71 Suzumiya-san seems to like you
“Why do you know?
Have you touched it at...at that time?"
Shijiru eavesdropped on Chu Xuan's words and finally couldn't remain silent anymore. She wrapped her hands around her body, shy her shoulders, and questioned him nervously, with a look of shyness on her face.
The "then" she mentioned was of course before the final exam, three years ago on the Qixi Festival.
Shijiru, who had fallen asleep due to an "accident", just woke up and found Chu Xuan who wanted to secretly kiss her while she was asleep. However, the next tpdd loss incident diverted her attention.
But "that thing" is always hidden in Shikuru's heart and has never been forgotten by her.
"I haven't touched it."
Chu Xuan turned his head and replied angrily. He couldn't hear any suspicion of being guilty from his voice.
Then, Chu Xuan pushed down his reflective glasses expressionlessly, and used his X-ray emitted by the CT machine. His very penetrating vision swept Mikuru from head to toe, and told the truth to Mikuru in a tone:
"I just need to observe with the naked eye to accurately estimate it."
"Huh, what, how is it possible..."
Although Shijiru showed an incredible look, she shrank her body tighter and turned her side, afraid that Chu Xuan's gaze would really be able to see her through her clothes.
“In China, nothing is possible.
I know that there were once a group of amazing workers in all walks of life in China. They were called "model workers" and "level eight technicians".
It is said that there are workers who are specialized in selling meat, who can cut out 500 grams of meat at will; there are workers who are specialized in forklifts. They can drive the forklifts over the hanging rails; there are workers who are specialized in selling cloth, who can measure fabrics of prescribed sizes with their naked eyes only.
There is also the legendary level 8 technician. He can see the error of 0.01 mm with the naked eye and use manual manufacturing of ultra-high-precision parts that cannot even be made of lathes."
Gu Quan, who had been walking in front of him with a smile, suddenly turned around and introduced the mystery of China to Shikuru like a "China Communication", which made Shikuru cover her mouth in surprise and sigh from time to time, "Is it true, how can it be?"
"In order to establish a good relationship with Chu Xuan, I went to check various information and learned about China well.
But unfortunately, Chu Xuan doesn’t seem to be interested in me.”
Gu Quan looked at Chu Xuan with a really lonely smile and shrugged at him regretfully, but Chu Xuan, who was as determined as a rock, would certainly not be moved by him to pull him into "that world" because of this little thing.
Later, because of Gu Quan's talkativeness, Shijiru, who had increased her interest in China, kept pestering Chu Xuan to ask this and that, and Chu Xuan was not impatient at all. She answered every question seriously as always, making the relationship between this very timid girl and Chu Xuan seem to be closer.
Although Yuxi didn't speak anymore, she was still listening to Chu Xuan's answer attentively.
In this way, Gu Quan could only smile bitterly and walk with his colleague Miss Sen in the "organization". Silently acted as "invisible exclusion", but Chu Xuan and others also helped. Everyone pushed a trolley with sun umbrellas, beach chairs, mats, plastic cloth, barbecue grills, charcoal stoves, charcoal and other items, and went downhill to the golden beach.
Although the sun is a little west now, the sky is still bright blue, and it will take about two or three hours to turn into a beautiful crimson.
Not far away, Kasuhira had already recovered her spirit and the Xumei, who was always so energetic. She started playing in the extremely clear sea water.
Seeing Chu Xuan and others pushing a full cart, Haruhi and Xuzi immediately came out of the water to help unload the cart. Xuzi's sister was left by the beach to pile up sand and play with it.
“Wow~ the first night was bbq!
Do we need our help with the ingredients?”
Kasuki looked at the barbecue grill that was laid up and boxes of charcoal. He was very active in helping Miss Mori, the maid who was taking care of the villa. However, he had lived with Chu Xuan and Yuxi, two rich men, for nearly three weeks and enjoyed a luxurious meal every day, and was even more calm, without showing an impatient expression.
"Please rest assured that I will handle the general ingredients. Those ingredients that need to be kept fresh the moment before serving will be handled by Lord Chu Xuan himself.
Everyone just need to enjoy it."
Miss Mori, dressed as a maid, bowed to Haruhi and expressed her gratitude, but firmly refused Haruhi's help. Perhaps this is the self-esteem of being a maid.
However, Haruhi noticed Miss Sen’s special name to Chu Xuan and asked strangely:
"Big, sir? Why do you want to express your respect to Chu Xuan?"
"Because Lord Chu Xuan is Lord Chu Xuan, is there any problem?"
Miss Mori replied very naturally, leaving Haruhi speechless.
So Chunhi could only turn her head and stare at Chu Xuan who seemed to be nothing, and sarcastically mocked him in a slightly sour tone:
"You guy... are really popular..."
"Is that right? Is there any problem?"
Chu Xuan, who had no expression on his face, pushed down his reflective glasses and asked indifferently with the same words as Miss Sen.
Haruhi was choked and breathed a few breaths of fresh air from the seaside, then he angrily squeezed out a sentence from his teeth:
"It's absolutely fine! It's total!"
Then she turned around as if she was angry and helped intently.
As soon as the sun umbrellas were arranged, Haruhi immediately grabbed Shikuru and Yuki's arms, dragged them directly into the sea, as if he was deliberately speaking in an excited tone:
"Mikuru, Yuki, let's go, swimming in the sea is the best!
Not having too much sun, it is harmful to your health!”
"Ah...I don't like sunbathing very much..."
Mikuru's polite rejection was of no use at all, while Yuki said nothing, just like a doll who was taken away by Haruhi.
Xuzi, who had just noticed the small episode between Chunri and Chu Xuan, hesitated for a moment, as if he wanted to say something to him until Chu Xuan, but Chunri's voice came from not far away at the right time.
"Xuzi!
Why are you still standing there stupidly?
Come here soon!"
Under the repeated urging of Chuni, Xuzi was forced to go down to the sea again. Chu Xuan, who was surrounded by a few girls just now, immediately became a lonely man. He could only stand alone next to the sun umbrella, looking at the beautiful girls who were splashing water and playing with each other on the beach from afar.
Even the maid Miss Mori, who called him "Adult", pushed the emptied trolley back to the villa on the hillside and began to prepare various ingredients for barbecue at night.
Although Haruhi once wanted to pull Miss Mori to play with her, Miss Mori said that she is now a maid, and that Haruhi and others were all working hours on the island.
As a maid, it is her duty to be on standby at any time. She cannot give up her duties and run to play during work hours.
“Don’t you go into the sea to swim?”
At this time, Gu Quan was understanding and walked over with two coconuts inserted into straws and handed one of them to Chu Xuan.
Then he took the other one and sat on the mat under the sun umbrella, looked at the spring in the distance with a comfortable smile, took a few mouthfuls of coconut milk, and breathed a breath of relaxation.
Although Chu Xuan was not interested in Daji, he did not deliberately alienate Guquan because of this. However, his side was always occupied by all the girls.
Now that he has become a lonely man, Chu Xuan sat next to Gu Quan, and occasionally took a sip of pure natural coconut juice with a faint fragrance, and looked shoulder to shoulder with him without saying a word.
Behind Chu Xuan and Gu Quan, the pole of the sun umbrella stood in the middle of them, as if implying that the two men who were sitting under the same umbrella and seemed to be friends, actually had a solid wall made of steel between the hearts.
"I wish I could have been so peaceful this summer."
After a while, Gu Quan took the initiative to speak. He looked at the beautiful girls in the distance without moving, not sure whether they were talking to Chu Xuan or talking to themselves.
"What do you want to say?"
Chu Xuan also looked motionlessly at the girls who were like mermaids, revealing their upper body reflecting light, and asked faintly.
"No...I'm just talking to myself.
...You just treat this as my own words."
At this time, Gu Quan once again showed a somewhat annoying deliberate smile, maintained a sitting position in front of him, and began to talk to himself:
"Suzumiya classmate... seems to like you."
Gu Quan's first sentence was so exciting to himself, but Chu Xuan seemed to have not heard it, and his expression did not change at all, and he was not in a hurry to deny it.
"To me, Suzumiya is a very attractive person. Of course, this does not mean that I have fallen in love with her, but it is undeniable that I do not reject the idea of further development with her.
But unfortunately, Suzumiya's classmate simply regarded me as a mysterious transfer student from the beginning, and brought me in as an indispensable element of the "superpower" in the Sos Group.
Of course, I think this is not bad.
The sos group is very interesting, and the ‘our’s ‘work’ has also been much easier…
However, I still want to know, Chu Xuan, what kind of attitude do you have towards Suzumiya?
Now, except for Suzumiya, you also maintain an ambiguous relationship with other girls in the Sos Group, right?” (To be continued…)
Chapter completed!