Chapter 67
"Okay, I don't have anything to say. Let's eat, Auntie." Lin Jun acted weirdly next to Jiang Wan, making Jiang Wan so annoyed that she wanted to slap him and send him home.
"Sister, you and my uncle are even playing Infernal Affairs."
"Uncle's acting is terrible, and you're even worse."
Jiang Huainan drove Chen Hong and her son home first, and then came back to send them off.
"What else? Overturn the table right there?" Jiang Wan and Lin Jun passed by a Mixue Bingcheng restaurant. She had indigestion after the meal, so she asked for a glass of lemonade. Lin Jun looked at her eagerly and asked for one too.
"You ate the most at the table just now."
Jiang Wan ignored him and walked straight into the alley. Lin Jun caught up with him and said, "What's the matter? You ordered so many dishes, but you didn't eat them. If I don't eat them either, it would be a waste."
Jiang Wan suddenly stopped the car halfway through the journey, turned around and asked him, "Do you think my dad and Chen Wulin's mom are really a good match?"
This question is simply a death sentence.
Lin Jun shook his head and nodded, nodded and shook his head again, and finally he was at his wit's end: "Actually, my mom also thought they were not suitable at first."
"So you knew it a long time ago." Jiang Wan stared at him as if he were a traitor.
Lin Jun was afraid of being beaten, so he didn't dare get too close to her. "Because my mother felt that raising a son would be a heavy burden for her in the future. But Chen Wulin's mother was really good at dealing with things. She knew my mother loved to grow flowers, so she would bring them to my house whenever she could. And since my mother also loves to knit, she would also join her in knitting, and we'd discuss all the different patterns."
Jiang Wan understood that this kind of thing would never happen between Jiang Ying and Li Wan.
"But my mother isn't so easy to fool. She knows people are trying to please her. It's mainly because my uncle really likes her."
Without saying a few words, the two of them went back to the studio.
Jiang Wan looked up at the second floor, where the curtains were tightly closed, and walked up the stairs to open the studio door. Lin Jun suddenly became curious: "Uncle said that there was a yellow-haired man living on the second floor. Has he moved out now?"
Jiang Wan looked for the key in her bag: "Is this what you wanted to ask?"
Lin Jun laughed awkwardly: "Uncle said that you seem to like a yellow-haired guy. He didn't dare to ask, so he asked me to ask you."
Jiang Wan pushed the door open and walked in. The dark room smelled of paint. A bicycle passed by behind him: "Jiang Wan, why are you still in the studio so late?"
Judging from the voice, it was the owner of the noodle shop at the end of the alley.
Jiang Wan came out and said hello: "I haven't been here for a long time, come and take a look."
"I don't like any yellow-haired guy." I said this to Lin Jun.
"But I do have a boyfriend." Jiang Wan turned on the light in the studio and said casually.
"Oh, you have a boyfriend, that's normal." Lin Jun nodded, and waited for him to react a little bit, "What? You have a boyfriend? Who is it? Sister, you have been so pure for so many years and you actually have a boyfriend?"
Pure as ice and jade.
Jiang Wan frowned. Why did these four words sound so familiar? "Didn't you call me Neptune before?"
"Pirate King, you heard wrongly. Hey, sister, which lucky person is the one who can receive your favor?"
The phone in Jiang Wan's bag vibrated. She took it and saw that it was Jiang Huainan calling.
Jiang Wan picked up the phone and said a few words before hanging up: "Jiang Huainan's car is at the entrance of the alley. He asked you to get out."
Lin Jun was puzzled: "Aren't you going with me?"
"I'll stay here today." Jiang Wan said it generously, but he really didn't want to see Jiang Huainan again today.
"I've always said Jiang Huainan is a piece of shit. He's only been hiding for a few years, and now his tail is finally exposed!"
Jiang Wan returned to her room from the bathroom, wearing a headscarf and a facial mask. She threw her cell phone on the bed, took the remote control from the bedside table, and lowered the air conditioner temperature a few degrees.
"It's only a matter of time before Dad remarries." Li Wan's reaction was even more explosive than Jiang Wan's. She couldn't add fuel to the fire and could only say something to comfort him.
"Am I scolding him for remarrying? I'm scolding him for going around in circles and finally choosing Chen Hong, that third sister!"
Jiang Wan turned on the TV and lay down on the bed. She looked up at the ceiling. Amidst Li Wan's angry voice, Jiang Wan seemed to hear the scraping of a chair on the floor above. Suspecting she was hallucinating, she muted the TV and waited for a while, but nothing happened.
It seems to be an illusion.
"They got together right after your college entrance exam. It seems they had been secretly doing it for a long time. I really underestimated Jiang Huainan."
Jiang Wan was a little curious about who told Li Wan about this. She knew that her mother would be furious if she knew about this, so she kept silent with the mentality of delaying it as much as possible.
"And what's wrong with you?" Li Wan scolded Jiang Huainan and then turned to Jiang Wan, saying, "How long are you going to keep this big thing from me?"
Jiang Wan chose to avoid the main point: "Anyway, you know everything now, don't you?"
"How can it be the same? If Jiang Ying hadn't shown off in front of me, how would I know?"
It’s Jiang Ying again.
The feud between these two sisters-in-law is really complicated and hard to sort out.
Jiang Wan knew that if the call continued, Li Wan would bring up the past grievances between her and Jiang Ying again. There was no way the call would be over for at least an hour or two.
"Mom, I'm sleepy. Let's talk next time."
"You're sleepy now at 7:30?"
Jiang Wan: ...
"Okay, let's not talk about them anymore. Let's talk about you. When will the acceptance letter arrive?"
"Probably mid to late July."
"Which one did you record professionally?"
“Management.”
"Yeah." Li Wan was finally satisfied after hearing this: "This major is good. I can join my mother's company after graduation."
Jiang Wan's free hand circled the hem of her clothes. After Li Wan finished speaking, she was silent for a while before speaking: "Mom, I have my own things to do."
"What's the matter?" Li Wan's voice lowered a few degrees, just like the sign in her childhood when she was about to attack Jiang Wan.
Jiang Wan sighed silently, but still didn't say it out loud: "I haven't thought about it yet. I'll tell you when I think about it. Hang up, Mom."
Then, without waiting for the person on the other end of the phone to respond, Jiang Waner hung up the phone.
The room was filled with silence, with only a faint sound coming from the TV.
Jiang Wan, you're nothing special. A long-lost feeling of restlessness slowly spread from her heart to her limbs.
She rarely wanted to smoke a cigarette.
But she knew there was no smoke.
The Lawson at the entrance of the alley sells it.
Jiang Guan got out of bed without hesitation, went to the bathroom to blow his hair half dry, changed his clothes, took his keys and cell phone and went out.
It wasn't even eight o'clock yet, and many of the houses in the alley still had their lights on. Groups of three or four gathered in front of their doors, enjoying the cool breeze and chatting. She bought a pack of cigarettes at Lawson and a few skewers of oden, then staggered back to the studio with her headphones plugged in.
The camphor tree in front of the studio still sways gently in the summer breeze, and the dim light and shadows fall to the ground, attracting people's attention.
Jiang Wan raised his eyes.
At this moment, the window of the living room on the second floor was open and the lights were on inside.
Her first reaction was that Lu Jiyu was back.
But she also felt that it was impossible because he had just told her on the phone that he would not be back for at least two or three days.
But who else could it be if not him?
When Jiang Wan was thinking this, she was already standing in front of the door on the second floor. She tried to press the doorbell, and soon she heard footsteps behind the door.
The door opened, and the warm light in the room gently spread around Jiang Wan's feet.
The person who came out to open the door was an aunt in her fifties or sixties, wearing rubber gloves and an apron. Her expression was first surprised and then she smiled.
"Who are you looking for, little girl?"
Jiang Wan was also surprised: "Auntie, who are you?"
"Oh, I'm the cleaner hired by the landlord. I'm here to clean the place."
"Are you the girl from the studio downstairs? I saw you when I came here just now. Did I disturb you while I was working?"
"No." Jiang Wan smiled: "I saw the light was on, I thought it was my friend who came back, then Auntie, please continue."
After she finished speaking, she was about to leave.
But before she could turn around, a gust of wind blew towards her, lifting her untied long hair. The hair stuck to her face, and she could smell the scent of wet shampoo at the tip of her nose.
"What's wrong?"
"The bedroom door is locked again?"
A bit casual, yet with a touch of nonchalantness. Familiar, yet long-lost.
Jiang Wan immediately turned around and looked towards the end of the stairs.
A young man in a light brown T-shirt and black trousers stood tall at the bottom of several steps. A bright and clear moon hung high above his head. Under the brim of his black hat were a pair of sharp eyes that could not be obscured by the night.
The chatter of family matters gradually died down, and the elderly and children began to return to their homes, dragging their stools. The bustling atmosphere of the alley, which had been bustling all day, finally fell into silence at this moment, riding on the rising moon.
Lu Jiyu just stood there in the smoke of the ashes, slightly tilting his head and looking at the girl standing in front of his door.
Auntie moves very quickly.
Jiang Wan had been sitting on the sofa for less than ten minutes when her aunt took her tools and said goodbye to her with a smile: "I've finished my work. Please tell that young man."
"Okay." Jiang Wan said as she stood up to see her off, but her aunt quickly waved her hand: "No need, no need. Goodbye."
In the blink of an eye, the person was gone.
Jiang Wan looked at the clean living room, feeling a bit bored as he sat there waiting for someone, so he opened his phone and decided to do a game mission after a long absence. Lu Jiyu had just entered the room to take a shower when his phone, which had been placed on the coffee table, suddenly vibrated.
Jiang Wan leaned over and took a look. It was a mobile phone number with no notes. She didn't care and continued playing her game. Lu Jiyu came out of the bedroom, wiping her hair. Jiang Wan pointed to the phone and said, "You have a call."
Lu Jiyu went straight to the kitchen and said nonchalantly, "Please answer it for me."
Jiang Wan was still playing the game, and she didn't really want to answer it. But the phone was still vibrating tirelessly, so she had no choice but to pause the game.
"Hello, who is this?" he said, his eyes still fixed on his phone screen.
The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds: "Hello, is this Lu Jiyu's phone?"
It was a female voice, very young, probably around the same age as them.
"Yes. He's a little busy right now. If you need anything, I'll ask him to call you back later?"
There was another silence.
"good."
Lu Jiyu came over with a large white towel hanging around his neck and two cans of iced Coke in his hands. "Who called?" he asked.
He opened a can and handed it to Jiang Wan. Jiang Wan didn't have the hands to take it at the moment, so Lu Jiyu held her chin with one hand and fed her two sips of Coke with the other hand.
It was not until Jiang Wan shook her head and said no that Lu Jiyu took two more sips of the can of Coke she had just drunk.
"I don't know. There was no note on the number. It was a female voice. She seemed a little surprised to hear my voice."
Lu Jiyu had some idea who it was. He picked up the phone on the table and took a look. It was Liu Nian.
"Oh, by the way, she told me to call him back when you have time."
Lu Jiyu put down his phone, shook the can in his hand gently, and hummed softly, as if he was listening but not really listening. It was obvious that he didn't care much about this matter.
No one spoke for a moment.
Only the occasional game prompt sounded from Jiang Wan's phone. Curious about the silence, she glanced to the side.
Lu Jiyu leaned sideways, resting his elbow on the back of the sofa. His wet bangs hung down, pressing down on his now tired brows.
He stared at her bluntly: "Is the phone fun?"
A bit of resentment and a bit of unwillingness.
"Shouldn't I have come back early?"
Jiang Wan was at the most critical moment, so he had to comfort him half-heartedly: "How can a mobile phone compare with you? I'll be done soon, just wait a few minutes."
Lu Jiyu sneered twice and stood up from the sofa: "Remember to turn off the lights when you leave."
“And air conditioning.”
"Hey, don't go. I want to ask you something, seriously." Jiang Wan's fingers flew while trying to persuade him to stay.
Lu Jiyu was halfway there when she thought someone had a change of heart and turned to look at her sideways: "What's the matter?"
"that is."
"How much is this cleaning lady you hired per hour?"
Lu Jiyu: ...
With a snap, the lights in the living room suddenly dimmed. The entire space was plunged into a sudden darkness. The blackout curtains were tightly closed, and the only light came from Jiang Wan's phone.
The words "cleared" appeared on the phone screen. Before she could ask Lu Jiyu if there was a power outage, a faint and cold scent of cedar suddenly approached her.
A drop of water dripped down someone's wet hair onto the back of Jiang Wan's hand. Lu Jiyu stared at her coldly and asked, "Still playing?"
Jiang Wan shook her head: "I don't want to play anymore." Then she handed him her phone obediently, which was rare.
Lu Jiyu took the phone and threw it on the sofa behind him. He leaned his hand forward an inch until their breaths could almost touch. "We haven't seen each other for over a week. Not only do you miss me, but you're asking me nonsense. Are you trying to piss me off to death?"
Jiang Wan was about to explain.
Lu Jiyu was too lazy to listen to her anymore. He leaned forward, gently bit her upper lip, and said vaguely, "Did you miss me?"
Jiang Wan didn't answer. She put her hands around his neck and pulled him closer to her, answering with her actions and deepening the kiss.
Lu Jiyu's lips followed her chin, meandering all the way to the girl's delicate collarbone, and then went up to kiss her neck. Kissing is also a technical job, practice makes perfect.
The atmosphere between them was hot and groggy, like the tropics in perpetual rainy season: vibrant and vibrant, yet damp and muddy.
As their lips and teeth blended, Jiang Wan's hand subconsciously moved slowly down his back, stroking the boy's thin and powerful shoulder blades, along a thin piece of muscle, and stopped at his strong and tough waist.
Lu Jiyu came back to his senses a beat later and quickly reached out to press on the hand that was trying to continue drilling inside. He closed his eyes, resting his chin on her collarbone, calmed his breath a little, and laughed dumbly: "Where are you touching?"
Jiang Wan's hands were held tightly by him, unable to move at all. In the darkness, no one could see each other clearly. Her voice sounded particularly serious: "Is it not possible?"
Although Jiang Wan had never been in a relationship before, she knew that it was normal for boyfriends and girlfriends to kiss and touch each other in return.
"No." Lu Jiyu turned over and sat up straight on the sofa, and a very old-fashioned line popped up in his mind: Woman, you are playing with fire.
…
Jiang Wan stared at him speechlessly. She wanted to grab Lin Jun and let him see who was the truly pure and innocent one.
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