stonecrandall Chapter 259, Late Autumn
Chapter 259, Late Autumn
After the National Day was over, the school was held normally, and they also went back to school.
At this time of year, the weather is gradually getting colder. When you go out in the morning, you should wear a thin coat, otherwise you will feel cold.
When the leaves on the trees fall, the season has entered late autumn.One autumn rain and one cold, the weather is not very good recently, it has been raining for a week without stopping, the weather suddenly turned cold, everyone put on cotton padded clothes.
After school, Zhou Xing went to the corridor on the first floor and waited for someone. It was still raining outside, and the wind was blowing light rain, so he moved a little closer to the corridor.
The students who came down from upstairs opened the umbrellas in their hands and walked in twos and threes.Girls usually carry umbrellas, while boys are more casual. Some people don't bring umbrellas, just cover their heads with books and run back to the dormitory.
"Let's go." Qiao Minglang came down from the stairs, and immediately saw the person standing here waiting for him.
Zhou Xing opened the big umbrella in his hand and waited for the boy to come in. He held the umbrella and covered the heads of the two of them. In case the boy would be caught in the rain, he turned the umbrella to the boy's side and asked: " Cold?"
"Well, a little bit." The wind made his neck a little cold, and Qiao Minglang shrank his neck.
Although it doesn't snow here in Jiangcheng, it is also very cold in winter, especially in this kind of rainy weather, the air-conditioning can earn into the body along the collar, making people feel cold to the bone.
Having lived in this city for more than a year, Qiao Minglang didn't really like the weather here, and felt that winter was still too cold.
"Come closer to me, I'll protect you from the wind." Zhou Xing put his hands on the boy's shoulders, and pulled the boy toward his chest.
"Stop making trouble, let me go." With so many people coming and going around him, Qiao Minglang felt that it was not good for others to see.
Zhou Xing didn't think anything of it, and said, "It's so dark and it's still raining, no one will notice us. If someone notices us, we share an umbrella, what's wrong with getting closer?"
"..." Qiao Minglang, he was speechless.
The two returned to their place of residence from school. Although it wasn't raining heavily outside, their clothes were still a little wet because of the wind.
"Take off your clothes, I'll hang them outside to cool off." Qiao Minglang doesn't like this kind of weather, and another reason is that the clothes can't be dried after washing, and the clothes that have been in the sun for a few days don't dry, and they smell bad the stench.
If the clothes are stained with rainwater, if they are not dried, they will have a smell when they are put back on the body.
"Oh." Zhou Xing obediently took off his clothes, Qiao Minglang took the clothes, propped them up on a hanger and hung them on the drying rack outside the living room.
In this weather, he didn't even dare to put his clothes outside. He felt that the wind was blowing with a stream of water vapor, and the clothes hung outside would get wetter the more they were hung to dry.He felt that one of the biggest benefits of their moving here was that they didn't have to worry about having no place to dry their clothes on rainy days. There were only the two of them in this house, and they could hang clothes everywhere.
After the two of them brushed their teeth and washed their faces at night, they returned to the room where they lived.
From the first day they lived here, the two lived in one room, and the other room was vacant. There were also beds and quilts in it, but no one lived there.
His cousins would come to see them occasionally, so as not to let his cousin know that the two of them lived in the same house, and he would not be able to explain it at that time.
Even if it's just a show, Qiao Minglang doesn't really want his family to know about his relationship with Zhou Xing yet, but he will still have to face this issue in the future, but it's just postponed for now.
The weather has been cold for the past few days, and the beds they sleep on are covered with blankets, and they will be covered with quilts at night.
"Come up here and lie down and watch." Zhou Xing went to bed and warmed up the quilt. Seeing the boy sitting under the lamp reading a book, he patted the other half of the bed and asked people to cover the quilt on the bed and read.
When the two returned to their place of residence at night, they would usually continue to read for a while. Qiao Minglang glanced at the person who was recruiting him, and a smile flashed in his eyes.
In the end, he couldn't resist the warmth of the quilt, so he moved his buttocks and sat on the bed.
"I've called you here a long time ago, and you're going to sit outside. Look how your hands are frozen." Zhou Xing's body was hot and full of anger, and he had never cried out for being cold even in winter.
At night, the two of them slept under the quilt, Qiao Minglang felt it was just right, but Zhou Xing felt hot, if he didn't know that the daughter-in-law in his arms was afraid of the cold, he would have wanted to lift the quilt a little.
For the matter of warming his wife's bed, Zhou Xing is very enthusiastic and not obsessed. In fact, he prefers to sleep with the soft boy at night.Of course, he can't say this, otherwise he might be kicked out of bed by his wife.
"Hey! Don't move around." Qiao Minglang was still reading, and the people around him didn't know where to throw their textbooks, and they were harassing him for reading.
"Don't look, it's already so late, we have to go to school early tomorrow." Zhou Xing glanced at the small alarm clock by the bed, it was almost twelve o'clock.
He didn't know why this person was holding on to the book all day long, and after returning from self-study at night, he still read the book until twelve o'clock before putting it down, "You will ruin your body like this, listen to me, we will leave tomorrow Learn again."
Zhou Xing forcefully took the book away from the boy's hand and put it on the table.
"Hey...let me read it for a while, and I'll finish it soon." Qiao Minglang wanted to reach out to take the book back, but someone held his hand down.
Zhou Xing not only held down the boy's hand, but also turned off the bedside lamp, and dragged him into bed.
"Zhou Xing! Where are you moving!"
"...No, let me go..."
After a while, the sound of resistance and struggle came from the bed, but the sound of resistance gradually weakened in the back.
***
The ranking table of the mid-term exam came out. Qiao Minglang took the first place in the liberal arts class, Zhou Xing took the first place in the science class, and the two were tied for No.1 in the arts and sciences class in their grade.Of course, apart from them, there are quite a few students in the class who also did very well in the exam.
This grade's score list is just to let them know where they are, and the number of places is not very important to him.Rather, compared to the past, Qiao Minglang paid more attention to whether their own grades have improved or regressed. Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat.
But if they want to learn better than others, they still have to work harder on reading.
When it comes to studying, Zhou Xing relies on his brains. Others spend three times as much time studying, but he only needs to spend twice as much time, and with a little more effort, he can learn better than others.
Qiao Minglang was the person who got along with Zhou Xing day and night. Except for the school, the two of them spent almost all the time together, so he knew that Zhou Xing was really smart and his brain was better than the average person.
That's why Zhou Xing was able to catch up with him and surpass him in just one year.
But it's useless for him to be jealous of such things as talent, he is just an ordinary person and can only learn in ordinary ways.
There is another advantage of two people being together, that is, they can exchange learning experience, experience and learning methods.However, in the matter of reading, there is no shortcut for people to take, and they still have to go step by step.
"Hey hey, I got No.1 in the exam, do I need some rewards?" Zhou Xing wanted to get some substantive rewards from the boy rather than how many places he got in the exam.
"..." Qiao Minglang glared at this person, and asked, "I also got No.1 in the exam, who rewarded me?"
"Me, I can give you any reward you want." Young Master Zhou promised Haikou without exaggeration.
"...I don't want any rewards." Qiao Minglang felt that as long as this person didn't come to ask him for rewards, it would be fine, and he didn't want any rewards.
But Zhou Xing wanted a reward!
In the end, under Zhou Xing's persistent pestering, Qiao Minglang had no choice but to agree to cook him a big meal when he was on weekends.
***
After half a month of light rain gradually stopped, the sun came out, and the weather suddenly became better.
One of Qiao Minglang's happiest things was that he could pull out the pile of clothes in the house to dry in the yard.It happened to be Saturday, and the school was on holiday. Seeing the sun outside, he took off all the sheets and quilts that were sleeping on the bed, and threw them into the washing machine for washing.
The house they rented contained all the electrical appliances, all of which were pulled over by Zhou Xing.
There is a washing machine at home, which is convenient for him to wash all kinds of things.The clothes that the two of them usually change do not need to be washed by hand. They are all pushed into the washing machine for washing and then taken out to dry, which saves a lot of time.
"Is this okay? Is there anything else to hang?" Young Master Zhou used to not know how to do housework at home, but now he washes and cooks, and even lifts the washed clothes outside to dry. Not to mention how virtuous.
"There is still a sheet here, you didn't take it out just now." Qiao Minglang came out with a washed sheet in his hand, seeing that there was no place to dry it outside.
Today he washed too many things at once, and the clothes racks outside were already full of clothes.
So what to do now?He subconsciously looked at the people around him.
"There seems to be a rope at home. I can pull a rope here, and I'll pull a rope for you." Zhou Xing glanced at the distance between the window and a tree planted outside. It was not very far, and it was just enough to tie a rope to dry clothes.
I went into the house and found a rope, tied the two ends, and hung the quilt in the middle.
Qiao Minglang hung up the quilt in his hand, looked at the quilt blowing in the wind, and smiled...