I have few friends, but many childhood sweethearts.

Chapter 185. Xia Xiaoxiao's Overnight Growth

It was nearly midnight when I left the sales office after paying the deposit. Although it was already winter, the sun in Licheng in January was still very strong.

"Do you think Donghui City won't be abandoned?" On the way back, Yao Jinping started to feel anxious again.

"It can't be that bad, such a huge investment." Xu Aiguo had driven several hundred meters, but still hadn't escaped the encirclement of Donghui City.

Yao Jinping's concern is understandable. The newspapers in the port city often report bad news from other provinces, among which unfinished buildings attract the most attention from the public.

"Mom, you can rest assured. This area is a new urban area planned by the government. Even if the company goes bankrupt, the government will bail it out. Otherwise, how can it drive up the surrounding land prices?" Xu Qingfan explained in a knowledgeable tone.

"You think you know so much!" Yao Jinping glared at her son, annoyed. Although she had known since he was a child that Xu Qingfan was opinionated, she was still very unhappy to be lectured by her own child.

Xu Qingfan shrugged, ignored his mother, and turned to look out the window.

As the car drove onto Rhine Road, the snack and fried food stalls that once lined the entire street were now deserted. Wu Lingyu stared blankly at the scenery outside the window, as if a slideshow of the past was playing back in her mind.

The girl will never forget that when she was at her most desperate, it was Xu Qingfan who rekindled hope in her life, like the sun rising in a graveyard.

The desolate street in front of her stood in stark contrast to her increasingly prosperous family. Taking advantage of looking out the window, Wu Lingyu secretly glanced at Xu Qingfan out of the corner of her eye. Only after the car had completely driven away from Rhine Road did she think sweetly to herself: How wonderful!

It was too late, and Yao Jinping was too lazy to cook lunch at home, so they soon appeared at Zhengwumen for tea.

Zhengwumen and Wulin Chushen are two teahouses that locals in Licheng have been eating at since childhood. The taste is decent, nothing special but you won't be disappointed. The price is also very reasonable. Even more than ten years later, it is hard to exceed fifty yuan per person. In 09, it was only twenty or thirty yuan per person.

Perhaps because it was the first day of the New Year's Day holiday, the teahouse was full of people. After waiting for a while, they quickly met a table of customers who had just finished eating and left.

Xu Qingfan sat down at the tea-making station to boil water and scald the bowls for everyone, while also cleaning the teaware. Finally, he put his own tea leaves into the purple clay teapot to wash and brew the tea.

"Mom and Auntie, what else would you like to order?" After Xia Xiaoxiao and Wu Lingyu marked the dishes they wanted on the order form, they turned the form over and pushed it to the adults.

"Xiao Fan hasn't even looked yet. Why don't you ask Xiao Fan what he wants to eat?"

"Hmph~" Xia Xiaoxiao turned her head to the side, looking like she didn't want to talk to him.

"It's alright, Aunties, you can order whatever you like. It's always the same few things anyway," Xu Qingfan said after pouring out the brewed tea and filling everyone's cups.

Almost every table here orders pretty much the same things for tea: peanut and chicken feet, taro and pork ribs, beef tripe, shrimp dumplings, and tangerine peel beef balls are the five must-orders; stir-fried beef noodles, stir-fried noodles with shredded vegetables, and porridge are the two main dishes to choose from; and finally, they order a few more of their favorite dishes, such as durian ice cream that Xia Xiaoxiao likes and XO sauce radish cake that Xu Qingfan likes.

As for ordering rice noodle rolls at a tea house, even dogs wouldn't eat that stuff!

After placing the order, the waiter soon pushed a cart full of steamers to their table and crossed out the corresponding dish names on their order.

"Xiaoyu, eat more. We're leaving Hong Kong after this meal." Xu Qingfan used his chopsticks to pick up the largest chicken foot and put it in her bowl.

"Okay, thank you, Brother Fan." The girl smiled shyly at him and lowered her head to finish the chicken feet in front of her.

"Don't hunch your back." Xu Qingfan patted her back when he saw this.

Looking at the scene before her, Xia Xiaoxiao suddenly felt that the durian she was about to eat was bland and tasteless, and instead bit into the food as if it were Xu Qingfan.

"Here, this is for you." He reached out his chopsticks and picked up another one for Xia Xiaoxiao.

The girl paused in her eating, and suddenly seemed less angry. What happened?

[I won't forgive you so easily!] She glared at Xu Qingfan haughtily and said, "You don't need to be so kind!"

"How dare you talk like that, Xiaoxiao!" Lin Jing couldn't stand seeing her daughter bullying Xu Qingfan all the time, so she hit her on the head with the tip of her chopsticks.

"Ah~" Xia Xiaoxiao touched the spot where she had just been hit, feeling wronged.

"Auntie, it's okay. We were just joking around. Xia Xiaoxiao said she wanted to play a game with me where whoever laughs first loses."

"Pfft~" She twitched her lips when she heard Xu Qingfan's words, and luckily she didn't spit out the food in her mouth.

"I'm getting old, I really can't keep up with the thinking of you 90s generation." Lin Jing believed it and shook her head with a laugh.

"No way, Auntie isn't old at all. Saying eighteen is a bit of an exaggeration, but twenty-five is really close. When we're in high school, Auntie, when you go to the parent-teacher conference, those teachers might even think you're a little sister!" Seeing his mother's murderous glare, Xu Qingfan quickly added, "My mom too, my mom too!"

"Hahaha," the two mothers were all smiles as he coaxed them, attracting the attention of the older men at the nearby tables who would occasionally glance over to steal a look.

Xia Xiaoxiao was finishing the chicken feet in her bowl when she subconsciously looked down at the spot where Xu Qingfan had touched her yesterday.

She had initially thought Xu Qingfan would kick her while she was down, but unexpectedly he helped her cover up the lie. Xia Xiaoxiao took this as Xu Qingfan's apology to her, thinking to herself:
[Don't laugh at the challenge, how childish! Hmph~ I'll forgive you for now.]
As the dinner was about to end, Xu Aiguo called the waiter to pay the bill. The six people and a large table of snacks only cost less than 150 yuan.

After leaving the teahouse, it was almost time for Wu Lingyu to take a car out of Hong Kong. After dropping her off at the agreed location, the company's business car arrived shortly afterward.

"See you the day after tomorrow, Xiaoyu!"

"Goodbye, Brother Fan! Goodbye, Uncle and Aunt! Goodbye, Xiao Xiao!" Wu Lingyu waved goodbye as she got into the car.

After watching the car drive away, they got back into their car and returned to the Lotus Courtyard.

Yao Jinping took Lin Jing to play mahjong with the housewives, while Xu Aiguo continued to drive a taxi or go fishing, leaving only him and Xia Xiaoxiao at home again after a long absence.

After washing his feet, face, and rinsing his mouth in the bathroom, he comfortably collapsed onto his bed. Xia Xiaoxiao followed him into his room not long after.

"Don't you take a nap? You didn't go to sleep until 1 a.m. last night." Xu Qingfan turned over and looked at the girl sitting on the sofa.

"Not sleepy." Xia Xiaoxiao said as the Windows startup sound came from the computer speakers.

Xu Qingfan ignored him and closed his eyes.

Xia Xiaoxiao had no desire to talk to him. After muting the computer sound, she clicked the QQ Speed ​​icon on the desktop.

Today is the first day of the new year. As long as your account is online for two hours, you will have a chance to win a permanent A-class car. Perhaps because the elementary school students were all called away by their parents for lunch, Xia Xiaoxiao easily logged into her account and helped Xu Qingfan log in as well.

Apart from Wu Lingyu's account, which was not online, Lin Wanning, Zhang Yiyi, and Xiao Ruanwen were all listed as online in the game list.

She first logged into Wu Lingyu's QQ account, and then immediately helped the girl log into her QQ Speed ​​account as well.

Xu Qingfan's computer is the top-of-the-line model available on the market. Even if he logs in to multiple accounts, it won't lag. A little while later, Wu Lingyu also logged in. Just as she was about to turn her game into full screen, Xu Qingfan's game window suddenly shook.

Xia Xiaoxiao switched to Xu Qingfan's page and saw Lin Wanning inviting him to enter the game in the lower right corner.

She thought for a moment and clicked confirm. After entering the room, Zhang Yiyi was also there. Xia Xiaoxiao left a message in the room's input box:

[Xu Qingfan is sleeping. This is Xia Xiaoxiao.]

Lin Wanning's cute girl avatar made a surprised expression and left a message in the input box: 【Let's play together, little miss, please show us how to play!】

Xia Xiaoxiao smiled gently and replied simply: OK.

Not long after, Xu Qingfan was kicked out of the room, Xia Xiaoxiao's account re-entered, and Lin Wanning changed the room mode to team racing.

Xu Qingfan's keyboard has red switches, so it's not particularly noisy when you type on it. This moderate noise is actually more conducive to sleep.

Listening to Xia Xiaoxiao's rhythmic keyboard clicks, Xu Qingfan soon cleared his mind, falling into a subtle state where he was asleep but could still hear external noises.

Xia Xiaoxiao led the two newbies through game after game. Because she was always in first place, as long as either Lin Wanning or Zhang Yiyi wasn't in the bottom two, their team could win.

They kept winning all afternoon. The New Year's Day character had an eight-fold experience bonus, and with the double experience card, it was sixteen times. The three girls played from 1 p.m. until almost 5 p.m., and their character levels skyrocketed like a rocket, quickly rising from level 132 to level 139.

After finishing the last game, Xia Xiaoxiao's character level successfully reached 140.

Just as she was about to ask Lin Wanning why they hadn't started yet, she saw him say in the chat box: "Waaah~ We can't play anymore, Mom wants us to go outside to get some sun and take a walk."

It is also accompanied by the character's crying expression.

Xia Xiaoxiao's reply was still simple: OK.

【Goodbye, Xiaoxiao!】Lin Wanning and Zhang Yiyi left messages in the input box at the same time.

【886】Xia Xiaoxiao stretched and replied in the same way.

After playing for an afternoon, she got a little bored, so she moved her game character to the lounge area and then back to the desktop.

Looking at the dense array of icons, she had no idea what to play.

Xu Qingfan was still asleep, having slept for almost four hours. Xia Xiaoxiao turned her head to look at him, smiled, and muttered softly, "He really is a pig!"

As she moved the mouse with her right hand, she subconsciously clicked on the browser on the desktop. Suddenly, she remembered wetting the bed that morning and, as if possessed, typed "reasons for girls wetting the bed" into the search engine.

The search results appeared shortly afterward. Xia Xiaoxiao clicked on them one by one and read them softly: "Generally speaking, bedwetting in women may be caused by drinking too much water before bed, or it may be caused by urethritis, kidney deficiency, etc., and requires symptomatic treatment."

"You're the one with kidney deficiency, you're the one with urethritis!" She remembered that she hadn't drunk any water before bed last night, and immediately started cursing in her mind.

Undeterred, she scrolled down several more entries, but the content was increasingly outrageous, almost as if she were claiming to have a terminal illness.

[Let me look at one last time, and if it's still one of these, I won't look anymore!] she said to herself.

The latest one she clicked on caught her eye, and Xia Xiaoxiao subconsciously read it aloud: "If you wet the bed during a wet dream, it's often because you reached a high level."

When she read a certain obscene word, the girl's face turned bright red. Xia Xiaoxiao was worried that Xu Qingfan would find out, so she quickly closed the browser page. She turned her head and saw that he was still fast asleep before she felt relieved and reopened it.

If an adult woman is physiologically mature, it is normal for her to experience similar symptoms. However, it is important to develop good hygiene habits, such as changing underwear frequently and ideally washing your genitals every night.

Xia Xiaoxiao felt unclean, but curiosity drove her to continue reading. After changing the keywords, she quickly found the answer she wanted to know on the browser.

The girl grasped at the book without seeking to understand it, sometimes blushing, sometimes stealing glances at Xu Qingfan.

[So it wasn't bedwetting after all.] Xia Xiaoxiao felt like she had suddenly grown up. [Xu Qingfan definitely didn't know this!] Thinking that she knew something that Xu Qingfan didn't know, she felt a little smug.

However, the thought that her dream object was actually this stinky dog ​​made her too shy to look Xu Qingfan in the face.

[How could that be? I only ever saw him as a little brother!] Xia Xiaoxiao refused to admit it, deceiving herself in her heart.

But in her heart, it felt as if a tiny angel and a tiny devil were locked in a standoff. The angel said, "Yes, he's just a childish, bratty little brother."

But Little Devil said, "Are you going to keep lying to yourself? You've fallen for Xu Qingfan!"

[Ugh, so annoying!] Xia Xiaoxiao shook her head like a rattle drum, trying to shake the two little Xiuzhen out of her mind at the same time.

She couldn't think about it anymore. Xia Xiaoxiao closed the search page and cleared her browser history. After doing all this, she couldn't help but guiltily check if Xu Qingfan had gotten up.

[What a pig!] Seeing that the other person was breathing evenly and seemed unlikely to wake up anytime soon, Xia Xiaoxiao secretly felt proud.

She got up, walked to Xu Qingfan's bedside, squatted down, and lay on the bed to observe him sleeping.

After a while, she grabbed a tuft of hair, held it in front of his nose, and gently brushed it. When she saw Xu Qingfan frown involuntarily, the girl was overjoyed that her prank had succeeded, and a faint smile appeared on her face.

After playing for a while, Xu Qingfan seemed to get used to this level of itching and stopped reacting. Xia Xiaoxiao felt bored again and, thinking of the dream she had that morning, suddenly got up and lay down on the bed as if possessed.

But she regretted it as soon as she finished doing all this, and was about to get up when...

Xu Qingfan suddenly turned around and put his left hand and left foot on her body. The next second, his familiar hand slipped into her clothes as if it had a GPS tracking device.

Xia Xiaoxiao's eyes widened in horror, her body trembling as if she had been electrocuted. She thought Xu Qingfan had woken up and was deliberately playing a trick on her, so she whispered, "Xu Qingfan!"

"I'll count to three!" she said, raising her voice even higher.

Xu Qingfan remained silent, but instead, his hand began to wander restlessly over her lower abdomen.

"Hmm~"

The girl groaned, and the same feeling she had when she woke up that morning washed over her again. It wasn't until her abdominal muscles involuntarily contracted that she pushed Xu Qingfan's hand away forcefully, feeling both ashamed and anxious, and jumped out of bed like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

Xu Qingfan finally woke up. She opened her eyes groggily and only saw Xia Xiaoxiao's familiar legs, without noticing the girl's unusual expression.

"What time is it?" he asked instinctively.

"You pervert!" Xia Xiaoxiao grabbed the clothes he had changed out of and threw them at him before rushing out of the room.

Xu Qingfan: ? ? ?

He was completely bewildered by Xia Xiaoxiao's strange behavior and remained dumbfounded for a while.

It wasn't until Xia Xiaoxiao had been gone for quite some time that she finally couldn't help but burst out cursing, "How is it perverted that I'm just taking a nap? Don't you have any sense of reason?!"

Xia Xiaoxiao had already gone home, and no one answered him outside.

"How inexplicable!" He raised his hand and subconsciously touched his nose.

"Wow, it smells so good!"

(End of this chapter)