Because she had to work outside during the day, Erald Sparrow was responsible for the household chores after dinner this evening. By the ti she had finished washing the dishes and tidied up the tools, it was already half past seven.
Swinging her slightly damp hands from soaking them in water for a long ti, Erald Sparrow walked into the living room and saw Lin Xiaolu and Xia Liang sitting on the couch, playing with their phones.
Xia Liang, who always seed more perceptive than Lin Xiaolu, noticed Erald Sparrow first and waved, saying, "You've worked hard."
Lin Xiaolu then looked up belatedly and chid in, "You've worked hard."
"It's nothing, how was the special training today?" Without engaging in further small talk, Erald Sparrow walked into the living room and asked directly.
"The progress is barely okay... After all, Sister Hong's teachings are quite difficult."
Xia Liang blinked, "But truth be told, after learning for so long, there's quite a lot I don't even know what I'm learning."
"I know it's hard, so keeping up the progress is good."
Erald Sparrow nodded, "The study of techniques is supposed to be a relatively long-term matter. It's just that we are limited by ti, and my personal ability is also limited, which is why the tasks at hand are so urgent, and I can only ask for your extra effort."
"No, this, how should I say it..."
Puffing her cheeks, Xia Liang let out a sigh: "Math and physics often can't be advanced by sheer effort alone..."
"Are you stuck?" Erald Sparrow approached the two.
"Not exactly, it's just really, really, really difficult."
Using three "reallys" to describe her situation, Xia Liang silently glanced at Lin Xiaolu beside her and seeing no reaction, she dawdled, "That's why I have to go to class with Sister Hong tonight, thinking about the daunting tasks ahead makes it feel so tough, is there anyone who can give so encouragent to helpless right now..."
"Keep going." Lin Xiaolu patted her shoulder.
"I really need so encouragent now." Xia Liang's smile froze for a mont, but she quickly carried on as if nothing had happened.
"Like this?" Hearing her repeat this request, even the obtuse would understand what she ant. Thus, Erald Sparrow crouched down on the spot, clenching her fist slightly and extending it forward.
Seeing the fist Erald Sparrow extended in front of her, Xia Liang gasped.
"Young predecessor."
"What's wrong?"
"Who taught you to encourage people this way?"
"Umm... We often do this during battles, right?"
Erald Sparrow pondered briefly, then opened her tightly clenched fist: "Or do you prefer this kind? Should we stack our hands together?"
"...Let's just bump fists."
Their communication finally ended with Xia Liang's compromise.
Their fists gently tapped each other in mid-air, then they both pushed forward strongly and then retracted.
"Keep going."
Erald Sparrow encouraged her this way.
"...Yeah."
Xia Liang, after a short silence, smiled and responded, "By the way, the new clothes look pretty."
"Let's not talk about that."
Brusquely shifting the topic, Erald Sparrow turned her head to look at Lin Xiaolu: "Okay, we should go to class now, Bai i."
"Okay."
Lin Xiaolu, who had been silently watching their interaction, finally turned off her phone screen, stood up, and for so reason, Erald Sparrow perceived a hint of "obedience" in this rebellious girl.
"Let's go, Erald Sparrow."
As Lin Xiaolu said this, she walked two steps ahead to follow behind Erald Sparrow, then taking advantage of the mont Erald Sparrow turned away, she chuckled at Xia Liang and flashed a victory sign with two fingers.
Xia Liang rolled her eyes at her, uninterested in retorting.
Seeing that Xia Liang didn't respond, Lin Xiaolu didn't continue to provoke her, but instead caught up with Erald Sparrow's pace, holding her phone out: "Erald Sparrow, do you want to see the photos I took for you in the afternoon?"
"What photos?" Erald Sparrow curiously asked.
"The new clothes." Lin Xiaolu stated matter-of-factly.
"If you guys think they look good, that's fine."
After a mont of silence, Erald Sparrow did not take the offered phone, but replied sowhat helplessly, "I actually don't really care about these things."
"Take a look anyway, I took many photos, picked out the best ones for a long ti, and even edited them."
Lin Xiaolu whined, "I spent all the ti before and after als doing this, it'd be a waste if you don't look."
"With the national assessnt coming so soon, where do you find all this spare ti..."
Erald Sparrow looked at Lin Xiaolu sideways, about to lecture her, but then seed to think of sothing and suddenly stopped. She changed her approach, "What photos need hours of editing?"
"Ta-da!"
Seizing the mont, Lin Xiaolu ran ahead of Erald Sparrow, holding up her phone screen: "Now it's ti to show off my personal talent— Whoa!"
Then, before she could finish speaking, as she walked backward she stepped onto the staircase, causing her to lose her footing along with her phone flying out.
The brief scream stopped almost instantly, as fortunately Erald Sparrow quickly reached out to grasp Lin Xiaolu's arm.
This posture lasted for several seconds, and after a mont of eye contact, Lin Xiaolu belatedly grasped the nearby stair railing with her other hand.
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