"Okay, that's enough."
Xie Yuzhi stood in the middle of the open space with her hands on her hips, her chest raised and her head raised. Her forehead was covered with sweat, but her face was filled with satisfaction. The space of the secret base had been completely renewed.
"The place is not big, but cleaning it is more tiring than expected." Yan Jingxing sat down next to it, "And there will be dust again after a while."
"There is no way, the secrets here cannot be exposed, we have to do it ourselves."
"You can ask Chun Zao to come over and help."
"Um……"
Miss Xie tapped her chin with her finger, showing a subtle expression.
"Although I said that the engagement will have no impact on the relationship between the three of us, it would still be embarrassing if someone was watching us in the situation just now, right? Neither she nor us, so I didn't call She comes."
"Too."
"Okay, the car is at the bottom of the mountain, let's go."
*
After returning home from the secret base, he immediately found his uncle and told him about the engagement with Yuzhi.
After Yan Yongzhi heard this, he opened his mouth in surprise and murmured:
"You are really outrageous."
"Wait a minute, didn't uncle agree from the beginning?"
"I promised not to interfere with your choice, but I didn't expect that I would climb up the ladder." Uncle said angrily, "You two are still junior high school students, but you actually made some kind of engagement without telling the adults. It's not like that. Kindergarten kids play house and have drinks, I’m really sorry you guys can think of it.”
"...Uh, so you don't agree?"
"No, I agree." Uncle sighed, "I have figured it out now. If you don't want to listen to me, then I'll let you go."
"It's not that I don't listen..."
Yan Jingxing scratched his hair, his expression slightly embarrassed. He has been confronting adults a lot lately, and he is no longer the good boy he used to be.
And compared to the engagement itself, after understanding Miss Xie's feelings for him, he was able to calm down and no longer worry about what he had or what he didn't have. This was the most important thing.
While the uncle and nephew were talking, the phone rang again.
"It seems that your little fiancée cares about you very much. She called again so soon. Isn't she going to ask you somewhere again tomorrow?"
With that said, Yan Yongzhi walked over and picked up the phone, but his expression quickly changed.
The uncle covered the phone again and opened his mouth to him, but no sound came out.
"another?"
Yan Jingxing read the words word by word and walked over with a confused expression.
What is "another"?
He took the phone from his uncle and heard a familiar voice.
"Hi! Jing Xing, are you free now?"
"Chun Zao?" Yan Jingxing's mood lightened up just by hearing her lively voice, and a cheerful smile appeared on his lips unconsciously, "What's the matter, you called me suddenly?"
"It's an official holiday tomorrow, do you have any plans?"
"No?" Yan Jingxing thought for a while. It will take a few days for Miss Xie to arrange it in place. "If anything happens, I will tell you."
"In other words, are you free?"
"Um."
Yan Jingxing changed the hand holding the microphone and nodded subconsciously, as if he was talking to the other party face to face.
"What, do you want to go somewhere?"
"That's right!"
"Don't you need to ask Yuzhi to come with you?"
"No, no, it's just the two of us."
Ji Chunzao on the other side of the phone laughed "hey hey hey", as if he was having some strange idea.
"There are some things I want to enjoy first, so I won't tell her."
"...Enjoyment? What enjoyment?"
He was a little surprised.
"It's confidential." She said mysteriously, and she could hear the uncontrollable excitement in her tone. "I just thought of it, and then I called you right away."
"oh……"
Although Yan Jingxing didn't quite understand, he readily agreed.
"Really? I don't care. It's better not to go to the secret base."
"Of course not. If we go on an adventure to an alien planet, the three of us must get together. This time it's just the two of us hanging out together."
"Where to meet?"
"Well, let me think about it... let's find a place where no one is around. How about going to the beach, where we first met?"
"good."
Counting Ji Chunzao's initiative to summon the predator king, this was already the second time. That place had special meaning to them, and the scenery on the seaside was also good... Yan Jingxing's answer was straightforward. He heard Ji Chunzao on the other side of the phone. Zao let out a satisfied chuckle.
"That's good, thanks!"
…
After hanging up the phone, he saw his uncle folding his hands and looking at him with strange eyes.
"Is there something wrong with you again?"
"Well, it's Chun Zao. She invited me to hang out tomorrow."
Yan Jingxing said.
"Also, uncle, why did you say 'another' just now...why did you make it so mysterious?"
"You bastard, you really don't know what's good or bad."
Yan Yongzhi reached out and rubbed his nephew's head angrily, making his hair as messy as a bird's nest. This action was somewhat intended to vent his anger. After all, he was still single, and he never thought that his nephew, who was still a junior high school student, would already lead a life of hugging each other.
"Aren't I worried that you always give up and that the little girl is calling to cause trouble? I thought you knew something about it."
"……ah?"
Yan Jingxing touched his head and asked in surprise:
"What, why are you starting to mess up and then giving up! She and I have nothing..."
"really?"
"Just good friends."
he emphasized.
"That's what your boy told me so swornly yesterday. I remember it very clearly. Don't even think about defaulting on your debt."
"Well……"
"Aren't you and the eldest lady of the Xie family just pure friends before today?"
His uncle's words made him slightly startled.
Speaking of which, Chunzao did only mention the agreed place on the phone, but did not mention what he wanted to do, making it mysterious.
Could it be that she called herself out because of——
When he thought of this, his heart trembled, but he couldn't help but shake his head.
"No way."
He really couldn't imagine that Chunzao's ignorant face would say the same astonishing words like "Let's get married" like Miss Xie.
Although they are the same age, in Yan Jingxing's eyes, Chun Zao is more childish than himself...
Impossible, absolutely impossible.
"Okay, I can't control you, you can handle this matter yourself."
Yan Yongzhi was out of sight and out of mind, and no longer planned to care.
Even if this kid really rides two boats, it won't be his fault if he capsizes in the future——
This is the mistake I made when I was young. Since you have to learn a lesson sooner or later, it is better to suffer sooner rather than later.
*
The next day, Yan Jingxing took a bus to the beach.
There were snacks and drinks in the schoolbag he brought. Although he didn't know what Chun Zao wanted to do when he asked him to meet this time, the last time they met, she pushed herself to the point of nearly fainting from hunger. It was really impressive and had to be Be on guard.
After he walked a few hundred meters along the familiar beach behind the rest stop, he suddenly heard singing.
Yan Jingxing raised his head and looked forward with narrowed eyes.
The sun is shining brightly, the blue waves are undulating, the white waves are lapping on the rocks, and the clear and melodious singing lingers over the highway. This scene seems familiar.
——There is a slender figure from the depths of the sea, sitting quietly on a huge rock.
The figure has her back against the sky, with long seaweed-like hair. The bright sunlight falls on her body, shining like gold.
Yan Jingxing subconsciously stopped and did not move forward for a while.
He stared at the mermaid-like figure and thought quietly: Isn't this the scene when they first met?
Then the singing suddenly stopped.
The singing girl spotted him from a distance and immediately jumped down from the rock. She was as nimble as a cat flying over walls. She ran towards this side, her water-lily colored skirt flying in the wind behind her.
"Jing Xing——!"
Ji Chunzao rushed into his arms recklessly as usual.
Yan Jingxing did not dodge, he smiled and stretched out his hand to catch her. Just when he was about to say something, he suddenly noticed a silky smooth touch coming from where his palm touched.
Only then did he notice that the little girl was wearing a sleeveless summer dress, and her long black curly hair was hanging down, covering a large area of milky white and soft skin.
Yan Jingxing felt it was a bit dazzling, maybe because of the sunlight above his head... He calmly looked away.
"Jing Xing Jing Xing, I want to ask you for a favor."
Ji Chunzao, who grabbed his arm and refused to let go, buried her head in his arms and said loudly.
"Well, well, you say."
Yan Jingxing was a little absent-minded.
He suddenly realized that he and Miss Xie were already an unmarried couple, so should he keep a distance from other girls...
But after he broke free twice, he found that Ji Chunzao held him too tightly, almost like a piece of sticky candy that he couldn't shake off. He couldn't really use force, so he had to continue to let her hold him.
Forget it, Chun Zao shouldn't be considered "another girl", he thought to himself.
The two of them maintained a skin-to-skin embrace, feeling that the temperature suddenly rose several degrees.
It must be the fault of the sun in the sky.
"——Jing Xing, can you take me to fly?"
Then, he heard the girl in his arms ask him softly.
(End of chapter)
