Chapter 56 Two Younger Brothers

  After dinner, Gu Xiang still wanted Chen Wu to help move some goods on the shelves.

  She and Gu's mother were both quite weak. But Gu's mother didn't let him do it, she and Gu Xiang lifted it up by themselves.

  It wasn't long before Chen Wu's uncle came to pick him up.

  After they left, Mrs. Gu said to Gu Xiang: "Don't let your brother do things in the future."

  Gu Xiang hadn't reacted yet when she heard her mother continue to say: "After your aunt goes back, she will definitely ask where Xiao Wu went, and she will feel uncomfortable in her heart."

  Gu Xiang didn't believe it: "It can't be, I just asked him for help."

  In the evening, his aunt called and said that there was a lot of homework in middle school now, so let Gu Xiang wait until he finished his homework before playing with him again.

  As expected, old ginger is still spicy!

  Although Aunt Gu never socialized with relatives in general, it doesn't mean she didn't have a count in her heart.

  On Sunday evening, Gu's mother was preparing dinner.

  Xiao Hei suddenly arrived, carrying a big backpack on his body and holding many things in his hands.

  Gu's mother went out to help him carry it, but Xiao Hei Pu dodged with a silly smile: "Auntie, it's not heavy, I can carry it myself."

  Xiao Hei Pang brought them scallion pancakes made by his grandmother and freshly fried sesame seeds. He also brought twenty grass eggs from his own home.

  "Take the pancake and sesame seeds to school and let your sister bring them back. Why did you take a detour? And how did you carry these eggs?"

  Xiao Hei Pang said: "The thing is heavy, I'm afraid she can't carry it. The eggs were brought by my dad."

  His mother poured him a glass of water: "You're too honest for your own good. Eat dinner before heading back to school."

  Xiao Hei Pang said: "I'm not eating anymore, school closes at 6 o'clock and I've brought food."

  Gu's mother pressed him down, "Your school doesn't have a place to heat up food, and it's too hot for you to eat that now. Wait, I'll make something for you. Eat peacefully, and after you're done, Gu will take the electric bike to send you there."

  Gu Xiang arrived at her homework quite late and didn't notice the time, she took a look and it was already past six o'clock. She gave her mother Gu a call to ask if she had eaten dinner yet.

  Gu's mother said she had eaten and also left some food for her, telling Gu Xiang not to go over there, and that she would come back early to bring it back for her to eat.

  In the evening, Gu Xiang saw Xiao Hei Bao carrying things and was tongue-tied: "How did he carry so many things?"

  This leek pancake brought three or four dozen, and sesame seeds also had a few catties.

  "The country boy is simple and honest, you are not allowed to let him bring things for you again in the future."

  "I just wanted to eat grandma's buns and casually mentioned it. But little... Chen Hao is not bad, if only I could swap him for a younger brother."

  Gu's mother hit her and said, "What's wrong with Little Wu? He calls you 'sister' and still listens to you."

  Gu Xiang thought of happily wagging her tail.

  The next day, Gu Xiang made several hot pancakes and ran to the first grade to give them to Xiao Hei.

  On her way back, she met Chen Wu. Chen Wu saw her handing something to Hei Pang from Class 4 and asked her: "Sister, what did you give Black Fatty?"

  Gu Xiang swung his hand with a fresh-keeping bag containing scallion pancakes.

  Chen Wu got a bit anxious: "Why are you just giving it all to him?"

  Gu Xiang opened the bag and handed it in front of him: "Then you can't eat?"

  Chen Wu shook his head: "I'm not eating, I've already had breakfast."

  Gu Xiang said irritably: "What's your name after eating?"

  Chen Wu snatched the bag: "I'll eat it when I'm hungry later."

  My breakfast!

  The second year of junior high school was ten minutes later than the first year. When Gu Xiang went downstairs, he saw Chen Wu at the staircase entrance.

  Chen Wu saw her coming and followed behind her as she went to the bike shed to get her bicycle.

  Gu Xiang asked him what he was doing.

  He hesitated for a moment and said: "It wasn't me who told my mom, I didn't tell you not to look for me."

  Gu Xiang uttered an "oh" and pushed the bicycle out while walking.

  Chen Wu grabbed the back seat of the bicycle and said, "Really? I'll go back and not say anything. I'll just say I'm going to your house for dinner."

  Gu Xiang couldn't help but laugh: "Alright, alright, will you let go of my hand?"

  "Aren't you angry anymore?"

  "I'm not angry."

  "Then bring me breakfast tomorrow."

  "Hmm... oh. Alright, we'll have leek pancakes again tomorrow, Xiao Hei brought a lot."

  In the following days, Gu Xiang went to the garage every day to lock up his bicycle and then carried a school bag to deliver breakfast to his two younger brothers.

  After sending off 2 classes and 4 classes, she went there twice later and was familiar with the location, so she directly went in and stuffed two tables.

  But this is indeed quite strange, who has the same school every day running to the classroom to send breakfast, Gu Xiang can only thick-skinned welcome the unusual eyes of his first-year classmates.

  Because she had to bring breakfast for two people, Gu Xiang didn't dare oversleep at night, fearing that if she went late, the two would go hungry.

  Three days of leek pancakes were sent over, and later on, Gu's mother brought over some sweet pastries made with sesame seeds.

  It took almost two weeks to send everything grandma brought over, and Gu Xiang is finally free.

  ...For the first time I feel it's so blissful to have an egg and porridge at home in the morning!

  Gu Xiang specially practiced her foreign language at home for a while and only went to school slowly after finishing breakfast.

  Lin Jiahuan teased her, saying: "You don't have to go send breakfast to your two younger brothers today, do you?"

  "I've sent everything I can send from home, and this morning I had congee."

  "You're literally a sister with twenty-four filial exemplars."

  Gu Xiang rolled her eyes, "Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, give me an example and let me hear it."

  Lin Jiahuan walked away with his tail between his legs.

  A week after school started, the school held an opening ceremony.

  Gu Xiang went up as the representative of Class 1 and made a speech.

  She didn't have a script either, just listed some general points on paper.

  When I went on stage, I took a piece of paper the size of a dried tofu with me.

  Many people in Class 2 and Class 4 of Grade One have seen her, so they all went to ask them about it.

  Xiao Hei Pang and Chen Wu puffed out their chests and said: "That's my sister, she always comes first in the annual exams."

  The physics teacher's surname is Pan, a bespectacled young man with a baby face.

  Looks very clean and neat, like a university student.

  Lin Jiahuan secretly gossiped with Gu Xiang: "I heard that many girls like Teacher Pan. Someone even wrote him a love letter."

  Gu Xiang was shocked: "No way, writing a love letter to the teacher? So bold. Where did you hear this from? Is it true or not? Your uncle shouldn't have told you these things."

  Lin Jiahuan said: "Of course, it was not my uncle who told me. It was Zhao Yue who told me. Zhao Yue had a primary school classmate who lived in the dormitory, and Teacher Pan also lived in the dormitory. There were often boys playing in his dorm room, and that's how he saw it."

  This rumor spread like it was true, and Gu Xiang just casually listened to it with one ear.

  Two days later, I met Xiao Hei at the stairs. Xiao Hei was mysterious and seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.

  Gu Xiang asked him what he was doing.

  He struggled for a while and said: "I heard that someone in your class wrote a love letter to your teacher."

  Even he had heard it, Gu Xiang also believed seven or eight parts of it, but still couldn't help laughing and asking him: "I didn't know before that you're so gossipy."

  Xiao Hei's face turned red: "It wasn't me who asked, it was our class monitor who told me to ask."

  "Who is your class monitor? Is it a boy or a girl?"

  "It's a girl..."

  Gu Xiang exaggeratedly dragged out his voice "oh" and said: "So it's a girl! I'm going to tell your dad, you're not studying well, just starting junior high school and already learning about early love."

  Xiao Hei Pao was anxious and his whole face turned red: "I didn't have an early love affair, she took the initiative to finish my duty day, and then insisted that I come ask her."

  Gu Xiang laughed so hard that she couldn't stop, and scared Xiao Hei away.

  But this matter has obviously been passed down through all ages, Gu Xiang thought that Teacher Jiang would definitely privately ask the class committee to investigate again.

  She is no longer serving as the deputy class leader and when encountering such things, she has a mentality of watching the excitement just like ordinary classmates.

  Because it happened in the boys' dormitory, Chai Zi Yu naturally became Jiang teacher's investigator.

  Unfortunately, he didn't live in school dorms, so he asked another male student who lived on campus.

  This side has not yet come to a conclusion, but the other side has spread all over the school.

  The physics teacher of sophomore 2 received a love letter from a girl in Class 1...

  The male teacher of Sophomore 2 received a love letter from a female student in Class 1...

  It was spread around and nearly became true that Class 1's teacher Jiang was being chased by a female student.

  Mr. Jiang's nickname is Sauce Egg. Because he was short and stout, with a small flat head on top, Gu Xiang had never called him that before, but she also thought the nickname was quite fitting.

  Classmates in Class 1 were all delighted when they heard the news.

  Rumors spread like this, and it's impossible for Mr. Jiang to resolve it privately again.

  The school finally intervened and the principal invited Mr. Pan to have tea.

  Mr. Pan refused to admit it until his death.

  The school then found the boy who first said this, and after asking him again, he said that it wasn't a love letter, but rather a sticky note with words of encouragement on the physics homework handed in to Teacher Pan.

  Similar to Xu Zhimo's poem "A Sigh of Clouds and Rain".

  It's either a big deal or nothing at all.

  From start to finish, Lin Jiahuan was conscientiously live streaming...

  As for whether there was any follow-up later on, even she didn't know.

  Perhaps it was investigated, but Lin Jiahuan's uncle didn't tell her. Perhaps it was just a big deal made small and a small matter ignored.

  In short, their physics teacher Mr. Pan became popular throughout the school.