You are my wife, don't doubt it!

"I am anxious," Shen Jie said with a forced smile, "but who made my dad do something weird at this critical moment? And I raised a big fat son like you, who needs to be hugged and accompanied every day." The girl ruffled Xiao Yao's hair and comforted him, "It's okay, I still have time, I'll be fine - besides, with my foundation and strength..."

Xiao Yao felt a sense of suffocation: "Okay, no need to be fat. If you go back, you should have a tutor. Here you can only learn by yourself."

"Yeah." Shen Jie nodded and said, "Open your mouth."

"Okay, I'm full," Xiao Yao took out two tissues, handed one to Shen Jie, and used the other to wipe the corner of his mouth: "Wife, why don't you go home tomorrow?"

"Ah?" The girl was stunned.

Happy holidays to the hero~

After all, he is also a "fool".

Chapter 156: You ask when I will return, but there is no date, the night rain in Bashan swells the autumn pond

2023-04-09

Xiao Yao took Shen Jie's hand and walked out of the cafeteria, and the two walked aimlessly on the tree-lined path of T University.

There are lush trees on both sides of the path, and unknown flowers are blooming, with a faint fragrance lingering in the nose.

If there were a long pavilion, it would be a great place to say farewell.

"How long will you be gone?" Xiao Yao asked after hesitating for a moment.

"The undergraduate program is four years, the master's program is two years, and I also have to take one year of preparatory courses, so it will take at least seven years." Shen Jie bent her slender fingers and counted, making the sign "seven". Her little leather shoes made a crisp sound as they stepped on the ground.

You ask me when I will return, but I have no idea. The night rain in Bashan swells the autumn pond... These words popped up in Xiao Yao's mind.

A fallen petal hit Xuan'er and accidentally landed on the girl's white sports socks on the instep.

Xiao Yao glanced sideways and couldn't help but feel moved. He felt that the girl in front of him was extremely beautiful and he wanted to hug her tightly and never let go.

But then I thought that the future of the two of us would be separated by thousands of miles, and that she was far away in a foreign country, and I suddenly felt infinitely melancholy.

"What a seven-year itch." Xiao Yaoqiang said with a smile, but it was difficult to hide the sadness in his tone: "Including the third year of high school, it's eight years."

"Eight years is barely enough for a medical student to graduate."

"Eight years is more than enough to drive the Japanese invaders into the sea." Xiao Yao agreed, but he knew clearly in his heart that for him who just turned 16, eight years was half a lifetime.

"I promise you, if you are willing, we will get married when we return home." The girl did not look at Xiao Yao when she said this, but continued to look at the tip of her shoes: "At that time... I will be about 25 years old? But in order to ensure that the baby is Tianyun, we still have to take some necessary measures when we first get married."

The scent of an unknown flower filled the air. Shen Jie's empty promise made Xiao Yao feel a little agitated: "Oh - but I haven't thought about what you said about being friends again."

"Take your time to think about it. Anyway, no matter what your decision is," Shen Jie turned around and walked backwards: "I have to be busy in my senior year of high school. When we get to the United States, we will still have to separate."

"Yeah. By the way, you should come back more often, right? In foreign countries, is it... Easter? Christmas?" Xiao Yao asked her, "We can meet then."

"It seems that Easter in the United States is not a public holiday, unless I apply to a church-run university." Shen Jie thought, "Otherwise, it will be during the summer vacation every year."

"Summer vacation...how many days are there...?" Xiao Yao murmured again.

"Three months?"

"That's okay."

"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing I want to tell you," Shen Jie continued to walk backwards: "Whether you decide to be friends or continue dating in the end--"

"So the decision-making power is entirely on my side?" Xiao Yao couldn't help but interrupt her.

"Well," Shen Jie nodded and gave him an affirmative answer, which made Xiao Yao feel a little relieved: "Listen to me, no matter whether you decide to be friends or continue dating, I will win if I can successfully resolve Zhang Zhengkai's issue when I go back this time. For the time being, I will not tell my father that I am friends with you, nor will I tell him that I am living in your house during this period."

"You mean," Xiao Yao tried to guess what she meant, "you're worried that your father might have a bad first impression of me."

"That's right," Shen Jie said, "If he knew that I was with you during this period, it would prove that you were completely lying to him the last time you met. My dad is very proud, he can pretend to be confused for me, but he can't make concessions to you openly. My idea is that if you still want to talk to me, I will mention your matter to him in two months. If you talk to silly girl, wait until I return to China."

"Okay." Shen Jie arranged everything so neatly that Xiao Yao didn't know what else to say.

"Anyway, I will try my best to find time to meet you." Shen Jie said.

"You'd better study hard." Xiao Yao said to her politely.

"Okay, even if I don't come to see you, I still want to see Tianyun." Shen Jie pretended to be relaxed and said, "You are just an incidental."

Xiao Yao realized that a despicable idea had emerged in the depths of his heart.

"Maybe, it would be great if she couldn't pass the exam. How can I make sure she doesn't fail the exam without blaming me?"

“We can make it impossible for her to pass the exam.” The little man in white clothes knocked on the blackboard where “a done deal” was written.

"We can also ask her to simply not want to take the exam." The little man in red clothes had a ferocious expression, and the steel fork in his hand flashed coldly.

Get out of here, all of you!

He immediately put an end to this selfish thought.

He wanted to support Shen Jie unreservedly.

Even if this means a reluctant farewell.

Therefore, Xiao Yao decided to learn more about Shen Jie's academic situation.

"Exams," Shen Jie answered him, "Mainly math, physics, geography and chemistry."

"Didn't you say you were a liberal arts student?" Xiao Yao was puzzled.

"There's no such thing as arts or science. I was just teasing myself about my poor academic performance. Didn't your teacher Song say that I'll laugh at you even if I'm only 20 steps ahead."

"So..." Xiao Yao began to think seriously about "what will happen if Shen Jie really fails the exam?"

"The ACT consists of five subjects: science, reading, grammar, mathematics and writing." Shen Jie continued to give Xiao Yao some popular science advice on studying abroad.

"Oh oh." Xiao Yao nodded in confusion.

"AP exams include statistics, calculus, American politics, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and world history."

"AP?" Xiao Yao's mind still thinks of "AP" as "Attack Strength". "It sounds like all those high-end things, and there's also calculus!"

"I just took the AP exam in May this year, but failed." Shen Jie stuck out her tongue embarrassedly.

"May? Isn't that when we first met?"

"uh-huh."

"I'm familiar with the issue of failing a course - you and I really look like a couple." Xiao Yao scratched her delicate palm.

Shen Jie didn't understand whether Xiao Yao was trying to get close to her, tease her, or simply mock her, but she didn't want to care about it at all, so she just casually retorted: "That's still better than you."

"Just wait, I'm going to start working hard soon." Xiao Yao declared solemnly.

"I'll wait." Shen Jie said with a smile.

"The interview you mentioned, does it mean flying to the United States for the interview?" Xiao Yao remembered something.

"Generally, there will be interviewers in imperial cities, but the United States is too far away," said Shen Jie.

Xiao Yao asked for a long time but still didn't understand what Shen Jie's examination mechanism was all about. However, he could feel that Shen Jie seemed happy about his concern.

This is long overdue.

Thinking of the selfishness and willfulness he had shown after seeing a glimpse of the future, and thinking of Shen Jie's gentleness and tolerance, Xiao Yao wished he could travel back in time and slap his previous self in the face.

But is it too late to realize it now?

A melodious guitar sound came from not too far away, interrupting Xiao Yao's self-blame. Xiao Yao looked around and found that he and Shen Jie had unknowingly walked to the dormitory area of ​​T University.

There seem to be more than a dozen student dormitory buildings in the dormitory area. Each building has four floors. The exterior designs of the buildings are exactly the same, and they look square and dull.

There is a vast open space between the buildings, covered with green lawns and various flowers.

Downstairs of the dormitory building marked "Building 11", there is a long-haired man sitting, strumming a wooden guitar in his hand, with notes flowing from his fingertips.

Judging from the things hanging out on the balcony, this should be a girls' dormitory.

Xiao Yao wondered if he had seen this guy when he was queuing on the "Zhangnan Line".

"Shen Jie, do you think I should keep this hairstyle in the future?"

"Oh no, it's so ugly." Shen Jie's face was full of disgust.

“But it’s very artistic…”

"I don't like it. It's sloppy."

There was already a circle of people surrounding the long-haired man, and more and more curious passers-by joined in.

"Let's go, what's there to see?" Shen Jie gently pulled the boy who stopped.

The long-haired college student played another chord, and a slightly hoarse singing voice flowed out of his mouth.

"It has a bit of Old Wolf's flavor." Xiao Yao commented.

Seeing that she couldn't pull him away, Shen Jie had no choice but to stop and listen.

What is a butterfly? What is moonlight?

What does love have to do with it?

I am the flying elephant I am the sea fish

I am what I want to be.

I don't know what a beautiful life is.

I just know that I love you

Our love will never grow old

I am a child who loves music..."

After the song was over, the long-haired man stood up from his small stool, raised his guitar and shouted, "Meng Xiaohan, I love you!"

The crowd cheered enthusiastically: "Promise him! Promise him! Promise him!"

Xiao Yao was eating the melon excitedly and didn't notice Shen Jie's slightly furrowed brows.

Amid the clamor of "promise him" and "promise him", a rather shrewish voice suddenly rang out from the third floor of the 11th dormitory building: "Go love your mother!"

Along with these vulgar words, a large basin of water fell from the sky and hit the long-haired man's head and face, soaking him thoroughly, and almost affecting several bystanders.

The onlookers made an ambiguous sound and stepped back one after another. In an instant, the small circle turned into a big circle.

"What kind of person is that!" Xiao Yao shouted angrily, "Is this the quality of college students?"

"Let's go, Gouzi," Shen Jie held Xiao Yao's hand: "I'm tired, let's go back."

Xiao Yao didn't feel tired. Based on his understanding of Shen Jie's physical strength, she shouldn't be tired either. It was still in time for her to take the last bus back to the city. But Shen Jie still said, "I'm tired."

So Xiao Yao said, "How about we go back tomorrow?"

Shen Jie replied: "That's fine."

So it was.

The hotel on Qinfen Street in University Town that says "welcome new and old students" will probably be very affordable.

As they walked toward the gate of T University, they passed by T University's "Internet bridge".

Although it is called a “bridge”, there is no network on it.

Its guardrail was very low, and Xiao Yao felt terrified just looking at it.

There is a river of medium size flowing under the bridge. The night breeze brings the sound of flowing water.

There is nothing paved on the bridge deck, just an ordinary asphalt road. In the night, the "net bridge" is illuminated by a bright yellow street lamp, making the entire bridge deck look soft and warm.

There were a dozen or so young people who looked like college students skateboarding on the bridge, both men and women, and they seemed to be members of some skateboarding club.

They were wearing loose clothes and jeans, paired with cool skateboard shoes, and they were laughing and speeding past. The skateboards glided quickly on the bridge, making a clanging sound.

It speeds from one end of the bridge, turns around and glides to the other end, then reverses, shuttling back and forth again and again.

Xiao Yao instinctively disliked this kind of "hip-hop" sports, especially after one of the guys almost bumped into him.

"Be careful." Xiao Yao reached out and pulled Shen Jie, protecting her behind him.

"I'm sorry." The girl, whose dress and hairstyle were very neutral, apologized to Xiao Yao expressionlessly, and without waiting for Xiao Yao to answer, she ran away.

"Who are those people!" Xiao Yao muttered, but he found that Shen Jie looked at this group of people with admiration in her eyes.

"Are you also interested in skateboarding?" Xiao Yao asked her.

"I'm a skateboarder, and I also skate and roller skate." Shen Jie smiled and said, "We're all in the same circle, and I have a bunch of friends who play with us. But after I moved into your house, we haven't gotten together."

"I haven't heard you say you have this hobby?" Xiao Yao scratched the back of his head.