Summertime

After dinner, Xi Zao couldn't sit still after all. After she helped clean up the dishes, she was ready to leave.

"I have to go back to catch up with work. If I don't change some manuscripts, I won't have time to hand them over to the studio on Monday."

"Don't stay for a while longer, you can do the work tomorrow, not to mention your hand is hurt!"

Zhou Xiaomi, who was sitting on the sofa, turned his head and frowned.

"No, I have other things to do tomorrow. Today's crab is delicious, thank you."

Xi Zao didn't touch the tea on the tea table that Zhou Mi had just handed over. She picked up the small bag, stood up, and smiled tactfully.

"Then I'll take you back!"

Zhou Mi also stood up, stretched, and was about to go to the porch to get the car keys.

"No need, no need." Xi Zao waved his hand quickly.

"I'll take the jujube back. You were drinking just now."

Su Xi came out of the kitchen at some point, wearing a pair of plastic gloves with detergent foam in her hands.

"It doesn't matter, I didn't drink much, I will buy some anti-inflammatory medicine for Xizao later, and you can stay at home with Tongtong."

"Then, be careful on the road."

Zhou Mi had already put on her shoes in the entrance, Su Xi looked at Xizao who was hesitant to speak but said nothing, she turned her head and said to Zhou Mi.

The way back will take several 10 minutes. When Xizao thinks of this, her scalp becomes numb. While going out with Zhou Mi, she swears in her heart that she must drive to the next party, oh, No, there will be no next time!

Of course Zhou Mi didn't smell the strong smell of embarrassment in the dark carriage, because he was a little hot after drinking some wine, so he opened all the windows to get some air. The car was extremely quiet, and the people beside him huddled together In the corner of the car seat, the bright screen of the mobile phone was rolling, and there was no sound. Zhou Mi was in a good mood for some reason. He habitually stretched out his hand and rubbed Xizao's head, but now Xizao is no longer short hair. After rubbing it lightly and heavily, several scattered strands of hair flew up from the back of Xizao's head.Xizao seemed to be frightened suddenly, she raised her head in a daze for a few seconds, then she grinned again, as silly and dumb as Zhou Mi looked at Xizao who was at a loss in front of her, couldn't help laughing Smiling, he gently smoothed Zizao's loose hair and turned his head away.

"What are you thinking? It's a surprise."

"No...it's nothing, I'm just reading Weibo." Xizao raised his head, put his phone in his pocket, and didn't read any more.

"Are you busy at work recently? Look at your dark circles like a panda."

"Well, there is a big exhibition in Hong Kong this month, and CouCi also wants to participate. Now I am busy applying and contacting. The time is relatively short and there are a lot of things to prepare, so I am quite busy."

"You going?"

"I don't know, Gu Xia should go."

Xizao rolled down the car window, turned around and lay on the car window, closed her eyes, and replied with a facial expression, she chose to change her posture so that she would not have to face Zhou Mi, so that she would not have to pretend to be hypocritical. The facial expression, Zhou Xiaomi's boring question made Xizao unintentionally answer, but she had no other topics to switch to, so she could only respond in a random way, trying to be as natural as possible without any trace of force.But, why can’t I feel the flow of the wind when I’m sitting by the car window? Why is the night scene outside the window passing so slowly? Dare to lift the head on the arm.

"Do you remember the dream time?"

Suddenly Zhou Mi turned around and asked such a sentence, and the previous lengthy question-and-answer session ended like this.

"Ok?"

"Just before you resigned, the girl who was newly recruited by the bar, didn't she have the best relationship with you later, don't you remember?"

"Remember, she, is she okay?"

Xizao raised his head, turned around and leaned against the seat, listening attentively.

"Yes, they are all rich wives, and now they are full-time wives in a villa in the suburbs of Beijing."

"Her former Thai boyfriend, are they together?"

"It's been a long time ago. Now that person is the boss of the company. He and I still know each other well. He's a nice guy."

"pretty good."

In the dream, Xizao's appearance had long been blurred. If Zhou Mi hadn't mentioned her name, perhaps Xizao would not have remembered her name, but Xizao still retained her original familiarity with this person, even though Xizao was in the Before going abroad, I deleted all the contact information of all the old people with the traces of the bar. Among the people who used to come and go, most of them have become strangers to Xizao. She still remembers when she dreamed, There was another person, her ex, her first boyfriend.

"Oh, do you still remember Cheng Ran, the brat next to Mengshi?" Zhou Mi seemed to think of an interesting person again, and he couldn't help laughing.

That person's name made Xizao's heart suddenly tighten, but the constricted heart returned to normal in the next second.

"Didn't he go to New Zealand before graduating, is there still contact?"

Xizao took out the phone from his pocket again, lowered his head and looked at the glowing screen and asked casually.

"When I heard the dream, it seemed that he got married two years ago and opened a Chinese restaurant in the local area. After graduation, I had very little contact with him, and now I have no contact."

"At that time, he took the IELTS test to become a famous chef in New Zealand. I thought he was just joking, but I didn't expect him to be serious."

Xizao stared blankly at the three or two red and yellow car taillights flying past the light-shielding glass in front of her, changing from bright to dark, and gradually drifting away. Suddenly, she lowered her head and talked to herself.

"Really, why didn't he tell me this?" Zhou Mi turned her head and asked

"This...it was told to me in a dream." Xizao lied again with a guilty conscience.

"Speaking of which, that brat was trying to chase you all the time. It was so blatant. Everyone in the bar saw it clearly. Fortunately, you didn't agree. How could he be worthy of you!"

Zhou Mi's voice became a little louder, as if he was clamoring his dissatisfaction with Shunran.

"is it?"

Xizao responded with an embarrassed smile. She thought that as long as she pretended to be calm, the topic would end quickly, but Zhou Mi seemed a little bit reluctant.

"That's right, when you wanted to choose him, you might as well choose me!"

The sudden response, tough and straightforward, made Xizao panic instantly. She always thought that some facts were illusions she had seen, and repeated encounters were not enough to make her believe it was true, but this time she still discovered those things Things, those things that she has been turning a blind eye to, it turns out that she has been deceiving herself all along.

"I do not like him."

Xizao turned her head away, at this moment she didn't know how to face the Zhou Mi she knew.

"I don't like him either."

Zhou Xiaomi turned his head to look at Xizao who was looking out of the window. He couldn't see Xizao's expression, but it seemed that she was not interested in Cheng Ran's topic. He smiled and agreed.

Xizao's community is approaching, Zhou Mi parked the car by the side of a small pharmacy near the residential area, turned off the engine and got off, in order to buy anti-inflammatory and sterilizing medicine for Xizao, Xizao sat in the car, watching Zhou Mi's trotting figure quickly merged into the bright lights around her, and her extremely stiff body instantly loosened up, like a row of tall building blocks collapsing, chaotic, slumped, and lifeless.

Cheng Ran, Xi Zao cheated Zhou Xiaomi again, and she did agree to him, even though their relationship lasted less than fifteen days,

Although in that brief relationship, Xizao and him did not meet each other for more than 48 hours, and although Xizao was the cruel heartless person in the end, this funny and short love is still a love.However, what Xizao said is true, she really doesn't like Cheng Ran, but the ridiculous thing is that the last second when Xizao clearly realized this, she had already agreed to his pursuit, and she could not go back on her word But, in the end, she still broke the contract.The reason why Xizao lied was because she really wanted to deny this nonsensical love, so Xizao never told anyone about this short-lived love, the only person who knew was Mengshi, and she said she would keep it a secret.

Perhaps, when Xizao learned about that person's recent situation from Zhou Mi's mouth, the guilt she had been carrying for many years was finally relieved, and it was relieved a lot.

He's doing fine now, he's fine, that's fine.

But Xizao had just let go of the burden of guilt, but now the mountain of shame and guilt became heavier and heavier, making her breathless.She really wanted to pretend not to know something deep in Zhou Mi's heart, and she didn't know if Su Xi had noticed that Xizao just wanted to continue the relationship between the three of them in a calm and peaceful manner, but She already knew in her heart that the current harmony and peaceful triangular relationship might not be able to maintain the same in the future.

Sustain, jujube can no longer do it.

Ziz——

The sudden vibration of the mobile phone in her hand woke up Xizao who was thinking wildly. She lowered her head to check the flickering screen of the mobile phone in the dark. The corners of his mouth raised unconsciously, and his fingers quickly tapped on the input keyboard.

--are you home yet?

--Soon.

——I will go to your place tomorrow morning and want to see you.

——Didn’t you keep seeing me just now?

——I haven’t seen enough!

——Then, tomorrow, you won't get tired of looking at my face, will you?

——I'm afraid I won't be able to see enough, remember not to touch the water with your fingers, apply the medicine well, and go home to rest early.

——Well, tomorrow, I will wait for you.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, a black car drove into a quiet neighborhood and turned off at the driveway of a certain building. A man closed the car door and handed another woman who got out of the car a package of paper bags.

"Remember not to touch the water with your fingers, apply the medicine well, and go home to rest early."

Zhou Mi stretched out her hand, couldn't help rubbing Xi Zao's ignorant head, and said softly.

At that moment, Xizao thought she had a delusional feeling, one exhortation, one exhortation, exactly the same, but from two different people, the coincidence was astonishing, Xizao suddenly felt that her heart seemed to think that sentence, was instantly tainted into thick Black, like a group of crows croaking on a telegraph pole, their strange and evil colors, Xi Zao resisted the feeling of nausea caused by his deteriorating heart, and nodded fiercely.