Chapter 21: A Man's Mouth
It’s such a treasure!
Xu Cheng didn't expect that Yu Yu not only had a pair of moving eyes but also had such a nice voice. This also denied He Ying's guess that she didn't speak, not because she was mute.
In Xu Cheng's opinion, Yu Yu is just extremely socially anxious. Like all introverted children, he is fragile and sensitive. He dares not contact anyone because of his cowardice . He has a heart that is both inferior and self-reliant. He is afraid of being hurt and even more afraid of charity and friendliness.
Xu Cheng passed the chicken leg in his hand to Yu Yu, "Do you want to eat it ?"
"I...I don't want to..." Yu Yu shook his head and refused.
"Then don't stop me." Xu Cheng pretended to put the food into his mouth again, but Yu Yu immediately stopped him with determination written all over his face.
"No! You can't kiss indirectly."
"What should I do? This is my chicken leg. You won't let me eat it, and you don't want to eat it either. I can't just throw it away."
Yu Yu pursed her lips, her eyes wandering, not knowing how to solve the problem.
"Well, I'll give this to you to eat..."
"I...I don't want to eat."
Yu Yu immediately shook his head vigorously to refuse, and tried his best not to look, for fear that he would really agree to it.
Xu Cheng continued, "I'm not giving it to you for free. Don't leave after school this afternoon..."
"Ah?" Yu Yu widened his eyes in horror.
"Uh... I have two cleaning jobs today. How about you do one for me?"
Yu Yu looked at Xu Cheng, then at the chicken leg, hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food, so he nodded and agreed.
Handing the chicken leg to her, Xu Cheng spread the food box on the table and started to devour the delicious dish. Yu Yu stared at the chicken leg in her hand and swallowed her saliva. The overflowing meat aroma tempted her taste buds all the time. Finally, she couldn't help it and carefully covered it with her mouth again and took a small bite reservedly.
Smells so good!
If the first bite just gave her a slight taste of saltiness, then with this bite, the aroma of meat almost instantly exploded in her mouth.
Yu Yu remembered that when she and her mother-in-law were setting up a stall, she saw such chicken legs being sold in a store. The owner wanted to give one to her, but she shook her head and refused. Later, she kept imagining what that chicken leg tasted like.
So that's how it is.
"Why are you crying?"
Yu Yu then realized the water drops rolling down the corners of his eyes, and hurriedly wiped them with the wide sleeves of his school uniform.
Xu Cheng tore a tissue from Lin Wanzhou's desk and handed it to her, "Don't cry, it's okay if you don't want to clean up."
"It's not that I don't want to clean." Yu Yu said in a low voice with red eyes, "I have to clean it."
"By the way, why did you transfer schools? Can you tell me?" After finally prying Yu Yu's mouth open, Xu Cheng of course had to ask about this thing that he had been curious about for a long time.
I don’t know if it’s because he is grateful for what he has done, but Yu Yu rarely told him some of his own stories.
"They said they would waive my tuition fees and I don't have to worry about anything else..."
Xu Cheng understood immediately. As the No. 1 primary school in Jinghai, it was really embarrassing that the first place in the joint examination was snatched away by Yu Yu from Yingcai Primary School. As for snatching students... well, it was nothing new.
After school in the afternoon.
The other two people on duty were quite surprised to see Yu Yu, but they didn't say anything because it was Friday and everyone was eager to go home. They quickly finished their work and slipped away.
Yu Yu was in charge of sweeping the floor, and she swept extremely hard. After seeing this, Xu Cheng cried out that he was losing out so much that he wanted to use a chicken leg to trick her back to his house to clean the house.
Because Xu Cheng was responsible for mopping the floor, he had to wait for Yu Yu to finish sweeping the floor. Yu Yu put the broom away neatly, walked up to Xu Cheng and asked softly.
"Can I go now?"
Xu Cheng nodded, "Let's go, I'll just mop the floor."
He went to the battlefield with a wet mop, but found that Yu Yu was still standing at the same place. He looked up and asked in surprise.
"Anything else?"
"Um..." Yu Yu pinched the corner of his clothes, "Where is the East Building Cultural Corner?"
"The East Building is the red building on the easternmost side. You will see the Cultural Corner when you get there. It is on the south side of the building, opposite the carport."
"oh."
Knowing the location, Yu Yu took small steps and left the classroom.
Xu Cheng finished mopping the floor before he recalled that Jiang Yulu had asked Yu Yu to make the blackboard newspaper yesterday.
This idiot isn't really going to do it, is he?
After locking the classroom door, Xu Cheng planned to go to the cultural corner. Because it was Friday, the teachers and students left very quickly. It was extremely quiet in the sunset, and one could vaguely hear the chirping of sparrows.
The cultural corner is opposite the carport and is one of the must-pass routes for the cycling teachers. There are two large blackboards. With such a workload, it would take four people standing on the tables a whole afternoon to finish it, not counting the time for preparing the subject matter and content.
Xu Cheng walked over to the cultural corner and saw a figure standing there. He looked up at two large blackboards with a look of helplessness on his face. It was Yu Yu.
He squatted under the peach tree and observed for a long time. In the setting sun, Yu Yu's shadow was very long, not proportional to his small body. He held one or two pieces of chalk in his hand, and occasionally stood on tiptoe, wanting to write something, but stopped the moment he touched the blackboard, and then continued to wander around with a frustrated face.
March is the month when peach blossoms are in full bloom. One or two pink petals occasionally fall in the spring breeze. The solitary figure in this scene looks so lonely and helpless.
Xu Cheng sighed, stood up and walked towards her.
"Do you want me to help you?"
Yu Yu shuddered violently like a frightened little rabbit, then looked at Xu Cheng with a blank face.
“No… no need.”
She shook her head vigorously.
"Ah, I won't help you for free. I'll do this for you, and then you work for me. How about that?" Xu Cheng explained to her.
"Work...work?" Yu Yu's fair face was full of doubts.
"In short, I have a website that I need to update and check links every day..." Xu Cheng saw Yu Yu's questioning expression and had to cough twice. "Anyway, it's a simple but tedious task. I'll teach you and you'll learn it quickly. Just help me do it later. How about it? Do you agree?"
Xu Cheng had his own considerations for being willing to tell Yu Yu all this. Given Yu Yu's personality, even if she thought he was weird, she wouldn't tell anyone.
Because she has no friends...
So in Xu Cheng's eyes, she was a worker who could keep his secrets very well. By tricking her into working as a child laborer, he would have more time to do other things.
Yu Yu bit her lip lightly. Although she didn't quite understand what he said, she felt that what Xu Cheng said was not something unacceptable.
Xu Cheng didn't wait for her to speak. He took the chalk from her hand and started drawing on the blackboard.
In fact, the inspiration for the blackboard newspaper had already emerged in Xu Cheng's mind since he saw Yu Yu's scene just now...
At this moment, I can't wait to put my pen into it and draw it.
His painting skills were not bad, even professional, and his drawings were soft and smooth. Before night fell, in the last twilight, he completed the first carefully drawn pattern on the blackboard.
It is an interweaving of white and blue, it is breathtakingly beautiful, sparkling in the hazy night, as if it were swimming to life.
Yu Yu, who was standing by, went from watching him paint in confusion to being so shocked by the beauty that he opened his mouth wide.
It was a fish, a very big fish...
