The Queen of Romance: A Summer of Sweet Classics

Chapter 48 So Proud
Drowsy and drowsy, as if being carried out of the car in the haze, it was a little cold outside, as long as she moved, she was quickly covered with something.Airtight from start to finish.When I woke up again, the scene was changed.

The sheets under her body were soft and delicate, and there was a single dim lamp beside the bed.Outside the window, there is the moon hanging on the flower branches, and occasionally there is a breeze, and the light that spreads in is swaying like water.I thought for a while, and finally realized that this is Gu's house.The person lying on the side of the bed was wearing a dark blue nightgown with the belt loosely gathered around the waist, and was dozing off with his eyes closed.Supporting the forehead with one hand, the line of the jaw is smooth and flowing.

At best, I only stayed in this house for one day, but because it was the first time I came to T city, I was particularly impressed.When I got off the plane that day, the lights of T City were just beginning to come on. The way back from the airport was full of prosperity and brilliance. The bright and clean windows in the shops, the well-dressed crowds on the streets, the overwhelmed BMW carved cars, and the bright jade pots.Before turning into the street where the house is located, it has always been so flashy and lively.But the moment the car turned across the street, a silence was cut off.No sound was heard outside the car.There are few people on this street, there are continuous flowers and trees beside the walls, and even the street lights are very quiet.Gradually, the car got closer and closer to the gate of the house, until I drove in slowly. Through the car window, I saw the neatly manicured lawn in the courtyard.

That night, I felt in a trance as if I had entered a castle.

The finely crafted crystal chandelier above the head, the curly and stretched armrest pattern on the chair, the porcelain utensils so delicate that the lines cannot be seen clearly, and the red goldfish swimming slowly in the huge glass fish tank next to it.Every place is quietly exquisite.It reveals an unattainable lazy luxury.Everything is very different from the mountains.Even touching has become cautious.I heard Gu Yanzhi say with a smile on the side: "Like this place?"

Of course I like it.But he didn't want to tell him these two words clearly.He only nodded slightly, and said with some leeway: "It's okay."

At the same time, I still remember that on the second night before going to the party to meet Du Chengchen, I woke up in the soft bed like this, and saw a set of clothes, shoes and socks, and Lingerie and jewelry.Gu Yanzhi told me to put on my clothes, he opened the door and came in, combed my hair, and finally put a hairpin on my head.

I had never worn anything like that before, and everything was just right.I feel that everything is unnaturally dressed, like wearing an ill-fitting cover.Under his sizing eyes, his face slowly burned.Until Gu Yanzhi suddenly said slowly: "Du Wan, raise your head."

I looked up, a little dazed.His fingers landed on the necklace around my neck, stroking the two petals on it.The tone was understated: "Very good, Du Wan. That's it. Look up, you are very good, you won't lose to anyone."

……

I moved a little, Gu Yanzhi slightly opened his eyelids: "...Are you awake?"

His sleepy eyes were slightly different from when he closed his eyes and fell asleep just now, he was so lazy that he couldn't describe it.Then I heard him say, "Do you remember where this is?"

I nod.He added: "I called Du Chengchen just now. We will go to Du's house tomorrow and bring your things. We will go to the supermarket by the way and buy some things. You will live here for the first time. "

I turned my head to look at him, and he was still as calm as ever.After a while, I asked, "How many days are you talking about?"

His voice is still faint: "until he changes custody to me."

After a few more seconds, I finally understood the meaning of this sentence.Lifting her face up suddenly, she looked at him without blinking.

"If you don't like Du Chengchen, then you don't have to pay attention to him. From now on, you will live here, eat, drink, live, study and play, and I will take over everything. Until you can really be independent." He raised his eyelids, his eyes were dark, and looked at I said, "In this case, are you willing?"

After a long time, I can still remember his tone when he said this.Unhurried, with a little carelessness between his eyebrows and eyes.It seems to be talking about the most bland and breezy thing.As if going back to that night on the mountain, on the small hill, it was the same person who put the windbreaker on me and asked me in a very normal tone: "Du Wan, do you want to go to the mountain with me?" outside?"

I don't know if he is clear or not, but his understatement can always easily move my whole world.

For a long time after that, I felt that Gu Yanzhi was omnipotent.

It seems that a habit has gradually been formed, as long as you tell Gu Yanzhi about difficult things, he can always settle them easily.Things that are big in my eyes are small things in his eyes.He always used an attitude of calmness in the past, gently put an end to difficult problems, and then calmly arranged them according to his original wishes.Like a god.

I was silent under his gaze, and whispered for a while, "But I miss Yanyan very much."

He handled this obstacle very flatly: "I will spare time at the end of this month to accompany you back to Dashan. And don't you still want to visit your parents' graves?"

"...Are you sure Du Chengchen will agree?"

"can."

"But you two know each other and are related."

He raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at me and said, "So?"

"...So," I plucked up my courage, raised my head, and said seriously, "I don't really know you very well. If your relationship with Du Chengchen changes because of my incident, you will It might be possible to choose Du Chengchen right away. I think this possibility is quite high. You should think about it again."

He hummed and asked, "Where did you get the possibility that you are quite high? Why did I choose Du Chengchen? Although he is my cousin, how do you know that I know him very well?"

"..."

"What's more," Gu Yanzhi glanced at me, glanced at the distance between us meaningfully, and continued slowly, "Du Chengchen and I have never slept together in the same bed."

"..."

My face was flushed in an instant, and I immediately backed away far away holding the quilt, and said loudly: "Who, who has a relationship with you in the same bed!"

"By the way," he didn't even move, "when someone fell asleep in the car just now, saliva dripped onto my clothes."

"..." After a while, I choked out a sentence, "I don't want to live with you!"

After speaking, he was about to climb out of the bed, and when he passed Gu Yanzhi, he was caught back by an arm and pressed on the bed.After struggling for a long time but still unable to break free from his hands, Gu Yanzhi said with a smile: "There is a dinner party tomorrow Saturday night, do you want to go?"

"In no mood!"

He said leisurely, "If you don't go, you won't have dinner tonight."

"Don't even live here, who wants to eat your food!" I stared at him, "Why are you so annoying, I want to go back to the mountains, let me go!"

I struggled fiercely while talking, and finally Gu Yanzhi gradually couldn't restrain me, and suddenly stopped all my movements with one sentence: "The button of the clothes is unbuttoned."

I froze and immediately lowered my head, only to see that the buttons on my body were in good order.Can't help being furious, he raised his leg and kicked it, but Gu Yanzhi easily avoided it.He threw a pillow casually, with a smile on his face: "Aren't you hungry after tossing all night? Auntie has already cooked porridge, go wash your hands, and then go downstairs."

Towards the evening of the next day, Gu Yanzhi and I confronted each other about the dinner party.

I said, "I'm not going."

While cutting the peeled apple, Gu Yanzhi asked, "Why?"

"..." But I don't want to answer this question.

Ye Xunxun and I once discussed the matter of Lu Qi.Ye Xunxun said that it is natural for humans to be timid, but showing timidity is a childish expression.How many adults do you see who really show their timidity?The really strong ones are like a kind of frog in South Africa, which puffs up its whole body when encountering an enemy, pretending to be stronger than usual.Only in this way can we win.

I said, "Are you afraid of the long jump in the physical education exam the day after tomorrow?"

She said, "Scared. What are you doing?"

"You are afraid of the long jump. At this time, if you pretend to be stronger than usual, will you really be stronger?"

"..." Ye Xunxun narrowed his eyes, looked at me deeply, and let out a long breath, "I hate people who refute my quotations."

Although I have never been to a dinner party, I have seen it from afar.It is precisely because I have seen it before that I feel that in that kind of place, I cannot achieve the state of Ye Xunxun.Places like dinner parties are supposed to be the world of adults, one of the places Gu Yanzhi is most familiar with. As for me, I am far away and have no connection.

When I was still at Du’s house, the driver promised to take me home, but he arrived at the school in the afternoon two hours later than the end of school.I was so stiff from the cold that I couldn't wait to run to the car, and it happened that Du Chengchen was sitting in the back seat.He was wearing a black evening dress, and every part of his body was meticulous.When I asked him where he was going, he said simply, "Dinner."

Because there was no time to turn around and go home, the driver turned first and went to the dinner hall that night.From a distance, you can see the fragrance of clothes and temples in the hall.Du Chengchen stepped out of the car, and soon a woman in a costume came up and took his arm, and smiled at Yanyan: "Oh, you came so late, where did you go?"

"Turn the road first to pick up my cousin from school."

"Cousin? What kind of cousin, why do you still need to pick it up?"

"It's a long story."

The woman glanced into the car, then quickly turned her eyes away, and said to Du Chengchen with a smile: "Look at you, I dress so well, but my cousin is dressed like this, your Du family is too rich and poor." Is it even?"

Du Chengchen rolled up his cuffs and didn't look back: "Go in."

I thought about it, and finally said to Gu Yanzhi: "My stomach still hurts."

He said, "I don't believe it." He handed over an apple, "You can try another excuse."

"..." I had no choice but to give up the second set of so-called "headache" rhetoric, and changed my words, "Who is at the dinner party?"

He handed over the second apple: "Yan Yu, Chu Yu, Jiang Yannan. There are also some others, but they can be ignored."

I didn't answer for a while, and asked in a low voice, "Then, where's Ye Jin?"

Gu Yanzhi raised his eyebrows slightly: "What is she going to do?"

He said that, when he went to the dinner party the next night, he really didn't see Ye Jin.My outfit is a red dress, and on my right wrist is a bracelet with a pattern of gently stretching flower petals.There is only a headband tied on the head, and the hair hangs long on the chest.Sitting in the car, watching it getting closer and closer to the dinner hall, fingers twisted involuntarily in front of him, his head was so low that he couldn't lift it up.

His heartbeat became faster and faster, and Gu Yanzhi's voice suddenly sounded in his ear: "Wanwan."

I looked up at him.He was wearing a dark blue velvet dress, sitting in the car, but he was in the most casual posture.Under the shadowy light, his deep eyelids and handsome profile were reflected.

He lowered his head slightly, with a calm and gentle tone: "Just raise your chin like this. After you go in for a while, hold my arm. Besides, you are what you are now, and you are what you are."

I said, "...I don't think it's that simple."

"for example?"

"Like, do I need to talk?"

"It's up to you. People will always ask questions about you. You can answer what you like to say. It doesn't matter what you don't want to say."

"Will there ever be a time when I have to speak?"

"No." He replied affirmatively, "If someone asks you and you don't want to tell, just take a casual look and turn your head aside and ignore it."

"..." I looked at him silently for a moment, "Isn't this not good?"

"It's nothing too bad." Gu Yanzhi stretched out his hand and swayed a strap on my dress, still speaking in a flat tone, "Du Wan, you just need to remember one thing—you are a genuine Princess. Standing by my side, you can be more arrogant than everyone else."

The car door was opened from the outside, Gu Yanzhi stretched out a hand towards me, under the splendid and luxurious night, he had a smile on his face: "Come."

I supported him on the palm of his hand, and walked out slowly, holding up the hem of the skirt just as he had taught me before.The last step was a little staggering, and when he fell backwards, he grabbed his hand with a little force, and finally fit into his arms.

I said:"……"

The feeling of falling short was particularly bad. I was buried in the velvet dress in front of me, unable to raise my head for a while.Someone above my head chuckled and slowly straightened me up: "Next time, try harder."

Entering the hall, one can see the food area in the distance at a glance, and Ye Xunxun who has been wandering around the food area.Abandoning Gu Yanzhi, he went straight there, and when he got closer, he saw Ye Xunxun staring at the ice cream area with shining eyes, just as he stretched out his hand, a cold voice suddenly sounded behind him, slamming each word: "Ye, Xun, Xun. "

Ye Xunxun's hand outstretched in mid-air froze, remained still for a few seconds, and then slowly retracted.

If I were Ye Xunxun, this would be the end of the story.However, the real Ye Xunxun is always stronger than me. When Yan Yu turned around behind her, her hand immediately came back with lightning speed, but the moment she touched the ice cream plate, Yan Yu's voice was cold again. The ground sounded: "Do you dare to take a bite?"

I turned my head to look at Yan Yu, he didn't even lift his head, he was picking up a few pieces of fruit from the plate in his hand and another piece of cake.Turning his head again, Ye Xunxun's eyes burst out with strong sparks of anger: "I must eat today! How dare you!"

Yan Yu raised his head and pushed his glasses: "That's the old rules."

Ye Xunxun's expression changed, he gritted his teeth for a long time, and finally put the ice cream back on the table.Yan Yu handed her the plate, and Ye Xunxun looked disgusted: "What kind of fruit did you pick? I don't eat apples, do you understand? I'm not hungry, why are you picking cakes for me! "

Yan Yu put the plate on the table with a "smack" and said with a cold expression, "As you like."

After he finished speaking, he turned around and left, and I watched him go away in fear.Turning his head, Ye Xunxun was scooping up the cream on the cake with the saucer, eating some apple slices occasionally.I looked at her silently for a while: "...Yan Yu, why didn't he let you have a cold drink? It's also because of that?"

"Which one?" Ye Xunxun looked up at me, "I don't have anything. I just made a bet with him that I would be able to resist eating ice cream for half a month. Give me that rough emerald."

"Then why did he remind you not to eat?"

Ye Xunxun thought for a while: "Maybe he's crazy."

"..." I said, "Then what if you lose?"

Her eyes swept over: "You are just kidding, how could I ever lose!"

I thought to myself why Yan Yu still bet with you if you didn't have Yan Yu when you lost consecutively, could it be that he is really crazy.He asked, "Why didn't you go to school today?"

"Ah," Ye Xunxun said calmly, "I have a fever. Someone made a big fuss and told my mother not to let me go to school. I have no choice. It was impossible to come here to play tonight, but I ran out secretly Yan Yu has no choice but to follow me."

"Would you please save me a little bit?"

"A delicate and reserved girl can't make people worry. If I keep letting them worry, what if I die one day, they will forget me in a blink of an eye." Ye Xunxun said seriously , as if it was real, "Besides, if I don't come today, I will miss your breaking news. I heard that you eloped with Gu Yanzhi last night?"

"..." I almost choked on a mouthful of grapes, "Who made this rumor!"

Ye Xunxun raised his chin behind me: "Yan Yu."

Just in time, Gu Yanzhi came over, casually picked up an apple from my plate and ate it, and casually said, "What are you talking about, your eyes are so round."

Ye Xunxun said: "Yan Yu just told me that you eloped with Du Wan last night." Pausing for a moment, he looked at him expectantly, "Is this true? This is really a happy event."

Gu Yanzhi's movements stopped, and he looked at Yan Yu who was walking over.The latter straightened his glasses and said, "Ye Xunxun, please figure it out, don't blame me for the upside-down. I didn't say it was elopement, I just said that Du Wan ran away from home and Gu Yanzhi chased him to the airport."

Ye Xunxun said: "Isn't this just elopement? It's written like this in TV dramas. If it's a Hong Kong TVB drama, it would be that the hero stopped the heroine, and the two embraced tightly, and then they ended happily." If it’s a Korean drama, it’s when the heroine leaves, and the male protagonist kneels down and weeps bitterly to fight for the land, with a tragic ending. If I write a TV drama, it’s when the heroine is about to leave, but the male protagonist appears, and suddenly touches A gun came out and shot the heroine to death, and everyone screamed..."

Yan Yu silently turned his face away, with an expression of not being able to bear to look directly at him.Jiang Yannan appeared behind him at some point, patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly, "Hey, did I just tell you, for a child like Ye Xunxun, if you don't get used to her, she can make trouble by herself. If you If you get used to her, she will ride on your head sooner or later. To educate a child, you must pay attention to the method and method. I think you and Gu Yanzhi can switch roles. Look at how well-behaved Du Wan is teaching him now."

Someone grabbed my shoulders suddenly, Gu Yanzhi pinched my earlobe, and said with a smile: "You can change it if you say so? You can consider other things, Du Wan can't even think about it."

Jiang Yannan said, "Are you kidding me?"

"Ask Yan Yu if he is willing to throw Ye Xunxun to other people to discipline him."

"Is there anything I don't want." Yan Yu stroked his cuff and said slowly, "I've had this idea for a long time."

Gu Yanzhi raised his pretty eyebrows slightly, still hugged me tightly, and said with a smile: "But I can't. I can't bear it."

Ye Xunxun finally found an opening, grabbed a piece of cake, and threw it at Yan Yu.The latter couldn't dodge in time, and suddenly there was something sticky on the glasses.

Ye Xunxun stared at him, and said loudly: "Okay, you said that! You think I still like being controlled by you! Who begged you! Don't come to me again! If you come to me again, you will die!" Go to hell!"

Yan Yu took off her glasses, took out her handkerchief, lowered her head and wiped it off slowly.Ye Xunxun turned his head and ran away, disappearing into the crowd after a while.Jiang Yannan was dumbfounded for a while, then pushed Yan Yu: "What are you still doing, hurry up and chase after him!"

"Didn't you say don't let me spoil her anymore?"

"...I told you to cherish life and stay away from Ye Xun before, have you heard that? Didn't you go to medical school anyway?" Jiang Yannan said, "Look, I've already found a step for you to go down. Do you want to go down?" Just hurry up. Xun Xun will really run away in a while, I think you will cry for a few days."

Yan Yu put the glasses back on, pursed her lips and froze for a while, and finally followed out.

I looked a little worried, and Gu Yanzhi next to me said, "Open your mouth."

I opened my mouth for no apparent reason, and soon he threw a grape in.I bit it twice, and Gu Yanzhi said slowly: "Don't pay attention to them. They've always been like this." After speaking, he seemed to suddenly think of something, "By the way, I have to go to the company tomorrow. You come with me."

"What to do?"

"I'm going to the company to take care of some things. As for you, go there and do your homework first." Gu Yanzhi looked at me with his hands and said calmly, "I'll start tutoring you after I finish my work. Make up math tomorrow. Do it the day after tomorrow. English. Your Chinese scores are not bad. Just make up these two first.”

"..." I suddenly felt my scalp go numb, and struggled to say, "Is it okay if I don't mend it?"

"Yes." He said, "Then make up English tomorrow and math the day after tomorrow."

"But, didn't you mean to plant a ginkgo tree in front of the yard tomorrow..."

Gu Yanzhi looked at me condescendingly with a "don't you dare to find another excuse to try" look in his eyes: "It won't take long to plant a tree."

I racked my brains to continue bargaining with him, when someone suddenly called Gu Yanzhi's name.I turned my head and saw a grown man in his early forties and a boy about my age standing in front of me.

I saw Gu Yanzhi pick up a wine glass, smiled and called that person "Director Wang".The two of them were courteous, and the latter lowered his eyes halfway, landed on me, and looked at Gu Yanzhi again: "Yanzhi, this little girl is..."

My hand was held calmly, Gu Yanzhi said lightly: "My sister."

"I know your name." The boy on the opposite side looked at me directly, and suddenly said a little arrogantly, "Your surname is Du, and your name is Du Wan. You don't have a surname of Gu at all. How could you be the younger sister of the Gu family. Brother Yanzhi, Don't be fooled by her. This person is in the second class of the fourth grade in our school. I don't know whose family it is. He is so thin and short, and he doesn't dress well in school. He especially likes the boys in their class. Brother Yanzhi, you have to be careful."

After Gu Yanzhi listened, he raised his hand to straighten my hair, and said casually, "Director Wang, is this the child you taught?"

"I know you too." The adult on the opposite side was rubbing his forehead and was about to speak, but I cut him off, "You are a boy from the third class next door. I don't know the exact name. I only know that you have been chasing after Ye Ye for half a year. After Xunxun, you have to follow them up and down the stairs for dinner, but Ye Xunxun has been ignoring you all the time. It seems that last week I bought a box of chocolates for Ye Xunxun, but she threw them away. I gave Ye Xunxun the day before yesterday I searched for the meal coupons of the western restaurant, but she also lost them. You are so crazy, your parents don’t know, do you?”

The face of the boy on the opposite side was red and white, and he couldn't say a word for a long time. The adult man in his 40s had a livid face and angry eyes, probably trying to conjure up a whip in the air and lash him hard.After a moment of silence, Gu Yanzhi suddenly said slowly, "Wanwan."

I looked up at him.He said: "Your Uncle Wang has something to do, let's leave first."

Then he left without staying for long.The night outside the hall was as cold as water, I walked out with my head down absent-mindedly, and after a while, I shivered.Finally come back to God.In the next second, a piece of clothing was draped over his shoulders.

I felt a bit of velvet material, it was Gu Yanzhi's suit and dress.Just as he was about to raise his head, he suddenly felt his body lighten and he had already been hugged.

My eyes were on the same level as Gu Yanzhi, and I saw a completely different ground than usual.I hugged his neck, and the arms around his waist were relaxed and steady, without any scruples about falling off.A voice close at hand faintly sounded in my ear: "Du Wan."

I turned my head.The lights behind Gu Yanzhi were shining, and his eyes were gentle, as if full of Tsinghua: "What's wrong with being thin? At least I can hug you like this, and let you see something different from usual."

At nine o'clock in the morning of the second day, I followed Gu Yanzhi and stepped into the Gu's building on time.

Even though it was Sunday, there were still people in the building.The first thing I saw was the service lady at the front desk.He was concentrating on drawing his eyebrows, but the next moment he saw Gu Yanzhi, the eyebrow pencil in his hand fell off with a snap.Standing up straight and saying hello to the general manager, Gu Yanzhi hummed and said to me, "My sister."

So I called my sister.

The service lady at the front desk responded: "Whose child is the general manager? He looks so beautiful."

Gu Yanzhi held my hand and my schoolbag in the other hand, with a smile on his face: "My family's. Doesn't it look like it?"

She slowly opened her mouth, looking like she wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask.I was led by Gu Yanzhi to the elevator entrance. When I looked back, she was still standing there. After a while, as if she suddenly came to her senses, she suddenly grabbed her phone and pressed it wildly.

The elevator door closed slowly, I turned my head and asked Gu Yanzhi: "What is she doing?"

He said, "Don't bother with her."

"...Why are you so annoying." I looked up at him, "Last night you told me to ignore Ye Xunxun and Yan Yu, and today you told me to ignore the people just now, according to what you said , I don’t care about everyone, so who else should I care about?”

I spoke a little loudly, but the smile on Gu Yanzhi's face remained unchanged.When I finished speaking, two slender fingers suddenly came to my eyes and unceremoniously pinched the tip of my nose.The sight in front of me was shaken by him, and I heard a chuckle: "You just ignore me."

Before I could speak, the elevator dinged and opened slowly.A middle-aged woman stood outside, called the general manager early, and then her eyes fell on me: "This is..."

Gu Yanzhi said, "Du Wan, call me Auntie."

I clearly saw the other party's eyes flicker: "Is this Du Wan?"

I said, "Hello, Auntie."

"...Hey, okay, okay." She lost her mind for a moment, then turned to look at Gu Yanzhi, "Here, Ms. Du is here, should I go downstairs and buy some snacks?"

"No. There's cake in the bag."

As soon as I heard it, I immediately snatched my schoolbag, unzipped it, and saw a piece of fruit cream cake.Immediately looked up and glared at him: "It's not that you said you can't take it!"

Gu Yanzhi said slowly, "Is it fun to tease you?"

"..."

Gu Yanzhi's words directly caused me to ignore him for the next morning.I've never been so focused on my homework, even though I heard a few words from the conversation between Gu Yanzhi and the secretary from time to time.The result of such concentration is that the homework is done so fast that it has been written in less than two hours, and then they listen to the two of them talking about the topic while digging the cake.

The content of the conversation at the beginning was very serious, and most of it had something to do with company affairs.However, it didn't take long before I started to ask questions, and gradually got into a mess.For example, Gu Yanzhi's secretary said to Gu Yanzhi: "Children of this age are very difficult to coax, and they are about to enter the rebellious period of youth. The one in my family gave me a headache at the beginning, and ran away from home at every turn. Same."

Gu Yanzhi said: "There is a child who has already run away from home once."

I said:"……"

Gu Yanzhi's secretary thought for a while, and then said: "I remember hearing a child psychologist once say that sometimes hitting a dozen children is not harmful. When coaxing, coaxing is in place, and when beating, it is necessary to treat the root cause at once. Especially Especially when you are disobedient, you have to be strict."

"What is a particularly disobedient time?"

"For example, talking loudly with adults like to contradict, or running away from home at every turn."

I said:"……"

Then the secretary thought for a while, and added: "I still don't want to study, eating instant noodles and the like is more than staple food, it's too much."

I said:"……"

Gu Yanzhi chuckled and asked, "Then how do we fight?"

The secretary said, "Usually I spank my ass."

I said:"……"

I finally couldn't help it and coughed heavily.Gu Yanzhi turned his face away, and I said blankly: "I'm sleepy, I need to sleep."

After speaking, he turned around and walked to the lounge next to him.Gu Yanzhi's phone rang behind him, and Ye Xunxun's voice came out immediately after the connection: "Brother Yanzhi, the service lady at the front desk of your building refuses to ask me to go upstairs. Please put pressure from top to bottom."

Gu Yanzhi said, "Why are you here?"

"I broke up with Yan Yu, my parents heard about this and criticized me severely, and then I ran to your house to find Du Wan, but the housekeeper told me that you were here, so I came here Yes. I heard that you are going to tutor Du Wan with homework? You are busy with your work, and I will do it for her."

Gu Yanzhi said: "Instead of letting you go upstairs, I should call your parents and ask them to come here to pick you up."

"You can do this too." Ye Xunxun said very calmly, "After doing this, you can wait until tomorrow after school and I will take Du Wan away from home. You know my skill of running away from home, Yan Zhi Brother, I promise you won’t find a single hair of our hair within three days.”

"..." Gu Yanzhi looked up at the secretary, "Let her in."

Two minutes later, Ye Xunxun went upstairs.There was a small suitcase behind him.The first sentence after stepping into the office was: "Brother Yanzhi, I have to stay at your house for two nights, will you agree?"

Gu Yanzhi said slowly, "No."

Ye Xunxun said, "I took Du Wan away from home."

Gu Yanzhi folded his hands and looked at her calmly: "You can try."

Ye Xunxun said, "I mean it."

Gu Yanzhi said: "I'm telling the truth too. I heard you have a famous saying that the most dangerous place is also the safest place. You also have two secret bases, one in the east of T City and one in Central Street .You still have three best friends of the opposite sex you can rely on, two in neighboring cities and one in this city—do you need me to go on?"

Ye Xunxun looked at him for a while and said, "Why are you like this?"

Gu Yanzhi smiled and said, "Du Wan is sleepy. You must be sleepy too after tossing around for so long in the morning. You two can go to the lounge to take a nap, and I will call you later for dinner."

After Ye Xunxun listened, he took my wrist and left.I struggled a little: "Hey, wait a minute, I'm not sleepy, okay..."

Before he finished speaking, Ye Xunxun covered his mouth and stuffed him directly into the lounge.The door was slammed shut, and Ye Xunxun's ears were pressed against the door panel, motionless.I looked at her for a while: "What are you doing?"

"Keep your voice down. I saw Du Chengchen downstairs just now. I'm sure he will come upstairs in a while. Do you want to see him?"

"What happened to you and Yan Yu?"

Ye Xunxun was obviously a little impatient: "From now on, don't let me hear his name again. I don't want to mention this person, it's annoying."

I said, "I think he treats you very well. I think you're a little self-willed."

Ye Xunxun raised his eyes: "The word willful is the exclusive privilege of children. You don't understand this at all!"

"..."

Before I could speak, she had already raised an index finger: "Shh, Du Chengchen has come in. Come and listen."

I followed and lay on the door panel, and heard Du Chengchen's voice, which was as emotionless as always: "We two are not polite. I'll take Du Wan back to Du's house."

Gu Yanzhi said lightly: "I'm afraid this won't work."

"Du Wan is from the Du family. The two of you are not related or related. It is shameful for her to live with you."

"It's nothing outrageous. I brought her to T City, and I have to be responsible for her."

"Du Wan is my cousin, and it's only natural for me to take care of her. It's already her blessing that you brought Du Wan to T City."

Gu Yanzhi's voice was slow, with a faint smile: "Du Wan's father is Du Sicheng, your biological uncle. As your cousin, Du Wan's relationship with you and me should not be any different. She Being born in Dashan doesn’t mean she should stay there for the rest of her life. Now that I see it, it’s not her luck to bring her here, it’s just my duty. Now that I’ve brought her here, I don’t want her to have a bad life It's just that she didn't grow any taller during the year she was in Du's house, and she was a little thinner than when she was in Dashan, cousin, I don't think you took good care of her."

Du Chengchen was silent for a while: "You did this without considering my situation. You want to change the custody of my cousin to your name, have you ever thought about my reputation? Others will point out to the Du family in the future What do you want me to do?"

Gu Yanzhi said gently: "I can't delay a girl I brought back because of your little face. Du Wan is only 12 years old now, and she is still a child. At this age, it is only natural to make troubles. But now she is older than a year. I was more sensible when I came back. She ran out of Du's house and never said a bad word about you. It's not easy for her to endure this."

Du Chengchen said: "I will pay attention to her in the future."

"I don't think Du Wan will believe your words anymore."

Du Chengchen was silent for a while, and said, "I can't give you the custody of her."

"I thought some of my uncle's genes were not passed on to you, Du Chengchen." Gu Yanzhi's voice suddenly became cold, "The property he owed Du Sicheng before, you have nothing to say if you don't want to replace him. After all, it is dozens Du Wan's father decided not to ask for the old account from years ago, so it's not good for others to say anything. But you shouldn't neglect Du Wan. Although she is a child, she is very smart and understands everything. Do you want to wait for her to do this? Let her grow up and imitate her uncle and Du Sicheng again?"

Du Chengchen didn't speak for a moment.

Ye Xunxun touched me and said in a low voice, "Gu Yanzhi treats you much better than Yanyu treats me."

"I think Yan Yu treats you very well."

"You save yourself. Among this group of young people, Gu Yanzhi is the only one who is reliable. Jiang Yannan and Chu Yu are left to skate together, let alone the one named Yan. He is so cold that he owes the whole world He is the same. Do you know, you ran away from home the day before yesterday, and Gu Yanzhi even found me here, and called me to ask me where you went, how would I know where you went? Did he think I was a golden retriever? "

"...As soon as you ran out last night, Yan Yu immediately went after you, okay?"

"Him? He caught up with me and gave me a scolding. Has Gu Yanzhi ever scolded you? I heard from Jiang Yannan yesterday that when you disappeared in the tennis court, Gu Yanzhi called the newspaper office while looking for you, and went directly to the evening newspaper to report that night." Increase the page, post your missing person notice for the entire page. He also said that if you can’t find it, you will post it tomorrow. That’s a missing person notice that occupies the entire page, okay? The leaders of the city bureau have never enjoyed such treatment. The editor-in-chief of the Evening News was about to cry, but there was no way the printing house had to print it. In the middle of printing, I heard that you had been found, which made the editor-in-chief of the Evening News burst into tears again."

"..."

Ye Xunxun sighed: "Gu Yanzhi is the only remaining diamond bachelor in T City. There is nothing to choose from in terms of talent, appearance, ability and family background. Du Wan, you have to work hard."

"...Come on, what are you doing?"

"Come on, go to elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university! When you have a quarter of his knowledgeable temperament, confess to him! If he doesn't agree with you, just cry, make trouble, and hang himself! Then he will be yours when the time comes. Already!"

Ye Xunxun spoke halfway in a low voice, then stopped abruptly.After carefully looking at my expression, a meaningful feeling gradually appeared on my face.

After a while, she tentatively said, "...Du Wan, you, don't you really like Gu Yanzhi?"

"..."

Ye Xunxun suddenly became very serious: "I warn you, Du Wan, what I said just now was just for fun. This is a joke that Yan, Chu Yu and the others often make. I am often treated like this by them. Just kidding. But you have to keep calm all the time, and don't fall in love with Gu Yanzhi. If you really do this, there will be a day in the future when your life will be worse than death. "

When I recall these things at the age of 22, I can only say that what Ye Xunxun said is a destiny in the dark.

If Ye Xunxun had known that he had the ability to make predictions, he probably wouldn't have proclaimed himself a prophet and predicted so many things back then.However, in childhood, without exception, I always hoped that I could become strong and mysterious, and prophets were also regarded as a kind of powerful and mysterious. A strong person like Ye Xunxun would not let go of such an opportunity.As a result, she had predicted many things, and she hit them one by one.

For example, she once said that Chu Yu was such a playful person that there would be a day when he would be reincarnated in heaven, causing him to burn out for a special girl.Chu Yu once laughed at her remarks, but last year a girl named Qiao Qiao really appeared, and Chu Yu really drove 19 miles in the city one night in early spring this year, just to stop Qiao Qiao A suicide, but suffered a car accident at the last turning point, and has not yet woken up from a coma; for example, Ye Xunxun once said that she and Yan Yu would not be able to get together after all, and she repeated this sentence many times while resting her chin in anxiety The fact is that Yan Yu left T City when Ye Xunxun was [-] years old, and did not come back until this year when Ye Xunxun married Lan Shi; A day when life would be worse than death, and it really is.

I originally thought that Ye Xunxun's saying that life is better than death was just a whirlwind of unrequited love.Judging from the mental journey of so many years, secret love is always pale and colorful, disappointment and anticipation, the entanglement of going around and going around, wanting to pierce the window paper but not daring, in the eyes of the parties, it is comparable to a catastrophe of the century .But never thought that life would be worse than death, life would be worse than death, naked cruelty, without any metaphors or cover-ups.

However, after thinking about it, since the same word is a prophecy, then God is cruel to other people, so naturally he will be equally cruel to me now.After all, it's just that I am still a little bit unwilling.

It's just that thinking about it now, it's really easy for anyone to fall in love with Gu Yanzhi.

From the first day I met him, I knew he liked to play tricks on people.But at the same time gentle, calm, rich spirit like jade.In the years since then, only his merits have been gradually settled and remembered.

He once took me away from Dashan when I was most helpless, and took me away from Du's house when I was lonely and gave up.Since then, he has become my guardian in the legal sense.Before that, I had never experienced another kind of delicacy and elegance in this world. Since then, my life has been turned upside down, like a metamorphosis.

He himself is the best template.

He can handle everything just right, smiling often, calmly, and never frowning.He is a good cook, and he is best at frying steak, which is unforgettable to everyone who is lucky enough to taste it.He propped his forehead with one hand and patted his back with the other. He looked so pretty by the bedside coaxing people to sleep.He is insouciant, steady and powerful, making people feel dependable and completely safe.Such a person can't even breed jealousy, only liking.

That day Ye Xunxun was behind the door panel of the lounge and asked me if I fell in love with Gu Yanzhi.For a second or two, my mind turned, and when I replied the next moment, I denied it lightly: "Gu Yanzhi is my brother. It's just a brother. Why should I like him? And I don't like him."

"What don't you like about him?"

I said quickly: "I don't like it anywhere."

Ye Xunxun squinted at me: "You'd better keep going like this, don't change your mind, never change it."

I touched my neck, and after a while, I was still a little unwilling: "What will happen if I change it?"

Ye Xunxun had a sneer attitude, and the corners of his eyes and brows were full of condescending education and warning: "If you change it, you will die. I have never heard of anyone Gu Yanzhi liked since I was a child. This means that he is alive and well." Up to the age of 22, he has never even had a first love. And according to Jiang Yannan, Gu Yanzhi has never even had a secret love. He treats everyone like a flower, without a single leaf on his body. The only thing he has done these years is to always Skip a grade, skip a grade and then skip a grade. When I was 20 years old, I finished my undergraduate degree and returned to China. I went around in various departments. This year, I took over from Uncle Gu, who was in poor health, to take charge of the Gu family. Apart from these, I have never done anything else. You How can such a person seem to be emotional? I think he lacks an emotional line in his palm."

I said, "But he has a girlfriend now."

"Who? Why don't I know?"

"Your cousin Ye Jin."

There was a faint sneer on the corners of Ye Xunxun's eyes and brows: "Her? This is impossible. Ye Jin has been chasing Gu Yanzhi for how many years, and when did he catch up with her? If you want me to say that she is just a muscle, she obviously doesn't like her. You have to get entangled. Girls should have a little self-esteem, okay, they can only dump and be chased by others, how can they chase and be dumped. Even if you like this person to the core, you have to leave a bit of leeway in your mouth. Most of the time, there is no harm in gaining the upper hand a little bit like this. Reservedness is a girl's trump card, and it is the most appropriate and easy thing to do. A man who doesn't appreciate your reservedness is not your lover, and it is the last word to abandon it. "

I said, "But Ye Jin was admitted by Gu Yanzhi himself."

"So what if you admit it yourself? You can get a divorce even if you're married." Ye Xunxun looked disapproving, "I guess Gu Yanzhi must have been annoyed by something, so he used Ye Jin as a shield. Or Gu Yanzhi was entangled by Ye Jin I'm getting annoyed, so here's a trick to get rid of the fire. Otherwise, you just wait and see, and within two months, we will definitely break up."

"...Can you say that about your cousin?"

"There's nothing wrong with her. She's not mine." Ye Xunxun stretched out his hand, patted my shoulder and said, "But having said that, Du Wan, you are so beautiful and so obedient..."

"Wait," I interrupted her, "I always feel that something is wrong when you say this..."

Ye Xunxun automatically skipped over my words, and continued: "Anyway, no matter what the reason is, I still rarely see Gu Yanzhi caring as much for anyone as he does for you. Maybe you don't like him, but does he like you? I really feel that Gu Yanzhi has been so pure and ascetic for so many years just to wait for you alone. Don't be too reserved, okay, you don't even like Gu Yanzhi, so do you want to get married in the future. "

I looked at her for a while and said, "Actually, you're just trying to amuse me, aren't you?"

Ye Xunxun nodded freely and said, "It's fine if you can tell."

"..."

It's just that if you like such a mood, you can adjust the brightness and switch on and off at any time like lights.Ye Xunxun once said it so easily, when she married Lan this year, she still cried uncontrollably; and when I swore to Ye Xunxun and turned around to deal with this issue by myself, I was still in a mess Confused, bewildered and bewildered.

First of all, I used an attitude of talking about the weather, pretending to be very casual, and asked Ye Xunxun, who is knowledgeable about the past and present, how it feels to fall in love with someone.She thought for a while and said, "I'll feel like he's glowing all over, like an angel."

"...Do you have any other metaphors?"

Ye Xunxun folded his hands and pondered for a while.I always saw this movement on Yan Yu, but now Ye Xunxun did it, almost exactly the same, vivid.After a while, she said, "Or like a firefly?"

"..."

I finally realized that Ye Xunxun is not omniscient, and she will step down from the altar one day.She was about to leave expressionlessly, but she grabbed her sleeve: "Okay, let me tell you. Two people are like two beams of light in the dark. When you fall in love with each other, you will feel that you are soft, and so is he." Gentle. When you really fall in love with someone, you will feel that all your light belongs to the other person, and you gradually dim until you merge into the boundless darkness, only him is dazzling."

After she finished speaking, she looked at me expectantly: "Do you understand?"

I said, "I don't understand."

"It's right if you don't understand." Ye Xunxun sighed, "I don't understand either. Someone told me this, and I haven't figured it out yet."

"..."

The conversation between us that no one could understand was buried for a long time until Ye Xunxun tried on a wedding dress with a long skirt in a bridal shop last year. She looked at herself in the mirror for a while, He suddenly asked me: "Do you still remember what I said about the two beams of light? In fact, the description is so obscure. There is only one feeling of truly falling in love with someone."

She pointed to the position of her heart, and wrote lightly: "This is where it always hurts. Except this, there is nothing else."

Ye Xunxun's speech is always very precise, and this sentence is no exception.It's just that before she summed it up, I already experienced the so-called pain.

After I asked Ye Xunxun how it felt to like someone, I mustered up the courage to ask Gu Yanzhi again.It's just that although I was fully prepared, when I went to meet Gu Yanzhi, I still couldn't stand up to his dramatic improvisation.At that time, he was watering the ginkgo tree in front of the courtyard, his sleeves were rolled up, showing half of his arms, and he instructed me, "Go get the flower hoe."

I stood still for a while, then reluctantly ran back and brought the flower hoe.After handing it over, he handed me the empty bucket again: "Give this to the housekeeper."

"..."

I had to take the bucket again and go back to the house to give it to the housekeeper.When I came back again, Gu Yanzhi had already loosened the soil around the ginkgo tree, and said to me, "Go and get the scissors."

"..."

I could only run back to the house and ask the housekeeper to bring the scissors for pruning the flower branches.After standing by the side and waiting for a while, Gu Yanzhi finally trimmed the rose branches by the wall, straightened up, and said to me, "Ask the butler to bring two more buckets of water."

I waited unbearably and finally broke out: "I'm not going!"

He turned his head, looked at me, raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why don't you go?"

"...I can't write a composition and need help." I said, "You see, I've been standing here waiting for you for so long, can't you stop and listen to my question?"

He laughed.There is no better look between the eyebrows and eyes.Ask me: "What composition?"

I settled down and said, "The title is 'How I Like Someone'."

"The Chinese teacher will leave you such a composition topic?"

I looked up at him and said, "Ah."

He said lightly: "You try again."

"...Well, this is really not a Chinese composition." I quickly changed my words according to the second plan, "I just saw that many boys are pursuing Ye Xunxun. They all said they like Ye Xunxun very much, I think I I also like Ye Xunxun quite a lot. But I have no idea of ​​writing a love letter to Ye Xunxun at all. So, let me ask you, what is it like for them to like Ye Xunxun? You have written to others like this Love letter?"

When I said this, the sky in T city was blue, embroidered with a few wisps of clouds.The person in front of me was casually wearing a white shirt, his gestures were calm and reserved, and there was a little carelessness in his eyes when he looked over.

I didn't even move under his gaze.But how fast the heart beats there, only I know.

Looking at him without blinking.Seeing Gu Yanzhi smiled.He threw the scissors aside and straightened my neckline with two clean, slender fingers.The movements were slow, and I didn't speak for a long time. I couldn't help urging: "Can you hurry up?"

He finally spoke, but it didn't matter whether he liked it or not: "I met your head teacher two days ago and heard something."

"what's up?"

"I heard," he raised his eyelids and smiled, "Recently you have received more love letters than Ye Xunxun. Is there such a thing?"

I opened my eyes wide, almost out of breath.

I prepared so many words that he might answer, but I didn't guard against him coming.The rear was completely unprepared, so I could only cough loudly while listening to him continue, "Then it seems that this is the case?"

I resolutely decided to lie: "That's not the case! Who did you hear that say!"

Gu Yanzhi read slowly: "Dear Du Wan, colon. Hello, comma. I'm Chen Xuguang from the class next to you, full stop. This is my first time writing a love letter, comma. I don't know how to write it, comma. If Wrong, comma. Please don’t be angry, period. I like you very much, comma. Du Wan, comma. Did you know, question mark..."

"..."

I stood on tiptoe and covered his mouth.

My face flushed red.After a while, I could only choke out one sentence: "You stole my schoolbag!"

There was still a little smile in his eyes, and his voice muffled behind his palm: "I don't."

I was still a little angry: "Ye Xunxun told me that out of ten sentences adults say, six sentences are lies, and the other four sentences are half-truths and half-false. The truth is the truth that remains in the stomach. I think That suits you well."

"It's all a mess." He took my hand off and said slowly, "I think I know better than you what is written in love letters. Those words just now are the most frequently written sentences in love letters. I I just made it up and used your words. It turns out that there is such a thing. You often have love letters in your schoolbag? It seems that you have to check it every day in the future."

"..."

Gu Yanzhi looked at me calmly. I looked at him for a while, and for a while, shameless, damnable, Ye Xunxun was right. These old men are all old goblins who have been enlightened for thousands of years. The scariest, the most shameless, etc. In the end, thousands of words were summed up into one sentence: "I'll get the bucket."

After speaking, he turned around and ran, but Gu Yanzhi grabbed his wrist and dragged him back.I couldn't guard against the speed, my feet swayed, and my waist was hung in his arms.He heard his leisurely voice above his head: "Du Wan, who do you like?"

I froze suddenly.

Immediately looked up to see his expression.This action is very uncomfortable to do, but I don't care about it at all.Only seeing Gu Yanzhi's deep and long eyelashes, he lowered his eyes, still a bit unhurried: "Are you going to tell the truth, or should I tell you?"

"..."

I felt a little breathless and my heart was beating like a drum.After a long while, he said, "No, I don't like anyone. I like someone, but I don't like anyone, okay?"

He looked at me again, and read slowly: "Dear Yanyan, colon. I haven't written to you for two months, comma. I miss you very much, period. How are you lately, hello. I haven't had a good time recently Okay, comma. Mainly a little trouble, period. I seem to like someone, period. But I don't know what to do, period."

"..."

I was finally stimulated by him to regain some strength, stared at him for a while, and said loudly: "You actually peeked at my letter to Yanyan again!"

"First of all, I just saw it by accident last time. Then, I also saw it by accident this time." Gu Yanzhi said calmly, "You put the letter on the table, and I accidentally saw it when I came back to get something. It’s no wonder there’s nothing peeking or not peeking at the head.”

"Then you can't read my letter! Even if you see it, you should avoid it, okay? I haven't even checked your phone. How can you check my letter? Why are you like this?"

"You can check my phone if you want, and I didn't say no." Gu Yanzhi said, "I just glanced at it casually, and you will be blown like this. Who do you like?"

"..."

I suddenly lost my strength again.After a while, whispered: "I can't tell you."

That day I ended with these six words, and no matter how Gu Yanzhi asked, I didn't say a word.He guessed the candidates one by one from Chu Yu to Jiang Yannan, and finally asked almost everyone I might know.I never say right or wrong.Later, if you want to cross-examine such a thing, you need certain prerequisites. If it is not something that the person concerned cares about, then just talk about it casually, and the trick will come out.But if the question hits the other person's heart, the teeth will become two rows of diamond beans, which can no longer be pried apart.

After that, until my birthday, for nearly five years, everything flowed like water.

Nothing special happened.All changes are inevitable after step-by-step.As for Gu Yanzhi, as Ye Xunxun said before, he broke up with Ye Jin within two months, and has not had a new girlfriend since then.Therefore, Ye Xunxun said that Gu Yanzhi had such a face that could make all the women in T city feel excited, but at the same time devoted himself to making himself look like a gentle and distant saint.

This was heard by Gu Yanzhi who was passing by the living room by chance. He paused and turned his head: "Ye Xunxun, what did you just say? Say it again."

Ye Xunxun immediately sat upright, and changed his words: "I'm just congratulating the leader for your top-notch kung fu of not touching your body."

Gu Yanzhi smiled slightly: "After all, it can't compare to the rainstorm pear blossom needle you gave to Yan Yu."

"..." Ye Xunxun suddenly changed his face.

(End of this chapter)