Highly toxic

Jiang Mu stopped at the entrance of a breakfast shop. He looked at the familiar signboard name, and some images in the back of his mind flashed away.

In order to explore the inexplicable sense of familiarity, Jiang Mu stepped into the breakfast shop.

It was almost nine o'clock in the morning, it was past breakfast time, and there were not many customers in the store. The proprietress came out of the back kitchen with a smile on her apron, and asked Jiang Mu enthusiastically what to eat.

Jiang Mu looked at the kind-faced middle-aged woman in front of him, and another familiar feeling came over him.

As people grow older, the facial skin will inevitably loosen, but the shape of the adult facial features has already been finalized. No matter how the years are drawn vertically and horizontally, the appearance of many years ago can still be discerned from it.

Jiang Mu instinctively felt that he had seen the proprietress before.

Jiang Mu had eaten breakfast a long time ago, and he wasn't hungry yet, but in the face of the woman's warm greeting, he casually ordered a seafood porridge, and then sat down at a table.

The proprietress has gone to the back kitchen to serve porridge, while Jiang Mu is sitting sideways at the dining table, looking around the breakfast restaurant thoughtfully.

The inside of the store was obviously renovated, and Jiang Mu hadn't been here for more than ten years, so Jiang Mu had no clue based on the layout of the store.

After a while, the proprietress came over with a bowl of porridge, and she gently placed the porridge bowl in front of Jiang Mu. Jiang Mu suddenly noticed the scar on the back of the proprietress' hand.

It looked like it had been scalded, and the scar took up the entire back of the hand.

Seeing Jiang Mu staring at the back of her hand, the proprietress subconsciously put her hand behind her back, and smiled awkwardly, "I'm sorry."

She thought that her scar affected the appetite of the guests.

Just as the proprietress turned to leave, Jiang Mu suddenly called her, "Aunt Liu."

The proprietress stopped and turned her head to look at Jiang Mu in surprise. She frowned, looked at Jiang Mu carefully, and wondered when she was sure that she did not know her, "Young man, how do you know my surname?" Liu."

She has opened this breakfast restaurant for more than ten years, and she is familiar with almost all the frequent guests. With a new face like Jiang Mu and a voice with a foreign accent, she can tell at a glance that they are tourists from other places, so I was very surprised how the young man in front of me knew that his surname was Liu, and the name of her breakfast restaurant was the last two characters of her name.

Jiang Mu stood up from the dining table. He looked at the proprietress in front of him, his eyes were slightly hot, and he smiled and said, "I am Xiao Jiang, do you remember? My parents were in a car accident on the road ahead more than ten years ago. At the scene, not only accompanied me to the hospital, but also took me to stay at your house for a few days, do you remember..."

Jiang Mu remembered.

When his parents were in a car accident that year, he sat on the ground and cried heart-rendingly, and then a woman came out from the crowd, and she lifted himself up from the ground and hugged him in her arms. shelter.

That kind-hearted woman not only accompanied him to the hospital in the ambulance, but also took her to stay at home for two days until his parents and friends came to pick him up...

Later, he entered the orphanage. During that time, he lived in a trance every day, stimulated by nightmares and loneliness, and almost became depressed and mentally demented. Later, he accepted the reality, but apart from remembering his parents I forgot everything about the scene of the car accident.

But now he recalled that at the scene of his parents' car accident, the woman who held him in her arms when he was only six or seven years old was the middle-aged woman in front of him. I remember the scar on the back of that woman's hand. I lived in this store for two days, and I lived in a small bedroom upstairs, sleeping in the same room with the woman's son.

The store name is still the same as before, but the interior and exterior decoration is much more upscale than ten years ago.

"You are..." The proprietress looked at Jiang Mu incredulously, and pointed at him, "That kid."

The law and order in this area has always been very good, and nothing major has happened in the past ten or twenty years, so the car accident more than ten years ago, the proprietress’s memory is particularly deep, and then for several years, I can occasionally hear customers discussing it in the store ...

So the proprietress naturally remembered that she helped the child of the couple who died in a car accident. Now that she thinks about it, she can't help but sigh in her heart.

So pitiful.

It's so pathetic.

"It's me." Jiang Mu smiled and said softly, "Aunt Liu, you think of me."

Aunt Liu was so astonished that she opened her mouth enough to stuff a tea egg. She looked Jiang Mu up and down, and after a while she sighed in amazement, "It's so big." After a pause, Aunt Liu nodded again and again. , said with a gratified face, "It's great to grow up, it's great..."

Jiang Mu stepped forward and hugged Aunt Liu.

Aunt Liu patted Jiang Mu on the back, then grabbed Jiang Mu's arm with both hands, and continued to look at Jiang Mu, her excited voice was a little choked up, "The little radish has become a big guy, taller than Auntie, really Very good……"

Jiang Mu chatted with Aunt Liu for a long time, and in the face of Aunt Liu's various inquiries, Jiang Mu also reported good things but not bad ones.

At this time, Aunt Liu's son came back from the outside. He was a chubby young man who looked very simple and honest, with a bag of flour in his hand. As soon as he entered the door, he called Aunt Liu, "Mom, do you think I bought it right?" , do you want this brand?"

Aunt Liu didn't bother to answer his son's questions, so he got up and dragged his son to Jiang Mu, and couldn't wait to introduce him to him, "Xiao Yang, come and see, do you still know him?"

Xiao Yang looked blankly at Jiang Mu in front of him, then turned his head and asked his mother cautiously after a few seconds, "Who is this?"

"You slept in the same bed with someone when you were ten years old. I don't remember. It was Xiao Jiang."

Xiao Yang scratched the back of his head, his brows were furrowed, it was really hard for him to think about what happened fifteen or sixteen years ago, he only remembered some fragments sporadically.

It seems that there is such a thing.

In fact, not only Xiao Yang, Jiang Mu himself can't remember much, he only remembers that Aunt Liu has a son, but he has a very weak impression of Aunt Liu's son.

Although Xiao Yang didn't think of anything, he still greeted Jiang Mu politely, and then went to the back kitchen with the flour.

Aunt Liu also went to the back kitchen. He continued to describe to Xiao Yang the scene when he brought Jiang Mu into the store. Xiao Yang was very surprised when he heard it, "Mom, how do you remember it so clearly?"

"Nonsense, everyone will remember that incident. Before Xiaojiang's parents had an accident, they took Xiaojiang to have breakfast at his mother's shop twice. You were too young at that time, so you didn't leave much impression. "

"Eh... It's not that I don't have any memory at all, it seems that I remembered a little bit."

"You played with Xiao Jiang." Aunt Liu reminded her son while recalling, "At that time, Xiao Jiang and his parents lived in a hotel on the street behind, and you always went to the empty space east of ** with Xiao Jiang. A snowman was built on the ground, and every time I came back, there was snow in my clothes. After being beaten with a feather duster by me, I sneaked out to find Xiao Jiang the next day. Also, I remember that besides you and Xiao Jiang, there was a boy who was with you at that time One piece, dressed in dirty clothes, Xiao Jiang always took the money to my shop to buy buns for the kid..."

Jiang Mu was drinking porridge when Xiao Yang came out from the back kitchen, walked directly across to Jiang Mu's table and sat down.

"Xiao Jiang, I finally remembered." Xiao Yang's eyes lit up, looking at Jiang Mu in front of him, and said with a smile, "You always called me Brother Dayang, and your parents took me to go skiing back then. In the field, I always wrestle there, and you still laugh at me."

Jiang Mu frowned, and it took a while to think of some hazy memories in his mind.

It's just that the excitement of the death of his parents was so great that Jiang Mu almost forgot all the memories before the car accident.

Try to think back now, everything is only a vague image.

"It seems... I have a little impression..." Jiang Mu moved the corner of his mouth, and said with a wry smile, "But it's not very clear."

"You must remember one thing. I had a snowball fight with you one evening, and I knocked you to the ground, and then the boy you brought beat me up."

"..."

"Don't you have any impression? I rely on me to remember clearly. He almost knocked out one of my front teeth." Xiao Yang said while smiling, "That kid is taller than me and his clothes are dirty. I said he was a friend you just made. I was beaten by him and ran back crying. You dragged him to my mother’s shop to apologize to me. I was so angry that I almost broke up with you. I remember. ?"

Xiao Yang's words caused a vague face to flash across Jiang Mu's mind...

It seemed that there was another child at the time.

But Jiang Mu couldn't remember who it was, thinking that maybe it was a child from another family around here.

"Looking at your expression, you don't remember as much as I do." Xiao Yang said with a smile, "It would be great if I could find photos from before. At that time, my uncle opened a photo studio in the east corner of **, and I brought You went to take pictures for free, remember? Er... I remember that your friend was there at that time, and the three of us took pictures together."

Jiang Mu became interested, "Really? Can you still find the photo?"

"It's probably difficult. It's been many years." Xiao Yang touched his double chin and said thoughtfully, "But since I was a child, my dad took a few photos every year and saved them. I've got this album, when my dad comes back, I'll ask, I'll see if he still has photos from more than ten years ago."

Jiang Mu took out his mobile phone, added friends with Xiao Yang, and said that if Xiao Yang found the photo, he would send it to him.

If there were photos, he might be able to recall more interesting stories from his childhood, so that the memories of his childhood were not limited to that nightmare.

Jiang Mu stayed in the store for a long time until Geng Yan called.

Geng Yan told Jiang Mu that he had returned to the hotel and wanted to discuss something with Jiang Mu right now.

Jiang Mu said goodbye to Aunt Liu and Xiao Yang, and returned to the hotel.

Geng Yan stood at the entrance of the hotel and waited for Jiang Mu. As soon as Jiang Mu arrived, Geng Yan rubbed Jiang Mu's cheek with his hand, and said distressedly, "I don't know how to wear the scarf, my face turned red from the cold."

Jiang Mu was in a very happy mood, and said with a smile, "You know, brother Yan, I just found my childhood friend, what a coincidence."

Geng Yan responded with a smile, "It seems that we all have good things."

Jiang Mu was slightly stunned, and suddenly remembered the little glutinous rice balls that Geng Yan had just found. He subconsciously turned his head to look around, and then asked Geng Yan, "Where is the little glutinous rice balls? Didn't he come with you?"

"He's still at his residence." Geng Yan put his arms around Jiang Mu's waist, and pressed his forehead against Jiang Mu's, "His parents passed away early, and he has been alone all these years, and he has had a hard time."

Jiang Mu was a little moved, "Then you should help him improve his living conditions, which is what you should do."

"Yeah." Geng Yan said softly, "Daughter-in-law, I want to... take him back to Zhong'an City."

Jiang Mu was stunned, a little surprised, "You want to take him to Zhong'an City? Is this your unilateral idea, or is it Xiaotangyuan's request."

Geng Yan walked into the hotel with his arms around Jiang Mu's waist, "Let's go back to the hotel and say, it's too cold outside."

After entering the elevator, Geng Yan continued, "He has no family or reason here, and I think he is still very weak. If there is no acquaintance to take care of him, the future will only be more difficult."

"How did he find you?" Jiang Mu asked curiously.

He felt incredible since last night, how could normal people find each other more accurately since they were separated for more than ten years, and it was still from the ignorant age of six or seven.

"He came back to Winter Flower City after his parents passed away, and he wanted to find me at that time." While speaking, Geng Yan's eyes were slightly hurt, "Later he lived here alone for a few years, because he didn't wait for me. , and left to live in the city, and then until nearly three months ago, he came back here again."

"Is it still looking for you?" Jiang Mu asked softly.

Geng Yan nodded, and said softly, "Well, he said that he was lonely all these years and was always eager to find me. He said that even if he couldn't find me, he was willing to settle down in this place and meet me right now. Live with thoughts and expectations."

"But how can he be sure that you are the person he is looking for?"

"A few years ago, I gave the manager of this hotel a sum of money and asked him to tell the front desk for me to ask the male residents who lived here, who were about the same age as the current Xiaotangyuan, if there were any male residents who were nicknamed Xiaotangyuan when they were young. At that time, I was thinking that maybe one day, Xiao Tangyuan's family would stay in this hotel again, and then three months ago, when Xiao Tangyuan came back here again, he stayed in this hotel, and the manager saw him The grade is about the same as what I described, so I just asked a casual question."

At the end, Geng Yan sighed softly, and continued, "Little Tangyuan said that he had suffered a lot in the past trying to find me, and he had almost been sold by a liar, so after hesitating, he didn't admit it right away. I heard from the manager that I come here almost every year, so I have been waiting here for nearly three months, but even if I came, he didn’t dare to confirm that the person he was looking for was me, so he asked the hotel to work The officer handed me a picture of him as a child, trying to test my reaction, and..."

Geng Yan talked from the elevator to the room, and Jiang Mu listened quietly.

"No one knows about the matter between me and Xiao Tangyuan, but he told me a lot of things that only Xiao Tangyuan and I know, so I'm sure he is Xiao Tangyuan..." Geng Yan said seriously.

It all seems to make sense.

The efforts made by the little Tangyuan to find Geng Yan, and the careful temptation after suffering so much, made people feel distressed. Jiang Mu, as a person who is very empathetic, is full of sympathy for the little Tangyuan at the moment.

It's just that while the sympathy was flooding, Jiang Mu also felt a subtle weirdness, but he couldn't tell what was wrong at the moment.

Geng Yan was even more immersed in the joy of finding the small glutinous rice balls. As a person in charge, it was even more impossible for him to be sober than Jiang Mu, a bystander.

Geng Yan told Jiang Mu that taking Xiaotangyuan to live in Zhongan City was not only Xiaotangyuan's request, but also Geng Yan's own wish.

He wanted to provide Xiao Tangyuan with the best living conditions, in order to repay Xiao Tangyuan's kindness that was almost life-saving.

This can be regarded as an end to his Geng Yan's mind.

"you……"

Facing Geng Yan, Jiang Mu struggled a lot before asking in a low voice, "How do you feel about him?"

Jiang Mu couldn't stop thinking about it. He still remembered the time when Geng Yan mistook him for a small glutinous rice ball, the energy to stalk him so hard that he wanted to tie him into the wedding hall.

He didn't want to treat Geng Yan's little benefactor as a rival in love, but he had personally experienced Geng Yan's obsession with that little dumpling, and he knew very well the importance of the little dumpling in Geng Yan's heart.

Geng Yan was amused by Jiang Mu's cautious question. He hugged Jiang Mu's waist tightly and said with a smile, "Honey, I'm so happy that you are jealous of me."

This can make him clearly feel that Jiang Mu loves him.

Jiang Mu was ashamed to admit it, and said with a serious face on purpose, "Who is jealous, I... I just asked casually."

"I only love you, Jiang Mu." Geng Yan said softly, "My feeling for Xiaotangyuan is completely different from that for you. He is more like my long-lost brother."

"Then when you mistook me for him back then, why didn't you take me as your younger brother." Jiang Mu said intentionally, "But you can't wait to get married with me right away."

"..."

"Look, you have nothing to say." Jiang Mu became emotional as he spoke, and asked domineeringly, "Are you guilty?"

"How is it possible? I'm very frank in my heart. I was just thinking about how to answer you." Geng Yan held Jiang Mu's hand, dumbfounded and said earnestly, "Daughter-in-law, the little girl I treated you back then Tangyuan filter, at best, is one of the factors that made me like you. Before I found Xiaotangyuan, I never thought that after I found him, I would get along with him as a lover. When I fell in love with you, it was the right time and place It is a combination of people and various factors.”

Geng Yan's sincere words really had an effect, Jiang Mu pursed his lips, his face softened a lot, "Really?"

"Of course it's true. You said that I stalked you when I treated you like a little glutinous rice ball. Later, I realized that you are not a small glutinous rice ball. I still miss you and chase after you hard. Then I love you so much. , doesn’t it just have nothing to do with whether you are Xiaotangyuan or not.” After Geng Yan finished speaking, he winked at Jiang Mu sincerely.

Geng Yan's logic completely convinced Jiang Mu, Jiang Mu suddenly stood on tiptoe and hugged Geng Yan's neck, the tip of his nose touched Geng Yan's nose, blushing and whispered, "I'm sorry, I shouldn't doubt you."

Hearing Jiang Mu's soft apology, Geng Yan's heart felt hot, and the electric current was throbbing in his lower abdomen. If he hadn't had to pick up the little glutinous rice balls in a while, he really wanted to put the little daughter-in-law in his arms on the sofa right now. It's a dark day.

"As punishment for doubting your husband, put on that pajamas tonight." Geng Yan kissed Jiang Mu, smiling wickedly.

"You think well." Jiang Mu let go of Geng Yan, and turned his back to him arrogantly, "Speaking of which, since you treat Xiaotangyuan as your younger brother, then I will do the same. Don't worry, I'm not a narrow-minded person. I'm sure I'll be nice to him, too."

Geng Yan put his arms around Jiang Mu's waist from behind Jiang Mu, and said softly, "Then on the day we get married, let Xiao Tang Yuan be your best man."

Jiang Mu blushed slightly, "I haven't promised you yet."

Geng Yan loved Jiang Mu's shy and stubborn appearance so much, he straightened Jiang Mu's shoulders with both hands, held Jiang Mu's cheek and kissed him.

Jiang Mu booked a plane ticket back to Zhong'an City the next morning on the Internet. Apart from him and Geng Yan, he also bought one for the little glutinous rice balls.

Geng Yan told Jiang Mu that he had made an agreement with Xiaotangyuan this morning about going to live and settle in Zhongan City, and Xiaotangyuan should have packed his luggage by now and was waiting for him in the rented room.

Geng Yan was going to take the small glutinous rice balls to the hotel here, Jiang Mu proposed to go with Geng Yan.

He has long been curious about this little dumpling.