The first volume of pearl curtains rolls up the western mountain rain at dusk Chapter 37: Youth
The day of the monthly exam arrived as scheduled. Li Diudiu got up early as usual. He felt a little depressed thinking that he probably wouldn't be able to write with his right hand. If he had known this day would come, he would have practiced writing with his left hand more.
It was still dark and there was still at least an hour before the monthly exam. Li Diudiu got up, fetched some water, washed his face with one hand, took a good look at himself in the bronze mirror, and then sighed.
"Even a broken arm doesn't affect your beauty at all. You are born with natural beauty and it's hard to give up..."
He dipped his fingers in water and adjusted his eyebrows. He looked really handsome with his sharp eyebrows and big eyes.
"That's it. It's just a broken arm. Not to mention that it can be healed, even if it can't be healed, can't I still get married?"
He talked to himself enough, tidied the table, sat down to grind ink, and practiced writing on paper with his left hand. The first few words were crooked, but after writing only six or seven words, his left hand wrote more and more smoothly, and each stroke was straight and even.
Li Diudiu himself did not expect that it would be so smooth. He suddenly thought that since writing with the left hand was not a difficult task, he might as well practice other fonts. With this thought in mind, he recalled an article in his mind and started to write it out.
After writing about four or five hundred words, I no longer had any difficulty writing, and the more I wrote, the more satisfied I became.
Li Diudiu was just about to get up and go to the cafeteria for breakfast when he heard someone coughing a few times outside the door. Li Diudiu couldn't help but laugh. That girl came really early.
Gao Xining coughed a few times outside the door before knocking on it. He lowered his voice and asked, "Are you up?"
Li Diudiu said, "I got up a long time ago. Wait for me to open the door for you."
He went over and opened the door, and the view before him was bright.
Today, Gao Xining wore a beige long skirt, which made her look like a newly blossoming jasmine, elegant and fresh. The purity that only a young girl could have was perfectly highlighted by the long skirt and the early morning sun. She was a jasmine, and the morning sun added a layer of brilliance to her.
I don’t know why, but Li Diudiu almost whistled. If he hadn’t felt that whistling would seem a bit rogue and had suppressed it, the scene would have been quite embarrassing.
"Are you going to whistle?"
Gao Xining stared at him as if he could see through everything and asked.
Li Diudiu shook his head firmly: "I didn't!"
Gao Xining said: "Your mouth is pouting!"
Li Diudiu: "Does pouting mean whistling?"
Gao Xining: "You are just a playboy!"
Li Diudiu said: "Although I didn't mean to whistle, I must make it clear to you that if a man can't help but whistle at a woman, it must be an uncontrollable recognition of the woman's beauty."
Gao Xining: "You... are shameless!"
After saying that, he turned and ran away.
After running a few steps, he came back, stuffed the food box in his hand to Li Diudiu, turned around with a grim face, and walked away with big strides, smiling as he walked, not daring to let Li Diudiu see him.
"Stinking rogue……"
As she walked, she muttered to herself, "He made something as frivolous as whistling sound like it made sense... Fortunately, I am really pretty, and he is not lying. If he were lying, it would be unforgivable."
Looking at Gao Xining's back, Li Diudiu tried hard, pursed his lips, and squeezed out a sound like a fart. There was no whistle like he was whistling at a beautiful woman. He was afraid that Gao Xining would hear it.
He looks so wretched.
Li Diudiu carried Gao Xining's lunch box back to the house, opened it and took a look. He was immediately delighted. Gao Xining was obviously worried that it would be inconvenient for him to eat in the cafeteria, so he went to the cafeteria to bring him the food.
There are all kinds of food , and each one is Li Diudiu’s favorite. The food box is also considerate, considering that it might be inconvenient for Li Diudiu to use chopsticks, so a small spoon is put in the food box.
Li Diudiu was eating and thinking, how does this guy know what I like to eat?
How could he know that Gao Xining went to the cafeteria, found Aunt Wu, and asked her carefully what Li Diudiu liked to eat. After finding out the details, she brought some of each to Li Diudiu.
Although he was so thoughtful, Li Diudiu thought that the guy must have some psychological problems or be a sick person, otherwise why would he be so thoughtful just to find him a wife?
This world is so bizarre and full of wonders. People have all kinds of hobbies. Some love money, some love food, and Gao Xining actually likes to talk to people about wives.
Li Diudiu snorted and said to himself, "You still say I'm a pervert..."
If his master, Taoist Changmei, was around at this moment, he would have been unable to resist and slapped him in the face after hearing him talking to himself like this.
The old Taoist priest with long eyebrows who has never married in his life is more intelligent than Li Diudiu.
Just when Li Diudiu was eating, the instructor Yan Qingzhi came in leisurely with his hands behind his back. He put a food box at Li Diudiu's door and seemed to feel that his excessive concern was inappropriate, so he coughed twice and left.
Li Diudiu heard a cough and went out, but no one was there. He saw a food box on the steps. He opened it and took a look. It was obvious that the snacks and meals in this food box were more exquisite than those in the cafeteria he often went to.
So Li Diudiu quickly guessed that this was sent by Yan Qingzhi and was something from the small canteen where the teachers ate. He happily carried the food box back to the house, thinking that he should not favor one over the other, so he ate everything in both food boxes.
After I finished eating, my stomach was already bulging and I was walking with my belly sticking out. I silently calculated that it was almost time, so I went out to the classroom.
As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw Liu Shengying, who always looked aggrieved, wandering around the door with a lunch box in her hand, and she looked like she was about to cry.
Li Diudiu was stunned. He never expected Liu Shengying to come. He walked over quickly.
"How did you come?"
"ah……"
Liu Shengying seemed to be frightened by Li Diudiu. She was so aggrieved that she wanted to cry, and at this moment, tears were welling up in her eyes.
"I give you!"
He stuffed the food box into Li Diudiu's hand.
Li Diudiu looked at the food box, then lowered his head to look at his stomach: "I..."
Seeing that he was in trouble, Liu Shengying couldn't help but burst into tears: "You don't want to eat the food I gave you..."
Li Diudiu said quickly: "I'll eat, I'll eat, I'll eat..."
He opened the food box right there, and was immediately surprised after taking a look. This Liu Shengying really knows how to bring food. Steamed buns, dumplings, fried dough sticks, pancakes, all kinds of noodles...
"Well, I will eat, but I may not be able to eat so much."
Li Diudiu sighed, looked at Liu Shengying's expression, and thought to himself, just go for it.
Eat again.
At least a lot of things were crammed in, and Liu Shengying seemed to be smiling from ear to ear. This guy is the same age as Li Diudiu, but his mental state seems to be only about five or six years old, and he is spoiled by his family.
But he was not a bad person, so Li Diudiu patted Liu Shengying on the shoulder and said thank you very seriously.
This thank you made Liu Shengying very happy. She looked a little excited and didn't know what to say.
"Let's go, let's go to the monthly exam."
Li Diudiu asked: "How are you preparing?"
Liu Shengying shook her head repeatedly: "I can't do it. I don't have the knowledge or the courage. I get scared when I hear about the monthly exam. It would be fine if you didn't mention it. Now that you mention it, I'm panicking again."
Li Diudiu still had to comfort him.
"Don't worry, it's just a small monthly test. With your knowledge, it won't be a problem."
"Really?"
"Of course, if I say you can do it then it's fine."
"Yeah, I can do it!"
Liu Shengying waved his fist as if he suddenly gained courage, and Li Diudiu suddenly thought... Liu Shengying is not as bad as he looks, he just really has no confidence, and he needs someone to encourage him.
If no one ever affirms such a person, then his life may develop in another direction, and that direction will definitely not be very good.
No one knows how Li Diudiu could think of so many messy things at his age. He thought as he walked, and the more he thought, the more terrifying he felt.
Children like Liu Shengying have been spoiled since childhood. Their family members protect them in everything. They don't think it's a big deal when they are young, but when they grow up, they are most likely to be cowardly and accomplish nothing.
At this time, the adults in the family would still scold him, saying that he was incompetent, that he was not good at this or that, and that he had brought shame to the family.
The more Li Diudiu thought about it, the more terrifying it became. God knows what kind of person such a child will become in the future.
Sometimes the adults in the family are not always right. They think that it is okay to spoil children when they are young, and it is okay to scold them more when they grow up. They don’t think there is anything wrong with themselves.
If the child can't do it, then it's naturally the child's problem.
"Liu Shengying."
"Hmm? What's wrong, Brother Li?"
"Huh? You called me Brother Li..."
Li Diudiu smiled and said, "Since you call me Brother Li, how about we compete? If I beat you in this monthly exam, you will treat me to San Shun Zhai's dim sum. I have always heard that the dim sum from that shop is delicious, but I have never eaten it... If you beat me, I don't have the money to treat you, but how about I make you a gift myself? You can tell me what you want first."
Liu Shengying panicked: "No, no, no, how can I possibly be better than you? I can't do that."
Li Diudiu curled his lips and said, "Let's see whether it works or not after we compete. If you don't even dare to compete, then you have already lost, right? It's not a big deal anyway. It's just a few dim sum from San Shun Zhai. It won't scare you."
Liu Shengying thought about it, then nodded and said, "Okay, whether I lose or win, I'll treat you to San Shun Zhai's snacks."
Li Diudiu said: "Doesn't that mean that whether I lose or win, I will have to make a gift for you myself?"
Liu Shengying chuckled and said, "It's okay if you don't do it."
Li Diudiu said, "That won't work. We are men. We must take our words seriously. My master always says that a real man should keep his word and keep his word."
Liu Shengying seemed to be excited, and said with a hum: "Keep your word!"
Li Diudiu asked: "What do you want?"
Liu Shengying thought for a while and then asked tentatively: "Can you make a katydid cage? I love to hear katydids chirping."
Li Diudiu tried to swing his right hand, but it hurt a little, so he couldn't swing it, so he changed to swing his left hand and said heroically: "That's nothing, don't even mention the katydid cage, I'll make one for you and fill it with katydids!"
Liu Shengying laughed heartily, her laughter as bright and brilliant as the early morning sun.
Seeing Liu Shengying laughing so happily, Li Diudiu also grinned. The two children in their teens walked side by side, sometimes one bumped the other with his shoulder, and sometimes the other bumped the one with his shoulder.
Perhaps, this is the way of youth.
