Chapter 24: He is not my dad

It will start to rain from Tuesday.
Water accumulated in the back door of the school, and no students went here. Only two guards were left here on duty.
"May I ask why? Well, the door doesn't stay, we are going to the back door."
Zhang Shiyu held a pen in his mouth, his eyes turned to look at his good brother He Yu.
"I think you have been abnormal recently."
He Yu compiled the list of students who were late and did not raise his head after hearing his words: "If you have nothing to do, you can go out and help the cleaning workers to clear the sewer."
"It's even more abnormal for you to say that you are yin and yang at once. I usually make fun of you, and I never see you angry."
Lowering his voice, detective Zhang Shiyu began his interrogation.
"Is it about that fat girl?"
"Who?" He Yu looked confused.
"Don't pretend to be stupid," he elbows him: "Just the princess dress!"
"Last time I said she was an ugly girl, and you squinted her eyes. You said she was your acquaintance... so I don't know how to call her now."
"What's wrong with her?" He Yu continued to play stupid.
"I saw her on duty with you yesterday. You didn't even say hello. When she walked over, your whole person was extremely stiff, and then you took the initiative to transfer to the back door on duty today. I said, you and her Is it an acquaintance? What story is there?"
Zhang Shiyu's big face got closer and closer, and his piercing eyes seemed to be able to use mind-reading skills to see He Yu through.
He patted the book on his face and manually widened the distance between the two.
"I am an acquaintance," He Yu said lightly, "I knew it when I was a child, but I am not familiar anymore."
"Hey," Zhang Shiyu didn't believe it: "If you are unfamiliar, then you ran over to help her take out the trash that day?"
He Yu frankly said: "The students on campus who need help, I will help if I can."
"Fake!" He pierced his mask of hypocrisy: "There must be something, otherwise you saw her so unnaturally?"
He Yu sighed.
Yes, what is it.
After bidding farewell to Jiang Xiaozhen that day, he thought about what he said.
What did she say, "I thought we were friends", "Now you are still talking." When she said that, he suddenly opened his heart to her extremely, and he didn't think about anything, and said all to her.
His words are too heavy, especially the sentence "Jiang Xiaozhen, I look down on you".
It was too high, and I recalled afterwards that even He Yu himself wanted to beat Bian himself at the time.
He is not a five-year-old kid anymore. Even if he can't get along with others, he has a more tactful and more appropriate way to make it so ugly.
Zhang Shiyu was right, he was unnatural when he saw Jiang Xiaozhen.
The unnatural reason stems from his ashamed to face her, as he is ashamed to face her, who said heavy words.
"He Yu, you are distracted." Zhang Shiyu reminded aloud.
"Is there?" He Yu wiped the drops of water on his bangs.
"..."
Okay, Zhang Shiyu is 100% sure that He Yu is abnormal.
Normal people holding an umbrella, who would carry the umbrella handle on their shoulders, with the umbrella face straight down, even if they were wet?
He Yu's whole head is in the rain!
...
The main entrance of the school at the same moment.
An unshaven, dark-skinned middle-aged uncle came to the school gate holding an umbrella.
Looking left and right, he approached the gate when the flow of people was low.
"Hello, kid, can you let me go to school to find someone?"
The classmates on duty stared at him warily.
The uncle's upper body is a gray and old T-shirt, and the lower body is torn overalls. In line with his rough image, he is alive as a famous farm worker who has just entered the city.
They perform duties mainly to prevent strange people from entering the campus.
The little classmate frowned and asked him: "Who are you looking for?"
He answered very smoothly: "Jiang Xiaozhen, from Class Four of Grade One."
Turn to the list of students to check that Class Four of High School does have this name, and the students' attitude towards the uncle is a little better: "What can you do with her? If it's a gift, you can give it to us."
"I have something important to tell her."
He couldn't say it clearly, and his classmates' vigilance came up again: "Who are you from her?"
"This..." Uncle hesitated: "Do you have to say it?"
"It must be said."
He lowered the umbrella and lowered the volume inexplicably: "I am her father."
That's even more strange, he asked him: "Can you tell her if you can't wait for her after school?"
The uncle shook his head: "I can't stay for too long, I'm leaving after talking to her."
The student thought for a while, then turned around to discuss a few sentences with his companion on duty, and came to reply to him.
"Parents of our school can't go in. Well, you wait for me at the door, and I'll call your daughter out."
"Okay, thanks for your hard work." The uncle thanked him and stood by and waited.
The boy on duty ran to Class Four of High School in one go.
The class hasn't started yet, the classroom is noisy, I don't know which Jiang Xiaozhen is.
So he knocked the front door and yelled inside.
"Is Jiang Xiaozhen there? Your father is waiting for you at the school gate. He tells you to go out and tell you something."
A big ship in front of him stood up.
The chubby girl in fancy dress squeezed her seat, rushed over and pushed him out of the classroom.
There is too much movement here, the whole class is watching.
Jiang Xiaozhen wanted to send him away as soon as possible, pushing him and saying, "Don't shout, that's not my dad."
"Huh?" Turning back on duty, unable to understand: "You haven't seen you, do you know it's not your father?"
"Yeah!" She categorically said: "You let him go quickly."
This one……
People are still waiting at the school gate. Jiang Xiaozhen said that he didn't know him, so how would he reply to that uncle?
The boy on duty scratched his neck and could only go to the back door and asked the captain of their duty team.
He Yugang began to listen to his report on the situation, and he already had a general solution in his mind, until he said "Jiang Xiaozhen in Class Four of Grade One".
"Jiang Xiaozhen? Is that fat girl in the princess dress?" Zhang Shiyu did not miss the keyword either.
The male student nodded: "Yes, what you described fits well."
Zhang Shiyu winked at He Yu.
He didn't bother to pay attention to him, and thrust the duty book in his arms.
"You look here alone, I'll go to the front door to deal with it."
"Okay, good," Zhang Shiyu promised happily: "You can go without worry."
He Yu didn't find Jiang Yuan at first glance.
He asked the boy on duty: "Where is that parent?"
He helped him point it out: "Here, over there."
A middle-aged man with a rickety back and ragged clothes.
In heavy rain, his presence is like a piece of mold growing on the wall.
Even if He Yu faced him face to face, he didn't dare to recognize that this person was Jiang Yuan.
I remember that Uncle Jiang, who runs the big restaurant, has a hearty laugh and a loud voice. He is always in suits and leather shoes, combed his hair greasy, and looks vigorous and smart all the year round.
The only moment he was helpless was when he met the jewel of his family.
As soon as the little princess shed tears, he panicked and ran over and coaxed softly and softly: "Mingzhen doesn't cry, what do you want, dad buy it for you."
Falling from the clouds into the mud is nothing more than the case.
At this moment, he squatted on the ground without an image.
The man has an old face with a gloomy look, looking at the passers-by on the opposite side, he puffs his cigarettes.
He Yu didn't say hello, he turned his head and went to the teaching building where Class One and Four of High School were located.
Unlike the previous classmates on duty, he knew who Jiang Xiaozhen was, but he still couldn't call her out of the classroom without disturbing others.
"Senior He Yu has come to our class!"
No one arrived in the classroom, the wind of his coming came first.
Jiang Xiaozhen had an ominous premonition when he heard everyone mention He Yu.
Premonitions come true.
He stood outside the classroom, met her accurately, beckoned to her, let her come out.
Sun Qin took the initiative to give way to Jiang Xiaozhen's convenience.
She had to go out, facing the curious eyes of the whole class.
He Yu walked ahead, Jiang Xiaozhen followed him.
Going downstairs, it was raining outside, she came out anxiously without an umbrella, and he opened his own cover to her head.
He was embarrassed when he said something serious to her before, thinking that the next contact with her would be ten thousand years later. No, this opportunity to speak comes so quickly.
He Yu realized that even though he expected to be a sleek person, he couldn't avoid Jiang Xiaozhen completely, so that he could not make mistakes and ran away.
After making sure that no one nearby would hear, he asked her.
"Did Uncle Jiang do anything to hurt you or your mother, so you don't want to see him?"
If this is the case, He Yu understands, and he will help her stop Jiang Yuan.
Whether it is now or later.
"No."
Jiang Xiaozhen tightened his shoulders.
In the rain curtain, she hid under the small world supported by He Yu, still feeling cold.
Her voice was almost swallowed by the sound of rain, or maybe, she was talking very quietly.
"He is a good dad. Apart from the failure of the business, there is nothing to blame."
Then why...
He asked: "But you don't want to see him?"
She didn't look at him, and walked straight forward: "See you, you're all here."
Jiang Yuan waited outside for a long time, but it was good to see his daughter.
He took Jiang Xiaozhen from He Yu's umbrella and thanked He Yu gratefully.
He has no time to recognize who He Yu is, but it doesn't matter who he is.
He Yu stood on duty and watched them go outside the campus.
Jiang Yuan's umbrella was a bit broken, so he pulled the umbrella surface to level the unfastened fabric. The chubby Jiang Xiaozhen was protected under the umbrella as best he could, protected from wind and rain.
Jiang Xiaozhen's voice floated far away, with anger in her tone.
"If you ask you to go, why don't you go to my school?"
Jiang Yuan explained: "I can't go where you live, I will be leaving soon, thinking..."
He Yu didn't intend to listen to the conversation between the two, and turned his attention back.
"Jiang Xiaozhen has registered. If she waits for the bell to ring before coming in, don't deduct her points." He explained to the classmates on duty.
The classmate understood what he meant: "Okay, then go to the back door."
He Yu took a few steps and returned.
"Forget it, I'll stay here, there is nothing wrong with the back door."
Looking at the alarm clock in the guard room, he said: "There are five minutes to ring the bell. I will send her to the teaching building, she didn't bring an umbrella."
If Zhang Shiyu was here and heard He Yu, he would surely start screaming again.
With nothing to do, He Yu began to lose attention.
He asked Jiang Xiaozhen a moment ago, but she didn't actually answer it clearly.
Why did she not want to see Jiang Yuan at first?
He felt strange: Like she said, her father is a good father, and the relationship between the father and daughter looks good.
Is it because you don’t want to come out soon after class? Don't want to come out when it rains?
Such an answer is quite nonsensical, but thinking about it carefully, it is really something that the eldest lady would do.
The speculation ends here.
If Jiang Xiaozhen didn't say anything, He Yu wouldn't force an answer. After all, it was her privacy.
The duty team was ready to let Jiang Xiaozhen in after the bell rang.
No, in less than five minutes, she has finished speaking with her dad.
Jiang Xiaozhen waved goodbye to her dad, and the classmate who stepped on the bell to come to school rushed to the last minute and managed to squeeze into the slowly closed school door.
He Yu took an umbrella to send Jiang Xiaozhen back to the class.
One of the classmates who stepped on the bell happened to be in her class, and the three of them walked side by side.
"Sadako, is that your father?"
The girl was running out of breath, and now she came back, feeling that the scene just now was a bit strange.
"Don't everyone in the class say that your dad is the owner of a big hotel and he is rich."
"He is not my dad," Jiang Xiaozhen lied without panting: "You must never tell anyone that you saw him."
"Oh," the girl scratched her head: "Who is he then?"
"It's the kind..."
He Yu watched Jiang Xiaozhen make up on the spot.
"My dad is a handyman who helps runners."
"Ah, no wonder," the girl said bluntly: "I just thought about it, he is so shabby, if it is really your dad, how poor your family is."
"Haha, it's not my dad." She smiled and said to the girl.
Jiang Xiaozhen's smile is very artificial.
There is a simpler answer why she doesn't want to see Jiang Yuan in school.
Because of Jiang Xiaozhen's vanity.
The author has something to say:
Zhang Shiyu: "Are you acquainted with her? What story is there?"
He Yu: "Speaking of that story...it's a bit long. Why don't I recommend you a novel called "To Make He Yu Regret"."