Chapter 61

It's just that the sound on the other end of the phone was a bit noisy, as if many people were at a party.

"Sorry, Xie Qin! Only saw your message so late."

She also heard Xu Zhouyuan's voice: "Brother Qin, what's up? Everyone is stunned, drink quickly."

Xie Qin answered the phone, stood up from the sofa, and walked to a quiet place.

Took a cigarette out of his pocket, bit it on his lips, lit it with a metal lighter, inhaled and exhaled smoke, and it was blown away by the wind.

The young man looked at the night in the distance, his bangs blown up slightly, "Home?"

Shen Li heard the sounds around him quiet down, "Mm. My phone was out of power, just charged it and saw your message."

"After you went back, did you make up for sleep? I think… it's better for you to stabilize your schedule."

Driving while tired is indeed very unsafe.

Xie Qin: "You've started to manage me. Hmm?"

She just wanted to tell him that staying up all night is indeed not good for the body, and driving while tired is not safe.

Is it that he feels she is a bit too meddlesome?

A person like Xie Qin who doesn't like to be controlled probably doesn't like to listen to these nagging and wordy words, she thought it's better not to say it in the future.

Listening too much will indeed be annoying.

"Are you playing with friends?"

Xie Qin: "Mm, high school classmates and friends gathering."

"Oh oh, have fun. Then… if there's nothing else, I'm going to blow-dry my hair and prepare to sleep."

'Tsk' sounded dissatisfied, Xie Qin's voice dropped, "Shen Li… you want to send me away with one sentence? Did you feed your conscience to Xu Zhouyuan?"

"…"

Conscience fed to Xu Zhouyuan?

What does this mean?

Shen Li pondered in her heart, she only heard conscience fed to a dog.

After a while, she blinked and figured out what this roundabout sentence meant.

She said slowly: "It's not, I didn't want to send you away. You're playing outside, I think you calling me now should delay your party with classmates, and disturbing your time is not good either."

Her explanation in such a large paragraph seemed like she was oppressed by him, afraid of him, and in a hurry to make it clear to him.

"Don't worry, when I go back, I will bring you something delicious, I didn't forget."

Next door was her grandmother's room, the weather had been cool recently, the doors and windows were open at night, the old man's sleep was light, Shen Li deliberately lowered her voice when speaking.

"Do you really think I'm after that bit of food?"

Xie Qin sneered, the sound of classmates calling him could be heard vaguely in the background, but he didn't respond, only saying to the phone, "Shen Li, remember, calling me is never a disturbance. No matter where I am, what I'm doing, if you want to call, call anytime."

Shen Li: "Mm."

Xie Qin: "Is the ticket for coming back booked?"

"Not yet."

"Tell me when you book it, I'll pick you up then."

Shen Li thought quietly, but still refused, "No need, it's too much trouble for you, I'll take the car back to school myself."

"Really don't need it? Or do you think I'm unpresentable?"

"I didn't mean that, I just don't like to trouble people." Shen Li didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, she opened her mouth again and said, "Xie Qin… thank you for sending me to the station today."

Xie Qin said amusingly: "You should just write this thank you on paper and hang it on your body, thanking this and thanking that all day long."

The hair that hadn't been wiped dry seemed to have been blown dry by the wind.

Shen Li seemed truly tired, her lowered eyes had no spirit, "Xie Qin, I'm sleepy. Really hanging up."

He exhaled a puff of smoke, and his voice responded to her, "Go to sleep."

"Good night!"

Shen Li: "Mm."

…

After the call hung up, she looked at her phone, didn't expect it to pass so quickly, and they had been talking for over ten minutes without knowing it.

After coming back, today she sat in the park alone, and when she dared to return to her grandmother's house at night, actually she thought a lot, she thought most about Xie Qin sending her into the station in detail.

And in the station, when she didn't know where to go, he suddenly appeared in front of her.

Shen Li turned back to the room, closed the door lightly, after getting into bed, put her phone next to the bedside table, turned off the light, lay on the bed and closed her eyes, and fell asleep quickly.

In the quiet and dark room, the phone screen lit up again.

Xie Qin: Book the ticket, tell me the time.

…

Shen Li booked a ticket back to Wuchuan at six on Monday morning, planning to accompany her grandmother for a day on the weekend.

Her grandmother's house wasn't far from the high-speed rail station, the 6:30 ticket, Shen Li went out at 5:00.

The sky wasn't very bright at this time, besides dragging a suitcase in her hand, the handbag also contained many specialties her grandmother gave her from Su Shi.

They were all gifts from others, her grandmother was old and didn't eat these much.

So she let her bring them all back to school.

Promised to bring them something to eat, so she didn't need to spend money to buy them.

Her grandmother also gave her a sum of living expenses, this living expense was enough for her to support for three months.

Grandmother: "Your mother froze your card, this living expense is given to you by grandma. As long as you are willing to learn, can learn, no matter which school you are in, grandma will support you until you finish reading."

Shen Li: "I know, grandma."

"In school, get along well with people, make more friends, bring them home to play when you have time."

"Mm, I will."

Today is Monday, there weren't as many people at the high-speed rail station as last time, Shen Li took the ticket out, she still remembered how Xie Qin taught her to look at the ticket, and entered the station after security.

Three hours of train journey, Shen Li found a mask from the handbag and put it on, leaned against the seat, closed her eyes and slept for a while, the light and shadow outside the window swept across her eyelids, which wasn't too hard to endure.

Arriving at Wuchuan Station, it was almost ten o'clock.

Outside the exit, there were a few drivers carpooling, one of them was shouting that they were still one person short, two other students returning to school were in the same car, so she got in.

Sitting in the passenger seat, lowering the window a little, the cool wind poured in, looking up at the streetscape passing outside the car window.

Arriving at the school gate.

Shen Li paid the fare, got out of the car, and walked on the road back to the dorm dragging her suitcase, just happened to see a familiar group of people gathered together opposite the interface of the East Campus, it was still Xie Qin and them, but this time there were a few strange faces beside them.

Among them, a long-haired neutral girl was particularly eye-catching, dressed very individually, with a cigarette between her fingertips, and her other hand on Xie Qin's shoulder.

Bai Chuyue: "…Heard you've been chasing a girl recently, is it true? What does the other party look like, making you go down to chase her yourself. Those women, aren't they all fascinated by you? When are you bringing her out for the brothers to see?"

Xie Qin's posture was lazy, glancing slantingly: "Are you worthy?"

Bai Chuyue: "What's wrong with seeing your wife after so many years of brotherly feelings. Maybe, I can help you see what kind of goods the other party is, in case… you've been cheated, as a good brother, I can still pull you back to the shore in time."

"Don't know… if you remember Song Yuewei, the top student school beauty of the Finance Department. That day I saw her, she was buying drunk in a bar alone, sad and heartbroken, her eyes were swollen from crying." Bai Chuyue thought of something and said: "Damn, that was miserable. Cursing while crying, she shouted your name, I knew it was you."

Zhou Mingyu leaned forward and added a sentence, "This is all stuff from hundreds of years ago, these women have dated Brother Qin, after breaking up, which one didn't cry until their own mother didn't recognize them."

"Used to date one who even threatened to jump off a building."

"My Brother Qin, didn't even look at her."

Xie Qin chatted with the people around him nonchalantly, took his phone out of his pocket, scanned the screen, his gaze fell on the few messages that hadn't been replied to, his fingertips paused, didn't click in again, just felt unmotivated, and casually put his phone back into his pocket.

A group of people laughed and talked, Shen Li watched them walk past from the opposite street.