summer sinking

Chapter 7 07. Love is a constant feeling of debt
The summer in Yunshu is very long. The beginning of autumn has passed, but the summer in Yunshu has not yet passed.It gets dark very late, the moonlight is bright tonight, and there are gray clouds floating next to the full moon.

As soon as Xu Sui got home, he agreed to the friend request he sent using Jiang Ye's mobile phone, and checked to see if there were any new messages almost every once in a while.

The landscape portrait of blue sky, white clouds and green grassland was about to be seen through the autumn water by her.

Except for Zhaohua, all high schools in Yunshu City require evening self-study.However, the school has just started, and No. [-] Middle School has made an exception in this regard. There is no need for self-study during the week of military training until the end of the opening ceremony.

But she hadn't seen Jiang Ye since she ran on the playground in the afternoon.

Jiang Yan came to see him today.

Did you go play with your brother?Something happened at home?

"Sui Sui, it's time to eat." Zheng Jingyan called her outside the door after preparing the meal.

Xu Sui responded.

The aroma of food floated in the living room. Three dishes, one soup and two bowls of white rice were placed on the coffee table. The TV was turned on to play a popular drama.

It is the habit of Xu Sui's mother, Xu Manyue, to eat in the living room. She likes to eat while watching TV.

After she left, only Xu Sui and Zheng Jingyan were left, and this habit is still preserved to this day.

Zheng Jingyan is not a humorous middle-aged uncle who cannot keep up with trends and cannot learn new words that are trending on the Internet.

Like most fathers, he is silent and rarely talks. He doesn't have much in common with his children and only gives them silent love.

With the TV on, the "half-way father and daughter" would not feel embarrassed, and Zheng Jingyan could occasionally ask about his concern for Xu Sui with the TV in the background.

Beef brisket stewed with potatoes, spicy stir-fried lobster tail, spinach salad, and corn rib soup.

They are all Xu Sui’s favorite dishes.

"I worked overtime today." Zheng Jingyan explained the reason why he was eating now, and switched the corn and ribs soup to Xu Sui.

The corn ribs soup is not greasy, moderately salty, sweet and rich.

Xu Sui soaked rice in soup and drank the soup from a bowl. He waited until there was no more soup left before eating rice.

She rarely drinks soup. She always feels that the oil floating on the soup is salty oily water, unless it is delicious.

Zheng Jingyan's cooking skills are getting better and better.

It wasn't so good at first, he couldn't cook before.

After Xu Manyue left, Zheng Jingyan looked for his aunt and found that Xu Sui always ate very little, and his already thin body became thinner and thinner.

He thought that the food cooked by his aunt was not to Xu Sui's taste, so he taught himself how to cook.

Xu Sui was immersed in sadness during that period, had no appetite, and was unable to come out.When she looked back, Zheng Jingyan could already prepare a table of her favorite meals.

Can you still take care of her?

Could it be that Zheng Jingyan's sadness was much less than hers?

Will not.

He once sent many voice messages to her mother's WeChat one late night when she was drunk.

The mobile phone Xu Manyue used before his death was given to Xu Sui, because there are many photos of Xu Manyue and their photos in the album.

That night the cell phone message notification kept ringing.

It was loud enough to wake Xu Sui up.

She had no intention of listening, but a video call popped up.

Xu Sui didn't answer the call. After hanging up the video call, he thought for a long time before listening to the voice message.

He said: "Yueyue, I miss you so much."

He said: "It turns out that I can also cook a table of meals. It turns out that cooking every day is tiring. I never knew how to learn to cook for you before. I keep asking you to cook for me. I'm sorry Yueyue..."

He said: "She has lost a lot of weight over the years, and I failed to take good care of her. Will you blame me?"

He also said: "Tonight I saw a young man holding a large bouquet of roses. I bought a large bouquet for you. After buying it, I realized that I couldn't go home to give it to you. You can send flowers even if it is not a holiday. In the past, you could only send flowers I only gave it to you during the holidays. Being with me has made you suffer..."

……

Zheng Jingyan said a lot, and Xu Sui burst into tears when he heard the last one.

Compared to her biological father, who was worse than a beast, Zheng Jingyan was very, very, very good to Xu Manyue.

She also loves the house and the bird and treats her as if she were her own child.

That night, she truly understood the meaning of that sentence——

Love is always feeling indebted.

Xu Sui had a deep-seated defensiveness against middle-aged tall men, and it took him a long time to accept his stepfather.She could never get along with Zheng Jingyan as close as her biological father and daughter.

Xu Sui said stiffly and unfamiliarly: "Dad, thank you for your hard work."

Zheng Jingyan was stunned for a moment. The small half of the corn he picked up fell into the soup, and the soup splashed everywhere. It was rare for a steady and mature man to panic.

He quickly took out a paper towel and wiped the table clean, then picked up the corn again and put it into his bowl.Ask her how she’s doing, “How was the first day of school?”

"It's good. I've made friends." Xu Sui ate with his head down.

Zheng Jingyan nodded slightly and remained silent.

The cell phone at hand rang.

Xu Sui's heart skipped a beat.

It must be Jiang Ye.

She turned on her phone to check, and sure enough, it was what she was looking for.

Riyu: [picture]
Jiang Ye sent the photo she took.

She replied: Thank you~
Comes with a cute emoticon.

Liyu: You’re welcome.

Xu Sui kept tapping the 26 keys, repeatedly typing out words and then deleting them, thinking about what topic to bring up to chat with him.

WeChat rang again, and it was not a message from Jiang Ye.It was she who was pulled into a group chat called "Blessings are shared, but it is difficult to leave the group."

Xu Sui thought it was a class group and set up Do Not Disturb messages.However, since she was pulled in, the number of people next to the group name has never increased, and it has always been five people.

She stayed in the group chat interface to see what kind of group it was.

[Blessed to share, difficult to leave the group]

Yue Jun: Let me introduce @陈泽, I am a child.

Yue Yun: I announce the formal establishment of the five-member group!
Chen Zuo: Long live!
Li Niannian: You announced it unilaterally?

Li Yu: It’s embarrassing.

Yue Yun: Jiang Ye, why don’t you change the group nickname?Our small group is not interested in being unique.

The next moment, Jiang Ye quit the group chat.

[Blessings are shared, but it is difficult to withdraw from the group] (4)

Yue Yun:......

Li Niannian: 6.

Chen Zuo: The five-man group -1, now it should be called the four-man group.

Yue Yun: Climb, come and persuade him to come back.

Li Niannian: I wish you good luck.

Yue Yun: I am not guilty enough...

Xu Sui watched them in the group playing tricks and eating, and none of them could hold back their laughter.

Zheng Jingyan was almost done eating when he put down his bowl and chopsticks and called her, "Sui Sui."

"Huh?" she replied, her eyes glued to the screen of her phone.

"High school should focus on academics and not fall in love prematurely." Zheng Jingyan said sincerely.

Xu Sui's face heated up and he said hurriedly: "I know, I'm watching my new friends chatting."

After that, she turned off her phone.

Zheng Jingyan was relieved when he saw this. This child had never let him worry.

The sensible and well-behaved kid who didn't make anyone worry received a new message from Jiang Ye after the meal, a photo of baby's breath and a short sentence "Made into dried flowers."

It was the bouquet of white baby's breath she gave him. They were made into dried flowers, tied with ribbons and tied with a delicate bow, and placed in a photo frame.

It was like the thank-you gift she gave him was carefully treasured by him.

Her sincerity was met with tangible feedback.

How can you not be moved by it?
With a smile on his face, Xu Sui looked at the star-filled photo over and over again.

When the moon was hidden in the clouds and she turned off the lights and went to sleep, she thought rebelliously. There seemed to be no conflict between not falling in love prematurely and the secret love in her heart.

(End of this chapter)