Chapter 24 Sitting in KFC...
Sitting in a corner of KFC, Xu Ran looked left and right, then tugged at Wang Kan's sleeve and quietly pointed to a mother and child across the table.
Wang Kan looked over and saw that the boy looked about the same age as Xu Ran. The table was piled high with food, and he was eating chicken nuggets.
"Don't you have some?" Wang Kan brought the snack platter to Xu Ran.
Xu Ran shook her head and remained silent.
Wang Kan: "..."
This little brat, if it weren't for someone there… Wang Kan forced a friendly smile: “If you don’t want chicken nuggets, what do you want?”
"I also want a Pleasant Goat."
Wang Kan's lips drooped down. "Didn't I tell you when we bought it that you could only choose one toy? You've already chosen Pleasant Goat."
Xu Ran pouted.
"Or I can go ask around and get you a different one."
"...But I want both."
Wang Kan said in a deep voice, "Xu Ran."
"Let's buy another set meal, I'll pay for it," Fang Minzhou suddenly said from across the table.
Fang Minzhou said "It's nothing" and was about to stand up when Wang Kan quickly stood up to stop her, "No need, no need, I'll go buy it, I'll go buy it."
Before leaving, she secretly glared at Xu Ran, who had already put on a smiling face and said sweetly, "Thank you, Uncle." Then she looked at Fang Minzhou and said, "Thank you, Sister."
Wang Kan felt strangely uncomfortable with this way of addressing him by his seniority, and when he saw Fang Minzhou smiling at Xu Ran, he felt even more nauseous.
Paying the bill wasn't because he was stingy, but this wasn't a long-term solution.
He used the excuse of finishing his winter break homework to finally arrange a meeting with Fang Minzhou at the city library. Knowing she often studied there, he showed up uninvited. After a while, before Fang Minzhou could say anything, his mother became suspicious, scolding him for being inconsistent in his studies. She said, "Just go out and play! Why are you carrying your schoolbag? What are you pretending for? Am I not letting you go out?"
Wang Kan was speechless.
He could openly tell his mother that he was really going to study, and with Fang Minzhou, whom she greatly admired. However, given her previous enthusiasm, Wang Kan didn't want to mention Fang Minzhou in front of his mother. So he used Zheng Yanhang and Wu Cheng as a cover, and now he used Xu Ran, saying, "I'm taking her out to play."
However, Xu Ran had an additional benefit: whenever he brought her along, Fang Minzhou seemed to treat him a little more gently, and sometimes they could even have dinner together like this. Today's KFC meal was Xu Ran's idea, and Wang Kan had no choice but to pay the bill willingly.
Fortunately, school will start soon.
Wang Kan was about to take the opportunity to teach Xu Ran a lesson, but Fang Minzhou said to him, "Don't be so childish, okay? Just give it to her."
Wang Kan pointed to himself, speechless. Isn't it said that children shouldn't be spoiled?
She took a deep breath and handed the sheep to Xu Ran so she could be paired up.
Xu Ran was delighted with it, and Fang Minzhou, seeing her like this, couldn't help but say, "So cute."
Wang Kan expressed deep doubt.
But seeing the doting smile on Fang Minzhou's face, he swallowed his sarcastic words, but was very puzzled as to what was so cute about Xu Ran? Could it be just because she was a little girl? If it was about looks, since he and Xu Ran were related by blood, they looked somewhat alike, but Fang Minzhou hadn't smiled at him much.
Look, it's glaring at me again.
The idiom "know when to stop" probably doesn't exist in Wang Kan's dictionary. Even though Fang Minzhou tried her best to ignore his gaze, he would still wait until she got angry before he would restrain himself.
Regardless of what Wang Kan thought, he said he wanted to study, so she helped him; she would have done the same for any other classmate. As for other things… they weren't important, and she didn't want to think about them too much. She treated them like a piece of candy she would pop into her mouth when she was sleepy during evening self-study.
Having a snack to relax a little and replenish some energy so you can concentrate better on your studies isn't considered a violation of rules or regulations, but constantly sneaking snacks is a recipe for disaster.
Fang Minzhou sat up a little straighter, looked at Wang Kan, and got back to business, helping him analyze the various problems he had encountered in his studies recently.
School is about to start, and Fang Minzhou has made plans for January tomorrow. Wang Kan also has family matters to attend to. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this will be the last time they meet during this winter break.
Time flies.
After being cold for more than half a month, we've been seeing each other frequently lately.
"That lithium battery materials question in chemistry was similar to the one on last semester's final exam, and it might be on the exam again when school starts. Don't get it wrong again." Having said all that, Fang Minzhou gave a final reminder while eating French fries.
“Yes, madam.” Wang Kan saluted.
Fang Minzhou said with dissatisfaction, "Hey."
"Can't I even call you Madam?" Wang Kan noticed Fang Minzhou's embarrassment and deliberately moved closer to tease her.
Fang Min was startled when they suddenly got too close. She instinctively swung the French fry she was holding, but accidentally smeared some ketchup on Wang Kan's nose.
Both of them were stunned. Wang Kan blinked repeatedly, his gaze falling down to his nose, his eyes almost turning into cross-eyed stares. Xu Ran next to him burst into laughter: "Uncle has turned into a clown!"
Fang Minzhou couldn't help but laugh, but also felt embarrassed, so she quickly handed him a tissue.
She reached out her hand to him, but Wang Kan closed his eyes first, his long eyelashes drooping, his eyelids trembling slightly, even his lips appearing slightly upturned. Fang Minzhou paused, her body acting before her brain, and gently wiped the tomato sauce from Wang Kan's nose.
Wang Kan suppressed a laugh, wrinkled her face, and then opened her eyes.
His dark, bright eyes held a hint of provocative amusement, as if he wanted to see her reaction. But his gaze was fixed on her intently, more like a fixed stare than a provocation. Fang Minzhou's heart was taut, like a rubber band stretched to its limit. The anticipated pain not only caused her pain but also seemed to bring her to her senses, making her afraid to let go.
Xu Ran's toy suddenly started running amok. Fang Minzhou, without changing her expression, snapped out of her daze and tossed the tissue in her hand to Wang Kan.
Wang Kan hurriedly received the package, awkwardly wiped her nose again, and asked Fang Minzhou, "Is there any more?"
"...That's all."
When their eyes met, an awkward silence fell over them, and they instinctively looked away.
Fang Minzhou continued eating her fries, telling him about the other things Wang Kan needed to be careful about. What annoyed her most was that he would forget the precipitation symbol when writing chemical formulas. "...Oh, and could you please write your English a little better?"
Why is it that his English is so bad, even though his Chinese is okay? Not hearing Wang Kan's reply, she looked up and saw him staring at her again. Fang Minzhou's face darkened.
Wang Kan pointed to his own lips, "How did you eat that?"
Fang Min was taken aback. She took a tissue and wiped it, and sure enough, there was some ketchup on it.
Fang Minzhou: "..."
Her cheeks flushed, and she took a sip of iced cola.
Fortunately, Wang Kan didn't become smug; instead, he awkwardly touched his nose.
After a while, Fang Minzhou asked Wang Kan, "Did you hear what I just said?"
“I heard you,” Wang Kan said. To put it bluntly, it was the three-piece routine of reading books, doing practice questions, and reviewing wrong questions. However, Fang Minzhou suggested that he could stop doing practice questions for the next few days. “You told me to categorize the wrong questions, see which ones are easy and which ones are difficult, and then… read the books. After you finish reading the books, make a mind map yourself.”
what else?
With Pleasant Goat in her left hand and Happy Goat in her right, Xu Ran said in a clear voice, "When writing in English, you should write your handwriting neatly."
After saying that, she smiled sweetly at Fang Minzhou as if asking for a reward, and Fang Minzhou gave Xu Ran a thumbs up in encouragement.
Wang Kan: "..."
After everyone finished eating, Wang Kan barely touched the children's meal she had bought for Xu Ran, so she asked for a bag to pack it up. She handed the bag to Fang Minzhou, but Fang Minzhou refused, saying, "Give it to Ranran."
"Her mom won't let her eat KFC." At this point, Wang Kan instructed Xu Ran to hide the toys well, preferably so her mom wouldn't find them. If she did find them, he should say he gave them to her.
Xu Ran nodded obediently.
Looking at Fang Minzhou again, who seemed a little uneasy about having done something wrong, Wang Kan smiled and said, "It's nothing, it's just an occasional treat. There are still two egg tarts left, you really don't want them?"
Fang Minzhou shook his head.
Wang Kan's mind raced. "Your parents won't let you eat KFC either, will they?"
"...It's edible."
But it's best not to eat too much.
Fang Minzhou's voice lacked confidence, while Wang Kan seemed to see right through her. Feeling a little embarrassed, she turned to ask Wang Kan how much it cost in total.
"No need, I..."
"How many?"
Wang Kan was helpless.
He had never been able to treat anyone to a meal; it always ended in splitting the bill. He couldn't talk in the library, and if he did, it was all about studying. Thinking about it this way, starting school earlier wasn't so bad. But right now, he couldn't see her as much as he could see her next time they met.
"Fang Minzhou."
"Um?"
“If…” Wang Kan began hesitantly.
In any case, Fang Minzhou helped him review for almost half a month. Although he didn't think she was particularly kind, he wasn't confident that there was any other reason... and the opening exam was, after all, a test of his results.
“What I meant to say,” he coughed, then switched to a lighthearted, joking tone, “was I going to do poorly on my exams when school starts…”
Fang Minzhou frowned, about to criticize his fear of difficulty: he hadn't even taken the exam yet, and he was already undermining his own morale. But then she remembered his previous dejection and suddenly understood what he meant.
“…If you don’t do well on the test, you don’t do well on the test,” she said.
Wang Kan breathed a sigh of relief.
The relief he seemed so obvious made Fang Minzhou suspect that he was just making excuses in advance, so she earnestly wanted to tell him, "But even if it's just the opening exam..."
Wang Kan interrupted, "I know, even the entrance exam is important. Don't worry, I'll do my best."
Fang Min didn't reply until the car arrived and Wang Kan said "See you at the start of the semester."
Little Xu Ran waved her arms high, saying, "Bye-bye, sister, see you next time!"
Fang Min smiled, glancing at the person narrating beside her, and said, "Bye-bye, see you next time."
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