Chapter 04

Zhao Shuming stood by the door, his gaze covered under the lenses of his glasses originally averted. It wasn’t until Jiang Yimiao raised her head and realized his presence that he fixed his eyes to meet hers.

He had just finished organizing some books in his room, and after brushing his teeth and washing up, he realized that the lights in the living room were still on, but the TV had been turned off.

He didn’t know if Jiang Yimiao was ready to go to bed, thinking that she might go out of the living room later, and saw that the light in her room was on, so Zhao Shuming walked to her room to ask.

Zhao Shuming had always known that she didn’t like to close the door when she was sleeping since she was little.

Because she watched too many ghost movies when she was young, Jiang Yimiao had always believed that Peopeo existed in the world, and always felt that if she closed the door, Peopeo would appear and eat her, so she had never dared to close the door to sleep.

Although now she knows that there are no ghosts in this world, of course sometimes she still suspects that maybe ghosts exist in some dimension.

But she knew she would never be the first person in the world to actually see a ghost either.

Her subconscious mind still kept her in the habit of sleeping with the door open, even in the hot summer with the air conditioner on.

As Jiang Yimiao expected, Zhao Shuming saw her roll herself up on the bed several times with the quilt, and also saw the whole process of her hugging and kissing the doll.

And that doll, he still gave it to her when she was a child.

Jiang Yimiao silently tucked the doll behind herself, and the sickness that had just caused her to tremble at the sight of a cute doll was instantly interrupted.

“I’m ready to sleep ……,” she returned after a long time.

Zhao Shuming smiled gently.

“I saw that the living room light was still on and wondered if you still wanted to use it, so I came to ask.” He explained.

“Then I’ll turn off the living room lights?”

Jiang Yimiao only remembered at this moment that she had forgotten to turn off the lights, and she busily nodded, “Yes.”

She looked at him, but Zhao Shuming didn’t leave her room as she expected, but instead walked straight into the house to help her close the curtains.

“There’s a clubhouse not far across the street over here, and it’s lit up all night, so it’s better to pull the curtains.”

Zhao Shuming explained as he pulled, Jiang Yimiao didn’t like light when she slept, and although she didn’t close the door she would definitely pull the curtains.

He knew all of her proclivities as well as her habits, even if time separated them, he had the chance to return to her side and become the closest person to her again.

She sat up propped up on the bed and glanced sideways at the window, a blur of five colors flitting across her vision.

There was indeed an entertainment club at two o’clock in the bedroom room.

She subconsciously raised her head to look at Zhao Shuming when he closed the curtains and turned around, he was so tall that it hurt a little to tilt her neck, Jiang Yimiao touched her neck.

“That weird disease of yours, does it still flare up now?”

Zhao Shuming didn’t much like looking down at her, and he obediently squatted by her bedside.

Jiang Yimiao’s raised head followed and lowered, and the hand that reached behind her back to grasp the doll tightened.

She laughed dryly, “Yes, it still flares up, but it doesn’t seem to be as bad as it was when I was a kid.”

His eyes fell on the doll behind her, “I’m surprised you still have this one.”

She pulled the doll behind her back to herself, “Yeah, I’m not going to throw it away.”

Right oh, she almost forgot that this doll was still given to her by Zhao Shuming.

She was too young at the time, and if Zhao Shuming hadn’t mentioned it in middle school, Jiang Yimiao wouldn’t have been able to remember how he gave her this doll – she went to Zhao Shuming’s house to play, and when she saw the doll, she hugged it in her arms and refused to let go of it, and Zhao Shuming gave her the doll before the tag was even removed.

Since then, this doll has become Jiang Yimiao’s favorite plush toy, and has accompanied her from the age of her long-gone memory to the present.

In recent years, this doll is Jiang Yimiao’s “A Beibei”, to use a popular term.

She had a fetishistic attachment to the doll, and as a child, she would have trouble falling asleep and getting restless if she didn’t hold the doll in her arms.

Even though she doesn’t have this complex anymore, Jiang Yimiao would never abandon the doll.

The doll was well taken care of by her, and halfway through the process, Jiang Yimiao even went to find a specialized craftsman to help re-cottonize the doll once.

I could tell that the doll was a bit old, but it was still well and clean.

Zhao Shuming was suddenly a little happy, although the doll’s status in Jiang Yimiao’s heart should now be higher than his, but it was given to her by him.

She hadn’t established the concept of cuteness when she was very young, so this weird disease of hers didn’t kick in until after kindergarten.

So after kindergarten all of Jiang Yimiao’s cute stuffed animals were hidden away, leaving only this one given to her by Zhao Shuming.

So there would always be some kind of connection between them, whether she intentionally or unintentionally drifted away from him, but the link between them would never be broken.

Jiang Yimiao held the doll back in her arms, but Zhao Shuming looked at her but laughed.

“What are you laughing at, laughing at the fact that I still like to play with dolls when I’m that old?” Jiang Yimiao looked down at him, a little puzzled.

“No, I just think it’s cute.”

“Yeah, dolls are cute.” She lifted the doll and placed it in front of Zhao Shuming.

Zhao Shuming touched the doll’s head.

“Well, it’s late, I won’t disturb your rest, good night.”

He stood up and subconsciously picked up the corner of the quilt to cover her feet.

“Good night to you too.”

Looking at his back as he left the room, Jiang Yimiao suddenly felt again that Zhao Shuming looked as if he wasn’t much different from before again.

It seemed like he used to watch her fall asleep before going back to his own room to sleep.

As for helping her cover up the quilt she kicked over, there were countless other things.

It was as if everything had gone back to the past.

Zhao Shuming sighed lightly and let out a breath, the cute he was talking about wasn’t the doll being cute, but her being cute.

The last week had been good weather, with no rain for five or six days in a row.

The environment around the neighborhood was unexpectedly good, and you could vaguely hear the birds chirping in the morning.

Jiang Yimiao opened the curtains, the sky was so blue that it was peaceful and leisurely.

She doesn’t like summer, but she only likes early morning summer.

The cool natural breeze was even more comfortable than air conditioning, and such good weather made Jiang Yimiao feel like she was still in middle school preparing for morning exercises.

Physically, people can’t go back to the past, but their perception and memory system will always bring them back to the past.

When faced with a familiar scene, one gets a sense of being in the past.

After taking two seconds to reminisce about her lost youth, Jiang Yimiao stretched her back and shuffled to the bathroom to brush her teeth and wash her face.

When she walked out of the bathroom all fresh, she happened to see Zhao Shuming, who had returned home from the gym.

He took the stairs directly back home, twelve floors high, Zhao Shuming’s physical strength is no longer good, but also with some gasping. The sound of breathing.

“Miao Miao, you’re awake? I bought you breakfast.”

He lifted the bag in his hand. Last night during dinner Zhao Shuming had asked her in passing what she wanted to eat for breakfast and could make it for her.

But Jiang Yimiao said that she suddenly wanted to eat the brisket noodles downstairs, so instead of making breakfast himself today, he followed her wishes and packed her a bowl of the brisket noodles downstairs.

“Eh, thanks!” She joyfully smiled as she accepted the still steaming brisket noodles, her stomach already a little too hungry to handle it.

She raised her eyes to look at Zhao Shuming.

He wore a workout undershirt when he worked out, but on the way home he put on a shirt, but the shirt couldn’t stop his body.

The arm muscles that were still engorged after the workout lined his body with smooth lines, completely the healthiest and best looking body in Jiang Yimiao’s eyes.

Last night, Zhao Shuming was still wearing his pajamas, so Jiang Yimiao hadn’t even noticed the tendons on his arms and the tightness of his arms.

She didn’t know when Zhao Shuming had gotten into the habit of working out, but she did know that his routine had always been regular and healthy, except for the quality of his sleep, which hadn’t been very good. ……

“You’re hungry you eat first don’t need to wait for me, I’ll go take a shower first.” He put his share of breakfast on the table as well.

Until she finished breakfast, Jiang Yimiao remembered that she had a lot of courier stranded downstairs without taking it, last night when she came home too late, she was a little afraid, the courier was a little too much, and she thought to take it during the day on Saturday.

The phone received a new courier notification text message, Jiang Yimiao remembered that she had a large courier, she looked at Zhao Shuming who was wiping the dining table.

Her tongue was still tied in knots over what to call him.

It wasn’t until he sensed her gaze and raised his head to meet her eyes that Jiang Yimiao opened her mouth and asked, “Zhao Shuming, are you free later?”

“Yes, why?”

“I have a lot of express deliveries, I’m afraid I can’t carry them, can you go with me to get them?”

“Okay.” Zhao Shuming thought that she had only moved here a short time ago, probably bought a lot of daily necessities, but he did not realize that the “a lot of express” in her mouth was indeed a lot…….

The two of them panted as they dragged all the couriers out of the elevator, “Miao Miao, why did you buy so many things.” Zhao Shuming was a little surprised, she hadn’t always had a high materialistic appetite.

“Moving house thinking that I’m going to get a lot of new objects, I didn’t expect to buy so much.” Jiang Yimiao smiled a little embarrassed.

But the express delivery was mostly small items, such as some accessories for the kitchen, personal care items, and soft furnishing items.

The two people only had four hands, which was why it seemed laborious to carry them.

Jiang Yimiao sat on a low stool in the living room and unpacked the express delivery with Zhao Shuming.

She also bought two ornaments to put on the TV cabinet, still in the black and white gray cold style.

Zhao Shuming took the ornaments from her and put them on the TV stand, and pulled the TV stand open to look at the objects contained in the TV stand.

He was sharp-eyed and saw the medicine box placed in the bottom TV cabinet, as well as Jiang Yimiao’s medical record book, the lid of the medicine box was not closed, and he could not avoid seeing the medicine in the box, and it did not look like it was a regular practical medicine.

“Have you been sick lately?”

Jiang Yimiao raised her head, “I had the flu during the last two weeks, but I’ve recovered now.”

Seeing him frown slightly, she added after a pause, “Don’t worry, there are more viruses in the recent change of season.”

“Still need to take care of your body.”

“Alright, I don’t want to catch a cold all of a sudden either.” She answered, accustomed to Zhao Shuming’s overly attentive advice.

The living room was piled high with express boxes, leaving only one large express placed by the entryway cabinet that had yet to be opened.

Zhao Shuming originally thought it was an organizer or a small cabinet or some other object.

But when he squinted his eyes before seeing the words on the box, he asked in some confusion while moving the express to Jiang Yimiao, “What is this?”

Printed on the light brown cardboard box were the words “Lithium Hedge Machine”.

“I just bought this thing yesterday and it actually arrived today! It’s for self-defense.” With some excitement she picked up the scissors and unpacked it.

Then dragged out something that looked like a saw.

For a celibate girl like Jiang Yimiao, Zhao Shuming felt relieved that she had a sense of self-defense.

But he didn’t expect this object for her self-defense to look like this.

“It’s so big, it can’t be carried around, right?” Zhao Shuming dragged the lithium battery of the machine.

“Yeah, I put it at home for self-defense.” Jiang Yimiao returned very seriously.

She liked to watch murder case commentary videos when she ate, and was inexplicably a little scared of home invasion murders.

And she had lived in an urban village before, although she lived in an apartment house with good lighting and environment.

But at night, the street stalls were full of men with their clothes lifted up and half-naked bodies making a lot of noise, and there were bursts of barking dogs coming from the unlit alleys.

Images out of place in the city made her inexplicably uneasy. So her guard was always up.

After all, one could be kind but not unsuspecting.

In the comment section of those homicide commentaries, netizens love to joke about putting a chainsaw in the house for defense, pulling up the ghosts are afraid to come.

But the chainsaw is too heavy for most people, especially for the novice chainsaw is not good operation, the use of the process will also have a certain degree of danger.

Until a while ago, Jiang Yimiao in the comments section of a video brushed the hedge machine this kind of thing.

In fact, it is to trim the green belt will use the machine, the weight is far less than the chainsaw, but if you really use it for self-defense, the effect is still absolutely good.

Jiang Yimiao weighed the weight of the machine, waved it in mid-air, “Ha, is a little scary, but for self-defense, it must be strong enough.”

“I’d rather stand at the defense table than lie in a coffin.” Jiang Yimiao clenched her fists and said with a firm face.

Zhao Shuming looked at her face and was stunned for a moment.

Based on Zhao Shuming’s understanding of her for so many years, he knew that Miao Miao was actually a highly sensitive person, extremely easy to empathize with events that happened in society, and she was prone to a sense of uneasiness when faced with news of those undesirable events.

However, he knew that if she simply read those negative news, directly buy a saw to defend herself at home a little less in line with her style of doing things.

Zhao Shuming was a little nervous and a little uneasy, he took the saw in Jiang Yimiao’s hand and asked softly, “Miao Miao, are you experiencing something ……”