Chapter 30 Small moves

There is nothing wrong with having low emotional intelligence. The taciturn little Yang Zhi is more suitable to communicate more with the carefree Tao Shuxin.

Tao Shuxin has a good personality. She can face anything with the best attitude and won’t make people feel annoyed.

As expected, as soon as they stepped out of the milk tea shop, Tao Shuxin pulled Xiao Yangzhi away, and at the same time, she patted Xu Mingyuan’s arm lightly and asked him to stay away.

Yang Zhi looked back at Xu Mingyuan, and seeing him signaling for him to catch up, he had no choice but to go with the flow.

Xiao Yangzhi is not much different in height from the other girls, but she is after all a girl who has not yet graduated from junior high school. One can tell at a glance from her appearance and temperament that she is much younger, as if she has a little sister with her.

The mall has five floors in total. It is neither big nor small. The first and second floors are basically jewelry stores and boutiques. The students didn’t have much money, so they went straight to the women’s clothing store on the third floor.

Xu Mingyuan never thought about accompanying the little girl around. When he saw a bench for people to rest, he sat down, picked up a magazine beside him and started flipping through it.

Seeing Xu Mingyuan so happy that he ignored them, Tao Shuxin ran over from the clothing store and grabbed him, “Please don’t ruin the mood. We won’t bring you next time.”

“You want me to come but I won’t. If there was no one to accompany my sister, do you think I would come?”

“Get up, hurry up, and give us some advice. You just sit here and learn from Jiang Ping. You don’t have any manliness at all…”

It seems that Tao Shuxin is determined to get her way with Xu Mingyuan.

Xu Mingyuan was so annoyed by her that he grabbed her wrist.

“Hey, what are you doing? Hey!”

Tao Shuxin was stunned for a moment, and struggled a few times with a red face, but it was not good to resist too much with so many people coming and going.

“Don’t you want to go shopping? Then let’s go.” Xu Mingyuan said.

Although Tao Shuxin struggled constantly, her strength was much less than Xu Mingyuan’s.

Just when Tao Shuxin was about to give up, she saw Xu Mingyuan walking towards a lingerie store, as if he wanted to go in and have a look.

Now Tao Shuxin didn’t care about other people’s eyes anymore, she stopped and didn’t move forward.

However, due to the disparity in power, all resistance was futile, and Tao Shuxin had been dragged for some distance.

When they were only a few meters away from the lingerie store, Tao Shuxin went crazy and desperately slapped Xu Mingyuan’s arm with her hands, asking him to let go.

“Hahaha……”

Xu Mingyuan laughed out loud and then let go of his hand.

Tao Shuxin was really angry, and tears were almost flashing in her bright eyes.

“Ignore you!”

She was not as thick-skinned as Xu Mingyuan, and felt embarrassed when she saw someone looking at her.

Seeing Tao Shuxin going to find her classmates with a wronged look on her face, Xu Mingyuan felt that he had gone too far as the other person had good intentions.

No matter how well Tao Shuxin could take teasing, she was not the woman with whom she could tell dirty jokes in the future. He was so proud of himself that he forgot about it.

After all, she is still an 18-year-old warm-hearted girl.

Xu Mingyuan held his forehead helplessly, looked down across the atrium of the shopping mall, saw a gift shop downstairs, and took the escalator down.

Xu Mingyuan is quite knowledgeable about the psychology of little girls.

In half a month it will be the Frost Descent, so I should buy some thick clothes to be prepared.

This time, they didn’t sit in the mall the whole time. When Xu Mingyuan saw suitable winter clothes, he bought one and asked Xiao Yangzhi to try on a down jacket, a long black one from Bosideng.

The quality and style are pretty good, just right for Xiao Yangzhi’s slim and tall figure.

“Xiao Yangzhi, go and pay.”

“Oh.”

Yang Zhi nodded, took the receipt from the salesperson, and ran to the cashier.

“Hey? Why don’t you pay?”

Seeing that Xu Mingyuan always asked Yang Zhi to run errands whenever he wanted, Tang Lin couldn’t help but ask.

Tang Lin had already noticed that something was wrong with Tao Shuxin, but she didn’t know how Xu Mingyuan had offended her, so she changed the subject.

“Why didn’t I pay? Isn’t her money my money?”

“And your money?”

“My money is in her bag. Have you also been infected by Taotao?” Xu Mingyuan said with a smile.

When Tao Shuxin heard Xu Mingyuan talking about herself, she did not correct him for calling her Taotao, and did not even look at him.

She has already decided that she will never pay any attention to Xu Mingyuan again, and now she is struggling with whether she should ask Lao Gao to change seats when school starts tomorrow.

Although I’ve calmed down a bit, I’m still very unhappy. This is too much!
Tang Lin didn’t say anything when she saw this. After all, she was on Tao Shuxin’s side and she had to stand on the side of her best friend.

The four little girls have been shopping since nine o’clock. It’s almost two o’clock in the afternoon and they are still walking around. It seems that they won’t feel satisfied until they have visited every store.

The extra things in his hands were just a few small bags, and the largest items were the two sweatshirts bought by Li Siqi.

In contrast, Xu Mingyuan spent no more than half an hour from entering the store to making the purchase, and half of that time was spent letting Xiao Yangzhi try on clothes.

Xiao Yangzhi didn’t have much of her own opinion. She just thought something was okay based on what others said was good-looking, and she didn’t have any ideas of her own. Seeing this, Xu Mingyuan asked the clerk to pack it up and let her go to pay herself.

After a round of shopping, Xu Mingyuan and Xiao Yangzhi bought more things than all the other people combined.

She said Xu Mingyuan accompanied her shopping, but in the end she was just a foil.

Seeing Yang Zhi carrying large and small bags in both hands, the kind-hearted Tao Shuxin finally couldn’t bear it anymore. She snatched all the bags from her hands and angrily stuffed them into Xu Mingyuan’s arms.

Then he took Xiao Yangzhi away without looking back, not letting her share Xu Mingyuan’s bag.

“If he dares to bully you, just tell me!”

“No…”

Yang Zhi still wanted to go back to get her clothes.

In fact, the clothes look heavy, but they are very light. Compared with the fruits in the four-pack bags, they are nothing, and they don’t squeeze the hands.

If Tao Shuxin knew what she was thinking, she would probably scold Xu Mingyuan to death on the spot.

“Let’s go.”

Tao Shuxin hugged Yang Zhi’s arm and dragged her away.

We were almost exhausted from shopping and didn’t eat lunch. We just bought some sausages, cakes and other things in the mall to fill our stomachs.

The remaining time is spent on going through the store again and comparing prices to find the piece of clothing that you like the most.

Seeing Xu Mingyuan sitting on the chair reading a magazine again, Jiang Ping found an opportunity to run over and sit down with him.

“Mingyuan, hiss…” Jiang Ping greeted him hesitantly.

“What’s the matter? Tell me.”

Xu Mingyuan looked up, then lowered his head to look at the magazine.

“Well, do you think it’s better for Siqi and I to go to Haicheng Polytechnic or Beijing University of Science and Technology?”

Jiang Ping had been in the same class with Xu Mingyuan since his freshman year of high school. Although they had not interacted much, he knew that Xu Mingyuan was a visionary and did things in a flawless manner.

Ever since entering the third year of high school, teachers have asked students to consider their majors as early as possible. Jiang Ping has also started to try all kinds of methods and wants to ask Xu Mingyuan’s opinion.

“Don’t go anywhere, just go to Jiangcheng Normal University. Li Siqi’s grades are unlikely to reach the score line for a key university, right? Besides, what’s the point of traveling so far? Are you going to settle down somewhere else?”

“We’ve calculated it, and Siqi’s score is good enough.”

“If you really want to spend your life with her, don’t go too far to college. No one else’s advice on this matter is helpful. Just discuss it among yourselves.”

Xu Mingyuan couldn’t say much about this matter. Anyway, the two of them went to Jiangcheng Normal University together. After graduation, one of them passed the exam and became a civil servant, and the other worked in a bank. Their lives were prosperous and they didn’t need any advice from others.

Jiang Ping nodded when he heard this, looked at Li Siqi who was picking clothes not far away, and thought about the future.

This is the world of young people. They are always worried about this and that. But when it comes down to it, the road has already been prepared.

“Okay, stop thinking about these nonsense. Listen to what I say. It’s definitely the right thing to do and study at Jiangcheng Normal University with Li Siqi.” Xu Mingyuan said.

The two young lovers just need to follow the original route. Once Xu Mingyuan said this, Jiang Ping and Li Siqi will definitely thank him when they think of it in the future. It can be regarded as a good deed and a good relationship has been established.

“Thanks, I’ll consider it.” Jiang Ping nodded.

“I don’t even need to think about that.” Xu Mingyuan interrupted him and said, “Please help separate Tao Shuxin from them. Be more natural when doing this so that no one can see it.”

“what?”

Jiang Ping was stunned.

“Why don’t you go? Why do I just find you indecisive?”

“Ok, no problem.”

Jiang Ping didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, and stopped thinking about these things.

While Jiang Ping was helping Li Siqi pick out clothes, Xu Mingyuan grabbed Tao Shuxin’s sleeve and pulled her out of the store without saying a word.

Tao Shuxin was startled and didn’t want to pay attention to him, but under the circumstances, she had to lower her voice and said, “What are you doing?”

Then he looked back in panic. Fortunately, there were many people in the store during the National Day holiday, and there were still seven or eight people picking clothes in the store. Tang Lin and the others did not notice the little movements between the two people.

(End of this chapter)