You are my wife, don't doubt it!

Xiao Yao and Shen Jie were silent for a while. Each of them helped to carry a box/bag and sent Yu Luying to the gate of the alley.

"Let's go back. I'll just drop you off here." Yu Luying stopped, turned around and waved to Xiao Yao and Shen Jie, "I'll take a taxi to the church myself."

As he spoke, he reached out to take the bags and suitcases in the two little ones' hands.

Shen Jie seemed to have something to say, and after holding it back for a long time, she still didn't know how to say it.

"If you have anything to say to me, call us both." Xiao Yao warned.

"Yeah." Yu Luying nodded slightly.

A gust of bleak wind blew by, and Xiao Yao suddenly felt a chill.

It seems like the temperature has dropped today. Could it be that autumn is coming? Xiao Yao thought.

Autumn is coming, Yu Luying answered the boy silently in her heart.

Xiao Yao and Shen Jie stayed with Yu Luying until they saw her get into a taxi and left.

Before getting into the car, Yu Luying gave Shen Jie and Xiao Yao a brief hug in turn.

"Okay," Shen Jie looked at the lost Xiao Yao and gently hit him, "It's like we're parting forever, as if we won't see each other for half a year."

"No." Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"Go home!" Shen Jie shook her head, turned around and walked into the alley.

As soon as he got home, Xiao Yao dragged Shen Jie into his daughter's room.

"What are you doing?" Shen Jie asked angrily.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Yao said.

"Are you still in the mood?" Shen Jie asked Xiao Yao.

"I'm not in the mood." Xiao Yao told the truth.

"Then you still?" Shen Jie pulled back her arm: "I'm not in the mood anymore."

"Children do things based on their interests," Xiao Yao told Shen Jie, "and adults do things based on their needs."

"What do you need? Are you an adult?" Shen Jie said, "I am a child anyway."

"Okay, okay, cute child." Xiao Yao said.

"Oh, don't force it," Shen Jie stamped her feet lightly, "Just let me change my clothes first."

"Don't change, just wear this one." Xiao Yao looked the girl up and down: "Put on another pair of socks."

"I won't!" Shen Jie declared solemnly, "I! Don't! Want to! You must respect your school's uniform. The school uniform is sacred and inviolable. You can't treat it as... as...!"

What to take it as?

Xiao Yao was a little embarrassed and had to watch Shen Jie unbutton the top button of her shirt in front of him.

"Go to the public bathroom first, take a good bath, and find someone to rub your back." Shen Jie instructed, "Then go buy the things for me."

"Ah——" Xiao Yao said in a long tone: "Is it necessary?"

"One, definitely." said Shen Jie.

"Okay." Xiao Yao said eagerly.

In fact, they had discussed this issue a few days ago.

Xiao Yao originally wanted Shen Jie to wear a certain set of beautiful clothes, but Shen Jie resisted wearing cumbersome clothes and dressed up like a large Barbie doll.

After some bargaining, both sides made concessions.

At this moment, Xiao Yao followed Shen Jie's instructions and went to the "public bathhouse" to rub his back.

During this process, he kept urging the bath attendant to hurry up - not only because he was anxious, but also because he was afraid that if the night went on any longer, he would have more trouble.

After returning to grandma's house, Shen Jie was no longer in the room.

Xiao Yao held his breath unconsciously and tiptoed to open the closet door of his daughter's room.

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The boy's heartbeat seemed to stop at this moment.

The curtains were drawn, and in the dim light of the room, his eyes were involuntarily drawn to a corner of the room.

The young girl Shen Jie was leaning against the head of the bed, her outline looming in the dim light, like a mysterious fairy.

Xiao Yao turned on the light with a click.

"What are you doing?" the girl exclaimed softly, and said angrily, "Turn it off!"

Xiao Yao teased her, "What are you doing? Are you going to do the same as Kang Qianshui?"

Shen Jie's face turned red: "Shut up."

Then, there was no insistence on turning off the lights.

Some wet medium-length hair stuck to the girl's slightly round cheeks, and tiny drops of water sparkled on her skin.

Plain white cotton socks wrapped around her slender ankles - the length was just above the ankles. These plain cotton socks were like morning dewdrops, gently outlining her youthful innocence. At this moment, Xiao Yao could almost feel the girl's heartbeat, as if her presence filled the entire room with the pulse of life.

The young man stood at the door of the closet, as if he was frozen in time by this scene. The beauty of the girl made him dare not move rashly, fearing to break this tranquility and mystery. Under this bright light, Shen Jie was still like a phantom in a dream, which made Xiao Yao's heart waver and he couldn't calm down for a long time.

In the dim light, she sparkled like a diamond.

"I'm back..." Xiao Yao swallowed with some difficulty and shook the things in his hands: "Well, I bought what you wanted."

Jie'er jumped off the ground, slowly walked towards Xiao Yao, opened her arms, and made her usual "hug" gesture.

Xiao Yao trotted up.

Before Shen Jie could react, Xiao Yao hugged her in his arms.

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"Tell me, why did Meiyu suddenly do that kind of thing?" Shen Jie suddenly asked Xiao Yao: "She was fine before."

"Maybe you misunderstood. You didn't even give her a chance to explain. Maybe she was his uncle or relative?"

"Impossible," Shen Jie said, "The way that fat guy looked at her was the same way you are looking at me now."

"...Uh," Xiao Yao said, "Maybe she has been lying to you all along? She has been pretending to be herself?"

"Then why did she stop pretending all of a sudden?" Shen Jie said, "Before I went to look for her, she had been out of contact for several days."

"Do you really have to talk about this at this time?" Xiao Yao raised his head and said, "Can you please concentrate?"

"Okay, okay, concentrate." Shen Jie said, "I just feel that this matter makes me very sad, just like my father doesn't want me anymore, and I'm as sad as losing the football lottery - I have suffered too many setbacks during this period."

Xiao Yao touched Shen Jie's head and said, "I'll take care of everything."

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"Hasn't Silly Girl always been eager for her father to come back?" Shen Jie said, "You said, when the two of us were in Teacher Yao's Parent-Child Education Center..."

"Shen Jie!!!" Xiao Yao shouted in reproach.

"Uh." Shen Jie said.

"How about I call her and ask her to come over now?" Xiao Yao said.

"Well, that's not necessary." Shen Jie said.

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Xiao Yao fell asleep.

Shen Jie gently wiped the boy's tired face with a wet tissue and stroked the fine beads of sweat on his forehead.

From this angle, this light looks pretty cool, doesn’t it?

Shen Jie leaned over and kissed the boy in her arms on the cheek.

She herself was exhausted, but couldn't fall asleep at all.

There is still a little unwilling feeling in my heart.

It feels so bad to give up halfway.

Difficulties exist objectively, but if she chooses to escape instead of facing them head-on, she would no longer be Shen Jie.

Shen Jie decided to go out and buy some things.

What did grandma say last time? It seemed like "Go out from the alley store here, go straight ahead, turn onto Gaoling Road, there is a small storefront..."

The girl gently pulled her arm away from behind Xiao Yao's neck, fearing to wake the sleeping boy.

She got down from the ground and tiptoed to put on a pair of black trousers.

The soles of her feet were sticky and slippery when she walked. She seriously considered taking off her cotton socks, but finally thought better of it.

The girl went back to 2004, walked into the soap room, and put her feet into her sneakers.

Close the door gently and go downstairs.

In the dim light, the girl walked towards the entrance of the alley.

This is the first time she has gone out alone since August 8.

There shouldn't be any problem, right? Shen Jie thought.

It seems like whatever you think will come true.

After passing an alley intersection, a familiar yet unfamiliar boy's voice sounded from behind Shen Jie.

"Shen Jie." he said.

Shen Jie's whole body was startled, and a feeling of fear surged in her heart.

"Can I talk to you?" the young man asked politely, with a hint of humility in his tone.

Shen Jie ran away almost subconsciously.

Running wildly.

In a quiet environment.

She heard the boy behind her.

caught up.

Chapter 344 Home Base

2023-10-04

*This chapter is also called "The Home Run Booster"

On August 8, the day before school started, the temperature dropped a little.

But Zhang Zhengkai still drank a bottle of very cold Sprite.

He bought the bottle of iced Sprite from the store at the entrance of the alley where Xiao Yao's grandmother lived. It was in a glass bottle, which needed to be opened with a beer bottle opener, and he had to return the bottle after drinking it.

Zhang Zhengkai likes to drink this kind of beverage from glass bottles because it is full of flavor.

He particularly liked the water droplets that condensed on the outside of the glass bottle like morning dew, just like the pattern in the advertisement.

The boy tilted his neck back and gulped down the bottle of Sprite in two gulps, pausing once in the middle to expel the carbon dioxide. In total, it took only seven or eight seconds.

comfortable.

He wanted to hold up the empty bottle and say to the store owner, "Sparkling and refreshing, Sprite."

But he wouldn't do such a rude thing.

Zhang Zhengkai slammed the empty bottle on the glass table of the canteen and let out a long burp.