Jiang Qingzhou sat on one side with his arms folded, watching coldly and waiting to see if Huo Jinyu could come up with another eloquent speech.
Humph! If you can't come up with a story, I'll kick you under the bed. I don't care if you're injured or not. Not only did you climb into his bed in the middle of the night, but you also... and you slept with him in your arms.
If Huo Jinyu's sexual orientation had not been "officially certified" with a red seal, stating that it couldn't be straighter, he would have suspected that Huo Jinyu had other intentions.
The most important thing is that he didn't even feel the slightest bit of awareness and didn't notice the extra person. Could it be that after sharing a bed with Huo Jinyu for so long, he was influenced and assimilated by some of Huo Jinyu's behaviors and words, and really regarded himself as Huo Jinyu's furry pet...
It should be impossible.
Jiang Qingzhou was struggling with himself.
Huo Jinyu sighed: "I raised you, and you won't let me hold you while you sleep!?"
Jiang Qingzhou: “…” Such a matter-of-fact, very provocative tone.
"You were the one who chose to follow me and get into my bed, so don't even think about getting off now."
Huo Jinyu still had that tone that made Jiang Qingzhou want to grit his teeth and kick him. If the young master didn't speak, it would be fine. But when he spoke, he was always right.
Because even if he is unreasonable, his righteous and confident tone will lead him to the wrong side.
Jiang Qingzhou changed from kneeling to sitting cross-legged. He was afraid that he would not be able to hold back and kick Huo Jinyu directly. He resisted the urge to kick, but could not resist the typos in Huo Jinyu's sentences.
He corrected: "It's getting on the boat, not going to bed."
If you don't know how to use a word, don't use it randomly.
After a two-second pause, he added, "Seriously speaking, it was you who slept with me, not me with you."
Huo Jinyu suddenly leaned closer to Jiang Qingzhou's ear, whispered in a low voice, and said something with a smile on his lips.
"The hospital is owned by my family. Who is sleeping on whose bed, huh?"
Jiang Qingzhou shut up.
But he can at least stay away from it.
When the head nurse came to change the dressing in the morning, Jiang Qingzhou had been frowning the whole time. Yesterday, the incident happened suddenly, from the microwave oven exploding to the entire circuit in the kitchen exploding, leaving people completely unprepared.
Huo Jinyu happened to be standing at the center of the explosion, so his clothes were set on fire by the flying sparks. By the time the two fires were put out, his skin had already been burned.
The burn area on the back is small, probably because the sparks were small at the time, but the skin on the right arm was directly touched by a spark, and the skin on half of the arm was severely burned.
Jiang Qingzhou waited silently for the head nurse to change the medicine for Huo Jinyu, bandage the wound, push the medical cart and disappear from the ward. Then he stepped forward and put on a loose vest for Huo Jinyu that would not affect his injuries.
Visually, it's definitely better than not wearing a shirt yesterday.
After helping Huo Jinyu put on her clothes, Jiang Qingzhou looked serious and said solemnly -
"For your own sake, and for the sake of the lives and health of others. Don't think about taking care of others in the future. Just be content to be your Mr. Huo, Little Fourth Master."
"No, I still have to take care of..."
"I will take care of you. I will always take care of you until you get married."
Huo Jinyu was interrupted by Jiang Qingzhou before she could finish her words. After this experience, how could Jiang Qingzhou let Huo Jinyu go into the kitchen again
The destructive power of a kitchen rookie is comparable to that of an atomic bomb, and it’s an invisible one, so you never know when it might explode.
Moreover, this kind of bombing does not distinguish between friend and foe.
Huo Jinyu originally wanted to insist a little longer, but after hearing Jiang Qingzhou's words, he completely forgot about his insistence. Jiang Qingzhou said that he would take care of him and always take care of him. If you round it off, that means he wants to spend his whole life with him.
With a little thought in mind, Huo Jinyu asked casually, "What if I never get married and stay single?"
Jiang Qingzhou was stumped by this question. If Huo Jinyu never got married, he couldn't take care of him for the rest of his life.
"I don't think so... Maybe by then you'll meet someone you really like and want to get married again!" Jiang Qingzhou said this hesitantly and uncertainly.
Maybe he lacked confidence, or maybe he really couldn't imagine what it would be like if Huo Jinyu married someone else. It was likely that they would get married this morning and divorced tomorrow morning...
"Do you think anyone would be interested in my 'good' temper as the eldest and second oldest in the world?"
Jiang Qingzhou stared in shock, as if he didn't expect Huo Jinyu to be so self-aware, knowing that he had too good a temper and no one would like him.
"Not necessarily... You won't find any. You can lower your standards a bit... There are still many girls willing to marry you."
No matter what, Huo Jinyu's identity is there. She is the fourth master of the Huo family in Kyoto. She is handsome and rich. There will definitely be people who don't care about Huo Jinyu's temper and are willing to be Mrs. Huo.
"Well... You have both good looks and money. No matter if she is after your face or your money, just make do with her and your life will pass by."
"Compromise?" Huo Jinyu sneered, "Do you think I'm the kind of person who would compromise myself? Even if I'm single for the rest of my life, I won't compromise!"
Perhaps he was angry, Huo Jinyu kept saying "I" "I" when he opened his mouth, and he didn't even notice it.
Jiang Qingzhou smiled back and thought, you should still be single, being single suits you well.
Wait... Jiang Qingzhou suddenly stopped. What does Huo Jinyu being single have to do with him? Even the two elders of the Huo family don't worry about Huo Jinyu's lifelong affairs. He is not Huo Jinyu's parent, so why should he worry about it
It's just asking for trouble.
After thinking it through, Jiang Qingzhou immediately stopped talking about this topic.
"Whether you want to be single or get married, it's up to you to decide your lifelong affairs. You don't need to tell me."
"What do you mean you don't need to? I promised you in advance that I would support you for the rest of your life and I will never break my promise—" Huo Jinyu frowned, as if displeased, but his eyes were shining brightly when he said this, his gaze fixed on Jiang Qingzhou, and his low voice seemed to hide some unknown expectation and hope.
“So you can be involved in every decision I make.”
What a pity! Jiang Qingzhou didn't understand the hidden meaning of Huo Jinyu's words. Instead, he felt that Huo Jinyu's eyes were too hot when he looked at him. His eyebrows jumped, and he was at a loss and turned his head to avoid it.
The next second, his head was straightened back up.
"You haven't answered me yet, and you just said you would take care of me for the rest of my life."
Huo Jinyu would naturally not let Jiang Qingzhou escape. He would not feel at ease until he had dragged the person he had set his eyes on back to his nest.
Jiang Qingzhou: "When did it happen? How come he didn't know
"I only said that I would take care of you before you get married. I didn't say for a lifetime." I don't know how Huo Jinyu heard it, but he said for a lifetime right away.
"Do you think I will get married?" Huo Jinyu threw the question back.
Jiang Qingzhou was speechless. He didn't have any super powers, so how could he know whether Huo Jinyu would get married in the future
Huo Jinyu asked three more questions in a row: "Isn't your intuition very sharp? How about you sit down and do a calculation for me? To see if I will get married?"
Jiang Qingzhou rubbed his forehead. He was just an ordinary book traveler, without the superpower of knowing what would happen 500 years in the past or 500 years in the future - let him go!
As an ordinary person, Huo Jinyu naturally cannot hear other people's thoughts. In fact, even if Huo Jinyu can hear them, he will probably just turn a blind eye.
What a joke! How could I let it go
Not only did he have no intention of letting Jiang Qingzhou go, but his mouth was always busy and he kept asking questions.
"What if I never get married?"
This is not the only question I'm asking.
Huo Jinyu was like a human tape recorder, mechanically repeating the questions in Jiang Qingzhou's ear, as if he would keep asking until the end of time if he couldn't get the answer he wanted.
Unable to bear it any longer, Jiang Qingzhou angrily said, "That's enough! If you don't want to get married, then don't get married. What should I do? Just leave it alone!"
She kept asking questions like a parrot. Even though Huo Jinyu didn't get tired of talking, he got tired of listening to her.
"If I don't get married, what about you? Will you get married?"
"Are you going to get married?"
"Are you going to get married or not???"
“… … ”
ah!!!
Jiang Qingzhou was almost annoyed by Huo Jinyu's questions about whether the life-threatening pursuit would end or not.
"No!"
“It won’t tie!!”
"I can't get married!!!"
Jiang Qingzhou roared almost with a shout, and was so angry that his eyes turned red.
Huo Jinyu was still lingering around, asking, "What can't you get married?"
"I won't get married! I won't get married! Okay!"
Grinding his teeth and clenching his teeth, Jiang Qingzhou slammed these words one by one at Huo Jinyu.
"Oh! I feel relieved now~" Huo Jinyu suddenly raised his phone, smiling brightly, "I recorded everything you said just now. I have the recording as evidence. If I'm not married, you are not allowed to get married either."
Huo Jinyu secretly gave himself a big "thumbs-up". Any potential threats and accidents should be nipped in the bud!
Jiang Qingzhou: “???”
Listening to the recording playing on Huo Jinyu's phone, Jiang Qingzhou felt his head buzzing.
"—Huo Jinyu! You are tricking me."
"How can you call it a routine?" Huo Jinyu smiled and stretched out a finger to shake at Jiang Qingzhou. "I spent a lot of time and energy to get you..."
After his eyes swept over Jiang Qingzhou again, he continued.
"… I raised a beautiful and radiant girl, so how could I allow someone else to get there first and pick my peaches?"
If you want to pick peaches and get to the top, it’s only him, only him.
Huo Jinyu clenched his fist and snorted coldly: "Even if you think about it, you will know that the stupid and brainless behavior of surrendering to others is definitely not my style of doing things."
Jiang Qingzhou: “!!!”? ?
In his left ear he heard Huo Jinyu's long, heartfelt words in cadence, and in his right ear he heard his own recording repeatedly saying he would not get married.
Perhaps he finally got the answer he was thinking of. Huo Jinyu smiled with compassion as if the Buddha's light was shining upon him. He let Jiang Qingzhou's ears go and turned off the recording on his phone.
Then he brought a fruit platter to feed his furry cats and rabbits.
Jiang Qingzhou turned his head away and didn't eat.
In his heart, he was impressed by Huo Jinyu. She could do such a bold move just to trick him into saying that he didn't want to get married.
Not to mention that he is only a freshman and has never thought about his lifelong affairs. Even after graduating from college, he will not consider marriage too early. Maybe...
Let's think about the reality first. Let's not talk about the distant future. I definitely need to earn money to pay back the creditor Huo Jinyu first. As for the rest...
Any marriage that is not based on money is just hooliganism.
Therefore, he will not consider marriage or getting married until he has achieved sufficient economic freedom.
"You've been staring at me. Are you attracted by my intelligence, too? Hmm?"
Jiang Qingzhou was startled when a magnified handsome face suddenly appeared in front of him. He took a step back, but he didn't expect that there was a ward behind him. He bumped into it with his knee bent and subconsciously bared his teeth and hissed.
Huo Jinyu was also startled and threw the fruit platter away. Just when Jiang Qingzhou was about to sit on the bed, she reached out in time to grab a handful of him, hugged him around the waist, and didn't want to let go after hugging him.
Then, without waiting for Jiang Qingzhou to react or say anything, he put his arm around Jiang Qingzhou's waist and strode out of the ward with him, speaking.
"I feel a little hungry, let's go to the restaurant for breakfast."
It’s okay to have breakfast, but could you please loosen your hands first? They’re too tight.
"My wound hurts so much, please hold me up a little, otherwise I'm afraid my legs will be too weak to stand."
Once again, before Jiang Qingzhou could speak, Huo Jinyu held up his wound and deliberately pretended to be in great pain and looked pitiful.
When Jiang Qingzhou heard Huo Jinyu say that his wound hurt, he no longer remembered the hand around his waist and reached out to hold Huo Jinyu's injured hand.
Huo Jinyu curled the corners of his lips, feeling happy. He was already thinking about how to make his injury heal more slowly.
Jiang Qingzhou had no idea of Huo Jinyu's little thoughts and plans. In order to allow him to feel at ease accompanying her in the hospital, Huo Jinyu hired a reinforced platoon of professional leaders in various fields.
A one-on-two teaching mode was started in the hospital, and Huo Jinyu was just there to make up the numbers.
Therefore, there is no need to worry about not being able to keep up with the progress of Kyoto University students. Not only do you not have to worry about not being able to keep up, you may even be able to surpass them.
Jiang Qingzhou has always had a pious and serious attitude towards learning, and perhaps because he has one more lifetime of memory than others, his memory is amazing and he can remember everything he sees.
The sponge-like learning made him hardly feel the passage of time.
Until one morning, he received a group announcement on his mobile phone. It was the class group where all members had been banned from speaking since the second day of freshman year and group announcements were only sent out during holidays.
Jiang Qingzhou read the group announcement and found out that winter vacation would start this afternoon.
… Has time passed so quickly? It’s already winter vacation.
After leaving the group announcement, Jiang Qingzhou opened the calendar and found that today was already the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and the Chinese New Year would be in twenty days.
As the Chinese New Year was approaching, Jiang Qingzhou realized belatedly that something was wrong. Suddenly, a figure appeared in his sight and blurted out a sentence.
"You've been in the hospital for more than 20 days. Haven't you recovered from your injuries yet?"
Huo Jinyu staggered, but after he stood steady, he looked quite calm. When he walked towards Jiang Qingzhou again, a smile appeared on the corner of his lips.
"I was just about to tell you that the head nurse just informed me that my wounds have almost healed and I can be discharged at any time."
Jiang Qingzhou glanced at him, and Huo Jinyu immediately smiled. Jiang Qingzhou just nodded after seeing this: "It's good."
He didn't say anything else, nor did he expose Huo Jinyu. During the days he spent accompanying her in the hospital, he gained a lot and all he had in his heart was gratitude.
Since Huo Jinyu could be discharged from the hospital at any time, Jiang Qingzhou packed up and prepared to return to Yuhua Garden.
Huo Jinyu followed closely behind. Seeing Jiang Qingzhou packing his luggage without saying a word, he said carefully, "I'll drive you back."
Jiang Qingzhou said gently: "Okay."
Hearing this, Huo Jinyu breathed a sigh of relief. At least she wasn't angry.
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On the first day after moving back to Yuhua Garden, Jiang Qingzhou lay alone in bed at night, but for the first time in his life he suffered from insomnia. He couldn't sleep.
The central air conditioning in the room was clearly on and the temperature was just right, but for some reason Jiang Qingzhou just couldn't fall asleep, tossing and turning.
During the twenty days he worked as a nurse in the hospital, he slept in the same bed with Huo Jinyu. Suddenly, without Huo Jinyu's human-shaped heater, he felt that something was wrong and he was not used to it.
Jiang Qingzhou frowned and pursed his lips, thinking that this was a bad habit.
It must be changed.
After trying for a while, Jiang Qingzhou still couldn't sleep, so he got up and sat at the desk to read.
I watched until late at night, and when I felt sleepy, I crawled back to bed to sleep.
In fact, he was not the only one who couldn't sleep that night. Dozens of kilometers away from him, in the Huo family compound, Huo Jinyu was also tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep.
He picked up the phone several times, put it down again, hesitated, and finally sent a text message at around 12:00.
[Are you asleep?]
He stared at the phone screen until it went black, and there was no reply to his text message.
Huo Jinyu pulled out a pillow and pounded it angrily: "Silly cat, you didn't even bother to call me and ask if I slept well on my first day home. Even a text message would be fine."
He hit her again: "Stupid rabbit, I miss you so much that I can't sleep, but you are so good! Without me, you can eat and sleep well."
He hit it again: "No conscience..."
Huo Jinyu kept muttering to herself for a long time, completely forgetting that Jiang Qingzhou was in the habit of turning his phone to silent mode before going to bed.
Therefore, Jiang Qingzhou didn't see the message until he was woken up by his cell phone alarm the next day.
He glanced at the time... It was already eight o'clock. He had been accompanying Huo Jinyu in the hospital during this period, and in order to adapt to Huo Jinyu's schedule, he changed the alarm on his cell phone from six in the morning to eight o'clock.
It was eight o'clock. Huo Jinyu should still be sleeping at this time. Jiang Qingzhou stroked his chin, thinking that Huo Jinyu would be grumpy when he woke up, so he decided to reply to the message at noon.
After getting up, he was the only one at home except Aunt Wang who was busy in the kitchen cooking. Jiang Yuehong would not have a holiday until around the 20th of the twelfth lunar month, as kindergartens usually have a late winter vacation.
Uncle Jiang went to the supermarket early in the morning. Because his arthritis was still under treatment, he needed to take medicine every day without interruption and go to the hospital for a checkup every week, so Uncle Jiang stayed in Kyoto.
Aunt Jiang returned to Nanning as early as early November. After all, Jiang Yueying was still studying at a university in Nanning, and she could not be left without someone to take care of her in her hometown.
After Jiang Qingzhou had breakfast, he thought about not having been to the supermarket for several days and decided to go take a look.
When he walked to the supermarket, festive music was playing inside the store, and beautiful red lanterns and exquisite Chinese knots were hung overhead. It was all red and joyous, and the festive atmosphere was immediately felt.
Uncle Jiang is busy preparing New Year's goods. Since December, the supermarket business has been getting better day by day. Sometimes he is so busy that he goes home and falls asleep as soon as he gets home.
When he saw his nephew coming, he said a few vague words and answered a phone call, then drove out to deliver the goods in the Dongfeng pickup truck he had just bought last month.
Jiang Qingzhou knew that Uncle Jiang bought a truck. At first, he did not agree at all, because his original intention was to let Uncle Jiang stay in Kyoto to retire, not to let Uncle Jiang stay and work for him.
Putting the cart before the horse.
Little did I know that the supermarket business was so good that nearby office buildings and some companies would sometimes come to buy supplies in large quantities, and because the quantities were large, they needed the goods to be delivered to their doors.
Uncle Jiang discussed with Jiang Qingzhou whether they could buy a small delivery truck so that he could take over these delivery orders.
Jiang Qingzhou disagreed, but Uncle Jiang insisted, and Jiang Yuehong also sided with Uncle Jiang this time, voting in favor. Even Aunt Jiang, who was far away in Nanning, called Jiang Qingzhou and agreed to Uncle Jiang buying a small truck.
It is said that Uncle Jiang is still young and capable!
Three votes crush one vote.
It was decided to buy a small truck to deliver the goods.
Since Uncle Jiang bought the small truck, he has received more and more delivery orders. Every day he is either delivering goods, on his way to deliver goods, or busy loading and unloading goods.
There is little time to rest.
Uncle Jiang is busy all day long. Although he is physically tired, he is happy in his heart. He is full of energy and looks radiant every day.
Jiang Qingzhou couldn't help but be amazed when listening to Uncle Jiang's daily account report. The business was really so good.
With this daily turnover and net profit, it might take less than five years to pay off the foreign debt owed to Huo Jinyu.
Jiang Qingzhou knew in his heart that the reason why his supermarket business was so good was ultimately due to the influence brought by Huo Jinyu.
The tenants of this commercial street are all well aware of who the owners of the shops they rent are. If they can please the owners, they will all rush over to take care of the business.
As the twelfth lunar month approaches the end of the year, Jiang Qingzhou estimates that the supermarket business will definitely be even better in the future.
It was just as Jiang Qingzhou thought, the supermarket business was booming. They had originally planned to wait for Jiang Yuehong to go on winter vacation, and then they would rush back to Nanning on the 27th or 28th of the twelfth lunar month to celebrate the New Year.
But there was no way to leave the supermarket. On one side, there was a business that made a lot of money every day, and on the other side, it was the New Year, which only came once a year. After the whole family started video chatting.
Aunt Jiang made the decision not to close the supermarket. With such a good business, she would not be able to have a happy New Year if it was closed.
She brought her little daughter to Kyoto and spent this year's Chinese New Year in Kyoto.
Aunt Jiang acted decisively and made a decision. She closed the small shop in her hometown and took Jiang Yueying on the high-speed train to Kyoto on the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.