Chapter 43: A Little Distance
On the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, Xian's father had already taken his wife and children to visit the homes of relatives and friends, and when he returned home in the afternoon, he did not see the other two children. I heard Gu's mother say that the sisters and brothers of the Xiang family had come, and the four of them went out together, and they saw the two children returning home. They saw Jiang Xiaomian looking tired and sweating, and Father Xian and Bai's mother only thought that she was tired of playing and didn't think much about it, so they let her go upstairs to rest. When it was time for dinner, I saw that she slept soundly, and would rather leave some food in the refrigerator than disturb her.
Bai Shengxue knew that Xian's father intended to match Xian Xinchen and Xiang Xiyan, and in the past few days, Xiyan looked a little eyebrows, but Xinchen was tepid. At this time, at the dinner table, he was seizing the opportunity to find out what Xian Xinchen meant.
"Xinchen, it's tiring for you to climb the mountain today! White-collar workers like you and Xi Yan are used to being office chairs, and once they go up the mountain and then down the mountain, their legs must be shaking so much that they can't stop. ”
Xian Xinchen replied with a smile: "Isn't this! I'm still sore and don't want to move, I guess I'm going to lie down and be restless! ”
"I went to an old friend's house today, and he gave me two concert tickets, a very popular singer in Hong Kong, to tour Changnan, anyway, your father and I don't have this kind of music cell, but you should take Xi Yan with you."
Xian Xinchen's hand half stopped, and he quickly thought of the wording to shirk it, and said cleverly: "Aunt Bai, don't you know, Xi Yan doesn't like these, and if she changes to the architectural lecture hall opened by a famous school, that's right to her appetite." ”
"Well, you know her better than we do. Anyway, this ticket can't be wasted, girls will always like to hear this. ”
"It's better to give Xiaomian and Xiyan, I often listen to Xiaomian listen to that singer's songs!"
Bai Shengxue has not yet explained which singer he is, and seeing that he shirked it twice, he will not continue to mention it.
Koizumi blinked and salivated at the chicken leg on the big plate for a long time, but when the elders were talking and saw that his mother was no longer talking, he shouted: "Mom, I want that big chicken leg!" ”
"Good! Mommy clip for you. Bai Shengxue tore the clip and satisfied his gluttony.
Father Xian was usually tight-lipped at the dinner table, and when he saw the meaning of his excuse, he directly broke it and asked, "Xinchen, what do you think of Xiyan?" ”
Xian Xinchen obviously avoided his father's meaning to speak: "She is good, and the cooperation with the Xiang family is also very smooth, and the current project will be completed as soon as next year." ”
"You know I don't mean that, I mean how you feel about Xiyan."
In a word, the corner of the skylight was opened, and Xian Xinchen simply stopped avoiding it, making this skylight brighter. "Dad, I know you like Xi Yan, but I won't like her, and I already have someone I like, and you know that person."
Father Xian raised his eyebrows and was surprised: "Do you have someone you like?" ”
"Yes, that person is just wishing, and I have already proposed to her." Xian Xinchen said with a smile, his tone revealing resoluteness.
But Father Xian's refusal was even more resolute, he arched the corners of his mouth coldly, slapped the chopsticks on the table with his hand, and the thick tempered dining table screamed a loud "poof", which startled Xiaoquan.
"I won't agree with her!"
As soon as the words come out, there is a contradiction. The father and son have been working for so many years, even if there are disagreements, they have never reprimanded them. It can be said that this is the first time that the two fathers and sons have contradicted each other
Bai Shengxue persuaded: "Xiuyuan, talk well, the children's affairs can't be rushed." ”
Xian Xinchen stared at his father's expression, and his old face became stern, as if he was sitting in an office office. Xian Xinchen has always felt that his father is fair and upright, but he didn't expect that this matter would be opposed angrily. Xian Xinchen began to have nothing to say, and even felt that his father had changed his face.
"Dad, we never need to be attached to the Xiang clan for anything, why do you have to match me with Xi Yan?"
"It's very simple, Wu Yuanhao is dragging a crippled body, how can she become the wife of the future chairman of Shengxing Real Estate?" As soon as Father Xian's words came out, the green tendons on his head burst out.
Koizumi looked frightened, and asked bitterly, "Mom, what are my father and brother arguing about?" ”
"Koizumi, let's go back to the room when you're full!"
After listening to his mother's words, Koizumi could only obediently go upstairs and walk to the room, and saw his sister standing in the middle of the building, whispering to the ear: "Sister, they quarreled, don't go down!" With that, he ran into the room.
Jiang Xiaomian didn't care about what Xiaoquan said at all, she stood here for a while, and at this time, the whole person seemed to have been served by a big torture and couldn't move. Look to the place where there is noise.
Xian Xinchen sneered, "It turns out that you care about her illness, but so what? Is it because of this that the wish should be abandoned by the people of the whole world? If Aunt Bai is sick today, then you have to abandon Aunt Bai? ”
"You..." Father Xian was so angry with him that he waved his hand and didn't want to quarrel with him, for fear that Jiang Xiaomian would be woken up, thinking that it would be sad for her to see another person.
Bai Shengxue hurriedly persuaded: "Xinchen, your father's body should also take care of it, don't stimulate him, let's talk about this matter another day!" ”
As soon as he heard Bai Shengxue's voice, Xian Xinchen instantly realized that his tone was too heavy, "Aunt Bai, I'm sorry, I'll go upstairs first." ”
"Smack!"
Jiang Xiaomian hid sideways to the corner wall next to him, and watched Xian Xinchen return to the room with an angry face.
She hardly ever saw Xian Xinchen get angry, especially in front of her family. Jiang Xiaomian saw that it turned out that his appearance of being angry for women would also be so arrogant.
Tonight, it is estimated that the whole family will not be able to sleep.
The next day, Jiang Xiaomian got up early, as if carrying the sadness of the road to the childlike orphanage.
Hearing the knock on the door, Daying opened her mouth and yawned, and when she saw that it was Jiang Xiaomian, she immediately smiled and opened the door: "Sister Xiaomian, you are here!" ”
The corners of Jiang Xiaomian's mouth also raised, and she asked with a smile: "Has your sister Wu gotten up?"
"She's just gotten up!"
Jiang Xiaomian came to Wu Yuanhao's bedroom, and when Yuanhao just got up, he saw Jiang Xiaomian pushing the door.
Wu Yuanhao looked surprised, wondering why she came so early, "Xiaomian, come here early in the morning, is something wrong?" ”
Jiang Xiaomian saw that Yuanhao's complexion was good, and the blood on his cheeks swept away the previous paleness. As the saying goes, people are in good spirits when they are happy, Jiang Xiaomian thought of such a sentence.
"I'll just come and see you." Jiang Xiaomian saw Wu Yuanhao put on a wig to tidy up, so he reached over and picked up the comb, "You sit down, I'll help you dress up." ”
Jiang Xiaomian helped her comb the knots of the wig, and combed the wavy wig smoothly and brightly. The hair brushes past the fingertips, and what can be touched is a handicraft produced on the assembly line.
The woman is happy, this is what Jiang Xiaomian taught Wu Yuanhao. Therefore, Wu Yuanhao wants to have black and shiny hair.
Wu Yuanhao didn't think much about it anymore, and through the mirror, he saw Jiang Xiaomian's appearance without saying a word, combing and combing the smooth wig, repeating the mechanical action. provoked Wanhao to worry and asked: "Xiaomian, what's wrong with you today, it's weird when you come, is there something unhappy happening?" ”
Jiang Xiaomian reluctantly pursed her lips and smiled and said "no", with an expression that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and her eyebrows and eyes did not have any raised arcs.
She put down the comb, picked up the powder box on the dressing table, blushed her cheeks and looked healthier with blood, and then opened the jewelry box and took out the necklace.
Jiang Xiaomian said with a smile: "The two of us each have one of this necklace, which is a gift from me to you, and I never see you bring it." You see, I put it on today, and I'll put it on for you personally. ”
Wu Yuanhao smiled in the mirror, only to find that Xiaomian was wearing a necklace, and also smiled and touched the necklace around his neck. With this move, Jiang Xiaomian noticed the ring on Wu Yuanhao's hand.
A ring in the style of a star is the ring that Xian Xinchen proposed to Wu Yuanhao. "The stars on it are beautiful!" Jiang Xiaomian sighed silently in her heart, after all, she had also fantasized about what this star diamond ring looked like; What's more, if you wear it on your hand, how dazzling the star is.
However, this illusion is coming to an end today.
After Wu Yuanhao took off the lipstick, his eyes returned to Jiang Xiaomian in the mirror, and when he saw her face in a daze, he couldn't help but say again: "What's wrong with you, I still think you're weird today?" ”
The curtain in the morning forgot to be opened, and the faint light blurred Jiang Xiaomian's appearance of holding back tears in the mirror.
Jiang Xiaomian raised his head and sucked his snot back. She had heard that if you held back the tears and kept them from falling, then the snot would come out. It really is.
"It's nothing, I'm just a little happy!" Jiang Xiaomian said such a sentence, dispelling the uneasiness in Wu Yuanhao's heart.
May I smile and pack up the things on the dresser, "Okay, let's go, the kids are waiting for us outside." ”
As soon as they got downstairs, they bumped into Xian Xinchen coming, and the children were all circling around him.
Jiang Xiaomian saw Xian Xinchen and didn't speak, Wu Yuanhao asked him first, "Why are you here?" ”。
In fact, Xian Xinchen came over to make sure that Jiang Xiaomian was here, after all, this big man had already disappeared from home.
Just a sentence of "why did you come here", a "you" word, no name, this should be the most familiar, direct, intimate word. Jiang Xiaomian really felt ridiculous and pathetic for herself, Xian Xinchen's feelings really deserved to go down and end like closing the gate.
"I just came to see you, but I didn't expect Xiaomian to be here." Xian Xinchen said and threw his gaze at Jiang Xiaomian casually, pretending to meet by chance.
"Then I'll go first, let's talk." Jiang Xiaomian walked out of the gate and left, tears opening with her footsteps, wantonly encroaching on her cheeks.
When Wu Yuanhao started to chase after him, he was stopped by Xian Xinchen.
"Xinchen, I always feel that Xiaomian's mood is weird, you go and see her."
Xian Xinchen listened to Wu Yuanhao's words and hurriedly went out to chase after him.
"Xiao Mian, Xiao Mian..."
Xian Xinchen kept chasing after him, Jiang Xiaomian pretended not to hear it, and kept avoiding him and running forward desperately. This road is very long, Jiang Xiaomian has been poisoned by love for so many years, and at this moment it seems to be going to seek an antidote, running desperately.
Jiang Xiaomian once searched for examples of hypothetical blood relatives marrying in Baidu, from deception. This self-deception later evolved into a whimsical hope. But she never expected that the person who defeated these hopes turned out to be Wu Yuanhao.
She didn't like Xian Xinchen's behavior of chasing him out, why did he chase him? She came here today to stop all this, he really shouldn't have chased after her! Otherwise, this one will be broken, and it will drag mud and water.
"Xiaomian!"
Jiang Xiaomian was finally caught by Xian Xinchen, and the hands he stretched out became a resistance for Jiang Xiaomian to continue to run forward.
"Xiaomian, I'm sorry!"
In Jiang Xiaomian's ears, Xian Xinchen's apology didn't play a role, not only Xian Xinchen, everyone is used to saying these three words.
I'm sorry for these three words, whenever people are faced with their irreparable mistakes and have nothing to say, they just use it as a word, and it doesn't play any role in the situation, it seems that this word is very false.
"Do you think that if you say sorry, you can make up for my feelings for you all these years? If you can't, why should you apologize? ”
"Xiaomian, you are too stubborn!"
"You let go of me!"
Jiang Xiaomian roared at Xian Xinchen, wanting to break free of his hands, but he was hugged into his arms. It can only be so, where no one sees, she burst into tears in his arms.
"Xiaomian, I can't do anything for you, at this moment, you can cry in my arms. In the future, even in the name of my brother, I will not be able to comfort you like this. ”
For Xian Xinchen's embrace, Jiang Xiaomian is no stranger. But she knows very well that every embrace is not a love embrace.
"Xiang Xiyan's appearance, I'm not afraid of how good she is, because I'm confident that no matter how good Xiang Xiyan is, ten excellent Xiang Xiyan can't compare to the years we have gotten along with each other! However, Wu Yuanhao, who has nothing, how can you make me bear to compare with her and fight with her? You tell me, how can I bear it..."
In the face of Jiang Xiaomian's accusation, Xian Xinchen always gently patted her on the back as a brother and comforted: "Xiaomian, between us, you shouldn't have this kind of thought." ”
Xian Xinchen said a very simple sentence, but Jiang Xiaomian had no way to accept it simply, the fact is like the blood flowing in the body, year after year, day and night, becoming a part of life, and so on.
"I always thought you were my star, but you are someone else's star after all."
"Xiaomian, you have to forgive me, I hope she needs me more..."
Jiang Xiaomian wiped away her tears: "I know, I don't need you to remind me a second time." ”
When the three words "second time" were not fully spoken, a force pulled her away from Xian Xinchen's arms.
"Xian Xinchen, you let her go."
Xiang Dongyang's appearance was very unexpected, and the expression on his face had reached the freezing point.
Xian Xinchen was afraid that he would misunderstand him: "Dongyang, I... I was just comforting her. ”
"If you can't give Xiaomian happiness, please stay away from her, don't give her indifferent hope! Don't even hold her in your arms to comfort her. ”
Xiang Dongyang's sentence was originally about to be said fiercely, but halfway through the words, it turned into helplessness, as if he couldn't get more angry to blame Xian Xinchen.
"Xiaomian, let's go." Xiang Dongyang only took Jiang Xiaomian away until he disappeared from Xian Xinchen's sight.
The sunset reflects the riverbank, the afterglow remains on the water, dyeing the turquoise river into a half-river and half-red water shadow, the kapok trees on the side of the great bank, the partridge's cry is urging the kapok on the branches to bloom, Jiang Xiaomian sat under the tree and was silent like water for a long time.
"Xiaomian, I was a little impulsive just now, and my attitude towards your brother was not good enough, don't be angry..."
Jiang Xiaomian moved his gaze and looked directly at Xiang Dongyang, thinking that if he didn't show up at that time, he might really be reluctant to leave Xian Xinchen's arms.
"Why did you show up at that moment?"
Jiang Xiaomian's question made Xiang Dongyang not react for a while, "Huh? ... I... Do you want me to show up or not? ”
Jiang Xiaomian was asked by him, the faint expression on her face still did not change, and she said indifferently: "You at least gave me a step down, so that I won't be so embarrassed."
Xiang Dongyang smiled when he heard this, could it be considered that Jiang Xiaomian wanted him to appear. He said with a trick: "Since it's all like this, don't you like Xian Xinchen, how about you like me?" ”
Jiang Xiaomian looked at Dong Yang's joke very seriously, and decided to refuse this answer by fleeing.
"It's getting late, I'm leaving."
Xiang Dongyang chased after her, walked in front of her and muttered, "How is it!" My proposal is very good, you see that I am so handsome, there are so many women on the earth, and you are the only one who deserves it..."
"Mr. Xiang!" Jiang Xiaomian stared at him seriously: "The joke you said is not funny at all!" ”
Xiang Dongyang pouted and scratched his head at a loss, "But you know I'm not joking." ”
Jiang Xiaomian said impatiently: "In my opinion, what you said doesn't make much sense, and I don't want to discuss too much with you." You can stop, or don't go the same way as me. ”
Xiang Dongyang no longer dared to smile hippie, just like a trained naughty child, stopping to look at her distant back.
The picture of that scene seems to be a little bit of a line.
Xiang Dongyang is that point, standing in place. And Jiang Xiaomian is an endlessly extended thread.
Every time Xiang Dongyang always thought that he could get closer to her, but the reality always gave him a cold slap, making him unable to distinguish between southeast and northwest. It's as if the bungee jumping incident that happened in Qinghua Mountain yesterday proves how important Xian Xinchen's position in Jiang Xiaomian's heart is. It's as important as "I don't want the whole world, I just want you".
But Jiang Xiaomian is also so important to Xiang Dongyang.
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