Today is New Year's Eve, and there are many Spring Festival couplets posted on the door of the Hot Spring Villa. I heard from the chef of the restaurant that anyone who stays here for dinner today will be given free drinks.
Jiang Nan and Zhou Zhengan went back to their room, changed their clothes and rested for a while. When it was almost twelve o'clock, they walked from their residence to the restaurant.
Compared with their elderly people's vacation-like attitude, Jiang Youan's group was really lively and refreshed. They arrived a few minutes earlier than them and had already ordered their food.
There were many people on the first floor, so they reserved a private room on the second floor.
When Zhou Zheng'an and Jiang Nan walked in, the waiter with the menu had just come out. After they came out, they walked in.
Jiang Ningyuan jokingly said, "I'm so sleepy."
The farewell in these words was too strong. Jiang Nan was thin-skinned and lowered his head. He obviously didn't do anything, but he felt a little uncomfortable.
Zhou Zhengan looked at him and said coolly: "Nothing like this person, it seems that he didn't even eat breakfast today."
There was some laughter in the room. Jiang Ningyuan raised his eyebrows and before he spoke, Su Jinyue said first: "Zhou Zheng'an, I didn't recruit you."
"Did I tell you? Or are you and Jiang Ningyuan in the same group?" Zhou Zhengan looked innocent, and then suddenly realized: "I forgot, you guys came together in the morning."
Su Jinyue had nothing to say, she was really at a loss for this matter.
It's all the fault of Jiang Ningyuan, a lunatic.
Su Jinyue thought about what happened last night and became angrier as she thought about it. She couldn't help but glare at Jiang Ningyuan.
Now it's Jiang Ningyuan's turn to be innocent. What's going on? The relationship between him and Su Jinyue that had just eased was ruined by Zhou Zhengan?
He glanced at Zhou Zhengan, this guy is really dark.
Zhou Zhengan didn't seem to notice. After sitting down, he slowly wiped the bowl in front of him with a paper towel.
Jiang Nan slightly curled her lips.
It turns out that Zhou Zhengan also has such interesting moments.
He seemed a little different from the one she knew.
It didn't take long for the food to be brought up, including fish and meat. Shen Qingfeng was still saying politely: "Everyone, let's eat something casual for lunch, and we'll have something good in the evening."
Jiang Ningyuan looked at the radish carved into the shape of a dove, and laughed and said: "The chefs of the old Shen family are getting more and more stylish in their cooking, much better than the last time we came here."
As he spoke, he picked up a "pigeon" and put it on Su Jinyue's plate. Su Jinyue said angrily: "This is raw!"
Who wants to eat raw radish? She almost didn't hit him, but with Jiang Ningyuan's demeanor, hitting him might make him more excited, so Su Jinyue restrained herself.
Jiang Nan picked up a piece of squirrel mandarin fish meat and put it in his mouth, slowly savoring the sweet taste.
The squirrel mandarin fish made in most restaurants is made directly with ready-made tomato sauce, but it seems to be different here. What Jiang Nan tastes is the pure sweetness of tomatoes, more like it has been cooked. Very upright.
She didn't like sweets at first, but now she was a little more thoughtful and put another piece into her bowl. When Zhou Zhengan lowered his eyes and saw it, he thought she had a special liking for sweets.
"Hey, how about we play a game of truth or dare?" Shen Qingfeng suggested halfway through the meal.
"Okay." Jiang Youan suddenly became interested.
The other people naturally echoed and responded, no one would be disinterested at this moment.
Shen Qingfeng picked up the empty bottle from which the drink had just been poured and put it upside down on the table, pointed at it and said, "In this case, turn to whoever it is."
After he finished speaking, he pushed the bottle to spin with his fingers.
Su Jinyue and others all sat up straighter.
Jiang Nan kept his eyes on the bottle, feeling a little nervous, fearing that it would turn to him.
After two rapid rotations, the bottle gradually slowed down and pointed to one place.
Fortunately, it wasn't her, Jiang Nan breathed a sigh of relief.
Gu Shengwei said generously: "Ask."
"This is about choosing to speak the truth." Jiang Youan said from the side.
"Share a secret that you keep deep in your heart." Jiang Ningyuan said lazily.
Gu Shengwei was silent after hearing this, as if she was really thinking about it. Within a few seconds, she already had an answer, and replied: "I have a very sorry person, and I did something very sorry for her."
Gu Shengwei's words stopped here. Jiang Nan lowered her eyes and looked over, as if there was nothing there. She always felt that Gu Shengwei seemed to have glanced at her just now.
"What is this? It's the same as not saying it." Su Jinyue said.
Gu Sheng shrugged slightly and smiled: "I have already answered."
Shen Qingfeng waved her hand: "Okay, then Sheng Wei will do the next carousel."
Gu Shengwei stood up and turned the bottle.
The bottle stopped in front of Jiang Ningyuan.
Jiang Ningyuan raised his eyebrows.
"This is a fire in front of the door." Shen Qingfeng said.
"Stop being verbose and just ask, I don't want to take a big risk and kill you." Jiang Ning said far away.
"Lao Jiang, tell me about your jumping off a building for love in front of everyone." Shen Qingfeng said.
Hearing this, Jiang Nan raised his head and jumped off the building? Jiang Ningyuan jumped over the building because of love?
She was a little more curious.
Su Jinyue curled her lips. The incident back then was considered funny enough now.
"Okay, there's nothing I dare to say. Aren't the parties concerned just leaving it alone?" Jiang Ning looked at Su Jinyue from a distance, the tail of his fox eyes slightly raised, and he was indescribably sentimental: "Su Jinyue, If you dare to disappear and break up with me again, I will haunt you as a ghost."
Obviously these words were all meant as a joke, but Su Jinyue's heart moved violently. Her heart was slightly suppressed and ached.
What happened that year can now be told as a joke, but the scars that have healed can still be easily torn apart, exposing the worst side.
To be honest, if Jiang Ningyuan hadn't jumped from the fourth floor that year and injured her feet and the ground was covered with blood, she wouldn't have turned around.
Not to mention the years that followed their on-again, off-again relationship.
...
Jiang Nan was a little surprised. He didn't expect Jiang Ningyuan to look so easy-going and have such a paranoid side.
Jiang Ningyuan's next spin of the bottle was to Jiang Nan.
Jiang Ningyuan said: "Oh, just right."
Jiang Nan was pointed at the bottle and felt a little nervous. She was waiting for everyone's questions.
Jiang Ningyuan originally wanted to ask Zhou Zhengan to ask this person, but Shen Qingfeng unexpectedly spoke first. His tone was easy-going, but the words he said were really unpleasant.
"Hey Jiang Nan, I'm very curious about you. I heard that you and Zheng An are old acquaintances because of your relationship with Xu. After so many years, when did your thoughts change? Don't say that a blind date suddenly made you I have an idea, this is too ridiculous." His eyes were meaningful: "You didn't plan it long ago, right?"
Jiang Nan's heart suddenly dropped and she looked at Shen Qingfeng with a deep frown.
She has anger and sadness.
Although she had experienced Shen Qingfeng's unkindness towards her before, she never expected that Shen Qingfeng's prejudice and hostility towards her would be so great.
Zhou Zhengan frowned and glanced at Shen Qingfeng.
Everyone present was a little dazed. No one expected that Shen Qingfeng would suddenly freeze the place.
"I don't have the so-called calculations you mentioned." Jiang Nan stood up and said coldly: "I'm sorry everyone, I'm going back to rest first."
After saying that, Jiang Nan turned around and opened the door of the room and went out.
The atmosphere in the room was still a little tense. Shen Qingfeng smiled and said, "Are you kidding? Zheng An, your wife can't stand it anymore. It's so boring. We often make jokes like this when we are together. Really? I didn’t see anyone angry."
"Qingfeng, that's a bit too much." Gu Shengwei frowned slightly.
"If you know you can't afford it, then don't open it." Zhou Zhengan turned to him coldly. Shen Qingfeng was stunned. The next second, Zhou Zhengan stood up, pulled out his chair and walked out.
The door opened and closed, looking a little deserted.
"Shen Qingfeng, what's the matter with you? Can't you tell the difference between what's a joke and what's not?" Su Jinyue threw the chopsticks on the table speechlessly, and no one was interested in eating.
"I noticed something is wrong with you? Why are you so sharp with this little girl?" Jiang Ningyuan looked at him.
Shen Qingfeng tossed her chopsticks and didn't reply.
"..."
When Zhou Zhengan chased him out, Jiang Nan was sitting on the same step where she had been sitting this morning. She was holding a bottle of water in her hand, holding the water against her chin, and looking at the ground quietly, not knowing what she was thinking.
Zhou Zhengan's originally fast steps slowed down, and he walked to Jiang Nan and sat down.
"Are you angry with Shen Qingfeng?" Zhou Zhengan said.
Jiang Nan didn't speak or look at him.
Everyone thought she was angry because of Shen Qingfeng's inappropriate joke, but no one knew that Jiang Nan was heartbroken because of her own thoughts.
It was as if the treasure that had been hidden deeply was suddenly pulled out from the darkness without mercy. The man even held her treasure in his hand and told her, "Look, you are nothing."
Shen Qingfeng's words were half right, and it was that half that tore her apart.
At this moment, the person she had been thinking about for a long time was sitting next to her. He must be thinking about how to comfort her, but Jiang Nan didn't know what to say to him.
She hoped that Zhou Zhengan wouldn't say anything and just sit here quietly with her for a while.
But Zhou Zhengan still spoke, and he said, "I'm sorry on behalf of Shen Qingfeng."
Jiang Nan's heart was torn apart by Jingjing. She was speechless and could only stay quietly.
There seemed to always be a paper window between Zhou Zhengan and her. Her end was full of messy paintings, but his was as clean as a piece of white paper.
It was clear that the paper window could be punctured with just a poke, but no one reached out.
What Jiang Nan wrote on the paper that Christmas was like a big joke. Now that it has come true, the joke is even bigger.
When she was a student, she thought that the meaning of marriage was different from falling in love, but she forgot that marriage also meant falling in love, and Zhou Zhengan could never fall in love with her.
It was like Zhou Zhengan was sitting next to her at this moment, but their hearts were not in the same place.
Zhou Zhengan looked sideways at Jiang Nan. There was something in her eyes that he couldn't understand, but why couldn't he get rid of the faint sadness.
...
Night came soon. Shen Qingfeng originally wanted the cook to prepare a large table of meals, but when a few people accidentally passed by the lawn in the center of the housing estate, they kept silent about where and how they wanted to eat tonight. It’s settled.
The outdoor barbecue made several people excited.
They started burning charcoal when it was still dark, and when it got dark, the fire became brighter.
Su Jinyue and Jiang Ningyuan were sitting together holding thin bamboo sticks to wear things. After they were dressed, they handed them to Jiang Youan who was baking something. Gu Shengwei and others were responsible for setting up tables and chairs. Everyone was busy with their own hands. No one is idle when working hard.
The smoke is so sultry.
When Jiang Nan went to get the dishes and chopsticks from the small kitchen in the courtyard, Gu Shengwei walked beside her at some point.
The two walked side by side in silence.
The corridor was gradually approaching the end, and the lights on the lawn in the distance were already dim, illuminating people's faces dimly.
"Jiang Nan." Gu Sheng called her slightly.
Jiang Nan's steps suddenly slowed down, but he didn't turn his head.
Gu Shengwei continued: "I'm sorry for Shen Qingfeng."
Jiang Nan raised her eyebrows but showed little energy. She joked softly: "You guys have quite a tacit understanding."
"What?" Gu Shengwei didn't hear clearly.
Jiang Nan stopped, looked at her and said, "Although I'm not familiar with you, I'm not the kind of person who cares about everything, so you don't have to come over and tell me this one by one. I'm not angry with Shen Qingfeng." , don’t worry.”
Gu Shengwei looked a little strange, but after a moment, she said: "Okay."
They took the bowls and chopsticks back, and a lot of skewers had already been put on the table. There was an empty seat next to Zhou Zhengan and to Jiang Youan's side.
Gu Sheng took a quick look and sat down with Jiang You'an.
Jiang Nan stood there for a while and sat next to Zhou Zhengan.
