Yi Xiao'an and Shu Yan turned their heads at the same time, and after seeing the person clearly, they almost threw the painting in their hands to the ground.

Almost subconsciously, Shu Yan stepped forward and blocked Yi Xiaoan behind her.

The girl didn't seem to see Yi Xiaoan, she was still blinking her big eyes waiting for Shuyan's reply.She was wearing a small sweater with many fur balls hanging from her body, and she had a ponytail on her head.

Shu Yan frowned, turned around, and asked Ji Ying what was going on with her eyes.

Ji Ying shook her head briefly, and said in a steady voice: "Qianqian is planning to come to City A in March to study in the first year of high school, and she moved here not long ago. She has no relatives or acquaintances in City A, children, and celebrate the New Year together. .”

Yi Qianqian still looked at Shuyan, and said aggrievedly: "Sister Shu, don't you want me to come? Last time we met, you said that you would bring me to the playground in City A next time!"

In the first year of high school, the difference between Yi Xiaoan and Yi Xiaoan is only two or three years old, but one is mature as if he has already gone to college, and the other is childish as if he has just entered the city.

Shu Yan hummed sullenly, then turned to look at Yi Xiao'an, her gaze didn't look at Yi Qianqian, nor at anyone, she drooped slightly, in the center of the awkward atmosphere.

Shu Yan stretched out her hand to pull Yi Xiaoan, wanting her to go to another room to sit first, Ji Ying coughed lightly: "Xiao An, come on, there is still a while before dinner, come and help auntie make dumplings, every year you make dumplings very beautiful."

Ji Ying has always been a very calm and virtuous woman, the habit of the Shu family, other dishes of the New Year's Eve dinner can be cooked by a private chef, but the dumplings must be made by hand.

Yi Xiao'an nodded: "Okay, I'll come right after I wash my hands."

"Qianqian, will you?" Ji Ying asked again.

Yi Qianqian stuck out her tongue: "Auntie, I can only knead the dough into a circle. If you and uncle want to eat leek-flavored Lantern Festival, you can let me come."

"By the way, Sister Shu, I prepared a New Year's gift for you, and I'll get it for you!" After shaking her wits, Yi Qianqian went to look for Shu Yan again.

Shu Yan handed the coat to the nanny, stretched out her hand to brush her hair, and said in a cold tone, "Leave it to Aunt Liu. Also, Yi Qianqian, I'm not the only one who just entered the door, you should be more polite."

She was saying that she didn't say hello to Yi Xiao'an.

Yi Qianqian took a quick look at Yi Xiaoan, Yi Xiaoan lowered his eyes, and went to the kitchen to wash his hands without seeing anything.

Shu Yan walked in without even sitting on the sofa. Shu Minglang had just received a video New Year greeting from a group president in the study, when there was a knock on the door, Shu Minglang said in a deep voice, "Come in."

Shu Yan pushed the door open and entered. The square meter of Shu Minglang's study room is very large, and the entire study room is equipped with a soundproof layer. When the heavy black leather door is closed, there is no noise in an instant.

Shu Minglang was wearing a relatively casual Chinese-style Tang suit, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his face. He didn't dye his hair black on purpose, and his half-black, half-white hairstyle suited his identity.

Shu Yan was not polite, and walked directly to his desk: "What's going on?"

Unceremonious questioning tone.

My daughter, Shu Minglang, didn't bother to circle around, and leaned back on the chair: "Her mother can't come to City C, so she will go to school in City A for the next three years, and she will come back here during the holidays."

"They're both Lao Yi's daughters. If you can take care of one, should you leave the other alone?" Shu Minglang said slowly.

He was right, although the mother was different, but the father was Yi Sen.Back then they agreed to bring Yi Xiaoan back, so of course they didn't ignore Yi Xiaoan.

"I don't care how you take care of Yi Qianqian, but today you should tell me in advance, and I won't let Xiao'an come." Shu Yan said word by word.

This kind of thing has never happened to her, but Shu Yan can imagine how it feels good to see her sister who was born after her father cheated on her, and it is still in this festival of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

"She is young and ignorant, aren't you ignorant? It's been so many years, and people are gone. Can't you learn to reconcile and forgive?"

"Some forgiveness is fine, but some forgiveness is not." Shu Yan raised her voice unconsciously.

The shelf life of love can be short, but responsibility cannot.Once you enter the palace of marriage, it means that both parties have to assume a responsibility.Reality is not an excuse to avoid breaking up, let alone derailment and change of heart.

As if thinking of something, Shu Minglang didn't answer for a while, moved his chair back, and said in a deep voice: "Okay. I remember that she is about to go to college in her third year of high school, and the things she has to face in the future are getting more and more complicated. Duo, can you protect her for the rest of her life?"

Shu Minglang's voice was very firm, and Shu Yan did not show any weakness:

"Xiao An is already growing up. Besides, I have never protected her well. But if necessary, I don't think I can't protect her for the rest of my life."

"You're presumptuous!" Shu Minglang sternly said, pulling out a folder from behind with his backhand and throwing it heavily on the table: "Let's see for yourself, is this the protection method you mentioned?"

Shu Minglang got angry, Shu Yan was stunned for a moment, she looked at the folder on the table, stepped forward to open it, and there were photos of her and Yi Xiaoan inside.

In the first photo, Yi Xiaoan was wearing a gorgeous waist-cut dress and standing at the door of a hotel. In the second photo, Shu Yan hugged Yi Xiaoan in her arms, and Yi Xiaoan buried her head in her lap. neck.In the third photo, she hugged Yi Xiaoan onto her black Bentley with her own hands.

This was the time she attended Tang Qianbing's wedding, and Yi Xiaoan sprained her ankle.

Shu Yan suddenly remembered that she was followed by a car on the way home that day. Shu Yan guessed that it might be some reporter who broke the news. No wonder there was no movement for a long time. It turned out that she came to Shu Minglang directly.

"There are also videos and other photos. Do you still want to see them? Do you think no one told me about the fact that you broke into the school to fight for her?"

Shu Yan exhaled, a little dumbfounded: "They don't know, don't you know?"

"Am I the only one who knows it's useful?" Shu Minglang sternly said, "If these photos don't reach you and me right away, if they get out, what kind of rumors do you make Yi Xiao'an bear, and what criticism do you make me have to bear?"

Shu Minglang's eyes fixed on Shu Yan's face, as if he was examining a family's dangerous traitor.

Because of her public coming out.

It's no secret among the upper circles that Yi Xiao'an is fostered at Shu's house, especially Shu Minglang's old friend, as well as his mutual friends with Yi Sen.

His own daughter became the biggest destabilizing factor in the family's reputation.

"If you and Xiang Laoyi's daughter really have any wrong thoughts, I won't have the face to explain to him after I die!"

"I have nothing against Xiao An..."

"Whether you have it or not, you'd better know in your heart." Shu Minglang didn't want to continue this topic, so he interrupted her directly.His eyes seemed to tell her to do it on her own.

There were quite a few people making dumplings, and even five people couldn't eat much, so they entered the finishing work after a while.

Ji Ying put Yi Xiaoan's dumplings on a separate plate. She didn't know how a little girl could make dumplings so well. Each one was well-proportioned in size and beautifully pinched, and together they could be used as a close-up shot in a gourmet drama.

Yi Xiaoan washed her hands, but Shu Yan and Shu Minglang hadn't come out yet, Ji Ying asked her to go to the living room to eat some fruit and watch TV.

As soon as Yi Xiao'an walked to the sofa and sat down, Yi Qianqian came out from another room, took a look at Yi Xiao'an and sat on the sofa next to her.

Knowing the relationship between the two, Aunt Liu wisely returned to the kitchen.

The New Year's Gala from previous years was broadcast on TV, and it happened that Liang Yiqing was singing in it, wearing a red dress very stylishly.

Yi Qianqian didn't watch TV, glanced at Yi Xiao'an, and asked, "Are you graduating soon?"

Yi Xiaoan didn't look at her: "Yes."

Yi Qianqian has never called her sister, and the two have only met a few times since they were young.Of course Yi Qianqian had heard the rumors about her father, but she didn't believe it, and she didn't feel guilty about the grievances between the previous generation.

"You're still so quiet." Yi Qianqian couldn't help but said something to her again.

Yi Xiaoan was peeling an orange in her hand, she didn't cut the fruit, she peeled it with her fingers with some difficulty: "It's okay."

Yi Xiaoan replied.

"You just heard, I will come to city A to study in high school."

"When." Yi Xiao'an finally asked a question.

She was wearing a red loose sweater today, black trousers and half-length Martin boots on her lower body, her slightly curly hair was draped behind her back, and her side face was so cool and delicate.

She should look like her mother.Yi Qianqian touched her face and thought.

"When school starts in September." Yi Qianqian replied.

Yi Xiaoan nodded: "Then I have graduated."

"..."

"Seeing me today, you seem very unhappy?" Yi Qianqian raised her eyebrows.She is the lively type, and she is dressed like a walking Christmas tree, which is in sharp contrast to Yi Xiaoan's temperament and personality.

"What do you think?" Yi Xiaoan turned his head and looked at her calmly.

"..."

Yi Qianqian got bored, and saw that the orange in Yi Xiaoan's hand hadn't been peeled, frowned, and reached out to pick up a fruit knife from the side: "This kind of orange has thick skin, and it can't be peeled by hand. of."

She said she wanted to reach out to grab the orange in Yi Xiaoan's hand, Yi Xiaoan moved back with the orange, and Yi Qianqian reached forward again, as soon as Shu Yan came over, she saw Yi Qianqian holding the knife towards Yi Xiao An leaned forward and asked directly:

"what are you doing?!"

Yi Qianqian: "...cut, cut the orange..."

Shu Yan looked at the plate of oranges in front of her: "Do I have to cut other people's oranges?"

Yi Qianqian: "I... sister, I just want to cut this for you..."

Yi Qianqian subconsciously said the word "sister", and was obviously referring to Yi Xiao'an.Both Shu Yan and Yi Xiao'an were stunned for a moment, Yi Xiao'an immediately put the orange in his hand on the table, gave a faint "hmm" and got up.

At 07:30 in the evening, the whole family sat down at the dinner table together with Aunt Liu and Aunt Zhang.The long marble table is filled with all kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas, all of which are reserved for private ingredients that have been prepared since the afternoon.

Shu Minglang sat at the main seat, poured mellow fine wine into the white wine glass, raised his glass, and briefly said something about the family reunion.Shu Yan sat Yi Xiaoan on the left and Yi Qianqian on the right. She drove here today and simply poured a drink.

Very silent.

Ji Ying guessed that the father and daughter had probably quarreled again just now, so she smiled and kept looking for topics about the two daughters of the Yi family.

Yi Qianqian has a lot of small talk, although it is very childish, it really relieves the embarrassment at the dinner table.

"Xiao'an, have you decided on a university? Which college do you want to go to abroad?" Shu Minglang suddenly asked Yi Xiao'an after putting down his wine glass.

Shu Yan was taken aback for a moment, then frowned and said, "I will discuss with Xiaoan about the university."

Shu Minglang ignored her, and said in a deep voice, "I'm asking her."

Yi Xiaoan wiped his mouth lightly with a tissue, raised his head, and met Shu Minglang's gaze: "There is no decision yet. I have applied to two domestic schools, and foreign schools need to be selected based on the results of the college entrance examination."

Shu Minglang nodded: "I heard that your grades have always been good. The two principals also mentioned to me at the year-end meeting of Yigao that you have always been No.1. According to the level of Yigao in previous years, it is no problem to go to a top foreign university .”

"As for the cost, you don't have to worry about it at all."

Yi Xiaoan froze for a moment, then lowered his head slightly: "I will consider it."

Shu Minglang wanted to say something more, but Shu Yan abruptly interrupted the topic.

After a while, the dumplings were cooked and served on the table. Two steaming plates of dumplings were placed in the middle. Ji Ying sandwiched a few compliments: "Come on, let's take a look at Xiaoan's dumplings. They look even better after they are cooked."

Shu Yan picked up a dumpling that looked very beautiful, she really didn't know when Yi Xiao'an knew how to make dumplings, anyway, Shu Minglang's family made very good dumplings every year on New Year's Eve.

"Delicious." Shu Yan said generously.

Yi Xiaoan shook her head a little embarrassedly: "My aunt made the stuffing, I just wrapped it up."

"Hoo hoo, it's so hot..." Yi Qianqian on the right picked up a dumpling and put it into her mouth, screaming as the squeezed out oil was hot.

Seeing her distressed appearance, Ji Ying couldn't help laughing a few times, while Aunt Liu quickly reached out to help pass the tissue.

"Look at you, you can't even eat well, you don't look like your sister at all." Ji Ying deliberately followed.

Shu Yan felt that Yi Xiaoan beside her obviously paused.

After dinner, Ji Ying said that the uncle's family will come to visit for New Year's greetings. The uncle's family is a pair of twins who have just entered middle school. One of them seems to be interested in software games, so Shu Yan happened to tell them about it.

"There will be a chance in the future, we have to go." Shu Yan directly refused.

Ji Ying said: "Why don't you worry about the Chinese New Year, you are about the same age, and you can still play with Xiao'an and Qianqian."

"Do you think Xiao'an wants to play with them?"

Ji Ying glanced past Shu Yan and looked at Yi Xiao'an behind her. If she knew something about the world, she would probably say, "It's okay, you can stay."But Yi Xiaoan didn't, she just stood behind Shu Yan with downcast eyes slightly, proving her thoughts with silence.

She really didn't want to play with them at all.

Ji Ying couldn't keep anyone, and the two of them were about to leave after saying hello, Yi Qianqian chased after the door, and asked Shu Yan coquettishly: "Sister, when are you taking me to that amusement park in City A?" ?”

Shu Yan glanced at her, then at Yi Xiaoan in front of her: "Let's wait until Xiaoan wants to go too."

The snow has become smaller, even so, Shu Yan still put up the umbrella.There was a lot of snow on the ground, and the two walked very slowly.After getting in the car, Shu Yan took out her glasses and put them on. The road is slippery, so she needs to be extra careful when driving.

The lights are bright tonight.Whether it is the street lamps on both sides of the road, or the lanterns lit by every household in the building.

The yellow lights shone on the white snow, reflecting a strange light.

The Bentley drove slowly, and Yi Xiaoan leaned on the seat along the way, silently listening to the sound of the wheels rolling over the snow.

When she was about to return to Jingshan Mansion, Shu Yan asked, "Is it cold?"

Yi Xiaoan shook his head: "It's not cold."

Shu Yan said good, and did not drive directly into the mansion, but drove to a riverside area.Shu Yan stopped the car and explained: "There will be a fireworks show here at 0:[-], do you want to watch it?"

Yi Xiaoan glanced at the time: "But it's only after 11 o'clock."

Shu Yan also glanced at the time, as if she had just discovered it, coughed lightly: "Then are you willing to wait?"

Shu Yan has always been very precise in doing things, especially when it comes to controlling the time. She didn't just realize that she was early.

Yi Xiao'an didn't expose her, and said calmly: "Well, wait, they're all here."

The interior of the car was eerily quiet, only the sound of fireworks exploding that accidentally rose into the sky far away.The wind was strong along the river, and the snow wrapped in snow fell unscrupulously in front of the car.

For the first time, Shu Yan felt that not playing music in the car was not a good choice.

"Want to listen to some music?" Yi Xiaoan picked up the phone and asked.

"it is good."

"It's just pop music, not piano or classical music." Yi Xiao'an explained.She knew Shu Minglang's family's requirements for music, and she also knew Shu Yan's taste in music.

Shu Yan froze for a moment: "It's okay."

An English song with a melodious melody came out from the mobile phone, and the low-mute and brisk boy sat on the ground as if smoking a cigarette, talking about something.The rhythm spreads with a kind of ease in the small space inside the car, as if an invisible hand drove away the oppressive and tense feeling that had been brought on since entering Shu Minglang's house just now.

Shu Yan stretched out her hand and loosened the shirt at the neckline.

Both of them speak English at the level of barrier-free communication abroad, and the lyrics fell in their ears, and they could hear them clearly.

"When you think of me, the world is instantly quiet"

"When she looked at me, there was the affection of the sea in her eyes"

"I would like to share all your sweetness, pain, worry, darkness..."

"The sweet and astringent taste penetrates into the lungs and hovers in the heart..."

Shu Yan coughed unconsciously: "Do you like this song?"

"I like it." Yi Xiaoan replied.

There was another silence, and when the melody switched to the second chorus, Shu Yan said, "I didn't know that Yi Qianqian would be there today."

"I know." Yi Xiaoan replied calmly.When Yi Qianqian called her, Shuyan's reaction seemed bigger than her own.

"Didn't you have enough to eat tonight?"

"Yeah." Yi Xiao'an replied truthfully, in such an atmosphere, she didn't have the heart to enjoy this New Year's Eve dinner.

"I just said that next year, the two of you should not be allowed to meet again." Shu Yan's tone was a little blunt.

Yi Xiao'an turned her head, leaned one arm on the car window, and looked at Shu Yan curiously: "How can I not see you? Tell Yi Qianqian not to go on New Year's Eve?"

What Shu Minglang meant, they all knew that this was impossible.

"But it's true that I won't see you next time." Yi Xiao'an helped her out: "If I go abroad to study next year, I may not come back during the Chinese New Year."

"Have you decided?" Shu Yan asked with a frown.

Yi Xiaoan smiled wryly: "Isn't this what you all hope for?"

Shu Yan was stunned for a moment, then frowned and replied: "Xiao'an, my sister said that our opinions are just for reference, and it is you who can make the final decision. You have to follow your own ideas..."

"I think so too." Yi Xiaoan raised the corners of his mouth higher, but his eyes couldn't conceal the loneliness.

It's like saying that even though she doesn't want to, she won't say it again.

The mobile phone played a piece of pure music, and the low and sad tone made the whole car quieter.

Shu Yan paused for a moment, then said loudly: "It's okay, it's just going abroad to study, now that the transportation is so developed, my sister will visit you when she is free, and I can see you often..."

"I won't see you anymore." Yi Xiaoan said, and added: "I can't see you often. The university courses will be very busy, and my sister will also be very busy."

Shu Yan wanted to say something more, and she talked about a lot of her own business trip projects. When she finished speaking, she didn't seem to be comforting Yi Xiaoan, but herself.

She thought that she would leave and go abroad, but she didn't expect that when Yi Xiaoan said these words, she would feel this way.

A stuffy feeling stuck in his chest.

It doesn't seem to be a few months later, it seems to be leaving tomorrow, and it seems to disappear soon.

"Sister, do you know why I am so good at making dumplings?" Yi Xiaoan asked an irrelevant question.

"I didn't know it before, because I went to Uncle Shu's house, and after knowing that you can make dumplings by yourself, I learned and practiced secretly by myself."

Shu Yan frowned: "Xiao'an, you don't have to..."

Yi Xiao'an shook his head: "I don't mean anything else, I just want to say that I can only use this way to express myself in front of my uncle and aunt. I don't want to disappoint the Shu family, and I don't want you to be criticized .”

"Sorry, my sister didn't know before..."

"It's not important anymore." Yi Xiaoan shook his head.

There was another silence. After more than a dozen pieces of music were played, Yi Xiaoan glanced at the time. It was 11:53: "You can get out of the car."

It was still snowing, Yi Xiaoan got out of the car holding an umbrella, Shu Yan followed for 2 minutes, suddenly remembered something, took two fireworks from the back box, she found a lighter, and there was a little surprise between her brows road:

"Huang Yue said he left fireworks for me, and there are indeed."

"Xiao An, come on, have you ever heard that when you light the fireworks with your own hands in the early morning of the new year, it will be very effective to make a wish?"

Yi Xiao'an didn't know why Shuyan suddenly became talkative, and also talked about this kind of childish superstition, Yi Xiao'an held an umbrella, raised his lips, and said lightly: "No need."

"Come on, otherwise, only my sister will make a wish."

Yi Xiaoan pursed her lips: "Sister Xu is fine."

"..."

"Xiao An, don't you have a wish?" Shu Yan asked again.

Yi Xiaoan froze for a moment: "Well, no."

It will be 12 o'clock soon, Yi Xiao'an turns on the mobile phone to help Shu Yan count down, at the moment when it reaches 0 o'clock, the bell on the river beach rings, and countless gorgeous and bright fireworks rush into the night sky, the whole night is slid by flames, lighting up, Falling down, weaving into a radiant picture.

Yi Xiao'an stood like that under the night sky, with light snow blowing on her shoulders, and the fire lamp shining on her clean eyes.

It seems that since no one knows when, the emotions in those eyes have quietly begun to change.

Becoming alienated, unfamiliar, looking forward to, and escaping from something.

Yi Xiao'an didn't put his hands together to make a wish, and Shu Yan didn't light the fireworks around him at zero o'clock.

About five or six minutes later, the fireworks ended. Yi Xiaoan turned around and looked at Shu Yan who was a few steps away.

"Shu Yan, in fact, since I was 14 years old, I have made the same wish every year on my birthday." As if afraid that she would get angry, Yi Xiao'an held an umbrella and explained, with a strong emotion in her eyes:

"Now, this wish is about to come true."

My birthday wish every year since I was 14 has been to grow up fast, and now, as I'm leaving you, that wish is finally coming true.

The author has something to say: woo woo woo.I find that I like this story more and more~

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 2 bottles of Xinyu;

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