a month later.
The school bell rings.
As usual, the school gate was crowded with a large group of parents, all stretching their necks waiting for their children to come out.
After the siblings entered the third grade, Xu Qing and Jiang He rarely picked them up. The school is between the flower shop and the old house. Whether you go to the flower shop or go back to the old house, it’s a two-step walk. If it’s Shi’an himself, you might have to worry about it. When the flower shop gets tired of playing, it will go to the old community to find friends.
Jiangcheng is developing more and more, and free-range dogs are much rarer. Back then, Xiaoyan and Xiaopangdun could run around and be chased by dogs. The siblings didn't even have this worry.
"Knowledge is power, right?" Xu Shi'an supported the schoolbag on his shoulders with both hands, and walked towards the school gate with his friends, the red scarf on his chest fluttering.
This is what the words on the wall say, knowledge is power and knowledge changes destiny.
"right."
"Unity is also strength, that's how we sing."
"What's wrong?"
"Unity is knowledge!" Xu Shi'an waved his fist, turned to look at A Qing, and said excitedly, "If the two of us unite, we will have knowledge. What lessons do we have?"
The little friend beside him, Ah Qing, was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
"That's right!" Ah Qing clapped his hands, why is Shi'an such a genius
"We are united!"
"..."
Xu Jin and Xiaoxiao who were two steps behind secretly rolled their eyes, two idiots.
"How do you unite?"
Hearing Xu Jin's voice behind him, Ah Qing's expression that was just about to be excited turned into doubt, and he looked sideways at Shi'an: "Yes, how can we unite?"
"This is what you need to think about. I think about the first half, you think about the second half, and then we can throw away this broken schoolbag." Xu Shi'an encouraged him, seeing that he had arrived at the school gate, and came to pick him up Xiaoxiao's is Qin Hao, not Qin Maocai.
If Qin Maocai came to pick Xiaoxiao up, he could go over and talk, call Grandpa Qin, and then say hello to Xiaoxiao and say see you tomorrow...
"Hello, Uncle Qin!"
Xu Shi'an greeted him very obediently, and he didn't want to approach him after a few steps away. Uncle Qin is not a good person, and every time he said he liked Xiaoxiao, he would get blown out of his mind.
It's the kind of landowner on TV who prevents his daughter from being with a scholar, a big villain, very hateful.
But the brave Shi'an will not give in.
Waving to Xiaoxiao, Xiaoxiao also secretly waved her little hand, standing behind Qin Hao with crooked eyes, sticking out her tongue and pointing at her father.
Originally somewhat introverted, Xiaoxiao became more lively as she grew older, and she didn't know if she had anything to do with the siblings. Qin Hao watched their little movements, and without saying a word, he took Xiaoxiao to the parking lot while shaking the keys in his hand.
"He will be your father-in-law in the future and beat you up every day..." Xu Jin said, looking back at Qin Hao's chubby back, to scare Shi'an.
"Then don't let him do it." Xu Shi'an didn't care.
"You don't marry Xiaoxiao anymore?" Xu Jin was very surprised, why are boys like this, one day they say they will always like Xiaoxiao, and the other day they say they don't want to marry.
"Marry, but don't let him be the father-in-law."
"If you marry Xiaoxiao, he will be your father-in-law, there's no way it's improper."
"Is that so?"
How can you marry a handsome man without being beaten?
After thinking about it all the way to the flower shop, when he saw Jiang He standing at the door, Xu Shi'an forgot about this question, anyway, he couldn't figure it out now.
Last night, he took out a large handful of small change from the secret storage cabinet in his room, counted it one by one, held it tightly in his hand and raised his head to think for a long time, then counted with his fingers. I packed it in my schoolbag and carried it all day, finally it was time.
"Mom, I want that!"
Xu Shi'an took out a large pile of small change from his schoolbag and piled it on the table, which made Xu Jin sour - it should have belonged to her.
Jiang He blinked, and looked at the place pointed by his son. It was a bunch of platycodon flowers.
Platycodon flowers are mostly used as a match, mixed with other flowers to make flower baskets and the like. If taken alone, it is not as gorgeous as roses, and it does not have the atmosphere of lilies.
Xu Shi'an just finds it pleasing to the eye, and Xiaoxiao must also find it good-looking, because Xiaoxiao is just like that flower, and she looks more like it when she wears a blue skirt.
"You've saved so much money, and you just bought flowers?" Jiang He was guessing with Xu Qing a few days ago what his son would spend when he saved enough money, but he didn't expect to still buy flowers.
"Think about it, you won't be refunded if you buy it, and you will be thanked in a few days, and it's useless to call your mother."
"Thought it out!"
Xu Shi'an is very arrogant, he will be beaten for secretly taking flowers, but now he has money himself.
"You're stupid! Isn't it good to buy delicious food?" Xu Jin looked at his stupid brother with a heartbroken heart, using money to buy flowers, even if he had money, he didn't even know how to use it.
"No, I want to spend."
When they got home, Jiang He took Xu Qing to discuss secretly. It was not normal for Shi'an to like him at such a young age.
"It's normal, you didn't go to school, we used to secretly pull the hair of the girl at the front desk, and pass notes to write love letters... We had a hazy crush very early on, even before we went to school, we used to be wives or something, It's so normal."
Xu Qing didn't take it seriously, he also came here from that time, although he can't remember many of them clearly, even the name of the girl at the front desk has been completely forgotten, but he still remembers the long hair tied up, he can use the ballpoint pen when he is bored in class Fiddle, then accused teacher.
"If you don't believe me, ask Xiaojin if she has passed notes to others."
He said casually, thinking about Shi'an saving money to send flowers to Xiaoxiao, and scratching his head, "But Shi'an is really a bit bold, we were all sneaky back then, for fear of being discovered by others, he was too thick-skinned... this brat Don't you know how to be shy?"
"Do you know what being shy is?" Jiang He looked at him.
"I do not know how?"
"Have you ever blushed?"
"I..." Xu Qing thought for a while, and decided to skip this topic, "It's all because of you, I don't think it's a shame to like someone."
"Who did it? Tell me clearly, who did it?"
Jiang He rolled up his sleeves and was about to take him to the terrace for some activities. This guy has gotten a little fat recently, so he needs to exercise more.
Xu Qing hugged the computer and didn't let go, Jiang He let him go for the time being, cleaned up the living room, looked at the half-hidden door of the siblings, walked over and touched Xu Jin's room, Xu Jin was lying on the small desk writing today's homework .
Seeing Jiang He come in and sit on the bed, Xu Jin glanced warily, wondering what his mother was doing here.
"Is there anything fun for Xiaojin to go to school?" Jiang He asked casually.
"No."
"Oh, are there any particularly bright boys in the class?"
"Uh... One, several times, took me first.""I'd love to hit him, but he didn't mess with me and there's no reason to hit him."
"..."
Jiang He came out of Xu Jin's room and turned into her son's room. The way Shi'an wrung his fingers and racked his brains to count was inexplicably familiar to her.
"Why don't you buy dolls that you can play with for a long time after saving the money? Does Xiaoxiao like flowers?" She asked Shi'an casually again.
"Ok."
"She told you?"
"I guessed it myself."
"... If you don't like it, aren't you wasting your money? It only takes three or four days for the flowers to wither." Jiang He looked at Shi'an and said, this kid is a bit stubborn, he doesn't seem to be as clever as Xu Jin.
"I don't think I don't like it." Xu Shi'an shook his head, lowered his head and wrote down the numbers he calculated in the notebook.
"So sure?"
"Ok."
"Okay... Anyway, don't cry and call your mother to ask for a refund."
"A man will never regret it." This is what Xu Qing often taught him.
Listening to his son talking about men, Jiang He smiled and patted him lightly, the boy is still a man...
Jiang He didn't interfere much with his homework, and went out quietly and closed the door.
Hearing the sound of the room door, Xu Shi'an glanced sideways and continued to wrestle with the textbook.
None of them knew that Xiaoxiao liked flowers the most.
After exchanging flowers with Xiaoxiao in kindergarten, Xiaoxiao liked to secretly hold his hand very much after that, Xu Shian was sure that Xiaoxiao just liked flowers.