Chapter 18: You Are the Only Two
Ye Sinan took the next sentence in a natural tone, looking at the road ahead as usual, at first glance, there seemed to be no deep meaning in his words.
Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, not daring to think deeply, so she smiled and said, "This is good, but it is never my home." ”
She didn't say this casually, although the house in Linhuyuan was not big, but Ms. Xiao worked hard for half a lifetime to buy it, just to give Xiao Xiaoxiao a decent home, even if she retired and grew old in the future, she was reluctant to leave that house.
"Well, too. Ye Sinan replied noncommittally, the car turned left into an alley, and after a short time, he pulled over in front of an old house and said, "We have arrived." ”
"Huh?" Xiao Xiaoxiao turned her head suspiciously to look at the two-and-a-half-story house, which looked to be some years old, and the eaves were still made of dark gray tiles.
"This is ......"
"Yo, I've been waiting for you for a long time!"
As soon as she opened her mouth to ask, a tall and muscular man jumped in front of the car, grinning, and a tiger tooth on the right side showed a tiger tooth that did not match his image.
"Hu, beard long?" She blinked in surprise as she stared at the man in front of the car with his hands on his chest.
Ye Sinan tilted his head, and the smile on Ling's lips became more and more gentle, "Get out of the car." ”
Xiao Xiaoxiao turned around, smiled at him, and immediately opened the car door and walked down.
The moment he saw the car door open, the bearded man who was originally standing in front immediately jumped to the side and opened his hands to Xiao Xiaoxiao, who got out of the car, "Xiao Xiaoxiao, long time no see!"
"Ahem!" Ye Sinan, who got out of the car at the same time, saw this, stared at him with deep eyes, and coughed heavily.
The bearded man reacted, smiled and put away his hand, but only stretched out his right hand, "Disrespectful, disrespectful." ”
"Long time no see. Xiao Xiaoxiao stretched out her hand to shake it, the smile on her face grew, and she pursed her lips and smiled: "The beard is long, you seem to be ...... Well, it's changed. ”
"Changed, where did it change, did it change handsome?" the bearded man hurriedly touched his face, and exaggeratedly winked at her.
"It seems to be a bit of a blessing. Xiao Xiaoxiao deliberately slowed down her speech and raised her finger to point at his slightly bulging belly.
When Hu Zichang heard this, he hugged his "swimming ring" and looked embarrassed, "Hey, Xiao Xiaoxiao, why is your focus still so strange! Can't you say something good to make people's hearts sweet?"
Xiao Xiaoxiao pursed her lips and was silent, and the corners of her mouth rose slightly.
"It's not too early, have you thought about what to invite us to eat?" Ye Sinan saw that she and the bearded man were talking happily, both happy for Xiao Xiaoxiao and couldn't help but taste it, after thinking about it, he walked over and jumped into the conversation between the two.
The bearded man glared in surprise, "Why did I invite it.......?"
The second half of his sentence was retracted from his mouth under Ye Sinan's cold eyes, slowed down, the corners of his mouth twitched twice, and said: "Okay, okay, I'm in for a treat today!"
"Thank you to the hosts for their hospitality. Xiao Xiaoxiao didn't care about the interaction between the two of them, just as if they had an agreement in private.
The bearded man sighed exaggeratedly, took out the car keys from his pocket, put the key ring into his fingers and flicked them at will, and walked to a two-seater miniature car parked next to the old house, and said, "Let's go, take you to eat the most authentic local food here!"
Xiao Xiaoxiao and Ye Sinan glanced at each other tacitly, got into the car neatly, and drove behind the bearded car.
In less than ten minutes, the three of them walked through the streets and alleys to a secluded lakeside lawn, a marble-paved sidewalk in the lawn, and walked along the marble road, and saw a black and white single-family villa, with a gold lacquer sign on the door of the first floor that read "No. 27".
The bearded man made a phone call at the door, and then a waiter in a black suspender came out and led them to a small private room.
"Let me tell you, if I don't know the boss here very well, I have to make a reservation half a day in advance to eat here, otherwise I won't be allowed to enter. After the waiter finished serving the dishes, the bearded man raised his head proudly and stroked the few broken hairs on his forehead, "Thanksgiving, two?"
"Poof!" Seeing this, Xiao Xiaoxiao laughed uncontrollably, and was immediately glared at by the bearded chief, she quickly lowered her head and couldn't help laughing, her shoulders couldn't stop shaking.
"What are you laughing at?" the bearded man looked away at her in disgust, and picked up the vegetables into his bowl along the way.
"Laugh at you and look like a villain. Ye Sinan scolded him unceremoniously.
When Hu Zichang heard this, he opened his mouth and gasped, pointed at Ye Sinan with his chopsticks as if he was ruthless, and said through gritted teeth: "Do you believe it or not, I'll tell her your secret now?"
"What's the secret?" Xiao Xiaoxiao, who was immersed in food, suddenly came to her senses, and her eyes flashed with a strange light.
Ye Sinan glanced at the long beard that was still smug with a cold face, picked up a piece of roast meat into her bowl, and said softly: "Taste it." ”
"Thank you. Xiao Xiaoxiao thanked him, stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it beautifully, and then asked for the secret.
The bearded chief was glanced at by Ye Sinan, and he didn't dare to say it immediately, so he had to shrug his shoulders, "The secret is that he is very handsome." ”
“......”
During the banquet, Ye Sinan went out to answer the phone, leaving Xiao Xiaoxiao and the beard long.
Hu Zichang looked at the old classmate who was sitting diagonally opposite him and still looked innocent, sighed secretly in his heart, struggled for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth, and asked, "Xiaoxiao, did you write a letter to Ye Sinan when you were in school?"
Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, bitterness flashed in her eyes, and she didn't answer and asked, "How do you know that I wrote to him?"
"You didn't tell me about your open reading at the time, but there are a lot of gossips in my class! The bearded man waved his hand, and then said, "I met someone from your class later, and I asked about the situation. And guess what?"
Xiao Xiaoxiao's expression was faint, she lowered her head and did not speak.
Hu Zichang sighed and slowly spoke: "It turns out that Ye Sinan hasn't seen your letter for a while. ”
What he said caused a lot of ripples in Xiao Xiaoxiao's heart, but after all, many years have passed, no matter whether the letter passed through Ye Sinan's hands or not, the shadow of being ridiculed by her classmates has fallen, in her opinion, it doesn't matter whether Ye Sinan knows it or not.
After dinner, because the next day was Monday, and all three of them had to go to work, the bearded man did not leave the two of them to sit a little longer, and parted ways outside the restaurant.
On the way back, the night was hazy, and a faint layer of fog rose on the highway back to Jiangcheng.
There is no shortage of vehicles returning to the city from the Eastern End on Sundays, and the red blocks on the navigation are intermittently displayed, but at any exit, the road is always blocked for several kilometers.
Xiao Xiaoxiao looked at the traffic waiting for traffic with a flashing red light outside the window, her mind was blank, and what Fang Zizi said came out from time to time, and she deliberately forced herself not to think about it.
"How do you feel when you see the beard today?" the magnetic voice pierced the silence in the car.
Xiao Xiaoxiao looked at him sideways in a daze, pursed her lips and smiled, "Very good!"
"Actually, on the way here, I was quite apprehensive, after all, there has been no contact for so many years, fortunately, the beard has not changed much, and he is still the stupid big guy who can tease everything. The reunion with the bearded man not only did not appear the embarrassment she expected at first, but was a little more intimate than before.
Thinking of the frequent jokes at the dinner table, she couldn't help laughing, touched Ye Sinan's puzzled gaze, and said with a smile: "You probably don't know that when I was in high school, Beard Chang was the only one in the whole school who took the initiative to play with me." ”
It can even be said that throughout her high school years, the long beard was her most heartwarming youth memory.
Ye Sinan stared at her steadily, his deep dark eyes were dark and uncertain, his thin lips opened lightly, and he asked in a low voice, "What about me?"
Hearing this, Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned, her lips opened slightly, and she didn't dare to reply easily.
Ye Sinan had expected her to behave like this, and by pulling down the handbrake, she shifted her gaze, hid the self-deprecation in her eyes, and added indifferently: "I am in the same class as you, why did he become the 'only' in high school when he was in high school?"
"......" Xiao Xiaoxiao blinked blankly, finally understanding what he meant by the sentence he just asked, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and replied in a joking tone: "You are different from him, you are the only one." ”
"It's the only one......." Ye Sinan muttered softly and repeated her words.
Xiao Xiaoxiao was bowing her head to reply to the message in the company's work group, but she didn't hear what he was talking about, and only after the mobile phone message was sent out did she ask Ye Sinan what he was talking about just now.
Ye Sinan pretended to concentrate on driving, let her rest on the back of the chair for a while, and wake her up when she got home.
But it happened that at this time, Yan Han sent tomorrow's work arrangement, Xiao Xiaoxiao reluctantly showed Ye Sinan his mobile phone, and said reluctantly: "I can't rest, the leader has arranged work." ”
After speaking, he buried his head in writing down the things sent by Yan Han.
Ye Sinan tilted his head slightly, glanced at her who was working hard, his eyes were full of affection, with a little complicated emotions, he looked at Xiao Xiaoxiao like this for a moment, and did not put away the affection in his eyes until the road was smooth again.
A crescent moon in the night sky was obscured by a third of the clouds, and only a few sharp corners emerged, adding to the haze of the not very bright night road.
Ye Sinan inadvertently caught a glimpse of the obscured crescent moon, and couldn't help but think of the relationship with Xiao Xiaoxiao, how similar it was to this scene.
After returning to Jiangcheng, Xiao Xiaoxiao re-devoted herself to the new week's work, coinciding with the company's general manager Liang was on a business trip, and the personnel director suddenly took maternity leave, saying that she wanted to recruit a planning assistant and had to push it back, and she could only continue to hold two positions at the same time, but because of the two positions, she gradually became a little unbearable, especially Yan Han's requirements for work are indeed very strict.
"You go out with me at noon. Early in the morning, Yan Han went to Xiao Xiaoxiao's desk and said such a sentence, as for where to go out and what to do, he did not explain anything.
"Xiaoxiao, shouldn't the King of Yama think of any new tricks to torture you?"