Chapter 930
IF125
Li Zhuangsheng looked up in surprise. He sensed the anger in Hu Mengdie's words, but he didn't quite understand the source of her anger.
Perhaps she felt like she was being questioned? This feeling of being doubted is indeed quite unpleasant.
"No, no, I was just saying it offhand..."
Li Zhuangsheng stammered, realizing he had said the wrong thing and feeling uneasy and guilty.
Hu Mengdie took a deep breath, realizing she had overreacted. Seeing the fear and unease in Li Zhuangsheng's eyes, her anger subsided, and she sighed again.
“This time, it’s just you,” Hu Mengdie said.
"oh oh……"
Knowing his low emotional intelligence, Li Zhuangsheng dared not speak carelessly this time and simply nodded haphazardly.
But what does Hu Mengdie mean by "this time"? It seems like there's something about three lifetimes... Haha, but that's impossible.
Hearing the answer he wanted from Hu Mengdie, Li Zhuangsheng felt a secret joy mixed with a sweet feeling. Was he the only one? Was he special to Hu Mengdie?
Why? Didn't she say she didn't like herself?
Li Zhuangsheng finished his meal with gusto, and seeing Hu Mengdie getting up to leave, he couldn't help but call out, "Hey, wait a minute."
Hu Mengdie glanced at him: "Anything else you want to say?"
"Well, well... it's just that..."
Li Zhuangsheng hesitated for a moment, then took out a small box from his pocket, blushing, and handed it to Hu Mengdie.
"What's in here?" Hu Mengdie guessed what it was, and her mood improved slightly.
"It's just... it's just a watch." Li Zhuangsheng was too embarrassed to look at her. "Well, you gave me a bookmark, right? I thought I should reciprocate... so I bought a watch. You, you should accept it. It's not that expensive..."
Hu Mengdie smiled and opened the small box. Inside was a blue women's watch, a little old-fashioned, but just right for a student.
"Wow, this watch must have cost a lot of money, right?" Hu Mengdie said.
"It's not much. My mom gave me two hundred yuan, and it wouldn't be right for me to keep it all to myself..." Li Zhuangsheng scratched his head. "Didn't you say, 'Give me a peach, and I'll repay you with a precious jade'..."
Hu Mengdie's eyes flickered: "Did I say that?"
Li Zhuangsheng exclaimed in surprise, "Yes, didn't you say so...?"
"Okay, this sentence sounds familiar, but what comes after it?"
"It is not a repayment, but a token of lasting friendship."
Hu Mengdie's eyes lit up slightly, and she suddenly realized, "Oh...you want to be 'forever' with me?"
Li Zhuangsheng's face instantly turned bright red, and he was at a loss for words: "No, no, no, what are you doing? Ouch! Stop teasing me!"
Hu Mengdie smiled, her beautiful eyes sparkling like ripples in spring.
"Thank you for the gift. My birthday is coming up soon too." Hu Mengdie smiled and extended her wrist. "Consider it my birthday present. Here you go."
"Huh?" Li Zhuangsheng didn't understand.
"Help me put it on! How can you give a gift only halfway through like that!"
Li Zhuangsheng licked his lips, gazing at Hu Mengdie's fair wrist, and suddenly recalled the lines, "The woman by the wine shop is like the moon, her fair wrist like frost and snow."
He picked up the watch and carefully put it on Hu Mengdie's wrist. He was extremely careful, afraid of having too much contact with Hu Mengdie's skin, lest people think he was deliberately taking advantage of her.
Hu Mengdie took in Li Zhuangsheng's subtle actions and chuckled to herself.
"Does it look good?" Hu Mengdie put on her watch and waved it in front of Li Zhuangsheng.
"nice."
"Do you think a person is prettier or a watch is prettier?"
"They're all...they're all beautiful..."
"Hehehe..." Hu Mengdie laughed again, poking Li Zhuangsheng's hand, "Hey, I've noticed you're not taking the exercises seriously."
Li Zhuangsheng was startled: "You can really see me?"
Hu Mengdie raised her eyebrows: "Of course, you try standing on the platform, you can see everything clearly from below! I've noticed you several times, you always just go through the motions during the exercises!"
Li Zhuangsheng was a little embarrassed and chuckled awkwardly, "Well... it's not just me, a lot of people are like this... sorry..."
Hu Mengdie shook her head, her face serious: "That won't do. I'm the drill leader, you know. It's disrespectful of me to try to fool me like this!"
"I'm sorry, I'll change... I'll definitely do it carefully next time!"
"I don't think your movements are up to standard. Even if you try to do it properly, you won't be able to do it well," Hu Mengdie raised an eyebrow. "Do you have time this weekend afternoon?"
"Yes, I think... you mean during breaks?"
"Yes, during the afternoon break, I'll teach you some exercises. Don't run around!"
"You're going to teach me calisthenics?" Li Zhuangsheng was both surprised and delighted, but he deliberately showed a troubled look on his face, "You only get one afternoon off a week..."
Seeing Li Zhuangsheng's self-righteous act of getting the better deal, Hu Mengdie couldn't help but laugh.
She suddenly had a wicked thought and wanted to say, "Since it's inconvenient for you, then forget it," but then she remembered what happened on the platform that night and put the thought aside.
Forget it, I'd better not tease him anymore.
"Stop talking nonsense, consider it a return on your gift of the watch!" Hu Mengdie said, not allowing Li Zhuangsheng to refuse. "I'll let you know on QQ in advance!"
“Okay…” Li Zhuangsheng was secretly pleased, even though he had absolutely no interest in radio calisthenics or anything like that.
"Uh, by the way, will there be anyone else?" Li Zhuangsheng asked tentatively.
"What, isn't it enough that I'm teaching you myself?" Hu Mengdie glared at her. "Do you want someone else to teach you?"
"No, that's not what I meant... I meant, are there other people following suit?"
"So you're just asking if it's just the two of us alone, right?"
Hu Mengdie tilted her head and smiled, a playful look in her eyes.
"Uh, uh..." Li Zhuangsheng knew that Hu Mengdie was deliberately teasing him again, and his face turned red. "Don't say it like that... Oh, I just wanted to ask, is there anyone else!"
"No, it's just the two of us. Are you happy?"
"What do I have to be happy about!"
Hu Mengdie smiled again and said softly, "By the way, you can eat at a different restaurant next time."
Li Zhuangsheng was slightly taken aback: "What do you mean?"
"Perhaps we're destined to meet. Even if you go somewhere else, I'll still see you." Hu Mengdie stood up and patted Li Zhuangsheng on the shoulder. "I'm going now!"
"Oh, goodbye, goodbye..."
Li Zhuangsheng waved his hand, his cheeks turning even redder. He hadn't expected that the other person had already seen through his little scheme.
……
"Look, isn't it pretty?" Zhu Zhixue smiled and shook the hair tie on her wrist.
"Oh, it looks nice." Li Zhuangsheng nodded. "Did you just buy it?" "Actually, Zeng Chen gave it to me. She bought three, one for me and one for Yao Xingyu, hehe!"
"You two have a really good relationship."
Zhu Zhixue smiled radiantly: "Of course! The three of us have agreed to be each other's bridesmaids in the future!"
Li Zhuangsheng chuckled: "You guys don't even have boyfriends, why are you talking about such distant things!"
"Oh, just kidding. But we're not all single, Zeng Chen has dated before!"
"Oh, oh... I think you mentioned it before. They broke up, right?"
"Yeah, we broke up a while ago!"
Li Zhuangsheng thought to himself that among the three, the two prettiest ones were single, while the one with the most ordinary appearance had actually dated someone.
"Actually, dating in high school is considered puppy love, and you'll break up sooner or later... Oh, did you finish writing your history notes? Can I borrow them... cough cough."
"You! You!" Zhu Zhixue glared at her irritably, then got up and went back to her desk to get her homework assignments. "Hurry up and copy them, then hand them in for me. Honestly, you should do your own homework, you idiot!"
"Ahem, no need to write history, I'm super good at it, okay? I've always gotten an A!"
"Hmph, you should at least be a little better at history!"
Li Zhuangsheng stopped wasting words and began writing furiously.
When I was in school, I was always drifting along, not knowing the time or direction. Before I knew it, it was evening again. Reflecting on how he had wasted another day, Li Zhuangsheng, who hadn't eaten dinner, leaned on his seat and sighed deeply.
Lin Yuehua entered the classroom and sat down to study under Li Zhuangsheng's watchful gaze. Li Zhuangsheng inwardly envied her strong self-discipline, feeling both anxious and lacking motivation.
"Sigh!" Li Zhuangsheng sighed.
"Why are you sighing?" Zhu Zhixue asked as she walked over.
"You didn't go to eat?" Li Zhuangsheng asked, looking up.
"I'm on a diet," Zhu Zhixue said with a smile, a lollipop dangling from her mouth.
“You’re not that fat…” Li Zhuangsheng looked Zhu Zhixue up and down. Although he didn’t want to do this, his gaze was still drawn to the weapon.
In fact, Li Zhuangsheng also felt that his gaze was too lewd. Fortunately, he had recently bought a copy of "Rage Comics" which contained a joke that said people stare at big breasts because the greater the mass of an object, the stronger its gravity... Although this joke was pure nonsense, it at least made Li Zhuangsheng realize that his "lewdness" was not an isolated case, and many people would look at it involuntarily.
"I'm not fat? I'm almost 120 pounds..." Zhu Zhixue muttered. "Let me tell you, I'm prone to gaining weight, and it'll be terrible if I get fat!"
“But you’re really not fat!” Li Zhuangsheng said earnestly.
To be honest, Li Zhuangsheng couldn't see anything fat about Zhu Zhixue at all. Apart from her large breasts, she was at most slightly chubby! That's called being plump!
However, Li Zhuangsheng couldn't bring himself to say it. He could compliment a girl on being slim, but complimenting her on being voluptuous would be like sexual harassment.
"Look where you're no longer fat!"
Zhu Zhixue glanced around and saw that there were hardly any people in the class. She quickly got up and walked to Li Zhuangsheng. She unzipped her jacket and then slightly lifted the summer school uniform underneath.
Li Zhuangsheng was startled and instinctively turned his face away, avoiding looking at anything improper.
"Look!" Zhu Zhixue urged, blushing.
"What's wrong?" Li Zhuangsheng asked, turning his head away while feigning a glance at the white figure.
"Look at my waist, isn't it quite thick?"
"It's not thick at all! It's very thin!"
Li Zhuangsheng shook his head vigorously, and only then did Zhu Zhixue lower her clothes, zip up her pants, and quietly relax the breath she had just drawn in.
"Is it really not thick?" Zhu Zhixue asked, deceiving herself.
“Yes, I think your stomach looks pretty flat!” Li Zhuangsheng said, blushing.
"Hmm, well, it's just so-so. Maybe it's because I didn't eat dinner!"
Zhu Zhixue's eyes darted around.
Actually, she didn't know why she showed her belly to Li Zhuangsheng; perhaps it was to prove something.
She felt she had gained two pounds recently and was worried that Li Zhuangsheng would think the same way, so while saying she had gained weight, she also hypocritically showed that she wasn't actually that fat.
Doing this kind of thing is really embarrassing, but if only Li Zhuangsheng sees it, there's a hidden sense of smugness... Now he'll genuinely think I'm not fat, right? Zhu Zhixue thought to herself.
But I still need to lose weight so I don't have to suck in my stomach next time!
"Whether I've had dinner or not shouldn't make much of a difference... Oh, by the way," Li Zhuangsheng said, pulling out the latest issue of "Youth Wind" from under the table. "Here, want to read it?"
"Wow, thank you!" Zhu Zhixue accepted it with a smile. "I've noticed you're quite wealthy. You must read a lot of books, right?"
"Actually, it's not much. I just buy magazines like 'Zhiyin Manke,' 'Xiaoshuo Hui,' 'Young,' and 'Youthful Style'... and occasionally other magazines. Sigh, that's all my daily food money. I don't have any other pocket money!"
"You spend a lot on food." Zhu Zhixue looked down at the magazine "Youth Wind" and sniffed.
"It's alright, I only make thirty a day."
"Thirty isn't much?" Zhu Zhixue couldn't help but exclaim enviously, then sighed dejectedly, "Sigh, I was quite rich when I was a kid!"
"This isn't considered very rich. Sometimes I eat all three meals at school... Oh, it's actually not that bad!" Li Zhuangsheng didn't want to argue about it. "Oh, by the way, you can take the 'Youthful Style' book back to read and return it to me after you're done."
"Aren't you going to watch it?"
"I've checked, it's fine."
"Hmm... Wow, I really want to go to Yunnan." Zhu Zhixue flipped to one of the stories and couldn't help but exclaim.
"Really? I actually want to go too!" Li Zhuangsheng's eyes lit up.
"You read this one too?" Zhu Zhixue waved the book.
"No, no, I was reading Young, that book. Every issue has travelogues, and I think Yunnan is pretty great... My mom said she'll take me to Yunnan after I finish the college entrance exam!"
Zhu Zhixue lowered her eyes, her gaze filled with both envy and melancholy: "It's so good, your mother is so good to you..."
For some reason, Li Zhuangsheng could see disappointment and sadness in her expression.
"Hey, if you want to go, I can take you with me!" he blurted out.
"Really?" Zhu Zhixue's eyes lit up.
Li Zhuangsheng felt a pang of regret. He felt he had made the promise too casually, even though it wasn't something he could decide. But facing Zhu Zhixue's bright eyes, he could only force himself to nod.
"I'll just have to ask my mom; she should agree, right?" Li Zhuangsheng thought to himself.
Zhu Zhixue bit her lip, her worry turning to joy. She wondered, what would her role be when she went out with Li Zhuangsheng's family?
Hehe, hehehe!
Should I change my address then? That would be so embarrassing!
Zhu Zhixue couldn't help but let out a silly smile. Li Zhuangsheng thought to himself that she really wanted to go to Yunnan, she was so happy!
Yes, I'll have to beg and plead with her to come with me! (End of Chapter)