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Yao Ruoyu likes to eat with others.

When there are two, three or four people, she can create a relaxed and harmonious chat atmosphere without overtly dominating the conversation.When there are many people, she does not steal the show and is not eye-catching, but she naturally becomes the center of everyone's attention.Yao Ruoyu enjoys the feeling brought by this ability.

But not today.

"Don't Let You Be Alone" was playing in the dining room. If there wasn't this song she likes, Yao Ruoyu would give zero points to this lunch.

There are two men opposite, one is Xie Wu, who is her current "boyfriend", and the other is Xu Bin, who is her "boyfriend"'s boyfriend.In her plan, she would start work a week later and part ways with them.We are just a mutually beneficial relationship, with no losses and no debts. We have gotten along well during this time, and we may still contact and meet each other in the future, with many friends and multiple paths.

Xie Wu said: "Yao, my mother and your mother are already familiar, do you know that they are going to dance in the square together tonight."

Yao Ruoyu frowned: "I don't know, she didn't tell me. When did it happen?"

Xie Wu: "It seems like it's been a few days. We've been talking for half a month. I guess they think it will work this time. My mother likes you too."

"Like me after only meeting once?" Yao Ruoyu smiled, "Your mother is a little anxious. If you say that a man is 35, he is the fifth king of diamonds. If you are not a diamond, you are at least a pearl. She is worried that you will not find it." object?"

Xie Wu smiled, didn't care about her teasing, and said: "It's my fault that I was too rebellious when I was young, and I refused to talk about girlfriends no matter what. In the past two years, when my attitude softened, she became very anxious. She was afraid that I would be in trouble again after two years. Rebound, you have to seize the opportunity to say anything. The previous blind date failed, but this time it can be negotiated, and she is betting all her hopes on you."

"I can't bear such high hopes." Yao Ruoyu knocked on the table, "You'd better find a chance to explain it to her."

Xie Wu was silent for a moment, and asked, "How do you think about what we said last time?"

"Didn't I refuse last time? I don't think about getting married now, just deal with the family. That's what we agreed at the beginning, right?"

Xu Bin, who had been silent all this time, chattered at this moment: "Sister Yao, look at your age..."

"Hey! Don't call me 'Sister Yao', it's too ugly."

Xu Bin came to his senses and laughed twice: "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention."

Xie Wu held back a laugh beside him, Xu Bin punched him in the stomach.

Xu Bin said again: "Sister, we are talking about friends now, isn't it just for the family's peace of mind? This is just a sign, and if we break up again, won't the family be more worried? Do you still want to be like this for the rest of your life?"

"What's wrong with that? I don't want to get married for my family."

Xu Bin said, "Didn't you get married once?"

Yao Ruoyu said: "I don't want to have a second time."

Xu Bin persuaded: "Look, last time we talked to you about this matter, your attitude was not particularly absolute, so we brought it up to you again. After all, whether you are talking about friends or getting married, you want to give an explanation to your family , let your parents not worry so much. Now that your parents are over 60 years old and are still busy with your marriage, you don’t want them to work so hard, do you?”

Seeing that Yao Ruoyu seemed to be touched, Xu Bin continued to persuade: "Xie Wu is not young anymore, it is really not easy to meet such a compatible marriage partner. I have seen many with him in the past two years, that is, you, me I really like it at first glance, sister, let me tell you the truth, I am willing to be a relative with you. No one said that marriage must be because of love, right? After you get married, you will be a relative, and you can eat with the elderly at home together if you have nothing to do, and take the elderly out on vacation Going out for a while, having a man by your side makes it much easier for you to go out, right? Look, there is a reunion dinner during the Chinese New Year, isn’t that what the old man wants? As for the child, if you want, we can get a test-tube baby, and then Find a surrogate mother, if you don't want to, we won't do it. It doesn't matter if you don't have children, the old man thinks that the two of you are companions, and that you have security for the rest of your life, that's enough, and won't force you too much."

After Xu Bin finished speaking, he stopped for a while, and he and Xie Wu looked at her with four eyes.

Yao Ruoyu felt a mountain pressing on her heart.What Xu Bin said was right, what Xu Bin said was what she thought too.She was very tired from dragging the house all the time. Whenever she saw her parents wanting to say something and hesitating for fear of making her angry, she wished she didn't have these eyes, but she still smiled and changed the subject again and again.

too tired.Compared with this kind of tiredness, getting married is much easier.The child is not a child, she is already 39, the elderly mother is so dangerous, the family will not force her to give birth.What Xu Bin said was right, the second elder in the family just wanted her to have a companion for the rest of her life?Who are you not looking for?Anyway, she has already been married once, so what if she gets married again?

Why not agree?

Why not reconciled?

What a great way, what is she still greedy for?

Yao Ruoyu herself didn't know either."I'll think about it," she said.

Xie Wu breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, take your time to think about it, and we will try our best to agree to any conditions."

Yao Ruoyu said, "I want to sit for a while."

Xu Bin pulled Xie Wu up: "Then let's go first, see you later, sister."

"See you later." Yao Ruoyu waved with a smile.

Looking at their backs, Yao Ruoyu was in a daze for a long time.

She took out her phone and slid her finger across the screen.Swipe up, swipe up again, scroll down the address book, fghj... Her address book is very long, and it takes a long time to swipe to the end.Then her finger slid down gently, and then down again, tsrq...

Swipe to the top, and it won't slide anymore.There is an "ah" before Yuan Mu's name, "ah Yuan Mu", Yuan Mu...

Yao Ruoyu clicked on the name and dialed out the phone.

"Hello." Yuan Mu's voice came from the receiver, and Yao Ruoyu felt as if he hadn't heard it for a long time.

"You're good too, kid. What are you doing?"

"reading a book."

"What book do you read? I just want to enrich myself recently. Is there any book you recommend for me?" Yao Ruoyu asked with a smile, and suddenly heard the sound of pouring water, and asked without thinking, "Where are you?"

"At Fengshi's house."

"Beside you every time?"

"Correct."

"Then I won't bother you, goodbye."

"Again……"

The phone was disconnected, Yuan Mu looked puzzled, and put down the phone.

Sheng Fengshi put down the kettle and asked, "Yao Ruoyu?"

"Well, ask me what I'm doing and let me recommend books." Yuan Mu reached for the cup.

Sheng Fengshi grabbed her wrist and said, "It's hot, let it dry for a while before drinking."

"Oh." Yuan Mu withdrew his hand, "She doesn't sound very good, she hung up the phone very quickly."

"Maybe it's an unpleasant meal with someone, which affects my mood."

Yuan Mu nodded and said: "The last few times she appeared, she was in a strange state. Next time we see her, let's talk to her more and see if we can help her."

Sheng Fengshi said: "Her problems are basically her own. I tried to give her some advice, but I am different from her in many ways. Sometimes my advice doesn't apply, so I can't help."

Yuan Mu: "Then we can only wait until she is willing to talk."

"However, she rarely keeps in touch with someone so actively. It can be said that she has almost never done so. She usually gives hints to others and waits for them to contact her."

"Because I can't understand her hint, or I understand it but don't contact her?"

Sheng Fengshi: "You are already with me, and she will contact you alone."

Yuan Mu: "Because she wants to be friends with me?"

Sheng Fengshi: "Maybe..."

Yuan Mu understood, but he didn't quite believe Sheng Fengshi's judgment: "More than a friend?"

Sheng Fengshi said: "This is just my feeling. I rarely see her these days, and I can only understand the situation through your report."

"I don't know when she will come next time. Shall we ask her out for dinner sometime?"

"Okay. Just tomorrow, she may need to adjust her mood today. The water is ready to drink."

Yuan Mu picked up the cup and took a sip. The temperature was a little high, and he felt very comfortable after drinking it. "You cook a dish this afternoon, and I'll watch?" Yuan Mu asked.

"it is good."

"What would you like to eat this afternoon?"

"It's too early to discuss now." Sheng Fengshi smiled, "Anyway, the dishes have been bought, so let's look at them before cooking."

"Okay, shall we continue reading?"

"Where did you see it?"

Yuan Mu turned to the last page, looked at the next page, and said, "There are still more than seventy pages."

"After watching we clean up."

"Okay." Yuan Mu finished reading the current page, closed the book and said, "I can't read it."

Sheng Fengshi took her book and put it on the tea table: "Worried about Yao Ruoyu?"

"How should I put it? She is a very good person. I can't bear to see her in trouble all the time. But I know very well that I, like you, can't help."

Sheng Fengshi took Yuan Mu's shoulders, hugged him, and said: "As you grow older, you will find that there are only so many things you can do. When you want to do things beyond this range, Be ready to change."

"So, we chose not to change, did we choose the easy way?"

Sheng Fengshi said: "There is no easy road."

"Yes, a road is just a road." Yuan Mu said, "I'm stuck in my mind."

"Then skip these, let's do housework, or you think about other things."

Yuan Mu asked, "Is the desk in your study comfortable to use?"

"Aren't all desks like that?"

"Of course not." When he talked about what he was doing, Yuan Mu was in high spirits, "Our carpentry workshop not only makes old-fashioned furniture, apprentices can do small jobs by themselves, I think they have taken over a few creative furniture And so on, explain the concept clearly over there, we draw the blueprint here, discuss and modify it a few times, and then start to make it. The table made is not as boxy as this, but it is more practical than this. I am in I found a lot of picture references on the Internet, and I am still designing. I think, if you need it, I can make one for you.”

"Oh?" Sheng Fengshi seemed very interested, "You can draw it and let me see?"

"Okay, I'm going to get a pen and paper."

Yuan Mu ran to the study, found white paper and a pencil eraser, returned to the living room, drew the outline skillfully from memory, and then explained the purpose of such a design in detail.

Sheng Fengshi listened very carefully, and asked questions while listening. After Yuan Mu explained, Sheng Fengshi expressed his thoughts again. The two discussed a result, and then Yuan Mu erased a corner and re-drawn.

Drawings were revised bit by bit during repeated discussions.

When the final version of the blueprint was released, more than an hour had passed, Yuan Mu said with a smile, "I'm so engrossed that I didn't check the time. Are you tired?"

"I'm not tired." Sheng Fengshi said, "I'm not in a hurry to change the table, just take your time and don't work too hard."

Yuan Mu suddenly leaned over and touched Sheng Fengshi's lips: "Okay."

Sheng Fengshi pursed his lower lip, with a faint line of smile at the end of his eyes: "Let's clean up."

Yuan Mu put away his pen and paper.

The mobile phone placed on the coffee table suddenly turned on, and the name displayed on the screen was "Yao Ruoyu".

Yuan Mu and Sheng Fengshi glanced at each other before answering the phone: "What's the matter?"

There was rapid breathing and faint sobbing from the other side of the phone.