You are my proper foothold

A new cartoon cup was placed on Manager Jiang's desk.

Through Jiang Xin's assistant, the news spread throughout Jiaxin Private Equity in one morning, even the boss Chen Jiashu was alarmed.

After lunch, Chen Jiashu strolled to the door of Jiang Xin's office "by the way" in the name of eliminating food after a meal, and glanced in, just in time to see that his usually serious and serious subordinate was carrying a cartoon boy on it. The child's mug is slowly drinking water.

This picture is really weird...

After all, judging from Jiang Xin's usual personality in the company, even if he drank water from a big enamel cup in the past, he didn't have a strong sense of disobedience like the one he holds now.

Chen Jiashu walked in quietly. Jiang Xin was staring at the computer screen intently and didn't seem to notice him. There was still a half-eaten lunch on the table. Chen Jiashu became very playful, and stretched out his hand to gesture to the little assistant sitting at the door " "OK" gesture, and pointed to Jiang Xin, walked around behind him lightly, and slapped him on the shoulder suddenly.

The little assistant outside the door stared straight at him, thinking that it was fortunate that he was the big boss, otherwise someone else would have been ordered to go in but not come out...

Chen Jiashu acted enthusiastically, thinking that Jiang Xin, who has always been known for his calmness, would be taken aback, but he didn't expect that after he slapped him, Jiang Xin continued to stare at the computer screen to check the K-line in the morning. After copying down a few numbers on the paper, it took more than a minute for him to finally turn around and look up at Chen Jiashu who was about to turn into a human-shaped ice cube, with no waves on his calm face.

"Brother Chen, do you have anything to do with me?"

Chen Jiashu: "...boring."

Chen Jiashu walked to the side sofa and sat down, drooping his face, and looked at the cup that Jiang Xin had never left his hand, a fiery heart of gossip revived him, sat up straight and asked with a smirk: "Jiang Xin Xin, where did you get this cup? Yo ho, why does the person on it have cat ears and a tail, what are you talking about?"

Jiang Xin was as stable as Mount Tai in his "bad intentions", and said with a faint smile: "This is what my brother gave me."

"...Yue Xiaoyou?! Give you this??" Chen Jiashu jumped up in shock, "Why didn't I know he still has this hobby!"

"He didn't buy it himself, someone else gave it to him, and he gave it to me." Jiang Xin twirled the cup in his hand twice.

Chen Jiashu's expression became even weirder, as if he couldn't understand it. He pointed at the mug and asked, "He gave you what others gave him, and you still love it like a baby? Are you okay?"

Jiang Xin looked at him indifferently: "What's the problem? It doesn't matter to other people, as long as it is given to me by senior brother, it is all treasures."

"I...Damn." Chen Jiashu had a bewildered expression of being shown affection by others, and now he regrets what Jiang Xin said before.Just because he had already known everything, Jiang Xin never concealed her feelings for Hui Xiaoyou in front of him since then. Even before they were together, Chen Jiashu's eyes hurt from the show.

What if the two of them are really together after this... Can you still see the picture...

After imagining his situation for a while, Chen Jiashu wanted to find a piece of gauze to cover his eyes so that he could see nothing.

Jiang Xin sat there quietly watching the constantly changing expressions on Chen Jiashu's face, feeling amused in her heart, and waited for a while before interrupting his strange thoughts, and asked, "Senior brother Chen, did you come here specifically to find me?" Gossip about this cup, right?"

Chen Jiashu came back to his senses, remembering the purpose of his visit, he quickly cleared his throat, and said calmly: "Of course not, am I that boring? I came here to tell you that recently there are a few customers who want to subscribe in their own names , I want to buy the product under your hands, is there a problem?"

"No." Jiang Xin thought that this is something that can be explained clearly by sending an email. Chen Jiashu came to tell him in person, it was obviously a temporary excuse.

Chen Jiashu also knew that he could see through him, but he just wanted to find a way to go down.

"Oh, by the way." Before leaving, Chen Jiashu wanted to tease Jiang Xin again, so he raised his eyebrows and said to him: "Do you know that many girls outside our company are sad today, thinking that the cup was given by your girlfriend?" Yes, they all feel hopeless, look at how many girls our Jiang 'Sicao' has hurt this time. Would you like to clarify with everyone?"

"There's nothing to clarify." Jiang Xin smiled, "Aren't boyfriends and girlfriends the same thing? Sooner or later, they will be hurt. Anyway, I hope that I have never given this kind of thing to others."

After hearing this, Chen Jiashu opened his mouth, but closed it again without making a sound.

When he walked to the door of Jiang Xin's office, he couldn't hold back before going out, so he turned his head and said unwillingly to Jiang Xin: "Show it off! You can show off vigorously! Let's see when you will be able to fuck people up." Got it!"

After Chen Jiashu finished speaking, he turned his head away in an "angry" manner, but Jiang Xin looked at his back with a smile, and answered silently after a while.

"almost."

***

Hui Xiaoyou had just finished class when he received a call from his father, and a circle of students had already gathered around him, Hui Xiaoyou took out his mobile phone to check the caller ID, and continued to answer students' questions after pressing the button.

After he finally finished explaining the question to the last student, he saw that there was no one in the classroom, so he walked to the side seat in the first row and sat down, and called his father back.

"Hello." Yan Li's voice was a little cold when he answered the phone.

Hui Xiaoyou sighed inwardly, and said, "Dad, what's the matter?"

"Of course there is something to do." Yan Lisheng said sternly as his name suggests, "Why didn't you answer the phone just now?"

"It's inconvenient for me to give a lecture to the students just now." Hui Xiaoyou was still holding a piece of chalk in his hand, rubbing down the white powder bit by bit.

Yan Li seemed to snort coldly on the other end of the phone, but his tone was still not friendly, "You have time to lecture the students, but don't you have time to help your brother with his homework?"

"What homework to help? He never asked me." Hui Xiaoyou frowned.

However, his words seemed to have annoyed Yan Li, and he heard the voice raised a little more, "Did you give counseling only when he asked you? As an older brother, you can't take the initiative to ask your younger brother if there is anything you can do to help him." Answering questions? You are still a professor, you have received so many years of higher education, and you have forgotten even the most basic brotherhood?"

Hui Xiaoyou was overjoyed when he heard this. He tapped the tip of the chalk on the table, saw the powder shake out into a circle, and said briskly, "Dad, you must be reasonable. I want someone to help you with counseling." Homework should show the most basic attitude. He should let me know what he doesn’t understand, what he wants to ask, and where he needs to be strengthened. Only when I know it can I choose the direction to start. According to what you mean, he doesn’t care about anything. Should I ask him? How should I ask? If he doesn’t know where he is lacking, should I tell him all about language, foreign affairs, history, geography, materialization and life? Don’t say I don’t have the time, even if I I really want to do this, but I don’t have the patience.”

"What's your attitude? You're complaining about asking you to tutor a homework?" Yan Li was obviously angry, and said in a cold voice: "You have taken the test once, so of course you know more about the test points and the key points than him. , can't you give him a comprehensive and systematic explanation?"

Hui Xiaoyou grinned, "Dad, don't think I'm being blunt. I can tell you clearly that if he doesn't understand the test points and key points of the test, then he doesn't have to take the test. Wen Quxing's reincarnation can't save his grades."

"Yue Xiaoyou!" Yan Li lowered his voice sharply, "Did you say that about your brother? You are his own brother, and you always push back when I ask you to do a little favor, and you still don't expect him to be good now." , where is your conscience!"

"It's not that I don't help him, it's just that I can't help him." Hui Xiaoyou was so cold that he lost his temper, and said in a flat tone: "As an examinee, the minimum thing he should do is to figure out the key points and test points of the exam. I can help him." I give him tutoring for every test center that he doesn’t understand, but I can’t tell him what all the test centers are, because this kind of thing changes every year, and it’s definitely different from mine now.”

After Yan Li heard this, his voice slowed down a bit, "Then can't you help him find out what's in this year's test center? You are in G University, a top university in the country, so you can just ask the teachers who participated in the question making and find out. Do you understand?"

Hui Xiaoyou: "...inquiry? You should stop talking about such whimsical words in the future. People will laugh at them."

Yan Li: "You—"

"Furthermore," Hui Xiaoyou continued, "I'll let him know all about the test sites. Is it my college entrance examination or his college entrance examination? It's better to do two more sets of papers by yourself if you have time to wait for me to help him find a shortcut. .”

"You—you white-eyed wolf! Don't make so many excuses if you don't want to help!" Yan Li became furious.

Hui Xiaoyou held the phone and smiled, "I'm a white-eyed wolf? You said it as if you raised me. If I remember correctly, I haven't spent a penny at home since I was in the second year of junior high school." Money, tuition and miscellaneous fees are free, and living expenses are earned by myself. There are scholarships from high school to university. Even the money to go abroad is first borrowed from classmates. The routine support you give is in my mother’s hands. At least I I haven't seen it at all. I rely on myself, you have never cared about me, why do you say I am a white-eyed wolf?"

"You...you little bastard...have you been educated to be eloquent to anger me?! Do you still regard me as your own father??" Yan Li's roar came deafeningly from the receiver, Hui Yue Had to take the phone farther away.

He was silent for a while, and waited for the silence from Yan Li before he said calmly: "I regard you as my own father, but you don't treat me as my own son. In addition, if you know more about me, and know that I was No matter how good you are, you should know that when I took the college entrance examination, there was no focus or test center for me. Because there is nothing I can’t do in the exam.”

Yan Li: "..."

"So Dad, please forgive me for your request this time. I really can't help you. Let him work hard for the college entrance examination. As a brother, I wish my own brother can get good grades and be admitted to his ideal university. "Yue Xiao said every word like a news broadcast.

At the end, he said to Yan Li: "I have nothing else to do, so I'll hang up first, Dad, take care of yourself."

There was silence on Yan Li's side.Suddenly, Hui Xiaoyou heard the sound of disconnection coming from his ear.

That sound, as if it was not just a phone call.

※※※

Jiang Xin worked overtime tonight, and it was past eleven o'clock when he came back. He walked to the door and saw that the lights in Hui Xiaoyou's room didn't seem to be on. , I went to bed early, so I didn't bother in the past.

But ten minutes later, Jiang Xin was lying on the bed after taking a shower, but suddenly heard the sound of keys coming from the corridor, and she was opening the door next to her.

Jiang Xin immediately jumped out of bed and opened the door to go out, just as Yan Xiaoyou was about to close the door, she stopped when she saw him, opened the door and went into the room to change clothes.

"Senior brother, why are you back so late today?" Jiang Xin leaned against the bedroom door and looked at Hui Xiaoyou with concern.

With his back turned to him, Hui Xiaoyou unbuttoned his shirt and said, "It's almost the final exam, and there are quite a lot of students asking questions, so we don't come back until we finish the lecture."

Jiang Xin was not very interested in hearing his voice, she seemed very tired, so she walked over and pinched his shoulder and asked, "Are you tired?"

"It's okay." Hui Yue pressed the center of his eyebrows with his fingers, and then patted Jiang Xin, "I'll take a shower first, you can go back and rest."

"Well, you go and wash." Jiang Xin watched Hui Xiaoyou enter the bathroom, but she sat down on the sofa at his house, and picked up "The Economist" that Yan Xiaoyou put aside to read.

About 10 minutes later, the sound of water in the bathroom stopped, Hui Xiaoyou tied a bath towel around his waist, and came out with a towel in his hand, wiping his hair. At first glance, he didn't see Jiang Xin who was sitting in the living room , he flicked the switch and turned off the light in the living room.

Jiang Xin was thrown into the darkness in an instant.

He paused with the hand holding the book, and listened attentively to the movement in the bedroom, he heard Hui Xiaoyou crawling onto the bed, and then there was no other sound.

Jiang Xin was inexplicably worried, and wanted to wait for him to fall asleep before going out quietly, but after sitting for a while, he couldn't help standing up, walked to the bedroom door and called softly: "Senior brother?"

"Jiang Xin?!" Hui Yue was startled.

No wonder, whoever heard someone calling him in the dark at night must have been terrified.

Jiang Xin knew that her name was quite creepy, so she quickly walked over and sat down beside his bed and said, "Sorry, I scared you, I didn't mean to."

"It was on purpose and you're screwed!" Hui Yue pressed his chest in shock, and then asked, "Why haven't you gone back yet?"

"I was sitting in the living room waiting for you to take a shower, but I didn't expect you to turn off the light without seeing me when you came out, so I could only make a sound." Jiang Xin said innocently.

"...I really didn't notice." Hui Xiaoyou breathed a sigh of relief, his heartbeat that had been running wildly just now gradually calmed down, he took two deep breaths, and asked Jiang Xin: "What are you waiting for me for?"

"Nothing special, I just feel that you are not in a good mood, I want to ask what's the matter." Jiang Xin took advantage of the darkness to sit closer to Hui Yue, his fingers touched a soft texture, it should be Hui Yue Bath towels around the body.

After hearing what he said, Hui Xiaoyou let out a soft "oh", and then said after a pause for a few seconds: "I'm not in a bad mood, maybe it's because the class time is a bit long and it consumes more energy, so I don't have much energy."

"Really?" Jiang Xin moved closer to him, feeling that people's restraint on themselves would be greatly weakened in the dark.

Jiang Xin felt short of breath from the moment he touched the edge of the bath towel, he knew that Hui Xiaoyou's upper body was naked at this moment, and the bath towel was probably only wearing one layer...

His hand could hardly restrain himself from walking up the bath towel, and the fingertips of the three fingers in the middle of his right hand had already touched a little smooth skin. The delicate and firm touch made Jiang Xin's breathing tremble slightly.

He still wants to go a little further...to be more thorough...

"Hey, what are you doing?" Hui Xiaoyou's voice suddenly made Jiang Xin withdraw her hand suddenly.

Only then did he realize that he almost lost control just now, and his breathing has been chaotic until now. He could only take a couple of breaths, trying to stabilize his voice and said: "I feel that my brother didn't tell the truth to me. I wanted to 'extort a confession by torture. 'one time."

"Torture to extract a confession?" Jiang Xin could imagine from Hui Yue's voice that he was examining his expression with raised eyebrows, "You are so capable, why don't you go to heaven."

"So I'm stopping now." Jiang Xin said obediently.

Hui Xiaoyou snorted, sat up suddenly, and asked in a strange voice: "Jiang Xin, I asked you something and you should be honest."

Jiang Xin nodded: "I know everything, and I can say everything."

"Okay..." After Hui Xiaoyou responded to this sentence, he didn't say anything for a long while.

At this moment, Jiang Xin could roughly see his appearance clearly. He saw Hui Xiao had a tangled and hesitant expression on his face. He couldn't tell whether it was embarrassment or embarrassment. He opened and closed his mouth several times, but he just asked. not come out.

Jiang Xin waited and waited, and finally felt that he had to remind him, so she said, "Senior brother, what exactly do you want to ask, it's so hard to say?"

"I..." Hui Xiaoyou raised his head to look at him, and then lowered his head to ponder over his words. After pondering for nearly a minute, he finally raised his face and stared at Jiang Xin with a death-like expression, and said in an extremely awkward way: " I want to ask...you...have you ever done this kind of thing in bed with a girl..."

Jiang Xin was stunned, and opened her mouth wide after a few seconds: "What kind of thing are you referring to?"

Hui Xiaoyou's face turned red from holding back, but luckily the room was too dark to see, he hooked his neck and added, "It's what you just said...'torture to extract a confession'...that kind of thing..."

Jiang Xinxin said that my life was innocent... Anyone can be misunderstood, but he is the only one who can't!

Jiang Xin wondered how he misunderstood such a place? ?I didn't do any wrong guidance just now!no……

Jiang Xin didn't expect that after living soberly for more than twenty years, she would start to doubt her life when she was asked a question by Hui Xiao.

"Hey, have you really done it..." Hui Xiaoyou suddenly moved back, pressing his back against the back of the bed.

Jiang Xin's failure to make an excuse in time obviously caused him to have a deeper association.

And the protagonist he associates is dumbfounded.

It would be difficult to let him continue to misunderstand like this. After Jiang Xin realized this, she knew that she needed to express her position as soon as possible.

He also moved and sat down in front of Hui Xiaoyou. Seeing that he was staring at him with the eyes of a "sex devil", he couldn't help laughing, and said helplessly, "Senior brother, where are you going? When did you come here?" Have I seen a girl around me? I am really more wronged than Dou E now."

After hearing this, Hui Xiaoyou still looked at him suspiciously, "I don't usually have any girls around, who knows if there are any in private... You see you were so sophisticated just now... It doesn't look like—"

"It's not like what?" Jiang Xin asked when he stopped talking.

Hui Xiaoyou thought silently in his heart: It's not like the innocent little junior in my mind.

But he said: "It doesn't look like someone who has never found a girl."

Jiang Xin couldn't help laughing, and teased him: "Senior brother, haven't you heard a sentence called 'I haven't eaten pork and I haven't seen a pig run'. Although I don't look for girls, it doesn't mean I can't do these things. It is also possible to learn things without a teacher and to be self-taught, you have to believe in my IQ."

"On this kind of thing, you still have the nerve to use your IQ as a weapon?!" Hui Xiaoyou somehow raised a little itchiness in his throat after shouting this sentence, and couldn't help coughing, his voice was already hoarse The thread sounded like an old bellows, wheezing and coughing for a long time before it stopped.

Jiang Xin had already poured water for him, and helped him to drink, "Don't speak too hard, I feel worried every time I listen to you after class."

"Huh?" Hui Xiaoyou was taken aback, feeling that the word "worried" seemed a bit deep...

But Jiang Xin acted as if she didn't find anything wrong, picked up the topic just now and said: "Brother, I can guarantee my personality, so far I haven't slept with anyone."

Hui Xiaoyou blushed: "...Why are you saying this so seriously..."

"Because I don't want you to misunderstand." Jiang Xin had already sat next to Hui Xiaoyou when delivering water just now, and now one of his hands is wrapped around his waist, the fingertips and the bottom of the palm are warm and smooth Skin, Jiang couldn't help holding him tighter, and the impulse that had been suppressed with great difficulty now began to move around again.

Hui Xiaoyou is actually not a particularly dull person.

And no matter how slow he is, he can still notice Jiang Xin's strangeness at this time.

"Hey, Jiang Xin..." Hui Xiaoyou glanced back at him, but he couldn't help being scalded by the hot temperature in those bright black eyes.

Hui Xiaoyou's heart trembled, as if some deep thoughts in his heart were aroused by Jiang Xin's eyes at the moment, but he still couldn't break through the vague barrier outside.

This barrier may be called a part of "self-protection", perhaps it is a protective layer that Hui Xiaoyou has set up for himself since he was born, and he may not even be very clear about what it is protecting. , he only knows that with the existence of this thing, his sense of security will be stronger.

It seems that as long as there is this barrier, his behavior, his thoughts, and even his feelings are still in a state that can be controlled by himself.

And if the barrier is broken, he doesn't know what will happen, maybe there will be a Hui Xiaoyou whom he is not even familiar with.He worried that he would be helpless when the time came.He doesn't like feeling helpless.

Controllable is safe.

Hui Xiaoyou finally thought of this sentence, and the strange flames that had just ignited in his eyes dimmed until they were completely extinguished.

It was because he thought too much, or maybe he misread it at that time.

Hui Xiaoyou took a deep breath, and when he looked at Jiang Xin again, he found that his expression had returned to normal. Seeing him looking over, he smiled at him and said softly, "Senior brother, you are very tired today, you should go to sleep .”

"Hmm..." Hui Xiaoyou was still a little guilty when he met his eyes, so he lowered his head and quickly shrunk back under the quilt, facing inside and said to him: "You go back."

"I'll leave after you fall asleep." Jiang Xin stretched out her hand to help him pull up the quilt to cover his shoulders, then patted it lightly, and said in a very gentle voice, "Sleep with peace of mind."

Hui Xiaoyou's words that originally wanted to drive him back got stuck in his throat like this.

He didn't know why he couldn't speak.

Are you reluctant?

how is this possible……

Hui Xiaoyou slowly closed his eyes, feeling sleepy and the aura of another person beside him.

Because of Yan Li's phone call today, his mood had already fallen to the bottom, but at this moment, he seemed to be slowly floating again, swaying back and forth in a place he was not familiar with.

Not pure happiness, not pure sadness, not pure any kind of emotion he had ever had, but stronger than all those pure, more difficult to let go.

What is the name of such an emotion?