The night is long, the wind is gentle, the fallen leaves are blowing and floating in the air, and the air has a faint smell of river water.

The river in Jiangcheng is connected to the lake, and when the weather is getting hotter, cyanobacteria grow, and the river water is fishy. Yan Xi has lived in Yan Mansion for so many years, and he is very familiar with this taste.

This taste also reminded her of those years in the Yan family.

She is not born cold, but her family affection has been worn away by reality little by little.

They are all children who grew up under other people's roofs, Huo Jinshen is different from her in that Wen Ruan entered his life when he was most lonely and helpless, giving him the people he wanted to protect and the courage to fight against the world.

He regarded her as his own relative, day by day, year by year, all the memories have been engraved in his heart, and the greater the joy he gets, the greater the pain of loss. The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment in reality.

Yan Xi has the same empathy, the people who have accompanied her for 20 years, the good and the bad, are all imprinted in the bottom of her heart.

She entered the Yan family when she was most depressed and sad. Her sister disappeared, her parents divorced, and at a young age, she received so many blows at once, and before she could recover from it, she had to face the reality that her mother had remarried into a strange environment.

At that time, Chu Tianhao entered her life and became the light in her life. At that time, it was she who was relying on him. It's just that when she understood Chu Tianhao's thoughts, she didn't feel sad and sad.

She only appreciated the phrase "the world is not what you think, and people's hearts are unpredictable" earlier than Huo Jinshen.

Once, she didn't dig out her heart and lungs for the Yan family, and she silently liked Chu Tianhao in her heart, and the blows again and again, basins of cold water, made her heart cold and hard.

Huo Jinshen suffered a frustration in family affection for the first time, which made him difficult to accept, tolerable, and difficult to face, and she could understand it.

His present is also her past.

After a long silence, the sound of insects chirping in the roadside flower beds became clearer, and the frogs on the riverbank croaked one after another.

"Huo Jinshen, we are all born with weak family ties, we can't keep our relatives when we were young, but we can create family affection by ourselves. ”

Yan Xi held Huo Jinshen's hand and interlocked his fingers: "I heard that in all marriages, lovers will eventually become relatives." ”

Huo Jin looked at her deeply, saw their hands clasped together, was silent for a while, and said, "I plan to give her a place to live...... There's no way to leave her alone, do you agree?"

He lost his cool tonight, and when he calmed down at this time, his speech was a little upside down, but Yan Xi still understood.

She smiled faintly and said, "She is your sister in the end, and it took so much effort to find it back, in case something happens again, your conscience will be disturbed." I agree or not, you have to take care of her. ”

Huo Jinshen nodded, with a deep tiredness in his expression. He touched her hair with the other and said, "I'm sorry......"

His word sorry contained too much meaning, Yan Xi took a breath lightly, turned his head to look out the car window, and his heart was surging.

Didn't she waver about this marriage and threatened him with a divorce......

There were people fishing by the river, the light of the flashlight swayed, and an angler lifted the fishing rod, and in the hazy light, he saw a fish struggling in mid-air.

Yan Xi looked at it for a while, then turned his head and said, "Take you to a place, give me your mobile phone." ”

Huo Jinshen took out his mobile phone and handed it over, Yan Xi opened the navigation, entered the place name, and then navigated the pronunciation of "Wanjiang Theater".

Huo Jin looked at her puzzled, Yan Xi pushed the car door and said, "You'll know when you go." ”

Yan Xi walked to the back car, Huo Jinshen glanced at her car from the rearview mirror, and followed the prompts on the navigation to Wanjiang Theater.

The theater is not too far away, it is in the ancient town scenic spot on the outskirts of the city, Huo Jinshen has been here a few times before, but he has never stepped into that theater, and he doesn't even know that there is such a place.

Because it is divided into commercial areas, the old town of Yuexia is crowded with tourists even at night, and most of the shops are open for business.

The car of the two was parked in the parking lot outside the ancient town, and they took a shortcut through a small alley with their hands. Although it was a shortcut, but the block was long, Yan Xi felt hot and thirsty after walking for a while, so he stopped to buy ice cream to eat.

She craned her neck to look at the cold drink in the freezer, without raising her head, and asked, "Do you want to eat it?"

Huo Jinshen saw that her stretched neck showed a layer of orange under the light, bright and bright. He stretched out his finger, scraped it on that part of his neck, and said, "I have a stomachache after eating a cold drink, so change it to something else." I'll buy you water. ”

Yan Xi insisted, she said: "I don't eat all the time, it's so hot to walk, let's have some ice to cool off." ”

She let go of Huo Jinshen's hand, pushed open the glass door, fished out a cone from it and shook it in front of him, and said with a smile: "This has nuts and chocolate, I like the taste." ”

The cone was almost under Huo Jinshen's nose, and seeing that she was so happy, he followed her wishes and turned his head to look inside the freezer.

Huo Jinshen doesn't eat desserts much, and he doesn't like to eat cold drinks, a habit he has cultivated since he was a child.

At that time, he sent people under the fence, although the Huo family gave pocket money, but he always felt that it was not his own, and he would not spend money to buy things, most of them were used for studying, and Wen Ruan was too.

He still couldn't understand why such a well-behaved child would change so much.

When Huo Jinshen thought of Wen Ruan, his heart became depressed again, but he didn't show it on his face. He bent down and grabbed a random popsicle.

Yan Xi looked at it, it was a fruit popsicle, not what she liked to eat. She commanded on the side: "Don't take this, take that box of eight joys." Yes, yes, vanilla. ”

Huo Jin glanced at her deeply, and pinched a box of ice cream: "Didn't you buy it for me, why do you have to pick your taste." ”

Yan Xi ignored him, took the cone and ice cream to check out, she scanned the code to pay, and then handed the ice cream to Huo Jinshen, and said, "Because I am a treat, I invite you to eat whatever you want." ”

Huo Jin tugged at her lips deeply, and the two of them stood on the side of the freezer and opened the lid at the same time. Yan Xi licked the cone and squinted his eyes: "It's delicious......"

Huo Jin looked at her intoxicated appearance and said, "The first time you eat a cone, with whom?"

Yan Xi looked at him narrowly, smiled a little badly, and said: "When I was in elementary school, I didn't do well in math for the first time, so I didn't dare to go back. The cone that Chu Tianhao invited me to eat told me that it must have been corrected by the math teacher. ”

"Speaking of which, Chu Tianhao invited me to eat a lot of cones. ”

Huo Jin pouted a piece of ice cream and put it in his mouth expressionlessly, and walked over to the rest chair with his long legs. Yan Xi sat next to him and stretched his legs, but it was still a big step worse than him.

She shook her feet, and many of the passers-by also brought their pets, the most common ones were dog walkers, Samoyeds, Golden Retrievers, Teddy...... She looked at it for a while, then turned her head to stare at the ice cream in Huo Jinshen's hand.

He hadn't eaten much, and he had most of it left.

"Huo Jinshen, let's swap it. She looked at the contents of his hand greedily and handed the cone over.

Huo Jin tilted his head and stared at her, and said, "You and Chu Tianhao also change foods?"

Yan Xi pouted: "Yo yo, this is jealous? Do you and Wen Ruan also eat ice cream? Have you ever bought it for her?"

Huo Jin looked at her sour eyes and said, "Wen Ruan doesn't eat this thing. ”

Yan Xi felt that he wanted to interrupt the topic, so he said so. She wrinkled her nose, turned her head to take a bite of the cone, and continued to watch the people in front of her, shaking her toes, muttering, "Who knows......"

Huo Jin looked at her deeply, suddenly handed over the ice cream, and said, "Where's the cone?"

Yan Xi saw the ice cream under his nose, his eyebrows were crooked, and he was about to stuff the cone into his palm to exchange it with him, Huo Jin shrank his hand deeply, Yan Xi looked up, and saw him with his mouth open.

This is to be fed.

Yan Xi brought the cone to his mouth, and at the same time opened his mouth, Huo Jin pinched a small spoon and pouted a piece of ice cream and stuffed it into her mouth.

People come and go, and I see a pair of well-dressed and handsome men and women sitting on wooden chairs feeding each other, as if they were shooting commercials.

Behind them was a wall of flowers decorated by the shopkeeper, and in the bright light, roses bloomed with a faint scent of flowers, and the shadows of the flowers swayed in the wind.

Seeing this, some people were immediately envious, and they also went in to buy cold drinks and sat down on the rest of the chairs to rest. There were more and more people, and someone was talking on the phone, and it was very loud.

Yan Xi looked back and said to Huo Jinshen: "Let's go, go to the theater." ”

Holding hands again, all the way to the theater. The half cup of ice cream in Huo Jinshen's hand had melted, and he handed it to Yan Xi and said, "This won't be too cold, girls still have to pay attention." ”

It turned out that he didn't eat it, and he didn't give it to her, just to wait for the ice cream to melt before giving it to her.

Yan Xi glanced at the cold drink that looked like paste, she seriously doubted, he said that Wen Ruan didn't eat ice cream because he had seen her stomach hurt.

She didn't bother with him, comforting herself that straight men have some experience in taking care of women, which is better than using her as an experiment.

She ate the leftover ice cream, threw it in the trash can on the side of the road, and took his arm through the theater door.

The courtyard is deep, but when you step through the door, you can hear the singing inside. Huo Jinshen hadn't heard it, he couldn't understand what he was singing, and when he got closer, he only felt that the voice was piercing.

The theater has been looking for some years, and the paint on the stage is mottled, which makes it even more vicissitudes, but unexpectedly there are quite a lot of guests watching the audience, but most of them are elderly people.

There were hot water bottles and melon seeds on the table of the Eight Immortals, and they were basically full. There is no particular attention to private rooms and tables here, so you can sit down and share a table with others when you find a vacant seat.

Yan Xi pulled Huo Jin to sit down and said, "You take a seat here first, and I'll buy a pot of tea." ”

Huo Jinshen pressed her hand, stood up and said, "You sit down first." ”

He walked to the counter in the back of his legs, and came back with a tray and a thermos in his other hand.

Yan Xi watched him carefully put the tray on the table, melon seeds, fennel beans, and two water cups.

Huo Jinshen opened the wooden lid of the thermos and said curiously: "It's rare to use this kind of old goods these days." ”

The tea leaves in the cup are not precious teas, but when the hot water is washed down, the tea color is also green. The water vapor lingered around the mouth of the cup, Huo Jin pinched the cup far away from her, and said, "It's too hot, be careful not to knock it over." ”

Yan Xi's two fingers tapped on the table, beating with the undulating tone, and sometimes humming a few words, but she couldn't sing, and when her mouth felt empty, she peeled a few melon seeds and threw them in her mouth, and then continued to beat the beat.

Huo Jin looked at her deeply, looking at her like an old drama fan.

Yan Xi was thirsty, turned her head to look for water to drink, found that he was staring at her, and said, "Why are you staring at me, I'm not Hua Dan." ”

She took a sip of water, the fragrance of the tea filtered the dryness brought by the melon seeds, and said, "This theater was originally deserted. Now that quyi is going to be revived, the city has invited teachers and students from the drama academy to perform here, and they can listen to the opera for free, as long as they pay for tea. ”

"Don't look at the old stage, but these people's singing skills are all good. ”

Huo Jinshen saw that her eyes were shining, and she could see that she really liked it. He asked, "When did you get hooked on this?"

He grabbed a handful of melon seeds, peeled them one by one, and put them on the paper towel spread out in front of her.

Yan Xi said: "The first time I came, I saw the name of this theater, and I wondered who else would come to listen to the theater this year." Everyone listens to pop music, listens to funny cross talk, and goes to watch dramas if they are more advanced. But I was still curious to come in and listen, the first time, like you, I couldn't understand a word, and I couldn't understand it, but I fell in love with their costumes and the appliqués on their heads. ”

She pointed to the people on the stage: "It's beautiful, isn't it?"

Huo Jin nodded deeply: "I heard that there are costume photos in the studio, and many people take them." ”

This was said by Tong Qianni, and he just understood it, but he didn't go too deep.

Yan Xi said: "I was fascinated by opera because of the costumes, but after a few visits, I gradually fell in love with the charm of opera." ”

On stage, the people in costumes pinched their fingers and sang in a low voice: "...... Thirty merits, fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons, don't wait for the idle young man's head, empty and sad!"

Yan Xi said: "He sings Man Jianghong, listen...... Grief and indignation, but also passionate blood. There is no such charm in pop songs......"

Huo Jin listened to her deeply, and also felt that there was a different charm in the modulation, stirring in his chest. Yan Xi said a lot of her experience in listening to the opera in one breath, and seeing that Huo Jinshen didn't speak, she said: "The people who listen to the drama are old, you said that I like to listen to the opera now, does it mean that I am old?"

Huo Jin looked at her deeply and said, "You are half old-hearted, half childlike." ”

"Say, what is the purpose of bringing me to the play?"

Yan Xi smiled, patted the melon seed skin on his palm, and said, "Qin Shuangyin received it from me, and it was my money that was burned, so it can't be wasted like this." I've got to get to work. ”

Huo Jinshen raised her eyebrows slightly and looked at her: "Have you thought of a way?"

Yan Xi glanced at the stage and said, "After ten years of work off the stage, there is a wonderful performance on the stage." Whether it is Yiyantang or Qin Shuangyin, they are all brands that have been made through the efforts of several generations. It's just that Qin Shuangyin's business has a problem that it has fallen to such a point. ”

"There is no problem with Qin Shuangyin's products, but the bad thing is word of mouth. Therefore, I have to do some work openly and secretly to prepare for the recovery. ”

"I have already disclosed the news of Qin Shuangyin's acquisition, and I want to complete the blood exchange project in a low-key manner, and the next step is to prepare for its re-emergence from the mountain. Qin Shuangyin's brand will not change, so it will take a lot of action to restore its former glory. ”

She pointed to the stage again and said, "I plan to connect Qin Shuangyin with opera and hold a drama festival." ”

Huo Jin thought that she would sponsor variety shows in the name of Qin Shuangyin, hold variety shows such as singing, and let several stars play the challenge, so as to restart Qin Shuangyin. He said uncertainly, "Theater Festival?"

Yan Xi said: "Opera is broad and profound, but it has almost disappeared, and now it is also a conservation art, and there are fewer and fewer heirs." I plan to make people know more about opera through the festival. When Qin Shuangyin soared into the sky, he was defeated because of Qin Duan's defeat. Qin Shuangyin restarted, and people need to re-understand it. ”

"If you do a variety show, the ratings are there, but there is a suspicion of forcible whitewashing. Moreover, with Qin Shuangyin's negative situation, if you want to sponsor the program, other TV stations still have to consider whether they can broadcast it. ”

"There are many such theaters in the country, especially the most scenic spots in ancient towns. Tourists will slowly spread and the brand will be re-established. ”

Huo Jinshen was a businessman, so he immediately understood what Yan Xi meant. He frowned: "In this case, it will take a long time, and the effect will not be extensive enough." ”

Yan Xi said: "Slow is a little slower, and it can't keep up with the current fast pace at all." ”

Now a cosmetics brand, as long as there is capital speculation, can quickly become a big brand. Yan Xi's approach almost had the suspicion of slowly making Qin Shuangyin withdraw from the stage of history.

"But now there are so many short videos, tourists shoot and spread independently, and passers-by will slowly become popular. Qin Shuangyin is now suitable for slow stewing, and if it is attacked in a hurry, consumers will not appreciate it. ”

"Besides, now that Qin Shuangyin is like this, how bad can it be. ”

Huo Jin nodded deeply: "You just need to be mentally prepared." But do you have that much energy?"

Restarting Qin Shuangyin is a big and laborious project.

Yan Xi looked at him with a smile and said, "Since it is a slow project, of course it will be done slowly." However, I want to borrow someone from you. ”

Huo Jin smiled deeply: "After saying so much, I got to the point. ”

She made peace with him for a long time, just to wait for this last sentence.

Yan Xi's fingers flicked in the pile of melon seeds, found a fat one, gritted it between his teeth and said: "You have a great career in Liangcheng, and it will be just as successful to reopen up in Jiangcheng." I'm in a similar situation to you now, and I'm also opening up a second battlefield. ”

"But my people in Yiyan Hall can't move, you have the ability to cultivate talents, and your subordinates are elite, so you can only use personal relationships. ”

Yan Xi has not left Yiyantang at the moment, if a large number of people are transferred, in Yan Zhengyu's eyes, it will be seen that she is going to start another stove and empty Yiyantang.

Huo Jin said deeply: "How much do you want?"

Seeing that he agreed, Yan Xi snapped his fingers and said, "Management, public relations, finance...... Not a few people, you are ready. ”

Huo Jinshen's face was serious, and he frowned slightly: "There are indeed many people ......"

He thought that she was just seconding a few people, and listening to her, she wanted a large number of people.

Huo Jinshen's company is big, but it is not an idler, and each of them can create value. Transferring one or two is not in the way, but it is a bit troublesome to transfer a group of people.

Yan Xi waited for the matter to be completed, and then said: "If there were only a few people, I would tell you so much." ”

Her face became serious: "However, you have to help me with this favor." Qin Shuangyin is my own. ”

Sooner or later, Yiyantang will be handed over to Yan Bei, and Qin Shuangyin will be her main battlefield in the future.

Huo Jinshen stretched out his hand and pinched her face: "Didn't I already promise you......" He smiled lightly, "I still have a cultivated reserve army, how can my wife's career not support it." ”

The two listened to the play for several hours, half of the water in the thermos was missing, and all the melon seeds on the table were knocked out by Yan Xi. At the end of the song, they got up and left.

When they arrived at the parking lot, the two stood in front of the car. Yan Xi opened the car door and looked at Huo Jinshen: "Where are you going back at night?"

Huo Jinshen wants to place Wen Ruan out, but she still has to live in Xinyu in Kongshan for a day.

Huo Jinshen didn't answer, Yan Xisong walked over to the car door, pressed his hand on the car door and said, "Otherwise...... Going to Mirror Garden?"

Huo Jin pushed her hand away and opened the car door: "Don't go." ”

Yan Xi wondered, husband and wife, what's wrong with living in her house, she didn't offend him.

She sighed and said, "I kindly took you in, and I don't appreciate it anymore." ”

Huo Jin saw that she was unhappy, so she reached out and pinched her ears and said, "It's just that I can't go to you because I'm down, I don't have face." ”

Wen Ruan made her move out of the empty mountain and Xinyu, and now even he can't live in it, so why is she embarrassed to go to live with her.

Yan Xi wrinkled his nose and snorted: "Awkward man." ”

She shook off her sentence and turned back to her car.

This night, Huo Jinshen stayed in the hotel, while Yan Xi returned to the Mirror Garden.

Tong Qianni hadn't slept yet, nesting on the sofa in the living room and listening to Yan Xi come back to settle accounts with her. Hearing the sound at the door, she threw the pillow aside, squinted at Yan Xi, who came in, and said in a strange manner: "The irresponsible person is back?"

Yan Xi hummed a tune in her mouth, listening to her, and the car keys were thrown in her hand. She said, "Why am I not responsible?"

Tong Qianni stood on the sofa and condescendingly condemned Yan Xi: "Take me out, but leave me there and let me be with that lotus essence." Aren't you afraid that I'll be killed by her?"

She said ruthlessly, trying to make Yan Xi's conscience uneasy.

Yan Xi put the car keys in a small box on the coffee table. The crumbs on the coffee table are all crumbs of crab roe cakes, which are eaten by Miss Tong at first glance.

She smiled: "She doesn't have the ability to harm you, she's afraid you'll be too late." When you are there, she doesn't dare to cry and do stupid things or make a disappearance. ”

Huo Jinshen left, but Chen Bin still stayed. Chen Bin is thoughtful, in addition to arranging a nanny to watch Wen Ruan, he will also ask the security guard to pay close attention.

Wen Ruan lost it once, and everyone turned it on their backs, and everyone still had lingering palpitations, and getting Chen Bin's orders would only make them more attentive.

However, at this time, Yan Xi attributed all the credit to Tong Qianni, so that she would not keep making trouble with her.

Tong Qianni was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then became proud. "I'm different from you. You and Brother Huo let her go, and they were held hostage by her pitiful. I'm not used to her, if she dares to be a demon, see if I don't smoke her. ”

She raised her hand and made a slap gesture, Yan Xi smiled, raised her feet and walked upstairs.

Tong Qianni was not finished yet, and when she saw that she was leaving, she asked, "Where are you going?"

The voice of the person upstairs was faint: "Go to the toilet." "After drinking so much tea and holding it all the way, it would be ugly to talk with her again.

Tong Qianni booed her, suddenly remembered Huo Jinshen, and asked, "Brother Huo, why don't you come back with you?"

The person on the stairs was gone, and no one answered her. Tong Qianni said to herself: "It can't be that she is soft-hearted and goes back, right?"

She put her hands to her mouth, in the shape of a trumpet, and shouted, "Yan Xi, did you scold Brother Huo and scare him back?"

She had a loud voice, and the sound waves echoed through the room.

At this time, Yan Xi's head poked out from the guardrail and looked down, and said, "In the dead of night, you are not afraid of being scolded and shouting again." ”

However, she still told Tong Qianni about Huo Jinshen's stay in the hotel.

Tong Qianni scratched her sideburns and looked confused, why is it not a husband and wife reunion at this time, but to go to the hotel to live?

Yan Xi's words were unclear, which made her take it for granted that Yan Xi scolded Huo Jinshen and refused to take him in.

If she thought about it one more step, she would understand that if Yan Xi turned his face with him because of Wen Ruan's matter, Huo Jinshen should come over and coax her.

"Hey, I'll persuade Yan Xi tomorrow...... Hey, I really can't finish my heart, what kind of life......" Tong Qianni shook her head and got off the sofa and walked to the room with her slippers.