Chapter 5: Then get closer

Finally, Lu Xi came under Zhou Sisi’s umbrella.

He wasn’t afraid of soaking the notes she gave, but this season was very cold and if one caught in the rain it would become worse. Also it would be very embarrassing to go all the way back while being drenched, and if Ms. Xu Xuelin found out, she would definitely scold him.

As someone had offered him an umbrella, he had no reason to refuse.

Lu Xi was half a head taller than her. Seeing her two thin arms raising the umbrella, it was obvious that it wasn’t easy for her. “Ah…give me the umbrella.”

“Yeah.” She didn’t resist.

He had long legs so naturally his steps were large.

After walking for several tens of meters, it was a bit difficult for her to follow him, “Can you slow down?” Her breath was uneven.

“…… shortie.” Lu Xi mocked her.

The pace slowed down a lot, he was not quite accustomed to it.

The strong scent of the little blue orchid by the roadside swam swiftly.

The ticking sound overhead became intense, and the rain was turning heavy.

A small piece of Zhou Sisi’s outer sleeve was wet. When she looked up and saw that most of the umbrella was leaning to her side.

Wouldn’t Lu Xi be more drenched? It was estimated that half of his body was exposed outside the umbrella.

“You don’t need to tilt the umbrella.” Zhou Sisi said, “Be careful of catching a cold.”

Lu Xi didn’t take it seriously, “It’s okay.” What was wrong with the man getting a little more drenched in the rain? Just don’t get in his smart head.

“Then, get closer.” Zhou Sisi shrank the distance between the two from a fist and a half to two fingers width.

As far as she was concerned, Lu Xi was the younger brother she had known since childhood.

There was nothing wrong with getting close.

However, the other party’s mind was not so calm.

As soon as she approached, his senses seemed to become sharp.

An elegant light perfume swept over without any trace, tingling him.

The sleeves of her elbows rubbed against his sleeves. Damn.

 …what’s wrong with all this rain? Why is it so annoying?

  ***

Arriving home Sisi hung up a wet umbrella on the balcony.

The jacket and trousers had to be taken off to be washed. In order to go to the bathroom, she had to pass Chen Cui’s room.

 While passing she accidentally caught a glimpse of Chen Cui rummaging through boxes and cabinets, Zhou Sisi’s scalp tightened, “What are you doing?”

In her last life, Chen Cui was addicted to gambling, constantly owed money, and sold many things at home.

Zhou Sisi felt bitter and shocked. She was only a sophomore in this life, and Chen Cui was about to sell her belongings… Is the debt incident more than two years ahead of schedule?

“You’re back?” Chen Cui, who was bowing, opened another drawer.

Zhou Sisi walked over and almost shouted: “What are you doing?”

“Looking for something, hey, where did I put my gold bracelet?” Chen Cui kept rummaging.

Zhou Sisi frowned, “How much do you owe?”

“What? How much do I owe?” Chen Cui looked at her strangely, “I don’t owe any money.”

“Then, what are you going to do with a gold bracelet?”

“This, I’m going to make a necklace.”

Chen Cui: “Sister Zhang from the next department posted a necklace on a friend’s circle. It looks very nice. I want to make a similar one. Where’s my phone? I’ll show you….”

Zhou Sisi: “I don’t want to look.”

“If there is any gold left after making the necklace, I’ll plan to get a new pair of earrings that are trendy now. Why are your clothes wet? Is the rain outside so heavy?”

“…Um.”

“Go, change your clothes quickly, don’t catch a cold. Boil a bowl of ginger water and drink it yourself.”

***

Physical education class.

After finishing two laps in the track field, the whole class was free to move around.

“I heard that our school is the only one in the city that still has P.E classes after junior year.” While saying Panda kicked a soccer ball.

Lu Xi stepped forward, his toe hooked the ball upside down. “That’s the only thing best in No.3 middle school. Let’s go and play football.”

“With Class Two? Are there enough people?” asked Panda.

Lu Xi looked around, “Are we missing someone?”

“President Huang, the son of a bitch said he was going to see a girl, and he found the girl’s name and class. At this time, he should be in the classroom corridor.”

The “President Huang” in Pan De’s mouth refers to Huang Zhou.

The reason for this nickname was very simple. First, Huang Zhouai called himself Huang Zhou, which sounds similar to “Huang Zongze”; second, Huang Zhou loved to engage in Huang se and the huge amount of action videos on the USB drive in his computer was just enough to open the Small film company, which made him be called “President Huang”.

The second one was the main reason.

Pan De held his glasses and said, “Yi Ting from the second grade (1) class, just two days before we went to the …”

“It’s boring.” Lu Xi was more interested in football than this matter. “There are not enough people. Let’s just kick around and play.”

White clouds floated in the clear sky.

On the football field, the teenagers were running fast and galloping vigorously.

Several people gathered on the outskirts of the stadium, especially girls.

The crowd was very enthusiastic, applauding or cheering from time to time, even though it wasn’t a match.

Out of all the classes, physical education was the shortest.

Lu Xi hadn’t kicked the ball yet, the teacher blew the whistle to urge them to stop the game.

“Stop it.” Lu Xi gestured to his companions.

“Oh!” “So fast…”

Everyone walked out of the court in twos and threes.

“Lu Xi!” Xiang Yinglan, a female classmate, tilted her head, “Would you like some water?” She lifted a water bottle in her hand.

Immediately there was a quiet uproar from the boys.

Lu Xi glanced at the two classmates, then turned to Yinglan, “No, I have water.”

“Oh good.” Xiang Yinglan quickly said, “then, I’m going back to the classroom.”

After cleaning and putting on the glasses Pan De said, “I’m also thirsty and there is no water, why don’t you ask me too?”

“Look in the mirror and you’ll find the answer.”The boy in the number four jersey spread his hands.

“Hey. How can you say that, this little master is a bit handsome, are you blind?”

“Yes, yes, I’m blind. All the girls are blind.”

“Your dad!”

…

Huang Zhou was already there when they returned to the classroom.

“Have you spoken to the fresh and pure Senior Sister?” Pan De teased.

Lu Xi’s hand paused the action of twisting the bottle cap.

When he heard Huang Zhou say: “Damn, don’t mention it, I got the wrong name. ‘Yi Ting’ is not the innocent senior sister that day.”

Pan De: “Puff haha… so your carefully selected cucumber-flavored sparkling water was sent to the wrong person?”

Huang Zhou: “I stood in the corridor of the second grade (1) classroom and asked a classmate to help me send sparkling water to Yi Ting.”

Huang Zhou: “That classmate said that Yi Ting was standing next to me. As soon as I took a look, damn, I recognized the wrong person, so I slipped away.”

Panda laughed hard, haha.

“You didn’t give a drink to Yi Ting?” Lu Xi lifted his eyelids.

Huang Zhou almost jumped up, “Of Course I didn’t, in case if this senior sister will misunderstand, I will not deprecate.”

Lu Xi said “Oh”, leaning against the chair, with a swinging lap.

“The name is wrong, is the class correct?” Pan De asked again.

Huang Zhou: “I guess not…”

“President Huang.”

“Huh?” Huang Zhou looked at Lu Xi.

Lu Xi asked, “Have you ever played Chicken Eating?” He calmly changed the topic.

“How could your Dad have never played?” Huang Zhou’s attention was immediately diverted, “Twenty-three Jedi Chicken King!”

Huang Zhou slapped his chest, “The number of risky situations is powerful, but the path is blemish and there is only one difference: the winner becomes the  king while the defeated becomes bandit.”

“If you have time let’s play together.” Lu Xi lifted an eyebrow.

“Sure!”

“Add me!”

“Have you downloaded it?”

“It’s a matter of minutes.”

…

In a blink of an eye, it was Sunday again.

Three minutes to nine o’clock, Zhou Sisi entered Lu Xi’s room.

“Have you remembered all the vocabulary?”

“Which ones?”

She pointed to the vocabulary list, “the task assigned last week.”

“Oh.” He didn’t wake up, his eyes were half-closed.

“Go and wash your face with cold water.”

“No.”

“Okay.” Zhou Sisi said, “Take out the draft and pen, and let’s have a dictation first.”

Lu Xi slowly pulled out the messy graffiti book.

“The first one, Zebra.”

“Zebra.”

He wrote a “z” and a “bra”, leaving the middle empty.

“The second one, Throw away.”

“Throw away.”

He came up with “throw” and “a”, and then a “v”.

 …

She totally read 24 vocabulary words one by one.

Upon checking, he got five correct, far less than half.

Zhou Sisi raised her eyelashes, “Didn’t you memorise the words?”

Lu Xi touched the plant leaves which his mother had placed on the table, “Ah.”

The green leaves were a bit interesting.

Fleshy fingers reflected the emerald green leaves, and the picture was clean and pleasing to the eye.

——If it was not during the make-up time.

“With your mind,” Zhou Si Si said slowly, “it’s not that difficult to remember these words.”

 Lu Xi didn’t seem to listen and intently played with the leaves.

There was a time when Zhou Sisi worked as a tutor for middle school students with poor grades. She considered that she had junior high school tutoring experience.

However, she had to admit that Lu Xi was more rebellious than the students she had taught.

Zhou Sisi opened the specially printed booklet, “Let’s sort out the grammar.”

“The verb has a general future tense, and there are six ways to express it. Do you remember?”

“…”

Her expression remained unchanged, “Okay, The first type, will or shall plus the original form of the verb indicates the future action or the state of existence.”

“For example,” She slowed down without a trace. “For example: His brother will is ten next year.”

“Will be.” The young man’s voice was clear and lazy.

Zhou Sisi blinked, “I was wrong? Thank you for correcting it. Yes, for example: His brother will be ten next year.”

“…” Lu Xi regretted a little.

He was not stupid. He guessed that she had done it on purpose.

I blame my mouth, why it’s so fast.

“The second type, be going to plus the original form of the verb, contains a plan to do something, or indicates that something is likely to happen.

“…”

“Can you make a sentence in this form?”

His fingers poked the leaf and decided not to cooperate.

“For example, they are having a party tonight. How do you express it?”

“…”

“They are… What’s behind?”

 “…”

“They are going to have a party tonight。”

“Do you understand this second expression?”

“……”

“I’ll go over it in more detail.”

Zhou Sisi repeated it in an organized manner and clearly. After that she asked him if he understood, if he didn’t speak, she would repeat it once again, and then went to the next point.

In this way, each knowledge point was explained three times in detail by Zhou Sisi.

The alarm clock went off at ten o’clock.

Lu Xi didn’t rush to turn off the phone alarm, “Class time is up.”

“No.” she smiled slightly, “We’ll have to finish today’s content first.”

Author:

 Lu Xi:? Fuck me.

   Zhou Sisi squeezed his mouth: No swearing.