Chapter 29

Jiang Yimiao seemed to have a hard time finding faults in Zhao Shuming, and all along she hadn’t thought of any faults in Zhao Shuming simply because she was too familiar with him.

But now that she thought about it, she couldn’t list a single flaw.

There wasn’t even a single flaw in his personality, looks, or body, and even his voice sounded good, even his gasps when he was in pain weren’t rough and hoarse. Even his voice was good, even his gasp when he was in pain was not a rough, hoarse, muffled grunt. ……

Otherwise, her brain would not recall the gasp he just got from being kicked in the face. The sound of breathing.

She didn’t even dare to imagine what it would be like for Zhao Shuming to keep gasping for air. Jiang Yimiao subconsciously raised her head to look at his lips, and her gaze gradually moved to the knot of his throat.

Jiang Yimiao was shocked by this thought for a moment, and when her consciousness returned, she remembered that she was still holding Zhao Shuming’s hand.

He was taller than her, so his palm was naturally larger and broader than hers. Obviously she was grasping Zhao Shuming’s hand, but it looked as if he was wrapping it around hers.

She hurriedly pulled her palm out of Zhao Shuming’s hand.

But the moment Jiang Yimiao withdrew her hand, Zhao Shuming suddenly took her hand.

Her eyes, which had re-adjusted to the light from the darkness, could clearly see his eyes, but Jiang Yimiao didn’t quite understand why he was holding her hand.

She looked down at Zhao Shuming’s hand, but didn’t pull it away again, but gently asked, “What’s wrong?”

Fearing that she would pull her hand away, Zhao Shuming’s grip was a bit tight, but seeing her reaction, the strength in Zhao Shuming’s hand gradually dissipated.

He pressed his fingertips onto the back of Jiang Yimiao’s hand and rubbed it a few times, “There are two lumbar pain points on the palm of your hand, they can relieve the pain.”

In fact, Jiang Yimiao didn’t know anything about acupoints in Chinese medicine, but when she occasionally had a headache or a backache due to her physiological period, she would press a few acupoints that were mentioned on the internet.

Every time she pressed it, she was surprised to find that it really relieved the pain.

Therefore, Jiang Yimiao had always been convinced by this, even though she didn’t understand the principles and couldn’t remember the names of the points.

Hearing Zhao Shuming say this, she tensed her five fingers like a kitten opening its claws.

“Where are the acupoints, I can press them later.”

“I’ll touch it.” Zhao Shuming’s fingertips counted the metacarpal bones and distance through the skin on the back of her hand, then pressed his fingertips downward with a little force, “Is there a bit of numbness and pain.”

“Yes, yes, yes.” Jiang Yimiao had pressed the acupoint herself and knew how it felt when it was pressed, she knew that Zhao Shuming had already found that acupoint.

“It might hurt a little, you can use your other hand to grab me if you’re uncomfortable.”

He hung his head and pinched the acupoint on the back of her hand and began to help her press it.

Zhao Shuming sat on the edge of the bed and lowered his head as he carefully pressed those two acupoints.

Jiang Yimiao could only see the top of his hair and the high bridge of his nose. He was holding her hand, a Jean was very close, so close that she could faintly smell the odor of his shampoo, exactly the same as when she helped him blow-dry his hair, but slightly lighter.

“Alright, Miao Miao lie down again, I’ll help you hold down your waist.”

Jiang Yimiao subconsciously circled her waist with her hands, “I’m afraid of itching ……,” and even more afraid that Zhao Shuming would get another kick from her later.

“It’s fine, just press your hand up.”

Zhao Shuming put his hand on her shoulder and helped her lie down again.

It was actually better to have direct contact with the skin, but the lower back was really too private a part, so Zhao Shuming still decided to help her massage through the thin pajamas.

“No no no, it’s so itchy.” Jiang Yimiao laughed with a fluttering smile, her waist and body dodging Zhao Shuming’s hands one by one.

Zhao Shuming let out a sigh, “Miao Miao, don’t be nervous.”

“I can’t.” Jiang Yimiao broke off in laughter, tears coming out of the corners of her eyes.

She rolled up the quilt and rolled over, looking at Zhao Shuming with a look that she couldn’t do anything about it, she pursed her lips and fluttered those almond eyes to look at him, “Okay, try again?”

Jiang Yimiao flopped back onto the pillow again, her waist was just too sensitive.

It was so sensitive that Zhao Shuming almost had to press down hard on her in order to massage her.

Jiang Yimiao lay on her back and laughed for half a day again, until the strength in his hands gradually increased, and she finally put away that unstoppable laughter.

“Is this strength okay?”

“Seems about right?” It actually hurt a little, but the massage definitely needed a little force.

“Tell me if it’s uncomfortable.” Zhao Shuming found the acupoints on her back and pressed them for her as well.

Jiang Yimiao’s teeth occasionally squeezed out a few inhalations, not because it hurt, but because she was so comfortable that she couldn’t stop screaming out.

The air returned to its previous calm, with only the sound of her palm rubbing against the fabric and her inhalation.

“Zhao Shuming, you’re so all-powerful.” Jiang Yimiao’s cold words broke the silence in the room.

Zhao Shuming’s hand that was pressing on her waist paused for half a second and quickly continued to press, “Only learned it for you.”

Jiang Yimiao blinked and asked, “How much longer do I have to press?”

“Almost.” Zhao Shuming curled up the hem of her shirt that was slightly curled up from the massage, “But there’s still a hot compress to be applied.” He took the hot towel and avoided his gaze to press the towel to the skin on her waist.

Fingertips unintentionally brushed against her waist, seeing her backside after all.

“I’ll keep track of the time for you.”

“Okay.” Jiang Yimiao said vaguely with her chin pressed against the back of her hand.

The warmth of the hot towel dissipated quickly, and the hot compress didn’t take long, so Zhao Shuming sat quietly on the edge of the bed, waiting for the time to pull the hot towel out.

“Miao Miao, it’s done.”

The cold air from the air conditioner quickly dried the hazy vapor on her waist, and Jiang Yimiao rolled over all comfortable.

“So comfortable ……”

In fact, she had seen a doctor before because of her uncomfortable waist, and the results of the radiographs were fine. However, because of the office sedentary aches and pains could not be avoided, the doctor told her to apply hot compresses. At first, she followed the doctor’s advice and applied hot compresses every day.

Just later work and things more up, her inertia in life and slowly drifted out, she then three days to fish two days to sunnets, gradually even do not fight the fish! .

“It’s good to feel more comfortable.” Zhao Shuming washed and dried the hot towel and rejoined the other side of her bed.

“Zhao Shuming I suddenly remembered something!”

Jiang Yimiao’s brain circuits were always very jumpy, from time to time she would think of something else when talking about this matter.

“What is it?”

Jiang Yimiao couldn’t help but burst out laughing just thinking about it, “Do you remember in kindergarten, I had to go to your house to sleep, and I had to sleep with your mom. Auntie Zhao blasted Uncle Zhao to your room and then slept with the three of us, me and you, in the main bedroom of your house.”

Children’s brain circuits couldn’t be viewed from an adult’s perspective. Jiang Yimiao’s impression of herself had always been very obedient, but she really didn’t know how she had done such a thing in the first place – having to go to Zhao Shuming’s house to sleep.

Jiang Yimiao’s impression of this incident was actually a little fuzzy, but later on, she still heard Shen Man say that she had been crying that night, and that was why she wanted to go to Zhao Shuming’s house to sleep.

“That’s something I do remember, you would run over here holding a small pillow and that doll of yours, and once you came to my house, you stopped crying.”

“Alas, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen Auntie Zhao eh. There’s still half a year until the New Year.”

Zhao Shuming turned off the light and laid down, “My mom she’s coming back in the middle of next month.”

“Ah, so suddenly?”

“Well, my cousin is getting married and she’s coming back to drink the wedding wine.”

Zhao Shuming’s cousin’s mom was Zhao Yanlan’s own sister, and the two sisters were very close, so she definitely had to come back for her sister’s daughter’s wedding.

“Oh oh.” Jiang Yimiao nodded, “Then won’t we meet soon?”

It was already the end of the month, and in two days it would be next month.

“Right Miao Miao, there’s another thing I forgot to tell you, my dad he said he wants to come over for a meal in a few days.”

“Ah, Uncle Zhao?”

Jiang Yimiao actually didn’t remember what Zhao Shuming his father looked like at all, because she only saw Zhao Zhengcheng during the New Year.

Not to mention Zhao Shuming’s father, if Zhao Shuming never returned to China again, Jiang Yimiao might not even remember what he looked like.

Zhao Shuming had still returned to China often when he was an undergraduate, but then the epidemic years became a huge deterrent. It was only during those two years that their relationship began to grow more and more distant.

The childhood friends who had known each other for more than twenty years turned into online friends.

“Well, I’ll just go out to dinner with him if you mind.”

“No, no, no, this is your home, who am I to mind.” Jiang Yimiao lost her smile, “It just feels a bit sudden.”

“It’s indeed a bit sudden ……”

Zhao Shuming squared up the two pillows and turned the air conditioner to a suitable mode again.

“Can’t. We can’t chat anymore, you’re still sick, you need to go to bed early, go to bed early!” Jiang Yimiao suddenly interrupted the conversation between the two.

Only now did she remember that Zhao Shuming’s voice was still inflamed.

“Well, good night then.”

Jiang Yimiao, however, sat up and crossed over the pillow to wrap Zhao Shuming in the quilt he was wearing.

“Cover up the quilt oh.” She patted Zhao Shuming through the quilt.

“Uh, all listen to Miao Miao.” Zhao Shuming laughed.

Until Jiang Yimiao resumed her upright lying position, Zhao Shuming also let out a sigh of relief.

The force she had just kicked him with wasn’t very strong and didn’t cause him to feel pain, but the part that was touched was really a bit sensitive, making it a bit difficult for him to endure ……

And his palms were covered with the scent of her body, Zhao Shuming raised his hand to cover the tip of his nose, drawing in the scent that was nearly gone.

It wasn’t until he was close to sniffing to get used to it that he put his hand down.

Zhao Shuming closed his eyes and memorized for half a day before quieting down.

Jiang Yimiao quickly fell asleep, her gentle breathing came faintly, but it made him extraordinarily comfortable, Zhao Shuming actually had a rare good night’s sleep.

A dreamless night, Jiang Yimiao slept even deeper than he did, so deep that a pillow was kicked off to the floor by her, a pillow was hugged in her arms, and one of her legs was directly on Zhao Shuming’s body.

Zhao Shuming carefully picked up the pillows and recovered them to last night’s position, holding her flat on her back again, picking up the doll that had fallen to the floor and patting it as well, and tucking it back into her arms.

“Well ……” Jiang Yimiao’s eyes moved, slowly opened her eyes, the morning sunlight quietly burrowed into the gap in the curtains, shaking her eyes a little.

Zhao Shuming touched her head, ”It’s still early, go back to sleep. I’ll call you later for breakfast.

She gave another hmmm, rolled over and fell back to sleep in a blur.

He stood at her side and saw her fall back asleep before leaving the room, he had to go to the gym today, that’s why he got up earlier.

He had to go to the gym today, that’s why he got up a little early. After practicing and coming back to make her breakfast, it was Jiang Yimiao’s usual time to get up in the morning on weekends.

The weekend is the time for Jiang Yimiao to lie down, so she rested for two days.

In the summer afternoon, the sounds of birds, insects, and honking horns mingled together as Jiang Yimiao slept peacefully under the covers, yet Zhao Shuming stood at the door of his house and stared at his father.

“Why does it feel like you’re taller again.” Zhao Zhengcheng patted Zhao Shuming’s shoulder.

Zhao Shuming let out a helpless laugh at his words, “Why are you so sudden, didn’t you say you’d come on Wednesday before?”

“Transferred my shift, I just happened to be free today, it’s not like you don’t know that I’m also very busy at work.”

Zhao Zhengcheng had also lived in this house and still had some familiarity with the place, he lightly sat on the sofa.

“I heard that your mom is returning to China next month oh.”

“There’s no need to hear that, it is in fact.” Zhao Shuming put the washed fruit plate in front of Zhao Zhengcheng.

“I wasn’t unsure, so I asked you about it.”

“I don’t want to get involved in your adults’ affairs.” Zhao Shuming said somewhat breathlessly.

Even though they were divorced, in the eyes of outsiders Zhao Shuming’s parents’ relationship should be good, and they were even fated to have both surnames Zhao.

But only Zhao Shuming would feel that there was something wrong with his mom and dad’s mental designation, their feelings were indifferent but they did love each other, but it wasn’t enough to maintain a happy and stable home.

Divorced but can not do a goodbye two wide, feelings in friendship and love back and forth across the jump.

If it wasn’t for the fact that the two of them were his immediate family, Zhao Shuming really wanted to give them a test to see if they were some kind of mental patient.

“Heh, spoken as if you’re still a child.” Zhao Zheng Cheng’s tone subconsciously amplified a bit.

“Shhh! Dad, please keep your voice down, Miao Miao is sleeping.” Zhao Shuming said word for word.

“Ohhh, I’ll keep my voice down.” Zhao Zhengcheng made a shushing gesture, “But it’s been a while since I’ve seen A-Mei, I heard from your mom that she’s now working at Yi Ke, it’s quite good.”

A-mei was the word they used to address young girls in their old home, the uncle and aunt generation would even shout A-mei when they saw a young girl they didn’t know. But nowadays, this word was rarely used in this era.

Zhao Shuming froze for a moment when he heard him call Jiang Yimiao this way, but then he remembered that his father was an old Chinese doctor who loved to use old words from the last century, so it wasn’t strange for him to call Jiang Yimiao this way.

“Why would mom say this to you?” Zhao Shuming asked with a somewhat puzzled frown.

“Talked about it when we were chatting about you.”

Zhao Shuming hung his head and didn’t speak again.

“Shuming, take your pulse.”

Zhao Shuming raised an eyebrow and held his hand out in front of him.

After a long while, “The pulse is strong, healthy.”

“Of course I know I’m healthy.” He folded his shirt sleeves.

“By the way dad, you can check on River later as well, she has a lot of minor ailments, and she’s always been getting tired easily lately. Maybe not quite enough qi and blood, but those are common. You can then look at the specifics of her deficiency.”

“It might be spleen and stomach deficiency, but I’m not an expert in the spleen and stomach side, so I can only roughly give her a look.”

“Hmm.” He nodded.

Zhao Zhengcheng, however, suddenly frowned, Zhao Shuming’s pulse felt really good, so good that he could tell that he hadn’t even indulged in any sexual behavior.

He suddenly realized something, “Wait a moment, you and Miao Miao aren’t in a relationship?”

Just as Zhao Zhengcheng’s words fell, the sound of flushing came from the room’s toilet, and Jiang Yimiao walked out of the room with a sleepy face.