Mu Yanzhu's eyes met Jiang Qingchi's gaze.
"Ahem."
Someone cleared his throat, pretended to be cold and looked back, resting his cheek with one hand and lowering his head to read.
"It's just a birthday. Just celebrate it today. Don't take chances. It's really impossible for me to go out to dinner and a movie with you tomorrow."
Then after class, Jiang Qingchi left.
Like every night in the past, Jiang Qingchi walked in front and Mu Yanzhu walked in the back. No one said anything. But when she walked to the dormitory building, he always took a look and saw that she had arrived safely in the dormitory, and then walked to his dormitory.
The next day, July 25th.
Jiang Qingchi had classes to attend in the morning, so he got up early with his roommate.
Several people walked to the restaurant. Jiang Qingchi was used to going to the most expensive window to get food. He swiped the meal card and the number displayed on it...
Thirty-six cents.
No money? ?
Didn't he just buy a late-night snack yesterday, and the two hundred yuan was just gone
"Mr. Chi, have you finished shopping?" Several roommates went to other windows to buy the simplest buns and soy milk and came over.
Jiang Qingchi hurriedly put the meal card into his pocket, pursed his lips, and said, "I remembered that I forgot to bring my textbook. You guys should eat first. I'll go back and get the book."
If these sons knew that their father was actually poor, they might laugh at him.
Li Huan and Jiang Qingchi, who were in the same dormitory, had the best relationship. They patted him on the shoulder and said, "I have a book. We can just read the same one. The teacher doesn't care about this class anyway."
"Forget it, I'd better go back and get it, you don't have to wait for me."
After that, he left.
As he walked, he scratched the hair on the back of his head.
bother.
The feeling of having no money is no different from falling into hell.
Why don't you apologize to your father today
I just said that I don’t want to run a fast car, I want to study hard and make progress every day.
It doesn't matter if he lowers his head. The younger one gives way to the older one. Now his father supports him. When he can make money in the future, he will say to his father: "Look, now I support you and let you stay in the nest."
That’s it!
Let’s talk about it when we get home tonight.
But you still have to eat breakfast, so first ask the lady in charge if you can get it on credit.
Jiang Qingchi walked around the door of the dormitory twice until it was time for class, then he went to the cafeteria.
I am destined to be absent from this class.
Looking around the canteen, he was wondering which aunt was nice, but he didn't expect that the most expensive window aunt waved to him.
Jiang Qingchi walked over puzzled.
"Young man, after you failed to swipe your card just now, a little girl paid for your meal."
The aunt smiled and put the food that had been served in front of Jiang Qingchi:
Fragrant egg rolls, two slices of bacon, two slices of toast, a plate of vegetable salad, and a cup of rich black tea.
Jiang Qingchi frowned slightly: "Which little girl?"
"I don't know him. He's quite fair and wears glasses. When he smiles, he has small dimples on both sides of his mouth. He's quite pleasant."
As soon as Jiang Qingchi heard this description, he knew who it was.
I said "thank you" to my aunt, and then took the food and found a place to eat by myself.
It was only after he finished eating that he saw a note stuck on the back of the teacup.
"Jiang Qingchi, have a good meal!"
Mu Yanzhu's handwriting.
There was also a big smiley face drawn on the back, which was very silly.
He felt sour, and he didn't know why.
…
"Mr. Chi, what happened to you today?"
A roommate teased Jiang Qingchi.
"You were absent from class in the first period and distracted in the second period. How about becoming the top student you promised yesterday?"
"..." Jiang Qingchi ignored him.
He lay on the table with his eyes closed, his arms bent to support his face.
He was sitting next to the window, and the sun was shining all over his face, and his hair was covered with golden luster. His black pupils flickered, and his handsome face was enough to take the breath away of countless girls.
Jiang Qingchi is a bit lazy, especially when his eyebrows are lowered, like a big wolf dog with its big ears pulled down, and the whole person becomes more well-behaved.
The teacher was spitting on the podium, but he didn't listen to a word and stared out the window without moving.
His roommate poked him on the shoulder twice and told him to get on the King quickly, but he said he was no longer interested.
"What's wrong with you?" Li Huan smiled, "If you don't know, you'd think you're falling out of love."
"go."
Jiang Qingchi sat up straight, then took out his mobile phone and sent a message to someone unknown.
During the break, Jiang Qingchi left directly. It was the first time for him to skip half of a class this year as a sophomore, and it was also a high-level math class with a high chance of being called on.
Jiang Qingchi took a taxi to the Huanglin Hotel near the school.
He sent a message to Jiang San'er in class and found out that his parents were coming to Ningda. Jiangbeiyuan donated two experimental buildings to Ningda. Yan Nian came with him. The two of them knew that Jiang Qingchi was in class, so they didn't notify him. he.
"Mr. Chi, it's rare that Old Man Gao didn't ask a question by name today. You're lucky!"
Jiang Qingchi saw the news of Li Huan's arrival, replied "I understand" and got out of the car.
Jiang Beiyuan and Yan Nian were in the presidential suite on the top floor of the hotel.
San'er said that the two of them would eat and rest here at noon and then go home in the afternoon. Then their godmother and godfather would come over to celebrate Yan Nian's birthday together.
"Hello, do you want to book a room?" The little girl at the front desk stood up and faced Jiang Qingchi with the gentlest smile.
Jiang Qingchi: "I'm looking for someone, Jiang Beiyuan."
Then he went up.
"Dong dong."
Stand in front of the presidential suite door and knock on the door.
The person who opened the door was a handsome man with a slender figure, wearing a white bathrobe, with slightly hanging black hair.
Jiang Qingchi looked at Jiang Beiyuan's pair of deep and alluring peach blossom eyes, and suddenly felt a little emotional, why his father had not changed much over the years, but he and his younger brothers and sisters had grown up, taller and wider without knowing it.
"Tell me something." Jiang Beiyuan leaned against the door, his voice was very light.
Jiang Qingchi: "Where is my mother?"
"sleeping."
Are you sleeping in broad daylight? !
Jiang Qingchi was speechless, "Dad, you don't have three hundred taels of silver here."
Jiang Beiyuan looked at him quietly. His face had no expression, but he felt very oppressive.
Jiang Qingchi took out a handbag from his schoolbag and handed it over.
"This is a birthday gift for mom. I won't go home tonight..."
Jiang Beiyuan took the bag and glanced at it. Seeing that he didn't frown, Jiang Qingchi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Has this gift gone through security check
"Three minutes to state your justification."
"Dad... I am no longer the little kid I used to be." Jiang Qingchi muttered.
Jiangbeiyuan was in a daze for a moment.
Looking at the young man in front of me, he is as tall as himself, with an outline of his eyebrows, and the look of Yan Nian. Unknowingly, he has really grown up, and time has passed between his fingers like running water.
More than ten years, perhaps because the years are quiet and stable, they are fleeting.
"It's your mother's birthday and you, the eldest brother, are not here. Is it okay?"
Although they were words of reprimand, Jiang Beiyuan's tone was soft.
Jiang Qingchi lowered his eyes, "I have a very important friend. She has her birthday today and no one is with her. I promise, this is just this once. I will definitely celebrate my mother's birthday next year."
"girlfriend?"
"No! Just ordinary friends."
Then Jiang Beiyuan let Jiang Qingchi leave.
Before leaving, he told Jiang Qingchi that he would personally call his mother at night to say happy birthday to Yan Nian, and then go home on the weekend to make up for his mistakes.
Jiang Qingchi said yes!
Jiangbeiyuan closed the door and entered the bedroom with his handbag.
Yan Nian rubbed his eyes, "Hubby, I seem to hear the sound of Dachi..."
"Well, I'm here to bring you a gift. I'll spend the evening with his girlfriend, so I can forgive him for once."
Jiang Beiyuan put the gift on the table, sat on the bedside, touched Yan Nian's hair, and kissed her face.
He couldn't get enough of this woman in his entire life, and he had deep feelings for her from past and present lives.
Yan Nian was confused at first and muttered...
The next second, he sat up suddenly, startling Jiangbeiyuan, and asked her what was wrong.
Yan Nian grabbed his arm and said, "Hurry up and give your son money. Of course he will spend a lot of money to fall in love!"
Jiang Beiyuan snorted, "He didn't ask me for money just now."
"Oh, are you my biological father? You don't spend money when you're in love?!"
Jiang Beiyuan thought for a while, "When I first chased you, apart from charging you 10,000 Q coins, I didn't seem to have spent much money."
"That's because I'm easy to cheat!"
Jiangbeiyuan: "..."
Then, Jiang Beiyuan promised Yan Nian to transfer money to Jiang Qingchi's card!
However, there are no eggs!
Jiang Beiyuan was not the kind to lick his face and ask: "Son, do you have enough money? Dad can give you some money. If it's not enough, ask dad again."
Jiang Beiyuan will never be able to say such words in his entire life!
He doesn't have the temperament to ask questions.
When Jiang Qingchi had no money to spend, he would naturally ask him for money.
If he doesn't ask for it now, it means he knows what he wants, so why bother with him
…
Mu Yanzhu's birthday this year is very bleak.
She gave herself a day off, slept all morning, casually ordered a takeaway at noon, and then wandered around the school like a ghost in the afternoon.
"I like your eyes, your eyelashes, your profile..."
The phone rang. It was a call from her brother Mu Ran.
Mu Ran is Mu Yanzhu's cousin, the son of his uncle and aunt, and is in the third grade of junior high school this year.
"Hey Muran?"
"Sister, how did you celebrate your birthday this year?"
"I have a bunch of sisters accompanying me," Mu Yanzhu lowered her head and danced with the green grass in front of the library, smiling.
"Really? The little girl in your dormitory is not taking the postgraduate entrance examination, but is serving as a soldier. She still has time to celebrate your birthday with you?"
"Isn't it because I'm pitiful and unloved? Of course you have to celebrate my birthday with me."
"So have you eaten the cake now?"
"Eat it. The 64-inch cake is super big and delicious. I'll take a photo and send it to you later!"
Mu Yanzhu thought that she would find a picture of the cake from the Internet and send it to Mu Ran.
"Sister, are you eating grass cake?"
"What?"
Before Mu Yanzhu could react, someone suddenly patted her on the back.
Turning around and seeing the enlarged version of Mu Ran's face, Mu Yanzhu was so frightened that she screamed twice, "Oh my God!" !
Patting her fragile little heart, Mu Ran held a cake in her hand and laughed at her cowardly look.
Next to Mu Ran stood her best friend Li Wenna.
"surprise!"
"Happy birthday, sister!"
After Mu Yanzhu was shocked, he was only happy, and his eye circles suddenly turned red.
"Why didn't you two say anything to me when you came here?!"
"I'm trying to scare you on purpose. Judging from your reaction, it won't be in vain that we took the high-speed train for three hours!"
Li Wenna is Mu Yanzhu's best friend. She said she would come back to see Mu Yanzhu next week, but Mu Yanzhu didn't expect her to come today.
Also with his brother.
"Have you two eaten?" Mu Yanzhu asked.
"Stop talking, the food on the high-speed rail is so unpalatable that Sister Wenna and I even vomited when we got off the train!"
"The food in our school cafeteria is super delicious. Let's go and find a place to talk!"
Mu Yanzhu took off her glasses because her tears blurred the lenses, making it difficult to see the road clearly.
Those crooked almond eyes were completely exposed, and he hadn't smiled so happily for a long time.
Today is Sunday, and there are very few people in the restaurant on Sunday night. Those who have a partner have gone out to spend the night with their partner, and those who do not have a partner have gone shopping with friends, so there are few windows in the restaurant.
Mu Yanzhu was generous today, ordering one portion of everything that could be ordered in the restaurant, and then filling a long table with it, just like eating a buffet.
Li Wenna and Mu Ran devoured it.
Mu Yanzhu asked them to eat slowly while passing them water.
"Hey, be careful about that girl with short yellow hair in your dormitory." Li Wenna said while chewing.
"Who? Fang Yiyi?"
"Yes, that's her. She is my colleague's elementary school classmate. That person likes to speak ill of others behind their backs. You should have less contact with such people."
"Ok, I know."
Fang Yiyi was Mu Yanzhu's upper bunk, and she and Mu Yanzhu had said bad things about everyone in the dormitory.
Mu Yanzhu is not a fool. Such people cannot help but say bad things about her when facing others, so they can only be casual acquaintances and cannot be true friends because of their poor character.
"Sister, you are about to graduate from college and you haven't got a boyfriend yet?"
As soon as Mu Ran finished speaking, Jiang Qingchi's handsome face appeared in Mu Yanzhu's mind, and she coughed several times.
"No... I'm so busy at work, I don't have time to have a boyfriend."
"Mu Ran, look, your sister is blushing!"
"Not only the face, but also the roots of the ears are red!"
"That's enough for you two!"
Mu Yanzhu slapped the table, fearing that these two guys would get to the bottom of things, so she quickly took out a deck of playing cards from her schoolbag.
"Let's play with three!"
Mu Yanzhu has played the game of touching three since she was a child, and Li Wenna and Mu Ran are also familiar with the rules of the game.
In clockwise order, everyone draws 3 playing cards in turn, and then plays the cards. The ten of hearts, the king of hearts, the two of hearts, and the king and king are all counted as ten. In the end, they are added up to see who has more points. The person with the fewest number will put a sticker on his face.
Twenty rounds have passed...
Mu Yanzhu and Li Wenna each had a piece of paper on their faces, and the remaining eighteen were all on Mu Ran's face!
Mu Ran suspected his two sisters of cheating several times, but could not find any evidence!
"Are you coming again, little brother?" Mu Yanzhu's eyes were bright.
I still don’t believe this is evil!
Muran throws his cards away—
"Come on! I want to make a comeback!"
"Hahaha, you don't have to stick it on your face anymore, now it's time to stick it on your nostrils."
Jiang Qingchi rushed to the restaurant and saw Mu Yanzhu smiling from a distance while standing at the door.
He was panting, holding his knees with both hands, and the sweat on his forehead slid to the ground along his jawline.
He searched for her all afternoon and sent her messages without replying. He thought she would go to the study room, the sixth floor, the library, or hang out by the small lake. He never expected that she would be in the restaurant.
Jiang Qingchi was originally thinking that there were not many people in the restaurant on Sundays, so how could Mu Yanzhu come here.
Sure enough, he was careless.
"Ha ha ha ha-"
The crisp laughter reached Jiang Qingchi's ears.
From his angle, he saw Mu Yanzhu and another girl clapping their hands, and then the two of them put something like a note on the face of the boy opposite.
It was the first time Jiang Qingchi saw Mu Yanzhu smile so unpreparedly and brightly. Her two dimples were filled with joy, and her eyes were almost narrowed into slits.
Jiang Qingchi looked at her.
While calming down his rapid breathing, he was thinking about the relationship between this man and woman and Mu Yanzhu.
Just as they were thinking, the three people suddenly stood up.
Jiang Qingchi quickly took two steps back and ducked sideways into the shadow area. There was a wall in front of him, blocking half of his body.
Coupled with the relationship embedded in the shadows, none of the three people discovered Jiang Qingchi.
There was a piece of cake crumbs stained on the corner of Mu Yanzhu's mouth, and Mu Ran reached out and wiped it away for her.
"Good brother!" Mu Ran is 183, and Mu Yanzhu is not short at 168. He raised his hand and patted Mu Ran's shoulder.
younger brother
Jiang Qingchi in the shadow raised his eyebrows.
He wanted to follow the three of them and see where they were going.
The three of them went to the volleyball court.
The basketball court next door was full, but the volleyball court was empty because everyone liked to watch the handsome little brother play basketball, but the little brother rarely played volleyball.
Mu Yanzhu held a piece of white chalk in her hand, bent down and drew a snail-shaped circle on the ground.
This is called snail running.
Wait, one of the people starts running from the head of the snail, and then the other two people stand at the front and back ends and throw sandbags. If they throw it to him, he will "die". If he doesn't throw it, he can continue running. As long as he runs In the end, he won.
Mu Yanzhu and Li Wenna were the first to be the "pitchers".
Then Mu Ran ran away like a snail.
Although Mu Ran was tall, he had very quick reactions. Mu Yanzhu threw her twice, but he was able to avoid it by dodging, jumping, and doing splits.
Mu Yanzhu became more competitive and said, "Mu Ran, if you have the ability to do a 365-degree spin, I promise to obey you without any help from the wall!"
"Sister, please spare me, you did a 180-degree split, my pants almost split!"
Jiang Qingchi was leaning under a big tree, pricking up his ears to listen to what was going on here, and secretly observing the boy in the middle.
Just now, Mu Yanzhu called him Mu Ran, which meant that he had the same surname as hers. Thinking that she called him his younger brother, he should be his younger brother.
But this game seems to be quite interesting, and he wants to play it too!
Jiang Qingchi is lively and active by nature, but family conditions limit his development space.
Jiang San'er has a dull temperament. He likes to play Rubik's Cube and Sudoku and rarely does any exercise.
Jiang Chunhe is a girl, and he cannot play with girls.
Not to mention Yan Nian and Jiang Beiyuan.
There is a generation gap between parents and children, and they can't play together!
Growing up, Jiang Qingchi went to aristocratic schools, the best kindergartens, elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools in Ningcheng. The people he knew were all second-generation rich or second-generation officials, and everyone was very rich. After class, Under the supervision of the teacher, no strenuous exercise is allowed, just run and jump casually.
So at this moment, Jiang Qingchi felt very novel.
He had never seen the sandbags and shuttlecocks in Mu Yanzhu's hands, or Mu Yanzhu drawing snails on the ground. He had never heard of this kind of game.
Her world is a world that Jiang Qingchi has never seen before, a territory that he has never entered.
He seemed to see a group of cheerful children running and playing in the field, with insects chirping and frogs chirping in his ears. There were crickets and grasshoppers in the field, and the sunset was particularly beautiful.
With a picture in his mind, Jiang Qingchi leaned against the tree and curled his mouth.
Suddenly I longed for that kind of world and that kind of life.
Carefree, free and unrestrained...
…
"No more playing, no more playing, I'm tired!"
Mu Ran called for a timeout, and then went to drink water. Mu Yanzhu smiled. Young people today are really weak in physical strength. He casually took out his mobile phone to see if there was any news.
The next second, the smile on his lips froze.
Jiang Qingchi asked her three times where she was.
"Yes, yes, yes."
Mu Yanzhu quickly replied.
"My brother and best friend came to see me today. We were playing games just now and didn't see the news. I'm sorry."
His fingers were typing quickly, and he felt annoyed. He thought Jiang Qingchi would go home to celebrate his mother's birthday today, and the family must be reunited now, so she didn't disturb him.
While I was thinking about it, my phone vibrated twice.
"Then it seems you don't need me to celebrate your birthday with you."
"What?"
"Look back."
Mu Yanzhu subconsciously turned around.
He faced Jiang Qingchi under the same tree.
A person with such a burning beauty, leaning there calmly, is like a luminous body, which is a fatal attraction to the tiny fireflies.
Mu Yanzhu secretly scolded himself for his blindness, how could he not see such a big living person? !
Jiang Qingchi shook his phone, turned around and left.
Mu Yanzhu hurriedly grabbed Li Wenna's arm, "Well, you and Mu Ran can stay in a hotel tonight. I'll pay, and I'll go back beforehand!"
After finishing speaking, he left.
(End of chapter)