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Kang Yiting's complexion immediately sank, she looked at Wu Xia coldly, and said displeasedly: "Try this for me."

Wu Xia remained silent.

Kang Yiting snorted coldly: "Where's your shop manager? I'd like to ask, how do you train shop assistants?"

She spoke loudly on purpose, and several colleagues at the counter next to her looked towards her.

Kang Yiting crossed his arms and stared at Wu Xia coldly with his chin raised.

Wu Xia's expression was a little dazed.

This scene seemed familiar, Qiao Ruige came to his counter and asked him to try the lipstick, with the same arrogant attitude, as if it was just yesterday.

After a while, he reached out and took out a piece of scent paper.

Kang Yiting sneered again.

Wu Xia picked up the bottle of perfume that Kang Yiting had chosen, pulled off the cap, pointed the nozzle at the test paper, and pressed it lightly.

"Hey", a burst of water mist sprayed from the nozzle, and then, a strong, aggressive woody aroma mixed with tobacco and wine smelled in this small space.

This scent is really not the kind that is easy to accept.

Kang Yiting frowned tightly, and moved her hands, as if trying to cover her nose, obviously the smell made her uncomfortable.

Wu Xia glanced at her lightly, and without even handing over the perfume test paper, she put the cap on the perfume bottle and said, "I told you this one is not suitable for you."

Kang Yiting, who had already raised his hand halfway, was stunned for a moment, then gave him a glance, and said stubbornly: "I want this."

Wu Xia froze for a moment, and subconsciously turned to look at Qiao Ruige, but she woke up in time and put the bottle of perfume back to its original place.

He said, "That's right. You can't use it yourself, but you can still give it away."

Kang Yiting sneered mockingly: "Who says you want to give it away? No one else can touch what I want. As a person, I always care about whether I like what I want. As for whether it is suitable or not, I can use it or not. No one else can talk too much, let alone you to tell me."

Wu Xia turned sideways, lowered her head slightly, unable to see his expression clearly, only saw his extremely pale lip color and the corners of his mouth slightly tightened.

Kang Yiting turned around and pouted at Qiao Ruige: "Hey, I want to complain to him."

Qiao Ruige shrugged indifferently: "It's better to buy the whole mall and open whoever you want."

Kang Yiting was stunned, but Wu Xia beside him laughed softly and said, "Understood, just wait a moment."

Wu Xia took the billing book, held the pen in her hand, hesitated for a while on the paper but couldn't put it down.

Qiao Ruige glanced over him indifferently.

Wu Xia's knuckles holding the pen looked a little white, and the tip of the pen was trembling slightly.

After a while, he seemed to take a weak breath, picked up a bottle of new perfume and the ticket book and turned to the counter next to him. He said softly to the bewildered colleague: "Sister, please open a ticket for me."

"What's wrong?" the colleague asked softly, puzzled.

Wu Xia turned pale, and smiled wryly: "I'm not feeling well."

As he spoke, his throat throbbed, and he couldn't help turning his head and coughing a few times.

The colleague quickly took the things over: "I'll come, I'll come."

Wu Xia didn't even have time to say "thank you", she hurriedly turned around and entered the small warehouse, closed the door, and leaned her back behind the door.

He heard Kang Yiting's dissatisfied voice outside asking, "What's going on? Why did he run away?"

The colleague explained patiently: "He is not feeling well, I will prescribe it for you, just wait a moment."

Kang Yiting muttered something again that Wu Xia didn't hear clearly, he lowered his head, breathing quickly and disorderly, as if trying to suppress the urge to cough, after a long time, he covered his mouth and slowly squatted down.

In the underground garage of "Jintai", Qiao Ruige sat in the driver's seat and lit a cigarette.The co-driver's door was opened, and Kang Yiting got into the car angrily, glanced at him, obviously very dissatisfied: "You don't even open the door for me, you are too inconsiderate."

Qiao Ruige didn't even look at her, and continued to smoke his cigarette.

"Jintai" is not a particularly high-end shopping mall. With Kang Yiting's temperament, he may have never been here before. He knew that someone must have got in the way of her, and she would drag him here today, and With a clear goal, he went directly to Wu Xia's perfume counter.

Qiao Ruige didn't care who got the wind. There were too many channels for him to find out about Master Qiao's deeds, and he never thought of covering up anything.

But to do this in front of him, I'm afraid he still thinks too kindly of him.

Kang Yiting was also secretly looking at Qiao Ruige.

She had indeed heard some rumors, and knew that Qiao Ruige had maintained a stable relationship with a certain "life assistant" for several months, which was probably considered a miracle for this vagabond, and could be enshrined in his romantic history to write a stroke.

So she had to come and see what kind of a person that "Life Assistant" who was said to be selling perfume was, who could hold Qiao Ruige for so long.

To be honest, she didn't understand.

That person looks pretty good-looking, but there are many good-looking people, and there is no shortage of him. Besides, he seems to have a bad temper, and he dares to throw face at customers while doing sales.

She looked at Qiao Ruige again, and secretly slandered him for liking this kind of little chili pepper that didn't give him a good face, probably because he was a bit cheap.

Qiao Ruige was smoking a cigarette silently, his face was expressionless, his profile was extremely stern, but his eyes were careless, it was hard to tell whether he was unhappy or not.

The car window was not open, and the smell of smoke in the car was getting stronger and stronger, Kang Yiting couldn't help raising his hand and fanning his nose.

"What did you study in the United States?" Qiao Ruige asked suddenly.

His tone was lazy, as if asking casually.

"Finance," Kang Yiting laughed self-deprecatingly, "Don't we all learn these things in our status? Economics, management, so that we can inherit the family business when we come back. If we have free time, we can learn art."

Qiao Ruige nodded: "Oh, I thought you majored in classical literature and specialized in Gongdou novels."

Kang Yiting was stunned for a moment, and his complexion immediately turned ugly: "Qiao Ruige, you don't have to beat around the bush, let's just say it, we are getting married, I don't care about what you did before, it's better to restrain yourself in the future, I can't The kind of woman who turns a blind eye."

"Tch." Qiao Ruige laughed sarcastically.

Kang Yiting said: "Don't forget what my father can do for you, don't get too carried away."

Qiao Ruige flicked the cigarette ash, turned to look at her calmly, and said, "Then why don't I also remind you that your family's consent to our marriage is just choosing someone who they think will maximize their interests, not me. Ask them for something, just take what they need, don't think too much."

"You!" Kang Yiting was furious, but she knew in her heart that what Qiao Ruige said was the truth, and she was not the only daughter in the Kang family. Said, it is already a good ending, fighting with Qiao Rui is not half beneficial.

After being silent for a while, Kang Yiting covered his nose and said coquettishly, "Why are you smoking in the car? It stinks to death."

"You can go down." George said.

Kang Yiting glared at him angrily.

Qiao Ruige didn't look at her at all, he leisurely smoked a cigarette, then threw the cigarette butt away, started the car, and when the car drove out, he said, "One more thing, my man, you'd better not make up your mind."

Kang Yiting turned his head to look out of the window, his thin white fingertips tightly gripping the seat belt.

Two days later, Qiao Ruige went to "Jintai" again.

But Wu Xia didn't go to work. His colleague told Qiao Ruige that Wu Xia had transferred shifts with his colleagues, and these days happened to be off.

Qiao Ruige turned around and drove to the apartment in Green Bay Garden. There was no one in the apartment. Qiao Ruige opened the closet to check. Wu Xia's things were still there, and he was relieved.

Taking out the phone, Qiao Ruige called out Wu Xia's number and dialed it.

The bell rang until he was about to hang up before picking up.

Wu Xia's voice was still hoarse: "Hello."

Qiao Ruige frowned: "Where are you?"

Wu Xia didn't answer.

Qiao Ruige was impatient and emphasized his tone: "Where are you?"

Wu Xia coughed lightly and said, "Go home, in the car."

"What are you doing at home?"

Another moment of silence.

"Ask you!" Qiao Ruige didn't know why he was so irritable, he only knew that there was a panic in his heart.

Wu Xia sighed: "I can't even go home? Are you really so unreasonable? Or do you just tie me up at home with a lot of handcuffs and anklets."

Qiao Ruige clenched his fists tightly, and squeezed out a sentence between his teeth: "It's not impossible."

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, and soon Wu Xia's violent coughing sounded again.

Qiao Ruige clicked his tongue: "Have you taken any medicine? Cough, cough, how long has it been? It's still not healed!"

After coughing for at least half a minute, Wu Xia stopped coughing, gasped and said, "What's none of your business?"

Qiao Ruige choked, and sneered: "I'm still waiting for you to come back to ask for a debt from you. If you are sick, get treated as soon as possible, and don't infect me."

After speaking, he hung up the phone angrily, turned around a few times, and slammed the door angrily away.

Qiao Ruige was driving around the city. He was very annoyed and had no destination. When he came back to his senses, he realized that he had somehow driven the car to the Design Institute, so he simply stopped and called Luo Yuchuan. .

After waiting for about ten minutes, Luo Yuchuan came from the gate of the design institute. Qiao Ruige got out of the car, leaned on the car door and raised his chin at Luo Yuchuan as a greeting.

"A rare visitor." Luo Yuchuan said with a smile.

Qiao Ruige smiled lightly.

As he approached, Luo Yuchuan looked him up and down: "People who are engaged don't seem to have changed much."

Qiao Ruige rolled his eyes: "Old Luo, you are enough."

Luo Yuchuan smiled and said nothing more.

Qiao Ruige sighed, took out the cigarette and lit it, took a puff, and said, "You've been very busy recently."

Luo Yuchuan said: "You should talk about the matter, I know you are not here to care about my work."

Qiao Ruige was stunned, smiled and shook his head.

Luo Yuchuan said again: "Tell me, is it your old man who wants to hug his grandson, or are your parents impatient?"

Qiao Ruige looked at him, he squinted his eyes due to the smoke, and his expression was a little hard to describe.

Luo Yuchuan wondered: "Neither of them? Could it be that you yourself suddenly became so lucky that your soul met true love and decided that the prodigal son would not return the money? No, if that is the case, how could you keep such a low profile without saying a word? Come to envy and envy you."

Qiao Ruige picked up the cigarette, flicked the ash, looked at Luo Yuchuan and shook his head and smiled wryly. He said, "Lao Luo, it's not good to be too smart, you know? Sometimes it's easy to attract people's hatred. It's okay to be smart, but you can speak so bluntly." , can we still be friends?"

Luo Yuchuan looked at him for a while, and didn't taunt him anymore, but asked, "Did Wu Xia know beforehand?"

George was silent.

Luo Yuchuan nodded: "I think so."

Qiao Ruige said: "This matter has nothing to do with him."

Luo Yuchuan was taken aback.

Qiao Ruige said again: "He and I also..."

He lowered his head and took a puff of his cigarette, swallowing the half-sentence he hadn't finished speaking.

But Luo Yuchuan understood. He thought for a while and said, "Maybe if I knew it in advance, it wouldn't hurt so much."

"It's already like this." Qiao Ruige spread his hands indifferently.

He said again: "You...you, help me watch him."

Luo Yuchuan raised his eyebrows.

Qiao Ruige shook his head: "Forget it, pretend I haven't been here, go in, I'm leaving."

"Hello." Luo Yuchuan called him.

Qiao Ruige waved his hand, opened the door to get into the car, and quickly started the car to leave.

Wu Xia's trip this time is not the home of the county.

His parents' compensation has already been received, which is about 20 yuan. It is not a lot of money to repair the store and reopen it. The loss of Wu's father during the hospitalization and suspension of business cannot be carefully calculated.

The important thing is that this matter was not hidden from Grandpa Wu in the end. After the old man knew this, he didn't want them to open a store again. It was hard work, and he was worried that they would encounter a rascal like Li Er again.

In addition, Papa Wu was injured. Although Qiao Ruige showed it to the expert and said that there would be no sequelae, it would not take a few months to recover, and after such a toss , Wu's father's heart is also loose, not only physically, but also mentally, he no longer has such a strong desire to open a store.

So the three elders of the family discussed and decided to move back to their hometown in the town. They still have a house in their hometown, and the facade in the town is much cheaper than that in the county. Opening a bun shop again requires getting up early and working in the dark.

Wu Xia's trip was to go back to his hometown in the town, and he hadn't mentioned it to Qiao Ruige. He thought that Qiao Ruige really wanted to know, so it wouldn't be too difficult.

My hometown is a self-built house more than ten years ago. It is a small two-story building with a small courtyard. The area is not large. In order to save money when it was built, the house was not decorated much, just ordinary lime walls and cement floors.No one has lived there for a long time. After moving back, Mama Wu has been busy cleaning and relocating.

"Xiaxia, help me take those quilts out of the box, it's a good day, let's get some sun in the sun." Mother Wu shouted in the yard downstairs.

Wu's father and grandfather went to relatives, and only Wu's mother and Wu Xia were left at home. Wu Xia was directed to do things as soon as he came back.

"Hey."

Wu Xia complied, and took out two quilts from the wooden box. After too long, the quilts smelled of old musty dampness.

He went downstairs with the quilt in his arms, went out and said to Mama Wu: "Buy a few more new ones, the musty smell is quite strong."

Mother Wu just opened the hanger for drying clothes, and she shook her head when she heard this: "What are you buying? The ones brought back from the county are still new. These are real cotton quilts. Let them hang out in the sun until they are empty." I'll just take it and find someone to play it again, it's much better than those quilts with this fiber and that fiber."

She took a quilt from Wu Xia's arms and spread it out on the shelf, and said: "This is for you to go home for the New Year, it's a bit colder here than in the county, so make it thicker, and you'll be warm when you come back to live. "

Wu Xia spread out another quilt on the shelf and said, "I have to go to work during the Chinese New Year."

Mother Wu said: "I know, I know, can't I go home? I can't make it in time for the New Year's Eve dinner, so I can come back and stay for two days."

Wu Xia didn't say a word. In the past few months, he has been by Qiao Ruige's side as his "life assistant". He doesn't even have time to change shifts and take vacations with his colleagues, and he hasn't come back to see his parents for a long time. He knows this is his home. People miss him.

After drying the quilt, Mother Wu directed Wu Xia to take out some clothes to dry. After running upstairs and downstairs several times, Wu Xia began to cough again.

"What's the matter? I coughed several times today." Mother Wu asked with concern.

Wu Xia coughed a few times before saying, "I have a cold."

Mother Wu was worried: "I don't hear your voice right. How long has it been since you've had a cold?"

Wu Xia said indifferently: "That's what a cold is like. It takes a week to get better with or without medicine, and the air in the city is bad, so it gets better more slowly. Don't worry, it's not a serious problem."

"That's not the case. The big problems are also accumulated from the small problems. Have you taken any medicine? I'll look for it later. I remember there are some anti-inflammatory drugs at home."

"Need not……"

"Don't be stubborn with me."

"……Oh."

In the eyes of housewives, housework is always endless.

Wu Xia followed Mama Wu to dry the quilts and clothes, or she was sick and weak, and felt tired after running a few times, but Mama Wu took out the tables, chairs and benches that had not been used for a long time and scrubbed them in the yard.

Wu Xia moved a clean small bench and sat on the side to rest, took a cup of warm water, and coughed a few times from time to time.

"Xia Xia, you cough so much, it doesn't affect your work, right?" Mama Wu asked.

"It's okay, just don't talk."

Mother Wu sighed: "Your job, it looks pretty good, you just stand for a long time every day, but it is clean and refreshing, but it is also a service industry, you are a boy, this kind of work lasts a long time. It’s still not very good. While I’m young, I’d like to change to a better job and go for a break. Alas, I asked you to come back and help open a steamed stuffed bun shop at home. That is to say, young people should go out more It’s even more different now that you’ve seen the world, I can’t let you go back to this small town to guard a canteen.”

Wu Xia smiled: "I used to be the rich second generation of the bun shop, and it would be good to be the second rich generation of the canteen in the future."

Mama Wu also laughed: "Just eat the old ones."

Wu Xia laughed and coughed again, and drank water quickly.

After washing a few benches, Mother Wu suddenly stopped, looked at Wu Xia, and hesitated to speak.

Wu Xia raised her eyebrows: "Huh?"

Mother Wu threw away the rag in her hand and walked over with a mysterious expression, which confused Wu Xia.

She approached Wu Xia and asked in a low voice, "Let me ask you, your friend, is your family particularly rich?"

Wu Xia was stunned.

Before he could reply, Mama Wu said again: "I saw the news, he is going to get married, oh, it's amazing, the bride's wedding dress was ordered from some foreign country, and it cost several million."

After a while, Wu Xia replied with an "Ah".

It should be the news of the past two days. It said that Kang Yiting's custom-made wedding dress from Europe used high-quality lace, top-quality yarn, and how many diamonds. It is said that it is worth nearly ten million yuan. I don't know if the media is exaggerating. its words.

But Wu Xia didn't expect her mother in the small town to see such news, and she didn't know how to react for a while.

Mama Wu pulled a stool and sat down next to him: "I saw it at Old Zhou's house next door that day. His son likes to read a newspaper. I just glanced at it. Is it your friend? There is only a photo in the newspaper." , I’m not very clear, I don’t have a straight face, so I think it looks a bit like, tall and big, and his surname is Qiao, is it him?”

Having said that, Wu Xia couldn't be more perfunctory, he nodded: "Well, it's him."

Mama Wu was taken aback for a moment, opened her mouth, and finally said "oh yo" after a long time.

Wu Xia didn't know what his mother was going to say, and took another sip of water holding the cold water glass.

Mama Wu was lost in thought for a while, and then said: "His wife's family seems to be very rich, she seems to be one of the top [-] or some big ones, yes, that's the right match."

Wu Xia put down the cup silently, rubbed his hands on his legs, he felt very cold.

"Say, Xiaxia, do we have to prepare a big gift?"

Wu Xia was stunned.

Mother Wu was not very satisfied with his performance, she poked his arm with her finger and said, "Is it necessary to prepare? He has helped our family so much."

Wu Xia pursed his lips, his mouth seemed to be covered with 502 glue, he tried hard for a while before opening his mouth, he said, "Mom, don't worry about it."

Mother Wu immediately became anxious: "Oh, you child, how can you not care about it? Marriage is a big deal. You are friends, and he is also our family's benefactor. He saved your life. This gift must be given. How can I do it?" No matter what, don't be ignorant."

It was as if a boulder had been pressed on his chest, and Wu Xia felt that it hurt to breathe, which was terribly uncomfortable.