Chapter 30

Feed the chickens? Xu Ning looked around the yard. There were no living creatures at all, okay?

“She was feeding the neighbor’s chicks.” He Beian went on to say, “Some chicks that had just hatched came to our house for some reason. She fed them a handful of rapeseed, and half of the chicks choked to death.”

Rapeseeds come in different sizes. In order to dry them, Hu Xianglan deliberately hung the rapeseeds on the windowsill. He Wanjiao looked at the cute chicks and wanted to feed them, so she scattered a handful of rapeseeds and harvested half of their lives.

In the end, their family paid one dollar as compensation.

How could He Beian say such a funny thing without any expression?

Am I the only one with a low sense of humor? Xu Ning slowly lowered his head and tried hard to change the sound mode to vibration mode.

She didn’t see He Beian turn his head to look at her, nor did she see him slightly curl up the corners of his lips because of her expression.

Xu Ning’s smile faded when she saw He Beian pushing out his bicycle. Her desire to survive made her ask, “Is the grain and oil store far away? Can we walk there?”

She didn’t want to experience the feeling of being strangled while sitting on a bicycle. If the distance was too far, she could take a bus. If the distance was short, she could walk. There was really no need to ride a bicycle.

He Beian held the handlebars with one hand and pressed the seat with the other and said, “It’s not that close. It will take 30 minutes to walk there.”

It only takes about ten minutes by bicycle to get there.

“How about we take the bus?” Xu Ning didn’t want to walk for 30 minutes, but she didn’t want to ride a bicycle either. “We can pay for our own tickets, or you can ride the bicycle and I can take the bus.”

In a situation like this, it would be most appropriate for her to pay for it all, after all, she was the one who proposed it, but who made her poor?

Don’t say that a person may be poor but his spirit is not poor. Instead of pretending to be rich, she can frankly admit her own embarrassment.

“Let’s take the bus together.” He Beian didn’t care so much about the five-cent ticket. In fact, it wouldn’t matter if he paid for it all. I don’t know why he didn’t say this, maybe he thought he would be rejected if he said it.

He returned the bicycle and the two of them walked out of the house together.

Although they are said to be together, in reality there is a distance of two people between them. No matter whether they are in front, behind, or side by side, the distance is the same.

There is a bus stop near home, and it only takes three or five minutes to walk there. The two of us chatted casually along the way.

He Beian asked her to learn how to ride a bicycle when she had nothing to do so that she could ride it by herself wherever she wanted to go in the future.

Of course Xu Ning agreed with a smile. Anyone who refused such a good thing would be a fool.

Learning how to ride a bicycle can save you a lot of money on bus tickets!

The two were lucky. Not long after they walked to the bus station, a bus stopped. They got on the bus one after the other and bought their own tickets. In the eyes of others, they were definitely not a couple. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were strangers.

The seats in the car were full and they could only stand in the aisle.

Xu Ning was of a decent height and could reach the handrail at the top with some effort. She deliberately chose a female comrade to stand next to her as there were no overly strong men in this area.

He Beian stood two or three steps behind her. He vaguely sensed that Xu Ning didn’t like being too close to him.

I wasn’t so sure at first, but from her refusal to ride the bicycle just now and the fact that she always kept a distance from him, I had a rough idea.

It’s hard to describe the taste, as expected but with a slight sourness.

There were too many people chatting in the car, making it very noisy, with the occasional crowing of roosters mixed in with the voices. The smell in the car was a bit unpleasant. Fortunately, the woman sitting next to Xu Ning opened half of the window, and the wind rushed into the car through the window, washing away the smell in front of Xu Ning.

The bus is faster than riding a bicycle, but it stops at every station, and sometimes if someone shouts to get off halfway, the driver will stop the bus.

Time is wasted on stopping and starting, and keeping up with the ups and downs.

When people get on and off, seats become empty. The female comrade next to Xu Ning was about to get off the car. After she left, the position was taken by the agile Xu Ning.

Who wants to stand when you can sit!

After she sat down, she changed from facing away from He Beian to facing him directly. He Beian didn’t find a place to sit and was still standing.

He was tall, with long arms and legs, and grabbing the overhead grab bar required only a slight lift of his hands.

When someone else got on the bus, he did not move and stood firmly a few steps away from Xu Ning.

The people who had just got on the bus swarmed back. Someone passing by He Beian recognized him and turned around to call him.

“He Beian~!”

The man had already walked to the middle of the car, farther away from He Beian than Xu Ning. After hearing him calling He Beian, she turned around to look at the man.

He was dressed quite simply, but he looked good, in line with the public’s aesthetic standards. He wore a pair of glasses and looked like a well-read person.

Seeing that He Beian ignored him, the male comrade waved at him and shouted again: “He Beian! He Beian!”

The volume increased a lot this time, but He Beian remained unmoved, as if he didn’t hear it.

Xu Ning couldn’t be sure at other times, but she was sure at this moment, right now!

He Beian was pretending not to hear, but the reality was that he didn’t want to pay attention to him.

Seeing that he had not attracted He Beian’s attention, the man started to move over here without any discouragement, preparing to meet He Beian face to face.

Xu Ning was busy reading the front and then the back, and then the back and then the front.

After seeing the men crowding over here, she focused all her attention on He Beian. She wanted to see what he was going to do in this situation.

The idea of ​​watching a show in her eyes was so obvious that He Beian could guess what she was thinking just by a casual glance.

Everyone was trying to get close to him, but He Beian still stood steadily, as if immersed in his own world.

Until the man walked up to him, patted his shoulder, and greeted him with a smile: “He Beian, what a coincidence~”

He Beian looked back at him and nodded as a greeting without saying anything. After saying hello, she turned her head back, leaving the gay with the back of her head.

“Why don’t you say anything? Have you forgotten your old classmates?” She Chenggong was confused by his look and patted his shoulder again, “You don’t even say a word when you meet your classmates?”

He Beian turned around again, pointed at his ears to She Chenggong, then waved his hands to indicate that he couldn’t hear.

“Can’t hear? He Beian, are you deaf?” She Chenggong was very surprised and spoke in an unusually loud voice, “Didn’t you join the army? How come you can’t hear?”

He Beian turned around and ignored him.

Xu Ning originally wanted to see how He Beian would solve this situation, but after watching it, she almost slammed the table and stood up.

Can this person speak? What do you mean you are deaf?

Is he well-mannered to ask this in front of others? Are you polite?

She Chenggong’s shout made half of the people in the car turn their heads to look at him. His fair face beneath his glasses blushed, and he temporarily turned his head to look out the window to pretend to be calm.