Chapter 018: Can't Go Back
Xue Xuxu took out his mobile phone and saw Le Jia's name flashing on the screen, and knew that the dream trip was over.
She slid down the answer button and put it to her ear, chuckling self-deprecatingly before she could answer.
"Hey, where are you? Why is the signal so bad, it suddenly stops, and it can't be answered when you call! Le Jia's chattering voice was full of complaints, and of course there were worries.
Yes, Xue Xuxu suddenly asked curiously, "How long has the signal been broken?" ”
"How long?" Le Jia was puzzled, but also replied seriously, "About ten minutes." What's wrong? You're there, do you want to inform Jiang Hao to pick you up. ”
Xue Xuxu shook his head, and when he realized that Le Jia couldn't see it, he replied lightly, "No need." ”
There was a strong sense of exhaustion in the tone of the answer, and Le Jia tasted it all of a sudden, and immediately asked, "What's wrong?" ”
With such a tacit understanding, Xue Xuxu is quite comforting. She looked down at her black low heeled boots, shiny toe and delicate gold-rimmed uppers, and suddenly missed the whiteboard shoes for a moment.
So, she asked Lejia, "Hey, do you remember your first kiss?" ”
"Ugh." This topic came too violently, and Le Jia said frankly, "I'm not mentally ready to talk to you about this secretly, but I don't mind sharing your first experience." ”
"You're poor!"
Le Jia on the other end of the phone sighed softly, she didn't want to ask about this topic with no connotation at all, but she couldn't help asking, "Do you still miss that person." ”
"Hmm." Very firm tone.
Lejia, "......"
"The authorities are obsessed with bystanders. I thought I was doing all my duty as a girlfriend, but when I came back this time, I found out ......"
"I found out, you are a woman who wants to marry Jiang Hao!" Before Xue Xuxu could finish sighing, Le Jia had already reminded loudly, "Xuxu, you have to know that you have a stinky body and a big lady's temper, but there is only one thing that I like!" ”
"What?"
"Decisive!" Le Jia added, "I am indomitable, I know that it is a wall and I hit it up, and I will never regret it when I know that it is wrong." Even if you do regret it in the end, you will not look back. ”
"I can't do it like you, so I appreciate your resolute courage. Xuxu, you promised Jiang Hao, you have agreed to go for the rest of your life. ”
"Well, I don't regret it. It's just that...... Lejia, I saw him. ”
Toot –
Walking to the side of the road, the impatient driver had already flapped his horn, and the staggered noise made people clog their ears in disgust.
Le Jia on the phone also asked again and again, "Just what?" Where are you now, why are you so noisy! ”
Xue Xuxu put down his phone and glanced at it, and replied with a wry smile, "It's nothing." She paused, "Lejia, I have to go home and don't say anything." I see what you mean, don't worry. Bye! ”
Just like Le Jia said, as soon as the voice fell, Xue Xuxu decisively pinched the phone.
She quietly put her hand back in the pocket of her down jacket, as if she had just returned from the previous early summer to the cold winter of reality.
She let out a breath of cold air, stomped her foot lightly, and turned to walk in the direction of the park.
Entering the car, as soon as the car started, the mournful female voice sounded again:
Arashiyama's flowers,
Burning sunset;
No need to say more,
Dreams will crumble;
Time is like sand,
unbridled uproar;
Silent expressions,
It is also difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood;
……
At the end of the night,
It's not worth the stay;
Knowing that it is fiction,
but he does not want to turn back;
……
I pulled the watch out of my bag. The hour hand stops at 9 o'clock.
Xue Xu thought that she might not be able to turn back.
Early the next morning, Xue Xuxu got up and rarely saw Xue Jiangshan who was still sitting at the dinner table, and she went downstairs to say good morning.
Xue Jiangshan nodded and instructed Aunt Li to bring out the warm millet porridge.
"Wake up so early, what's wrong?"
Facing the curiosity of the eldest brother, Xue Xuxu shook his head quietly, and then turned his head and searched the house for a long time, "What about Dabao, why is it already in kindergarten?" ”
"Well, I said there was an activity in the kindergarten, and I was yelling to guard it last night. Stinky boy! Xue Jiangshan shook his head with a smile on his face, and handed over the divided buns to Xue Xuxu, "Where did you go yesterday, why did you come back so late." ”
There was an accident in the inner ring last night, and the car was stuck in traffic for three or two hours before passing, and it was naturally very late when she got home, but Xue Jiangshan kept waiting, and it was obvious that Xue Xuxu's tired face couldn't bear to ask more, so she let her go back to the room to rest.
So, waiting for his sister to rest enough, he will inevitably break the casserole and ask to the end.
It was Xue Xuxu who raised his eyes and glanced at him, biting his lips and teeth, "I went to visit Aunt Mo in a suburban sanatorium." ”
Who Aunt Mo is, Xue Jiangshan knows without Xue Xuxu's explanation, so at first glance, Xue Jiangshan's face is not very good-looking.
Xue Xuxu also explained in a muffled voice, "She is my elder and loves me too." It's all like that now, and I don't feel good if I don't go. ”
"Hmm." Xue Jiangshan pushed the side dish in front of him, and it was inconvenient to say anything more on this issue.
Of course, Xue Jiangshan won't say anything, it's just that on the hurdle of Xue Xuxu's marriage, Shen Liyang is related to topics that are not easy to touch.
The brother and sister were silent, eating breakfast by themselves, and they didn't feel embarrassed.
After a while, the servant walked in from outside, handed over the box of medicine to Xue Jiangshan, and said that it was ordered by Cheng Wenqing before going out, and asked Xue Jiangshan to remember to bring it.
Xue Xuxu raised his eyes and looked at it, it was a box of stomach medicine, "Brother, do you have a stomachache?" ”
"Nope. It's this business trip, your sister-in-law is afraid that I will make an old mistake, so be prepared. ”
"On a business trip?"
Xue Jiangshan put aside the medicine and said with a smile, "Just go and sign a contract and come back in a week." ”
"It's going to take so long? Where are you going? ”
"Singapore." As he spoke, Xue Jiangshan didn't forget to ask her, "If you have anything you want, my eldest brother will bring it back for you." ”
His eyes rolled, and Xue Xuxu pursed his lips and said, "I'll call you again when I think of it." ”
"Okay." Saying that, Xue Jiangshan saw that the time was almost up, so he wiped his hands with a tissue, stood up, walked around the dining table, and specially walked behind Xue Xuxu to ravage her already messy hair, and said with a smile, "I should have washed my hair this time." ”
"Hey, brother......"
"Hahaha." Seeing that Xue Xuxu was already holding a rice spoon and threatening, Xue Jiangshan naturally quickly withdrew his hand and walked towards the door with a smile.
Suddenly, Xue Xuxu seemed to think of something, turned sideways and quietly looked at the eldest brother who was still smiling and wearing shoes and holding a bag, and called softly, "Brother." ”
"Huh?" Xue Jiangshan looked up, "What's wrong?" ”
"That ......," Xue Xuxu paused, "That night, the boxes you gave those people contained money, right?" ”
If you want to say that Xue Jiangshan's face was ugly when Mo Huifang was mentioned, then it can only be described as waterless and pale at this moment.
The arrogant man in the shopping mall, who has already practiced the ability to win thousands of miles away quietly, is panicked in his eyes at this moment, and his chest is uneven...... It was so easy to leak his panic.
Xue Xuxu was also weak-hearted, and when he saw that Xue Jiangshan didn't react, he blinked and turned his head to continue tinkering with his small spoon.
Maybe Xue Jiangshan also felt that he had overreacted, frowning and staring at Xue Xuxu's back for a long time, and the soles of his shoes involuntarily made subtle movements on the shiny tiles.
"Lifelike." Xue Jiangshan seemed to call out earnestly, and then paused for a long time.
Xue Xuxu pinched the spoon and bit his lip, his straight back was tense.
"Hi. It's so embarrassing, big brother has forgotten it, is it possible that you still have to help remember it for a lifetime. The handle of the door turned, and Xue Jiangshan's voice sounded easily, "You, if you are bored, go to the kindergarten to play with Dabao." The eldest brother is gone, and if you want something, you can call the eldest brother. ”
Xue Jiangshan nagged a lot, Xue Xuxu couldn't have reacted at all, and before he went out, Xue Xuxu quickly turned his head and answered, "Oh, okay." Brother, you take care of yourself. ”
Xue Jiangshan waved his hand in response, "Lifelike, when you come back, you accompany your eldest brother to see your parents." ”
The stiff smile hanging on the corner of Xue Xuxu's mouth disappeared in an instant, and the door closed with a bang.
After looking at the empty hallway for a long time, Xue Xuxu quietly turned his head and stared at the millet porridge that had cooled down.
At the same time, Aunt Li also came out to clean up the table, swept most of the rest, and couldn't help asking, "Lifelike, do you want to bring the bowl hot again." ”
Hearing this, Xue Xuxu shook his head and pushed the small bowl in front of him, "Aunt Li, I won't eat it, you can take it together." ”
Aunt Li, "......"
glanced at Xue Xuxu, who was not very interested, and Aunt Li was not easy to persuade, so she nodded and bent down to pick up the things on the table.
"Aunt Li."
"Huh?" Aunt Li had just come back from the kitchen with a rag and found Xue Xuxu still sitting at the dining table in a daze.
Facing Aunt Li's puzzled gaze, Xue Xuxu raised his head and hooked the corners of his mouth very reluctantly, "Aunt Li, my parents have been ...... all these years Are you okay? This question is always not so right, but Xue Xuxu can't seem to find the right word to ask.
But Aunt Li understood.
tightened the rag in his hand, and then continued to wipe the table, "It's good, I visit them for you and your eldest brother every year." ”
For her and Xue Jiangshan?
Xue Xuxu couldn't figure it out, and his body moved, "Hasn't the eldest brother been back all these years?" ”
"Hey!" Aunt Li sighed, took the rag in her hand, and looked sad, "Lifelike, you can't get over that hurdle in your heart, do you think you can get by." You can hide, run outside, Jiangshan still has to support the entire Xue family's industry alone. I watched the two of you grow up, how much Jiangshan loves you, Aunt Li knows very well. Since you said that you were going to come back and get married, your brother couldn't have been happier, but these days ......"
Aunt Li is the old man of the Xue family, a servant who was there as early as the Xue family's old house, and there is nothing she doesn't know about the Xue family, and the Xue family doesn't treat Aunt Li as an outsider.
Xue Xuxu estimated that his own affairs gave Xue Jiangshan a headache, and Aunt Li naturally saw it in her eyes.
Now it's good, and I'll educate you when you see the opportunity.
Yes, Xue Xuxu was cowardly, and his neck shrank and hurriedly stopped Aunt Li, "Aunt Li, I just want to ask if my brother has kowtowed to my parents for me during the Chinese New Year, and I know the rest." ”
After speaking, Xue Xuxu stood up from the chair, his eyes flickered to avoid Aunt Li's stern eyes, twisted his body and ran upstairs with a few sounds.
Aunt Li didn't let it go easily, and tilted her neck and said loudly at her, "Lifelike, Jiang Hao is a good boy, you have to cherish it!" ”
"Ouch, got it!"
Xue Xuxu, who returned to the room, closed the bedroom door, for fear that Aunt Li would rush up to continue his education.
However, she knew that it was all self-scare. Therefore, after relieving herself, she half-leaned against the door, remembering what she had just asked Xue Jiangshan.