Volume 6: Summer Chapter 25 Sugar
Jiang You put out the cigarette and reached out to ruffle Jiang Mo's hair, but Jiang Mo twisted his neck to avoid him.
Jiang You put his hands down helplessly. He said, "I wiped my hands. There's no chicken stench or cigarette smell. You're a fire-starter all the time, and you told me you hate the smell of cigarettes. Ask yourself, don't you feel guilty?"
Jiang Mo's body leaned back and fell onto the recliner.
"Would you like a glass of 82-degree milk?" Jiang You asked him.
Jiang Mo made an OK gesture to him.
Jiang You stood up and walked into the kitchen. He washed his hands first, then poured two cups of milk, heated one in the microwave, and put a spoonful of honey in the other.
Two minutes later, he walked back to the recliner with a glass of milk in one hand. After putting the hot milk on the small coffee table, he sat down with the cup in his hand.
"It's a bit troublesome , and I also..." Jiang You drank a sip of milk and glanced at Jiang Mo, "When Lin Yu went to the research institute, didn't you watch the live broadcast all the way? Didn't you go to visit the body?"
The amount of milk in the cup on the coffee table kept decreasing.
"You didn't recognize him? He's ugly? He looks unpalatable?" Jiang You laughed out loud, "If you wanted him to taste good, would you have eaten him early in the morning?"
Jiang Mo thought for a while and nodded carefully.
Jiang You raised his head and drank the milk in one breath. He put the cup on the coffee table and said, "Have a good sleep first."
He stood up and walked towards the store, "We need to find a doorman."
Jiang Mo put his hands behind his head, and the moon was moving through the clouds.
The remaining honey slowly fell along the edge of the cup and sank to the bottom.
A dreamless night.
Jiang You woke up at around nine in the morning. After lamenting that he was getting older and couldn't sleep as well as young people, he took out his phone and saw two design drawings Liu Boyang had sent him. They were his plans for renovating the courtyard gate, with explanations attached. In short, one of the plans would cost more, but it would take all aspects into consideration, while the other plan would save money, but it might give less privacy when the door was not open.
After Jiang You enlarged the two pictures and looked at them carefully, he asked Liu Boyang on WeChat: When are you free?
After typing, he looked through his circle of friends and clicked a few likes.
Liu Boyang quickly replied: I'm free this week. Have you decided which plan to use?
Jiang You: I don’t quite understand the drawings.
Liu Boyang: Let me come over and talk to you. I'll come over now.
Jiang You: Let’s have lunch together at noon.
Liu Boyang: Okay.
After putting down his phone, Jiang You lay on the bed with the quilt in his arms for a while. It was not until Lin Yu walked into the yard that he reluctantly got out of bed.
Walking downstairs, seeing Lin Yu holding a plastic bag in his hand, he said, "Are you still so polite now?"
Lin Yu put the bag on the long table and took out two jars of candy. "I went out for a walk on the weekend and saw a candy store with an interesting decoration. I went in and talked to the owner for a while and asked him a lot of questions. I bought a few jars of candy when I left. I didn't realize there was an expiration date until I got home."
"Let me try it." Jiang You walked to Lin Yu, unscrewed the lid, took out a candy, and tore off the wrapping paper.
After savoring it for a while, he said, "It tastes sweet and sour, a little on the sour side. By the way, I'm not running today." He turned to look at Lin Yu, "My friend is coming over at noon. It's Teacher Liu, who had lunch with me last time when you went to the bookstore to help."
"What time will he come?" Lin Yu asked.
"It should be soon. We have already set off."
"Then I'm going back?"
"No, no, this matter has something to do with you, otherwise I would have sent you a message asking you not to come over today."
Lin Yu looked at Jiang You in confusion.
Jiang You asked him, "How's your bead doing lately?"
Lin Yu replied, "With my body as the center, within a three-meter diameter range, it can move according to my will. Beyond this range, the connection with it becomes significantly weaker. I tried to use it like a hidden weapon in a martial arts novel, but it didn't seem to work very well."
"It's a magical weapon. Have you tried its other functions?"
"Others... I haven't figured it out yet." Lin Yu looked at Jiang You's expression and asked, "Did something happen?" He thought of the reason why Jiang You asked for leave from him before, "Is it related to slaying demons and exorcising monsters?"
"Maybe," Jiang You pulled out a chair and sat down, "Sit for a while," he saw Lin Yu's expression turned serious, so he explained, "It's not clear what will happen, but it's always a good idea to make more preparations and practice more skills to fight monsters."
Lin Yu nodded and asked, "Are you still exercising today?"
"No," Jiang You refused. "It takes a lot of time to go to the park and back. Let's start tomorrow. I'll increase my exercise volume and practice more physical fitness tomorrow."
Hearing this, Lin Yu sincerely suggested, "Just run in the yard. Run as many laps as you want. You need to build up your physical fitness slowly."
Jiang You thought about it and said, "Okay, I'll go have breakfast first."
"It's better to eat after running," Lin Yu knew Jiang You very well. He said, "When Teacher Liu arrives, it will be time for lunch."
Seeing Jiang You's struggling expression, Lin Yu added, "It's almost June now, and the weather will get really hot when the dog days begin."
Jiang You lowered his head, sucked in his stomach and looked at his toes. He said, "I'm going to change my clothes."
After changing his clothes and shoes, Jiang You started jogging in circles in the yard. Zhao Cai walked to Lin Yu, squatted down, and watched Jiang You running. After Jiang You noticed his gloating look, he stopped, found his skateboard, and put it in front of Zhao Cai, "Would you run with me? I'll run, and you practice skateboarding?"
Zhaocai turned around and rushed into the store.
Jiang You watched it slip up the stairs.
He rested his hands on his knees and took a long breath. "Is that all for today?"
"Only twenty-four laps."
As soon as Lin Yu finished speaking, there was a knock on the door.
"I'll go open the door!" Jiang You rushed to the gate of the yard at the speed of recruiting talents and opened the door. "Boyang, you're here, come in."
"Brother Jiang, you..."
Jiang You wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand and said, "I'm running to lose weight. Look, my coach is here too."
Liu Boyang followed Jiang You's gaze and saw Lin Yu.
Lin Yu nodded at him.
"Let's go into the store and talk."
"Oh, okay, this is the door. Do you want to..."
"No hurry, no hurry," Jiang You interrupted Liu Boyang and said, "Sit down for a while and drink some water. I've lost half a day."
Jiang You brought Liu Boyang into the store, and Lin Yu followed in. After the three of them sat down, Jiang You said, "Boyang, I asked you to come here today because I have something to do with the camphor tree."
Liu Boyang's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Is Jiujiu back?"
