Chapter 54

The boy's fine black hair rubbed against her ears, and his voice hit his scarf, which sounded a little depressed.

The tip of his nose rubbed against her neck, and the heat in his breath was naked and unhindered against her skin, making her feel numb and itchy.

His whole body covered her with a breath.

Tao Zhi paused, then raised his hand, clasped the back of his head, and rubbed it gently.

His hair was unexpectedly soft.

"Is something unhappy happening?" Tao Zhi said softly.

Jiang Qihuai didn't say anything, his arms were tightly closed.

There was a nice smell on her body.

Like that day, the scorching sun bakes the earth, the shade of green trees sprinkles shadows, and the tender green and fluffy buds grow vigorously.

Jiang Qihuai breathed a long sigh, his arms loosened, and he raised his head.

His expression did not change much, just as if all the abnormalities that Tao Zhi had noticed were just her illusion.

"No," Jiang Qihuai raised his hand, pulled her somewhat messy scarf up, and whispered, "Let's go, I'll send you home."

-

It was already two o'clock in the morning when Tao Zhi arrived home.

She walked into the door and walked upstairs and took a shower.

Although my eyes were so sleepy that I felt sore and couldn't even open it, but it was very strange that I didn't feel sleepy at all.

Tao Zhi was lying on the bed, staring at the ceiling, thinking about Jiang Qihuai tonight.

It's indeed, very different.

It's so different from him in normal times.

He is the kind of person who rarely reveals his emotions. Even if he is unhappy, he will hardly show it particularly clearly. It is like wearing a thick mask. No one knows when and what state he is under the mask.

If you wear the mask for a long time, you will not be able to take it off.

Maybe even Jiang Qihuai himself sometimes doesn’t notice his emotional abnormality.

But Tao Zhi could see clearly.

She raised her head and watched the mask on his face crack, revealing a gap to her.

But she couldn't continue asking.

Tao Zhi rubbed her face a little annoyed and took out her phone from under the pillow. The light on the screen made her squint her eyes. After adapting for a while, she clicked on WeChat.

She looked at the avatar of the puzzle at the top for a long time.

Tao Zhi sighed, locked the screen of the phone again, and stuffed it under the pillow.

-

As time moves into the new year, the calendar in front of the classroom blackboard has been replaced with a new book, with big Arabic numerals crossed out with red pens, and life seems to be the same as before, without any changes.

There is no Jiangqihuai either.

Tao Zhi carefully observed for a few days without hesitation. This person should still listen to the class, practice questions, and play the sarcasm when she should be ruthless. During the break and lunch break, Li Shuangjiang and the others were occasionally pulled out to play basketball. In various exams, they abused the hearts and eyes of all the people in the class like a robot.

It seemed that those enthusiastic and restrained initiatives on New Year's Eve were just her illusion.

Gradually, Tao Zhi forgot about this matter.

She focused all her energy on the upcoming monthly exam.

Tao Zhi has been rushing for the past six months to make up for the basics. Although she doesn’t feel as difficult to do the papers as before, she can almost do 70% of the questions in one paper, but she is in a new difficulty.

She was stuck at this stage and encountered a bottleneck.

For some questions, she always feels that she has written the right process and got the answer, but the results are always wrong.

At the beginning, she was very patient and copied all the wrong questions and posted them on the wrong questions in each subject. However, this situation continued and she felt that there was no improvement in her scores. She did not improve much when she did the mock test paper.

As the moonlight exam approached, she began to feel a little anxious.

Jiang Hesheng found that she was in a bad state. After a class, he stayed to chat with Tao Xiuping, and found a separate tutor for each subject of Tao Zhi, all of whom were teachers with teaching experience.

There is a clear difference between the teacher's interpretation of the topic and the teaching method and the students, but she continues to teach Jiang Hesheng's class. However, in this way, she was all filled with tutoring classes on Saturday and Sunday.

On Sunday night, she sent off her physics teacher and her brain that had been running for a day was on the verge of death. Tao Zhi rubbed her slightly sore eyes and fell into the bed.

She faced her face to the bed, buried her head in the quilt, and rested with her eyes closed for a while, and her tired sleepiness came little by little.

Studying is a very tiring thing.

Tao Zhi doesn't like being tired. He can lie on the bed during holidays and doesn't want to sit up. He can even run 800 meters in physical education class and escape if he can. He can have a period three times a month, and he doesn't want to eat any pain.

But when chasing and touching, the sense of accomplishment can be truly obtained.

However, she didn't have time to play with Jiang Qihuai on weekends.

In short, it has been a long time since she had eaten the delicious food made by Grandpa Jiang.

What is Jiang Qihuai doing at this point?

On Sunday, he seems to be working.

She collapsed on the bed, turned her neck and looked out the window.

It was not until dinner time, and it was already dark. It was snowing a few days ago in the imperial capital. Uncooked snow hung on the treetops on the branches, pressing down a layer of bright white.

Tao Zhi looked at it for a few seconds and suddenly jumped up.

She quickly changed her clothes, then took out her bag from the corner, folded the unfinished test papers on the desk and stuffed them in, and left the bedroom and went downstairs.

The supper was almost done, and Tao Xiuping and Ji Fan were both in the living room. Seeing her dressed in an orderly manner, Tao Xiuping looked at her sideways and asked knowingly: "What are you doing? You're going to have a meal."

"You guys eat, I won't eat at home." Tao Zhi waved his hand.

"What else can I do? Find someone she likes," Ji Fan was reading a comic. He took the time to look at her with a condescending honor, and began to be mean, "You're going like this? Don't change your clothes and dress up, apply red lips and blue eyelids."

Tao Zhi turned his head expressionlessly, picked up the gloves placed on the entrance and walked forward two steps, made a baseball player pitching, swaying his arms, and then threw them towards him.

Ji Fan was still holding a comic in his hand, but he couldn't react. He gloves rushed straight into his face, and he threw them softly, "slap" in one go.

Tao Zhi: "Homer! All the way!"

Ji Fan covered his nose and shouted exaggeratedly: "My nose is broken! Lao Tao, she used violence against me!"

Tao Xiuping sighed as they watched the two of them making noises in a mess.

It’s hard to control my son, and my daughter starts flying out every day as she grows up.

Raising children is really difficult.

He pointed at Tao Zhi, kept his face and said, "Come back before nine o'clock."

Tao Zhi saluted him: "Abide by the order!"

Seeing this, Ji Fan put down his hand covering his nose. He pinched the soft gloves in his hand and said eagerly: "Dad, I want to go out to play too. I will definitely come back before nine o'clock tomorrow morning."

Tao Xiuping: "You, rest for me."

Ji Fan: "..."

-

In addition to tutoring, I quit my job at Jiangqihuai Convenience Store. Because the hourly wage is relatively high, it should not be available. Tao Zhi took a taxi to the cafe in the city center.

She positioned the specific location of the store on her mobile phone. Sunday was the peak of crowds, and there were many business districts nearby, so it was too congested to move.

Tao Zhi simply got out of the car outside the street and walked over by himself.

She didn't tell Jiang Qihuai that she would come over.

She had thought about it, and after a while, she pretended to go to order orders. Then when Jiang Qihuai raised her head, she suddenly appeared, caught him off guard, and then pretended not to know him.

Tao Zhi was thinking about the little Jiujiu in her heart. She imagined what Jiang Qihuai would look like at that time and couldn't help but want to laugh.

She smiled and found the way to the cafe as she remembered, leaning forward on the street, while raising her head.

She remembered correctly that the store was not far away in front of it, but things did not perform as she expected, and there were two people standing in front of the store.

In the snow and ice, Jiang Qihuai was wearing only a work uniform, and the thin shirt material looked cold.

He lowered his head, his lips tightly, unlike the previous one, with no emotional indifference. He stared at the man in front of him with alertness and irritability, his eyes as sharp as ice cones under the eaves that had not been cleared off.

The man was wearing a thick black cotton jacket. He should be very tall, but his figure was a little hunched and looked a little shorter than Jiang Qihuai.

His voice was hidden in the lights and wine, hoarse and strange, with an unconcealed and uncomfortable malice: "Did you come out to work when you are an adult? Why, that old man has no money to support you?"

Jiang Qihuai's lips moved and said only one word: "Get out."

The man said slowly: "It shouldn't be true, the pension plus pension should be a lot of money. Did he deliberately hide the money and not spend it for you?"

Jiang Qihuai still said: "Get out."

The man completely ignored his attitude, and he let out a cold smile: "That old man thought he was hiding well, right? Didn't he catch me? Do you think I can't find him? As for you-"
To be continued...