Yuan Zhen

Chapter 20 Reasons

Jin Lin's words exploded in Yuan Xiao's mind like a thunderbolt, he was a little dazed by the blast, he didn't want to think about it, he just lay on the bed and let go.

After Cheng Duo's plane landed, he sent a message to Yuan Xiao to report that he was safe, and then went to work, until now he was free to reply.

Cheng Duo: Video.

Yuan Xiao dialed it, and it was immediately connected there. After a while, Cheng Duo, who was shirtless and dripping water on his face, appeared in the center of the screen. Behind him was a shower, probably in the bathroom.

"What are you doing?" Yuan Xiao was still lying on her back, holding her phone directly above her face.

"Wash your face, I just finished my work here." Cheng Duo rubbed the facial cleanser on his face, "Have you visited Hairball?"

"Well, I went to feed it when I came back. When I left, I hugged my legs and refused to let me go. If Ms. Jin said she was allergic to cat hair, I would let Fuqiuer come and sleep with me."

Cheng Duo cleared the foam, wiped the water droplets on his face with his hand like a towel, and sighed, "Tsk, Fuqiu'er is treated better than me. When can I sleep with you?"

Yuan Xiao laughed, "Cheng always wants to sleep meat or vegetarian?"

"I'm satisfied if I can have a vegetarian one right now, and the meat one is of course better." Cheng Duo raised his eyebrows and said something serious, not so serious.

"Understood, I'll call Secretary Luo right now and ask him to come and sleep with you for a while." Yuan Xiao took into account that Jin Lin was outside, so she lowered her voice when she spoke, with a sneaky feeling.

"Thank you." Cheng Duo glanced at him with a smile and asked, "Auntie is outside?"

"I don't know if it's in the guest bedroom or the living room. I came in after I helped her make the bed." Mentioning Jin Lin, Yuan Xiao frowned almost imperceptibly, with a fleeting expression.

But Cheng Duo happened to see it.

Cheng Duo: "Auntie is coming back, do you plan to live in China?"

Yuan Xiao didn't speak, just shook his head.

"What are you bothering about? Tell me?" Cheng Duo picked up the mobile phone on the sink, went out of the bathroom, and sat lazily on the sofa at the end of the bed.

Yuan Xiao hesitated for a moment and said, "Ms. Jin said that she wanted me to live in Australia with her because of my return to China."

Cheng Duo's lips were drawn into a line, and he didn't speak for a while, but looked at Yuan Xiao with a serious expression.

When we first met, Cheng Duo never showed such an expression. After falling in love, he smiled at Yuan Xiao every day. Now he is frowning and staring at himself. Just have a cigarette in your hand right now.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Xiao coughed in disguise.

"Do you want to go?" Cheng Duo finally opened his lips, but his face was still relatively heavy.

"It's not a question of whether you want to go or not. It's just that I don't know what reason to persuade myself not to go. You don't understand. Every time I go back to Yuan's house, I feel that I am redundant. Yuan Tu is Lao Yuan's own son and will inherit the family business in the future." As for me, it’s not necessary.” Yuan Xiao hadn’t talked with anyone about this before, and she couldn’t stop the conversation like a flood, and poured it all over to Cheng Duo with emotions, “I never thought about it before. Ms. Jin would want me to live with her, and she didn't even think about going abroad, but she said it quite sincerely today, and she didn't know how to say no."

Cheng Duo frowned, his back molars clenched unconsciously, and his jaw line became sharp.

"Yuanxiao, can't I be your reason?" His voice was lower than before, and he seemed not too emotional.

"What?" Yuan Xiao didn't quite react.

Cheng Duo: "It's nothing, let's talk when I come back."

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Duo grabbed his hair and pulled it into a mess.

For a moment, he felt that Yuan Xiao didn't like him much.

irritable.

Yuan Xiao and Jin Lin got along pretty well these two days. When he came home from get off work every day, Ms. Jin had prepared meals and was waiting for him.

Ms. Jin didn't always bring up the matter of going to Australia, but occasionally asked about visas, and imagined with Yuan Xiao, the picture of them going to the Sydney Opera House together.Yuan Xiao didn't make a clear statement from the beginning, but she looked like she was sure of winning.

The more she behaved like this, the more hesitant Yuan Xiao became, but it wasn't because she was hesitant to go to Australia, she was just worried about how to reject her so as not to hurt her enthusiasm as much as possible.

So he had no choice but to pretend to be a coward, dragging on for a day, and finally he didn't know how to do it, so that the old man knew.

This time, Lao Yuan didn't call him home again, but went downstairs to Cheng Duo's company to wait for him.Although it was inevitable to go back to Yuan's house in the end, neither the parking lot nor the coffee shop was suitable for chatting about family affairs.

Old Yuan was sitting on a chair in the study, smoking a cigarette, with a gloomy expression on his face, obviously unhappy.

But he was not the only one who was unhappy, and so was Yuan Xiao.After the farce happened on his birthday, Lao Yuan didn't even give him a perfunctory explanation, not to mention apologizing, Yuan Xiao still remembers revenge.

"Jin Lin said that you are going to Australia with her, and I want to hear what your plan is." Old Yuan said in a calm voice, "Can you sit down and look like that?"

Yuanxiao turned a deaf ear to it, and leaned on the armrests to hang on to the chairs that didn't sit well.

He was used to showing such a foolish look in front of Lao Yuan. When he was a child, he felt that being mischievous could make Lao Yuan pay more attention to Yuan Tu to him.Now he feels uncomfortable and wants to be provocative. If everyone is uncomfortable, he can be a little more comfortable.

"What plans can I have? Don't you also plan to throw me abroad? You two have finally united the front, and I must support it. If you go, go, where is it different?" Yuan Xiao said angrily. He couldn't figure out who could be happy with such barbed words, he was just used to being outspoken.

"I'm just trying to scare you, did I really let you go?" Lao Yuan picked up a pack of paper on the table and threw it at Yuan Xiao.

Yuan Xiao caught it, threw it into the air, and caught it again.

According to Lao Yuan, he came here today to persuade himself not to go abroad with Ms. Jin?

Yuan Xiao: "I've thought about it. Going to Australia is also a good idea, lest you and Yuan Tutian should be filial to me. My mother came back just for me, and I can't bear to let her down."

Old Yuan hesitated to speak, got up and stood in front of the window with his back to Yuan Xiao, the cigarette in his hand was about to run out.

After Yuan Xiao came out of Yuan's house, he sat in the car for nearly half an hour. His heart felt as if it was being clenched, and it hurt so tight. He slowed down, and then drove to Li Ze's bar.

There were a lot of customers in the bar, Li Ze saw his gloomy face, asked him what's wrong and didn't say anything, just said he wanted to drink.

Li Ze opened a private room for him. When ordering wine, Yuan Xiao said to order two bottles of the strongest wine on the list first, but Li Ze ignored him, "Don't spoil my good things, today you are only fit to drink Budweiser in such a mood."

Others love tea, but Li Ze loves wine.In his view, good wine must be tasted when the mind is calm, so that it is not spoiled, and it is the same as bathing, burning incense, and cooking tea with clean hands.

"Damn, I'm suffering here, wine is more important than me?" Yuan Xiao's expression finally turned cloudy, and he cursed with a smile.

Li Ze patted him on the shoulder, "What are you talking about? I'll come and drink with you in person, enough for the noodles, my friend."

He said he was drinking with him, but Li Ze didn't actually drink much. He was concerned about where the two of them would stay later.He couldn't stop Yuan Xiao, and watched him drink bottle after bottle, making himself dazed.

Before Yuan Xiao was about to pass out, the phone he placed on the corner of the table vibrated, Li Ze picked it up to look, it was Yuan Tu, and Yuan Xiao saw it too.

"Don't answer, I... just looking at him makes me want to vomit." Yuan Xiao rushed over to grab the phone, knocked it down on the sofa, and the vibration stopped.He awkwardly stuffed the phone back into his pocket, dropped the empty wine bottle in his hand, and fumbled to open another bottle.

Li Zexin said, if you want to vomit, you probably drank too much.

But the phone didn't vibrate, so Li Ze didn't care about it. He took a look at the state of Yuanxiao, and he might not be able to finish the bottle in his hand. He took out his phone and sent a message to ask someone to call a car.

"Where are you going? To my house?" Li Ze asked.

Alcohol paralyzed his nerves, Yuan Xiao also reacted to such a simple word for a while, he nodded, Jin Lin was in Lanting, he didn't want to go back, he didn't want to see her.

Li Ze just wanted to help Yuan Xiao get up when the door of the private room was pushed open.

Yuan Tu stood at the door, glanced at Li Ze, and fixed his eyes on Yuan Xiao.

"Brother Yuan Tu, why are you here?" Li Ze put down Yuan Xiao's arm on his shoulder, and greeted Yuan Tu.

"I'll pick him up. Sorry to trouble you." Yuan Tu walked towards them.

Yuan Tu held Yuan Xiao's hand, Yuan Xiao turned his head to look, recognized Yuan Tu, immediately frowned and shook his hand, but the alcohol not only swallowed his brain, but also took away his strength, and he didn't lose his strength after two shakes. throw off.

Sitting aside, Li Ze was a little confused.

Yuan Xiao, Jiang Wen and him, the three of them have known each other since elementary school. Although they never knew the conflict between the two brothers Yuan Xiao and Yuan Tu, as far as he knew, the relationship between the two should not be very good.Which one did Yuan Tu come to pick up people in?And how did he know people were here?

Yuan Tu saw his doubts, pressed Yuan Xiao's waving hand, and took out the mobile phone from Yuan Xiao's trouser pocket neatly. He explained calmly: "The phone is connected, I heard your voice, I guess he should be with you."

Li Ze smiled awkwardly, recalling whether the two of them said something that shouldn't be said just now.

"Then I'll take Yuan Xiao back first, and I'll cause you trouble." Yuan Tu stood up holding Yuan Xiao forcefully.

Li Ze was not happy to hear what he said, because of his relationship with Yuan Xiao, no matter what, it's not your turn, Yuan Tu, to be courteous to him.

Yuan Xiao kept thumping, trying to push Yuan Tu away, slapped Yuan Tu's face with her waving arm, and shouted, "Fuck, Li Ze... I won't follow... I won't follow you go."

"Don't make trouble." Yuan Tu's face was displeased, and he pressed his tongue against the slapped cheek.

At this time, Yuan Xiao's cell phone vibrated in Yuan Tu's hand. Yuan Tu turned over and saw that the remark was an emoji with a puppy's head, and Yuan Xiao saw it too. It took two or three pokes before the call was successfully connected.

"Where are you?" Cheng Duo's tone was not very good. You must know that he had been on the phone for more than ten minutes, and Yuan Xiao had been on the phone all the time, which made it difficult for him to get a good tone.

But Yuan Xiao can't tell whether the other party is angry now, he just said what he wanted to say, "I think... the hairball, come and pick me up. Where is it? At... the bar, Come quickly, pick me up, I want to sleep."

Seeing him like that, Li Ze simply took the phone. After knowing that the other party was Cheng Duo, he told him the address of the bar, and then returned the phone to Yuan Xiao.

Li Ze opened his mouth to smooth things over, "Why don't you sit and wait? Cheng Duo said he would come right away. Brother Yuan, look, there is no way for Yuan Xiao to make such a fuss with you. Why don't you wait for Cheng Duo to come over and see where Yuan Xiao wants to go."

Yuan Tu didn't speak, and let Li Ze sit on the sofa with Yuan Xiao.

He looked at Yuan Xiao, who was holding his mobile phone, who was not making noise, and his eyebrows were about to be twisted into a Chinese knot.

The intimacy that Yuan Xiao talked to Cheng Duo, I only had before Yuan Xiao was six years old. At that time, Yuan Xiao would hold his hand and call him brother, and he would generously share everything he liked with himself.

But now, Yuan Xiao faced herself with resistance written all over her body, and they seemed to be moving further and further apart.