After getting on with the enemy

The banquet was the birthday party of the youngest daughter of Zhou Huiwen's business friend. The ostentation was very grand, grand and luxurious. There were many people from all walks of life who attended, and many of them were people who could be named. The situation was even more exaggerated than those shown on TV .

The day of birthday celebration was a holiday, and it happened that the two children were there, so Zhou Huiwen took Qiao Yan with her and asked him to be a companion with Zhou Xiyun, and they went there to see and play together.

Both Zhou Xiyun and Qiao Yan were willing to go, thinking of going there to join in the fun and pass the time, it was considered relaxing.

The dinner started at [-]:[-] p.m. and was held in a private villa in the suburbs. Most of the guests arrived at least half an hour in advance, and all of them arrived on time.

The Zhou family attended around 07:30. Zhou Huiwen wanted to go there earlier to meet a few business partners. He had to socialize and socialize in order to get closer and expand contacts.

Entering the scene, Zhou Xiyun and the others accompanied Zhou Huiwen to meet two more important characters. After that, there was nothing to do with the two little girls. They can make their own arrangements, as long as they don't run around, they can stay wherever they want.

Throughout the first half of the banquet, they were inseparable. Zhou Xiyun took Qiao Yan with him the whole time, eating, drinking and watching the novelty.

Qiao Yan felt very strange about that kind of occasion. It was the first time he participated in it, and he found everything interesting when he encountered it. He couldn't even walk, and he never stopped talking.

Zhou Xiyun didn't mind her acting as if she had never seen the world, so she helped to pick out delicious food and asked, "Do you want macarons?"

"Yes." Qiao Yan nodded without hesitation, and then whispered in her ear, "What is a macaron?"

Zhou Xiyun also replied in a low voice: "Small round cakes, sweet ones with cream in the middle."

Qiao Yan gestured and said, "Two more."

Zhou Xiyun understood and immediately followed suit.

Up to here, everything is still in place and nothing has gone wrong.

Zhou Xiyun is very happy that Qiao Yan can accompany her. She hates this kind of activities. Every time she participates in the past, she finds it boring. Only this time is different, and she is not so reluctant.When the dinner was about to end, she left halfway, her hands were stained with icing sugar and needed to be washed, so she turned her head to inform Qiao Yan, and said, "I'm going to wash my hands, you wait here for me, don't go away .”

Qiao Yan agreed straight away: "Yes, you go quickly."

Zhou Xiyun left for a few minutes, cleaned up and came back.

When he returned to the original place, Qiao Yan was no longer there. He didn't know where he was.

Looking around, Zhou Xiyun was taken aback when he saw no one. He thought Qiao Yan was lost, and subconsciously wanted to look for her everywhere.

Qiao Yan was actually standing under the corner of the wall, and only stepped forward to signal after a while.

Zhou Xiyun blurted out, "Didn't you tell me not to leave? Why did you suddenly disappear and I couldn't find you?"

Qiao Yan replied: "No, there were a lot of people there just now, standing and crowded, I'll stand in another place."

The little girl was a little different, her expression was obviously not as happy as before, she faintly revealed a little disappointment, her tone was languid, as if she had encountered something in those few minutes.

But at that time, Zhou Xiyun couldn't perceive it sharply, couldn't find out that something was wrong with Qiao Yan, so he didn't care much.

Zhou Huiwen also came to look for them at this moment, and told them to go see the master's house again, and it was time to return to the city later.

Zhou Xiyun took Qiao Yan with him, led the little girl through the final cutscene, and returned to the car not long after.

On the way home, Zhou Huiwen casually asked them what they did at the banquet, and knowing that the food there was quite to Qiao Yan's taste, she smiled and said to Qiao Yan: "Next time, if there is a chance, let Xiyun take you with me. .”

Qiao Yan didn't reply, just nodded his head.

"Are you tired?" Zhou Huiwen said, gently touching the top of the little girl's head, "There is still a long way to go home. If you are tired, you can sleep for a while. I will call you when you arrive."

Qiao Yan hummed, "Thank you, Aunt Zhou."

Zhou Huiwen smiled, patted Qiao Yan's shoulder until she closed her eyes and fell asleep, then turned to chat with Zhou Xiyun in a low voice, asking about the specific situation.

Zhou Xiyun also had a big heart at that time, and he still couldn't feel the clue at all. He spoke in a low voice, and soon said: "Qiao Qiao likes it very much."

An unintentional sentence was originally a statement of facts without too much meaning.

At the same moment, the "asleep" Qiao Yan shook his thick eyelashes, and involuntarily turned his head to one side secretly, no longer facing the direction of the mother and daughter.

The cracked gap came after that, and in the next two or three months, they became estranged for no reason, and they were not as close as before.

——At first, Qiao Yan was not very talkative, but the rest of his behavior was quite normal. After a while, he gradually stopped entering Zhou's house, and was busy doing some messy things by himself all day, making excuses like this and that, and finally he was a little cold The contact between the two slowly opened up the distance.

Step by step, bit by bit.

Zhou Xiyun didn't understand why, he thought it was because of the addition of Song Xinyu, and he didn't accidentally hear about it from others until a long time later.

At that banquet, during the few minutes they were separated, Qiao Yan was mobbed and made things difficult, but Zhou Xiyun didn't know about it, and those present also watched coldly, and no one went to stop her.

The cause of the incident was very simple. The small dessert in Qiao Yan's hand was not stable, and fell to the ground and rolled out, hitting the host's little daughter and accidentally soiling her shoes.

At that time, the group of sons, brothers, and ladies who surrounded the youngest daughter stepped forward to vent their anger. A group of older and younger children surrounded Qiao Yan and asked who Qiao Yan was. They all said they didn't know her and reprimanded her on purpose.

Qiao Yan apologized, and in a daze, he told who he was and who he followed.

The younger daughter didn't accept her apology, and when she saw that she was about to pick up the biscuits on the ground, her face changed even more. She immediately took half a step back and ordered Qiao Yan to stay away from her and not to approach her.

Qiao Yan didn't understand what that meant, so he casually took out a piece of crumpled toilet paper from his pocket and handed it over, wanting to let his little daughter wipe her shoes.

The youngest daughter's face immediately turned ugly, seeing that she didn't care, it became more and more certain that she was deliberately finding fault.The group of children thought so too, thinking that Qiao Yan was a jerk.

It's not a big mistake of either side, it's just that the children don't live in the same environment and have different cognitive concepts.Qiao Yan is used to being rough, thinking that it is enough to wipe the shoes clean with paper, and doesn't think it's a big deal, but the younger daughter can't understand her attitude, and she might make a mistake, so she feels annoyed.

The moment Qiao Yan reached out to the front, the youngest daughter snapped open Qiao Yan and got angry.

"I told you not to come near me, don't come over!"

The peers next to him also chimed in, scolding: "Stay away from He Song."

A child stood in front of him and pushed Qiao Yan, "Can't you hear me, get out of the way!"

Someone even said in a low voice, "Why did Zhou Xiyun bring her here?"

"Poor ghost, dirty to death..."

The scene was slightly chaotic, and Qiao Yan stood there alone, facing it at a loss.

After all, it's not time for preschool, and I won't fight as soon as I got angry like a few years ago. I know what kind of environment I am in, and I can't mess around to cause trouble for Zhou Huiwen. Until the crowd of onlookers dispersed.

This kind of experience hurts self-esteem, especially for children who are sensitive and growing up. The loss of face is more harmful than being beaten at home.

Qiao Yan didn't want to get close to that circle again. Knowing that Zhou Xiyun and his youngest daughter were friends, and knowing which family the Zhou family had close contacts with, he forbeared to stay away after returning.

It's not that he doesn't want Zhou Xiyun anymore, it's just to avoid contact with those people by staying away.

As for the embarrassment, Qiao Yan didn't tell anyone, not even Zhou Xiyun.

Children always do some behaviors that they think are appropriate, not comprehensive at all, but very effective.

This is different from the way adults handle things. Adults will look forward and backward, and generally think twice before acting, hesitating whether it is appropriate to do so, but children are more concerned about the results and don't care about the process.

Qiao Yan prefers to play with Song Xinyu, and always runs to Song's house.

There were several times when Qiao Yan wanted to drag Zhou Xiyun to Song's house, but Zhou Xiyun was unwilling and didn't want to go.

Zhou Xiyun didn't understand why she was like this, and asked bluntly, "Are you and Song Xinyu on good terms?"

Qiao Yan admitted without thinking, and said, "What's wrong?"

Zhou Xiyun felt sour in his heart, but it didn't show on his face, he casually said, "It's nothing."

Then again: "I still have to do my homework, I don't have time, you can do it yourself."

Qiao Yan really went and left her behind.

He didn't look back, and he didn't miss it at all.

Zhou Xiyun's lips were almost pursed into a line. Seeing the other party running away, it didn't take long for him to see his back.

The subsequent development is just like that, there is obviously no deep gap, but they have less and less contact.

The two are still the same, Zhou Xiyun is still the worry-free daughter with excellent grades, outstanding in all aspects; Qiao Yan is as troubled as ever, and the house is exposed to tiles all day long, and she is scolded by her grandmother every few days. Beat up and run around.

Xu Ziqing often talked about Zhou Xiyun, and used her as a positive teaching material to talk about Qiao Yan, wishing to remind her.

Qiao Yan said oil and salt don't go in, it goes in the left ear and goes out the right ear.

Song Xinyu came to Qiao's house more often, almost once a day, and went out to play wild with Qiao Yan, following Qiao Yan's wishes, wandering around the streets and alleys, having a great time.

I don't know when, a short avoidance becomes a long-term stay away.

Zhou Xiyun lay down behind the window and looked down, watching the two of them laughing downstairs.

Qiao Yan told her to go down too and let her eat on the street.

"I invite you." Qiao Yan raised his head and said.

Looking at Song Xinyu on the side, Zhou Xiyun tightened his hands and refused, saying that he wanted to read a book and was not free.

This sort of thing happened many times, more than once.

Zhou Xiyun refused, he didn't want to get involved in Qiao Yan and Song Xinyu's friendship, and be the extra one by the way.

Invisibly, the elders used this as one of the factors to reprimand Qiao Yan, and compared them repeatedly.

In order to urge Qiao Yan, who was not up to date, Xu Ziqing always talked about reasoning, and occasionally invited Zhou Xiyun to the opposite room to read Qiao Yan's homework together, ordering Qiao Yan not to go anywhere, and to stay with Zhou Xiyun to study hard.

During this period, Song Xinyu couldn't abduct Qiao Yan, and couldn't go anywhere.

For a while, Zhou Xiyun went to Qiao's house with books when he was free, and went without Xu Ziqing's door-to-door request.

Qiao Yan was full of resentment about this, and lay down on the table with no bones, and said weakly, "Damn it, why can't we rest for two days..."

Zhou Xiyun patted her on the back, opened the set of wrong questions, and told her to learn quickly without being moved.

Qiao Yan sighed, feeling that Huang Lian didn't have his own life.

"It was agreed last week. I was going to go shopping with Sister Xinyu today, but now it's gone again."

Zhou Xiyun lowered his gaze, still indifferent.

For the next half a year, due to the same reason, Qiao Yan was unable to go out with Song Xinyu many times and kept breaking appointments.

The little girl had a bit of resistance, but it was no match for Xu Ziqing's firm attitude, and she was not allowed to go out until she completed her academic tasks.

Suddenly, I graduated from primary school, and in the blink of an eye, it is another new stage.

In those two or three years, Qiao Yan grew taller like mushrooms after a spring rain. His slightly chubby figure gradually grew, becoming slender and thin, and he jumped up faster than his peers in the compound.

Without a sound, Qiao Yan was taller than Zhou Xiyun again, almost a head taller.

Song Xinyu was also taller, only slightly worse than Qiao Yan.

Zhou Xiyun didn't grow much taller, far behind them.

Qiao Yan finally had something to praise her for. When adults saw her, they would always say, "Oh, my hands and feet have grown, and I'm going to be a beautiful girl in the future. She's really pretty."

Similarly, Song Xinyu will also be praised, as long as he and Qiao Yan stand in the same place, everyone will laugh and say, "These two daughters... are like a pair of sisters."

Zhou Xiyun sometimes stood beside Qiao Yan, but the neighbors didn't talk like that.

As they grow older, other people's evaluations of them become more and more monotonous, just a few words back and forth, who is good at reading, and who is good-looking.

In the eyes of outsiders, Zhou Xiyun and the other children in the compound are two completely different students, different everywhere, and should not be classified into the same rank.

Zhou Xiyun didn't care at first, and didn't care what the elders thought of him, but when he looked back, Qiao Yan had already been classified to the other side, and was no longer her partner.

In the first year of junior high school, Grandpa Qiao bought a bicycle as Qiao Yan's birthday present, so that it would be more convenient for everyone to ride to school in the future.

Song Xinyu also bought a bicycle within a few days, which was of the same style as Qiao Yan's.

Zhou Xiyun also planned to commute to school by bicycle, but Zhou Huiwen refused. She felt that it was troublesome and unsafe, so she insisted on getting the driver to pick her up. She was not allowed to buy a bicycle, even with the lucky money.

Zhou Xiyun was stubborn. In order to fight for it, he didn't even take his own car. Instead, he walked or walked a certain distance every day before taking the bus to school.

Xijing Courtyard is not too far from No. 40 Middle School in City A, and it only takes more than [-] minutes to go back and forth.

On the way home on foot, Zhou Xiyun would often meet Qiao Yan and Song Xinyu cycling together.

Qiao Yan pedaled the wheels in a hurry, very satisfied with the new birthday present.Sometimes this person would stop beside Zhou Xiyun, use his long legs as a support, and ask, "Zhou Xiyun, do you want me to give you a ride?"

Song Xinyu also stopped, basically repeating Qiao Yan's movements at the same time.

Zhou Xiyun pulled the strap of his schoolbag, glanced at Qiao Yan, and said, "No need."

Qiao Yan said, "You're so tired from walking, come up and I'll give you a lift."

Song Xinyu put aside his good intentions: "Go up, let's go together."

Feeling uncomfortable, Zhou Xiyun remained indifferent, but still refused: "You guys go back first, I'm not in a hurry."

"Why are you so annoying..." Qiao Yan said, "Are you really not coming?"

Zhou Xiyun hummed.

Relying on her height, Qiao Yan touched her head as soon as she raised her hand, and rubbed her head twice like pulling her hair out.

"Forget it, I won't wait for you, see you later."

Feeling annoyed, Zhou Xiyun opened the man's paws and turned to one side to avoid touching them.

The two continued to set off by bicycle, and disappeared in front of them within 2 minutes.

Zhou Xiyun walks slowly, walking alone.