There are always a few inconvenient days every month.
When you are mentally and physically devastated, if you can have a cup of hot and stomach-warming tea, it will definitely have excellent effects.
After evening self-study in Liu Weicheng's room.
Boiled with brown sugar and garnished with red dates.
Holding the cup in both hands, Zhao Xuanying, who was sitting by the bed, put her mouth to the cup, blew on it a few times, and then took a sip.
After all, it is freshly boiled brown sugar water.
Even if you blow it a few times, it won't cool you instantly.
With some regret, she placed the cup on the small table beside the bed. Zhao Xuanying continued to sort and fold the clothes piled on the bed and put them into the bags she had prepared.
I pressed it hard so that I could fit more clothes.
Zhao Xuanying, who was skilled in doing this kind of housework, enjoyed it. She glanced at Liu Weicheng who was cleaning the refrigerator and asked curiously.
“Does brown sugar water really work?”
"It should be useful."
Open the refrigerator that has been unplugged and clean out the debris inside.
Since he learned that he was moving out at the beginning of the month, Liu Weicheng has not put any food in the refrigerator, and the consumption during this period has basically been emptied.
He also threw away the rest, so he simply took this opportunity to clean the refrigerator he bought specially when setting up the stall from the inside out.
Hearing Zhao Xuanying's question, he straightened up with half of his body in the refrigerator, breathed a long sigh of relief and turned to look at her.
He added.
"Although to put it bluntly, it is just sugar water, but because the color after boiling is bright red, some people think that drinking brown sugar water during menstruation can make up for it."
After speaking, Liu Weicheng paused for a moment.
"But I think it's quite ridiculous. Based on this understanding, people who have donated blood can just drink brown sugar water."
"..."
Zhao Xuanying stopped while packing her clothes.
Liu Weicheng's explanation was obviously not the answer she wanted to hear.
It was not difficult to guess what the girl was thinking. After the other party learned that her period was coming, he took the initiative to make brown sugar water for her.
What a considerate gesture.
What was originally a romantic and heart-warming behavior, immediately lost its atmosphere after the other party's serious answer.
She pursed her lips in disappointment. If she could do it over again, Zhao Xuanying wished she had never asked at all.
The movement of folding clothes slowed down a bit, and the autumn and winter clothes piled up in Liu Weicheng's house were stuffed into the bag one by one in her hands.
Seeing the other person's unhappy expression, Liu Weicheng laughed inexplicably.
He deliberately answered this question while leaning against the refrigerator and taking a short break.
"By the way, when is your birthday?"
"Birthday?"
The action of folding clothes paused, and Zhao Xuanying looked back.
"It's already over."
"How come I don't know when it happened?"
"June 1st, Children's Day."
"Do you celebrate the solar calendar?"
"Um."
Zhao Xuanying continued to put on her clothes.
When she celebrated her birthday this year, she had not yet met Liu Weicheng. It was more than half a month after her birthday that she communicated with him while collecting water.
In previous years, Zhao Xuanying and her grandma did not celebrate their birthdays much.
Most of them just eat a bowl of noodles and treat it like a birthday.
The bag containing autumn and winter clothes was already full. Zhao Xuanying knotted the bag and made sure it would not be untied before getting down from the bed.
Looking at Liu Weicheng next to the refrigerator, he dropped the topic.
"Are there any more clothes that need to be packed up?"
"Gone."
"Just like that, you specifically called me over. When we were at school, Lili thought..."
When she heard that the work was done, Zhao Xuanying was obviously a little depressed. She just started to complain a few words. She thought of the surprised look on her friend's face after Liu Weicheng went to his room at night during the day at school.
He shyly glared at the man in front of him.
He took a step and planned to leave.
After taking only two steps, Liu Weicheng called out to her.
"Don't drink brown sugar water anymore?"
"..."
The marching footsteps stopped, and Zhao Xuanying turned back to the bed.
He picked up the cup and took a sip.
"It's useless anyway..."
"I didn't say it was useful, but it is effective for your hypoglycemia."
Liu Weicheng heard the girl's whisper.
Look at each other with a smile on their face.
"Didn't you say yesterday that sometimes your head gets dizzy when you get up too quickly?"
With that said, Liu Weicheng came to the dining table.
The opened red dates bag and brown sugar were put in the bag. He picked up the bag and walked to Zhao Xuanying, then raised his hand and handed it over.
"Here, I bought it for you. You can eat red dates dry as well. Just put one in your mouth if you have nothing to do."
Looking at the bag handed over by Liu Weicheng, Zhao Xuanying didn't understand until this moment why Liu Weicheng went to the supermarket to buy these things when she returned home.
On the way home yesterday, she just mentioned this casually...
"I'm moving away this Saturday. When I get to my new home, I'll call my friends and give you a little celebration."
"..."
He looked at Liu Weicheng in front of him in silence, and after a while, he reached out and took the bag.
Zhao Xuanying lowered her head and glanced at the bag in her hand.
My heart feels warm...
For as long as she can remember, apart from her grandmother, whom she depends on for life, Liu Weicheng is the second person who has been so kind to her.
I don’t know when it started, but Zhao Xuanying’s mind was filled with things about the other party.
At school, at home.
Whenever I have some free time, the figure of Liu Weicheng will always appear in my mind.
The same life seems to become more colorful because of the intervention of the other party.
He raised his eyes to look at the man in front of him, and then whispered something after a long time.
"Then I'll go back first..."
"Well, see you tomorrow."
After saying hello, Zhao Xuanying left Liu Weicheng's room.
Holding a cup in one hand and a bag containing brown sugar and red dates in the other.
When I returned to my place, my grandma had just returned from taking a shower.
Zhang Cuilan, who was sitting by the bed and blowing the fan, saw her granddaughter looking worried.
He watched the other party put the bag and water glass on the table, then came to the bed and sat down next to him, lying in his arms like a baby.
Ever since her granddaughter graduated from elementary school, Zhang Cuilan has never seen her child live like this.
The sudden experience also surprised her. After being stunned for a moment, she asked with a smile.
"Why are you still acting like a spoiled brat at such an old age? You're not ashamed."
"grandmother……"
With her arms around Zhang Cuilan, Zhao Xuanying called out to her.
Shrinking in grandma's arms...
"Are you happy being with grandpa...?"
"..."
Hearing her granddaughter's question, Zhang Cuilan was a little confused for a moment, although she didn't know why she asked this.
But...the marriage with her late husband was the happiest time in her life.
"How happy I am. The day I married your grandfather was the happiest time for me."
"Yeah……"
Shrinking in her grandma's arms, Zhao Xuanying does not look like a high school girl who has entered her second year of high school at this moment.