Jigsaw puzzle

"Huh? Why do you think so?" Li Ran turned off the fire, sat next to Qi Xin and patted her head, "Han Yicheng murdered you?"

"No..." Qi Xin twisted her fingers together, looking very guilty, "I lost my temper with him."

Li Ran used his imagination a bit, but he still couldn't imagine Qi Xin being like an ordinary child, rolling around fiercely with Han Yicheng.

"Why?" He asked Qi Xin, "Tell me about it, and I can help you find a solution?"

Qi Xin curled her legs up on the sofa, wrapped her hands around her legs, and rolled herself into a ball.

"What can you do?"

"I'm an adult anyway, okay?" Li Ran pushed Qi Xin, "Let's talk about it, what's going on?"

The matter was very simple, next Monday there was an open day at Qixin School before the winter vacation, she had already guessed that Qi Dongqing would not be able to get away, so she asked Han Yicheng long in advance if he could go.Han Yicheng promised well at the time, but he did not expect that there would be a bidding for a national project at the end of the year, and the time would be set for next Monday.

Li Ran guessed that Han Yicheng really couldn't ask for leave, so Qi Xin refused.

"And then? Did you kill him?"

"No..." Qi Xin hugged her legs even tighter, "I asked him if I could take time off from school that day, and he said no." Cried."

Li Ran quickly took a few pieces of paper from the table and handed them to Qi Xin.

"I didn't want to cry, and I don't know why I couldn't help it, I just... I just don't want to go alone!" Qi Xinhong looked at Li Ran with eyes, and then said, "Did I make him angry?"

Qi Xin's voice became weaker and weaker as she spoke: "My dad told me that he is the only good person around me who can be counted on. If you get mad at him, no one will care about me at all."

Li Ran recalled the first time they met, Qi Xin asked herself: "Can you not blame him for coming to pick me up late?"

He suddenly felt a little sad, presumably Han Yicheng is very important to Qi Xin.Qi Xin matured early, and she guessed while listening to the adult's conversation that Han Yicheng is not her immediate family member, and has no obligation to be her parent.So she also tried her best to be very obedient in front of Han Yicheng, and she didn't even dare to act coquettishly and lose her temper.

But no matter how sensible Qi Xin is, she is just an 11-year-old elementary school student.An adult's emotions cannot be completely hidden, let alone a child.

What may be worse is that Han Yicheng's emotional intelligence is also very worrying. Facing the child's sudden emotions, he doesn't know how to comfort him except to buy things to coax him.

Li Ran could imagine that scene, frowning with a stinky face, and he couldn't even say that he would be with you next time.

Li Ran looked at Qi Xin with small red eyes and clasped her hands at a loss, not at all like a calm little adult in the past, and felt very uncomfortable.

"Hey, what's the matter, can't I go with you?" Li Ran stroked Qi Xin's little hair again.

"You?" Qi Xin blinked, "You are not my parent."

"What's the matter?" Li Ran looked at her and said, "If others don't know, you just say I'm your brother, and you're afraid that someone will check the household registration?"

Qi Xin's eyes sparkled a little, but she still had some concerns: "We don't look alike..."

"Why doesn't it look like this?" Li Ran made an exaggerated expression, "Don't you think I'm ugly?"

"No! Teacher Aran, you look good!"

Li Ran nodded and said, "Then let's rehearse once. From now on, my name will be Qi Ran. Should you call me?"

"Brother!" Qi Xin replied excitedly.

"That's right! You're really on the right track!" Li Ran slapped his hands.

Qi Xin was happy for a few seconds, as if thinking of something, she lowered her head again, "No, the problem is still not resolved, and I still made Han Yicheng angry."

"Ouch!" Li Ran stood up, ran to the stove and poured his "luxury version" instant noodles into a bowl, "He's not angry at all! He's just worried about your anger."

Qi Xin didn't believe it: "But his face turned black."

"It's not the first day you know each other, isn't his face always so smelly?" Li Ran complained.

"That's not it." Qi Xin seemed to be in a much better mood, with a smile on her lips: "Han Yicheng is not like this usually, he's usually quite—" She thought for a few seconds about how to phrase it, "It's pretty cool!"

"How about this," Li Ran said, "Wait for him to come back and ask him if he can let me accompany you. If he is really angry, he won't agree, right?"

"Okay", Qi Xin wiped her eyes a few times to completely wipe away the traces of crying.

Li Ran could tell that Han Yicheng really cared about his little niece.Qi Xin said he wanted yogurt, so Han Yicheng bought all kinds of flavors and different brands, and a big bag filled the refrigerator to the brim.

It's a pity that this piece of wood didn't even know how to show affection to the child, so after putting away the things, he just said to Qi Xin: "If you want to drink, go get it yourself."

Qi Xin was still timid, and from time to time she turned her gaze to Li Ran, indicating that he didn't know what to do.

"Cough, cough, that," Li Ran cleared his throat, "Old Han, I just discussed something with Qi Xin." After speaking, he winked at Qi Xin and let her speak.

Han Yicheng turned around and looked at the two people suspiciously.

Qi Xin seemed desperate, jumped off the sofa, walked to Han Yicheng's side, and asked him with clenching fists: "Uncle, can I ask Teacher Aran to accompany me on Monday? We have discussed it."

Han Yicheng was stunned. When he first met Qi Xin two years ago, Qi Xin recognized his life and didn't want to call him uncle.Han Yicheng felt that it didn't matter, and the two kept calling each other by their first names, like buddies.Hearing Qi Xin call him that suddenly, Han Yicheng felt something move in his heart.

He looked at Qi Xin's expectant eyes, couldn't bear to refuse, so he looked at Li Ran.

"Don't you have to go to work on Monday?" Han Yicheng asked him.

"No need~" Li Ran smiled like a sunshine, "I'm off on Monday."

Han Yicheng turned his gaze back to Qi Xin, "Yes," he said to Qi Xin, "Remember to be obedient."

"Okay!" Qi Xin came back to life with full blood, and her eyes became bright again, "Han Yicheng, can you get me some yogurt?"

"Okay," Han Yicheng walked to the refrigerator, "What flavor do you want?"

"strawberry!"

"I want it too!" Li Ran shouted from the side, and Han Yicheng looked back at him upon hearing the sound.

Li Ran was shamelessly grinning, and shouted again: "I want the original one! Thank you, Old Han!"

Han Yicheng took out two boxes of yogurt from the refrigerator, handed one to Qi Xin and the other to Li Ran.Qi Xin was emotionally ups and downs tonight, after drinking the yogurt, she obediently went to wash up and go to sleep by herself.

Li Ran snorted and ate the instant noodles, then slowly lifted the yogurt and began to lick the lid. When he looked up, he found Han Yicheng staring at him.

"You always help me." Han Yicheng concluded.

"Yes." Li Ran licked the last bit of yogurt off the lid contentedly, "I'm your first friend, so I have to be responsible to you~"

After saying this, Li Ran realized belatedly that he seemed to have brought the topic to the awkward conversation that night.The atmosphere in the room suddenly became delicate. He looked at Han Yicheng's complex expression with guilt, and was sure that this person's memory of that night had not disappeared.

Han Yicheng seemed a little embarrassed, held back for a long time, and opened his mouth, "I... really like men."

Li Ran didn't know what Han Yicheng had experienced that made him so taboo about sexuality.

"If you like it, you will like it," Li Ran said, "I also like men. You've seen your ex-boyfriends before."

Han Yicheng seemed quite conflicted, but Li Ran felt relieved. This kind of thing can only be gotten along naturally after confessing. He threw the empty yogurt box into the trash can, brushed his teeth and washed his face, and prepared to go to bed.

Li Ran came out of the toilet and saw Han Yicheng still frowning, so he walked over and patted him.

"Brother, what age is this? No one cares if you like pigs, let alone men?"

After Li Ran finished speaking, he praised his wonderful metaphor in his heart, ignored Han Yicheng's expression of being frightened by the vulgar words, and happily went back to sleep.

As a result, Li Ran dreamed of Han Yicheng for the next two consecutive nights.Twice, I dreamed that Han Yicheng was chasing him with the same machete in the game, fearing that he would tell Han Yicheng's sexuality and kill him, especially the second time, the two of them wrestled in Li Ran's dream to the point of strife, and finally developed into an inexplicable relationship. Murderous color.When he woke up from the bed in the morning, Li Ran desperately felt the cold and sticky feeling on his lower body.

Depend on.

He cursed secretly, quickly changed his underwear and sheets, and threw them into the washing machine in a hurry.

"I'm sorry to trouble you today." Han Yicheng's voice suddenly came from behind him.

Li Ran was so frightened that he almost jumped up, staring at the face that had just "hand-to-hand" with him in the dream, unable to say a word.

Han Yicheng wore a white shirt today, paired with flat black suit pants, which made his figure extremely slender and straight.Li Ran had to admit that Han Yicheng's handsomeness was usually mostly hidden by those plaid shirts and black sweaters, but now that he has the right style, he looks like a domineering president in a TV series.

"You should wear more shirts in the future," Li Ran said without beginning or end.

Han Yicheng nodded, said "I'm leaving", and left straight away, closing the door mercilessly, leaving Li Ran staring at the washing machine in a daze for a long time.

What's the matter, you, Li Ran silently asked himself again in his heart.

Qi Xin obviously attached great importance to this event. After getting up, she changed her clothes several times and matched her few clothes.

But Li Ran didn't see any difference between her sets of clothes, they were all the same little florals, the same cuteness.

"Don't you like wearing skirts?" Li Ran asked her.

"No", Qi Xin answered seriously, "Some skirts are ugly."

"Ah?" Li Ran became interested, "Then what kind is not ugly?"

"I don't know either." Qi Xin was suddenly a little frustrated.

Li Ran touched his chin: "What time does this event end in the afternoon?"

"The teacher said it's over at three o'clock." Qi Xin became nervous when she heard Li Ran's question, "Is there anything else, Teacher Aran?"

"Entering the play, entering the play! Now call me brother!" Li Ran fastened his canvas shoes and stomped his feet, "Do you want to go shopping with brother after school this afternoon?"

Qi Xin turned her head when she heard this sentence: "Really!"

"Of course it's true, let's go, let's go!"

Li Ran is very accurate about children's thoughts. He remembers that when he was a child, he preferred Zhang Lingyu to hold parent-teacher meetings compared to Li Weiguo, especially when other children asked him, "Why is your mother so beautiful?" Vanity is satisfied just right.

Today he deliberately scratched his hair, put away all the holes in his clothes and the big gold chains, put on a light-colored sweater, and matched a style with the Korean drama Oppa.Before leaving, Li Ran glanced at his glasses and sighed to himself: Why didn't you debut?

Li Ran followed Qi Xin into the school gate, he felt that the little girl was in a different state today.His usually indifferent attitude was gone, but now he held his head high, like a winning rooster.

Qi Xin's homeroom teacher is a woman in her 30s. Her own child is also in the first grade of this elementary school. She is wearing a Barbie pink tutu skirt and standing in the middle of the playground to sign in.

"Hello, Teacher Zhang," Qi Xin pulled Li Ran over to sign in with the teacher, "My father can't come here today because of work, so my brother came with me."

Li Ran lamented the little girl's superb lying skills, and smiled politely at the teacher: "Mr. Zhang, hello."

"I'll just say it!" The class teacher looked Li Ran up and down: "Where is such a young father!"

"I came to see her instead of my dad, and I have to report the situation when I get home." Li Ran touched Qi Xin's head, smiling softly, "How is Qi Xin doing at school, is she always causing you trouble? On such an occasion Parents were supposed to come, but I really can't leave there, I'm really sorry, Mr. Zhang."

The teacher in charge heard these words very well, and a smile suddenly appeared on his face: "Where is it, Qi Xin is quite a little kid with a personality, and he has made great progress in his studies this year, so I have to praise him!" She drew a line on the form: "Hurry up and find a seat in the auditorium, it's so cold outside, does Qi Xin still have a show today!"

Li Ran and Qi Xin walked halfway to the auditorium, Qi Xin suddenly said: "You are very skilled at lying."

Li Ran thought I haven't talked about you yet, so let's just talk to each other. He paused and asked, "Do you still have a show today?"

"Well," Qi Xin replied, "No one in the class is willing to act, and the class leader forced it on me, just to see me make a fool of myself."

"Then... are you sure?"

"It's okay," Qi Xin nodded, "after all, I've learned from you so many times, it won't be too bad." Qi Xin stayed for a while, and added: "The skirt of Teacher Zhang's child just now Pretty ugly."

"Pfft", Li Ran burst out laughing, "Don't worry, we won't buy that kind."

When the two entered the auditorium, the seats in the middle of the front row were basically full, and the two sat down at the back.On the left is a mother with a son. Not long after she sat down, a family of three came to the right. The little girl was wearing the same white gauze dress that Qi Xin thought was "pretty ugly".

"It's you! You have to dawdle at home! Now you don't even have a front row!" The mother opened her mouth and scolded her father, taking out her lipstick to touch up the child's makeup as she spoke: "Don't be nervous when we go to the meeting. I'll videotape it for you below."

The little girl surrounded by her parents was quite calm: "I want to host the whole process, have you finished the recording?"

The little girl glanced over here, just in time to see Qi Xin who was playing with her mobile phone beside her, and asked a little proudly: "Qi Xin, all the parents in our class are here today, where are your parents?"

Qi Xin was pulling Li Ran to play games with her, she gave way in disdain, showing Li Ran on the side, instead of answering the girl's words, she poked Li Ran instead: "Choose whatever you want, I'll make up for you."

Of course, Li Ran is very generous: "Okay! My sister, please take me away~ I will take you back to eat fried chicken!"

The little girl couldn't show off, and was blocked invisibly. She was very upset, and turned her head away to be sullen.At this time, the little boy next to him looked at Li Ran with envy, and said, "Qi Xin, your brother is so powerful, can you play with me?"

Qi Xin: "What rank are you? The rank is too low to be together."

The little boy was very upset: "I am Silver..."

Li Ran observed Qi Xin with a suppressed smile, she seemed to be depressed for a while, then sighed, and pretended to be generous and said, "Forget it, let's play matchmaking together next time!"