sincerity of lies

During the tea break in the middle of the signing, Ji Xun took the time to look at the thick phone list in his hand in the background.

The first part of this signing session, the dialogue between the host and the author, has now successfully concluded. During the dialogue, the atmosphere in the venue has been pushed to the peak several times. All in all, this is undoubtedly a very good start.

It is said that a good beginning is half the success. The boulder that has been hanging in Ein's heart and worried about the signing meeting has finally landed on the ground. He has a happy face, and he leaned forward and said: "Your answer just now is too humorous. It looks like a stand-up show! I didn’t have such humor when I was writing scripts before.”

The questions that the host will ask at the signing meeting were given to Ji Xun in advance yesterday, and Ji Xun also answered them one by one, but the answers are quite satisfactory.

"Maybe I'm in a good state today." Ji Xun replied casually, "When I got on stage, I felt something, so I started talking nonsense."

"Good talk!" Ain gave a thumbs up and suggested, "The afternoon tea held by the hotel is really good, don't you want to go out and have some? It's good to communicate with the readers along the way."

"Farewell, the breakfast I had in the morning is still blocked." Ji Xun thanked Bumin, "I'm struggling to swallow water now."

He was really uncomfortable, the breakfast in the morning was too powerful, first he turned into a stone and blocked his stomach, but now he was finally crushed by his stomach, well, it turned into mud, all the way from his stomach to his throat.

He drank two more sips of water, then tore up a phone bill, and continued to read the next one.

There was a lot of movement this time, and Ain finally woke up from the world of the autograph event, and noticed what Ji Xun was holding in his hand.

"What is this?" he asked confused.

"My past call logs."

"In the past?" Ein took another look, noticed the time on it, and hissed, "08 and 09, it was all six or seven years ago, why are you checking this...?"

"I thought I could get a call from someone, but I didn't. But I think he should have called and just missed it. So—" Ji Xun seemed to be saying a jingle, and went around a lot, and finally, shaking Shaking the list, "Verify."

"Do you know her number?" Ain was almost deceived.

"do not know."

"Then why do you think she will fight?"

"Confidence." Ji asked.

Ein choked.He stopped talking, but began to write on his face, which was full of eagerness to try, eager to move, so curious that he scratched his heart and lungs with anticipation, and couldn't sleep or eat!

Ji Xun glanced at Ain, and suddenly said:

"Do you use him next to single, or her next to female?"

"Next to the female character."

"Why?" Ji Xun asked with interest.

"This..." Ain said sincerely, "After six or seven years, you can still remember a missed phone call. Apart from the sincere love when you were young, is there nothing else?"

"I disagree." Ji asked.

"Where do you disagree?" Ain also competed.

"If it's true love, why didn't I remember it back then, but did I remember it six or seven years later?"

"You were not enlightened back then, but now you are enlightened." Ain blurted out, speaking quite loudly, as if he suddenly became a life mentor of a great author, and Ji Xun became a humble student of a small editor.

The two looked at each other.

Ain seemed to have finally realized something. He who had just grown taller fell back short again, and returned to his usual humble look: "Mr. Ji, I think what I said makes sense..."

Weird.

Not only does it make sense, it sounds like the truth of life.

Ji Xun is convinced that he didn't think much about Zhou at that time. Although he was crooked, he was really straight and straight to Zhou at that time. His love and affection were the kind of affection that an old father sees as a little pitiful. He never Thinking about it for a moment.

It was later... After coming to Qin City this time, after confirming that Huo Ranyin was classmate Zhou, he suddenly felt that Huo Ranyin was different, and classmate Zhou was also different.

It's obviously the same person, everything is the same... there are still some differences.

Eighteen changes in the male college, more and more beautiful.Ji Xun touched his nose unconsciously.

"I can't see it," he sighed, "You are quite reasonable."

"What's the point? It's impossible for someone to understand such a simple thing."

"...do you have a girlfriend?" Ji asked.

"Hey, haven't I told the teacher? I've been married long ago, and my children can play soy sauce." Ain smiled foolishly.

"..." The case was solved, and the old man was a winner.

Looking at Ain, Ji Xun suddenly felt a strange sense of crisis, stopped talking, and continued to look at the phone.

The strings of numbers from six or seven years ago are completely incomprehensible to others, but to Ji Xun, it is just a little embarrassing——

In the morning, he called the public university and asked his acquaintances for Huo Ranyin's name.

Huo Ranyin did go to the Capital University, and he was a junior who was three years behind him.

Now he finally knows the secret that he quietly hid under Zhou's dark appearance when he met Zhou; At the time of parting, what student Zhou wanted was definitely not his phone number... I also know why classmate Zhou didn't contact him afterwards.

He ran through all the logic.

But emotion is beyond logic.

He felt confident that Classmate Zhou finally called him.

Even just once.

After a half-hour tea break, the book signing will enter the last and most important process of the day: readers line up to get books to be signed by the authors.

I didn't feel it when I sang with the host on the stage just now. Now, when the readers started queuing up for his autograph, Ji Xun looked at the long winding queue and suddenly had an idea in his heart:

There are quite a lot of people.

The faces were recognizable at first, but later became similar and then blurred.

This is because he hasn't been in a crowded place for a long time, and for a while, he can't quickly remember to identify the people around him.

It's really like what they said, the house is so full that you can grow mushrooms... Ji Xun thought to himself.

Except for the stomach ache, he is really in good shape today, full of energy, and his hands are steady. He will try his best to meet any requests from readers who come to sign.

The readers who lined up also carried gifts with them, which were not expensive, had food, and were useful, and most of them opened them directly for him to read... In fact, Ji Xun didn’t know why they opened them for him directly, so he could barely guess that it was him. The manuscript has been delayed for too long, and readers are worried that he will receive a cake with hidden blades or a reminder letter with blood on it?

However he is not worried...

Why would someone who writes a mystery murder case worry about blade cakes and bloody reminders?

On the contrary, the real boringness of the book signing event for writers of mystery novels is that readers actually give serious gifts in a serious way, which is really serious and there is no surprise.

Signing and shaking hands all the way, when a person came to him, Ji Xun looked at the wrist of the owner who was pressing the book. The owner was wearing a black patent leather coat, and his fingers were long and slender, like...

Ji Xun's heart skipped a beat.

Like the throbbing of a flower, he raised his eyes hastily, ready to say something, but what caught his eyes was not Huo Ranyin's delicate and familiar face, but a face he had never met before.

With a smile on his face, he said to Ji Xun, "Mr. Ji, can you write a sentence for me?"

"certainly……"

The heart flower that just opened is closed again.

Close up and retract back.

But the heart has bloomed after all, and there is a small bulge there, thinking about it, a little uncomfortable.

After Ji Xun signed the book, he continued. In the next half of the journey, he heard a voice that seemed to be the same as Huo Ranyin, saw a figure that seemed to be the same as Huo Ranyin, and seemed to really walk from the book. I saw the same font as Huo Ranyin in the gift from a friend...

He thought that Huo Ranyin would appear.

But until the signing session ended, the readers left, the staff also left, and even the presents were counted, he still didn't see Huo Ranyin's shadow.

Huo Ranyin did not come.

He and Ein took a taxi back to the hotel.

"Today's signing will be very successful..." On the way, Ain saw that he was in a bad mood and asked, "Teacher is not happy?"

"I can't say I'm unhappy, I'm just a little regretful." Ji Xun.

"What are you sorry about?"

Ji Xun just smiled and didn't speak any more.

When they arrived at the hotel, the two naturally separated. Ji Xun swiped the door with his room card, and when he stepped in, he suddenly felt a little strange.

There was a smell of smoke from a burning match in the room, and the curtains were pulled across the window differently than when he left.

Did the cleaning come in and clean it up?

Of course, there is this possibility.

But maybe, there is another possibility——

He turned around and closed the door. When the door of the room was closed, a gust of wind came gently from behind. Then, his hands were turned back. between the chests.

He felt the coldness of the opponent's skin, and felt the heat of the opponent's breath.

The heat spread all the way from his skin to his body, and then gathered in his heart, gathering into a handful of shining hot water. His heart was thrown down, and many bubbles bulged out. When each bubble exploded, there was Blast out a little heart flower.

"Ho-"

He raised his voice and spoke, the voice was high at first, then it became low, low and lingering.

"...infected cause."

"An accident?" The voice of the assailant came from behind, indeed, it was Huo Ranyin's voice.

The card hadn't been inserted yet, and the lights in the room hadn't been turned on.

Huo Ranyin still had enough time to organize himself.

The anxiety of waiting in the house has turned into the joy of waiting.And Huo Ranyin suppressed his throat, and pressed the joyful look into the bottom of his tongue.

Tongue numb.

There is no sound, right?

"Accident." Ji Xun pressed his forehead against the door, and the coolness on the door helped calm his beating heart. However, the hard door and the chest behind him just made a sharp contrast. It's so cold, it seems that Huo Ranyin's heart is stacked on his vest, beating quietly, "I always thought I would see you at the signing party, but you never showed up."

He said this sentence as if complaining, and before Huo Ranyin could answer, he went on:

"On the way back, I figured it out. I thought I would see you. This illusion was not brought to me by you, but because, simply because..."

He paused.

"I miss you."

When these words came out, Ji Xun's wrist suddenly felt a pain, and the person holding him subconsciously increased his strength. Of course, soon, the strength was released, and the restraint became a rubbing. Huo Ranyin was rubbing his wrist with his palm, back and forth , over and over again... With such a superfluous move, don't you be weighing whether the one in your hand is the deity?

Ji Xun thought, when he heard Huo Ranyin's voice, he really hesitated.

"You are quite enthusiastic today..."

"It seems that I am usually too cold." Ji Xun smiled.

"Since you miss me," Huo Ranyin said again, "why didn't you call or send me a message?"

"because……"

At this moment, Ji Xun suddenly struggled, breaking free from Huo Ranyin's shackles like a fish, turned around, and faced Huo Ranyin face to face.

A bewildered gloom hung over them.

But there is still light, the shining light of stars and moon coming in from the open window, and the bewitching light reflecting the dark night from Huo Ranyin's eyes.

Because the light in the eyes melted into the shadows, the shadows at this time were gentle, touching the two of them with gentle tentacles.

In fact, they just didn't see each other for a day, twenty or thirty hours.

But it was a really long twenty or thirty hours.

He didn't ask Huo Ranyin why he suddenly appeared, and he didn't ask if Huo Ranyin missed himself as much as he missed him.He just looked at the person who appeared suddenly, looked at the pupils that reflected his figure, and smiled slightly:

"Because... I miss your secret and don't want to be overheard by the phone."

Chapter [-] is headstrong here, capricious, contradictory, trying to get your attention.

Those eyes hidden in the darkness quietly opened wide.

Are you surprised?Ji Xun captured this scene in time.He stared intently at Huo Ranyin, trying to discern more things from the other person's face besides surprise, but the darkness was like a tailor-made veil, covering Huo Ranyin's face tightly, preventing him from On that blurred face, he saw what he wanted to see.

For example... Huo Ranyin's shy expression.

"I really know how to talk about love today." Huo Ranyin said, he noticed that his voice was a bit dry, and swallowed as much as possible to moisten his throat, "Aren't you going to be a mystery novelist, and are you going to write an emotional novel?"

"Maybe." Ji Xun pretended to think about it for a while, "I write emotional novels, do you read them?"

"It depends on how well you write." Huo Ran was picky.

"Like just now," Ji Xun asked with a smile, "Do you like it?"

Huo Ran suddenly stopped talking.

Ji Xun took the opportunity to free one hand, and inserted the room card into the card slot, electrifying the room and driving out the darkness.

The light flashed, and the warm yellow light leaked down like water accompanied by the "huh-" sound of the air conditioner. The sudden dark and sudden bright changes made Ji Xun uncomfortable for a moment, and he narrowed his eyes slightly.

This is the moment.

Huo Ranyin, who was standing upright, suddenly softened, and buried his face in Ji Xun's shoulder.His face was buried in it, so of course Ji Xun couldn't observe whether Huo Ranyin's cold and clean face was still as clean as usual.

But everyone threw themselves into their arms...

Ji Xun raised his hand, wanting to hug Huo Ranyin.

This was a very simple action, and it wasn't the first time he had done it, but he couldn't let go of his raised hand.

Because of……

more or less...

Ji Xun's hand hovered in the air for a while, then changed direction nonchalantly, instead of grabbing Huo Ranyin's back that had rarely softened, he came to Huo Ranyin's ear.

He lifted Huo Ranyin's hair and tucked it up, revealing a red ear.

The red ear moved.

"Your ears are red." Ji Xun cleared his throat and said.

"...frozen." Huo Ranyin replied in a muffled voice.

"Well, it's really cold at the entrance." Ji Xun was considerate, "Then let's sit on the sofa and blow some air under the air conditioner."

He has retracted his hand politely.

Except for touching Huo Ranyin's hair, this hand never touched any part of Huo Ranyin's body.

Huo Ranyin bit his lip unconsciously.

He doesn't feel cold.After all, Qinshi is his hometown, and for outsiders, the chill is unbearable, but for him, it is just a coincidence and familiarity.

What's more, no matter how much chill you have, when you see the person you want to see, it will change silently with your will, and become heat flowing in your body together with your blood.

Heat and dryness.

Rather than saying that the ears are cold red, it is better to say that the ears are hot red.

He didn't know how to express his feelings at this moment... He could only hear Ji Xun's voice ringing in his ears, listening to Ji Xun's words one after another.

These words are like round and shining pearls. When they are spoken, they first fall into the honey vat and are covered with a layer of sweetness;

The ears are also like tasting a delicious tongue, which has great satisfaction.

Huo Ranyin didn't answer Ji Xun for a while.

He didn't know how to answer to appear normal.

In the end he said nothing.

He quietly chatted with Ji Xun.

Cheek touching cheek lightly, the heat feels like an electric shock, numb at the touch.

Immediately, Huo Ranyin quickly let go of Ji Xun, walked to the sofa, and sat down.

Ji Xun took a beat, he raised his hand first, touched the softness that was still on his cheek, and saw Huo Ran's red lips, which were as gorgeous as rose petals.

After two or three breaths, the slightly calm Ji Xun walked into the room from the entrance and came to the small bar.

There are all kinds of drinks here.

He boiled a pot of water first, as if he was looking for something to say, but also as if he was really curious, he said:

"Why are you here at this time? The Lantern Festival holiday hasn't arrived yet."

It's true that it hasn't arrived yet. Today is only the thirteenth day of the lunar calendar, and there are still two days before the Lantern Festival.

"You've been confused." Huo Ranyin, "When you went to work, the Lantern Festival was off?"

"Too……"

The mineral water in the pot was heated up, and it began to emit small gas holes.

"That's even more unreasonable, why do you have time to come here?" Ji Xun.

"You were kidnapped before, and someone escaped in the kidnapping case. Bureau Zhou cared about you and was worried that you were in danger, so he sent me to take a look." Huo Ranyin said lightly.

The air eye turned into a fish eye, and began to make urging noises.

Ji Xun turned off the hot water, and when he poured the water, he looked back at Huo Ranyin, and saw Huo Ranyin's fair face.

It's really a lie not to blush.he pondered.What kind of person in my platoon can be concerned about the labor cycle?It was because Huo Ran cared about him, so he typed up an application report, and the Zhou Bureau approved it...

He brought the steaming water to Huo Ranyin.

"Come on, Nuan Nuan, be careful of being hot."

Huo Ranyin glanced at the water glass, but didn't reach out.His body is already hot enough, and no external force is needed to warm it up.But even without external force...

He first looked at Ji Xun who was sitting opposite him, and then at the bed behind Ji Xun.

A large bed with a high mattress.

The white bed sheet was covered with a golden fringed drape, embroidered with Eve, Adam, and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

The pillows are also high, high and soft, there are four enough, even if two people share it...

Huo Ranyin blinked hard.

The bed behind Ji Xun seemed to have glare and a hidden magnet, firmly attracting his attention.

The heat, the heat of being soaked in the hot spring, the buoyancy almost made him float, was about to fill his body.

Do it no problem, no problem.

Huo Ranyin thought.

It was just a kind of advancement that made both of them comfortable, a kind of rest that allowed him to temporarily breathe a sigh of relief from the exciting and busy work, a kind of sweet fruit that he could savor alone... a kind of calmness for him. of, leading, participating in things.

Not today.

Today - it's too hot.

His Adam's apple rolled.

"How many degrees do you drive?" Huo Ranyin asked abruptly.

"Huh?" Ji Xun was taken aback, "Air conditioner? The hotel set it by itself, 28°, what's wrong?"

nothing.

Just hot enough to melt the mind.

"Have you eaten tonight?" Huo Ranyin abruptly changed the subject.

"Hmm..." Ji Xun, "Not yet."

"It just so happens that I didn't eat either, so let's go out." He stood up, didn't give Ji Xun a chance to refuse, directly buttoned his button, opened the door and went out.

Ji Xun could only keep up.

Although both of them left the guest room, the purpose was not really for eating, so they had a simple meal in the restaurant of the hotel, and then Huo Ranyin proposed to go out for a walk again.

You can also walk around.

Ji Xun didn't refute. He just went in and bought two earmuffs, one for Mickey Mouse and one for Donald Duck, when he left the hotel and passed the department store.

Mickey Mouse's Ji Xun wore it himself, and Donald Duck's gave it to Huo Ranyin.

"Didn't you freeze your ears in the hotel just now? Wear it."

Huo Ranyin held Donald Duck and looked at it for a long time: "What are you implying?"

"I didn't hint." Ji Xun put on the earmuffs, put his hands in his pockets, and said leisurely, "Am I like the kind of person who bought you a duck and hinted that you're a dead duck?"

"..."

"It must not be." Ji Xun said, "Let's go, let's press the road."

Come out of the department store and walk along the road. Qinshi is still cold in February, because it is facing the sea, and the dampness of the water is added to the chill.

Ji Xun breathed a sigh of relief. On the foggy and dark road ahead, there were many lights, street lights, Lantern Festival lights, and lights from the lighthouse on the beach.

They walked along these lights, and the rustling sound of the waves became more and more obvious. When they realized it, the salty and cold sea breeze had spread over the surface, the ground was covered with stones and sand, and the front was the tide. And beside him, there is only a tall, white lighthouse that is still eye-catching in the dark.

After walking all the way, there was no one there, but when I got here, I saw someone instead.

It was couples in twos and threes, not many people, surrounded by the lighthouse, it seemed that the lighthouse was even taller.

"Lover's Beacon." Huo Ranyin suddenly said, "Why did you come here?"

"It's bright here." Ji Xun looked left and right, "Human beings have phototaxis, and of course they came here when they walked. Why are they all taking pictures?"

As soon as the voice fell, a gust of sea wind howled, and amidst the sudden increase in the sound of the waves, pairs of men and women screamed, and then those men and women gathered together in an instant, and the man held the woman's hand and stood in front of the woman. .

"...Because there is an allusion here." Huo Ranyin said.He turned his head and looked down at Ji Xun's hand.

Are Ji Xun's hands cold?

At this moment, he suddenly reached out and held him...wouldn't it seem strange?

He weighed it secretly.

"It is said that if you take a photo here, you will be blessed by the lover's lighthouse. Your lover's love for you will always be like a lighthouse, always bright in the dark."

"The slogan is good." Ji Xun commented.

He pondered for a while, then suddenly looked at Huo Ranyin.

Huo Ranyin, who was looking at Ji Xun, immediately looked away, and pretended to be calm to understand what he said just now that sounded like he was implying: "The contribution of the Tourism Bureau is to generate income, there is nothing to be trusted."

His changing the subject didn't seem to have any effect, the other party only asked him: "Are you cold?"

Huo Ran missed a beat because of his heartbeat, and instantly realized how he should answer.

"I... am not cold."

But his mouth still spoke the truth, and he shook his palm quietly.

Ji Xun said naturally, "I'm cold."

He stretched out his arms, embraced Huo Ranyin, and held him in his arms. Huo Ranyin was a little shorter than him. When he hugged him, the other's earmuffs were right next to his lips.

Duck head with one ear, duck buttocks with one ear, flat bill, duck tail fluffy, the fluffy fur trembles in the cold wind, adding three points of cuteness to Huo Ranyin's frosty face .

At this moment, he suddenly felt some recurring smell from yesterday.

He looked at it for a long while, then gave a slight laugh, and raised his hand to rub the fluffy tail:

"That's right, it really suits you."

He leaned close to Huo Ranyin's fluffy ear, and asked in a low voice: "Compared with slogans, Haifeng is more like a matchmaker, so these couples come one after another, what do you think?"

"..."

A hot wave rose from the ears.The warm effect of this earmuff is too good, he wants to feel some cold wind, but no trace of cold wind can get into the earmuff, just like a naughty child, wrapping around his hair, curling his hair over and over again Putting it down again... and sending Ji Xun's breath to his nose over and over again.

He wanted to say no, but his tongue still didn't follow his will, and honestly mumbled: "Probably."

He wanted to bite his tongue.

Fortunately, Ji Xun didn't continue to ask.The other party just said: "The scenery here is really good, since everyone is taking pictures, why don't we also take pictures in accordance with the occasion?"

Huo Ran felt that he had been let off for the time being, he breathed a sigh of relief, came to his senses again, and quickly stopped him:

"Wait, Ji Xun..."

But it was too late, Ji Xun had already stepped forward, handed over the mobile phone to a little girl passing by, and asked her to take pictures of himself and Huo Ranyin.

Then Ji Xun returned to Huo Ranyin's side, took off Huo Ranyin and his own earmuffs, and stood in front of the camera with Huo Ranyin.

"Do you still dare to hand over the phone now?" The deal was done, and Huo Ranyin didn't seriously refuse, but there was a hint in the words, which implied sarcasm.

"What are you afraid of, even if you hand over the phone a hundred times." Ji Xun, "Isn't there still you by my side?"

Huo Ranyin was stunned.The next second, his palm was hot, and Ji Xun clasped his fingers together, grabbed it again, put it on his lips, and kissed it lightly.

"Crack!"

The flash light was turned on instantly, and the flashing light, flashed halos, flashed stardust, and flashed the sparkling autumn waves flowing from the lover's charming eyes.

Not only Huo Ran was stunned by Ji Xun's actions, even the little girl who was taking pictures in front of her was also stimulated by this scene, her face turned red in the cold wind.

Ji Xun smiled, raised his finger to touch his lips, and said "hush": "Keep secret."

"Hmm, don't worry, I don't know you, and I won't tell you..." The little girl blushed, nodded quickly, and returned the phone to Ji Xun.

Ji Xun returned to Huo Ranyin's side.

Huo Ranyin remained where he was, but turned sideways, hiding his body in the shadows.

He asked Ji Xun: "Before, we were not even allowed to listen to the phone, but now we can make it public again?"

"I don't want to be like this either." Ji Xun sighed, took Huo Ranyin's hand, pressed it on his chest, and suppressed the chaotic heartbeat, "But here is very capricious, capricious, contradictory, and does everything possible to cause trouble. Your attention. What do you think should be done?"

"..."

dong dong dong.

dong dong dong.

Huo Ranyin felt Ji Xun's heartbeat, and also felt his own heartbeat. His arm was like a magpie bridge, Feihong sent a message, communicating with two madly beating hearts.

Deceiving.

He suddenly became annoyed.

Even though he came out of the hotel...it wasn't any colder!