Chapter 44
Chapter 44
Shu Yao's hometown is in a small county town called Nanjiang. Because it is far away from Fuchuan, air tickets are not cheap, and he subconsciously avoids communicating with his mother, Shu Yao only went home during the winter and summer vacations when he was in college. After working, it was basically National Day and New Year's Day.
The plane landed at noon and it was already evening when we got home.
There are few people in the small county town, and everyone coming and going is familiar. It is rare to see two new faces, and many people take a few more glances out of curiosity.
Occasionally someone would recognize her and enthusiastically ask if she was Meirujia's daughter.
Shu Yao replied "yes" and took Chen Ye towards home. Suddenly, he found that his mood this time was completely different from the last time.
There is no worry or depression, but instead a sense of relief as if the clouds have cleared and the sun has appeared.
Seeing Chen Ye walking and sending messages at the same time, Shu Yao asked curiously: "What are you doing?"
Shen Ye handed the phone directly to her.
Shu Yao looked down.
Chen Ye: [I'd like to recommend another tourist destination. Nanjiang is also a beautiful place with mountains, water, and good air.]
Zhou Jinghuai: [……]
Chen Ye: [I forgot to mention, this is my wife’s hometown.]
But there is a red exclamation mark in front of this one, and a ruthless reminder——
[ZJH has enabled friend verification. You are not yet his/her friend. Please send a friend verification request first. You can only chat after the other party passes the verification.]
"..." Shu Yao was amused. "What on earth did you do before?"
Only then could Zhou Jinghuai predict the future to this extent.
Chen Ye snorted and laughed: "People who don't have wives are more petty."
He put away his phone and leisurely looked at the scenery.
In the past, Chen Ye would never say the word "wife" in front of her, but since he started, he has become more and more unscrupulous, and Shu Yao, like a frog in boiling water, has become more and more accustomed to this title.
She smiled helplessly, thinking that this was Shen Ye's first time here, so she introduced him as they walked: "Although we are in a county town, we have developed very well in recent years, so you can basically buy whatever you want, including air conditioners and water heaters."
I've only been back for a few days, so I didn't bring much luggage. Shen Ye dragged the suitcase they shared and slowly corrected me: "You seem to have some misunderstandings about me."
Shu Yao: “Hmm?”
"My parents have always upheld the policy of raising me in poverty."
"That's right." Shu Yao thought, if he couldn't accept this, how could he have gone out with them to eat roadside barbecue for one dollar a skewer and noodle soup for ten dollars a bowl.
"That's my home." Shu Yao pointed.
Chen Ye looked over and saw a two-story self-built building on the side of the road. The upstairs was a residence and the downstairs was a small supermarket. It was called "Yaoyao Supermarket".
It was just time to get off work, and seven or eight employees from the factory next door were picking fruits. It seemed that business was pretty good.
"Does mom own the supermarket?"
Hearing him shout so skillfully, Shu Yao was startled, but said nothing: "Well, I opened it when I was in high school. It's the only small supermarket in this area, so business is pretty good."
Shu Meiru was peeking out from behind the cashier counter. Seeing them, she smiled and waved, settled the last customer's bill, and closed the rolling door.
When she turned around, the two men had already walked in front of her.
Shu Yao and Shen Ye said in unison: "Mom."
"Hey." Shu Meiru was overjoyed and took off her apron. "You must have had a hard time on the way here. I've already cut the vegetables. Just stir-fry them. Let's go upstairs."
Shu Meiru was impatient. After she finished speaking, she ran upstairs to cook without waiting for them to move.
There are two bedrooms upstairs. Shu Yao's is a bit bigger. There is a single bed against the wall and a window in front of the desk next to it. Even though she hasn't been back for more than half a year, it is still clean and spotless.
Chen Ye pushed the suitcase in. Shu Yao had already gone to the kitchen to help, but failed and was quickly driven out by Shu Meiru.
The sound of frying in the kitchen seemed extremely lively. Shu Yao was sitting on the sofa. He glanced and saw Shu Meiru's cell phone left on the coffee table.
The phone screen would light up from time to time, and these were all WeChat message notifications, but the distance was a bit far and I couldn't see clearly who it was.
"Mom, you have a message on WeChat." Shu Yao looked towards the kitchen to remind her.
I thought Shu Meiru would ignore me, but unexpectedly she ran out immediately, wiped her hands on her apron, picked up her mobile phone, lowered her head and started typing with a smile on her face.
Shu Yao asked tentatively, "Mom, who is it?"
"Friend, don't worry about the child so much." Shu Meiru lowered her head to write and returned to the kitchen.
“…”
Something is wrong. Something is very wrong.
Shu Yao tugged at Chen Ye's sleeve and asked worriedly, "Mom, do you have a boyfriend?"
"Ahem." Chen Ye was drinking water. He seemed to be frightened by her imagination when he heard this. He cleared his throat and asked, "Why do you think so?"
"On my birthday, she told me she was traveling with her sisters, but I clearly heard a man's voice. My mom has been frugal for most of her life, and no matter how I tried to persuade her before, she refused to go. How could she suddenly change? And she looked so happy when she replied to the message just now."
Shen Ye smiled: "So you don't want her to find it?"
Shu Yao denied it without hesitation: "No, on the contrary, I really hope that she can find someone who is compatible with her. She has almost no self in these years. I hope that her life can be centered around herself and that she can think more about herself."
"Then what are you worried about?"
"I'm just afraid that man isn't reliable." Shu Yao glanced at the kitchen door and muttered softly, "My mother runs a small supermarket. She actually comes into contact with quite a few men, but many of them are unreliable. I'm afraid she'll be cheated."
After Shu Yao finished speaking, he found himself funny.
She suddenly realized that the positions between her and her mother seemed to have been reversed. Before, it was her mother who worried about her marriage, but now she became the one who worried.
Shen Ye rubbed the back of her head: “Don’t think too much, maybe we are really friends.”
"Yeah." Shu Yao nodded.
*
Apart from that piece of news, Shu Meiru did not show any other strange behavior, so Shu Yao did not ask his mother about the news for the time being.
After dinner, Shu Yao helped Chen Ye clean up the dishes. When he returned to the room, he found that there was a more difficult problem in front of him.
The house is old and the floor is not that clean. Shu Yao would never let him sleep on the floor. But forget about the double bed. How can two people sleep on this single bed?
And there is also a single bed in my mother's room, otherwise she could squeeze in.
Shu Yao didn't know whether he was aware of this problem. After struggling with it, she decided to play the ostrich and throw this difficult problem to him.
While he was taking a shower, Shu Yao got on the bed first, lying on her side, her whole body almost touching the wall.
Two-thirds of the space was left empty, but for a man, it still seemed small.
She closed her eyes, and after an unknown amount of time, she vaguely heard the sound of a door closing, followed by Shen Ye calling her. She pretended not to hear, and soon, the wooden bed creaked, and someone lay down on it.
He was not content.
Shu Yao heard the quilt stirring, and then felt a slight warmth in his ears. His smiling voice reached his ears: "Are you asleep?"
For a moment, his ears felt slightly itchy, and Shu Yao felt as if his heart skipped a beat.
Her hands, tucked under the pillow, curled up unconsciously.
The lights dimmed.
Everyone in the small town goes to bed early at night. Shu Yao, who had been busy all day, fell into a deep sleep unknowingly. When she woke up, it was already early in the morning. She found that she was in the same position as before going to bed, well-behaved and very peaceful.
The seat next to him was empty, and I didn't know when he got up.
Shu Yao sat up and breathed a sigh of relief.
She threw back the quilt and went to the bathroom to wash up. As she was applying toner to her face, she vaguely heard conversation coming from the living room outside.
Shen Ye asked Shu Meiru for a quilt.
Shu Mei probably just remembered that Shu Yao's room had a single bed at this moment, and said in a very apologetic tone: "Oh! It's all my fault. I should have thought of changing the bed when you got married. You didn't sleep well last night, did you? No wonder I heard one of you get up to go to the bathroom in the early morning."
Chen Ye remained silent.
Shu Meiru added, "But sleeping on the sofa isn't comfortable, is it? How about letting Yaoyao sleep in my room, you sleep in hers, and I'll sleep in the living room."
Shen Ye naturally wouldn’t agree: “Mom, it’s okay, the sofa is quite big.”
"Well, I'm sorry to have wronged you. I'll change the bed in a few days."
As soon as she finished speaking, Shu Meiru's cell phone rang. She answered it a few times and hurried out.
Shu Yao pushed open the bathroom door and saw Chen Ye holding a quilt and placing it on the sofa.
She took two lollipops from the snack box on the coffee table, lowered her head to unwrap one, and asked casually, "Are you going to sleep on the sofa tonight?"
Shen Ye: “Yeah.”
"Why?" Shu Yao felt that he couldn't be too stingy. "Didn't you sleep well last night?"
Shen Ye paused, stood up and walked to her, unwrapped another lollipop and put it in his mouth. The flavor and brand were both his usual ones.
"Student Shu Yao," he asked jokingly, "Do you have any misunderstandings about sleeping well?"
Shu Yao had a lollipop in her mouth, her right cheek slightly puffed out, her face full of confusion, looking very innocent: "Did you not sleep well last night?"
"Yeah." Chen Ye laughed recklessly and said something shocking, "I almost thought I was going to be raped."
"!!!" Shu Yao quickly covered his mouth with his hand, "Keep your voice down!"
After she finished speaking, she remembered that her mother had already left.
Shen Ye laughed muffledly, holding her wrist with his right hand and pulling her hand down: “Mom went to deliver bread to the mahjong hall next door.”
"Oh." There were no delivery drivers here. If the shops were too busy, they would call their mother to deliver what they needed. Shu Yao was often an errand boy, so he didn't suspect anything. His mind quickly returned to the previous topic. "What did you mean by what you just said?!"
Shen Ye shrugged: “Literally.”
Shu Yao's ears flushed red. "How is that possible! I've always been pretty good when I sleep. Uh... at most I just hugged your arm. And when I woke up this morning, I was in the exact same position as last night."
"Yes, you even knew how to clean up the scene after committing the crime." Shen Ye nodded and praised her, "You understand crime now."
Shu Yao still didn't believe it, so she pulled him into the room by the pajamas he was still wearing.
"Bang--"
The door was slammed shut.
Shu Yao sat on the bed and straightened his back: "Impossible, tell me what I did last night."
"I can't explain it clearly. How about—" Chen Ye slowly walked in front of her, leaned over, and supported his right hand on the edge of the bed beside her, "I'll demonstrate it to you?"
The distance between the two of them was so close that Shu Yao even felt that if they moved forward three or four centimeters, their lips would have made intimate contact.
The warm wind blew open the curtains, and the aroma of roasted corn wafted in from somewhere, so sweet that it seemed to stick their breaths together.
Shu Yao's right hand was grabbing the edge of the bed. She was so nervous that the half of the lollipop left in her mouth was broken into pieces with a "crack".
The small white tube fell on his thigh. Shu Yao didn't even chew it and just swallowed the candy crumbs.
"First of all." Chen Ye sat beside her with a victim's attitude, grabbed her hand, put her palm against the side of his face, and slowly slid it down until it stopped at the position of the chest, accusing like a chaste husband, "You just caressed me 360 degrees without any dead angle."
"..." His palms were burning. Shu Yao did not forget to save his dignity and refuted in a low voice, "Even if it's true, this is less than one twentieth of your body. How can it be called a 360-degree full coverage?"
"There's still nineteen-twenty-nine, which is inconvenient to demonstrate. You can imagine it yourself."
“…”
"Secondly." Chen Ye lay down on the bed, his right hand touching the back of her head, pressing gently. As Shu Yao's face pressed against his chest, Chen Ye's nonchalant voice came from above her head, "Your head seems to have a special liking for this place."
"at last--"
"Stop!" Shu Yao couldn't help but interrupt him. She raised her head and gently brushed her forehead against his chin. She wanted to say that she still felt it was impossible, but at that moment, she saw a thin bloodstain on his collarbone, and all her confidence disappeared.
Shu Yao's eyes trembled slightly: "This...I caught it?"
She reached out and touched it. It had already scabbed over, but she could feel a faint bump.
"Yes, I'm sorry." Shu Yao hung his head, feeling ashamed.
Chen Ye suddenly laughed: "Shu Yao, why are you so easy to fool?"
Shu Yao was stunned for a moment, and after she came to her senses, she bit his arm in anger, but she came to her senses the moment she bit him.
What is she doing?
The vibration of the mobile phone on the desk suddenly restored all the dislocated emotions to their original place.
Shu Yao quickly stepped back from the bed, straightened her slightly messy hair, and made sure her emotions had returned to normal before answering the call.
The call was from Shu Meiru, who said that Juanjuan Noodle House urgently needed a bottle of soy sauce and asked her to help deliver it.
Shu Yao agreed and picked up the key on the table.
Shen Ye said: "Shall I go with you?"
"No, just two or three hundred meters." Shu Yao calmly walked to the door. As if remembering something, she glanced back at the faint teeth marks on his arm and commented expressionlessly, "Well, your forearm muscles are pretty well-developed, too."
“…”
The room returned to silence.
Chen Ye sat on the edge of the bed, facing the mirror. He raised his hand and touched the mark on his collarbone, and the memories of last night came flooding back.
He felt that what he had just said was still conservative. She was not taking advantage of him, it was almost like she was having a swimming competition on him.
There seemed to be the touch of skin friction on the thighs, and the familiar fragrance of the bed also became a catalyst. The restlessness that was suppressed by the cold shower in the early morning was rekindled somewhere.
"Fuck." Chen Ye fell back on the bed, closing his eyes and chuckling helplessly.
It's really the same as always.
I don’t remember anything I should remember.
*
Juanjuan Noodle House is located south of the supermarket, next to Aping Restaurant.
Shu Yao went to the noodle shop to deliver soy sauce. When he came out, he happened to meet Aunt Chen Ping, the owner of the next door shop, who was feeding the dog outside.
Chen Ping was well-known for her kindness in this area. Seeing her, she greeted her warmly and said, "Are you helping your mother deliver something?"
"Yeah." Shu Yao smiled, then suddenly remembered something and asked casually, "Aunt Chen Ping, have you ever been to Tianju Mountain?"
"Tianju Mountain? No, is it fun there?"
really.
Shu Yao calmly changed the subject: "I haven't been there either. I heard you travel often, so I thought I'd ask you."
"That was in the past. The restaurant is so busy now that I don't have time." Chen Ping sighed regretfully.
Shu Yao chatted with her for a while and felt heavy-hearted on the way home.
Sure enough, everything about Tianju Mountain and Aunt Chen Ping asking her to go with them were all lies.
Could it be that they are really in love?
Shu Yao quickened his pace, preparing to go back and have a good chat with his mother.
The door to the second floor was closed. Shu Yao grasped the door handle and was about to push it open when he suddenly heard Shu Meiru's voice from inside.
"Your mom said you don't eat mangoes, so try grapes and grapefruit."
Shu Yao suddenly stopped, his head buzzing.
How could her mother and Shen Ye’s mother know each other?
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