Chapter 25 Returning Home
"Then I'll go back."
Jiang Yishu struggled slightly, but found that Chen Jianghe was holding her hand tightly, so she stopped moving.
Chen Jianghe looked at her with a smile.
I really didn’t realize that this girl could be “tricked” so easily before. She is not only a top student, but also so beautiful. Maybe it’s true as the old saying goes, God opened countless doors for her, and then quietly closed a window.
"Do you have anything else to say?" Jiang Yishu asked him softly.
"There's nothing else to do. I just feel like I have to do my best to the end. I have to do good things to the end."
Chen Jianghe talked a lot of nonsense, and finally said to Jiang Yishu seriously: "Kiss me before you leave."
"relative……"
Jiang Yishu hesitated for a moment, then asked him, "Where do you want to kiss?"
"What do you think?" Chen Jianghe asked back with interest.
Jiang Yishu looked into his eyes, then quickly looked away with a red face.
"My heart is beating so fast, can you please not kiss me?"
Jiang Yishu was breathing rapidly and her face was flushed.
"You can kiss anywhere, but you can't not kiss."
Chen Jianghe deliberately put on a stern face and said, "When we were holding hands just now, we persuaded a group of people to leave. Now there are a lot of boys around here watching us. If you take the initiative to kiss me, more than half of the boys who will bother you will be reduced..."
"Bah."
Before Chen Jianghe could finish his words, Jiang Yishu gave him a light kiss on the cheek.
"Hey, are you serious?"
The wonderful feeling is fleeting.
Chen Jianghe felt that it was a bit too sudden and too short, and he really wanted to experience it again.
At the same time, the boys around were stunned and heartbroken because of the school beauty's proactive kiss.
"I'm going back."
Jiang Yishu had already used up all her courage in that act just now, and now she felt too embarrassed to continue staying with Chen Jianghe. She moved her little hand, broke away from his palm, and trotted into the dormitory building.
"Slow down, don't fall."
Chen Jianghe came back to his senses and gave a reminder.
"I know."
Jiang Yishu responded, then ran faster and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"You're running so fast, are you afraid that I'll break into the girls' dormitory, catch you, and pin you to the ground and kiss you?"
Chen Jianghe didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He lit another cigarette and left in a leisurely manner.
Walking out of the gate of CUHK, he took a few deep puffs of cigarette to calm the throbbing in his heart.
"I don't know what brand of shower gel Jiang Yishu uses. She even holds my hand and it still smells good."
Chen Jianghe sniffed his palm, and the scene of him holding her hand and walking from the cafeteria to the dormitory building flashed through his mind unconsciously.
Her hands are very soft, with long, white fingers, and her palms are as soft as candy, with a very textured feel when she holds them.
Then, there was that gentle kiss downstairs of the dormitory.
The incident happened suddenly, and Chen Jianghe didn't even have time to feel the beauty of that moment before she ran away.
"Teacher Xu is intellectual... Jiang Yishu is gentle."
"Is this God's compensation for my emotional setbacks in my previous life? I lived too carelessly in my previous life. I should spend more time in this life to gain a few sincere relationships, so that my life will not be in vain, right?"
"In a relationship, the triangle is the most stable."
Chen Jianghe flicked the ash from his cigarette, without thinking too much about it, and took the bus back to school.
After the agonizing class time before the long holiday, the National Day finally arrived.
October 1st.
On the expressway from eastern Guangdong to Dongguan City, an intercity bus was traveling at a snail's pace.
On this day of national celebration, traffic jams on the highway have gradually become the norm. The journey was originally only more than an hour, but now it has been jammed for half an hour just after entering the highway. There are endless vehicles ahead and I don’t know when the road will be clear.
"Stop touching me and take a nap."
In the double seat in the second to last row of the bus, Jiang Yishu blushed and whispered a reminder.
"hold head high?"
Chen Jianghe turned his head to look at her, then lowered his head to look at his left hand, which was currently placed on Jiang Yishu's fair and tender legs, rubbing them disobediently. Perhaps his technique was too rough, or perhaps he had been touching for too long, Jiang's snow-white skin had turned red.
Seeing this, Chen Jianghe reluctantly withdrew his hand and apologized with a playful smile: "Sorry, I touched the wrong thing. I was wondering why my stomach suddenly became so smooth and soft, and my eight-pack abs disappeared. I was scared to death."
"Yeah." Jiang Yishu did not question whether this explanation was reasonable and nodded slightly.
Then, Chen Jianghe pointed at his left hand with his right hand and taught it with a stern face: "Next time, don't stretch out your hand without permission. Do you understand?"
After saying this, he raised his right hand and slapped his left hand, asking himself and answering: "I understand, I understand, big brother, I was wrong, I won't dare to do it again next time, if I do it again, I will chop myself off."
"Pfft." Jiang Yishu couldn't help laughing, but was afraid that people in the car would give her strange looks, so she covered her lips, leaned against the car window, her shoulders trembling slightly.
"Laugh if you want to."
Chen Jianghe smiled and said cheerfully, "The car window is so hard, it's uncomfortable to lean on it, how about I lend you my shoulder ?"
"No, no."
Jiang Yishu waved her hand. There were many people on the bus, and not far in the front were her old classmates Qin Shaohai, Zhang Mingjie, Shen Congrong, Han Qiuya and others. She was shy and didn't dare to be as unscrupulous as Chen Jianghe.
"Okay, forget it if you don't want to rely on it."
Chen Jianghe was very reasonable. He didn't force it after being rejected. He stood up, looked at the situation in front of him, shook his head and said, "Looking at this situation, I may not be able to make it in time for lunch at home."
After saying this, he sat down and closed his eyes to rest.
I closed my eyes and I didn’t know how much time had passed. When I opened them again, the bus was already speeding on the highway.
The scenery along the way was both familiar and unfamiliar, like a dream, until the huge billboard with the words "Welcome to Dongguan" passed by and my heartbeat suddenly accelerated.
His mood at this moment was similar to when Liu Dongliang woke him up from the dormitory, yet completely different.
When parents are alive, life still has a destination. When parents are gone, life only has a way back.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back!"
Chen Jianghe murmured in his heart.
The bus's final stop was Nancheng Bus Station. Everyone got off the bus after arriving at the station. Zhang Mingjie, Jiang Yishu, and Han Qiuya's homes were not far away and could be reached on foot.
Chen Jianghe and Qin Shaohai took another No. 12 bus from Nancheng Bus Station to Zhangcun.
Along the way, Chen Jianghe wished the bus had a pair of wings so that he could fly home. Fortunately, the bus driver was very cooperative and drove at lightning speed on the bumpy road, reducing the half-hour journey to just over ten minutes.
When getting off the bus, Qin Shaohai held onto a banyan tree by the roadside and vomited violently, cursing as he did so: "Damn it, the driver is out of his mind, he drove the bus like it was a rocket."
Chen Jianghe stepped forward and patted him on the back, smiling and saying, "Alright, alright, stop swearing. The driver understands that we are eager to go home."
Qin Shaohai vomited for a while, then recovered. He turned his head to look at Chen Jianghe and felt that he seemed to have changed. In the past, he was the one who scolded the driver the most fiercely, but now it was the other way around.
"Why are you staring at me like that? Even if I'm handsome, I'm not someone you can covet."
Chen Jianghe rolled his eyes.
Hearing this, Qin Shaohai couldn't help laughing . This was the Chen Jianghe he knew. The guy just now must have been possessed by some idiot.
Qin Shaohai raised his hand to wipe the corner of his mouth, glanced at his home not far away, and said: "Jiang He, come to my house and sit down. I haven't finished reading the book "Crazy God" that I borrowed during the summer vacation. How about we read it together tonight?"
"No, I'm in a hurry to go home."
Chen Jianghe shook his head and refused.
"It's the seven-day National Day holiday. You're already home. Why are you in such a hurry to go back? If you don't want to read Crazy God, I also have a treasured copy of The Story of the Young Cowherd and the Landlady. I guarantee you'll like it."
Qin Shaohai wildly hinted that Chen Jianghe used to often eat, drink and sleep at his house, and the two of them got along like real brothers.
"No, I miss home. I want to go back to see my parents first."
Chen Jianghe grinned and turned to leave.
"etc."
Qin Shaohai decided to use a big trick to keep him: "I hid a rather perverted female novel. After the heroine died, the hero carried her ashes with him every day and put a little in his tea every time he drank it."
"That's nothing. I've read a more perverted one. The hero and heroine were stranded on a desert island. They planned to eat each other's shit to survive. The heroine tilted her head and warned the hero, 'You can't cheat and eat my shit without doing anything else.'" Chen Jianghe said with a smile.
