Difficult To Raise Chapter 20
byChapter 20 Meeting Again The two chatted for a few words and then began to…
The two chatted casually for a few words and then began to do their own things.Jiang Ran still has some unfinished professional coursework, which needs to be completed in groups.
Jiang Ran was responsible for making ppts. He filled in the information collected by his classmates into the template bit by bit, and added many pictures in a mess.When I looked up, it was already past six o’clock.
“That’s almost it.” Tang Qin rolled off the bed, glanced at the screen of his phone, and said, “The mouse said he would wait for us at the school gate.”
Jiang Ran nodded, changed his clothes, and went out with Tang Qin.
At the school gate, I saw Jiang Haodong and his girlfriend at a glance. Jiang Haodong was tall, but the girl was petite. They looked very right together.
Jiang Haodong smiled and waved to them, “Come on, come on!”
Jiang Ran and Tang Qin walked over. Before they could speak, they first saw the two people’s hands intertwined.
Jiang Haodong smiled proudly, “This is my girlfriend, Li Yan. You can just call me sister-in-law. Wife, these are my two roommates, Jiang Ran and Tang Qin.”
Jiang Ran took a look at Li Yan. This girl had an oval face and round eyes. She looked a little childish. She was a cute and cute girl.
Seeing Jiang Ran looking over, she said a little embarrassedly: “Hello…you guys.”
Jiang Ran quickly looked away and said hello to her.
Tang Qin said with a smile: “Hello, little sister. You are so beautiful. You have given this big fool of ours an advantage.”
Jiang Haodong was still smiling next to him, but when he heard this, he became unhappy and slapped him, “You’re fucking stupid.”
A few people were chatting and laughing, and then another girl walked towards her. She looked very tall. Li Yan introduced her as her best friend. The girl was so beautiful that Tang Qin couldn’t move his eyes after just one glance. She kept getting close to her.
Now, out of the five people, two couples got together. Jiang Ran stood aside like a light bulb, so he had to take out his mobile phone to play a small game.
Jiang Haodong glanced at his watch, frowned slightly, and said, “There are still a few friends coming, so we have to wait a little longer. Why don’t we find a place to sit for a while?”
The rest of the people didn’t have any objections. They originally wanted to find a milk tea shop nearby, but before they took two steps, they saw a few boys arriving not far away. They were all tall and strong, and they looked very oppressive.
Jiang Haodong waved to them, and it seemed that this group of people was waiting for him.
When the person approached, Jiang Ran unexpectedly discovered that there was an acquaintance among them.He frowned and noticed that the other person’s eyes were also on him.
“They are all from the physical education department. This is Li Song, who studies swimming, and this is…” Jiang Haodong began to introduce them one by one, and everyone greeted each other as a greeting.
When it was Jiang Ran and Li Song’s turn, both of them looked as normal and couldn’t see anything wrong.But when shaking hands, the man’s fingertips lightly touched his palm, which made Jiang Ran frown in discomfort.
Li Song didn’t seem to notice anything, with a frank look.
Jiang Ran lowered his eyes, his disgust for him getting a little more intense.
Several people took a taxi to the place Li Yan mentioned. The restaurant looked quite upscale. There were two beautiful waitresses with makeup standing at the door, smiling at them.
Jiang Haodong’s family is in very good condition, and he usually doesn’t need money at all, so he would invite them to a restaurant like this.
Everyone was about to go in when they suddenly heard the taller girl say to Li Yan: “Hey, look, there is a boy over there who is so handsome.”
I don’t know where this girl is from. She speaks in a very loud voice, especially when she is excited, she screams.The remaining people all heard it, and everyone subconsciously followed her gaze.
There was a tall camphor tree there, and four or five boys were standing under the tree. They were all wearing blue and white school uniforms and carrying shoulder bags. They were obviously dressed like students. The boy the girl mentioned was particularly conspicuous in the crowd.
He is tall, has long legs, and has a good figure. He is a natural clothes hanger. Even wearing a uniform school uniform has a different feeling from others. At this moment, the man’s back is turned to them, making it difficult to see his face.
“You can’t even see his face, how can you tell if he’s handsome or not?” Li Yan looked away, speechless.
The girl smiled and said, “Don’t you understand? Handsomeness is a feeling. You don’t need to see the face. Sometimes you only need a profile or a back to feel it.”
Jiang Ran couldn’t help but follow what she said and stared at the boy’s back for a few seconds. Suddenly, his pupils shrank violently.
Jiang Ran squinted his eyes, inexplicably feeling that the back figure seemed familiar, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that he had never seen it before.
What on earth is this person…
Jiang Ran seemed to be attracted by this back figure and couldn’t move his eyes away. Even he felt a little surprised and didn’t know what was going on today, as if he was possessed.
The girl continued to impart her experience: “With his figure, as long as his face is not full of pits and acne marks, and his facial features are not crooked, then——”
Halfway through her words, the girl suddenly got stuck, and it took a while before she managed to squeeze out a sentence from her throat, “Fuck!”
It turned out that while they were talking, the boy’s friend seemed to notice this and suddenly pointed in their direction.
The man turned his head unexpectedly, and an overly delicate face appeared in front of everyone. The lines on his face were smooth and neat, his skin was delicate and white, and his eyes were dark. He always looked cold when he looked at people. His whole face seemed to come out of a painting, and it was a bit too good-looking.
“I’ll go, he’s really handsome!” Li Yan gave her best friend a thumbs up, with a face filled with admiration: “You have a good eye for him.”
The girl said proudly: “Of course, I have seen more handsome guys than you have eaten…”
“Why don’t you ask for your contact information?” Li Yan encouraged.
The girl’s cheeks turned red, “Forget it, handsome guys are only to be watched from a distance and not played with, I still…”
“You’d better add me on WeChat.” Tang Qin came up and answered with a smile, “I’m so handsome that there’s no need to look far away.”
As he spoke, he clicked on the QR code. The girl glanced at him and scolded with a smile: “You must be thick-skinned.”
After all, I didn’t have the nerve to refuse, so I smiled and scanned the QR code to add him.
Tang Qin got WeChat, the smile on his face became brighter, and he tried different ways to make the girl happy.He had a cheerful personality and good looks. The girl had a good impression of him, so she started chatting with him.
The few people were chatting happily, and no one paid attention to the boy who just brought up the topic.
However, Jiang Ran could no longer hear what they were saying. His face flashed with shock, sluggishness, surprise…different emotions mixed together, and only that face remained in the whole world.
It’s him, it’s Jiang Jin, he shouted silently.
After four years of not seeing each other, Jiang Jin has changed a lot. He has grown taller, his facial features have also broadened, and his whole person has become more dazzling, without any shadow of his childhood.
But no matter how he changes, he is still him. As long as he stands in front of him, Jiang Ran will definitely recognize him at a glance.
Jiang Jin’s eyes also fell lightly on him. At that moment, Jiang Ran’s mind suddenly went blank.
He and he spanned four years, looking at each other from a distance across a sea of ​​people, one full of surprises, the other calm.
Jiang Ran stared at him, with a surge of expectation deep in his heart, expecting him to smile at him and call him brother like he did when he was a child.But Jiang Jin only looked at him for a few seconds and then looked away indifferently.
Jiang Ran was sure that the other party had seen him, but at the same time, he also clearly realized that Jiang Jin was ignoring him. He might…not want to see him again.
It has only been four years, but many memories already feel like they happened a lifetime ago.
Jiang Ran’s mood suddenly became extremely depressed. His mouth felt as bitter as a handful of coptis stuffed in his mouth, and he was no longer interested in eating.
While he was in a trance, Jiang Jin didn’t know what he said to his friends. They crossed the zebra crossing together and quickly disappeared from Jiang Ran’s sight.He didn’t even look back at him, as if he was seeing an unrelated stranger.
Jiang Ran actually thought that he might hate him, but more than hating him, what he was more afraid of was the current situation. The other party had completely ignored him, but he had been caring about him.
Jiang Ran couldn’t accept this gap, and impulsively wanted to run after him, but he was grabbed by the arm after taking only a few steps. Tang Qin said with some confusion: “Where are you going?”
Jiang Ran turned around and found that everyone’s attention was on him, either confused or curious.He pressed his forehead and forced himself to calm down, “It’s okay, I just saw an acquaintance.”
Tang Qin groaned and let go of his hand, “Then do you want to say hello?”
“Well,” Jiang Ran said, “You go in first, I’ll be back soon.”
After saying that, he eagerly chased Jiang Jin in the direction where he disappeared.After crossing the zebra crossing, there are rows of lively shops. Many students are shopping. People are coming and going around, and the noise is all around.
Jiang Ran looked around, but didn’t see the familiar figure just now.Only a few minutes had passed, and Jiang Jin disappeared in front of him again.
His eyelashes trembled, panic arose spontaneously, and he almost jogged and walked all the nearby paths.However, no, nowhere. Every time everyone turned around, it was not him.
From hope to disappointment, it only took a few minutes. Jiang Ran even thought that he had just dreamed.He stayed there for a while, then walked back dejectedly.
The phone rang. He opened it and saw that it was the box number sent to him by Jiang Haodong. Jiang Ran typed back.
When they entered the private room, the food had not yet been served and everyone was chatting. When they saw Jiang Ran coming in, they all focused on him.Tang Qin waved to him and said, “Ran’er, come and sit here.”
Jiang Ran walked over and sat down. Tang Qin asked, “How are you? Have you seen anyone?”
Jiang Ran shook his head and said in a low voice, “Maybe I recognized the wrong person.”
“That’s it.” Tang Qin had no doubts and said carelessly: “It’s normal, people are similar.”
Jiang Ran smiled bitterly, thought for a while, and asked hesitantly: “You said before that there is a high school nearby. What is it called?”
Tang Qin didn’t expect him to ask this suddenly, and was a little confused for a moment. Before he could answer, Li Yan spoke: “It’s Chengshui High School. It’s quite close to the high school I studied in. Why are you asking this?”
Chengshui High School.
Jiang Ran silently wrote down the name of his high school, smiled at Li Yan and said, “No, just asking. Thank you.”
“Why are you so polite?” Li Yan pursed his lips and smiled.
Jiang Haodong brought the menu and placed it in front of Jiang Ran, “Ran’er, take a look at what you want to eat and order whatever you want. You don’t have to be polite to me.”
Jiang Ran still had the thought of ordering food, and said, “You just need to order, I can eat anything.”
Jiang Haodong nodded without saying anything, and added a few more special dishes.
He was obviously really happy, with a smile on his face all the time. After the food came, he would give Li Yan some food from time to time. Li Yan ate with a red face. The two of them looked so in love.
Tang Qin said exaggeratedly: “Come on, I’ve been watching you show off for a day. Can you consider the feelings of us singles?”
Li Yan pursed his lips and smiled, “Isn’t this simple? You just have to talk about it earlier.”
“I think so too.” Tang Qin said, “It’s a pity that no girl likes me.”
He turned to look at Jiang Ran and said jokingly: “Fortunately, I can still take a look at our baby Jiang Ran’s beautiful face every day, and I’m content with that.”