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Chapter 27 — Photos
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Chu Rou came out of the bathroom and saw Rong Xun waiting for her in the corridor.
Chu Rou pursed her lips and walked over, but she didn't know what to say for a moment.
Seeing Chu Feng with red eyes, Rong Xun whispered, “I'm sorry for telling you this suddenly, which scared you.”
Chu Rou shook her head and asked in a hoarse voice, “Senior, do you really like my brother?”
Rong Xun looked at him and said, “En, I like him very much. I don't know if you've heard the rumor that I'm gay. In fact, this rumor is not groundless. I don't know who sent it, but I can probably guess a few people. I won't hide it from you. I didn't like girls by nature, which I found out when I was in junior high school. There was a rumor that I was gay in school, and everyone began to alienate me. To tell you the truth, it was a great blow to me. During that period, something happened between me and your brother, and then he told me that he liked me. I was surprised at that time, but your brother was really kind to me, which made me forget about the isolation and feel better. Therefore, although there was something unpleasant that happened between me and him, without his later company, I might have collapsed.”
Rong Xun had the habit of keeping a diary. That day, a classmate in his bedroom asked him to borrow his notes. He was taking a shower, so he asked the classmate to take them from his desk. As a result, the student took his diary as a note and opened it. When he opened it, he saw the page where he wrote that he liked boys. Almost in an instant, the other two people knew it, and then the whole school began to spread it. He didn't know who said it, or if all three people participated, but he couldn't ask anything, because it was all true.
He didn't mention these things to Chu Feng, and Chu Feng didn't ask him. He thought it was the best, because he didn't want to mention some things.
Chu Rou didn't know what happened between Rong Xun and her brother, but it sounded serious. However, since Rong Xun simplified the matter with a few words to her, he said he didn't want to mention it, and Chu Rou didn't ask.
Rong Xun smiled and said, “Maybe you can't understand the relationship between Chu Feng and me, but because you are a very important relative of Chu Feng, I have to tell you about it. I don't know if I can go to the end with Chu Feng, but I want to try. Even if we are separated in the end, at least I have tried, and there will be no regret.”
When it came to her brother, Chu Rou was not sure how far he could go with Rong Xun. Her brother seemed to have restrained a lot now, but she knew what kind of temperament he had originally. Therefore, Rong Xun was more hurt by their relationship. However, since her brother told her about it, he must have had some different feelings for Rong Xun?
“This road is hard to go.” Chu Rou did not discriminate against homosexuality, but what should be said still needed to be said.
“I know.” Rong Xun smiled gently, “Even if there is no result, the time I spent with Chu Feng will become the best memory of my life.”
Chu Rou didn't know what to say for a moment. Both sides were people she cared about, and Rong Xun had said that he didn't like girls by nature. There was no way, all she could do was bless.
After taking a deep breath, Chu Rou reluctantly smiled and said, “Don't let brother wait. Let's go back.”
“Okay.” Seeing that her mood eased a lot, Rong Xun was relieved and returned to his seat with Chu Rou.
Seeing them back, Chu Feng carefully observed their expressions and found that there was nothing unusual except that Chu Rou's eyes were a little red. He was relieved at the bottom of his heart.
Sitting back in the chair, Chu Rou tidied up her mood, stared at Chu Feng and said, “I'm really surprised that you suddenly told me this. But since Rong Xun likes you, I won't say anything. Treat him well and don't bully him. Otherwise, I won't help you in the future.”
Chu Feng smiled and said, “I know. I only told you now, others don't know. You have to keep it a secret.”
“En, don't worry.” Chu Rou also knew that this kind of thing couldn't be said nonchalantly. Even if she wanted to come out, he had to be fully prepared.
With Chu Rou as an ally, Chu Feng felt that there was more help at home. If he wanted to come out in the future, he could also ask Chu Rou to speak for him.
“Thank you, Chu Rou,” Rong Xun said seriously.
Chu Rou smiled at him and said, “I have one more brother. In the future, if I have some problems while studying, I can rest assured and ask you boldly.” She also understood that if it was a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship, once the relationship was no good,they would fall apart. But if it was her brother's boyfriend, he might become a family member in the future. Even if her brother and Rong Xun didn’t last, she could still maintain a close relationship with Rong Xun. Why not, right?
“You’re welcome at any time.” Rong Xun smiled.
Chu Feng saw that Chu Rou had recovered as usual and felt that his decision was very correct. He could see that Chu Rou cried. This should not be because he felt sad about his brother's association with boys, but more because of Rong Xun's relationship. Chu Rou liked Rong Xun and he was not mistaken. It was better to solve it as soon as possible and avoid future problems in the future.
In the afternoon, they also made an appointment with Shen Shi for class, so the three left after they were full. Chu Feng and Rong Xun first sent Chu Rou to the car and let her go home, and asked her to call them when she got home. Then they went to the place where they made an appointment with Shen Shi.
——Chu Rou went home on weekends. Today, she stayed one more day because she made an appointment to eat and it was convenient to walk together at school.
The afternoon tutorial went well, but there was also an episode in the middle— Chu Feng met fans.
Several little girls were careful to ask if Chu Feng was right. After getting a positive answer, they immediately got excited and wanted to take a group photo with Chu Feng. Chu Feng thought about it and only agreed to take a picture with them. The girls happily agreed. In this way, Chu Feng took a photo with his fans for the first time after his rebirth.
Fans saw that their desks were full of textbooks and looked like they were studying. It was not good to disturb them. They told Chu Feng to study hard and left first.
Chu Feng didn't pay much attention to this episode. He continued to pay attention to the textbook and listen carefully.
On the way back, Rong Xun grabbed the schoolbag belt and seemed a little silent.
“What's the matter?” Chu Feng asked when he found his abnormality.
“Nothing.” Rong Xun smiled and said, “just a little sleepy.”
Chu Feng was not a fool. After looking at Rong Xun carefully for a while, he stretched out his hand to pull the youth into the alley and said, “Are you not going to tell me the truth?”
“No…” Rong Xun lowered his head and looked like he had done something wrong.
Chu Feng put his hand around him and asked softly in his ear, “What's the matter?”
Rong Xun was silent for a long time before he said, “We don't seem to have taken photos alone.”
Rong Xun didn't care about it at ordinary times, but when some fans came to take a photo with Chu Feng today, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be something missing between them.
Chu Feng thought it seemed like it, but now it was no better than ten years later. All kinds of mobile phones and tablets could be taken, and the results were good. At this time, the effect of mobile phones was not very good. Most non professionals wanted to take a picture seriously and often chose to use digital cameras.
“It's my negligence,” Chu Feng said. “I'll call Xiao Rou later and ask her to bring her camera from home. We'll take some photos at that time.”
“Don't bother…” in fact, he just saw Chu Feng taking a photo with his fans. He was a little jealous, but he wouldn't tell Chu Feng.
“No trouble.” While holding his hand, he said, “The photos are memories. We should take them every season in the future. In the future, we can take them out to see what changes we had at that time and now. Isn't it very interesting?”
In fact, photos were also a witness of growth. Maturity was not only reflected in speech, behavior, but also in appearance.
“In fact, you don't have to take so many, just one. Leave a souvenir…” Rong Xun said.
“Fool, how can one be enough?” Such a cautious Rong Xun made Chu Feng very distressed. He took his hand, Chu Feng kissed him on his finger and said, “We will have many photos. In the future, we will build a photo wall at home and put our photos on it, okay?”
Rong Xun smiled and said, “No, you should put it away so that you can take it out at any time and it won't turn yellow.”
Chu Feng smiled and said, “Okay, I’ll listen to you.” It seemed that when ordering the bookcase for Rong Xun in the future, he should set aside a space for their photo album.
After entering late autumn, the temperature dropped sharply. There was cold air, and the wind became strong.
After breakfast, Rong Xun and Chu Feng came to the classroom for early self-study. On this ordinary morning, it was a little strange that several students casted their eyes on Rong Xun.
Chu Feng also found that there were even a few boys who looked at Rong Xun with a little disgust. Chu Feng suddenly felt angry and just wanted to catch someone and ask them what they meant, Dong Fang walked into the classroom.
“Rong Xun, come out for a while,” said Dong Fang.
Rong Xun quickly put down his book and went to the corridor with Dong Fang.
At the early self-study time, there were only Dong Fang and Rong Xun in the corridor, which was convenient to speak. Dong Fang took out a photo and handed it to Rong Xun. She asked, “Is that you?”
Rong Xun took the photo and looked at it, and he was stunned. The picture was the back of a person, but because he turned his head and looked at the person next to him, half of his side face was exposed, it was easy to see that the person was him. The person around him was deliberately mosaic, but it could also be seen that he was a man. The point was, in the picture, he and the man were holding hands.
“This was confiscated by the teacher of class 2 from the students this morning, so he immediately showed it to me. The school does not interfere with the students' personal preferences, but it has a bad impact when everyone knows it.” Dong Fang was also very helpless. If there were no photos, she wouldn't talk to Rong Xun about it. Like the last rumor, she didn't take it seriously because there was no evidence.
Rong Xun's mind turned quickly. He knew very well that he couldn't admit being gay, let alone his relationship with Chu Feng. He couldn't destroy Chu Feng on impulse.
At this time, Chu Feng, who was worried about Rong Xun, followed out. Seeing Rong Xun holding a photo in his hand, he naturally took it away directly. But after seeing the above Rong Xun and the mosaic himself, his eyebrows tightened and his face sank— it was obvious that this photo was aimed at Rong Xun, and today's students' strange attitude was probably due to this photo.
“Teacher, where did you get this picture?” Chu Feng asked directly.
Dong Fang was helpless and told him the origin again.
Chu Feng said solemnly, “Teacher, it's me who was mosaiced. This Saturday, I went to lunch with Rong Xun before going to tutor class and was secretly photographed. It should be when we're leaving because there are many people in the store. I'm afraid of someone bumping into Rong Xun, so I took his hands for a while, it's nothing. Obviously, someone had ulterior motives and mosaiced me up, making it like Rong Xun did something shady. Besides, my sister went with us that day, that's it. If you don't believe it, you can ask her.” Chu Feng said, pointing to the unclear figure in front of the two in the photo, because Chu Rou wore a pink coat that day, so it was more conspicuous.
Upon hearing this, Dong Fang felt that this should be a misunderstanding. Chu Feng spoke clearly, regulated clearly, and didn't have the slightest modesty. Together with Chu Feng's sister, the three people shouldn't be dating. At most, they were just having a meal together.
“Teacher, this is too much.” Chu Feng felt that he must show anger at this time, so that the teacher could completely dispel his doubts, and then go to check the matter, “We went out to dinner on Saturday because my grades were good in the monthly exam. I wanted to go out to celebrate. I wanted to call Si Xian and Gui Heng, but they had cram classes all day, and the three of us went together. This was a good thing, but it turns out that it seemed that Rong Xun and I had done something shameful. I think it was very unfair to Rong Xun and me.”
Dong Fang nodded. Chu Feng's reason for going out to dinner was completely valid. Her students went to dinner openly, but someone came to take pictures maliciously and she felt very angry. Now it was time for the students to study seriously. The person who printed these photos did so obviously to disturb Rong Xun's heart and affect his academic performance. In her opinion, it couldn't be tolerated at all.
After sighing, Dong Fang patted Rong Xun on the shoulder and said, “It seems that someone has ulterior motives. The teacher will thoroughly investigate this matter and give you justice. Don't take it to heart to avoid affecting your grades.”
“En, I see. Don't worry,” Rong Xun said.
Dong Fang didn't say anything. She took the photo and went back to the office— she had to solve it as soon as possible and let Rong Xun feel at ease.
After Dong Fang left, Chu Feng shook Rong Xun's hand and said, “Don't worry, I'll solve this matter.”
“I'm fine. I'd better leave it to Teacher Dong.” Although Rong Xun's mood was a little complicated, but he was not too uncomfortable. After all, Chu Feng was with him, and he didn't seem to feel anything terrible.
“Teacher Dong has her own way, and I have my way. They dare to bully you, I can't let them go.” Chu Feng squeezed Rong Xun's hand and turned to enter the classroom.
Soon, there was a harsh sound in the classroom. Rong Xun rushed in and saw Chu Feng standing by the platform. The platform was kicked out by him nearly one meter away, which attracted all the students to look up at him.
Chu Feng glanced coldly at the students in the class and said, “Which of you has received that photo? I've been quiet recently. You really think I have a good moral character? Who took that photo? I'll find out sooner or later, and I'll tell you that the person who was mosaiced is me. My sister was eating with us that day. So put away your dirty thoughts and guesses and don't let me hear any gossip.”
“Brother Feng, what's going on?” Gui Heng couldn't get the gist of the matter and didn't know what had happened.
“Someone wants to target Rong Xun and make such a thing out of nothing. It's spread everywhere. I'll tell you after class.” Chu Feng said, glancing at the students below and said, “If anyone shows that look at Rong Xun again, don't blame me for being rude.”
With that, Chu Feng took Rong Xun back to his seat.
Just now Chu Feng warned the students in front of him. At that moment, Rong Xun felt that Chu Feng seemed to have returned to the past and changed back to the bad tempered student, but this time it was all for him, it made feel very warm and rest assured.
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Footnotes:
他 the first one used this but the next ones used 她. I just used she. Most of the time she was being used in raws, I am not sure if the author just had a typo or something. I kept saying I’ll revise the previous chapters but I get lazy, and thought it was better to translate a chapter.
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