To make He Yu regret - chapter 47

During the lunch break, Jiang Xiaozhen was hungry, and when the bell rang, she was the first to run out of the classroom. When passed by the school gate, the students on the duty team just took their place. He Yu took a bite of a biscuit and put his left hand on the cuff on his right glove. Jiang Xiaozhen slowed down and watched his arm go in. Don’t be fine. He pushed the biscuit into his mouth, and started to bite it which made cracking sounds. When she passed by him, he noticed her.

The chewing stopped abruptly, and He Yu bowed his head to adjust the cuff. She walked away, and the sound behind her resumed again. When Jiang Xiaozhen returned to school after the lunch break, He Yu wasn’t at his post. As she passed through the playground behind the laboratory building, she decided to go to the cafeteria to find her friends.

“Can you really do anything, right? It’s okay.”

Jiang Xiaozhen accidentally heard He Yu’s voice.

“I’m watching it here to see if there is any way to get it down. You could call the teacher for me.”

“Oh oh good,” the girl confided to him worriedly, “You must not climb higher, you would also be in danger.”

The girl hurried to do what she was told. Jiang Xiaozhen approached the locust tree. Fragmented sunlight through the green leaves cast a shadow on the ground. She covered her eyes with her hands and raised her head. The tree branches looked like a maze. Bypassing those lush, intertwined roots, near the waist of the big tree, she found He Yu’s shoes as he stood there.

“Meow, meow.” There was a kitten asking for help or maybe it could just be resting.

“Meow.” He tried to mimic the sound but his sound was anthropological, not like a kitten at all.

He might have noticed the failure of imitation himself, and cleared his throat and coughed.

“Meow…” He made rapid progress, and the second time, he obviously sounded a lot better.

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“Meow?” Kitty cat answered him.

“Meow, meow.” He got better and better.

Probably seeing the kitten’s mood stabilize, he shook the tree carefully. The kitten looked like it had the intention to move. Jiang Xiaozhen under the tree looked worried. She wanted to ask He Yu if he wanted any help, but she was afraid that she would startle him or the cat.

Actually, how could she help? She couldn’t climb trees, and someone had already called a teacher. Fortunately, the communication between the human cat and the kitten gradually became effective. Jiang Xiaozhen saw the kitten. It was a fat orange kitten, and the paw pads were pink.

“Meowa, would you come over here? Meow.” His guiding tone contained a trace of coaxing. No matter how rebellious the kitty was, it would obediently fall into his embrace. The cat stepped on the branch, it leaped slightly, and he quickly grabbed it. He held it tightly in his arms by the. He scratched its little head twice, pretending to be fierce and disciplined it, “You shouldn’t run off to high places, don’t you know?”

The chubby orange cat replied, “Meow, meow.”

“Yeah, you know it was wrong, right.” He Yu interpreted it to himself as if he could understand it.

“Meow!” The kitten continued.

“Okay, that’s OK, you shouldn’t climb trees to play.”

He Yu’s conversation with the cat was very serious, and he was afraid that the cat’s mood would be ruined, so he didn’t laugh at all.

“Let’s go down together.” He held it in one hand, supported the branches with the other, and started to get down from the tree. Only then did Jiang Xiaozhen realize that she was observing them, and she stretched out her hands.

What did she think? If he really falls, she could hold him…?

He Yu seemed to get down the tree very steadily, and was a veteran. Jiang Xiaozhen awkwardly retracted her arm, and when he reached the main branch of the locust tree safely, he was safe. Jiang Xiaozhen decided to walk away from the tree as her help was no longer needed. The girl who went to call the teacher was already on the way to the spot along with the dean of teaching. The dean was with her and he scolded the girl into a bloody spray, “What would stray cats do in trees? They can climb… trees all day long.You let the classmates on duty help. He is only a student on duty and not a school security guard. If he falls, he could break his leg, don’t you know?”

The girl’s expression looked like she was about to cry, but she followed the dean side by side, and dared not to talk back.

“He saved the cat.” Jiang Xiaozhen told them.

“Really?” The girl’s frowning brow suddenly relaxed.

JIang Xiaozhen nodded. The girl and the dean continued to walk in the direction of the old locust tree. Jiang Xiaozhen lowered her head and smiled, and went to the cafeteria. He Yu was on duty again at the school gate when school was over. She routinely dumped the class trash, and before leaving school, the school clearing bell rang for the last time.

Only him and another boy were left at the school gate, and they were closing the gate.

“Hey, wait a while.” He Yu said to the boy. 

The boy stood by the door, they waited for Jiang Xiaozhen to come. He Yu stepped back a few steps, and cast his gaze into the empty distance, meaninglessly. Jiang Xiaozhen quickened her pace and walked out through the gate left by them. She didn’t even thank him. The two of them acted like they didn’t meet each other. She told her friends that she knew him and she could tell the story of his childhood vividly.

But Jiang Xiaozhen thought, “He Yu now had no time for her. He didn’t even treat her as good as a strange classmate, or at least even a strange cat!

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