You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"This is..." The old landlord looked at Yu Luying.

"My classmate," Xiao Yao pulled Yu Luying and introduced her enthusiastically, "My girlfriend, who came back with me for the summer vacation. This is Teacher Ji."

"Hello, Teacher Ji." Yu Luying bowed slightly and called out a little embarrassedly.

"Oh my! Ouch!" The "old landlord" almost dropped his eyes and pinched his thigh fiercely: "Such a pretty girl, she came from the Magic City?"

*There will still be two updates today. There will be another chapter later, which I am proofreading now.

There will be two updates today. There will be another chapter later, and I am proofreading it now.

Chapter 210 First Sleeping Together

2023-05-27

Xiao Yao and Yu Luying stood at the edge of the flower bed in the Party School playground, chatting and exchanging pleasantries with "Teacher Ji", who looked like a fat man.

That "Teacher Ji" praised Xiao Yao to Yu Luying, saying how he had been the smartest kid in the Party School compound since childhood, loved by everyone, and how he had been admitted to the county middle school's experimental class with such and such a score and rank, and how he had suddenly been transferred to the Magic City war zone to assault the city one month before the high school entrance examination, and had been admitted to the key middle school in Magic City despite the debuff of a completely different textbook.

The implication is of course: Little girl, you’ll make a profit if you buy it.

Of course I know that you, Teacher Ji, meant well, but you should never, ever mention the "key middle school in Shanghai" - I told you that she was my classmate, how could she not know what level the "district key school" in Shanghai is?

Xiao Yao winked at Teacher Ji in embarrassment, but the latter ignored him and continued to chat and laugh with Yu Luying. Yu Luying also smiled and praised Xiao Yao enthusiastically and generously with Teacher Ji, completely losing her usual shyness. Xiao Yao blushed and wished that there was a crack in the ground so that he could crawl into it.

After receiving the invitation to "come to my house and play", Xiao Yao and Yu Luying said goodbye to Teacher Ji who was visiting the school gate and walked across the school's basketball court.

Yu Luying hugged Xiao Yao's arm. Among the group of shirtless kids playing basketball on the playground, a few of them knew Xiao Yao and greeted him.

After crossing a small playground, there is the teachers' office building. Behind the teachers' office building, under the grape vine trellis, there are three 4-story dormitories for staff and their families.

Xiao Yao's home was in the middle of the three buildings. There was a big "8" painted in red on the building, which had faded and peeled off. On the way, he met three or two more acquaintances. After a round of greetings and introductions, Xiao Yao finally brought Yu Luying to the stairs.

Although this staircase is also old, it is made of cement. It is regular, flat and spacious. It is much higher than the stone stairs at Xiao Yao’s grandmother’s house that look like they were chewed by a dog and can’t even accommodate a complete foot.

The door of the first-floor resident was open. A girl who looked like a junior high school student was doing her homework at a small table. She had a pretty and tender face.

The girl was wearing a pair of plastic slippers and transparent short stockings (above the ankle length), through which her ten chubby little toes could be seen, which looked particularly crystal clear wrapped in the stockings.

A man with a civil servant-like demeanor stood aside, scratching his head. He saw someone coming and stood up: "Xiao...Xiao, Yao? Why did you come back just now?"

"I'm sorry, Uncle Zhou," Xiao Yao nodded apologetically and said, "I'm back late."

"It's my brother!" Zhou said seriously, "I'm not even thirty years old yet."

"Okay, Uncle Zhou."

"Hello, Brother Zhou..." Yu Luying on the side also greeted him generously.

"This is..." Uncle Zhou saw Xiao Yao's back and his eyes widened, just like Teacher Ji's: "You, your friend?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao held Yu Luying's hand generously, "My current classmate came back with me."

"Hello, Brother Yaoyao! Hello, sister!" The child who was doing homework finally looked up from his homework.

"Don't call me brother or sister, just look at your questions."

"Shuyi? I haven't seen you for a year. You've grown so taller." Xiao Yao greeted.

"Oh, she couldn't keep up with the lessons since she entered junior high school. Her parents ask me about it every day. They are so worried." Uncle Zhou shook his head and urged, "Go to her house and check it out quickly. If you don't fix it quickly, I won't have water to cook."

"Oh!"

Xiao Yao quickly went up to the top floor on the fourth floor. The corridor at the entrance had been flooded by water seeping from the cracks in his door, and even the stairs were dripping with water.

The stairs leading to the 3th floor from the 4rd floor and the ground at the turning platform were all soaked with water, which explained why the phone calls to myself and my father kept bombarding me with calls like a death-challenging ghost, and even the neighbors on the rd and nd floors began to get impatient.

If I came back a day or two later, these neighbors would have to call the police to unlock the door and go in to fix the water pipes themselves.

"Yu Luying!" Xiao Yao leaned over the railing of the stairs, lowered his head and shouted at Yu Luying who was still halfway up the second floor, "Don't come up here!"

"What's wrong?" Yu Luying also raised her head and asked loudly.

Their voices echoed in the empty corridor.

"There's water all over the surface, your socks will get wet!" Xiao Yao continued to lie on the railing and shouted to the person below.

"It's wet..."

"It fell..."

"of……"

Yu Luying stopped and looked down at her clover shell-toe shoes. Although her feet were not wet, she could already feel the feeling of the soles of her feet being soaked in cold water and the shoes being soaked in water through Xiao Yao.

"Oh!" Yu Luying shouted, "Then I'll wait for you here."

Xiao Yao took out his key chain and searched for a long time before finding the old key - he put it into the keyhole and turned it, but it wouldn't turn. He then held the door handle with his other hand, pushed, pulled and shook it for a long time before he finally opened the door of his home after an absence of a year.

As soon as I opened the door, what hit me was not the familiar old smell - the smell of my former home, but the unpleasant smell of wood moldy in the humid air, and the flood that filled the whole house.

The plumber who was doing the repairs arrived while they were talking. Xiao Yao's main task was to open the door, check, and then pay.

After struggling for an unknown amount of time - about an hour - the water pipe problem was solved. After roughly clearing the accumulated water, Xiao Yao went downstairs to find Yu Luying, wanting to ask her to come up.

When he went down to the second floor, he heard Yu Luying's gentle voice.

"It should be noted that the polynomial must be factored until each factor cannot be factored any further."

It turned out that she was at the door of Uncle Zhou's house, explaining the question to his niece.

Uncle Zhou also came out at this time.

"Xiao Yao, everything is done, right? The water is finally coming."

Xiao Yao apologized to Uncle Zhou again and was about to ask Yu Luying to go home, but was stopped by Uncle Zhou again.

"You haven't been back for such a long time, are you in a hurry to leave? You can have dinner at my house tonight."

"No, how can this be so kind--"

"Come here when I tell you to. I'll go to the market to buy you a fish. The mandarin fish are very fat this year." Uncle Zhou prepared to go out without saying anything.

"This..." Xiao Yao quickly signaled Yu Luying to speak quickly.

At this time, Uncle Zhou finally revealed his true intentions: "You two can help me look after the house for a while, and by the way, ask Xiao Yu to help Shuyi with the questions."

Yu Luying finally spoke up: "Okay, we're here."

Waiting for me here, it turns out.

After watching Uncle Zhou happily walk out the door, Xiao Yao looked at Yu Luying.

"Why do you only let me practice exercises when you teach me?" Xiao Yao asked meaningfully.

"Teach students in accordance with their aptitude." Yu Luying also looked at him with a smile.

Yu Luying continued to explain the problem to the child. Seeing Xiao Yao standing there bored, she asked him to go upstairs and clean up the room first.

"Why do you want me to clean up?" Xiao Yao's eyes subconsciously moved to Zhou Shuyi's round heels wrapped in stockings.

"That's your home."

"No need to clean my house."

"Do you believe it?"

"I do not believe……"

Xiao Yao had no choice but to go upstairs by himself.

The area of ​​this old house is about 70 square meters. The dining room is right after the door is opened. The dining room is not very spacious or bright, and it is obviously quite old. A calendar from 2002 is hung on the wall, and the mahogany dining table and chairs are neatly arranged, with a faint smell of wood in the air.

To the right of the dining room is a small kitchen with simple equipment and clotted smoke and cobwebs everywhere. To the left of the dining room is the living room, which is separated into half a small study by a partition made of antique shelves.

The "study" leads to an unenclosed balcony, at the deepest part of which there is a chicken coop made of red bricks.

Another door from the dining room leads to the bathroom and two bedrooms.

Apparently, the larger bedroom originally belonged to Xiao Yao's parents. The furniture was simple and plain, and the bed was covered in dust, but at least there were pillows, sheets, and quilt covers. The smaller room was Xiao Yao's former dormitory. There was no fabric on the bed, revealing the bare wooden planks.

The bathroom is not big, but at least it has a flush toilet, a bathtub and a washing machine - as for how clean it is and whether it can be used, that is another matter.

This house has been vacant for more than a year. Wherever you touch, there is dust. The mahogany furniture reveals some traces of age, and the air is filled with a musty smell. For well-known reasons, the floor is wet everywhere, especially the mahogany floor in the bedroom. Some places have been slightly warped due to moisture and the water soaking.

If my father saw the floor in this state, he would definitely get angry out of heartache.

The old and dilapidated state of the old house highlights the passage of time and the ruthlessness of time. However, although everything in the house looks a bit decadent, Xiao Yao still feels a sense of intimacy in his heart - after all, this was once his warm harbor and his childhood paradise.

Xiao Yao had to admit that he was looking forward to the situation where Yu Luying would come to clean the house while he was outside chatting. But now the situation was reversed, and there was nothing he could do but quietly pick up the broom and dustpan.

...How can we clean up this mess? Should we hire a part-time worker?

……

"You guys have such a great relationship as neighbors." Not long after, Yu Luying walked into Xiao Yao's house and looked around curiously.

"That's right," Xiao Yao was very happy to see her coming, and closed the door and locked it with a click: "They are all my father's former colleagues. I know them all, unlike some people in Shanghai..."

At this moment, Xiao Yao obviously did not have much interest in discussing the neighborhood relations in the old and new eras, but instead hugged Yu Luying's slender waist from behind.

"What are you doing?!" Yu Luying's voice was a little nervous, both because of Xiao Yao's action of locking the door and because she could feel Xiao Yao's rise through symbiosis.

"I want to eat you in one bite," Xiao Yao whispered in Yu Luying's ear, "There are only two of us here. This is our own space... Without your mother and my daughter, no one will come to save you even if you scream your throat out..."

"Let go! Uncle Zhou is back. He told me that if you bully me, you will suffer the consequences!"

"Have you found a backer already?"

Yu Luying reached out to pry Xiao Yao's fingers apart: "Let go, don't you have to clean up first? Otherwise, where are you going to lie down - sit?"

"Haven't I already finished cleaning?" Xiao Yao defended.

"Have you cleaned or have you been slacking off? You might as well not do this job."

"Oh." Xiao Yao let go of the girl's waist: "Then, come again."

……

"Sing our song, and bless me, for I am leaving this lovely home;

The wind, flowers and trees that listened to our story in the night wind are now swaying lonely in the sunset.

Sing our song, and bless me, for I am leaving this lovely home;

The old guitar on the wall will follow me in a foreign land, and now I am playing it unconsciously again..."

More than a year ago, Xiao Yao left singing this song.

"Stop singing!" Yu Luying said coquettishly.

She held a mop in her right hand and a long broom in her left hand, with a plastic dustpan tied underneath. The girl didn't know where she found an old apron and put it on herself: "If you don't want to help, go down and take a walk. Don't stand here and get in the way."

What a powerful Cinderella aura!

Actually, Xiao Yao wanted to choose to go down and hide away, but he couldn't be shameless after all, so he just followed and worked silently.

Yu Luying wielded the mop skillfully, sweeping through every corner with ease, sweeping away the dust and dirt with firm and powerful movements.

Cinderella has sharp eyes and can quickly find stains hidden in corners. She moves nimbly between furniture, carefully cleaning the surface of mahogany furniture and wiping it with a wet rag to bring out a charming luster.

Although Xiao Yao was clumsy, he tried his best to keep up with Yu Luying's pace.

"That's enough. I feel like the sun is setting." Xiao Yao said, "We don't live here permanently."

"First of all, it's you who will live here, not us. Secondly, I don't expect to clean up everything, but I can't let the thought of cleaning me up make me feel bad." Yu Luying said clearly: "I just want to clean up the bedroom, dining room and bathroom for you - you need a place to stay."

Xiao Yao was a little unhappy when he heard "It's you who live here, not us", but he said nothing. Sometimes, for some things, it's better to act naturally instead of arguing.

Looking at the bright side, at least Yu Luying didn't say "Since the water pipe has been repaired, let's go back tonight/tomorrow morning", but was preparing to settle down.

Cinderella carefully took off the sheets, quilt covers and pillowcases, washed them again, ironed them, and finally put them away one by one. The girl spread the quilt flat and carefully arranged it to restore its original softness and comfort.

In this process, the snow-white stockings on her legs inevitably became slightly gray.

It started to get dark.

"That's it, I can't move it anymore." Cinderella finally gave up her obsessive-compulsive disorder and surrendered to physical strength and time.

"Finally!" Xiao Yao cheered, took out a new towel that had been prepared in the luggage bag, wet it with tap water, and ran to wipe the sweat off Yu Luying's forehead.

Yu Luying took off her apron, hung it on the back of a chair, and sat on the edge of Xiao Yao's parents' bed to rest.

Xiao Yao looked around - the whole room might not look brand new, but at least it looked like a place to sleep.

The neatly made sheets and pillowcases on the bed make people feel comfortable and reassured, and the whole space radiates warmth and tranquility.