Coward’s first love formula
waiting for you to finish class, when you grow up
, my mother remarried, and the school bully became my brother in a twinkling of an eye. The first day
we met, he said to me and my mother with a nasty smile, “I’m not going to be a family with a mistress.”
If I don’t spoil him, it will be a loud slap in the face.
As a result, the horrible graffiti in the room, the dead birds under the desks, and the music boxes that play automatically at night have all become Jiang’s childish pranks to retaliate against me.
It wasn’t until I brought my boyfriend home when I was in college that he gave me the first soft look and prayed, “Can you break up with him?” When
I was in the second year of junior high school, my mother took me to marry into the Jiang family.
Don’t get me wrong, what my mother took was not the script of a little white flower or marrying into a rich family.
She was a serious young lady of the Yu family, and she was well-matched with the president of the Jiang family.
My mother suffered a lot from love in her early years, so she turned up her nose at love and didn’t have much reaction to the business marriage with the Jiang family.
In addition, President Jiang also divorced once, and his ex-wife also left a child, so my mother wanted to marry at least not to have another child, which was also a good deal. I met Uncle Kang before
they got married.
The man’s appearance is handsome, his temperament is gentle and gentle, and he has almost no president’s airs. He is very considerate to me and my mother. Uncle
Jiang often touched my head and said, “It’s better to be a daughter, not like that smelly boy in my family who keeps pulling a face day by day.”
I smiled and didn’t speak. I know Uncle
Jiang’s child, Jiang Yang, because I go to the same school with him.
It’s just that I am the kind of good student who is obedient and always dominates the first grade in the teacher’s mouth, while he is the school bully who fights and skips classes and refuses to obey discipline in the eyes of the public.
At school, we all heard each other’s names, but we never met.
Speaking of it, Jiang Yang should be the only one who is dissatisfied with the marriage.
So that he disappeared on the wedding day, and we didn’t see him until we went back to Jiang’s house together in the evening.
At that time, Jiang Yangzheng and a group of boys of the same age were in the living room of Jiang’s house. When they saw us coming in, they just lifted their eyelids lightly, and then lowered their heads to play games as if nothing had happened. The people
he called were all very polite, and they all stood up and called out to Uncle Jiang. Although Uncle Jiang was a little surprised, he smiled gently at them.
I glanced around, these people should all be in the school and Jiang Yang play well, but I do not know why Jiang Yang specially called them here today. Uncle
Jiang obviously didn’t know either. He frowned and said in a low voice, “What do you mean?”
“It’s not very interesting. On weekends, it’s normal to invite a few classmates to play at home.” He was still sitting on the sofa playing games and had no intention of saying hello to my mother.
“Oh.” Uncle Jiang was obviously trying to put up with his temper. “Well, let’s stop here today. We’ll go out and have a meal with your Auntie Yu and her family later.”
Hearing this, Jiang Yang gave a sneer, and there was a strong sense of mockery in his clear young voice: “a family?”? I’m not going to be a family with a mistress. As soon as I said
this, I knew the purpose of his calling these people over. It turned out that he wanted to make a fool of me and my mother in public.
“Ginger!”! It seems that I usually spoil you too much. Uncle Chiang said in a cold voice, “What nonsense!”
Jiang Yang still did not look at him, but sneered several times.
Seeing this, I ignored Uncle Jiang’s anger and my mother’s somewhat confused expression, and walked step by step in front of Jiang.
When my shadow fell on the boy, he finally raised his head. His good-looking eyebrows and eyes were full of impatience. He said to me bluntly, “What are you doing?” I smiled
at him, and as he suddenly stared, I said, “What did you say just now?”
When Chiang Yang came to his senses, he smiled sarcastically at the corners of his mouth: “I like to hear my mother being called a mistress so much. Well, I’ll help him.”
“Bang!”
My slap fell firmly on Jiang’s face, and in his incredulous expression, I shook the palm of my hand, which hurt faintly.
“First of all, my mother is not a mistress. My mother never saw your father before she married him.”
“Besides, if you don’t admit that we’re a family anymore, seeing how impolite you are, I, the elder sister, will have to discipline you first.”
I have asked Uncle Jiang, and he is exactly two months younger than me.
That night, Jiang did not fight back because I was a girl, but stared at me several times before going upstairs. When he went to school
the next day, he left early and did not wait to go to school with me by bus. I
just don’t want to go with him, so I don’t have to make excuses. We just happened to meet again
on the way.
I saw Jiang Yang riding a bicycle outside the window. He was wearing a pure white short sleeve. His school uniform jacket was tied around his waist. As soon as he saw me, he immediately showed a malicious smile.
I didn’t know what he meant, but that didn’t stop me from mouthing his brother with a smile.
Sure enough, his face turned black immediately, and then he rode fast and staggered away from us.
All morning, I was on the alert for Jiang Yan to make trouble for me, but he didn’t move until lunch break.
Just when I thought he wouldn’t mess around at school, he just gave me a big gift.
At noon, I just returned to the classroom after lunch with my deskmate. When I opened the book, I saw a dead bird lying inside.
Before my deskmate went out to fetch water, I calmed down and wrapped the bird’s body in a tissue and threw it into the trash can.
Then, instead of going back to my classroom, I went directly to the classroom of Class 7. The people of Class
7 were also planning to take a lunch break at this time. They were surprised to see me, and a few of them even said hello to me. Among
them, I saw Jiang Yan in the last row by the window.
I saw him sitting on the table, feet on the chair, surrounded by a group of people, looking at me with a haughty expression, that posture did not know that he was enthroned today.
“Ah, isn’t this Yu Tzu-hsi, the university tyrant in the key class?”? Why did you condescend to come to our Class 7 today? He looked at me with a smile. With a sneer
in my heart, I pretended to be helpless and said to him in a soft tone, “I’m sorry, Jiang Yang. I can’t promise you.”
Now most people don’t know about my relationship with Jiang Yang, so after listening to my ambiguous words, the people in Class 7 all have the light of gossip in their eyes.
Jiang Yang is the whole person is silly, he frowned: “What are you saying?”
I smiled sweetly at him. “Isn’t that the love letter you put on my desk at noon today?” When
I finished, all the people in Class 7 immediately made a heckling sound, and even Jiang Yang’s younger brothers looked at him with a suspicious look.
Jiang Yang was stupefied for a long time before he realized what I meant. His face turned red in an instant: “You..” Don’t talk nonsense. What I put is clearly..
I tilted my head and asked him innocently, “What is it?” What
he had done would inevitably be despised by others, so he opened his mouth and failed to explain anything, and finally pulled his hair irritably.
“It’s none of your business what the young master put there. It’s time for lunch break. Hurry up and close your eyes and go to sleep!” As
he spoke, he gave me another vicious look: “Go back to college, too. I don’t know that the school rules don’t allow you to cross classes!”
It’s so funny. I didn’t expect that I would be popularized by the school bully one day. However, I have achieved the purpose of coming, so I went back to class in a good mood.
Since what happened that day, the school began to spread the rumor that the school bully had been rejected, and he was so angry that he planned not to admit that he had written a love letter.
03
I let Jiang Yan steal the limelight at school, so he looked at me more and more unpleasant. When I
was at home or at school, it was fine if I didn’t meet him, but if I did, I would be angry with him.
But I think he’s pretty childish, even with those pranks.
For example, once he changed the music box on my bedside into a strange thing that would automatically play horrible sound effects in the middle of the night for no reason.
I’ve always been bold. This kind of thing is not terrible to me. Just turn off the spring and throw it away.
But anyone who is sleeping soundly will not be too happy to be woken up. So the next day I set all the alarm clocks at home to three o’clock in the middle of the night, and then secretly put them under Jiang’s bed.
The next morning, I saw him with two huge black eyes, staring at me with a gnashing of teeth.
I held my cheek and looked at him, thinking that the young master was quite cute when he fried his hair. When
he saw me smiling at him, he turned his head away uncomfortably and snorted at me, “Yu Zixi, don’t be complacent.” Still smiling,
I said, “I’m waiting for Master Chiang to come up with a new idea.”
Perhaps these days of frustration, Jiang Yang is quiet for a while, but I know in my heart, he is waiting to give me a big move.
Sure enough, when I came home from my friend’s birthday party that night, I saw many horrible expressions painted with red paint on the wall of my room facing the bed.
I pinched my eyebrows and secretly reflected on myself in my heart. Sure enough, I overestimated Jiang Yang’s boy. I held back such a thing for a long time.
It is said that in adolescence, boys mature two years later than girls. I think Jiang Dashao in our family is more than two years late. He is so childish that he is afraid that when other boys will use gifts to please girls, he will pull their hair to try to attract their attention. As
I smelled the faint smell of paint in the air, I couldn’t help frowning, and some bad memories came up in an instant.
I have to say, his trick is bad, but it happens to hit the thing I hate most.
I immediately withdrew from the room, thinking about whether to go to the guest room for a night.
But Jiang’s family will not leave guests here overnight, so the guest room is basically furnished, it is too late now, the aunt responsible for cleaning must have gone to bed long ago.
In addition, Uncle Jiang took my mother abroad to play these days, leaving only me and Jiang Yang at home, and I really didn’t even have anyone to complain. For the first time,
I was angry at Jiang’s prank, so I went straight to knock on his door.
The door soon opened, and inside Jiang Yan should have just taken a bath, the hazy steam was still lingering around him, his dark hair was half dry, and his wet eyes gave people the illusion that the teenager was very clever. When
Jiang Yang saw that it was me, he wasn’t surprised. He just leaned his arms against the door frame and looked at me with a smile. “What can I do for you, Miss Yu?”
Of course I’m here to get even with you.
Only now, when I looked at his proud face, I suddenly had other bad thoughts in my heart. So I pushed Jiang Yan, who was standing in the doorway, straight into his room and finally lay down peacefully on his bed.
Anyway, I can’t sleep tonight. That’s just right. Let’s not sleep.
Jiang Yang was so surprised that he threw away the towel he had just held to wipe his hair. He asked me with a broken expression, “Yu Zixi, do you think you are like this?” Does it fit?
I yawned lazily and sneered, “I didn’t want to, but who told Jiang Dashao to make my room like that?” As I
spoke, I gave him another defiant look: “Jiang Dashao’s bed is really big and soft.” Actually, I don’t mind sleeping in the same bed with you tonight.
Jiang Yang’s face was flushed, and he didn’t know whether he was shy or angry. He stammered for a long time and finally said angrily, “But I mind!”
I turned over and stopped looking at him. “I knew you wouldn’t dare, so I’ll bother Jiang Dashao to stay in the guest room for one night.”
Damn, this bed is really comfortable, and it makes me really sleepy.
After a while, the lights in the room were turned off, followed by the sound of closing the door. I thought it was good that Jiang remembered to turn off the lights for me before he left.
But the next moment, the mattress next to me was dented, and it was obvious that someone was lying down on the other side. Incredibly,
I turned my head and saw Jiang lying casually beside me. In the
dim light of night, the boy raised his eyebrows at me. “What am I afraid of?”? Miss Yu, don’t run away later.
I had a little hesitation in my heart, but after listening to his words, the small flame of competitiveness in my heart suddenly ignited again. I turned my head away from looking at him and spent my breath with him. The
air is full of the smell of ginger shower gel, cool, close your eyes, as if there is a kind of illusion of being in the woods after the rain.
I thought to myself that I hadn’t taken a shower and brushed my teeth yet.
And then Jiang Yang suddenly opened his mouth. Somehow, his voice was a little hoarse: “I said Yu Zixi, don’t always go to bed with a man in the future. It’s very..” It’s dangerous, don’t you know!
I rolled my eyes. Men? Now you’re nothing but a brat. Besides, who am I to thank for this?
“What do you mean?” He explodes Mao Dao.
I closed my eyes and ignored him.
Just when I was really about to fall asleep, the ginger beside me finally got up. “No,” he murmured softly as he opened the door of the room. “She’s so bold. That kind of thing shouldn’t frighten her.”
I thought in a daze, why do this stupid thing when I know it won’t scare me? When I woke up
the next day, I was full of regret.
Yesterday, I was confused by Jiang Yang’s anger, and I was really sleepy, so I rarely lost my reason, which was the same brain circuit as Jiang Yang’s pupils. As soon as
I sat up, Jiang Yan knocked on the door from the outside. He said in a low voice, “Yu Zixi, have you got up yet?”? Hurry up and go to your room before the servants get up.
I fixed my hair briefly and went to open the door. Jiang Yang immediately wrung his eyebrows and walked in. I asked him curiously, “Where did you sleep last night?” “Where else? The guest room,”
he said grumpily. “I worked there all night as a vacuum cleaner.” It was rare for
me to feel guilty, but when I thought that he had asked for it, the guilt disappeared.
I was about to go back to my room when I was stopped by Jiang Yan, whose face was rarely embarrassed. I frowned down his line of sight and saw a touch of crimson on the sky-blue sheets I slept on yesterday.
My face turned red in an instant. No wonder I always felt some pain in my lower abdomen this morning.
I immediately ran over and lifted the sheet, holding it in my arms, and quickly said to him, “I’m sorry, I washed it and returned it to you.” When I
got back to my room, I covered my face in embarrassment. It was too humiliating. How could there be no good thing after I met Jiang?
When I finished washing the sheets in the room and hung them secretly, I suddenly realized that Jiang Dashao was not short of this sheet. Maybe he still disliked it after I washed it and sent it to him.
But what I didn’t expect was that in the evening, Jiang Yan knocked on my door and asked for his sheets.
I handed him the sheet suspiciously and asked, “Do you still want it?”
He glared at me, “What are you talking about? This is one of my favorite sheets.”
I said, “Oh,” and he looked down and smelled it. “Have we changed the smell of our laundry detergent?”
I said no, it’s a taste I’m used to. Jiang Yang did not know what to think of, his face was a little red, and then he began to whisper, “No wonder.”.
05
After the third year of junior high school, I was busy studying and had no time to deal with Jiang Yang’s small fights. He probably felt bored and did not often come to provoke me.
That night, I was reviewing my lessons in my room when I heard someone knocking at my door. When I opened it, it turned out to be Uncle Jiang.
He smiled gently at me. “Zixi, are you still studying?”
I nodded and asked him how he came. Uncle
Jiang said, “Isn’t the senior high school entrance examination coming soon? I see that Jiang’s grades are not going up or down, so I want you to give him some lessons when you have time.”
I thought to myself, it’s not like the Jiang family has no money to sign up for a cram school, so why do they have to look for me.
Uncle Jiang also saw my doubts. He sighed, “If that boy Jiang Yang could go to cram school in peace, I wouldn’t be so worried.”. I used to hire a tutor for him, but the next day he got angry and ran away.
I said, “Uncle Jiang, that’s even more impossible for me. He hates me so much.”
“Does he hate you?” Uncle Chiang looked at me suspiciously. “That’s not true. When that boy really hates a person, he doesn’t even pay attention to him.”
“I saw him walking the dog with you in the little garden the other day. You seem to be getting along very well. It’s the first time I’ve seen Jiang Yan smile so happily since his mother went abroad.”
I smiled awkwardly. Uncle Jiang, you can’t just look at the surface. We happened to meet that day. He insisted on telling his dog that I was a bad woman. I was so angry that I quarreled with him.
“All right, I’ll try.” I finally promised Uncle Jiang.
Since my mother married to Jiang’s family, Uncle Jiang has been really good to her. No matter how busy she is, she will spare time to go out with her and cook for her in her spare time.
I am very grateful to Uncle Jiang for being so attentive to my mother, so Uncle Jiang rarely asks me once, and I can’t refuse.
So this weekend, I took the initiative to knock on Jiang’s door again. The
teenager in front of him should have just taken a nap, his hair was a little messy, and a few of them were sticking up mischievously.
I smiled unconsciously, and saw that Jiang, who was still a little confused, immediately became fierce: “What for?” I raised the review materials I had sorted out
overnight, raised my eyebrows, and said, “I’ll give you a tutorial.” “Did my father send you?”
He sneered. He was about to close the door. “Go back, I don’t need it.”
I quickly put my foot against the crack of the door, and under his impatient expression, I said to him seriously, “Didn’t you want to live outside when you were in high school?”? As long as you cooperate with me, I’ll help you talk to Uncle Jiang.
At that time, because of this, Jiang Yang and Uncle Jiang had a big fight. It was the first time I saw the violent side of the teenager. But when I passed by, I clearly saw a flash of sadness in his eyes. Only
then did I realize that we all wanted to force him to join the new family that had just been formed, but no one asked him if he would like to.
Jiang Yang is also very poor.
“Really?” He looked at me suspiciously.
I nodded: “The premise is that you can not perfunctory me.”
Jiang Yan looked at me and thought for a long time, then let me in. The last time I came to his room, I was a little embarrassed, so I went to the desk and sat down without squinting.
Jiang Yan’s desk is very clean, except for a few comic books open on it, there is only one picture frame. Inside is a very beautiful woman holding a little boy, and the background is an amusement park.
I looked at the two people smiling brightly in the picture and thought, this should be Jiang Yang and his mother.
Jiang Yang also sat beside me. He leaned casually on his chair and asked me where to start.
I handed him the information, and he took it and looked at it in a daze.
“Did you stay up all night?” He asked me. Curious,
I said, “How do you know?”
He sighed, “Your black eye is almost on your nose.” After I
touched my face, I lowered my head and turned over some papers from my schoolbag. “Then you have to study hard for me, do you know?”? It won’t waste my night.
This time, I waited for a long time without hearing Jiang’s voice, so I looked up at him and saw that he was looking at me with a kind of complicated eyes. When he
saw me coming, he immediately turned his head away, touched his nose, and nodded: “I see. Thank you.”
I smiled softly and did not speak again.
In fact, Jiang Yang is very smart, and he is the type who can get through at one point. The reason why he didn’t study hard, I guess, was that he simply wanted to oppose Uncle Jiang.
If Jiang Yan only “dislikes” me and my mother to such an extent, then he really dislikes Uncle Jiang. Is
this disgust really just because his father divorced and married someone else?
Thinking of this, I yawned unconsciously. I really stayed up too late
last night, and the sunshine outside happened to be on the desk, which made my head even heavier.
……
Jiang Yang has been doing the key exercises I drew for him, but halfway he encountered a difficult problem that could not be solved. So, when he planned to consult his teacher Xiaoyu modestly, he saw Xiaoyu lying beside him sleeping soundly. The
bright sunshine fell on the girl’s white and soft face, as if it had plated her with a layer of holy light, and even the two pieces of black and blue under her eyes became lovely for no reason.
Jiang originally wanted to draw a few moustaches on her face as a prank, but somehow, he finally picked up his cell phone and turned on the camera. With a
click, the fifteen-year-old girl was saved by him in a photo album.
Jiang Yang looked at the photos in his cell phone for a long time, and finally lay on the table. There was a faint fragrance of gardenia in the
air, and he knew that it belonged to Yu Zixi, because the smell had appeared on the sheets he had been washed by Yu Zixi, and even later appeared in his dreams.
…… When I
woke up, I was stunned for a moment.
Because Jiang Yang is lying on the table face to face with me. At this time, he was still sleeping with his eyes closed, not knowing what good dreams he had had, and there was still a smile on his lips.
I held my cheeks and looked at him. The boy’s eyelashes were long, his nose was high, and his increasingly clear outline made him look more mature. Uncle
Jiang said that he hadn’t smiled happily since his mother went abroad. Actually, he didn’t. I often saw him smile at school. He laughs relaxed when he plays
with his friends, laughs proudly when he wins the school basketball game, and laughs disdainfully when he is punished to run circles on the playground.
It seems that he doesn’t smile only when he is in this house. On the second day after the
senior high school entrance examination, Jiang Yang flew to M country to find his mother, but he didn’t even say hello to Uncle Jiang.
But Uncle Jiang seems to have been used to it, he did not care too much, and even very happy to ask me if I want to go out to play, relax.
I smiled and refused. I said I didn’t like to go out and just let him take my mother. After
seeing them off, I went back to Yu’s house.
There, I watched my cousin and Zhou Che playing games every day besides accompanying my grandfather to watch the drama, watering the flowers and playing chess.
Zhou Che and I are barely childhood sweethearts. His home is next door to Yu’s. We used to visit each other when we were young. But our junior high school is not in the same school, plus I live in Jiang’s house now, so I haven’t seen him for a long time. Sitting on the sofa,
I held my cheek and looked at Chou Che and said, “Chou Che, didn’t you say you came to ask my brother about the Mathematical Olympiad at the beginning? Why are you playing games with him now?”
Before Chou Che could say anything, my brother said jokingly, “Of course it’s because I’ve finished the Mathematical Olympiad questions and I have no excuse to stay.”
I was stupefied for a moment, did not speak, saw Zhou Che always calm eyes across a trace of waves. After a few clicks of his finger on the handle, the character controlled by my brother immediately fell to the ground.
Yu Pai-chien gnashed his teeth and put his arms around Chou Che’s neck. “Didn’t you just guess what you were thinking? Do you want to be so cruel?”
Zhou Che pulled his hand away and stood up. He only said to me lightly, “See you in the middle,” and then left.
Seeing this, Yu played with the game controller in his hand and looked at me jokingly: “Our Miss Yu is really charming. Even an unworldly young man like Chou Che has fallen at your feet.”
I immediately threw the pillow in my hand at him: “Don’t talk nonsense!”
When I think of Zhou Che, I always see him crying when he was bullied when he was a child. He was a little shorter than me at that time, with white skin and round eyes, especially like a soft and cute girl.
Maybe it’s because he’s cute that I stand up for him every time, which makes him stick to me for a while. At that time, I was still thinking that if only Zhou Che was my little sister. The vibrating sound of my
cell phone woke me up from my past thoughts. When I opened it, it turned out to be Jiang Yan. He asked me when I would go back.
I called him in surprise and asked him, “Are you back?” “Well,” said Jiang Yang
over there, “I’m going to move from home to that house near No.1 Middle School today.” He said in a somewhat unnatural tone, “And then, there’s..” I have something for you.
I asked him curiously what it was, but he said no more. After I
hung up the phone, I wanted to go back to Jiang’s house. “Is that the little devil of the Jiang family?” Yu asked me.
I looked at him with a sigh and said, “Would you mind not giving people nicknames?”
Yu smiled and then said thoughtfully, “It seems you’ve been getting along quite well lately.”
I did not speak again, but when I passed by him, I pulled the gold chain hanging down from his glasses, which finally made Yu Bai stare at me several times. I made a face and said to him, “Who told you to dress up like a peacock at home?” After returning to Jiang’s house in a good
mood, I saw Jiang sitting in the stairwell waiting for me, next to several suitcases of luggage he had packed, which were now being carried to the car by the servants.
I went and sat beside him and held out my hand. After staring at my palm for a long time, Jiang Yang put a doll in my hand.
I was confused for a moment and looked down at the doll carefully. See its hair is black, was braided into two braids hanging on the side of the body, and the skirt is a white purple floral skirt, the overall shape is very fresh and lovely.
I suddenly realized that this hairstyle and this dress looked familiar, and it was exactly the same as the first day I went to Ginger’s tutorial.
Jiang Yan didn’t buy this doll like me.
Thinking of this, I couldn’t help but secretly go to see him, but who knew that he had been holding his cheek and looking at me. When I saw that I seemed to understand who the doll was, I suddenly smiled and said, “It looks like it. I’ve been looking for it for a long time.” I
nodded, and just as I was about to ask him why he had given me a doll, he opened his mouth and explained, “I’ll take it as a thank-you gift for helping me with my lessons.”
I stroked the beautiful little skirt of the doll and felt a warm current in my heart unconsciously.
Since childhood, I have received all kinds of gifts from my family, but I have never received anything like dolls or plush toys, because in their eyes, Yu Zixi is a precocious and rational Miss Yu, who would not like that kind of childish things at all.
But who would like to be a sensible and steady young lady all the time? Out of their sight, I used to cry when my classmates laughed at me for not having a father, and I used to lose sleep all night because of too much pressure. Sometimes watching my mother get drunk made me feel that if I hadn’t been born, she might have had a better choice.
I looked at the doll in my hand and was stunned for a moment. What I wanted so much when I was a child came to me now when I didn’t need it at all. Moreover, it was sent by Jiang Yang, who was always against me.
Perhaps it was because Jiang Yang was a childish ghost that he sent a childish doll, but this doll inadvertently made up for a regret in my childhood.
Jiang Yang stretched himself, stood up, pulled the luggage aside, and said to me cheerfully, “Yu Zixi, see you at No.1 Middle School.”
What a wonderful coincidence! This is the second “see you in China” sentence I have heard today.
I raised my lips and replied, “I’ll see you at No.1 Middle School.”
He stopped talking and walked towards the door. The family could not keep him after all.
I watched Jiang Yang’s back disappear a little bit, my heart suddenly rose a strange feeling, Jiang Yang, he seems to be a little different from before, he was abroad this time, what happened?
Time passed in a hurry, and I didn’t see Jiang again until the beginning of the military training.
At that time, I was assigned to the third class, while Jiang Yan was in the fifth class. The two classes happened to be in the same area for military training. Basically, they could not see each other.
However, several times when I looked at Jiang Yang, he dodged. I was dissatisfied and disappointed at the same time. He did not recognize our relationship. When he finally arrived at the new school, he must have wanted to get rid of the relationship with me and pretend not to know me.
While I was thinking about it, Zhou Che came over and handed me a bottle of water. I took it and said thank you to him.
Since I graduated from primary school, I haven’t been in the same school with Zhou Che, but this time, we not only went to the same school, but also in the same class.
However, today’s Zhou Che no longer needs me to stand up for him. His height of 1.87 meters is not short among the boys. In addition, his excellent appearance and somewhat indifferent temperament make him look like a lonely and proud flower of Kaolin, which makes people feel difficult to approach.
I would occasionally tell him to smile more because it would be easier to make good friends, but Chou still went his own way and told me lightly, “I didn’t go to high school to make friends.”
I was so choked by him that I thought what he said was reasonable.
At this point, Chou Che sat next to me and looked across at the rest area of Class 5. He asked me, “Is the man sitting under the tree Jiang Yan?”
I was stunned and followed his eyes. Jiang Yang was leaning lazily on the tree, holding his arms and listening to the boys around him. Maybe he heard something funny. Suddenly, they all burst out laughing, especially Jiang Yang, who laughed very brightly.
I was just about to say “yes” when Chou suddenly handed me a lollipop. Before I could figure out what he meant, he had already got up and left.
I held the orange-flavored lollipop for a long time, and then suddenly realized that Zhou Che was worried that I was suffering from hypoglycemia again.
I smiled unconsciously, he was like this since childhood, obviously a boy, but always with a variety of flavors of candy, afraid that I would faint in front of him like the first time I had hypoglycemia.
Finally, I opened the candy wrapper of the lollipop, and the fragrant orange flavor filled my mouth in an instant, which made my depressed mood clear in an instant.
However, I underestimated how hot the sun was today. In the middle of my
standing posture, my eyes began to spin. One second before I fell down, I used my remaining reason to say to my sister beside me, “Catch me quickly.”
After that, he fell into a coma. In
a daze, I seemed to hear Zhou Che calling my name in my ear, and I seemed to hear him say that all the people around him should get out of the way, and then I couldn’t hear anything clearly.
When I woke up completely, I was lying in the infirmary, sitting next to Jiang Yan, who was playing with his mobile phone.
Seeing that I was awake, he turned his cell phone and raised his chin at me. “I finally woke up. Are you feeling better?” “What are you doing here?”
I asked. When he
heard this, he frowned and said in a sour tone, “Is it me or who?”? Is that Chou Chul?
I tried to recall that, in a trance, there was a man who carried me on his back. He had the familiar smell of the woods after the rain, which made me feel at ease for no reason.
The man said to me, “You must hold on, Yu Zixi.”
“You carried me on your back.” My heart was suddenly a little happy, but I pretended to be calm and said to him, “Don’t you pretend not to know me?”? Now that you’ve come out, aren’t you afraid that people will know about our relationship?
“Who is pretending not to know you?” Jiang Yang pressed the brim of his hat a little low, and his tone was a little awkward. “If I don’t come to you, won’t you come to me on your own initiative?”? Besides, you and that Chou Che are talking and laughing. How can you care about me? I’m not looking for bad luck.
I held my cheek and looked at him with a smile. “So, are you jealous?”
Don’t talk nonsense. Why should I be jealous! Don’t you know what our relationship is? Jiang Yan stared at me and became angry from embarrassment.
I said, “Of course I know. You’re my younger brother. Don’t worry. I may have many childhood sweethearts and different boyfriends in the future, but you’re the only younger brother. You don’t have to be jealous of them.”
“You’re quite good at planning, and you have different boyfriends!” He said with a sneer, “Then I wish Miss Yu what she wants in the future.” When I
heard it, I burst out laughing.
Jiang Yang rolled his eyes at me and ignored me. He brushed his cell phone again. I even suspected that he had been staying here not because he was worried about me, but to avoid military training.
But after careful observation, I felt something was wrong, because Jiang always looked at his mobile phone in a daze, his eyes always revealed confusion, as if thinking about a particularly complex matter. “What’s the matter with you?”
I asked unconsciously.
Jiang Yang didn’t seem to expect me to ask him this question. He was stunned for a long time, but finally he told me, “Yu Zixi, I seem to have become a superfluous person.”
Why.. So? I don’t understand why Jiang Yang, who has always been unruly, will speak in such a pitiful tone one day.
“I never recognized Aunt Yu because I wanted to hold on to her position for my mother. I always thought that she, like me, was still not reconciled to all this.” “But when I saw her again in M country during the summer vacation, she also had a new family and even a child to be born.”
“You see, they’re all looking forward, and they’re no longer clinging to their old families. I’m the only one who’s been left where I was, as if it was a mistake to be anywhere.” As
he spoke, he glanced up at me. “Are we very much alike, Yu Tzu-hsi?”
No, we’re not the same.
I thought lightly that Jiang could not let go of the past because he really had a very happy family, but I was not. I had never felt what a complete family was like. So for me, as long as my mother was happy, it didn’t matter where she was.
However, it is not entirely true that Jiang Yang and I are completely different.
Because we have all witnessed the failed love and marriage between each other’s parents, which will affect us more or less. I don’t know if Jiang Yang is like this. Anyway, I don’t have the courage to give my heart to someone now, and maybe I won’t easily establish a relationship with someone in the future.
To put it bluntly, he is an emotional coward.
But I didn’t tell Jiang Yang about these words. I just patted his hat at the end. After he looked at me with some wet eyes, I said to him with a smile, “It’s not a mistake. I’m also your family. I’ll drag you forward in the future.”
Jiang Yan looked at me very seriously for a while, and just when I thought he was going to say something very emotional, he said with a smile, “I’ll drag you. After all, we Miss Yu are people who dare not even enter a small dark room.”
I was stunned for a moment before I realized that he was talking about the basement of Jiang’s house. Every time I went in to get something, there was always someone else around me to feel at ease.
I rarely did not refute Jiang Yang, but I was very angry at his behavior of destroying the atmosphere, so I gave him a big look.
It’s really tender but ten seconds. After the military training
in 2008
, we devoted ourselves to some busy schoolwork.
The key class and the ordinary class are not in the same building. I seldom see Jiang again, but his name is often mentioned in the mouth of people around me.
It is said that Jiang Yang singled out the boss of the vocational high school next door, so that they would not dare to collect protection money from a middle school student any more. After this incident, Jiang Yang became a new “school bully in No.1 Middle School.”.
Look at this person, and the word “school bully” is a kind of fate in the body.
One day, as soon as I entered the toilet cubicle, I heard some girls outside speaking ill of others. I stood there awkwardly, hoping that they would finish their words quickly and I would go out later.
“Look at that Lin Ya-ya, hanging around Chiang Yang all day long, like a white lotus flower.”
Yes, those boys still say that she is the campus beauty of this year. Are they all blind? I can’t see half a kilo of foundation on her face.
“In my opinion, Lin Ya-ya is nothing. That Yu Tzu-hsi is a senior green tea. During military training, I saw the way Zhou Che and Jiang Yang surrounded her. Heh heh.”
I raised my eyebrows. I didn’t expect that I could eat melons on myself. If I didn’t go out, wouldn’t I be too sorry for them?
So I pushed the door and went out, ignoring the ghostly eyes of the girls, and went to the sink to wash my hands very naturally.
Next to me was a tall girl with a ponytail, who looked at me awkwardly at first, but then she quickly returned to her original cocky appearance, took out her lipstick and began to put it on her mouth.
I threw water on her face on purpose, and as I wished, I saw her furious: “Yu Zi, you are sick!”
Coincidentally, this voice happens to be the one talking about me.
I raised the corners of my mouth and glanced at her bright red lips. “This classmate, I would like to remind you that you will not attract more attention if you paint like this, but you will probably be arrested by the director of education.”
The girl stared at me and quickly raised her hand, which I pressed heavily.
“And you don’t have to feel embarrassed. I won’t tell you what happened in the toilet today. After all, it seems that few people remember who you are.” After
I dried my hands with a tissue, I lifted my feet and walked out. As for the clowns behind me, I didn’t care.
All the way through the corridor, I saw Jiang Yan in front of the director’s office. And Lin Yaya, the other heroine in the toilet conversation just now.
Lin Yaya’s eyes are very big, with a shoulder-length chestnut short hair, the end of the hair has been carefully permed, it is very delicate, she is small, at this time standing beside Jiang Yang, is talking to him with her head up. In fact,
I am no stranger to her. On the one hand, she is really famous and is called the campus beauty by this year’s students. On the other hand, one night before the end of the military training, she pulled Jiang Yan to sing a song.
At that time, the instructors gathered all the military training classes in a region, formed a circle, and let everyone perform. The first one to get up was Lin Yaya.
She was going to sing a sweet song, and she boldly and warmly invited Jiang Yang to sing with her.
Jiang originally did not intend to go up, but everyone followed the heckling, perhaps in order to let Lin Yaya down to Taiwan, he finally agreed.
At that time, I was sitting in the crowd, listening to the beautiful young girls singing, the wind blowing on my face, not gentle, just like my mood, there is a kind of indescribable feeling.
In fact, I appreciate a girl like Lin Yaya very much. She will express her love bravely and directly. But I don’t know why. As long as I think that the person she expresses her love is Jiang Yan, my appreciation for her will slowly disappear.
Just like now, when I look at her and Jiang Yang standing together, I just feel dazzling.
But I don’t like the way I think.
Jiang Yang saw me first, and his undisciplined expression disappeared in an instant, replaced by some shining eyes and some raised corners of his mouth.
I think I should go up and say hello, and then ask him what mistakes he made before he was called to the director’s office, and finally we had a few words with each other, which ended the conversation perfectly.
But I suddenly did not have that mood, just want to leave this place quickly, so I only nodded to him, and then walked away quickly. Jiang Yang’s angry voice came faintly
behind him: “Yu Zixi, why are you running? I won’t eat you!”
09
Ever since I had a high ponytail in the toilet, she began to release rumors about me intentionally or unintentionally. For example, my life experience was passed on by them as a adopted daughter kept by a wealthy businessman, such as how I want to stick to Zhou Che and Jiang Yang, how shameless. Apparently, some people in the
school believed me, and they looked at me more and more contemptuously, and some boys even looked at me maliciously. Once when
I went to fetch water during the break, a prick in the second year of high school asked me in public how much it was for one night, and he wanted to touch my face.
To this, I poured water on his face with an expressionless face. The water was warm, which was my last kindness to him.
The man was splashed with water and could not wipe his face. He raised his hand and wanted to slap me in the face, but before his hand touched my face, he was hit by the sudden appearance of Jiang Yan.
“Who are you to touch her?” Jiang Yang’s eyebrows are full of hostility, which is totally different from the teenager who usually behaves childishly in front of me.
“And who are you?” The thorn staggered a few steps and then stood firm, then rushed over and grabbed Jiang’s school uniform collar.
Jiang Yang glanced lightly at the collar he had been grabbed, and then looked at the prick with contempt in his eyes: “I am your uncle Jiang Yang.”
The prick has obviously heard of Jiang Yang’s name. Rumor has it that he has a distinguished family background and has learned Taekwondo since he was a child, but his temper is not good. The boss of the vocational high school next door who hit his muzzle last time is still lying in the hospital.
After hesitating for a moment, the prick still let go of his hand, but he still pointed at me unconvinced and said, “When did you, Master Jiang, become so helpful?”? What is she to you?
Jiang Yang pulled me to the door of the water room, and when he passed by the thorn, he said, “She’s from my Jiang family.”
Not only the prick, but I didn’t expect him to say that. It wasn’t
until I was dragged by Jiang Yang to the top of the stairs that I asked, “Aren’t you afraid that others will know about our relationship?” But
Jiang Yang looked at me indifferently and said, “How do you know that people will think we are brother and sister?”? After all, one of us is named Yu and the other is named Chiang.
I frowned and asked, “Why not?”? Can there be any other relationship?
Hearing this, Jiang Yang’s face turned a little red. He said with a little discomfort, “It could be some kind of child.” Something like that..
His voice was so low that I couldn’t hear it clearly. Just as I was about to ask him to say it again, he changed the subject: “I said that you were the eldest daughter of the Yu family, and that you had been told at school that you were like this. Didn’t you say anything?”.
“If you tell me, you’re just keeping a low profile. If you had told me your uncle’s name earlier, they wouldn’t have dared to be so presumptuous.”
My heart was a little uncomfortable, and for the first time I really felt what people’s words were awesome.
“But that’s just to stop them from bullying me anymore. It doesn’t solve any problems at all.”
I looked at him and said, “I’m going to find real evidence and make them pay.”
Jiang Yang sighed, and when he was about to say something, he was interrupted by a sweet voice: “Jiang Yang!”! So there you are!
Lin Yaya was walking briskly up the stairs, looking at Jiang Yang with a smile in her eyes, as if she had not noticed me standing beside him.
I took another look at Jiang Yang and saw that he was frowning and his face was full of the unhappiness of being interrupted. Seeing that
Lin Ya-ya was about to come up, I said to him, “You go ahead and I’ll go back.” With
that, I ignored Jiang Yang’s stunned eyes and turned away.
However, I did not expect Zhou Che to pay attention to this matter.
At the flag-raising ceremony on Monday, Chou Che took the stage to speak as a representative of outstanding students. When asked about his study methods, he said lightly, “Do more exercises, listen less to gossip, and don’t use harsh words to hurt people.”
I looked at the clear figure on the stage in surprise, and then smiled helplessly. Now, he and I seem to have completely changed positions with our childhood. It’s his turn to protect me.
On Monday, my deskmate and I were on duty, but she said she was not feeling well, so I let her go back first.
By the time I tidied up the classroom alone, the sunset outside had begun to sink.
I went to the toilet to wash the cloth for the last time. When I was about to turn around and leave, there was a faint sound of footsteps behind me. Before I could look back, I was pushed into the toilet cubicle from the outside, and then a heavy slap fell on my face. The door of
the cubicle was quickly locked from the outside, and I beat it desperately, but no one paid any attention until the footsteps faded away. Desperately,
I huddled in this cramped space. The nightmare I hadn’t experienced for a long time seemed to come again. The thick darkness was accompanied by the pungent smell of paint, and the smiling face of a man kept reappearing in front of my eyes. I screamed and covered my face, not knowing what to do.
Maybe an hour passed, maybe just a few minutes passed, and when I broke down and cried, there was a knock on the door outside the toilet.
Yu Zixi! Yu Zi Xi! Are you in there?
It’s Jiang Yang’s voice.
I didn’t have the strength to shout again, but Jiang quickly kicked the door open and then opened the toilet compartment door locked outside.
After seeing me curled up in the corner, he immediately hugged me and comforted me over and over again, saying, “It’s all right.”
I hugged him tightly, trembling all over, as if I were grasping at the only life-saving straw. It seemed that Jiang Yang did not expect my reaction to be so violent. Somehow, he suddenly thought of the dark basement of his home, so his tone became softer: “Zixi, it’s all right.”
“I’ll take you home.” He picked me up and walked out.
I tugged at his clothes and said in a hoarse voice, “No, I can’t be seen by my mother like this.”
He hesitated, then nodded.
Eventually, Jiang Yan took me to the place where he lives now, an apartment building near No.1 Middle School.
I sat on the sofa, wrapped in the blanket that Jiang had given me, but my heart was still deep in fear. Jiang had never seen me like this before. He frowned and wanted to ask something, but after seeing my trembling fingers, he still did not speak. After
a while, I took out my cell phone and sent a message to my mother, saying that I would spend the night at my classmate’s house tonight and would not go back.
After that, I looked at Jiang Yang again, only to see him sitting beside me, looking at me worriedly, and relieved to see that I seemed to be back to my original appearance.
“Thank you for today.” I lowered my eyes and asked him, “How did you know I was there?”
Speaking of this, Jiang seems a little depressed, and his tone is no longer as gentle as before: “It’s because Miss Yu hasn’t talked to me these days. It’s just that you left late on duty today. I’ve been waiting at the school gate to ask why, but I haven’t seen you anywhere. I have to hurry in and look for you.” When I
heard this, I said awkwardly, “I’m not ignoring you. We just don’t run into each other very often.”
“Get out of here!” Jiang Yan glared at me disapprovingly. “The last time I ran faster than a rabbit outside the director’s office, it was a ghost. And that time at the top of the stairs, you left before I finished speaking.” For a moment
I was on my head, and my mouth was one step ahead of my mind: “Isn’t that a good thing to be afraid of disturbing you?” After
saying that, Jiang Yang and I were rarely silent, just when I was embarrassed to find a crack in the ground, Jiang Yang suddenly laughed.
“What are you thinking about? I have nothing to do with Lin Yaya.”
My heart beat a little faster for no reason, and suddenly I wanted to skip the topic, but when I was about to speak, there was a burst of pain on my cheek.
Damn, I forgot I got slapped.
Jiang Yang’s face should have seen the marks on my face. His face sank. He gnashed his teeth and said, “It happens that the camera outside the toilet is broken. I don’t even know who did it.” There are at least three people blocking me in the toilet
today. As for who they are, I don’t need a camera. Besides..
“Who said the cameras were broken?” I said lightly.
10
“Is it not bad?” Jiang Yang was stunned.
I smiled and said, “You know I’m from the student union. Last week I reported it to the teacher. The purpose was to catch students smoking and carrying prohibited items. Now I didn’t expect it to become the key evidence of my case.”
“Plus what I’ve collected before, it’s enough to convict the rumormongers.”
“That’s good. We can’t let them go this time.” Seeing that I was still a little pale, Jiang Yan hesitated for a moment and asked me, “Do you have claustrophobia?”
I sighed and looked at him. “You’ve been wanting to ask me all night.”
“You don’t have to say anything if you don’t want to.” Jiang Yang turned his head to one side, his eyes twinkling, obviously wanting to know.
I took a deep breath, indescribable feeling now, if put in the past, I absolutely do not want to recall, but now there is Jiang Yang in the side, I actually feel a long-lost peace of mind.
So, for the first time, I said it calmly: “When I was young, I was kidnapped.”
At that time, I had just finished my dance class, and on my way home, someone suddenly covered my mouth and nose with a small veil from behind. There was a small amount of ecstasy on the veil, and I was directly stunned. When I woke up
again, I was in a small, dark room. The air was full of the smell of bad paint. It was pungent and unpleasant. I wanted to vomit.
At first I could bear it, but a day passed, two days passed, and no one came to save me, and I finally began to cry in fear. It was a man who
kidnapped me. He didn’t abuse me. He even gave me food. When he saw me crying, he was at a loss to comfort me.
He said, “yuan yuan, don’t cry.” At this point
, I lowered my head and smiled softly: “Just this sentence, I know who he is, because once when my mother was drunk, she accidentally mentioned that yuan yuan was my father’s nickname for me.”
Jiang Yang was silent for a moment and asked me, “Then what?”? Your father.. Why did he kidnap you?
“To see my mother again.” My voice faded. “He was a failed painter. In his early years, he won my mother’s favor because of his handsome appearance and outstanding temperament, so my mother married him despite my grandfather’s dissuasion.”
“They had a good time after their marriage, but it wasn’t until the man met what he called his’true muse, ‘” I sneered, “that he ran away with the woman.”
“Later, his goddess abandoned him and went to embrace the thighs of rich people. He also had terminal cancer, and suddenly remembered my mother’s kindness. He wanted to see her before he died, but my mother insisted on refusing, so he kidnapped me.” “Did he finally see Auntie Yu?”
Jiang asked.
“No.” I lowered my eyes and my voice trembled. “He was just waiting for the police. Maybe he had expected this result, so he took medicine and died in front of me a few minutes before the police broke in.”
“From then on, I was afraid of a dark room or the smell of paint.”
My heart was cold, but I smiled at Jiang Yang, pretending to be relaxed. “So, Jiang Yang, besides loving each other, love sometimes depends on a little luck. Once you make a wrong bet, who knows what will happen to you?”
Jiang Yang looked at me steadily. He didn’t speak again. He just got up and touched my hair when he passed by me.
That night, I slept on Jiang’s bed while he slept on the floor. In the middle of the night, I felt someone poking me in the face and whispering sorry to me.
I know he’s apologizing for all the paint he smeared all over my room in junior high, but it’s all over.
Those things should be over.
The next day, I went to the principal’s office with the camera records and the recordings of the goons who had been bribed to make rumors.
But before I went in, I saw the three of them with high ponytails at the door.
She glanced at the recording in my hand with a dim expression. “Where did it come from?” She asked.
“If you can pay them to spread rumors, I can pay them to rebel.” I smiled at her and said, “Money is a good thing, isn’t it?”
The tall ponytail did not speak again, but the short-haired girl on her right spoke contemptuously: “So what? The principal is Xiaoyi’s own uncle. He won’t stop helping Xiaoyi for the sake of outsiders.”
“Why don’t you go in and ask her uncle who donated two buildings to this school?” Jiang Yang did not know when to come over, at the moment is leaning against the wall, a posture of watching a good show. With
a high ponytail, Xiaoyi’s face suddenly changed: “You’re from the Yu family..”
I shrugged my shoulders and pushed open the door of the principal’s office.
Because of the Yu family behind me, the headmaster naturally did not dare to suppress the matter secretly, so he could only push his cheap niece out.
Finally, Gao Mawei made a self-criticism in front of the teachers and students of the whole school. When
I looked at some of the people who had despised me a few days ago and now looked at the three people with the same eyes, I just felt ridiculous.
Later, Xiaoyi transferred to another school because she could not bear the criticism of the people around her, and the remaining two people were all isolated by the people in their class.
Of course, I don’t feel sorry for them. It’s all their own fault.
Since my identity was exposed at school, all the familiar and unfamiliar people around me have come to me.
After the “baptism” of rumors, I certainly recognized which people are worth making friends with, and which people are playing games.
So, on my birthday, I specially invited all my good friends to the Yu family, and the rest who were not invited naturally understood what I meant.
Jiang Yan didn’t come to my birthday party, but he sent a gift. It was a little jumping frog that could jump and call when it was wound up. This ugly thing looked out of place among the exquisite gifts. I smiled and put it in a box. There is the doll from last time in
the box.
I feel that although there are small twists and turns in the present days, it is still good.
But in the summer vacation of the second year of high school, my mother, who was supposed to be traveling, called me back to Yu’s house.
At that time, I was tutoring for him at Jiangyang’s house. This guy used me as a free tutor almost every summer vacation, which was very annoying.
So when I got a phone call from my mother, I was surprised, but I was happy to get rid of Jiang Yang.
“I said, can you stop acting so happy? I have food and drink here. Did you treat me badly or something?” Jiang Yan looked at me discontentedly.
I glared at him bitterly. “But there’s no money.”
“Why are you so shallow? Can our relationship be measured by money?”
I rolled my eyes and ignored him. Anyway, I was used to his convulsions from time to time.
But I never thought this would be the last time the two of us would be able to get along so happily. After
arriving at Yu’s house, my mother didn’t give me any preparation and told me directly that she wanted to divorce Uncle Jiang.
I was stunned for a long time and didn’t react.
“Oh,” I asked, hesitating for a moment. “What’s the reason? It’s because … Me?
“How come?” My mother rubbed my head. “It’s Jiang Feng. He’s been raising his old lover outside. I didn’t know until now.”
I frowned at my mother. “For how long?”
“What I found out is that Jiang Feng and Xiao Yang got together before their mother got divorced. They were always very cautious. If it hadn’t been for the fact that the woman was pregnant a few days ago and couldn’t wait to marry Jiang Feng, I wouldn’t have found out.”
“No wonder when I first came in, Xiaomao thought I was a mistress. It turns out that such a person really exists. It’s just that Jiang Feng protects her so well that no one knows her name or what she looks like.”
My heart is a little bitter. No wonder Uncle Jiang is no longer as concerned about everything as before. He is going to have a new child.
My mother’s red lips raised a sneer: “After I found out about this, Jiang Feng still wanted me to accept that woman. Obviously, before we got married, we made it clear that even if it was a marriage without love, we still had to guarantee the fidelity of the marriage.”
I lowered my head and stopped looking at my mother’s disappointed eyes. After the
two of them had been silent for a long time, I spoke first: “Let’s get a divorce. I don’t want my mother to suffer this kind of grievance.” On the day
my mother and Jiang Feng divorced, we met Jiang Yang at the door of Yu’s house.
At that time, it was drizzling, and he did not hold an umbrella, so he let the rain wet his clothes.
“I’m sorry, Aunt Yu. I mistook you for someone else. I shouldn’t have said that about you.” With a sincere expression, the boy bent his back slightly and bowed to my mother.
My mother smiled and did not speak, then put the umbrella into his hand, and quickly got into the car.
The rest of me and Jiang Yang looked at each other in silence, after all, none of us thought it would be this way.
I tried to pull out a smile: “As you wish, you are no longer my only stepbrother.”
Jiang Yang smiled and said, “I never admitted that you are my elder sister.” After thinking about it,
I told him solemnly, “You should be careful of that woman. Now that she has a child and your father is on his side, she will certainly be against you.”
“Don’t worry.” Jiang Yang’s eyes were sharp, and his voice was extremely cold. “The Jiang family has a lot of rules. It’s impossible for my grandmother alone to let that unknown woman in. As for her child, she can only be a bastard for the rest of her life.”
I nodded and said, “And don’t always feel like you are alone. Even if we are not relatives, we are still friends. If you have anything, you can still come to me.”
Jiang Yang laughed helplessly. “I know, Miss Yu.”
That being said, I knew very well in my heart that once Jiang Yang and I lost our family relationship, we would get farther and farther away.
Not because of personality differences or how, but I think, which kind of relationship will eventually go weaker and weaker, can always maintain to the end, it seems very few. I
can’t help it. I always have such a pessimistic idea about people’s feelings.
In fact, Jiang Yang and I do not often meet in school, after all, two people do not have classes in the same building.
Occasionally, we meet in small supermarkets or canteens.
Unlike before, we used to say a few words to each other when we met, but now, it seems that we don’t need to say a few words to each other, and we just say hello when we meet.
Just like any other friend.
I don’t know if I’m happy or disappointed about it. In
a PE class, I was sitting lazily under a big umbrella outside a small supermarket with a girl who had a good relationship with me. Suddenly, I heard someone confessing by the wall at the corner.
The girl’s voice was so familiar that I didn’t realize it until I heard who she was going to confess.
It is Lin Yaya who confesses to Jiang Yang.
I was so surprised that the ice cream in my hand fell to the ground, and at this time, two people around the corner came and saw us.
I smiled awkwardly. “What a coincidence! Are you skipping class, too?”
Jiang Yang’s face was as black as the bottom of a pot, but Lin Ya-ya smiled sweetly at me and said, “Yes, by the way, tell me.” As she spoke, she gave Jiang a plaintive look. “So will you say yes or not?”
Jiang Yang gnashed his teeth and said, “I said I don’t have puppy love!”! How many times have you filed a complaint? It’s time to give up!
“Don’t have puppy love, or don’t have puppy love with me?” Lin Yaya’s eyes looked back and forth at me and Jiang Yang.
Jiang Yang also glanced at me, and his tone was somewhat unnatural: “I don’t want to have puppy love with anyone.”
“Oh.” Lin Ya-ya said indifferently, “I’ll continue after graduation.”
“Whatever you want.” Jiang Yang said to me again, “Let’s go.” As I
watched them leave, I had mixed feelings. Then the girl next to me said with a smile, “Actually, Jiang and Lin are a good match. With Lin’s perseverance, maybe Jiang will really say yes.”
I calmly picked up the ice cream that had just fallen on the ground and pretended not to hear it. In the twinkling of an eye
to the third year of high school, the time was compressed to be urgent by me in an instant, I no longer go to the small supermarket, even to the canteen is a race against time.
Until the night before the college entrance examination, I received a long-lost message from Jiang Yang. “The exam went well,”
he said.
I suddenly realized that I hadn’t seen him for a long time.
Finally, I replied, “So are you. Everything is fine.” After the
college entrance examination, it is a long holiday.
I stay at home and have nothing to do. Occasionally, I go out and sit in the milk tea shop with my friends.
Zhou Che saw that I was really bored and asked me if I wanted to be a tutor. It was interesting to deal with children.
I looked at him and complained, “Give me a break. I used to give Jiang..” When I realized what I wanted to say, I suddenly closed my mouth.
Zhou Che said nothing more, but smiled.
Speaking of it, Zhou Che confessed to me on the night of the end of the college entrance examination. He said he knew I didn’t like him and just wanted to say it.
He also said, “No one is a coward in the true sense of the word. You will always meet someone who makes you willing to be brave for him.” As he
spoke, he hesitated for a moment. “Of course, you may have met him, but that person happens to be a coward. I admit that I am not willing to lose to him.”
I vaguely guessed who he was talking about, but did I really like him? Does he like me again?
In this extremely long summer vacation, I finally ushered in the beginning of school with anxiety and expectation for the future.
It was the end of a summer, and when I was at the airport, I didn’t expect Jiang Yang to see me off. Zhou Che and
I both went to school in the south, but Jiang Yang chose to stay at a local university because of his family’s mess.
Zhou Che started school early and left first, while Jiang Yang started school the latest.
Jiang Yang is very busy in this summer vacation, has been forced by his grandmother to learn the knowledge of company management, it seems that his grandmother is disappointed with Jiang Feng, determined to personally train grandchildren.
We seldom see each other, and of course we don’t seem to have any reason to ask each other to meet. The
rare few times, it was also a group of friends who knew each other, and we didn’t have a chat.
Jiang Yang is no longer as easy as before, now he has gradually matured, only the remaining green and immature eyebrows remind others that this person is actually a half-grown child who did not go to college.
At this time, I suddenly remembered Zhou Che’s words. “Is there anything else you want to say to me?”
I asked Jiang.
He was stupefied, lowered his head and thought for a long time, and finally said, “No, be careful on the way.” I couldn’t
tell whether I was glad or disappointed, but I smiled at him and said, “I know.”
College life is indeed much more leisurely than high school, but there are still many activities waiting for freshmen to complete every day. In such a busy and full life,
I gradually forgot the troubles I had been struggling with before. No matter what feelings Jiang Yang has for me, in the current situation of separation between the two places, it will eventually fade.
Until one night, Jiang Yan called me. When I
picked it up, I was a little nervous for some reason.
But the other end of the phone did not speak for a long time. I tried to call out, “Jiang Yang?”
“Look, Yu Tzu-hsi, it’s snowing.” He finally spoke, but his voice was slightly hoarse.
Hearing this, I looked out of the window, but there was nothing. After a while, I realized, “You mean it’s snowing at home, right?”
“Yes.” “It’s snowing. Why haven’t you come back yet?”
My heart beats faster unconsciously. Is the one opposite really Jiang Yan?
Just as I was about to ask him what was wrong, the voice on the phone changed: “Well, I’m sorry, I’m Jiang Yang’s roommate. This guy is drunk and talking nonsense.”
I answered with a laugh, and when the phone hung up, I lay in bed without any sleepiness.
Suddenly I want to go home and see the snow. During the
winter vacation, Yu Bai came to the airport to pick me up. I took a rare photo and sent it to my circle of friends. Many high school classmates asked me if I had a holiday.
I replied to them one by one, and then brushed up the circle of friends, only to see that the first one was sent by Lin Yaya.
Speaking of it, I didn’t know her well at that time, and I didn’t know why she wanted to add me, but at that time I still agreed to add friends.
Lin Ya-ya’s message is very simple, with only two short sentences: “I failed in my thirteenth confession, but it doesn’t matter. Lin Ya-ya never admits defeat. Keep up the good work!”
I looked at the circle of friends in a daze. If someone was so persistent to me, could I really not be moved?
A feeling of powerlessness that I could not grasp anything gradually spread in my heart.
The plane flew more than one thousand kilometers, and when I arrived at Yu’s house, I saw Jiang Yang as soon as I got off the bus. Before
I could express my shock, he pulled me to his side, and then he looked at Yu with hostility.
Yu looked at us with interest for a while and then went to park the car. Then
I asked him, “Why are you in my house?”
Jiang Yang coughed unnaturally. “That’s not important.” As he spoke, he looked at me with some seriousness and said, “You can’t be with him, he’s a scumbag!”
What.. What does that mean? Why can’t I keep up with his brain circuitry?
“Last time, I saw him go out with another girl.” Seeing that I still didn’t understand, Jiang Yang simply softened his voice and said, “Why don’t you break up with him?”
I looked at him in shock and said, “You mean guy who just dropped me off is my boyfriend?”
Jiang Yang lowered his eyes and said in a complicated tone, “Didn’t he? The last time I met him, he said it himself.” What
Yu Bai likes most is to make fun of me! I don’t know why he came to Jiang Yan and lied to him that he was my boyfriend.
However, looking at Jiang Yang this lost appearance, I suddenly want to gamble, Zhou Che is right, meet the person you really like, will have the courage.
So I said, “If you break up with me, I won’t have a boyfriend.”
Jiang Yang raised his eyes, thought about it, and finally made up his mind. He looked at me seriously, but his tone was a little uncertain: “Do you think I can do it?”
I finally couldn’t help laughing. “That’s settled, but..” “That’s not my boyfriend, it’s my brother. He lied to you. Of course, I lied to you, but you can’t go back on your word.”
Jiang Yang’s expression is very wonderful, from disbelief to anger to confusion, and finally all turned into a helpless smile.
He says, “In fact, I have always felt that family, friendship, and love, love is the most unreliable one, so even if I like you, I dare not say it easily.”
“If there is no beginning, there will be no end. In this way, when we meet again in a long, long time, we may still be able to tell our recent stories with a smile as before.”
It turns out that both of us are emotional cowards.
I raised my foot and put my forehead against his. “Then let’s be brave for each other.” “Good,”
Jiang said with a smile. Inside the room on the
second floor, Yu Pai Tien looked at us, then lowered his head and sent a message on his cell phone: “I have finished the task you told me, Master Chou.”
In the end, our romantic bubble didn’t last long, and we were blown into the house by the cold wind.
My mother was very surprised when she saw Jiang Yang, and Jiang Yang was also a little embarrassed. Looking at his shy little appearance, he was just like the little son-in-law who visited his mother-in-law’s home for the first time.
Although, in a sense, it is. The first time
Jiang Yang saw Yu Zixi was not in his living room, but on the road at the back door of their junior high school.
At that time, Jiang Yang dropped the key into the sewer beside the road. When he was pouting his buttocks, Yu Zixi suddenly appeared and asked him if he needed help. At that time,
Chiang Yang was in the middle of the second grade. He felt that the act of pulling out the key was really damaging his reputation as a school bully, so he quickly put on a mask, then stood up and said, “No, I’ll just find the boys.”
Of course, he did not see the words in Yu Zixi’s eyes.
When Jiang Yang was a freshman, he went out to have dinner with his roommates. As a result, a thief stole his mobile phone. For this reason, he chased the thief for three streets and made the thief spit out fragrance.
The thief said, “The watch in your hand is much more valuable than a mobile phone. I didn’t steal it. It’s enough to give you face. It’s just a mobile phone. What about you?”
Jiang Yang did not speak until he saw that the picture in his cell phone was still there.
He looked at the thief with an expressionless face and called the police decisively.
Jiang Yang looked at the thief disdainfully. “It’s reasonable to steal something.” The day
Yu told Jiang that he was Yu Zixi’s boyfriend, he went to drink to drown his sorrows, but he never thought that he would pour a cup.
Looking at the snow flying outside the window, he suddenly regretted not having confessed his feelings for Yu Zixi earlier.
Drunk and emboldened, he dialed Yu Tzu-hsi’s phone. Originally he wanted to say, “Why do you suddenly have a boyfriend?”. In the end, it turned out to be, “Yu Tzu-hsi, look, it’s snowing.”
Besides, I want to hear your voice, too.
(End)
Author’s signature: Gui Wanzi
Record No.: YXX1z836QBKIJ3b8dXH2m
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