Yu Yi, who also took a taxi home in the middle of the night, was afraid of disturbing the sleep of his sister, mother and son, so he opened and closed the door quietly, but after walking a few steps, he saw that the light in the kitchen was on, and Yu Nan was still cooking in it.

"Are you back?" Yu Nan asked.

Yu Yi glanced at his nephew's bedroom.

Yu Nan said knowingly: "Maomao went to bed early, as long as he fell asleep, the thunder would not wake him up." Maomao is Yu Nan's son.

Yu Yi smiled and nodded.

"It's so late, what are you busy with?" Yu Yi asked.

"I'll cook something for you. I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in the morning." Yu Nan was nearly ten years older than her younger brother, but she was well maintained, and she didn't look like the mother of a teenager.

She put down her things and came out of the kitchen, "Did you see her?"

"No." Yu Yi sat down on the sofa.

"No?"

"She said she has other business." Yu Yi smiled.

He received a call from Zeng Li, telling him that she was not going. He asked why, and she said, you used to have a classmate named Ai Jing Chu, and I am in a relationship with him now, he may not want me to see you alone, so I will not see you for now.

She has always been such a person who can't lie, and she is honest in everything she says.

Really don't consider other people's feelings.

"Ayi, why are you unhappy?" Yu Nan asked.

"No, I don't think I'm leaving tomorrow, so I can't bear you?" Yu Yi replied with a smile, "I can't wait to take my sister back in my pocket and cook soup for me every day. Of course, Maomao should also bring it with me, otherwise my sister will definitely cry. Then I will introduce a man to accompany my sister, and let my brother-in-law say that I should not do it every day, so I regret going." Yu Nan is currently in a cold war with her husband because of work.

"Stop being so talkative." Yu Nan smiled, "I'll serve you tremella soup."

After Yi Da had eaten half a bowl of sweet soup, Yu Nan said, "You should also find someone who is caring. If you are outside alone, it will make your family feel bad."

"Aren't I always looking for it?" Yu Yi replied.

"Yes, find one for another." Yu Nan was furious.

"Do you want to exchange two for one?" Yu Yi blinked.

Yu Nan raised his hand and patted him on the forehead, "Don't be so glib."

"Are you a lobbyist sent by our mother?" Yu Yi finally understood.

"You are in your thirties. Ah Yi, if the matter between you and Zeng Li had been resolved, maybe the child would be soy sauce."

Hearing that she mentioned Zeng Li again, Yu Yi couldn't help saying: "There is already someone in Zeng Li's house. In the future, don't just bring it up and talk about it. It's not good for others to hear it."

Yu Nan was stunned for a moment, "Really? Is someone already there? I like her quite a lot. It's a pity that she is much better than your later girlfriends. She is obedient, and she doesn't even know how to quarrel with others. She is what you say, and you grew up watching her. She knows everything. It's really worry-free to be a sister-in-law at home. There are so many things to do now. You and her are of the wrong generation, and you are not close relatives. Don't care what others say? I'm sorry about the family..."

"Sister," Yu Yi interrupted her, "It's been so many years, what are you still talking about?"

"I heard that she has been single. I always thought she couldn't let you go."

"Maybe it's just that she hadn't met the right person? Don't be too affectionate for me."

After a while, Yu Yi suddenly asked: "I often read books saying that love will eventually turn into family affection, isn't that true?" He didn't read any books, it was said by his ex-girlfriend.

Yu Nan thought for a while, "Probably so, your brother-in-law and I have been married for almost twenty years, so it probably feels like this."

"What about the other way around?"

"The reverse of what?"

Yu Yi didn't ask questions, didn't continue to explain, and instead started making jokes with his eldest sister. It was almost two o'clock when he fell asleep. He lay on the bed in the room, and as soon as he closed his eyes, he remembered that year when Zeng Li was led to him by her grandma and taught her to call him little cousin, but she looked at him timidly, but never spoke...

Arriving at the airport early the next morning, Yu Yi had just checked in his luggage in the terminal when he saw Zeng Li arrive as scheduled.

Her face is less fleshy than before, but her body was thin. She still has long hands and long legs. She wears a simple white T-shirt and shorts. She looks like a college student, but her hair has grown a lot. Like her mother, she was born with wavy hair. When she was studying, because of her hair, she had to go home every semester to get a certificate, otherwise the school would force her to straighten it on the grounds that middle school students could not perm their hair.

Because it was agreed in advance which hall it was, and Yu Yi was standing at the door, so she found him as soon as she entered.

When his eyes fell on Yi, Zeng Li froze for a moment, slowed down, and walked towards him step by step. For so many years, she thought that she would cry when she saw him again, but on this day, she didn't.

"Hey." Yu Yi tilted his head and smiled.

"Hey," she said.

"With Ai Jing Chu, you ignore me?" Yu Yi smiled.

"No..." She couldn't help being embarrassed, not knowing how to answer. She thought about asking Ai Jing Chu to come, but what was that? Bringing your current boyfriend to demonstrate against your ex? Say I'm better off without you? That didn't feel right, especially since they've been friends for so many years.

She had sought Ai Jing Chu's opinion beforehand.

He said it doesn't matter.

I don't know if it really doesn't matter, or if I really don't want to see it.

"Nobody sent you off?" Zeng Li thought he would see Yu Yi's relatives.

"They've gotten used to it a long time ago. Maomao has a remedial class today, and my sister is going to accompany him to school." Zeng Li naturally knew who Maomao was.

He added: "And isn't there you?"

In the morning, there was no place to stroll around in the international departure hall, and even the chairs were scarce, so the two of them had to go to the fast food restaurant next to them to sit.

Yu Yi has a rich chatterbox, and he can't stop talking as soon as he starts. He talked about the current situation of those people Zeng Li knew at home, and about his life abroad. Even small things, described by him, can become very interesting stories.

And when Zeng Li was talking, Yu Yi sat across from her, propping his chin, while the fingertips of his other hand tapped rhythmically on the table. In this regard, he had exactly the same habit as Ai Jing Chu.

He looked at Zeng Li with his head propped up like this. If it was someone else, even Ai Jing Chu, she would be uncomfortable, but she wouldn't if the other party was Yu Yi. They are too familiar, just like childhood friends, even if they have not been in touch for many years, they are a little strange at first sight, but after a few words, they will gradually become familiar again.

Every time she spoke, his eyes would always look at her braces first, and he finally asked, "How long have you been wearing braces?"

"Half a year." Zeng Li replied.

"Is this how I met Ai Jing Chu?"

"En."

Like Ai Jing Chu, he is an intelligent and transparent person, who can guess the general idea with just one question.

"Is he... nice to you?"

"Fine."

"I didn't expect you to be together." Yu Yi said.

"I didn't expect that either."

"You need to be more independent in the future. I'm not talking about life, but about emotion." Yu Yi looked at her and said.

The root cause of his breakup with her must be here. She takes love too seriously, it can rise to the same importance as life, and he probably thinks that love is just a condiment in life because his world is so wonderful. He didn't want to lose himself, and he didn't want to hurt her, but the pressure made him breathless, and in the end he cowardly chose to escape and give up.

So, he called her and told her that he was not suitable for her and that he had another love.

But after these years, after experiencing changes, looking back, such feelings are so pure and precious, maybe there will never be a second woman in this life who can give him that.

Not without regret.

But he is not the kind of character who will only hurt the spring and the autumn, people must always look forward when they live, don't they?

Yu Yi said again: "However, Ai Jing Chu is different from me. He may be the right person for you. He has a much smarter brain than ordinary people, and it is easy for him to manage things that others bother with. Moreover, his family conditions are also very good. He doesn't have to worry about mundane matters, and he doesn't bow his head to others. He can concentrate on his medical career and is completely a person who lives in his ideals." Therefore, if he loves someone, he will do it wholeheartedly, right?

Yu Yi didn't say the last sentence. Ai Jing Chu was not like him. He struggled to survive, and he had become completely unrecognisable.

But Zeng Li understood, and didn't know how to answer, so she just nodded.

He stared at her, remembering how she looked when she was a child, and couldn't help reaching out and touching her face.

She did not avoid his hand.

Yu Yi's fingertips rubbed the skin of her cheek reluctantly for a while, then patted her head again and said, "Good girl."

Hearing this, Zeng Li burst into tears instantly. In those years, when his parents quarreled at home, he would always tell her jokes to coax her, and after coaxing, he would use these three words. They were like a fuse, triggering all of Zeng Li's suppressed emotions.

Yu Yi laughed, "Why do you still cry when you grow up so big? Didn't I always say that you are ugly when you cry?" He teased her, but he still couldn't help getting up and hugging her to his chest to comfort her.

Her tears were like bursting a bank.

Yu Yi patted her on the back and said, "Okay, don't cry, if Ai Jing Chu sees me taking advantage of you like this, he will definitely beat me up.

"If a tooth is knocked out by me, I have to seek treatment from him, how embarrassing.

"You don't know, they don't have any special skills in oral cavity, they just have strong hands, and they can break steel wires with pliers with one hand, but I can't beat them."

These few words of Yu Yi almost made Zeng Li laugh out of tears.

Later, when the time was almost up, Yu Yi sent Zeng Li to the door, and after saying goodbye, he turned around and walked a few steps, when he suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him calling softly: "Xiao bai di."

Yu Yi froze in place, and turned around later. This was the first time in his life that he heard Zeng Li call him that on her own initiative.

Zeng Li made a goodbye gesture to him, and the tears on his face had been wiped dry.

He smiled at her.

Yes, not without regret.

It's just that neither of them is the person each other is looking for.

Zeng Li left the airport and went back to the city, bought some ingredients on the way, cleaned the toilet thoroughly after arriving home, and then started cooking, cooking a lot in one go, filling the table. She sat at the table without moving her chopsticks, just quietly looking at the dishes, all of which were slightly salty and spicy. In fact, she has never liked chili, but Yu Yi likes it, so she likes it.

The dishes she is good at are all learned according to his preferences.

This time, she didn't cry any more, and sat quietly at the table without eating a bite. When the dishes got cold and lost their bright colors, she got up and dumped everything into the trash can one by one.

When she started to pour the peanuts in the soup, she suddenly remembered Ai Jing Chu's unreasonable appearance when she said "I don't eat peanuts". At this time, the phone rang, and it was Zeng's mother.

"They said you fell while riding?" Zeng's mother asked bluntly. The two of them haven't spoken much since the last quarrel.

"Yes, there's a few stitches."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"I didn't have time at that time, and after that, I felt that there was nothing to say."

"What about now?"

"It's all right, all the stitches have been removed."

"What's good? You've been hurt for a hundred days. I made you some fish soup by the way today. Come down and get it."

"Ah?"

"What? Hurry up, there are still people waiting for me to go shopping. I'm at the gate of your community, come and get it quickly."

When Zeng Li arrived, she saw Zeng's mother standing alone on the side of the street with a thermos in her hand. She said she was in a hurry, but when she saw Zeng Li, she stood without handing over her things.

"Let me see the wound." She said with a straight face.

Zeng Li raised her chin and showed her. Although the wound had stitches removed, it hadn't healed completely. It looked a little bumpy, and there seemed to be some soft tissue bruises inside the flesh and bones, and it protruded, which was very unsightly.

After Mama Zeng's examination, her eyebrows were all furrowed together, "If it's not going to get better, what should I do if it's disfigured?"

"It will be fine." Zeng Li comforted her.

"Don't eat ginger, soy sauce, chili, garlic, etc. in the next few months. The mullet and peanut ribs soup I stewed for you is good for the wound. I will stew it tomorrow after drinking it."

Zeng Li smiled.

"If you found a good husband's family earlier, would you still need me to work so hard?"

Zeng Li smiled again, she didn't dare to touch her mother's words.

"Why can't you be more careful? What kind of bicycle do you ride? You can ride it. You also rode a bicycle to school in junior high school. Why did you fall? It's not good to fall, but on the face. You said that you are a big girl who is not married. If you are really disfigured, what will you do? You have been fed for nothing for more than 20 years. Why don't you make progress? If you call me earlier, we will ask your acquaintances to find you a good doctor, you..." She babbled endlessly.

"Mom," Zeng Li persuaded in a low voice, "won't you go up and have a seat?" People come and go, it's not good for neighbors to see.

"Ah?" Zeng's mother stopped talking, remembering that she was very busy just now, "No, I'm very busy, how can I have time to care about you? I'm going."

Zeng's mother never dragged her feet when she did things, she handed things to Zeng Li and walked away, but Zeng Li called her: "Mom."

"Thank you." Zeng Li said.

Mama Zeng's expression froze, she pretended to be nonchalant and replied, "Stop doing this to me."

Zeng Li went back and filled the steaming fish soup into a bowl, held it to his mouth and blew, and drank it all in one gulp, his stomach was full, and his whole body was covered with sweat.

A city's travel introduction was being shown on TV, and she suddenly had an impulse when she saw it, and she got up to pack her luggage. She had never acted so vigorously before. She first contacted the travel agency, then called Director Li to ask for five days of annual leave, then confirmed the air ticket and hotel, and left in the afternoon.

At the airport, she lastly called Ai Jing Chu.

Her heart beat uncontrollably as she dialed the number.

When the call was connected, he was still in a meeting. They had a seminar in this city this weekend. The topic was led by A University, and he participated in it, so he was always busy.

"He's gone?" Ai Jing Chu asked about Yu Yi.

"Gone."

"Wait for me at home, I'll be there when I'm done." His voice was low and gentle.

Zeng Li said, "I want to go out for a walk."

"Then you go, I will pick you up in a while."

"No, it's a long trip." She explained.

"Where are you going? Where are you?" His tone was not indifferent.

"I'm at the airport and I'll be leaving in a while."

"Because of me?" he asked.

"No, no." She subconsciously denied, and after a while, said slowly, "Yes."

Ai Jing Chu didn't speak at the other end.

But Zeng Li said: "Don't be angry, it's because of me, not because of you."

He seemed a little angry, and said sadly: "If you don't want to see me, you don't have to."

After saying this, the conversation between the two fell into silence.

After a while, Zeng Li suddenly opened her mouth and called him softly: "Ai Jing Chu." That tone was extremely soft and soft, which would soften the hearts of others.

She said: "Since I was very young, I have envied those people in magazines who travel around with a backpack, but I have lived for more than 20 years, and the farthest distance I have traveled is from the small county town of my hometown to here. People like you who can go back and forth between the two ends of the world may not understand my world? I used to think that I had no money. Later, when I made money, I told others that I had to work. Walking in the dark. I am always afraid of strange things. I am afraid that the destination I want to reach is actually not as good as I thought. I am afraid that there will be people in a strange city who scare me. I am afraid that I will spend all the money in my passbook and I will not be able to go home. I am even afraid that the hotel will be bad or the road will be difficult. So when I hear interesting stories about other people's journeys in books or in life, I always secretly make up my mind to go there and have a look, but I am timid when things come to an end."

Ai Jing Chu listened to Zeng Li's words without saying a word, and after she stopped, he said: "As long as I'm here, you don't have to be afraid of anything."

"Ai Jing Chu." She called him again.

"Yeah." He answered.

"You don't know, in this world, at this moment, what I'm most afraid of is actually you." She said, "I'm afraid that after I get you, I will find that you are not what I dreamed of, just like Yu Yi. Last night, on the way to meet Yu Yi, I suddenly realised that you are more important to me than Yu Yi. I think I'm in love with you, but give me a little time, okay?"

Zeng Li held the phone in one hand, and pressed the other to her chest. Her heart was still beating, but this heart was only temporarily placed here.

In fact, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is cruel. Zeng Li's travel planning was not very good.

Her first destination was to see the sea, but due to the weather, the flight was delayed for nearly three hours, and it was almost midnight when she got off the plane.

When she finally arrived at the hotel by the sea with her luggage, the front desk smiled and said, "Ma'am, your reservation has been cancelled."

"Why?" Zeng Li was dumbfounded.

"You didn't specify how long to reserve it on your reservation, we usually only reserve it until six in the afternoon."

"But my flight was delayed, so I arrived late."

"Sorry, because we couldn't contact you, and another guest came to ask for a room, so it has been cancelled."

"Is there any room left?"

"No more." The front desk customer service continued to smile.

She dragged her luggage and walked in this rainy and wet coastal city, and asked several surrounding hotels one after another, because today happened to be the weekend, so everywhere was full. After reaching this conclusion, she suddenly had some regrets, and she didn't dare to take a taxi back to the city, and she didn't dare to pin her hopes on the taxi driver

On the side of the street, there is also a small cigarette shop lit with orange lights. There looks to be a kind man. After hearing her question, the uncle spoke in vague Mandarin, pointed to a tall building opposite impatiently and said, "Isn't that where you can live?"

Zeng Li followed the direction he pointed, and the five glittering golden stars under the hotel signboard alone were enough to make her flinch.

In the end, she took out her mobile phone and searched for nearby hotels online. Within a few minutes, the mobile phone indicated that the battery was about to run out. She had no choice but to carry her luggage into the lobby of the five-star hotel with a cheeky face. A doorman came to ask her enthusiastically, and she said cheekily that she would sit down, avoiding the visiting and questioning eyes, and scrambled towards the sofa in the corner of the lobby to find a place to plug in the power supply, and find another place to live while charging.

After she finally found an acceptable hotel to stay in, she called Ai Jing Chu and reported her safety according to his request.

"Settled?" he asked.

"En."

"Why so late?"

"The flight was delayed for a long time."

"Is everything else going well?"

"It went well," she replied.

"You go to bed early, I will call you tomorrow." He said.

Zeng Li took a shower, sent text messages to Ma Yi Yi and Wu Ying, and then fell asleep.

She was a little reluctant to bed, and as long as she turned over, the mattress would make abnormal noises, so she didn't sleep well all night. The other rooms next door probably belonged to the same tour group. They got up and checked out before dawn, and talked loudly in the corridor from time to time, which disturbed her again. She was almost always in a state of sleeping and waking up.

When Zeng Li went to the beach, it was still raining, and the sea breeze was cold and wet, freezing her to death, blowing away all the excitement of seeing the sea for the first time.

She had to go back to the hotel to eat something casually, and then took a nap.

Probably due to the accumulation of physical and mental exhaustion to the extreme, this time, she fell into a deep sleep, and it was already dusk when she woke up. She walked around the neighborhood for a few times with an umbrella, and then went back to the hotel to rest.

Ai Jing Chu called her at night.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"Watching TV," she replied, "It's been raining all the time."

"See the ocean?"

"Yeah." It turned out that it wasn't all that bad.

On the third day, the sun was high, and Zeng Li was almost pried away by the golden sunlight outside the window. She jumped up from the bed and was a little excited when she opened the curtains. She quickly finished washing, ignored her hat and sunscreen, put on her slippers and took her bag, and ran out.

At night, Ai Jing Chu's phone call came as scheduled.

"Is it sunny today?" He just checked the weather on Zeng Li's side.

"Yeah, it's very hot all of a sudden, and it will be fatal if you don't turn on the air conditioner."

"How's the sea today?" he asked.

"It's beautiful and spectacular, completely different from when it rains." Zeng Li couldn't hide her excitement, "I like the sound of the waves."

Ai Jing Chu smiled lightly.

On the fourth day, Zeng Li flew to another destination by plane.

After she settled down in the ancient town, she hurried to see the famous river valley. The vehicle that drove them there was a Toyota off-road vehicle with a row of seats. There were also some individual travelers, including an old couple, a couple and a few young people who looked like students. Originally, Zeng Li thought that such a combination would be safer, but on the return trip, the car owner said that they bought too few things at the designated shopping spots, and he could not get much commission, so he had to charge an additional service fee for each person. The passengers resisted unanimously, and the driver drove them out of the car halfway and walked away.

"Those people are too much." At night, when Zeng Li recounted the situation to Ai Jing Chu on the phone, she couldn't hide his inner anger, and she couldn't help gnashing her teeth when she spoke.

"And after?"

"Later we stopped a passing bus and went back to the city, and called the police."

"You went too?"

"Yes." Zeng Li nodded.

"Aren't you afraid of the police?" Usually, when she saw the traffic police on duty in the middle of the road, she would be timid to drive.

"But I'm really angry, and everyone has gone, how could I escape alone? I would have no sense of responsibility at all, and I am a very righteous person." Zeng Li said.

"Well, it's just." After finishing speaking, he smiled.

On the fifth day, Zeng Li honestly stayed in the ancient city. According to the map and travel guides, she visited all the interesting and delicious places one by one. In the afternoon, she found an aunt who made embroidered shoes, and spent the afternoon choosing patterns for shoe uppers in the shop.

And at night, she didn't go anywhere, just sat on the rattan hanging chair in the small courtyard of the inn and answered Ai Jing Chu's phone while swinging.

"I thought that Ma Yi Yi likes pink ones, and Wu Ying likes blue ones, so I'd like red ones." She babbled about the embroidered shoes, "Also, I saw that they still have that kind of beautiful fabric in their store, and I want to use it to cover coffee tables, sofas and dining tables."

Speaking of this, Ai Jing Chu suddenly remembered that there were many magazines about home improvement in her living room, "You bought a house and are you going to decorate it?"

"No ah."

"Then you collect so much information?"

Zeng Li's voice paused, and she murmured in a low voice: "When they divorced when I was a child, I either lived in school or lived with my stepfather. Later, I rented a house and moved from east to west, so I always wanted to have my own home. Although it can't be realised now, but looking at those things and looking forward to them will also give me a very satisfying feeling."

On the sixth day, she found a local farmer's market and bought a lot of unusually fresh fruits to satisfy her appetite. In the afternoon, she continued to sit on the side of the road drinking tea, in a daze, watching people coming and going, watching how small traders slaughtered foreigners, and then she was attracted to a small bar by the singing.

"That singer sings so well, if they can sing in my cafe, they will definitely gain a lot of popularity." After eating and taking a shower, she gnawed on an apple, dangled on the rocking chair with her bare feet, and said to Ai Jing Chu on the other end of the phone.

"Male or female?"

"Female," she replied, "I really want to take her home."

"Women are okay." Ai Jing Chu said.

On the seventh day, Zeng Li went to his aunt's house to pick up custom-made embroidered shoes, and met a little child. Zeng Li casually asked the little girl a few words, and the little girl recounted the history of blood and tears when she flew here from home yesterday.

In the evening, Zeng Li talked about the little girl to Ai Jing Chu, and only then confessed her embarrassment on the first day.

"Were you scared?" he asked.

"One thing, especially when I lived alone in the hotel in the middle of the night, I didn't fall asleep all night." After a pause, she asked, "Are you ever afraid?"

"Yes"

"What of?" Zeng Li was curious.

He thought for a while before saying: "When I was still a resident doctor in the maxillofacial department, I once cooperated with the teacher to perform maxillofacial surgery on a girl, and the result..."

"Failed?"

"In the middle of the operation, malignant hyperthermia occurred, and the patient died on the spot."

"What is malignant hyperthermia?"

"Complications of general anesthesia," he said.

He paused for a while, as if he was sorting out his emotions, and then said lightly: "I'm standing next to her. And heard last words she said when she was alive were lying on the operating bed before anaesthesia."

"What did she say?"

"I don't know, I didn't pay attention at the time." The background on the other end of the phone was extremely quiet, and after a long silence, he repeated, "I didn't pay attention."

Her heart also felt uncomfortable.

"This is the first time, the second time is about you," he said.

"I?"

"The day you had a car accident, I drove you to the hospital, and you sat next to me with your eyes closed, without moving or speaking, that was the last time." He spoke slowly, with a slightly drunken charm in his voice.

When she heard the words spoken by this voice, her heart beat slightly stagnant.

He certainly doesn't know how much she loves his voice.

When it's cold, when it's slightly annoyed, when it's indifferent, when it's light and breezy looking back at one's own life experience, when it comforts and encourages the other party, and when it says he likes her, every tone of voice is so intoxicating.

Calling each other every night these days has almost become a habit for each other. She can talk a lot, and he sometimes asks a few words, sometimes only responds with "um", "um", sometimes he laughs, but most of the time he is listening. At this moment, Ai Jing Chu slowly told her these past events a thousand kilometres away, and it was about her, which was particularly heart-wrenching.

She misses him a little bit.

On the eighth day after leaving A City, which happened to be Saturday, Zeng Li ended her journey and got on the flight home.

At the airport, Zeng Li came out with her luggage and saw Ai Jing Chu who was waiting for her from a distance. Obviously, he had spotted her a long time ago, and smiled slightly.

She returned to her residence, unpacked her luggage, sorted the souvenirs for everyone. She then called Ma Yi Yi and the others to invite them out for dinner, and formally introduced Ai Jing Chu to her best friends

Zeng Li got into the car and said to Ai Jing Chu: "By the way, I have a gift for you." She took out a box, which contained a string of Bodhi seeds, with pink tassels underneath, "I bought it from the temple, and you can hang it in your car."

"I have some too?"

"Of course." Zeng Li nodded.

He gladly accepted.

"I used to move and change schools frequently, so I didn't have many classmates with me. Ma Yi Yi and Wu Ying are my very good friends." Zeng Li said.

"En." Ai Jing Chu understood.

There were five people at the dinner table, Wu Ying led Ning Feng, while Ma Yi Yi went alone.

Ma Yi Yi glanced at Zeng Li and Ai Jing Chu, and then at Wu Ying and Ning Feng, "Look at this pair, they are trying to make things difficult for me, if I had known, I should have brought Dou Dou with me."

Wu Ying glanced at her, "Are you envious? You should take Pan Siyu with you, isn't he very nice?"

"What's the matter? He's younger than me. When I get old, he'll still be glamorous. It's too risky. You can see that Teacher Ai and Zeng Li are a good match at the same age."

"Then Zeng Li has to cover him tightly, don't let Ma Yi Yi snatch him." Wu Ying teased.

"Bah, bah, the rabbit doesn't even eat the grass beside the nest."

"If you want to eat, you have to be liked by others." Wu Ying looked Ma Yi Yi up and down while speaking, and then shook her head tut tut.

"What's wrong with me?" Ma Yi Yi asked, "Say it, Zeng Li, no, Doctor Ai, tell me!"

Ai Jing Chu looked at Zeng Li, then at Ma Yi Yi, and was about to open his mouth to answer, but Zeng Li immediately interrupted him, lest he say something shocking again.

"Don't pay attention to them, they've been like this since they were young." Zeng Li said, "They bicker all day long, just like enemies."

Ning Feng echoed with a smile, "But the relationship is so good that it makes people jealous."

Speaking of this, several people talked about interesting things in the university again, Ma Yi Yi said: "The time I was scared the worst, the culprit was Zeng Li!"

"I know, I know." Wu Ying shouted.

"Don't say it." Zeng Li wanted to stop Ma Yi Yi.

"It's not something that spoils the image too much. Mr. Jing Chu must also want to know." Halfway through the meal, they found that he was just not good at talking, but it was actually not difficult, so they became more and more casual.

Ai Jing Chu smiled, as if he was listening attentively.

"One night, while I was dreaming, I suddenly heard a loud noise, and then the mosquito net, wall dust, and small stones fell all over my face. I was so frightened that I thought it was an earthquake. Then Wu Ying turned on the light and saw that Zeng Li had fallen from the upper bunk. She was wrapped in a mosquito net, and her body was dragged in mid-air without landing.

"Also, and," Wu Ying added, "every time Zeng Li takes a final exam, she will buy 100 instant noodles and eat them in the dormitory on the first day."

In this way, the dinner ended when Ma Yi Yi and Wu Ying actively "reported" Zeng Li's university embarrassment.

From the middle to the end, Ai Jing Chu kept smiling.

After dinner, their old rule is to go karaoke if they don't play cards.

In the end, the five went to Song City to sing.

The three girls held the microphone together and sang loudly, while Ning Feng and Ai Jing Chu ordered a dozen beers, chatting and drinking.

"The child with the cleft lip you were looking for last time is called Ma Xiaobing. I have already asked about it. I went to the place where his parents rented a house once, but I couldn't find anyone." Ning Feng and Ai Jing Chu talked about the matter, "If you are in a hurry, we will go there again sometime."

"Thank you." Ai Jing Chu said.

"If you can't find him, you can go to their hometown, and I know the address." Ning Feng said.

The music was too loud, and their conversation could hardly go on. Later, Ning Feng was also pulled to sing a duet with Wu Ying's love song.

Ai Jing Chu went to the bathroom, and met Zeng Li at the door when he came back.

The first thing he said when he saw her was: "Unify 100, you must pass the exam."

"I hate it!" She raised her fist and wanted to beat him, blaming Wu Ying and Ma Yi Yi, it was too embarrassing to talk about everything.

As soon as the two of them returned to the private room, Ma Yi Yi handed the microphone to Zeng Li and Ai Jing Chu, "Time is left for you two, you must sing."

Ai Jing Chu gave Zeng Li a helpless look. He had always said that he would not come, and even hid in the bathroom.

"Doctor Ai, if you continue to beat about the bush, we will not comply." Ma Yi Yi said.

Zeng Li pulled him and whispered, "Why don't you just sing a few lines? Otherwise, they won't let you go."

"What will happen if you don't let me go?" Ai Jing Chu asked.

"Make you," Zeng Li said.

"Then make me." Ai Jing Chu looked like a broken jar.

"You're thinking too simply. They're going to torture you after you get down, and don't you know that you'll talk nonsense when you drink too much?"

"What nonsense did I say?

"I'll record it for you next time."

Wu Ying asked: "Have you finished talking about the love between the two of you? If you keep talking, I will order "Tracker's Love" for you."

"Or Uncle Pan's "Crossing the River" is also good, brother and sister are so caring." Ma Yi Yi suggested.

Ai Jing Chu obviously didn't know what kind of songs these were, and he still refused to agree with a dazed expression.

"If you don't sing, we won't agree with Zeng Li and you. She has always listened to us since she was a child." Ma Yi Yi boldly threatened him.

Zeng Li had never seen such a lonely and helpless Ai Jing Chu, and she couldn't bear it: "Forget it, let's sing an English song, your English is so good, both of them are English idiots, and they don't know if they sing it wrong. I will sing for you when it is your turn, and you can just hum along."

In the end, Ai Jing Chu had no choice but to drive the ducks onto the perch. When he opened his mouth, the other four people realised that it was true that he said he couldn't sing. Obviously every word is on the beat, but the tune sounds so strange, it is estimated that if there is no accompaniment, outsiders will not be able to guess which song he is singing anyway.

After the singing, no one spoke, and the room fell silent, but Ning Feng broke the deadlock and said, "Zeng Li still sings so well."

On the way home, Zeng Li was driving the car, having fun all the time.

"Is it so funny?" Ai Jing Chu asked.

"Well, I finally found your weakness, so I'm happy." Zeng Li replied.

She always thought that his voice would be more charming when he sang love songs. A few days ago, she didn't tell the truth on the phone. In fact, the bar singer she was fascinated by when she was traveling was a man, and his voice was somewhat similar to Ai Jing Chu's, so she also imagined what he would look like when he sang. When Ma Yi Yi and the others were booing, she also had selfish intentions.

"Shall I take you home?" she asked.

"Go to your house first." He said.

"What for?"

He was silent for a while, and didn't answer right away. Later, he looked out of the window and said slowly, "It's nothing, I just want to stay with you for a while."

"Oh." She replied stiffly, but it was as if she had eaten honey in her heart.

After a while, he said again: "I like that song you sang." He didn't expect Zeng Li to sing so well.

"What song is it?"

"I didn't pay attention to the name, there is a line 'my grandma' in the lyrics."

"Would you like me to sing to you?" Zeng Li said.

"En."

"Now?"

"En"

"A cappella?"

"En."

"I am driving."

"The traffic regulations don't say you can't sing while driving." He was confident.

Zeng Li also likes this song very much. After going through the lyrics in her head, she began to sing softly:

There is no accompaniment, no reverberation, just in the small space in the car, there is a little echo, and the singing is even more moving.

With his face facing the side window, he listened silently, and when Zeng Li finished singing, he didn't speak, so that Zeng Li thought he was asleep.

"Hypnotized?"

"No," he said.

Zeng Li glanced at him, only seeing the back of the man's head.

"You pull over the car." He turned his face and said.

"What for?"

"Pull over," he said.

Zeng Li turned on the right turn signal and slowed down slowly on the side of the road. As soon as she stopped, he stretched out his hand to support her chin, leaned to the left, and kissed her lightly.

"Someone will see it." Zeng Li struggled.

"See what's going on, I'm not breaking the law."

"Yes, yes, there is no such thing in traffic regulations."

He looked at her mouth, suddenly remembered something, and said, "Remember to tell Zhou Wen the next time you have a follow-up visit, the upper front teeth of the aligner are slightly scratched, and ask her to fix it."

Zeng Li knew what he was referring to, and blushed again, "Tell her yourself."

"Then she will wonder why I know so well." He replied solemnly.

Zeng Li puffed up her cheeks, wishing she could strangle him by the neck.

Back at Zeng Li's residence, Ai Jing Chu picked up a magazine on the sofa and was flipping through it. Zeng Li found a note on the table, which was left by Zeng's mother: I can't get through to you, and the soup I made for you is in the refrigerator. Remember to drink it. The date fell yesterday.

Mother Zeng didn't know about Zeng Li's trip, so she assumed that she had gone out with her friends.

Zeng Li opened the refrigerator and found a cup of pork rib soup. She poured it into a pot and brought it to a boil, then took it out.

Zeng Li said: "My mother made it. She makes delicious food. Try it."

Ai Jing Chu didn't drink at first, but after hearing what Zeng Li said, he stood at the dining table and quietly filled a bowl by himself.

Zeng Li first took a few pieces of ribs with chopsticks and gnawed them. The ribs were originally made into soup, so they had been stewed so soft that they almost melted in his mouth. When the meat was almost eaten and the soup on the side became warm enough, she drank the soup in one gulp, and a layer of sweat was forced to break out on her forehead.

But Ai Jing Chu was slowly savouring his bowl of soup in small mouthfuls. The pork ribs are added with yam, the soup is very delicious, and the meat was fragrant with a touch of sweetness. He sat there drinking very carefully, very carefully, as if he was afraid of spilling a drop. He has been silent, not knowing what he was thinking.