Chapter 98 (1/2)
Chapter 98 Misunderstanding That Can’t Be Cleared!
Lying in bed, Fang Qiu couldn’t fall asleep but dared not speak.
Likewise,
Jiang Mengjie remained silent, lying on her side. It was pitch black but she gazed at Fang Qiu’s direction.
The pair didn’t sleep.
The night went by slowly.
A quiet night.
An eventless night.
The next morning.
“Awake?”
At daybreak, Fang Qiu saw Jiang Mengjie lying in bed with eyes open.
“Emm… I think my body misses my own bed so I wake up early.”
Said Jiang Mengjie, nodding her head.
“What about getting up to do some exercise?”
Asked Fang Qiu.
“Sure.”
Jiang Mengjie nodded with a smile.
The pair got up and left the hotel.
They began jogging on the track by the Central Lake of the university.
“I’m leaving today.”
Said Jiang Mengjie abruptly.
Fang Qiu was quiet for a while before asking, “What time is your train?”
“It would be time after breakfast.”
Jiang Mengjie replied.
“I’ll see you off.”
Said Fang Qiu.
“Of course. Otherwise you would let me, a girl, leaving alone?”
Jiang Mengjie laughed.
After two laps of jogging,
Fang Qiu and Jiang Mengjie stopped. They entered the cafeteria while talking.
After breakfast, it was 7:30 in the morning.
Jiang Mengjie’s ticket was for the 8:30 service.
Fang Qiu took a taxi to the high-speed railway station with Jiang Mengjie.
“Do you hate to part with me?”
After getting her ticket in the high-speed railway station, Jiang Mengjie asked Fang Qiu with a smile.
“You are leaving anyway no matter whether I hate to part with you or not.”
Fang Qiu laughed.
“Give me a hug.”
Jiang Mengjie opened her arms and said with a smile, “I’m boarding.”
Fang Qiu didn’t say anything.
He walked up and hugged Jiang Mengjie.
Jiang Mengjie with a sweet smiled leaned to Fang Qiu’s shoulder and whispered to his left ear, “We’ll see each other soon.”
After,
She let go her arms and turned around to leave.
In the waiting hall through the glass window, Fang Qiu watched Jiang Mengjie board the train and then turned around to return to school.
“See each other soon?”
Fang Qiu murmured to himself while walking.
He didn’t understand what Jiang Mengjie meant by this.
Would she return after going home?
No way.
The national day holiday would end soon and Jiang Mengjie should go back to school for her classes. She couldn’t come back.
After pondering for a good while,
Fang Qiu still couldn’t figure out. He shook out the thoughts.
Out of the high-speed railway station,
“Dee-dee-dee…”
His mobile suddenly rang in his trouser pocket.
He took out the phone and saw an incoming call from Jiang Miaoyu.
”Hello?”
Fang Qiu answered.
“It’s me.”
Jiang Miaoyu’s voice came through. “I want to ask when Mengjie will leave. I’d like to see her off.”
“She’s already left.”
Answered Fang Qiu.
”ah?”
Jiang Miaoyu was shocked. She asked, “When?”
“Just now. I just watched her board her train.”
Said Fang Qiu.
”Oh!”
Jiang Miaoyu nodded her understanding. After some hesitation, she asked again, “Didn’t you go back to school last night?”
”No.”
Fang Qiu hesitated but told the truth in the end.
It was silence from the other end.
After a long while,
“I have to study now.”
Said Jiang Miaoyu before hanging up.
Hanging up.
Lying in bed, Jiang Miaoyu frowned and felt blocked in the pit of the stomach.
Outside the high-speed railway station,
Fang Qiu put on a wry smile.
He knew Jiang Miaoyu had misunderstood.
He didn’t return to school all night.
It sounded too obvious to her.
Jiang Miaoyu knew he escorted Jiang Mengjie back to her hotel.
What kind of place was that?
A hotel!
He didn’t return to school so he must have stayed in the hotel.
With an empty dorm room in school, Fang Qiu wouldn’t have checked in another room in the hotel. If he didn’t get another room, then he must have slept in Jiang Mengjie’s room.
He knew Jiang Miaoyu had misunderstood and he wanted to explain but he realized he couldn’t clear it.
Why was that?
How to explain?
He could explain but would Jiang Miaoyu understand?
Spending a night with a girl alone… How would any girl think about it?
Fang Qiu looked up into the sky and laughed bitterly.
He decided to leave everything behind.
He must deal with the earth treasure first!
He took a taxi back to school with a wry smile.
“The national day holiday will end soon. I must hurry.”
Back in his dorm, Fang Qiu grabbed his backpack and left again.
Inside his backpack there were a few ganoderma and wild ginsengs.
He planned to sell them to a pharmacy.
People in other places might not know much about it. He had to find a Chinese pharmacy.
Walking out of the school gate, Fang Qiu was busy searching for Chinese pharmacy on his mobile.
Soon,