Chapter 36 Good Night (Part 2/2)

“It had been a long time since I last played, here.” Li Mu casually picked up some branches and leaves, placed the leaves on Lu Xiaoxi’s side, used his phone’s flashlight to illuminate, and broke off a small piece of branch to place in the center of the chessboard.

“Childish…” Lu Xiaoxi mumbled softly, tearing off a small piece of leaf to place beside the branch.

By the time Li Mu placed down three branches, she had already blocked one end, and when he placed the fourth branch, she could block both ends.

She wasn’t very good at Gomoku; she only knew that she couldn’t let Li Mu connect five branches. Every time three were aligned in a straight line, she would start blocking him.

Over time, Li Mu’s branches piled up more and more, and soon a deadlock appeared. No matter where Lu Xiaoxi placed her pieces, he had another line that connected five.

“Little Pig Lu is still so bad at this.”

“I’m not playing anymore!” Lu Xiaoxi huffed, blowing air onto the chessboard, sending branches and leaves all over Li Mu.

“Wait a moment, I’ll take a picture.” Li Mu raised his phone and took a shot of the moon.

“Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on the fifteenth is rounder on the sixteenth. If you want to take pictures, do it the day after tomorrow.” Though she said this, Lu Xiaoxi also took out her phone to snap a photo of the sky.

Their phone cameras weren’t high in resolution, and magnifying them five times made them even blurrier. The dark sky could only capture a bright dot, lacking any artistic flair, yet somehow filled with artistic essence.

The girl walked ahead with her hands behind her back, and he followed behind, watching her intertwined little hands.

In the past, it was Lu Xiaoxi who followed him; now it was he who followed Lu Xiaoxi.

“Are we going back? I’m a bit sleepy.” Lu Xiaoxi yawned, rubbing the corners of her eyes, looking genuinely tired.

“Then let’s go back; no one is stopping you.”

“Then why did you pull me to play chess?”

“Isn’t this nostalgic? I just thought of things from childhood.”

“Li Mu actually reminisced about the past. Could it be that he is still attached to those old memories?” Lu Xiaoxi covered her mouth, her expression rich with disdain, surprise, and suppressed laughter, but it was all an act.

“I always thought you had a good read on people.”

“You’re acting so strange tonight; did you take the wrong medicine?”

“The dishes my mom made, you know.”

“Pfft, if you dare to complain about Aunt Su’s cooking, I’ll tell her, just wait to be scolded!”

They bickered all the way.

The previous informants, the aunties and uncles, had already gone home, and the sports field was left with only a few elderly people walking.

The two stood at their doorstep when Lu Xiaoxi suddenly called out to him.

Lu Xiaoxi didn’t close the door, ran in with a jingle, and then ran out again, holding a small mooncake.

“This is for you; you can only eat it tomorrow.”

“Tsk, you can actually bring out five-nut filling?” Li Mu glanced at the characters in the middle with a face full of disdain, “Is there any with egg yolk?”

“You’re so picky.” Lu Xiaoxi ran back to grab a lotus seed paste with egg yolk, “You can only eat it tomorrow.”

“Hiss, should I also return something?” Li Mu said, also going back to grab two five-nut mooncakes.

“I don’t eat five-nut.”

“Five-nut has a lot of filling; it tastes great.”

“Is there any with cantaloupe?”

“No, you’re so picky.”

Lu Xiaoxi clenched her fist, just about to hit Li Mu, but he seemed to anticipate it and directly closed the door to hide.

With nowhere to vent her anger, Lu Xiaoxi felt like she was going to burst from holding it in. She had to give Li Mu two punches when she saw him tomorrow to feel better.

Her parents had already gone to bed.

Li Mu returned to his room, lying directly on the bed, with only a faint moonlight shining through the window.

He charged his phone, opened the WeChat interface, and waited for Lu Xiaoxi to send him a message.

After waiting for a few minutes and feeling a bit bored, he clicked into Lu Xiaoxi’s Moments.

Lu Xiaoxi didn’t often post on Moments, only about ten times a year, and only when significant events occurred, like the last time she went on a trip or when they took the subway for the first time, or when they went to the square for the first time.

In this short month, she had posted on Moments particularly frequently.

There were likes and comments below, and Li Mu didn’t recognize these people, guessing that most were middle school classmates.

Just then, Lu Xiaoxi posted a new Moment.

The picture was the blurry moon they had just taken, and the caption was just one sentence—

“The moon on the fifteenth is rounder on the sixteenth, but the moon on the fourteenth is also very round.”

For some reason, he suddenly wanted to buy a camera.

Li Mu lay on his side, looking at his phone, and liked her new Moment, noticing the posting time was exactly twelve o’clock.

It was already the Mid-Autumn Festival.

How long had it been since they last wished each other a happy Mid-Autumn Festival?

A long, long time, so long that he couldn’t remember.

Due to living together, his relationship with her had eased, no longer as distant as before.

After thinking for a moment, Li Mu still edited a message: [Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (mooncake)].

Before he could send it, Lu Xiaoxi had already sent hers first.

[Little Pig Lu]: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival.

[Idiot Li]: Happy Mid-Autumn Festival (mooncake)

[Little Pig Lu]: (mooncake)(mooncake)

[Little Pig Lu]: .

[Idiot Li]: Good night

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