"Zhong Xiao, is this your niece?"

The other party said that she was Yu Zhongxiao's niece, not other ambiguous speculations, and even looked at her with the kindness of an elder.

This should be a dinner party of old friends, at least the people present seem to be familiar with Yu Zhongxiao.

He brought himself to meet his friends, but Ye Hehuan was not happy at all.

Ye Hehuan looked at the man next to him, his figure was tall and straight, like a pine rising from the ground, with a smile on his face, sure enough, she heard Yu Zhongxiao say: "A junior in the family is going back to City B today, and he came over together before eating." ”

When he said this, his tone was very natural, and he explained the cause and effect in a concise sentence.

"Hehuan?" Jiang Hui already recognized her at a glance.

Ye Hehuan pulled the corners of his lower lip, shouted 'Aunt Jiang', and then obediently stood beside Yu Zhongxiao and grabbed his small bag without saying a word.

"Why are you standing at the door? Come and sit down—" Someone was already beckoning the waiter to add two pairs of chopsticks.

Jiang Hui also dragged away the chair on her right: "He Huan, come and sit." ”

Ye Hehuan didn't know how she walked to the vacant seat next to Jiang Hui and sat down, and when she reacted, there was a soft conversation between Jiang Hui and another woman: "The little girl got separated from someone on the train last night, and she met a pickpocket, so she got off the train in Fengcheng with us." ”

"I was the same last time, I took Xiaobao back to my parents' house, and when I got off the train, I found that my wallet was missing."

"When women go out alone, they should really pay attention to it, no bigger than their men......"

In a whisper, Ye Hehuan raised his head, Yu Zhongxiao happened to be sitting opposite, he leaned back against the chair, the sleeves of his structured shirt were rolled up, and he lit a cigarette, but he didn't smoke it, in the thin smoke, he was talking to a man in a casual coat who was forty miles away next to him.

As for the topic they were talking about, it was nothing more than work-related, but Ye Hehuan found that some of the words they mentioned were not very understandable.

The left hand was lightly touched, and Ye Hehuan turned his head, and Jiang Hui smiled kindly.

"Why are you so distracted?" Jiang Hui brought a bottle of milk over with a joking tone: "It should be okay to drink this, right?" Children? ”

"I'm not a child." Ye Hehuan subconsciously retorted.

Jiang Hui poured milk for her.

Ye Hehuan's voice was not soft, it was particularly clear in the narrow box, and the others looked over one after another when they heard this...... Including Yu Zhongxiao.

The temperature on her face rose instantly.

The whole box was a little quiet for a while, but soon this atmosphere was broken by another woman holding a child: "Today's children love to pretend to be old, my Lulu is not like this, I just went to the police station to take an ID photo, and I always say that I am an adult, but in fact, a little child doesn't understand anything." ”

"The post-90s generation is amazing now, you think it's still the same as we were back then!" Jiang Hui answered with a smile.

"That's right."

The woman nodded thoughtfully, and her attention turned back to Ye Hehuan: "Zhong Xiao, your niece is fifteen years old, right?" As she spoke, she asked Ye Hehuan again: "Little girl, the high school entrance examination is going to be in June, are you ready?" ”

"I'm eighteen years old."

In the past, if she was recognized as a few years younger, Ye Hehuan might still be happy, but today she doesn't like the feeling of being treated as a child by a table of people.

Her eyes were fixed on the man opposite, and she said something stubborn: "I have an ID card and am an adult." ”

Yu Zhongxiao seemed to notice her burning gaze, raised his eyes to look at her, his eyes were very dark, sinking like the deep sea on a winter night, such a confrontation situation seemed familiar, but it was different from last night's slamming the door and leaving, this time he looked sideways at his comrades-in-arms next to him, and there was a faint smile in his voice: "Like Jialu, I will take the college entrance examination this year." ”

His understatement put her in the ranks of 'little friends'.

"That's as old as Lulu." The comrade-in-arms smiled heartily: "The current child is very good, and she also blackmailed me and her mother for the college entrance examination, saying that if she was admitted to the best university in the province, she would let us pay for her to go to Thailand." ”

At the mention of children, others also laughed, and the topic became more and more, from this daughter to the son of that family.

Ye Hehuan looked at the opposite side again, Yu Zhongxiao was holding a teacup and drinking tea, his eyelids were lowered, and the smoky air was curling, she couldn't see the expression on his face at the moment, but she had vaguely understood his intention to bring herself here to eat.

Facing a table of dishes, Ye Hehuan didn't have any appetite, and only felt uncomfortable with a blockage in his chest.

Jiang Hui seemed to notice her low feelings, put a chopstick dish into Ye Hehuan's plate, and asked softly, "What about you?" Where do you plan to go on your graduation trip? ”

Ye Hehuan glanced at Yu Zhongxiao again, not wanting to be confused with the one named Jiajia or Lulu again: "Anyway, it's not going to Thailand." ”

"I don't think there's any need to go abroad."

The woman holding the child, who was also Jialu's mother, looked at Ye Hehuan in a friendly manner: "I think you two can go on a free trip together, little girls of about the same age generally have a lot of common topics, which is much more interesting than being with us old guys." ”

"Yes, my son always says that there is a generation gap with us, and that I can't understand his world with his father."

Another on the table

The Tang woman also echoed: "Let's only be in our thirties, how can we become the old-fashioned old man in their mouths?" ”

Jiang Hui smiled, the corner of her eyes looked at Ye Hehuan, who was quiet on the side, and found that she didn't move the dishes on the plate, and asked with concern, "Isn't the food appetizing?" ”

"Maybe I ate too much for breakfast, and I was a little supportive." As he spoke, Ye Hehuan pretended to pick up a chrysanthemum and took a small bite.

The man sitting on the other side of Yu Zhongxiao suddenly said: "It's rare to see such a quiet girl now, have you thought about which university to go to in the future?" ”

Now Ye Hehuan didn't have the slightest interest in talking, but he still replied out of politeness: "I should apply for the university in City B." ”

Yu Zhongxiao suddenly raised his head, and his deep gaze fell on her face.

Ye Hehuan buried his head after replying, chopsticks after chopsticks, and quickly ate all the dishes on the plate, maybe because the dishes were cold, and the greasy feeling left in her mouth made her uncomfortable, so she simply stepped back from the chair and got up: "I'll go to the bathroom." ”

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The toilets in the Yufukulou are very clean, the air still has the fragrance of fresheners, and the sound insulation effect is good, and you can't hear the noise outside.

Ye Hehuan sat on the toilet in the cubicle for a while, opened the door and came out, and saw Jiang Hui standing in front of the mirror to touch up her makeup.

"Coming out?" Jiang Hui stopped what she was doing and smiled at the girl in the mirror.

Ye Hehuan hummed softly, walked to the washbasin to wash his hands, Jiang Hui turned sideways, and looked at her with gentle eyes: "Not happy? ”

"Nope."

Ye Hehuan's answer was obviously duplicitous, but Jiang Hui didn't force him to ask, just said, "I'll go back to City B today?" Why not stay here for two more days? ”

"I have to go to school tomorrow, and now it's the sprint stage, and I can't fall behind."

Jiang Hui nodded, reached out and patted her shoulder: "Go back to the box, I ordered macarons just now, my little niece loves to eat this, I think you should like it too, if you really don't want to eat those dishes, I'll eat more desserts." ”

Ye Hehuan observed Jiang Hui's expression and demeanor when she spoke, it is undeniable that from last night to this moment, Jiang Hui has always felt very good about her, in addition to being generous and intellectual, she is also considerate, and when she walked to the door, she couldn't help asking: "Are those people my little uncle's friends?" ”

"I used to be a comrade-in-arms in his army, but then I went to a local unit, be careful-"

A dining cart was pushed over from the side, Jiang Hui hurriedly pulled Ye Hehuan, looked at the girl's clean eyebrows, and smiled: "It's boring to eat with our people, right?" ”

"Actually, it's okay." Of course, if you don't insist that she is a child, you can still have a good meal together.

Ye Hehuan silently finished the second half of the sentence in his heart.

Jiang Huiwaner couldn't help but sigh: "I really want to go back to your age, when my family was poor, in order to provide for my younger brother to go to school, I came out to work early, and then I opened my own store and became even busier, and I didn't read more books properly." ”

"Aunt Jiang, why didn't your child come to Fengcheng with you?" Ye Hehuan asked casually.

"I don't have children yet."

"You and your husband are in the Dink family?"

Ye Hehuan thinks that his temptation is already very tactful, looking at Jiang Hui's appearance, she is also twenty-seven or eighteen, generally women of this age have children, but do not have children, there are only a few possibilities, if you don't want to give birth, you can't give birth, and there is a bad relationship between husband and wife.

I don't know what kind of Jiang Hui belongs to......

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Jiang Hui's smile was slightly faint, and she curled the corners of her lips, reflecting the shallow dimples: "My husband passed away five years ago." ”

“……”

Ye Hehuan didn't expect to get such an answer, he didn't know how to answer for a while, and he felt sorry for touching her wound because of his little care.

She apologized softly: "Aunt Jiang, I'm sorry, I don't know ......"

"It's okay." Jiang Hui smiled again on her face, and changed the topic without a trace: "Are you the afternoon train?" ”

Ye Hehuan told her that it was night, and Jiang Hui seemed uneasy: "Then don't you have to go to City B in the middle of the night?" Then you have to call in advance to ask the family to pick you up at the station, and as for this side, ask your little uncle to take you on the train. ”

"I heard my little uncle say just now, it seems that I have an appointment with you, will it be inconvenient for him to send me?"

After learning that Jiang Hui had lost her husband, Ye Hehuan couldn't help but think crookedly again, but Jiang Hui's demeanor was downcast and generous, she said: "I'm just going to the cemetery, and he said that he also wants to go to see Jianqiang, so let him take me by the way, in this case, I'll just take a taxi myself." ”

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Ye Hehuan followed Jiang Hui back to the box, the meal was almost finished, and the waiter began to serve dessert.

Back in his seat, Ye Hehuan heard the person next to him asking Yu Zhongxiao when he was going to have a child, she looked at him unconsciously, Yu Zhongxiao looked as usual, still in a low voice, but the answer seemed perfunctory, he didn't seem to want to talk more about his private affairs.

"I used to think that work was more important, but then I had children, and all I thought about every day was my wife and children, and you are not young anymore, find a chance to transfer back, it is not a way for husband and wife to be separated all year round."

Yu Zhongxiao lowered his head slightly, his slender fingers flicked the cigarette, and the blue-gray ash fell into the ashtray, and he didn't say anything more.

sit

Ye Hehuan, who was on the other side, heard those words of persuasion clearly.

She looked at the silent man fixedly, thinking of the picture of Han Jingqiu hugging other men at the airport, as well as the quarrels she witnessed them again and again, she didn't know if Yu Zhongxiao would really reconcile with Han Jingqiu after hearing these words.

But in life, many couples will also argue, and even be so strict that they want to divorce, but in the end, they still go hand in hand to Baishou?

……

Walking out of the Yufu Building, it was already more than one o'clock in the afternoon.

Yu Zhongxiao said goodbye to his comrades-in-arms and their families at the door, and at this time, Jiang Hui also said goodbye, and glanced at Ye Hehuan, who was like a little tail tied behind Yu Zhongxiao, and said: "My mother-in-law called me just now, there is something temporary, I won't go to the cemetery to see Jianqiang today." ”

"Then I'll send you back." Yu Zhongxiao had already taken out the car keys.

"Don't bother, I'll just take a taxi at the station in front, you send Hehuan to the station, the little girl is not familiar with life here, take care of others, let's make an appointment again."

Yu Zhongxiao looked at Jiang Hui, his brows were slightly locked, Jiang Hui didn't understand why he was displeased, but he still greeted Ye Hehuan with a smile and prepared to leave first.

But Ye Hehuan suddenly said, "Aunt Jiang, let my little uncle send you." ”

……

When getting into the car, Ye Hehuan consciously gave up the passenger seat to Jiang Hui.

When wearing a seat belt, Jiang Hui found a plastic record on the instrument, took it and looked at it, turned his head and asked Yu Zhongxiao: "Does anyone still use a gramophone at home now?" ”

"It should be Shuyuan who fell on the car." Yu Zhongxiao replied.

"Your brother, they're back home?"

"I came back a few days ago to celebrate the old man's birthday."

Ye Hehuan sat alone in the back seat, looking at the two people in front of him who were chatting with each other, and suddenly found that he really didn't know much about Yu Zhongxiao, at least she had to guess who the 'Shuyuan' was through their conversation, and this strangeness made her keep a low mood all the way.

……

Jiang Hui got out of the car at the gate of the community, and after saying goodbye, she walked into the gate with her bag.

The black sedan was parked on the side of the road, Yu Zhongxiao did not start the car immediately, the air pressure in the car was a little low, so quiet that Ye Hehuan did not dare to gasp for breath, she looked in the rearview mirror, but only saw a section of his neckline, and his chest that was slightly undulating because of breathing.

When her mood changed a thousand times, he hung up his hand, and when the engine started, Ye Hehuan spoke: "Wait a minute!" ”

Then getting out of the car, she opened the passenger door and sat in: "Let's drive!" ”

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The car stopped outside a mobile phone store, Yu Zhongxiao turned off the fire, asked Ye Hehuan to get out of the car, and then took her in to buy a mobile phone.

As soon as he entered the door, a clerk had already greeted him, and Yu Zhongxiao got straight to the point: "Do you have any mobile phone styles for girls here?" ”

"Yes, yes." The clerk quickly pulled out a few mobile phones and pushed them forward, "These phones sell well among the student population, you-" She paused, looking for the right wording, "Your sister can take a look." ”

"I'm not his sister."

Ye Hehuan opened his mouth unceremoniously, put down his mobile phone, and said simply: "I want to buy 6610i, do you have it here?" ”

The clerk was stunned for a moment, looked Ye Hehuan and Yu Zhongxiao up and down for a few moments, and then nodded hurriedly: "Yes, you wait, I'll get it right away." ”

"No, we'll buy this."

Yu Zhongxiao stopped the clerk, he picked up a pink mobile phone and handed it to her: "Issue an invoice." ”

Ye Hehuan raised his head and glared at him with his eyes, Yu Zhongxiao didn't even look at her, and went directly to the cashier to pay, it didn't seem to matter to him whether she liked it or not.

The clerk took a pot and came out: "Classmate, this is a gift, you take it." ”

"There is no shortage of pots in my house." Ye Hehuan looked at the pot with disgust, sullen, she suddenly glanced at a pair of mobile phone pendants on the shelf next to her, she pointed to the two wood-carved dolls: "I want that, take this pot for that pendant!" ”

Yu Zhongxiao paid the money and came back, Ye Hehuan was standing there with the mobile phone case and glaring at him, as if she was angry, and when he approached, she turned around and went straight to the door.

"Your little girlfriend has a big temper." The clerk quipped from the side.