Chapter Eighteen Dinner 6

  The lanterns had just been lit, and the dim yellow glow cast a softer light on the two of them.

  "Are there few cars now?" Xia Xianying covered her ears. She hadn't even left the school gate yet, but she already felt cold. The little heat generated from exercising in the gym seemed to have disappeared at the classroom door.

  "Are you going back to Wei's aunt?" Xia Xianying stomped her foot and tightened her scarf again.

  "Uh-huh. I'll send you."

  "Thank you! No need, I'm fine on my own."

  "Aren't you supposed to go back to your aunt's house?"

  "Hmm." Xia Xian's foot tapped impatiently as she tightened her cloak around her again.

  "Do you know the way?" Ling Shuiyue asked.

  Xia Qian Ning still insisted: "The road, as long as the driver recognizes it, is fine..."

  Ling Shuiyue smiled and said: "How can I explain it if you get kidnapped? I'll send you."

  "I can do it myself."

  "What are you talking about? Auntie asked me to take care of you, so I have to send you off."

  " Wei's aunt seemed to disagree, it was Si Pei's husband......" Xia Xianying's words disappeared into Ling Shuiyao's scarf.

  Ling Shui saw Xian Feng's trembling figure, untied the scarf and added another layer of wrapping to her. In fact, according to his personality, he wanted to put her in his own jacket, but couldn't. If he did, Chou Baigui would get angry: "You're still cold even with so many layers on, how can you survive here? Just bear with it for now, we'll be able to hail a car soon."

  "Dead guy! Where are you running?"

  A group of people ran from a nearby dark place, one person running in front and five or six people chasing after him, shouting as they ran.

  "Don't run around, wait here." Ling Shuiyue pushed Xia Qianqian back and instructed.

  Ling Shuiyue Station hid in the dark, saw Ming De approaching, and gave Ming De a wink. Ming De understood, continued to run forward, but his pace had already slowed down.

  Ling Shuiyue watched as the group of people got closer and closer, the first one passed by, the second one... Ling Shuiyue kicked out at the person closest to him, this sudden attack caught them off guard, causing them to become disorganized and chaotic.

  The two people running in front heard a commotion behind them, stopped in their tracks, and turned around. At this time, Mingde had already run back, flew towards the two people in front. "Bang" "Bang", three people fell to the ground at the same time, Ling Shuiyue pulled up Mingde who was lying on the ground and ran.

  Ling Shuiyue ran ahead and pulled Xia Qianying's hand tightly: "Hurry up!"

  Xia Qian Ning looked back and oh my god! A large crowd of people, at least thirty or forty, was rushing towards her from a distance.

  Xia Qian Ning didn't dare look back again, she tightly grasped Ling Shui Yao's hand and ran desperately. She had never run so fast before, she felt like her legs were going to break off.

  I don't know how long I've been running, nor do I know how many corners I've turned. Xia Fen is panting heavily, leaning against the wall and gasping for air. She can't run anymore, at this moment, she feels like she's about to die, she needs oxygen, a constant flow of oxygen...

  "Still cold?" Ling Shuiyue looked at Xia Qianqian who was exhausted.

  Xia Qian Ning has the power to answer Ling Shui Yao's question.

  "Great, you're even faster than us." Mingde stood beside Ling Shuiyue: "Yours?"

  Faster than them, Xia Qian Ning took a look at the position, really, wasn't she always holding Ling Shui Yue's hand and following behind him? But now, it was actually her pulling Ling Shui Yue's hand and running in front.

  Xia Qian's grip loosened.

  "Ugly eight freaks, you were just complaining that I'm stupid, not bad, huh? You have speed, you're a material that can be made." Ling Shuiyue also burst out laughing.

  "Your hairband is about to fall off......" Xia Yining pointed at Mingde's hairband that was almost falling off, and she also found that her own scarf was gone: "My scarf......"

  Ling Shuiyue held up the scarf and hairband in his hand, which he had received from Xia Qianqian's body.

  They all fell off... Xia Xianying took over the scarf and hairband, she just ran a bit, everything was gone. That Mingde was clearly fighting with someone, but he didn't lose anything.

  Glasses! Good heavens! Where are my glasses? Xia Qian's hand, which was holding her hair back, suddenly stopped. She handed the scarf and hairband she had just received to Ling Shuiyue, while rummaging through her backpack with a pleading look in her eyes that kept darting towards Ling Shuiyue.

  "What's wrong? Have you lost something?"

  "I... glasses, did I wear glasses when we went out together?"

  A smile suddenly spread across Ling Shuiyue's face. He said that when he was putting on his scarf, it felt strange, as if something had been added. It turned out that Wu Baiguai didn't know when he took off his glasses and was now looking for them.

  "What's so funny? Wait, where are your glasses?"

  "Xia Qian Ning!" Ming De stood by and kept thinking, who was this girl in front of him? Where had he seen her before? Where was it? Where was it?

  "Have you seen my glasses?"

  "It's really you! It seems I really have a good eye for beauty, no beautiful woman can escape my eyes..."

  "Excuse me, have you seen my glasses?"

  "Is that glasses so important? Can't it be without?" Ling Shuiyue was still smiling.

  "It's best if there is."

  "Why?" Ling Shuiyue and Ming De asked in unison.

  "It's really quite special." Mingde muttered under his breath.

  "Here." Ling Shuiyue placed the scarf in Xia Qianying's hand and slowly let go.

  The glasses were lying quietly on the scarf. Xia Xianying had a puzzled face, could it be that she really didn't wear them when she left the gym?

  "Wasn't that the one you handed me just now? I think, wasn't it bothering you when you were running and you took it off without realizing it?" Ling Shuiyue still wanted to tease Xia Qianqian some more, but restrained herself.

  Xia Xian let out a sigh of relief, fortunately her glasses hadn't fallen off. She carefully put them back in their case and then rearranged her hair and wrapped her scarf around her neck: "Are we... going to keep waiting here?"

  "We'll have to wait again, I don't know where those people are now."

  "Xia Qian Ning, does Ming Xin know what you look like?"

  Alas! I'm really frustrated, thinking that I had more secrets than Ming Ke, but it seems we're still the same.

  "We've known each other for a long time. The three of us have been friends since we were very young."

  "What?"

  "Shh——" There seemed to be many footsteps, Xia Xianying raised her index finger, and the nerves all over her body tensed up again.

  It sounds like they're saying they'll be going back to rest today, and Xia Wen's tightly strung nerves finally relaxed.

  "Yao, why did you say that we three knew each other since we were very young?" Ming De looked at Xia Xian with a puzzled face.

  Ling Shuiyue smiled and said: "What else can be in your memory besides Ming Xin's torture?"

  "Are you ridiculing me with my sorrow?" Ming De was puzzled, when did Yao ever laugh so brightly before? Was his sorrow the source of Yao's happiness?

  "It's not ridicule, it's a reminder. Not always living in the shadow of Mingyue."

  "I don't want to either, but can I now? Ugly girl beauty, you say I can?"

  "Hmm......" Xia Qian Ning didn't understand the situation and naturally couldn't speak well.

  Seeing Xia Wen's hesitant expression, Ming De felt a wave of despair wash over him once again. Was it really true that he would end up like Yao said?

  "No way, Ming Xian is so cute, are you going to change your attitude and get along with her?" Xia Yunjing saw Ming De lower his head in dejection, feeling somewhat puzzled.

  "This ugly creature is so considerate of others, but so indifferent to himself: 'Ming De, you have to take responsibility for sending us to Aunt's house.'"

  "Who are you?"

  "Oh, your home is quite far away." Ling Shuiyue looked at Xian Ning with concern. This ugly eight-toned creature was afraid of being frightened again, and wouldn't be able to walk if it came back to its senses.

  "From now on, don't wink at others when playing ball, got it?" Ling Shuiyue pressed the doorbell of Ling Weiyang's house.

  Xia Xian's eyebrows were furrowed, she didn't respond, and just blinked her eyes. Who can't blink their eyes? It's something everyone does, why can't she do it? Why keep talking about it.

  Ling Wei hadn't returned yet, it was the family's servant Li Shuo who opened the door.

  "Miss Xia, madam said dinner is at 7 o'clock tonight, will you be late?"

  "Aunt Li, it's not late." Xia Xianying smiled.

  This young lady is so nice, always smiling when she speaks, and calls me Auntie Li: "Oh, miss, shall I lead you to your room?"

  "Thank you, Aunt Li, no need. I know. Well... see you later, Aunt Li, I have to go upstairs and do my homework now."

  Mrs. Li's face was beaming with joy: "Your mother is the luckiest person in the world, having a child as beautiful and well-behaved as you."

  "Mrs. Li seemed to have only just noticed Ling Shuiyue at this time, and the temperament of this young master was simply worlds apart from that of Miss Xia: 'Young Master, are you staying over today?'"

  "Do you think I look like I'm leaving?" Stinky brat, having only come a few times and already so familiar, even making the normally taciturn Li aunt laugh like a flower: "I'll go upstairs first."

  "Hey, ugly eight!" Ling Shuiyue shouted.

  Mrs. Li pulled Ling Shuiyue's arm and whispered, "Young Master, Miss Xia is so beautiful, I really thought she was a fairy when I first saw her. And her mother, I don't know how they were born like that. Now when I watch idol dramas, I can't even find an idol to look up to. How can you call someone ugly? Even if Miss Xia has great self-cultivation, hearing that would still make her unhappy."

  Ling Shui slowed down his pace, savoring Li's words, which seemed to make a lot of sense. Xia Xianjing always smiled at others, but rarely smiled at herself... no, it was more like she never did.

  Ling Shuiyue often lives at Ling Weier's place. Calculating, there is always a month in a year that he spends here. This home, apart from Ling Weier who loves him, cares for him and treats him like family, everyone else treats him as an outsider. He has long been used to it, so this place feels more like his home, while the one on Happiness Road is just a temporary shelter from wind and rain at best.

  "Master! Phone!" Li Shu was still on her way upstairs when she heard Li's wife shouting from downstairs.

  Isn't it bad to use a mobile phone? Why must you use a landline? Ling Shuiyue felt very displeased in her heart.

  "Hey, I'm home, where's Xian'er? Did she come back with you?" Ling Wei asked on the other end of the phone.

  Ling Shuiyue asked: "We're back together. Auntie, you can just call my cell phone. Why do you have to call the landline?"

  "I just wanted to ask Li Shuo to confirm whether Xian'er has returned, who knew that Li Shuo said you were also there. You should go home today, go back now."

  "No, I won't go back." Ling Shuiyue refused.

  "Something's come up at home today."

  "Why didn't they call you and let you know?"

  Ling Wei's gentle voice suddenly turned sharp: "You stinky brat, are they hitting you? Hurry up..."

  "What's going on? Can't you say it over the phone?" Ling Shuiyue's voice revealed a million unwillingness.

  "I don't know, your dad didn't want to say. He just said there's something at home and you must go back after school today."

  "Got it, I'm leaving now." Ling Shuiyue helplessly hung up the phone, glanced at the stairs, and turned to leave.