Invade the World

  Chapter 186 Summer popsicles are sweet

  Xu Xiangyang and Zhu Qingyue left the school gate and hid under the shade of the trees on the side of the road to enjoy the cool. Watching the buses coming and going in front of them, they talked quietly under the pavilion.

  After he slowly sorted out his thoughts and spoke out, the squad leader beside him opened his ruddy little mouth slightly, looked at him blankly, and replied after a while.

   "It's really a blessing for you to have such an idea."

"Is there a problem?"

   "It's amazing. This angle is unthinkable to ordinary people. It's really you."

  The squad leader specially emphasized the pronunciation of the word "you", which sounded more like a mockery.

"……I was serious."

  Xu Xiangyang frowned.

   "I know. Think about it, this idea fits your personality."

  Zhu Qingyue sighed.

   "No wonder you called me out, it turned out to be my consent."

"That……"

The squad leader thought for a moment.

  Xu Xiangyang stared at the girl’s fair and flawless face a little nervously.

  He suddenly had a peculiar and keen feeling: He felt that Qingyue clearly wanted to refuse at first, but after considering it for a long time, she still chose to nod her head in agreement.

  "This is a good thing for me. I was still thinking about how to get a relationship with Xingjie. However, you still have to speak, I won't help you."

"of course."

   Xu Xiangyang breathed a sigh of relief and replied.

   "Well, now that you have made up your mind, I won't comment on this topic."

The squad leader stroked the hair tossed by the hot summer breeze, and the thin black coat was tightly pressed against the girl's skin, drawing a delicate and graceful figure.

  Xu Xiangyang couldn't help but look at her a few more times.

   "Tell me about the next thing. You plan to make Xingjie happy, specifically?"

  "I have been thinking about this. The most basic way is to make a delicious dinner."

   "Yeah, Xingjie seems to be a bit gluttonous...Which restaurant do you want to go to? I'll call to make a reservation."

   "No, I can do it myself."

  Speaking of this, Xu Xiangyang is full of confidence.

   "Hmm~"

  Sir squad leader smiled slightly.

   "Then, let's go to the vegetable market together."

  ……

  The largest food market nearby is not far away. After buying the food, go back to the bus station, where the two will be separated.

  The afternoon sun is poisonous and spicy, shining dizzy and dizzy, until you enter the vegetable market, the shady atmosphere is refreshing.

  Nearby residents generally do not pick this spot to buy food, but the market is still very lively, and pedestrians carrying big bags and small bags rush to and fro.

  The dirty ground can no longer see the original color. The sewage flows through the gaps between the tiles and into the sink; occasionally, a few cabbage leaves that have been trampled by people can be seen.

  Some of the vendors passing by were taking a nap, some reading the newspaper in the cold, and some even shouting weakly to the two passing by.

  In the afternoon, they had plenty of time. They chatted and wandered around, comparing prices and quality among the various vendors, like a couple who are very calculating and budget-conscious.

  Fortunately, the uncles and aunts at the vendors looked at the two of them so young and thought they were helping adults to buy vegetables, and their attitudes were very good. Especially the squad leader, who wouldn't like a big girl who is as cute and beautiful as a doll?

They walked slowly past the shops and saw live fish swimming around in the white plastic foam boxes. The slender water pipes inserted into the water surface "cuckled" with bubbles; the iron hooks hanging from the ceiling were hung with large A piece of bright red plump pork.

  There are also cages with chickens and ducks eating feed, making noisy noises. As soon as the squad leader saw this kind of place, he would drag him away quickly, because the smell there would generally be unpleasant.

  Xu Xiangyang couldn't help but look at her clothes and curled his lips.

  "Your outfit is a bit out of tune with this place. Aren't you afraid of getting dirty?"

  The girl's dress is fashionable and exquisite, and it feels only suitable for appearing in sunny and crowded streets, or in a building with air-conditioning, whistling and clear windows.

  Zhu Qingyue lowered her head, as if checking whether her clothes and sandals were stained with dirty water, she smiled and shook the shoulder bag in her hand.

   "Please, don't make a mistake. I'm just here to accompany you. You still have to take the food by yourself. I won't help you."

   "...then what are you doing with me?"

  "Help you choose, so that you don’t have a short time."

  Xu Xiangyang sighed.

  Not to mention other places, he feels that when it comes to housework such as grocery shopping and cooking, every perfect squad leader may not be able to outperform him.

   By the way, when Zhu Qingyue introduced her family situation, she once mentioned that the only members of her family were her and her mother, and the latter became seriously ill, and she usually had to take care of it...

  This means that almost all matters in the squad leader’s house are handled by her alone, right?

  Maybe, she is the most independent one in the trio.

However, seeing Zhu Qingyue carefully clutching his sleeves and following her step by step, for fear of being splashed on her clothes by the dirty water, her face has an expression of "I regret coming in with you"... It doesn't feel like someone who often comes to the market.

  She doesn’t even know the environment of this place, otherwise she wouldn’t actively propose to come inside while she is well-dressed.

   "I usually send someone to the door."

After hearing his question, Zhu Qingyue replied like this.

   "After all, I can't leave my mother alone for a long time."

  嚯, you really deserve to be the eldest lady. Xu Xiangyang thought, but just going out to buy a vegetable, can it be considered a "long time"? Does the squad leader tend to overprotect his mother?

  "Then you recently..."

  He couldn't help but ask.

  The two of them came out to play together on the rest day, and she took the initiative to propose it first.

   "It doesn't matter. Because recently, my mother's health has improved."

  When the girl talked about this topic, a cheerful smile appeared on her face unconsciously, and she could see that she was in a good mood.

   "That's it, that's great," Xu Xiangyang said with sincere emotion, "It must be thanks to Qingyue's meticulous care on weekdays?"

   "Hehe, my mouth is so sweet."

  Zhu Qingyue patted his arm with a smile, but the upward arc of the mouth became more obvious.

   "Then, Miss Qingyue who will take care of people like this..."

  Xu Xiangyang seriously raised his bandaged hand.

   "Surely you won't bear to let me be the wounded person, let me carry a big bag in this situation, right?"

  Zhu Qingyue blinked, and replied thoughtfully:

  "This is indeed a problem. How about I call someone who really loves you?"

"...This is a hot day, it's really a loss of what you said." Xu Xiangyang sighed. He didn't doubt that Xingjie would come to help with the big sun without saying anything after receiving the call, "You are really Xingjie. Friends?"

  The squad leader chuckled, seemingly disdain to answer such boring questions.

  Xu Xiangyang looked at her who couldn't get in with oil and salt. He had a whim in his heart and decided to tease her.

  That’s right, if it’s Miss Qingyue who doesn’t come to the market very often, the first time she sees that kind of scene, she will definitely suffer a lot of mental shock...

  When they came near a pork stall, Xu Xiangyang pretended to be choosing carefully, and at the same time whispered to the squad leader who was looking around boredly beside him:

   "Qingyue, you bend down and have a look."

"……what?"

  The girl tilted her head suspiciously.

   "You can see by looking down. It is a rare thing that ordinary people in the city rarely see."

  Xu Xiangyang tried to maintain the expression on his face.

   "Just put it under the table."

  Zhu Qingyue gave him a suspicious look.

  The intuition of the squad leader has made her vaguely aware that this guy is secretly messing up. But she obviously didn't notice other abnormalities, so she still failed to restrain her curiosity, and looked down...

"Ah ah--!"

  Just took a look, the girl almost jumped up out of place, panicking and grabbing his sleeve again.

   "Puff."

  Although he was mentally prepared, Xu Xiangyang couldn't help but laugh.

  It is rare for him to see the panic-stricken face of the squad leader, and this experience is still very interesting.

  Xu Xiangyang's eyes drifted down.

  ——Under the stand where the vendors display food, there is a huge pig's head, and the dead animal is staring at the outside world with a pair of gray eyes.

  This scene, if a short child accidentally saw it, it might become a childhood shadow for a lifetime.

  But the girl’s fierce reaction was still a bit unexpected.

  After all, the squad leader displayed in the haunted house, no matter how amazing scenes he saw, he was calm and calm, but he was still fresh in his memory.

   "I said you, you obviously see the kind that is about to soak into mud...Uh, anyway, I don't think you are like a coward."

  Xu Xiangyang stopped halfway through what he said.

  I saw the carrion and the floating corpse in the bathtub-this kind of words can't be said to the public.

   "It's different if you have and whether you are mentally prepared..."

  Zhu Qingyue blushed slightly, but she was holding the fingers of the boy's sleeve, but she still held on.

  ……

  After buying the raw materials needed for cooking, they are ready to leave the market.

  In the middle of the way, the squad leader who had recovered his condition went around enthusiastically, picked a bunch of dishes, and forced them into plastic bags, which she said were her favorite.

  Xu Xiangyang thought to herself, “I cooked this dinner for Xingjie. Why are you here to join in the fun”, but in the end, she still went with her.

"All right."

  Zhu Qingyue patted her palms with satisfaction.

  "I bought everything. Next..."

   "Well, let's go back."

  Listening to him, the squad leader rolled his eyes and pointed to the small shop across the road.

   "Before that, let's go to the roadside to buy some ice cream cold drinks. Sit down and rest for a while?"

"This……"

   "Look, I have been with you for so long, and I have long been tired and thirsty, and my body is too hot..."

  Zhu Qingyue fanned the edge of her mouth and spit out her pink tongue like a puppy to prove that she was really hot, and she quickly retracted her lips.

  From Xu Xiangyang’s perspective, you can indeed see a layer of fine sweat on the girl’s slender neck...

   "I, I know."

  Xu Xiangyang's heart was pounding, and he turned his face quickly.

  Every time the squad leader deliberately makes similar small actions, that look is really sensational. No matter how many times he watched it, he would feel his heart trembling, and he would subconsciously agree to anything she said, and couldn't resist it at all.

  ……

  Shortly after they walked into the cold drink shop, a young girl with long straight black hair seemed to be descending from the sky-in the true sense of "falling from the sky"-into the alley opposite.

  She wiped the sweat from her forehead, vaguely caught a glimpse of the young girl standing in the shop, and let out a sigh of relief.

   "Catch up."

   Lin Xingjie walked quickly across the road.

  *

Xu Xiangyang just took a popsicle from the freezer and opened the plastic bag after paying the money. A beautiful shadow flashed beside him, and at the same time, as a scent of fragrant wind hit, the squad leader stretched out his head and bit it. The popsicle in his hand.

  He was taken aback.

  Even if she is often caught off guard by this girl's sudden attack, Xu Xiangyang, who has become accustomed to a certain extent, is a little stunned at the moment.

  The boy stood on the spot, still holding the wooden stick of the popsicle in his hand, staring at the beautiful girl leaning down like a shark poking her head out of the sea, crushing the ice with a big mouthful.

"Well."

  Zhu Qingyue clutched her forehead. Her small cheeks were bulging, and fresh water marks overflowed from the corners of her mouth. She didn't know whether it was the saliva or the marks left by the ice pops.

  This way of eating is too wild...is it necessary?

  Xu Xiangyang looked at each other a little speechlessly.

  The squad leader frowned tightly, and he suddenly ate such a large piece of ice, which naturally felt sour and refreshing. However, Xu Xiangyang saw a little triumph in her eyes.

  It seems that this was done in revenge for the prank he had just done.

  Xu Xiangyang sighed, and had to stuff the remaining half of the popsicle into the hands of the squad leader, and walked to the freezer again.

  ——At this moment, he caught a glimpse of a flying blue silk passing by the end of the field of vision outside the window.

  Xu Xiangyang froze for a moment, thinking that he had read it wrong.

  ……

  However, he soon discovered that it turned out to be Lin Xingjie.

  ——Because, when she and the squad leader walked out of the shop, the long-haired girl stood under the eaves and waited for them.

  She hugged her arms and leaned against the wall behind her, her eyes half-closed and half-open, her sharp gaze glanced at the two of them diagonally.

  The hot air is floating on the empty road, and the view is slightly distorted as if covered by steam. A long wind blows across the street and shakes the curtain at the entrance of the shop.

  The quiet atmosphere enveloped the three of them for a while.

  "Didn't you two go singing K?"

  This is the first sentence. Compared with normal days, Lin Xingjie's tone was rather cold at this time.

  Xu Xiangyang and Zhu Qingyue looked at each other.

   "Let me think about it..." The squad leader tapped his chin with his finger, "If you know this, it means you came from elementary school, right?"

"Ok."

   Lin Xingjie cherishes words like gold.

  Xu Xiangyang is not curious about how she found the school.

   Psychic ability is basic, and the ability of psychics is stronger than that of ordinary psychics, let alone Lin Xingjie's special case.

  Most things Xu Xiangyang can do, his two good friends can actually do it, but there is a gap in fineness.

but……

  The first thought that came to his mind was: I ran out to find someone on such a hot day, so I was worried that she would have heatstroke.

why? What happened?

  Before asking, Xu Xiangyang thought for a while, tore open the packaging bag of the popsicle he bought newly, and walked quickly to the Rapunzel and handed it over.

   "Would you like to eat?"

  Lin Xingjie hesitated for a while, and finally gave up the cool pose of holding his chest with both hands, loosened his arms, and obediently took the popsicle in his hand.

  ……

Standing not far away, Zhu Qingyue quietly chewed the ice cubes in her mouth that had not completely melted. While feeling the cold sugar water in her mouth, she watched the long-haired girl slowly licking the popsicle with her tongue out. The overflowing smile seems to be affected by these two, becoming more sweet and charming.

  (End of this chapter)