Chapter 7 Not even a moment for polite formalities was left for her.
In preparation for the final exam, Xia Qingwan stayed up all night memorizing test points, analysis, and revising papers. After the exam week ended in early June, she slept soundly at home.
After waking up, there were several missed calls on my phone.
All of them are from Xia Mingzhou.
She called back.
As soon as the call was connected, the noisy background sound from the other end came in. Xia Qingwan held the phone further away and asked, "Brother? What's up?"
As soon as she said this, there was even more chaos over there. Several male voices were talking at once. After a while, the phone seemed to be back in Xia Mingzhou's hands.
"younger sister!"
Xia Mingzhou called her loudly, "Nothing else, just asking you to come over and play."
"...Are you entertaining guests?"
"No, I was drinking and playing cards with some friends."
"Oh," Xia Qingwan said, "I won't go unless there's something else. I just woke up and have a lot of things to do."
"Haven't you finished your exams? What else could be going on?"
Xia Qingwan laughed. "I have to get medicine for grandma, pick up clothes for her, and go to the bookstore. There are so many things to do."
Her voice was clear and gentle, and she explained her plans word by word seriously. Xia Mingzhou felt that his sister was very well-behaved, so he stopped talking. "Okay, then you get busy." Then he remembered something, "Oh, by the way, your sister-in-law's birthday party is next week. Don't forget to show up on time."
"I won't forget. I've already bought the gifts."
"good."
After hanging up the phone, Xia Qingwan took a shower and changed her clothes.
As a student, she had passed the biggest hurdle of the final exams and felt a bit lighter, so she casually put on some light makeup.
It's okay to go bare-faced all day long, but it's also nice to dress up occasionally.
After cleaning up, I went downstairs and searched the side hall for a long time, but I couldn't find the note with the address of the tailor shop.
Last month, Grandma Liang called and said that the tailor I mentioned last time was good. The materials and craftsmanship were top-notch, and she understood the clothing needs of the elderly very well. The clothes were very comfortable to wear. She also said that she had already had several sets made according to Grandma's size, and we could pick them up together in two weeks.
The tailor didn't hire anyone and didn't provide door-to-door service, and my grandmother didn't go out on weekdays, so she put it off and didn't go to pick it up. It has been almost a month now.
Seeing her rummaging through boxes and drawers, Grandma Xi asked, "What are you looking for?"
At that time, grandma wrote down the address and phone number on a piece of paper and asked Grandma Xi to keep it. Xia Qingwan gestured and asked her.
Grandma Xi uttered a cry, "I was busy cooking that day and didn't have time to do it. Then I forgot about it."
"The old lady is taking a nap right now. Why don't we ask her when she wakes up?"
Grandma always left these trivial matters to Xia Qingwan and Grandma Xi, and she probably didn't even pay attention to them.
Xia Qingwan took out her cell phone and opened the chat box of Grandma Liang on WeChat, but her fingertips did not move.
Grandma Liang made clothes for Grandma with good intentions, but they lost her address. Now that they are so late to pick it up, they still have to ask for her address. It is really a lack of etiquette.
As I was hesitating, a message suddenly popped up on WeChat:
Mr. Ye: What are you doing?
Xia Qingwan remembered that Grandma Liang had mentioned it before, and it was this tailor shop that Mr. Ye took Grandma Liang to.
She replied:
"I'm at home. I have something I want to trouble you with. Is it convenient for you?"
It would be better to ask Mr. Ye than Grandma Liang, and since he happened to send a message, it wouldn't be considered an abrupt interruption for her.
Just as Xia Qingwan was about to continue typing, his phone rang.
Xia Qingwan picked up the phone, "Mr. Ye."
There was silence on the other end of the phone. Ye Peixiu chuckled and said, "After a few days of not seeing you, am I Mr. Ye again?"
She had clearly said before that she would call him by his name from now on. Xia Qingwan's face flushed, and she silently gestured to Grandma Xi beside her. Grandma Xi understood and walked away to attend to her own business.
Xia Qingwan hurried to the window, “...I happen to have something I’d like to trouble you with.”
"you say."
Xia Qingwan told him everything and apologized at the end, "I'm really sorry. Grandma Xi and I are the only ones taking care of these trivial matters at home. I was busy with final exams a while ago, and Grandma Xi has a lot to do every day, so we neglected it for a moment."
After hearing her long list, Ye Peixiu only said, "Are you at home?"
"Um."
"I'm nearby and I have something I want to trouble you with," Ye Peixiu said, "I'll give you a ride."
He said he had something to trouble her with, and Xia Qingwan couldn't refuse. "...Okay, then please wait for me for a moment."
"Don't worry," the other side paused, "come out in twenty minutes."
Didn’t you say it was nearby?
Maybe he still had something else to do. Xia Qingwan said, "Okay, I'm not in a hurry. When you're done, drive slowly and be careful on the road."
After hanging up the phone, Xia Qingwan told this to Grandma Xi to reassure her.
Grandma Xi said, "That's good, that's good. I will pay more attention next time."
With nothing else to do but wait, Xia Qingwan sat idly in the side hall reading a book.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, Xia Qingwan decided to go out to greet him and meet him at the gate of the compound, so that he would not have to pass the checkpoint.
The sun was strong in the afternoon, so Xia Qing went upstairs to get a pair of sunglasses, said goodbye to Grandma Xi, and went out.
It takes ten minutes to walk from her home to the gate of the compound. When she was halfway there, she estimated that the time was almost up, so she took out her cell phone and wanted to send a message to Ye Peixiu asking him to stop at the gate of the compound. Before she could type, she heard the sound of a car horn.
Honking is prohibited in the compound.
She looked up subconsciously.
Across a low iron fence, an Audi stopped in the opposite lane. It was Mr. Ye's car.
The passenger window was lowered, and she pushed her sunglasses to the top of her head and leaned over to look inside. Ye Peixiu, who was in the driver's seat, leaned over and said to her, "Wait for me there."
Xia Qingwan nodded.
She shielded her eyes with her hand, watching Mr. Ye's car drive to the end of the fence ahead, turn around, and slowly pull up beside her.
After getting in the car and fastening her seat belt, Xia Qingwan turned to look at him, wanting to say, "Thank you for your help." Before she could finish her words, their eyes met, and Ye Peixiu smiled gently. She inexplicably felt her face getting hot, and she was so speechless that she even forgot what she was going to say.
"Is it cold? Do you want to turn up the temperature a bit?"
"It's not cold."
She said.
Ye Peixiu half-jokingly said, "It's better to tell the truth. The drive is quite long. I won't be responsible if you catch a cold."
This person... never leaves her any room for polite conversation.
"...Then let's raise it two degrees."
"I want to drive, press the button myself."
Xia Qingwan found the air conditioning control panel, pressed it twice, and adjusted it to 27 degrees.
When she withdrew her hand, Ye Peixiu tilted his head to look at her and asked, "What are you wearing?"
She was wearing the same green dress that he and Grandma Liang had brought last time. "Hmm, it feels like it suits the weather, so I wore this one."
"In a good mood? I feel a little more relaxed than the last few times I've seen you."
Xia Qingwan was surprised and whispered, "You can even see that?"
After turning a corner and heading south, Ye Peixiu reached out and lowered the sun visor on her side, saying with a smile, "So, what's making you so happy?"
"Final exams are over, and I took a long nap," Xia Qingwan said. "I have free time until July, which makes me feel good."
"Is the exam difficult?"
"It's not that it's difficult, it's just that there's a lot to memorize," she said, counting on her fingers the ornate and complex vocabulary and meanings of ancient literature. "It makes my head spin."
Ye Peixiu picked one word from her string of words and asked what it meant.
Xia Qingwan explained it to him, and at the end, asked, "What's your major?"
"Political economy".
Ye Peixiu said nonchalantly, "It's quite boring."
Xia Qingwan was also quite curious and asked what this major entailed.
In the room between the two of them, neither of them ever dropped a word on the floor.
How strange.
Normally, Xia Qingwan was not a talkative person, even when she was with her brother Xia Mingzhou or her friend Shi Xiaoyu. She herself did not realize that she had so much to say to Mr. Ye, who was eight years older than her.
After a while, we arrived at our destination.
Having always heard Grandma Liang talk about tailors and tailor shops, Xia Qingwan subconsciously thought it was a long-standing store opened in an old alley. Unexpectedly, it was opened in the most prosperous downtown area of the East Third Ring Road in Beijing.
There are tall buildings all around, and the glass curtain walls reflect the dazzling light.
After parking the car in the underground parking lot, Ye Peixiu led her up the elevator.
The elevator went up to the first floor and many people came in.
It was summer vacation, and there were many tourists in Beijing. The tourist attractions and downtown areas became more crowded than usual. Xia Qingwan stepped back, and Ye Peixiu put his arm around her wrist and brought her behind him.
But people seemed to keep coming in and squeezing into the car. Perhaps because he was squeezed, Ye Peixiu became impatient and simply turned around to face her, with one hand above her head to protect her.
Xia Qingwan held her breath, not daring to look up at all, only looking down at his trousers and leather shoes.
Looking at him this way, my eyes couldn't help but fall on the lines of his waist and hips. He wasn't wearing a belt, and the waist of his trousers fit him perfectly. His legs were straight and slender, and his waist and abdomen were slightly concave under his white shirt, looking very thin.
In Ye Peixiu's sight, perhaps because of the ceiling light in the elevator, her whole body was glowing white, with her two thin and long arms pressed against the back of the elevator. Looking at her face alone, she was actually beautiful, but her expression and temperament were always aloof, so she gave people a cold feeling.
Her beautiful face, coupled with her cool and aloof temperament, and the quiet, scholarly air she exudes when she concentrates, makes her incredibly alluring and irresistible.
Those long, folding-fan-like eyelashes didn't move for a long time.
I don't know what I'm daydreaming about.
What are you thinking about?
A low voice sounded above his head, and Xia Qingwan subconsciously raised his head.
Their eyes met. Ye Peixiu's eyelashes were half-lowered, his dark eyes deep, staring at her without blinking.
Xia Qingwan's face flushed red. Her throat tightened and she couldn't speak. She stared at him blankly for a while before shaking her head.
"bite."
The elevator reached the fourth floor and most of the people got off in a huge crowd.
Ye Peixiu suddenly felt that it was better to have more people.
He withdrew his arm, turned around, and raised his hand to loosen his collar.
Xia Qingwan stood behind him, silently covering her face and patting her cheeks lightly.
My face is still hot.
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