There seems to be a layer of mist floating under the city shrouded in winter sunshine, and Gu Yan can see the dust trapped in the air outside through the car window.
The car moved forward steadily all the way, and the selected hotel arrived within 20 minutes.
It is an old Sichuan hot pot.
But I don’t know if it’s not really old Sichuan. Businesses are often like this, with a catchy name, but the taste is almost the opposite of the name.
Gu Yan didn't care much, he ate to fill his stomach, not to mention that the person who ate with him today was Jian Jie, so Gu Yan couldn't even whet his appetite.
After taking a seat, Jian Jie handed the voucher to the waiter, then turned to look at Gu Yan: "What else do you want to eat?"
"No need." Gu Yan said.
Jian Jie looked at the set meal coupons she had bought again, then turned to ask the waiter, "Can I change my hairy belly? My friend doesn't eat offal."
"Okay, what can I change?" The waiter held the orderer and pressed it a few times.
"Let's replace it with beef, and the duck's blood, and replace it with thousand-page tofu."
"Then you have to make up the difference."
Jane Jie showed the payment QR code to the waiter.
Gu Yan held a cup of hot water in his hand, looked at the tables around him, probably it was almost Chinese New Year and it was time for lunch, there were not many tables in this old hot pot restaurant.
"Your shop is not doing well?" Gu Yan asked.
"It's Chinese New Year, so I don't come out to eat."
However, Gu Yan was quite surprised. After he came out, his understanding of this society was not only the rapid technological development, but also people's living standards. Eating out for celebrating birthdays, eating out for big and small festivals, and eating out for reunion dinners.
His memories still stay on the thirty-year-old day ten years ago, the dime that Gu Li wrapped in the dumpling, the boiling hot water on the stove, the windows covered with red and delicate window grilles, the window at the gate. To the couplets he wrote himself, and the glass of white wine on the table.
The mechanical blessing news on the TV, the lights that illuminate the night sky from door to door.
Jian Jie lightly put her coat on the back of the chair beside her, raised her eyes to see Gu Yan's complex expression, she didn't speak, just watched quietly.
The person in front of me is walking on the road, and he is the one waiting at the end.
The dishes have been served one after another, and they look good, and the quantity is also off the rent.
The aroma from the mandarin duck pot penetrated into the nostrils and into the stomach, stimulating Gu Yan's hunger.
Jian Jie put the fat and thin meat into the pot, opened his mouth and urged: "Eat first."
"Change the position?" Gu Yan looked at the bottom of the original soup pot in front of him, and suddenly realized that his current appearance was a bit hypocritical, and then said, "Don't you don't like spicy food?"
Jian Jie on the opposite side was obviously taken aback.
Gu Yan himself was ashamed.
To be honest, from the time when Jian Jie said the password was his birthday in the car just now with a blushing face and heartbeat, Gu Yan felt nothing but accidents, and was very dazed from the time when Jian Jie appeared outside his house.
So, in a trance until now.
But fundamentally, Gu Yan still remembers Jian Jie.
Just don't want to admit it.
Jane Jie smiled suddenly, like a child who got candy on Halloween: "No, I've gotten used to it in the past few years."
He will smoke, start to eat spicy food, and his personality will become duller.
Gu Yan didn't say much, and put the white radish slices into the original soup pot: "Why didn't Lin Xiaotian come?"
"He comes at night. I haven't finished talking about things in the neighboring city. I'm busy in the afternoon." Jian Jie put some green onion and coriander into the saucer, and after biting into it, he was full of delicious flavors, and even felt happy: "There are a lot of promotions in the supermarket. You can cool off a bit."
"Why don't you go back for Chinese New Year?" Gu Yan put sliced radish in the bowl.
"It's a falling out." Jian Jie said calmly.
The two sat facing each other, and Gu Yan could see Jian Jie when he raised his head. Just like at that time, Jian Jie seldom expressed his feelings on his face. Most of the time, Gu Yanmai couldn't care less about the curiosity and stubbornness in his heart. How big are the waves under that calm expression.
For example, now, he is clamoring in his heart, and even guessed one or two, but he still wants to ask: "Why?"
Based on what Gu Yan knew about Jane Jie, no, about Jian Jie's family, he knew about Jane Jie's family when Jian's mother found the school, found him, and even cried and yelled to force him to stay away from him. Is the kind of stubborn, stick to the rules.
Not to mention that Jane Jie usually asked three times when she went out to eat with friends and who was going where and when she would come back, but now she didn't go back to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, then something really went wrong.
"Because of you." Jane Jie didn't intend to evade, nor did she intend to be ambiguous and perfunctory to Gu Yan: "I won't marry Jia Bei, it's because my mother is willing, and I have a showdown with my family, which has become the current situation, but — This is what I want, you don't have to make it difficult."
Gu Yan lowered his head and took two bites, still digesting what Jane Jie said.
"The kiss last night, and today's meal, I just want to express my determination. I don't want to force you. What people can't change in this life is their own sexual orientation. It should be said that I didn't fall in love with anyone at the beginning. The only one People are you, so I can't say that I like men but I like you, this matter cannot be denied." Jian Jie said and put the cooked beef in Gu Yan's hands: "I said that I am willing to wait, no matter what you want I don't care what Yan looks like."
This affectionate confession directly caused Gu Yan's mouth to be burned by the beef. He didn't eat it, he didn't eat it, and he was a little at a loss.
Jane Jie has changed too much, and she has also changed too much.
He never thought that Jane Jie would express his heart so bluntly, which showed that Jane Jie had a very direct purpose for following him.
- i want to date you
"You misunderstood." Gu Yan tried his best to keep his tone calm: "It's fine to be friends, but the others..."
"Why are you still lying to yourself?" Jian Jie wiped the sesame paste on the corner of her mouth with a paper, and stared at Gu Yan with bright eyes: "You should have known it clearly when you kissed me back last night."
Gu Yan stood up with a swipe, and the saucer in his hand was almost knocked over by him.
Jian Jie stopped eating, and looked up at him calmly.
After staring at each other for several seconds, Gu Yan breathed a sigh of relief and sat back slowly.
He found that he couldn't refute Jane's words. All his feelings were hidden in the kiss last night. He was explaining, but it was just an excuse to avoid the truth.
"Let's eat." Gu Yan said.
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After the meal, without saying a few words or taking a few bites of food, Jian Jie gave Gu Yan the Chinese New Year doll from the front desk: "I'm going to drive."
Gu Yan covered the clothes on his body tightly, and his breath dissipated into white smoke. Today, it is more than 20 degrees below zero, and his feet are cold and his legs are numb after standing still for a few minutes.
What Jian Jie meant was to go directly to the shopping mall, Gu Yan had no objection, since the person has already followed Jian Jie out, so don't struggle.
The shopping mall is not far away, and after walking for more than ten minutes, many migrant workers in the city are rushing back to their hometowns during the Chinese New Year, and there is not much traffic in the car, so Gu Yan took out his mobile phone and sent Lin Xiaotian a message.
Last night he spoke harshly, but based on his understanding of Lin Xiaotian, Lin Xiaotian forgot halfway through listening.
-Jane Jie picked you up so early
-Hey, then you two have fun, I won't go tonight.
Gu Yan silently rolled his eyes.
-Come.
Lin Xiaotian on the phone side drank a cup of espresso, turned off the computer, shook his head and went to the bathroom.
The car drove into the parking lot, and Jian Jie found an empty space to put Gu Yan down: "You go in first, the first floor is the supermarket."
"Waiting for you at the door." Gu Yan got out of the car.
In the distance, a black Mercedes-Benz car rushed towards it as if it couldn't control the steering wheel. Gu Yan stepped back, and his back just stuck to the door of Jane Jie's car. The car honked its horn and almost touched Gu Yan's toes. drove over.
"What the hell?"
Gu Yan's eyes widened, he had never seen anyone driving like this.
Jian Jie saw clearly in the car, opened the door and quickly got out of the car, walked around to Gu Yan: "How is it?"
"Is this forced to buy a driver's license?" Gu Yan's heart was pounding, if he hadn't seen it from the corner of his eye just now, the car might have hit him directly.
The two of them were in a daze, the car stopped leisurely, the driver's window was about to come down, a man stuck out his head and yelled: "Your mother is an idiot! Didn't you see the car coming?"
Gu Yan opened his mouth to scold, but when he took a closer look, he felt that the man looked familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere before.
The man opened and closed his mouth, scolding their eight generations of ancestors all over the place.
The short and fat woman who got off the co-driver of the car seemed to want to find fault with the two of them, and even looked around the car.
"Oops, the car door is slammed!" The woman screamed.
Gu Yan's face was written with 'I saw the devil', and he opened his mouth and said, "Fuck your mother."
"Ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai ai" The woman put her hands on her hips: "you rowed our car and lost money!"
"You must be out of your mind." Gu Yan didn't want to argue with this kind of person, and motioned for Jian Jie to stop first, then turned to leave.
The woman refused to give up, and came up and grabbed Gu Yan's clothes: "Losing money!"
Gu Yan waved away the woman's hand impatiently, turned around and looked down at the woman, but unexpectedly silenced in the next second.
The woman in front of her is not tall, she has short hair, three wrinkles on her forehead, her complexion is unfriendly, her figure has been out of shape due to years of lack of maintenance, she is a middle-aged shrew when she scolds others.
As she got closer, the woman also regained her composure. Suddenly, she exclaimed in surprise, "Gu Yan?"
Not knowing why, Jian Jie leaned against Gu Yan.
The woman was wearing a not-so-high-end red padded jacket, and she was wearing a pair of high-heeled boots about five centimeters high.
Although he hadn't seen her for many years, Gu Yan still found the shadow of that year from her.
It was Zhang Yanping, his titular aunt.
"Hey, who is this, so arrogant." Zhang Yanping opened her mouth and smiled sharply: "I heard that you were released from prison?"
"Who are you?" Jian Jie held Gu Yan behind him, frowned and looked at Zhang Yanping: "Be careful, I'll call the police, get out of here."
"Okay, Gu Yan, can you find someone right after you come out?" Zhang Yanping didn't care, and wanted to pick up the plane and said a few words: "I heard that your mother died in a car accident, and you didn't come back to see, otherwise why would I say you As cheap as your mother."
With anger in his chest, Gu Yan subconsciously grabbed the corner of Jane's clothes.
He can accept all the bad words, but he can't accept others scolding Gu Li.
Zhang Yanping couldn't close her mouth once she opened it, and Jian Jie didn't say anything, just stretched out her hand and gave her a crisp slap.
With a sound of 'pa—', Zhang Yanping was stunned, and Gu Yan was also shocked.
"Another one?" Jian Jie didn't say a word, while Zhang Yanping was still in a daze, she waved her hand and slapped Zhang Yanping.
This sound was louder than the last one.
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