Juliet Tower

Chapter 32

The surroundings are very quiet, they are very close, and Li Huijun's voice is faintly discernible.

"Which subject do you write in the afternoon? English? What else? Mathematics... Then I will cook at 06:30, and it will be ready when you come back. Don't waste time on the road."

……

Qiao Yumian hung up the phone, without avoiding her eyes, and continued to look at An Jiayu, and it took a long time, until it seemed that even the angle of the light had changed.

"She...you..." It was the other party who couldn't hold back, "Have you always been like this..."

"Yeah." He didn't want to cover up this shit anymore, it seemed that he deliberately rejected people thousands of miles away, not to mention that after getting along for so long, as long as the other party is not a fool, he can more or less guess it. This is also the reason why he has never been close to anyone. Everyone is afraid that he has such a mother.

An Jiayu seemed to be choking, and it took him a long time to say: "But...but this shouldn't be..."

"I can't help it, it's all for my own good. It's not easy for my mother to take me alone, I have to be sensible." Qiao Yumian smiled helplessly.

Everyone said this sentence inadvertently, the elders in the family, Han Zhuoyi's mother, the junior high school teacher, their neighbors next door, and the proprietress of the fruit stand.It seems that no matter who it is, they can tell him: "Your mother has worked very hard, you must understand him and be filial to her."

So that he panics from time to time, he feels that once he fails to satisfy his mother, the whole world will point at him at the same time.

An Jiayu really wanted to curse.

But who should he scold, should he scold himself who insisted on dragging him to the playground, regardless of whether it was serious or not, or should he scold Qiao Yumian's mother who has never met before, who hangs over his son like a thick cloud?

Although Qiao Yumian didn't show anything, his eyes were straightforward, and the resignation and helplessness in his eyes were undoubtedly revealed.Especially when he slowly said the words "at school" to the phone, An Jiayu saw that his eyes turned red immediately, as if he was being questioned by his conscience.But who would have thought that playing with friends for a few hours on his birthday would be so heinous that he had to lie.

But Qiao Yumian's eyes were just red, he didn't cry, and he easily adjusted back to his normal state after a while, as if he was used to it.

He opened his schoolbag and stuffed the brand new English exercise book and a blue-black water-based pen to An Jiayu: "You have to help me make the English exercise book, or I will be miserable when I go back."

"...But today is your birthday..."

"Well. Aren't you celebrating my birthday with me?" Qiao Yumian wasn't idle, and opened another book, "Otherwise, we'll switch, and you do math?"

"... no... English... pretty good..."

The day before school started, they sat together in a remote corner of the amusement park, and started to write their homework in a daze.

"Where are my glasses..." Qiao Yumian suddenly realized that she was not used to it while writing.

"In the piano box." An Jiayu wrote like a fly, and turned the page in a blink of an eye. He looked at the three lines and accurately found out every potential language problem in the error correction questions and corrected them. There are marks on the bridge of the nose, Bai blind such beautiful eyes..."

Qiao Yumian paused when he touched the violin case: "Huh?"

A few frames suddenly flashed back in his head, it was the pair of glasses that An Jiayu took off and put on for him again.Simple movements, when you think about it carefully, the other party seems to have a small freeze every time, the moment when the glass between the four eyes disappears.

"..." An Jiayu's pen tip stopped on a misused article, and the lowercase letter a was quickly covered with blue and black ink. No, it doesn't mean anything. It's literally."

"Huh? Oh..." Qiao Yumian withdrew her hand, didn't understand what was going on, so she had to lower her head and continue working on the question.

After four o'clock, there were suddenly more people in the park.The sky turned into a soft light blue, Qiao Yumian moved her stiff neck and shoulders, and looked up to find the Ferris wheel moving in the distance.

An Jiayu put the cap on his pen, "Is it enough to write this much for you?" He flipped through the few pages he had just finished writing.

"It's enough... to write faster than me..." Qiao Yumian took the exercise book and began to mark the date next to the page number.

He looked up and saw An Jiayu looking at the Ferris wheel with his piano case on his back, and asked casually, "Want to sit?"

"Fortunately...it looks pretty from a distance."

"Then go and sit and watch." Anyway, everyone is here, so they must do something. Compared with the mysterious haunted house and the like, the Ferris wheel is much better.

Qiao Yumian packed her schoolbag and put the pen back into the pencil case. The two caught a glimpse of the ceramic beluga keychain at the same time. He touched the cold "Kanari", but he still didn't take it out.

"If you don't like it..."

"I really don't like it." Qiao Yumian walked in the direction of the Ferris wheel first, "I just don't want to be seen by my mother."

"What can't be seen on the keychain..." An Jiayu followed behind him slowly.

"It's okay to use the simplest one. This kind is too childish, like a toy."

"What about the real toys? Don't you have any figurines in your room?"

"No. There are only books in my room."

"Where's the plush doll from when I was a child? No decorations?" An Jiayu refused to give up.

"No. I threw it away in the fifth and sixth grades of elementary school, and my dad was not allowed to buy me new ones." He shook his head naturally.

"...so...computer games..."

"Dream. My computer is in my mother's room." Qiao Yumian couldn't help laughing, "Do you still have time to play games?"

"...I don't have time now, but I used to watch cartoons occasionally..." An Jiayu also complained in a rare way, "Watch whatever you want, otherwise other students won't be able to get in the conversation."

"Well, I don't talk to others very much. The children around me know that my mother is fierce, and they never dare to call me when they play together."

A few parents with children line up under the ferris wheel, and there are also young couples.The blue car slowly turned to the front, and the staff skillfully opened the door with peeling paint on the corners, urging: "Get in quickly."

There are very few tourists, and they can occupy the six-seater car exclusively by two people. Qiao Yumian leaned against the window, and his vision gradually increased. Although the soft leather seat was old, it was much more comfortable than the flower bed just now. He couldn't help touching the zipper of his schoolbag, and turned It took about half an hour to circle, and it seemed that I could finish a page of biology questions, otherwise it would be good to practice listening.

He pulled out the earphone plugs from his bag and silently looked down at the man with sparse feet.The merry-go-round horse not far away also started, with children riding on the horseback, and parents running around chasing the carousel with their mobile phones.

When it reaches the highest point, the car shakes a few times with the strong wind.

"Qiao Yumian."

A long segment of news in the earphones had just finished playing, and an unassuming call just happened to be inserted in the blank space.

He looked out of the window and found An Jiayu sitting across from him with his knees hugged, his face turned pale, staring at him closely, "Say something."

Qiao Yumian suddenly remembered that this person seemed to have a slight fear of heights. When he had the courage to sit with him on the roof of the teaching building, he didn't dare to look down at his feet and kept looking at the sky.

He hurriedly pulled off the earphones and looked around. There were only two of them, and they couldn't sit on the same side to keep the car balanced.So he resolutely left his seat, sat on the ground in the middle of the car, and stretched out his hand to An Jiayu, "You sit forward on the ground like me, so you can't see below."

An Jiayu grabbed his palm without thinking, and quickly slid down from the seat, touching his knees.

"Why didn't you say it earlier because you're afraid of heights. If you said it earlier, you wouldn't come up." Qiao Yumian laughed at him.

"Looking at the way our kid Qiao Yumian really wants to come up, how embarrassed is he not to satisfy you."

"……I'm okay……"

"Really, then why are you running to the roof of the teaching building every Friday and refusing to leave..." An Jiayu clasped one hand with him, hugged his knee with the other, raised her head from the Looking at the sky from the window of the car, "And I'm not... not that scared, just a little bit. Hey, as long as it doesn't shake..." The Ferris wheel seemed to be playing tricks on people, shaking as soon as the wind passed.

Qiao Yumian really likes high places, that's why he wanted to go on the Ferris wheel, but he still felt a little uncomfortable thinking that a person who is afraid of heights would hang with him in mid-air for half an hour: "An Jiayu...you have to treat others like this Okay..." This sentence is both exclamation and confusion.

"...Can't you. Don't you want me to treat you well?" An Jiayu's face was slightly startled, and he added some strength to the hand that was holding him.

Those eyes seemed to be testing something, Qiao Yumian lowered her head uncomfortably, and asked herself silently, does he hope?I hope An Jiayu treats him well: "But why."

"Don't ask why..." The man lowered his eyes, let go of his hand, and the temptation turned into disappointment...

The moment Qiao Yumian saw this expression, her heart was empty, and her two hands subconsciously chased forward, just in time to pinch those round fingertips.The movement was too big, the cable was pulled, and the earphones fell to the ground with a clatter.

The hands honed by the strings are thick and powerful, and extremely warm.

An Jiayu suddenly looked up at him, but this time Qiao Yumian did not dodge.The car crossed the highest point, along the other half circle, and slowly began to descend. The pink sunset turned behind An Jiayu, the curly hair was floating with a little gold, and the backlit eyes could be very bright. Everything is so tender.

"There's no reason... let's learn from you." An Jiayu touched the earphones on the ground and stuffed them back into his ears, then pressed hard on his astringent head, and said softly the moment he lowered his head, because , I like you.

An Jiayu heard the voice leaking out of his earphones. The radio station just broadcast a nostalgic golden song, and a light female voice was singing:

Openmyeyes, Irealize,itismyperfectday.

When Qiao Yumian got home, her blow-dried hair still smelled like grapefruit shampoo.

He pinched the door open and entered the house with the reason he made up, but the living room did not turn on the light.The street lamp outside the window shone a faint light, Li Huijun sat at the table blankly, the room was cold, and there was no ready meal.

He stepped forward and found his gray plaid scarf in the middle of the table.The air seemed to freeze into ice, so that Qiao Yumian's blood froze from head to toe, and he didn't dare to act rashly.

Li Huijun remained silent, without blinking his eyes, staring at the scarf with tear stains all over his face, he raised his eyes quietly after a long time, and then slowly got up.The stool feet rubbed harshly on the floor, she suddenly raised her arm, and slapped heavily.

Snapped!

Qiao Yumian was beaten so that her head was turned to one side, staring at her eyes, and it took a long time for her to recover.

The author says:

OpenmyeyesIrealize

Thisismyperfectday

Hope you never grow old

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