Zuo Shengyan has always disliked dinner parties, unless the military department needs him to attend dinner parties, he rarely attends them. The person who invited was just out of politeness, but he didn't expect Zuo Shengyan to accept this time.
Because Zuo Shengyan was coming over, the host of the dinner took the time before the dinner to make some arrangements.
The host of the dinner was Qing Ruo's cousin-in-law. Qing Ruo had been called over since noon to help with the arrangement. Two hours before the banquet, the cousin-in-law hurried over and explained a lot of things.
The cousin was not in a hurry, watching her cousin's husband explain a lot of things to Qingruo, she took all the things in her hands and piled them on the sofa, "Don't let my sister do things, I let her Those who come to play are not here to be waiters."
The cousin-in-law frowned, "Isn't this the best arrangement by Qingruo?"
Cousin is still unhappy, holding Qingruo's arm but not letting go, "What is the best arrangement, isn't it already arranged?"
Qing Ruo smiled and patted her cousin's hand reassuringly, "It's okay, if you're idle, you're idle, and you're not tired." As she said that, she was going to pick up the things piled on the sofa.
The cousin frowns and refuses to let go, and the cousin-in-law is happy.
"No, General Zuo is coming."
"Who?" The cousin turned her head, expressing that she was a little confused.
"General Zuo, Zuo Shengyan!" The cousin-in-law was very anxious and anxious, and overtook the cousin and stuffed a bunch of things into Qing Ruo's hands, "Qing Ruo, thank you for your hard work, thank you for your hard work."
"It's okay." Qing Ruo smiled, got up and went to work.
The cousin was still in a daze, "Zuo Shengyan? Didn't he never attend dinner parties?"
"how could I know… "
"Oh!" Before the cousin's husband could say a word, the cousin hastily interrupted, and walked away with her skirt and high heels clattering, "Over there, let's arrange it again."
"..."
Originally thought that Zuo Shengyan would come here after the dinner started, but he arrived a quarter of an hour earlier, which happened to be the time for the guests to arrive, so he gave enough face.
He changed out of his military uniform and changed into a dark dinner suit with some dark patterns on the cuffs, which was tall and close-fitting.
A group of people went to greet him and greet him.
Zuo Shengyan is Xijing, and he is not a talkative person. He was able to come already beyond the expectations of many people. He didn't have a long-sighted approach to bother him at all. He just greeted him and stopped pestering him.
As the host of the banquet, the cousin's husband and cousin have to take care of other guests, but Zuo Shengyan is also very important.
Zuo Shengyan lifted a glass from the waiter's tray, touched it with his cousin's husband and cousin, put one hand behind his back, and took a sip by himself, "You can do whatever you want, don't worry about me."
"Okay, okay." That's what he said, but as the person who needs to be taken care of, how could he not be scrupled.
Qing Ruo was passing by, Zuo Shengyan's eyes fell on the corner of her light-colored cheongsam, and he called her, "Teacher Xu."
Qingruo turned around, and the flowers at the corners of the light-colored cheongsam opened in the air with her movements. She put on a little makeup tonight, and her delicate and beautiful cheeks were shining brightly under the bright light. When she turned her head and saw With a clean and soft smile, he walked straight towards him, "Mr. Zuo."
The cousin-in-law laughed, "Hehe, the general and Qingruo know each other~"
Zuo Shengyan nodded, "Ms. Xu is Xiaoyou's teacher in charge."
"..." Why didn't I know there was such a relationship, my cousin's husband and cousin looked at each other, and both of them had this kind of information in their eyes.
Qingruo walked to the side, and the cousin-in-law took the wine from the table behind him and wanted to pass it to her. Zuo Shengyan moved faster, and the juice in his hand had already been handed over. Pass over the lemon juice.
Qing Ruo took it to thank her, and her cousin-in-law shrugged and put the glass back behind her.
If you haven't seen anything yet, you're pretending to be a man, "Come on, let's have a drink together."
The four of them toasted and clinked, and the cousin-in-law took the cousin and started selling the piglets, "Well, if you play with General Zuo for a while, your cousin and I will go greet the guests."
"okay."
"General Zuo, excuse me, just tell Qing Ruo if you need to."
Zuo Shengyan nodded, "Okay."
Qing Ruo accompanied Zuo Shengyan, and some people who knew Zuo Shengyan came to greet her, and she drank two sips of fruit juice. As for the young talent that her cousin wanted to introduce to her, she didn't dare to come forward when she saw Zuo Shengyan get in a word.
The two found a quieter place to sit down. Zuo Shengyan's sitting posture was a little more casual than usual, and he casually put the wine glass on the table next to him, put one hand on the back of the sofa, and looked sideways. She, "Your cousin wants to give you a blind date?"
Qingruo smiled and nodded.
"how do you feel?"
Qing Ruo looked at him fixedly, her eyes were clear and black, "How does it feel?"
Zuo Shengyan's gaze shifted from her delicate face to her ankles. He usually wore shoes with a three-centimeter heel, but tonight he wore high heels. "Does your foot hurt?"
Qing Ruo followed his gaze and glanced at her feet, "It's okay~"
"Hmm." He didn't speak anymore, although the posture of leaning on the sofa with his legs was casual, his back was tense and straight, and he seemed to be resting with his eyes slightly closed.
Qing Ruo sat beside her quietly, drank half of the juice, and lifted the cup to take a sip from time to time.
She drank one third of the juice, Zuo Shengyan opened his eyes, the song on the dance floor was about to end, his voice was slightly gentle, "Want to dance with me?"
With a smile on the corner of Qingruo's mouth, she stood up and put the cup in her hand on the table next to her, and stretched out her palm beside him, "Okay~"
Zuo Shengyan glanced at her palm, and raised his big palm to rest on it. His palm was a little hotter than hers. The moment he touched it, he turned her palm and turned it into being held by him. inside.
He dragged her to the dance floor, with small steps and a slow speed.
When they arrived at the dance floor, just as the next song started, she let go of her hand and bent down to bow as a gentleman, "Is it an honor to invite you to a dance?"
Qingruo smiled lightly, and took her own palm.
Zuo Shengyan pulled her to slide onto the dance floor, moving very slowly, the hand on her waist was placed on her back at the position of the elbow, and the palm of the hand did not fall on her body through the air.
After dancing half a song, he glanced down at her feet and dragged her out of the dance floor.
"I was there just now, call me when you want to go home." Zuo Shengyan let go of her hand, stood aside and said, pursed his lips and added, "Don't drink wine."
He's so domineering, he just deliberately pulled her away and didn't want her cousin to introduce young talents to her. Now that he's dancing, who else in this dinner party doesn't know that Zuo Shengyan led her to dance, as if to show off Her generosity allows her to do whatever she wants.
"..." Qingruo broke into a smile, raised her hand to cover her lips, her eyes were soft, and there was a bright light inside, "I'll go over and tell my cousin and brother-in-law before I can leave."
Zuo Shengyan was much taller than her, even though Qingruo was wearing high heels tonight, and the two of them stood close, he still lowered his head slightly to look into her eyes, and nodded when he saw that there was no displeasure in her eyes. The outline softened, "Go."
Qingruo went to say hello to her cousin and her husband. Zuo Shengyan was waiting at the door when she came over. Seeing that she didn't take the coat, she unbuttoned it and took off the suit jacket. She handed it to her with one hand and waited with the other. Then he took the handbag in her hand.
"Thank you." Qing Ruo thanked him softly, handed over the handbag in his hand, took his coat and put it on.
It was very big, she was dressed up and smiled lightly, and Zuo Shengyan looked at her with a smile in her eyes.
When the two reached the stairs, Zuo Shengyan still raised his wrist and let her palm rest on his wrist.
The lighting in the stairs is not good, his pace is very slow, and the sound of her high heels clicking in the quiet space.
"Do you smoke?" Qing Ruo asked him softly, on his coat, besides his masculine scent with the cold fragrance of plants and trees, there was also a very faint smell of tobacco.
"Occasionally." Zuo Shengyan replied, his cold voice had a unique charm at night, "You can quit."
Qing Ruo chuckled, "No need."
The car was waiting not far from the door, there were street lights on the side of the road, the figures of the two people were stretched very long, Zuo Shengyan had his hands behind his back, and he was wearing a shirt tucked into his suit trousers, and he was tall and straight. When he got close to the car, he called her, "Clear."
"Yeah." Qing Ruo turned around and looked up at him slightly, her curled eyelashes reflected the light, and in a blink of an eye it was like a butterfly spreading its wings and casting shadows around the eye sockets.
"Zuo You is very important to me, and I may not have a second child." He looked at her seriously, and said slowly in a neither serious nor cold tone.
Qing Ruo laughed, nodded, and without hesitation, turned around and opened the door of the car, asked Cheng Jin, "Hello." She got into the car.
"Mr. Xu is good."
Zuo Shengyan followed into the car and closed the door.
Without Zuo Shengyan opening his mouth, after following Zuo Shengyan for many years, Cheng Jin already knew Zuo Shengyan's style of work very well, and the car stopped at the school gate.
Today is the weekend and it is night again, the school entrance is deserted, only the lights in the security room are dimly on.
Cheng Jin waited at the door, and Zuo Shengyan sent Qing Ruo back.
Zuo Shengyan said very little, and there was nothing to say this meeting, just silence all the way, the sound of her high heels, and his spontaneously stretched wrist when going down the steps.
"I have arrived."
"Yeah." Zuo Shengyan stopped, seeing that she was about to take off her coat, and stopped her, "Put it back on."
"Okay." Qing Ruo obediently stopped her movements and nodded in response.
"Let's go back."
Zuo Shengyan watched Qing Ruo's figure disappear before turning and leaving.
It was still early, when Zuo You returned to Zuo Zhai, Zuo You was not asleep, and was playing chess with himself in the study.
Zuo Shengyan knocked on the door.
"Please come in." Zuo You's voice was soft and cold with a little maturity.
Zuo Shengyan pushed the door open, Zuo You sat up straight from the chair, "Father."
"Yeah." Zuo Shengyan sat down opposite him, glanced at the chessboard and took the box of white pieces. One word left, "Zuoyou."
"Eh."
"If your teacher Xu becomes your mother after you graduate from elementary school, what's your opinion?"
Zuo You raised his head to look at Zuo Shengyan, his eyes were full of surprise, astonishment, and some disbelief.
"Really?" He opened his small mouth, and his voice was a little trembling when he asked.
Zuo Shengyan knocked on the chessboard, Zuo You's thoughts returned to the chessboard, he scratched his hair and dropped a word, and couldn't wait to ask Zuo Shengyan, "Father, is it true?" It's just the second semester of the first grade, isn't that going to be five years later?"
Zuo Shengyan nodded, "Five years later. Can you guarantee that you will not object to your current decision five years from now?"
Zuo You watched him drop a white piece, and the white piece ate many of his pieces in an instant. Zuo Shengyan raised his hand to pick up the black piece on the board, put his palm on the box, and the black piece returned to the board with a clattering sound.
Zuo You sighed softly, looked at the chessboard carefully while holding his breath, and nodded after landing a piece, "I won't regret it."
Zuo Shengyan looked up at him, Bai Zi fell down, "Okay."
Probably because of Zuo Shengyan's words five years later, Zuo You is now more unscrupulous towards Qing Ruo's intimacy, Qing Ruo also dotes on him very much, Zuo You has always been very measured, occasionally when he is naughty and disobedient, Qing Ruo If you can teach him a few words, sometimes you will beat him twice.
Every time Zuo You was spanked, he was as happy as if Qing Ruo gave him candy.
The intersection of Zuo Shengyan and Qingruo stopped at the parents' meeting. After each parent's meeting, Zuo You and Zuo Shengyan would stay at the end. After she locked the door, the two 'men' took her to the gate of the dormitory together.
After Qingruo seldom went to some dinner parties, and occasionally went to some with her relatives to stay for a while, Zuo Shengyan came to pick her up, and then sent her back to school.
Qingruo’s cousin took her three-year-old son out to buy things, and her cousin’s husband went to other places to discuss business. No one would accompany her to take the child by herself, so Qingruo went shopping with her cousin.
If the little guy was so sticky, he wouldn't move in her arms, and kept hugging and rubbing against her.
After buying a bunch of things, the two of them found a place to sit and rest.
Sitting down in a quiet place in the coffee shop, the cousin stretched out her hand to hug her son, but the little guy grabbed Qing Ruo's arm and turned his head away from his mother, clearly refusing.
Qing Ruo couldn't help laughing, the cousin reached out and pinched her son's butt viciously, "You bad boy, once you see a beautiful aunt, you won't want your mother anymore."
Qingruo reached out to block her cousin's 'salty pig's trotters', "Okay, don't make trouble with him."
Cousin pouted, "I hugged the brat all the way, did my feet hurt?"
Qing Ruo shook her head, gestured to the flat shoes she was wearing today, "It doesn't hurt."
"Yes yes yes, you have had the best relationship with children since you were a child." The cousin said emotionally, and when talking about the relationship with children, she suddenly remembered Zuo Shengyan, "What are you and Zuo Shengyan saying now, how many years has it been? "
Cousin's tone was quite rude, at first mentioning Zuo Shengyan was very respectful, then she became casual, and now she is even more rude. After all, with Qingruo's conditions, if it wasn't for Zuo Shengyan who "occupies the latrine and doesn't shit", according to her cousin, she would have found Qingruo a perfect husband and son who would have run away.
It's been five years now, Zuo Shengyan is going to die, he won't let him go, and he won't express his opinion, he's really mad at his cousin.
Qing Ruo smiled softly, "What can I say? That's it."
The cousin became angry when she saw Qingruo's appearance, and poked Qingruo's arm to teach her a lesson, "I'm not talking about you, you're just helping others raise their son for free, you're just a free nanny."
Qing Ruo smiled, played with the little bun in her arms but didn't answer.
The cousin sighed, "Goddamn Zuo Shengyan~" She now understands why those people mentioned Zuo Shengyan's trembling appearance, this man's heart is a stone.
Said Cao Cao Cao Cao arrived, just mentioned Zuo Shengyan, the cousin saw Zuo Shengyan's iconic car stopped on the side of the street, and immediately became more irritable. "No, here comes the stone."
Qingruo turned her head and looked over, Zuo Shengyan just opened the car door to get out of the car, her brows and eyes were crescent-shaped with a smile, Zuo Shengyan was dressed in a military uniform, it seemed that she came directly from the military headquarters, and saw the smiling man holding the child through the glass The cold brows and eyes are gentler.
He came in from the door and walked this way. The waiters who greeted him all the way lowered their voices, and the black military boots stepped on the wooden floor crisply but heavy.
The cousin rolled her eyes, and said in a particularly bad tone, "Hey~General Zuo is here~"
Qingruo raised her hand and patted her cousin lightly, still smiling softly, she raised her head and asked him, "Why are you here?"
Zuo Shengyan hadn't spoken yet, the little bun in her arms didn't know if he hated Zuo Shengyan with his mother's heart, or was scared by Zuo Shengyan's cold and solemn aura, pulling Qingruo's cheongsam and suddenly burst into tears stand up.
Qingruo frowned in distress all of a sudden, hugged him and coaxed him from the heart.
Zuo Shengyan looked at her tightly frowning eyebrows in distress, and beside her was her gentle coaxing that dripped water.
The cousin was originally worried about her son, but Qingruo would get it done in Qingruo, when she saw Zuo Shengyan's dazed face, she sneered, leaned closer to Zuo Shengyan and said coldly, "In two years, we will be old girls like Qingruo I don’t know if I can have a child of my own.”
Zuo Shengyan suddenly turned his head to look at her, his eyes were cold, and the overwhelming coercion inside seemed to press over him as if he was still smiling.
The cousin was a little frightened, but still puffed up her eyes and looked at Zuo Shengyan, and asked word by word, "Am I not right? General Zuo, you still want to delay our Qingruo for a few years, and let her serve you for a few years." free babysitting."
**
My heart is a stone.
I know.
—[Black box]