Chapter 40 Chapter 40 (2/2)

He answered Song Qinglan’s teasing, “No thanks, I don’t want to go to jail.”

Song Qinglan had expected this response. He stopped joking and instead replied, “The captain’s annual salary is pretty good, and I also made some investments.”

The car drove out of the parking lot, leaving Tianqiong.

Passing by a barrier on the road, Song Qinglan glanced at Ji Yushi who was squinting his eyes in the sun, looking a little lazy.

The morning sun wasn’t too harsh. Ji Yushi allowed it to fall onto him as he watched the busy Jiang City streets pass by.

He was very quiet. Probably because the medicine had taken effect, he looked much better than before and clearer minded. That group of people who always got in the way wasn’t around so Song Qinglan wanted to use this chance to ask Ji Yushi about the matter earlier, but he was once again interrupted by a phone call.

It was Ji Yushi’s.

Ji Yushi had only just received his phone and hadn’t had the chance to call home. The people at home had probably just been notified.

He glanced at the caller ID and his brows furrowed slightly before loosening, “Hello?”

Who was it?

Song Qinglan looked ahead.

Ji Minyue took in a deep breath as soon as he heard his voice, “You’re finally back. I thought you really went missing and almost killed myself in apology in front of the old man. Actually, he would be the one killing me.”

Ji Yushi’s tone was also relaxed, “Too bloody.”

Ji Minyue, “Classmate Xiao Ji, don’t be like that. Old Ji would really do something like that for you. After so many years, except for the time when he beat me, he never mentioned anything about me helping you join Tianqiong but I was almost scolded to death by him during the past month. If you didn’t return, I would really die in Ning City. When the old lady tried to help me, he gets even more angry.”

Ji Yushi said, “You should let him win sometimes. Don’t always compete for favour with him.”

Let him win? Compete for favour?

Song Qinglan: “……….”

Song Qinglan was someone who didn’t like to butt into other people’s private matters. He just wanted to focus on driving.

It was fine when the car was moving, but they happened to be at a large intersection with a red light lasting 120 seconds.

Song Qinglan pressed against his temple with one hand and his finger on the steering wheel tapped one after the other as he counted down the seconds.

Ji Minyue briefly talked about a bunch of things happening at home before he asked the question he had been holding back the entire time, “What time is your ticket?”

Ji Yushi said, “Two.”

Ji Minyue calculated it, “Then it should be past four when you get home. You’re resting at home today and coming back tomorrow? I’m afraid that if you come back today, they would nag at you.”

Ji Yushi: “Okay.”

“Alright.” Ji Minyue said, “It’s settled then. I’m going to school tonight, there’s a party. I will send your cat back along the way.”

Ji Yushi missed his cats.

When he left, he didn’t actually bring his cats to the Ning City branch to be fed by his colleagues and instead sent them to Ji Minyue. After leaving for a month, he didn’t know if those little masters missed him. He guessed that they probably did.

There was nothing more relaxing in the world than petting a cat. Just the thought of it made the corners of Ji Yushi’s lips rise a little.

He asked his older brother, “Then what time will you come?”

The light turned green.

Song Qinglan drove out again and turned left to merge into the new traffic.

Ji Minyue said, “Before seven probably.”

Ji Yushi asked, “Bathed?”

“Knowing that you came back today, your sister-in-law brought them to be washed yesterday.” How could Ji Minyue not know him? “Clean freak.”

Ji Yushi was satisfied, “Okay, then I’ll wait for you.”

He then hung up.

Somehow, Ji Yushi felt that the car was strangely silent.

Thinking that he had probably talked too long on the phone with his family, he felt a little apologetic, “Sorry Cap Song for talking on the phone in the car.”

Song Qinglan’s handsome side profile was a little stiff.

Ji Yushi was far beyond what he could imagine. Was only Ji Yushi like this, or was it the same for all of them?

“It’s okay.” He couldn’t hold back and asked, “Advisor Ji, you…..that, how many?”

Cats?

Ji Yushi answered, “Three.”

Song Qinglan, “……..”

He already knew what Ji Yushi’s orientation was. When they were inside the kiosk, Ji Yushi even said that he would go to gay bars. A person’s ability and their private life were two separate matters. Song Qinglan knew that while he appreciated Ji Yushi’s abilities, it didn’t mean that he could comment on his private life.

But what was going on with this irritation inside him?

He didn’t want Ji Yushi to have this kind of view on relationships. He didn’t want Ji Yushi…..to date so early on.

Humans should be a little ambitious and focus on their careers first.

When they reached their destination, Song Qinglan stopped the car and continued the previous topic: “Advisor Ji.”

But unexpectedly, when he turned his head over, Ji Yushi just happened to be looking at him.

Those moist almond shaped eyes with slightly raised corners seemed to be very focused. The moment Song Qinglan turned to look over, Ji Yushi moved his line of sight elsewhere, as if nothing had happened.

Song Qinglan’s heart leapt.

That warm and strange feeling came again.

It couldn’t be that because he was about to leave and separation was imminent, Advisor Ji suddenly changed his mind and was interested in their proposal of joining the seventh squad but was too embarrassed to say it?

Song Qinglan’s palms were sticky. It had sweated a little.

Putting those personal life matters aside, he recovered his usual tone and started talking, “Earlier, you asked if I remembered who transferred you over. What did that mean?”