Chapter 19: WiFi Signal
Translator: マイ
§§§ Happy Friday, Haha. Not edited.§§§
PS: I have no idea why this ch appear on LAMMLR link in NU (˵¯͒ བ¯͒˵) did I use the wrong link? No. Wrong tag? No. Wrong category? No.
During the Winter Solstice, just before the end of semester, in order to relax their students from the upcoming stressful exams, the school held an event, and all the teachers were told to go early to prepare. No matter how early he had to prepare, to Xiao Yao, who had the habit of running early in the morning, was of course an easy task.
The Winter Solstice, also known as midwinter, is the day with the shortest period of daylight and longest night of the year, when the Sun is at its lowest daily maximum elevation in the sky.
After changing his clothes, Xiao Yao came out and stood at his door. Even though the light to his room was broken, from the faint light shining between the stairs, he could see that Ti Xiao’s room, which was opposite of his, was tightly closed.
After he finished running a few laps of his morning runs around the park near the community, Xiao Yao caught a glimpse of a gym across the street which displayed a number of discounts and concessions on the billboard light.
Before going back, he went around and bought a voice-activated light bulb.
When he returned home to make breakfast, Xiao Yao’s mind was full of thoughts of going to the gym with Little Bunny.
The result of doing two things at a time, made his hand shake, causing more water to add on the glutinous rice, and the breakfast for one person became for two.
After thinking about it, he still couldn’t bear to waste food. And after a careful consideration, he pulled out the plastic box, heated up a few steamed creamy custard buns, fried some vegetables, then stuffed them all in the box and came to Ti Xiao’s door.
In the morning, after finishing his morning jog, Xiao Yao often saw the delivery brother put breakfast in the box at the door of Ti Xiao’s room.
But today he didn’t see the delivery brother and the box was empty.
What had happened yesterday was still vivid; he remembered meeting Li Yi while having dinner with Little Bunny and then Xiao Yu had a fever.
It was him who invited the other person out for dinner, and it was also him who threw the other person off for his own matter.
Xiao Yao took out his phone to turn on the WLAN. Seeing the WIFI signal that seemed to say “I won’t give you even a bit of accession”, he unconsciously curled up the corners of his lips.
“The Winter Solstice is the day when the sun directly hits on the Tropic of Capricorn. It’s the day when the sun is at its lowest at noon, and it’s also the day when the northern hemisphere gets the least sunshine.” The Geography teacher spoke. She was an elderly female teacher, with a stern face and a slightly fat figure. She was holding her chubby hands behind her back speaking in the Popular Science office.
“Teacher Li, please don’t repeat it anymore.” The Math teacher was a young man with a high spirit, energetic kind of person. After saying that, he proudly raised his eyebrows. “Let’s go, Teacher Chen, let’s go to the cafeteria to make dumplings, and whoever makes less will sleep in the study.”
Teacher Chen, who taught Chemistry, looked at him with disdain. The thought of “childish” came to his mind and he snorted. Then walked out of the office with the Math teacher following behind.
The so-called stress-reducing school events before the end of semester was the activity that teachers make dumplings for their students.
The female students in several classes were clamoring to eat dumplings made by the English teacher, and they gathered around Xiao Yao one by one.
“Teacher Xiao, can you secretly wrap me a coin in the dumpling? I promise to take the test over 120 next time.”
“Teacher, I want coins too!”
Xiao Yao, who was being looked up to by the female students’ expected eyes, stood in front of the canteen counter, with a dumpling wrapper and a pile of meat on it in his hand, feeling dazed.
He couldn’t make dumplings.
He knew how to cook, whether it was frying, grilling, or boiling, he could adapt to everything relating to cooking skills.
But in the pastry category, like wrapping dumplings, his accomplishments were zero. It might have something to do with no one taught him to make dumplings when he was young.
“Wrap it like this.” The Geography teacher came over and demonstrated to him several times, “fold the dumpling wrapper in half, and then…”
Xiao Yao tried several times on his own, but each time was a failure. It was either the dumplings couldn’t hold up, or it couldn’t be wrapped because there was too much stuffing. The dumplings he made looked ugly and didn’t match their master’s appearance at all. However, no matter what appearance his dumplings turned out to be, the group of female students would rush to snatch it and eat it all.
At this time, his mind was drifting elsewhere.
On that day, meeting the Little Bunny while he was drawing on the blackboard for the Winter Solstice. And The Winter Solstice was to eat dumplings.
“Teacher Xiao, someone is looking for you outside. You can leave it here and go ahead.”
Naomi and Xiao Yu were waiting outside.
To have two foreigners standing there, they attracted a lot of students’ attention as they walked out of the classroom to participate in the event activities.
“Brother, hug!” Xiao Yu couldn’t wait to reach out for a hug as soon as he saw Xiao Yao.
“Come down and walk by yourself.” Xiao Yao came out in a hurry, he didn’t even have time to wipe off the flour on himself.
Xiao Yu was even more restless, he got off from his sister, then bouncing up and down on his two hands on the ground like a little bunny.
There were more and more students gathered around, and most of them gathered just to amuse this cute little guy, while giving him snacks.
“Let’s go.” Xiao Yao sighed as he took the tissue Naomi handed over and wiped his hands, then picked Xiao Yu up and walked to the school cafeteria.
The private high school had all kinds of hardware facilities. Even the cafeteria had four floors, while the top floor was a coffee shop. Xiao Yao ordered a cup of hot milk for the little guy, and a cup of coffee for himself and Naomi.
“Did something happen for you to come all the way here?” Xiao Yao asked as he folded his hands together.
The last time Naomi contacted him was through phone calls and WeChat. Moreover, he went to the hospital last night only because Xiao Yu was sick.
“Dad is back today,” Naomi said.
Just as Naomi’s words ended, Xiao Yao’s folded hands tightened suddenly.
Both of them tacitly didn’t continue this topic. Xiao Yu, who sat by Xiao Yao’s side, pulled his sleeve, yelling “Pudding!”
A long while later, Xiao Yao raised his hand and touched Xiao Yu’s head, and asked, “Did he say anything?”
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After the chatterbox Ti Nanyi left, the whole room seemed to return to silence. Ti Xiao coughed a few times feeling his hands and forehead were a little hot. When he was sick, even Xiao Hulu wouldn’t want to approach him.
Fortunately, the recent work had been completed. Aside from completing his unfinished task for readers, there seemed to be nothing else to do.
The group WeChat used for home sent a message saying that Ti Xiao would come back to eat dumplings at night. However, after he became independent and started living alone outside, rather than making them worry about himself, he would always come up with good news whenever he went to visit them. If Ti Xiao’s mother knew that her precious son was sick, she would definitely feel distressed.
Ti Xiao discussed with his family for a while, beating about the bush, he never got to the main point.
On the afternoon of the Winter Solstice, the north wind was surprisingly strong. Sitting indoors holding a cup of hot water, listening to the sound of the wind whistling outside the window, Ti Xiao, who seemed to overcome any difficulties in the past, right now was considering whether to go out to see a doctor or not.
Seeing the number on the thermometer had almost reached 40, and for the sake of saving his little life, Ti Xiao wrapped himself with 3 layers of clothes, deciding to go to see a doctor.
There was a small clinic near the block and it took him about fifteen minutes to walk there. The gym that Ti Xiao mentioned before was also on the way to the clinic.
Recovering his health was important, but flirting with the man was even more important.
When Ti Xiao pushed open the gym door, because he was in a little daze, he almost ran into a person who was about to go out.
“Handsome guy…” After seeing the new customer, the gym trainer greeted him enthusiastically. It was usual for him to see cute boys and beautiful girls, but he was dumbstruck seeing Ti Xiao, who was wearing a mask and wrapping himself like a ball.
However, no matter how he dressed himself or even if his style was a little silly, when it came to business, it was different.
“Do you want to apply for a membership card, dear? We have recently had a winter season discount. You can save up to 388 for the first 3 months, a good price to offer, which is very cost-effective.” As he said, he flipped open an advertisement page and handed it to Ti Xiao.
“These fitness facilities are first-rate. The treadmills have recently been replaced. There are also newly opened swimming pools and badminton halls downstairs.”
“If you don’t want to sign for the first 3 months, we still have a one-year program, so you will get 688.”
The degree of self-promotion which the trainer applied to boast the membership card was comparable to that of Ti Nanyi boating for her teacher. When he heard the trainer speaking, Ti Xiao’s head hurt, his temples jumped suddenly, and the various numbers on the advertisement page that fell into his eyes blurred.
He vaguely saw the above was probably a four-digit number, starting with “1”.
Ti Xiao was in a very poor state and his head was dizzy. He just wanted to quickly finish the membership card and prescribe some medicine and go home to sleep. When he was about to take out his wallet, the sound of the door opening together with a gust of cold wind blew from behind, bringing in the smell of fresh snow, making his mind sober for a moment.
Xiao Yao saw Ti Xiao as soon as he stepped into this gym.
He was like a ball wrapped in light gray-blue outfits.
Suddenly, his mood became better.
The other person didn’t seem to notice him yet, standing still, not knowing what he was talking about.
“Ti Xiao?” Xiao Yao walked over and patted him on the shoulder.
“Ah?” Ti Xiao raised his head, his nose was full of the fresh smell of the person in front of him, “You, are you here to apply for the card too?”
Although his brain was burnt, it didn’t seem to burn to an extreme. He still had a clear spot in his brain that was dedicated to the flirt.
Then he instantly remembered he was being boasted about the card member before and quickly changed his words, “I am… here to renew my card.”
He said in a very small voice as he nodded his head abruptly.
However, the trainer who wanted to promote the membership card, didn’t understand the situation. He also didn’t give Ti Xiao a face as he shook the advertisement page in his hand loudly. “There are discounts for new users here, especially suitable for you who have not applied for a card. It is very cost-effective.”
After hearing that, Ti Xiao wanted to hit someone.
This time, a good young man who was supposed to love sports, had fallen completely, turning into ashes. Even Tijiji wouldn’t be ab to recognize him.
(T/N: I’m not sure how to translate Tijiji, so I’ll just leave it at that.)
Xiao Yao stood aside, carrying a paper bag in his hand, which contained the ugly dumplings he cooked at school today.
After thinking about what Ti Xiao said before, combined with the current actual situation, his heart was clear and his mood was much smoother.
He lowered his head to look at Ti Xiao. A blushing as red as crimson was exposed on his skin. With a bashful mind and unconvinced speech, compared to the Little Bunny he met on normal days, this one in front of him was a thousand miles different from each other.
Ti Xiao really didn’t expect to meet Xiao Yao at this time of the day, he felt like his whole person was like an exposed dumpling right now.
Didn’t he say his working time was 9am to 5pm? But now it wasn’t 5pm yet.
Because Xuancheng was close to the north, even at this time of the day, the sky was dark. The colorful decorated lanterns were also beginning to shine as the sun slowly deviated from the Tropic of Cancer.
In this situation, where his pretense was being exposed, Ti Xiao really didn’t know what to say. He didn’t even know where to put his hands, and the whole person was at a loss. In addition, there was also a fever that burned a string in his head, and his IQ arrears became negative.
Ti Xiao bowed his head, digging his soles with his toes, hoping to make a hole out of it.
Suddenly, a slightly cool touch touched his forehead, and he could feel that the touch was from the flesh of a palm.
As the two extreme temperatures collided, Ti Xiao’s eyes suddenly widened. As soon as he looked up, Xiao Yao’s face came in right in front of him, and the smell of fresh snow also came along.
“Are you having a fever?” Xiao Yao asked in a deep voice.
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