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This was Zhou Jingtang's first visit to Xu's house. Shen Xi thought he was empty-handed, but he had already prepared for it. From the gift bag in his hand, he took out famous cigarettes and bracelets for Xu Dongcheng and Ruan Changling.

After Zhou Jingtang delivered the two elders, the Xu family said with some embarrassment, "I came in a hurry, I didn't prepare for the two of you, next year's New Year's gift must be double."

Xu Xiaoxiao smiled and said straight away: "Will you still come to my house to celebrate the New Year next year?"

Zhou Jingtang smiled happily, raised his eyebrows at the little girl, and asked, "Can't you?"

Zhou Jingtang is a bit aggressive when he doesn't smile, but he doesn't have a good temper at first sight, with high eyebrows, he always looks down on people when he looks at people.But when he smiled, he was very flamboyant, with the naughty air that little girls like.

Xu Xiaoxiao said in her heart several times not to be fooled by the beauty. When she raised her head to look at Zhou Jingtang again, she used too much force, her oval face was dazed with angry eyes, and said crisply: "My brother told you to come, you can come, my brother If you don’t let us, we’ll beat you out with a big stick!”

"The little girl is from every family," Zhou Jingtang said casually, with a touch of pampering unknowingly.

Shen Qi couldn't stand watching anymore, he observed carefully, and found that before he thought that Zhou Jingtang had a crush on Xu Xiaoxiao, but now he realized that Zhou Jingtang treated Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Yang like children from beginning to end.

During dinner, Xu Dongcheng and Ruan Changling went out to live together, Zhong Chenglin was begged by Xu Xiaoxiao and Xu Yang for a treat, and was so annoyed that he had to agree, Su Jiale was one of his followers.

Zhong Chenglin glanced at Shen Qi's room on the second floor, and then at the guest room in the other direction. Zhong Chenglin thought about it and went upstairs. Halfway through the walk, he thought for no reason that the person above him was his rival in love. I am amused by the drama I made up in my own brain.

Zhong Chenglin knocked on the door of Shen Qi's room, but the person who opened the door was Zhou Jingtang with a displeased expression on his face. The two looked at each other. Zhong Chenglin's gentle and gentle temperament had a feeling of subduing rigidity in Zhou Jingtang's place, and it was rare that he did not lose Come on.

"What's the matter?" His tone was quite impatient.

"Uncle Xu and Aunt Ruan have gone out, we all go out to eat, together?"

"us?"

"It's just you and Qiqi."

Zhou Jingtang raised his eyebrows at the word "Qiqi", and the air pressure in his tone dropped a little, and he asked, "You called me Qiqi?"

Zhong Chenglin thought it was funny: "It's always been called that. Why are there so many nonsense, just say a word if you want to eat or not."

Zhou Jingtang became angry, and was about to continue talking to him, when Shen Qi came over and said to Zhong Chenglin politely, "No, you go, Jingtang and I will eat at home."

Zhong Chenglin responded well, and glanced at Zhou Jingtang provocatively again. There was not much malice in it, and it was more like provoking a child with teeth and claws.

Zhou Jingtang couldn't bear it, wanted to continue to talk but was pulled by Shen Qi, closed the door, he said sullenly: "Why are you so gentle to him?"

Shen Xi felt that this kind of Zhou Jingtang was very childish and immature, but he was very much like Zhou Jingtang ten years ago, his temper hadn't changed at all.He smiled, but didn't want to comfort him, but smiled lightly and said to him: "Because he is my friend."

Shen Qi said: "Because he is my friend. I don't have many friends. I used to have Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe. Later, I realized that without you, they are not my friends. Now, Zhong Chenglin and Zhang Hao are my friends , They didn’t become my friends because of anyone, so they won’t leave me because of someone missing.”

This was the first time he heard the names of Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe from Shen Qi after reuniting with him, and Zhou Jingtang felt sore when he heard them.Just like when he beat those two to death when he returned to China, he was angry and angry, but more angry was why he wasn't by Shen Qi's side back then.

"Okay, your friend, your friend," Zhou Jingtang said with a smile.

It was getting dark early, and by the time Shen Qi and Zhou Jingtang went downstairs to the living room, everyone had already left.

The end of the new year is approaching, all the servants of the Xu family have gone home for the new year, and the entire villa is occupied by Shen Qi and Zhou Jingtang.

"I have to cook by myself," Zhou Jingtang said.

"I'll do it," Shen Qi said and went to the kitchen, rolled up his sleeves, took the apron and tied it up, and checked what ingredients were still in the refrigerator.

Zhou Jingtang picked up an apple, leaned against the door, gnawed on the apple and watched Shen Qi cook.

"Wash and wash," Shen Qi looked back at him, pointing to the apple in his hand.

"You won't get sick if you don't do anything dirty," Zhou Jingtang smiled and took another big bite.

Shen Qi lowered his head, walked towards him after a few seconds of silence, took the apple, washed it under the tap and returned it to him.

"Musi, you said, apples can't be eaten directly, and the water can't be drunk directly, why can apples be eaten directly after washing?" Zhou Jingtang blinked his big eyes and looked at him, eager for knowledge.

While washing vegetables, Shen Qi replied calmly: "The water in my house can be drunk directly, and there is a water purifier."

"Not interesting," Zhou Jingtang concluded.

Shen Xi ignored him, turned on the gas stove, a small porcelain pot was gurgling to cook mushroom soup, and fried a scrambled egg with tomatoes, served with cold green vegetables.

Zhou Jingtang couldn't stand it anymore, and protested: "Shen Muxi, you raised me like a rabbit? Xu Ye isn't bankrupt either, so can he have meat?"

Shen Qi looked back at him: "Do you like to eat or not."

Zhou Jingtang was very resentful: "Some people don't cherish what they get, and don't cherish what they get!"

Shen Xi annoyed him so much that he drove him out of the kitchen.He watched the heat of the mushroom soup, put the scrambled eggs with tomatoes on a plate, took out the diced chicken from the freezer to defrost, and made a slightly spicy Kung Pao chicken.

He stayed away from the kitchen all these years, and the food he made can only be said to be edible, not delicious.Zhou Jingtang didn't know whether it was to cheer or he was hungry, he ate very quickly and cleanly, and almost wiped out everything.

"This...isn't delicious..." Shen Xi couldn't figure it out.

After eating, Zhou Jingtang slumped on the chair and rubbed his stomach. He smiled contentedly, and his tone was full of laziness: "It's delicious. I've been thinking about it for many years. It's just that the taste has changed. You used to eat potatoes fried with green peppers." , Stir-fried green peppers with eggs, everything can be fried with green peppers. In the past, our room was separated by an alley, and every time you cooked, my small balcony also suffered. Fortunately, it was me, and someone else dragged you out to fight... "

Shen Qi listened to him talking about these things in silence, feeling mixed emotions in his heart, a little bit sour, a little bit astringent, the taste was really hard to describe, there was luck, but also regret.

Zhou Jingtang leaned towards Shen Qi with a smile, and pressed his forehead against Shen Qi's. Maybe he was drunk from the mushroom soup. His tone was somewhat confused, and he said softly: "The two of us Ah, God is destined to be together for a lifetime. Look, Jincheng is so big, with the inner and outer third rings, the upper covered bridge and the lower covered bridge. There are several lanes in each street, but you, Shen Qi, still walked back to my world inside."

His voice was gentle, deep and hoarse: "Qiqi, don't get lost again, okay?"

Shen Qi was brought in, and his emotions followed Zhou Jingtang, with a lot of emotions. When he opened his mouth and didn't know what to say, Zhou Jingtang suddenly fell back, slapped his thigh and laughed loudly: "I said that I am a good flirt. I haven't been given a chance to play all these years!"

He seems to have regrets: "Oh, it's delayed, it's delayed."

Shen Xi's breath was stuck in his throat, he couldn't move up and down, staring at Zhou Jingtang, for a moment he wanted to slap him to death with the bottom of the pot.

One day before the new year, Zhou Jingtang stayed in Shen Qi's room as usual. The tall man about 1.8 meters was watching "The True Story of Ah Q" on the small bay window. perch on the body.

Shen Qi is still the same as before, even if he is not in the classroom, even if there is no teacher, sitting in front of the desk, his back is always straight, his waist is like a pine tree.

Zhou Jingtang thought about it, and the phone rang at this moment. He picked it up and looked, and found that it was Mu Yalan.

After the call was connected, Mu Yalan was silent for a long time. It was that old-fashioned question again.

"Xiaojing, are you coming back this year for the New Year?"

Zhou Jingtang glanced at Shen Qi who stopped to look at him, lowered his voice, and said to her: "You know it all, why bother to ask every year? You have a good New Year, eat delicious food, invite some friends to play mahjong , I'll send you a gift in the next year, okay?"

"You still don't come back..." The other side seemed to be crying again.

Zhou Jingtang told himself not to be soft-hearted, otherwise some problems would never come to fruition.He softened his voice and tried to reason with her: "Don't cry, I'll go shopping with you another day, okay? You know, there is no right or wrong between me and my dad, and I will never come back. "

Zhou Jingtang put down the book, sat up straight, held the mobile phone, and said calmly: "I didn't want anything about my dad, and I don't blame him anymore. I'm not angry with him. It's been ten years, and all anger should go away." Yes, really. Mom, I just want him to know that he's wrong and I'm not."

Zhou Jingtang always thought that if he didn't steal or rob, how could he be worthy of Comrade Zhou Yanwu's battle?Inspiring teachers and mobilizing people, from Jincheng to Australia, from Australia to Liucheng, tossing back and forth in several cities, just to stop him from falling in love with a Shen Qi.He didn't lie, it's been ten years, who can be angry for ten years?He just wanted Zhou Yanwu to admit who was wrong back then.

Mu Yalan cried and hesitated to speak, and choked up several times, which made Zhou Jingtang feel pain in his throat.But he didn't dare to let go, he knew that once he took a step back, the problems he and Shen Qi encountered ten years ago would still happen today.

"You don't even come back to see your dad, how do you know he doesn't know he's wrong?" Mu Yalan asked.

Zhou Jingtang said: "If he knew he was wrong, he should have made this call."

Mu Yalan was speechless.

Zhou Jingtang couldn't bear it, so he picked up the topic and chatted with her for a while, and finally hung up the phone after coaxing her to stop crying.

Zhou Jingtang put the mobile phone on the bay window casually, looked over, Shen Xi was looking at him, he smiled lightly, rubbed the center of his brows, and asked him: "What are you looking at?"

Shen Qi withdrew his gaze and said, "It seems that you haven't had a good life these years."

The word that Zhou Jingtang cares about is that word.

He changed his comfortable position and leaned against the window, looked at Shen Qi, with a slight smile in his eyes: "Shen Muxi, why do you think the two of us have crossed back and forth over the years?"

"Then are you willing to go back to the past?" Shen Qi asked him.

"I don't want to," Zhou Jingtang said, "We all have to look forward, not to mention our past doesn't seem to be very good."

Shen Qi recalled Zhou Jingtang and Shen Qi many years ago, in their youthful years, but they couldn't relax.

None of them want to go back to the past.

Shen Qi closed the book and was about to go out when Zhou Jingtang suddenly said behind him: "Qiqi, let's start a confession."

Shen Qi was stunned for a moment before he understood what he meant, and after a few seconds, he said, "Okay."