Run in the opposite direction

Just try a little bit and say support. "

Qiao Qianyan wiped his mouth and said, "Eat, I'll sit on the sofa for a while."

Xing Chen looked at the time and got up: "I'll take you to the station. If you arrive at Luojiang later, it will be dark."

Qiao Qianyan: "Let's talk about it after you eat something, don't worry about it for a while."

Xing Chen suddenly lowered his head and approached Qiao Qianyan's face, kissed his lips before he retreated subconsciously, and then smiled: "This way I won't be hungry."

Qiao Qianyan glanced at Xing Chen, and the corner of his mouth curled up in an inconspicuous arc.Then turn around and walk out.

Xing Chen picked up the coat on the sofa and followed him out.

When he arrived at the station, Xing Chen drove the car into the parking area, looked at Qiao Qianyan when he unbuckled his seat belt and said, "Qianyan, I will be very busy next time, and I may not be able to visit you in Luojiang for a long time. From now on, I will call you at ten o'clock every night, and you must remember to answer it."

Qiao Qianyan looked at him.

Xing Chen moved his upper body over, put his arms on the car seat to form a surrounding posture, and said with a smile in his eyes: "If you don't agree, I will kiss you here. There are two choices, you choose one."

Qiao Qianyan smiled: "I have the phone in my hand, can you manage it?"

Xing Chen: "Since I said that, there must be my way. If you don't agree, it's fine. If you agree, then as long as you don't answer, I will go to Luojiang to find someone immediately."

Qiao Qianyan: "Okay, follow orders."

There was a slight smile in Qiao Qianyan's eyes, the tails of his eyes were slightly upturned, and Xing Chen leaned over.Seeing this, Qiao Qianyan hurriedly said: "I promise you, but you still—— um..."

Xing Chen didn't stop kissing him until he was out of breath, and said close to the tip of his nose: "You promise to answer my phone every day, what does that mean, you know?"

Qiao Qianyan's cheeks were flushed because he was holding his breath, and he said, "You rascal."

After speaking, he pushed the car door and went down. Xing Chen laughed from behind and said, "Tell me when you arrive." Then he watched Qiao Qianyan disappear at the entrance of the station before driving away.

The second day after Qiao Qianyan returned to Luojiang, he received another box of express delivery.Inside are fresh prawns and crabs.Xing Chen said on the phone that night: "I bought it on the way back after sending you into the station yesterday."

Qiao Qianyan: "Are you going to cover our three meals a day?"

Xing Chen: "If you're willing to come back, let alone three meals a day, I'll take care of food, clothing, housing and transportation."

Qiao Qianyan lay on the bed and said with a smile: "Director Xing has a big problem with his style of work."

Xing Chen's deep voice came over with a bit of ambiguity: "You can report it with your real name, and I will confess it."

The altitude of Luojiang is high, so winter comes earlier.In November, the first snow fell in Luojiang.Qiao Qianyan got up early in the morning and saw the snow in the yard, so he quickly got up from the bed.He took a broom from under the corridor and swept all the snow on the ground aside, otherwise there would be snow on the ground, and grandma would fall easily when walking.

After finishing his work, he went to the roof, found an excellent viewing angle, took a picture of the snow scene in Luojiang and sent it to Xing Chen.

Xing Chen was arguing with some fellow villagers, who thought that the doctors who came here were all interns and that the government was fooling them.Xing Chen had worked at the grassroots level for many years, and he was best at communicating with the masses. It was precisely because of his unparalleled experience in this area that the city gave him the position of team leader.

The old people in the village are unreasonable, and they have to ask the leaders to explain everything big and small. Except for the words of the top leaders, no one's words will matter.Xing Chen has stayed in the city for the past few years, doing coordinating and directing work. It has been a long time since he has not needed to face ordinary people directly. Now he is stationed in the countryside, which reminds him of the work scene in the years when he just graduated from time to time.

It's just that no matter how familiar the job is, there will always be times of irritability. Xing Chen was called out by his subordinates early in the morning to deal with it. Two hours later, the few people in front of him were still indifferent, as if they couldn't understand Xing Chen's words.Xing Chen's attitude changed from being soft to tough. After posing several national policies in a row, those people were a little bit intimidated and didn't answer for a while.Xing Chen signaled his subordinates to refill their tea with his eyes, and sat aside to look at his mobile phone.

The composition of Qiao Qianyan's snow scene is very exquisite, the distance is orderly, and the layers are clear. The ancient buildings of Luojiang are looming in the snow scene, and the black and white colors make people suddenly calm down.

Xing Chen saved the picture, and after putting down his phone, his face softened, the dryness in his heart disappeared, and he patiently comforted the few villagers.

Xing Chen's office is the township government, and the dormitory he lives in is also the guest house behind the office building. The township has limited financial funds, and the guest house has not been repaired for more than ten years.Originally the document issued by the city stated that he had to be on duty four days a week, but he couldn’t help himself after he took office. It’s been almost a month since he went to the countryside on the first day, and he only went back to the city two or three times in the middle, and it’s still the same. After going to a meeting, I rushed back to my hometown without stopping.Any job is particularly difficult at the beginning, and when it is on the right track, Xing Chen can also sleep for a few days.

On Thursday afternoon, after the summary meeting, Xing Chen drove back to the city. This weekend, he can rest for two days.

Xing Chen went to get a haircut after returning home. He stayed in the countryside for a month, exposed to the wind and the sun, working in the fields, and felt that his whole body was as rough as a man who had been doing farm work for several years.After tidying up, I bought a ticket to Luojiang early the next morning.

As soon as he got on the bus to the scenic spot, Xing Chen received a call from his mother: "Ah Chen, are you on vacation this weekend? Come back for dinner."

Xing Chen: "I'm on a business trip, I'll go back next time when I'm free."

Xing's mother was unhappy and said: "Every time is the next time. How long has it been since your dad and I saw you? Yesterday your dad met your Director Qi and said that you are on vacation this weekend. Where are you going on business again?"

Xing Chen reassured: "Outside, mom, I promise to go home next week, okay?"

Only then did Mother Xing hang up the phone with satisfaction.

The Luojiang River is still covered with snow. After getting off the car, Xing Chen stepped on the creaky ground and walked towards the inn. He didn't tell Qiao Qianyan that he would come over last night. He just wanted to make a surprise attack. Unfortunately, he found that the inn was closed when he arrived at the entrance. It's locked.

Now this season, the inn will not have a guest for ten days and a half months, so Qiao Qianyan often closes the door and takes grandma out for a walk.He also told Xing Chen last night that recently he often took his grandma across the river to walk on the long bridge.

Xing Chen went to the river to find someone.

Walking to the bridge, Xing Chen saw the figures of his grandfather and grandson not far away.Qiao Qianyan was wearing a knee-length black wool coat, with one hand in his pocket and the other hand behind the old lady.The two walked slowly across the bridge, Qiao Qianyan occasionally tilted his head to talk to grandma.

Xing Chen walked over, stood tens of meters away from them and shouted: "Qianyan!"

Qiao Qianyan turned around, first surprised and then laughed: "You are here."

Xing Chen walked on the other side of the old lady, looked at them and said, "Where are you going? I'll be with you."

Qiao Qianyan pointed to the front and said, "Go to the garden ahead and pick some plum blossoms."

This is not the season when plum blossoms are in full bloom. Although the plum trees in the garden are densely packed, there are not many branches with flower buds.Qiao Qianyan looked around and said to Xing Chen, "No, just wait a few more days."

The three of them went back together.Mrs. Qiao was very happy because of Xing Chen's arrival. As soon as she got back to the inn, she went to the kitchen and said that she would make hot pot for him at noon.Xing Chen said beside him: "Grandma, don't bother, just eat whatever you want."

Grandma Qiao smiled and said, "No trouble, I'll make some soup base, and it will be ready soon. It's cold today, you have walked such a long way, eat hot pot to keep you warm."

Qiao Qianyan brought a basket of vegetables in front of Xing Chen: "Come, choose vegetables."

Luojiang has many wild vegetables that have never been eaten in other places. Xing Chen would ask the name of the vegetable in his hand every time he washed it.

Luojiang's hot pot is very different from Ancheng's. Luojiang still uses the old-fashioned coal-fired chimney-style hot pot. The soup base is cured pork rib soup. When eating, add a little chili powder by yourself.

The three of them sat around the small dining table in the kitchen, and Mrs. Qiao gave Xing Chen the cured pork ribs in the hot pot: "Eat the ribs first, and then cook the vegetables later."

There is briquette in the center of the hot pot, and a circle around it is used to scald vegetables. The smoke is transpiring upwards. Through the smoke, Xing Chen can only see Qiao Qianyan's thin red lips and clear eyes that are obscured by shadows.

After the meal, Mrs. Qiao wanted to take a lunch break, and Xing Chen wanted to go to the roof to see the snow scene. After Qiao Qianyan locked the door, he went up to the roof with Xing Chen.Xing Chen walked around, and finally stopped at a corner, took out his mobile phone to take a picture, and then handed it to Qiao Qianyan: "See what's special?"

Qiao Qianyan studied it carefully, but found nothing special.

Xing Chen swiped the photo album to the left, found the picture of the snow scene that Qiao Qianyan had sent him before, and said, "This photo of yours was also taken from this angle, right?"

Qiao Qianyan carefully compared the two photos, and it was really the same perspective.He sat on the steps, supported his head and looked up at Xing Chen: "You have good observation skills, Director Xing."

Xing Chen also walked over and sat next to him, looking sideways at him.

Qiao Qianyan asked strangely: "... What are you looking at?"

"I'm here this time..." Xing Chen paused, and continued, "I want to ask you, would you like to go back to Ancheng?"

On the phone before, Xing Chen had joked several times that he wanted Qiao Qianyan to return to Ancheng, but Qiao Qianyan didn't take it seriously, he didn't expect that Xing Chen was not joking.

Qiao Qianyan shifted his gaze, looked into the distance, and said lightly: "...I don't want to go back."

Xing Chen laughed when he heard the words, leaned on the railing and said, "I really didn't expect to have a long-distance relationship at my age."

Qiao Qianyan could hear the displeasure in his tone, looked at him and said, "Xing Chen, from the beginning we just followed fate, didn't we?"

What Qiao Qianyan meant was obvious, he didn't think about the future of the two of them, and he didn't think they needed to have a future.

Xing Chen thought to himself that this was probably retribution. It wasn't long before he met Qiao Qianyan.