strange i love you

Chapter 8 The house is not a snail shell (2)
"Pa", the knife in Lin Youxi's hand fell to the ground: "How could this happen? Wasn't it fine not long ago?"

Qin Zhihao sighed and said, "There was news that the company was going to lay off employees a long time ago, but I didn't expect it to be so soon."

"But didn't you still talk about buying a house before?" Lin Youxi put the apple heavily on the coffee table, "What did you do? You said those things to me before you knew that you were going to lay off workers? Are you just looking for trouble for nothing? ?"

"What do you mean looking for trouble when you have nothing to do!" Qin Zhihao lost his temper, "Buying a house was originally in our plan, what does it have to do with my being fired!"

"You're just being unreasonable." Lin Youxi was also angry, "Why do you become more and more like a child as you grow up? When you think about it, you always know that you are going to be fired. You have been in a bad state for a while. wrong!"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm not in the right shape. It's not like you have to work overtime every day when you come back, and ask you out for a meal and play tricks. Do you need a schedule, busy person?" Qin Zhihao's sarcasm hurt deeply. In Lin Youxi's heart, the two of them were furious, neither would let the other.

"I work so hard because I want to make money!" Lin Youxi looked at Qin Zhihao confidently.

In the end, Qin Zhihao replied blankly: "Then why hasn't your salary increased? Who are you showing yourself to work so hard for?"

One sentence made Lin Youxi speechless, she paused, and then said: "That's better than you not wanting to make progress!" After speaking, she grabbed the coat that fell on the ground and ran outside.

Qin Zhihao's voice came from behind: "Where are you going so late?"

But Lin Youxi had already run downstairs wearing slippers "da da da".

It was cold and dark outside, and the street lights in the neighborhood were all out.Lin Youxi regretted it as soon as she got downstairs. She wrapped up her clothes and walked forward cautiously against the cold.She couldn't move after walking a few steps. It's almost one o'clock in the night. Where can she go as a girl without money or mobile phone?

Qin Zhihao chased after him, but Lin Youxi disappeared.He called her name into the empty dark place, and his voice merged into the night without any response.

"Youxi!" Qin Zhihao got a little anxious, took out his phone and turned on the flashlight mode, and looked around.At this time, there was a faint sobbing sound from the other side of the grass, and Qin Zhihao immediately followed the sound and walked over.

Lin Youxi crouched behind the bushes, hugging her knees and sobbing in a low voice. Qin Zhihao couldn't help feeling distressed when he saw it. He walked over and squatted down opposite her.

"Come home with me." Qin Zhihao said softly, "It's so dark and cold outside, don't catch a cold."

Lin Youxi opened Qin Zhihao's extended hand, and said angrily, "What does it have to do with you if I catch a cold?"

Qin Zhihao sighed and said, "I'm sorry."

The "I'm sorry" instantly melted the discomfort in Lin Youxi's heart. She raised her red and swollen eyes, wiped them with her hands, and said in a hoarse voice, "Can we stop arguing in the future, it's really tiring."

"Okay, don't quarrel in the future." Qin Zhihao coaxed, "Let's talk slowly about any problems in the future, and stop arguing."

Qin Zhihao helped Lin Youxi up. Because of squatting for too long, Lin Youxi's legs went numb, and she almost fell when she took two steps.

Lin Youxi stood up straight, opened her arms to Qin Zhihao and said, "Carry me on your back."

"How old are you?"

"Can you carry it?"

"Okay, okay." Qin Zhihao squatted down, and Lin Youxi jumped up.

"Let's go!" Lin Youxi commanded, using her mobile phone to show him the way.

"It's so much lighter." Qin Zhihao said.

"So treat me well."

"Okay, let's go eat Japanese food tomorrow night." Lin Youxi loves Japanese food the most, but it's too expensive, and the two of them are reluctant to go in every time they pass by the restaurant.

Lin Youxi rested her head on Qin Zhihao's back, his body temperature was transmitted through the clothes, and the clothes exuded a smell of laundry detergent.Such a scene can't help but remind her of when they were in college, when they were dating on the school playground, she was standing on the steps, and Qin Zhihao was sitting below playing mobile games, she jumped onto his back unexpectedly from behind, and said, "Drive drive."

I thought those good times would never come back again.

Lin Youxi closed her eyes and smelled the scent of wintersweet flowers in the wind.If possible, she really hoped that Qin Zhihao would not stop walking on her back.

do not stop.

Qin Zhihao gets up early every day after he doesn't go to work, and then goes out to the breakfast stand outside the community to buy soybean milk and fried dough sticks, or a big pot of hot porridge to eat with pickles.At first, Lin Youxi felt that this was not bad, and the relationship between the two of them became better than before, and they still had hot meals to eat when they returned home.After dinner, the two lay on the sofa watching TV and chatting for a while.This kind of life is very comfortable at first, if they are in their seventies and eighties, there must be no major problems.But they are only in their twenties and they face too many problems.

When Lin Youxi came home from get off work and opened the door, she saw Qin Zhihao sitting in front of the computer playing games, the noise made her upset.There was nothing on the table, and the kitchen was as clean as if no one had ever been in it.

"Didn't you cook dinner?" Lin Youxi came out of the kitchen.

Qin Zhihao was in the middle of playing and didn't hear her words.

"Didn't you make dinner?" Lin Youxi patted him, "What shall we have for dinner?"

Qin Zhihao stared at the computer screen without moving, and said, "Go down and pack two meals, I forgot to do it today."

Lin Youxi felt a little unhappy, but she still went out to buy food with her wallet.

Later, Qin Zhihao didn't make breakfast, and Lin Youxi was still sleeping when he went to work in the morning.Lin Youxi finally couldn't help complaining: "Are you staying at home like this and not looking for a job? Do you want me to earn money to support the family?"

"I'm looking, but no one called me after I sent out my resume." Qin Zhihao plausibly said, "You can't let me come to ask them, hey, are you hiring here?"

"What about the classmate reunion?" Lin Youxi felt that her head was getting dizzy, "Everyone has been booing in the group, do you really want to do it at our house?"

"Well, by the way, about buying a house." Speaking of which, Qin Zhihao turned around, "I called my family a few days ago and they were very supportive. How is your parents?"

"Do you still want to buy a house?" Lin Youxi took a breath, "You still don't have a job and still want to buy a house?"

"Let's get some money from the family to pay the down payment first."

Lin Youxi didn't know what to say, Qin Zhihao was firm about buying a house, and finally she let go and said, "Okay, I'll discuss it with my family."

Lin Youxi bought a house for her future marriage, and her family has never been very optimistic about them.In the past, when Qin Zhihao went to Lin Youxi's house to meet his parents, Lin Youxi's father said that this kid had a lazy look, and he would definitely not be able to do well in the future.Lin Youxi's father used to be a middle school mathematics teacher. He taught so many students and thought he had an accurate eye for people.Qin Zhihao is not the "good student" in his mind.In fact, his judgment is not entirely unfounded.Last year, he was in poor health and was hospitalized. Lin Youxi asked for leave to go back to see him. Not only did Qin Zhihao not visit him, he didn't even make a phone call.Could this be material for a future son-in-law?

But Lin Youxi was blinded by lard, she didn't care if he was promising or not, as long as she liked him, her family didn't say anything.

"You have to think about this matter carefully." The mother said on the other end of the phone, "Are your jobs stable now?"

Lin Youxi kept Qin Zhihao's dismissal from her secret: "It's all stable."

"Then are you sure you really want to live with him in the future?"

"Yeah." Lin Youxi said, "After all, we've been together for so long."

"I think you still have to think clearly, that kid looks unreliable to me."

"But we don't have much money now." Lin Youxi muttered, "So—"

"I know. I'll discuss it with your dad. If you really want to get married, it will cost a lot of money. I have nothing to do with your dad. I'm just afraid that you will suffer."

After hanging up the phone, Lin Youxi leaned back on the chair and stared blankly for a while.The night outside the window was getting darker, Qin Zhihao took a shower in the bathroom, and ate a bowl of instant noodles when he got home from get off work, he was already hungry.Lin Youxi sighed, and suddenly felt that the road ahead was long, with no end in sight and no idea where the end was.

On the day Lu Li came back, Lin Youxi went to the airport to pick her up, but after looking at her for a long time, she didn't recognize the person in front of her as Lu Li.She is much prettier than before, and after staying abroad for a few years, her demeanor has changed.She cut her short hair neatly, dyed the hair on her forehead blue, and wore a black leather jacket, looking neat and handsome.

"Why are you alone?" Lin Youxi looked behind her, searching for Lu Li's boyfriend.

"It's a long time ago." Lu Li chewed gum in her mouth and gave Lin Youxi a big hug, "I'll talk about this later, let's go eat first, I'm starving to death."

"I'll give Zhihao a call first." After Lin Youxi dialed the phone, she told Qin Zhihao where to eat and asked him to come over on time.

"Why didn't he come with you?"

Lin Youxi took back her phone and helped Lu Li carry the suitcase: "He's going to the interview."

"What about his previous job?" Lu Li asked.

"I've been fired." Trying to keep the tone relaxed, but still revealing a trace of heaviness, "We are planning to make a down payment on a flat before the class reunion this month."

"Is it the kind where you move in immediately after paying the down payment?"

"Well, it's very urgent."

"It's too urgent." Lu Li was puzzled, "And Qin Zhihao was in a hurry to buy a house just after he lost his job, so he couldn't justify it, could it be—"

Lin Youxi didn't understand what she meant, and asked, "Could it be what?"

"You are getting married!" Lu Li cried out loudly, "Are you going to get married?"

"Ah?" Lin Youxi was stunned, "It should be."

"I'll be your bridesmaid then!"

"Don't worry, the position of bridesmaid has been reserved for you a long time ago. By the way, you haven't said how you broke up yet."

"Don't mention it." Lu Li waved her hand with an expression that she didn't want to look back on the past, "We broke up shortly after we went abroad, we quarreled every day, and there were a lot of trivial things after we lived together."

"Just because of this?" Lin Youxi obviously didn't believe it, "When Qin Zhihao and I first lived together, we had to argue about a lot of trivial matters every day, but after we got used to each other for a while, we were fine."

"No, no, we can't get along. Neither of us knows how to cook, and when we cook, we go crazy. Neither of us does hygiene, and we have become a pig's nest in a few days. The most important thing is that he didn't have long I just fell in love with a Ukrainian student studying abroad." The last sentence finally got to the point, and Lu Li's expression darkened, "Oh, it's been a long time ago, and now he has no contact with me at all, so I will invite him before returning to China After a meal, he said that he would stay there forever and marry a local woman to get a green card. Look, there are so many pursuits and dreams.”

Lin Youxi knew that she was only calm on the surface, but she didn't expose it, she pretended to be relaxed and said: "You must have never eaten authentic hot pot abroad, just open your belly and eat it later."

Qin Zhihao appeared in a suit for the interview, and was surprised when he saw Lu Li who was opposite him as soon as he sat down: "Why do you suddenly become such a man?"

Lu Li smiled while biting her chopsticks: "I like women now, be careful that I will steal your wife away."

Lin Youxi glared at her, but Qin Zhihao was amused by these words.

"How is your job search? I heard from Yuzi that you are looking for a new job." Lu Li glanced at Lin Youxi while adding coriander to the bowl, "Are you planning to buy a house?"

"Mm, yes." Qin Zhihao looked at the blanched beef in the pot, a little absent-minded.

"So you're going to get married?"

"Not urgent."

"What's not in a hurry?" Lu Li snatched the fat cow on his chopsticks, "Of course I have to get married after buying a house. Cherish a good girl like Yuzu."

Qin Zhihao said "um", then turned his head and said to Lin Youxi: "If there are no accidents, I will be able to go to work in a few days. I will go to a few more places to look at houses when I have time."

"Actually, I don't feel urgent about the house." Lu Li expressed her opinion, although Qin Zhihao was obviously not interested in her opinion, "I'm serious, you are still so young and you can save enough money before buying it!" The last ending, Lu Li, has a hint of coquettishness, but Qin Zhihao is still indifferent.

Lu Li had no choice but to shut up tactfully, and winked at Lin Youxi angrily.

After eating the hot pot, Lin Youxi went to the front desk to pay the bill, while Lu Li and Qin Zhihao went out first.When pushing open the glass door of the shop, Lin Youxi saw a familiar figure, it was Zheng Tao.Next to him was a woman in a black trench coat walking towards a restaurant opposite.Lin Youxi immediately recognized that woman as Tang Mengran.Since she had only seen it once, she wasn't sure.

"Yuzi!" Lu Li called her from a distance, "Why are you in a daze? Let's go!"

"Okay." Lin Youxi agreed, turned around and walked towards the person waiting for her.

(End of this chapter)