Zhou Yao won the first place in the red list and carefully gave it 30% off, put it in her bag and took it home for her parents to show her.

When I got home, my parents were busy, and every table in the mahjong hall in front was full.

"Dad, mom, I..."

When Dad Zhou saw her coming back, he immediately greeted her without waiting for her to finish her words: "Take tea to the front, the third table, hurry up, urging me!"

Zhou Yao fell silent, took off her backpack, quietly walked to the table to pour tea, and put tea cups one by one on a tray to deliver them to the mahjong hall.

When Zhou Yao returned to the house and put down the tray, she was not careful and almost hit the incense burner on the cabinet. Zhou's mother's voice immediately raised: "Be careful! Where are you? What should you do if the incense burner is overturned? Yaoyao, you are not careful at all. Now you don't know what you are thinking every day, and you are absent-minded..."

After teaching a few words, Zhou Ma said that she was right and took the rag to wipe the table. Zhou Yao took out the test paper and put it on the table. The next second, Zhou Ma's wet rag came over, and most of the paper was soaked.

Zhou Yao was stunned, "Mom, my test paper..."

"Oh, why are you so careless? I was wiping the table but didn't see it? I put the things here!" Zhou Ma said with a tweet, "Forget it, just wipe it a little wet, just take it to dry."

Zhou Yao pinched the edge of the half-wet paper and spoke slowly: "Mom, this is the paper for our exam this time, I..."

Zhou Ma said impatiently: "Don't stand in the way, go over and click. I said you take the exam every day in your senior year, every day, what does it matter if you take one or two test papers? It's not the real college entrance examination. Just hold it yourself."

Zhou Yao didn't say anything more.

...

After lunch, they went to school. Chen Xuze waited for Zhou Yao at the entrance of the alley, and the two went to school together.

As he was talking, Zhou Yao joked: "Niannian told me to teach her how to do the questions and ask me if I have time during the vacation."

Chen Xuze frowned, "She can do it herself, just make excuses. Jiang Jiashu is her brother. She has said many times that she likes beautiful girls, and she is so sacred. You can hide from her."

Despite what he said, Zhou Yao thought Ying Nian was cute. In fact, Chen Xuze did not really not allow Zhou Yao to make friends with Ying Nian. It is really hard to find a fate for being friends.

The two walked towards the bus stop, and Zhou Yao suddenly said, "By the way, I threw away that pendant."

Chen Xuze glanced at her. She smiled: "It's already dirty and old. It's too long, so just throw it away."

Chen Xuze didn't answer the conversation, but just looked at her, her eyes much gentler.

As he walked, Ying Nian sent a message to Zhou Yao. Zhou Yao took out her cell phone and looked at it, saying, "Niannian said I would go to her house tomorrow afternoon and teach her homework by the way."

It's this excuse again.

Zhou Yao laughed and immediately replied to her news, and the two chatted happily.

The ignored Chen Xuze looked ahead, as if he didn't look at her, but only pursed his lips and said, "It's better to teach me than to teach her."

Zhou Yao said strangely: "Where do you need me to teach me?"

"You teach her first, but I'm third, why can't you teach her?"

Zhou Yao laughed softly.

Suddenly, as if he was thinking of something, the smile on Zhou Yao's face gradually faded, "But my paper was wet and I couldn't see many places clearly. If I want to discuss the classic topics on the paper, I have to borrow from someone else."

"How come it gets wet?"

Her tone was plain: "My mom got wet when she wiped the table."

"Did you show them?"

"Give it, but they didn't see it." She laughed, "It's too busy, there's no time."

The two were silent for a few seconds.

Chen Xuze didn't want to ask, but he still asked, "Didn't they say anything?"

"My dad took a look and walked away. My mom didn't pay attention. She was wiping the ashes falling beside the incense burner."

For a moment, silence enveloped.

"Chen Xuze." Zhou Yao suddenly called him, "I think time passes so fast."

He didn't say anything, listened quietly.

"In the past, I did a good exam, and my parents would be very happy. I got the first place in elementary school, and my father would buy me cakes. It was different every time, but there was always a strawberry on it. They knew I like to eat it. These things always felt like a long time ago." Zhou Yao's eyes were slightly upward, "Now, I'm completely... I can't think of those details."

The road to the bus stop was not long, but Chen Xuze suddenly felt that every step under his feet was taking heavy.

...

At dinner time, Chen Xuze, Zhou Yao and others had dinner in a restaurant near the school. They welcomed the celebration of Jiang Jiashu and others' activities before, because Zhou Yao also appeared now, and she relied on her to sit next to her. Chen Xuze, who used to sit in this position, could only sit opposite Zhou Yao.

There are many topics among girls, and Ying Nian has a funny personality. Everything you say is interesting, as if you have a talent for amusing, Zhou Yao smiled from ear to ear.

The two of them chatted, getting closer and closer, and suddenly they turned their thoughts and laid directly on Zhou Yao's shoulders, very intimate.

Ying Nian hugged her arm, and her tone of speaking was full of coquettishness. Zhou Yao did not resist, and it was rare to accept the behavior of others so affectionately towards her.

The two of them chatted, and a group of boys couldn't get in and had to talk about something else. Chen Xuze was silent all the time and didn't say a word.

Ying Nian didn't know what joke she said, but Zhou Yao covered her mouth and was overjoyed. Ying Nian tilted her head and looked at her and smiled, and suddenly said, "Yaoyao, can I kiss you?"

Zhou Yao was stunned.

The boys heard it and looked at it.

Jiang Jiashu was the first to curse: "You are sick again, can you die if you kiss a little less girl!"

Ying Nian was too lazy to pay attention to him, as if he hadn't heard him.

"Can you kiss me? Just a moment, I didn't apply lipstick on my face, but the skin care frankincense on my face smells so good. Please let me kiss me." Ying Nian acted coquettishly at Zhou Yao.

Zhou Yao was stunned. She was asked like this for the first time and I don’t know how to answer.

Ying Nian hugged her arm and shook it gently, "Kiss it, just kiss it, I'll let you kiss it later!"

Zhou Yao looked at her watery eyes with a pity that she deliberately pretended to be pitiful. She knew she was trying to win her sympathy, but she couldn't refuse it.

Helplessly, Zhou Yao pursed her lips and smiled faintly, nodding with a little shyness.

Welcome to the Nian and came over, "Yeah", and kissed her in the face quickly.

"It smells so good! Yaoyao is so cute!"

Zhou Yao's face turned red. Ying Nian took out a tissue to help her wipe her face. Seeing her blushing, she laughed.

Chen Xuze on the opposite side kept watching, his face cold and hard, and his eyes swept over Ying Nian, but he turned into an ice saber and cut it down with one knife.

After a long time, the food was served and everyone started to eat. When it was almost done, Ying Nian received the call and had something to leave first. She gently hugged Zhou Yao and left anxiously.

Zhou Yao ordered a bowl of noodles and ate it silently. Suddenly, Chen Xuze handed her a tissue, "There is sauce on her face."

"Ah, where?"

"cheek."

Zhou Yao did not doubt that he was there. He took the paper and wiped his cheeks. After wiping, he saw that there was no trace on the paper.

"Go a little longer." Chen Xuze said.

So Zhou Yao listened to him and wiped it again.

The next second, Chen Xuze simply pulled out the paper, wiped it directly on her face, rubbed it on one part of her cheek and rubbed it again and again.

Zhou Yao was stunned, "Damn it, have you got so much sauce?"

Chen Xuze was serious, "Yeah."

Jiang Jiashu beside him bit the noodles and looked at them silently for a long time.

- Zhou Yao, it's still too easy to cheat.

Her bowl of noodles was made of clear soup without adding any sauce. How could the sauce be stained with her face?

Chen Xuze was the same, he really couldn't understand. The place where this person wiped it with a tissue was clearly the place where Ying Nian kissed Zhou Yao's cheek.

Just after kissing, Chen Xuze almost wiped Zhou Yao's face!

This person is getting more and more wrong.

...

After school in the evening, Zhou Yao and Chen Xuze went home together. When they were about to get to the alley, Chen Xuze asked Zhou Yao to stand and wait for a while and walked into the cake shop with lights on to buy things.

A few minutes later he came out with a bag in his hand.

"Do you want to eat cake?" Zhou Yao was curious why he suddenly wanted to eat sweet food in the middle of the night.

Chen Xuze nodded as if nothing had happened, "Buy it casually."

The two continued to walk home and walked to a small shop at the entrance of the alley. Zhou Yao said, "Wait, I'll go buy water."

The two walked in side by side.

The shop owner is an acquaintance and is all residents in the same alley, so he naturally knows them.

He has good grades and good looks. Both children are "other people's children" as the parents in the alley. But Chen Xuze is not talkative and has a withdrawn personality. Everyone knows that, so the boss only greets Zhou Yao.

"Oh, isn't this the youngest daughter of Zhou Ma's family? It's over school? It's so hard for the third year of high school, it's so late. You two are in the same school now, right?"

Zhou Yao's father has a nickname, and everyone calls him "Zhou Ma". When everyone sees Zhou Yao, they are not so polite, so they call her "Zhou Ma's little daughter".

Hearing this title, Zhou Yao's smile faded a little, nodded slightly, and spoke politely: "Uncle."
To be continued...