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Chapter 42 As long as you like it

Mengtang took a day off yesterday to go to the museum, and she also asked her classmates to help her hand in her homework.

  There was an internal selection this morning, and Meng Tang’s works were unanimously praised.

  The teacher asked her to come up and talk about her creative ideas.

 Hence this again, Meng Tang pointed at it: "Isn't it all written here."

 Hits reluctance made the classmates burst into laughter.

 The teacher knocked her on the head: "The work is grand, how can people do the opposite? I am doing it for your own good."

 Meng Tang had no choice but to bite the bullet.

  If she is sculpting and there are a group of people around her, she is completely comfortable, but speaking in front of many people makes her uncomfortable.

 The old man also said that she learned 100% from wooden silence.

After finishing two or three sentences, the teacher was helpless: "I can't say more."

Meng Tang innocently said: "...but I'm done."

The teacher waved his hand: "Has your wooden sculpture for the competition been repaired?"

Meng Tang thought the teacher was urging him, and said in surprise: "Submission time不是在12月吗?」

  「我就是提醒你一声。」

  「12月可以交。」

  「行。」

  —

  下午,孟棠将木片书签带去了修复实验室。

 She took it out and placed it in the repair area. She stared at it and laughed. Such a little thing has even entered the intangible cultural heritage restoration laboratory, and its specifications have also been adjusted.

It is not the same piece of wood, and there are many ways to repair it. She plans to use the color matching method, select materials for inlaying, and then finalize and polish after the colors are blended.

 After half a day and three days of ups and downs, the bookmark was finally repaired and the pendant was engraved.

  I took it back to the dormitory to try it out at night. Just as I picked up a book, a Pistacia leaf fell on the table.

  Meng Tang picked it up and turned it around in a circle out of habit, and the ambiguous scene of that day emerged before his eyes.

  She shook her head and put the leaves back into the book.

 Took someone else's leaves as bookmarks, then turned around and gave away one as a reward.

  Meng Tang sent a message to Wei Chuan, saying that the bookmark was ready.

 Wei Chuan had resumed training a long time ago. He didn't see her until he was on his way back to bed and made an appointment to meet her tomorrow.

It would not be good to give it away naked. Meng Tang rummaged through the desk drawer and found a long box, which was the empty box from which he bought the hairpin.

 The box unfortunately is made of wood, and it looks pretty good.

 As for the hairpin inside, it was broken long ago.

 The next day was Saturday. Meng Tang and Wei Chuan made an appointment at the door of the men's dormitory. After giving her things, she had to go to the supermarket and she had almost run out of toiletries.

 When Meng Tang arrived, Wei Chuan was already waiting.

  Just stop there and you will see a painting. No wonder so many girls like it.

Wei Chuan glanced sideways from the mobile phone screen for the eighth time, saw Meng Tang, and greeted him directly: "Is it repaired?"

Mengtang took out the box from his bag and handed it to him.

Wei Chuan's eyes froze after he opened the box. The repaired bookmark had a smoother color. He stretched out his hand to touch it. It felt like fine satin, smooth and delicate.

  "How did you do it?" Wei Chuan suddenly raised his head and said in a surprised tone, "It's amazing, it's as if it's never broken, and the color is better than before, faint, like the light of amber."

 Meng Tang said: "I told you, you don't understand. Take a look, are you satisfied with the pendant?"

Wei Chuan lowered his eyes again. The pendant was connected by waxed cotton ropes of the same color, with lotus petals and lotus pods hanging from the bottom, which was exquisite and eye-catching.

  He kept nodding: "It looks good."

  "As long as you like it." Meng Tang said, "Koi and lotus are already compatible in traditional culture, so this combination is more harmonious."

Not only did he like it, Wei Chuan couldn't put it down. He closed the box and asked: "Why did you originally want to carve koi?"

Meng Tang said: "Children are obviously more interested in animals, insects and fish than plants and flowers, and they are all students. Ancient scholars loved to use koi books. The sign has the meaning of a carp jumping over the dragon's gate, so I wanted to carve a good omen."

 "But the good omen fell on me." Wei Chuan said with a proud smile, "But I am also a student, so it's not a loss if you give it to me."

 Meng Tang: "..."

It's really shameless, he obviously snatched it away.

  "Okay, the things have been delivered, I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

  Wei Chuan followed and said, "I'm going to buy some books."

Mengtang didn't say anything until she entered the lifestyle supermarket opposite the school and found that Wei Chuan was still following her, so she turned around quickly.

 "Why are you still following me?"

 "I, I'm going to buy a bottle of water."

 Meng Tang made a "please" gesture.

 Just as Wei Chuan was about to take a step, someone called his name from behind.

Meng Tang turned around and saw Xu Heqing and Xie Lingyin.

  Wei Chuan asked: "Why are you two here?"

   "Today we have a gathering of fellow villagers to buy something." Xu Heqing said.

 It turns out that Meng Tang knew that they had gotten together during their freshman year.

  Wei Chuan's fingers moved vaguely: "Why don't you two look happy? Isn't this a party?"

Xie Lingyin smiled forcefully and said, "Actually, a senior from the Nanshan campus is sick. We are all fellow villagers. The organizers gathered us together to see if we could help."

Wei Chuan: "Donate?"

The two parties said goodbye. Meng Tang bought something and was about to go back to the dormitory. Wei Chuan snatched away her laundry detergent.

Meng Tang was stunned: "Don't you want to buy a book?"

"What other books should I buy?" Wei Chuan motioned for her to give him the tissue paper in her other hand, "It's so heavy, can you carry it back?"

Mengtang: "...I can do it. I used to go to the supermarket with Shi Lan and the others, and I took the most things."

Wei Chuan just wanted to say that he was stupid.

 Hand her to the door of the dormitory, Wei Chuan turned around and left.

  At about nine o'clock in the evening, Meng Tang came out of the repair room and received a call from Xie Lingyin, who drunkenly asked him to pick her up.

 "Have you been drinking?" Meng Tang immediately walked to the gate.


  Meng Tang asked: "Is my friend alone?"

The other person replied: "Yes, she is alone."

Meng Tang said: "Please be careful, I will go over now."

 Xie Lingyin didn't go to the nearby Qingba, so Meng Tang was a little worried.

  She immediately called Wei Chuan, who answered the call quickly.

   "Has Xu Heqing returned to the dormitory?"

   She was breathing heavily because she was running.

 Wei Chuan took off the headphones and threw them on the table, and said, "No, what's wrong with you?"

 Meng Tang said as he ran, "I'm passing by your dormitory right away. Lingyin has been drinking, will you come with me to pick him up?"

 Wei Chuan said: "Wait for me, I'll go down now. You take a taxi first, my car hasn't come."

 Meng Tang said "hmm".

Wei Chuan ran out of the dormitory and said, "Xu Heqing didn't get through. Why is Xie Lingyin drinking alone?"

"I don't know, hurry up."

"Run slowly."

  According to the address given by the bartender, the driver drove for twenty minutes.

 But entering the dim and dim bar, Xie Lingyin was nowhere to be seen, and Meng Tang suddenly broke into a cold sweat.