Qiao Jingjing slept unexpectedly that night.
The next day is New Year's Eve.
When she woke up, it was already bright. She opened her eyes and smelled the aroma of food in her nose. She remembered something, got up and opened the bedroom door. Sure enough, a familiar voice came from the kitchen, and her parents had already arrived.
No matter how busy you are, the family must have dinner together on New Year's Eve. In recent years, she has gone back to New Years many times, but occasionally like this year, because she has a job, her parents come to reunite.
She walked to the kitchen door, and when her parents saw her, they were all smiling, "Get up, I didn't dare to quarrel with you."
Qiao Jingjing walked over and hugged Mother Qiao.
Qiao's mother was a little surprised and patted her: "Jingjing, what's the matter? Suddenly act like a spoiled child with me."
"It's nothing." Qiao Jingjing's voice was muffled.
Dad Qiao glanced at them while busy, and said sourly, "Isn't your daughter always like this? Are you hungry?"
"En." Qiao Jingjing let go of her mother, "What's there to eat?"
Papa Joe had been stewing sweet porridge for her. Qiao Jingjing was drinking porridge on the small table in the kitchen while listening to her parents arguing over the New Year's Eve dinner.
"Why did you bring the beef from home? You can't eat such a big piece. I told you to spend more, but you should get less of each. We will go back tomorrow morning, and Jingjing will not eat." It's Mama Joe.
"How can there be less New Year's Eve dinner? It's a good sign to have leftovers." This is Dad Qiao, who has switched to studying cooking in recent years.
"Superstition, waste." Mama Qiao concluded.
Qiao Jingjing raised her head, "Aren't you going to come with me tomorrow night?"
Her performance on Dongfang TV will end tomorrow at about sex, and she thought her parents would wait for her to go back to Whale City with her.
Joe's father was cutting the beef: "It's our turn to treat our house on the first night of the new year this year. Go back in the morning and get ready."
Qiao Jingjing was annoyed: "Then why don't I go back to have a New Year's Eve dinner today, save you all running around."
Qiao's mother said, "Then you don't want to run around, we are empty, or we come. If you are blocked along the way and you can't catch up with the show, it will be bad."
"Oh." Qiao Jingjing said nothing, holding the porridge bowl and drinking slowly.
A bowl of warm sweet porridge slid down his stomach, as if it was properly warmed from the bottom of his heart, and the empty room was once again filled with the lively atmosphere of fireworks.
The New Year's Eve dinner in the evening lived up to Qiao's mother's expectations. There were many dishes, but the portion was too large. After saying a few auspicious words to each other, Mother Qiao began to talk about Father Qiao again.
Later, the two of them agreed to persuade Qiao Jingjing to eat more.
Qiao Jingjing's heart was bitter, she wanted to eat more, but when she remembered the dress she was going to wear for the performance tomorrow, she could only restrain herself.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, I started watching the Spring Festival Gala. My parents sat on the sofa, Qiao Jingjing sat with them for a while, and sat by the floor-to-ceiling window with a mobile phone.
The impatient people have already started to send Spring Festival blessings, but the WeChat she sent in the early morning has been silent.
At zero o'clock, more blessing WeChat poured in.
She copies and replies every year, but this year, she seems to suddenly have patience, sitting by the window and typing "Happy Spring Festival to you" countless times.
When everything was still, she didn't put down her phone, and swiped her fingers down on the WeChat page unconsciously. When she realized what she was doing, she stood up suddenly.
Like waking up from a dream, Fu felt that he was laughing again.
In the early morning of the first day of the new year, Qiao's father and Qiao's mother went back. Qiao Jingjing ate some leftovers at noon, and went to the rehearsal at the venue earlier in the afternoon.
The show went well. After eight o'clock, Qiao Jingjing changed her clothes and left the backstage with Xiao Zhu. On the way to the garage, she thought that she could finally take a few days off from tomorrow, and her mood could not help brightening.
Xiao Zhu seemed to be in a better mood. She was jumping around with her things in her arms, and she couldn't help but jump for joy. Qiao Jingjing asked strangely, "Why are you so happy?"
"Ah, no, no." Xiao Zhu quickly shook his head in denial, and within three seconds he smiled again.
Qiao Jingjing was too lazy to question her again.
But after the underground garage, she finally knew where the excitement on Xiao Zhu's face came from.
Not far away, in front of the car waiting for her, a slender man stood there, leaning slightly against the car, his eyes lowered as if thinking about something.
He probably heard her footsteps, he raised his head consciously, and shot his eyes straight at her.
Qiao Jingjing paused, then walked over steadily.
Yu Tu stood up straight, watched her walk to the front of the car, and said in a low voice, "You go back to Whale City, I'll grab a car."
Qiao Jingjing was silent for a while, then turned to ask Xiao Zhu, "When did he call you?"
"Yesterday afternoon." It was Yu Tu who answered her.
Xiao Zhu smiled silly and sweet beside him.
Qiao Jingjing could almost imagine how elated Xiao Zhu was when she received the call yesterday, and then cooperated with him to give her a "surprise" without telling her. After all, she didn't know anything. After all, even if Xiao Zhu knew something, Yu Tu would probably have a way to tell her. move her.
The driver got out of the car to help them get something, Qiao Jingjing opened the back seat door without a word. Today I was driving an SUV, and Xiao Zhu had to get on the other side. Qiao Jingjing stopped her: "You don't have to go with me, stay with your mother for a few more days."
Xiaozhu is a single-parent family, and her mother has long been in Shanghai, so she also lived in Shanghai for years.
Xiao Zhu said, "It's okay, I'll come back with the driver tomorrow. I told my mother."
Jingjing glared at her, and Xiao Zhu raised his hand, "Okay, okay, then I won't go with you. I'll pick you up with the master when I go back, you're always packing up your stuff and throwing it around."
Yu Tu suddenly said, "The driver doesn't have to take us away anymore."
Everyone was stunned, Qiao Jingjing looked at him.
Yu Tu: "I'll drive."
Although Qiao Jingjing didn't want to talk to him, she couldn't help it: "Do you have a driver's license?"
"Yes." Yu Tu said, "Sometimes our unit has to do some outfield environmental inspections, and we will go to some extreme environments, desert snow, etc. I have driven them before, you can rest assured at ordinary high-speed."
As he spoke, he took out his wallet from his pocket, opened it, took out a document, and handed it to Qiao Jingjing. "My driver's license."
Yu Tu sat in the driver's seat, and the car slowly drove out of the underground garage.
There were only the two of them in the car. Qiao Jingjing sat in the back seat with Yu Tu's driver's license in her hand—she didn't know how she took over his driver's license in a daze, and now she can't take it, still, it seems Also weird.
She cast her eyes on the colorful street scene outside the car window. The car was too quiet. After a while, Yu Tu said, "Jingjing, help me navigate."
Qiao Jingjing looked at the outside and didn't move, and said softly, "You don't even know the road, what are you doing robbing the driver?"
Yu Tu didn't speak any more and drove the car silently. However, Qiao Jingjing's heart was disturbed by him. After a while, she asked, "Why are you here? Don't you have to go home for the New Year?"
"I came from Whale Market this morning. If it wasn't New Year's Eve yesterday, I would have come yesterday." Yu Tu's voice was also very soft, "Jingjing, I'm in a hurry."
Qiao Jingjing's heart trembled and she couldn't help but look at him. However, from her angle, she could only see his tensed jaw, and the hand that held the steering wheel seemed to be extraordinarily hard.
After a while, Qiao Jingjing said, "I'll sleep for a while."
"it is good."
Qiao Jingjing leaned her head against the glass in the back seat, but she was not sleepy, not even pretending to be asleep. The so-called "sleep for a while" is just a polite excuse to keep silent, knowing each other well.
The car left the colorful city and drove on the monotonous highway. There are no street lights on the highway, and the car is dark. Only when it intersects with the opposite car, does the light come in for a moment.
And every time the light came up at this moment, Qiao Jingjing would wake up from the misunderstanding.
She looked down and opened his driver's license.
The photo above is sharp and clear.
He said he was in a hurry...
She snapped the document closed.
After an unknown amount of time, the car left the expressway and drove into the corner of the expressway service area. Qiao Jingjing moved slightly, and Yu Tu immediately noticed it and explained briefly, "Come on."
The master didn't fill up the gas
She glanced at the front dashboard and didn't quite understand it. The time on the dashboard showed that it would take about an hour to reach the whale market. She hesitated and said uncomfortably, "I'll go to the bathroom."
Yu Tu turned around, "Okay."
Yu Tu parked his car in a corner next to the public restroom.
Qiao Jingjing put on a mask and got out of the car. When he came out of the bathroom, he saw Yu Tu standing with his back to the place where he was washing his hands in the public area, as if waiting for her.
She slowed her footsteps, Yu Tu turned her head back in time, and explained lightly, "It's too late, I'm not very relieved."
Qiao Jingjing gave a "hmm" and the two walked towards the car together.
It was late at night in the middle of winter, and it was the first day of the new year. There was no one in the service area.
As Yu Tu walked by his side, her down jacket would occasionally rub against his coat, giving rise to an unreasonable ambiguity. Qiao Jingjing stepped aside and subconsciously accelerated her pace.
When they got to the front of the car, Qiao Jingjing still walked towards the back seat, but just before she put her hand on the door handle, a man's palm suddenly inserted horizontally and pressed hard on the door.
The cold man's breath immediately enveloped her.
Qiao Jingjing's heart skipped a beat, but she didn't move. After a while, Yu Tu's suppressed and hoarse voice came from above her head.
"Is it really pointless?"
Qiao Jingjing looked fixedly at the hand he was pressing on the door.
"Why did you write to me and answer those questions? Do you regret it? Because I used to be so stupid and moved you?"
Qiao Jingjing whispered, "I don't want this, Yu Tu."
A hint of astringency flashed in Yu Tu's eyes, "Did I do something stupid?"
Qiao Jingjing pursed her lips.
"These days, I write letters late every day, but I never feel tired, smug, and expect a lot. I think you will be happy when you receive it. Jingjing, I think so, has my IQ dropped to a negative number?"
His voice was somber, "I've probably given you all the stupid things I've done in my life."
"However, I can't think of any other way." He said softly, "I didn't regret it because I saw the chat record. I regretted it long ago, but I didn't dare to admit it."
"Later I went on a business trip and stayed in the desert for a month. I thought I was still struggling, but one day I found that I struggled for too little time. Most of the time I was thinking, how can I save you."
"Even start blaming you."
Blame her
Qiao Jingjing finally turned to look at him.
Yu Tu slowly raised his hand, took off her mask, his eyes were gentle and bitter, "Why do you want to ask me so quickly, if you give me a little more time, I will surrender to myself, then let me give you some more time. I'll ask how you are."
She clearly knew that he shouldn't be taken away, but Qiao Jingjing couldn't help herself and asked, "Ask what?"
"Ask, 'Would you like to be with me'."
The air seemed to freeze.
The two faced each other, Yu Tu stared at her, and asked again seriously and cautiously: "Jingjing, would you like to be with me?"
Qiao Jingjing looked at him, her eyes sour.
The person in front of her, she liked for too long, too long, she was relieved for a while, but she came back so easily.
He has everything she likes in him, and he defines her understanding of loving someone.
Did she refuse to let him go
She knew in her heart that it was difficult and difficult, but such a realization made her feel so wronged and sad.
After being silent for a long time, Qiao Jingjing lowered her head and lowered her voice. "I'm kind of willing, but I'm not happy when I say that."
For a moment, Yu Tu felt that his heart seemed to be crushed, and the sharp stabbing pain suddenly penetrated through all the limbs, and he could no longer restrain her in his arms.
"Sorry."
All of his IQ and EQ were turned to ashes for a while. Facing the girl who was extremely wronged in his arms, he only felt confused and helpless.
He hugged her tighter, whispering in her ear. "Sorry."
Qiao Jingjing did not struggle, and let him hold her tightly in his arms, pressing his cheek against the collar of his soft coat. She felt that she was too weak, but she didn't want to think a little right now.
"I'm not looking for someone, I like him more than he likes me," she said.
"This reason is not valid." Yu Tu said, "I have no less."
"Yes," she accused him. "You said we were not suitable."
"That's because some very cheesy reasons are considered, such as income." Yu Tu said with some difficulty, "For example, what can I give you, and whether I have time to take care of you."
"I don't have time to take care of you either." Qiao Jingjing said, "If you really like someone, you will be very impulsive, you won't hesitate or struggle, and you won't think too much."
"Then I'm probably not the same as you. I think too much, and you can't think much."
"What else?"
"Probably, I've been thinking about it for a lifetime."
Qiao Jingjing was quiet in his arms for a while, and said stubbornly, "Anyway, it's less than me."
Yu Tu's heart was filled with pain.
"That's good." He lowered his head. "You told me a calculation method. How to calculate how much, and then I'll make up for it, but you can't even tell me your calculation formula."
Qiao Jingjing blinked, a little confused, what the hell is the calculation formula
Why did this suddenly appear in their conversation
She was stunned for a while, "...you bullied me again."
Yu Tu: "… "
"I was wrong," he said immediately.
"I didn't promise you."
Yu Tu sighed: "I know."
After a while.
Qiao Jingjing whispered, "I'm cold."
"Then let's get in the car, but can you come in front of you?" Yu Tu was almost coaxing her, "help me with the navigation, I really don't know the rest of the way."