Chapter 7 After School

The two classes in the afternoon ended quickly.

Jun Matsueda took out his cell phone and checked the time: 15:30.

How cool, he sighed in his heart.

When he was in China, he never left school before sunset.

"Songzhi, come with me to the office." The class teacher, Xiaominato Shengzi, rarely looks for students after school.

Jun Matsueda followed Shoko Kominato and let his thoughts fly in the corridor.

Why did he feel like he was always trailing behind others lately? He stretched out his long legs and surpassed the petite Xiaocou Shengzi in a few steps.

A successful and outstanding person must walk in front of everyone and lead them forward, Jun Matsueda warned himself.

Kominato Shoko watched her student walk in front of her and led her into the office.

"Matsueda, do you want to be a teacher's teacher?" She returned to her seat and sat down. Matsueda Jun did not compete with her.

"I just feel that Teacher Kominato walks a little slowly." Kominato Shengzi, the head teacher of Class 2, Grade 1, is 1.59 meters tall.

Teacher Kominato sat up straight on the sofa, her face tense, trying to maintain her teacher's dignity. However, the way she sat on the chair, looking up at Matsueda Jun with her round face was really too cute.

I heard that all the girls in the school like her very much and call her a "sister-type teacher."

"You need to make up the classes you missed while you were suspended, otherwise your grades will drop."

"There's no need, teacher. My grades have always been very stable."

Since the beginning of the school year, Jun Matsueda has been ranked around the top 30 in his grade. There are a total of 6 classes in the first year of high school, with more than 30 students in each class. His grades are excellent, if not outstanding.

"And the teacher knows that I need to work and don't have that much time." Jun Matsueda tried to persuade him with emotion and reason.

"Then make sure you have enough time to study." This wasn't Xiaominato Shengzi's main goal. "The first semester is almost over. How are you feeling?"

"Hyokaku High School is very good to its students, and the teachers are very caring towards me. I am most grateful to Mr. Kominato for helping me apply for a permit to work outside the school."

Xiao Minato Shengzi rolled his eyes at him and said, "Your attitude in speaking clichés now is not as sincere as before."

Jun Matsueda smiled and looked out the window. Students from the sports club were still sweating on the playground.

Xiaominato Shengzi paused before speaking, "The previous rumors didn't affect you, did they?"

"Yes, I quit my part-time job and now I have to find a new one." Jun Matsueda spread his hands, indicating his precarious financial situation. Thanks to Tomatsu-san, his account is already in jeopardy.

"That's not what I'm talking about." She picked up a pen and tapped it on her desk. "Has it affected your classmates' opinions of you? And your club activities? You didn't go back to your home department, did you? Why haven't I seen you join the club after school?"

He put his hands in front of his eyes and made a photo-taking gesture. "I'm from the News Department. It's okay if I don't attend the daily department activities."

Jun Matsueda originally applied for the position because the news department was not busy, and he could also earn some royalties. Although it wasn't much, it was better than nothing.

Xiao Minato Shengzi opened her mouth slightly and spit out the worries in her heart, "As long as you are fine, come and ask the teacher for help if you need any help."

After Kominato Shoko discovered that Matsueda Jun was an orphan, she always cared about him. Matsueda Jun hated the sympathy and strange looks people gave him when they found out he was an orphan, but he felt very natural around the little teacher Kominato.

"Mr. Kominato, I think your classmates are wrong about you."

"What"

"Not a younger sister teacher, but an older sister teacher."

Teacher Kominato picked up the lesson plan on the table, stood up and wanted to hit Jun Matsueda on the head, but she couldn't reach it. In the end, she could only roll up the lesson plan and stab him hard in the chest.

Matsueda Jun had a strange expression on his face: "Do you girls all like to hit the same spot?"

After escaping from Kominato Shoko's continuous questioning, Matsueda Jun returned to the classroom to get his schoolbag and prepared to ride his bike home.

When I arrived at the school gate, I found Tomatsu Tomoka and Mochizuki Haruka were both at the door.

"What are you doing?" Jun Matsueda stopped pushing the cart.

"I want to go home from school with Jun-kun." Tomatsu Tomoka held her bag in both hands and placed it in front of her. This action made people's attention unconsciously focus on the girl's chest.

Mochizuki Haruka didn't need to carry her own bag. She stood beside Tomatsu Tomoka with her arms crossed. This was her signature pose, completely covering up her already small breasts.

Matsueda Jun didn't answer the waiting girl, but looked at Mochizuki Haruka, "So, Mochizuki-san, do you want to talk to me about something?"

Mochizuki Haruka first quickly scanned Matsueda Jun from head to toe. He was pushing the handlebars with both hands, a bag slung over his left shoulder, his bangs blown by the evening breeze, and one button of his white shirt undone, revealing his slender neck and prominent Adam's apple.

The boy in front of me looks younger than the male protagonist in Japanese dramas.

She imprinted the handsome boy's appearance firmly in her mind, but she said, "I'm waiting for my car."

In fact, she just saw Tomatsu Tomoka waiting at the school gate. No matter what Tomatsu Tomoka wanted to do, Mochizuki Haruka would not let her succeed.

"Then you continue to wait. Jun and I will leave first." Tomatsu Tomoka said immediately.

Mochizuki Haruka opened her mouth and changed her lip shape several times, but she said nothing, just looked at Matsueda Jun.

It was as if she had been dependent on Matsueda Jun for a long time. Matsueda Jun thought about it carefully. The Mochizuki family were the sponsors of the Haneoka Orphanage. When he was still in the orphanage, there was indeed a gentle aunt named Mochizuki who came to visit him.

Could it be that at that time the aunt was with a little girl named Yao, and they had actually met before, but had forgotten because it had been so long?

Jun Matsueda has a good memory and he is sure that he does not have any unexpected childhood sweetheart.

I don't want to think about it anymore, I'm anxious to work. Matsueda Jun said: "A person who rides a car, a person who walks, and a person who chases the wind are destined to be unable to travel together."

He spoke like a romantic poet reciting a tragedy.

After he got on his bike to chase the evening breeze, Tomatsu Touka, who said she wanted to walk, got on her bike and left, but Mochizuki Haruka walked out of the school gate alone, followed by her bodyguard carrying a bag.

The lights were green all the way, and Jun Matsueda rode for more than ten minutes until he arrived at the downstairs of his apartment building. He did not stop and rode across another intersection.

The bicycle stopped in front of a convenience store, and an old man with silver hair peeked out of the store.

"Matsueda-kun is here again?"

Matsueda Jun nodded and got out of the car. "I quit my last job, so I came to see Grandpa Kashida."

The old man's name was Kashida Kiyonori, and he opened a convenience store called Mitaka Forest. Mitaka Forest had been there since Jun Matsueda was a sapling.

The convenience store is run by an old man alone. When Jun Matsueda is not working long-term, he comes here to help him move goods.

Jun Matsueda walked into the store and a head with short braids appeared from behind the counter.

"Brother Songzhi!" The old man didn't know his granddaughter's name, and his grandfather called her Xiaohua, so Songzhi Jun also called her Xiaohua.

Jun Matsueda rubbed her head, went into the workshop and changed into the clothes she used to move goods in the store, dark green overalls.

He rolled up his shirt sleeves to his shoulders and walked out the back door of the convenience store. An Isuzu truck had just stopped and the driver rolled down his window and waved.

"Matsueda-kun, long time no see!"

Jun Matsueda called out "Sister Baizhi". Women like him to call her that.

The woman driving the car was Maruyama Momoe. She had studied comics in college and hadn't found a job two years after graduation. Her father had previously delivered goods for Kashida, so they were old acquaintances.

One time when she came to see her father, she saw Jun Matsueda moving goods in the Mitaka Forest Store, and the person who came to deliver the goods turned out to be Maruyama Momoe.

Perhaps because of the time travel, Jun Matsueda's memory and physical condition are exceptionally good, and he can move three boxes at a time without any effort.

He was moving boxes while listening to the conversation at the front door. Sweat ran down his shoulders and forearms, and Maruyama Momoe's mouth was sweating too. She secretly took out her phone to shoot a video, zooming in and out, from Matsueda Jun's face to his taut arms, and sent it to her best friend in the harbor.

My best friend immediately replied: "You didn't stay in the city after graduation just to chase this kind of top-notch high school student?"

"When can I touch this body?"

Finally, there's a cat emoji with heart eyes.

After showing off, Maruyama Momoe chuckled twice. She was not bad looking, with a face like a high school student, and her sportswear covered her S-shaped figure.

"Matsueda-kun, wipe the sweat off your face." She approached with a handkerchief.

Jun Matsueda, who was carrying the goods with both hands, did not refuse.

After moving all the boxes into the warehouse and sorting out the piled-up goods, Songzhi returned to the workshop, threw his overalls into the washing machine, and changed back into his school uniform's black suit pants.

When they returned to the convenience store, the old man had already brought the food from the second floor, and Maruyama Momoe and Xiaohua were both sitting at the small table.

Today's dinner is golden fried pork cutlet rice with hot miso soup.

The old man asked Matsueda Jun to sit down and handed him a ten thousand yuan bill.

This is the new version of the banknote. Fukuzawa Yukichi is gone, replaced by a portrait of a man in a suit.

"So many?" Jun Matsueda put down the chopsticks he had picked up.

"The money for moving the goods this time, and the money I asked you to take Xiaohua to school for a week." The old man smiled.

"I like Xiaohua very much. I don't need so much." He pinched the girl's face which was puffed up because of wolfing down the food.

I really like it, it feels good.

"Just take it if I tell you to!" The old man began to puff out his beard and glare.

Jun Matsueda had no choice but to accept the money, picked up the chopsticks, and muttered in his heart.

"My tears wet my pork chop rice, I swear to make a million!"

After returning home, Jun Matsueda turned on his phone. Many avatars on Line were flashing, and he clicked on two of them.

"I wasn't the one who spread the story about Mochizuki-san and Jun-kun." This is a rabbit avatar, sent by Tomatsu Touka.

"I have something to talk to you about tomorrow." Cat avatar, sent by Mochizuki Haruka.

(End of this chapter)

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