Chapter 72
Yuan Miaomiao wiped the corners of her eyes, but tears kept flowing: "I'm really stupid... I hurt the person I should cherish the most..."
Jiang Zhinian felt a little sorry for the tissue that was about to be used up: "Well, why don't you go talk to Wang Bo? He must be waiting for you too."
When Yuan Miaomiao heard Jiang Zhinian say this, she quickly took out the last few sheets of tissue paper. "No, he definitely won't forgive me. He'll definitely feel that I deceived his feelings. Maybe tomorrow, in a rage, he'll go find the blind date his parents arranged for him and marry him. Then I'll have to spend the rest of my life in regret and pain..."
Jiang Zhinian:......
What kind of TV series does this kid like to watch?
"In order to prevent Wang Bo from marrying his blind date tomorrow, why don't you go find him now?"
"I don't know where he is."
"Maybe, there's something called a cell phone. You can call him and ask."
"He definitely won't answer my calls."
"Give it a try, maybe he's waiting for you to contact him."
Encouraged by Jiang Zhinian, Yuan Miaomiao took the initiative to call Wang Bo, but the person who answered was Jiang Tao.
"Ah, Miaomiao, yes, Wang Bo, Wang Bo..." Jiang Tao glanced at Wang Bo, whose hair was covered in icicles and who was howling in the back seat, and said euphemistically, "He might be dying."
"What, dead, dead, what's going on?"
"Hey, it's hard to explain in a few words. Come and see for yourself. We'll take him home later."
Yuan Miaomiao hung up the phone, wiped her face, and hurried out: "Wang Bo, Wang Bo is dying, I want to go to his house."
Jiang Zhinian had a hunch that Wang Bo was unlikely to die. Before he could comfort Yuan Miaomiao, the other party had already rushed out the door like a gust of wind.
Jiang Zhinian closed the door and called Shi Ye.
"Hello."
"Are you okay?"
"It's okay, I'm almost home, I'll go back and talk to you later."
"Okay, be careful on the road."
Jiang Zhinian hung up the phone, walked to the balcony, and silently stared at the dim street lights downstairs, waiting for that figure to appear at the intersection.
…
When Shi Ye came back, his neck was red from the cold. Jiang Zhinian quickly rubbed his hands to warm them up, wanting to cover him.
Shi Ye dodged it: "No, I just need to take it easy."
Jiang Zhinian followed him to the sofa and sat down, telling him that Yuan Miaomiao had come.
Shi Ye smiled after listening to Jiang Zhinian's retelling.
"So Teacher Jiang is so good at persuading people."
After peeling off layer by layer, I find that I know myself better than I know myself.
Jiang Zhinian felt embarrassed by his praise: "What about Wang Bo, is he okay?"
"It's okay, it's a self-torture trick."
Shi Ye changed his clothes, pulled Jiang Zhinian into his arms, and said sullenly, "These people are so annoying."
Jiang Zhinian reached out to touch his Adam's apple, which was rolling up and down as he spoke. "They... don't really like you. Do you feel lost?"
It's human nature to want to be liked.
Just like when faced with malice and misunderstanding, we instinctively become angry and refute.
But Shi Ye just said, "It doesn't matter."
Whether he likes her or not, these are emotions that he has blocked out from his life.
Jiang Zhinian hugged Shi Ye's arm, and in a moment when his mind was not clear, he quietly thought -
Shi Ye is such a good man, she wants to hide him and not let anyone find him.
Other people's liking for him is just limited to his good looks.
Everything about him, every heart-pounding minute and every second, can only belong to herself.
As long as he has her love, that's enough.
Seeing that she hadn't spoken for a long time, Shi Ye gently pinched her earlobe and said, "What are you daydreaming about?"
Jiang Zhinian came back to his senses and smiled: "I'm just a little sleepy."
"Let's go, go to bed early tonight and get up early tomorrow."
"Get up early? What's going on tomorrow?" Jiang Zhinian was led all the way to the door by Shi Ye. Following the induction of their footsteps, several newly installed soft induction lights on the traffic line from the bathroom to the master bedroom lit up.
Shi Ye asked Jiang Zhinian to go to bed first, and he went to the bathroom to take a shower: "Let's go burn incense."
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Generally, the largest number of people come to burn incense on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. The number of people on the third day is obviously smaller, but still not small.
Shi Ye took Jiang Zhinian to avoid the crowded incense-burning route and took a small path at a corner.
"This route leads to a small side hall, not the main hall, so there are fewer people there."
Jiang Zhinian asked curiously, "I didn't expect you to come and burn incense."
Shi Ye gave him the feeling of not believing in ghosts and gods and that his fate was in his own hands. She had never expected that one day he would pin his hopes for something on praying.
After listening to this, Shi Ye just smiled faintly and didn't explain too much.
"Just think of it as going out for a stroll."
The two took the free incense and entered the small temple in front of them.
As soon as he entered, Jiang Zhinian was immediately shocked by the scene before him. He saw eternally burning lamps neatly arranged on an entire wall, each of which carried an extreme longing.
"Shi Ye, this is..."
"I'll take you to see my mother." Shi Ye pointed to the lamp at the top, "That's it."
His mother's last wish before she died was to have her ashes scattered into the sea, not kept in an urn. She felt it was too suffocating, and she didn't want to buy a plot of land to worship there. She felt it was boring and without freedom to be with a group of people who were noisy.
Her only concession was to allow her relatives and friends to light a perpetual lamp for her to offer in the temple.
"If you miss me, come and see the ever-burning lamp. If not, forget it, but remember to pay the money for the lamp on time."
At that time, Shi Mei was already exhausted, but in good spirits.
She said, "My eternal lamp should be on that wall, at the highest position."
Jiang Zhinian raised his head and looked at the tallest ever-burning lamp that Shi Ye was pointing at, and said silently in his heart -
"Mom, Shi Ye and I are here to see you. Are you doing well in heaven?"
She touched her belly with a sincere expression.
"Shi Ye and I are both fine. We have a baby. After the baby is born, we will bring him to see you."
Shi Ye was about to light incense: "The smell in here is too strong, go out and wait for me first."
Jiang Zhinian did feel a little chest tightness, and she guessed that Shi Ye had something to say to his mother, so she nodded and went out.
Standing in a ventilated corner and taking a few deep breaths, Jiang Zhinian turned around and saw Shi Ye kneeling devoutly on the mat holding the lit incense.
She rarely saw such an expression on Shi Ye's face. It was as if the omnipotent god had developed a soft spot and turned into an ordinary mortal in the secular world.
Love breeds fear, but Jiang Zhinian didn’t understand it at the time.
After Shi Ye finished burning incense, the two of them went to the nearby lamp-burning place to renew their lamp-burning fees. The staff flipped through the account book for a long time and then said, "You have already renewed your fees for this year. You don't need to renew them again."
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