Do not lie to me

Shang Xuechen only heard a gunshot, and then he was knocked to the ground.When he came back to his senses, he realized that it was Ji Shuping who knocked him down and dodged the flying bullets.He wanted to ask Ji Shuping if he was okay, but Ji Shuping preempted him.

Ji Shuping lay on him and looked at him anxiously, and asked, "Are you okay?"

Shang Xuechen propped up his upper body, looked at Ji Shuping, who was lying on top of him, and saw his smeared face, he didn't know how to react for a moment, he just wanted to reach out to help him wipe the smear off his face.Seeing Shang Xuechen in a daze, Ji Shuping asked him persistently, "How are you? Are you nervous? Are you in good health?"

Ji Shuping asked him several questions in a row, and only when Shang Xuechen shook his head and said it was all right, he relaxed and smiled at Shang Xuechen.Seeing him smile, Shang Xuechen's heart suddenly softened, his brows twitched, and he felt that his dirty face really didn't fit his usual image, he had a prominent status, so he shouldn't have dirty face.He caressed Ji Shuping's face, and used his thumb to help him wipe off the black marks on the ground on his face. After wiping it off, he saw that his face seemed to be torn.His brows frowned even tighter, and when he saw Ji Shuping's arm scratched by bullets, his eyebrows were about to twist into twists.

At this time, Xu Xueshi just rushed in front of them. He was worried that he had accidentally injured Shang Xuechen, so he came up and asked him, "Are you all right, little minister?"

Shang Xuechen turned his face and was about to question Xu Xueshi, "How can you shoot indiscriminately!!!" After realizing that he was speaking too aggressively, he slowed down his tone, "If you kill him by mistake like this, what can the Ji family do? Let you go? You haven't got your footing yet, so you shouldn't be so impulsive."

Xu Xueshi was yelled at by Shang Xuechen in front of him, and it was only Ji Shuping's fault. When he turned to look at Ji Shuping again, he saw him lying on Shang Xuechen's body and raised the corner of his mouth at him. He pointed at Ji Shuping and said to Shang Xuechen. Said, "It's him, he deliberately provoked me!"

Seeing that Xu Xueshi was still holding a gun in his hand, Shang Xuechen reached out to cover Ji Shuping's face, "Get the gun away! What if it goes off?!"

Xu Xueshi was anxious to defend himself, "He was the one who provoked me at the time, and he said that he would let me shoot if I had the ability."

"Brother! You are such an adult, and you are still so impulsive. If you hadn't been impulsive to fight against the sons of the official family, how could uncle find a way to expand his power. You said he provoked you, and his hands were tied by you. I stood there Behind him, why didn't I hear him speak, can you calm down when you encounter problems in the future!"

"You...he..." Xu Xueshi was so choked by Shang Xuechen that he couldn't speak, pointed at Ji Shuping and then at Shang Xuechen, and finally lowered his hand, "I see, it wasn't his intention at all, it was you My heart has already been given to him."

Although Shang Xuechen was right, he didn't want to admit it, so he helped Ji Shuping up, "Brother, let him go. If you catch him, you will get into trouble."

"Let him go?" Xu Xueshi glanced sideways at Ji Shuping, "Let him go, what about the medicine? What if Hang Qing doesn't see him?"

Shang Xuechen sighed, looked at Ji Shuping, "It's really not you?"

Ji Shuping didn't avoid his gaze, "I won't lie to you in the future, these two things have nothing to do with me."

"Brother, he said it wasn't him."

Xu Xueshi was only angry at his younger brother for not living up to expectations, "Do you believe what he says?"

Shang Xuechen lowered his head, "You know I know how to judge people."

"But I also know that no matter how you know how to look at things with emotions, you can't be objective. Who knows if you are partial to him!"

"Brother." Shang Xuechen hesitated, lowered his head and then raised his head, and still said that sentence, "I beg you."

Ji Shuping couldn't see Shang Xuechen begging for him, "You don't have to beg him, I..."

Shang Xuechen was afraid that he would say what he used Xu Xueshi to threaten him last time, so he quickly covered Ji Shuping's mouth, "Don't talk!" Taking a peek at Xu Xueshi next to him, Shang Xuechen lowered his voice, "When I beg you You, he is my brother after all."

Xu Xueshi couldn't bear to see the two next to each other muttering together, and interrupted them, "It's okay to let him go. You have to promise me to go abroad."

Ji Shuping seemed to disagree, struggling to make a sound, Shang Xuechen covered his mouth tightly, trying to wink at Ji Shuping.Xu Xueshi looked at the two of them, and continued, "Young minister, you can't be with him. You believe that brother is doing it for your own good. Ever since you were young, brother has been cruel to you, but has he ever hurt you?"

Shang Xuechen held Ji Shuping tightly and didn't dare to let go. He was afraid that if he let go, Ji Shuping would turn to Xu Xueshi again, "I know, brother, you have always thought of me. But brother, it was too sudden, give me time to think about it."

Xu Xueshi disagreed and wanted to force Shang Xuechen to agree immediately.Shang Xuechen looked at him, "Brother, I'm an adult, I can't be like when I was a child, you can do what you say. After so many years, you haven't come back, I came here by myself, you know how afraid I am of strangers A place? I’m not familiar with the place of my life abroad, so you always have to give me time to prepare mentally.”

Ji Shuping still broke away from Shang Xuechen, "He can't go abroad alone, he has..."

"Ji Shuping! Don't say it!"

"What happened to him?" Xu Xueshi looked at the two of them suspiciously.

Ji Shuping wants to say that he has PTSD and cannot go to strange places without being accompanied or comforted.But Shang Xuechen looked at him with mist in his eyes, begging him not to speak.

"It's not him. It's me, I have a mood disorder and the doctors say he's my placebo, I feel safe with him around me. I want him around me."

Hearing what Ji Shuping said, Shang Xuechen felt relieved, and felt sorry for Ji Shuping and asked him to pretend.

"What placebo, I think you are clearly using him as a punching bag! Anyway, you can't be together." Xu Xueshi patted Shang Xuechen on the shoulder, "I know you like him, from the first time you came to negotiate with me , I knew it. You haven’t even looked for a serious job for so many years, and you’ve been wandering around all day, isn’t it because you’re afraid that your surname will attract gossip for you, and you’re afraid that someone will make fun of your second uncle. You hid After so many years, I have jumped out to meet and negotiate with me because of him. Do you think I am a fool? I shouldn’t have let you approach him in the first place. As long as you go abroad obediently, I don’t intend to change your surname back. There is no one surnamed Shang, only one more surnamed Xu, no one will think of the Shang family back then, and no one will gossip about the dead second uncle again."

Sounds like really good advice.Leave him no choice.

"You have to give me time to do my ideological work. I hear you mean that I don't want to come back from now on. Do you think my father is too shameful?"

"You..." Xu Xueshi knew that Shang Xuechen could see it, "Brother didn't mean that, I didn't think the second uncle was a shame, I was just afraid that you would be hurt in the future."

"I will take good care of him. Do you know how much he has to bear when you send him abroad alone? As long as he is by my side, I will take good care of him." Ji Shuping became anxious, and he stared at the person in front of him, "Shang Xuechen, don't go!"

Shang Xuechen looked at him with a smile, patted his arm to comfort him, "Can you help my dad sweep the grave in the future?"

"Ah."

"Not only my dad, but also my uncle's tomb has to be swept."

"it is good."

"Then give me some time to prepare."

"Shang Xuechen!" Ji Shuping had no choice but to call his name anxiously.

"Three days, I only give you three days."

"Well, I see, let me go."

Xu Xueshi gave a look to the big men in black standing in a row behind him, and someone came up to untie Ji Shuping.While Shang Xuechen was waiting, Xu Xueshi handed him the bag that Shang Xuechen had lost before, "I will arrange it in the next two days, and you can adjust it as soon as possible."

Shang Xuechen half-jokingly said, "I don't know if there is a three-day English crash course outside."

Xu Xueshi lowered his head, Shang Xuechen saw him like this, and asked him, "Don't you want to go to America? Haven't you thought about where to send me?"

"You'll know when the time comes." Xu Xueshi waved his hand at him, as if he didn't want to say more, and glanced at Ji Shuping who was untied, "Okay, let's go, I'm upset seeing you here!"

Ji Shuping had been tied for a long time, twisted his wrist, "You didn't even think about where to send him, you just wanted to abandon him!" He grabbed Shang Xuechen's hand, "Don't go, stay by my side, I won't throw you away as casually as he did."

"I'm not going to abandon him! I'm doing it for his own good, and someone has already arranged it!"

Someone arranged it?Shang Xuechen looked at Xu Xueshi, and always felt that it was strange that he suddenly arranged for him to go abroad.

Afraid of Shang Xuechen's questioning, Xu Xueshi just waved his hands and said, "Let's go, you guys." He looked out of sight and out of mind.

"Have someone bandage his wound." Shang Xuechen was still thinking about the scrape on Ji Shuping's arm.

Xu Xueshi only felt that Shang Xuechen was annoying and difficult to deal with, "Go back and apply some medicine, it hurts so much."

He said so much, and Shang Xuechen also knew that Xu Xueshi was unwilling to bandage Ji Shuping, so he could only say to the person who came to untie Ji Shuping, "Take off your clothes."

Hearing what Shang Xuechen said, the man was startled for a moment, seeing that Xu Xueshi didn't express anything as if he tacitly agreed to Shang Xuechen's behavior, but silently took off his clothes.Shang Xuechen took the clothes and wrapped them around Ji Shuping's arms, which was considered bandaged.After wrapping his arms, he raised his head and said to Ji Shuping, "Let's go."

Ji Shuping didn't want to leave, and he wanted to argue with Xu Xueshi about Shang Xuechen's stay, but Shang Xuechen didn't want to stay any longer, so he dragged Ji Shuping's arm and walked out of the warehouse.

After Shang Xuechen and Ji Shuping walked out of the warehouse, Xu Xueshi turned around to look at Shang Xuechen's back, and a younger brother came up with a mobile phone, as if he was looking for Xu Xueshi's call.Xu Xueshi glanced at the mobile phone held up in front of him, shook his head and expressed that he didn't want to answer the call, "Tell over there, I've already made arrangements." After speaking, he looked at the back of Shang Xuechen who had gone away, and sighed in one breath.

Ji Shuping followed Shang Xuechen for a while, and finally couldn't take it anymore, stepped forward to hold him back, "Don't go, okay?"

This time Shang Xuechen was held back and did not try to shake off Ji Shuping, probably because there are not many opportunities to be held back like this in the future, "That's my brother, he will help me arrange it."

"He didn't even think about which country you're going to!"

If so, how should I find you in the future?

Ji Shuping didn't dare to think about the day when he couldn't find Shang Xuechen, "Don't go, I can give you what you want. Maybe we can go farther and hide so that your brother can't find you. Don't show up, don't hinder him from regaining his footing."

Shang Xuechen lowered his head and smiled, then looked up at him again, "Don't be stupid, Ji Shuping. Did you leave? When the director came to me, the most fundamental thing was to want you to return to the Ji family. The Ji family is so big, can you Can you get rid of it? My brother doesn't want to see us staying together, after all..."

Shang Xuechen sighed, turned around and continued to walk forward, Ji Shuping held him and did not let go, Shang Xuechen looked back at him, Ji Shuping just stood there without moving.

Shang Xuechen watched him hold his hand, "Ji Shuping, it's impossible for us. Our being together is just another tragedy, repeating the same mistakes."

"I said I don't care, I really don't care that your father is the one who tied me up."

"Well, I see. Thank you, Ji Shuping."

"Thank you for what? Thank you for not hating you or your family?"

"Thank you for letting me let go of the burden. In fact, I have been worrying about it before, so when you were kind to me, I always felt insecure. I'm sorry for losing my temper with you before."

Ji Shuping didn't like Shang Xuechen saying thank you and saying sorry to him, as if he was liquidating the relationship between himself and him, as if after saying this sentence, they would forget each other in the world from now on.However, he really didn't know how else to keep him, he clenched his wrist for a long time, and finally let go.

Seeing him let go, Shang Xuechen smiled faintly, and continued walking forward.Ji Shuping followed and walked beside him.Shang Xuechen looked up at the sky, felt as if it was going to rain, and continued, "Thank you for cooking for me. It has been many years since no one has cooked for me. The food you cook is actually delicious. Now Thinking about it, bitter gourd is actually not that bad. And thank you, you obviously don’t like hot pot, but you still eat hot pot with me. In fact, since I was a child, I envied other people’s families eating hot pot around the table. It looks so lively, but I don’t know if I can still eat hot pot when I go abroad. Even if there is hot pot abroad, I won’t eat it, because eating such lively food alone will only make me look more pitiful. By the way, thank you... "

"Stop saying thank you to me!" Ji Shuping couldn't accept this tone of farewell, "Aren't you angry? I'm using you when I'm angry! You can keep losing your temper with me, and keep fighting with me forever. Be angry, stay and fight me back, revenge me for taking advantage of you."

As long as you can stay, no matter we are in love together, or we hate each other and tear each other, as long as you can stay, stay where I can still see.Sometimes such arguing and arguing seem to never feel like it will end.

"You're a real person. I originally wanted to talk to you carefully. What's the point of arguing now? It won't be in the future..." Shang Xuechen choked.

In the future, won't we never see each other again?Why not say goodbye calmly?

Shang Xuechen's tone and attitude made Ji Shuping regretful, so he could only correct his attitude again, "I'm sorry, I just can't stand you leaving."

"Well, I know. It's always sad to say goodbye. After I'm gone, it will be fine after a while."

"It's not going to get better. It's not going to get better. I'm probably going to be sad forever."

Shang Xuechen pretended not to hear, and explained to himself, "It's just that I can't help you cover it up in front of the chairman in the future. Remember to tell Uncle Kang for me and ask him to bring a message to the chairman, what to say What? Say I am studying abroad or immigrating? It seems to be too sudden, or just say that I ran away. Oh, I remembered that we were photographed in the elevator today. In fact, it’s fine if I leave. If you ask whether you will admit it or not, the reporter still wants to pick it up again, but it turns out that there is no such person, and it saves you public relations."

"Shang Xuechen, is what Xu Xueshi said later true?"

"What do you mean?"

"You went to negotiate with Xu Xueshi for me. During the press conference, you always asked me about the cooperation between Xu Xueshi and Ji's, and promised the chairman to see if I was negotiating with Xu Xueshi because I had a bargaining chip in my hand."

Shang Xuechen didn't make a sound, just walked with his head muffled.

"So far, what are you still worried about?"

"I owe it to you. I helped you block the chairman twice, and now I have paid it off."

"I still don't know, Shang Xuechen!"

Shang Xuechen thought that he was going to bring up the incident of the year again, but the person who kidnapped him was indeed his father, and his father also died in that kidnapping case, so the debt is unclear, "I know, when my father kidnapped you , it was our family who made the mistake first, but you can see that I helped you..."

"I didn't mean that!" Ji Shuping stopped to look at him, "I mean, the relationship between the two of us has long been unclear."

Shang Xuechen paused, not daring to look back at Ji Shuping.

"Yes, the first time I drugged you was to take advantage of you. But I was angry at the time. You were too unconscious at the time. It was you who kept setting me on fire and trying to stun me. I was angry but wanted to give you the other way around. It’s a lesson. It’s no longer the case. I sincerely brought you here for self-cultivation, and what I said on the top of the mountain that day was also true. Uncle Kang called you, but I didn’t intend to answer it at first, and I didn’t bother to deal with Shao Ling later. Avoid you, because I want you to see clearly and then choose whether to stand by me. I am true to you! You said you paid it off, but can you let me go? Help me, but today you didn't think of a way to help me get out, or ran back in a hurry when I was tied up! You know in your heart that there is no clear relationship between us."

Shang Xuechen clenched his fists, "So what. Anyway, I'm leaving, and I still don't know if it's due or not. After a long time, no one will pursue it." After speaking, he lifted his foot and continued to walk forward.

After walking two steps, a thunder fell from the sky, and it rained cats and dogs after a while.Seeing that Ji Shuping didn't follow, Shang Xuechen turned around to see that Ji Shuping was still standing there.Shang Xuechen had no choice but to return to him. He was worried about the injury on Ji Shuping's arm, so he lifted his bag above his head to protect him from the rain, "Go, find a place to hide. Although the rain is heavy, it will pass It's also fast."

Ji Shuping looked at Shang Xuechen who was in the rain through the drenched hair in front of his eyes. He gave himself the bag to keep out the rain. Standing in the rain, the rainwater flowed down his cheeks to his chin, forming a small water column.Ji Shuping stretched out his arms to hug him, and Shang Xuechen's bag fell to the ground.

"If you go abroad, are you afraid of being alone, what do you do when you are lonely and emotional, drink like before, and find a bed partner at will? Will your heart be satisfied? In such a far place, You don't have a single acquaintance, who will comfort you?"

Shang Xuechen was hugged by him, "Actually, I don't have many acquaintances in China."

"Isn't there me? Stay here, okay?"

It was raining heavily, accompanied by the wind, which hurt people very much when it was hit on the face, and the wind scraped against the ears like a knife.The exposed skin bears the pain from the wind and rain, and the wet and sticky clothes bring bursts of cold.Shang Xuechen felt that the rain falling on his body was like 502 glue. Ji Shuping hugged himself wet like this, as if he couldn't tear it apart.The wind was so strong, but he could hear what Ji Shuping said in his ear, it sounded full of worry, but it sounded sincere.He had clearly warned himself not to take it seriously before, but now that he was about to leave, it wouldn't make much difference if he took it seriously again, after all, who would say such things to him in the future?

The two of them had their wet clothes stuck to their bodies, and Shang Xuechen felt uncomfortable no matter what they hugged each other. Not to mention that they couldn't get warm, they just felt that the layers of clothes were covered with layers of coldness. stuck on the body.He wants to push away, otherwise he will gradually lose the courage to push Ji Shuping away if this continues.The man hadn't moved yet, but when the wind filled his ears, he heard Ji Shuping's voice, and he was still trying to impress himself, to convince himself, "Shang Xuechen, look, it's raining, it's so good, it's raining everywhere. Wet by the rain, the whole world is wet, so wet that you can't tell the boundaries, so there is no center and edge, and there is no status gap between you and me. You always tell me that you are on the edge, I don't have much sympathy, and I don't know how to pull you to the center, but, you see, we are all drenched in the rain now, why don't I stay with you on the edge. If you feel that you have no way back and insist on leaving, can you take me to wander together?"

Shang Xuechen's chin rested on Ji Shuping's shoulder, the rain was so heavy that it hurt his eyelids, but he still kept his eyes open trying to discern whether it was true or not.Ji Shuping is half a head taller than him, and his shoulder line just replaces the horizon line in his eyes. Looking into the distance from his shoulder, the world he sees is divided into asymmetrical upper and lower sides, and the upper part is gray without Ji Shuping Looking at the rainy sky, below is the sunny area where Ji Shuping isolated the wind and rain with his shoulders.Now, in his eyes, Ji Shuping's shoulders are a clear boundary, his shoulders block everything, the wind and rain do not fall on his shoulders, only he falls firmly into Ji Shuping's arms.

The rain was slapped on the face mercilessly by the wind, as if to remind people of the reality of this world.Shang Xuechen closed his eyes, trying to escape the painful wind and rain, he buried his face in Ji Shuping's chest, fortunately Ji Shuping's chest was already wet by the rain, which gave him a fragile excuse, Quietly shed some tears.Ji Shuping tightened his arms and clasped the person in his arms tighter.

The wind was loud, but he still separated Shang Xuechen's voice from the wind, "Ji Shuping, I really want to be home, otherwise I wouldn't like to eat hot pot and dumplings, but I might really be with you." The word home is gone.”

"Then I'll give you a home, as long as you want."

"Don't force yourself, you don't like hot pot, maybe you don't like dumplings either."

In addition to these, there is reality, the reality is that you can't give me a home.Your social status will require you to have a marriage. Whether it is an exchange of interests or a marriage that exists in name only, it must be a marriage that is concealed.

"It's windy and windy, it's very suitable for elopement. Uncle Kang is not here at the moment, and your brother didn't send anyone to follow us. Why don't we elope to build a house? If I say I can leave everything for you, will you believe me?"

"Why should I write to you?"

"Can you rely on, I love you, these three words."

Shang Xuechen put his arms around Ji Shuping's waist, it seemed that he would not be easily blown down by the wind if he hugged him tightly.

Ji Shuping didn't wait for the answer he wanted to hear, only heard the most common reply, "Don't be stupid." Then Shang Xuechen let go of his arms, left his embrace, and continued walking, leaving only a back view.