Age of Legends

Chapter 43 Meeting

"How do you have my home phone number?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Ask Zheng Xue for it."

"Well, what's the matter?"

"Nothing, I stayed after school today to discuss the holiday bulletin board, and you were gone during that time." Shen Nuo said calmly. But it sounded so good through the microphone, like someone was speaking in his ear.

Zhang Chen thought, we didn't even plan to go home together after school, so why are you calling? "This is your home phone number, I'll save it."

"Yes. By the way, I was worried about your grades before, but now, it seems that you have suddenly come to your senses. You did very well in the exam this time and have made great progress. Congratulations to you."

As Shen Nuoyi said this, Zhang Chen was slightly stunned. She was worried about her grades before? When did she worry about it? She worried silently without saying anything. Finally, she called to congratulate him.

This formal feeling...

It feels so good.

"Well, that's it. There's nothing else to say. I'm hanging up now."

"Wait a moment."

"Ok?"

"It's like this. Although I have worked hard to reach 579 points, I still feel that there is a bottleneck..."

Shen Nuoyi's voice came, "I know you scored 579. No need to repeat. That's amazing. What's next?"

"Haha, you don't have to be so fake."

Shen Nuoyi scored 645, ranking 43rd in the school. This was a high-end game where one point could overwhelm a group of heroes, and Zhang Chen, at most, had passed the first-tier line, and had not yet reached the 600-point king game. When he met Shen Nuoyi, who ranked in the city, he could beat hundreds of people with one hand.

Zhang Chen continued, "I just feel that there are still many knowledge points that I don't understand, and I want to consult you. Are you free during the winter vacation? I'd like to do exercises with you to make up for the lessons."

Zhang Chen was blessed and the person he wanted to thank at this moment was Zhuang Yanyue. Thank you for the inspiration given by Lao Zhuang. He applied what he learned further and asked the girl to come out for study and tutoring together. Two plus one equals five, isn't this a date?
Shen Nuoyi was obviously silent for a few seconds.

Just when Zhang Chen was wondering if it was too obvious for her to see through, her voice came, "Then, how is the tuition fee calculated?"

"Ah?" Zhang Chen opened his mouth, somewhat breaking his perception of Shen Nuoyi. He still wants me to pay for extra lessons?
But soon, the laughter from the other end of the phone made Zhang Chen realize that this girl was making fun of him.

"How about this, I'm going to go to school to make a bulletin board cultural wall during the holidays, you come to help, and then we can do homework together and study, and it will be considered as tuition fees."

"Are you recruiting young men? Are you short of staff as the cultural and arts committee member?"

"Are you coming or not..."

"Come."

hang up the phone.

Shen Nuoyi’s soft and magnetic voice is still ringing in my ears, and the tone at the end... was it a act of coquettishness?

The cultural wall during the holiday, and the space where he and Shen Nuo were alone in the classroom, Zhang Chen clenched his fist, and then pulled it back into the air.

Oh yeah!
Only then did I realize that Huang Huifen was standing there on the balcony opposite the living room and connected to the master bedroom.

Zhang Chen was startled, then looked carefully at Huang Huifen's expression.

"Mom, you walk without making any sound!"

Huang Huifen's expression was hidden in the semi-dark shadows. She asked, "Female classmates...?"

Zhang Chen was groaning in his heart. Given Huang Huifen's personality, he didn't know if she would argue with him and force him to tell the whole story of the phone call.

"Just..." Zhang Chen was thinking about how to explain it in his mind.

Huang Huifen walked by, holding Zhang Chen's clothes that he had collected from the balcony and was about to put them back in Zhang Chen's room. At this time, he turned around and said, "You and others made an appointment to go to school to make a bulletin board during the holiday and do homework together."

After putting Zhang Chen's clothes back into his bedroom, Huang Huifen came out and rolled her eyes at him, "What's the big deal? I'm not deaf! Yeah!" Zhang Chen was left there, having thought of a hundred excuses but being made so abstract by Huang Huifen that he was speechless.

However, when he found that Huang Huifen no longer questioned him about such things, Zhang Chen suddenly realized that he seemed to have greater autonomy now.

Is it because of that essay and your own grades?

It turns out that all of Huang Huifen’s anxiety and emotional instability during those years were closely related to herself?
……

After returning to the bedroom, Huang Huifen said to Zhang Zhonghua, "I was outside just now and heard your son talking on the phone with Shen Nuoyi!"

Zhang Zhonghua was surprised, "Shen Nuoyi?"

Shen Nuoyi was the goddess among the children of the three divisions and four courtyards, how could they not know that? Last time Zhang Chen went there and caused trouble for others, Huang Huifen was furious when she heard what Zheng Xue said, and she beat Zhang Chen.

"What did you say on the phone?" Zhang Zhonghua asked.

"We made an appointment to study together! We had a great chat and I saw he was very excited! And yeah!" Huang Huifen said.

Zhang Zhonghua nodded and said, "It's a good thing."

He didn't expect his son's grades to improve, and he even made an appointment to study with Shen Nuoyi. Shen Nuoyi was always among the top students in the class, so he shouldn't let him affect his grades!
This is what I thought of first. But then again, am I thinking too much? How can it affect Shen Nuoyi? Shen Nuoyi will not be disturbed by his son. They are not high school students in a premature relationship! I am thinking too much! And even if they are interested, Shen Nuoyi's father is the general manager and his mother is also very successful in the TV station. Their family backgrounds are different.

Zhang Zhonghua sighed again.

Looking at Huang Huifen again, she was leaning against the bed, holding Zhang Chen's Chinese test paper in her hand, and reading the composition.

I don’t know why, but the essay was not sentimental and was full of positive energy.

But Huang Huifen just couldn't help crying.

……

In Shen Nuoyi's large flat home with a small courtyard, after finishing her phone call with Zhang Chen, she had returned to her desk, ready to read before going to bed.

But she read for a long time without getting into the book.

She thought about the scene when she agreed with the student on duty today on the time to make the blackboard newspaper, and then came out from the back door and saw Zhang Chen and Zhuang Yanyue at the intersection.

Zhuang Yanyue seemed to be asking him for his phone number, and Zhang Chen finally gave it to her. At the end, Zhuang Yanyue even snatched a kebab from him.

When Shen Nuo returned home, he thought for a long time and asked Zheng Xue for Zhang Chen's home phone number on the pretext of congratulating Zhang Chen.

Before she called, she picked up the phone and put it down again, repeating this many times. Finally, her mother in the inner room came out and scolded her, saying that her grandmother couldn't get through to the outer room, so what was she doing?
After making the routine greeting call to his grandmother, Shen Nuoyi finally took a deep breath, mustered up his courage, and called Zhang Chen's home.

And the final result...

pretty good.

So, in the dark and dark night.

The two are already looking forward to meeting each other during the holidays...

……

Just before going to bed at night, Shen Nuoyi suddenly put on his clothes and ran out to grill a bunch of skewers at a barbecue stall on the street.

Shen Nuoyi's mother had a cucumber for beauty treatment on her face. When she saw her daughter wash her hair and come back, she said in surprise, "You'll get fat if you eat barbecue tonight!"

Shen Nuo handed some barbecue to his mother, "Do you want some?"

"I don't want it. I don't want to get fat! Eat it and become a little fat man." Shen's mother said with a smile, "Why did you think of eating? Don't you have a midnight snack at night? If you said you were hungry earlier, I would make it for you."

Shen Nuo turned around, her long black hair falling down her shoulders, and responded with a puffy mouth.

"I just... suddenly wanted to taste the skewers."

(End of this chapter)