Let go of the past

Li Ziqing stood at the corner of the second floor, lowered his head and took a few deep breaths, adjusted his facial expression to think it was perfect, and then walked towards the room on the first floor again.

Ji Bing was sitting on the fabric sofa in the house with his legs bent. Hearing the movement, he raised his head and looked over. His deep eyes seemed to contain strength. He blinked at him and asked, "How is it?"

"Still angry." Li Ziqing twitched the corners of his mouth, then sighed softly: "After all, it was too sudden, let's wait for him to speak slowly."

Ji Bing got up and walked over, stretched out his hand to stroke his hair, and said gently, "Thanks for your hard work."

"What do you want for dinner?" Li Ziqing pulled Ji Bing's wrist, looked at the time on the watch, and changed the subject, "Uncle Li is going out, we two are left, let's eat at home."

Ji Bing raised his eyebrows curiously: "You know how to cook?"

"Barely enough to eat."

"Can I order food?"

"That depends on whether I will do it."

Ji Bing smiled dotingly, but changed the topic, "I guess I won't be able to eat today, my dad just called, I have to go back."

Li Ziqing's eyes dimmed, "So suddenly?"

"It's not him looking for me." Ji Bing explained, "I'm looking for him for something."

Li Ziqing showed a surprised expression: "Are you ready to talk?"

Ji Bing nodded: "You've risked everything, if I don't do anything, how can I be a boyfriend?"

When it was Ji Bing's turn, Li Ziqing was not so chic, with a bit of struggle and hesitation on his face: "But your father..." He subconsciously held Ji Bing's arm, "Why don't we wait?"

Ji Bing chuckled: "You didn't prepare anyone for that moment ago."

Li Ziqing defended: "I am different from you."

Suddenly there was a sound of closing the door and locking it in the distance. Li Ziqing looked at it and said with a dazed expression, "Uncle Li is gone."

Ji Bing sighed, "I'll go first too, and you two will have a good talk when he comes back at night. Uncle Li is your last relative in this world, don't make the relationship stalemate because of me."

Li Ziqing looked away, and replied vaguely: "Okay."

The brief reunion led to such a chaotic ending. Li Ziqing sent Ji Bing away, and returned to the empty room alone, feeling a sense of confusion in his heart.

In the next few days, Li Ziqing didn't see Ji Bing again. After a long wait, he fell into another quagmire in the blink of an eye.

He didn't know what the outcome of Ji Bing's conversation with his family was, and in the few phone calls the other party had with him, they always comforted him not to worry.

Worry only when there is no result, and then uncontrollably think about the worst.

On the other side, since that day, Li Ziqing has really started looking for a house everywhere.

Uncle Li was very persistent, but he didn't want to admit defeat either.

When Xiao Kaicheng heard that he was going to move out to rent a house, he enthusiastically offered to help, and by the way, he inquired about the showdown with Ji Bing's family.

Li Ziqing felt like he had broken into a maze, his eyes were full of slogans and arrows, but all of them led to the sealed gate.

"You want to move out, will Ji Bing stay with you?" Xiao Kaicheng asked curiously: "He is a noble young master, he must be disgusted."

Opposite the booth by the window, Li Ziqing put down his chopsticks and shook his head: "He doesn't know yet, I'll find a place to stay first."

Xiao Kaicheng was taken aback, and instantly understood the meaning of the words, and looked at him in astonishment: "Isn't it Li Ziqing? You didn't come out to your family and were kicked out of the house, right?"

"It's not like being kicked out of the house." Li Ziqing said calmly: "I was originally dependent on others, but now that I have grown up, I should be self-reliant."

"You are definitely talking out of anger." Xiao Kaicheng took out his mobile phone with the tone of someone who had come before, "Ji Bing must know about this, you two are grasshoppers on the same rope now. Besides, you have no place to live , doesn’t he have a house in the city center?”

Li Ziqing got up to stop him: "Don't tell him, he's having a showdown with his family right now, he can't take care of himself, and besides, the house is not under Ji Bing's name, it belongs to his father."

Xiao Kaicheng dodged Li Ziqing's attack, turned his body sideways, glanced out of the window along the way, but suddenly stopped halfway, took a closer look, and then said in amazement: "Isn't that Ji Bing?"

Li Ziqing froze, followed his line of sight and looked out.

A member-only western restaurant across the street, at the moment a few luxury cars parked at the entrance quite magnificently, Ji Bing stepped down from the driver's seat of one of them, his suit and leather shoes were awe-inspiring, the light shone on his sculpted and deep side On his face, there was a handsome look that made people hold their breath at first glance, and it was also a completely unfamiliar appearance to Li Ziqing.

He handed the car keys to the doorman who parked the car, turned around and walked towards the main entrance of the restaurant calmly, but was stopped by another man in a suit who was chasing him halfway. They disappeared together behind the huge revolving glass door.

Xiao Kaicheng looked at Li Ziqing with doubts, "What's going on?"

Li Ziqing sat back on the chair, looked at the bubbling hot pot in front of him, clenched his hands on the table, finally picked up the cell phone next to him, found Ji Bing's number, and dialed it without hesitation.

The call was quickly connected, and Ji Bing's calm tone was low and gentle: "Hello, what's the matter?"

Li Ziqing looked out of the window with deep eyes: "Where are you?"

"Outside." Ji Bing replied naturally, and then asked again: "What's wrong?"

Xiao Kaicheng held his breath, and approached his body seriously and gossipingly.

Li Ziqing said bluntly, "I just saw you."

Ji Bing was a little surprised, but he didn't feel guilty at all: "Are you around here too?"

"Well, the hotpot restaurant across the street." He glanced at Xiao Kaicheng, "Together with the class monitor."

"What a coincidence, I almost thought you put a tracker on me."

"..." Li Zi said quietly, "Am I that scary?"

"It's not scary," Ji Bing chuckled, "Cute is pretty cute."

Li Ziqing subconsciously covered the phone and asked, "Then when will you come out?"

"Are you waiting for me?"

Li Ziqing whispered: "...I haven't seen you for three days."

Ji Bing sighed softly, and said guiltily: "I'm sorry baby, I just came back from the headquarters, and there are many people and things to deal with." He paused for a second or two, and there was the sound of cloth rubbing in his ears, as if he was looking at his watch, and then He added: "One hour, I promise to come out."

Li Ziqing's heart was sore, but at the same time, a warm current rose: "Okay, then go and do your work first, I will wait for you."

How long will you wait.

Seriously speaking, waiting is not terrible, what is terrible is waiting in vain without results.

As long as you make sure that the other party is also caring about you, the process is painful, but it can be called happiness.

Xiao Kaicheng silently ate a mouthful of dog food, looked at Shang Li Ziqing who hung up the phone and looked over, with a somewhat tangled and hesitant expression, and finally patted the table, resolutely said: "I want to get back together with Su Mei!"

Li Ziqing added a mutton roll with chopsticks to the hot pot, and said without changing his face: "You said the same thing last time you ate, and last time, last time."

Xiao Kaicheng clasped his hands together and covered his face, "Love is such a sad thing..."

"The degree of difficulty for the two of you to get back together is almost as good as Ji Bing and I came out to our family." Li Ziqing brightened up and joked with himself as an example.

"Can the nature be the same?" Xiao Kaicheng argued: "You are unanimous to the outside world, and Su Mei and I are in conflict among the people."

"Oh." Li Ziqing has been annoyed by Xiao Kaicheng's indecision for several years. He didn't want to lead the topic astray again. After a perfunctory sentence, he grabbed the menu next to him, "Let's order some more dishes."

"Order?" Xiao Kaicheng looked at half of the uncooked dishes on the table, "Is this enough?"

Li Ziqing had already lowered his head and checked the menu, "Ji Bing will come over later, how can there be enough food at the place opposite."

"..." Xiao Kaicheng: Should I be under the table?

He waited for Li Ziqing to finish waving to call the waiter, grabbed the menu, and said angrily: "It's too partial, the grade of this dish will go up in an instant."

"No one will take your chopsticks away later, who can stop you if you want to eat?"

Xiao Kaicheng snorted twice, "Ji Bing is really lucky."

Not a while after the second round of dishes came to the table, Li Ziqing received a call from Ji Bing, but the other party kept his promise, and after talking for an hour, he really didn't make Li Ziqing wait any longer.

With tears in his eyes, Xiao Kaicheng shook hands with the long-awaited Chi Ji Bing. The scene was instantly comparable to the victory of the Red Army on the Long March.

"We haven't seen each other for seven or eight years, right?" Xiao Kaicheng broke his fingers and sighed, "It's been so long."

Ji Bing smiled: "Your appearance has not changed."

Xiao Kaicheng was pleasantly surprised: "Really? Am I still that young?"

Li Ziqing poured cold water on him: "He doesn't even remember what you were like before."

Ji Bing nodded: "It seems so."

Xiao Kaicheng: "..."

After taking his seat, Li Ziqing looked at Ji Bing's expensive suit and couldn't bear it and said, "Take off your coat, so you don't get smelled by the smoke."

Unexpectedly, Ji Bing shook his head, looked away, and said casually, "No need."

Li Ziqing glanced at him and said nothing.

The three of them sat around the steaming hot pot, eating and chatting during the dinner, and the content was full of trivial matters in high school.Anyway, with Xiao Kaicheng around, there is no need to worry about finding topics to talk about.

After breaking up the stall, Li Ziqing and Ji Bing walked towards the opposite parking lot together, Xiao Kaicheng took a taxi at the intersection, and before leaving, he still yelled at the two: "You two hurry up and finish the business, I'm waiting for the good news."

Li Ziqing watched Xiao Kaicheng get into the taxi with a puzzled expression, and was thrown back by the car exhaust if he wanted to ask.

"What's the business?" He turned to Ji Bing, puzzled.

"It's nothing more than marriage." Ji Bing teased.

"I think he's talking about a showdown with his family."

Li Ziqing turned to the main topic, and suddenly reached out to grab Ji Bing's arm.

One side of Ji Bing's body trembled, a painful expression flashed past, and his brows were slightly furrowed.

Li Ziqing's heart sank, and he asked anxiously, "Did you hurt your arm?"

"No." Ji Bing denied with a smile.

"Don't lie to me." Li Ziqing raised his voice and fixed his gaze on Ji Bing, "Show me."

"Don't look, my dad did it." Ji Bing simply said the truth, but his tone was extremely relaxed, as if he was talking about other people's affairs: "There is some blood, just keep it for a few days."

Li Ziqing's guess was confirmed, but it was even more unbelievable: "Your father hit you?"

Ji Bing saw his expression, and said with a smile: "I'm also quite surprised, he would actually hit me. But that's good, so I have an excuse to completely sever ties with my family."

Li Ziqing's eyes were slightly red, and his voice was trembling: "Ji Bing, do you regret it?"

"What about you?" Ji Bing's eyes were deep and quiet, "You also told Uncle Li about us, do you regret it?"

Li Ziqing shook his head desperately, his voice choked up: "...I won't regret it."

Ji Bing caressed his face, and said slowly: "Then I won't do it anymore."