Absolutely Spoiled - Chapter 4

Chapter 4
Before Shi Yi went to school, he thought children would be like him, but to his disappointment, in his eyes, they were childish, just like the children he met at kindergarten.
As he grew older, so did his knowledge. Shi Yi felt helpless because of this, the only thing that he was glad about was his family and Yu Zhiyi.
Shi Yi was taller than his peers in his class, and the teacher arranged for him to sit in the back of the class, which meant that he had to be separated from Yu Zhiyi.
Shi Yi refused, grabbed Yu Zhi, refused to let go, and wanted to play the kindergarten trick. But he couldn’t convince the teacher and had to sit four rows apart in the end.
Yu Zhiyi had just moved into a strange environment, therefore, she was less eager to make new acquaintances than other kids were. She had a vague sense of unease. During class, she constantly turned her head to check whether Shi Yi was there, and after the lesson, she even hurried right over to Shi Yi’s seat.
Shi Yi, who couldn’t sit at the same table as Yu Zhiyi, always tried to coax her by saying, “Don’t be afraid, brother is watching over you.”
She had a great deal of faith in Shi Yi and eventually acclimated to the new class.
The majority of the students in the class are unfamiliar with each other, and when they participated in games, they didn’t like to play with everyone and only liked to play with the most attractive ones.
“Shi Yi, let’s play hide and seek!” A mushroom-headed girl ran over and warmly invited him.
Shi Yi calmly flipped through a page of the textbook in his hand and directly refused, “I won’t play.” Actually, he didn’t want to play such a childish game.
After being rejected by Shi Yi, the mushroom-headed girl ran to invite Yu Zhiyi. “Zhiyi, let’s play hide-and-seek together!”
The children in their community didn’t want to take her to play games, so now that someone invited her, she was naturally very happy, and she subconsciously ran to Shi Yi’s side and grabbed his sleeve.
Shi Yi put down the book. “What’s the matter?”
Yu Zhiyi: “Brother, I go and play hide-and-seek.”
Shi Yi caught a glimpse of the girl with the mushroom head out of the corner of his eye and knew right away why she was asking him. “Ok.”
Although others didn’t take Yu Zhiyi to play with them, she loved to play games with everyone, and he was aware of this.
After getting approval from Shi Yi, Yu Zhiyi went to the playground with others to play, and Shi Yi remained in the classroom reading the book.
After some time had passed, Shi Yi saw the mushroom-headed girl and her friends coming to the class, giggling. Yu Zhiyi was the only person missing when he peered through the classroom door at the group of people.
“Where’s Yu Zhiyii?” Shi Yi yelled as he dropped his textbook and sprinted over.
Only then did others realise that Yu Zhiyi was missing.
“No, I don’t know…” A weak voice came from the crowd, and Shi Yi immediately changed his expression.
Shi Yi ran to the playground to find Yu Zhiyi, but she was not there. Then he ran into the office, panting, only to find that the little girl he was looking for was sitting there.
The little girl was sitting on the cool sofa in the office, with a thin blanket wrapped around her body. She sat there quietly, looking around timidly.
When Shi Yi was about to walk over, he was stopped by the teacher, who said, “Little Shi Yi, you can’t go over now.”
Shi Yi turned around and saw the teacher blowing the little clothes in her hand with a hair dryer. Those were Yu Zhiyi’s clothes.
“What’s wrong with one by one?” he asked anxiously.
The teacher didn’t hear Shi Yi’s words because of the sound of the hair dryer.
But Yu Zhiyi heard Shi Yi’s voice and looked at the door immediately. As soon as she saw Shi Yi, she stretched out her two little hands, holding onto the thin blanket, and called softly, “Brother.”
For a moment, Shi Yi ignored the teacher’s instructions and ran to the sofa.
The teacher quickly turned off the hair dryer in her hand, picked up the thin blanket, and wrapped Yu Zhiyi up properly, “Little friend, don’t move around.”
Although the teacher’s voice was very gentle, Yu Zhiyi cared more about Shi Yi.
Shi Yi was blocked by the teacher, and Yu Zhiyi was a little sad because she couldn’t see her brother. So she tried to stretch her hand toward him saying, “I want my brother.”
“Teacher, I understood. One by one, why did you remove your clothes? Did someone pour water on you?” Shi Yi asked with a frown.
Teacher: ‘This child is quite precocious.’
Then the teacher explained what had happened. When Yu Zhiyi was playing hide-and-seek, she had gone to the toilet, and a naughty child had splashed her with water. The teacher happened to pass by there to see that. So the teacher had taken her to the office to dry her clothes.
After that incident, Shi Yi never let Yu Zhiyi go alone with those people again and even put a bangle with a little bell on her wrist. “This way, I can find you wherever you go!”
As soon as the arm moved, the crisp bell made a sound, so he was able to find out where she was.
But that was not a wise decision. As long as Yu Zhiyi moved her hand, the bell would ring, and the sound of it would disturb others. Therefore, Shi Yi had to take it off.
When he took the bell away, Yu Zhiyi was still a little unhappy, with a puckered mouth and a pitiful look.
Shi Yi really couldn’t bear the look in her eyes, so he went home and asked his parents to find a solution, and he finally bought a new bell that didn’t make any sound and put it on for her again.
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When they were in the third grade, the teacher asked them to talk about their dreams.
Children at that age believed in magical things, and some of them said they wanted to be Ultrman or Superman. Some said they wanted to be a teacher or a doctor when they grew up, which were usually roles they had often heard about.
Everyone was laughing and smiling when they talked about their dreams, and Shi Yi was also laughing with others but for another reason. He imagined what Yu Zhiyi would say when the teacher asked her. ‘Long, go beg for food when you grow up…’
Other girls at this age would be thought to be princesses in fairy tales, but the little girl in his family had a different brain circuit and would want to beg for food.
Shi Yi happened to hear Yu Zhiyi’s deskmate asking her in the aisle, “Zhiyi, what dream did you write?”
Shi Yi chuckled lightly and rushed to answer for Yu Zhiyi. “She wants to beg for food.”
Yu Zhiyi’s face became red after hearing Shi Yi’s words. “No!”
Shi Yi refused to let her go. “If you say that you want to be a princess, it’s good.”
But Yu Zhi shook her head and said, “Zhiyi is not a princess.”
“Huh? Why not?”
“The one who lives in the castle is the princess.”
Shi Yi pinched her apple-like cheeks. “If you want to be a princess, I’ll build you a castle.”
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“Dingling bell——”
As soon as the bell rang, the students in the sixth grade began to be restless. When the teacher yelled “Class is over”, almost everyone rushed downstairs.
The sixth-grade classroom was on the fourth floor. After the bell rang, Shi Yi disappeared in a blink of an eye, and Yu Zhiyi waited for everyone else to leave before slowly going to the cafeteria with a pink food box in her hand.
There was a boy with an outstanding temperament sitting in the cafeteria. He was eleven-year-old Shi Yi. He was wearing a blue-and-white down jacket, tapping lightly on the blue lunch box on the table.
Not long after, a little girl with double ponytails sat directly opposite Shi Yi, holding a pink food box. After seeing the girl, Shi Yi opened his lunch box.
Yu Zhi looked at the full-flavoured spicy chicken in the opposite lunch box and kept swallowing.
“Want to eat?” Shi Yi asked knowingly.
Yu Zhiyi puffed up her cheeks and nodded.
Shi Yi: “Take it.”
The little girl pitifully picked up a piece of spicy chicken from Shi Yi’s food box, opened her mouth, and took a bite. “Ow..It’s spicy…”
‘Hmph, who told you to steal my food?’ Shi Yi thought about laughing at Yu Zhiyi. “Don’t drink water.”
Then Shi Yi glanced at Yu Zhiyi, deliberately picked up the spicy meat, and put it into his mouth in front of her. That was really spicy, and his mouth also hurt.
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On the weekend, Shi Yi was forcibly dragged by Ning Suya to go shopping. “Son, I think you have grown up recently, and you need to buy new clothes.”
Ning Suya took her son around the mall, bought two new sets of clothes, and took him to the supermarket to buy other things. Shi Yi looked east and west, and a water cup caught his eye. It had a unique design, and there was a swan on the top of the cup. Shi Yi reached out and took two, one pink and one blue.
“Mom, I want to buy this water glass, is it okay?”
“Isn’t there one at home? Why buy so many?”
“This is beautiful.”
“Ok…” ‘I haven’t noticed my son has such a girlish heart?’ Ning Suya felt that his son was cute.
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On Monday, a new pink water cup appeared on Yu Zhiyi’s desk. It looked very cute, and she couldn’t put it down. Yu Zhiyi was overjoyed and carried the cup to the back row to express her thanks to Shi Yi.
“You’re welcome.” Pointing to the glass, Shi Yi said, “I will bring you a glass of water in the morning, noon, and afternoon, and you must drink it up.”
The bright smile on the little girl’s face froze instantly. “Brother, I can’t finish it…”
“Why can’t you finish it?”
“…” The little girl fled back to her seat, holding the swan cup as if she were oiling her feet.
She turned her head from time to time and looked at Shi Yi, and while Shi Yi was writing, she quietly opened the cup and was ready to pour the water outside from the window, when her tablemate suddenly asked, “Zhiyi, what are you doing?”
Her deskmate’s voice was loud enough to attract Yu Zhiyi’s attention, and Yu Zhiyi was caught by Shi Yi.
The homeroom teacher walked into the classroom ahead of schedule and saw the class monitor, Shi Yi, holding a pink cup and personally feeding Yu Zhiyi water. The little girl’s face was flushed, as if she were shy.
“Shi Yi! What are you doing?” ‘At such a young age, actually having puppy love?’ The teacher thought angrily.
After class, the teacher took the two of them into the office.
As the class monitor, Shi Yi was already familiar with the way to the office and knew what would happen.
“Teacher, Zhiyi and I have no puppy love. If you don’t believe me, you can find out about the situation with our classmates in private. If not, do you need me to help you contact my parents?”
The head teacher had a headache already.
End of chapter 4