When Yue Qihua and Yang Xingyue arrived at the entrance of the amusement park, Ai Liang and the others had been waiting for a long time.
The air in the afternoon was very hot and muggy. Leaving the amusement park hall was like entering a steamer. Within a few minutes of walking, the four of them started to sweat slightly.
The entertainment facilities in the playground are all equipped with air conditioning, and they didn't stay in the open air for a long time, so they didn't feel too hot inside.
But it's different on the street. You can't just walk two steps and find a store to rest for a while, right?
"Haha, it's so hot. Why is the bus stop so far from the playground?"
Fang Xiaoxiao wiped the sweat from his forehead and said.
After hearing Fang Xiaoxiao's complaint, Yue Qihua took out a pack of wet wipes and gave one to everyone.
When it was Ai Liang's turn, Yue Qihua looked at his face, and her ears suddenly turned red. Yang Xingyue's suggestion was like a spell, playing in a loop in her brain, so that she couldn't look directly at Ai Liang now.
After looking at each other at Ai Liang, Yue Qihua looked away in panic, then took out two wet wipes and gave them to Ma Yu, without handing them to Ai Liang herself.
"For you and Ai Liang."
Seeing the usually cheerful Yue Qihua look like this, Ma Yu was a little curious about what Ai Liang did on the Ferris wheel.
"Sister Hua is still considerate."
While Ma Yu took the wet wipe and wiped his sweat, he carefully observed Ai Liang's expression.
Unfortunately, he still had the same cold face as usual.
The only difference is that his face is a little softer than before, and he doesn't have the aura of don't let acquaintances enter and be rough with strangers like before.
While observing facial expressions, Ma Yu suddenly discovered that Ai Liang's forehead and tip of nose showed no signs of sweating.
He asked curiously: "Xiao Ai, you don't seem to be sweating much?"
"I am more resistant to heat." Ai Liang replied calmly.
"Is this the legendary feeling of calmness and natural coolness? He is worthy of a man with a cool name." Fang Xiaoxiao muttered beside her: "It would be great if your air conditioning could be emitted..."
While Ma Yu handed over the wet wipes, he tapped Fang Xiaoxiao on the head: "Say less."
Ai Liang's physique did not require wet wipes. He ignored Fang Xiaoxiao's nonsense and turned around and gave Yang Xingyue the wet wipes handed over by Ma Yu.
This move received three looks of unknown meaning.
Ai Liang naturally noticed their gaze.
The wet wipes were given by Yue Qihua and could not be returned to her. Ma Yu didn't like to just wipe them twice and throw them away.
Since he wasn't sweating, he couldn't just throw it into the trash can after getting it, so Ai Liang gave it to Yang Xingyue, who was nearest.
Logically this makes sense.
However, after Yang Xingyue took the wet wipes, she did not use them herself but turned around to help Yue Qihua wipe her sweat.
After learning Yang Xingyue's thoughts, Yue Qihua avoided her hand with some resistance, her expression was like eating unripe hawthorn, her whole face was twisted into a ball.
But looking at Yang Xingyue's pitiful look, Yue Qihua sighed and returned to her, letting her wipe her face with the wet wipes.
After arriving at the bus stop, the sky began to become gloomy, giving people the illusion that it would rain heavily at any time.
In fact, this is not an illusion, because the forecast said that there will be heavy rain tonight.
After getting on the bus, everyone finally heaved a sigh of relief, especially Ma Yu, who lay sprawled out on the chair. Fortunately, there was no one on the bus at this time, otherwise everyone would have pretended not to know him.
As soon as Ai Liang got on the bus, he found a separate seat and sat down. Yang Xingyue originally wanted to drag him along in the back row, but seeing this, she had to give up. She couldn't let people get up and change places.
Ma Yu and Fang Xiaoxiao naturally sat together, so Ai Liang was the only one sitting in a single seat with a clearly defined aisle separated from the four of them.
There was no hot pot restaurant near the station, so everyone had no choice but to go to the city to eat.
The hotpot restaurant Yue Qihua chose was not far away. She got off the bus and walked less than 300 meters to get there.
A faint roar could be heard in the sky, and a heavy rain was brewing above.
The heavy rain that originally started at eight o'clock in the evening seemed to be coming earlier.
In the overcrowded pedestrian street, pedestrians were not worried about the upcoming heavy rain and were immersed in their own shopping trips.
To everyone, it was just a heavy rain, nothing compared to a precious rest day. It would not be too late to leave after it rained.
After entering the hot pot restaurant, under the guidance of the waiter, they came to a seat by the window and sat down, where they could just see the scene on the street.
Fang Xiaoxiao likes this kind of position the most, because sitting in this place she can look down at others and no longer has to look up at their nostrils.
"Order, order, what do you want to eat?"
Fang Xiaoxiao picked up the menu excitedly. She was the most active every time she ate.
Ma Yu, who was sitting next to her, was the first to speak: "Broken internal organs, coagulated bird blood, entangled tentacles, curled skin and flesh, shredded limbs, twisted residual leaves, sprouting hyphae..."
At first glance, you can tell that this is an old investigator.
"Money tripe, duck blood, squid, fat beef rolls, shrimp paste, cabbage leaves, shiitake mushrooms..." Fang Xiaoxiao lightly sketched on the menu with a pencil.
"Ma Yu, can you stop being a monster after a meal?"
Yue Qihua gave a helpless warning, then looked at Fang Xiaoxiao and said, "Thank you for understanding."
"If you're used to hearing it at home, you'll understand naturally. Sister Hua, what do you want to eat?"
Fang Xiaoxiao asked the remaining three people after placing a hook on the mandarin duck pot.
"Just add some tofu for Xingyue and me..." Yue Qihua's slender fingers pointed at the white tofu.
Seeing Ai Liang staring at the menu without speaking, Yue Qihua hesitated for a while and was about to speak, but Yang Xingyue beat her to it: "Ai Liang, what are you eating?"
Yang Xingyue secretly took out her mobile phone and planned to record Ai Liang's taste.
Because Ai Liang had an indifferent attitude no matter what she faced, and she didn't show any special preferences when eating, which made her very distressed.
After three years, she knew almost nothing about Ai Liang's preferences, as if he had no desire at all.
"Ma Yu has already ordered what I want to eat."
Ai Liang calmly looked away from the mushrooms.
'Why do you have to order so many dishes at once? Can't you just have them all? '
Missing the opportunity to collect intelligence, Yang Xingyue closed the notepad with some depression, and then complained to Ma Yu in her heart.
During the chat, the waiter came over with a mandarin duck pot, and the cart with the ingredients also came over not long after.
After being hungry all day, the four of them turned up the heat to the highest level and poured all the food into the pot until it couldn't hold it anymore.
Ten minutes later, the soup pot began to stir, and five pairs of chopsticks were thrust into it.
With her appetite satisfied, Yue Qihua gradually forgot about Yang Xingyue's proposal of a threesome. The atmosphere between her and Ai Liang began to become the same as usual, and the depression in Yang Xingyue's heart gradually dissipated.
Rumble.
There was the roar of thunder and lightning outside the window.
"It's going to rain soon. It would be bad if the buses stop running early due to heavy rain."
Ma Yu noticed the scenery outside the window. Dark clouds shrouded his head, and pedestrians below began to call Didi to get ready to go home.
"The weather forecast says that today's heavy rain will come at night... It seems that this is going to be ahead of schedule."
Fang Xiaoxiao picked up a piece of cabbage leaf, gnawed the stem bit by bit like a rabbit, and finally popped it into his mouth.
"The weather has been really hot recently. A heavy rain will not be a good thing. It will definitely be a lot refreshing at night."
Yue Qihua didn't care much about the weather conditions outside: "When the bus stops running later, I'll take Didi back. Besides, how could the bus stop running early because of a rain?"
Ma Yu stretched out: "That's true, today is going to be over anyway."
"Xingyue, eat quickly, the tofu in the bowl will be cold soon." Yue Qihua glanced at Yang Xingyue and found that the tofu just given to her was not moved.
She gently pushed Yang Xingyue, who was staring blankly at the phone: "What are you looking at?"
"Ai Liang." Yang Xingyue turned her head stiffly: "Your preferred high school...isn't it an experimental middle school?"
For a moment, the world became quiet.
The bodies of Yue Qihua and Yang Xingyue seemed to form a soundproof zone.
The sounds of other guests talking, the honking outside the window, and the boiling sound of the soup pot in front of me were all blocked out.
Only the pounding of the heartbeat became louder and louder, so loud that the chopsticks in his hands seemed to be shaking with the heartbeat.
Yue Qihua began to think about the meaning of Yang Xingyue's words, but her stagnant brain was no longer functioning, and she just wanted to passively wait for that special voice to explain.
Only that sound could pass through the soundproofing zone established by the two of them.
Unfortunately, what this voice brought was not the joke they expected, but the cold reality that extinguished all the remaining fire in their hearts.
"I did enroll in an experimental middle school."
Ai Liang swallowed the mushrooms in his mouth and said the second half of the sentence: "Experimental Middle School in Qianhua City."
