Xia Yuan followed Mei Fang back home and carefully opened the door frame. When they opened the door, the scene they saw was unforgettable for both of them.
Xiaoya, the younger sister who has been thinking about getting closer to science all day long, is now sitting on a small stool beside the coffee table, doing her homework diligently. Her serious expression is like the obedient little girl in the illustrations of the ideology and morality course; and Lin Youxi is sitting next to her, staring at her homework book meticulously, and occasionally pointing out a few words.
"I just explained this problem to you. You should know how to solve it, right? It's just chickens and rabbits in the same cage."
"Sister Youxi, I'm still in the third grade. I haven't learned the fourth grade chicken and rabbit cage game..."
Mei Ya had a tearful expression on her face, and Lin Youxi hurriedly apologized.
"Then I will explain it to you again in the simplest way."
"You've told me this 10 times, but I really don't understand!"
"Then I'll tell you 11 more times. If you don't understand something, be sure to ask me."
"Alright, alright, take a break. Sister Youxi, do you want to see me turn into a demon—"
"Finish your homework first and don't do anything else." Lin Youxi tapped the notebook.
Little Mei Ya, who was about to cry but had no tears, was lamenting how miserable her life was. When she looked up and saw her brother Mei Fang and sister Xia Yuan sneaking in, she immediately jumped up excitedly.
"Yuan-Yuan-Sister-Sister-"
Mei Ya dragged out a long tone and threw herself into Xia Yuan's arms, "I really miss you."
"What do you want from me... You just want me to help you with your homework, right?"
Xia Yuan stroked Mei Ya's head and pouted at her, "I don't want to be beaten by your brother anymore."
"Sister Yuanyuan, you are lying. You looked very happy when my brother beat you."
"Hey, don't talk nonsense!"
Mei Fang went straight to Mei Ya's seat and sat down to look at her homework book.
"How's her homework?"
Lin Youxi nodded: "It's good, Xiaoya works very hard."
Mei Fang was surprised: "... You seem to be in a normal mental state?"
Lin Youxi frowned and said, "Why is it abnormal? Do you think Xiaoya is playful? I think she's fine. She listens to me quite well."
"Sister Youxi, don't you feel that... you have become a different person since you entered junior high school?"
Mei Ya protested in Xia Yuan's arms, "I feel like you've become much scarier!"
This was the first time that Lin Youxi heard such an evaluation from her sister Mei Ya, whom she treated as her own daughter. She rarely showed sadness, and the disappointment in her expression was written on her face. Seeing this, Mei Fang quickly pulled her back:
"That's because your sister Youxi is the class monitor in school. She is second only to the class monitor and even the class teacher has to listen to her sometimes. So she naturally exudes authority. But no matter what, your sister Youxi has always loved you since you were a child. Don't forget that!"
"It turns out that Sister Youxi is now the class monitor! Sister Youxi loves me, of course I haven't forgotten..."
Mei Ya grabbed Xia Yuan's clothes and muttered, "I... I think I still need some time to adapt."
"I think so."
Lin Youxi calmed down after hearing this. She smiled and nodded, and extended her hand to Meiya, "In that case... let's continue studying together, Xiaoya! Sister Youxi will take you to explore the ocean of knowledge!"
"I—don't—want—whoa!"
After helping Mei Ya finish the torture of homework, Mei Fang and Xia Yuan found Lin Youxi and told her that they wanted to learn guitar together.
Lin Youxi was surprised that Mei Fang suddenly wanted to learn guitar, but she nodded and said, "Since you have made up your mind, go and do it with Yuanyuan! I support you."
"Well, I'm not here to ask for your opinion." Mei Fang scratched his head, "Yuanyuan and I wanted to ask if you want to come along?"
Listening to Lin Youxi talking about C Station in a very clear and logical manner, he already had the demeanor of a technical expert. Mei Fang also felt a little guilty for not paying enough attention to C Station recently.
"You can rent it. I'll make the contact for you."
"I've already contacted them. I plan to just rent a certain amount of storage space and make do with it for now, but it will cost 2,000 yuan a year... Ah Fang, I want to discuss with you whether the money we earn from "The Early Bird Gets the Glory" can be used to cover this part of the cost?"
"Of course... Don't say you're paying for it. You were the main creator of the game. Just ask me for the money."
"How can that be? We still have to settle the money. After all, you are the one who brought me to these places. I would feel embarrassed if I don't pay you back."
Mei Fang interrupted Lin Youxi's explanation: "Youxi, why are you dividing the family business with me so finely? Are you thinking that when you become powerful in the future, you will separate from me and start your own business?"
"That is to say, Youxi is always very reserved." Xia Yuan also followed suit, adding words that he could understand.
"Ah? I didn't mean that. Please don't misunderstand me."
Lin Youxi emphasized, "Besides, these are actually Ah Fang's hard work. At most, they are gifts from Ah Fang, just like that MP3... It's impossible for us to separate. But even brothers have to settle accounts. I don't like to owe you."
Mei Fang thought for a moment and said, "Well, last time I bought a car from you, I still took more than a thousand yuan from you and didn't pay you back. How about I just pay you back this time?"
Lin Youxi nodded, "That's fine."
Xia Yuan was confused listening to the questions, but finally she could understand some of them: "Hey, did you buy a car? What kind of car? How come I don't know!"
This was the secret that Lin Youxi did not tell Xia Yuan at the beginning, and now she can only keep it secret.
"That... is about my father's electric car. I consulted Ah Fang about some issues before."
Lin Youxi calmly found an excuse to get rid of the matter. As for Xia Yuan and Mei Fang's guitar learning, in addition to supporting them, Lin Youxi also made an additional suggestion, which was to remind them not to forget to continue studying. The two agreed.
It took Mei Fang and Xia Yuan some time to convince their parents to let them learn guitar in their spare time, but the parents of both families were quite open-minded and in the end there was not much opposition, so Mei Fang officially had her own guitar.
Xia Yuan's little thoughts here seemed to sweeten Mei Fang's heart, because she instigated Mei Fang to buy a pair of expensive solid-board folk guitars. She was worried that Mei Fang would hesitate because of the price, so she rushed to buy the guitar first.
How could Mei Fang, who would have billions of assets in the future, bear the title of a gigolo? He insisted on returning the money to Xia Yuan, but Xia Yuan was also very willing, so the matter was left unresolved.
The guitar lessons they signed up for are charged by class hour, and are paid every six months. If a student comes once or twice a week, the estimated cost would be around 3,000. Because the class is small, with two people, they have to call and make an appointment one day in advance before each class.
The guitar is an instrument that is easy to get started with but difficult to master in depth. Even if you want to learn it quickly, you won't see much result without a year or two of practice. You can only learn it slowly.
However, when Mei Fang touched the strings of the guitar for the first time, he felt an incomparable sense of fulfillment.
He was determined to learn the instrument well.
Unprecedented thoughts.
If Xia Yuan hadn't been there to help him, he might never have picked up this buried dream again in his life.
A month later, everyone quickly entered the competition for the midterm exam. Although there were many unpleasant things in the meantime, everyone's results were pretty good. Lin Youxi ranked first as usual, Mei Fang followed closely in second place, and Xia Yuan got a rare second place in their class.
Apart from the fact that several top students in the class had an unbalanced mentality and performed poorly, Xia Yuan performed well in science subjects because the questions were relatively simple. He even got a good score of 82 (out of 85) in physics, which was 1 point higher than the embarrassing Mei Fang.
"This physics test is mostly rote memorization, which I'm pretty good at."
On the way home from the last evening self-study class at seven o'clock, Xia Yuan happily walked between Mei Fang and Lin Youxi.
"From now on, we can finally have classes together at night!"
I'll probably have to update the new leader who's not Megatron later today. I'll try my best to write it.
(End of this chapter)