12 Chapter 12
The virtuous classmate Zhou Baixi came again the next day, bringing Xiao Doukou with her.
According to him, after Xiao Doukou heard that he had been to Chen Ying's house, she insisted on coming to visit. It happened that Chen Ying was resting at home today, so she agreed.
As soon as Chen Ying received the message from Zhou Baixi, she immediately packed up and prepared. Just as she finished, she heard the unique soft voice of a little girl coming from outside the door.
"Aunt, aunt!"
Chen Ying's hand stopped as she was about to open the door, and her face turned red and white.
Zhou Baixi corrected her, "Call her Auntie."
"Auntie, auntie!" Xiao Doukou rang the doorbell and urged from outside the door: "Auntie, auntie, Xiao Doukou is here!"
The door opened in an instant, and the first face I saw was neither Xiao Doukou's nor Zhou Baixi's.
There were a bunch of gift boxes. Zhou Baixi was holding Xiao Doukou, and Xiao Doukou was holding a gift box.
"Grandma said you should bring gifts when visiting someone's home. This is what my grandma prepared."
It's easy to guess. When Zhou Baixi and his family visited Chen Ying's uncle, they always brought gifts, one for each of them, including one for Chen Ying. Often, when Chen Ying didn't go to her uncle's house for dinner, Zhou Baixi's mother would have him bring the gift to school the next day and give it to Chen Ying.
Sometimes it’s dessert, sometimes it’s hairpins, sometimes it’s nutritional supplements, it’s always different.
This time, Xiao Doukou was asked to bring a set of expensive skin care products.
Xiao Doukou's smile is always sweet, which can easily make people feel overwhelmed with maternal love and want to give her everything.
She was wearing a princess dress and carrying a small handbag similar to Barbie's. She sat upright on the sofa in the same posture as Zhou Baixi and smiled at Chen Ying.
Chen Ying said, "Little Cardamom, don't be restrained. Just be casual and sit however you feel comfortable."
Xiao Doukou shook her head. "I'm almost four years old. I'm a big kid and need to learn etiquette."
This, this, this... Is this how academic elites raise their children?
As if he knew what she was thinking, Zhou Baixi waved his hands and said, "We didn't ask her to do that. She learned it from somewhere."
Although it is a good thing to be strict with yourself, but little cardamom! You are only three years old!
"Xiao Doukou, thank you for taking care of me. I have to go to work, so I'll be leaving first."
Only then did Chen Ying notice that Zhou Baixi was still wearing formal clothes today because he still had to go to work.
He still looks the same as he did in high school, always calm, but still energetic.
Black tie, white shirt, black jacket.
So exquisite that even the hair is meticulously done.
"Xiao Doukou, have you ever seen a photo of your uncle when he was young?" After Zhou Baixi left, Chen Ying sat down next to Xiao Doukou and handed her a bag of potato chips.
Xiao Doukou thought for a moment and said, "My uncle's graduation photo shows me when he was younger, but he always hides it and won't let me see it."
She handed two films to Chen Ying and said, "I've only seen it once."
"Auntie is also up there, standing in front of uncle."
Um... so she hasn't changed at all? Can you even recognize Xiao Doukou?
"How did you recognize me?"
"My uncle said that this person was... um... his best friend from high school, so he introduced him to me."
Chen Ying couldn't help laughing.
Zhou Baixi actually said that they were best friends.
When he was in high school, Zhou Baixi had many friends, but Chen Ying could never be his best friend.
Chen Ying didn't know why he told Xiao Doukou that. She found it funny, but as she laughed, a sense of sadness inexplicably came over her heart.
Chen Ying knew clearly that Zhou Baixi’s best friend was not Chen Ying, but Chen Ying’s best and only friend would always be Zhou Baixi.
Chen Ying has been an introvert since childhood, and not much has changed in high school. She is used to being alone and has become immune to the word "friend".
There were also girls who took the initiative to approach her and wanted to make friends, but time and money did not allow Chen Ying to have someone by her side.
She has to worry about food, live alone, and be self-reliant. She makes all the decisions on her own and often neglects her friends. It is inevitable that she will end up alone again.
In her second year of high school, Zhou Baixi broke into her world.
His mother loves shopping and buying things, and will enthusiastically buy some for her friends. Because of her uncle's family, Chen Ying always gets the love of Zhou's mother.
Unable to refuse Aunt Zhou's enthusiasm, and unable to avoid her classmate Zhou Baixi, Chen Ying gradually began to accept it, and then tried to give as much back to Zhou Baixi as possible from other places.
For example, I would draw a map of the school and its surroundings and give it to him in the name of my uncle so that he could get to know the school as soon as possible.
For example, he can clean the classroom quietly first, and it will be much easier to clean it when he is on duty the next day.
For example, when she heard that the textbooks were different and he was having difficulty learning Chinese, she took the initiative to organize all the necessary ancient poems, print a copy and give it to the teacher, so that others in need could use it.
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Even so, Chen Ying still couldn't pay it off, and the burden on her heart was growing heavier.
Zhou Baixi suggested that she help bring breakfast, and she nodded silently.
Zhou Baixi said that he wanted to taste the food at his uncle's house, but he was too embarrassed to go there on his own initiative, and he didn't dare to ask his parents to go too, so he wanted to follow Chen Ying to eat for free.
Since her cousin was not at home, Chen Ying called her uncle when she got home that night and said she wanted to go out for dinner with Zhou Baixi.
Zhou Baixi wanted to go to school as a day student. When Zhou's father asked Chen Ying how she felt about the idea, she agreed enthusiastically.
In order to avoid going to the tutoring class, Zhou Baixi offered to tutor Chen Ying in math. Everyone knew it was an excuse, but for Chen Ying's sake, no one exposed it.
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Chen Ying didn't know what was going on in his mind. He didn't know when he started to get closer to her, even though no one wanted him. Zhou Baixi was still glamorous on the podium, and was the object of admiration for many girls. But once he got close to Chen Ying, he became taciturn.
He would say:
"Wait for me after school."
"Work on these practice tests over the weekend and give them to me to check when you're done."
"I have a speech on Monday. Please help me fix the typos."
"I'll bring you breakfast tomorrow, so don't buy it."
The commanding tone, the unyielding tone, everything pulled Chen Ying towards him, closer and closer.
Even the graduation photos were as strange as ever, yet tacitly close.
"Little goldfish, little goldfish, do you know what worries my aunt?"
Xiao Doukou discovered that Chen Ying had a goldfish. She moved over before she finished eating her potato chips, drew circles on the glass tank with her fingers, put one eye against the tank, and whispered to the goldfish at close range.
"My uncle said that my aunt always has a lot of worries and never talks about them."
Chen Ying cut the watermelon and saw Xiao Doukou talking to herself in front of the fish tank, so she walked over and handed her a small piece of watermelon.
"What is Cardamom saying to the little goldfish?"
Xiao Doukou grinned and said, "I'll ask the little goldfish if Auntie has ever told it that she's unhappy."
"No." Chen Ying said firmly, "Auntie promised a friend that I must be happy every day. If I am not happy, I must tell her."
"Is he a friend I like more than the little goldfish?"
"Yes!"
"Does she like painting too?"
"Hmm?" Chen Ying didn't quite understand.
"My uncle said that my aunt likes painting very much."
"Ah...yes! Do you want to draw? I'll teach you."
Cardamom stood on tiptoe and looked at the little goldfish. "I want to draw a little goldfish!"
Chen Ying is good at this. She used to love drawing goldfish when she was bored, and many of her drawings are still preserved.
But Xiao Doukou is still young and can’t draw anything too complicated, so I can only teach him some cartoons that a child can draw.
The academic genius gene was once again fully demonstrated in Xiao Doukou. He didn't even need to be taught. After just watching Chen Ying demonstrate once, Xiao Doukou learned it all by himself and quickly grasped the essence.
The eyes she draws are always cute and playful, with tails raised, or chasing each other playfully, or quietly blowing bubbles.
When Ye Jinyi called via video, he happened to see Xiao Doukou painting seriously, and his heart melted instantly.
"Little boy, little boy, look at me, look at me!" Xiao Doukou looked in the direction of the voice and saw the cute sister making faces on the phone. She laughed cutely and happily showed the little goldfish she drew to Ye Jin.
After teasing Xiao Doukou for a while, Ye Jinyi finally remembered the original intention of making this video.
Ye Jinyi said: "I'm coming back from my business trip, are you happy?"
Of course she was happy. Chen Ying's lips curled up immediately. "When will you come back?"
Ye Jin turned his face away and said, "I won't tell you there are still three days."
Chen Ying said with regret, "If you don't want to tell me, then don't tell me. It's just a pity that some people won't be able to enjoy the new dishes I learned recently."
"Okay, if someone doesn't give me delicious food, I won't show him a picture of my new boyfriend."
Chen Ying was just about to say she didn't want to watch it, but suddenly she felt something was wrong.
"Are you no longer single?!"
"Yeah." Ye Jinyi shyly brushed the hair away from her ears and nodded. Then she shyly covered her face with her hands and shook her head. "He said if he didn't tell me, he was afraid he wouldn't be able to find me when I came back."
"From out of town?"
"Well... not too far away. We just met at an event and got to know each other. He helped me a few times afterwards."
Ye Jin put his hand down and looked at Chen Ying with a smile, "I don't think I can be single anymore. I've been getting along with him for these days and I think he's pretty good. In fact, I've been a little moved. He just happened to say he wanted to give it a try, so I agreed."
Chen Ying was so excited that she wanted to scream with goosebumps. She picked up Xiao Doukou and kissed her, not knowing what to say to express her joy.
"Oh my, why are you even more excited than me? Wait, next time I bring him back, you can check it for me."
Chen Ying kept nodding, and the smile in her eyes never disappeared.
She was in a good mood all afternoon.
Xiao Doukou is so well-behaved that there is no need to worry about him at all. This makes Chen Ying, who is taking care of a child alone for the first time, very proud.
My best friend is coming back in three days. We both miss each other so much that we wish these three days would pass quickly so we can hug each other tightly when we meet.
Ye Jinyi is no longer single. She has finally walked out of the shadow of her previous relationship and bravely embraces new love!
Chen Ying even thought about it, when Ye Jin got married, she would be the maid of honor. This was something they had agreed upon in college, that no matter who got married first, they would be each other's only maid of honor.
At dinner time, Zhou Baixi got off work, called Chen Ying, and came to have dinner again.
During the whole process, he fed Xiao Doukou first, and then he ate by himself, and his movements were unusually gentle.
He will definitely be a good father in the future, Chen Ying thought.
After dinner, Zhou Baixi rushed to clean up the dishes, and then left Chen Ying's house with Xiao Doukou, who was crying and unwilling to leave.
Just a short while after leaving, before Chen Ying had time to finish drawing today's comic update, she received a call from Zhou Baixi.
She swiped the answer button nervously.
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