Chapter 388 Peace of Mind

After looking at the photos, it was already early morning. Mu Zhengguang returned to his room and fell asleep quickly.

Xu looked at the chat records with Mu Zhengguang, which were the photos she had sent to Mu Zhengguang and which Mu Zhengguang had sent to her not long ago. The more she read, the more awake she became, without any sense of tiredness.

How far will my relationship with him develop? How will it end? When will it end? What will cause it to end?
Is it going to stop here? More than friends, but less than partners?

I don't know, I can't see clearly, I can't figure it out. I vaguely feel that this is not the case, but I don't have a particularly clear reason to prove it.

I can't sleep. Let's make a more detailed travel plan. Even if I don't make a plan, it's good to look at the museum and the map of East Lake, so that I don't have to rush after I get to the scenic spot.

At one o'clock, Xu finished reading the map.

It was half past one and Xu was still asleep.

At seven o'clock, the alarm clock rang. Xu got up, drank some water, took a shower, turned the air conditioner to a very low temperature, and blew the cold air for a while. Only then did he barely regain consciousness.

She put on her coat, went out, knocked on the door, and the door opened. Mu Zhengguang was carrying his schoolbag and was obviously ready.

"Wait for me, I haven't packed my bag yet."

Xu returned to his room and thought to himself that he was really confused: He was carrying his schoolbag when he opened the door yesterday, and it must be the same today. How could I forget to pack my schoolbag first?
Mu Zhengguang took two steps back, sat on the bed, and waited for Xu to arrive.

Bring your charger, power bank, selfie stick, ID card, keys, mobile phone, tissues, and tablet computer, and you're ready to go.

In the morning, Mu Zhengguang and Xu went to a roadside shop to eat hot dry noodles.

After paying, Xu waited, but the hot dry noodles hadn't arrived yet. He put his schoolbag on the chair and said, "Wait for me. I'll go across the street to buy some soup dumplings."

When Xu came back with the soup dumplings, two servings of hot dry noodles were already on the table, but Mu Zhengguang hadn't picked up his chopsticks yet.

"Are you waiting for my soup dumplings, Xiao Mu?"

"Yes, no, no." Mu Zhengguang was waiting for her, not for her soup dumplings.

Xu opened the bag of soup dumplings, picked one up and put it in his bowl, and pushed the rest to him: "This morning will be very busy and hard, you should eat more, otherwise you will be hungry."

Faced with Xu's hospitality, Mu Zhengguang no longer refused: "Thank you."

Xu finished his hot dry noodles and soup dumplings, while Mu Zhengguang finished his soup dumplings and had half a bowl of noodles left.

It was only morning, and he was sweating so much? Xu opened his schoolbag, took out a piece of white paper for writing plans, and fanned him. His expression was so calm and at ease?

"Student Xiao Mu, I find that you really know how to enjoy life. When I fan Wu Xuehan, she always feels embarrassed, but when I fan you, you seem to be very used to it." Xu did not forbid him from enjoying being fanned, nor did she not accept his composure. She just wanted to understand where this composure came from.

Adapt? I'm used to being taken care of by Xu? I'm not a child who hasn't grown up, how can I get used to being taken care of by her? This is really a very "disgraceful" thing. But along the way, she was the one who wrote the plan and checked the route, and I did nothing.

I am used to being taken care of by her. Is it because I think of her as a sister? Is it because I think of myself as her brother? Not really. I have cousins, and I don’t feel as relaxed with them as I do with Xu.

Is it because I like her? I accept her help, but I am also ready to help her. Except for things that cross the line, we support each other in other matters. "Because we rely on each other."

Mutual dependence? When he relied on me, he was also waiting to be relied on. This makes sense, but he omitted so much that the answer seemed a bit far-fetched.

"Okay, rely on each other, I remember that."

That morning, the two men, who depended on each other, took hundreds of photos in the museum. They saw the world-famous Sword of Goujian, King of Yue.

In the three hours in the museum, I only added more than 5,000 steps. Adding the steps I took while walking, I just exceeded 6,000 steps.

After lunch, Mu Zhengguang and Xu set out for the East Lake Scenic Area. At this time, Xu was very tired and wanted to doze off, so she bought a cup of coffee on the way.

While riding in the car, Xu saw Mu Zhengguang's head nodding. Hmm, he was dozing off. He refused to drink my coffee and insisted that he was awake. Now, I am awake and he is about to fall asleep.

But this was in a taxi, so if he fell asleep, he fell asleep. Even if he fell asleep on the bus, it would be okay because I was watching him and reminding him to get off the bus.

Xu took more than a dozen photos of Mu Zhengguang and recorded a short video. These photos and videos are important "evidence", not to prove that he lied, but to prove that he was very tired.

When they arrived at the destination, Xu tapped Mu Zhengguang's shoulder gently with his cell phone, but Mu Zhengguang did not wake up immediately.

His condition is scary. There are so many activities this afternoon, including biking, cable cars, and slides. Maybe we should add one more activity. That activity can be done elsewhere, but it may not be suitable here, because...

Never mind, as long as I don't tell him, he won't know what's so special about that activity. But in this case, am I at a disadvantage? We are obviously doing something very important, but he doesn't know that it is very important!

Maybe, he will know. He doesn't know what that incident means, but this memory is also very precious to him. Driven by curiosity, he will definitely check carefully where we went and what we did today, and then he will know...

Xu showed him the photos he had taken: "Do you want to rest for a while? Otherwise, I'm afraid you'll fall while riding your bike."

Mu Zhengguang glanced at the photo of him dozing off and said, "No need, I've rested enough."

"Is that true?" Xu was skeptical of what he said: When we were in high school, we had to take a lunch break at noon. You didn't take a lunch break after the college entrance examination holiday, but you slept until eleven or twelve o'clock in the morning, or even got up in the afternoon. You didn't take a lunch break yesterday or today, and you didn't go to bed too early these two days. Were the ten minutes you dozed off in the car enough to eliminate your fatigue?

“Yes.” In the past ten minutes or so, Mu Zhengguang felt that he had a fulfilling life: he would occasionally doze off during class in high school. Usually, such dozing off would only last for a short while. When he woke up suddenly or on his own initiative, he would become energetic and be able to concentrate on the class.

The same thing happened today. After getting up early for two consecutive days without taking a lunch break, I was naturally very tired in the afternoon and had to sleep for a while, just a short while. And this short time could even have the effect of sleeping for a few hours at night.

"Okay then, let's go scan the shared bikes."

When answering the question for the second time, Mu Zhengguang's answer did not change, so he must have been telling the truth.

Before scanning the shared bicycles, Mu Zhengguang and Xu each bought a few bottles of water, and then they rode their bicycles into the East Lake Scenic Area together.

There are many tourists in the scenic area. Xu advised: "Don't look back deliberately when you ride your bike. There are many people here and it's not safe to look back. If you can't see me all the time, just slow down a little. I can catch up with you faster."

"I understand. I will be careful." Mu Zhengguang decided to slow down from the beginning so that he would not be too tired and would have enough time to enjoy the scenery.

(End of this chapter)