Lofty future

"……"I'm speechless.

As if seeing the doubts in my heart, he took the initiative to explain: "I saw you at the school, and you drove away before I could call you. I had no choice but to chase after you. I didn't mean to follow you."

"I didn't think so either," I changed the subject, "Why, do you want to go to the store? There are all your fans over there, so you can hold a meet and greet on the spot."

"I wanted to go, but I won't go now." He drove the door directly and got out, putting on a pair of sunglasses.It’s okay if you don’t wear it, but if you wear it, it immediately attracts the attention of passers-by, “Your little pink car can barely fit in the back, let me stuff it in for you.”

"No need, it's such a hassle. She wants to go to the mall, and your identity is not easy to show off." I improvised.

"It's okay, I have a disguise, if I don't want to be recognized, I won't be recognized."

"...A place like a shopping mall is crowded with people, it would be bad if something happens."

Hearing this, he pursed his lips, drawing dissatisfied lines.With a layer of sunglasses behind him, his eyes looked distorted, as if he was impatient, or just helpless.Don't argue with me anymore, just ask Jasmine directly.

"Little friend, can uncle take you to the Zhongzhou Bridge for a lap around the sea? There is a big square, a beach, and an amusement park over there. When Father Sun goes down the mountain, the scenery will be beautiful!"

From just now, Jasmine has been looking up at him.Hearing his words, once the upper lip was closed and the lower lip was retracted, the teeth lightly bit the tip of the lip, with a hesitant look on his face.

After a while, he turned to look at me: "Ah Cheng, he's the one, but it's in the phone..."

Well, even six-year-olds know him, he is really a household name.

I was about to answer the call, intending to introduce them formally, when he spoke first: "Look, she wants to go, let's go—"

He stepped to the rear of the car in two steps, opened the tailgate, and stood there waiting.

This is really a tiger stuffing its back directly, it seems that I have to ride if I don't want to ride.

I really don't understand why he is so interested in dealing with us people from the past.As soon as people get rich, don’t they rush to cancel their QQ accounts, delete WeChat friends, and get rid of poor relatives?What's wrong with him?Do you want to come back to seek the long-lost family?

That's really not the case, Song Weiran and I only account for poverty, not relatives.

"Xiang Cheng, hurry up, I will be recognized if I stand like this!"

"..." Didn't you say that if you don't want people to recognize you, you won't be recognized?

"Ah Cheng," Jasmine's little hand grabbed my collar and tugged, she leaned over and whispered, "Let's go, but I told me about him, he is not a bad person."

Half an hour later, I squatted on the beach of the man-made sea with Jasmine's schoolbag in hand, watching her shovel sand and dig pits with the children I just met.Chi Xue answered the phone as soon as she got out of the car, and she was coaxing her lover right now.

The conscience of heaven and earth, I didn't mean to peep into his privacy.

The call lingered on his phone screen for a long time, with the word "baby" written on it brightly, and he waited until he stopped to answer it. He opened his mouth in a standard lover's crooked tone, I don't think it's hard to know.

It seemed that his phone call would not end for a while, and Jasmine didn't want me to play together, so I became a pure bag-carrying person, so I had to watch the scenery.

It's still early, and the beautiful scenery of the setting sun is still far away.However, the Central Continent Peninsula is always beautiful.

The view is wide, the viaduct surrounds the artificial sea, and in recent years, seaside parks, squares, and amusement parks have been built around the area, creating an exquisite and leisure landscape with a full set of artificial methods, which can be regarded as a star tourist attraction.

Jasmine likes this place very much, but unfortunately Song Weiran and I are both busy, the last time we brought her here was last summer.

In a child's world, the time from one summer to another spring almost catches up with half a lifetime.It's really hard for me to refuse her eager eyes, so come on.

Seeing her having fun, I took out my mobile phone to take pictures and videos of her and send them to Song Weiran.

Song Weiran replied in seconds: Why did you go there?

I simply replied: I met Chi Xue, he took us...

It doesn’t seem very good to say this, so I deleted the second half of the sentence and typed it again: Jasmine wanted to come here to play, and he was willing to bring it, so he came.It won't be too late to go back, don't worry.

As soon as the message was sent, Chi Xue's voice suddenly fell into my ears clearly: "That's it, I'll hang up if there's nothing else to do."

His tone and attitude were different from when he just answered the phone, and it seemed that there was a conflict.I pretended I hadn't heard about it, and switched to my Weibo.When I opened it, I was shocked by the message bar.

I usually don't receive a single red dot in 800 years, but now there are nearly four-digit comments and reposts in the message column, and the number of followers has increased dozens of times than my original number of fans.

My first reaction was that it was related to the person next to me, so I couldn't help but glance at him.

He was walking towards me, met my glance, and smiled on his tense face: "How about it, isn't this place beautiful, are you in the right place?"

I raised my lips and smiled: "Yes."

Regardless of Weibo, even if there is a big event, it is already there, and I will not change anything immediately.If there is something that needs to be dealt with, Chi Xue's agency should be able to handle it.

I put away my phone and walked towards Jasmine: "Be careful when playing with sand, come on, wash your hands first, don't accidentally rub your eyes."

Jasmine didn't even raise her head: "I don't know how to rub my eyes, I'm not a child anymore!"

"..." I forcibly grabbed her paw, took out mineral water from my schoolbag, twisted it, and rinsed it clean for her.

"Oh, Cheng, you're a little annoying today!" She struggled to pull her hand away, ignoring the cleanliness that had just been restored, and inserted her fingers into the soft sand again.

Chi Xue laughed out loud: "Xiang Cheng, you see, Little Jasmine doesn't want to play with you at all, so just let her go! Come chat with me."

I don't want to chat with you, friend!I rolled my eyes inwardly.It's okay, if the women's college is not allowed to stay, I, as an uncle, can only kneel down and return to the original place.

"Xiang Cheng, are you hiding from me?" Chi Xue suddenly asked after being alone with each other in silence for a moment——no, it wasn't a sudden question, but she wanted to ask a long time ago, I could hear it.

It was also a matter of course that my familiarity with him hadn't faded away like I thought it would.

He was standing next to me, and he didn't smell like the perfume before, and I knew for sure that he realized that I didn't like it and probably didn't wear it on purpose.When he opened his mouth to say this, I could tell its situation without even thinking about it.

In such insignificant matters, I know him so well.

But why he is standing by my side at this moment, I am at a loss.

"Then why! Why should I hide from you? You brought us so many customers once you came to the store, I wish you would come every day." I smiled brightly, slightly squinted my eyes and turned my head to look over, "I knew Song Weiran and I should also take a photo with you, and it will be hung on the white wall on the first floor in the future."

"You and Song Weiran have such a good relationship." He greeted me without a smile in his eyes.

Again, it's so easy to throw face at me.I don't even know which word in my words offended him, could it be because of Song Weiran?Doesn't make sense?I can't see it at all.

I still answered the words smoothly: "Of course, I met her only a few days after I was born."

"Then why aren't you with her? Whose child is she now? Why are you taking care of her? You haven't considered forming... Oh, I almost forgot, you are already living together."

He deliberately distorted what I told him about "living together" in his tone, as if Song Weiran and I were just a prelude to getting together now, and whether we were friends or not was just a shameless nonsense.

I'm a little upset.

According to my feeling, he must have understood my explanation last time, not to mention that he is not clear about the personalities of me and Song Weiran, and it is really irritating to have such a strange combination of yin and yang.

"You can think what you want," I chuckled lightly, "after all, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future."

Hearing this, his eyes darkened deeply.It seems that when the night is approaching, the lights that were originally on were suddenly turned off.Obviously not wearing sunglasses, the meaning inside has also become blurred.

He turned his head and looked into the distance, speechless.

I also turned my face back and looked at Jasmine.

As it was getting late, Song Weiran called just before sunset and asked Jasmine how she was doing and if she could go home.Molly still has energy, but her little friend is being called home for dinner.

Seeing the impatient faces of other parents who were on the verge of going crazy, she replied very reluctantly: "I've had enough fun, I'll go home with Ah Cheng later."

The parent of the other party immediately used her words to persuade the child: "Let's go, you see everyone is going home, you still play, who will play with you? Come back tomorrow!"

Jasmine put the shovel into the bucket, and handed the handle to her little friend: "Go home and eat, I'm going to eat too, see you tomorrow."

"Alright then." The two children waved to each other.

The little friend left, and Jasmine stood on tiptoe puffing her cheeks, her eyes slowly turned away from her friend's back, and she looked up at me.

"Cheng, can we still come tomorrow?"

I shook my head as usual: "I can't promise, because this matter is not in my plan."

"But I promised Xiaohui..." She showed pleading eyes, "You just bring me here, please!"

I pretended to be thinking seriously, and after a moment, I replied: "I can promise you once, but you have to remember that next time you have to make sure you can do it before you can make an appointment with other children, okay?"

She immediately beamed with joy: "Okay!"

"Then let's go home."

"A Cheng, I'm tired, you can carry me on your back."

"I'm here to get the schoolbag." Chi Xue stretched out her hand towards me, waited for half a second, and took the schoolbag over without waiting for my statement.

I moved my lips, but without making a sound, I squatted down and let Jasmine climb onto my back.

Walking back a few steps, I couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional.The most beautiful sunset has finally arrived, but we leave it behind, isn't it a pity.

"Xiang Cheng." Chi Xue stopped at this moment and called my name.

I turn around.

At that moment, we looked at each other like countless times when we were young, we had quarrels for no reason and reconciled for no reason, and the smile lines appeared in the corners of each other's eyes, and everything became intimate again.

"Take a picture, it's not in vain."

He smiled and narrowed the distance, raised his arm and put it on Jasmine's body, his fingers naturally dropped, and the fingertips touched my right shoulder.

When Jasmine saw him bring up the front-facing camera, she immediately made a scissors gesture expertly and grinned, revealing her sweetest and most photogenic smile. After several "clicks" in succession, Chi Xue finally put the phone back in satisfaction.