Chapter 48: The Grown-up River Embankment (1) Flying Warehouse Web

  Two people stuck together at this moment. Lin Xiaoyu felt Li Jingru's soft and boneless body colliding with her own chest, but physically, Lin Xiaoyu didn't feel any impact, however, in her heart, it was as if a huge stone had fallen onto the calm surface, stirring up wave after wave of ripples. The tender buds on Li Jingru's chest were pressed against Lin Xiaoyu's, and the familiar fragrance from her body also wafted into Lin Xiaoyu's nostrils. At this moment, Lin Xiaoyu felt reluctant to release her hands that were wrapped around Li Jingru's slender waist. Lin Xiaoyu felt that holding Li Jingru like this made her suddenly feel like she didn't need anything else anymore.

  Li Jing felt a mix of emotions as she accidentally bumped into Lin Xiaoyu's chest. It was the first time they had been so close since growing up. Li Jing clearly felt her own rapidly developing breasts bumping against Lin Xiaoyu's broad and sturdy chest, and her sensitive nipples immediately sensed an unusual feeling from the friction with Lin Xiaoyu's chest. Additionally, Lin Xiaoyu's arms wrapped around Li Jing's slender waist made her almost tense up to the point of forgetting to breathe.

  The girl's reserve made Li Jingru feel a bit embarrassed in such a posture, but Li Jingru felt a great sense of happiness filling her heart, filling her small room to the brim. Thinking that she and Xiaoyu could be together forever, Li Jingru wanted to slowly lean her head on Xiaoyu's shoulder, whispering in his ear about her feelings of love for him, but Li Jingru didn't have the courage to do so, even if it meant just leaning her head a little closer to Xiaoyu.

  Two young figures tightly hugged each other in the sunset, only because of an unexpected event that both parties did not anticipate. The sunset merged their shadows into a single entity printed on the ground, where no one could find the dividing line belonging to their bodies. After a long time, or perhaps just a moment, the two figures separated in the sunset, and the owners of the figures also walked forward silently like the shadows left by the sunset on the ground.

  Li Jingru walked up the stone steps again, with Lin Xiaoyu still carrying Li Jingru's school bag by her side. Neither of them spoke a word, nor did they dare to look at each other. The setting sun in front of them was casting its afterglow, stretching their shadows out long and thin.

  The sunset printed one figure on the road surface and another figure on the stone steps beside the road.

  Two figures always lean against each other, yet cannot merge into one. Like that small road and the stone steps. No matter if the road is straight or winding, the stone steps will never intersect or connect with the road. However, no matter where the road extends to, the stone steps will silently accompany the road's side...Regardless of wind and rain...

  On the corner of the small path, Lin Xiaoyu and Li Jingru were standing sideways against the sunset, their two shadows merged into one by the sunset, clearly imprinted on the lawn behind the stone steps...

  On a weekend morning, Li Jingru went into Lin Xiaoyu's room and woke her up. In Li Jingru's hand was an additional beautiful kite.

  Lin Xiaoyu rode Li Jingru's light yellow bicycle, with Li Jingru sitting on the back rack. The gentle breeze slowly blew through Li Jingru's hair and skirt hem. The streamer of the kite in Li Jingru's hand was also blown straight by the wind, floating backwards...

  Li Jingru quietly pressed her face against Lin Xiaoyu's back, and the scent she smelled from Lin Xiaoyu made Li Jingru's small face a little hot. But in this dawn, no one could find that the red glow on Li Jingru's face, illuminated by the morning sun, was due to her shyness.

  Yesterday, she accidentally fell into Lin Xiaoyu's arms, and the feeling that made Li Jingru's heart beat faster kept replaying in her mind over and over again when she closed her eyes at night. It was hard for Li Jingru to fall asleep, so she made a kite under the desk lamp. Li Jingru hadn't flown a kite with Lin Xiaoyu on the embankment of Yudai River for a long time, remembering that the last time they flew a kite was in their first year of junior high school, and now they were both high school students. Three years, time really flies.

  The taste on the river embankment is still so familiar, the green grass with wildflowers is the breath of the river embankment, and the slow flowing water of the Jade Ribbon River and the occasional insect calls and bird songs are the accompaniment to the Jade Ribbon River. Li Jingru gently adjusted her small straw hat that had been blown askew by the wind, turned around to look at the little dog Beibei running behind her bicycle, and felt that there was no time more relaxing than this moment.

  The car stopped on the ground of Yudai River, and the tall kapok tree still didn't show any changes, but Li Jingru knew that those lush leaves on the trees were all new, only the straight trunk was their familiar old friend.

  The morning glow turned into its own golden coat on the surface of the Jade Belt River, and that dazzling layer of glittering gold light covered the river water like jade. Li Jingru hugged Beibei, who had run to her side, and slowly walked down the slope of the riverbank, which was as green as a carpet, while Lin Xiaoyu rode her bike, shouting and rushing down the slope.

  Li Jingru laid the kite flat on the grass and pulled out a pen from her pocket, letting Lin Xiaoyu come over to write down his own wish.

  Lin Xiaoyu no longer writes those naive and sincere wishes on the kite like when she was a child. Lin Xiaoyu held her pen, thought for a moment, and then wrote a sentence on this butterfly-shaped kite: "Let my youth shine with the brilliance I yearn for." Lin Xiaoyu's handwriting is no longer crooked and twisted as it used to be. Although Lin Xiaoyu's handwriting can't be considered beautiful now, her penmanship is neat and every word has power.

  Li Jingru took a glance at Lin Xiaoyu and took the pen from her hand, writing "Wishing you eternal happiness" next to the sentence Lin Xiaoyu had written.

  "How come it's still this sentence." Lin Xiaoyu remembered that every time Li Jingru wrote was this sentence, but Lin Xiaoyu only now knew that being forever happy wasn't a simple wish.

  Li Jingru smiled and looked at her, but didn't answer Lin Xiaoyu's question. Instead, she picked up the kite and beckoned to Lin Xiaoyu: "Come on, let's fly our wishes together."

  The kite was quickly released, and now Li Jingru and Lin Xiaoyu had less of the childish bickering and arguing, and more silence.

  Li Jingru stared blankly at the kite fluttering in the sky, Li Jingru hoped that her wish written on the kite could come true. Last night when making the kite, Li Jingru secretly wrote a wish of hers, also a small secret, in the center of this butterfly kite. The words hidden deep within the butterfly kite's heart were "to be with Xiaoyu together forever".

  Secure the kite to the ground, Lin Xiaoyu pulled Li Jingru's hand and took her under the tall kapok tree, pointing to the high branches of the kapok tree: "Xiaoru, let's go up the tree to enjoy the view, you've never been there before, it's especially beautiful."

  "But I won't climb trees." Li Jingru really wanted to try and see what the view was like from the kapok tree, but gentle Li Jingru was a girl who had never climbed a tree before.

  "It's okay, we've all grown taller now. I'll hold you up and you can climb up." Lin Xiaoyu encouraged from the side.

  Li Jingru finally climbed onto the branch of the tree trunk under Lin Xiaoyu's guidance. When Li Jingru stood up on the branch, Lin Xiaoyu, who was standing under the tree, inadvertently saw Li Jingru's slender white legs and a small white skirt above her thighs. Lin Xiaoyu, already in puberty, felt his face suddenly burning as if it had been roasted by fire.

  "Wow, you can see really far from here. Xiao Yu, hurry up and come on up!" Li Jingru called out to Lin Xiaoyu as she stood in the tree.

  "En... ...good... ...alright... ..." Lin Xiaoyu felt that she was speaking a bit awkwardly now, and the scene of Li Jingru's skirt just now made Lin Xiaoyu feel a little embarrassed. Lin Xiaoyu didn't dare to raise her head again to look at Li Jingru's unintentionally revealed spring light, and quickly climbed up the kapok tree.

  The kapok tree was very tall, but with two people standing on the branches, it felt a bit crowded. Lin Xiaoyu and Li Jingru were tightly pressed together. In Lin Xiaoyu's mind, she couldn't stop thinking about Li Jingru's smooth and slender legs and the flash of white under her skirt earlier. Lin Xiaoyu tried to shake off the image, but couldn't. Now, with Li Jingru right next to her, even holding onto her arm because she was afraid of heights, Lin Xiaoyu felt extremely tense on the tree. Yet, at the same time, she thought it was wonderful being so close to Li Jingru, feeling an indescribable sensation.

  Li Jingru leaned tightly against Lin Xiaoyu's side, and at first Li Jingru felt a bit nervous standing on such a tall tree, so she reached out to hold onto Lin Xiaoyu's arm. The view from the top of the tree was completely different from the one below. The distant mountains that had been blurry before were now clearly visible, even the corners of their peaks could be seen, and the Jade Belt River that shone with a golden light seemed to have become more winding, as if its source was at the end of the world.

  Li Jingru, on the tree, listened to the wind blowing the leaves with a "rustling" sound at such a close distance for the first time. It was as if the leaves wanted to tell her some stories in her ear, making Li Jingru feel very magical. Not far away, on the grassland, Beibei, the little dog, was chasing after something that might be a butterfly or a bee, running around on the grassland with its tail wagging, sometimes rolling over on the soft grass, looking extremely cute.

  Slowly, Li Jingru's tense feeling disappeared, and she was completely enchanted by the scenery on the tree. However, Li Jingru did not let go of her hand around Lin Xiaoyu, Li Jingru felt that holding Lin Xiaoyu like this, leaning against his side to watch the scenery, was even more wonderful. How much Li Jingru wished time could stop at this moment...

  I'm going somewhere to relax for a while, not sure when I'll be back, maybe in a month if it's fun. If I run out of money, I'll come back haha. But don't worry, I've asked someone to help me update so you can still expect new posts hehe