Chapter 097 Sweet and Salty-6
As the college entrance examination approaches, the weather becomes hotter.
"Here, I brought you a soda."
In the classroom, sunlight came in through the window. The entire table in front of Jiang Yan was covered with it. A pair of bony hands appeared in front of him. He looked up and saw a bottle of soda on the table.
"The college entrance examination is coming soon. I looked at the last ranking and you are almost catching up with me." Meng Tang sat next to Jiang Yan, looked at him sideways, and praised him generously, "Not bad. I remember when the school started, your grades were at the bottom, but now you are at the top of the grade. You have made great progress."
Jiang Yan smiled gently, "Thanks to your guidance."
"Well...then please treat me to lunch later." Meng Tang supported his chin with one hand and looked at him intently.
Jiang Yan's ears turned red from being stared at, and he looked away, "Okay."
The cafeteria was packed with people. Jiang Yan and Meng Tang finally found an empty spot to sit down.
"By the way, what are your plans after the college entrance examination?" Meng Tang said as he passed the meat in the bowl to Jiang Yan. "Eat more. You are too thin."
Meng Tang recalled AI Meng Tang's advice, which was, "He has a bad stomach, don't let him eat junk food."
"He is a little sensitive and fragile. He likes to cry secretly at night. If you see him, just give him a candy. But don't let him eat candy too often, or he will get cavities."
"His favorite movies include Titanic, The Shawshank Redemption, and The Godfather... If you don't know what to talk about, you can talk about these topics."
"Alright, alright, you remember things in great detail. You wouldn't have written them all into the program, would you? Hahaha, you're quite infatuated."
Coming back to his senses, Meng Tang propped up his head and looked at Jiang Yan opposite him. He seemed to have a really poor appetite and ate one spoonful at a time, which was a bit cute.
As soon as Jiang Yan took a mouthful of rice, his cheeks bulged out like a puffer fish. He looked at the person across the table with his puffy face and open eyes.
Suddenly, a splash of soup fell from the sky.
"Oh, sorry, sorry."
Because there were too many people in the cafeteria, a little girl passing by didn't hold her plate firmly, causing the soup to spill out. She happened to pass by Jiang Yan's table.
"It's all right."
Jiang Yan looked down at the wet lining of his school uniform. Meng Tang handed him a piece of paper and said, "Wipe it first. I'll ask the driver to send a new one later."
"No need, it's not very wet." Jiang Yan wiped it casually. Anyway, he was used to walking in the rain on the street.
In the evening, Jiang Yan was sent home by Meng Tang.
Jiang Yan pushed open the door and saw his father sleeping in the corner as usual, surrounded by empty bottles. Jiang Yan went over to clean up and dragged his father back to the room skillfully. It suddenly started to rain outside, so he closed the window.
When he returned to the living room, he found that there were dishes on the dining table. They must have been prepared a long time ago and were now cold.
His parents both knew how to cook, but his dad hadn't cooked since he was cheated by his brother.
Could it be that mom is back?
Jiang Yan's thoughts wandered away, and he was stunned for a long time before he remembered to take the cold dishes into the kitchen to heat them up.
At night, it was raining heavily outside the window. Jiang Yan was eating alone in the living room. The host on TV was explaining the news scene clearly. The dim light in the room shone on Jiang Yan's thin figure, outlining his slender and fragile posture.
"Now for the next news, it's about a fire caused by improper use of fire in the summer. A fire suddenly broke out on the balcony of a resident on a high floor of a residential building, trapping a family of three in their home. After working tirelessly day and night to rescue them, the firefighters finally brought the family of three out, but the parents died during medical treatment, and the ten-year-old child finally survived. It is understood that the parents lifted the child out of the bedroom window at the time, letting him try to breathe fresh air..."
The TV screen switched to a hospital corridor, where the attending physician was being interviewed, "..."
Jiang Yan was watching TV, and suddenly his eyes became moist.
Knock knock——
Someone is knocking on the door.
Who will knock on the door when it rains heavily?
Jiang Yan wiped her tears and ran to open the door. Standing outside was Meng Tang.
I didn't even bring an umbrella and just stood in the rain, soaking wet.
"Why are you here? Come in."
Jiang Yan noticed that Meng Tang's steps were somewhat mechanical. He asked with concern, "Did you slip?"
Meng Tang blurted out, "It's flooded, and the shaking is going on."
"Ah?" Jiang Yan was stunned.
Meng Tang realized that he had said the wrong thing and quickly said, "I just sprained my ankle, it's nothing serious."
"Oh, why did you want to come to my house?"
"I just want to see you."
Jiang Yan handed Meng Tang a dry towel and said, "Don't we have to go to school tomorrow morning? We can meet at school tomorrow. And you just sent me back in the evening. It's been a short time since then."
"I'll be leaving in a minute."
Jiang Yan was slightly surprised. "Ah? Why do you come and go so often? And it's raining so hard outside, why don't you sleep at my house tonight?"
Seeing Meng Tang didn't say anything, Jiang Yan thought for a moment and said, "It's just that my bed is relatively small. I'm afraid that you will be used to living in a big house and won't be used to the small bed."
After saying that, Meng Tang quickly shook his head, "No, no." He paused, "——Okay then."
Jiang Yan curved his eyes and showed a nice smile, "By the way, have you eaten?"
Meng Tang nodded hesitantly.
"Then finish your meal with me."
"good."
There was suddenly one more person in the living room. Just with this sudden appearance of one person, Jiang Yan felt that the atmosphere of the meal had changed. It was no longer so cold and lonely.
After dinner, the two leaned on the sofa together again, turned off the lights, and searched for an old movie to watch.
Jiang Yan hugged a pillow and curled up in a corner of the sofa like a hamster, his eyes fixed on the TV screen. The subtle light from the screen illuminated Jiang Yan's face, making her look as beautiful as an elf glowing in the night.
Meng Tang didn't watch the movie. His whole mind was focused on Jiang Yan, staring at his profile in a daze.
"Are you home alone?" Meng Tang suddenly asked.
Jiang Yan was stunned, then smiled and said, "My dad drank too much and has fallen asleep. My mom hasn't been home for a long time, and I don't know where she went. But now that you mention it, I miss her a lot."
"How about you? How is it there? The big house should be quite comfortable." Jiang Yan asked, propping up his head, with a bright light in his eyes, "Have you restored your relationship with your parents? After all, you haven't seen them for so long."
"Everything is fine." said Meng Tang.
"That's fine."
Two hours later, the movie came to an end.
Meng Tang felt his shoulder sink. He turned around and saw Jiang Yan had fallen asleep. Her eyelashes, as thin as a cicada's wings, fluttered and her angelic face rested quietly on his shoulder.
Meng Tang's program began to run rapidly, and the mechanical heart emitted a strong resonance.
In the end, Meng Tang did not disturb him and just watched him sleep quietly.
Another hour passed before Jiang Yan suddenly woke up. When he opened his eyes, he met Meng Tang's eyes, staring at each other.
"Hey, why did I fall asleep?" Jiang Yan said blankly, looking down at the coat covering his body.
"I saw you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't wake you up," said Meng Tang.
"Well, let's go back to the room."
Jiang Yan took Meng Tang back to the room. Now it was no longer the small storage room it used to be, but a very beautiful little house.
Jiang Yan simply tidied up and took out a new quilt from the cabinet, "Come here."
Meng Tang asked hesitantly, "Sleep together?"
"Do you still want to sleep on the floor?" Jiang Yan said with a smile, "Didn't we sleep together before? Why are you so resentful now?"
"But I was very young at that time," Meng Tang said in a low voice.
Jiang Yan waved his hand, "It's up to you, I'm going to sleep anyway."
thump--
Jiang Yan fell asleep on the bed all of a sudden.
Meng Tang was silent for a moment when he saw this, and he covered Jiang Yan with a blanket. When he stood up, he suddenly got stuck, and a part had been soaked.
He was supposed to go back to the research institute, but he suddenly changed his mind on the way and ran straight to Jiang Yan's home in the rain.
He shook his body like a penguin, but he could still feel that some parts of his body were stuck. So, he had to dismantle himself by force, taking off the mechanical arms and legs and shaking them clean.
Jiang Yan was sleeping soundly on the bed. He reached out his hand but found nothing. Then he realized that Meng Tang was not lying next to him. He opened his eyes sleepily and saw Meng Tang fiddling with something at the table.
"Why aren't you asleep yet?"
A voice came from behind him. Meng Tang's body shook violently and he quickly installed the mechanical arm he had just removed. "I'll wait for a while, you go to sleep first."
"Well, okay." Jiang Yan said softly. He was really sleepy.
The room became quiet again, and Meng Tang let out a sigh of relief.
It was more than ten minutes later that Meng Tang went to bed.
The bed surface sank, and Jiang Yan involuntarily leaned towards Meng Tang and accidentally stuck to him.
Meng Tang felt a warm body, his breathing stopped for a moment, and his heart began to beat without rhythm.
Plop—plop—
His mechanical heart always beats in front of Jiang Yan.
He once asked his researcher if he was broken.
The researcher just smiled and said, this is the resonance of love.
Someone was trying to make him a complete person.
…
The next day, when Jiang Yan woke up, Meng Tang was gone.
Why are you leaving? Aren’t we going to school together?
Jiang Yan felt confused. He yawned briefly, picked up his schoolbag, went out, bought a fried dough stick and rushed to school.
School.
"Mengtang, did you leave this morning?"
"Seven o'clock, what's wrong?"
Jiang Yan looked at Meng Tang hesitantly, "Are you sure?"
Meng Tang looked at Jiang Yan's expression and quickly reacted, "Oh, I went home in the early morning. Something happened at home."
Jiang Yan said, "Oh," and said, "There was no sound when you left."
"Aren't you afraid of waking you up?" Meng Tang said with a smile, and immediately changed the subject, "By the way, did you finish the last big math problem yesterday? Let me see it."
"There are still problems that a college bully like you can't solve."
"whee."
Time flies and the college entrance examination is coming soon.
When Jiang Yan was entering the examination room, he suddenly saw a shadow that looked like Meng Tang at the school gate. He was slightly stunned because Meng Tang was not in the same examination room with him.
After he wiped his eyes and looked over again, there were only a crowd of parents waiting there. Some of them wore red cheongsams, trying to bring good luck to their children, while others hugged their parents before entering the school. The scene was full of warmth.
Jiang Yan closed his eyes, retracted his gaze, and turned around resolutely. Just as he was about to go in, a female voice suddenly called him.
"Xiaoyan, good luck on your college entrance exam."
This voice had not been heard for a long time. Jiang Yan turned around in surprise and surprise, and met the familiar eyes of his mother in his memory.
Jiang Yan opened his mouth but no sound came out because he didn't know what to say.
At this time, the school broadcast sounded, "Please enter the examination room on time..."
"Go ahead, Xiaoyan. Mommy's waiting for you here."
Jiang Yan's lips trembled and he said, "Okay."
Two hours later.
"Ring, ring, ring - the test is over, candidates please stop answering questions..."
Off-campus restaurants.
"Mom, where have you been these days?"
During the break between servings, Jiang Yan and his mother sat face to face. People walked by one after another. The woman paused and said, "Let's not talk about me first. How did you do in the exam?"
Jiang Yan said: "It's OK, it feels about the same as usual."
The woman felt a little embarrassed because she didn't know how her son performed in school. She could only smile and say, "Just do your best."
Jiang Yan brought the topic back and asked, "Have you been home? Why didn't you come to see me and dad? The bed and furniture in my room were all bought by you, right?"
"You've grown up, it's time for you to have your own room," the woman said gently.
Seeing that her mother was deliberately avoiding certain topics, Jiang Yan did not ask any more questions and only said, "Dad often calls your name when he is drunk."
"Mom, I'm an adult now. I can find a job, and I will pay off the family debt in the future. Can you not..." Jiang Yan paused and could not utter the following words.
The woman said, "Just study and don't worry about the housework."
Two days later, the college entrance examination was finally over. The class held a graduation party, and Jiang Yan went with them in Mengtang's car. The car drove for a long time, and the destination was a bar in a big city.
This bar was even more luxurious than the one in the town Meng Tang had taken him to before. It was dark at night, and neon lights illuminated the busy streets. People were coming and going in front of the bar. At the entrance, after checking the ID card, Meng Tang took Jiang Yan inside.
"Don't be shy, you've already graduated, just have fun."
The lights, the music, the crowds, the chaotic dance floor, the electronic music bombarding his ears. Jiang Yan felt a little uncomfortable, but under Meng Tang's lead, he still followed him to the private room.
"Hey, you're here."
"What do you want to drink?"
"Give me vodka."
Meng Tang said the name of a drink that Jiang Yan didn't understand. Meng Tang glanced at Jiang Yan and said, "Give him a glass of orange juice."
"Orange juice? How can you drink this stuff?" A sloppy rich second-generation guy sitting on the sofa opposite said. He glanced at Jiang Yan with some prying eyes.
"He doesn't drink."
"Okay, you have the final say. But you can't deny your debt when we play games later."
Jiang Yan was stunned, then turned to ask Meng Tang, "What game?"
Meng Tang leaned against the sofa and said lazily, "Truth or Dare, they like to play this kind of game."
"And some others?"
There are probably only about ten people here, but there are about forty people in the class. Jiang Yan looked around and asked with confusion.
Meng Tang said calmly, "They are in another private room. Everyone in this room is already here. The game has begun. Don't worry about anything else."
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