Zhu Yunping was silent for a moment before he calmly said, "I remember. It left a deep impression on me."
Jiang Tu still felt guilty when he recalled how he had caused Zhu Xingyao to be hospitalized with a bloody head. He must have left a very bad impression on Zhu Xingyao's parents, but he wanted to be with Zhu Xingyao, so he couldn't avoid these things.
Zhu Yunping asked: "Are you at home now?"
Jiang Tu said with some difficulty: "Yes."
Zhu Yunping seemed to sigh: "Xingxing is prone to nightmares when she has a fever. Since you are taking care of her at home, you should keep an eye on her. If she has a nightmare, wake her up slowly."
Jiang Tu agreed: "Okay, I will take good care of her."
Jiang Tu returned to the room with his phone and saw Zhu Xingyao had sat up. She was awake. Zhu Xingyao had a fever last night and was sweating a lot. Her hair was stuck to her cheeks and her face was pale. She looked out the window. It was cloudy today and she couldn't tell the time.
"Didn't you go to work today?"
When Zhu Xingyao opened his mouth, his voice was hoarse.
"I've asked for leave." Jiang Tu walked over quickly and handed her the phone. "Your dad called just now, I answered the phone for you."
"Ah? You answered it for me?" Zhu Xingyao was stunned and a little flustered. "Did my father say anything to you?"
When Zhu Xingyao was injured for the first time because of Chen Yi in high school, Zhu Yunping and Ding Yu did not blame Jiang Tu because Jiang Tu beat Zhang Sheng to vent her anger, and Zhu Yunping liked him quite a lot. In 2013, Chen Yi got into trouble again, and that incident almost ruined Zhu Xingyao. In the final analysis, the knot was Jiang Tu, but Jiang Tu was not even seen. Zhu Yunping and Ding Yu resented Jiang Tu and never liked him very much.
Jiang Tu repeated Zhu Yunping's words and looked down at her: "Do you often have nightmares? Has it always been like this, or just in the past few years?"
Zhu Xingyao breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head and said, "Only occasionally."
She climbed up from the bed, and Jiang Tu supported her. Zhu Xingyao had just put her feet into her slippers when he picked her up unexpectedly. Her heartbeat stopped and she looked up at him: "What... are you doing? I can walk by myself."
"I'm afraid you'll fall again." Jiang Tu said.
Zhu Xingyao sank into his arms and looked up at his firm jawline.
She suddenly asked, "Are you going home tonight?"
Jiang Tu stopped and looked down at her: "If you don't drive me away, I won't leave."
Zhu Xingyao was now clear-headed. She snorted, "I chased you away last night, but you didn't leave."
Jiang Tu was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Then I won't leave tonight either."
Zhu Xingyao: “…”
Jiang Tu was still quite thick-skinned, and she couldn't help but glare at him.
There was a sound of a car downstairs. Lao Liu and Xiao Kui came back with lunch. They had lunch together. Zhu Xingyao took the medicine and felt drowsy again. Jiang Tu was on the balcony making a phone call. He seemed to be very busy. Taking a day off would delay a lot of work.
Zhu Xingyao walked behind him, Jiang Tu turned his head, she saw a little dark blue on his chin, bloodshot eyes, it was obvious that he hardly slept last night. Zhu Xingyao suddenly remembered that he mentioned getting glasses a few days ago, she looked at his eyes carefully.
After Jiang Tu finished the call, he lowered his head and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Were you without your glasses last night?" she asked.
Jiang Tu said: "I wore contact lenses for too long and my eyes felt uncomfortable, so I took them off."
No wonder your eyes are red.
Zhu Xingyao looked at him and said, "Go get busy first. You seem to have something to do."
The company did have some issues, but he didn't have to deal with them. Jiang Tu didn't really want to leave. He was afraid that if he left now, Zhu Xingyao, who was sober, would not let him in again. Zhu Xingyao suddenly came over, sniffed his collar, and deliberately said, "Your clothes are smelly, go back and change your clothes."
Jiang Tu sat in the car and unbuttoned two buttons of his shirt. He pulled up his collar and smelled it. There was a slight smell of cigarettes, which was the residue from smoking yesterday.
He frowned, took out the broken pair of glasses from the box, put them on, and drove out.
At around nine o'clock in the evening, Zhu Xingyao and Xiaokui sat on the carpet with their phones in their hands. The sound effects of the King of Glory game came out, as well as Jiang Lu's voice: "I heard from Sister Jiayu that my brother was at your house last night, right?"
Xiao Kui lowered her head and focused on the game, trying hard not to say a word.
Zhu Xingyao said: "Yeah."
At this moment, someone knocked on the half-open door. Zhu Xingyao's eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he lowered his head and said, "Come in."
Jiang Tu came over after taking a shower and changing into clean clothes. He didn't wear a shirt, but a black casual suit. When Xiao Kui saw him, she stood up and said tactfully, "I'm going to the bathroom." Xiao Kui left happily with her phone and closed the door obediently.
"Who's here?" Jiang Lu asked again, "My brother?"
Jiang Tu stood in front of Zhu Xingyao, looking down at her phone screen. Zhu Xingyao raised her head to look at him, and seeing that he had no intention of speaking, she turned her head away and said, "No one." As soon as she was distracted, she was beaten almost to death by the other party.
Jiang Lu hurriedly said, "Goddess sister, please pay attention!"
Zhu Xingyao was not very good at playing games to begin with. Jiang Lu had just dragged her into the team. The boy had been trying to find out about her relationship with Jiang Tu intentionally or unintentionally from the beginning. Playing games was just an excuse. She said helplessly, "I might be finished."
Next second.
The cell phone was taken away by Jiang Tu.
Zhu Xingyao was stunned.
Jiang Tu sat down beside her while playing the game. Zhu Xingyao chose Diao Chan, and her hand speed had to be improved to show off. Jiang Tu had a calm expression, and his hand speed was indeed much faster than hers. Jiang Lu on the opposite side praised: "Huh? You didn't die." He had no idea that the game had been changed.
Zhu Xingyao exclaimed: "Yes..."
After a while, Jiang Lu said again: "Goddess sister, my brother is pursuing you, right?"
Zhu Xingyao turned his head and glanced at Jiang Tu. Jiang Tu lowered his eyes and paused for a moment, as if he was not going to say anything.
Jiang Lu's voice rose and fell with the sound effects of the game: "My brother is a good person, but he has a bad temper. He is too cold to people, can't tell jokes, and can't coax girls..." Zhu Xingyao saw Jiang Tu frowning and his hands moved faster. Jiang Lu quickly said, "Oh my god, goddess sister, why are you so showy all of a sudden?"
Zhu Xingyao suddenly wanted to hear what Jiang Lu had to say. She said vaguely, "Well, it's okay..."
fine
Jiang Tu glanced at her.
Jiang Lu praised her and continued, "However, there are still girls who like my brother. After all, he and I are brothers and he looks great. When I was a child, I thought Lin Jiayu would be my sister-in-law because she was the only girl who was close to my brother, but they never had any chemistry. If my brother really likes someone, he will love her for the rest of his life and will praise you like a star. If he can't be with you, he probably won't be able to like anyone else and will be single for the rest of his life."
Zhu Xingyao was wearing white socks. She hugged her calves and rested her chin on her knees, trying not to look at Jiang Tu.
"My brother had a hard time before. During the college entrance examination..."
Jiang Tu suddenly interrupted Jiang Lu with a cold voice: "Why are you talking so much?"
Jiang Lu: “…”
After a few seconds of silence, Jiang Lu, who was overly shocked, shouted, "Fuck, this is a ghost." He actually quit the game and ran away.
Jiang Tu handed Zhu Xingyao's phone to her and whispered, "Jiang Lu is wrong in one thing. You are a star. You don't need me to praise you."
Zhu Xingyao's eyelashes fluttered slightly. She took the phone and looked up at him.
If Jiang Tu hadn't stopped him just now, Jiang Lu would probably tell him what happened in the college entrance examination.
Zhu Xingyao's phone rang. She took a look, stood up and said, "I'll take a call."
The call was from Ding Yu.
Zhu Xingyao stood at the end of the corridor and listened to the phone call. Ding Yu said, "Your father said Jiang Tu was at our house yesterday? Xingxing, how did you... really get in touch with him? When did it happen?"
"Not much, just two months." Zhu Xingyao looked at her toes.
Ding Yu sighed: "That robot, was it given by him?"
Zhu Xingyao hummed, she thought for a moment, and said, "Mom, I know what you and Dad are thinking, let me handle this matter myself."
Zhu Xingyao heated a cup of milk downstairs and brought it upstairs.
When she opened the door, she saw Jiang Tu sitting on the carpet, his neck drooping, one of his long legs resting on the bedside table, his back against her bed, motionless, as if he was asleep. Zhu Xingyao stood at the door in a daze, and she had no choice but to drink the milk herself. She hesitated for a moment, but didn't wake him up after all. She climbed onto the bed carefully from the foot of the bed, sat on the bed and looked at Jiang Tu. He hung his head, had a slender neck, cold white skin, and a slightly darker scar near his ear.
It should have been left behind when something happened during the college entrance examination.
Zhu Xingyao stretched out her hand, and her slightly cool fingertips gently touched the scar. The next second, a hot and powerful hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her forward. Zhu Xingyao lost her balance and fell off the bed, almost falling into his arms.
Jiang Tu woke up with a start, opened his eyes in a second, and instinctively pulled the person into his arms. He lowered his head and met Zhu Xingyao's panicked eyes. He thought silently for a few seconds and whispered: "Did you touch my neck just now?"
Zhu Xingyao sat stiffly on his lap, not knowing how to explain...
She did touch it.
Zhu Xingyao explained with difficulty: "You have a scar there... I'm curious..."
There seemed to be a slight itch on Jiang Tu's neck. He raised his hand and rubbed the scar, then lowered his eyes to look at her.
Zhu Xingyao quickly climbed off him, but Jiang Tu held her wrist tightly. She looked up in panic and looked into his dark and deep eyes, and suddenly Jiang Lu's words rang in her mind.
—If my brother really likes someone, he will definitely love you for a lifetime and will praise you as a star. If he can't be with you, he probably won't like anyone else and will be single for the rest of his life.
Jiang Tu said that she was a star and didn't need his praise.
Except for this sentence, he agreed with everything Jiang Lu said.
The night wind blew the curtains up, and the air in the room was filled with the faint fragrance of Zhu Xingyao. Jiang Tu swallowed unnaturally, feeling that he was a little irrational. He let go of her, stood up, and whispered, "I'll go to the living room for a while, and come back to check if you have a fever at night."
Jiang Tu went out, and Zhu Xingyao was still sitting on the carpet, with indescribable emotions in his heart.
Jiang Tu returned to Zhu Xingyao's room at around two o'clock in the middle of the night. She was already asleep, and he placed the back of his hand on her forehead.
No more fever.
Jiang Tu sat down beside her bed, leaned against it and closed his eyes.
The next morning, a little light came through the gap in the curtains, and Jiang Tu opened his eyes. He turned on his phone to check the time, and it was not yet seven o'clock. Jiang Tu's neck was numb, and when he raised his head, his neck cracked twice. He frowned and relaxed before standing up.
There are note pads and a pen holder on Zhu Xingyao's desk.
Jiang Tu pulled out a pen from the pen holder. He supported the corner of the table with his left hand, bent over, and was about to start writing when he paused.
He switched hands.
Zhu Xingyao woke up at around eight o'clock, reached out from under the quilt to touch her cell phone, and her fingertips touched paper first. She opened her eyes and turned to look.
There was a sticky note on her phone.
I went to the company. You didn't have a fever last night, but you still need to pay attention.
I'll call you in the evening.
—Signed by j
October 13, 2017.
Zhu Xingyao stared at the handwriting in a trance. It was almost exactly the same as the eighty-seven love letters back then.
In the afternoon, Zhu Xingyao took Xiaokui to the attic to look for the eighty-seven love letters. Xiaokui only knew that they were looking for eighty-seven love cards. She asked half-comprehendingly, "What do they look like?"
Zhu Xingyao said: "Each card has a picture of a girl playing the cello, and the signature is J."
Xiao Kui was at a loss: "J?"
Zhu Xingyao straightened up and looked at Xiaokui: "No, it's Mr. Jiang."
Xiao Kui exclaimed, "Are you saying that Mr. Jiang wrote you eighty-seven love letters?"
However, they searched for two hours but still couldn't find it. Zhu Xingyao was very frustrated, thinking that Ding Yu was probably the only one who knew where it was.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Zhu Yunping returned home from a business trip. Zhu Xingyao came out of the room and walked down the stairs, "Dad."
Zhu Yunping put down the suitcase, looked up and smiled gently: "Are you still asleep?"
Zhu Xingyao went over and took his arm, saying coquettishly, "Waiting for you."
Zhu Yunping was concerned about her health, and Zhu Xingyao said that she was almost well. Zhu Yunping pulled her to sit on the sofa, he looked at her and sighed first: "Are you afraid that I will tell Jiang Tu something?"
Zhu Xingyao shook his head: "If you were looking for it, you would have found it a long time ago."
Zhu Yunping thought of what his wife said and rubbed her head helplessly: "You are really... You asked someone to come to our house while we were not at home. Tell me first, what is going on with you now."
"Now..."
Zhu Xingyao didn't want to tell them that she had been kept in the dark for so many years. She leaned on her father's shoulder and whispered, "Jiang Tu is pursuing me."
Zhu Xingyao was ill for a few days, which delayed a lot of work, especially since the concert was coming up. As soon as she recovered, she started practicing with the orchestra. Last time in Beijing, she was unable to meet Hua Ling because of illness. Hua Ling called and said, "I will go to Jiangcheng after I hand over my work."
On the weekend, Jiang Tu was called back home by Shu Xian, saying that Aunt Lin wanted his help with something.
Jiang Tu went home at around six that evening without saying a word.
This time, we had dinner at the Lin family.
Lin Jiayu didn't understand why her parents called Jiang Tu to help. She picked up a piece of pork ribs and looked at Lin's mother: "Did something happen in our family? Do you need Jiang Tu's help?" She had a bad feeling in her heart, and moved closer to Jiang Tu and whispered, "My parents may be trying to match you and me up again. If they say it again later, I will say that you have a girlfriend."
Jiang Tu had no expression on his face and glanced down at her.
Mother Lin smiled and said, "Jiang Tu, you have such a good job now, you should know a lot of outstanding people, right? For example, are there any single men in your company with better conditions?"
Father Lin coughed and said embarrassedly: "We used to live in Hexi Lane. Although we moved away for many years, our circle is not much bigger than before, and we don't know many people with good family conditions. Jiayu has been staying at home for the past two years, so she doesn't know many people..."
Lin Jiayu was stunned for a moment, and finally understood what her parents were going to do.
She interrupted hurriedly: "Dad! Are you crazy? Let Jiang Tu find a boyfriend for me???"
Jiang Tu finds her a boyfriend
How did they come up with that
Jiang Tu was also stunned. He was silent for a moment and said, "Okay, I'll try."
Lin Jiayu turned her head and looked at him: "Are you crazy?"
Jiang Tu said calmly: "Not crazy."
Three days later, Lin Jiayu sent a WeChat message to Zhu Xingyao: “Jiang Tu has gone crazy!”
Zhu Xingyao was bewildered: "Ah?"
Lin Jiayu said: "My parents asked Jiang Tu to help me find a high-quality young man, and Jiang Tu actually agreed and actually arranged a blind date for me."
Lin Jiayu said, "Can you believe it? Jiang Tu helped me find a boyfriend? Just because my dad helped him in the past, he almost always agreed to my requests, even something like this. He's really crazy."
Zhu Xingyao asked: "What did your father do to help him?"
After a long pause, Lin Jiayu replied: "My father lent him money."
The author has something to say: Well, good morning everyone, I have been writing until morning without realizing it.