Chapter 32: Grape Flower (1/2)

Tang Jinyu was smashed by the walnut and had a psychological shadow. When he came to eat oranges next door at night, he didn't dare to wear a sweater.

Xia Ye went out to throw trash and stood at the door and asked him, ”Follow me?”

The child immediately put down his orange and went with him.

Xia Ye took some thoughts of compensating him, and after throwing away the trash, he took him for a walk, and went to the small shop at the gate of the community to buy Mimi Shrimp Crackers. Xia Ye bought him ten packs of snacks for fifty cents a pack, stringed a long string and hung it around the child's neck, coaxing him: ”Eat and play, go home to wash your hands after eating, don't eat too much at a time, you know?”

Tang Jinyu nodded happily, counting all the way when Xia Ye held him back, it was so beautiful.

Xia Ye felt that his younger brother was a little silly, but he was silly and cute, and he was in a good mood when he was so happy.

After a short walk outside, Xia Ye sent the child home.

”Orange…”

”I'll eat it tomorrow. It's cold. I can only eat half of it today. I'll give you two pieces of candy tomorrow morning.”

Xia Ye continued to talk with him, he didn’t really need to give him anything, since Tang Jinyu is already obedient enough, but everyone has a strange psychology. Whenever children cry and make a fuss to get what they want is normally annoying to deal with, but Tang Jinyu was different, he nods his head obediently and does not ask for anything that it’s almost painful, and he can’t but want to buy him more things.

Tang Jinyu was really obedient and went home.

When Xia Ye returned home, a guest came from his house, who was also a resident in the tube building. Most of the people living here are from the same old unit, and they are familiar with each other. Teacher Xia does not work at the Engineering Academy, but his father used to work here, so he is also familiar with these old residents. The one who came to visit today is Aunt Sun on the fifth floor. The child in her family is one year younger than Xia Ye and is in their third year of middle school. She didn't often communicate with them before, but ever since the banner of No. 1 in the city was posted, she has become more enthusiastic about Xia Ye and his father.

She came here to borrow Xia Ye’s textbook from middle school and wanted to take it back to show her son, but Xia Ye's book was brand new. She looked through it and smiled and said, ”Teacher Xia, is it convenient for you to find Xiaoye's notes in class? I don’t see much on here…”

Teacher Xia apologized: ”Xia Ye's notes were borrowed from someone else before. The other party said that they copied them, but they haven't returned them yet. I'll send them to you when they return it.”

Aunt Sun looked regretful, she herself was a little careful, thinking that the person probably didn't plan to pay it back.

Xia Ye didn't say a word after he came in. He had no notes, and he only looked through his books.

Aunt Sun saw Xia Ye and she smile again, and wanted to ask him if he had time for counseling on Saturdays and Sundays. Without waiting for Xia Ye to speak this time, Teacher Xia directly refused, ”Xiaoye is busy with his classes, and his school is strict. Although they have always said that they are not allowed to make up classes, they are not closed on Saturdays and only have half a break on Sundays.”

Aunt Sun smiled reluctantly and said, ”Yes, he must be busy being in such a good school.”

After sitting for a while, she took away the two junior high school textbooks from Xia Ye. There has never been such a good student in the building. Even if there is no key point on them, it's better to take them back to read them, maybe it could bless her son, and make her son score much higher in his exam!

After she left, Xia Ye asked his father, ”Dad, didn't you sell those books before?”

Teacher Xia shook his head and said a bit of a pity: ”I originally wanted to keep it as a memory”

Xia Ye smiled, ”That book is the same as the new one. If you want, I will go to the bookstore and buy a set for you to keep.”

Teacher Xia was still reluctant to give up, ”If Xiaoyu goes to school in the future…”

”It's still early for him to go to school. After a few years, I don't know if the textbooks are going to be the same. It's useless for you to keep them.” Xia Ye was indifferent, ”I bring those books back to sell them, but it’s fine to give them away now.”

There are many people in the building, so giving away a few books is not really a big deal.

Xia Ye went back to his bedroom to turn on the computer, and chatted with Han Yichen and the others for a while. Han Yichen is now working hard in order to earn internet fees. When doing remote maintenance, he can't wait to be one of the top ten. The work that Xia Ye assign him was easy, and he is particularly addicted to doing it.

They had a chat room for their work. There are very few people, except for Han Yichen, who is from Qizhou City. Old Ape was not there, and the juniors he has asked for help are all there.

Those people in Qizhou didn’t know that there were two teenage boys on the Internet. The schoolboys that Old Ale looked for didn’t know much about computers. One of them was still in marketing. They subconsciously felt that these computer experts had some strange temper. Therefore, Han Yichen's flamboyant temperament was more in line with their cognition of experts.

These people firmly believe in Han Yichen's identity as a ”high-achieving student in North Qing Dynasty”.

After Xia Ye talked with them about work, he asked, ”Where is Old Ape?”

There was a unified response, all saying that they didn't know.

Han Yichen said: ”Let me ask.”

Xia Ye quit the chat room and wrote the program for a while. After a while, he received a private chat dialog from Han Yichen. Student Xiao Han ran over to him mysteriously and told him: ”Old Ape had his heart broken by someone.”

Xia Ye: ”Old Ape told you that?”

”No, I looked around his computer.”

”…Did you hack into his computer again?”

‘We are all good brothers, besides am I not doing this out of concern? I don’t have time to ask him about these trivial matters!’ Han Yichen continued to type excitedly, ”Doesn't Old Apr like to write sappy… poems? his poems these days are not the same as normal. I've read them before and they are all complaints about a girl, it seems like he has a deep relationship with her, and has been chasing her for several years! ”

In order to prove his words, Han Yichen also took a few screenshots and sent them over. As expected, Old Ape seemed very depressed in his poems. The previous waves of energy were gone, and there was a faint resentment between each sentence.

Han Yichen: ”Old Ape Computer is moving, let's go see him!”

Xia Ye: ”Okay.”

The two of them hacked Old Ape’s computer and flicked the screen to find him. When the text box that took up most of the screen popped out, Old Ape jumped.

Han Yichen asked about the current situation of Comrade Old Ape. The typing speed was too fast and the screen scrolled down.

Old Ape was sad.

He has been offline for several days.

He didn’t hide it from Xia Ye and the others, and sighed, ”I was rejected by my male god.”