There are still three days left before the Lantern Festival.
Xueming rushed back to Bu Liuxing's old house as scheduled. He couldn't say a few words to Aunt Mei before leaving. He came and went in a hurry without stopping for a moment.
the reason is simple--
——Aunt Mei comes from a wealthy family. Before and after the Spring Festival, the motorcade from the mansion can line up at the intersection of Chima Avenue.
In addition, Xueming made an appointment with Xiaoqi to go to his hometown in Shanwei on the way back to his hometown for the festival to meet Bai Zijin's father.
The two are not engaged, and they are not serious boyfriend and girlfriend. Xueming has no objection to visiting her uncle. On the contrary, Xiaoqi becomes nervous. Meeting her parents is like an exam, and her usual academic performance is not good.
The good news cannot be attributed to the blindness of the teacher.
This teacher is her father.
Saying goodbye to Aunt Mei and Meteor, Xueming and Xiaoqi drove to West Kowloon, preparing to take the high-speed rail home.
Maybe you want to ask, where did Bai Lu go——
——She is exercising while moving bricks and building buildings at JoeStar, and she has no time to spare.
Xueming hopes that her sister can grow up quickly. There is no one she is familiar with in Hengyin's hometown. It is not home.
And the situation is different today. Jiang Xueming is not an unknown person, he is the talker of the [Anonymous] school appointed by BOSS. Once this faucet stick is in his hands, BOSS has no intention of taking it back - in the eyes of other passengers, Jiang Xueming
He is considered a [big shot] in the Abyss Railway.
If Bailu returns to the surface, he will probably encounter much more trouble than underground.
So Xueming left her sister at the station to celebrate the New Year with [JoeRank]’s uncles.
After boarding the return high-speed train, Xueming kept talking on the phone——
——Call the lobby manager to order materials to make weapons and equipment.
——Call Ms. Fenxing to order gas masks and anti-corrosion materials to make clothes.
——Called with Wen Bucai and asked about his sister's physical and mental health.
——Called my sister and asked if there was something wrong with Uncle Jack.
——Bring Xiao Qi’s cell phone, call the King Hunter, and ask over and over again about the properties of the BOSS’s red mountain stone life amulet.
An hour and a half later, the high-speed train started departing from West Kowloon. Xueming didn't say a word to Xiao Qi at all.
Oh no, let me borrow the phone.
Until he thanked the king hunter repeatedly, interrupted the communication, took out the cat bell and looked at it carefully, took out the wool wheel and electric pen from the tool bag, and started polishing work.
Xiaoqi is almost asleep——
——She originally thought that this time should belong to the two of them, at least it would be a sweet date and travel.
Unexpectedly, my employer acted like a workaholic during the holidays. He never wanted to take a break. Even when he had nothing to do, he would open the reader and stare at "The Great Break" and continue reading.
It’s not that this is bad——
——Xiao Qi is already a very straightforward and straightforward girl. She doesn't care about her employer's behavior of neglecting others. After all, when he treats people well, he is very, very, very good.
I just feel a little bit lost in my heart.
This feeling of loss gradually became stronger, and the competitiveness in her heart was at work, and she wanted to cause some trouble to her employer.
So Bai Qingqing hugged Xueming's arm and suddenly leaned into her employer's ear and whispered in his ear.
"If you suddenly sneeze..."
Xueming glanced at the characters in the book and responded casually: "Then it must be that I am thinking of you..."
Xiaoqi was immediately so happy that she couldn't close her legs and kept turning the pages of her employer's e-book. She was afraid that her employer would waste too much time on this book and wanted to finish it early tomorrow morning.
Xueming didn't care. He had already read this part of the content, and there was no problem in reading if he suddenly jumped to a few large chapters. It was all about reviewing the past and learning something new.
Xiao Qi leaned into Xueming's ear: "If you are woken up by your mobile phone in the middle of the night..."
Xueming: "You must be crazy."
Xiao Qi immediately laughed out loud at the sound of cleaning the glass, and then saw Xueming raising her hand and wiping the window of the high-speed train, trying to cover up the waiter's embarrassment with the real sound of cleaning the glass.
Every time Brother Qi laughed out a syllable, Xueming's fingers moved according to the rhythm.
So Seventh Brother smiled even more happily——
——Before the big girl’s madness index exceeded A, Xueming decided to use the kiss attack.
He hugged Xiaoqi's free-spirited head and pressed his mouth on her forehead.
Immediately afterwards, she changed from the state of cleaning the glass to the state of "hee hee hee hee".
Xiao Qi knew that Xueming wanted her to calm down and not let others see her.
But she doesn't care -
——She doesn't care at all.
The phone suddenly lit up and it was a call from Jason Megan.
Xueming put down the e-reader and immediately pointed his fingers at Xiao Qi, asking Xiao Qi to be quiet.
Then he answered the call and spoke seriously.
"Jason?"
"Happy New Year, Jiang Xueming."
"Rare."
"I should say sorry. I have been making up lessons in the Air Service Corps a while ago, and then you asked me to do intelligence work. I never thought about the Chinese Spring Festival. I wish you a happy old age this time. I hope you won't mind it too much."
"Thank you, you are happy too."
"I didn't sleep last night and was thinking about Hongxing Mountain. I hope you won't get involved in this matter. After all, you have just pupated, and I have already begun to emerge and will soon become a butterfly - I have been stuck in this state for a long, long time.
.”
"Well, you are better than me."
"No...I don't mean that. I'm not competing with you. I'm serious this time. You can go to another place to get a mission, and then come back safely. You and 9527 are a pair of strangers.
Man, the Chinese idiom is called [Beautiful Match], right? Is that the right way to say it?"
"Um."
"I learned about your past from the King Hunter, and I thought - you should have a new home soon, and probably in two years, I will be able to teach your children to speak Dacian dialect, so I thought.
..”
"What are you thinking about?"
"I..."
"What do you think?"
"I envy you very much, Jiang Xueming. Everything is so beautiful. You can't destroy these beautiful things because of me and my selfish desires."
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"Hello! Hello?! Are you listening?"
Xueming frowned and shouted into the phone.
"I can't hear you! I can't hear you! It seems like you are saying that you miss Wendy very much and want to go to Red Star Mountain, but you don't have the power! You are too weak! Let's go together!"
Then Jiang Xueming severely cut off communication and blocked Jason's phone number.
Xiao Qi shook his head and came over.
"What's the matter?"
Jiang Xueming's expression was exaggerated, surprised and horrified: "I have prepared all the materials! The semi-finished products have been sent to the construction site! The captain said that the activity is over, is this possible? I wasted so much time, painstakingly studying the myths of Eastern and Western giants, this crappy book
I read it over and over six times, a full six times!"
Xiao Qi immediately hugged Xueming's neck: "Okay, okay, the baby is not angry..."
Xueming was still aggrieved: "Can he talk like this? He still wants to teach our children to learn the Dacian dialect? Where does he have the face? What's the use of learning that thing?"
Xiao Qi was secretly happy and giggled at the same time.
Xueming finally returned to normal: "To be honest, I'm quite angry."
Xiaoqi: "Why?"
Xueming explained with gestures in a serious manner: "I feel looked down upon. This is the first time. I am not convinced - no matter how Jason Megan mocked me, ridiculed me, and personally attacked me in the past, I also
At most, give him a painless slap."
Xiaoqi: "Which time did you say?"
Xueming: "That time he called me hottie."
Xiaoqi: "His face is swollen because of your pain. Isn't it painful or itchy?"
Xueming: "My ATK is very high. Being able to cause that kind of attack effect is considered to be a matter of staying power to the end."
Xiaoqi: "Oh, okay, go on."
Xueming: "But this time, this time I was really angry. I had a heart-to-heart fight with him, and Katyusha repeatedly told him [A warrior is not alone] - but he still felt that there was a kind of superstition that he could rely on.
There is an element of self-impression. It seems that as long as he leaves me in a safe place, he will be a great hero who can carry the whole world on his shoulders."
Xiaoqi: "This is what a naughty person is like!~"
Xueming: "But..."
Before he finished speaking——
——The phone lit up again, and Xueming answered the call.
Robert Downing said: "Mr. Xueming, Mr. Jason asked me to call."
Xueming replied: "Don't call him, let him write me a letter to apologize! Otherwise, I will block you too!"
He turned off the phone screen again and continued talking to Xiao Qi.
"I want to break all the superstitions in his heart. This man has big problems. If he is thrown into [Joe Star]'s kitchen, I will have nightmares at night."
Xiaoqi laughed so hard that she knew her employer was joking, but her serious look was really cute.
Then the phone lighted up and it was Bai Lu calling.
Xueming: "Hello?"
Bai Lu: "Brother! Uncle Jason Megan wants me to ask you, where is the letter sent? Does it need to be written in black and white in his own hand?"
Xueming: "As long as you have the heart."
Bai Lu: "When will you come back, brother?"
Xueming: "I'll be back after the Lantern Festival."
Bai Lu: "Do I have to leave again when I come back?"
Xueming: "Yes."
Bai Lu: "Can I come with you?"
Xueming: "You are too weak. If you are strong, please let me hold your thigh."
Bai Lu: "Hehehe...yeah! Definitely!"
Xueming: "Stop talking, it's time for me to get off the car."
Bai Lu: "Going to my sister-in-law's house?"
Xueming glanced at Xiaoqi.
When Xiao Qi heard the title "sister-in-law", she had become accustomed to it and it was not awkward at all. Meteor was also called the same.
Xueming immediately responded: "Yes, go see your uncle."
"Then you have to take good care of yourself! Brother, buy some brand-name bags, leather shoes, suits and so on. Then give people cigarettes and wine - I..." Bai Lu suddenly slapped his head when he said this: "Ah
! It’s been too long since I’ve been with you, brother, you know these things better than me, I’m sorry, I’m the one talking too much.”
"Take good care of yourself, Bai Lu." Jiang Xueming talked about his schedule these days: "I went to see my uncle, then I went back to Hengyin to get together with old friends, and then I came back immediately."
Bai Lu: "Yeah! Is it Brother Ye Bei?"
Jiang Xueming: "Yes."
Bai Lu: "Say hello to Brother Ye Bei for me, too. Although I'm not familiar with him, but according to my brother's wishes, he is the benefactor of both of us."
Jiang Xueming: "Okay."
Didn't say goodbye -
——The call ends here.
...
...
The two rented a car in early spring and drove to Taohe Town, Xiaoqi's hometown.
This place is far, far away from the city center. Next to Fuxing Hall, there is a Dongsheng Foam Factory, which is where Bai Zijin's father worked when he was young.
Xiao Qi grew up in the family building of the foam factory. When she returned here, Xiao Qi seemed to be a different person. The Cantonese dialect she used to greet the neighbors and villagers sounded very unfamiliar. Even the dialect has different slang words.
, Xueming couldn’t understand it at all.
I saw some aunties sunbathing in the health center of the town. When they saw Xiao Qi, they immediately started shouting.
Xiaoqi answered a few words casually, and in the end his face turned red with embarrassment and his dialect changed to Mandarin.
"No... Auntie, no, I'm not pregnant - I'm fat."
Then she took Xueming's hand and ran all the way to the old house.
When we arrived at the bottom of the old building, next to the terraced building called Building 36 on Taohe Street, in front of the prosperous small supermarket in Furong, we looked up and saw Xiaoqi's old house on the second floor.
She raised her finger: "My dad lives here!"
Xueming: "Didn't you move?"
Xiaoqi explained: "He is nostalgic and doesn't like it. Didn't I earn a lot of money? I told my father that I wanted to buy him a big villa, a car, and many, many amazing things, but he didn't want them."
Xueming: "Why?"
Xiao Qi thought for a while, wondering whether she should explain it clearly or not.
In the end she confessed——
"——Dad is not an ambitious person. He wants to stay here all his life. The neighbors are all old friends from the foam factory. When he goes to the city center, he has to make new friends. There are many people and cars, but it is very difficult.
He doesn't like being lonely, and I'm often not around him and have my own life."
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The [aunt] here refers to Bai Zijin’s biological mother.
Xiaoqi: "Yes, dad is a very dedicated person. He thinks that getting to know mom is the luckiest thing in his life. It would be great if he could stay with her from the beginning to the end. But he is a coward. If mom wants to leave, he will never stay.
.”
Thinking of this, Xiao Qi began to frown and feel angry.
"That's not the case for me! Xueming! I must hold on to what I like! Even if it's not mine, I will grab it! This is called absorbing the experience and lessons of the previous generation!"
Xueming: "I can see it."
After that, Xueming walked to the small supermarket.
He went to the shelf and chatted with the boss, asking what cigarettes the locals liked to smoke, and planned to take it to his uncle.
Xiao Qi immediately said: "My dad doesn't smoke."
He went to ask about the drinks again.
Xiao Qi immediately said: "My dad doesn't drink."
He finally asked Xiaoqi: "Where's the milk? I can't come in empty-handed."
Xiao Qi finally said.
"You want to bring him a gift, why not bring some Wangzi."
Xueming was surprised: "Wangzai milk?"
"Yes!" Xiao Qi nodded fiercely: "He likes to drink Wangzai milk and sweets! Also, he likes guns very much."
Xueming was even more surprised: "Ah?"
Xiao Qi quickly said: "Motorcycles and guns, he likes everything boys like. Even though he is fifty-five years old, he still likes it very much. I bought him many toy guns and electric motorcycles. When I was a child,
, he took me to class on his motorcycle.”
Xueming thought for a long time and brought something from the nearby fruit stall.
Then he went upstairs and knocked on the door——
——But it’s very strange.
The brand new door has no lock, and it opens by itself with just a few taps.
Brother Qi rushed in the door and kept shouting.
"Dad! Dad! I'm back! Dad?"
Xueming's sharp eyes saw that in the renovated house, there was a memorial tablet on the niche next to the TV, and there were black and white photos.
"Xiaoqi..."
He was not sure that the elderly man in the photo was Bai Zijin's father.
The tributes in front of the memorial tablet were also rotten and smelly, as if they had not been taken care of for a long time.
"Xiaoqi."
Xueming called to Bai Zijin and asked her to take a good look at the spiritual tablet.
"Xiao Qi, please see clearly."
On the other side, the originally cheerful eldest girl came in and put down her things, then looked around for her father. She didn't want to listen to Xueming's words, and kept rummaging through the boxes, her face becoming increasingly ugly.
Jiang Xueming asked tentatively: "Xiao Qi? This spiritual position..."
"Found it!" Bai Zijin pulled out an energetic uncle from under the bed in the bedroom. "Dad!"
"Ouch... I've been caught. I can't fool you anymore!" The uncle grabbed his ear by his daughter and said with a smile on his face, "Go home!"
Bai Zijin: "Yes! Dad! I will take my boyfriend..."
She immediately turned around mid-sentence.
"The male customer has brought us back!"
The father of the Bai family looked at his daughter.
He looked at Xueming again.
He looked at his daughter again.
"You have money, but you can't hire a pretty boy. Tell me honestly, which club does he belong to?"