Chapter 437: Rainy Days

This summer it seems to have rained more than usual.

There is always an umbrella hanging under the wooden desk.

This umbrella is very ordinary, but its position is very special. It is between two desks and is not fully folded.

Xu Yingze's legs occasionally touched the umbrella. One day, he took out the umbrella from under the table and placed it on the desk, making sure Mu could see it. Then, he stretched out his right hand, straightened the umbrella one by one, then held the umbrella tightly with his left hand, turned the umbrella with his right hand to close it, and finally tied the umbrella strap and returned the umbrella to Mu.

"Like new." Mu watched the whole process of Xu Yunze folding the umbrella. It was the first time he saw such a delicate and effective way of folding the umbrella. He was sure that he had learned this method. Getting this reward seemed more gratifying than getting the first place in the school again and again.

"No, no, I just cleaned it up casually."

The umbrella that Xu Yingzong had closed was soon opened again.

At noon that day, the clear sky suddenly became cloudy, and it rained heavily just when school was over.

Only a very few students in the class brought umbrellas. They walked out of the classroom happily and proudly holding their umbrellas.

Xu Ying didn't bring an umbrella. She stood in the corridor, waiting for the rain to stop and for her mother to pick her up.

"Xu Yingze, let me take you home."

Xu Ying saw Mu going downstairs. She didn't expect him to come back, and she never thought that this boy would offer to take her home.

"My house is on the right, we are not on the same route."

"I know. It's raining and you didn't bring an umbrella, so I'll take you home." Mu found these reasons not only to convince the other party to let him take her home, but also to convince himself to reluctantly believe that taking Xu Yingze home was a very normal thing and it was just a favor between friends.

If Xu Yingze brought an umbrella today and I didn't, and it rained heavily, she might also send me home. But it's better not to, because my home is too far from school.

"Thank you."

Xu Ying didn't really want Mu to send her home: a boy sending a girl home was too intimate, and although it wasn't considered crossing the line, it wasn't something that happened often.

Maybe going home together under an umbrella won't have any adverse effects, but before doing this, you must be prepared to bear the consequences. For example, my mother should come to pick me up. If she sees me and a boy walking too close, will she think too much? Will she say something? I don't know.

However, today's situation is indeed special enough. The two of them held up an umbrella and went home together. The bad impact was minimal, but the good impacts were countless.

"You're welcome."

After leaving the school gate and turning right, you can see Xu Yinze's house. It only takes a few minutes to walk from the school gate to his house.

On the way, the two talked about last week's math test. Xu Yingze got one multiple-choice question wrong, but unlike usual, he got full marks.

While chatting with Xu Yunze, Mu tried his best to control the angle of the umbrella, so that the umbrella would be tilted towards Xu Yingze, but not so much that he would get too wet.

"My house is almost here. You've been holding the umbrella for so long. Let me hold it for you."

"it is good."

Xu Yingzhe glanced to the left several times when he received the umbrella. He couldn't see clearly whether Mu's clothes were dry or wet, but his intuition told him that it was raining so hard today, and if two people shared one umbrella, he didn't get wet, but the other person must have gotten wet.

After Mu handed the umbrella to the hermit seeker, he noticed that the raindrops falling on him had decreased. He looked at the dark rain curtain, and the rain was not decreasing. The sound of raindrops hitting the ground seemed to be louder than before.

When I hold an umbrella, I get rained more. When someone else holds an umbrella, he or she gets rained more. There is no difference.

Mu and Xu Yingze held up umbrellas one after another and came to the same conclusion.

At noon that day, Mu met Xu Yingze's mother for the first time. Her mother was holding a green umbrella and a purple umbrella.

Xu Yingze took the purple umbrella and returned the blue one to Mu: "Mom, this is my deskmate. He always ranks first in the school in every exam."

"Oh, it's Xiao Mu. He didn't bring an umbrella. Thank you for sending him back." Wang Hongyu knew who his daughter's deskmate was, and who was the top student in every exam. His daughter often mentioned this person. Seeing Xiao Mu today, he really looked like someone who could get the top score in the school.

"You're welcome, you're welcome." "Thank you, I'm almost home, you should go home soon too."

"Ah."

Wang Hongyu watched Mu walking away with an umbrella.

Xu Ying opened her umbrella and no longer enjoyed the protection of others.

There was a short distance from the roadside to the house. Wang Hongyu was very curious about what kind of boy Mu was, so she wanted to take this opportunity to ask.

"What kind of person do you think your deskmate is?"

Wang Hongyu suddenly realized that the question of "what kind of person is he" was too difficult for his daughter to understand. She was less than ten years old, and she couldn't even describe herself clearly, let alone evaluate others.

"Besides studying, what other strengths does he have? When he talks to you, do you like him or dislike him? Are you willing to talk to him or sit at the same table with him?"

Xu Yingze answered without hesitation: "Yes."

Wang Hongyu was not surprised by this answer. If his daughter didn't want to sit at the same table with him, Mu was unlikely to hold an umbrella and send her home.

Wang Hongyu smiled and repeated the previous question: "When he talks to you, do you feel like it or hate it?"

Xu Yingze thought about it for a long time. Mu had said a lot to him, but none of them made her feel disgusted. Mu's words to others were not always nice, but they had nothing to do with him.

“Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don’t like it so much, but I don’t hate it either.”

"Is there anything he does that you like, or that you don't like?"

"All."

With these two answers, Wang Hongyu roughly understood his daughter's attitude towards wood: she likes it.

If you ask your daughter directly whether she likes Mu, you may get a false answer. Even if the answer is true, asking this question rashly may cause her to be disgusted. However, if you change the form and do not ask her whether she likes this person, but ask how she feels about what he says and does, you can also get the final answer.

"Is he a good friend of yours?"

"Yes."

Wang Hongyu wanted to tease his daughter: "Did he say that?"

Xu Yingze recalled carefully, "You are my good friend." Such words or similar words were never said by Mu, nor did he say them.

"No. But he must have thought so."

Wang Hongyu agreed with Xu Yingze's point of view. Although she only saw one thing, that is, taking a long detour to send her home, her daughter must have seen many things, and these many things can prove that they are good friends.

In the afternoon, Xu Yingze picked the largest ugly orange from the refrigerator and brought it to school. Before class, she peeled the ugly orange and gave half to Mu.

Mu was originally quite curious about why Xu Yingze could easily peel such a big "orange", but when he asked his deskmate for the "orange" peel, he realized that the peel of this orange was very soft, and it seemed more like a tangerine than a tangerine.

"Is this an orange or a tangerine?" Mu simply peeled off some of the white silk on the outside of the tangerine and placed it on the orange peel.

"It's the ugly orange, also called the unknown fire, and it's about the same price as the orange."

Mu ate a slice of ugly orange, which tasted better than any other orange she had ever eaten.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

(End of this chapter)