OEBSAS |Chapter 9

As for the Chen family, neither Shao Xian nor Chen Baizhou would care.

In Chen Baizhou’s heart, this was the happiest day he had lived since he could remember.

He had met a very, very good person, so good that it was impossible to describe at all.

When it was time for dinner, Shao’s father and Shao Yun had not come back either, but this kind of situation was very common in the Shao family. Shao Xian often could not see those two people when he was little.

“Xianxian, after you finish eating, watch TV for a while, then go take a shower and sleep. You’re not allowed to go to bed after nine o’clock at night, and neither is Xiao Zhou,” Cai Yalan deliberately said with a serious face.

Shao Xian nodded. “Got it.”

How sad, there was no smartphone now, so there was no way to lie in bed and live the life of a night owl.

Chen Baizhou was also very obedient. “Thank you, Auntie.”

After dinner, the two of them sat on the sofa and watched TV, after all they had studied for an afternoon and needed to relax a bit.

At this time, the TV was broadcasting Satellite TV News. After Satellite TV News finished, there would still be CCTV News. Shao Xian could watch anything, but considering Chen Baizhou, he switched it to the children’s channel.

The children’s channel was playing an animated show, a story about cats and mice, and it was pretty funny. Shao Xian had originally planned to watch it with Chen Baizhou, but as he watched, he ended up laughing first.

Chen Baizhou couldn’t see what was so funny, but seeing Shao Xian laugh, he followed along and laughed too.

The two of them watched for a while, and when the animation ended, it cut into commercial time.

Seeing that Chen Baizhou looked a little sleepy, Shao Xian stood up and said, “Take a shower first, then go to sleep.”

Cai Yalan had prepared a room for Chen Baizhou, right next to Shao Xian’s room, and it was more than who knew how many times bigger than the tiny storage room he had in the Chen family.

Chen Baizhou was very grateful in his heart, but he was penniless right now and did not know how to repay it. He was always thinking that if he earned money when he grew up, he would buy Shao Xian a bigger and more beautiful house!

He did not truly understand just how rich the Shao family was yet, so his thoughts were still a little childishly naive.

Shao Xian had provided him with two sets of pure cotton pajamas. The texture was very soft, and it would not hurt even if it touched his wounds. The bed in the room was very big, the quilt was clean and neat, and it gave off a fresh fragrance.

Chen Baizhou felt like he was dreaming.

A knock on the door suddenly sounded. The child froze, hurriedly ran over to open the door, and when he saw Shao Xian outside the door, he immediately pressed his lips together and smiled.

Shao Xian held a cup of milk and handed it to him. “Drink the milk before you sleep.”

The milk was warm. Chen Baizhou had never drunk it before, but that did not stop him from watching Chen Yu drink it every day.

He knew milk was very nutritious, but he had never known that milk could actually be this delicious.

Chen Baizhou gulped it down in one go. He was planning to go downstairs by himself to wash the cup, but Shao Xian pushed him back and snatched the cup away, saying, “Go to sleep. I’ll do it.”

In Second Young Master Shao’s heart, as a thirty-year-old grown man, of course he should take more care of the little kid.

But in Chen Baizhou’s heart, Shao Xian was like the prince in a fairy tale who saved the princess. How could he let him do these things for him?

“Can I wash it myself?” Even when he asked this, he was careful, fearing that Shao Xian would be unhappy.

Seeing that he insisted, Shao Xian thought about it and realized that he did not want to raise a useless person either. Children did indeed need proper independence, so he let him be.

After Chen Baizhou washed the cup, he lightly went upstairs into the room, then turned off the light and fell asleep.

Even in his dreams, there was the sweet fragrance of milk.

The next morning, Shao Xian was woken by the alarm clock. He reached out and turned it off, then continued sleeping.

He was still immersed in the dream of being thirty and did not want to wake up.

In the living room, Chen Baizhou was already neatly cleaned up and sitting properly on the sofa, with his old little schoolbag placed by his leg.

Seeing that Shao Xian still had not come down, Cai Yalan smiled at Chen Baizhou and said, “Xiao Zhou, can you help Auntie call Xianxian to get up? Xianxian has a huge grump when he wakes up, I don’t even dare to go. You’re his good friend, he will definitely listen to you.”

She had never seen her own son care so much about anyone before, and Chen Baizhou looked very obedient, so she found a chance for the two of them to spend more time together.

When Chen Baizhou heard this, he was very happy in his heart. He quickly stood up and ran upstairs. “Auntie, I’ll go right now.”

He went upstairs and gently opened Shao Xian’s bedroom door.

The curtains around the bed in the room were drawn very tightly, not a single ray of light leaking in, and it was so dim that things were a bit hard to see clearly.

Chen Baizhou tiptoed over to Shao Xian’s bedside. Seeing that Shao Xian was sleeping very soundly and sweetly, he actually could not bear to call him up for a moment.

He just stood by the bed, thinking: Shao Xian is really good-looking, the best-looking person he has ever seen!

But thinking of Cai Yalan’s instructions, he became a little troubled again. Should he wake Shao Xian up or not?

A few seconds later, he decided to fight for a little more sleep time for Shao Xian.

Chen Baizhou ran into the bathroom, helped Shao Xian squeeze out the toothpaste and get the rinse water ready, then ran back to the bedside and softly called out once.

The person on the bed had no reaction.

Chen Baizhou called again, raising his volume a little.

Still no reaction.

He pressed his lips together and had no choice but to keep calling while reaching out to push Shao Xian’s arm.

Shao Xian dreamt that after his bid failed, he angrily took the elevator with his assistant. Just as the assistant was about to press the button, Fu Baizhou appeared with people at the elevator door.

He was just about to tell Fu Baizhou to wait for the next ride, making it clear that he did not want to share the elevator with him, when Fu Baizhou had already brought people in.

Several assistants stood in front, and two big bosses stood behind.

The elevator went down one floor, the door opened, and more people squeezed in.

An assistant accidentally stumbled backward. In order to avoid being stepped on, Shao Xian startled and moved aside, and accidentally bumped into Fu Baizhou’s arm. Fu Baizhou reacted extremely quickly and reached out to steady him.

Then he woke up.

He saw a little kid by the bedside staring at him eagerly, with a finger still lightly poking his arm.

“You’re awake!” The child’s face immediately bloomed with delight.

Shao Xian turned his head to look at the alarm clock. Oh, he had overslept by ten minutes.

“Thanks for waking me up. Otherwise I would’ve been late.” Shao Xian felt a little headache. He was only in fourth grade now, and he still had to go through more than ten years of school again. It was really terrifying.

Should he choose to skip grades?

Thinking that, he went into the bathroom, closed the door, unzipped his pants, and started to pee.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at the toothbrush and rinse water prepared on the washstand, and he was slightly stunned. Then he chuckled, and his heart could not help but feel a little warmed.

There really were not many boys this considerate and thoughtful.

He quickly finished brushing his teeth and washing his face. After coming out of the bathroom, he was just about to say thanks, but saw that the child was already gone.

In the end, he put on his clothes, picked up the little schoolbag, and ran downstairs to eat breakfast.

Cai Yalan could not help but lecture him. “Xianxian, you’re already this old, so you are not allowed to sleep in anymore in the future. Xiao Zhou has been waiting for you early on.”

Shao Xian nodded repeatedly. He decided that next he would perform well and get his mom to agree to let him skip a grade next semester!

After breakfast, Shao Xian and Chen Baizhou got into the Shao family car together. Cai Yalan had something to handle and happened to be going along the same way.

When the car drove to the entrance of the neighborhood, they saw Qian Wenjie standing beside the Qian family car and waiting.

“Xianxian! Xianxian! I’m here!” Qian Wenjie ran over impatiently and was not polite at all as he asked Cai Yalan, “Auntie Cai, can I ride in your family’s car? I want to go to school with Xianxian.”

He felt that he had miscalculated. If they were not in the same car, how could that count as going to school together?

Wang Shufen ran over with an apologetic face and said awkwardly, “Madam Shao, the child is being inconsiderate and causing you trouble.”

Cai Yalan quite liked Qian Wenjie’s liveliness and did not mind at all. She smiled gently and said, “It’s fine, it’s no trouble. If you don’t mind, how about letting Xiaojie go with Xianxian?”

Of course Wang Shufen also hoped that her son could make new friends, and moreover it was the Shao family second young master. If this honor had been placed before, she would not even have dared to imagine it.

“Mom, I want to go to school with Xianxian!” Qian Wenjie tried to fight for a chance for himself.

Shao Xian could not stand his stupid look, so he reached out and opened the car door. “Get in.”

Qian Wenjie was like an eel, whoosh, he shot into the car. Wang Shufen could not even pull him back in time, so she had no choice but to let him go and kept thanking Cai Yalan repeatedly.

The car started moving again.

There were three little friends sitting in the back seat of the car. Qian Wenjie talked a lot, chirping nonstop, all about Ultraman beating up little monsters, or how awesome the martial heroes in TV dramas were and the like.

A thought stirred in Shao Xian’s mind, and he directly asked, “I want to learn martial arts. Do you want to join too?”

When training in martial arts, Qian Wenjie should not have that much to say anymore.

“Do you mean stirring water jars?” Qian Wenjie got excited. “I tried many times at home, but not only did I fail to learn it, I also got beaten by my mom.”

Shao Xian smiled. “Want to join? Give me a straight answer.”

“Yes!”

Chen Baizhou had been silently watching the two of them chat. Qian Wenjie really knew how to talk, and even Shao Xian was attracted by him, still with a smile on his face. It would be great if he could be like Qian Wenjie.

But he could not do it. He was afraid of saying the wrong thing.

And the things they were talking about, he had never seen any of them, and had never heard of them either. He could not get a word in at all.

Perhaps because he was too quiet, Shao Xian finally noticed this. He turned his head and saw the little kid’s eyes bright and sparkling as he looked at them talking, and could not help but smile. “Why aren’t you talking?”

The red veins in Chen Baizhou’s left eye had already faded. His eyeballs were like black obsidian, looking very bright, yet at the same time seeming to hide a lot of depth. Combined with his thick, long eyelashes, he looked extremely mysterious.

And if one looked carefully, the color of his irises was a little different from that of ordinary East Asians. There was a hint of blue in the pupils, shining with a gemstone-like light.

It was said that the ancestors of the Fu family moved across the ocean during the war-torn years, took root and sprouted there, and married and had children with foreigners, so now the people of the Fu family were basically all mixed-race.

That made the unusual eye color make sense.

But aside from the eye color, the most eye-catching thing was still that tear mole.

Shao Xian looked for quite a while, and Qian Wenjie also looked over with him. He had not noticed it just now, but seeing it up close now, he could not help exclaiming, “Chen Baizhou, your eyes are really pretty!”

Although his right eye was still a little swollen, it did not stop the left eye from being worthy of praise.

The first time Qian Wenjie saw Chen Baizhou was in the Shao family’s garden, and at that time the child was in a terrible state. Later, in the hospital, Chen Baizhou’s eyes were covered with bandages again, and his face was bruised and purple all over, so you could not tell what he looked like at all.

Now the child was dressed neatly and properly, the redness in his left eye had faded, and his original appearance was revealed. He was truly stunning.

Children are the most honest looks-obsessed people. Qian Wenjie looked at him for a full few seconds, then heard him say, “Shao Xian is prettier.”

He then turned his head to look at Shao Xian and suddenly felt a bit self-closed.

These two were so good-looking, so why had he been so careless as to want to become friends with them!

Just as Qian Wenjie was regretting things and beating his chest in anguish, the car stopped.

“Xianxian, Xiao Zhou, Xiaojie, school is here, time to get off,” Cai Yalan said with a gentle smile.

The three children got out of the car, waved goodbye to Cai Yalan, and then walked toward the school gate together.

Fourth grade was on the same floor. After going up to the fourth floor, Shao Xian led Chen Baizhou and parted ways with Qian Wenjie, heading toward Class One.

It was still before morning reading, and the classroom was noisy and bustling. Shao Xian stood outside the classroom and did some psychological preparation for himself. After all, for a thirty-year-old uncle to follow a group of little radishes in reading and studying together, it still took quite a bit of courage.

He took a deep breath and stepped into the classroom. The classroom suddenly fell silent.