I miss you by the stars

Chapter 15 I Was Fired

In the narrow and cramped rental house, Jiang Yi woke up slowly, and then found that she was awakened by the mobile phone hidden under the pillow.She glanced at the time on the screen, it was already nine o'clock, but she slept too late last night, so she is still sleepy now.

But the phone buzzed non-stop.

Jiang Yi picked up the phone: "Hello."

A woman's voice came, very calm, but upon listening carefully, there was a bit of gloom: "Are you awake?"

Jiang Yi said: "I was woken up by your phone call."

The voice on the phone asked again: "What time did you return to Zhuzhen last night?"

Jiang Yi recalled: "Hurry up."

"Have you got the medicine you want to buy?"

"Ah."

"Is the driver I found to pick you up reliable?"

"good."

The voice asked again: "Where are you hurt?"

"Just a little scratch from playing billiards." Jiang Yi said, "Be careful not to leave scars."

"It's right to be careful." The voice said, "I still have a meeting, so I'll hang up first."

"Ah."

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Yi got up from the bed.There was no business in the billiards hall in the morning. She usually didn't go to work until noon. Although she got up late today, there was no need to rush. She walked to the window and opened the curtains that were full of wormholes.

It's June soon, and it's getting closer to midsummer. Early in the morning, the bright sun shines in, making Jiang Yi a little dazed.

Last night, after she got off work from the billiards hall, she hurriedly boarded a car that came to pick her up, and drove over mountains and mountains for more than 100 kilometers on a dusty dirt road before arriving at a bustling city closest to Zhuzhen. District, bought the bottle of medicine.

It's very expensive, so expensive that even Jiang Yi thinks it's a bit expensive.But the clerk at the pharmacy said that the medicine worked well, not only did the wound heal quickly, but it also left no scars at all.

Jiang Yi wanted to leave no scars, otherwise, how could a 17-year-old girl have so many scars on her face.

Then Jiang Yi wore the stars and wore the moon again, and asked the driver to drive her for more than 100 kilometers, and rushed back to Zhuzhen overnight.

She walked into the courtyard of Yuxi's house in the dark, stood under the moonlight, lit a cigarette for herself, leisurely, lazily, as usual, as if nothing had happened.

The sun was very bright this morning, Jiang Yi stood at the window basking in the sun, feeling that what happened last night seemed like a lifetime away.

Even if she didn't get enough sleep, she felt that her mind was clearer this morning than last night.She stretched out her hand unconsciously, picking at the small hole in the curtain, she was thinking: why did she call that person last night?

Of course, the objective reason is that Zhuzhen is too far away. If the man hadn't tried to send a car to pick her up, it would be impossible for her to rush to the neighboring city and buy the bottle of medicine.

But, from her subjective will, why is she willing to call that person?

For Yuxi?

When did she care so much about that child?

Jiang Yi was dizzy from the sun, and she drew the curtains tightly. Under the shadow covered by the curtains, her face was heavy.

******

Yu Xi is an outlier in No. [-] Middle School.

During the recess, everyone else was chatting, tearing their nails, and yawning idly. She was the only one, like a robot, who kept doing questions and questions.

Even Zhou Qi, who also wanted to go to university, didn't work so hard.

But she is different from Zhou Qi, Zhou Qi always has a way out, but she doesn't.

While Yu Xi was frantically brushing the questions, someone reached out and tapped on her desk twice.

Yu Xi thought it was the head teacher who came to ask her to help out the papers again, but when she looked up, she saw the serious face of the dean.

No wonder the classroom was a little quieter just now.This dean, who always looks serious and even a bit rigid, is a rare existence that the students of No. [-] Middle School are a little bit afraid of.

She has always been very kind to Yu Xi, and sometimes she would print some papers privately for Yu Xi to make, and Yu Xi called her: "Director Yang."

Director Yang said, "Follow me to the principal's office."

******

When Yu Xi stood in the principal's office, she deeply suspected that she had heard wrong.

The principal rarely asks students to go to his office, so when Yu Xi heard that she was called to the office by the principal, she thought of many possibilities, such as receiving scholarships, taking the recommended exam before the college entrance examination, or doing another exam for the third-year students. Mobilization before the exam or something.

She never expected that the headmaster told her, "You have been expelled."

Then the principal saw that this pretty girl who always looked cold and didn't care about anything was rarely blushing.

She clenched the sleeves of her school uniform tightly with her fingers, and her voice seemed to come out of her throat: "Why?"

Without a student status, you cannot take the college entrance examination.

"You still ask me why?" The principal said, "You fight, and the whole school sees it."

Yu Xi took a deep breath: "I was fighting, but I was doing it in self-defense. Cheng Lin beat Cao Xuan. As you said, all the students in the school saw it."

"What self-defense? You've only been drinking ink for a few years? Don't drag me out." The principal waved his hand impatiently: "You said that all the students in the school saw it? Well, who can prove to you that Cheng Lin did it first? Find it out for me."

Yu Xi pursed her lips and said nothing.

The principal said: "Aren't you very good at talking? Why don't you say it? I'll just sit here and wait for you to find it. As long as you can find someone to help you prove that Cheng Lin did it first, I will fire Cheng Lin instead of you. .”

Yu Xi didn't speak or move.

She doesn't have to look for it to know the result.

The reason why Cheng Lin quickly became a leader in the Tao in two years was not only because he was tall and strong and capable of fighting, but also because of his family relationship, which had a solid foundation in the Tao.

Often the more remote and poorer the place, the more chaotic the law and order, the more difficult it is to manage.All the parents in Zhuzhen knew not to provoke Cheng's family, and even all the children knew not to provoke Cheng Lin. That's why Cheng Lin developed a domineering character, and walked sideways in the school for three years.

The principal snorted: "Can't you find it? If you can't find it, don't quibble with me. There is no discussion about your expulsion. Go out."

Yuxi's school uniform sleeves were almost torn by her, but the angrier she became, the more surprisingly calm she became, knowing that there was no room for change in this matter by staying here with the principal, so she took a deep breath, turned around and left up.

******

Director Yang was waiting for Yuxi outside the principal's room.

She originally thought that Yu Xi would cry, but she didn't expect that Yu Xi just blushed and bit her pale lips tightly, she couldn't help but look at Yu Xi more.

Then lowered his voice and said, "Yu Xi, come with me."

Director Yang took Yu Xi to the corner of the corridor. Seeing that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and said to Yu Xi: "You were punished by the Cheng family. The Cheng family knew that you were fighting with Cheng Lin at school. You can't face it. Tell me To the city, I will fire you."

Yu Xi still bit her lips and said nothing, "Cheng Lin made the first move" is not convincing at all without witnesses.

Finally, she let go of her lips, tried her best to control the trembling of her voice, and asked Director Yang, "Is there any other way?"

Director Yang shook his head: "There's no way, the Cheng family has a very strong relationship and they're very good at making trouble."

Director Yang saw that Yu Xi's lips had turned whiter, he trembled twice, and was bitten tightly by her again.

She never cried.

Even Director Yang couldn't bear to see her. She has been the teaching director of Zhuzhen No. [-] Middle School for so many years, and she has never seen such a good seedling as Yu Xi. She is smart, willing to learn, and has such a vigor when she works hard.She sighed, Yu Xi had already staggered away.

She looked at Yu Xi's back, so tall, but so thin.

Obviously she is just a 17-year-old child.

Director Yang called Yu Xi to stop, and said something that she should never say as a dean: "Yu Xi, why don't you go and apologize to Cheng Lin, even if you kneel down and cry or beg, isn't their family Do you want to save face? It's better than not being able to take the college entrance examination!"

Yu Xi turned around and smiled sadly: "Director Yang, I know you are doing it for my own good."

She turned her head and staggered away again, and Director Yang cried out behind her: "Yu Xi!"

******

In the evening, billiard hall.

"Sister Yi, didn't you spray enough perfume today?" the gangster asked with a smile.

Today Jiang Yi lost his sight again playing billiards, no matter how she played, she couldn't score. Yesterday she joked that she didn't wear enough perfume, so she was unlucky. Today, the gangster followed her joke and approached her wretchedly: "I'll smell it. "

"Smell you, I've sprayed enough perfume today." Jiang Yi followed the gangster with her mouth, and stretched her tender wrist like a lotus root to the gangster's nose, but it was like a superficial touch, and the gangster hadn't smelled anything yet. When he didn't touch it, he pulled his wrist away again.

When the little sister passed by the front desk, she glanced at the empty table again: "Hey, sister Yi, your little sister still didn't come today?"

Jiang Yi stuffed the cue into the little sister's hand: "Help me play two more rounds."

She hurried out in high heels.

******

Jiang Yi didn't expect that Yu Xi still didn't come today.

She already knew that Yu Xi was injured in a fight, and Yu Xi obediently asked her to apply medicine for herself last night, why didn't she come today?

She thought that Yuxi must be doing quizzes in that abandoned warehouse, and she hurried over to see that there was only the smell of dust and rust in the room, and there was no one there.

Jiang Yi came out of the warehouse, thought for a while, and walked out of the town.

When the stone road turned into a dirt road, Jiang Yi took off her high-heeled shoes and carried them in her hands. She walked quickly, and her white soles pressed shallow marks on the wet mud road.

The setting sun was like blood behind her head, she was also wearing a red skirt today, the red skirt was flying, and there were crows chirping in her ears.

Soon, the stream where Yu Xi took her to bathe was close in front of her eyes.

From a distance, Jiang Yi saw a tall, thin girl sitting there with her back to her, hugging her knees, curling herself into a shrimp.

Jiang Yi approached lightly, with her hands behind her back holding her high heels, and the evening wind lifted her curly long hair.

She called out, "Baby."

"So you are here."

Yu Xi didn't look back, and didn't respond, she was holding a stone she picked up from nowhere, not a pebble, but a thin piece.

Jiang Yi stood beside Yu Xi with his hands behind his back, looked at Yu Xi with a calm face, and quickly threw the stone in his hand towards the surface of the stream, making three beautiful water floats on the surface of the stream.

Jiang Yi sat down beside Yu Xi: "Why are you so leisurely today? Don't do the questions anymore?"

"What's the use of writing questions." Yu Xi said calmly, "I was fired."