She Is Brighter Than the Stars

Cheng Nian pinched his face and said with a smile, “You study hard, and we will see each other again.”

With a cold face, Li Shubai quickly hugged Dudu to his parents.

Only Cheng Nian and Li Shubai were left, and the atmosphere was somewhat awkward.

Cheng Nian tilted her head, “Do you still want to learn?”

Li Shubai nodded indifferently.

Cheng Nian jumped into the water and waved to Li Shubai, “Swim over there, I’ll pick you up here.”

Without Dudu, Cheng Nian concentrated on tutoring Li Shubai.

After a while He Yunfei got tired from playing, came over and lay down on the wicker chair near them, humming, “Are you two hungry?”

Cheng Nian asked Li Shubai, “Are you hungry?”

Li Shubai looked at Cheng Nian’s exposed skin, and said unnaturally, “Yes.”

He Yunfei glanced at the two of them, and said angrily: “Come on, I want to eat at Jinjia’s, there will be no seats when it’s late.”

Cheng Nian hurriedly said: “Okay, I’ll treat you, you open your stomach to eat.”

After finishing speaking, she turned her head to Li Shubai and said, “You come too, he must order a lot of dishes.”

Li Shubai hesitated for a while, but finally agreed.

When the three of them changed their clothes and took a taxi to Jinjia, it was already half past five.

Speaking of which, this time is not considered a meal time, but Jinjiali was already full of people.

Cheng Nian directly asked for a private room, and ordered enough dishes at their specified price, which moved He Yunfei so much that he didn’t want to.

Looking at the delicious food on the table, He Yunfei’s eyes were straightened, and he almost hugged Cheng Nian’s thigh and cried.

“I want to die of this smell, little orange, you don’t know how unpalatable the boiled vegetables on the construction site are.”

Li Shubai, who kept silent all this time, said lightly: “It’s not too bad.”

He Yunfei said disdainfully, “It’s as if you’ve eaten it before.”

Cheng Nian put a piece of fish in his bowl, “Hurry up and eat.”

Gagged by the food, He Yunfei didn’t speak any more, and concentrated on dealing with the delicious food in front of him.

Cheng Nian glanced at Li Shubai, picked up a piece of tofu and put it in her mouth, chewing thoughtfully.

She never knew that Li Shubai had the experience of working on a construction site.

When Li Shubai was working hard to survive, she lived a pampered life.

Such two completely different lives are probably filled with mismatches from the moment they intersected.

Cheng Nian sighed, feeling more and more that there was something missing in her brain in her previous life.

How could a twisted melon be sweet?

He Yunfei thought he was very hungry, but in fact he was full soon.

Cheng Nian and Li Shubai didn’t eat much, and some of the later dishes were not even touched.

Looking at the many dishes left, He Yunfei wailed helplessly: “Why can’t I have two stomachs?”

Cheng Nian teased, “I’ll give you four stomachs, go to the countryside to plow.”

He Yunfei blurted out, “If I plow the fields, what will you do?”

After finishing speaking, he seemed to think of something, and his expression suddenly became lonely.

He Yunfei has always had the temperament of the sky falling down and being covered, Cheng Nian has never seen him like this, and said nervously.

“What’s wrong?”

He Yunfei waved his hand and smiled, “It’s nothing, I just think it’s a pity that the table is full of dishes.”

“What’s the matter?” Cheng Nian shouted towards the door, “Waiter, please pack up these dishes.”

After a while, two well-dressed young ladies came in, packed each dish with exquisite lunch boxes, and put them neatly into the packaging bags.

Cheng Nian thought that Li Ying might not have eaten yet, so she ordered two more dishes and asked Li Shubai to bring them back for her.

Li Shubai didn’t want it, so Cheng Nian couldn’t help but say she would give it to Li Ying herself, so he accepted it.

Arriving at the snack street at the back door of the school, Li Shubai put the packed meals on the table.

“Mom, let’s have something to eat.”

Li Ying wiped her hands on the apron, looked at the exquisite dishes in front of her, and asked hesitantly, “What is this?”

Li Shubai was a little embarrassed, and whispered: “Cheng Nian insists you try it.”

Li Ying smiled at first, then sighed vaguely, and said meaningfully: “Cheng Nian, this child, really has a kind heart.”

Li Shubai didn’t answer, took out a bag of garlic from under the snack cart, sat down and peeled it.

Li Ying took apart the chopsticks, looked at Li Shubai with helpless and sad eyes, said nothing, and ate in silence.

At two o’clock in the morning, the mother and son closed the stall and walked back with the cart. When they got home, Li Ying gave Li Shubai a stack of money.

The money is very scattered, and most of it is the meal money given by the guests.

Apart from paying school fees and buying tutoring materials, Li Shubai seldom asks Li Ying for money, and now he is very resistant, pushing the money into Li Ying’s arms.

“Mom, what are you doing?”

Li Ying patted his hand, “Take it, you have to buy someone a drink.”

Li Shubai didn’t know what to say, looking at his mother’s white hair on the side of her hair, his emotions became entangled.

The eerie silence of the night silently swallowed up the boy’s thoughts.

-•-

Afterwards, apart from making up lessons, Cheng Nian searched for Transformers all over the city for He Yunfei. Finally, before his birthday, she bought it at a fried chicken shop.

The owner of the fried chicken shop is also a fan of models, Cheng Nian is a haggler, and only people who are willing to sell it will wear out their mouths.

On his birthday, Cheng Nian invited some acquaintances and rented a large room on the top floor of the Imperial Garden for He Yunfei to celebrate his birthday, while Transformers dragged him to his house early in the morning.

After playing around until late at night, Cheng Nian sent the exhausted He Yunfei back home.

Seeing the person-high white tarp in the living room, He Yunfei still wondered when he had such a thing in his home.

Pulling it open to see what was inside, He Yunfei was so excited that he didn’t know where to put his hands and feet, he hugged Cheng Nian beside him, and exclaimed.

“Where did you get it? I took it as you said it casually. My goodness, I love you so much, little orange.”

He Yunfei said that he loved Cheng Nian, and he had already moved to the side of Transformers with his mobile phone.

Cheng Nian smiled dotingly, went to the refrigerator to get two bottles of soda and sat on the sofa.

He Yunfei finished fresh, and suddenly sat beside Cheng Nian sadly.

He glanced at Cheng Nian, his eyes turned red. His heart, which was originally as wide as a sewer, seemed to be blocked at this moment, and his voice trembled a little, hesitatingly said.

“Little orange, I’m going to be a soldier.”

Cheng Nian lowered her head, although she knew about this a long time ago, she still couldn’t feel relieved.

She forced a smile, “It’s good to be a soldier. It’s a good thing to keep fit and defend the motherland.”

In his previous life, in order to prevent He Yunfei from serving as a soldier, Cheng Nian took him to drink on purpose before the medical examination. Now that she thinks about it, she was really stupid.

So during this period of time, Cheng Nian was responsive to He Yunfei’s every request, which was considered to appease him in advance.

He Yunfei nestled into the sofa, heaved a long sigh, and wailed.

“Is there any way not to be a soldier?”

Cheng Nian didn’t speak, and the Transformer couldn’t answer him either.

Afterwards, He Yunfei resigned himself to the physical examination and passed without incident. He also calmed down and accepted the fact that he must join the army.

Starting this summer, make the whole country his home.