Chapter 124, He Refuses to Communicate
Seeing that Chen Yao was driven crazy by Jiang Ran and looked like she was going to smear the bowl in front of her on the girl's face, Si Xu stood up calmly and picked up Jiang Ran.
"I'm done eating." His voice was indifferent. "Jiang Ran, let's go home."
Jiang Ran, who had already finished eating, naturally had no objection: "Okay."
The girl yawned, looking a little lazy.
"Sister Chen Yao, Captain Pei, please enjoy your meal. Si Xu and I will be leaving first."
After listening to a round of stories, Chen Yao felt exhausted both physically and mentally.
She waved her hands weakly and said hoarsely, "Goodbye."
…
The moonlight is like a stream, spreading on the ground like a pool of calm water. If you step on it lightly, ripples will appear.
The wind blowing on my face takes away the chill of winter and heralds the arrival of spring.
Her hair was messed up by the wind and stuck to her face. Jiang Ran quickly gathered it up and tied it into a bun at the back of her head. She hooked her hand around Si Xu's, shook her head, and asked him, "Si Xu, will it look ugly if I cut my hair short?"
"No." Her appearance in his eyes would not change whether her hair was long or short. "Short hair makes it easier to move around."
Jiang Ran made a decision: "Then I'll leave work early tomorrow and go to the barber shop over at the market to get my hair cut shorter."
As he imagined the feeling of the girl's soft hair slipping through his fingers, the frown between Si Xu's eyebrows deepened. "Why do we need to go to the barber shop?"
Of course you have to go to the barber shop to get your hair cut.
Jiang Ran swallowed the doubts that were about to come out of his mouth and asked expectantly, "Can you cut hair? If you can, I won't go to the barber shop."
The girl blinked her deer eyes, full of trust.
Si Xu's mouth curled up uncontrollably: "I don't know how to do it, but I learn quickly."
Having seen how quickly he learned to play cards, Jiang Ran didn't doubt his words at all: "Okay, I've decided. I won't go to the barber shop. Si Xu, you cut my hair for me."
"Yeah, of course you can."
The man responded calmly, not taking this kind of work that relied solely on hand movements seriously.
…
The next day, Jiang Ran went out to work early and met Su Qin at the gate of the crop experimental base.
The female captain leading the patrol stared at her with wide eyes, her face filled with horror: "Ranran, is there a thief in your house?"
Jiang Ran was puzzled: "No."
"Then who secretly cut your hair like this?"
The girl originally had long, straight black hair that reached her waist, but now it was cut into shoulder-length short hair with the ends of hair varying in length, some thick and some thin - this uneven hairstyle looked like it was gnawed by a dog, but fortunately Jiang Ran's face could support it.
"Is it really ugly?" Jiang Ran rubbed his head, distressed, "I thought there was something wrong with my aesthetic taste."
Thinking she was being cheated, Su Qin grabbed her arm and said, "Which barber cut your hair like this? Come on, I'll take you to him to ask for an explanation!"
"It was Si Xu who cut it." The man told her seriously after he finished cutting it. It was a good job. When she looked in the mirror, she thought she was hallucinating.
Did Seventh Brother cut it? Su Qin admired Jiang Ran's mentality from the bottom of her heart: If Gu Yunqing cut her hair like this, she would definitely punish him by kneeling on the washboard for three days.
Their eyes met in silence for three minutes, and Jiang Ran got a positive answer from Su Qin's distressed expression.
It seems that this hairstyle is really ugly.
Jiang Ran was frustrated: "I really want to go to the barber shop after get off work to get a trim."
"Let's go." Su Qin suggested, "Let's go together. I also need a haircut."
Jiang Ran became increasingly frustrated: "But if I go to fix it, Si Xu will definitely be sad."
Si Xu had enthusiastically cut her hair for the first time, and he thought he'd done a great job. If she'd gone to get it trimmed again without anyone noticing, Si Xu, with his fragile heart, would surely have been deeply hurt.
"Sad?" Su Qin, whose jaw was nearly dislocated from shock, swallowed back the laughter that was about to burst out of her throat. Her expression was a little distorted as she said tentatively, "Ranran, Seventh Brother...maybe he's not as fragile as you think..."
How could a pervert like that, someone who didn't care about anything, get upset over something as trivial as this? What kind of illusion had Qi Ge created in Ran Ran?
"No." Jiang Ran felt that he should correct Su Qin's misunderstanding of Si Xu. "Captain Qin, let me tell you, Si Xu is very insecure when he's in a relationship. Sometimes, even the smallest thing will make him depressed for a long time. I don't want him to be depressed alone."
If Jiang Ran hadn't added the name of the person when describing it, Su Qin would have thought she was talking about a complete stranger.
The girl's brows knitted together, and she placed the back of her hand on Jiang Ran's forehead, saying worriedly, "Poor child, look at what Seventh Brother has tortured you into."
Jiang Ran: “…”
Finally, Jiang Ran firmly rejected Su Qin's invitation to cut his hair. With his hair chewed by a dog, he walked towards the experimental base, receiving gazes from all walks of life along the way.
…
Jiang Ran didn't expect to see Qi Yao in the office. He stopped at the door and thought he had come to the wrong place.
"Ranran is here." Her team leader looked up from a pile of documents and greeted her. "You're just in time. There's a new person here today. Please take care of her."
The team leader pushed his glasses and buried his head in the materials again, saying casually: "Qi Yao, for the next few days, you should learn some basic knowledge from Ranran."
The girl nodded: "I understand, Team Leader."
After taking Qi Yao to visit the experimental site they were in charge of, Jiang Ran finally found time to chat with the girl about things other than work.
"How are things going between you and Captain Chu? Have you made things clear?"
Qi Yao lowered her eyes, and her long, curly eyelashes cast shadows, covering the emotions in the girl's eyes.
"No." She said bitterly, "After Chu Yuan came back that day, I wanted to explain to him, but he directly refused."
That day, with Jiang Ran's guidance, she made a decision in her heart and decided to clarify the misunderstanding between them.
The girl made up her mind, and after the truth came to light, she could accept no matter how the young man looked at her or blamed her.
She was ready to move out of his house and never have any contact with him again.
She was sitting in the living room. When she heard the noise at the door, she stood up and looked at the man who came in.
It seemed that he didn't expect her to be in the living room, and there was a slight conflicted light in Chu Yuan's eyes.
Before she could speak, the young man said tiredly: "I'm very tired today. If you have anything to say, let's talk about it later, okay?"
The girl who was well prepared was rejected before she even opened her mouth, and the courage she had finally mustered was instantly shattered.
She didn't insist and let him go back to his room to rest.
That day, he was in the master bedroom and she was in the guest bedroom, and they stayed up all night.
The next day, Chu Yuan left early without giving her a chance to speak.
Then, he threw her here, leaving early and returning late, or even not going home...
After listening to the girl's narration, Jiang Ran sighed: "Captain Chu should have known it. I think you don't need to explain it specifically. Give him some time."
"Um."
"Once he accepts reality, he will take the initiative to talk to you."
"I know."
She knew it, but she just felt embarrassed and helpless.
"Ranran, I want to move out from Captain Chu's place." Ever since she remembered her identity, she no longer called him by his name intimately, but politely called him Captain Chu instead.
"Move out?" Jiang Ran understood what the girl meant and thought for a moment, "I'll ask Sister Shen Yao to help you find a place to live."
She is an ordinary person, and if she moves out, she can only move to an ordinary residential area. The living conditions don’t matter, but as a single girl like her, she is afraid that people with bad intentions will bully her.
Shen Yao is a girl, familiar with the base, and a member of the Shen family. Asking her for help can at least arrange a reliable place for the girl to live.
(End of this chapter)
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