Xu Manlin took a puff of cigarette, looked at Ruikang with cold eyes, then looked at Cheng Jiaqi, snorted coldly, raised an unshaven smile at the corner of her mouth, and said, "It seems that you still chose people in the same world." ”

Cheng Jiaqi didn't know what she was talking about, but knew that she had misunderstood, and said, "Miss Xu, I think you have misunderstood." ”

Xu Manlin glanced at her arrogantly, domineering, domineering, and indifferent, as if she was looking at an inconspicuous little insect, ignoring Cheng Jiaqi, turning her head to stare at Zhou Ruikang, waiting for his response.

"Why are you here?" Ruikang didn't like her unkind attitude towards Jiaqi and frowned deeply.

"I'm eating in a restaurant, can't I?" She raised her chin slightly, lowered her eyelids, and had a rather unreasonable posture.

"Okay, I'm going to send Jiaqi home now, so I'll leave it at that." Ruikang didn't bother to say anything more to her, so he simply took Cheng Jiaqi's hand in front of her and said, "Go, I'll send you home." ”

"Zhou Ruikang!" She shouted, her eyes moving on Ruikang and Cheng Jiaqi's faces, Jiaqi was embarrassed by her, retracted her hand and said to Ruikang, "I'll go back by myself." You talk. ”

"I don't have much to talk to about her. Let's go! ”

Xu Manlin swallowed, pulled Cheng Jiaqi up, and said coldly, "I'll send you back!" ”

"This ......," Jiaqi frowned, not knowing why.

"No, we can go back ourselves." Rui Kan also took Jiaqi's hand, and for a while Jiaqi was pulled by him two by one, one behind the other, and he didn't know what to do at all.

"Let her go!" Ruikang said loudly.

"Don't let it go!"

"You are unreasonable!"

"You are ungrateful!"

"You're inexplicable!"

"You cross the river and tear down the bridge!"

The two looked at each other angrily and roared at each other.

…… Jiaqi's wrist was grabbed by them very painfully, and she was even more aggrieved in her heart, she didn't know what it was to be caught between the two of them, and she didn't care about her always generous and decent image, so she shook off his hands and yelled: "Okay!" Have you had enough trouble? ”

Ruikang and Xu Manlin couldn't help but be stunned, Jiaqi frowned and said, "I'll go back by myself!" Don't come with any of you! He hurriedly turned around and ran to the side of the street, found a rickshaw and jumped on it, and disappeared into the night in a blink of an eye.

Ruikang was very angry and wanted to catch up, but Xu Manlin laughed dryly behind him twice and said, "Let's go, I'll send you back to school." ”

Ruikang was angered by her, turned around, pointed at her and said sharply: "Xu Manlin, that's enough, I'll tell you clearly, I don't want to have anything to do with you or your family." If you must say that I am ungrateful, do whatever you want. If you want me to repay you, just ask, as long as I can do it, I will pay you back. But please don't always be so commanding in front of me. ”

After speaking, he glared at her angrily, turned around and ran quickly to the corner of the street, got into a rickshaw and followed Jiaqi.

The midsummer night still carries a little bit of daytime heat, the grass and insects in the woods are whispering, and the mosquitoes are flying, which makes Xu Manlin feel very upset, why does he just want to go against himself? Why does he just refuse to bow to himself? Why did he just reject himself? She didn't understand that she wasn't good enough for him? For his own sake, he let go of his arrogance, put down his figure, and ignored the eyes of the people around him, but he was still so indifferent.

She didn't come to the restaurant to eat at all, she just followed him at all, she originally wanted to join them uninvited, but she was afraid that her appearance would disturb his interest, so she had been watching them silently on the second floor, she was very envious of their joy, frolic, everyone's face was filled with happy smiles, Xu Ziyan and Zhu Yafen were even more happy and sweet to envy. She would love to join them, share their joy and joy, and laugh with them.

Although she was born in a wealthy family, she grew up in a world full of open and secret fights, trade-offs of interests, and deceit, and the people around her are all unfathomable and powerful people, even her parents are almost 24 hours a day wearing masks to live, she has never enjoyed real love and care, and she does not believe that there is any true love in the world, and her withdrawn personality and special identity make her have no friends. When she saw Cheng Jiawei stuffing the gift to Zhu Yafen, she was curious with everyone, and when Zhu Yafen was startled by the toy tiger, she laughed with everyone for the first time.

For the first time, she saw such pure and sincere friendship, it turned out that there are such beautiful and real emotions between people, she was lying on the railing on the second floor like a child and watching them, laughing with them, and having fun with them. Suddenly, she also wanted to do something for Xu Ziyan and Zhu Yafen, the newcomers, so she quietly ordered her subordinates to wrap up their bills.

When the crowd dispersed, she wanted to try to join them and take the initiative to send them back to school, maybe in this way, she could also be a part of them, but she saw Zhou Ruikang strolling down the street with Cheng Jiaqi, she followed them in a car, saw them talking in the woods, saw his painful expression, saw her trying to comfort him, and saw him holding her hand unwillingly, she couldn't bear it anymore, and turned on the headlights angrily to shine at them......

Watching Zhou Ruikang get into the rickshaw and follow Cheng Jiaqi, she was sad and sad before, silently returned to the car, and looked at the scenery outside the car window blankly, unconsciously, the scenery in front of her was blurred.

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The summer vacation has begun, there are a lot fewer people on campus, Xu Ziyan, the "elephant" and the thin man have gone home to reunite with their families, only Zhou Ruikang is left alone, but it is also clean, dormitory, library, publishing house, canteen, literary club, only in the dead of night, occasionally will be in a daze at the night sky, let his thoughts rush without scruples in the silent night.

On Sunday, the publishing house was closed, and Zhou Ruikang wrote the theme of the next issue of the Literary Club under the shade of the tree.

"Second Young Master!"

Ruikang's heart was shocked, and he raised his head suddenly, but it was Zhou Fu with Shu Zhi, carrying a suitcase in his hand, and walked towards him quickly.

"Big brother!" Shu Zhi shouted loudly and ran towards him,

"Zhou Fu, Shu Zhi?!" Ruikang was surprised and delighted, it had been three months, and he had not had a trace of information about his home for three months, and when he suddenly saw Zhou Fu and Shu Zhi, a thousand thoughts surged in his heart. hurriedly stepped forward and picked up Shu Zhi, and then hugged Zhou Fu's shoulder.

"Big brother, I miss you to death!" Shu Zhi hugged Ruikang tightly.

Rikon smiled and pinched his face.

"Hey, knowing that I want to come to see you, Shu Zhi insists on coming along. So I brought him. ”

Zhou Fu's excited eyes were moist, the corners of his mouth kept trembling, Ruikang was also very excited to see his family, his nose was sour, and he pulled them to sit in the pavilion.

Hurriedly asked, "How is Daddy?" How is your health? Are you doing at home? ”

Zhou Fu wiped the corners of his eyes, nodded again and again, and said, "Okay, old lady, the family is fine, the second young master can rest assured." ”

"Really? Is Daddy still angry? ”

Zhou Fu sighed, shook his head lightly and said, "After all, it is his own flesh and blood, where did the overnight feud come from, Mrs. looked forward to it from morning to night, looking forward to the second young master going home." Although the lord does not allow everyone to mention you, but every time a messenger comes, he runs to the door of the hall and waits for Zhou Gui to take the letter in. ”

Ruikang listened to Zhou Fu's narration, and the appearance of his parents caring for him appeared in front of him, his heart was very sour, he frowned and nodded, and asked again: "What about the eldest brother?" Are you okay? ”

"This ...... The eldest young master is okay, it's just ......" Zhou Fu snorted.

"What's it?"

Zhou Fu frowned and glanced at Ruikang, sighed and said, "Cough, the eldest young master won't speak again." ”

"What?" Ruikang's heart sank, his eyes widened, and the eldest brother stopped talking again......

"It's the same as before, just writing and painting in the study every day, cough ......"

The guilt spread through Ruikang's heart again, and he bent down, his arms on his forehead, not knowing what to say.

"Second young master, my wife asked me to come this time, my wife misses you very much, do you want to go back and have a look?"

"Nope! I'm not going back! Ruikang almost bounced, he didn't want to go back, the Zhou family had become the source of his pain, he didn't want to and couldn't go back.

"This ...... Second Young Master, the matter has passed, you can't never go home all the time? ”

"No, Zhou Fu, don't persuade me, I won't go back. I'm a sinner, I'm the one who deserves to be expelled from the house, I don't want to go back to that home where I can't love and hate. ”

Zhou Fu shook his head in disappointment, sighed, took out a wad of banknotes and a small bag of ocean from his pocket, handed them to Ruikang, and said, "Second young master, these are the ones that my wife asked me to give to you, in fact, the master also knows, but he just pretends not to know." The old lady is afraid that you will suffer outside. ”

Ruikang smiled, pushed back and said, "I have found a job in the publishing house, although the money is not very much, but there is no problem with food and clothing, you can take the money back." ”

"Hey, second young master, you have a lot of money for self-defense, you don't need to keep it by your side, just in case."

Ruikang insisted on pushing back, saying: "I am the unfilial son of the Zhou family, I have no face to take the family's money anymore, Zhou Fu, now the world is difficult, and the family also needs money, take it back, and tell my father and mother, I am all right, let them take good care of themselves, cherish themselves, and don't worry about me." ”

"Second Young Master......" Zhou Fu shook his head helplessly.

Ruikang frowned and looked at the sparkling pool outside the pavilion, and his heart was also trembling, that person, should he ask? He looked up at the scenery in the distance, hesitated and struggled, he was afraid to know the situation of that person, the lava that he had managed to cool down, the peace that he had finally found, the mask he had finally put on, as long as he opened his mouth, he would be completely ruined.

Zhou Fu glanced at him cautiously, stood up and said, "Second Young Master still needs anything, just give orders." This box contains your change of clothes and some food. ”

"Thank you, Zhou Fu."

"Alright, then let's go back first."

At this time, Shu Zhi, who was kneeling on the chair, holding the railing, and was watching the carp in the pool, turned his head sideways, frowned at Ruikang, and asked, "Big brother, why don't you ask if it's okay to ask the big sister?" ”

As soon as he said this, Ruikang's heart was shocked, he took a quick breath, and fell on the bench, silent. Zhou Fu saw that his face was wrong, and immediately said in a round game: "Oh, second young master, don't think about it, everyone in the family is good, they are all good......"

"What's good? Ruojun's sister has become dumb! ”

"What dumb?!" Ruikang was shocked as if he had been struck by lightning, grabbed Shu Zhi's arm, and asked with wide eyes.

"Oh, Shu Zhi, don't talk nonsense, it's okay, it's okay, second young master, don't listen to his children's nonsense......" Zhou Fu was anxious to pull Shu Zhi away.

"Where am I talking nonsense?" Shu Zhi raised his chin unconvinced, and said loudly, "Sister Ruojun can't speak anymore." ”

He was stunned, looking at Shu Zhi in a daze, his eyes were round, his mouth was half open and half closed, and what he said kept echoing in his head, Ruojun can't speak? She's mute? How so? How so? His lips trembled slightly, he turned his head to look at Zhou Fu and asked, "What the hell is going on?" What happened to Ruojun? What happened? ”