Bamboo Horse Alpha - Chapter 18

“Xiao Jiu” has been called by many people.

Grandfather and grandmother, his father Bi Nanqing, and even some partners who have close contacts with Bi Nanqing: besides that, Zhai Chi.

But that was all in the past.

It has been five years since Yu Jiu heard this title from anyone she knew.

Even if they were at the same table and slept together these few days, they never called each other’s names.

At first hearing it, it was a little uncomfortable.

At night in early May, the wind was still cool.

After the person behind him yelled, there was no more to say.

Yu Jiu turned her head naturally and asked, “What’s wrong?”

The lights on the street were very bright, and Zhai Chi happened to be standing under a street lamp. Different beams of light pulled his slender body into shadows of different lengths, but his face was shrouded in the halo above his head, making it difficult to see his expression clearly.

Zhai Chi held his breath and let it out slowly after Yu Jiu responded.

But for a moment he forgot what he wanted to say.

His eyes flickered for a moment, and he glanced at a large supermarket next to him from the corner of his eye, and blurted out, “Should we… buy something and go back to the dormitory?”

“…”

Yu Jiu followed his gaze, paused for a while and said, “I bought it.”

He will live on campus during the holidays, and all the food in the village has been prepared.

Zhai Chi: “…”

After being stunned for a moment, he said again: “Then you go shopping with me?”

Yu Jiu was still hesitating, but Zhai Chi had already approached and hugged him on the shoulder.

“Let’s go.”

“…”

Yu Jiu instinctively wanted to break free, but when he turned his head and saw Zhai Chi’s profile, he held back.

Turning her head to look at the internal structure of the supermarket through the transparent window, Yu Jiu estimated the chances of Zhai Chi getting lost in it alone, and finally gave up struggling.

He frequents this supermarket frequently, and he can even act as a shopping guide for Zhai Chi for free.

When Zhai Chi came out of the supermarket with two large bags of snacks alone, Yu Jiu finally got rid of his shoulders.

It was almost nine o’clock when I returned to school, and the school had already “closed the door to thank guests”.

Zhai Chi glanced at the pitch-dark guard room, calmly transferred the snacks from his right hand to his left, took out his cell phone from his pocket and said, “I’ll make a call.”

However, before he could find the principal’s phone number from the address book, the person next to him found a key out of nowhere, and skillfully stepped forward to unlock the school gate.

Zhai Chi: “…”

This familiar person looks like a habitual criminal.

Somewhat blankly, he followed Yu Jiu to unlock the school gate, and Zhai Chi said, “Where did you get your key?”

Yu Jiu said casually, “I applied for the principal and asked the doorman to get it. I can’t keep going over the wall.”

It is no secret among the school leaders that he often stays at the school.

Zhai Chi asked in surprise, “You still climbed over the wall?”

Yu Jiu walked ahead, pointing Zhai Chi in a direction on the pitch-black campus, “Behind the third canteen over there, the wall is much shorter than other places, so it’s easy to climb in.”

But there are also many monitoring over there, so the security is still guaranteed.

And Yu Jiu climbed over the wall openly and aboveboard, and was not afraid of surveillance.

Zhai Chi didn’t look at the place he was pointing at… Anyway, he didn’t know.

He looked up at the person walking in front of him, and always felt that this person seemed a little different after he came out of the supermarket.

It’s easier to talk and easier.

These two people get along with each other these days, although they seem to communicate normally, you have questions and I have answers, but they are like a string stretched, and there is a gap between the two of them.

But now, that invisible diaphragm seems to have inadvertently become thinner, or even disappeared.

Zhai Chi couldn’t help but raise the corners of his lips slightly, feeling delighted with this change.

After returning to the dormitory, both body and spirit relaxed, and Yu Jiu felt extremely tired.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t played with people for too long, and I exercise too much.

He talked to Zhai Chi, and went to the bathroom to take a shower, and then lay down on the bed and fell asleep.

Zhai Chi knew that he was tired, so when he washed himself, he walked lightly and didn’t bother him.

Perhaps because of his lack of effort, he was still full of energy after ten o’clock.

When he finally felt sleepy, he just locked the phone, and the screen suddenly turned on again.

Someone texted him.

Brother: [It’s okay not to go home during the holidays, remember to call grandpa back. 】

Zhai Chi glanced at it, and planned to turn off the phone directly, but another message followed.

【Your grandpa and grandson haven’t spoken to each other for five years. The old man is getting old. Do you really plan to stop talking to him until you die? 】

“…”

Zhai Chi’s gaze was fixed on the word “old”, and he was silent for a while, and did not reply to the message when the screen died down.

At this time, there was a rustling sound from the other side of the locker, as if the sleeping person suddenly turned over.

Zhai Chi listened intently for a while, and his mood, which had become impetuous because of the two news, gradually calmed down again.

He fell asleep quickly.

Yu Jiu woke up.

He had a dream, dreaming that he was surrounded by a pile of fine mint. The mint smelled fresh and pleasant, and he was a little intoxicated, but soon his whole body began to heat up, and even his legs became weak, and blood gushed out from the depths of his body. With an indescribable impulse, he frowned and began to struggle, but was overwhelmed by a pile of peppermint essence.

After finally opening his eyes, a layer of sweat was already breaking out on his forehead.

Yu Jiu looked at the dark ceiling above his head. The glands were numb and itchy. He felt a series of abnormal reactions in his body. I swallowed the medicine, and when the uncomfortable reaction subsided, I closed my eyes and continued to sleep.

Sleep till dawn.

Zhai Chi got up earlier than him, and had already ordered a takeaway breakfast. Seeing that he was awake, he raised his head and smiled at him, saying, “I woke up in time, and the porridge will be cold if you order it later, come down and eat.”

“…”

It was the first time for Yu Jiu to experience such thoughtful service in the dormitory.

Waking up from sleep early in the morning, someone has prepared breakfast early, and there is a very handsome guy waiting for you to eat together, this feeling… It’s a bit strange.

Yu Jiu was not pretentious, simply washed up, and sat down at the desk that was temporarily used as a dining table.

The breakfast is very rich, fried egg fritters, purple sweet potato and corn, crab roe wrapped in soup, and two seafood porridge…the amount is big enough to fill you up.

Yu Jiu took a crab roe bun and took a bite.

Zhai Chi immediately said: “How is it? Are you used to eating?”

Yu Jiu raised his eyes to look at him, and pointedly said: “I have been back to China for five years.”

He has almost eaten these for breakfast in the past five years, and he is used to it even if he is not used to it.

But Zhai Chi himself ordered Chinese breakfast, is he used to it?

Zhai Chi choked on “five years”, “… just get used to it.”

Breakfast for two, quiet and casual.

Without having to eat bread and milk alone in the dormitory, and without having to face to face with his family and worry about a war breaking out at any time, Yu Jiu had a particularly relaxed breakfast, and even increased his appetite a lot.

After breakfast, Yu Jiu quickly cleaned up again, turned the temporary dining table back into a clean desk, and then began to repeat his boring life of the day—study.

He was doing it with a physics exercise book, and suddenly someone put the same exercise book on the corner of the table.

Zhai Chi dragged a chair and sat down, “Do you mind joining us?”

Yu Jiu: “…”

Everyone sat down and asked him if he would mind? No sincerity at all.

Fortunately, the desk is big enough, so Yu Jiu doesn’t mind either.

He continued to concentrate on solving the problems, but Zhai Chi spent three days fishing and two days drying the nets, so he had to spend time on one problem and two problems.

He looked at his phone for a while, and the person opposite him for a while.

Yu Jiu usually sits upright, but when he is doing a question, he is used to being very close to the table, especially when he encounters a problem, he frowns slightly, unconsciously biting the cap of his pen with his mouth…just like now.

Zhai Chi looked at his downcast eyes at first, and was too idle to measure the length of his eyelashes with his eyes, then his gaze went down, slid across the bridge of his high nose, and landed on his rosy lips.

He bit the cap of the pen with his teeth, and his white teeth were looming between his lips. Occasionally, he used too much force, and the cap directly deformed his lips, making people feel the softness of his lips visually.

Zhai Chi felt a little lost.

Yu Jiu seemed to have sensed his gaze, and suddenly raised her eyes and asked, “What’s wrong?”

“…”

Zhai Chi was startled, realizing what he was thinking just now, he quickly shook his head, “It’s nothing.”

Yu Jiu: “…”

He felt even more inexplicable.

Zhai Chi reacted quickly, took the exercise book and pointed to a very difficult question, “I want to ask, what solution did you use for this question?”

Yu Jiu looked down… Isn’t this the problem he just solved?

He hasn’t figured it out yet.

He told the truth and asked, “What about you? How did you solve it?”

While he was looking at the questions, Zhai Chi also quickly went through the questions. Seeing that Yu Jiu’s attention was diverted, he relaxed and began to solve the questions with a serious face.

Two days later, the May Day holiday of No. 1 Middle School ended, and the turmoil on the forum also passed.

Zhang Yangfei, the squad leader who returned to school again, found that the atmosphere between the first and second place at his front table had changed significantly compared to before the holiday.

The two people who hadn’t communicated with each other before, suddenly seemed to have endless conversations, especially Zhai Chi, who sometimes seemed like a chatterbox.

Talks more than Yusan.

However, after being forced by Yu Shan to remember the whole process of them finding Chen Lixin and fighting street gangsters bravely, Zhang Yangfei retracted his preface.

Although Zhai Chi talked a lot, he was not noisy.

Yu San not only talked a lot, he also danced and danced.

The squad leader was troubled by this.

Another weekend, before the last get out of class at noon, Yu San couldn’t wait to plan the afternoon itinerary, and took the other three together.

“Today is the semi-finals of the four-to-two basketball competition among municipal colleges and universities. If our school wins, we can go to the provincial competition. Are you really not going to see it?”

Yu San blinked expectantly.

Zhang Yangfei refused with all his strength, “No, I have to go by myself.”

“I think so too.” Yu San said, “But I’m not on the basketball team. I can’t get into the infield. How boring is it to stand behind and watch?”

He turned his head to look at Yu Jiu and Zhai Chi again.

Both of these guys are on the basketball team.

This city-level college basketball game started a week ago, because it was the last time for the seniors to play basketball for the school, so the main force did not arrange the second graders.

Yu Jiu and Zhai Chi were also happy and relaxed, and because of their heavy studies, they didn’t go to the game.

Today happened to be the weekend, Yu Jiu had been stared at by Yu San for a long time, and he had already compromised a bit. He turned his head to look at Zhai Chi, and said directly, “Are you going?”

Zhai Chi had just finished a test paper, when he heard this, he looked up at Yu San, who was looking forward to it, then looked at Yu Jiu and said, “Do you want me to go with you?”

“…”

Yu Jiu looked at him expressionlessly.

Zhai Chi met his eyes, and his throat was inexplicably tight.

Why are these eyes so beautiful?

He swallowed unconsciously, coughed dryly and said, “Go.”

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