Xiao Yuan raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, and suddenly asked: "What about you?"
"What's wrong with me?"
"You are not alone."
"I……"
Liu Jiangqing suddenly fell silent and stood up from the table with a glass of wine with a worried look on his face. He slowly walked to the dark window and stared at the glorious street in the distance. Xiao Yuan didn't care about him.
He left the table without paying attention to what he said and stopped after saying a word. He picked up the wine bottle and filled himself with liquor again, and slowly read a poem in a slightly drunken tone:
"Lanling's wine is filled with tulips, and the jade bowl contains amber light. But it makes the owner drunk, and the guests don't know where they are in a foreign country."
——Don’t you know where is a foreign country...?
There are many lights on the street outside the window, most of which are the festive red color that symbolizes the New Year. There are very few people, and almost no one can be seen. After all, there is only about an hour left before midnight, and everyone is reunited at home. The street scene here is incredible.
It is very strange to Liu Jiangqing who lives here. Even after staying for more than half a year, there is still no trace of familiarity. It is obviously a "foreign place" that has nothing to do with him, but he spent New Year's Eve here this year.
Perhaps because of drinking some wine, Liu Jiangqing suddenly became a little sentimental. Looking at the street scene, he wanted to cry and laugh. This year he is celebrating the New Year with Xiao Yuan here, but next year he still doesn’t know where he will celebrate the New Year. From now on, in the future,
I don’t know. Will he always be in S city? He thinks it is unlikely, but one thing is possible, that is, at this time of year, he will face the world outside the window alone, watching hundreds of lanterns and fireworks, but there is always something in front of him.
There are no familiar faces, no happy laughter.
Living like an orphan.
"To my parents." Liu Jiangqing raised her hand and spilled the wine in the glass to the ground, smiling slightly, "Happy New Year."
Xiao Yuan saw Liu Jiangqing's action, and his expression suddenly became solemn. After thinking about it, he walked towards him carrying the bottle and cup with half a bottle of wine. The two stood face to face by the window, Xiao Yuan raised the bottle and pushed Liu Jiangqing
Jiangqing filled the empty wine glass in her hand, and then poured herself a glass. Her hand holding the wine bottle was steady throughout the process, and not a drop was spilled.
"Sorry." Xiao Yuan held the wine bottle in his left hand, touched the wine glass with Liu Jiangqing in his right hand, and drank it all in one gulp.
"I'm sorry. You can say other things to me today, but you don't need to apologize." Liu Jiangqing also drank the wine in one gulp, and the hot feeling immediately slipped from her throat to her abdomen, and her whole body became hot.
"This apology is not for what I just said, but for my previous understanding of you." Xiao Yuan said seriously.
"Why, in your eyes, am I a particularly bad person? To the point where I have to apologize?" Liu Jiangqing frowned and asked displeasedly.
"Before today, I thought you were a person who was full of negative emotions about things and used strong words to cover up his inner fragility." Xiao Yuan replied, "Once your emotions explode, you will recklessly destroy everything, or even self-destruct, which is very dangerous."
"Huh...it's okay. This evaluation is not as bad as I thought. It's pretty much the same. After all, I was like this in the first two years. I was very negative and indifferent to everyone and everything. I didn't even want to say a word to others.
, and even almost destroyed myself. But now I have changed a lot. At least, I can talk to you a few more words, and drink a few sips of wine with you, so it is not so dangerous." Liu Jiangqing shrugged, with a hint of self-deprecation on the corner of her mouth.
smile.
"Really, it seems that we understand each other quite well. You are right about my past, and I am right about your past. Not much else to say, as long as you like Yuanjiang Pavilion and Zero-One Team, here
This is your home, and I am your family. If this land is not demolished, it will be no problem for you to live here when you are in your seventh or eighth decade." Xiao Yuan said boldly.
"My family? Hey, which family member are you?" Liu Jiangqing shouted dissatisfied.
"Based on age, I should be your brother." Xiao Yuan said proudly.
"Tch, you're drunk. I'll take it as your fart today and it means nothing!"
"Hahaha, when I was twenty-five years old, I drank a whole table of people. This little wine is not enough to appetize. How can I start talking about getting drunk?"
"Professional players can't drink. If you can drink a whole table of people, you're lying."
"Why are you lying to me? I had already retired at that time and have been in business for two years. Can I still drink?"
"Retired? So early?"
"Yes, when I was twenty-three years old, Lao Ji disbanded the team and wanted to compete abroad. I didn't want to go with him, so I retired and started to make a living elsewhere. I started from scratch with the tens of thousands I saved from playing games. I was lucky at that time.
I have the business acumen inherited from my father, and it only took me two years to achieve something. I opened the first Yuanjiang Pavilion in City B. Later, I did other things until I opened this restaurant three years ago.
When I was in Yuanjiangge, City S, I finally reached the ideal state in business, and I could live a clean life without so much trouble. However, the price of changing careers to become a businessman is that my hand speed will decrease, my drinking capacity will increase, and e-sports, for a greasy person like me
The businessman’s half-cent relationship is gone.”
Xiao Yuan said and drank another glass of wine. The wine had no taste in his mouth, only a strong feeling in his throat when he swallowed. It was like swallowing the complex emotions in his heart and letting it sit in his stomach.
It digests itself slowly without being noticed and will not explode.
"Lao Ji?" Liu Jiangqing was a little drunk, but she still sobered up after hearing the name. She looked at Xiao Yuan doubtfully: "Is the Lao Ji you are talking about Ji Yunze, the director of IeSF?"
"I have been in the e-sports industry for twenty years. Apart from him, there is no other veteran in the world." Xiao Yuan looked out the window and recalled the dark and thin guy in the All-Star Game and what happened that day. He couldn't help but sigh.
One breath.
"He is actually your captain..." Liu Jiangqing was a little surprised, not expecting Xiao Yuan to know Ji Yunze at all.
"Lao Ji was first the captain and then the coach of the team. He and I worked together for a total of eight years, from the age of fifteen to twenty-three. We lived under the same roof and ate the same kind of instant noodles. We were half family.
"Xiao Yuan sighed.
"Oh, I finally understand. Your family will eventually go abroad to settle down." Liu Jiangqing suddenly smiled, "Just now you said you wanted to be my brother, does that mean I will also go abroad in the future?"
"I really can't accept what you said." Xiao Yuan also laughed, "When you go abroad, just go abroad. Anyway, you will all go out one day."
Liu Jiangqing frowned slightly, sensing something in Xiao Yuan's words. Just when he was about to ask what he meant, the phone on the table suddenly vibrated. He walked over and picked up the phone and saw that it was indeed Lu Yunqian calling.
"Hey, Sissy."
"Happy New Year, Landlord, I'm here to wish you a happy New Year!" Lu Yunqian's clear and lovely voice came from the phone.
"Hey, Happy New Year, Sissy. It just so happens that your coach Xiao Yuan is also here. I'm going to open the call. You can say hello to him and wish him a happy new year." Liu Jiangqing said and clicked on the call open and put it on the table.