Classmate Li Zhuangsheng doesn’t want to be reborn

"I comforted you yesterday, but I feel like you seem even more unhappy today." Qin Luanyu pursed her lips, with concern on her face.

"No, you're overthinking it. Thank you for your concern, I'm really fine." Li Zhuangsheng shook his head to deny it.

"You act like you owe someone something and can't pay it back!"

"Hahaha, what can I owe you?"

The two had a small argument for a few sentences, but Qin Luanyu gave up. She naturally couldn't win the argument with Li Zhuangsheng, and when he insisted that it was nothing, she could only pretend that nothing had happened, but she was very concerned in her heart.

Li Zhuangsheng took Qin Luanyu to the temple to see the Buddha.

In fact, it’s really nothing. Li Zhuangsheng felt from the beginning that this kind of thing was not very important.

But this feeling is like when I was a child, I finished reading a long story with an imperfect ending. I felt that sense of wanting more, that sense of loss and confusion... It seemed like I had lost something, but when I thought about it carefully, I realized that I had lost nothing.

Li Zhuangsheng felt ashamed. How could Qin Luanyu like him? How could she like a person like him? He felt that he was sorry for her feelings, and he was even more sorry for disappointing her.

He should have announced in the group earlier that he has a girlfriend and is married.

That way she wouldn't have such high hopes, and that would put her in an awkward position.

In this way, Li Zhuangsheng would never know this embarrassment, and he would never have this sense of guilt.

He really didn't do well. Thinking back to the last time they met, Li Zhuangsheng felt itchy all over, as if there was an itch somewhere on his body, but no matter how hard he scratched, he couldn't scratch it.

In fact, even if Qin Luanyu liked him, what would happen? He was very familiar with "Village Chief Chu", but no matter how familiar they were, they were just online friends, not to mention that this was the first time he met "Qin Luanyu".

He didn't have that much affection for Qin Luanyu, at least not as much as Qin Luanyu liked him. He felt ashamed of this.

To him, Qin Luanyu was like the spring breeze, the summer cicadas, the autumn moon... just the right little beauty that appeared at the right time.

Spring breeze and autumn moon belong to this world, why do they belong to his family alone? He really feels uncomfortable, as if he owes her something.

I clearly don't owe her anything!

But she likes you. She dresses up as the heroine of the novel and drives a Ferrari to recreate the famous scenes from your own novel...but you got married.

Am I feeling too sorry for her?

In the temple, the Buddha looked majestic. Li Zhuangsheng wandered around carelessly, and even knelt on the cushion and kowtowed for the first time.

After he kowtowed, he came to his senses and realized that he was actually kneeling down to the clay statue of Buddha.

Damn it, I am so unlucky. You actually took advantage of me to kowtow to you while I was distracted! Or you can kowtow back to me? Li Zhuangsheng muttered to himself, still feeling depressed and uncomfortable.

Look at my turtle thinking. Just because she likes me, I have to be responsible for her? Not being responsible is to let her down? You are so self-righteous!

Li Zhuangsheng took a deep breath, still struggling within himself.

"Hey, let's find a place to rest for a while!" Qin Luanyu pulled Li Zhuangsheng's hand.

The two of them left the temple and found a pavilion to sit down and rest. Qin Luanyu chatted with Li Zhuangsheng and suddenly said, "Let's play Feihualing again!"

"Okay, you go first, I go first."

"You come first, and even if I win, you still have to promise me something!"

"Good. The lonely empty courtyard is about to end in spring, and the pear blossoms are all over the ground, but the door is not open."

"Flowers fade and fly all over the sky, their beauty fades and their fragrance disappears, who will pity them?"

"Drunk on the moon, I often become a saint; enchanted by flowers, I don't care about you... huh?" Li Zhuangsheng was stunned for a moment after he said this.

"What are you doing!" Qin Luanyu turned her face away. "You didn't say that I can't use the "Song of Burying Flowers" today! Now that I have used the "Song of Burying Flowers", you are not allowed to use it again! I walked out of the boudoir with the flower hoe in my hand, and I couldn't bear to step on the fallen flowers again and again."

Li Zhuangsheng didn't care.

The two of them took turns reciting a few words. After Qin Luanyu finished reciting "Song of Burying Flowers", she started to recite "Song of Peach Blossoms" without any moral integrity.

Perhaps because he was preoccupied with something, Li Zhuangsheng didn't feel anything and just let the other party cheat and accepted it casually.

Li Zhuangsheng: "In the Yellow Crane Tower, the jade flute is played, and plum blossoms fall in Jiangcheng in May."

Qin Luanyu: "People say that the flowers in Luoyang are as beautiful as brocade, but it's not spring when I come."

Li Zhuangsheng was stunned, as if awakened from some kind of confusion. He suddenly raised his head and looked at Qin Luanyu.

"Why, take it." Qin Luanyu was overjoyed when she saw this, thinking that Li Zhuangsheng could not hold on any longer, so she quickly said, "Three, two, one, you lose! You lose!"

"Hehehe... Yeah." Li Zhuangsheng lowered his head and revealed an indescribable smile, and said softly, "Yeah, I lost."

"Great!"

Seeing that Li Zhuangsheng finally admitted defeat, Qin Luanyu was overjoyed and immediately cheered!

"I lost, what do you want me to do?" Li Zhuangsheng restrained his smile and looked at Qin Luanyu calmly.

Gradually calming down from the joy of victory, Qin Luanyu coughed and glared at Li Zhuangsheng: "Ahem, I admit defeat. I don't want you to be unhappy today!"

Li Zhuangsheng tilted his head.

Qin Luanyu stood up and pressed Li Zhuangsheng's shoulders, deliberately showing a fierce expression: "I want you not to think about anything else today, and you are not allowed to be unhappy! I will leave tomorrow, you have to play with me happily today! Do you hear me!"

Li Zhuangsheng was still stunned for a long time, and finally nodded blankly: "Okay, okay..."

"Let's go, let's go down the mountain!" Qin Luanyu's face was slightly red. She felt a little embarrassed after saying this. She turned around and said, "Actually, I don't want to hang out here anymore. You don't have to bring me to these attractions. It would be fun for us to just find a place to sit and chat!"

Li Zhuangsheng followed silently. He hired a car today for 300 yuan a day. He wanted to go somewhere else in the afternoon, but it looked like the journey would end early.

He secretly wondered, was it because he did not hide his upset mood well that he ruined Qin Luanyu's mood?

But when he observed Qin Luanyu's expression, he found that the other party did not show the slightest displeasure.

The two took a bus back to the city, and at Qin Luanyu's insistence, they had a simple lunch at KFC.

"Is that primary school across the street where you used to go to school?" Qin Luanyu finished the last bit of juice in the glass and stretched.

"Yes, Experimental Primary School...my alma mater." Li Zhuangsheng nodded.

"I want to see your school!" Qin Luanyu said.

"There's nothing interesting about our school. It's very small."

"I want to see, I want to know more about you!" Qin Luanyu coughed twice, "I'm curious about what other elementary schools look like, I think they are more beautiful than those tourist attractions!"

Li Zhuangsheng looked surprised and strange, but after thinking for a while, he smiled and nodded: "Okay, then I'll take you to see it."

Qin Luanyu stood up immediately, and acted very quickly: "Okay, then we'll set off now... But it's a holiday now, can we get in?"

"Don't worry, we can get in. There's a broken wall at the back, we can get in."

After hearing this, Qin Luanyu pulled Li Zhuangsheng out of the house, left KFC, and the two of them immediately walked into the hot summer day.

Li Zhuangsheng was so sure because he had been there before. In his memory, a stone pillar was broken off the wall behind the primary school, so a thin person could get in.

It took a long time to repair that broken section of the stone pillar. At least, in the summer when Li Zhuangsheng graduated from high school, the wall was still empty because he went in that summer.

Sure enough, in a familiar place, Li Zhuangsheng found the broken part of the stone pillar of the wall.

"As it turns out, I can go in!" Qin Luanyu was surprised and happy, and immediately followed Li Zhuangsheng into the school happily.

The first building that catches your eye is the school's small playground. It doesn't look very big and there is no running track. The ground is paved with colorful square cement bricks.

"This is the playground of our school. It's very small, right? It is indeed small. Look at the square grids on the ground. When we do exercises, each person stands in line with two or three spaces... Look at the back of the playground, that's a small shop. The shop is crowded with people as soon as the class is over. Everyone rushes to the window to buy things... Everyone shouts "Auntie", hoping that the auntie will take the money in their hand first." Li Zhuangsheng introduced.

"Two windows, they don't seem too small, do they?"

"But our school is so crowded. Each grade has 300 to 400 students. When I was in sixth grade, there were 400 to 500 students in our grade."

"Wow, there are so many people, so impressive!"

"Haha, yeah, I didn't feel anything at the time, I just felt the classroom was very crowded, 70 people in one classroom..."

"so much!"

"Yes, and the classroom is small. It's super crowded. Three or four desks are put together, and the aisle is very narrow! The desks in front and behind are so close that the students are pressed against each other. I don't know what's going on now! I'll take you to see it later."

Qin Luanyu looked sad: "Wow, that's really hard..."

"So you can understand, every time I come to buy something it's like a battle. I have to be in the classroom before the bell rings, and the get out of class actually ends in eight minutes, so everyone is scrambling to give money to the aunt." Li Zhuangsheng laughed as he spoke, remembering a funny thing from his childhood, "Hey, let me tell you, one time I came to buy something and was pushed away by someone. I got angry and stuffed the money into his hand, snatched the spicy noodles he bought and ran away! He chased me all the way to the classroom, and then was kicked out by our teacher because he was not in our class. Hahaha!"

Li Zhuangsheng's face lit up with joy as he spoke. Even after many years, he still felt quite proud when he thought about it. He felt that he had gotten a huge bargain!

Qin Luanyu smiled with her lips pursed. She was very happy to see this side of Li Zhuangsheng. She also liked the stories Li Zhuangsheng told and listened to them with great interest.

The two walked around the empty playground and headed for the teaching building. It was the first few days of summer vacation, and the whole school was silent. Even the teachers were not there. The footsteps of the two on the stairs were clearly audible and echoed in the stairwell.

"When we were young, the weather was very cold," said Li Zhuangsheng. "It snowed every winter. You are from the south of the Yangtze River, so you may not feel it. When I was young, the thickest snow was up to my knees. Once, when I came back from the New Year's Day holiday, the corridors and stairwells were covered with a thick layer of snow..."

"Won't the school hire someone to clean up?" Qin Luanyu asked seriously.

"It's so expensive to hire someone to clean it up!" Li Zhuangsheng laughed, "The school has free labor!"

"Who?"

"Us!" Li Zhuangsheng puffed out his chest and pointed at himself.

"Huh?" Qin Luanyu didn't react.

"Your international school probably doesn't have that, but in our ordinary school, it's usually the students who do the cleaning."

"I know, I know. This is all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor!"

"That's about it. We had to shovel snow. Do you know how we did it? We took out a small blackboard from the classroom, pressed it on the ground, and pushed it forward... As a result, the ground was too slippery, and I fell on my back... Hahahaha, yes, it was the ground in front. Not only me, but many people fell. You didn't see the scene, one after another! Hahaha!"

"Does it hurt when you fell?" Qin Luanyu asked with blinking eyes.

"It doesn't hurt." Li Zhuangsheng was stunned for a moment. "I'm wearing thick clothes in winter, so it shouldn't hurt too much. I forgot about it a long time ago."

As they were walking, Li Zhuangsheng suddenly stopped and pointed to the classroom next to him through the window: "This is my fifth-grade classroom."

Qin Luanyu stretched her neck and looked curiously.

"I was short in primary school, so I always sat in the front rows," Li Zhuangsheng said. "Since the seats were arranged according to height, I sat at the same table with the same girl from the second to fifth grade."

Qin Luanyu glared and raised her voice: "Girl, is she pretty?"

"She was pretty." Li Zhuangsheng lowered his eyes and smiled, "I liked her a little at the time, but I didn't dare to tell anyone."

"Then it seems that she is quite pretty!" Qin Luanyu raised her eyebrows and stretched out her voice with a sour tone, "Is your female deskmate in elementary school prettier than me?"

Li Zhuangsheng smiled and glanced at her, then patted her head: "How could that be? You are much prettier than her. If you were in our class, you would definitely be the most beautiful girl in the class, and all the boys in the class would like you!"

"We were desk mates from the second grade to the fifth grade..." Although Qin Luanyu received Li Zhuangsheng's affirmation, she was not happy. Instead, her tone became more sour. "Maybe your desk mate likes you too! Humph, does your girlfriend know about this?"

"Hahahaha, you guessed wrong. My deskmate doesn't like me. She only likes to play with my sister."

"Your sister..." Qin Luanyu was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Oh, the school hunk, right? Your sister is so beautiful!"

"She's more popular with girls than me anyway, and girls often ask for her WeChat... her contact information." Li Zhuangsheng shrugged. "If you want to see her, come to my house later. She should be lying on the bed in her room taking a nap like a pig right now."

"Okay, okay!" Qin Luanyu nodded happily, then stared at the classroom for a long while and sighed, "Hey... I wish I were your deskmate!"

Qin Luanyu pouted and looked at the empty desks in the classroom with a little envy in her eyes. She thought to herself, if I were his deskmate, he would definitely like me.

She is quite confident in herself. Many boys like her since she was a child, bringing her snacks and gifts. But she doesn't like any of them, thinking they are too childish.

Although Li Zhuangsheng sometimes showed a somewhat childish side, Qin Luanyu thought it was very cute and interesting.

"Why do you want to sit at the same table with me?" Li Zhuangsheng laughed.

"It must be very happy to be your deskmate!" Qin Luanyu shook her braids as a matter of course.

"Haha, you think highly of me. But I was very stupid when I was a child." Li Zhuangsheng lowered his eyes and said softly.