Xiao Yuan hooked the corners of his mouth and smiled, and suddenly asked, "What about you?" ”

"What's wrong with me?"

"You're not alone."

"I ......"

Liu Jiangqing suddenly shut up, stood up from the table with a wine glass with a heavy face, slowly walked to the dark window, and looked at the glittering street in the distance. Xiao Yuan didn't care about his departure from the table, nor did he care about the words that stopped after saying a word, picked up the wine bottle and filled himself with liquor again, and read a poem slowly in a slightly drunken tone:

"Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls with amber light. But that the master may be drunk, and he will not know where it is. ”

- I don't know where it is...... Is it?

There are many lights on the street outside the window, most of which are festive red colors that symbolize the New Year. There were very few people, and there was hardly half a figure in sight, after all, there was only about an hour left before midnight, and they were all reunited at home. The street scene here is very strange to Liu Qiqing, who stays at home, even if he stays for most of the year, there is still no familiar imprint, obviously a "other country" that has nothing to do with him, but this year's Chinese New Year's Eve was spent here.

Maybe it was because of drinking some wine, Liu Jiangqing suddenly became a little sentimental, looking at the street scene and wanting to cry and laugh. This year, I will spend the New Year with Xiao Yuan, but I don't know where I want to spend the New Year next year, and I don't know the future or future. Will it always be in S City? He thinks it is unlikely, but one thing is possible, that is, every year at this time of year, he has to face the world outside the window alone, watching the fireworks of hundreds of flowers, but there are no familiar faces in front of him, no joyful laughter.

Like an orphan.

"To Mom and Dad." Liu Jiangqing raised her hand and spilled the wine in the wine glass to the ground, and smiled slightly at the corner of her mouth, "Happy New Year." ”

Xiao Yuan saw Liu Jiangqing's action, his expression suddenly became solemn, and after thinking about it, he walked towards him with a bottle and a glass with half a bottle of wine. The two stood by the window facing each other, Xiao Yuan raised the wine bottle and filled the empty wine glass in Liu Jiangqing's hand, and then poured himself a glass as well, the hand holding the wine bottle was very steady throughout the whole process, and not a drop spilled out.

"I'm sorry." Xiao Yuan carried the wine bottle in his left hand, touched it with Liu Jiangqing with the wine glass in his right hand, and then drank it all.

"I'm sorry, you can say something else to me today, but you don't need to apologize." Liu Jiangqing also drank the wine in the cup in one gulp, and the hot feeling immediately slipped from his throat to his abdomen, and his whole body was hot.

"This apology is not an apology for what I just said, but an apology for what I knew about you before." Xiao Yuan said solemnly.

"Why, do you think I'm a really bad person? It's all to the point of apologizing? Liu Jiangqing frowned and asked unhappily.

"Before today, I thought you were a person who was full of negativity about things and used strong words to cover up the weakness of his heart." Xiao Yuan replied, "Once you have an emotional outburst, you will destroy everything desperately, even self-destruct, which is very dangerous." ”

"Huh...... It's okay, this evaluation is not as bad as I thought, and it's pretty much the same. After all, I was really like this in the first two years, I was very negative and indifferent to anyone and everything, I didn't even want to say half a sentence to others, and even almost ruined myself. But now I've changed a lot, at least, it's not that dangerous to be able to talk to you a few more times and have a couple of sips with you. Liu Jiangqing shrugged, a self-deprecating smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Yes, we know each other quite well this way, you say my past, and I also know your past. Don't say much else, as long as you like Yuanjiang Pavilion and the Zero One team, this is your home, and I am your family. If this land is not demolished, it will be no problem for you to live here when you are seventy or eighty. Xiao Yuan said boldly.

"My family? Hey, which family are you? Liu Jiangqing shouted dissatisfiedly.

"By age, I should be your brother." Xiao Yuan said proudly.

"Cut, you're drunk, I'll fart you today, nothing!"

"Hehehe, I drank a table of people when I was twenty-five, and this wine is not enough to appetize. Drunk, where to start? ”

"Pros can't drink, you can drink a table of people, lie to the ghost."

"What are you lying to you, I retired early at that time, and I have been in business for two years, can I still drink wine?"

"Retirement? So early? ”

"Yes, when I was twenty-three years old, Lao Ji disbanded the team and was going to play abroad. I didn't want to go with him, so I retired and started to make another living, starting from scratch with the tens of thousands of dollars I saved from playing games. At that time, fortunately, I had the business acumen inherited from my father, and it only took me two years to reap the rewards and open the first Yuanjiang Pavilion in City B. Later, I did something else, and it wasn't until I opened this Yuanjiang Pavilion in S City three years ago that I reached the ideal state of business, and I could live a clean life without being so tormented. However, the price of changing careers to become a businessman is a decrease in hand speed, an increase in alcohol, and e-sports, which has nothing to do with me, a greasy businessman. ”

Xiao Yuan said and drank another glass of wine, the wine had no taste in his mouth, only a strong feeling in his throat when he swallowed. It's like swallowing the complex emotions in your heart, letting it slowly digest itself in your stomach, without being noticed and not exploding.

"Old Ji?" Liu Jiangqing was a little drunk, but when she heard this name, she still sobered up, and looked at Xiao Yuan suspiciously: "Is the old Ji you are talking about Ji Yunze, the director of IeSF?" ”

"After 20 years in the e-sports industry, apart from him, there is no second old season in the world." Xiao Yuan looked out the window, and recalled the black and thin guy on the All-Star and what happened that day, and couldn't help but let out a long breath.

"He turned out to be your captain......" Liu Jiangqing was a little surprised, she didn't expect Xiao Yuan to know Ji Yunze at all.

"Lao Ji was the captain first, and then the coach of the team. I have been with him for a total of eight years, from the age of fifteen to twenty-three, living under the same roof, eating the same instant noodles, and being half a family. Xiao Yuan sighed.

"Heh, I kind of understand, as long as it's your family, they will eventually go abroad to settle down." Liu Jiangqing suddenly smiled, "Just now you said that you want to be my brother, is that why I will also go abroad in the future?" ”

"I really can't take what you say." Xiao Yuan also laughed, "Go abroad, go abroad, anyway, one day you will all have to go out." ”

Liu Jiangqing frowned slightly, sensing that Xiao Yuan had something to say, and just wanted to ask what it meant, but the mobile phone on the table suddenly vibrate. He walked over and picked up his mobile phone to take a look, and sure enough, it was Lu Yunqian calling.

"Hey, Sissi."

"Happy New Year, Landlord, I'm here to greet the New Year!" Lu Yunqian's crisp and lovely voice came from the phone.

"Yo, Happy New Year, Sissi. It just so happens that your coach Brother Xiao Yuan is also here, I will open the public, you can say hello to him and say hello to the New Year. Liu Jiangqing said and clicked on the call and put it on the table.

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