Chapter 17
It actually connected!!
Listening to the magnetic male voice on the other end of the phone, Xia Ruirui was shocked and speechless.
The phone number given by Shen Yuqing is real!
If it wasn't his voice, she would have eaten two pounds of shit on the spot.
There was no sound for a long time on the other end of the phone, and then there was a strange pause: "Who is it?"
I don't know what she was thinking, but Xia Ruirui suddenly got playful and said in a pinched voice, "Hello, are you interested in learning about swimming and fitness?"
After a moment of dead silence, a sneer came from the other side.
"Then introduce them to me."
"ah?"
She was caught off guard by his unconventional moves, her voice stuttering a little: "...Private lessons are 6,800 per month... 20 lessons in total."
"Really?" Shen Yuqing raised his voice slightly, "Sounds good."
"..." Now it was Xia Ruirui's turn to be dumbfounded. She didn't expect that he actually believed in this kind of telemarketing in private.
"Well... I think it's too expensive and you probably can't afford it, so forget it."
After saying that, she hung up, looking like she was running away.
Someone who realized this was a little unwilling, so he picked up the milk tea on the table and took a sip, as if to calm down.
At the same time, in front of the glass door outside the milk tea shop.
Shen Yuqing looked at the call record that was hung up, looked at someone drinking milk tea inside the door, and sneered.
"It's too expensive for me to afford?"
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On the other side, Xia Ruirui had just put down her milk tea when she felt a shadow above her head. She looked up and found it was a man.
The man looked at her, the amazement in his eyes obvious. When he saw her looking at him, he quickly extended his hand to introduce himself.
"Hello, my aunt introduced me to you. My name is Lin Anfeng."
"Hello, I'm Xia Ruirui." She shook hands with him politely.
The two sat down. The man seemed a little reserved and began to praise: "Miss Xia is so beautiful."
"Thank you." Xia Ruirui thought for a moment and decided to get straight to the point. "Well, I didn't mean to go on a blind date. It's my mother..."
She didn't continue the conversation, and the man opposite her understood, with disappointment evident in his eyes.
But he still didn't give up easily: "Miss Xia, you can consider it. We can start as friends."
“…”
Xia Ruirui opened her mouth, not knowing how to refuse, but out of the corner of her eye she caught a glimpse of a handsome guy walking towards her.
When I looked closely, it turned out to be Shen Yuqing! !
When he saw that she had discovered him, he did not hide, but looked at her with a smile.
He walked to the table for two, looked down at someone who had suddenly sat upright, and said nothing.
Xia Ruirui also felt a little strange.
She was obviously single, and it was legal for her to come for a blind date, but when she saw Chen Yuqing, she inexplicably felt guilty as if she was caught in bed with someone else.
It's so inexplicable!
He didn't speak, and Xia Ruirui didn't speak first.
Instead, his blind date looked at him curiously: "Who is this?"
“…”
“…”
Seeing Xia Ruirui hesitate to speak, Shen Yuqing suddenly felt a sour feeling in his heart, and he felt indescribably lost.
He glanced at her who was looking down and pretending not to know her, then looked at the blind date sitting opposite her.
Seeing that she really had no intention of introducing him to the other party, he had no choice but to introduce himself.
"Hello." His voice was a little cold. "I'm Xia Ruirui's former ambiguous partner. I'm here to give you some advice as a senior."
“…”
"Puff." Xia Ruirui was caught off guard and spat out a mouthful of milk tea.
When she saw him, she had already guessed that it must be Shen Qingli who had shaken her out with her elbow.
But what she didn't expect was that Shen Qingli actually revealed the joke she made casually.
She glanced at Shen Yuqing beside her, his face calm and composed, as if he had not said that just now.
She suppressed her laughter, glanced at the blind date across from her, and said apologetically, "He was just joking. I'm really sorry. I apologize to you on his behalf."
The man looked insulted and angry. He picked up the milk tea that Xia Ruirui bought for him and wanted to splash it on her. But after looking at her beautiful face, he quickly adjusted the direction of the milk tea in his hand.
It splashed onto Shen Yuqing on the opposite side.
After splashing the water, he was afraid of being beaten, so he picked up his handbag and ran away.
In fact, the person who was splashed with milk tea had no intention of hitting him. Instead, he sat motionless in his seat, surprisingly quiet.
A taro ball slid down from his shoulder, was caught by Xia Ruirui in her palm, and thrown into the trash can beside her.
She didn't wipe the milk tea off his body, but held back her laughter and handed him a tissue.
"Senior, the juniors are gone, you can wipe it yourself."
Unexpectedly, he turned around, grabbed her hand that was trying to wipe his face, and looked at her darkly: "It's too expensive, I can't afford it?"
"..." Xia Ruirui took a long time to realize what he was saying, and blurted out, "How did you know it was me?"
"How do you know it's you?"
"Because besides your deceased parents, only you know that phone number."
The words became hot when they reached his lips, but Shen Yuqing still didn't say it.
He just looked at Xia Ruirui, his face was a little pale, and his expression was rarely seen to be a little fragile.
After a moment of silence, he said, "Xia Ruirui, I'm hungry. Let's go eat."
"..." After pondering for a few seconds, she finally asked, "Are we going just like this?"
As she said this, she looked at his jacket which was still dripping with milk tea.
"Yeah." Shen Yuqing responded with a nasal sound, took off his coat without saying a word, and wrapped the wet part inside.
"……All right."
She also sensed something was wrong with someone, so she motioned for him to go out and wait for her. Then she went to the front and told the boss about the situation and left the cleaning fee.
She thought Shen Yuqing would wait outside, but when she came back, he was still waiting for her there.
She was stunned for a moment, stepped forward on tiptoe and patted his shoulder: “Chen Yuqing, let’s go.”
"Um."
The milk tea shop is surrounded by restaurants where they had eaten when they were in school. Since it is a rare opportunity for them to come here, they naturally have to eat here once.
The two of them walked into the sushi restaurant they often went to when they were studying, one in front and one behind, and found a place to sit down.
He asked Xia Ruirui to order food for him and went to the bathroom to wash his face.
In the bathroom, Shen Yuqing washed his face with water.
Turning off the tap, he looked at himself in the mirror.
His eyes were bloodshot and his hair on his forehead was wet. He looked cold and abstinent.
But his eyes were full of decadence, like a rotten dead tree.
Looking at Xia Ruirui's back reflected in the mirror, he muttered to himself.
"Xia Ruirui, I'm almost out of patience... It's been almost ten years, I can't wait any longer..."
"...Be good."
*
By the time he came out, most of the dishes had already been served.
Shen Yuqing took a quick look and found that they were all his favorite foods. His originally pale face finally had some color.
Although these were what she thought were...his favorite foods.
“Chen Yuqing, here.”
Xia Ruirui was also very hungry. She was already a little hungry after just touring the school, but the blind date was about to start, so she didn't go to eat.
I had originally planned to explain straight to the point, then find an excuse to leave and go back to dinner, but who knew that Shen Yuqing would suddenly appear and encounter this farce again.
She was almost starving, but he went to the toilet and took an insane amount of shit, as he was incredibly slow.
He came out but still stood there and didn't come over. The young master got angry and had to be coaxed.
She didn't expose his temper, but waved at him, suggesting that he hurry down the stairs.
When he sat down, Xia Ruirui was about to pick up her chopsticks when her stomach growled several times.
“…”
“…”
It was Shen Yuqing who broke the awkwardness first: "Why don't you just eat it and wait for me?"
Upon hearing this, Xia Ruirui just pursed her lips and said nothing, but in her heart she was complaining about him for being a hypocritical guy.
Shen Yuqing is very averse to eating alone.
Xia Ruirui discovered this when she was studying.
Although he always ate alone before he became friends with me, he always ate very little whenever he ate alone.
After the two became friends, he would ask her to have every meal with him.
If he was not free one day, or wanted to go out to eat with Shen Qingli occasionally, he would not stop him.
But he would not go to the cafeteria to eat alone. He would either buy some bread from the canteen or simply not eat.
Xia Ruirui finally found the answer after she accidentally learned that Shen Yuqing's parents were both dead and he had no relatives except an aunt.
Maybe it's because I'm afraid of being alone.
Therefore, even though she was extremely hungry, she held back and waited for Shen Yuqing to sit down before she started to eat in a hurry.
She first stuffed a piece of fish roe sushi into her mouth, but before she could swallow it, she stuffed another piece of tamagoyaki into her mouth.
The two of them ate for a long time and even finished the two dishes that were added in the middle.
When she was finally full and satisfied, she gave the proprietress a thumbs-up with satisfaction.
"Sister, your sushi is indeed the best in Xijing."
When the proprietress saw her praising her sushi, she smiled a little embarrassedly and praised her for being sweet-mouthed.
After a few more pleasantries, Xia Ruirui turned around to take a napkin, and suddenly a napkin appeared at her hand.
It was the fragrant handkerchief she liked when she was in school.
She stared at the tissue for a moment.
After graduation, her life became much more sloppy, and it seemed that she never carried a small pack of tissues with her again.
Looking at the owner of the tissue, she said with a teasing expression: "Xiao Shen, you still carry this with you?"
Shen Yuqing didn't say anything, but just glanced at her lightly.
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After finishing their meal, the two walked out of the sushi restaurant one after the other.
Xia Ruirui walked behind, looking at Shen Yuqing's back in front of her, and suddenly felt that his back was extremely desolate.
There is an indescribable loneliness and solitude.
She felt a little reluctant, so she took a few quick steps and walked forward side by side with him.
When he saw her catching up, he didn't react at all, but stopped and gave her some light instructions.
"Xia Ruirui, just wait here for me. I'll drive the car over."
"Um."
She answered nicely, but he looked at her suspiciously.
"..." Xia Ruirui curled her lips secretly, "Then I'll wait for you in the fried yogurt shop over there."
Shen Yuqing opened his mouth, hesitant to speak, "You've already eaten so much, if you eat more you might get indigestion."
She subconsciously retorted: "I didn't say I wanted to eat fried yogurt."
He looked unconvinced when she said that, until she glared at him, he shut up and turned to get the car.
After he left, Xia Ruirui walked into the fried yogurt shop and said to the boss without hesitation, "Boss, I want a large portion of fried yogurt with durian."
"Okay, 22 in total."
After she paid, she watched the boss fry yogurt for her.
When the boss handed her the finished dish, she couldn't wait to take a bite.
It’s really good.
She wanted to take another bite when she saw someone leaning against the wall at the door, looking at her with a knowing expression.
“…”
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