Chapter 24 24 She left a lot of clues
After hiding at the entrance and watching the reinforcements called by the monkey quickly eliminate the evil, Tang Ke felt that his journey to heaven was much cleaner.
The moment Fu Yu poked the cockroach down with the broom handle, she got goosebumps all over her body, as if the thing was not on the ground, but crawling around in her collar.
She clutched her chest with lingering fear, moved closer, and said, "Is it dead? Throw it in the trash quickly!"
"Dead." Fu Yu wrapped the body with a ball of extremely thick toilet paper, as a grand funeral for Xiaoqiang.
"Thank you." Tang Ke forced a smile, "I'm really not good at dealing with cockroaches."
She was wearing scanty clothes, her toes twitching awkwardly from slippers. Fu Yu didn't look at her. He calmly lowered his glasses, squatted down, and said, "I'll help you take out the trash, too."
“No, no…” Tang Ke waved his hands repeatedly.
How could this be so embarrassing? Asking someone to come all this way to do chores? Besides, he looked like someone who'd been woken by a fussy phone call while clearly asleep. His bangs were messy, a tuft of hair stuck up at the back of his head, the drawstring of his shorts dangling half asleep, and he even came in wearing his ugly slippers from home.
Fu Yu used the back of his hand to stop her from moving forward, raised his head to take a look, and then hurriedly turned away. "It will crawl out again at night. If you are not afraid, I will not fall."
Even though he knew he was bluffing, Tang Ke still got goosebumps. "Didn't you say it was dead?"
"Even a ghost can be romantic."
"Then please help me take the garbage down."
"Okay." Fu Yu tightened the garbage bag, tied a knot, stood up, and asked, "Is there anything else you need?"
His expression was inexplicably tense. Tang Ke knew he was in the wrong, but wanted to lighten the mood. He hesitantly scratched his philtrum, one hand on his waist and the other on his head, posing in a funny way, "My water pipe..."
Fu Yu turned and left.
"Hey, hey, hey!" He obviously understood her joke immediately. Tang Ke followed her with amusement and thanked her sincerely: "I know it's a bit inhumane to call you here so late at night for such a small matter, but I really can't find any other help. Thank you very much! Thank you very much! I'll treat you to dinner some other day!"
"It's okay, it's just my job." Fu Yu stopped at the door and raised his chin. "Open the door, my hands are dirty."
"Oh." Tang Ke pressed the door handle, blinked his eyes, and said, "Then be careful when you go back. I'm sorry to disturb your sleep. Go to bed early. Good night!"
"You should also go to bed early, and..."
Fu Yu walked out of the room, his back facing her, and his expression could not be seen clearly.
In fact, no matter whether she said thanks or apology, he couldn't hear anything. His mind was full of olfactory cells connecting nerve cells, all shouting unreasonably: Her room smells so good.
It was the same smell he smelled the last time he hugged her.
He tilted his head, his eyelids drooping slightly, and kindly reminded her in a steady voice, "You're exposed, sister. Wear more clothes next time."
After saying this, he did his best to send the Buddha to the west, picked up the garbage bag, and went downstairs from the emergency exit.
“…” Tang Ke looked down at her nightgown that was below her knees, confused.
How could she be exposed? She even wore a bra. It was true that the neckline of this nightgown was a little loose after being washed many times, but it was not enough to expose her.
Did he think showing his shoulder straps was considered flashing? Then what about her father walking down the street after drinking and lifting up his shirt to reveal his beer belly?
It's considered as being possessed by a demon.
After resolving their major concern, Tang Ke and Xue Jiayin were able to return to bed with peace of mind. Before going to bed, Tang Ke asked on his phone if Fu Yu had arrived home.
ForU: "We're here"
Tank: "That's good! I'm really sorry to bother you."
ForU: "It's okay, Huaimin hasn't slept yet either."
"Rather than being inconvenient, I was actually shocked when you called me... Luckily, it was just a cockroach."
Tank: "Hahahahaha, are you worried about me getting into trouble? If that's the case, I'll definitely call the police first."
ForU: "Report me too"
Tang Ke could actually detect a hint of sourness in these four words without any expression or punctuation.
Tank: "I'll give you my return"
"My Husband is a Tool Man"
ForU: "My wife said the water pipe at home was broken in the middle of the night"
Tank: "Hahahaha you're so annoying"
Go to sleep, Huaimin/Rose
ForU: "Goodnight"
Tank: "Goodnight"
After turning off the lights, Tang Ke couldn't see his hand in front of him. His head felt heavy and he fell asleep in a short while.
Her troubles came and went quickly, as they always did.
On the day of the class reunion, the class monitor heard that they didn't have a car, so he very forcefully sent a dispatcher to pick them up. The last time Tang Ke saw her ex-boyfriend was the summer after she graduated from college. She went back to her high school to visit her mentor and happened to run into him and his girlfriend walking around the playground.
Her mentor was an old friend of her mother. She knew that she had secretly been in a premature relationship with Shi Bohuan, but she did not tell her mother. She only talked about it as a joke after they broke up. By then, the belated whip could no longer reach her.
"What are they doing down there? Reminiscing about the good old days..." Tang Ke and his mentor stood by the office window and could see the entire playground.
"When you walked around the playground during the night self-study class, I also watched you from the window like this." said my teacher.
"What does it mean? It means that his ability to pick up girls has not improved at all since he grew up." Tang Ke concluded seriously.
My mentor smiled and said, "His current girlfriend is one of your junior students, and I also taught her. If you had come half an hour earlier, you could have said hello to them."
Tang Ke didn't dare to flatter him: "No, no, so as not to disrupt his rhythm."
They had broken up a month before the Gaokao. The overwhelming sea of exam questions had overwhelmed their most awkward period, but with the three months of free time during the summer vacation, their next encounters were relatively peaceful. Unless she couldn't stand it any more, Tang Ke didn't tend to mess things up. Even when Shi Bohuan bluntly said during their breakup that he didn't like her nagging and nonsense, she'd simply pointed at his nose and called him tasteless.
One should always leave a way out for others, and she left a lot of ways out.
Teletubbies.
If she doesn't take this position, who else can?
So after getting in the car, Tang Ke greeted Shi Bohuan, who was sitting in the driver's seat, with a smile on his face: "Hi, long time no see."
On the other hand, Shi Bohuan was not as natural as her. His first smile when they met again was terrible. Seeing Tang Ke's mature aura through the rearview mirror, he didn't know how to organize his words for a moment and could only repeat in a stammer: "Long time no see."
Fortunately, Chen Wan called to ask if he had received the call. He answered while giving himself a mental break.
In his memory, Tang Ke was a bit fatter than he is now, with short, student-style hair and an old-fashioned style, but his behavior was trendsetting and he often said things that made people smile. But Tang Ke now, with delicate makeup and lively eyes, is even more beautiful than in his student days. She sits quietly in the back seat, looking at her phone. The atmosphere is apparently gentle, but it makes him feel unapproachable.
"Hi, hi!" Chen Wan greeted the two women over the loudspeaker. "I'm ready here! There's a mahjong table and food and drinks. I guarantee you'll be satisfied!"
Tang Ke responded politely, "Okay, okay, we'll be there soon!"
With Chen Wan as a lubricant, Shi Bohuan gradually calmed down and asked about their recent situation.
"That's it. Those who go to school go to school, and those who go to work go to work." Tang Ke replied, winking at Xue Jiayin and adding the second half of his sentence in a nonchalant manner, "Those who hang themselves hang themselves, and those who go to the grave go to the grave."
Xue Jiayin chuckled: "This isn't a parallel sentence."
"This is the swan song of historians."
“I think this is history.”
Soon the two of them were making fun of each other. They often argued over trivial matters, which was completely meaningless, but they did continue chatting that day.
Shi Bohuan couldn't get a word in, his eyes frequently glancing at Tang Ke in the rearview mirror, like a student who had flunked the long jump a hundred times but still couldn't get it off. When he finally had a chance, he could only interject with a nonsense remark: "You two are still as close as before."
"I can't help it. She's relying on me for support now." Tang Ke hooked his arm around Xue Jiayin's and raised his eyebrows coquettishly, "Really? You're the only one in my circle of friends who doesn't earn as much as me."
Xue Jiayin clenched her fists, "Bullying a scholar?"
The car stopped in the parking space in front of a small European-style building. As soon as Tang Ke got out of the car, he saw Chen Wan and his pregnant wife standing there to greet them. She was flattered and went forward to greet them, and gave the five-month-old fetus the three-piece Chinese greeting: Have you eaten? What are you going to do later? How are you doing recently?
Watching Tang Ke approaching others, Shi Bohuan suddenly understood where the signal of being unapproachable came from. Although she would look at him and reply to his words, she would not continue the conversation with him or joke with him. It was as if she had nothing to say to him.
He was actually not a sensitive person. The reason he felt this way was because he had heard many jokes about her before.
Tang Ke was so busy catching up with old friends that he didn't notice the inexplicable shadow behind him. The other two members of the six-person group had been sitting in the living room for a long time. They had changed drastically, it's hard to describe them, except to say the man looked more and more like his father, the woman more and more like her mother. Their personalities, however, remained largely the same, and Tang Ke rediscovered the familiar feeling after chatting with them for a while.
Chen Wan's ability to entertain guests was at the palace level. Just as he said, there was food and drink, fun and conversation. Tang Ke silently had some unrighteous thoughts like "It must be very happy to be reborn into such a family." But then she thought, even if she was reborn now, it would be her second child. Maybe she just couldn't escape the fate of having a second child.
In order not to waste the fresh fruits and the tidy mahjong table, she sat down at Dongfeng's house without further delay and suggested that everyone reminisce while mahjong.
Xue Jiayin doesn't know how to play mahjong, so she is responsible for sitting next to Tang Ke and counting money for her and feeding her grapes. After all, she is the one who makes a living, so a canary should look like a canary.
Canary occupied the seat to Tang Ke's right, leaving one seat to his left. Shi Bohuan stood there, watching her cards. If it were lively, he could watch her, but this was a card table, so he must not affect her luck.
"I'm warning you, don't talk. Just watch the chess game in silence." Tang Ke raised his head and glanced at Shi Bohuan warily.
Chen Wan touched the cards and smiled with narrowed eyes: "It seems that the cards are very good, don't let anyone say it."
Look, even the best people become treacherous and cunning when they get to the poker table. Tang Ke responded in a evasive manner: "It's just so-so, just a few top-tier bets."
"Really? Are Shi Bohuan's cards really that good? You can tell me in secret." Chen Wan played a "Ninety Thousand" card.
"Bang!" Tang Ke was so good at taking advantage of the situation, "Hehe, sorry, it's just that good."
Shi Bohuan still couldn't get a word in.
The problem was not with Tang Ke, but with him. He didn't know what to say, and whatever he said made him feel uncomfortable, wrong, and unsatisfactory.
Besides, no one asked what he wanted to ask the most.
No one mentioned her marriage, her husband, or her married life.
-----------------------
The author has something to say: I feel uncomfortable if I don’t write about Shura Field. I will update it tomorrow.
(Btw, please leave more comments! I love reading comments!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
