Tong Yan took Xu Xinduo to an apartment building in the city center, swiped his card to enter the building, and walked with Xu Xinduo to the elevator door.
While waiting for the elevator, Tong Yan met some familiar people, a man and a woman, both tall. Tong Yan nodded to the man but said nothing.
The woman looked at them and then whispered to the man beside her, "Is there anyone else living in this building?"
"Well, I sold one floor."
The four of them entered the elevator together without saying a word. It was not until Tong Yan took Xu Xinduo out of the elevator that he whispered to Xu Xinduo, "The man just now was from the Yin family. His name seemed to be Yin Shaochen."
There are two chaebols in their circle, one is the Tong family and the other is the Yin family.
Tong Yanhe was also familiar with this person. After all, they often met in some occasions.
Tong Yan will be the heir of the Tong family in the future, but he is not sociable and has never talked to those people. He also doesn't want to take over the business, which gives Tong's father a headache.
"The house you bought from him?" Xu Xinduo just heard the conversation between the two people.
"I asked the housekeeper to buy it. I don't know where he bought it from, but maybe it was." Tong Yan walked to the door to set up the fingerprint entry for Xu Xinduo, and said at the same time, "There is another kid in the Yin family who is in the first year of high school. He always jumps in front of me, which is very annoying."
"Yin Shaoshu?"
"Yes, that's him."
"I had a fight with him once."
Tong Yan finally reacted and figured out why Yin Shaoshu always challenged him. It turned out that it was Xu Xinduo who caused the trouble?
"You guys have fought before?" Tong Yan asked in surprise. He had no idea about it.
"Just fight, do I need to report to you?"
"No, no." Tong Yan immediately waved her hand, "Aunt, you can do whatever you want. I just want to ask: Did you win?"
“I won.”
"That's fine. If I don't win, I'll fight back."
After the fingerprints were entered, Tong Yan also told Xu Xinduo the password, and then led her in, sighing: "You rarely cause trouble, why would you go to fight?"
"He has no respect for girls."
"Oh, I understand then."
When Xu Xinduo walked into the house, he felt that no one could enter the house. The whole house was filled with snacks of all kinds and flavors, piled everywhere.
She looked at the house, then turned to look at Tong Yan and asked, "What's going on?"
“A gift.”
"These snacks?" Xu Xinduo pointed at the ground and asked.
"This house." Tong Yan answered, pointing at the roof.
The house that Tong Yan bought was a large flat, and he entered the house as soon as he got off the elevator. However, Tong Yan thought that Xu Xinduo was the girl living there, so he built a foyer and added a lock just in case.
When you walk into the house, you will see a very bright and spacious large flat. The first thing you enter is the entrance lobby, which is filled with snacks.
Fortunately, a path was created among the snacks, allowing her to pass through them and enter the room.
Looking at the living room again, there were balloons floating on the roof, and a small box was tied under each balloon.
The background wall is also decorated with birthday balloons and flowers, making the large house look full.
Tong Yan bought a fully furnished house. After cleaning it and doing some soft decoration, he can move in.
The overall style is mainly white, clean and neat. The overall decoration style and home furnishings are also mainly simple. After Xu Xinduo walked in and saw the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, he paused for a moment before quickly running over, opening the glass door, walking to the balcony, and seeing the night outside.
The location here is considered to be the best location for night view in the city. Seeing the bright lights outside, Xu Xinduo's heart trembled twice.
Tong Yan introduced to Xu Xinduo: "There is a shopping mall opposite the community, and the transportation nearby is convenient and close to the hospital. Have you seen the landscape lake? It is built in the community. Isn't it very beautiful? When the time comes, you can move here and bring grandma over. We will hire a few nannies to take care of grandma. Even if you go to school, you don't have to worry about grandma's health problems, because there are people to take care of her."
Xu Xinduo liked it, but she knew that she couldn't accept Tong Yan's things like this.
She still walked out of the balcony and into the living room, saying at the same time: "I can't owe you too much."
"How can this be called a debt? I volunteered. Look at this house. The house is full of your favorite snacks, the bedroom is full of candies, and the bedside table has medicine you can take when you are not feeling well."
Xu Xinduo looked at Tong Yan, looked at him quietly, and after a long time she lowered her eyes and said, "Tong Yan... I don't want to develop a dependent relationship with you... Am I a blood-sucking worm?"
Tong Yan had long thought that Xu Xinduo would definitely not want it. The biggest expense for this little girl when she accepted his help was actually buying her a pair of safe pants for several years...
"If you've been wronged by the Mu family, come and live here. Just treat this place as your trump card, your confidence. Even if you break up with them, you won't be homeless." Tong Yan could only say this, and then gave Xu Xinduo an elevator card.
Xu Xinduo hesitated for a while after looking at the elevator card, but still reached out to take it: "Okay, I'll come over for snacks from time to time."
"If you're afraid of getting fat, use my body to eat." Tong stretched out his hand and rubbed Xu Xinduo's head, but Xu Xinduo leaned back to avoid it.
"good."
Tong Yan walked towards a guest room and said to Xu Xinduo, "I'll wake up grandma."
Xu Xinduo quickly ran over and asked, "Did you pick up grandma?"
"Um."
"Did he pick her up on a motorcycle?"
"I'm a tiger?!" Tong Yan was stunned by Xu Xinduo's imagination.
After knocking on the door for a while, Grandma Xu opened the door and came out, looking at Xu Xinduo with a smile: "Duoduo is here?"
Xu Xinduo immediately reached out to help Grandma Xu: "Well, how are you feeling recently?"
"Everything is fine. The food is good and the accommodation is good, but there is nothing to do. Fortunately, I can still learn calligraphy." Grandma Xu walked out and explained to Xu Xinduo, "I'm old and can't stay up late. I'll sleep for a while and celebrate your birthday after twelve o'clock."
Tong Yan went to the side, picked up a bag of snacks and tore it open. While eating potato chips, he said to Xu Xinduo: "I originally wanted to hold a very grand birthday party, but when I thought you might not like it, I gave up and brought grandma over so that the three of us can celebrate together."
Grandma Xu added, "We both made a birthday cake for you."
As he said that, he took Xu Xinduo to the kitchen.
While walking, Tong Yan came close to Xu Xinduo and whispered, "I told grandma that this is a rented venue, and she seemed...unable to accept this transition all at once."
Xu Xinduo nodded: "Well, I understand."
Walking into the kitchen, Xu Xinduo was stunned when she saw the cake.
Tong Yan was still introducing it to Xu Xinduo: "I said I wanted to make a cake, and grandma confidently said she could make several kinds. Look at this cake, a big cake made of cornmeal. I hollowed out the middle to put butter in it, but grandma disagreed, saying it was not cost-effective, so I spread soybean paste and smoked chicken on it. Finally, I spread a layer of butter on it and put two strawberries in it."
Xu Xinduo didn't know whether to laugh or cry when looking at the cake.
Tong Yan introduced another cake: "Take a look at this cake, it's even better, a smooth and tender date cake... It also contains the dates that grandma brought from the village. We also decorated the top of the date cake and wrote your name on it."
Xu Xinduo looked at the date cake with cream on it and the words "Happy 17th Birthday, Duoduo" written on it. As she smiled, her eyes turned red.
She didn't want much.
Being with the people you care about, just being ordinary is fine.
Something grand and spectacular may not necessarily move Xu Xinduo, but Xu Xinduo will remember a small and inadvertent detail for a long time.
Her life was really boring in the past few years. There were only two people she cared about, Grandma Xu and Tong Yan.
Now, looking at the cake that these two people prepared carefully for her, although it didn’t look very good, her heart was filled with tenderness.
She looked at the cake for a while, then sat down at the dining table and asked, "Are there any candles? I want to make a wish."
Tong Yan brought a candle from the side and muttered as he opened it: "I don't know if it can be stuck, I'll stick it on the date cake."
After reluctantly inserting two candles, which could fall at any time, Xu Xinduo could only sit in front of the table with his hands clasped together and his eyes closed to make a wish.
Tong Yan and Grandma Xu watched from the side. After Xu Xinduo blew out the candle, Tong Yan leaned on the table and asked, "What wish did you make?"
"I hope you can pass the exam after you take it yourself."
“…” Tong Yan felt that this was a sad topic.
At this time, Xu Xinduo actually heard a strange cry, and immediately got up and went out. When he walked to the door of a room, he saw a rooster and an old hen inside.
When she opened the door, two little lambs slowly walked out, chewing something in their mouths and eating with relish.
Xu Xinduo looked at this scene in silence for three full minutes without saying a word, and the previous touch disappeared in an instant.
Tong Yan stood aside and explained: "This house has six rooms, and it's too empty with so few people living in it, so I bought this. I can raise it and kill it for meat. How great is a big rooster? Isn't grandma envious of the neighbors who have big roosters? This rooster can crow for you every day."
Romance means giving a gift without giving an empty wallet, there is money in it.
The way to destroy romance is not to give an empty wallet as a gift, but to stuff it with advertisements for roadside distribution, which are specifically for treating infertility.
Xu Xinduo took a deep breath, walked into the room, picked up the rooster by its wings and took the chicken out, saying, "Eat it."
"Huh? You're eating right now?"
"Well, is there a knife here?"
"Yes, there is..." Tong Yan took a breath after answering.
Xu Xinduo carried the chicken in one hand and walked towards the kitchen. After a while, he started to make chicken soup after cleaning it.
Tong Yan watched silently, thinking to himself that this kind of woman who kills chickens without blinking an eye should not be provoked.
Grandma Xu cut a piece of date cake for Tong Yan to eat, and Tong Yan didn't refuse. Xu Xinduo stewed soup over there, and Tong Yan and Grandma Xu ate the "cake" together.
While Xu Xinduo was waiting, she picked up her phone and saw the message from Mu Qingyi: Don't stay out overnight, come back early.
Xu Xinduo was shocked when he saw the message and quickly replied: Yes, OK.
Obviously Mu Qingyi already knew it and could no longer play dumb.
Mu Qingyi: The birthday party will start at 7pm. After school, classmates will come one after another. You can just prepare the dress and put it in the room.
Xu Xinduo: Okay.
Xu Xinduo turned around and told Tong Yan about this matter. Tong Yan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about him."
Tong Yan saw that it was already twelve o'clock, and said to Grandma Xu: "Grandma, please order the soup."
After giving the instructions, he took Xu Xinduo out, and the two of them went to the open-air balcony together. Tong Yan turned on the speakers and played a song.
The balcony is also decorated with star lights and flowers around it. There are several aromatherapy lamps among the flowers, shining brightly. The light shines through the gaps in the lampshade, casting dots of starlight on the glass and surroundings, making it look dreamy and girly.
Tong Yan stretched out his hand towards Xu Xinduo, making an invitation, and Xu Xinduo did not hesitate and held Tong Yan's hand.
On their birthdays, they danced together.
Both of them had taken dance classes, but unfortunately they had only learned men's dance postures in those classes, so Xu Xinduo was not used to being Tong Yan's dance partner.
The two danced for only a while before Xu Xinduo put his arm around Tong Yan's waist and let him lean back.
After being controlled by Xu Xinduo, Tong Yan's expression collapsed. He stopped dancing with Xu Xinduo and stood up to remind Xu Xinduo angrily: "You are a girl! You are a girl!"
Xu Xinduo could only apologize: "Sorry, I'm used to it."
Tong Yan came over again, stretched out his hand and pulled Xu Xinduo in front of him. Due to the inertia of her body, she fell directly into his arms.
When they looked up, their eyes met, and Xu Xinduo panicked for a moment.
Tong Yan was finally satisfied, and smiled slyly. Then he put his arms around Xu Xinduo's body, controlling her body to cooperate with him and letting her dance with him. Although the movements in the middle are not perfect, the degree of completion is very high.
After the dance, Tong Yan said to Xu Xinduo: "Happy birthday."
Xu Xinduo secretly clenched her fist, and the palm of her hand seemed to still have the warmth of Tong Yan's palm. Then she replied: "Happy birthday."
Afterwards, they let Grandma Xu go to rest, and Tong Yan would send a car to take Grandma Xu back to the nursing home tomorrow.
Xu Xinduo kept looking at the chicken soup and turned off the fire when he felt it was almost done. The two of them sat together and drank some of it. They also ate the cake made by Grandma Xu and Tong Yan. Xu Xinduo packed the rest of the chicken soup in an insulated box and took it back.
Tong Yan sent Xu Xinduo to the community and deliberately stopped a little further away to avoid being seen by others.
After getting off the car, she reminded him: "Be careful when you go back. It's so late and you are driving while tired."
"I'm a night owl. I don't sleep much at this time." Tong Yan took out a box from his pocket and gave it to Xu Xinduo, "Birthday present."
"Hasn't it been delivered?"
"I knew you wouldn't want it, so I prepared this for you. If you don't want it, then we can just break up."
Xu Xinduo accepted the small box, and then whispered: "I also prepared a gift for you, I will give it to you when we get to school."
"Well, okay, don't tell me what it is yet, otherwise it won't be a surprise. Go back. I'll go back when I see you enter the house."
"good."
Xu Xinduo walked towards the Mu family with her things and found that the lights were still on in the living room. She walked to the door and opened it. When she walked in, she saw Mu Qingyi sitting in the living room reading a book.
There was no one else here, they must have been sent away by Mu Qingyi.
Mu Qingyi saw Xu Xinduo coming in, stood up and walked over, standing in front of Xu Xinduo: "Girls should not come back so late."
"I'll pay attention next time." Xu Xinduo handed the thermos to Mu Qingyi and said, "I made this chicken soup myself, would you like to try it?"
Mu Qingyi took it and asked in surprise after taking a look: "You went out late at night... to make soup?!"
"Who gave me a chicken for my birthday? I killed the chicken and stewed it."
"You still kill chickens? Is this what girls should do?"
Xu Xinduo looked at Mu Qingyi strangely: "Why are you so angry when I kill a chicken? Are you a chicken?"
"..."Mu Qingyi was choked up and didn't answer.
Xu Xinduo didn't stay any longer and was about to go upstairs to her room, but was stopped by Mu Qingyi: "Here you go."
Xu Xinduo turned around and saw Mu Qingyi didn't even raise his head, but handed her a small box with his back to her.
She reached out to take it and asked, "Birthday present?"
"Um."
"Can my chicken soup be considered as your birthday present?"
"random."
"It's really not good." After thinking about it, Xu Xinduo began to think about what to give Mu Qingyi. He has everything he needs.
Mu Qingyi turned around and looked at Xu Xinduo at this time: "You and him are not suitable."
Xu Xinduo's expression gradually became serious, and then he said to Mu Qing indifferently: "He is more important than all of you."
Xu Xinduo could come to the Mu family and become a "family" with them for Tong Yan.
Xu Xinduo could also abandon this family for Tong Yan.
Tong Yan is much more important than the Mu family.
In her heart, he is the most important.
Mu Qingyi's expression was a little lost. He even understood Xu Xinduo's feelings. This family really did not give Xu Xinduo warmth.
Then he said, "If you like, I can help you think of a solution."
"Don't worry, he doesn't like me." Xu Xinduo said, took the gift upstairs and returned to her room.
Xu Xinduo returned to the room and opened the box that Tong Yan gave her. Inside was a watch and a small card.
It was a custom-made watch with a starry night sky on the dial. There was flowing starlight between the movements, shining brightly. It was so beautiful that Xu Xinduo looked at the watch for a long time and liked it very much.
When she opened the gift Mu Qingyi gave her, it was a set of jewelry that seemed to match her one-shoulder dress, which was quite thoughtful.
She put the watch on her wrist, feeling very happy. Although she knew it was not suitable, she still planned to wear the watch to sleep.
morning.
Not long after Xu Xinduo entered the class, the class monitor came to Xu Xinduo and talked about the problem of points.
The exams for international classes are different from those for regular classes. They use computer scoring, which is generally divided into: test scores, daily performance (including attendance), and other bonus points.
The test results are accumulated based on scores. They take the test six times each academic year, three times each semester, and the test time is separate from that of ordinary classes.
Daily performance includes the scores given by teachers of each subject and attendance.
Other bonus points are those obtained by participating in the competition. For example, Tong Yan participated in an international competition and received 80 extra points.
After Xu Xinduo transferred here, he had missed the first exam of the second year of high school, so his points would be far behind others, which would be unfavorable for Xu Xinduo's year-end assessment.
If Xu Xinduo's final score is too low, she might be at the bottom, dragging down the average score of Class 4.
Someone like Tong Yan is the one who raised the average score of Class Four. He always got first place in the exams, his teachers also gave him high marks for his daily performance, and he often took part in competitions. His total score at the end of last year was 391 points higher than the second place.
But the biggest problem was that Xu Xinduo was missing a test score. When calculating the average score, it didn't matter whether Xu Xinduo took the test or not.
So the monitor was sent to discuss with Xu Xinduo, let Xu Xinduo participate in several competitions, and gave Xu Xinduo a list.
There were tea art competitions, basketball competitions, tennis competitions, etc. The monitor was even considerate enough to write down the extra points that would be given for each event on the list.
Xu Xinduo was entangled in the list, and then said: "Okay, let me take a look."
"You can also take the exam for the regular class."
"Ah?!" Xu Xinduo didn't know about this yet. She didn't participate last year.
"There was a student who graduated before who did this. He was in the international class, but actually he studied both courses and was admitted to Huadu University. Later, this way of learning was adopted by the school. Students in the international class can also take the exams of the regular class, and the test scores will be included in the total score, but the scores will be reduced by half, which is also very good. Didn't you study the regular class courses before?"
Xu Xinduo felt that her eyes had been opened, and exclaimed: "So it can be done this way?"
"Yes, but there are very few students who take this test, after all, they have never taken those classes. But you just transferred to this school, so it should be possible."
Xu Xinduo nodded repeatedly: "Okay, I understand. When is the exam for the regular class?"
"The day after tomorrow, you can apply to the teacher, and the teacher will arrange a test room for you. You need to talk to the director of the international class about this matter. It's in the office on the fourth floor, Director Huang, that is, Teacher Huang Hua."
"OK."
When Xu Xinduo was sorting out the competition list, Tong Yan entered the classroom. Seeing the monitor leaving, he asked, "What did you talk about with the monitor?"
"My points are not good, which will lower the average score of our class."
"Give me my points."
"Forget it. God knows what your grades will be like in the future. I might even surpass you if I take one less test."
"..." Tong Yan didn't want to talk anymore. He sat in his seat, stretched out his hand, hooked his finger and asked Xu Xinduo for a gift.
Xu Xinduo understood, took out a box from her bag, opened it, and took out a thick stack of papers from it: "These questions are all set by me for you, summarizing all your previous wrong questions and your shortcomings. You write according to my sequence number, step by step, and you can consolidate your academic performance after answering these questions."
Tong Yan's expression collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye: "Xu Xinduo, is this set of questions my birthday gift?"
"Yes! I carefully designed each question! It took me a whole month to write them! I wrote until late at night every day."
Tong Yan looked at Xu Xinduo's serious expression, then at the stack of papers in the box, and suddenly he felt a little bit high, as if he had drunk Huoxiang Zhengqi water, and in an instant he felt unwell.
Seeing that Tong Yan was a little disappointed, Xu Xinduo immediately clapped his hands: "Of course it won't be just this."
Tong Yan breathed a sigh of relief, but before he could laugh, he saw Xu Xinduo took out a pile of notebooks and tied bows on them: "This is the essence of my class notes! I also drew a diagram for you!"
Tong Yan looked at the thick notes with mixed feelings.
Xu Xinduo looked at his appearance and suddenly panicked, and asked, "Don't you like it?"
"It's indeed more thoughtful than the big cornmeal cake." Tong stretched out his hand to take it, and put the test paper and notes into the box, "I need oxygen..."
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