CH 28

Tonight was the sixth time Lu Xi had waited for Zhou Si to return home.

The broken wall lamp in the alley was repaired, and they shined with the stars in the sky.

The cool night breeze swirled on Lu Xi’s summer short-sleeved school uniform, and the girl he liked sat in the back seat of his cycle.

When he thought of the word “like”, it was like a finger plucking the strings in his heart, and made a tinkling sound.

Zhou Sis pressed her hand against the canvas backpack on her leg and looked sideways as she noticed the boy’s back. “Did you scribble on the school uniform?”

“Ah?” Lu Xi who had no idea about it asked, “What’s on my school uniform?”

“There are little expressions that should be drawn with water-based pens.” Zhou Sisi blinked.

The cute smiling faces of two Cartoons, a finger-width horizontal hidden on the side of the school uniform.

Lu Xi clutched the brake, propped his long legs on the ground, and looked back, “Where?”

“It’s on the horizontal edge and you can’t see it.” Zhou Sisi said.

Lu Xi tilted his head and rubbed his ear as he replied, “I didn’t draw it, I don’t know who drew it.”

“Maybe it was drawn by a girl who likes you.” Somehow, Zhou Sisi thought of Yi Ting’s remark the day before yesterday that Lu Xi was suspected of having a relationship, and said it with a sense of humor.

I like it… I like it… Lu Yi’s foot was unstable, causing the whole body to shake, but fortunately he didn’t fall down. “Hu, nonsense.”

Zhou Sisi curled her lips and smiled, noticing that the little boy seemed shy, and did not continue to speak.

But Lu Xi had something to say, “I…”

“Hmm?” Zhou Sisi waited for a while, “You what?”

The palm of the handlebars seeped out some sweat, Lu Yan opened his mouth, “…… nothing, I’m going to speed up, you hold up.”

The words that he wanted to say, he could not say.

He wondered if she meant it to herself.

He always thought that a law-abiding third-year student like her would not give him the response he wanted.

It seemed it was not the right time to show her.

Wait a little longer ……

For the first time, an impulsive, willful and wayward teenager tasted the fruit of hesitation and recoil.

The silent sigh melted into the night filled with secrets.

Lu Xi hung his backpack on one shoulder and unlocked the door.

“Mom.” Lu Xi half-squatted, untying his shoelaces with one hand. “Aren’t you on duty tonight?”

“What’s on duty? My son is so wild after being on duty again?” Ms. Xu Xuelin snorted coldly.

Lu Xi kicked off his sneakers, his head full of question marks. “What’s wrong with me?”

“You have the nerve to ask? what time is it?” Xu Xuelin pointed to the pendulum clock on the TV cabinet, “It’s past 10 o’clock!! Why don’t you just stay out all night and play?”

“Play? What am I playing?” Lu Xi threw his backpack on the sofa.

Xu Xuelin: “Who knows what games are you playing in an Internet cafe, or where are you hanging out?”

“Lu Xi, Lu Xi, I’ve given birth to such a bright child,  with a head and face so hard to see past, is it for you to fight and get hurt? Can you study hard?”

Sisi had persuaded her to “be calm” and “try not to get too worked up” when communicating with this Punk. Xu Xuelin listened to it, and now she was trying desperately not to get angry.

“How do I not study?” Lu Xi twitched the corners of his mouth. “Where do you think I was tonight?”

Xu Xuelin put one hand on her hip as she said, “Who knows where you were? You can’t be in the classroom, right?”

“I, tonight, last night, and the night before, counting on the nights ahead, was just studying in the classroom.” Lu Xi emphasized the word classroom.

When Lu Xi took the initiative to offer supplementary lessons before, Xu Xuelin was a little suspicious.  “Really? Were you in the classroom for the evening study?”

“If you don’t believe me, you can call the head teacher.” Lu Xi pulled out his phone, “Or ask Zhou Sisi! I’ll show you!”

The latter phrase was said very smoothly and even somewhat aggressively.

Now Lu Xi had changed, he would not let go of any opportunity to have a talk and contact with Zhou Sisi.

He unlocked the phone, and opened WeChat, and opened the contact list and cleared his throat.

Xu Xuelin: “Okay, no need… to ask, I believe it.”

However, the son who acted quickly had already started to speak.

“Zhou Sisi, answer honestly, was I studying at school tonight?” With that he loosened his thumb, and the message was sent out, just like that.

“Why don’t you be a little polite, kid?” Xu Xuelin, who was looking for the steps on her own, caught the little mistake, “You have to call ‘Sister Sisi’, you know?”

“Oh.” Lu Xi shook the phone as he spoke, “Sister Sisi replied ‘yes’, do you want to read it?”

Xu Xuelin grabbed a small stack of work materials on the coffee table. “Don’t want to look. I’m busy with paperworks.”

Before stepping into the study, she acted as if nothing had happened but then she said softly “I wronged you today.”

Lu Xi raised his eyebrows, it was strange. Was it raining red outside?

For the first time in more than a decade, Ms. Xu, a hard-spoken woman, admitted her mistake.