Chapter 72
It rained heavily on the day Lu Jiyu went abroad.
His flight is at ten in the morning.
Jiang Wan got up at six o'clock. Jiang Huainan leaned against the bathroom door, watching her clean up with sleepless eyes. He had a lot to say, but he couldn't find the time.
"You don't have to wait for me to eat today. I have an appointment with Chen Meiyun to go shopping at noon."
Jiang Wan finished a simple makeup look in ten minutes. She picked up the phone that was playing English radio next to her and checked the time. It was almost time to leave.
Jiang Huainan followed her all the way to the living room.
Seeing him almost motionless, Jiang Wan found it a little funny and puzzled: "Why are you looking at me like that? I'm just seeing you off at the airport, not running away with anyone."
Jiang Huainan laughed dryly, "Now that you have a boyfriend, you don't even want Dad to look at you more than once, right?" As they walked to the entrance, Jiang Huainan took the umbrella from the shoe cabinet and looked down at Jiang Wan, who was sitting on a low stool putting on her shoes. He tried to hold back but couldn't help asking, "Jiang Wan, can you tell Dad why you like him?"
Jiang Huainan knew that his daughter had always been popular, with all kinds of boys chasing her. In terms of hard qualities, Lu Jiyu was indeed a standout, but there was definitely more to it than that.
Jiang Wan put on his shoes and was looking down at Lu Jiyu's message. He said that the road was a bit congested due to the rain and it might take another ten minutes to arrive.
I just have this time free.
"Do you still remember Gao Zhuo?" Jiang Wan asked Jiang Huainan with his head raised after replying the message.
"Gao Zhuo? Of course I remember him. Why did you suddenly mention him?"
Jiang Wan stood up and said, "Lu Jiyu didn't relax at all after being recommended for the college entrance examination. Instead, he went back to Dewen Middle School to tutor Gao Zhuo and other students."
"Everyone thought he was just bored and doing useless things. Some even laughed at him for wanting to be a savior and play the role of a saint."
"But he didn't care at all. He took every path he chose very seriously."
Just like what Lu Jiyu said to Li Qingxi that night in Xinjiang.
Perhaps it is a bit too much to describe him as the unity of knowledge and action, but at least he is frank and sincere enough.
"There are too many people in this world chasing fame and fortune, and too many people who want results, but I just want someone who can dream with me, even if it's a fantasy, even if it's useless."
When Jiang Wan said this, her eyes sparkled with a brightness that she herself hadn't noticed: "Dad, if you ask me why I like him, I can't explain it. Maybe it's because he can dream with me."
Beautiful appearances are all alike, but a young man’s sincere heart is priceless.
Jiang Huan suddenly realized that he liked him even more than he thought.
Fortunately, their lives have just begun, and they still have a lot of good years to spend together.
Jiang Wan smiled and took the umbrella from Jiang Huainan: "I'll go first."
Jiang Huainan suddenly grabbed her hand, his lips moving again and again: "This is your first time in love, so it's inevitable that you will be more impulsive. Dad still wants to remind you that although you like someone, don't get too involved. Otherwise - if your relationship has twists and turns in the future, Dad is afraid that you will be sad -."
"Oh, are you just sad? I thought you would go to his house and beat him up." Jiang Wan carefully pushed Jiang Huainan's hand away and said lightly, "I really should go, otherwise I'll be late.
Under normal circumstances, Jiang Wan would definitely be able to sense that there was something wrong with Jiang Huainan's hesitant look, but now she is just a young girl in love and can't care so much for the time being.
Zhou Zifang was also in the car with Jiang Wan to see them off at the airport.
To be honest, his reaction was even more exaggerated than Jiang Wan's. On the way to the airport, he was reluctant to leave Lu Jiyu, asking about his well-being, worrying about this and that.
This made Jiang Wan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, feel a little redundant.
Lu Jiyu was also driven to a state of despair by him, and she responded with a few nonchalant remarks. The two of them continued to act until they reached the security checkpoint, where Zhou Zifang finally gave up and revealed his true colors. "When you get to Spain, remember to go see the Bernabéu Stadium for me. Tell him I'll come visit her next year. Also, grab me a few jerseys. I sent the specific sizes and players to your email on the way here."
Lu Jiyu: ...
Jiang Wan glanced at the backpack on his shoulders with a bit of curiosity: "Is this all you have to take with you?"
She still remembered that when he went to Xinjiang, he brought a 29-inch suitcase. He was almost armed from head to toe, from sunglasses and hat to shoe laces. How could he be so simple when going abroad?
After she said that, Zhou Zifang realized: "Oh, that's right, why did you only bring so few things? It seems that you don't like your foreign friends very much." He said sourly.
Lu Jiyu glanced at him coldly and coughed lightly. "They are Chinese. And my suitcase is broken, so I plan to buy another one over there. Okay, you can just deliver it here. Go back first. The driver is still waiting."
Jiang Wan was curious: "Driver? Was that your driver just now? Then why didn't he call you Master?"
Zhou Zi said beside him, laughing: "How do you know she hasn't called you that? If you like it, I'll tell Lao Zhang when we get home and ask him to call you Madam."
Lu Jiyu: ...
Jiang Wan: ...
Lu Jiyu expressionlessly began to chase the guest away: "You really should leave."
"No, we've already come here. As the saying goes, we should see the Buddha off to the west. How can we leave halfway?"
Lu Jiyu was completely silent now.
When Zhou Zifang saw the unhappy look on his face, he realized later that he was talking about "you" instead of "you guys", and understood that he was complaining that he was too bright a light bulb.
There's no way around it, being brothers is like this, when things go wrong, you're the one who matters, when things go wrong, you're the one who matters.
Zhou Zifang shrugged and said, thinking he was being polite, "Well, I'm going to the bathroom first. Jiang Wan, you two can talk if you want to. If you want to kiss, feel free to do so. We're at an international airport, so this won't make a big deal. Listen to me, and don't be so reserved."
As he spoke, he backed away and waved goodbye. He didn't look at the road and almost bumped into a white man. After the two of them hugged each other and chatted briefly for a few words, he finally reversed into the men's restroom as accurately as a truck.
Lu Jiyu and Jiang Wan stared at the bathroom door together. Jiang Wan asked with interest, "How long do you think it will take for him to stick his head out?"
"Ten seconds?" Lu Jiyu said casually. He lowered his head and stared at Jiang Wan, who had stood very close to him without him knowing when. In his peripheral vision, he caught a glimpse of a young man passing by, whose eyes lingered on her.
Lu Jiyu half-closed his eyelids and looked at him coldly, and the man withdrew his gaze in disappointment.
"I'd guess five seconds."
"If you lose, you transfer 500 to me, how about that?"
"make a deal."
"Five, four, three, two, one--." Jiang Wan tiptoed over to look and found that the man really didn't come out to peek: "Zhou Zifang is so capable--." How could he bear it?
Jiang Wan's mouth was still half open, and before she could finish the rest of her words, Lu Jiyu hugged her in his arms.
He buried his head in her neck, deeply, and didn't let go for a long time. Jiang Wan had noticed before that Lu Jiyu looked thin, but his embrace was often very deep, and she was trapped in it, unable to move.
Although farewell scenes can be staged at airports at any time, being reluctant to part is a common scene.
But this rare, outward intimacy from Lu Jiyu surprised Jiang Wan. Lu Jiyu's hair was very soft, and it felt strangely itchy against Jiang Wan's cheek, along with his breath.
She reached around his back and patted him, as if soothing some small animal: "Time to go through security."
Lu Jiyu just held her stubbornly, as if he was holding a handful of sand that he couldn't hold: "Today." As soon as he opened his mouth, he found that his voice was a little hoarse.
"Um?"
This morning, your dad sent me another message.
He had no way of saying it.
"I suddenly didn't feel like leaving this morning."
This was the first time Jiang Wan saw Lu Jiyu being so clingy.
She half-jokingly said, "Forget it, the air tickets and hotel are quite expensive. Have fun, I'll wait for you to come back."
Jiang Wan's words didn't convey any reluctance. Lu Jiyu was choking with anger and relief, the two conflicting emotions making him feel even more uncomfortable, yet he couldn't express them.
"You have to take good care of yourself." Lu Jiyu finally raised his head, stared at the person in front of him, and said solemnly and softly.
Jiang Wan looked up at him in confusion, wondering what day it was today and why everyone from Jiang Huainan to Lu Jiyu was acting weird.
Lu Jiyu felt a little guilty when she stared at him. He lowered his head awkwardly and then raised it again: "Let's go, Zhou Zifang is waiting for you."
He turned sideways, just as he was about to look at Zhou Zifang's position, an embrace emitting a faint sandalwood scent came after him. This was a perfume she liked very much, with a hint of sweet milk in the sandalwood, serious yet lively.
Jiang Wan held him in her arms, tilted her head back, and looked at him with a smile: "Have fun over there, and leave any unhappy things there. Or when you are willing to tell me, come back and tell me."
You see, she just knows it all.
After saying that, Jiang Wan stood on tiptoe and kissed his cheek: "See you at the beginning of the school year, alumni."
Alumni, this is also an important part of their lives as accomplices.
At the busy security checkpoint, it was hard for passers-by not to be attracted by the tall and handsome young man standing there straight.
He stood there expressionlessly, watching the figure disappear from his sight along the escalator. The sadness and helplessness in Lu Jiyu's eyes finally showed signs of easing.
He picked up his phone and the first message in the message box was a message from Jiang Huainan this morning. At that time, the car he was riding in just drove into the gate of Jiang Wan's residential complex.
——Xiaolu, there’s still time.
Everything has just begun. Young people's love is nothing more than gorgeous fireworks, which are gone in a blink of an eye. Cutting losses in time is in line with the doctrine of the mean that middle-aged people believe in.
Since they parted at the airport, Jiang Wan and Lu Jiyu lost contact for a whole week.
But it wasn't like they had completely lost contact; they had exchanged a few brief words during that time. Jiang Wan wasn't the clingy type, but Lu Jiyu's unusual aloofness was a bit odd to her. However, she didn't take it too seriously at first, thinking it was just a matter of time difference or a poor signal.
It wasn't until the second week, when Chen Meiyun asked Jiang Wan out for a foot massage, that she curiously asked Jiang Wan while scrolling through his Moments, "How come this guy hasn't posted anything in such a long time? Did he send them all to you?"
Jiang Wan was a little ticklish, and the technician's technique made her want to laugh but also felt really comfortable. When she heard Chen Meiyu ask her, "No," she almost squeezed out these three words from between her teeth.
From what Chen Meiyu said, it sounded like she was gritting her teeth.
She leaned over and asked cautiously, "What's wrong? Did you have a fight?"
"Not really." After Jiang Wan got used to her elder sister's technique, she finally stopped feeling the itch. She took a sip of the water at hand and said calmly, "It must be him who unilaterally gave me the cold shoulder."
The lights in the room were dimmed, and Jiang Wan's expression was a little blurry when he spoke.
"Huh?" It was so sudden! Chen Meiyun was shocked, as if she had been caught off guard. Aren't these two still in the honeymoon period?
Jiang Wan felt that it was difficult to explain it clearly with words, so he simply handed her the chat history on his phone.
Chen Meiyu glanced through the chat records between the two since Lu Jiyu went abroad. Because they were too brief, she just swiped through them twice and they were gone.
"That's all?"
"That's all."
Although Jiang Wan wasn't particularly enthusiastic in the chat history, Chen Meiyu was very familiar with Lu Jiyu's perfunctory attitude that was expressed in just a few words.
"Damn, this scumbag." Chen Meiyu picked up the phone and was about to call and scold him.
Jiang Wan didn't stop her or persuade her: "He won't answer."
"How do you know?" But the next second, the power-off tone from the phone forced Chen Meiyu to believe it.
"Don't worry." She raised a hand to comfort Jiang Wan: "No matter what the reason is, I will definitely seek justice for you."
Then she made another call in a hurry.
"Zhou Zifang!"
The moment the call was connected, Chen Meiyu failed to control her volume, and scared the technician who was watching the show so much that she pressed the wrong acupoint. Chen Meiyu almost jumped up in pain. The other party apologized repeatedly, but she waved her hands, saying that there were more important things to do right now.
"What's wrong with Lu Jiyu? Why is he disappearing and playing the cold war for no reason? If you have something to say, just let him say it to your face. Don't play these empty games, otherwise I will look down on him and you!"
"What scumbag?"
"Who are you calling a scumbag?"
"Lu Jiyu is a scumbag? What do you mean?"
Chen Meiyu held the phone in silence for a while before looking up at Jiang Wan, wanting to say something but stopping herself.
"Tell me about that scumbag?" Jiang Wan's tone was quite relaxed.
Chen Meiyun on the other side was so angry that her eyes were red: "Zhou Zifang said Lu Jiyu was a scumbag and he asked you to break up with him."
“He also sent me a photo.”
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