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Seeing Xia Xiaoli's happy face, Qiao Yu was also very happy.

Qiao Yu found that from the first time he saw the kid in the cafe, he seemed to want to do something uncontrollably to make him happy.

Whether it's ice cream, lychee and soda, or a birthday gift, Qiao Yu feels it's worth it when he thinks of the kid's surprised and satisfied smile.

This smile seemed to have magical powers. Every time Xia Xiaoli cheered, Qiao Yu felt that the sky was exceptionally clear.

In Qiao Yu's eyes, Xia Xiaoli has one advantage. He obviously grew up in a wealthy family and has seen everything, but he can still be easily moved by many things, whether he is angry, moved, or laughing. The palm-sized face is full of emotions and expressions.

Qiao Yu especially enjoyed seeing his expressive face when he was jumping for joy.

Sometimes Qiao Yu also likes when the expression is not rich, and when he is stupid and dumb, that is another kind.

Xia Xiaoli looked at the packs of parts in the carton, and felt that this was a big project.

Qiao Yu said: "Actually, after it's assembled, it's not particularly big." He gestured, "About a little over one meter."

"Huh?" Xia Xiaoli thought about it for a while: "But last time I was at your house, didn't I see that you had this model?"

"It's been a long time since I had that one. It was broken when I moved abroad, and I didn't take it with me when I returned home."

He didn't say that the previous bridge was deliberately broken by Lin Zhihua during a dispute with Lin Zhihua. Because it is a steel structure, even if it is broken, it can be rebuilt. However, Qiao Yu didn't want to move it anymore, as if looking at Seeing it is like seeing one's own feelings that are almost hopeless. Unless the time is reversed and divine power appears, otherwise, tinkering will only wait for the next bigger destruction.

Xia Xiaoli came up with an idea and said, "Then can I go to your house and assemble it with you?" He played a little tricky and said coquettishly: "I don't think I can handle it by myself."

Obviously, the big characters on the box said "Suitable for over 12 years old", Qiao Yu smiled, didn't poke it, and nodded as he wanted: "Of course."

"Then I'll go there tomorrow!" Xia Xiaoli struck while the iron was hot.

"Okay, I'll be home tomorrow."

"Brother Qiao." Xia Xiaoli called him. He liked Brother Qiao's gift very much and was very happy, but if he didn't ask for some words, he felt that he would not be able to sleep well at night.

"how?"

"Are you and my sister really going to get married?" Xia Xiaoli stared at Qiao Yu, her slender eyes and two rows of thick eyelashes remained motionless.

Qiao Yu looked into his eyes, and her heart skipped a beat subconsciously. Xia Xiaoli asked so seriously that Qiao Yu could even hear the bewilderment and sadness in his words.

He shook his head: "No."

"Your sister... If she still needs me as her boyfriend, I can help her, but I won't get married."

"Really?"

"real."

"I've been thinking about it just now..." Xia Xiaoli still held the gift box in her hand, and said blankly: "If you keep hiding it from everyone, you can only get married if you go on like this. Before you were urged to fall in love, then you were urged to marry, and then Being spawned a child, it's a dragon."

Qiao Yu was surprised, he didn't expect Xia Xiaoli to say this.

The truth is this, the simplest people are often the most direct, Qiao Yu admitted that Xia Xiaoli saw through the root cause of this matter at a glance, and it was useless to pretend and escape, Qiao Yu felt that when he promised Xia Xiaoberry, he also put It's easy to think about.

Whether he or Xia Xiaoberry pretended to be lovers, they would either lie for the rest of their lives, or resist tremendous pressure to reveal their true self.

It's not easy, the latter can at least have a clear conscience, while the former has spent countless minds, but finally reaped a lifetime of false life, which is too bad.

Of course, he knew that Xia Xiaoberry's suggestion was just a stopgap measure, and she never thought of going on like this forever. She was waiting for a suitable time.

"You're right." Qiao Yu nodded and reassured: "We won't get married. Both Xiaoberry and I know we can't go on like this forever. Today's situation is an accident. Neither she nor I knew that there would be so many relatives coming. And they all thought we were getting married, the news was a misunderstanding."

"It should be my mother who said it, but you guys gave her false hopes." Xia Xiaoli said, feeling her tone was a bit heavy after speaking, she shook her head again: "I'm sorry, Brother Qiao, I didn't mean to blame you."

"Give your sister a little time, I believe she knows what to do, okay?" Qiao Yu said.

Xia Xiaoli nodded, although she was still a little melancholy, but the anger and sadness just now had completely calmed down.

There were noisy footsteps on the stairs, the door of the room was smashed, and Jian Rong and Jiang Zhou shouted outside: "Xia Xiaoli! What are you doing hiding in the house? Come out to play, go down and eat cake!"

Xia Xiaoli climbed up to open the door, and three water monkeys rushed in. Seeing Qiao Yu in Xia Xiaoli's room, Jian Rong was stunned, then smiled and greeted: "Mr. Qiao, you are here too."

"Hello, Jian Rong." Qiao Yu replied calmly.

"Your second sister is back, downstairs." Jian Rong said to Xia Xiaoli, "You look unhappy, who messed with her?"

As soon as Xia Xiaocheng came back, he heard the news that Xia Xiaoberry and Qiao Yu were going to get married. Did he look better? Xia Xiaoli thought to himself, but he didn't say anything, and just pushed Jian Rong: "I don't know, go to the bathroom to use hot water Go down and change clothes, and go down to eat later."

A few water monkeys squeezed into the large bathroom in the hallway together. The high school boys took a shower as if they were fighting a war, playing with the nozzle as a water gun. Xia Xiaoli heard a ding ding bang next door in the room, sighed and complained: "Childish!" .”

Qiao Yu was directly amused.

The two girls also went upstairs to change their clothes, looked at the closed bathroom door next door, probed into Xia Xiaoli's room and complained, "You guys are so childish!"

Xia Xiaoli: "..."

Water was splashed all over the girl's face and body, and it seemed that some boys were restless and teased them with cheap hands.

After changing their clothes, a group of people surrounded Xia Xiaoli and went downstairs to eat the cake: "Let's go Xia Xiaoli, Teacher Qiao is here too, the cake is huge, with several layers!"

The cake was custom-made by Baizhu in advance. It has three layers and the fresh milk is specially made with lychee flavor.

The relatives finally let Xia Xiaoberry and Qiao Yu go, and pushed the protagonists of the party to the middle of the restaurant. The top layer of the cake had already inserted candles with the number 17.

"Little Li, or will Dad light the birthday candles for you?" Xia Yunhan asked him.

"Dad, let's order." Every year, as long as Dad is around, Dad will order.

The two numbers on the cake spewed out small sparks, Jian Rong patted him on the shoulder: "Quickly make a wish!"

Xia Xiaoli subconsciously looked at Qiao Yu who was on the opposite side of the cake. Brother Qiao's face was blurred through the sparks. Xia Xiaoli closed her eyes and said a few words silently in her heart.

The wish is simple, direct and short.

He hoped that the gods would bless him, and even more that he would work hard and live up to his wishes.

Qiao Yu took a photo with his mobile phone while Xia Xiaoli was making a wish. The young man on the picture had a sincere and solemn expression, as if praying for world peace.

He suddenly wanted to know what Xia Xiaoli wished, and what the boy's heart longed for most at this moment.

Qiao Yu thought, if she knew, she would really want to satisfy him and help him realize his wish.

Only a group of high school students shared the cake, and this process was another chaotic battle, the girls stayed away, Xia Xiaoli was covered in cream by the other three boys, and she couldn't get angry.

A group of childish ghosts!Xia Xiaoli wiped her face angrily, put the cream on her fingers and ate it directly into her mouth, emmmmm, it was so fragrant and sweet.

Dinner was in the courtyard, Baizhu knew that there were many people today, so she specially invited a team of professional chefs from the big hotel, and Xia Yunhan specially asked Qiao Yu to sit next to him during dinner, and the two kept talking.

Xia Xiaoli looked over there after a while, Xia Xiaoberry said to him: "Don't pester your brother Qiao, Dad has business with him."

Xia Xiaoli: Who's going to pester her... He looked at Xia Xiaocheng who was sitting across from her. This sister never took her eyes off Brother Qiao all night. Although she didn't strike up a conversation, her eyes gave everything away.

Xia Xiaocheng seemed to sense something, and rolled her eyes ferociously at the elder sister and younger brother opposite, meaning to see what was wrong, the elder sister knew what she was doing.

Xia Xiaoli laughed, Xia Xiaoberry didn't say anything, just rubbed Xia Xiaoli's head and walked away.

After the meal, Qiao Yu and Xia Yunhan went to the study room. Relatives left one after another. A few high school students played games again. It was quite late, and their respective family members came to pick them up, and they all left.

Qiao Yu was still in the study, Xia Xiaoli couldn't help it, went to the kitchen to get some fruit and knocked on the door of the study, "Dad, it's me."

"Little Li, come in."

Xia Xiaoli went in and saw a lot of blueprints spread out on the big desk in the study. He also leaned over to look at them, and saw that they were the blueprints of the Xingshui Bridge, which was about to start construction. ?"

Xia Yunhan said with a smile: "It's true, Dad's project is a little difficult, please ask Teacher Qiao to help."

"Brother Qiao has seen it, is there a problem?" Xia Xiaoli looked at Qiao Yu.

Qiao Yu and Xia Yunhan glanced at each other, Qiao Yu smiled and said, "A little problem can be solved."

"That's great." Xia Xiaoli nodded thoughtfully.

Qiao Yu couldn't help laughing: "Well, please rest assured that the leader will complete the task."

Xia Xiaoli blushed again, waved her hands again and again, and stuffed the lychee into their hands.

Brother Qiao is always joking with himself, really... I am embarrassed and a little happy.

When Qiao Yu left, the entire Xia family came out to see him off, and the big white Toyota car drove out of the courtyard, Bai Zhu patted Xia Yunhan on the shoulder: "Well, I'm not wrong, Mr. Qiao is really a good son-in-law. "

He tapped Xia Xiaoberry again: "You, change your temper, don't miss it this time."

Xia Xiaoli glanced at her sister, Xia Xiaoberry has been restraining herself today, and she didn't breathe a sigh of relief even now, she said behind Baizhu and Xia Yunhan's back: "Dad, Mom, I have something to tell you, let's go to the study to chat Bar."