so affectionate

Jiang Huajie walked into the office, Anne followed him with a cup of tea, and said as he walked, "At three o'clock in the afternoon, you will meet with the two general managers from the branch company and listen to the work report. After the meeting, you need to have dinner with them. Private time in the evening, but you have already made an appointment with Miss Lin Lin to attend the concert. It is now 45:15, and you still have [-] minutes."

"Free up the night." Jiang Huajie sat in the chair and took the teacup from Anne.

"Okay." Anne drew a few strokes on the notepad, "Then I'll go out first if I have nothing else to do."

The sound of high-heeled shoes stepping on the floor gradually faded away and finally disappeared. Jiang Huajie leaned on the back of the chair and turned the chair to face the window. The winter in the north is always dry and cold, and the sky is clear for a few days I don't know when the snow fell, and the buildings near and far were covered with a white coat.

He habitually frowned, and slowly brought the teacup to his mouth, remembering Jiang Nan's words just now.

That day six years ago was the anniversary of Bai Yun's death.

When Jiang Huajie was 16 years old, he really loved this woman. When he married her at the age of 24, he still loved her, but Bai Yun didn't have him in his heart.

How long can a feeling of your love and my wish last?Wishful thinking?

Jiang Huajie couldn't tell what this love turned into in the end. Time is really the most terrifying executioner. It silently obliterates what you take for granted without knowing it.At that time when the news of Bai Yun's death came, he didn't feel much grief except for a sense of weightlessness and bewilderment, perhaps because he had expected that Bai Yun would never belong to him, and he had never had her.

It has always been Jiang Huajie's subconscious habit to drink a cup alone on the day of Bai Yun's death. He used this way to remember the first and only difficult and hopeless emotional journey in his life. Some weakness and sadness.

To be honest, before Bai Yun died, he didn't pay much attention to Bai Qi, but after Bai Yun died, he gradually realized that this child grew more and more like Bai Yun, the one he met when he was a teenager, made him The youthful and energetic Bai Yun who is just in love.

A teenager's mind is obviously sensitive and suspicious, especially Bai Qi, who suffered an accident at a young age. He is keenly aware of some potential dangers that are only in his imagination, and has taken measures to protect himself.

That day, Jiang Huajie's wine was drugged, and he had an attack not long after he drank it. Spontaneously sent himself to the mouth of the beast.

The next day Jiang Nan was still in the hospital, and Bai Qi appeared in front of Jiang Huajie with a CD. Both parties knew what was in the CD, and Bai Qi wanted to use this to blackmail Jiang Huajie to send him abroad.

Jiang Huajie naturally doesn't take these things seriously, and he doesn't like to be threatened. Bai Qi is like Bai Yun, but he is not Bai Yun. Jiang Huajie will not have any sympathy for him. Bottom line, still not soft.But before he could make a move, Jiang Nan came to him.

Jiang Huajie watched him ignorant of the truth, fighting for the interests of the culprit, and even at his own expense, trying to send Bai Qi out of danger, a malicious thought suddenly came to his mind, if this ignorant and innocent person, after giving everything Knowing the truth, you know that all the patience and pain these years have been brought on by oneself, how painful and regretful it will be?He is looking forward to it.

The phone on the desk rang suddenly, interrupting his recollection, and Anne informed him that it was time for a meeting.

It was snowing outside the window, Jiang Nan moved a chair and sat in the kitchen, the induction cooker was bubbling on the low table in front of him, he sucked his saliva, put down the enoki mushrooms and the tribute balls, and couldn’t wait to pick up the green vegetables that had been put into the pot earlier, wheezing and throwing them away into the mouth.

Aunt Xu came home, her daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy, she had to go back to help, and the family reunited for the New Year, the house has not been fired for the past few days, at this time in the past, Jiang Nan would go to Jiang Hesen To eat hot pot together, his brother also called to call him tonight, but he refused because he had an appointment in advance.

In fact, Jiang Nan didn't have an appointment at all today, and he became greedy after hanging up Jiang Hesen's phone, but it was too shabby to go to the hot pot restaurant alone, so he called those friends one by one and learned that they After no one is interested in such a popular food as hot pot, after thinking about it for a long time, he decided to do it himself.

He ran to Anne's to inquire about it, and knew that Jiang Huajie had an appointment with Lin Lin tonight, and he would probably not go home, so he went to the supermarket after get off work and brought back a bunch of ingredients.

He has never cooked hot pot by himself, but as the saying goes, he has seen pigs run before eating pork. In his opinion, it is just a matter of boiling vegetables and putting them in the pot.In fact, it's that simple, it's just that his green vegetables were planted early and potatoes late, which affected the taste a little.

Jiang Nan was eating here in full swing, and inadvertently glanced up, saw the familiar car driving in the yard, and almost sent a mouthful of Flammulina velutipes into his nostrils.

He jumped up like his butt was on fire, it was too late to tidy up, so he could only unplug the induction cooker, ran out and closed the glass door of the kitchen, pretending to be peaceful, and planned to wait until Jiang Huajie fell asleep before coming down to tidy up.

When Jiang Huajie entered the door, Jiang Nan was pretending to be holding a glass of water and was about to go upstairs. When he saw him coming in, he said as usual: "Dad, you are back."

Jiang Huajie nodded, took off his coat and hung it on the hanger,

He smelled a smell of food and asked, didn't think much, just asked casually: "Have you eaten?"

Jiang Nan, who was slipping upstairs, subconsciously wiped the corners of her mouth, "Eat, eat."

Jiang Nan took a shower, walked around the room a few times in his pajamas, time passed slowly.He took out a book from the bookshelf, flipped through dozens of pages at a glance, and took out his mobile phone to press it. In the end, he was really bored and did dozens of push-ups on the floor. Finally, he stayed up until almost ten o'clock. He stood up and ran to the door lightly, and turned the doorknob silently—Jiang Huajie was standing outside, with one hand slightly raised, in a posture ready to open the door.

"..." Jiang Nan retracted his hands and feet, and took a step back, "Dad..."

Jiang Huajie opened the door and came in, "Where are you going?"

"It's nothing, I forgot to check if the gate is locked."

"I've already locked it."

"……Oh."

"come over."

It was past one o'clock in the morning when Jiang Nan found another chance to go downstairs. He tiptoed out of bed and slipped out of the room again.

Ten minutes later, Jiang Huajie stood silently on the stairs, and saw the two doors of the kitchen open. Jiang Nan was squatting on a chair in pajamas, holding a bowl in his hand, staring at the pot of stew that was bubbling and smelling.