Chapter 176.

It was close to noon, and the swimming pool was not very crowded, sporadically, as far as the eye could see.

“Huh. ……”

A familiar figure fell into Cheng Ming’s pupils.

Dressed in an orange split swimsuit with a lemon print, the top was a halter top revealing pale rounded shoulders with cute lace embroidered on the hem, yellow lantern pants in a short double pleated swim skirt, a swim cap wrapped around her head, and swim goggles hanging around her neck.

This girl was no one else, it was precisely Ye Mei that Cheng Ming was looking for.

Yemi swam alone in the children’s section, not seeing her group of friends.

Home is next to the swimming pool, it makes sense to come to the swimming pool to take a dip to avoid the summer heat.

So it was Cheng Ming who was over-brainstorming?

Even if Ye Binsong calculates more, but also can’t calculate that he, the reborn person, at first shrunk the biggest suspicion on him.

He couldn’t approach directly, Cheng Ming hadn’t even been too fond of Ye Mei or ignored her before, so suddenly fawningly approaching her would be suspected instead.

To act like a chance encounter, and it was indeed a chance encounter.

It shouldn’t be ignored by Ye Mei, right? Cheng Ming thought worriedly.

Changing into his swimming trunks, Cheng Ming put his backpack into the locker and jumped into the pool with a “plop” sound, moving very loudly, fearing that Ye Mei wouldn’t be able to find out.

There are actually quite a lot of behaviors in the swimming pool like Cheng Ming who intentionally tries to get the attention of the girls, it’s not strange to see.

Cheng Ming swam a few laps before disembarking from the side near the children’s area, took off his swim goggles, shook his head, and naturally looked back.

and Ye Mei locked eyes in mid-air.

Ye Mei had actually been observing Cheng Ming for some time, looking at the back and body shape was familiar, it was only when she saw his face up close that she dared to be sure.

“Cheng Ming? Why are you here?”

“Can’t I just come and swim?” Cheng Ming said in tears.

“I didn’t mean that? Are you alone? Where are Lai and Jing?”

“Jing couldn’t learn how to swim, so she gave it up, and Ri wasn’t much interested in swimming, so I was the only one left to come and get some exercise.”

“What about the one named Chen? And who’s that little girl about the same age as Lai?”

Surname Chen, what kind of strange name is this, Cheng Ming also didn’t know if Ye Mei knew Chen Zi Yi’s full name, and directly followed her reply:

“The one surnamed Chen didn’t come either, she went to a cram school, I think. As for that little girl, her name is Zhao Ren, she’s Xiao Li’s friend.”

“So it is.” Ye Mei nodded slightly.

“Why are you alone too? Where’s your group of friends?” Cheng Ming asked curiously.

“They, ah, some of them went on a trip abroad, some of them went shopping in Xiangjiang, others felt that the swimming pool was not fun and went on a vacation to the beach, and some of them stayed at home and didn’t want to move.”

“What a colorful life, don’t you? Why didn’t you go with them to any of those places?”

“I’m the one who stays home and doesn’t want to move, I’m too much of a …… fan and not good at traveling, I get carsick and want to get nauseous and dry-heave when I smell car exhaust.”

“There are other ways to travel, right, by train or plane.”

“But there’s always a bus ride, and I’ve been to the provinces with them before, and I got so dizzy I threw up the whole way without any ladylike appearance.”

Ye Mei covered her face and said, “In front of you as well, because of gluttony popsicle caused my stomach to ache to death, I didn’t do well in the midterm exam, and fell down the stairs and knocked a big bag, why am I always making a fool of myself!”

“Well, who hasn’t been embarrassed as a kid, I used to get into fights.”

In fact, Cheng Ming only remembered a handful of things about his childhood.

“I remember! It was the time you helped Jing Jing out, wasn’t it? When Jing Jing cried I cried along with her, not knowing what to do.”

Ye Mei sat beside Cheng Ming, hands on her knees, and said in a reminiscent manner, “Ah, it’s been a long time since we’ve gone over the top, and in the blink of an eye, we’re all going to high school, and while you guys are going to the first middle school, I’ll have to go to the second middle school. Alas, there aren’t many second middle schools in my group of friends.”

“I’m actually planning on going to second grade.”

Cheng Ming had always put up a stink in front of Ye Mei before, making her look like she was sticking her hot face on Cheng Ming’s cold ass.

Cheng Ming now threw out this kind of little secret of fellowship, which was sort of a way to make up for the relationship between the two of them.

“Eh? Why? Your midterm scores are more than enough to go to the first high school, so you’re not just lying to me and making fun of me, are you?”

“I’m serious, I’ve asked my dad to ask his vice principal friend, the rules of the first high school aren’t very strict, it’s not suitable for a loose cannon like me, and I still have to go to night study, it’s not free.”

“Strict school rules are also for the good of the students, especially the unconscious ones like you, where’s Jing Jing? Going to Second Middle School with you? Then we three can be together.”

“Jing Jing still goes to the first grade.”

“Is it okay for you guys to split up?”

“It’s just not the same school, it’s not like we can’t see each other.”

“Where’s Mr. Chen? First grade, second grade?”

“She bailed out of first grade and didn’t even take the midterm, you tell me.”

“What’s your relationship with Chen?”

“What’s the Relationship ……”

Cheng Ming scratched his cheeks, what should he answer.

If he said the wrong thing, would it lower the goodwill that wasn’t much left, Cheng Ming was trying to get into Ye Mei’s house.

“Sort of a classmate and friend relationship ……”

“To tell you a secret, I didn’t even tell Jing Jing, in fact the surname Chen confessed to me a few days ago.”

Cheng Ming indeed did not tell Jing Jing, she is now in this mental state, where can I tell her this, wait for the storm to pass before confessing.

“Aren’t you and Jing Jing in a committed relationship? She doesn’t know?”

“She knows.”

“Confessing when you know it? Then how did you answer? You wouldn’t have two feet in two boats, right?” Ye Mei grabbed Cheng Ming’s ear and questioned.

“I turned her down nicely, of course, and also we haven’t seen each other or been in touch since then.”

“You purposely distanced yourself from me also because of Shizuku?”

“Uh-huh.”

It’s great that you understand that, although it’s partly that.

“You’re being too outgoing, aren’t you? We’ve played together since we were kids, we have to be closer to each other than that outsider surnamed Chen, right?” Ye Mei pouted and said.

“Well, you can’t always live in the past, and you’ve made a lot of new friends, haven’t you?”

“A bunch of them used to be good friends, I only got to know them when I transferred to this side of the school later, how can I put it, sometimes I feel like I’m out of place with them, like an outsider, and I’m worried that they’ll find out that I’m actually scared of trouble, stupid, and earthy, and won’t hang out with them in the future, and being careful and treading on thin ice with them just doesn’t feel as natural and relaxing, it’s not the the friendships I imagined.”

“Relaxed with us?”

“Well, because we all know each other, I bought you guys popsicles on the last day of midterms, and what you said almost pissed me off, and I ate all of them one by one until I got a headache.”

“But I also remembered what happened when I was a child, I want to pull Jing Jing to play, she does not want to, want to play with you, I do not want to again, are sitting on the ground and crying, the result is not finished, light crying, how do not understand how to play with the three together when you were a child.”

Is there still this thing?

It should be when his sister was not yet grown up, or maybe when his mom was pregnant with his sister and Cheng Ming was fostered in Jing Jing’s home.

“Cheng Ming, look at my forehead, did it leave a scar?” Ye Mei asked as she came close to her face.

“It’s been so long ago, surely it didn’t leave a scar, ah no …… there seems to be a small white mark.”

“Sure enough, it looks like we’ll all have to wear bangs from now on.” Ye Mei said as she covered her forehead.

“It’s very faint, it doesn’t matter, you don’t care, you can’t even see it unless you get very close.”

“Girls are just so concerned about places like this… What’s wrong with your elbow? Is it red?”

“Oh, this, I fell on the bottom of my foot while walking up the stairs a few days ago, it was nothing serious. But Ri worried too much and insisted on applying alcohol and red potion on me, which hurt me to death.”

“What a coincidence, you fell on the stairs too? I wasn’t the only one who was stupid originally, Xiao Li was concerned about you, has the wound healed yet? Going into the water for a swimming session without healing, the wound will get infected by bacteria.”

“Healed long ago.”

“Where’s the healing? Look here, the scar is cracked all over and bleeding, it must have been the swinging of your arm while you were swimming that caused the scabbed wound to reopen, you’re probably going to have a scar later.”

“I’m a big man who’s afraid of a scar, and it’s something as inconsequential as an elbow.”

“The water in the pool is dirty, why don’t you go to my house and do some emergency treatment first? I’ve got alcohol and red drops at home too.”

Wanted to go, wanted to go so bad.

But Cheng Ming couldn’t monkey around with the agreement and politely declined haughtily, “Applying alcohol hurts, so it’s better to forget about it.”

You’re not going to play it off, are you? Retain me a little longer, Ye Mei.

“Then wait until your elbow turns into a piece of rotten meat, huh, I don’t care about you.”

Ye Mei stood up and was about to leave.

How could Cheng Ming let such a heavenly opportunity slip through his hands, he grabbed Ye Mei’s small hand and said, “Then I’ll trouble you, I don’t want my arm to rot.”

“Now you know you’re scared, go change your clothes first, don’t use the shower here, the water in the shower isn’t very clean, just go straight to my bathroom.”

“That’s not good, is your dad home?”

“What’s not so good about it, it’s not like you never went to my house when you were a kid and asked if my dad was home, does that mean you want to see my dad?”

“Don’t want to, don’t want to at all.” Cheng Ming said as he waved his hand excitedly.

“See how scared you are, my dad is very fond of you. But I can understand, I was also very weak when I met your dad, always coy and dumb in front of my elders.”

He liked himself? Just thinking about it, a vicious chill rose in Cheng Ming.

The two went to the shower room separately to take off their swimsuits, changed back into civilian clothes, and walked to Ye Mei’s doorstep together.

“Cheng Ming, this is still the first time you’ve come to this home of mine, isn’t it?”

“Uh-huh.”

Ye Mei puffed up her cheeks and complained in dissatisfaction, “Why didn’t you come last time you were invited? I’m sure you don’t consider me a friend and have forgotten all about your childhood, right?”

“Your friends were there last time, and if we were to force ourselves to sit at your house, they would have treated me even less well, and I know that you want us to get along, friend to friend, and friends to become good friends. But people in different circles sometimes don’t get along just don’t get along.”

“I’m sorry, I did seem to take things a little too much for granted the other day.”

“It’s nothing, what Xiao Li and surnamed Chen said was actually quite hard to listen to, and I have to say sorry for them on my side.”

“I didn’t take Xiao Li’s words to heart, it’s that surnamed Chen, no, how come you call her surnamed Chen just like me!”

“I think that’s a pretty catchy call.”

“You are also too bad, please come in ……” Ye Mei said with a smile as she pushed the door open.

“Excuse me.”

Finally, the first step is taken, and the next step is to start the home-stealing program.