Episode 5 Night

  9 o'clock in the evening. School is over.

  "Xiaomi, Aijin, I'll send you guys back home?" Nianqiao squeezed through the crowded people and pushed her bike to catch up with the two who had walked to the school gate.

  "Cut it out, this isn't a four-wheeled vehicle, what's with the sending?" Aijin sneered.

  "I'll just call two wheels over and that's it." Ni Qiao was even more disdainful, turning her head to shout, "Xia Yi, come here!"

  Xia Yi was riding a bike with a group of boys when he heard a girl calling him, and the surrounding boys burst out laughing.

  "What's up?" Xiaoyi rode his bike over with both feet on the ground.

  "Send the beautiful women home." The order was simple.

  "Where there are 'beauties', I see a Tong Xiaomi." Xia Yi pretended to search around seriously.

  "Go and live!" Aiqin kicked him away.

  After a burst of laughter, Ni Qiao carried Aijin, who was thinner, and Xia Yi carried Tong Xiaomi.

  "By the way, I still don't know where you guys live," Xiaoyi asked.

  "Jiang Feng Road. I live very close to Xiao Mi." Ai Jin replied.

  "Wow, great location. By the river."

  "Look, from my house you can see the river!" Akin said with a childlike grin.

  Xiaomi seemed indifferent, humming a tune to herself.

  Xia Yi's eyes were full of smiles.

  Not far from school, Aijin saw a lonely figure and shouted: "Tonghua, didn't you stay behind to ask questions today?"

  "Uh-huh. No problem today, let's head home early." Tonghua said with a hint of fatigue, slowing down his cycling speed to ride alongside Nijiao, "Huh? Where's Xiaomi? You left her alone?"

  "Ai Jin pointed with his thumb, 'In the back'."

  Behind him? Tong Hua turned around and was met with Xia Yi's smile. Tong Hua smiled back at him, but wait, why was he carrying a girl...

  "Little painting!" Tong Xiaomi smiled and waved at her with a smile.

  Tong Hua's heart tightened, how did Xia Yi carry her...

  "Xiaomi is lucky, and there's also a driver." Tonghua squeezed out an unintentional smile.

  "Hmph, not a driver, but a kidnapper!" Xiaoyi made a fierce expression. "If your family doesn't pay the ransom today, you won't be going home! Go get the ransom, bye for now!" Xiaoyi smiled and said goodbye to Tonghua.

  "Bye bye......", Tonghua said somewhat weakly.

  Does everyone like her?

  All the way home, counting streetlights. As soon as she entered the house, her grandmother brought chicken soup to the table. While eating, her grandmother told her that her father and mother had sent something back and put it in her room. After finishing the chicken soup task, Tonghua returned to her own room.

  Sat down at the desk, turned on the table lamp, took out the textbook and homework, and stared blankly.

  She remembered the day she signed up for high school. It was a sweltering summer, and it seemed like countless parents and students were packed into the cramped registration office. With her parents abroad, she had come alone, and was squeezed in by the crowd, unable to move forward or backward. Her slender body felt like it had been tossed into a washing machine. And yet, amidst the sea of bobbing heads, she caught sight of a boy's smiling face.

  He must be laughing at his own misfortune!

  "The migrant worker also needs to line up for food!" The boy said with a smile, then pretended to be serious and quoted a movie dialogue, "Quality! Pay attention to quality!" The room was filled with bursts of laughter. Everyone slowly lined up in the midst of the laughter. And that boy's muttering to himself, "Ladies first, ladies first!" actually made several men stand behind her.

  Later, she found out they were in the same class and also knew he had a nice name, Xia Yi.

  But when she was still shy about talking to him, Tong Xiaomi had already become so familiar with him that he could take things casually and flip through his backpack, just short of calling each other brothers.

  Sigh, don't think too much about it, just sending a good friend home. Nai Qiao and Ai Jin are together too, why think so much...

  The Xiaoyi in her eyes was so special and had his own ideas, she thought that such a boy would have a broad view of the world and would not be bothered with romantic feelings.

  Tong Xiaomi, Tong Xiaomi, why does your name make me feel so uncomfortable... sigh...

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