Chapter 21 Mountain Climbing

"I heard a saying before that if you want to decide whether to date a boy, you should go mountain climbing with him first..." He Sijiao suddenly said as the four of them walked up the mountain.

After she finished speaking, all three of them looked at her in unison.

"I, I don't know why either." He Sijiao said blankly, "I saw it at the time, but I forgot. So, have you guys heard of such a saying?"

"I think..." Zhou Fu thought for a while, then analyzed, "Could it be that you can see a boy's attitude towards you when climbing a mountain? Like... another small detail?"

"Indeed, that could be the reason. I can't think of any other reason."

He Sijiao nodded, then looked at the two men holding flashlights and asked, "What about you? Guys, say something."

Although she said that, the two men still didn't speak, walking on their own.

Just like that, Chen Yuan kept glancing sideways at Zhou Yu. When the other party suddenly paused, he quickly said, "Brother Yu is tired, let's take a break!"

"..." Zhou Yu's body tensed up, and he quickly turned his head, looking at the guy who deliberately framed him with a flushed face, seizing the moment when the other was catching his breath, "Brother Yuan is having a hard time keeping up, he's panting... Come on, does anyone have mineral water? Save him!"

The two of them suddenly became particularly polite, caring about each other.

"...You're calling each other Brother Yu and Brother Yuan, are you usually that close?" He Sijiao complained.

"I feel like there's some invisible competition happening between these two." Zhou Fu also speculated.

"Really not." Seeing that the two of them had misunderstood, Chen Yuan explained, "Brother Yu is usually not very good at sports. He gets winded after running for a while. I should take better care of him."

"Our Brother Yuan has thick blood and sits wherever he goes. He deserves even more care." Zhou Yu made a gesture of extending his hand, "Come on, let me help you walk."

The two of them demonstrated human humility and virtue.

Looking at them, He Sijiao slowly pursed her lips and said, "I think I understand what these two idiots are arguing about."

"Now that you say that, I get it too." Zhou Fu's expression gradually became speechless.

As expected of boys.

Boys will always be boys.

Most of the time, they can be tolerant and generous.

But on these matters, they will never take a step back.

Height.

Kidney deficiency.

And comparing the length of their *coughs* for a lifetime.

"But I think that statement is biased." Returning to the previous question, Chen Yuan said, "Not only should boys be in good shape, but girls should also be in good shape, right?"

"That's right." Zhou Yu also nodded and said, "A strong sporting nation, a pound of milk every day, strengthens the Chinese people. Exercise really can't be abandoned."

"...They're standing on the same front again at this time." He Sijiao was convinced by these two.

This is too much, why is the tacit understanding between these two men so high!

Sometimes, it also feels quite perverted.

Although she knows that this is ordinary brotherly love.

"We've been climbing for so long, why haven't we reached the top yet?"

Zhou Yu, who was holding the flashlight and shining it upwards, asked with some confusion.

"Brother Yu, take a break if you're tired!"

"I'll rest your dam, I'm not tired!" After Zhou Yu responded forcefully, he took the flashlight and shone it down the mountain.

The light from the flashlight only appeared in the dark forest, and then was swallowed by the deeper night.

"You can't see anything at a glance." He Sijiao said with emotion.

Climbing a mountain at night, the scenery along the way is indeed very poor.

Basically, you can only see a dark patch.

"That's how it is when watching the sunrise, you only look at that moment of emotion." Zhou Fu said with a smile.

"And the wind is blowing coolly... It's quite comfortable." He Sijiao was also in good condition and didn't feel tired at all.

Jiao-jie's physical strength is indeed quite good.

It's great to find a girlfriend like this.

What, girls don't need to be in good shape? When is being in shape not useful?

Nonsense, girls also need to be good at moving on top.

Otherwise, how tiring would it be for one person to sweep up dust with a broom?

(You better be talking about spring cleaning.)

"It is indeed very cool..."

When Zhou Fu was halfway through speaking, she felt a gust of cold wind sweeping into her neck. So, she pulled her zipper up higher.

Then, in the next moment, a jacket was draped over her shoulders.

Slowly turning her head, looking at Chen Yuan, who was only wearing a short sleeve, she smiled: "Aren't you cold?"

"People with *qi* deficiency are afraid of the cold, I'm not cold." Chen Yuan said directly.

As soon as he finished speaking, He Sijiao was also covered with a jacket.

"I, I'm not cold." He Sijiao, who was wrapped like a small dumpling, was stunned.

"But I'm too hot..." Zhou Yu didn't back down at all, and even went a step further, "Do you want pants too?"

"Okay, stop it."

Reaching out her hand, He Sijiao stopped this childish escalation of male competition.

This is what boys are like.

They can keep playing the same joke over and over again.

But, that's also part of their charm...

The road up the mountain became shorter and shorter. The two boys held their girlfriends' hands and walked all the way to the end.

Then, at the top of the mountain, there was a relatively spacious open space.

Under the blowing of the wind from the high ground, the black grass rustled, like waves hitting the shore.

At this moment, the four of them felt like they were solitary mambas, and their moods were greatly satisfied.

Taking out his phone and looking at the time, Chen Yuan said, "There's probably forty minutes or so until the sunrise, right?"

"Which way does the sun rise from?" Zhou Fu asked uncertainly.

"The sun rises in the east and sets in the west..." He Sijiao showed even more confusion as she spun around in place, "But which way is east, and which way is west?"

"It's okay, my phone has a compass." Zhou Yu opened the app, and then surprisingly found, "Damn, it's a north-pointing compass... How do we do this?"

Zhou Fu and He Sijiao were stunned in sync: "..."

"What's wrong, can't you just look at it backwards?"

Chen Yuan went to the side and taught them.

"Hey, you still have some brains."

As soon as He Sijiao finished speaking, she saw Chen Yuan and Zhou Yu, both of them lowered their heads, put their heads under the phone, and looked at the north-pointing compass "backwards"...

"Stop pretending to be stupid, your faces have changed!" He Sijiao couldn't take it anymore.

"...You don't understand my abstract humor."

Chen Yuan sighed, and then found the east with Zhou Yu.

The four of them just looked at the flat east.

Zhou Yu unfolded the ground mat he had carried on his back, and everyone sat on it.

He Sijiao and Zhou Fu sat in the middle, and their two boyfriends leaned on the sides respectively. The four of them sat close together, waiting for the sunrise to arrive.

Because the sunrise is only spectacular for a moment, everyone didn't dare to play on their phones too much, for fear of missing that beautiful scene.

"Let's chat."

He Sijiao said suddenly.

"Chat about what?" Chen Yuan asked.

"Let's chat about our relationship history, dare you?" He Sijiao asked.

This question made the remaining few people a little stunned.

But soon, they all agreed.

"Okay, I'll go first." Chen Yuan said.

Then, everyone looked at him.

"None before high school, liked someone after high school, and also dated one." Chen Yuan said.

"Don't pretend, how could you have only dated Fu-Fu..." He Sijiao was anxious, because Chen Yuan looked like the kind of person who would experience some relationships.

At least, he should have a story from his youth.

"May I die a horrible death if I lie to you."

However, Chen Yuan's simple and unadorned words directly stunned He Sijiao.

Generally, if someone says this, it's basically the truth.

There's no need for people to lie about this kind of thing.

Honestly, it's strange, why isn't this kind of harsh oath used in court?

I didn't kill the person, may I die a horrible death if I lie to you.

Saying this kind of thing would at least make the judge waver a little, right?

He Sijiao didn't want Chen Yuan's turn to end so quickly, so she continued to ask, "There must have been people who liked you..."

"Don't." Zhou Yu raised his hand, "Don't let him say this, this kid's about to get a smirk on his face."

"There were indeed people who liked me, but I didn't have any feelings for those girls." Chen Yuan waved his hand lightly and said.

"Oh, several, huh?" Zhou Fu pouted and said sarcastically to Chen Yuan's boast, "It must be nice to be liked by girls?"

"So-so, I just find it troublesome. After all, it's not like the feelings are mutual." Chen Yuan said seriously.

"What about you?" He Sijiao looked at Zhou Yu.

"I really haven't dated..."

"What about online dating?"

"Are you kidding me!" Zhou Yu reacted strongly upon hearing these words from Chen Yuan, "Do you think I'm Tang Jian? Who can have an online relationship every few months!"

But I really did have one online relationship...

But the oleander thing, no one else can know.

Strange, very strange.

Could it be that Chen Yuan is an oleander...

...relative?

"If you liked someone, talk about that too." He Sijiao continued to press.

"This..." Zhou Yu was thinking.

"When Fu-Fu first transferred here, weren't you boys all peacocking?" He Sijiao mentioned with a stern face.

"It's a joke, we were just joking!" Zhou Yu was frightened and quickly denied it.

And Zhou Fu couldn't help but smile, then looked at Chen Yuan and asked, "So at that time, you were just joking with me too, and didn't have any feelings at all?"

"I definitely recognized your beauty, but feelings aren't based on lust. After all, I'm a pretty serious person." Chen Yuan said calmly.

"Well, that's pretty grand." Zhou Fu nodded and said approvingly.

Chen Yuan: "You want to say I'm a gentleman, right?"

While these two were flirting, Zhou Yu slowly said, "I did like someone in middle school. She was small, had a ponytail, but she was very introverted, so... I didn't say many words to her throughout middle school."

"That's really a pity. I remember you told me several times." Chen Yuan nodded and echoed.

"Who the hell told you!" Zhou Yu clenched his fists and said somewhat eagerly, "Can I push you down? Really, I've been wanting to do this for a long time."

"You guys are still doing pretty well."

When she got to this part, He Sijiao's expression gradually worsened. After holding back for a while, she slowly said, "I liked a boy in middle school. He wasn't very handsome, but he was cheerful and funny. Then, I confessed to him. However, he rejected me."

Hearing the rejection here, Zhou Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

In that case, am I her first choice?

"Although I was rejected, he didn't string me along. Even though I was a little sad, it was still better, at least the image I had of him wasn't shattered."

"What happened later?" Zhou Fu asked.

Thinking of this, He Sijiao clenched her fists and said, "Later, he suddenly asked me to go to the movies."

Zhou Yu raised his head and looked at her in astonishment.

"Was it because someone else bailed on him, so he asked you?" Chen Yuan guessed.

"You guessed it right." He Sijiao said with a dry laugh, "He thought that since I liked him, I would definitely go."

"Then, what did you say?" Zhou Fu was also angry when she heard this, so she asked with particular concern.

"I said." Snorting disdainfully, He Sijiao said coldly, "Get lost, you bastard."

"That's so satisfying." Zhou Fu felt relieved.

"Jiao-jie is awesome." Chen Yuan couldn't help but praise.

"Very much in your style."

Zhou Yu smiled faintly.

He Sijiao turned her head to look at him. Slowly, she leaned onto his shoulder and said with a smile, "I think I understand your low spirits this afternoon."

"Huh?" Zhou Yu looked at her in confusion.

Then, he saw this girl gently say, "You also want to be my first choice."

After saying such a cheesy sentence, Fu Rong Wang Yuan didn't start yoyoyoing.

Because it was said so well.

The most beautiful love is of course when you are each other's first choice.

Instead of making a decision after weighing the options—he'll do too.

"You will always be my first choice."

Zhou Yu said with a red face.

This time, Fu Rong Wang Yuan started yoyoing like crazy.

After all, it's a bit too cheesy this way.

"What about Fu?" He Sijiao finally asked about this somewhat mysterious transfer student.

"As for me, I've never lacked boys who like me since I was little."

This sentence immediately heated up the atmosphere.

Chen Yuan was even more anxious.

What's up, is she loved by everyone?

"But my heart only started to beat fast after meeting you."

Slowly turning her head, smiling sweetly at Chen Yuan, Zhou Fu showed a "I'm so glad I like you" smile.

She looked incredibly happy.

She was obviously the one who confessed, but she looked so happy...

This time, the remaining three people were directly killed.

Damn it, this is pure love, run!

At this moment, a ray of dazzling golden light suddenly flickered.

Everyone looked over and saw the sun rising from the horizon.

Flawless light gradually faded away.

The whole world welcomed rebirth.

The darkness seemed to disappear in an instant.

Everyone's pupils contained a priceless gold coin.

At this moment, everyone exclaimed in their hearts.

Really, everyone should go see a sunrise once.

Only after experiencing it will you understand why humans belong to heaven and earth.

Then, personally connect with this world.

Most importantly,

Let the "see you tomorrow" we say become real.

Everyone who was leaning on each other was thinking about one thing at this moment.

Tomorrow, I want to see this face again.