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The next afternoon, Ye Shu and Beston showed up on time the moment Tao Xu set up the barbecue grill. Ye Shu looked at Yuanzi and clicked his tongue non-stop: "Nuan Nuan, your home environment is really good!"

Tao Nuan chuckled: "Where, the air is fresh in the suburbs, and there are few people living in it."

Tao Zhiyi and Lu Xiaojing were not at home, and Tao Zhiwen happily followed along with his work. Ye Shu and Beston hurriedly greeted him, but Tao Zhiwen was afraid that the children would restrain him: "You are welcome, I am just here to help. Our house is warm, but it is a barbecue Masters, you are in luck!"

"Uncle, we won't be polite, you and auntie should join together!" A rare gentleman who knows everything.

Tao Zhiwen waved his hands with a smile, "No, just play, if you want to drink or eat, go to Nuan Nuan and Xiao Xu."

"Thank you uncle!"

Seeing Tao Zhiwen entered the room, the knowledgable greeted Tao Nuan and said that he was going to visit his cousin's house. Of course Tao Nuan knew where the cousin's house he was talking about, so he nodded in agreement.

Beston walked through the fence to the door of Zhuang Sheng's house and rang the doorbell. Ye Junru was still wondering who it would be at this time, but when he opened the door, he saw Beston's signature smiling face: "Second Aunt!"

"It's Xiaoxin, come in quickly, why are you here today?" Ye Junru let him into the room.

"I came to play with my classmate's house next door. I didn't expect my classmate to live next door to my second aunt's house!" Bai Shitong said while looking around, but he didn't see Zhuang Sheng.

Ye Junru had a little impression of the little girl next door, "The girl next door, what is the name of that little girl, Tao Nuan?" Besitone was excited when he heard this, and he couldn't stop his gossiping thoughts, "Yeah, Do you know Second Aunt?"

"A few days ago, she came to our house to borrow a flower shovel. The little girl was kind, and she smiled so beautifully. She asked me to borrow a flower shovel in a soft voice. When she came back, she gave them homemade biscuits. The taste is quite good, let your cousin eat it!" Ye Junru said here, "Your classmate is her?"

"Yeah, she and her tablemate and I are good friends. We usually study together, so we get closer. Today, she and her brother made a self-service barbecue at home. Please come and play!" , and asked Ye Junru: "Second aunt, why don't you see your cousin, and you are studying again? And my uncle is busy too?"

Ye Junru sighed, "Yes, your uncle has a business partner to meet today, and he went out early in the morning. Zhuang Sheng didn't even eat lunch today, saying that he ate breakfast late and was not hungry at noon, so he locked himself in the study all the time. Here, learning is stressful, but the body is also important, isn't it?"

Beston couldn't help sighing, "Cousin really works hard!"

Little did they know that the "hardworking" cousin they were talking about was standing in front of the window sill and looking at the garden next door, feeling depressed. He hadn't turned a single page of the book on the table after reading it all morning.

After Chen Yu knew that Zhuang Sheng lived next door, he immediately "ordered" Tao Nuan to invite people to join him.

Ye Junru was a little surprised when she opened the door to see Tao Nuan, and Tao Nuan immediately greeted politely, "Hello, Auntie, I am Tao Nuan, do you remember?" "Yes, little girl, what do you do? I'm here to call Xiaoxin Is it?" Ye Junru thought she was looking for her nephew, so she waved to call Know-it-all over.

Tao Nuan waved his hand: "Auntie, I'm here to see Senior Zhuang Sheng, is he at home? Well, we have a party today, and I want to invite Senior to come and play..."

"Oh, that's right. Our Zhuang Sheng is indeed at home, but I don't know if he will go..." Although Ye Junru wanted her son not to be bored at home, she couldn't make up her mind directly.

"Second Aunt, I'll go up and ask my cousin, maybe he's tired from reading and wants to go out to get some air!" Beston said at the right time. "Alright, you can go up, he's in the study!" Ye Junru nodded in agreement, and let Tao Nuan into the room again, "Come in and sit for a while!"

"Thank you, Auntie!" Tao Nuan smiled, and the dimple on the left cheek appeared again.

Ye Junru also poured a cup of tea for Tao Nuan, "Xiao Nuan, can I call you that?"

"Of course, Auntie!" Tao Nuan took the teacup and smiled happily.

"You met Zhuang Sheng because of Xiaoxin?" Ye Junru asked tentatively.

Tao Nuan shook her head: "Not all, my mother is the head teacher of the senior, I often go to their class to wait for my mother to study by herself at night, and I met the senior!"

"Oh, so you are Teacher Chen's daughter. I said why you are so polite. Teacher Chen is really a conscientious and good teacher. Thanks to her careful guidance for Zhuang Sheng." Ye Junru smiled and felt relieved.

At this time, a voice came from the stairs, Tao Nuan took the lead to look over, and met Zhuang Sheng's gentle eyes inadvertently, and quickly looked away like a child who did something wrong.

Ye Junru stood up, "You're finally out, you've been bored for almost a day, you might as well go to the teacher's house to play!"

Tao Nuan also pulled out a smile: "Senior, you still work so hard during the holidays, you will definitely get into a good university in the future!"

"Okay, don't talk nonsense, I didn't even eat lunch because of this barbecue, hurry up, I must eat back today with profit!" Know-it-all pulled Zhuang Sheng to the door.

Tao Nuan said goodbye to Ye Junru: "Auntie, let's go first!"

"Go, go!" Ye Junru smiled and sent them out.

Tao Xu was not surprised to see Zhuang Sheng's expression, but Ye Shu blinked at Tao Nuan, the meaning of which was probably only known by Tao Nuan, so the latter blushed.

Zhuang Sheng greeted Chen Yu and Tao Zhiwen first, and then came out to join everyone. Tao Nuan quickly cooked a plate of meat skillfully, and divided it into two parts. One was brought to the table, and the other was given to Tao Xu, " Take it into the house!"

Tao Xu stretched out his hand to pinch her cheek: "Yo, there is someone backing me up, dare to order your brother around?"

Tao Nuan hurriedly dodged, "So what? Hurry up, and be careful that I sprinkle pepper on your meat!"

"How dare you!" Tao Xu said so, but still got up: "I'll deal with you when I come back!"

Tao Nuan made a grimace. The interaction between the two made Zhuang Sheng very jealous. He approached the oven with something, "I'll help you, go and eat something!"

Tao Nuan shook his head, "No need, go and drink something, isn't there a drink over there?"

Zhuang Sheng fiddled with the seasonings, "Unexpectedly, your skills are quite good!"

Tao Nuan blushed a little after being praised, "Where, I am, it's just roasted enough to eat, if I let Xiao Xu come, it will definitely not be cooked. Pass me the cumin powder."

Zhuang Sheng took a jar and handed it to her, Tao Nuan took it naturally and sprinkled it on, only to realize that what was in his hand was pepper powder, not cumin powder, "Senior, this pepper powder!"

"Really, I didn't see clearly..."

At this moment, Tao Xu came out, saw Zhuang Sheng and Tao Nuan together, and hurried over, "What are you talking about, are my chicken wings ready?"

"Um..." Tao Nuan looked at the chicken wings that had been cooked but had a lot of pepper on them, and was speechless for a moment.

Tao Xu snatched it, "Isn't this ready, why are you reluctant to give it to me?"

"It's not...that's..." Before Tao Nuan finished speaking, Tao Xu started to sneeze loudly, one after another, unable to stop at all.Tao Nuan hurriedly poured water and handed it to him, "I haven't finished talking yet, I just mistook pepper for cumin powder and put it in..."

Zhuang Sheng didn't expect this situation. He didn't expect Tao Xu to be allergic to pepper.Tao Nuan put the chicken wings on the stove to roast again, and glanced at Zhuang Sheng beside him: "Senior, did you do it on purpose just now?"

Zhuang Sheng didn't speak, and Tao Nuan continued on his own: "My brother is allergic to pepper, so don't make such jokes in the future!" After speaking, he laughed himself: "Actually, it's good for him alone, who let him As soon as he came back, he always bullied me! Look at the way he sneezed just now, it's so funny!"

Reaching out to get the seasoning, Zhuang Sheng handed over a bottle, Tao Nuan took a special look at it, this time it was right, sprinkled with cumin powder, the scent came out immediately, Tao Xu smelled the scent again and came over to sniff his nose again: "This time Did you misplace it?"

Tao Nuan handed him a bunch, and then gave Zhuang Sheng a bunch: "No more, don't worry about eating!" Baishitong and Ye Shu also came over, "I want it too!"

Tao Nuan gave them the rest, "When you two come in, you not only eat but also show your affection, don't you know that we will all be jealous?"

Ye Shu blushed and stretched out her hand to pinch Tao Nuan's smiling face: "Huh, you are the 300 taels of silver here, aren't you too?"

Tao Nuan stuck out her tongue and made a grimace, "I'm ashamed..."

Tao Xu took the honey on the far side to the front, "Why don't you brush some of this?"

Tao Nuan didn't like sweets, Zhuang Sheng knew this, so when he was playing with those seasonings, he deliberately put them away, but Tao Xu deliberately put honey instead, frowning: "She doesn't like sweets!"

Tao Xu rolled his eyes, "Do you know that she has low blood sugar?!" For a moment, swords were on the verge of breaking out.

Seeing that the aura between the two was a little off, Tao Nuan hurriedly smoothed things over, "Then what brother, why is my hot sauce missing here, go and get some!"

Tao Xu ignored him, Zhuang Sheng brought the hot sauce in front of Tao Nuan, Tao Nuan was helpless, what are these two going to do?He kept winking at Tao Xu, Zhuang Sheng was a guest after all, what was he doing?

In the end, Zhuang Sheng smiled: "I didn't know it before, but now I know it, and I will pay attention to it in the future!"

Tao Nuan and Tao Xu were stunned for a moment, after recalling it, Tao Xu almost bit off his tongue, Tao Nuan blushed, bit his lip and thrust the brush into Zhuang Sheng's hand, "Didn't you say you would? You do it!" After saying that, he left the oven as if fleeing.

Zhuang Sheng still calmly took over Tao Nuan's work, grilling the meat, "I don't know why you have such hostility towards me, I won't do anything to Tao Nuan, as you said, I Now it’s the third year of high school, and the college entrance examination is the most important thing in everything.”

What he said was plain, but Tao Xu narrowed his eyes again and looked at the guy in front of him. He was right. He was really hostile to Tao Nuan because he was afraid that he would do something out of the ordinary. It's best, if you have, please give up your thoughts, Nuan Nuan is still young, and it's the easiest time to be cheated at this time, as an older brother, I naturally have to protect her!"

Zhuang Sheng, "She has a good brother!"

A barbecue lasted until the sunset on the western mountain. After the snow fell, the weather was fine and the sight of the suburbs was wide. Under the bloody sunset, the flying youth officially started their footsteps.

On New Year’s Eve, after Tao Nuan’s family had the New Year’s Eve dinner, they would receive red envelopes for New Year greetings. Every year, Tao Nuan’s red envelopes are thick, and this year is no exception. After receiving the red envelopes from his uncle, the dimples on Tao Nuan’s face deepened No matter how deep, "Thank you uncle and aunt!"

"In the new year, we must work harder and strive to get into a good university in the third year of high school!"

"I will!" Tao Nuan promised with a smile.

Tao Zhiyi pampered Tao Nuan's hair, "Go and play with Xiaoxu!"

Tao Xu was in the room videoing with his classmates, Tao Nuan broke in without knocking on the door, a pretty face was very prominent on the other party's screen, "Hey, Tao Xu, you can do it, Jinwu Zangjiao?"

Tao Nuan blinked, and immediately came back to his senses, and quickly turned his back: "I'm bothering you, brother!"

Tao Xu blocked the camera and waited for Tao Nuan to leave before letting go, "What kind of golden house cangjiao, that's my sister, that's fine, let's do it first if there's nothing to do, we'll see each other when it's over!"

"Okay, your sister is so beautiful..." Before the other party finished speaking, Tao Xu turned off the video, "Damn, why are both of them like hungry ghosts in sex? Is our Nuannuan so popular?"

Chinese New Year is always happy and busy, and the happy days always pass by in the blink of an eye. My uncle’s family set off on the seventh day of junior high school, and the make-up classes for the ninth and third year of junior high school are about to start. Go back to live in the city.

When Tao Nuan was helping her father clean up the yard, she saw Zhuang Sheng standing on the other side of the fence and looking at her. He seemed to have something to say, and walked over while Tao Zhiwen was not paying attention: "Senior, what do you do?"

"What's your mobile phone number?" Zhuang Sheng never talked nonsense.

Tao Nuan coughed and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Give me your phone!"

Zhuang Sheng took out the phone and handed it to her. Tao Nuan took the phone and pressed a series of numbers. After dialing, he hung up and returned it to him: "Okay! But I don't use it often, sometimes I forget to charge it and it turns off automatically. "

"I know, I won't call you abruptly, don't worry!" Zhuang Sheng looked behind Tao Nuan: "Are you moving out?"

"Going back to live in the city, our family will only live here for a few days during the Chinese New Year."

Zhuang Sheng nodded, and silently curled the corners of his mouth: "Go and do your work!"

Spring came without a sound. If it wasn't for passing by the school flower garden and smelling the unknown fragrance of grass and flowers, Tao Nuan would not have known that it was already March.

The day of the college entrance examination is getting closer and closer, and Chen Yu's evening self-study get out of class ends later. Tao Nuan still goes to the classroom of the third year of high school to wait for her every night, but every time he goes, he can feel the air pressure getting lower and lower.Even Hu Kai, who usually likes to be noisy the most, calmed down and immersed himself in his studies. Instead, Zhuang Sheng was still the same as before, occasionally guiding himself to do math problems, and playing a game of basketball on the basketball court after school, while Tao Nuan was one of those spectators.

One day, Zhuang Sheng walked up to Tao Nuan after playing basketball, and suddenly asked her a confusing question, "What do you think of Nanjing University?"

Tao Nuan looked at Zhuang Sheng in a daze for a while, "Senior, do you want to take the entrance exam to Nanjing University?"

"Why, are you afraid I won't pass the exam?" Zhuang Sheng rarely showed a joking expression.

Tao Nuan shook her head: "I heard from my mother that with your grades, it is no problem to be admitted to Tsinghua University, or there is another Fudan University, why do you want to be admitted to Nanjing University?"

"Because... it's closer to home." It's also closer to you.Zhuang Sheng added the second half of the sentence in his heart.

Tao Nuan burst out laughing: "Senior, I didn't expect you to still be a family lover!" Turning to look at the unknown flower blooming by the side of the playground, "Actually, I read the information collected by my mother. , Nanjing University is also a national key university, a first-tier university, although it is less famous than Tsinghua University and Peking University, but the cultural background is still there, I don’t think my mother will object or be surprised by the choice of seniors!”

Zhuang Sheng looked at her profile and remained silent for a long time, "Are you willing?" Are you willing to follow my steps to be admitted to Nanjing University?

Tao Nuan was a little surprised by his words, "What?"

"It's nothing, you go back!" Zhuang Sheng didn't want to put pressure on her.

In the college entrance examination, everyone has the same opportunity. The result depends only on whether you work hard or not.

The temperature rises little by little, and time passes day by day, like sand and stone in your hand, no matter how hard you hold it, it will always slip through your fingers.Tao Nuan changed out of the heavy winter clothes and put on thin spring clothes, while the senior three students had already entered the stage of dire straits.

In the last month before the college entrance examination, Chen Yu didn't go home for dinner almost every day, and Tao Nuan had to rush to finish the meal after school every day before delivering it to Chen Yu.

During evening self-study, he would also send Chen Yu herbal tea or milk made by himself or his father, and Tao Nuan would always leave a cup for Zhuang Sheng.In this way, Tao Nuan and Zhuang Sheng spent the last month of the college entrance examination in this silent caring for each other.

The college entrance examination is almost the most important turning point in every student's life. After this exam, the classmates who used to chat and sweat together, started another stage of their life, embarked on another journey of their own life, maybe At the class reunion many years later, they will happily recognize the classmate they once called brothers and sisters, and they will also look very surprised at the brother they no longer know.

Years, in fact, are cruel and fair.

The day when the results of the college entrance examination were released happened to be the day of Tao Nuan's exam. Tao Nuan came out after the exam. As soon as he walked to the entrance, he saw Zhuang Sheng leaning on a bulletin board, as if he was waiting for someone.

Tao Nuan suddenly remembered that when Zhuang Sheng came to find her for the first time, she was leaning there like this, but she didn't notice him at that time, and it was only when he called her name that she realized it.

While she was in a daze, Zhuang Sheng had already seen her and walked towards her. Fortunately, it was already late when Tao Nuan came out, and there was no one in the school.

Zhuang Sheng stood still in front of her, his eyes gleamed brightly, and Tao Nuan smiled: "Senior, you must have done well in the exam with your look?"

Zhuang Sheng took her hand: "Follow me!"

Tao Nuan didn't know why, so he led him to the playground in a daze, and heard the shouts of playing ball on the playground, and Zhuang Sheng's low voice with unknown emotions: "My first choice will be Nanjing. University, I'll wait for you!"

Tao Nuan looked up at him abruptly, and his eyes were full of temptation and expectation. After a long time, Tao Nuan finally found his reason, nodded in agreement with a hoarse voice.

There was a smile in Zhuang Sheng's eyes at that moment, he hoped that the two years would not be too long, and he also hoped that Xiao Taozi could work hard so that he would have no regrets.