Anti-Phishing Guide

Chapter 26 "Which ingredient does ginger belong to?"

At the end of the aisle, a boy was sitting in the stairwell smoking a cigarette.

Jiang Chu held his mobile phone with a sullen expression, leaning against the door of the fire escape.He glanced at the boy, pinched his cigarette in fear, got up and went upstairs.

There were many, many beeps for the reminder waiting to be answered, Jiang Chu frowned, and kept staring at the unchanged screen, like staring at a time bomb that would explode without knowing when.

At the moment when he was hesitating whether to hang up, the phone was connected.

"Hey?"

It was very noisy over there, a big boy with a bright voice shouted at the top of his voice, "Who are you?"

When Jiang Chu heard his voice, his heart suddenly clenched.

"It's me." His voice trembled a little, "Bai Xin, I'm your little boy."

The boy on the phone elongated his voice "Oh—" and seemed to be slow in responding. It took a long time to react, and he shouted in surprise: "Erhua! Jiang Erhua! Is it you!"

Hearing a certain name, Jiang Chu was so embarrassed that he almost crushed the instructor's cell phone.

"Don't call me that," he said. "What... do you want from me?"

On the phone, Bai Xin should be in a restaurant or something.The noise grew farther and farther away, and became the sound of cars on the street again.His excited laughter was very loud, and he was happy for a long time.

"I haven't seen you for several years. Since you went to the city to study in high school, we haven't seen each other very much, and you won't come back during the Chinese New Year. Hey, I can't even hear you..."

Jiang Chu listened silently, with no expression on his face.

On the phone, Bai Xin stopped abruptly at a certain point.

"Erhua, I've dropped out of school," he said.

Jiang Chu was taken aback for a moment, and propped his back up from the door he was leaning against.

"Dropped out?"

"That's right." Bai Xin said it very easily, as if he was comforting someone, "I failed to pass the exam in the third year of high school for two years. My dad told me not to study, and the family has no money."

The sunlight outside the window poured into the teaching building of D University, illuminating this brand new modern building brightly.Jiang Chu walked to the window and heard Bai Xin say over there:

"But I don't want to go home and farm. You know, um... our village is too poor, and... um, you know."

Jiang Chu wanted to say something comforting.But there is no way to talk about it.

"By the way," Bai Xin asked, "Did you find your mother?"

A certain word was like a dagger, severing open the old scar in Jiang Chu's heart.He looked at the glass window and saw his mother's emaciated face.

"Stop talking." His tone became cold again, "What are you looking for? Why are you calling my school?"

There was silence on the phone for two seconds, probably Bai Xin didn't expect him to change his face suddenly.

"...Erhua." He said with difficulty, "Actually...I came to the north this trip to work. Before leaving, your father...uh, asked me..."

"what."

"...I want to advise you to go home and don't cut off contact like this."

Jiang Chu sneered when he heard the words, and the fingertips holding the phone began to turn white.

"Go home?" His eyes were burning with hatred, "Do you dare to go back to that kind of home that sucks human blood and cannibalize human flesh? Have you forgotten about my mother?"

"I..." Bai Xin stammered a little, "I think you should go back and have a look."

"No, you know how many years it took me to leave that village. Why are you here to persuade me to go back now?"

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and his originally stable voice was raised a lot.

When Jiang Chu was angry, those things that usually concealed his inner essence gradually showed their original shape, revealing the surly aura inside.Even Bai Xin, who grew up with him, did not dare to provoke him at this time.

So Bai Xin tacitly did not answer, and waited for Jiang Chu to regain his composure.

He leaned against the window, tapped his fingers on the edge of the window, and gradually suppressed those irritable emotions.

After a while, he let out a foul breath, and his voice became calm again.

"You can come here anytime you want, and I will do my best to help you find a job." Jiang Chu said lightly, "But it is absolutely impossible for me to go back."

After he finished the last sentence, he hung up the phone ruthlessly.

The call interface went dark, and Jiang Chu leaned against the wall, relieved.

After returning the mobile phone, he hurried out of the teaching building and rushed into the open playground as if fleeing, only to feel that his limbs came alive again.

The vending machine was on, and Jiang Chu pressed the button for mineral water. With the sound of metal clashing, a bottle of mineral water fell into the outlet.

He unscrewed the cap of the bottle and took a big gulp. He leaned against the bench for a while and then remembered that he had unread messages just now.

"Chen Fei..."

Putting the mouth of the bottle to his mouth, Jiang Chu's voice was blown into the bottle by his breath.

He pursed his lips and thought for a while, cut and deleted a sentence, but finally didn't send it out.

Now he is in a bad mood and has no time to play with Chen Fei.

Jiang Chu sat on the bench for a while, hesitated for a long time, but still couldn't hold back, took out his mobile phone, and sent Chen Fei a message.

[Jiang Chu: Nothing, just some boring work. 】

[Jiang Chu: Are you at school, let me come to you. 】

He stared at the screen in a daze, and after a minute, no new message came in.

Jiang Chu sighed, put the phone back in his pocket, got up and left.He walked out of the school gate aimlessly, and there was always something blocked in his heart, which made people feel unhappy.

What is Chen Fei doing?

He must not be what he described, maybe he is dating other little lovers now.

Jiang Chu put on the earphones and played a citypop playlist, trying to drive these thoughts out of his mind.

However, separated childhood and reality, money, studies, family, and vanity, never let him go for a moment.

In comparison, thinking about Chen Fei more is considered a happy thing.

The citypop in the earphones blocked the sound of the whistle on the road, and Jiang Chu walked up the pedestrian bridge, leaning on the railing and lost in thought.

He just stood there in a daze, no one noticed him as the pedestrians came and went behind him.

On the other side of the road, in a hot pot restaurant.

Yi Xiaoxiao came late. He was wearing a college-style beige suit today. It could be seen that he had been well-dressed. He had a small face that was rosy, and his eyes were full of joy.

"Let me introduce you," Chen Fei stepped forward to embrace him, and brought him to sit beside him. "These two are my roommates, Fang Xuan and Huang Yi."

"Yo." Fang Xuan grinned, "Hello."

Huang Yi also looked at him with a smile, and the two nodded to each other.

"Brother Chen," Yi Xiaoxiao leaned into his ear and asked, "Last time you said, um...are they the ones who worked on the project together?"

Chen Fei was taken aback, and it took him a long time to react. "Ah, that's right," he nodded, pointing his thumb at Fang Xuan, "it's him."

"Okay, okay, let's eat!" Fang Xuan didn't hear it, and impatiently put down the mutton, "Xiao Xiao, you're welcome."

Yi Xiaoxiao nodded obediently, and stood next to Chen Fei, as if she couldn't leave her.

Chen Fei sat on the outermost side, and he picked up food for Yi Xiaoxiao when he was ordering food. Fang Xuan wrinkled his nose when he saw that meticulous look.

Not long after eating, Fang Xuan started acting like a demon.

"Hey, little classmate," he winked at Yi Xiaoxiao, "Why do you look so young, are you an adult?"

Yi Xiaoxiao was eating the mutton roll that Chen Fei made for him, when he heard this, his face blushed, and he stammered, "I'm... I'm an adult! I'm a freshman."

"Don't tease him." Chen Fei gave Fang Xuan a look, "Eat your food well."

Fang Xuan shrugged stubbornly, not daring to speak.

After eating for half an hour, Yi Xiaoxiao had to go back to school.While he was going to the bathroom, Fang Xuan pulled Chen Fei who was standing waiting for someone, and asked in a low voice:

"You and him..."

"No." Chen Fei clapped his hands, "Are you annoying? Are you not allowed to just flirt with me?"

"Understood~" Fang Xuan dragged his tone, and picked up a piece of fish, "It's like dipping different ingredients in different sauces."

"Fang Xuan is really good at talking today." Huang Yi whispered.

Fang Xuan ate the fish in one gulp, and then asked, "What about Jiang Chu, what kind of ingredient does Jiang Chu belong to?"

Chen Fei frowned, feeling guilty again. "Can you not mention him?"

"Why can't you mention it?" Fang Xuan chewed the meat in his mouth, "Since you've lied to your heart, it's okay to lie to yourself again."

Just as he was talking, Yi Xiaoxiao had already come out of the bathroom.

Chen Fei ignored Fang Xuan and went up to him with his bag on his back.

"I'll go to the bus station from him." Chen Fei said to the two behind him, and took Yi Xiaoxiao out of the shop.

There were not many people on the street at noon, but all the people coming and going were students from the university.Chen Fei was afraid of meeting his classmates, and he didn't dare to get too close to Yi Xiaoxiao, so he just helped him carry his bag, and the two walked side by side.

"I'm going to take the bus across the street." Yi Xiaoxiao pointed to the empty bus station across the road. "Brother Chen, don't accompany me, I'll go there by myself."

"It's okay," Chen Fei wobbled onto the overpass, "The two of them still have to eat for a long time, and I'm free as well."

Yi Xiaoxiao smiled softly, "Then I will come to play again next time. Brother Chen, you are so kind."

Chen Fei was already a little tired of him at first, but when he saw this face again after two weeks, he felt a little interesting again.

There was no one around, one of them raised his head, the other bent down, and as they walked, Chen Fei had the urge to kiss him.

Just when he was about to take action, Chen Fei caught a glimpse of a person leaning on the railing in front of him out of the corner of his eye, so he had no choice but to stand up straight and give up this idea.

He sighed regretfully, but his gaze was fixed on the passerby in front of him.

The man was wearing a familiar light-colored coat, and the tail of his hair blocked his beautiful jawline.He put his hands on the railing, turned his head slightly, and met Chen Fei with his fox eyes.

It was Jiang Chu.