You Bought a Car and You Sit in the Trunk

Shen Nian picked a large meat wonton shop and ordered two bowls of wontons. The shops in the bus station were only two yuan more expensive than the ones outside, which was actually quite acceptable.

Compared to the school commissary, it was basically an act of charity.

A three-yuan cola was sold for four and a half yuan there, a 50% price increase, how about that?

"Hello, today is the fifth anniversary of our shop's opening. You are our fifty-fifth customer today, so this meal is free," the apron-clad waitress said with a polite smile, explaining the store's promotion instead of scanning Shen Nian's payment code.

Shen Nian pinched his chin. There was actually such a good thing?

Did his Luck +5 just kick in?

Regardless, it was a good thing. Shen Nian had no reason to refuse and responded to the shopkeeper with a smile.

Xia Yanchun was also a bit surprised; a wonton shop was actually doing this kind of thing.

The two bowls of large meat wontons were served just like that. Shen Nian cheerfully added a little cilantro to both his and Xia Yanchun's bowls.

Xia Yanchun ate very quietly. She would scoop up a wonton and blow on it for a while before putting it in her mouth. It was incredibly hot, so it took her a long time to eat just half of her bowl.

Shen Nian finished first, so he snatched a wonton from her bowl.

"Ew." Xia Yanchun couldn't help but roll her eyes. He made it seem like they were in some ambiguous relationship. What a narcissist, who wanted to share their wontons with him?

"What's wrong? Without me, you would have had to pay."

"Who cares? It's not like I can't afford it."

"Do you know how to live? Insisting on paying for something free. You're really something, must be from eating cow dung."

Harsh words hurt. Xia Yanchun suddenly felt a chill in her heart, regretting that she had been too merciful in the past and hadn't trained Shen Nian into a simp.

After lunch, Shen Nian felt quite satisfied.

In a great mood, he treated Xia Yanchun to the bus ride. Hehe.

The bus hadn't arrived yet, so Xia Yanchun bought some sugar tangerines before getting on.

More than half the seats on the bus were empty. Only students had winter and summer vacations, and those students had already gone home. If it were the first day of winter break, they wouldn't have been able to grab a seat at all.

Going home in the period between the start of winter break and the Spring Festival was the most relaxing. It seemed only students could go home at this time.

Xia Yanchun kept her legs together with the bag of sugar tangerines resting on her lap. Using two fingers of one hand, she peeled and ate them bit by bit. For every round tangerine, she ate half herself and fed the remaining segments to Shen Nian one by one.

"The thing I hate most in my life is sugar tangerines with seeds." Shen Nian's mouth moved as he cupped his hand to spit out a few seeds, then tossed them into the lining of the tangerine bag.

"Just spit them out, what's the big deal."

"It's a hassle. Popping a whole one in your mouth is the best."

"What can be done about it? I didn't know if they had seeds inside. Some varieties of sugar tangerines just have seeds."

Sugar tangerines were already small; eating them segment by segment would take forever. Xia Yanchun fed him like this simply because she found feeding Shen Nian amusing.

Once she had eaten her fill and had her fun, knowing Shen Nian had a big appetite, she simply started feeding him whole ones.

Watching Shen Nian chew, Xia Yanchun would reach out her hand to catch the seeds when he finished the pulp.

Shen Nian was a bit surprised but still spit the seeds into Xia Yanchun's hand.

"You're being this nice?"

"Just be secretly happy about it." Xia Yanchun threw the seeds from her palm into the bag's lining and started peeling another sugar tangerine for him.

"Damn, I love you to death."

Shen Nian squeezed into Xia Yanchun's space, hugging her affectionately and rubbing against her slightly cool little face. With a nemesis like this, it was hard not to love her.

Xia Yanchun half-squinted her eyes, tickled by Shen Nian's rubbing. She patted his head in shy annoyance, reminding him to mind his image.

They were still on a bus, for crying out loud. Have some shame.

Xia Yanchun had bought a little over two pounds of sugar tangerines. She only ate a few herself, and gave the rest to Shen Nian.

It was hard to imagine that someone could actually eat so many sugar tangerines after finishing such a huge bowl of large meat wontons.

This guy would definitely clog the toilet when he pooped.

Xia Yanchun was certain of it.

Xia Yanchun opened a plastic bag, poured a little water over her fingers to wash them clean, otherwise, the stickiness would be very uncomfortable, and threw the whole bag of trash straight into the trash can inside the bus.

There was still a long time before they arrived back at the town entrance.

The heavy rain made it hard for her to see the scenery outside the window. Shen Nian's reflection was just as hazy as the view outside.

Xia Yanchun lazily leaned on Shen Nian's shoulder, pulled one of his hands over, and played with it on her lap, secretly stealing some of his body heat along the way.

Shen Nian was looking at his phone, and she was also looking at his phone.

"Are you sleepy?" Shen Nian glanced at her.

"No, I just want to lean on you."

"..."

Shen Nian moved his phone to the middle so Xia Yanchun could see it more clearly, and the two of them watched the single screen together.

Nowadays, Shen Nian's phone feed was exceptionally wholesome. Perhaps the algorithm knew he was very disciplined, as even the borderline explicit content had decreased.

Occasionally, he would swipe to a video of a beautiful girl dancing hotly. Shen Nian wasn't afraid of Xia Yanchun seeing it; he turned his head, bared his teeth, and said, "You should dance for me too."

"I don't know how. You learn it first, then teach me step by step."

"..."

Damn, she even had a parry. Please nerf Xia Yanchun.

Xia Yanchun watched the phone with Shen Nian for a while. The small hand that had been playing with his fingers gradually lost its strength and went limp.

The engine hummed; riding in a vehicle really made people drowsy...

"Mmm, I want to sleep for a bit. Wake me up when we arrive." Xia Yanchun hugged Shen Nian's hand to her chest and closed her eyes.

Beside Shen Nian, she could sleep without any worries.

"Go ahead and sleep. I'll secretly watch you."

"Oh."

"..."

He wondered if she could actually fall asleep like that.

Shen Nian stopped looking at his phone as well. Like a sixty-year-old uncle who didn't know how to use a smartphone, he sat in the bus, alternately looking at the scenery and spacing out. His movements were very slight, afraid of waking up the little person beside him.

He carefully put on a single Bluetooth earbud, playing pure music. His hand quietly rested on Xia Yanchun's thigh, just laying there as he found the most comfortable posture for himself.

Watching Chunbao's little head nodding up and down, he couldn't help but want to wake her up.

...

"Time to get up, oi."

Shen Nian lightly patted Xia Yanchun's face twice.

Xia Yanchun swallowed first before looking at Shen Nian groggily, slightly stretching her neck and shoulders.

"Are we there?"

"Almost."

"Oh, okay." Xia Yanchun started typing on her phone, asking her family to drive over and pick them up.

The bus stopped at the town entrance. A few steps after getting off was a specially built small pavilion that provided shelter from the wind and rain. Perhaps because of the rain, not a single one of the motorcycle taxi drivers and tricycles that usually appeared at the town entrance could be seen.

Having a car was absolutely necessary. Shen Nian finally understood why, when he was little, Shen Shi had spent money to buy a minivan to haul feed for the breeding farm even when he didn't have much savings.

"I'll work hard next semester, and when we graduate, we'll buy a small car too." Shen Nian nudged Xia Yanchun with his elbow.

"Do you even have that much money to buy one?"

"Didn't I say I'm going to work hard next semester?"

"You're going to earn over a hundred thousand while studying in your senior year of high school?"

"I have a great talent for business. It's worth a try."

"Uh-huh, then I support you. You can do it, Nianbao."

"So perfunctory. When I buy a car after graduation, you're sitting in the trunk."

"Mhm, mhm, so amazing."

"Damn."

Haji-Chun needed to be disciplined.