Rebirth: Growing Up Together

"Why are you wearing so much?"

"What's wrong? Do you want me to wear less?"

"Xu, Orange!"

Seeing that Lin Wanzhou was about to lose her temper, Xu Cheng wiped the water drops from his face angrily and explained.

"I have to go out. I need to apply for a bank card to separate my personal account from my company account."

Lin Wanzhou was holding up her ankle with one hand and holding the door with the other, preparing to change her shoes, with half of her little white socks showing.

After hearing what Xu Cheng said, he stopped what he was doing.

"Then I'll go with you."

"Would you like to come with me? I'll be back soon. You can wait for me at home."

Lin Wanzhou always felt it was very strange when he spoke. What did he mean by 'you wait at home'?

This is obviously his home, so shouldn't he say "Wait for me at my house"?

But she didn't really hate this statement.

"I-I'd better go with you."

"Ah, that's fine too. Do you want some soy milk? I've already made it."

"Come back and drink more."

"Okay, wait a minute while I put on my coat."

"Ah."

The girl stood obediently by the door and did not go in, fearing that she would dirty the floor of the house.

After all, this is her "home", and she must take good care of every inch of it.

The weather was nice. When I went downstairs, I met an old man with a white beard carrying a bird cage and walking his bird. The starling was chirping and kept shouting when it saw Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou.

"Baby! Baby! Baby..."

Lin Wanzhou found it very interesting and took a few more glances at it.

"Xu Cheng, look, this bird is so smart, it can actually say something like this."

"I don't know if he's smart or not, but this old man is too frivolous. How could he teach a bird to speak like this?"

"It called me baby Xu Cheng. Are you jealous?"

"…Who would be jealous of a bird?"

"Hmph, it's not necessarily that the old man taught it. The parrot just learned it by itself after hearing what people said. Maybe it was taught by a passerby."

"That passerby is not serious either. He must be the leader of a pervert group." Xu Cheng said angrily.

But when I thought about how I often practiced saying the word "baby" affectionately to the air when I went downstairs, could the bird have heard it?

Certainly not!

Even though it was a weekend, the bank was open as usual and there were quite a lot of people coming. The two of them sat in their seats and waited for their numbers to be called.

"Banking work looks so hard. They don't even have weekends off."

"Many jobs are hard and not easy. At least the income from banks is quite good. Once you graduate from being a teller, you will have a bright future."

After saying that, he found that Lin Wanzhou was looking at him in surprise with her little face tilted to the side.

"what happened?"

"I'm just curious, why do you always know so much... um... special knowledge since you were a child."

"Ah I……"

"Could it be that before Xu Cheng goes somewhere with me, he always prepares enough information and memorizes it in his head, so that he can show off to me after we go there, in order to please girls..."

"???"

"Boys are so childish." Lin Wanzhou crossed his arms with a wicked smile, as if he had seen through Xu Cheng.

The more she thought about it, the more she felt that her idea was correct. After all, no matter where she and Xu Cheng went since they were young, he could always tell her a lot of stories.

You must have done enough homework at home!

Humph, he started trying every means to attract her attention at such a young age, so there is no doubt that he fell in love with her first between the two of them.

"..."

Xu Cheng didn't know what to explain.

Since she thought so, he would let her think so.

"By the way, speaking of this, what kind of job do you want to do in the future, Lin Wanzhou?"

There was a trace of confusion in the girl's eyes.

I haven’t thought about work at all!

She only thought about being a mother of five goslings, and had never thought about what kind of job she would do. After all, she felt that being a mother was hard enough.

Just as she was thinking about it, Xu Cheng pulled her arm.

"Let's go Lin Wanzhou, call us."

He went to the counter and went through the normal procedures, doing whatever the teller asked him to do.

"Handsome boy, set a 6-digit password that you can remember."

"6-digit password..."

Xu Cheng was muttering to himself while thinking, and Lin Wanzhou asked him in a low voice.

"What do you want to set it to?"

"How was your birthday? 920420."

"Well... who cares about you? Just set it up as you like."

Lin Wanzhou turned his head away and stopped looking.

I still feel a little proud of myself.

I feel like I'm more closely connected with Xu Cheng.

I remember that she and her mother watched a lot of Korean dramas together. The male and female protagonists in the TV dramas set their passwords to each other’s birthdays.

This was also the first time that someone set her birthday as the password for her bank card.

This made her feel like she and Xu Cheng had become the male and female protagonists of a Korean drama.

But it can only be the first half of the episodes. After all, every kimchi drama in the later stage will inevitably have the three treasures of car accidents, cancer, and amnesia.

"Xu Cheng, I'll get a bank card later too."

"Don't you have it now?"

"That's my mom's. I want to get my own."

"Then let's set the password to 921023."

“Who wants to set it as your birthday!”

"You remember my birthday so clearly."

"me……"

Lin Wanzhou immediately said that he had fallen into a trap.

After all, being able to blurt out the other person's birthday is a sign that you care deeply about the other person.

It was just ten o'clock when I got home.

Lin Wanzhou took off her shoes and put on a pair of special slippers on her feet wrapped in white socks.

Xu Cheng had already poured soy milk for her.

"Is it cool?"

"I'll touch it."

Lin Wanzhou touched the soy milk cup with her little hand, it was warm, and she took a small sip, the aroma of soy milk instantly filled her mouth.

"It's not cold, you can drink it."

She started drinking it with big gulps.

It is no longer as hot as when it was just made. It is different from when you drink freshly made soy milk, which makes your throat feel uncomfortable and burning.

"Lin Wanzhou, do you want me to explain what we taught you in yesterday's physics class again?"

"Yes, yes. You didn't even finish telling me yesterday."

"Didn't you say you would go home and learn on your own, and you want to surpass me..."

As Xu Cheng was talking, he saw Lin Wanzhou's eyes that seemed to say "Will you tell me?" and his voice gradually became quieter.

The two of them were sitting on the dining table, facing each other.

Seeing Xu Cheng stand up with a book in his arms and sit down next to her, the girl hurriedly asked him.

"Why are you sitting here?"

"It will be more convenient for me to explain it to you this way."

"We can talk even if we're sitting opposite each other."

"That would break your neck."

Xu Cheng spread the textbook between them and explained a small section of the knowledge points based on his notes.

Lin Wanzhou listened quietly, with her feet crossed under the table, her toes lightly resting on her slippers.

"Let me drink some water."

Xu Cheng unscrewed the lid of the thermos cup, took a sip, and looked at the little girl next to him. Suddenly, he felt like he had become Lin Wanzhou's tutor.

"Lin Wanzhou, call me Teacher Xu."

"???"

"The wise are the teachers. I am teaching you something. Is it normal for you to call me teacher?"

"I don't want to call you old..."

"Then you just don't listen. Stretch out your hand. Teacher Xu is going to spank your palm."

"You still dare to hit me?!"

The girl's voice suddenly rose three times in volume, as angry as if she were being abused.

"Cough cough cough."

Xu Cheng quickly changed his words, "You said the wrong thing. I'm going to tickle the soles of your feet."

“Tickling my feet…? No way…”

Lin Wanzhou's voice was obviously not as sharp as before, and her round and cute toes couldn't help but move a few times inside her white socks.

The two continued to talk about the knowledge points, but as they were talking, Xu Cheng's big hands wrapped around the girl's small hands in an unruly manner, rubbing the palms and backs of her hands.

Lin Wanzhou got angry.

Is this also within the scope of a tutor’s duties?

He held her little hand and played with it non-stop, which made the girl lose her concentration several times. After she came to her senses, she asked Xu Cheng to tell her again.

Therefore, the knowledge points that could have been taught in a short time took a lot of time to finish.

Xu Cheng took the thermos cup and took a sip of hot water, then spoke in a teacher's lecturing tone.

"Lin Wanzhou, why are you so inattentive in class? How can you be distracted all the time?"

"It's all because of your trouble!"

"This is also a test of your willpower. If it is a college entrance examination exam room, with frequent situations and being particularly noisy, you still have to be able to concentrate on the questions." Xu Cheng said in a high-sounding manner.

"???"

Lin Wanzhou felt extremely angry.