Chapter 20

The fragrance of fruits and the sweet and sour flavor of yogurt jumped at the tip of her nose, Jiang Yimiao swept her head down to look at the fruits and asked, “Do you want another piece?”

“Another piece?” In her afterglow, Qiu Xiaoyan had already left this small lounge, and Zhao Shuming propped his head up and tentatively returned.

She lowered her hand and forked another piece of apple to Zhao Shuming.

Jiang Yimiao stared at his lips for several seconds, although human flesh all feels the same when you bite into it, but Zhao Shuming just looked so fragrant …….

Immediately, she shook her head to get this strange thought out of her head.

Usually, she thought his arms looked good to bite, so why would she think of other parts.

The left hand on her leg quietly pinched her thigh, it must be because she hadn’t had any bites for too long recently and her weird mood had come back.

Zhao Shuming looked at the fork in her hand, and the sourness he had just felt because of her name calling was swept away again, he thought, it’s okay, he’ll always change his mind again in the future.

He looked down at the weather app on his cell phone, “Miao Miao, what time do you have to work overtime, I see that the weather forecast expects it to rain for more than two hours, and it’s been raining moderately.”

Jiang Yimiao subconsciously glanced out the window, but at six o’clock, the sky was already completely dark because of the dark clouds, because every day’s inspiration almost always breaks out at night. Because the daily inspiration is almost in the evening to burst, Jiang Yimiao usually work overtime to seven or eight o’clock, the latest will not be more than nine o’clock.

The program is in the final stage, testing no problem Jiang Yimiao recently did not have a very tight work, so she guessed that she may touch another hour or two on the end of the work.

That meant it would most likely still be raining heavily when she got home from work.

She rubbed her neck, a little hesitant, but in reality she didn’t know when she’d be busy before she got off work, “It should be done by seven or eight o’clock.”

“Do you want me to wait for you to get off work and go back together?” Zhao Shuming’s obsessive-compulsive disorder started again, seeing that Jiang Yimiao had eaten her fill, she started to clean up the things on the table, stacking the lunchboxes in their original order of size and putting them back into the insulated bag.

“Waiting for me to get off work? It’s a bit too much trouble for you.” Jiang Yimiao’s eyes were a little surprised.

Zhao Shuming just hadn’t officially started his job at Nanda University yet, but he usually had some small jobs, and he had recently heard that one of his friend’s private counseling studio’s owner, and he would occasionally go and take cases.

Usually being at home was enough trouble for him, and Zhao Shuming was prone to not getting enough sleep at night, and had to make up for some time at noon or in the afternoon, so he wasn’t actually as idle as a hobo.

“It’s fine, I don’t have anything to do tonight, I’m bored at home by myself.”

He put the insulated bag aside and poked his body towards Jiang Yimiao’s direction, “No matter what I’m sure I’ll still be picking you up from work, wouldn’t me going back now and picking you up again be more trouble?”

Zhao Shuming choked Jiang Yimiao with this one sentence, but he was right, so she hesitated for a moment and nodded.

Yi Ke had several parks in South City, her place was the headquarters, and although verbally non-staff members were generally not allowed to come in, in reality the parks would almost every day had open visiting slots.

There were also open days, and as a relatively famous internet company, every semester there would be a university college of related majors organizing students to come for cognitive internships.

Zhao Shuming was brought in by her, so it was easy to find a place for him to stay for two hours.

It just so happened that there was a recreation room downstairs and a gym on the negative floor, so there was always a place where Zhao Shuming could take a look around.

Jiang Yimiao took him to the recreation room and let Zhao Shuming wander around casually.

“If you’re tired, you can also go back to that lounge we were just in, and there’s a milk tea store and coffee shop on the first floor of the next building.” Jiang Yimiao looked up at him.

“Okay, I’ll take a look around first, call me when you’re done and we’ll go home together.”

Jiang Yimiao nodded towards him, “Then I’ll go back to my office first.” With that, she took the elevator without a second thought.

Zhao Shuming couldn’t help but smile as he looked at the broken hair on her head.

Since middle school, he had noticed that Jiang Yimiao’s hair on top of her head would blow up whenever she used her brain excessively, and he didn’t know if it was because her head had become too hot from the mental labor or if she had unconsciously scratched it herself. One could only imagine how much her current work consumed her brain.

If she didn’t like this kind of work, Zhao Shuming actually didn’t want her to work so hard. This work overtime was just a little too serious.

How much he liked her, but also did not have the power to change her choice of her own life, as long as she liked that is the truth.

Zhao Shuming had to do his duty as a family cook to make sure she had enough to eat every day.

When Jiang Yimiao returned to her workstation, she immediately woke up her computer, thinking that Zhao Shuming was waiting for her, she decided to finish her work as soon as possible, threw her cell phone into a drawer to avoid distracting herself, and continued to start tapping on the keyboard in front of her.

It wasn’t until she had once again run her brain at high speed until it was bubbling with stars that Jiang Yimiao heaved a sigh of relief, and her entire body made a trip to the office chair.

“Miao ah, are you done?” Qiu Xiaoyan had already started packing her bag and was ready to mark her hours and leave work.

“Well, finally, done!” She let out a deep sigh, “I feel like I want to throw up right now ……”

Qiu Xiaoyan scooted her chair closer to her, “Eh, isn’t the one who brought you dinner tonight the handsome guy with dark hair and glasses who sent you to work earlier?”

Jiang Yimiao wilted and lifted her head, “Uh, yeah, know twenty years of hair small ah, before not and you said it.”

“Those who don’t look good are called hairdressers, those who look good are called childhood friends.” Autumn Xiaoyan intentionally pulled the voice long, a stream to tease her meaning, it is not surprising that she then opened her mouth.

“It’s just raining and working overtime, but also send you dinner specially, tsk tsk.” She shook her head, “Don’t even say friends, husbands aren’t necessarily able to do this, right?”

“Ah Yan, if you say that again, the next time I see you and the person you’re flirting with I’ll get up in arms too.” Jiang Yimiao jokingly hit her arm.

“I don’t mind being coaxed.” She smiled wryly, but immediately the smile was restrained and asked somewhat seriously, “Are you and that bamboo horse of yours really innocent? There is no meaning at all?”

“Of course, we are a family, the feelings are very deep, not that kind of male and female feelings.” Jiang Yimiao said firmly.

“Then again, it’s true that it’s rare to be able to know each other for more than twenty years and still have such a good relationship all the time.”

Although her intuition always felt that there was a wonderful magnetic field between the two of them, Autumn Xiaoyan didn’t tease Jiang Yimiao anymore.

Autumn Xiaoyan also had a childhood childhood friend neighbor who was very close and played together all the time, but then the two of them went back to their respective hometowns when they were in middle school, so they never had any contact again.

She could understand this kind of friendship from childhood, but could not really experience a long-lasting relationship like that of Jiang Yimiao and Zhao Shuming.

There were too many people in the world, too many people to know, too many people to say goodbye to, and even more people to be forgotten.

If you really have a friend that you can know for life, it’s a rare thing.

In the case of Zhao Shuming, who had known Jiang Yimiao since she was conceived by Shen Man, he would probably be the only person in the world who remembered her from the time she was born to the time she died.

“Yeah, that’s why it feels like we’re like family now, haha.” Jiang Yimiao let out a breath.

She actually sometimes wondered a bit why her friends always thought of the two of them in this direction when they saw Zhao Shuming.

Perhaps it was because when people reached their twenties, the people around them always loved to act as red bridesmaids.

But she and Zhao Shuming clearly didn’t have that kind of relationship, and she had gotten so used to getting along with Zhao Shuming like this that she didn’t feel that there were any unspeakable feelings as well as secrets between the two of them at all.

Obviously, they were not related by blood but were like family.

She also cherished the relationship between the two of them.

Jiang Yimiao sat up, opened the drawer and took out her cell phone, realizing that Zhao Shuming had made two calls to her just three minutes ago.

She dialed back.

But in two seconds he picked up, “Miao Miao, I’ve already gone up to the lounge to sit, are you done?”

His tone sounded a little strange, could it be that he hadn’t rested enough today and was too tired?

Jiang Yimiao didn’t think much about it, she replied back, “I’m done, I’ll clean up my desktop and go home.”

Zhao Shuming leaned against the wall and answered, and only after a few seconds did he continue to speak, “Then I’ll come to your workstation and wait for you.”

“Okay.” Jiang Yimiao hung up the phone, turned off the computer and quickly started packing her bag.

Zhao Shuming looked at the blacked out screen, which reflected his tightly frowning face. The heavens might have deliberately let him hear what Jiang Yimiao and Qiu Xiaoyan had just said.

He had actually always known what she was thinking, and it was precisely because she didn’t seem to have feelings like him at all that he never dared to completely pierce that divide.

In evolutionary psychology, there was an effect known as the Westermarck effect, which believed that two children who grew up together would have a hard time being sexually attracted to each other as adults, or even develop a sexual aversion to each other. In evolutionary psychology, there is an effect called the Westermarck effect, which states that two children who grew up together will hardly be sexually attracted to each other in adulthood, and may even develop sexual aversion.

That was why he was always afraid that Jiang Yimiao might not have any interest in him at all, even though they had been separated for several years after they grew up.

He was only supported by the fact that Jiang Yimiao didn’t have a favorite until now, and by the opinion of the opponents of this effect.

He lifted his eyelashes to compose himself, thinking that Jiang Yimiao would still at least feel the urge to bite him, so she definitely wouldn’t hate him in her heart. With that, Zhao Shuming justified himself.

He pulled out his usual smile and walked over to Jiang Yimiao’s workstation, still carrying the lunchbox he brought in the evening.

“I’m done packing, let’s go home.”

All Jiang Yimiao wanted to do now was to go home and take a hot bath, then watch an episode of a TV show, swipe her cell phone, and then lie down on her bed to sleep.

“Uh-huh.” He looked at her bag and subconsciously asked, “Do you want me to help you with your backpack?”

“No need and it’s not an elementary school student’s school bag, my bag is very light.” Said Jiang Yimiao also lifted her own bag, “The heaviest is still that vernier caliper for self-defense. ” She took the caliper out and waved it in front of Zhao Shuming’s eyes and shoved it back in.

“Have you thought about what to eat tomorrow morning?”

“Tomorrow morning ah, the sticky corn I bought online has arrived, I want to eat boiled corn.”

“Good.”

“Is there any more fruit at home?”

“Only grapes, do you want to eat anything else, you can go downstairs to the fruit store to buy it later.”

“No, I just want to eat grapes.”

They went back home without a word.

It was only when they got home that Jiang Yimiao noticed the few dolls that Zhao Shuming had retrieved to hang in the living room when it rained at night, she reached out and pinched them, “They seem to be dry now eh.”

She took the dolls off the clips and arranged them one by one on the sofa again.

Jiang Yimiao sat on her knees on the sofa and pinched the dolls one by one, kissing them again and sniffing them with her nose.

She and Zhao Shuming were now using the same bottle of laundry detergent, so much so that she suddenly felt that these dolls smelled somewhat like Zhao Shuming’s body.

“It’s so cute ……” Jiang Yimiao shivered a little uncontrollably all over again, and resisting the urge to bite the dolls, she ran back to her room to put the biting gelatine-filled box quickly opened it and bit into the bite gum several more times.

“The reaction is still a bit strong.” Zhao Shuming glanced at Jiang Yimiao and then at the pile of dolls.

“It’s that the dolls are too cute, I can’t help it.” She subconsciously glanced at Zhao Shuming’s veined arms.

It was awful, it would be even better if she could bite him hard like she did when she was a child.

Zhao Shuming followed her gaze and dropped his head to look at his own arm and smiled uncomfortably, he could tell that she wanted to grab him or bite him again now.

It took several minutes for Jiang Yimiao’s emotions to completely calm down again, she exhaled and walked off to the checkroom to get her pajamas and start the night off with grace.

Until she came out of the bathroom all fresh and collapsed on the sofa to watch TV, Shen Man’s phone call suddenly called.

It was rare for the family to call her in the middle of the night, Jiang Yimiao was a bit puzzled but still quickly picked up.

“Miao Miao, you’re at home now after work.”

“Just got out of the shower.” Jiang Yimiao touched the end of her hair that was accidentally wet during the shower, “Why are you suddenly calling at this time?”

“There’s something that mom asked you about.”

“Eh, you say.” Jiang Yimiao sat uncomfortably and adjusted a half-lying position, the whole person was much more comfortable.

Shen Man gabbled a lot, and Jiang Yimiao suddenly popped up from the sofa.

“No, mom, you’re asking me to go on a blind date? You didn’t say this before, didn’t you say that you don’t care if I fall in love or not, get married or not.”

“Eh, it’s not a blind date ah Miao Miao, it’s just that you still remember that Aunt Gu who used to treat you to ice cream.”

“Remember.” Jiang Yimiao nodded, there is a villa area near the park in his hometown, Auntie Gu’s house is there.

Auntie Gu liked Jiang Yimiao a lot, and when she was a child, she often went to her house to eat ice cream.

It’s a long story, so let’s make it short.

Auntie Gu originally introduced two young people on a blind date, the boy and Jiang Yimiao about the same age, overseas study back, now working in the South City, the family has a lot of money, looks good. But the girl on the other side had something to do and refused to go on a blind date.

This blind date was originally a hometown introduction of young people to have fun, and the traditional blind date is not a meaning.

Now want to pull a girl to go through the scene, talk about it is not important, is to eat a meal and chat as a right to introduce new friends to know.

What’s more important is to go to give a thousand dollars in red envelopes, Jiang Yimiao doubt that this is not a piggy bank.

“Going on a blind date and giving me a thousand dollars in red envelopes? Mom, it can’t be a scam.”

“What are you talking about? Auntie Gu’s family rides in a military vehicle, can they cheat you? The boy is also studying computer science, his father is a Luo network technology executives, mainly because of the thought of returning to China has no friends, want to know a little common topics, Aunt Gu on the I thought of you ……”

Luo network technology, to put it nicely, is a friend of ECO, but rounded up is her company ECO’s opposite family.

Jiang Yimiao couldn’t stop laughing, “Really didn’t lie?”

“Lying to you for what, just have dinner together on Wednesday. But if you want to go, go, if you don’t want to go, forget it, mom is just asking you.”

Jiang Yimiao monthly salary of more than 20,000 people folded down a day’s salary is not a thousand, she suddenly a little heartbeat.

“You are not choice phobia again, you think about it, do not want to go directly and mom said. Mom didn’t force you to go on a blind date, you’re single for life and mom and dad can afford you.” Shen Man laughed twice, “I won’t talk to you anymore, I want to catch up with the drama.”

Said she mercilessly hung up the phone.

Jiang Yimiao looked at her cell phone and was a bit torn, at this moment Zhao Shuming walked out of the bathroom, a strong scent escaping into the air.

Seeing her frowning, he asked, “Miao Miao, why are you frowning and looking at your cell phone, it seems like you just heard you on the phone with your aunt?”

“Yes, my mom just called to ask if I want to go on a blind date.”

“A blind date?”

Jiang Yimiao nodded her head and blinked, seeing such a cold and strange look from Zhao Shuming’s face for the first time.