four year itch

Ye Jia frowned, smiled apologetically at the people in the car, then sat in the empty seat farthest from Bai Xiaoyu, and put on the earphones by the way.

After a while, Ye Jia felt someone pat him, and he took off his earphones and turned to look at him.

Bai Xiaoyu raised her pretty face, pointed to Ye Jia's luggage, and asked cautiously, "You... don't you live in City A, too?"

The word "also" is very subtle.

Ye Jia nodded slowly, and then saw Bai Xiaoyu's face was broken, all his facial features were screwed together, and he was holding his chest like a frightened sand skin.

This kid's face is indeed pretty, but it's a pity that it's all because of his IQ.

"Aren't you wondering why I'm here?" Bai Xiaoyu asked.

Ye Jia understood that Bai Xiaoyu's temperament is that if you don't follow him, he will always bother you, just like that seven or eight-year-old child asking you questions, and it makes sense to keep asking him if you don't answer.

He sighed, and asked patiently, "Then why are you here?"

"My home is here!"

"What a coincidence~" Ye Jia not only showed a smirk, but even used a tilde in his tone.

"Hey, is the matter between you and Xu Ruibai true?"

Sure enough, the old saying is still true: a little kid just can't be used to it, the more he is used to it, the more he will make progress.

Ye Jia turned her head, put on the earphones silently, and pretended to look at the scenery outside the window.

When he arrived at the station, Bai Xiaoyu was no longer behind him, and he didn't care too much, and got out of the car with his suitcase.

City A is not as modern as City G. There are very few foreigners here. Most of the people here were born here, grew up here, and will be buried here in the future.The uproar on the Internet didn't have much impact on this closed small city, and everyone was still discussing the family's problems lively.

When Ye Jia arrived home, Chen Jing and Ye Hemin had already prepared dinner and waited for him. Ye Ming was still at school and would not be back until the weekend.

The salt and pepper shrimp and stewed beef brisket that Ye Jia wanted to eat were neatly placed on the table.Mother is such an existence, as long as you say you like it, she will always remember it, as if thinking that you will never grow up, thinking that you will never change your taste, cooking the same food over and over again.

They use such repetitive and clumsy means to express small love and comfort.

I was also afraid that the cooking would not be as delicious as the last time, so I asked tirelessly over and over again, "Is it delicious?"

"Delicious." Ye Jia stuffed a shrimp into his mouth, showing a happy smile, "Mom's cooking is the best."

In fact, it's not that my mother cooks the best food, but I just don't want to accept that there are better foods in this world than my mother's.

"By the way, Mom and Dad, I resigned." Ye Jia said.

Ye Hemin paused with his chopsticks, and asked nonchalantly, "Well, what are you planning to do next?"

"Let's rest for a few days, and I'm going to find out if there is an institution that can be a teacher, and see if I can get into the system."

"Well, it's fine if you have a direction." Ye Hemin didn't ask any more questions. The child has his own life, and they can't help Ye Jia anymore. All they can do is respect his decision and not become his burden.

Ye Jia nodded, "Thank you, Dad."

Ye Hemin also smiled.

After growing up, the bond between parents and children will become shallower and shallower. Needless to say, a smile or a thank you probably has carried all the unspeakable fatherly love.

In the middle of eating, Ye Jia suddenly remembered something, "Mom, have you ever heard of the name Bai Xiaoyu?"

"Surname Bai?"

"Ah."

Chen Jing thought for a while, "Is it a child of A Fen's family? Lao Ye, is A Fen's husband Bai Shunnian?"

Ye Hemin shook his head, "I don't know, you play mahjong with her every day, don't you know?"

Chen Jing had an expression on her face, "If it belongs to our area, it should belong to his family. What's wrong?"

"fine."

"You know him?"

"Well, our company's painter." Ye Jia replied honestly, but it seems a bit inappropriate to say "we" now.

Chen Jing became even more certain when she heard this, "Yes, the child of A Fen's family learned to draw. I heard from her that the child earns a lot of money. If I had known, I would have sent you to learn to draw. It just so happens that you Love these."

Ye Jia smiled, lowered her head and continued to eat.

--

On his birthday, Ye Jia slept until after nine o'clock. He walked into the living room in a daze, and when he raised his eyes, he was startled by the people in the living room, and instantly lost sleepiness.

"Hello~" Bai Xiaoyu was sitting on the sofa in his house and greeted him with a bright smile on his face.

"Why are you at my house?" Ye Jia suspected that he was dreaming, and it had to be a nonsensical nightmare.

"Happy birthday!" Bai Xiaoyu stood up, raised his hands above his head and set off a firework for Ye Jia.

Ye Jia glanced at him, and walked to the kitchen without saying a word, "Mom!"

Chen Jing came out with a handful of lettuce, "Why?"

Ye Jia gestured with his eyes and asked, "Why is he at our house?"

"It's impolite." Chen Jing scolded, "Aren't you colleagues? It's our birthday, and Ye Ming is not at home, so let Xiaoyu come and have fun."

After speaking, he turned to Bai Xiaoyu, who had an innocent face in the living room, "Xiao Yu, you and Xiao Jia talk first, lunch will take a while."

"Okay, trouble auntie." Bai Xiaoyu smiled with eyes wide open, very cute.

Chen Jing's maternal love was immediately aroused, and when she turned around, she gave Ye Jia a look and said, "You child just doesn't like making friends. Look how cheerful and likable Xiao Yu is."

Ye Jia was inexplicably taught a lesson on the first morning when he was 25 years old. The person involved said that his mood became very unbeautiful, and he even felt a little angry when he woke up.

"What are you doing here?" Ye Jia stared at him unblinkingly.

Bai Xiaoyu blinked her big eyes a couple of times, her face full of reason, "I wish you a birthday."

"My birthday, does it have anything to do with your being here?"

"Yes! Your mother ran into me and my mother when she went shopping for vegetables today. She asked me if I knew you. I said yes, so she invited me to have dinner together, and I agreed~"

"..."

Ye Jia secretly slandered, you are really rude...

Although Bai Xiaoyu has no eyesight, she knows how to please people. Seeing Ye Jia's face is not good, she hurriedly picked up the flowers on the tea table, "Are the flowers pretty? It's my favorite wild lily. I just bought it and gave it to you." .”

There are still a few dewdrops on the freshly picked wild lily in the morning, trembling and crumbling, adding a bit of tenderness to the white petals, and the full fragrance comes slowly, as if you can see the first spring, subtle and just right.Because the flowering period of the wild lily is too long, it takes a long time to wait for it to bloom, so it has the meaning of happiness returning.

Ye Jia didn't know whether Bai Xiaoyu was on purpose or just a coincidence, but for Hua's sake, Ye Jia decided to give him more time for this meal.

Bai Xiaoyu really knows how to talk, with a pure and innocent little face, coupled with that clever mouth, Ye Hemin and Ms. Chen were both smiling, and their mouths never closed after the meal .

"Xiao Yu is so likable, must have already talked about friends?" Chen Jing started the most enthusiastic part of middle-aged women again.

Bai Xiaoyu replied generously, "No! Xiaojia should have someone, right?"

Ye Jia glanced at him, but obviously Bai Xiaoyu didn't feel it.

Chen Jing waved her hand, with an expression that she didn't want to mention it again, "Just his personality? How can you be so likable like you."

"Xiao Jia is so cute." Bai Xiaoyu said meaningfully.

"Xiao Yu, you are also drawing manga now, aren't you?"

"Really?" Bai Xiaoyu smiled teasingly at Ye Jia, but Ye Jia ignored him, and just picked up the rice in the bowl by himself.Only then did Bai Xiaoyu stop laughing, and said obediently, "Yes, Auntie."

"Are you planning to develop in City G in the future? You should be free to work in comics, right? Aren't you planning to return to City A?"

Seeing that the conversation was about to develop in a strange direction, Ye Jia frowned and interrupted hastily.

After lunch, Bai Xiaoyu sat in Ye Jia's room majestically, without treating herself as an outsider at all, as if they were really close friends.

"Do you have anything else to do?" Ye Jia stood at the door with her chest folded and looked at him.

Bai Xiaoyu smiled shamelessly, "I'm too full, why don't you sit down for a while."

Ye Jia said coldly, "If you're too full, walk home."

Bai Xiaoyu wrinkled her nose and said shamelessly, "You are so fierce~"

Ye Jia's eyes were indifferent, "Don't treat me like that in a bar, I won't take that kind of thing."

Bai Xiaoyu pouted and muttered twice, Ye Jia thought he was frustrated and could always go home obediently.As a result, when this guy raised his head, he looked up again, as if there was nothing in this world that could make him retreat.

Bai Xiaoyu turned her sly eyes, "Hey, Xiao Jia, your parents want me to be a couple with you, right? Don't you think about it? I can do the one above."

"..."

That's really hard for you, I made an attack with tears in my eyes.

"I'm also a Beta after all. Didn't Auntie say you like painters? I'm also a painter, hehe."

"..."

Seeing that Ye Jia ignored him, Bai Xiaoyu closed her eyes and leaned back on the chair, like a salted fish, "Oh, forget it, I'd better find a reliable financial backer~"

After speaking, he secretly raised one eye to look at him, and met Ye Jia's eyes, and he was not embarrassed, just closed his eyes again.

Ye Jia doesn't want to interfere in other people's lives, but based on the principle of humanitarianism, he still wants to persuade "a boy who has lost his footing". Yes, Bai Xiaoyu is now a perfect example of a boy who has lost his footing in Ye Jia's eyes.

"Don't you have a serious job? What are you doing thinking about it all day?"

Bai Xiaoyu almost jumped up from the chair, "You mean drawing comics? I will draw 1000 comics for a week! Do you know how many bottles of wine can I buy in one night for 1000 bottles? Which one do you think is the best deal?" ?”

Ye Jia sighed and said, "There are some things that can't just be based on money. You are still young, and you will get ahead if you draw comics well."

"That's because you are not short of money." Bai Xiaoyu lowered her head and smiled, and asked, "Do you think money and success can be equated?"

Ye Jia didn't have time to think, so he blurted out, "Impossible."

"Then what do you say is the symbol of a successful person?"

The word "rich" hovered around Ye Jia's lips.

"It's rich." Bai Xiaoyu smiled, showing her white teeth carelessly, "I'm just an ordinary person, and I just use money to measure value."

Ye Jia stared at him, not agreeing with his fallacious reasoning, "I am also an ordinary person, but I think that making money by myself is more valuable than looking for a patron in a bar."

Bai Xiaoyu didn't take it seriously, "You are not an ordinary person, you are a lucky person."

"You mean, being bullied by the Internet will happen to a lucky person?" Ye Jia laughed at himself.

"The family is rich, your education is going well, your job is going well, you don't have to worry about money, and you don't have to learn to please you, you can have many people like you." Bai Xiaoyu counted them one by one with her fingers, and whispered at the end, "I'm fine too." I want a lot of people to like me."

Bai Xiaoyu said that even Ye Jia felt that he was a lucky person who grew up smoothly without any troubles.

"Have you ever experienced the kind of time when you were cheated penniless by an intermediary and just wanted to jump off the bridge?" Bai Xiaoyu looked up at him, a little proud, but also a little helpless, "I have experienced that day. I happen to be 19. Talent sucks, I need money!"

"Going down, life has no bottom."

Ye Jia looked at him silently, Bai Xiaoyu was still smiling, that smile was no different from that of an ordinary young man, it was so clean that it seemed that there was no trace of blemish.But he just said to you in the tone of seeing everything in the world: life has no bottom.

Ye Jia suddenly felt that it was really too difficult to comfort someone without any empathetic experience.

For example, he wants to say something easy now, but he just feels that all the words are not enough to comfort him.

"You can't rely on your benefactor to give you money for a lifetime. In the end, you can only go for a long time by relying on your talent. This has nothing to do with ordinary people or not." Ye Jia said.

Bai Xiaoyu turned her face away and said in a low voice, "I don't believe that I'm talented. Do you know how bad my manga data is?"

"You have to believe in your own talent, and then it's about hard work."

After finishing speaking, Ye Jia realized that Xu Ruibai had said this to him in this room.

"Then do you believe in your talent?" Bai Xiaoyu's eyes were burning but he had no malice. He was just a young man who was confused and troubled by his fate.