Although there was no chocolate icing or dried fruit filling, just tasting the cold sweetness made Zhao Xuanying's eyes narrow in comfort.
The feeling of summer heat subsided the moment she entered the mouth. To be honest, she had forgotten that the last time she ate popsicles was a few years ago.
Zhao Xuanying, 16 years old, is a student in the first half of the first semester of high school.
My grades in school are above average and I currently live with my grandma.
Life is somewhat similar to Liu Weicheng's situation in this life. Her mother passed away very early. From the moment she had an impression of the world, her grandmother was the only one who took care of her and accompanied her.
She...has no father.
In other words, to be more precise, she has never met her father.
Since she was a child, she lacked education from her parents, and her grandmother has been pulling her up. Because she understands that her life is not easy, Zhao Xuanying has seldom made material demands since she was a child.
She has not seen popsicles for a long time, even ordinary popsicles with a wholesale price of less than a dime, she still eats them with gusto.
"..."
Liu Weicheng took a bite, held it in his mouth until the popsicle was almost melted, and then swallowed it.
Feeling the chill in his throat, standing at the door, he moved his eyes away from Zhao Xuanying and looked at the room where she lived.
The area was the same as his own room, with the same dilapidated walls and few poor furniture. Through Zhao Xuanying, he saw the desktop placed not far away, and the unmerged books in it caught his eye.
Withdraw your gaze.
Holding the door frame with one hand, Liu Weicheng asked casually.
"Are you doing your homework?"
"Um."
Zhao Xuanying, who was concentrating on dealing with the popsicles, quickly raised her head, clicked twice and then continued.
"It's almost finished, but there are a few questions that I'm not sure are correct. I'll have to ask the teacher for help when I get to school."
"What question?"
"..."
She was stunned for a moment while holding the popsicle in her mouth. She blinked in surprise after hearing Liu Weicheng's question.
After hesitating for a while, he finally spoke.
"Mathematics, and physics."
"Science? Why didn't you choose liberal arts?"
"You only choose liberal arts and science in your second year of high school..."
"Oh, I almost forgot, the liberal arts and sciences were only started in the second year of high school."
After hearing Zhao Xuanying's response, Liu Weicheng recalled that he had not studied since he graduated from junior high school in this life, but he had finished college honestly in his previous life.
It's just that it's been a long time since I was in high school, so I didn't think about it for a while.
Zhao Xuanying looked at Liu Weicheng at the door, licked the popsicle and asked as if she was interested.
"What did you choose before?"
"I...I chose..."
Just as the word science was about to blurt out, Liu Weicheng immediately realized that he had entered society after graduating from junior high school. After a long pause, he changed his words.
"I chose to drop out of school, haha. I didn't go to school after graduating from junior high school, but I read a lot of books in my free time. I can help you with any questions you don't know."
"..."
Drop out of school...
Looking at Liu Weicheng who said such words with a smile on his face, and the other person's voice asking to help him answer the puzzle, although he did not mean to look down on the other person, subconsciously Zhao Xuanying did not believe that the other person could answer it accurately.
But looking at the other party's serious and confident face... Zhao Xuanying didn't want to take the initiative to attack the other party.
After thinking about it for a while, he turned around and came to the desk with a popsicle in his hand, and took over the question book that he had just finished answering and was still not sure whether it was correct.
He spread it out, pressed it against the door frame, and pointed at the topic with his finger.
"No, this question."
"Um……"
Following the direction Zhao Xuanying pointed, Liu Weicheng leaned forward with squinted eyes and a serious face. The questions on the paper came into his eyes, as did Zhao Xuanying's answers below.
Although he had not been exposed to this kind of mathematics problem for a long time, after all, he had worked hard to get ahead in high school in his previous life, and Liu Weicheng soon found the problem.
He raised his free hand and tapped the paper.
"The idea was wrong from the beginning. This question is obviously a trap question."
"?"
Hearing Liu Weicheng's words, Zhao Xuanying obviously didn't believe it. She turned her gaze back to the paper and read the question again...
"Eh!"
"Yes, in the words of the school teacher, you should read the questions several times before doing them."
Ignoring Liu Weicheng, who was laughing beside him, Zhao Xuanying whispered the question again. What she didn't notice at the beginning was immediately awakened by Liu Weicheng's reminder. Now looking at the answer she wrote, she found that she had indeed solved the problem from the beginning.
It's already wrong.
He looked back at Liu Weicheng, who was smiling, and then looked at the topic in the notebook...
He didn't even notice that the popsicle in his hand had started to melt within a short period of time.
The sugar water slides down the popsicle and is about to drip onto your hand.
"It's almost on my hands."
"Oh...suck~"
Looking away from the topic, the reminder in her ear made Zhao Xuanying hurriedly open her mouth and suck it in. After taking two hard sips, she realized that she was doing this in front of Liu Weicheng.
Girls of this age are somewhat concerned about their image.
She is no exception.
His mouth was close to the popsicle, but his eyes quietly fell on Liu Weicheng.
Seeing the other party's half-smiling expression, I don't know why but an inexplicable feeling of shame swept through my body from beginning to end, but my originally fair face turned red in an instant.
She hurriedly moved her mouth away and swallowed the sugar water she had just sucked in her mouth. Even she herself did not notice that her speaking volume was much higher than usual.
"I-I'm just afraid of dripping on my hands!"
"You can see that your hands will become sticky when you apply them, so you have to wash them later."
"That's right!"
Zhao Xuanying was stumbling when she spoke, and kept turning her eyes to look around randomly.
"If it wasn't about to drip onto my hand, I definitely wouldn't be in such a hurry."
"I agree with both hands. If it were me, I would take a big sip. After all, this is the way to eat the soul of a popsicle."
Liu Weicheng showed a serious expression. Looking at Zhao Xuanying who seemed to want to explain something, he raised the popsicle in his hand that was also somewhat melted and sucked it like the other party did just now.
"Zizi~"
"..."
"boom!"
The door closed suddenly, and the wind brought by the closing even brought a bit of chill to Liu Weicheng who was standing at the door.
One second, two seconds... After a while, Liu Weicheng realized that the joke seemed to have gone too far.
But... Zhao Xuanying's red face just now made him interesting.
Show a smile.
Liu Weicheng had no reason to stay at the door. He raised his hand and stuffed the nearly finished popsicle into his mouth, and then walked slowly back to the room with the popsicle in his mouth.
He didn't know that at this time, Zhao Xuanying was leaning against the door, holding a popsicle in her mouth, covering her entire face with her hands.
Slowly squat down along the door...
It took a long time before her incomprehensible mumblings were heard in this small room.