See you tomorrow
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It took me a full half hour to clean my shoes. The night breeze blew my wet hair after taking a shower very fresh, with only a little moisture left at the end of my hair. In the room, Li Chishu had already packed up all his homework and stationery, preparing to leave the next day. When I went upstairs, he was blowing his hair with his back to the door, and a few drops of water were soaked on his gray cotton pajamas, sticking to his back.
The whirring sound of the hair dryer overwhelmed my footsteps, so that after he unplugged the plug and turned around, he suddenly found that I had sat on the edge of the bed next to his legs, looking at him quietly.
Li Chishu seemed to have to prepare a script in advance when communicating with others, so he always seemed at a loss when facing such a sudden handover scene.
He held the hair dryer towards me and asked if he would hand it over: "Do you...blow it?"
I shook my head, took the hair dryer, leaned over and put it on the bedside table, and moved his position so that he stood between my legs, just like the posture that I could easily hug him that night.
I looked up and asked him, "Is there a bruise on your waist?"
"Bruise?" He looked down at his waist, then raised his hand and felt around through his clothes, as if he couldn't find the place I mentioned, "No."
There must be.
I know how hard I held him when he almost fell on the ridge of the field. As expected, his left rib must have been bruised by my fingers at that time.
I pointed at his left upper waist: "Roll it up so I can see."
Li Chishu's hands were hanging quietly on both sides. When he heard me say this, his fingertips curled up: "No need."
I said: "Then I will roll it myself?"
Li Chishu hesitated and lowered his head to roll up the corner of his clothes.
Sure enough, when he rolled up the ribs, he saw it himself and stopped moving.
He was stunned: "What time is this--"
Before he could speak, I moved to the bruise and reached out to touch it. It was probably because of the cool breeze that just blew up from below, and my fingertips were cold. When I touched him, Li Chishu hummed lightly without being noticed.
He subconsciously wanted to hide behind me, but I raised my hand to hug his back and asked him, "Does it hurt?"
Li Chishu quickly said, "Actually, it's still..."
Before he could say the word "good", I pressed against him.
Li Chishu took a trembling breath and froze in place.
A second later, his fingers let go of the rolled-up corner of his clothes and touched my brow bone at a loss, wanting to push away: "Shen... Shen Baoshan..."
My nose was covered by the corner of his clothes. Under a layer of half-covered clothes, I opened my mouth slightly and sucked the bruise. Li Chishu seemed to be unable to stand steadily. He wanted to hide behind me, but I pressed him forward with my palm against his back.
I closed my eyes and held his wound like a kiss, my lips opened and closed several times, and finally rubbed the skin under his ribs with the tip of my nose and forehead.
Li Chishu's breathing became as uncontrolled as mine. My lips moved up along his bruises, and finally stopped under his chest. I directly grabbed his waist and threw him onto the bed. Li Chishu was panicked and just as he was about to struggle in my arms, I hugged him tightly.
I gently pressed the top of his head and rested his chin on the back of my hand. I seemed to hear Li Chishu's heartbeat as fast as a drum when he pressed against my chest.
"Li Chishu, go to sleep." I said.
He didn't even dare to make a sound.
After more than half an hour, his body slowly relaxed and he breathed evenly.
I quietly opened my eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Luckily, I almost couldn't help myself...
The next day, when Jiang Chi came to pick me up, he saw my new shoes that had just been brushed and were not yet dry and made fun of me: "Oh, you've worn out your shoes after playing with them for two days."
Li Chishu was bending over to get in the car, and he looked at Jiang Chi with a strange look when he heard this.
I patted Jiang Chi's shoulder: "Your shoes, are you so happy?"
Jiang Chi: "Huh?"
I closed the car door: "What? If you delay any longer, you will miss the evening self-study."
Li Chishu brought a schoolbag when he came, and he brought another schoolbag when he left. Jiang Chi and I still had a full trunk to deal with, so we had to drive to school to send Li Chishu off and then go back home to put the luggage.
The closer we got to school, the less I wanted to say anything while holding Potato.
When Li Chishu was about to reach the school gate, he saw that something was wrong with me, and took the opportunity to sit in the back seat with me this time, and asked tentatively: "What's wrong with you?"
I looked at him sideways: "I really can't tell what's wrong with me?"
Li Chishu shook his head.
I sighed, closed my eyes and turned my face to the window.
After a while, I said, "It would be great if you could become smaller."
Li Chishu originally lowered his head to continue reciting, but suddenly pointed at himself and asked, "Me?"
"You." I opened my palm to him, "Become so small, so that I can tie you to my belt and take you wherever I go."
Before Li Chishu could react, Jiang Chi in front of him coughed violently and looked at me through the rearview mirror.
In my last life, I acted like a hooligan in front of Li Chishu, and this guy also reacted like this.
Two lifetimes, no improvement at all.
Before Li Chishu got out of the car, he thanked me and Jiang Chi. I propped the car door with my hand and asked him what he wanted to eat for breakfast tomorrow.
As expected, he said, "I'll just eat in the cafeteria."
I said, "Then a sandwich. How about replacing the bacon with ham and pork floss?"
"No need..."
"Bye." I closed the car door and reminded him through the lowered window, "Watch out for cars when crossing the road."
Li Chishu had no choice but to follow my words: "...Bye."
He turned around and walked two steps, then looked back before crossing the road and found that I was still looking at him through the car window.
Li Chishu pursed his lips, holding the kite I bought for him in his left hand, and holding the corner of his schoolbag with his right hand, as if he had made a great decision: "Shen Baoshan."
"Hmm?"
"See you tomorrow."
I gritted my teeth and forced myself not to laugh too happily. I just picked up Potato and waved to Li Chishu by grabbing one of its front legs: "Li Chishu, see you tonight."
"Hmm." He thought for a while and began to stutter again, "You, you pay attention to safety."
When Li Chishu walked away, Jiang Chi began to shake his head and make strange noises in the car, with his teeth in his mouth, babbling like an eighty-year-old man: "Oh, Shen Baoshan, you pay attention to safety-see you tomorrow-"
I hit the driver's seat with my knee: "You will die if you speak nicely."
"Hmm, I won't die-I still have to pay attention to safety-"
I stared at the back of Jiang Chi's head and suddenly smiled: "What are you learning from my wife? Don't you have a wife yourself?"
"..."
Jiang Chi didn't say another word along the way.
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