"Zheng'an, what are you doing standing? Let's go in and eat. Jiang Ning saw that the people didn't go back for a long time, so they came out to call him.

It turned out that Zhou Zhengan was still standing and didn't leave.

He found that this girl's recent addiction to smoking has become more and more serious, and she actually came out to smoke in the middle of dinner, which is not at all like Zhou Zheng'an he knows.

Zhou Zhengan came back to his senses when he called him like this, he still had an unlit cigarette between his fingers, and he didn't know how long he had been playing with it in his hands.

Zhou Zhengan remembered the picture he had just seen, and was a little irritable, so he casually threw the cigarette into the ashtray on the shelf on the side, turned around and walked towards the private room with Jiang Ningyuan.

Jiang Ningyuan thought it was a new cigarette he had just taken out after he had just smoked, and asked uninterestingly, "How many are these?" ”

“......”

Jiang Nan and Xu Jing walked to the door, and happened to see a little girl selling sugar gourds, wearing two big braids, wearing pink clothes, less than half her height, and carrying such a long gourd stand.

Jiang Nan looked at her and looked really cute, walked in front of her and stopped, squatted down and looked at the little girl and said, "Hello, can you sell me a bunch of sugar gourds?" ”

Her voice was gentle, and she had a soft smile on her face.

Xu Jing stopped behind her, looked at her with interest, and didn't rush to leave for a while.

The little girl's face was innocent: "Sister, what do you want?"

Jiang Nan pretended to think for a while, then pointed his chin with his hand and said, "Is there a strawberry in it?" ”

"Yes." The little girl quickly answered.

"Then bring me a string." Jiang Nan said and lowered his head and went to the bag to take out the money.

Before she could ask, the person behind her took the lead and asked, "Little friend, how much?" Xu Jing didn't know when he had already walked to her.

The little girl looked at Jiang Nan, then at Xu Jing, and replied to Xu Jing: "Eight pieces of strawberries." ”

Jiang Nan had already taken out the money and was about to hand over a whole ten yuan, when he saw that Xu Jing had already handed the money to the little girl, and took the string of sugar gourds she asked for from the little girl.

The little girl was very happy when she took the money, said "thank you" and walked away from them.

"How did you pay for it? I owe you more than that. Jiang Nan was a little sad between his eyebrows.

"Out of the way, take it." Xu Jing handed her the sugar gourd.

"It's the first time I've seen someone eat a sugar gourd with strawberries in it." Xu Jing smiled.

"Then you can keep this skewer and eat it, just in time to taste it." Jiang Nan didn't reach out to take it.

Xu Jing stuffed the sugar gourd into her hand and said, "There will be opportunities in the future." ”

Jiang Nan lowered his head, looked at the string of sugar gourds, and Xu Jing said again: "Let's go." ”

She looked up, a little stunned, and didn't react yet: "Where are you going?" ”

"Didn't you just say you owe me a lot? Didn't you mean you wanted to invite me to dinner? I happen to be free today. Xu Jing had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

Jiang Nan nodded: "It's okay." ”

They entered a nearby Western-style restaurant, not far from the building where they had just participated in the expo, and after ordering, Jiang Nan lowered his head and sent a message to Xu Pingsheng, telling him that he would leave first.

Jiang Nan actually understands Xu Pingsheng's hard work, and he brought himself to the expo so that Jiang Nan can get to know more upper-class people, and his horizons for future work can also be opened.

But Jiang Nan is really not good at communicating, and her mouth is not flexible, I am afraid that she can really only go up a little bit with hard work.

After sending the message, Jiang Nan put down the phone, tore open the white plastic skin wrapped in the sugar gourd, and bit a piece of the sugar gourd into her mouth, the sugar gourd puffed her mouth swollen, Jiang Nan sighed Fortunately, it was a strawberry and not a hawthorn, no matter how sour it was, it would not be sour.

That layer of red sweet crispy crust can't hide the acidity inside.

She chewed and chewed, and somehow thought of the sugar gourd that Zhou Zhengan bought for her that night.

She remembered the taste, it was sweet, why didn't she taste the sour taste at that time? Could it be that the nuts were really sweet that night?

Jiang Nan thought about it and couldn't help but be distracted.

It wasn't until the Boston steak she ordered was brought to the table by the waiter that Jiang Nan came back to his senses.

She glanced at Xu Jing, who was paying attention to her on the other side, Jiang Nan lowered her head slightly: "I'm sorry, I was a little distracted just now." ”

Xu Jing joked: "Have you thought of anything interesting?" ”

Jiang Nan didn't deny it, and replied softly: "Yes, I thought of the last time I ate sugar gourds." ”

"You often seem to be unexpected." Xu Jing curled his lips and said.

Jiang Nan also hooked his lips slightly, as if he was joking.

“......”

After eating, it was already more than eight o'clock in the evening, and it was dark outside, Jiang Nan pressed the bell on the table to call the waiter to pay the bill, Xu Jing also figured out her temper, this time she didn't compete with her to pay, for fear of adding a burden to Jiang Nan.

The waiter looked at Jiang Nan who paid the money, and then looked at Xu Jing, who was dressed in luxurious clothes, all the gossip was in his eyes, Xu Jing looked at Jiang Nan as if he couldn't see it, and looked at Jiang Nan gently and funny.

The two of them came out of the restaurant together, and the lights outside were quite bright, and the traffic was busy.

Xu Jing just wanted to say that he would send Jiang Nan back, but the phone in his coat rang inappropriately.

He said "sorry" to Jiang Nan, and then turned sideways to answer the phone.

Jiang Nan's gaze turned to the side.

The person on the other end of the phone didn't know what to say to Xu Jing, Xu Jing frowned, and after hanging up the phone, he turned around and said to Jiang Nan: "I'm sorry Jiang Nan, I have something urgent to do, I may have to let you go home by yourself." ”

Jiang Nan hurriedly said, "It's okay. She was embarrassed to let Xu Jing send her back, which was just right, and she was relaxed.

"Then let's make an appointment another day?"

Jiang Nan nodded, although in her heart she didn't have much to do with Xu Jing anymore.

Xu Jing smiled slightly after receiving her answer, and then turned to leave.

Jiang Nan retracted her gaze when she saw him walking away, it was still early today, she could have walked back slowly, but her feet hurt too much, so she could only walk to the intersection in front of her to take a taxi.

She walked along the avenue, and unconsciously lowered her head to look at the stone bricks on the ground, and counted them one by one, so as to divert her attention and let herself ignore the numbness in her heels.

Jiang Nan even felt that she had been worn off a layer of skin, and she felt this way when she was sitting in the restaurant with Xu Jing.

Her eyes were gradually attracted by the unique stone brick pattern on the ground, and people who came and went would not look at the stone bricks, but she was curious to pay attention.

When Jiang Nan counted to twenty-seven, she found that the pattern on the stone brick happened to be a strawberry, and she couldn't help but smile, remembering the sugar gourd wrapped in strawberries she had just eaten.

There was a sudden sound of a bicycle rattle in front of him, and before Jiang Nan could raise his head, he was grabbed by his elbow and dragged to the side.

The bicycle happened to pass from where Jiang Nan was standing just now, and the speed was not fast, but if Jiang Nan really hit it, he would definitely be injured.

Jiang Nan's heart was pounding, and he heard the man pulling his elbow: "When will you learn to walk and see the road?" ”

This voice is all too familiar.

Zhou Zheng'an quickly let go of her hand, and the residual warmth between his fingers still stayed on her elbow, and it didn't dissipate for a long time.

Jiang Nan raised her eyes to meet his calm, deep and extremely familiar eyes, and couldn't help but be stunned, and suddenly had the illusion that she hadn't seen Zhou Zheng'an for a long time.

Jiang Nan hurriedly lowered his head: "Thank you." ”

She even forgot to ask him why he was here out of nowhere.

The familiarity between each other for a few months became an invisible embarrassment at this moment, and between the two of them, Zhou Zhengan suddenly didn't know what to say.

It's like we're already strangers, what else can we say.

"How are you doing?" Zhou Zhengan suddenly asked thoughtlessly.

Jiang Nan was stunned, then nodded and said, "It's good." ”

Zhou Zheng'an remembered the limping appearance he had just seen her, his gaze swept over her already red heels, and he understood a little, he was a little annoyed, why did the man just leave like that, and leave her here alone?

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhengan was stunned, and he suddenly remembered that he had also fallen Jiang Nan like this.

Zhou Zheng'an's heart became very complicated, he originally wanted to send Jiang Nan back, but their current relationship undoubtedly poured cold water on him, Zhou Zheng'an's natural restraint made him unable to say that he wanted to send her back, but when he said that he was concerned, he was uncontrollably stained with some cold air: "Go back, don't wander around on the road." ”

Jiang Nan nodded: "You too." She was going to walk to the intersection and take a taxi, wearing high heels, and she couldn't walk around if she wanted to.

Zhou Zhengan watched Jiang Nan walk to the intersection step by step, and a taxi happened to drive over, Jiang Nan hurriedly beckoned, the car stopped, she opened the door and got into the car.

Zhou Zhengan didn't move, watching the car gradually drive away.

He became more and more depressed in his heart, remembering the words he had just blurted out, and he wanted to bite his tongue.

Jiang Ningyuan came out of nowhere and put it on his shoulder and said, "What's the matter, brother?" When I broke up with Gu Shengwei before, why didn't you see you so depressed? ”

Zhou Zhengan frowned with some disgust: "Don't keep comparing them together." ”

He is most annoyed by others comparing who and who is together, and he doesn't like it no matter who the object of this comparison and preference is.

Jiang Ningyuan pursed his lips: "Seriously, buddy, I think you have to reconsider the weight of Jiang Nan in your heart, we are not young anymore, if you miss it, there is no turning back." ”

As he spoke, he patted Zhou Zheng'an on the shoulder.

Zhou Zhengan was a little dazed and didn't speak for a while.

“......”