Miss White Rose

Life does not meet, moving like participating in business.

When she was a child, when Xu Xingyan first saw this poem in her grandfather's study, she felt an intoxicating sense of beauty, so much so that after all these years, she can still clearly remember that leisurely afternoon, when her grandfather hugged her and laughed loudly, splashing it on her face. Ink on rice paper.

But until this moment, she suddenly understood that the most beautiful thing among them was not being involved in business or the impermanence of life, but the ordinary word "meeting".

Old people see their immature grandchildren in their infancy, migratory birds returning to the south see the familiar travelers from last year, floating and dying see the afterglow of the setting sun, killer whales traveling around the world see the coral in their birthplace, and blooming flowers see To the flying butterflies...

But the beauty that makes people cheer and cry, the beauty of touching, the beauty of surprise, the beauty of tragedy, the beauty of cuteness, the beauty of nature... all don't belong to her.

The moment she really looked into the smiling eyes of that person, the long-lost reunion that has always been lingering in her heart began to gain weight. She was so crowded that she had nowhere to rest, lost control of her body, and only had a pair of tricks left. Can move, repeatedly confirm the authenticity over and over again.

"Xingyan, I'm back." After a pause, the person added, "I'm sorry."

Xu Xingyan took a deep breath, then raised her head, her voice trembling slightly, "What's the matter?"

Lin Shengmiao walked around Xiao Tang who didn't know why, and walked in front of Xu Xingyan. His soft tone could make people feel a sense of solemnity, "I should have told you that I was coming back first, but because of some reasons of my own, It's been procrastinating."

"So, uh..." She looked at Xu Xingyan's stunned eyebrows and smiled, "I seem to have scared you."

Xu Xingyan: "..."

Now she can be sure that she is not in a dream. The Lin Shengmiao in her dream has always been submissive and tender, and she would never be able to say such words.

She retorted in a stressful way: "You were the one who was frightened, I just didn't react for a while."

"Why, have I changed a lot?" Lin Shengmiao looked down at herself and asked after turning around.

Xu Xingyan looked at it very seriously, and then told her: "It's not big."

Lin Shengmiao's 28-year-old appearance is exactly the same as she imagined many years ago.

Confidence, beauty, excellence... One can tell at a glance that he has experienced a good education, has good material and living conditions, and can easily win the admiring gaze of others no matter where he stands.

The two looked at each other, moved away, and looked at each other again.

They laughed at the same time.

"Hahahahaha..." Xu Xingyan couldn't control the upturned corners of her mouth, she tilted her head and let out a loud laugh. The laughter continued for a long time in the room, and even the roses in the vase on the table shook their petals unbearably.

At this moment, Xu Xingyan really couldn't understand those couples who stood blankly after meeting in the TV series.

Please, am I mistaken, this is my favorite person!

How could I not hold back my smile when I saw her?

Xiao Tang stared dumbfounded at the two people laughing like fools. In an instant, Xu Xingyan's long-established image of "dignity, whiteness and beauty" in her heart was completely shattered into scum.

"Meow~"

The orange cat Bubble from the bookstore next door swayed over to visit the door. As soon as he entered the store, he was startled by the wanton laughter. The cat's eyes widened in an instant, and he froze in place. He rubbed his feet back restlessly. It turned into a look of 'did I go to the wrong place? ' expression.

When Xu Xingyan faced Lin Shengmiao, she was often a little reserved inappropriately, full of joy and nowhere to vent, she grabbed the bubble in her arms and kissed her hard.

The orange cat's face was yellow, and he snorted, feeling that his charm had grown so much that his human neighbors were so fascinated, so he tolerantly let her fuck him wildly.

Lin Shengmiao's lingling eyes were bent, and she looked at the girl holding the cat leisurely, "You raised this?"

"It's the cat raised by the proprietress of the bookstore next door. It's called Pao Pao. It's a girl. She often sneaks over to play... Pao Pao, this is sister Miaomiao. Let's say hello to her and ask her to bring you some snacks, shall we?"

Xu Xingyan shook the kitten's paw, and introduced this person and cat semi-formally.

Lin Shengmiao lowered his head and held the small meat pad, scratched it lightly, and said in a soft voice: "Hello, Bubbles, I'm Lin Shengmiao, it's the first time we meet, please give me your advice."

Bubble gave an emotional "meow" and looked at her expectantly.

Lin Shengmiao thought it liked her very much, so she couldn't help but reached out and rubbed its chin again.

Xu Xingyan reminded with a smile: "There is a bag of freeze-dried on the shelf behind you, you can feed it with a few."

She tossed the fat cat dumpling in her arms, looked down at the warm sunlight scattered on the ground, and said, "This little heartless bastard has always had milk and is a mother. If you feed it once, it will remember you. This way, The next time I come, I will be close to you again."

Lin Shengmiao paused when she heard the words, and smiled with downcast eyes. She really followed the action of her hugging the cat, and fed the plump and beautiful orange cat two freeze-dried grains.

Pao Pao acted like a scum girl who ran away after sleeping, the snacks got into her belly, and her goal was achieved, she didn’t give kisses or hugs, jumped out of Xu Xingyan’s arms with a ‘swish’, and ran away without a trace, doing what she did The proof of what is called 'little heartless'.

"The dinner I ordered is at six o'clock." Xu Xingyan tilted her head and looked at her with a smile, her eyes bright, "So I think...you don't mind going upstairs for a while."

Lin Shengmiao: "I am extremely happy."

Xiao Tang, who was left behind as a gatekeeper at the flower shop on the first floor and ignored from beginning to end: "..."

She looked at the two figures going up the stairs one behind the other, in a trance, as if she understood something.

……

Few outsiders go up to the lounge on the second floor, and Xu Xingyan has always arranged and cleaned it herself. As a private place for a nap, a big and soft bed is essential, and the next thing is to put it near the window. A hanging chair in the shape of a bird's nest immediately adds a bit of warmth to the slightly empty room.

There was a framed photo on the log-colored bookshelf, and Lin Shengmiao couldn't help being attracted to it.

In the photo, Xu Xingyan is dressed in a luxurious European-style court dress, holding the Holy Grail, sitting on the royal chair, with blooming flowers, gurgling streams and golden corn piles at her feet...full of abundance and abundance.

When Lin Shengmiao was abroad, he had met several gypsies, so he could tell at a glance that this was the image of the Queen of Cups in the Tarot cards.

Xu Xingyan came over with a cup of tea, "I only have tea leaves here, you know, I don't like to drink beverages all the time."

Lin Shengmiao turned her head and asked her, "When was this photo taken?"

Xu Xingyan glanced at it and said with a smile: "Well, it was last summer, a friend of mine who was a photographer wanted to take a set of photos with century-old Wetter Tarot elements. At that time, there were not enough models, so we had to pull us friends. Let's make up the numbers, Luo Jing is also in it, mine is the Queen of Holy Grails, and hers is the Empress."

"Later, I heard that I had won a very valuable award, so I paid for a framed photo of each of us and sent it to us as a souvenir."

Lin Shengmiao stroked the photo frame with her fingers, and suddenly thought that it was almost last summer, she already had plans to return to China, but she still had a lot of unfinished work projects in her hands, so she was held back.

In a gathering of friends, one of her friends was a divination enthusiast, and there was always a deck of cards in her small leather bag. After drinking two glasses of cocktails, she seemed to be drunk. Solve a set of cards, one of which is the Queen of Cups.

What did the other party say at the time?

——"The Queen of Cups is a card with very balanced energy. I can feel the love of wisdom from it. Lin, you or the person you like, always know what you want and work hard to get it Get it, this is a love with awareness, sober, rational, mutual fulfillment... It is a gift from the universe, my friend, don't worry, this gift is always there, just accept it, bless you .”

The blond girl blinked playfully, her eyes as blue as the sky, as if she had foreseen everything that would happen later from a mysterious place.

Lin Shengmiao didn't believe this, and just took it as a different kind of blessing, and ordered another glass of wine for her.

But at this moment, standing in this sunny room, looking at the peaceful, peaceful, elegant and mature face of the Queen of Grails in the photo frame, Lin Shengmiao suddenly had the urge to call her overseas.

Xu Xingyan took a step forward, took the photo frame, compared it to her face, and asked, "Does it look good? I really wanted to try the priestess, that outfit was very beautiful, but Yao Yan said that I was more suitable for the image of the Holy Grail Queen, He's the photographer, so he has the final say."

Lin Shengmiao replied very positively: "It's very beautiful, and it really suits you."

Xu Xingyan narrowed her eyes and smiled, the two of them didn't speak, the room became quiet, as if they had used up all the preparatory opening remarks, the meeting that spanned ten years had just kicked off, and the strange and young When the branches are exposed, it is inevitable to be cold.

After a while, Lin Shengmiao chuckled first, breaking the silence.

"I brought you a present." She opened her bag and took out a very thick pop-up book with a beautiful casing.

Lin Shengmiao's tone was low: "When I went to the mall today, I saw it in a remote place. I thought you would like it, so I bought it."

The title of the book is "The Soft Hedgehog"

"do you remember?"

Lin Shengmiao looked at Xu Xingyan, half of her face was dyed golden by the sun, her eyes were shining, "You gave me a copy before, on my birthday."

"Of course I remember!" Xu Xingyan said with some regret.

Although Miss Xu's academic performance was not good when she was young, she was influenced by her grandfather and mother and cultivated a literary and artistic atmosphere. Ms. Fang Yi taught her hand-painted strokes by hand, and she can be regarded as an inheritance from everyone.

It was the first year of love, and it was the day when the beloved girl became an adult. I don't know if she was dizzy, or the romantic and crazy characteristics of the painter in her bones were stimulated. It took her two months to write more than 130 paintings in the book. Hua painted a copy, copied the text, and spent a lot of money to find a handicraft workshop to bind it into a book.

The girl at that time was full of tenderness in her heart, and she didn't feel tired at all. When she wrote the pen, she always set up a plot for herself dreamily.

For example, when drawing a kitten, she would think that if one day in the future, the girl she likes feels down and she can't be by her side, she can open this book, and the kitten she draws can replace her. Tell the other party yourself——[You have done a good job, everything will be fine. 】

But Xu Xingyan, who was 17 years old at the time, did not expect that she would miss Lin Shengmiao's birthday for ten years from the age of 19 to 28.

If it had been foreseen in the dark, then the girl who stayed up all night, yawned and buried herself in sketching, might have really used all the enthusiasm and ingenuity in preparing birthday gifts for the next ten years in that one time.

"Look at this puppy, doesn't it look like the big black that used to run around in the high school playground? You used to feed it..." Lin Shengmiao said while turning the pages.

Xu Xingyan looked at her profile, and for some reason, suddenly remembered the question she saw on a Q&A software last night when she couldn't sleep——

[Question: What do you need to pay attention to when you meet your first love whom you haven't contacted for many years? ps: Those who have compound intentions! 】

The top replies below are -

[Answer: Thank you for your invitation. Under normal circumstances, don’t bring up the matter of getting back together at the beginning. We haven’t seen each other for many years, and each may not be the same as the other party’s impression. At this time, we need to be especially cautious. It’s best to get to know each other step by step. The first time we meet after a long absence, we can talk about some past events first, which can not only relive the old times, but also shorten the distance between each other...]

Xu Xingyan held her chin and said suddenly, "Miaomiao, do you have your driver's license?"

Lin Shengmiao paused, touched her bag subconsciously, then nodded and said, "I brought it, what's the matter?"

Xu Xingyan leaned back and said softly: "I don't want to drive today, when I go to the restaurant later, can you be the driver?"

"Okay," the promise was blurted out first, and then he said with some embarrassment: "But I'm not familiar with the road section here, and I may need navigation."

"Don't be afraid, I'm here," Xu Xingyan smiled, "I will definitely not let you go astray."

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Finally we meet!