Chapter 32 Adopted Brother [VIP]

"Smack."

A beam of flashlight suddenly shone beside them, illuminating Pei Xuhui and Qingran's faces.

"Feeling hot? There's a saying that a calm mind brings coolness. If you two just sat quietly in the classroom studying, would you still feel hot?"

That would naturally be disheartening.

Recognizing the speaker by voice, Pei Xu turned around with a smile: "What a coincidence, Teacher Jiang is here too?"

"Hmph, if you two weren't here, would I be here?" Jiang Guangming, the director of the teaching affairs office, said irritably.

He raised his flashlight and shone it in their faces, then shone it on the wall they had just climbed down.

"You jump over such a high wall so easily? Is the food outside really that delicious?"

Pei Xuhui and Qingran nodded silently.

Pei Xuhui explained earnestly, "Teacher Jiang, it's not that we're greedy, it's just that the cafeteria's late-night snacks are too limited. Even if they have everything from noodles and wontons to dumplings, they can't just have fried rice, can they?"

"Senior year is a crucial time for review and preparation, and students urgently need to replenish their nutrition to fight for the college entrance examination. I know you have always been very concerned about the physical and mental health of your students."

The handsome young man said sincerely, "So when would be a convenient time for you to convey the earnest expectations of the students to the higher authorities?"

Jiang Guangming had heard about the cafeteria food being unpalatable before, but...

"Stop trying to talk your way out of this. You're blaming me for breaking school rules?"

Pei Xuhui was the smartest student Jiang Guangming had ever encountered in his teaching career, but he was not the kind of good student who meticulously followed the teacher's orders in the conventional sense.

He both loved and was annoyed by his rebellious little darling. He waved his hand and told him to go away, "Don't wander around with your little brother so late at night. Go back to the classroom and study."

The article made no mention of writing a self-criticism.

Good students always have some privileges.

Pei Xuhui said, "Then we'll go back and study first. Thank you for your hard work, Teacher Jiang."

"Ahem, I'll bring up the cafeteria issue with the vice principal when I have the chance," Jiang Guangming said, clearing his throat and using his flashlight to light his way back to the classroom.

That's right, he really cares about the students' physical and mental well-being.

Once we reached the playground area and were out of the Dean of Students' sight, we continued our journey.

Pei Xu relaxed and stretched, raising an eyebrow at Qing Ran for praise: "How was it?"

Didn't I say I didn't need to write a self-criticism?

His unruly face was radiant, with dark eyebrows and bright eyes, much like a peacock displaying its beautiful tail and feathers.

Qingran, abandoning her usual slightly aloof demeanor, smiled sweetly and said, "Brother is so amazing."

Pei Xuhui's heart skipped a beat, and he was so shocked that he felt a numbness run from the back of his head to his back.

He took a big step back, his eyes wary and his expression suspicious: "I didn't do anything to you, did I? Why are you being so sarcastic?"

Qingran glanced at him speechlessly: "Even if I called you 'brother,' you wouldn't like it."

"Was that really what you meant?" Pei Xuhui sneered.

Qingran retorted confidently, "Where is it not sincere?"

The speechless boy walked over, gritted his teeth, grabbed his cheek and pinched it: "Anyway, I just know you had bad intentions just now."

Adolescent boys are hot-tempered, and their burning palms pressed against their slightly cool cheeks feel like kneading a piece of soft, tender tofu.

Feeling the gentle, kneading force against his chest, like a kitten pushing against its breasts, Pei Xuhui unconsciously softened his movements, afraid of being too rough and breaking his porcelain doll-like penis.

He withdrew his hand and smelled his fingertips: "It smells like jasmine."

Qingran said quietly, "You seem like a pervert."

Pei Xu scoffed, "You're a pervert just because you smell something? What about someone like you who has a natural body odor? Are you someone who specifically creates perverts?"

You're lucky.

The system muttered to itself.

The jasmine-scented body fragrance is its masterpiece—it begged and pleaded with the host to agree to make a purchase after the host gained points and opened the shop.

Then it can get a commission reward, hehe.

After checking the purchase history, the host bought skin-beautifying pills and body-fragrance pills in this world, and can still buy a bottle of passionate perfume with the remaining points.

Hiss, passionate perfume.

The system, no longer needing to worry about the plot, couldn't help but look forward to the day when the two would come of age and their points would be credited to their account again.

"By the way, Qingran, would you like to apply for day school?"

When they were almost at the teaching building, Pei Xu asked.

Qingran: "Why?"

Pei Xu replied, "What else could it be? Just to make it easier for you to eat."

He wouldn't touch anything that was even slightly unpalatable. Should he be thankful that the cafeteria's three meals and late-night snacks weren't handled by the same contractor? At least Qingran was willing to eat the regular meals.

Qingran raised her eyebrows and said deliberately, "No, I want you to come with me to climb over the wall."

Pei Xuhui was both amused and annoyed by this unexpected answer. After watching the person walk away, he shook his head and said, "Silly girl, I only asked because I'm graduating soon and can't be with you."

Thinking about this, Junyi's face became somewhat somber.

They've known each other since Qingran moved next door to his house when she was five or six years old. Because they're close in age, their elders always liked to have them play together.

However, Qingran was sickly and a bit spoiled when she was young, so he didn't really like playing with this clingy little one who was always crying.

Until the Qingran family had their accident...

Later, the two went to the same junior high school and then to high school together. Only then did he and Qingran truly become familiar with each other and their relationship grew closer.

Over the past few years, he and Qingran have gone to school and come home together, and he has long been used to taking care of this willful and spoiled girl.

However, Qing City doesn't have any particularly famous universities, and once he graduates, it means that the time for him and Qingran to separate is not far off.

Pei Xuhui returned to the classroom of Senior Three (1) with a sullen face through the back door.

He was tall, and his seat was always in the last row when classes were assigned. Entering through the back door didn't attract much attention from the students studying on their own.

Apart from his deskmate He Anzhou.

Seeing his pale face, He Anzhou, who was dizzy from memorizing vocabulary, suddenly perked up and whispered gossip, "What's wrong? Did you quarrel with your brother?"

Pei Xuhui pulled out a chair and sat down. Hearing this, he rolled his eyes at his deskmate and said, "You can argue with your girlfriend, but I would never argue with my brother."

He Anzhou clutched his chest, his voice piercing his brother's heart: "I don't have a girlfriend."

Pei Xu raised his chin, implying: See? You can't argue, so I'm even less likely to.

He Anzhou: "..."

You're getting cocky when I say you're fat, and you're getting proud when I say you're a brother-obsessed person?

"It's a good thing he's your brother and not your sister, otherwise your future girlfriend would definitely be arguing with you every day."

"You keep talking about your girlfriend all the time, are you in love?" Pei Xu retorted.

He Anzhou, who suffered a heart attack: "...Why don't you lick your lips?"

Pei Xuhui remained unmoved, calmly asking, "What?"

He Anzhou: "With such a sharp tongue, I'm really afraid you'll poison yourself to death one day."

He was a little confused: "Don't you think you're spoiling your brother too much?"

Having been classmates for three years, he knew the way Pei Xuhui and his brother interacted intimately, if not by heart.

Pei Xuhui's attitude was so protective that he was afraid of breaking her or melting her; he was completely obedient to her.

She single-handedly made Yu Qingran's name known to all the teachers in the school.

Yu Qingran is already sixteen years old this year. If she goes out to buy snacks, will she get lost or be kidnapped by monsters?

After talking for a while without getting a response, he turned around and saw Pei Xuhui, annoyed by his talkativeness, idly doing problems in a physics workbook.

It was a multiple-choice question.

Without him checking the calculations or anything, he simply picked up his pen and quickly filled in the options in the parentheses.

Unfortunately, this was the homework assigned by the physics teacher today, which He Anzhou had just finished before memorizing vocabulary.

Pei Xu's fill-in options were almost identical to the answers he had carefully calculated, indicating that he hadn't filled them in randomly.

As for almost...

"Wait a minute, tell me why the answer to question three is D?" He Anzhou rushed over and asked, immediately forgetting his previous confusion.

*

At the end of May, there were less than ten days left until the college entrance examination.

The senior year review is in full swing, and even the top students in Class (1) are no exception.

Dark clouds loomed outside the window, pressing down on the city.

The sweltering heat made both the teachers explaining the problems and the students listening to them in the classroom feel irritable.

With a loud clap of thunder, raindrops began to pelt down from afar, landing on the treetops and the ground, quickly forming a white curtain of rain.

The rain poured down like a torrential downpour, its roar echoing across the sky.

The math teacher, wearing a small megaphone, was shouting at the top of his lungs while explaining a problem, but the students below still looked at him with blank expressions.

The math teacher had no choice but to say, "You can spend the rest of the time reading and doing problems on your own."

Everyone heard this clearly, and one by one they looked away, either reading or doing exercises, appearing listless and barely alive.

Pei Xu returned to his seat by the window, twirling a pen in one hand and resting his chin on the other, gazing out the window, his thoughts drifting far away:

With such heavy rain, the first-year high school students downstairs must be studying too?

I don't know if Qingran is reading a book or doing exercises.

The day after tomorrow is Sunday. Qingran said he wanted to eat barbecue at Qianxiao Square, so I can take him there when we have half a day off on the weekend.

"Crack!" A blinding flash of lightning illuminated the sky for a moment.

The pen fell to the table with a "plop".

Pei Xu snapped out of his reverie and abruptly stood up from his seat.

The water level has risen.

The torrential rain poured down, and the rainwater that couldn't be drained in time gathered on the ground, flooding the playground and soon also flooding the classrooms on the first floor of the teaching building, which is the lowest point.

The students sitting near the door were the first to notice, and they stood up and exclaimed, "Teacher Liu, rainwater is getting in!"

This single stone stirred up a thousand waves, drawing countless students to crane their necks and look outside.

Watching the school flood is much more interesting than attending classes.

At the same time, a rustling voice came from the loudspeaker hanging at the front of the classroom: "Attention teachers and students, attention teachers and students."

They are leaders from the school's academic affairs office.

He said the rain wouldn't stop anytime soon, and for the safety and health of the teachers and students, he asked the teachers who were teaching on the first floor to arrange for the students to move to higher floors.

Ms. Liu, the teacher in Qingran's class, patted the podium to attract everyone's attention and then made arrangements accordingly.

"Everyone heard that, right? Pick up the books on the floor and then go upstairs."

"Teacher Liu, what should we do if the water floods the table?" a student asked excitedly.

If I flood the books on the table, will I not have to go to class?

Teacher Liu said with a dark face, "Don't worry, the water level in Qing City has never risen this high in recorded history."

"Stop joking around and get ready!"

The floodwaters rose rapidly, and before we knew it, they were already up to our ankles.

Qingran, who had already placed all the textbooks on the table, was sitting on the table on a stool.

Fang Qi, who sat at the table in front of him, greeted him after finishing tidying up: "Are you done tidying up? Let's go."

Looking at the murky muddy water under her feet, Qingran pondered for a moment, and was about to secretly cheat when no one was paying attention.

Suddenly, I felt a light tap on my forehead.

Looking up, the boy standing in the mud was somewhere between a young man and a teenager, handsome and tall, with a wild and unrestrained smile.

Seeing that he had been noticed, the boy withdrew his hand, turned his back, and bent down to signal to him.

"Come."

A note from the author:

Hehe~

Thanks for watering! *kissing*

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