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In March, the construction of the Wetland Resort began to intensify, and the construction team increased several times. People from the city government came to inspect it every now and then, and they were very interested in this project.

Zhou Jingtang and Xu Dongcheng also meet occasionally, and the companies of the two parties often negotiate.At work, Zhou Jingtang is serious and rigorous, taking every bite of Mr. Xu, and doing everything in a business-like manner.After working hours, both of them would stop by Liuchengli to see Shen Qi. Zhou Jingtang walked into the gate of Liuchengli and greeted Uncle Xu one by one, calling him affectionately.

Xu Dongcheng didn't show it on the surface, but he couldn't be more satisfied with Zhou Jingtang in his heart.But he also knew that Zhou Jingtang was on Shen Qi's body in terms of ability and family background. He thought that if Zhou Jingtang treated Shen Qi well, that would be fine. If he treated Shen Qi badly in the future, then he would fight for Xu Ye. And make him pay the price.

Towards evening, Zhou Jingtang met Xu Xiaoxiao in the parking lot in Liuchengli. The little girl was very excited to see him, and held his hand to talk.

Zhou Jingtang put his finger on the little girl's forehead, and pushed her away a few steps, with a serious look: "Man and woman don't know each other, especially since I'm still your sister-in-law, can you pay attention?"

Xu Xiaoxiao couldn't help rolling her eyes: "It's just you, sister-in-law?"

Zhou Jingtang said: "I am a person who still pays attention to status."

Xu Xiaoxiao was so amused by him that she lost her temper by laughing. Relying on his smooth ride, she found that Zhou Jingtang still had a talent for serious nonsense.

Xu Xiaoxiao came here specially to find Shen Qi, and the original plan was to call Zhou Jingtang together, since they met, it was just right.There was a lantern festival in the west of the city, it was very lively, there were several snack streets, and she couldn't finish it, she found several friends and didn't have time to accompany her, so she thought of asking Shen Qi and Zhou Jingtang to go together.

Shen Qi wasn't really interested, but he didn't want to spoil Xu Xiaoxiao's interest, so he agreed.

Zhou Jingtang was driving, Shen Qi sat in the back with Xu Xiaoxiao, the little girl talked a lot as usual, and never stopped.

The Lantern Festival was indeed lively, and half the sky was illuminated by the colorful lights without turning on the street lights. All kinds of glowing animals, as soon as they entered, there were a few water-blue elk.Xu Xiaoxiao wanted to take a group photo, so Shen Qi took a photo of her. Zhou Jingtang stood on the side with long arms and legs and was bumped several times.

"Does it look good?" Xu Xiaoxiao came over to look at the photos, pouted in disappointment, "Brother, you are so ugly, take more photos."

Xu Xiaoxiao went over to pose again, and Shen Xi patted her time and time again, tenderly and patiently.

Zhou Jingtang on the side couldn't stand it anymore, suddenly felt that Xu Xiaoxiao was not cute at all, Shen Xi ignored him, and hadn't talked to him for a long time.

Shen Qi accompanied Xu Xiaoxiao around many places and took a lot of photos, until Xu Xiaoxiao was tired before finding a food stall to sit down.After sitting down, he realized that Zhou Jingtang hadn't followed, standing alone beside the elk with a stern face and not speaking.

Shen Qi waved to him, but he didn't intend to come over at all.

Shen Qi had a guess in his heart, thinking that he was going back more and more, and was as stingy as before.Shen Qi had no choice but to walk over, put on a smiling face, and asked him: "What's the matter? Are you not tired from standing? Go sit down."

"Xu Xiaoxiao can just sit down," Zhou Jingtang said, "I won't be tired."

Shen Qi sighed, tugged at the hem of his clothes, and explained: "She is small, you are already this big."

Zhou Jingtang's face became even more stinky, and he said, "I'm old, I won't be tired, so I don't need to sit there."

Shen Qi leaned over and asked him, "Are you jealous?"

"No."

"Are you really jealous?"

"No."

"That's my sister."

Zhou Jingtang said: "I am nameless and she is not my sister."

Shen Qi smiled, took his arm and walked over, whispered: "Stingy."

Zhou Jingtang and Xu Xiaoxiao were sitting face to face. Xu Xiaoxiao looked up and saw Zhou Jingtang's stinky face, smiling proudly while eating the skewers: "Yo, some people are jealous."

Zhou Jingtang turned his face away and said: "Some people are still clinging to their elder brothers in their 20s, and the little brats won't grow up."

Xu Xiaoxiao glared at him: "My surname is Zhou, I find that you are becoming more and more annoying now."

"Each each other."

Shen Qi really couldn't bear to see these two childish chickens pecking at each other. He turned around and saw a marshmallow seller across the street. He went to buy two, and when he came back, he gave the pink marshmallow to Xu Xiaoxiao and the blue marshmallow to Xu Xiaoxiao. Zhou Jingtang.

Xu Xiaoxiao suddenly met an acquaintance, and happily went to play with others, leaving Shen Qi and Zhou Jingtang.

Shen Qi said: "Take Zhou Jingtang to eat cotton candy."

Zhou Jingtang burst into laughter, then held back, deliberately said with a straight face, "Why did you give it to her first?"

Shen Qi didn't realize it, he was stunned for a while before he realized what he said, and laughed angrily: "No way, you are also fighting for this?"

Zhou Jingtang said: "Some people don't cherish what they get."

The crowd was turbulent, and some people ran up suddenly. Shen Qi looked over and found that the fountain not far away started to spray water. It was very high and formed various patterns, attracting many people.

People ran past one after another, Shen Qi suddenly reached out and hugged Zhou Jingtang's waist, he was a little shorter than him, and his chin could just rest on his shoulder.

Shen Qi clung to his ear and said softly: "I don't cherish you, I like you the most in the whole world."

Many people stopped one after another, casting their gazes either blatantly or cautiously. At that moment, Zhou Jingtang felt that his heart was about to stop. He stiffened his back, and suddenly dropped a light kiss on the side of his face.

He was already unable to judge whether those eyes were more disgusting or kind blessings. When his hands subconsciously wrapped around Shen Qi's back, he suddenly felt relieved. That Shen Qi who dared to kiss him in the crowd was so in love. less than yourself.

Shen Qi said solemnly and seriously: "I love you."

Zhou Jingtang's eye circles were a little red, and the feeling of being cherished by the one he loved surrounded him. He laughed with red eyes, and said to him, "Coincidentally, I am too."

Suddenly someone whistled in the crowd, and many people applauded and shouted together.But there are also sharp voices that are very obvious in the noise of human voices, saying disgusting things.

Zhou Jingtang took Shen Qi's hand and left the crowd, isolating everything around him.

After the relationship with Shen Qi stabilized, Zhou Jingtang had always planned to let Shen Qi and Ning Zhe Lin Yuan meet. Since the things that happened back then were irreversible, he also knew that this was unavoidable.

In the afternoon of leisure, Zhou Jingtang and Shen Qi played with Xu Yang's husky in the courtyard of Xu's villa. The two of them and their dog had a great time.

A few days ago, Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan mentioned several times that they wanted to meet Shen Qi, and he was always looking for a suitable opportunity to mention it to Shen Qi.

Shen Qi watched Erha running around and laughed happily, Zhou Jingtang thought about it and said: "Ning Zhe also raised an Erha, who is even more stupid than this one."

Shen Qi smiled and said casually: "Really."

Zhou Jingtang went to leash the dog, knelt down and rubbed the dog's head, and said to Shen Qi with a smile, "You are stupid and fierce. Last time, you bit the leather sofa that Ning Zhe bought, and Ning Zhe spanked his ass with a slipper."

He paused and looked at Shen Qi: "Do you still remember what Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan looked like?"

Shen Qi thought about it carefully, and found that there were not many clear faces in his childhood memory.He shook his head with a smile and said, "I don't remember, are they all in Jincheng now?"

"They are both in Jincheng," Zhou Jingtang said. "The two of them are big families in Jincheng. The three of us grew up together. When I was young, I was the naughtiest. Fighting, and then I raced with others in a fit of anger, and almost lost my life, my dad sent me to Liucheng, and the two of them went too."

Shen Qi said: "It's quite loyal."

Zhou Jingtang held the dog leash with one hand, took Shen Xi's hand with the other, squatted down in front of him on one knee, and said, "Qi Qi, it was the two of them who were bad back then. You beat them, it's terrible, the kind that didn't leave a good piece of meat... I don't ask you to forgive them, but they are my friends, let's meet another day, okay? We can beat them again."

Shen Qi smiled and said: "It's not a matter of forgiveness, I don't hate them anymore..."

Zhou Jingtang was a little surprised, but what Shen Qi said next made him unable to laugh.

Shen Qi said: "Compared to the bullying of those unimportant people, the indifference of friends is actually more sad. In the first few years I even often dreamed of Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan, dreaming that I was being bullied, looking up Looking at the past, no one can see clearly, but Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan in the crowd are always there. I can't see them clearly, but I know that they are them. I have hated, hated their indifference, even if it is just a stranger It shouldn't be... just look at it like this."

"When my mother just passed away, I hated my mother, hated those who insulted me, and hated those who looked on coldly. I dreamed every night. All of them appeared one by one in my dreams like a movie. Disappeared, every time I was out of breath."

Shen Qi rolled up the sleeves of his shirt a little, and the shocking old scars appeared in front of his eyes, which made Zhou Jingtang stunned.

Shen Qi smiled, and said: "It was injured in the hospital in Liucheng. I was in a daze at that time, and it was like this when I came back to my senses. This is probably the time I hate the most, not just for Ning. Zhe and Lin Yuan. I suffered from severe depression later on. I was dying. I had no strength, no energy, no energy to hate people. Slowly, I just forget everything. I am really happy to meet you again, I feel like I have strength again, but strength is precious, and I want to use it to love you, not to hate people."

Zhou Jingtang gently stroked the old scar with his thumb. He couldn't imagine what it was like, but he could feel the pain even today.

Shen Qi said: "I forgive Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan, really, but we won't be friends anymore."

"They'll always be your friends, but they won't be mine."

Zhou Jingtang nodded, and said softly, "Okay."

In the end, Shen Qi still met Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan, on the day of Ning Zhe's birthday party.

Ning Zhe's birthday was in late March, and he booked the largest club in Jincheng. In a big box, there were famous sons and gentlemen in Jincheng. They sang, played cards, drank, chatted, and had a great time.

Zhou Jingtang mentioned something, and Shen Xi agreed. He knew that he would never become friends with them again, but he also knew that he could not refuse to enter Zhou Jingtang's world.

When Shen Qi and Zhou Jingtang arrived, the party had already started for a while, Zhou Jingtang said to Shen Qi at the door of the private room: "If you don't like it, just ignore everyone."

Shen Qi nodded.

Zhou Jingtang pushed open the door of the private room, Shen Xi stood behind him and glanced over, there were many unfamiliar faces, he was a little nervous for a moment, glanced, and found that he could no longer recognize Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan.

A rich second generation in the circle took the initiative to say hello to Zhou Jingtang, and the focus suddenly focused on this side.

Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan came over and greeted Shen Qi: "Shen Qi, long time no see."

Ning Zhe is the host, so he specially greeted him. When he saw Shen Qi, his first reaction was to be nervous. He calmed down a bit, and then asked Shen Qi with a smile: "Shen Muxi from Minyu High School, do you remember me?"

Shen Qi remembered that first meeting, raised a sincere smile, and said politely to him: "I didn't recognize him for a while, but, old classmate, I wish you a happy birthday."

What I couldn't let go of when I was young, many years later, I chose to reconcile under the persuasion of time. In fact, the reason is that there is no forgiveness, but it is, forget it, let it go.If you can't be friends, an old classmate means that the years are tolerant, and the past is not investigated.

Zhou Jingtang has been holding Shen Qi's hand. His sexual orientation is no secret in the circle. Many people know it, but they have never seen anyone around him. Now that there is an extra Shen Qi, everyone is surprised and surprised among.

Shen Qi sat next to Zhou Jingtang, and Zhou Jingtang was pulled by the person next to him to persuade him to drink, and he didn't care about him, just kept holding his hand under the table.On the other side of Shen Qi is Ning Zhe, the two of them have not spoken.

Lin Yuan sat on the other side of Ning Zhe, leaned back a little, and could see Shen Qi's side face beyond Ning Zhe.

The clean and thin young man in a white shirt in front of him is no longer compatible with the girl in memory with short shoulder-length hair. Time has passed, and he almost forgot about such a person in the first few years , It wasn't until Zhou Jingtang returned to China that he realized that he owed this person something.

Zhou Jingtang took Shen Qi's hand and introduced to others: "Shen Qi, the eldest son of President Xu of Xu Ye, my...boyfriend."

Shen Qi always felt that when Zhou Jingtang said the word boyfriend, it was so hot that it made his heart burn.

Everyone was still surprised. People in the Jincheng circle were better at playing, and there were a lot of dirty and dirty things behind the scenes, but almost everyone tacitly maintained the appearance of brilliance and decency.There is only one Zhou Jingtang who is an outlier. He has ruined his reputation many years ago, but now he appears in front of everyone holding Shen Xi's hand, leaving people speechless.

Cakes are naturally indispensable for birthday parties. Ning Zhe hated the corniness and closed the door of the private room in a daze to prevent the waiter from bringing them in. In the end, Zhou Jingtang opened the door, took the cake and turned around and directly stuck it on his face.

"I know you, Zhou Jingtang, are not a man!"

Ning Zhe wiped the cake with one hand and prepared to fight back, Zhou Jingtang pulled Shen Qi and planned to escape, but Lin Yuan came over before he even touched the door.

"Are you leaving?" Lin Yuan said, "I thought about it, after all these years, I still owe Shen Qi a word."

He bent slightly, lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry."

Ning Zhe was startled, and after a long time whispered, "I'm sorry."

Shen Qi had expected it in his heart, but he just smiled aloofly and said calmly: "It's okay."

It doesn't matter is what Shen Qi said ten years later, Shen Qi ten years later is already okay, but Shen Qi ten years ago will never be okay, he will never feel that it's okay.

It was already midnight when Shen Qi and Zhou Jingtang came out of the private room. Zhou Jingtang drank and called a substitute driver, and the two sat in the back seat.

The driver in front saw Zhou Jingtang, who was slightly drunk, leaning on Shen Xi's shoulder through the rearview mirror, holding Shen Xi's hand all the time. Open the mouth: "This road, is it not easy to walk?"

Shen Qi was stunned.

The master said: "My younger brother is the same. When he was young, he insisted on liking a male classmate. He didn't come from this way. Later, he got married and gave birth to two daughters. He just watched him all the way, wasting himself for more than [-] years. time."

The driver on behalf of the driver smiled bitterly, sighed, and continued after a while: "The year before last, he didn't make it through, his stomach cancer passed away, and he was alone all his life, and he was alone when he left."

"You are lucky, there are two of you," said the master. "The two of you have a companion. If you walk together, the road will not be so difficult."

Shen Qi glanced at Zhou Jingtang who was asleep, smiled and said, "Thank you."