Chapter 59 Another note, I'm looking for Xu Sirui

Wang Xiaoqian was squatting in the bathroom when the doorbell rang. Sun Guoqing had gone to work, leaving only her and Sun Mingyuan at home. She shouted at the top of her voice, "Sun Mingyuan—Sun Mingyuan—open the door!"

It was ten-thirty in the morning. It wasn't exactly late, but for someone like Sun Mingyuan, who was used to staying in during the holidays, ten-thirty and five-thirty were the same. He covered his ears and slept soundly, oblivious to anything he heard until Wang Xiaoqian's desperate calls came from the bathroom: "Sun Mingyuan! I told you to open the door, but your ears are clogged with earwax? Sleep, sleep, sleep! Sleep like a fool! Go open the door for me right now!"

He wanted to continue playing dead, but Ms. Wang Xiaoqian's armor-piercing ability was too superior. He had only stayed for a minute or two before his eardrums were about to be pierced by her yelling. Helplessly, Sun Mingyuan could only get up from the bed, with a messy hair, put his hand into his vest to scratch his belly, and picked his belly button by the way, then walked to open the door in a daze and sloppily.

"Who is it—? Who has no hair on his butt?" He asked with a long tone, "Don't you know that your grandfather is sleeping—?"

Usually, the people who came to his house and rang the doorbell to look for someone were either his friends or his friends, so Sun Mingyuan naturally fixed his eyes on someone who was about the same height as him or a little higher than him. He blurted out some words without any control. Until he did not see the person at the usual position as he expected, he slowly lowered his eyes and saw clearly who was standing at the door.

Oh shit, it’s a woman!

He quickly took his hands out of his vest, and then remembered what he had just said about his butt not having hair. His face became even more embarrassed, and he quickly raised his hands to look innocent: "I didn't see anyone just now, I'm not a pervert." After saying that, he looked closely at the person in front of him.

The girl in front of me has short and neat student hair and bright eyes. At first glance, she looks like the big-eyed girl in the Hope Project, exuding a clean and simple temperament.

Sun Mingyuan felt that she looked both strange and familiar. After thinking for a while, an idea suddenly occurred to him. He pounded his palm with his fist and said, "Zhu Yingning?"

"Do you know me?" Zhu Yingning was a little surprised. She was about to introduce herself, but Sun Mingyuan beat her to the punch.

"Of course I know you! Aren't you living in Xu Sirui's house now? He told me about you." Sun Mingyuan's biggest characteristic is that he is very outgoing and familiar. He can chat with the sanitation worker for a long time when he goes out to throw away the garbage. When he saw Zhu Yingning, he didn't feel strange at all. He opened his mouth and started firing like a machine gun, as if he had known her for several years. He said happily, "And you have carried Xu Sirui on your back, how could I not know you? Oh, let me tell you, when he was still recording a variety show in the mountains, we brothers were watching in front of the TV, and agreed to laugh at him together when he came back. What kind of eyes did he have? He actually mistook you for a man! Such a big guy and he still wanted you to carry him! Oh, no, I had forgotten about it, but I remembered it when you showed up. I laughed to death!" As he spoke, he held his stomach and laughed for a long time. He laughed so hard that he fell down and pounded on the door, and even slammed the door shut.

"?"

Zhu Yingning didn't expect Xu Sirui's friend to have such a personality, and stood outside the door in a daze.

A few seconds later, Sun Mingyuan reopened the door. She was about to continue talking to him when she saw his attire and was startled again. In just a few seconds, his baggy old man's vest had disappeared, replaced by a presentable T-shirt for going out.

Seeing her staring at his shirt, Sun Mingyuan waved his hand and smiled, "Oh, don't worry about it. I'm a person who pays attention to my image in front of ladies. So, why did you come to my house?"

After being asked this, Zhu Yingning finally remembered her intention. She straightened her expression and said seriously, "I'm here to look for Xu Sirui. Excuse me, is he at your house?"

"Are you looking for Xu Sirui?" Sun Mingyuan suddenly perked up, his eyes rolling around as he gossiped, "Why are you looking for him?"

Sun Mingyuan always displayed a passion far greater than Xu Sirui's own for all his romantic relationships. To call it romantic relationships isn't quite right; it's more like one-sided pursuit. Xu Sirui, with his alluring appearance, had no shortage of admirers since childhood. In kindergarten, he was so handsome that a boy in his class mistook him for a girl and proposed to him.

Perhaps the more affluent one is in one area, the less they care about others, just like how rich people always claim money isn't important. The result of Xu Sirui's constant romantic affairs since childhood was that he was exceptionally apathetic in this area. Forget romance; Sun Mingyuan had never even seen him like anyone. And he, as Xu Sirui's childhood friend, tragically formed a contrasting pair. Having never been pursued by a woman since childhood, Sun Mingyuan fell in love with every woman he met. With the restless spirit of a young man with nowhere to go and nowhere to vent, he naturally made Xu Sirui's romantic affairs the subject of his gossip.

Zhu Yingning had no idea that Sun Mingyuan, a man with a philandering mind, had already categorized her as Xu Sirui's romantic partner: "It's nothing serious, it's just..."

"Sure, sure." Sun Mingyuan interrupted her, automatically interpreting her words as a shy cover-up, and said enthusiastically, "Xu Sirui isn't here with me, but I know where he is. Can I take you there?"

"Really?" She opened her eyes wide in surprise. "Will it be too much trouble for you?"

"No, no," he thought. He kicked off his slippers, put on a pair of canvas shoes, and went out. Wang Xiaoqian, who had just finished squatting in the toilet, searched the house for a long time but couldn't find him.

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Sun Mingyuan took Zhu Yingning on a bus and after more than ten stops, they arrived at an Internet cafe.

This was Zhu Yingning's first time taking the bus, but fortunately she didn't feel uncomfortable at all because Sun Mingyuan was very knowledgeable and treated her very well. She didn't need to worry about swiping cards or paying with coins.

After arriving at the destination, Zhu Yingning looked up at the huge sign outside the Internet cafe and felt a little helpless.

It should be said that Xu Sirui coming to the Internet cafe was completely within her expectations...

If there was anything surprising, it was probably that this internet cafe was larger and more luxurious. It had three floors, and Sun Mingyuan drove her to the second floor with familiarity. There was a sign clearly displayed outside stating "No Minors Allowed," but many of the users on the second floor looked like children, some even as immature as elementary school students.

"Do you know why there are only adults on the first floor and only children on the second floor?" Sun Mingyuan's mouth was never idle.

"Why?"

"Because if someone comes to check, the second floor won't be caught by the police as soon as they enter the house, and they'll have time to escape through the back door."

“…”

All right.

They walked and chatted, and soon passed many young faces and came to a corner.

There was no need for Sun Mingyuan to point it out specifically, Zhu Yingning spotted Xu Sirui in the crowd at a glance. He was wearing headphones, and his already small face was made to look only the size of a palm by the headphones. His eyes were slightly narrowed in impatience, and there were two dark circles under his eyes.

It should have been a decadent scene. His sitting posture was nothing special compared to others, but it was inexplicably eye-catching.

"Hey, hey, hey, our GP dog guns can defeat your Fire Kirin, so what? Idiot, don't play if you can't afford to lose!" Zhang Lin, sitting next to Xu Sirui, was pounding the keyboard with such force that it sounded like he'd mastered the One Finger technique, making the keyboard crackle and exchanging passionate comments with the player on the other side of the computer screen. Sun Mingyuan walked over, put his elbow on his shoulder, and joined in the fun, saying, "What's going on? The RMB player on the other side is down again?"

Zhang Lin was startled by him and cursed, "Fuck you, why are you here? I called you so many times last night. Didn't you say you accidentally cut your thumb while cutting your toenails and it bled, and you needed to rest at home?"

Sun Mingyuan laughed dryly: "You didn't even notice what time you called me last night. If I come out to fool around with you guys again, my mom will chop me up and make soup. Do you believe it?"

"Come on, we're just like you, a loser who's afraid of your mother, rushing home every day to be your obedient son." Zhang Lin raised his middle finger and exchanged banter with Sun Mingyuan for a while before noticing Zhu Yingning behind Sun Mingyuan. He was stunned and asked, "Who is this?"

Sun Mingyuan pulled Zhu Yingning out from behind, his eyebrows fluttering, his eyelids fluttering wildly, with an expression of watching the fun and not minding the trouble. He said meaningfully, "I'm here to see Xu Sirui."

Zhang Lin raised his eyebrows, said "oh" in a strange tone of understanding, with an ambiguous smile on his lips. He poked Xu Sirui next to him with his elbow and indicated Zhu Yingning's position with his eyes.

Xu Sirui was completely immersed in his own world. After being hit on the ribs several times by Zhang Lin, he casually followed his gaze. After his lazy eyes met Zhu Yingning's, he paused slightly and froze subtly.

“…”

“…”

They stared at each other stiffly across the air.

After a pause of a few seconds, Xu Sirui shifted his gaze and looked at Sun Mingyuan expressionlessly.

As an automatic troublemaker, Sun Mingyuan had long since learned to defend himself against Xu Sirui's stabbing gazes. He turned to Zhu Yingning calmly and said, "Okay, Xu Sirui is right here. Say whatever you want to say. It's okay. We're all acquaintances here. No matter what you say, we won't tell anyone."

What this means is, whether you want to confess your love or ask someone out, please feel free to do so.

Zhu Yingning lacked the necessary perception of this situation. Although she vaguely felt that Sun Mingyuan's words and expression were strange, she didn't think about it too much. She nodded, took out a piece of paper from her trouser pocket, unfolded it and read it. Just as she was about to speak, she was interrupted by Sun Mingyuan's strange cry: "Wait a minute!"

"Hmm?" She looked puzzled.

"You actually wrote... this kind of thing? So formal? Let me prepare myself mentally first." Sun Mingyuan stamped his feet excitedly and practiced Qigong.

Xu Sirui knew with a flicker of his toes that Sun Mingyuan had definitely gotten off track again. He looked at Sun Mingyuan with a headache and said, "Are you done yet?" Then he turned to Zhu Yingning, his expression gradually becoming cold, and said without any emotion, "Why did you come here with him if there was nothing wrong? Go back."

"I didn't come here with him for no reason. I have something to talk to you about."

"That's right!" Sun Mingyuan nodded frantically. "I have something to talk to you about." Then he looked at Zhu Yingning encouragingly and said, "Go ahead."

Zhu Yingning was a little touched. She thought Sun Mingyuan was a nice guy, actually speaking up for her when Xu Sirui was chasing people away. She smiled gratefully at him, glanced at the note, and said, "Xu Sirui, school starts in five days. We should go to the bookstore to buy some tutoring books."

Sun Mingyuan: “?”

Zhang Lin, who had taken off his headphones and was also listening intently, asked: "?"

"Ah? No." Sun Mingyuan dug his ear with his fingernails. "Wait a minute...that's it? No, wait, I'm a little confused...then why are you holding a piece of paper?"

Zhu Yingning didn't understand why he looked so disappointed. She turned the note over and showed him the contents. "Are you interested? Here are some reputable tutoring books I found. You can buy them according to the notes." After saying that, she glanced at Sun Mingyuan and then at Zhang Lin. She felt that they didn't look like people who would actively learn, so she said enthusiastically, "You two should come too. We can't lose at the starting line in our studies. Buy the supplementary materials early so you can start preparing for the class."