CH 3

Chapter 3: Want To Kiss

Her daughter's voice exploded in her ears, and Lu Zhiqiao felt extremely guilty for a moment, she turned her face away uncomfortably, answered vaguely, and held the steering wheel tightly with one hand.

Dry blood surged up and spread along her chest to the face and ears.

It is true that students like teachers who are beautiful, not only children, but also adults. Who doesn't like beautiful ones? If someone with low looks came to strike up a conversation last night, she probably wouldn't bother, let alone talk about what happened afterwards.

Very realistic.

Lu Zhiqiao closed her eyes, waved away the face of the person in her mind, and continued to ask, "What about the Math teacher?"

"Well, he's okay." Lu Wei answered after consideration.

The Math teacher is a middle-aged uncle, in his forties or fifties, tall and strong, he looks fierce, and he is in fact a bit fierce. Although she doesn't hate him, she doesn't like him either.

"Since you don't hate the teacher, why do you still get such a low score in math?" Lu Zhiqiao took out the report card and threw it over.

Lu Wei: "..." 

The report card is a summary table, there are 46 students in the class, and the scores are ranked at a glance. Her daughter scored only 42 points in Mathematics, which was a huge hindrance to the ranking, so that it overshadowed the 100 points in Chinese and English.

Looking at the whole table, she was the only one who failed in Math, and the other students had the lowest score of 76, which meant that it was not the teacher's fault.

Lu Wei held the report card and lowered her head.

Parents poured out of the school gate one after another, and a middle-aged man scolded his son as he walked: "all the books you read went to waste, why not just go back and raise pigs." With the window half open, his voice was thick and rough, and both mother and daughter could hear him clearly.

Lu Zhiqiao frowned, pressed the window button to close the window, turned her head to see her daughter's aggrieved appearance, complex feelings surged in her heart, and she swallowed the words again.

"Forget it, let's go back."

Ten minutes later, the car drove into Jing Yu Ming Fu Estate.

The year before last, Lu Zhiqiao bought a unit here. According to Jiangcheng's policy of "enrolling nearby" for junior high schools, this unit is considered a school district house, and children can go directly to the middle school attached to Jiang University. Although the price is expensive, it is worth the investment.

In front of the gate of the building, Lu Wei got out of the car, turned to look at her mother, and asked in a low voice, "Mom, aren't you going home?"

"I'm going to work." Lu Zhiqiao glanced at her watch, "You eat by yourself at night, remember to practice Qin*, you are not allowed to watch TV or play computer games."

*Qin (chin) - Chinese traditional string musical instrument click this link to see photo

"Okay." The car drove away, and Lu Wei stood there for a long time until it disappeared from sight.

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On Sunday afternoon, when the sports meeting was over, Qi Yan contacted the moving company to transport the luggage and some furniture to her new house.

Three years ago, she graduated with a master's degree and returned to work in China. Her parents bought her a suite near the school with a big wave of her hand, so that it was convenient for her to commute to get off work. But for the past three years, she has lived at home, and the new house has been vacant after the furnishing was completed. This year, she made sure that she will not resign and continue to take care of the second batch of students before she decided to move in.

Eversince the school opening in September, she had been busy and just squeezed out a little time now.

The unit is in Jingyumingfu Estate, on the 9th floor of Building C. The current average price is 70,000, which has doubled in three years. The environment here is good, and it is well connected.

She doesn't have a lot of luggage and only a few pieces of furniture. Most of the things are available in the new house, but cleaning is more time-consuming. The house has been vacant for a long time, and there is a lot of dust, and it is not cleaned until dark.

6:30

Tired all afternoon, and didn't want to cook, Qi Yan took out her mobile phone to order take away, looked around and found nothing to eat, so she went out to look for food.

She picked up her bag, and went out the door with the trash in her hand.

There are two households on one elevator in the building opposite to each other. There is a large trash can in the stairwell on each floor. Qi Yan throws the trash in. When she came out, she inadvertently glanced at unit 901 on the opposite side, turned her gaze back, and pressed the elevator.

The number shows a little rise, stop.

—the door opened.

A pair of slender and straight legs came into view, looking from bottom to top, black pointed high heels, narrow-cut trousers, Kelly bag, waist windbreaker jacket, shirt buttoned to the top, passing the cold breath .

When their eyes met, Qi Yan was stunned.

It's her again.

Caught off guard and meeting again, Lu Zhiqiao was extremely surprised, her expression was a little awkward at that moment, but soon returned to normal. She walked out of the elevator slowly, nodded and smiled lightly: "Did Teacher Qi came here to visit?"

At first thought, the reason seemed plausible. On the first day of school in September, Lu Zhiqiao was on a business trip, so she asked a friend to take her daughter to report. It is said that she filled out an information form with her home address on it.

But today is Sunday, and it's already dark, and it's late at night, and she didn't notify in advance, so there's no reason to visit home.

When she said that, Qi Yan also thought of it.

On the first day of school, she saw the name of the estate and felt familiar, but the house had been empty for too long, there were so many students, and things were messy and complicated, she forgot to clean them after forgetting them.

"You live here?" Qi Yan asked without answering, and glanced at 901.

"Hmm."

It was really a wonderful fate.

Qi Yan smiled and said, "Coincidentally, I live across from you."

Lu Zhiqiao looked at 902, her brows twitched, she didn't speak, her indifferent expression couldn't hold back.

When she bought a house the year before last, the property owner said that someone lived at the opposite door. After the Spring Festival last year, she and her daughter moved in. Until now, the opposite door has never been opened, let alone anyone coming in or out. Now a new neighbor suddenly came, who turned out to be her one-night stand, her child's teacher.

Sometimes there are so many coincidences that it's hard to believe it's really a coincidence.

Qi Yan seemed to see through what she was thinking, and explained: "I bought the house a long time ago, but I just moved here today." After thinking about it, she added, "Personal reasons."

After speaking, she offered her hand.

"Hello, neighbor."

Lu Zhiqiao was still digesting the fact, she lowered her eyelashes and looked at her slender hand, hesitated for a moment, and gently held it.

Without waiting for her to leave, Qi Yan suddenly pulled her hand and leaned closer, "Are you still working on weekends?"

Her voice was deep and magnetic, gentle and charming.

The two were so close that they could feel each other's breath. The warm and hot breath was intertwined, mixed with the familiar and pleasant smell of cold fragrance, Qi Yan sniffed, and drunkenness appeared in her eyes.

The red lips and that charming tear mole are close, her heart becomes itchy, desiring to kiss them.

Lu Zhiqiao suddenly remembered that night, her face became hot, she hurriedly pushed her away, and walked towards her door as if fleeing.

—the door was slammed hard.

Qi Yan drove to the city for dinner, and because she was in a particularly good mood, she strolled outside for a while.

She went home at around eight o'clock, when she got out of the elevator, she glanced at the closed door of 901, suddenly thought that she was dreaming, and a thought to stalk arose in her heart.

Whether she is married or not, she will find out if she goes in and have a look.

Once the thought arises, no matter how hard it is to control it, even if you force yourself not to think about it, it will still lie dormant somewhere in the bottom of your heart, popping up from time to time to scratch, making people itch. If it's just for one night, if you forget it, you will forget it, but it happens that there are more and more intersections, and it is difficult to forget.

Qi Yan was disturbed by herself, but in the end, sensibility still prevailed over reason.

She dug out a bottle of red wine and a box of chocolates from the cabinet. They were all gifts from others. They were carefully packaged and hadn't been opened yet. She happened to borrow flowers to present to Buddha.*

*to offer something that one has received (as a gift, favour, etc.) to someone else

Two minutes later, Qi Yan knocked on the door of 901.

It was Lu Wei who opened the door, and that immature face appeared behind the door. Seeing her, she was immediately frightened, and exclaimed: "Ms.Qi——" 

The little girl suddenly opened her eyes wide. Feeling flustered, she turned her head to look at the room, and then turned back, her emotions were written all over her face, and she was speechless for a long time.

"Have you eaten yet?" Qi Yan asked softly.

Lu Wei nodded stiffly, hummed twice, and stayed in place.

After all, she is a child, not as smooth as an adult, and her personality is too honest.

"I just moved today, and I happen to be at unit 902 across yours. We will be neighbors from now on." Qi Yan said sincerely, and handed her the chocolate, "A little gift, it's delicious, try it quickly."

Lu Wei took it, stunned, "Across...?"

Just now she was flustered, but now a thunderbolt fell from the sky, and her small world was completely filled with despair.

Homeroom teacher.

Lives opposite her house.

There is nothing more terrifying than this.

Qi Yan narrowed her eyes, smiled, then asked, "Where's your mother?"

"She..." Lu Wei's scalp tightened, and a clear and calm female voice came from the kitchen: "Niuniu,* who is it?" Then a figure came out.

*a pet name for Lu Wei, basically mean little girl

Lu Zhiqiao was wearing an apron, her hair was coiled up casually, she was holding a rag in her hand, and she was pulling house slippers on her feet. She looked like a gentle and virtuous housewife. Seeing Qi Yan, she subconsciously squeezed the rag tightly.

There were sparks flying between their eyes.

"It's Teacher Qi." Lu Wei looked at her mother and shrank her neck.

Qi Yan raised the corners of her lips and nodded at her with intriguing eyes.

Lu Zhiqiao avoided the woman's gaze and said to her daughter, "Go do your homework." 

The little girl nodded obediently, and entered the room with the chocolate in her arms.

The air was suddenly quiet, and there were sounds of needles falling all around.

"Is something the matter, Teacher Qi?" Lu Zhiqiao calmed down and asked politely.

The rag was dripping with water, and the tighter it was, the more it overflowed. Her whole hand was wet, and the coolness flowed upstream along the fingertips, freezing her slightly boiling heart.

Qi Yan stood under the lamp outside the door, with a handsome figure, long black hair hanging down and flowing, she patted the red wine in her arms, blinked: "I moved here today, I'm just visiting my neighbors, please take care of me in the future."

Her eyes are special, between the red phoenix and the peach blossom, shaped like a willow leaf, long but not thin, deep and sharp, half of the eyes are full of autumn water, like amber wine glistening in a glass.

Lu Zhiqiao was stunned, looking into her eyes quietly, thinking about the same thing that night.

"Aren't you going to invite me in for a sit? Lu Wei's mother." Qi Yan raised her eyebrows, deliberately biting the last two words very hard, and her eyes were meaningful.