Chapter 23 Meteor Shower
All was silent, not even the sound of the wind.
Jiang Jinyue put Tang Zebin on the side of the road and walked up to the screaming passers-by. Their expressions were frozen in shock, and some of them even had their mouths open so wide that their tongues could be seen. Jiang Jinyue waved his hands in front of them, but those people didn't react at all.
"Time really stopped..."
Jiang Jinyue looked around curiously. The six wings behind him flapped slightly. The wings were no longer pure white. The end of each feather was dyed with brilliant gold, and star-like light continued to fall as they flapped.
As his wings flapped, Jiang Jinyue felt his body become lighter, and his toes occasionally couldn't touch the ground. He flew up somewhat unskillfully, flying high and high in the completely still world, reaching out and plucked a leaf from the highest point of a green tree nearby.
Standing next to the tree canopy, Jiang Jinyue let go of his hand, and the leaf stayed high in the air without falling at all. He poked the leaf with his fingers, making it fall all over the place, and then picked it up again.
Jiang Jinyue was fascinated by the sudden and bizarre changes in the world. He flew higher and higher, and his huge six fluffy wings left a golden halo behind him. Jiang Jinyue took off his glasses and mask, breathed in the air deeply, and happily circled in the air. Suddenly, the flash of the surveillance camera lens not far away caught his eye.
Jiang Jinyue's whole body stiffened, his wings stopped flapping, and he suddenly fell from the air.
Halfway down, Jiang Jinyue flapped his wings vigorously and flew in front of a surveillance camera. He looked at his own reflection on the lens glass and frowned slightly.
He tilted his head, trying to sense, as if a strange energy was flowing in his body.
After a moment, Jiang Jinyue stepped back a little, stopped in the air, spread his arms, closed his eyes, and flapped his wings vigorously.
The completely still world was stirred up by a whirlwind, and countless golden lights were stirred in the whirlwind. The light gathered and then immediately dispersed, splitting into several thin rays of light that shot into the nearby surveillance cameras.
One "squeak" sound after another was heard, and all the surveillance video storage was destroyed.
After doing all this, Jiang Jinyue felt dizzy and dazed. He slowly landed on the ground, holding his head to calm himself down. Then he bowed 90 degrees towards a surveillance camera and said loudly with deep guilt, "I'm sorry! I'll donate to the city to make up for it when I save enough money!"
After there was no surveillance video, Jiang Jinyue completely relaxed. He picked up Tang Zebin from the roadside again and walked towards Lu Qingmian.
Like countless others, Lu Qingmian remained frozen in place, maintaining his running posture.
Jiang Jinyue leaned in closer to see the fear in Lu Qingmian's eyes. He gently placed the leaf between his lips and whispered, "Are you worried about me?"
He stuffed Tang Zebin into Lu Qingmian's arms, let Lu Qingmian hold Tang Zebin in his arms, and picked up the coat that fell on the ground, intending to hide it and recover time, but when he turned around and saw the leaf stuffed between Lu Qingmian's lips, he stopped again.
Stuffing the leaves in the bag was just Jiang Jinyue's mischief.
But the fear and terror that Lu Qingmian showed clearly on his face made Jiang Jinyue's heart burn even more.
He walked back, took out his cell phone, and took a photo of Lu Qingmian.
Taking one photo was not enough, Jiang Jinyue stretched out his hand and made a "yeah" gesture in front of Lu Qingmian's face, and took several more photos.
In the end, Jiang Jinyue simply stood next to Lu Qingmian and held up his phone to take a selfie.
But Lu Qingmian was too tall, so Jiang Jinyue had to fly up a little so that both of their heads could appear in the camera.
After taking the group photo, Jiang Jinyue put on his coat contentedly and left, hiding in the alley.
The next second, the world returned to its hustle and bustle.
The screams that had suddenly stopped returned to the prologue after a long time. Passers-by held their faces and looked towards the center of the road in horror. The truck drove for a distance due to inertia before braking. The driver immediately got out to look under the car. The people who had been restarted gathered around, thinking they would see a pool of blood under the car.
But there was nothing under the car.
The truck driver kept rubbing his eyes, and the passers-by who gathered around were whispering to each other. Some even said that they saw a person with wings flying over and hugging a child.
Many people saw it, including the truck driver, but the fact was that there was nothing under the truck.
Lu Qingmian was standing on the side of the road holding Tang Zebin, who was sobbing and gasping for breath, watching this farce.
He was biting a leaf on his lips. The part of it in his lips had been crushed, and the bitter juice spread between his lips and teeth.
The phone in his pocket vibrated. Lu Qingmian took out his phone and a text message popped up on the screen.
Jiang Jinyue: Send Xiaobin back first, I will explain the rest to you later :p!
As if afraid that Lu Qingmian would be angry, Jiang Jinyue added a little expression of sticking out tongue at the end.
Lu Qingmian put away his phone expressionlessly and walked back to the alley with Tang Zebin in his arms.
On the road, after making sure that no one was crushed under the truck's wheels, the gathered crowd gradually dispersed. They talked in twos and threes, wondering if it was the bright headlights that caused the interweaving of light and shadow, giving them the illusion of a mirage.
People are most self-consistent when it comes to things they can't explain.
After everyone had dispersed, the truck driver was still pulling the few sparse hairs on his head and looking around under the truck.
Finally, he pulled out a child's slipper that had been entangled in the wheel from the rear wheel of the car.
The truck driver suddenly knelt on the ground, muttering to himself in horror:
"It's not an illusion... It's not an illusion... I really saw a child and a person with wings... It's not a person, it's an angel, it's a god! It was God who saved me..."
The truck driver's body was shaking with fear. He began to kneel down in front of the open space, "Thank you, God, for your protection. Thank you, God, for your protection. Otherwise, something terrible would have happened today..."
Jiang Jinyue was unaware of all this. He was hiding behind the wall above the alley, flying silently following Lu Qingmian's figure.
Lu Qingmian contacted Tang Zebin's grandfather. Before he even reached the noodle shop, the white-haired old man came running over breathlessly with an old-fashioned flashlight in his hand.
Tang Zebin had not yet recovered from his fear, but he stopped crying and just sobbed. When he saw his grandfather coming, he immediately got down from Lu Qingmian's arms and staggered over with his short legs.
Jiang Jinyue lay on the wall of the alley, tucked his wings behind him with his coat, and watched quietly.
The gray-haired old man stopped, but did not hug Tang Zebin into his arms. He pulled Tang Zebin with his old hand, bent down and stretched out his hand to hit Tang Zebin's butt hard, "I told you not to run around, I told you not to run around!"
Tang Zebin was stunned for a moment, then immediately struggled and cried, but the old man's hands were tightly grasping Tang Zebin's clothes and refused to let go.
Lu Qingmian frowned slightly, not intending to hide the truth for Tang Zebin. He said bluntly, "Tang Zebin ran off the road when the truck was approaching."
This one sentence stopped Tang Zebin's crying and struggling. The old man took a deep breath, his face full of horror, his expression distorted as if he was extremely frightened and couldn't recover.
He threw the flashlight to the ground and began to spank Tang Zebin's butt even harder. His hoarse, old voice roared, "Tang Zebin, you've grown up. How old are you? Why don't you learn something else? Why do you imitate others and commit suicide? You're going to piss me off to death! Do you know you're wrong? I'm going to beat you to death today to prevent you from committing suicide again! Do you know you're wrong? How did I teach you? I taught you to be honest and kind, but what about you? Why did you do it?"
As the old man kept questioning him, Tang Zebin cried louder and louder, and in his tender voice, he shouted in rebuttal: "I'm not wrong! I'm not wrong! It's Grandpa's fault! It's Dad's fault! It's Mom's fault!"
"It's the adults' fault! It was Mom who committed suicide first! It's Mom who doesn't want me anymore! I want to find Mom and ask her why she doesn't want me anymore! I don't want to be an honest child either. What's the point of being honest and kind! Will I be like Dad? If he dies, I won't even get the compensation back! Will I be like Grandpa? Everyone bullies him and he has no self-respect!"
Jiang Jinyue looked at Tang Zebin's tearful little face, her heart tightened, and an indescribable emotion filled her heart.
Once upon a time, he also cried like Tang Zebin, asking why his mother was always so embarrassing and so undignified.
Faced with the crying and questioning of little Tang Zebin, the old man's lips trembled, and in the end he did not explain anything. He just sighed heavily, hunched over and picked up Tang Zebin, picked up the flashlight, kept thanking Lu Qingmian, and then carried Tang Zebin into the dark alley.
The alley was deep and the orange light of the old flashlight gradually disappeared. Only the sobbing of Tang Zebin and the old man's breathing like a broken bellows could be faintly heard.
Jiang Jinyue was still a little overwhelmed by his emotions, but Lu Qingmian raised his head and stared straight at the wall where Jiang Jinyue was hiding. He said calmly, "Why aren't you coming down yet?"
Jiang Jinyue was stunned. He looked around and found that Lu Qingmian was looking straight at him.
When did Lu Qingmian discover him?
Jiang Jinyue pulled the collar of his coat, stuck his head out from the wall, flapped his wings, and slowly flew down.
The walls on both sides of the alley were not low. When Jiang Jinyue flew down, the coat draped over his wings fluttered behind him, revealing six golden wings and the galaxy-like light flowing behind him as the wings flapped.
The long bangs on his forehead swayed in the breeze. Without the obstruction of glasses and a mask, his delicate and pretty little face was shining brightly. The golden light in his eyes slid like a flowing flame, deeply reflected in Lu Qingmian's eyes.
Lu Qingmian's dark pupils shrank and he stared at Jiang Jinyue intently.
After landing, Jiang Jinyue pulled off his coat and flew only a few centimeters higher like a child showing off a toy. He turned a few circles in front of Lu Qingmian, showing off his newly grown wings.
"Lu Qingmian, look, I have six big wings!"
Unknowingly, Jiang Jinyue has changed a lot. He is no longer the Jiang Jinyue who was afraid of being regarded as a monster because of his wings. He is still afraid of being discovered, but with Lu Qingmian standing behind him, he at least will no longer regard himself as a monster.
He could confidently show his wings to Lu Qingmian.
Lu Qingmian didn't say anything, just looked at Jiang Jinyue.
Jiang Jinyue suddenly thought of something and stretched out the top wing of one side to show Lu Qingmian, "Look, I can grow feathers for myself!"
As the wings stretch, the feathers become more fluffy, and the bald spot disappears, replaced by a new patch of beautiful feathers.
Lu Qingmian lowered his eyes and the brilliant golden light at the end of the feather reflected in his eyes.
"Yes, I saw it," Lu Qingmian raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Jinyue's face, "I take back what I said before, you are not a bald chicken, Jiang Jinyue, you are very beautiful."
You are beautiful.
Jiang Jinyue often heard this sentence when he was a child, but it was always followed by another sentence: She is so beautiful, it's a pity that she is not a girl.
For Jiang Jinyue, being beautiful is not a good thing, he hates this kind of beauty.
Jiang Jinyue's expression darkened a little, and he forced the corners of his mouth up in an attempt to cover it up.
Lu Qingmian saw this and his expression slightly restrained. He took a step closer to Jiang Jinyue and spoke again, his tone extremely serious: "Jiang Jinyue, you are very beautiful. It has nothing to do with anything else. It's just because it's you. There's nothing wrong with your beauty."
Jiang Jinyue opened her lips slightly, and without the mask covering her face, the blush that quickly spread across her cheeks was so eye-catching.
He stumbled and said, "Thank you, thank you."
Faced with such straightforward praise, Jiang Jinyue was at a loss.
He hurriedly plucked out one of his feathers, raised his hand and then released it, "I, let me show you this!"
The feathers at the end of the tail, which were gleaming with a faint golden light, stopped in mid-air, showing no sign of falling.
Lu Qingmian narrowed his eyes slightly: "Control the object?"
Jiang Jinyue shook his head. "No," he poked the feather with his fingertips. The light from his fingertips surrounded the feather, forming an independent small space. "I feel like... I have suspended this feather in the crack of time, like time has stopped."
After growing his third pair of wings tonight, Jiang Jinyue vaguely understood a lot of things.
"Did you just save Tang Zebin in this way?" Lu Qingmian asked.
Jiang Jinyue nodded, and the next second he saw Lu Qingmian take out a leaf with one side bitten from his pocket.
"He even fed me a leaf." Lu Qingmian added coldly.
Jiang Jinyue froze in place, the feather suspended in mid-air lost control and suddenly fell to the ground. Lu Qingmian caught it and put it into his pocket very naturally.
"These leaves are quite bitter. Do you want to try them?" Lu Qingmian continued to attack.
Jiang Jinyue glanced around, trying to find a way to make Lu Qingmian not mention this matter.
Suddenly, something clicked in his mind.
Jiang Jinyue raised his head and said in a very serious tone, "Lu Qingmian, let me take you to try this ability. It's quite fun, really!"
Afraid that Lu Qingmian wouldn't believe him, Jiang Jinyue nodded vigorously as he spoke, causing his bangs to fly everywhere.
Lu Qingmian showed some interest: "How do we try?"
Jiang Jinyue looked up at the sky and raised the corners of his mouth towards Lu Qingmian. His slightly smug smile was particularly cute.
He stuffed his coat into Lu Qingmian's arms and took the initiative to hold Lu Qingmian's hand, "Hold on to me."
Then Jiang Jinyue flapped his wings vigorously, and the flying ability of the six wings was unprecedented. In an instant, Jiang Jinyue took Lu Qingmian and flew high into the sky.
Jiang Jinyue leaned forward slightly and flew, holding Lu Qingmian with both hands. Lu Qingmian raised his arms high and was held down by Jiang Jinyue.
The height under their feet changed rapidly. In the blink of an eye, the two of them passed through the clouds and the streets turned into an ant city with bright lights.
Jiang Jinyue had never flown so freely since he grew wings. He flew faster and faster, and the tiny rays of light left behind him drew beautiful arcs in the night sky. Under his wings, the big lace bow tail was swaying with the wings.
Lu Qingmian's hair was messed up by the wind. He lowered his head and looked at the dark sky below him. There was a hint of excitement in his eyes, but it was well hidden.
Jiang Jinyue felt particularly cheerful. Whether it was the occasional moisture that touched his cheeks when he passed through the clouds, or the swift wind brought by his wings, they all threw his worries further and further away.
They flew over tall buildings and headed straight for the highest point in the center of H City, where there was a large clock standing on the top of the tower.
In a tall building, a young child was lying by the window. He saw a long golden light trailing across the sky. He turned around and shouted to his mother in surprise, "Mom, I saw a shooting star!"
The tall tower in the dark night was getting closer and closer, and Jiang Jinyue finally remembered to ask Lu Qingmian how he felt.
The two people held hands tightly, and even the wind in the sky could not dispel the warmth in their palms.
"Lu Qingmian! How do you feel?" This was the first time Jiang Jinyue spoke to Lu Qingmian in such a flattering tone.
Lu Qingmian's shirt fluttered in the wind. He looked up at Jiang Jinyue's golden eyes, his thin lips slightly curled, but the words he said made Jiang Jinyue fly off balance.
"It's good, especially for building arm strength."
Jiang Jinyue was a little embarrassed. He flapped his wings vigorously, accelerating continuously, and finally landed in front of the huge clock face on the top of the tower with Lu Qingmian.
The second hand of the big clock was ticking, and the sound became clearer as I got closer.
Jiang Jinyue looked at the hands of the clock that was longer than him, then turned around to look at Lu Qingmian who was standing behind him. He wanted to talk to Lu Qingmian, but Lu Qingmian didn't look at the clock or the city under the tower, but stared at him.
Those eyes were so deep that Jiang Jinyue couldn't take his eyes off them.
"Tick, tick."
“Plop, plop.”
Jiang Jinyue heard his heartbeat getting faster and faster, gradually becoming faster than the sound of the second hand.
The golden finger that had been pretending to be dead for a long time suddenly came back to life, and a sudden voice appeared in his mind. Jiang Jinyue should have been startled, but he was almost immersed in Lu Qingmian's eyes and no longer cared about the voice.
"Clang clang clang clang! The host's heartbeat is off the charts! Here's a random Mary Sue feature for the host~"
Suddenly, a five-pointed star with a large tail and shining golden light drew an arc from the sky and suddenly fell at the feet of the two people, shattering into fireworks on the ground.
The next moment, countless stars with large tails streaked across the night sky, shattering one after another beside the two people.
"It's a meteor shower!" Jiang Jinyue caught a star. The star felt warm to the touch, and its five corners were round and cute. One of the corners was much larger than the others.
Jiang Jinyue saw the scene that appeared in his childhood dream. It was not the meteor shower in the real world, but a meteor shower formed by the gathering of real five-pointed stars, and they were five-pointed stars with big tails.
Lu Qingmian also caught a five-pointed star with a big tail. He held the star in his hand, and the starlight softened his cold and hard features. Even the look in his eyes when he looked at Jiang Jinyue became much softer.
The eyes were as soft as a dark sea and as quiet as a lake. There was something hidden under the lake that made Jiang Jinyue's heart beat faster but also made him feel puzzled.
"I really want to..." Jiang Jinyue murmured. He really wanted to keep the look in Lu Qingmian's eyes when he looked at him.
He put his fingertips into his pocket, wanting to take a picture of Lu Qingmian like this.
But he didn't dare to shoot directly, so he planned to use the same trick again.
"Lu Qingmian." Jiang Jinyue walked towards Lu Qingmian, with his six wings fluttering slightly behind him, and the flashing light was brighter than a meteor shower.
He raised his hands high, then slowly lowered them. Thin golden rays of light waved from his fingertips and fell to the ground like flowing water. The six wings behind Jiang Jinyue also trembled slightly, shedding countless rays of light.
The light gathered, closely attached to the ground, and spread rapidly along the ground.
"See you later." As Jiang Jinyue's voice fell, the large clock hands behind him stopped moving, and the ticking sound of the clock also stopped.
The world pauses.
Jiang Jinyue looked at Lu Qingmian standing in front of him, holding the big-tailed five-pointed star motionless, and took out his mobile phone with satisfaction, taking pictures of Lu Qingmian.
After taking more than a dozen photos, Jiang Jinyue put down his phone and stood on tiptoe to look closer at Lu Qingmian's face.
Lu Qingmian's eyes were still reflecting the meteor shower that was stuck in the sky because time had stopped.
Jiang Jinyue stretched out her finger and carefully touched Lu Qingmian's eyelashes with her fingertips. They were fluffy and like small brushes, which was completely different from Lu Qingmian's bad and awkward personality.
The fingertips slowly moved down, across Lu Qingmian's high nose bridge, and hovered at Lu Qingmian's lips.
Jiang Jinyue lowered her eyes, and her gaze followed her fingertips to Lu Qingmian's lips.
Looking closely, Lu Qingmian's lips are light pink.
Jiang Jinyue laughed secretly, and because of his chuckle, his fingertips accidentally touched Lu Qingmian's lips. His heart trembled and his laughter stopped immediately.
He seemed to have sensed something incredible, and he tiptoed closer and closer, his breath gently falling on Lu Qingmian's chin.
"So soft..." Unsurely, Jiang Jinyue's fingertips touched Lu Qingmian's lips again. The white fingertips pressed on the lips, applying light force, and the lips sank slightly.
"It's really soft." Jiang Jinyue sighed softly. She didn't expect Lu Qingmian's lips to be so soft.
Before Jiang Jinyue could finish his admiration, Lu Qingmian suddenly moved. His hand loosened, and the big-tailed five-pointed star in his hand fell directly to the feet of the two men and shattered. He lowered his head, grabbed Jiang Jinyue's fingertips, and continued to lean closer to Jiang Jinyue. His black eyes refocused on Jiang Jinyue, without losing focus at all.
Jiang Jinyue was so frightened that she leaned back hard, staggering, and was held by Lu Qingmian on the waist. Lu Qingmian's arms were sunk into the soft feathers.
Lu Qingmian was still leaning closer, forcing Jiang Jinyue's waist to bend into an incredibly flexible arc.
Jiang Jinyue was so frightened that she forgot to breathe and stared at Lu Qingmian with wide eyes.
Lu Qingmian lowered his eyes. "Patient Jiang, as your attending physician, I don't think I've arranged any treatment steps for you that require touching your lips. How could you disobey the doctor's orders?"
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