Rebirth: Growing Up Together

She opened the pen cap, held the water-based ink pen, and added a few strokes on Xu Cheng's fingertips, drawing a very cute little expression.

"Is it that simple? I thought you were going to put a painting of Along the River During the Qingming Festival on my back."

Yu Yu couldn't help but smile.

"…I'm not exaggerating that much."

After laughing, he quickly pursed his lips, looked away, and muttered quietly, "I can't paint Along the River During the Qingming Festival..."

She seldom smiles, and almost always in front of Xu Cheng.

Xu Cheng was not convinced and wanted to compete to see who could draw 10 more quickly. In the end, he lost again, so another emoticon appeared on his index finger.

He lost again and again, then it was his middle finger, ring finger, and little finger. Yu Yu even suspected that he lost on purpose. She was obviously the winner, but she had to keep stroking his fingers and wiping his sweaty hands.

So she deliberately lost to him once, and this guy was too excessive and left a string of small watches on her wrist. When Yan Wenwen came back, the girl covered her wrist tightly with her sleeves, fearing that her small watches would be seen by others.

On the contrary, Xu Cheng played with his fingers without any worries. It was as if his fingers came alive and kissed each other.

Yan Wenwen bought a big bag of apples, each pound costing RMB 1.5 yuan, and she bought about 20 pounds.

The three of them were sitting in the library. The packaging box was ready, and all that was left was to put the things inside.

They packed a portion of it before the sun went down, then took the raw materials to the gate of the Normal University campus, set up the stall, and sold the goods while packing the rest into boxes.

Xu Cheng set the selling price at 10 yuan, so as long as 100 apples were sold, after deducting the cost, the gross profit would be almost yuan, which was enough to pay back the class fees.

Business was surprisingly good. Xu Cheng didn't even have to call out to them as young couples kept coming to patronize the store, praising their beautiful work and interesting copywriting.

Generally they buy two, one for the boys and one for the girls. Only one boy bought three and asked Xu Cheng if they had green apples because her boyfriend liked green ones.

As the night deepened, the figures became sparse, and the speakers in the small supermarket outside the school that had been "ding ding dong" all day were turned off.

Xu Cheng held up a flashlight and asked Yu Yu and Yan Wenwen to count the money.

"how much is it?"

"I received 530."

"I, I'm 680."

Xu Cheng calculated, "That means it was sold for nearly twelve thousand."

The three of them looked at each other, all looking very excited.

Yan Wenwen thought this business was great. She could sell twelve thousand a night, which meant eighty-four thousand a month.

She even wanted to drop out of school and specialize in selling apples.

"Are you thirsty? I'll go buy three bottles of water."

"it is good."

When she went to the supermarket, Xu Cheng stretched and waved his hand.

"Okay, let's close the stall."

Yu Yu pointed to the last two boxes of apples on the stall.

"Xu Cheng, why don't you wait a little longer? There are still two left to sell."

Xu Cheng picked up the two boxes of apples, handed one to Yu Yu and kept one for himself.

"Consider it as something I bought for you. Merry Christmas Eve. As for this, I'll consider it as something you gave me."

There is no such thing...

Isn't this a forced sale?

However, when he saw Xu Cheng's handwriting on the box, "Life is too short, memories are too long," he pouted and held it in his arms.

Xu Cheng leaned over to look at her, "What's written on your box?"

She covered it in panic and didn't want to show it to him.

"Forget it, I'll take a look at my box..."

"Hand in hand, we take one, two, three, four steps, and look up at the sky, and see the stars forming a line one, two, three, four..."

"Is there such a sentence?"

He was still mumbling, and the girl beside him blushed...

Chapter 205 Then... Let's Confirm the Relationship

By the end of the year, more and more students started requesting songs.

Most of them were very embarrassing love words. Lin Wanzhou even set the rules:

All the notes confessing love to girls were read by her, and all the notes confessing love to boys were read by Xu Cheng, that is, two "whatevers".

According to her, she was afraid that the school would think the radio station was too arrogant and would cause trouble for them. As for whether this was the reason or not, Xu Cheng didn't know.

night.

On the bus on the way home, the floating light and shadows outside the window occasionally passed over the faces of the boys and girls.

"I didn't realize that everyone is so romantic. Normally, you only care about studying. I didn't expect that you would be so good at expressing yourself in front of the person you like."

Lin Wanzhou put her shoes against the back of the seat in front of her, leaving a crease on her white shoes. She liked the feeling of the tip of the shoe pressing on her toes.

Xu Cheng seemed to be very confused about romance. "Maybe everyone is a bit reserved and usually acts very serious."

The girl rolled her eyes at him, "...some people just can't get the shit out of their mouths. Let go of my hand. It's been over five minutes today and you're not aware of it at all."

Xu Cheng shamelessly pretended not to hear, turned around, took out a lollipop from his pocket and handed it to Lin Wanzhou.

"Let's make a deal. I'll give you a candy and some time until you can go home."

"Really..."

The girl took it, pouted her pink little mouth, revealing her shiny little canine teeth, and nibbled on the lollipop. It took her a long time to bite through the candy wrapper and tear it off. At this time, she felt very satisfied when she put the lollipop into her mouth.

The sweet taste of strawberry instantly filled her mouth. The girl glanced out the window. The city at night was like a flowing river of lights. Feeling that Xu Cheng's hand seemed a little loose, she took the initiative to put her little hand into his palm, and her slender fingers also held his big hand tighter.

In fact, his hands were already full of sweat, slippery like loaches, but Xu Cheng seemed to be unable to hold them enough and kept holding them tightly.

He was so annoying that he would bully her without stopping.

He also particularly liked the way of holding hands with ten fingers interlocked, and liked to fill the gaps between her fingers with his thick fingers.

As a result, when she returned home, there was no one to hold her hand, and she always felt like something was missing between her fingers.

Thinking of this, the girl seemed to want that feeling again, so she quietly put her fingers between the guy's fingers. He was also very indulgent to her, always spreading his fingers to hold her without saying anything.

"Xu Cheng, you have a performance tomorrow. Are you nervous?"

Tomorrow is the New Year's Day art performance. Although it has been rehearsed many times, the girl still feels a little uneasy.

"Of course I'm nervous, but we were the ones playing at the back. By comparison, Xia Yue must be under a lot more pressure than us."

"Even though I'm hiding in the back, it doesn't affect my nervousness. When I'm nervous, I'll play the notes randomly, and it would be embarrassing if I make a mistake."

"How could that be? No one can tell that you played it wrong. You might be the only one in the audience who understands piano..."

As they were chatting, the car arrived at the station. When getting off the car, Xu Cheng did not let go of her hand, so Lin Wanzhou put her hands in his pockets, as if other passengers would not notice this way.

"You are just trying to cover up your mistakes."

"It's time to get tired of it."

There was a white candy stick hanging on the girl's pink lips. She was sucking on the lollipop in her mouth and her words were unclear.

"Lin Wanzhou, have you finished your candy?"

"A little more."

The girl took the lollipop out of her mouth, with only a little bit of sugar left. Only a soybean-sized piece of candy was left on the stick, moist, and with a thin string of saliva hanging from it when she took it out of her mouth.

Xu Cheng suddenly thought of the past.

"When you were little, you would ask me to eat the little bit of your lollipop you had left and share it with me."

The girl was embarrassed, her face flushed and she raised her hand to hit him.

"How could such a thing happen? I don't remember anything about it. You must have made it up."

"That's right, I respected you a lot at that time and didn't eat it. Why are you still angry with me because of this?"

Listening to him talk about these past events, I walked into the community. When I passed under the street light, there were twinkling lights in the girl's blinking eyes.

"That's because you didn't like me when you were little. You didn't like me because I was dirty. You deserve to be angry with you. You and I were so close when we were little, but you always pushed me away..."

The girl looked very dissatisfied and started to settle old accounts from her childhood.

"Xu Cheng is just an idiot. He doesn't know what's good for him. He's so good to you but you don't know how to be grateful..."

She muttered about all the bad things Xu Cheng did in his childhood, but in fact, the corners of her lips were slightly upturned, her eyebrows were curved, and she looked particularly happy.

"Close? Are you talking about when you asked me to have a baby girl with you when we were little, and I rejected you?"

"No, no! Who said I'd have a daughter with you?"

The girl hit him again and insisted that she had never said that and would never admit to such a thing.

But Xu Cheng has a lot of dark history about her.

"When a reporter was interviewing you in kindergarten, you said you wanted to marry me and be my bride. You said that in front of the whole class."

"I…you peed your pants when you were a kid!"

"You chased other kids away during the nap in kindergarten and insisted on sleeping next to me."

"You peed your pants when you were a kid!"

"..."

Xu Cheng was helpless, "You are no longer interesting, Lin Wanzhou."

Humph.

The girl looked like a hen that had won a fight, with her hands behind her back and her chest puffed out proudly.

"When we were little, you ignored me. Now I am out of your reach."

"What are you talking about? Where did you learn this?"

"A soulmate."

"...Watch less of these nonsense in the future. Besides, I never ignored you when we were kids."

Humph.

The girl stopped and faced him, the white candy stick on her lips moving from the right to the left.

"Yes, otherwise why don't you eat the lollipops I've eaten."

Xu Cheng also stopped and lowered his head to face the small girl.

"Then I'll eat now."

"……Um?!"

Xu Cheng reached out to pull the candy stick from the girl's mouth. Lin Wanzhou reacted with a flushed face, and bit it tightly with her teeth to refuse to give it to him.

“Hmm~Hmm—Hmm…”

She couldn't speak, and could only hum in dissatisfaction, gently pushing Xu Cheng's chest with her small hand.

"If you don't let go, I'll grab it with my mouth."

"???"

Seeing Xu Cheng's face slowly approaching, the girl quickly loosened her teeth to welcome him... Ugh, give up the plastic candy stick that was bitten flat.

“There’s no sugar.”

"Then I'll eat candy sticks."

Xu Cheng shamelessly put the flattened end into his mouth. The girl blushed, her neck shrank, and she lowered her head without looking at him. She only felt the residual taste of the lollipop in her mouth, and her tongue and throat were particularly sweet.

"Why are you walking so fast?" Xu Cheng chased after her.

The girl buried her head and complained.