Will you return the money?

What Yin Shuye sent was a blank message.

Blank, that is, there is no word, let alone a word, and there is no punctuation mark.

Completely blank.

Xin Taofu couldn't help thinking: What does this mean?

With her fingers ahead of her head, Xin Taofu pressed a "?" and sent it.

Yin Shuye replied: You may not believe it, I sent it wrong.

I sent it wrong, is it really wrong?

Xin Taofu didn't know whether to believe it or not.

Believe it or not, it doesn't seem to matter that much.

When seeing the message coming, Xin Taofu's jumping movements and jumping heart seemed to have given the most obvious answer.

It was already spring in Chang'an Prefecture.

The warm-to-cold temperature blows all over the street like fine sand with the wind, splashing pedestrians all over their bodies and faces.Xin Taofu could only wear a long windbreaker to cover it up.

He walked across the paved concrete road, turned and entered the coffee shop.The hall exuding the aroma of coffee makes people feel warm all over.Xin Taofu breathed a sigh of relief, and walked towards Li Duyun who was sitting in the corner.

Li Duyun was still like that, when he saw Xin Taofu, he just nodded, his lukewarm attitude always made Xin Taofu feel that "I am liked" is purely fictional.

Maybe it's fiction, and it's even better.

Xin Taofu sat down and said, "I haven't seen you for a long time, and you are still the same."

Li Duyun was not interested in the pleasantries, and only said: "Do you plan to stay for a long time when you come back this time?"

"Let's have a look again." Xin Taofu did not deny, "Grandma really wants to come back. So does my mother."

Li Duyun smiled but not: "However, it still depends on you."

Xin Taofu sighed, and said: "Yes, they are very accommodating to me, and they all take my opinion as the most important thing."

"Then whose opinion do you value most?" Li Duyun's questions were always straightforward, "Is it Yin Shuye?"

Xin Taofu was stunned, and said, "Why did you mention him?"

Li Duyun said directly: "I heard that you didn't actually find any male companion, you just stayed with him."

"This way..." Xin Taofu did not deny it either, maybe she felt that there was no need to deny it.

He looks very frank and not guilty.

In Li Duyun's eyes, this proved that Xin Taofu had accepted Yin Shuye.

In Li Duyun's view, this is a very incredible thing.

He thought that Yin Shuye should be the most unlikely choice.

But thinking about it quietly, maybe he still doesn't know enough about Xin Taofu.

Perhaps, Yin Shuye was Xin Taofu's first choice all along.

Xin Taofu sighed slightly, and said: "I know, what I said may be a kind of 'tea talk', but... I really treat you as a friend, so I will tell you these things."

"I understand." Li Duyun said, "Although I don't know what 'tea talk tea language' is."

Xin Taofu smiled, and said: "I may fly away again, or I will bring my family back to settle down. I can't control what you think, but in my heart, my relationship with you will not change. "

"My relationship with you will not change", sounds like a deep and meaningful sentence, but after careful study, it is the most decisive rejection: you and I will always be friends.

Me and you will never be lovers.

In short, it will not change.

Of course Li Duyun understood, he was silent for a while, and then said: "So you don't plan to think about me at all?"

Xin Taofu was silent.

Li Duyun said again: "You are persuading me to give up."

It's still the kind of very firm affirmative sentence, full of Li Duyun's style.

Xin Taofu pursed her lips, and only said: "To be honest, I am really flattered by your liking for me..."

"I'm afraid it's not all about being flattered, only the word 'surprise' is true," Li Duyun interrupted, "Unexpected intentions are a kind of trouble and burden to the other party, I understand that."

Li Duyun's words are always so calm and so unpleasant.

Xin Taofu was still choked, and could only say embarrassingly: "Y-you can't say that..."

"Stop talking clichés between us." Li Duyun was still indifferent, "You know me, so you can tell me what's important."

Xin Taofu couldn't bear it any longer, she just said: "I'm not afraid of you...... sad......"

Li Duyun only said: "Since you reject me, I will inevitably be sad no matter what. What's the matter?"

Xin Taofu had nothing to say, and felt guilty again. After thousands of words, only one sentence remained: "I'm really sorry."

"There's nothing I'm sorry about." Li Duyun replied, "Don't be too guilty, and don't take yourself too seriously. I don't think I'll end up dying alone because of you."

Xin Taofu was robbed by Li Duyun, and she returned to the comfort of being with Li Duyun in the past, touched her nose, and said jokingly: "That's not sure, you know, you haven't let me go for the past three years ?”

Li Duyun replied: "I only like you these few years, just because I haven't liked anyone else. If I like someone else in the future, I won't like you anymore. Even if you regret it, if you like me, I won't like you anymore you."

Xin Taofu: ...Would you put this here and this here?

But no matter what, Li Duyun still showed a very free and easy attitude, which made Xin Taofu feel inexplicably at ease.

Like he didn't hurt a friend's feelings or lose a significant one.

Li Duyun will always be like that, peaceful and stable.

Xin Taofu and Li Duyun drank a few sips of coffee, chatted about the current situation, and then dispersed.

As the sun set, the sky gradually turned dark and the city lights came on. The long trench coat on Xin Taofu exuded a soft luster under the lights.

When he saw Yin Shuye, he found that Yin Shuye was also wearing a windbreaker of the same style.

The eyes of the two met, and the lights seemed to focus on each other.

Yin Shuye had just come out of the building, and his body was still wrapped in warmth, unlike Xin Taofu who stood under the street lamp for a while, and the material of the windbreaker was about to stiffen.

He strode towards Xin Taofu and said, "Why don't you wait inside?"

Xin Taofu raised her face and replied: "I want to look more pious, it's a bit like 'pleading guilty'."

Yin Shuye paused, and said, "Are you still pleading guilty?"

"I was indeed wrong about what happened before." Xin Taofu said, "But if you don't forgive me, then you are wrong."

His "pleading guilty to the thorns" not only does not have the thorns, but even has no sense of guilt. It sounds more like a coquettish act.

Facing Xin Taofu who seemed to have no regrets, Yin Shuye was not angry at all, and even felt very satisfied and happy.He reached out and hugged Xin Taofu's shoulder, and kissed his cheek: "I didn't say that, you don't need to apologize to me."

"But," Xin Taofu slid her hand into Yin Shuye's windbreaker, stroking his injured place through the shirt, "Didn't you say it hurts here?"

Yin Shuye's signature smirk just disintegrated, melting into that uncontrollable smile that might promote aging and crow's feet: "Do you feel distressed?"

Xin Taofu chuckled and said, "You know, I don't like to say such nasty things."

"Okay, then don't talk about it." Yin Shuye said obediently, "Let's do it."

After many years, Xin Taofu returned to Wisteria Yayuan.

The same bedroom, the same bed, even the fragrance in the air remains the same.

But what remains unchanged is not the taste left by Mrs. Xiang, but Xin Taofu's previous arrangement and transformation.

Having been lived by Xin Taofu for so long, the traces of Mrs. Xiang in Yayuan's main house have been overshadowed by Xin Taofu a lot.Especially the bedding, toiletries and other appliances in the bedroom, as well as the arrangement of daily necessities.

And what hasn't changed in the past three years are all traces of Xin Taofu.

Maybe it was because of revisiting the old place, or maybe it was because of other reasons, Yin Shuye was very enthusiastic.

Xin Taofu felt that he was about to melt into syrup and seep into the half-worn sheet he slept on.

Yin Shuye lingered with him for half the night, and at the end of the night, when the flags and drums died down, they hugged each other and just lay down.

This kind of warmth, with calmness, makes people quiet and comfortable like a bathtub filled with warm water.

Yin Shuye suddenly said, "What do you want to replace the flowers on the wisteria trellis with?"

Xin Taofu only said: "Why do you have to change?"

"I thought you didn't like it." Yin Shuye replied.

Xin Taofu smiled: "You are a smart person, but you still don't understand it? How could I not like wisteria back then?"

"That's right." Yin Shuye recalled, and said, "You just don't like how others treat you."

Xin Taofu nodded silently.

"Actually, wisterias are my mother's favorite, and my aunt has been letting fake wisterias be placed just to commemorate her." Yin Shuye said slowly.

This was the first time that Xin Taofu heard Yin Shuye bring up these things on his own initiative.

Xin Taofu seems to have seen a gesture, Yin Shuye's initiative to open his heart.

Yin Shuye slid his hand over Xin Taofu's face, and said, "You haven't investigated Mrs. Xiang's affairs, but do you still want to know?"

"I want to know, just tell me?" Xin Taofu asked.

"If you want to know, I'll tell you." Yin Shuye replied.

Xin Taofu sighed slightly, and said: "What I actually want to know is not the secret of the dead. I just want to know what caused your attitude towards me to change... I think it may have something to do with Mrs. Xiang. "

"It's related." Yin Shuye replied affirmatively, "Because of her affairs, I always dare not entrust my feelings to others, isn't it strange?"

"It's not surprising." Xin Taofu smiled, "I'm afraid I'm the one who can best understand this mentality."

Xin Taofu is also this kind of person, because of past experiences, he dare not deliver his sincerity.

Three years ago, instead of saying that Xiangyixi accompanied Yin Shuye to thoroughly investigate the past, it was better to say that Xiangyixi led Yin Shuye to investigate the past together.Every time the evidence, analysis and stories appeared, Xiang Yixi led Yin Shuye to discover them.

Xiang Yixi felt that she had done a perfect job, but that was not the case in Yin Shuye's eyes.

In the version guided by Xiang Yixi: Back then, Mrs. Xiang had a falling out with her father, ran away angry, and made a cohabiting girlfriend in a foreign country.After Xiang's father died of illness, Mrs. Xiang returned to China to accompany her sister, and soon brought back her girlfriend's posthumous son, Xiang Yixi.Many years later, Mrs. Xiang was diagnosed with a terminal illness, so she bought poisoned wine. Because of the packaging problem, she accidentally confused the poisoned wine with the real wine, causing a family banquet tragedy.

Yin Shuye felt that the story was full of doubts.

He started with the suspicious point of "Mrs. Xiang has a foreign girlfriend".

In his opinion, the reason why Mrs. Xiang had a falling out with her father and went abroad in anger was not simply because she was a homosexual, but more likely... Mrs. Xiang not only liked women, but also liked her sister Xiang Xiaoxiao.

Mrs. Xiang's love for Xiang Xiaoxiao is so strong, Uncle Yin has seen it all these years.

Because of Xin Taofu, Yin Shuye even unconsciously understood what kind of feelings Mrs. Xiang had for Xiang Xiaoxiao.

Mrs. Xiang has a deep mind and is good at disguising. If she wants to hide it from her father-in-law, there is nothing wrong with it, but she wants to make a big fuss. The answer is also in the story that Mrs. Xiang read to Yin Shuye - the nightingale and the rose.

Nightingale sacrifices herself in exchange for a rose so that the college student can woo the girl he loves.

But Mrs. Xiang chose to sacrifice herself and let Xiang Xiaoxiao put on a glass shoe and walk into the prince's ball.

Back then, Xiang Xiaoxiao had a deep-rooted love for Yin's father, but she couldn't do so because of her family difference.Mrs. Xiang simply destroyed herself, broke up with her father, and went abroad alone.Xiang Xiaoxiao became the heir of the blessed land of Danling, and only then was she qualified to marry into the Yin family.

Mrs. Xiang's feelings for Xiang Xiaoxiao have never changed, so how could she have made a beloved cohabiting girlfriend in a foreign country?

If there is such a girlfriend, when Mrs. Xiang designed the cemetery, why did she only design the joint burial of herself and Xiang Xiaoxiao, without involving that woman?

After Yin Shuye's careful investigation, he knew that Mrs. Xiang was indeed renting with a woman, but there was no evidence to prove that the two were lovers.After the woman died, the child was sent to an orphanage.

Continuing to investigate, Yin Shuye even discovered that the document from the orphanage that Xiang Yixi had given him before was likely to be forged.Xiangyixi was not that woman's child.

The orphanage is now closed, and the old documents are no longer alive.

After checking here, all the clues seem to be broken...

Because things have been separated for too long, many traces have disappeared.

If you want to know the answer, I'm afraid you can only pry it out of Xiangyixi's mouth.

Although Xiang Yixi was superficial and stupid, she was very paranoid in some respects. It might not be that simple to get the truth out of his mouth.

However, Yin Shuye is not such a simple person.