Because of this incident, Mi Yang's daily life also underwent a slight change.
Bai Luochuan has become addicted to pretending to be sick. He doesn't show it in front of adults, but when he returns to the small room on the second floor, he closes his eyes and refuses to do anything. Even to drink water, he has to lie on the bed and let Mi Yang feed him. It has been even worse in the past two days. It was probably because he watched a Qiong Yao drama with Mrs. Bai downstairs. When he got to the bedroom, he was so "weak" that he couldn't even take off his clothes by himself. He stood there with his hands raised, waiting for Mi Yang to take them off for him.
Mi Yang served him twice, but seeing his smug look with his chin raised, he became unwilling to serve him anymore.
Mi Yang felt that Bai Luochuan's temper was spoiled and needed to be corrected since childhood; Young Master Bai felt that he had not been given enough attention, so he deliberately put on a stern face and asked Mi Yang to pay more attention to himself.
The two of them argued all night, and didn't talk much during dinner the next morning, except that when Bai Luochuan took the fried dough stick, he split it in half and gave half to Mi Yang. They basically didn't say anything or communicate.
Little Ji Baian sat opposite and observed for a while before he figured it out. He rolled his eyes and found an opportunity to grab Mi Yang's arm and said, "My cousin doesn't want to play with you anymore. Why don't you play with me now?"
Mi Yang stood there and looked at him silently: "Do you want to think about it again..."
Ji Baian has been interested in Mi Yang since the fight that day. He doesn't want to bully him, but he always wants to get close to Mi Yang and try to please him. Ji Baian got close to Mi Yang and said with a rolling eye: "My cousin doesn't have a very good temper, so he might as well be with me, right?"
Mi Yang looked up at him, and then Ji Baian looked at him expectantly, and refused to let go and kept asking: "Hey Mi Yang, who do you think is better, me or my cousin?"
Mi Yang said slowly: "Your cousin is right behind, why don't you ask him."
Ji Baian: “…”
Bai Luochuan came over with his schoolbag, hooked Ji Baian's neck and took him outside, blocking the corner of the corridor and the tree to start "elderly education". Before Ji Baian was hit, he started begging for mercy: "Cousin, I didn't mean that, I really didn't, I just envy Mi Yang for fighting for you..."
Young Master Bai loved hearing people talk about this these days, so he didn't hit him and just stood there and continued to listen to him with vanity.
Ji Baian was envious with real feelings. He said with emotion: "I thought Mi Yang was always so well-behaved and didn't talk much. I didn't expect him to be so amazing."
Bai Luochuan sneered, "He just doesn't want to bother with you. You haven't seen how he is at school. He's very fierce. When the teacher bullied a classmate, he led the whole class to ask for an explanation. Even the principal was alarmed."
Ji Baian was surprised.
But soon, the surprise on his face turned into expectation, and he said with sparkling eyes: "Cousin, do you think I will be nice to Mi Yang from now on, and will he fight for me too?"
Bai Luochuan snorted and said bluntly: "Dream on."
Ji Baian has never given up on this dream. He has no friends with whom he has such a good relationship. The less he has, the more he can't help but envy them. He thinks that Mi Yang and his cousin are so close because of his cousin's previous care. Now he just needs to be twice as good to Mi Yang and surpass his cousin, and Mi Yang will definitely have the kind of friendship that "fights for him".
Ji Baian made up his mind and tried to please Mi Yang whenever he could.
When Mi Yang and Bai Luochuan went to school together, he couldn't follow them, but after they came back, they could always get together in the study room on the second floor for tutoring. Ji Baian kept circling around Mi Yang like a little bee. Once, when he was flipping through Mi Yang's book, Mi Yang got scared and hurried over to check. He was relieved to see that he didn't damage anything.
Ji Baian didn't notice it at all. He was still around Mi Yang and asked excitedly: "What book is this? Is it natural? Is it the one with observation class... What are you observing?"
Mi Yang showed him the book and said, "Spring Silkworms, just right with Chinese. The teacher said we should observe insects these days."
Ji Baian nodded and said "Oh", his eyes still wandering around his book.
Mi Yang became alert and moved closer to Bai Luochuan with the book in his arms. When Ji Baian came closer, he moved a few steps away and placed the book side by side with Bai Luochuan.
Bai Luochuan patted his cousin on the head and said, "If you make trouble again, get out and I won't let you go to class."
Ji Baian stopped in disappointment and played there for a while, watching his cousin and Mi Yang discussing their homework and talking to each other head to head. He watched them carefully for a long time.
Mi Yang thought Ji Baian had stopped, but the next day he received a lot of small things on his small desk in the study, ranging from small chocolate candies to a stuffed toy that filled the hole in the desk, piled up into a small mountain, with a freshly picked flower placed on the top in a unique way.
Mi Yang: “…”
Ji Baian stood aside and asked him in surprise: "Hey, so many gifts, who sent them? Mi Yang, look, this person is so good to you!"
Young Master Bai, who had just come in with his schoolbag, turned pale.
There are three children in the family, two of them went out to school and didn’t come back for a day. Who else could have let them go
Mi Yang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He returned all the things and shook his head, saying, "Really, I don't need these."
Ji Baian also became anxious and asked, "What do you want? Tell me."
Mi Yang said helplessly: "I don't want anything. I'm fine now. I have everything."
Ji Baian was still groaning when his cousin slammed the table and said with a stern face, "Take it away now!"
Ji Baian didn't dare to hum anymore and went out unwillingly with his things in his arms.
Mi Yang felt that what happened in the past two days was a bit magical. He couldn't figure out why Ji Baian suddenly changed his personality. Now it seemed like he wanted to be friends with him - he couldn't help but ask Teacher Wei Xian during the break.
Ji Baian was sitting next to them practicing writing. When he heard his question, he was also surprised: "We have fought together, so we are brothers. Of course I will be nice to you!"
Mi Yang was still a little uneasy about the answer, but he no longer avoided him like before. Although they were not brothers, he was just an ordinary friend who didn't cause him trouble, so he would be thankful.
Ji Baian poked Mi Yang's arm with the pencil in his hand and looked at him with shining eyes. Mi Yang was drinking water and asked curiously after being poked twice: "What's wrong?"
Ji Baian showed an expectant and shy expression, and whispered to him: "Mi Yang, I will treat you well in the future, will you fight for me too?"
Mi Yang spurted out a mouthful of water.
Bai Luochuan couldn't dodge in time, and a spot of his homework on the table was wet. Mi Yang quickly took a tissue to wipe it for him, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's my fault, I'll clean it up for you."
Bai Luochuan handed the homework book to Mi Yang without any angry expression. Instead, he looked at Mi Yang as if he were his cousin and raised his eyebrows and said, "I advise you to give up as soon as possible. Mi Yang is only helping me. If you want to fight, you can learn it yourself."
Ji Baian thought about it for a moment and asked with great interest, "What should I learn?"
Bai Luochuan thought for a moment, and began to impart his experience to him through Mi Yang: "My grandfather said that there are many powerful people in the army in terms of military boxing and close combat. But you are not from our army, so you can just sign up to learn karate or something to deal with it."
Mi Yang: “…”
Mi Yang felt a headache again when he thought about the future combat effectiveness of these two brothers. Not to mention Bai Luochuan's destructive power, Ji Baian was also very ruthless. It would be better if the two of them didn't learn anything.
As the two brothers talked, they began to argue with each other. Neither of the two young masters was willing to give in first, and they started to quarrel with each other through Mi Yang.
Ji Baian wanted to reach out and touch Mi Yang, but Bai Luochuan hit him on the back of his hand. He got angry and reached out to touch Mi Yang!
How could Bai Luochuan stand this? It was clearly a provocation to him! Without saying a word, he dragged his cousin over and beat him up in the study. The young master of the Ji family was unwilling to suffer a loss, so he secretly tried his best and hit his cousin twice, but he was unable to turn the tables and was beaten even harder. The fight in the study was too noisy, and soon Teacher Wei Xian came in and tried to stop them twice, but the two refused to stop first. It was only after Wei Xian took a ruler and slapped the table a few times that they stopped.
Wei Xian asked: "What's going on? Why are they fighting again?!"
Two young masters with outstanding looks were standing there, each one more stubborn than the other. One said, “I accidentally fell down,” and the other said, “I saw a pig falling down, and I accidentally bumped into it.”
Little Ji Baian was so angry that his face turned red. He turned around and said angrily: "You bumped into the pig!"
Bai Luochuan rolled his eyes and said, "Yes, I'll hit you."
The two men disagreed over a single word and were about to start fighting again.
Wei Xian raised the ruler and knocked on the table a few times, scolding: "What are you doing? What a disgrace! The study is the classroom. How can you do such a thing in the classroom! Luochuan, Baian, stand outside and be punished!"
Bai Luochuan glanced at Mi Yang, who stood up and said carefully: "Teacher, they were just joking, Bai Luochuan didn't really hit him..."
Wei Xian was so angry that he blew his beard and glared: "You are still biased! They are both wrong, and you are also wrong. Go out and stand together for ten minutes as punishment."
The three children were dragged out together and made to stand in the corridor on the second floor as punishment. Wei Xian was very angry, probably because he felt that they were too ununited and unfriendly, so he made them stand hand in hand and no one was allowed to let go.
Bai Luochuan and Ji Baian disliked each other and neither of them was willing to hold the other's hand, so they each held one side of Mi Yang's hand and tried to pull Mi Yang towards them.
Bai Luochuan frowned and said, "Let me go!"
Ji Baian rolled his eyes and snorted, "Why don't you let go."
Bai Luochuan said, "I told you to let go, did you hear me? Otherwise I will beat you up."
Ji Baian said alertly: "You dare, my aunt is downstairs, if you hit me I will scream for help, especially loudly."
Mi Yang: “…”
He wanted to shout for help.
The noise upstairs quickly attracted Luo Jiangyuan's attention. She went upstairs to see a few children standing hand in hand, and couldn't help laughing. She knew her son was naughty, and was afraid that he would delay Bai Luochuan and Mi Yang's homework, so she took her son back first, and patiently taught him as she walked.
Ji Baian suddenly looked up and asked her, "Mom, have you ever seen a pig?"
Luo Jiangyuan: “…”
Luo Jiangyuan had seen him before, but she couldn't answer her son's next question.
Ji Baian asked her expectantly, "Mom, do you know how fast a pig can run?"
Ms. Luo: “…”
Mi Yang and Bai Luochuan go to school every day, and they go in and out together, leaving little Ji Baian with very little space to make a surprise attack. No matter how hard he tries, he and Mi Yang can at most become "ordinary good friends."
That day, Mi Yang and his friends went to school again. Ji Baian leaned against the window and watched with envy. Luo Jiangyuan took the opportunity to educate him: "Baian, do you want to go to school too?"
Ji Baian nodded and said loudly: "I want to!"
Luo Jiangyuan said: "Then when we go home, you can also go to school with your little schoolbag in September. Are you happy?"
Ji Baian frowned and said, "Why do you want to go back? I won't leave. I want to go to the same school as Mi Yang." He thought for a moment and reluctantly added, "And my cousin, the three of us can go together."
Luo Jiangyuan never expected to hear this answer. She was dumbfounded for a moment. She sat there thinking for a long time to persuade the child to go back to Shanghai with her. Her sister was still trying to persuade Luochuan to go to Shanghai to study. Her child was about to rebel and come here. What should she do
Luo Jiangyuan asked her son in a gentle voice, "Baby, why do you want to stay here to study? It's not as good as home. When you first came here, didn't you say that the shopping mall here is too small?"
Ji Baian was still young and said whatever he thought. The envy in his words was almost overflowing: "I want Mi Yang to be nice to me and help me fight."
Luo Jiangyuan thought he was a child who wanted to compete for a friend, so she poked her son's forehead and shook her head and laughed. She said to her son, "Your father will have someone send something over in a few days. Do you want anything? There is also a clothing catalog. Baby, come and pick out some clothes, okay?"
Ji Baian was not interested in picking for a while, and then he started playing with a small black dot on the book. He picked it twice, and suddenly raised his head and said excitedly: "Mom, I want something!"
He ran over and whispered in Luo Jiangyuan's ear, looking at her with sparkling eyes. Luo Jiangyuan looked embarrassed, but still nodded and agreed, "Okay, I'll try, but it's too difficult to bring it, I may not be able to bring it."
Ji Baian was very confident and said, "Dad can definitely do it!"
The Ji family arrived within two days. It was a manager under General Manager Ji, who came specially to deliver things to Luo Jiangyuan and her son. General Manager Ji was very good to his wife and children, and was afraid that the things they brought were not enough, so he sent a lot more this time. Ji Baian waited for them to move the things in one by one, and then stood on tiptoe to wait for his surprise. When he saw the manager take out a palm-sized box from the briefcase he carried with him, his eyes lit up.
The manager said with a smile, "This is what President Ji specially asked me to bring. I picked the biggest and best ones, and I took good care of them on the way. They are growing very well and are especially delicious."
Luo Jiangyuan moved aside a little, her body a little stiff, and said, "Don't give it to me. Put it on the table."
The manager didn't care at all and put it on the table with a smile.
Ji Baian didn't care at all. He rushed over and carefully opened the box. There were several air vents on the paper box. Inside was a layer of mulberry leaves. On the mulberry leaves were several fat white worms, which were wriggling and eating the leaves, making tiny rustling sounds - they were silkworms.
Ji Baian was very happy, but soon became troubled again: "These are not enough to eat, right? I heard from Mi Yang that they want to eat a lot."
The manager said, "We have prepared it. Mr. Ji knows that you want to observe the silkworms, so he brought a lot of mulberry leaves. I guarantee that they will eat enough to spin silk and make cocoons!"
Ji Baian nodded with satisfaction, holding the paper box, without even looking at any other gifts, he ran to the study on the second floor.
Luo Jiangyuan called him twice while standing downstairs, but he paid no attention to her. She could only shake her head helplessly and stay to sort the things. In addition to their own things, she also brought a lot of useful things for her sister, such as gifts, and the market information specially sent by the manager was specially archived. These were also things she could do for her sister to the best of her ability.
Ji Baian didn't care about the adults' affairs. At his young age, his only worry was how to "steal" his cousin. Now that he had a new gift, he put the small box in Mi Yang's small desk with great anticipation.
After thinking about it, and fearing that Mi Yang wouldn't see it when he came back, he simply opened the paper box. He admired it for a while, and thinking of Mi Yang's surprised look when he came back, he couldn't help but hold his chin and smile.
Mi Yang and Bai Luochuan were also talking about today's science class on the way back.
In the third grade of primary school, there is a homework to write an observation diary. Silkworms are rarely seen in the north, so they are usually replaced by other things. The teacher of the science class was conscientious and personally brought a can of mealworms to the classroom and distributed them to everyone for observation. These worms are generally used for fishing. There are also many in the north that are used to feed fish. They are easy to find.
Mi Yang was usually not afraid of anything, but soft bugs were one of his weaknesses. He got goose bumps all over his body when he saw them. When Bai Luochuan brought the bugs of their group closer with a small glass, his scalp was numb. Fortunately, Master Bai discovered it in time and stood in front of him, helping him observe and narrate verbally, allowing Mi Yang to finish writing the observation diary.
On the way back, Mi Yang still felt a sense of despair. He rubbed the goose bumps on his arms that had not completely subsided and said, "I still have to write for 21 days."
Bai Luochuan touched his arm and said soothingly, "It's okay, I'll help you write it."
Mi Yang said nothing, looking listless.
After dinner, when Ji Baian urged them to go to the second floor for class, Mi Yang sat down at the desk. As usual, he reached out to touch the notebook in the hole of the desk. Suddenly, he felt something soft, and it moved slightly against his finger.
Mi Yang didn't react quickly enough. When he pulled his hand out, the little thing fell on his leg. Then he realized something was wrong—two fat white worms were still wriggling on his legs.
The mental shock during the day had not yet passed, and at night he encountered bugs again. Mi Yang was so scared that he fell to the ground with his chair!
Bai Luochuan, who had his schoolbag next to him, was also startled and asked him hurriedly, "What's wrong?"
The more nervous Mi Yang was, the stiffer his body became. He half-lay on the ground and couldn't move at all. He stared at the insect that was still crawling and said, "Take it away, no... I can't move when I see this..."
Bai Luochuan followed his line of sight and saw the two crawling white bugs. He grabbed them and stuffed them into his pencil case. He threw the pencil case and the "bugs" into the trash can outside the door, bent down to help Mi Yang, and said, "It's okay. The bugs have been thrown out."
Mi Yang sat there with his eyes just facing the hole in the small desk. He stared at it, tensed his body and said, "There are still several more!"
Bai Luochuan went over and rummaged through the trash can, then threw out the box and the worms. As soon as he threw them out, he ran into Ji Baian who came in happily. When Ji Baian saw what he was throwing into the trash can, he immediately got angry and pushed him, saying, "What are you doing? Why are you throwing away my treasure?"
Bai Luochuan was also furious and said, "It was you who put it there. Just wait, I will deal with you soon!"
He turned back and saw Mi Yang was able to stand up with the help of the table. There was a thin layer of sweat on his forehead and a small crescent-shaped scar on his leg from the fall, which was bleeding.
Bai Luochuan bent down to take a look, frowning with a look of worry on his face.
Mi Yang has recovered and is comforting him: "It's okay, it's just a minor injury, just lick it and it will be fine."
When Bai Luochuan heard him say that, he went over and licked it without saying a word.
Mi Yang was startled, and it was too late to dodge. He licked the wound with his tongue and felt uncomfortable all over. He dodged and said, "No, no, I... I'll go apply the medicine later."