Rainbow watched from the sidelines, feeling quite gratified.
The two finally stopped arguing.
//
After taking a shower and changing into his pajamas, Liang Shi casually dried his hair, leaving it half-dry, without combing it.
Curly hair is more troublesome to manage, so she doesn't like to comb it right after washing it; she waits until it's about 70% dry before combing it.
When she opened the door, she saw three children standing in the doorway, looking up at her with bright, sparkling eyes.
Most importantly, she wasn't wearing any clothes.
Liang Shi was startled and his expression immediately changed. "What are you all doing? Go back to bed."
"Auntie," Lingdang said sweetly, "You're back! They didn't hit you, did they?"
"No," Liang Shi said, pulling them back to their room. "You're not even wearing clothes; you'll catch a cold."
As soon as he finished speaking, Rainbow sneezed.
"Look," Liang Shi quickly carried her back to bed and covered her with a blanket. "How long have you been standing at the door?"
"I don't know." Bell was the easiest to trick into saying. "We've been standing here since you started singing."
Liang Shi: "..."
When did she sing the song?
She herself didn't know.
Anyway, these kids were all chilly, and you could tell they'd been standing there for a long time just by touching them.
She covered them all with blankets, then leaned close to Rainbow and whispered, "Look, people who don't exercise often are in poor health. We're all fine, only you are sneezing!"
Rainbow pouted, "No way."
Sheng Yu said, "Yes, I do. Will you play with me after class from now on?"
Rainbow decisively refused: "I'm not going."
"Then you can stay sick! Hehe~" Before she finished speaking, her nose twitched and she immediately covered her mouth and sneezed. Even so, Rainbow, who was sitting next to her, also suffered. However, she calmly wiped her face and said, "Running around is not exercise, and your resistance is also very poor."
Sheng Yu rubbed her nose, like a proud little peacock. "Hmph! What do you know? My sister said that if you think about something, then you curse, then you catch a cold. I only sneezed once, which means someone is... Achoo!"
Before the proud little peacock could finish showing off, it sneezed again.
Nestled in Liang Shi's arms, Lingdang laughed and couldn't help but ask, "Sheng Yu, is someone scolding you now?"
“Yeah.” Sheng Yu kicked Rainbow under the covers. “I said those things about Zhou Caihong, she’s definitely cursing me in her heart… Achoo!”
...
Rainbow, move away from her. "I didn't scold you. It's just that your immune system is weak and you caught a cold."
Sheng Yu rubbed her nose, which was bright red, and gave Rainbow a soft snort, "You must have infected me."
Rainbow: "..."
She really wanted to say that a cold wouldn't be contagious that quickly.
But a few seconds later, Rainbow said very seriously, "You said it yourself, one sneeze means someone is thinking about me, two sneezes mean someone is cursing me, and three sneezes mean someone is thinking about me. But you sneezed three times, so you have a cold, not me."
Sheng Yu: "?"
Awoo.
Damn Rainbow.
Rainbow, who had finally gained the upper hand verbally, chuckled to himself and raised an eyebrow at Liang Shi.
Liang Shi secretly gave her a thumbs up.
Lingdang nestled in Liang Shi's arms and asked him what had happened last night and whether those people had bullied her.
Liang Shi patiently replied, "Police officers protect good people. My aunt only did something very wrong. She was released after apologizing. How could she be bullied?"
Lingdang was still conflicted. She apologized guiltily, her voice muffled, "Auntie, I'm sorry. If it weren't for me, you wouldn't have hit someone."
"Oh dear." Liang Shi looked at her already reddened eyes and pinched her cheek. "Why is our little Lingdang so sentimental these days? It's just a small thing. Hitting someone is wrong, but you have to consider who you hit."
Seeing that Lingdang was still not happy, Liang Shi asked Sheng Yu, who was still trying to fight Rainbow for three hundred rounds, "Sheng Yu, do you think I looked cool when I was beating people up yesterday?"
"That was awesome!" Sheng Yu exclaimed excitedly, gesturing as she spoke, "Last night, my sister knocked that ugly auntie down. When she grabbed her hand, it looked like a chicken claw, like this..."
She imitated it perfectly, then scoffed lightly. Seeing that Lingdang was still nestled in Liang Shi's arms looking aggrieved and about to cry, she couldn't help but poke her forehead. "Liang Wenxuan, you're so annoying."
Liang Shi: "?"
Where did this strange accent come from?
"That person insulted us!" Sheng Yu stood on the bed, looking like a knight about to conquer the world, except that the knight's hair was uncooperative, always getting stuck to her mouth. She spat and threw the strand of hair behind her ear. "How could she say such nasty things to such cute little kids like us? Doesn't she have children of her own?! If my mom and uncle had heard her yesterday, they would have beaten her to death!"
“But even without Mom and Uncle, my two older sisters could beat her to death!” Sheng Yu said righteously. “It’s right for people who scold children to be beaten, but it’s also right for Sister Liang to be taken away by the police for hitting someone. There should be punishment for doing wrong.”
After Sheng Yu finished speaking, she kicked Rainbow and shouted, "Clapping!"
Rainbow: "..."
Lingdang was also stunned, but she didn't understand, "What does 'motorcycle' mean?"
Sheng Yu: "I mean you're being indecisive."
Bell: "..."
Liang Shi was amused by Sheng Yu's quirky and mischievous manner, and he tried to hold back his laughter until his stomach hurt.
One second she was giving a passionate speech, and the next she was grabbed by Liang Shi and thrown into the quilt, where he wrapped her up like a ball.
"Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?" Liang Shi pinched her cheek. "I'll make you some ginger tea later. Don't go outside without any clothes on, it's been cold these past few days."
Sheng Yu stuck her tongue out at her, rolled around next to her, and called to Rainbow, who seemed isolated from the world, "Come here, Zhou Caihong, let's roll around with Sister Liang and fill her arms."
Rainbow was a little cautious, not used to Sheng Yu's wild way of acting cute.
Seeing her like this, Liang Shi immediately waved to her, "Rainbow, come here quickly, I'll hug you, not Sheng Yu."
Sheng Yu charged over, brandishing her claws, shouting, "No!"
...
On this bed, Liang Shi was thoroughly tormented.
Sheng Yu was a little devil. Lingdang was well-behaved at first, but then she started to make a fuss with her, leaving Liang Shi exhausted and lying on the bed with the three children nestled around him.
Liang Shi held them down. "Alright, truce."
Lingdang nuzzled her shoulder, "Auntie, why don't you sing for us?"
"Yay!" Sheng Yu said, "I want to hear the one you sang in the bathroom just now!"
Liang Shi: "..."
She really doesn't remember ever singing!
Rainbow nodded: "It sounds great, and the lyrics are great too."
Liang Shi then asked, "Do you still remember?"
Rainbow read the lyrics like an emotionless reading machine.
Liang Shi roughly knew which song it was; it was a song that had been gathering dust on her playlist for a long time, and there was a period when she particularly enjoyed listening to it.
It also exists in this world. Last night, when she was taken away, one of the police officers' cell phones had this ringtone, which awakened her memory again.
Just as she was about to sing, Lingdang frowned, "Not like yours."
Rainbow said in a serious and self-righteous tone, "I am tone-deaf."
“Then read the words again,” Bell said.
Ranibow repeated, and Lingdang painstakingly wrote down the lyrics, then placed her short fingers on Liang Shi's stomach.
Liang Shi felt her fingers tapping out a rhythm, and after four taps, the bell suddenly began to sing, "Like a spring breeze brushing my cheek, like a drizzle falling on the toes of my shoes..."
The voice is clear and crisp, with a touch of childlike innocence. It doesn't have the technical skill of an adult's singing, but it's full of emotion.
The imitation is about 70% accurate.
But she could only remember these two lines; by the third, she could only hum the tune.
Liang Shi continued singing in rhythm with her, "Like the fallen leaves fluttering down an autumn street, like a lamp going out again in the long night..."
A bell gently tapped Liang Shi's stomach through the blanket to keep a rhythm, and Sheng Yu saw this and imitated it.
Only Rainbow thought: They're so childish.
//
This is the scene that Xu Qingzhu and Su Yao saw when they returned.
Liang Shi sat in the middle of the bed, her hair about 70% dry, her pajamas loosely draped over her body, surrounded by three children, and she was singing softly.
A gentle person's voice is gentle too, like singing a slow love song, full of patience.
Su Yao stood beside her and whispered, "A-Shi sings quite well too."
Xu Qingzhu nodded. "Not bad."
The two did not interrupt the heartwarming scene in the room and went straight to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Su Yao asked Xu Qingzhu, "Are you busy at your company?"
Xu Qingzhu nodded: "A lot."
After Xu Guangyao spoke with her last time, he gave her more authority. She is no longer in the design department. He gave the position of acting head of the design department to Sally, and she went directly to the president's office to become the general manager.
We are currently in a phase of sweeping reforms. To rectify the current atmosphere at Minghui, we must change the practice of "nepotism" and lay off those who got into the company through nepotism but have no ability, using various reasons.
So work is still very busy. During the day, I'm almost constantly working without a break at the company, and I can only squeeze out a little time on Saturdays and Sundays.
After a while, I estimate that even weekends will be gone.
There's a lounge in the president's office; she'll probably be staying there for a long time.
So whether or not you move, it doesn't really matter.
"Then you need to take care of yourself," Su Yao advised. "I don't understand the business world, but if you need any help, just tell me or your uncle, and he will definitely help you."