The fifth section: You and I will never live under the same sky

  Listening to Luo Er's frantic voice, Xuan Sheng couldn't help but shrug his shoulders: "Yun Auntie, then we'll leave first and come back tomorrow to prepare for the move!"

  "How much is it? Otherwise, you can call Lichao together tomorrow." Li Jinyun comforted them.

  "It's okay, Auntie, we don't have much stuff either, haha, let's go, Yunjie!"

  "It's dark on the road, be careful..."

  "Hmm..." With that, the two turned around and left the Li residence.

  Luo Er's mother waved the thirty-six 100-yuan bills in front of the candle, and didn't put her mind at ease until she was sure they were all real money. Smiling, she said to Lei Chao, who was still picking at his food, "Chao, look! Mom said that when you reach the mountain, there will be a road. Look, this road has come, it's really good, and now you can go to school too."

  Li Chao also smiled and nodded, "Yes, but why are they so familiar with my room? And, it seems like my sister is not very happy about two men living in the house, or is she unhappy with them? Are these two my sister's classmates? Or are they my sister's admirers..."

  "You little scamp, stop spouting nonsense!" Li Jinyun rapped her son's head with a chopstick. "Don't talk like that in front of your sister, or you'll get a beating. I'm going to go see how your sister is..."

  She pushed open Luo Er's door, felt her way to the bedside in the dark and asked, "Luo Er, why are you a bit unhappy?"

  "No, mom, I'm just thinking about things, I'm not unhappy. I can go to school, how could I be unhappy?"

  "That's good, that's good. Mom put 500 yuan under your pillow, tomorrow you go buy a pair of shoes for yourself and Chao, just get something decent, don't buy anything too expensive! Prices are rising fast these days, but you can still find some good quality things at a low price. Before you know it, summer will be over, and the good ones you buy won't fit next year. By the way, come back from the market and weigh out some bones and meat, since they gave us such a high price, we should let them have some good stuff too... and don't forget to pay Xiaoxuan's mom that 300+ yuan from last month..."

  Before his mother had finished speaking, Lao Er jumped out of bed and ran outside in his socks.

  "What are you doing? Come down!" Her mother hastily called out to her from the window.

  "I'm going to the toilet, my stomach hurts..." he said as he slipped out of the yard.

  "I don't know what she ate, her stomach hurts at night, this child is so impulsive and not like a girl at all!" Li Jinyun muttered to herself as she came out to collect the bowls and chopsticks.

  Luo'er ran out and didn't go to the toilet, but instead ran straight in the direction of the stadium. After running for about ten minutes, she finally saw the figures of Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Zhiquan.

  She was so tired that she couldn't run anymore! She panted and shouted out Lu Xiansheng's name towards the front. Lu Xiansheng and Zhiquan heard the call and turned around to see Lei Lu'er, who was almost falling to the ground with exhaustion, and immediately turned back three steps at a time.

  Lu Xuan Sheng wanted to help Lu Er up, but didn't expect to have his hand shaken off by Lu Er once again...

  "Could it be that your mom has changed her mind? Otherwise, why are you in such a hurry to chase after us?"

  "My mom... hasn't changed her mind!" La'er said breathlessly.

  "What's wrong? Are you going to do something?"

  "I just want to tell you, Lu Xiansheng..."

  "Hmm? What's wrong?"

  "I don't need anyone's pity! So don't think you're great just because you saved my brother and me today, and don't get arrogant just because those old men praised you! Because I never took you seriously in the first place! If you have any other ideas, then don't blame me for being rude to you when we meet again!"

  "Depressed, nothing. You don't take me seriously, then don't bother! Anyway, my mom said, whatever I want to eat, just tell you and you'll make it for me, right?. What's the point of being so stubborn? Just do as I say!"

  "Want to eat together? Want to live together? What do you want to eat?" Luo Er's tone was somewhat provocative.

  "My requirements are not high, I don't know about Zhi Quan, anyway if we have braised meat to eat, you can eat the meat and I'll drink the soup, that's okay, right?"

  As soon as he heard this, Zhi Quan started his unpleasant laughter again, "Unexpectedly... unexpectedly... you... Lu Xian Sheng also has such a day, letting others eat meat and drinking soup himself... haha ha ha ha..."

  "Drink soup? Don't be ridiculous, I'm telling you, even if you move into my house and I protest, it won't do any good. But as for drinking soup, that's absolutely impossible! As for how I'll treat you in the future, think about it yourself, and if you can't figure it out, just experience it slowly until you can't take it anymore!"

  "Bully me? Hehe, I'd like that! What kind of bullying method? Tell me about it......" Xuan Sheng's mischievous grin was so adorable, she couldn't help but want to pinch his cheeks.

  "Do you really want to hear?"

  "Hmm!"

  "When we eat roasted meat, we'll finish the whole thing and not even leave the soup for you. You can just pick out the chili peppers for yourself! We'll eat the buns, and you can gnaw on the edges! When we eat melons, it's up to luck whether there's any left... Everything else is like this, figure it out yourself!" After saying that, Luo Er took off running back, with Lu Xiangsheng yelling something behind her, probably only Chen Zhiquan could hear clearly...

  "Brother, Li Lu'er will treat you like this ~ haha ??haha! Chen Zhiquan finally had a chance to laugh at Xuan Sheng, how could he not burst out laughing wildly?"

  Xuan Sheng was stunned for half a day before speaking up, "She's a bit too unique, hehe! But I found out that such an adorable little girl, I'm really afraid I'll fall in love with her. But I'm really curious, what will our future life be like? What do you think, cousin?"

  Zhi Quan shrugged his shoulders, "Everything is thanks to you..."

  "Sister, are you up?" Li Chao stood at the door of Luo Er's room, knocking and shouting loudly.

  He rubbed his temples, yawned and stretched out his hand to grab the alarm clock on his desk. He looked at it and saw that it was only a little past 7 o'clock, earlier than the set time, so he stuffed the alarm clock under his pillow, pulled up the quilt to cover his head, turned over and continued sleeping...

  "Sister, did you sleep with your clothes on last night?" Li Chao asked loudly from the doorway.

  "Put it on, what's wrong with you? Are you trying to die? Am I having multiple brothers or multiple mothers? Every day is really..."

  "Haha, just wear it!" Li Chao quietly pushed open the door and walked into Luo Er's room, standing by the bed. "Your Majesty, I was wrong, I know you're sleeping soundly, but I really have no shoes to wear, please grant me a pair of shoes to wear, I'll kowtow to you here..." Then came the sound of his head knocking against the bed: thud, thud, thud.

  Luo Er kicked open the quilt with one foot, glanced at Li Chao, and only then discovered that Li Chao was holding his own broken leather sandal, happily banging it against the bed while muttering to himself.

  The boy's mouth corner revealed a sly and evil smile, lightly jumping down from the bed at the fastest speed, standing behind Li Chao, kicking Li Chao's butt with one foot, then laughing at Li Chao's reaction.

  Li Chao climbed out of bed, his eyes revealing a terrifying green glow as he stared straight at Luo Er, baring his teeth and snarling out a cruel remark, "Don't, or I'll make you wish you were dead!"

  Luo Er burst out laughing, "Haha, I'm so scared!~" Then she ran out barefoot, but just as she was about to reach the door, she saw Lu Xiangsheng and Chen Zhiquan standing on either side of her bedroom door, grinning at her mischievously.

  Luo Er quickly climbed back onto the bed, covering himself with a towel... "How did you two get in? This is ridiculous! Didn't you lock the door, Lei Chao? Why didn't you lock the door?"

  Lu Xuan Sheng smiled, "How could the door possibly be unlocked? It's just that I have the key."

  Zhi Quan wrapped his index finger around the key ring, still grinning foolishly.

  "What? Where did you get the key?"

  "Of course it was your mom who gave it to you, did we pick you up last night or something? Look at your keys, are they lost?" Chen Zhiquan always spoke like this, and Lao'er was already used to it.

  "What? Last night?" Li Chao turned his head gloomily to ask Luo Er, "Sister, didn't you go to the bathroom last night? How... Oh! Haha~" Li Chao's burst of evil laughter left Luo Er at a loss for words.

  "Haha, stop messing around, this key was given to me by your mom." Xuan Sheng said, pulling out the key with a red string tied to it that belonged to Luo Er's mother.

  "My goodness, Mom, how could you give both sets of keys to the two of you?" Lao'er blurted out in confusion.

  "Hehe, we met Yuniang on the way here and she said you two might not be up yet, so she gave the key to Xiansheng." Zhiquan interjected to explain to Lu'er.

  "Nothing much, my sister is just like this! A bit neurotic!" Lei Chao was also being mischievous.

  "Hey, Li Chao, what kind of person are you? Elbows out!"

  Three boys burst out laughing, all staring at Luo Er.

  Luo Er couldn't bear it anymore and stormed out in her slippers. "I'll go cook for you, you can play wherever you want."

  Lu Xuan Sheng smiled and asked Li Chao, "Is your sister always like this?"

  "It's almost like she said nothing and wouldn't talk to you anymore."

  "Cough cough, Li Chao, who are these two people?" Chen Zhiquan asked, pointing to a photo pressed under Lai Er's desk.

  Li Chao walked over, took a look and pulled out the photo to hand it to Chen Zhiquan, "The two people in this photo are siblings, both of whom attend Xingzhong High School and are in their third year. If you guys go to Xingzhong High School, you'll definitely know them."

  "What? Very famous?. Junping Province?"

  "It's almost certain, this guy is called Shen Kai, he's the president of the student union at Xing Zhong, how could he not be famous? Moreover, the basketball team he formed can be said to be one of the strongest teams in Xing Zhong, his dunks, as my sister would say, are simply beautiful..."

  Zhī Quán couldn't help but burst out laughing when he heard Lí Chāo's words, "Xiǎn Shèng ah Xiǎn Shèng, you should be depressed ~ ahahahaha..."