Chapter 47 Don't scare her.
On the morning of October 4th.
It had just rained last night, and the air was cool and moist. The low bushes on both sides seemed to be shrouded in a thin layer of mist.
A morning breeze rustled the branches, and the raindrops that had been clinging to the tips of the leaves all fell onto the roof of the bus stop.
The narrow, long bench painted dark green on the platform was given to the two girls. Jiang Deyu leaned against the advertising lightbox behind him with a "thud," his eyes dark and lifeless, looking like a颓废 (颓废 is a difficult word to translate directly, but it implies a state of being listless, decadent, or dispirited) teenager.
Xia Fan looked at him with an incredulous expression, "You didn't stay up all night playing games again last night, did you?"
Upon hearing this, Jiang Deyu moved his lips slightly, but did not refute it.
The answer is obvious.
Jiang Sui gasped in shock, looking at Jiang Deyu as if he were some kind of oddball.
"You were so tired yesterday, and you still stayed up all night playing games. Aren't you afraid of dying from overwork?"
Jiang Sui thought Jiang Deyu was a truly magical species.
If I spend less than half an hour doing practice problems, I'll inevitably start yawning and dawdle, as if I have thorns growing on my butt.
Yet this is the kind of person who can play games all night long, even though they've already walked tens of thousands of steps during the day.
Human potential is indeed limitless.
"How dare you say that to me?" Jiang Deyu snorted defiantly. "You don't look much better than me."
As Jiang Sui spoke, her head was still resting on Xia Fan's shoulder, and she couldn't help but yawn as soon as she finished speaking.
Looking at it this way, she and Jiang Deyu are indeed evenly matched, neither more nor less capable.
“You were so tired yesterday,” Jiang Deyu said, mimicking her voice, “If you could still remember to read when you got home, then we wouldn’t have to go to Brother Ji for tutoring while crying.”
Ji Jingyu, who was being nagged by Jiang Deyu, was standing next to Jiang Sui, his tall figure just enough to block the cool breeze blowing from the side.
Upon hearing Jiang Deyu's words, he merely blinked indifferently, his thin lips slightly pursed, seemingly unconcerned about the depraved behavior of his two and only "disciples."
Suddenly, a weight settled on my waist.
He looked down and saw that it was Jiang Sui who had grabbed the hem of his clothes.
"I didn't read any books. I was exhausted when I got home yesterday, so I didn't have the energy to read any books." Jiang Deyu "willingly degenerates," but she has to prove her innocence, especially to Ji Jingyu.
Jiang Sui blinked at Ji Jingyu, "I fell asleep halfway through chatting with my dad."
This National Day holiday was actually only two days long.
Jiang Sui's schedule is even fuller than her boss's.
On the first day of the holiday, she accompanied Su Yinian in Xunning. Apart from the extremely long queues, the mother and daughter were finally able to have a quiet meal together.
The next day, they returned to Licheng to accompany Jiang Yunzhao, and the father and daughter had a grand meal together.
As a result, when she was about to return to Xunning that evening, Jiang Yunzhao, the butler, and the nanny all had tears in their eyes, making Jiang Sui feel quite disappointed on her way back.
Fortunately, she ran into Ji Jingyu at the entrance of the residential area. He accompanied her for several walks downstairs, and Jiang Sui gradually calmed down.
On the third day, I got up early and went to school. First, we gathered and listened to the leaders give a long talk. Then we hiked dozens of kilometers for a study tour. We didn't get back to school until it was completely dark.
Jiang Sui was completely disoriented during this holiday and hasn't fully recovered yet.
Last night, in a half-dream state, she vaguely heard Jiang Yunzhao tell her some things about the Yu family.
Yu Chen was already on her blacklist, and Jiang Sui had absolutely no interest in anything related to his family, so she let herself drift off to sleep before Jiang Yunzhao could finish speaking.
The next day, he didn't even think about going to Jiang Yunzhao to ask him for clarification.
"Then why are you still so sleepy?"
"Don't even mention it, you have no idea how I got through the night." Jiang Sui rubbed against Xia Fan's shoulder and shakily held up two fingers. "I woke up twice in the middle of the night with cramps."
Even after a night, her calves still felt sore and painful.
Xia Fan hissed in empathy. Waking up from a cramp once was bad enough, but Jiang Sui had gone through it twice. Xia Fan looked at Jiang Sui with a hint of sympathy in her eyes.
Jiang Deyu: "You're being too delicate."
"This is the first time I've ever walked this far in my life." Jiang Sui bent down and rubbed her calves. "I only had cramps twice in one night, which is pretty good."
"Um."
"Seriously? Seriously? You have to praise this too?" Jiang Deyu rubbed his forehead, looking utterly exasperated. "Xia Fan, you really have nothing good to praise. Well, if I stay up all night playing games, you'll praise me then too..."
Suddenly, they fell silent.
He belatedly realized that the "hmm" was from Ji Jingyu.
Jiang Deyu took a deep breath and gave Ji Jingyu a useless piece of advice: "Brother Ji, you must never teach your child yourself in the future, otherwise you will definitely be a 'spoiled son'."
Xia Fan rolled her eyes at Jiang Deyu, "Brother Ji, do you still need to tell me how to teach the kids? You're overstepping your bounds."
“Exactly.” Jiang Sui looked up at Ji Jingyu, her beautiful eyes clear and bright. “Brother Ji will definitely be a very good father in the future.”
Ji Jingyu tilted her head slightly but didn't say anything.
Then, he gently rolled his Adam's apple.
Her ears turned red too.
Jiang Deyu was speechless: "..."
That's outrageous.
I really can't stay in this house anymore!
“I haven’t finished yet.” Jiang Sui’s gaze fell on the crackling ceiling. “I finally managed to drift off to sleep, but then it started raining again outside.”
A sudden and torrential downpour swept across the entire town.
Rainwater, accompanied by dampness, lingered at the window, trying to seep into the room through the cracks.
"The rain was really heavy last night." Jiang Deyu stretched, somewhat puzzled. "But isn't rain a good thing? Free white noise, shouldn't it make you sleep better?"
"Don't even mention it."
This reminded Jiang Sui of the intermittent crying she had heard in the hallway before, and her drowsiness instantly vanished.
Xia Fan lovingly touched her face, "Poor baby, have a good rest at noon today."
Jiang Sui gently tapped Xia Fan's shoulder with her head. "Jiang Deyu stayed up all night on his own initiative, but I was forced to. We're not the same kind of people at all."
"You really heard crying in our hallway?" Jiang Deyu suddenly bent down and leaned close to Jiang Sui. His wide eyes, along with the bloodshot eyes and dark circles under his eyes, gave off a strange sense of horror.
Jiang Sui: "..."
My breathing stopped for a moment.
The scene before me is far more terrifying than last night's.
The next second, a long, slender, pale hand grabbed Jiang Deyu by the back of his neck and pulled him away.
Before Jiang Deyu could react, he was already standing outside the bus stop.
Just then, another gust of wind blew by, and the remaining raindrops on the tree pelted him mercilessly, soaking his head.
"Brother Ji..."
Raindrops dripped down his forehead; if you didn't look closely, you'd think he was crying.
Ji Jingyu's sharp, cold brows furrowed slightly, and her tone was cold, "Don't scare her."
The "she" in this context naturally refers to Jiang Sui.
Jiang Deyu wiped the raindrops from his face, his tone aggrieved, "I didn't scare her at all. I was seriously asking Jiang Sui a question."
Xia Fan gave him a look that was hard to describe. "Is that how you ask questions? If Brother Ji hadn't taken you away, I would have kicked you already."
Jiang Sui straightened up. "Did you also hear crying?"
Last time, only she heard the crying; even Ji Jingyu didn't hear it. Jiang Sui thought she was hallucinating.
Jiang Deyu shook his head. "No, not at all."
Jiang Sui remained silent.
That must be an auditory hallucination.
“But I think you heard right,” Jiang Deyu said, catching his breath. “I guess it came from the apartment on the fourth floor.”
"The fourth floor?"
"Um."
Jiang Sui remembered the family living on the fourth floor.
After all, she and Ji Jingyu had witnessed them arguing.
"How do you know the crying was coming from the fourth floor?" Jiang Sui asked curiously. "Didn't you say you hadn't heard it?"
Jiang Deyu stood back down under the shed, looked around, and then whispered, "Because Ms. Sun heard it too."
Ms. Sun is Jiang Deyu's mother.
The couple ran a car repair shop in town.
That day, she wasn't feeling well, so Jiang Deyu's father told her to rest at home.
I had barely lain down when I heard the sound of things being smashed coming from upstairs.
The residents on the fourth floor had moved in just two years ago. Ms. Sun didn't have much interaction with them, but she would often see the old lady from that family playing with her child downstairs.
To be honest, the old woman really didn't care about taking care of the child. She would often just chat and only pay attention to the child when someone reminded her. She would also mutter nonsense like, "Girls are worthless, her daughter-in-law is useless, she can't give birth to a grandson..."
Feudal, ignorant, and vicious.
Therefore, Ms. Sun has no interest in dealing with this kind of person.
At first, Ms. Sun didn't take this little incident to heart, but the noise from things being thrown upstairs got louder and louder, and she couldn't rest at all.
After thinking for a moment, Ms. Sun decided to go upstairs to check, just in case something had happened, so she could help call the police.
She had only gone halfway when she heard heart-wrenching cries.
Ms. Sun listened intently for a long time before finally understanding what was commotion upstairs.
"The man upstairs is having an affair, and the mistress is pregnant with a son, so that bastard is now divorcing his wife."
As soon as Jiang Deyu got home, he heard Ms. Sun indignantly complaining to his father, "You didn't see the old woman's face, saying that since her daughter-in-law can't give birth to a son, she should give up her position..."
"Pah!" Ms. Sun took a sip of the water her husband had poured for her and continued cursing, "If I were her, I wouldn't get a divorce either, I'd just drag it out. Let that vixen outside be shamed and condemned by everyone! And those two sons of bitches at home won't have a peaceful life either!"
"Hey, hey, hey, if you're going to talk about others, just talk about them. Don't bring yourself into it. Such a thing would never happen in our family."
"Hmph, that's because I've already given you a big, healthy son."
"Come on," Jiang Deyu's father said, his hands itching. "If it weren't for the fact that you were in excruciating pain for over ten hours before that brat was born, I would have beaten him to death eight hundred times over with his irresponsible behavior!"
Jiang Deyu was caught off guard, not only drinking a mouthful of dog blood, but also being fed a large handful of dog food.
“Ever since then, my mom has often heard people crying upstairs.”
"Damn, they're really awful, so bad!" Xia Fan nudged Jiang Sui. "Right, Sui Sui?"
Jiang Sui thought of her parents, of Jiang Zhenkai who had caused her family to be separated, and of her so-called "stepmother" who was currently resting at her maternal home during her pregnancy...
Her gaze turned cold. "Everyone who breaks up other people's families will be punished."
Jiang Deyu: "Anyway, I think cheating men/women, mistresses, and their illegitimate children are the most disgusting things in the world."
Xia Fanmeng nodded, "You're right, these morally corrupt people will get their comeuppance one day."
"Brother Ji, why do you look so pale?"
Jiang Sui noticed that Ji Jingyu, who hadn't participated in their conversation, looked very unwell. His thin lips were tightly pressed together, a hint of pain flashed in his deep black eyes, and his hands, hanging at his sides, were clenched tightly, his knuckles turning white.
This side of Ji Jingyu reminded Jiang Sui of the time Ji He came home...
Jiang Deyu exclaimed, "Brother Ji, are you having low blood sugar? Come on, let Brother Ji sit down."
After the two girls stood up, he quickly pressed Ji Jingyu back onto the stool. "Why did Gu Ci take so long to buy breakfast? If he hadn't come back soon, Ji would have fainted."
They occasionally buy breakfast outside to improve their meals.
For example, today.
So, in front of everyone, the only college student who still had energy left, Gu Ci, went to queue up to buy breakfast.
Xia Fan looked down the path and suddenly exclaimed, "He's here! Brother Gu Ci is back!"
As she spoke, she jogged a few steps to meet him.
A minute later, Jiang Deyu was still observing Ji Jingyu's expression while biting into his beloved sesame seed cake.
"Brother Ji, are you feeling better?"
"Hmm," Ji Jingyu replied coldly, "It's alright."
Only he knew that he didn't have low blood sugar at the time.
Gu Ci laughed and said, "Xiao Jing, how come you're getting more and more like a child? Both girls are fine, but you're the one with low blood sugar."
Ji Jingyu remained silent, but Jiang Sui glared at Gu Ci from the side.
Shut up.
Gu Ci couldn't help but chuckle.
It's quite well protected.
"Although I'm not good at studying, I'm lucky to have two good brothers who are excellent students."
Jiang Deyu glanced at Gu Ci, then at Ji Jingyu, chuckled, and after finishing his meal, began to spout nonsense, "When you two become successful, Xia Fan, Jiang Sui, and I will rise to prominence along with you."
He was quite loyal; he even thought to give Jiang Sui and Xia Fan a ride.
"..." Gu Ci glanced at him with an amazed look, "So this word can be used like this. But you can just enjoy your own success without involving Fanfan."
After saying that, he patted Xia Fan's head and earnestly instructed her, "Fanfan, stay away from Jiang Deyu in the future, and don't let the idiot infect you."
Xia Fan took a sip of soy milk, and whether she heard him clearly or not, she habitually replied, "I know."
Jiang Sui put down the egg pancake in her hand and stared intently at Ji Jingyu.
"What's wrong?"
Aren't you going to say anything?
"What?"
Ji Jingyu's eyelids twitched slightly, thinking that Jiang Sui was still dwelling on what had just happened.
“At this point, you should say, ‘You can get away with it yourself, don’t drag Sui Sui into it.’”
Author's note: Thank you for the nutrient solution, everyone! We've reached 100!
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