To rely on others is to promise each other

Chapter 17 Reconciliation

The low air pressure at home lasted for a week, until Ji Xiao and Pei Shanqing mentioned that they had collected enough money, and the studio negotiated a larger business, which successfully resolved the difficulty of the shortage of the economic chain.

Xiao Nan told Jiang Yubai about this. He was in class at the time, but he was secretly happy all afternoon and didn't hear what the teacher said.

The next day was the weekend, and there was no evening self-study. Xiao Nan drove to pick up Jiang Yubai and said that he wanted to have dinner with him. When Jiang Yubai got into the co-pilot, he realized something was wrong and asked, "Where's Pei Shanqing?"

"I invited you to dinner, what is he doing here?" Xiao Nan sneered.

Jiang Yubai raised his eyebrows, trying to instigate the relationship between the two of them while the iron was hot: "That's right, look at how he was ignoring everyone a few days ago, let's ignore him."

"Well, you are still more likable." Xiao Nan nodded with satisfaction, "I visited this Japanese restaurant last week, and the taste is not bad. I wanted to bring you here a few days ago, but you are not free for school."

Jiang Yubai felt that Xiao Nan was a little strange, but he quickly attributed it to Xiao Nan's intention to indirectly achieve the goal of attacking Pei Shanqing through him.

However, Pei Shanqing was really too repulsive these days. After dinner, Jiang Yubai went to a nearby shop to buy a bracelet for Xiao Nan, and persuaded him not to hang himself on a tree.

After returning home, Pei Shanqing sat in the living room with a cold face, and when he saw him coming back, he asked, "Where have you been?"

Jiang Yubai rubbed his frozen red ears, took off his cold coat, and replied casually: "Go and have dinner with friends."

"It's not Cheng Guo, what friend?" Pei Shanqing obviously couldn't hold back his anger, and his tone was a bit aggressive, "What kind of friend squats you at the school gate every day, and picks you up after school to eat on time?"

Jiang Yu Baidun stayed where he was, took two deep breaths, turned to face him, and said calmly, "Actually, strictly speaking, it's not my friend, but your friend, Xiao Nan."

"...Xiao Nan? What did he ask you for? What did you say?" Pei Shanqing asked obviously for a moment.

"Why do you always ask him what he said when we were together? Is it because you like him and want to be with him, but you always make him misunderstand that you have another sweetheart?" Jiang Yubai said, "Brother, don't worry , I won't speak ill of you."

"That's not what I meant." Pei Shanqing stood up, as if eager to explain to himself, "Your class teacher called me yesterday and said that people from other schools always come to you and ask me if I know anything about it."

"Then why didn't you come to ask me some time ago?" Jiang Yubai asked back, "Xiao Nan was indeed looking for me a few weeks ago, but at the beginning it was because the bus was out of service due to snow and you didn't come to pick me up. He just came looking for me."

"I..." Pei Shanqing didn't know how to explain it, as if being busy with work couldn't be a reason not to care about him.

"Brother, you are busy with work, I understand, but can you not question me as soon as you come up? I really associate with him out of good intentions. Because I can see that you like him, and I don't want to see you misunderstood more and more The deeper you get, the more I defend you when I get along with him."

The two stood facing each other, Jiang Yubai's eyes turned red as he talked, Pei Shanqing was stunned for a moment, and he took a step forward to grab his hand, but Jiang Yubai avoided him.

"Brother, I can see that you are avoiding me." Jiang Yubai said very softly, "I can accept it."

Pei Shanqing felt an indescribable astringency in his heart, and he couldn't breathe as if a huge stone was pressed against his throat. After a long while, he spoke with difficulty, but what he said was an irrelevant topic.

"I'll take you to get your hair cut." Pei Shanqing said.

Jiang Yubai rejected his words in a rare way: "No, I think this is very good."

After that day, Jiang Yubai stopped talking to him, and Pei Shanqing tried to bring up the topic but couldn't get a response. Even on New Year's Eve, the gap between the two of them hadn't been eliminated.

The Spring Festival Gala was buzzing on the TV, Pei Shanqing was holding a notebook to catch up with the plan, and Jiang Yubai was chatting with Xiao Nan with his mobile phone on the side.

Pei Shanqing glanced at the note on the phone screen from the corner of his eye, and frowned displeasedly: "Still chatting with him?"

"Yeah." Jiang Yubai didn't even look at him, and walked to the bedroom with his mobile phone in his arms, "I'm a little sleepy, I'm going to sleep first."

This is the longest sentence Jiang Yubai has ever said to him in this period of time, but Pei Shanqing couldn't be happy at all. Instead, he sighed softly, stared at his notebook for a while, then got up and turned off the TV , into the room.

The lights in the room were not turned on, and Jiang Yubai was lying on the upper bunk with his back to the door. A small part of the ceiling was illuminated by the light of the mobile phone, which proved that he was not asleep.

"The temperature will cool down in a few days, I'll take you to Hainan." Pei Shanqing took the initiative to bring up the topic.

Jiang Yubai said, "I don't want to go, I haven't finished my homework."

"I'll help you write together, just go for five days, okay?" Pei Shanqing said.

"I'm not going. If you really want to find a companion to go with you, let me ask Xiao Nan out for you."

"...Forget it then."

Jiang Yubai heard a rustling sound coming from under the bed. It should be that Pei Shanqing changed clothes and lay down on the bed. The heating temperature was so high that he could barely breathe under the quilt.

The WeChat chat interface was displayed on the unlocked phone. Xiao Nan asked him to go out to play, but Jiang Yubai flatly refused with the excuse of going to the gym, and was frantically swiping the screen with emojis of crying bunnies.

Jiang Yubai didn't return, but saved the cute expression pack, turned his phone upside down on the bed, and listened to Pei Shanqing's breathing on the lower berth.

When Pei Shanqing's breathing gradually calmed down, Jiang Yubai opened the chat interface between the two of them and sent an emoji. After a long time of no reply, he turned on the night light placed by the bed and climbed down the ladder.

Pei Shanqing also frowned in his sleep. The continuous and intensive work made him look a little haggard. Jiang Yubai stood by the bed, looked closely at his brows and eyes, picked up the mobile phone he put aside, and combined his birthday numbers Unlock the lock and delete the chat history.

"You are so stupid, won't you buy a plane ticket and ask me out again? Then I won't be able to refuse." Jiang Yubai installed the software on his mobile phone, and then threw it into a folder to hide it, not forgetting to use his voice Complain about him dissatisfied.

Pei Shanqing showed no sign of waking up, and Jiang Yubai still felt that it was not enough to relieve his anger. He put down his phone and gently put his hand on his neck, as if trying to strangle him by the throat and not allow him to breathe, and threatened him by his ear.

"If you hide from me again, I won't be with you in the future."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Yubai blinked, moved his hands away, felt that saying this was too decisive, and added in a low voice: "Forget it, because you are so busy, if you don't come to pick me up from school, I won't talk to you Calculated."

Pei Shanqing's eyelashes trembled slightly, Jiang Yubai noticed it, and hurriedly stood up and pretended to leave. Fortunately, Pei Shanqing only moved his neck slightly, and didn't intend to wake up.

Jiang Yubai held his breath and moved closer. His anxious heart had already calmed down, and he gently kissed the tip of his nose.

"I'm just mad at you for avoiding me, but I still like you very much."

After a while, the studio became busy again, but Pei Shanqing didn't let Jiang Yubai go to and from school alone, and Xiao Nan said: Pei Shanqing even warned him not to get too close to Jiang Yubai.

Jiang Yubai just shrugged his shoulders when he heard that, and didn't say much. He muddled through the last semester, and soon ushered in the second semester. At the same time, he notified that the first parent-teacher meeting in high school would be held, mainly about the last semester grades.

Jiang Yubai and Pei Shanqing talked about the time and place, but Pei Shanqing didn't agree immediately, but asked about Jiang Yubai's grades, and was slightly surprised to hear that he was still the first in age.

Jiang Yubai did not get a positive answer, thinking that he would not come, so he could only sit in his seat honestly during the parent meeting, watching other students lead their parents in together, and sit side by side at the desks.

Jiang Yubai took out a piece of white paper from under the textbook and spread it on the table. After drawing a few horizontal lines, the holder of the gel pen was spinning back and forth on his fingertips. It was false to say that he could not lose it, but he just looked away boredly. Looking out the window at the half sunken sunset.

The clouds in the sky were pushed to the edge of golden pink, and even the surrounding buildings were covered with light and shadow. Occasionally, a gust of wind came from the gaps in the windows, mixed with the chilly spring.

When Jiang Yubai was in a trance, he suddenly stretched out a hand beside him, and gently closed the window. He turned his head and met the eyes of another person who shouldn't be here.

Pei Shanqing was wearing a dark brown windbreaker with a black stand-up collar sweater and white slacks underneath. It looked like he came home after get off work and changed clothes.

His hands have habitually moved to the back of Jiang Yubai's neck, and the hair rope that was often used to tie Jiang Yubai's hair is wrapped around his wrist. Seeing him turn his head, he glanced at the podium preparing the PPT The teacher in charge said in a low voice, "It's easy to catch a cold and still get blown?"

Jiang Yubai asked: "What were you going to do just now? You can't hide from me, and now you change your mind and want to strangle me to death?"

Pei Shanqing smiled softly, brushed up his hair that had grown below the shoulder blades, and tied it up for him skillfully: "I closed the window to prevent you from shouting hot, so I will bundle up your hair."

Jiang Yubai's heart beat a little fast, he lowered his head and said nothing, but the redness in his ears had already revealed his thoughts. Pei Shanqing opened the glasses case, showed it in front of him and said, "Take off the glasses, they are always tiring."

Jiang Yubai took off his glasses and put them in the box. The teacher on the podium had already started to talk about the ranking of last semester, and Jiang Yubai was the first to click.

"No.1 is Jiang Yubai's classmate. This grade is still very good, but you should pay attention to improving your English composition. You can memorize some model essays."

When Pei Shanqing heard this, he turned his head and asked him, "You can't write English compositions?"

"Cough...it's a long story." Jiang Yubai felt that during the English test, he started to lose his mind after reading an article, and finally didn't have enough time to finish the composition. This fact is a bit hard to tell.

Pei Shanqing chuckled and didn't ask any more questions. After listening to the class teacher's comments on the latter students for a while, his attention was drawn to the piece of paper on the table.

Pei Shanqing took out the paper, looked at it for a while, grabbed Jiang Yubai's pen and drew a few more strokes on it, and now the original white paper turned into graph paper.

Jiang Yubai was puzzled, seeing him earnestly fill up all the horizontal lines, and after adding a sentence next to it, he took the piece of paper that Pei Shanqing pushed over on the table.

It said flamboyantly on it: "Play backgammon? If I win, make up with me."