Chapter 42: The Second Mock Exam Begins! (2/2)

While laying the bedsheets on the floor, Shen Lingyao gave instructions.

“Ah?”

Zhao Qingfeng didn’t quite understand.

“Fetch water for washing feet, then sleep on the floor.”

Shen Lingyao quickly made the bed on the floor next to the bed and pointed at it.

Zhao Qingfeng was slightly startled, then hurried off, secretly delighted.

A basin of water was quickly placed on the floor. He prepared to take off his socks and soak his feet, knowing Shen Lingyao’s obsession with cleanliness and fearing she might find his feet dirty.

“Hey, I told you to fetch water for me!”

Shen Lingyao was quick-witted.

She sat on the floor bed and swiftly dipped her feet into the warm water.

Her force was too strong.

Water splashed all over Zhao Qingfeng’s face and body, soaking the newly made bed.

Shen Lingyao played happily, splashing water non-stop.

Zhao Qingfeng dodged around until he finally grabbed the wet blanket and threw it over Shen Lingyao, then quickly grabbed the pink blanket from the bed for himself.

“Give it back to me, you stink!”

Shen Lingyao flung off the wet blanket and reached out to snatch back her pink blanket.

“Wait a second, what’s this?”

During their play, a black and white teddy bear suddenly fell out of the pink blanket.

Zhao Qingfeng looked closely and saw that the teddy bear, which should have been fluffy, had severe hair loss in some areas and was full of sewn-up scars, looking rather weathered.

Especially on its white belly, it had ‘Big Jerk Brother Qingfeng’ written in delicate characters, and judging by the faded ink, it seemed to be written about two months ago.

Shen Lingyao’s face turned red immediately.

She had written those words on the bear a month after Zhao Qingfeng transferred schools, and the bear’s patches were the result of her own rough handling.

If only her parents hadn’t gone on a business trip!

Now what, her little secret was seen by Brother Qingfeng…

Zhao Qingfeng also remembered.

The teddy bear was a birthday gift he had bought for Shen Lingyao when he worked a summer job in his first year of middle school.

But stuffed toys usually have a long shelf life and don’t lose hair so easily.

Seeing Shen Lingyao’s embarrassed and awkward look, Zhao Qingfeng understood why.

No wonder it lost its fur, it had been hugged in bed every day, no wonder it was full of scars, it had been abused by a young girl.

Shen Lingyao really was a ‘tough’ person, and Zhao Qingfeng suddenly worried if he would really end up as a eunuch in the future…

“Give it back to me!”

Shen Lingyao fought to retrieve her blanket, her face red.

“Fine, but this blanket is mine now!”

Zhao Qingfeng clutched the pink blanket tightly.

The two quickly reached a compromise.

Shen Lingyao picked up the teddy bear, hugging it in bed as usual, but then threw it aside deliberately, getting into bed huffily.

After quietening down for a while, she suddenly remembered Zhao Qingfeng’s bed-wetting incidents as a child and laughed out loud, “Brother Qingfeng, the floor is cold, you’re not going to wet the bed tonight, right?! I’m warning you, you’re sleeping with my blanket, if you wet the bed, I’ll castrate you…”

“You’re the one who used to wet the bed!”

“Ah, still talking back, you used to fall into cesspits as a kid!”

“You swallowed bubble gum!”

“You kissed a sow!”

“You couldn’t ride the sow, so you set fire to my uncle’s pigpen. You were spanked by Aunt Ding till you cried, it was hilarious!”

“Humph, I’m not talking to you!”

The two reminisced about their childhood, recounting and arguing in turns.

“Alright, alright, Yaoyao, let’s sleep. We have the second mock exam tomorrow, we need to rest well. I won’t tell ghost stories tonight, I’ll sing you a song to put you to sleep, okay?”

After a while of teasing, Zhao Qingfeng slowly hummed a song. It was a beautiful melody Shen Lingyao had never heard before, making her feel relaxed and happy. She turned her head to look out the window, blushing and lost in thought.

Gradually,

The moon moved westward.

Shen Lingyao also slowly closed her eyes.

Once her breathing became steady, Zhao Qingfeng quietly got out of bed, walked to her side, and stared at her youthful face under the moonlight, watching her without blinking, cherishing her like a precious treasure.

………………………

The next morning,

Both of them got up late, not even having time for breakfast, blaming each other for being lazy while rushing to school on their bikes.

As soon as they arrived in class,

Teacher Yan loudly announced the start of the second mock exam for Class 3, Grade 2.

“What were you two up to, doing something naughty?”

“Sit down, get ready for the exam.”

“Is everyone ready?”

“Today we have Chinese and Math, tomorrow is Science Comprehensive and English, and the day after tomorrow, we’ll release the second mock exam results, get your papers!”

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