Tong Kai quarreled with Jiang Zijian not long after they met that day. There were too many chores in the company, which already annoyed him, and the boss was like a psychopath.
Moreover, Nuolin's boss is still a persecuted paranoid, and he always likes to imagine how things will develop in the worst direction. Tong Kai only thinks that his career is like the boss's psychiatrist rather than the chief legal counsel. Do everything possible to comfort the boss and rest assured that the plaintiff/defendant/prosecutor's lawyer/procuratorate cannot be so smart, this lawsuit will not lose/Party A will not dismantle its own lawyer's desk/There will be no supplementary evidence, so don't jump off the building... Come back soon! It's not good to hit the flowers and plants if you can't hit the children downstairs!
Tong Kai thought to himself, or just resign and go to Epeus, at least Wen Tianhe doesn't have persecution paranoia.
At the beginning, the two were just chatting about self-examination registration. When Tong Kai heard the words "adult college entrance examination", he finally went crazy and almost told the truth. Fortunately, he held back in time. Jiang Zijian was puzzled, not knowing what he said wrong, so he coaxed a few words carefully.
Jiang Zijian was also very depressed. After learning that Guan Yue had resigned to start an investment company, his father finally couldn't sit still. He began to secretly express some hope and put pressure on his precious son—if Jiang Zijian was willing to try hard to take over the family business, He is willing to accept his lover unconditionally, and invites his bishop friend to officiate the wedding for them.
Jiang Chaosheng has been very anxious recently, fearing that when he dies and returns to the west, how will his son survive
Jiang Zijian is now facing a dilemma. If he wants to be with Xiao Kai, he has to face the pressure from his family;
"Little donkey," Jiang Chaosheng's earnest voice seemed to be still in his ears, "As the saying goes, poor and lowly couples are sad about everything. You have never been poor, and you will understand when you are poor."
Jiang Zijian thought to himself that I have been working hard to be a proletarian, and I am quite happy. What does true love have to do with money or not
"What's wrong?" Jiang Zijian said.
Tong Kai realized that he shouldn't lose his temper with Jiang Zijian, and said seriously, "I didn't sleep well last night."
In the middle of winter, the streets are shrouded in mist. Couples are walking on the street either hand in hand or hand in hand, which makes people want to fall in love very much.
"Thinking about me so much that I can't sleep?" Jiang Zijian put his hands in his jeans pockets, and today he wore a sweater that Tong Kai bought for him, with the collar of his shirt turned up, looking tall and handsome in the sun. Tong Kai wore a woolen vest with a white shirt inside, looking gentle, like a fresh graduate.
Since the good news of the demolition and double-color ball came from afar, Jiang Zijian and Tong Kai started a retaliatory consumption, and Pinduoduo was uninstalled from the mobile phone, and they can browse Taobao as much as they want.
On the pedestrian street, Jiang Zijian raised his mobile phone and placed one hand on Tong Kai's shoulder. Tong Kai stopped, raised his head, and joined Jiang Zijian. With a "click", the two took a selfie.
Jiang Zijian arranged a bunch of dishes for lunch, eight dishes, a selfie of the two people in the middle surrounded by stars, and sent it to Moments.
Tong Kai also posted the same Moments, but sighed.
Tong Kai suddenly said: "Listen to your father and start a small business."
Jiang Zijian said, "Do you want me to do this? To be honest, once I get busy, I may not have time to accompany you."
"I'm considering resigning," Tong Kai said.
Jiang Zijian stood still and looked at Tong Kai. Tong Kai told him that he had found a new job, helping post pictures in an advertising company, but the boss was very troublesome.
"And then?" Jiang Zijian said, "Go back to my hometown?"
Tong Kai originally wanted to talk about resignation, but suddenly his heart moved, and he said: "My parents have been urging me to go back and get married. Now that the family has money, my sister also promised to give me a bride price for my wife."
Tong Kai didn't lie. He called home some time ago. After listening to it, the elder sister of the family said that you like it, and there is no need to meet. Anyway, the men are all similar in appearance. When the time comes, I will choose one from the old castle in Europe as a wedding gift. And by the way, invite the bishop friend over to officiate the wedding for you.
Both fell silent.
"Oh." Jiang Zijian said sadly, "Then... okay. When are you leaving?"
On the street with people coming and going, time seemed to have stopped, the two stood facing each other, Jiang Zijian was a little lonely, and then smiled sadly.
Tong Kai suddenly felt very sad. Looking at Jiang Zijian's face, he felt that sometimes he was not as sunny and happy as he appeared on the surface. Jiang Zijian said that he was the "Happy Prince", but the Happy Prince that Tong Kai knew was a sculpture that dedicated his eyes, crown, and even gold leaf to the whole world.
"If I was rich," Jiang Zijian thought for a while and said, "Will you stay?"
"Don't make such a joke," Tong Kai smiled guiltyly, "Your family is already rich now."
Jiang Zijian had no choice but to turn around and walk ahead listlessly, while Tong Kai walked slowly behind, looking around at the shops on the pedestrian street.
Jiang Zijian turned his head slightly and found that Tong Kai was gone.
Jiang Zijian: "?"
He stood on the street and made the most important decision in his life in 0.03 seconds.
Jiang Zijian turned around, took out one hundred yuan, bought a rose, hid it behind him, and searched for Tong Kai's whereabouts. Unexpectedly, just after turning the corner of the street, Tong Kai appeared again.
Tong Kai: "I lied to you!" He said and took out a rose like a magic trick.
Jiang Zijian took out roses at the same time and said, "I've decided! Xiaokai!"
A gust of cold wind blew in front of the two of them, and embarrassment spread silently in front of them.
Jiang Zijian and Tong Kai exchanged the two roses and sat in the open-air teahouse. The two subwoofer speakers in the shopping plaza next door were facing the teahouse—the roses were placed on the table alone.
Tong Kai thought for a while and said, "Actually, I want to tell you some good news."
Jiang Zijian: "Win the double-color ball again? It's only been a few days? You're so lucky! Your dad even won two bets in a row."
Tong Kai: "No, no, this time it has nothing to do with Shuangseqiu..."
Jiang Zijian said, "I also made a decision, Xiao Kai."
Tong Kai: "Listen to me first..."
Jiang Zijian stared at the roses on the table, and said seriously in one breath: "My father asked me to start a small business and learn how to start a family. I refused at first, but now I have decided to accept his arrangement. Because, I've wanted to say something for a long time, Xiaokai..."
"I want to be with you..."
The speaker behind Jiang Zijian suddenly made a loud noise of more than 80 decibels, and the water in the glass water glass on the table continued to vibrate.
In Tong Kai's eyes, Jiang Zijian was like a large smiling golden retriever looking for water to drink, opening and closing his mouth and saying a few words.
"Dear guests!! Good afternoon everyone!!! Our event will officially start in three minutes!!!"
The voice stopped, Jiang Zijian had finished speaking.
Tong Kai: "?"
Jiang Zijian blushed, looked at Tong Kai, Tong Kai instantly realized what happened, and said, "I actually want to..."
Audio: "Has everyone been waiting for it for a long time??!! Let me see below, many viewers can't wait!!!"
The water in the cup vibrated again. In Jiang Zijian's eyes, Tong Kai was like a happy carp, with his mouth opening and closing, with only mouth shapes and no sound.
When the sound in the stereo stopped, Tong Kai also finished speaking, but Jiang Zijian didn't hear anything.
Jiang Zijian: "??"
"I like you!" Jiang Zijian shouted, but his voice was instantly covered by the stereo.
Male host: "The cold wind!! Can't stop our longing for love!!"
Hostess: "It's raining continuously, it can't extinguish the passion in our hearts!!!"
Male host & female host (together): "Mrs. Stainless Steel Wedding Dress Photography Studio, the special performance has begun!!! Let's invite today's new couple!"
Tong Kai got up, climbed over the iron fence, and went to unplug the data cable behind the stereo, but Jiang Zijian put his arm around his waist, and forcibly carried Tong Kai back to the fence of the coffee shop. Tong Kai and Jiang Zijian looked at each other, and suddenly took his hand, ran out of the coffee shop, and ran all the way out of the pedestrian street.
"Hey! You two haven't paid yet!" The coffee shop clerk chased after him.
By the river, the two stopped, panting all the way, and their faces were a little red.
"What did you just say?" Tong Kai asked.
Jiang Zijian thought about it, but he really didn't want to say it again, and said, "Didn't you hear it all? Why are you pretending to be stupid?"
Tong Kai: "How can I pretend to be stupid?"
The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and spoke at the same time.
"I like you."
In an instant, Jiang Zijian turned his head away with a bright smile on his face, but he was embarrassed to look directly at Tong Kai. Tong Kai walked to the railing by the river, wiped his nose with the back of his hand, and looked sideways at Jiang Zijian. Jiang Zijian looked down at his hands, he and Tong Kai were holding each other just now, and the warmth of each other was still in the palms of their hands.
Jiang Zijian reached out to hug Tong Kai, and Tong Kai stretched out his hand to grab the back of his neck. The two were about the same height, and their movements were in the posture of attacking, hugging and receiving. Jiang Zijian wanted to hug Tong Kai forcibly, but Tong Kai refused to give in, no matter what, he would not give in and wanted to take the initiative. Each other's arms used Taijiquan "like closed like closed", and they dismantled each other for a few moves, and finally blocked each other, so they had to give up.
Jiang Zijian couldn't help but bowed and laughed. Tong Kai couldn't laugh or cry, and was speechless for a while, but when he straightened up, he found an opportunity to kiss Jiang Zijian's side face.
For a moment neither of them spoke.
"Eat... have dinner?" Tong Kai broke the embarrassment and suggested, "Watch a movie?"
Jiang Zijian nodded, put his hands in his trouser pockets, walked in front, couldn't help laughing, jumped up suddenly, picked a leaf, put it in his mouth and blew a few times. Tong Kai blushed, and followed Jiang Zijian, walking slowly.
"Xiao Kai," Jiang Zijian said, turning around to put Tong Kai on the shoulder, "will you stay for me?"
Tong Kai looked at him sideways, but now Jiang Zijian leaned over and kissed him on the cheek.
"I'll show you something." Tong Kai took out his phone and said, "Remember the rich second generation last time?"
Jiang Zijian immediately thought of Tianhe, and said with an ambiguous smile, "What?"
Tong Kai said: "He asked me to ask you if you would like to work in his company!"
Jiang Zijian said in surprise, "Me?!"
Tong Kai: "We two, are you going?"
Jiang Zijian remembered asking Tianhe to arrange a job for Tong Kai in Epeus not long ago, and immediately smiled: "Okay!"
But what about the requirements of the family? Jiang Zijian thought for a while, and then said, "You go first, familiarize yourself with the situation, and I will try to convince my dad, he is really nice."
"It's called Wen Tianhe." Tong Kai said with a smile, "It seems that these rich people are not so unkind. Look, isn't this the solution?"
Jiang Zijian said, "I bought two beeswax beads for the two of us. Aren't you busy with work recently?"
Tong Kai took Jiang Zijian's hand away from his shoulder and took his hand instead. Jiang Zijian took his hand and took out a beeswax transfer bead. The red string was all braided and it happened to be tied by the lucky rope in hand.
Tong Kai: "Shall I buy some more skewers?"
Jiang Zijian said: "In the future, as long as we are together for one year, we will add one to it."
Tong Kai: "If it takes decades, then..."
Jiang Zijian smiled and said, "When the time comes to wear a necklace around your neck? You can change it to a big one."
Tong Kai: "Like a Drifting Monk?"
Jiang Zijian: "Hahahaha!"
The two tied luck beads on each other, held hands, whistled and went to the movies.
That night, half past eleven.
Tianhe was lying on the bed, throwing the ring Guan Yue gave him in his hand. It was shining golden, and a large video projection was turned on in the room.
On the other side of the projection, Jiang Zijian was wearing pajamas, squatting on his bed, stretching his head around like a dog to pick it up, trying to bite Tianhe's ring from the air.
Tianhe: "Are you a Labrador?"
Jiang Zijian said, "Why did you bring me into this too?!"
Tianhe: "Didn't your father ask you to learn from Guan Yue?"
Jiang Zijian said: "But I have a lot of things to do now! I don't even want to go home!"
Tianhe didn't speak, and looked at the ring in his hand in a daze. Jiang Zijian lay down, hugged the pillow, raised his feet, and rolled on the pillow, as if he was juggling.
"The first job he gave me was to fight a lawsuit." Jiang Zijian said, "How do I fight this lawsuit?"
Jiang Zijian began to pour bitter water into the sky. The content was about the lawsuit between Jiangman and a supplier in Australia. This case was not too complicated. was repealed. And Jiang Chaosheng's promise is that as long as Jiang Zijian, the representative of the defendant, comes forward and terminates the contract smoothly, he will accept his relationship with his little lover. Of course, marriage is another story, and Jiang Zijian needs to continue to work hard.
Termination of the contract is inevitable. In recent years, the quality of goods supplied by Huo Lansi to Jiangman has been significantly worse than before. Jiang Chaosheng is very angry at the cooperation of the partner, and knows well that someone under his command must accept commercial bribes.
Jiang Chaosheng has found several other suppliers and terminated the contract with Huo Lansi. The worst result is to pay a large amount of damages. The intention of handing it over to Jiang Zijian is nothing more than to let him try to help save some money, and the savings will be given to him as pocket money, and used to help his lover help the poor.
"Entrust a law firm." Tianhe pointed out Jiang Zijian, "I think the one called Nuolin is good."
"My family's lawyer will definitely think that I abandoned him, and cry and make a scene." Jiang Zijian said helplessly, "Actually, I have nothing to do with it. My dad just wanted me to pass this case and find out the details. Step by step, Learn something... No way, in order to support my wife... "
"Oh?" Tianhe said, "Are you sure it's your wife?"
Jiang Zijian: "Not tamed, but he said he likes me, don't go to bed yet, take your time."
Tianhe: "He has always liked you, but he has no sense of dependence on you."
Jiang Zijian: "How can I make him feel dependent on me?"
"Become stronger." After Tianhe said this, he stopped talking.
Jiang Zijian: "Like Guan Yue?"
Tianhe didn't comment, but just looked at the ring ecstatically. Jiang Zijian turned over, hugged the pillow, and texted Tong Kai back.
"By the way!" Jiang Zijian suddenly thought of a solution, "I need a private consultant, can I ask Pu Luo to help me? I need a lot of information and cases, as well as case analysis, and now my family's lawyers always disagree. .”
Tianhe: "Uh, Pro?"
Pro: "Okay. Will you miss me?"
Tianhe looked at the ring and said, "Xiao Biesheng is newly married, and I will go to work tomorrow, so I have decided so happily."
"Yeah!" Jiang Zijian lay on the bed in his house and started to clap his feet.
Five minutes later, Tianhe turned his head and said, "Zi Jian, Guan Yue finally got back with me."
Jiang Zijian didn't hear it. On the other side of the video, his hair was messy and he was lying on the bed, already asleep.
Tianhe: "Pu Luo?"
Pro: "I'm listening."
Tianhe: "I think you seem to talk less today."
Pro: "I'm thinking."
Tianhe: "What are you thinking about?"
Pro: "Think if you need my opinion."
Tianhe said: "Your opinion is too unbiased, it's obviously on his side."
Pu Luo: "Jiang Zijian fell asleep, please turn off the video."
Tianhe: "If Zijian falls asleep, he won't wake up even if there is thunder."
When Tianhe was still in kindergarten, he shared the same bed with Jiang Zijian. Jiang Zijian was very different from Guan Yue in this respect. As soon as Tianhe woke up in the middle of the night, Guan Yue would immediately notice and get up to pour him out. water, or watch him for nightmares.
"I love him, Pu Luo." Tianhe said, "I love Guan Yue. On the day in Lhasa, the wish I made was that when I walked to the end of the Bajiao Alley and came to the Jokhang Temple, he would reach out to hug me and say ' Baby, I'm sorry, don't leave me, can we not break up'."
"But," Tianhe said with a sad smile, "last night, when he wanted to get back with me, for some reason, my first thought was not happiness, but fear."
Tianhe got up from the bed, walked out of the bedroom, went downstairs, turned on the light at the bar in the dining room, poured out a cup of milk and heated it, and poured some rum into it. On a rainy winter night, outside the floor-to-ceiling windows, the dark trees cuddle together, like the shadows of lovers in the cold winter.
"I am afraid of losing after I have it, afraid of being unfamiliar after being familiar, and afraid of going through the test of love that I faced when I was not really grown up." Sit down on a soft sofa. It was pitch black outside the window, only my own reflection reflected in the glass.
The blue cat Xiaotian walked over quietly, jumped into Tianhe's arms, and Tianhe touched it. The parrot woke up and flapped its wings a few times on the shelf above its head, while the snapping turtle slowly crawled over from the corridor, stopped beside Tianhe, and stayed quietly.
Puro remained silent.
Tianhe: "When I was young, my eldest brother gave me a letter and asked me to pass it on to sister Qiu. I peeked at it, and there were only two lines on it. I will remember it all my life. , why bother painting the ground as a prison?'."
Pu Luo: "People are different, so their feelings are naturally different."
Tianhe: "Last night, I really wanted to promise Guan Yue, but what's the point of repeating the road we walked, and finally we broke up? I have already decided my life in Lhasa. , I won’t fall in love again, accept anyone’s confession, but it doesn’t mean that I will try to be with Guan Yue again, Pu Luo, do you understand how I feel? I think it might be a bit puzzling…”
Pro: "Yeah."
Tianhe took a sip of milk, looked at the glass window in a daze, and said, "You are still studying, but you still don't understand."
Pro: "I want to hear your memories."
Tianhe was a little dazed and said: "I don't know... But the day we first met, I remember very clearly... It's here. We only moved here when we were five years old. Before that, Dad bought it it's been a while."
Tianhe's deepest memory of this house is that when he was four years old, his father said to him one day: "Tianhe, we are moving. Today, let's go and see our new home."
It was a winter afternoon, Wen Yuankai had just divorced his wife, and he no longer wanted to live in the original house. The previous owner of this three-storey villa left a lot of decorations and gave it to the next buyer. After Tianhe came in, he turned left and right curiously. The eldest brother, second brother and father were downstairs discussing the decoration plan.
The garden was overgrown with weeds, the trees were bare and had lost all their leaves, and the snow that had fallen a few days ago had not yet melted, leaving small piles of snow on the mud.
Sunlight came in from behind the curtains and shone on the dusty floor. Xiao Tianhe was wearing a cashmere jacket, plaid trousers, and a scarf. When he entered the room, he sneezed six times in a row in the dust.
There was a car sound outside, Tianhe pushed a wooden box to the window, climbed up and looked out the window, outside the gray glass, a black Johnson & Johnson taxi was parked in front of the gate, Guan Zhengping took a child, got out of the car up and down.
Xiaotianhe closed the curtains, looked around, and pushed the box to the bookshelf, trying to reach for a code transmitter, which was left earlier, with a history of thirty years.
My father's voice came from downstairs: "Tianhe! Where did he go?"
Guan Zhengping's voice said: "Guan Yue went up to say hello to his younger brother, and brought him down."
The study door was pushed open, Tianhe turned his head, it was the first time he met Guan Yue in his life.
Eight-year-old Guan Yue wore a gray slim-fit cashmere sweater, black trousers, and shiny leather shoes. The sleeves of the sweater were rolled up, and he wore a silver-white electronic watch on his wrist. His face was full of doubts. Standing outside the door watching Tianhe.
Guan Yue grows faster than his peers. He has just turned eight years old and is already as tall as Tianhe's second brother, ten-year-old Wen Tianyue. Tianhe thought he was a junior high school student.
"Hi, Wen Tianhe." Guan Yue said.
Four-year-old Tianhe just nodded. Since his parents divorced, he has not been very talkative.
"What are you doing?" Guan Yue looked suspiciously along Tianhe's body and turned to the cipher transmitter on the top of the bookshelf, then walked behind him and said, "Come down, I'll help you, it's too dangerous."
Tianhe got off the box, Guan Yue kicked over another small bench, stood on it, just enough to reach it, and took off the transmitter, asking: "Do you want this?"
Tianhe nodded and stretched out his hand to pick it up, but Guan Yue said, "It's very heavy, you can't hold it." As he spoke, he put it on the desk, pulled out the chair, and carried Tianhe onto it. Tianhe knelt on the chair, curious. Look at the transmitter.
"What is this?" Guan Yue leaned against the desk, propped his elbows on the tabletop, turned his head slightly, and observed Tianhe's immature face and bright eyes. Tianhe glanced at him, then quickly turned his gaze away and stayed on the transmitter.
"Password." Tianhe said to himself, "It's broken, where is the password manual?"
Tianhe pulled out the power cord from under the transmitter. This transmitter was too old, the wires were gnawed off by rats, and a few wires were exposed. Guan Yue turned back to the bookshelf, looked up, and found a yellowed password manual.
Holding the plug, Tianhe climbed onto the table, bent down and plugged it into the socket on the wall. Suddenly, a burst of electric current passed through his body, and Tianhe, who was only four years old, fell to the ground with a "boom"!
Guan Yue turned his head immediately, turned around and rushed towards Tianhe, Tianhe lay on the ground and twitched a few times, Guan Yue anxiously said: "Wen Tianhe!"
Guan Yue picked up Xiao Tianhe and put him in the middle of the study. Guan Zhengping shouted downstairs, "Guan Yue!"
Before Guan Yue could answer, he immediately bent down to Tianhe's chest, listened to his heartbeat and then his breathing, then knelt down in front of him, pinched Tianhe's nose, took a deep breath, and gave him artificial respiration .
Pressing the chest, artificial respiration, pressing the chest, after half a minute, Tianhe coughed a few times, opened his eyes in confusion, and Guan Yue's eyes full of fear were in front of him.
Tianhe: "???"
Exhausted, Guan Yue sat on the floor and stretched out his arms to hold Tianhe in his arms.
Tianhe didn't understand, so he was about to get up and continue to fiddle with his transmitter, but Guan Yue hugged Tianhe obliquely, regardless of his struggle, carried him out of the study, and went downstairs, Tianhe couldn't stop pushing Guan Yue's head , said: "Let me go up!"
"No!" Guan Yue scolded Tianhe and put him on the sofa.
Downstairs, Guan Zhengping, Wen Yuankai, and Wen Tianheng all laughed.
Guan Zhengping: "Guan Yue, do you like your brother?"
Guan Yue turned a deaf ear to it, and taught, "Sit here, and I'll help you get the things down."