Chapter 189 Carry You
The internship company is better.
There are many old buildings in the school, and various ancient trees in the gardens form countless shadows after nightfall. Su Xia has seen many young couples hugging each other in the dark when she came home late several times.
When it has nothing to do with her, she will not look at anything inappropriate and silently thinks that it is great to be young.
Maybe it was because the rain was too heavy and the hazy night made people feel wet in their hearts. When she became this young man, she couldn't care about anything else.
Relying on Xu Jiqing, he seemed to be enjoying it and couldn't help but reveal his true colors.
She became a spoiled child and a sticky candy, holding his hand tightly and not letting go.
"Are you still tired?" she asked.
Xu Jiqing was kept quiet for a long time after being kissed by her. His face was dim in the light, and only a pair of drooping eyes could be seen.
Su Xia leaned over, pouted her lips and kissed his slightly blue chin again, moving her cheeks left and right.
She squeezed his hand twice, "Now what?"
Xu Jiqing looked at her almost straight in the eyes. After a while, his jaw tensed a little stiffly and he retracted his fingers.
His Adam's apple rolled slightly, "Not tired."
"Xu Jiqing," Su Xia said with a smile, "Are you shy?"
"No."
"Not at all?"
She tilted her head and leaned closer, leaning in wherever he looked. "Then why did I see the tips of your ears turn red just now?"
Xu Jiqing: "It was the taillights of the car."
Su Xia couldn't help laughing out loud.
They are repairing the cables outside the side door of the building recently. A large area of the asphalt ground has been dug up. When it rains, the road is full of potholes and water. The road condition is so bad that even electric cars can hardly pass. How can there be taillights?
The rain showed no sign of stopping, and standing at the door all the time was no solution. She tugged at his sleeve, lowered her head, and returned to the steps where the streetlight could illuminate them. "How do we get out?"
"I drove over and parked in the parking lot next to me."
Su Xia was surprised. "It doesn't take more than an hour to commute to school in China. Your dormitory is in such a good location, why buy a car?"
"Borrowed from Chen Zhiheng."
She didn't beat around the bush, "You want to move?"
Xu Jiqing replied, "To pick you up from your internship."
The autumn nights are slightly chilly, and the rainy nights in the city are a deep blue like ink.
Xu Jiqing held her hand with one hand, with the car keys and umbrella hanging on his right hand. He subconsciously stood to the outside to shield her from the rain and wind.
Su Xia was stunned for a moment before she remembered that this was one of the items on the long to-do list she had mentioned at the beginning, and the original words were word for word.
He suddenly appeared downstairs of her building, and she thought it was a one-day surprise.
What Xu Jiqing did seemed to be something he had prepared for a long time, just like when he rode his bike to pick up Xu Jiaojiao from school. It was so reliable... that it made her feel a little uneasy.
"You don't have to drive to pick me up from get off work," Su Xia choked. "...The evening rush hour is so congested, we can take the subway together. It's faster and more cost-effective."
"You saw the subway entrance when you came here, right? The bus stop is nearby too, just turn the corner and you'll be there."
Xu Jiqing didn't say anything. He glanced at the puddles outside and then at the pair of clean little leather shoes on her feet. He opened the umbrella and handed it to her, then squatted down on one knee.
"Come up."
He said, "Carry you over there."
Su Xia was rarely shy and took a half step forward hesitantly. "It's not like I broke my leg. I can walk by myself."
Xu Jiqing didn't move. "When did you buy the shoes?"
Su Xia pursed her lips, looked at him for a moment, and then gave up her lie. "The day before yesterday."
She tried to lighten the mood. "I really like this year's popular burgundy red. Doesn't it look pretty?"
The shoe straps were so thin that they made the skin there turn red. Xu Jiqing rubbed her ankle lightly with his fingers and spoke softly.
"If you like it, don't touch the water."
People who are used to being older brothers are different.
After many years, Su Xia lay on Xu Jiqing's back, and the feeling was deeper than before.
The umbrella in her hand was big enough to cover both of their heads. The dense raindrops fell down with a clatter, bringing with them the smell of fallen leaves and earth, and the cool wind blew straight into their necks.
But Xu Jiqing's hand holding her knee was steady, his shoulders were broad and warm, and his fresh breath was reassuring and pleasant.
The embarrassment in her heart quickly disappeared. She didn't even want to straighten her waist. She just wanted to lean on his shoulder as if she had no bones.
It was a short narrow street with a no-parking zone and traffic lights, so it took me quite a while to walk there.
Su Xia's heart was beating so hard that she felt dizzy. It took her a while before she became alert. She held up the umbrella and turned her head desperately to look. "I'm still quite heavy. Can you hold me up?"
"Is your wrist uncomfortable?"
She put one hand around his neck and twisted it several times, "The road is much smoother this way, I'll come down."
"Hold me tight." Xu Jiqing said.
Su Xia said "Oh", but she couldn't let it go. "Don't lie to me. Although I'm much thinner now than in high school, I still weighed over 100 pounds during my last physical. I'm not in the same league as those small dumbbells used for rehabilitation training at the hospital. If there's any problem, it's no joke."
Xu Jiqing smiled lightly, "Recovery is not a small dumbbell."
"...Anyway, you know what I mean."
She put her face close to his, her breath intertwined with the falling hair, and swept it back behind his ear, "So you really don't feel anything, right?"
Xu Jiqing said "hmm".
Su Xia relaxed a little, readjusted the position of the umbrella, and said softly and reverently, "Thanks to modern medical technology."
Many years ago, when Xu Jiqing was still debating whether to eat a bowl of rice in front of her, or switch to writing with his left hand without saying a word, she had never thought that they would have such a distant future.
I never expected this moment to come.
On such an ordinary rainy night, like the most ordinary lovers, it was an unattainable luxury for him to hug her or carry her on his back.
The car Xu Jiqing drove today was a Porsche.
The showy look that was still visible in the rain was far from his real temperament. He pressed the car key from more than ten meters away, and the headlights flashed in the rain curtain.
In the last few steps, as if his mind was stuck in the same rhythm, he suddenly spoke.
"If your wrist isn't working, I can still carry you here."
His tone was calm, even with a rare hint of youthfulness.
Su Xia's heart was beating wildly at this moment.
The same characters and actions overlapped. After a long time, on the other side of the river that could not be turned back, she was unprepared to understand what Xu Jiqing had done back then:
I am rich, I give my all, and I am most useful to you.
I want to be closer to you, to have you look at me more, and I don't even have a pair of healthy hands.
He had never heard or seen what jealousy was, or what lovers would say or do.
Even though he cared about her so much, he could only take her away in the most undignified way possible.
The birthday party that had been lingering in her mind flashed before her eyes like pages turned by the night wind, like the words he hadn't said at the time:
I want to beg you to love me,
Even though I never knew what love was.
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