Rebirth: Growing Up Together

"Xiao Yu, you're here so early. Are your two friends here too?"

Xu Cheng explained.

"We often spend weekends together."

"Oh."

"Let's go in quickly. Time is tight today and I haven't finished my homework yet."

"I haven't finished my homework yet... let's go now after you've checked it."

Yan Wenwen and the others were chatting casually, pulling Yu Yu in front, while Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou were one step behind.

"How embarrassing, Xu Cheng, why don't we go back..."

"Who was it that had to come on that turbulent day?"

"I was just a little impulsive that day... It felt like Xiaoyu hadn't played with us for a long time, and I felt like my friend was being taken away by someone else."

"what about now?"

"Now I don't care. I already know Xiaoyu's feelings, and she is not the kind of person who abandons old friends when she has new friends."

"Are you so reasonable? You've become mature."

"whee."

Lin Wanzhou patted Xu Cheng's arm and said, "I have always been very mature, okay."

It is an essential human emotion to get tired of the old and love the new. People think new friends are better, get tired of old friends and start to distance themselves from them. This happens often in many people's growth.

Lin Wanzhou has many friends around her, but many of them have alienated her like this.

Yan Wenwen's sudden appearance, coupled with the possible hostility in the debate, naturally made her feel a sense of crisis that Yu Yu and they were on bad terms.

"Then let's talk to Yu Yu about it later, so she doesn't misunderstand."

"Oh, good."

At the same time, Yu Yu was constantly dragged around by Yan Wenwen to talk about things.

She was absent-minded, always feeling that Lin Wanzhou and Xu Cheng must feel that she ignored them and were angry, so they no longer came to talk to her.

How to deal with it... How to explain it...

A loser like her with almost zero social skills could never have dreamed that one day she would be needed by two groups of people at the same time.

I really want to die...

Yan Wenwen finally finished talking to her, and Yu Yu hurried downstairs, looking around, and saw Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou squatting in front of a floor-to-ceiling window.

When the two saw her, they smiled and waved at her.

Yu Yu walked over with his head down, like a child who had done something wrong. There were a thousand words in his head, but he couldn't even say the last one.

Instead, Lin Wanzhou said, "Xiaoyu, let's go back first..."

Are you really angry?

Yu Yu felt a pang in his heart.

"Actually, Wenwen and the others are pretty nice people... I..."

Seeing her embarrassed look, Lin Wanzhou quickly waved his hand, "No, you don't have to explain to me."

Yu Yu's eyes turned red.

Don't you want to listen to me anymore?

"Cough cough."

Xu Cheng coughed twice and said, "Yu Yu, our intention is that we don't want to affect your preparations for the debate. We are not upset."

Lin Wanzhou nodded. "Yes, I can see that each of you is preparing very carefully. Xu Cheng and I are embarrassed to stay here and distract you. Besides, we also have to go back and prepare well. We can't waste time playing."

Yu Yu looked at them in disbelief. She was stuck in the middle and couldn't figure out how to balance the two no matter how hard she racked her brains.

Could it be solved so easily?

Or was he just comforting her?

Seeing that she was still worried, Lin Wanzhou poked her face.

"It really doesn't matter. Besides, I actually have more friends... You didn't mind it at all, so how could I blame you just because you were busy with the debate competition?"

Xu Cheng and Lin Wanzhou waved to her. When they passed by the French window outside, they waved at her inside the window and said something.

She rarely smiled and saw Xu Cheng standing outside the window from the corner of her eye.

This kind of scene facing each other through the window, it seems like I have seen it before...

After the intense monthly exams, the school debate competition also came to an end.

It’s a bit regrettable that neither Yu Yu’s team nor Lin Wanzhou’s team succeeded in advancing.

Yu Yu and her friends encountered a strong team, and no matter how good Yu Yu's arguments were, her poor speaking skills were her weakness.

As for Lin Wanzhou, her team performed extremely well, and even the class teacher Hu Guoqiang was moved.

However, because his ideas did not conform to the main theme of the campus, he was forced to lose.

Because of this, Brother Qiang got very angry on the spot, and in the end the school gave Lin Wanzhou the best debater award as a consolation.

The results weren't pretty, but everyone got a workout.

At the end of October, Yu Yu received a birthday gift from Lin Wanzhou and Xu Cheng, which was a real telephoto desk.

It’s made of aluminum alloy, has LED lights, and comes with a greeting card written on it, with Lin Wanzhou’s handwriting.

[Good friends are those who can always understand you when you feel embarrassed without you having to explain anything.]

【Dedicated to the talented cartoonist Yu Yu. 】

Chapter 129: The Reward Is Too Excessive

As a watershed in the three years of junior high school.

In the second year of junior high school, everyone has undergone tremendous changes.

Physical appearance, personality and temperament...including grades.

Many top students in elementary school have found it difficult to reap the benefits of elementary school and have started to fail in exams again and again, being left behind by many people who were not as good as them in elementary school.

A large number of them have thus left the group of "good students".

Lack of intelligence, self-abandonment, love of play, boredom with studying... various reasons.

There is an alley next to the No. 3 Middle School, which is occupied by various snack stalls and various cram schools.

Xu Cheng and his friends don't go to cram school. On this street, the things they experience most are probably the shiny and fragrant roasted gluten, spicy and delicious starch sausage, stinky tofu, greedy biscuits, hot and sour noodles, multi-grain pancakes, egg-filled pancakes...

The taste is absolutely amazing and the food is very cheap. You will not leave until your mouth is greasy after eating it.

Xu Cheng remembers that after the street stall economy developed and the city appearance began to be improved, these snack stalls were cleared out, and it became difficult to eat food like this again.

Xu Jianghe will officially take up the position of chief engineer of Jing'an Communications after the new year.

With the help of Gao Manman, He Ying officially entered the official career and started working in the Jinghai Municipal Government Office.

It is worth mentioning that, relying on the savings over the years, my parents gritted their teeth and bought a new house in the city center, which is 120 square meters and the decoration process is very fast.

Xu Cheng continued to work hard to master the knowledge points in the first semester of his senior year.

At the same time, after 16 URL Navigation, he created the second website of his life - Hapi.com.

Yu Yu's submissions to comic magazines were rejected time and time again, but she kept trying, and her drawing skills were improving rapidly, visibly.

Most of the time, Lin Wanzhou went to and from school with Xu Cheng on bicycles.

In cold weather, she experienced falling down because of squeezing the brakes on her bike on the snow, having her bike chain fall off and Xu Cheng helping her fix it, and being too lazy to ride and asking Xu Cheng to take her...

The year 2005 passed in this way, ordinary yet extraordinary.

This year always gives people a very long feeling. After all, it has 913 days, which is 2.5 times that of other years.

Time passed unknowingly and it was the winter vacation of 2006. The traditional Spring Festival of Dragon Country brought this vacation to its climax and also announced that this vacation was coming to an end.

……

After a rain, the sky cleared up for a few days.

"Have you put on your long johns? Lin Wanzhou."

Gao Manman had a long New Year vacation and stayed at home for a few more days. The mother and daughter began to dislike each other again.

"I've put it on."

Lin Wanzhou replied hastily, then quickly shook off her slippers, put her feet wrapped in white socks into her shoes, and ran downstairs without even having time to fasten the uppers.

What long johns to wear!

The weather is so beautiful, she wants to be a beautiful girl in the sunshine.

As soon as I went downstairs and felt the cold wind, I immediately regretted it.

She didn't dare go back and put it on again, so she had to bite the bullet and go downstairs to Xu Cheng's house.

Bombarded with messages on his phone, "Where are you?" "Where are you?", Xu Cheng hurried downstairs.

Lin Wanzhou had been planning to teach him a lesson, but he had ended up having to wait for him downstairs in the cold wind for more than ten minutes.

At least let him use the warmest part of his body to warm her hands.

But he didn't look very well.

Lin Wanzhou clasped her hands in front of her lovely chest, tapping them rhythmically with her slender fingers, and her watery eyes glanced at the boy opposite her as if inadvertently.

"Why do you look so bad? Are you sick?"

"Oh, nothing. My stomach was a little upset this morning."

"uncomfortable?"

She laughed mercilessly, "You deserve it. You rewarded yourself last night. Now you've over-rewarded yourself."

The reward she was talking about was not some weird reward. It was an ice cream that Xu Cheng rewarded himself with after he finished memorizing the words.

"Um...reward?"

The gray-haired old man just happened to hear this. He looked Xu Cheng up and down carefully and smacked his lips.

"You're so young... this shouldn't happen..."

He shook his head, stroked his long white beard, and walked away with the birdcage, still singing in an opera tune.

"Youth knows nothing of value, and old age brings nothing but tears."

Xu Cheng's head was full of black lines.

The old man walking his bird is indeed not a serious person. He must be the kind of flirtatious old man who has to look at girls every day to feel happy.

He raised his hand and tapped Lin Wanzhou on the head, "Let's go, let's go, aren't we going to buy something?"

"Then help me put my phone in there. I don't have any pockets on my clothes."

"No pockets? Where do you keep your money?"

"Only a very small one..."

Lin Wanzhou lifted up the hem of her skirt and turned around to show Xu Cheng the small pocket on the butt of her jeans, which looked like it could only fit a few fingers.

Such bad posture...

"Ahem, I get it."

Because the two families have a good relationship, they would set aside one day during the Chinese New Year every year to take turns hosting the other family and invite them to their home for a meal.

The process is probably eating and drinking, and then the adults play mahjong all night, while the children watch TV and sleep...

This year it was Lin Wanzhou's family's turn. She couldn't cook and couldn't help, so she could only run errands to help buy some groceries and prepare the dishes for dinner.

The two walked towards the gate of the community together, and Xu Cheng glanced at Lin Wanzhou out of the corner of his eye.

"Where are you going to buy your groceries, the market or the supermarket?"