"Primordial Heron?"

As soon as the voice on the other end of the phone came out, Yuan Lu was instantly stunned.

How did he know it was himself?

"Speak."

Yuan Lu sniffed and let out an "um" with his nose.

"Crying?"

Yuan Lu was dumbfounded, and sniffed again.

The person on the other end of the phone seemed to laugh self-deprecatingly: "You just cried after a while?" Fortunately, I am not stupid to know how to call. ”

The original heron was already strange, but when I heard this, I felt that something was even stranger. She had never called Qiao Zhengqi, and before she could speak, he knew that this number was hers, but she was also strange that she had only seen a string of numbers in the caller ID of the landline at home remembered so clearly in her subconscious.

Yuan Lu plucked up his courage and said, "Brother, can you help me?" ”

This is the first time she called her brother, jerky and with a little regret, her face was red and her ears were red, but fortunately she cried so much that she froze in the wind for so long to cover the past.

"Huh?" Qiao Zhengqi seemed to have an objection to this name, and even had some other meanings that were incomprehensible, "What's the matter?" ”

Yuan Lu originally wanted to speak, but a voice came from the microphone, "Professor Qiao, you have been out for a long time, do you want to continue the lecture now?" Yuan Lu only then realized that Qiao Zhengqi was still in the discussion meeting of the master's and doctoral forum, and he was a little reckless to call him just now.

She immediately changed her words and said, "I'll wait for you to eat with me at noon, and I'll tell you when the time comes." ”

Qiao Zhengqi smiled a little helplessly, in the morning asked her if she wanted to eat lunch together, she refused, he should get off the school lunch dinner, and now she is back again, but she really has a headache.

Qiao Zhengqi lowered his voice and replied hurriedly: "I'll use another mobile phone to send you a text message in a while, and I'll use that number in China in the future, this is an international call, I'll go in first, SMS contact." ”

A few minutes after the phone hung up, Yuan Lu received a text message, and saw that it was a 10086 phone bill, and he owed more than 300 after a while. Another text message came in, and the balance of the bill changed from negative to +631.45, and Yuan Lu was so stunned that he hadn't kept up with the rhythm The third text message came in again: Wait for me in the library café, I'll find you after the lecture.

The most urgent thing for Yuan Lu at the moment is where to settle Yao Fei, the dormitory is probably no longer able to go back, and everyone knows that things are boiling, and it is better to go less. Yuan Lu and Yao Fei said, "Fei Fei, why don't you go with me to relax?" There are still a few days to go on winter vacation, and things will calm down in the next semester, and many students will go to work or intern in the next semester and will not be in school, so it will not be too difficult after these days. ”

Yao Fei nodded, but she didn't know where else to go in this city for a while, and she couldn't bear to spend a few hundred yuan if she went to live in a hotel.

Yuan Lu naturally knew her dilemma, but she was just an eaves swallow herself, and she would never be able to take Yao Fei back to the Qiao family. Yuan Lu has two concerns, one is that Qiao Zhengqi is the real owner of Qiao's house, and now that he is back, it is always bad for her to take people back without permission; On the other hand, Yuan Lu took into account Yao Fei's self-esteem and never told her about her relationship with the Qiao family, and now the situation is special, if Yao Fei knew that Yuan Lu had been hiding from her all along, she would inevitably draw a question mark in Yuan Lu's trust.

Yuan Lu pondered for a while and said, "Haven't you been thinking about going to the scenery of Nanda Lake all along?" It's almost graduation and always have to go back, we go there these days to pass the time, and the B&B there is also very good, the winter burnt kang can be hot, the price is not expensive. I invite you to play, just when I do the friendship of the landlord, you don't have to refuse, this matter is decided. ”

Yao Fei was actually a little strange, she originally thought that Yuan Lu would take her home, but she didn't expect her to take her to Nanda Lake to relax. But now Yao Fei can't care so much, thousands of miles of goose feathers, hot charcoal in the snow, someone is willing to pull her in the most difficult time of her life, and her gratitude has long overshadowed the only remaining pitiful self-esteem.

"Thank you, Hara." Yao Fei sighed and clenched Yuan Lu's hands, "Thank you for being willing to help me, no matter what the result will be, I will accept it. ”

The result from the beginning may not be satisfactory, Yuan Lu muttered: "I'll go to the teacher with you in the afternoon, now let's go back to the dormitory together to pack up our things, this semester should not come back, you remember to bring your train ticket home and documents and the like." ”

Yao Fei didn't say a word in the process of packing up in the dormitory, and her two roommates thought that Yao Fei was going to drop out of school, they wanted to comfort her, but they were afraid of poking Yao Fei's sore spots, so they kept silently watching Yao Fei clean up. There had never been such an embarrassing scene in the 731 dormitory for more than three years, and in the end, Yao Fei personally broke the dead silence.

"I'm leaving, take care of yourself, and if you have the opportunity, I will go to the North 2 Canteen with you to buy wontons for supper."

"Yao Fei......"

Yao Fei rolled her eyes up, tried her best to hold back her tears, pulled up her suitcase and walked out of the bedroom without looking back.

Yuan Lu and another roommate said: "I'll go with her, don't worry too much, she will want to drive." ”

Then Yuan Lu and Yao Fei went to the library together, Yuan Lu asked Yao Fei to read the book first in the Chinese reading room on the third floor, and she herself waited in the café below for Qiao Zhengqi to come to her after the master's and doctoral forum.

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At twelve forty, Qiao Zhengqi finally appeared at the door of the café, originally Yuan Lu was worried that he would not be able to enter the library without a student card, but when he thought about it, his worries must be superfluous, who was Qiao Zhengqi, how could he let himself be blocked at the door of the library, so he didn't have to worry about it and waited while drinking juice with peace of mind.

Qiao Zhengqi looked at her condescendingly and asked, "Why do you still drink drinks?" It's time to stop eating for a while. ”

"Oh", Yuan Lu put down the juice cup in his hand and sat down, "Let's have lunch here, I have something to ask you for." ”

Yuan Lu didn't dare to look directly into Qiao Zhengqi's eyes, only stared at the buttons on the cuffs of his suit, and said sadly and unconfidently: "If you are willing to help, I think the matter will be solved well, but I don't know if you are willing to ......."

"Tell me something." Qiao Zhengqi tugged at the collar of his shirt, and noticed that Yuan Lu's crooked eyes had been staring at the cuffs of his suit, so he took off his suit jacket and put it on the seat, and sat opposite Yuan Lu.

Yuan Lu quickly glanced at him and then avoided his tortured gaze, and his fingers stirred the straw in the juice intentionally or unintentionally: "My roommate is in the final exam for special reasons, uh...... cheated.,As a result, the invigilator found out and reported to the college.,Now the college's decision is to dissuade you.,But my roommate she's really confused.,If ......"

Yuan Lu didn't continue, because her peripheral vision caught a glimpse of the indifferent and indifferent expression on Qiao Zhengqi's face.

Qiao Zhengqi raised her eyebrows, as if to signal her to continue, but Yuan Lu didn't have the courage to continue. She was ashamed to beg Qiao Zhengqi because of such a despicable human relationship, as long as Qiao Zhengqi was a little impatient, her heart seemed to be hit by a thousand pounds of giant hammer.

Yuan Lu looked at him with mixed eyes, his eyes were a little aggrieved and ashamed, and his face seemed to be experiencing a ** burn.

"Everyone is responsible for their own actions, and it is not possible to be forgiven lightly by pushing all the blame up for a moment of confusion. Besides, fairness is relative, and if your roommate cheats on an exam, do you know if it's unfair to other classmates? I can't afford to pay this price, and I shouldn't have thought about it in the first place. ”

Yuan Lu was dumbfounded by his rational words, and every time he said a word, her heart sank a little.

Qiao Zhengqi thought it was funny, and it wasn't her own business, why did she hang her head so draped and looked like she was cowering and about to speak? When he saw her showing weakness like this, he felt a little compassion in his heart, but he was unwilling to violate his principles to intercede for others. His face doesn't matter, but his bottom line is there, and no one can shake it.

"What if I beg you?" Yuan Lu suddenly raised his head and met Qiao Zhengqi head-on with a resolute gaze.

Qiao Zhengqi knew the will to fight like a trapped beast in her eyes, his fingers rubbing his watch slightly repeatedly, but his lips showed a seemingly non-existent arc.

Ask him, can you reach his bottom line......? The buttons on the cuffs of Qiao Zhengqi's shirt were straightened back and forth by him, and the snow outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the café fell silently.

"It's snowing."

Yuan Lu was stunned, she was so solemn and took all her courage to fight with him, but he only replied to this innocuous sentence? yes, I don't know when it snowed outside the window, maybe it was when he came in just now, or maybe it was when she was waiting for him intently.

"This time last year, it was snowing, too." Qiao Zhengqi looked at the white sky and snow, and seemed to fall into some kind of memory. The pedestrians outside the window are cumbersome and cautious when they walk in the snow because of the falling snow, and the familiar scene reminds him that his fresh memories are also in front of this window.

Qiao Zhengqi got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window and put his hand in. Got into the pocket of his suit pants and looked out the window with his back to Yuan Lu.

His back is very slender and sturdy, probably focusing on fitness abroad, and his broad shoulders and chest muscles make the shirt on his body particularly linear. Yuan Lu looked at his back intently, his eyes unblinking.

"You'll graduate next year, and you're really thinking about going to work or not continuing your studies?"

"Huh?" Yuan Lu's train of thought was still stuck on Yao Fei's matter, and he couldn't get out of it at all, and he didn't understand whether Qiao Zhengqi was chatting about family affairs or deliberately exploring something.

"Well, don't continue to study, work first, and then go back when you have the chance."

Qiao Zhengqi sneered, that laughter sounded like a ruthless ridicule to Yuan Lu, maybe he saw through her careful thinking, he became independent from Qiao's family as soon as possible, self-reliant, and then supported himself with his salary. But isn't that a good thing for him? At least her shadow in this family will become less and less, and the things that belong to him will become more and more complete.

"Your grades can apply to any school in the Ivy League, and even if you come to Mali, I can pull you along."

Yuan Lu was taken aback and went to Mali? She didn't think that at least the major was wrong, and she should at least choose Columbia University instead of a polytechnic college to study journalism. Yuan Lu didn't hear the meaning of Qiao Zhengqi's words, his bottom line actually has a critical point, and the critical value is his little selfishness.

But even if Yuan Lu heard it, she couldn't guess what his little selfishness would be.

"Let's plan for it later, grandma's illness is not easy to say, it is better for me to have the ability to be able to do it sooner than to rely on the family all the time."

Is she expressing that the Qiao family is the only one who can shelter her? After losing the slightest smile, Qiao Zhengqi looked a little tired: "I'll help, you don't have to be so nervous and restrained." ”

Yuan Lu's jaw dropped slightly, he was saying that he was willing to help Yao Fei? God, although talking to Qiao Zhengqi is really wasteful, and the topic can go from the bottom of the Great Rift Valley to the peak of Everest, but he really agreed?

Yuan Lu was so happy that he didn't know what to say, he originally wanted to go up and hug him, but he felt as if they weren't so familiar, so he called out enthusiastically: "Brother, you are so good!" ”

Qiao Zhengqi's back stiffened with his back to her, and the smile on the corner of his lips seemed to be back, but there seemed to be a bit of meaning in this smile that made people have to turn around and wake up?