The two stared wide-eyed and small-eyed for a long time, one touched his nose and looked up at the ceiling, the other frowned deeply and lowered his eyes to look at the tiles on the floor.
Finally, Xu Huaisong hesitated and moved the door of the bathroom.
Ruan Yu hid behind him and poked out half of his head to look out. At a glance, he saw his parents meeting and discussing something fiercely. Hearing the movement here, he quickly separated like an electric shock. Smiled a bit.
The kind of smile that a teacher shows when he catches a student's puppy love, but doesn't want to speak too bluntly, and pokes the child's face.
Xu Huaisong gave a low cough.
Ruan Yu slowly returned to his seat behind him, and smiled dryly at them: "It's okay, I'm a little dizzy after taking too many cars today..."
Xu Huaisong's upper body remained motionless, while the lower body "was surging to the sky", and the toe of his shoe moved to touch her, stopping her explanation that sounded very "to conceal", very "it was nothing, but now there is something".
Ruan Yu held his breath and looked at him: What's the matter
Just as Xu Huaisong was about to return with a wink, he suddenly saw Ruan Chengru bent over and picked up a bottle of Laobaigan from under the table, and put it on the table with a "pop".
"..."
Ruan Yu was frightened by the momentum that seemed to be about to fight: "Dad, you..."
"You eat by yourself." Ruan Chengru glanced over and interrupted her, then looked at Xu Huaisong, and said earnestly, "Huaisong, come, let's have a few drinks with the teacher."
Xu Huaisong smiled straight, nodded, picked up the glass and poured wine.
Ruan Yu swallowed: "Dad, look at his stomach..." She slammed on the brakes halfway through her speech, and quickly turned her elbow inward, "...why is it so slow to pour a drink? I'll do it." Taking the wine glass from Xu Huaisong's hand, he stingily filled it to a third of the way.
Xu Huaisong looked at her, covered his mouth with fists, smiled, looked up to see Ruan Chengru's serious face, restrained his smile again, handed him the poured wine, and said, "Teacher."
Ruan Yu wanted to struggle again: "Wait, if you take a bite, you're going to drink and drive?"
Ruan Chengru replied, "There are vacant rooms upstairs."
"With such a high degree, it may be possible to wake up tomorrow morning..."
Qu Lan cleared her throat and gave her a wink: "Come on, you and Mom go upstairs to tidy up the bedding."
Ruan Yu said "Oh", stood up slowly, and looked at Xu Huaisong reluctantly before leaving, with two words of deep affection in his eyes: take care.
Xu Huaisong clinked glasses with Ruan Chengru, without blinking his eyes, Lao Baigan drank a cup, his face remained unchanged.
Ruan Chengru glanced at the direction of the stairs, and suddenly said without beginning or end: "Huai Song, I heard that you and Xiao Liu are colleagues, so do you know why the teacher introduced Xiao Liu to Yu Yu in the first place?"
Xu Huaisong's mind was spinning quickly, remembering what Ruan Yu had said to him at Principal He's birthday party.
— "Then you know what my dad likes about Lawyer Liu?"
— "Because he's a lawyer?"
—"Because he is honest and honest, has a good heart, doesn't spend too much money, doesn't exaggerate, doesn't bully others, and his actions speak louder than words."
He repeated the words verbatim.
Ruan Chengru seemed to be taken aback, but shook his head to indicate no: "Because he is a lawyer."
"..."
Ruan Chengru looked at him strangely: "What?"
He shook his head: "No, you continue to say, why is it a lawyer?"
Ruan Chengru nodded and continued, "Because Yu Yu just needed the help of a lawyer at that time."
Xu Huaisong frowned: "You mean?"
"They poured dirty water on her." Ruan Chengru laughed, "She thought she kept it from me and her mother, but in fact we knew her pen name a few years ago, and we have been secretly paying attention to her, what? She knows about every trouble. It’s just that she is afraid that we will see those bad things, so she refuses to tell, and we pretend not to know.”
Xu Huaisong froze.
"My daughter has grown up and knows how to be sympathetic to her parents. She doesn't tell us any difficulties. What should I do then? We have to find someone to take care of her for us, protect her, and shelter her from the wind and rain. No matter how hard it is, the eyes Without blinking." He said here, pointing to the empty glass in front of him.
Xu Huaisong nodded silently.
He turned away and asked, "Another cup?"
Xu Huaisong raised his hand to pour the wine, and was about to take a glass after pouring, when he suddenly heard him say, "Yu Yu said you have a bad stomach."
"Um."
"Since this is the case, we must do what we can," Ruan Chengru pointed to the old Baigan in his hand, "to shelter from the wind and rain, it is not relying on loneliness or showing off one's ability. First of all, you must protect yourself before you can take good care of her."
Xu Huaisong put down his wine glass: "You are right."
Ruan Chengru took the cup in front of him and replaced it with a new one, picked up the kettle and filled the cup with warm water himself: "Drink this."
Xu Huaisong drank half of the glass, and heard him ask again: "Is the taste of this water weak?"
"yes."
"It's weak, so many people are like you, drink half of it. But how can there be so many Laobaigan in our life? Most of the time, it is as light as this water. It's nothing special to stand the vigorous, You have to be able to stand the mediocrity, that's fine."
Xu Huaisong understood what he meant, and drank the remaining half cup of warm water.
Ruan Chengru smiled: "Okay, students who know the basics, I don't worry about you, go upstairs."
Xu Huaisong nodded to him: "Thank you teacher for today's lesson."
"Thank you, don't call me teacher."
Xu Huaisong laughed: "I will do it as soon as possible."
When Ruan Chengru was instilling "Chicken Soup for the Soul" in a friendly manner, Ruan Yu was spreading the sheets and worrying, while saying, "Mom, you and Dad don't even think about getting divorced, we have a sense of proportion..."
Qu Lan glanced at her: "I know, how many catties and taels do you have, what does it mean to raise your eyebrows and sniff your nose, how can we not know?"
She was really taken aback at first, but after seeing Ruan Yu's reaction when she came out of the bathroom, she and Ruan Chengru knew that they wanted to go wrong.
Ruan Yu muttered bitterly: "Then why did Dad ask him to drink?"
Qu Lan glanced at her, straightened the quilt and said, "Are you still worried that a couple of sips of wine will spoil things between you two? Unless he's drinking mad down there, what else?"
"Of course you can't be drunk..."
She paused in the middle of her speech, suddenly feeling something was wrong.
What did the police mention in the evening? At that time, her attention was attracted by the case, and she seemed to have overlooked some key information.
She looked at the overhead light and began to think, her eyes slowly opened wide.
Was it Xu Huaisong who knocked on the doors of more than a dozen households 302 in Jinjiang City? That drunk who disturbed the people late at night and caused panic among the crowd was actually Xu Huaisong
Why is this man's wine like this
Ruan Yu was in doubt, took a breath after a while, ran out in a hurry, and bumped into someone just after turning the corner.
Xu Huaisong was stunned for a moment, and supported her by the shoulder: "What's wrong?"
Ruan Yu touched his face with his hand: "Are you drunk?"
"No." He said jokingly, "It's not that I don't know how to drink."
"You know how to drink, and you can also be crazy about drinking!" She frowned when she said this, "It's so embarrassing, I didn't find out until now, and I didn't apologize to my neighbors..."
Xu Huaisong choked.
Ruan Yu touched his face again: "Are you all right?"
He sighed: "No, I didn't embarrass you."
"How much did you drink?"
"It's less than the half cup you poured."
"Drinking at that point for so long?"
He laughed: "Because I'm drinking chicken soup at other times."
"My dad killed a chicken today? Why didn't he bring it out for me to drink?"
Xu Huaisong gently scratched the tip of her nose: "That's a small treatment for me."
The two stayed overnight at Ruan's house in the suburbs. Early the next morning, Xu Huaisong flew to the United States to deal with work, and Ruan Yu went to Huanshi.
The project approval and filing of the film script were officially approved, and the title of the film that was wandering on the edge of danger was also fortunately passed the review. Cen Rongshen waved his hand and said that the filming was in time for the year before, and the filming was scheduled to start on the last day of the Gregorian calendar year. The first scene was filmed at No. 1 Middle School in Suzhou City. To get a good start for the New Year, the New Year's Eve fireworks scene was filmed.
In the early morning of the 31st, Huanshi came to pick up Ruan Yu to attend the opening ceremony. The morning worship was over, and after lunch, the crew headed to Suzhou City.
Ruan Yu was so busy that he didn't have time to look at his phone until he got in the car. Just as he was about to ask Xu Huaisong if he had slept, he saw a message from him four hours ago: "I didn't sleep much last night, I went to bed early , I set the alarm clock for twelve hours later, and I will accompany you on New Year's Eve."
It was less than seven in the evening in San Francisco four hours ago. Going to bed at this hour was beyond Xu Huaisong's wildest dreams.
But he still remembered the New Year's Eve anyway, so Ruan Yu didn't pay much attention to it, thinking that he was probably fast asleep, so he didn't reply to this message, and just closed his eyes and rested in the back seat of the car, just about to fall into a deep sleep. The phone in the bag vibrated.
She looked down and found that the contact on the caller ID was "Zhou Jun", and she was startled.
After connecting, a slightly hoarse voice came from the other end: "Is it Ruan Yu? I'm Zhou Jun."
Ruan Yu was stunned: "Can you use your mobile phone to make calls?"
"Well, I... came out today."
She became hoarse for a moment, her nose felt sore, and after a while she said, "That's great."
Ruan Yu said nothing for a while, Zhou Jun on the other end smiled and fell silent.
Half a day later, the two spoke almost simultaneously.
"Case solved..."
"Isn't it..."
The latter sentence is Zhou Jun.
His voice sounded very tired, and he said silently: "You go ahead."
"I want to ask, is the case solved?"
"It's broken, otherwise I have to wait for a while."
Ruan Yu didn't get to the bottom of it to find out the real culprit, instead poking him in the wound. The fact that the case can be revealed at this juncture is probably related to the discovery of the winter solstice.
She was full of emotions for a moment, and after a while, she heard Zhou Jun say: "I never had the chance to personally say sorry to you for what happened before."
"It's okay, you take a break first, and when Huai Song comes back from America, let's have a meal and chat."
"Is he in America?"
"right."
"I called his US number just now, and it was transferred to the voice mail. I thought he was in China."
Ruan Yu was stunned: "Maybe the phone is out of battery, he is sleeping."
"Then I'll contact him later."
"good."
The dialogue between the two was pale and barren. In half a year, everything seems to have changed.
When he fell silent for the third time, Zhou Jun took the initiative to hang up the phone. Before Ruan Yu put the phone back in his bag, he remembered what he said just now.
In order to protect the privacy of users, the United States will not prompt the other party why they cannot receive the call, and will transfer it to the voice mail. Of course, it is a possibility that the mobile phone is out of battery, but it is not necessarily the case that it is not in the service area or it is not heard.
After all, Xu Huaisong is such a careful person, there is no reason not to check the battery when setting the alarm clock.
Doubt and uneasiness diluted the mixed feelings he had when facing Zhou Jun just now, Ruan Yu picked up his cell phone and made a transoceanic call.
A pre-recorded vocal came from the other end: "This is Hanson, I'm currently not available, please leave me a message, I will call you back as soon as I can."