Chapter 655: Extra: Childhood 12

Extra: Childhood 12

""【Babies, we added words in the previous chapter!】

Yu Ci quickened his steps, catching up to Jiang Liangjin's side, "Hey, how did you recognize them all of a sudden just now? They even called you little brother; you're quite familiar with them? Are you their real brother, cousin, or some other brother?"

This person is really noisy.

Jiang Liangjin didn't stop his steps, "Not related by blood."

Yu Ci pressed on, "So cousin? Or paternal cousin? Or an adopted brother?"

Even adopted brothers have shown up?

"No."

Yu Ci's face full of curiosity, "What kind of brother is it then?"

Jiang Liangjin turned his face, "Why do you have so many questions?"

"I'm just curious."

Jiang Liangjin couldn't be bothered to answer, so he simply quickened his pace.

Yu Ci just thought he was shy, not discouraged, changed tactics: "Why were you walking over there alone just then? Shouldn't someone be coming to pick you up?"

Jiang Liangjin: "Waiting for someone."

Yu Ci's eyes lit up, "Who are you waiting for? A friend? Do you have many friends? What do you usually play? Why doesn't your desk mate walk home with you?"

Jiang Liangjin: "..." This person seems to never need to catch a breath.

Yu Ci asked again, "By the way, you hardly talk to anyone in class, only speaking to Mu Youyu? Are you two related?"

"No."

"Then how did you meet?"

"I've known her since she was born."

As they asked and answered, the three arrived at the office door.

Mu Youyu happened to come out from inside, holding a completed form in her hand.

Jiang Liangjin's usually indifferent brows and eyes changed instantly upon seeing her, "Youbao."

"I'm done filling it out!" Mu Youyu noticed the two classmates beside her, blinked, and said, "Why are you still here? Haven't you gone home yet?"

She is always polite to outsiders, but only politely.

Yu Ci quickly answered, "We were blocked by a few middle schoolers."

The homeroom teacher who came out with them:!!

"Blocked?" Mu Youyu wondered, "Who blocked you?"

Jiang Liangjin planned to go back and explain it to her in detail.

"I don't know them." Gu Xingnan said concisely.

Yu Ci gestured exaggeratedly, "Just a few upperclassmen, saying Gu Xingnan meddles too much and they won't accept it."

The homeroom teacher's mind instantly flashed with a pile of campus bullying reports, his face shifting.

Mu Youyu roughly understood, turned to Gu Xingnan, "Being class monitor really isn't easy."

Gu Xingnan: "It's fine."

Yu Ci pointed at Jiang Liangjin to claim credit, "It's your A Jin who's awesome! As soon as he showed up, those people ran away."

The homeroom teacher regained his composure, then greeted, "Yu Ci, Gu Xingnan, come in with me for a moment and explain what just happened clearly."

Yu Ci gave Gu Xingnan a look and whispered, "You go in first."

He himself, however, took half a step toward Mu Youyu, "Jiang Liangjin, why don't you usually talk in class? Are you also this quiet at home?"

Mu Youyu leaned toward Jiang Liangjin, "Where is he not talking?"

Jiang Liangjin blandly added, "It depends on the person."

Yu Ci immediately picked up the thread, "Then am I someone you know?"

Jiang Liangjin said flatly, "Today counts."

Mu Youyu: "Right!"

Yu Ci refused to let go, "And tomorrow?"

Jiang Liangjin replied, "We'll see tomorrow."

Gu Xingnan looked back at Yu Ci from the doorway, and only then did Yu Ci turn and follow him in, "Here I come, here I come."

Mu Youyu saw them being called in by the teacher, waved, "We'll head home first, goodbye teacher, goodbye class monitor Gu Xingnan, goodbye classmate Yu Ci!"

"Bye-bye, see you tomorrow!"

The next morning, when Mu Youyu and Jiang Liangjin walked into the classroom, Yu Ci and Gu Xingnan were already there.

Yu Ci sat in his seat, clutching two exquisite small gift bags.

As soon as he saw the two enter, he immediately stood up and hurried over to Mu Youyu, "Good morning, I brought you gifts!"

Saying that, he shoved the gift bags into their hands.

Gu Xingnan also sneakily glanced at the two.

Mu Youyu didn't take it, "My brother said we can't randomly accept other people's gifts."

Yu Ci's quick-witted brain started making things up, "I told your brother, and he said it's okay to accept."

Mu Youyu didn't believe him, "You even know my brother? How come I don't know?"

Yu Ci naturally didn't know him, just borrowing the nickname from yesterday's middle schoolers, "Of course I know him, it's Qi Ge."

Jiang Liangjin's brother must also be her brother, right?

Mu Youyu realized that Qi Ge was Mu Xianqi, "I'm talking about my second older brother."

Yu Ci continued the fabrication, "Qi Ge said your second older brother agrees to you accepting the gift."

Mu Youyu:?

Jiang Liangjin put his schoolbag away, "Don't try to fool her."

Yu Ci slumped his shoulders, "Alright, I just simply wanted to give a gift, you really can't accept it?"

After several refusals, Mu Youyu finally accepted the two gifts.

The class bell rang, and the lesson officially began.

Mu Youyu opened her textbook, hadn't taken out her pen yet, when a note flew over from the front.

She unfolded the note; the paper bore Yu Ci's somewhat messy handwriting: "What do you all play after class? I see you often sit in your seats"

Yu Ci prefers outdoor courses; as soon as math class starts, he enters a semi-dormant state.

Jiang Liangjin glanced forward, noticed this person was quite sharp, knowing he wouldn't bother with him, so he went to find Youbao.

Mu Youyu put pen to paper and replied: "Don't pass notes during class."

She only passes notes with Ningning during class!

After a moment, Yu Ci threw another note: "Got it, then what do you play after class?"

Mu Youyu wrote two characters on the note: "Read books."

Just as she was about to toss the note back to the front row, a resentful gaze suddenly came from beside her.

She turned her head, met Jiang Liangjin's brown eyes, and simply handed the note directly to his childhood friend's hand.

Jiang Liangjin's expression went from overcast to clear, he took it and wrote the same: "Read books."

Not long after, the crumpled note was passed back again: "What book are you reading?"

Mu Youyu lowered her head, drew a round little figure on the paper with a face resembling Yu Ci's, and added four characters beside it: "Watch you lose."

When the note reached Gu Xingnan's side, he was taking notes, lowered his head to glance at it, then added a small line of text beneath that sentence: "haha"

Lin Ning had been observing from the side for a long time, feeling like she had lost something, and whispered: "What are you passing? Let me see too."

She reached out and gave Yu Ci a meaningful look, but Yu Ci wasn't familiar with her, didn't understand, and merely shifted slightly to the side.

Lin Ning let out a "hum", rested her chin on her crossed arms, her gaze fixed straight on Mu Youyu, her mouth slightly pouted: "Baby, you're playing with them, are you ignoring me now?"

Mu Youyu waved her hand in defense: "No."

Just like that, Lin Ning joined them.

After one class, the note was passed back and forth among them several times.

Jiang Liangjin's main task was to echo what Mu Youyu had written.

Gu Xingnan actually didn't want to pass notes; it was goofing off, giving him a guilty feeling of not paying attention in class.

But Yu Ci kept moving himself, so he had no choice but to spread his book open and stand it on the desk to block himself, also secretly starting to goof off.

Yu Ci's notes contained the richest content; he even began to draw simple sketches, and Lin Ning did the same.

The few people communicated without hindrance, and the five of them successfully played together.

Mu Youyu, Jiang Liangjin, and Lin Ning turned Yu Ci and Gu Xingnan from classmates into friends they could chat with.

On the weekend, Mu Youyu lounged in Mu Xi's room, sitting cross-legged on the carpet, with a pile of hair ties and hair clips spread out before her, in various colors.

Mu Xi stood behind her, braiding her little sister's hair.

Mu Youyu swung her legs, speaking softly: "Second older brother, why do your braids look prettier than Mom's?"

Mu Xi indulged: "Because the little sister is pretty, any way you braid it looks nice."

After finishing the braids, he also took out a little dress adorned with bows from the wardrobe: "How about wearing this today?"

"Good!"

Mu Youyu naturally listened to her brother; she shook it out to admire it, the skirt's hem covered almost entirely with large and small bows, layers of silk, chiffon, and lace stacked, intricate and exquisite.

She posed in front of the mirror, then gave a serious critique: "So many bows."

Mu Xi responded satisfiedly: "Yes, that's pretty."

When the two had tidied up and gone downstairs, Jiang Liangjin was already sitting on the living room sofa.

Mu Youyu lifted her chin, a little proud: "A Jin, look quick! Second older brother picked this dress for me."

Jiang Liangjin was full of admiration: "Wow, Mu Xi older brother is really amazing."

"Of course." Upon hearing this, Mu Xi's slight dissatisfaction largely dissipated, and she pulled her sister closer to herself.

At lunchtime, Jiang Liangjin had already returned home.

Song Lujing came running over from outside with a messy head of hair.

He held up a toy sword he'd somehow dug out, stopped in front of Mu Youyu, and exclaimed: "Little sister, little sister! Do I look like a knight?"

Mu Youyu obliged with a nod: "Yes!"

Song Lujing immediately shoved the toy sword into her hand: "This is yours; if any bad people bully you later, use it to protect yourself."

Mu Yichi chimed in from the side: "Your sword is plastic; it'll snap if you bend it."

Song Lujing was unhappy: "It's still better than nothing!"

Afraid Mu Yichi would actually demonstrate breaking the plastic sword, he shoved the sword further into her hand: "Keep it, little sister; if anyone bullies you later, just say it was a gift from your brother."

Mu Yichi let out an "oh": "Then the bad people would practically die laughing."

Song LuXiao, who laughs easily, couldn't hold back and started chuckling.

Song Lujing muttered quietly in complaint: "It's still better than Xi older brother; Xi older brother only hides my little sister."

"Oh." Mu Xi reached out, intending to take her sister away from there.

Song Lujing poked his arm: "Xi older brother, let me hug little sister, I also want to play with her."

Mu Xi remained unmoved: "My little sister doesn't want to play with you."

"You're not even my little sister!"

Mu Yichen spoke up to help Mu Xi: "Isn't your little sister his little sister too?"

This statement was true, but Song Lujing didn't know how to respond.

Mu Youyu was used to it, and just quietly watched the show.

At that moment, Qing Ma brought over a plate of snacks.

Song Lujing was about to move over to feed his sister, but Mu Xi suddenly turned his head, picking up Mu Youyu and placing her on his distant small chair, saying, "Sit farther away, don't crowd my sister."

Song Lujing was unhappy, pulling the snack plate toward himself a bit, muttering quietly, "Xi Ge is so stingy."

Mu Xi ignored him, merely shifting the snack plate in front of his sister toward himself a little, then swapped in a cup of warm milk and placed it beside her.

Watching his favorite snack being moved away, Song Lujing opened his mouth to protest, but ultimately let it go, choosing instead to pick up another piece and bite into it fiercely.

Xi Ge is really bad!

In the afternoon, Song Lujing's mother, who rarely had free time, came over for a visit; as she entered, Song Lujing was squatting in the corner of the living room putting together Lego.

He lifted his head, his gaze following his mother's silhouette, and only after she sat down on the sofa did he put down the Lego piece in his hand, shuffle over, and tug at her clothes.

"Mom, Mom, can you give me a little sister? Xi Ge won't let me hold my sister, saying she's his sister."

Besides, my sister doesn't know why she only listens to Xi Ge's words; if I had a sister, I could also listen to her.

The originally quite weary great-aunt was amused by her son's remark and laughed, saying, "You can't just have a sister whenever you want."

"I want a sister!"

"It's a pity, you only have Youbao as a sister."

Song Lujing's plan to win over a sister was thus declared a failure.

The next day, Shen Ningmu brought Mu Youyu to play at the Jiang family's home.

The room she arranged for Mu Youyu is next to Jiang Liangjin's room, with a wall between them.

Mu Youyu sat on her own small bed, staring at that partition wall for a long time, then she pushed off with her short legs, ran downstairs, and pulled Shen Ningmu's hand, saying, "Aunt Shen, I want a door!"

Shen Ningmu was watching TV; hearing this, she froze the screen, crouched down, and asked, "What kind of door?"

Mu Youyu gestured seriously, "It's the wall between my room and A Jin's room—we can open a small door there!"

Shen Ningmu was delighted by her words, exclaiming, "Great, great, I'll have someone make it right away!"

She immediately took out her phone to call Jiang Su, her voice excited: "Honey! My daughter—oh no, A Yu says she wants to open a door between her room and A Jin's room..."

Shen Ningmu's efficiency was unbeatable; the connecting door was installed that very afternoon.

Mu Youyu stood on her side of the room, reached out and pushed—the door opened, and opposite was Jiang Liangjin's room.

She poked half her head out, just meeting Jiang Liangjin's gaze looking over; she covered her eyes and said, "Wow."

Mu Youyu smiled, then pulled back, closed the door, waited two seconds, pushed it open again, and said, "A Jin, good evening."

Jiang Liangjin sat at his desk, holding a book, watching her repeatedly open and close the small door without stopping her; only when she had finished playing did he say, "Good evening."

Mu Youyu opened and closed that door back and forth several times before finally being satisfied and letting go.

The next morning, Mu Youyu opened her eyes, quickly got out of bed, pushed open the small door, and ran into Jiang Liangjin's room, calling, "A Jin, A Jin, it's daylight, time to get up! Get up, get up!"

Jiang Liangjin was still wrapped in the blankets when she yanked him up; with sleepy eyes he looked at her and asked, "What time is it?"

Mu Youyu pointed at the curtains and said, "It's five in the morning—the sun is already shining on our backsides!"

Jiang Liangjin, being pulled up by her, rubbed his eyes and said, "There's no sun; today we don't have to go to school, do we?"

Mu Youyu had already turned and run back to her own room, saying, "We still have to get up! I'm hungry!"

Jiang Liangjin watched the tiny figure disappear through the small door in an instant, remained silent for a few seconds, then slowly lifted the blankets, got out of bed, pushed open the small door, and followed after her.