Chapter 58 Drinking
◎ “I get drunk after just one glass”◎
In the morning, Zhao Yan's alarm clock rang, and Jiang Siyue woke up slowly. After being dazed for a while, she sat up and rubbed her eyes.
Zhao Yan, who was getting dressed, saw her sit up and frowned, "You and Min Sui are meeting so early?"
"No." Jiang Siyue yawned, threw off the quilt and got out of bed, "I'll go to school with you."
After yesterday's incident, the news must have spread throughout the office, and the school's clarification will definitely follow, but there are some things that Jiang Siyue still wants to clarify herself.
Yue Huan is so worried about himself, it would be better for him to apologize in person.
It was rare for Jiang Siyue to get up so early. She couldn't eat breakfast and sat in the car in a daze, occasionally yawning once or twice. It was obvious that she was still sleepy.
Zhao Yan turned the car into the school, slowed down to about 10, and asked, "What time is the appointment with Min Sui?"
"Half past eleven."
"Come to the office and take a nap. I'll come find you after class and take you there." Zhao Yan stopped the car and patted her head. There was only one class this morning, which ended at ten o'clock.
"Yeah, okay." Jiang Siyue nodded in agreement and turned to walk towards the office. Before going upstairs, she went over the number of people who would be there today. Two first-year graduate students, one second-year graduate student... Even if they all spoke at the same time, she could still handle it.
In the office, everyone had probably just arrived and was gathered together chatting. When they saw Jiang Siyue come in, the talking stopped abruptly. Jiang Siyue nodded politely and sat down in her seat.
Yue Huan was tapping and banging at his seat. Jiang Siyue thought about it and decided to go over and whisper an apology.
"It's okay!" Yue Huan said nonchalantly, leaning closer to her. He lowered his voice and said, "It's not just me who doesn't mind. No one else does. Teacher Zhao didn't give us your work, so none of us have any objections at all."
"Actually, we were shocked at first because we thought you were cheating on us. Who knew..." Yue Huan paused, "Ah, it was all a misunderstanding."
Jiang Siyue nodded. Thinking about it carefully, she had decided to change her advisor because Zhang Min'an had taken her thesis. If he hadn't done that, she wouldn't mind how much his personal morality was corrupted.
"By the way—" Yue Huan bumped her arm, looking gossipy, "Did you really meet Teacher Zhao through a blind date?"
Jiang Siyue nodded with a wry smile, "Yeah, really."
"What a coincidence." Yue Huan looked at her and sighed, "This must be a match made in heaven!"
Jiang Siyue felt sweet in her heart, but looked a little embarrassed, "That's an exaggeration!"
"I knew Teacher Zhao was rich, but I didn't expect him to be so rich. No wonder he looks down on us humble people." Li Rongbo spoke suddenly, and the two girls noticed that he had been listening.
Jiang Siyue and Yue Huan looked at each other and smiled in tacit understanding.
Gossip does not discriminate between men and women.
At 10:15, Zhao Yan walked into the office from outside. The others stood up and greeted him. He nodded in greeting one by one. Jiang Siyue, who was packing up, had already felt everyone's gaze quietly moving between them, so she quickly sped up.
"Let's go." Jiang Siyue packed her things and stood up. The surrounding gazes were burning, and Zhao Yan naturally took her hand, while the others were undisguisedly cheering.
Everyone knew that Zhao Yan was a gentle person who liked to joke around after school started, so they naturally started to make a fuss.
"Teacher Zhao, where are you and your wife going?" a first-year graduate student asked loudly, emphasizing the word "teacher's wife". Jiang Siyue immediately became extremely angry.
Zhao Yan's lips curled up, and he felt extremely happy when he heard this. "Look at the wedding dress."
There was another round of jeers, and Jiang Siyue was the first to lose patience. She pinched his palm hard, turned to the crowd and said, "Everyone, just call me by my name, otherwise it sounds weird."
She hurriedly dragged him out of the classroom. The two of them waited for the elevator at the door. Jiang Siyue tilted her head and glared at him, "Why did you say you wanted to see wedding dresses?"
"Isn't it?" Zhao Yan raised his eyebrows.
"Of course not, I'm accompanying Sui Sui to watch it." Jiang Siyue explained seriously, "If you do this, they will want to attend our wedding, and we don't have one."
Her face was full of seriousness. Zhao Yan was silent for a moment. Just then, the elevator arrived and the topic ended quietly.
*
After the car stopped in front of Min Sui's house, Jiang Siyue found that Zhao Yan also got out of the car.
"You're not going back to school?" Jiang Siyue was confused.
The temperature in Yunjing was already very low in late autumn. As soon as Zhao Yan got out of the car, he felt a chill. He opened the car door again, took out the scarf from inside the car, strode around to Jiang Siyue, and tied it for her. "We don't have classes this afternoon, let's go straight home after we're done."
"OK."
He took the hand hanging by her waist, and the warmth from his palm quickly passed over, feeling very warm.
She didn't know when, but the hand he extended to her had become warm. The discussion she and Zhang Heng had had about Zhao Yan's "snow on the mountain, spring on earth" flashed through her mind, and she couldn't help but smile.
"What are you laughing at?" Zhao Yan turned his head and asked her, "Did you get a response to your paper?"
"No." Jiang Siyue felt warm in her heart, her smile growing even wider. She gently held his hand back and retorted, "I'm not a nerd who only knows how to study."
Zhao Yan felt the strength in his hand and raised the corner of his mouth, "You really know a lot. I want to ask you for advice tonight."
Before he could even utter the word "OK", Jiang Siyue saw the hidden meaning in his eyes and blushed, "You're trying to trick me again."
During nighttime exercise, she discovered that Zhao Yan loved to set traps for her, and often spoke with double entendres. If she foolishly agreed to one, he would definitely use it against her at night...
"Sui Sui must be waiting anxiously, let's hurry." Jiang Siyue pulled the corner of his clothes and quickly walked into the house.
Zhao Yan let her pull him with a smile on his lips, enjoying the way she understood immediately but didn't dare to respond. He had never found someone as cute as Jiang Siyue before. She was cute in different ways every day, making people unable to help but tease her.
After the doorbell rang, Min Sui came to open the door after a while. She caught a glimpse of Zhao Yan next to Jiang Siyue, and a teasing look appeared in her eyes, "Oh, why are you following me so eagerly?"
Zhao Yan didn't deny her words. He raised his eyebrows and said, "You kidnapped my wife and you asked me why I followed you?"
When the word "wife" came out, Jiang Siyue's heart skipped a beat and he stopped thinking for a moment. The tone of his voice when he said this word was too familiar and natural, as if he had said it a thousand times.
"Then I'll be generous too. You can take my husband away!" Min Sui had just finished speaking when she shouted into the house, "Zhou Yan—get out!"
"Huh?" Zhou Yan came out waving a shovel, his face still a little confused. He obediently stood in front of Min Sui and asked, "Where are you going?"
Min Sui pinched his face and rubbed it hard, saying in a doting tone, "Husband, you look like the stupid son of a landlord!"
Zhou Yan: “…”
Suddenly, there was a burnt smell coming from the kitchen. The two of them exclaimed in unison and ran into the kitchen one after the other.
Jiang Siyue withdrew her gaze from the two of them and looked at Zhao Yanshi again. Her peripheral vision secretly caught his cheek. His skin was very good, white and delicate. I wonder if it would feel good to pinch it...
When she came back to her senses, she found Zhao Yan staring at her with a smile in his eyes. He looked at her straight, and she didn't know how long he had been looking at her. After coughing twice, Jiang Siyue pretended to look at the coffee table and asked casually, "Do you want some candy?"
"The one with a strawberry."
Jiang Siyue flipped through it carefully and replied with a frown, "No, there are only toffee and chocolate."
"Then let's eat later." Zhao Yan took out his cell phone and checked the news from the academy.
Will it be available later? Jiang Siyue was confused, but seeing that he was busy, she didn't ask any more questions. She picked up a chocolate and put it in her mouth. The rich bitter fragrance immediately filled the air.
There was a faint sound coming from the kitchen. Looking over, it was Min Sui scolding Zhou Yan for adding soy sauce. Zhou Yan apologized repeatedly without any impatience.
Zhao Yan had already taken care of things and was playing with her long hair. Suddenly, he asked, "How did they get together? Did Zhou Yan confess his love?"
"No." Zhao Yan thought for a moment, "Min Sui said it before Zhou Yan confessed."
"Wow!" Jiang Siyue exclaimed, "Is this my childhood sweetheart?"
Zhao Yan knew that she had already imagined a beautiful idol drama in her mind, but...
"Min Sui liked another person at the time, but unfortunately that person didn't like her. Min Sui was so angry that she confessed to Zhou Yan. It was just a sudden impulse."
Jiang Siyue was stunned, the idol drama in her mind instantly shattered, "Then... does Zhou Yan know?"
"I know!" Zhao Yan pulled her closer. "He was at the bar at the time. He was so happy that he booked the whole place."
This was something Jiang Siyue hadn't expected, but it wouldn't be a good idea for her to ask too much about the past. She just used her expertise and changed the subject, "It must have cost a lot of money."
"Well, more than one million." A smile appeared on Zhao Yan's lips. "She was severely criticized by her mother." Even Zhao Yan himself did not realize that he was willing to tell her a little bit of gossip and family matters that he had no interest in before.
Jiang Siyue nodded thoughtfully, "How miserable, what about you?"
Zhao Yan's smile froze, and something flashed in his eyes. Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Jiang Siyue. She said in a cheerful and arrogant tone, "Forget it, you certainly wouldn't do something so irrational as to pay for the whole place! By the way, you can drink a lot, right? I've never seen you drunk."
Zhao Yan concealed all his emotions and smiled, "That's because you've never had a drink with me. In fact, I'm drunk after just one drink."
"Your cup and my cup must be different. You must be talking about the bucket cup!"
"There's no such thing as a bucket cup. Of course it's an ordinary cup."
“…”
After lunch, the people from the wedding company said that there was a problem with the transportation of the dress and it could not be delivered today. After renegotiating the time, Jiang Siyue and Zhao Yan left together.
It started raining again when I went out, and it happened to be the evening rush hour. The car was moving at a snail's pace. As night fell, Jiang Siyue stared at the raindrops on the window in a daze.
Zhao Yan tilted his head and asked, "Do you want to drink?"
"Now?" Jiang Siyue was a little surprised. She looked out the window and saw that it was completely blocked. "Can we go out?"
Zhao Yan smiled and waited for the car to move slowly to the next intersection, then turned around and turned in the other direction. This road was clear, and the two stopped in front of a bar.
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