While driving, Qiao Yan saw Ye Mi guarding three large plastic bags on the ground from a distance, gesturing to two foreigners with thick eyebrows and big eyes. After they left, she was still standing on the side of the road, nodding and waving goodbye to them, with a beaming look on her face.
Qiao Yan suddenly stopped the car in front of her. Ye Mi was unprepared and was startled. She leaned against the window and asked, "What are you doing? Are you scaring me to death?"
"Your expression changes so quickly. You were smiling at the foreigner just now, but now you look at me coldly." He got out of the car and put the three big bags in the back. "What did you buy? They are so heavy."
Ye Mi didn't want to listen to him, she saw a small bag of pecans in the back, "How do you know I like to eat this." She looked up at Qiao Yan and smiled flatteringly, "I've eaten it at Sun Jian's place, it's delicious! But that guy is too stingy, he didn't let me eat it after I was tempted, saying that he wanted to honor an important person." After saying that, she suddenly looked up at Qiao Yan in surprise, "You didn't accept a gift from a student, did you?"
Qiao Yan slammed the car door and said, "Is it not possible?" and got into the car.
Ye Mi's anger rose all of a sudden, and she quickly followed up, "Then you can't accept Sun Datou's gift. His family is from the countryside, and his mother relies on dialysis to survive. How can you be so unprincipled? You are simply heartless."
Qiao Yan was driving with a faint smile on his face, but he didn't say anything. He just listened to Ye Mi beside him constantly complaining about his bad character. She also commented on her classmates, including their bad habits, academic strengths and weaknesses, and the superiority of their families. What surprised Qiao Yan the most was that she actually gave each of them a nickname. Hearing her calling them that, he thought it was quite appropriate.
"So what do you think of Zhou Tongzhe?" Qiao Yan interrupted her free speech.
"He is a typical nouveau riche kid. He has a lot of money and a good brain. He is very smart, but he behaves like a second-generation rich kid. I guess Sun Datou was fooled by him." After saying this, Ye Mi felt something was wrong. She turned around and looked at Qiao Yan with an inquiring look. "Teacher Qiao, why do I feel like I am telling tales on you?"
Qiao Yan nodded, "Student Ye, your report is indeed very comprehensive."
"Then, did I say anything bad about them?" She frowned, complaining in her heart that Teacher Qiao was really too cunning and actually tried to trick her. "Anyway, nothing I say counts, otherwise I will tell everyone about you taking things from the students."
Qiao Yan sneered, "Do you think I should accept his walnuts, or let him pay the 2,000 yuan bill? Hmm?" Then he poked her head fiercely, "I'm not that mean. Go back and eat some walnuts to nourish your brain."
Although Ye Mi didn't understand the situation, he still believed in him. The car didn't drive home directly, but parked in the parking lot of Wanda Plaza. "The second floor is full of food. Think about it and eat whatever you want."
After hearing this, Ye Mi suddenly felt very hungry. She looked at Qiao Yan with a very resentful look, "I say, you are so good to me, aren't you afraid that I will pester you one day?"
"You don't have that IQ, I'm assured of that." He got out of the car, but seeing Ye Mi still sitting there blankly, he walked around and opened the car door for her, "Are you the nanny or am I the nanny?"
Ye Mi smiled at him, but her face darkened when he turned around. She still remembered the day they got their marriage certificate, when Ye Mi asked her why she chose her. Qiao Yan's answer at that time was really earth-shattering, and Ye Mi had never thought it would be this.
"Because you are stupid."
Ye Mi followed Qiao Yan up to the second floor. She chose Ajisen Ramen from the Korean cuisine and Japanese ramen. It was better than cooking it herself, which was smoky and hot. Besides, eating noodles was simple and quick, which met their requirements for a secret trip.
Ye Mi ate this kind of noodles which cost more than 40 yuan with disdain. It was not as good as the Lanzhou ramen noodles made by the ramen restaurant opposite her grandmother's house, which only cost 1.5 yuan. She stuffed a mouthful of noodles and looked up to see Qiao Yan frowning at her, "Eat slowly, no one is snatching it from you."
Ye Mi came closer, still chewing noodles, "Actually, I'm afraid people will see me."
"Just see it if you see it."
"Puff, cough cough!" The noodles in Ye Mi's mouth all spurted out, but Qiao Yan's reaction was fast and he dodged it. Looking at the embarrassed look of the person opposite him, Qiao Yan wanted to laugh but held back and moved to the table next to him, "It's better not to let anyone see it, it's so disgusting."
In fact, Qiao Yan wanted to tell her something, but he always felt that he couldn't open his mouth. Every time he went home was Ye Mi's day of suffering, because they were special occasions, and sometimes he had to watch her suffer injustice.
"Do you have something to tell me?" The two tables were next to each other, so it didn't really make any difference whether they changed seats or not.
Qiao Yan turned his face away from her and said, "No."
"What are you going to do for your mother's birthday?" Ye Mi didn't even look at him, but lowered her head to eat noodles. She remembered very clearly almost every special day when Qiao Yan was going home. These were not all bad memories for her. He would put his arm around her shoulders, clasped her hands, and said to his parents righteously, "She is my woman, my wife, and I hope you can respect her." She also had the thoughts of a little woman. When such an outstanding man held her hand and said such words, sometimes she really felt that it was worth suffering a little grievance.
"Why don't you just not go this year." In fact, he had been thinking about this matter for the past few days, but his father's words today, "Come alone," brought out his impulsiveness again, so he said such harsh words.
Ye Mi was choked and drank a large glass of water to recover. She sat opposite him again with the large bowl in hand, "You don't need me to be your gun this time?"
Qiao Yan frowned, "I don't know what you are talking about."
"Don't you just bring me home at a few critical moments every year to irritate your parents, and then your parents are mean to me to irritate you? Don't think I can't see it. Do you think I'm really stupid? I'm just pretending to be stupid." After saying that, he took another mouthful of noodles.
Qiao Yan had experience this time, so he didn't talk while she was eating. In fact, he had nothing to say. Every word Ye Mi said hit the nail on the head. He was just venting his anger. The bitterness in his heart made him unconsciously vent his anger on his family. He didn't doubt his parents for no reason, and their hypocritical cover-up made him even more ashamed.
Maybe it was because he seemed really old now and not as energetic as before, so sometimes when he went back, he would use the excuse that Ye Mi was busy with studies and was out of town, and then he would just stand there for a while and leave, and would not impulsively fight with the old man.
"What are you thinking about? Why don't you say anything?" Ye Mi waved the chopsticks in front of him and looked at him eagerly.
Sometimes Qiao Yan really admired her. She was so despised in the house, but when she went out, she just had to take a deep breath and continue laughing. "Aren't you angry? They always say that what you say is so unpleasant."
Ye Mi fished out the last few noodles from the soup. "I don't love them, so why should I be angry with them? Won't I be at a disadvantage? Besides, I've been called a wild child and a bastard by kids, classmates, and neighbors since I was a child. I'm used to it." She understood that people must first humiliate themselves before being humiliated by others, so maintaining one's self-cultivation and smiling is also a weapon to defend one's dignity.
Qiao Yan's expression gradually became very gloomy. He clenched his hands on the table and tapped them gently. "You still say you are not stupid. You knew you were being used as a gun, but you still followed them." He snatched the bowl from her hand and said, "If you are not full, ask for another bowl. Don't make yourself look so pitiful without anything to eat."
"Forget it!" Ye Mi was a little hungry. "I can't keep eating like this. If I get overweight, I won't be able to fly."
"Eat, you're far from exceeding the limit. Go back and do more housework and exercise." As he said that, he turned around and ordered another bowl. He saw Ye Mi with a smile on his face, looking eagerly waiting for the meal. He thought it was a good thing that he had a good income. If he were a poor man, he really couldn't afford to support a wife who ate so much.
The first floor of Wanda is a shopping mall. Seeing the glamorous makeup lady, Ye Mi suddenly thought of Bai Tingting. She quickly lowered her head and rummaged through her bag, pulling out an envelope that had been emptied. "Here, a love letter from someone else." She said this with a look of disdain and glared at him fiercely.
Qiao Yan paused and glanced at her.
"Why are you looking at me like that? I didn't write it for you." His expression was a little strange. Ye Mi couldn't understand it. It seemed that he was not happy.
"Has the baton of this job been passed to you now?" Qiao Yan didn't seem to intend to open the letter. He just held it in his hand and played with it. "Then Secretary Ye, please take care of the contents." As he said that, he stuffed the letter into her hand.
"This is not good. After all, it's a young girl's budding heart, and it's being treated with disrespect." Although she said so, she opened it quickly with her hands.
It would have been better if she hadn't read it. After reading it, Ye Mi felt uneasy. After thinking about it over and over again, she couldn't help but ask, "What do you think she meant when she said at the end that she hoped to have a pleasant weekend with you in France?"
"What do you think?" Qiao Yan still had a neutral tone. No, it was a bit sarcastic.
Ye Mi was silent. Thinking of the two people who were so close in the taxi last night, she sighed and was a little worried about the wives of pilots. She turned to look at the person next to her. Such a direct invitation, I don't know if it really didn't stir up any waves in his heart, or if he was really calm, or used to it.
Ye Mi was a little unhappy and felt depressed.