A Bookworm’s New Routine

TAKE YOU HOME

On the way back, Su Yanxi stopped by a small shop and bought two books to bring back.

Her parents were just about to go to bed.
When they saw her coming back, they also told her to go to bed early, then they closed the door and went to bed.

Su Yanxi returned to the room and didn’t have the mind to study.
From time to time, she held her mobile phone to check the time.
When the hour hand pointed to ten o’clock, she leaned on the door and secretly listened to the movement outside.
It was quiet outside, so knowing that her parents were asleep, she quickly put on a small cotton jacket, took her mobile phone and wallet, and gently opened the door.

Afraid that her parents would get up to see if she was asleep, she turned off the lamp and stuffed a pillow into the quilt, and then tiptoed out of the house.

After leaving the house, she immediately ran, called a car in advance, and when she arrived at the gate of the community, took the car to the hospital.

Hu Ying was sitting next to her, looking at the drip while playing with her mobile phone.

Mu Qi was already asleep at the moment.

When Su Yanxi walked over, Hu Ying was still playing with her mobile phone.
She didn’t look up in surprise until the other party walked in front of her.
When she saw the Little Cutie, who was supposed to be sleeping at home at this moment, appear at this moment, she was so shocked that the phone almost fell to the ground.

“Didn’t you go back?” Hu Ying stood up and said.

Su Yanxi glanced at Mu Qi, who was already asleep, and whispered: “I was afraid you guys were hungry, so I bought you some supper.” As she spoke, she held the bag in front of her.

Hu Ying was instantly moved by her thoughtful gesture, so she hurried over to hug her, and sighed: “Little Cutie, you are so warm-hearted!” 

Mu Qi was awakened by their voices, opened her eyes impatiently, and saw the two hugging each other.
She gritted her teeth and cursed in a low voice: “Fuck!”

“Mu Qi, you’re awake!” Su Yanxi’s eyes lit up instantly, and she quickly pushed Hu Ying away and walked over, reaching out and touching her forehead.
She felt that the temperature was lower, and her eyebrows bent and the dimples on both sides of her cheeks also came out.

Mu Qi avoided her hand slightly, then turned her faze and saw the supper in her hand, and her stomach immediately groaned.

Su Yanxi quickly put the supper on the small table next to her, opened the bag and box, broke apart the disposable chopsticks, and gave them to her.

She was so attentive that Mu Qi was a little scared.
She didn’t know if this girl was stupid.
Since she became her tablemate, she has been like a personal nanny, and she almost ran to her house to clean up the house for her.

Thinking of cleaning up the house, Mu Qi paused with her chopsticks in her hand, then lowered her eyelids and continued to eat the beef noodles.

She was really crazy to let a little girl to clean up the house for her.
Usually, when the two are standing together, the other party is on her shoulders (!).

(!): I literally have no idea what the last sentence means, so if anyone can enlighten me that would be great

Hu Ying also devoured the food on the side, and she said while she ate: “I’ve been hungry for a long time.
I thought I was going to starve to death.
Fortunately, there is the Little Cutie.
I love you so much.”

Su Yanxi smiled and sat down on the stool next to her.

Before she entered the hospital, she saw that there was a noodle restaurant across the road that was not closed, and thought that the two of them would have to wait for a long time, so she went to buy it.

The drip didn’t end until nearly eleven o’clock.
When she left the hospital, Mu Qi shrank her neck as the cold wind blew.

Su Yanxi took off the scarf around her neck, padded the ends around her neck (!), and said while tidying up: “You have just finished hanging the drip, you will get better soon if you keep warm.”

(!): The OG translation I got was “…put her feet around her neck,…” which didn’t make sense.
I looked up the phrase on an online dictionary, and by “feet”, it can also mean “base”, so I’m assuming the author is saying that Su Yanxi wrapped the scarf, until its the ends of her scarf, around Mu Qi’s neck.

Looking at the pink, soft scarf around her neck, and the girl – Soft.
Mu Qi pulled the soft scarf in disgust (!).

(!): Another sentence that was kinda hard to interpret.
OG is 看着脖子上和女孩一样粉.嫩.嫩的围巾，慕柒嫌弃地扯了扯。and if anyone can translate that for me, that would be great

Hu Ying hugged her shoulder and said with a smile: “Qi-ge, don’t take it off.
Anyway, it’s already the middle of the night, and no one has seen it.
Keeping warm is the number one priority.”

Mu Qi glared at her, thinking about the power of the other party’s mutiny, she was completely hooked by the Little Cutie, and she stood in the opponent’s camp to attack herself everywhere. 

In the end, in order to not want to hang the drip again, Mu Qi forcibly ignored the pink and soft girl’s scarf, called a car back to the Yangguang community, got out of the car, turned to look at Su Yanxi who also got out of the car and stopped when she spoke.

Hu Ying was already sleepy by now, so she yawned and said, “Qi-ge, go back to sleep, keep warm, and you should be fine tomorrow.”

Mu Qi glanced at her and said, “You go back first, I’ll take her back.”

“What?” Hu Ying was a little stunned, and her hand holding the phone paused.

Mu Qi didn’t look at her, and asked Su Yanxi, “Is your house in front of the Chengnan community?”

Su Yanxi also nodded blankly.

Mu Qi raised her foot and walked forward, and said, “Let’s go, I’ll take you home.”

In the middle of the night, such a cute little girl walked on the road, and no one whew who dragged her away.

Hu Ying shouted from behind: “Qi-ge, let me join you.”

“No need.” Mu Qi kept waving at her and said, “Go back first, see you tomorrow.”

In the end, only the two of them were left, one was walking in front with half her face buried in the scarf, and the other was in the back, looking at the figure in front with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

When she arrived at the gate of the Chengnan community, Mu Qi stopped and was about to turn around.
The girl who was looking at her intently from behind hit her head on her back, like a ball, and took a step backwards.

Mu Qi: “…”

“What building is your home in?” Mu Qi said after a pause.

Su Yanxi rubbed her slightly hurt nose, her eyes were a little red, and she said in a small nasal voice, “It’s in Building 4.”

Mu Qi glanced at the community, there were too many, and Building 4 had to be found one by one.
Finally, she looked at her and said, “You lead the way.”

“Okay.” Su Yanxi nodded obediently.

Walking down, Mu Qi said, “Should I take you to the door?” These are polite words, after all, as she brought them supper tonight.

“No.” Su Yanxi shook her head.
After all, she came out secretly, and she has to go back secretly now.
If she asked Mu Qi to take her to the door, she was really afraid that her parents would hear the sound.

“Hmm.” Mu Qi Nodded.
In fact, she didn’t want to send the other party to the door.
At this moment, she was a little unable to lift her feet.
She had a fever and used up all her strength.

“Thank you.” Su Yanxi raised her head, as if there was light inher eyes, and looked straight at the girl in front of her.

Seeing her eyes, Mu Qi was stunned for a moment, then reached out and patted her head and said, “Go up, I’ll leave when I see your light on.”

“Okay!” After the girl finished speaking, she ran upstairs with a smile.

Mu Qi was standing downstairs.
She couldn’t help but take out a cigarette from her pocket and light it.
She leaned on a plate of tree trunks and looked up. 
After a while, the lights on the third floor lit up, and the girl opened the window and waved to her with a bright smile on her face.

Mu Qi waved her hand at her, turned around, put her hands in her pocket, and left.

Because of the lack of strength, even her waist was slightly bent.

However, no matter what she did, the girl who had been watching her departing back, liked it.
It wasn’t until her figure disappeared in front of the community that the girl rubber her frozen red nose and entered the room.

The headlight was turned off, and the small table lamp was turned on, and from the lowest drawer, she took out a thin photo album and opened it.

There are only three photos in it, but she and Mu Qi were in each photo.
They were taken in the first grade of elementary school.

Seeing herself and Mu Qi leaning against each other with a bright smile on her face, Su Yanxi laughed.
After looking for a long time, she turned off the lights and went to sleep, dreaming of Mu Qi’s shadow.

“Qi-ge, do you want to take another day off? Yesterday, you were all sick, and you are coming out today.” Hu Ying muttered to the side.

Mu Qi’s head exploded from her thoughts, patted the back of her head, and said irritably: “Just say a word or two, don’t go on and on, believe it or not, or I’ll beat you up?”

Hu Ying thought of Qi-ge’s fist from yesterday in her mind, and laughed.

Hearing her duck-like laughter, Mu Qi raised her lips contagiously, and finally felt that the two of them were stupid to laugh like this on the main road, so she couldn’t help patting Hu Ying on the back of the head again.

Hu Ying covered her head, glared, and retorted: “Qi-ge, if you fight like this again, I’ll be stupid one day.”

“You’re not far from being stupid.” Mu Qi scolded with a smile.

“Fuck!” Hu Ying also laughed.

Today, she made an appointment with Qi Wei to play basketball together.
Playing basketball in the winter is very good.
It’s a good sport.

Hu Ying tugged at the collar, looked at the empty basketball court, and cursed: “Fuck!”

She felt that they were just a bunch of idiots.
On such a cold day, playing basketball here, with the cold wind blowing from all directions, can make people stupid.
“Who made this suggestion, I want to hang her up and beat her.” Mu Qi couldn’t help cursing in a low voice.

Here comes the person who made this suggestion.

Qi Wei came with a few of her younger brothers and sisters.
There were five people in total.

When Qi Wei saw them, there were only two of them.
The milk tea that had just been drank spurted out, and she glared, “Damn, just you two?”

Hu Ying looked at her mouth full of milk tea with disgust and said, “I alone can beat you guys down to your knees and call me father!” 

This bad mouth made the group of younger brothers and sisters behind Qi Wei almost run away.
Although Qi Wei was also angry, this was not the time for a verbal fight, so she twisted her eyebrows and asked, “Can you call a few more people? If there are not enough people, I can call a few to lend you.”

Hu Ying wanted to say a few more words to her, but Mu Qi hugged her, then raised her chin and said, “You call it.”

It’s the holiday now, and it will take more than half an hour to call people.
She wants to hurry up and go back to sleep.

After a while, a group of people rushed over.

Hu Ying couldn't believe it and said: “Stinky mushroom, are you playing ball or fighting?”

Qi Wei was also a little stunned.
She looked back at the group of younger brothers and asked, “I only called three people, why did you all come here? Da Mao, Er Mao, who asked you to come?”

Da Mao said with a grin: “Wei-jie, we weren’t watching anything exciting, so we couldn’t help coming here.”

“Yes, yes, it’s too boring at home, we also want to come out and get some air.”

You.
The weather is so bad, that you have to come out to get some air.
I’m afraid my brain is not caught by the door (!).

(!): The expression is 怕不是脑子被门夹了, which is an expression that was translated to “I’m afraid my brain is not caught by the door.” .
To have one’s brains caught in the door means that someone is brainless, so here, they’re saying they’re not stupid enough to believe such an excuse.

In the end, Qi Wei was so angry with her group of younger brothers that she lost her temper.
She waved her hand impatiently and said, “Go and stand aside, don’t just stand there, people think we can’t fight and called for others for support.”

Immediately, a group of people walked obediently, and stood or sat watching.

As for the three people who were called to be helpers, Qi Wei pointed at them, and gave them to Mu Qi and the other, and said: “These three are still in the upper and middle reaches of basketball, don’t say that we bullied you.”

“Okay.” Mu Qi opened the zipper of her padded jacket, pulled the brim of the baseball cap behind her head and said, “Come on.”

T/N: I'll probs go back and re-edit the previous chapters eventually so that it flows better >.<