The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 349 Extra Story [-]: Swimming
Poppy has never had much interest in swimming.In the end, she decided to learn. During a chat, Jing Jing was a little surprised by the fact that she couldn't swim. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you have a psychological shadow on water?"

After seeing Poppy shaking her head, she said, "Since you don't have one, then go and learn."

Poppy was already used to her bossy tone, and no longer disgusted with this unquestionable tone of direct orders, she just asked, "Why?"

Jing Jing glanced over and said, "Even if you have no interest in surfing at the beach, you can't deny that swimming is good for you. This thing is like a driver's license. It's hard to guarantee that you won't use it someday. I just wonder why you would give up any A means you can use to protect yourself?"

It was seven o'clock that night when Poppy returned to Chu's residence, and was invited directly to Neizhong of Chu's residence at the gate.Chu Xing was sitting in the dining room with a newspaper in his hand. When he heard her footsteps, he asked without raising his head, "Where did you go?"

"Jingjing came to City C. I had afternoon tea with her."

After hearing this, Chu Xing didn't ask why the two of them had gotten to know each other so well, he just called her over and said casually, "We talked so late."

Poppy is not hungry, but she still sits down at the table.Seeing that he folded the newspaper, picked up the chopsticks, pursed his lips, and said, "I want to learn to swim."

Chu Xing raised his eyes and came over. After pondering for a moment, he seemed to have figured out the ins and outs, and said with a half-smile: "The scenery is not small. How many times have I said before that you refused, and she made you change your mind in just one afternoon. What did she tell you?"

Poppy replied quietly: "It's just a bet made by the generals. If I can learn it within half a month, the two of us will go to foreign islands together, and she will pay all the expenses."

After hearing this, Chu Xing smiled and said, "What fun can you two go to the island?"

Since coming to the Chu residence, Poppy has learned everything from the Chu guild, all taught by him.

When teaching her how to shoot and fight, Chu Xing always set aside most of the day to correct her patiently, from posture to technique, hand in hand, detail by detail.When Poppy was learning how to shoot, he was afraid that she would accidentally go off, and after teaching for a long time and confirming that she had mastered it completely, he let go of her hand and watched her shoot the gun alone.It took even longer to fight. Poppy went from solid horse stance to kick like the wind, and every movement from fingers to toes had been carefully corrected by him.

This time when she was learning to swim, Chu Xing didn't spend long with her by the pool every day.He taught her swimming skills in the first two days, and after confirming that she had basically learned that she would not drown, he stopped coming from the third day.Poppy practiced alone for two days, and on the fifth day, she swam from morning to noon. After twelve o'clock, the butler came over, bowed slightly, and said to her, "Miss Poppy, Master, please change your clothes and go to lunch. "

Poppy glanced at him and said expressionlessly, "I'm not hungry yet."

"I don't eat lunch, and I will have cramps during afternoon practice." The housekeeper said with drooping eyelids, "Even if Miss Poppy is angry, she still needs to eat a couple of bites."

Poppy sneered slightly: "Butler Zhou, you have to be reasonable and well-founded. Which eye of yours sees me being angry?"

The housekeeper wanted to say again that she had already dived into the water and swam from this side to the opposite side.This kind of behavior has often appeared in her body recently, and after getting in touch with her a lot, she knew that no matter what she said at this moment, Poppy would definitely not listen.The butler stood by the pool, stopped for a while, turned and went out without any further persuasion.

After a while, Chu Xing's figure appeared at the door of the swimming room.He was still holding a bowl of fish porridge in his hand. Poppy was originally on the shore, but when he saw him, he turned around and plunged into the water, then swam to the opposite side.Chu Xing showed no sign of asking her to come back, he just sat down on the deck chair on the shore, scooped up the porridge with a spoon, and fed it into his mouth slowly.Poppy stared at him bitterly for a while, seeing that he was about to eat half of the bowl, finally couldn't help it, and swam back again.

She didn't go ashore, so she floated on the bank and stared at him, angrily said: "You are not allowed to eat it! It's mine!"

Chu Xing said with a smile: "Speak with reason and evidence. Where can you prove that this fish porridge is yours?"

Poppy gritted her teeth, watched him swallow another mouthful of fish porridge, and shouted, "Chu Xing!"

Chu Xing said with a smile: "You come up."

"I won't eat it!"

After she finished speaking, she plunged into the water again and was about to swim to the opposite side. Behind her, Chu Xing said slowly, "Don't swim any more. After all, the posture is still not good-looking. Come over and eat."

As soon as his words fell, Poppy frowned like a "bang", turned around abruptly, went ashore with water stains all over her body, stepped in front of him, and poked his finger with a "swish". On the bridge of the nose: "Say it again! You think you swim so well!"

"Okay," he said with a smile in his eyes, holding the porcelain bowl in one hand, and involuntarily hugged her tightly in his arms with the other, "I have to come up like this, are you going to make trouble?"

She struggled with all her strength: "Obviously it's all your fault!"

"What's wrong with me?"

She glared at him angrily, only said "you", and then suddenly stopped.Suddenly, the whole person was like a deflated ball, and the puffy appearance just now disappeared without a trace.

She was sitting on his lap, and she suddenly became quiet after only one wrong eye.He watched her lower her eyes, took the fish porridge in his hand without making a sound, said nothing, just ate the rest silently.Then he threw the bowl on the small table and wanted to go into the water again.

He grabbed her and said, "I just finished eating, let's digest it before going."

Poppy didn't listen at all, she tried her best to break away from him, and went into the water again.He squatted halfway on the shore, watching her swim a few laps without ignoring him, and finally stopped far away on the opposite side.

He was just teasing her.She has always been a quick learner, but in just two days, her swimming posture is already very beautiful, as nimble as a fish in the water.

Moreover, he only swam back and forth twice, as if a fish's tail had gently passed over his heart, making him hold his breath unconsciously.

He didn't come over these two days, and that's the reason.

She had been by his side all these years, and it was only these few days that he suddenly realized that she was no longer just the cute little girl she was back then.

Chu Xing was still a little dazed, but Poppy had already swam back slowly from the opposite bank.As soon as he arrived, he suddenly frowned again, bowed his waist and curled up into the water.

She grabbed her calf and began to struggle, but he quickly grabbed her arm and lifted her to the shore.He hugged her into his arms, and quickly covered her calf with his warm palm instead of her hand, and said, "Is this the cramp?"

She bit her lip to suppress her moan, and after a while, she couldn't help but whispered: "...It hurts so much."

He glanced at her, and after a while, he retracted his gaze, and gently kneaded her calf, gradually increasing his strength.Until her convulsion subsided, his fingertips still rested on her calf. After a moment of silence, he suddenly called her name in a low voice: "Poppy."

When she raised her head, he leaned down and kissed half of her lips.

Chu Xing kissed meticulously and gently, but he could still feel her stiffness.He stroked her back slowly, and after a while, he finally let her relax slowly.He lowered his eyes slightly, and saw a thin layer of water in Poppy's eyes.

Her cheeks also slowly turned scarlet, but she struggled a little in his arms.Chu Xing held one of her hands, intertwined one finger with another, and slowly caressed her with the other hand along the hollow of her leg. Before the movement was obvious, Poppy moved slightly again, and suddenly used Hands covered his eyes.

The corners of his lips curled up, he lowered his body and kissed her fingers one by one, and then slowly moved to the back of his hand. Seeing that she still did not let go, he stopped forcing, and only whispered: "Don't be afraid."

He followed a few words, and his tone was more gentle than before, but he bit her earlobe lightly and said vaguely, Poppy didn't hear clearly.Every movement of his was patient and meticulous, leaving her mind blank, subconsciously feeling as if her whole body was in his hands, and no matter where his fingers lingered, she couldn't help trembling.And he only scraped her back twice lightly, and she had already softened uncontrollably.

He kept teasing her with a low voice, Poppy bit her lip and remained silent.

She began to kick her legs to push back, and pinched her hands into his flesh. After a while, as if she still felt unbearable, she frowned and whispered: "...It hurts, you get out."

With his hands on her sides, he leaned over to kiss her again, whispering her name at the corner of his mouth.Until she showed signs of loosening, he whispered: "Hold me."

Poppy's eyelids trembled, and she finally raised her head to look at him.He kissed her tears little by little, his movements extremely gentle.When looking at her, there was a faint smile between the corners of the eyes and brows: "Hold me, huh?"

She looked at him for a while, then hugged his neck in a dazed way, and heard him laugh lowly, kissing the corner of her ear, hugging her and saying, "Good boy."

What happened that afternoon was later, and Poppy recalled it afterward, and most of it was no longer clear.In the blur, it seemed that the two were first by the pool and then in the water.The clearest thing in my memory is the strange feeling that day was completely different from the past, and Chu Xing's gentle teasing in her ears over and over again.His voice was so deep and soft that it seemed to really soothe some of her pain.

She couldn't recall when she fell into a deep sleep.All I know is that at dusk, when she wakes up, her whole body is refreshed and clean, with a warm and soft bed under her body, and her back is loosely embraced by a hand.

She looked up ignorantly, and saw Chu Xing lying on her side, with a small piece of cream cake in his hand, looking down at her, with a smile on his brows and lips: "Are you hungry? Get up and eat something."

(End of this chapter)