Just in Time Chapter 79
Translated by Sylver (ko-fi)
Chapter 79 Hotel
It was Yi Chenliang’s first time on a high-speed train, especially with Yun Fang by his side. Everything was arranged clearly for him, and all he had to do was enjoy the excitement.
He sat in his seat eating breakfast, took a big bite of bread, and leaned against the window to look outside, only to feel dizzy.
Yun Fang pulled him back by his collar, handed him the opened milk, and said, “Eat properly.”
After taking a sip of milk, Yi Chenliang said to him, “If I had known we could have breakfast on the train, I wouldn’t have made it for you.”
Leaning back in his seat, Yun Fang smiled at him, “It’s not often that my boyfriend makes breakfast for me.”
Yi Chenliang found his smile somewhat sly and couldn’t help but bite the straw, “Then from now on, I’ll make you fried eggs and instant noodles every day.”
Yun Fang helped him remove the mask stuck on his chin, “Never mind, one of your fried eggs was too salty and the other was tasteless.”
“Darn.” Yi Chenliang suddenly remembered, “I forgot to put salt in the second one! Why did you eat it all?”
Yun Fang thought for a moment, “Maybe because I wanted to score a hundred percent.”
“F*ck.” Yi Chenliang cursed with a laugh.
The journey of more than two hours was not short. Yi Chenliang had a habit of sleeping on a moving vehicle. After finishing breakfast, he started to feel sleepy. Suddenly, he thought of the shop, “Will Sister Zhao be too busy when I’m gone?”
“I asked Huang Chu to help and hire a temporary worker.” Yun Fang pressed his head to lean on his shoulder, “Sleep.”
Finally, Yi Chenliang closed his eyes in relief and fell asleep on his shoulder.
Yun Fang saw a bit of bread crumbs on the corner of his mouth out of the corner of his eye, reached out to wipe it off for him, then leaned back in his seat with his arms crossed and closed his eyes.
****
“Where did he go? Why isn’t he home?” Chu Xia sat in the car, anxiously clenching her hands, “Did something happen to him? Or did he know I was coming and deliberately hid from me? Will he come back?”
As Chu Xia spoke, tears flowed out, ruining the delicate makeup on her face. She anxiously pinched her fingers back and forth, “Zhou Ang, hurry up, hurry up and send someone out to look for him!”
“Mom, calm down.” Su Qingbai handed her a handkerchief.
Chu Xia slapped his hand away, and the handkerchief fell onto the car seat.
“Your brother is missing! How can you ask me to calm down!” Chu Xia turned her head to stare at him, “Didn’t you tell me he would definitely be at home? Why is he missing? Did your father say something to you! Does your father not want to acknowledge him!?”
“No.” Su Qingbai frowned, “He might have gone out to play with his classmates, we can come back another day.”
“You’re all lying to me!” Chu Xia cried out sharply, “When your brother was born, I had a difficult labor and lost a lot of blood, you didn’t even let me see him and took him away!! I’ve been looking for him for sixteen years! I haven’t even seen his face–why won’t you let me see him! Why!!!”
Chu Xia accused them in a fit of rage, she grabbed Su Qingbai’s arm tightly, her long nails digging into his flesh, leaving a sharp pain.
“Mom! Calm down!” Su Qingbai held her tightly and said in a deep voice, “Uncle Zhou, go to the hospital immediately!”
“There’s not a single good person in your Su family! You’re all cold-hearted bastards! He’s my own son! Flesh of my flesh!” Chu Xia cried out heartbreakingly, constantly calling out a name, “Su Shengwen! Su Shengwen!! Su Shengwen, give me back my son!!”
“Mom!” Seeing her about to pass out, Su Qingbai yelled, “Can you calm down! If my brother sees you like this, will he dare to acknowledge you!”
Chu Xia’s sharp and crazy emotions suddenly stopped, she looked at him with tear-stained face, and after a while, she recognized him with a hoarse voice, “Qingbai…”
“Mom, don’t be like this.” Su Qingbai swallowed the bitterness in his throat, held her tightly, and stroked her hair to soothe her, “In a few days, I will definitely bring my brother home to see you.”
Su Qingbai said softly, “Don’t be like this.”
Chu Xia, who had come to her senses, whimpered in pain, “I’m sorry, Qingbai, I’m sorry, Mom didn’t mean it, I’m sorry…”
Su Qingbai gently patted her back and said to Zhou Ang, “Uncle Zhou, drive faster.”
Zhou Ang sighed silently and stepped on the gas.
Chu Xia was quiet for a while, then suddenly grabbed Su Qingbai, “Where is Su Shengwen? Where is Su Shengwen? Did he take your brother away? Give me your phone, I want to call Su Shengwen!”
“Madam, Mr. Su has gone to Beijing for a meeting.” Zhou Ang said.
“A meeting! A meeting! He’s always in meetings!” Chu Xia snatched Su Qingbai’s phone, tremblingly dialed the number she had memorized by heart, and after dialing four digits, her fingers suddenly stopped.
She couldn’t remember.
She couldn’t remember Su Shengwen’s phone number.
Tears streamed down Chu Xia’s face, she held the phone, her eyes empty as she looked at Su Qingbai, “Qingbai, I can’t remember your father’s number.”
Su Qingbai took the phone she was holding, quickly dialed Su Shengwen’s number, forced himself to look at Chu Xia, and gave her a gentle smile, “It’s okay, Mom, it’s just some side effects of the medication, you’ll remember when you get better.”
His voice was especially clear in the busy tone of the phone, carrying a certainty that he had forced himself to uphold, “Mom, you will get better.”
But the call he dialed, no one answered from beginning to end.
****
Yun Fang patted Yi Chenliang’s face and whispered, “Xiao Yi, we’re here.”
Before Yi Chenliang even opened his eyes, he first grabbed Yun Fang’s hand.
Yun Fang gently scratched his palm, “Wake up.”
Yi Chenliang opened his eyes and yawned, stretched lazily in his seat, stood up with his backpack, and joined Yun Fang in the flow of people exiting the train.
The hotel Yun Fang booked was right next to the school. He checked in with Yi Chenliang, their room was on the fifth floor. Yun Fang opened the door and habitually checked it all over, only to see Yi Chenliang standing speechlessly at the door.
For a moment, Yi Chenliang thought he had crossed into some spy thriller movie, the whole room was filled with unknown dangers.
Yun Fang: “…I’m used to it.”
Yi Chenliang threw his backpack onto the chair, and said gloomily, “I really didn’t expect you to dismantle someone’s air conditioning vent and socket in two moves.”
Yun Fang slowly put them back.
“But it’s really super cool.” Yi Chenliang suddenly rolled around on the big bed, kicked off his shoes, lay on the bed pulling at his coat, “Aren’t you hot?”
Yun Fang took it off and threw it on the bed, “It’s okay, what do you want for lunch?”
“Eat meat.” Yi Chenliang lay on his back on the bed watching him, his head hanging off the edge of the bed, his neck and throat all exposed under Yun Fang’s eyelids, but he was completely unaware.
Yun Fang bent down and used his hand to support Yi Chenliang's head, pushing him up and educating him, "Not afraid of breaking your neck."
Yi Chenliang leaned against him, refusing to sit up, saying, "I'm fine, I'm just a lump of cotton candy now."
Yun Fang heard "cotton candy" for the first time in the context of being "lumpy," and he thought, "I think you're trying to drive the language teacher crazy."
The soft lump of cotton candy stuck to Yi Chenliang's body and refused to get up. Yun Fang didn't want to use too much force, so he eventually gave up and lay down on the bed with him.
They became two large, soft lumps of cotton candy.
Yi Chenliang's legs were on his stomach, and Yun Fang asked, "Aren't you going to prepare for the exam?"
"It starts at 2:30, I'll be at the examination room by 2:00," Yun Fang looked at his watch, which was only 11:30.
"Will all this back and forth running affect your grades?" Yi Chenliang showed some concern.
"Unlikely," Yun Fang grasped Yi Chenliang's ankle, which was slender and slightly rough to the touch. He unconsciously rubbed the outer ankle joint, saying, "When I have time, I'll teach you two moves. Seven or eight ordinary people won't be able to catch you, too weak."
Yi Chenliang felt that he was being despised, but he couldn’t resist the allure of Yun Fang’s skills. He considered himself to have been in quite a few fights and thought his skills were decent. However, Yun Fang knocked him down with just two moves.
Unfortunately, Yun Fang hardly ever laid a hand on him afterwards. He thought they were fighting, but in reality, Yun Fang was just humoring him and playing along.
As soon as Yi Chenliang heard that he was going to teach him, he became enthusiastic and "rubbed" himself up from the bed. His eyes lit up and he said, "Really?"
Yun Fang pressed his hand against his forehead and pushed him back down on the bed, “Even if I teach you, you’re not allowed to pick fights with others. It can only be used for self-defense.”
“I know!” Yi Chenliang pounced on him, caught him and kissed him, pressing him down and vowing, “I want to become as powerful as you in the future!”
Yun Fang smeared his face perfunctorily, “Then you work hard.”
Yi Chenliang, who was determined to become powerful, hadn’t learned a single move yet. He first gnawed a plate of ribs, was pressed by Yun Fang to eat half a plate of vegetables, and was so full that he sprawled on the chair rubbing his stomach.
“Don’t open the door to strangers casually, and don’t let the waiter in.” Yun Fang instructed him when he was leaving, “If you’re bored, just watch TV for a while, don’t run around.”
Yi Chenliang lazily waved at him, “Good luck with your exam.”
Yun Fang had just left the hotel with his backpack when his phone rang.
The number displayed on the incoming call was somewhat familiar. He answered it and heard a somewhat familiar voice.
“Hello, Yun Fang, this is Su Qingbai.” The person on the other end was very polite and courteous, “I want to ask, is Yi Chenliang with you now?”
“What’s the matter?” Yun Fang wasn’t so polite to him.
“It’s like this, my mother wants to see him, but Yi Chenliang’s phone has been showing that it’s turned off, we are all very worried about him.” Su Qingbai said, “Is it convenient for him to answer the phone?”
“Not convenient.” Yun Fang’s voice cooled down.
Su Qingbai was choked by his straightforwardness, but still reasoned with him politely, “No matter what, I am Yi Chenliang’s biological brother, I won’t do anything to hurt him. My mother’s current state is very bad, she really misses Yi Chenliang.”
“It has nothing to do with me.” Yun Fang said in a deep voice, “You all better stay away from him.”