I was enraged and wanted to chase after the elementary school student who broke the streetlight with a slingshot, but Gong CaiCai's scream made me stop.
"My eyes … my eyes!"
Gong CaiCai's action of rubbing her eyes scared me quite a bit. I thought it was the light bulb that pierced her eyeballs, but then I realized it was just some dust that fell into her eyes.
The elementary school student who was wearing a red scarf was hiding in the bushes when he saw Gong CaiCai bending over and covering her eyes. He knew he got into trouble, so he turned around and ran.
"Damn elementary school student!" I waved my fist at his back, "If I catch you next time, I'll definitely kick you into a sh * t pit!"
If it wasn't because I couldn't leave Gong CaiCai behind, I would have already caught that little brat. Also, I had to be extra careful and remind myself not to fall for other people's luring tactics.
"Again?" The old security guard on duty in the mail room saw the streetlight in front of the school gate go out, so he chased after the red scarf with a flashlight.
"Stop! You little slingshot scum! This is the third time this month! "
The old security guard chased after the red scarf in a flustered and exasperated manner, but the red scarf ran very fast. As a security guard, he can't leave his post for too long, so he probably won't be able to catch the criminal this time.
I also took out a Swiss army knife with a flashlight function after the old security guard's reminder. I illuminated the surroundings that suddenly became dark because the light bulb went out.
"Did you blindfold your eyes?" I asked Gong CaiCai, "Is it serious?"
"No, it's not serious …" Gong CaiCai opened her left eye with difficulty, "But when I rubbed my eyes, I rubbed off my contact lenses. I only found one, I think the other one fell on the ground …"
I waved the flashlight around the ground, but I didn't see where the contact lenses were. Transparent contact lenses would easily disappear even during the day, let alone during the night when there were no streetlights and it was getting darker.
I didn't think Gong CaiCai's luck wouldn't be that bad. She squatted on the ground and felt around, and she actually found the lost contact lens.
But no matter what, the contact lenses were covered in sand, so it was impossible to put them on before cleaning them.
"Crap, crap, I didn't bring any spares today …"
After Gong CaiCai fumbled around in her bag for a while, her face showed a "not good" expression.
Gong CaiCai, who was highly myopic, had poor eyesight with her naked eyes. It was so bad that she couldn't tell the difference between dogs and people fifty meters away.
Gong CaiCai didn't have a spare pair of glasses, and she couldn't use her contact lenses, which meant that she had to go home without being able to see the road clearly.
Fortunately, her father had already driven to pick her up. Otherwise, he would really be worried about letting her go home in a daze.
"This street lamp is broken, let's find a brighter place to stand?" I suggested while reaching out to help Gong CaiCai, who was half-squatting on the ground.
Gong CaiCai subconsciously held my hand and stood up with my help. However, she immediately retracted her hand as if she was bitten by a snake.
"I, I'm sorry! I don't hate you! I'm afraid Xiao Qin classmate will see us holding hands. " Gong CaiCai was afraid I would misunderstand, so she explained in a panic, "Not only would it be bad if Xiao Qin classmate saw, it wouldn't be good if the class leader saw, it wouldn't be good if anyone saw …"
Gong CaiCai's ankle was already injured, so when she stood up, she lost her focus due to her eagerness to explain, causing her body to fall backwards uncontrollably. The heavy bag filled with textbooks helped.
I reacted quickly and grabbed Gong CaiCai's forearm. I didn't let her fall, but I made Gong CaiCai's expression even more embarrassed.
"Hey, you can't see the road clearly and your foot is injured, so just hold my hand and walk to the next street lamp."
I don't think we teenagers should follow the old ideology of "men and women shouldn't touch each other". Moreover, the one who advocated this most was Zhu Xi, who put forward the idea of "preserving the heavenly justice and extinguishing human desire". On the surface, he was sanctimonious and put himself on the moral high ground, but he secretly impregnated his daughter-in-law. As for framing and taking nuns as concubines, there were many other things. He was a scum of the Confucian School, a scum of the highest quality.
Why do we have to listen to scum's anti-human words? It's normal for men and women to hold hands in the new era. Gong CaiCai was just overthinking it and being too conservative.
But after Gong CaiCai steadied herself, she still didn't dare to directly touch my hand. Her eyes were half begging, half timidly, and she pulled her arm away.
"I really don't know what to do with you." I reached out to take off my bag, "If you don't have the guts to hold hands with me, then we can only each hold one strap of the bag and I'll lead you. But will you be able to borrow strength like this? "
Gong CaiCai tried to move her injured right foot and a slight tingling sensation spread between her eyebrows.
"I'm sorry, it seems like I do need to borrow some strength. If it's convenient, can you pull on the corner of your shirt for me?"
She used the same expression as Bambi and begged for my permission.
"How troublesome." I complained. However, when I saw Gong CaiCai lower her head in fear and shiver, tears rolling down her cheeks, I immediately realized that I had said too much.
A soft girl is a soft girl, compared to a tomboy like Winnie, her endurance is really weak. Sometimes I would call Winnie an idiot, but she would just call me back without a care. If I called Gong CaiCai an idiot in front of her, it would probably cause immeasurable mental damage.
"Okay, okay, don't cry over small things." I said to Gong CaiCai, "If you want to pull on the corner of my shirt, then pull on it. Our uniform is pretty loose anyways, so it's easy to find the corner. "
Thus, because of Gong CaiCai's conservative idea of 'men and women shouldn't touch each other', the process of moving to another street light became very inefficient and laughable.
I walked in front and Gong CaiCai, who didn't have her contact lenses, weakly reached out her hand and pulled on the corner of my uniform behind my waist. She blindly followed me step by step as if she was playing an incomplete game of eagle and chicken.
I purposely slowed down my pace in case Gong CaiCai couldn't keep up with me. She was only able to offset the negative effects of her foot injury by borrowing strength from me.
If it was in the past, I wouldn't have the patience to do this. I would have carried Gong CaiCai to the infirmary like last time when the class leader was injured.
But that would scare Gong CaiCai too much, so I had to prevent my heart from taking any extra load. After much consideration, he decided to be an old hen for once. No one would see it anyway.
It was less than 20 steps for me to go from one broken street light to the next, but it would be a bit longer for Gong CaiCai, who had an ankle injury, around 40 steps.
Due to the awkward atmosphere, the walk was unusually long. I walked in the front with my Swiss Army knife flashlight in my hand. Gong CaiCai pulled on the corner of my shirt and walked behind me. It gave me the illusion that I was sending my daughter to kindergarten.
"Ye Lin classmate is so tall …" Gong CaiCai muttered behind me, "But I'm so short … it would be great if I could grow taller …"
I turned around slightly and saw that Gong CaiCai's face was blushing shyly. She was looking at me with trust and adoration.
"Do you think joining the Scientific Happiness Church will make you grow taller? Stop joking. "I couldn't help but ridicule," The Scientific Happiness Church is full of liars. They can only act like they're amazing because they obtained the personal information of their followers. "
I could feel Gong CaiCai's grip on the corner of my clothes tighter, as though she was trying to gather more confidence when she retorted.
"Um … Ye Lin classmate, the Scientific Happiness Conference isn't a religion. Also, how do they obtain everyone's personal information? "
I didn't know what to say. I couldn't tell Gong CaiCai that Fang Xin and Professor Bai were eavesdropping through their phones. Otherwise, if Gong CaiCai leaked it, it wouldn't be good for my plan to infiltrate the Church of Happiness.
Thus I could only rudely say: "Anyway, the Scientific Happiness Church is a cult. You'll know what they're up to in the future. You're not allowed to preach at school. Aren't you afraid of the class leader finding out? "
Through Gong CaiCai's hand that was tugging at the corner of my shirt, I saw her tremble.
"Don't, don't tell the class leader, otherwise she'll look at me with disappointment … I don't want to see her look like that …"
"Huh? You seem to have some self-awareness. If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to just leave the Scientific Happiness Church? "
Gong CaiCai was surprisingly stubborn when it came to the Scientific Happiness Church.
"But, but the class leader is different. She's very tall and doesn't need to use the law of attraction to change her figure. I can't, I've tried many methods to increase my height … but they all failed …"
What Gong CaiCai didn't say was probably the 'chest shrinking method'. Gong CaiCai was distressed that her breasts were too big, just like how she was distressed that she was too short, or even worse.
"Oh right." I was suddenly curious when it came to the class leader, so I asked: "Gong CaiCai, didn't you confess to the class leader during the summer? Did the class leader respond to you? "
Gong CaiCai blushed all the way to her neck. She probably recalled how she was woken up by the class leader's CPR and said in a daze that she wanted to marry the class leader in the future.
"The class leader only promised to be my lifelong best friend and told me not to be influenced by Zhuang Ni and have weird hobbies …"
From her tone, Gong CaiCai seemed to be quite disappointed.
"Sometimes I think it would be better if the class leader was a boy, or if I was the class leader's sister. I feel like ever since I started middle school and received the class leader's help, I've developed a sense of dependence on the class leader and I can't leave her …"
Gong CaiCai was talking to me, the person who was leading the way, on the quiet and empty street.
"I'm going to the Scientific Happiness Church because I want to be more cheerful. Otherwise, I wouldn't know how I'm going to live if I separate from the class leader …"
I never expected the Scientific Happiness Church to hold such an important position in Gong CaiCai's heart. It looks like I can't forcefully separate Gong CaiCai from a cult. I have to slowly peel off the silk from the cocoon.
Just as he walked under the bright street light, a white car drove over from the intersection ahead and stopped on the side of the street.
"It looks like … it looks like dad's car." Gong CaiCai narrowed her eyes and judged, "Ye Lin classmate, you should also get in the car. I'll beg dad to take you home, okay?"
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