I quietly watch you play

At midnight, the snow fell more and more, and the sky and the earth were white.

The neon lights of L&R are flickering in the dark night, and the golden lion is crawling in the thorn bushes to sniff a blooming red rose, with dangerous tenderness.

Jiang Xiaoqi's black leather boots stepped on the fresh snow, making a creaking sound, and his footsteps were as soft as walking on clouds, which also resembled his mood at the moment.

It was very late, and he came to pick up Zhou Wei to go home.

Standing on the side of the street opposite Lion Rose, Jiang Xiaoqi couldn't help imagining that Zhou Wei would come out and see his expression, he should be a little surprised, a little happy, and he should run towards him with a smile.

Or, this is just his wishful thinking.

After standing there for an unknown amount of time, Jiang Xiaoqi's feet were numb from the cold. He saw many men and women, going in, coming out, sober, and intoxicated...

The cold snow flakes fell on his face, and his boiling chest gradually cooled down, feeling that this was a world that belonged to Zhou Wei but he couldn't integrate into it. He never got any happiness in his life from this kind of place, but Now, he is guarding here, at the exit of this world, waiting for that person to come out, and then take him away!

Like the lion, he was in a foreign land just to smell the fragrance of roses.

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"Hurry up and change your clothes, why are you so wet, you're going to catch a cold!" The aunt at home complained, "Let's drink the porridge later, I'll make two bowls of ginger soup first."

Zhou Wei and Zhou Lei changed into home clothes, sat face to face at the dining table and drank porridge with ginger soup, the taste was quite refreshing!

"It's so late, grandpa and mom haven't come back yet?" Zhou Wei asked, and secretly poured the half-drinked ginger soup into the narcissus jar, with smooth movements.

Zhou Lei pretended not to see it as he did when he was a child: "No, it's been a while, and I have been so busy. Mom said that the rent of the store on Fontaine Road has risen sharply, and there are various account settlement audits at the end of the year. If the loan from the family is not negotiated properly, I am afraid that there will be troubles in cash flow... and the Jiang family will pull us to invest in a piece of land. Maybe grandpa is not very optimistic. The property rights of Fontaine Road are the Jiang family. Computer game... What? Didn't you hear Jiang Xiaoqi say it?"

Zhou Wei choked up for a moment, no matter how stupid he was, he roughly understood that it was like the Jiang family and the Yu family were teaming up to set up a trap in Peony City, but Jiang Xiaoqi did not tell him this.

Why didn't he say it?Is it because Jiang Xiaoqi doesn't know about this at all, or does he think it's useless to remind him of this waste material?

In fact, it's normal for Jiang Xiaoqi not to talk about these things with him. Even if he knows everything about it, how can he casually disclose things related to his own business secrets to his opponents, public and private are clearly the bottom line...

Thinking of Jiang Xiaoqi's separation of public and private from himself, Zhou Wei felt a little empty for some reason, he was not a bad snake that would bite the farmer back.

wrong!He was startled, and suddenly remembered that not long after he went to the University of Dan Hospital, he went to Jiang Xiaoqi once, and the other party asked him casually whether the Zhou family had bought land from the Jiang family.

"But, I may have mentioned it, but I didn't pay attention." Zhou Wei vaguely mentioned it, but he was still struggling in his mind, whether he had ignored Jiang Xiaoqi's hint at that time, and if he thought of something immediately, could he be able to evade Peony City's present situation? Dilemma?

Fortunately, Zhou Lei did not continue to ask, after all, he was only seventeen, and he was not capable of participating in the management of Peony City.

"Your mock test scores have improved a lot." Zhou Lei's tone was a little sour.

"It's still not as good as you, my foundation is too poor."

"My grades are not safe for the business test. My grandfather talked to me about it. I hope that I can pass the exam based on my grades, so that he can protect you with all my strength." Zhou Lei's eyes were full of grievances, "I don't want to bother him, I I’ve tried my best, I’ve done eight times what other people did five times, I’ve never slept before one o’clock, and I’ve dreamed that I’ve failed the exam... I’m not as smart as my mother said, nor a genius... I know myself, I was forced by gold medal tutors and rote memorization, I am more mediocre than anyone..."

Zhou Lei almost choked up at the end.

"Xiao Lei," Zhou Wei gave him the red dates and raisins in the bowl, "Don't be nervous, it's okay, at worst, grandpa will donate an extra tennis court, right next to the library donated to me, and you will become the Peony City in the future." The chairman of the board can also donate swimming pools, artificial beaches, food courts, video game centers..."

Zhou Lei let out a laugh with red eyes: "Then it's better to open a Danyang University store in Peony City!"

"Peony City College of Danyang University is also fine." Zhou Wei laughed together with him, coughing from choking on the saliva, and busy answering the buzzing phone, "Brother Seven? Cough cough cough, I'm home... Are you done with work? I haven't touched the food in the refrigerator, don't make instant noodles all the time, you will become silly..."

"Okay." Jiang Xiaoqi only replied one word, which was light for less than half a second, but revealed a dense sense of loss, like the non-stop rustling snow outside the window.Zhou Wei seemed to hear the creaking sound of wheels rolling over the snow in the receiver, and just about to ask something, the other party had already hung up the phone.

After drinking the porridge, he accompanied his younger brother to the gym for a while, and Zhou Wei lay on the big bed in his room.

The snow outside the floor-to-ceiling windows reflected the light of the porch lamp, which was softened by the gauze curtain into a proper halo, and the surrounding was quiet and silent. Obviously everything was the most suitable environment, but he tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

Jiang Xiaoqi's phone call probably wasn't at home, it seemed to be outside, was it on the way back from the general building after he just finished work?

If so, then he probably didn't know that he didn't go back tonight, so he shouldn't have asked him when he would be home when he called, so... Did he come out specifically to pick him up?

Zhou Wei lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed, and swept away the screen curtain of the French window, the yard was quiet and snowy, and there was no one there.

He climbed back to the bed and wrapped up the quilt. If Jiang Xiaoqi knew that he had returned to his home, how could he come to pick him up and return to Dan University? The idol drama must be poisoned!

Where is he then?

Zhou Wei shut down the circle of friends firmly, lifted the quilt again and jumped out of bed, and put clothes and pants on her body indiscriminately.

He walked around the living room to knock on a door of the servants' room, and just as he raised his hand, he heard the group inside asking, "What's the matter?"

"Go out for a while, you drive." Zhou Wei took off the coats hanging in the hallway, and the group who had already put on baseball uniforms followed.

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Yu Lai and the others came out of the bar. It was already past one o'clock in the morning. Cars drove up one after another, and some people were still discussing whether to change places to continue playing.

Pei Qin gave the car keys to the driver Pei Chuan sent to pick him up with a distressed look, but he didn't forget Zhou Wei's request and turned around and called Huang Zhizi to get in the car together.

He turned his head and bumped into Yu Cheng, who was poking at the door and looking at him. Yu Cheng still had the look of a prodigal son, and he was not afraid of freezing to death with his chest open today. The corner of his mouth was hooked into a smile, and he raised his right hand and shook Pei Qin That tail ring.

Pei Qin looked as if someone had stepped on his tail, and he turned his head abruptly. The bastard actually found that thing!So now he is like an unlucky bride who has thrown the hydrangea sideways, and by the way, he also owes the other party a promise that he doesn't know how fucked up he is. What if he crushes her once?

Yu Chengcheng gently stroked the inner ring of the tail ring with his thumb. The ring was too small for him to wear on his ring finger, but it didn't matter, it was his now!

"I seem to have seen your uncle?" Yulai's female companion looked around, "The one who just got in the car and left, looks very similar, but it's a Volvo..."

You Rong and the others sneered: "That's right, the standard equipment of the local turtle must be made in China!"

Jiang Xiaoqi, who opened the door and got into the car, didn't hear the unkind ridicule, he pressed the start button and drove out without waiting for the car to heat up.

Weekend came home, but it wasn't his home, and he annoyed himself with some delusion of belonging.

Jiang Xiaoqi felt that he was more greedy than he imagined, but in just two months, he was like a nouveau riche, thinking that he got everything he wanted, but he ignored whether he had the strength to hold on to them.

He should make himself stronger—

After returning home, Jiang Xiaoqi still did not turn on the light, but lit a notebook on the desk in the guest bedroom to examine the drawings.

There is a pile of Zhou Wei's review materials next to him, his hand-painted board soaked in cat urine is connected to the computer, a wooden deadpool figure is placed beside the bed, and his change of clothes hangs in the closet... This is Zhou Wei's. The room, he has drawn a territory in his own home, and it is not so easy to leave when he wants to.

Jiang Xiaoqi forced himself to review the drawings carefully, and every time he found a mistake, it was a hard victory for him, so he struggled and worked for another hour.

Looking at the clock at the corner of the table as it passed two o'clock in the morning, Jiang Xiaoqi got up and made a cup of strong tea. Since he was destined to not sleep well, why not stay overnight.

He paced to the French window of the living room, which was facing the main entrance of the unit, and there was a small lawn downstairs, but the community property was reluctant to lay too good grass, and after late autumn, it became a vacant lot.

At this moment, snow is falling all over the world, a thick layer of white velvet blanket is spread on the open space, there are no pedestrians downstairs, and the street lamps emit a warm yellow halo alone.

Jiang Xiaoqi supported his back and stretched his body, took a sip of tea while blowing on the hot air, the tip of his tongue was covered with a strong bitter aroma.

He raised his eyes in the dense steam, and unexpectedly discovered that the white carpet was actually printed with regular patterns. After a little identification, he could tell that it was a cat stepped on by its footprints.

The cat was squatting, with one front paw resting on the ground and the other raised, as if greeting someone upstairs, with a bit of pitiful anticipation.

Just as Jiang Xiaoqi was about to laugh, he suddenly realized that the cat had a strangely long tail, all the way into the nearby bushes.

His eyes swept along the cat's tail, and saw a figure jump out from under the tree again, and was turning back along the cat's tail, trying to thicken it.

Jiang Xiaoqi's fingers gripping the cup wall suddenly tightened, and the scalding temperature was imprinted on his palm, Zhou Wei.

Zhou Wei thickened the cat's tail, stood on the cat's buttocks and looked up in the direction of Jiang Xiaoqi's station upstairs, but with this light and angle, he should not be able to see whether there is anyone in the room, he can only see that all the lights are on. black.

The face of the street lamp next week was covered with a layer of light, facing the falling snow, full of anticipation like the cat with its front paws raised.

He was too cold, he just looked at it twice, then lowered his head, hopped his feet in the snow to keep warm, and kept rubbing his frozen hands...

Boom!The teacup was slapped on the coffee table by Jiang Xiaoqi, leaving a splash of scalding water.

Jiang Xiaoqi turned back and strode past the entrance, took off his thickest down jacket and pushed the door out, with house slippers on his feet.

The sensor light at the door of the unit came on with a bang, followed by the sound of the stainless steel door closing.

Jiang Xiaoqi's tall figure was like a gust of black warm wind, Zhou Wei barely had time to turn his frozen body and was engulfed by the gust of wind, the whole person was trapped in a warm and soft envelopment.

Jiang Xiaoqi hugged him tightly through his clothes, the warm breath from his mouth and nose blew on Zhou Wei's cheeks, some fierce emotion flashed in his eyes, his arms were so tight that he wanted to strangle him to death, and it seemed that he would not let go even if he died.