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Her Mountain, Her Sea - Chapter 23

Published at 13th of May 2022 06:49:38 AM


Chapter 23

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Chapter 23 – Rainwater

The overcast and rainy days in Nanlin City made Chi Tang a little unbearable. The trees were full of water, and the green leaves became clearer day by day.

The sky was always a lead-gray color, the ground was always wet, and the leaves were dripping with water. The flowers that bloomed in spring were trembling from the rain. Without any delicate appearance, they only bloomed for a day or two, and the petals fell in the flowerbed.

In the next semester, the student in the Chinese class had to memorize “The Way of Shu”. The teacher in charge of the class finished the lesson with the bell and finally told everyone to memorize and write important points.

“I have to recite, and I have to recite, why Li Bai can’t let us go! He has to recite everything he wrote!” A boy shouted in pain.

“It’s hard to memorize, it’s hard to get to the blue sky!” Hei Pi shouted while writing.

“It’s okay to m, math is really hard!” His deskmate had different ideas.

“Chinese is okay, I really can’t memorize English. It would be great if I didn’t have to study English anymore!”

“Think beautiful!”

That teaching building was for first-year high school, and it was noisy after class. It was completely different from the third-year high school building behind it. Very few people come out of the corridor after class.

The toilet was overcrowded again, and Chi Tang ran to the farther toilet in the rain. There was not much rain outside. She was not used to holding an umbrella. She went out under the drizzle. When she came back, her head and shoulders were a little wet. When she sat down, a little rain fell on the table.

You Yu raised her head and looked at her hair, “You didn’t take an umbrella to go out.”

Chi Tang hummed indifferently and took a pen to write and draw in a small notebook. Feeling You Yu’s gaze, she immediately closed the notebook and looked at her.

You Yu had to turn her head back, pretending that she didn’t see it. She knew what was written in Chi Tang’s notebook, that should be the lyrics, Chi Tang wrote herself. She liked to sing, although she didn’t sing in front of others very much, she sang very well.

You Yu couldn’t help thinking, would Chi Tang want to sing in the future?
Chi Tang was embarrassed to let her classmates see her lyrics. She was still trying to write a song, and it was difficult. She glanced at the sentence in the Chinese textbook that was full of horizontal lines, which was more difficult than “The Way of Shu”.

The girls at the back table were talking about celebrities, talking about their favorite male celebrities’ gossip.

The boy on the right was chatting about games, saying that his parents did not allow him to play with mobile phones at home, and asked friends to go to the Internet cafe on weekends.

A bunch of boys behind were discussing playing basketball in the gym because the weather didn’t allow them to play outside, so they discussed asking the teacher for the gym key.

The two girls in the front row were memorizing in a low voice, wanting to hurry up and finish the memorizing task assigned by the teacher.

Chi Tang thought about the lyrics he had just written and looked at the rain outside the window a little distracted. It’s annoying to be a student. I’m stuck here every day. I don’t know what I’m learning. What is the use of learning?

She saw You Yu on the other side, she had closed her language book. She probably had difficulty memorizing The Way of Shu.

In the classroom, Chi Tang thought that only You Yu had a good impression of learning, and she couldn’t even bother to go out between classes.

Chi Tang thought so. During the next class, You Yu, who had been sitting on her seat, suddenly stood up and asked her, “Do you want to use the toilet?”

When they walked out of the teaching building, You Yu opened up a red umbrella. The umbrella was not big. The word Kita was written on it which was a gift.

The little red umbrella was like a flower, held on top of their
heads, protecting them against the fine rain. The three words of Kitata swayed and swayed above the head, like an unfulfilled blessing.
Halfway through, the rain suddenly became heavy, and the water in the potholes on the ground rippled.

Chi Tang looked back, she didn’t like rainy days, and she was growing to hate them more and more.

The mood of teenagers was like changing weather, especially in Chi Tang. Her mood changed with the weather in Nanlin City.

You Yu used to have no particular preference for sunny and rainy days, but that whole spring, she felt as if she had been infected by Chi Tang, and she also came to dislike rainy days.

Spring was a period of frequent colds. Several people in the class had coughs. Unfortunately, Chi Tang was recruited. On the contrary, You Yu’s body which was not wearing much was in good health and did not give any chance to the illness.

“Drink some hot water.”

Chi Tang listened to the care of her deskmate and couldn’t help but complain about her, “Do you know how people describe straight men online?”

You Yu didn’t even have a mobile phone so she didn’t know how to surf the Internet. “Huh?”

Chi Tang: “Drink plenty of hot water.”

You Yu was still at a loss, and pushed the hot water in front of her, repeating: “Drink more hot water.”

Chi Tang: “You left the entertainment world of our young people, do you know?”

You Yu just laughed, “Do you want to take medicine? Take medicine and heal quickly.”

Chi Tang was not prepared to take medicine, it was not in line with her temperament to take medicine for such a minor illness. But always sniffing was also not in line with her temperament. She felt like she sniffed and You Yu next to her glanced over, making the teacher on the stage unable to help but look at her.

Chi Tang still went to buy cold medicine.

Took a pill, motioned You Yu to look over, and she swallowed it.

You Yu stood up: “Do you want water?”

Chi Tang: “No, I want you to see, I can swallow the pills without water.”

Seeing You Yu’s expression, Chi Tang added another sentence: “Also, to let you see that I have taken medicine, so when I sniff and cough in class, don’t look at me again.”

You Yu expressed her understanding.

After the wave of flu passed, spring was almost over.

On the long-lost sunny days after the rainy days, the manic sun was fully fired, the ground was dried within half a day, and the trees on the campus were lighted up. Every leaf was dazzling green in the sun, like gems.

They put on school uniforms and coats, and they only need to wear a long sleeves inside. Some of them are particularly afraid of the heat. They directly wore short sleeves, walked on the playground, and enjoyed the rare sunshine in early summer.

Chi Tang, who had been moldy for a season in the humid spring, finally gave a face-saving smile to the sun.

You Yu suddenly laughed for some reason.

Chi Tang: “?”

You Yu: “I thought of yesterday’s test. Did you fill in the blanks of The Way of Shu?” She didn’t. She thought Chi Tang squinting her eyes while basking in the sun was very interesting, like the cat owned by the owner of the small shop.

Chi Tang looked at her for a moment, clasped her arms, and grimaced: “You are so happy that you laughed out of the question that I did wrong. Excuse me, are you still a human?”

You Yu: “Did you memorize it?”

Chi Tang: “Don’t ask!”

You Yu: “I’ll memorize, you listen.” If you listen you will unconsciously memorize, she thought.

If Chi Tang liked to sing and write lyrics, she had to learn Chinese.





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