PART 4
Before the boss could introduce it, Tang Yue repeated it, and then added: “It looks delicious.”
Proprietress: “Don’t you drink?”
The smell of the wine was particularly strong, Tang Yue hesitated, afraid that he would get drunk again and make a fool of himself.
While hesitating, he glanced at Jiang Shulu.
He quickly looked away when Jiang Shulu looked at him.
“What are you doing, flirting?”
“I can’t get enough of these two together.”
“Tang Yue, pull yourself together! Why are you still afraid of him when you have nothing to do with Jiang Shulu!”
“It’s some habits from their time in the group, Tang Yue always looks at Jiang Shulu anyway.”
“No, what misunderstanding do you have about them not being close? I’m a newcomer, I feel this is a two-way rush? You old fans are so unqualified!”
Jiang Shulu: “This won’t get you drunk, drink it.”
Tang Yue smelled it again.
The shop was small, and Yao Lixin’s call came, saying the dishes were ready and asking them to eat.
Tang Yue: “Then I’ll take a bottle for Second Brother.”
Tang Yue wanted to let his child taste anything good, but Little Me was still a child, he sighed: “If only Little Me could grow up to eighteen years old.”
Jiang Shulu: “Let’s go after we eat.”
Tang Yue: “Isn’t that bad?”
Jiang Shulu smiled: “Yao Lixin can buy his own.”
“Too double standard.”
“Does this group really have team spirit?”
Tang Yue hesitated for a long time, finally agreeing, pulling Jiang Shulu to sit on the steps outside, drinking rice wine in the evening breeze.
Jiang Shulu: “You left without a word, did you sell the house in S city?”
Tang Yue shook his head.
Jiang Shulu: “Then Little Me will still go to school in S city?”
The lights of the small village across the river lit up, and the ferry also lit up.
Because the stone steps were narrow, the two sat very close.
The aroma of rice wine floated in the air, seemingly mixed with Jiang Shulu’s scent.
Tang Yue bit the edge of the paper cup, although he could use a spoon, he had a kind of hearty feeling of drinking it all at once.
He hummed: “I don’t know much about other places.”
He bit the paper cup again, his hands on his knees, playing with each other, with a hint of complaint, but he didn’t say it.
Jiang Shulu: “Afraid you’ll be bored alone when Little Me goes to school?”
Tang Yue shook his head: “I’m afraid that one day I’ll be separated from Little Me?”
Jiang Shulu: “Separated?”
“Why?”
Tang Yue shook his head again.
Jiang Shulu looked at the surrounding filming crew, and the staff wisely moved away.
The voices in the live stream became blurred, as if the ambient sound was amplified.
Jiang Shulu: “Are you going to leave again?”
Tang Yue: “I’m not going to leave.”
Jiang Shulu: “Or, is someone forcing you to leave?”
His expression suddenly turned cold, remembering the time after Tang Yue’s car accident, when he asked someone to help this teammate clean up the mess, but the other party said there were many suspicious points.
It was a large-scale chain car accident, although no one died, many were seriously injured.
But strangely, there were no loopholes in every link.
It proved that it was an accidental car accident.
Even Tang Yue’s temporary residence was ransacked, and the landlord was very troubled.
In the end, the landlord handed over those things, saying that Tang Yue had instructed him and would double the storage fee.
Jiang Shulu gave a lot, wanting to ask Tang Yue what happened, but seeing the confused look in his eyes after amnesia, he couldn’t say it.
Nothing special happened later, and the matter was put on hold.
Until Jiang Shulu and Tang Yue reunited, Jiang Shulu truly felt the other’s predicament, and he couldn’t bear to see him suffer, so he tried to make his tone sound casual.
Tang Yue, biting the paper cup, shook his head.
Jiang Shulu took away the paper cup; there were Tang Yue’s teeth marks on the edge.
In the light, the young man’s lips seemed to be coated with rice wine honey water, making others feel restless.
Tang Yue: “Captain, what happened between us…wasn’t intentional, you…”
He paused: “You…can forget it?”
He lowered his eyes, his eyelashes casting a thick shadow under his eyes, almost his trembling heartbeat at this moment.
Tang Yue: “You deserve a more suitable lover.”
Jiang Shulu: “Then look at me and say it.”
Next door was a blacksmith shop, the sound was always noisy, the speakers could hear each other, but the audience couldn’t hear clearly.
It only felt like the atmosphere was tense.
The warmth of the previous second was swept away, as if swords were drawn.
Tang Yue took a deep breath: “Many people like you, your family…”
Jiang Shulu interrupted him, wiping away the sugar residue from Tang Yue’s lips, and said softly—
“Tang Yue, so what you said about liking me before…”
“Was it fake?”
No one could have imagined that such a casually-launched variety show would achieve such high popularity.
It had been broadcast for five days, and many famous scenes had been exposed.
In addition to the children’s parts, it also allowed the audience to experience the scenery of the first stop.
The hashtag #FerryHug was still on the high-ranking search list, cut together with many clips from the past AWAY materials, giving people a sense of time and space crisscrossing, things are impermanent.
The members of AWAY didn’t seem to have changed much.
Yao Lixin could still call Liu Xicháo without restraint to bother him, and he could unexpectedly reveal some past team jokes.
Tang Yue was still the slightly socially anxious youngest member, disliking crowded places, and even daydreaming under the live camera.
Jiang Shulu still looked calm, even with a bit of sharpness from the ups and downs of business, combined with his naturally handsome face, always making people feel apprehensive about looking at him too much.
Tang Yue and Tang Mian’s parent-child relationship was completely shattered in five days.
The child had his own opinions, independent and strong-willed, even complaining that Tang Yue had less energy climbing a mountain at home than he did.
But everyone felt that the atmosphere between Tang Yue and Jiang Shulu was strange.
A few days ago, they could barely hold hands and play around, but something unknown happened in the following days, and Tang Yue’s avoidance was obvious.
Jiang Shulu was fine, his face didn’t change, but it was clear that he often looked for Tang Yue.
Because of this, the official forum of the program was full of guesses.
—Did something happen that night!! After drinking the rice wine, Tang Yue didn’t even eat with Jiang Shulu.
—Didn’t the captain bully the youngest?
—It looks like Tang Yue is cold-shouldering Jiang Shulu again.
—Hahaha, Tang Mian is going crazy, watching the child running around.
Even Yao Lixin asked Tang Yue several times if they had quarreled.
Tang Yue asked back: “Do I look like someone who would quarrel?”
That’s true.
The program team would move to the next location tomorrow, and today was the last day of making bamboo crafts.
Everyone was still busy in the workshop in the afternoon.
There weren’t many fans following them in the first two days, but quite a few came in the past two days, and many people were standing outside the window.
Tang Yue sat at the table making things meticulously, with a sample from the boss in front of him.
The child didn’t have any tasks, he could just do whatever he liked.
But Tang Mian couldn’t stand Tang Yue’s clumsiness, so he sat next to Tang Yue and called out “Dad.”
Tang Yue: “Are you done?”