The New Zealand guy who smiled and showed a large row of white teeth was very enthusiastic. Tide simply greeted him in French, and sat quietly next to Jiang Qi to watch them catch up.

Jiang Qi really didn't lie to her. At first, she thought it was an excuse he had made up with unknown motives, but it seemed that she was still suspicious and began to speculate about others with the worst malice.

In just a few words, she heard the little brother praise Jiang Qi for her good looks. Thinking she had misheard, she looked up at the other side and saw the little brother's shy smile. Jiang Qi didn't have any reaction or expression, and said to himself, Tide was sometimes really surprised by his fluent spoken English, and before that, the boy she knew was so cold that people mistakenly thought that he had no outstanding features except for a good-looking skin.

"If you're bored, you can go over there and have a drink for yourself."

The tide was doing nothing and thinking casually when she heard Jiang Qi leaning close to her ear and talking. The sudden approaching heat startled her back from nine days away, and when she came back to her senses, the heat still lingered behind her ears. "It's better to be respectful than to obey."

She was looking for a reason to leave. What friends who haven't seen each other for a long time can't intervene at every turn, and she is self-aware of this. What's more, the topics of the two of them always revolve around football, basketball and racing, which she doesn't understand at all, and she has no interest in gags. Tide politely said to the New Zealand brother to leave temporarily, and walked to the bar on the other side alone.

This is the entertainment and cultural district. The spacious and bright bar is lined up with a wide variety of wines and sweets, as well as a wide variety of books. Tidal gaze followed the name on the title of the book, stopping at Les Misérables among a number of books with obscure names in French.

Les misérables. She didn't immediately reach for it, but looked at the French letters in deep thought.

"Ding Dong!" Suddenly, the phone rang.

Tidal frowned slightly, as if a call had interrupted a beautiful idea of what was about to be accomplished. "Hello?"

"Tides? Where are you now? There is an error in some of the translations of your document, and the Director has asked me to discuss with you to correct it. On the other end of the phone was Qiao Shen's voice.

As the tide was about to leave, his eyes fell on the spacious bar, which was very quiet and crowded, much better than sorting out papers in a noisy hotel lobby. "I'm in the tavern next to the hotel right now, it's called Loé, can you come out conveniently? It's quieter and you can see it just around the corner from the hotel. ”

"Yes, I'll be there in about ten minutes."

She heard Qiao Shen hang up the phone. Then he turned back to face the row of books. Over there, Jiang Qi and his friend were chatting hotly, and she saw that his eyebrows were flying, and his eyes were like reflecting the stars in the Milky Way, and he was smiling very happily. It was the first time she had seen him so relaxed, not as pale and cold as he had been in front of anyone before. Tidal looked at his slightly sideways silhouette relative to hers, but he didn't know when he suddenly turned his eyes to meet her peeping gaze. The tide was startled, and in Jiang Qi's meaningful look, he still pretended to be very calm and slowly jumped his eyes to other places, and easily pulled the tragic world out of the sequence.

Afterglow is a good thing. It's a pity that she always unconsciously likes to look at him with the same eyes.

Qiao Shen came very punctually, and when he appeared at the door, the tide saw that the time had passed exactly ten minutes.

"It's quite remote. I thought I could see it around the corner, but I didn't expect it to be in the alley. ”

He smiled and walked over and sat down, and the tide saw that he was wearing a nice brown sweater and kaftan today, and the whole person looked very soft. "I'm sorry, I think this place is quite suitable for studying, so I'll trouble you to come here." She apologized to him seriously, and her words were polite.

"What's this?" Joe Shen smiled casually. "I just want to come out and relax. These days, I either go to the cultural center to communicate, or stay in the hotel to sort out the materials and write reports, and I am bored to death. ”

As he spoke, his gaze fell on the book in front of her, and there was a slight ripple in his eyes, as if he had discovered something interesting.

"I've only seen the translation, and I haven't had time to read the original yet." He put the file in his hand on the table and flipped through the part where the tide had gone wrong.

"Here you can see if there is any other translation, some things about Loire are a bit far-fetched, and the director said that you can go to the National Library to check the materials when you have time."

Tide took the document, answered verbally, and looked down at the original translation. "I didn't think it was right when I flipped it, but I didn't care if I thought it wasn't too big, it seemed that I was too lazy......"

"What a coincidence."

Jiang Qi didn't know when he suddenly stood behind the two of them. As soon as Qiao Shen looked back and saw him, his brows furrowed slightly. The tide was already surprised, knowing that the voice was him, and he concentrated on the article and did not look back. Obviously, that sentence was said to Qiao Shen alone.

"Why are you here?"

This sentence is exactly the same as the tide asked at the time. Jiang Qi seemed to be very unhappy with this way of meeting and greeting, and his expression was indifferent.

Tidal glanced slightly sideways at where he had sat before, and the New Zealand brother seemed to be gone.

"Why can't I be here?" Jiang Qi said lightly. His gaze hit Qiao Shen's very unfriendly eyes, as if he saw thousands of thorns in them. "Tide knows, you can ask her."

Qiao Shen was surprised again. He turned his head to look at the tide that had raised his eyes at the sound of the sound, and his eyebrows were slightly raised.

"Well, he came to Bordeaux to look for a pen pal, and I saw him before you came." She replied.

Qiao Shen's eyes dimmed, and with a trace of doubt and incomprehension, flooded into the invisible places under his eyes. "I don't believe there is such a coincidence in this world."

Jiang Qi bowed slightly, and let out a sneer between his snorts.

"There are so many things in this world that you don't believe, but they still happen."

Tide watched such an embarrassing confrontation between the two people, or when the two fought in their sophomore year. It's just that this time it was a battle between the ivory tower and the real gun, and this time it was a silent tug of war in a foreign country. The reason for the two times, she thought about it with her toes, probably originated from the sequelae of Xiao Ya's ownership. Maybe this is what others often say, when enemies see each other, they are very red-eyed.

"What a coincidence." Tidal smiled and tapped lightly on the table again, trying to ease the eerie atmosphere.

"It's not a coincidence at all."

It was the first time for the tide to see Qiao Shen so angry, and he couldn't cry or laugh.

"Are you done modifying your files?" Jiang Qi ignored Qiao Shen's counterattack. He looked to the tide and raised his eyebrows.

"Nope." Tides are concise. "What are you going to do?"

Jiang Qi tugged at the corners of his mouth slightly. "Put the papers down, go somewhere with me." When he spoke, his eyes drifted to Qiao Shen on the side, and his expression was slightly proud.

"It's not good."

Qiao Shen stood up, and the two of them faced each other, as if they were about to rub their fists and feet. "People still have things. Where you go, I can go with you. ”

Jiang raised his eyebrows and eyes calmly like a calm lake. He turned his head to look at the tide, "You still owe me a favor. This time we paid it back, and we wrote it off. ”

Tide's role as a bystander, trying her best to keep the situation stable, is now a key pawn, and this is a debt she has to shirk. She hesitated slightly, and gently pulled Qiao Shen's sleeve, "Qiao Shen, I will take the documents with me and take them back later, you go back first, thank you today." ”

Qiao Shen still didn't know why. As soon as he wanted to speak, he saw the tide Huo Ran get up and step in front of Jiang Qi.

"Let's go."

Xiao Ya came out of the examination room in a dejected state, and the gentle words of the kind-faced female doctor kept echoing in her ears.

"Children, you can give birth, abortion is not good for your health, you are still young, and more miscarriages may cause sequelae of childbirth."

She felt like the whole world was shaking. No one understands her pain and hardship right now. That evil child, she even wanted to punch herself in the stomach a few times to strangle the unborn child in the stomach.

Tears could not be shed. Xiao Ya walked to the bench next to her and sat down, looking at the smiling women with big bellies around her, upset.

"Fifty-six, bayberry." The skinny nurse poked her head out of the doorway and shouted.

As if she had been hit by something, Xiao Ya jerked her head up and saw a woman with a flat belly walking in front of her. She glanced sideways, and the side face was true, it was Tidal's mother.

She vaguely remembered the appearance of bayberry. When the Francophonie Festival performs, it is the turn of the tides to take the stage. As the minister of literature and art, she was managing the arrangement in the background, and saw a woman carefully standing behind the curtain facing the auditorium, stepping her feet and looking inside and out. She stepped forward to ask who she was looking for, and the woman looked up at her, her face pale and her tone weak.

"I heard that my daughter has a show to perform, and I came to see it, and I am her mother."

"What's your daughter's name? I'm the one who manages the show. She replied.

"Tides."

Xiao Ya was stunned. Pointing to the opposite side not far from them, a girl in a pale blue dress was whispering the lyrics. "It's her, I'll be on stage in a minute."

She saw an inconspicuous smile on the woman's pale face. Xiao Ya suddenly felt that she hated this kind of mother's expression very much, and the slight affection made her think of the thing she was missing. As if she was inexplicably looking for pleasure, she suddenly raised her tone again. "But Auntie, this is the backstage of the concert hall, and non-staff members can't come and go at will. Can you register? ”

The woman pursed her mouth when she heard this, and shook her head slightly.

Xiao Ya asked for a registration form from the practice department for her to fill out. She saw the woman tremblingly writing the word "bayberry" in the signature column.

"Ahh

The sudden sneezing of the pregnant woman next to her startled Xiao Ya from her memory. She looked up and saw that the woman had already walked through the door. She got up and leaned in, and saw the door ajar.

Could it be that Tidal's mother is going to have a second child? In normal times, she Xiao Ya wouldn't care much about this kind of thing. But because this woman is related to the tide, she will rise sharply. That girl, but she was a person who had an unclear relationship with Jiang Qi, and what she found out in Jiang Qi's house last time made her unconsciously regard her as a potential threat.

She leaned her ear to the door, unafraid of the strange gazes of the women in the row on the bench.

“...... Your situation is a bit complicated, and there is no doubt about it. ”

She heard the gentle female doctor's voice sound again.

"In the early years, I was infertile, and now it is even more impossible to have children."

Xiao Ya was shocked for a moment as if she had been told this kind of news. She leaned closer, making sure she heard correctly.

"Impossible, give up."

Then there was the sound of a woman crying, sobbing and stinging, intermittently. Then the sound of the bench being dislocated rang out. Xiao Ya stepped back and sat down slowly, pretending to pace.

The door opened, and she saw the woman come out, a few small tears on her face.