"Big Idiot One, what are you doing!"

Chen Yuan really didn't expect Shi Yi to attract hatred for him.

He thought he was a loyal person before.

"I see now, I underestimated you." A boy nodded modestly and retracted what he had just said.

My ass!

You’ve been playing too much Yuan Shen Impact, can you not be so outrageous?

"Then let's go downstairs to pay the bill, it's almost time to go back to school," one of the students said.

Because they still had tasks, everyone went downstairs together.

"What did you come here to do?" Shi Yi asked.

"I came to buy a reference book, for physics problems," Chen Yuan said.

"I see." Shi Yi picked up a teaching aid book and handed it to Chen Yuan, "Use this one, it's not bad."

"It's not the competition type, is it?" Chen Yuan asked warily.

"No, it's suitable for a score of around 100, it's considered medium difficulty," Shi Yi said.

"That's great, I'll take this one."

Although I only score 90, my hard power is 100, so it's no problem to play in this level of league.

After Chen Yuan selected the teaching materials, he went downstairs.

The five students from Fourth High School bought two sets of teaching materials for the whole class, and after choosing their own, they stuffed them all into their empty schoolbags. Those that couldn't fit were held in their hands.

"Let me take some," Chen Yuan stretched out his hand and took Shi Yi's stack.

"No need…"

Shi Yi was about to say something, but Chen Yuan took it.

Then, he looked at a girl and said to her, "Give it to me."

This guy is quite enlightened.

"Thank you, hee hee." After expressing her thanks, the girl handed him the books.

Of course, this isn't sucking up to girls, it's just based on the difference in physical strength between men and women, and mutual help between classmates. If the other party opens their mouth and says they can't carry heavy objects and insists on enjoying gender privileges, then it's different.

But what exactly is that '1' on Shi Yi's head?

Not figuring it out is as uncomfortable as having an ant senior crawling on my body.

"By the way, Chen Yuan, was your partner that day called Xia Xinyu?" the girl asked curiously.

"Yes," Chen Yuan replied.

"And, she's a student at our school?" the girl continued, her eyes full of gossip.

"...Yes." Chen Yuan gradually became nervous.

No, did they really expose Xia Xinyu?

"Or is she your girlfriend?" the girl continued to pursue.

"Don't say that."

Speaking of this, Chen Yuan became a little wary.

The school spirit of Fourth High School does not allow this kind of thing to happen, absolutely not.

Because the precedent can't be set, otherwise it will be impossible to treat everyone equally later.

"I know, I know, it's just a rumor," the girl said.

"But since the rumors are so widespread, hasn't your school leadership reacted at all?" Chen Yuan asked curiously.

"Yeah, it's strange. I have a friend in Class Three who said that when that video was the most popular, it didn't seem to have any impact on her," the girl said.

"Was it you, Shi Yi?" Chen Yuan asked.

Shi Yi shook his head. He didn't want to take credit for something he didn't do.

But he felt that it should have something to do with him.

But what was related to him should be the fact that Xia Xinyu participated in the program.

"Then it should be because there's no concrete evidence, it's just rumors, plus you're not in the same school, so the school didn't 'make a fuss about nothing'," a boy guessed.

"But Yuan-shen, you really have to step up," another boy said.

"What do you mean?" Chen Yuan asked.

The boy looked at him, smiled, and said, "There have been public displays of affection before, also between schools, with First High School. But because both of them are *youzi* (outstanding students), and very stable, the school turned a blind eye."

"In other words, it's not that non-top students don't have privileges, but that they're not excellent enough. As long as they reach the *youzi* level…"

After analyzing, the girl suddenly looked dreamy, "In that case, I really want to date a handsome guy from First High School."

"Is a handsome guy from Eleventh High School not good enough?" Chen Yuan asked.

"Your school probably has at most four people who reach the *youzi* line. Excluding the girls, you have to pick one out of the remaining three… I have some trouble evaluating that."

Damn it, I've been humiliated!

Is this the arrogance of a top sect?!

Damn it.

He Hongtao, you need to reflect on why Eleventh High School is so bad, with only a few *youzi*. Is that worthy of my efforts?

What, I'm not a *youzi* yet?

Never mind then.

"Oh, the bus is here."

At this time, the bus arrived.

Chen Yuan handed the books in his hand to the girl.

Then, a few people lined up to get on the bus.

Shi Yi, standing at the back, turned his head, looked at Chen Yuan, and asked curiously, "Today, I feel like you've been holding back."

"Ah? Really?"

Is this the insight of a top science student?

Terrifying.

"Yes," Shi Yi said.

"Haha, is that so?" Chen Yuan smiled and said, "I'll tell you when we get back."

"But I live at school, I can tell you at night in the dormitory."

"Okay."

Just like that, the two made an agreement.

And Chen Yuan, after getting on his bus, returned home.

On the way, he kept thinking about Shi Yi.

Why does this guy have a '1' on his head?

The possibility of something similar to QQ Speed is very high.

But the possibility that he really had a little girlfriend isn't zero.

With these thoughts, Chen Yuan thought of Liu Chengxi.

If it was this topic, Liu Chengxi would be happy to fuel the flames.

But how should I say it?

No, why am I not studying hard and thinking about gossip here?

But this gossip is too interesting, it's Shi Yi.

Maybe I can use this flaw to defeat Shi Yi!

But now is not the time to be Shi Yi's opponent.

Not to mention Shi Yi, I'm still far from Liu Chengxi and Shen Yating.

At most, I can exchange blows with the weakest one in the *youzi* gang today, and even then, the probability of winning is very low.

Then I'll save the good opportunity to disturb Shi Yi's mentality for later.

Just as Chen Yuan was thinking about this, Xia Xinyu walked in, peeled a *Guang C* (Guangdong produced) sugar orange, broke off half, and put it in his mouth.

"Thank you."

Chen Yuan finished eating it *miangmiang* (onomatopoeia for chewing).

"I was chatting with Yu Xin Yue today, and I found out that she also counted her elementary school relationship as one, no wonder she has so many ex-boyfriends," Xia Xinyu said while eating the orange.

"Does elementary school even count? Isn't that just like playing house?"

The kids haven't even grown their fur yet, what do they know about love?

"It should count, after all, when I heard her say it, I thought it was so sweet," Xia Xinyu said with a smile, "Two kids walking home together, the boy following behind her all the way, and then Yu Xin Yue turned around and asked him why he kept following her, the boy's face turned red all of a sudden, and after holding it in for a long time, he said, 'Can I sit with you on the spring outing tomorrow?'…"

Damn.

That's actually a little sweet.

This is youth.

The sugar content isn't any less than the horny love of high school students.

"I really want to date Xinyu in elementary school," Chen Yuan said wistfully.

"Then I'm sorry, I would never date in elementary school."

Xia Xinyu stretched out a hand and denied it.

"Not even me?" Chen Yuan asked.

"Not even you."

Xia Xinyu covered her mouth and smiled, "Don't underestimate my determination to study hard."

However, Chen Yuan remembered the appearance of little Xia Xinyu in a wedding dress in his dream, and the scene of her proposing to him, this big child.

Obviously, Yu Zi's words have no credibility.

"You also said you didn't plan to date in high school," Chen Yuan complained.

"…That's different. High school is almost adulthood, but dating in elementary school is too bad."

After saying this, Xia Xinyu thought for a while and changed her mind, "But if two people don't really understand and just simply like each other, and then make some kind of promise, I feel like it's understandable."

When she said this, Chen Yuan seemed to really think that it might be possible.

After all, even playing the QQ Speed couple system can be counted as one, what else is impossible?

Shi Yi is as hard as a stone. If he completed a promise, he might not even know it himself.

"I'm going over there."

"Okay, good luck."

After saying goodbye to Xia Xinyu, Chen Yuan opened the small group of three.

Then, he @ed Shi Yi: Did you really not promise any little girl anything?

As soon as this message was sent, Ya Xi quickly took her place.

Liu Chengxi: What is it?

Shen Yating: Melon seeds, a small bench, and potato chips are ready.

Then, as expected, Shi Yi sent that emoticon.

[Dog tilting its head?]

Shi Yi: Why are you saying this?

Chen Yuan: I always feel that a reliable person like Shi Yi should have been confessed to more than once.

Chen Yuan: I want to find your weakness, so I'm anxious.

After saying that, Chen Yuan made up for it a little, so as not to be too abrupt.

Shen Yating: Indeed, I always feel like he's hiding something.

Liu Chengxi: Even I've been confessed to many times, you should be more than once, after all, 720 (score).

You bastard, do you have so many confessions because you scored 700 points?

Isn't it just because you're handsome?

Shi Yi: I definitely didn't have any in high school or junior high school.

Chen Yuan: What about elementary school?

Shi Yi: I don't remember clearly.

Shen Yating: "I don't remember clearly" means there was!

Chen Yuan: Indeed, this vague answer is a bit strange.

Shi Yi: Really?

Chen Yuan: Your little girlfriend, you ask me?

Shi Yi: Not a little girlfriend, just a very good friend. She should have gone abroad by now.

Classic going abroad, classic childhood sweetheart.

Is the light novel plot starting?

Shen Yating: What gift did she give you before she left, and what did she say?

As expected of a girl, she's so observant.

Boys are relatively stupid at this time, while girls are more mature and more complex in terms of emotions.

The group was silent for four or five seconds before Shi Yi replied.

Shi Yi: A photo frame

At this moment, Chen Yuan in front of the screen: "!"

At this moment, Shen Yating in front of the screen: "!"

At this moment, Liu Chengxi in front of the screen: "Hai - I'm a little sleepy, this is really boring."

Shen Yating: Shi Yi, go home now, find the photo frame, open it, then take out the note behind the photo, and before you look at it, put down everything you're doing and sit reverently.

This Shen Yating really understands a little bit.

Chen Yuan actually had a vague feeling, but he wasn't so sure that there would definitely be something inside.

So, as expected of a girl.

Then, Shi Yi sent a [dog tilting its head] emoticon.

Shen Yating: Stop tilting your head, take the girl's feelings seriously!

Shi Yi withdrew a message

Shi Yi: [ok]

………

Shi Yi was a little confused, not knowing what was going on.

How did she know there was a note hidden inside the photo frame?

It was as if she was watching someone put it in.

But going home now is also a little inconvenient.

I'll look at it on Sunday.

But, what if there really is a note, and it has words written on it…

Shi Yi fell into deep thought.

So, he thought of a way.

It's 9:30 now, just after evening self-study, and the school gates aren't completely closed, so that parents who are delivering late-night snacks can come in.

Shi Yi's mother occasionally delivers.

So, he called his mother.

"Bring me some dumplings tonight, I'm a little hungry."

"By the way, Mom, there's a photo frame in my drawer, can you bring it to me?"

"It's nothing, just… just bring it to me."

Although he couldn't explain it clearly to his mother, he still made this request.

After a while, his mother brought the dumplings over. After he ate them in the guard booth, his mother took away the insulated box, and he took the photo frame and walked towards the dormitory building.

This is a group photo, himself and that big-eyed girl with pigtails.

Is there really something else inside?

Is she expressing her feelings through this photo frame?

With a puzzled mood, he opened the latch on the back of the photo frame.

Then, the photo frame was disassembled layer by layer.

When he took out the group photo, a pink heart-shaped sticky note fell slowly like a falling leaf and lay quietly on the ground.

Shi Yi, who happened to be standing under the street lamp, lowered his head, his body frozen at this moment.

Then…

He was sweating profusely.

That's not right.

There's a problem with this.

Why is there a note inside?

If there's a note, it means she has something to say to me.

But what she said at the time was - I'm giving it to you, return it to me if you don't want it.

After saying that, the little girl ran back into the house.

Later, when he called, he heard her parents say that she was crying very sadly.

In fact, this kind of thing is very common. Many people who spend their summer vacation in the countryside have a particularly good partner. The two are inseparable, invite each other everywhere, and then on a certain day before school starts, they don't even want to say goodbye face to face, hiding 'introvertedly' behind the door.

At this time, they are also 'teased' by their parents: What's there to be shy about? Go say goodbye, see you next summer.

For Shi Yi, she was such an existence.

Like a childhood playmate that most people have.

When they meet again after growing up, they will also recall the memories of being together, but neither of them dares to take the initiative to talk to each other.

It really is a childhood memory.

But does the other party recognize this memory?

Does the other party want to relive it?

They will all fall into such a predicament.

Just like Runtu and Xun Ge (Lu Xun) back then.

It's just that Shi Yi and the other party don't have this kind of identity difference.

He bent down and picked up the card.

Then, before reading it, he thought of Shen Yating's words.

Maintain a pious posture and sit down to read it.

But there are no chairs here…

There was no way, he had to sit on the stone ridge under the street lamp, put the photo frame in his arms, and then look at this pink, heart-shaped card…

As he looked, he fell silent.

He covered his face with one hand, speechless for a long time.

And said something that Chen Yuan would say:

"I'm sorry, I'm an idiot."

I see now.

No wonder she said to return it to her if he didn't want it.

It means that accepting it is equivalent to agreeing.

If he didn't return it, or rather respond, it naturally doesn't count as a rejection.

That's amazing.

Who decided that you must put a card in the photo frame as a gift?

Girls' mouths are really tight, they can keep secrets so well.

But so much time has passed, she should have let go of it…

Chen Yuan really did it.

In the half week before the exam, my heart was indeed in turmoil.

Especially after seeing this.

…………

Shi Yi studies in Xia Hai, but he has to return to his father's hometown, a small county-level city near Xia Hai, every summer.

And not the county seat, a village.

The summer vacation of the third grade was very long, and he stayed the longest.

Then, he met some local friends.

Together, they rode bicycles to steal peas, used firecrackers to blow up cow dung, and went fishing by the river with adults. They ran around at night at temple fairs full of feudal superstitions. The children didn't know why they had so much energy, inexhaustible, forever young.

One day, a car also stopped next to Shi Yi's old house. He heard that there was also a child in that family.

But no one had seen her for a whole week.

"It seems to be a girl, I heard my dad say."

"She's also in the third grade in Xia Hai, just like Shi Yi."

"Why doesn't she come out to play?"

"The young lady from Xia Hai doesn't bother to play with us."

When a few friends walked to her door, gossiped quite 'vividly', they ran away again, heading in one direction, inexplicably, running hard.

After that, Shi Yi's family wanted him to deliver dried green beans to the neighbors, so he went to help.

Standing in front of this small western-style house, he raised his head and watched for a long time before suddenly noticing a gaze.

Then it flashed by and disappeared.

"Uncle, Auntie, I'm here to deliver the green beans."

Shi Yi walked into the house and said loudly.

But no one responded to him, so he put down the green beans in his hand and walked towards the stairs.

The gaze just now did come from the window upstairs…

So, he slowly went upstairs.

Then, he went to the second floor and saw a girl.

The girl also looked at him.

After looking at each other for a few seconds, the girl suddenly covered her face with both hands and let out a loud scream, "Ahhh—"

Shi Yi felt that his eardrums were about to be shattered, and quickly explained, "I'm here to deliver the beans…"

"You saw it?!"

The girl suddenly shouted loudly.

Shi Yi was a little puzzled and stunned for a moment.

"My face, my face!"

The girl shouted.

Face…

Shi Yi then realized that she was talking about the red, very dark, large patches of small spots on her face…

"Measles," Shi Yi said.

Hearing this, the girl sitting on the bed was stunned for a moment, then separated her fingers on the hands covering her eyes, revealing a gap, and looked at him weakly, asking, "Have you, have you had it too?"

"I saw it in an encyclopedia…"

Hearing that he hadn't had it, the girl continued to scream, "It's very ugly, right!"

Shi Yi was silent, wanting to answer seriously.

And this period of silence was understood as 'default', and then the girl cried even more pitifully, completely unable to hear other people's words, like a wild horse…

Shi Yi panicked, afraid of being considered the culprit for making the girl cry, so he stepped forward to comfort her.

But the other party seemed to have collapsed, already sinking into endless sadness.

It turned out that she was hiding at home and not going out because she was recuperating.

She didn't play with everyone because the measles on her face was too scary, and she didn't want to be thought of as an ugly monster.

But there's nothing you can do about getting measles…

And the good thing is that you won't get it again after you've had it once.

Maybe it's because girls care more about this.

Shi Yi walked to the crying girl and found that she was sitting on the bed playing Sudoku, with a red pen on the Sudoku book.

I really want to play…

I'm a little itchy.

Shi Yi picked up the red pen.

At this time, the girl who was covering her face and leaving a gap for her eyes stared at him and said seriously, "If you think I'm ugly, go back quickly, what are you doing here!"

"I don't think you're ugly…"

"Liar, liar, liar!" the girl shouted, "You definitely think girls with red spots all over their faces are disgusting, they're scaring people when they go out, it's best to stay honestly at home…"

Before the girl could finish speaking, Shi Yi slowly raised his head.

"You, what are you doing?"

The girl looked at the boy next door in surprise, very puzzled.

All these days, she had been observing him and his friends upstairs.

She also noticed this child who was taller than other peers and looked smarter.

But she didn't expect that he would directly come to her house.

"Measles is caused by being sick, it should be because you didn't get vaccinated when you were a kid, but it will go away soon."

"…But it's very ugly when you get it, like a monster."

"Since you think so…"

Okay.

As if compromising to something, Shi Yi pressed the pen tip down.

Then, he used the red pen to put one red dot after another on his face…

(End of chapter)