Chapter 66

It was nearing noon, and it was still hot and dry in a city where neither South City nor Zen City had fall, but only two seasons, summer and winter.

The sun shone like a spotlight on the walls of the corridor, scorching them.

The Houde building where Jiang Yimiao received her souvenir was a school building, because the classrooms were small and there were too many people.

After receiving the souvenirs, she and Cheng Wenyao were pushed out by the crowd.

When she was holding Cheng Wenyao’s hand and wanted to go downstairs to join Zhao Shuming, she seemed to hear someone calling her name.

Jiang Yimiao was stunned for a moment, and pulled Cheng Wenyao back to look over. Seeing the still familiar face, she opened her mouth and subconsciously greeted, “Gao Zhengming?”

“What a coincidence, are you also coming to this school festival?” Jiang Yimiao swallowed awkwardly, only a few girls from her high school classmates were still in contact with her, and almost none of the boys had ever met again.

Although Gao Zhengming was one of her classmates that she still interacted with occasionally in her circle of friends, she hadn’t seen him in the past few years as far as she could remember.

Old classmates meet inevitably mean to chat a few words, just did not expect a time to chat too much, from professional chat to graduation, from graduation chat to work, and chat back to the former class teacher and classmates.

“Our homeroom teacher is still teaching here, she hasn’t retired, and Zhong Ziping graduated from the South Division and came back to teach here, and she teaches math like the homeroom teacher. He still teaches math like the teacher.”

“Haha so coincidentally, that’s also fate, the teacher’s student also came back to be a teacher.” Cheng Wenyao couldn’t help but laugh.

Jiang Yimiao rolled her eyes and thought about Zhong Zi Ping’s appearance for half a day, but she couldn’t remember this old classmate, she didn’t know him very well, so it’s normal that she couldn’t remember him, but Cheng Wenyao had been at his front and back desks before, so she was more familiar with him.

Jiang Yimiao couldn’t help but laugh at the thought of working with her high school homeroom teacher after graduation, but before she could collect her laughter, her hand was suddenly held.

The touch was too familiar, and Jiang Yimiao knew that it was Zhao Shuming’s hand, so she didn’t subconsciously shake it off, just Turning back to see Zhao Shuming, she was a little surprised that he had come up here to find her, and she opened her mouth to ask him how he had come here.

When she heard Zhao Shuming’s words close to her ear, she flipped open her bag as an afterthought, “Ah! I forgot to turn off the mute and didn’t hear you call.”

She frowned, a little embarrassed.

“It’s fine, so I came to find you.” Zhao Shuming helped Jiang Yimiao hold the shoulder strap of her shoulder bag and squeezed her hand again.

He knew that Jiang Yimiao was only a little rebellious about letting her parents know that they were in love, and didn’t really care about other outsiders. He knew that Jiang Yimiao was only a little resistant to letting her parents know that they were in love, and didn’t care about other outsiders.

On weekends in Nancheng, when they went to the supermarket or the mall together and climbed mountains, she wouldn’t mind him holding her hand at all.

Outside they were just like an ordinary couple, there was no difference.

It was only then that Zhao Shuming raised his head again and locked eyes with Gao Zhengming, smiling and nodding his head in the guise of greeting him, “Chatting with your old classmates?”

“Uh-huh, just happened to run into each other.” Jiang Yimiao’s fingers grabbed the back of Zhao Shuming’s hand, he directly held her like this, and she was compelled to introduce a sentence about their relationship with Gao Zhengming, “My object ……”

“I remember him, the senior who often came to the class to look for you before.”

Zhao Shuming didn’t expect Gao Zhengming to remember him as well, but he started paying attention to appearance management when he was in middle school.

Ten years ago and ten years later it was just that he had grown a bit taller and stronger, and his appearance had matured a bit more, so it wasn’t a strange thing to recognize him.

Cheng Wenyao sniffled, always feeling that there is something strange somewhere, she cleared her throat, “That …… after we collect the souvenirs we go to the school history hall, the school history hall also has souvenirs, there are so many good looking metal emblem p badges.”

Jiang Yimiao was occasionally interested in some gadgets, she poked Zhao Shuming, “Let’s go to the school history hall and stroll around, it’s so sunny outside it’s just good that there’s air conditioning there, after we finish shopping we’ll Go home.”

“Okay.” Zhao Shuming smiled gently.

“I won’t go I have other things to do, I’ll contact you again afterward.” Gao Zhengming seemed to have the good sense to decide not to be a light bulb for Jiang Yimiao and the others.

Saying goodbye to Jiang Yimiao and the others, he left in another direction.

Now there were only three people left.

Cheng Wen Yao rubbed the tip of her nose, she had counted that Zhao Shuming would definitely want to pester Jiang Yimiao’s side, and she had brought someone with her, but that person arrived at the school a bit later than her.

“I won’t be a light bulb, you guys go and stroll around, I’ll wait here for my friend before going to the school history center.”

“Waiting for a friend? That senior brother of yours?” Jiang Yimiao looked like she was poking fun at her.

Cheng Wen Yao laughed and lightly slapped her hand, “Knowingly!”

She crossed her bag, “Let’s go.”

Seeing her departing back, Jiang Yimiao looked up at Zhao Shuming, “How do you know Gao Zhengming?”

Jiang Yimiao had just seen from Zhao Shuming’s gaze that Zhao Shuming remembered this person, Gao Zhengming.

“I remember all the ones in your class who are close to you.” Zhao Shuming said these words nonchalantly.

“I was on good terms with him?” Jiang Yimiao descended the stairs next to Zhao Shuming as she walked.

“Every time I go to look for you, half the time I see you guys lecturing to each other, and his undergraduate degree and you also went to Southern University, and you were in the photo of your friend circle hometown meeting orientation before with him.”

“That’s right, classmates with closer grades are generally more familiar.” Jiang Yimiao said cheerfully.

“It seems that he went to start his own business after his undergraduate studies, and when I succeeded in graduate school, he said that he would invite me to dinner, but it turned out that he never did.” Something she suddenly remembered.

“But then it seems that I have not seen him, he is a computer class, we are all in a campus class, used to be in the university also often meet in the dining hall …… ” she subconsciously said more after the memory flooded in.

“Miao Miao.” Zhao Shuming interrupted her and squeezed out a smile on his face, “What do you want to eat for lunch?”

Zhao Shuming was also a person who had been there before, how could he not see the teenager’s budding spring heart, he knew that Gao Zhengming was more or less fond of Jiang Yimiao no matter what.

Maybe Gao Zhengming didn’t like her as much as he did, but Zhao Shuming couldn’t guarantee at all that Jiang Yimiao hadn’t had her heart moved, after all, she was a After all, she was the one who didn’t even know if her heart had moved.

Similar grades, having topics to talk about, and compatible personalities, all of these points were reflected in her and the former Gao Zhengming.

As Zhao Shuming thought this, he increased the strength in his hands and held Jiang Yimiao tightly.

Jiang Yimiao was a little dizzy by his sudden change of topic, “Ah, you don’t have to do it for lunch, my dad prepared it at home, let’s eat together.”

Only when he heard this did Zhao Shuming gradually loosen the strength in his hands, “I forgot, I haven’t seen my uncles and aunts for a long time either.”

“Yeah, my parents also said they missed you. They also made your favorite dishes for lunch, hehehe.”

Jiang Yimiao didn’t notice this series of mood shifts from Zhao Shuming at all.

She just thought that Zhao Shuming was a little too tired and hot from driving over, so she pulled him along and quickly walked to the school history center to walk, after all, it had air conditioning.

After strolling around with Zhao Shuming and buying some souvenirs, Jiang Yimiao and Zhao Shuming set off on their way home.

It was already one o’clock when they got home.

Jiang Yimiao’s mom and dad had prepared lunch for the four of them by the time they got home.

This was usually the time for Jiang Yimiao to take a nap, and her biological clock as well as the swaying sensation of the vehicle made Jiang Yimiao sleep the whole way.

Zhao Shuming parked the car in his own parking space and glanced sideways at the sleeping Jiang Yimiao, he raised his hand and touched her face very lightly with his fingertips, “Miao Miao, we’re home.”

Jiang Yimiao was a shallow sleeper in the car and woke up when he called out like that, but she tilted her head to the other side and closed her eyes again, and subconsciously hummed in her throat.

“River?”

“I’m sleepy.” Jiang Yimiao opened her mouth and after a long time of silence in the car, she added, “I can’t get up ……”

She also wanted to open her eyes, but Jiang Yimiao always felt like she was being weighed down by the air in front of her, and her eyes couldn’t open at all.

Zhao Shuming didn’t insist on waking her up again, but instead parked the car and carried her out from the passenger side.

The luggage was put in the trunk for now, and Zhao Shuming carried Jiang Yimiao and her bag on his back to the elevator.

“Honey, there seems to be someone knocking on the door, I don’t have time on my hands, go open the door.” Jiang Zhixue, who was standing in the kitchen, vaguely heard the sound of knocking on the door and shouted in the direction of the living room.

“It’s Miao Miao coming back, isn’t it.” Shen Man put down the remote control and opened the door sharply.

Knowing that there was a possibility of seeing the image of Miao Miao and Zhao Shuming coming to the house together, but she didn’t expect it to be Zhao Shuming carrying Jiang Yimiao.

“Auntie uncle.” Zhao Shuming greeted first before walking into the house, “Miao Miao is sleeping heavily, probably sleep paralysis.”

Commonly known as ghost pressure on the bed.

On the drive home Jiang Yimiao had eaten some bread and other carbohydrates, and after falling asleep it was easy to ghost the bed.

Zhao Shuming then couldn’t bear to wake her up, so he had to directly carry her on his back to go home first.

Jiang Yimiao grunted twice on his back, and he carried her back to the room, walking lightly to her bedside to put her down.

Shen Man took Jiang Yimiao’s slippers and came to change them for her, “Eww, why are you sleeping so deeply.”

Seeing Zhao Shuming stand up, thinking he was going to leave, Shen Man pulled him back, “Shuming, let’s eat lunch at home first.”

“Okay Auntie, but my and Miao Miao’s luggage is still in the car, I want to go get the luggage first before coming to eat.”

“Eh, okay, Auntie will take it with you, and I’ll help Miao Miao with her luggage.” Shen Man remembered that just now Zhao Shuming didn’t have any extra hands to take the luggage because he was carrying Jiang Yimiao on his back.

She helped Jiang Yimiao turn on the air conditioning in the room, and Zhao Shuming obediently covered Jiang Yimiao’s blanket.

Only then did the two of them take the elevator together to the negative floor to get their luggage.

There was a week’s vacation this time, and both Jiang Yimiao and Zhao Shuming were going to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival at home, then return to Nancheng after the Mid-Autumn Festival, spend one day outdoors hiking in the mountains and visiting the zoo, and spend the rest of the two days at home. The rest of the two days will be spent at home.

Originally, Zhao Shuming had thought about going on a trip together, but Jiang Yimiao was afraid of too many people on the double holiday, and she would rather use her annual vacation to travel than to travel on the National Day.

So this vacation is still mainly rest.

Because it was just for a few days, Jiang Yimiao brought three sets of clothes in her suitcase and only brought one suitcase back.

But Zhao Shuming brought a little too much, in addition to his own luggage, there were gifts for the Jiang family and things for mom and dad.

“It’s also troublesome that Miao Miao has been staying at your house lately.” Shen Man was bored and looking for a topic to say to him.

“No trouble, Auntie, you even said before that we’re family, what’s the trouble in family matters?” Zhao Shuming stood up straight, his tone serious.

Shen Man thought about it, she did say such a thing ……

Zhao Shuming had been taking care of himself all by himself in middle school, and he was the kind of obedient and well-behaved child with good grades, so it was hard for adults not to like such a child.

The most important thing is that her mom and Shen Man have a good relationship, perhaps it is love, so Shen Man also like him as a child.

Seeing that he was always left alone at home because his parents were divorced and working, she and Jiang Zhixue always felt a little bit sorry for him.

Although the family in Zhao Shuming’s mouth and Shen Man’s perception of the family are no longer the same. However, Zhao Shuming said it in a straight and serious manner, and coupled with his innocent expression, it was completely impossible to make Shen Man think wrongly.

“Well, I’m relieved that Miao Miao has you to take care of her.” Shen Man dragged Jiang Yimiao’s suitcase and Zhao Shuming out of the elevator.

Zhao Shuming smiled, thinking that he would really become a family with them one day, he took his luggage and glanced towards his own side of the house, “Auntie, I’ll first put my luggage back to my house, I’ll come to your house later to eat together.”

“Alright, the meal is ready, you can rest assured of Uncle Jiang’s craftsmanship.”

Shen Man put the suitcase into Jiang Yimiao’s room, before slowly waking her up, Jiang Yimiao this time is really awake, but because not enough sleep, some depression, the brain is also a little hazy like a statue like sitting at the dining table.

It wasn’t until Zhao Shuming sat down beside her that she became slightly more energized.

Jiang Yimiao remembered that on the way up, she had purposely taken off her and Zhao Shuming’s rings, and had agreed with him that she couldn’t show her face in front of her parents.

She pinched the flesh on her arm and tried to wake up, always reminding herself in her mind not to show.

As for Zhao Shuming, he was still helping her with dishes and spoons of soup, Jiang Yimiao pursed her lips, remembering that he did look like this before they got together, so she didn’t stop the more intimate gestures between them than ordinary friends.

She was just too sleepy, and not long after she ate her meal, she went to take a shower, and after washing off the stickiness from the morning sun, Jiang Yimiao was ready to make up for the nap she hadn’t gotten.

Zhao Shuming helped his parents wash the dishes before returning to his own home.

By the time she finished her shower, Zhao Shuming was no longer in Jiang’s house, leaving behind only the gifts he’d brought back that were sitting in the living room.

“Aiya this kid came back just to come back, and also brought us gifts ……”

“He’s been a good boy since he was a kid, but he knows too much, and kids who know too much don’t have candy to eat.” Shen Man sighed.

Jiang Yimiao hung her washed underwear on the balcony and vaguely heard her parents talking about Zhao Shuming.

She turned around and walked out of the balcony into the living room, blinked her eyes and hung her body over Shen Man, sniffing the unique scent of her mom’s body, “Mom I’m so sleepy ……”

“Go to sleep if you’re sleepy, I’m not Shu Ming, still carrying you back to your room to sleep.” She patted Jiang Yimiao’s butt, “Go to bed when you’re tired, go by yourself.”

Jiang Yimiao pouted and shuffled back to her room with her slippers again, falling back to sleep.

Obviously set the alarm clock, but Jiang Yimiao slept until the evening, the setting sun’s afterglow like gold leaf paper spread in the sky, the clouds were also stained with a golden orange color.

Jiang Yimiao opened her cell phone and received more than a dozen messages from Zhao Shuming, probably asking her if she was asleep as well as some trivial advice, as well as one of her clothes stuffed into his suitcase, asking her to come over to get it.

[Can Miao Miao stay with me tonight?]

This was the last sentence Zhao Shuming sent, and he even paired it with a very cute little teary-eyed emoji, making it completely impossible for Jiang Yimiao to refuse.

Thinking that his parents wouldn’t be back until the Mid-Autumn Festival day, and now that he was the only one at home, Jiang Yimiao also had some desire to accompany him.

Jiang Yimiao pretended to be very hungry and finished her dinner in a hurry.

Because she overslept, Jiang Zhixue made dinner late tonight. Normally, the couple ate dinner at 5:30pm.

So by the time Jiang Yimiao finished eating, the sky outside the balcony window had already turned a deep blue color, and there was still a lingering afterglow hanging in the sky, but in a few minutes, the light of the afterglow finally disappeared completely.

After pretending to watch TV for a while at home, Jiang Yimiao patted her leg and unconsciously rubbed her thigh, “Mom, I’m going to look for Zhao Shuming.”

Jiang Yimiao looked towards Shen Man, who was looking for snacks in the kitchen refrigerator, and then at Jiang Zhixue, who was sitting on the sofa.

Half of Shen Man’s body poked out of the refrigerator cabinet, and Jiang Yimiao glanced at her and turned back to look for the chocolate ice cream she wanted to eat, “Oh, you go ahead.”

“I, I’m just watching a movie with him, I’ll come back later after I’m done.” Seeing that Shen Man didn’t even ask her what she was going for, Jiang Yimiao added a sentence by drawing a snake.

After she finished speaking, she ran out of the house in her shorts and pajamas, shuffling out of the house with her cell phone in her pocket and slipping on her slippers.

The residential building in their neighborhood was a two-staircase multi-family building, and although Zhao Shuming and Jiang Yimiao’s house were on the same floor, his house was on the other side of the elevator, and was not actually across the street from Jiang’s house or next door to it.

Jiang Yimiao needed to walk through two corridors to get to his house.

The natural environment on this side of the house was slightly better than the area where Nancheng lived, and the tall buildings were sparser, so looking down the corridor, there was an endless night sky.

Jiang Yimiao glanced at one or two twinkling stars in the sky, and the bright moon hung high, like a silver disk, even though today was not yet August 15th.

The corridor sensor light followed the sound of her footsteps, Jiang Yimiao looked down at the familiar combination lock, familiarly pressed his thumb on the sensor area, the door opened with a drop.

In these ten years, his home in Chancheng had been unoccupied except for New Year’s holidays and his occasional return from vacation.

Even the combination lock on the door had never been changed. Jiang Yimiao’s previous fingerprint password had not been deleted either.

Jiang Yimiao gently pushed open the door, her eyes peered into the house, but found that the living room did not turn on the lights, only a weak light from the room vaguely projected out.

She frowned a little inquisitively, and her foot had only just landed on the threshold when her arm was gripped by a warm palm.

She blinked and fell forward as if she had lost her center of gravity, but Zhao Shuming was one step ahead of her and picked her up whole.

Jiang Yimiao let out a soft cry and instinctively clamped her legs around Zhao Shuming’s waist and pressed her hands on his shoulders.

Zhao Shuming closed the door behind her, so Jiang Yimiao was also carried by him to the back of the door, and before she could open her mouth to ask him why he hadn’t turned on the lights, his lips came to rest on her mouth.

He rarely kissed her unexpectedly like this, and it was a deep kiss.

Between the intertwining of her lips and teeth, Jiang Yimiao’s eyes gradually adapted to the light here, except that she could never see anything when kissing.

Zhao Shuming kissed her a little too hard, so hard that Jiang Yimiao could hardly breathe, and only when her fingertips were embedded in his shoulder did he slowly end the kiss.

Jiang Yimiao leaned back against him to grab some air, and it was only then that she realized that although Zhao Shuming had dressed both his upper and lower body, he had left his shirt unbuttoned.

Zhao Shuming also noticed her gaze toward him, and he held Jiang Yimiao’s hand in his free hand, bringing her palm, which was considerably smaller than his, to his chest and pressing it down.

She had just blown the air conditioning in the house, and her palms were a little icy.

Jiang Yimiao’s hand wrapped around a hand full of warmth, but it wasn’t the same touch as when she directly touched it on a normal day.

In the darkness Zhao Shuming could also see her slightly flustered blinking look, “There’s something on your chest?”

Jiang Yimiao felt a small object of some sort hanging from the raised area on his chest.

However, she was still being held tightly by Zhao Shuming, and from her line of sight, she could touch it but not see it.

Zhao Shuming moved closer and rested his chin on hers, the tip of his nose full of her scent factor jumping around.

The body wash she used at her mom and dad’s house was the same one she used at her home in Nancheng, and he smiled, “Miao Miao, do you want to see it?”