0008 Teaching
Since Shen Yuxiu accompanied Song Ning on a sneaky outing and returned, the two have become closer.
Song Ning trusted Shen Yuxiu more and no longer rejected his approach. She even sometimes revealed her true nature in front of him.
Aside from occasionally having nightmares and liking to act tough and mature, Song Ning doesn't seem any different from other children.
Inside the room, Su Qingru stood beside Song Ning's bed, holding a water glass in her right hand: "Open your mouth."
"Ah~" Song Ning opened her mouth wide.
“Lift up under your tongue and take a look,” Su Qingru said with a smile.
Song Ning did as instructed, but her expression didn't show much joy.
"Rest well. Call me if you need anything. Your Uncle Shen and I are next door," Su Qingru said softly, giving Song Ning a sip of water after making sure she had swallowed the medicine.
Song Ning nodded, and after Su Qingru left, she murmured, "She's too hard to fool."
—Thump, thump.
Not long after Su Qingru left, there was a knock on Song Ning's door, and Shen Yuxiu's voice came from behind the door.
"Song Ning, can you come out for a moment?"
Song Ning got up and opened the door.
Shen Yuxiu was wearing his daytime clothes and holding a beautifully packaged square box in his hand.
Song Ning was in a bad mood because of the failed attempt to hide the medicine. She glared fiercely at Shen Yuxiu, giving him a displeased look that seemed to say, "What are you doing?"
"This is for you." Shen Yuxiu seemed oblivious to Song Ning's displeasure and handed over the box.
"I don't want to." Song Ning said, her hands behind her back.
Shen Yuxiu's hand, adorned with a sports watch, froze in mid-air, not retracting: "This is a phone I bought with my competition scholarship. It's the first time I've used my own money to buy a gift for someone other than my parents. Can you accept it?"
"Is it that phone everyone's been talking about lately?" Song Ning stared at the box in Shen Yuxiu's hand, somewhat wanting it.
"Yeah, I bought two, and I even had my parents get SIM cards for both of us." Shen Yuxiu took out a white phone that had already been disassembled from his pocket and showed it to Song Ning. "Look, the color is the same as mine."
Song Ning looked up and remembered the last time he asked her what color she would choose if she were to buy one, and she casually answered white.
She thought he was just asking casually.
"Why don't you play with it for a while first, and then decide whether you want it or not?" Shen Yuxiu placed the phone in Song Ning's hand. "Use mine, we both have the same phone."
Most of the phones Song Ning had seen had keyboards. Looking at the smooth phone in her hand, she asked curiously, "Where's the keyboard? Why can't I open it?"
"Haha, this is how it should be done." Shen Yuxiu pressed his thumb on the circle on the phone.
The phone screen lights up, and small icons appear on the screen.
Song Ning's eyes lit up, and she slightly opened her mouth as if to let out a sigh, but then held back.
Shen Yuxiu continued to swipe his hand across the screen: "I haven't downloaded anything, just the pre-installed stuff, and neither have you. If you want to download anything, I'll teach you later. Now, let me teach you how to make a phone call."
Song Ning watched Shen Yuxiu tapping on his phone and said knowingly, "I understand!"
Shen Yuxiu smiled, lowered his hand, and encouraged him, "Then give it a try."
Song Ning looked at the phone icon in the lower left corner of her phone, took out her index finger and tapped it, and was pleasantly surprised to find that she could actually press it without a keyboard.
She hesitated, looking at the icons on the screen, tapping them a few times, and then her face lit up when she saw a string of numbers.
"If you have nightmares again, you can call me on your cell phone?" Shen Yuxiu clenched his fist to cover the smile on his lips.
"Why are you calling me?" Song Ning still didn't take the phone from Shen Yuxiu's hand, but her tone softened noticeably.
“I can tell you jokes and stories, but I’m not very good at singing. However, I can learn a few simple nursery rhymes,” Shen Yuxiu said.
Song Ning rubbed her thumb on her phone a couple of times, then turned and ran back to her room.
She pulled her increasingly full wallet from under her pillow, ran to the door, opened the wallet, and took out a coin: "I won't take it for nothing."
Shen Yuxiu's eyes crinkled as he took the coins and phone from Song Ning's hand, assuming a gesture of exchanging money for goods, and handed over the new phone.
"Why aren't you leaving yet?" Song Ning glanced down at the square gift box in her hand, deliberately glaring at Shen Yuxiu to shoo him away.
"Aren't you going to open it and take a look?" Shen Yuxiu asked.
"I don't really want to see it right now." Seeing that Shen Yuxiu was still there, Song Ning looked wary. "I didn't really want it. You offered to give it to me, so I reluctantly bought it. Now that I've bought it, it's mine."
"I know, I just want to help you set up your phone. It can only be used after it's set up." Shen Yuxiu suppressed a laugh. "Can you turn it on by yourself, insert the SIM card, and connect to the internet by yourself?"
Song Ning frowned, hesitated for a long time, and then lied, saying, "I will."
"Okay, then I'll head back. If you have any questions, you can come find me on the second floor." As if he knew Song Ning would answer like that, Shen Yuxiu left with a twisted expression, suppressing a laugh.
Seeing Shen Yuxiu come downstairs, Song Ning hurriedly closed the door and ran towards the room.
She sat on the floor, placed the gift box on her lap, and touched it with delight.
The beautiful gift box was tied with a bow. Song Ning was a little reluctant to damage the wrapping paper, so she was very careful when unpacking it.
She pulled the ribbon, slowly untied it, and then peeled it off little by little along the wrapping paper, neatly folding the removed wrapping paper aside.
Song Ning opened the box and found an even smaller white box hidden underneath. Next to the box was a stack of folded paper and a card. There seemed to be something drawn on the paper, but Song Ning's mind was on her phone, so she casually put the paper and card aside.
The phone was taken out, and it was exactly the same as Shen Yuxiu's.
Song Ning imitated Shen Yuxiu, pressing her finger on the circle and then tapping it with her hand, but no matter how she fiddled with it, the phone remained black.
"Why not?" Song Ning took out the wires from the box and tried them one by one. "How do I do this? Did I break it? No, no."
Song Ning muttered to herself as she tried various methods, and after failing to achieve her goal, a hint of anger appeared on her face.
It must be Shen Yuxiu who gave me something bad!
Song Ning felt she had spent money on a broken phone. Just as she was about to take the phone downstairs to confront Shen Yuxiu, she noticed a drawing of a phone with its screen completely covered in black on a piece of paper she had placed aside.
Song Ning picked up the paper, blinked, and suddenly understood.
The paper is divided into small squares, each with a step clearly drawn on it.
Song Ning followed the steps on the paper one by one, and the phone that had been unable to be turned on actually started working.
She took out other sheets of paper, and although she wasn't quite sure why she was doing it, she followed the drawings step by step.
When she put the small card into her phone, she found that she had already followed the steps that Shen Yuxiu had taught her to make a phone call. At the bottom of the paper were the numbers "123" that she recognized, and to the left of the numbers was a drawing of a "telephone".
The numbers on the paper jumped onto the phone screen one by one.
Song Ning excitedly pressed the call button, listening expectantly to the dial tone...
The sound of hurried climbing stairs came from outside, and the ringing of a cell phone seemed to be coming from outside.
Song Ning wanted to verify her guess, so she suddenly stood up, rushed to the door, and opened it the instant the phone call connected.
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