After wearing the spare tire, I was with Bai Yueguang

The evening square dance event still failed to take place.

The owner of the farmhouse graciously presented the self-brewed fruit wine to the guests for a taste, but accidentally mixed it with the juice. Jiang Xuehe, who ordered the juice, was too inattentive, and after drinking two glasses, he was already a little groggy.

Yan Guiqiu didn't have a driver's license, so he had to ask Jiang Xuyu, who hadn't been drinking, to drive them back.

"Aren't you really going?" Jiang Xuyu still couldn't forget the square dance at night. "I didn't drink much, so I went to the square by the river to wake up. Exercising can also help you sleep."

Yan Guiqiu sat on the back seat, and Jiang Xuehe lay on her lap with his eyes closed, looking uncomfortable.

"Next time." Yan Guiqiu patted Jiang Xuehe's back intermittently, feeling a little distressed seeing her frowning, and stretched out her hand to open the window.

The cool night wind outside blows in, and Jiang Xuehe's expression eases a little.

Jiang Xuyu, who was ignored, mumbled a few more words for some reason, but couldn't hear clearly. He just turned his head and glanced at the stop at the traffic light intersection, and said, "I thought I'd improved a little over the years, but I didn't expect that my drinking capacity is still so poor."

Yan Guiqiu defended Jiang Xuehe who couldn't speak: "It's because the fruit wine has too much stamina."

Jiang Xuyu pouted: "Do you know what you look like now?"

Yan Guiqiu asked, "What?"

Jiang Xuyu said: "A parent who brags that my child is the best in the world every day."

Yan Guiqiu: "..."

"This is the first time I've seen her so quiet when she was drunk." Jiang Xuyu said again, "I used to attend some gatherings, dinners, etc., and I didn't see her and collapsed on the spot when I was drinking until my mind went blank."

It means that Yan Guiqiu is here, which reassures her.

"But she didn't drink much before, and her parents didn't let her drink." Jiang Xuyu took advantage of Jiang Xuehe's inability to get up to stop him, so he continued, "Has she told you about her family?"

Yan Guiqiu shook his head and said, "I never asked."

Jiang Xuyu said: "Actually, she has worked very hard these years. You should have heard of the reason why she went abroad before, right?"

Yan Guiqiu nodded, and said tactfully, "I've heard some rumors."

"Normally speaking, I definitely won't give way." Jiang Xuyu glanced at Yan Guiqiu in the rearview mirror, and suddenly remembered that this is also the master who took the initiative to give way, so he couldn't help but pause before continuing, "But Xue Crane is also thinking about old love."

Yan Guiqiu listened to Jiang Xuyu's talk about the Jiang family.

Jiang Xuehe was obviously still awake, and moved his body slightly, but he didn't get up, nor did he speak to stop him.

Some things are easier to hear from others than to tell them yourself.

Jiang Xuyu and Jiang Xuehe are cousins ​​separated by three generations. Because in the early years, Mr. Jiang missed his old love and brought his brothers to make a fortune together. Therefore, the relationship between the whole family is relatively close. More often.

Of course, gossip news also spread faster.

For example, the love story between Jiang's father and Mrs. Jiang once spread vigorously throughout Jiang's family.

When Jiang's father was old enough to get married, the Jiang family's company was still in turmoil, and its foundation was not solid enough. Mr. Jiang originally found a daughter of a partner's family for him, hoping to help his company through marriage.

But when Jiang's father came to meet him, he regretted and refused, saying that he had someone he liked.

It was Mrs. Jiang later.

Mrs. Jiang's natal family didn't have much influence, and they didn't even have anything to do with business. Her parents were middle school and elementary school teachers respectively.

Although Mr. Jiang was a little dissatisfied, seeing his son's insistence, he finally complied. He put down his old face and turned down the partner. He almost turned against each other because of this.

The matter had been in trouble for a while, but it was finally over. I thought that my son could bring him back well, and it was not a bad thing to get married and have children earlier.

Who knew that twists and turns would arise one after another.

First, there is the matter of Mrs. Jiang's age. At that time, Mrs. Jiang was still in college, so she counted her age in retrospect. Jiang's father had taken a fancy to her when she was just an adult. The wife is still two years away from the legal age of marriage.

After Mr. Jiang figured out the situation, he called his son out and beat him up - Father Jiang was eight years older than Mrs. Jiang.

Moreover, Mrs. Jiang was a rare female college student in that era.

Mr. Jiang's family conditions were not good when he was a child, and he was forced to drop out of school halfway through his studies, and he was worried about it for half his life.

In his eyes, it was a heinous crime for his son to affect the studies of female college students.

But after all, the two had made a private decision for life. The classmates in the school knew that Mrs. Jiang had a fiancé, so the old man had no choice but to turn a blind eye in the end, saying that they would marry after Mrs. Jiang graduated.

In just two years, outsiders have seen a lot of excitement.

Mrs. Jiang's ex-boyfriends and crushes lined up to find trouble, and her parents were exposed to owe sky-high debts for unknown reasons. After losing her job, some creditors came to the school to block her door, saying that she would use her people to offset part of the debt. Arrears are fine too.

Jiang's father and Mrs. Jiang broke up and reunited at least three times due to various misunderstandings. The last time they got back together was because Mrs. Jiang found out she was pregnant in her senior year.

At that time, Jiang's father was still not sure if it was his child, but seeing Mrs. Jiang's mentally exhausted appearance, Jiang's father finally decided to let go of all grievances and concerns, and proposed to Mrs. Jiang again, and made it clear that whether it was his child or not, He will treat it as his own.

Mrs. Jiang was moved by his sincerity, and finally nodded in agreement.

Mr. Jiang, who had inquired about the situation clearly, was furious. He refused to allow his son to marry that woman, and even made a fuss to the point of severing the relationship.

In order to live a good life with his pregnant lover, Jiang's father had to choose to compromise. He didn't dare to hold a wedding certificate, but he still moved in together.

Until the birth of the first child, Jiang Xueyang, Mrs. Jiang took her son for a paternity test and confirmed that it was Jiang's father's biological son.

She said that she had never been with anyone in those years except for her ex-boyfriend and Jiang's father-even her ex-boyfriend was actually a baby kiss arranged by the family. She only held hands when she was young and ignorant. The boyfriend's family unilaterally cut off contact.

Jiang's father was both guilty and moved, turned his head and begged the old man again and again, and moved him with emotion and reason.

It wasn't until Mrs. Jiang became pregnant for the second time that Mr. Jiang finally let go.

The second child was naturally Jiang Xuehe.

Because her arrival made the family settle down, everyone from the old man to Jiang's father and his wife regarded her as a lucky star. Jiang Xuehe was very favored when he was young.

Compared to his elder brother Jiang Xueyang, Jiang Xuehe is more popular with everyone.

In addition to the timing of her birth, Jiang's father loves the house because she is a daughter and heard that she looks a lot like his wife when she was young. Mrs. Jiang's life has settled down since then, and the old man loves this little granddaughter very much, and loves her very much.

When I was young, when I went to visit my grandpa to pay New Year's greetings, the red envelopes Jiang Xuehe received were always thicker than that of his elder brother, and Jiang Xuehe was usually the only one who was left to accompany his grandparents to eat and stay overnight.

It is not an exaggeration to say that thousands of pets are gathered in one body.

Mentioning Jiang Xuehe's childhood, Jiang Xuyu couldn't help being speechless just by recalling it: "At that time, calling her a princess was not an exaggeration. I really wanted to pick off the moon in the sky for her."

"It's not like ordinary children like us, who would be caught and whipped by their parents for stealing two pieces of imported chocolate." Jiang Xuyu said sourly, "It's not like snow cranes, they are all randomly selected according to the box."

"Is that two yuan for you?" Jiang Xuehe interjected with his eyes closed, "Stolen half a box of presents for a big client, anyone would beat you up."

"You're still awake." Jiang Xuyu glanced at her, still a little guilty, "I didn't say anything bad about you."

Jiang Xuehe gave a "hmm" and replied lazily, "I'm listening."

After saying this, she fell silent.

Yan Guiqiu gently pressed her scalp, and asked her in a low voice if she felt any discomfort.

Jiang Xuehe held Yan Guiqiu's hand with his eyes closed, squeezed her palm, and said nothing.

Yan Guiqiu raised his head and asked Jiang Xuyu: "Then what happened after that?"

Jiang Xuyu glanced at the rearview mirror and said, "Later? Then he became a child that no one loves."

Jiang Xuehe didn't stop his nonsense.

"Later, no one could tell, maybe Xuehe knew it himself?" Jiang Xuyu said slowly, "When we noticed, her parents started guarding her like thieves, probably because they thought their daughter would marry off eventually. Surely no son can be trusted."

In the face of interests, everything is possible.

"When Xuehe went abroad a few years ago, many people rumored that she made a mistake, but in fact it was Jiang Xueyang who made a mistake in making a decision. Opportunity——" Jiang Xuyu paused, "The old man must still believe in Xuehe, but what about feelings...it's not something as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division."

It used to be good and it was really good, and the relationship was even closer than that of ordinary people. The young Jiang Xuehe thought that his family would be his last support, but he didn't expect that the stabbing knife came from behind first.

Perhaps the elders have rich experience and can more easily let go of the emotional part given, but it was very difficult for Jiang Xuehe at that time.

No matter from the perspective of "feeling" or "gratitude", Jiang Xuehe at that time could only choose to back down.

If the family she cared about the most must get those things, it doesn't matter if she backs down a step.

For her, those benefits are gone, and she can slowly earn them back by relying on her own ability, but kindness and affection are as heavy as mountains, whether she wants to redeem or return them, those external things None of them are inescapable.

Jiang Xuyu felt that her family was not worthy of her compromise, but it was not that she couldn't understand her choice.

If he were to face the same situation, I'm afraid he would collapse even more than Jiang Xuehe——

I thought that the only person in the world who could be trusted and relied on was no longer credible, so what else is there to believe in?

It's not much better than the whole world collapsing directly.

Jiang Xuehe's ability to withdraw so calmly was already admirable.

Jiang Xuyu paused while talking, Jiang Xuehe didn't interrupt, he glanced at Yan Guiqiu, wondering if he had talked too much: "You probably don't understand that kind of pain... But you are also very powerful."

Simply abandoning all interests from the beginning, extinguishing the possibility of that kind of thing happening from the root.

Throughout the ages, it is not uncommon for brothers to fight against the wall.

I don't know if Yan Guiqiu had the foresight, or if he just let go because he found those things troublesome.

But this boldness is enough to make people look at it with admiration.

When investigating Yan Guiqiu, he was more shocked by her ability to give up without hesitation than her amazing ability when she was young.

At first he thought Yan Guiqiu was too stupid, but when he thought about Jiang Xuehe again, he had to say that this might be a very wise choice.

From another perspective, it also shows that Yan Guiqiu is a very affectionate person.

"... I'm relieved to leave the snow crane to you." Jiang Xuyu couldn't help sighing in the end.

It sounds more patriarchal than Jiang Xuehe's parents.

Yan Guiqiu laughed, looked out the window, and reached out to stroke Jiang Xuehe's hair, wondering what he was thinking.

When they arrived downstairs at Jiang Xuehe's house, Jiang Xuehe had already woken up.

"Remember to drive the car back for me tomorrow." Jiang Xuehe took off the car keys and got out of the car with only the house key.

Jiang Xuyu didn't leave immediately, but leaned on the car window and asked Yan Guiqiu: "What do you think?"

Yan Guiqiu asked back, "How about what?"

Jiang Xuyu said: "Xuehe, don't you think she is very pitiful by herself now?"

Yan Guiqiu looked back at Jiang Xuehe next to her, reached out to hold her hand, and clarified solemnly: "This is not pitiful."

"...I didn't mean that." Jiang Xuyu said dryly, "Although it's good to have you with her now, but...she is alone in the Jiang family, don't you feel bad?"

He blinked desperately at Yan Guiqiu to hint.

Yan Guiqiu looked at the sky, pretending not to understand: "Aren't you human?"

Jiang Xuyu: "..."

Jiang Xuehe interrupted at the right time: "Okay, you can go back to rest early. Guiqiu is still in school."

This is a direct refusal from Gang Yan Guiqiu.

Jiang Xuyu was somewhat reconciled, thinking that for whom did I work so hard to sell miserably, fortunately he also deliberately studied the law of drama that suppresses desire and advances first.

With Yan Guiqiu's awesome ability and so many resources associated with him, even if he only uses a little bit, it can make Jiang Xuehe feel a lot easier.

But this matter has to be voluntary by Yan Guiqiu.

Seeing that Yan Guiqiu was about to waver, Jiang Xuehe jumped out first to block it.

What is this called?

It's a matter of mutual benefit, and it's not something that they are asked to do that will affect their feelings.

Jiang Xuehe's defense was obvious, and his attitude was clear, Jiang Xuyu couldn't say anything more in the end, and sighed in despair.

"Forget it, forget it, as long as you are happy." Jiang Xuyu waved his hands weakly, "See you tomorrow."

"See you tomorrow." Jiang Xuehe and Yan Guiqiu stood on the steps, watching the car turn around and go out, then turned and walked up.

The elevator on the first floor had a sign saying it was under maintenance, and the elevator on the other side was a bit far away. Jiang Xuehe didn't live too high, so the two simply took the stairs to go up.

"Do you think I'm going too far?" Jiang Xuehe slowly asked the question that had been lingering in his heart for a long time.

"Why is it too much?" Yan Guiqiu asked back.

"After all, they are my family. They are connected by blood. They have worked hard to raise me up and treated me very well." Jiang Xuehe's tone slowed down when he thought of the atmosphere of Yan Guiqiu's family, "You will think I am like this Is it too harsh?"

"No." Yan Guiqiu said without hesitation, "Since we are no longer family members, we have become enemies. There is no need to be merciful to enemies."

Yan Guiqiu shifted his gaze a little, looked at the last two steps on the ground, and continued: "If it were me, I might be more heartless than you."

Her tone was calm, Jiang Xuehe felt that she was comforting him, so he couldn't help but squeezed her hand even more.

Yan Guiqiu didn't go out of his way to explain, but just gave Jiang Xuehe a comforting smile, and then asked her: "Why were you in such a hurry to get back to your cousin just now? He was also worried about you, and... maybe I changed my mind? "

She made a joke, and Jiang Xuehe laughed too, but his attitude didn't soften.

"I don't need him to use this method to 'persuade' you for me." Jiang Xuehe said, "Today I can ask you to help me because I am 'poor', and tomorrow I can ask you to do other things because of other unavoidable reasons. Things you don't want to do."

"I'm not that stupid." Yan Guiqiu argued, "If I really don't want to do something, even if you put a knife on my neck, I won't do it."

"I know." Jiang Xuehe paused, and continued, "If you are willing to get to know me better, I will be very happy. But I can't ask others to ask you for anything because of my existence."

So she let Jiang Xuyu talk tonight, and finally told him with a clear attitude - no.

"I don't want you to be wronged." Jiang Xuehe finally said.

They stopped at the door of Jiang Xuehe's house. The lights in the corridor were bright, and the corridor was empty. Yan Guiqiu looked at Jiang Xuehe, and could only hear the sound of his heart beating.

In the flat tone, there is a precious and important affection.

Yan Guiqiu didn't want to admit that because of lack of love, he was so easily moved that his eyes were slightly hot, and his heart was hot.

She subconsciously shifted her gaze away, and before she realized it, her mouth was already bald.

"I'm hungry," she said.

As soon as the words came out, both of them froze for a moment, and then Jiang Xuehe laughed "puchi", and the frozen ambiguous atmosphere was instantly broken. She took out the key and opened the door, and groped a few times on the wall at the entrance. With a "snap", the light was turned on.

"It's so late, let's make you some millet porridge." Jiang Xuehe put the key on the cabinet in the entrance, changed his shoes, and went straight to the kitchen.

Yan Guiqiu closed the door with his backhand, and said "hmm" twice.

In fact, she was not hungry at all. After all, she had just returned from dinner, and she was just eager to say something to get rid of the speechless state, so she didn't go to her head.

Now that Jiang Xuehe had already bent over to open the cabinet, she couldn't say no to it.

It wasn't the first time she came to Jiang Xuehe's house. The last time she came here was when she just came back from Ningcheng. She came here to pick up things and roughly figure out the layout of the house and the furnishings in the living room.

It is obviously not a place where people are often treated. The decorative flower branches in the corner have withered a little. The other places are clean and tidy, but a little empty. Except for the cups on the dining table, there are almost no messy things. The scene I saw when Yan Guiqiu came last time Almost the same as now.

But it's not too strange, Jiang Xuehe didn't come to Yunhua City not long ago, and this room was probably added temporarily after he came. Yan Guiqiu even forgot to ask her whether she rented it or bought it directly.

Usually Jiang Xuehe stays in the gallery most of the time, and there is also a separate two-bedroom room behind the gallery, with a bathroom and a kitchen. Sometimes she is too busy, and she will spend the night in the gallery.

She shouldn't be here for long.

But even so...

Still a little too deserted.

Yan Guiqiu couldn't help thinking in his heart.

When he was in a trance, Jiang Xuehe had already boiled the porridge and came out with two cups of warm water.

"Want to watch TV?" Jiang Xuehe asked her, "It will take about half an hour to cook the porridge."

Yan Guiqiu could only nod his head.

Jiang Xuehe looked sober at this moment, except for the warmer indoor temperature that made his face a little bit, he didn't feel drunk when he spoke and acted. While turning on the TV with the remote control, he took a small sip of water from the cup.

Yan Guiqiu also took a sip subconsciously, it was sweet, probably with honey added.

When the TV was turned on, it was the news channel. When Yan Guiqiu heard the anchor announce the time, he subconsciously looked up at the time in the upper right corner.

Exactly ten o'clock at night.

For many young people these days, nightlife is just getting started, but it's also mostly indoors.

Either way, it's time to go home.

So why did Jiang Xuyu send her here?

Do you think she will take a taxi back by herself, or because... you think they are a couple?

While drinking water, Yan Guiqiu began to think wildly again, and occasionally glanced at Jiang Xuehe beside him from the corner of his eye.

Jiang Xuehe was still holding the remote control to tune the channel.

The TV dramas of major TV stations have already started broadcasting. From family ethics dramas to costume conspiracy dramas, Jiang Xuehe has tuned back and forth, but did not hear Yan Guiqiu saying that he is interested, and finally tuned back to the news channel.

The news is talking about a large-scale explosion in a certain small country, how many people have been killed, and how many people are still being rescued.

Neither of them could remember which corner of the earth this country was in, but they looked at it seriously.

When the next time signal sounded, the two of them woke up as if they had just woken up from a dream.

Jiang Xuehe got up and went to the kitchen to look at the porridge, and Yan Guiqiu was not interested in continuing to watch the advertisements by himself, so he also got up and followed.

The lid of a pot of millet porridge was opened, and hot steam burst out, rushing up to the ceiling of the kitchen in an instant.

Yan Guiqiu's gaze circled along the ceiling, and followed the smoke to the outside of the kitchen.

——This is how it looks like it has gained some popularity.

Yan Guiqiu thought a little out of place.

Jiang Xuehe turned off the fire and turned to look at her.

When Yan Guiqiu turned around, he met her hesitant eyes.

"Today..." Jiang Xuehe hesitated for a moment, looked at the time again, and said, "It's too late, it's not safe for you to go back alone, just stay here, and I'll see you off when Jiang Xuyu returns the car tomorrow morning go back."

After a pause, Yan Guiqiu realized why Jiang Xuehe was so hesitant.

"But there is only one bedroom here." Jiang Xuehe said apologetically, "I can only make you feel wronged and sleep with me tonight."