"Please, excuse me..."

I tried to turn my tongue, trying to speak as standard britannian as possible.

"Here... What hat..."

Although I've tried my best, I can feel that I speak Britannia badly and don't spit out many words clearly.

But the shopkeeper did not show any impatience.

After listening carefully and hard to what I was saying, he made a "please" to me.

"Look this way, please."

The shopkeeper led Su Cheng and I to a row of glass cabinets in the store.

Rows of hats of different styles are displayed in the glass cabinet.

As a village girl from a small village in the north, I saw so many kinds of hats for the first time.

My eyes were dazzled at once.

After allowing my eyes to scan back and forth on these hats several times, I pointed to one of the light blue hats and asked the shopkeeper.

"How much is this, please?"

The shopkeeper spit out a number that startled me.

I silently took back my finger pointing to the hat

After asking the owner about the prices of several hats, I followed Su Cheng out of the hat shop with satisfaction.

I'm just a village girl who just came out of a remote village. Of course, I don't have the spare money to buy these expensive hats.

Although I like many hats inside, especially the light blue one, I can only bear the pain to give up.

……

……

After leaving the hat shop with Su Cheng, Su Cheng said to me with a smile:

"The reason why I let you come here to communicate more with the vendors is that the vendors are a group of very patient people in order to do business."

"Unless they don't want to do your business at all, they won't laugh at your accent or be impatient with your low-level British."

"How? I've tried it once now. Don't I feel less afraid? "

Indeed, as Su Cheng said, after the first attempt, there was no such fear and resistance to communicate with the vendors.

"Well - let's go to the next store."

Su Cheng paused.

Then he added:

"But before you go to the next store - I want to make it convenient, Carol. Wait for me here first."

After that, Su Cheng finally let go of my hand, which he had been holding for a long time.

……

……

Su Cheng will be back soon.

Because he came back so fast, I couldn't help wondering if it was convenient for him to go.

I thought Su Cheng would hold my hand again when he came back.

However - Su Cheng only said "let's go" when he came back, and led me forward.

I hurried to Su Cheng's side and asked him in surprise.

"Don't you hold my hand?"

"Huh? I hold your hand just to prove that I won't tease you or slip away when you are communicating with the vendor. "

"You should have believed by now that I won't tease you? So I don't think I need to hold your hand anymore. "

……

……

Somehow, after hearing Su Cheng's words, an inexplicable emotion and... Impulse surged up from my heart.

I suddenly opened my arms and took Su Cheng's left arm into my arms.

My sudden move startled Su Cheng.

"Carol, what are you doing?"

"... I'm a very insecure person."

"Since you took me to the street, you should be responsible to the end and accompany me all the time."

"... I see."

Su Cheng smiled bitterly.

"Let's continue to hold hands..."

"I don't want it!" I directly and rudely interrupted Su Cheng, "it's too hot to hold hands."

"... well, if you want to hold my arm like this, it's not impossible... But... Can you loosen it..."

"You have pasted it on my arm..."

I saw Su Cheng blush for the first time since I knew him.

Su Cheng blushed and turned his head aside, as if he didn't want me to see his red face now.

Su Cheng's reaction made me feel fresh.

With the mentality of revenge for Su Cheng's previous tricks on me, I held Su Cheng's arm tighter.

"Hum ~ don't you boys like our girls here very much?"

"I'll take it as a reward for your willingness to practice Britannia with me."

"Accept my reward with gratitude, and then continue to practice with me."

After saying that, I took Su Cheng's hand and walked forward, trying to hold Su Cheng and move on.

However, Su Cheng stopped.

Su Cheng's face seemed to be redder than before.

Before I could ask Su Cheng why he didn't leave, Su Cheng hesitated and said to me:

"Sorry... Carol... Can you sit with me for a while?"

After that, without my response, he bowed and dragged me to the roadside, and then sat directly on the ground.

Even if you sit on the ground, you still bow your waist.

"Just a moment, just a moment, I can continue to walk..."

At first I didn't understand why Su Cheng suddenly didn't want to go.

After seeing Su Cheng's bow, I suddenly remembered what my mother had taught me about male body structure.

I understand why Su Cheng suddenly bows down, and my face becomes hot.

"... what a surprise."

While trying to make my hot cheeks return to normal temperature, I said to Su Cheng in a joking tone:

"Cheng, you are unexpectedly impatient with stimulation."

I know Su Cheng better - he is more intolerant of stimulation than I thought.

"There's no way..."

Su Cheng said with a bitter smile.

"After all, Carol, you are so cute. It's strange to be held by such a lovely girl without response?"

In order to hide my feeling that I was happy to hear Su Cheng's praise again, I said without curiosity:

"Don't think this will cover up the fact that you don't tolerate stimulation!"

……

……

Maybe I just gave Su Cheng too much stimulation. It took Su Cheng a long time to finally walk normally.

It took so long for Su Cheng to finally return to normal, which made me doubt myself - is my charm so great?

Or -- my charm is especially big in Su Cheng's eyes?

Anyway, as long as Su Cheng can recover.

"How's it going? Is it all right? "

"Don't talk as if I was seriously injured..."

Su Cheng stood up and jumped a few times, saying that he had no problem.

Seeing that Su Cheng had returned to normal, I took Su Cheng's left arm back into my arms.

But this time, in order not to stimulate Su Cheng, I specially relaxed the tightness of my arms and stopped Su Cheng's arms from touching any place that would make him unable to stand up and walk.