Jiang Sui felt that he was probably affected by the two people in the waiting room.

Before the taxi arrived, Jiang Sui took out the key to the small courtyard gate that she had been looking for for a long time at home yesterday, and she didn't know if the door lock was so rusty that it couldn't be opened.

The taxi door opened, and the smell of flowers greeted you.

After getting out of the car, Jiang Sui approached and saw that there were two more lilac trees at the entrance of the small courtyard.

The light purple flowers are blooming in clusters.

She leaned her nose over and the scent of flowers emanated from here.

Jiang Sui looked at it for a while, then turned around and opened the door.

But the door was unlocked, and she opened it with a slight push of her hand.

Jiang Sui walked in and found that the yard was unusually clean, and it did not show the dilapidated mess that had been unattended for a long time as he imagined.

Jiang Sui touched the trunk of the ginkgo tree in the center of the courtyard, and suddenly remembered that he had given Grandma Wang the key next door before and asked her to help take care of the courtyard.

She turned her head and walked towards the main house, shouting as she walked, "Grandma Wang, is it you?" ”

When he came to the main house, it happened that the door of the house was pushed open from the inside, and Jiang Sui stood in front of the door and was suddenly stunned.

A tall man, wearing a black suit with no buttons, and the suit was slightly open, revealing a neat white shirt inside.

In the most discordant part of this outfit, he still had a wet rag in his hand.

Seeing Jiang Sui suddenly appear, his dark eyes under his rimless glasses were also stunned for a moment.

Then there is a long-lasting silent gaze, as if they want to see through each other's eyes.

After a while, Si Nian was the first to ask Jiang Sui: "When did you come back?" ”

When we met again, Jiang Sui didn't know what kind of attitude to use to face Si Nian, after all, when she left, she said cruel things to him.

I don't know each other.

But now face to face, she seems to be a little unable to do it.

Hearing Si Nian ask her, Jiang Sui pursed her lips and replied softly: "Last year." ”

Her answer was brief, and his good-looking sword eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"Why didn't you hear Xiao Wen and Li Ai talk about it?"

Jiang Sui was a little surprised, he was still in contact with Xiao Wen and Li Ai.

But think about it carefully, with his relationship with Cui Jin and Wu Chunhao, it is normal to have a connection.

On the contrary, she has significantly less contact with Xiao Wen and Li Ai in the past two years.

Since she went to Canada, the contact with Xiao Wen and the two of them is mostly holiday greetings, and sometimes they will talk to each other about the current situation when they have time.

But both of them tacitly kept silent about men, Jiang Sui thought, the two of them were afraid that she would be sad when she remembered Si Nian.

"I've been preparing for work, and I haven't told anyone."

Si Nian nodded and didn't ask anything more.

"Why are you here? Key ......"

Jiang Sui suddenly remembered this question, pinched the key in his hand and asked him casually.

"Grandma Wang was also gone the year before last, and I have always held the key since then, and occasionally I will come back to see it when I have time, and clean it."

"Oh."

As he spoke, Si Nian had already turned sideways, and Jiang Sui walked in along the space he had vacated.

The inside of the house is the same as before, nothing has changed, just it has been cleaned spotlessly cleaned.

Jiang Sui looked from room to room, and Si Nian followed behind her, not far away.

Jiang Sui picked up the photo frame in his mother's room and stroked it gently with his hand, Si Nian leaned against the door and suddenly said, "You have changed a lot." ”

With a sudden sentence, Jiang Sui subconsciously glanced down at himself.

She wore a pair of pumps today, black trousers, a gray-blue over-the-knee trench coat, and her medium-length hair was draped and naturally drooped under her collarbone.

Jiang Sui slowly raised his head to look at Si Nian, not knowing what to reply, only pursed his lips lightly.

A smile hung on the corner of Si Nian's mouth: "As you grow up, your temperament is more mature and stable, and your long hair is very beautiful." ”

"Thank you!"

In a word, full of politeness and alienation, the smile on Si Nian's face disappeared.

In the face of his unabashed praise of her, Jiang Sui responded almost instinctively, just like when others praised her in the past.

It's just that Si Nian's gaze still makes her feel a little uncomfortable.

When passing by the smallest room, Jiang Sui Wujian glanced inside, and there were quilts neatly folded on the bed.

Did he stay here for one night?

Suddenly remembering the two bouquets of chrysanthemums in the cemetery, Jiang Sui turned around and asked Si Nian: "Have you been to see your grandmother and mother today?" ”

Si Nian casually put his hands in the pockets of his black trousers and said "um".

"Every year before Qingming, Zhongyuan, and Spring Festival, I will come to see it."

Because he knew that in these few days, in this small courtyard, he would one day wait for her to come, pretend to meet by chance, and see her again, and his wish would be fulfilled.

Jiang Sui was speechless for a while, he, the former adopted son, was now much more filial than her own daughter.

After a while, Jiang Sui whispered to him again, "Thank you!" ”

Si Nian was helpless, and in the face of Jiang Sui saying "thank you" to him one after another, he had nothing to say, and his heart was extremely sour.

It was a reaction that I had expected a long time ago, but it was still very uncomfortable to hear.

But on second thought, she didn't really see him as a passerby, which seemed to be good again.

He pulled the corners of his mouth at her again and asked, "Just now you said that you have been busy with work, has the work been settled?" ”

"Hmm."

"Where? Or do you do translation? ”

"Well, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Asian Division."

Hearing this, Si Nian was slightly stunned, and then smiled: "Congratulations, the ideal has been realized." ”

"Thank you, but it's still an internship."

Jiang Sui's lips hooked slightly, this was their common ideal, but now she has approached step by step, but he is deviating farther and farther.

He asked, and she answered, each very brief, and ended with a thank you, he really didn't know what to talk to her about.

Obviously, there are so many things to ask in my heart.

"Have you been doing well in the past few years, have you ever had a boyfriend, and are you a suitable marriage partner when you are older?"

But he couldn't ask any of this.

After hesitating for a while, Si Nian opened his mouth to invite Jiang Sui: "It's noon soon, let's have a meal together?" ”

Jiang Sui glanced at his watch and shook his head: "No, I'm just coming back to sweep the grave, and by the way, I'll come and take a look, I'll have to leave on a flight back to Jingbei at one o'clock." ”

Jiang Sui turned around and walked out, and Si Nian suddenly shouted to her behind her: "Jiang Sui! ”

Hearing this, she stopped, but she didn't look back at Si Nian.

"Don't you even ask me about my current situation?"

Si Nian's voice was slightly hoarse, and he asked with difficulty.

A gentle breeze blew, and the tender green ginkgo leaves on the top of the head began to rustle.

Jiang Sui glanced up, and the noon light stabbed her eyes.

"I don't want to."

She walked out quickly, and walked and walked until she turned the corner and was blocked by the building behind her, and she stopped gasping for air.

At that moment, she wanted to cry again.

She hadn't cried for many years, and Si Nian seemed to be the valve that could open her tear ducts, and it was and is.

Si Nian reacted and chased out of the gate, but Jiang Sui was no longer visible outside.

He looked around anxiously, and suddenly began to feel a splitting headache.

He rested one hand on his knee and bent over his mobile phone to make a call.

The phone was connected, and his voice was intermittent: "Come here, pick up, me." ”

——

Jiang Sui didn't know how he returned to Jingbei from Jincheng, the person seemed to have drifted away, and he was floating when he walked, and the whole person seemed to be floating in the clouds.

For the next two days of the holiday, she stayed at home in Jingbei, and she didn't even get out of the bedroom door.

In this regard, Jiang Guodong and Gu Wan were very puzzled, why did they take a trip to Jincheng, and after coming back, the whole person was a little depressed.

But they have always adhered to the concept of being enlightened parents, so if the child doesn't say it, they don't ask, the child takes the initiative to say it, and if it's good, he'll be happy with her, and if it's bad, he'll find a way to help.

Fortunately, Jiang Sui's mood only lasted for three days, and as soon as she returned to work, she began to return to normal.

The internship period of the newcomers is always very busy and fulfilling, not only to do their part well, but also to constantly ask the elderly for advice and learning.

The person in charge of taking her is a 35+ novice mother, a high-achieving student who graduated from the Foreign Affairs University, named Xu Jie, who has been working abroad for many years, and after being transferred back last year, she hurriedly became pregnant and gave birth to a baby.

Because of the shortage of manpower in the small language of the division, I returned to work before the maternity leave was over.

Considering that Senior Xu still has a milk doll at home, Jiang Sui will take the initiative to take on some work that she can do, and try her to come when she needs to work overtime, so that Xu Jie can go home on time to feed the child.

Recently, the department has been preparing the relevant translation documents for the domestic bidding of the Albanian government project, and Jiang Sui has been working for half a month in a row after the Qingming Festival.

Before getting off work that day, Xu Jie answered a phone call, saying that the baby at home had a fever and needed her to go back immediately.

But she had a document that needed to be sent to an old professor at the Foreign Affairs University after work, and Jiang Sui didn't need to work overtime today, so she took the initiative to take over the errand.

Out of the unit building, Jiang Sui looked at the somewhat gloomy sky outside, and his mood couldn't help but sink a little.

It's going to rain later on this day, so she's going to have to hurry.

Jiang Sui is a bit far from the Foreign Affairs Academy.

She took the bus first, then changed the subway twice, and it took her an hour and a half to get to the Foreign Affairs University to hand over the documents to the old professor.

When she came out of the old professor's office, Jiang Sui had to sigh that Jingbei City was really big, and such a round trip, she would be scrapped in one night.

When I left the school building, the sky began to rumble and thunder, and the clouds became thicker and thicker.

When he went out to work in the morning, the weather was sunny, Jiang Sui didn't bring an umbrella, and seeing that the heavy rain was coming, Jiang Sui didn't care too much, and ran towards the gate of the college when he got out of the building, thinking that it would be good to get in the car at the gate of the college.

Unexpectedly, this rain seemed to be specially given to her, and before she could run far, the raindrops of beans fell on her.

She ran through the rain for a while, and finally reached the gate of the academy.

When she hid in the doorway, the rain really started.

The curtain of rain fell obliquely and smashed on the ground, creating a layer of mist.

Jiang Sui lowered her head and shook off the raindrops that were still on her body, and after only a while, she became damp from head to toe, and the wet part of her bangs was also stuck to her cheeks, which was a little uncomfortable.

She raised her hand to tuck her wet bangs behind her ear.

Fortunately, her hair is tied into a ball on the back of her head today, and if it is scattered, it will be even more embarrassing at the moment.

As she thought so, she suddenly felt a tall figure standing beside her, making the already dark doorway even darker.

She looked sideways and met his gaze.

"Why are you here?"

Si Nian took the wet umbrella and asked her.

He knew that neither her place of work nor her home was close to here, so she shouldn't be just going to wander around, so she walked here.

Jiang Sui retracted his somewhat surprised gaze, and his voice was faint: "I'll send materials for my colleagues." ”

"Oh."

I don't know what else to say next, the two of them tacitly didn't speak again, and there was the sound of rain falling to their ears.