After a walk and home, Chi Xueyan drove away from He Qiao and stood on the side of the road and waved goodbye to him lazily.
When the sound of the car motor was completely gone and he did enough superficial work, he turned back and walked home.
The house was filled with a strong fragrance of roses. Aunt Ling moved them to the balcony before leaving work, saying that when the wind dries, she could make incense bags. Don't waste so many flowers.
As soon as Chi Xueyan entered the room, she saw her mother waiting for him in the living room.
Han Zhen really leaned on the sofa to apply a mask and asked him in a gossipy tone, "Does the ring look good?"
In fact, he hasn't opened the velvet box yet, so he can only say ambiguously, "It's okay. Wear it for the time being and change it later."
Han Zhenzhen said oh and changed the topic: "You two walk together, and you look quite a good match."
Chi Xueyan knew her so well that she smiled and said, "Mom, what on earth do you want to say?"
"Nothing." Han Zhenzhen whispered, "He Qiao looks like a good boy, but in case we don't get along well, you can deal with him, and you and your father will also deal with him."
She spoke very quickly, as if she didn't want her son to get bored, and turned to ask, "It's so hasty to get the certificate. Do you want the wedding? Do you want to do it?"
"Think." Chi Xueyan answered her patiently, "We haven't decided what style we want. Which one do you like?"
With the family background of both sides, the marriage will naturally not proceed silently.
"I want to think about it carefully. There are too many new tricks now." Han Zhenzhen was finally a little happy and muttered, "Yey the way, I have to find someone to have a good day."
Seeing the worry and reluctance behind his mother's relaxed expression, Chi Xueyan rarely did not oppose her superstitious behavior.
He went to the kitchen to heat the milk, put it in front of Han Zhenzhen, and then carefully inserted the straw: "Go to bed early after applying the mask. I'll go upstairs to take a shower first."
In the night when it calmed down again, the mother, who was nesting in the sofa, waved to her son, who suddenly had a partner: "Yanyan, good night."
Chi Xueyan held a small and sturdy ring box in his hand, removing his usual unruly, and looked back and replied tamely, "Good night, Mom."
The long and special day is finally over.
Chi Xueyan grabbed the tail of the weekend and slept until the sun in one breath.
When he got up the next day, he said he was going to find He Qiao. Han Zhenzhen, who had recovered his former appearance, immediately waved his hand to drive him out of the house.
Through the familiar street, Chi Xueyan walked into the SCA bar alone, where the neon lights had not yet been lit.
Before the business hours, there were no customers in the store, and there were traces of the carnival everywhere. Wang Shaojing held the ladder, and the bar staff standing on it were carefully removing the movie posters.
The white corner of the villain doctor's clothes was rolled up and put into the deep poster tube.
Wang Shaojing was slightly surprised when he saw him: "It's a rare guest in broad daylight."
Chi Xueyan smiled and said, "Come and sit down."
Coming to this place that once meant happiness and relaxation again, I have a completely different state of mind.
This is the starting point for his sudden reversal of his fate.
He sat down in front of the bar. Wang Shaojing finished his work and came over to entertain him in person: "What do you want to drink?"
There is a storage box on the bar, which is full of small items such as mobile phones, glasses and keys. Chi Xueyan glanced at it and said, "Whatever."
"Then I'll give you a cup of heartbreak special." Wang Shaojing joked, "Generally, only people who have lost their love can order it, and you are an exception."
He mixed the wine skillfully and talked about trivial things: "Yesterday, Ling Chen played crazy and didn't rest until the morning. Now that I'm old, I slept for a day before I calmed down. As soon as I came back, I was like a pawnshop owner, waiting for this group of children to come to find the lost things. By the way, you left early that day. It was the first time in several years that you left halfway. Were you busy?"
When Wang Shaojing said this, he gently pushed the cup in front of him. Finally, he changed his tone to a serious tone and greeted his old friend who was obviously on his mind: "Xiaochi, what's wrong?"
Hearing this name, a trace of complicated emotions appeared on Chi Xueyan's face. He reached out and held the glass glass, and there was no trace of wearing a ring on his white and slender knux.
"I can't say it." Chi Xueyan whispered.
He was just a little confused.
A kind of confusion that slowly grows when staring at the calm sea after temporarily avoiding the storm.
Chi Xueyan doesn't know when the next storm will come, let alone whether they will really come.
But his life has been irreverably changed. He has to move forward hand in hand with his strange lover and to deceive his closest family.
Even if he usually enjoys the pursuit of novelty, and no matter the time he tries to convince himself, it is necessary, it is inevitable that deep doubts will be born at some moments.
Is what he is doing now right?
Wang Shaojing observed his obscure expression and said clearly, "Call me if you want to chat. If you don't want to, I'll remember to call a car to take you back. Try not to let you lie down here until dark."
Chi Xueyan raised the corners of her lips and smiled, "Okay."
There was a knock on the door outside: "Is anyone here?"
Wang Shaojing replied in a familiar voice, "Are you here to find something? Come in!"
The door was pushed open and closed. The stranger went to the bar and said to Wang Shaojing, "Hello, I came here with my friends on Friday night. Today, I found that I had lost a string of keys to the school laboratory. He just came home, so I came to look for him first."
Wang Shaojing pointed to the storage box beside him: "It's all here. After finding it, you should register your phone number and the items you took away, in case you turn around and find that you took the wrong one."
"Okay, thank you."
Chi Xueyan stared at the glass in front of him and didn't care about the movement around him.
Until the other party took the initiative to call him out: "Chi Xueyan?"
Chi Xueyan suddenly froze and realized that the stranger's voice was a little familiar.
He turned his head and saw the tall boy with a cold and alienated temperament.
Lu Siyi saw the person in front of him suddenly turned into a stunned look, and his voice paused: "... I should remember the name correctly, right?"
Lu Siyi, who has an outstanding appearance, is often approached and basically forgets when he turns around. That night, he was pulled to the bar to watch horror movies by his friends. He lowered his head and calculated the inexplicable formula in the carnival crowd. A stranger with red hair handed him a writing board and chatted a few words.
Originally, he didn't pay attention to it, but after the two exchanged names, the other's expression seemed to be a little dejected. Then the conversation ended haphably, and the subtle weirdness left an impression on him.
At this time, seeing Chi Xueyan sitting in the bar drinking in broad daylight, Lu Siyi frowned and took the initiative to say, "Are you okay that day?"
Chi Xueyan was stunned for a few seconds before saying, "No, I'm fine."
The sudden storm and waves fell on the sea.
He tried his best to maintain his superficial calmness and pretended to greet him easily: "Are you here to find something?"
At the same time, Chi Xueyan gently pushed the glass in his hand to the inside of the bar.
"Hmm." Lu Siyi nodded, "My friend lost the key."
Seeing the half-full wine glass that was pushed over, Wang Shaojing was so comrehensive that he immediately reached out and rummaged through the storage box, grabbed a string randomly, and said to Lu Siyi, "See if this is a set of keys?"
Every time Chi Xueyan is so annoyed by the stranger who comes up to chat and wants to do it directly, she will give him this code.
Lu Siyi's attention shifted: "No, there are only two keys hanging."
"Two... Oh, I saw it, it's this string."
The sound of metal collision jingled, and Lu Siyi bent down to write the name of the item and the contact method on the register.
After putting down his pen, he asked Wang Shaojing, "Is that night's event often held here?"
"Is it a movie meeting of "SCALPEL"?" Wang Shaojing said with a smile, "It will be held on the anniversary of the release of the movie every year. It will be held on the anniversary of the classic death scene in the film, and it will be held when I really want to revisit it."
Lu Siyi said concisely, "Where can I see the activity notice?"
"My circle of friends." Wang Shaojing quickly took out his mobile phone and asked him to add him as a friend, and joked, "I have a little impression of you. I thought you were not interested in this movie."
Lu Siyi did not deny it and said frankly, "That kind of atmosphere helps to open up ideas."
After finishing the work, he politely said goodbye to the new bar owner and Chi Xueyan, took the key and turned away.
After he left, Wang Shaojing shook his mobile phone at Chi Xueyan and sighed, "Looking at his circle of friends, he should be a graduate student. Everyone can still think about this when they are crazy. It's awesome."
"You seemed to be very interested in him that day, and I thought to myself that you liked this type." Wang Shaojing said curiously, "Why are you annoyed after saying a few words today? Why does the taste change so quickly?"
As he moved, the friend information page on the screen lit up, and everything about Lu Siyi seemed to be close at hand, shaking dangerously.
Chi Xueyan looked away almost instantly and whispered, "Maybe."
He suddenly remembered the bustling hot pot restaurant. He Qiao seriously told him the details of the story used as evidence, the memory related to his fifth birthday and love.
And when I walked hand in hand with He Qiao last night, the cicadas sometimes chirped in the quiet bushes.
The Undoubted Reality And The Illusory Future Are Suddenly Intertwined Into A Bottomless Sea.
Chi Xueyan sat quietly like this, and the cup of heartbreak in his hand did not finish it until the crystal cup was stained with the gorgeous night outside the window.
The bar gradually became lively, and he got up and left silently.
Standing under the same neon sign, Chi Xueyan made the phone for the second time.
The other party connected quickly.
He Qiao's voice floated clearly into his ears, still with a gentle breath: "Xiaochi?"
At this moment, an inexplicable emotion surged in Chi Xueyan's heart. He held his mobile phone tightly and asked directly, "Where did I see Lu Siyi for the second time in the book?"
The other end of the phone suddenly became quiet for a while, as if he was thinking, and the voice that sounded again became a little more cautious: "A bar."
A bar.
Chi Xueyan's fingers were almost loose. He pressed the smooth fuselage with all his strength and said word by word, "You have to tell me what happens next. I want to know all the details of the story."
Before He Qiao opened his mouth, he continued, "I met Lu Siyi again in the bar."
He said the word "encounter" very lightly.
In the warm yellow light room, He Qiao was sitting in front of the computer and answering the phone, with a trace of surprise in his eyes.
He didn't ask any more and said calmly, "Ok, see you later?"
There was a faint tiredness in Chi Xueyan's voice: "It's too late. Let's do it tomorrow."
He Qiao understood his chaotic mood at this time. After agreeing to meet tomorrow night, the receiver fell into a long silence.
Just when he thought that Chi Xueyan had forgotten to hang up the phone, he suddenly heard the other party say again, "You said that I was bankrupt, rebelled, and then died, and at that time I was working in my family's company."
"...Yes."
"What about my parents?" These two questions sound particularly calm, "Are they also implicated by me?"
He Qiao didn't want to answer this question. He was silent for a moment and said truthfully, "Yes."
So Chi Xueyan stopped asking.
He smiled lightly, with a strong irony, and then said goodbye to his lover as usual: "Good night."
"Good night."
He Qiao quietly watched the screen of the mobile phone that hung up changed from light to dark.
Then he looked back at the computer screen flashing with complex numbers and charts.
Today, He Xiao went on a business trip, so he didn't have to force himself to stay in the game room.
At the same time, in the underground parking lot of the towering commercial building, the driver opened the door. He Huaili, who had just got off work, sat in the business car and rubbed his eyebrows tiredly.
The driver drove to He's house. After closing his eyes for a short time, He Huaili calmly opened the folder in his hand.
The first thing that caught my eye was the photo of the red-haired young man.
He Huaili didn't look for any private detectives, but simply collected some basic information that Chi Xueyan was not a secret.
Family members, hobbies, schools attended, professional experience...
When he saw the young man's dazzling red hair and diverious hobbies, He Huaili's expression did not change. When his eyes fell on his college major, there was a little fluctuation.
Going down the next line, he stared at Chi Xueyan's current occupation and finally showed a little surprise.
A moment later, He Huaili asked the driver in front of him, "Lao Ma, I remember the last time you went to pick up your granddaughter, you said that her teeth were not good?"
"Yes, she likes candy and has tooth decay. And he is very timid. He cries when he sees the doctor. The driver sighed, "She brought a mirror for her teeth, and she immediately cried heartbreakingly, which made this matter last for almost a month."
He Huaili listened patiently and said thoughtfully, "The problem of teeth can't be delayed."
"That is to say, you reason with her and don't listen to her. It's really a mistake for the little ancestor..."
The vehicle drove forward steadily. In the light and shadowy night, He Huaili slowly closed the folder.
Monday morning.
Chi Xueyan walked into the clinic on time and greeted the familiar staff as usual.
When he waved his hand to clock in, a dazzling light flashed between his fingers under the warm morning sun.
The girl at the front desk huhed, stared curiously at his back as he walked to the clinic, and pushed his colleague beside him: "Did you see it? Or did I see it wrong? Is Dr. Chi's ring finger..."
After putting on a clean white coat, Chi Xueyan took off the ring on his ring finger and gently put it in the small tray on the desk, ready to start work.
The ring is a simple but beautiful style.
He Qiao's aesthetics are good, he thought.
It's a pity that you can't wear it at work.
A busy day officially begins, receiving patients who have an appointment, helping or obedient or noisy children to see the dentist...
In the afternoon, he opened the clinic in advance. The first small patient he received was a tearful little girl, led by her grandfather.
She was not on the appointment list confirmed last Friday, saying that she had severe tooth decay and pain, so she added the number temporarily.
This is a common thing. Chi Xueyan didn't pay much attention to it.
When the parents entered the clinic, they waited quietly. The little girl reluctantly sat on the dental chair, trembling slightly, with two tears in her big eyes.
Chi Xueyan was obviously two meters away from her. Seeing this, she couldn't help laughing: "Do you have a toothache or are you afraid of me?"
The little girl cried, "All of them..."
Seeing that she was too resistant to the appearance of dentistry, Chi Xueyan calmly grabbed a few candies from the small tray on the table, and the wedding ring in the sugar pile shone with shiny silver light.
"Do you want to eat candy?"
The little girl was stunned and subconsciously wanted to reach out, but she tretracted back timidly.
"You like candy, don't you?" Chi Xueyan chatted with her, "Does your father like candy?"
The little girl sobbed and retorted, "Adults don't eat candy."
"No." Chi Xueyan said firmly, "My father likes candy and many other sweets."
At this time, the little girl's tears slowed down a little and asked in a low voice, "Wo will his teeth hurt?"
"Well, both adults and children's teeth are afraid of sugar." Chi Xueyan shook her mobile phone at her, "Do you want to see the photo of my father's toothache?"
The little girl widened her eyes and looked over curiously.
Chi Xueyan naturally sat on the edge of the dental chair and really opened the mobile phone album.
The photo is a little blurry, like it was taken by a child, and the picture quality is also long-lasting. The middle of the pool above is much younger than now. He is covering his cheeks, his face is wrinkled into a ball, and his weak demeanor is extremely disproportinate with his tough muscles.
"He also cried bitterly." The little girl burst into laughter when she saw it and said without thinking, "It's just a little scary to cry."
Chi Xueyan also smiled and said, "Do you want to know the difference between tooth decay between adults and children?"
The little girl nodded and stared at his mobile phone screen. Suddenly, she understood something and suddenly realized, "Your father's tooth hurts so much that he cried, so did you become a doctor?"
"You guessed it." Chi Xueyan rubbed her head and asked softly, "Let me take a look at your teeth, okay?"
The little girl who forgot to cry finally lay down on the dental chair and saw the painted ceiling and the gorgeous red hair of the doctor beside her.
"Your hair color is amazing."
"It's the same as in the cartoon, isn't it?" The dentist's voice was very gentle, "Would you like to listen to fairy tales? But you should be quiet when you listen, and don't talk casually..."
In the slowly floating dream, the mermaid swimming in the deep sea helped the children in the world eliminate a tooth decay.
Chi Xueyan breathed a sigh of relief when she seet the crying child was taken away by his grandfather.
He vaguely felt that he seemed to have overlooked something.
But the busy half of the day covered it non-stop.
When the clock hand pointed at 5:30 p.m., Chi Xueyan, who had finished cleaning up, put on the ring again.
He stared at the cold ring for a moment, said goodbye to his assistant who was in a hurry to go home, and then turned on his mobile phone.
The screen interface is still on the toothache photo of the pond.
Chi Xueyan looked at this photo with a faint smile in his eyes.
Then he opened the chat interface, found the dialogue box with He Qiao, and sent a message: I want to have a wedding as soon as possible.
Chi Xueyan's note to He Qiao is still a casual little eleven, but the relationship between the two has changed dramatically.
He Qiao is his eleventh and the last blind date.
He received a reply soon.
[Xiao Eleven: I'll call you.]
The mobile phone immediately vibrated.
"I was about to tell you this." He Qiao's voice sounded in my ear, "My father went to see you today."
Chi Xueyan was stunned for a moment, and then realized what she had ignored before.
The grandfather of the crying little girl had a familiar face, but he had no time to look carefully at it at that time and patronized the child.
Chi Xueyan came back to his senses and joked, "What are the results of the inspection?"
He Qiao replied, "He asked me when I wanted to have the wedding."
Chi Xueyan tried to translate: "So I passed the test?"
"He said he wouldn't interfere with my choice." Speaking of this, He Qiao paused and said, "Are you... a children's dentist?"
The puzzle left at the first meeting finally has the answer.
Chi Xueyan heard the undisguised surprise in his tone and asked, "Isn't it?"
He Qiao's reaction was very honest: "Can the doctor dye his hair?"
"No." There was a sly secret in his answer, "But I'm a special exception."
Imagining the expression of the person on the other end of the phone at this moment, Chi Xueyan couldn't help laughing and said, "Don't worry, I won't date you on the dental chair."
After a short silence, He Qiao's voice sounded again with a smile: "We really should go on a date now, discuss the wedding date, and the things we didn't finish yesterday."
People in the period of passionate love are always bored together every day, and they need to spare no effort to show such a state to others.
"Hmm." Chi Xueyan sat back at his desk and typed in the computer browser, "What do you want to do on a date? Watch a movie?"
"Which movie?" He Qiao asked, "Do you have anything you want to see?"
Chi Xueyan looked at the theatrical release information displayed on the screen and read the title of the film: "The God Steals the Wind and Clouds, Let Go and Love, Laughter General Mobilization..."
After appreciating this pile of bad film titles, he immediately gave up the activity and simply turned off the computer: "Forget it, just make an appointment for dinner."
"It doesn't sound as good as a dental chair." He Qiao also joked, "I'll come to pick you up now. I'll be there in about a quarter of an hour."
Chi Xueyan got up and walked to the window, and said in response, "Okay, let's talk about it when we meet."
The road below is densely driven by traffic, and the exterior wall of the brand-new building opposite is hung with eye-catching rental advertisements. There are flashing lights everywhere. The orange and red light spots are clearly extinguished, and the sun is hazy, quietly smelling the night.
Before hanging up the phone, He Qiao said goodbye to him naturally.
"See you later, Xiaochi."