To Oak

In fact, Zhu Miao has almost done his homework. His recent performance seems to have entered a bottleneck period. After chasing a hundred or so places, his ranking stopped moving.He himself was very annoyed, but there was no way to advance by leaps and bounds. Watching the days on the calendar go by day by day, he kept convincing himself that it was useless to be anxious, after all, he had fallen behind too much before.

He pushed away the pen and paper on the table, hugged the dozing cat beside him, buried his face in it and rubbed it.The cat let out a "meow" and ran away kicking Zhu Miao's arm.

The cat has a clear love and hate for the three people in this store.They like Yiling, they always rub against her and follow her; they are afraid of Xiang Shu, and with Xiang Shu around, the cats dare not go to the table or the bar. When he was there, the cats never broke anything; To please the cat, the cat always pointed its butt towards him, and lazily stepped on his knees, probably because it was keenly aware that Zhu Miao was at the bottom of the food chain here.

Zhu Miao had no choice but pouted her lips in frustration, lying on the table and listening to the movement downstairs.

Another guest came, and the guest left again. Xiang Shu made coffee and washed the cups again.The setting sun shines in through the large glass windows and disappears little by little. Zhu Miao thinks that it is about to close again.

The stairs creaked, Zhu Miao sat up straight in shock, grabbed a paper at random, pretended to be writing, and was more nervous than meeting the teacher patrolling the classroom in self-study class.

Xiang Shu's voice sounded behind him: "Doing homework?"

Isn't that obvious?Zhu Miao ignored him, thinking to herself, I was dragging him just now.

"Two days after June [-]st, we usually go to eat something together on this day, get together like this."

Zhu Miao was holding a pen in his hand, but he was not writing, but unconsciously drawing messy circles on the draft paper.He said: "Oh, I see, then I will guard the store then."

There was no sound after that, just when Zhu Miao thought Xiang Shu had left, he suddenly said, "Aren't you coming?"

Zhu Miao turned his head, with a silly look on his face, he never thought that he was also invited.When he heard Xiang Shu say "we", he thought he was talking about He Yining, but he didn't expect to become a part of "us".

"Aren't you coming?" Xiang Shu leaned on the handrail of the stairs and asked, "Eat hot pot."

Zhu Miao was very happy, which was rare in the past few days. He hurriedly said: "I went, right after school, which one?"

Xiang Shu said, "That's the one at the intersection."

After the matter was finalized, Xiang Shu closed the door and left.The store suddenly became quiet, Zhu Miao lay on the railing on the second floor and looked down, watching Xiang Shu clean up the bar, watching him go out with his things, walking along the road outside the glass window, and then disappearing.

Zhu Miao felt that she was really weird, she should hate him, but now she was happy again, it was really strange.

But the weather was not good on Children's Day.

There are often typhoons in this season, and classes will be suspended when it is severe.Although this time it was not to the extent of suspending classes, it was gloomy in the afternoon, and they stopped calling cicadas, and the noisy summer suddenly became quieter.As soon as I walked out of the air-conditioned room, I felt stuffy, the wind was a bit strong, and there were a lot of paper and plastic bottles blown around on the road.

Before leaving the school, the teacher specially told everyone to close the doors and windows tightly.

Zhu Miao is a person without an umbrella, and he usually runs in the rain when it rains.He remembered in his heart that he was going to have a hot pot with Xiang Shu and Yi Ning today, and rushed out of the school gate like a gust of wind.

It hadn't rained yet, but the weather was muggy, and he ran all the way back, sweating all over his face, his face was red, and his hair was sticking to his cheeks.

Only Xiang Shu was in the store, and he was already clearing the bar.

"Yi Ling went to get the number, let's go, before it rains."

Zhu Miao was full of excitement, like a primary school student before a spring outing. He ran upstairs to wash his face and changed his clothes. When he went downstairs, Xiang Shu was leaning on the bar and playing with his mobile phone. Seeing him coming down, he looked up and said, "Let's go."

He didn't smile, and he didn't show any special expression. He just invited Zhu Miao to go with him in a normal way. Zhu Miao felt his heart skip a beat. No matter how dark it was, it couldn't dampen his enthusiasm.

There was already a light rain, and the newspapers blown from nowhere were scattered on the road.

Xiang Shu took his own umbrella, a long-handled gray umbrella, and said worriedly, "It's so windy, the glass should be fine."

Zhu Miao got under his umbrella, and the rain slapped on the umbrella.Xiang Shu is tall, and generally tall people will suffer if they hold an umbrella, especially when the wind is strong, rain will come in from under the umbrella that is held high.But Xiang Shu tilted the umbrella slightly to block the rain from Zhu Miao's side.

"It's raining heavily."

Zhu Miao muttered, and leaned towards Xiang Shu, and the two of them walked shoulder to shoulder.The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the umbrella was not very useful. In just a short distance, both of their pants and shoes were wet a lot.Because of the weather, there were not many people in the hotpot restaurant. Yiling was at the entrance near the window and kept staring at the door. When he saw them coming, he raised his hand and waved expressionlessly.

Xiang Shu was very familiar with Yiling's taste. As soon as he brought the menu, he ordered a bunch of dishes. Zhu Miao was surprised by the number of dishes. He whispered, "Isn't it a little too much..."

Xiang Shu pushed the menu towards him and said, "This is the amount for the two of us. You can order what you want."

Zhu Miao was stunned.

Unexpectedly, among the three people at this table, the most delicious thing was a lemon.Her style of eating is very pragmatic, she eats vigorously, does not say a word, and eats hard.

The mandarin duck hot pot was ordered. Zhu Miao can't eat spicy food, not even a little spicy food. Looking at the tumbling red oil, his scalp tingles.He obediently ate his clear soup pot, but the red pot boiled so violently that it was inevitable that a little red oil would splash into the clear soup pot, and Zhu Miao inevitably ate a little bit.Just a little bit, it was so hot that his face was flushed and his eyes were full of tears.

"Drink, drink..."

Zhu Miao called the waiter with his tongue out. When he turned around, he found that Xiang Shu was looking at him, as if he was still smiling. When he looked again, Xiang Shu lowered his head and went to eat again, feeling puzzled for a while.

Xiang Shu also felt baffled. In fact, he didn't have to eat hot pot. If children don't like spicy food, they can eat something else. It doesn't matter.But Zhu Miao is naturally a poor little boy who remembers eating but not beating, it is hard not to have a good impression of him, and even Yining accepts him so quickly, Xiang Shu never thought that this makes people want to bully him even more, just like Take the cat teasing stick to tease the kittens that are out of reach.

It was inexplicable.

Xiang Shu and Yi Ning ordered a pint of draft beer, and what was placed in front of Zhu Miao was peach tea.

Zhu Miao looked at the white foaming beer and was eager to try it: "I'm an adult, I can drink now, tomorrow is the weekend."

Xiang Shu pushed the peach tea in front of him.

It was almost the end of the hot pot meal, and suddenly there was a heavy rain outside, with the roar of thunder and the whistling of the wind.Xiang Shu was thinking about the big glass window in the store, and wanted to hurry back after eating, but who knew there was a gap in the toilet, and when he came back, there was an empty beer glass in front of Zhu Miao, and Zhu Miao burped .

Yiling hiccupped and shrugged expressionlessly: "He insisted on drinking."