Chapter 729 Cao Shuang
"It's five o'clock, the bell is ringing." Lu Yuanqiu looked at his watch, raised his arms and stretched.
When the bell rings, it means the youth of another group of people has ended.
He held the finished popsicle in his mouth and looked into the examination room. In the classrooms on each floor, he could vaguely see several invigilators busy collecting papers, while the candidates were still sitting in their seats unable to move.
Lu Yuanqiu suddenly felt that No. 46 Middle School was like the examination hall where he took the exam back then.
Even the chirping of cicadas in my ears makes me feel dazed.
June 8th seems to be a sunny day every year.
At this time, I also looked out the classroom window, looking at the blue sky and white clouds outside, imagining what was happening at some point in the future, perhaps just like a student in the window at this moment.
The question is, does the life we live now match the future we imagined in our seats in the examination room back then?
Lu Yuanqiu was thinking about the answer when Bai Qingxia suddenly reached out and pulled the wooden stick out of his mouth. She put it into her packaging bag and prepared to throw it away later.
With Bai Qingxia by his side, the answer seemed to no longer matter.
There was movement below the distant teaching building.
At first, some students walked to the stairs carrying their pencil bags. I don’t know who started running first, but the crowd surged rapidly. Young boys and girls with smiles on their faces rushed to the entrance of the examination room, shouting and having fun like wild horses.
"It's good to be young." Lu Yuanqiu bit his fingers and couldn't help but sigh.
Bai Qingxia listened to his voice, tilted her head, and rarely missed the year when she was 18 years old.
They soon saw Ruan Yueru among them.
Ruan Yueru, wearing a white T-shirt and pleated skirt, rushed to the front row of the crowd.
Everyone was celebrating the end of the college entrance examination, but she was the only one who had an obsessive-compulsive disorder and had to be the first one to rush out of the examination room.
Li Bowen, who was behind her, certainly had no intention of competing with her. He just wanted to hold Ruan Yueru's hand at this moment. After all, he had imagined this scene many times. However, when he got closer, Ruan Yueru glanced to the side and thought he wanted to overtake her, so she speeded up again. She had no feelings about romance in her heart, only the desire for victory.
This scene happened three or four times in ten seconds.
Li Bowen was unable to catch the lead: "Fuck you..."
This scene made Lu Yuanqiu laugh out loud.
He ran away holding Bai Qingxia's hand back then, and even after decades, he still felt that this was more fulfilling than most people.
"Mom! I'm taking the test... Shit!"
As soon as Ruan Yueru called out "Mom", she saw Cao Shuang holding flowers next to her mother.
She was even more surprised than when she saw Lu Yuanqiu in the hotel, and her eyes were wide open.
But because her mother was there, Ruan Yueru just rushed to Cao Shuang, jumped up and slapped him on the shoulder, shouting happily: "Brother Shuang, why are you here?!"
Cao Shuang quickly handed over the flowers: "Of course...it's to celebrate the end of the college entrance examination for you!"
I practiced this sentence many times, but I still almost stumbled when I said it.
Li Bowen quickly braked.
Mother Ruan: "How did Xiaowen do on the test?"
"It's okay, Auntie..." Li Bowen responded dryly.
Mother Ruan obviously just greeted Li Bowen politely, and then silently looked at the two people next to her.
Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia, who were standing under the shed, had sweet smiles on their faces.
I thought only the parents were present, but I didn't expect that my love rival was also involved.
But the winner this time was obviously Cao Shuang.
"For me?" Ruan Yueru looked at the sunflower with shining eyes.
"yes."
Before taking the flowers, Ruan Yueru glanced at her mother. Seeing her mother smiling at her, she also smiled and took the flowers from Cao Shuang with both hands.
Cao Shuang then greeted the woman next to him: "Hello, Auntie."
"Hello." Mrs. Ruan responded politely.
"Um...I'll go find my parents first." Li Bowen pointed behind him and looked at Ruan Yueru.
Ruan Yueru seemed not to hear and was still talking to Cao Shuang. They hadn't seen each other for a semester and she couldn't keep her phone in her hand all the time. She had a lot to complain about with Cao Shuang.
In fact, Cao Shuang's mind was blank. Ruan Yueru kept talking, but he didn't actually hear a word she said. He was just looking at her face, nodding and responding to every word.
Seeing that only Mother Ruan responded to him, Li Bowen walked through the crowd to the back with a depressed heart.
"Shall we go too?" Lu Yuanqiu raised his hand and placed it on Bai Qingxia's shoulder, feeling relieved as if the ending was perfect.
Bai Qingxia: "Yeah."
The two of them squeezed through the crowd hand in hand. Bai Qingxia knelt down and threw the two finished popsicles into the trash can. Then she stood up and shook hands leisurely with Lu Yuanqiu.
The two of them strolled in the sunset along the way back to the hotel.
Lu Yuanqiu: "I guess Cao Shuang will have dinner with Ruan Yueru and her family tonight."
Bai Qingxia: "So fast?"
Lu Yuanqiu: "Inviting someone to dinner together is quite normal. Ruan Yueru will definitely bring it up. How could Cao Shuang not agree?"
Bai Qingxia nodded gently, then heard Lu Yuanqiu's concern. "But I'm afraid this kid won't be able to speak. His social skills aren't suitable for his parents-in-law. If he says something wrong, I don't know if Ruan Yueru can smooth things over for him."
"What's his social style?" Bai Qingxia was puzzled.
Bai Qingxia was actually very puzzled. Cao Shuang seemed so contradictory. From Lu Yuanqiu's description, Cao Shuang had strong social skills and had brothers everywhere he went, but Lu Yuanqiu was worried about Cao Shuang's normal communication with others.
Lu Yuanqiu explained: "If Cao Shuang handed Ruan Yueru's parents a cigarette before speaking, do you think his parents would like him?"
Bai Qingxia was silent for a moment.
Lu Yuanqiu's description was too vivid...
Cao Shuang has a lot of social habits that he can't change. He has too much of a social atmosphere. If he wants to have a normal relationship, he must change them. Lu Yuanqiu has mentioned this to him more than once.
So when facing Lu Yuanqiu and Bai Qingxia, Cao Shuang actually restrained himself a lot, otherwise he would always use "Mom" in his words.
In fact, communicating in this way with boys can shorten the distance, but it will not leave a good impression when communicating with girls, parents-in-law, etc.
To put it bluntly, he doesn't pretend. Brothers all like straightforwardness and honesty, but his straightforwardness and honesty will not play any role in a relationship, nor will it be something that his father-in-law and mother-in-law like.
When Cao Shuang was with Lu Yuanqiu and others, he was deliberately restrained, not swearing or cursing.
He respected Lu Yuanqiu from the bottom of his heart. The seeds of this respect were planted in his heart when Lu Yuanqiu helped his family many times in high school. At the same time, he also did not want to be disliked by Lu Yuanqiu's circle, because Lu Yuanqiu's circle was the circle he most wanted to fit into.
Therefore, only Lu Yuanqiu had seen Cao Shuang's true face. What others saw in Cao Shuang was just a little fan of Lu Yuanqiu, who was obedient, loyal, and a fan.
But if you think about it carefully, Cao Shuang was the leader of every fight in high school. It was just that the way he acted in front of Lu Yuanqiu distorted Bai Qingxia's inherent impression of him.
Lu Yuanqiu suddenly laughed: "Speaking of which, Cao Shuang is definitely the protagonist in underworld stories. Underworld bosses like sons-in-law like him the most."
(End of this chapter)
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