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Li Xiangze took the morning bus and arrived around 12 noon.
Xiao Mingyang started preparing early.
Referring to the dishes that Xiao Dayang had given his wife that she liked, he went to the market and bought a fresh fish, some tender beans, some pork and some green onions, intending to go home and show off his cooking skills.
It was still early, so he prepared all the side dishes and went back to the house to pick out clothes.
After being apart for so many days, he wanted to wear the most handsome outfit to meet his wife, but no matter what he chose, she was not satisfied.
So he started a video call with Bai Tao.
The Bai family has good taste in clothes. Previously, when Bai Tao went to pick up his celebrity sister, he was photographed as if he were a celebrity.
"Oh my, what a rare guest!" Bai Tao yawned. "I didn't go to bed until 3 o'clock yesterday. You woke me up now. Don't you feel guilty?"
"It's 11 o'clock, big brother!" He turned the camera to the front and pointed it at the clothes in the closet. "Hurry, help me pick out some clothes!"
"I give up," Bai Tao rubbed his eyes, "Are you going on a date? You even need to put together a special outfit."
Xiao Mingyang retorted: "You know shit, this is a handsome guy's self-cultivation!"
"Who the hell would believe that? Didn't you, handsome guy, accompany me to the video game arcade in your pajamas before?" The lights were not turned on on Bai Tao's side, so it was still dark and only his outline could be vaguely seen.
"Hurry up!" Xiao Mingyang urged.
"I don't want to," Bai Tao said rudely, "You have to tell me who your boyfriend is."
Xiao Mingyang tutted his words: "What about the target? I haven't even caught up with her yet."
The lights on the screen suddenly turned on, and a large face appeared on the screen: "Who are you chasing?"
Xiao Mingyang looked at him, smiled for a long time, and raised his eyebrows meaningfully: "Guess."
"Then let me ask you first, is what you said to Liu Jichang true or false?"
"It's half true and half false."
Bai Tao: "Fuck, you didn't even tell me such an important thing? Do you even care about our childhood friendship?"
Xiao Mingyang was amused by his words: "No, brother, check your conscience, have you changed classes?"
Bai Tao: "Yes, so after changing classes, should our childhood friendship fade?"
Xiao Mingyang: "Listen to me."
Bai Tao sneered twice: "Okay, you say."
Xiao Mingyang: "Do you go to art classes after class every day? Even when you have free time, you are still trying to create a dandy image for yourself."
Bai Tao: "Yes."
Xiao Mingyang: "Are you either taking extra classes on weekends or hanging out with Fuzi and the others?"
Bai Tao: "Yes."
Xiao Mingyang joked to himself: "Excuse me, where is your time?"
Bai Tao cleared his throat: "The third one on the left, take it."
Xiao Mingyang's mouth twitched and he narrowed his eyes: "Changing the subject?"
"Are you going to take it or not?!"
"take!"
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There were quite a few people at the bus station. Xiao Mingyang was tall, with good temperament and appearance, and he stood out among the crowd. Li Xiangze saw him as soon as he got out of the station.
Xiao Mingyang also saw his wife moving and waving at him frantically.
Li Xiangze walked over to meet him. Xiao Mingyang took his suitcase and said with a smile, "Let's go back and have something to eat and rest for a while. Chen Qiu's birthday party is at 7pm."
"Okay." Li Xiangze nodded.
In order to store the luggage, Xiao Mingyang drove the Mercedes-Benz that his mother rarely drove today. He only stopped for a short while and there were quite a few people around.
Xiao Mingyang pressed the car key and many people dispersed. He opened the trunk and put the suitcase away.
"Little brother, your car has a nice license plate and the car is nice too." said the people around who were looking at the car.
Xiao Mingyang smiled sincerely and said, "I rented it."
After saying that, he took Li Xiangze and drove away.
In the car, Li Xiangze didn't say anything, just looked out the window, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Aze," Xiao Mingyang turned his head to look at Li Xiangze as the traffic light turned red. "My parents' and mine are different, and we are a family now."
Li Xiangze pursed his lips: "Yeah."
The red light passed and the vehicle started.
"Li Xiangze," Xiao Mingyang rarely called him by his full name, and his tone was unusually serious. "I really like you. If you really mind this, I promise that after we go to college..."
Li Xiangze smiled and interrupted: "Xiao Mingyang, there's no need. This is your starting line."
Xiao Mingyang's fingers on the steering wheel turned white, and his voice trembled: "Aze... don't push me away, please."
"Hmm..." Li Xiangze turned his head to look out the window.
He remembered the confession techniques he had seen online.
Should I really say it?
The first thing Li Xiangze did when he got home was to take a shower and change his clothes. He came here every day on weekends, so he left a lot of clothes here.
After cleaning up, the table was already filled with dishes.
He took a quick look and saw that they were all his favorite foods.
Xiao Mingyang came out of the kitchen carrying two bowls of rice, and asked for credit with a smile: "How is it? Does it suit your taste?"
Li Xiangze nodded: "How do you know?"
"Don't forget," Xiao Mingyang helped him pull out the chair, "we eat together every day at school."
Li Xiangze ate in unusual silence. No matter how Xiao Mingyang tried to find a topic, he remained indifferent, still thinking about something.
"Aze, you don't have to answer me in a hurry. Eat your meal well first, and then go play with your classmates happily. You can answer me anytime. I'm not in a hurry." Xiao Mingyang picked up a piece of fish for him.
"good."
He must have heard it, as he ate much faster than before.
They may play until very late in the afternoon and may not have time to make up for the lessons when they get home, so they move the time to the time after lunch.
Li Xiangze could only concentrate on one thing and put everything else behind him during tutoring. He seemed to be in a much better mood.
As soon as the tutoring ended, he fell into his own emotions again.
Xiao Mingyang took him to his e-sports room and used games to pull him out of his emotions.
It turned out to be very effective.
Moreover, Li Xiangze has a strong learning ability. In the two-player game, Xiao Mingyang won frequently at the beginning. Later, he became familiar with the operation and game mechanism, and Xiao Mingyang had no chance of winning.
An overwhelming victory in every game, with occasional slack.
Xiao Mingyang refused to believe in evil, and became more and more courageous after each setback, repeating the game over and over again until Bai Tao called and urged them to go downstairs, and then he stopped the game.
As an old classmate, Chen Qiu also invited Bai Tao.
They live close to each other, so they can just ride in Bai Tao's car and go together.
Xiao Mingyang had mentioned the matter of adopting a godmother to Bai Tao, and he also knew that Li Xiangze would go home with Xiao Mingyang every weekend as long as he was not on duty.
So I wasn't surprised at all to see the two of them get in the car.
Xiao Mingyang and Bai Tao grew up together and both were chatty types. Li Xiangze was led by them to chat all the way, and he finally calmed down when they arrived at the destination.
Chen Qiu found a party venue and ordered Haidilao takeout, with tomato soup, red soup and white soup filling three tables.
When they arrived, almost everyone in the class was there, and the group was bustling with activity.
Xiao Mingyang took Li Xiangze to deliver the gift first and sat at the red soup table.
Bai Tao looked at the two of them, shook his head, clicked his tongue twice and said nothing.
After giving the gift, my classmates invited me to the tomato soup table.
"Now that everyone is here, turn off the lights!" Chen Qiu shouted.
The lights went out, everyone was singing, and Xu Bo brought out a three-layer cake from the kitchen that his classmates had pooled their money to buy.
Hu Tianyao sat next to Xiao Mingyang and smiled maliciously at him: "There's a piano here, let's have classmate Xiao Ming play a song!"
The classmates followed suit and cheered: "Sing a song! Sing a song!"
Before Xiao Mingyang stood up, he leaned close to Hu Tianyao's ear and said, "Without the teacher here, no one can help you!"
Hu Tianyao laughed so hard that he fell backwards: "That can't be helped, the headband has been taken off."
"Where is the piano?!" Xiao Mingyang asked loudly.
"I'll take you there!" Hu Tianyao also stood up.
Li Xiangze looked at the other person's receding back, feeling inexplicably unhappy.
The girl next to her came over and said, "You didn't know this, but our classmate Xiao Ming is a Grade 10 piano player and won first place in the evening performance!"
"Yeah." Li Xiangze pursed his lips.
He didn't even know Xiao Mingyang could play the piano...
The melodious sound of piano was heard, and the classmates were clamoring for the birthday boy to blow out the candles. Li Xiangze was dragged by the female classmate next to him to the cake to join in the fun.
"Make a wish, make a wish!" the classmates cheered.
Chen Qiu clasped his hands together, looking quite pious.
As he was about to blow out the candles, his eyes drifted to the female classmate who had just pulled Li Xiangze over, and he asked cautiously, "Su Yutong, can we blow them out together?"
Su Yutong?
Sounds a little familiar.
Just as I was thinking about it, the classmates around me started to make a fuss again.
"Blow together, blow together!"
The girl smiled and said, "I'm not the birthday girl."
"The birthday boy has asked for it, so just go ahead and blow it!" Without the teacher around, Hu Tianyao was completely different from how he was in school.
"Okay." Su Yutong agreed very readily.
The students counted down together: "Three, two, one!"
The candle went out, and with a burst of applause, someone turned on the light.
The piano music stopped abruptly, and the birthday song was replaced by the wedding march.
As soon as the prelude sounded, Chen Qiu's face immediately flushed red. Without even having time to cut the cake, he rushed directly to Xiao Mingyang: "Xiao Mingyang! You are really tired of living!"
Xiao Mingyang ran faster than a mother rabbit and slipped away in the blink of an eye.
Chen Qiu ran all the way behind him, from the first floor to the second floor. Xiao Mingyang shouted as he ran, "Birthday star, spare my life!"
The classmates laughed out loud.
Li Xiangze looked at Xiao Mingyang silently, with a smile unconsciously on his face.
In the end, the war ended with Xiao Mingyang being pinned to the ground and surrendering with his hands.
The cake finally became the dessert and was distributed to everyone after the meal.
Xiao Mingyang took a bite himself and scooped the rest onto Li Xiangze's plate.
According to the strategy given by Xiao Dayang, Li Xiangze likes to eat cake.
Moreover, he felt that after he came back from playing the piano, the other person's mood seemed even lower.
He moved his chair over, leaned over to Li Xiangze's ear and whispered in his ear: "What's wrong, Brother Aze?"
Li Xiangze poked at his cake and frowned slightly: "I didn't know you could play the piano."
Xiao Mingyang smiled and poked his face: "I don't usually use this, so I didn't mention it. I'm sorry..."
"No need to say sorry..."
Xiao Mingyang smiled and leaned over: "I still have many hidden skills, do you want to unlock them?"
Li Xiangze looked up at him and raised his eyebrows: "Hidden skills?"
"Yes...Oh, shit!" Before Xiao Mingyang could finish his words, someone suddenly patted him on the back. He was so scared that he almost jumped up.
The perpetrator chuckled: "What are you two whispering about? You won't even let me, the birthday boy, hear it!"
Xiao Mingyang accidentally saw Bai Tao staring at him meaningfully.
It seems that his childhood friend already knows something.
Chen Qiu, stop chasing Su Yutong, just marry Fuzi!
Xiao Mingyang felt hopeless.
Chen Qiu squinted at him and asked, "What bad things are you saying about me in your heart?"
Xiao Mingyang: "..."
Hu Tianyao, enjoying the fun, said with a smile, "I'm calling you stupid."
Chen Qiu: "Xiao Mingyang! How dare you call the birthday boy stupid!"
Xiao Mingyang: "I didn't say that!"
Chen Qiu looked at Hu Tianyao: "Hu Tianyao! I will kill all your clans today!"
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