White peach jasmine flavor
As time went by, Jiang Yanmu gradually adapted to high school life. She went to the small supermarket to buy beef jerky and chicken wings. She strolled around the playground at night, borrowed books from the library, and went to the cafeteria... "Auntie, I want steamed egg custard, sweet and sour pork ribs, and stir-fried cabbage," she said to the auntie, pointing to the dishes she wanted.
"Okay!"
"Thank you, Auntie." After finishing her meal, Jiang Yanmu, as usual, took a walk on the playground to digest her food. Today, she saw a young couple walking on the other side of the track. They secretly and tentatively held hands, and after a short while, the girl let go, went up and kissed the boy, then turned and ran away, with the boy chasing after her. "There are young couples here too," Jiang Yanmu thought to herself.
The day before military training, Fu Yanjin dragged Jiang Yanmu to the mall to buy supplies for the training. Jiang Yanmu saw a dessert shop next to the mall and couldn't move, standing rooted to the spot. Even Fu Yanjin stopped. Following Jiang Yanmu's gaze, they looked over and said, "I want some."
"Um……"
"Let's go, Jiang Xiaoyan. You really love desserts."
"It's alright."
"It's alright, are you too tired to walk?" He picked up a pistachio mille-feuille and placed it on Jiang Yanmu's plate.
"Ahem..." Jiang Yanmu also picked up a piece of chocolate bread and placed it on Fu Yanjin's plate. They bought about five or six items from the dessert shop before leaving. Then they strolled around the mall, buying what they needed for military training, and began seriously browsing other things. Jiang Yanmu saw a light pink JK uniform, pulled Fu Yanjin inside, and tried it on. "How is it, Yanjin? Does it look good?"
"It looks amazing!" Fu Yanjin grabbed a JK uniform in a different color from the clothes rack next to her and tried it on. "Now we're wearing matching outfits! Come on, let's take a picture, cheese!" After buying it, she didn't change and continued shopping in the same outfit. Tired from shopping, she ordered a latte and a vanilla Frappuccino at Starbucks, along with some desserts Jiang Yanmu had bought at the dessert shop. "Delicious!" Jiang Yanmu, with her hand on her chin, took a bite of the pistachio mille-feuille, her mouth agape with delight.
Fu Yanjin also scooped a spoonful into her mouth and said, "What are you going to do tomorrow after you finish eating?"
Jiang Yanmu scooped up another spoonful of green grape cake and said, "When you finish eating, just take a few more pieces back with you."
"You're such a clever little devil."
"Hmm~ Yan, I want a bite of yours too." Fu Yanjin handed her bread, a little puzzled, and asked, "Don't you dislike chocolate?"
"But I want to eat, hehe." She took a bite of bread and stuck out her tongue at Fu Yanjin. "Want more?"
"No, no," Jiang Yanmu waved her hand, ate her cake back, and said, "I'll just eat my own. After one bite of chocolate bread, this is my limit."
"Okay" bought two tickets for Doraemon: Stand by Me 2.
Sitting at my desk, I opened a box of taro cake with a bursting filling. I couldn't resist taking a bite, but in the end, I finished the whole taro cake.
"I couldn't resist and sneaked a bite." The accompanying picture shows a large chunk of taro cake scooped out.
Every military training session takes place in the sweltering heat of midsummer.
On the way to the base, Jiang Yanmu took out a cake she had brought from home, which was almost thawed. She eagerly scooped up a bite and popped it into her mouth, "Mmm~" A girl next to her, whom she didn't know well, saw Jiang Yanmu eating the cake and, wanting some too, tentatively asked, "Jiang Yanmu?"
"Hmm?" Her hands stopped moving, still eating cake. The unfamiliar girl pointed to the cake in Jiang Yanmu's hand and said, "Jiang Yanmu, your cake looks delicious! I want some too." She then took out various snacks from her bag and offered them to Jiang Yanmu, continuing, "I can trade these with you, okay, Jiang Yanmu?"
Jiang Yanmu covered the cake she had just eaten with her own, then took a new cake and gave it to the girl she didn't know well. "Here you go, no need to exchange it for food, just keep it for yourself."
The girl, whom Jiang Yanmu didn't know well, carefully accepted the cake, thanked her, and then buried her head in eating it. "Thank you," she said. Upon arriving at their destination, the girl, along with her entire bag, was handed to Jiang Yanmu. She ran off as soon as she got off the bus, giving Jiang Yanmu no chance to react. Jiang Yanmu reluctantly took the bag and got off the bus as well, thinking she would return it later. While queuing to collect her supplies under the shade of a tree, she bumped into the girl who had given her the bag. After collecting her items, she went up to her and patted her on the shoulder. "Hey!"
"Jiang Yanmu," Jiang Yanmu said, hanging her bag on the girl's wrist. "You can keep it." The girl tried to take it off, but Jiang Yanmu held her down, looking at her aggrieved expression. She could only take a roasted duck neck and say, "I'll take this, consider it an exchange."
"But this one is too few..."
“One for another, right?” The girl thought about it carefully and felt that it made sense. “That makes sense. Then just come find me when you want to eat.”
“Okay,” Du Suisui naturally took Jiang Yanmu’s arm and introduced herself as they walked, “My name is Du Suisui.”
"Okay, I've got it."
Standing under the sun, listening to the people on stage talk about military training, Jiang Yanmu's back started to ache after standing for a while. She kept rubbing her back until the end. After the session, they were given ten minutes to tidy up the dorm before assembling for training. Taking advantage of the time, Du Suisui pulled Jiang Yanmu towards the convenience store, saying, "We haven't finished eating yet!"
"I can't resist buying all the delicious food I see." She stuffed a bunch of food into Jiang Yanmu's arms. "Help me carry this, thank you." Du Suisui's bed was piled high with food, leaving no room to sit, so she had to sit on the edge of the stairs and eat matcha cake.
He said to Du Suisui, who was still stuffing snacks into the cupboard, "If you keep stuffing them in, they'll explode. Why don't you leave the rest with me, and take them away when you want to eat them?"
"Okay!" They lined up, counted off, and were called out. They turned around and shouted "One, two, one, two!" While running, they quickly changed formations and finally stopped on the parade ground. They began practicing at ease, leg raises, squats, and a series of other exercises. At lunchtime, the instructors made the fifth company hop to the canteen entrance before they could stand up. When Jiang Yanmu was walking in a squatting position, her hand on the ground, for some reason, started bleeding. Jiang Yanmu simply brushed the dust off her hand and continued walking.
While the instructors were watching, everyone quietly stood up and ran over, only to quickly squat down again when the instructors turned back.
The students were laughing secretly when the instructor heard them. He put his hands behind his back and shouted, "What are you laughing at! If you laugh again, you won't get any food!" Although the instructor shouted once, it didn't work; they continued to laugh.
Upon entering the dining hall, the instructors, holding megaphones, shouted: "Stand still! Only start eating when we say it's okay! And anyone who talks will have to stand there for a few more minutes, understand?"
Everyone replied listlessly, "We heard you!" A nearby instructor chuckled at their perfectly synchronized groans.
Lights out early, I groped my way through the dark and washed my clothes haphazardly. Luckily, it was just sweat, nothing else got on me. The next few days were basically the same. On the last day, we sat around on the lawn, and the instructor, microphone in hand, asked, "Anyone want to come up and do it?" Du Suisui, secretly eating snacks, nudged Jiang Yanmu and asked, "Jiang Yanmu, can you do it?"
"Hmm... she only knows a little dancing, right? What's wrong?" Du Suisui grabbed Jiang Yanmu's hand with a mischievous grin, raised it, and shouted to the instructor, "Instructor! Jiang Yanmu can dance, she wants to dance!"
"I didn't!" Jiang Yanmu struggled to deny it. Du Suisui leaned close to Jiang Yanmu's ear and whispered, "It's okay, I'll stay with you."
Jiang Yanmu reluctantly allowed Du Suisui to pull her over. Holding the instructor's phone, she stood to the side, listening to the music for Hoshimiya Ichigo's entrance dance. Jiang Yanmu realized that what Du Suisui meant by "accompanying" was this. With a forced smile and gritted teeth, she said to Du Suisui, "This is what you call 'accompanying'?"
"Hehe, keep it up!" Before I could say anything else, the music started.
Come, light!
Heading towards the future with dreams
Hold tightly
The courage in my pocket
They had no choice but to treat them like cabbages, forcing themselves to dance based on their memories. In the car, Du Suisui kept praising Jiang Yanmu's dance, "Jiang Yanmu, you were amazing!"
"Don't drag me there again next time. It scared me so much that I almost forgot how to jump."
"Okay! I won't do it again next time." He handed Jiang Yanmu a bottle of white peach and jasmine tea. "Have some, take a break."
"Hmm," someone popped a piece of white chocolate into Du Suisui's mouth. "Ugh," she mumbled, her back and waist aching from returning from military training. Jiang Yanmu had been invited to Fu Yanjin's house for dinner. "I heard from Ayan that she went to military training this week."
"Yes, Auntie." "You must be starving after all this hard work. Eat, eat more." She placed several pieces of food on Jiang Yanmu's plate. Jiang Yanmu, half-holding the rim of her bowl, kept thanking her, "Thank you, Auntie. This is too much, Auntie, I can't finish it all." Fu Yanjin poked at her rice, pouting and saying aggrievedly, "You only put food on Jiang Xiaoyan's plate, you forgot to put some on your daughter's too~"
Jiang Yanmu and Fu's mother both served some food to Fu Yanjin. "Look how wronged you are. We'll make it up to you when you come back next week. Don't feel bad about it."
"Thank you, dear Mom~ Thank you, Jiang Xiaoyan~" The sound of showering drowned out Fu Yanjin's voice. "Jiang Xiaoyan, you have a message!" Not hearing Jiang Yanmu's reply, and a little curious about what the video was, she asked Jiang Yanmu again, "Jiang Xiaoyan, can I watch the video you sent on your phone?"
This time, Jiang Yanmu heard it, but didn't understand what Fu Yanjin meant by the video. She simply replied, "Go ahead and watch, it's fine."
"Okay," Jiang Yanmu said, opening the video and exclaiming in surprise upon seeing Jiang Yanmu dancing in it. Jiang Yanmu, drying her hair, walked out. "What is it that you're so fixated on?"
"I'm watching your dance video! I never knew you, Jiang Xiaoyan, could dance!!!" Fu Yanjin dragged the progress bar back to watch it again.
"What dance video?" Fu Yanjin paused, her hand still drying her hair, her mind racing. She reached out to take the phone, but Fu Yanjin dodged her. "Hey, I haven't seen enough yet. I'll take it to show my parents, it's so beautiful."
"Hey, no, Ah Yan—!" She ran after Fu Yanjin, then stopped. Knowing she couldn't get it back, she stood there, head bowed nervously, clutching her hands. "Look! Ah Yan jumped!"
After watching the video carefully, Mr. and Mrs. Fu exclaimed, "Xiaoyan, you danced so well!"
"Could you get one for Auntie on the spot sometime? Auntie wants to see it." Her face flushed red from the praise from Fu's parents, and she said shyly and weakly, "Okay..."
Seeing Jiang Yanmu blush, Fu Yanjin teased, "You're making our little Jiang Yanmu blush with all the praise." Jiang Yanmu tugged at Fu Yanjin to stop her from continuing, "Ayan~"
"Alright, alright, I won't say anymore. Dad, Mom, Jiang Xiaoyan and I are going back to our room now." He pushed Jiang Yanmu upstairs.
Okay~
While strolling along the lake in the park, I ran into Ye Ziyi, who was also walking by the lake. "Jiang, classmate!"
"Student Ye"
"Why are you alone today? Didn't you go with Fu?" Ayan asked. His idol's birthday was in a few days, and he needed to prepare a gift, so he hadn't come out.
"I see."
"Hmm," the two walked around the lake, and then Fu Yanjin took Jiang Yanmu home. She wanted to invite him in for a drink and a rest, but he declined. "No, Jiang, I have something to do later."
"Okay," Jiang Yanmu said, carrying a plate of grapes back to her room and opening her diary. She flipped through it; the date stopped at June 10th, 2021, regarding their encounter at the noodle shop on the food street.
June 18, 2021, sunny.
Ayan dragged me to the mall to buy things for military training. Tired from shopping, we ran into Ye Ziyi, who was also eating noodles at a noodle shop. He wanted to study medicine. So, I wish Ye Ziyi's dream comes true soon.
Actually, he can achieve it without my blessing, because I know he works very hard, he has always worked very hard, and I believe in him.
I'm also very grateful to Ayan for bringing me to the mall today, which allowed me to run into him again. 】After reading my previous diary entries, I picked up my pen and wrote today's entry.
[August 18, 2021, sunny. I was a little tired today, so I went for a walk. I ran into him again when I reached the lakeside in the park, and we chatted for about forty minutes.]
He took me home.
[Be careful on your way back, Ye] Jiang Yanmu only said this last sentence to "him" in her diary.
After I finished writing it, I carefully put it away.
Hidden in the diary is a secret crush known only to Jiang Yanmu.
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