Chapter 86 The Jealous Astrology Book Says We Are Incompatible
"A classmate of mine, someone you don't know." Although she was frightened by Xu Sirui, Zhu Yingning still kindly answered his question, hoping that he would go back to his room and sleep quickly after his outburst.
But Xu Sirui's nerves were clearly too much to handle. He took a step forward, his tall figure blocking out a significant portion of the light, and demanded, as aggressively as if checking someone's household registration: "What's your name?"
"Shao Yanjun."
"Yan in swallow? Yan in wild goose? Yan in gorgeous?" He asked three questions in a row.
"The character 'yan' in 'junyan' and the character 'chan' in 'yeshi' have three strokes under them."
Hearing this, Xu Sirui's expression turned even uglier. He stared at her silently for a long while, until the temperature in the room dropped several degrees. Only then did he utter two syllables through his teeth: "Male?"
"Girl." Zhu Yingning was puzzled. "Why are you so concerned about these details?"
"No." He turned away and snorted. Hearing her say it was a gift from a girl, the nameless anger in his heart subsided a little, but he was still a little unhappy. He sarcastically said, "It's just a scarf, not a villa. Why are you so happy?"
"Of course I'm happy." She blinked. Although she was puzzled by his attitude, she explained seriously, "Because this is the first time someone has given me a gift since I came to Beijing. Friendship is not about money, I cherish it very much."
Xu Sirui couldn't tell what he felt in an instant. He felt touched but also a little ashamed. When he thought about it carefully, it seemed that he had never given her any gifts, and this "first gift" could be easily taken by someone else.
After a moment of silence, she gripped the door handle, yawned, and asked, "Is there anything else? I want to go to bed." She looked like she was trying to get someone out.
He couldn't stay any longer, but when he thought about being chased away by her, wouldn't it seem too cowardly and obedient? He hesitated at the door for a while, dawdling until Zhu Yingning became a little impatient, and then he turned around and left.
**
Although the scarf incident was just a misunderstanding, Xu Sirui didn't know what illness he had. He kept thinking about Zhu Yingning's words, "This is the first time someone has given me a gift since I came to Beijing." He kept thinking about this sentence so much that he almost heard it as an auditory hallucination.
After being in Beijing for so long, she had only received one gift. This was truly pathetic. Xu Sirui believed that he simply couldn't bear to see her so pitiful, so he kept thinking about it. As long as he could find an opportunity to give her a gift and make her feel less pitiful, he would stop worrying about it.
There was Christmas, but he thought it was too tacky. After all, anyone could give a gift on that day, and the abundance of gifts wouldn't highlight his preciousness. He would rather carefully choose a birthday gift and give it to her on her birthday.
However, this raises an awkward question.
He didn't know her birthday.
It would be impossible to ask directly. Asking someone when their birthday is is like hanging a plaque around their neck that clearly says "I want to give you a birthday present". There is no way he would do such a tasteless thing.
In order to avoid falling into the rut of being tasteless, Xu Sirui resorted to despicable methods. He sneaked into Zhu Yingning's room while she was at school and stole her ID card which she had carefully kept in her desk.
First, he looked at the year. It was a year younger than him. Hmm, okay. Then he looked at the date. 0117, which was about two months away, plenty of time to prepare. He pondered what he could give her and thought about searching on his phone's browser. His fingers, however, typed "What is the zodiac sign of someone born on January 17th" into the search bar.
Xu Sirui has always scoffed at theories like constellations, thinking that if you randomly pick up a dog and assign it a constellation, it will fit several of the descriptions. However, when the browsing page popped up "People born on January 17 are Capricorns", he still looked at the relevant descriptions of Capricorn with great interest.
Responsible, down-to-earth, helpful...it's actually quite a match.
Swiping his finger downward, a subtitle prominently displayed: "The following zodiac signs are most compatible with Capricorn." He chuckled, thinking that anyone who believed this would be scammed out of insurance when they got older. However, his eyes couldn't help but glance over, searching through the columns -
The most compatible sign is Capricorn, followed closely by Virgo and Taurus.
I looked through it over and over again, but couldn't find his own zodiac sign, Leo. Instead, at the very bottom, in the column "The following zodiac signs are enemies of Capricorn, Capricorns should never get involved with them", Leo was the first one to be mentioned. The person who created the webpage even deliberately used markdown syntax to bold the three words "Leo man", as if afraid that others would not see it.
Fortunately, the QQ Music downloaded on the phone was automatically playing Xu Song's "The Horoscope Book" at this moment. "The horoscope book says we are not compatible. I am a Taurus and I am not worthy of your kindness~~~" echoed in his ears in a mocking tone.
……Depend on!
Xu Sirui flew into a rage and threw his phone away. After a moment's thought, he picked it up again and threw it even further away, thinking angrily that only idiots believed in things like astrology. Fortunately, he didn't believe it at all.
**
"A birthday present?" Sun Mingyuan asked in surprise. "Xu Sirui, when did you become so human? Who are you planning to give it to? Are you planning to give me, your grandfather, a surprise?"
"Get lost." Xu Sirui felt that he was crazy to call Sun Mingyuan for help. He had been racking his brains for several days but still couldn't think of what to give Zhu Yingning. December was almost over, and he was afraid that he would be unable to make up his mind on her birthday, so he had no choice but to seek help.
Unfortunately, this foreign aid is unreliable, only caring about gossip and not solving the problem at all: "Who are you going to send? How can I help you with advice if you don't tell me who it is, right? You have to tell me the gender so that I can prescribe the right medicine. No, teach students in accordance with their aptitude... That's not right either. Oh, anyway, you have to tell me who it is so that I can give you specific advice! So, who are you going to send?"
Xu Sirui held the microphone, hesitating for a long time before mumbling, "...not a man."
Not a man? What a bullshit answer! How could anyone be so awkward? Sun Mingyuan almost died of laughter on the other end of the phone.
“…”
Listening to his arrogant laughter, Xu Sirui decided to hang up the phone.
As if Sun Mingyuan had telepathy with him, he quickly stopped him, "Alright, alright, I'll stop laughing. It's just a gift for a girl, why are you so shy?" It was easy to guess who he was thinking of giving it to, but Sun Mingyuan just wanted to tease him and deliberately suggested something else, "A girl? That's easy. Just give her some cosmetics."
"She..." Xu Sirui could only say, "She doesn't usually use makeup."
"Then give her a luxury bag."
"There's no way she would accept something like this."
"Give me some valuable jewelry."
"No, if she refuses to accept luxury bags, will she accept expensive jewelry?"
"Then you give me cheap jewelry."
“…”
Xu Sirui began to doubt whether he was crazy for asking Sun Mingyuan for help.
"Give me a skirt. The skirt is nice."
"You're crazy!" He was a little annoyed. "As a man, how is it different from being a pervert if I give her a skirt?"
"Forget it, damn it." He waved his hand. "I'll figure it out myself. I might as well just write a few pieces of paper and draw lots instead of relying on you to come up with these lousy ideas."
Sun Mingyuan tried hard to suppress his laughter: "Actually, I really think that instead of doing all this nonsense, it would be more practical to give her some tutoring books."
As soon as Xu Sirui said this, if he couldn't see that Sun Mingyuan had already guessed that the person he wanted to send was Zhu Yingning and had been teasing him, then he could commit suicide. His face flushed, he gritted his teeth, cursed Sun Mingyuan a few words, and quickly hung up the phone.
Who knew that a few seconds later, Sun Mingyuan called again. Xu Sirui was furious and grabbed the phone: "Are you looking for death?!"
"Master Xu, please spare my life..." Sun Mingyuan said in a frivolous tone, then cleared his throat a few times and changed his tone to a more normal one, saying, "Hey, seriously, when is Yingning's birthday? Please tell me too. If the time is right, we can celebrate her birthday together and have a birthday party or something."
This suggestion was not bad. Xu Sirui suppressed his anger and reluctantly forgave him: "January 17th."
There was silence on the other end for a moment. Sun Mingyuan must have gone to check the calendar. Half a minute later, he came back and said happily, "That's great! It's winter vacation right now, and it's before the Chinese New Year, so everyone's free. Let's invite everyone we can. Oh, and we can create a QQ group and discuss how to give Teacher Zhu a surprise."
The task of forming the group was done by Sun Mingyuan, after all, he was a social bully.
Xu Sirui still didn't want to log into QQ, so he simply created a small account with an original avatar and nickname to join the group. Sun Mingyuan was extremely contemptuous of this and shook his head and said, "Oh... when will you grow up?" It was not until Xu Sirui bent his arm and gave him a light elbow that he completely calmed down.
Then we started discussing the day’s itinerary in the group.
First, the restaurant. Xu Sirui originally wanted to book a nice Western restaurant. Since he was treating, there was no need to worry about the others not being able to keep up. But Wu Bo suggested, "She'd be burdened by a Western restaurant and wouldn't enjoy the meal. I think KFC is better. First, it's less expensive. Second, I previously asked her whether she preferred the Original Chicken or the Colonel's Nuggets. She said she had never had KFC. I told her that KFC's children's meal came with a toy, and she was quite curious."
Sun Mingyuan replied: "Wu Yifei is right."
Xu Sirui also thought it made sense, so they decided to have dinner at KFC.
As for places to visit, Zhu Yingning has always been interested in historical sites, but he was busy working and studying, so he had no time to visit since he came here. After discussing it, everyone decided to go to the Temple of Heaven that morning.
"Let's go play an escape room this afternoon." Sun Mingyuan has been coveting the newly opened escape room store for a long time.
Everyone enthusiastically seconded the proposal.
Guo Yingying reminded her, "There's a time limit for escape rooms. We can only play for one hour. What are we going to do after one hour?"
"You can try some elegant activities, like bowling. It's fun, elegant and novel," Zou Hao added.
Although Xu Sirui had many objections to Zou Hao, he had to admit that the idea was good, so the entire day's itinerary was finalized. Xu Sirui was responsible for the specific reservations and route planning, while the others were responsible for preparing the gifts they were going to give.
Zhu Yingning, the person involved, knew nothing about all this. He worked and studied diligently every day, and also took time to teach others. He was so busy that he forgot everything else.
In the midst of busyness, the final exam arrived.
After finishing the last exam, she put down her pen, rubbed her knuckles which were numb from writing, and turned to look out the window.
Snowflakes are flying outside the window.
The rumor that the world would end in 2012 was widely circulated, and the Mayan prophecy had set off an avalanche in another sense in the Internet world. Everyone was fanatically superstitious about the Mayan's unconventional prophecy, worrying about disasters and craving excitement.
But Zhu Yingning felt that the auspicious snow indicated a good harvest, and the snow and wind sent spring away, so the coming 2012 would definitely be a very good year.
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