Chapter 10
The room was surprisingly quiet, and Zhao Shuming raised his head to look at her.
His eyes had long since adapted to the darkness, and even with the curtains drawn tightly, he could see Jiang Yimiao’s black and white almond eyes.
Her breathing was a bit heavy after coming to her senses, Jiang Yimiao blinked, only to feel the sound of Zhao Shuming’s nostrils all around her ears, and she touched her neck inexplicably feeling a bit hot.
“Well ……,” Zhao Shuming paused.
“I think so, sorry, didn’t scare you River.”
His arm was a little numb from his own pillows, he couldn’t help but hold his forehead, his head was still dizzy, in his own memory, it seemed like it had been a long time since he had sleepwalked.
Jiang Yimiao propped her hands in front of him, then shook her head at him. Her hair, which had only been washed at night, escaped with a strong jasmine scent that lingered around the two of them.
“I’ll turn on the lights first.” At the same time Jiang Yimiao reached out to touch the bedroom overhead light switch, Zhao Shuming’s palm suddenly covered her eyes.
The extremely bright light didn’t irritate her eyes because of the cover of his palm. Jiang Yimiao knew that Zhao Shuming was afraid that her eyes would be hurt by the light, so she didn’t run away from his hand.
Jiang Yimiao only felt that Zhao Shuming’s hand was so hot, hot, and even his palm was fragrant.
Her eyes blinked in Zhao Shuming’s hand, her eyelids and eyelashes sweeping across her palm, causing Zhao Shuming to feel a little tickled.
After a long while, Zhao Shuming put down his own hand.
Jiang Yimiao wasn’t a person who would lie, although she was startled the moment she touched Zhao Shuming when she first woke up, after seeing the person in front of her was Zhao Shuming, she immediately calmed down, so she wasn’t really startled by him.
If someone else appeared in her room in the middle of the night, Jiang Yimiao would think he was a pervert.
But if the subject was Zhao Shuming, she would only be a little worried; he had shown symptoms of sleepwalking a long time ago, and although it wasn’t very frequent, it hadn’t been broken.
During a summer vacation in middle school, Jiang Yimiao’s parents were busy working and weren’t at home during the day, and Zhao Shuming had always stayed by himself, so he went to Jiang Yimiao’s house to stay there, even though their homes were very close to each other.
At some point in the middle of the night, the air conditioning in the house made the room too dry, and Jiang Yimiao was woken up by thirst.
When she went to the living room in a daze to get a glass of water to drink, she saw Zhao Shuming sitting on the carpet in front of the sofa, lying on his back and not moving, and then Jiang Yimiao, who had been startled into exclaiming, woke him up.
That was the first time Jiang Yimiao knew he could sleepwalk.
It happened to be the time when he sleepwalked more frequently, and other people would usually go back to their own beds to continue sleeping when they sleepwalked.
But Zhao Shuming was different, he seemed to find a place where he could sit down every time, then get down and continue to sleep.
Later, he would even sleepwalk to Jiang Yimiao’s room and sleep through it. ……
Sometimes when Jiang Yimiao found out in the middle of the night, she would pull Zhao Shuming up, and the two of them would simply continue to sleep together.
Jiang Yimiao has always known that the quality of his sleep is generally, but she is such an excellent second sleep body or not fully understand him, even if she gave Zhao Shuming took out his own exclusive skills – counting sheep, Zhao Shuming still can not sleep.
Jiang Yimiao only counted to ten and fell asleep.
At this point, Zhao Shuming could only look at her sleeping face with some amusement and helplessness.
However, he unexpectedly found that when he was surrounded by Jiang Yimiao’s scent, it seemed to be easier to fall asleep, and he had the rare opportunity to get many nights of relatively good quality sleep that summer vacation.
The air conditioning blowing a little cold, Jiang Yimiao subconsciously sniffing, for sleepwalking in this area to understand, in addition to from Zhao Shuming this, the vast majority of them are from Baidu as well as one day occasionally brush to the marketing number of the video.
The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new computer, and you’ll be able to get it to work.
So Jiang Yimiao also rarely believe in browser searches about diseases, but she has heard that if sleepwalking attacks from childhood, may grow up may be cured.
She also thought that when Zhao Shuming became an adult he might not sleepwalk.
The air was quiet for a few seconds before Zhao Shuming suddenly furrowed his brows, “Miao Miao, why are you suddenly awake?”
Jiang Yimiao usually slept so much that thunder and typhoon days in the middle of the night couldn’t wake her up, and she rarely woke up suddenly.
Jiang Yimiao covered her belly, “I’ve forgotten if you didn’t tell me, I need to go to the restroom first!”
She turned around and put on her slippers and ran to the bathroom in her room. When she sat back down on the bed, Zhao Shuming still maintained the same position she had just been in.
“Did you just have a nightmare?” Looking at Zhao Shuming’s expression which wasn’t very normal, she subconsciously reached out and touched his forehead, and when the warm touch on his forehead came, Jiang Yimiao realized that he was sleepwalking not having a fever.
She silently put her hand back again.
Zhao Shuming shook his head and laughed helplessly, “I don’t remember, I don’t remember what I dreamed.”
“The floor is cool and damp, you should get up first.” Jiang Yimiao gave him a tug as an afterthought.
She even subconsciously wanted Zhao Shuming to sit directly on her bed, after all, they had slept together when they were small.
It wasn’t until Zhao Shuming obediently sat on the chair at the dresser table next to the bed that she realized it was different now than before.
The touch of his arm was very different from touching it before, and she looked down and subconsciously pinched it.
Zhao Shuming didn’t stop or interrupt her movements, only pretending not to notice, letting her somewhat slightly cold hand pinch the muscles on his arm.
Jiang Yimiao withdrew her hand in some embarrassment and propped her hands on the bed to look up at him, “Do you still have insomnia?”
But she realized that Zhao Shuming’s dark circles under his eyes weren’t heavy, and she didn’t see any traces of dark circles unless she looked closely.
“It can be a bit hard to fall asleep, but it’s not very serious.”
Because he knew that he didn’t sleep well, Zhao Shuming slept earlier, trying to ensure a certain amount of sleep to maintain his body in a healthy state.
“Ohhh.” Jiang Yimiao nodded and yawned.
She was wearing the same set of pajamas that Zhao Shuming had helped her take in the evening shower.
It was the simplest short-sleeved shorts commonly found on the market, and because it was summer pajamas, the skin exposure was a bit high.
Zhao Shuming swept over with a glance, and a piece of flowery white under her neck stuck into his eyes.
He took a breath and picked up the small quilt by her legs and surrounded it from in front of her, Jiang Yimiao was wrapped into a ball by the quilt, only showing a head out.
“Then I won’t disturb your rest, I’ll go back to my room first.”
Zhao Shuming’s action was a bit too sudden, Jiang Yimiao froze in place, only after a long time had passed did she grab the edge of the quilt and nod at him.
She looked down at herself before remembering that she had taken off her upper body underwear while sleeping, and she couldn’t help but wrap the quilt a little tighter.
In the time it took her to blink, Zhao Shuming had already walked quickly to the door of the room, and even directly brought the door of the room with him.
The not-so-light and not-so-heavy sound of the door closing reminded Zhao Shuming that Jiang Yimiao didn’t like to close the door when she slept, and he turned back to help her open the door again.
She still maintained the sitting position she had just been in, her body wrapped in the quilt showing her head as she looked at Zhao Shuming.
“Miao Miao, good night.”
“Evening …… Ann.” Jiang Yimiao had only finished speaking when a slamming sound came from the next room.
Jiang Yimiao lowered her head to rub the small plush on the quilt and sniffed the quilt’s aroma, and straightened up and fell back into bed looking at the room’s flowery white ceiling.
She had heard that sleepwalking episodes occurred when one was stressed or unhappy, had he been unhappy lately?
Jiang Yimiao let out a long sigh into the air, it would be nice if people could be happy all the time.The weather forecast didn’t lie this time, the weather forecast didn’t lie this time.
The weather forecast didn’t lie this time, the sky was gray-green at 10:00 a.m., and the rain was getting heavier, making crackling sounds on the glass windows.
Jiang Yimiao was not woken up by the alarm clock but by the thunder outside.
“Why is it like the end of the world.” Jiang Yimiao looked through the glass door of the balcony and the sky outside looked even more horrible.
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen weather that extreme.” Zhao Shuming responded to her and brought out today’s breakfast for the two of them from the kitchen.
Today he cooked some steamed dumplings, siu mai, bread, and eggs, a rich and varied mainstay.
“I heard that it even hailed in which district, bigger than an egg.” Jiang Yimiao remembered seeing hail a few times, but it was only as big as a thumb’s head.
“It’s so annoying to go to work in this weather.” Jiang Yimiao spat out a sentence and sat down at the dining table.
“Don’t be annoyed, I’ll just transport you to and from work.” He laughed, putting the dishes in front of her.
Before Jiang Yimiao wanted to refuse to trouble him, Zhao Shuming continued, “In the past, when it rained and I was afraid that my shoes would break if they got wet, I even carried you home. Now that I can drive you around, isn’t it more convenient than before, how can it be troublesome?”
“Don’t worry about troubling me.” Zhao Shuming’s tone was gentle, but his eyes were firm.
He placed the peeled eggs in front of her.
Having made up his mind, he felt a strong need to make Jiang Yimiao realize that he was someone who could be close enough to trouble, not an outsider.
No matter what outcome they could come to in the end, he would always be someone she could trouble.
Jiang Yimiao lowered her head and poked the egg open, scooping out the yolk as a whole and stuffing it to Zhao Shuming, she hadn’t loved yolks since she was a child, and every time, she just stuffed it to Zhao Shuming to fix it.
“I’m just afraid that it’s dangerous to drive in the rain.”
“It’s also dangerous to walk in the rain.” Zhao Shuming retorted to her, “This weather might have to last for quite some time, so don’t be afraid to trouble me afterward, okay?”
She pursed her lips and nodded, “Uh-huh.”
Being able to sit in the car to go to work was bound to be better than commuting in the wind and rain with an umbrella, and Jiang Yimiao didn’t seem to have any reason why she could refuse Zhao Shuming’s help.
She also realized that Zhao Shuming wasn’t being polite and courteous to her, but really nice, and they shouldn’t be as rusty and polite to each other as others.
Jiang Yimiao’s memory wasn’t very good, but she remembered the incident that Zhao Shuming had mentioned, he did carry her home on rainy days when she was a child, and that was still in the third grade of elementary school, and it had actually been sixteen years since then.
Summer in South City was a strange season, as long as it was hot for a while, it would rain for a few days, and it kept going back and forth.
She remembered that day was also a rainy day like now, and it rained hard after school.
Jiang Yimiao hugged her small umbrella and looked out the window somewhat worriedly as she waited for Zhao Shuming.
In addition to the middle of the time apart, they have always attended the same school, the school is only four hundred meters away from the district, plus the usual time after class Jiang Yimiao’s parents are not yet off work, so they are walking home.
It didn’t take long for Zhao Shuming to rush to the classroom to find Jiang Yimiao.
It was raining heavily outside, so I didn’t have to think about it to know that they would be soaked to the skin when they got home.
But the good thing was that it was close to home and they didn’t have to walk for long, so they could take a shower when they got home, so even though the rain was pouring down, the two kids ran home together, rain or shine.
But that day Jiang Yimiao was a little hesitant, Zhao Shuming quickly saw her hesitation, he asked her in confusion, “What’s wrong, don’t want to go home?”
Jiang Yimiao looked down at her new sandals.
It was a sandal with sequins that was very popular in those years, just as shiny as Princess Barbie’s shoes on TV.
At that time, Jiang Yimiao had not yet allowed herself to become a girl who only wore black, white and gray and pretended to be cool. When she went out shopping, her mom saw that she wanted them, so she bought her a pair of those shoes.
The drainage system in those days wasn’t as good as it is now, and the road home had long been flooded with rainwater, reaching up to Jiang Yimiao’s calves.
It was the first day she wore these shoes, and they would definitely break down after soaking in the water.
Jiang Yimiao looked at Zhao Shuming with some grievance.
In the end, Zhao Shuming carried her back home. Jiang Yimiao held the umbrella, and he carried her.
She was holding his neck like this, not daring to move around on his back for fear that he would get too tired. Jiang Yimiao buried her head down, just in time to smell the faint fragrance of Zhao Shuming’s school uniform.
She brought her head closer, and her lips seemed to brush against his ear and neck, Jiang Yimiao looked at the white neck and wanted to take a bite.
She did so when she thought so, but she was interrupted by Zhao Shuming before she could touch his neck.
“Wait a minute! Miao Miao stop.” He stopped in a hurry and stopped her movement.
“What, what’s wrong?” Jiang Yimiao, who was carried on her back, was stunned.
“Bite it again at home, when I’m clean from the shower. It’s not clean with rainwater on it.”
“Oh.” She had to bite her own lip to endure it.
It was a good thing that she knuckled down and bit Zhao Shuming when she got home later.
Jiang Yimiao suddenly remembered the past, and she raised her head to look at Zhao Shuming, but her gaze subconsciously pinned on his neck.
Zhao Shuming looked as if he was a little whiter than before, his clothes-covered skin almost as white as hers, and the knot in his throat rolled lightly with the swallowing motion.
She stared at his neck, her brain somehow kept telling her that it seemed to smell good, stretchy, and nice to bite, and she physically gulped involuntarily.