On the weekend morning of the next day, several of the sons were still sleeping in the dormitory. Zhou Bashi got up early. Today was the day he and Bai Xier made an appointment to go to the sign language school.
Go downstairs and get in the car.
Zhou Bashi sent a message to Ran Qiuran yesterday, saying that he was going out to do some errands today and wanted to lend her her car. Ran Qiuran didn't think much about it and didn't ask Zhou Bashi why he was going there. Then, Zhou Bazhu drove Ran Qiuran's car.
We took the car to pick up Bai Xier.
Zhou Baxu drove the car to the entrance of the pet clinic and saw the deaf-mute girl from a distance, standing on the roadside waiting.
A plain white T-shirt, outdated blue jeans with suspenders, unbranded canvas shoes, and a rustic student backpack. She is dressed like a little girl from a seventh- or eighth-tier county town who has never seen the world. She is so rustic that she looks out of place with the city dwellers.
, but this kind of innocence and simplicity is rare in this era.
If Zhou Baxu looks at the girls he has met, Bai Xier and Ran Qiuran are like two extremes, one is like red wine and the other is like plain water.
You mean Lin Yujing? Maybe like... oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar?
Zhou Bashi pulled the car over to the side of the road and parked in front of her. The girl was still in a daze. She lowered her head and sent a message to Zhou Bashi on her mobile phone, asking him where he was and whether he needed to rent a yellow car first.
Zhou Ba wax rolled down the glass and shouted, "Hey, get in the car." Bai Xier was startled, and then she realized what she was doing. She timidly opened and closed the door carefully and got into the car. She sat down next to Zhou Ba wax in an orderly manner and tied up.
Put on your seat belt.
"Are the hearing aids good today?"
Zhou Ba Wa tapped the shell of his ear and asked her, Bai Xi'er nodded. The malfunction had been repaired last time and now she was wearing a hearing aid. She could hear Zhou Ba Wa's words.
Of course, I still couldn't talk, so it was relatively quiet along the way. Zhou Baxu was driving, and Bai Xi'er sat beside him with his head down, clenching his fingers nervously, just like the kittens, rabbits and cubs he bought home.
It’s like a strange new environment.
After all, although Bai Xier is nineteen this year, her family has a conservative tutor and an introverted personality. In addition, her deaf-mute disability makes it difficult for her to communicate with others. The last time a man drove her, it was her father who drove the tractor at home in the countryside to transport fertilizers.
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It wasn't until she got off the bus at a certain place that Bai Xi'er breathed a sigh of relief. She said to herself that it seemed that Zhou Bashi was not a bad person and had not been trafficked. Then she quietly deleted the pre-entered demon spirits in her phone.
Although the two chatted several times online, they had only met two or three times in person. Zhou Ba was already familiar with him and had not strayed away, and the little girl was still quite shy and cautious.
Chunfeng Road Children's Palace, third floor, sign language school.
Zhou Bachu followed Bai Xier upstairs. Bai Xier was already familiar with her here. She came to this sign language school every week to take sign language classes, and they were all familiar teachers and classmates.
When they arrived at the place, Bai Xier helped find the class teacher and explained the situation. Zhou Bashi was her friend and wanted to learn sign language. Could she let him follow the class and observe one class?
The scheduler was familiar with Bai Xi'er. She was a kind, hard-working and warm-hearted beautiful girl. If she hadn't been deaf-mute and disabled, she would have wanted to introduce her to her son.
She and her elder sisters at home always talked about it, always saying it was a pity that such a girl who was good at everything, beautiful and honest, it was a pity that she was disabled.
Now, seeing Bai Xi'er bring a young man, the scheduler couldn't tell how he felt. It was a pity, but he was also happy that Bai Xi'er had found someone else. The young man should not be as good as his own son, but he didn't look down on him.
What? You said Bai Xier said they were friends?
Anyone who hears this will automatically ignore it. Young men and women of this age, able-bodied boys learn sign language for deaf-mute girls, and they will be inseparable every day from now on. If you insist that these are ordinary friends, then we can only
Say "Ah, yes, yes."
The scheduler was also here, and the unlucky guy in the family said that he and she were just friends, and they were just normal friends. Now that she has a son, how can she still not understand this? She is an old senior who has been deceived and deceived.
The class scheduler told Bai Xier that it would be fine and asked her to bring people in to attend class and pay attention to the discipline in class. Then Zhou Bachu followed Bai Xier in to observe the sign language class.
The sign language class is taught by a male teacher named Xu Wenbin. He is in his thirties and wears gold-rimmed glasses. He is well-dressed. He looks quite polite and polite. I heard that he has a doctorate in translation and teaches at the university. He is spontaneous on weekends.
To do charity, I came to the Children's Palace to teach sign language.
Xu Wenbin...Zhou Baqi always felt that he had heard this name somewhere. He must not be an acquaintance, otherwise he would remember it. It must be someone who mentioned this name in a chat recently.
Zhou Bachu thought about it for a while, but didn't remember it. Forget it, it's not like building a relationship, let's go to class seriously.
There are not many students in the sign language class. In the Children's Palace, where there are many tutoring classes for language and mathematics, the classroom of this public welfare project looks particularly deserted.
In other cram schools, the seats are packed from morning to night every day, and the learning atmosphere is even more high-pressure than in school. Every day is the preparation day for the college entrance examination, and the entire Children's Palace is squeezed into a pressure cooker by countless involved families.
When Zhou Bachu went upstairs, he looked at her and thought to herself that it was a good thing that she was born a few years earlier and went to college earlier. Then she took a photo and sent it to her sister, who is in her senior year of high school this year.
Zhou Baqi: Look at this person’s attitude towards learning, and then look at you. Have you done your homework today? Where have you memorized the words? How many times have you done the mock test...
Wrong sister: You are sick! It’s you who blames stress!
Zhou Baqu: Are you still playing with your phone? Wait until I send the screenshot to my mother and ask her to confiscate the phone for you.
Unjust sister: Just wait for me on Zhou Baqiu. It’s not even a month. When I go to your place during the New Year’s Day holiday, I’ll beat the crap out of you.
Zhou Baxiaxin said that if you come to see me, I won’t spank you. The Zhou brothers and sisters are always so noisy in their daily lives.
Back to the sign language class, compared to other classrooms, it is much deserted, with very few students, and the age and social distribution of the students is also very distinctive, with mostly elderly people and young volunteers.
Sign language is actually used in a very narrow range today. With the emergence of smart phones and the Internet, it is much easier for deaf-mute people to communicate by typing on mobile phones than by sign language.
Not to mention deaf-mute people, even normal people with a little bit of social fear, otakus and otakus, are eager for the revival of "text-based social interaction".
Under this trend, those who are still using sign language are the elderly deaf-mute people who are too old to learn to type on mobile phones, and volunteers from relevant disability protection agencies and services. Therefore, this sign language class is basically full of people who use sign language.
These two kinds of people.
Although Bai Xier usually uses her mobile phone to communicate with normal people, when she was working as a social worker volunteer at a welfare home for the disabled, the elderly people all used sign language, and she had to understand it, so she came to learn it.
Only then did Zhou Baxu realize that although Bai Xi'er was deaf-mute, she was still working as a volunteer to help the deaf-mute disabled people. Maybe it was because of her disability that Bai Xi'er knew this better.
The helplessness of the group.
Tsk, Zhou Bashi looked at the little girl next to him who was taking notes seriously and couldn't free his hands. He couldn't help but reach out to help her lift the sideburns of hair that had fallen down and blocked her sight, and tuck them behind her ears.
Bai Xi'er was listening to the class and taking notes. She didn't notice that Zhou Baluang came suddenly. Her face turned red, her cheeks were bulging like a little pufferfish, and she looked at Zhou Baluang, gesturing in sign language with her hands and pointing.
Question: What is he doing?!
Zhou Ba was so thick-skinned that he used the only sign language he had just learned from the teacher: I can’t understand.
Angry! Angry! Angry!
Bai Xi'er couldn't compare to Zhou Ba Wa's shamelessness, so she could only ignore him and turn around to listen to the lecture. She also used a small movement with her hands to pinch her temples with hairpins, so as not to expose Zhou Ba Wa.
Zhou Ba Wa looked at Zhi Le and was quite defensive.
At noon, the sign language class was over. Zhou Bachu asked Bai Xi'er to have dinner nearby, but Bai Xi'er refused. Finally, aa found a restaurant that was not expensive but was newly opened and quite good, and the two of them ate.
After dinner, Zhou Bashi drove the two of them back.
And just as Zhou Bachu backed out of the parking lot and drove away, he didn't notice that a couple happened to be passing by and saw the butt of his car.
In this couple, the man is Xu Zhibin, the sign language teacher, and the woman is Li Yan, the owner of Haisheng Piano Store.
Yes, Zhou Bashi had indeed heard of the name Xu Zhibin. When he and Ran Qiuran met Li Yan that day, Li Yan mentioned his husband in their chat, but Zhou Bashi didn't remember it.
Zhou Bazhu drove away in Ran Qiuran's car and took Bai Xi'er away. Li Yan came to the Children's Palace to pick up her husband after get off work and had dinner, and happened to see the butt of the car. Huh? Isn't that Qiuran's car?
Just now I vaguely saw the man and woman in the car. Li Yan smiled like an aunt. The young couple went out to play again. It was going well. She sent Ran Qiuran a WeChat message to tease her.
Li Yan: Is that new restaurant xx on Chunfeng Road delicious?
Ran Qiuran: I haven’t eaten it yet. Can we eat it together next time?
Li Yan was overjoyed when she saw Ran Qiuran's reply. She thought Ran Qiuran was embarrassed to admit that she had caught him out playing with her boyfriend, and she was embarrassed to admit it. I saw her in the car, so she said something back.
Li Yan: You tough-talking girl, Cheng, let’s come to this restaurant to eat someday, and then I’ll interrogate you properly.
Ran Qiuran: What...Okay.
Ran Qiuran was confused, why was she so stubborn? But she was busy with work now and agreed to the dinner date, so she didn't ask any more questions.