Rebirth: Growing Up Together

But the other little hand was groping carefully for something in the middle of the seat.

With some guesses in mind, Xu Cheng tentatively placed his palm flat in the middle of the seat. The delicate little hand touched it a few times, and finally, as if he had made up his mind, he shook it...

With their fingers intertwined, both of them missed a beat at the same time.

It’s not like we haven’t held hands before, but that was mostly when we were in kindergarten or first or second grade of elementary school.

Since entering junior high school... Lin Wanzhou rarely took the initiative to hold his hand...

And he rarely took the initiative to hold her hand, always pulling her sleeves or pulling her arms...

At this moment, as if responding to each other's feelings, the two hands clasped together again...

No one let go first.

They turned their heads away, pretending to look out the window.

It was pitch black, and the only things I could see were the nearby street lights and roadside trees moving rapidly backwards.

All the way without words, but connected heart to heart...

Chapter 104: A New Hope

The price of growing up is that you need to find reasonable motivations and reasons to do anything.

Lin Wanzhou's face was hot, and there was a strange tingling sensation between her fingers. The burning sensation in the palm of her hand burned all the way to the girl's heart.

[Applied status: Burning]

[Girl’s health points -3-3-3…]

The way to get rid of the bad state is -

Solution: She took the initiative to hold his hand and asked how to avoid being misunderstood by the other party and maintain a clean relationship between them.

"It's just holding hands... It's not like we haven't held hands before..."

This sentence was so weak. She felt that she could no longer convince herself, let alone Xu Cheng...

After getting off the car, he stopped her and said smugly, "Hahahaha, Lin Wanzhou, I already knew you liked me. Come on, bring your little chest up here for me to touch."

Wouldn't that make me very passive?

If he dares to say such things today, will he listen to his daughter tomorrow?

He must kneel down in front of her and say pitifully, "Zhou Zhou, please let me touch your hand again. I pray to God that I will give birth to five daughters for you..."

If that was the case, then it wasn't impossible for her to reluctantly hold his hand again...

As the rumbling sound of the engine gradually died down, the two people in the car, each with their own ulterior motives, realized that they had arrived at their destination.

It was hard to tell who let go first, but Xu Cheng always felt that there was some connection. The two hands started to separate from the wrists, and until the last middle fingers were still hooked and stuck together.

Um... I'm already 13 years old...

There are thousands of words in my heart, but I want to say them but I stop, and I want to say them but I stop... After repeating this over and over again, I finally remain silent and go back to my own homes.

After Xu Cheng finished his shower and returned to the bedroom, he turned on his cell phone.

Motorola V3 already supports mobile QQ, and in fact, Mobile Dream Network has provided the convenience of chatting on QQ on mobile phones a long time ago.

When I logged into QQ, I saw an unread message.

"Mr. Zhou: Don't misunderstand what happened tonight! [Cai Dao]"

This girl...

At this time, in another bedroom not far away, Lin Wanzhou had no idea how many times she had rolled around in the quilt, her little face still red.

She held the Pink Panther doll that Xu Cheng gave her when she was a child, rolled over on the bed a few times, and finally punched it with her little pink fist.

"I'll beat you to death... Stupid Xu Cheng, you're pretending to be dead at this time..."

"Why haven't you replied to my message yet..."

The bright silver cell phone suddenly rang, and I anxiously opened the cover to take a look.

"Jinghai's Most Affectionate: No misunderstanding, I was just trying to tell you [picking nose]"

Why does the expression of picking the nose look so mean?

The innocent leopard was hit again.

Lin Wanzhou has become a qualified Internet user. No matter whether it is a 9-key or 26-key keyboard, he can type skillfully. He no longer has to use one finger to press the keys one by one as before.

She typed quickly, "I was the one holding your hand, how could you be so careless!", thought about it, deleted everything, and typed again, "Hmph, just don't misunderstand me...", and deleted it again...

Xu Cheng folded his clothes neatly, turned around to check his phone, and saw that he had received a new message. He crawled into bed and opened it.

"Mr. Zhou: Thank you for what you did today."

On the other side, the girl who had been holding the little leopard and waiting for a long time soon received a reply.

"The most affectionate thing in Jinghai: Good night."

good night.

Lin Wanzhou raised the corner of his mouth slightly and placed the phone on his chest.

Looking at the light from the street lamp on the ceiling coming through the curtains, it was mottled and fragmented, dotted with stars, vaguely forming a disgusting face.

Suddenly he remembered something, picked up the Pink Panther again, and carefully examined every part of its body.

The threads had broken in several places, and I put it next to the quilt, feeling annoyed and distressed.

I'll sew it again tomorrow...

On the bedside table was the candy that Xu Cheng had forced upon her. She tore off the candy coating and put it in her mouth.

Durian flavor...

Huh? So sweet!

Why isn't it salty this time?

The next day.

There is another village in the dark.

After hearing what happened yesterday from her colleagues and husband, Gao Manman took a special leave to go home, wanting to make a sumptuous dinner for Lin Wanzhou to make up for her daughter's regret yesterday.

Xu Cheng's family was also invited, and after school he simply followed Lin Wanzhou home.

When he reached downstairs, Xu Cheng suddenly stopped.

"Zhou Zhou, since we need to eat, I'll go buy a bottle of drink outside the community. What do you want to drink?"

Lin Wanzhou felt very strange. "I must have drinks at home. No need to buy more."

"There's nothing I want to drink."

"What do you want to drink?"

"AD calcium."

"..."

Lin Wanzhou looked at Xu Cheng expressionlessly, "That's for kids to drink, why do you like it so much?"

"I, I just want to drink..."

Buying drinks was naturally just Xu Cheng's excuse.

He went to the convenience store and bought a board of AD calcium. He then paced back and forth downstairs for several times before going upstairs and knocking on the door.

Lin Wanzhou opened the door. Her eyes were still red, and Gao Manman wasn't much better either. It was obvious that they had both just finished crying.

"are you OK……"

Lin Wanzhou covered her eyes and refused to let him see.

"Change your shoes!"

"Uh...Lin Wanzhou, please prepare a pair of bigger slippers for me in the future. My feet have also grown bigger."

He can no longer wear the pair of pink pig slippers he wore back then.

Lin Wanzhou felt very strange and sniffed, "Why do I need to prepare a pair of your slippers in my house?"

"Didn't my family prepare yours as well?"

"Well... okay then."

After a while, Xu Jianghe and He Ying, who had returned from get off work early, also came to Lin Wanzhou's house. Xu Jianghe was holding something in his hands.

"Old Lin, excuse me for bothering you. It's inappropriate for you to invite us over when your family is reunited."

Father Lin put his hands together and bowed, "President Xu, you're here, why are you carrying things?"

"Don't call me CEO. You're giving me goosebumps. If you keep saying that, I'm leaving."

The adults sat down on the sofa politely. Neither of the two men smoked, and each had a glass of water in front of them.

"I heard there's talk of moving up again recently? Old Xu, you're being promoted at a rocket speed!"

Xu Jianghe smiled and waved his hands, "No, no, if we go any further, we will be stuck with nothing."

The fifth generation of "Jingting" has been launched on the market. As Newman has created a wave of rock-bottom prices in the domestic MP3 market, the market has once again proved that Xu Jianghe, who was denounced by countless people in Jing'an Communications for being sneaky and playing tricks, has taken the right step again and again.

It slapped countless people in the face.

Among them was the chief engineer, who had been ill and had not come to the unit for a long time, which led to rumors that Xu Jianghe would soon take over as chief engineer.

The dinner was very rich, with stir-fried king oyster mushrooms with rich sauce, spicy chicken cubes covered with red peppers, braised pig's trotters with deep sugar color, and crispy pork sprinkled with cumin...

Xu Cheng couldn't remember what the four dishes were that he mentioned casually yesterday, but he vaguely felt that they should all be on the table.

After dinner, the adults were chatting happily in the living room, while Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou sat in her bedroom.

She was barefoot, holding her lovely white feet, sitting cross-legged on the soft carpet, with her back leaning against her princess bed.

Xu Cheng sat cross-legged beside her, took out his cell phone and played the pirated Super Mario game on it.

"Xu Cheng, do you feel that this scene is particularly familiar..."

"Ok?"

The girl’s memory went back to five or six years ago, after a dinner like this, when she and Xu Cheng sat here like this, watching him play the Famicom.

She seemed to be still tugging at the corner of Xu Cheng's clothes, and kept saying: Xu Cheng, when I grow up I will marry you!

Now I feel embarrassed just thinking about it.

"What's familiar?"

Xu Cheng didn't react and his eyes were still fixed on the phone screen.

Seeing that he didn't remember, Lin Wanzhou became inexplicably angry and snatched his phone away with her claws and teeth.

"Just for fun! Did you get first place in the exam?"

"Uh... I passed the exam..."

“You can’t play even if you pass the test!”

Lin Wanzhou pressed the red button and turned off the game.

"Your phone wallpaper is so ugly!"

"It comes with the system..."

"I use the same one!"

Lin Wanzhou didn't care whether he agreed or not. She turned on Bluetooth and transferred a few pictures, then set them as wallpaper and screen saver for him.

"Here."

Xu Cheng took the phone and saw all the photos he had taken of her in Yinze County. In the photos, the girl had a peaceful smile and dandelions were flying everywhere...

“Why use these two?”

The girl hugged her knees, turned her head to the side and said nothing.

I won't let you look any further...