Yu Xi felt a little embarrassed after hearing this, and gently pulled Gu Beilu’s sleeve, whispering that no one bullied him.

But this weak protest was useless. Many students did hear what Li Yiming yelled at Yu Xi at the door of the office that day, and they all knew that he was being bullied.

Gu Beilu has been with Yu Xi since the beginning of the school year. They go to school and come home together. There are even rumors that Yu Xi is a distant relative of the Gu family, so no one thinks this request is strange. It is normal to care about your little cousin, especially such a well-behaved and cute cousin.

The students in Class 2 felt that since Yu Xi was his cousin, they all wanted to protect him. They agreed immediately and began to assign tasks among themselves on the spot, vying to be Yu Xi’s little sentinels.

Yu Xi looked a little embarrassed and hid behind Gu Beilu again.

In order to dispel his concerns, Gu Beilu said to him: “They won’t affect you, just think of it as making a few more friends.”

Yu Xi nodded half-doubtfully, after all, he really liked making friends.

For the first time, Gu Beilu felt that these annoying classmates were not so annoying after all.

On the way home, Yu Xi was holding a big bunch of little red flowers, jumping and stepping on his shadows, having a lot of fun.

As the sun sets, two children hold hands, and their shadows on the ground are stretched very long.

“Derek, look! We are so tall! We have grown up~”

Sometimes Yu Xi deliberately took big steps to compare his legs with Gu Beilu, and sometimes he leaned on Gu Beilu, so that the shadows of the two people looked like one person.

Yu Xi asked while stepping on the shadow: “Derek, how old do you think we have to be to grow that big?”

“I don’t know. About 18 years old.” Gu Beilu said, staring at their shadows.

“Why eighteen?”

“Because you are an adult at eighteen.”

“What is adulthood?”

“When you become an adult, you become an adult.”

“As big as mom and dad?”

“Um.”

“Can I still have candy?”

“You can eat whatever you want.”

“Yeah~ It’s good to grow up~”

Yu Xi was counting the delicious foods he would eat when he grew up, while Gu Beilu was already staring at the shadow on the ground in a daze.

In the shadow, two adults, about 1.8 meters tall, stood side by side, holding hands, one of them holding a bouquet of flowers. The picture was very harmonious and subtle.

After a long while, Yu Xi’s voice brought him back to reality.

“Derek, what do you want to be when you grow up?”

Gu Beilu was silent for a while before he said, “I’ll make money and buy you a lot of candy.”

Not only did he buy candy, he bought whatever Yu Xi wanted.

When he was five years old, he wrote an essay called My Ideal. At that time, he wrote that when he grew up, he wanted to start a software company, raise funds and go public, become one of the Fortune 500 companies, and make more money than his parents.

After reading his composition, Gu’s mother asked him with a complicated expression what he wanted to do after making money.

Five-year-old Gu Beilu didn’t understand the meaning of this question. He answered that after making money, he would invest it in researching and developing newer technologies and make more money.

Now he knew that he had to spend the money he made. He gave it to Yu Xi.

He didn’t think clearly about why Yu Xi spent his money, he just thought it was reasonable. Who should he spend his money on if not Yu Xi?

Yu Xi tilted his head. He thought that he also wanted to make a lot of money, more than Gu Beilu, because he wanted to buy a lot more things than candy.

He wants to buy a school for Gu Beilu.

In his opinion, since Gu Beilu had such good grades, he should have his own school, where he could be the class monitor or the principal.

The two cubs, each with the thought of making a lot of money in their mind, walked back home at sunset.

When they were almost at their yard, Yu Xi invited Gu Beilu to his room to see their little red flower. Gu Beilu gave him his little red flower at the beginning of the school year, saying that he didn’t like flowers and asked him to keep them together.

He saved it very well and was determined to let Gu Beilu see what a qualified flower protector he was.

Gu Beilu also liked to go to Yu Xi’s house, but usually Yu Xi came to his house to do homework, and he didn’t have many opportunities to go to Yu’s house. Now that this opportunity finally came, he must seize it.

He knew that Yu Xi would definitely take good care of the little red flowers, but he was still a little surprised when Yu Xi showed them to him.

Gu Beilu originally wanted to give all the flowers to Yu Xi, but Yu Xi honestly kept their rewards separately.

There are two boxes in his children’s study, which are his little red flower bank, one for his little red flowers and the other for Gu Beilu. Gu Beilu is the top student in every subject, so he naturally has many more little red flowers than him. He always helps Gu Beilu save them carefully.

“Derek, look, your little red flowers are almost overflowing!” Yu Xi opened his box and put in the bouquet of flowers he received today.

Although he was envious of his best friend for having so many red flowers, he was more proud of him.

Look! These are his best friend’s little red flowers!

Gu Beilu felt that Yu Xi was too obedient. He was obviously extremely envious, but he didn’t ask him for one.

He wanted Yu Xi to be a willful child in front of him, to just take whatever he wanted without being so cautious, and to be so sensible that it made people feel distressed.

“Derek, let’s count how many flowers there are!” Yu Xi stared at the cute little red flowers, his joy beyond words.

Recently he has been trying to make Gu Beilu forget the worry of being removed as class monitor. Just now he came up with a good idea – bring Gu Beilu over to count the little red flowers and remind Gu Beilu that he is an excellent primary school student.

“You haven’t counted yet?” Gu Beilu suddenly had an idea.

Yu Xi shook his head honestly. He felt that this was a big thing and had to be done with Gu Beilu present. He couldn’t count the flowers on his own.

“Okay, let’s count.”

The two children sat on the ground and began to count flowers.

“One, two, three, four, five…”

Every time Gu Beilu picked a flower out of the box, Yu Xi would report a number.

At first, Yu Xi could easily keep up with Gu Beilu’s pace. After a dozen or so flowers, Gu Beilu’s movements became faster and faster, and Yu Xi could hardly keep up with his movements.

He kept counting to almost thirty when Gu Beilu suddenly “accidentally” knocked over another box next to him.

With a “bang”, the little red flowers in the two boxes mixed together and scattered all over the ground.

Yu Xi was dumbfounded.

What should I do? Now I can’t tell whose is whose…

The culprit, Gu Beilu, apologized calmly: “I’m sorry, I was too careless.”

Yu Xi looked embarrassed, as if he had encountered a big problem in his life. Gu Beilu had so many little red flowers, and they were mixed with his, and he couldn’t tell them apart. How unlucky he was.

“Derek, what should we do?” he asked Gu Beilu subconsciously.

Gu Beilu suppressed his joy and said, “Then there is only one way.”

“What’s the solution?” Yu Xi finally looked away from the little red flower and looked at Gu Beilu hopefully. Gu Beilu was so smart, he must have a way to tell them apart. He even expected that Gu Beilu could tell how many flowers were in the box just by taking a look.

Gu Beilu paused for two seconds, pretending to think, and then gave a serious suggestion: “We can only put the flowers in the two boxes together to save them now.”

Yu Xi was anxious: “But there is a box that belongs to you…”

“Xixi, we can add all our flowers together and build a bigger red flower bank, which we can manage together. Whoever gets the red flower will contribute to the bank. For the gift exchange at the end of the semester, we can pick a big gift that we all like.”

Gu Beilu spoke very sincerely and listed many benefits of a joint account. Yu Xi found that this seemed to be the best solution.

He thought, at worst he could let Gu Beilu choose the gift at the end of the term, after all, Gu Beilu’s contribution was relatively large. As long as he could participate in the process of accumulating red flowers, he would be very happy. Now Gu Beilu needed the affirmation of red flowers more than he did.

While he was lost in thought, Gu Beilu had already picked up all the little red flowers on the ground, put them together, put away the box, and took out the hand sanitizer to disinfect his hands.

“Why did you put it away? I haven’t finished counting yet…”

Gu Beilu said: “I have counted them. There are sixty-seven.”

“Oh… so many!” Yu Xi touched his head, feeling like something was wrong, but couldn’t figure out what it was.