Chapter XII
The man's face was blurred, although he didn't know what he said, but his voice was clear, like the whispering of the best cello, even if Lou Lihe woke up with no impression of his appearance, but his ears were still drunk in a dream, as if there was silence around him, and there was no vocal music that could please her.
She is not a person who likes to delve into memory, and anyone who has studied psychology knows that dreams and memories can deceive people, and they are no less dangerous than the snake that seduced Eve in fairy tales.
When she was on the balcony, she was just in a daze.
Didn't think about anything.
The breeze blew the paper on the easel, making a brushing sound, and Ji Xinliang asked, "Lou Lihe, you don't know how to paint, why do you want to put an easel here?"
Lou Lihe perfunctory: "I won't, but I think my other half will be in the future." β
"Cut, you can get me, but I heard that the design drawings in the project you undertook back then were all drawn by you yourself, what won't..." Of course Ji Xinliang didn't believe it.
"However, how do you know that your other half can draw?" Ji Xinliang was curious.
"Premonition," Lou Lihe replied vaguely and casually.
"Lou Li and you directly said that you would find a painter, what a hunch... None of the ten sentences are true... Too lazy to talk to you. Ji Xinliang thought Lou Lihe was joking, "I'm going to sleep, you can stay here again." β
Ji Xinliang stood up and left, Lou Lihe felt that the rocking chair was light, and the young man next to him had already walked into the house.
"Ji Xinliang. β
Hearing this, Ji Xinliang turned around: "What are you doing?"
"Fu Xi said, it's your birthday in a few days," Lou Li said, "The old man of the Ji family asked you to go back, and he held a small birthday banquet for you." β
"What does a birthday party I don't even know has to do with me?"
"Whatever you want. "Lou Lihe has no intention of arguing with Ji Xinliang about something.
"Lou Lihe," Ji Xinliang suddenly spoke, "Do you know what I admire most about you?"
Lou Lihe didn't answer,
Ji Xinliang asked himself: "It's that you won't easily condemn and ask others, if you don't have this difference, I won't agree to Fu Xi asking you to tutor me." β
After speaking, Ji Xinliang went back to the study.
Lou Li and silently stayed on the balcony.
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Ji Xinliang, who returned to the study, was very irritable for some reason, and drank all the water in the cup, but he didn't feel sleepy at all.
"What a birthday party, how can Lou Li and this guy start to like to meddle with other people's affairs. Ji Xinliang slammed the cup on the table top.
Sitting behind the desk, Ji Xinliang scratched his head and stretched his feet, but unexpectedly kicked into a hard box, "Oops!"
"What's it!" Ji Xinliang bent down, stretched out his arm to hook the box out, and found that it was a small metal safe, with a light layer of dust on the silver shell.
Ji Xinliang's curiosity was aroused all of a sudden, Lou Li and this guy always look like a breeze and a bright moon, cold and indifferent, can there be a secret?
However, there is a combination lock on this box, and Ji Xinliang has studied it for a long time and has not thought of a good way to open it.
He shook the box vigorously, and there was no sound in it, and it was not heavy.
"What the hell is in it?"
Ji Xinliang frowned, knocked on the box, and studied for a long time, but after all, he found nothing, so he could only put it back.
Although the style of this box is very old, Ji Xinliang knows very well that this box is worth a lot of money, this is a limited edition produced by a famous luggage brand in country D more than ten years ago, and there were only sixteen in the world that year.
But how could Lou Lihe have this?
He had heard that Lou Li and the young family's family was not very good.
More than ten years ago, she was only in high school, and even if she had the money, she didn't have the means to buy this limited edition?
By the way, this kind of bag has an "ID card", as long as you check it, you can know whose bag it is.
When Ji Xinliang thought of this, he was overjoyed.
He turned the bag around and found a string of numbers next to the logo part, took a picture with his mobile phone, and sent it to Fu Xi: "Brother, check for me whose bag it is, and I'll go back when I find out the birthday party." β
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Ji Xinliang's birthday was in early autumn, when he was born, the old man of the Ji family said: "The most is the new cool and good weather, the bright moon in half a bed sends clear frost, my son is like autumn, and comes in the middle of the night." He set his name at Ji Xinliang.
Over the years, because of his anger with his father, he rarely went back, but in his affairs back then, the first person to stand up and express his support was actually his grandfather, and it was precisely because of his grandfather's support that he was able to get to this point, so when Lou Lihe said that his grandfather asked him to go back, although he said that he couldn't go, he had actually decided to go back in his heart.
What Lou Lihe didn't tell him was that Ji Xinliang's grandfather asked Fu Xi to convey that he was actually just inviting her to the birthday banquet.
She asked Fu Xi why he didn't tell Ji Xinliang, and Fu Xi said that he just needed to tell him a word.
The people of the Ji family are very interesting, Ji Xinliang is like this, and the old man of the Ji family is also like this, of course, Lou Lihe did not tell Ji Xinliang about this.
She was very curious why the old man of the Ji family would specially invite her to Ji Xinliang's birthday party, after all, she had nothing to do with this kind of real master in the medical field.
How did he know about it?
This matter is not only Lou Lihe didn't know, even Fu Xi was inexplicable, he asked the old man, but the old man only said: "An old friend of mine admires her a lot, and I also want to see what kind of child she is." β
This old friend, needless to say, knows that it is Dean Du.
Du Huan was also a one-sided figure back then, and later lived in seclusion in Jiulianwei, Old Man Ji wanted to meet him many times but was refused, this time Du Huan came to Lingbei for Du Xinyan, of course Old Man Ji would not let go of this opportunity.
In the afternoon, Ji Jie pulled Dean Du out to relieve the atmosphere at that time, and it was his father, the leading academician of hepatobiliary surgery in Lingbei, who came to the hospital in person, just to meet his old friends.
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The next day, Fu Xi saw Ji Xinliang's text message, "This guy is crazy? Send me a text message at four o'clock..."
"Even if Lao Tzu doesn't check, don't you have to come back obediently?" Fu Xi knew Ji Xinliang very well.
However, he still has to do what Ji Xinliang asked him to do, he passed the photo to a friend, "Professional things have to be done by professionals." β
After Fu Xi finished this, he replied to Ji Xinliang: "A word is a certainty." β
After receiving Fu Xi's reply, Ji Xinliang was relieved.
That person's efficiency was very fast, and it was not difficult to do it, and he found out the owner of this box after three hours, but when he saw this name, Fu Xi frowned: "How could it be him?"
Fu Xi thought about it and called Ji Xinliang, "Where did you find this box?"
When Ji Xinliang heard Fu Xi's question, he guessed in his heart that the owner of this box probably had some origins, so he sloppily said: "A friend bought it at the auction, let me identify it." β
Fu Xi was skeptical, but still told him: "The owner of this box is a pity." β
Ji Xinliang knows him, the people of the Ming family, the status of the people in country D is the same as the Ji family in Lingbei.
How could Ming's box be in Lou Lihe's hands?
Ji Xinliang became more and more puzzled.
"Xinliang, this kind of box has an ID card, who the owner is, and who the gift is to have a record, if it is a black market auction, you still ask your friends not to take out the box casually, it will cause a lawsuit." β
"Well, good. β
Putting down the phone, Ji Xinliang thought for a long time, could it be that when she was in country D, Lou Lihe met Ming Xi, and Ming Xi gave her something?
But if it's a transfer, why isn't there a record of the transfer?
It can't be Lou Li and steal Mingxi's box, right?
This idea was denied by Ji Xinliang, Lou Lihe is not short of money, and it seems that he is not much interested in these collections, and this kind of stupid thing will not happen to Lou Lihe.
Thinking of this, Ji Xinliang became more and more curious about the contents of this box.
But he couldn't ask Lou Lihe directly, especially after knowing that the owner of this box was Ming Xi.
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Ji Xinliang's birthday banquet was three days later, in fact, his birthday was neither an eighteen-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, nor a twenty-five-year-old crown ceremony, but a twenty-two-year-old and not a twenty-two-year-old, he didn't quite understand why his grandfather wanted to hold a birthday party for him at this time.
Ji Xinliang went to the old mansion in advance and met the white-haired grandfather.
He hasn't seen him for half a year, and the old man has aged a lot, who said that the old man and the child are the same, the same every day.
"It's back, Xinliang. β
Ji Xinliang didn't know why, his nose was sore, and he respectfully walked to Old Man Ji's side, "Grandpa, I'm back." β
"Good boy, it's fine. Old man Ji has always liked Ji Xinliang the most, and reached out and patted his arm: "I watched the movie you made, it was very good, it was done well, and it deserved to be my grandson." β
Compared with Ji Song, the old man understands Ji Xinliang better.
"Grandpa, why did you suddenly remember to hold a birthday party for me?" asked Ji Xinliang.
Old Man Ji smiled kindly: "I want to meet my precious grandson, but my precious grandson always avoids my son, so I always can't see him, so I can only hold a birthday banquet for him." β
"Grandpa, I'm sorry..." Ji Xinliang wanted to explain something, but he thought about it a lot, and it was like an excuse.
"Silly boy, can you take it seriously?" Old Man Ji said, "I want to meet my old friend, but my old friend is difficult to invite, so I can only use you as an excuse, after all, he likes you very much." β
Who is Grandpa's old friend?
Ji Xinliang was puzzled, but he reacted quickly: "Grandpa Du?"
"My grandson is so smart!"
"How did you come to know Grandpa Du?"
"We are all in the medical profession, but we will know if we have participated in a few revisions of the guidelines. Old Man Ji smiled, "Du Huan has a high opinion of you, you are doing a good job." β
Ji Xinliang was stunned for a moment, a little shy.
Old Man Ji said again: "By the way, are you living in that Lou Lihe's house now?"
Ji Xinliang hesitated for a moment and nodded.
Looking at his grandson like this, Old Man Ji teased: "You are finally in love?"
"Grandpa! What do you say! She's just a good friend of mine!"
"Okay, okay, don't worry, I'm just joking, whether you are friends or have a deeper relationship, I won't have an opinion, just be happy," Old Man Ji laughed, "I'm just telling you, on your birthday, I also invited her, you live together, when you come with her, there will be a car to pick you up, take good care of Grandpa Du, do you know?"
"Good. β
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Ji Xinliang didn't bring a mask when he returned to Ji's house, and the fact that he returned to Lingbei and lived in a community was quickly dug up, his birthday is imminent, but there has been no news that a birthday party will be held this year, everyone thinks that Ji Xinliang is planning to retreat and study, but recently his figure suddenly appeared in Lingbei, which instantly attracted everyone's attention.
Yan Ziyu saw the photos and news on the Internet during the break of post-production, and wondered in his heart, didn't this guy want to stay in Jiulianwei with Lou Lihe for half a year?
He immediately called Ji Xinliang and confirmed that he was going back to Lingbei to meet the old man, and he was still living in Lou Lihe's house, Yan Ziyu couldn't help but ridicule: "You are easily interpreted by the media as taking your girlfriend home to meet your parents." β
"Anyway, I'm just friends with her. Ji Xinliang was a little helpless, why did everyone start to ridicule his relationship with Lou Lihe recently?
"Don't worry, I know you are innocent, but you live in Lou Lihe's house now, as long as someone checks it, you will know, even if you have ten mouths, you can't explain clearly, even if you have no relationship, you two will be tied together, I don't need to remind you of the direction of this kind of thing, right?"
Ji Xinliang was silent, he was indeed a little willful during this time, I hope it is still too late now, and it will not cause trouble to Lou Lihe, thinking of what Lou Lihe's expression will have when he knows these gossip, Ji Xinliang feels a headache.
"Xinliang, do you feel like you've changed?"
"What?"
Yan Ziyu saw that Ji Xinliang didn't seem to know why, so he opened his mouth and explained: "When I was in Jiulianwei, I felt that you became naΓ―ve and willful after meeting Lou Lihe, didn't you notice it? Not to mention that you secretly went back to Lingbei this time and didn't tell anyone, just said that when you were in Jiulianwei, you actually obediently followed Lou Lihe to review, and now you live in Lou Lihe's house, do you think these things will be done by an actor who has worked hard in the entertainment industry for three or four years? You have changed, but what is more subtle is that you don't feel it." β
Speaking of this, Yan Ziyu said, "Brother, as a friend, I advise you, Lou Lihe is not suitable for you, come out quickly before you fall deeper." β
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Yan Ziyu's phone was like a needle piercing Ji Xinliang's heart.
Does he like Lou Li and?
Nonsense.
Ji Xinliang finally put the words in his heart.
In the evening, he still went back to Lou Lihe's apartment, but his thoughts were so busy that he didn't notice that someone was following him.
When he entered the door, fortunately, Du Huan came out to open the door, and the people who followed him did not get any useful information.
During the meal, Lou Lihe saw that his expression was unknown, and he thought that he had some quarrel with the people of the Ji family.
After dinner, Du Huan went back to the room to rest, Ji Xinliang was on the balcony to cool off, Lou Lihe thought about asking him if he had anything on his mind, and specially took two cans of newly bought Coke from the refrigerator to the balcony.
Ji Xinliang turned his back to the living room, and he didn't notice it when Lou Lihe walked over, until a cold and piercing feeling came from his waist, "Oops!"
Turning his head and seeing that it was Lou Lihe, Ji Xinliang deliberately said coldly: "What's wrong?"
Lou Lihe handed the Coke in his hand to Ji Xinliang: "Ice." β
Seeing Coke, Ji Xinliang knew that it was newly bought by Lou Lihe, but yesterday he turned the kitchen upside down, and in the end he could only drink water.
He just said it casually, but he didn't expect Lou Lihe to put it in his heart.
He didn't take the can of Coke, but quietly looked at Lou Lihe, he had never looked at her like this before.
Lou Lihe is indeed beautiful, with eyebrows and phoenix eyes, a pretty nose and cherry lips, if it weren't for the fact that she has always been cold and expressionless, her coquettishness is natural.
Yan Ziyu said that he had changed, so what about Lou Lihe? Ji Xinliang asked himself in his heart.
It doesn't seem to have been without change.
If it was in the past, would Lou Lihe specially prepare Coke because of his words?
Ji Xinliang thought no.
So why did she do it today?
Because she's changed, just like herself.
Such a change, the lovers are not full, and Ji Xinliang knows it.
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"Don't drink ice?"
Ji Xinliang, who was in a daze, heard Lou Lihe's voice, and then took the coke, and the cold stimulation made some of the chaotic thoughts in his heart much clearer.
They've changed, but that doesn't mean a bad ending, does it?
Thinking of this, the panic in Ji Xinliang's heart gradually dissipated because of Yan Ziyu's debunking, he slammed on the Coke, took a sip, and yelled: "Cool!"
Lou Lihe saw him like this, as if he was already worried and cheerful, so he also smiled, and there was no need to ask anything before.
"Lou Lihe. Ji Xinliang suddenly called her.
"What's wrong?"
Ji Xinliang smiled at her, "It's nothing, thank you for your Coke." β
Lou Lihe said: "What is there to thank for this, I also like to drink." β
"Like Coke, don't you like to drink?Little drunkard who has been drinking since he was five years old?" Ji Xinliang teased.
Lou Lihe said: "Is this your attitude towards tutors?"
"I don't even call my senior sister anymore, what kind of teacher-student relationship do you mention, it's a bad scenery..." Ji Xinliang said, and suddenly he asked, "I heard my grandfather say that you will also go back to Ji's house on my birthday?"
"Well, Senior Fu Xi informed me. β
Ji Xinliang looked at Lou Lihe, "My grandfather has a good impression of you." β
Lou Lihe didn't have any joy because of this sentence, Ji Xinliang asked: "Lou Lihe, what kind of thing did you see your different expression?"
"What?"
Ji Xinliang shook his head, Lou Lihe didn't find that it was difficult for her to be stirred up, except... Except for the one time I drank, I drank by the way!
A bold idea flashed in Ji Xinliang's mind, he secretly looked at Lou Lihe and found that she hadn't noticed.
Lou Lihe, I will make you drink this time...