Chapter 1044 – One thing I’ve always wanted to do

　　The dark gray city was shrouded in heavy rain, the vehicles on the road gradually became fewer and fewer, and slowly the only sound left in the ears was the sound of raindrops falling.

　　Everyone was in a hurry, and it was as if the tiny platform on the street had been forgotten.

　　Chen Ge carried his backpack, looking down at the reflection of the two in the water.

　　Zhang Ya held an umbrella, her eyes full of surprise, she did not seem to expect Chen Ge to say that sentence.

　　Bus 104 drove out of the station, and a few moments later bus 4 entered the station.

　　”Teacher Zhang, bus number 4 is here, see you tomorrow.” Chen Ge waved his hand with a very happy smile on his face.

　　He watched Zhang Ya walk towards the number 4 bus while he himself leaned against the stop sign, the smile on his face slowly fading.

　　”You can’t go home, the moment you push open the door of your home darkness will fall, and then it’s a new day when you come out again.”

　　”When the city is plunged into darkness, the hidden filth and evil should be exposed, hopefully this night will be a good one.”

　　Tilting his head, Chen Ge was the only one left on the platform.

　　The hooter sounded, the vehicle started, and the number 4 bus quickly drove out of the platform, leaving only a woman with a red umbrella in the rain.

　　”Zhang Ya?”

　　The bus had already driven away, but Zhang Ya stayed where she was, not getting on the bus.

　　”Why aren’t you leaving?” Chen Ge looked at Zhang Ya suspiciously as the other party held her umbrella and rejoined the platform.

　　”I’ll prepare my lessons in the office every day and then take the last bus to leave.” Zhang Ya pointed at the stop sign, “Just now that seemed to be the last 104 bus, you didn’t catch it and didn’t bring an umbrella, I’m afraid that you won’t be able to go back home, like last time again.”

　　”I …… “The articulate Chen Ge was momentarily speechless at this time, not knowing how to retort.

　　”You seem to be afraid of going home.” Zhang Ya walked over to Chen Ge, “Can you tell your teacher why?”

　　”It’s nothing.”

　　”Conflicts with your family? Or did you run into trouble in your life?” Zhang Ya’s voice was filled with concern, her kindness was innate, so that one could not bear to deceive, “You are essentially a very good child, teacher can tell, but you seem to have a lot of things loaded in your heart, and you never seem to be truly happy and smiling.”

　　Chen Ge didn’t say anything, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, even when hiding in the platform, his clothes were still wet.

　　Neither one of them left, after a while Zhang Ya opened her umbrella and looked at Chen Ge helplessly, “If you don’t want to talk about it, I won’t force myself.”

　　She waved her hand toward Chen Ge, “Let’s go.”

　　”Where to?” Chen Ge froze for a moment, he really didn’t react.

　　”First go to my house and change out of your wet clothes, don’t catch a cold.”

　　”That’s not good, right?”

　　”Then can I leave you alone on the platform? It’s too dangerous when it’s raining so heavily.” Zhang Ya shook her umbrella, she was like a mature big sister in the neighborhood, even her helpless expression was pretty, “You should really communicate with your family, a lot of things are caused by poor communication, especially conflicts between family members. Alright, don’t ink, come over quickly.”

　　Chen Ge’s own home’s door couldn’t just be opened, in order to delay more time, he half-heartedly walked to Zhang Ya’s side.

　　The two of them walked along the road for a long time and finally saw a cab.

　　By the time they arrived home, it was already completely dark.

　　”Is this your home?” Chen Ge didn’t have any memories of Zhang Ya’s room in his mind, and the Zhang Ya he remembered had always lived in a dormitory.

　　Pushing open the security door, inside was a sixty-square-meter hut, which was not large but had all kinds of furniture.

　　”I used to live in the city, then my parents had a car accident. When I lived in their house, I would always think about the past, so I sold that house and bought another small house here.” Zhang Ya seemed to have gotten over her grief, and she could be calm enough to tell this.

　　Of course, it was also possible that she was trying to set an example for Chen Ge, and in the morning, after she found out the reason why Chen Ge would always wear high heels, her heart actually felt very bad.

　　Precisely because she had experienced it, she could better appreciate that feeling.

　　Putting away the umbrella, Zhang Ya turned on the lights in the living room, “I arranged all this furniture myself, how is it? It’s pretty good, isn’t it?”

　　While Zhang Ya was talking, Chen Ge looked at the trash can, which had several cans of drained beer thrown in it, as well as peeled and pitted carrot skins, “You still like to drink?”

　　This hobby was something Chen Ge hadn’t expected.

　　”Occasionally, only a little bit once in a while.” Zhang Ya changed her shoes and tied the mouth of the garbage bag, “I’ll go get you some dry clothes, wait here.”

　　A few moments later Chen Ge changed into the clothes Zhang Ya brought over, a wide-mouthed t-shirt of Zhang Ya’s own, “You can make do with what you’ve got for now, you probably won’t be able to wear any of my other clothes.”

　　”It’s fine, this one is fine.” Chen Ge looked down and realized that he and Zhang Ya were wearing the same style of clothes, just in different colors.

　　”Give me the wet clothes, I’ll use the iron to dry them for you, go to the sofa and do your homework first, the touch test is coming up soon, you need to put some pressure on yourself as well.”

　　Zhang Ya took Chen Ge and her own wet clothes and went into the bathroom, Chen Ge looked around, he placed his half wet backpack next to the sofa and opened it to check.

　　”Hurray, the comic book and Zhang Ya’s storybook aren’t wet.” Chen Ge also wanted to do his homework and leave Zhang Ya with a good impression that could still be salvaged, but he didn’t even bring back his textbooks.

　　A few minutes later, Zhang Ya walked out of the bathroom, and she glanced at the watch on the wall, “Hungry? Let me see what else I can eat in the refrigerator, let’s pad it out first.”

　　Zhang Ya took out a few tomatoes and eggs from the refrigerator, she usually should rarely cook, there was a feeling of her hands being in a mess, when she beat the eggs, she even got the shells into the bowl, and hurriedly took chopsticks to pick them out a little bit again.

　　”Teacher, why don’t I do it?” Chen Ge looked at Zhang Ya cooking, his eyes full of smiles.

　　”You can cook?”

　　”En, you’ve worked hard all day in class, I’ll make you a meal as a thank you for taking me in today.” Chen Ge gently pushed Zhang Ya to the side and opened the refrigerator to look at it, inside were some very common things.

　　A few tomatoes, a few carrots that had been peeled beyond recognition, two cucumbers, a whole block of tofu, half of a chicken breast that had been sitting for a long time, a piece of lean meat and half of a bag of leftover old squash.

　　”Turns out the Fierce God eats pretty much the same things I usually eat.”

　　”Do you need my help?” Zhang Ya was skeptical of Chen Ge’s ability, after all, there weren’t many high school students who could cook these days.

　　”Why don’t you sit on the sofa and have a good rest, the kitchen is a romance that belongs to men.” Chen Ge first took out two small bowls, in one bowl, he put in egg wash, salt, and various seasonings, then diced the half chicken breast that had been sitting for a long time and marinated it.

　　The other small bowl poured in water and soaked half a bag of old squash into it.

　　Then start a pot of oil, cut the tofu into cubes, fry until golden, take out the tofu and set aside, then use this frying pan to pop the onion, ginger and garlic, and finally put in the seasoning and golden tofu simmering.

　　Close the lid of the pot, Chen Ge lifted the knife and refined the tomatoes that Zhang Ya had cut earlier and sprinkled them with sugar.

　　He also took out the cucumber, peeled and cut round with the knife, sprinkled with a little salt and seasoning.

　　On the same plate, the left side was white sugar tomatoes, and the right side was cold cucumber, one salty and one sweet, two flavors.

　　After doing this, Chen Ge started another frying pan, shredded the lean meat, put it into the pan and fried it, and then took out the crystal clear old squash after soaking.

　　Chop it up, stir fry it together, and put in the seasonings.

　　By this time the tofu simmering on the side is ready, plate it up and take it out of the pan.

　　After a simple cleaning, pour in water, Chen Ge will be left in the refrigerator noodles into the pot.

　　When the noodles are ready, the aroma of stir-fried pork with mustard greens also wafts out.

　　When the rice was served out of the pot, the noodles as thin as dragon’s whiskers were topped with crystallized squash stir-fry pork, whetting one’s appetite.

　　”Teacher, come serve the rice.” Chen Ge glanced to the side, “Iron plate tofu, squash cabbage and shredded pork noodles, and later there’s a homemade chicken rice ball I made, that chicken breast I see is about to go bad, I think it’s better to eat it early.”

　　Zhang Ya’s eyes widened as the scent continued to tease her taste buds.

　　The chicken breast soaked in the egg mixture was almost marinated, the final step was simple, the diced chicken breast was coated with starch and deep fried.

　　It was golden and crispy, with a great aroma, but Chen Ge was still a bit dissatisfied: “If only there were breadcrumbs, frying it in two batches would make it more tender and flavorful.”

　　All the dishes were all out of the pot and set out slowly a coffee table, Zhang Ya still a little can’t believe until now that these meals were made from those leftovers in her refrigerator.

　　”The main food is noodles, iron plate tofu and chicken rice flower if you feel greasy, there is also cold cucumber to relieve greasiness, if you don’t like to eat salty coleslaw, I also prepared white sugar tomatoes, sweet and sour very refreshing.” Chen Ge looked at Zhang Ya whose eyes were glowing and smiled even more happily.

　　He simply cleaned up the kitchen and sat down next to the coffee table as well, Zhang Ya had not moved her chopsticks even though she wanted to eat, obviously waiting for Chen Ge to join her.

　　”I’m not polite then.” Zhang Ya took a bite of the iron plate tofu first, the outside was charred and the inside was tender, and there was still soup oozing out after a bite.

　　”Is it delicious?”

　　”Delicious!”

　　Chen Ge sat opposite Zhang Ya, as he watched Zhang Ya eat, the corners of his mouth unconsciously began to rise, “If only I could cook for you every day.”

　　Outside the window, rainstorms poured down, thunder and lightning, but the two people inside the house were enjoying a very simple, and almost hard to reproduce, kind of dinner.

　　After the meal was all finished, Zhang Ya went to clean up the dishes, while Chen Ge sat on the sofa, he forced himself not to look at Zhang Ya, but his gaze would always involuntarily fall on Zhang Ya.

　　Seemingly sensing something, Zhang Ya raised her head when she was putting away the chopsticks, and just happened to meet Chen Ge’s eyes.

　　It was probably just a fraction of a second before Chen Ge had lowered his head and took Yan Dainian’s comic book and flipped through it.

　　”Is that your own drawing? So awesome!” Zhang Ya who had finished washing the dishes walked over to the sofa, the room’s living room wasn’t big and there wasn’t much space left after putting down the sofa and coffee table.

　　”It was drawn by my friend.”

　　Chen Ge closed the comic book, but Zhang Ya didn’t quite believe it.

　　”Really? I actually quite like people who have a wide range of hobbies and are multi-talented.”

　　”Then this is what I drew, and you discovered it.” Chen Ge admitted it decisively, anyway, Yan Dainian couldn’t appear now.

　　”You, I don’t know what to say about you.” Zhang Ya brewed two cups of tea and put them on the coffee table, “Why do I feel that you seem to be good at everything except studying?”

　　”Pretty much.” Chen Ge thought carefully, he could indeed be said to be multi-talented and proficient in many industries.

　　”You’re not polite.” Zhang Ya shook her head, “It’s quite good, having your own hobby and will work hard for it is a good thing, unlike me ……”

　　Chen Ge heard that Zhang Ya had a hint of loss, he suddenly remembered something, in reality, Zhang Ya was a dance student, and even won the first prize in a competition, but now she had become an English teacher, which was a profession that was not related to dance at all.

　　He moved towards Zhang Ya, picked up the cup of hot tea, and handed it to Zhang Ya: “In fact, I understand that you have been deliberately making yourself strong, at the first moment I saw you, I knew that you were hiding a lot of things in your heart, you just didn’t say them out.”

　　The tea in the cup bubbled hot as the two sat together.

　　A handmade dinner brought the two closer together, it should have been Zhang Ya as a teacher to enlighten Chen Ge, but I don’t know from which moment, Chen Ge began to try to slowly open Zhang Ya’s heart.

　　”Other people just think that you have a good character, gentle and kind, but what I care about is whether you have been wronged.”

　　Quietly sitting on Zhang Ya’s side, Chen Ge picked up the book that was Zhang Ya’s bedtime story, “I never had such thoughts before, but when I met you, when I approached you, when I listened to your persuasion, and when I walked with you, I would always have the feeling that you were obviously full of scars yourself, but you still had to force yourself to show a smiling face to comfort others. ”

　　After a long time, Zhang Ya raised her head, she looked at Chen Ge, wanting to show a smile out of habit, but couldn’t do so.

　　”The first time I saw you, I also felt that you were familiar, probably because we have the same experience.” Zhang Ya took a sip of tea, “Teacher used to study dance, I love dancing, I really love it, I feel as if I’ve become a breeze when I’m dancing, I can stretch freely, I don’t have to think about anything.”

　　”Then you later ……”

　　”When the teacher went to school, no one was willing to make friends with me, they said that my dancing was selling my body, and kept making up rumors that were getting more and more outrageous, but these weren’t the reasons why I finally gave up dancing.” Zhang Ya put down the teacup in her hand, “Something happened one evening, I was practicing in the dance studio when a drunken guy rushed in, I ran around in fear and shouted loudly, hoping that someone would save me, but no one came.”

　　”I ran all the way downstairs in the dress I was dancing in and finally saw my teacher who helped me stop the drunk guy behind me.”

　　”I thought I was finally saved, but who knew the nightmare was just beginning. When I came to school the next day, everyone was pointing fingers at me, I was called to the office before the first class was over, and the drunk was there, he and the teacher who saved me together slandered me, saying that everything was self-induced, no one was willing to testify on my behalf, and everyone in the class felt that this was the truth.” Zhang Ya could no longer speak, “After which I didn’t dare to enter the dance studio anymore, I didn’t dare to practice alone, I didn’t even dare to be alone for a long time.”

　　Chen Ge gently patted Zhang Ya’s slightly trembling shoulders and let her lean on her.

　　”It’s okay, shape-shifter, I won’t even let you be alone again in the future.”