Getting rich in chronology

"Happy birthday, I remember that you asked the teacher about the guzheng music score before, this is a gift I specially picked for you, I hope you like it." Sheng Yu sent the carefully wrapped gift in his hand, although it was not particularly precious Out of print sheet music, but relatively rare.

For this special gift, he also paid a high price. Thinking of his uncle's mocking face, Sheng Yu couldn't help but want to grind his teeth.

But everything is worth it, if this gift can make the girl you like happy.

Chen Meili pursed her lips and suppressed a smile. She took the gift and thanked Sheng Yu softly.

Not as overjoyed as expected, Sheng Yu was a little lost and puzzled, and tentatively said: "I haven't heard you play the guzheng before, I wonder if I have the honor today to listen to a beautiful classmate play."

Chen Meili: "..."

She tugged at the corner of her clothes and said in a little embarrassment: "Well, I was just about to tell you that I asked for the score for my sister before. I don't know how to play the guzheng. It's my sister who can play the guzheng. Send it to her?"

After Xiaoxi arrived in Mingzhu City, she had a physical examination first. The doctor said that she was in good condition, but her eyesight was relatively weak and there were no other diseases.

This is good news, which means Xiaoxi can live and study normally.

Because she didn't go to school before, she only learned simple numbers and Chinese characters piecemeal from Chen Meili.

If you send her to school now, the progress can't keep up, so I hired a tutor to study at home.

Later, Xiaoxi accidentally met an old lady who taught Guzheng. The grandmother said that Xiaoxi had a strong sense of sound and talent, and asked her if she wanted to learn Guzheng.

Xiaoxi likes to get along with the old lady very much, so she worships as a teacher and starts to learn from her.

Recently, the grandmother was sick and there was no one to take care of her. Xiaoxi temporarily moved to the grandmother's house for a few days.

She would ask the teacher about the score, and she heard the teacher mention it by accident. She thought that Xiaoxi might use it, so she asked, but she didn't expect Sheng Yu to hear it, and she misunderstood that she could play the guzheng. In fact, she was Don't know anything.

Sheng Yu: "..."

He was at a loss for a moment, so what was he trying to do with so much effort?

Not only was he extorted of most of the small treasury's savings as compensation, but he was also threatened by that bastard Sheng Yuan to serve tea and water as his grandson, making him a generation shorter.

But he quickly cheered up and gave away everything, of course to maximize the value.

The decent smile returned to Sheng Yu's face again, and he said with a little apology: "I was too careless, how about this, I will prepare another birthday present for you, and this score will be a meeting gift for my sister , By the way, is my sister at home?"

Wen Anni has completely rebelled since she saw a more handsome guy, and immediately muttered: "Who is your sister, how can you recognize relatives indiscriminately?"

Sheng Yu glanced at her in surprise, what's the matter with this girl, she was fine yesterday, why is it like taking gunpowder today.

He pondered for a while, if it's broken, would he fall in love with him too, and then saw him pursuing her good friend, so love turned into hatred?

Alas, being too popular is bad, it can easily cause disputes among girls, he is really a guilty man.

Thinking about it this way, it doesn't matter that his stingy, mean-spirited uncle can make money. He has a face that is easy to deceive little girls, but it's a pity that he has an extra mouth and a bad heart. He will definitely not find a wife in this life.

As expected, the Sheng family still had to rely on him, Sheng Yu, to carry on the family line.

Sheng Yu complacently unilaterally belittled his brother-in-law to comfort himself from the pain of losing the small treasury.

Chen Meili smiled awkwardly but politely: "I'm sorry, she's not at home."

Even if she is at home, Xiaoxi will not come out to meet these people. She is not used to getting along with strangers. The family will accompany her to get used to it gradually, but they will not force her to socialize.

"Is that so." Sheng Yu smiled in embarrassment, feeling that everything was not going well for him these days.

"There is no need to prepare another gift, this is very good." Chen Meili shook the music score in her hand to indicate that she really thinks this gift is good, at least it can be used.

In case Sheng Yu gave her some little gift that girls like, she would be ashamed to use it.

After the gift-giving session, the atmosphere became much better, because everyone gathered to watch a movie and chat.

When there were more people, it seemed very lively for each person to say a word. There were movies to watch, fruit snacks to eat, drinks to drink, and board games and chess cards brought out by Chen Meili. The group played in full swing.

Even Sheng Yu was arrested to gather the number of people, and after losing two rounds, he started to get ahead, and he didn't care about pursuing the girl he liked.

Chen Meili was sitting and chatting with two classmates who were not good at playing games, when the nanny suddenly came over and called her: "Xiaoxi is back."

Chen Meili walked over quickly, and it turned out to be Xiaoxi. She was wearing a small half-length cloak with a hood. Because the doctor said that she should try to avoid direct sunlight, she bought a lot of hats and scarves.

A lot of coats and cloaks with hoods are specially prepared for her to go out.

After entering the room, Xiaoxi took off her hood, and her short-cut hair fell obediently to the side of her face, making her face even smaller. Because of her translucent skin color, she looked like a doll carved out of ice and snow.

"Why did you come back alone? How is Grandma Tao? It's quite sunny outside today, so I should call and ask Dad to pick you up." Chen Meili worried.

"Teacher's health has recovered. It's not far away. It's very convenient to take the bus." Xiaoxi said softly.

She took out Tao in her satchel and took out a small box: "Sister, happy birthday."

"Give it to me?" Chen Meili opened it and saw a few bookmarks with leaf veins, very delicate and beautiful.

"It's so beautiful." Chen Meili said happily.

"I made it myself." Seeing that she liked it, Xiaoxi also laughed: "The teacher taught me to do it."

The two sisters talked for a while, because those classmates had been looking at this side curiously, Xiaoxi was embarrassed by the look, and hurriedly bid farewell and wanted to go upstairs.

"Want to meet my classmates?" Chen Meili asked.

"No." Xiaoxi shook her head, there were too many people, and they were all strangers, so she would be very nervous and uncomfortable.

"Okay, then you play upstairs and tell auntie if you need anything."

"Okay, sister, go and accompany the guests, and leave me alone."

Watching Xiaoxi go upstairs, Chen Meili returned to the small living room, Wen Anni leaned over and asked curiously, "That was your sister just now?"

Chen Meili nodded, Wen Anni glanced at the empty stairs, and whispered: "Is your sister's hair dyed?"

She glanced at it several times just now, and she was absolutely right, it was white.

"No, she's sick." Chen Meili lowered her eyes, not wanting to talk about Xiaoxi's personal affairs.

"Oh." Wen Anni tactfully stopped asking any further questions, as it involved other people's privacy.

The other students didn't know how old Chen Meili's younger sister was, and they thought it was a child. Just now, they vaguely glanced at it and found that it was an older girl who was about their age.

So someone said: "Beautiful, let your sister come and play together."

"No, she is shy and doesn't like to get along with strangers."

"Is that so..."

Ben just mentioned it casually, but Chen Meili refused, and the others stopped talking.

After watching a movie, it's time for lunch.

In order to let the young people have fun, Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen at home first showed up, but later they didn't come out at all, letting these children play.

According to Chen Meili's consultation, we prepared western food for lunch, because most of the people had never eaten it, so they felt curious and wanted to try it.

The kitchen cooks western-style meals such as steak and pizza. In fact, the chef at home is a master of Chinese food. He only knows the simplest types of Western food, and the cooking is not very authentic.

But it doesn't matter, everyone can't tell whether it's authentic or not.

Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen couldn't get used to this, so she ordered two bowls of noodles by herself, mixed with some fried sauce, and it was more palatable than those foreign things.

They also prepared a big cake, which Chen Meili ordered from a cake shop. The double-layered big cake was warmly welcomed by the students when it was brought out.

"Isn't your sister coming to eat the cake?" The students became even more curious when they didn't even show up to share the cake.

Chen Meili still said the same thing: "She is timid and not used to getting along with people she doesn't know."

The cake is very big, and there is still a lot left for each person. I will give Xiaoxi two pieces in a while.

"You know each other in many places, and you don't know each other if you don't show up all the time." Jiang Peng said casually, he doesn't like the kind of twitchy girls, and it's awkward to get along with.

"Eat yours, stop talking nonsense, even meat can't stop your mouth." Sheng Yu said to him angrily, this person is stupid, he didn't see that Chen Meili's sister is a little different from ordinary people, there must be something question.

Jiang Peng didn't dare to separate from him, dropped the knife and fork, and said discouragedly: "This foreigner's tableware is really strange. It's a knife and a fork, and it doesn't work well. Can you get me a pair of chopsticks?"

Most of the others also felt that it was not going well, so they followed the trend and asked for chopsticks.

The nanny took a handful of chopsticks and distributed them to everyone. Jiang Peng picked up the steak and took a big bite. He said in satisfaction, "That's right."

Everyone laughed, those who ate steaks ate steaks, and those who ate cakes ate cakes. They didn't have the habit of covering their faces with cakes at the moment, and they all ate seriously and happily.

While eating, I vaguely heard the sound of cars in the yard.

The nanny came out of the kitchen, and Chen Meili also got up: "Did dad come back?"

"Eat first, I'll go and have a look." Auntie said.

Suddenly there were hurried footsteps upstairs, and Xiaoxi hurried down from above, her smiling face was tinged with a healthy blush from happiness: "Sister! Sister! Big Blue!"

Chen Meili was stunned for a moment, and after realizing it, her eyes lit up: "Chen Yu?"

Before he could put down the cake fork in his hand, the person rushed out.

The others were stunned by the series of reactions, and Chen Meili's extremely shy younger sister suddenly appeared, she turned out to be white-haired and red-eyed, she was beautiful, but she didn't look like Chen Meili at all. picture.

Then Chen Meili heard her sister shout a few times and ran out suddenly.

"what happened?"

"Who is Big Blue?"

"How do I know, who is Chen Yu? The name is very similar to yours, is it you, Ayu?"

Sheng Yu glanced at him angrily, and stood here by himself. If it was him, why did he run out.

"Go out and see."

Everyone put down the tableware in their hands and walked out in twos and threes. When Wen Anni heard Chen Meili call out that name, she ran after her.

This is also very lucky, I only saw the photos of pretty boys not long ago, and I can see the real person before I have seen enough.

In the yard, Chen Meili saw Chen Yu getting off the car, and ran over to give her good friend a hug with a shout of joy.

It turns out that when Dad said to pick up friends, he meant to pick them up. It was really fun.

"Sink fish!"

An arm was ruthlessly blocked between the two of them, Chen Meili put down her outstretched arm depressedly, and glared at Shen Qiao: "Stingy."

Shen Qiao raised his eyelids, for the sake of her birthday today, he didn't hate her.

Unable to hug her little friend, Chen Meili went to post with Dalan, she liked Dalan very much, when Chen Yu drove Dalan to rescue her, the blue car image will never be forgotten in this life.

The same goes for Xiaoxi, that's why she was so excited when she saw her upstairs.

However, before it was attached, it was grabbed by the arm.

"What are you doing?" Chen Meili looked at Chen Yu and hummed, "Let go, or someone will get angry."

Chen Yu smiled and said, "Don't rub the cream on my car."

They came here by plane, but Da Lan was consigned all the way here.

Chen Meili: "...???"

She looked at her little friend in disbelief: "You have changed!"

"Become taller, handsomer, and richer, right? I know." Chen Yu deliberately teased her, and the reunion after a long absence is still as kind, and the girl is more cheerful, which is a good thing.

Chen Meili couldn't help laughing, and was amused to laugh: "Why are you like this!"

"Happy birthday." Chen Yu opened his arms, hugged the girl lightly, and quickly let go.

Chen Meili was very happy, and said loudly: "Thank you."

She glanced at Shen Qiao with no expression on her face, but she felt that there was a murderous look in her eyes.

"Don't look, Shen Qiao is teasing you, he even prepared a gift for you." Chen Yu laughed, although he felt that the gift was a bit perfunctory...

But jealousy, you can't ask too much of him, being willing to give gifts to "rivals in love" shows that his family, Shen Qiao, is already very generous.

"Really?" Chen Meili was flattered: "Thank you."

Shen Qiao conveniently stuffed the big box into her arms: "You're welcome."

Chen Meili was at a loss while holding a large rectangular box, and Chen Zehai watched them laughing before saying: "Let's go, go into the house, don't stand in the yard."

A group of people walked into the house together, apart from Chen Zehai and Shen Qiao, there were two other people following Shen Qiao.

In fact, there are far more people around him than these two, but he doesn't like too many people following him, so the others hide in the dark and don't get too close.

"Why did you come here suddenly? Don't you have to go to class?" Chen Meili asked as she walked.

"I'm asking for leave. My best friend's birthday is coming. Of course I'll come if I can." A few words coaxed Chen Meili into a smile, her big eyes bent into crescents, and it was a look of joy from the bottom of her heart.

"The teacher grants you leave?"

"Yes."

"Is it so easy? It was very difficult to ask for leave before." When I was a sophomore in high school, there were still students who were eager to study in the class, and the class teacher was very strict.

Chen Yu had a serious face: "It's actually not difficult..."

"How to say?"

"As long as you keep taking the first place in the exam, you will be fine."

Chen Meili: "...I, I can occasionally take the first place in a single subject!"

"so smart?"

"Yes, I study very hard." To go to the capital for the exam, I will be a classmate with Chen Yu.

The two were chatting and laughing, the atmosphere was so disharmonious, Chen Meili and those classmates were all blocking the gate, watching Chen Yu and his party curiously, especially Chen Yu.

They came out just now, wanting to see who was coming, so they saw the most beautiful and reserved girl in their class, and took the initiative to hug a boy?

They said something because they were not very close, and only heard a few sporadic words, but their tone and attitude could tell that their relationship was very good and close.

The boys in Jiang Peng looked at Sheng Yu sympathetically: "Brother Yu, your rival in love is a bit strong, can you do it?"

As soon as she came out, Chen Meili's attitude changed, and she obviously liked that little boy.

The smile on Sheng Yu's face could hardly be maintained anymore. From the first time he saw Chen Meili, he liked this girl who was as beautiful as a flower.

From the very beginning when approaching him cautiously and painstakingly, until now he was finally able to get along with him as a friend, but Chen Meili was still lukewarm towards him.

How the hell did this brat dare to hug the girl he likes!

"But Brother Yu, look at their car. It's really exciting and beautiful." The boys' attention was quickly attracted by the car. If they weren't familiar with it, they would have to go up close and take a closer look at it.

"It's just a car, it's a shabby car...it's just so-so." Sheng Yu forcibly changed his words, because he thought he was well-informed, and he didn't have the face to say that the car was a shabby car.

"This is my classmates." Chen Meili introduced Wen Anni Sheng Yu and others to her father and good friends, introducing their names one by one.

"This is my dad."

Chen Zehai nodded: "Hello, everyone, thank you for coming to celebrate our birthday beautifully and have fun."

"Uncle, you are being polite." Sheng Yu took the initiative to speak as a representative, but he kept muttering in his heart, what happened to Chen Meili's father, he didn't stop the man from hugging his daughter just now.

Why stop? Ever since Chen Yu rescued Chen Meili, Chen Zehai wished for Chen Yu to be his son-in-law.

However, the two children expressed that they had no such intentions. Chen Zehai only wanted to give up with regret, but he treated Chen Yu as his own child in his heart.

It can be said that Chen Yu and Chen Meili are real half-siblings.

"This is my best friend, Chen Yu, and this is his brother, Shen Qiao." Chen Meili continued to introduce.

Chen Yu also nodded and smiled at them, his eyes swept across Sheng Yu's body without leaving a trace, this kid was hostile to him, and Chen Meili's eyes were also unreserved.

Tsk, another pig who wants to piss off his little cabbage.

Shen Qiao frowned and took a step towards Chen Yu, blocking his view.

The female classmate didn't know what was wrong, her eyeballs were almost sticking to Chen Yu's body, which made him furious.

"It's just right, come in and eat cake."

Chen Meili hurriedly pulled Wen Anni away, and said in a low voice, "Be more reserved!"

Wen Anni's eyes were blurred: "It's really handsome."

Chen Meili: "...they all have a partner, and their relationship is very good."

Wen Anni: "...my heart hurts so much..."

In order not to make mistakes, she didn't dare to look at the handsome man so blatantly, so she just peeked at him from time to time, which was within Shen Qiao's tolerance.

After entering the living room, Xiao Xi was still there, she walked over and greeted Chen Yu and Shen Qiao in a low voice: "Brother Xiao Yu, Brother Shen Qiao."

"Xiaoxi, long time no see, I heard that you are very good at learning Guzheng, really amazing." Chen Yu praised with a smile.

"Thank you Brother Xiaoyu, I just started to learn and I can't play well." Xiaoxi said shyly.

"It's already great. Everyone has come from a beginner. If you stick to it, you will always gain something."

Chen Yu took out a stack of paper bags from his bag: "I wanted to give you a Guzheng, but I don't know if you are used to it or not, so I collected some music scores. I don't know if it is useful or not."

Seeing the thick stack, Sheng Yu's face turned green.

"Thank you Brother Xiaoyu, I like it very much!" Xiaoxi said happily.

"Don't thank me, I have already said many thanks." Chen Yu joked.

Xiaoxi lowered her head in embarrassment, and Chen Yu greeted her very naturally: "Come, have a piece of cake."

So the extremely shy younger sister that Chen Meili said went to the restaurant with Chen Yu, took a piece of cake that Chen Yu gave her and ate it.

The owner, Chen Meili, was not surprised at all, and even helped Chen Yu with a table knife: "Cut this piece, Xiaoxi likes to eat strawberries..."

Come on, let's sit down and have a meal together.

Chen Yu is okay, he is not picky eater, and he can eat steak with pizza very happily.

Shen Qiao was picky, he just ate a piece of cake and said nothing.

They came suddenly, they hadn't seen each other for a long time, Chen Meili wanted to say a lot to Chen Yu, but because of the presence of her classmates, she could only bear with it.

In fact, Chen Meili's classmates were very curious about Chen Yu and Shen Qiao, and invited them to play games after dinner.

Shen Qiao naturally refused, and Chen Yu went over to play two games with them with great interest, easily blending in with these peers, and got to know them very well within a short while.

After playing for a while, Chen Yu found an excuse to retreat, and Chen Meili walked over with the gift box, her eyelashes flickering, and her eyes were full of expectation: "Can I open it and have a look?"

This was given to her by Chen Yu, I don't know what it is.

"Of course." Chen Yu stretched out his hand: "Shall I tear it apart for you?"

"No, I'll unpack it myself." Chen Meili carefully unwrapped the wrapping paper and box, and exclaimed when she saw what was inside: "Wow, what is this? It's so beautiful!"

Chen Yu rubbed his nose. It is more common for him to give a posthumous gift. If you give it to your girlfriend, you will be ridiculed...a crystal ball music box.

But this one is more delicate and custom-made.

The main reason is that I really can't think of what to send. I usually send something that I think is good for Chen Meili, and I send it directly.

The other students were attracted by Chen Meili's exclamation, and the girls' eyes lit up, envious.

"This is too beautiful."

"That's right, there's a villain inside, what's this doing?"

"Dance, it's beautiful, are these snowflakes?"

Seeing that Chen Meili really liked it, Chen Yu breathed a sigh of relief, and introduced: "This is a music box, the mainspring is here, twist it a few times... that's it."

Smart music sounded, and the little girls in the crystal ball began to spin and dance, fine snowflakes fell one after another, and the girls watched mesmerized.

"beautiful……"

"It's so beautiful, why did it stop?"

"Come again, Meili will unwind this clockwork again."

After playing with it for a while, Chen Meili carefully put away the music box, and sincerely thanked Chen Yu: "Thank you, I like this gift very much."

"As long as you like it." Chen Yu glanced at Shen Qiao who was sitting on the side bored, and suggested with a smirk: "Want to see Shen Qiao's gift?"

Shen Qiao glanced at him, feeling amused in her heart, and didn't bother to argue with him.

Chen Meili subconsciously felt that something was wrong. Could there be something wrong with Shen Qiao's gift?

"Don't worry, it's a very interesting thing." Seeing that she was frightened, Chen Yu comforted her again.

Under everyone's curious eyes, Chen Meili opened the gift box several times larger than Chen Yu's gift box, revealing the inside...

"This is... a car?" Chen Meili looked confused.