Tao You turned the camera to focus on a large basket of green, purple, and muddy vegetables in the pool.
"My mother asked me to come down and volunteer to do hard labor." Tao You said, placing the mobile phone above the sink, adjusting the angle, and then continued to wash vegetables with his head down.
Song Xiaoan held half of the unpeeled sugar cane in his hand, put it to his mouth and gnawed it hard, sucked the piece of sugar cane peel off twice and spit it out, and then said, "Sister Xiaoyou, what about that post on the forum? Did you see it? The speed of the community property management is too fast! How long ago did that post come out? I just made a red cloth and hung it there, with my name written on it! This must be a printer installed in the office! After I showed it to some of my aunts and uncles, they were very happy. They kept praising Song Yimian for his handsomeness, and then used their mobile phones to show off in their sister groups, making them seem popular... "
Before he finished listening, Tao You looked up and saw Song Yimian's big hand on Song Xiaoan's face, pushing her back out of the screen.
Tao You smiled as she watched the two people quarreling across the phone. She was about to ask, "Song Xiaopang, did that post... have a big impact?"
Song Yimian is also chewing a sugar cane in his hand, but this one has been peeled off. Even if he is eating something so difficult to chew, his expression control is much better than Song Xiaoan's. The bite marks on the sugar cane are smooth, really It can be called "elegant".
"It's okay, this post will be gone by tomorrow night at the latest."
"The community has also said hello. No one can get in, and the red cloth at the door has been removed."
Tao You nodded, "..."
The two of them suddenly became quiet, leaving the noise in the background. They were each doing their own thing. No one felt embarrassed even if the video was on.
"Pang Xiaosong," Tao You poured all the vegetables into the sink, drained the water, and prepared to drain the water one last time. When he had nothing to say, he asked, "Are you very busy recently?"
Song Yimian seemed to be writing with his head lowered, only showing the top of his head with lush hair to the camera, and murmuring something in a low voice, "It's okay." He replied.
Realizing that Tao You didn't continue speaking, he raised his head and continued to ask, "What's wrong?"
Thinking of what Dad Tao said to her on the way home just now, it seems to make some sense now that she thinks about it.
She can't keep bothering others. No matter how good the relationship is, it can't withstand her consumption.
Tao You thought for a few seconds and finally decided to say something, "If you are very busy, you must tell me. I won't bother you to waste time on lecturing me questions. I will send a message to the teacher directly."
"..." Song Yimian finally looked up seriously at the camera.
He pulled out his chair and moved to a soft chair by the window sill to sit down. Warm eyes shone on his face, and the surrounding area became quiet, as if he was the only one left.
Looking seriously at Tao You on the other end of the phone, "For me, this is not a problem." He said leisurely, as if to comfort him, "Whenever you have a problem, you can send me a message."
"It's not just a matter of study..."
Tao You drained the vegetables and put them in the vegetable basket, pulled off the stopper in the marble pool, and watched half of the pool of water slowly flow down from the water outlet, forming a small whirlpool at the water inlet.
She just watched quietly for a while, and her heart was filled with joy at Song Yimian's simple words, "Then I'm welcome."
"Well, you're welcome." Song Yimian agreed softly, with a smile on his lips, looking like a gentle gentleman from a wealthy family.
Tao You blushed and his heart skipped a beat when he saw her. She didn't dare to look at him for more than three seconds through the phone screen, even from the angle of the backlight.
"Tao You, have the dishes been washed?!" Tao's mother poked her head out of the living room window and shouted to Tao You, "You have to check your phone at such a short time. When it's done, hurry up and bring it over. It's waiting for frying. !」
"My mother called me, hang up first." Tao You put the stopper back in, shook off the water droplets on his hands, and prepared to hang up the phone.
But Song Yimian stopped her urgently, "Wait a minute, remember to apply hand cream, and then quickly cover the hot water bottle. The water from the mountains in winter is very harmful to the body, don't let the cold air get into your bones."
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Tao You lowered his head and glanced at his ten fingers, which were red with water and so numb that pain oozed from the bones. He also glanced at the pool in front of him. He was a little surprised at how he was sure that this was ice water coming down from the mountain.
Song Yimian seemed to see the confusion in her eyes, and explained with a helpless smile, "You said it before. Go in quickly. Auntie will rush you again soon."
Before Tao You could say anything, Tao's mother's voice came again, "Stop lingering outside to blow the cold wind! The hand warmer bag has been charged for you. It's under the TV. You can get it yourself! The hand cream is also put there for you. Already."
"Did you hear that? Don't worry, my mother has prepared everything for me." Tao You said, grinning at the phone camera.
Tao You turned around to respond to Tao's mother, only to find an unfamiliar uncle standing a few steps away from her, smoking. She stopped smiling in embarrassment.
Inexplicably, his right eyelid twitched fiercely, he hung up the phone in a hurry, and ran to the kitchen with the vegetable basket in his arms.
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It was hard to wait until dinner, because the house had just been renovated, and there were so many people here that it exceeded the original estimate. I even temporarily borrowed two large round tables from neighbors before I could barely sit down.
Everyone in the Tao family was busy in the kitchen and backyard. As the chef, Tao's father and his aunt were sweating so much in the winter that they regretted canceling the plan to hire a chef...
The four large round tables could not fit in the house, so they were placed in the front yard.
It was midday, the sun was strong, but I didn't feel cold at all.
Tao You sat with his cousin.
The three of them didn't drink, so they were driven to the children's table. They gathered together awkwardly and occupied a small corner, watching the bigger children next to them stubbornly grabbing the remote control board and changing channels to watch animations.
At the same table, Tao You, the other boy who was not as important as playing games, was not familiar with him, so they didn't talk to him.
Fortunately, there were cousins in front of them. Tao You didn't need to worry too much about the children's eating problems. Their appetites were not big. Almost one-third of the food on the table went into Tao You's stomach. Used napkins, crab shells, bones... piled up into a hill.
In the end, under the surprised eyes of all the children, I put down my bowl and chopsticks with a hint of embarrassment...
The meal was almost done, and the mothers of the children also sat over.
Tao You and her cousins took advantage of the situation and moved to Grandpa Tao and Grandma Tang to eat some nuts and melon seeds.
Gradually, more and more people gathered at the main table to chat.
"Brother and sister," a voice called to Mother Tao who had just sat down and took a sip of tea.
Tao You looked towards the owner of the voice, who was the uncle who was standing behind her while washing vegetables.
——There is a situation!
——Isn’t this just a nonsense?
Tao You's eyelids twitched again, and he couldn't even eat the peanuts after peeling them.
His eyes were fixed on the person speaking, for fear that he would say something that would shock people.
"Xiaoyou, you must be the same age as our Adelaide." The uncle pointed at the boy next to him who was immersed in the game world after eating.
Tao's father pulled off the sweaty clothes on his back, took a sip of wine, nodded and said, "It should be a few months before our little You is older."
"Children of this age..." The uncle hiccupped as he spoke, shook his head, and even looked like he had a big tongue and drank to the top of his head.
When he talks, he sounds like a father...
Although he hadn't said anything yet, the uneasiness in Tao You's heart had already risen to his throat, and the hand picking at the peanut shells trembled slightly.
"I just need to pay more attention to my relationships with my classmates."
After he finished speaking, Tao's father and Tao's mother looked at him unmoved, as if they didn't understand what he was talking about.
He didn't give up, pushed the boy beside him, and continued, "Some time ago, Ade came back and said that many girls in school wrote him love letters and gave him gifts."
——You can hear that his tone is a bit proud.
As soon as these words came out, Tao You roughly guessed what the uncle wanted to say, and her heart tightened, knowing that he must have seen her talking on the phone just now.
Tao's mother and Tao's father looked at each other and tacitly agreed not to speak, waiting for him to finish everything.
"Hey, at the end of the term, the school caught quite a few couples in puppy love." The uncle said, pushing the boy's shoulder again, "right?"
Others heard about the sensitive topic of "puppy love" and started discussing it with the people next to them.
"Is this really true?" Tao's mother turned slightly sideways and asked Tao You.
"How do I know? He and I are not from the same school..."
The uncle was unhappy and promptly added, "Why aren't we in the same school? Our Adelaide is also from Weicheng No. 1 Middle School. We are also a sophomore in high school."
——Sophomore year of high school?
You shouldn't just talk nonsense about something that is obvious once you check it out.
It stands to reason that there are many people sending love letters and so on, so he should be quite famous, but why doesn't Tao You have this impression? He saw this character in his sophomore year of high school.
Tao You quickly looked at Tao's mother, then turned away and looked away, saying vaguely, "Then...it seems like that."
That's right. During the final period, Tao You had left some homework due to the competition and was catching up. After class, he bent over the table to write papers. In the evening, after the self-study class, he rushed home and did not go for a walk on the playground. of leisure.
It would be an understatement to say that one cannot hear what is happening outside the window.
However, according to the gossip Hong Xiqi told her, during that time, several grade directors and on-duty teachers were specially stationed at various places in the school where couples often go, and they also specially selected those without any lights that could cover the figure but not limit the field of view. Squat in the corner.
The attack force of this raid was very strong. From the beginning, the students did not believe in evil and thought that the school was just a joke. In the end, they were completely convinced and gave up. They were very cautious when passing through those dark places. They just used Three days.
Three days later, every evening and after evening self-study, the number of students wandering around the school to eat was reduced by more than half. .
"Three couples were caught in our class alone." Shen De finished a game, put his phone back in his bag, took a sip of ice coke, and then said carelessly, "It seems that some people in the liberal arts class were also caught. Don't you do you know?"
Tao You shook his head.
I threw two peanuts into my mouth and thought: What does the matter in Liberal Arts Class 1 have to do with her. She is not that clear about things in her science department.
