Hongfu Temple Night Market consists of two pedestrian streets running horizontally and vertically. Although the center is a Buddhist temple, it looks like a cross when viewed from the sky.

Every night in summer and autumn, the Hongfu Temple Night Market becomes bustling. It is a good place for shopping and entertainment for nearby residents. This was the case before the Jiangbei School District renovation project was launched.

Today is the third anniversary of the renovation and official opening of the Hongfu Temple Night Market. The two pedestrian streets running across the two pedestrian streets are crowded with people. Colored lights are put up between the shops. The colored lights flicker, contrasting with the stars in the night sky, as if there are two worlds between immortals and mortals. They all went to the night market at the same time.

Since it is the third anniversary celebration, merchants will not take it lightly. Today, every corner of the pedestrian street is crowded with shops. The owners of every shop are shouting at the top of their lungs. I don’t know how the monks of Hongfu Temple are doing this. Practicing in a noisy environment.

The monitor likes to go to the night market very much.

If you think about it carefully, this is not surprising. Except for girls like Jiang Qian who don't go to boutiques, most girls are very interested in the dazzling array of small commodities in the night market.

What is particularly important to the squad leader is that the prices of things in the night market are very reasonable. I think back then, the squad leader could ride his bicycle across half of Xicheng District in order to buy promotional milk. The Hongfu Temple Night Market is less than one kilometer away from Qingzi High School. It would be abnormal if she didn't make it.

However, she really didn't expect that I would accompany her to the night market today.

Shu Zhe made an appointment with her to meet at the station, but the person she was waiting for was me.

I don't know if Shu Zhe had some ulterior motive behind asking me to accompany her sister to the night market, but I just wanted to explain the misunderstanding to the class monitor and improve the weird atmosphere between the two of us.

"Shu Zhe is a little upset, so he asked me to accompany you to the night market. There are many people in the night market, and I heard there are a lot of thieves. It would be better for the two of us to go together."

The class monitor looked at me a little doubtfully, neither agreeing nor rejecting, but silently waited for the bus with me, and after riding for three stops, we got off at the Hongfu Temple Night Market.

It seems that she still has a grudge against me. Is it so difficult for her to accept the fact that I put hand cream on Xiaoqin?

When we were still some distance away from the noisy night market, the squad leader suddenly said to me: "Ye Lin, if you have other urgent matters, just go ahead and do it. You don't have to accompany me."

"How can that be done?" I shook my head and said, "I promised Shu Zhe that I would help him look after his sister at the night market. The night market is quite chaotic. Gong Caicai was molested in the night market, so in the future. Are you going to never go to the night market again?"

"I'm different." The squad leader said stubbornly, "I can protect myself. You don't have to stay with me just to make your promise to Xiaozhe."

"It's not entirely Shu Zhe's fault." I scratched my head and said, "Monitor, your attitude towards me seems a bit strange today. Is it because I applied abrasion ointment to Xiaoqin? That's not hand cream..."

The monitor's eyes flashed, "Xiao Qin is the Diary Man, right?"

"Ah poof." If there was water in my mouth, it must have sprayed out seven feet away by now.

"Um... monitor, how do you know? Did Amy tell you?"

The monitor smoothed out a small wrinkle on the school uniform skirt that was not easy to find, and said: "It's not that difficult to guess. I have always had this suspicion, but what happened last night confirmed it for me."

"Ahaha..." I laughed awkwardly, not knowing what to say next.

"So, the ointment you applied to Xiaoqin today was to treat her injuries from the fight."

I nodded quickly, "That's it. I've told Xiaoqin not to do such dangerous things in the future. Monitor, can you keep her identity as a diary a secret? This... is really a bit too much for a girl." It’s embarrassing.”

"Okay." As he got closer and closer to the edge of the night market, the squad leader adjusted the position of the lady's bag that he had not changed for two years to prevent petty thieves from taking advantage of it.

"But I want to ask you, if I hadn't guessed that Xiaoqin was the Diary Man, would you have kept it secret from me? If you didn't tell me, you were worried that I would gossip like Geng Yuhong."

The monitor's tone sounds a bit sharp. She has always treated her classmates sincerely. Although Xiaoqin often plays pranks on everyone, the monitor's attitude towards Xiaoqin and Gong Caicai are not significantly different. Now I know that the other party may have more than one It's normal to feel uncomfortable if you hide something from yourself.

"No." I persuaded the monitor, "I know you are different from other girls, monitor, and you never gossip..."

The monitor's heroic brows moved slightly, "Are you saying that I'm abnormal compared to other girls?"

I immediately didn’t know how to answer, "Well... I can’t say it’s abnormal. I can only say that it has more characteristics than ordinary girls... For example, it has more leadership style."

"So you see me as a leader, not an ordinary girl."

For some reason, the squad leader was being very reluctant to me. Maybe she didn't notice it herself, but her lips were slightly pursed.

"This is not contradictory." I was a little nervous and planned to change the topic, so I pointed to the right side of the street, "Squad leader, look, this store sells ceramic storage jars. There are various storage jars for cats and dogs. You can You must like it very much."

The monitor followed the direction of my finger and glanced at the store.

The shop owner displayed the items on the shelves diligently and confidently. He had various cute and unique piggy banks made of ceramics on hand. In addition to the shapes of cats and dogs, there were also elephants, hippos, rhinos, and pandas. If they were all If you buy it home, you can open a zoo.

When she first saw it, a hint of excitement flashed across the monitor's face, but she soon shook her head in disinterest.

"This kind of piggy bank has no practical value when you buy it home. You can only take out the money by smashing it. The cuter the shape, the less practical value it has."

Indeed, for the squad leader, even if he accidentally breaks the porcelain piggy bank belonging to the kittens and puppies, he will feel deeply guilty, let alone breaking it on his own initiative.

There is a stall further ahead that sells flowers, with all kinds of roses, lilies, and carnations neatly displayed. Many couples stopped in front of the stall.

The squad leader accelerated past the stall and nervously checked with the corner of his eye to see if there was anyone who recognized him. He breathed a sigh of relief when he found that there was no one there.

The shop diagonally opposite sells antiques, and the shopkeeper is introducing a treasure to a red-haired foreigner. It is said that it is a Tang Sancai specially customized to commemorate the unification of the country by Qin Shihuang.

"Tang Sancai is from the Tang Dynasty, how could it exist in the Qin Dynasty?"

The squad leader was filled with indignation and wanted to go over and expose the deceitful shopkeeper. As a result, the red-haired foreigner turned out to be very knowledgeable and said in Chinese that was not fluent but very clear:

"I won't bury this, don't think I'm Yuan Datou, chop up that bastard for me, the one carrying the mahjong tiles..."

The shopkeeper wanted to say: That was not a tortoise carrying mahjong, but a turtle carrying a stone tablet, but he still handed over what the other party wanted.

"Why do you want to lie to others?" The squad leader seemed to be thinking, "Is it difficult to treat others sincerely?"

"It can't be helped." I shrugged and said, "As the saying goes, there is no businessman without treachery. Isn't it taught in politics class that any accumulation of primitive capital is bloody and dirty?"

The squad leader bit his lower lip, as if unwilling to accept my statement. The beautiful girl with long black hair stood in the night wind for a long time, ignoring the crowds of pedestrians on both sides, so I had no choice but to stop with her.

After a while, the squad leader suddenly said:

"When Xiaoqin first transferred to No. 28 Middle School, you did your best to bully her every day. Is it to retaliate for what she did to you when she was a child?"

I couldn't help but sweat dripping from my body, and said in a trembling voice: "Squad leader, what are you referring to?"

"Do you still want to hide it from me?" The squad leader sighed, "I saw a photo of you when you were a child on Xiaoqin's bedside table. At that time, I didn't believe that the person in the photo was you. Later, when you were in a coma, Uncle Ye gave it to me. After looking at old photo albums, I realized that you were actually very good-looking when you were a child..."

"Xiao Qin has always told everyone that you and she were childhood sweethearts, but I couldn't find any photos of you with any girls when you were a child in the photo album. There was a little boy who didn't want to look at the camera who appeared a few times."

"It wasn't until I looked at the photo album at Auntie Ren's place that I was shocked to find that the little boy in the photo with you was Xiaoqin. Although the male and female characteristics of children before the age of ten are not very obvious, like Xiaoqin's, you can't tell it from the photo at all. It’s a girl, this is the first time I’ve met her.”

"Aunt Ren said that Xiaoqin was very domineering when she was a child. She dominated the courtyard and was called the 'little bully' by other children. She also especially liked to cause trouble for you... I will connect the things I know together. I just want to understand why you bullied Xiaoqin in the first place."

In the noisy night market, the monitor said this to me in a calm and rational tone to hide his uneasiness and confusion.

"Ye Lin, could it be that...you always regarded Xiaoqin as a boy when you were a child, and you held a grudge because you were bullied by her all the time? Although I had many misunderstandings about you at the time, you never bullied anyone else the way you bullied Xiaoqin. As a classmate, you rarely even talk to other girls."

It's over, the monitor guessed it. My shameful childhood of being beaten up by girls is no longer a secret to the monitor.

Seeing that my expression looked like beef being grilled on the iron plate, the squad leader realized that he had guessed correctly, so he pondered for a moment and continued:

"When I was a class monitor in elementary school, I also saw cases where people of the opposite sex deliberately bullied each other because they liked each other but didn't know how to express their feelings. Did Xiaoqin also give you trouble for this reason when she was a child? Later she changed After coming to school, she always accepted no matter how you bullied her. It was to atone for her past sins. A girl has to do this. I think the only explanation is that she likes you and must be forgiven by you. .”

This... the monitor's reasoning was flawless and convincing, and I knew I couldn't hide it no matter what.

"Ye Lin." The squad leader looked straight at me with his dark, soul-piercing pupils, "What do you think about Xiaoqin's feelings? You should still do what you told me before.
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