Rebirth: Starting from Saving the Desperate Girl

Chapter 128: The Farmer is Exposed (Two in One!)
"When did he come?"

Bai Congqiu replied casually and lowered his head again, seemingly not caring.

"It's been a few days... I transferred here."

The girl walked in, untied her hairband, and her long hair immediately cascaded down like a waterfall.

As usual, she came to the rocking chair and sat down in it without caring about her image.

She took off her shoes, curled up her body, and put her smooth calves under her skirt together.

The white socks were very clean in the sunlight, and the cuffs were embroidered with lace.

"It's normal for her to come. I have to meet her anyway... Not only my aunt, but my mother also means this."

"Mother?"

"Ah."

Bai Congqiu glanced at her.

"I wanted to leave before because I happened to have an exchange quota, so I wanted to go out and see the world. Secondly, I felt that I had just experienced something like that, so if I went out to relax and make more friends, I would probably forget it faster."

"……Maybe."

Bai Congdong picked up the tablet that was originally placed on the rocking chair and responded while swiping on the screen randomly.

The voice was noncommittal.

After all, it happened a long time ago. Even if I still hold a grudge, make a fuss and cry about it at the time, it has now slowly faded away with the passage of time and no longer feels real.

"I heard his business is doing pretty well now."

"……how do you know?"

Hearing this, Bai Congdong stopped scratching the tablet.

There was silence for about three to five seconds before the answer came slowly.

"Mom said it."

The girl frowned slightly, opened the tablet again and clicked on the web page.

After thinking about it, I searched for Anxin Forum, clicked in, and searched for Changpu Middle School.

A series of posts appeared before my eyes.

But she didn't see what she wanted to see. There were more questions about this middle school and whether it was really as the rumors said...

So I turned off the tablet and threw it aside.

"When are you going to go find him?"

"Why are you looking for it?"

Bai Congdong was startled and turned around to look.

Through the vine-woven chair ropes, she saw her sister still with her head down, reading quietly, with little emotion on her face, just calm and peaceful.

Perhaps she noticed her sister's gaze, so she explained softly, "Now that you're here, you can't run away."

"It doesn't matter if we meet in a few days... As long as we are in school, we can always run into each other."

Hearing this answer that was full of déjà vu, Bai Congdong pursed his lips, feeling inexplicably uncomfortable.

"……Row."

She sat back in the rocking chair and said nothing.

In the afternoon, I just took a nap in the rocking chair in front of the window.

It was not until the bell rang for class that she stretched comfortably again.

The beautiful curves are clearly visible under the sun.

"Aren't you curious about what I told him?"

The girl took her feet down from the rocking chair, stood on tiptoe, and tried to put on her shoes.

Behind her, Bai Congqiu was staring out the window in a daze, but when he heard his sister's question, he looked away.

She replied: "It's nothing more than how have you been these years, why is it so sudden, long time no see, etc."

The voice paused.

"But that's really all we can talk about."

When she finished, the girl put on her shoes, glanced at her sister, and smiled, "That's it...after all, it's been so many years."

As he spoke, he walked out the door.

"Take your time. There's no rush."

"And I don't have any position. To be honest, in his eyes, I'm probably just an ordinary... a little bit above...?"

She frowned, recalling the boy's indifferent attitude at noon, and her tone was a little unconfident.

I don’t know whether I am saying these words to my sister or to myself.

"Isn't that normal?"

Bai Congqiu asked back, looking up at his sister... this cute girl who always looked lively.

The latter heard this and was about to answer when the voice quickly sounded again.

"Besides, what position do you want?"

"Just like you said... who would take a child's words seriously?"

Someone paused, and it was obvious that he was choked by what she said.

So he slowly turned around and walked back.

The two sisters looked at each other like this, and Bai Congdong suddenly spoke.

"By the way, the Arts Department is going to add a new performance."

"What show?"

"Solo dance."

Bai Congqiu was startled and asked subconsciously: "Didn't you say that you don't want to do the same thing a second time?"

"Did I say that?"

The girl blinked.

Bai Congqiu took a deep breath and lowered his head to continue reading.

"Forget it, it's up to you."

"——There should be an accompaniment."

"Who?"

Bai Congdong did not answer this time, but a smile appeared on his face with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

She put her hands behind her back and walked briskly.

But just as she was about to walk out of the room, she suddenly turned back.

"By the way, sister...it's time to turn the page."

Behind the long table, Bai Congqiu flipped through the book in his hand. His expression remained calm, without any embarrassment of being exposed.

When the door closed, there was a click.

She thought about it and took out the envelope from the drawer. It was dark yellow, wrinkled, and had a missing corner.

She rubbed the letter lightly with her white fingertips.

His eyes flickered, and I don't know what he was thinking.

……

……

Bai Congdong walked out of the president's office, raised his hand to block the sunlight in the corridor, and squinted his eyes.

Of course, she didn't know what her sister behind her was thinking, but when she passed the dance studio on the third floor, she couldn't help but think of yesterday afternoon after school.

It was here that I learned the news.

……

"There's a new transfer student in our class recently... He's pretty handsome."

Ye Qianqian was typing frantically on her phone while doing two things at the same time and chatting with her best friend.

"Why, are you moved?"

"Pah... I'm not interested in men."

Ye Qianqian snorted and paused while typing.

She thought of something, put down her phone, moved closer to the girl, and whispered, "But I feel like our class monitor... seems to have an unusual relationship with that transfer student."

"Hey, do you want to listen?"

Unfortunately, Bai Congdong did not do as she wished and rejected her mercilessly.

"I'm not as gossipy as you are."

Ye Qianqian frowned and glared at her. She was always holding this gossip in her heart, like a mouthful of phlegm that she couldn't spit out, making her feel very uncomfortable.

So he grabbed the girl's arm and refused to give in.

"Listen, tell me now, you want to listen, you want to listen..."

Bai Congdong couldn't stand her anymore, so he raised his eyebrows and tickled her with his backhand.

"Hey, wait...you're attacking again!"

Ye Qianqian exclaimed, and then, not willing to be outdone, she also went to tickle her.

The two girls soon rolled into a ball, making all kinds of thudding noises on the wooden floor of the dance studio.

From time to time, there were exclamations and embarrassed laughter.

"Stop it now, you're cheating! You said you wouldn't touch that!"

"You touched it first!"

"I just tickled you, where did I touch???"

This time, it was Bai Congdong who couldn't withstand the attack first. Her face turned red, and she covered her chest and rolled backwards several times.

When he stood up again, his uniform was disheveled and his hair stuck to his forehead which was slightly sweaty.

"Forget it, if you don't want to listen then don't listen..."

Ye Qianqian was also tired and collapsed on the ground, too lazy to move.

She fished out her phone from her skirt, used her hands to push her hair out of her eyes, and continued to argue with the black guy. "I told you, your brother has run out of ideas a long time ago. Otherwise, considering how popular he was in the past few years, why didn't he release any songs all of a sudden?"

Looking at the words typed by the other party, Ye Qianqian's little hands tapped on the phone quickly.

"Is it necessary? Don't these few songs crush the hundreds of songs you recommended? Do you understand what quality is king? They are better than those shoddy ones!"

She first accidentally muted the other person for ten minutes, then continued typing and questioning.

"say!"

Then turn off the phone and withdraw in one stroke.

A set of small combos completed in one go.

Then she took out the mp3 and headphones from her skirt and put them on herself.

Seeing that she seemed to have called a truce, Bai Congdong breathed a sigh of relief and paced back.

"give me one."

"what?"

"earphone."

Ye Qianqian was stunned and took one of them and handed it to her.

"Don't you like listening to these songs?"

Knowing that her good friend had been listening to so-called "elegant" piano and violin music since she was a child, and had also participated in many concerts held by world-class music masters, Ye Qianqian never thought that she would ask her for headphones.

"Change your taste."

Bai Congdong answered casually.

In fact, she doesn't have the problems that Ye Qianqian thinks. Whether she listens or not depends on her mood.

I've been feeling upset lately, so when I saw it, I just asked for it.

"But the songs stored in my mp3 are all old songs from many years ago... You probably won't like them."

Ye Qianqian muttered, adjusted the volume, then looked out the window and sighed.

"Alas, the monitor is still too stubborn. I can't get any new information out of her..."

"If I don't listen to gossip, will you die?"

"That's not the case, but this kind of half-knowledge of gossip... is the most uncomfortable, okay?"

Ye Qianqian mumbled an explanation.

At this time, the prelude of the song in the headphones also played. The two stopped talking and listened to the song quietly together at the sunset outside the floor-to-ceiling window.

"The prelude to this song... is interesting."

After a while, Bai Congdong spoke.

"Hey, you think this is my favorite prelude..."

Ye Qianqian moved her butt closer to her, her tone quite proud.

"But it starts off with something... gibberish."

Bai Congdong frowned slightly and was about to continue his sharp comments when the tune in his ears suddenly changed.

The hazy male voice gradually became clear, with an indescribable clarity that was unique to teenagers.

For some reason, she didn't speak in a hurry, but her brows unconsciously frowned deeper and deeper.

Sentence after sentence, the singing is much lighter and faster than other songs of this era, and it is unique.

Until... the melody suddenly turned again, becoming urgent and rising.

In a trance, a familiar lyric and melody suddenly popped into my mind.

Ye Qianqian on the side was also humming softly.

"The clock in the time travel picture... starts moving in the opposite direction."

The girl couldn't help but be stunned.

The singing in my ears is still there, and the clear boy's voice is becoming clearer and clearer, as if it has traveled through time and is ringing in my ears.

It’s not that this song shocked her... maybe she was a little surprised, but definitely not shocked.

It was that line of lyrics and that inexplicably familiar boy’s voice.

Any one of them alone is far from being like this.

It is the combination of the two that slowly pries out those memories that were once buried in the deepest parts.

But at that time, he didn't have any accompaniment... nor did he have the conditions, so he could only sing a cappella, and his voice didn't sound as mature as it does now, but more childish.

……

"…Huh, I finally found it."

"Why, is this the crybaby's secret base?"

"Don't cry...Okay, cry if you want to. Why did you hide and make me look for you for so long?"

"Well, I'll sing a song for you..."

Those memories are so old that they seem to be covered by a thick veil, and even the boy’s face is almost blurred.

Only his voice began to overlap with the clear singing in the headphones.

Today it is today.

Bai Congdong could no longer remember the details of that day. He only remembered that it was raining heavily, he was in a bad mood, and he secretly ran out of the house alone.

I remember that the boy walked in the park for a long time in the heavy rain in order to find her. When he found her, she was soaked and every strand of her hair was still dripping with water.

Silly.

Fortunately, she was not that stupid and took an umbrella before leaving...

The girl thought about it and wiped her eyes.

The memory gradually becomes clearer with the singing in the headphones.

The secret base, made up of a few pieces of worn-out wooden boards picked up from the construction site and some lotus leaves, reappeared before our eyes.

She seemed to see a girl crying inside.

I cried and asked him why he didn't hold an umbrella.

"…I was a little anxious, so I didn't think too much about it. It's actually normal, just getting a little wet in the rain."

"It's okay, as long as I find it."

He smiled.

……

The song ended quickly and my thoughts gradually returned.

Bai Congdong took a deep breath and tried to keep her tone calm. She asked, "What's the name of this song?"

"Well?"

Ye Qianqian was a little confused. She didn't expect that she would care about this, but it was certainly a good thing that someone liked her brother's song.

She chuckled and replied, "The clock is in the opposite direction."

Ye Qianqian read out a comment she had seen in the comment section before, her tone full of emotion.

"If you listen to the clock going in the opposite direction 10,000 times, can you go back to the past?"

Even though she didn't have anything to go back to...she was perfectly happy with her childhood.

"boring."

A familiar and sharp comment came from beside me.

“But I really think this sentence sounds very touching…”

Ye Qianqian turned around, but when she saw her best friend, she was stunned.

"Why are your eyes red?"

"Blown by the wind."

The girl stood up expressionlessly and walked towards the door.

Ye Qianqian was stunned for a moment and looked at the huge floor-to-ceiling window in front of her that was completely closed.

Where does the wind come from?
But she didn't have time to think about it, because the girl was about to walk out of the dance studio.

She hurried to catch up.

He took out his MP3 player and started selling his brother's other works to Bai Congdong.

"Don't you know how to play the piano? I tell you, even the farmer can play it!"

“I really like this song of his!”

Bai Congdong took the headphones and said, "Just listen to the song just now."

"Hey... aren't you talking about rapping Jiligulu or something?"

Bai Congdong ignored her and listened to music while walking.

The boy sang many more songs back then, but only one or two lines from them, not the whole song.

"Okay, okay, okay... just listen to this one."

Ye Qianqian was a little speechless, and muttered: "But you know what, I heard the new transfer student speak, and his voice is quite similar to that of Nongfu Shanren."

"You care about him so much?"

"It's not that I care. I'm just thinking that if I still can't get anything out of the squad leader, can I try a roundabout way and ask him directly?"

"you're so boring."

"It's not me who is boring, it's my dull and boring high school life that is boring..."

Faced with sharp comments from her friends, Ye Qianqian was already used to it and wasn't angry. She just continued to mutter to herself.

"Chen An, Chen An... please don't let me down."

Under the dim sky, the girl paused.

She turned her head slightly stiffly.

"What did you say his name was?"

"Chen An."

Ye Qianqian answered immediately.

(End of this chapter)