

——

In order not to let Chen Lu spend money recklessly like last year, Gu Wan Jun clearly stated before the New Year that no one was allowed to give gifts this year, and the two should just spend the New Year together well.

In other words, for Gu Wan Jun, Chen Lu’s company is the best New Year’s gift.

On the first day of the new year, Chen Lu and Gu Wan Jun came to the cinema.

The two couldn’t remember how long it had been since they had been to the cinema to watch a movie. They were usually too busy with school and work, and they could only come out to experience it once during the New Year’s holiday.

There were many movies scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival, and the two chose for a long time, and finally chose a crime suspense drama.

Before coming, Gu Wan Jun had seen information and clips of this movie on her mobile phone. The Internet had high expectations for this movie. The leading actors were Liang Bin, a Three-Golden Film Emperor and powerful actor, and Li Xianjing, a new actor who had just won a grand prize at the Tokyo Film Festival last year and jumped into the ranks of top actresses.

A long queue had already formed at the entrance of the screening hall. Chen Lu and Gu Wan Jun, who had received their tickets, came to the back of the queue and waited to have their tickets checked. The two were discussing the movie they were going to watch in a while when they heard two seemingly familiar voices from the front of the queue—

“Ticket checking hasn’t started yet, you line up here first, I’ll go buy a bucket of popcorn!”

“Didn’t you buy a bucket?”

“Just one bucket, how can that be enough for two people?”

“I don’t eat it.”

“You don’t eat popcorn? What’s the point of watching a movie without eating popcorn?”

“Who stipulates that you have to eat popcorn when you watch a movie?”

“Then… even if you don’t eat it, this bucket isn’t enough.”

“Isn’t it enough for you to eat a bucket alone?”

“This is a small bucket, how many popcorns can there be…”

“Can’t you eat less sweets?”

“Isn’t it necessary to eat something to crack your mouth when watching a movie… Hey! I got it! Are there any places selling chicken feet nearby!?”

“…”

It was a bit awkward to have a leopard-print fur coat with full aura and a round pink glutinous rice ball in the same frame. Tang Ying’s pink-purple gradient cat-eye sunglasses were placed on her tall nose, and even through the lenses, you could feel the speechless and disgust in Tang Ying’s eyes. She crossed her arms and held them in front of her chest. She was just about to scold the little chubby girl in front of her for not forgetting to eat wherever she went when she happened to catch a glimpse of someone in the tail of the queue who seemed to be staring at her.

Following the gaze, Tang Ying turned her head to look at the tail of the queue, and her expression changed directly in the next second.

“Tsk, if there are no chicken feet, it’s okay to buy some duck goods to eat. When we came in just now, I saw that there were duck goods for sale at the entrance on the first floor. It smelled pretty good. Should I go buy some? Hey, is it okay? I’m talking to you, what are you looking at?”

Fu Yi Wen muttered, following Tang Ying’s gaze to look at the back of the queue, and happened to meet the eyes of Chen Lu and Gu Wan Jun.