Li Cang, who returned home this night, was obviously in a much better mood than before going out.

Even as soon as she got home, the nanny told her that her parents were on a business trip to Beicheng again, and she didn't have any emotion, just nodded and signaled that she knew.

She took her bag and went back to the bedroom by herself.

Like Tao Jingran's bedroom, her bedroom is also a small independent suite, with a living room and cloakroom.

She sat on the sofa, turned on her phone, and looked at the twenty yuan WeChat payment she had paid a few hours ago.

She didn't expect that her malice, which she clearly wanted to humiliate, would be accepted so easily by Shao Qingyan.

"Hitchhiker fee, 20 yuan."

After listening to her words, although he was stunned for a moment, he soon took out his mobile phone and revealed his WeChat collection code to Li Cang.

The neatness of the movements and the calmness of the attitude made Li Cang immediately know that he had lost again.

She paid twenty dollars.

Then he waved his hand at Shao Qingyan and told him goodbye next time.

Maybe the ride brought her happiness long enough, this time, even if she lost to Shao Qingyan, she was not too angry.

She was even in the mood to take a taxi to the river alone, picked a restaurant near the river, and finished a steak alone.

She gradually fell into the couch without any sitting.

After exiting the payment page, she opened the chat box with Lin Jiajia again.

Li Cang: [Poke .jpg]

Li Cang: [Push Shao Qingyan's WeChat to me]

Lin Jiajia replied in an instant: [Who? 】

Li Cang confirmed the three words again: [Shao Qingyan. 】

Lin Jiajia backhanded a friend recommendation and sent it over.

But immediately after, she grabbed Li Cang and began to ask questions.

"What do you want to add Shao Qingyan to WeChat?"

"I feel like you didn't talk to each other much the last time you had dinner together."

"Do you have something to do with him?"

"You can't be a relative, someone in the family who needs to make up the lessons, right?"

Li Cang listened to the long series of witty words, and replied to Lin Jiajia quite patiently:

[No, ask him for advice on playing chess.] 】

In case Lin Jiajia asked what it was, Li Cangxian briefly explained to her what they met at Tao's house that night.

A loss is a loss, and she has nothing to admit.

Lin Jiajia was silent for a while after hearing this.

[Cangcan, you are really a woman who wants to compete in everything! 】

She commented.

Li Cang was noncommittal.

Her parents have taught her since she was a child that she needs to be excellent and to stand at the top of the pyramid all the time.

Whether she or her brother who is now studying in the United States, she has been instilled since she was a child, and the Li family and the Sun family have never liked children who have no future.

So she would develop such a character, and she herself is not surprised at all.

But if you want to add Shao Qingyan's WeChat, is it really just to ask him how to play that game of checkers?

Only Li Cang himself knows about this.

She clicked on the business card sent by Lin Jiajia, and the avatar opposite her was a landscape photo of the blue sea and blue sky.

sneered at the vulgarity, and saw his WeChat name again in the blink of an eye: Shao.

She stared at Shao Qingyan's homepage for a moment, and then wrote in the remarks column of the friend application:

"Your hitchhiker on January 16th."

I finally clicked on the friend request, but there was no immediate reply from the other side.

Li Cang thought that he might be busy with his part-time job somewhere, so he put the matter aside for the time being.

What she didn't expect was that for the next three days, Shao Qingyan did not pass her friend application.

—

The time to go to Tao's house to make up the class is three o'clock in the afternoon.

Shao Qingyan came out of the convenience store and rode his bicycle all the way to the door of the Xijiao Manor.

Tao Jingran took him upstairs, and in the upstairs room, there was not only Tao Mingcheng, a student who needed to make up classes, but also his sister Tao Mingxuan, who happened to meet a few days ago, and her mind was just like her appearance, not so simple and kind-

Li Cang himself.

Shao Qingyan's face was as usual, and he walked into Tao Jingran's room without any unusual emotions.

"Teacher Shao!" Tao Mingcheng was very polite to him.

"Hmm." He responded lightly.

"Teacher Xiao Shao, can I wait until I finish this game of checkers before going to make up the lesson? I'm halfway down and I'm about to win! ”

Tao Mingcheng pointed to the game of checkers in front of him, and his tone was full of certainty of victory.

Shao Qingyan looked at the chessboard: "Can it be over in ten minutes?" ”

"Yes!" Tao Mingcheng said seriously.

"Hmm."

So Shao Qingyan nodded and let him finish the game of checkers first.

From beginning to end, from the moment he entered the door, accompanied by Tao Mingcheng's voice, there was another gaze that fell on him naked/naked, but he didn't pay attention to it, and he didn't give any response.

He led the way to the study in the back room, where he went to get ready for the lesson.

By the time the checkers were over outside, exactly ten minutes had passed.

Tao Mingcheng lost.

Although the little boy was not so depressed, he still did not understand and was unwilling.

"Sister Cang, are you also possessed by the chess saint today?" Tao Mingcheng said curiously.

"What do you mean that the chess saint is possessed? Can't I go to further education on my own? ”

Li Cang funnily dialed the last piece into the position where he should go, and easily won the game.

"Do you still have further education to play checkers?"

Although Tao Mingcheng is young and doesn't understand many things, his intuition doesn't sound so reliable.

Li Cang had a light smile on his face and did not reply to his words.

It's no wonder that Tao Mingcheng feels that her level of checkers is different from the last time.

Last time, she and Tao Mingcheng played checkers, and at the same time there was a Shao Qingyan, Shao Qingyan pressed them throughout the whole process, although they occasionally released water, but in the end they defeated the two of them with an overwhelming victory.

In the end, Li Cang ranked second with a son who was only two steps faster than Tao Mingcheng.

As a result, Tao Mingcheng should feel that his level should be similar to her.

She slowly put away the chessboard, then leaned back on the couch next to the floor-to-ceiling window, staring at the half-closed study door.

The culprit, Shao Qingyan, has not looked at her since entering the door today.

To say that Li Cang doesn't know the reason, it must be impossible, but after knowing the reason, the evil taste in her heart that wants to toss people is actually surging even more.

She watched Tao Mingcheng enter the study, and then the door of the study was completely closed.

She wasn't in a hurry, she casually pulled a blanket from the side, and chatted with Tao Jingran while swiping her mobile phone.

The eyes were careless, with a determination that was inevitable.

Meanwhile, in her unseen study—

After Tao Mingcheng lost a game of chess, as soon as he sat at the desk, he couldn't help but chat with his tutor about playing chess at night.

"Teacher Xiao Shao, after you finish teaching me today, can you still play another game of checkers with me? Sister Cang is so good today, I want to play another game with the two of you. ”

However, Shao Qingyan ruthlessly rejected him:

"Not today."

"Ah, why?" Tao Mingcheng's words revealed a deep sense of loss.

Shao Qingyan's face did not change, and said: "After giving you a class today, there is another part-time job in the evening, and I am in a hurry, so I can't accompany you." ”

"Don't you even have time for a round?" Tao Mingcheng said pitifully.

"Nope."

Shao Qingyan spread out his notes and textbooks for him, pointed to the contents of the textbooks, and asked him to take out the homework questions that he left for him last time.

Tao Mingcheng was slightly sad for a while, but soon followed his rhythm and entered the state of learning.

The two-hour course is not long or short.

Time passed in a blink of an eye, and Shao Qingyan left Tao Mingcheng a few after-class questions, telling him that he would come over to check next time after he finished it in the past few days.

He packed his bag and opened the door to his study.

To his surprise, outside the study, in the small living room of Tao Jingran's room, Li Cang was the only one left for a while.

She didn't know when she fell asleep on the sofa, her head was pillowed on a huge pillow, and her body was covered with a blanket that Tao Jingran specially took for her.

Outside the floor-to-ceiling window is the evening nightscape, the girl is lying on a comfortable sofa, her slender eyelashes are lowered, her hair is smooth to the point of shiny, even when she is asleep, the corners of her lips are tightly closed, and her fair skin makes it difficult not to think of the legendary sleeping beauty at a glance.

Shao Qingyan's footsteps paused.

But only once.

Then he swept past her as usual without expression, and walked straight out the door.

"Teacher Shao!"

It's just that he didn't expect that before he completely walked out of this room, Tao Mingcheng would hold a doll in his hand and run out towards him again.

He was forced to stop again.

Tao Mingcheng handed him a doll that had just been placed in the corner of the desk and said:

"Teacher Xiao Shao, this is two days ago my brother took us out to play, we caught the doll and caught it, we all think that this person is very similar to Teacher Xiao Shao, so I want to give it to you!"

He diligently held the doll up so that Shao Qingyan could see it more clearly.

It was a very cute cotton doll that was neither big nor small, just enough to hold in your arms.

Dressed in a blue suit, with neat hair in a bun, a pair of black-framed glasses on his face, smiling eyes, and a slightly raised corner of his mouth, he looks like a smart scholar and a Sven reader.

Tao Mingcheng stuffed the doll into Shao Qingyan's hand: "Teacher Shao, take it, when you come back next time, remember to play checkers with me again." ”

What he really missed the most was the game of checkers that he couldn't get.

Shao Qingyan suddenly couldn't laugh or cry, pulled the corners of his mouth slightly, and touched his head.

"Next time, I'll be a few minutes early, and I'll play a game with you and then go to class, okay?"

"Okay!"

Tao Mingcheng jumped up again for a while.

Shao Qingyan put the doll in his schoolbag under his gaze.

The backpack, which originally looked a little flat, suddenly seemed bulging after being stuffed into a cotton doll.

He put his schoolbag back on his back, and was about to continue to turn around and leave, but he inadvertently caught a glimpse of the sofa not far away, and the figure that was lying down, I don't know when, had already sat up-

Li Cang yawned sleepily, and looked at them quietly with a look that was even more indifferent than usual.

Seeing that they had finally noticed herself, she lifted the blanket, got off the couch, and walked in front of them.

"Why don't you say anything when you want to leave?" She hugged her chest lightly, with the attitude of a hostess, "Tao Jingran went out with Xuanxuan, and called me to send you, don't you know who called me up?" ”

She looked at Shao Qingyan.

“……”

"I know the way."

Anyway, there is still Tao Mingcheng here, and Shao Qingyan did not ignore her existence too much.

"Oh......"

Li Cang dragged the last note as loose as ever, and responded casually.

"I know the way, but I just won't know the friends who didn't pass in WeChat."

She muttered to herself, as if she was just saying this to herself, but she accidentally got into Shao Qingyan's ears.

Shao Qingyan: "......"

"Li Cang."

Li Cang remembered that it was the first time in Shao Qingyan's life that he took the initiative to call his name.

Except when he lectures, his tone seems to be always very light, like a fog in the thick smoke of winter, wrapped in a cold air, but like a clear stream.

Li Cang stood in the heating pile, looked at him through the mist, and heard him say:

"I don't have the energy to play any games with you, you have to find someone to have fun, and you have found the wrong person."