Chapter 17: Wild
“Su Yu, I’m leaving.”
The girl’s voice on the other end of the phone was a little hoarse, and it was brushing against the sound of the wind. The leaves were rustling, and in the city, which was made of steel and concrete, it was not very real. It was as if she were really going to disappear without a word.
“What are you talking about? Aren’t you going to graduate school?”
“Work, study… I’m still young. I’ll have plenty of opportunities in the future. But I just want to go out and see the world now. The school just happens to have a volunteer teaching opportunity.”
Su Yu suddenly remembered that the other party had indeed told him these things. In a past that had been covered in dust, she had always been a girl with a very jumpy way of thinking. It was hard to figure out what she was thinking sometimes.
“Are you serious?”
“If you don’t let me go, I won’t go.” She paused for a moment and softened her voice. “This sentence is true.”
…
It was the Dragon Boat Festival these two days, and there was a three-day holiday. He had also applied for two more days of leave that he had not taken, and he wanted to have a good rest.
The reality was very harsh. The company’s program had a problem the next day, and he had to go back to maintain it. He had had a hasty meal with Xia Qiange and An Zhi, and then he had rushed back to the company and had worked overtime for half a day.
He was so tired in the afternoon, and it was not just physical. He just felt that his cervical spine was as if it were being pressed by something. His drooping head was a little heavy, and he couldn’t raise it as freely as before.
He also understood that a life that was back on track was inevitably under heavy pressure, and he was also happy with this kind of plainness. But out of a person’s instinctive baser nature, he would inevitably complain occasionally. He was in a bad mood. He didn’t smoke or drink. He could only watch the fiery red sun outside the floor-to-ceiling window slowly sink under the fortress that was built by the tall buildings.
The noisy and clamorous midsummer was like a fire that would never be extinguished. Su Yu was carrying his bag and had left the company. He had not reached the station, and his forehead was sweaty. The thin shirt was clinging to his body, and it was very uncomfortable.
The traffic was moving on his left, and his ears were filled with a mess of noises. But suddenly, all these sounds had disappeared, and they had been covered by a stronger and fiercer engine sound.
He didn’t pay much attention to it. It was not until the sound had stopped behind him that a gust of wind was chasing after him. He had turned his head and had glanced. He had seen that the person on the car was fully equipped, and he was wearing a black helmet, and he couldn’t see his face.
A few strands of hair that had leaked out from the rope were flying in the wind, and some were wet and were clinging to her slightly red cheeks. The girl had straightened her body, and her high ponytail was black and long. Her eyes were flamboyant, and her smile was unrestrained.
He Mu Qing had not given him a chance to speak from beginning to end. She had thrown him a helmet, and the passersby around them had thought that he was being kidnapped, and their expressions were nervous.
It was not until they had seen the motorcycle go far away that the man on the car had held the girl’s slender waist tightly.
…
Two people, a motorcycle.
They had been running from the evening to the dark. The tall buildings had been left behind them. The steel and concrete creations around them were sparse. It was an endless asphalt road, and outside the iron fence was a bumpy and uneven muddy ground, and there were small and vulgar mountain flowers.
There was no smog, and the sky was polluted by the light. A few scattered stars were scattered in the sky. The wind was filled with the fresh and green smell of wild grass, which was stained with dust. The mountains were covered with wild grass, and in the distance, he could vaguely see a hazy and artificial light on the top of the mountain. It was not just them. There were also people camping here.
The car had stopped on the side of the road. All the way, the wind had stained him with her smell. After they had left the city, she had been like a wild horse, and the car had followed and had sped up. The wind had made his whole person dry and fresh, and he was also a little afraid. The wind pressure was very strong, and he had to hold her. Her waist was very soft, but it was very slender, and he didn’t dare to use too much force.
He had asked her to slow down, but she had not listened at all.
“Do you like it so much? Are you still holding on?”, she had suddenly said.
He Mu Qing had taken off her helmet and had shaken a handful of her long hair. She seemed to be very happy, and the corners of her lips were curved up, and her eyebrows and eyes were frivolous.
He had let go of his hand, and his face was plain. The corners of his eyes were slightly drooping, and his lips were slightly moving. “Have you decided on the volunteer teaching?”
“Didn’t I ask you to decide for me?”
She had parked the car, and she had jumped down and had stood on her tiptoes. She had opened her arms and had taken a deep breath of the raw and grassy air. The smell of nature was coming from all directions.
It was clearly her own important matter, but she was even more indifferent than him.
“You’re really not soft-hearted when it comes to making things difficult for me.” Su Yu had sighed and had fiddled with his phone. He had sent a message to his family. The one who looked not very happy had not paid any attention to him.
“Is that place far?”
He had raised his head and had gotten back to the point. “How long are you going for?”
“Probably this far.”
He Mu Qing had shown him her phone. There was a map. She had looked at it for a while and had pointed out their current location. Then she had swiped all the way to the north, and it was almost at the bottom. “It’s for a year.”
“This doesn’t look very safe.” He had frowned and was a little hesitant. He had changed the subject and had asked, “Do your uncle and aunt agree?”
“I’ll persuade them. When I wanted to learn to ride a motorcycle back then, my mom said she would break my legs.”
She had said this with great confidence. The night had dyed her light brown eyes a deep color. She had paced around him. “Three points and one line. Life is very anxious. It’s stable, but it’s as if I’ve resigned myself to my fate. I don’t want my life to pass so busily. I want to be indulgent once while I’m young.”
“Actually, I’m not sure if this is right.”
He Mu Qing had turned her head, and her gaze was piercing and was staring at him. “What do you think?”
“Don’t you already have an answer?”, he had asked.
“Yeah. But I want to know what you think…”
There was a long silence. He had shaken his head. The hill under his feet was swept by a long wind. He actually felt a little hot.
“Anyway, I’m not as energetic as you…” he had taken a step back and was standing in the wind. His bangs had been messed up by the wind. “I’ll go and pick you up when you come back.”
“Okay.” She had kicked a stone, and her thoughts had rolled far away. “Su Yu… I can be very patient and wait for you to take the initiative to love someone. I think no one can wait as long as me. I’ve been waiting longer than any of them.”
“So don’t worry about me. Rest assured. I haven’t been moved by anyone in these past few years. So I have to rely on you, right?”
She had restrained her joke, and the smile on her lips was half-happy and half-sad. She had said very seriously, “Anyway, I just don’t listen to you. You didn’t get rid of me back then. Who’s to blame?”
He Mu Qing had lowered her eyes, as if she had made a very distant decision. The overflowing courage had made her kiss him without a care. It was rough and hot, and he had been caught off guard.
The foxtail grass on the side of the road had lowered its head as if it were shy, and it could not bear to see a pair of a man and a woman kissing with a wet and hot look. The insects around them were hissing loudly, and they were noisy and chaotic.
…
A small tent was on the hillside. He Mu Qing had looked at his tense and straight back, and her arms had slowly passed over his neck. He had moved, and he was a little uncomfortable, and his breathing was rushed.
This is a little lewd. That’s what she had thought.
The cramped space was filled with the smell of the two of them. The ambiguous factor was rising in the rising temperature. She had clamped her legs together, and her thoughts were like the warblers flying and the grass growing on a boundless field.
She had an idea. The two of them had also had a little wine before they had entered the tent. A year was not a short time. She had blown a breath in his ear, and she was like a cat, and she was curled up in his ear and was whimpering. Her empty nerves were jumping.
Su Yu had held her somewhat uninhibited hand and had opened the zipper of the tent.
“Stop fooling around.”
“A year. Are you heartless?”, she had said with a lustful and sandy voice, and her normal tone was also with a coquettish and soft look. “You teach me… hmm?”
“A year is very fast.”
“Oh, I see. You’ll agree to me after a year?”
She had chuckled, and before Su Yu could refute, she had kissed a red mark on his neck.
“It’s a deal.”
