Full Sugar No Ice

Chapter 16 Jasmine Milk Green ([-])

"Meow..." Someone's cat was meowing at night, whimpering, like the cry of a child, which disturbed people's sleep.

There was no electric fan in the room, and it was unbearably hot. Teng Yi turned over on the bamboo mat, changed his position and continued to lie down.

"Aren't you asleep yet?" Tang Xiaobing's hoarse voice came from above his head.

He squinted his eyes, looked at the human-shaped silhouette in the mosquito net, and hummed lightly.

The surroundings returned to silence.

The sound of breathing is heavy and shallow, one up and one down, changing rhythmically.

"Teng Yi..."

"Ah."

"The tide is on the ground, otherwise, you should come up to sleep..."

"Need not."

A helpless sigh sounded above his head, like a child doing a pointless struggle in front of an adult, the result was already doomed.

"You...you must miss Auntie very much..." She stretched out her hand to caress the thin gauze curtain, her voice trembling.

He didn't answer, didn't move.

"You keep the items used by your aunt, and when you walk into this room, it feels like your aunt is still alive," she said.

In the darkness, she couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but she felt a trace of sadness quietly spreading around.

After a moment of silence, he turned around and lay flat on his back on the mat.

A corner of the curtain was blown by the night wind, and the light from outside the window drove straight in, shining on his face.

The half-light and half-darkness added a hint of mystery.

He narrowed his eyes and said in a low voice, "Don't say it's useless, go to sleep quickly."

As if she didn't hear it, she continued to mutter: "I know you think, it doesn't matter if you don't admit it, anyway, you have always been stubborn, what kind of injury, pain, grievance, you like to keep it in your heart."

"Hiss!" he warned.

She seemed to laugh, and then asked: "Teng Yi, is your business interesting? Aunt Sun said that you opened a car wash business."

He didn't want to answer at first, but he seemed to be able to see her aggrieved and sad eyes in a blink of an eye, his throat was itchy, and his mouth moved uncontrollably, "Mmm."

"Don't just um, um, tell me!" She stretched her hand out of the mosquito net and waved at the figure on the ground.

He pulled the quilt around his waist, rested his head on his arm again, and tilted his head to look at her.

"Teng Yi..." She shook her little hand again.

He heard a clatter of discarded armor inside himself, and he licked his dry lips and said, "There's really nothing to talk about."

"Then I want to listen too."

He looked at her through the gauze curtain, and said in a low voice, "There's nothing to say about car washing. You should be familiar with it. There are such shops near residential areas."

"I know, there is one near our house." She and her father went to the car wash. The car wash shop is designed like a garage. When the car is driven in, someone will wash the car body with a high-pressure water gun. After the car is cleaned, it will be driven out and parked on the road. Beside, a group of aunts swarmed up with rags and buckets, and in a short while the car was polished and spotless.

"There are also many types of car washes now, including fine cleaning and deep cleaning. Fine cleaning is better than ordinary cleaning, and deep cleaning covers decontamination, antivirus, leather care, engine, hand spray glaze and other items. The price is different, and the service items are naturally different. It’s different. I’m in the car wash business, and I also do car beauty. Nowadays, people are very particular about the comfort of their cars. New cars need to be decorated from the inside to the outside. The glass must be protected with a film, and the photocatalyst inside the car is healthy. Doing an internal photocatalyst treatment can greatly shorten the time for the new car to emit toxic substances. Then there is the chassis armor. As the name suggests, it is to add armor to the most fragile floor of the car to prevent Bumps, while the car cover and color changing film are for meticulous protection of the paint surface of the car body. Others, such as seat covers, lumbar support, and headrests, are matching, depending on the owner's preference. Of course, I do far more than these , basically do whatever work you want, and try to meet the needs of car owners." He finished in one breath.

She didn't know if she understood, and she was silent for a long time.

After a while, I heard her exhale, "You are amazing. I thought car washing was just a matter of flushing the car with a water gun. I didn't expect there are so many details in it."

He pursed his lips in the dark, "Can you understand?"

"I can understand a little bit, but I haven't touched a lot of content. It's the first time I heard you say it. For example, photocatalyst, does it really work?" She asked curiously.

"Of course. Photocatalysts for cars can effectively remove harmful substances such as formaldehyde and benzene, and can also eliminate odors in the car interior, antibacterial, and anti-fog." When he mentioned the work content he was familiar with, his tone was not as stiff and alienated as before.

She gave a soft oh, turned sideways, and looked at him lying on the edge of the bed, "You like your job very much."

"It's just to make ends meet."

She pouted, "Liar."

She reached out her hand and pointed to his eyes, "When a person really likes something, it will be different here. Look at your eyes, they are shining now."

He was stunned.

Subconsciously wanted to touch my eyes, but just as soon as I moved, I felt mentally handicapped, how could I touch the light with my hands.

He coughed softly and tilted his head.

She didn't seem to mind, and continued to ask: "I heard that...in addition to doing car beauty, you also formed a private rescue team?"

He looked at her in surprise. She was really ill and her mind was not clear. She dared to ask and say anything.

"It's not a team, it's just stragglers." Zhanying really can't be called a team.

"I watched the news video that Aunt Sun said, your foot...is the injury you suffered in that rescue, Teng Yi..."

I didn't expect her to pay attention to that news.

"Why did you do such a dangerous thing, Auntie...Auntie will worry about you if she knows about it in heaven." She watched the video playback on the Internet, and then she understood why Aunt Sun reprimanded him in front of outsiders that day up.In the video, Teng Yi, who was hanging on the cliff and desperately sacrificed his life to save others, is indeed admirable and praised, but after watching it, she felt a chill down her spine and shivered all over her body.

Almost, in the camera, he almost fell, in order to save an irrelevant person, he gave up his life and shed blood, is it worth it?
"You also think it's not worth it for me to do this?" He asked her aloud.

"I... I'm not qualified to judge you, I just can't figure out why you would do this."

He was silent for a moment in the dark, and said, "Tang Xiaobing, do you still remember what I told you, what is my biggest dream in this life?"

"Pilot." She replied without thinking, and added: "The People's Liberation Army."

How could it be forgotten.

On her 18th birthday, Teng Yi gave her a fighter jet model made of bullet casings as a gift.Teng Yi also pointed to the blue sky and assured her that one day, he would take her photo and soar above the blue sky of the motherland together.

Defending the family and the country is his life pursuit, and soaring into the blue sky is his life ideal.

Once, he included her in his life plan.

But now...

She suddenly realized something and looked towards the figure outside the tent.

The man was motionless, as if he was in a deep sleep, and he couldn't even hear the sound of breathing.

She seemed to ask him a poignant question.

After a long while, he said in a calm tone, "I can't be a pilot or a soldier in this life. Could it be that I can't save people as I like?"

Although he said it lightly, her heart still hurt little by little.

"After walking on this road, I realized, oh, I was on the right track. Although civil rescue is not as magnificent as fighter pilots, it can be seen, touched, and saves and helps others. Every step of the way Walk down-to-earth, aboveboard, and always gain more than you lose.”

There was one more thing he couldn't say.

For him, this road of saving people is still a road of redemption.

In his lifetime, he will make atonement for others.

***
That night, Tang Xiaobing had a severe fever.

In a daze, she felt a coolness on her forehead, and this coolness continuously soaked into her skin, which made her feel a lot more comfortable in the high fever.She seemed to be saying a lot of things intermittently, and she was holding on to something and refused to let go. She vaguely heard the male voice in her dream talking in her ear.

"Tang Xiaobing, I like you."

"I've always liked you."

(End of this chapter)