The story might as well start one day eight months ago.

It was a day no different from the past, and it was a drinking party that was no different from the past.

That's what I thought.

Halfway through the party, I felt a tremor in my handbag, so I took out my phone and glanced at it, then walked to the corner and picked it up. Liao Xiaofei asked me over there, "Miss, what will happen to the wine?" ”

I pretended to be stupid: "What else?" In your words, it is staggered, false and wronged. ”

Liao Xiaofei said indomitively: "You know that what I asked is your father who said he was going to introduce you to that person, have you seen it, how does it look?" ”

I had to stroke my hair and think about it, and said: "I just took a picture, and I wasn't very impressed, I remember that my dad seemed to say that he was extremely smart, and he was a bit of that trend, and his hairline was so high that he could go to Qing Palace opera." ”

She gloated: "Then you talk to him, I wonder if the ancestor is really a brother, the ancestor shaved his head a lot, so he inherited it from generation to generation." ”

I said, "What's wrong with my brother, you want to be anti-socialist and reinvigorate?" You're still an advanced party member, and I want to remind you. ”

She snorted: "You still dare to mention it?" What kind of did you and Lu Zhaochao nominate me to be back then? I wrote almost 5,000 words of advanced deeds materials, and my aunt and grandmother wrote for three days and three nights, and I wrote like green silk turning into snow at dusk! ”

I said, "Aren't you ashamed, Liao Xiaofei, aren't you a master's degree in Chinese language and literature, you can't even write 5,000 words?" ”

She argued clearly: "What I'm good at is poetry, okay, what kind of five-word poetry, seven-word quatrain, people don't like this kind of long and exhaustive, it seems that there is no culture at all~~~"

I said, "Then you can summarize your material in seven poetic words, and I'll listen to it." ”

Liao Xiaofei was silent for a while: "...... The old lady is the most advanced! ”

After hanging up the phone, I went back to the main hall to get a few snacks and continued to shrink into a corner of the venue to pack quails. Originally, my dad wouldn't have asked me to attend such an occasion. But in the past year or two, his rhetoric has changed, saying several times that he is old and that his family's business will be handed over, and he has consciously or unintentionally implied that the young talents of the son of the boss of a certain group are quite appreciated by him. Liao Xiaofei said that this shows that my blind date era is coming, and also taught me that no matter what, even if I make a scene on the spot, I will first get a man to hold the family business in my own hands, lest one day my stepmother really get a younger brother for me. I think she doesn't have a backache when she stands and talks, and I think that when Liao Xiaofei rebelled against her parents' orders, she acted in a shocking drama of coming out, telling her parents that she and I were actually a pair of hard-working mandarin ducks, and forced them to let us live with death, and said that in this life, in the next life, in the next life, she is my person.

When her father heard these words, he was so angry that he went to the hospital for a week. I also ran to the hospital for a week, and was beaten by my dad. But this trick is quite effective, and her parents finally stopped persecuting her on the marriage after getting a promise that she would never entangle me again in this life.

As I ate the cake, I wondered if I could take this play out again. Glancing to the side, there were several women chatting with red wine glasses three meters away, one of whom I recognized the face, it was in the city's celebrity circle, and she always posted photos of her participating in the Haitian feast in the circle of friends.

In this moment of boredom, gossip is more interesting than light music, so I pricked up my ears to listen.

Lady A said: "How was the garden project in the east of your city negotiated, and how much money was signed in the end?" ”

Lady B said: "What to sign, my dad said that he had bitten the gold halfway, and he was hanging." ”

Celebrity C was surprised: "Where did Cheng bite the gold, what is the background?" ”

"The background is big, Qin Group." Lady B said and covered her mouth with her hand, I had to lean over a little more, and vaguely heard her say: "My dad came today to talk to them about whether they can work together, but their chairman doesn't seem to come, it seems that his son came on his behalf, I don't know if I found anyone." ”

I was stunned for a moment, wondering if I had heard it wrong. At this time, someone next to me touched my arm, I turned around, and a waiter said to me, "It's Miss Li, right?" Mr. Lai, please come to the reception room. ”

"Oh." I handed him the plate in my hand and said, "Do you think my face is dirty?" ”

The waiter looked at me and smiled, "No, Miss Li." ”

I lowered my head, dipped my hand in a little Black Forest chocolate on the plate, and carefully wiped it around the corner of my mouth.

The waiter's face twitched a few times, and without saying a word, he turned to lead the way. I'm tail

The waiter led me to stop in front of the door, and I raised my hand and knocked on the door, and heard my dad's voice inside, "Come in." ”

I pushed the door in, and first saw my dad and Chen Qian sitting side by side on the left side of the café, and then I glanced over, ready to give the person on the other side a lonely head and a cold and arrogant look.

However, Lonegao's head was only halfway twisted, and I froze in place like a man with a cramp in my neck.

I've always thought that it's true that people say that time can dilute memories, even my mother, who has passed away for many years, and I can't remember much of her voice and smile if I don't look at the photos. However, the person in front of me, whether it was his sitting posture, the curvature of the corners of his lips, or a faint mole on his sideburns, could be found in the depths of my memory.

Even if it's been so many years.

"What are you standing there for?" My dad interrupted my fugue with a voice, and when I came back to my senses and walked to them, I realized that I had heard it right, and what they said was really Qin Yan.

In the blink of an eye, I had already walked to the side of the tea house, and I looked at the position next to my father, which was only two palms left, and wondered if I could stuff myself in, when I heard the person on the other side say, "Come, buckwheat, sit here." ”

I turned my head and saw Qin Yan give up a place to the side, I stood for a while, and heard myself say in a barely audible voice, "Thank you." ”

He looked up and answered me with a very shallow smile, his dark eyes reflecting the distracting light overhead. I smelled the crisp and mellow aroma of tea in his hand, and sat down cautiously. My dad raised an eyebrow across from me and said, "Are you stupid? It won't call people either. ”

I turned my face away and moved the corners of my mouth hesitantly, thinking about what kind of voice I was going to use, what tone of voice, what kind of lines I was going to say to him for the second sentence in seven years of reunion. But Qin Yan obviously made a mistake, he glanced at me, lowered his head and scalded another teacup, his fingers holding the tea clip were clean and slender, and chuckled: "She was still young when I left, so I guess I won't recognize her." ”

My dad said, "Won't you? He turned his eyes to me and said, "It's your Uncle Qin's own son, don't you recognize it?" ”

Having said this, I had no choice but to pick up the cup of tea that Qin Yan put in front of me in the most reserved posture of my life, and said slowly: "Remember, it's been a long time, and I don't dare to admit it." I lowered my head and took a sip of tea, and in the amber water, I suddenly remembered that there were still a few smears of soot on my fucking face, and I suddenly wanted to die.

Someone knocked on the door again, and it was my father's secretary who pushed the door in, saying that Zhaofeng's boss was coming.

My dad then stood up and said to Qin Yan: "I have to go out to say hello first, by the way, tell your dad that I will find him to play ball after his arthritis is cured in a few days, and I haven't gotten together for two or three months." ”

Chen Qian also said: "Let buckwheat sit with you for a while, and in two days, the two of us will come out for a meal together, and we will pick you up." ”

Qin Yan said, "Okay, I'll tell them, thank you." ”

Then my dad and Chen Qian walked out of the living room together, I looked at their backs and thought to myself, how much virtue I had accumulated in my last life, God actually took care of me so much.

Turning his face back, Qin Yan added a little more tea to my cup, and I pretended to be familiar and said, "When did you come back?" I haven't heard of it at all. ”

He lowered his eyes: "It's only been back for a few days, and I was jet lag at home before." Putting down the purple clay pot, he loosened the bow tie on his neckline, and inadvertently raised his eyebrows: "What do you call her?" ”

My eyes unconsciously flickered to his throat: "Who?" Chen Qian...... It depends on when, I will call her Aunt Chen in front of them, and I will call her by name when I am not in front of them. ”

Qin Yan nodded, looked down at the broken tea on the cup, and thought about it: "I remember when I left, your father hadn't married another yet, when did it happen?" ”

I said, "Well, she met my dad two years ago at a concert and they just got married last year. After a pause, I swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva and continued to say smoothly, "You...... Uh, by the way, that you, are you married? "Even though he had a clean hand and didn't even have a decorative tail ring, I still needed to be sure.

Qin Yan raised his eyelids from the teacup to look at me, and after a few seconds said, "Not yet." ”

I said, "Huh? You're not married, why aren't you? When a man gets married, a woman gets married, you ...... Uh, it's in your thirties, why aren't you married when you're so old? ”

He showed a little confused expression, don't talk about him, even I was very confused by what I asked. After a long time, he frowned and said, "You mean that I am already very old, and no one will marry me if I don't get married?" ”

I suddenly panicked, waved my hands and said, "No! No no! You're not old at all, I don't think you're any different from seven years ago, really! ”

Qin Yan looked at me for a while, and then smiled lightly: "I think you have changed a lot, buckwheat, my father showed me the photos taken with your family before, and I recognized you for a long time before I recognized you." ”

I was stunned for a moment: "Really? ”

He narrowed his eyes slightly and nodded: "But it's not completely changed, one thing is still the same." ”

I asked curiously, "Which point?" ”

This time he didn't speak, and after a moment of silence, he actually raised his right hand and gently brushed his knuckles over the corners of my mouth.