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When Xu Dongcheng arrived, he was busy with travel and dust. He was supervising the construction site on the outskirts of the city. After receiving a call from Zhou Jingtang, he immediately put down his work and rushed over. On the way, he contacted Zhang Hao and Zhong Chenglin. When the three arrived in Liucheng together, it was half an hour later. .

Zhou Jingtang saw Zhang Hao for the first time.Zhang Hao was the first one to go upstairs, and when he saw him, he just took a second look, then he knocked on Shen Qi's door and asked him to open the door in a gentle and patient voice.

Xu Dongcheng and Zhong Chenglin also arrived, Zhong Chenglin went to knock on the door with Zhang Hao, and Xu Dongcheng stopped in front of Zhou Jingtang, and said to him: "Mr. Zhou, thank you for calling me. I will take care of it here. If you have something to do, go first." .”

Zhou Jingtang pretended not to understand and said, "I'm fine, I'm also Shen Qi's friend, and I also want to know what happened to Shen Qi."

He wanted to know why Shen Qi's emotions were so ups and downs, why he suddenly lost control.

Xu Dongcheng said: "I will handle it here, Mr. Zhou, in the name of a father, please leave first."

Zhou Jingtang didn't expect Xu Dongcheng to ask him to leave so bluntly. He was entangled in his heart and couldn't help but continue to say: "Uncle Xu, I'm just worried about Shen Qi..."

He called him Uncle Xu, which meant that he regarded him as an elder, not as a partner.He respects him because he is Shen Xi's father.

Zhang Hao and Zhong Chenglin over there had already entered, Xu Dongcheng breathed a sigh of relief, Zhou Jingtang's "Uncle Xu" made him shake, but he also knew that what Shen Qi didn't want the most was Zhou Jingtang seeing him in a mess.

"Xiao Zhou, I will take care of it. What's the matter, can we talk about it another day?"

Zhou Jingtang knew that although Xu Dongcheng was saying yes, he didn't give him the room to refuse.All he could think about was Shen Qi breaking down and telling him to go out, that was the Shen Qi he had never seen before.

In the end, Zhou Jingtang left anyway. He parked the car in a temporary parking space across the street in Liuchengli. After waiting for more than an hour, he saw Xu Dongcheng, Zhong Chenglin, Zhang Hao and Shen Qi coming out together, and Shen Qi looked as usual, as if Nothing ever happened.

For a moment, Zhou Jingtang felt that Shen Qi saw him too, and they looked at each other through the traffic, their eyes were already calm.

Zhou Jingtang thought, in those years, maybe what he knew was only the tip of the iceberg.

Shen Qi saw Zhou Jingtang's car.After he lost control of his emotions and then calmed down, he felt more regretful.He regretted letting Zhou Jingtang see himself like this.

He got into the back seat, and he couldn't listen to a word of what Zhong Chenglin and Zhang Hao talked about along the way.For a while, in the classroom back then, Lin Yuan said that Zhou Jingtang hung up the phone after hearing his secret, and for a while, it was Zhou Jingtang saying that he knew it a long time ago.

He suddenly thought of the word mediocrity, which couldn't be more appropriate in today's situation.

Zhong Chenglin annoyed Zhang Hao for talking too much, so he directly sent a WeChat message to tell him to shut up.After the car became quiet, he turned to look at Shen Qi sideways, and said to him: "Qiqi, talk to me about what happened just now, okay?"

Zhong Chenglin is gentle and gentle, always has a feeling of coaxing people when he speaks, and most of the time it is very useful.

Shen Qi glanced at Xu Dongcheng on the passenger seat, then at Zhang Hao, leaned on the back of the seat and let out a long breath, and said, "Zhou Jingtang said that he already knew that I was a boy."

Shen Qi said: "He knew about it a long time ago, and he discovered it before everyone knew about it."

Zhong Chenglin was stunned.

Shen Qi laughed at himself: "I've been very afraid of meeting him these years, really. Compared with those who have bullied me and insulted me, I'm actually more afraid of meeting him. I'm afraid of seeing his disappointed eyes , afraid to see how he hates me. Now I know that he has known it a long time ago, he has always known it. "

Zhong Chenglin smiled and said to him: "Because Qiqi is Qiqi no matter whether it is a man or a woman. It means that Zhou Jingtang is not bad. He sees the beauty of Qiqi that others can't see."

Shen Qi couldn't help evoking a faint smile, and said in a low voice, "He's just stupid."

Xu Dongcheng listened to the conversation between Shen Qi and Zhong Chenglin with his ears up all the way, and he also had a lot of considerations in his heart.

He believed that Zhou Jingtang and Shen Qi had each other in their hearts.

After returning to Xu's villa, Xu Dongcheng called Ruan Changling into the bedroom and chatted with him about Zhou Jingtang.

Ruan Changling admired Zhou Jingtang when he heard that he was young and promising, and said, "Well, not bad, he is still a talent."

Xu Dongcheng continued to tell the delicate situation between Zhou Jingtang and Shen Qi, and Ruan Changling asked in disbelief, "You mean that the boy that Qi Qi likes actually likes Qi Qi?"

Before Xu Dongcheng could finish his sentence, Ruan Changling said angrily, "He likes Qiqi, so why did he leave Qiqi back then?"

"I don't think Zhou Jingtang is a bad person," Xu Dongcheng said. "There must be a lot of misunderstandings about what happened back then. Since Qiqi likes him, he also likes Qiqi, that's quite appropriate."

"What about Cheng Lin?" Ruan Changling asked.

Xu Dongcheng said: "Cheng Lin and Qi Qi have known each other for so long, have you seen any signs of it? Qi Qi doesn't like him, and he doesn't necessarily like Qi Qi very much. The two of them are just making do with each other when they are together."

"It means you are satisfied with that Zhou Jingtang now?"

Xu Dongcheng said: "It's not that I'm satisfied, but Xiqi likes him. Don't you understand? Qiqi just likes him."

"If you have a chance, call me home for a meal," Ruan Changling said.

She just wanted to see with her own eyes whether that man named Zhou Jingtang could treat her Qiqi well for the rest of his life.

At Xu's dinner table, Zhang Hao and Zhong Chenglin were already regular customers, and they went to the kitchen to help serve dishes familiarly.After all the food was on the table, Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Yang came out of the room, looking like a starved ghost reincarnated.

Xu Yang suddenly asked Xu Dongcheng: "Dad, brother Zhou is very busy recently, and he won't answer me when I ask him to play games. I can't even get points."

Zhang Hao asked, "Which Brother Zhou?"

Shen Xi paused, turning a blind eye.

"Zhou Jingtang," Xu Yang said bluntly, regretted it after finishing speaking, and glanced at Shen Qi guilty, and dared to continue when he saw that his expression was normal, "Does Heng Yi know? Boss Heng Yi."

"Didn't you hate him very much before?" Xu Xiaoxiao never forgot the way Xu Yang wanted to eat his life when he first heard the name Zhou Jingtang.

"The past was the past, and the present is the present," Xu Yang wanted to say, as long as Zhou Jingtang hadn't bullied Shen Qi before, he would be his boss based on the fact that Zhou Jingtang brought him up.

Xu Dongcheng glanced around, saw the stitches, and said to Ruan Changling seemingly casually: "Zhou Jingtang is really good this week. It's a pity to have such achievements at such a young age."

"What a pity?" Ruan Changling asked.

Xu Dongcheng said: "Before I joked with him about introducing Xiaoxiao to him, but he told me that he doesn't like girls."

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It was the sound of Shen Qi's chopsticks falling to the ground.

Xu Dongcheng continued: "It's no secret in Jincheng, but I'm ignorant and almost made a joke. By the way, Qiqi, you are classmates in high school, do you know that?"

When Shen Qi heard someone calling his name, his whole body trembled.He bent down to pick up the chopsticks in a hurry, but he couldn't hold it firmly and dropped it again.

Seeing this, Zhong Chenglin next to him bent down to help him pick it up, and asked the servant to bring over a pair of clean chopsticks again.

Xu Yang was terribly shocked, and asked, "Brother, Brother Zhou is... is...that, do you know?"

Shen Qi raised his head blankly, paused for a long time, and said, "I...I don't know, Uncle Xu, did he say it himself?"

Xu Dongcheng said: "He said it himself, the young man is very open and generous, and he didn't take it as a shameful thing. I also inquired about it later. This incident has been spread for many years, and some people said that he was sent abroad that year. For this reason."

Is this... the reason?

Shen Xi's mood was completely messed up.

Winter in Jincheng came late, and the heavy snow fell at the end of December.

As the New Year's Eve was approaching, business in the catering industry was not so easy. In the first two weeks before the New Year's Eve, Shen Qi closed Liuchengli and let the employees go home for the New Year.

As the new year is approaching, Xu Dongcheng has more social activities. The natives have always liked to talk about business at the wine table, and he is no exception.Xu Yang and Xu Xiaoxiao were noisy at home every day, while Ruan Changling and Shen Qi were quieter.

On a weekend before the New Year, Shen Qi and Xu Xiaoxiao accompanied Ruan Changling to a supermarket in the urban area to make a big purchase for the New Year.Shen Qi did not expect to see a familiar face beside the shelf.

In fact, Shen Qi had already forgotten what Zhou Lan looked like, and ten years later, Zhou Lan had changed a lot. He walked past her cart without recognizing her.

It was Zhou Lan who stopped him first.

"Is it... Shen Qi?"

Shen Qi, Ruan Changling, and Xu Xiaoxiao all stopped, and saw a middle-aged woman wearing a black suit and delicate makeup.Yan Yan smiled at Fang Yan, looking unassuming.

Shen Qi looked at it for a while and still couldn't remember who this person was, so Zhou Lan simply said, "I'm my aunt."

Shen Xi remembered that it was Zhou Jingtang's aunt.In his memory, he was a very kind elder who helped him.It was also the person who later broke his fantasy and made him no longer dream.

Shen Qi smiled, and greeted politely: "Auntie, long time no see."

"These two are..."

"This is my aunt, and this is my younger sister." Shen Qi introduced, "Aunt Ruan, Xiaoxiao, this is the aunt of my high school classmate, who helped me before."

Ruan Changling smiled and said politely: "That's a coincidence, it's great to meet you, thank you for helping us Qiqi, I will definitely treat you to dinner some other day."

"You're welcome," Zhou Lan was surprised to see Shen Qi, and called him subconsciously.As for what Shen Qi said that she had helped him, she had long forgotten about it.

Zhou Lan asked again: "Shen Qi, have you met Jingtang? He is also in Jincheng, and it has been several years..."

"I met you." Shen Qi was a little preoccupied, "I met you a few months ago. It's a coincidence."

Is it a coincidence?Zhou Lan didn't think it was a coincidence, she knew that Zhou Jingtang had been looking for Shen Qi for many years.The thing she regrets the most these years is that she told Zhou Yanwu about Shen Qi back then, which led to the current situation.

Zhou Lan sighed, and smiled softly: "Shen Qi, have a meal with aunt when you have time. I really hope that I can still hear you call me aunt."

Shen Qi said: "Okay, Auntie."

For Shen Qi, when facing Shen Qingzhu's condition at a loss, it was Zhou Lan who appeared to help him.He was grateful in his heart and still respected and admired Zhou Lan.

Coming out of the supermarket, Shen Qi originally wanted to go there with Ruan Changling and Xu Xiaoxiao, but Zhou Lan's car stopped in front of them.

She rolled down the car window and said to him: "It's better to hit the sun than choose another day, Shen Qi, let's have dinner together today?"

Ruan Changling was about to refuse for Shen Qi, but Shen Qi had already taken a step forward. He turned to Ruan Changling and Xu Xiaoxiao: "You guys go home first, I'll take a taxi back later."

Shen Qi boarded Zhou Lan's co-pilot, and the heating inside was strong enough to resist the low temperature outside.

Zhou Lan started chatting with him: "I just transferred back to Jincheng. After traveling for so many years, I found everything strange when I came back. Except for that boy Jingtang, I couldn't find anyone after I came back to pick up the phone. He seems to be quite busy. He strives for success, does not follow his old man's path, and is doing business very well, and now that he is rich, in front of my aunt, don't mention how straight his waist is."

She carried Zhou Jingtang in her words, and continued: "For three days after you leave, you should look at him with admiration. This kid is really like this. Who knew that his bastard back then could make such a appearance. By the way, Qiqi, do you know what Jingtang did back then?" Did you go to Liucheng?"

Shen Qi was mentioned and shook his head.

"Drag racing, the kind that almost killed myself," Zhou Lan smiled, and said, "He was tied up by his father and sent to Liucheng. This is the first time he has been so useless, you know the second time he When did you become so useless?"

Shen Qi continued to shake his head, and after shaking his head, he thought that Zhou Jingtang seemed to have told him that it was time to go to Australia.

Zhou Lan said: "The second time was to go abroad. I was in Liucheng at that time, and I heard from his mother later that his grandfather's funeral had just ended, so he knew about things in Liucheng."

She asked him again: "Do you know what happened?"

This time, without waiting for his answer, she asked and answered by herself: "The whole No. [-] Middle School knew about you being a boy, and we all thought he was the last to know, but we only found out later, maybe he was the first to know. He wants to come back to you."

"He wanted to come back to you, but he was arrested by his father at the train station," Zhou Lan thought it was funny, "It was true, he beat him up at the train station and brought him back. His mother said that his nose was bruised and his face was swollen. That Do you think the scene is funny?"

Zhou Lan thought Shen Qi was distracted, so she asked again with a smile: "Are you saying it's funny?"

funny?Looking back ten years later, maybe, but at that time, how sad was he?

Shen Qi could only respond with a wry smile.