Chapter 27 Harassment or Counseling "What? Not welcome?"...
Yu Xiang responded lightly and followed him into the room.
The lighting in the room was soft and the surroundings were very clean. An old man was lying on the bed. When he heard the sound of the door opening, he turned his head hard to see who was coming.
"Grandpa." Jiang Ci called the old man.
"Grandpa Jiang." Yu Xiang immediately followed.
"It's... Xiao Ci and Xiao Xiang..." The old man's lips trembled slightly, and it seemed as if he had used up all his strength to say every word.
Yu Xiang opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but didn't know what to say.
If Chen Xiaomei were here, she would probably say he was tongue-tied.
"New clothes?" Fortunately, the old man didn't care. After seeing the clothes the two were wearing, he smiled a little. His eyes, which had become a little cloudy due to old age, seemed to sparkle. "They look very nice."
As he spoke, he raised his hand with great effort and pointed at the chair beside the bed: "Come, come and sit."
However, there was only a chair beside the bed, and Yu Xiang subconsciously looked at Jiang Ci.
"You sit over there. I'll go get another chair." Jiang Ci said as he turned and went out. After a while he came back with a chair and sat next to Yu Xiang.
At this time, Yu Xiang was still racking his brains to think of a topic, his face almost turning green, and he didn't know what to say.
I used to be able to chat happily when I was a kid, but now my mouth feels like it’s covered with super glue and I can’t open my mouth no matter what. Apart from the most basic “okay” and “hmm”, I can’t say anything else.
"Grandpa, how is your health lately? Are you feeling okay?" Yu Xiang racked his brains for a long time before asking carefully.
"That's it. I'm old, I can't do it anymore." The old man's eyes never left the two of them. He rolled his eyes and paused for a moment before continuing, "Hand... stretch out your hand."
Yu Xiang and Jiang Ci followed the old man's wishes and put one hand on the edge of the bed.
The old man groped and touched Yu Xiang's hand, then touched to the side, and after feeling Jiang Ci's hand, he grabbed his hand and used a little force to place Jiang Ci's hand on the back of Yu Xiang's hand.
When Jiang Ci's slightly cold palm touched the back of Yu Xiang's hand, both of them were stunned, and then they looked at each other tacitly, but no one spoke or struggled to break away.
"You two... must be good. We grew up together... and even when we grow up... you must always be together and help each other... so that I can... feel at ease." The old man spoke very slowly, but the two of them listened patiently. "You must, you must study hard."
"Grandpa's last wish is to see you...get into...university."
Yu Xiang listened to the old man's words very carefully, and felt that the sourness that he had suppressed with great difficulty came up again. The surging emotions and memories of the past rushed into his heart, bringing tears to his eyes.
But he never wanted to cry in front of others, so he blinked rapidly, forcing back the tears that were about to burst out: "I will try my best, don't worry, Jiang Ci, you should be even more relieved, he will have no problem getting into National Tsing Hua University, the teachers always praise him highly."
The old man smiled and nodded.
Seeing this, Yu Xiang simply opened up: "He has been teaching me recently, and I have been studying hard. Oh, and..."
Yu Xiang spoke a lot in one breath, all about trivial things that had happened recently, so trivial that there was no need to bring them up, but it was obvious that both Jiang Ci and the old man were listening with great interest.
As we talked, time passed silently.
Considering the old man's limited energy, the two did not stay inside for too long. They got up and left at a suitable time.
In the living room outside the door, the parents of both families were sitting on the sofa drinking tea. When they heard the sound of the doorknob turning, they all looked over there.
"Are you out? How is it? Grandpa should be very happy to see you, right?" Chen Xiaomie asked casually when she saw them come out.
"I was very happy. I talked to him about a lot of interesting things." Jiang Ci nodded slightly and responded without thinking.
Yu Xiang glanced at him with disdain and emphasized, "I talked to him a lot, but you were like a mute and didn't say a word."
Jiang Ci replied calmly, "What I wanted to say is exactly the same as what you said. I don't think it's necessary to say it a second time."
"That's no excuse for you to pretend to be mute and pretend to be a quiet, handsome man."
"That's just your preconceived notion."
"Alright, alright, you two are already grown up and you're still always childishly fighting with each other. Can you please grow up a little?" Chen Xiaomei interrupted their conversation with a look of confusion. "Stop standing there. Come sit down and chat with us."
Sitting and chatting with elders is generally not a pleasant thing. Yu Xiang is already thinking about how to find an excuse to slip away and go home.
However, Jiang Ci spoke before him, "I'm going upstairs to do my homework first. You guys can just chat."
Yu Xiang was startled and immediately turned to give him a look that was half puzzled and half shocked, as if to say, "Did you do this on purpose?"
The latter gave him an ambiguous look, then put one hand in his pocket and walked out of the living room leisurely.
Yu Xiang frowned as he watched Jiang Ci go upstairs. After coming to his senses, he quickly thought of a solution and turned to the parents, saying, "I've only finished half of that math paper this afternoon. I can't sleep tonight if I don't finish it. I'll go back and finish it first."
This reason would certainly not be rejected. Chen Xiaomie just reminded him, "Don't play with your phone while writing," and let him go back.
If things had continued like this in the past, Yu Xiang would never have come back. But today, as if something had gone wrong, a few minutes after he disappeared from their sight, he reappeared in front of them with a stack of test papers.
"Why are you back again?" Chen Xiaomei asked vaguely and in surprise, forgetting to chew the grapes she had just put into her mouth.
"I'm here to harass—" Yu Xiang lost control of his words and blurted out a poorly chosen word. Fortunately, he reacted quickly enough to correct himself and said, "I realized I don't seem to know the answers to the remaining questions, so I'll ask Jiang Ci."
Luo Fang immediately understood and nodded at him with a smile: "Is that so? Then go up quickly."
"Then I'll go upstairs first." Yu Xiang hadn't finished speaking when he rushed upstairs like a gust of wind, so that Chen Xiaomie didn't have time to say anything else to him.
Yu Xiang came to the door of Jiang Ci's room with the test paper in his arms with ease. He held the test paper in one hand, bent his fingers with the free hand and was about to knock on the door, but the door was opened from the inside without any warning, causing his hand that was about to knock to freeze in mid-air.
After staring into Jiang Ci's expressionless face for two seconds, his reflexes, strong enough to circle the Earth twice, finally made him take a half step back, muttering in fear, "Fuck, you scared me again? How did you know I was outside?"
"I thought you had some idea of how much noise you made going upstairs." Jiang Ci seemed to sigh, "It seems you still don't know yourself well enough."
"That just means your room isn't soundproofed."
"Nonsense." Jiang Ci's eyes fell on Yu Xiang's hand, "Come do your homework here?"
Yu Xiang raised an eyebrow: "What? Not welcome?"
"No, the people I'm helping are very enthusiastic about learning. I'm so happy that I can't contain myself." Jiang Ci denied.
Yu Xiang: "Really? But I don't seem to see any happiness on your face."
"So it's 'too late'." Jiang Ci said as he stepped aside and motioned Yu Xiang to come in. "Come in."
Yu Xiang didn't bother to be polite. He strode into the room with his long legs and sat down on one of the chairs in front of Jiang Ci's desk. "I've been wanting to ask you before, why do you always have two chairs in your room?"
With the sound of a door closing softly, Jiang Ci's voice got closer and closer: "Personal habit."
"Oh." Considering that Jiang Ci had many strange habits, Yu Xiang was no longer surprised and simply didn't ask any more questions.
Jiang Ci's desk is very big and clean, so it is no problem for two people to do homework together.
Yu Xiang casually arranged the test papers he brought, put the knuckles of his right index finger on his lips, and thought seriously about which set he should start with.
The chair next to him was pulled away, and a gust of air carrying Jiang Ci's unique refreshing scent brushed past his ears, interrupting his thoughts.
Yu Xiang turned away and asked casually, "Have you finished your homework?"
"Not yet." Jiang Ci sat down and adjusted his chair forward. During this time, he caught a glimpse of Yu Xiang's expression. "Surprised?"
"Just a little. I thought you finished it this afternoon in the cafe."
"If you were hungry and stayed twenty minutes later I would probably be able to finish it."
Yu Xiang: “…” Is it my fault?
"Why don't you ask me why I have to come here to do my homework?" Yu Xiang waited quietly for a long time but Jiang Ci didn't continue to speak, so he couldn't help but ask.
"The reason isn't hard to guess." Jiang Ci used a pencil to draw two auxiliary lines on the diagram provided in the question. "He came to me on his own initiative, so he probably wants something from me."
Yu Xiang finally decided to do that first. While thinking about picking up a pen, he answered, "Your wording is very problematic. What do you mean—do you have any extra pens? I think I forgot to bring one."
"There are some in the pen holder, pick one yourself."
Now he needed help even more, so Yu Xiang simply shut up and stopped arguing about the previous topic. However, just as he raised his hand to reach for the pen holder, his cell phone suddenly rang.
The ringtone was very lively, so lively that it could not be ignored. Even Jiang Ci raised his head and looked at him expressionlessly.
Yu Xiang was also not vague. After a flurry of activity, he finally found the mobile phone he had just casually placed on the table under the test paper. He took a closer look and found that it was a video call from Zhang Miao.
But Zhang Miao usually contacted him by sending messages, and even when it was urgent, he would make voice calls. So if something was unusual, there must be something wrong. Yu Xiang hung up without thinking.
After he hung up, he found Jiang Ci still staring at him intently: "...What are you doing?"
Before Jiang Ci could answer, Zhang Miao called again persistently.
Yu Xiang immediately turned it off.
However, before the call could last two seconds, Zhang Miao called again.
After so many calls, Jiang Ci could clearly see Yu Xiang's note to Zhang Miao on the screen: "This is the third time he's called. I'm afraid it's really urgent."
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The author has something to say: Help, help, this semester's classes seem to be taking my life.
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