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?The dinner table was very lively.

As soon as Zhou Yanghe picked up a piece of braised pork ribs, Qin Yitong cut it off. The other party raised an eyebrow at her, very proud.

That's right, why isn't it exciting to have such a living treasure here?

She is actually very grateful to Qin Yitong for coming to visit when he is free. After Zhou's father passed away, Wu Hong was really lonely by herself. There was nothing else to do except watching TV and embroidering cross-stitch. Qin Yitong didn't have a boyfriend before. , Now that I am almost married, I am still willing to come and go, it is really touching.

Although she herself said that she wanted to find sustenance with Wu Hong because the second elder in the family had been missing all year round.

Yu Xi ate his meal absent-mindedly, with a smile on his face and a friendly face, his heart was full of jealousy, and he ate several mouthfuls of sauerkraut in an attempt to fight poison with poison.

The familiarity of Qin Yitong and Zhou Yanghe was very dazzling in her eyes, and there were bursts of speculation in her mind, so that she began to regret her impulsiveness.

"By the way, Yu Xi, where do you plan to live?"

Suddenly Qin Yitong clicked on the list and Yu Xi looked up, "I don't know, I'll go to the hotel and book a room later."

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Zhou Yanghe quietly, hoping that the other party would take her in, but Zhou Yanghe seemed to turn a deaf ear, and was eating seriously. When Qin Yitong saw her dead, the villain in her heart scolded It was a big deal for her, but he still worked hard and started talking.

"Speaking of which, do you plan to go out this time when you come back?"

"No, I've found a job."

"Oh~"

Wu Hong gave Zhou Ruihe a bowl of rice and handed it to him, and asked by the way, "Where do you work?"

"It's a teaching assistant in the Music Department of Songcheng University."

"Ruihe also went to college there, but he didn't study music. Listening to Yanghe said that you haven't been back for several years. It turns out that the community has been demolished..."

"Ah? Demolition?"

"That's right, I don't know what kind of business district is going to be built. Wannan and Wanhubei have been demolished," Wu Hong said in a rambling voice. ..."

"Where's Uncle Zhou?"

"It didn't happen a few years ago, and the blood pressure was too high." Wu Hong said it calmly, Zhou Rui and Zhou Yanghe sat like normal people, and the atmosphere became dull for a while.

"Auntie, do you know that Zhou Ruihe is dating?!" Qin Yitong said suddenly.

"what"

"I rely on Sister Tong Tong, you can't talk nonsense, how can I!!" Zhou Ruihe was aroused immediately, and insisted on reasoning with Qin Yitong.

"A few days ago, I went to buy egg waffles at the gate of your university and saw it."

"What kind of egg waffles do you eat at such an age!" Zhou Yanghe, who was also "a handful of age", sighed and shook his head. It was really hard for Zhou Ruihe to get along with Qin Yitong.

"Your brother-in-law is here at my age!" Qin Yitong was not to be outdone.

……

Yu Xi who heard the word "brother-in-law" pricked up his ears, listening very seriously, trying to sort out useful information from these trivial conversations.

After eating this meal, Qin Yitong was exhausted physically and mentally, so he simply stayed at Zhou Yanghe's house to help Wu Hong clean up the dishes, and said to Zhou Yanghe wearing an apron, "Take Yu Xi to find a hotel, I'll wait for you Come back and go." He pushed her to the door and whispered: "Don't hold back, it's hard to talk about it when everyone is back." He also gave her a "you understand" look.

Zhou Yanghe: "..."

She put on her coat, picked up Yu Xi's suitcase next to the shoe cabinet, and said to Yu Xi who was standing blankly aside, "Let's go."

The voice-activated light turned on because of the sound of closing the door.

Zhou Yanghe was about to go down the stairs with Yu Xi's suitcase. Yu Xi's suitcase should have a lot of things in it. Zhou Yanghe felt that it was heavy when he carried it with one hand. Put it on top.

"What is so heavy? When you first came up, did you and Qin Yitong lift it up?"

Yu Xi stared at Zhou Yanghe without blinking. She didn't dare to look at Zhou Yanghe just now when everyone was there, but now that they were the only ones left, she became unscrupulous.Zhou Yanghe has changed quite a lot—he has grown taller, and he was only a little taller than her in short heels when he was wearing high heels just now. He also wore a pair of round-rimmed glasses, and his back was arched because of carrying a suitcase. , a part of the scarf fell off, but it also covered half of his face.

Zhou Yanghe, who hadn't heard a response for a long time, turned his face to look at her. When he met her, Yu Xi lowered his head in embarrassment, and blushed in disbelief: "Yes, they were carried up together. I don't know why this Kind of heavy."

Still with this kind of virtue, I must have stuffed all kinds of messy things into it, and I don't know if it is overweight.

Zhou Yanghe grabbed Yu Xi's body calmly, picked it up vigorously and went downstairs.

Yu Xi followed behind her in a panic, his voice lower than that of a mosquito: "If it's serious, I'll do it."

In the end, Zhou Yanghe didn't change his face when he carried them to the first floor.

She patted the suitcase and said to Yu Xi, "Wait for me, I'll go drive."

The wind was quite strong at night, and it hurt her face when it blew it. Yu Xi put on the hat of the down jacket and looked at the lights of the building in front of her. She rubbed her hands, and the breath dissipated after a while. She told Zhou Yang and that paragraph What about the feelings that disperse but never disperse?There was always a lack of an appropriate time to sort it out. She held her face in her hands in a daze. A black Chevrolet stopped in front of her. Zhou Yanghe got out of the car and said to her: "It's cold, you get on first." Let's go." He pulled the suitcase and put it on the back seat.

Yu Xi sat in the passenger seat and stared blankly at Zhou Yanghe, but Zhou Yanghe didn't intend to speak at all, and didn't sing, and just drove to the hotel dryly.

Yu Xi just watched Zhou Yanghe park the car in a daze, entered the hotel lobby, took out his ID in a daze, sat on the bed in a daze and watched Zhou Yanghe boil the water.

The sound of the electric kettle was particularly loud, and Yu Xi suddenly said, "Yanghe, can you talk to me for a while."

Zhou Yanghe, who was playing with his mobile phone by the wall and waiting for the water to boil before boiling another pot, raised his head innocently: "I didn't ignore you."

Otherwise, why am I still boiling water here?

Yu Xi's lips moved a few times, but he still lowered his head in dejection, and after a while he dawdled to open the suitcase and tidy up his things.

"Are you determined to be here?"

The movements of Yu Xi's hands paused, and as soon as his eyes lit up, he turned to look at her: "Do you know where there is a house for rent?"

"I'll go back and find it for you. You can stay here for a few days first."

Zhou Yanghe cut off the topic tepidly.

The two of them remained silent for quite a long time. With a "click", the water in the electric kettle boiled. Zhou Yanghe picked it up and poured it into the bathroom. The scalding water was poured into the washbasin and even the mirror was covered with water. Her vision was also blurred, so she simply took off her glasses and stuffed them into her pocket.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Yu Xi blocking the door.

"what happened?"

"Can you talk to me?"

"Okay, wait for me to get the pot of water," Zhou Yanghe turned on the tap, "you can clean it up first."

When she came out after receiving the water, she found Yu Xi was sitting upright, she smiled secretly, put the kettle on the base, and pressed the switch.

"Let's talk," she sat on the edge of the bed, a little distance away from Yu Xi. "Why did you suddenly come back after so many years of no news?"

As soon as Yu Xi heard Zhou Yanghe say this, she knew that she was very resentful, and she was at a loss for a while before she spoke.

"I did not do it on purpose."

"Then have you been back in the past few years?"

"Come back once."

"Oh."

In the winter vacation of the first semester of the sophomore year, I waited happily for Yu Xi to come back like in previous years, and went to the streets and alleys.Those who waited became disheartened. Since then, the number has never been called, and the emails sent have never responded.I have asked many people, but there is no news.The winter in my memory was extremely cold, and the sound of fireworks and firecrackers suddenly became silent.

When Zhou Yanghe was upset, she would unconsciously tap her fingers on her knees. Her slender fingers looked more slender on the black trousers. Yu Xi found a small scratch-like scar on her thumb.Zhou Yanghe seemed a little sleepy, so he squinted his eyes and sat up a little more.

Yu Xi stared at the hands on her knees, wanted to reach out to touch them, and even hugged the person in front of her who had been away for four or five years. She seemed to be always ahead of time, and she always had a stronger personality than her peers. A little more stability and practicality.

She sat down with Zhou Yang and Na, whispered something in her ear, and anxiously waited for the other party's reaction.

Zhou Yanghe was stunned for a long time when he heard this, and asked, "When did it happen!?"

"It was that year."

Zhou Yanghe suddenly woke up without any sleepiness. She couldn't believe it, so she raised her eyes and looked at Yu Xi carefully.

There was a bit of struggle in his brows and eyes, his face was as pale as the white down jacket on his body, and the eyes with upturned corners were glistening with water, as if tears would fall in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Yanghe's heart softened, she thought she would persevere a little longer, but she still couldn't remain indifferent when she saw Yu Xi like this.She extended a lot in Yu Xi's vague words, and it was hard to imagine what the girl she liked had experienced in the peaceful and carefree life she thought she would live.

"Yu Xi, all these years..." How are you doing?The second half of the sentence was still not uttered after Zhou Yanghe stumbled on the tip of his tongue for a long time, Yu Xi moved his hand from the quilt bit by bit, first hooked her index finger lightly, seeing that Zhou Yanghe did not refuse, Slowly wrapping the opponent's hand in his own.

Zhou Yanghe's hands were about the same size as Yu Xi's, and the interlocking of his fingers was a long-lost familiarity that made Yu Xi almost cry.The person in front of me may have changed their clothes and tone, but the feeling left on the skin will never be forgotten.

shall we start over?

Yu Xi thought about this sentence for a long time, but it became difficult to say it again.

She always felt that she owed Zhou Yanghe a lot, and there were many questions that had been imagined countless times in her mind and wanted to blurt out, so mixed feelings finally became a sentence: "What about you?"

"I?"

"That's it, it's good, at least it's good to move to a new house and buy a car to work."

Yu Xi looked down at the interlocking hands of the two, and the thin eyelashes cast a small row of shadows under his eyes, and said in a low voice: "What else?"

Zhou Yanghe was not stupid, he could hear what Yu Xi wanted to know.

"Well, I've made a lot of friends," Zhou Yanghe paused, "but I still don't want to go deeper."

We haven't parted yet... she thought to herself.

As if remembering something, Zhou Yanghe asked, "Do you still have my cell phone number?"

"I didn't change it, it's still the same."

Yu Xi nodded.

"Then you change the number and call me again."

At this time a call came in, Wu Hong asked Zhou Yanghe to bring a bottle of shower gel when he went back, saying that it was almost used up.

Zhou Yanghe checked the time after hanging up the phone, it was almost eight o'clock.

"Take a good rest, you must be tired after tossing around like this today." After speaking, he was about to stand up.

Yu Xi didn't let go.

Zhou Yanghe muttered: Why are you like a child.

Afraid that Zhou Yanghe would get angry, Yu Xi could only let go of her hand, and Zhou Yanghe stroked her hair accordingly.

"Have a good rest these few days and don't rush to work, right? I'll talk to Qin Yitong to help you find a house."

"Let's go first, don't send it off."

The last sentence was rather decisive, and Yu Xi could only watch Zhou Yanghe leave.After a while, she picked up the phone and looked through the address book, and called Shan Shuang from the landline beside the bed.

"Aunt? Are you asleep?"

"Not yet, Xixi, are you here?"

"Ah."

"Meet someone? How is it?"

"I don't know whether to say yes or no." Yu Xi was a little depressed.

"Don't be too impatient, tell them well, after all, it's not your fault," Shan Shuang frowned as if thinking of something, "I'm sorry, Xixi, if..."

"Auntie, don't do this," Yu Xi interrupted Shan Shuang, "It's all over."

……

When Zhou Yanghe arrived home, Qin Yitong was chatting casually with Zhou Ruihe, and Wu Hong had already gone back to bed.

As soon as Qin Yitong heard the movement, he rushed forward and asked, "What's going on!!!"

Zhou Yanghe put on slippers and pushed away the big face in front of him, then walked towards the room, Qin Yitong followed up smugly, and closed the door thoughtfully.

"She has a reason too."

Qin Yitong said "oh", and was prepared for Zhou Yanghe's obvious softening attitude. She and Zhou Yanghe went to the local university together, and they were inseparable for four years in university. Sesame rotten millet is also well aware of the matter.She also noticed Zhou Yanghe's changes. Fortunately, she didn't develop into a taciturn MAX, but turned a corner and began to become more tactful. In addition, people and friends gradually increased.

The "veteran" Qin Yitong can only temporarily retreat occasionally, watching this girl make drastic efforts for her future life.She couldn't be emotionally generous, Zhou Yanghe also wishfully invested in this seemingly hopeless relationship with Yu Xi, ignoring other people's overtures, as if walking alone was also willing.

But it's better for Yu Xi to come back than not to come back.