Curve driving

Looking at each other, Ji Sinian could no longer pretend not to see.

Wanda's huge speaker was restless as usual, Xie Hang followed his gaze.

The cold wind whistled past their ears, and the three of them seemed to have lost the ability to manage expressions and language.

"Want to say hello?" Ji Sinian asked in a low voice.

Xie Hang looked down at himself.

He didn't think seeing his elders was a difficult thing before, but apart from seeing a doctor for so many years, he really didn't experience this kind of tension anymore.

It was still a sudden nervousness at a moment without warning, like being suddenly poured a basin of vegetable washing water on top of your head from the window while walking on the road.

Ji Sinian didn't even know where to put his hands and feet, and Ji Sinian held his hands tightly, one of which was still pressed on his neck, and he couldn't pull it out.

"Isn't it good to pretend to be stupid like this?" Ji Sinian muttered.

Xie Hang shook his hand: "You let go first."

Nian Xia was already walking towards them, Ji Sinian hurriedly dodged away from him as if electrocuted.

After this series of actions, he suddenly felt that the reaction was too violent, and he retreated half a step undetectably.

It seemed that Nian Xia had just returned from grocery shopping.

His home is so far away from Wanda, with countless vegetable markets in between, why does Nianxia come here to buy vegetables?

Before he could figure it out, Xie Hang took the initiative to say hello: "Auntie."

Ji Sinian gasped, not daring to turn his head to look at him.

This greeting was too preemptive and too magnanimous, directly putting himself in the main palace position, as if giving Nian Xia a kick.

But maybe Xie Hang just wanted to get in touch with her.

It was only then that Ji Sinian realized that he had unknowingly been able to keep up with Xie Hang's brain circuit, but the dual-business always-online was all stuck at the theoretical level, twisted into a twisted style of acting.

"Mom, why are you here?" After Ji Sinian finished speaking, it was as if he was in a conventional TV series.

"I'll go shopping with you, Aunt Xu." Nian Xia said, pretending to casually look at Xie Hang.

"Ah, I haven't seen Aunt Xu for a long time." In order to increase the credibility of Xie Hang's identity and prevent Nian Xia from suspecting that he is actually a social person, Ji Sinian quickly expanded the common topic and said to Xie Hang, "Xu Hang Auntie is Yin Bo's mother."

"You know Xiao Yin?" Nian Xia really asked.

Ji Sinian was worried that Xie Hang would say something shocking again, so he said first: "I know, we came back together during the holiday."

Nian Xia glanced at him in disgust.

This glance contained too much content, and Ji Sinian suddenly realized that he kept rushing to answer too much like a spokesperson, which enhanced Xie Hang's majestic image of the main palace to a higher level.

"Haven't eaten yet?" Nian Xia picked up the bag in her hand.

"Yes." Xie Hang said, tilting his head and pointing to the neighborhood across the road, "Then I'll go first."

In Ji Sinian's opinion, questions like "Have you eaten?" were an invitation to eat together, but Xie Hang's departure was too decisive and sudden, and he didn't even find the time to persuade him to stay.

After watching him walk into the gate of the community, Nian Xia said, "This piece of land is more expensive than ours."

Ji Sinian originally thought that she would lament why she was so rude first, but when he mentioned the housing price, he wanted to say that Xie Hang's family even had two flats, so he held back when he felt inappropriate.

"This child looks very thoughtful." Nian Xia said.

Unexpectedly, Xie Hang's performance full of loopholes could still get such an evaluation.

The accidental encounter came to an end in Ji Sinian's eyes - he didn't know that Nian Xia found Xie Hang in the afternoon.

They didn't make an appointment too far, Nianxia set the place at the coffee shop on the first floor of Wanda.

Xie Hang deliberately arrived 10 minutes earlier, but when he opened the door, he saw that Nianxia was already sitting in the booth.

At noon, he had just talked with Xie Jiayang's doctor on the phone, and seeing Nian Xia sitting there with two glasses of ordered milk in front of him, he felt a sense of loss for no reason.

At this moment, he suddenly understood what Lin Jing said when he analyzed Ji Sinian, why Ji Sinian had an inferiority complex that he hadn't discovered, hidden under publicity, and obviously shouldn't appear in him.

What a treat for the parents....

"Coming?" Nian Xia saw him, but she didn't recognize him at first, she smiled and nodded after he approached.

Xie Hang sat across from him: "I'm late."

"It's not too late." Nian Xia tucked her sideburn hair behind her ears, "Isn't it a temporary invitation to delay your business?"

"No." Xie Hang said.

He was not very good at speaking beautiful words, and at this time his language ability was short-term. He also knew that this answer was too pale, but he couldn't embellish it.

The coffee shop was very quiet in the afternoon, with the mellow aroma of coffee floating in the air, only a few people holding computers sitting in their seats.

Wearing a dark red wool sweater, Nian Xia lowered her head and took a sip of milk with a smile on her face. Xie Hang found that Ji Sinian's eyes were very similar to hers.

"Don't be nervous, I just want to ask some questions to understand." Nian Xia lowered her voice, "I disagreed with Xiaonian's father at the beginning, you should know, right?"

Xie Hang was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "I know."

"Later, our attitude softened after he went to college. We felt that Xiaonian had changed a lot. We don't know if this change is because of you?" Nian Xia still had a very soft tone.

But this kind of atmosphere reminded Xie Hang of that phone call at noon.

After every regular meeting with Xie Jiayang, he would make a phone call with Dr. Zhang to communicate briefly.

As Lin Jing said, Dr. Zhang is Xie Jiayang's doctor, and the starting point of every word he says is Xie Jiayang.

So no matter how tactful his words are, no matter how much he compromises and discusses, Xie Hang will not be able to relax towards him like he is towards Lin Jing. After all, he clearly understands that "it is not his own".

But facing Ji Sinian's mother at this time, he also felt the same nervousness.

"It's because of the change that we realized that we had too little communication with him before." Seeing that he was silent, Nian Xia continued, "If the impact of a relationship is positive, then there is nothing wrong with it." OK, that's what I thought."

After she finished speaking, she observed Xie Hang's reaction, but he seemed to be frozen in place, looking at her without blinking.

"Did Xiaonian mention us when you were together?" Nian Xia smiled, "This parent is not very competent."

After hearing this, Xie Hang vaguely understood the origin of Ji Sinian's personality.

Instead of indulging in love, instead of deceiving problems from yourself, you feel that you are not qualified.

Maybe it's because his growth environment is full of such elements, kind but not confident enough.

"He said you are very good." Xie Hang hesitated for a moment, not knowing whether it would be better to stop at the end or go deeper.

This was something he had never said to Ji Sinian.He leaned forward and took a sip of milk, but decided to tell Nian Xia.

"He thinks you are too kind, but he is a child who is not competent enough."

Nian Xia didn't expect this answer, so she let out an unexpected "ah" and asked for a long time, "Did he tell you?"

"No, my psychiatrist said it." Xie Hang said.

Nianxia was completely silent now, just looking at him.

Xie Hang guessed that the answer might be a bit brutal and easy to be misunderstood. He tried to explain it with what Lin Jing once said: "Some problems don't arise because someone has done something wrong."

When he heard this sentence for the first time, he didn't know much about it, but when he said it now, it actually resonated deeply beyond his understanding.

"I... saw a psychiatrist because I had a bad childhood." He said, "You don't have to look for problems in yourself. You are a good parent and you raised him well. Without him, I can't make it to today."

When he looked up again, he saw tears in Nian Xia's eyes.

Xie Hang unconsciously tapped the wall of the mug containing milk with his fingernails. He went through the words just now in his mind, but he didn't pick out any sentence that could make people cry.

"It's not me who changed him, it's him, and you."

From September to now, he has successfully walked out of the hard shell, but in retrospect as someone who has experienced it, it seems that Ji Sinian is also walking out where he can't see.

Choose to communicate, choose to stop endless self-blaming, and never say things like "I'm always letting you down."

He suddenly felt distressed, people are multi-faceted, but this is Ji Sinian that he has never seen before, it is his side hidden in a deep place.

Nian Xia wiped the corners of her eyes with her fingertips, and smiled softly: "I'm a little surprised that you are willing to tell me this."

After finally mentioning that the high-level language level fell again, Xie Hang asked in his heart, didn't he come to me just to listen to me say these things.

The two fell silent at the same time, Nian Xia was thinking about whether to ask questions about the "childhood" Xie Hang mentioned, while Xie Hang was trying to make up a decent answer.

The mobile phone placed on the table vibrated suddenly, and it was easy to see that the caller was Ji Sinian.

The embarrassment that hadn't surfaced for a long time rose at this moment, Xie Hang's fingers were hanging above the phone.

"Go ahead." Nian Xia leaned back on the back of the chair, Xie Hang noticed that she was much more relaxed than when they first met, and her smile seemed less oppressive.

He and Ji Sinian usually don't call, unless it is an urgent WeChat message that has been sent for a long time and has not been answered.

Xie Hang never bothered to look at his phone, and he didn't know how many WeChat messages Ji Sinian had sent him.

"Why didn't you reply to my message?" Ji Sinian's first sentence was as expected.

Xie Hang lied to him for the first time: "I didn't hear about cooking."

"Oh." Ji Sinian was convinced of this, and said with a single brain, "Let me tell you, my mother will probably have to visit you in the next two days, so don't tell her about the room on the second floor. I was there at night. When I came out, I told her to go to Yin Bo to study."

His voice was not loud, but the coffee shop was too quiet, Xie Hang felt that the volume was more than enough for Nian Xia to hear clearly.

He raised his eyelids and took a look. Nian Xia was indeed drinking the milk with a confused face, but she didn't swallow it for a long time.

"Okay." He had no choice but to agree first.

Ji Sinian was unrestrained: "Also, I'm afraid she won't be able to accept it, if I ask you, just say that we just got married, don't tell her that we've had sex—"

"We just established our relationship." Xie Hang quickly interrupted him, and continued to make up, "Are you outside? There are so many rumors, let's talk about it when we get back."

He hung up the phone directly.

Nian Xia is still holding the milk.

The silence now is different from just now, just now there were words on the lips and I didn't know where to start, but now I just don't know what to say.