Rebirth: Growing Up Together

Holding Xiaobai's neck skin, Xu Cheng quickly retreated from the room. Yu Yu couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth slightly. If he touched it carefully, his face was slightly hot.

I took off my wet T-shirt, vest, and pants in a daze... I only realized how stupid I was when I was halfway through taking off my clothes...

It's not wet here.

After changing out of her wet clothes, she felt much drier immediately. Thinking of Xu Cheng still wearing wet clothes, she picked out the largest-looking coat from her limited clothes in her small wooden cabinet.

Xu Cheng squatted under the eaves and played with Xiaobai.

"You are still young. You should be a cat with ideals and ambitions. You can't just lie down and eat and wait for death every day."

"Come on, backflip!"

Xiaobai drooped his eyelids and turned his head to the side.

This human...does he eat oil cakes?

The door was pushed open, and Yu Yu handed a slightly loose black coat to Xu Cheng.

"what?"

Xu Cheng glanced at him, and Yu Yu didn't answer, but just lowered his head embarrassedly.

Xu Cheng was stunned.

"Is it for me?"

Yu Yu nodded vigorously.

Xu Cheng held it up in front of himself and gestured, "Can I wear this... Forget it, I'll leave soon."

Yu Yu tugged hard at the corner of his clothes.

"Try..."

Xu Cheng hesitated for a few seconds, "Well... okay..."

I tried it on in the house and it was a little tight, but it still fit.

"This size is too big... I don't think you can wear it even if you're an adult..."

The clothes Yu Yu wears are always much larger than her current body size, which makes this girl look very bloated on weekdays.

Children from poor families are like this. They cannot buy clothes that fit according to their current body shape, otherwise they will not be able to wear them in a year or two. They have to buy very large clothes that they can wear for five or six years.

"In fact, you have made a lot of money. Just buy yourself some nice clothes like an ordinary girl. You can just ask for more betrothal gifts in the future."

You have to know that in the next ten years or so, the only thing that can compete with the soaring housing prices is the bride price.

bride price?

Yu Yu didn't understand what he heard.

I seem to have heard my mother-in-law say that it is the money that the other party will give after marriage, but no one would be willing to marry a weird kid like her.

What about the bride price? It’s something I dare not even think about.

A drop of water suddenly fell on Xu Cheng's neck. He touched it, then looked up and found a large wet area on the roof, with water drops dripping from the wrinkled wall.

Yu Yu also noticed his gaze and felt a sense of embarrassment and uneasiness.

So shameful...

Xu Cheng stood up and frowned.

"Your roof is leaking."

Yu Yu nodded, pinching the corner of his clothes with his hands, looking uneasy, and hurried to the kitchen, taking out pots and pans with familiarity.

The little feet stepped on the ground, creating splashes of water, which dripped onto the weeds under the eaves, and the green grass was bent down by the weight.

Yu Yu lowered his head and said nothing. He moved busily around the room, putting the pots and pans back in their old places. Fortunately, he found them in time and the sheets were not wet, otherwise he would have no place to sleep at night.

Xu Cheng said from the side, "Water leakage is very troublesome. We also had water leakage in our house before."

Yu Yu looked at him suspiciously.

They live in an apartment building... not on the top floor...

"It's really leaking. It's so annoying to live in an apartment building. I don't know why, but when it rains, it turns into a water curtain cave."

In fact, it was not their home, but a house he rented when he was working before.

No one knew why the water was leaking, and the landlord just didn't care. At that time, he was poor and could only roll up his sleeves and fix it himself, and then pray for less rain.

The water drops fell on pots and pans, making a rhythmic sound.

“Does it look like a symphony orchestra?”

"We must study hard, work hard to make money, and buy ourselves a watertight house in the future!"

Some soft spot in Yu Yu's heart was touched. When you are in trouble, suddenly someone says that he understands you.

He will glow!

The rain finally subsided, and the mother-in-law came back under the cover of night. Yu Yu stubbornly sent Xu Cheng to the entrance of the alley.

When saying goodbye, he suddenly squatted down to help Xu Cheng roll up his trouser legs.

"It won't get wet this way."

Xu Cheng smiled and waved at her.

The girl stood there, watching the boy walk away for a long distance before she whispered good night.

I don’t know whether to tell it to people or to the moonlight…

Chapter 96: The Girl Takes Charge

As April passed, the rainy season in Jinghai began to become more frequent.

After nearly a year of life in the first grade of junior high school, everyone seemed to have gradually adapted to the status of being older kids and become much more mature.

Xu Cheng was still worried about the water leakage in Yu Yu's house. He couldn't let an old man and a child climb onto the roof to apply asphalt and lay brown paper.

This matter was discussed with He Ying and Xu Jianghe during dinner. He Ying, who always treated Yu Yu as her own daughter, and Xu Jianghe hit it off and found a construction team with acquaintances at home to do waterproofing.

The mother-in-law was very grateful for this and sent several bags of vegetables she grew in the countryside to Xu Cheng's home.

As May Fourth approaches, class monitor Xu becomes busier and busier. Not only does he have to prepare various speeches and share his learning experiences, but he is also responsible for various class affairs.

After class that day, Brother Qiang called Xu Cheng over and said, "You've been quite busy lately, attending meetings everywhere and preparing for the Three Good Students speech. Don't let your studies get in the way. After all, the most important job of a student is to study."

Xu Cheng was very grateful that Brother Qiang could say such words, which showed that the teacher valued him very much. He smiled and nodded.

"Don't worry, teacher. I can still handle it."

Brother Qiang was still worried. In his opinion, such a good seedling should not be busy with the work of class monitor, but should focus on improving his grades. He sighed.

"At that time, I thought you were very capable, so I didn't choose a vice-class monitor like other classes did. How about this, you choose a vice-class monitor from your class to share the work pressure. At your age, study is the most important thing, nothing else is important."

"it is good."

Xu Cheng said goodbye to the teacher and turned to walk into the classroom. After only taking two or three steps, a bunch of gossipy classmates came up to him and asked him questions.

"Squad leader, what's the matter?"

"Squad leader, what did the old squad leader tell you?"

Lin Wanzhou sat in his seat with his chin in his hand, looking a little bored.

Her watery eyes glanced towards the classroom door, and her little hands, like a timer, poked a black dot on the eraser with a fountain pen every ten seconds.

Why are these girls always so gossipy...

So close...

Especially that Liu Yunyun, she’s almost getting close to him!

My hand speed couldn't help but increase to 1 point/s, poking, poking, poking... The eraser immediately became so claustrophobic that I wanted to commit suicide when I saw it.

Suddenly I remembered the hug during New Year's Eve...

The tip of the pen playfully flowed into lines on the exercise book in front of him, and then changed into the shape of two stickmen. One stickman's arm stretched out very long, like an eraser, and its arm circled the world, and finally embraced the other stickman...

The corners of the girl's mouth rose slightly, and her feet in white shoes began to shake happily under the table.

"What are you doing?"

A familiar voice broke the girl's fantasy. She adjusted her hair and whispered guiltily.

"Thinking about the question."

Xu Cheng glanced at the exercise book in front of her, "Which question do you not understand? I'll teach you."

Lin Wanzhou quickly covered the exercise book with both arms and rested his chin on his arms.

"It's a very difficult question, you definitely can't do it!"

Xu Cheng found it strange. He asked himself, let alone the first grade, even the questions in the third grade might not stump him, so he had to take a look today.

"Bring it to me and see."

He tried to forcefully snatch the booklet from Lin Wanzhou's hand, and only then did he notice the tattered rectangular white eraser on her desk.

"This looks like my eraser..."

Lin Wanzhou's face turned slightly red. Xu Cheng picked it up and looked at it carefully. There were many black spots very densely packed together, vaguely forming letters. The front was XC and the back was SB.

He couldn't help but raised his hand and tapped Lin Wanzhou's little head gently, "Why are you ruining my eraser...see if this can still be used!"

Lin Wanzhou pouted her lips, but it felt really good to poke her...

"pay!"

"I'll buy you another one this afternoon..."

"No! Pay it now!"

Xu Cheng glanced at her own pink pig eraser. Lin Wanzhou was unable to protect it and he snatched it away first. He used his big hands to break it apart.

"Do you want a pig's head or a pig's butt?"

Lin Wanzhou's mouth was puffed up. She bought this eraser after seeing it in the stationery store yesterday. She hadn't used it a few times before Xu Cheng pouted it.

"Pig head!"

Xu Cheng felt that this girl was making a double entendre.

"Here."

He handed her the pig's head and then pushed his pig's butt onto her desk. "Look, doesn't it look like the tiger talisman used in ancient times to mobilize troops? The two can only be placed together."

Hearing this, Lin Wanzhou put her two little feet together and rubbed her slender neck against the white collar unnaturally.

Just like a little kid... and even a tiger talisman... childish or not...

But the little hand honestly pinched the pig's head and his pig's butt together, and the pig that was torn into pieces by the two horses became whole again.

"Okay, I'm appointing you as the deputy monitor now. From now on, the monitor's decisions will only take effect when they are combined with the deputy monitor's pig talisman."

Lin Wanzhou:? ? ?

The young girl had an inexplicable feeling in her heart. She probably lent her household registration booklet to Xu Cheng out of kindness, so he took her directly to get the certificate.

After Xu Cheng explained to her what Brother Qiang had told her, she finally understood what was going on.

The girl considered quietly in her heart.

If I don't agree, what if other girls take it as a trick, and then other girls go everywhere with Xu Cheng...

"Well... then I will reluctantly agree to be your assistant, but I have a few requests..."

"Any other requirements? As long as you do a good job, you will get great benefits." Xu Cheng began to promise the girl.

Lin Wanzhou's eyes were full of doubts. "Are you kidding me? You just want me to work as a laborer for you. What benefit can that bring?"

Xu Cheng patted his chest and said, "Of course there are benefits. You are contributing to the class. If you help me well, you will have advantages in the future when applying for awards, joining the Youth League, or becoming a three-good student. As long as you do a good job, I will be your monitor."

"Bah... Who wants you..." the girl blushed.

"Of course, in order for you to better assist the monitor in his work, I have to make a few requests of you."

Xu Cheng picked up his thermos cup and spat a mouthful of tea, thinking carefully for a few seconds.