You are my proper foothold

Chapter 25

He said he didn't want to care about it, but Hui Xiaoyou still couldn't help sending a WeChat message to his father's younger brother Yan Xinghao after going to work the next day, asking him: How is the study going?You can ask me if you have any questions.

Yan Xinghao didn't reply him until almost five o'clock in the afternoon: Oh.

oh? Excuseme? !oh? ? ?

"What kind of world is this? Questions are better than lectures? Dare to think that I am in a hurry to help him with his homework? Why am I so free! I shouldn't ask! Does it matter to me what he did in the college entrance examination? ?No!"

Hui Xiaoyou couldn't stop talking while sitting in the car.

Today, Chen Jiashu asked him to have dinner together, and after picking him up at school, he drove to the restaurant, and he babbled about it no less than three times along the way.

In the end, Chen Jiashu felt depressed, and when Hui Xiaoyou was preparing for a new round of accusations, he tried to persuade him: "I said buddy, if you really care about Yan Xinghao so much, just make a phone call and ask for details." No, it’s fine, what’s the point of entanglement here.”

"Who says I care?" Hui Xiaoyou glared at him, "It doesn't matter to me what he did in the exam, OK?"

"OK, OK..." Chen Jiashu made a gesture, and seeing Hui Xiaoyou sitting there frowning and frowning from the corner of his eyes, he couldn't help but add another sentence: "Actually, even if you don't care, you can call and ask, just leave." It’s a formality, pretending to understand the situation.”

"Take formality?" Hui Xiaoyou turned his head around, thought for a while and said, "This... is not impossible. Anyway, I don't care, so it's okay to ask casually, right?"

"It must be possible." Chen Jiashu gave him a thumbs up, "With you as a god of learning as a brother, you can probably know how far he has reviewed by just asking a few questions, and you can answer a few questions for him by the way. Yes, let’s talk about the way of thinking, it’s definitely not a problem to get twenty or thirty points in the college entrance examination.”

Hui Xiaoyou rolled his eyes, "Blow it and you're done, when is this, no matter how you put it, it's just a temporary hug, how useful it can be."

"Don't say that, according to my personal experience, hugging Buddha's feet before the exam is sometimes very powerful. I have been doing this for four years in college!" Chen Jiashu said solemnly.

Hui Xiao laughed as soon as he heard it, "That's you. You were admitted to University G by virtue of your top three grades in City A back then. I don’t have much hope for the results.”

Chen Jiashu held the steering wheel with one hand, and patted him with the other free hand, "Don't worry about that, the pay and the get are generally equal in things like exams, and he will get the corresponding grades based on how much he works hard. Come on, which school he can go to in the end is completely paved by himself, you can't control it, and you don't need to control it, everyone has their own way of life, so why worry about it."

"Speak lightly." Hui Xiaoyou sighed softly, and looked out the window, "After all, he is my own younger brother, how could he not worry about it at all."

"It's useless to worry about it." Chen Jiashu shrugged and smiled, "Besides, you already have a junior brother who is enough for you to worry about, so you don't have any extra energy to take care of your younger brother."

Hui Xiaoyou glared at him, "Jiang Xin is Jiang Xin, it's different."

"What's different?" Chen Jiashu began to gossip again, eager to know how Hui Xiaoyou felt towards Jiang Xin, so he asked tentatively, "I said Xiaoyou, do you feel that you and Jiang Xin are together now?" Life is particularly harmonious?"

"...Why are you saying something so strange? Since when did we live together? Don't talk nonsense." Hui Xiaoyou's ears were a little feverish, and the scene from last night reappeared in his mind: the way Jiang Xin looked at him , and his own reaction...

"Hello!" Chen Jiashu yelled suddenly, Hui Xiao was startled, and turned to look at him instantly: "What's wrong with you?"

Chen Jiashu hecked twice with deep meaning, tapped his fingers on the steering wheel intentionally or unintentionally, and teased: "Dude, I just asked casually, why are you blushing."

Hui Yue subconsciously glanced at the rearview mirror, and found that his expression was a bit off, but it was far from blushing, so he heaved a sigh of relief and yelled at Chen Jiashu: "Fart, who is blushing!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, I'm starting to feel guilty, something's wrong, something's wrong." Chen Jiashu smacked his lips.

Hui Xiaoyou's ears became hotter from what he said, and he turned his head to make a gesture of being lazy, "Take medicine when you are sick."

Chen Jiashu still chuckled, thinking in his heart that this kid Jiang Xin is really good, and he is really going to get rid of people.

Of course, someone who is about to be dealt with does not yet have the consciousness of being a party.

Hui Xiaoyou just felt that he was very strange, obviously he had suppressed those messy thoughts last night, but when he woke up, they became active again, running up and down his head like popping candy, not letting anyone know what to do. stop.

Going back after dinner at night, when Hui Xiaoyou walked past Jiang Xin's house, he deliberately walked lightly on the carpeted corridor, took out the key and carefully opened the door of his own house like a thief, quickly dodged in, and tried his best to open the door. Close the door without making a sound.

"Phew..." After completing this set of "difficult" movements, Hui Xiaoyou breathed a long sigh of relief. After he breathed out, he realized one thing: he seemed to be really guilty.

"What the hell..." Hui Xiaoyou ruffled his hair carelessly, went to the edge of the sofa and lay down, with one leg resting on the armrest and the other on the ground, with his hands folded in front of his chest, his gaze Looking straight at the ceiling, I began to think silently about the philosophy of life.

Thoughts are running wildly, but not forward, but backward.

Hui Xiaoyou didn't know why he suddenly remembered the past.

He thought of the time when his parents had just divorced and married others separately, so he followed his mother and stepfather to leave the city where he used to live and came to D city.

He thought that his stepfather had always disliked him and didn't want to see him at home, and his mother was also pregnant soon, so she didn't care about him, so Teacher Dai took him to his home.

He thought that when he first arrived in D city, he was unfamiliar with the place, and he had just experienced family changes, so he became introverted and withdrawn. The more lonely he was, the more withdrawn he would appear.

He thought that the classmates in the class didn't like to associate with him at that time, saying that he was gloomy and no one wanted to make friends with him.

Then, Hui Yue thought of Jiang Xin.

That was an important turning point in his teenage life, when he finally met someone who was willing to accept him without reservation.

Although he is one level lower than him, Jiang Xin's personality is much more mature than him in many aspects.When he was still in a state where he was extremely insecure and longed for the care of others, Jiang Xin already knew how to give others a sense of security and care.

Although Jiang Xin always said that he was his role model, that he was lucky to know such a senior brother, and he often joked that Jiang Xin admired him, but in fact, Yan Xiaoyou always felt that the two of them could get to know each other, and that he was the better The lucky one.

With Jiang Xin, he has friends and companionship.

Jiang Xin also "buy one, get one free", and gave him a Wei Zhiyu as a gift. Although the two of them have been arguing all kinds of things since they were young, friends are friends, and the friendship of more than ten years cannot be broken by quarreling.

Hui Xiaoyou thought that he and Jiang Xin had known each other for so long, rather than saying that he was used to Jiang Xin taking care of him, it would be better to say that he was really used to Jiang Xin.

Hui Xiaoyou couldn't imagine what he would be like now without Jiang Xin.

Even if there is another person who takes care of him like Jiang Xin, even more meticulous than Jiang Xin, it will not replace Jiang Xin's position in his heart.

Unique, priceless.

Hui Xiaoyou's eyes blinked, and keeping them open for a long time made his eyes sore and sore, and when he closed his eyes for a while, they turned into infinite colors.Hui Xiaoyou was immersed in the gorgeous colors, but his brain caught off guard and threw a question at him, causing him to slam into it before he had time to dodge.

Yan Xiaoyou, in your heart, who do you think Jiang Xin is?

Junior Brother.

Is it just as simple as a junior?

if not?What else could it be?

The beauty in front of him suddenly disappeared, Hui Xiaoyou sat up from the sofa and stared straight ahead.

What happened to him, why did he suddenly start thinking about such a question...

"Brother?"

Hui Xiaoyou smiled helplessly, and said in his heart that he was so dazed by his thoughts that his auditory hallucinations even came out.

However, two seconds later there was another voice, "Brother? Are you at home?"

It was only then that Hui Xiaoyou realized that he was not hallucinating, the voice was coming from the door—Jiang Xin is here!

The hairs that stood up all over his body for a moment made Hui Xiao feel inexplicably terrified of being caught on the bed. He jumped to the ground and ran into the bedroom all the way "ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Wait for a while." Then he took off his clothes and pulled the quilt away with lightning speed, and lay down in it. After taking a few breaths, he shouted at the door: "Come in by yourself!"

Hearing the door was opened, Hui Xiaoyou immediately wrapped himself in a quilt like an "adulter".

Jiang Xin walked in inexplicably.

Coming to Hui Xiaoyou's bedroom, he looked at the ball of "zongzi" on the bed even more inexplicably, and asked inexplicably, "Senior brother, what are you doing?"

"Sweating..." Hui Xiaoyou's voice muffled from inside "Zongzi".

Jiang Xin frowned, and sat down, "Sweating? Do you have a fever? Let me see—"

"——Oh, don't, don't!" Hui Xiao used his chubby "body" to flick Jiang Xin's hand away, and he rolled into the bed again, continuing to say dully, "I don't have a fever, I just want to Sweating, expelling toxins, you don’t have to worry about me, if you have something to do, you will play early, and if you have nothing to do, you will retreat!"

"..." Jiang Xin smiled helplessly.At this time, he also thought about what happened last night, so he could probably understand why Hui Xiaoyou had such a reaction.

He reached out and patted the "zongzi", and the "zongzi" immediately rolled half a circle inward, and then pulled the "zongzi leaves", and the "zongzi leaves" were immediately wrapped more tightly.

Jiang Xin couldn't help laughing out loud, and joked: "Brother, I think you are not sweating, you are cosplaying mimosa."

Hui Xiaoyou: "...Are you okay? Go back quickly!"

"Okay, okay, I'll go back now." Jiang Xin stood up with a smile, then leaned over and put her hand on the place where Hui Xiao's butt was probably, and shook it deliberately: "Come out quickly, don't hold back." .”

Hui Xiaoyou: ...Why does Tomard feel that labor and capital are being taken advantage of?

Jiang Xin walked out with a smirk on his face, Hui Xiaoyou poked his head out from under the quilt after hearing the sound of the next door opening and closing, and took a deep breath.

After a while, Hui Xiaoyoucai had an expression that had just recovered, and at the same time slowly opened his eyes and mouth, his eyes became indescribable.

"Wait...he touched my butt just now...did he do it on purpose?!"

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The time of the college entrance examination and the double-degree final exam of G University almost coincided, so Yan Xinghao didn't take the initiative to ask questions later, and Yan Xiaoyou didn't spend any more time posting cold asses by himself. The final exam alone had a lot of things to keep him busy. up.

And when the final exam is over, he will be free all of a sudden.The teaching assistants are in charge of grading the papers, and he has no lesson preparation task, and he feels that it is already the rhythm of the summer vacation.

But during the time he was free, Jiang Xin was extremely busy.

Various economic data and reports in the first half of the year showed that the market was developing well. The central government released several "good" news in a row. Banks cut interest rates, IPO review was relaxed, and the stock market was booming. Compared with the first quarter, it has almost doubled. Fund managers like Jiang Xin and the others are also flying around the country all day long, looking at projects and doing research, and they are too busy to touch the ground.

Hui Xiaoyou often lay on the bed reading a book and only heard Jiang Xin coming back at one or two o'clock in the middle of the night. He went over to greet him briefly, knowing that he had just returned from a certain place, and would be there early tomorrow morning. Catch a plane to another city.

Hui Xiaoyou was afraid that it would affect his rest, so after greeting him, he asked him to go to bed quickly, and he also consciously went back to his home.

A few times he saw that Jiang Xin seemed to want to say something to him, but it was very late at that time, Hui Xiaoyou knew that he was so busy that he didn't even have Saturdays and Sundays, and couldn't sleep late at all in the morning, In order to allow him to sleep as long as possible, he left in a hurry, not giving Jiang Xin a chance to speak.

It may be because of this reason that Hui Xiaoyou's embarrassment and inexplicable tension when facing Jiang Xin gradually faded away.There is almost no time to meet each other, so there is no time to be sentimental.

After not being entangled anymore, Hui Xiaoyou and Jiang Xin seemed to have returned to the old relationship between senior and junior.

Seeing that the Dragon Boat Festival was approaching, Jiang Xin finally had a few days to rest and breathe after working hard for half a month, Hui Xiaoyou also breathed a sigh of relief for him.

***

Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Hui Xiaoyou had nothing to do at school in the afternoon and went home early, but he didn't expect Jiang Xin to come back earlier than him.

"Senior brother," Jiang Xin opened the door to stop Hui Yue when he was taking the key, "Is it convenient to talk now?"

"It's convenient." Hui Xiaoyou took the key back again, walked towards him, stared at his face carefully for a while and said, "What's wrong with you? You don't seem to be looking well."

Jiang Xin turned away, smiled at him and said, "Come in and talk."

"En." Hui Xiao gave him a worried look, went in and sat down on the sofa, Jiang Xin also came and sat beside him.

"Did something happen?" Hui Xiaoyou turned to look at him and asked.

Jiang Xin shook her head and smiled again, "It's not a big deal, but today I rejected a few clients who wanted to subscribe for funds in their own names. I'm not sure if I'm doing the right thing, and I want to hear my brother's opinion."

Hui Xiaoyou: "Tell me."

"It's like this," Jiang Xin took a deep breath, "When I was in contact with these people before, I felt that there was something wrong with their source of funds, so I didn't agree to it immediately when they wanted to subscribe, but said that they needed to do more. Investigation. The results of the investigation came out yesterday, and it was found that there is indeed a problem. The money is not their own, but several million raised from multiple people."

Hui Xiaoyou had already heard the problem, and asked, "Who did they collect the funds from?"

Jiang Xin looked at him, "That's the key. Most of the money in their hands comes from the pensions of some old people, 20 or [-], there are probably twenty or thirty old people in total."

Hui Xiaoyou narrowed his eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, and said, "If it involves illegal fundraising, the old people can sue them."

"But the problem is that the old people don't want to sue." Jiang Xin sighed, "One of the definitions of illegal fund-raising is to raise funds from 'social non-specific objects', but the boundary between specific and non-specific is not clear enough, which is also convenient. Some people used legal names to raise funds illegally. We are just a financial institution and do not have greater authority to conduct investigations, and those old people may have promised something in advance, and the few people we contacted all spoke with the same caliber. It is said that they knew the fundraiser in advance, not being cheated out of money, but voluntarily entrusted. If they all say that, then it is difficult to determine the nature of this matter.”

"Indeed..." Hui Xiaoyou clenched his fists, and pondered: "It's not easy for the organization to come forward. If you can't get evidence, reporting them easily may instead stimulate them to run away with money. It’s really gone down the drain.”

Jiang Xin: "I am also worried about this. There are too many people like this now, and they are repeatedly banned."

Hui Xiaoyou shook his head helplessly, and said: "There are a group of people squatting on Xi'an Avenue all year round. Everyone claims to be a financial manager, but in fact they are doing this kind of fund-raising business. They just stare at those who come out to buy vegetables all day The old men and old ladies who are strolling around, take pensions out of other people's hands. After getting the money, they go to buy funds and stocks. The profits are their own, but the grandparents have to bear the losses. Listen The people you mentioned seem to be of this type."

Jiang Xin nodded in agreement, "I think it's this kind of thing, so I don't want to do their business. Although the market is good now, I can't guarantee [-]% that I will make money in the next period of time. People with money use it for speculation, and it’s hard to tell the profit or loss, and I don’t want to use the old people’s pension money to do it.”

"I understand your thoughts." Hui Xiaoyou looked at Jiang Xin and smiled, "Our hearts are always fund managers with a conscience."

Jiang Xin seemed a little embarrassed when she heard this, she paused and asked Yan Xiaoyou: "Brother, do you think I'm taking too much control? Originally, my job was to sell fund products, and the money they took was strictly meaningless. It’s not illegal to say it, so I shouldn’t be in charge, let alone reject the door-to-door business.”

"The truth is the truth, right and wrong are in people's hearts." Hui Xiaoyou showed a rather gratified smile, raised his hand and rubbed Jiang Xin's neatly combed hair, then picked up a short bunch and wrapped it around his fingertips, saying appreciatively : "I like people with a conscience."

Jiang Xin's eyes lit up slightly when he heard it, and he asked casually, "Brother, are you saying that you like me?"

"Aren't you asking knowingly?" Hui Yue poked his finger with the tip of that handful of hair, it was hard and a little itchy, he laughed at himself and said, "In my opinion, those people are Charlatan. Once I happened to pass by Xi’an Avenue, and I happened to bump into a liar. Do you know that he took an old lady and swore there that the guaranteed annual return rate was 30.00%——30.00%?! According to this rate of return, it can double in almost three years! Scared the baby to death!"

Jiang Xin couldn't help laughing, and echoed, "That's exaggerated."

Hui Yue nodded vigorously, "That's right! He also 'guaranteed' a 30.00% annual rate of return. To be honest, if he really had this ability, he would be crazy to go to Wall Street to find a job with an annual salary of 300 million U.S. dollars every minute. okay?"

"That's right." Jiang Xin replied with a smile.

"So you're doing the right thing. You can't get used to this kind of person—" Hui Xiaoyou continued to speak indignantly, but suddenly, from the corner of his eyes, he saw Jiang Xin's head slowly leaning towards him. , and then lightly fell on his shoulder.

"What's the matter?" Hui Xiaoyou tilted his head to ask, but his chin accidentally touched Jiang Xin's forehead, and he felt hot for a while.

Hui Xiaoyou's heart tightened, and he quickly turned around to support his face, the temperature was also frighteningly hot, seeing that Jiang Xin's eyes were closed, he couldn't help shouting anxiously: "Jiang Xin??"

Hearing his voice, Jiang Xin moved her eyelids, but didn't open them, "Senior brother, I'm a little tired, I'll rest for a while..."

"...It's all burnt down like this, why didn't you just say it?!" Hui Xiaoyou saw that Jiang Xin's lips had turned white in just a short while, and his face was extremely haggard. He said at the same time: "If you have a fever, you should lie down on the bed, and you are still sitting there chatting, what are you talking about!"

Jiang Xin felt that it was difficult for Hui Xiaoyou to support herself, so she tried her best to cooperate with him and walked to the bedroom. When Hui Xiaoyou finally put him on the bed, he felt sore all over his body that he lost all energy.

It's already dinner time, Hui Xiaoyou sat down beside Jiang Xin, reached out and touched his forehead again, the burning sensation immediately covered the palm of his hand, Hui Xiaoyou frowned, bent down and approached Jiang Xin's ear and asked: " Are you hungry now? Do you want to eat something first? Empty stomach is not suitable for taking medicine..."

"I'm not hungry." Jiang Xin stretched out her hand from under the quilt, gently held his wrist, grinned hard and said, "I don't need to take medicine, I'll be fine after a night of sleep."

"You might as well just say that you have a dream..." Hui Xiaoyou sighed, he still felt that taking medicine was reliable, but he also saw that Jiang Xin really didn't have much energy now, so he couldn't bear to torment him anymore. I had no choice but to compromise and said: "Then why don't you go to bed first, and I'll get you something to eat when you wake up."

Jiang Xin smiled slightly and nodded, still holding his wrist, "Brother, why don't you go?"

"Where can I go if you're already like this?" Hui Yue looked at him grumpily, only to see Jiang Xin's expression eased as if she was relieved, Hui Xiaoyou's heart moved, and she stretched out her hands to gently cover his eyes, He lowered his voice and said, "Sleep, I'm right here."

Jiang Xin hummed obediently, as if he had fallen asleep within ten seconds.

But he probably didn't sleep well.

Frown from time to time, eyelids tremble from time to time, accompanied by occasional muffled hums, and breathing is sometimes light and heavy.

Hui Xiaoyou involuntarily leaned down to look at him carefully, and saw his thick eyelashes trembling slightly, fine beads of sweat oozing from his forehead and the tip of his nose, and his lips, probably because of the fever, were clearly still It was pale, but now it turned blood red again, as if it had been bitten by someone.

Suddenly, Hui Xiaoyou's body trembled, and he sat up straight as if he was electrocuted, his expression was like seeing a ghost.

Because he realized that for a moment just now, he actually wanted to kiss her.

He wants to kiss Jiang Xin...

This is not the first time, nor even the second time... He didn't drink alcohol, and it wasn't him who had the fever, so it is impossible to explain it by coincidence or impulse...

Does he really want to kiss Jiang Xin? !

Hui Xiaoyou sat there blankly, staring blankly at the person on the bed.

The desire is so clear that there are some things that he has to admit even if he dare not admit it anymore.

Hui Yue looked at Jiang Xin in a daze, and murmured:

"I... seem to like him..."