remnants

Tuesday, October [-]th, at six twenty in the morning.

Nie Qing got up early in the morning, or he didn’t fall asleep at all. It was already past three o’clock when he lay down in the middle of the night. up.

Su Ji was still asleep in the guest room, Nie Qing didn't want to wake him up, so he washed and dressed lightly, but when he was about to open the door to go out, he found someone squatting against his door, almost fell in when the door opened .

"Hey!" Nie Qing supported him quickly with his eyes and hands, which saved his back from "intimate contact" with the floor, and then pulled him up and asked, "Why are you here?"

This person is Yu Sheng.

Seeing that his eyes still couldn't be opened, and he couldn't stand up straight, he hugged Nie Qing's arm and hummed, "Ah Qing, are you not angry? Don't drive me away..."

"...When did I chase you away? Didn't you leave by yourself yesterday?" Nie Qing put his arms around his waist, and Yu Sheng put his arms around his neck more consciously, and buried his face in it.

"I'm afraid that if I don't leave by myself, I will be even more sad when you really say that you want to drive me away. It's better to be a little self-aware..." Yu Sheng said sullenly.

He was leaning against Nie Qing now, and Nie Qing felt that his forehead and the tip of his nose were cold against his neck, so he couldn't help but hug him tightly, and asked, "How long have you been here?"

"I didn't leave." Yu Sheng was silent for a while, and then said in a low voice: "Yesterday I went out and stayed in the car for a while, and then let Xiao Xu go back alone, and I will wait here."

"...Why didn't you knock on the door? What if you squat outside like this all night and catch a cold??" Nie Qing couldn't tell whether it was sore or distressed. She hugged him tightly, feeling the thin shirt on his body. It was already too cold, so he didn't bother to go out right now, he walked into the bedroom with Yu Sheng half in his arms and put him on the bed, helped him take off his shoes, covered him with the quilt, then squatted down at the head of the bed and said, "Be nice again Go to sleep, it's still early, you can sleep at ease."

But Yu Sheng poked his hand out from under the blanket and grabbed him. He was so sleepy that he couldn't open his mouth, and he insisted, "Aren't you going out...I'm going too..."

Nie Qing sighed helplessly, "You can't even walk straight, where are you going with me? Be obedient, go to sleep, the secretary hasn't woken up yet, you two should have a good rest."

"Ah Qing..." Yu Sheng's eyes suddenly widened, bloodshot inside, looking aggrieved at Nie Qing, "Why are you so nice to little Su Ji..."

Nie Qing was inexplicably stunned when he heard his words, but quickly reacted, and couldn't help saying without temper: "Why do you always get jealous of him, am I treating you badly?"

Yu Sheng blinked, and waited for two seconds before asking back, "Do you think it's okay?"

For a while, the unpleasant memories of last night and the previous ones reappeared in the minds of the two of them.

"Ah Qing, I know you are angry with me... I just want to ask, is it because you won't really accept me again until I tell you the truth?" Yu Sheng sat up from the bed and asked earnestly .

Nie Qing looked at him, and some words were swallowed by him again, repeated several times, and finally just shook his head lightly and said: "Ah Sheng, there is no need to talk so much between the two of us, I know you chose to keep it secret. I must have your reasons, so I won't force you. But on the other hand, you have to understand my current mood. I really want to face you without any grievances, but I can't do it for the time being, you force me It's no use either."

Yu Sheng's eyes were tired from opening, and finally closed unstoppably.He nodded and said, "I understand, I won't force you. I'm just...now I occasionally see how you treat Su Ji, and I'm a little jealous..."

"The secretary is my friend." Nie Qing thought for a while, got up and sat on the bedside to hug Yu Sheng, and added softly: "Don't worry, we are just friends."

"Yeah." Yu Sheng grinned at him, "Then if you want to be busy, go do it, I won't follow, I'm going to go on a date with Mr. Zhou right away, right away, next second... No, really Can't stop..."

Before Yu Sheng could finish his sentence, he fell backwards as if the power was suddenly removed, and he fell heavily into the pillow.

"Ah Sheng!" Nie Qing was taken aback by the way he was lying down, thinking that he was unconscious, but after listening to his breathing carefully, he turned over slightly after a while , Only then was it confirmed that he was really asleep, and the breath in his heart was finally let go.

Nie Qing helped Yu Sheng who was lying on his back tucked up the quilt, and after watching him for a few minutes, seeing that he hadn't moved, he went out and gently closed the bedroom door, and then quietly left the house.

After delaying for a while, it was already past seven in the morning, and the sky outside the building was bright.

Nie Qing walked to his parking space and prepared to drive, but he didn't expect that there was already a person standing in front of Lu Rover.

Fierce eyes, delicate face, and... a golden hair.

Nie Qing felt that when they saw each other early in the morning, they should have caused a lot of trouble for each other, but adhering to the principle of not "bullying the small with the big", he said politely first: "Lian Xu, are you here to find Yu Sheng?" ?”

Lian Xu stared at him coldly, nodded first, then shook his head, and said reluctantly: "No, I'm here to find you."

It's really the sun coming out of the west.

Nie Qing looked at him slightly surprised, "You, looking for me?"

"That's right." Lian Xu pursed his lower lips tightly, and quickly said in a sharp tone ready to curse: "The third brother asked me to come over at six o'clock this morning yesterday, and said that if he saw you coming out alone, he would Follow you, protect you."

"Protect me?" Nie Qing didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "He guessed yesterday that I would go out to investigate alone this morning, so he asked you to come here?"

"It's like this." Lian Xu's peculiar way of articulating words always has an inexplicable sense of joy.

Nie Qing couldn't help but looked at him amusedly, and asked, "Then what if I didn't come out alone?"

Lian Xu rolled his eyes, as if he thought he was talking too much, and said impatiently: "Third brother said, if you come out with him, I don't have to show up. But if you come out with that forensic doctor, I will Still have to follow."

"He arranged it in detail." Nie Qing smiled helplessly, opened the car door and said to Lian Xu, "You don't need to follow me, and I don't need anyone to protect me. You should go back."

"no!"

Lian Xu suddenly grabbed Nie Qing, Nie Qing was not on guard against the child, and was dragged three steps away without paying attention, Lian Xu took advantage of this gap to rush into the driver's seat, and then shrank deftly , Once drilled, it was transferred to the passenger seat next to it.

"You are..." Nie Qing looked into the car speechlessly.

Lian Xu looked back at him provocatively, "I must follow you, this is the third brother's order."

"..."

Nie Qing swore that if Yu Sheng himself was sitting in the car now, he would have dragged him out and thrown him into the grass.But what he was facing at this time was Yu Sheng's "little follower". This little golden retriever under the banner of Yu Sheng had a look of "what can you do to me" all over his face, but Nie Qing really couldn't do anything to him.

He's never been very good at dealing with unreasonable brats.

Nie Qing sighed silently in his heart, and said lightly to Lian Xu: "Are you sure you want to follow? Say it first, there is nothing interesting in following me."

Lian Xu turned his face away and snorted coldly, and said disdainfully to Nie Qing: "You guys talk too much, I don't know what third brother likes you."

Nie Qing: "... Is there anything he doesn't like about me?"

"Bah!" Lian Xu's saliva almost sprayed on the front windshield, his expression couldn't be more disgusting, "You are really shameless."

"I can't help it, whoever told you third brother likes to be shameless." Nie Qing seemed to be on the fence with this little golden retriever, and he found that although this kid didn't speak Chinese very well, he used curse words very easily. He couldn't help but want to "educate" him more.

Lian Xu didn't know if he was searching for the right words, held back for a long time before angrily said: "Third Brother doesn't like shameless people! Third Brother likes you! Whether you want shame or shameless, he likes you ! Do you understand?!"

Nie Qing didn't expect that he would suddenly utter such a few words, and felt as if his heart had been stabbed for no reason.

And Lian Xu was still fighting for the rest of his life, glaring at Nie Qing and said angrily: "You still have the nerve to say that you know Third Brother, aren't you afraid that your nose will grow into Pinocchio?!"

Nie Qing: "..."

Lian Xu: "If you don't speak, do you mean that you are acquiescing? Even if you admit it, I won't forgive you! Anyway, on behalf of third brother, I will always hate you!"

Nie Qing: "..."

Lian Xu: "I'm done."

Nie Qing: "...Oh."

"Oh?!" Even the little golden hair on Xu's forehead was raised, "Why didn't you show any sign after listening? Has your conscience not been touched??"

"...Who is talking too much now?" Nie Qing looked at the road ahead tiredly.

Lian Xu was so angry that he almost stuttered, and after saying "you, you" twice, he suddenly let out a discouraged hum, leaned back in the chair suddenly, and hit his elbow on the car door with a "bang", then leaned on his face coldly Authentic: "Forget it, telling you these things is playing the piano against the cow. No wonder the third brother refuses to tell you what happened in the past few years. Anyway, even if you tell you, you will definitely not understand him."

Nie Qing's heart moved, she was silent for half a minute, and suddenly asked: "Did he have a difficult life in the past three and a half years?"

Lian Xu finally hummed after a while, and then said: "The degree of 'difficulty' is too light, it should be very 'difficult'."

"Difficult?" Nie Qing turned to look at him, "Can you tell me the specific situation?"

"No." Lian Xu refused very simply, staring straight out of the window, "Third brother won't let me tell you, don't even try to ask me."

"Don't you feel sorry for him? If you tell me the truth and let me understand him, I won't blame him anymore." Nie Qingyu advised earnestly.

But Lian Xu didn't agree with him at all, and didn't bother to turn his head back, "Third brother doesn't need other people's sympathy. If you can understand him and feel sorry for him after knowing the whole truth, then what is the difference between you and others."

"..."

When Nie Qing heard Lian Xu's words suddenly, he suddenly felt as if someone had poured cold water on his face, which made him tremble all over.

He seemed to wake up a lot in an instant, and his mind became clear.He finally realized a question he had been avoiding for the past two days.

Nie Qing always believed that she could tolerate everything for the rest of her life.

He didn't take Yu Sheng home to meet his parents because he was worried that they would view Yu Sheng with suspicion.But in fact, deep down in his own heart, why isn't it like this...

If he could really tolerate and trust him unconditionally, he wouldn't have any so-called knots and grudges.

However, how can unconditional trust be so easy?

It was because he couldn't do it that he unintentionally became so harsh on him.

Self-righteous and unique, after being consumed by accumulated suspicion and resentment, how much of the original mood can be retained?

It turned out that facing the rest of his life, he was no different from others.