"Take care to lead the way."

Jiang Qi said lightly beside him. "You don't mind if I take you to your doorstep, do you?"

The tidal heartbeat suddenly staggered the beat. She restrained her gaze, which always wanted to follow him, and she didn't turn her head to hum.

Jiang Qi suddenly laughed, with an inexplicable meaning.

Others are tall and long-legged, and they step out of the way. The tide needs to add steps to catch up with him. She tried to follow his beat as best she could. The two of them walked in the boundless rain in a little staggered, for a minute or two they were silent to each other, and the sound of the rain hit the simple black umbrella cloth, mixed with the faint snort that could be heard clearly between each other, and the atmosphere was quiet and charming.

"Go straight to the intersection and turn right to get there, and it's a three-story yard."

When it was time to arrive at the accommodation, the tide and the river rose to say hello in advance.

Jiang Qi didn't open his mouth, and a soft hum sound came out of his throat.

There is a kiosk at the entrance of the yard. The proprietress of the commissary is a standard neighborhood aunt, and the tide has heard all kinds of rumors and rumors in her mouth, and chewing her tongue behind people's backs is her best skill. She said that the proprietress of the family selling fruit next door had an inappropriate private life, saying that a female student in the yard was pregnant, but her boyfriend had run away, and that the old lady of the landlord often stole the things of the tenants, and her hands and feet were not clean. It's hard to tell whether these rumors are true or false, but anything that is not very serious will change the taste in her mouth.

The tide for her is as far away as possible. She remembered the first thing the lady said to her.

She just moved in that day, because Xia Cicada had something to do, and she moved things up one by one. The proprietress sat leisurely at the entrance of the yard, knocking melon seeds on Erlang's legs, puffing melon seed shells on the ground, looking lazy, and watching herself sweat profusely.

"That girl, seeing that you are also a student, you must be clean and self-loving, and don't bring a man back for the night casually! If you make your belly bigger, no one wants it! ”

Tide was so angry that she almost didn't smash the box full of books into her oily, fat face.

The blue-skinned iron shed of the commissary has come into view. As soon as the tide raised his eyes, he saw the fat aunt sitting under the canopy at the door, doing needlework.

The soles of her feet were weak, and she withdrew her gaze and turned to Jiang Qi's face.

"Just send it here, thank you, the place has arrived."

When Jiang Qi heard this, he glanced at the three-story courtyard standing not far in front of him. This kind of residential area is not common here, and it can be said that behind the bustling surface of the city center is an unknown desolation. The white walls on the courtyard wall had been mottled after not being painted for a long time, and the black ash scabs were torn from the skin of the walls, dilapidated and depressed.

"You're going to live here?"

He stopped, his brow furrowed slightly.

Tide was surprised by his contemptuous tone, and his eyes gradually became cold.

"It's good here."

Jiang Qi's gaze fell on her furrowed eyebrows, and he sighed softly.

"Send it to the yard, it's raining heavily."

His tone was suddenly firm and unquestionable.

Tidal listened to his words, not hearing the word "bar" after "yard", thinking that he had already made a decision, and did not leave her any choice.

She didn't speak, she was hesitating, and the person next to her had already stepped out of her legs.

"Oops, hey......" she hurried after her.

The shopkeeper heard the movement and looked up from the needlework in her hand. Her narrow eyes flashed with a falcon-like gaze that stabbed straight at the two of them. The sharp gaze pierced the tide and the back was cold.

Tidal watched her every move with her peripheral vision, and felt that the road from the corner past the commissary into the yard suddenly became long.

Seeing that he was about to step on the threshold of the courtyard, there was still silence in his ears. The tide breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the boss's mouth was well-behaved today.

Suddenly, she caught a glimpse of the proprietress straightening up, and her squinted eyes suddenly opened, as if she had learned something terrible.

"The girl! Bringing your boyfriend back for the night? ”

Her voice was frighteningly loud, high-pitched and rough, and almost anyone within a radius of miles could hear her. Sometimes Tidal sat in the house and listened to her scolding and scolding with other people downstairs, and the sound could penetrate the wall.

The tide was startled, and was overwhelmed by her shout.

She hurriedly leaned out from under the umbrella and waved her hand in that direction, her head shaking like a rattle.

"No, no, it's my classmate!"

As she spoke, she looked at Jiang Qi unconsciously. He didn't look at the aunt, but suddenly lowered his eyes faintly, and his gaze fell on her already burning crimson face, and the corners of his lips were hooked.

"If you bring it, you can bring it, what is there to be shy about? I look at the young man who looks really handsome, and you don't lose it! ”

Tide thundered in her head, remembering what her aunt said to her when she moved the book that day, and she was still pointing fingers at her at that time, why did she suddenly become so generous today.

Is it because Jiang Qi is good-looking?

She thought wildly, just waved her hand vigorously at her aunt, shouted no, and stepped into the yard by the way.

There was silence from beginning to end. But his expression was intriguing.

The aunt's voice was still ringing behind her, mixed in the misty rain, covered by the sound of water splashing on the eaves and the ground, and she couldn't hear clearly.

"Don't be in a hurry to deny some things, don't you understand the reason why you can't clean up and mess up?"

Jiang Qi finally spoke when he stopped in the courtyard.

Tidal pursed his lips, as if he was not pleased with his teaching.

She didn't say anything, flashed from under his umbrella, and stepped to the top of the stairs.

"My house is upstairs, I'll go up by myself, thank you really for today."

She greeted him politely, and was just about to turn to go upstairs when she heard Jiang Qi's voice behind her sounding softly in the dripping rain.

Tide saw him standing quietly in the rain with the black umbrella, with a cold smile on his face, and the look in his eyes was mixed in the dense and dim rain curtain, and she couldn't see clearly through the blurred lenses wet with raindrops.

His words drifted out in the fog, and fell on her heart word by word. The smell of mint mixed with his body, mixed with the smell of rain and soft earth, smelled so good that people were almost addicted.

"I'm all here, and you won't invite me in to sit?"

Tidal stood in the middle of the room, a little overwhelmed. The room was small enough to fit her with a bed and a desk, as well as a dilapidated wardrobe and shoe rack.

Not sure why. Showing this slightly shabby room in front of him with such stripes actually gave birth to a sense of shame and oppression that Xu Jinxi did not have when he received it before. The sense of embarrassment that people suddenly show in front of the person they like is stronger than the embarrassment they have in front of him.

Since meeting him, Tide can't remember his former self.

“....... Feel free to sit. I'll pour you some hot water. ”

She suddenly remembered that it had been four or five minutes since the two of them entered the house, and they were speechless and embarrassed. I found an excuse to go out and pour water in the kitchen. The bathroom and kitchen are outside and are communal, and the environment speaks for itself.

Jiang Qi stood quietly with his hands in his pockets, his gaze patrolling from the roof to the ground, from the shoe rack to the bed table, and finally to the beige wooden desk. His eyebrows were slightly raised, his expression was calm, and he walked straight to the desk of the tide and sat down.

The desk is very tidy. The books were neatly arranged on the left side, and in the upper right corner was a lamp with an illuminated table, and a few pieces of scratch paper filled with French letters were scattered on the table, and he could clearly recognize her delicate floral letters.

His gaze wandered around the top without hesitation, as if searching for something he had been looking for for a long time.

“....... Il y a ...... une personne que je vois....... comme ma vie. (There is a man whom I regard as my life)"

This line of words was carefully written by the owner in the upper right corner of the paper, and it stood out in a grammatical sentence full of words and grammar necessary for graduate school. It's like the person who wrote it when he was tired of studying, but the strokes were very strong, and the ink penetrated the back of the paper.

He lowered his voice and read it softly, the corners of his lips rising as the sentence was complete word for word.

This sentence seems to be about to bloom on his lips.

"Here comes the water."

As soon as Tide stepped into the room with one foot, she caught a glimpse of Jiang Qi sitting leisurely at her desk, looking down at something. She was startled, and her hand holding the cup trembled.

"Drink water, drink water." She walked over with her feet up and placed the cup next to him, looking a little panicked.

Jiang Qi stood up from the chair and retreated to the side, his eyes falling on her, his eyes heavy.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have just looked at your stuff."

He apologized for his faux pas.

Tide snorted inwardly, raised his eyelids and didn't speak. She took advantage of Jiang Qi's reach for the cup to quickly glance at the wall where the desk was leaning, without letting him notice, and then retracted her gaze.

“...... Is there anything else you can do? ......”

Jiang Qi stood here, the originally small space made her feel even more suffocated by his presence at this time. The invisible feeling of oppression in his body made her chest tight, because she closed the window before the rain left, and forgot to open it when she came back, but the atmosphere in the room was a little hot, and she raised her eyes and fell into his smiling eyes, feeling like she was about to drown in those eyes.

The tide took advantage of his own helplessness and issued an eviction order. Anyway, the relationship between him and her has always been like this, they don't say anything to each other, and they know each other. She wasn't afraid of him getting angry, she was more afraid of him getting too close to her than she was.

Jiang Qi sighed in his heart, gently put the water cup that he had only taken a sip on the table, his eyes scanned the room again, and then raised his feet and walked to the door.

"The graduate school entrance examination went well."

He picked up the umbrella that was still wet and smashing the water droplets down at the door, and when he turned around, his eyes were clear.

The tide suddenly wanted to ask him if he was going to take the postgraduate examination, and the words that came to his mouth were eager as if he was going to smash his chest. Just like the last time she didn't ask, she wanted to ask him about the future, and wanted to know his future days, but those words were still crushed into pieces by the little self-esteem and inferiority complex she had left.

Just ask once, just as a greeting between acquaintances.

The tide feels the heat on the soles of your feet.

“...... Are you going to graduate school? ”

She spit out these four words with difficulty and quickly, feeling that most of her strength had been consumed. Her eyes eagerly fell on Jiang Qi, who was just about to step out of the threshold, waiting for his answer.

She saw Jiang Qi turn sideways, and the sky outside the door was dark and heavy. The rain was dense, and his silhouette was half hidden in the drowsiness, and half fell in the light room. A smile suddenly appeared at the corner of his eyebrows, and the usual coldness in his body disappeared from his slightly raised jaw.

"No."