I'll give it to you.
He Jinxing raised an eyebrow, and hesitated for three seconds between letting go of Gou An and choosing to keep things quiet or provoking Gou Yu. In the end, he made a compromise option -
He openly used two fingers to smooth Gou An's hair, pressed down the few strands of hair that were standing up, and then took his hand away before Gou Yu got angry.
"Everyone in Jiangcheng knows that An An and I have been engaged for a month." He Jinxing reminded gently, "Dad."
Pure and gentle like jade.
Ignore the last two words that are full of provocation and bad taste.
Gou Yu sucked in a breath of cold air, looking as if he was so angry that his life was shortened.
The veins on Gou An's forehead jumped, and she looked up at He Jinxing. The latter felt her burning gaze, lowered his head and looked back at her with a rather innocent look: What's wrong, he started it first.
Gou An kicked his calf under the table, quite hard.
He Jinxing sighed silently, thinking that he was really rude. After they slept together last night, she even dared to glare at him.
Pulling out a chair next to Gou An, he sat down next to her, flipping through the lunch menu to figure out what to eat, and lazily responded, "Okay, no more trouble."
Gou An: "You've had enough of the trouble."
He Jinxing: "Some things don't need to be said out loud, especially when you are sure that no one present would be happy to hear them."
Gou An: "Why are you suddenly lecturing me?"
He Jinxing: "Hmm? This is not a lesson. Come and listen to He's morning meeting if you have a chance. You will find that what I just said is no different from honey."
Gou An: “…”
He Jinxing: "The lunch menu is quite rich, what do you want?"
Gou An: “?”
Gou An: "Seafood baked rice."
Even though I looked confused, I subconsciously answered his question well.
He Jinxing called the waiter, ordered a steak, and replaced the appetizer of cream of mushroom soup with black coffee.
…………In fact, after an intimate relationship, the unconsciously rising atmosphere of ambiguity cannot be hidden even if one wants to——
There are so many unsolved mysteries in the world today. The Mayan crystal skull is one of them, and the flashing eyes and sticky and ambiguous atmosphere between people are also one of them.
Gou Yu: “…”
Gou Yu sat beside them, wanting to say something but stopping for a long time, looking the two up and down, and felt that He Jinxing's action of putting his hand on Gou An's hair was too smooth -
At least he hadn't done that before yesterday.
Gou An didn't show any surprise at all.
Gou Yu felt that if he asked them what happened abruptly, whether it was the heartfelt confession they had yesterday, it would make him seem like a hypocritical father. Moreover, he didn’t want to hear He Jinxing calling him dad in a sarcastic tone again (……).
He endured it and finally gave in. He turned to ask He Jinxing about the progress of the demolition contract for the renovation of the sheds at Jinshan Wharf.
Gou An was still playing with his mobile phone when lunch was delivered. He held the spoon and stuffed it into his mouth without raising his head. He was scalded once and a "hissing" sound was heard. The next second, the phone was taken away by a hand.
She looked up and saw He Jinxing, who was talking to Gou Yu, didn't even turn around, but put her cell phone to his right hand, where she couldn't reach it.
As if sensing her burning gaze, the man slowly turned his head and said, "I'll give it back to you after dinner."
Gou Yu was gloating and waiting for Gou An to get furious, but he didn't expect that she just pursed her lips in resistance and actually lowered her head to eat with a depressed look on her face.
Gou Yu: “…”
Then the steak ordered by He Jinxing came up. When the man cut the first piece of meat, Gou An looked up from his rice and glanced at the asparagus on his plate.
Just a look.
He Jinxing cut off two more pieces of meat. Just as she was wondering what he was doing, the man swiftly dragged the plate in front of him and exchanged it with her half-eaten meal.
Or maybe she was fantasizing too much. At that moment, she suddenly realized why He Jinxing asked her what she wanted to order for lunch. It was probably what he meant at the moment, that she could eat different foods in rotation.
As Gou An took a sip of the fresh, pure sweet orange juice that had just been served, and accurately used his cutlery to pick up the asparagus that he had been coveting for a long time, he heard Gou Yu finally unable to hold back and asked, "Did you two kiss secretly yesterday?"
Gou An tried hard not to spit the asparagus in his mouth back into the plate.
His face quickly turned red, and he looked up at his old father with a pair of frightened and panicked eyes, as if he was extremely puzzled as to why this man could say such shocking things.
Where is mom? Come and take dad away!
As Gou An stood up in panic, she heard the man next to her say calmly and with a smile: "What are you thinking about? Nothing."
She was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously turned her head to look at the man next to her. The latter had a smile on his lips and didn't look like he was lying at all.
He certainly didn't lie.
"Not to that extent." He put down his cutlery, leaned back, looked at his future father-in-law and said, half-seriously, "Are you anxious?"
The half-joking tone caused Gou Yu's blood pressure to soar, but this time Gou An felt that he was also implied -
Are you anxious?
He actually asked such a question.
When she went to sleep in the morning, her mind was filled with the stupid system cat's words "Why didn't he give you a goodbye kiss". God knows even a little cat could tell something was wrong - so much so that when she fell asleep later, she had dreams about the few minutes before he left, replayed over and over again. No matter how many times it was repeated and how many different conversations took place, the final outcome was always that his lips fell accurately on her lips.
The feeling of suffocation from the clumsy kiss in the dream was so real.
In the rewind, she was so moved that she pulled He Jinxing back to bed and suggested that he take a leave for the meeting. Another time, she bit his lips and took the initiative to reach out to the thing that tortured her all night and she thought she never wanted to see again...
Then she woke up and had to take another shower, then put on a new pair of panties like a thief.
The problem that had troubled her for the whole morning was raised lightly and passed over easily. Gou An was indignant when she heard his nonchalant tone.
What do you mean, so you are not in a hurry at all? Even in this situation, you are still thinking about who you are keeping your virginity for! My body is as tense as a cat with its fur standing on end.
He Jinxing next to her probably thought she was just too nervous.
Under the cover of the dining table, his hands, which had been hanging relaxedly at his sides, gently wrapped around her waist and rubbed her waist soothingly.
The waist that she had managed to ignore with great difficulty was now surrounded by a familiar touch, and her memory was awakened in all directions. However, amidst the discomfort in her waist, she unexpectedly felt that the discomfort that was surging in her heart seemed to have improved a little bit -
But she didn't admit it.
Her face became even more sullen. She forcefully and coldly pried open his fingers one by one and threw them away from her.
He Jinxing sat up a little, and this time put his hand on her thigh. The warm temperature of his palm felt very oppressive through the skirt made of suit material, and no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get rid of it.
She turned to look at the person next to her, her relaxed smile faded a little, and he also turned to look at her.
The hand slid toward her knees in a warning motion.
Across the table, Gou Yu's hesitant voice sounded: "It's better not to lie to me. At this stage, it seems too early for you to kiss."
Gou An stood up suddenly, which scared him.
Faced with his expressionless daughter, Gou Yu was so scared that he almost threw the spoon in his hand away: "What's wrong? What did I say is wrong?"
Gou An picked up the hand towel on the table and wiped his hands: "Nothing is wrong."
She paused.
"Don't worry, I'll never kiss him again in my life."
Throwing down the hand towel and this rather childish shout, she ran away like a gust of wind to find the other friends in the Qianjin Group.
Suddenly, only two elderly people, Gou Yu and He Jinxing, were left at the table. They looked at each other. Gou Yu looked at the expression on He Jinxing's face and instantly forgave his daughter's rudeness.
"Don't worry," he said hypocritically, "it's not like you won't have a kiss in your whole life."
As he finished speaking, he saw He Jinxing raise his hand to unbutton a shirt, and he curled the corners of his lips in silence, "Dad, let's discuss it, can you please not--"
It's not relevant to bring up this issue.
He thought of a neutral word, "sowing discord."
"What did I instigate?"
There was no provocation.
After all, you probably didn't expect that a casual remark like that would hit the mark.
He Jinxing was too lazy to explain any more. His worries were completely brought up and he was losing interest at the moment.
As for why Gou An was so angry... he was probably unhappy that he was too open and ambiguous in front of other people, so much so that even a dull person like Gou Yu could smell it.
I totally understand her concerns.
But I was unilaterally annoyed by this.
He Jinxing turned his head and looked at Miss Gou who was sitting at another table with a huff. It looked like she probably wouldn't pay much attention to him this morning.
In other words, his work as a tool last night was in vain.
Tsk tsk.
How heartless.
After lunch, someone suggested going horseback riding.
Seeing that Gou An was not in high spirits and thinking that she was still traumatized by the fall from her horse yesterday, Tang Xinjiu suggested changing to indoor activities. Zhou Yutong said that they passed by a fencing room yesterday and asked if she wanted to go and try it out.
Gou An raised her eyelashes with a little excitement, even though her whole body was so sore that she could hear the "crackling" sound when she raised her hands, and although she didn't quite understand what she was upset about, she really needed a way to vent -
Fencing is a sport that requires you to wrap yourself up tightly and not show any expression on your face, which is just right for you.
Later, somehow, word of their action spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and the fencing room was packed with people.
When Gou An was weighing the foil in his hand, he saw He Jinxing walking in with Jiang Yi, Jiang Zaiye and Chen Jinli, and they found a seat on the sidelines and sat down.
At this time, the latter probably felt her gaze and looked over at her the first second he entered.
Gou An immediately turned his eyes away.
"What are those old men doing here?" Zhou Yutong asked, expressing her inner thoughts. "I always feel like I'm being followed."
As the two were talking, two unexpected people came in from the door. It was said that He Yuan and Ye Lang, the half-owner of the manor who had just arrived at the manor this morning, came in one after another.
After He Ran was sent to Germany, He Yuan's plan to leave the country seemed to be delayed. At this time, she looked over with a smile, waved at Gou An, and called her "sister".
Gou An waved at him in response. Out of the corner of his eye he saw He Jinxing, who was sitting with his legs crossed not far away, put his legs down, took out his cell phone and tapped on it a few times.
At the same time, the cell phone in her pocket vibrated. She turned her head and rolled her eyes a little. She was too lazy to take out her phone to see what nonsense this annoying old guy was talking about.
When she started to choose a suitable fencing suit for herself, Ye Lang walked up to her, picked up another foil, weighed it in his hand, and made a foil flower neatly.
"Huh?" Zhou Yutong asked Ye Lang in shock, "Where did you learn this?"
Fencing is not like table tennis. You can just set up a table and play a few rounds with the old man in a vest downstairs.
Ye Lang used to be a wandering creature underground. It’s not surprising that he can play billiards, but is it a bit too much to say that he can also fencing?
Ye Lang looked at Zhou Yutong expressionlessly, then turned to look at Gou An.
Zhou Yutong was puzzled, but Gou An would know the meaning of his look——
After all, Ye Lang is not only good at fencing, he can also play golf, ski, and surf...
These random and useless skills were all taught by Gou An.
"Does it still hurt?"
Ye Lang was asking about the place where he bumped into her yesterday.
Gou An put the flower sword in his hand back to its original place, glanced at him casually, and said calmly, "Not bad."
The person in front of him did not avoid his gaze, nor did he deliberately make any verbal attacks on him.
Treat him like a passerby, no different.
This made Ye Lang unable to speak any more. His throat felt tight and he actually wanted to say that he did not sleep well last night.
When he closed his eyes, his mind inevitably thought about what the two people would do after he left. The holding hands seemed to be engraved in his mind, so that he was drowned in bizarre dreams for the whole night.
He still couldn't figure out what the so-called original novel he had read was, but to him, it was more like a memory he had already experienced -
One of the passages was the first time Gou An touched his hand, which was in the fencing room.
At that time, they were still innocent young lady and bodyguard. She initially developed a little affection for him, but was willing to drag him along with her in everything.
Gou An's athletic ability is quite developed. She can play anything and become proficient in everything. After class that day, she defeated a boy who was a little older than her in the final summary stage. She was in a good mood. After class, she grabbed Ye Lang, asked him to take off his shoes and come to the stage to teach him how to play.
Ye Lang roamed the streets, mostly using his fists or anything else at hand to fight. He was good at fighting, but this kind of fencing was not very disciplined, and he regarded it as a mere show.
I was also careless when studying, just wanting to finish quickly.
Holding the heavy flower sword, he was not very excited, so Miss Gou scolded him, "Didn't you eat?", reached out from behind, pried open his hands, and taught him how to hold the sword step by step.
The back of his hand with bulging veins fell into his soft palm. Ye Lang was stunned for a moment. Gou An also didn't react for a moment. He rubbed his fingertips on the bulging veins on the back of his hand and sighed: "Your hand has no flesh at all, it's so hard."
After she finished speaking, she looked up and saw the bodyguard looking down at her speechlessly. A rare trace of discomfort appeared on his fair face...
The red tips of his ears betrayed his emotions.
Having inadvertently teased the decent bodyguard, Gou An probably wanted to say that he didn't mean that, but in the end he said nothing. He also blushed, hastily let go of his hand, and pushed his waist: "I won't teach you anymore, you are so stupid, go back and watch the video yourself!"
Ye Lang thought that he would certainly not listen to her, after all, it was useless to learn this thing.
But when he finished his night watch in the morning, returned home, washed up and lay down on the bed. Before he felt sleepy, he somehow opened the teaching video and watched it for a few seconds.
The simple introductory teaching video is very boring, and the speaker talks too much nonsense, and it seems that he is not even as good as that impatient young lady.
Her hands were indeed different from his. Wasn't he a little disgusted the moment he held them? After all, he probably didn't expect someone's hands to be that rough...
Ye Lang finally fell asleep with the background music of the video mixed with the shouting of the old man selling tofu pudding downstairs.
Later, the bodyguard once asked Gou An why he always wanted to teach him all these things. Was it just for the sake of having a little time together and topics to discuss?
Miss Gou held her face in her hands and smiled with her eyes crooked: "It's not because I want to do everything with you, but because I found that in these sports, everyone has a different style... But no matter how you have your own style, the big framework is engraved in your bones. So no matter who you learn from, you will usually play like that person in the end. For example, when you stand on the stage in the future, others will know, 'Ah, this person's fencing posture is the same as Gou An'——"
She turned her head and looked at him with stars in her eyes: "They know you belong to me without saying anything. Isn't it romantic?"
It's very romantic.
But Ye Lang didn’t understand at that time.
The competition on the stage started quickly.
And because of the intrusion of several "outsiders", the originally relaxed and casual competition quickly turned sour, and after the first hour, it entered a white-hot stage.
When He Yuan used the flower sword in his hand to knock Zhou Yan over, Chen Jinli said, "This is the fifth one."
Traditional European sports like equestrianism and fencing were like ducks in water for this child who was exiled abroad.
At this time, the young man on the stage stepped forward and took the initiative to reach out to Zhou Yanji to pull him up, took off his face guard, and asked him with sweat on his face: "How is it?"
Zhou Yanji cursed, "You picked four people in a row, I thought I could get a bargain, are you that fierce?"
Offstage, Jiang Zaiye said with a smile, "He came to my club last week, riding a BMW 1000rr, saying he wanted to change the exhaust... Then he spent a day getting along well with our people, and Zhou Yanji was already very familiar with him at that time."
Jiang Yi: "There are highways with no speed limit in Germany. Ask Ajinzai where he learned how to drive a car?"
Chen Jinli: "He Ran's position is no longer secure."
Zhou Yanji also took off his mask and patted He Yuan on the shoulder with a smile.
Jiang Yi: "Oh, what you said is like an invasion of foreign viruses."
He Jinxing changed his sitting position and said nothing.
Chen Jinli turned his head and looked at him, then smiled: "It doesn't matter, the Gu King is here, these are all his leftovers."
He Jinxing said nothing the whole time. His eyelids drooped as he watched the wave after wave of contestants on the stage inattentively without making any comments. He seemed to be wandering around, and no one knew where he was going.
Looking drowsy.
It feels like I went to steal last night.
Until his view in front of him was blocked, Jiang Yi beside him said "Yo" in a teasing tone. He Jinxing raised his head blankly and looked into a pair of dark and silent eyes.
The man was dressed in fencing clothes and stood before him with a mighty sword, the shadow cast by his tall figure almost covering him.
The young man in front of him was extremely handsome. He had just challenged seven people in a row before finally jumping off the stage with a sword in his arms. He took off his mask at this moment, and his sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes were somewhat obscured by the black hair hanging down in front of his forehead due to sweat. However, his eyebrows were slightly drooped, and his eyes were bright as he stared at the man sitting in the seat.
With his elbows propped up on his legs and his head raised to look at the person blocking his way, He Jinxing was overwhelmed by the hostility that was coming his way.
Youshen's eyes finally slowly came into focus, and a faint smile appeared in his eyes.
Although he was clearly at the bottom, his aura and sense of oppression were not affected in the slightest.
The silent confrontation ended here. Ye Lang took a step back and drew his sword: "Let's have a duel."
The metal tip of the flower sword was right between He Jinxing's eyebrows, less than ten centimeters away.
This new upstart in Jiangcheng calmly said such a rebellious challenge to the Jiangcheng Heavenly King, which was enough to shock everyone. The uncles around He Jinxing looked at each other in surprise...
A question mark popped up in my mind: What is Ye Lang doing? But He Jinxing himself did not react at all.
The corners of his lips curled up habitually. From beginning to end, the man just sighed slowly and thought: How annoying.
It would be a lie to say that it had no effect on him after all the chaos last night. Besides being annoyed by being abandoned after having sex with someone, he really needed a nap to replenish his energy...
What kind of fencing are you playing?
If he admitted that his legs were weak, would he give up cleanly? Just as he was thinking about how to organize his words to get rid of this stubborn and difficult guy, he heard another burst of hurried footsteps.
The same fencing uniform, but the difference is the familiar sweet scent invading the nostrils.
In front of his eyes, long black hair tied into a ponytail flashed past his eyes, and the tip of the flower sword pointing at his nose was picked up by another sword the next second.
"I'll do it."
A cold female voice sounded.
"Don't bother him."
Everyone was shocked and turned around, and saw Miss Gou standing aside with a flower sword in her hand, looking very heroic. Her face was still very sullen, and it was written on it that He Jinxing had been reading all morning, "Don't come near me, I don't want to pay attention to you", but as she stared at Ye Lang, the words she said were full of impatient murderous intent.
Amid the complete silence all around, He Jinxing sat up a little straighter and moved his lips. He was about to say something.
"Don't talk." Gou An turned his head and glanced at him, and said stiffly, "Don't you want a sense of security?"
“…”
"I'll give it to you."
The people around heard it clearly, except for Ye Lang, who was always emotionless but had trembling pupils. Jiang Yi and others wanted to jump up, not daring to believe whether there was something wrong with their ears.
However, He Jinxing just sat there throughout the whole process, not moving.
Even under those circumstances, she actually listened to what he said.
Damn it.
Suddenly, I felt that the sun came out from behind the clouds, shining brightly.
"Thank you for your hard work." The man smiled at this moment and said softly, "Come on, you have to win."
(End of this chapter)