Chapter 20: Chapter 20

"How long have you been busy? What shall we eat later?" Huo Zhenzhen asked Jiang Ci on the phone with a cigarette.
Jiang Ci: "It's almost over."
The video of the two said that they would meet today, Jiang Ci will give those skin care products and makeup to Huo Zhenzhen. She has been eating lightly for a few days, and now she just wants to make something heavy: "Let’s eat hot pot later."
Huo Zhenzhen: "It's okay....... Called Mr. Lu?"
Jiang Ci: "No."
Huo Zhenzhen: "What are you polite to me? There were so many people who had hot pot, let alone I took so many things from her."
Jiang Ci: "I'm not polite with you, she is busy."
Being busy is of course an excuse. The moment they entangled and fell on the sofa, Jiang Ci's embarrassing illness was committed. A few days have passed since he had not healed, and she was consciously avoiding getting along with Lu Xingxue - but she didn't and Huo Zhenzhen Share these plans.
Huo Zhenzhen didn't doubt that he was there: "The big president is really hard... By the way, I asked Xiao A to eat with us."
Jiang Ci: "Little A? You--"
"What? I want to ask if I and Little A are a couple?" Huo Zhenzhen "chuckled" and said with a "chuckle": "Because I invited your family Lu, you think Little A must be mine? Your logic I am convinced."
"..." Jiang Ci said silently: "Why are you so sensitive? I didn't think about it at all."
Huo Zhenzhen laughed more loudly: "Yes, yes, I am more sensitive. Little A gave me a sigh of relief, and I solemnly invite you and give him a pass by the way."
Jiang Ci: "What is he mad at you?"
Huo Zhenzhen told Jiang Ci: "Why was the store busy the other day? He and I were busy with dinner and didn’t want to eat takeaway, so we went out for a bite. I met Gu Xiaowei and his wife. A showed a tattoo, and his wife just took a bite and said that we matched our pot with which lid. I think she has a big belly and didn't care about her."
Jiang Ci: "...Huh?"
Huo Zhenzhen: "Then the point comes. Not only did Gu Xiaowei not hold her wife, but instead questioned me, suspecting that I had greened him early in the morning and had a leg with Little A. Little A had a violent temper and rushed to face Gu Xiaowei. He was severely beaten by scolding and beating him."
Jiang Ci felt suffocated even when he heard it: "...When you and Gu Xiaowei were in love, I didn't think he played too much. How could he be so responsive after breaking up?"
Huo Zhenzhen: "Hey, don't talk about love, I feel sick when I think of him now."
When Jiang Ci finishes his work, he goes to the hot pot restaurant and meets Huo Zhenzhen. Huo Zhenzhen and Xiao A are gnawing a sugar cane. Jiang Ci saw that there was a bruise on the corners of Xiao A's mouth, and said as he sat, "Is the medal still hanging?"
Little A laughed out two rows of white teeth: "It's careless."
Huo Zhenzhen pointed to the sugarcane and spit out the scum in his mouth: "If you want to eat, take it yourself."
Jiang Ci hesitated: "Don't eat."
The three people chatted while having a hot pot, and Xiao A described the process of beating Gu Xiaowei to Jiang Ci again. He focused on imitating the appearance of Gu Xiaowei being beaten and jumping to the feet, making Huo Zhenzhen lie on Jiang Ci. His shoulders are grinning.
"If it weren't for Gu Xiaowei's wife who ran up to grab a fight, Xiao A would be worried about her stomach, I'm afraid Gu Xiaowei wouldn't even be able to touch one of A's hair."
After laughing, Jiang Ci asked Huo Zhenzhen: "Are they really married?"
"It's over, even if it doesn't, it's definitely a date. I can't wait for my stomach." Huo Zhenzhen remembered Wen Nian who was also pregnant: "How is Wen Nian? I think she was not in good condition last time, is she still vomiting now? ?"
Jiang Ci's smile faded: "...the child is gone."
Huo Zhenzhen's eyes widened, but she didn't ask any more questions. She just patted Jiang Ci on the shoulder and picked up a spoonful of fat beef for her. Then he greeted Little A: "Hurry up, there are so many dishes today, don't waste it. "
Towards the end, Huo Zhenzhen received a call from a stranger, and pulled his face down without saying a word: "Gu Xiaowei! You are still endless!?"
After hanging up the phone, Huo Zhenzhen frantically complained to Jiang Ci: "I blacked out his number, and he borrowed someone else's cell phone. It's not embarrassing to be such a big person!"
Jiang Ci: "What did he say to you?"
Huo Zhenzhen: "I'm not asking why I should green him."
Jiang Ci is served.
After a hot pot meal, Huo Zhenzhen was not too addicted, so she had to go to the bar to have a drink with Jiang Ci, but when Jiang Ci said that she would have a job the next morning, she didn’t insist, so she dropped her hand and a small A. I'm gone.
Jiang Ci took a taxi home, got off again two blocks ahead of time, and wandered back all the way.
When she passed the fruit shop, she glanced at the shop. She wanted to see the puppet cat, but she saw Lu Xingxue at a glance.
Lu Xingxue was chatting with the clerk, Jiang Ci bowed his head and walked past quickly.
Not long after Jiang Ci arrived home, Lu Xingxue also returned. Maybe it was because there was light in Jiang Ci’s room, so I knocked on her door: "Jiang Ci."
Jiang Ci rubbed against the door and opened it, his face as if nothing had happened: "What?"
Lu Xingxue: "Mom called me to have dinner tomorrow. Are you free?"
Lu Xingxue had agreed to go before, and it was normal for Jiang Lin to contact her. Jiang Ci didn't want to go, but if Lu Xingxue went to eat alone, Jiang Lin would inevitably come and nag her again. Jiang Ci was afraid of trouble, so he nodded obediently: "I'm free."
Lu Xingxue smiled: "Where will you work tomorrow? I'll pick you up."
Jiang Ci: "No need."
Lu Xingxue: "..."
Jiang Ci also realized that his refusal was too direct: "...At the rush hour after get off work, the road is blocked, and you are not on the way. I can go by myself, and I will be there at about 6:30."
Lu Xingxue did not insist, and lifted the bag in her hand: "I squeezed a glass of sugarcane juice for you at the fruit shop."
Jiang Ci watched Huo Zhenzhen and Xiao A in a hot pot restaurant gnawing sugar cane, because he didn't have any image to eat directly, even if he wanted to eat it, he didn't eat it. He didn't expect Huitou Lu Xingxue to squeeze her a glass of juice.
What a perfect coincidence.
"Thank you." Jiang Ci reached out and took it.
Lu Xingxue looked at her, raised her lips, said nothing, and turned back to her room.
Jiang Ci closed the door and took a sip of sweet sugar cane juice through a straw. ...I feel that my embarrassment is 80% cured.
……and many more.
You can't hold fresh fruit juice, you can only drink as you squeeze it. Lu Xingxue is very particular about her work. If she were not sure that Jiang Ci was at home, she would not have brought juice back.
Jiang Ci immediately wanted to understand that he hurriedly passed by outside the fruit shop and was seen by Lu Xingxue.
I saw it when I saw it. It was nothing, but under normal circumstances, I should call her when I saw it, just like the last time I bought an apple, but Lu Xingxue didn't have it this time. Thinking back to Lu Xingxue's smile when she gave her sugarcane juice--
Ginger porcelain seen through: 80%→0%
The next evening, when Jiang Ci arrived at No. 3 Songling Road, it was already close to 7 o'clock. Lu Xingxue hasn't arrived yet, Jiang Lin is not at home, and Tong Zhenni is even less visible. Tong Tingkai sat on the sofa and stared at Tong Junhao's homework. Only the kitchen aunt came in and out, all busy.
"My sister is here!" Tong Junhao jumped up: "My sister plays games with me!"
Tong Tingkai twisted his ears: "Sit down for me!"
Jiang Ci: "..."
It seems that Tong Junhao's in school is not small, and Tong Tingkai who dotes on him like this has begun to behave with him.
Tong Junhao wailed pain, covering his ears and drawing ghosts on the workbook again.
"Your mother has something to do, so she should be back soon." Tong Tingkai raised his wrist and looked at the time.
Jiang Ci: "Oh."
Tong Tingkai asked about Jiang Ci’s work again. They rarely meet with his father and daughter. Jiang Ci’s feelings for him are also very complicated. After a few words, the two of them entered a state of speechlessness, so they all looked at On Tong Junhao.
Tong Junhao, whose ears were still aching, involuntarily straightened his waist.
Sure enough, the sound of a car engine came from the yard, and Jiang Lin and Lu Xingxue entered the house one after another.
Tong Tingkai stood up from the sofa and greeted Jiang Ci: "Everyone is here, let's eat."
He patted the back of Tong Junhao's head again: "Smelly boy, write after dinner."
He didn't mention Tong Zhenni. It seems that Tong Zhenni did not participate in today's dinner. This is nothing unexpected. What surprised Jiang Ci was that Lu Xingxue and Jiang Lin appeared together.
When taking the seat, Jiang Ci took the initiative to speak to Lu Xingxue, and asked her softly, "How did you come with your mother?"
Lu Xingxue leaned close to her ear, with a warm breath on her ears: "I will tell you later."
Jiang Ci was a little itchy, and he did not scratch it.
Several people were eating food around the table. Jiang Lin opened a bottle of health wine from Ning Shuyue for Tong Tingkai, and the topic naturally turned to the miscarriage of Wennian.
"Shu Yue these days, she shed tears every day, tidying up her baby's clothes, crying, and crying when she saw the recipes during pregnancy, I feel that she has never been so sad in her life." Jiang Lin sighed.
Tong Tingkai: "Wen Nian is still young, what is she anxious about."
Jiang Lin: "Yes, take care of your body, and the child will have it in the future. That's how I persuaded her."
When Tong Tingkai and Jiang Lin said this, they stopped talking while having a good understanding.
Jiang Ci stared at them calmly.
Jiang Lin smiled and looked at Lu Xingxue: "Xiao Bai, is Grandpa okay these days?"
Lu Xingxue: "The health is good, but I don't like to communicate with people in character, and I always stay alone."
"I'm getting older, and I have many experiences, and loneliness is inevitable." Jiang Lin paid attention to Lu Xingxue's expression, and when she saw Lu Xingxue nodded slightly, she said again: "I think, if there is a child Can you play coquettishly around him, maybe he can be more cheerful?"
Jiang Ci: "..." Mom, can you be more direct?
Lu Xingxue understood it naturally, and responded, "Well, I'm thinking about it."
Jiang Lin was visibly relieved with naked eyes, and smiled at Tong Tingkai. Tong Junhao hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth: "Where are the little kids? You are not going to send me to Grandpa Deer?"
Tong Tingkai laughed at him, Lu Xingxue pursed her lips, Jiang Lin touched the round head of her baby son: "Fool, where did the baby come from? Of course your sister gave birth!"
Tong Junhao plunged into Jiang Lin's arms: "No matter! You are not allowed to send me away anyway!"
Jiang Lin: "Of course I won't send you away, you're mother's baby bumps."
...
The heavy European-style dining chairs are placed very close, Jiang Ci is next to Lu Xingxue, really restless, speechless and embarrassed.
A perfunctory "consideration" reveals the thoughts of Jiang Lin and Tong Tingkai.
Jiang Lin kneaded Tong Junhao like a dough, and looked at the entrance and exit of the restaurant: "Isn't the crab steamed yet? Let me take a look at the kitchen."
Jiang Ci: "Let me go."
Before Jiang Lin could say anything, she pushed away the chair and went to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, Aunt Wu paid attention to the steaming pot. When Jiang Ci came in, the steaming pot just finished timing.
"Alright?" Jiang Ci asked her.
"Aci", Aunt Wu greeted her with a smile: "Are you waiting in a hurry? It will be fine soon."
"No hurry." Jiang Ci walked to the window and opened it wide.
The night breeze blew in, with the fresh smell of the lawn outside the courtyard, and the depressed mood was much calmer.
Aunt Wu picked up the crabs one by one and put them on the plate: "A Ci, I will put the crabs on the table first. Could you please bring the dipping sauce."
Jiang Ci replied, "Okay."
Aunt Wu went out carrying a whole plate of hairy crabs and ran into Lu Xingxue at the kitchen door. Aunt Wu smiled at Lu Xingxue, and Lu Xingxue gave her a smile.
Aunt Wu walked far, and Lu Xingxue stepped into the kitchen and asked Jiang Ci: "What's the matter with you? Or is it uncomfortable? I think your complexion is not very good."
Lu Xingxue got closer and closer, Jiang Ci said nothing, then took a long breath and looked at her directly: "Why don't you just reject them?"
Lu Xingxue did not answer, Jiang Ci lowered his voice: "We shouldn't give them hope, we have more than a year to—"
The sound stopped abruptly.
Lu Xingxue's fingertips crossed Jiang Ci's face, and she picked the wind-blown hair behind her ears. Then it seemed to have realized that Jiang Ci had said something. He stared at Jiang Ci's eyes softly, and asked her softly, "Sorry, I was a little distracted. What did you just say?"
Jiang Ci heard his heartbeat, "bang".
Lu Xingxue waited for several seconds, but Jiang Ci never spoke again, so she picked up the dipping sauce on the cooking table: "Let's go out, they are waiting."
After Lu Xingxue sat down, Jiang Ci's heartbeat gradually returned to normal.
She turned her head to look at Lu Xingxue next to her. Lu Xingxue was expertly peeling crab shells, as if she had eyes on her head. Knowing that Jiang Ci was looking at herself, she compared the crab on her hand and turned to ask: "Do you want it? ?"
Jiang Ci: "...I will do it myself."
Lu Xingxue put the peeled crab on the plate in front of Jiang porcelain.
Jiang Lin's face was full of ease and joy that could not be concealed.
The people at the table ate their dinner thoughtfully until the door was slammed open. Tong Zhenni stepped on high heels and walked like flying, and she was still at a distance from the dining table, so she slammed her bag over!
The small light-colored sachet smashed into the crab dip impartially, the juice splashed and the pot was overturned.
Tong Zhenni screamed hysterically: "Why are you doing such a disgusting thing! Are you my dad!?"