The car finally started to move with a humming sound. Yu Xi was overjoyed and forgot himself so much that he dived into Gu Beilu’s arms and rubbed his ears to show his goodwill.

There was another large red spot behind Gu Beilu’s ear.

Yu Xi was too soft and sticky, and Gu Beilu felt like his temper had hit the marshmallow again.

In the next few days, Yu Xi found that Gu Beilu became more cheerful. But there was one thing: Gu Beilu really liked him to call him brother.

A bit too fond of it.

Now he not only had to call him brother when he asked for homework, but he even had to call him brother to get candy. He expressed dissatisfaction with this, because Gu Beilu had always taken the initiative to feed him candy before, without any requests.

When Gu Beilu went to the programming class that day, Shen Di came over to chat with Yu Xi again.

“Yu Xi, why do I feel like Gu Beilu has been a little…” He thought for a moment, his tone uncertain, “friendly?”

It was rare to hear Shen Di praise him, so Yu Xi asked curiously, “What did he do?”

“I’m not sure if this is what we call friendliness,” Shen Di adjusted his glasses and continued, “I accidentally dropped chalk on his coat this morning, but he didn’t get mad at me. He even told me it was okay.”

Yu Xi was very happy that Gu Beilu had come out of the shadow so quickly. It must have been because of Cheng Liang’s guidance in the IT club.

“Gu Beilu is a very good person. You will know it once you get to know him well.”

Shen Di looked at Yu Xi and asked again: “But Yu Xi, you seem to be a little worried today, what’s wrong?”

“Me? I don’t have any…”

“Don’t lie to me. The people in TV dramas who have worries are all like you.”

Yu Xi sighed and told Shen Di about his troubles: “Why would someone like to be called brother?”

He thought about it for two days but couldn’t figure out why Gu Beilu suddenly developed such a hobby.

Shen Di looked like he saw through him: “Gu Beilu likes you to call him brother?”

Yu Xi: …

Shen Di slapped his thigh and said, “I thought it was a big deal. Just call him if he likes you to. Anyway, he has been a nice guy lately.”

Yu Xi felt that Shen Di didn’t understand his troubles, so he turned his face away and lay limply on the table, worrying alone.

Shen Di thought about it, then walked around to him and continued, “I know! Gu Beilu has just been removed from his position as squad leader. In the past, everyone called him squad leader, and he was used to it. Now he can’t listen to it anymore, so he wants to hear everyone call him brother.”

Yu Xi raised her head and blinked: “Is that so?”

If this is the case, it is also a reflection of children helping each other, and he can call his brother more often.

In order to prove that he was right, Shen Di ran to Gu Beilu the next day and called him “brother”. As a result, Gu Beilu’s face turned dark in an instant, and he was so scared that he never dared to mention it again.

*

The first grade started to have labor classes, and the teacher led the students in each class to plant cherry tomatoes on the campus.

Yu Xi particularly loved his small tomato plant. He would check it several times every day, fertilizing and loosening the soil, often getting his hands and face dirty.

Gu Beilu has been bringing an extra bottle of disinfectant to school recently, and has asked the housekeeper to come to the school once in the morning and once in the afternoon to bring clean clothes to Yu Xi.

As soon as Yu Xi heard the bell, he rolled up his sleeves and ran out of the classroom, happily running to the small nursery. He wanted to see how his tomatoes were growing.

How much taller. Even though Gu Beilu told him that there wouldn’t be much change in forty minutes, he still insisted on going to visit Little Tomato during every break.

During the last break of class on Friday afternoon, Yu Xi came to loosen the soil for Little Tomato, and said to Little Tomato as he was loosening the soil: “My little Tomato, this is the last day I will take care of you this week. I will give you the best meals. You must work hard to grow taller over the weekend. When we meet next week, we will both be taller.”

It had just rained in the morning, and the small nursery was muddier than usual. Yu Xi saw two little snails and earthworms, and began to play with them out of curiosity.

The little earthworm burrowed into the soil, and Yu Xi followed suit and dug the soil, playing hide-and-seek like this without noticing that his hands and sleeves were covered in mud.

After the programming class, Gu Beilu didn’t even go back to the classroom. He went straight to the small nursery, and sure enough, he saw a little marshmallow squatting on the ground playing with mud.

“Derek!” Yu Xi picked up a small earthworm and showed off proudly, “Look, look, I caught an earthworm!”

Gu Beilu froze in place as he looked at Yu Xi, who was covered in mud, and the invertebrate in his hand.

Yu Xi asked happily: “Derek, can I take it home and raise it?”

Gu Beilu shook his head firmly: “No, earthworms are beneficial insects and cannot be caught. They can help plants grow better in the nursery.”

Fortunately, earthworms are beneficial insects, otherwise he would have to make up a lie to make Yu Xi give up on taking them home.

“Oh… okay then.” Yu Xi obediently let go of his little hand and let the earthworm fall into the soil.

He thought that it would be good to let the earthworm and the snail spend the weekend with the little tomato, otherwise the little tomato would be too lonely.

Yu Xi stared at the little earthworm disappearing into the soil, then raised his head: “Derek, you’re done.”

He was having so much fun playing in the mud today that now only did he realized his hands were all covered in mud: “Ahhh…”

The little mud hand that was originally reaching out to pull Gu Beilu stopped in mid-air.

“Wipe your hands, little dirty boy.” A clean handkerchief was handed over.

Yu Xi raised his head and saw Cheng Liang.

“Brother Cheng Liang!”

Just as Cheng Liang was about to wipe Yu Xi’s hands, Gu Beilu took the initiative to grab Yu Xi’s muddy hands and blocked him behind him.

“Gu Beilu?” Cheng Liang finally noticed that there was someone beside Little Shark. “Are you done with get out of class?”

Gu Beilu said coldly: “It’s none of your business.”

His eyes fell on the white handkerchief in Cheng Liang’s hand, and he said disdainfully: “No, we have one.”

Cheng Liang smiled politely and put away his handkerchief. A companion called him from a distance, and before leaving, he turned around and said to Yu Xi: “Come to our IT club next time.”

Gu Beilu replied unhappily: “Is the IT club a place for fun?”

After watching Cheng Liang walk away, Gu Beilu turned around and wiped Yu Xi’s muddy hands on his white shirt.

The snow-white shirt was stained.

The housekeeper who was coming over with clean clothes from a distance happened to see this scene and broke into sweat again.

Yu Xi had always thought that Gu Beilu and Cheng Liang had naturally become good friends, until today when he saw that the two of them still didn’t seem to get along.

The next day, Yu Xi took the sweeper car with him when he went to school.

Gu Beilu looked at the ugly car expressionlessly.

“Why do you bring it?”

Yu Xi had never been so fond of any toy before, and he had never thought that Yu Xi loved cars so much before.

“It seems to be broken and can’t be driven.” Yu Xi avoided his gaze and looked at the car. “Brother Cheng Liang said last time that I could find him if the car broke down…”

Gu Beilu looked at Yu Xi who was obviously very unnatural and missed the point: “His name is Senior Cheng Liang. Or Cheng Liang.”

Yu Xi raised his head, looked at him in confusion, and nodded again. He was confused that Gu Beilu cared so much about the title.

“Then… this… can I give it to Senior Cheng Liang to fix?” He asked sheepishly, feeling guilty. He spent an entire night researching to find this method. If he removed a small part, the car wouldn’t run, but it didn’t really break down.

Gu Beilu was not in a good mood yesterday, and this morning it was even worse. Yu Xi has always been an honest and good boy, but when he tells a lie, he can’t even speak clearly.

“You want to find Cheng Liang?” Gu Beilu’s heart was filled with alarm.

Cheng Liang mentioned it yesterday, and today Yu Xi found a lame excuse to go out and play… Yu Xi likes playing with Cheng Liang so much, it really pissed him off.

It made him even angrier than Yu Xi calling Cheng Liang brother.

“It’s not me who goes, it’s you who goes.” Yu Xi said seriously, not noticing that Gu Beilu’s mood improved a little because of his words.

“Why do you want me to go? You don’t want to go?” Gu Beilu adjusted his mood, although he didn’t want to see that big fool Cheng Liang.

“Don’t you have a programming class this afternoon? Just give it to him on your way to fix it.” Then chat with him and make friends with him.

Gu Beilu silently took on the task and returned a complete sweeper car to Yu Xi that night.

“It was fixed so quickly?” Yu Xi happily held the car in his arms. “Senior Cheng Liang is amazing, right?”

Gu Beilu: …

He didn’t even take it to Cheng Liang, he fixed it himself.