Chapter Twenty-Seven: She Doesn't Gain More Than She Loses
As soon as the sky was bright, Jia Yi woke up, but she didn't open her eyes immediately, the fragments of memory in her mind flashed one by one, and when she finally wanted to uncover the mystery, she was endlessly worried, she silently read a name, opened her eyes little by little, and when she jumped into her eyes was a familiar qiΔ, she still sighed softly.
She still lost after all.
Look at her body again, dressed in a familiar blue, the button on her chest is like an old lock, tightly locking a garden of spring, and her heart is almost withered.
She leaned sideways, and as she tried to sit up from the bed, she heard the sound of someone moving on the sofa in the living room, and her gaze followed the direction to a familiar face and an unfamiliar hair.
Sleeping on the couch was Mark, of course, who struggled to straighten up from the couch. As soon as he looked up, he saw Jia Yi smiling at himself, this scene was moving, as if he remembered those people who were hidden deep in the depths of his memory.
He smiled too.
The sunlight outside the house had already slipped into the room at some point, and they looked at the quiet and distracted two people in the room, and gnawed at the shadows left by the night with even more insolence.
As if she had suddenly thought of something, she slipped off the bed and picked up the mirror on the dresser and ran to Mark, holding the mirror and looking at Mark.
She grinned, and Mark immediately realized that his hair was standing on end. He smiled awkwardly for a while, tried to smooth the hair with his hand, and lowered his head to look at Jia Yi, who was already smiling crookedly, he silently turned the mirror to reflect Jia Yi, and she stopped, it turned out that the makeup of the person in the mirror had already been spent.
She screamed, covered her face with her hands, ran to the bathroom with the mirror, closed the door, and stuck to the wall but tried to remember - he was there, he was always there!
Hurriedly packed up, and when he came out, Mark had already regained his original handsome appearance, he specially poured a cup of hot water and handed it to her, saying, "I sweated so much last night, and now I must be short of water." β
Jia Yi took it and thanked her, as if she was the guest in this house for a while.
She drank water, but the rest of her eyes were all Mark, and she was extremely satisfied to be able to see the man she loved by her side in the early morning when she woke up, although she and Mark were still a sofa away, but now they belonged to the same space, but precisely the space of home.
"Why are you sleeping here?"
Mark smiled and said, "Don't you know? "There was not a hint of provocativeness, just a habitual and unsentimental smile.
It turned out that Jiang Yuan and they left early in the morning last night, leaving him holding the drunk Jia Yi, the two finally got a taxi outside the bar, but they didn't know where Jia Yi lived, he had to call Guo Rui, who knew that Guo Rui was in Shanghai, he could only tell him the address of the apartment, Aunt Li helped open the door, and Jia Yi, who was drunk and unconscious on the bed, broke out in a cold sweat again, and frowned uncomfortably, he settled her late at night, so he was so sleepy that he had to find a sofa to lie down and sleep for a night.
She couldn't help but be surprised by her embarrassment last night, but that wasn't the answer she wanted, and she asked again, "What...... Why are you sending me back to my house? β
Mark blurted out and said, "It's really closer to go back to my house, but it's not the same for you to go to your house or mine." β
To her, he naturally meant Jiayi's reputation as a girl.
At this moment, the breeze is rippling, blowing the curtains and lifting the skirt.
"What a beautiful flower." Mark looked at Jasmine and Hyacinth on the windowsill and exclaimed.
"Well, you like jasmine, don't you, do you want to give you a pot?" She was eager to share with him, and since she couldn't give herself to him, she had to give something else.
"You only have one pot too, no need." His concerns were so realistic that he refused unkindly, and said, "By the way, your friend called last night, and I answered it for you." β
"Friends?" Jia Yi's eyes widened and she hurriedly asked, "Male, female?" β
"Male." Mark actually only heard Gao Qu's voice, and said, "The second phone hung up without sound, do you want to call and take a look?" β
"Oh...... It's okay, let's wait a minute. She was nervous and anxious, and she didn't have enough courage to face the questioning, so she could only look at the hyacinth on the windowsill, blue and deep, like the eyes of a ghost.
"I have something to do, I have to go first." Mark said.
"Huh? Don't you have breakfast together? β
"No, I have an appointment."
"Okay then...... I'll send you out. She couldn't hide her frustration in her words.
When Jia Yi sent Mark out, the little girl who happened to go upstairs looked at the two people who came out of the house at the same time early in the morning, and her face couldn't help showing a very surprised look, and she hurriedly stopped the two to ask, Mark just wanted to explain, but was stopped by Jia Yi.
"The car is almost here." She said.
Mark left, and the little girl who didn't hear the answer was unwilling, so she could only take Jia Yi's hand and ask vigorously, "What did you do last night?" β
Jia Yi smiled and said, "What else can you do, you don't understand, child!" After saying that, she entered the room, leaving the little girl to stand outside the door with her mouth wide open.
After she closed the door, she secretly became proud, she deliberately let Xiaoya misunderstand, as if someone misunderstood, and there were people other than her who believed that the qiΔ that failed to happen last night could be reversed into reality.
But she also knew that in fact, it was all in vain, it was just self-paralysis, her eyes drifted to the mobile phone on the table, there was a person's phone number, she didn't dare to look at it, she didn't dare to reply, her eyes could only hide behind the two pots of flowers on the windowsill.
No one wants jasmine, how can anyone want to be a haunting hyacinth, when the wind blows, the fragrance of flowers all wafts away......
She simply didn't gain more than she lost.
But she had to face it after all, took the phone, took a long breath, and then slid the page, only to see two calls: one was Yuanyuan's and the other was Gao Qu's.
She couldn't help but be surprised - Qiao Le didn't call herself at all!
Jia Yi cleaned up and came to the store, Yuanyuan also came over early in the morning to help her set up the storefront, saying that she was going to work, but in fact she was vigorously inquiring about what happened to her and Mark last night.
"I heard that you made a bow last night?" Yuanyuan said with a wicked smile.
"Where?" Jia Yi smiled a little shyly,
"I know everything!"
"That phone call that didn't speak last night was yours, right?"
"Of course, I don't want to spoil your good deeds."
Jia Yi just wiped the window glass, she was also grateful from the bottom of her heart that this good friend "didn't show up" at the critical moment last night, and when she turned around to talk to Yuanyuan, Yuanyuan gave her a look and motioned her to look out the window.
Following Yuanyuan's gaze, Jia Yi, who turned around, was almost frightened.
With a round face, a slightly convex chin and a pair of black-framed glasses, those small eyes are looking at her, isn't that person Lin Xiao next door?
But despite the fright, Jia Yi still smiled politely at Lin Xiao outside the window, and before she could say hello, Lin Xiao came in directly, and after entering the door, he looked like he couldn't say anything, and his fingers kept rubbing the corners of his plaid shirt.
Jia Yi and Yuan Yuan looked at each other, but fortunately, Lin Xiao still spoke, he cleared his throat and said, "Miss Liang...... I didn't seem to see you yesterday. β
Jia Yi felt that he was asking inexplicably, but he still held back his feelings and replied, "Well, something happened yesterday. β
"Oh, that's right. That...... Free today? β
Jia Yi guessed his intentions, but she really didn't want to deal with someone who didn't speak smoothly just after making further progress with Mark, and she didn't want to have another meal with him about whether to add onions and garlic.
She excused herself and said: "Today, I'm afraid it's not okay today, I'm a little busy, I just happen to have a friend." β
As soon as the words were spoken, Yuan Yuan suddenly said, "Oh, don't worry about me, I'll leave later, and make an appointment with Fang Quan for dinner." β
Jia Yi gave her a vicious look, but Yuanyuan continued to lower her head and wipe the table as if she didn't see it.
Lin Xiao's rekindled anticipation made her difficult, but thinking that there was no other excuse, and she was afraid of hurting the neighbors, so she had to agree: "Then I'll see you later." β
When he heard this, he immediately left happily.
Seeing Lin Xiao walk away, Jia Yi threw the rag at Yuanyuan in a fit of anger, and shouted at her dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you save you when you die?" β
"Where is the death that cannot be saved! I'm obviously pulling out a knife to help! β
"Why don't you pull out a knife to help, you just stab me twice...... It's impossible for me to eat with him, why do we have to eat together! β
Yuan Yuan didn't think so, and said slowly: "You can't say it too early, first of all, if you are not interesting, then just sue him at the dinner table, won't it be over, and save trouble in the future; And secondly, good sister, do you really think your Mark is foolproof? When she said her last sentence, she shook her head, looking deeply skeptical.
Yuanyuan's words did pour cold water on Jia Yi, but it also made her gradually sober up, Mark is not foolproof, he doesn't belong to himself, even if he bets on Qiao Le, he can't belong to himself.
She simply didn't gain more than she lost.
She didn't know how long she could hold on to this clueless crush.
Looking at the pensive Jiayi, Yuanyuan patted her on the shoulder, and said with a serious look: "You, you don't know how to grasp it well, you will really suffer a lot of losses, Qiao Le is like this." β
As soon as she heard this name, Jia Yi's heart suddenly tightened, and she looked at Yuanyuan and said, "Last night...... Was he okay last night? β
Yuanyuan sighed, shook her head and said, "How can it be okay?" I didn't want to say it, but you did overdo it! β
"I ......" She couldn't explain, but she didn't want to be counted down by Yuanyuan, so she quickly took out her mobile phone and stepped aside to call Qiao Le.
Toot-toot-toot-toot.
No one answered.
Hit again, it was still a string of "toot-toot-toot".
I really went too far!
But Jia Yi didn't have much regret for some reason, she just felt uncomfortable, looking at the dazzling light outside, her brows tightened, and her thoughts drifted back to college......
University campuses.
"Let you make a choice, left-handed or right-handed, choose?" Jia Yi clenched two fists and shook them playfully in front of Qiao Le a few times.
Qiao Le felt naΓ―ve, but still smiled and said, "Left hand." β
Jia Yi let go of the fist on his left side and said with a smile: "Hahaha, Qiao Le is going to invite me to breakfast for a month." β
Qiao Le reluctantly agreed, he asked, "What about the right hand?" β
"On the right hand, Qiao Le wants to accompany me to practice 800 meters to make sure that I can pass the guΓ² sports test in 4 minutes." She smirked.
Qiao Le immediately regretted it when he heard it, and hurriedly said: "Then I'd better choose 800 meters." β
"No, what you say counts, and you are willing to gamble!"
Qiao Le pouted and said, "I'm afraid that someone will blame others after they become fat." β
When Jia Yi heard this, he immediately grabbed the mineral water bottle next to him and threw it at him, but he seemed to have a warning and had already slipped away.
One early morning in that month, the sky was pouring rain, and Jiayi, who was still lying on the bed in the dormitory, looked at the heavy rain, thinking about calling Qiao Le so that he didn't have to keep the agreement to deliver breakfast, but the phone was dialed but no one answered, only listening to a "beep-toot-toot" echoing through the dense rain line......
With the sound of the rain pouring outside the window, Jia Yi's mood also became complicated, she had to get up, put on a coat and ran downstairs, but she was still holding her mobile phone in her hand, and there was still no answer on the other end of the phone.
She couldn't help but think that maybe the kid had overslept, and just when she wanted to turn around and go upstairs, someone from behind her called her: "Jiayi! β
She looked back and saw Qiao Le standing in the rain opposite, his wet raincoat clinging to his body, his wet trouser legs rolled up high, and a pair of flip-flops under his feet, revealing his smooth instep, he stood thin in front of her, through a rain curtain, and smiled at her.
Qiao Le took out breakfast from her raincoat and handed it to Jia Yi, the transparent and thin plastic bag only had steam droplets inside, and the outside of the bag was not wet at all, she took the hot breakfast, full of emotion, but only said: "Why don't you answer the phone?" I wanted you not to give it away. β
Qiao Le wiped the rain on his forehead with his hand, smiled and showed two tiger teeth, and said: "This heavy rain, how can I bring my mobile phone with me, besides, my words count, I am willing to lose the bet." β
Jia Yi doesn't remember whether she said thank you at the time, maybe according to their friendship at the time, she probably wouldn't be so polite, but now that she thinks about it, if she really didn't say thank you at that time, then she would have already laid the groundwork for her choice this time, no wonder she was so relieved and logical when she missed the appointment.
But she still texted Qiao Le:
I'm sorry, Jole! I know how unjust my breach of appointment yesterday was, and if you're willing to give me a chance to explain and apologize, I hope to see you downstairs at 8pm tonight. -- Jia Yi.
Qiao Le naturally received the text message, but the first thing he did was not to reply, but to call Secretary Tang on the landline: "The flight to Beijing tonight will be canceled and replaced with tomorrow." β
Before Secretary Tang could react, he added: "There is no problem in the early morning, I just have to make sure to meet the customer at the appointed time." After hanging up the phone, he stared at the text message intently until the fluorescent fluorescence of the phone screen scattered around and gradually dimmed.
After sending the text message, Jia Yi and Yuanyuan exchanged a few words, and then immediately went out, she was going to the department store to change Qiao Le's birthday gift. As for the hyacinth on the balcony, no matter how lush it is, it doesn't have much brilliance, it's not at fault, it's just the beginning. So she changed to a Swiss watch, the price was not cheap, and she thought that such sincerity was enough to make up for her mistakes.