The Reality of Snow

Temporarily putting aside the matter of persuading Liu Manman, Xia Yu looked at Ning Qiuer, curious about where she had seen him before.

Childhood playmate who promised to marry each other? Xia Yu felt that he wasn't that much of a beast.

Ning Qiuer didn't immediately tell the truth but took out her phone and started flipping through it.

Five seconds later, she held up her phone to Xia Yu and said, "That's you, right?"

Looking at the phone, Xia Yu saw a video playing, showing a scene from a KTV, and the protagonist was him.

He was holding a guitar, singing.

Ning Qiuer turned up the volume, and Xia Yu remembered what video this was.

It was when he was still in Ziling, he went to KTV with Yan Wei to help her deal with a music-loving pursuer, and he sang the song "The Brightest Star in the Night Sky".

"I've never seen this video!" Liu Manman took Ning Qiuer's phone and started playing it from the beginning.

Xia Yu didn't mind and went to the target to pull out the arrows and continue practicing.

After he finished another round, Liu Manman finished watching the video, came over to Xia Yu, and hooked his neck: "You guy, you can even write songs and sing pretty well!"

Feeling hot from the exercise, Liu Manman took off her jacket, leaving only a sweater. If Xia Yu didn't know her personality, he would have thought that Liu Manman was trying to seduce him.

Pushing her away, Xia Yu continued to place arrows, "Basic operation, my talent is in music, so whether it's writing or composing, regardless of piano, guzheng, violin, I can do it well."

"Damn, don't mention these things in front of me." Liu Manman refused to listen to such heartbreaking words.

"As long as you find the right direction, you can do it too. You play the xiao well, right? How long have you been learning?" Xia Yu asked.

"It's just ordinary learning with my grandma, she didn't praise me." Liu Manman recalled, "Wait, after the performance in the second district last time, she praised me for working hard. But it was only before the performance that I practiced. The xiao was covered in dust."

"You're already like this in guzheng, you can try to work hard in the direction of xiao or sheng." Seeing that the guidance was successful, Xia Yu was very pleased.

"Why should it be sheng? Since I already have the foundation of the xiao, of course, it's better to learn the xiao, right? And the xiao is more popular than the sheng." Liu Manman wondered.

Xia Yu naturally couldn't say that he wanted to sell Liu Manman to Shen Shengsheng. He answered, "Anyway, your xiao is not very good. Switching to sheng will only waste half a year's time."

"It's still time." Liu Manman didn't agree with this answer. She felt that Xia Yu seemed to have ulterior motives.

"The most important thing is," Xia Yu had a thoughtful look for Liu Manman, "There are many masters in xiao, but there is only one master in sheng music, and that is Shen Shengsheng, who is already quite old. If you become a master in xiao, you will be just one master, but if you become a master in sheng, you will be the strongest of an era, the leader of sheng music!"

Liu Manman was quickly attracted by the future Xia Yu depicted, and she lowered her head to think.

Seeing that Liu Manman and Xia Yu had finished their conversation, Ning Qiuer came forward, holding her phone and said to Xia Yu, "Add a friend?"

Xia Yu gave out his QQ number, and soon the phone received a friend request notification. After pressing accept, Xia Yu categorized Ning Qiuer into the stranger column.

On Xia Yu's QQ account, there were only two columns: one for people like An Siyao and Liu Manman, and the other for schoolmates and strangers like Ning Qiuer.

After finishing the categorization, Xia Yu looked at Yuxue's avatar, and Yuxue sent him a message.

"Brother, what are you doing now?"

Xia Yu typed back his reply.

Yuxue, who was in class, felt her phone vibrate slightly. She quietly pulled out her phone and looked at Xia Yu's reply.

"Doing archery, with your sister Manman."

Yuxue covered her mouth, the images of clothes on the ground and messy sheets flashing through her mind.

Silent for five seconds, she typed: "Be careful."

Xia Yu quickly replied: "Don't worry, we have protective gear and a coach."

Protective gear was understandable, but what was the coach? Yuxue sensed something was wrong.

"Send me a picture to see," she typed.

Upon opening the photo, Yuxue saw the archery range and let out a sigh of relief.

She then began to examine the details of the photo.

A photo's details can reveal a lot. Each time she took a picture, she consciously chose specific details and then sent the photo to Xia Yu. Unfortunately, Xia Yu had never paid attention to those details.

She saw the edge of the photo, half of Liu Manman's shoulder in the frame, with a hand resting on it.

Simulating in her head the distance between Xia Yu and Liu Manman, she calculated the movements of the two people. Yuxue was sure that hand didn't belong to Liu Manman or Xia Yu.

Liu Manman was in a relaxed posture at the moment, and it didn't seem like she was taking instruction from a coach.

Xia·Sherlock·Edogawa·Yuxue had discovered the secret.

"Who's the other girl besides Sister Manman?"

According to Edogawa-Yuxue's analysis, anyone close to Liu Manman must not be a man.

"It's Ning Qiuer," the photo showed.

Staring at the three-character name for a while, Yuxue opened the photo, which showed Ning Qiuer with a bow and arrow.

"Get an autograph!'

Yuxue's response was as Xia Yu expected. He agreed and ended the conversation.

He continued to practice archery until noon, when the three of them had lunch together at the club restaurant. Xia Yu took the opportunity to grab the autograph, and Liu Manman and Ning Qiuer went shopping, while Xia Yu continued practicing.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, he was already able to perform the same operation as before on the ten-meter target with his darts.

He could make further progress tomorrow.

Finding the coach, Xia Yu returned the equipment.

The coach told him, "If you plan to keep playing, buy a bow with more draw weight. Choose between recurve, traditional, or compound bows."

"Are there any particular preferences for bows?" Xia Yu had no knowledge of this.

"The bow you're using now has only 22 pounds of draw weight. Considering your strength, going up to 30 pounds shouldn't be a problem. You'll need to keep increasing the weight, up to around 60 or 70 pounds," the coach pulled out his phone, "Let's add each other's QQ numbers, and I can give you advice on what to buy."

After adding the coach's QQ number, Xia Yu took a cab home.

As soon as he entered the door, Yuxue pounced in front of him, staring at him with wide eyes.

Xia Yu took out the notebook from the club, and on the first page was Ning Qiuer's autograph.

Taking the notebook, Yuxue held it with both hands and went to the balcony, taking more than ten photos.

Then, she threw the notebook into the TV cabinet where miscellaneous items were stored.

Pleasantly flipping through the photos, Yuxue walked upstairs.

After showing off the photos, Ning Qiuer's signatures lost their significance.

This girl is quite realistic, Xia Yu thought.

Drinking a glass of cola, he returned to his room.

After pulling the bow all day, even he felt some soreness in his arm. Rubbing his shoulder, he checked Wen Ziying's column.

After a moment of darkness, what he saw was a manuscript filled with words.