I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 166. A Young Girl's Feelings Are Always Poetic

Sunday.

Because he had missed a lot of schoolwork during his week-long trip, Xu Qingfan's Little Sunflower Classroom was reopened.

In junior high school, in addition to Chinese, mathematics, and English, students also need to study four extra subjects: history, geography, biology, and politics. The workload is quite heavy.

However, the first three subjects—history, geography, and biology—are not tested in the high school entrance exam, and the only subject that needs to be tested, politics, is an open-book exam, so it's not actually that heavy.

"Rational numbers are positive integers, 0, negative integers, and fractions. Fractions include positive fractions and negative fractions." Five girls, some standing and some sitting, surrounded Xu Qingfan as he explained the content of the seventh-grade math textbook.

"It's so easy, I'm going to read the book myself." Xia Xiaoxiao lost patience after listening for only a short while. The content in the seventh-grade math book was all about definitions, which seemed idiotic compared to the math problems they were going to participate in the competition in Yanjing.

“Little one, I’ll go with you!” Xiao Ruanwen also found it boring and chimed in.

Xu Qingfan also felt that the content above was too simple. He looked up and asked Lin Wanning, Zhang Yiyi, and Wu Lingyu, "What about you? Do you want to listen to me or read the book yourselves?"

"Brother Qingfan, I'm listening to you!"

"Brother, tell us!"

"Brother Fan, I'll study by myself too." Wu Lingyu glanced at the contents of the book, then at Xu Qingfan's handsome face, but the contents were too simple. She could learn more efficiently by herself, so she reluctantly said.

After Wu Lingyu finished speaking, she took her books and left, leaving only Xu Qingfan, Lin Wanning, and Zhang Yiyi on the table.

“Then let’s continue. The only difficult part of this chapter is the operation of rational numbers, for example,” Xu Qingfan picked up his pen and continued to teach the two girls.

On the other side, three girls were comfortably lying on a beanbag chair, holding a book in their left hand and a pen in their right, occasionally underlining and marking the knowledge points in the book.

The gramophone in the living room was playing soothing instrumental music, and the rhythmic chirping of cicadas outside the window seemed to add drumbeats to the music.

The little white cat jumped onto the windowsill and took a nap. The white frosted curtains were gently blown by the breeze. It was an ordinary summer afternoon.

Everyone in the room was busy with their own things. Even though no one spoke or needed to make extra eye contact, the six boys felt that their hearts were connected at that moment. It was a very comfortable way to get along.

I studied from afternoon until evening. The cicadas outside the window stopped chirping at some point. My little brother was the first to lose his patience and declared defeat in the game of "Red Light, Green Light".

"Ha~" Xu Qingfan stretched lazily, yawning as he said, "That's about it, we've finished the first unit in one go."

Xia Xiaoxiao reached out and rubbed the head of her little brother who had come over and was rubbing against her thigh, and said, "I've already watched up to the fourth episode, it's so boring."

Xiao Ruanwen also joined in the cat-petting activity, gently rubbing her bare feet against the cat's belly. "Brother Fan, what are we having for dinner? I'm hungry!"

"Brother Qingfan, cook!"

"Brother, cook!"

Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi got up from the table they were lying on and said at the same time.

"I'll help out," Wu Lingyu said, raising her hand.

"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go buy groceries!" Xu Qingfan stood up and came to his little brother. He grabbed the cat's two hind legs with both hands, did a 360-degree backflip and threw the cat into the air, then caught its two front paws steadily from the front.

"Old Wu~" The little brother looked at Xu Qingfan pitifully.

"Xu Qingfan, aren't you annoying!" Xia Xiaoxiao raised her hand and slapped his hand before picking up the cat again.

"What do you know? I'm training it to do a backflip. It's embarrassing to talk about a cat that can't do a backflip!" Xu Qingfan said confidently.

"Pfft~" Xia Xiaoxiao smiled. The girl suddenly remembered how Xu Qingfan had fallen while doing a backflip to amuse her when she was in elementary school.

"I think you're the one who's embarrassing!" Xia Xiaoxiao glared at him with a smile.

"You can't just do a backflip casually, it's very dangerous. If you land on your neck first, you're dead." Xiao Ruanwen has many years of martial arts experience and knows exactly which part of the human body is most vulnerable.

"Xu Qingfan doesn't know any backflips at all. He just uses his hands to support himself. He's so stupid," Xia Xiaoxiao bluntly exposed.

"Oh, that's alright then. As long as it wasn't a backflip in mid-air, it's fine," Xiao Ruanwen nodded and said.

"If you dare to say bad things about me again, you'll be eating at the same table as Da Huang for dinner!" Xu Qingfan punched Xia Xiaoxiao. "Let's go, it's time to buy groceries after sunset."

"Let's go~"

After leaving the cat in the house and locking the door, the six of them walked side by side to the market.

"I won't see that annoying homeroom teacher again when I go back tomorrow, that's great!" Lin Wanning led the way, using the blue bricks on the sidewalk as hopscotch squares. After jumping six or seven times, she turned around and said to everyone.

"I never imagined the internet could be so powerful. One article was enough to take her down. Fan is going to become a literary giant!" Xiao Ruanwen put her hand on his shoulder and continued, "The calligraphy brush was Lu Xun's weapon, and the keyboard is Fan's weapon, so Fan is a keyboard warrior!"

"Hahaha~" Although the term 'keyboard warrior' was not yet popular in 08, all the women who had spent a lot of time with Xu Qingfan understood the true meaning of the word.

"I think you're the keyboard warrior. You even reminded netizens in my comment section that Shan Fengtao changed her phone number." Xu Qingfan smacked her head in annoyance.

"Brother Qingfan is a good keyboard warrior!" Lin Wanning ran back and squeezed between him and Zhang Yiyi, saying.

"Do you think anyone has called to scold Shan Fengtao after reading the article?" Xiao Ruanwen smiled sweetly, revealing two adorable dimples, but her words were quite cunning.

"Why don't you call her and see if her phone is off?" Xu Qingfan took out his phone and handed it to her.

“Okay!” Xiao Ruanwen happily took the phone. She had actually wanted to make the call for a while, but the timidity that a junior high school student should have restricted her actions. However, it would be a different story if she used Xu Qingfan’s phone.

The number you dialed is currently switched off. Please try again later. Sorry.

"Hahaha~" Hearing the sound from the phone's speakerphone, the six teenagers burst into laughter on the sidewalk, their youthful exuberance and enduring passion shining through.

Those who wield words as weapons will ultimately be wounded by those same weapons. Shan Fengtao, a student who has been subjected to frequent verbal abuse over the past decade, has finally been subjected to a barrage of insults from netizens across the country.

Shan Fengtao originally thought that everything would improve after she resigned from the school. With the money she had earned from running her tutoring center over the years, she could still live comfortably in another city. However, reality quickly dealt her a heavy blow. Her photos were everywhere on the internet, from her ID photo right after graduating from university to recent photos of her daily life. After being uploaded to the internet by netizens, they spread like wildfire. Wherever she went, she was pointed at and gossiped about.

Her phone number, her husband's phone number, her parents' phone number, and even her husband's parents' phone number are constantly being called by netizens. When the call is connected, they will greet her with friendly wishes for her family's well-being.

Her son, who is in second grade, has been isolated and ostracized by his classmates. Now, her family only dares to stay at home. They are on edge at the slightest sound. They are afraid that it will not be long before they develop psychological problems.

Xu Qingfan was naturally unaware of these things, and even if he had known, he would have simply clapped his hands in delight, as he always believed that evil people deserved their just deserts.

As for her husband and son?
Xu Qingfan just wants to ask: Did Shan Fengtao's husband and son enjoy the ill-gotten gains from her tutoring classes? If they did, they should bear the corresponding responsibility!
Is it possible that she'll end up like that banana-themed female singer, whose mother embezzled her laid-off worker compensation, while her daughter took the money abroad to live a life of luxury, and then regularly mourned her mother's death on the internet every year?
Leaving the market, everyone carried large and small bags of items, their faces beaming with excitement at the prospect of independent living.

Everyone had their own role: the four girls who couldn't cook were responsible for picking and peeling vegetables, Wu Lingyu was responsible for washing vegetables, and Xu Qingfan was responsible for other tasks.

The chopped dried chilies were thrown into the oil pan, and the kitchen was instantly filled with a pungent, spicy aroma.

"Cough cough." Xu Qingfan turned around and coughed twice. He poured the drained hand-torn cabbage into the pot, stir-fried it over high heat until the cabbage softened slightly, then added salt to taste. Finally, just before serving, he drizzled a little bit of aged vinegar around the edge of the pot. A spicy and sour hand-torn cabbage dish was ready.

Wu Lingyu carried the last dish out, and Xu Qingfan, obsessively wiping the stove and walls with a towel, cleaned the spatula and then took off his apron and followed her out.

Lin Wanning stuck his index finger and thumb onto his tongue and licked them, clearly having just secretly eaten some food with his hands. After Xu Qingfan sat down, the five girls couldn't wait to pick up their bowls and chopsticks and start eating.

"It's so great that we can shop for groceries and cook together from now on!" Lin Wanning said, her little mouth puffed out, her words muffled.

“We’ll go to school together, eat together, and sleep together!” Zhang Yiyi smiled sweetly and looked around at everyone in the room.

"Waaah~ I need to go home to sleep tonight, my grandpa doesn't allow me to stay out overnight," Xiao Ruanwen said while eating heartily.

"It's okay, Ruan Wen, your house is only 300 meters away from here. We'll wait for you to go to school together!" Wu Lingyu comforted her.

"Yes, let's wait for the class monitor to go to school together!"

"Haha~ I'm not even the class monitor anymore, Wan Ning, and you still call me that."

"Hehe~ I'm used to it!"

Because getting up at six o'clock to wait for the bus to school is too hard, Wen Wanqing and Zhang Chunxue are both very open-minded parents. It's not like they don't have the means, so why suffer those useless hardships for no reason?
Both of them eventually agreed to let Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi stay overnight at their home while they were at school, but on the condition that Xu Qingfan also had to come along.

Yes, that's how much the two parents trusted him. Through six years of goodwill during elementary school, Xu Qingfan had become the epitome of sensible and reliable in their eyes.

As for puppy love, that's completely outside their consideration. It's possible for a boy and a girl to have puppy love, but with Xu Qingfan's family of one boy and five girls, they wouldn't worry about puppy love at all, at least that's what the parents think.

Even a love triangle only involves three people; how complicated must the relationship be to develop into a six-way love triangle?

After dinner, Xu Qingfan sat comfortably in front of the TV watching Heart of Greed, while the five girls diligently cleared the table.

[It feels so good to be the head of the household.] Xu Qingfan thought to herself happily.

He got up and went into the kitchen. Wu Lingyu was washing dishes, Xia Xiaoxiao and Xiao Ruanwen were wiping the stove and range hood with rags, and Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi were responsible for mopping the floor and taking out the trash.

Because only Wu Lingyu and the dishes she washed were clean, the most time-consuming and laborious dishwashing work was assigned to Wu Lingyu. Although the girl didn't think anything of it, Xu Qingfan still felt sorry for her.

Looks like we'll have to get a dishwasher too.
"Brother Qingfan, don't come in! The floor was just wiped!" Lin Wanning squatted on the ground, pushing the rag forward. He looked up at Xu Qingfan when he saw the foot of the door.

"Feeding the cats and walking the dogs, what are you doing standing at the door!" Influenced by Yao Jinping, Xia Xiaoxiao couldn't help but say a few words whenever she saw Xu Qingfan idling around.

"Ruanwen, stop wiping. It's past eight o'clock. I'll take you home on my way. It's not good to go home too late." Xu Qingfan waved for Xiao Ruanwen to come out.

"It's so late! Well, I'll leave this part to you!" Xiao Ruanwen put down the rag, pecked Xia Xiaoxiao on the cheek, and ran out.

"Let's go." Xia Xiaoxiao gave her best friend a playful glare and said.

Xu Qingfan was filled with envy. "Is this what a beautiful girl like Tietie looks like? I miss my childhood so much."

"Brother Qingfan, come back soon!"

"be careful."

"Okay, I'll be back after I take Ruan Wen home," Xu Qingfan said after feeding the cat.

"See you tomorrow, love you all!" Xiao Ruanwen grabbed Xu Qingfan's clothes and waved goodbye to them.

On the secluded path, the two people and the dog walked quietly. Taking advantage of her temporary height, Xiao Ruanwen put her hand on Xu Qingfan's shoulder.

"Brother Fan."

"What's wrong?" Xu Qingfan turned his head and glanced at her.

Having a rare opportunity to be alone with Xu Qingfan, Xiao Ruanwen had many things she wanted to say to him, including who she thought was the prettiest among the five of them, and what kind of girl he liked.
"The moon is so round tonight!" Xiao Ruanwen smiled and shook her head, swallowing back what she wanted to say, and looked up at the moon as she spoke.

"The Mid-Autumn Festival is in two weeks. I'll be making snow skin mooncakes again, and I'll make them for you guys then."

"Mmm!" Xiao Ruanwen smiled gently. A gust of evening breeze blew by, and the words she wanted to say seemed to drift away on the wind.

[Although the moon does not belong to me alone, its light shines on me at all times.] A young girl's heart is always poetic, Xiao Ruanwen thought to herself.

After sending Xiao Ruanwen home, Xu Qingfan returned to their home.

The four girls were sitting on the sofa watching TVB's prime-time drama "The Scholar Meets the Soldier" when Xu Qingfan came over. Lin Wanning moved over so that he could sit down.

They took turns showering in the bathroom and going to bed after the TV program ended at 10 o'clock.

Xu Qingfan still slept in a room by himself, while the four girls squeezed onto the large bed in the master bedroom.

From that day on, their cohabitation officially began.

(End of this chapter)