"You … Hu … should have seen her before."
Xu Qing was struggling to carry the rice. He began to pant as he went up the stairs, but it did not affect his chatter.
"Seen her before?" Cheng Yulan turned her head and glanced at Jiang He. This girl was quite pretty, but she did not have any impression of her. The only thing she remembered was the cosplay in the corridor.
"Yes, before … Hu, when I first went to college, four or five years ago. At that time, she was not so tall, and her face was a bit round. You guys even stood at my door and said a few words … Do you remember?"
"Did I?" Cheng Yulan was confused.
"Hey, maybe you can't remember because of the big change. The one with the round face … That's her."
Xu Qing said it as if it was true. He walked upstairs and put down the rice at the door to rest.
"How can I have a good memory like you young people? I have long forgotten." Cheng Yulan thought for a long time but could not remember. She raised her hand and knocked on the door. "Old Wang, open the door!"
"Hey, just remember this time. She is my girlfriend, Jiang He." Xu Qing smiled. "Okay, I took her to dinner. She stayed at home playing games every day and did not come out much."
"Come in and have a glass of water. You must be tired."
"No, I am strong."
Xu Qing waved his hand and went downstairs. Jiang He looked back at Aunt Cheng. Seeing that she was still looking at him, he hesitated for a moment and nodded with a smile. He also went downstairs.
"I … came here three or four years ago?"
Jiang He asked in a low voice as they walked out of the corridor.
"Bullsh * t. You were hiding in a ravine and suffering from the cold at that time."
Xu Qing looked up and smiled. "It's okay if you have an impression of me. It's okay if you don't. Anyway, it's nothing."
"…"
"If no one knows you except me, then you don't exist. Do you understand?"
"Don't exist?"
"Well, in the sense of society, you don't exist at all. No one knows your past, so of course, you don't have a future. The past is like a root. Your root is in the Tang Dynasty. This won't do. You have to leave a root here so that you can live well."
Xu Qing turned around to face Jiang He and walked backward. "That Auntie Cheng just now is a loudspeaker. She plays mahjong, drinks tea, and gossips with the old men and the old ladies. If it's us, we'll be able to leave an impression on them. At least they'll know that there's such a person.
It would be even better if they mentioned that they had met a long time ago. This is called group consciousness. "
"I think I understand what you mean." Jiang He frowned and thought for a moment. He seemed to understand.
If no one in the stockade knew her, she would definitely be banished.
"It doesn't matter if you understand or not. You just need to show your face. Zhao Shu, are you cold?"
Xu Qing turned around and shouted at the security guard from a distance.
"It's freezing these days."
Zhao Shu held the thermos flask and shrunk in his military coat. He leaned against the chair and swayed slowly.
"Why don't you go in?"
"It's stuffy inside. I'll smoke a cigarette and sit for a while before going in."
"Then you go ahead."
Xu Qing called out. He looked at Jiang He beside him, pulled her sleeve, and walked out as if holding her hand.
"Hey … where's my hand?" He pinched his sleeve, but he couldn't find his hand. What a loss.
"Ahem … this is called showing your presence."
After walking a little further away, Xu Qing let go of his sleeve confidently.
"Really?" Jiang He was puzzled.
"Yes." He was very serious. What he said sounded like it was the truth.
Jiang He thought about it and decided to believe him for the time being. She raised her arm and shook it twice. Her hand retracted to her elbow, and then she handed over her empty sleeve.
"Then I'll hold it for you."
"… It's out. No need." Xu Qing took a look in his pocket and didn't move.
If he didn't have his hand, how could he hold it?
There was a long way to go.
…
There were many hot pot restaurants in Jiang City. The weather was getting colder, and people liked to eat around the hot pot. In fact, it was best to come at night. After eating, they would be sweaty and go back to lie down comfortably. However, considering that there would be a lot of people at night, and they would probably have to wait in line, it was not suitable to bring Jiang He to experience it for the first time. Therefore, Xu Qing took her to have a hot pot meal at noon.
Dinner at home was more comfortable. The warm light, the fragrant food, and the cold wind outside the house …
There was a cook in the kitchen. It was perfect.
Instead of eating at a random place nearby, Xu Qing took Jiang He to a restaurant that he used to go to. There was a wide variety of food there, and it was not expensive. It only cost 880 yuan per person. There was a variety of seafood, and the environment was not bad. It was just right for Jiang He to try and see what she liked to eat.
When they were not familiar with each other's tastes, eating at the buffet was the easiest and fastest way to get to know each other. Although Jiang He seemed to like everything she ate, there would always be a favorite taste.
There was no one who was not picky, even if she was from ancient times. She was not picky because she didn't have the conditions before.
"So far?" Jiang He followed him for a while, and they had not arrived yet. She was a little hungry because she hadn't eaten breakfast.
"Soon, it's in front of us."
Xu Qing pouted, and suddenly stopped when they turned a corner. What the hell was coming.
Qin Hao was so cold that he was working on the street with his neck shrunk like an idiot. He was looking around with his PDA.
Subconsciously, he wanted to turn around and leave with Jiang He, but their eyes met. Xu Qing paused for a moment, and continued to walk forward with Jiang He as if nothing had happened. He went over to say hello.
They had already met each other. If they turned around and left now, this guy would definitely notice something was wrong.
"Haozi, are you busy?"
"Nonsense, what are you going to do?" Qin Hao sniffled, looked at Xu Qing, and then looked at Jiang He beside him.
This guy … is not right.
"Eating hotpot, together?"
"I'm on duty … Come here, come here," he walked a few steps to the side and brought Xu Qing over. He looked at Jiang He and said, "This is …"
"What's wrong?" Xu Qing's heart skipped a beat, and he asked calmly.
"When did you have a cousin?" Qin Hao looked at the two of them, and suddenly said, "What's the theorem for determining the perpendicularity of faces?"
"…"
"…"
Xu Qing was stunned, and Jiang He looked confused.
"A high school student? Sister? "Qin Hao narrowed his small eyes," Then, explain the cosine theorem. "
"Alright, alright, this is my girlfriend." Xu Qing felt a headache.
"Girlfriend?"
Qin Hao made up his mind. This guy was up to something!
Last time, he mentioned a sister, but Qin Maocai went to ask this guy and said that he did not have a sister at all. He felt that something was wrong, but his intuition told him that Xu Qing was a little strange that day.
It was a lie.
Girlfriend was a girlfriend, and it was not a big deal. Why did he have to introduce her as a high school cousin … This was very strange.
"I'll explain it to you another day. I'm starving." Xu Qing was helpless against this childhood friend. "You're Formosa Hao, alright?"
"What are you doing?"
"Another day. Why don't you cuff me now like you're interrogating a criminal." Xu Qing stretched out his hands like a rascal.
"… Go ahead. You have to explain this to me another day, or I'll complain to your father." Qin Hao said seriously.
Xu Qing had a criminal record. In the past, when he fought, drank, and went to bars, he was the one who secretly snitched. He had been tamed in the past two years, and Qin Hao was afraid that this guy would repeat his old habits.
Normal friends were fine, but if he hung out with those shady people again … He glanced at Jiang He. Fortunately, he looked normal.
If she had colorful hair, nose rings, and lip piercings, he would have checked her on the spot. Based on Xu Qing's behavior that day, this woman was most likely a drug addict.
That would be a big deal … for the Xu family.
Xu Qing did not say anything. He gave him the middle finger and turned into the hotpot restaurant with Jiang He.
Fortunately, Qin Hao was not a woman, or he would have to know the consequences of snitching.
Why not a woman?
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