Back to my parents when I was seventeen

After lunch, several people returned to the classroom for a nap.

Xu Chu Ning got up early and was really sleepy. She closed her eyes and lay on the table, and soon fell asleep.

When I woke up again, the bell for afternoon class rang.

Xu Chuning was surprised. She didn't expect that she would take such a long nap.

Not only was she surprised, Deng Xitong was also very surprised, "Did you suffer from insomnia last night?"

Xu Chuning: "No."

Deng Xitong: "You slept for a long time today."

Xu Chu Ning rubbed his sleepy eyes and whispered, "Maybe I'm too tired recently."

"..." Deng Xitong had a deep understanding, "You work too hard."

Xu Chu Ning smiled and said, "It will only be about ten days. After the exams we will have summer vacation."

When talking about summer vacation, Deng Xitong's eyes lit up, "How are you going to spend your summer vacation? Are you going to travel?"

After asking this question, Deng Xitong reacted, her expression slightly stiffened, and she said awkwardly, "I didn't mean that. I was just curious and asked."

Xu Chu Ning smiled, but didn't feel offended. "It's okay. My mother and I should go back to Ningcheng."

Every summer, they would take a few days off to go back to Ningcheng to visit their grandmother in their hometown and... to inquire about Li Xiaonan's situation.

Deng Xitong suddenly realized and asked her, "Is Ningcheng fun? I haven't been there yet."

Xu Chu Ning: "...You asked me."

Although she is from Ningcheng, You Shuzhen's hometown is in a small town under Ningcheng. When Xu Chuning was in Ningcheng, her activities were basically confined to the area around the small town, and she rarely even went to the county town.

After coming to Jiangcheng, she and You Shuzhen went back every year and just wandered around the town.

The town doesn't have many tall buildings, nor do it have many tourist attractions. But Xu Chuning likes the town very much. It's very comfortable there. The wind is gentle, with a hint of heat, but it doesn't make you feel hot when it blows over.

There are small streams and rivers in the town. When she was in junior high school, she would go to the river to catch fish and shrimp with other friends of the same age or a few years younger in the town. Occasionally, she would carry the watermelons picked and grown by her grandmother and put them into the stream, letting the natural stream water cool the watermelons. She would then take them home, cut them up, and eat them while sitting on the grape trellis with her grandmother and mother.

Thinking of the life in the small town, Xu Chu Ning smiled more clearly, "If you want to go, I can only take you up the mountains and down the rivers."

Deng Xitong: “Sure.”

She has lived in the city since she was a child. Her grandparents live in the countryside, but she has been there less often and rarely, so she longs for small town life.

"If I'm free, I'll come to see you." Deng Xitong said.

Xu Chu Ning: "Okay."

Shen Sinian, who was eavesdropping on their conversation from behind, spoke up at the right time, "What about me?"

Xu Chuning turned around: "What?"

Shen Sinian: "You and Aunt You are going back to town during the summer vacation. Can I go with you?"

Xu Chuning: “…”

She forgot Shen Sinian.

The mother and son looked at each other, and Xu Chu Ning thought for a moment, "If we go back for half a month, will you also go for half a month?"

It is not difficult to take Shen Sinian back with her. The house in the small town is a small two-story self-built building with enough rooms. However... Shen Sinian is now a member of the Shen family and the son of Shen Yubai's uncle. He should go back to the Shen family during the summer vacation and cannot go to the small town with her for half a month.

Shen Sinian: "If Aunt You has no problem with that, of course I can do it."

Xu Chu Ning was speechless and reminded him, "You don't have to go home?"

"..."

Shen Sinian was stunned for a moment, then understood what Xu Chuning meant, "I——"

Xu Chu Ning lowered his voice and said, "You ask them."

Shen Sinian said slowly, "Okay, if they agree, then you agree?"

Xu Chuning: "I'll ask my mom when I get home."

Shen Sinian: "Okay."

Deng Xitong was listening nearby, full of questions.

She knew that the two had a good relationship, and she also knew that Shen Sinian often went to the store and had a good relationship with Xu Chuning's mother. She had previously suspected that the two liked each other, or that Shen Sinian had a one-sided crush on Xu Chuning, but after observing her later, she put an end to this idea.

But now it seems that the friendship between these two people as classmates is too much, isn't it?

More importantly, Deng Xitong felt that Xu Chuning and Shen Sinian were not like classmates, nor friends, and certainly not lovers. The two of them were like this, giving her the feeling that Xu Chuning was Shen Sinian's sister and Shen Sinian was his brother.

Their conversations often gave her the illusion that they were siblings, or mother and son.

Just like the sentence just now, "If they agree, then you agree", Deng Xitong often says this when she is acting coquettishly with her mother.

Xu Chuning and Shen Sinian had an agreement, and when she turned around to look away, she happened to meet Deng Xitong's gaze. She looked at her with a slightly complicated look.

Xu Chu Ning was puzzled, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Deng Xitong came back to her senses, "No, I was just daydreaming."

Xu Chuning: “…”

After talking to Deng Xitong for a few words, Xu Chuning suddenly remembered something and turned back to remind Shen Sinian, "Shen Sinian."

Shen Sinian: "What?"

"You seem to have forgotten something." Xu Chuning said, "Min Jian."

Shen Sinian: “…………”

He really forgot.

Shen Sinian had already promised Min Jian that he would let Min Jian arrange his entire summer vacation time. He would do whatever Min Jian asked him to do.

Min Jian didn't ask Shen Sinian to do anything, but if Shen Sinian wanted to make his debut, he would have to undergo a period of closed training, and summer vacation was the best time and opportunity.

Thinking of this, Shen Sinian struggled, "I should have a few days off too."

"We'll talk about it then?"

Shen Sinian: "...Okay."

He sighed softly, feeling a little depressed.

Let’s not talk about the summer vacation for now. The most important thing for Xu Chuning and the others is the final exam.

The final exams for the second year of high school are in late June.

In mid-June, the weather in Jiangcheng started to get hot. The short walk to school every morning was quite torturous.

Fortunately, Xu Chu Ning had already gotten used to it.

On the 25th, the examination room seats were announced.

Xu Chuning was still the first in the first classroom. Shen Sinian was not bad either. He had not entered the first classroom yet, but had also arrived at the second examination classroom.

Knowing Shen Sinian's seat, Yu Gaoyi was very sad, "Brother, we were still fighting each other in the last exam, and now you are in the second exam room."

Shen Sinian glanced at him and said, "I will go to the first examination room next time."

Yu Gaoyi: “I know.”

He was very depressed, "I thought you were pretending last time."

He even advised him that one doesn't get points just by filling in the entire test paper.

No matter what Shen Sinian said to him at that time, he said he knew and he did quite well in the exam.

Thinking about it now, Yu Gaoyi feels like a joke.

"I underestimated you."

Shen Sinian smiled, "What's wrong with you?"

Why are you so sentimental all of a sudden?

Yu Gaoyi: “You don’t understand.”

He looked resentful, "My parents put pressure on me."

Shen Sinian: "...putting pressure on you now?"

"Yes." Yu Gaoyi agreed.

Shen Sinian was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but say, "The exam is tomorrow, isn't it a little late for them to put pressure on you now?"

Yu Gaoyi: “…”