Rebirth: Growing Up Together

"Are you cold, Lin Wanzhou?"

"It's not cold...Ah." The girl sniffed and shivered all over.

"Don't be stubborn at this time." Xu Cheng reluctantly took off his coat and put it on Lin Wanzhou.

The girl was too embarrassed to refuse. Xu Cheng's coat carried his body temperature and she felt much warmer when she put it on.

She remembered that she hesitated for a while when she got dressed in the morning, but in order to look beautiful in front of Xu Cheng, she chose a less practical skirt.

Who would have thought that it would rain when we were about to go down the mountain...

Xu Cheng rubbed his arms back and forth with his big hands. Seeing the small piece of white legs under the girl's skirt, he asked her again, "Are your legs cold too? How about I cover them for you?"

"It's not cold... Hey, what did you do~"

Before Lin Wanzhou finished speaking, Xu Cheng took off her shoes fluently. He held her calves and put her feet in his arms.

This sudden warmth made the girl feel so comfortable that she could no longer refuse with restraint.

Before she could say anything, Lin Wanzhou received a call from Gao Manman, who was very worried on the other end of the phone, afraid that something might happen to her daughter in the mountains. She asked this and that, and Lin Wanzhou answered in a soft voice. Xu Cheng, who was standing next to her, simply took the phone and said to it, "Auntie, don't worry, I'm here."

Gao Manman on the other end of the phone was stunned. When she heard that Xu Cheng was with her daughter, the uneasiness in her heart inexplicably calmed down a lot. But when she recalled that her daughter told her last night that this was a game for girls only, her heart, which had calmed down, was suddenly lifted up again.

What are these boys and girls doing running up the mountain? !

Xu Cheng didn't know and Lin Wanzhou forgot to remind them. They only learned from Gao Manman that the Tourist Management Office would send someone to pick up the tourists. The two of them had to tell them an approximate location and then stay in the duck boat and wait quietly for rescue.

The rain and darkness outside made Lin Wanzhou feel uneasy, but when she saw the tall and strong boy next to her, she suddenly felt that this was not a bad thing, and she even wondered if the wish she made had come true.

The time she wanted to extend was actually extended that long!

"Xu Cheng, you said there shouldn't be any other wild animals here besides you, right?"

"…If you keep talking to me like that, give me my coat back."

"Humph."

The girl's small feet kicked gently in his arms, and under the influence of a little emotion, the heavy rain curtain suddenly lightened a little.

"What if the water in the pond rises and our boat floats away?"

"No way."

Xu Cheng reached out and rubbed the moisture on his arms, then held Lin Wanzhou's legs tighter. "Look at the position of this boat, it seems to have been parked here for a long time. There is even a patch of moss next to it. How could it be blown away by the rain?"

The girl then noticed that Xu Cheng seemed to be facing a wind vent. Her arms had been wetted by the steam several times, and the cuffs of her T-shirt were also wet.

"Are you cold?"

"A little……"

"Then I'll return your clothes to you."

"It's okay. I'm strong, so a little cold won't hurt. Your immunity is so weak, don't catch a cold."

"Still trying to be brave. Hurry up and put it on. I've got a plan. We won't be cold for sure."

Xu Cheng hurriedly took it from her and leaned over to inquire.

"It's not the heat from exercise..."

Chapter 289: In the past, carriages and horses were very slow

In the inky black mountains, sudden rain lashed the ground, and rain and water splashed in a corner of the night.

"Lin Wanzhou, our posture is too weird."

"Shut up, do you think I want you to hug me like this?"

The boy and girl huddled in the little duck boat were entangled with each other in an extremely foul posture.

Xu Cheng was like a pregnant woman with a big belly. Lin Wanzhou's head popped out from her coat. The petite and cute girl looked like a little kangaroo, sitting sideways and curled up inside Xu Cheng's coat.

As for the girl's shoes, they had been neatly taken off and placed beside her, leaving only her feet wrapped in small white socks stepping on Xu Cheng's thigh.

"Thank goodness the coat I'm wearing today is a looser style." Xu Cheng said thankfully, and then hugged the girl in his arms a little tighter. He could feel the smoothness of the girl's skin and her body temperature, and he could even smell the girl's body fragrance at the tip of his nose.

She snuggled up to him, their bodies pressed very closely together. Although Lin Wanzhou did not accept his suggestion of generating heat through exercise, Xu Cheng felt that this method of huddling together in the same clothes to keep warm was not bad at all.

"Lin Wanzhou, you are so small."

Xu Cheng felt like he was holding a baby, a little infant, whose delicate skin would bloom into a flower with just a kiss.

"..."

The girl turned her head and gave him a blank look, and Xu Cheng, who had a strong desire to survive, quickly expressed his opinion.

"Don't step on me, don't step on me. I mean, you are really small."

"Why do girls have to grow up to be as big as you..." Lin Wanzhou's voice was soft.

Perhaps because there were only the two of them here, the girl generously gave her tenderness.

She leaned her head over in a rather dependent manner, rested her head on Xu Cheng's left shoulder with a bit of tiredness, and muttered softly while looking at the darkness in front of her.

"…It's pitch black here, are there any wild animals?"

"This is a scenic spot. There are people coming and going here all the time, so there shouldn't be any wild animals. Don't worry, even if there are any, I will chase them away for you."

Curled up in the boy's strong arms, Lin Wanzhou felt completely safe.

"You're still trying to chase him away. Are you Wu Song? You want to fight the tiger in Longmiao Mountain."

"You are so beautiful, you must be Pan Jinlian."

"You are a fool. You are Pan Jinlian. Pan Jinlian is Wu Da's wife, not Wu Song's."

"Then you don't know that Pan Jinlian gave Wu Song...hiss, hiss, don't pinch, don't pinch."

After a violent shaking, everything returned to calm. Lin Wanzhou rested his head on Xu Cheng's shoulder again and rubbed it twice to smooth out the wrinkles on his shoulder.

"It's terrible that a good birthday turned out like this..."

"What's wrong? Wasn't today interesting?"

"It was fine during the day, but who knew it would rain at night? My mom said she would go home to cut the cake and eat it at night, but now I don't know when I can go back, and..."

The girl hesitated to speak, so Xu Cheng asked more.

"And what?"

"And you didn't even prepare a present for me on my birthday."

The girl stretched out her fist and poked Xu Cheng in the chest with a little grievance, "It's a pity that we still have a pure friendship for sixteen years."

"Why are you like this, Lin Wanzhou? Didn't you say before that you don't need to?"

"Humph, I, I didn't even let you hold my hand, and I never saw you listen to me."

"..."

Seeing that he remained silent, the girl turned her head away and told him her little plan, "Actually, I don't care about the gifts. I just want to hear you... Oh..."

Before she could finish her words, the girl's body became unstable as Xu Cheng moved, her voice became three points higher, and her little hands hugged him tightly inside her coat in fear.

"What are you doing?"

"Thank goodness I'm not that stupid. I didn't forget to prepare a birthday present for you."

"Gift?"

There was a look of surprise and joy in the girl's eyes.

Sure enough, the understanding between them was mutual. She understood Xu Cheng as much as Xu Cheng understood her. This understanding could spread to every corner of the body, every look in her eyes, and every word uttered by her mouth.

However, he did not immediately lean over to look into Xu Cheng's bag. Instead, he spoke calmly and reservedly in a low voice.

"Are you trying to fool me by taking something out of your bag?"

"Of course not, I prepared a gift for you."

There really is a gift!

The pitch-black night around me began to mix in reverse, from chaotic black to the brilliant colors before it was mixed into black.

Of course girls like gifts, not to mention that Xu Cheng had kept it secret for so long and secretly prepared a surprise, so Lin Wanzhou would naturally be looking forward to it.

"What is it?"

She is not a picky girl.

In previous birthdays, Xu Cheng often just gave her simple gifts, such as dolls, crystal balls, and music boxes. Xu Cheng never had much money, so most of the time he would also give her a greeting card or a limerick he wrote, claiming to be a talented writer.

But no matter what it is, she will accept it with reluctance, and stuff it into the drawer where the broken paper cups produced more than 3600 days ago are placed, and keep it as a treasure.

"What on earth is it?" Without getting an answer from Xu Cheng, Lin Wanzhou moved his body and asked again.

"you guess?"

"How could I guess?"

The girl seemed to be very restless because she was too excited, and her little feet moved back and forth on Xu Cheng's thighs.

"I didn't even see it when you put it in your schoolbag. Is it a greeting card?"

"No."

“Is that a photo?”

"…It's very close, but why do you think it's a photo?"

"Because you brought a camera specially today, but you were reluctant to take pictures for me because you said it was a waste of electricity, so it's easy to think that there is something in the camera that you want to show me."

"..."

Xu Cheng was surprised. He originally wanted to give Lin Wanzhou a surprise, but it seemed that she somehow had a connection with him.

It is said that only twins have this ability, and some couples with deep feelings can also do it.

It is possible that these two childhood sweethearts who grew up together really have the ability to understand each other's inner thoughts.

"Okay, okay, let me reveal the answer."

In the dim environment, Lin Wanzhou had to work hard to see clearly that what Xu Cheng took out from her bag was the camera she had found in the morning.

The girl tried hard to suppress her eagerness to snatch it from his hands, and comforted herself that she couldn't stretch her arms out anyway, so she could only touch and feel in Xu Cheng's arms.

He muttered, "Why are you still so mysterious... Aren't there supposed to be photos in the camera..."

"It's not a photo...it's a segment, a segment..." At this point, Xu Cheng was still a little embarrassed. His voice trembled because he was too nervous, and even his breathing rhythm was obviously disordered.

Lin Wanzhou couldn't wait any longer. She stretched her snow-white little hand out from the zipper, snatched the camera from Xu Cheng's hand, and fiddled with it for a while in front of the blue and white screen.

The photos in the front are those taken today, and the ones at the back are some photos of Xu Cheng's daily life.

"What on earth is this?" the girl asked in confusion.

Xu Cheng scratched his head, looking embarrassed.

He wanted Lin Wanzhou to understand his feelings, but was also worried that it would seem too artificial. He tried hard to appear nonchalant, which made him look like a little boy trying hard to play tricks in front of a girl.

"There is a video right there, you, you click on it yourself." After saying that, he turned his head away from the duck boat with a rare blush on his face.

"Is this it?" Lin Wanzhou opened the beginning of the video and waved at Xu Cheng. Xu Cheng coughed twice and nodded, his eyes evasive.

The girl clicked and pressed the play button. The video quality was not very clear and looked a bit old.

【Children, whose turn is it to share stories today? 】

Amidst a burst of childish noise, a little girl in a colorful skirt, with short legs and arms, ran up to the podium, twisting her legs, and spoke in a tender voice.

[Today~I want to tell you the story of the three little pigs~]

Lin Wanzhou stared at this inexplicably familiar scene and the little girl who looked extremely familiar. She was stunned and thought blankly until the picture finally stabilized. Her eyes instantly widened a few degrees.

This little girl telling a story...

Could it be her?!

She was wearing a beautiful blue and pink dress and a blue headband on her head. She had the cute bangs that only children have. When she told the story vividly, two cute dimples appeared on her face and her smile was as bright as the morning sun.

That was her childhood, the self buried in the deepest part of her memory, a fragmented memory that if Xu Cheng hadn't reminded her frequently, perhaps she would have forgotten it completely like everyone else.

And now, the birthday gift Xu Cheng gave her was herself at that time.