You are my proper foothold

Chapter 28

On the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Jiang Xin was awakened by bursts of refreshing aroma.

He opened his eyes and felt that his physical condition had improved a lot. The fever had basically subsided, and the feeling of top-heavy yesterday was almost gone, and his whole body was much lighter.

Jiang Xin lay quietly on the bed and woke up, then he heard someone whispering outside, the voice came from the kitchen, there should be two people.

Jiang Xin felt a little strange, he knew that one of them must be Hui Xiaoyou, but he was not sure who the other one was.

Chen Jiashu?Or Wei Zhiyu?

Jiang Xin quietly got out of bed while guessing, and couldn't help laughing when she saw the schoolbag at the entrance in the dining room, walked heavily to the door of the kitchen and said, "Little, why are you here?"

"Hey, brother, you're awake!" Jiang Li, with her braids tied high, turned around wearing an apron, "Brother Xiao You called me here, let's make zongzi together!"

Hui Xiaoyou also stood on the side wearing an apron and holding a zong leaf in his hand. When he saw him coming, he asked, "Do you feel better today? Did we bother you? It's still early, you want Don't go back to sleep for a while?"

"Don't worry, I woke up naturally, and I feel much better." Jiang Xin moved closer to him, and saw that the pots of glutinous rice, red dates, zongzi leaves, and cotton thread used to tie zongzi were neatly arranged on the table. It was very complete, and there was a few wrapped rice dumplings in a basin at the other end, which looked decent and looked very good.

Jiang Xin couldn't help holding Hui Yue's shoulder curiously and asked, "Senior brother, did you prepare these?"

"How can I be so virtuous," Yan Xiaoyou murmured towards Jiang Li, "Giant took me to the market to buy it, and I will be the porter."

Jiang Xin looked at the time and found that it was just after ten o'clock, so she asked, "What time did you go?"

"08:30!" Jiang Li took over the conversation, "Brother Xiaoyou picked me up at the school gate at eight o'clock in the morning, and then we went to the Dongmen Market. There were few people on holiday today, and it was only nine o'clock when we returned from shopping!"

Jiang Xin knows that Jiang Li is used to getting up early, but Hui Xiao has always found it more difficult for him to get up than killing a pig, not to mention he must have slept very late last night, unexpectedly he could get up.

"Brother, why did you suddenly think of making zongzi today?"

"Dragon Boat Festival, it's been a few years." Hui Xiaoyou looked excited while pinching the rice dumpling leaves, "And you still have a cold today, I think if I don't call the gnats, I'll have to fool you with egg fried rice or takeaway. If you take one day, I will have a hard time with my conscience."

"I can cook." Jiang Xin said helplessly, but her eyes were full of smiles.

After Jiang Li heard her brother's words, she pursed her lips on purpose and said, "Brother, what do you mean, I'm not welcome? Am I disturbing the world of the two of you?"

"cough--"

Before Jiang Xin had time to respond, the glutinous rice in Hui Xiaoyou's hand had leaked out from between the loose zong leaves.

He hurriedly rescued those "runaway elements", but the more he rescued, the more he leaked. In the end, except for a dozen grains stuck to the leaves, all the others were spread on the ground.

"Uh..." Hui Yue looked at the glutinous rice all over the floor with an embarrassed expression on his face, then suddenly turned his head and said to Jiang Xin, "You see, it's you who influenced me and caused me to perform abnormally!"

"Yes, my fault." Jiang Xin smiled lightly and took the blame, then took a dustpan and a broom to clean up the ground, and Jiang Li smirked, "Brother Xiaoyou, my brother is only in front of you." That's why you're so meek."

Hui Xiaoyou blushed slightly, stuttered and said, "He, he is not docile in front of me, he just caught a cold today..."

"No, I'm only docile in front of you." Jiang Xin took the words calmly, and Jiang Li immediately said "Oh" meaningfully.

Hui Xiaoyou's face was burned even more by his brother and sister singing in unison, and he felt uncomfortable all over, so he went to the sink to wash his hands and said, "You two wrap up first... I'll go back and check my mail."

Jiang Li looked at him and couldn't help laughing, "Brother Xiaoyou is shy."

Yan Xiaoyou: "..."

Sister, it's easy for you to have no friends like this.

Hui Xiaoyou sneaked back to his home as if avoiding debts, but as soon as he turned on the computer, Jiang Xin followed him, leaning on the door frame and looking at him with a smile, "Senior brother, you have to check emails during the holiday today, you are busier than me .”

"That's... I want to see if there are any new periodicals released, and the Dragon Boat Festival is not held abroad." Hui Xiaoyou was very satisfied with the reason he gave, and lowered his head and locked his eyes on the screen so as not to look at him.

Jiang Xin nodded, stopped asking about this matter, and asked instead: "When did you sleep last night?"

"Huh?" Hui Xiaoyou raised his head subconsciously, then quickly lowered it, "I'll sleep after changing the towel a few times after you fall asleep."

"It shouldn't be a few hours. Let's sleep for a while after lunch." Jiang Xin came over and pressed his shoulder and said.

Hui Xiaoyou couldn't control the stiffness of his body, he felt that if Jiang Xin touched him a few more times, he would turn into a petrified person.

"that……"

Hui Xiaoyou suddenly stood up from the chair, moved away from Jiang Xin's arm, smiled awkwardly at him and said, "Now you are a patient, don't keep thinking about me, wait half an hour for you to take the medicine after eating." Alright, take a nap this afternoon."

"Then let's sleep together." Jiang Xin answered it very smoothly, as if she was waiting for him.

For a moment, Hui Xiao seemed to be suffering from aphasia, staring at Jiang Xin in a daze, not knowing whether to answer or how to answer.

"Senior Brother?" Jiang Xin had already seen that something was wrong with Hui Xiaoyou today, she frowned lightly, approached him and stretched out her hand, "You—"

"You two are going too far!" Jiang Li suddenly appeared at the door.

The little girl put her hands on her hips and stared at them angrily, "I just turned around and found that I was the only one left in the kitchen! How could you leave me to work alone? I was working diligently there. Zongzi, is it appropriate for you to love each other here?"

"..."

Hui Xiaoyou couldn't remember if Jiang Li used to speak in this style, but since meeting today, every word she used was like a hammer, knocking on his words that had been "unrequited love". "The tormented and fragile little heart was almost broken.

Hui Xiaoyou felt that he couldn't give this aunt another chance to "talk nonsense and die endlessly", so he pushed her back decisively, and coaxed her as he walked, "Miss Grae, I'm wrong, I'm going to help right now, please don't worry." Don't be angry, it's a big sin to make a beautiful woman angry."

Jiang Li was very happy being coaxed by Yan Xiaoyou, and put on a smiling face as if flipping through a book, "Brother Xiaoyou, I didn't realize that you are so good at coaxing girls, I thought you were not interested in girls at all!"

"..." Hui Xiaoyou said that I am really not interested, I am interested in your brother right now...

Jiang Xin followed behind the two of them, and when she heard Jiang Li's words, she interjected, "I also thought that senior brother was not interested in girls, just like me."

"Same as you?" Hui Xiaoyou turned around as if getting an electric shock, staring at him closely, "What do you mean by being the same as you?"

"It means not being interested in girls." Jiang Xin showed a meaningful expression, walked past Hui Xiaoyou, walked into the kitchen first, washed her hands, picked up the rice dumpling leaves and wrapped them skillfully.

When Jiang Li came over and saw her brother's movements, she couldn't help pouting, and whispered: "It's still better than mine, brother, teach me again."

"Okay," Jiang Xin said, turning her head to look at Hui Xiaoyou, "Brother, do you want to learn together?"

Hui Xiaoyou was still engrossed in the conversation just now and didn't come back to his senses, he had been wondering what Jiang Xin meant by "not interested in girls".

Does it mean that he is temporarily not interested in girls?Or have you never been interested in it?Is this a hint to him...

If he's really not interested in girls, what about boys?What about yourself?And does the "interest" in his mouth simply represent a tendency of thought, and does it have something to do with his emotions?

……

Hui Xiaoyou was almost dizzy thinking about these things, he didn't understand Jiang Xin's question at first, what he was asking, he waited for a few seconds before regaining his composure and said, "What did you just say? "

Jiang Xin raised his eyebrows slightly, and joked, "I said, do you want to learn how to make zongzi with me? What are you thinking? So focused."

"No, it's nothing..." Hui Yue rubbed his head, "I want to learn, you can teach me."

Jiang Xin glanced at him thoughtfully, didn't ask any more questions, and began to teach him hand in hand.

The speed of three people making bags at the same time can be much faster, and Hui Xiaoyou can learn fast, Jiang Xin couldn't help but said to him while teaching: "Senior brother, I really think you have a talent for cooking, you can learn how to cook with me." , so that in case I go on a business trip or have something to do in the future, you can cook some delicious food yourself."

"Don't learn." Hui Xiaoyou's refusal was as straightforward as when he refused to go to the gym.

Jiang Xin sighed helplessly, "It's not as troublesome as you think, it's quite simple to do."

"Then I won't learn either." Hui Yue wondered if you think I'm blind, why should I bother?Just watching the process gives me a headache.

"Brother, don't force Brother Xiaoyou to learn how to cook. You are enough. I always think that cooking for Xiaoshou is one of my favorite things!" Jiang Li said cheerfully at this time.

Hui Xiaoyi almost had a myocardial infarction, and his memory is super good. After listening to the science popularization of Jiangli last time, he firmly remembered what the words "gong, shou, and CP" meant. Substituting it in and thinking about it, both ears burned instantly.

And...why would he suffer in Jiang Li's eyes? !

Yan Xiao forcefully patted a wrapped rice dumpling in his hand onto the table, and the shape was flattened instantly, but he didn't care, he turned his head and said seriously to Jiang Li, "Gran, you're wrong to think so, It’s Su’s point that a wife cooks for her husband!”

"Ah...?" Jiang Li had an expression of "I can't quite get your point".

But Jiang Xin couldn't help laughing out loud, lowered her head intentionally or unintentionally and whispered close to Hui Yue's ear, "Brother, what do you mean, are you my husband?"

"..." Hui Yue opened his mouth, "..."

It seems that I accidentally said something serious...

"I, I mean... suppose I and you... the two of us... what the hell..."

Hui Xiaoyou's face turned red at a speed visible to the naked eye, and he himself felt that if he went on like this, he would definitely not be able to justify himself, so he simply cheered himself up, gritted his teeth and asked the question he had been holding back all night.

"Jiang Xin!" Hui Xiaoyou raised his head abruptly, his face flushed red and his chest holding his breath, "What do you think about this matter?"

"Brother, what are you referring to?" Jiang Xin blinked her eyes, not knowing whether she really didn't understand or was pretending to be confused, she asked innocently: "Does it mean that husband or wife is better at cooking?"

"It's not this!" Hui Xiaoyou suddenly felt hot all over his body, but even though the air conditioner was on, sweat broke out from his brow, he pulled his collar and said, "I want to ask... about the offenses you said to the scorpion, Guys or something... how do you look at it?"

There was a deeper smile in Jiang Xin's eyes, and he asked instead, "What do you think, senior brother?"

"Me?" Hui Xiaoyou pointed to himself, "What does it have to do with me...I'm asking you!"

"I—" Jiang Xin smiled and was about to answer, but Jiang Li suddenly waved his arms and said it for him first: "My God, Brother You, you finally asked this question! My brother won't let me He took the initiative to tell you, he said that he can only tell you unless you ask! Have you really not seen it?! My brother has been bent for many years!!"

Hui Xiaoyou stood in a daze, and subconsciously repeated: "Bent... for many years?"

"En." Jiang Xin finally spoke this time.

He looked at Hui Xiaoyou, smiled faintly, "I've been bent for many years."

※※※

Jiang Xin told Hui Xiaoyou that she had been bent for many years.

Hui Xiaoyou hadn't had time to react to his words that sounded like thunder from the ground, when he heard his mobile phone on the dining table rang.

He stared at Jiang Xin in a daze for a few seconds, and then remembered to answer the phone in the eyes of the other party reminding him, and rushed to the table with one hand and one foot, when he picked up the phone, his hand trembled and almost threw it back on the table .

Hui Xiaoyou kept thinking in his heart that he was so embarrassed this time...

But after the call was connected, his voice sounded quite normal, without rushing: "Hello, Chen Jiashu."

"Hey buddy! There's a party tonight, come out!" Chen Jiashu's enthusiastic greeting came through the microphone, and Jiang Xin heard it.

"What occasion?" Hui Xiaoyou glanced at Jiang Xin, "It's not convenient for me tonight, I won't go if I don't have to show up."

"Hey! This is absolutely necessary!" Chen Jiashu shouted quickly, "Meng Zheng is back! I want to see you by name!"

"Meng Zheng?" Hui Xiaoyou was stunned. Meng Zheng was originally their roommate when they first entered the freshman year. In the dormitory, he had the best relationship with Hui Yue. At that time, even Chen Jiashu couldn't compare to him, but later, for some reason, Before the end of the second half of the first year, Meng Zheng suddenly dropped out of school without giving any reason. After changing all contact methods, he completely disappeared from everyone's sight.

To be honest, Hui Yue was quite hit at that time.A person who gets along with you day and night and calls you a brother suddenly disappears without even saying hello. Who would feel better about this?

Later, when they were in their junior year, Meng Zheng actually called Hui Xiaoyou's cell phone and apologized to Hui Yue, saying that he left in a hurry.

But when Hui Xiaoyou asked him why he dropped out of school, he refused to say anything, and after a few words of pleasantries, he hung up the phone. Hui Xiaoyou called again and answered him, but told him that it was a public phone, and the location was in the southwest. In a rural traffic contact station in a mountainous area.The person who answered the phone told Hui Xiaoyou that the person who called just now had already left and could not be seen anymore.

For a long time, Hui Xiaoyou felt that this phone call was quite mysterious.

In the dormitory, he discussed with Chen Jiashu, the boss, and the third son all kinds of possibilities about Meng Zheng's whereabouts, from dropping out of school to supporting education to accepting state secret missions, and even being threatened and kidnapped by aliens in the end. Even the hypotheses could not convince three people at the same time, so in the end it was nothing.

Hui Xiaoyou felt very ashamed.

Frankly speaking, although the relationship between him and Meng Zheng was the best at that time, and he was really depressed for a while after Meng Zheng left, but when he was in his sophomore year, Jiang Xin enrolled, with Jiang Xin's company, As well as the group of "husbands and dogs" around him, Hui Xiaoyou gradually forgot about Meng Zheng's departure, and now thinking about it, he felt that he was a bit big-hearted.

Now that Meng Zheng came back suddenly, and asked to see him by name, he should go if he wanted to.

"Okay, where will we meet at night?" Hui Xiaoyou asked.

Chen Jiashu was happy, "Master Bayi! That guy Meng Zheng doesn't want a high-end place, he insists on a place where he can eat meat and drink in a big bowl. I don't know what torture he has suffered in the past few years. He used to be quite a quiet guy. He has been ravaged by life and turned into a rough man."

Hui Xiaoyou couldn't help laughing, "Sounds like a good story, let's ask tonight."

"Must! If he doesn't make his words clear tonight, don't even think about leaving!" Chen Jiashu laughed, "By the way, do you know that Meng Zheng contacted you first when he came back this time, but you changed it when you were a senior?" He gave me his mobile phone number, but he couldn't find anyone, so he called me."

"Oh." Hui Xiaoyou remembered the time when he lost his mobile phone, and nodded, "It's fine as long as we get in touch, then let's not talk about it, see you tonight."

"Okay, don't drive at night, I'll pick you up." Chen Jiashu put down the phone after speaking.

As soon as Hui Xiaoyou put down his phone, he received an inquiry wave from Jiang Xin, "Brother, are you going out tonight?"

"Hmm..." Hui Xiaoyi looked at him and began to replay the phrase "bending for many years" just now in his mind. He felt that he was really shocked when he first heard it, but now that he had buffered for a while, he felt that this was actually true. It's quite natural.

Otherwise, with such good conditions as his junior brother, how could it be possible that he has never been in love since he was a child?This is so unscientific.

But since Jiang Xin is crooked, how does he feel about himself?

After getting along for so many years, there is no doubt that he treats him well, but is this "good" just because of the brotherhood that grew up together, or... the kind he expects now?

At this moment, Hui Xiaoyou actually had a strong urge to ask clearly.

Yet he held back.

God knows how afraid he is that he won't get the answer he wants to hear after he asks it.

Once this kind of thing is exposed, the result will be contrary to expectations, and embarrassment will definitely be brewed between the two of them.It's okay to embarrass him with anyone, but Jiang Xin can't.

Only Jiang Xin can't...

Hui Xiaoyou thumped inwardly, just imagining the possible gap between him and Jiang Xin in the future, he felt chills all over his body, and a layer of goosebumps arose.

Forget it... let's not ask.I'll talk about it later when I have a chance.

Hui Xiaoyou thought about this, and quickly comforted himself before raising his head and smiling at Jiang Xin who was still looking at him: "I have a party tonight, so I don't want to go, can you eat by yourself at night? You have to remember to take your medicine after dinner."

"I'm fine." Jiang Xin looked puzzled, "What kind of party is it tonight? When you told Senior Brother Chen just now, someone seemed to be back? Are you familiar with Senior Brother?"

"Well, it's pretty familiar." Hui Xiaoyou thought for a while, looked at him and said, "He was my roommate in freshman year, and we had a good relationship, but he dropped out after freshman year, and you hadn't come to G University then. , so I don’t know.”

"Oh," Jiang Xin nodded thoughtfully, "No wonder, the name sounds strange."

Hui Xiaoyou couldn't help but glance at him amusedly, "Could it be possible that you still know everyone around me?"

Jiang Xin didn't take his words as a joke, and replied seriously: "Except for the new people you met when you were a freshman and Ph.D., everything else is pretty much the same."

Hui Xiao had the same thought for a while, as long as the two of them were in the same place, his circle of friends would basically be figured out by Jiang Xin.

Being known to this level is also temperless, Hui Xiaoyou thought that if Jiang Xin wanted to cheat him one day in the future, based on how well he knew him, wouldn't it be a sure thing to cheat?It is estimated that the family will go bankrupt and even the money and color will have to be searched for by others.

There's nothing wrong with that though...

Such a sentence silently floated through Hui Xiaoyou's mind, making him instantly feel that he was worthless.

"By the way, senior brother, should you drink a bar at dinner?" Jiang Xin suddenly asked at this moment, Hui Xiaoyou hummed for granted, and then Jiang Xin continued: "You should drink less, every time you drink too much, you will drink more." Throwing up hurts my stomach."

"I don't want to either, but what can I do? If you don't drink, people will think you're putting on airs and can't be pushed away." Hui Xiaoyou spread his hands.

But in a blink of an eye, seeing Jiang Xin frowning worriedly, he patted him again and said, "Okay, I know, I will try to drink as little as possible."

"Yeah." Jiang Xin regained her smile and nodded at him.

"Hey..." Jiang Li suddenly barked at the door of the kitchen and made a weird sound, "Brother Xiaoyou, hurry up and be with my brother, I can't bear to see you two just so tired..."

"Say, what are you talking about!" Yan Xiaoyou cast a guilty glance at Jiang Xin, cleared his throat and pushed the gracilla into the kitchen, looking around, he said, "Have the zongzi been wrapped? Let me check to see if it's okay." Is it in the pot? How long will it take? Let me time it."

With a strange smile on Jiang Li's face, she looked at her brother and then at Yan Xiaoyou, with a clear and clear voice, "Okay, I'll start cooking now, and you two brothers will go to have a chat for a while." Er Qiao, I will call you when it is cooked."

"...The child now..." Hui Xiaoyou was too embarrassed to go to see Jiang Xin again, he turned around and walked around him, and when he got to the door, he rushed inside and shouted: "I'm going back first, call me when you're done! "

"Hey Brother Xiaoyou!" Jiang Li realized that Hui Xiaoyou was gone in the blink of an eye, and couldn't help making a face at Jiang Xin, "Brother, do you think Brother Xiaoyou's reaction just now has something in his heart? I think—— I'm going to have a 'sister-in-law' soon, right? Does this count as my assist?!"

Jiang Xin reached out to touch her head and smiled slightly.

"The visa to Japan has been processed for you. If you go there during the summer vacation, I will reimburse you for all expenses."

"My God!!!" Jiang Li jumped three feet high in excitement, "Long live brother! Long live sister-in-law!!"

The smile in Jiang Xin's eyes grew stronger.

Sister-in-law?I don't know if he would mind the title.

If he doesn't want to, then he has no objection to asking Jiang Li to call him brother-in-law.

***

At six o'clock in the evening, Chen Jiashu picked up Yan Xiaoyou at the entrance of the Four Seasons Mansion, and the two went to Master Bayi in the west city together.

It is a Xinjiang restaurant, which has various Uyghur specialties, which are very authentic, and the price is affordable and the environment is good. Because it is relatively close to G University, when they were in school, a large group of them often went there for dinner.

But Yan Xiaoyou hasn't been there since he graduated, and he still misses it when he suddenly mentions it this time.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask you, where is Jiang Xin?" Chen Jiashu asked suddenly when he was about to arrive.

"At home." Hui Xiaoyou said looking out the window.

"Why didn't you ask him to come with you? How can you bear to let him stay at home alone for the Dragon Boat Festival when you come out for a big meal?" Chen Jiashu exaggeratedly raised his voice.

Hui Xiaoyou turned his head and gave him a white look, "He has a cold today, and his throat is uncomfortable. Master Bayi's food is spicy and oily, won't it make it worse after eating it. I'll let him eat some light food at home, so he can have a good rest so he won't have to worry about it. "

"Yo ho, you care so much about junior brother." Chen Jiashu smiled deeply, "I think your mother nature is becoming more and more obvious."

"Fart, are you looking for smoke?" When Hui Xiaoyou scolded Chen Jiashu, their car just drove into Master Bayi's yard, Hui Xiaoyou subconsciously turned his eyes to the door, and saw a person standing on the left side of the door, Wearing white short sleeves and army green shorts, his skin is a healthy wheat color, and he also wears a dark hat on his head, giving him a full sense of movement.

Although the overall feeling has changed a lot, Hui Xiaoyou still recognized this person at a glance.

"Meng Zheng!" Yan Xiaoyou yelled, Chen Jiashu stopped the car and asked him to go down first, and went to find a parking space by himself, Yan Xiaoyou strode towards Meng Zheng, and Meng Zheng walked over quickly after seeing him.

"Your boy—" Hui Xiaoyou had already smiled after approaching, and raised his hand to punch Meng Zheng on the shoulder first, but before his hand touched his body, Meng Zheng had already dodged to one side, and punched Meng Zheng head-on. He was hugged tightly.

Meng Zheng: "Xiaoyou, I really fucking miss you."