Chapter 125 Before the Day
Bang!
A sudden knocking sound rang out in the originally quiet living room, causing Lin Xiaolu, who was holding a rag in her hand, to raise her head.
"What is that?"
Lin Xiaolu looked around the glass in front of her with full of doubts, and finally saw a pool of black dirt above the window. When she looked closely again, she found that it was a bug that had hit the glass and died.
"Oh, really, that's disgusting!"
She yelled a little complainingly, climbed up to the windowsill with her hands and feet, and pulled open the window's protective bolt. Standing on tiptoe and with her head held high, she stretched the rag out of the window and tried to wipe off the stains on the window.
However, just as she stretched her hand out of the window, her feet suddenly slipped, and her whole body suddenly leaned back and fell backwards from the window.
“Wow!”
The short exclamation did not last, because a pair of hands suddenly reached out from behind and helped Lin Xiaolu, who was about to fall to the ground.
——"Be careful, Sister Xiaolu."
The visitor said: "If you can't reach it, you can actually transform."
Lin Xiaolu blinked her eyes, raised her head and looked back, only to see Bai Jingxuan standing behind her, looking at her with some worry.
“Hmm…”
It took her a long time to get rid of the fear of nearly falling, and she was depressed for a while before organizing her words. She stood up pretending to be nonchalant: "It's okay! It's okay to fall from such a height anyway. If you always rely on the abilities of a magical girl, you won't grow as a human being!"
“Is that really the case…?”
After letting go of her hand and taking a few steps back, Bai Jingxuan looked at Lin Xiaolu with some suspicion: "But I feel like even if I learn to wipe the windows on tiptoe, I won't achieve any real growth."
"It's not labor if the body doesn't exert any effort!"
Lin Xiaolu raised her index finger and said seriously, "And I read in a book that you can grow taller if you stand on tiptoe and jump frequently!"
Her remarks left Bai Jingxuan speechless.
She was speechless for a long time. She first looked at Lin Xiaolu's height, then thought of herself, and couldn't think of any words that were suitable for the current situation.
After a pause, she spoke hesitantly, revealing an encouraging smile:
"Well, that makes sense!"
"It's too late to say such things after being silent for so long!"
Lin Xiaolu covered her forehead with her hands and sighed, lowering her head in surrender: "Forget it, let's not talk about this anymore."
"Ah, how should I put it... I think that problems like height growth cannot be seen until adulthood."
Seeing her mood drop instantly, Bai Jingxuan hurriedly tried to comfort her: "Look, there's a saying that goes 'girls change a lot when they grow up', and height is also included in that!"
"I don't want to be comforted by an elementary school student who is almost as tall as me about my height! Besides, girls change a lot when they grow up. I'm already 15 years old, and I'm going to have no chance soon!"
Lin Xiaolu was a little mad and said, "I'm obviously drinking milk, exercising, and sleeping for 8 hours. Why?"
"It's fine that Xia Liang is taller than me, but what's wrong with you? Are you taking hormones?"
"I'm considered short in the yard..." Bai Jingxuan explained in a low voice.
“Hmm!”
As the saying goes, lies don't hurt people, the truth is a sharp knife. Her explanation made Lin Xiaolu's unfinished words choke in her throat.
Lin Xiaolu had no way to vent her agitated emotions. She became angrier and angrier. Finally, she could only pick up the rag from the ground and said to the bug stuck on it in an angry tone: "It's all your fault! You made me look so ugly!"
God have mercy on me! This dead insect probably never thought that it would be blamed for this.
"Bugs? Did they hit the window?"
Bai Jingxuan turned her head to look at the rag in Lin Xiaolu's hand and asked doubtfully, "Is there one here too?"
"'Also'?"
Her words attracted Lin Xiaolu's attention, causing her to turn her head and ask, "Did you encounter that, too?"
"Well, there was a moth that hit the kitchen window."
Bai Jingxuan turned around and pointed to the kitchen, saying crisply, "Maybe he was attracted by the light in the room?"
As if to confirm what she said, a flying insect was flying around the light in the living room, occasionally bumping into the outer shell of the living room decorative lamp, making a slight sound.
Both girls' attention was attracted by the flying insect, and they watched its movements together until they saw it give up hitting the lampshade and fly away.
"... Come to think of it, there are indeed more bugs these days. Even though the weather has turned cooler and it's autumn, I keep finding clothes moths on the walls of the house. Are they coming in to keep warm?"
"Is there something broken in the kitchen?"
"That's impossible. We've only moved here a month and a half. How can the food rot so quickly?"
Lin Xiaolu put one hand on her waist and lowered her head to think: "It seems like I need to find something to repel the insects."
"How about trying mothballs?"
Bai Jingxuan suggested: "I remember the teacher prepared a lot of cleaning supplies in the warehouse."
"Teacher...?"
Sitting down along the windowsill somewhat bored, Lin Xiaolu sighed: "Duzhe has been gone for almost half a month, when can he come back?"
"Sister, have you asked the teacher in the group before?"
"I did ask, but what I asked was whether she would come back for the Full Moon Festival."
"I remember the teacher said she wouldn't come back?"
"……yes."
Lin Xiaolu stared at the floor and subconsciously kicked her feet twice: "She said her work is not finished yet and she won't be back."
This was the answer Lin Xiaolu got from the message two days ago.
She sent messages to both her father and Delphinium at the same time, asking about their progress on the Full Moon Festival.
The final result was that Cuiqiao said she would not come back and asked her to spend the holiday with her family; Lin Yun told her that he would come back to celebrate the holiday.
This was indeed an answer that was somewhat beyond Lin Xiaolu's expectations.
Originally, she was actually a little embarrassed, wondering how she should arrange her itinerary if both of them came back during the holidays.
This is the tradition of Donghua Prefecture. The Full Moon Festival is a festival for family reunion. In most cases, being with one's own blood relatives is the top priority. If Cuique and her father both return to Fangting City during the festival, she may need to celebrate in the secret base first, and then go home to spend the festival with her father. Even though she actually wants to celebrate with her companions in the secret base.
Now the problem has become simple. Since Delphinium is not coming back, she naturally has only one option left, which is to go home for the holiday.
"It's a bit regrettable." Bai Jingxuan said in a low voice.
"Who says it's not?"
Lin Xiaolu agreed, "But you should be the one who feels the most regretful, after all, the surprise you prepared will be delayed again."
Bai Jingxuan and Xia Liang regarded this secret base as half a family. If Cuiqiao did not come back and Lin Xiaolu went back to her own home, their Full Moon Festival would indeed be a lot quieter.
"No, it's not a surprise or anything. I just want to wait for the teacher to come back and tell her properly..."
Bai Jingxuan waved her hands in panic: "After all, this kind of thing is a bit too inappropriate to say over the phone."
"What's the matter? It's not a bad thing."
Lin Xiaolu sighed: "You have surpassed me, a senior who became a magical girl two months earlier than me, and awakened your magic suit first. You should be a little more confident."
"Sister Xiaolu..."
The sadness in her tone made Bai Jingxuan feel a little overwhelmed: "Did I make you unhappy?"
"Unhappy?"
Looking at Bai Jingxuan, Lin Xiaolu squinted her eyes and propped up her chin: "How can I be happy? I have been a magical girl for nearly five months and I am still a species. The elementary school students who served later than me have mastered magic equipment. How can I be happy?"
"This, I..." Bai Jingxuan opened her mouth, not knowing what to say to comfort her for a moment.
The two of them were silent and looked at each other without saying a word.
——"Puha, what's with that expression on your face!"
Lin Xiaolu noticed her reaction, and after a while, she laughed and pinched Bai Jingxuan's cheek: "I'm not such a petty person. I won't hate you for such a small thing. Don't be so sad, as if I am bullying you."
"It's true that I'm unhappy, but it's because I feel so bad about myself. It has nothing to do with you."
"But Sister Xiaolu is not bad at all."
With Lin Xiaolu pinching her face, Bai Jingxuan said seriously, "I think you are amazing."
"I've already said it, being comforted by an elementary school student is not a happy thing."
Helplessly letting go of her hand, Lin Xiaolu grinned and said, "It's better to say that when I think about my current situation, my sense of frustration becomes stronger."
"But I..."
Bai Jingxuan tried to persuade her further, but her words were soon interrupted by the sound from the entrance.
Bang! Along with the crisp sound of the door closing, two cheerful greetings reached the ears of the two people: "I'm back!" "I'm back!"
The people who came were none other than Xia Liang and Mo Ke.
Xia Liang was seen wearing casual clothes, with sparkling earrings on her ears, dressed quite fashionably, and walked into the house carrying a lot of plastic bags in her hands: "Can anyone help me carry my things? They are too heavy!"
"Ah, yes!"
Bai Jingxuan immediately went to greet him, and Lin Xiaolu followed leisurely behind. After seeing Xia Liang, she immediately put away the smile on her face.
"What's that expression on your face?"
Xia Liang followed Bai Jingxuan into the living room and saw Lin Xiaolu with the same sour face as always. He asked in confusion, "Is your period coming?"
"What are you talking about? You're the one with the period! I'm just in a bad mood!"
Lin Xiaolu retorted unhappily, holding a rag and approaching Xia Liang: "Where have you been? Why did it take you so long to buy something?"
“This…”
Hearing this, Xia Liang smiled happily: "I just happened to meet two classmates in the mall. After I gave them some suggestions, we started chatting and had lunch together."
“Eh——”
Lin Xiaolu said faintly: "You're just going to leave the two of us at home to do odd jobs, and go out to be a socialite by yourself?"
"What do you mean by doing odd jobs? It was you who played rock-paper-scissors with me and said whoever lost would have to go buy groceries."
Xia Liang also pouted in dissatisfaction: "I still remember the smug look on some people's faces when they won the guess, and now they're regretting it?"
(End of this chapter)
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