The bus was right in front of the hospital. Jun Yueyue and Fang Anyu looked around, afraid that Fang Anyan and Jun Yu would see them, and ran from the broken cement flower bed in the hospital toward the wall.
Anyway, she ruined the test. Those two disgusting middle-aged women were still busy in the hospital. They were the busiest people in the whole building, and their voices were even louder than when they were faking their screams in the car. Even the pregnant woman’s husband couldn’t help her. After all, the two women were very experienced in childbirth.
As Jun Yueyue led Fang Anyu to the wall, she was still thinking that those two old women were quite kind-hearted. When she and a few others pooled their money to give to the pregnant woman’s family, they didn’t try to get it back like some others, so she didn’t stay there to wait. But as they were leaving, she saw the two older women stingily pull out brand-new red bills and give them to the pregnant woman’s husband, telling him to hurry up and pay the hospital fees. After the amniotic sac broke, the baby was still breech, and the baby needed surgery as soon as possible…
That money was probably what Old Master Jun paid them to disgust her, but Jun Yueyue couldn’t bring herself to feel disgusted. She had seen all the ugliest aspects of human nature. People die for money, birds die for food, and those who take money are obligated to solve problems. Her clumsy performance just now, which she had tried so hard to do, wasn’t so repulsive anymore.
In the apocalypse, the cheapest thing is beauty, and even cheaper is kindness. Humanity can be infinitely distorted in the face of life and death. After seeing all that, the little bit of humanity that leaked from between the fingers of the rough rural woman made Jun Yueyue feel emotional and truly felt that she had really changed to another world.
This is no longer the ugly world where biological parents would give their daughter to a group of men just for a bite to eat.
Jun Yueyue pulled Fang Anyu along as they ran against the scorching sun and hot wind, their bodies and minds bathed in a genuine warmth unlike anything they had ever experienced before.
That so-called Aunt Jun is also fabricated. What’s the point of seeing her or not? If Jun Yueyue ran away with Fang Anyu, old Master Jun will be furious. Jun Yueyue is just trying to make him angry. The angrier he is, the more disappointed he will be in her, and the more readily he will pay her off.
Anyway, once she’s taken the money, she won’t even stay in Qiuhai City anymore. At that point, the mountains are high and the seas are wide, so she can fly freely like a bird!
Thinking about the money that was about to arrive in her account, Jun Yueyue’s mood soared like a bird. When she jumped down from the top of the wall, she felt like she was about to grow wings!
Fang Anyu was the first to flip over. Jun Yueyue saw him standing below, looking up at her with his arms outstretched as if to catch her. She smiled and mouthed, “Catch me!”
Then, without a second thought, he pushed off with his feet and plunged straight down.
The hospital walls were quite high. As Jun Yueyue fell, she realized she had really been a bit of an idiot. She spread her arms wide, like a fledgling bird that couldn’t fly yet, and her heart was in her throat at that moment.
That shouldn’t be done.
She shouldn’t have believed that Fang Anyu could catch her. In her mind, Fang Anyu was just a bouncy little rabbit. She never expected that she would trust him so much.
At the last moment, it was too late to curl up. Jun Yueyue closed her eyes and prayed that when she landed, her arms, which she had never flown freely before, would not break, otherwise she would have nowhere to cry.
But the expected dull pain of falling from a great height did not come. Instead, she landed in a rather sturdy and warm embrace in this silly, fledgling-to-the-nest posture.
The two of them staggered back two steps, and surprisingly, they actually managed to stand still.
When Jun Yueyue opened her eyes, she saw Fang Anyu’s chin so close to hers. Only then did she belatedly realize that her legs were weak and she ended up clinging to Fang Anyu’s arms, unable to get up.
”He actually caught…” She muttered softly, her head pressed against Fang Anyu’s chest, which was beating as fast as hers. Then she smiled and thought to herself that Fang Anyu was still a grown man, no matter how easy or weak he seemed. Catching her petite body like this shouldn’t have been too difficult for him.
Thinking of her super-strong, muscular figure in the apocalypse, capable of lifting two men with one hand, she felt a sense of being a little bird nestled in a man’s arms for the first time in her life, and looked up at Fang Anyu with a sense of novelty.
Her heart was racing, terrified by her own foolish actions. And what was Fang Anyu doing? Was he nervous? Afraid he wouldn’t be able to catch her?
Jun Yueyue looked up and met Fang Anyu’s gaze. He lowered his eyes, his gaze as soft as cotton as ever, which made Jun Yueyue feel completely relaxed and even less willing to stand up.
This was too abnormal. She lowered her head, her hands not holding Fang Anyu, but hanging at her sides. She had struggled in the apocalypse for so many years, and the vigilance and wariness she had never let down even when she was a child could not take hold in front of Fang Anyu.
The afternoon sun shone down on the two of them without any obstruction. Jun Yueyue felt a bit of heat on the back of her neck. Just as she was about to look up, she felt a hand with a comfortable temperature cover her neck.
It’s not too hot, making you feel anxious, nor too cold, making you feel resistant.
The hand that was about to lift her head covered hers, making it feel as if it had been weighed down by a thousand pounds, and she was unable to lift it again.
The two leaned against each other silently. It couldn’t really be called an embrace, because Fang Anyu was only supporting her arm and holding the back of her neck, while Jun Yueyue never reached out to wrap her arms around the waist of the person so close to her.
This is really strange. She doesn’t want to move, and if she doesn’t move, Fang Anyu won’t move either.
He was mute and wouldn’t suddenly speak to ask what you were doing. He was as quiet as a dutiful pillar. The two of them were still some distance from the roadside. There weren’t many vehicles in the town, and the place was as quiet as this inexplicable support, out of place yet perfectly natural.
Jun Yueyue was pondering a question: why did Fang Anyu smell better than her when they used the same shower gel? She wondered if it was because he had been steamed by the midday sun, and the scent wafted gently into her nose from his slightly open collar.
Why did the “mixed smells” in the car earlier not leave any unpleasant odor on him, but she smelled like a rotten egg that had rolled in chicken droppings in a chicken coop?
Why would she inexplicably jump off the wall, trusting a fool with such suicidal devotion?
Why… Ugh, screw it.
My head is throbbing from thinking about it.
Jun Yueyue could smell the shower gel from Fang Anyu’s collar. He had said it smelled good last night, but it was actually labeled as a perfume shower gel, with lime and jasmine. Jun Yueyue thought the top notes were okay, but the aftertaste always had a bottle of fly spray smell.
Yesterday, Fang Anyu said it smelled nice, and Jun Yueyue casually replied that if it smelled nice, she could take it with her. But today, she discovered that this perfume shower gel also had a base note that was hard to describe, but it was just… very nice, making her want to get closer and smell it carefully to find out exactly what it smelled like.
Jun Yueyue always did whatever came to mind, so she finally raised her head, moved slightly, but instead of pushing Fang Anyu away, she unbuttoned one button on his collar, pulled open the sides of his shirt, and buried her head in Fang Anyu’s collar…
Fang Anyu: …He looked down at Jun Yueyue with a puzzled expression, blinked twice, and didn’t understand.
After taking a few deep breaths, Jun Yueyue lifted her head, buttoned up his shirt again, patted him, nodded, and took out her phone to type—”What did you think the base notes of that shower gel we used last night smelled like?”
Fang Anyu instantly realized what she had just been doing, took the phone and typed seriously—milk.
Jun Yueyue nodded and typed with an expression as if she were tackling an academic problem—yes, that’s the milky smell.
Actually, no… she just couldn’t smell it.
Moreover, seeing Fang Anyu nodding earnestly, she actually felt a little ashamed. After all, it’s okay to take advantage of someone and then lie to them, but when it comes to someone as naive as Fang Anyu, it always makes her feel guilty.
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After a brief period of feeling guilty, Jun Yueyue quickly processed her conscience and took Fang Anyu to the town via a side path.
Fearing they might run into Fang Anyan and Junyu taking a taxi, the two deliberately wandered through the alleys. The town was really small; they reached the end of the alley in no time and didn’t see any taxis or anyone they knew from the car.
The two wandered around for a while. There were hardly any people on the street, but there were still a few shops. The storefronts looked small, but at least they did all sorts of things.
Jun Yueyue saw a mobile phone repair shop and took Fang Anyu inside. She had originally planned to buy Fang Anyu a mobile phone when she returned to Qiuhai City, but it was fine to buy one now, since he didn’t need any special features anyway, as long as he could type.
The store had some very old brand-name computers that didn’t look new at all. The owner was a chubby middle-aged man with greasy hair and a pockmarked face, who insisted they were new.
Jun Yueyue only looked for phones with large screens, and said, “I need phones with even faster response times.”
In the end, the two of them bought two Meiai brand smartphones for 800 yuan each.
Why buy two? Because one of them is not for sale, even if you offer it for 800 with a buy-one-get-one-free deal, they won’t sell the other for 600.
Jun Yueyue was shocked by the boss’s marketing concept and also strongly suspected that he had just cobbled together the phone himself. Not only were there a lot of parts scattered under his counter, but the phone itself was new, and there were scratches on the SIM card slot when the SIM card was inserted.
However, Fang Anyu seemed to really like it. He had one black phone and one white phone, and he held the white one so much that he couldn’t put it down, constantly tapping on it. Jun Yueyue listened to the boss bragging about it.
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