You are my proper foothold

Chapter 27

The egg fried rice in the bowl looks yellow and clear, every grain of rice seems to be coated with egg liquid, the gold-inlaid edges look very attractive, and the taste is even more fragrant.

Sitting at the dining table, Jiang Xin, who had little appetite at first, was completely aroused by this delicious fried rice with eggs.

After eating several mouthfuls in a row, he couldn't help but ask Hui Xiaoyou who was wolfing down the opposite side, "Senior brother, your egg fried rice is so delicious, why don't you learn how to cook other dishes?"

"Why do you want to learn to cook other dishes?" Hui Xiaoyou glanced at him inexplicably, "It's enough for me to know this one, I won't starve myself to death."

Jiang Xin listened and shook her head, "It's so strange that you have been in the United States alone for so long, and you only know one fried rice with eggs. How do you solve it when you usually eat?"

"Who said I can only cook fried rice with eggs!" Hui Xiaoyou patted the table with his head held high, "I can also cook porridge, instant noodles, and occasionally dumplings and Yuanxiao. That's enough."

"Instant noodles..." Jiang Xin frowned, and when she was about to speak, Hui Xiaoyou stopped her first.

Hui Xiaoyou: "Stop it, I know what you're going to say, isn't it just that instant noodles are unhealthy, but I don't eat too much, at most seven meals a week, and I won't eat two meals in a day, otherwise I can't stand it .”

Jiang Xin: "...Brother, do you think seven meals a week is not enough? Why don't you find something healthy to eat, even if you are too lazy to make it yourself, you can go out and find a restaurant to eat."

"Going out to eat is a waste of time and money, why bother." Hui Xiaoyou paused, as if he wanted to continue talking but held back, and finally just added: "The main reason is that I don't have time."

Jiang Xin couldn't help putting down the spoon, and looked at him fixedly, "Brother, I heard from Zhiyu that when he was still at MIT, you would pester him to cook every time you went to see him, and you never went out to eat. Were you short of money at that time?"

"I'm not short of money, but you are short of heart." Hui Xiaoyou also stopped and glared at him, "Be obedient and listen to the key points, how did your comprehension ability get into the first prize back then? I'm obviously saying that I don't like it Going out to eat is afraid of wasting time, when did you mention that you are short of money?"

Jiang Xin's eyes became more serious after hearing this, and her voice was hoarse and deep, "I didn't think carefully when you went abroad. Although I also thought that my uncle and aunt might not be too supportive, I also thought that you have a scholarship. Ask Senior Brother Chen, and he also said that you have no problem living there... It seems that I think it’s easy. Senior Brother, are you—”

"No." Hui Xiaoyou interrupted him suddenly, his expression became serious.

"Jiang Xin, Chen Jiashu told you that I have no problem living in the United States, so it is no problem. And," Hui Xiaoyou lowered his head slightly, and looked away from Jiang Xin's face, "Take a step back, even if When I really run out of funds, it's not your turn to worry about it."

Jiang Xin couldn't help shrinking her pupils when she heard his words, and after staring at him for several seconds, she finally lowered her head in silence and continued to eat.

Hui Yue knew that what he said was serious.But he couldn't control himself just now.Because once that topic was mentioned, he would recall some unpleasant things, and his mood instantly became a little depressed.

Hui Yue looked at Jiang Xin, feeling uncomfortable.

He waited for a while, adjusted his emotions, reached out to pat Jiang Xin and asked in a relaxed tone: "Are you angry?"

"How could it be?" Jiang Xin replied but still lowered her head.

Hui Xiaoyou had no choice but to hook his chin up with his fingers, forced him to look at him, and said, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to say that just now, I know you care about me, it's because I don't know what's good, don't mind, okay?"

"Senior brother." Jiang Xin looked at him with deep eyes, firmly held his fingers in the palm of his hand, and said word by word: "I'm not angry with you, I was too negligent."

"...What are you talking about, your brain circuit is too strange."

Hui Xiaoyou tried to pull his finger back, but Jiang Xin clenched it even tighter, watching him hesitate to speak: "Senior brother, you didn't return to China before, could it be because..."

"Do you have to say this?" Hui Xiaoyou suddenly asked seriously.

Jiang Xin didn't know whether to nod or shake his head, he hesitated for two seconds and asked, "Would you like to say?"

"You..." Hui Xiaoyou sighed, "Hypocrisy!" With a sudden force, he took his hand back, stared at Jiang Xin who was a little dazed, and said with a smile, "You play with me every time. This set, first break the casserole and ask the end, and then start pitifully playing hard to get when you find that the road is blocked, I found that you financial people are full of tricks—cough!"

When Hui Xiaoyou said this, he suddenly realized that he had scolded himself, so he changed the subject and asked Jiang Xin with a straight face: "Do you think I wronged you?"

Jiang Xin looked like an elementary school student who had been criticized by the teacher, and nodded: "Senior brother is what he says."

"Don't come here, don't try to get away with this kind of ambiguous answer." Hui Xiao raised his eyebrows threateningly.

Jiang Xin couldn't help snickering, but soon returned to the look of being scolded, and replied seriously: "Senior brother didn't wrong me, but I didn't pretend to be playing hard to get, I was just worried that senior brother didn't want to say it."

"Of course I don't want to say it." Hui Xiaoyou gave him a blank look.

but--

Hui Xiaoyou silently glanced at Jiang Xin again, and sighed silently in his heart.

This is someone he likes.

If he really wanted to tell anyone about his experience during that time, he would only tell him.

"Brother, forget it, don't force it." Jiang Xin was still looking at him, and could see the depression in his eyes, and finally couldn't bear to ask again.

But Hui Xiaoyou stared at his eyes and curled the corners of his mouth, "You asked the question, now you don't ask and don't ask, who do you think I am? Your little brother? I think you need to clean up." Ah, Mr. Xin."

Jiang Xin smiled helplessly, "Senior brother Mingjian, I'm not that bold, so please spare me this time, I'll pay attention in the future."

"Love is not what you want to buy, you can buy it if you want..."

Hui Xiao subconsciously sang, but as soon as he sang, he felt that the lyrics were not quite right, he quickly cleared his throat, stood up, turned his head and said, "It's not so easy for me to spare you. Eat quickly! After eating, listen to senior brother Feed you poisonous chicken soup."

Jiang Xin: "...Really?"

Yan Xiaoyou: "Gang Zhen, gentlemen, don't be so ink-stained."

Jiang Xin: "...wait for me, right now!"

Hui Xiaoyou watched Jiang Xin eat quickly, and nodded in satisfaction at first, but seeing that he was eating too fast, he couldn't help but walked behind him and patted him, "Eat slowly, don't choke."

"Don't worry." Jiang Xin opened her mouth to agree, and immediately cleaned up the bowl of rice.

Hui Xiaoyou was afraid that he was not full, so he said there was still some in the pot, but Jiang Xin assured that he was definitely full, Hui Xiaoyou confirmed it twice before he believed it.

After eating, Jiang Xin was about to go to the kitchen to wash the dishes, but Hui Xiaoyou "brutally" pushed him onto the sofa in the living room, ordered him to sit still, and went to clean up the pots and bowls before coming over.

Looking at the time, it was already the early morning of the next day.

"Do you feel uncomfortable now?" Hui Xiaoyou walked to the sofa and found that although the TV was on, Jiang Xin was leaning there with her eyes closed, and she couldn't help feeling a little worried, "Why don't you lie down on the bed? Wait a while and take the medicine. You can go to sleep."

"It's okay, I'm waiting to drink the poisonous chicken soup." Jiang Xin opened her eyes and smiled at him.

"Drink the poisonous chicken soup and wait for the cold to get worse." Hui Xiao said grumpily.He touched Jiang Xin's forehead and found that it was still a little hot, but the temperature was lower than before, so he bent down to help him, and said, "Go and lie down, and I will apply a towel to you, it will help. "

"Alright." Jiang Xin didn't insist.

He could feel that his spirit was going up and down from time to time, and while he still had some strength in his body, it was safer to go back to bed and lie down by himself, so that if he fell asleep on the sofa for a while, Hui Xiao would not be able to touch him.

The two returned to the bedroom, Hui Xiaoyou watched Jiang Xin lie down, then went to the bathroom to wring out a towel, folded it and placed it on his forehead.

Jiang Xin felt the cool touch was very comfortable, closed her eyes and said, "Brother, chicken soup."

Hui Xiaoyou was amused by his enjoying himself, and felt like telling a bedtime story to put a child to bed, so he couldn't help but sit closer, and put his hands on the edge of the quilt above his shoulders to prevent air leakage, and then He said, "Then let me tell you quickly, sleep when you are sleepy."

Jiang Xin: "Yes."

Hui Yue organized his words, took a deep breath, and began to "feed the poison".

"When I went to the United States, I did have a scholarship. However, the way they distribute the scholarship is not to give you a one-time payment, but to issue it year by year. After deducting tuition and insurance, the rest is not considered surplus. Of course, if it is just daily expenses, it is enough, but when I first went there, because I had to rent a house, buy furniture, buy teaching materials and various reference materials, plus air ticket money, the initial scholarship was not enough. enough."

Hui Xiaoyou said at this moment that Jiang Xin opened his eyes and looked at him, so he stretched out his hands to cover his eyes, "Close your eyes and rest."

After he half ordered, he continued: "But it's not a big deal if the money is not enough. I first asked Chen Jiashu to borrow some money to save the emergency, and then I made money from internships while attending classes, and the funds were quickly turned over. Originally, I I think I should be able to return Chen Jiashu's money to him immediately, but unfortunately, what is that called "people are not as good as heaven", I had a sudden acute appendicitis at the end of the first semester, and was sent to the hospital for treatment Surgery. You know, hospitalization in America is pretty expensive..."

Hui Xiaoyou sighed loudly, "At that time, it cost nearly 3000 US dollars. Excluding the reimbursement from the school insurance, I had to pay more than [-] US dollars, so the savings returned to pre-liberation overnight."

Jiang Xin couldn't help but sat up when she heard it, took Hui Xiaoyou's hand and asked, "Why didn't you find me?"

"How can I find you? How can a senior brother ask a junior brother to borrow money?" Hui Xiaoyou smiled, "Besides, at that time, didn't I pay you back..."

Jiang Xin heard his voice stop abruptly, knew what he wanted to say, so she skipped here and continued to ask: "What about your family? Even if uncles and aunts don't support you, they won't be able to watch you suffer in the United States alone. "

Hui Xiaoyou's expression turned slightly cold when he heard this, and he gave a faint wry smile, "My family...can't point it out. In fact, I really wanted to go back to China in the first year. I had just finished the operation and rushed back. I took the final exam, and my personal condition was not very good after the exam, so I wanted to go back to see my family and friends for a rest. But when I told my parents, they both told me not to go back. They say the airfare is too expensive and it's not worth the money to go back and forth."

Jiang Xin clenched her fists, "Do they know about your operation?"

"I know." Hui Xiaoyou lowered his head, "They just know that I spent so much money on surgery, so they don't want me to go back. My dad didn't say anything, and I didn't tell him. My mother meant to let me go back." I can earn some living expenses by doing internships during the holidays, but she said that my younger siblings are all in school, and the expenses in the future will not be small, as an older brother, I have to do my best.”

Jiang Xin clutched the corner of the quilt tightly, but didn't say a word.

Hui Xiaoyou waited for a while, then continued: "Life was tight in the second half of the first year, but it gradually got better. The money I earned in the second year of my Ph.D. The money was paid back, and the remaining part was sent home, because my sister had just entered junior high school, and my stepfather asked my mother to convey that the family was short of money and asked me to help. In fact, I used to think that they said this just to ask me for money , but now I guess they probably wanted to buy a house at that time, and they really didn’t have any spare money.”

"In the third year, my supervisor felt that my ability and experience had passed the test, so he recommended me to work as a trader at Goldman Sachs. It was really busy at that time, but I could learn a lot, and the salary was also high." Hui Yue You smiled suddenly, looked at Jiang Xin with a dignified face, raised his hand and pinched his face and said, "Don't do that, didn't I just say that all the hardships come to an end?"

Jiang Xin pulled down his hand and clasped it tightly, Hui Xiaoyou's heart shook, he hesitated for a moment, but did not take back his hand.

He turned his head and continued, "During the summer vacation of the third year, I wanted to get into a hedge fund to increase my knowledge, which really allowed me to successfully interview a family, but they had a requirement for the start time, so I simply went back to the country before the start. , It’s a pity that it’s only been less than a week. When I went back, I had to reapply for a visa and there were a lot of things to do, so I didn’t bother to see you more, and then I left in a hurry without even saying hello, sorry.”

Jiang Xin didn't expect him to apologize to herself suddenly, she was stunned for a while, then her eyes darkened and she said: "Brother, you don't need to apologize to me."

"It should be." Hui Xiaoyou paused, "What Wei Zhiyu said last time was actually mostly correct. In the past five years, I hardly contacted you. At first it was because of embarrassment, but later it was because I was too busy." Yes. In addition to attending classes, working as a teaching assistant, and working, I spend a lot of time reading literature, looking up reference materials, and writing articles. I am really too busy to take care of other things. Sometimes I have a drink from seven in the morning to ten in the evening. I can’t even take care of drinking water, and eating instant noodles seven times a week has become a luxury.”

Hui Xiaoyou couldn't help laughing as he spoke, and looked back at Jiang Xin: "Look, when you can't even care about eating, who cares about being healthy or not?"

"Brother..."

"Going off topic." Hui Xiaoyou realized that he was pulling away, and pulled back, looking at Jiang Xin seriously, and said, "I'm really busy in the next two years, but it's not that I don't even have a little free time. But when I'm free, I I want to contact you, but I don't know what to say... After all, I've been embarrassed for so long before, the longer this kind of thing is delayed, the more I can't open my mouth..."

"I understand." Jiang Xin squeezed his hand and repeated in a low voice, "I understand."

Hui Yue smiled lightly at him.

"But it's all over now, thank you Junior Brother for not worrying about me." Hui Xiaoyou pulled back his hands and supported Jiang Xin's shoulders and stood up, smiling: "Okay, my poisonous chicken soup is over, the patient should rest. "

It was only after Hui Xiaoyou finished speaking that he realized that he hadn't asked what he originally wanted to ask.But now is not the right time to ask.

let's talk tomorrow.he thinks.

Jiang Xin's complexion was very bad, he was already sick, just now after hearing Yan Xiaoyou's words, it was as if a big rock had been forcefully thrust into his heart, and his whole body felt oppressed and uncomfortable.

Hui Xiaoyou saw the sickly flush on his cheeks, reached out to touch his forehead and found that the temperature had risen again, he couldn't help nervously letting him lie down, "Why did I hit the mark, the cold really got worse after hearing about the chicken soup... Crow mouth, bah bah bah!"

Jiang Xin's breathing was a bit heavy, and when his head touched the pillow, he suddenly felt dizzy. He heard Hui Xiaoyou's voice, but his vision became blurred. He subconsciously raised his finger to grab it, "Senior brother..."

"I'm here." Hui Xiaoyou pulled him back, "Go to sleep, I won't leave."

Jiang Xin nodded imperceptibly, feeling anxious and relieved at the same time, he felt that his body seemed to be pulled away by these two emotions in completely different directions, his bones and muscles were scattered, and his strength disappeared without a trace , Consciousness gradually slackens to nothingness...

Hui Xiaoyou reckoned that he had completely passed out from sleep.

He leaned down and almost pressed his lips against it, but stopped a few millimeters away.

"Hold it..." he said to himself.

Once this line is crossed, I'm afraid it will be out of control in the future.