I'm ignoring him, I'm going to confess to her
After finally taking care of this unexpected episode, the group was tired and hungry, so He Yu asked them if they wanted to go for a late-night snack. The first person to raise his hand in favor of this proposal was Bai Jing, who had nothing to do with them.
"Okay, okay, okay. How about some congee? There's a hotel on the Bund that makes the best shark's fin and sea urchin congee, how about going there?"
He Yu turned to look at Xie Xue.
Xie Xue wiped her tears and looked at Bai Jing somewhat unhappily, "I want to eat barbecue and garbage street."
"Then we'll eat on Garbage Street."
Bai Jing : "Ah ...... this is too ...... good ......"
Xie Xue was there, and He Yu, more or less concerned about Xie Qingcheng's face, also asked him, "What about you?"
"I'll pass. I'll take the dog for shots and an adoption check. If you want to keep it, I'll turn around and bring it to you."
He said glancing at Yellow who was sitting obediently at his feet.
Little Yellow, on the other hand, loved Xie Qingcheng and circled around him cheerfully, wagging his fluffy yellow tail, "Woof!"
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Half an hour later.
Huzhou night market stalls.
"Boss, ask for fifty skewers of palms, fifty skewers of lamb kebabs, ten skewers of grilled rice cakes, ten skewers of grilled shiitake mushrooms, a dozen of grilled oysters, and get five bottles of beer oh." Xie Xue greeted familiarly as soon as she arrived at the entrance of the barbecue store.
"Will this kind of place be dirty ...... I never eat it." Bai Jing held out two fingers, hating the tips of his fingernails as he fumbled with the greasy menu.
Xie Xue rolled her eyes in a good-natured manner, "Weren't you the one who insisted on getting in the car and following?"
"Aigoo, little sister, why are you being so mean. I'm hungry too." Bai Jing said as she moved to the seat closest to He Yu and nonchalantly positioned her honorable buttocks, "I'm just asking you to order something lighter, it's too late, I'm afraid I'll gain weight."
Xie Xue glared at her, slammed the table fiercely, and raised her voice: "Boss, cut ten more fucking rabbit heads in oil!"
Bai Jing: "You--!"
He Yu faded, "Then you can have twenty, I want some too."
Bai Jing: "......"
Kebab this job say simple simple, say difficult is also very difficult, the same is grilled palm treasure, change to do guys grilled on the lack of soul. And the boss arm upside down, bamboo stick a vibration, baked to the golden oil from the cartilage on the drip off the excess fat, ghee fell in the charcoal in a wonderful chemical reaction, the burnt aroma of grease and scattered star fire together up. Hidden in the smoke, the boss is like a hidden master of the world, his nose flickering, just a sniff can be caught from the smoke subtle flavor factors, know that this time to leave the fire.
So the plate on the table, presented while hot, a handful of skewers of the fire mastered just right, these comforting skewers seem to have become the son of the food industry's proprietor, tender one percent is too raw, old one percent is too faggy, crispy and appropriate, bite the fat can be squeaked in the mouth like snowflakes melting.
Xie Xue, a familiar customer, orders a table of kebabs that nearly overwhelms the small table covered with a light plastic tablecloth. While she's devouring the table, Bai Jing is still holding it together, doing his best to perform a face-changing trick that is the essence of Sichuan opera.
"Mr. He is not from Ala Huzhou?" Bai Jing winked his semi-permanent curly eyelashes and grinned with his pearlescent lip gloss, "He doesn't sound like he is."
He Yu smiled and asked, "Ms. Bai, are you checking your account?"
"Aiya, no la no la." Bai Jing busily waved his hand, awkwardly stroking his hair, "That, I've been to graduate school in Yan City before, from the Business Management Department of Yan City Economic University. Hearing that your Mandarin is quite standard, I was wondering if you could be from the north."
"Then you are a high achiever." He Yu smiled sardonically and rummaged through the roasting pan to pick up the head of a glaringly dead rabbit.
Bai Jing didn't hear it, and continued to ramble, "Yes, so I work at the counter mainly to gain experience, and I'll be promoted to management later. In the front line can grow knowledge, I have served quite a lot of stars and bosses, the other day I also met an actor, is the recent prime-time TV--"
He Yu clicked his white teeth and bit the rabbit's brain to pieces.
Bai Jing choked, as if the words she hadn't finished had been chewed up by He Yu through the air between her throat, and she instantly felt a slight pain in her neck.
He Yu smiled slightly, Bai Jing only realized at this moment that he had tiger teeth, but they weren't born too obvious, and only when he had to slant his mouth to smile would they show a little bit vaguely from underneath his thin lips. He Yu slowly and methodically ate the rabbit brain paste, "Ms. Bai said while eating, since you are here with us, you should not be hungry, do you not like rabbit head?"
Bai Jing panicked and waved his hands, "I, I usually have a small meal, just a few sips of coke and I'm full, no no no ......"
"Yes?" He Yu chuckled as he tossed the shattered rabbit bone onto his plate, "That's a shame."
Wine over three rounds, Bai Jing although in words and deeds convergence of some, but finally can not help but temptation, want to go to add He Yu WeChat. Seeing this, Xie Xue finally can not help it, this woman is and her big brother matchmaking, plus He Yu microblogging what? It's too disrespectful!
Therefore angrily:
"I'm sorry, he can't give it to you on WeChat."
"Why, are you his girlfriend?"
"I-I'm not!" Xie Xue said angrily, and began to make up, "But He Yu has a girlfriend, a big beautiful woman, with a ruthless personality, very good at being jealous, several years older than him, he is very strict, if he doesn't listen to him, he will slap him, and I have to keep an eye on him to see if he's being honest when he goes out. Isn't that right, He Yu?
Who expected He Yu to say lightly, "That's a Junta agent you're talking about."
Grass!
Xie Xue was so angry that she stomped on him under the table.
He Yu : "I don't have this kind of girlfriend, and I don't like big beautiful women who are very jealous and sexy."
Fuck that!
Xie Xue stepped harder, and realized that her feet hurt a little bit. She looked down and saw that she was stepping on the bottom shelf of the table.
He Yu smiled, immovably retracted his long legs that were leaning next to the bottom shelf of the table, handed the skewers sprinkled with peppercorns to Xie Xue's plate, and then turned his face to the expectant Bai Jing, "But then again, miss, I do have someone I like. That's why I don't add girls' WeChat randomly, so please forgive me."
Bai Jing was so upset, "Can't we be just friends?"
He Yu did not even smile perfunctorily this time, and his easy-going youthfulness seemed to vanish from him in an instant as he gave the other a quiet look.
"Thanks. But I don't think we're in the same world."
Saying this sentence was tantamount to invisibly removing the other party's steps, and the atmosphere was momentarily stiff and formidable.
He Yu drew a paper towel and wiped up the grease stains left by taking the sign, one finger at a time, then tossed the paper towel, coldly squinted past the wonderfully scowling lady, and calmly said, "I'm going to wash my hands."
Not everyone in this world is socialized white eyes can not understand human words, Bai Jing accurately received the cold hard attitude of this gold master handsome man who disdained her, and the woman surnamed Xie at the dinner table obviously experienced the previous things, and did not want to spend more time with her. Conscious of her embarrassment, she finally found a pretext to say that she had something temporary to do, and left the dinner table in a gray slip.
After a while, He Yu came back, saw that she had already left, raised his eyebrows, didn't even ask a question, and sat down beside Xie Xue with a face that nothing had happened.
Xie Xue rolled her eyes a few times and scolded Bai Jing a few times before she squeaked and crunched on two skewers of Paw Paw and turned her head to He Yu, "Did you just say that you have a favorite person? Really? Who is it?"
"I'm teasing."
Xie Xue patted her chest and took another small sip of her beer, "Oh, you scared me then ......"
He Yu paused slightly in the movement of his hand and looked at the side of the girl's heartless face.
"What are you looking at me for?"
"Are you scared that I have a favorite?"
"That's for sure."
"Why?"
"Because I'm still a bachelor... won't I not be able to come and hang out with you as often once you're off the grid?"
...... What a stupid reason.
Xie Xue : "What are you laughing at."
He Yu lifted his hand, his thumb gently wiping away the unintentional pepper from the corner of her lips, unfolding his brow as if nothing had happened and said, "How do you eat a kebab and still rub it on your mouth."
In fact, he had wanted to confess to her for a long time, and had been planning to do so since he returned home.
But He Yu this person is very careful, he feels that the confession of this matter, it should be a serious matter, rather than the hot-headed heart of the blood, and then do not think, in the streets of the noisy so many years of hiding their heart.
Thinking this way, he digressed, "Don't let your brother go on a blind date with this kind of young girl in the future, he's old enough to have a curmudgeonly personality, and the aunts of his generation can't stand him, let alone this kind of girl. How deep must the generation gap between her and your brother be."
"Why are you talking bad about my brother? It's not like he treats you badly!"
He Yu: "I'm telling the truth."
"I shucks!"
He Yu rolled his eyes, unable to understand Xie Xue's brotherly control, "Really, you take off the filter and take a closer look, your brother is an older, second-married man, and it's almost enough to find a more virtuous one with a good personality, and such a young one really doesn't suit him."
"Save your breath, my brother is so handsome and nice, why should he settle for anything?"
"He is handsome, all day long, he is high and mighty slanting eyes, and no one owes him." Speaking here He Yu eyes as if floating Xie Qingcheng that indifferent face, think of his slightly loose mouth, leaning over, teeth between the bite of the straw look.
That stance was as if any president was being served by an assistant as a matter of course, obviously not even paid. How can you be so chipper and provocative and sarcastic.
He Yu thought of a bit of fire, do not know pestle to "Mr. Xie" mouth must be replaced by what can make his calm sweep clean, in order to make his eyes confused, face by the woe and humiliation invasion.
However, would Xie Qingcheng really show that kind of vulnerable look on his face ......
He Yu had never seen it before, and after thinking about it for a while, he couldn't even imagine it.
"What are you thinking about?"
He Yu absentmindedly said, "I miss your brother."
"Huh?"
"...... I was wondering if your brother ever loses his cool and is outclassed."
"Oh, then you die this heart, since I remember I have not seen him like that. My big brother is particularly powerful, can be calm and tough, you do not look at him now all day suit pants with a book, he is like you so big time is our piece of the most dry fight, once a group of hooligans bullying me, he swung a person with a pole on their more than a dozen punks to clean up the carry to the police station ...... later that group of hooligans to see him on the difference between taking the carpet to him to walk the road. The carpet to him paved the way, all nodded and waisted tube him called brother, only one person except ...... but that is an individual phenomenon, can not be counted."
He Yu looked at the light glowing in her eyes and became even more uncomfortable, smirking, "Why are you still the same as when you were a child, when he is mentioned, you have a face of adoration, always thinking that your brother is your savior."
"He is! You have no idea how hard it was for him to raise me on his own as a father, mother and brother ......"
"Then you're also very obedient and save him a lot of trouble."
"...... Hey, I can't, I don't even have one tenth of his ability." Xie Xue shook her head while eating skewers, "Hey I can't I can't."
As the two of them talked, He Yu watched her in the smoke and fire of the boisterous wine shop, ashamed of herself, and found her somewhat amusing, and his eyes gradually became tender. He thought, such a good girl, he will not be the only one who likes.
He really couldn't wait any longer.
He Yu didn't go back to his dorm room that night; it was too late and he didn't want to disturb his roommates, so after dropping Xie Xue off at the faculty dorm, he had his driver drop him off at a hotel he frequented, took a shower and lay down among the fluffy goose down pillows.
"I'm here, you ......"
Fingers flew over the screen of his cell phone, but his thoughts touched off halfway through typing.
He Yu finally sighed, deleted the contents of the dialog box, gazed at the sleepwalking bear's avatar on the WeChat chat interface for a long time, and only sent the simplest two words.
"Good night."
He Yu thought it was Xie Xue's reply and immediately picked it up to read it.
But the message was actually from the Savior, and it turned out to be a transfer message.
"I just set a limit at the hospital's internet banking, and now that I've gotten it right, I'll pay you back."
He Yu already hated Xie Qingcheng's behavior, and since it was not Xie Xue's reply, he was even more cold.
"I'm just saving someone's life, why should you pay."
Xie Qingcheng also especially hated He Yu's behavior, but did not bother to argue with him, simply said, "That counts as a service charge."
"What?"
"You pay me for the service of driving, I couldn't find a young, strong driver like you who can race even if I got a chauffeur on the spot."
"......"
He's so capable.
How many people in the world would have the guts to chauffeur Mr. He around and pay him for his services?
And how that sounds just like whoring!
He Yu's eyes were hazy and he was about to go back again when he suddenly accidentally backed out and saw Xie Xue's chat screen.
He remembered again Xie Xue's bright eyes when she mentioned Xie Qingcheng, and the line, "You have no idea how hard it was for my brother to raise me all by himself ......"
"......"
Forget it, he's her big brother at least.
He Yu then replied, "You're welcome Brother Xie, in the future you need to call me at any time, I guarantee that you sit comfortably, back to satisfaction."
"Let's start by showing me your foreign car insurance claim."
He Yu's face darkened again: he shouldn't have given him a good look!
That's when the phone vibrated again.
This time it's not Xie Qingcheng, it's Xie Xue.
Xie Xue answered him back, "Good night! Thank you for today."
She came out of the bathroom of HU's faculty dormitory, wiping her wet hair and yawning, and had just fumbled with her cell phone when she saw He Yu sending her a good night message. She couldn't help but smile and replied back to him with this message.
Then she sat down at the table and opened her handbook, although these days hardly anyone uses pen and paper to record their daily lives, there are always a few oddballs who have this nostalgic heart and are willing to wander into yesterday with rusty ink, trimmed-tip pens, and beige pages.
Turning on the light on her writing desk, Xie Xue began to write her bedtime journal:
"My brother went on another blind date today, but that girl I don't like, I think ......"
I have written more than 500 words, probably because I have mentioned Xie Qingcheng's relationship status, and I can't help but think that I am still single.
Xie Xue sighed and looked out the window at the night with the street lamps glittering and floating.
She wasn't like her brother, who was a man already disappointed in love and marriage, living too soberly, with peach blossom eyes squinting over and looking at anyone who looked at him with a slight impatience.
But she is the one who has a favorite.
The figure of that man appeared in front of his eyes, and from time to time, since he was a child, he had seen him loitering in front of him, so close and so far away.
Though she was well aware that they weren't from the same world, the circle gap was too wide. Not to mention he was younger than her ......
But now that they were both at HU, she could also see that the crop of girls interested in him was more enthusiastic than the waves of wheat in the fall.
If she didn't tell him, time is running out, and if she passes by on the wrong shoulder like this, she might regret it later ...... and end up in the same situation as her brother - counting the trivialities of life with people who don't have much affection, saying vows that don't mean what they say, and Into the graveyard of marriage, and then someday swindle back from the grave, re-lonely, in order not to let the elders sad, but also non-stop blind date.
She sometimes really couldn't bear to see her big brother like this, she felt that Xie Qingcheng was living for others a lot of the time. He said that he didn't care about the eyes of others, but he was the one who cared the most about his relatives.
Xie Qingcheng lives too tightly.
She is not not persuade him, but every time the words between the lips and teeth are still half out of the box, when the big brother will cross her a glance, either let her study well to control their own, is to train her to say that the adult thing you do not care, you a little girl what do you know.
In fact, the person who knows the least about relationships is rather himself. He had lived a little over half his life, but had only gotten one very failed marriage.
"I want to try to confess to the person I like, since I was little my brother told me to be brave and I think it's the same in this case. Whether it succeeds or not, it's always an effort. When I think about it later, I won't regret it."
Xie Xue wrote the last sentence and closed the handbook.
What she didn't know was that a few kilometers away in a hotel suite, He Yu was having thoughts similar to hers ......
Published at: 06/09/2024 04:00