PFC Chapter 316 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (27)
Chapter 316 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (27)
The next morning, when he got up, Sister Li Ruan was still asleep as usual.
Today it's drizzling and the dampness has blurred the glass.
Jin Shuhe changed the water for the flowers on the living room and kitchen tables. After dinner, seeing that there was still time, she tidied up the living room again, even arranging the cushions on the sofa neatly.
Sister Li Ruan doesn't usually neglect cleaning.
But while her cleaning did remove the dust and dirt, the remaining items, even when neatly arranged, were practically dry.
They call it: "This looks much more natural, doesn't it!"
Jin Shuhe has never been good at talking to people, so he took matters into his own hands.
After he finished tidying up, Sister Li Ruan would hop over to the sofa with a smile and ask, "Are you a little snail?"
He spouted his own twisted logic.
But I'm actually quite satisfied...
One good thing about Sister Li Ruan is that she never interferes because she herself doesn't want to do it.
There's a decorative item on the shelf by the door; it's rather abstract.
So Jin Shuhe didn't know what that thing was. After wiping off the dust, he left it lying around for almost a week.
It's in such a conspicuous place, and people come and go every day, especially when they change their shoes, that I can see it.
Sister Li Ruan remained completely silent, not even turning it back...
Until one day, Sister Li Ruan was sitting at the dining table eating watermelon when she turned her head and saw him wiping the shelf again.
After hesitating for a moment, she put down the spoon and said seriously, "Xiao He, turn it over... It's been turned over for so long, I think it's getting a brain hemorrhage."
Jin Shuhe: ...
There's a strange kind of cuteness about it, I don't know why.
Thinking of this, I washed the rag, hung it up to dry, and wiped my hands clean.
As Jin Shuhe slung her backpack over her shoulder and changed her shoes, she tapped her finger on the small ornament.
Their school uniform is blue and white, and although the pants are dark blue, there is a white stripe along the crease.
When it rains, you have to be careful when walking, otherwise you'll definitely get dirty.
When I entered the classroom, more than half of the students were still missing. The class monitor in charge of morning reading wrote today's memorization assignments on the backdrop.
The white ceramic tile floor was covered in muddy footprints, and no one had cleaned it up yet.
Sitting in his seat, Jin Shuhe noticed that some people's pants were dirty.
Zhao Jingyi, sitting in the seat in front of me, was standing by the table in a short-sleeved shirt, looking somewhat embarrassed. Her school uniform pants were filthy from the hem to the waistband, with obvious splattered mud stains.
She had taken off her school uniform shirt and was draped over the back of her chair; a large patch of her back was wet.
He noticed Jin Shuhe's gaze.
She explained, "My clothes and pants were all splashed with mud when I came here. I couldn't do anything about my pants, but I can't wear dirty clothes all day. I just went to the washroom and washed the muddy parts..."
Jin Shuhe nodded, didn't chat with her, took out his English book, opened it to the vocabulary page, and started reading it from the beginning.
Because the school does not allow students to wear their own clothes, students usually wear short-sleeved summer school uniforms underneath loose-fitting long-sleeved school uniforms.
The temperature dropped suddenly today. The short-sleeved shirts of the summer school uniform were made of thin fabric, and the sleeves were wide and breathable. Zhao Jingyi rubbed her arms, feeling quite cold.
More people entered the classroom.
Jin Shuhe checked the time; this week, Wen Bei was in charge of sweeping and mopping.
The floor is so dirty, it will be too late to clean it if we don't do it soon.
Jin Shuhe thought for a moment, stood up, took off her school uniform jacket, turned around and prepared to get a mop from the duty box to do the cleaning for him.
I just took my first step.
"Jin Shuhe!"
Zhao Jingyi called out to him.
"Ok?"
"If you're not wearing your school uniform jacket, could I borrow it for a while? It's a bit cold," she asked tentatively.
"Okay, take it yourself."
Jin Shuhe nodded, said nothing more, and took the mop to the washroom.
The girl picked up the clothes and draped them over herself; they smelled faintly of laundry detergent and rainwater.
After Jin Shuhe finished washing the mop and came in, Wen Bei followed closely behind, carrying a large trash can.
Seeing Jin Shuhe's help, he grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth: "I'm late today."
"There are a lot of people at the garbage dump in the back, thank you!"
He took the mop from Jin Shuhe and started mopping vigorously. When he got to Zhao Jingyi, he saw that she was wearing a coat.
She winked and said, "I just asked you if you were cold, and if you were, I'd give you my coat, but you said no. How come you're cold now that you're wearing Shuhe's coat!"
He said this on purpose, and Zhao Jingyi hissed and glared at him, subconsciously turning her head to look at Jin Shuhe's reaction out of the corner of her eye.
Jin Shuhe was engrossed in her English book when she noticed that the two people were staring at her, which puzzled her somewhat.
"what happened?"
“It’s nothing! Wen Bei is just talking nonsense again!” Zhao Jingyi answered first.
Hey! How come I—
Wen Bei was only halfway through his sentence when the homeroom teacher walked into the classroom carrying a stack of toilet paper. He quickly fell silent, bowing his head and pretending to be cleaning very diligently.
"Why hasn't the student on duty finished mopping the floor yet? They'll be checking soon!"
"Right now!"
He grabbed the mop and ran over.
Zhao Jingyi secretly glanced back a few more times, only to find that Jin Shuhe looked... truly engrossed in learning English.
The four morning classes flew by, and at noon, students went to find places to eat in twos and threes.
Jin Shuhe was going to the supermarket to buy some bread to eat.
Before he could even get up, Wen Bei pressed down on him from behind. He was much more muscular than Jin Shuhe, and the pressure made him unable to move.
"Hey! You got a new phone?"
Wen Bei saw the phone that Jin Shuhe had just taken out and placed on the table.
"Yes, it was a gift from my sister." Jin Shuhe felt a strange sense of pleasure and satisfaction after saying this.
"Your sister is so good to you! Not only is she good to you, but she's also so beautiful!" Wen Bei exclaimed.
He went to get his phone: "I told my mom a few days ago that I wanted to get a new phone, and she said: 'Phone? You look more like a phone!' She was so nice to me during the holidays..."
That's because you hid your final grades from your mom during the holidays, but she found out everything as soon as the parent-teacher conference started! Jin Shuhe answered this obvious question in his mind.
Jin Shuhe turned on his phone and logged into various commonly used apps.
"If my mom had known my grades earlier, she probably wouldn't have let me go to driving school!" Wen Bei said with a sigh.
What are you having for lunch?
"I……"
Jin Shuhe was stunned before he could finish speaking.
After logging into WeChat, there are several red dots in the conversation with Li Ruan. Click on them to open.
Sister Li Ruan transferred 1,000 yuan to herself.
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This can be put on your tab! I won't be upset about it, but I will really get angry if you don't eat properly at school!
There was also a grinning puppy emoji at the end, which emphasized the seriousness of her statement...
"I'm asking you a question!" Wen Bei felt ignored and slapped Jin Shuhe on the back in annoyance.
"Let's go to the cafeteria."
Jin Shuhe clicked on the transfer, turned off the screen, stood up, and a slight smile appeared on her lips.
The rain was still falling outside, but it had become very light, enveloping people like a fine mist. Wen Bei complained as she walked, while Jin Shuhe only felt refreshed and cool.
I got my food at the cafeteria window.
The two people sat facing each other, with the seats next to them empty.
Wen Bei shoveled a few mouthfuls of rice into his mouth, chewing as he asked indistinctly, "Did Zhao Jingyi return your clothes to you?"
“I returned it; her own coat was dry.” Jin Shuhe nodded.
The food in the cafeteria isn't actually that good.
The purpose of the large-scale cooking in the high school cafeteria seems to be solely to stuff students until they are full, as if cooking well would disqualify them from the "hard work and struggle" spirit.
Wen Bei swallowed the rice and casually put a piece of chicken from his own bowl into Jin Shuhe's bowl.
He lowered his voice and asked, "Hey, I have a question for you."
"Hmm?" Jin Shuhe raised his eyes.
"Zhao Jingyi, do you like me?"
"what?"
Jin Shuhe put down his chopsticks and frowned in confusion.
"Otherwise, why would she always try to make conversation with you, keep turning around to look at you for no reason, and only want to borrow your coat?" Wen Bei asked, beaming.
"No." Jin Shuhe shook her head and started eating again.
"how do you know!"
"Dating is not allowed in high school."
Jin Shuhe wasn't interested in the topic and brushed him off without even thinking.
"So many of them are in relationships! Didn't you know? Like that guy in our class... the one from the next class... yeah, do you know who his girlfriend is?"
Children of this age always seem particularly excited when this topic comes up, as if the more their parents and teachers forbid them from doing something, the more enthusiastic they become about doing it.
Nascent feelings always seem to sprout the more they are suppressed...
"Yeah."
When Jin Shuhe got into the flow of his speech, he would chime in with a few words to prevent his delivery from becoming dry, showing great understanding.
But Wen Bei still discovered that he was completely uninterested.
"Don't you... have anyone you like?" he asked in a low voice, as if making a secret rendezvous.
Jin Shuhe shook his head.
Forget about liking someone, he can't even remember all the names of his classmates. He couldn't even match the faces of the people Wen Bei mentioned earlier.
It seems like I have absolutely no connection with them.
"I heard them saying that this is called, a compulsory course of youth!" Wen Bei savored the tasteless rice.
"What do you think is the essential lesson of your youth?" Wen Bei asked Jin Shuhe again.
He hesitated for a moment, then answered seriously, "Study hard."
"I mean it."
Seeing Wen Bei's unreasonable and argumentative attitude, Jin Shuhe added a sentence.
"Study... Ah! Study! I really don't want to study!" Wen Bei wailed softly, "How did you suddenly become so enlightened?"
Upon hearing his question, Jin Shuhe suddenly recalled a conversation he had with Sister Li Ruan.
With a slight smile and a light cough, Jin Shuhe said calmly, "Study hard and be filial to your sister in the future."
That was shortly after I moved to Sister Li Ruan's house.
To ease her nervousness, Sister Li Ruan joked with herself, "You just need to be filial to your aunt in the future, but don't secretly swear that you must be filial to me in the future!"
"I don't want to be added to the seniority list without any explanation..."
Wen Bei clearly didn't understand Jin Shuhe's joke, but that didn't stop his eyes from lighting up when he heard about Jin Shuhe's sister.
"I don't have anyone I like! I feel like they're all too immature!" He scratched his neck.
"If we're talking about liking someone... well, Shuhe, I like your sister's type!"
As soon as Wen Bei finished speaking, he noticed Jin Shuhe's gaze suddenly piercing him.
He felt a little awkward: "Wh...what's wrong? Your sister is so pretty! As soon as you look at her, she's just different from the girls in our grade."
Then he watched as Jin Shuhe quickly cleared the table, picked up his plate, and stood up, asking, "I'm finished eating. Are you finished?"
"...No, wait a minute, I'll be right there!" He didn't say anything more, lowered his head and buried himself in his food, managing to shovel it all into his mouth in no time. He stood up with a burp and said, "Let's go, what's the rush?"
"Yes, I'm in a hurry to get back to the classroom and study hard."
Wenbei: ...
As he walked down the street, he noticed from Jin Shuhe's usual calm expression that he wondered: Was he angry?
Why? Because I said I liked his sister?
He's such a little kid...
Wen Bei thought to himself that he was already an adult who knew what it meant to like.
When school let out in the evening, the rain that had been lingering all day finally stopped.
Just before leaving the classroom, Zhao Jingyi snapped out of her reverie and placed a cup of milk tea on Jin Shuhe's desk: "Thank you for your coat!"
After saying that, she didn't wait for Jin Shuhe's reaction, picked up her schoolbag and left quickly.
Then Wen Bei popped out from behind, broom in hand: "See, I told you so!"
"They must have gone out to buy it specifically for dinner!"
Jin Shuhe was in a bit of a predicament, unsure how to handle it. She couldn't return the milk tea tomorrow; it would definitely spoil overnight.
Remembering what Sister Li Ruan said last night, repaying others doesn't always mean giving the same thing...
For example, a girl shouldn't lend her coat to someone for half a day in return.
Jin Shuhe felt it was unnecessary for everyone to give her milk tea as a thank-you gift.
He doesn't feel at all that there's anything wrong with his thinking.
This is someone else's way of giving back to me... but he doesn't like sweet things.
"Do you want some?" he asked Wen Bei, turning to her.
"This was given to you by Zhao Jingyi! She's so good to you..."
"Didn't she thank me for lending her my coat? I don't drink sweets, so are you going to drink or not?"
If you don't want it, I'll take it back and ask Sister Liruan if she wants it, but Sister Liruan keeps nagging me at night that I can't eat too many sweets, otherwise I won't be able to control my weight...
"I drink!"
After Wen Bei finished his shift, the two walked across two streets together before parting ways to go home.
Today, Sister Liruan cooked glutinous rice balls.
While he was doing his homework in the room, Sister Li Ruan came in with some cut fruit, knocked on the door, and walked in.
"Anything you don't understand? Feel free to ask me!"
Upon hearing Jin Shuhe say there were no more available for the time being, they left with regret.
This continued for several days in a row, and even Jin Shuhe noticed something strange about it.
When Sister Li Ruan came again that day, Jin Shuhe really had some questions. He was originally planning to ask the teacher at school the next day.
Lu Liruan's eyes lit up, and she rubbed her hands together as she pulled up a chair and sat down next to him.
He looked like he was finally ready to show off his skills!
After reading the question, I quickly and accurately solved the problem.
Jin Shuhe: ...
He originally thought that Sister Li Ruan was just pretending to be a parent and being polite to him.
Who knew, they really did know it.