After chatting with 'Uncle Tang' and improving their relationship, Xia Xu also finished his breakfast. He did not stay in Fangyuan Baozi Shop for too long, nor did he talk to Tang Youxin for a few more words. He just winked quietly and said goodbye temporarily, leading Atuo to jog around Luoguxiang.
He still had to continue with his morning exercises. Once this good habit was broken, it would be very difficult to get it back. Moreover, without Uncle Luo's daily encouragement, he really didn't know if he could recover.
So, from today on, there will be one more person and one dog running in Luoguxiang in the early morning.
Every time I passed by the steamed bun shop, there would be a girl in a white dress who would secretly glance at me with her rosy little face while dealing with customers.
"Good boy, you have good physical fitness."
Tang Zhan personally took over Tang Youxin's sales task and dealt with a wave of breakfast rush brought by the neighbors. Seeing Xia Xu passing by him again, he couldn't help but praise him.
Although he didn't count them specifically, Xia Xu ran around Luoguxiang for at least ten laps. Although Luoguxiang was not very long, he was able to run so many laps, which showed that his physical fitness was quite good.
At least you can tell at a glance that this is the result of long-term high-intensity exercise, otherwise most young people nowadays would find it difficult to run back and forth.
Xia Xu, who was concentrating on his morning exercise and running past, didn't notice Tang Zhan talking. He ran two more laps in one breath, then found an open space to catch his breath. He then practiced the bodyweight training method taught by Uncle Luo and the various fighting techniques that he had memorized in his mind with the help of the super brain potion.
After a whole set of daily training, he was sweating profusely and out of breath. He dragged his body, which was steaming like a furnace, back to the newly rented house. After taking a shower and changing clothes, he set off for the consulting company.
Well, I passed by Uncle Tang’s steamed bun shop by the way.
It's really just on the way. After all, if you want to go out from the street, you have to go this way.
"Dad, I'm going to work."
The little white flower who had been sitting in a daze on a small stool at the door of the store quickly came to his senses, stood up, shouted to Tang Zhan, and trotted out.
"Well, be careful on the road."
Tang Zhan knew that his daughter had found a part-time weekend job for the past two months and had to go to work every weekend, so he just gave her a casual reminder and did not show any extra expression.
However, as he watched Tang Youxin trotting away, he frowned again, as if thinking about something: "Strange, did I overlook something? I always feel like something is odd..."
…
Watching Xia Xu walking quickly towards the entrance of the alley, Tang Youxin wanted to call out to him to wait but she didn't dare. She could only try to speed up her pace again.
Bang!
When she hurried to the turning point of the alley, she was caught off guard and bumped into someone.
"Are you looking for me?"
Xia Xu was grinning.
Tang Youxin blushed and quickly broke free, but she didn't do anything else. She just puffed up her cheeks a little and asked sullenly, "Why are you here in my house?"
"Didn't I tell you before? I moved next door to you."
Xia Xu said with a smile.
"Then... then why did you move here?"
Tang Youxin's voice gradually weakened, and turned into a spoiled and aggrieved mumbling: "Just now, just now... I was scared to death."
"What's there to be scared about? As a new neighbor, can't I just say hello? Is there anything shameful about that?"
Xia Xu laughed and asked the question even though he knew the answer.
"No, it just can't."
The little white flower rarely showed a coquettish look and stomped her feet.
“I actually have nowhere to go.”
Xia Xu deliberately kept silent for a moment, then revealed a lonely look: "I told you before that Uncle Luo, who took good care of me, has moved away. The house I originally rented is now as empty as a ghost building. Going back to my original home is also cold and deserted. I suddenly feel like I have nowhere to go..."
"I'm sorry, I... I..."
As the saying goes, caring too much makes one confused, and Xia Xu's appearance really seemed to be expressing his true feelings.
Seeing him like this, Little White Flower suddenly panicked and tried to apologize and comfort him helplessly, but she was too clumsy to know what to say.
"Then I suddenly thought of you. I thought that if I moved to your place, maybe I could get rid of this feeling of being a wandering ghost."
Xia Xu took a deep breath and forced a smile, then said with an apologetic and lonely look: "Of course, if I really bothered you, I will move back later..."
"No, no, no need."
Regardless of feeling shy because of Xia Xu's words "thinking of you", Tang Youxin waved her hands in panic and awkwardly, her face flushed: "I don't mind you... being a neighbor."
"real?"
Xia Xu's eyes lit up, and he instantly put away his lonely look. He climbed up the pole with a gloomy face: "Then do you mind if I, as your neighbor, knock on your window at night and invite you to look at the stars and the moon..."
"no!"
Tang Youxin's face flushed red, and she instantly turned into a kitten with its fur standing on end.
"As neighbors who go to the same school, it would be reasonable for us to go to and from school together, right?"
Xia Xu once again made a reasonable request that he thought could not be refused.
Little White Flower was obviously a little embarrassed and annoyed by Xia Xu's deception just now, and said angrily: "Then you should just come and knock on my window at night."
"real?"
There was a light in Xia Xu's eyes, and the look in his eyes was exactly the same as Atuo's at night.
"The room by the window belongs to my dad. When the time comes, I'll catch you as a thief, beat you up and send you to the police station."
Tang Youxin wrinkled her nose slightly and snorted softly.
"Xiao Youxin, you have learned bad things."
Xia Xu looked distressed.
But deep down he was still a little happy at this moment.
Of course, it’s not that he is a masochist, but he saw the changes in the little white flower.
No matter it was due to the change in intimacy or the change in personality, at least at this moment he no longer felt the strong sense of cowardice and closedness from the little white flower.
"This is called fighting evil with evil!"
A hint of pride and satisfaction appeared on Tang Youxin's face.
"I've only heard of fighting violence with violence and fighting evil with evil?"
Xia Xu pretended to be stern and rolled up his sleeves: "Could that bad guy dare to bully you, Youxin? Who is that guy? I'll help you beat him up."
"That's you. You are the biggest villain."
Tang Youxin wrinkled her nose and snorted softly, then walked forward.
Today her long hair was tied into two ponytails, swaying with her steps, as if reflecting her owner's happy mood.
"Hey, where did you get this from? Your old Tang just praised me as a great guy."
Xia Xu looked anxious and took two quick steps to catch up.
"Don't call me Old Tang."
"That's Brother Tang? He just said he wanted to be friends with me, regardless of age difference. We actually get along pretty well, just like Uncle Luo. If you hadn't looked at me the wrong way just now, I would have thought you were sworn brothers with Old Tang..."
"No! No, no!"
The two figures were talking childishly as they walked further and further away. Countless people couldn't help but chuckle when they saw this scene, as if they were remembering the run under the sunset, which was their lost youth.