Unsurprisingly, there was no response to the message sent.
Yan Qiang is used to it.
She was going to go to bed after midnight, and Liang Xun sent her a message asking her to remember to open on Weibo.
After thinking about it, Yan Qiang posted on Weibo: [Happy New Year! PS: Entertainment on the crew and assistants. 】
The accompanying picture shows a table of scratch-offs that have just been scratched.
She went to the fan group again and sent out several big red envelopes before quitting.
It's so simple and crude.
As soon as he finished handling these things, his cell phone rang. It was Huo Qi's call.
Yan Qiang looked at the words "Yes Blessing" on the screen, got up and walked to the window to answer the call.
The moment the call was connected, Yan Qiang said to the other end, "Happy New Year."
The background sound on the phone is a bit noisy.
It took her two seconds to hear Huo Qi's voice coming from inside: "Happy New Year."
"Mr. Huo is still outside on New Year's Eve?" Yan Qiang said half-jokingly.
Huo Qi: "Yes, in Zhouhai."
Yan Qiang paused slightly.
A subtle emotion suddenly appeared in her heart.
Glancing at the almost brightly lit street outside the window, she couldn't hide her emotions, "Mr. Huo just got off the plane?"
"yes."
Huo Qi answered simply, but did not finish his sentence, as if he was waiting for Yan Qiang to ask. .
The noise behind her became farther and farther away, and Yan Qiang felt that the breath on the phone seemed to have calmed down.
She was about to ask him if it was possible that he still had to work during the Chinese New Year, when she suddenly realized——
Tong Zi passed away.
Huo Zhongkang has his own family.
On this day when thousands of families are reunited with lights and other people are celebrating with their families, he seems to have no one to reunite with in this world.
Yan Qiang held the phone and suddenly said: "Are you coming to Yangling?"
"Are you extending a warm invitation?"
"yes."
"Should I say hospitality is hard to deny?"
"right."
Huo Qi suddenly laughed and said, "It will probably be dawn by the time I get to Yangling."
Yangling is a bit far away from Zhouhai.
Yan Qiang was silent for a few seconds, and then repeated: "Happy New Year."
It's almost midnight.
She could hear people shouting Happy New Year outside the hotel, and every sound was filled with joy and happiness.
"Happy New Year."
Huo Qi responded in a low voice.
Yan Qiang listened to his blessing and watched the fireworks rising into the sky outside the window, exploding in mid-air and blooming with brilliant brilliance.
She suddenly bent her lower lip.
Like now, it seems pretty good.
Yan Qiang's invitation was not a whim.
She also gets homesick in a city far away from home.
Huo Qi's words in Zhouhai gave her at that moment the joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land.
The loneliness in my heart of not being able to go home for the New Year seemed to have finally come true at this moment.
A strange sense of belonging.
She felt somewhat reassured.
When Huo Qi arrived at Yangling, it was already four o'clock in the morning.
Yangling is different from Jinghai. People here are still setting off firecrackers at four o'clock in the morning. They are so noisy all night long that the hearts of tourists who cannot go home feel warm.
When Huo Qi called, Yan Qiang was in a daze.
"Asleep?"
On the other end of the phone, Huo Qi's voice was very low.
Inexplicably, it seems to be tainted with a touch of tenderness.
Yan Qiang said "hmm" with a faint nasal sound in her voice, "Are you here?"
"Want to come down?" Huo Qi asked.
"wait for me a while."
Yan Qiang said and stood up.
The temperature in Yangling has been cooling down a bit these past two days. Yan Qiang put on a coat and left a note for Ling Yin before going downstairs.
Huo Qi's car was parked on the roadside.
The car window was lowered, and when Yan Qiang walked over, she happened to see Huo Qi's slightly tilted face in the driver's seat.
"Assistant Wen didn't come with you?" Yan Qiang was a little surprised.
"boarding."
Yan Qiang opened the passenger door and sat in.
When he was fastening his seat belt, Huo Qicai said, "Give him a day off."
Yan Qiang nodded and asked him: "Where are you going?"
"Going to the beach?" Huo Qi asked her.
Yan Qiang had just been there a few days ago, but she still nodded: "Go."
The car drove all the way from the hotel to the cliff by the sea.
Like last time, there were almost no cars on the road, but this time it didn't rain and the visibility on the road was good. Looking at the sky, it should be a sunny day.
"I haven't seen the sunrise at Yangling yet." Yan Qiang suddenly said.
The last time she went, it was at night, in the middle of the night, feeling the darkness and feeling the fear of the waves crashing against the rocks on the coast.
Huo Qi said "hmm" but didn't say anything.
Yan Qiang also became quiet.
The two of them today are extremely harmonious.
There was no needling each other with the tips of the needles, and there was no taunting between you and me. It was as calm as if we suddenly returned to a few years ago.
The sky gradually turned white.
Yan Qiang looked at the sky, then turned to look at Huo Qi who was driving. She suddenly asked: "Why did you come to Yangling?"
"Didn't you invite me?" Huo Qi glanced at her.
"Then why are you in Zhouhai?"
"go home."
Huo Qi's calm words made Yan Qiang slightly startled.
She suddenly remembered that Tong Zi's hometown seemed to be in the south. If Huo Qi wanted to go home, landing in Zhouhai would be the closest route.
Therefore, his appearance in Zhouhai has nothing to do with her.
That phone call was probably just a normal response after receiving her message.
She was overthinking it.
The little bit of compassion in my heart gradually disappeared with this realization.
She said, "Then you should reject me."
"It doesn't matter."
Huo Qi spoke calmly.
If it was love, Yan Qiang would continue this topic.
But her current relationship with Huo Qi did not support her continuing to ask, so she ended the topic with an "oh".
The atmosphere in the car was uncomfortably quiet.
Yan Qiang lowered the car window and felt the damp, salty wind coming from the sea.
It was a little cold, so she closed the car window again.
Soon we reached the cliff.
After parking the car, the two got out of the car one after another. Yan Qiang was a little afraid of heights and had an inexplicable fear of cliffs, so she didn't dare to get too close. She just leaned on the car and looked at the horizon.
Huo Qi also stood beside her, leaning on the car just like her, leaning on his long legs and looking up at the horizon.
The wind at the beach was a bit strong and messed up her hair.
The slender hair flew in the wind, brushing against Huo Qi's face, causing a slight itch.
Huo Qi tilted his head to look at her.
Sensing his gaze, Yan Qiang withdrew her gaze and turned her head slightly to look at him.
The sky is dark.
His eyes were as dark as the night.
Yan Qiang's gaze fell from his eyes to the high bridge of his nose, and then down to the thin lips that kissed her whole body.
"The sunrise hasn't started yet." She looked at Huo Qi, "Do you want to kiss?"
Huo Qi's eyes were dark.
Yan Qiang didn't wait for his consent. She stood on tiptoe slightly, stretched out her hand to hook his neck and kissed him.
The night wind blew my lips a little cold.
But it only takes a few gentle strokes to warm it up.
Huo Qi didn't respond.
Yan Qiang lost interest because he was as motionless as a wooden stake. She stood back and looked at the horizon again.
Huo Qi is looking at her.
"Why didn't my fingerprint be deleted from the door lock of the secret base?" he asked suddenly.
The sudden words made Yan Qiang almost unable to react for a moment.
She had not heard the words "secret base" for a long, long time.
"Forgot." Yan Qiang said.
In fact, she didn't forget that at first, she was reluctant to let go, but later it turned into a kind of stubbornness, stubbornly believing that they could still be together.
Later, she really forgot.
But even if she thought about it, she had no intention of deleting that fingerprint.
Later, she sold the house——
etc!
"How do you know I didn't delete your fingerprints?"
Yan Qiang suddenly looked at Huo Qi. In the unclear light, she looked straight at Huo Qi, "When did you go there? Did you buy the house?"
Huo Qi only glanced down at her and then cast his gaze into the distance.
"I'm overthinking it," he said indifferently, "I've tried it before."
"You mean, you tried it without my permission and you went in?"
"I didn't go in." Huo Qi lowered his eyes and looked at her, "You don't want me to go in?"
"Why are you asking this suddenly?"
"no reason."
"Huo Qi."
"Um?"
"you--"
Yan Qiang paused and looked towards the horizon. The sky near the coastline was already dyed with a faint red.
"What?"
"It's nothing," Yan Qiang said, "I wish you a happy New Year."
After a long time, Huo Qi said a faint "Yeah", looked at the distant sky and said, "Happy New Year."
The two of them watched the sunrise quietly.
Watching it emerge from the coastline, watching it glowing red, watching its light transition from red to orange little by little, and then from warm to dazzling.
On the way back, everything was as usual.
Everything seems to be different from before.
I can't tell what went wrong, but it seems like there are problems everywhere.
…
On New Year's Day, the crew is still at work.
When we arrived at the set, the director gave everyone a red envelope. It didn't cost much, just for good luck.
The entire crew was filled with joy.
While filming, Yan Qiang's phone kept ringing.
Ling Yin didn't dare to disturb her while holding her cell phone. She could only wait for Yan Qiang to take a break and hand the phone to her.
"It seems to be Auntie. She has been beaten several times." Ling Yin said in a low voice.
Yan Qiang glanced at the studio.
Seeing that the scene was still being arranged, she walked aside with her cell phone and called Liu Jinfang back.
As soon as the connection was connected, Liu Jinfang's slightly sharp voice came from inside: "Did you sell the house? Was it your idea? Who asked you to sell the house?"
"Are you alright?"
Yan Qiang's relatively good mood disappeared completely due to her words.
"Did you persuade your brother to sell his house?" Liu Jinfang seemed to be greatly stimulated and was very angry. "You encouraged him to sell his house, you encouraged him to move to a new house, you encouraged him to sever ties with me, Yan Qiang, you How can you be so cruel!"
Yan Qiang smiled.
She has never seen someone so good at beating someone down.
"Yes, I was the one who persuaded him to sell the house and move to a new home. But as for severing ties, if I remember correctly, it was Ms. Liu who took the initiative to sever ties with us, right?"
Yan Qiang didn't know how Liu Jinfang could say such things.
She no longer wanted to spoil Liu Jinfang.
Time and time again, she tolerated and cared about this blood relationship, but in exchange for her intensifying accusations and calculations.
Before Liu Jinfang spoke, she added: "Why, when you found out that Pei Buyu was going home for a reunion, and you were the only one in the empty house, did you remember that you still have a son and a daughter? Pei Buyu didn't pick you up. Going to Pei's house? Oh, I forgot, you haven't received the certificate yet, have you? What do you call this now? Pregnancy out of wedlock? Then what is your child? An illegitimate child? "
