Chapter 39: Burial of Flowers (Two in One)

Li Zhuangsheng will pass by a park on his way from home to school. July is the season when the lotus flowers are particularly red against the sun.

On a whim, he saw a lotus flower blooming by the lake, so he reached out to pick it off, took it back to class, put it in a mineral water bottle filled with water, and then put it on the table to enjoy it by himself, feeling quite satisfied.

Because he suddenly thought of the poem by Zhang Jixian, the 30th generation Taoist master in the Song Dynasty:
It has a faint red color and a delicate fragrance. It is half-open and sent to the mountain house. Just because it is pure and beyond dust, it is like the wind overwhelming all the fragrance.

This trip and feelings actually coincide with the Taoist Heavenly Master, and there are poems to back it up. It's really... so elegant!
As if he had had a soul exchange with this heavenly master that spanned thousands of years, Li Zhuangsheng's middle-class soul was greatly satisfied.

"Is this a lotus?"

Lin Yuehua walked over.

"Yes, I just picked it! Also, please call her Lotus!"

Li Zhuangsheng hummed.

"You grow it well, why do you want to take it off?"

"Tch, what do you know? So, how can a layman like you understand the detached interests of an elegant scholar like us!"

Lin Yuehua ignored Li Zhuangsheng's pretentious expression and just stretched out her hand to caress the petals lovingly.

"It's so beautiful." She couldn't help but say.

"If you like it, I'll give it to you!" Li Zhuangsheng waved his hand.

Lin Yuehua was a little surprised: "Really?"

Li Zhuangsheng nodded nonchalantly and took advantage of the situation to move the flowers to Lin Yuehua's table: "Anyway, we sit together and it doesn't matter which side we put them on. By the way, it can also cultivate a bit of elegance in you!"

Lin Yuehua nodded and gave the flower to Li Zhuangsheng again.

"You don't want it?" Li Zhuangsheng tilted his head.

"Yes, but I'll put it here with you." Lin Yuehua said matter-of-factly, "Put it on my desk to take up space."

"It won't take up much space on my desk!"

"Hmph, it doesn't take up my space anyway." Lin Yuehua hummed.

Damn it, I couldn't get rid of this troublesome thing. Li Zhuangsheng sighed deeply in his heart.

This thing is elegant, but it is really inconvenient to put it on the table. Not only does it take up space, but the water inside can easily spill out.

After class, he found a knife and cut half of the mineral water bottle, so he didn't have to be too careful at last.

This lotus is very interesting. It closes in the morning and evening and opens at noon. I don’t know what kind it is. Lin Yuehua loves this flower very much and changes its water every day.

But this couldn't stop it from getting wilted day by day, until finally, the originally beautiful pink and white petals were completely stained with the color of decay.

Even so, Lin Yuehua still had no intention of throwing it away. But this flower is already dead. Who would keep a dead flower?
After the evening self-study was over, Li Zhuangsheng waited for Lin Yuehua to leave the class and secretly took the flowers out of the water bottle.

He wanted to throw the flowers directly into the trash can, but when he saw the filth and filth inside, he suddenly felt reluctant to let go.

Nature comes and goes clean, so how can it be filthy and fall into ditches?

He sighed inexplicably, took the dead flower downstairs, and gently placed it in the grass, thinking that maybe burying it here would be the best place to end up.

He stood up and left. The evening breeze slightly dispersed the heat in the air, and the moonlight was cold.

The next day, Lin Yuehua found out that the flowers had been thrown away and she was really angry. She said with a straight face, "Where are my flowers?"

Li Zhuangsheng felt a little guilty, but still acted confidently: "Throw it away, what a withered state the flowers have become!"

"Who told you to throw it away? Those are my flowers!"

"I gave it to you!"

"I'm going to be angry!"

"Okay, okay, I was wrong. I will pick another one for you today!"

"Humph!"

Li Zhuangsheng didn't eat lunch, so he made a special trip to the park to pick a new one. But there are no lotus flowers near the shore. The remaining lotus flowers are too far away from the shore and cannot be reached at all.

Reluctantly returning to school before lunch self-study, Li Zhuangsheng reluctantly reported the incident to Lin Yuehua.

"I can't pick it anymore. I'll give you another one next year!"

"Next year, everyone will graduate."

Li Zhuangsheng put the lotus leaf he had picked up on his head and winked in a funny way: "After graduation, it's not goodbye forever. How about I give this lotus leaf to you?"

She curled her lips and said seriously: "Put it on yourself, it looks pretty green."

When Li Zhuangsheng heard this, he hurriedly took off his cuckold. When Lin Yuehua saw this, she couldn't help but laugh.

"Idiot."

Li Zhuangsheng suddenly felt that she looked pretty when she smiled, and her eyes narrowed like crescent moons, very gentle.

He felt an inexplicable suddenness in his heart and actually blushed a little.

He looked away in panic, not knowing why he felt so guilty. As if to cover up his inner panic, Li Zhuangsheng put the lotus leaf on Lin Yuehua's head.

"I'm going to be angry!" Lin Yuehua squinted.

"Hey, don't..."

Li Zhuangsheng took off the lotus leaves from her head and put them on his head, making Lin Yuehua laugh again.

It's really pretty.

Lin Yuehua lay on the table and took a nap, no longer paying attention to Li Zhuangsheng. Li Zhuangsheng had nothing to do, so he secretly took out "Japanese Girls' High School Uniform Illustrated Book" written by Makoto Yasuda and read it. He bought this illustrated book from a bookstore for 40 yuan. It uses illustrations to show the girls' uniforms of various middle schools in Japan, and each illustration has an introduction printed in small print.

The second dimension is not easily accepted in rural schools like Xingpeng, not to mention that the Japanese uniforms in these illustrations show arms and legs, making them easy to laugh at, so Li Zhuangsheng looked at them with extra caution.

But after he became fascinated, he still relaxed his vigilance and heard a faint voice coming from next door.

"What are you looking at?"

Lin Yuehua woke up at some point, and a sudden sound almost frightened Li Zhuangsheng's soul out of her mind.

"This, this is not an unhealthy picture... it is a serious popular science atlas, introducing the uniforms of Japanese high school students!" Li Zhuangsheng explained stumblingly.

Lin Yuehua didn't say anything. She took it and turned over a few pages expressionlessly. She didn't scold him as obscene as Li Zhuangsheng imagined.

"It's very nice." Lin Yuehua returned the illustrated book to Li Zhuangsheng.

Li Zhuangsheng felt relieved and joked: "You want to wear it too?"

Lin Yuehua was very frank: "I can buy a few pieces to wear when I go to college. They shouldn't be expensive."

"This is the JK uniform. Oh, it's the uniform for female high school students over there. Are you still wearing the high school uniform when you go to college?"

Lin Yuehua shook her head, but Li Zhuangsheng felt that he should not discourage other people's hobbies. These were called school uniforms, but many of them were suitable for daily wear.

"Ahem, actually it's not impossible to wear this kind of clothes, but only people with thin legs look good in skirts. Do you have thin legs?"

Li Zhuangsheng coughed, thinking that since she was so thin, her legs must be very thin.

Lin Yuehua thought that Li Zhuangsheng looked down on her, so she unconvincedly rolled up the trouser leg that was closest to Li Zhuangsheng to her thigh to prove it to him. Li Zhuangsheng was stunned. Her legs were indeed very thin, but not to the point of being pathological. The surface looked very smooth and a little cold and pale.

He couldn't help but touch it. It's cool, smooth, and feels great, more comfortable than silk, like touching warm jade.

Lin Yuehua didn't expect Li Zhuangsheng to take direct action. Her legs trembled slightly, but she didn't stop him. She just watched him caress her.

Li Zhuangsheng finally came to his senses, his hands stopped awkwardly, his thoughts flying. In order to cover up, Li Zhuangsheng deliberately patted Lin Yuehua on the thigh.

"It's good. I feel like you've gained a little weight. I'm worthy of being called a Peking University talent. I already have a talent for raising pigs before I even entered Peking University!"

Li Zhuangsheng calmly let go of his hand.

Of course he didn't know whether Lin Yuehua had gained weight or not. This was the first time he touched her legs, but after all, she had been fed for so long, so she should have gained a little weight.

Lin Yuehua put down her trouser legs, nodded and said nothing.

Li Zhuangsheng bent down and concluded with a red face: "Not bad, your legs are quite thin, so you should be suitable for wearing a skirt."

This is also what he really thinks. Lin Yuehua is tall and has long slender legs. If she had a little more flesh, she would be perfect.

It seems that I need to increase the feeding efforts in the future!
Lin Yuehua glanced at Li Zhuangsheng, not showing the slightest joy at his affirmation, and studied silently.

"Hey, if you really get admitted to Tsinghua University, I will give you a set of clothes like this." Li Zhuangsheng poked it with the pen cap.

"You just want to see girls dressed like this, right?" Lin Yuehua sneered.

Li Zhuangsheng was immediately furious after being exposed: "How can you slander a good person? Love or not!"

Lin Yuehua said with a smile: "Yes, it would be a waste if you don't want it. If you give it to me now, I can wear it for you to see."

"Bah, you wish for it. I will only give it to you if you get admitted to Tsinghua University!"

Based on realistic considerations, Li Zhuangsheng felt that the probability of Lin Yuehua being admitted to Tsinghua University was very small, so small that it could be ignored. But his plan was that even if Lin Yuehua failed to be admitted to Tsinghua University, he would give her a sailor suit.

Although he didn't know the price of the sailor suit, Li Zhuangsheng thought that it was just a few pieces of cloth, and the most expensive one would be only two or three hundred yuan, which was enough to save up for food expenses for ten days.

His cell phone cost a thousand dollars, so a sailor suit is nothing to him!
Besides, Li Zhuangsheng himself also wanted Lin Yuehua to wear it for him to see, after all, he had never seen it in real life.

In the era when short videos were not yet popular, the Japanese sailor uniform that only existed in anime was the fantasy of almost every adolescent otaku.

Actually, since Lin Yuehua said so, it would not be impossible for Li Zhuangsheng to take advantage of the situation and give her a set. But he was very timid, and usually only watched gentle harem men in anime. He thought to himself, isn't it too frivolous to give someone that kind of clothes?

Giving someone clothes that expose arms and legs for no reason seems like you have bad intentions towards them.

So let’s wait another year, it’s less than a year anyway.

Midsummer has passed and September is here.

The first weekend of the new semester is usually a half-day holiday.

Before school was over, Lin Yuehua's eyes were eager to try, and she asked Li Zhuangsheng not to leave and that she would treat him to a meal.

"Have you made a fortune?" Li Zhuangsheng was surprised.

"The scholarship from the school has arrived." Lin Yuehua moved her lips and whispered to Li Zhuangsheng.

Just save the scholarship you received, or buy yourself a new pair of shoes. Look at how worn out your shoes are.
Li Zhuangsheng wanted to say that, but seeing the proud look in her eyes, he said, "Okay, then I'm going to give you a good beating today!"

The two walked out of the school one after the other, and Li Zhuangsheng prepared to take her to a small restaurant across the street.

Saying "severely ripped off" was just a joke, Li Zhuangsheng planned to just buy a hamburger and milk tea to get by.

Lin Yuehua refused to accept this, and pulled Li Zhuangsheng's arm, curling her lips and saying, "What good food is there in these places? Let's go eat something better!"

Oh, so you become arrogant just because you have money?

"It doesn't matter where we eat!" Li Zhuangsheng declined.

"Okay, come with me, I'll treat you to a good meal!"

Lin Yuehua forced Li Zhuangsheng to go with her without allowing him to object. When Li Zhuangsheng asked her what they wanted to eat, she was mysterious and refused to say.

After walking for a while, Lin Yuehua stopped at the entrance of RT-Mart supermarket and invited Li Zhuangsheng to go into the KFC nearby.

There are only two KFCs in the entire county. For ordinary students, this is the most upscale restaurant they can access on a daily basis.

"Let's go eat somewhere else. I don't really want to eat KFC." Li Zhuangsheng hesitated.

"I'm going to be angry!"

Lin Yuehua held Li Zhuangsheng tightly and glared at him. Li Zhuangsheng had no choice but to follow her in.

It was Lin Yuehua’s first time at KFC and she was obviously a little nervous. After entering, she stood behind Li Zhuangsheng.

"Have you been here before?" Lin Yuehua asked.

"I've been here...once or twice. It's quite expensive."

Li Zhuangsheng blinked his eyes. He had been here many times, but since the other party wanted to treat him to a good meal, he couldn't just say at this time, "It's nothing good, I was just here last week."

“This is my first time here…”

Lin Yuehua had no time to pay attention to these things at the moment. She curled up slightly, leaning close to Li Zhuangsheng, feeling as timid as Granny Liu when she first entered the Grand View Garden.

However, before Li Zhuangsheng could speak, she said the most arrogant words in a timid tone: "But it doesn't matter, I'm treating you, you can order whatever you want today!"

Li Zhuangsheng felt amused, but he didn't laugh at her. Instead, he thought she was straightforward and cute.

“Is there any ice cream here?”

"Yes, the cones here are okay, but the sundaes are not very good. The jam is too sweet."

Li Zhuangsheng was talking nonsense, but Lin Yuehua didn't seem to be listening, her eyes were fixed on the billboard in the store.

She was a little nervous, and whispered to Li Zhuangsheng to help her order an ice cream cone and a new hamburger that was advertised on the billboard. She also told Li Zhuangsheng to order whatever he wanted, and she would pay for it.

Li Zhuangsheng ordered a tender beef and ice cream cone, but before he could finish talking to the waiter, he heard Lin Yuehua pointing at the sign and saying in a slightly louder voice: "Hey, give me the family bucket..."

Li Zhuangsheng was stunned, and then immediately stopped him: "The family bucket is too much for the two of us to finish, so the whole family should eat it together."

"It's okay. If you two are students, you should be able to finish it." The waiter said at an inopportune time.

Li Zhuangsheng's mouth twitched slightly, and he looked helpless: "Okay, I don't want the tender beef and five-spice powder, since the whole family bucket has everything anyway."

However, the waiter may think that the two students in school uniforms don’t understand, so he kindly reminded them: “There is no tender beef in the family bucket.”

Li Zhuangsheng almost laughed out of anger, and thought to himself, thank you for your reminder, otherwise I would not have known that there was no tender beef and five-spice powder in the family bucket!

"I just don't want to eat tender beef and five-spice powder, cancel it for me!"

Li Zhuangsheng gritted his teeth and gave up the detour.

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yuehua, who finally realized Li Zhuangsheng's intention, immediately held him down and glared at him angrily: "I want the tender beef and five-spice powder, and the whole bucket, and give him a glass of juice!"

"I don't like juice, and the family bucket has Coke, so I don't need to order juice..."

Li Zhuangsheng spoke weakly, but Lin Yuehua pretended not to hear him. At least in this KFC, she no longer believed anything Li Zhuangsheng said.

(End of this chapter)