A Young Woman's Heart

Chapter 179 Sleeping with Others

Before they knew it, it was time to leave school. The agonizing Monday was finally over, and even Mo Xueyao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The cleaners got busy, while she leaned against the windowsill at the back of the classroom, watching the boys who couldn't wait to run to the basketball court with their basketballs as soon as school was over.

As long as it doesn't rain, playing basketball for half an hour after school every day is almost a habit for these boys.

The sound of 'bang bang' echoed from the basketball court. They didn't waste a moment and started the 'game' as soon as everyone was gathered.

An Ruosu's three-point shot is very accurate; Li Hongran always likes to dunk under the basket; Jia Qixue especially likes to steal the ball, but unfortunately his shooting percentage is too low; and there's that fat guy from the next class, who especially likes to bump into people, but his skills in all aspects are terrible, I really don't understand why we always hang out with him...

Mo Xueyao rested her chin on her hand, her thoughts wandering freely.

Of course, I was thinking more about the school anniversary celebration, which was about two weeks away.

All preparations are almost complete. The finished props are now piled up in the temporary storage rooms of each class, ready to be set up the day before the school anniversary celebration.

"Haha..." Mo Xueyao yawned, feeling extremely sleepy.

This is all because Monday's schedule was too tight. Almost the entire day consisted of main courses, and each course was two main courses back-to-back.

Her brain cells were depleted, making her crave something sweet, but unfortunately, she only had one Coke candy left in her mouth.

"Xiao Yao~" A sweet voice came from behind Mo Xueyao, and then she felt a pair of hands on her shoulders.

"What's up, Lele?" Mo Xueyao asked without turning her head.

"Why don't you come stay at my place tonight?"

"Huh? To your house?" Mo Xueyao didn't understand. "Why?"

"Um! Well, I'm afraid of... thunder."

"You're afraid of thunder... why don't you just sleep with your parents for one night?" Mo Xueyao said speechlessly. "Besides, you're a grown man, why are you still afraid of thunder?"

"Xiao Yao, are you really not afraid?!" Wang Jiale hugged her tightly as if he had found a savior.

"Hey, it's normal to be scared, right?" Mo Xueyao turned her head slightly, almost kissing Wang Jiale's face, then quickly turned back. "Are you a rabbit?"

"Mom and Dad aren't home~ Oh, please~" Wang Jiale wriggled around coquettishly, "Sleep with me tonight?"

"...Then why didn't you call for the class monitor?"

"No, no, the class monitor is too serious, I don't dare to sleep with her."

"Actually, it's alright..." Mo Xueyao, who slept in the same bed with Li Wanyan almost every day, scratched her head. "She's just a person who's cold on the outside but warm on the inside."

"Is the class monitor just 'warm' to you, Xiaoyao?" Wang Jiale stood on tiptoe, rested her chin on Mo Xueyao's shoulder, and rubbed her cheek with her fluffy hair, making her feel ticklish. "Xiaoyao~ stay with me~"

Mo Xueyao looked at Li Wanyan with a headache: "Um, Wanyan, are you going to sleep at Lele's house tonight?"

"What's wrong?" Li Wanyan asked.

Zhou Yong cast an envious glance at Wang Jiale, seemingly admiring her.

"Hey, stop looking, Lao Zhou, hurry up and finish cleaning, or the arcade will be full!" Gao Yuan, who was waiting at the door instead of cleaning, shouted at Zhou Yong.

"Okay, okay!" Zhou Yong quickly lowered his head, picked up the large trash can at the back of the classroom, and walked towards the classroom door.

Gao Yuan followed Zhou Yong, who was carrying a trash can, downstairs and whispered mockingly beside him, "Hey, Zhou, if you had the chance to become the girl next to Mo Xueyao, would you really do it?"

“That way I could have more close contact with her,” Zhou Yong answered without hesitation, then coughed awkwardly, “What a joke, of course I won’t change.”

"Tsk tsk, that's not necessarily true." Gao Yuan glanced at Zhou Yong and chuckled.

In the classroom, Mo Xueyao told Li Wanyan what Wang Jiale had just told her, and the latter pushed up her glasses and shook her head.

“Go ahead, Yaoyao. I’ll go home and talk to my godparents.”

"Huh? Am I alone..." Mo Xueyao rubbed her forehead. If she were a young girl just starting out, she probably wouldn't have been able to agree.

But now I've gotten used to it a lot, so I'm not so embarrassed anymore.

However, what drove her to agree was her manly heart.

It screamed in its heart: Sleeping with a girl, especially the petite and adorable Wang Jiale, is my type! Why not go?

The girl's heart, which had only recently formed, felt both troubled and that she should help others.

This is also a great opportunity to strengthen relationships with classmates.

In the midst of this hesitation, the scales began to tip, leading her to finally nod in agreement with no other choice.

"Great! Let's go! Come home with me now!" Wang Jiale shouted impatiently, hugging Mo Xueyao's arm tightly, as if afraid that she would change her mind later.

"Well... Wanyan, I'll be going now?" Mo Xueyao looked at Li Wanyan awkwardly, and the latter nodded calmly.

"Be careful on the road."

"Okay!" Mo Xueyao waved her hand and was dragged out of the classroom by Wang Jiale.

The sky wasn't overcast; the bright sunlight was still shining on the two of them. A sparrow flew through the air and, with a 'plop,' dropped a clump of white excrement onto a car parked by the roadside.

Mo Xueyao couldn't help but raise her eyebrows and subconsciously moved away from the car.

Who knows if that sparrow will fly back and land on her again later?

"Hmph hmph hmph~ la la la~" Wang Jiale, like a primary school student, held Mo Xueyao's hand, shook it vigorously, and hummed a simple tune, "This is the first time in my life that a classmate has come home with me."

"Oh, really?" Mo Xueyao turned her head to look elsewhere. "Then I am truly honored."

"Hey, what a perfunctory attitude!" Wang Jiale squeezed Mo Xueyao's palm. "If Xiaoyao were a boy, she definitely wouldn't be liked by girls!"

I'm really sorry if I won't be liked...

Mo Xueyao muttered to herself, and then saw Wang Jiale quicken his pace and walk a few steps forward, stopping in front of a mobile vendor.

"Xiaoyao, would you like to eat this?"

"This?" Mo Xueyao stopped and looked at the food being sold from the handcart.

The food they sell is very simple; it's just tofu.

— Sizzling tofu.

This is a location near the station, and the stalls here are very popular. Not only students, but also many office workers come here to buy snacks while waiting for their trains after get off work.

"Want some?" Wang Jiale seemed to be drooling.

"Uh...anything is fine." Although she really wanted to eat it, Mo Xueyao still gave an ambiguous answer.

This is probably what is meant by being tactful.

Of course, the truth is that I'm just too embarrassed to say it directly.

"Boss~ two servings of sizzling tofu, please!" Wang Jiale made a '2' gesture.

"Okay, two servings for one yuan."

"I just threw it in this jar, didn't I?"

Upon hearing this, the shopkeeper glanced at the money and saw Wang Jiale drop it in. He nodded and then took out two more pieces of tofu from the side and placed them on the hot plate.

"Spicy or not spicy? Do you want cilantro and chopped green onions?"

"I'll have... spicy."

“Then I want it spicy too!” Wang Jiale said to Mo Xueyao. “Oh, right, I don’t want cilantro.”

Mo Xueyao glanced at her, then said indifferently, "I'm fine with anything."

Sizzling tofu uses firm tofu, which is less likely to fall apart during frying and also tastes better, because if it's too soft, it won't have any chewiness!

The two pieces of tofu were quickly pan-fried and placed in two separate styrofoam boxes.

No, to be precise, it was a foam box.

The owner separates the foam box and the lid, which saves a lot of tableware.

The chopsticks they provided were also the kind that were half the length of normal disposable chopsticks.

It was obviously cut in half by human hands, so that it could be used once more.

Is it that they're stingy in business, or that ordinary people at the bottom of society just have it tough?

After all, even if you can save money, you can't actually save that much. But you don't want to waste even that little bit of money.

"Ah, the No. 8 bus is here!" Wang Jiale, who was about to start eating, suddenly looked up and shouted. She carefully carried the foam box and slowly walked forward with the bus. The bus door stopped right in front of her.

In reality, she simply predicted where it would stop.

Bus route 8 is one of the bus routes in Hangzhou with the most stops.

The advantage is that most people can take it to their vicinity, but the disadvantage is that it is quite crowded, extremely crowded.

Moreover, because there are too many stops, the speed is very slow.

It was rush hour, and the bus was packed with people. Mo Xueyao felt like there was barely any room left for her to hold the sizzling tofu in her hands.

After finally squeezing into a spot towards the back, I finally had a small space.

She breathed a sigh of relief and quickly started eating, otherwise the taste would be bad if it got cold.

Moreover, if you hold it for a long time, it's easy for it to fall to the ground.

"Mmm, this is delicious! This grilled tofu is a new product, and this is my first time trying it!" Wang Jiale said, taking small bites and squinting her eyes in enjoyment.

"This is my first time eating it too." Mo Xueyao didn't say that she hadn't actually tried many other things either. It wasn't that she was completely broke, but she always restrained herself from spending money recklessly.

On the crowded bus, most high school students quietly found a seat to lean against or sit down, while elementary school students crowded together at the exit door, speaking loudly in somewhat childish language.

"Jiang Lingshu didn't give me any cookies today, so I'm not going to be friends with her anymore. You're so kind, you treated me to spicy strips!" a little girl with slightly dark skin shouted.

"Yeah, that's right. She's very stingy. Am I better?"

"Yes! I've completely broken things off with her!"

Mo Xueyao grinned, finding the children adorably naive, but then she remembered that she had been through the same thing, and her smile vanished.

She seemed to be shouting like that on the bus back then, and people were probably looking at her with pity, as if she were an idiot.

Ah... those are truly unbearable memories.

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