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Qi Nuliang's nervousness on the plane for the first time finally eased a lot after the plane entered the stratosphere and no longer bumps.

Soon the stewardess came to hand out the food. After eating the simple meal, Zhao Lan put on the blindfold and earphones, leaned on the travel pillow and began to doze off.Jiang Yu bumped Qi Nuliang's arm, and turned on the screen in the front seat: "Brother, if you're bored, you can watch a movie."

"I don't want to watch it right now."

"You can go to the toilet on the plane, you have to tell me."

"Ah."

After finishing his sentence, Jiang Yu turned on the screen and started playing a card game without much interest.

Qi Nuliang lifted the partition of the porthole to watch the sunset in the sky.Looking at the sunset at a height of several thousand meters, it is more colorful and magnificent than watching it on the ground. The whole sky seems to be on fire, and the setting sun is the kind that ignites this magnificent fire.

As time passed, the setting sun disappeared, and the burning sky began to slowly fade, fading into orange red, dark blue, and soot until it fell into darkness.

Qi Nuliang felt a little empty in his heart, it was a completely unfamiliar journey.It's not that he has never traveled far before, but this time even the scenery along the way is so strange, and his mood is so strange, and what he is about to face seems to be all unknown and uncertain, and he feels a little flustered for no reason.

Suddenly, a heavy head rested on his shoulder, and Jiang Yu also fell asleep with his head tilted.

This little weight, pressing on those flying thoughts, made his heart suddenly settle down again.

When we arrived in Beijing, it was already very late at night.Stepping out of the cabin, the empty and unfamiliar wind blows, which is a kind of coolness that Hongcheng does not have.

After leaving the airport, the three of them waited for the bus at the intersection.First came a black Volkswagen. Jiang Yu put Zhao Lan's luggage into the trunk, and told her to call to make sure she was safe, and then closed the car door.

The car drove away, Qi Nuliang was a little puzzled: "Aren't you going with her?"

Another Volkswagen stopped in front of them. Jiang Yu loaded the luggage into the car and said, "We haven't lived together yet." Seeing that Qi Nuliang frowned slightly, he explained, "She's still staying at her own home for the time being. No, she's not married yet, so it's not easy to live together, and her parents won't let her."

It also makes sense that parents of boys think differently about such things than parents of girls.

The car shuttles flexibly on the empty street.Beijing is very big, or a bit too big, with one wide and flat street after another, towering tall buildings on both sides.This never-ending neon illuminated city also seems to have no end.

Qi Nuliang looked out the window all the way, and the huge difference from the small place did not cause him any discomfort. He had a special fondness for Beijing.Even if he has never been here before, as long as he sees the word Beijing in the news, he can't help but take a second look, and as long as he hears someone talk that he has been to Beijing, he will listen more.The reason is simple, this is the city where Jiang Yu studies and lives, and it bears his care and longing for his relatives.

It took more than an hour before the car stopped at the gate of a community.At this time, Zhao Lan also called, saying that she had arrived home safely.

Jiang Yu led the way and was about to enter the community when he suddenly turned around: "Brother, let's go eat something before going back."

It was almost twelve o'clock, but all the doors and faces on the street were still lit.Jiang Yu introduced him to a beef noodle restaurant, ordered two bowls of beef noodles, and asked the boss to add double portions of meat.

While waiting for the meal, Qi Nuliang suddenly said: "Xiao Yu, you shouldn't let Xiao Zhao go back alone, we should send her off first."

"Brother, you don't know how big Beijing is. After we send her home, we will come back at two o'clock in the middle of the night. Don't worry, Beijing is very safe and there will be no danger."

"It's not a safety issue. You two are going to get married soon. You should think about others more, even if you are a little troublesome. This is a friendship issue."

"Okay, okay, I know."

Of course Qi Nuliang knew that Jiang Yu was very smart, so there was no reason why he didn't know.But sometimes being too smart, especially in a relationship, is not a good thing to accurately grasp your partner.Qi Nuliang didn't believe that Zhao Lan and her family would bully his son-in-law.But if Jiang Yu can eat Zhao Lan to death, he has no doubts at all.

"I know you all know..."

When the noodles came, Jiang Yu interrupted him: "Hurry up and eat the noodles, this one is pretty good, but it's still not as good as old man Deng's. Why do you think old man Deng stewed the beef so deliciously?" He quickly mixed the noodles, took a big bite while it was hot, and stuffed two mouthfuls tightly without fear of being hot, "I want to go to his house to eat again this time when I go back, but the shop is closed."

Qi Nuliang looked at Jiang Yu's devouring appearance, and seemed to see the shadow of his childhood again, and habitually put the meat on the bowl into his bowl: "Old man Deng fell in the store the year before last, and he had a cerebral palsy. Half paralyzed, the shop is closed."

"Oh, if that's the case, I won't be able to eat it anymore." Seeing Qi Nuliang put meat into his bowl, Jiang Yu stopped his chopsticks and smiled, "Brother, you can eat by yourself, I'll have enough."

Only then did Qi Nuliang realize that he was no longer a child.When the child grows up, I am afraid that he will not want to eat what is in his bowl.He was embarrassed with a lump of meat, Jiang Yu suddenly took the meat on the tip of his chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth: "If it's not enough, I'll ask the boss to add more."

After eating the noodles, I also felt a little drowsy.Following Jiang Yu back home, Qi Nuliang was finally able to see a corner of the child's life in Beijing.

The house is neither new nor old, but it is still clean and tidy. At least it is much better than the old house in the 80s he lived in Hongcheng, but it is a little smaller, a one-bedroom.

Seeing Qi Nuliang looking up and down, Jiang Yu was a little embarrassed: "It's a little small." Immediately he laughed again, "Although the sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs, let me show you.

"This bathroom, this is the kitchen, the kitchen has a small balcony, the balcony of the living room, this is the bedroom. The small one is a bit small, but it is quite sunny, and the floor is not bad."

"It's good, but it's not enough to live in when I have children."

Jiang Yu scratched his head: "You don't have to worry about it. The wedding room is at Zhao Lan's house. It's better than here. I'll take you to see it in two days."

Hearing this, Qi Nuliang was not relieved, but asked worriedly: "Is it not good to let Xiao Zhao's family out of the wedding room?"

"What's wrong? The name of the house." Jiang Yu unpacked Qi Nuliang's luggage and took out one by one, "Brother, I bought this little house, so you can just pretend that we are still living in Hong Kong. It's the same as in the city, don't be restrained.

"It's getting late, you go take a shower first. There are new towels and toothbrushes in the locker in the bathroom, and I'll get you pajamas."

Qi Nuliang didn't ask him that he had only been working for more than three years, even for such a small house with the house price in Beijing, it would cost a lot of money, where did he get the money.But he doesn't care about this now: "... I think there is only one bed."

Jiang Yu looked at the man for a while, then suddenly smiled and said, "Didn't we sleep well in the same bed in Hongcheng?"

Qi Nuliang looked awkward, not knowing what to say.

"I sleep on the sofa, and this sofa is a bed when it is opened." Jiang Yu dragged out the folded layer of the sofa, moved the cushions, and it was indeed a 1.5-meter bed, "Go and wash it, go to bed early .”

When Qi Nuliang came out after washing, Jiang Yu had already made up the sofa bed.The pajamas were placed on the hanger at the door. It was a new set of long-sleeved thin cotton pajamas, which were very soft and close-fitting.

But after Qi Nuliang put it on, it became a little bigger.

Jiang Yu scratched his head, embarrassed: "I bought it according to my own size."

The Qi Nuliang in his memory was a tall man, when he left, Jiang Yu was still about the same height as him.It's just that after finishing college, he changed a bit, and now he looks 1.8 meters six.When the other party picked him up at the intersection, he was pleasantly surprised to find that he was already a bit taller than him.The tall body in my memory has become well-proportioned and delicate, and it is also very suitable for being hugged in my arms.

Qi Nuliang raised his trouser legs: "The bigger the pajamas, the bigger." He looked at Jiang Yu again, looked at the crystal chandelier that was about to hang down on his head, and murmured to himself, " You haven't grown up in the past few years."

"Not much, just a few centimeters." Jiang Yu took Qi Nuliang's dirty clothes and stuffed them into the washing machine: "Go to bed, bro, it's getting late."

"I sleep on the sofa, your own bed, I'm used to it."

Jiang Yu smiled and hugged Qi Nuliang's neck: "If you want me to say that they all sleep in the same bed, it's not like they never slept together."

He pushed Jiang Yu's arm away: "No big or small."

The bedroom faced the atrium, and it was relatively quiet, and sometimes the sound of a car passing by in the distance.The air conditioner and fan are not turned on, the windows are open, and the cool air comes in, which is much more comfortable than blowing on the air conditioner.Qi Nuliang was a little insomnia, probably because he was a little sleepy.

There are strange smells all around, only Jiang Yu's smell, which is similar to his previous smell, but a little different indescribably.

When he first found this child, he never imagined that today, more than ten years later, the child will grow up like this.At that time, he was thin and dirty, like a stray dog ​​on the street, not at all tall and handsome as he is now.

Close your eyes, as if those days were still yesterday—the always cloudy sky in Hongcheng, half a month of freezing rain in winter, and a child as thin as a bamboo pole, with his head bowed silently, always showing that kind of hunger animal eyes.

A night full of dreams, full of the past that seemed to never see the light of day.Until the aroma of fried eggs diffused into the bedroom, the dark dream receded quickly. When I opened my eyes, the sun had already slanted in from the window, leaving a light at the foot of the bed.

Qi Nuliang sat up and twisted his neck, the bed was a bit soft, and his whole body ached from sleeping.Hearing the movement, Jiang Yu knocked twice, and opened the door after getting the answer: "I made breakfast, you go wash your face and brush your teeth first, hot water on the left and cold water on the right."

Jiang Yu fried eggs and bacon, and ordered two bowls of vermicelli in clear soup.Looking at the sumptuous breakfast, Qi Nuliang couldn't help showing a look of approval: "I've learned how to cook, when did I learn it?"

"I didn't eat in the cafeteria after graduation, so I learned a little bit. It's all simple. I usually eat a lot of takeaways."

"Eat less takeaway, it's not healthy."

"I can't help it. I'm very busy at work. But since you're here, cook more delicious food for me during this time."

Qi Nuliang smiled helplessly: "You can order whatever you want."