Chasing Summer - Chapter 39

The waves beat again, swallowing all the silent words.

After a while, Lin Zhexia said, “My legs are healed and I can run now.”

She added, “People like us who have a knee injury and can’t exercise vigorously for a few days, like to run after recovering from the injury.”

Chi Yao’s tone was cold: “Then don’t sit next to me, go run a few laps.”

No matter what he said, Lin Zhexia sat down next to him and said, “…I’ll take a rest before running.”

However, even if she wanted to cover it up, Chi Yao would always be able to spot something wrong with her immediately.

Chi Yao: “You’re not quite right today.”

Lin Zhexia: “What’s wrong?”

Chi Yao: “It’s not normal.”

“…”

Lin Zhexia: “You are not normal.”

At the end, she said intermittently: “I am, it is the first time I see the sea, I am so excited.”

“This seems to be the first time we have seen the sea together.”

Chi Yao said, “The second time.”

Lin Zhexia: “Which time was the last time?”

“When you were twelve years old, you made a fuss about watching a deep-sea documentary.”

Lin Zhexia thought for a while, and remembered that there was indeed such a thing: “…Can this be regarded as watching the sea together? And it has been so long, how do you still remember it?”

“Because of three hours,” Chi Yao sneered, “I’m on pins and needles.”

“…”

In the evening, the group went back to the hotel to pack their things and return.

Lin Zhexia bought a ticket for the same train as them, and ran into Shen Shanshan when she was packing up and checking out.

Lin Zhexia’s first reaction was embarrassment, she wondered whether to pretend not to know what she said last night.

Shen Shanshan greeted her with a smile, “Hi.”

At present, only the two of them went downstairs in the lobby, so the two chatted.

Shen Shanshan: “Thank you.”

Lin Zhexia asked inexplicably, “Thank me for what?”

Shen Shanshan: “Thank you for helping me keep the secret.”

“I shouldn’t have said that yesterday,” Shen Shanshan said again, “I regretted it when I went back to the room.”

Lin Zhexia thought for a while and said seriously: “It’s nothing, you didn’t say anything yesterday, and I’m a big forgetful person, I don’t remember much when I wake up.”

Shen Shanshan knew that she was comforting herself, and the two stood together for a while in silence, before she took the initiative to mention: “I went to confess my love yesterday.”

Lin Zhexia didn’t expect that she would take the initiative to say this: “Ah.”

Shen Shanshan shrugged and said quickly, “But I was rejected.”

“He said he didn’t think about falling in love before the college entrance examination, and he also hoped that I could concentrate on my studies—it’s very official.”

Lin Zhexia: “It’s quite official.”

After finishing speaking, she didn’t know what to say anymore, so she choked out a sentence for a long time, “You, don’t be sad.”

Shen Shanshan looked at her and said, “I’m not sad, it’s strange, I still feel a little relieved.”

“easy?”

“Well,” Shen Shanshan thought for a while, and said, “Maybe, I never thought about being together, so telling him what I want to say before leaving is the best ending to this story.”

Lin Zhexia discovered the benefits of Chi Yao being a dog.

That is, when rejecting others, no girl will feel sad.

Tang Shuxuan did not, neither did the girls who delivered water, nor did Shen Shanshan.

…

When Shen Shanshan said this, Lin Zhexia also said “thank you” to her.

Shen Shanshan felt strange: “What are you thanking me for?”

Lin Zhexia: “Because I suddenly discovered something, if it wasn’t for you, it might be difficult for me to find out.”

Shen Shanshan still felt confused, but Lin Zhexia didn’t say much.

“In short, thank you.”

While talking, the others packed up their things and came down to assemble and line up.

Shen Shanshan is no longer persistent: “Okay, then let’s thank each other once, and it will be considered even.”

Lin Zhexia asked: “Are you going to transfer this semester?”

Shen Shanshan looked at the crowd coming out of the elevator, and said “hmm”, “I will go through the transfer procedures next week, I guess… I won’t be in Cheng’an next month at the latest.”

When Shen Shanshan spoke, she looked at the most eye-catching young man in the crowd.

As if looking at him for the last time.

The boy dragged his suitcase and walked carelessly at the end, and a piece of clothing was put on his suitcase. Today he wore stud earrings on a rare occasion, and the cold silver looked even more unapproachable.

For a moment, she seemed to see Chi Yao again on the first day of junior high school.

The person she has secretly liked since junior high school until now.

Shen Shanshan quickly withdrew her gaze, dragged her suitcase and followed them into the car.

Before getting in the car, she suddenly thought of the time she confessed to Chi Yao at the beach yesterday.

She was so nervous that she couldn’t speak, she closed her eyes and said the phrase “I like you”.

In the sound of the waves, Chi Yao first said “thank you”.

Then after that official rejection, he said three more words: “And I…”

It’s just that this sentence came to an abrupt end very quickly, as if she had misheard herself.

Shen Shanshan realized that this was a sentence with a lot of emotions hidden, because Chi Yao’s tone of voice was very different from usual when he said it, and his voice seemed a little dark.

So she asked, “What?”

However, Chi Yao didn’t say any more: “It’s nothing.”

“And I”.

Behind him, what is he trying to say.

Shen Shanshan thought for a while.

A group of people went to the train station by car and hurriedly checked their tickets and got on the train. During this hasty journey, she quickly threw this idea out of her mind.

The high-speed train back is still more than six hours.

Because Lin Zhexia bought the ticket separately, her seat was far away from other people, and she was not in the same carriage.

She was staring at the constantly moving scenery outside the window, when a voice suddenly sounded beside her: “Excuse me, excuse me, can I change my position?”

She turned her head and saw Chi Yao standing in the aisle holding the ticket.

The person he spoke to was the white-collar woman sitting next to her.

The female office worker blushed a little: “Do you need to change positions?”

Chi Yao was holding the clothes in one hand, and stretched out the other hand, holding the ticket between his two fingers. His fingers holding the ticket shook in the air, and pointed at her: “My sister sits here alone, I Don’t worry, if it’s convenient, I will change places with you.”

When he said “my sister”, Lin Zhexia stared.

Lin Zhexia: “Who is your sister…”

Chi Yao raised his eyebrows slightly: “Who do you say is?”

Lin Zhexia turned her head and said to the female white-collar worker, “Sister, he is a liar, I don’t know him.”

Chi Yao blocked her with a single word, and he said calmly, “I’m still having a tantrum with my brother.”

Lin Zhexia: “…”

This person is indeed a dog.

With Chi Yao’s face there, the female white-collar worker didn’t even think about it, she got up and wanted to change places with him: “Okay, I’ll change places with you, you stay closer to your sister.”

Soon the two switched places.

Lin Zhexia turned her head away, trying to pretend she didn’t know this person.

But at the same time, she was looking forward to it: “What are you doing here?”

Chi Yao: “Xu Ting is too noisy, it affects my sleep.”

Lin Zhexia suppressed that little expectation again: “Oh.”

The air conditioner is fully turned on on the high-speed rail.

After a while, Chi Yao asked again: “Are you cold?”

Lin Zhexia’s hands were already cold, and he hugged his arms unconsciously, but he still said stubbornly, “It’s okay.”

After she finished speaking, Chi Yao threw the dress she was carrying just now to her.

“…” He closed his eyes and said before going to sleep, “…Fortunately, I will take it.”

Lin Zhexia hugged her clothes, and suddenly jumped up from the depressed mood just now.

When Lin Zhexia arrived home, Lin He and Wei Ping had already returned from their travels, and they were sorting out the prairie specialties they brought back in the living room.

Lin He and Wei Ping digested the matter of Lin Zhexia going to Haicheng without permission for a few days, and they were not as angry as before.

So when he saw her, Wei Ping calmly called her over to get a gift: “Xia Xia, your mother has prepared a gift for you.”

Lin Zhexia walked over and saw a small glass bottle on the table: “What is it?”

Wei Ping: “Grass.”

“…”

Lin Zhexia held the emerald green glass bottle, feeling very complicated: “I am very touched, I went to the prairie, and I still don’t forget to pick grass and bring it back to my mother.”

But after digesting it, it doesn’t mean that he won’t get angry when he sees her.

Lin He: “As soon as I saw your face, I remembered that you ran to Haicheng without a word.”

Lin Zhexia took a few steps back, and retreated to the door of the room: “Then let me disappear for a while. Don’t look at me.”

“You asked Chi Yao to come to my house for dinner tonight,” Lin He yelled in the living room, “You ran over, what a trouble to him, he has to take care of you while he is busy with the game—do you hear me?”

Lin Zhexia pressed her back against the door panel and raised her voice to reply, “Understood.”

It’s not a big deal for Chi Yao to come to her house for dinner.

Everyone is used to it.

After dinner, Wei Ping took him to chat in the living room.

Lin Zhexia is a girl, unlike when she gets along, Wei Ping and Chi Yao sometimes have a lot of topics between two people.

Wei Ping: “Look at this for me. How do you feel about this car model? Uncle wants to assemble one.”

“…”

Lin Zhexia washed her hair after dinner.

While washing her hair, her phone rang, and she shouted with foam on her head, “Someone answer the phone for me.”

The scene looked a bit messy, Lin He was busy in the kitchen, Wei Ping was wearing glasses, and he couldn’t find where her phone was for a long time.

Finally, Chi Yao found her mobile phone from the crack of the sofa.

Wei Ping: “Whose phone is it?”

“He Yang.”

“Then help her pick it up.” Wei Ping sat back consciously, “I won’t interfere in the affairs between your children.”

The phone connects.

He Yang smugly said, “I knew you would answer my phone. I didn’t call Chi Yao on purpose. Sometimes he doesn’t answer the phone—am I being very witty?”

Then He Yang heard Chi Yao’s voice coming from the other end of the phone: “Well, witty.”

He Yang: “…”

He Yang: “No, why is it you?”

Chi Yao: “I have something to say.”

He Yang: “My family has a cat. My mother’s colleague’s female cat gave birth to several cats. She brought back one and wanted to ask if you would come to play.”

The content of the connections between the small groups on Nanxiang Street is very trivial.

The content is often about who bought a new computer, who bought a new game console, or went to sweep up the scratch-off toys sold in the canteen together.

Chi Yao wanted to say “I’m not interested in cats”, but the words just turned around in my heart, and what came out of my mouth was: “She is washing her hair, wait a minute.”

“Okay,” He Yang said his ultimate goal, “help me buy some canned cat food from the canteen before you come here. It came too suddenly, and there is no food for it at home.”

“…”

He Yang: “It’s not too much for you to go sightseeing and bring some small gifts.”

After Lin Zhexia washed her hair, her hair was only half-dried, and she couldn’t wait to take Chi Yao out to look at the cat: “He is too stupid, just to fool us into buying canned food for him.”

Chi Yao: “Then you still go.”

Lin Zhexia: “I was looking at the cat’s face, otherwise I wouldn’t bother to talk to him.”

Lin Zhexia looked for her coin purse before going out, and then took her mobile phone and keys, and her hands were so full that she couldn’t take anything else, so before leaving, she handed the rubber band on the table to Chi Yao: “You Get it for me first, and I’ll put the key in my pocket before I get it.”

Chi Yao stood at the door waiting for her and reached out to take it.

Lin Zhexia’s hair was not completely dry, it was still half wet, so she couldn’t tie her hair for the time being. So after she finished stuffing the key, she just forgot about the rubber band.

She went straight to the commissary, searched around, and found canned kittens on the bottom shelf.

When going to He Yang’s house, He Yang pretended not to know, and took the canned food: “Oh, come as soon as you come, and bring any presents, it’s too polite.”

Lin Zhexia said before entering the door: “I brought a gift specially, are you embarrassed?”

He Yang pretended to be polite: “Yes, yes.”

Lin Zhexia lowered his head and fiddled for a while, then called up the QR code on his mobile phone: “Then you pay, the total is 48, you scan me.”

He Yang: “…”

He Yang was speechless, just about to say “I lost this wave”, when he looked up and saw the person standing behind his brother Xia.

The young man was leaning against the door, his eyes were downcast, and the corners of his mouth were not obvious, as if he was amused by Lin Zhexia.

Lin Zhexia played with cats at He Yang’s house for a while.

The cat was only two months old, a white long-haired cat, and several people sat together to discuss what to name it.

Lin Zhexia: “Dian Dian, look at it walking, it is quite Dian Dian.”

“…”

My two month old cat sleeps almost all the time.

Several people watched for a while, and finally someone broke the calm.

Chi Yao: “Do you find it interesting?”

Lin Zhexia: “…”

He Yang: “…”

Chi Yao got up: “Let’s go.”

Lin Zhexia also got up: “Although it is cute, it has been sleeping. It seems a bit silly for three people to stare at a cat and watch it sleep.”

He Yang: “Then I won’t give it away.”

It was already dark when Lin Zhexia and Chi Yao went out.

After the long vacation, the end of summer is about to enter, and the sound of cicadas gradually becomes weaker.

When Lin Zhexia went out against the wind, her hair was blown up by the wind, covering half of her face.

Only then did she realize that her hair was dry.

Remembering to tie my hair, I searched around my body: “My rubber band…” Where did I put it.

Before she finished speaking, she stretched out a hand sideways.

The boy’s wrist was thin, and a very thin black hair rope was wrapped around the protruding wrist bone. It was the one she handed out before going out.

Amidst the faint chirping of cicadas, Chi Yao’s cold and weary voice sounded: “Take your things away.”