"Well! Mom, don't be too tired. I'll go back to do my homework." Xiao Youchen said, carrying his schoolbag and preparing to go home.
The door was unexpectedly locked. Could it be that Ningning hadn't come back yet? At this time before, Ningning would have been sitting by the TV watching TV. Why was she...
He took out the spare key from his pocket to open the door, and asked Shumei in a louder voice, "Mom, is Ningning not back yet?"
"Just focus on your homework and don't worry about her." Shumei's words were tinged with anger. She admitted that Xiao Shuangning was usually quite obedient, but it was a fact that she made a mistake this time. To say that she wasn't angry at all would be a lie.
"Did you ask her to go out and do something?"
"No."
"So where did she go?"
"Wait until she comes back and let her tell you in person where she went. Don't worry about it and go do your homework."
Zhou Yu seemed to see the displeasure on Shumei's face. He stopped asking questions, took off the lock on the door, and went back to his room to do his homework.
But whenever he thought of Shumei's expression just now, he felt uneasy and couldn't concentrate on his homework.
It was deep winter and it got dark early. Soon it was dark and Shumei returned to the yard to prepare dinner.
Xiao Youchen looked out the window worriedly. The sky was getting darker and darker, but he still didn't hear Xiao Shuangning coming back. He couldn't bear it any longer, so he put down his homework and went to the kitchen to ask Shumei.
"Mom, please tell me where Ningning went. It's getting dark soon, and it's not safe for her to be outside alone. I'll go pick her up now."
Xiao Youchen grabbed the door frame with both hands, still feeling a little nervous.
Shumei turned around to look at him, then looked out the window.
The last bus to the village is at 6:30. She was just being tough on the outside but soft on the inside. After hearing what Xiao Youchen said, she was really worried that Ningning would come back late and miss the last bus.
"Well... Ningning went to the town hospital to tutor her classmates."
"Tutoring? Ningning's close classmates all have good grades, so they shouldn't need her to tutor, right? Who is that classmate?"
"Call Zhou Yu..."
"What? Zhou Yu? Why should he let Ningning sacrifice her spare time to tutor him?" How could Xiao Youchen feel good when he heard that he was going to tutor Zhou Yu?
He has always had a bad impression of Zhou Yu, and whenever he thought of Zhou Yu, he felt anxious and worried, always feeling that Zhou Yu was here to snatch his sister away.
Shumei frowned slightly and stopped cutting noodles.
"She brought this upon herself. She's such a taciturn person. If she doesn't make a sound, then she'll make a splash. This time, her sound is truly deafening to our family!" Shumei muttered to herself with emotion.
Xiao Youchen was confused and didn't understand what Shumei was saying at all.
"Mom, what are you mumbling about? I can't understand a word you say. Forget it, I don't know what happened between them. I'm only worried about Ningning. Mom, I'll go to the village entrance to pick up Ningning now." After Xiao Youchen finished speaking, he went back to the main room to find a flashlight and trotted to the gate of the yard without waiting for Shumei's response.
Shumei chased out with a kitchen knife and shouted at the kitchen door, "Slow down, Ningning is not a child anymore, don't be so impatient, be careful on the road."
"Oh! I got it, Mom. Just wait at home and I will bring Ningning back safely." Little Youchen responded to Shumei while running.
He trotted to the entrance of the village, walked back and forth at the intersection in the cold wind, anxiously waiting for the last bus.
He muttered to himself, "Mom, this time too. How could she let Ningning go out alone at night? What if she ran into human traffickers or something? What would happen then?" Humph! It's all that Zhou Yu's fault. He's a disaster, a jinx. Not only does he bring disaster to himself, he also has to bring disaster to others.
Occasionally, villagers returning to the village in groups of three or four would pass by and greet Xiao Youchen politely when they saw him.
"Youchen! It's so cold at night, why are you wandering around here instead of going home?"
"Oh! Uncle Changxing! I'm waiting for my sister!"
"Okay, then be careful. If you're waiting, come back early. It's very low in the sky, and it might rain soon."
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Changxing. Come back quickly!"
The two men exchanged a few brief and polite words, and the villager turned and walked towards the village.
At this moment, Xiao Shuangning was still giving Zhou Yu extra lessons in the hospital.
Zhou Yu argued and argued over the money, insisting that his mother return it to Xiao Shuangning's family. To this end, he even threatened to be discharged from the hospital immediately as a bargaining chip to force his mother.
But the old man is still the wisest. His mother said that if he continued to behave like this, she would transfer him to another school, and he immediately gave in.
He was very happy to stay in the hospital so that he wouldn't have to go to school and could study alone with Xiao Shuangning.
"Zhou Yu, I have taught you all the lessons for today. As the saying goes, a teacher can only lead you to the door, but practicing is up to you. You can review it carefully when you have nothing to do. I have to leave. It's getting dark now, and if you are any later you won't be able to catch the bus back to the village." Xiao Shuangning said to Zhou Yu in a friendly manner while packing her textbooks.
With the lesson of 1,780 yuan, the thorn in Xiao Shuangning's body was completely smoothed out. Even though she was unwilling and helpless in her heart, she could only treat Zhou Yu kindly.
"But... I still don't understand this question! Please explain it to me again!"
"Tomorrow, I'll tell you tomorrow. It's really too late today. If I miss the bus back to the village, you're going to let me sleep on the street tonight?"
"How could that be? I'm here, so why would you end up sleeping on the streets? If you can't go back, just stay here with me. Look, there's a ready-made bed."
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