The difference between cloud and mud

One Friday, Jiang Zhen walked out of the school with her schoolbag on her back after school, and accidentally saw Jiang Tong across the road.

"Why are you here?" Jiang Zhen pouted, but obediently climbed up to the co-pilot seat and sat down: "My aunt agreed to take me to dinner in the evening."

This kid refuses to call him father, but he is very affectionate to Beibei one by one.Jiang Tong glanced at Jiang Zhen: "The place I will take you to is definitely better than the one your aunt found."

Jiang Zhen snorted to show her disdain, and turned her face to the car window, but her eyes turned around and peeked at Jiang Tong.Jiang Tong kept his eyes on the nose and focused on driving, and after a while, a boy hummed softly.The sound was as thin as a mosquito, almost drowned in the engine noise.

"Where are you going..."

Jiang Tong suppressed a smile and looked at Jiang Zhen from the rearview mirror: "I'll take you to meet someone."

Jiang Zhen's eyes lit up.

"Don't talk nonsense then." Jiang Tong felt shy in Jiang Zhen's excitement: "And... don't tell your aunt after you go back."

"Do not worry!"

The boy pretended to be mature and wanted to pat Jiang Tong on the shoulder, but he was not tall enough, so he could only pat his thigh.

"It's a secret between us. I won't tell either."

The car drove out of the city center and drove towards the suburban villa area. Jiang Zhen leaned on the car window and looked at the delicate two-story buildings shaded by the roadside.As soon as Jiang Tong stopped the car, Jiang Zhen quietly tugged on his sleeves: "Aren't we eating out? It's not good to visit for the first time."

His expression was a little twitchy: "I... I'm not ready."

Jiang Tong laughed, and couldn't help rubbing his little brown curly hair with his hands: "This is the restaurant. We eat private dishes today, and we have a table in a house."

"Wow——" Jiang Zhen opened her eyes wide in shock, then looked up at Jiang Tong vigilantly: "You don't want to eat soft food, do you?"

Jiang Tong took his hand and stepped up the steps, hearing the words almost didn't fall.

"I really want to talk to Beibei, where do you see these strange things." He lowered his head and warned Jiang Zhen for the last time: "Remember what I said on the road, today's matter is between us secret."

Jiang Zhen nodded vigorously.

Jiang Tong smiled, and pushed the door of the villa forward one step.

After noticing Jiang Tong's change, Jiang Zhen secretly imagined her "stepmother".Although she made jokes about Jiang Tong in the car, deep down in Jiang Zhen's heart, she still thought that Jiang Tong's lover was a woman.

The stepmother in fairy tales and movies and TV shows is often the villain: a beautiful woman with heavy make-up, a submissive husband, but a cruel and selfish person who secretly takes pleasure in abusing her stepchildren.However, Jiang Zhen intuitively thought that Jiang Tong would not like such a person.In the middle of the night, the lights in the room were turned off, Xiao Yu fell asleep on the lower bunk, muttering in sleep, Jiang Zhen opened her eyes alone in the dark, tracing the face of the imaginary woman—she must not be ugly, but her appearance is also Not so outstanding.A young woman who would disappear in the crowd, with fair skin, wearing glasses like Jiang Tong, with long black hair draped over her shoulders and a few locks hanging on her forehead.She smiled with crooked eyes and was very kind, like his favorite teacher Xiao Zhang in the kindergarten.

He thought about it with relish, until a panic rose from his heart.Does she like him?Surely you won't like it.What should he do when Jiang Tong marries her and they have their own children?Even if she is a kind and good person, her own baby is more important than the children of other people who have no relatives or reasons.Will Jiang Tong send him away by then?Jiang Zhen stared round in the darkness, he wouldn't be driven away so easily!

After all, he was already his father in law.

After all... After all, he kind of likes him.

Jiang Tong took him to meet that person, and Jiang Zhen was actually very happy.He decided to make an exception today to cooperate with Jiang Tong and perform well.Jiang Zhen adjusted her expression and put on an extremely innocent and lovely smile.The lights in the corridor reflected in his eyes, making his big brown eyes shine like transparent glass balls. Tonight, he will be the most polite and obedient kid in the world, and make Jiang Tong's girlfriend fall in love with him .

The restaurant door opened.He looks up.

A man is sitting at the table.

A handsome young man.

"This is Kenneth." Jiang Tong gently pulled him forward: "Kenneth, this is my son Jiang Zhen, you can also call him Dennis."

The handsome man stood up, walked in front of him, half-kneeled down, and looked at him.Even though everything was wrong starting with the gender, he smiled just as he'd imagined it would—eyes curved like a cat's.

His eyelashes are really long, longer than the prettiest girl in the class.

"Hello" He held out his hand to him, his hand was too big for him, it could easily wrap around his palm.However, he held Jiang Zhen's finger seriously, like treating an adult.

"Nice to meet you, I hope we can become good friends."

He decides.Jiang Zhen nodded in a daze, swearing in her heart.If one day Kenneth and Jiang Tong quarrel, he will stand by Kenneth's side unconditionally.

On the way to the restaurant by car, Jiang Tong was calm on the surface, but quite disturbed in his heart.Jiang Zhen is not considered an obedient and obedient model child in the traditional definition, not to mention Xiao Fengtai's temper.He spent a lot of effort persuading Xiao Fengtai to meet Jiang Zhen, but at this moment he suddenly regretted it, his mind was full of embarrassing images of the big and the young not fighting each other, and him being caught in the middle.

Unexpectedly, however, Jiang Zhen liked Xiao Fengtai so much that she tried her best to behave like the model children dotted in the pictures of household goods advertisements.What about Xiao Fengtai, who always looks like a warm spring breeze outside without showing his temper, and the meal ended smoothly amidst laughter.

The private restaurant is also the home of the owner, and there are several rabbits and a goat in the small garden behind the house.After the meal, Jiang Zhen was taken to feed the rabbits and pet the sheep, while Jiang Tong and Xiao Fengtai stayed on the terrace drinking mojitos, watching the boy's happy back from a distance.

"Yinshan's proposal came in a timely manner." Xiao Fengtai smiled and waved at Jiang Zhen, who was bouncing around with a rabbit in his arms, but the content of his speech was incompatible with the warm family atmosphere at the moment: "How long will it take for the United States to officially announce it? Before that , I suggest delaying the C-round financing first."

"Yinshan is a listed company, and the internal process is cumbersome. The results should be seen in the middle of next month. After Lu Wei's incident, several interested institutions have requested to do due diligence again. We still have money in our account. Let them do it slowly if they want to do it."

"You entered Huaqing at a very good time." When Jiang Tong spoke, there was a trace of self-conceit that was well concealed in his expression: "After Yinshan announced the cooperation with us, there will never be such a cheap price again."

"That's natural."

Xiao Fengtai turned his head to look at the small garden downstairs, avoiding Jiang Tong's sight: "The investment I am sure of never loses money."

Jiang Tong laughed silently.

"It's almost time, let's go back." He put the cup on the window sill casually: "It's still early, why don't you come to my house?"

Xiao Fengtai showed hesitation and said nothing.

In fact, he often went to other people's homes in the past, and brought people home from time to time. "Come to my house and have a drink." I don't know how many times I have received similar invitations.But ever since they dated Jiang Tong, the two of them seemed to avoid something deliberately, neither of them ever took a step beyond the threshold.

This is an invisible line.Crossing the line, memories flooded in.In a small apartment in Singapore with half-drawn curtains, green and eager touches, gasps, and kisses.His hands covered his hands, and strokes on the white paper wrote "Your return is not yet due, and the night rain in Bashan rises the autumn pond".

If you take another step forward, you won't be able to get away easily.

"Let's go." Jiang Tong held his arm, pulling it gently, as long as Xiao Fengtai moved slightly, he could break free at any time.

"Do you want to have supper? I'll make wontons for you when Dennis falls asleep."

"There are shrimp wontons frozen in the refrigerator. I just wrapped them last night. I haven't made them for a long time. I don't know if they are good." He smiled shyly: "I remember you like to eat shrimp."

Xiao Fengtai felt relieved.

"Let's go."

He broke away from Jiang Tong's arm, and quickly walked a few steps past Jiang Tong, hiding his look of being at a loss.

Jiang Zhen exhausted her energy after tossing and tossing all night, and fell asleep with her head drooping in the middle of the car.The child fell into a deep sleep, and Jiang Tong couldn't wake up no matter how much he patted him, so he had to be carried out of the car like pulling a carrot. Dennis has grown in size and weight since he was in elementary school. Jiang Tong carried him all the way from the garage to the sofa at home, sweating from exhaustion.

"There is juice in the refrigerator, the kitchen tap is equipped with a purifier and you can drink it directly, and the cup is in the cabinet." He whispered to Xiao Fengtai who followed behind into the house: "You sit down first, and I will clean up for Dennis."

Jiang Tong didn't treat him as an outsider, so Xiao Fengtai followed suit and took a cup from the cupboard to fetch water.Jiang Tong brushed his teeth and washed his face while dragging Dennis, who was half asleep and half awake, while Xiao Fengtai leisurely sat on the sofa in the living room with his legs crossed, drinking water while looking around the room.

Jiang Tong's apartment is not big, and the advantage lies in the square shape of the apartment, so there should be plenty of sunlight on sunny days.The room is white and floor-to-ceiling, and the wooden floor is clean and bright.There are not many furniture, and the primary colors are the main colors. Although there is no decoration, it is clean and refreshing.There are several stacks of shirts and trousers lying on the sofa, and several open academic journals and children's pictorials are stacked on the coffee table. A children's bicycle is parked in the corner of the living room. The body is shiny, which is different from the overall style of the living room, but harmonious Unite.

There was the sound of running water from the bathroom, mixed with Jiang Tong's whispered instructions, and a drowsy white noise.Xiao Fengtai relaxed his body, leaning against the soft sofa, his body seemed to be soaked in hot water, feeling warm and comfortable for a while.He was also starting to get sleepy.

"Wake up." He was woken up by Jiang Tong, and the man couldn't laugh or cry: "If you fell asleep too, I can't carry you on my back."

Xiao Fengtai cleared his throat to relieve the embarrassment, and said to him from left to right: "Didn't you want to cook wontons?"

So the two went into the kitchen together.Jiang Tong was working, while Xiao Fengtai was watching with his hands.In fact, there is nothing to see.The wontons are ready-made, boil the water in the pot, and wait for the small wontons that sink to the bottom to rise to the surface of the water one by one, and float up and down with the water bubbles, then put a few pieces of seaweed in the pot and sprinkle a handful of chopped green onion, then turn off the heat and serve.

No one spoke, the soup boiled and the gas hissed.Pale white water vapor rises from the water surface and then dilutes and drifts away.The warm and moist food aroma gradually diffused throughout the kitchen.

The ivory white skin is gradually translucent, thin and soft, floating with the current.The wontons were cooked through, with a faint red color in them, reminiscent of the shy cheeks of seventeen or eighteen-year-old girls.It's also like peach blossoms blooming by the small river in early spring, bit by bit, the extremely tender and thin color will be scattered and scattered when gently rubbed by the spring breeze.

Jiang Tong concentrated on taking care of the soup pot with a devoted expression, as if what was churning in the pot was not wonton but some important experimental material.Moisture hit his eyes and turned into a white mist, so he took it off and wiped it off with the corner of his shirt.The picture that should be funny, but for some reason makes people feel warm.Xiao Fengtai leaned against the door and suddenly had a strange thought.If there were no entanglements of right and wrong ten years ago, he would still be attracted to Jiang Tong sooner or later when he first met at this moment.

Handsome but not overly outstanding, smart but full of self-knowledge, a gentle and gentle man like spring water, but his strength is internalized tenacity, breaking through obstacles unconsciously, rushing all the way to the sea.

There was already too much drama in his life.Luxurious gourmet food, fragrant clothes, calculations and deduction under the mask of a smile.Too many flashes and a headache. When I got home and took off my suit jacket, the mixture of high-end perfume and cigars smelled like a trash can in the back alley of a nightclub.If you drink too much champagne, you will feel tasteless. It is better to drink water - clear and tasteless, passing through the intestines, relaxed and unburdened, so that you won't wake up the next day with sore muscles and splitting headaches, as if you were beaten violently.

"Look at me!" Jiang Tong couldn't stand being stared at by him, and finally couldn't help but make a sound.

"Look at you." Xiao Fengtai hooked his lips and smiled: "Is this house soundproof?"

Xiao Fengtai has not given an answer to Jiang Tong's question.But neither is in a hurry.They still have a long, long time to answer this question together.