Jiuqiu is a man of action.
She didn't know where she got so many women's clothes from and piled them up at home. She put on every piece of clothing and asked Jiang Han to take pictures of her and post them on her QQ space and WeChat Moments.
When Liang Xia saw the picture and text information posted by Jiu Qiu, she immediately called her to inquire about the situation.
"That's right! Sister, I want to start a business!" Jiuqiu said in high spirits on the phone, and then, she deliberately said vaguely, "Liangxia, do you want to buy clothes? I'll give you a discount!"
"Do you feel a sense of accomplishment from earning my money?" Liang Xia curled her lips.
"No." Jiuqiu said honestly, and then added, "How about you help me promote it in school? All the female college students in your school need to buy clothes anyway..."
"Let me try." Liang Xia hung up the phone and covered her forehead with her hands because of a headache.
Liang Xia teaches at A University, which is where Jian Yingfei once studied. Jian Yingfei's father is a shareholder of the school.
In order to help Jiuqiu, Liangxia would write Jiuqiu's QQ and WeChat ID on the blackboard before every class and say, "This is my friend, who sells women's clothing . Girls and boys with girlfriends who are interested can learn more about him. I bought this outfit from my friend."
She had specially changed into a well-matched outfit today. The freshmen were experiencing college life for the first time and were curious about everything. Moreover, it was the nature of girls to love beauty, and since their teacher was so beautiful, they naturally wanted to make themselves more beautiful.
Every time Liang Xia promoted Jiu Qiu, there would be boys in the audience jokingly asking, "Teacher Lin, is your friend as beautiful as you?"
"Your teacher Lin is as quiet as a virgin, while she is as agile as a rabbit. Do you think she is beautiful?" Liang Xia is now used to getting along with younger people, so she always speaks with a little humor. As soon as she said this, the whole class burst into laughter. The boys clapped their hands on the table and said excitedly, "That's good! I like it, I like it!"
In fact, customers themselves are the most effective advertisements. After Liangxia's students bought clothes from Jiuqiu, word spread quickly and Jiuqiu's business flourished.
In order to reward Liangxia, the great benefactor, Jiuqiu hosted everyone for hotpot.
The hot pot was boiling, and the billowing steam blocked their view.
Jiang Han put the vegetables into the hot pot and put the cooked meat into Jiuqiu's bowl. Liang Xia turned her head to look at Xu Qingyan who was eating happily, with a complicated expression on her face.
Realizing that Liang Xia was looking at him, Xu Qingyan raised his head, looked at her, then looked at Jiang Han, and silently picked up Liang Xia's bowl to pick up some meat for her.
Jiuqiu was watching from the opposite seat and laughed out loud.
"What are you laughing at? Didn't you say you made money? But you invited us to such a shabby place to eat hotpot." Liang Xia said bluntly.
Xu Qingyan placed the bowl in front of Liang Xia and said without knowing what was going on: "It tastes good."
Liang Xia was speechless, Jiu Qiu started laughing again, and while laughing he deliberately said: "It's incredible, some people's lives have improved now, and they look down on the hot pot in this shabby place."
"Lu Jiuqiu, who are you talking about?" Liang Xia was displeased.
"Oh, I'm so scared. When did Liangxia become so fierce?" Jiuqiu deliberately patted his chest and pretended to be scared.
Liang Xia was too lazy to talk to her and lowered her head to eat the hot food in the bowl.
A hotpot meal filled with a strange atmosphere.
After eating, Liangxia and Xu Qingyan went home together. The autumn in Nanshi is like a fickle child. The highest temperature yesterday was 30℃, but today it is only 20℃.
"Phew, what a horrible weather." Liang Xia took Xu Qingyan's arm and moved her body closer to him to keep warmer.
Xu Qingyan was wearing little today, so he couldn't take off his coat to give to Liangxia. He pulled Liangxia closer, then held her hand to warm her up.
Liang Xia leaned against Xu Qingyan, feeling a little warm in her heart.
"If it's very cold, let's take a taxi back." After walking for a while, Xu Qingyan stopped and turned his head to say to Liang Xia.
Liang Xia leaned against him and said, "No need, just walk like this."
For Liangxia, the best state of being in love is for two people to live a long and peaceful life, have the opportunity to take a walk together, make tea together, and see the scenery of the world together.
Xu Qingyan is such a person now, but Liang Xia is afraid that he will not be such a person in the future, and that both of them will be defeated by reality. Therefore, she cherishes every moment they are together now.
"Liangxia." Xu Qingyan thought about it and decided to speak out what was in his heart, "I want to take you back to meet my parents."
Liang Xia suddenly stopped when she heard this, slowly pulled her hand out of Xu Qingyan's arm, and said, "I'm not ready."
Xu Qingyan comforted Liang Xia: "No need to prepare, I'm here for you, just be yourself."
"I'm not talking about that. I'm saying that I'm not mentally ready to meet your parents as your girlfriend." For Liang Xia, although she liked Xu Qingyan and enjoyed being with him, she was not yet absolutely sure that she wanted to marry him.
To put it bluntly, it's just liking, not love.
"Liang Xia, we have been together for more than a year."
Is one year long? Not long. It took Liang Xia ten years to see Tang Cheng's heart clearly. She and Xu Qingyan have only been together for one year.
"Xu Qingyan, let me tell you a story." Liang Xia turned around and sat on a stone bench by the road. She planned to confess her shameful relationship to Xu Qingyan, "Do you know that I had a cold war with Jiuqiu for two years, and we just reconciled the day I met you?"
“You guys…” Xu Qingyan only knew that Liang Xia and Jiu Qiu grew up together and were very important people in each other’s lives.
When Liang Xia recalled the past, she still felt touched, even if it was very subtle. She said, "Jiu Qiu and I liked the same person, that person was Tang Cheng, and now he has probably become a star in the sky." As she spoke, Liang Xia raised her head and looked at the night sky in thought.
Xu Qingyan was startled and sat down next to Liang Xia. He recalled the scene when he went to Yuncheng to pick her up and she came back from the cemetery some time ago.
Liang Xia continued, "When I was eight years old, Jiuqiu and I met Tang Cheng for the first time. We were both a little attracted to Tang Cheng, but Tang Cheng liked Jiuqiu from the beginning. However, in the ten years since then, in order to fulfill my wish and let Tang Cheng and I be together, Jiuqiu kept silent about the fact that she liked Tang Cheng and kept bringing us together. As for Tang Cheng... he was even more ridiculous. In order to have the opportunity to talk and contact Jiuqiu, he kept pretending to like me and stayed with me, Jiuqiu's best friend, for a full ten years. Ten years later, I confessed to Tang Cheng, and his forbearance and patience were finally exhausted. He asked me to face the facts and said that he had never liked me from the beginning to the end. He said he was sorry for me, but can these ten years of deception be solved with just one sorry? No. Ayan, is a year long? No, ten years... ten years are very long."
"So, the reason you haven't completely accepted me deep down in your heart is related to this incident?" Xu Qingyan asked.
Liang Xia smiled and said sadly: "Although it sounds ridiculous, it is true. We are all adults, not children anymore. We should know that no matter how touching the vows are, they will be broken one day, and no matter how deep the feelings are, they will end one day. Many things cannot be done as agreed. A Yan, I am trying, and I don't know how long I will have to try. If you leave before that day, I will definitely not blame you. Because I know that I have no right to tie you to me, and I will sincerely wish you well."
"But I will be sad if you say that." Xu Qingyan grabbed Liang Xia's hand. Liang Xia turned her head to look at him, and a tear slid across her pretty face.
Xu Qingyan said, "I am very touched by what you said to me, and I understand you. Liangxia, I don't know what our future will be like, but I will do my best in the present. I will never force you to do anything you don't want to do. As long as you give me a little sweetness occasionally, I will feel satisfied in this life. We are still young, right? What about meeting parents, what about getting married, let's talk about it later. However, as long as you suddenly tell me one day that you want to meet my parents, or you want to take me back to meet your parents, or... you want to get married, as long as you say it in the last second, I will do everything in the next second."
Xu Qingyan is always like this, always tolerant and understanding of her.
Sometimes Liang Xia wanted to quarrel with Xu Qingyan, but Xu Qingyan never gave her a chance. However, he was so nice that she would blame herself...
Liang Xia wiped her tears, leaned in Xu Qingyan's arms, and murmured: "Don't be too nice to me, otherwise if we separate one day, I will definitely not be able to survive..."
Xu Qingyan ruffled Liang Xia's hair and hugged her tightly: "I like you so much, how could I let you die?"
You are my everything.
Xu Qingyan went to Jiuqiu's house. Before, Xu Qingyan and Liangxia's love was too lifelike, without any excitement, interest or romance.
When Jiuqiu opened the door for Xu Qingyan, there was a ballpoint pen stuck in her messy hair, and the floor behind her was covered with turned-out clothes.
"What happened?" Xu Qingyan looked at the mess in surprise.
Jiuqiu seemed to be in trouble. She frowned and waved her hand, saying, "Come in first and find a place to sit."
Then, she ran to the computer and made a phone call while typing on the keyboard: "Hello? Beautiful girl, I will definitely take care of this for you, okay? You, you delete the message in your circle of friends first, and I promise to refund you."
Not knowing what the other party said, Jiu Qiu said in a shrill voice: "No, why are you like this? You did it on purpose! I...I sent the wrong goods. It was my mistake. I apologized and promised to refund and compensate. Why are you still so aggressive! Who doesn't make mistakes when doing business? Can't we all be considerate of each other?"
Xu Qingyan's eyes widened as Jiuqiu answered the phone. The next moment, Jiuqiu was furious and yelled, "Go to hell!" Then he threw the phone to the ground.
Xu Qingyan helped Jiuqiu pick up the phone and found that the screen was cracked.
"What happened?" Xu Qingyan asked.
"Shameless! You just want to blackmail me!" Jiuqiu grabbed his hair, sat on the stool angrily, and gasped with anger.
It seems that Jiuqiu can't take care of him for the time being. Xu Qingyan found a place to sit down and sent a message to Liangxia and Jianghan: "Come to Jiuqiu, something happened."
"Xu Qingyan, what do you want to talk to me about?" Jiuqiu looked up and asked angrily.
"It's a small matter. Seeing that you are so busy, I don't think it's necessary to tell you."
Hearing this, Jiu Qiu walked towards him, her whole body seemed to be on fire: "This is the most bizarre person I have met in more than 20 years! She said that the clothes she bought from me had slipped and asked for a refund! Not only did I agree to return it, I also sincerely apologized to her and compensated her. Who knew that she said yes, but secretly posted a message slandering my clothes on WeChat Moments, and finally turned around and bit me, saying that my clothes are of poor quality, that I cheated and had a bad attitude! Please! I sold so many clothes, how are my clothes, how is my attitude, I want her to tell me?"
"It seems like the other party is deliberately looking for trouble." Xu Qingyan agreed.
"What do you mean 'really'? It's obviously true!" Jiu Qiu sat down in the pile of clothes angrily. It seemed that in order for her to calm down, she could only wait for Liang Xia and Jiang Han to come.
"By the way, what exactly do you want to talk to me about? Just tell me quickly, don't keep me in suspense. Can I vent my anger on you because of this?" Jiuqiu asked Xu Qingyan again about his purpose.
Xu Qingyan thought about it and decided to speak out: "I just feel that since Liang Xia followed me, I have never given her anything interesting and romantic, so I want to come to you for advice. After all, you know her best."
"How enviable." Jiuqiu's words were a little sarcastic, but well-intentioned. She raised her eyebrows and said, "Liangxia is a very easy person to please. Even if you buy her a bouquet of roses and have a candlelight dinner, she will be moved to tears. Please, Xu Qingyan, as long as Liangxia likes you, she will become the easiest woman to please in the world. As long as you put in a little effort, you will be fine."
"It seems like I really should learn more." Xu Qingyan touched his chin, looking both cute and funny as he thought seriously.
Jiuqiu rolled his eyes and asked curiously, "Hey, I never asked you guys living together, have you already..." Jiuqiu raised his eyebrows and smiled maliciously, "Is it a done deal?"
Xu Qingyan shook his head and said, "We sleep separately."
Jiu Qiu was speechless for a long while, then said angrily: "What's the difference between sleeping separately and living apart?"
Xu Qingyan added: "I won't force Liang Xia."
"Stupid!" Jiuqiu grabbed the packed clothes and threw them at Xu Qingyan, saying, "Take the initiative! Believe me! Liangxia will definitely not refuse! She is just shy. As long as you take the initiative, she will like it."
This time it was Xu Qingyan's turn to be speechless.
"Anyway, you are already boyfriend and girlfriend, right? You should focus on improving your relationship." Jiuqiu smiled meaningfully. Xu Qingyan's cheeks felt slightly hot. Just when he didn't know what to say, there was a knock on the door.
"Liang Xia and Jiang Han are here." Xu Qingyan quickly changed the subject.
"You called them?" Jiuqiu stood up in surprise and hurried to open the door.
It was indeed those two people.
As soon as she saw Jiuqiu, Liangxia asked anxiously: "What's wrong? What happened?"
Seeing the mess in the room, Liang Xia guessed what was going on and looked at Xu Qingyan tentatively: "Work?"
Xu Qingyan nodded silently.
"I don't want to do this anymore." Jiuqiu still sat in the pile of clothes, saying angrily, "Those ladies are too difficult to serve."
Jiang Han tiptoed through the clothes on the floor and drank water from the water dispenser. Liang Xia walked up to Jiu Qiu and comforted him, "Jiu Qiu, don't be angry. When doing business, you will always encounter things that make you unhappy. Isn't it better to just get through it?"
Jiuqiu looked at the messy room and said to Liangxia, "This depends on the personality of the person who does business. I don't think I can do this with my personality."
"Jiuqiu!" Liang Xia frowned, "You just talk nonsense. You just give up when you encounter a little setback? Are you going to give up when you encounter difficulties in your future work? Lu Jiuqiu, how come you have become so useless?"
"Even you say that to me?" Jiuqiu glared at Liangxia angrily.
"Is there anything wrong with what she said?" Jiang Han took over the conversation. "In the past, Lu Jiuqiu was able to study late into the night because of a friend's words, and eventually got into the high school of his dreams. Now you just encounter a little difficulty at work, but you complain about everything and try to escape. I think you are a coward and have no talent or ability."
Jiu Qiu stood up suddenly, put his hands on his waist and pointed at Jiang Han with murderous intent: "What do you know! Do you know how that person scolded me?"
Jiang Han sneered and said, "Oh, so you have met your match. Our Miss Lu Jiuqiu can't even scold someone else?"
The war seemed to be imminent. Liang Xia and Xu Qingyan looked at each other, neither daring to say a word.
"You are so capable, go ahead and scold me. I don't want a good reputation when I sell clothes." Jiuqiu continued to "fire" at Jiang Han. But Jiang Han stretched out his hand to Jiuqiu and said, "Give me your phone number."
Jiuqiu's eyes moved. She didn't know what Jiang Han was going to do, but she handed him the phone out of the desire to see a good show. Jiang Han looked at the call records dialed the number with his own phone.
The three people present held their breath and waited as Jiang Han turned on the speaker function, silently waiting for the call to be connected.
In just a moment, after hearing the woman's "Hey", Jiang Han's facial expression became ferocious, and he cursed like beads that had broken off the string: "Hey, you're capable now, huh? What's the matter, thinking of giving you a pair of wings to fly to the sky? How dare you mess around outside!"
The woman on the other end of the phone was stunned for a long time, and suddenly shouted: "Who are you? It's incomprehensible!"
Jiang Han said sternly: "Who am I? I am your uncle!"
After saying that, Jiang Han hung up the phone and looked at Lu Jiuqiu.
The scene was completely silent, and everyone was stunned by Jiang Han. Jiang Han, the calmest, most indifferent, and most reasonable person among them, could actually be so good at scolding people!
Jiu Qiu, who was stunned, suddenly burst into laughter. He grabbed Jiang Han's hand, twitched with laughter, covered his stomach and said intermittently: "Oh my God...hahaha! Jiang Han you...hahaha!"
Liang Xia and Xu Qingyan looked at each other, understood something in their hearts, and smiled helplessly.
Jiang Han is probably the one who understands Jiu Qiu the most in this world. Jiang Han knows when Jiu Qiu needs friends and how to help her. At this time, what Jiu Qiu needs is not reason, but someone who can stand with her and share the same hatred and enemies.
Jiang Han knew this very well, and did it without caring about his image.
Jiuqiu once said to Liangxia: "I always feel that Jiang Han is a god. He can guess what I am thinking."
It seems that this is indeed the case.
But for Jiuqiu, is meeting Jiang Han a joy or a sorrow?