lark

A little grassy smell floats in the air, penetrates people's nasal cavity and enters the spleen and stomach, reminding people of the wonderful moments in the past.

Qi Yubai asked, "How come Jieding likes this word so much?"

"It's just..." Ou Chan glanced to the side, and pointed his finger not far away, "For example, these white buds in the garden now will bloom a large area of ​​flowers as soon as March comes, and it will definitely be pleasing to the eye. In addition The background is such a distinctive building of the Qi family's old house, no matter who sees it, they will like it. Let me tell you this, do you want to show him a picture in your heart?"

Qi Yubai followed her hand and looked at the young man who had just emerged on the branch of a big tree a few meters away, and asked rather puzzled, "Why would I want to show him a picture?"

"Share beautiful things with him." Ou Chan had an expression on his face that you didn't understand, "When you have someone you really like, you will want to appreciate all the beautiful things in the world with him, otherwise They're meaningless. Don't you feel that way?"

Leaning against the glass wall of the small garden, Qi Yubai clasped his fingers between his hands, and a picture flashed through his mind: the photo of the community that Lin Nan took in a certain morning.

Before, he didn't understand why Lin Nan took such an inexplicable photo. The protagonists were a group of old people doing morning exercises, and the background was an ordinary and old community, and there was even a funny red banner behind it.

Just now, after Ou Can's call, he instantly understood the reason why Lin Nan posted this picture.

Just like Ou Chan loves flowers, Lin Nan loves life.When he is touched by the freshness and beauty of a certain scene in his life, his first reaction is to share it with himself, even though he doesn't understand it.

The heart seemed to be poked lightly by a needle as thin as a millimetre, and the longing and depression that had been firmly locked inside escaped a little bit.

After a few minutes of silence, Ou Can asked: "Is there really no such feeling?"

Qi Yubai came back to his senses and found that his cousin was looking at him worriedly. He was probably thinking in his heart that this person had long since lost his love, so he pressed his jaw and smiled: "Yes."

"Maybe I'm vulgar. I usually want to see him when I'm in business."

"My God..." Ou Chan rolled his eyes, "It's business again... Can you men let go of the business world for a moment?"

Qi Yubai let go of the tiger's mouth, and slowly turned the glass on the table with his fingers, "It's not that I want to tell him about the business world. I know he doesn't understand, but I think he is a good listener. If Being able to have a meal with him can be regarded as a celebration. If he went on a trip, I would feel more suffocated, and there is no place to express the feeling of a winner in my heart, after all, you all think my words are boring." He paused, and concluded in a business-like tone: "So according to what you said, then I should be considered to have liked him very much. As for love, the word is relatively large, so I can't answer you now."

Before he opened his mouth, Ou Chan didn't expect to get such a firm answer.She expected her taciturn cousin to dismiss the question, or to say nothing at all.

Seeing Qi Yubai's serious and calm expression, she couldn't help but sigh softly: "Brother, I'm so happy for you."

"Really." Qi Yubai asked with a smile, "Why do you say that?"

Ou Can replied: "You finally know what it means to care about someone."

Qi Yubai corrected her against her will: "I used to care."

Ou Chan shook his head.She tried her best to search for Qi Yubai's previous appearance in her mind, and she only felt that she had seen him arrogant, angry, sad and remorseful, but she had never seen him affectionate.

She picked up the French press pot on the table and gestured: "Your heart is like this pot now. The love for someone is dissolved in the blood. No matter how much you press down the filter, it will still follow the blood." Leak up together, it will not be closed."

Qi Yubai stared at the pot in her hand without saying a word.

"It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it, I won't force you anymore." Ou Chan said, "But why did you break up?"

The air was stagnant, and Qi Yubai said slowly: "There is no reason, it's just that they don't fit together, so if we say we separate, we will separate."

"You dumped him?"

"No one dumped anyone." Qi Yubai shook his head and denied, "We separated naturally."

Ou Can stared at him for a while, feeling distressed in his heart, and said firmly: "I don't believe it, there must be something wrong with it. Your expression tells me that you still think about him."

She pondered for a moment, then suddenly lowered her voice and asked, "Is it because of uncle?"

Qi Yubai remained silent, and she said: "It must be, it must be like this. It is my uncle who forbids you to be together and beat mandarin ducks. How could my uncle do this? There is no such reason, he is too old-fashioned, right? Go and intercede for him, and let him—”

"Don't go." Qi Yubai said in a low voice, "You are only a few years away from turning 30, why do you still look like a child who hasn't grown up? Go upstairs if you mess around."

Ou Chan pursed her lips and said aggrievedly: "Brother, I'm doing it for your own good. I can't bear to see you separated from the person you like. Why don't you understand."

Her brother has lived for so many years and is finally about to live out his own personality. Does it mean that he must let go just because the other party is male?She also felt that it was extremely unreasonable when she came back from studying abroad. When she was abroad, she had more than one or two same-sex couples around her.

The coffee in the pot is gradually cooling down, and a light dark brown circle hangs on the wall of the pot.

Qi Yubai didn't speak, but stretched out his left hand to refill a cup of coffee, but his index finger flicked as soon as it touched the handle.

Ou Can frowned: "Brother, what happened to your hand?"

Qi Yubai calmly withdrew his left hand, put his palm down on the table, and switched back to his right hand to hold the pot. A slender jet of water flowed out from the sharp spout.

"It's okay, I was accidentally burned by a cigarette butt, and I forgot to take the medicine."

"Cigarette butts?"

"Ah."

"Why are you so careless? I'll go and call Mother Zhou."

"No, I'll go back to my room to deal with it later."

Ou Chan hesitated for a moment, and finally fell silent.

The sun peeked out from behind the thick clouds, and the sunlight slanted to this quiet corner under the eaves, reflecting colorful and dazzling lines on the surface of the glass pot.Above the eaves, there is a baby bird flying low with its mother, presumably trying to learn to fly.

Qi Yubai lowered his eyes and said: "I understand your kindness, but it's useless for you to go to him now, I have my own plans."

These words seemed to be talking about the injury on his finger, and also seemed to be talking about the matter between him and Lin Nan. Ou Can shook his hand when he heard the words: "If you need my help, just ask, your business is my business, my money It's still my money."

Qi Yubai pulled out his hand and shook his head with a helpless smile, "Let's talk about your love."

-

After the whole family got up, they met at the restaurant for a meal at noon.

When Qi Zhonghui mentioned it in the living room, Ou Can didn't understand, so he said, "Go to the restaurant? Why do you want to eat outside, Uncle, Mama Zhou's food is so good."

Upon hearing this, Bai Shaorong touched her arm immediately, signaling her not to talk too much.

"Sister-in-law Zhou usually works hard, so let her rest for a day today." Qi Zhonghui glanced at Mrs. Zhou, and Mrs. Zhou nodded hurriedly: "Yes, it just so happens that I have a physical examination today, and I don't have time to cook. Director Think carefully."

"I see." Ou Chan nodded.

Bai Shaorong patted her on the back: "Go ask your brother to go downstairs, and you have to bring the car keys with you."

Ou Chan ran upstairs and knocked on the door twice, and opened the door when he heard "Come in", only to see Qi Yubai lying on the bed with his clothes on to catch up on sleep.

"Did you not sleep last night brother, you are still so sleepy after drinking coffee."

Qi Yubai slowly opened his eyes, and asked her without moving, "What are you doing here?"

"Uncle said that we will go out to eat together at noon, why don't you get up and change your clothes now? The suits are all wrinkled."

Qi Yubai turned his head to look at the sky outside the window, took the phone and checked, it was indeed past 11 o'clock.He turned over and got out of bed, let Ou Chan go downstairs first, picked out a suit of clothes for himself and changed, washed up briefly, and hurried downstairs to go out with his family.

The restaurant to go to is in the city center, the environment is quiet and richly decorated, but unfortunately the taste is not very good, Qi Yubai and Ou Chan have already tasted it.

As soon as he got off Qi Yubai's car, Ou Can was gently pulled aside by Bai Shaorong who got out of another car, and whispered: "Come and sit with me when you go back, don't take your brother's car. "

She had a mysterious expression, but she was still a little bit beaming, as if there was something great waiting ahead.

Ou Chan put on a speechless expression in his heart, and complained: "You won't make trouble again, don't blame me for not reminding you, he is in a bad mood now."

Over there, Qi Yubai had already handed over the car keys to the waiter to help park the car. A group of people walked through the lobby and took the elevator to the third floor. Seeing Qi Zhonghui, the lobby manager immediately greeted him, and said respectfully, "Director Qi, you are here." .”

"Have the guests in the private room arrived?" Qi Zhonghui asked.

"I arrived a quarter of an hour earlier, and I'm sitting in the private room."

Qi Yubai was at the end, and his father and the manager couldn't hear what he said clearly, so he thought they were discussing the location of the box.

Amidst the harp accompaniment, there are not many tables in the spacious hall, and the squares on each table are neatly laid out, and the positions are far away, and the volume of the guests' speech is also controlled.

Among the few people, Qi Zhonghui and Qi Yubai were dressed in suits, and their appearance was somewhat similar. They were led by the manager and walked in the front. It was not difficult to guess their identities from their clothes and demeanor.Although Bai Shaorong is over fifty years old, he is still well maintained. Ou Chan is also a tall and delicate beauty, and when he passes the hall, he will inevitably attract crowds of onlookers.

When we reached the innermost box on the east side, the manager stopped and tapped on the door twice.

"Is there really someone else?" Ou Chan asked.

As soon as the words fell, the door was pushed open from the outside to the inside, and a young woman with fashionable dress and exquisite makeup was sitting by the fully transparent French window, she looked only 26 or [-] years old, and when she saw the Qi family and her party, she smiled and stood up, moving gracefully. step over here.

If Ou Chan is a splendid and beautiful camellia, then this strange woman in front of him is a charming and charming rose.

Wearing a knitted wrap dress and black boots, she walked up to the crowd, first smiled and nodded to everyone, and then said to Qi Zhonghui: "Uncle Qi, hello."

The voice sounded gentle and sweet, and even Ou Chan had a faint feeling of being compared.

After saying this, her gaze seemed to inadvertently rest on Qi Yubai who was beside Qi Zhonghui's shoulder, obviously coming for him.

Qi Yubai's expression showed displeasure as early as the first time he saw the uninvited guest in the room, and he did not respond to her eyes.

Qi Zhonghui smiled kindly and nodded: "Qi Ran, you arrived very early." It seemed that he had already become familiar with her.

"To have dinner with the elders, of course you should arrive earlier."

Qi Zhonghui turned to look at Qi Yubai: "I forgot to tell you in advance, today I have an appointment with your Uncle Fang's daughter. She came back rarely, and said that she wanted to visit me. I think you young people should like to make friends, and she You and I are still college alumni, so just ask her to come over and have a get together. Say hello."

"Hi Yubai, I'm Fang Qiran. We met when we were teenagers. I don't know if you still remember." Fang Qiran put on a decent smile and held out her hand to Qi Yubai.

The room is obviously very big, but at this time everyone is crowded at the door.The manager retreated to the door sensibly, and closed the door for them quietly.Qi Zhonghui, Bai Shaorong, Ou Can, and Fang Qiran all looked at Qi Yubai with different expressions.

Qi Zhonghui brought the girl to see him without notifying him in advance, worried that his son's temper would flare up, and his expression was three points oppressive and seven points guarded; Bai Shaorong was behind Qi Yubai, looking at him and Fang Qiran on the opposite side with some concern; Ou Can was originally It's a good show, but after the conversation in the morning, she has not put herself out of the matter anymore, and Fang Qiran gave her a very aggressive intuition from head to toe, so she felt a little repulsive without feeling it.

As for Fang Qiran, her expression was always relaxed.Although he was much shorter than Qi Yubai, his aura was not weak at all, and he kept looking at him waiting for him to say hello.

Surrounded by these four people, Qi Yubai looked at the woman in front of him expressionlessly, without reaching out to shake her hand.

"I don't remember, and I'm not used to being called by my name by unfamiliar people."

Qi Zhonghui turned his head and stared: "You—"

"It's okay." Fang Qiran still smiled and withdrew her hand, her arms hanging down naturally, without any embarrassment. "Then I'll call you Boss Qi."

Qi Yubai nodded to her irresolutely, without looking at Qi Zhonghui who was furious, he went straight to the table and sat down.