I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 279. Is there really such a good thing?

[Xu Qingfan, you're a stinking, dead, cheap, and wicked dog! All you do is bully me!!!]
In the young girl's boudoir, Xia Xiaoxiao sat at her dressing table, pen in hand, tearfully accusing Xu Qingfan of his crimes. Her diary was filled with scribbles and corrections; if it weren't for her neat handwriting, it would have looked like a primary school student's essay.

[All you do is be nice to Lin Wanning, all you do is bully me! We were the ones who met first, I was the one who came here first!]
Feeling that the sentence was too pretentious, she crossed it out with her pen and revised it: It's none of my business who you like to be nice to. Don't expect me to talk to you again in this lifetime. I like dogs but I don't like you!

Xu Qingfan is the most annoying person on Earth in the entire universe! Such a nuisance!!
I don't like you anymore!
2010.6.15
After recording her feelings at that moment and writing the corresponding date in the upper right corner, she locked the diary again and put it back in the drawer.

After applying the anti-swelling medicine, my right cheek felt slightly cool and the burning pain had subsided, unless I massaged it vigorously.

Xia Xiaoxiao bent down to check herself in the dressing mirror. Although the swelling had gone down, the handprints of the five fingers were still very obvious.

The girl felt an urge to cry again. The physical pain was secondary; the main thing was that she felt so wronged.

When Lin Wanning goes to bed, all you do is try to smooth things over, but when Xia Xiaoxiao goes to bed, she gets a beating. Isn't that bullying an honest person?

[I'm not going to talk to you for the next month!] she thought to herself defiantly.

A little while later, Xia Xiaoxiao remembered that this stinky dog's birthday was still over two weeks away. The girl hesitated for a moment, feeling a pang of resentment, and thought, [Don't even think about me talking to you until your birthday!]
But that didn't seem to work either, because birthdays definitely require some preparation in advance, so she changed her mind again, saying, "[Don't expect me to talk to you for the next two weeks! Two weeks, not a single day less!!]"
After an unknown amount of time, Xia Xiaoxiao's voice came from the bedroom where the girl was alone: ​​"Don't expect me to talk to you for the next week!"

Don't expect me to talk to you for the next three days.
Although Xia Xiaoxiao deliberately covered her still somewhat swollen face with her hair, the girl's unusual behavior unsurprisingly alerted her two mothers.

During lunch, Yao Jinping unexpectedly lifted her bangs to check, and then exclaimed in surprise, "Xiaoxiao, why is your face so swollen?"

"Oh, daughter, where did you hurt yourself? Did you put any medicine on it?" Lin Jing asked belatedly, her voice filled with concern.

"Auntie is fine, the swelling has gone down." Xia Xiaoxiao secretly stepped on a certain smelly dog ​​under the table and said to the two of them with a smile.

“How could it be from a bump? Xiaoxiao, tell Auntie, did this brat bully you?” Yao Jinping felt like she had been slapped and instantly flew into a rage.

Xu Qingfan could only lower his head and silently eat his rice, praying that Xia Xiaoxiao would keep her promise and not betray him.

"No, I bumped into it by accident last night while I was walking." After saying that, the girl glared at Xu Qingfan and said arrogantly, "He can't beat me!"

Yao Jinping was skeptical. After glancing at her son and finding nothing amiss, she got up and went to find some medicine to reduce the swelling for Xia Xiaoxiao.

"How could you be so careless and not tell your mother right away?" Lin Jing felt quite guilty. It seemed she should play less mahjong in the future and pay less attention to her daughter. She hadn't even noticed it at the first moment.

"It's okay, Mom. We already applied ice and medicine last night," Xia Xiaoxiao said considerately, not forgetting to step on the stinky dog ​​under the table again.

However, because she had taken off her shoes, when the girl's jade-like, cool soles touched her skin, it felt like smooth silk brushing against her skin, bringing a touch of coolness to this sweltering summer afternoon.

Yao Jinping quickly returned, holding the medicine in her hand, and instructed, "After you finish eating, have this brat help you apply an ice pack for a while, and then apply the medicine."

"Okay, thank you, Auntie!" Xia Xiaoxiao smiled and nodded after receiving the medicine from the aunt. She then turned and glared at Xu Qingfan, her expression saying, "Did you hear that?!"
Xu Qingfan dared not say anything more. If his mother found out that he had hit Xia Xiaoxiao, even if there was a reason, he would definitely be given a beating.

He could even picture what Yao Jinping would say as she swung the feather duster at him: "You've got guts now, haven't you? You dare hit a woman now? Why don't you try hitting me?"

After a safe and uneventful lunch, and once the three adults had gone out to play, Xu Qingfan could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Xia Xiaoxiao sat in the living room watching TV with a blank expression, her thoughts unreadable.

He had intended to thank the girl for not betraying him, but seeing this, he could only shrug and say, "I'll get some ice for you."

[Don't even think about me talking to you today!] Xia Xiaoxiao turned her head to the door, deliberately avoiding his gaze.

Xu Qingfan quickly returned with a basin of water and a towel. Yesterday, in a moment of urgency, he had used his own towel to apply ice to Xia Xiaoxiao.

Seeing that the girl didn't seem to mind, Xu Qingfan took his own this time.

"Wash your face first, it's all oily."

Xia Xiaoxiao almost exploded the moment that stinky dog ​​opened its mouth. Her face wasn't oily at all; it was perfectly clean and fresh!

Xia Xiaoxiao calmed herself down, her neck almost twisted into a pretzel, but she simply ignored him!
Seeing that the girl didn't respond, and wouldn't even take the towel he offered, Xu Qingfan pouted and said, "If you don't say anything, I'll wash your face for you."

"Hmph!" came a simple syllable in response.

"Didn't we agree on this last night? Why are you angry again?" Xu Qingfan said as he spread out a towel and placed it on the girl's face to help her wash.

Xia Xiaoxiao obediently closed her eyes, letting the stinky dog ​​do as it pleased, but she just ignored him.

After wiping her face clean, Xu Qingfan wrapped the ice cubes in a towel again and gently applied the ice to the girl in front of him.

Xia Xiaoxiao was actually quite happy. This stinky dog ​​hadn't taken care of her like this in a long time, but she couldn't show it. She didn't want him to know!
To minimize her micro-expressions, she deliberately closed her eyes and focused on the cool touch on her face.

After a night, Xia Xiaoxiao's face had become much less swollen, so the ice pack didn't need to be applied for as long as it had the night before.

Five minutes later, Xu Qingfan threw the ice into the basin of water, wrung out a towel and dried the girl's face, then applied the ointment to his index finger and spread it evenly over her injured area.

The process seemed too comfortable, as the girl's eyelashes trembled involuntarily, which Xu Qingfan found quite amusing.

To be honest, Xia Xiaoxiao is actually very beautiful if it weren't for her terrible temper.

Xu Qingfan bent down and gently blew on the spot where she had just applied the medicine. Xia Xiaoxiao shuddered with pleasure, and strange sounds came from her nose.

"Hmm~"

"Alright, if there's nothing else, go back and take a nap. I'm going back to my room for a nap too." Xu Qingfan clapped his hands, indicating that the task was complete.

Without waiting for Xia Xiaoxiao's reply, he carried the basin of water back to the toilet.

When he came out of the bathroom, the girl was still sitting on the sofa and hadn't moved an inch.

"Aren't you going back to take a nap?" Xu Qingfan asked.

After hesitating for a long time, Xia Xiaoxiao finally spoke up: "Watch me sleep!"

Her words seemed to come out of nowhere, leaving Xu Qingfan completely bewildered. He asked, "What do you mean, 'I watch you sleep'? You have this kind of fetish?"

Why does this deadbeat dog always talk so rudely!
Xia Xiaoxiao raised her two little pink fists and said, word by word, "I'll roll onto my face when I sleep, so watch out, don't make me turn over!"

"And what about me?" Xu Qingfan pointed to himself.

"Hmph!" Xia Xiaoxiao turned her head away again, refusing to look at him.

The next second, Xu Qingfan said, "How about I get a rope and tie you to the bed?" "Xu Qingfan!!!"

Seeing the girl gritting her teeth, looking like she was about to rush up and fight at any moment, Xu Qingfan quickly raised his hands and begged for mercy: "Just kidding, just kidding, don't get excited, let's talk this out."

After he finished speaking, he slapped his mouth three times, then took a rope and tied you to the bed, asking, "Look at what you just said, was that even human language?"

I don't know why, but in my past life I was always willing to grant Xia Xia's every wish, but in this life I've fallen in love with bickering with her, and I can blurt out insults to her without even thinking.

"Humph!"

Seeing that the girl remained silent, Xu Qingfan asked awkwardly, "Are you sleepy now? Shall we go to sleep first?"

[How did it become "we're going to sleep first"? Nobody wants to sleep with you!]
"Humph!"

"Then you can watch TV in the living room for a while. I'm going to my room to sleep first, and you can take over when I wake up," Xu Qingfan said simply after waiting for a while without getting any further information from her.

"I want to sleep now!" Xia Xiaoxiao finally spoke up. In short, anything that could make this stinky dog ​​uncomfortable would make her comfortable.

"Ha~ Then go to sleep. But I read a report yesterday that said it's best to only take a half-hour nap, otherwise it's bad for your health," Xu Qingfan said with a yawn.

"Your death suits you perfectly; no one's stopping you from sleeping with Wan Ning now!"

"If you keep talking like that, I'm really going to get angry!" He's fine with anything else, but he can't joke about his own health; that's his bottom line.

Xia Xiaoxiao also noticed that Xu Qingfan was dissatisfied with what he had just said, but she thought that the stinky dog ​​was angry about the second half of the sentence, and she felt even more aggrieved.

[That's how it is! You only know how to bully me. You've never treated me like you treat Lin Wanning!] Xia Xiaoxiao felt like crying again, but she couldn't let this stinky dog ​​see her, so she lowered her head and went straight to his room.

When a woman gets angry, she becomes unreasonable. Xu Qingfan couldn't recall any of the kindness he had shown her when she was a child; all she felt was endless resentment at being treated differently by this stinky dog.

Xu Qingfan sighed and followed behind. He really couldn't understand what a teenage girl was thinking.

He felt that Xia Xiaoxiao's jealousy was unfounded. You clearly only see me as a brother. How can a sister be so possessive of her brother? Do you think you're filming Yosuga no Sora?

It's a pity that being reborn doesn't come with mind-reading abilities, otherwise I really wanted to dig open the girl's heart in front of me and see how many tears were inside.

Xu Qingfan followed Xia Xiaoxiao into the room. His younger brother tried to follow, but Xu Qingfan kicked him out.

"You go to sleep first. I'll just sit here and watch you. Don't say those things that curse your own body again next time!"

He was adjusting the air conditioner temperature, so he was facing away from Xia Xiaoxiao when he said this, missing the rich changes in the girl's facial expressions.

A simple sentence struck a chord with the girl, and the grievances that had been building up inside her vanished in an instant.

She sat blankly on the bed, staring at Xu Qingfan's tall figure.

[It turns out he was angry because of the previous sentence]
At this moment, nothing else seemed to matter. Lin Wanning, getting into bed, preferential treatment—she was the one who knew him first, after all.
"Did you hear me?" Seeing that the girl behind him didn't react, Xu Qingfan turned around and asked after adjusting the air conditioner.

Xia Xiaoxiao looked down at her shoes and nodded shyly, replying, "Mmm."

"?"

Xu Qingfan really wanted to post a question mark at this moment. What's wrong with Xia Xiaoxiao now?
"Good thing you know. It might not work out, but it might work out. Don't joke around with your health. Go to sleep. I'll sit by your bed and watch over you." Seeing that the girl seemed to have become more agreeable, he tentatively stepped forward and gently stroked Xia Xiaoxiao's head like he was petting a cat.

"Mmm." Xia Xiaoxiao closed her eyes and enjoyed it. For a moment, she felt like the two of them had returned to their childhood.

[No wonder they say a woman's heart is like a needle at the bottom of the sea.] He thought to himself.

Taking advantage of Xia Xiaoxiao's easygoing nature, Xu Qingfan coaxed the girl to sleep with kind words, while he sat on the edge of the bed playing on his phone.

The air conditioner was blowing loudly, and the girl next to me was breathing evenly. The glaring sunlight was blocked by the curtains.

Xu Qingfan got sleepy after only a short while in this atmosphere. He yawned and then took out his phone to pass the time.

Several girls left him messages on QQ, mostly sharing their daily food experiences, and Aunt Zhang also sent him a few messages.

Xu Qingfan glanced at the messages but didn't reply immediately. If he replied at this hour, they might skip their afternoon nap and start chatting with him.

He finally opened Aunt Zhang's QQ account. The content was very simple, with only one photo and two messages.

[I've bought the lottery ticket.]

I'll send you the pictures later.

【Picture.jpg】

After opening and saving the image, Xu Qingfan used an image editor to blur out the key information. He then logged into Weibo to edit the information.

[No fluff, pictures speak louder than words. Ten hours until the start of the race. Trust me, go for it! Follow my lead, and you'll be living in a villa by the sea!]

After the image finished loading, he clicked "send content".

There's no need to ask Agui; this post is sure to cause a huge uproar on Weibo.

Xu Qingfan, the person involved, wasn't in the mood to pay much attention to the follow-up developments because he was really tired.

"Ha~"

After he yawned again, Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly opened her eyes, and Xu Qingfan happened to be looking at her at that moment.

After they blinked at each other, he asked first, "Is it too bright to sleep? I'll go find you an eye mask."

Xia Xiaoxiao shook her head, a blush rising on her face as if she were thinking of something, though it wasn't very noticeable since her face was already swollen.

She shifted her position, making room for half of her pillow, and pointed to the empty spot, saying, "If you're sleepy, you can sleep with me."

Surprisingly, she spoke very softly, almost as softly as Wu Lingyu when she was shy.

Xu Qingfan shook his head. Putting aside the fact that he accidentally hit Xia Xiaoxiao's face, even if he hadn't, he was used to taking care of this brat. "What if you turn over in bed while I'm asleep? You should go to sleep now. I'll talk to you when you wake up. Besides, it's not a big deal to miss a nap."

Xia Xiaoxiao's face turned even redder. She hesitated for a few moments, then turned over so that her backside was facing Xu Qingfan. Finally, she said, "If you sleep like this with your back against me, I won't be able to turn over."

Xu Qingfan stared wide-eyed in disbelief. Could there really be such a good thing?
(End of this chapter)