A wealthy person with a reading panel

Chapter 23 The seventh time (please read!)
The female teacher heard the shout and looked up at the door.

For a moment, she was a little dazed, and it took her a few seconds to react: "Zhou Qing, why are you here now?"

Zhou Qing walked over and said with a smile: "Of course I was worried about the most beautiful female teacher in my life, so I hurried over to see Nuo."

When I arrived in the county, my tone of voice couldn't help but have a bit of a local accent.

Bai Xing'er was a little surprised when she heard this.

This student whom I liked very much before would never speak like this.

She couldn't help but carefully examine the boy in front of her, and suddenly felt a little emotional: "Time flies. So many years have passed in a flash. The boy who used to blush just looking at the teacher has grown up now...well, he's also more handsome than before."

Zhou Qing's appearance had not actually changed much, but he was now dressed neatly and appropriately, and his mental demeanor had changed greatly from a few years ago, which made Bai Xing'er feel a little unfamiliar with this student, as if she was facing a very familiar stranger.

While she was looking at Zhou Qing, Zhou Qing was also looking at her.

Teacher Bai is still Teacher Bai, and time seems to have no effect on her.

Apart from having a little more mature charm than before, her appearance and figure are still as pleasing to the eye, and her skin is still as fair and firm.

He doesn't look like he's 29, maybe 24 or 25 at most.

What surprised Zhou Qing the most was that she didn't have any decadent air or any "resentment". She looked in very good condition and seemed to be completely unaffected by the divorce.

After they chatted for a while, he couldn't help but ask directly.

"Of course it has no impact. I don't have any feelings for that person anyway, so how could it affect me?"

When he mentioned "that person," Teacher Bai subconsciously revealed a look of "contempt," but he quickly regained his composure. He put the collected test papers back into a drawer, opened another drawer, and took out his phone. After unlocking it with his fingerprint, he saw a missed call from Zhou Qing and looked over with a smile: "You called me again?"

Zhou Qing: "Yes, I took a taxi at the school gate."

Teacher Bai replied, "I've received too many inexplicable calls recently, so I've muted my phone."

Then, he looked at the time on the screen and said, "Let's go. It's time to get off work. Let's go to the vegetable market."

"Wet market?"

"Go buy some meat and make you some braised pork tonight as a reward for your concern for the teacher."

When mentioning the reward, distant memories suddenly came flooding back. Zhou Qing subconsciously stole a glance at the person opposite him, and his old face flushed.

He quickly suppressed his dirty thoughts, followed the slim figure out of the door, and pretended nothing had happened.

Come out of the school, walk up the road, pass the intersection where Zhou Qing checked into the hotel, walk a few dozen meters, turn left, and there is a large vegetable market.

The two of them talked as they walked, and in tacit understanding, neither of them mentioned Teacher Bai's divorce for the time being.

"Do you have such flexible working hours that you can stay in the county for two or three days?"

Teacher Bai was worried that his affairs would affect Zhou Qing's work, so he asked for confirmation.

Zhou Qing glanced sideways at the female teacher walking side by side with him and replied, "Don't worry, all I need for my job is a cell phone and a computer."

During this period, in addition to reading paper novels, he mostly reads on his mobile phone and computer.

Bai Xing'er thought he was talking about using mobile phones and computers for garden design and nodded. "Then your company really gives designers a lot of freedom."

Zhou chuckled and didn't explain anything.

It has been more than three years since they last saw each other. Perhaps because they often chatted online, the feeling of getting along with each other when they met again this time was very different from before.

In the past, 80% of relationships were between teachers and students, 15% were between caregivers and the cared for, and the remaining 5% were between women and men.

This time, fifty percent were friends and friends, twenty percent were students and teachers, and the remaining thirty percent were men and women.

The feeling of friendship dominated, and the conversation was easy and pleasant. The two talked and laughed along the way.

After buying ingredients at the vegetable market, they walked back a bit, then crossed the zebra crossing to the other side, turned into a well-greened boulevard, and entered a community called "Sunshine Garden" in the middle of the street.

Just across the gate of the community, there is a newly opened small supermarket. The owner, Peng Xiaomei, stared at their backs with a puzzled look on her face.

"Why does the boy next to Teacher Bai look so familiar?"

"I think he's a former classmate. What's his name?"

"Oh, Zhou Qing! He used to have a good relationship with Teacher Bai and was the Chinese class representative for three years."

"Is he here to see Teacher Bai? I didn't expect that the boy who was so average in the class back then has become quite handsome now."

While Peng Xiaomei was lost in thought, a customer came in to pay for bottled water. She glanced at the bottle and said, "Yibo, two yuan."

After the customer scanned the code, paid, and left, she couldn't help but look at the gate of the community diagonally opposite.

Then I picked up my phone, opened WeChat, and found the high school WeChat group.

"Sure enough, he wasn't there. I said I've never seen him speak in the WeChat group."

Peng Xiaomei checked the group members but couldn't find Zhou Qing.

After thinking for a moment, I logged into my mobile QQ, found Zhou Qing's number in the high school QQ group, and sent her a message: "Zhou Qing, I'm Peng Xiaomei. Why didn't you join the WeChat group?"

However, this information fell on deaf ears and there was no response for a long time.

She also understands that fewer and fewer people use QQ nowadays, and she herself sometimes only logs in once every few months.

Perhaps because she felt lonely and bored during the time she returned to the county to open a shop, Peng Xiaomei kept her eyes on the gate of the residential complex opposite, hoping that when Zhou Qing came out, she could say hello to this rare classmate.

Can……

An hour passed.

Two hours passed.

Zhou Qing didn't come out until ten o'clock in the evening, the time when she usually closes the shop.

There were no more pedestrians on the street outside.

"There's no other gate in this complex. Could it be that Zhou Qing is staying overnight at Teacher Bai's house?"

Thinking of this, Peng Xiaomei's expression became strange.

No way, no way!
However, she quickly recalled the discussion of Teacher Bai's marriage in the WeChat group a few months ago: "I must be overthinking it. With Teacher Bai's husband here, it's okay for her to stay overnight."

Peng Xiaomei, who thought she had discovered some shocking gossip, was inexplicably disappointed.

Then a little flame of anger jumped up in my heart again: What if Teacher Bai’s husband is not at home today?
"I'll wait and see if Zhou Qing will come out."

She decided to close the store an hour later today!
……

In the evening, after buying vegetables, I came to Room 1203, Building , Sunshine Garden Community.

"This isn't your first time here, so just sit wherever you want."

Teacher Bai gave an instruction and went to the kitchen with the ingredients.

Zhou Qing looked around the living room and thought, this is definitely not the first time. In fact, this is the seventh time.

　Thanks to Love Han Fei for the reward!
　　and also.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)