Chapter 22: Overnight Stay

Meiyuan East Road, Gu House.

Actually, it seems that the name of the mansion is not very popular now.

From the founding of the People's Republic of China, reform and opening up, to the explosion of the Internet in the 21st century. Industrial, real estate and Internet industry tycoons have appeared frequently, and many upstarts have been promoted.

The upstart always has an indescribable subtle mentality towards the old noble, and many titles are hung between using and not using, which is very embarrassing.

But these external titles, Liu's mother doesn't care at all, she has been divorced from her hometown in rural Sichuan since she came to City A alone at the age of 30, and she has never cared about the various titles defined by the outside world for human beings.

She has worked on an assembly line, a stall, a cleaner, an adult college, a clerk in a company, and of course, a nanny as she does now.

She thinks that if you are rich, then you should do the account book of money, and if you are penniless, you will plan to have no money, in the final analysis, the essence of human society is trading, and title is just a sense of ritual in the boring life of human beings.

She has been coming to Gu Mansion for twenty years, and she grew up watching Gu Zhanqiao all the way, speaking of which, the first time she met Gu Zhanqiao, he was only five years old.

Liu's mother's name is Liu Jingfen, although she is five or six years older than Gu Jinhua, she was only a small staff member next to Gu Jinhua at that time.

I remember that she was in the office to show Gu Jinhua the report, but Gu Zhanqiao, who was sitting on the sofa playing with toys, couldn't help crying, and I don't know why, the little Gu Zhanqiao got up and walked to her side and pulled the corner of her clothes without letting go, as if he saw his loved ones.

At that time, it was a critical period for Gu Jinhua's entrepreneurial transformation, the whole person was busy like a spinning top, the aunt at home suddenly resigned because of an accident at home, and the new nanny did not have a gap to pick up, so Gu Jinhua could only take Gu Zhanqiao with him.

Under normal circumstances, the child is still very well-behaved, but I don't know why that day, he was busy answering the phone, but the child was crying, so he had to let Liu Jingfen take him out to play, and it was a morning to play.

No one thought that the two would fall in love like this, so Gu Jinhua simply asked her to take care of Gu Zhanqiao's daily life at home, and in this way, after twenty years, Liu Jingfen also became Liu's mother.

In the past 20 years, she has been dedicated to the Gu family, and she has taken care of Gu Zhanqiao as her own child, and the Gu family has also been very polite to her, especially Gu Zhanqiao, who seems to have regarded her as a relative.

When Liu's mother heard that the car was driving into the yard, she hurriedly got up.

She has been in the habit for so many years, only when Gu Zhanqiao comes home safely, she will sleep peacefully, even if Gu Zhanqiao has told her many times, she doesn't have to wait for him, rest early.

Yi Xinnong opened the car door, got out of the car with Gu Zhanqiao, and before he reached the door, he saw a slightly fat woman with soft eyes standing at the door.

"Mother Liu, didn't you say you shouldn't wait for me?"

"Well, I didn't wait, I was sorting out Xiaomeng's things that started school on Monday. ”

"Did she sleep?"

"It's been a while. ”

The tone is calm and smooth, as kind and natural as family.

Mother Liu looked at Yi Xinnong who was standing next to Gu Zhanqiao and looked at it carefully.

Yi Xinnong also looked at Mother Liu carefully.

Gu Zhanqiao said, "Mother Liu, this is Xinqiang, you go and tidy up a set of guest rooms, and she will spend the night here tonight." ”

"I'm going home, I'm going to send you back. Yi Xinnong heard about it and hurriedly grabbed the white.

"It's too late, stay here tonight. ”

"I'm ......" Before Yi Xinong finished speaking, Mother Liu took the bag in her hand cordially, "It's almost twelve o'clock at this time, it's not safe for girls to go home, Miss Yi will live here today." ”

Seeing this, Yi Xinong looked at his watch again, felt that it was not good and refused again, so he entered the door with the two.

"Zhanqiao, your hand?" walked to the hall, and Liu Ma saw Gu Zhanqiao's arm and the red spots on the back of his hand through the light.

"It's okay, I accidentally scalded it with hot water. ”

"It's so red that I haven't said anything yet, you sit down first, I'll go get the medicine kit. ”

The two of them were the only ones left in the living room. The clock was clattering, and the sound was distinct in the empty living room.

It was such an embarrassing atmosphere in the car just now, and Yi Xinong could only step on the accelerator and rush forward in order to shorten the embarrassing time.

Fortunately, she didn't meet any traffic police along the way, otherwise, she would not only be sentenced to speeding, but also probably walk around because she couldn't eat because of drunk driving.

Yi Xinong does not take care of the battle bridge, and simply rings the customer hall.

The Gu house has three floors.

Unlike other palatial local tyrants, the house has no ornate chandeliers, no dazzling carpets, no European-style furniture, and no portrait paintings hanging all over the walls.

The decoration style of the whole house is Nordic minimalist style.

Cream-white walls, simple frescoes, and a black lacquered wood staircase rotate from the first floor to the third floor.

This house exudes the same coldness and alienation as Gu Zhanqiao now.

Liu's mother came over with a plate of alcohol gauze ointment.

Seeing that Gu Zhanqiao was staring at Yi Xinnong who was sitting on the sofa opposite, his eyes were gentle and focused.

She put the things on the table and said to Yi Xinong kindly, "Miss Yi help Zhanqiao paint it, you must be tired from driving all the way, I'll go to the kitchen to cook some wontons to warm you up." ”

Yi Xinnong's eyes pulled back from a mural he was admiring, and he nodded, "Okay." ”

She got up, walked over to Gu Zhanqiao and sat down.

Raised his hand to pull Gu Zhanqiao's fallen sleeve, and then felt that the height was not enough, so he simply knelt on the carpet and wiped off the lip balm he had just applied with water.

A trace of distress flashed in Yi Xinnong's eyes, and she carefully applied the ointment while blowing, the ointment smelled choking, and she couldn't help but sneeze "Ah Qiu".

Gu Zhanqiao was amused by this voice, and the corners of his mouth were hooked, revealing tiger teeth.

The sneezing action touched Yi Xin's long hair, and the strands of broken hair rose on her cheeks again, swaying slightly with her breath and breath.

Gu Zhanqiao was itchy to see it, he slowly raised his right hand and pinned the strand of broken hair behind Yi Xinnong's ear.

Yi Xinong was stunned and looked up at him.

The long black hair slipped down her shoulders, swept over Gu Zhanqiao's outstretched arm, and stayed in the crook of his arm, smooth and soft, like silk.

The two looked at each other, and time stood still instantly.

This is the first time since the two reunited that they have looked at each other so closely.

"Brother?" Gu Xiaomeng stood on the escalator on the second floor, leaned over and looked down, and saw Gu Zhanqiao leaning on the sofa with his eyes closed, so he said, "You're finally back, I've been waiting for you for a long time." ”

She ran downstairs happily, her pink puffy nightdress swaying with her body, pausing on the steps, reminiscent of the lively Princess Sissi.

"You're barefoot again. Gu Zhanqiao said strangely.

"Hey, I like it, it's comfortable. Gu Xiaomeng was stuck on the sofa next to Gu Zhanqiao, and her slender calves swayed proudly.

"I heard someone downstairs talking just now, is there anyone else coming?" Gu Xiaomeng asked curiously.

"Hmm"

"Who?" Gu Xiaomeng didn't expect to get a positive answer, and the whole person was in good spirits, "Don't you almost never bring outsiders to your house?"

Seeing that Gu Zhanqiao did not answer.

She looked around again, saw that there was no one in the living room, and said, "Where are the people?"

"Why do you have so many questions?"

"Oh, people are curious, men and women, are they handsome or not, are they beautiful?" Gu Xiaomeng provoked a bad laugh and gossip.

"The little girl liar gossiped on my head, you will know later, go to sleep. Gu Zhanqiao slapped Gu Xiaomeng's head hard, then stood up and walked straight to the second floor.

"Hmph! let's be stingy!" Gu Xiaomeng was even more curious after suffering a dumb loss.

When she went downstairs just now, she heard the sound of water in the bathroom, and she thought it was Gu Zhanqiao taking a bath, but when she looked at it this way, it must be the guest.

Gu Xiaomeng supported her head with her left hand and gnawed her fingers with her right hand, watching Gu Zhanqiao disappear into the corner of the second floor, thinking in her heart, "Why don't you go upstairs and squat now?"

But after thinking about it, I felt that it was inappropriate, the bathroom seemed to be public from the outside, but it was actually directly connected to Gu Zhanqiao's bedroom, no, if I was caught by my brother, wouldn't my little life be gone?

She stood up and tiptoed to the door of Liu's mother's bedroom to find out the news, but the light in Liu's mother's room had been turned off.

Hey, she's a little frustrated.

Somehow, the girl's sixth sense tells her that the people in the bathroom are very good for her brother.

She went upstairs again, and the lights in the bathroom and her brother's room were off, except for the easternmost bedroom and her own room.

No matter how curious she is, she can't just knock on the door now, right?

She lay down in bed dejected, thinking that she must get up early tomorrow to see what she really was.

Yi Xinnong sat in front of the makeup mirror and took off the fine and soft ones one by one, her hair had been blown dry, and her long fluffy and silky black hair rubbed against her back.

Looking at herself in the mirror, she had a trace of trance, there were so many things that happened in a day today that it was too sudden, and even she didn't react to what was going on.

Just downstairs, Gu Zhanqiao pinned her hair behind her ears, and she looked up to see the way he looked at her, the softness and tightness that pierced her heart.

The sour taste came back to the table.

She originally thought that when she met him again, she would be ruthless, turn a blind eye to him, turn a deaf ear, and let the past go with the wind, as she had thought for so many years.

However, God seems to have always liked to play her around.

Recently, for some reason, the two have frequently met by chance, and the inexplicable contact that always occurs after the chance encounter has upset her.

The most terrifying thing was that she herself instinctively approached him at the time of the incident.

It seems that there is no way to stop a certain inertia in the body, that inertia is like a memory, as long as you meet Gu Zhanqiao, you will be summoned as a whole.

When Qian Wan appeared in front of her with his arm and threatened that the two were boyfriend and girlfriend, when he burned his hand, she almost instinctively felt distressed, nervous, and caring, which made her feel that there was a terrible Yi Xinnong in her body that was about to come out.

She shook her head in the mirror and said to herself, "No. Tears were unsuspectingly ticking on the dresser.

The night is quiet, the insects and birds in the early winter of City A are extinguished, and the branches outside the window are blown by the cold wind, making a whirring sound, such a wind sound generally occurs in the cold winter of the northern hometown, the branches are bare, as long as the north wind blows, it is a cold whistle.

It's been a long time since I've heard such a howling wind and such a quiet night.

The mobile phone display suddenly lit up, and a WeChat popped up, Yi Xinong picked up the phone, it was Zhao Silei: "I've arrived home safely, I'll pick you up after work tomorrow." ”

Yi Xinnong sighed, extinguished the phone in a complicated mood, and plunged into the soft pillow.

I'd rather not think about anything.