You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Shen Jie also noticed the mess in the room, and reached out to tidy up the sofa a little embarrassedly: "Lu Ying, please don't laugh at me. I didn't know you were coming, so the room is a bit messy."

After making a gap on the sofa, Shen Jie pressed Yu Luying's shoulders and asked her to sit down, while she stood against the closet door, which showed that she did not intend to keep the guest for long.

"Sister, your dress looks so beautiful today. Where are you going to play? If I had known, I would have come another day." Yu Luying said apologetically.

"No," Shen Jie crossed her fingers a little uncomfortably, "I just took him to the wedding photography shop."

After all, she is only a seventeen-year-old girl. It may be normal for her to fall in love, but suddenly talking about wedding dresses with others...it's still a bit awkward.

"Wedding dress?" Yu Luying's surprise was not fake this time: "What are you going to do!"

Xiao Yao noticed that besides surprise, there seemed to be a hint of... resentment on Yu Luying's face?

"Oh, it's Xiao Yao again. You know him." Shen Jie continued to play with her fingers.

"?" Xiao Yao raised his little head in confusion.

"She was just in love, a half-grown child, telling me every day that she liked me and loved me," Shen Jie's voice became smaller and smaller, and her face became a little red. "Then she said she wanted to marry me."

Xiao Yao wanted to say something but stopped himself.

"I said, you are only a few years old, just fall in love, why get married?" Shen Jie continued: "Then he told me that when he was 12 years old, he wanted to marry his classmate. He held hands with her and went to school together, cooked and slept together, and rented a small blue house outside the school with milky white lights-"

"Hey!" Xiao Yao couldn't stand it anymore and stopped her.

First of all, it was too much for such a shameful thing to be repeated in front of a third person, and... I had also said these words to a third person before.

Sure enough, Yu Luying laughed: "Xiao Yao told me about this before."

Xiao Yao turned his head away, unwilling to face the awkward atmosphere on the field. After all, this sounded too much like the communication between his ex-wife and his current wife...

"Yeah, yeah," Xiao Yao heard Shen Jie pretending to be indifferent and said, "I thought at the time, the blue house, the milky white lights, isn't that the 7 Days Inn?"

"I understand," Yu Luying also coughed twice, "Because you can't get married, he forced you to take wedding photos with him to satisfy your desire, right?"

"Basically, that's about it." Shen Jie looked at the ceiling at a 45-degree angle.

??? Obviously, it was you who brought it up first. You made it up in front of me. Do you have any shame?

"It sounds like something Xiao Yao would do." There was a hint of loneliness in Yu Luying's tone.

"So..." Shen Jie deliberately glanced at the old floor clock, looking embarrassed: "I made an appointment with the designer of Navarra Wedding Dress this afternoon, and now..."

"Navarre wedding dress!" Yu Luying's eyes lit up, although she had never heard of Navarre before.

"How come Luying also knows about Navarra wedding dresses?" Shen Jie asked curiously.

"I've always wanted to go there!" Yu Luying improvised, inevitably stuttering a little: "It's a great... uh, wedding photography company, especially... artistic and design-oriented, right? I heard that they can customize one-on-one according to the customer's requirements..."

"Yes, yes, it's amazing. Luying, let me tell you..." Shen Jie spoke excitedly, and the atmosphere on the scene changed from awkward to lively.

Xiao Yao turned around and put his hands on his thighs like a kid in kindergarten, quietly acting as a background for his girlfriend.

In this atmosphere, Yu Luying naturally made this request: "Sister, how about you two take me with you today?"

Chapter 101 Three-way Tango

2023-07-31

The weather was nice, from cloudy to overcast, and the temperature was just over 20 degrees. At the end of June, it was undoubtedly the last restraint before the scorching heat broke out.

Yu Luying, Shen Jie and Xiao Yao walked towards the bus stop together. Xiao Yao put his hands in his trouser pockets, Shen Jie had a smile on her face, and Xiao Yao looked here and there with a little sweat on his forehead. Yu Luying used the brim of her hat to hide her expression, but her eyes would glance at the two of them from time to time. Sometimes when her eyes met Xiao Yao's, she would quickly look away.

In fact, when Yu Luying first proposed to go with them, Shen Jie refused because she felt that… ah… I can’t let you go right away just because you said you wanted to go. First, we were going to take wedding photos, so what would it mean for you to go with us? Second, Yu Luying’s status was quite special, and in Shen Jie’s eyes, she was half an ex-girlfriend…

But Yu Luying explained that she had always wanted to take a wedding photo shoot alone, so she wanted to take this opportunity to let Shen Jie lead the way and do some on-site inspection.

In the end, Shen Jie had no choice but to agree.

At this time, three people were walking side by side on the sidewalk, Xiao Yao on the inside, Yu Luying on the outside, and Shen Jie walking in the middle of them.

Shen Jie wore a goose yellow long skirt embroidered with white magnolias, and a pair of white canvas shoes underneath. When she walked, the hem of her skirt flew up, and you could see the shafts of her flesh-colored socks - this way of dressing was not very fashionable in Shanghai in 2004, but with Shen Jie's youth and beauty, it actually looked radiant.

Yu Luying wore a black baseball cap, and under her cropped jeans were glass silk socks that looked very girlish and a pair of white sneakers that were old-fashioned but washed very clean.

Walking together with the two dazzling beauties, Xiao Yao could clearly feel the envious and jealous gazes of passers-by, especially the male passers-by.

The idea of ​​taking the bus was proposed by Yu Luying when she was watching the two of them eating at "Hu Jian Qianli Xiang Wonton". She said she knew there was a special line to Qingpu that took the elevated road and was not much slower than taking a taxi.

You clearly said before that you wanted Shen Jie to lead the way for you, Xiao Yao thought a little uneasily.

Shen Jie initially rejected Yu Luying's proposal because she felt...ah...I can't just take the bus when you say you want to take the bus. First, I have to try it first...

Okay, let’s give it a try.

Life is about experiencing all kinds of things, and when we are not on the road, three people are squeezed together in a small enclosed space and staring at each other.

"I have a habit of taking a bus when I first arrive in a city. Only in a small space can I quickly appreciate the unique scenery and culture of each city. Sometimes I like to sit by the window, watching the vehicles and people coming and going, and the interlaced shadows of trees and roads," Yu Luying said, "sometimes I like to stand in the middle, next to the grandpa and aunt who just came home after buying groceries, and listen to them talk about their interesting experiences. Although the people on the bus are strangers, they are often kind and tolerant, allowing you to see the lively life and real life."

After listening to these literary remarks, Shen Jie suddenly didn't want to take the bus anymore, because Xiao Yao had said almost exactly the same things to her.

I came here because you two are in harmony, right?

But since she had agreed, it was not easy to go back on her word. Shen Jie recalled that she had never taken a bus in all these years, but it seemed that this was her first time taking a bus in Shanghai.

The "Hongqing Line" is an ordinary Shanghai bus that could be seen everywhere in 2004. In this era, the "trams" of the last century have been basically eliminated, and battery cars have not yet appeared, so they use diesel.

There were not many people on the bus. As soon as Shen Jie got on the bus, she smelled a smell of diesel. She frowned unhappily and her nostrils twitched slightly.

She initially chose a seat in the last row, but Xiao Yao reminded her that it would be very bumpy, so she moved and sat in the window seat of the double seat in the middle rear on the left side.

Before sitting down, the girl took out the tissue she carried with her and wiped the chair carefully.

This petty bourgeois hypocrisy aroused Xiao Yao's disgust, but he chose...

"Let me do it, let me do it, give it to me."

"No, no, just get your butt up and I'll wipe it for you too."

Yu Luying did not sit with them, but chose to sit in the horizontal row of seats in the front right.

"Luying," Shen Jie looked up and called out, "Come and sit here."

"No, no." Yu Luying waved her hand, rejecting Shen Jie's false courtesy, took out her Walkman and plugged in the earphones.

If it weren't for the limitation of symbiotic distance, she would not have been willing to come out and wade into this muddy water. Now that the risk has been eliminated, she just needs to maintain it - she doesn't want to be a light bulb that begs for help, which will damage her self-esteem.

Nowadays, Shanghai's public buses are basically coin-operated + bus card system, but this kind of inter-district long-distance bus still retains the job of ticket sellers.

"Where to?" The middle-aged woman in her forties walked up to Yu Luying with a machine for scanning bus cards.

"The end." Yu Luying started to search her pockets.

"Seven dollars," said the ticket seller.

Yu Luying handed over a brand new twenty-yuan bill and a one-yuan coin, and pointed at Xiao Yao and Shen Jie.

The car started slowly, and the afternoon sun suddenly peeked out from behind the thick clouds, shining directly on Shen Jie's face.

"Wife, how about we change." Xiao Yao whispered: "Sunbathe."

"Hmm." Shen Jie made a negative sound from her nose: "It's quite warm."

“What was it like taking the bus for the first time?”

As soon as Xiao Yao asked this question, the female driver slammed on the brakes, and the two of them rushed forward together, almost hitting the backs of the front seats.

"It's quite fun." Shen Jie thought about it and smiled.

"I still miss the trams from my childhood," Xiao Yao recalled, "Have you seen them? They have two braids, with electric wires dragging in the sky, two carriages, and a rotating disc in the middle, which means it can rotate in the middle..."

"Nonsense, I think I'm a native of Shanghai, do you really think I don't go out on the streets?" Shen Jie retorted, "I've sat on it once."

"Huh? Didn't you just say it was your first time taking a bus in the Magic City..."

"When you mentioned the tram, it reminded me of something. My mother took me on it once when I was a child, just for fun." Shen Jie's eyes became gentle when she mentioned her mother.

"Well... it's a pity that they are all gone now." Xiao Yao said regretfully.

"Haven't you only been in Shanghai for a year?" Shen Jie asked him.

"Oh, sometimes I would come to Shanghai to stay at my grandma's house during the summer vacation, and also during the winter vacation and Chinese New Year, I would usually come to Shanghai to celebrate the New Year." Recalling his childhood, Xiao Yao couldn't help but smile, revealing a dimple on one side of his face: "At that time, my favorite thing was to come to Shanghai to celebrate the New Year.

"We had to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning, take a minibus to Nantong, take a boat at 10 o'clock in the morning, go south along the Changjiang River, and enter the Huangjiang River at 6 o'clock in the evening. Then the whistle sounded, and everyone rushed out of the cabin to the deck to see the Pearl of the Orient. My father would lift me up to watch...

"Finally, the boat stopped at Shiwupu Wharf, and grandma picked us up there." Xiao Yao said happily, "It's a pity that there are no more passenger ships like this since the xx Bridge was repaired."

Shen Jie reached out and touched Xiao Yao's head, and Yu Luying subconsciously turned her head and glanced at him.

"I have a cousin, a brother and a sister, and every Spring Festival we four play together," Xiao Yao continued to reminisce, "We played with fireworks, smashed firecrackers, and scratched firecrackers in the alleys, and we had a lot of lucky money...but every time my parents said they would keep it for me and then took away most of it."

"Ah? You're taking the New Year's money back with you?" The girl yawned and quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

"It's boring to talk about this, right?" Xiao Yao smiled.

"No, no," Shen Jie said, "I just didn't sleep well last night."

"Didn't you sleep well?" Xiao Yao suddenly thought of something: "By the way, do I snore when I sleep?"

"You don't hit me much, do you?" Shen Jie recalled: "But you would grab the quilt and sometimes kick me, which is annoying."

"Ah, is this true?" Xiao Yao laughed.

A gentleman wearing reading glasses turned his head, pulled his glasses down, and turned back.

Shen Jie hit Xiao Yao, made a "hush" gesture, and her face flushed.

The girl looked really sleepy. She took Xiao Yao's hand, leaned her head against the car window, and closed her eyes.

After a while, he seemed to feel uncomfortable with the vibrating car window glass, so he leaned his head on Xiao Yao's shoulder again.

Xiao Yao wanted to hold the girl in his arms, but Yu Luying was sitting in the front right, and it seemed a bit impolite to act as if no one was around.

He could ignore the looks of passers-by, but once he put himself in her shoes, he couldn't help but care about Yu Luying's feelings, so he straightened his body.

A clean guitar sound flowed into Xiao Yao's ears. It sounded familiar. It should be a song Xiao Yao had heard before.

"The sun is warm, shining into my heart. How could I be where I am today without you?"

Ah, yes, Xu Wei’s “An Unforgettable Day”. The title sounds a bit like an elementary school student’s composition. Xiao Yao likes the tone.

"Sometimes I think of the stories I experienced with you. Those scenes are so sweet and sad."

Han Han's second novel was originally named "A Memorable Little Thing", but was renamed "Like a Teenager Flying" by the publishing house editor. This is one of Xiao Yao's favorite novels.

"I walk through the familiar place again. I don't know where you are now, but the warm feeling you once gave me is still in my heart."

At first, Xiao Yao thought it was the music playing on the bus, but later he felt that the sound was vague and suspected that he was just hallucinating. Finally, he realized that this was probably the song that Yu Luying was listening to on her Walkman headphones. "If I see you again, what will it be like? Will I hold you in my arms again..."

Xiao Yao gently stroked Shen Jie's dog head - uh, cat head, and couldn't help but look at Yu Luying.

The slender girl sat on the sideways seat, holding the handrail with her right hand, looking at the scenery passing by outside the window with a thoughtful expression.

Yu Luying was sitting at the front wheel of the bus, so it was very high. Her two little feet wrapped in beautiful glass silk socks and white sneakers were hanging down, swaying gently.

Xiao Yao remembered that Yu Luying's shoe size was 36 - they had never discussed such issues, but because of their symbiosis, Xiao Yao somehow knew it. As a girl who was nearly meters tall, such a size of feet was really not enough for her, so Yu Luying always had an unstable center of gravity when walking, and it was easy for her to stumble and bump into things.

Compared with Shen Jie, Yu Luying's breasts are not really "big". She has a natural oval face and a short ponytail that allows people to appreciate her slender neck from all angles. Even without a school uniform, she can be recognized as a middle school student at a glance. Her skin is white, and even when she smiles, there is a lingering melancholy in her eyes...

Wait, why is she smiling for no reason? Even her row of white, neat teeth are showing.

"The sun is warm, shining into my heart, the past is far away, year after year..."

This reminded Xiao Yao of the first half of the first year of high school, when the poetry club held its first activity. Yu Luying also sat alone by the window, not talking to other students, just like this, with her chin in her hand, looking out the window.

She was very quiet and lonely that day.

At that time, she was like that too, she smiled for no reason, it was very beautiful.

"On this day, without noticing, you walked by me on the crowded street, your green clothes blown by the wind, your face warm in the sunset, you are more beautiful than before, like a flower in full bloom..."

……

"Dog..." I don't know how long it took, but the burden on my shoulders suddenly lightened: "Ah, where are we? Haven't we arrived yet? How long have I been asleep?"

The short girl with a baby face spoke with slurred words and had a dazed look in her eyes.

"I don't know." Xiao Yao moved his butt and stretched his stiff and sore arms. "We're almost there, aren't we about to get off the highway?"

"I hate taking the bus." Shen Jie came to a basic conclusion: "Ah, my feet are numb."

"Daddy Wang will rub it for you." Xiao Yao leaned to the left.

"No, you just want to take the opportunity to touch my feet, take your hands away!"

"You're so annoying when you sleep so soundly, have you ever thought about how I feel when I dare not move at all for fear of waking you up?" Xiao Yao sat up straight again, and glanced at Yu Luying and found that she was also rubbing her shoulders.