If you hadn't come, how old would you make me

Chapter 21

After New Year's Day, the postgraduate examinations are basically over.

Liu Feifei and the mechanical man had a fierce fight, and they had long since disappeared.Tong Zhou plunged into the library after the exam, and only Wen Ran and Lin Sheng were left alone in the dormitory. The two looked at each other, quickly cleared the haze, and decided to go out for a tooth festival.

Lin Sheng didn't order many dishes, but he bought several bottles of wine.

"Take it easy, it's just the two of us, no one cares when we're drunk." Wen Ran took off his coat and only wore a white turtleneck sweater, his cheeks were flushed by the heating.

Lin Sheng glanced at her, and slowly poured wine into the glass: "I enjoy myself, you can do whatever you want."

After several glasses of wine, Lin Sheng suddenly asked, "Wen Ran, do you know how I felt when I first saw you?"

"Huh?" She opened her eyes wide.

Lin Sheng smiled slowly, and said, "I think, look, another silly girl."

"Do you know what I think?" Wen Ran squinted her eyes, pretending to remember, "I think, where did this noble white lotus come from?"

The two laughed at the same time.

After a few more drinks, both of them drank too much.

Lin Sheng said: "You know, my father and my mother divorced since I was a child. My father and I, my father, who thinks that he loves me is to give me more money, so I have only money and no father since I was a child. I don't have a mother either, so I don't look like you."

Wen Ran said: "What's wrong with me, you still have a father, my father has been dead for more than ten years."

Lin Sheng said: "Then, then there is a mother, I can't compare to you in this regard."

Wen Ran said: "Yes, I still have a mother. My mother is very good to me. She doesn't let me worry about anything, even if she has a serious illness, she doesn't hide it." She hugged the wine bottle, Some did not understand and asked Lin Sheng, "Why do you think I am so stupid?"

Lin Sheng laughed: "You still know."

Wen Ran patted the table: "So, I've decided. I want to be a good girl, and I won't let my mother worry about things. What is my grandfather, what is my aunt, what is Zhao Weichuan, what is he?" ..." She hiccupped and said, "They don't count for anything."

After speaking, he went to pour the wine again, Lin Sheng was a little more sober than her, and hurriedly stopped her: "Don't drink, silly girl."

Wen Ran waved her hand: "No, you have to let me drink it. I'm in a hurry with you if you don't want me to drink it." Ever since she was a child, she had been presumptuous once. It's fine to be drunk, but there are people who don't like her wish——

The wine glass she had just raised was snatched away, she glared at it angrily, and at the same time, Lin Sheng screamed in her ear: "Ms. Ye?"

She was startled by this familiar and sad address, and stared straight at the person in front of her until her vision blurred.

In fact, from a very young age, Wen Ran had an inexplicable fear of City B.Because every time I come here, I face the unsmiling grandpa behind the red wall.So, every time, she had to hold her father's hand tightly before she would enter the door.Don't let go once you walk in.

Later, when her father died, she no longer wanted to come.But suddenly one day, her mother took her to city B by train for two hours, and came to the familiar but unfamiliar gate. On that day, she stood outside with her mother for a long time before waiting for her grandfather.The grandfather that day not only reprimanded the mother, but also slapped the mother.Yes, that slap was so heavy that it even brought her down.Thinking of this, Wen Ran couldn't help but staggered.

A strong arm supported her in time, accompanied by a low reprimand: "Wait a minute, the car will be here soon."

She sniffed the familiar breath greedily, then waved away the hand that supported him, "No, I want to walk back by myself."

Ye Yizhen was helpless, looking at the car driven by his assistant: "Send Lin Sheng back first."

The assistant was startled: "Then Miss Wen?"

"pass it to me."

Wen Ran grabbed the arm of the man in front of him, he was tall, "You look a bit like a person."

"Who?" The man asked softly.

Wen Ran thought for a moment: "Well, my father."

The man can't laugh or cry.

"He will hold my hand like this every time, by the way, and occasionally carry me on his back."

After finishing speaking, she looked at him with bright eyes. The man didn't say anything, but a pair of dark and deep eyes looked at her quietly, with a clear and shallow smile, as if doting on him.For a long time, he smiled lowly, turned his back to her, bent slightly, Wen Ran blinked, and in the next second, lay on that broad shoulder.

Ye Yizhen found that it wasn't bad for her to drink a little wine once in a while.At the very least, he can usually ask her a lot of things that she wouldn't say easily.As the night darkened, the street lights came on one by one.He walked slowly on the snowy avenue with her on his back, unexpectedly feeling a rare tranquility.After a while, Wen Ran climbed off his back and asked softly, "What's wrong with me?"

"You're drunk." He looked at her lightly.

Wen Ran lowered her head, was silent for a while, then raised her head and asked, "Am I talking nonsense?"

"No." He just said something he wouldn't normally say.

"Then I'm not drunk." She waved her hand nonchalantly, and her figure swayed a few times due to this movement.He subconsciously stretched out his hand to hold her waist, and suddenly a strange feeling came from his fingertips, and he was taken aback for a moment.

He reached out and gently pushed aside her high-necked white sweater, a scalded scar was faintly visible.He caressed carefully, ignoring Wen Ran's slight tremor: "Does it hurt?"

"Well?"

Wen Ran suddenly raised her head and met his warm eyes.It was as dark and deep as ever, and the occasional gentle luster would easily dazzle her and give her a familiar feeling.It was as if the long-lost warmth came suddenly, as if the person who loved her the most had returned to her side.

"It hurts." She opened her eyes wide, and tears flowed out suddenly, "It hurts like hell."

She grabbed his collar and whimpered, but he tightened his grip on her suddenly, and whispered, "It won't happen in the future."

"Why?" she asked muttering, like a tangled child.

He didn't speak, just raised her face and bent down.She answered her question with the gentle tenderness between her lips and teeth - because there will be me in the future.

As if in a dream, Wen Ran woke up from the dream in a trance, only feeling a splitting headache, and rubbed her hand a few times in a random manner, but it didn't work.

When he opened his eyes, all he saw was a strange scene.Wen Ran blinked, blinked again, and woke up.He hurriedly got up from the bed, grabbed the quilt, and looked around in bewilderment.

"Are you awake?" A deep male voice sounded very familiar.

Wen Ran turned around and saw a familiar person: "Ye, Teacher Ye?" He immediately stammered, "This, is this your home?"

"Yeah." Ye Yizhen put the documents in his hands aside, looked at Wen Ran who was sitting on the bed in disbelief with the quilt wrapped around him, and said gently, "Since you're awake, wash and eat." He took the lead and walked away Wen Ran went out, leaving Wen Ran in a daze - she, why is she here?

After washing, Wen Ran walked slowly towards the dining room, and Ye Yizhen had already sat down at the dining table, tasting the bowl of porridge he had prepared.

Seeing her, Ye Yizhen smiled slowly: "Sit down and eat something."

Wen Ran blinked and asked, "Miss Ye, why am I here with you?"

Ye Yizhen let out an oh, and said with a smile, "It's like this. Last night you drank, I said to send you back to school, but you refused. You didn't want to send you back to T City. Then I said that I had to bring you here Here, you didn't refuse."

"Really?" Wen Ran asked uncontrollably, very unbelievable.

Ye Yizhen smiled sincerely, "That's right, that's right."

In fact, at that time, she had already fallen asleep on his back without saying a word, as smart as he was, she took that as her default.Of course, he won't say this.

"Wen Ran." He called her in a deep voice.

"Ok?"

"Do you still remember what happened last night?"

"What?" Wen Ran looked at him puzzled, and her mind began to run at high speed. She went to drink with Lin Sheng, got drunk, and then started talking nonsense, then met Ye Yizhen, and continued to talk nonsense, and then ——She suddenly opened her eyes wide and met his gaze, Wen Ran hurriedly shook her head, "I don't remember, I, I forgot."

"Oh." Ye Yizhen responded softly, put down the spoon, and walked towards her, "Then I don't mind helping you remember it again."

What?Wen Ran watched him approach step by step, and said repeatedly: "No, you don't need to bother the teacher. I, I want to..."

"Remember?" he asked with a smile.

"I think, I remember." Wen Ran nodded hurriedly, but before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard him announce calmly.

"late."

Woooooooooooooooo, Teacher Ye...

The waist was tightly buckled, and she was forced to raise her head to accept his slightly punishing kiss.Except for the vague one last night, she has almost never kissed, and she was captured easily, and the entanglement of the tip of her tongue made her almost suffocate.

After an unknown amount of time, Ye Yizhen let go of her, and gently pressed his forehead against hers: "Remember?"

Her answer was to bow her head.She lowered her head in embarrassment.

Ye Yizhen smoothed her hair, with a gentle and serious expression: "Wen Ran, you came to me that night and told me a lot of reasons for rejection. Are you willing to listen to my thoughts now?"

"Hmm." She replied vaguely.

"The reason you gave me that night was not so much persuading me to give up, but persuading yourself." He smiled, "At that time, you stubbornly wanted to persuade me to accept your reason, and there was not much reason left. It's just a lonely courage and impulsiveness."

Wen Ran: "..." Actually, at that time, she didn't even have much courage left.

"Then I thought, what will happen to this child if I say something I don't agree with at this moment? Will he cry for me on the spot?"

Wen Ran muttered: "I'm almost 22 years old, I'm not a child anymore."

"I wish you were a child. People always have to worry about a lot when they grow up. The world is much simpler for children. You want what you want, throw away what you don't want, and drop a few drops when it hurts. Tears, get up and continue to be carefree. They don't know what should or shouldn't be, so there is no such thing as being afraid or not. Wen Ran, you are only 21, and there are many things you don't understand. It doesn't matter. , the most important thing is not to escape, you can try it, the worst is to get hurt and come back and cry, and then start again." He straightened her face and looked into her eyes seriously, " If you are still afraid, let me stand by your side, okay?"

Wen Ran looked at him: "There is so much difference between us, what if I can't keep up with you?"

He still smiled: "If this kind of situation really happens, you just stay where you are and don't rush."

"Huh?" She looked at him, a little puzzled.

"You stand there and wait for me, wait for me to find you, and then we will go together."

Wen Ran remembered that she once saw such a sentence in Yao Mianmian's love quotes: If there are a thousand steps between us, then you take one step, and I will take the remaining 99 steps.She once thought that was the most beautiful and faithful love, but now, this man told herself, you stand where you are, and I will take the thousand steps.She couldn't help asking herself, what virtue and ability, exactly what virtue and ability?

"Then what if you can't recover the cost?" She asked worriedly, but there was a sly gleam in her eyes.

He smiled brightly, "You forgot what I teach, how could such a thing happen."

Wen Ran couldn't help laughing through tears, and finally couldn't suppress the desire in his heart, and stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around his waist.

She grew up all the way, the love between her parents and the people around her made her feel uneasy and afraid, and she used the most stupid excuses to cover up this fear, but this man saw through everything, he resolved her problems one by one, Give her a reason that she can accept, and make her unable to escape her feelings——

She heard herself say to herself, "So be it—" There was no escape for her.

(End of this chapter)