Chapter 13 Chapter 13 It's hard to explain, no one wants to change...

It's hard to explain, no one wants to change the status quo.

Even though Qiao Yihua has bought a new house in the new district, he is still used to living here.

He will send her to the university gate on Mondays. He can't stand her blowing her bangs all the time, and why is she stroking them.

When getting off the car, he will say "Tie your hair up."

Xiaozhen's hair is thick, black and shiny. As long as she lets her hair down after washing, almost everyone will ask what shampoo she uses. The weather in summer is very hot. Sometimes it's not intentional to touch her hair with your hands like those female stars, but it's really annoying.

Qiao Yihua certainly thinks that ponytails are the most energetic.

His tone is the same, but he used to be gentle, but now he may have been in charge of people for a long time, and his tone is stern.

Xiaozhen tied her hair up obediently.

Later, the Asian financial crisis in 1997 happened. It happened that the company wanted to go overseas to find business and expansion opportunities. Basically, it would take a long time overseas, at least half a year.

Half a year, she is now in the summer vacation of her sophomore year, and it is estimated that it will be the Spring Festival of her junior year.

She wanted to go abroad, and she had to prepare to learn a lot in her junior year.

Before leaving, the two hugged each other. Xiaozhen had grown up, no longer as sad and sad as she was when she was a child, and could tolerate a lot of emotions.

Qiao Yihua didn't have much expression. He patted her face lightly, left her bank card and left.

They met again on the eve of the Spring Festival half a year later. The school was on vacation for a while. When Qiao Yihua called, he said he would be back the next day. Xiaozhen and Wu Ma specially cleaned the room.

Xiaozhen vaguely heard a knock on the door and hurried to open the door. In fact, Qiao Yihua was inserting the key to open the door. After the door was opened, Xiaozhen said excitedly: "Happy New Year!"

Then she stretched out her hand and hugged her simply. Qiao Yihua was holding something in his hand and it was not convenient to respond.

The first person behind him was introduced, "Zhou Yun."

Xiaozhen was stunned for a moment, smiled and nodded. He didn't bring many women back, so he roughly knew what it meant.

"Welcome, welcome."

She couldn't act like a host, so she could only welcome happily. It was almost half a year since they hadn't seen each other, so she was happy anyway.

Although Qiao Yihua came back for the New Year, he had been visited by many people since he entered the house.

People kept coming to the office to ask for help, cooperation, or connections. They called their assistants to come downstairs to block the silence.

Several of Qiao Yihua's friends came to the house. Some of them Xiaozhen knew, and some she didn't.

Zhou Yun and Xiaozhen helped to hire two aunts to prepare dinner.

At the dinner table, Xiaozhen could also drink, but it was beer.

Qiao Yihua happily announced, "Miss Zhou Yun and I are getting married in a few months, probably on May Day."

He never said a word about his personal affairs at home, even though Xiaozhen used to tease him that he was dating and said he had something to do, but she rarely mentioned it.

This sudden news touched her nerves very sharply, and she choked on the beer. Others didn't seem very surprised, and they must have known it.

Zhou Yun looked at her, and with a woman's obvious intuition, she smiled generously and asked, "Does Xiaozhen have a boyfriend?"

She was slightly stunned and didn't know how to answer.

"You are so beautiful, there must be many people you can choose from. I think you should have had more relationships in college. You won't find the right one after graduation. Now I regret not having had more relationships at that time."

Zhou Yun's words were a compliment. Xiaozhen was very embarrassed and lowered her head, not knowing what to say.

Qiao Yihua did not take up the topic. The people at the table chatted about trivial matters. Unlike the past, national affairs and current affairs were all dominated by Qiao Yihua's topics.

Xiaozhen did not say anything else. After dinner, several men sat in the living room smoking, while Wu Ma and the two aunts collected the dishes.

Xiaozhen helped wipe the table.

Not long after dinner, everyone went out together. Qiao Yihua gestured to Xiaozhen, but she didn't understand what the gesture meant. Anyway, he hugged his girlfriend and went out together.

She didn't know whether she would come back or not, so she went to bed early.

Wu Ma would go back to her hometown in two days. As in previous years, she prepared a lot of things for the brother and sister in advance.

However, this year, she prepared too much, so Xiaozhen ate alone most of the time. It

was not until New Year's Eve that Xiaozhen finished pasting the Spring Festival couplets and sat on the sofa in a daze watching TV that Qiao Yihua came back alone.

I woke up dazedly on the sofa, and he sat next to me drinking tea.

Xiaozhen looked at the time and it was already past four in the afternoon, so she asked softly: "Do you want to start cooking?"

Qiao Yihua said: "What? I've eaten so much these days."

Xiaozhen: "I'm not full."

In fact, she didn't have the energy to cook or celebrate New Year's Eve. I

always felt strange in the past few days, and I couldn't tell what I felt.

But she could still distinguish her emotions clearly. Qiao Yihua had been shopping with his girlfriend and visiting her family.

After so many days back, the two of them hardly said anything.

They had been apart for so long, and finally the cold water was poured on them.

It's like you have a dream and a wish in your heart. This dream and wish was originally square, polished, colored, and added with various scenes to form a colorful and dazzling thing. As time goes by, more and more things are added. When it is finally realized, let alone colorful, there is not even a square.

She has grown up, and her mood has changed a lot from her initial dependence and respect for him. This change may be that she wants to become a real brother and sister, or she may want to become a friend and family member who looks at each other on an equal footing.

What is the little bit of sensitivity in my heart? It's not that he seldom called me after a long time, but that he didn't say a word about the most important things, and didn't tell her.

On the other hand, it doesn't matter whether he told her or not. This is a private matter. She has no right to know, and she hasn't asked. It's

very subtle and hard to grasp, so I can't sleep every night these days and think a lot.

The final foundation is nothing more than the life in the original family and childhood, which exacerbates that any small thing affects the nerves of being abandoned in the deepest part of my heart.

Xiaozhen can't learn to hide, especially the expression of emotions to him, which is very direct on her face. She doesn't throw a tantrum, but she will be a little listless. She was

always procrastinating when picking and washing vegetables.

In the end, Qiao Yihua was very lazy, and Xiaozhen didn't want to cook. She called to order a few dishes and fried two dishes, just for the sense of festival ritual. Anyway, the food was tasteless.

He was very busy, answering the phone and making a phone call, and Xiaozhen sat on the sofa watching TV.

It was really boring. It was just past ten o'clock and she was ready to go to bed.

Qiao Yihua happened to walk over and put his hand on her shoulder and sat down.

"Your unhappy face is about to fall to the ground. I'll see how angry you are about my marriage. You haven't been in a good mood for a moment these days."

Xiaozhen immediately said, "Brother, don't talk nonsense. I'm not, really."

Qiao Yihua got up and went to the kitchen to bring a bowl of rice noodles. The taste was very light. She used to like to eat it when she was sick.

He didn't say much about marriage, nor did he like to talk about Zhou Yun.

While she was eating, she said, "Men are supposed to carry on the family line, get married, have children, and start a family. This is what I should do when I am old enough. But it doesn't make any difference whether I get married or not, and it won't change anything."

"Wouldn't that be very inconvenient?"

"What?"

Xiaozhen: "I live here, or I can just go back to school."

Qiao Yihua said: "No, I'll move out."

Xiaozhen didn't say anything.

"I bought a house in Jing'an two years ago, and it was just right for when I got married. Now it's almost decorated, but it's not big, about the same size as here."

It was probably at this moment that Xiaozhen felt the alienation and gap between the two of them. Perhaps it was because she had too many requirements for many things after growing up, but after thinking it through, she would no longer worry about why he didn't tell her in advance.

And Qiao Yihua didn't think about who was pursuing her at school, who broke up with her in the dormitory, and what the reason was.

Xiaozhen didn't mention it from personal to work. Xiaozhen

had no appetite after eating two bites, so she took it from the coffee table and prepared to put it back to sleep.

"You never left any food."

"I'm losing weight."

"What do you mean you're losing weight? You've only eaten a few days and you're losing weight." Qiao Yihua stood up and pulled her into the room, pinching her face with his hands, and threatened with a smile: "Don't wait for me to get angry."

Xiaozhen leaned against the wall to break free, "Brother, don't make me listen to your reasoning, I'm sleepy, really sleepy."

Before, it was because he got drunk and talked about philosophy on the Spring Festival Eve. This year, no one came. His alcohol tolerance has increased a lot over the years. It's hard to say if anyone dares to keep him drunk like when he was young, otherwise all these years would be in vain.

In fact, it was to give her New Year's money, and I don't know why he didn't give it to her tomorrow morning.

Xiaozhen felt it was very thick, and when she opened it, it was indeed very thick.

"Brother, you've made a fortune again."

Every year, the thickness of the red envelope is used to judge whether someone has made money.

She checked for a while but couldn't find it clearly.

"How much? Five thousand? Or eight thousand?"

"8888."

"You are so unsophisticated and superstitious." Xiaozhen paused, "Don't give me any money next year, and start doing internship to earn money. You have to find a job yourself, which is so annoying."

"Then give it to me until we get married."

Xiaozhen smiled and said, "Then you will have to give it to me for a long time. I have never thought about getting married, let alone having children."

Qiao Yihua said, "How can people not get married? What will you do when you are old in the future? Who will inherit everything you have? Who will remember you without children? However, you are so young, you shouldn't have considered this issue. When I was your age, I only dated and didn't get married, responding to the country's call for late marriage and late childbirth."

"Then can I come to your company for an internship? I don't want a salary, just write an internship certificate. If it is well written, I can get the diploma smoothly."

"Don't go abroad?"

Xiaozhen said, "Really? Is it okay? You looked unhappy when I called you last time. And I asked, it costs hundreds of thousands every year. Our school doesn't have much public funding. It's not worth it for me to study for a few years at my level. I can't earn that much in my lifetime if I come back to work."

"Are you talking silly?" Qiao Yihua put his arm around her shoulder. "Think about it yourself. If you want to go and prepare well, you can come back or come back to our company to show off."

"What show off?"

"Be a flower girl, pretty and cute, learn to be a waiter at the door, and say welcome when you see people coming."

Xiaozhen laughed. I don't know if she was happy to be praised for her beauty, or if he was saying this kind of cold humor.

After midnight, there were a few sporadic sounds of firecrackers and fireworks. It has been banned in downtown Shanghai for several years, and it is no longer possible to set off fireworks in the community downstairs like before.

Zhou Yun called just after midnight, and Xiaozhen went back to the bedroom to lie down and rest.

I don't know when Qiao Yihua will come in.

"I'm going back to Beijing tomorrow morning." He paused, "Are you going?"

Xiaozhen knew from his question that he was going with Zhou Yun, afraid that she would be unhappy if she knew, because they never talked about being together when they went back on New Year's Day.

Xiaozhen shook her head.

He loves her very much.

Really.

Xiaozhen can see that he is very serious and responsible, to himself, his friends, and the person he is going to marry.

"You should be a very good husband."

She always gives him a nice guy card unexpectedly.

Qiao Yihua laughed out loud this time, "You are really good at making fun of people."