Chapter 74 Chapter 74 "I just want to be closer to you."...
When Haidian University was about to go on holiday, Haicheng welcomed the first snow of the year. Xu Sui took a cup of warm water from the tea room and finally moved his hands, which were stiff from the cold.
This morning there was a small fire caused by a winter heating problem. As soon as Xu Sui heard the news, he rushed to the scene with equipment and Xiao Li.
I was busy until I just got back.
"Sui Sui, the station distributed New Year's benefits today, don't forget to claim them." He Zhao walked past Xu Sui in high heels and knocked on her desk.
As the holidays approach, the station has recently started to work on holiday arrangements, and the whole atmosphere has become different from usual.
Xu Sui sorted out the materials he had just collected and nodded in response: "Okay."
The snow didn't start to subside until around five in the afternoon. Xu Sui looked at the basket of tangerines and began to feel troubled. She was still carrying a lot of bags in her hands. Not to mention whether she had hands to hold them, even if she had a free hand, she couldn't take them away.
There were still a few colleagues at the place where the tangerines were placed. Most of them were fathers or boyfriends who came up to help carry them away. There were not many outsiders like Xu Sui.
Xu Sui flipped through his phone, thinking about calling the driver after everyone left and asking him to come up and help.
Just as she was thinking this, she heard Shi Miao's voice ringing in her ears. She was a little surprised and asked: "Sui Sui, you haven't left either?"
Xu Sui looked up and saw Shi Miao and Chen Yun beside her.
Xu Sui nodded to Chen Yun, and the two of them greeted each other.
"We're waiting for someone to help us, otherwise we won't be able to lift something this heavy." Xu Sui answered Shi Miao's question.
"Do you need my help?" Chen Yun, who originally had his hand on a basket of tangerines, suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Sui and asked.
Xu Sui was a little confused at that moment, but she reacted quickly, turned her head and refused with a smile: "It should be here soon, no need to bother." She waved her hand without looking at Shi Miao's face.
Shi Miao's face froze for a second, then he smiled gently: "Chen Yun has always been enthusiastic, and that's what I liked about him."
She took Chen Yun's arm and said goodbye to Xu Sui.
The two walked out together, and Xu Sui finally loosened his grip on the phone.
"Do you know Shi Miao's boyfriend?" someone came over and asked Xu Sui. Xu Sui nodded and said casually: "High school classmates."
"Then you have to tell your classmate to be careful and not get cheated."
Xu Sui suddenly raised her eyes, feeling a little strange. She knew that there were many open and covert struggles in Haidian, but the man in front of her was an old employee of Haidian, and she was not in competition with Shi Miao.
Xu Sui thought about it and asked, "What do you mean?"
The woman's husband happened to come in at this moment. She was in a hurry to leave. When she heard Xu Sui's question, she just turned around and looked at her and said, "Some people fall in love and get married not because they like each other."
Xu Sui wanted to ask a few more questions, but they had already walked a long way, so she had to give up in the end. After all, she was only that familiar with Chen Yun and Shi Miao.
The driver put a basket of tangerines in the trunk. Xu Sui got into the car with the things and peeled a tangerine while video chatting with Song Shiyang.
"Is it sweet?" Song Shiyang pinched his eyebrows and asked Xu Sui. It was very noisy there, with many people speaking English or German. It looked like an event similar to a big lecture.
"Tian, do you want to eat it? Yun will give it to you." Xu Sui smiled cunningly, holding the peeled tangerine in front of the phone and showing it to Song Shiyang.
The man opposite snorted and turned his head away, but after a few seconds he looked at the camera honestly and opened his mouth obediently.
"Ah~" After Xu Sui finished speaking, he put the orange slice into his mouth. His eyes narrowed due to the sweetness, like a sated kitten.
"By the way, there will probably be renovation workers coming in a few days. Remember to keep your valuables when you return to Yu City." The man raised his glasses and looked away.
Xu Sui frowned, looking puzzled, and asked: "What renovation worker? Didn't you just finish the renovation?"
"One room is too small. Our rooms are next to each other anyway. I thought we could connect them, and you agreed." The man coughed lightly and reminded her, "The day before I left on a business trip, after watching a movie, I asked and you agreed."
Xu Sui was stunned, and her memory recalled. She seemed to have some vague impression, but at that time she didn't pay attention to what questions he asked!
But he was difficult to deal with and refused to give up without a correct answer, so I had to give him a vague reply.
"Just remember it." The man chuckled, with a hint of teasing in his smile. He spoke slowly and leisurely turned the pages of the book.
Xu Sui's eyes were filled with resentment. He felt that Song Shiyang was too cunning and that he had accidentally fallen into the pit he had dug and could not get out.
Seeing Xu Sui's expression, Song Shiyang couldn't help laughing, his shoulders trembling slightly. Seeing that Xu Sui was about to get annoyed, he straightened his expression and said in a low voice: "I just want to be closer to you."
There was tenderness and a touch of flattery in the voice.
Even if Xu Sui was annoyed, he couldn't say a word of blame at this moment. He lowered his brows and felt that the tangerines bought by the company were very sweet, with a long-lasting sweetness.
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On the 16th day of the 12th lunar month, Xu Sui returned to Yu City. Song Shiyang would arrive two days later and would fly back directly from Western Europe instead of returning to Haicheng.
On the first day back home, Xu Sui went to the market with the old lady at home.
My uncle drives the car.
At that time, Chongqing had just snowed two days ago, and the snow was melting at this moment. The temperature was below zero, but the New Year atmosphere was very lively.
Everyone was wearing big coats of various colors, walking around the market, looking very happy.
"Grandma, why did you buy so many candies? You can't eat so much." Xu Sui was wearing a brown woolen coat and standing next to his grandmother with a bag on his shoulder, and the other hand was holding the New Year's goods he had just bought.
"Isn't your sister getting married at the beginning of the year? She'll need so much wedding candy, so I prepared it in advance." Grandma filled a whole bag. The boss took it from her and weighed it next to her.
Only then did Xu Sui remember this.
Yes, Shu Siyun is already engaged and will be getting married soon. No, it’s not really “getting married”, in the local dialect it’s “two coming and two going”.
Both parties are only children, so when they have children, one will take the father's surname and the other will take the mother's surname.
Xu Sui glanced at his uncle who was buying fruit not far away, frowned and asked, "Have you discussed this with Shu Siyun and Auntie? They might buy it themselves and then not use it, so it would be a waste, wouldn't it?"
Xu Sui pointed at the bag of candy. The boss had just finished weighing the candy and handed it over and quoted a price.
"It's okay. It's one thing for me to buy it, and it's another for her to use it or not. It's always better to worry about it more." Grandma said as she was about to take money out of her bag. Xu Sui sighed and scanned the QR code to pay the money first.
Grandma refused to give in and glared at him, trying to stuff the money he hadn't given into Xu Sui's pocket. Xu Sui refused to take it and thought for a moment before saying, "I bought it for my sister. Why are you giving me money? I didn't buy it for you. Just use this money to buy some new clothes."
"Grandma, look at how old your clothes are." Xu Sui pulled at his grandmother's cotton-padded jacket and felt a little headache.
As the elderly get older, they don’t understand things very well. They don’t wear the new clothes you buy them, but insist on wearing old clothes. No matter what you say, they don’t listen and say they want to save money.
Xu Sui said many times that he was rich, and his aunt, uncle and Shu Siyun were all working adults, so they didn't need this old lady in her seventies to worry about them at all.
Seeing that the money didn't go in after several attempts, the old lady took it back. Xu Sui didn't have the hands to carry the bag of candy, so he had to ask his grandfather to do it.
They had almost bought everything, including chicken, duck, fish and meat. Xu Sui looked at his grandfather walking in front of him and couldn't help asking, "Grandpa, why do you look so unhappy?" with a dark face.
"Him? He had a falling out with Grandpa Zhao next door some time ago. He didn't win the argument and was very angry." When grandma said this, she couldn't help laughing.
Xu Sui didn't expect this to be the reason and was surprised for a moment.
Suddenly thinking of Song Shiyang, Xu Sui opened his mouth tentatively and asked, "It's not a big deal, right? How is your relationship with Grandma Zhao now?"
Grandma didn't think too much about it and just thought Xu Sui was chatting with her about family matters. The two of them walked slowly and soon fell far behind my uncle and grandfather.
"It's just a small thing. Grandma Zhao and I still occasionally do square dancing together. It snowed recently, and she was teaching me how to play Go."
Xu Sui lowered his eyes and smiled softly, saying softly: "Okay."
In the next few days, Xu Sui was busy preparing New Year supplies for the house, cleaning the house, putting up couplets, etc. He also made a few bags of dumplings and put them in the refrigerator for breakfast.
Once, Xu Sui was wiping the dust off an old iron gate when Shu Siyun came down from upstairs carrying a bag of garbage and ran into Xu Sui.
When the cousins met, they had nothing to say to each other for a while.
"I heard you're getting married at the beginning of the year. Congratulations." Xu Sui got down from the chair, rolled up the sleeves of her light blue sweater, and tied her hair into a braid. Her voice was calm and indifferent.
"I received your blessing. When will you put your lifelong event on the agenda? Grandma is always worried about you." Shu Siyun was dressed fashionably, with lipstick on and eyebrows drawn, and looked like she was going on a date.
Xu Sui raised his eyebrows slightly, relaxed his expression, and said in a relaxed tone, "Maybe next year? I'll let you know when the time comes to attend the wedding."
Shu Siyun looked at Xu Sui with surprise and said, "I told you that grandma is worrying too much. I'll be leaving now. Goodbye."
As she was about to leave, Xu Sui suddenly remembered something and called out to her, "Hey, have you bought the candy for your wedding?"
"Not yet? Why are you suddenly talking about this?" Shu Siyun turned around in surprise and looked at Xu Sui.
"Grandma went to the market to buy you some wedding candy. I'll deliver it to you tonight as a token of my appreciation for the old lady's kindness." Xu Sui said in a low voice while wiping the door handle.
"Okay, thanks." Shu Siyun walked down the stairs step by step. Suddenly, she turned around and looked at Xu Sui in front of her and called her: "Xu Sui."
"What's wrong?" Xu Sui turned his head to look at her. Their eyes met, and Shu Siyun said without a word: "I'm sorry."
Then he continued downstairs without looking back.
In fact, she herself couldn't explain what kind of feelings she had towards her sister Xu Sui.
When she was three or four years old, she knew that her aunt had a younger sister. She thought it was very interesting and she had a playmate. However, they were separated for more than ten years. When they met again, she felt that Xu Sui would take away the attention of her grandparents.
Mingming was the one that grandparents loved the most. They would stand up to protect her when her mother scolded her, beat her, and said with a smile: "We are already very capable, mom, please stop scolding us."
But when Xu Sui came, they paid much less attention to themselves.
They didn't even know that their mother punished them for not doing well on the exam.
However, Xu Sui was neither as smart nor as pretty as her, nor as eloquent and likable as her.
When she learned that her grandfather had put a lot of effort into getting Xu Sui into the experimental class, she admitted that she was a little jealous.
So, when she was chatting with the girl named Yue, she accidentally let the cat out of the bag, but in fact, she didn't expect that they would surround Xu Sui.
She thought that at most it would just be a little bit difficult in her study and life.
What's even more terrifying is that Xu Sui knew about it, and she was worried that Xu Sui would tell it out. Fortunately, she just reminded her and then passed by her. The fate of the two also took different directions at that moment.
Xu Sui is living a good life. She is actually satisfied with her current life, which is ordinary and simple but full of lasting happiness.
But I never found the right time to say "I'm sorry".
But fortunately, at the end of 2023 and when 2024 was about to begin, she finally expressed her apology, which had been so long in coming.
Don't ask for forgiveness.
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The author has something to say: My sister is not a bad person actually, she is just a little bit stupid.
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