Rebirth: Growing Up Together

At this time, Yu Yu was sitting quietly on a wooden chair in the main room. The door to the back room was closed, and the voices of Lin Wanchu and her mother calling to explain could be heard from inside.

Because of Lin Wanzhou's sudden impulse, the three of them decided to stay together in Yu Yu's old house for one night.

Yu Yu had no objection to this.

Anyway, her bed is big, so it’s no problem for three people to sleep on it.

Xu Cheng would not object.

As he seldom lives in rural areas, this experience is new to him.

"What did Auntie say?" Yu Yu asked in a low voice out of curiosity.

Xu Cheng thought for a while.

"It's mainly about safety issues. They asked me if I had prepared safety measures or something. Have you told my mother-in-law about it?"

"I just called and said..."

With a creaky sound, the door to the inner room opened and Lin Wanzhou walked out with a blush on her face.

This made Xu Cheng very curious.

I don’t know what she said to her mother to make her face so red.

"Lin Wanzhou, what did our mother say?"

"He didn't say anything, just told me to pay attention to safety measures and go to bed early at night..."

As she spoke, Lin Wanzhou slowly came to her senses, "Go to hell, how can my mother be your mother?"

The girl shyly punched Xu Cheng twice on the waist.

If Yu Yu wasn't here, she would just play dumb and pretend she didn't react, and wouldn't get entangled with Xu Cheng.

But Yu Yuke is still here.

Then she would have to give him two punches.

"You're just kidding, why are you so angry?"

Xu Cheng rubbed his lower back and asked Yu Yu.

"Yu Yu, where are we going to sleep tonight?"

"Just sleep..."

Before Yu Yu could answer, Lin Wanzhou quickly corrected Xu Cheng's question.

"That's where Yu Yu and I sleep, and where you sleep. How can you just say that's where we sleep? Who, who would want to sleep with you..."

She said guiltily.

He was afraid that Yu Yu would find out that he was having an affair with Xu Cheng in front of her, so he was very sensitive about everything.

But the more you emphasize it, the more likely it is to arouse suspicion.

Yu Yu started to speculate suspiciously.

Zhou Zhou suddenly became so alert.

Maybe he wanted to take advantage of her sleeping at night and run to Xu Cheng's room to sleep with him, so he deliberately emphasized the need for separate rooms...

When she thought about the bad things they might do, what should she do if she heard the sound?

Yu Yu put himself into the situation, and his little face heated up like an electric rice cooker, becoming hot.

Fortunately, she lowered her head and no one else noticed.

"OK OK."

Xu Cheng waved his hand, "Let's worry about our dinner first."

"Are you hungry already? I feel like I haven't fully digested what I ate at noon."

"I'm fine, but this is something we should plan ahead of time. After all, we are now our own family. Yu Yu, do you have an induction cooker, a gas stove, or something like that?"

"No."

Yu Yu shook her head. "My mother-in-law and I don't usually live here, so we don't have that kind of stuff."

Xu Cheng thought for a while.

"So how did you cook in the past?"

"…make a fire."

"..."

Xu Cheng frowned and looked at the chimney of Yu Yu's house.

I don’t know how much trouble it would be if we started a fire.

"How about I drive you guys to the city to eat something, and then drive back after we're done?"

Lin Wanchu shook his head.

"That's so boring. We don't have anything to do in the evening anyway, so we can just try to cook and eat."

As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice, and the three of them are indeed in this situation now.

Yu Yu's family rarely came back, so there was nothing to eat, not even the most basic seasonings such as firewood, rice, oil and salt.

Yu Yu remembered that there was a small store in the village, so the three of them ran to the store to buy things.

This shop sells vegetables, fruits and snacks, and can be said to be a small supermarket in the village.

The three of them bought some eggs, leeks, some white rice, and the most basic seasonings such as oil, salt, sauce and vinegar at the store, and finally carried the large and small bags back to Yu Yu's old house.

At this time, the noise from Yu Yu's family also disturbed the residents next door.

The neighbor's aunt came over to visit.

She was very surprised that Yu Yu, who didn't often stay at home, suddenly came back to stay overnight, and asked the three of them if they wanted to go to her house for dinner.

Yu Yu declined the aunt's invitation to have a meal and said embarrassedly that he had already bought the food.

But even so, the aunt still gave the three of them some of the brown sugar rice cakes she had just fried.

"It's delicious. It's still hot after being fried. Xu Cheng, you try it." Lin Wanzhou picked up a piece and handed it to Xu Cheng who was chopping wood in the yard.

"Hiss... It's so hot." Xu Cheng sat on a small stool, holding a small axe in his hand. He stuck out his tongue because of the heat of the glutinous rice cake.

Lin Wanzhu embarrassedly took the chopsticks away, put the glutinous rice cake to his mouth and blew on it twice before passing it to Xu Cheng's mouth again.

"It's cold. You can eat it now. Ah——"

Xu Cheng tasted it and found it was not hot anymore. The glutinous rice cake was crispy, with the sweetness of brown sugar and a hint of rice aroma. Although it was not as amazing as those made in the store, it was not as greasy as those in the store.

"Is it delicious?"

"Ah."

While Xu Cheng was chewing, Lin Wanzhou secretly glanced at Yu Yu who was busy in the kitchen. After making sure that she didn't see this side, she sneaked up to Xu Cheng's mouth and kissed her like a thief.

This kiss was like a dragonfly touching the water, and the sweetness on her lips made Xu Cheng unable to tell whether it was the sweetness of brown sugar or the sweetness of Lin Wanzhou's mouth.

Because it was a hasty kiss, Xu Cheng didn't close his eyes.

It was already dark, and under the bright moonlight, he could see Lin Wanzhou's face shining with a faint fluorescent white light, beautiful and cute.

At this time, Lin Wanzhou also looked at him shyly, blinking her long eyelashes.

"laugh."

She kissed him again, then hopped away like a rabbit towards the kitchen.

"Xiaoyu, how can I help you?"

Xu Cheng was squatting alone in the yard, still in the same posture as when he was kissed just now. He was stunned for a long time. Finally, he touched the corner of his mouth. There seemed to be a delay on his face, and only then did a smile appear on his face.

He shook his head and continued chopping the dry wood on the ground.

The force is much greater than before.

Making a fire was a very troublesome task. After lighting the dry firewood chopped by Xu Cheng, thick smoke began to billow out of the kitchen. The three of them were choked and took turns running out of the kitchen.

"Cough cough cough..."

After coughing for a while in the yard, Lin Wanzhou looked at Yu Yu somewhat embarrassedly.

"I'm sorry, Xiaoyu. It's all my fault that I insisted on cooking for myself. I didn't expect it would be so troublesome."

"No, it's okay."

Yu Yu hurriedly waved his hands at Lin Wanzhou, "It's not a big deal, and... and it's not just me who did it, you also did a lot of things just now..."

"Or will you comfort me..."

Lin Wanzhou was somewhat touched, yet also somewhat worried as she looked at Yu Yu's kitchen.

"We're not going to burn down your kitchen, are we?"

"no, I can not."

There is no warm atmosphere in the summer nights in the countryside. The rural environment is relatively quiet. The sound of crickets humming rhythmically can be heard, mixed with the barking of dogs from somewhere.

After spending a long time, I finally made a decent dinner.

No one was idle during the whole process. The weather was hot and humid, and the three people were busy with sweat and the smell of cigarettes.

Xu Cheng simply took off his shirt and draped his T-shirt on a chair nearby.

"Rogue."

Lin Wanzhou quickly covered her eyes, and when she saw through the gaps between her fingers that Yu Yu did not close his eyes, she quickly put her hands down, fearing that she had seen less than Yu Yu.

"I'm hot, why are you a hooligan? If you feel hot, you can take off your clothes... Ouch."

Lin Wanzhou stepped on the guy angrily.

"Have a meal."

The dining table was a small stone table placed in the yard. Although the conditions were difficult, with the joint efforts of the three people, they still managed to steam enough rice for three people, as well as two hot dishes - tender steamed eggs and enoki mushrooms in tomato sauce.

"Is it an illusion? Why do I feel that this dish and rice are more delicious than what we eat at home?" Lin Wanzhou said in surprise.

Xu Cheng smiled.

"Isn't this normal? Rice cooked with different fires tastes different."

"Is there any difference in fire?"

"Yes, there are many, such as Bone Spirit Cold Fire, Blue Lotus Earth Core Fire, Pure Lotus Demon Fire..."

"You're talking nonsense again."

"Oh, you don't understand."

It took a lot of effort to cook, and by the time the three of them had eaten their fill and cleaned up the dishes, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening.

Perhaps they were too tired after a day of running around, and the three of them yawned at the same time.

"I really want to take a bath..."

Lin Wanzhou pouted and said that because she had just cooked, her body felt sticky and wet, and it would be too uncomfortable to sleep like this.

"Just be patient, Zhou Zhou..." Yu Yu also wanted to wash it, but there was no way to do it.

Xu Cheng thought for a moment and said, "How about I boil some hot water for you, and you can just wipe your body with a towel."

As soon as he said this, Lin Wanzhou immediately moved, "Okay, okay."

The boy ran to boil some hot water, but the water was limited, so he let Yu Yu wash first.

She carried the warm water to the room where the two girls would sleep. At this time, Lin Wanzhou was standing next to her, staring at Xu Cheng nervously.

"What are you looking at me for?"

"Of course I'm supervising you. You're such a lecher. What if you peek at Yu Yu washing herself?"

"..."

Faced with the girl's doubts, Xu Cheng had no confidence in saying that he could resist not watching.

Can hold back...

That would be extremely disrespectful to Yu Yu.