Su Bei never expected that her first school excursion would directly begin with climbing mountain.
"Starting from here, parents and students will walk to the campsite at the top of the mountain. Do not crowd and pushing..." The teacher in charge gave out instructions.
Instantly, there were loud noises around. Some were cheering, and some were wailing. The bulkiest luggage was transported by cable car, so the students only needed to bring their backpack up to the mountain. This kind of hiking was relatively lightweight.
At first, Su Bei walked very fast. Until they reached halfway up the mountain, she began to feel tired and gradually slowed down.
"Oh my god, we are still halfway!"
"I can't walk anymore."
Su Bei heard two girls talking not far away and secretly thought: Me too.
The school bag and water bottle that initially were carried by Su Bei was now on Su Xiaobao's body. The twins continued climbing up the mountain. Su Xiaobao walked steadily in the front while Su Bei followed behind, holding the hem of Su Xiaobao's shirt with both hands, and was dragged forward by the boy.
"I can piggyback you." Su Xiaobao paused and turned at Su Bei.
For two seconds, Su Bei was tempted. However: "Oh, forget it. You will have to climb the mountain with me on your back. It's too tiring."
"Having to drag you like this is even more tiring."
Being dragged from behind by Su Bei was really not easy. Didn't she see that his t-shirt was stretched out? Although Su Xiaobao didn't comment, he still liked their pair t-shirts.
Su Bei hesitated, then turned to glance behind. Earlier, as soon as Mr. Qin arrived at the assembly place at the foot of the mountain, he was immediately surrounded by many 'enthusiastic' parents who grouped around him to discuss business chances. At this moment, Mr. Qin was quite far behind them, around 50 to 60 meters. Su Bei secretly thought: With this distance, Mr. Qin shouldn't notice their actions here.
"Hey, I truly regressed." Although Su Bei never particularly strong physically before, she didn't expect that after coming to Mr. Qin's house, she couldn't 'conquer' even a small mountain path. Su Bei sighed while shaking her head, then jumped on Su Xiaobao's back merrily.
"Go, go, you can do it, young man!"
Su Bei thought that Mr. Qin wouldn't notice them from his position. However, although Mr. Qin was talking with a few parents, Su Bei didn't know that his attention has always been on his children.
Seeing Su Bei jumped on Su Xiaobao's back, Mr. Qin immediately stopped talking and stared at them nervously, fearing that the two children couldn't walk steadily and fell. But after seeing that Su Xiaobao still walked easily, Mr. Qin didn't say anything in the end.
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On the way, Su Bei reached out to take the water bottle hanging on Su Xiaobao's neck. She opened the lid and let Su Xiaobao take a sip before drinking it herself.
Getting piggybacked was also tiring.
Su Bei: "Su Xiaobao, are you tired?"
Su Xiaobao: "No."
Hearing Su Xiaobao's answer and seeing his slightly sweating but still relaxed posture, a smile flashed through Su Bei's eyes. In the novel, Su Xiaobao got an accident while working as a cargo unloader in the logistics park. Because of this, his feet became lame. Although he could still barely walk, he would never be able to move like a normal person, let alone climbing the mountain as easily as he was now.
This incident has always been a thorn in Su Bei's heart. Fortunately, no misfortune had happened to them until now. Su Xiaobao was fine, and everything was also fine.
......
After they reached the top, Su Xiaobao put Su Bei down. Su Bei walked to Dong Wenqi, who arrived before them. Dong Wenqi stared at Su Bei hatefully. When Su Bei approached, her gaze became more resentful.
Su Bei: "What's wrong with you?"
Dong Wenqi: "Eating sour lemon."
"What kind of lemon?" Su Bei blinked in confusion.
"What else? Your lemon." Dong Wenqi glanced in Su Xiaobao's direction and said: "Why do you have a twin brother, but I don't? How envious."
"Huh?" About what?
Su Bei still didn't get it.
"You still dare to pretend to be stupid. I saw the forum." Dong Wenqi took out her mobile phone and handed it to Su Bei: "This, look by yourself. Someone took a photo of you and Su Xiaobao just now and posted it on the forum."
Su Bei's eyes fell on Dong Wenqi's phone and saw the photo she mentioned. There was a total of two photos posted on the thread: one was Su Bei walking up the mountain while pulling Su Xiaobao's clothes and another one was the photo of Su Xiaobao piggybacking Su Bei. The student who took the photos not only took it beautifully, but they also edited it with filters, so the two looked very eye-catching.
"Look at the comments below." Dong Wenqi slid the page. She was not the only one who felt sour. At this moment, the entire forum was submerged in lemon juice.
[Woo-hoo, young master Su is too handsome!]
[This picture is so loving!]
[As a weak woman who has to climb halfway, but now is lying on the mountainside with trembling legs to wait for the cable car to run, these photos really make me jealous.]
[Young master Su really loves his younger sister!]
[Why I don't have a brother, ah!]
[Strongly condemning this kind of show off.]
[As Su Bei's future 'elder sister-in-law,' I am a little jealous of my 'younger sister-in-law.']
Su Bei calmly accepted the envy and jealousy in the forum, then turned around to pat Dong Wenqi's shoulder and said triumphantly: "I can understand your envy."
Su Bei: "However, my family's Xiaobao is one of a kind. There is no second one, haha."
Dong Wenqi: "Su Xiaobei, from now on, I'm stopping to be your deskmate."
Su Bei: "Okay, okay. Where is Uncle Dong? He also comes together with us, right?"
"Yes. He is probably resting in one of the pavilions below."
Dong Wenqi initially wanted to rely on her father to bring her up the mountain. As a result, her father was actually worse than her. At this moment, Mr. Dong probably was still dragging his round body halfway up the mountain and moved forward very slowly.
When Dong Wenqi thought of this, she got angry. She had told her dad many times to start losing weight. But every time she said that, her dad would touch his round belly and argued: this is the symbol of a successful person with economic strength.
Bah! If that's so, then why Uncle Qin didn't have a round belly?
Dong Wenqi glanced at Mr. Qin, feeling sour again.
Su Bei: "Should we wait for your dad here?"
Dong Wenqi: "No need. He eventually will use the cable car anyway. Let's go up first. Chen Zian and the others have arrived a long time ago."
The three walked towards the assembly place. On the way, Dong Wenqi continued to browse the forum, and suddenly pulled out an old thread from last year, which was about Song Xinyi.
Song Group went bankrupt overnight, and the previously high above goddess has become synonymous with green tea bitch after the 'pen throwing' incident. Now, whenever someone mentioned Song Xinyi, their attitude was quite mixed.
"Hey, Su Bei, I want to ask." Dong Wenqi tugged Su Bei's wrist and asked curiously: "Did Song Xinyi's father really commit a heavy crime?"
Su Bei nodded. Thinking about it carefully, the original novel actually provided several clues about Song Yancheng's dirty deeds. In the novel, so many words were used to narrate the male lead's rise. However, it was actually impossible for Song Yancheng, a mere fledgling actor, to rise so quickly and become the chairman of a big enterprise within a few years——unless he took many shortcuts.
However, the novel never dug deeper. After all, it was a romance novel about the male lead and the female lead. Therefore, the unspeakable methods that Song Yancheng used were never mentioned clearly and mostly was just in passing.
If Mr. Qin's people didn't find evidence of Song Yancheng's criminal acts, Su Bei actually planned to secretly hack into the computers used by Song Yancheng and his collaborators. But she never expected that the male lead's crimes were actually so horrible.
However, Dong Wenqi's concern was obviously not on Song Yancheng. Seeing Su Bei nodded, she exclaimed: "Oh my god," and moved the topic to Song Xinyi: "Let me tell you. Without Song Group's backing, Song Xinyi's situation right now isn't very good. Before, thanks to Song Entertainment's suppression, although there was quite a bit of negative publicity, her situation more or less is still okay. Now, after Song Group went bankrupt, many of her jobs are canceled. Several variety shows that she signed terminated her contract, and there is one music competition that directly crossed out Song Xinyi's name from the list of participants."
Su Bei raised an eyebrow: "Where did you hear about this?"
Dong Wenqi: "Hehe. Didn't I tell you before that I want to take a look at her fan group? I make a fake account and get in."
At this moment, there were no longer fans who blew rainbow farts for Song Xinyi in the group. Everyone was busy discussing her gossip.
Dong Wenqi: "I heard that Song Xinyi is filming in some remote mountain and still doesn't know about her family's situation. Hey, do you think she can make a comeback with this work? Is she going to be an actress?"
Su Bei: "It's hard to say."
In the novel, dream, and reality, the director named 'Ou Chi' was a perfect hypocrite and a pervert in disguise. Before, because he wanted to rely on Song Group's support, Song Xinyi was his boss and god. But now that Song Group has gone, it's hard to say how Ou Chi would treat Song Xinyi.
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The two girls talked all the way to the campsite on the top of the mountain. After everyone assembled, they listened to the teacher in charge explaining the rules and precautions of this excursion, and then began to take the supplies. Except for personal items, basic supplies such as tents, cooking utensils, and food were distributed by the school, one set per family.
After receiving the supplies, Su Bei saw that Mr. Qin and Su Xiaobao had rolled up their sleeves, ready to set up the tent.
"Dad, wait." Su Bei stopped Mr. Qin.
Qin Shao stopped and looked at Su Bei: "What?"
Su Bei: "Don't you think this tent is a bit dirty?"
The tents were part of the school inventory and were last used during last year's outdoor excursion, so it was naturally full of dust.
"Just a bit of dust. It won't harm anyone. After setting it up, we can clean it later." Mr. Qin explained patiently.
"I know. But Dad, your clothes will get dirty."
Unexpectedly, what his daughter worried about was that his clothes might get dirtied. Mr. Qin was surprised, but couldn't help but smile. He was about to say, "It's okay, I can change clothes later," when Su Bei said again: "I think it's better if you changed into clothes that are harder to get dirty, Dad."
After that, Su Bei rummaged her luggage and took out a t-shirt. "Dad, this t-shirt is cheap and dirt-resistant. Why don't you change into this first."
This was [Pig Breeder] t-shirt that Su Bei has prepared for this event. Before, she was hesitant to take it out, for fear that Mr. Qin would dislike her choice. But now, Su Bei finally found an opportunity.
She really wanted Mr. Qin to wear a matching parent-children outfit with them, even if just once. Because she was afraid the style wouldn't match Mr. Qin, when Su Bei ordered the t-shirts, she specifically asked the store to remove any fancy pictures and only printed the words [Pig Breeder] in a low-key manner on the right chest area and on the back just below the collar. Even so, it was not difficult to see that this t-shirt was from the same series as her and Su Xiaobao's.
Mr. Qin's gaze fell on the t-shirt in Su Bei's hand, and the corners of his mouth were curled into an imperceptible smile: "Okay."