Zhi Ying stood to the side and watched Jiang Wei get on the bicycle, and slowly sat on the back seat in the same rigid posture.
'It is a bit weird', thought Zhi Ying as she stared at Jiang Wei's back.
"...Zhi Ying?" Jiang Wei originally wanted to see if Zhi Ying was seated properly, but saw her seriously straddling the back seat.
"Mhm." Zhi Ying nodded and met Jiang Wei's eyes.
Jiang Wei sighed in his heart, but his expression was light as he advised, "You will feel better if you sit on your side."
Not to mention how stupid Zhi Ying's sitting posture was, her feet were even dragging on the ground like this, it wasn't comfortable.
Zhi Ying obviously didn't react, and looked at Jiang Wei with blank eyes.
Just at this moment, a boy next to him was driving his girlfriend by. Jiang Wei pointed to the girl sitting sideways behind him and said, "Like her."
Zhi Ying looked over and observed them carefully until they were far away from her sight and finally stood up again, "Oh, like this?"
Jiang Wei looked at Zhi Ying who was now sitting sideways and nodded, "Sit still, I'm leaving."
"Yeah," Zhi Ying muttered as she very naturally grabbed onto Jiang Wei's school uniform, just as she learned from the girl just now.
Jiang Wei froze, but quickly returned to normal, and calmly rode.
"Your driving skills are really good, I don't why I keep wobbling when I ride," Zhi Ying praised while sitting in the back seat and enjoying the smooth ride.
Jiang Wei remembered watching Zhi Ying ride her bicycle today, and couldn't help but offer, "I can drive you in the future, it's too dangerous to watch you ride a bicycle."
As soon as he said it, he began to regret his words. After all, the intention was way too obvious.
But just as she was, Zhi Ying didn't notice anything weird with his words. Instead, her eyes lit up, she thought this was quite good. Not only did it save her time, but she could also think about two more questions while sitting in the back and... it just happened that it'll help promote the relationship between the two of them!!
Thinking so, Zhi Ying immediately agreed, "Okay."
Jiang Wei tightened his grip on the handlebar, this was beyond his expectation, but a small sporadic smile began to appear on his face.
"Jiang Wei, what do you usually like to eat?" Zhi Ying asked as if chatting.
"What about you?" Jiang Wei threw the question back.
Zhi Ying clutched onto Jiang Wei's clothes, sat in the back and began to think about what she liked to eat, "My mother's stir-fried chicken with chestnuts, um... and winter bamboo shoots with shrimps."
After rambling on a lot, Zhi Ying realized that she hadn't heard what Jiang Wei liked, and quickly said, "Okay I said it, it's your turn."
The corners of Jiang Wei's lips curled up a little, and there was even a smile in his voice, "It's all good for me."
Before Zhi Ying frowned, Jiang Wei continued, "I really want to try what you mentioned."
This time Zhi Ying finally picked up the topic, "I can take you there to eat. There is a restaurant in the downtown area that has very authentic signature dishes."
"Will it be too much trouble for you?" Jiang Wei stopped at the crossroad ahead and turned his head while waiting for the green light.
Zhi Ying raised her head and said urgently, "No trouble, no trouble! I can take you there on the weekend." This would deepen the relationship between them, and it would definitely be much easier to date by then.
Zhi Ying squinted her eyes triumphantly at the thought of how quickly she progressed so much in a day.
Jiang Wei pretended not to see the expression of "come with me" that was about to overflow on Zhi Ying's face. He turned his head to look at the traffic light and continued, "We'll talk about it on the weekend, I'm not sure if I have time."
"Oh." Zhi Ying felt depressed for a moment, grabbing Jiang Wei's clothes and not speaking.
The journey was safe and Zhi Ying was safely delivered to the Zhi house. Jiang Wei looked at the unhappy Zhi Ying and couldn't help reaching out to stop her, "What time on the weekend?"
Zhi Ying turned around and lingered for a while, with a smile on her face again: "Do you want to go with me?"
Jiang Wei knew that Zhi Ying was overly enthusiastic regarding matters with him these days, but he still wanted to get closer to her.
"Mhm, I just thought about it. There shouldn't be anything important on the weekend."
Zhi Ying was overjoyed, but she still pretended to be calm. Though she failed terribly at it. "Then how about ten o'clock?"
"Anything is fine." Jiang Wei nodded in agreement.
Zhi Ying grinned, "I'm going home, so you should go back early too."
The next step would be to ask him what he liked, and give him more things that he liked. Eventually, Jiang Wei would definitely like her, wouldn't it be logical to become boyfriend and girlfriend?
Zhi Ying went up the stairs and thought happily, but after a while her face drooped.
It took money to buy things, and it seemed that the things Jiang Wei liked were very expensive! Then she would have to take out the money she earned during the summer break, what about the mathematics journals?
Zhi Ying, who was half sad and half happy, pushed open the door. Father Zhi who was sitting in the living room reading the newspaper saw the strange expression on Zhi Ying's face, and subconsciously asked, "What's wrong?"
"I don't have much money to buy a gift for a friend." Zhi Ying put down her schoolbag and muttered.
Because Father Zhi refused to give Zhi Ying the money to buy books before, she didn't ask her family for money afterward.
"Buy a gift for a friend?" Father Zhi paused and then said happily, "How much money do you want, Dad will give it to you."
As long as the child didn't spend money on studies all day long, he was still willing to pay. The family was not short of money anyway.
Zhi Ying glanced at her father suspiciously, she didn't expect him to be so generous today.
"Ying Ying, where's your bike today?" Lin Xiuyu came down from upstairs, but she didn't see Zhi Ying's tattered bicycle.
"Oh, it's broken, so it needs to be repaired." Zhi Ying turned to explain to her mother.
"What's the use of repairing that old thing? Just throw it away." Lin Xiuyu said helplessly, "It's too broken like that."
"But after a repair, I can still ride it." Zhi Ying murmured in a low voice, "It's very expensive to buy a new one."
"..." Lin Xiuyu felt helpless for her daughter's picky behavior, but she couldn't blame her.
"Then how did you come back? Did you take the bus? Next time, you can take a taxi home." Lin Xiuyu remembered that sometimes she felt sorry for her daughter when she saw the bus full of people on the side of the road.
Zhi Ying shook her head, "No, I came back with a classmate."
"Classmate?" Father Zhi asked with great interest, "Ying Ying seems to have made a lot of friends in high school."
"It's Jiang Wei. He moved over here because there is now an evening self study." Zhi Ying explained.
"It turned out to be that child." Lin Xiuyu subconsciously thought that Uncle Li drove Zhi Ying back by car.
Father Zhi took the initiative, "Do you want Dad to take you to school this afternoon?"
"No, dad, you can do your own business. Jiang Wei said that he will go to school with me in the afternoon." Zhi Ying replied as she glanced at the message she just received on her phone.