Chapter 57: Running away from home in anger
"I plan to go back in two days. This time I have taken all the leave for this year. There will not be many opportunities to come back in the future."
Huo Jinying lamented that time went too fast.
"Xia Mi, do you really not want to go to the Imperial Capital? The square is very different from its original appearance after renovation, and you are not interested in the attractions in the Forbidden City?"
Huo Jinying coaxed Xia Mi like a child, trying to pique her interest.
Xia Mi's heart was shaken, and she had the slightest urge to go and see it. She had never seen the Forbidden City in her previous life, and even passed by the square in a car.
It still makes me regretful when I think about it.
Xia Mi agreed, "If I have time, I will definitely ask Huo Jingchen to take me to see it."
"Then let's just say it. We'll write to each other in the future. If you plan to come, write to me half a month in advance or ask that brat to send you a telegram so that I can be prepared."
"Okay."
As he talked, he walked to the door of his house. Xia Mi put down the bucket and opened the door. Huo Jinying pushed the cart into the yard.
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Nancheng State Guesthouse.
Huo Jingchen arrived as promised, but he didn't expect that there were two people he didn't recognize sitting at the table where his elder brother Huo Jingting sat, one of whom was a man he had met before.
She looks very similar to Xia Mi, but now she looks nothing like him.
Huo Jingchen is wearing a pure white navy uniform. His superior figure and temperament are hard to ignore. From the moment he walks in, his presence is hard to ignore
He walked to Huo Jingting's table with long legs.
"Who are these two?"
Huo Jingchen looked at the other two people and thought that Huo Jingting had recognized the two brothers outside his back. If he remembered correctly, Huo Jingting was talking about two brothers. Why did there suddenly appear two more brothers?
Huo Jingting saw the confusion in his brother's eyes.
"Jingcheng, let me introduce you. This is Sang Qi, a student of Mom's. Currently working in Suzhou. This is Minghao, a colleague of mine at the institute."
Faced with Huo Jingchen's questioning eyes, Huo Jingting looked away guiltily and explained, "I met them while waiting for you, and the table was not enough, so we sat together."
It's time to eat now, and the state-owned hotel is full of people.
"This comrade is your brother?"
Sanqi was surprised by Huo Jingchen's identity. When he met a few days ago, he always felt that this person looked familiar.
Now that their identities match up, suddenly something enlightens them.
Huo Jingchen is more like a teacher than Huo Jingting.
"Hello, Comrade Huo." Sanqi stood up and politely extended his hand, "We met when we checked into the hotel that day."
Huo Jingchen shook his hand and said, "Hello."
Minghao followed closely, "Hello, Comrade Huo, I often hear Mr. Huo mention you."
"Really, do you want me to be a negative teaching material for you?" Huo Jingchen looked at Huo Jingting with resentful eyes.
Minghao paused, and remembered that when Huo Jingting mentioned Huo Jingchen, when he calculated the wrong data, drew the wrong drawings, and made low-level mistakes, Huo Gong said that they were not even as good as his brother.
I thought Huo Gong's younger brother was very young, the kind of primary and secondary school student.
"Looking at this reaction, I guessed it." Huo Jingchen let go of his hand, and his eyes fell on the guilty Huo Jingting again.
"No, no, no, no, Huo Gong only mentioned it once or twice."
"I've made a deep impression on you once or twice. It doesn't look like we were talking about something good."
Minghao didn't expect Huo Jingchen to be so difficult to deal with, and he spoke in a panic, "No, I can't remember exactly what he said."
"Oh?" Huo Jingchen trailed off suspiciously, "Didn't you just say that you often heard him mention me?"
"..."
Minghao was about to cry but couldn't find any tears, and he hated why he said what he just said. Isn't that sentence just a polite statement? You can't even hear it? !
"Okay, let's order." Huo Jingting couldn't stand it anymore and waved to the waiter, "What do you want to eat?"
Sanchi said politely, "I can do that, just eat whatever you want."
"Me too, I don't choose, anything is fine."
Both of them declined politely.
"Whatever is most difficult to serve, give me the menu and I'll do it." Huo Jingchen held out a simple menu.
Sanqi and Minghao looked at each other and raised their hands in tacit understanding to wipe away the unnecessary sweat.
Huo Jingchen ordered five dishes and one soup in one go. After the waiter registered his number, he confirmed with him, "Are you sure you want this much? It costs six yuan."
"That's enough. The money my eldest brother keeps is not for his wife. I must be able to afford it, right?"
Huo Jingchen asked Huo Jingting the question.
"It's enough for you to order five more dishes. Anyway, if you order so many, you can't eat them and just walk around."
The atmosphere between the two brothers was delicate. The waiter only wrote down the names of the dishes, and after making sure he had enough money to pay, he turned around and left.
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Minghao was sitting on pins and needles, and so was Sang Qi next to him.
After all, he was also someone who had attended a national conference. The tension brought by the conference was not as intense as this meal.
While waiting for the food, Huo Jingting said, "I remember Xia Mi is from Suzhou. Where in Suzhou?"
Huo Jingchen has never told anyone else about this matter. It seems that her family has read Xia Mi's file.
This feeling of being fully understood by others made Huo Jingchen feel irritable for no reason.
"He's from Suzhou." Huo Jingchen concealed the emotion in her eyes and turned to look at Sanqi, "I just heard that Comrade Sang is in Suzhou, and also Sucheng?"
"Yes, my hometown is in the countryside of Suzhou City." When talking about his hometown, Sanqi looked lonely for a moment.
Huo Jingchen was curious, "Why did you suddenly want to go to the imperial capital for development? The two places are more than a thousand kilometers apart."
"My family is poor and can only send me and my eldest sister to school. My eldest sister has a bright mind and is good at studying, but my parents insist on letting me go to school. In order to raise tuition fees for me, my eldest sister started negotiating with others when she was only sixteen years old. Give me the gift of money in exchange for the cost of my books.”
"I couldn't accept this approach, so I had a conflict with my family. I ran away from home in anger and ran to take the train. When I got to the station, I didn't dare to leave the station. I transferred two trains and arrived at the Imperial Capital in a daze. ”
Sanchi felt sad when talking about this past event.
Unknowingly, the topic suddenly became heavy. Sanchi realized something was wrong and wanted to change the topic.
Minghao was surprised. He didn't expect that there was such a story about Sanqi.
He asked curiously, "Then if you go back now, your family will be proud of you. Is your eldest sister still in school?"
"No." Sanqi shook his head, his expression even more solemn than when he just talked about the past, "My parents left early, and my eldest sister got married and left a few years ago."
This incident turned into a thorn that pierced deeply into Sanchi's soft heart.
He has only his wife and one child behind him, and no other family members. Every Chinese New Year, the three of them gather together to celebrate the New Year, which is particularly deserted compared to the other large groups.
The older people get, the more they like to be lively.
Huo Jingchen frowned, recalling that Xia Mi mentioned before that her biological parents also passed away early, and her only uncle went to the imperial capital.
But Sanchi ran away from home, so logically speaking, he shouldn't know his whereabouts.
"Give way, here comes the food."
The waiter's shout interrupted Huo Jingchen's thoughts.
After dinner, when they were about to say goodbye, Huo Jingchen asked her doubts, "Comrade Sang, could I ask if you have a niece?"