Good Luck Time - Chap 29
Finally Jiang Ge compromised, let go of Tao Sizhi’s hand, and said, “Stop screaming.”
Tao Sizhi said “Oh” and retracted his hand.
Jiang Ge paused and asked him: “You really don’t want to go to the autumn outing?”
”I don’t want to go.” Tao Sizhi said quickly.
”…You can always follow me,” Jiang Ge said to him as patiently as possible. “Didn’t you sit with me on the subway during the morning rush hour last time?” I hope Tao Sizhi can cherish the opportunity to get his promise.
Tao Sizhi only paused for a few seconds before telling Jiang Ge: “I hate the subway in the morning rush hour.”
”You didn’t come to the bookstore on time in Yunshan,” Tao Sizhi said, “and you have too many friends. I can’t follow you all the time.”
His analysis was comprehensive and correct, but he did not take into account the mood of the audience.
Jiang Ge was stunned for a moment, and Tao Sizhi’s hand slid to his face again, and her voice was a little closer to him, and she whispered: “Jiang Ge, I want to play a game.”
Jiang Ge was harassed by Tao Sizhi for a while, then he sat up and handed the phone to Tao Sizhi, but he held it tightly and did not let Tao Sizhi take it away. He asked, “Why did you pretend not to see me in the cafeteria today?”
”Ah,” Tao Sizhi’s tone seemed to indicate that he was confused by Jiang Ge’s question, “because you don’t want to say hello to me.”
In fact, Jiang Ge knew why Tao Sizhi thought this way, but he did not admit it: “You think too much.” He then asked Tao Sizhi: “Were you unhappy when you had dinner with me last time?”
”I’m so happy,” Tao Sizhi told Jiang Ge, “I was happy the whole night.”
Tao Sizhi’s tone didn’t sound like he was lying. Jiang Ge let go of his hand, let Tao Sizhi get the phone, and said, “Come with me from now on.”
Tao Sizhi replied: “Oh.”
Tao Sizhi hid under the quilt and played a game for a while, then suddenly poked his head out and called Jiang Ge’s name.
”Jiang Ge,” he said, “are you asleep?”
Jiang Ge was not asleep, but he didn’t speak either. Tao Sizhi was probably used to Jiang Ge ignoring him, so she assumed that he was awake and asked Jiang Ge, “Are we friends now?”
The questions he asked were still weird and sounded a little pathetic.
Unable to explain why, Jiang Ge did not answer directly, but asked him: “What do you think?”
Tao Sizhi was quiet for a few seconds, as if she found it too difficult, and as if she was afraid of hearing the results she didn’t want to hear. Before Jiang Ge announced the answer, she gave up searching and got back under the quilt to play the game again.
Chapter 17
The first time Tao Sizhi came to the back door of Jiang Ge’s class, he called Jiang Ge by his name. When he asked him to go to dinner with him, all the classmates who were familiar with Jiang Ge were a little embarrassed, Zhu Anquan was the worst among them.
When Zhu Anquan saw Tao Sizhi, he went to Jiang Ge and asked winkingly: “Brother, are the thieves coming to harass you?” Jiang Ge ignored him and told him to keep his mouth clean and walked to the back door.
After Tao Sizhi came to see Jiang Ge a few more times, everyone got used to it.
Tao Sizhi is a very picky eater. There will never be more than three kinds of food on the plate. The portions are small and the dishes are neatly arranged. When he eats, he is very quiet and his movements are very small, which is very unobtrusive.
After eating, he would drink a glass of juice. If there was no juice in the cafeteria that day, Tao Sizhi would look unhappy and make a detour to the canteen to buy a bottle after the meal.
Sometimes Jiang Ge would go shopping with him and laugh at him for his obsessive-compulsive disorder. Tao Sizhi would be even more unhappy. He would mutter to Jiang Ge, “I don’t have obsessive-compulsive disorder” and “Don’t laugh.” He would also speed up his pace, as if he wanted to slip away from Jiang Ge. Walk.
Tao Sizhi still didn’t go to the autumn outing before the holiday at the end of September. Although the school distributed the autumn outing atlas to the students, Tao Sizhi seemed to think the autumn outing was very beautiful and seemed to like it a little.
Because Jiang Ge found him secretly using his mobile phone to check the information of Qiuyoudi several times in the dormitory.
Tao Sizhi went home early when school was about to end during evening self-study the day before the autumn outing. His brother came to pick him up. When he was leaving, he passed by the door of Jiang Ge’s class and Jiang Ge saw him.
Tao Sizhi’s brother helped him carry his schoolbag. Tao Sizhi put his hands in the pockets of his school uniform and followed slowly.
His pockets were a little bulging, and Jiang Ge suspected that he was holding a mobile phone.
After turning off the lights at night, Tao Sizhi took the rare initiative to send a message to Jiang Ge, saying: “I have read the weather forecast. It will rain where you are going tomorrow.”
Jiang Ge replied: “Oh.”
”It’s sunny in this city,” Tao Sizhi said again.
Jiang Ge said: “Then you enjoy the sunny day.”
Tao Sizhi stopped coming back.
At eight o’clock the next morning, senior high school students in Mingde crowded onto the bus and headed to the seaside park in the neighboring city.
The one-way trip during the autumn outing was nearly two hours, and there were dark clouds along the way. When we arrived at the seaside park, the sun came out.
The seaside park is a very ordinary attraction. The beach is not clean and the sea is not blue. There is a long white corridor next to the beach. Most students sit on the corridor and watch the sea. Some of them took off their shoes and ran to the beach to step in the water.
Jiang Ge and his classmates were sitting on the edge of the corridor drinking soda when they received news from Tao Sizhi.
Tao Sizhi said: “It must be raining.”
Jiang Ge looked at the shimmering gray-blue water, took a photo, and sent it to Tao Sizhi: “No.”
Tao Sizhi replied to him: “The sea is not as beautiful as the one in the movie I watched.” He sent a photo of the projection screen at his home.
The sea on the projection is indeed very blue, much more beautiful than the seaside park. However, images are just images after all. What Tao Sizhi said seemed to be comforting and deceiving himself.
Jiang Ge replied: “Okay.”
Jiang Ge thought Tao Sizhi would never reply again, but after a few seconds, Tao Sizhi suddenly texted him: “Actually, the photos you sent are not bad.”
”I have never seen the real sea.” Tao Sizhi said.
Jiang Ge looked at the unclear message from Tao Sizhi and felt that Tao Sizhi actually still wanted to come. He also felt that it was a bit pitiful that he had never seen the sea at the age of seventeen or eighteen. He paused with his hand on the screen for a moment and said to Tao Sizhi: “Look for it.” I’ll accompany you on a day off.”
”No,” Tao Sizhi replied quickly, “I will not leave this city again.”
