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"Keep working hard."
The confrontation with Qi Wangzhou took some time.
When Song Siyao found Xu Yingxi, she was alone and Xu Xingluo was not there.
"You're back." Xu Yingxi looked at Song Siyao, then glanced behind him to confirm that Qi Wangzhou was not there.
She half-jokingly said, "Brother, it seems you won the fight?"
Song Siyao's eyebrows twitched, and he asked, "Do you want me to win or lose?"
Xu Yingxi was stunned for a second.
"I don't know," she said, "but I hope Qi Wangzhou loses."
Song Siyao smiled lightly: "Then I will take it as... your support for me."
Xu Yingxi looked at him, surprised that Song Siyao not only accepted her "joke" well, but also cooperated with her very naturally.
She thought that someone like Song Siyao would definitely not accept her attributing his communication with Qi Wangzhou to "fighting over a woman."
Xu Yingxi was a little curious about his frank attitude: "What exactly did you and Qi Wangzhou talk about?"
Song Siyao: "Tell him to stop bothering you."
Xu Yingxi: "That's it?"
Song Siyao said "hmm" without changing his expression.
Xu Yingxi: "You're just trying to fool me."
Song Siyao: “…”
"It's not perfunctory." The man's voice was a little gentler than before. "It's just that what he said was mostly scolding me. I guess you're not interested."
After a pause, he added, "Of course, if you really want to hear it, I can repeat it."
Xu Yingxi couldn't help laughing out loud.
Sometimes, she felt that Song Siyao had a bit of dry humor.
Xu Yingxi: "Alright, alright, forget it then. Thank you for your hard work, Senior Brother, for being scolded for me."
Song Siyao: "It's not hard."
Xu Yingxi blinked.
"Brother, do you know?" she began, "Of all the male classmates who have fought for me since we were little, you're the only one who's ever received my personal condolences."
"How is it?" Xu Yingxi asked, "Do you think I'm pretty good to you?"
Song Siyao's eyes moved: "It's very good."
Xu Yingxi: "Why don't you ask me how many people have fought for me?"
Song Siyao: "How many are there?"
Xu Yingxi narrowed her eyes and said, "I won't tell you."
After saying this, she stopped looking at him.
The girl's mouth corners were raised, and the corners of her eyes were slightly curved. She seemed to be in a good mood as she looked into the distance.
Song Siyao looked at her profile, and a thought suddenly came to his mind.
If only they were the only two here today.
Even if he did nothing all day and just kept looking at her like this, he probably wouldn't feel bored.
Xu Yingxi looked into the distance and saw a small dot moving towards here.
"It seems Xu Xingluo is back." She said, "Oh, did I forget to tell you? There was a kite flying in the sky just now. I watched it for a while, and then Xu Xingluo insisted on finding a way to get me a kite."
When Xu Yingxi said this, her tone was somewhat helpless, but there was a smile on her face.
"I don't know whether he succeeded or not," she said.
Song Siyao: "Do you like flying kites?"
Xu Yingxi: "I wouldn't say I really like it. But there was a time when I was little that I would often fly kites with my sister, parents, and me."
Childhood memories flooded back, and she smiled and said, "At first, my dad thought one kite was enough for our family of four, so he let my sister and I take turns playing with it. But every time my sister or I got the kite, we wouldn't let go, and then we would start arguing."
The small dot in the distance was gradually getting bigger, and Xu Yingxi could finally confirm that the person was Xu Xingluo.
Song Siyao's low and gentle voice came to my ears: "What happened next?"
Xu Yingxi looked at Xu Xingluo running towards her and said, "There's nothing we can do. To stop us from arguing, my parents had to buy a kite for me and my sister."
"Mine is a pink and blue gradient butterfly, and my sister's is a goldfish," she said. "I still think the butterfly kite is beautiful, but my sister always says mine is ugly and hers is beautiful."
"Unfortunately, the kite seemed to have been lost when we moved," Xu Yingxi added. "One day I went to the storage room to look for it, and it was gone."
As he spoke, Xu Xingluo's figure was getting closer and closer, dragging a big kite in his hand.
Xu Yingxi smiled: "It seems he really did find the kite."
Hearing this, Song Siyao slowly shifted his gaze away from her face and looked forward with her.
Xu Xingluo ran over breathlessly, holding the kite, and stood in front of Xu Yingxi: "Mom! Dad!"
The boy ran so fast that his chest kept heaving and it looked like he was having trouble speaking.
Even so, he took deep breaths of air and held up the kite in his hand as if it were a treasure.
Xu Yingxi took it.
It is a triangular rainbow-colored kite that looks very retro.
Xu Xingluo panted and said, "I bought this from a...grandmother! There were only a few left, and I picked the one with the best color!"
Xu Yingxi: "You're quite impressive. How did you find the kite seller so quickly?"
When the boy heard the word "awesome", his mouth almost stretched to his ears.
"It's not that difficult!" Xu Xingluo replied with a grin. "I ran to ask the family of three flying the kite. They pointed me in the direction, and I quickly found it by following the trail!"
Xu Xingluo couldn't wait to say, "Mom, try it now! See if you can make the kite fly!"
Xu Yingxi: "I know, I know."
She fiddled with the spool of thread in her hands and said, "I need someone to hold the kite for me."
Xu Xingluo blurted out: "I'll do it!"
After he said that, he suddenly remembered that maybe he should give this opportunity to his father?
After all, his most important task now is to bring his parents together, so he should try to let them spend more time together.
But……
What if he also wants to fly a kite with his mother?
He has never flown a kite since he was a child!
Just as he was struggling, Song Siyao said softly, "I'll help you and your mother keep an eye out for anyone nearby. Be careful too, don't trip."
Now that his father had spoken, Xu Xingluo no longer hesitated.
"Okay!" Xu Xingluo agreed confidently, "No problem!"
Then he said to Xu Yingxi, "Mom, don't be polite. Just tell me what to do! I promise to be obedient. If I say go east, I will definitely not go west!"
Xu Yingxi was amused by him: "I see, when have I ever been polite to you?"
Xu Xingluo chuckled twice, ran over, picked up the kite, and held it high above his head.
The two of them worked together and tried several times, and successfully made the kite fly.
Seeing the kite flying higher and higher, Xu Xingluo excitedly took out his mobile phone to take photos and videos.
After recording for a while, he turned around and found that his father was also taking pictures with his mobile phone.
But his father’s camera was not facing the sky, but Xu Yingxi who was flying a kite on the grass.
Xu Xingluo: “…”
Suddenly I felt like I had lost in terms of emotional intelligence.
…
After flying the kite for a while, Xu Yingxi handed the spool of string to Xu Xingluo, who was eager to try, and let him play with it for a while.
Keeping the kite flying in the air was easier than releasing it in the first place, and Xu Xingluo quickly mastered the technique.
Seeing that his movements were becoming more and more skillful, Xu Yingxi let him play by himself without any worries.
She walked over and found Song Siyao not far away: "Xu Xingluo just said you were taking pictures of me."
Xu Yingxi stretched out her hand: "Let me see."
Ever since she saw the photos taken by Song Siyao when she went boating in the park last time, she has been very distrustful of this man's photography skills.
So when Xu Xingluo said that Song Siyao was taking pictures of her, Xu Yingxi's first reaction was to check his photo album herself.
A beauty like her would never allow any ugly photos of her that she hasn't seen to exist on other people's phones!
Song Siyao handed the phone to Xu Yingxi as he was told.
Xu Yingxi took it, glanced at it, and said, "You didn't unlock it."
She was about to return the phone to him and enter the password when Song Siyao said, "The password is 235711."
Xu Yingxi: “…”
He just told her the password?
Should I say he's too defenseless, or...
As if seeing through her thoughts, Song Siyao said, "So far, I have only told you the password to my mobile phone."
Xu Yingxi inexplicably felt that the sentence structure was somewhat familiar.
Since Song Siyao didn't mind telling her the password, she naturally had nothing to be shy about.
Xu Yingxi repeated the password in her mouth and entered: "2, 3, 5, 7, 1, 1..."
After reading it, she felt that this string of numbers was a little familiar. After thinking of something, she looked at Song Siyao.
"Your password..." she said, "isn't it a natural sequence of prime numbers?"
Song Siyao: “Yeah.”
Xu Yingxi: “…”
Although this is definitely not advanced mathematics, but...
She still found it a little funny that Song Siyao would actually use this as a password. It was very consistent with the stereotype.
Xu Yingxi: "If I can't expose your privacy, I really can't help but want to complain about your password to others."
Song Siyao said calmly: "I can change a new password so that you can talk about the old one with others."
He actually gave me advice seriously.
Xu Yingxi found it even funnier: "Then what are you going to change it to, the Fibonacci sequence?"
Before Song Siyao could respond, she denied it herself: "No, this is too similar to your original one, it's easy to guess."
Xu Yingxi: "We should change to a password style that is completely different from the current one, such as..."
As she was thinking, she heard the man next to her say, "Your birthday?"
Xu Yingxi: “…”
Although she knew he might not be serious about what he said, her heart still beat faster.
Xu Yingxi: "No, I won't give you authorization."
To hide her sudden discomfort, she quickly opened the photo album on her phone.
The latest photo of her was taken by Song Siyao.
In the photo, she is standing on the green grass, looking up at the cloudless blue sky.
The sunlight fell on her just right, illuminating her whole body.
The angle of the photo is just right, making her look tall and slender.
Xu Yingxi widened her eyes slightly.
This was really... beyond her expectations.
She couldn't find any fault with the composition, angle or light and shadow, and it was so good that it could be posted directly on WeChat Moments.
Could it be that he was fooled?
Xu Yingxi suppressed her surprise and flipped forward.
The photos in front are all of her flying a kite, covering the entire process from releasing the kite to flying it high into the sky.
Xu Xingluo is also in some photos, but most of them are solo photos of her.
Although not every photo is as perfect as the one she saw at first, some of the snapshots are even a little blurry, but overall they all look good.
Xu Yingxi even likes some blurry photos because they have a sense of story and vitality.
As she looked at the photos, Xu Yingxi's speed of scrolling through them became slower and slower, and in the end she was even reluctant to finish flipping through them.
After she finished reading it all, she raised her head.
Xu Yingxi: "Is it okay with you if I send these photos to myself?"
Song Siyao: “No.”
Xu Yingxi: "Use your WeChat?"
Song Siyao: "Okay."
Xu Yingxi selected all the photos and sent them to herself at once.
After sending it, Xu Yingxi couldn't help but say, "Song Siyao, let me ask you a question."
"Have you...specialized in studying how to take photos?"
Song Siyao's voice was light: "Yeah."
“It’s not really research,” he said. “I just looked at a few tutorials.”
Xu Yingxi: "Is it because of the time you took a picture of me in the park?"
Asking this made her seem a bit narcissistic, but she really couldn't help being curious.
Song Siyao's expression remained calm: "Yes."
Xu Yingxi: “…”
He admitted it so frankly that she didn't know what to say for a moment.
Song Siyao: "It seems that you are quite satisfied with the results of my study this time?"
Xu Yingxi glanced at him, feeling somewhat uncomfortable, yet the corners of her mouth inexplicably wanted to rise.
"It's OK," she said. "Keep up the good work."
…
Xu Xingluo flew the kite by himself for a long time and became more and more addicted to it.
If a senior sister in the group hadn't asked Xu Yingxi to go back and play team-building games together, she doubted that Xu Xingluo could have played for another hour.
Compared to making the kite fly, the process of reeling in the kite seems a bit boring.
Xu Yingxi handed the task of retrieving the line to Song Siyao.
The phone rang several times, and several new messages popped up in the roommate group.
Chai Mengtian: [Ah, Saturday is so boring! ]
Chai Mengtian: [You all went out again, leaving me alone in the dorm! ]
Chai Mengtian: [@Xu Yingxi, how was your lab's autumn outing? Was it fun?]
Last night, several people in the dormitory discussed today's plans. Liu Xueyi went out to play with her boyfriend, and Zheng Lei went to the library as usual.
Xu Yingxi: [Not bad, the scenery is beautiful.]
Chai Mengtian: [A few photos!]
Xu Yingxi then remembered that she had not taken many photos of the scenery. She preferred to see with her eyes rather than record with a camera.
After thinking about it, she picked a long-range photo from the photos Song Siyao had just sent her on WeChat and forwarded it to the group.
Chai Mengtian: [Wow! The scenery is really beautiful!]
Chai Mengtian: [What a nice day! The sky is so blue!]
Chai Mengtian: [Xixi, you are so beautiful too! ]
Chai Mengtian: [By the way, who took this photo of you? Pretty good!]
Xu Yingxi's fingers paused.
Xu Yingxi: [My seniors in the lab helped me take the photo.]
Chai Mengtian: [Senior brother or sister?]
Chai Mengtian: [Could it be...our fourth male guest candidate, Song Xueshen?]
The other two people who had been lurking in the group suddenly emerged.
Liu Xueyi: [Wow? Really?]
Liu Xueyi: [Senior Song's photography skills are much better than my boyfriend's!]
Zheng Lei: [The photos are indeed quite good, and the aesthetic standards are above those of most science and engineering men.]
Xu Yingxi: “…”
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