Chapter 18: He Missed Her Very Much

But the result was that Zhang Xiaoxue was defeated so miserably, and she was still the party at fault.

And Haitang only had a little redness and swelling on her shoulder, but she became the biggest victim. Whether it was the teacher or the students, they were all pitying Haitang, which was very strange.

Liu Yueran’s reaction was seen by Wen Li. She rolled her eyes, and then got up and went to Haitang’s seat.

Haitang was called back to her senses by Wen Li’s voice. She moved her eyes away from Mingyue’s sketchbook and looked at Wen Li and said, “What’s the matter?”

Wen Li opened her mouth with a worried expression: “We are from the same village anyway. You were so frightened, I’m a little worried. Why don’t I tell Brother Xingrui?”

Haitang shook her head decisively: “No need, he and I are already strangers. I can solve my own problems, and I don’t need to inform him, a stranger.”

Wen Li deliberately looked like she wanted to say something but stopped, and after struggling for a while, she said, “Okay, I won’t meddle in other people’s business, but Haitang, why are you so cold to me? I thought we were friends.”

Haitang looked at Wen Li calmly, and saw loss in her eyes.

Haitang couldn’t see the traces of Wen Li’s disguise, but she felt uncontrollably wary of Wen Li’s approach and Wen Li’s words.

This was her sixth sense, the most direct reaction to danger. This sixth sense was not innate, but was honed from the hardships she had suffered in her previous life.

She trusted her sixth sense very much, but Haitang didn’t show her guard against Wen Li on her face.

But she clearly showed her alienation from Wen Li, and said in a light tone: “Wen Li, you are Jiang Xingrui’s sister now, you are a family, do you understand what I mean?”

“I, understand.” Wen Li sighed and turned to go back to her seat.

At the same time, Wen Li felt the gaze cast from Liu Yueran’s direction, and the corners of her lips curled up almost imperceptibly.

Mingyue only spoke after Wen Li returned to her seat: “I didn’t expect you and Wen Li to be from the same hometown. I haven’t seen you talk before, I thought you didn’t know each other!”

Haitang simply explained: “We are from the same village. Although we are from the same village, I am one grade higher than Wen Li, and we don’t have much contact with each other, so we just know each other.

We don’t talk to each other usually because there is nothing to say. This time, Zhang Xiaoxue’s incident is so big. As a fellow villager, it is normal for Wen Li to come and care about me.”

Mingyue wanted to say that she felt that Wen Li’s actions were abnormal, but thinking of Zhang Xiaoxue’s big loss, she felt that her worries were a bit superfluous.

In fact, Mingyue calmed down afterwards and realized that Zhang Xiaoxue’s final outcome was promoted by Haitang alone.

But to be honest, she offered to help herself, not that Haitang used her.

Besides, if Zhang Xiaoxue hadn’t had bad intentions and took the initiative to provoke trouble, there wouldn’t have been those things later.

She liked Haitang’s character of not causing trouble, but not being afraid of trouble, and seizing all favorable opportunities to protect herself.

This was also why she would hint at Haitang when she asked who Zhang Xiaoxue was on good terms with in the class.

Su Ye, who was in the back seat, saw that Mingyue did not care about Haitang’s scheming, and probably figured out her character.

Mingyue had a sense of justice, but she was not too upright, and knew how to adapt. Su Ye breathed a sigh of relief with great joy.

He was really afraid that Mingyue would be unhappy because of Haitang’s scheming against Zhang Xiaoxue, and would therefore have a estrangement towards Haitang in her heart.

After all, because of Zhang Xiaoxue’s incident, Su Ye had recognized Haitang’s future sister-in-law in his heart, and at the same time, his love for Mingyue became even stronger.

If Mingyue had a dislike for Haitang, the chances of him and Mingyue being together would be reduced, which was not the situation he wanted to see.

During evening self-study at night, Teacher Zhu called Haitang outside the classroom.

She handed a letter to Haitang and explained: “This is the compensation from Zhang Xiaoxue’s parents to you, please keep it.”

Haitang took the letter: “Thank you, Teacher Zhu, I have troubled you with today’s matter.”

Teacher Zhu shook her head: “Today’s matter is not your fault, it is Zhang Xiaoxue’s character that has a problem, don’t blame yourself, go back and study hard.”

Haitang agreed, folded the letter in half, put it in her coat pocket, and turned to go back to the classroom.

In the evening, after self-study, Haitang took out the letter from her pocket and opened it when she returned home.

She took out four new five-yuan bills from the envelope. During this period, the wages of ordinary workers were generally around 30 to 50 yuan.

These twenty yuan was equivalent to half a month’s salary for a worker.

But Haitang did not get the joy of compensation, she would rather nothing had happened today.

After putting the money away, she took a basin and a towel to the bathroom to wash up.

On the other side, Su Ye returned home, just finished washing up, and the nanny downstairs called him: “Xiao Ye, Captain Yang is looking for you.”

Su Ye hurried to the living room downstairs, took the microphone from the nanny, and said happily, “Brother, you are back from your mission?”

“I just finished the mission and I’m still in another place. How is Tangtang these days? Is she used to school?”

On the other end of the phone, Yang Xichen’s cold and hard face instantly softened when he mentioned Haitang, and there was tenderness and strong longing in his deep eyes.

During the month of performing the mission, he missed her very much, very, very much.

“Brother, why don’t you call home and ask Haitang yourself?” Su Ye scratched his head in confusion, and then told his cousin everything that happened today.

“If I call Tangtang, she will definitely only report good news and not bad news, but I want to know her real situation at school.” Yang Xichen silently added in his heart: Besides, it’s so late, he’s afraid of affecting the little girl’s rest.

Then he continued: “Although Tangtang didn’t suffer this time, you should be more alert in the future, I’m afraid that Zhang Xiaoxue will not be reconciled and will retaliate against Tangtang.”

“I know, brother, don’t worry!” Su Ye immediately agreed solemnly.

“It’s getting late, go to rest.” After understanding everything that should be understood, Yang Xichen told him, and hung up the phone.

After paying the phone bill, Yang Xichen felt for the first time that time passed so slowly, he couldn’t wait to leave for Beidu immediately, but it was impossible, there was no car at all at this time.

The next day was Saturday. There was no such thing as a double weekend in this era, but the school did not have evening self-study on Saturday nights.

After the afternoon class, Mingyue packed her schoolbag while asking Haitang: “What are your plans for tomorrow afternoon off?”

Haitang packed her textbooks into her schoolbag while replying: “Review at home, what’s the matter, do you have something to do?”

Mingyue stopped what she was doing and grabbed Haitang’s arm and said, “No way, you only have half a day off, and you don’t relax at all, you are pushing yourself too hard!

I’m going to Fragrant Hills tomorrow to see the red leaves and sketch, why don’t you come with me? In this season, the scenery of the Fragrant Hills red leaf scenic spot is so beautiful.

You can’t study to death, you have to combine work and rest, you know?”