Bookworm

  "Oh no, mom's cooking soup for me?!"

  Shen Yao suddenly saw a little soup stain overflowing from her bag, and her face changed. Inside the bag was a thermos bottle that her mother had made for her, which she had drunk herself and had planned to bring some back to her dormitory sisters. Just now, when the thief used the bag to attack Di Yu, the thermos bottle inside was broken, revealing a regretful expression.

  "The soup has been spilled, but it can still be re-boiled. Let's see if there's anything else missing?" Di Yu reminded.

  Shen Yao tidied up briefly and shook her head, saying: "It's okay, everything else is still here."

  "Please, both of you, can't you just let me go? Big brother, I'm almost suffocating from your pressure. Just spare my life this time and I'll never dare to do it again." The thief was pinned down by Di Yu's one hand, feeling heavier than a mountain, no matter how hard he struggled, he couldn't break free, finally had to beg for mercy from Di Yu.

  Di Yu said casually, "I don't have a problem, as long as this lady doesn't pursue it, I'll let you go. Actually, if you had handed over the purse directly to me just now, I would have let you go earlier. Unfortunately, your greed was not enough, and it's all because of yourself."

  "How can that be, in the capital city's main street he rushed to steal - no, it was robbery. I've already reported to the police, let them handle him." The beauty's face was full of indignation, the soup had been spilled, her bag was also covered with oil stains, if she hadn't shown mercy by not stepping on Xiaoping's head, that would have been considered letting him off easy.

  "In that case, I'm helpless." Di Yu looked at Xiaoping with an apologetic face. He wasn't teasing him, if the little thief had really left the bag behind earlier, he wouldn't have made things difficult for him again. Di Yu's awareness hadn't reached the point where he considered himself a policeman, seeing such an unjust situation, lending a hand was enough, no need to dig deeper.

  Soon after Shen Yao reported the incident, a police car arrived at the scene. A man in his thirties or forties and two young male officers got out of the car.

  The thief was taken away by two young policemen from Di Yu, while the middle-aged man ran to Shen Yao's side with a worried face and asked anxiously: "Miss Shen, are you okay?"

  "Don't worry, Uncle Zhang! Luckily, Di classmate helped me catch the thief." Shen Yao seemed to be familiar with this team leader in police uniform.

  The middle-aged man looked at Di Yu and asked: "You, are you out shopping with your classmates?"

  Deputy Captain Zhang Chao of the Criminal Police Brigade stared at Di Yu with a suspicious gaze, wondering if he was the boyfriend of Director Shen's daughter.

  Shen Yao's face turned red, and as soon as she saw the expression on Zhang Chao's face, she immediately understood that he had misunderstood. She quickly explained: "Uncle Chao, we didn't know each other before."

  "Oh—" Zhang Chao knew he had misunderstood and said: "Comrade Di, can you come with us to make a record?"

  "I—" Di Yu was just about to decline when he suddenly heard the phone ringing and said apologetically: "I'll take this call."

  Di Yu ran to the side and answered the phone, saying: "Hello, Xiao Bai! Is there something you need me for?"

  Xiao Bai is one of his roommates, whose full name is Ma Hao. Xiao Bai's nickname was given by another roommate, Huang Shaofeng, who often said that Ma Hao spoke without thinking, so he called him Xiao Bai.

  "Di Yu, where are you? Let's go have dinner together tonight, Huang Shaofeng is treating, three lacking one." The phone on the other end transmitted Ma Hao's excited voice, as if Huang Shaofeng's treat made him so happy that his mouth couldn't close.

  Di Yu asked curiously: "Isn't there a game competition tonight? Why did you decide to have dinner together again?"

  "Oh no, don't mention it! The computer is broken, Shaofeng's girlfriend tried to fix it for half a day and said that if she can't fix it, they'll throw it away and take it to the repair shop tomorrow."

  "Really? I might have something on my end, don't know if I can make it. If I can't, you guys go ahead and have fun."

  Di Yu hung up the phone and turned around to see that the three police officers and the thief had all disappeared, the police car had driven away, and only Shen Yao was still standing there waiting for him to finish his call. Di Yu asked curiously: "Huh, where did they go?"

  Shen Yao said: "I see you have something on your mind, let them go first."

  "Did you let them go?" Di Yu looked at Shen Yao, he rarely paid attention to things in school and didn't know Shen Yao's identity.

  "Heh heh, my dad is the director, and those three just now are all under my dad's command." Shen Yao said with a mysterious smile.

  So that's how it is! Di Yu only then realized that Shen Yao's identity was not simple, the "Director" in her mouth was naturally the Director of the Public Security Bureau, and judging from the time it took for the police to arrive after calling the police earlier, it was most likely the Municipal Public Security Bureau. The position of Director of the Municipal Public Security Bureau is generally not something that ordinary people can sit on.

  "Hehe, nothing special, just a few dorm mates asking me to have dinner. Since I don't need to go for the written record, I'll head out first." Di Yu said with a shrug, and then walked towards the school.

  "Hey——” Di Yu walked very quickly, Shen Yao hadn't even had time to persuade him to stay, and all she saw was Di Yu's back. She had originally wanted to ask which department and class he was in, and had been preparing to invite him to dinner as a way of thanking him for his help today, but when he said he was going back to have dinner with his dormitory classmates, she didn't mention it again.

  "Why run so fast, if it were someone else, they should be treating me to dinner! Geez!" Shen Yao muttered to herself. There were too many people trying to get close to her both inside and outside of school. She thought she was pretty good-looking and had a sunny disposition, so why was it so hard for others to approach her?

  Di Yu walked quickly, not because he was avoiding the beauty, although he hadn't thought of getting close to Shen Yao, but also didn't need to run so fast, it's just that he remembered there was a book due today and wanted to return it, so he quickened his pace.

  Back to the dormitory, Di Yu didn't see anyone crying and wailing, pounding their chest and stamping their feet. He thought that since the computer was broken, Ma Hao, Qin Ming, and Huang Shaofeng couldn't form a team for the competition, which would be a huge disappointment.

  Di Yu hadn't even entered the dormitory when he heard a burst of cheerful voices and laughter, as well as bursts of silvery bell-like laughter.

  How can there be a girl's voice? This is a boys' dorm!

  As soon as he entered the door, he saw three disappointed faces, and the man who had just entered the Happy Forest was excited to the extreme.

  Two girls came to our dormitory today, and the other three roommates are chatting nonsense there.

  "Di Yu is back! Come, let me introduce you to the two beauties, this is our dorm's bookworm, Di Yu! I'm telling you, even if he were to go back to the 19th century, he would still be a top-notch good man——"

  As soon as Di Yu entered the door, he first saw Ma Hao hurriedly getting up from the bed and running to the door to pull Di Yu in front of the two girls, introducing them solemnly.

  Ma Hao's introduction caused two girls to burst out laughing, one of whom was a tall and slender girl with curly brown hair, Huang Shaofeng's girlfriend Yun Lei. She knew Di Yu and as soon as Ma Hao introduced them, she explained to the other girl: "Cousin, Ma Hao isn't joking, Di Yu really is their dormitory's bookworm, haha. Di Yu, this is my cousin He Meng, let's get acquainted."

  "Hehe, hello." Di Yu casually greeted and then picked up a book on socio-economic theory from his bed, saying: "You guys chat first, I'll go return this book to the library and come back."

  Di Yu rushed back just to return the book, and after saying that, he left the dormitory. The girl named He Meng still didn't believe there were such bookworms, but when Di Yu returned, she saw two girls in their dormitory, and the first thing they did was not to chat with them, but to return books. It really made her unbelievable, so she burst out laughing without caring about her image.

  When reading books in the past, teachers often said "don't read books just for the sake of reading" which meant educating students not to be bookworms. However, Di Yu was different, he was the opposite, he was "reading books for the sake of reading". He read books purely to experience the joy of reading at that moment, in his view, reading was a pleasure.

  Di Yu saw the two girls in the dormitory and understood why Ma Hao was abnormally excited when he mentioned Huang Shaofeng's treat on the phone. It turned out that Huang Shaofeng's girlfriend, Yun Lei, had come, and she had also brought a pure and beautiful girl named He Meng. Just now, he heard Ma Hao and Qin Ming talking to He Meng most of the time, which was a normal reaction for men when they saw women. These two guys often joked about Huang Shaofeng and his girlfriend in the dormitory, but it was actually a kind of envy in disguise.

  After returning the book, I saw Yunlei and Heming were still there. It seems that Huang Shaofeng inviting them out today was also one of the reasons.

  "Di Yu, just now Yun Lei joked that you've read so many books, can't you fix this computer? It's broken and we won't be able to play tonight's match." Ma Hao patted the monitor with a gloomy face. The monitor was indeed broken, and they wouldn't be able to participate in the competition tonight. This competition held great promise for them, and it would be a shame if they couldn't attend due to a broken computer.

  Di Yu said helplessly: "This computer thing, just reading books can't understand it. When have you seen me actually do it? I'm not capable of that."

  Di Yu finished speaking and Huang Shaofeng smiled faintly, stretched out his hand to Ma Hao and Qin Ming, saying: "One hundred yuan per person, give it to me!"

  "What's a hundred bucks?" Di Yu looked at them curiously, Ma Hao and Qin Ming had faces full of sadness and disappointment, while Yun Lei and He Meng were trying to hold back their smiles.