Chapter Sixteen Everyone Has Their Own Worries

  The New Year's Day of 2010 arrived with a bang, and Jiangcheng No.2 Middle School also welcomed a brief holiday. Su Yisu, Lin Luohan and Jiang Jiaolong had agreed to go to the seaside for fun, under the pretext of investigating the world.

  On a very cold day, the three of them were only wearing thin long skirts, running wildly on the beach. The fierce sea wind blew their hair into disarray. Passersby cast strange glances at them, but they all ignored it. Provoked, Jiang Shu Ling would glare back and shout: "What are you looking at? If you're not satisfied, come join us!" In the end, no one paid attention to them anymore.

  Lin Wan said they were risking their lives to get close to the sea. Jiang Xiao Ling, however, said that this was the only way to kiss the sea breeze.

  Su Yisu said... what could she say, only obediently obeying.

  Jiang Zuo ran to the shallow water area, stepping on the waves one by one along the coastline, coming and going, letting the waves crash against her feet one after another. The icy sea water was a bit piercing, but that feeling was wonderful when she saw it. After playing tiredly, she raised her head and found that those two had already run to the observation deck on the sandy beach, leisurely admiring the scenery. Suddenly angry, she shouted loudly at them: "Su Yisu, Lin Lu, you guys come quickly! What's the point of coming to the seaside if you don't play in the water?"

  Lin Wan looked at her and also shouted: "Forget it, I'm not you, I want both demeanor and temperature."

  "Are you sure sitting there will keep you warm?!!" Jiang Zuo was so angry that he was trembling, and didn't even pick up the shoes he had taken off on the shore. He quickly ran to them with Lin Wan, "Thud thud thud" onto the sightseeing pavilion, pulling at Lin Wan's skirt hem and asking: "Are you sure this thing can really keep you warm?"

  "Sister," Su Yisu said with an innocent face as she shrank into the wooden bench, "it's what you told us to wear."

  "But I didn't let you sit here and blow cold wind!"

  "We'd be happy."

  "I don't want to!" Jiang Zuo said, pulling Su Yisou and Lin Wan down to play in the water. Just then, her phone rang, and she subconsciously reached for her pocket, only to remember that she was wearing a long skirt without pockets. She asked Su Yisou, "Where's my bag?"

  Su Yi lazily pulled out her bag from behind and handed it over to her, "Here."

  The ringing continued, like a harbinger of doom. Jiang Zuo hastily rummaged through his bag and pulled out his phone to glance at the screen, a strange smile suddenly appearing on his face. He glanced at Su Yisu and Lin Wan, then casually tossed the bag into Su Yisu's arms and took off down the stairs of the pavilion with a "thud thud thud".

  Lin Wan and Su Yisu looked puzzled.

  "Hey, there must be some unspeakable secret here, what do you think?" Lin Wan nudged Su Yisu with her elbow, but her eyes were fixed on Jiang Yaolong who had already run far away.

  Su Yisu was also looking at Jiang Zuo, when she heard Lin Wan's words, she couldn't help but turn her head to look at her, and asked dazedly: "Wh... what secret?"

  "It's just... " Lin Wan tried to explain, looking at Su Yi Su's puzzled face, and suddenly couldn't say anything more. "Forget it, you won't understand anyway."

  "You didn't say it, of course I wouldn't understand."

  "Little girl, don't listen to him."

  Jiang Zuo ran to the shore and pressed the answer button, "Hello?"

  "What's going on?" A soft male voice came from the phone.

  "Blowing wind by the sea with Su Yisou and Lin Wan together."

  "It suddenly became tense over there, 'Going to the seaside on such a cold day? Wear more clothes, you know? Don't catch a cold.'"

  "Got it, wearing too much, wrapped up like a rice dumpling."

  "Is it that exaggerated? It doesn't seem that cold, does it?"

  Jiang Zuo covered her mouth and smiled slyly, "Gotcha! Hehehe......"

  "You..."

  "I won't tell you, they'll come find me later."

  "Alright, be careful and watch out for your safety, got it?"

  "I know, I'm not a kid."

  She had just hung up the phone and turned around, only to bump into someone. Jiang Zhanling was startled, but when she saw that it was Lin Wan, she immediately scolded him, "Lin Wan, can't you not scare people like this?"

  "It's clear you have a guilty conscience." Lin Wei sneered at Jiang Yaoyue, continuing, "Tell me, which handsome guy were you talking to on the phone?"

  Jiang Zuo glanced at Bai He and said: "What's with your thinking, must the one on the phone be a handsome guy?"

  Lin Wei pressed in tightly, "If not, why are you hiding from us? And still being so sneaky."

  "I'm doing this for your own good, so you won't say I'm making a racket again." Jiang Zuo said as he walked towards the viewing pavilion, ignoring Lin Wan behind him.

  "Hey," Lin Wan chased after him, "One day I'll find out!"

  Jiang Zuo turned around and glanced at her, shrugging his shoulders indifferently. "Then you can take your time to investigate."

  Watching the two of them finally crawling back into the pavilion, Su Yisuo couldn't help but complain: "You two go and have fun, but I'm stuck here watching your bags for you."

  "Didn't you refuse to go down?" Jiang Zuo said with a bad temper.

  "I...I..." Su Yisu knew she was in the wrong and after a long while, said: "Then you can't just leave me here alone either."

  Jiang Ya picked up her bag and threw Lin Lu's over to her, saying: "Let's go."

  "Where is he going?" Su Yisuo was puzzled again.

  "Return to the hotel, it will be dark soon, do you still want to see the night view?"

  "Don't look, I'm freezing to death." Upon hearing that they were going back, Su Yisuo's whole person was revitalized, she picked up her own bag and headed towards the stairs, "From now on, I'll never go crazy with you again."

  "Hey, didn't we agree to get up early tomorrow to watch the sunrise?"

  Su Yi didn't even turn her head back, "Are you sure this dead weather has a sunrise?"

  "This... let me think for a moment." Jiang Zuo also pulled Lin Wan down from the sightseeing pavilion.

  The three of them still didn't get up to watch the sunrise, having slept too late at night and being too warm in their beds. They overslept beautifully. By the time they woke up, it was already after 9 o'clock. Jiang Zhanling turned over, still hiding under the covers and refusing to get up, yawning while complaining: "Lin Wan, it's all your fault, you kept me chatting last night and I missed the sunrise."

  Lin Wan also turned over and said with a drowsy tone, "Even if you wake up early, it's unlikely that you'll be willing to get out of bed."

  "It's mainly because there was no sunrise..." Jiang Zhe Lin tried to defend himself.

  Su Yisou, who was sleeping on the outside, also moved and rubbed her sleepy eyes, saying: "Want to see the sunrise?"

  "Yes, hurry up." Jiang Zhan said.

  Su Yisu dazedly took out her phone and looked at it, 9:23! Suddenly she exclaimed: "My god, it's already this late. Jiang Shu Ling, you've got me, what are you still looking at the sunrise for?"

  "Mind your own business, it's none of your concern."

  "Hmm..."

  After a lot of fuss, the three people finally returned to school. The journey that took over an hour on the way there seemed to pass in the blink of an eye on the way back.

  "Sister Su, get off the bus." Lin Wan pushed Su Yisu who was sleeping next to her.

  Su Yisuo opened her blurry eyes, "Arrived? Why do I feel like I just got on the bus?"

  "That's because you sleep like a dead pig." Jiang Zhanling picked up her bag, stood up, and sneered while adjusting her clothes.

  "Alright." Su Yisu knew she was in the wrong.

  Back in the dormitory, Su Yisuo was still shouting that she wanted to make up for lost sleep, and calmly crawled into her bed amidst the contempt of the two.

  Lin Wan returned to her dormitory, feeling bored, and also got into bed, took out her mobile phone and saw that there was an unread message on QQ.

  "Xiao Wan, have you come back?"

  Lin Wan smiled to herself and replied, "I just arrived at the dorm."

  "Did you have fun?"

  "It's okay, just got a bit crazy."

  "Hehe, life is always going to be crazy sometimes."

  Lin Wan was speechless and replied: "Oh dear, what you said is as useless as a reed."

  "This is the truth, I don't even have the capital to go crazy."

  "Uncle, you're only 26. So young, yet I have to call you uncle."

  "Compared to you, I'm really old."

  "Cut... Ah, yes, I discovered a secret yesterday."

  "What secret?"

  "Jiang Zuo must have a love interest now! Yesterday she answered the phone and avoided us, her expression was so suspicious!"

  "You've all grown up too, and it's normal to fall in love."

  Lin Xiao slightly pouted, but what others wanted to express was not that... She thought so, but replied: "But you're already this old and still haven't seen you fall in love."

  "You know it."

  "I don't know." Lin Wan rolled her eyes and couldn't help but laugh secretly again.

  The uncle was someone she met online, often acting as a senior but actually being very childish. He's humorous and also cares about her studies, whenever he sees her online, he reminds her to study, sometimes when Lin Wan argues with him, he uses his "uncle" identity to pressure her, which doesn't scare her at all.

  Also, Lin Wan can't say why, but she relies on Uncle a lot. Many times, she will obediently listen to him and study, and when she has troubles, she will tell him about it. She feels that Uncle is like her motivator, giving her reasons to persist when she's tired of studying.

  In the vast sea of people, perhaps this is what they call fate?

  It was rare for the sun to come out at dusk, and Su Yisu excitedly sent a message to Jiang Zuo and Lin Wan: "Let's go for a walk in the stadium!"

  The three had just walked out of the backyard when they ran into Su Yixin coming from the opposite direction. Feeling that something was amiss, Su Yisu hastily hid behind Jiang Zhe and Lin Wei, but forgot that Su Yixin's familiarity with Jiang Zhe and Lin Wei was not just for show, and naturally knew that the three were almost inseparable during their free time. Su Yisu was immediately pulled out by Su Yixin, who was in so much pain that she begged for mercy, "Su Yixin... brother, let me go..."

  "Will this be known to me? Why didn't you hide?"

  "You're holding onto my arm, how can I dodge?" Su Yisuo muttered discontentedly in her heart, but said aloud: "I didn't dodge, I didn't dodge, I just happened to be standing behind them."

  "I say, where did you get so much hatred from? Every time we meet, can't we be calm and peaceful?"

  "You ask her," Su Yixin said with a scowl on her face, clearly very displeased.

  Su Yisu looked bewildered, "I... what's wrong with me?"

  "I asked you, did you tell Mom and Dad that my grades have plummeted?"

  "I'm too lazy to care about you!" Su Yi said bluntly, "Besides, I'm not your teacher, how would I know whether your grades have improved or deteriorated?"