sleepless tonight

Chapter 77 The Past
"Chen Jin is a student in my class, this..." Liu Yuan has a deep impression on me, but she has no impression on Su Ran, "It should be Chen Jin's girlfriend, not from our class, I have no impression , should be students from other classes."

"She's not from our school." I said, "She's just my friend, not my girlfriend."

"Have you eaten yet? Why don't you sit down and eat something." Liu Yuan told me, "It's been so many years, you haven't changed much, you're still so shy, but you've lost weight and darkened, but it's better for boys to have dark spots ,healthy."

Liu Yuan spoke very gently, saying things that only elders would nagging, very happy.

"No, we've already eaten." I shook my head and declined politely. It doesn't matter if I talk to a group of teachers, but I'm still very reserved when I want to sit down to eat, "I just want to ask if there are any tables and chairs in the school cafeteria. I have some. "

"Ms. Liu, you are a very good student. You have become a boss at such a young age and have your own career." A teacher congratulated me and glanced at me, "Student, you should have dinner with Teacher Liu alone sometime. It’s good to talk about the teacher-student relationship.”

"Well, sure, sure, the steamed vegetable restaurant I opened is just outside the school, teachers can try it then." I smiled and nodded, but I didn't agree with it in my heart.

It is indeed fate to meet you, which is very gratifying, but if you want to sit down and chat further, I don't think there is anything to talk about, let alone I haven't graduated from high school, what can I chat with the teacher?

After learning about my situation, I'm afraid it will be embarrassing.

"Let me take a look with you, and get to know the way by the way, then the teacher can go to your steamed vegetable restaurant to try." To my surprise, Liu Yuan stood up and wanted to go to the steamed vegetable restaurant with me.

She seems to be paying attention.

I wanted to refuse, but I was not used to being too close to the teacher, but seeing the expression on Liu Yuan's face, it was a kind of smile, gentle and loving, and I couldn't bear it.

"Ms. Liu wants to go, so you can take her to have a look. Your teacher Liu is now the director of the school's academic affairs office. You have great energy. You have to curry favor. In the future, if your child wants to enter No. [-] Middle School, you Liu The teacher can help." A teacher told me half-jokingly.

It was the teacher who spoke before, which made me feel even stronger. This teacher seemed to have been urging me to contact Teacher Liu.

Am I being too sensitive, or is this teacher hinting at something?
"Then I will rely more on you, Mr. Liu, and we will go there together after you finish eating." I didn't say the rejection.

"I've finished eating, let's go with you now, there are classes in the afternoon." Liu Yuan put down the bowl and chopsticks.

I didn't persuade Liu Yuan to eat more, some words made people feel fake, so the three of them went downstairs and walked to the steamed restaurant.

"The location of the steamed vegetable restaurant is a bit off." I took the initiative to find a way to talk, it was too embarrassing to keep walking.

Between students and teachers, due to their identities, there is not much common topic, and it is not easy to find the right topic to cut into.

"Is the owner of the steamed vegetable restaurant you're talking about surnamed Li?" Along the way, some students kept seeing Liu Yuan with weird expressions, and they hid far away. When they walked to the side of the road, Liu Yuan's expression remained the same.

The identity of the director of the Academic Affairs Office made Liu Yuan so scary?
I saw with my own eyes the boys in front of me who were having a good chat at first, but suddenly they glanced at me, their expressions changed, their faces collapsed, their heads were lowered, and they turned into a nearby supermarket.

Obviously avoiding Liu Yuan.

Is Liu Yuan so scary?
"The surname is Li, and the name is Li Mingzhou. When I was in high school, his family opened a steamed vegetable restaurant outside the school. Now it can't continue, so I took over." I said.

I'm not surprised that Liu Yuan knows about Li Mingzhou. The school's teachers don't eat in the cafeteria all the time, they come out occasionally. The steamed dishes at Li Mingzhou's house are very good, and Liu Yuan may have eaten steamed dishes in there.

"It was demolished outside and a high-rise building was built. His family's steamed vegetable restaurant is too deep. It's okay to go there once in a while, but it will definitely be a waste of time to go there often." Liu Yuan hit the nail on the head, "Students only have so much rest time. It may take a few minutes to sleep with a mobile phone, but if they are asked to walk to eat, a few minutes away is enough to make them dread."

"Ms. Liu, how have you been doing these past few years? You have become the director of the Academic Affairs Office in such a short period of time. It's amazing." The student was so angry that his eyes were red, and he actually took the position of the director of the Academic Affairs Office.

"What's good, it's just like that." Liu Yuan was not in a good mood, and there was a deep regret in her eyes.

"Teacher is a very enviable profession." I tried to pull back Liu Yuan's emotions, she was very sad.

When she was eating in the school cafeteria just now, she was also a little dazed, and only when she recognized me, she seemed very happy, as if seeing an old friend she hadn't seen for a long time.

A teacher, to have such emotions towards a student, and then think of the teacher's hints at the dinner table from time to time, could it be that Liu Yuan treats me...

But this is impossible. I remember that Liu Yuan had already had a boyfriend when he was teaching us. Once on Qixi Festival, Liu Yuan entered the classroom with a large bouquet of roses. The whole class followed suit.

She also admitted that it was given by her boyfriend, and she looked so happy that everyone in the classroom was filled with honey.

"Life is your own, so what can you do if others envy you? Only you know if it's good or not." There seems to be something in Liu Yuan's words, "Chen Jin, the teacher hopes you will be happy, you must do things according to your own mind, Don't wrong yourself, let alone have emotional disputes, just calm down and think about it."

Liu Yuan's words gave me a premonition that her life seemed to be unsatisfactory.

"Okay, teacher." I nodded, "The steamed vegetable restaurant is under renovation, it's quite messy, teacher, please be careful and watch the road."

"Teacher is not that old." The sound of decoration can already be heard, and Liu Yuan's attention has been diverted, and a smile finally appeared on her face, "When it opens, you must tell the teacher, the teacher will bring someone over to help You join in."

"Then thank you teacher." I nodded with a smile.

Liu Yuan looked outside the steamed vegetable restaurant, chatted with me for a while, and said that all the tables and chairs are needed, and there is no need for the decorator to move them, she will let someone come over to make them.

When we were leaving, Liu Yuan took the initiative to leave me her phone number, and I wrote it down and sent her downstairs.

"The girl with you is very good." Su Ran didn't come down, just me and Liu Yuan, "Tang Wan is also very good. I remember you were very close in high school. Is she married?"

"No." I shook my head.

"Well, they are all good girls, you have to see your heart clearly." Liu Yuan told me again, "Call the teacher when we open."

"Sure." I nodded.

Half an hour later, some people from the school came to remove the tables and chairs in the aisle, and the decoration space suddenly became larger. I watched from the side for a while, and the master's craftsmanship was very good, and he worked very quickly.

"This is 200 yuan, you take it." After the master left, I asked Chen Chen to go back and gave him 200 yuan.

"I don't want it." Chen Chen refused to answer.

"You have done the work, how can you not? Go on." I put the money into his hand.

"The steamed vegetable restaurant hasn't opened yet, so what kind of work is it? I'm just here to help, and it's not considered work. Just pay me when it opens." Chen Chen shrank his hands and ran away, "I'll go back first Alright, Brother Chen, Sister Su, take your time."

As if he was afraid that I would slip the money into his hands again, Chen Chen ran fast, and what's more, he didn't take the main road, so he burrowed into the alley.

This is because he was afraid that he would meet Su Ran on the road when he was driving later, so he purposely took a small alley and made a detour to go back.

"You must have good academic performance before." Su Ran said.

"It's not bad." I nodded. According to my normal grades, I don't say that I will definitely enter Tsinghua and Peking University, but 985,211, [-] colleges will definitely be fine.

"Then why didn't you go to college or graduate from high school?" Su Ran looked at me.

"I don't know either." I said, Su Ran didn't seem to believe it, "Really, I won't lie to you, I don't even know what's going on, I lost..."

I wanted to say that I lost my memory for eight years, and everything during that period was blank, but in the middle of the sentence, I suddenly stopped.

It seems that speaking out will make me a stranger in front of Su Ran.

And I'm not me anymore.

(End of this chapter)