The Wind Blows Fallen Leaves Chapter 101

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There was a rustling sound of turning pages in the tree. Jiang Wangshu leaned against the window. The chirping of cicadas in her ears was the sound of the book. She sat motionless all morning.

When Zhang Jiacheng found her, he leaned against the bookcase and looked at her rosyly.

When she encounters difficult-to-answer questions, she will ruffle her hair, and then tap the pen on her forehead repeatedly…

Zhang Jiacheng sat over and read with her until evening, when most of the lights in the library went out, and she noticed him sitting next to her out of the corner of her eye.

“The preliminary round will start tomorrow, are you nervous?” Zhang Jiasheng held his head and tilted his head to look at her.

Jiang Wangshu looked at his hands that were shaking like an eighty-year-old woman and said, “You’re not nervous, but you look like you need to relax.”

“I’m definitely nervous.”

Zhang Jiasheng subconsciously retracted his hand and smiled awkwardly.

That night he took out the contact information given by Liang Qian and added Xie Kairui.

Xie Kairui was playing a game and casually clicked through. Zhang Jiasheng was still struggling with how to speak to him.

The words in the chat box were typed and changed, changed and deleted. Xie Kairui’s game was over and he still hadn’t sent it. His screen name in the chat box was always at “The other party is typing…”, so he took the lead and asked him: “I have something to say.”

Zhang Jiasheng finally sent a text.

“Do you know the most beautiful place in Huaicheng?”

Xie Kairui narrowed his eyes after reading it, as if he was considering whether to answer him or how to answer him.

His hand hanging on the screen slowly lowered and asked: “What are you going to do?”

“…”

Xie Kairui looked at the ellipses he sent and explained: “There are many beautiful places. Please be specific.”

“It’s more romantic.” Zhang Jiasheng looked at the word romantic and felt a little ashamed for a moment, covering his head in embarrassment.

“Evergreen Park,” Xie Kairui replied, “the scenery there is beautiful all year round, and there is a sea of flowers in every season. There is a long corridor in the middle of the sea of flowers, which is enough for you to walk for a while.”

“Thank you.”

After a while, Xie Kairui recommended another flower shop, with a postscript: “The flowers in this shop are gorgeous and suitable for you.”

Zhang Jiasheng’s face suddenly turned red and he ignored him.

The preliminary round lasted only two days, and Jiang Wangshu lived up to expectations and passed. Zhang Jiasheng came out dejected. Jiang Wangshu’s heart sank and he didn’t know how to ask.

“You…”

Zhang Jiasheng suddenly brightened up and said, “I passed.”

Only then did Jiang Wangshu’s tight mouth relax, and the hand that wanted to put on his shoulder calmly took it back.

The two were awkward for a moment, and Zhang Jiasheng said coyly: “If you pass the finals, have you decided which school you will go to?”

“Yeah.”

Jiang Wangshu nodded firmly.

“Which school do you want to go to?” Zhang Jiasheng was looking forward to her response.

Jiang Wangshu replied: “I want to become a teacher in the future, so my goal is only to be a master.”

“Master Ming…” Zhang Jiasheng repeated softly and said, “A teacher, that’s great, as long as you like it.”

“You…” Jiang Wangshu looked at his innocent smile and felt a little dazed. There were no words like “very suitable for girls” and “stable job”. They were just the most common sentences, but they seemed precious.

“I know there is a beautiful place. Would you like to go and see it together?”

The pressure these days was really exhausting for Jiang Wangshu. Finally, after a three-day buffer period, she agreed.

It’s midsummer, and the sunshine wraps around everything like golden threads. There is indeed a sea of ​​flowers in Evergreen Park, called the Summer Garden. There are also Spring Garden, Autumn Garden and Winter Garden. The flower gates are only opened during the season.

What is different from other places is that the summer garden is not planted with lotus flowers, but with crape myrtle flowers. There are large tracts of them, one tree after another is in bloom, each one is holding a green hammer. When the breeze blows, it will play a song for them. Just looking at it, it covers dozens of acres.

A corridor was built in the sea of ​​crape myrtle flowers, and a shed was erected to escape the heat. The corridor was so long that there was no end in sight, as if it had grown into the trees.

The two of them were walking on the path. People here spoke in dialects. Zhang Jiasheng thought it was interesting, so he imitated them casually. Jiang Wangshu thought that the way he spoke in dialects was extremely funny, and he laughed happily.

Zhang Jiacheng smiled reassuringly and said, “You looked like a little bitter melon just now, but when you smile, your flowers here are still beautiful.”

“I always look miserable, so you don’t need to pay too much attention.” Jiang Wangshu explained.

Zhang Jiasheng shook his head and said, “Why is it a bitter look? I think it’s more like compassion.”

Jiang Wangshu turned his head, not daring to look at him, and just admired the purple flowers along the way that looked like stretched scrolls.

Zhang Jiasheng answered the phone and followed her silently. When she looked back, there was a bouquet of flowers in Zhang Jiasheng’s arms. The bright red roses were one next to another. If you don’t let me, I won’t let you.

“Jiang Wangshu, I like you,” Zhang Jiasheng said word by word, “Maybe I am not a qualified suitor, because I don’t know if roses are your favorite flower. I am holding this bouquet not to ask for an answer, but to hope that you will not belittle yourself. You are a very good person. No matter where you are, you are a presence that can illuminate people.”

“I…” Jiang Wangshu hesitated, her cheeks already dyed red by roses. This sudden change caught her off guard and she couldn’t say a word.

Zhang Jiasheng deliberately chose a secluded place where almost no pedestrians walked by. Jiang Wangshu calmed down and breathed a long sigh of relief and said: “Thank you for saying these words to me. I think it will be a sunny day when the final results come out, and maybe the flowers will bloom better.”