"Okay, let's not say it, right?" Qin Zie nodded, feeling inexplicably irritable.
He stepped over Chen Enci and stood with his back to her for a while. The more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, he raised his hand and grabbed a handful of his hair, then turned back to Chen Enci.
He wanted to ask her again who the hell did it. But when he saw the red and swollen finger prints on her face, and the look of her lowered eyelids and pursed lips, the words that came to his lips suddenly stopped.
I can't speak.
He stared at her for a long time with an unhappy expression, and finally took a long breath as if to admit defeat, and spoke again in a low voice: "Are you hungry?"
Chen Enci still said nothing.
Qin Jie: "Okay, I'll be a mute with you."
After saying that, a gust of wind blew, bringing with it a chill.
Qin Ji took off his coat and put it on Chen Enci.
The two of them stood on the side of the road in silence for an unknown amount of time. Chen Enci shook his head gently: "I'm not hungry."
Qin Zhe: "Then what do you want to do most now?"
"I..." Chen Enci paused, and before he could speak, his eyes turned red uncontrollably: "I want to go back..."
She wants to go home.
But she has no home to return to.
The Chen family in Beijing has never been her home... Now the only thing she can barely call home is the house she rented in Shanghai.
Chen Enci moved his lips: "...go back to Shanghai, go home."
Qin Zhe stared at the moist corners of her eyes for a long time: "Okay, let's go home."
There is no high-speed rail from Hengdian to Shanghai. Qin Zi calculated the time. It takes more than an hour to go from Hengdian to Yiwu, and then transfer from Yiwu to Shanghai. Plus the waiting time at the high-speed rail station, the time is about the same as when he rented a car and drove back to Shanghai.
many.
Qin Zhe directly took out his mobile phone, found a car rental point, took Chen Enci there to rent a car, then said hello to Rong and Lin Ran, and drove Chen Enci to Shanghai.
Along the way, Chen Enci was silent, staring out the window for a while.
Of course Qin Zhe knew what happened to her, but he could also see that she didn't want to tell her, so he didn't ask.
It took Qin Jie three and a half hours to travel more than 300 kilometers, and it was already nine o'clock in the evening when we arrived in Shanghai.
Qin Zhe returned the car at the designated rental point and walked to the roadside with Chen Enci.
Tonight is Christmas Eve, and it is difficult to get a taxi in Shanghai. Qin Zhe and Chen Enci waited for more than ten minutes, but no empty taxi came. Finally, they saw an empty bus coming. Qin Zhe
Jie then pushed Chen Enci and got on the bus.
There were two people sitting in front of the bus who had just gotten off work. One of them was about to fall asleep holding a folder.
There was no one at the back of the bus. After Qin Ji finished putting in the coins, he pushed Chen Enci to the back of the bus and sat in the second to last row.
The bus was driving very slowly and swaying, just like on the way back from Hengdian. She looked out the window and said nothing, just like a doll without a soul.
Qin Jie sat next to her for a while, then got up and moved to another seat.
Chen Enci noticed the movement, turned his head and glanced at Qin Jie, who was sitting four rows away from him, and then cast his gaze out the window again.
The bus stopped and stopped, and when it passed the third stop after they got on the bus, the two passengers sitting in front also got off the bus.
In the huge carriage, apart from the driver at the front, only Qin Zhe and Chen Enci were left far away.
The bus restarted and drove away from the bus stop. After the bus speed stabilized, Qin Ji stood up and returned to Chen Enci's side.
The girl was looking out the window and was so distracted that she didn't notice his approach at all. It wasn't until he put an earphone into her ear that she turned to look at Qin Jie.
Qin Zie didn't speak, put the other earphone into his ear, and then clicked on the screen of his phone.
A song that Chen Enci was very familiar with came to her ears through the headphones.
It was a Cantonese song that she liked very much and she often listened to it at home.
Qin Jie and Chen Enci still didn't talk. They shared a pair of headphones and listened to the same song quietly.
The car drove forward, and Chen Enci turned to look out the window again.
Qin Zi lowered his head and looked at the lyrics on the phone screen for a while, then looked up at the girl beside him.
The girl's hair was tied into a cute bun. Because she stayed outside for too long, her hair was a little messy in the wind, and her neck was shining white under the broken hair.
Qin Zhe looked a little fascinated. After a while, he moved his eyes to the window.
Through the glass, Qin Zhe saw the bustling Christmas Eve, and also saw the silhouette of the girl reflected on the glass.
Like a ghost, Qin Ji raised his phone and took a photo of himself and the silhouette in the window.
After saving the photo, Qin Zie put away his phone and continued listening to music while leaning on the back of his chair.
Only when the song came to an end, his voice came out.
"Happy Christmas Eve to minors."
Chen Enci thought he heard wrongly and was stunned for a moment before turning to look at Qin Jie beside him.
The boy seemed not to notice her gaze, staring straight ahead with an expressionless expression.
"Underage, don't be unhappy. Can I take you to the Bund to watch the fireworks?"
"The stop ahead is the Bund. If it's good, just follow it."
Qin Zi seemed to have pinched it in advance. As soon as he finished speaking in the earphones, the bus stop announcement came out.
He turned his head and glanced at the little girl beside him who was still in a daze, reached out and pulled the headphones out of her ears, then stood up and walked to the rear door.
The car stopped slowly, the door opened, Qin Zi got out of the car in three steps, and then stood on the side of the road, looking at Chen Enci through the window.
Three seconds later, Chen Enci stood up, hugged his bag, and jumped out of the car.
The car door closed just in time at the moment her body jumped out.
Qin Zie smiled and walked towards the Bund with Chen Enci.
On Christmas Eve, there were people everywhere, but where Qin Zhe took Chen Enci, there were fewer and fewer people.
At the end, only the two of them were left, and Qin Zhe stopped. He and she stood by the river, blowing the cold wind, and looked at the bright lights in the distance.
At ten o'clock sharp, brilliant fireworks bloomed on the river in the distance.
Maybe it was because the scenery was too charming, or maybe it was because the little girl finally came out after being sad for several hours. Her mood became more and more high, and in the end, she pointed at the fireworks in the distance and shouted, "Watch it carefully" while making a fuss about the cold.
Qin Zhe moved his gaze from a distance to Chen Enci's face. He looked at the girl's smile again, and his mood improved inexplicably.
"Underage?"
Some things are always so unexpected. For example, now, he never thought that he would confess his love under such circumstances, but he called her name out of nowhere: "Want to save money on rent?"