The melatonin I bought from Taro was a soft candy, and it tasted sweet and fruity. Jin Fubai was very suspicious of the function of this thing.
But before going to bed every night, when the alarm clock on Xiang Yu rang, he got up to fetch the bottle and unscrew it. Under her burning gaze, he stretched out his palm, took two gummies, and put them in his mouth.
It's hard to say whether it will work or not.
He also only ate for 3 or 4 days, got a call and had to leave for another trip abroad.
Maybe it was because the last time I went abroad was too long and too many things happened. Jin Fubai and Xiang Yu were a little bit conflicted about this trip.
Xiang Yu went to the airport to see him off, sat on his suitcase, raised his head, and sadly calculated, "I still have three days off on New Year's Day."
"I'll be back as soon as possible."
As before, Jin Fubai would occasionally call and take pictures.
The difference is that he will now compete with Xiang Yu about those tedious business affairs. Every time Xiang Yu is confused, he will only sigh after he finishes speaking: "Your world is so amazing, I feel like I am in the middle of nowhere. Listen to historical biographies of turbulent times."
When she said this, Jin Fubai would laugh on the phone and ask her if she would be bored at home alone.
Actually it's fine.
It was the beginning of 2014. The Korean drama "My Love from the Stars" was widely praised. The Internet was full of information about this drama. There was even a joke with a homophonic stalk on Weibo:
"A little orangutan in the zoo was sick. The nurse hurriedly called the veterinarian and asked him to come and treat the little orangutan. After a while, someone knocked on the door. ... 'You who came to treat the gorilla'?"
When it was the most popular, Xiang Yu didn't mention the interest to read it, but when he saw the printed color picture in the company newspaper, he realized later that the heroine was Quan Zhixian.
Xiang Yu was very puzzled, it should have been many years since she watched Jun Zhixian's "Daisy", why is she not old at all
With such doubts in mind, Xiang Yu also started chasing dramas and got out of control.
At that time, the mobile version of "Happy Xiaoxiaole" also became popular. Xiang Yu's greedy snake fell out of favor and began to be obsessed with Xiaoxiaole.
Accompanied by Korean dramas and Xiaoxiaole, she did not wait too persistently for Jin Fubai's calls and messages.
Once or twice, at the critical moment when she was in the last few steps of the game, Jin Fubai called and she hung up.
Later, Jin Fubai, separated by a distance of more than 10,000 kilometers, joked on the phone, saying that she was a little conscience and didn't even know how to miss him.
Xiang Yu stared at Quan Zhixian's sluggish and beautiful appearance on the tablet, immersed in the Korean drama, and replied perfunctorily: "Think, think, miss you!"
Jin Fubai's dissatisfied "tsk" sound came from the phone: "Go back and clean up you."
His "cleaning up" has been taught by Xiang Yu.
One day when she came back from get off work, Jin Fubai sent her downstairs and went to the underground garage to park by himself. Xiang Yuzhen met the actor she mentioned in the elevator.
When Jin Fubai parked the car and came back, the door of the house was not closed, Xiang Yu was holding a piece of paper and looking for it all over the room.
Jin Fubai asked her, what are you looking for
Xiang Yu looked back, picked up the things in his hand to show him, and asked him if he had a photo frame, and wanted to frame the star's signature.
Jin Fubai didn't say anything that day. She only came out of the bathroom after taking a shower in the evening. She was picked up by him and threw it on the bed. She tied her wrists with a tie...
The next morning, she couldn't go to work, laying in the quilt, weakly holding her mobile phone and sending a message to Zhou Lie, saying that she was too sick to get out of bed.
Thinking about his way of "cleaning up", Xiang Yu closed the tablet and said very seriously: "I really miss you."
Jin Fubai laughed, and before he could say anything, someone else's voice came from beside him, speaking a foreign language.
After a while, he said in a deep voice, "Go to bed early, I'll call you when I have time."
Hanging up the phone, Xiang Yu looked at the still picture of the Korean drama on the tablet, and then looked at the night outside the window.
The high-rise buildings overlooked the dim lights of the surrounding community, and she suddenly felt that the "I really miss you" she just said came from the bottom of her heart.
After a few seconds, Xiang Yu sent Jin Fubai a message, and he had nothing to say:
[Where did you put the signature of that male star for me?]
Jin Fubai should be busy, and it took several minutes to reply:
[?]
Back to him:
[Should it be thrown away? In case one day he becomes popular all over the world, I can sell the autograph for some money, and then invite you to dinner.]
This message has not been responded to for a long time.
It wasn't until Xiang Yu washed up and was about to go to bed that the phone buzzed, and then buzzed one after another.
She clicked on the unread message, and he didn't say anything, just sent the balance of all his accounts, as if asking her silently, use him
Xiang Yu ate two melatonin capsules, lay down under the quilt with his phone in his arms, and smiled silently in the dark.
Maybe it was because she was worried that she would be bored at home, or maybe it was Jin Fubai who had ordered her. Almost every weekend, Li Hao called, or just squatted downstairs in the company and said that she wanted to take her sister-in-law out.
With Xiang Tao, the group of people played with restraint. At most, they pushed Mahjong and played cards together. They didn't dare to hide the money they won against Xiang Tao, they were too serious.
They even asked Xiangyu to go to a temple in the suburbs one day to climb a mountain and worship Buddha.
In the winter, Xiang Yu wore a thick down jacket and had a hard time walking up the winding steps.
Finally, when she got to the cable car, she waved with a few other people: "You guys continue to climb, I will take the cable car."
"Don't, sister-in-law, worship Buddha! Sincere heart is spiritual."
"It doesn't work to take the cable car."
"Sister-in-law, it's not a few steps away, let's walk."
Xiang Yu looked back at the lonely winter in the north, smiled sweetly, and said with a silent "shh": "Speak softly, the Buddha didn't even know that I took the cable car up."
Maybe it was her crooked reasoning that had an effect. Li Hua and the others simply stopped climbing and followed her to the cable car.
Li Yu and Xiang Yu were on the same cable car. When the phone rang, he didn't know whose name he saw on the screen, he frowned and cut it off.
"Lovers?" Xiang Yu said jokingly.
"Where."
Li Hao called up the call log to show her, "Sister-in-law, do you still remember Qu Donghang? He played with us two or three times in my field before."
Xiang Yu remembered, but what she remembered was Xiao Xingyan and the fine diamond chain in her hand.
After being silent for half a second, she spit out, "Remember, Mr. Qu."
"Look, I knew that you didn't like seeing him. He wanted to follow him when he prayed to Buddha today. I didn't bring it with me. I was afraid that my sister-in-law would not be happy to see him."
Xiang Yu looked at the water flowing in the mountain stream and smiled lightly.
She didn't even interfere with Jin Fubai, so how could she interfere with what kind of people Li Hui brought
Under her smiling gaze, Li Hao's expression gradually became serious: "Sister-in-law, you are too clear. In fact, sometimes I am quite afraid of you. You are like a ticking bomb by our side."
"How to say?"
"You also know about Zhuo Xiao."
Li Yu seemed to remember something, and suddenly closed his eyes, "We went to the hospital, and after the rescue was declared invalid, we went to his house again. He had cut his wrists, the floor was covered in blood, and the cracks in the light wood-colored floor... . . . "
In the next scene, Li Hao didn't go on, he only said that Zhuo Xiao had sent several messages to mixed-race women before committing suicide, all of which were very long.
They also found out that day that the woman was named Jenny.
In the message, Zhuo Xiao recalled their early days in France, their college years, their first kiss and even their first time, and their life after returning to China.
Many, many, Zhuo Xiao said that getting married was the most painful thing for him, and only Jenny made him feel happy.
He asked Jenny if she was really going to get married, and also asked her if she would like to come back to him.
Jenny only replied two sentences:
I don't want to be a third party anymore.
Now I am very happy and we love each other.
In fact, Xiang Yu was reluctant to hear about Zhuo Xiao, so she interrupted Li Hua: "So, what do you want to tell me?"
Li Lu shook his head: "Brother Jin has you in his heart, I know, but Xiang Yu, he has only one way to go. If that day comes, you won't blame him, right?"
"Am I that aggressive?" Xiang Yu smiled calmly.
"of course not."
Li Hua crossed his legs and pointed to himself, "In our place, everything has a purpose, and we need to have a plan to go on. Take me as an example, Brother Jin and I are so good also have my purpose. It's cool under the tree."
Halfway through the cable car, there are mountains at the foot, Xiang Yu pointed at the bottom: "The trees are all bald, how can there be a shade?"
Li Hao was startled and looked at her deeply.
Even though she was talking about something serious, she always answered with a lot of energy.
When she spoke, she exhaled a bit of hoarfrost, her eyes full of determination, and she still wanted to make a breakthrough even though she knew the ending was bad.
Xiang Yu didn't make any detours, and joked half-truths: "What's the matter? A person like you who is so eloquent, you have to make such a big detour when speaking?"
Li Hao was teased by her with a smirk, clasped his fists and said, "It's nothing, I'll trouble you. If it's the end, don't let my brother Jin also splatter three feet of blood."
Xiang Yu nodded casually like a heroine: "It's easy to talk."
When Jin Fubai called the video, she was hanging out in the Guanyin Hall, and showed him the Guanyin statue behind him: "Next time, you won't come out with Li Hua and the others, and these activities with me and them are too healthy, why don't you bring them? When I go to the field, I can still have a little fun."
"tired?"
"Do you know how high this mountain is? Just walking to the cable car ride, I feel like I'm going to break my leg."
As Xiang Yu said, he suddenly remembered something, "By the way, is there anything you want to ask for, let me say goodbye to you?"
Jin Fubai passed behind her, glanced at the Buddha statue, and suddenly said with a smile, "That's the Guanyin of Sending Sons."
He's not serious, "Otherwise you can just say goodbye to us."
Xiang Yu was startled.
This temple has a history of more than 500 years. She is in front of the old vermilion lacquered wood temple. In the cold air, there are bursts of respectful incense, carved beams and painted columns, and solemn treasures.
She just wandered here by accident, and after hearing his words, she looked at the statue behind her in panic.
"...What do you say nonsense, what should you do if you hear it seriously?" Xiang Yu lowered her voice and trotted with her mobile phone in hand, for fear that Guanyin behind him would actually hear it.
Jin Fubai's face was full of affection. He didn't realize that there was anything wrong with him, and laughed at her: "What's wrong? Did you hear it right?"
At that time, when the New Year was approaching, Jin Fubai had no intention of coming back, and his parents were also busy, and Aunt Chen was still helping to look after the children in his hometown.
Xiang Yu was ready to celebrate the New Year alone, but a few days before the new year, he received a call from Tang Yuchi.
Master Tang said that his grandmother was at his house for Chinese New Year today, and the old lady was happy to play mahjong, and asked Xiangyu if she would go to New Year's Eve, if she wanted to play mahjong with them, and celebrate the New Year together.
Speaking of the old man, Xiang Yu inevitably thinks of Jin Fubai's grandmother.
She had never seen him speak Cantonese on a phone call with a modest face like that.
There are still a few days before the new year, and Jin Fubai may come back.
He couldn't be allowed to spend the New Year in Li Haochang.
Thinking of this, she decisively rejected Tang Yuchi: "No, your poker skills are so bad, I won't be embarrassed to take it if I win poker at your house. It's good for me to order takeout myself, don't bother me."
"Fart, are you just waiting for Jin Fubai to accompany you?"
The screen of the phone that was on the phone lit up, and there was a notification that another call came in. It only rang once, and when she saw it, the other side had hung up.
Tang Yuchi's voice kept coming: "Your godfather and godmother miss you and said they want to make braised pork ribs for you."
The phone vibrated again, and a message came in.
It is Jin Fubai.
[Let parents withdraw from the project, hurry up.]
Xiang Yu stared at the information, but did not respond for a while.
There are still Korean dramas in the room, and Tang Yuchi is still on the phone. She called out the information and watched it again, inexplicably feeling Jin Fubai's eagerness.
She couldn't remember what she said to Tang Yuchi when she hung up the phone. All she knew was that she called her father and asked him to withdraw today's bid with unprecedented seriousness.
Of course, Xiang's father refused, and Xiang's mother took the phone there and wanted to communicate with her.
Xiang Yu's voice became cold, and he repeatedly asked: "Dad really doesn't know why he was selected for bidding by the world's top 100 companies? Would it be unreasonable for me to ask you to withdraw? When have I been unreasonable with you in the past 22 years? What? Have you ever been willful to you? Even once?"
After that day, Xiang Yu never received any more information from Jin Fubai, nor did she take the initiative to contact her.
Occasionally open his dialog box, and I can see that he calls her parents "Dad" and "Mom", knowing that he is pressed for time and saves the number of words.
But Xiang Yu was more willing to take it as he wanted to call him that.
When the company is on holiday, the streets are full of New Year's flavors, lanterns, and joy.
Huge Spring Festival couplets were hung on the shopping mall, and there were electronic window grilles with horse patterns everywhere.
Xiang Yu watched Korean dramas alone in Jin Fubai's house. Fortunately, this year, the takeaway software has developed, and she can order fried noodles while watching Korean dramas.
The sauce of the Korean-style jajang noodles is black. She was burying her head and eating all the sauce when she heard the key ringing at the door.
When he raised his eyes, Jin Fubai was standing by the door.
Unexpectedly, he would come back on New Year's Eve. Xiang Yu was at a loss for a while, and hurriedly put his chopsticks away and ran over: "You didn't tell me earlier, I only ordered one serving of fried noodles..."
It was New Year's Eve in 2014, and a lot happened that year.
A taxi-hailing software has changed the traditional taxi-hailing model. Before that, many small restaurants in Imperial City had the taxi-hailing number printed on the napkin boxes. You could get a cheap taxi by calling the platform. The platform does make life more convenient.
An electronic trading company listed in New York City, setting a record for the largest initial public offering in foreign history, even surpassing Facebook to become the world's second-largest Internet company by market capitalization.
But Jin Fubai stood at the entrance with a faint tiredness on his face. He raised his hand to wipe off the sauce on Xiangyu's mouth: "Anyway, it's New Year's Eve, so just eat this?"
“I also ordered fried chicken and beer, and crayfish...”
Jin Fubai finally smiled, he held the back of her neck, suddenly pushed her into his arms, and then lowered his head and kissed her lips.
The employees of the companies under the group are still counting the year-end bonuses and looking forward to the new year, but many things in the group have been powerless.
He has countless dilemmas that are insurmountable at the moment, and she knows it.
They will face many difficulties, and she knows all of them.
But Xiang Yu stood up on tiptoe and gently embraced Jin Fubai's neck: "Jin Fubai, happy new year."
He smiled and said, "Happy New Year."