Chapter 40 Go to the hotel and reward you

From outside the half-open window came the sounds of traffic and children playing.

Tang Wan woke up, and her long eyelashes fluttered open and closed a few times.

Through her dazed, squinting eyes, she saw Xia An leaning on the side of her face and staring at her with a smile.

Behind him, the midsummer sun slanted across the south wall of the bedroom, bright and golden.

Outside the glass, a corner of the building is quietly spread on the blue dream.

The scent of summer and eucalyptus mixed into an indescribable aroma that rushed into Tang Wan’s nose.

“Awake?” Xia An asked lightly.

Tang Wan wrinkled her nose, hummed, and said, “The rain has stopped.”

When spiders weave webs, the rain will soon stop.

It feels like the past ten years of my life have been so sour.

She rubbed against him, took the initiative to hug Xia An’s neck, and put her chin on his face.

His eyes were fixed on the lemon-colored spots on the wall.

Hanging on that wall are two decorative paintings installed by the homeowner, a two-in-one spliced oil painting.

The painting shows a tall birch forest with a stream winding through it.

The picture at this moment is filled with a holy halo.

Tang Wan looked at him eagerly. The touch of their bodies was smooth, both she and Xia An felt smooth.

My mind is calm and free of distractions.

She vaguely remembered having this feeling a long time ago.

It seems that it was a trip with He Zhenzhen during college.

It has appeared in Mogao Grottoes and Jokhang Temple.

It’s so quiet and peaceful.

His hands gently stroked her back and her hair.

The sense of happiness and security that emerged from the deepest part of her heart made Tang Wan so comfortable that she wanted to moan.

She finally understood why cats purr when they are petted.

Past life in Xiz, half life in Dunhuang.

On this sacred and pure morning, Tang Wan tapped Xia An’s cheek with her chin.

Tell him: “Xia An, I like you.”

After saying this, he remained in the same posture without moving.

I just held him a little tighter.

His eyes were slightly distracted.

When I was in school, I saw other classmates hanging out in pairs, but I didn’t envy them at all and felt it was no big deal.

At that time, I thought that so-called love was just like that, full of affection and hugs.

But no one ever told me that hugging, kissing and touching can be so happy.

I have lived alone for ten years. After these ten years, I seem to be afraid to get close to others.

But you, Xiao Xia’an, you suddenly broke in and broke in through the door.

You told me: You are free.

But the stray cats on the street also look free.

Tang Wan was talking to herself, but Xia An couldn’t hear her.

What she wanted Xia An to hear was:
“I’m six years older than you, which is ten when rounded up. I’m twenty-five, which is thirty when rounded up. Lin Jiajia is only thirty, so you should call me…”

“No, wait,”

Xia An stopped her from continuing, “Is your math department so lax about numbers?”

Tang Wan chuckled in his ear.

Xia An noticed that his face suddenly became warm and wet.

He turned his head and saw Tang Wan crying and laughing.

Tang Wan shook her head, sniffed with a smile and said, “It turns out that people can cry even when they are very happy.

“Xia An, I want to save all my future tears for happiness, okay?”

Xia An raised her hand to wipe away her tears and chuckled:
“No, a truly outstanding man shouldn’t let the tears of his lover flow from his eyes.”

It was very strange. Tang Wan seemed to have grown up overnight and instantly understood the vulgarity in the words.

Xia An hugged the cute Tang Xiaowan and rubbed her face.

“When we are in a relationship, what we should always remember and remind ourselves is our identity and responsibility, not our age.”

Every kind girl deserves to be treated like a princess in love.

Tang Wan nodded in his arms.

As the sun rises, its shadow gradually falls from the wall to the floor.

Tang Wan said she wanted to rent this house for a long time.

Xia An knew why, it was convenient for dating.

But he told Tang Wan that living in the dormitory was lively.

Xia An remembered that the doctoral student apartments and international student apartments of Binhai University were in the same building, right on the seaside, with a fantastic view.

Moreover, two people can share a room, which provides both privacy and space, perfect.

He knew Tang Wan was afraid of the dark, so he asked, “Aren’t you afraid living here by yourself?”

Tang Wan nuzzled his chest again, shook her head, and said, “My parents seem to know I’m scared, so they’ve never appeared in my dreams, and I haven’t dreamed of anything else.”

In the past, she at least lived next to her so-called relatives, and the chickens and dogs could hear each other. The empty big villa only seemed gloomy at night.

If Tang Wan were allowed to choose, she would rather live in a small house like this that is clearly visible.

It was nine o’clock and Tang Wan got up.

Today is Friday, and she has to go to school to meet her tutor again.

“I joined the research group through the backdoor, so there are a lot of procedures to go through. Be good and wait for me.”

It seems that Xia An’s three immune-boosting treatments last night took effect, or perhaps He Zhenzhen’s imported medicine was too strong.

The fever of both of them subsided.

The bed sheets were just soaked with sweat, especially on Tang Wan’s side.

Pillowcases too.

Tang Wan sat up, with only half a strand of hair and the White Tara pendant covering her pear-like skin.

She was shy, but she endured it and let Xia An look at her.

Stand up from the bed and walk down to the ground.

Tang Wan smiled and leaned over to kiss Xia An’s forehead.

“Don’t worry, what’s yours will be yours sooner or later. Just come to me when school starts, and I’ll give it to you, regardless of whether it’s true or not.”

After saying that, he went to the bathroom to take a shower.

Xia An put his hands behind his head, smiled faintly and was in a daze.

Tang Wan came out of the shower, wearing a hair drying cap with pink rabbit ears, and found a new set of clothes in the closet to change into.

A plain black T-shirt and black wide-leg jeans.

This time, it feels like a female college student.

Xia An scratched her butt and walked to the dressing table, took the hair dryer from her hand, and gently and slowly helped her blow dry her hair.

Tang Wan was touched, but when she saw his image in the mirror, she still spat, “It’s so ugly.”

Two people who had known each other for half a month got along with each other so inexplicably frankly, harmoniously and naturally.

The warm air from the hair dryer blew behind her as Tang Wan raised her feet and put on her little white socks.

Then he leaned on the chair with his hands, looked at himself and Xia An in the mirror, and curled up the corners of his mouth slightly.

……

Tang Wan, without makeup, put on the large glasses without lenses, told Xia An that she would be back soon, and then went out.

In less than fifteen minutes, he came upstairs again, carrying buns and soy milk in his hands.

He also said it was strange that He Zhenzhen seemed to have come back last night.

The Bentley was parked back with the key on the left front wheel, but Lin Jiajia’s car was gone.

Hearing this, Xia An, who was lying on the bed, shook her phone:

“They ran into each other at the hotel yesterday, and Lin Jiajia gave her a cupping treatment.”

Lin Jiajia sent a text message to Xia An at two o’clock in the middle of the night, telling her about this.

Tang Wan was stunned for two seconds, then burst into laughter, told Xia An to eat something, and left again.

Xia An is looking at QQ space.

July 2006.7.27, 21, 42: PM
“A little brat pretending to be an adult.”

“Okay, I’m dizzy, sister is taking medicine, and the little brat has to take medicine too.”

“Mom bought me some canned yellow peaches. Do you want some?”

July 2006.7.28, 02, 36: PM
“I worked up a sweat and now I’m all better. See, adults are better than kids.”

“I dreamt of a forest, mud houses, and terraced fields”

“Beautiful place”

“I’m going to take my family on a trip when I make some money, Mom and Dad, Uncle Xia, and Aunt Wei.”

“No brats”

“Want to go?”

Eucalyptus leaves are poisonous: I don’t want to, and I’d advise someone not to go.

Eucalyptus leaves are poisonous: I have recovered too, and I know some immunity-boosting therapies. Do you want to learn?
Putting down the phone, Xia An stretched his arms and jumped to the ground naked.

Before I could finish a push-up, a text message came in on my phone.

Le Ning: After eating canned food and taking medicine, I really recovered. How about you?
Xia An: Would you like to know more about immunity-boosting therapy?
After replying the message, Xia An fell into deep thought.

After a long time, he thought to himself: That’s right, it has nothing to do with He Zhenzhen!

Then he clasped his hands together and faced the window, silently saying:

The great canned yellow peach god——

……

……

Xia An, who had a slight obsession with mysophobia, took the initiative to change Tang Wan’s bed sheets and pillowcases.

Especially the bed sheet that was taken off, my God, it’s not dry yet.

It must be said, he really didn’t expect that Tang Xiaowan would be born with a smooth body.

For the nth time, he was convinced that he had found a treasure, a treasure girl. The washing machine was running, and Xia An finished mopping the floor and went to take a shower.

The stubble on his chin was already very long, but he couldn’t find Tang Wan’s razor…

After finishing the buns, Xia An carried the garbage downstairs.

He is very familiar with Binhai University.

He has walked every alley around here and tried every small shop.

Time stumbles and seasons come and go.

From the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year to every spring, summer, autumn and winter of the next four years, he was familiar with them.

Coming back again, I smell the familiar salty sea breeze and look at the familiar street scenes.

In the distance, the huge campus is close to the coast, and youth is in full swing.

But no matter how hard he tried to run those hundreds of meters, it was difficult to replicate the youthful feeling he had at that time.

The clock will return to the starting point, but yesterday will always be yesterday.

Twenty years later, I returned to the South Tower. The old friend was indeed there, but every second from now on would be a new and different story.

Entering from the east gate, Xia An found the flower shop with her eyes closed.

The proprietress is still young and still has the same calm and gentle personality as I remember.

Every morning, flower branches are trimmed on the stool at the door.

Xia An took out five dollars and bought two fresh sunflowers.

Without going any further into the campus, he turned back to Tang Wan’s rental house.

He noticed a plump mauve vase on the windowsill last night.

empty.

Tang Wan was stunned?
Obviously an illusion.

It was obvious that she was waiting for him to complete her first flower arrangement.

If you don’t understand this, you have lived your life in vain.

Humming a little tune, pouring water, and inserting.

Two sunflowers reflected in the glass form two pairs.

At this moment, the cell phone buzzed in my pocket. It was a text message from Tang Wan.

[Can you please drive to the main building to pick me up?]

Xia An scratched his head.

The main building is only a ten-minute walk from here.

drive?
【it is good】

Before turning around, Xia An casually fiddled with the large petals.

Sunflower began to shake her head.

But there is no one in the house waiting to collect the sunlight they exhale.

……

……

Tang Wan was holding a folder and shaking her head under the heavy rain in the main building. She was very cute and very eye-catching.

She didn’t hum out loud, but just stepped on tiptoe to the beat of the rhythm in her heart.

But the boys around me could clearly hear a cheerful melody.

They were talking to their gray-haired mentor, but their eyes couldn’t help but glance at the beautiful figure next to them from time to time.

The folder in Tang Wan’s hand contained various forms that she had just filled out, in duplicate.

The Academic Affairs Office has received one copy, and this copy is kept by her doctoral supervisor.

There are four other doctoral students in the same class and batch as her in the research group, and they are the four boys surrounding their supervisor.

The four of them are pursuing a doctorate directly and will have to complete five years of basic training.

There is a small circle of doctoral students online, and there are more than 30 people who have set the goal of applying to Professor Wang in the Department of Mathematics at Binhai University early on.

These aspiring people from all over the world have already chatted with each other online in advance.

According to inside information, Professor Wang plans to lead five people this year.

So, those who need to use connections should use them in advance, and those who need to review should review.

In the end, the five boys were all about the same and knew that there was a high probability that they would be accepted.

Finally, just a few days ago, just last week, a guy was “rejected”.

It is rumored that a female classmate was parachuted in.

Female classmate?
Female PhDs are not uncommon.

A female PhD in mathematics?

Well, it must be a dinosaur!

On Monday, the five gathered, reported, and met for the first time.

The first reaction of the four boys with top logic was: Chi Ao.

Second reaction: God is unfair.

Third reaction: God exists.

Fourth reaction: Backdoor?

But not entirely.

Professor Wang introduced the five new students to each other.

Tang Wan’s name and her graduate thesis surfaced at the same time.

Tang Wan!

Tang Wan from Zhejiang University!
Tang Wan is very good at probability analysis and mental arithmetic!
The Tang Wan who never lost a card game?!
Let’s put it this way, if we compare primary, middle and high school basic education to building a balloon.

Undergraduate teaching is to blow up this balloon.

A master’s student can understand it as using a stick to poke a bump at a certain point on the surface of the balloon.

PhD student, change to a needle and continue stabbing.

The higher the academic qualifications, the more specialized the field of study.

The fewer people in the circle.

The plagiarism incident involving a tutor in the Department of Mathematics at Zhejiang University in 2004 caused a sensation in the entire community.

The little math princess who could have made a living by relying on her looks finally retired from the circle and became like everyone else.

“Where is Tang Wan?”

“Is Tang Wan married?”

This kind of public opinion was very popular in the forum for a while.

…

On that day and at that time, Tang Wan appeared out of nowhere, her appearance unchanged.

“Are we four the chosen ones blessed by God?”

That day and at that time, the four male classmates looked at each other and had the same idea.

‘Yes, we must protect her!!!’

At their second meeting today, the four of them were determined to do so.

However, Tang Wan, who was not stupid, saw what they were thinking.

After thinking it over, she sent a text message to Xia An to make her position clear in advance.

After submitting their materials one after another, the four boys started to make fun of each other.

We made an appointment to have dinner together under the pretext of inviting my supervisor Professor Wang to dinner.

Tang Wan shook her head and said that it was not possible today because she had to go home to entertain the guests.

Among the four boys, two had cars and offered to give Tang Wan a ride and then take her home.

Tang Wan shook her head and said no, she lived not far from here.

The four boys had no dirty thoughts. Seeing that Tang Wan had directly refused, they knew it would be bad to proceed any further, so they stopped talking and waited aside, awaiting the teacher’s subsequent instructions.

Tang Wan went forward to hand Professor Wang a briefcase.

Professor Wang looked at her kindly and led her to sit on the bench at the bottom of the steps.

First I asked, “Is Mr. Tang okay?”

Tang Wan smiled politely and replied, “Not bad.”

Professor Wang opened the file bag, carefully examined it, and then rewound it. He said to Tang Wan, “Have you put aside your advanced operations research in the past two years?”

Tang Wan answered honestly, “I almost forgot.”

Professor Wang smiled and said, “Okay, then let’s go back in this direction. I can see that you don’t like their topics.”

Tang Wan smiled gratefully. She understood that her mentor didn’t want her to be pestered by boys and was trying to protect her.

Professor Wang: “Before the semester starts, please prepare a research report for me.”

Tang Wan nodded seriously.

At this moment, the 12-cylinder engine exploded, interrupting the chirping of cicadas and birds, and came from far away.

A dark green Bentley Continental drove along the path, its wide tires rolling up dead leaves, and stopped next to a bench in the dappled sunlight under the shade of the trees.

Tang Wan stretched out her long legs and crossed them over each other, smiling and waving at the car.

Xia An, also wearing a black T-shirt and with an unshaven beard, opened the door and got out of the car.

“Xiao Wan, are you going home?” he asked with a faint smile.

Tang Wan first glanced at Professor Wang and said, “My boyfriend is here to pick me up.”

“Go ahead, it’s nothing.”

Professor Wang nudged his chin and smiled, “I’ll arrange for you guys to have a meal together when school starts. Don’t refuse then. You can bring your families.”

Tang Wan smiled and said yes, then stood up and waved to the four stunned boys on the steps.

Ta-da-da, he jumped happily to Xia An’s side.

She stood on tiptoe and gave him a kiss.

“Let’s go to the hotel and reward you.”

It was a very loud sound.

“To reward you for your cleverness and efficiency, let’s go play poker with Zhenzhen and make a killing.”

The sound was very small.

As he spoke, he pretended to be fierce, frowning, arching his nose, and clenching his fists.

After saying that, he chuckled to himself again.

(End of this chapter)