Xie Yuan's home in Wuting is a large flat-floor western-style building with one staircase and one household. The living room is extraordinarily transparent, and the style of home decoration is quite simple. It can be seen that the objects placed are very tasteful.

Xie Yuan wore a white "color" high-neck "wool" shirt, casual at home, with a completely different style of suits and leather shoes on weekdays, and his temperament was much softer.

He took Jiang Yu around the room and turned on the record player to play Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

"Uncle Xie, your home is really nice. It's big and beautiful."

"As long as you like it." Xie Yuan took her to the study, pointed to the whole floor of the bookshelf and said: "There are many collections and books about ballet on the bookshelf, you can read it at will, I'm going to the kitchen to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. ."

"Uncle Xie, do you need my help?"

"No, at home, you don't have to do this."

After Xie Yuan left, Jiang Yu flipped through the thick books on the books. She found that the books were yellow and old, but well preserved.

Jiang Yu casually flipped open an English book "The Origin of Romantic Ballet", turned over a few pages, and found that there were densely sketched notes, and graceful handwriting was annotated in the corner, which looked like a girl's notes.

Jiang Yu turned a few pages and saw an old photo. In the photo, a couple stood on the rails, and in the distance was the dark Cangshan Mountain.

The girl was wearing cute bibs and ponytails, hugging the man's waist, as if to kiss him on the face. The man, on the other hand, had a very serious expression, looked at the camera, and took pictures with a straight face.

Jiang Yu recognized that the girl in the photo was Bu Tanyan, and the man was Xie Yuan when he was young.

The two of them used to be really good boyfriend and girlfriend.

Looking at their sweet and happy appearance, Jiang Yu felt very warm and sad at the same time.

Why are people separated forever.

......

In the kitchen, Xie Yuan took the spatula and fry the garlic moss meat in the pot.

Jiang Manyi hugged her arms, leaned against the door, and looked at his busy back: "Mr. Xie still cooks?"

"I have opened a food stall before." Xie Yuan said calmly: "The cooking skills are not bad. You and Xiaoyu can try it later."

Jiang Manyi rolled her eyes: "It seems that I'm really prepared today. I know that my daughter is a big foodie, and you want to lure her with food."

"You don't always have conspiracy theories." Xie Yuan tilted his head and said, "I just want to be nice to my daughter."

Jiang Manyi hurriedly put her head out of the kitchen, made sure Jiang Yu was not outside, closed the door, and warned him, "I advise you not to talk nonsense, she's not your daughter, she's mine!"

"I've checked it all out." Xie Yuan tasted the soup in the casserole and said calmly, "But you can rest assured, I'm not an unreasonable person, you raised her, I appreciate you and respect you ."

Jiang Manyi gritted her teeth and said angrily: "What right do you have to say that she is your daughter, where were you when Yanyan needed you the most? When she gave birth, you didn't even have a ghost. She In the most desperate two years before leaving, you were not by her side, and now you come back to ask for a daughter, I tell you, it is impossible!"

Xie Yuan put down the spoon in his hand, narrowed his eyes, and said solemnly, "I have been in prison."

Jiang Manyi paused and did not speak.

"You look now, I am very bright, with a company, assets, and a big house. But the two years when I met A Tan was the lowest point in my life, I just got out of prison. At the worst When I met the best girl, the inferiority complex was real."

At that time, he had nothing, worried that his jailed resume would affect his friend's company, and finally chose to leave from scratch and start his own business.

He opened a food stall restaurant in the back street of the university where Bu Tanyan is located, earning money while studying for the adult self-examination.

At that time, Bu Tanyan was the most beautiful girl in the school. She could dance ballet. Every year, she danced gracefully at parties, and many boys liked her.

Xie Yuan never imagined that such a girl would notice him.

For a long time, she came to eat at his food stall, wearing white t-ripped jeans, ordering a small bowl of fried rice, standing beside him with the bowl, chatting with him and provoking him while eating.

Who would have thought that the "white swan" of Beicheng University, the unreachable goddess school flower, like a little sister, would come to his shop to eat and drink for free whenever she was free.

She didn't mind that he was in prison, or that he had nothing, and that he didn't mind his terrible temper.

Later, on a New Year's Eve, after attending a high-end dinner party, the "white swan", wearing a white dance dress, ran into his rental house against the wind and snow all the way, just to tell him A voice: "Happy New Year."

In the cold rental house, when Xie Yuan opened the door, he saw the "white swan" with snow on his temples jumped up, jumped on top of him, and hugged him tightly.

She kept whispering in his ear: "I like you, I really like you, my body, my heart, and every strand of my hair are liking you."

At that moment, Xie Yuan, every cell in his body gave up resistance.

He could no longer refuse, rejecting this girl's ardent sincerity and so many likes.

It was a crazy night. There was no heating in the rental house. Xie Yuan changed the cleanest sheets.

They drank a lot and burned each other to the extreme.

"Later I went south to do business and started from scratch, trying to be worthy of her. But she told me that no matter how hard I tried, we would never get the consent of my parents, unless she picked the first and only one in China. The queen's ballerina laurels."

Jiang Manyi sighed: "You missed her."

"We made an appointment and work hard together. I work hard to earn money, she dances hard, and when I come back, she will give me a huge surprise."

Xie Yuan closed his eyes in pain. Even after many years, when he talked about his childhood lover, he was still so mourning: "I didn't wait for her surprise, never again."

Jiang Manyi knew what that surprise was...

Bu Tanyan gave birth to the cutest daughter in the world without telling the world!

When he left, Bu Tanyan entrusted her daughter to Jiang Manyi. No matter how much he blamed herself now, Jiang Manyi would never return her daughter to him.

"If you want to recognize your daughter, this matter will definitely come out." Jiang Manyi said in a deep voice: "The Bu family will also know that Bu Tanyan gave birth to a daughter, what do you think they will do? After so many years, No one has ever won the queen position in the ballet world, except Bu Tanyan..."

"You're afraid they will take Xiaoyu away." Xie Yuan sneered: "Impossible, unless I die."

Jiang Manyi knew that the current Xie Yuan was no longer the poor boy Bu Tanyan called him back then.

With his own strength, he is enough to compete with the Bu family, but...

But Jiang Manyi couldn't do it. If the Bu family wanted their daughter back, Jiang Manyi couldn't stop her at all, just like she couldn't stop Xie Yuan.

Xie Yuan is different from the Bu family. Xie Yuan has deep feelings for Jiang Yu, and because of this, he will not take her away forcibly.

That's why Jiang Manyi reluctantly agreed to let them come in contact, but didn't stop it forcefully.

......

At this moment, Jiang Yu pushed open the kitchen door and looked at them meaningfully: "You two, what are you talking about when you close the door in the kitchen?"

Jiang Manyi immediately said, "Thank you uncle for your good cooking skills. I will let him teach me how to cook."

"Really." Jiang Yu said with a smile: "Then there is no need to close the door."

Jiang Manyi knew what Jiang Yu had misunderstood, and quickly pushed her out to avoid embarrassment.

"Don't talk nonsense, I have nothing with Xie Yuan."

"Did I say what do you have?" Jiang Yu added a little smile: "You are here without three hundred taels of silver."

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm leaving, you can celebrate the New Year with him, I'll go back and have some hot drinks, I'm too lazy to care about you."

"Don't, don't, it's so embarrassing for me to stay when you're gone."

While the mother and daughter were talking on the balcony, Xie Yuan had already brought the sumptuous meal to the table: "It's time for dinner."

Jiang Yu walked over and saw the delicious food on the table, and exclaimed: "Uncle Xie, your craftsmanship is so good! I don't see it at all, you actually know how to cook!"

He usually looks like an elite in the workplace and a corporate executive, but he didn't expect to be a "home cook" at home.

Xie Yuan's compliment to his daughter was particularly useful, and he gave her a bowl of pea and hoof flower soup: "Drink the soup first."

"Ah, this soup, I can't drink it." Jiang Yu looked at the oily flowers floating on it. Although he was greedy, he still refused: "This... I can't drink it."

"Why can't you drink?"

Jiang Manyi said leisurely: "Controlling diet is the basic quality of a ballet dancer."

"When you are growing up, what kind of diet do you control." Xie Yuan's face sank: "Dad said you can drink as much as you can."

"Then I'll take a sip?"

Xie Yuan scooped another bowl for her, and melted the oily flowers on the soup noodles, which were all melted peas.

Jiang Yu was blowing the heat and was about to open his mouth when he suddenly remembered something and looked at Xie Yuan: "Uncle Xie, you just said... Dad?"

Xie Yuan was slightly surprised: "Did I say it, no."

Jiang Yu was sure: "You said it, I heard it."

"I do not."

Jiang Yu looked at Jiang Manyi: "He said it, right?"

Jiang Manyi: "I didn't say it, I didn't hear it."

"Eh???"

......

On the New Year's Eve, Xie Yuan and Jiang Manyi went to the terrace to set off fireworks and firecrackers.

Jiang Yu took the mobile phone alone, went to the study secretly, and played a video for Qiu Li to celebrate New Year's Eve together.

However, after the video passed, no one answered for a long time, and then it was hung up.

Jiang Yu sent another video and was quickly hung up.

what happened? Didn't you say it's good to New Year's Eve together?

She called Qiu Li, this time Qiu Li didn't hang up, but picked up the phone——

"girlfriend..."

Jiang Yu heard that his breathing was a little heavy and noisy, so he asked, "Why don't you answer the video?"

"There is no traffic." He cleared his throat: "Outside... watching fireworks."

"Oh, so." Jiang Yu had no doubts: "Did you wear the new shoes I gave you when you went out?"

"Yes, dressed."

"That's good. New Year's Eve, you have to wear new clothes and new shoes."

"Um."

"Then don't hang up and wait for the countdown?"

"Don't hang up."

"You are so noisy over there, your voice has changed a bit."

......

At the end of the wet alley, there are children watching fireworks and gun battles, bursting with laughter, like another world.

Qiu Li was sitting on the ground with his back against the wall. There was a pile of remnants of ashes in front of him. There were black charcoal marks on his face, and there were many burn marks on his clothes, especially his arms. The burn marks were particularly obvious.

In his arms, he was holding the pair of aj sneakers that Jiang Yu gave him. The glue on the shoelaces was burnt black, and the shoelaces were also burnt away. Although the general shape had not changed, it could be seen that , is already difficult to wear.

Qiu Li's eyes were bloodshot, and he was holding on to the pair of shoes...

In the dark blue night sky, fireworks exploded in clusters, his eardrums roared, and his temples jumped suddenly.

On the phone, the girl's soft and soft voice came: "Qiu Li, the countdown is about to start, let's go together, ten, nine, eight, seven, six..."

Qiu Li tried his best to suppress, and recited with her: "Five, four, three, two, one..."

"Happy New Year! Happy New Year!"

The corners of Qiu Li's mouth raised unconsciously, but his eyes were very painful: "Yes, our Xiaoyu is also..."

"Qiu Li, your voice doesn't sound very good."

Qiu Li lowered his head and kissed the pair of burned shoes, then wiped his dry eyes, and said, "Maybe it's because your boyfriend misses you too much."

Jiang Yu was a little worried and said, "Then let's make a video, and I'll charge you the data fee."

Qiu Li bit his fist hard, and because of the force, his body couldn't help but tremble slightly——

"Xiaoyu, I love you."