Chapter 241: Xiang Chuan Carried On The Shoulder
The young folks from the two schools didn’t spend too much time admiring the Exploration Force’s spaceships, because they still had to hurry to board the transport ship that had been docked at the exit for a while.
Perhaps because they were too excited after just seeing the Exploration Force’s spaceships, once the excitement faded, the young folks all felt sleepiness surging to their hearts one by one, frequently performing “little chicken pecking rice” on the transport ship.
Xiang Chuan wasn’t much better off either; she tended to get sleepy in the mornings anyway, so she simply leaned directly on the shoulder of the person next to her and fell asleep, catching a whiff of pork buns’ aroma just before drifting off.
The aroma of chopped scallions and pork was truly overpowering. Xiang Chuan thought hazily just before fully entering dreamland.
——
After an unknown amount of time, Xiang Chuan felt someone shaking her shoulder.
“……Chuan…… wake up……”
Without thinking, Xiang Chuan replied directly, “Don’t mess around, let me sleep five more minutes.”
Then she slept even more deeply.
Ainuo, whose shoulder had been used as a pillow for the entire trip by this person, heard this and immediately got upset; he really wanted to shake her until her brain matter was rattled evenly, but the moment he was about to act, he sensed a strong line of sight from behind.
Ouyang Yating standing behind him and Nancy who happened to pass by: You should know what things can be done and what things can’t, right, ahem?
Under the warning gazes of the two childhood friends, Ainuo still chose to withdraw his hand.
But not waking Xiang Chuan wasn’t an option either; seeing that the students in the back row were almost all gone, Ainuo somewhat regretted not waking Xiang Chuan directly when entering the training area, otherwise they wouldn’t be lagging behind now.
Ainuo rubbed his head and let out a heavy sigh. If that’s the case, then just do it directly.
“Yating, hold this for me.”
He tossed the shoulder bag Xiang Chuan had on her to Ouyang Yating, then slid one hand under Xiang Chuan’s back to hug her waist, had her left hand wrap around his neck with the other, and stood up together with her.
Wow——
The students from other classes nearby who hadn’t left yet couldn’t help but exclaim inwardly upon seeing this scene.
They’d seen this kind of scene in Drama Watching Fun and Xiang Xue Live Stream Room’s TV series!
Next, was he going to pick up Xiang Chuan horizontally and perform that… princess carry?
However, the Class 8 members who hadn’t left yet had already guessed the final outcome upon seeing this.
Ainuo supported Xiang Chuan to the aisle, then without hesitation bent down and with one forceful motion hoisted Xiang Chuan horizontally—over his shoulder.
The spectating students from other classes: ……Right, forgot, this brown-haired handsome guy from Class 8 is a fierce man who can’t be gauged by common sense.
The spectating Caida Affiliated High School students: Huh? Why did the plot turn out like this?
Ainuo, the center of attention, didn’t care about these lines of sight at all; he carried Xiang Chuan like a sack of rice all the way toward the transport ship exit, while Ouyang Yating and Nancy followed behind him with expressions of wanting to speak but stopping, then wanting to stop but speaking.
And in Caida Affiliated High School’s area, Sasha wanted to look at Ainuo a few more times, so she deliberately lingered until the end before preparing to leave; her friend An Su Chun stayed with her too, so naturally, the two witnessed everything that happened.
“Sasha, it’s okay. Ainuo Classmate said in the school anniversary interview before that he and this A Bite of China Club’s club president aren’t in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, and he doesn’t intend to date in high school.”
Seeing Sasha’s aggrieved look with her head down and biting her lip, An Su Chun felt very heartbroken and kept comforting her.
“Thanks, Su Chun. I know all that you’re saying.” Sasha let out a light sigh, “But…… but…… seeing him so close to Ouyang Yating and the others, and this Xiang Family’s young miss, hugging and holding so intimately, I still can’t help but feel heartbroken.”
Seeing the teary-eyed look in Sasha’s eyes, An Su Chun let out a light sigh.
Her friend was very clear-headed, but when it came to feelings, how could they be completely rational? Moreover, now because of the previous rumor incident and being publicly rejected by Ainuo, they couldn’t rely on their junior high classmate identity to normally chat and build rapport with Ainuo anymore.
Sasha wordlessly followed the footsteps of the other Class 3 students and left the transport ship with An Su Chun. She also tried to let go, but when she saw Ainuo’s spirited and handsome appearance in the port waiting room that morning, Sasha’s heart still pounded hard a few times.
Such a profound love, how could it be let go so easily?——
Xiang Chuan was jolted awake.
After Ainuo had carried Xiang Chuan over his shoulder for a long stretch, he needed to go up a short flight of stairs, so he went up without hesitation; as he climbed the stairs, he completely ignored Xiang Chuan on his shoulder, and his shoulder blade pressed into her abdomen several times, painfully waking her up.
“What the hell?!” Opening her eyes and seeing the stairs below scared Xiang Chuan fully awake; when she realized she was being carried by Ainuo, her face turned green, “Stop stop stop! Ainuo! Put me down quick, kid! I’m about to puke!”
This wasn’t Xiang Chuan exaggerating; Ainuo’s shoulder blade had hit below her sternum in her abdomen several times, instantly giving her the same eerie pain as when in her previous life she choked on rice while eating porridge and had to do the Heimlich maneuver on herself to induce vomiting.
She remembered eating several buns at the port not long ago; if this guy’s shoulder blade kept poking her stomach, that scene would be something that couldn’t even be described in a web novel for female audiences.
Fortunately, the stairs weren’t long; when Ainuo reached the top, he put her down and said grumpily:
“Just to clarify upfront, you wouldn’t get up earlier, so I carried you like this.”
Xiang Chuan, feeling a bit weak in the legs, held onto the nearby railing and glared fiercely at him:
“Couldn’t you carry a person normally?! If it had pressed my stomach a few more times just now, I would’ve puked up even last night’s midnight snack!”
“Oh? This spot has that function?” Ainuo poked at his own abdomen below the sternum, not feeling anything unusual.
“This is basic biology knowledge; go back and study it properly.” Xiang Chuan huffed.
——
Just as Xiang Chuan and Ainuo’s chat topic started veering toward various body-related biology tidbits, Ouyang Yating, Liang Gong, and the others caught up from behind.
The four of them, along with their friend group, grandly arrived at the assembly point for this visit activity.
In the training area’s plaza, the first-year high school students from the two schools stood by class on the grassland-textured ground, looking at the large light screen ahead.
On the light screen, a middle-aged man was smiling warmly as he gave the opening speech.
[Good morning to the first-year high school classmates from Agricultural University Affiliated High School and Caida Affiliated High School. Welcome to the Third Military Escort Ship. I am the captain of this escort ship, Captain Huaken. I’m very pleased to be with everyone today……]
Unexpectedly, this captain’s speech was in the very traditional 21st century leader’s empty talk style; Xiang Chuan had thought he would be like Captain Mark Bay of the Fourth Production Escort Ship, another captain with a distinctive personal style.
Now it seemed Captain Huaken was more like a traditional leader in the conventional sense. That made sense though; after all, military escort ships mainly handled troop training and security escorting, and the traditional military style was always rather conservative and rigid in Xiang Chuan’s impression, especially for these veteran higher-ups who followed the principle of seeking no merit but no fault—their words and actions would surely be even more traditionally rigid.
Though it wasn’t to the point where even the speech had to be rigidly old-fashioned too. Xiang Chuan thought while yawning.
