Chapter 119 Extra

Extra: Youth's Heart (I)

The gardens on both sides are planted with beautiful ornamental plants, and the fountain in the middle is shining with water.

When Shen Yuhuai looked out the window, the car had just pulled into the Chen family villa, and the other two people in the car were still talking. The topic of discussion was not the usual schoolwork, but a theoretical system outside his scope of study. Recently, Shen Xuelan began to study system management theory with a tutor, and she was often heard talking to people, whether at home or outside.

In addition to Shen Xuelan, there was also a boy of similar age in the car.

He sat upright, pursed his lips slightly as he listened to Shen Xuelan speak, and responded from time to time.

Shen Yuhuai looked away and saw the scene outside through the car window.

It is the Chen family’s villa.

The Chen family and the Shen family are good friends. Shen Yuhuai has been to the Chen family before, but most of the time he came with his parents. They didn't come here very often, only a few times during festivals or family gatherings. In the past two years, the Shen family's business had encountered problems, and they had less contact with these good uncles.

The last time Shen Yuhuai came to the Chen family was at the beginning of last year.

But Shen Xuelan had a very good relationship with Chen Shiming. When he went to his sister's school with the driver after class, he often saw the two of them going out together.

Soon, the car stopped and the driver opened the window to alert the people in the back seat of the business car.

Chen Shiming stopped debating with Shen Xuelan, "We're here. I have information about this system in my study. I'll give it to you later."

Shen Xuelan nodded slightly, and when she got off the car, she looked at Shen Yuhuai next to her, "Yuhuai, get off the car."

The villa has been under tight security recently. After the car came in, Uncle Zhang, the Chen family's housekeeper, said a few words to the driver, and then followed Chen Shiming and the Shen siblings into the villa.

In the living room, Zhang Yazhi was talking on the phone with Shen's mother. There was a problem at the Shen family, so the Shen siblings would come to the Chen family to stay for a while during this period.

"It's okay, you two can rest assured. The child will stay with us until you are done." Zhang Yazhi said gently, "What's the trouble? Xue Lan and Yu Huai are both sensible."

Next to her, there was a little boy in school uniform, reading a storybook.

The little boy raised his head: "Mom, isn't my brother back yet?"

"It should be soon." Zhang Yazhi looked at the time and continued talking to the person on the phone.

The little boy curled his lips, looked toward the French window, and saw a car turning into the garden from afar.

He put down the storybook and walked out quickly, "The car is back."

"It seems the kids are back, so I won't say anything."

Zhang Yazhi hung up the phone and saw Uncle Zhang leading people in. "Qizhao, don't run so fast."

The little boy slowed down his pace when he heard the voice, as if he had not expected so many people to come in. He ran to Chen Shiming's side, hugged his brother's thigh, looked at the others from the side, and shouted crisply, "Sister Xuelan."

"Qizhao." Shen Xuelan smiled, "Is school over?"

Chen Qizhao's eyes moved to the side, stopping at the boy who was half a head shorter than Shen Xuelan, and replied, "It's time to go home from school."

Chen Shiming rubbed his brother's head and said, "Mom, we still have homework to do, so we'll go to the study first."

"Okay, Lao Zhang, you go with them."

Zhang Yazhi said, "Come here, Xiao Zhao. Brother and the others are going to study."

Chen Qizhao let go of his hand, watched the housekeeper Uncle Zhang lead his people away, and said to Zhang Yazhi: "I haven't done my homework either."

Zhang Yazhi knew her youngest son's personality and warned him carefully, "Then don't make trouble around your older brothers and sisters, understand?"

Something happened in the Shen family recently. After school, the Shen siblings will stay at the Chen family for a while. There is a room specially prepared for the Shen siblings in the villa. The housekeeper led people to the room prepared in advance and asked the servants to prepare tea and snacks.

Shen Xuelan: "Yu Huai, Chen Shiming and I are going to the study next door to read. If you need anything, just call me."

Shen Yuhuai had already opened his schoolbag, and upon hearing this, he just nodded, “I’ll do the questions.”

Soon, Shen Xuelan and Chen Shiming went to the study room next door, and only Shen Yuhuai was left in the quiet room.

The study room was well prepared. Shen Yuhuai didn't have any big requirements on where to study. A quiet environment was just right for him.

I stayed at the Chen family for a while and had dinner there in the evening. It was not until around nine or ten o'clock that the Shen family sent someone to pick me up. And this will continue for a while. Chen Shiming and Shen Xuelan are in the same school. Shen Yuhuai takes the Chen family's car after class every day, comes to the Chen family with his sister, and then studies quietly in the room alone.

I'll be at Chen's house for about a week.

That afternoon, he had just been writing for a while when he suddenly saw a little head popping out from the crack in the door.

When Shen Xuelan left, she did not close the door tightly, leaving a gap.

And that hairy head was just outside the door, looking inside little by little.

Shen Yuhuai noticed the other person's actions, but he didn't say anything and continued to write his own questions.

After a while, the little head outside moved a few steps inside and quietly pushed the door open.

Shen Yuhuai was halfway through his calculation when he saw the little head getting closer and closer, and finally stopped next to him.

The person was so close that Shen Yuhuai couldn't pretend not to see it. When he turned his head, he saw a pair of big round eyes, which were very bright. The owner of the furry head was holding a math book, wearing a black and red school uniform, standing next to a desk that was a little high for him, and blinked his eyes.

Shen Yuhuai looked at him.

He was also looking at Shen Yuhuai.

Shen Yuhuai knew that he, Chen Shiming's younger brother, was called Chen Qizhao.

I usually follow Chen Shiming to the study, but this is the first time I come to his place.

When neither of them spoke, the child couldn't hold back and asked, "They closed the door and I can't get in. Can I do my homework next to you?"

Shen Yuhuai did not refuse.

After getting permission, the child put his homework on the chair, pulled the chair open by himself, then sat down very skillfully and opened the exercise book. The desk in the room was too high for Chen Qizhao, so when he sat on the chair, he could only swing his legs. He placed his hands on the table and began to write his homework in an orderly manner.

Shen Yuhuai retracted his gaze and continued to do his arithmetic problems.

He originally thought that the children would be very noisy, but Chen Qizhao was very quiet and said he would do his homework right next to him.

It was not until he heard footsteps in the distance that Chen Qizhao jumped off the chair and ran to the door in his slippers.

After a while, he saw nothing else outside the door and walked back disappointed.

After going back and forth several times, Shen Yuhuai could occasionally hear the sound of the other person's slippers, tapping.

He took a look and saw that it still looked like a small dinosaur.

"Brother, how long will they take?"

Shen Yuhuai had just finished a test paper. He paused when he heard the words. He tilted his head and saw Chen Qizhao's gaze before he realized that the brother was calling him, "Do you want to find them?"

"I want to play with my brother." Chen Qizhao said, "When will they finish their homework?"

He originally wanted to go to Chen Shiming's study, but he had been there too many times during this period, and there were other tutors there too. Whenever he went there, he would encounter them giving lectures. Chen Qizhao couldn't understand and couldn't sit still, so when he went there today, the door was closed.

Chen Shiming doesn't want to play with him anymore.

Shen Yuhuai didn’t know either, so he could only say, “It should be soon.”

"Oh." Chen Qizhao lowered his head, "Then I'll wait a little longer."

Shen Yuhuai continued to write questions.

Chen Qizhao's attention was not on his homework, but on his brother next to him who was doing his homework. He had not learned the content on the test paper and it looked a bit complicated, but his brother was very fast at writing the questions and he finished a lot in just a few strokes.

Shen Yuhuai didn't say anything, so Chen Qizhao didn't make any other sounds.

After waiting for nearly an hour, Chen Shiming and Shen Xuelan came out of the study, and they went downstairs to eat.

Since that day, when Shen Yuhuai was studying in his room, Chen Qizhao would occasionally come in with his books. Sometimes he brought storybooks, sometimes he brought math books... He would find different ways to bring things every day. Chen Yuhuai usually spoke very little and focused all his attention on the questions. It didn't make much difference to him whether there was one more or one less person around him.

Except for the first few times of silence, the people around me started to make some small movements.

Shen Yuhuai occasionally shifted his attention to the side and saw that furry head moving.

When Chen Qizhao was quiet, he was usually working on difficult questions, and when he was not quiet, he was usually reading a storybook after finishing the questions...When he made a little noise, he would always turn his head to look at people, as if to make sure whether Shen Yuhuai was looking over, always attracting other people's attention.

Once, a pen fell to the ground, once, an eraser fell, and once, the sound of turning pages was louder than when Chen Yuhuai turned the pages of a paper.

Shen Yuhuai was almost immune to these voices and indifferent to all his little actions.

Until one day, an arithmetic book was pushed over from the side and stopped in front of Shen Yuhuai.

"What's wrong?" Shen Yuhuai asked.

Chen Qizhao held the pen and frowned, "I don't know how to do this question. Can you teach me?"

The math book looked brand new, as if it was opened to a random page. The pages were all blank, and no questions were done.

Shen Yuhuai paused for a while, "Which question do you not know?"

Chen Qizhao reached out his hand and pointed at several questions, then asked in a low voice, "This, this, and this."

The questions were very simple for Shen Yuhuai. He knew the answers to the questions and the knowledge points tested by the questions at a glance. The difficulty of the questions for lower grades is not high. Questions like this can only be considered introductory questions. Shen Yuhuai saw Chen Qizhao do this kind of questions yesterday, and the difficulty is much higher than these questions.

There is no way that Chen Qizhao can't answer these questions.

Shen Yuhuai confirmed: “Are these the ones?”

Chen Qizhao rolled his eyes, then looked at the questions again, "I can't do it, can my brother do it?"

Shen Yuhuai tore off a page from the draft paper beside him, placed it between the two of them, and said, “Yes.”

He wrote and explained at the same time, including the most basic things, "Do you understand it if I put it this way?"

Chen Qizhao nodded as if he understood, and Shen Yuhuai pushed the arithmetic book back, "The rest of the questions are the same, just think about it this way."

Chen Qizhao took the arithmetic book and filled in the answers to the questions he had just asked Shen Yuhuai.

After a while, he pushed the math book over again and said, "I still don't know how to do a few questions."

Shen Yuhuai had just finished writing a question and looked at the page he hadn't even turned over, "Where?"

Chen Qizhao tapped on his math book a few times and said, "I don't know any of these."

Shen Yuhuai was silent for a moment, and had to continue: “I’ll tell you.”

Once and for all, if there are two, there will be three.

Chen Qizhao asked a question, and Shen Yuhuai asked for advice on a question.

When Chen Qizhao finished his homework, Shen Yuhuai still had three questions left to finish. He turned his head slightly and saw Chen Qizhao, who had finished his homework, stepping on his slippers and leaving the room. The surroundings became quiet again.

Without the sound of questions, Shen Yuhuai was still a little uncomfortable, but he quickly focused and finished the remaining three questions.

When he finished the questions, he saw that the kid who had gone out had come back without knowing when. He stood beside him, looking at him with clear eyes, "Brother, open your hands."

Shen Yuhuai didn’t quite understand, but he still opened his hand.

A small fist was placed in his palm, with a soft and warm touch pressing slightly.

After a while, Chen Qizhao opened his fingers, and a few candies fell into Shen Yuhuai’s hands.

Shen Yuhuai was stunned for a moment, and when he raised his eyes, he saw the child's smile, and the little canine teeth revealed were particularly beautiful.

Chen Qizhao did not lower his voice as if he was asking a question, his voice was clear and clean: "Thank you, brother!"

This was the first time Shen Yuhuai met a child who gave him candy. He didn't say much. In the past, in the Shen family, other younger children would not follow him, and they preferred to follow Shen Xuelan. He held the candy tightly and said, "Thank you for the candy."

Chen Qizhao blinked: "Then if I have questions I don't understand in the future, can I still ask you?"

Shen Yuhuai paused for a moment, and suddenly felt that the candy in his hand was a little heavy.

"……Um."