Chapter 27
Summer vacation is approaching.
Lin Jiu occasionally has pleasant moments.
After dinner, it was bright outside and the teaching building was empty.
Some people went shopping outside the school, some went to the dormitory, some stayed in the classroom, and some went to the basketball court to watch the basketball game.
Even though the staircase was so long, she didn't meet anyone.
Lin Jiu walked up the stairs and counted the number of steps with interest.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5......
She counted silently with each step she took until she had counted half a flight of stairs, and then she started counting again over and over again.
She never tired of playing this simple game.
When I was almost on the third floor, I saw a familiar figure.
Chen Miao stood in front of the water dispenser with a water bottle placed at the water inlet.
Hearing the footsteps, he didn't look back, but just looked at the scenery in the distance.
With his height advantage, he could easily see past the machine and take in the scenery outside.
In just a few seconds, Lin Jiu guessed why he was there.
A few days ago, the water dispenser closest to their class broke down. They had reported it for repair, but the progress was slow and it had not been repaired yet.
Therefore, students in their class and the next class either had to go to another farther staircase on the fourth floor to get water, or walk a few steps to the third floor to get water.
Although she was thinking, she did not stop.
She didn't intend to say hello, and calmly walked past him and went to the fourth floor.
After just a few steps up the stairs, the sound of water stopped.
Suddenly there was a person behind me.
Lin Jiu was very calm and continued to go upstairs at his own pace.
In order not to block the way, she moved inconspicuously towards the handrail, and he made way for her.
After walking a few steps, the person behind her showed no intention of passing her.
She didn't care and just thought he was not in a hurry to go back to the classroom.
It seemed that I only needed to take a few more steps to reach the platform at the corner of the stairs.
The person behind him spoke.
"Lin Jiu."
From a short distance away, his voice was clearly transmitted to her ears along with the sound of the wind.
His voice was hoarse, as if he had ground it repeatedly in his mouth before speaking it out, whispering like a lover's whisper in her ear.
This was the first time he called her name.
Lin Jiu stopped, turned slowly, and looked at Chen Miao who was only an arm's length away from her.
He was 185cm tall, 21cm taller than her, but he was standing on the steps a few steps below her.
The steps narrowed the height difference between her and him.
Even Lin Jiu had to lower his eyes slightly to look into his eyes.
After he spoke, he fell silent, just looking up at her.
She asked doubtfully, "What's wrong?"
The distance between them is very close.
Close enough that she could see his thick black eyebrows, deep eyes, high nose bridge and full, rosy lips.
Although he is a boy, his face is very clean and flawless.
She scanned him carefully. He still didn't say anything, which seemed a little strange.
After waiting for three seconds, he remained silent.
Lin Jiu turned around and continued to go upstairs.
She walked very slowly.
Slow enough for him to catch up and stand on the same level with her, walking side by side.
After leaving the platform, she lowered her head and walked up the stairs one step at a time.
She was waiting for the person next to her to speak.
Finally, he said, "Let's add a contact method."
She thought it was something else. Turns out it was this...
They are classmates, so it is normal to add each other's contact information.
Although she rarely adds people.
She stopped moving forward, looked to the left, nodded, and said, "Okay."
Chen Miao took out his phone from his trouser pocket with his right hand and looked at Lin Jiu's face. "You tell me, I'll add you."
Lin Jiu softly reported the ten-digit number.
She didn't set any restrictions, anyone can join.
He tapped a few times with his slender fingers, then placed the phone screen in front of her: "Added."
"Yeah," Lin Jiu nodded.
As soon as she took the first step up the stairs, she turned around and said, "I'm basically not online when I'm in school... During the summer vacation, I'm not online most of the time either. I need to study."
The subtext is: Don’t look for me anymore and don’t chat with me.
After two years of being classmates, Chen Miao understood her personality. He immediately understood and said with a smile, "Okay, I know. I'll try not to disturb you."
After getting his promise, she quickened her pace and returned to the classroom before him.
There were not many people in the classroom, and most of them were gathered in the front row, so they probably didn't notice the movement in the stairwell.
Lin Jiu let out a breath, returned to his seat, and started fighting mode.
Chen Miao came in later and behaved the same as usual.
Just like that, the two people's coming and going did not attract any attention, as if it was the most insignificant thing in daily life.
Summer vacation comes quickly.
When Lin Jiu dragged his suitcase and sat on the bus he had taken countless times, he felt as if he was in another world.
This will be her last summer vacation in high school.
After the car started, she spent ten minutes looking at the traffic and pedestrians outside the window.
She likes to spend some time watching these occasionally. After all, they are rare in the countryside and not so lively.
After looking away, she pulled out the curled English booklet from her schoolbag.
By daylight, she memorized words and grammar.
In fact, she had read this book countless times. But if she didn't read it occasionally, it would always feel unfamiliar and she would need to keep memorizing it.
My English is actually pretty good, and I can basically get more than 130 points.
Her listening skills are a bit weak and her writing skills are weak and unstable, so this summer she will focus on improving these two areas.
However, it is not advisable to take out your MP3 to listen to audio comprehension while sitting in the car, as it is too noisy.
After returning home safely, she always has to clean the room.
After putting the luggage away.
She sat at the table and wrote an English composition about what she saw, heard and felt on the road today, and then listened to listening exercises for half an hour.
Routine tasks completed successfully.
After two years, her grades have improved significantly.
Chinese, math, English and Chinese are her strong subjects. Physics and chemistry are also good, but they still need to be improved.
This summer, she plans to review all the knowledge points in all subjects, create a mind map framework, and then practice the test papers accordingly, consolidating the knowledge first and then improving the key points.
She only opened the chat software after making a detailed study plan.
There are a few more friends in the address book: Wen Min, Ji Xin, and Chen Miao.
She noted down several people in the order in which they were added.
Wen Min took the initiative to ask Lin Jiu to join, saying that the summer vacation was too long and it would be convenient to contact him.
Lin Jiu also took precautions in advance, knowing that she might be away most of the time and would have less time for chatting.
Wen Min said she didn't mind, and she would have to practice questions seriously under Ji Xin's supervision during the summer vacation.
As for Ji Xin, it was Wen Min who asked him to add Lin Jiu.
Wen Min knew that Lin Jiuhan would definitely encounter difficulties during the summer vacation, so she took the initiative to suggest that she contact Ji Xin directly if she had any questions.
Moreover, Wen Min greeted Ji Xin very considerately and promised to tell him everything he knew about Lin Jiu's problems.
Lin Jiu was very grateful to Wen Min for her help and went to the grocery store to buy her a lot of her favorite snacks.
As for Chen Miao...
She clicked on his profile picture.
Blue sky and white clouds.
It's seriously incompatible with his style.
As for the dynamics… a blank.
It fits his style.
Just as I was about to exit the software, a message popped up.
Chen Miao: Arrived home safely?
Without hesitation, she replied with one word: Yes.
Then she sent another message: I want to quit.
She really didn't know what to talk about, and was afraid that the conversation would never end.
Besides, she didn't want to have any further development with him.
A few seconds later, Chen Miao replied: Okay, go do what you want to do.
Just as I was about to withdraw, I received another message.
Chen Miao: Meng Qinyang next to me is clamoring to add you. If you don’t agree, I will directly refuse.
Why did Meng Qinyang add her?
But she had no reason to refuse.
Since we are classmates, just add him.
So she typed a few words: It doesn't matter, let him add it if he wants.
Chen Miao: Okay.
Not long after, she received a message from a friend.
Looking at the phone screen, Lin Jiu thought, everything should be fine now.
A minute later, there was no news.
She logged out as she wished.
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Watching the avatar turn completely gray.
Chen Miao put down his phone and looked at Meng Qinyang who was sitting on the sofa. "You should go out."
Meng Qinyang crossed his hands over his heart, his eyes wide open, a look of utter heartbreak: "You're actually chasing me away!"
"......" Chen Miao stood up and looked at the person on the sofa with a forced smile.
He should have let Meng Qinyang go three minutes ago.
But Meng Qinyang just lay on the sofa, looking like he didn't want to bother me.
As a result, I saw him put down his notebook and chat with someone, so I immediately moved closer to take a look.
Seeing that he added Lin Jiu’s contact information, I don’t know what’s wrong with him, but he has to add her.
She even threw a tantrum and insisted on grabbing his phone, saying, "I want to add him too. We're all classmates, how can she favor one over the other?"
"...What's the point of adding her? Besides being classmates, how else do you two interact?"
"Of course not," Meng Qinyang said, "If you two get together someday, she will be my cousin's wife!"
Chen Miao: “…”
That’s not wrong.
Okay, just for this sentence.
Now that all the people had been added, Chen Miao really lost his patience as he looked at Meng Qinyang who was still refusing to leave.
Seeing that there was no point in pretending to be pitiful, Meng Qinyang threw his hands together and lay on the sofa, acting like a rogue, "I won't leave."
His father went to work, and now there are only him and Chen Miao at home.
He was bored being alone.
I can only come to play with Chen Miao.
Chen Miao watched coldly, picked up his phone and opened the address book, "Auntie will be back soon, I'll give her a call..."
Before he could finish his words, Meng Qinyang jumped up and stopped him, saying, "No, no, no, I'm leaving right away. I'll go finish my test, okay?"
As expected, Meng Yu’s reputation is still effective.
Meng Qinyang could still act like a spoiled brat in front of him, but he didn't dare to say a word in front of Meng Yu.
After driving Meng Qinyang away, Chen Miao picked up the notebook on the sofa and continued typing.
Around five o'clock in the afternoon, he packed up the documents, edited an email and sent it to Chen Jian.
He guessed that his father should have gotten up and had time to watch it.
After going out for dinner with Meng Qinyang, Chen Miao went into the study to practice calligraphy.
When he practices calligraphy, he basically only writes the Tao Te Ching.
There is no special meaning.
I just saw it for the first time in his study and have been using it to practice calligraphy ever since.
I had only written a hundred or so words when the phone rang.
The caller ID showed it was his dad.
Once connected, turn on the speaker and set it aside.
Chen Miao casually dipped the brush in some ink, concentrated his mind and continued writing the previous character.
"What do you mean?" Chen Jian on the other end of the phone looked at the email he sent on the screen.
The email contained nearly a hundred attachments, all of which were compiled from the books Chen Miao had read over the past two years.
He used a separate document to record the essence of each book he read, and also added some of his own thoughts and experiences.
"I've seen almost everything I need to see, so I'll give it to you to review."
"If I remember correctly, you should have given it to me during the summer vacation of my senior year. Now... you gave it to me early."
Hearing this, Chen Miao paused, and the ink flowed down the tip of the pen, leaving a small dot on the word.
He sighed, as if he felt sorry for the word he had just written.
Then, he held the pen steadily, found a blank space to start again, and calmly wrote the character "盈". Then he said, "I plan to stay in China."
“…”
On the other end of the phone, although Chen Jian guessed that something strange was going to happen, he didn't expect to hear this news.
After three seconds of silence, Chen Jian said, "If I remember correctly, it was you who decided to go abroad."
Chen Miao shrugged and said helplessly, "Yeah. I made the decision, but the plan has changed."
In his third year of junior high school, he took the initiative to tell Chen Jian that he would go abroad after the college entrance examination.
He has already planned everything about how to spend his four years in college abroad and has already shown it to his father.
Facts have proved that people should not set their sights so far so early.
"...You rarely change your mind." Chen Jian said with a wry smile, "So, my dear son, give me a reasonable reason."
Putting the brush on the tray, Chen Miao put his phone closer and replied, "I've fallen in love with someone, but I haven't caught up with him yet..."
I never expected this to be the reason.
He is a very open-minded person. As long as it doesn't affect the main business, he will not care about Chen Miao.
However, he did not expect that it would be so difficult for Chen Miao to pursue someone, and he had to change his plans at the last minute.
It's really useless.
His tone couldn't help but rise as he questioned, "Is your going abroad in conflict with your pursuit of someone?"
"Of course." Chen Miao propped up his head and said lazily, "With such a long distance across the Pacific Ocean, this is equivalent to giving others the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. Besides... I haven't caught up with him yet, so there are too many variables."
Before Chen Jian could speak, Chen Miao added, "I think you understand this, Dad. I've learned from your mistakes."
Chen Jian and Meng Qing had broken up once before. Of course, it was Meng Qing who proposed it.
At that time, because of the company's business, he had to stay in Country M for a period of time to open up the market there.
From a certain distance, he still contacted Meng Qing frequently, trying to keep her.
As a result, after returning home, I found that someone had secretly loosened the soil in the corner of the wall.
If I hadn't returned early, who knows what would have happened.
He has always been brooding over this matter.
Having his lungs punctured by his own son, Chen Jian was furious: "...How did you know that, kid?"
"Who else could it be except my mother?" Chen Miao said, "If it weren't for her, I wouldn't have known that you and her were together."
“…”
After a long time, Chen Jian closed his eyes, suppressed his anger, and stopped dwelling on this matter.
His son looks like him.
When he was young, he was ignorant and acted rashly and impulsively. As he got older, he began to become more stable.
He is thoughtful yet driven, opinionated and ambitious.
A long, long time ago, he had already become what he imagined his ideal heir should be.
Although it is a bit immature, it has begun to take shape.
He knew very well that once his son made a decision, no one could pull him back unless there was a black swan event.
After a moment of contemplation, Chen Miao calmly asked, "Can you keep up with the national college entrance examination?"
Chen Miao laughed softly, "Your son does have some ability."
"...Which school?"
"Jinhai University." Chen Miao said.
Chen Jian's eyes flickered slightly, and he chuckled, "That doesn't affect it. It seems that you have your own plans."
Chen Miao's original plan was to gain some experience abroad, familiarize himself with Far Eastern's overseas business, and then return to Jinhai City to take over his work.
Now, I just turned around and took over domestic affairs in advance.
Chen Miao raised his eyebrows and said confidently, "Of course. Don't worry, your retirement plan won't be delayed."
"...Since you said so, then let's do as you wish."
Chen Jian was about to hang up when he heard Chen Miao say, "I want to borrow someone from you."
"who?"
"Secretary Zhou...let him stay with me for the time being."
"good."
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