Chapter 9 26 Years Old: Friendship often lasts longer than love
"Is it Zeng Baifei?" Ai Jiatong hung up the phone, and Yan Qiukai asked.
Ai Jiatong nodded.
"You're really as good as you were back then."
"What? Don't give? Ai Jiatong raised her eyebrows.
"Do you remember what I said?"
"Huh?"
"If you and Zeng Baifei are together, I will strangle you!" Yan Qiukai had a smile on his face when he said this.
"Friendship often lasts longer than love." Ai Jiatong said in his words.
"I think we are always biased towards love on the scales of friendship and love."
“……”
"What's the matter with you and Tao Lei? Why do your parents think you're together? Yan Qiukai remembered something to ask.
"Did you hear it all?" Ai Jiatong was a little surprised.
"Please answer!" Yan Qiukai looked like I wanted to know.
"Actually, it's nothing, it's just that once my mom passed out in the mall, and it happened to be his help, and then he came to visit, and then something happened, and that's it." What Ai Jiatong said was very simple, as if it was just a very ordinary thing, but Yan Qiukai didn't think so.
"So there's such a thing." Yan Qiukai said with some jealousy.
"Yan Qiukai, are you sure we can?" Ai Jiatong changed another question, looked at Yan Qiukai, and asked seriously.
"Of course."
"Back then, we broke up not because we didn't love each other, but because there were too many quarrels, who can guarantee that we were physically and mentally exhausted because of the quarrels like we did at the beginning, we are all at this age, and no one can afford it."
"I know, but, Ai Jiatong, I'm confident that we'll be fine."
"Do you really think so?"
"Well, we were all too young back then, but now that we are mature in our thinking, it will be different."
Ai Jiatong thought for a while, "Okay, let's run in with each other again, even if we can't afford it anymore, but everything will wait for you to deal with Zhou Jiatong." ”
"Okay." Yan Qiukai nodded and said.
"Then I'll go home first." Ai Jiatong stood up and said.
Yan Qiukai also stood up, "You won't accompany me?" ”
"Your family is probably looking for you." Ai Jiatong meant something.
"It's okay, it's been a long time since we've sat together, you're hungry too, let's go out to eat, okay?" Yan Qiukai said with a gentle smile.
"Hmm."
With Ai Jiatong, Yan Qiukai felt that even the air was sweet, even if it was pouring rain outside the car, it didn't affect his good mood at all, the smile was on his lips, and his mood changed from the previous depression.
The two went to a restaurant to eat, and as soon as they ordered, a man came over.
"Director Yan?!" A good-looking woman squealed in surprise as she walked over.
Yan Qiukai always smiled and nodded elegantly, "Hello." ”
The woman glanced at Ai Jiatong and was a little puzzled, "Director, aren't you engaged today?" ”
Yan Qiukai didn't speak, and the woman reacted a little, and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry, I'm troublesome." ”
“……”
"Well, you guys eat, I'll go first." The woman nodded.
"Walk slowly."
When the woman left, she didn't forget to look at Ai Jiatong a few more times.
Seeing this, Ai Jiatong couldn't help but feel funny, and teased, "Director Yan is splitting his legs." ”
"Stinky girl." Yan Qiukai looked at her with a doting gaze.
When the dish came up, the waiter said respectfully, "Please use it slowly." ”
Ai Jiatong and Yan Qiukai nodded and smiled politely at him.
"Aren't you at odds with Yi Xu?" Yan Qiukai said suddenly.
"yes."
"Then you are quite capable, and you can ask Yi Xu to help you with the transfer."
"Pure coincidence plus luck."
"In the future, we can see each other often, and we can also commute to work and eat together."
"Do you think we'll see each other a lot in the unit?"
"What are you afraid of?"
"You and the people in Zhou Jiatong's affairs bureau know it." Ai Jiatong meant something.
"Ugh." Yan Qiukai rarely looked melancholy.
The two had dinner, Yan Qiukai sent Ai Jiatong home, Ai Jiatong was about to get out of the car, Yan Qiukai grabbed her, she was a little puzzled.
"Thank you." Yan Qiukai looked at her with deep eyes.
Ai Jiatong was stunned for a moment and smiled slightly.
"Don't worry, I'll have a way to fix it."
"Hmm."
"Finally, can you kiss me?" Yan Qiukai asked, pointing to his mouth.
Ai Jiatong withdrew his hand and approached Yan Qiukai, and when he was about to kiss him, he shifted his target and said in his ear, "Dream!" ”
After speaking, Yan Qiukai, who was left with him, got out of the car with a smile.
"Ai Jiatong, next time you will die!!" Yan Qiukai said loudly to Ai Jiatong from the car window.
Ai Jiatong grimaced and ran away.
Yan Qiukai looked at Ai Jiatong's distant back, his smile gradually disappeared, and he started the car.
When Ai Jiatong got home, she wanted to sneak into the room, but she happened to be caught by her mother who came out of the kitchen.
"Where did you just go?" Ai's mother walked over and asked.
"Nowhere to go." Ai Jiatong said.
Ai's father also walked out of the room when he heard the voice and looked at Ai Jiatong, "Jiatong, do you have a boyfriend?" ”
"No, who did you listen to?" Ai Jiatong denied it.
"Jiatong, aren't you the same thing as Tao Lei?" Ai's mother asked.
"It's never been good?!! Ai Jiatong said angrily.
Ai's parents looked pity.
"Okay, I'm tired and want to go into my room and sleep for a while." Ai Jiatong waved his hand and said.
"Jiatong, in fact, Tao Lei is very good, today he thought you had an accident, he was very anxious, this kind of man is good, you, hey, hey!!" Ai's mother followed behind Ai Jiatong as she spoke, and before Ai's mother finished speaking, Ai Jiatong closed the room, and Ai's mother called a few times.
"Forget it, don't worry so much about the child." Ai's father said.
The atmosphere of the Yan family was very gloomy, just like this old mansion.
In the old house, Yan's parents and Yan's grandmother were all there, Yan Qiukai entered the house and saw everyone, and bowed first.
"Grandparents, grandparents, mom and dad, I'm sorry, I'm back."
"You still have the face to come back." Father Yan said with a calm face.
"I'm sorry I put you to shame." Yan Qiukai looked like he had done something wrong.
"Kaikai, what's wrong with you this time? You're not such an unaccountable person. Grandpa Yan frowned slightly and asked, although Grandpa Yan was already very old, the sense of majesty was still there, and his eyes were very sharp.
"I'm sorry."
"Is it enough to say sorry? How can you think only of yourself? Are you such a selfish person? Father Yan reprimanded.
"If this time it was selfish, then I was indeed selfish, and this time, I made the wrong decision."
"Okay, okay, I'm just telling you that you had a traffic accident, I don't care what your reason is this time, but the engagement is still as usual." Yan's father said.
"Dad, since I'm gone, it means I don't want to get engaged." Yan Qiukai's tone was firm.
"Don't you want to order it? What do you take us for? Father Yan said angrily.
Yan Qiukai's gaze was very resolute.
"Kai Kai, do you have any other girls?" Grandma Yan asked.
"It's not another girl, it's the girl I've always liked, it's my first love." Speaking of first love, Yan Qiukai's eyes were full of love.
"Akai, wake up, that girl has been with you in your most difficult time? Have you forgotten how she hurt you in the first place? If you have an accident, she is also responsible, don't remember your memory and forget who was good to you when you lost your memory! Father Yan said.
"Yes, Kai Kai, first love is just a beautiful landscape, why are you too persistent? Marriage is not only love, a moment of passion will make you regret it for a lifetime! Yan's mother said bitterly.
"Dad, I just misunderstood her at the beginning, and my car accident has nothing to do with her, if you insist on adding my car accident to her, then she is too innocent!! Also, Mom, this is not a momentary passion, in Zhou Jiatong, here. Yan Qiukai said, covering his heart and saying, "There is no heartbeat, there is no feeling, marriage is indeed more than love, but if you don't even have love, then how can you live a lifetime?" I'm your only son, are you so patient? ”
"What about Zhou Jiatong?" Yan's father asked.
"I'll explain it to her, and I'll get her to dissolve the engagement."
"Kai Kai, it's been so many years, can you guarantee that girl is the same as she was back then? Can you be sure that he loves you as a person and not your family background? Grandpa Yan asked.
"None of this matters to me, and besides, why don't you think Zhou Jiatong likes me and has something to do with my family background?" Yan Qiukai asked rhetorically.
"Kaikai, you are still young, I can see that although Zhou Yatou is a little scheming, her heart is 100% towards you, and she will really dedicate herself to you." Grandma Yan said in a deep voice.
"You haven't been in contact with Ai Jiatong, that's why you're saying this here, and she's not a greedy person." Yan Qiukai said.
"You don't have to say it, anyway, I just don't like that Ai Jiatong, from high school to now, has she hurt you less? She's always been a stumbling block for you, I really don't know what you think. "Father Yan looks like he hates iron but not steel.
Yan Qiukai looked at Grandma Yan and them with a pleading eyes, but they didn't turn their heads and ignored them, proving that they were all on his father's side.
"Yan Qiukai, you don't have to look at it, this time, no one will be on your side!" Yan's father said.
"Even if the whole world is not on my side, I will not change my decision." Yan Qiukai looked firm.
For Yan Qiukai's stubbornness, Yan's father is really angry, but it is not a matter of concocting Yan Qiukai now, there are more important things now.
"That's all for this matter, now, you immediately go to the Zhou family with me to apologize, it's all because of you, what has become of our family? It's a shame to apologize to others!! The more Dad Yan thought about it, the more angry he became.
Yan Qiukai didn't speak, his head drooped.