After finishing her meal, Hu Qiongyue went back to the master bedroom to take a nap. Ji Yu and Shen Chaochao crowded in the kitchen to wash dishes.

Ji Yu asked in a low voice: "Chao Chao, why didn't you refuse just now?"

Ji Yu hopes that Shen Chaochao can grow up on her own and learn to actively reject people or things she doesn't like, just like she rejected Shen Dabao at noon.

He hoped Chaochao could be a determined girl with a temper, rather than a submissive rag doll.

Shen Chaochao lowered her head and thought for a long time. She didn't want to say that she didn't have the confidence to reject her cousin because she lived in her uncle's house. She was afraid of hurting Ji Yu's self-esteem.

"I want to have a good relationship with sister Qiongyue. Although I am one year younger than her, I am her cousin's wife, so it is only right for me to give in to her."

After hearing Shen Chaochao's explanation, Ji Yu hugged her from behind.

The boy said in a soft voice: "You are not obliged to give in to anyone! No matter if it is your brother, sister, brother, or my cousin. Before doing anything, you must consider that you will not be wronged!"

[Ding! The target's favorability increased by 10. The current favorability is 30.]

After a long while, she murmured, "I'm not wronged."

Soon Shen Chaochao perked up, pushed Ji Yu out of the kitchen and said, "Go take a nap, or go read a book. I heard from the old man at the door that the college entrance examination pre-test will be tomorrow."

Ji Yu responded with a "yes", and then said: "Then you should take a rest after you finish cleaning up, and don't keep looking for things to do. You should rest when you need to."

"Um."

Uncle Ji Yu's math class was in the afternoon. Hu Wen probably wanted to see how Ji Yu was doing with his review, so he asked Ji Yu to come up to the stage for the first question.

Ji Yu walked up to the stage somewhat absentmindedly. Looking at the questions on the blackboard, he was a little puzzled for a moment.

He had taken these questions many times when he was in college, and he was sure he could answer them, but he was worried that his method was too simple. After all, the mathematics he learned was decades ahead of the times.

Ji Yu stood on the stage and quickly wrote down the answer to the question. He tried to write it as carefully as possible, without skipping any complicated steps.

Hu Wen looked at Ji Yu's answer and was surprised: "It turns out that there is a solution like this. These two formulas combined are even simpler than those in the textbook."

Just as Ji Yu was about to return to his seat after finishing his work, Hu Wen stopped him again and said, "Your idea is quite unique. Why don't you tell your classmates about your method of solving the problem?"

Ji Yu did not refuse, and took the chalk and explained the problem to everyone in the simplest and most understandable tone.

"Teacher, I understand everything." Kong Wenming shouted from the back row.

"It seems everyone understands!" Hu Wen was about to praise his nephew, but Ji Yu hid his achievements and fame and quietly returned to his seat.

Soon the afternoon classes were over. In the late 1980s, high school students were not required to study at night.

So after school in the afternoon, the students moved their desks, set up the examination room, and then went home.

When Ji Yu arrived home, Shen Chaochao was cutting vegetables in the kitchen.

"Chao Chao, let me cook!"

After saying this, Ji Yu went to the kitchen, washed his hands, and lit the coal stove.

Ji Yu’s cooking movements were very skilled, as if he had done them countless times.

Chen Chaochao looked at the delicious food in the pot and praised: "Brother A'ao, you are really good at cooking."

Ji Yu was a little surprised to hear Chen Chaochao suddenly change his words and call him Brother Yu.

"Calling me Brother A'wei sounds much better than Brother Xiaoyu. When they call me Xiaoyu, it always reminds me of my nickname." Ji Wei said with a smile.

Shen Chaochao actually didn't want to call him Brother Xiaoyu like everyone else. The same name would make her feel that she was no special to others in Ji Yu's heart.

For the first time, she selfishly wanted to be a unique existence in someone else's life.

"Brother A'wei~." Shen Chaochao called out sweetly again, deliberately lengthening the ending tone, making it sound like she was acting coquettishly.

"I'm done eating. I'm going to read a book." Ji Yu blushed and avoided the girl's sight.

The soft tone of voice, the charming eyes, especially with the kind of expression that seduces people unconsciously, can easily make a man lose control.

Otherwise, if Ji Yu had some self-control, he might have been in trouble today.

"Okay. Then you can read a book while I wash the dishes."

Shen Chaochao is so sensible that it makes people feel distressed.

"Just leave it there! I'll wash it after I finish reading." Ji Yu's voice came from the side.

Shen Chaochao did not answer him. After all, in this family, no dish after a meal could be delayed in Chaochao's hands for more than half an hour.

Late at night, because Chao Chao did not go to buy cotton bedding today, the two of them had to squeeze into the narrow lower bunk.

"After the exams are over the day after tomorrow morning, we'll go buy some quilts. It's too crowded for two of us to sleep together."

Ji Yu said casually in the dark night.

After hearing this, Shen Chaochao quickly moved her body closer to the wall. She had already tried her best to reduce her sleeping area.

Ji Yu carefully comforted her, "It's not that I think you're taking up space. It's better for the two of you to sleep separately. This bed is too small."

He reached out and hugged Chen Chaochao tighter in his arms: "The wall is cold, don't sleep against it."

Shen Chaochao was completely absorbed in Ji Yu's embrace, and the scent of soapberries on the young man's body lingered at her nose.

She liked the smell of Ji Yu very much, so she slept very soundly the whole night.

The next day when Ji Yu got up, Chen Chaochao had prepared breakfast again.

"You got up really early."

Ji Yu rubbed his eyes and walked to Shen Chaochao's side.

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