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On the one hand, Gu Beilu really disliked public swimming pools, which he thought were the most unsanitary places in the world. On the other hand, he was annoyed that he had not discovered Yu Xi’s swimming talent earlier.

He only knew that Yu Xi liked swimming and was quite good at it. But today he realized that this was not just good, but really impressive.

Also, a group of snotty-nosed kids were making a lot of noise, shouting and yelling at Yu Xi, which also made him very unhappy.

In short, this swimming pool made him feel very uncomfortable everywhere.

He just wanted to quickly fish Yu Xi out of this pool where dozens of people had soaked.

Seeing this, the swimming coach cleared his throat and defended his territory: “My dear student, our swimming pool is a five-star one. It uses the highest international disinfection and filtration standards. It is different from other public swimming pools.”

Gu Beilu had a cold face and refused to talk to him. He was concentrating on wrapping Yu Xi with a bath towel.

Yu Xi didn’t move and cooperated obediently. He had just gotten into trouble and now he didn’t dare to talk to Gu Beilu.

The coach continued to defend himself: “The number of people using the swimming pool in our school is strictly controlled. It is in circulation 24 hours a day. I can even drink the water in the pool.”

Gu Beilu finally wrapped up Yu Xi, and then turned to the coach: “Survey data on public swimming pools shows that about 17% of people admit that they have urinated in the pool. Among the approximately 830,000 liters of pool water samples studied, 75 liters of urine were detected.”

The class was silent. Although the kids might not have understood what he said, the coach looked at him as if he was a monster.

The housekeeper suddenly felt sweaty, and apologized to everyone awkwardly, and hurried forward to pull Gu Beilu back: “Master, you will catch a cold if clothes are wet, let’s go change into clean clothes first, okay?”

Gu Beilu insisted on letting Yu Xi go with him, and he didn’t agree until the coach told him that there was no need to go into the water in this class.

Because Yu Xi’s talent was so rare, the coach found Yu’s parents right after class and wanted to invite Yu Xi to join the city’s children’s swimming team.

Yu’s parents were very hesitant about this. They had originally wanted their child to learn swimming just to keep fit or develop a hobby, and had never thought about participating in competitions. And it goes without saying that training for competitive sports is very hard, and they were also worried that Yu Xi would not be able to handle it.

However, Yu Xi’s passion for swimming has become stronger recently, so they decided to ask the child for his own opinion.

In the evening, Yu Xi came to Gu Beilu’s room to do homework.

Yu Xi found that Gu Beilu was not quite right today. He kept typing on the keyboard with a serious expression.

He jumped off the chair and walked over, gently poking his arm with the pen: “Derek, are you still angry?”

Gu Beilu remained silent, and Yu Xi whispered again: “I didn’t mean it today… I didn’t know you were on the shore, I’m sorry…”

He felt guilty, his voice was soft and sticky, and his eyes were fixed on Gu Beilu’s face.

Gu Beilu turned to look at him: “No, I’m not angry about this.”

“Then why are you so far away from me?”

Usually they did their homework at the same desk. Gu Beilu wrote fast, but after he finished, he would still read other books beside him.

Today, Gu Beilu came over to play on the computer and didn’t even read his favorite programming book.

Gu BeiLu was too embarrassed to say that he was not angry with Yu Xi, but with today’s swimming pool.

He had no choice but to say: “I’m checking whether my swimming coach lied to me, and whether the swimming pool is really clean.”

Yu Xi had a lot of doubts in his little head, and the screen was filled with words he couldn’t understand.

“Is it clean?”

Gu Beilu’s voice was muffled: “Very clean.”

Yu Xi was very happy to hear this, but Gu Beilu was not very happy.

He spent an entire night checking the report on the school swimming pool, reviewing everything from hygiene standards to fire hazards to building quality, trying to find a single unqualified area.

If the results are not up to standard, they can report the swimming pool and ask it to close for rectification, so there will be no group swimming classes. Swimming class has become his least favorite course, and he doesn’t understand why such a class exists in the school.

Yu Xi didn’t know his purpose, and now he just thought that Gu Beilu was really nice and a good classmate.

He opened his arms happily and hugged his good classmate Gu Beilu.

Gu Beilu is the best monitor! Not only did he not get angry with him, but he also quietly helped everyone check the hygiene of the swimming pool. The teacher should give Gu Beilu a little red flower.

Yu Xi was in a good mood because of swimming today. When he hugged Gu Beilu, he became even more proud and couldn’t help rubbing Gu Beilu’s ears with his ears.

Mermaids have gills behind their ears, which is their way of greeting to express happiness and friendliness.

The two little ears touched each other and flapped back and forth several times.

Yu Xi didn’t see it, but Gu Beilu’s ears turned red instantly.

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After finishing his homework, Yu Xi was about to go home. When the two children were walking downstairs hand in hand, they happened to hear Yu’s mother and Gu’s mother chatting in the living room.

Mother Gu: “That’s great. The city’s swimming team is so great. Isn’t Xixi particularly interested in it?”

Yu’s mother: “It depends on the child’s attitude. Swimming is a hobby now. If he doesn’t want to swim one day, he can stop swimming. But once he joins a professional team, he will have to go for training every day. The nature of the activity will be different.”

Mother Gu: “That’s true, but Xixi is only six years old. He may not know what he really wants. Parents must take this responsibility.”

Yu Xi heard the adults talking about him, but was confused.

While he looked confused, Gu Beilu had already reacted.

“Yu Xi is going to the swimming team for training?”

Gu Beilu couldn’t accept this news.

He had just managed to convince himself to accept the swimming lessons at school tonight, but now he had to receive the bad news that he would have to train every day.

Looking at her son whose reaction was even greater than that of the person involved, Mother Gu knew what he was thinking without having to guess.

“Why are you so excited Derek? It’s not you who’s going. Come here, Xixi, our little swimming star.”

Yu Xi obediently walked over to the adults. Gu Beilu followed him seriously, as if he was facing a great enemy.

Mother Yu carried her son to the sofa and said, “Xixi, did you enjoy your swimming class today?”

Yu Xi nodded seriously: “Happy! Swimming is the happiest thing!”

Yu’s mother added: “Mom knew Xixi would like swimming lessons, and the coach also praised Xixi and said he performed very well.”

Gu Beilu looked at Yu Xi’s sweet smile and nodded in agreement unconsciously. Yu Xi is just talented.

He is more certain than anyone else.

But he didn’t like this coach at first sight, so things must not be that simple, Gu Beilu thought, and sure enough, Yu’s mother’s next words made him frown.

“The coach also said today that Xixi’s level is good enough to join the children’s swimming team. Xixi, do you want to go?”

Yu Xi blinked: “What is that?”

Yu’s mother patiently explained: “It means learning to swim with many great kids and then participating in competitions. However, you need to train every day, which will be very hard. Do you want to go, Xixi?”

Gu Beilu stared at Yu Xi’s reaction closely, his hands grabbing the leather sofa, almost making five holes in them.

None of the coaches are good people. They just send Yu Xi to those messy places.

He didn’t want Yu Xi to be sent to that swimming team. That kind of place had a lot of people, was hard and dirty, and might even be under closed management.

If that happened, Yu Xi wouldn’t be able to go to school and go home with him and do homework with him every day.

He couldn’t let this happen.

While Yu’s mother was talking to Yu Xi, he had already quickly thought of a countermeasure. If Yu Xi really wanted to participate in the competition, he would ask his parents to hire the world’s top personal trainer for Yu Xi, train him in the most high-end private swimming pool, and add a five-star nutritionist and medical team, and he would definitely send Yu Xi to the international competition.

He just didn’t believe that such a configuration could not compare to any city or provincial team.

After listening to Yu’s mother’s description, Yu Xi’s clear eyes were filled with more questions.

He didn’t understand why there were special swimming competitions. Swimming is a very natural thing, so why do we need competitions?

Swimming makes him happy, but competing doesn’t.

“Mom, can Xixi not go to the competition?”

“Of course, if Xixi doesn’t want to go, we won’t go.” Yu’s mother also breathed a sigh of relief. Selfishly, they didn’t want their son to work so hard, but if their son really liked it, they would support him to do it.

Yu Xi snuggled into his mother’s arms, crying and acting coquettishly.

His mother is so nice, the best mother in the world!

Gu Beilu sat at the other end of the sofa, his expression unchanged. No one could tell that the huge bone that had been stuck in his throat had finally fallen to the ground.

He now felt that the school’s swimming interest class was simply too good. It was clean and formal, and classes were held every day. He could go downstairs to pick up Yu Xi after class. Such interest classes must not be closed.

But he still didn’t like that swimming coach.

He now understood that the snotty-nosed kids in their class were not worth worrying about. But the coach was an adult, and only adults had the power to decide whether a child should stay or go.

Only when he grows up can he compete with the adults.

He has to grow up quickly.

After that day, every time Gu Beilu went to the swimming pool to pick up Yu Xi, he never looked at the coach directly.

Every Tuesday and Thursday, Gu Beilu would rush to the swimming pool to pick up Yu Xi as soon as possible after class. As long as he didn’t pick up Yu Xi, Yu Xi would forget the time and continue swimming in the pool.

For the first time, Gu Beilu felt that staying in class after class was not a good thing.

It was another Thursday. The swimming class had been over for quite some time, and most of the children in the venue had already left. Yu Xi had just walked out of the locker room when he saw Gu Beilu.

“De…” Before he finished calling his name, Gu Beilu walked towards him with a stern face and dragged him back to the locker room.

Yu Xi screamed all the way, until the moment Gu Beilu picked up the hair dryer, Yu Xi realized what he was going to do.

Yu Xi didn’t like to blow dry his hair. He hated the noise and the hot air. But Gu Beilu always made sure his hair was dry before letting him go out.

After blow-drying, Yu Xi shook his head refreshed and said thank you to Gu Beilu.

Even though Gu Beilu had told him many times that he didn’t need to say thank you, Yu Xi still insisted on being a polite child.

Gu Beilu put down the hair dryer and peeled a candy for Yu Xi as usual.

Usually, when Yu Xi sees milk candy, his eyes light up and he takes a bite of it.

But today he just licked his lips and didn’t move.

“What’s wrong?” Gu Beilu took the candy back and took a look. It was indeed the usual milk candy.

Yu Xi looked at the candy eagerly, wanting to eat it very much, but he couldn’t eat it.

“Derek, you eat it. I’ve eaten it before and mom said I can’t eat too much candy in a day.”

It took a lot of determination for him to reluctantly refuse the candy.

Gu Beilu put down the candy in his hand.

“Whose candy did you eat?”