Xia Li raised his eyes and looked at Xie Yin.

The man's tone sounded gentlemanly and negotiable.

But there was no hint of negotiation in the deep eyes that looked at him.

Xia Li pursed her lips and didn't know how to refuse.

Xie Yin lowered her eyes and looked at the silent girl in front of her, and when she had already agreed to stay for dinner, she asked Aunt Zhou at home to add an extra dessert to dinner.

Aunt Zhou has always worked in Tingyuan, and this is the first time she has met Xie Yin with the opposite sex back to Tingyuan, so naturally she will not neglect Xia Li at all, and hurriedly turned around and went into the kitchen to cook a few more dishes.

Before eating, Xie Yin took Xia Li to play with Coconut in the courtyard for a while.

It wasn't until Aunt Zhou finished the meal and served it on the table that Xia Li washed her hands and sat down at the table.

While eating, Xia Li sat cramped at the dining table, pulling the rice in the bowl in front of him by himself, trying to reduce his sense of existence.

The man sitting across from him picked up the teacup in his hand with great interest and slowly passed it to his lips.

He lowered his eyes and blew the tea leaves in the cup, and asked knowingly:

"Why don't you eat vegetables, isn't it unappetizing?"

A "little hamster" who was only concerned about pulling white rice made a move, and his eyes raised his head in horror.

Xia Li swallowed the rice in his mouth, picked up the teacup on the side and took a sip of water to smooth his breath.

She shook her head: "It's not unappetizing. ”

The man in front of him raised his eyebrows slightly: "Then why didn't I see you picking up vegetables?" ”

Xia Li's face was hot, she couldn't tell Xie Yin directly and openly that the reason why she didn't pick up vegetables was because she felt shy!

Even Xia Li himself felt strange.

Obviously, logically speaking, there will be no intersection between the two at all, but since he came to the capital, he has met him again and again.

I don't know why.

These encounters between the two always made Xia Li feel strange beyond words.

She didn't know if such a strange feeling was normal, and she didn't know where it came from......

But she clearly knew that it was because of such a strange feeling that she became extremely cramped in front of men.

Xie Yin seemed to see through her little caution, and the hand that was idle on the dining table tapped the table twice.

"Nervous?"

Xia Li looked away with some weakness: "No, no." ”

"It's good if you don't have it."

Xie Yin didn't demolish her, reached out and took the teapot that was placed aside to add tea to the cup in front of her:

"Since you said we were friends, I don't think friends need to be tight."

His throat was lowered, and his voice was a little deep.

Xia Li looked at the pair of cold white slender hands holding the handle of the pot stretched out in front of him, and the sexy green tendons on his arms were slightly bursting up, invisibly showing a kind of sexual tension.

The girl's eyelashes twitched twice, and she looked away from his hand in a panic.

The hand holding the chopsticks poked the white rice in the bowl and nodded.

In the middle of the meal, Xie Yin's mobile phone suddenly rang.

Xia Li took a sip of the tea in her hand, and the man's low-alcohol voice sounded in her ears unhurriedly, as if she was playing a cello song.

It's not boring, it's ......

Sweet.

Xia Li was a little distracted when he heard this, and he didn't even notice the dessert brought to the table with his aunt.

Xie Yin held the phone in one hand and leaned lazily on the dining chair.

He stretched out his hand and pushed the dessert on the table in front of Xia Li, and softly pulled Xia Li's thoughts back:

"Taste it."

Xia Li looked at the strawberry Napoleon that the man pushed in front of him, picked up the spoon on the side and ate it in small bites.

Qi Zhou on the other end of the phone was a little confused by Xie Yin's sudden words.

"Brother Yin, who are you talking to?"

"Aside from me."

(No one.) ）

The environment in Qizhou was a little noisy, and I vaguely heard the mechanical female voice broadcast in the airport hall.

Qizhou: "I just arrived at the airport, let's have a drink together at night?" ”

Xie Yin looked at Xia Li who was concentrating on eating dessert in front of him with heavy eyes, and the corners of his mouth curled a little:

"I'm afraid."

(I'm afraid not.) ）

"Where?" Qi Zhou walked out of the airport with his suitcase and teased, "You have an appointment for the evening?" ”

Xie Yin calmly took a sip of tea: "Hmm." ”

"Who are you dating someone?"

With his understanding of Xie Yin, it won't be an appointment with a woman anyway.

According to Xie Yin's previous life, the evening time was either talking about business or having a meeting.

But after talking to the man just now, Qi Zhou could confirm that Xie Yin was eating now, but not the kind of serious dinner in the business field.

Qi Zhou thought for a few seconds, and said with some uncertainty:

"Don't tell me it's the sister who gave you the watch?"

As soon as he said that, Qi Zhou immediately denied this idea in his mind.

How could there be such a coincidence......

"Tie it."

(It's her.) ）

Impartially, Xia Li raised her eyes to meet his gaze.

She didn't know who was on the other end of the line, or what she was talking about.

But vaguely, Xia Li felt that it was related to him.

The person on the other end of the phone said a few more words, only to hear Xie Yin say lightly, "I'll ask her" and hung up the phone.

"Qizhou has come to the capital."

Xie Yin put his phone aside, and a jade-like voice slowly came into his ears: "He asked if you would like to have a meal together?" ”

Xia Li put down the spoon in his hand: "Is it the boss of the private room?" ”

Xie Yin tapped his head, his fingertips casually fiddling with the Buddha beads on his wrist.

The watch had been taken off by the man before the meal and placed on the head of the bed in the master bedroom.

A gentle and low-magnetic voice sounded softly:

"Want to go?"

-

"Brother Yin!"

Pushing open the door of the private room, Qi Zhou, who was sitting on the sofa in a white short-sleeved suit and was talking on the phone, raised his head and looked at the person who walked in from outside.

Qi Zhou held the mobile phone in one hand, and raised the other hand above his head to say hello to Xie Yin.

He said to the person on the other end of the phone simply and clearly, "I have something to do, we'll talk about it later." ”

The person on the other end of the phone cautiously asked, "Then uncle, do you need to come back to live tonight?" ”

"Nope."

After hanging up the phone, when Qi Zhou saw Xia Li behind the man, Qi Zhou looked at Xie Yin with a bit of gossip in his eyes.

"Sister, I haven't seen you for a long time."

After sitting down, Qizhou thoughtfully asked the waiter to serve Xia Li a glass of orange juice.

Qi Zhou looked at Xia Li, who was sitting next to Xie Yin, and asked with a smile, "By the way, I don't know what your name is?" ”

Xia Li took a sip of orange juice in both hands:

"My name is Xia Li."

It was said to be a dinner, but the two men at the table were talking about something that Xia Li didn't understand at all.

Xia Li, who was sitting on the side, silently drank a glass of juice, felt a little bored, and opened the jump play in the applet.

When he finally jumped to the hundredth place, he made a mistake and ended the game.

The man beside her caught a glimpse of the girl's screen, the corners of his mouth hooked imperceptibly.

Even Xie Yin himself may not have noticed, and even the tone of his speech to Qi Zhou slowed down a little.

After a game ended, Xia Li didn't bother to continue playing.

Halfway through, Xia Li went to the bathroom.

Through the door of the toilet cubicle, the sound of conversation slowly came from far and near outside.

"Cheng Cheng, I heard a while ago that Qi Du was going to marry the daughter of the Xia family, is this true or false?"

Another girl sneered:

"What is the daughter of the Xia family? It's just a woman who married Qi Du for money. Now that the Xia family is about to go bankrupt, what's the matter, does she think she is the down-and-out heroine in the novel? ”

Xia Li just wanted to reach out to open the door.

I never thought that I just came to the toilet, how could I still overhear about my melon in the toilet?

Xia Li hesitated for a moment, and silently withdrew his hand that was hanging in the air.

The girl took the lipstick out of her bag, smeared it in the mirror and said:

"Yes. The current Xia family estimates that no one in the circle can afford it, and they still want to be close to the Qi family? That's a fool's dream. ”

"That's right, the resources in this circle are more wolves and less meat, and it is also whimsical for the Xia family to turn over through the Qi family."

Xia Li, who was hiding in the compartment, was stunned.

The marriage contract between the Xia family and the Qi family is obviously only known to the two families.

But how...... Suddenly it was spread in circles?

Xia Li frowned slightly, and the two people outside the door were still talking.

"That's right, but in the final analysis, people have a marriage contract, if you really want to marry Qi Du, then ..... Have you ever asked Qi Du what he plans to do? ”

"I asked him that day when I was in bed, and he said he would figure it out."

The sound of water outside the door stopped abruptly.

The voices of conversation are fading away.

It wasn't until the voices of the two of them were completely inaudible that Xia Li pushed open the door of the cubicle and walked out.

She walked over to the sink in front of her and washed her hands, looked at herself in her glasses and lowered her head.

She pulled two pieces of paper from the side, wiped the water stains on her hands, and threw them in the trash.

When he came out of the bathroom, Xia Li saw a man who was lazily leaning against the wall of the corridor and smoking a cigarette.

The man not far from her raised his eyebrows at the sight of her, and the smoke made him squint.

Immediately after, Xia Li saw Xie Yin turn sideways and throw the half-lit cigarette in his hand into the smoke extinguishing barrel beside him.

"Mr. Xie, are you also here to go to the toilet?"

As soon as the words came out, Xia Li always felt that it was very similar to the popular "You're here to too" joke on the Internet, which made her regret asking this question.

The man looked at her with heavy eyes, and rolled his Adam's apple lightly: "Come out and breathe." ”

His voice was so flat that he couldn't hear any emotion, except that he was a little hoarse from having just smoked.

In the private room just now, Qi Zhou quietly led the topic to her after Xia Li left.

Qi Zhou took a sip of the red wine in the glass, and then sat down on the sofa in the private room and looked up at the chandelier on the ceiling:

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it. It turned out that this sister was actually the daughter of the Xia family. ”

"But Brother Yin, don't you know that she has a marriage contract?"

Xie Yin's drinking action paused.

The man's brows furrowed, and he looked at Qi Zhou, who was slumped on the sofa for some reason:

"Engagement?"

Qi Zhou turned his head sideways to meet Xie Yin's gaze: "Yes, don't you know?" ”

Qi Zhou looked at the man's sunny and cloudy face, hesitated in his heart, and finally did not tell Xie Yin who Xia Li's marriage partner was.

It's not that he doesn't want to say it, and it's not because he's not righteous enough.

But.......

Who made Xia Li's marriage partner his nephew!

Now it's okay, on one side there are brothers, and on the other side are relatives.

Squeezed in the middle, he could only pitifully make a balance as much as possible.

Xie Yin frowned tightly and put the goblet in his hand on the table, his face gloomy.

He hesitated for a moment, and said word by word:

"Should I know?"