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

Chapter 33

At the end of the first study, Wen Ran saw Tong Zhou again.

Tong Zhou's emaciated appearance made her stunned for a moment, and the glass water glass in her hand fell to the ground with a bang and shattered. Sometimes he hesitated.After a while, a pair of hands reached out and picked up the debris for her.

Wen Ran looked at the face that was close at hand, it was supposed to be round with a bit of baby fat, but now it was very thin, she couldn't help asking in a hoarse voice: "Your father, are you okay? "

Tong Zhou raised his head slightly: "Passed away."

Wen Ran was taken aback, but Tong Zhou's subordinates continued to work: "It's been two months since I passed away. In the past two months, my stepmother has been busy fighting for the family property with me, so I've been fighting the lawsuit."

The understated tone made Wen Ran feel a chill in his heart.The Tong Zhou she knew should be a warm and sweet girl, who is this in front of her now?Cool tone, expressionless face.

Wen Ran couldn't help stretching out her hand, but she retracted it halfway, a little embarrassed: "Then you, let's be sad."

Tong Zhou hummed, threw the debris into the trash can at the door, and carried his luggage into the dormitory.Wen Ran stood at the door and watched her make the bed.She is not a person who holds grudges, but she is not a person who will be crushed and flattened at will, but the current Tong Zhou makes her unable to open her mouth to ask the doubts buried in her heart for a long time.After thinking about it, Wen Ran picked up the meal card and walked out.

"Zhouzhou, then I'll go buy food first." After a pause, she added, "Do you need me to bring you food?"

Tong Zhou tilted his head slightly: "No need, thank you."

This sentence of thank you has completely separated them, like a basin of cold water being poured over the head, Wen Ran felt a strong chill.

"Then, then I'll go first."

"Wen Ran?" Unexpectedly, Tong Zhou stopped her.Wen Ran didn't look back, but listened to the low voice from behind, "Have you already guessed it?"

Breathing slightly stagnated, Wen Ran said in a hoarse voice: Guess what? "

"You guessed it was me who hurt you, you guessed it was me who threw glass shards on your bed and finally planted Lin Sheng with evil intentions, you guessed it all, right?"

In my impression, Tong Zhou has never been so aggressive, she almost doesn't know how to face her.

Tong Zhou sat down on the bed: "Even I can't even imagine that I did such a thing!" She put her head in her hands, her expression suddenly became anxious and painful, "You know when I got the GP project leaflet How excited are you? I told myself, if I do well, I hope to go to the British GP headquarters for an internship! Do you remember when you went to the airport to find me? I lied to you Wen Ran, I still miss him, I want to go The UK looked for him, but when I arrived at the airport, I found that I couldn’t leave like this, and I still had nothing. With my current ability, GP is my only chance to go to the UK. Do you know Wen Ran, the only chance..."

She still remembers how she felt when she saw a place in the GP program.She lost the election and ranked No. 20, but the name of Wen Ran, who had told her that she would not run, was hanging high in the list of candidates.Feelings of loss, despair, and anger rushed to her for a moment, and she couldn't stand it anymore, almost losing her mind.

"At that time, I hated and envied you, Wen Ran. Even if you didn't want the things I couldn't ask for, you could still get them. So I lost my mind and did that to you. I even wanted to frame Lin Sheng..." Tong Zhou's voice trembled, "Actually, I regretted it after I finished it. I didn't dare to come back that night. I was afraid to see you. I hate you but I was afraid to witness you being hurt by me. Then I asked myself, what's wrong with you?" Well, you are just a little better than me."

Wen Ran has been listening silently, not daring to make a sound, as if afraid of scaring her, even her breathing was deliberately suppressed.Finally, when she fell silent, Wen Ran took a sharp breath and controlled herself not to cry.She looked at Tong Zhou, as if afraid of scaring her.

"Tong Zhou, I didn't know that the GP project was so important to you. If I knew, I would choose to give up."

"Don't pity me!" Tong Zhou pushed her away, his voice was sharp and sad, "That will only make me feel worse. Wen Ran, please don't do this, just ignore me, let me be alone Is it okay for people to stay?"

Wen Ran had no choice but to put away her hands, turned and left.In fact, Wen Ran has already made up her mind that if Tong Zhou doesn't mention this matter, her father won't bother with it anymore, not for Tong Zhou's sake, but for her own.The wound healed with difficulty, and she didn't want to open it again, because those who have experienced the pain will never know.

"Have you had lunch?" When the greeting rang from the other end of the phone, Wen Ran was poking at a bowl of hard rice in the cafeteria.She found that she was really spoiled, her stomach had been completely fed by him, and now that he was not around, she felt a little bit hungry.

"Eating." With a listless tone, "Is London busy with work?"

"It's okay." He answered casually, but he opened another project file in his hand.Recently, the big boss of GP's UK headquarters is considering short selling North Sea Brent crude oil. Considering that the current trend and price are still unclear, he dare not take it lightly.As a senior analyst, Professor Ye was naturally called to London.

It was still four o'clock in the morning in London, and he went through the files, dialed an intercom and ordered a cup of coffee.

"Aren't you resting now?"

"I'm not tired." He said gently, "Go take a rest after lunch. The CPA exam textbooks I prepared for you are in the teacher's apartment. Remember to pick them up."

Since Wen Ran lived there for a few days with a leg injury, there was a spare key to the teacher's apartment in the key chain.Wen Ran didn't want it at first, but Ye Yizhen dismissed it lightly: "Just in case, and it's convenient for you to have friends over, so there's no need to find another place to live."

Many teachers of B University have bought a house in the teacher’s apartment, because B University is not in the downtown area of ​​B, and the house price is not very high, so the teachers bought the house and changed it into a family-style hotel, renting it daily and weekly. Earn extra money.Every holiday, it must be full.

Thinking of this, Wen Ran blushed slightly, even though she knew that the other party couldn't see her at this moment, Wen Ran still said in a serious tone: "Go and rest."

The other party smiled lowly, and said something that Wen Ran couldn't help spitting at him: "Obey, Miss Girlfriend."

After being molested, Wen Ran angrily walked towards the teacher's apartment.Wen Ran took the textbooks that were going to be given to her in the most conspicuous place in the study, and roughly flipped through them. Basically, every page was marked by him.Emotion powerful font, very beautiful.Professor Ye also writes excellent chalk characters, and everyone who takes his class thinks it is a kind of enjoyment.

Speaking of which, this is Wen Ran's first time entering Ye Yizhen's study room. Although he stayed here for a few days with a leg injury last time, he was unable to move around for a few days. Lights, know he's working.But now, she glanced at his desk, it was still full of documents, one could imagine how busy he was at work.

After thinking about it, Wen Ran sighed.He was away on business for a few days, and there was already a thin layer of dust here. Wen Ran rolled up his sleeves and began to clean up for Professor Ye who hadn't returned from the business trip.Just as she was tidying up and sweating profusely, the doorbell rang suddenly, and Wen Ran was taken aback for a moment, her first reaction was——is Teacher Ye back?
She ran to open the door, but she was a little surprised. There was a woman standing at the door, and that woman also looked at her in surprise.

"Uh, hello, I might have gone the wrong way." The woman smiled slightly, and was about to turn around with her bag in hand.

Wen Ran thought for a while, then stopped her timidly: "If you came to see Teacher Ye, then you didn't go wrong."

"Huh?" The woman turned around instantly, with a look of disbelief, "Then you are?"

Wen Ran shamefully lowered her head and looked at herself from top to bottom: "Uh, I'm Teacher Ye's student."

The woman hugged her bag and said with a smile, "He will give the keys to his students? This is the first time I've heard of it."

Seeing the woman enter the door on her own, with an unrestrained look, and this tone of knowing someone well, Wen Ran couldn't help guessing, could it be Professor Ye's friend?
In a daze, the woman turned her head and smiled: "I guess, you are his girlfriend, huh?"

"I..." Wen Ran scratched the back of his head and asked the woman in front of him, "Are you..."

The woman walked around the room, looked back at her, and said as if she just got up, "Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I am Ye Yizhen's sister."

elder sister?Wen Ran was stunned.Professor Ye's sister, his family? !
The woman waited for her to react with a smile, and reminded: "Can you pour me a glass of water? It's my first time here, but it took a lot of time." Of course, the harvest is not small.

Wen Ran came to her senses, and hurried to the kitchen to boil water and make tea. It was already 10 minutes before the tea was served in front of the woman.

The woman took a sip of tea, leaned against the sofa, her eyes circled around Wen Ran, looking at her a little embarrassed.

"As far as I know, you Mr. Ye didn't live here often. He has a house in the urban area. Now that it's vacant, he often comes here."

There was something in the words, Wen Ran didn't know how to answer for a while, and there was no sound after oh.

And the woman stopped teasing her, "Little classmate, you haven't answered the question I just asked?"

Wen Ran looked at her, and asked herself, why am I ashamed to admit it.Now that we decided to be together, wouldn't we have to face these sooner or later?But even thinking this way, a blush appeared on her face, with a shy smile, she looked very sweet: "Mr. Ye and I, we, we are indeed dating..."

The woman seemed not expecting to get the answer so soon, she was taken aback for a moment, and then laughed, causing Wen Ran to look at her frequently, not understanding what she meant.

The woman got up and left the things she brought: "Okay, then I'll go first."

"Eh? Then I'll see you off."

"No need." The woman turned around and handed her a note, "Haha, you are indeed an obedient and well-behaved child."

Wen Ran was a little confused. After she left, she looked down at the sticky note in her hand. The handwriting was very familiar, and it was Teacher Ye's handwriting.Why didn't you find it when you just cleaned it?Wen Ran scolded herself for being stupid while reading the note, which was nothing more than asking her to take good care of her body during his business trip, with concern between the lines.Moreover, a certain unscrupulous professor called her "little friend Ran Ran" at the beginning, which meant pampering and could not be concealed.Wen Ran couldn't help thinking, with such a note, she might not be able to deny it if she wanted to.

Four o'clock in the afternoon in London, it would be twelve o'clock in the evening in Beijing time.After just finishing a three-hour meeting, Ye Yizhen felt tired all over, looked at his watch, and put the phone aside.

It's so late, should I go to bed?
The assistant brought a cup of coffee, and Ye Yizhen took a sip, with a slight bitterness in his mouth.He frowned slightly, then put it aside, not going to touch it again.

The assistant asked with some anxiety: "Mr. Ye, this is coffee made according to your previous taste. Is there anything wrong?"

Ye Yizhen raised his eyes, looked at the assistant and smiled gently: "It's not about the coffee." It's just that he has eaten too much sweet recently and is not used to bitterness. "Book a plane ticket back to City B, the sooner the better."

Leaning on the seat with closed eyes, the mobile phone placed aside suddenly buzzed.He pressed the connect button casually, and the voice from the other end made him instantly open his eyes. After listening silently for a few minutes, he said: "Understood, I will return to Jingshan tomorrow."

Jingshan is located on the outskirts of City B. This area is extremely quiet. Apart from a military garrison, there are few people here.Ye Zan Ye's old man's home is also Ye Yizhen's home, and it is located here.Ye Yizhen parked the car, and when he got out of the car, he saw a jeep parked beside him, raised his eyebrows slightly, and walked into the courtyard.

It was Mrs. Qi who came to open the door, and she was so happy to see him from ear to ear.While opening the door for him, he said: "It can be regarded as coming back. After all, I haven't been home for half a year."

Ye Yizhen smiled slightly, "I've been busy in the past six months, sister-in-law Qi, and the third kid from the Gu family are there?"

"You said Huaining, you came earlier, and said you want to go back to City C, and come to see the old man before you go back."

"Yes." He agreed, and when he looked up, he saw Gu Huaining, Captain Gu, standing outside the house.

Gu Huaining: "It's rare to see Professor Ye Yizhen Ye here."

He raised his eyebrows slightly, this person hurt him, this is his home.However, Professor Ye is best at tolerance, so he changed the topic, "Aren't you guys training recently? How come you have time to go back to City C? Could it be that Mr. Gu called again?"

"The old man is probably busy right now, so he doesn't have time to talk to me." Gu Huaining straightened his discipline and said.

"Then why are you going?"

Gu Huaining smiled and gave him a two-word answer: "Marry."

Ye Yizhen was obviously taken aback.He and Gu Huaining can be regarded as young, because Ye Zan lived in C City for a while before, and he was life and death friends with Gu Huaining's father, Gu Changzhi, Old General Gu, so their relationship as juniors is also very close.Especially the Huaining and Huaiyue brothers of the Gu family. Although the old house of the Gu family was in City C, both brothers served as soldiers in City B. Gu Huaining was the commander of a group army in the B Military Region.If he remembered correctly, the last time we met, Gu's mother called and urged him to go home and talk about his girlfriend, and he was about to get married in a blink of an eye.

"Already set?"

"Almost." He answered casually, "In recent years, the old man and the old lady have been urging you all the time. You also know that the second brother and I are the only ones in my family. We must make a decision so that the second elder can let go of his half-heartedness."

Ye Yizhen couldn't help putting his hands in his pockets, and said with a light smile: "So, your second brother asked you to charge first, and he will cover the aftermath?"

Head Gu frowned slightly, and then said with a smile: "Come on, don't say it so easily, look at your old man, I'll go first, the plane is halfway, and if you drag it, I won't be able to catch up."

Ye Yizhen nodded, watched him leave, and then walked towards the hall.

Ye Yuntong was waiting in the hall, Ye Yizhen just took a step in when she saw her.

"Yo, fast enough."

Ye Yizhen smiled slightly: "This is not the old man's call. If you are slow, you may be locked up."

Ye Yuntong glanced at him, "Go, we're waiting upstairs." After thinking for a while, she said, "But Yizhen, don't blame me for being troublesome, you also know that the old man has been waiting for a long time, give him a letter to let him know." He's happy."

With a flash of light in his eyes, Ye Yizhen smiled beautifully: "I see, sister."

Ye Yuntong is indeed his older sister, but it's just a half-brother.If it is said that his mother is the junior high, this senior sister who is the head of the art troupe is the one left by the main room.For so long, what surprised Ye Yizhen was that they got along very well.

Study room on the second floor.Ye Yizhen turned in with ease, and leaned against the door to see that Mr. Ye was writing calligraphy with a brush like flying, which was a strong Dong style.Suddenly, Mr. Ye raised his hand to beckon, and Ye Yizhen quickly handed over a cup of tea.

Only then did Old Man Ye look at him straight in the eye: "You're back?"

"It's all an international call, do you think I can come back?" He smiled for his father.

Old Man Ye snorted, moved to the wicker chair on the balcony and sat down: "I usually don't see you worrying about international roaming, so it hit your weakness."

Ye Yizhen bowed his head and said nothing, his hand, which is usually used to signing large orders with chalk, was grinding seriously at this moment.

"Yizhen, do you know what Huaining did when he returned to City C?"

"I know." He said softly, "Are you greedy for this?"

Mr. Ye thumped the floor and said, "Don't be poor with me."

Ye Yizhen just smiled and said nothing.

After a while, I heard old man Ye say lightly: "These few days, bring her back to meet me."

(End of this chapter)