Three minutes later, Qin Man sat in the passenger seat and buckled his seat belt.
"Where do you live?" Ji Ran asked with a dark face.
"When you get to the city, you can just find a place to let me down." Qin Man said, "I have to find a house."
Ji Ran: "Looking for a house?"
"Well, the previous house was mortgaged." Qin Man's expression was as usual, "I'm going to rent one to live in first."
"… "
The mountain road was winding, and Ji Ran drove through a curve neatly and beautifully.
Qin Man supported the car door with one hand, the back of his hand on his chin, and commented: "The driving skills are good."
Ji Ran snorted: "When grandpa was on the track, you were still doing test papers in the classroom."
Qin Man asked, "Did you drive when you were a teenager?"
The kindergarten teacher is here again. Ji Ran rolled his eyes and didn't answer, "What price are you looking for?"
Qin Man thought for a while: "Within 1500 monthly rent?"
Uncle Ji, who hasn't been in the mortal world for more than 20 years, asked, "...Why, do you want to rent a toilet to live in? Where did you live before?"
"A friend's house." Qin Man said, "I've lived for too long, I'm embarrassed, so I started looking for a house."
"You know I'm sorry, I thought you didn't want your old face." Ji Ran said, "Didn't I give you money before? Not enough for you to stay in a hotel?"
"It's all for the family." Qin Man pushed the pot very calmly.
"... What about your family?"
"Afraid of collecting debts, I hid abroad."
Ji Ran asked, "Didn't I bring you with me?"
"No, I still have things to deal with in the country, so it's hard to leave." Qin Man smiled, "And it's not easy for those young men who came to collect debts. If I run away, wouldn't they have to lose their jobs?"
Unexpectedly, this person also has the hidden attributes of a prosperous white lotus flower. Ji Ran was stunned: "...you are such a good person, why don't you do charity?"
"I have been doing it before, but now there is no such condition."
Ji Ran shut up.
When he was about to get to the city, he asked, "If you can't find a house, where do you live?"
Qin Man said: "Find a hotel to stay in."
"hostel?"
"Well, the current homestay hotels are very cheap, about a hundred yuan a night."
Ji Ran's mind immediately came to the scene of Qin Man in a suit in a narrow rental room. The picture was abrupt, inconsistent... and a little pitiful.
After being silent for a long time, he said awkwardly: "I will confiscate the 20,000 yuan you paid me before. You can take it and go to a better hotel."
"The 20,000 yuan is also given to my parents." Qin Man said.
"...Why don't you give your life to them?!"
Qin Man smiled and turned to look at him: "Didn't I sell my life to you?"
Ji Ran concentrated on driving the car, and was stared at uncomfortably: "Don't talk nonsense, I don't engage in people buying and selling, and I don't want your life."
The call interrupted the conversation between the two, Ji Ran glanced at the caller ID and answered it.
"Little Ranran, when are you going home? People have been waiting for you for a long time, and I'm hungry." Yue Wenwen said in a tired voice.
Ji Ran said, "Wait when I go back and put the bowl in your mouth? You're not going to work today?"
"Why are you so fierce." Yue Wenwen said, "No, I drank too late yesterday. I woke up this morning with a headache and skipped work. When are you coming back?"
Ji Ran glanced out the window: "It's still ten minutes... Tell me what's going on."
"I'm going to play in the afternoon. I also made an appointment with Cheng Peng and his little lover." Yue Wenwen said, "Cheng Peng's car has been scrapped and returned to the factory. Let you pick him up."
Cheng Peng is their good friend. Recently, he and his new lover are you and me. They haven't been in entertainment venues for a long time.
Ji Ran sneered: "His skin is itchy? Find me to be a driver?"
"The stadium was newly found, and it's near his house. Let's drop by." Yue Wenwen said, "His Xiaoqing'er was there too, and they just picked up the two together."
"How can there be a stadium near his house?" Ji Ran asked, "Didn't he live with his parents? Dare to bring people home?"
"No, he moved out. He took his lover home just after moving in yesterday, and he was very happy." Yue Wenwen said, "I'll hang up, I'm going to draw my eyebrows, wait for you, mwah!"
After hanging up the phone, Ji Ran turned his head impatiently: "...don't look at me like that."
Since he made the call, Qin Man's eyes haven't moved away, the corners of his mouth pursed with resentment, like an abandoned woman.
"Okay, I don't see it." Qin Man retracted his gaze.
After a while, he asked, "Do you like Yue Wenwen?"
Ji Ran almost didn't step on the brakes properly: "...You are quite imaginative."
Qin Man was relieved. He didn't get enough sleep today and had a headache, so he said casually, "When you have a boyfriend or girlfriend, remember to tell me that although I am poor, I don't like to be a third party, and I will refund you the extra money. "
After that, there was a strange silence in the car.
Qin Man paused, only to realize that he had stepped on a minefield. He said, "I have no other intentions."
"I know." Ji Ran didn't care, and his voice was light, "Don't worry, if I have someone I like, I will definitely not let you block in front of him."
After that, he stepped on the brakes and stopped on the side of the road, "Go away."
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"Ji Ran, pass him! Pass him!" Yue Wenwen couldn't run anymore, panting and commanding near the basket of others.
Ji Ran's hands were crisp, and he passed Cheng Peng two or three times. The jump was a beautiful slam dunk. The basketball was slammed into the basket by him and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Don't play, don't play anymore!" Cheng Peng sat on the ground, pulled up the hem of his clothes and wiped his sweat, "Damn, can you let others? If you bully people like this every day, you won't be afraid that even the people who play with you in the future will No."
"It's not that I bully people, it's you guys who are too bad." Ji Ran walked to the side and saw Cheng Peng's little lover handing him a bottle of mineral water. Cheng Peng's Xiaoqing'er looks young, with bangs, big and dark eyes, and quite cute.
Ji Ran took the water and asked, "Are you an adult?"
The boy was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "It's done, it's done, it's grown."
... still a small stutter.
Ji Ran nodded, turned on the water, and took a gulp.
Cheng Peng said, "You won't let us cook?"
"Why didn't you see Lao Tzu at the poker table? I still remember how much I won last year." Ji Ran scolded, "You pay me back the money, and I can hold you up and deduct twenty baskets. "
"Why are you so stingy?" Cheng Peng came over, sat down and hugged his Xiaoqing'er, raised his eyes and asked, "By the way, I've heard about you and Qin Man, okay, brother, even Qin Mandu dares to do it, do I have to praise you for your daring skills."
Cheng Peng's body smelled of sweat, but the boy didn't dislike it at all. His shoulders shrank slightly, looking a little scared to Cheng Peng. Finally, he picked up the towel and wiped Cheng Peng's sweat.
Ji Ran said: "Don't mention him to me. Don't you, just bring someone to your house, so you won't be afraid of being discovered by your parents and let you peel off?"
"I'm afraid of them? And there are so many rooms in my house. When they come, I'll say it's a friend who's here to stay." Cheng Peng said, "It's convenient and easy to manage when people are by my side."
Hearing the words, the boy's ears immediately turned red.
Ji Ran raised his eyebrows after hearing this, but said nothing.
"Little brother, bring me a bottle of water too." Yue Wenwen came over, followed them to sit on the ground, and looked Ji Ran up and down, "Very well, no injuries. I dreamed last night that you were being attacked. Stuck in the toilet at the engagement site and beaten."
Ji Ran sneered: "You said the opposite, it should be me blocking others. Give me the basketball."
Yue Wenwen threw the basketball to him, Ji Ran grabbed the ball and returned to the court alone.
Watching him fight for a while, Cheng Peng couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with him?"
Yue Wenwen leaned back: "What else, he went back to Ji's house last night."
Cheng Peng was stunned, lowered his voice, and asked with wide eyes, "Why, go back to fight with his brother?! Did you go? Why didn't you call me about this?"
"No, Ji Wei got engaged yesterday." Yue Wenwen said, "He went to congratulate him."
Cheng Peng's eyes widened.
He still remembered that in high school, Ji Ran was blocked by someone called by Ji Wei, and the toilet door was closed for a whole class.
When they arrived, Ji Ran was covered in injuries, which was no different from being disfigured, and the others in the toilet were not much better.
When they broke in, they just heard Ji Ran's face cold and said to the people on the ground: "You can trouble me. If you touch my friend, I will kill you."
"Also, tell Ji Wei that he is lucky if he didn't come in person today, or I'll let him die here."
He originally looked down on Ji Ran, but after a period of contact and this incident, Cheng Peng recognized the brother.
"You're really good, but you can safely let him go alone." Cheng Peng said.
Yue Wenwen said: "The chest muscles are big and brainless. There are so many people at the engagement scene, his father and grandmother are there, Ji Wei dares to touch him? It's not that you don't know how hypocrite Ji Wei is."
Cheng Peng: "... Also."
After the game, Yue Wenwen clamored for seafood.
The sports car only has two seats, so Ji Ran changed to a Mercedes-Benz when he got home. He threw the car keys to Yue Wenwen and sat in the back seat lazily, too tired to say a word.
He picked up his phone and found two messages on it.
[Q transfers 600 yuan to you. Note: Remaining fare.]
Q: I made a slip of the tongue today. I'm sorry, but don't be angry.
Ji Ran didn't collect the money and didn't reply.
During the meal, Cheng Peng seemed to remember something, and suddenly said: "By the way, I went to the class reunion some time ago and heard something very interesting."
Yue Wenwen asked, "What class reunion? Why didn't Xiao Ranran and I know about it?"
"They said they called Ji Ran, but he didn't reply." Cheng Peng said.
Ji Ran: "Is there?"
"It's you who made me miss the chance to meet my high school crush!" Yue Wenwen said, "Quick, Cheng Peng, you go on."
"It's best if you don't go, your crush already has a beer belly." Cheng Peng hesitated for a while, but said, "Just... Didn't Ji Ran get blocked in the toilet in high school?"
Yue Wenwen said, "...Why did you mention this all of a sudden."
"Listen to me. That time, the dean of the school came out in person and let someone open the toilet door. You should remember that, right?" Cheng Peng said, "On the day of the party, the dean was also invited. I drank two drinks. , the dean suddenly told me that it was Qin Man who went to tell him."
Ji Ran made a move.
"Really? Is Qin Man so righteous?" Yue Wenwen said, "Actually, I also thought it was quite magical that time. The old man always turned to Ji Wei, and Ji Wei stumped Xiao Ranran every day as if he didn't. I saw it, but that time I was ruthless and gave a punishment to the few idiots present..."
"Okay, there's no end to it, and there's no more to eat."
Ji Ran interrupted them and continued to pick up vegetables, as if the momentary stagnation had never happened.
After a long while, he muttered again, "...It's really stupid, you know how to make small reports."