After hanging up the phone, Zheng Shuyi held the phone with one hand and scratched her hair with the other.
Although she kept telling herself not to be cowardly or cowardly, it would be easy to reveal her secrets, but when she saw Shi Yan from the corner of her eye, she was frightened.
"that… "
Zheng Shuyi hesitated to speak, thinking about how to phrase it.
Usually eloquent, the train in his mouth can run to the top of the Himalayas, but now he can't utter a word for a long time.
"busy?"
Shi Yan said suddenly.
"Ah, that's right." Zheng Shuyi nodded, "My friend invited me to soak in the hot springs today."
She scratched the hair on her forehead again, "Well, I didn't know you would come here today."
Shi Yan didn't answer immediately, and after scanning her face inch by inch, he quickly withdrew his gaze, looked straight ahead, and didn't speak.
Zheng Shuyi rolled his eyes around, not knowing where to look for a moment.
"Then what... what about our house, the night view is very famous, you can go and see it if you have a chance."
"Oh, yes, the grouper here is also very special, you have a chance to try it."
"..."
There were also some confusing words, but she couldn't say them anymore, because Shi Yan's eyes fell on hers, as if he had seen through the logic behind her behavior.
"Are you hiding from me?"
really.
You are so resourceful.
Zheng Shuyi swallowed.
"Why, how could it be? You come to my house to play, I'm too happy to be happy, how could I hide from you, it's just that I did have an appointment with a friend today."
After finishing speaking, she carefully observed Shi Yan's expression.
From the looks of it, her argument didn't seem very convincing.
"Really?" Shi Yan smiled.
But in the eyes of Zheng Shuyi at this moment, even if he smiled, he looked a little perverted.
"You're not going on a blind date, are you?"
Zheng Shuyi:
"No, no!" She shook her head crazily like a conditioned reflex, "Why do I have a blind date, am I in a hurry?!"
Shi Yan nodded.
Without saying a word, he unbuttoned his neckline.
If a woman's heart is a needle in the sea, then Zheng Shuyi's heart may be a paramecium in the vast ocean.
Last night, she spoke sweet words one after another, as if she didn't want money, her voice was sweet and soft, just like this person standing in front of her.
Shi Yan didn't know if it was because she drank at night, through the phone, she always felt that every word she said was scratching people.
After hanging up the phone, he blew the wind by the window for a while.
But still this morning, set off for the city.
However, when he appeared, the woman in front of him was like a frightened bird, she retracted into her shell when touched.
It seems that in this city, she has some ulterior secrets.
The silence on Shi Yan's side directly caused Zheng Shuyi's small theater to perform 800 times, and even thought out his own lines for going to the guillotine.
I don't know if he believes it or not, and I dare not ask again.
My mind is still in a mess, so I don't have the time to care what Shi Yan is thinking.
For a long time, Shi Yan suppressed the restlessness in his heart, put his arm on the car window, and didn't give Zheng Shuyi a look.
His voice became colder by two degrees.
"Where to get off?"
Zheng Shuyi immediately replied: "It's fine here."
As soon as the words fell, even the driver coughed violently.
He just felt that there seemed to be some man-eating monster in the car, and the girl wanted to slip away as if her ass was on fire.
Naturally, Shi Yan's complexion couldn't look any better.
He looked in the rearview mirror with emotion in his eyes.
After a while, he spoke.
"what ever."
—
The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day to welcome the God of Wealth.
Instead of visiting relatives today, Wang Meiru invited a few friends to come over for a table of mahjong, and there were two children watching cartoons in the living room.
The laughter from the TV and the sound of mahjong complement each other, creating a joyful atmosphere.
So when Zheng Shuyi came back, no one noticed her.
She didn't say a word, and walked straight to the room.
It wasn't until the door was opened that Wang Meiru turned around and said, "Are you back?"
Zheng Shuyi didn't respond, but nodded, and locked the door behind him.
The liveliness of the living room has nothing to do with Zheng Shuyi.
She kicked off her shoes, fell down on the bed, and stared at the ceiling.
The closed and quiet room gave her an environment to sort out her thoughts, and the scenes in her memories played back before her eyes like a revolving lantern.
Half an hour later, Zheng Shuyi understood for the first time what it means to keep cutting and straighten things out.
She sat up cross-legged, brushed her hair, and immediately made a voice call to Bi Ruoshan.
It took a long time to pick up over there.
"What are you doing? I'm playing mahjong!!!"
"Stop hitting, chat with me for a while."
"Let's talk about it tonight, I'm waiting for a comeback!"
"I overturned."
"Haha, what overturned the car?" Bi Ruoshan said with a smile, "You lost money too?"
"Your sister, I'm flirting and overturned!!!"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for two seconds.
Then there was the sound of chairs being pushed and pulled and hurried footsteps.
"Okay, there's no one here, tell me, what kind of flirt overturned?"
Zheng Shuyi took a deep breath, and told Bi Ruoshan what happened today with a blank expression.
However, what she got was wild laughter that lasted half a minute.
Bi Ruoshan even burst into tears from laughter.
"Isn't it, sister? Are you kidding me? Is it true or not?"
"I don't write novels, what stories should I make up?" Zheng Shuyi fell on the bed in a state of abandonment, "Don't laugh, I think I might die."
Bi Ruoshan was silent for a while, escaped from the absurd shock, thought about the matter carefully, and fell into the same emotion as Zheng Shuyi.
"It's kind of like that... I understand you now. After all, he is not an ordinary person, and his status is there. If he finds out about it, you will have no good fruit to eat."
The more Bi Ruoshan talked, the more she felt that this matter was embarrassing, "Men are all good-faced, let alone a man like him. If he is generous, it's fine, but at worst, he will never communicate with each other. If he is a little narrow-minded, then you will lose your job." It's a trivial matter, it's just a matter of one sentence when someone directly makes you unable to get along in this circle, I'm not scaring you, I've seen such a person."
Zheng Shuyi still looked at the ceiling without saying a word.
Are you scared
Of course I was afraid.
But besides fear, she has many other emotions now, and it is difficult to express it with just one adjective.
After a while, Bi Ruoshan said to herself for a long time without waiting for a response, and suddenly asked, "Hey, are you listening to me?"
"Yes." Zheng Shuyi sighed, "I'm looking at my chat history with him..."
The more I watched, the more frightened I became.
Now she has pulled out her role, and then read the disgusting things she said...
What evil has she done!
The other end of the phone was quiet for a long time, Bi Ruoshan thought of something, and said with a smile: "Why, sinking into memory and unable to extricate yourself?"
"Memory kill?" Zheng Shuyi's mouth froze, "This is a werewolf kill."
Bi Ruoshan laughed again for a while, "Sister, wipe away your tears and listen to me."
Zheng Shuyi: "Well..."
"I think, God knows this, you know it, I know it, since no third person knows—wait, does anyone else know?"
Zheng Shuyi thought for a while, "There really are."
"Who?!"
"I'm an intern, and I told her about it, but I didn't say who it was."
"Oh, that's okay." Bi Ruoshan heaved a sigh of relief, "Your intern has nothing to do with Shi Yan, it's okay."
She cleared her throat, and continued: "Then what I mean is, since Shi Yan has no chance to know the truth, you simply follow the plan."
Zheng Shuyi:
"No, your idea..."
"My idea is to have the best of both worlds!" Bi Ruoshan said, "I told you a long time ago, even if you don't plan on anything else, it's not a loss to fall in love with this person alone, right? Not only is it not a loss, sister, you have made a lot of money Okay!!!"
Zheng Shuyi's eyes moved slightly, and he slowly sat up straight.
"Let's do this, Yiyi, tell me, aside from other factors, do you like him as a person? I think there is no reason for you not to be moved by such a man in front of you."
"Do I like him?"
Zheng Shuyi remembered that time in the elevator.
His superficial kiss directly caused her to be fascinated for a long time.
She was lost in thought, muttering to herself, "I don't know..."
"Oh, that's not important!" Bi Ruoshan was impatient, "It's fine if he likes you! Now you just hypnotize yourself, pretend it's nothing, follow the current rhythm, wouldn't it be nice to have a relationship with him? "
Zheng Shuyi didn't speak, and grabbed his hair vigorously.
"I know that this hurdle in my heart is a bit difficult to overcome, but this is the best way at the moment. You should think about it carefully. Oh, let's not talk about it. My poker friend is urging me, and I have to go back to the battlefield."
A busy tone rang on the phone, but Zheng Shuyi held the phone in his hand, and slowly did not move.
It wasn't until Qin Shiyue called that Zheng Shuyi was brought back to the real world.
"Sister Shuyi, I'm at the hot spring hotel, come here, I've already opened the room. Oh, by the way, remember to bring your swimsuit."
—
In fact, Qin Shiyue was supposed to treat guests well at home today, but it was the same group of guests on the fourth day of the new year. She was so bored that she wanted to doze off every time, and she had to hold up a smiling face to talk with the guests. A double torment of body and mind.
However, she just got up this morning, standing on the stairs, listening to Shi Yan and her mother talking there, as if she was going to Qing'an City for something.
Qin Shiyue yawned, and the famous hot spring hotel in Qing'an City appeared in his mind, so he didn't care about other things, so he came here to accompany the banquet.
But Qin Shiyue was not in the habit of asking what Shi Yan was going to do, so he followed Shi Yan to Qing'an in a well-behaved manner.
When I checked in at the hotel, I suddenly remembered, isn't this Zheng Shuyi's hometown
that moment--
Qin Shiyue had no logic, no reasoning, just based on the circle of friends that he liked late at night, he felt that things were not that simple.
Therefore, she felt that Shi Yan probably came to see Zheng Shuyi. Otherwise, what can happen on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year? Who doesn't stay at home to welcome the God of Wealth
So she cautiously and tentatively asked: "Uncle, did you come to Qing'an to meet some friends?"
Shi Yan let out an "um", and seemed to be in a good mood.
This gave Qin Shiyue some more courage, causing her to ask: "Is it... Zheng Shuyi?"
As if some sensitivity had been touched, Shi Yan's brows twitched, and he looked sideways at Qin Shiyue, but didn't speak.
That's not denial.
This! Do not! can! enough! what!
Zheng Shuyi, she "belongs to herself"!
Qin Shiyue's mentality almost collapsed.
So not long after Shi Yan left, Qin Shiyue called Zheng Shuyi and asked her to take a hot spring to find out if Shi Yan was with her.
The answer is obvious.
The two were not together, otherwise how could Zheng Shuyi agree to her so readily.
But Qin Shiyue's brain usually doesn't have much use, it has accumulated a lot of fertile ground. Once some imagination is generated based on a certain gossip, it will quickly take root and grow into a towering tree.
—
But seeing Zheng Shuyi himself, Qin Shiyue was a little surprised.
"You don't look well."
Zheng Shuyi nodded listlessly, and said vaguely, "Busy during Chinese New Year."
Qin Shiyue gave her a very understanding look.
"It's the same. At our age, we can't play around like children, and we can't talk to the elders. We just sit back and forth, like meditating."
While talking, she led Zheng Shuyi to the hot spring area in the back mountain of the hotel.
Qing'an Hot Spring is famous far and wide, and there is an endless stream of guests.
Qin Shiyue also didn't want to bathe with others, so she spent money to open a private hot spring. It was located on the mountainside behind the villa, and the half-moon-shaped pool was surrounded by a bamboo fence. It was far away from other hot springs, and no human voice could be heard. The sound of the wind blowing through the woods.
An experience at noon seemed to drain all of Zheng Shuyi's energy.
When she was lying on the edge of the pool, she let the waves rippling on her body, which didn't arouse her interest at all, and there was still a mess in her mind that couldn't be solved.
Fortunately, hot springs have a calming effect.
Jin Wuxi fell, and it was almost dusk.
When she got up from the hot spring for the last time, Zheng Shuyi's mood had calmed down a lot, and she was in the mood to joke with Qin Shiyue.
In the bathroom, through the screen, Qin Shiyue wiped her body and said, "By the way, how was your blind date?"
Zheng Shuyi: "That's it, we both came out to perfuse our parents."
"Oh… "
Relying on the fact that Zheng Shuyi couldn't see her expression, Qin Shiyue wanted to inquire about gossip, so she stretched out her ears and asked, "Then what about you... the one you chased after, eh? How's it going?"
Similarly, Qin Shiyue couldn't see Zheng Shuyi's violently collapsed expression at the moment, only heard her say hoarsely: "No, no more."
"Stop chasing?"
"Forget it, it's too difficult."
Qin Shiyue was right.
It is said that women chase men, but it also depends on what kind of man they are chasing.
If it was a man like her little uncle, then there would be a layer of gauze covered with shock nets.
Speaking of Uncle...
Qin Shiyue was suddenly blessed to his heart.
"Don't be sad, or if I introduce my little uncle to you, he will definitely be more handsome and rich than that little uncle's little uncle!"
But when Zheng Shuyi heard the word "Little Uncle", Tianling Gai, who had finally calmed down, began to feel numb again.
"No, no! I don't want to know any little uncle!"
—
Although Zheng Shuyi refused outright, Qin Shiyue wanted to explore the relationship between her uncle and Zheng Shuyi.
It is definitely not daring to test her directly, but she has 180 indirect methods.
For example, she took Zheng Shuyi to take a group photo, and then sent it to the family group.
"Come to the hot spring with your good friends."
All the relatives were frothing, but Shi Yan didn't.
This made Qin Shiyue scratch his head even more.
The power of snooping and gossip was so strong that she stretched out her foot, opened Shi Yan's chat box, and frantically tried on the verge of being cut off from her source of income.
Qin Shiyue: Sister Shuyi's feelings are frustrated, and she took advantage of this good opportunity.
Qin Shiyue: If you hesitate, you will lose, and if you are decisive, you will be given in vain.
After posting here, she immediately and naturally connected to Zheng Shuyi's topic.
"Is it really not necessary? My little uncle is very good."
Zheng Shuyi quickly shook his head like a rattle, but Qin Shiyue still promoted her little uncle like a pyramid schemer.
Until the two walked to the hotel lobby——
Under the bright lights, Shi Yan came striding forward.
There were people coming and going around, he was dressed in a crisp suit, just like the first time I saw him, the gold-rimmed glasses were decorated with flashes of light, and the eyes behind the lenses were looking straight at Zheng Shuyi.
An invisible sense of oppression instantly surrounded Zheng Shuyi.
Why, just fucking, so, so coincidentally!
Zheng Shuyi petrified there, all the strings in his mind were tensed.
She watched Shi Yan walk towards them helplessly.
Then, Qin Shiyue called out "little uncle" with a smile, and Shi Yan responded with a soft "um".
Um.
Uncle...
Uncle? !
And then.
Zheng Shuyi saw Shi Yan and turned to look at her.
"What frustrated you emotionally?"
"..."
At that moment, Zheng Shuyi heard the sound of heaven and earth ripping apart tens of thousands of strings in his head.