Qi Shaobai took a shortcut to the back door of the school.
There was a big clock on the main building of the teaching building.
The hour hand pointed to ten o'clock.
Qi Shaobai dragged his lazy pace, playing with his cell phone as he walked.
"Hey you, wait a minute, which class are you from?"
Suddenly, a thick and puzzled voice came from not far away.
Qi Shaobai lazily lifted his eyes.
He saw the guard poking his head out of the window at the iron gate beside the back door, beckoning to a female student.
He seemed to suspect that the girl was not a student of Jing City No.1 Middle School.
Chi Xia now regretted this a lot in her heart.
Her best friend had successfully found the boy she liked from the tutoring class, bravely went up to chat with him, and talked happily.
Without her best friend sending an eye signal, Chi Xia tacitly walked away, ending today's "moral support" trip.
Unexpectedly, things went wrong.
She followed the crowd to the back door.
There were obviously fewer people leaving from the back door than the front door.
She wasn't wearing a school uniform, which made her stand out in the already small crowd.
Murphy's law is always extremely accurate at times like this.
She was caught by the eagle-eyed guard.
"Student, which class are you from?"
The guard came out of the security room suspiciously, looked her up and down, and wanted to find a guilty conscience on her face.
Chi Xia was not timid, and calmly answered irrelevantly:
"Science class."
After she spoke, the air fell silent for a short while.
The uncle guard had a complicated expression.
Inner OS: Uh...is that what I asked? This kid doesn't seem to have good comprehension skills.
Seeing the uncle guard staring blankly and scratching the back of his head, Chi Xia figured she had fooled him with her gibberish.
She smiled politely at the uncle, took a step, and was about to slip away.
Unexpectedly, as soon as she moved, the suspicious voice of the uncle guard came again.
"Hey wait, student, which grade and class are you in?"
Chi Xia's footsteps stopped, and various responses flashed through her mind at high speed.
The uncle guard was obviously suspicious now, and even if she reported a random class, there was no guarantee that he wouldn't ask her more questions.
Just as she was thinking about how to respond, a lazy voice came from the right.
"Hey, you ran off before you finished organizing?"
She looked up in surprise.
Chi Xia was stunned for a moment.
She saw a familiar, handsome yet impatient face.
It was the younger brother of Qi Duo, the boy called "Qi Shao".
He made a very subtle eye signal to her, then added impatiently:
"I had to move the chairs by myself, aren't you ashamed."
Chi Xia's eyes slowly widened: "???"
After hesitating for a few seconds, Chi Xia got the signal.
She went along with his act, glanced at him and said:
"What's wrong with letting you move them yourself, last time during the big cleanup you slipped away early and I didn't say anything."
Upon hearing this, Qi Shaobai was taken aback, his neck involuntarily leaned back a bit as he looked at Chi Xia.
His eyes revealed slight astonishment.
Damn.
She spit out lies so smoothly without any hint of acting, much better than him.
The guard glanced back and forth between their faces.
His confusion dissipated somewhat.
Although this female student had an unfamiliar face and wasn't wearing a school uniform, Qi Shaobai was someone he recognized.
Not only because he was a popular senior student, he often heard other students talking about him.
More so because of his trademark sullen face.
He always had an arrogant look like others owed him five million.
It was hard not to leave a deep impression.
The two who had successfully fooled the guard walked out naturally as if nothing had happened.
The guard scratched his head again and shouted at their backs:
"Students, remember to wear your school uniforms next time, or else I'll have to deduct points."
Chi Xia looked back, smiling sweetly, "Okay, I'll definitely remember."
After speaking.
Qi Shaobai couldn't help but chuckle softly, lazily looking to the side, sarcastically saying:
"You can't even remember the way, how are you going to remember anything."
Chi Xia's body stiffened, and slowly turned her head to look at him: "......"
???
Hmm???
Was he mocking her for having a bad sense of direction?
Just as she was about to say something, she saw Qi Shao lazily wave his hand and curtly utter two words.
"Let's go."
After saying that, he walked in the other direction.
"Wait a minute, Qi Shao."
Chi Xia called out to him.
Qi Shaobai's eyebrows moved, a question mark rose in his heart.
How did she know his nickname Qi Shao that his classmates liked to call him?
He suddenly narcissistically thought of one possibility.
Could it be, their chance encounters weren't coincidences?
This thought only flashed for a second before he dismissed it.
No other reason.
He just felt this girl didn't seem very smart, so she probably didn't have the brains to think that much.
Chi Xia held up one finger, speaking faster:
"Wait for me for a minute."
After saying that, she ran to the convenience store across the street.
When she came back, she was holding two cans of soda.
"Thank you." She handed him one of the cans, her eyes curved into crescents, "Although your lying skills are terrible, you still helped me get past the guard."
Qi Shaobai: "......"
His eyebrows lightly furrowed as he looked down.
The soda can was covered in condensation droplets.
Coincidentally, it was grape flavored, which he loved to drink.
At the intersection near the snack street.
A black Rolls-Royce was parked under a street lamp.
Qi Mo was half-leaning against the front of the car, his body slightly bent, just the same height as Sheng Mumu.
Sheng Mumu was standing to the side eating an ice cream bar.
The mung bean ice cream bars made by the auntie at the school gate had an old-fashioned flavor that you couldn't buy at supermarkets.
When Qi Shaobai walked over, she had just finished eating the last small bite, and casually threw the stick into the trash can as she walked to the passenger seat.
Sheng Mumu's gaze was lowered, and she saw the lazy soda can in Qi Shaobai's hand.
She suddenly looked up and said in an interrogative tone:
"Qi Shao, are you eating alone?"
Why did you only buy one can when getting drinks?
Qi Shaobai walked to the back seat door of his own accord, too lazy to explain what had just happened, and subconsciously retorted back:
"You're the same, eating an ice cream bar alone."
Sheng Mumu was stunned: "............"
Before she could think of a rebuttal, Qi Mo's deep voice came from the front:
"That's different—"
She and Qi Shaobai stopped opening the car doors at the same time, looking towards Qi Mo as he walked to the driver's seat.
He glanced lazily at Qi Shaobai, as he walked and loosened his tie a bit, his expression softening a little:
"——I didn't want to eat, she's not eating alone."
After speaking, his gaze stopped on Qi Shaobai's face, and his eyes became stern, "What you did counts."
Qi Shaobai: "............"
After getting in the car.
Qi Shaobai voluntarily kept quiet.
In the front row, Qi Mo was driving.
Sheng Mumu was using her phone to browse nearby restaurants.
She had only eaten some snacks for dinner and hadn't eaten a proper meal yet, so she was a little hungry now.
She turned her head and asked, "Qi Shao, do you have any food you want to eat?"
Qi Shaobai was sitting by the window, spacing out looking at the scenery outside, not knowing what he was thinking about.
Hearing Sheng Mumu call him, Qi Shaobai's gaze shifted over, "Hmm?"
He had a look like he didn't hear what she said clearly.
"We're going to get supper now." Sheng Mumu patiently repeated it again, and asked, "Do you have any good suggestions?"
Qi Shaobai: "I'm full. Eating the dog food you guys feed me made me full."
Sheng Mumu: "............"
At the red light ahead.
Qi Mo had his hand resting on the steering wheel, and his fingers absently tapped on it.
Hearing Qi Shaobai's words, his fingers paused.
His tone was a little playful as he said:
"Then I'll take you back to Xi Yu Yue Ting first, and we'll go get supper."
"Huh?" Qi Shaobai immediately stuck his head out from between the front seats, his face full of disbelief, "No, Dad, I was just joking."
Qi Mo's head turned slightly to look over, and the corners of his eyebrows lifted lightly. His stern face gradually softened, seemingly in a very good mood, and said with a hint of laughter:
"I was just joking too."
Qi Shaobai: "......"
He blinked a few times, with three parts shock, three parts bewilderment, and four parts discomfort in his eyes.
Did he hear wrong?
Joking, right? Dad makes jokes now?
He silently took a deep breath, retracted his head, and sat back by the window again.
Ok, fine.
He was making a fuss over nothing.
He just wasn't used to the jokester dad yet.
Ms. Sheng, an innocent bystander to this childish conversation, sighed.
Inner os: Men, childish.
