Summer Green Apples

She turned her head again and glanced cautiously at Chi Sui.

His face still showed signs of irritation.

Ji Xiwen comforted her, "Don't worry, they'll definitely make up soon."

"Who wants to make up with her?"

Chi scoffed and gritted his teeth against the plastic stick on the lollipop.

"We're family, there's no grudge that lasts overnight," Ji Xiwen said earnestly.

Chi lowered his eyes. "I hold grudges."

"Why?" Ji Xiwen asked instinctively, then quickly realized her mistake and said, "If you don't want to say, then don't. I'm being nosy."

"It's nothing."

Chi Sui said nonchalantly, "The person who ran out of the bubble tea shop crying just now knows my mom. She made a phone call while crying, and I don't know what she said, but my mom felt that I had trampled on that young girl's sincerity, so she came over and scolded me."

Ji Xiwen was taken aback. "Then why don't you explain?"

"Why should I explain?" Chi Sui scoffed.

Ji Xiwen thought to herself, this young master not only loves sweets, but also cares a lot about his image.

"Oh well."

Chi Sui lowered his eyelids and said unhappily, "You're really being perfunctory."

Ji Xiwen: "...I wasn't just being perfunctory. Maybe we have different ideas. I think if it's a misunderstanding, an explanation will suffice."

"Since she can misunderstand you, why should you explain?"

"Because I feel that even if she misunderstood you, the fact that she still came to find you shows that she cares about you." Ji Xiwen thought for a moment, "She just cared about the wrong person."

From Chi Sui's angle, you can see her slender, white neck under her ponytail, so white it's almost dazzling.

"What kind of twisted logic is that?"

The eldest son was dissatisfied.

"That might be a fallacy..."

Ji Xiwen lowered her head. "Anyway, if I do something wrong, or if my mother misunderstands that I did something wrong, she won't come to find me or pay any attention to me."

Chi Sui was stunned.

He remembered the phone call he had overheard earlier.

My fingers nervously tugged at the outer layer of the puff pastry bag.

"Your mother...do you not get along well with her?"

Ji Xiwen remained silent as she entered the room and changed her shoes.

After changing into slippers, she looked up, a little confused, and said, "I don't know, it's neither good nor bad, because we basically only see each other once a year."

Chi Sui leaned against the entrance and quietly watched her.

Ji Xiwen wanted to go back to her room to take a shower, so she politely asked, "Is there anything else?"

"That's all," Chi Sui said.

"Okay, I'll head back now."

Thinking about being able to take a shower soon, and maybe even play on her phone while enjoying the air conditioning afterward, Ji Xiwen couldn't help but sound a little excited.

Chi Sui stood still, watching her back.

This person... has a pretty quick change of mood.

……

It's quite hot in the yard.

Back in her room, Ji Xi turned on the air conditioner, and the cool air dispelled her restlessness.

She took a shower, changed into her freshly dried nightgown, and comfortably lay on the bed before taking out her phone.

This phone was one that Ji Rong had replaced before. When Ji Rong gave it to her, he specially replaced the screen. Although it was an old version, it looked brand new.

Ji Xiwen rarely uses her phone; she mostly just watches videos, rewatches old dramas, and occasionally chats with Zhang Cheng.

Today, she learned from Luo Wenjing that she could also stock up on group-buying deals, which would be cheaper than going to the store. She found it quite interesting.

Ji Xiwen was scrolling through Douyin when she suddenly received a message from Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng: [Give me a call when you have time.]

Ji Xiwen blinked, puzzled, but quickly dialed Zhang Cheng's number.

Zhang Cheng answered the phone just as it was about to hang up automatically.

"Hey, Xixi..." Zhang Cheng, who was usually a lively person, was now a little cautious.

"What's wrong?"

Ji Xiwen asked immediately.

"Well... Shen Jundao posted a status update on his social media at noon today, and it said..." Zhang Cheng paused here, seemingly disgusted.

Ji Xiwen was stunned when she first heard the name.

I felt cold all over and even felt nauseous.

The slender fingers holding the phone were trembling slightly.

"What did he post?"

Ji Xi heard the voice and swallowed with difficulty.

"He sent me a train ticket from Huaishui to Pingcheng, saying everything was ready." Zhang Cheng finished speaking and then cursed, "That idiot, if you don't want him, just cut him off. Ugly as he is, he's full of wild ideas."

How did he know I was in Pingcheng?

"I'm wondering the same thing. It seems like he knows which school you go to. I wonder if it was something your relatives told you. Your cousins ​​are all disgusting," Zhang Cheng said. "Shen Jundao deliberately sent it to me. He knew I would tell you if I saw it."

Ji Xiwen was a little unsteady on her feet and struggled to move to the edge of the bed.

She sat on the soft bed, her legs bent, her toes curling nervously. "I..."

"Aren't you living at school? Schools like yours should be very strict; he shouldn't be able to get in. Be careful on your way home on weekends, and try to walk with some people you know..."

Zhang Cheng lowered her voice, "Xixi, don't be afraid, don't pay attention to him. This kind of person is no different from dog shit. The more you pay attention to him, the more disgusting he becomes, understand?"

Ji Xiwen was stunned for a long time before nodding and giving a very soft "hmm".

She was quite happy before taking a shower.

All the happiness has now vanished, replaced by intense fear, nausea, and disgust.

After hanging up the phone, Ji Xiwen lay on the bed staring at the ceiling, lost in thought for a long time.

She needs to find something to do to distract herself.

Ji Xiwen scrolled through short videos for a while, watching for half an hour, but she didn't even know what she had been watching.

She took a brand-new set of math test questions from her bag, along with some scratch paper and a black pen, and left the room to go to the small study next door.

The small study was quiet at the moment. Ji Xiwen opened the first set of questions, did two multiple-choice questions, and then had no other thoughts in her mind.

Chi Sui was in a bad mood and spent the whole night playing games on the small sofa in his bedroom.

The problem only stopped when the phone displayed a battery warning.

Xu Jiyang sent ten messages in the group, urging him and Li Junyu to send out this week's weekend homework.

Li Junyu did not reply to the message.

Chi Sui typed slowly: "[Please beg me, and I'll send it to you.]"

Xu Jiyang: [Please, I really can't write this (crying)]

Xu Jiyang sent a meme of a little person kneeling on the ground crying.

Chi then got up.

When he pushed open the door to the small study, he found that the light was on inside.

Ji Xiwen lowered her head and wrote formulas on the draft paper. She was so engrossed in writing that she seemed not to hear anything.

A section of pale white wrist bone, holding a black pen, long black silk hair draped over slender shoulders, long eyelashes casting thick shadows on the eyelids.

She was wearing a loose-fitting white cotton nightgown.

Chi paused for two seconds, then said, "Ji Xiwen."

He called out softly.