Chapter 55 – What to do when it rains

Last night he had a dream.

I dreamt that I had travelled back a thousand years, without a mobile phone or a computer, and was taken in by a girl from a large family, 16 years old and a pavilion.

With nothing left but his literary talent to show off, Shen Yu promised Rika that he would come back and marry her after he had achieved his degree.

“I will come back to marry you after I get my exams”

“Have a safe journey, Mr. Shen”

“I don’t know your name yet?”

At that, the girl looked shy and whispered down, “You can call me Rika …”

Then Shen Yu woke up with a start.

When I woke up, I felt dizzy and I didn’t know what was wrong with me lately, I kept having strange and bizarre dreams.

Feeling a little hard to breathe, Shen Yu lifted Bai Xiaomeng, who was sleeping soundly around his neck, away from him.

After an afternoon of shopping in Zhou Zhuang yesterday, I woke up at dawn and felt my muscles tingling after sleeping in the same position for a long time, so I stretched and pulled on my loose, stiff arms and legs and they made a clicking sound.

Shen Yu cranes his neck, yawns and pulls back the curtains to brighten up the room.

In the past, the room was bright at this time of day, even without the curtains drawn, but now it was raining outside and the sky was a little overcast.

Shen Yu picked up her phone and turned it off, rolled out of bed and opened the door to get ready for washing up.

Asaba Rika was not waiting for him in the living room today, so Shen Yu was curious and came out to see if she was watching the rain from the balcony.

Hearing the movement, Asaba Rika looked back at him and said with a smile, ” Shen Yu, good morning!”

“Hmm.”

Shen Yu went to wash up and ten minutes later, with her school bag and umbrella, the two of them were ready to go out.

It was raining outside, making Sunan a little cooler in September, and the wind was a little sticky on my face.

Shen Yu looked up at the grey and dreary sky as the rain fell from high above, smashing out in small puddles on the ground.

Asaba Rika also followed and looked up at the sky, saying with some distress, “I’ll get wet clothes in school, right ……”

“Did you bring your umbrella?” Shen Yu asked.

“Uh-huh!” Asaba Rika takes a navy blue folding umbrella out of her bag.

Seeing that Shen Yu’s hands were empty, she said, “But my umbrella is a bit small, so if we squeeze it in, we should be fine.”

“There’s no need to squeeze. I’ve got a big umbrella, you can just cover yourself.”

Shen Yu walks to the door and pulls out a large grey umbrella from the corner of the door shaft, unbuckles it, and with the push of a switch, it opens with a bang like a flower, more than twice the size of Asaba Rika’s small umbrella.

Asaba Rika : “……”

Shen Yu was amused to see her look so devastated, thinking that a small umbrella like hers would be more than enough to protect her from the sun.

The rain was not very heavy and the patter was a little annoying.

Shen Yu did not have a mackintosh and wanted to ride his electric bike to school because his umbrella was so big that he had no problem at all riding with one hand and one hand.

The point is that Asaba Rika doesn’t know how to get from home to school, and if she rides in the back of the motorbike, she’ll be drenched.

“Let’s go.”

Shen Yu had to take her with her on foot, so that she could learn how to read the road while she was there.

After walking her for a few hundred metres in rainy conditions, Shen Yu gave up on teaching her how to read directions.

Asaba Rika is relieved to be following Shen Yu’s footsteps, and leaves the route recognition to muscle memory.

Shen Yu glanced back at her, and Asaba Rika’s umbrella was also distinctive.

The adults hold their umbrellas with one hand up so that the handle is vertical.

Asaba Rika, on the other hand, holds the umbrella handle with two small hands and carries the umbrella with the handle leaning on her shoulder.

Shen Yu wanted to talk about her, but he didn’t know what to say. Although he didn’t know what the correct posture for holding an umbrella was, Rika was going to get wet.

Rika’s umbrella was small enough to cover herself, and every now and then when a breeze blew, the rain fell on the skin of her arms and legs, and she liked the cool feeling.

Like a little child who has not grown up, sometimes when the rain is a little heavier and the water on the fan converges into streaks and runs down the bones, she sneaks a turn and has great fun watching the water droplets fly out along the tangent lines.

“You’re splashing me.”

“Ah, sorry!”

Asaba Rika hastily apologised and meekly held the umbrella, not daring to move.

” Does Shen Yu like the rain?” She asked softly from behind.

“What’s so good about rain, it’s wet.” Shen Yu led the way with his umbrella in front of him, the raindrops falling onto the fan with a striking sound.

“I really like the rain.”

Asaba Rika said, “It feels like the rain is very clean and can wash away a lot of things, the dust, the stuffiness, and the unhappiness.”

Shen Yu did not say anything, lifting his hand somewhat casually, letting the raindrops fall onto it, then pulling it back and flicking his fingers dry.

“Isn’t it nice to have a sunny day?”

“I like sunny days too!”

Asaba Rika said, “Every morning the sun shines in my room and then it’s bright, so I know it’s a sunny day and I’m in a good mood, so I wake up on my own without the alarm clock going off. …”

“Isn’t there any weather you don’t like?”

“Yes, I don’t like cold and cloudy winters, it feels like the whole sky is grey and it’s also very, very cold, and when I go to bed at night, it feels like my feet are cold until dawn. But if the sun comes out in the winter, it doesn’t feel cold, and last winter I went to Tokyo with my father to see the cherry blossoms, and it was snowing that day too, so the cherry blossoms were especially nice, like snowflakes ……”

She jabbered on about such trivialities, not caring whether Shen Yu was listening or not, and just talked after his ass.

“So, what kind of weather does Shen Yu like?”

“I like the gloomy winters.”

“Don’t want to talk to you!”

“I don’t want to talk to you either.”

While waiting for the traffic lights, Shen Yu stopped and Asaba Rika, who was not looking at the road, ran headlong into his back.

Shen Yu : “……”

He understands why Asaba Rika’s road rage is so severe, this guy doesn’t even look around when he walks.

“I did watch it! I just didn’t watch it with Shen Yu walking in front of me ……”

“So it’s still a problem for me?”

“I’ll be careful next time lah ……”

……

Shen Yu sat with Ke Liangji and Zhao Yage in both morning sessions. They had basically stayed in their dormitory yesterday to work on their code, and when Shen Yu arrived, he caught him asking questions.

“That’s it, huh? I thought how complicated this module was!”

“I’ll have this part done by tonight at the latest ……”

After the questions, Ke Liangji gossiped again, “Where did you go with your cousin yesterday? The tech fair?”

Zhao Yage gives Ke Liangji a look that says ‘I understand everything, but you’re still in the dark’, and the idiot still thinks Shen Yu and Asaba Rika are cousins.

“Went to Zhou Zhuang and spent half a day shopping.”

“No way! I can’t believe you’d go to a place like this! Is it interesting? I heard the tech fair had quite a few novelties yesterday ……”

“Some other time, class is over, let’s go.”

Shen Yu didn’t want to talk to him, otherwise the more he listened the more he was tickled and the more he regretted not going yesterday.

Zhao Yage didn’t want to talk to Ke Liangji either, after all, there was a huge information gap between the two.

“Hey, Brother Duck, don’t go, tell me what you know. I feel like you two are hiding something from me!”

“Everything happens for a reason, and it doesn’t make much sense for you to know.”

“What is it? No one told me what happened?”

Ke Liangji Feeling very tired, it’s true that the relationship has faded ……