Chapter 14 "Why are you blushing?"...
Chapter Fourteen: "Why are you blushing?"
Even Lin Su herself wasn't quite sure how she ended up burying her face in his chest and wrapping her arms around his waist. Like someone desperately craving a hug, she simply held him tightly.
His body temperature was higher than hers; his chest was hot and hard, and his waist was thinner than it looked. However, the muscles in his waist and abdomen were incredibly firm, unlike the soft waist of a woman.
She caught a faint scent of pine resin mixed with a hint of tobacco. She sniffed, unable to utter a word. He was the one who was pitiful, yet it seemed as if she was the one who had been wronged and needed his comforting embrace.
But she didn't cry. The moment she threw herself into his arms, she couldn't cry anymore.
The man's body stiffened for a moment, as if he hadn't expected her to hug him. He didn't move and just let her hug him.
After a long while, Lin Su, who had been resting her forehead against his chest, adjusted her position, turned her cheek to the side, and heard his steady heartbeat in her ear. She couldn't help but rub against him again, causing wrinkles to appear on her white shirt.
Zhou Yunqi finally moved, looked up and stroked her head, running his fingers through her loose hair.
Lin Su finally came to her senses. What was she doing?
She's hugging him!!!
They held me very tightly.
He remained silent for a long while before lowering his head and resting it on top of hers. As he moved his other hand slightly, as if to embrace her again, Lin Su seemed to wake up and suddenly left his embrace.
Zhou Yunqi was startled, immediately withdrew his hand, and raised his head.
Lin Su took a step back and looked up at him in surprise.
The man frowned, puzzled: "What's wrong?"
Lin Su murmured, "I'm sorry."
After saying that, her face burned like a tomato, and she stammered, "I, I, I, I'm leaving."
Zhou Yunqi: "..."
She turned around, took a couple of steps, and then suddenly started running.
My heart was screaming as I ran all the way back to my dorm.
Although she knew that giving him a hug was to express her sympathy for his background, after all, he was only fifteen or sixteen years old when his parents passed away, a spirited young man who had to bear so much.
But in his eyes, what did this hug mean?
And, she's a frivolous person who likes to take advantage of him?
Oh no... How is she going to face him tomorrow?
Lin Su collapsed onto the bed, pulled the blanket over her face, and let out two howls.
My roommate, who had just finished showering, came in with a puzzled look: "What's wrong? Menstrual cramps?"
Lin Su shook her head: "No."
"What happened?"
"Nothing much."
She simply hugged the manager.
The Mid-Autumn Festival conversation outside was still going on. The tall man looked up at the moon, a cigarette dangling from his lips.
Puzzled.
He didn't understand.
Someone approached, and a noisy voice shouted, "Boss, boss!"
Zhou Yunqi glanced at him and said impatiently, "Speak if you have something to say."
Was Kobayashi here just now?
"how?"
"I saw her run back to her dorm. I called her to eat a pomelo, but she didn't respond."
Zhou Yunqi took the cigarette and exhaled smoke: "It's here."
"Oh," Xu Yaodong said somewhat guiltily, "what did you two talk about?"
"She ran off without saying anything."
Xu Yaodong frowned: "You didn't talk about anything?"
"ah."
Xu Yaodong: "Could it be a stomachache?"
Zhou Yunqi: "..."
The irritated man, with a cigarette between his fingers, ignored him and turned to walk away.
Xu Yaodong followed behind him and said, "Boss, they want you to come over and sit down."
"Please sit down."
He was very annoyed.
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The chaotic Mid-Autumn Festival night finally passed, but the next morning was even more agonizing.
As a Chinese language teacher, Lin Su has to get up early to go to school and supervise the students' morning reading. She gets up early to wash up, then goes into the kitchen to get the food the cook had left for her the night before. At noon, she just needs to steam a box of rice at the school cafeteria to eat with it.
Zhou Yunqi sat in the car as usual, his long, slender hand resting on the window, his index finger lightly tapping the car door. He watched the person walk over with a lunchbox and a bag, then open the car door and get in.
His complexion looked normal, but his eyes seemed to be constantly hiding something.
Lin Su greeted him obediently, "Good morning, Manager."
She had already made up her mind to pretend nothing had happened and get away with it.
Zhou Yunqi glanced at her and responded.
The car had been driven for a kilometer and was very quiet inside. They didn't necessarily need to talk; they usually didn't talk non-stop. But the atmosphere was just a little strange.
An invisible awkwardness seemed to spread between the two of them.
Lin Su looked out the window. It was already daylight, and people were working in the fields.
This section of the road was a gravel and dirt road, with many stones embedded in the loess, making the car bumpy. The man said in a low voice, "Don't you want to say anything?"
Lin Su's heart skipped a beat, and her back stiffened. She twisted her slender neck to look at him like a robot.
Zhou Yunqi glanced back, then looked straight ahead at the road conditions and drove attentively.
Lin Su's throat was dry. After a moment of reflection, she casually uttered the words she had prepared all night: "Last night..."
The man driving the car swallowed hard, his voice low and indifferent: "Ah."
"I may have eaten too many mushrooms and been poisoned, which caused me to experience mild hallucinations."
His hands gripped the steering wheel tightly, his knuckles turning white. After a deathly silence, the man gritted his teeth and said, "So you're holding on tight and won't let go?"
Lin Su let out a soft "Mmm".
"Feel sorry."
"What I want to hear is an apology?" The man was furious. He glanced at her and saw that she looked guilty and turned her head to look out the window. His resentment intensified.
"Why are the others alright?" he asked again.
Lin Su huddled in her seat and began to talk nonsense with a straight face: "My constitution is different from others, or maybe it's because I just happened to eat that mushroom that wasn't cooked properly."
Zhou Yunqi: "We had finished eating an hour and a half ago."
"It might have started during digestion."
Okay, very good.
I didn't expect her to say anything nice anyway.
The man sneered, "Since that's the case, then go to the hospital for a checkup."
"No need, I was just dizzy at the time, but I'm fine now," Lin Su quickly said.
Zhou Yunqi closed his eyelids, as if he didn't want to say anything more.
The car pulled up to a breakfast shop in the commune. As usual, he got out and bought her fried dough sticks and steamed buns, then handed them to her.
Lin Su accepted the breakfast and said, "Thank you, Manager."
After driving back to the elementary school gate, Lin Su got out of the car with breakfast, lunchbox, and other items.
Zhou Yunqi looked at that figure and let out a deep breath.
The car remained parked in the same spot for a long time before being driven away.
Back at the farm, Xu Yaodong ran over and shoved a steamed bun at him, grinning as he asked, "Boss, wanna go to the sugar factory today?"
Zhou Yunqi glanced at him, then turned and went to the bedroom: "Catch up on some sleep first."
Xu Yaodong frowned, sensing that his boss was in a bad mood.
Did I get up too early?
But that's not right. He used to get up early every day to take Xiaolin to work, and he was always in a good mood when he came back. Could it be that Xiaolin upset him?
Without thinking too much, Xu Yaodong saw that there was still a bun left on the table, so he simply reached out and took it.
...
When Lin Su returned to the farm in the afternoon, he had not yet come back. It wasn't until she finished washing clothes in the evening and was carrying a bucket that she saw him standing at the office door, talking to the deputy farm manager.
Despite the darkness of the night, she could still clearly see his clear gaze sweeping over her.
Lin Su pursed her lips, looked away, and returned to her dormitory.
I guess I've passed this hurdle.
He's a magnanimous person and won't stoop to her level.
Sure enough, nothing happened for the next few days.
But sometimes, he would say a few sarcastic remarks to her, as if venting his dissatisfaction.
Arm-like, that day he came to pick her up, and the car was parked in front of the teaching building.
When Lin Su got into the car, she said, "All the kids in my class recognize your car. They told me, 'The teacher is here to pick you up.' I didn't believe it at first."
Zhou Yunqi scoffed, "What, hallucinating again?"
Lin Su: "..."
She knew that this man still held a grudge about that incident.
"Didn't you say you had something to do today?" she asked, sounding annoyed.
"I took care of everything in advance and came back."
"oh."
Okay, okay, she'd better keep a low profile.
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After a week of classes, the National Day holiday arrived.
The farm also had a two-day holiday. Sun Xiaoqing and a few other girls wanted to go shopping in the county town, so they asked Lin Su, "Could you tell the farm manager to take us to the county town?"
Lin Su said, "Why don't you go and ask yourselves? Doesn't the farm manager want to deliver it?"
Sun Xiaoqing shook her head: "It's more appropriate for you to go and talk to them. You're familiar with the farm manager, and besides, you're going too."
Lin Su glanced at the thick night outside and said she would ask again tomorrow.
Sun Xiaoqing urged, "It's best to decide now, just in case he arranges something else."
"Alright."
Lin Su accepted the order, walked out of the dormitory, and met Zhou Yunqi in front of the office.
At that moment, Lin Su called out from the doorway, "Is the manager here?"
The man, shirtless, came out of the inner room, reached for the shirt hanging on the hook on the wall, stood in the orange light, and looked up at them.
He has a beautiful, well-proportioned physique, like a sculpture.
"It's so late, is something the matter?"
Lin Su didn't dare to look closely at his chest and abdominal muscles, so she could only raise her head and focus her attention on his face.
These days, like Xu Yaodong, she has become accustomed to being taken care of by him and has become much more unrestrained, forgetting how beautiful his face is.
He had just washed his hair and taken a shower. A few strands of hair fell across his forehead, and water dripped from the ends onto his clean face. The perfectly placed lighting cast a soft glow on him.
Lin Su was stunned for a moment, speechless.
Zhou Yunqi put on his clothes, left them open, and frowned: "Is it so difficult to say? Do you want to borrow money?"
Lin Su snapped out of her daze and quickly said, "No, it's not about borrowing money. They want to go shopping in the county town tomorrow and wanted to ask if you're going there, and if so, could you give them a ride?"
The man looked directly into her eyes: "Are you going?"
Lin Su nodded: "They asked me to go with them."
"How many people went in total?"
"Five or six, all girls."
He said in a flat tone, "I'll send you over tomorrow."
"Oh, thank you." Lin Su thanked her, but did not leave.
Zhou Yunqi looked at her and asked with amusement, "Is there anything else?"
"It's gone."
"Then why are you blushing?"
Lin Su: "Huh?" She touched her cheek and found it was indeed slightly hot.
"Perhaps you are also full of energy?"
Lin Su: "..."
A note from the author:
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Farm manager: Got it, selling meat works!
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