The party of four at the Nanguo Mansion lasted until midnight.
Ye Qin promised Luo Qiuling to go home at night, just after midnight, Liu Yangfan asked if he wanted to call a car for him, Ye Qin waved his hand and said, "No, I want to play some more."
Zhao Yue was surprised and said, "Don't we, Aqin, listen to our mother the most? Are you not in a hurry to go home today?"
Ye Qin squinted at him: "Try saying one more sentence?"
Liu Yangfan said with a smile: "I'm so irritated by talking and listening to birdsong every day. It's rare to come back. Why don't we say a few more words in Chinese?"
"Are you speaking human language? What else is there besides teasing and provoking? It made me also..."
He said a bunch of nonsense—the second half of the sentence turned on the tip of Yeqin's tongue, and then swallowed it back.
Zhou Feng laughed: "Aren't we always like this? What can't be said between brothers, just make fun of it with a joke. Brother Qin, if you are unhappy, come and tease me, I will wait for you with open arms... Ouch! "
Ye Qin picked up the lighter on the table and hit Zhou Feng on the head precisely: "Shut up, scumbag."
Zhao Yue laughed so hard that his shoulders shook, and he said to Liu Yangfan: "Look, how about we have a scumbag tournament here to compete with whoever is more scumbag?"
Two hours later, a few people who were still jet-lagged were lying on the sofa and dozing off.
Ye Qin was also sleepy and couldn't even open his eyes, but he couldn't sleep. He was lying on the sofa pinching his thighs desperately to keep awake, otherwise he would wake up in the morning after falling asleep, and he was moving under their noses, where should he put his face if he was found out.
When snoring sounded one after another in the room, Ye Qin quietly sat up, picked up the cup on the table, and tiptoed to the bathroom.
When pouring the drink into the sink, Ye Qin was afraid that the ring would accidentally fall into the sewer, so he carefully covered the mouth of the cup with his hand. After receiving the ring, I put it under the faucet and rushed it. I was afraid that it would not be clean, so I used the hand sanitizer on the side. Then I remembered who said that metal products contaminated with chemicals may affect the lifespan, so I continued to rinse with clean water. Rinse a little After the smell disappeared, I dried it with a paper towel, and finally put it under the dryer for a long time.
On the way home, Ye Qin looked at the ring on his ring finger again in the backseat of the car, holding it up and putting it down, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that something was wrong.
The color seems to have darkened a bit? The drill seems to be brighter than before? It is obviously the right size, why do you feel a little empty right now
I turned on the flashlight of my mobile phone to study for a long time, and the more I looked at it, the more responsive I was, I wanted to call Liu Yangfan and ask if their drinks were corrosive, which ruined his ring.
Naturally, he didn't have the nerve to hit it. He threw it himself. If it's really bad, he can't blame others. Ye Qin thought lazily, let's take a trip to the counter tomorrow to see if it can be maintained.
Speaking of the counter, I remembered what Zhao Yue said just now when he laughed at the ring as a fake. Ye Qin raised his hand and glanced again, very unconvinced, so beautiful, how could it be a fake
There were several messages from Cheng Feichi on WeChat, and he flipped through them one by one, raising his head proudly, Cheng Feichi didn't dare to buy me fakes.
Perhaps because of the confusion in his head after drinking, Yeqin had that nightmare again that night.
Cheng Feichi in the dream was farther away from him than last time, so far away that his facial features were blurred and he couldn't see clearly. The wind was very strong, and he wanted to walk under the ginkgo tree, but his feet were nailed in place and he couldn't move. He wanted to call Cheng Feichi, but he couldn't make a sound. He was going crazy with anxiety, but he could only watch and touch Not enough and not enough.
When I woke up, I was covered in cold sweat, panting for breath and turned my head to look out the window. It was already bright day.
The first thing he did after waking up was to pick up his mobile phone, Ye Qin was stunned for a moment by the empty screen without any new news. He turned to the address book to check again. Cheng Feichi's number had already been blacklisted by him. Why didn't he call
Ye Qin couldn't wait any longer, wanted to call, but felt too humiliated. He was the one who didn't reply to the text message and didn't come to pick up the plane. He should wait for him to apologize. What did I say when I called
Didn't he just block out for a few hours, did he reply to his WeChat? He Cheng Feichi had been hanging out with me for so long, and I didn't even get angry.
Thinking of this, Ye Qin resisted the urge to make sure that the phone's ring volume was turned up to the maximum, put it in his pocket and went downstairs to eat.
He went to sleep when he got home last night, and didn't bother to talk to Luo Qiuling, and now he was absent-minded. When Luo Qiuling asked him about his travel experience, he didn't bother to tell him, so he stirred the mushroom soup in the bowl with a spoon: "Why are you drinking this again? Ah, did our family buy a cart of mushrooms?"
Luo Qiuling stopped talking. The silence continued until the meal was over, and she called Ye Qin who was about to go back to her room: "Qinqin, sit down, mom has something to tell you."
Ye Qin thought it was conveying Ye Jinxiang's will again, asking him to sum up the gains and losses of the past semester, get ready for the new semester, etc., and was just about to find a comfortable position to listen, when he happened to catch the words in Luo Qiuling's mouth. The words "study abroad" suddenly pricked up their ears, and pointed their noses: "Study abroad? Me?"
"Well, Mom and Dad have thought about it, it's better for you to go to a foreign university. You often travel abroad, so you should be able to adapt soon..."
Before Luo Qiuling finished speaking, Ye Qin interrupted: "I'm not going to study abroad, I want to stay in China."
He has a bit of a family complex, Luo Qiuling knows it. She persuaded politely: "Overseas universities are better than domestic environments, and you can meet many new friends. It will be convenient for you to go to tropical islands in the future."
Ye Qin asked bluntly: "Is it Ye Jinxiang's order?"
I talked to Luo Qiuling about the college entrance examination before, and she asked him to apply for a local university in the capital, so that he could go home often, but after two or three months, his work changed, and he couldn't do anything other than Ye Jinxiang's troubles. he thinks.
Luo Qiuling was stunned when he called his father's name directly, and then said anxiously: "No, it was decided after discussing with mom and dad. Don't be so resentful to your dad, even though he..." He paused at this point Suddenly, probably because he couldn't find a suitable description, he simply gave up, "But he is your father after all, and he really loves you. We won't harm you."
Ye Qin was annoyed when he heard such words, he stood up and said, "You two can discuss it and it's over, don't you want to ask my opinion?"
He has been used to being casual since he was a child, and he hates being manipulated the most. He believed that Ye Jinxiang had done this unilaterally. He didn't know how the old man had brainwashed Luo Qiuling, so that she would agree to send him abroad.
Luo Qiuling followed up and tried to persuade her again, but was pushed back to her seat by Ye Qin. He turned to reassure his mother: "Don't worry, I will definitely be admitted to a good university in four months, so stop Ye Jinxiang's mouth."
It's not that Ye Qin is too confident, but that he believes in Cheng Feichi.
Cheng Feichi said that he wanted to go to the same university as him, a university that a top student could go to, it would be impossible for him to be so bad, just be obedient and obedient.
Ye Qin found that since getting along with Cheng Feichi, he has become more and more used to leaving everything to him to make up his mind. In the past, Ye Qin was proud of taking the initiative, but later he unknowingly put this idea behind him, because he gradually realized the comfort of not having to do anything and just relying on Cheng Feichi.
It's a lot of work for those who can, Cheng Feichi knows everything, and if it were someone else, he wouldn't dare to rely on him.
Thinking of this, Ye Qin lost his composure at all, and waited for the call at home with the last bit of young master airs.
However, the phone never rang. Halfway through, he thought the phone was broken, so he plugged it in and charged it several times. From the time the sun rose until the sky was dark, there was not a single call or WeChat message.
The second day, the third day... until New Year's Eve, nothing.
Ye Qin thought he was busy with part-time work again, and his mother was still in the hospital, maybe he was too busy to check his phone. I really couldn't wait until the evening of New Year's Eve, and I thought it would not be a shame to make a phone call on the grounds of congratulating the New Year, right? Convincing himself in this way, he cleared his throat and dialed the phone.
Busy tone, no call.
Called again, still no connection.
I recharged his mobile phone number with 200 yuan, and called again after half an hour, but the tone was still busy.
Ye Qin jumped up, Cheng Feichi, how dare you block me
Calling from the landline at home still didn't work, and Ye Qin's heart pounded when he heard the rapid beeping. Although Cheng Feichi was busy before, he didn't have much time to talk to him, at least he would reply to the news, what could be so busy that he didn't have time to touch his phone for several days
... Is his mother seriously ill
Bah, bah, how could anyone curse someone's mother like that. Ye Qin patted his mouth, and then thought that Cheng Xin was Ye Jinxiang's mistress, and immediately regretted hitting himself, rubbed his face, and got entangled.
WeChat was not blocked, and the message was still sent out. Ye Qin sent Cheng Feichi a "Happy New Year", hugged his phone and waited until he fell asleep, and woke up naturally the next day. There were a bunch of blessing text messages on his phone, and he went through them one by one, but there was no one he was waiting for.
This time he couldn't sit still at all, so Ye Qin went to the Third Municipal Hospital to find someone in the afternoon of the first day of the Lunar New Year.
He didn't even know what disease Cheng Xin was suffering from and which department he was in. The nurses were in charge of so many wards, and he couldn't find out why. Turned upside down.
After turning around to no avail, I heard that there are two floors of inpatient areas above the emergency department, so I hurried over there again. The nurse over there looked through the hospital records and said that there was no patient surnamed Cheng in this building. Ye Qin insisted on looking for each one by himself. nurse's words.
"Maybe he was transferred to another hospital." One of the nurses said, "It's not convenient to check the transfer records, so let's ask the patient's family."
Only then did Ye Qin realize that the situation was different, and drove to the Yulin community at a fast speed.
After knocking on the door of Cheng Feichi's house for a long time, no one opened the door, which alarmed the neighbors downstairs. The old man propped his cane on the steps, stretched his neck and said, "There is no one at home, so stop knocking."
Ye Qin remembered that Cheng Feichi said that the old man next door who had trouble walking on his back went upstairs, so he probably was this one. He hurriedly asked, "Where did this family go?"
The old man waved his hand: "I don't know, maybe I went back to my hometown for the New Year."
Because he had investigated the mother and son before, Ye Qin knew that Cheng Xin's ancestral home was the capital, and Cheng Feichi was born and bred in the capital. Where can he go back to his hometown
He sat in the car and stared at the window of Cheng Feichi's room for a long time. It was dark and he didn't wait for it to light up, so he had to step on the accelerator and leave first.
When he got home, he started to ask around. He asked all the classmates he knew in class (1) of the third year of high school, and everyone said, "How do I know who you know well?" Ye Qin asked Zhou Feng again without hope. Zhou Feng's younger sister had attended a tutoring class with Cheng Xin, maybe his family knew something about it.
She also thought about looking for Ye Jinxiang, but she had too many worries. The most important point was that Luo Qiuling didn't know the existence of Cheng Xin and her illegitimate son Cheng Feichi, so the showdown would definitely lead to chaos. People's New Year's Eve is lively and harmonious, but their family's New Year's Eve is flying around, which is not very decent after all.
But Ye Jinxiang hasn't come back since he went out this morning, probably still busy with the company's affairs.
He was busy with his work, and he had a bad face at the New Year's Eve dinner yesterday, making everyone at the table afraid to speak, and they didn't have a solid meal. Ye Qin became angry when he thought of this, and he became more determined not to look for Ye Jinxiang.
Later, news came from Zhou Feng's side: "My sister didn't study with her last semester, she said she was in poor health and couldn't take care of the students anymore. My mother called her for New Year's greetings last night. Turn off the phone, call again today and it will still be the same.”
Ye Qin was immediately discouraged, and then nervousness and anxiety swept his whole body.
He looked through the address book for a long time, and he really didn't know who to call. At this time, Zhou Feng called again, and he yelled as soon as he got through: "I'm not in the southern country. I just asked Yangfan by the way. Guess what?" What's the matter, I saw Cheng Xueba on the surveillance at their home, he was here, just the night we came back from New York!"
Finally got useful clues, Ye Qin only wanted to know where Cheng Feichi had gone, and had no time to think about anything else. Hearing that Cheng Feichi was with Sun Yiran when he went downstairs, he immediately called Sun Yiran.
After connecting, he didn't bother to say a happy new year, and said straight to the point: "Did you meet Cheng Feichi that day? Why didn't you bring him in and didn't tell me, are you still friends?"
Sun Yiran was stunned by his questioning for a while, and when she came back to her senses, she became angry: "Stinky boy, what did you say and do to make people go away, don't you understand? Ha, are you still blaming me?"
Ye Qin was completely taken aback.
How could he have thought that Cheng Feichi was listening outside? He couldn't even remember what he said at that time, he just remembered that it was a bunch of nonsense, which didn't sound good, and he threw the ring into the glass in front of everyone.
Without even thinking about it, he clicked on WeChat and sent Cheng Feichi a string of "I'm sorry, I was wrong". After calming down, he edited a sincere apology, saying that he was dizzy from being agitated by them that day. And with a little wine, there was a lot of mess.
[I'm talking nonsense, I'm joking with them, it's all fake, don't believe it]
After posting this sentence, Ye Qin added another sentence: [Don't believe it, okay, brother~]
A heart is attached at the end.
It's not like he didn't make Cheng Feichi angry in the past, no matter how serious it was, Cheng Feichi's heart softened on the spot as soon as he called his brother. Ye Qin thought it would be the same this time, he breathed a sigh of relief after sending the message, and fell asleep with his phone in his arms.
The next day, I still couldn't wait for Cheng Feichi's reply, and the phone still couldn't get through.
Ye Qin's state has changed from panic at the beginning to confusion now. He had some bad premonitions, but he tried his best to deny it in his heart, preventing himself from further investigation.
February 13th is Cheng Feichi's birthday, and he promised himself that he would spare time on that day. He said he would not lie to himself.
Sure enough, on the afternoon of February 12th, I received a message from Cheng Feichi: [Are you free?]
Ye Qin was still lifeless for a second, and immediately jumped up from the bed when he received the news. He didn't want to appear too urgent when he pressed the voice, pressed his throat, and said, "Guess."
Cheng Feichi didn't guess: [Where is it, I'll find you]
Ye Qin didn't go around with him, and asked him to meet him at Jiayuan's apartment for a while. Putting down the phone, I started to put on clothes and tidy up. For the sake of image, I also specially wore a pair of new shoes with good-looking styles but with laces.
He doesn't know how to tie shoelaces, he tie them once at the door of the house, once at the red light on the road, and tie them again when he gets off the car at the place. He took the elevator upstairs, stepped out, and the shoelace on his right foot came loose again. Ye Qin was anxious to see someone, so he just ignored it.
Anyway, when Cheng Feichi comes next time, he will tie it for him.
After entering the house, Ye Qin went to the kitchen to boil water first. He used to watch Cheng Feichi busy at the door of the kitchen. He couldn't learn how to cook, so it was more than enough to boil water.
Then they cleaned the glasses of the two of them. It was cold outside, that poor Cheng Feichi must have come by the bus again, and he would be able to drink hot water when he arrived.
After finishing all this, Ye Qin washed a rag and wiped the dining table and chairs, thinking that Cheng Feichi might bring some vegetables to cook, so he had to wipe anyway.
Young Master Ye, who never does housework at home, experienced the joy of labor once. He was sweating profusely, and when he was about to go into the bedroom to wipe the table and chairs inside, there was a knock on the door.
Yeqin threw the rag, and ran to open the door in three steps at a time. The ground I had just dragged was a little slippery, and I almost tripped over it. When I opened the door, I was still panting, and when I said it, I complained: "Don't you have a key? What kind of door are you knocking on?"
Cheng Feichi stood at the door, wearing a black overcoat he had never seen before, which made his figure even taller and taller. He handed the key in front of him, and Ye Qin subconsciously reached out to take it, and then pulled him into the room: "Come in, it's cold outside, I boiled hot water."
Cheng Feichi didn't speak or move, and relaxed when Ye Qin couldn't pull anymore, and pulled his arm out of his hand.
Ye Qin thought that Cheng Feichi was still angry because of what the Nanguo mansion heard, and said softly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, didn't I apologize to you, why are you so mean..."
"Let's break up."
Ye Qin blinked, thinking he was hallucinating, and looked up at Cheng Feichi's face. The corridor was dimly lit, and he couldn't see Cheng Feichi's expression clearly, he just vaguely felt something was different.
Maybe it's the voice, maybe it's the way he looks at him, in short, it's different from before.
Suddenly panicked, Ye Qin went to pull his hand hanging by his side: "Why, are you still angry? I know I was wrong. I shouldn't have said those words. If you are still angry, hit me..."
The voice became smaller and smaller, because he realized that Cheng Feichi didn't hold back, and none of those slender and strong fingers moved.
In the past, as long as Cheng Feichi held hands, his whole body would feel warm. Now this hand is clearly still hot, but the heat doesn't pass to him at all. It seems that an invisible wall has been erected between the two of them, taller than three feet. The ice is even colder.
Cheng Feichi slowly withdrew his hand as before. His breathing was shallow and even, without any disorder, and his thin lips were opened again: "Let's break up."