Miss White Rose

When she received Xu Xingyan's reply, Lin Shengmiao was sitting face to face with Luo Jing in a cafe.

【Xingyan: I'm sorry, I didn't have a chance to look at my phone just now. I did say that I would pick up the plane with Sister Jing before, but when I was about to leave, something happened to my cousin, so I didn't make it. I'm really sorry. 】

Lin Shengmiao had a smile on her face. She could almost imagine Xu Xingyan holding the phone and typing these words with annoyance on her face.

In the next second, under Luo Jing's gaze, she replied to Xu Xingyan in a grandiose manner.

[It's okay, is everything resolved? 】

[Xingyan: It's all settled [beautiful.jpg], how about you?Are you settled? 】

[Well, I have booked a homestay in advance, and just pack up my luggage at night. 】

Both sides paused at the same time, as if they were considering how to continue the topic.

Sitting opposite, Luo Jing, who was originally looking at the street through the glass window, seemed to have noticed something, put down the coffee in her hand, and turned to look at her.

Lin Shengmiao's eyes were fixed instead, and she typed: [Let's come out and meet. 】

And almost at the same time, a message popped up on the opposite side——

【Xingyan: Are you free to have a meal together? 】

The corners of his mouth curled up uncontrollably, and he just sent out an [OK] without hesitation.

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【Xingyan: How about tomorrow night?There is a Cantonese restaurant on Corning Street. The environment and dishes are good. Can I just go there? 】

【sure. 】

【Xingyan: Then it's a deal, see you tomorrow night. 】

【See you soon. 】

"Is it Yanyan?" Seeing her put down her phone, Luo Jing asked.

"That's right." Lin Shengmiao looked directly at her, with a soft smile still on his face, "We just made an appointment to have dinner together tomorrow night."

Luo Jing raised her eyebrows slightly, surprised by her frankness, you know, in her impression, even though these two people flirted with each other ambiguously, when faced with inquiries, they were always vague, especially Lin Shengmiao!

She smiled, picked up the coffee and took another sip, thinking, it really is different.

"It's the Cantonese restaurant on Corning Street. Yanyan often goes to that restaurant recently. The taste is really good."

Lin Shengmiao's smile remained unchanged, and even deepened, "Really? Then I'll have to try it out tomorrow."

The two looked at each other for a moment, and the atmosphere was a little stagnant. Suddenly, Luo Jing laughed, "Yanyan's stomach is not feeling well recently, you must remember to remind her not to eat too much greasy and spicy food."

At this time, the waiter came over to serve the food: "Hi, this is the croissant you ordered."

Luo Jing: "Okay, thank you."

"Try it." Luo Jing pushed the plate towards Lin Shengmiao, "Yanyan has always liked the croissants here."

She held her chin and said with a sigh: "It should be when I was in college. At that time, Yanyan just moved out to live by herself. I was worried. I often went to see her. Sometimes it was noon, and she was not willing to do it." For dinner, she will bring me here to eat pasta, almost every time she comes, she will order a croissant."

"I ate it a few times, but I didn't think it was delicious, so I asked her why, and she told me that during the winter vacation of the second year of high school, the downstairs of her cram school is the bakery where you work part-time. Every time she goes to you after class, you I will cut a croissant for her to try, which is much larger than those given to others, and it is fragrant and soft."

"Later that store was closed, and croissants were no longer available for money. She said that the taste of croissants in this store was very similar to the one you gave her back then."

Luo Jing took a bite, chewed it carefully, and asked, "I've never eaten that croissant, so I specially invite you to try it, and I want to ask, is it really similar?"

Lin Shengmiao ate the whole croissant in silence, and then answered her in the affirmative: "Exactly the same!"

Luo Jing looked at her and smiled, "That's good."

After finishing speaking, she stood up with her bag in her hand, "I still have something to do, so I'll go first. I've already bought the ticket. This seat has a good view. You can sit for a while."

Until the coffee was completely cold, Lin Shengmiao was still a little unbelievable.

In the fairy tales she has set up over the years, if she wants to get the princess in the castle, she always has to face many tests, and among them, Luo Jing has always played the most vicious dragon.

But the current situation is that the evil dragon raised his eyelids, gave her a serious look, and then told her: Well, although you are very reluctant and may not be very satisfied, you passed the test.

Lin Shengmiao reacted belatedly. During these years, when she didn't dare to stop for a moment and worked hard with all her strength, the others were also moving in their own direction, and everyone had truly grown into an adult.

Some feelings are still persistent and profound, while some people's thoughts have already changed.

Perhaps the magic of time lies in this.

Until the answer to the mystery is revealed, we will never know what has resisted the erosion of the years, and what has been changed by the years.

……

Even though the south in December is not colder than the north, the drizzle is continuous, and the damp and cold air can make the human body feel what it means to be bone-chilling.

Luo Jing was walking on the street holding an umbrella. A gust of wind passed by, and the rain and fog that covered her head and face made her feel chilled.

"Ah cut!" She shivered, looking at the suddenly cloudy sky, she quickly wrapped her clothes tightly and walked to a shelter from the wind. It was not because of a doctor's vigilance to health problems, but simply a habit developed over the years.

But whoever has a little sister at home who is obedient and obedient since she was a child, but weak and sick, will be like Luo Jing and pay more attention to her body.

After all, whenever you catch a cold and have a fever, she is the first to be infected, and then delays for more than half a month and still doesn't get better, sobbing, and saying to you with red eyes: "Sister, I feel so uncomfortable," which makes you feel guilty and embarrassed. My heart aches, I just wish I could sit in the time machine and go back and kill that naughty, greedy and careless self.

"welcome."

Luo Jing put away her umbrella and walked into a candy store with yellowish lights and warm decorations to avoid the rain.

The sweet scent of candy penetrated into the nostrils, like the honey tea handed by my grandfather on every carefree sunny day in my childhood, which thickened the sweetness of the stereotypical electronic female voice at the door.

Luo Jing stood there for a while, and suddenly felt a little craving for candy.

The owner of the store is a very young boy, sunny and handsome, very similar to the seniors of the basketball team in college. Perhaps affected by the weather, the business in the store today seems to be very bad, and Luo Jing is the only customer.

That boy should be a newcomer to the society. He looked a little shy like a male college student. After hesitating for a while, he came over and asked softly, "Hello, ma'am, how can I help you?"

Words like "Ma'am" and "You" are not unusual at all, and they are even more comfortable than frivolous addresses like "beauty", but for some reason, looking at the clear eyes of the boy, Luo Jing suddenly felt a kind of I feel like I have aged ten years in vain.

Glancing at the boy with unknown meaning, Luo Jing showed a bright smile, nodded slightly, flamboyant and reserved, as if fighting against the sudden emergence of ruthless years, raised her middle finger and said disdainfully: Fuck you, old lady Fenghua Zhengmao is young!

The boy pursed his lips, looked at the visitor on a rainy day, and saw that she nodded and said nothing, so he could only bite the bullet and ask, "Are you going to buy candy?"

Luo Jing walked slowly from the colorful glass cabinet, "Is there any orange candy?"

When she was a child, the most common thing she kept in her pocket was orange candy. The adults always thought that candy was every child’s favorite snack, but in fact she didn’t like candy at all, so whenever grandpa tempted her with candy When she was doing her homework, she always seemed less interested.

The reason why he finished his homework seriously in the end was not only because of his tutor, who was afraid of disappointing his elders, but also because those candies were Xu Xingyan's favorite.

Ever since Luo Jing could remember, her parents have always been busy. She and her elder brother Luo Bin have always been running on both sides of her grandfather's house and grandpa's house.

She really likes staying at her grandpa's house, because there is a bright and spacious garden, a swing tied to a big tree, a loving grandpa, an aunt who gives her big hugs, and a little cousin who always quietly looks at the sunshine outside the window.

When she was younger, she didn't understand at all why Yanyan couldn't hang out with them. She and her brother even planned many times to steal this doll-like little cousin from home, show off in front of her friends, and tell them: You see, this is my sister, so I didn't lie to you!

It's a pity that the housekeeper's eyes are so keen that he kills their plans in the cradle every time. From the perspective of Luo Jing and Luo Bin when they were young, the housekeeper's uncle in suit and leather shoes is definitely the enemy of life.

Until the age of nine, when her mother, Ms. Fang Yuan, just became the deputy secretary of the municipal party committee, it was the busiest time, let alone her father. It is said that his confidential research was at a critical stage, and it had been going on for a year I didn't call home, and grandpa was going to attend an important international meeting again, so he didn't have time to take care of them.

So she and her brother were happily packed and sent to grandpa's house.

It was a stormy night, she was woken up by her brother, and she looked at the white coats rushing downstairs in panic, only after that day did she know that these people were the medical team that grandpa had invited back for Yanyan.

The reason was pneumonia caused by being exposed to the rain. No one knew why Yanyan was exposed to the rain that day, and why she secretly changed her wet clothes so that the servants would not find out.

The girl who was raised in a glass house since she was a child is always melancholy and distressing. No one dares to ask her, for fear of hurting her again if she is not careful.

It was also that night that she and her brother saw their mother, who had not been home for more than a month, come back late at night in the rain, holding her aunt who was about to faint from crying with one hand, and holding Yanyan's wrist full of needle scars with the other. .

The strong woman who has always acted vigorously and believed in the education of a tiger mother carefully touched Yanyan's hand, as if she was holding a feather that would be blown away by the wind at any time.

Before leaving the next day, my mother called their siblings to her face and told them that my aunt had been infected with the virus in the early stages of pregnancy, and later she was born prematurely in a car accident, so Yanyan was not only born weak, but also had a very serious heart disease. Later, I found the best medical team to perform an operation, but it was still different from other healthy children and needed careful care.

The mother told them in an entrusting tone that it was impossible for Yanyan to stay at home all her life, and she would always go out to study and live in the future. They were brothers and sisters, and they had to protect their sister and not let others bully her.

For a long time after that day, the frequency of Luo Bin's fights with others rose sharply, because in the past, as long as the group of healthy and lively children mentioned girls who were only known by their names in the Fangzhai and had never met, they would always use the words from their childhood. The "sick seedlings" learned from the population will be used instead.

And in the eyes of Luo Bin, who understands the horror of illness, this is the most vicious curse!

Even now, Xu Xingyan has walked out of the glass house that trapped her throughout her childhood in the name of protection, but Luo Jing still can't forget that rainy night, always taking care of her habitually, and like a bear parent, Find a way to meet all her demands.

Just like when she was a child, every time Xu Xingyan finished drinking the medicine and told her how bitter it was, she would take out a prepared orange candy from her pocket, peel it and feed it to her.

"Ma'am, ma'am..."

Awakened from her memories by a warm voice, Luo Jing suddenly came back to her senses, only to realize that four or five different kinds of orange candies had been placed on the glass cabinet in front of her. The packaging was delicate and sweet, like a piece of Gift from Disney Castle.

"Are these all artisanal sweets?"

The boy didn't hesitate, his gloved slender fingers cut between the pile of candy boxes, pointed to one of them and said, "These are yes, the others are not."

After thinking about it, I added, "Ma'am, don't worry, these are all freshly made this morning. You can try one first."

Luo Jing was very sensitive to words like "try, taste" today, and after the familiar sweet orange fragrance spread in her mouth, she realized and asked in general surprise: "You made all of these?"

The boy nodded and hummed, as if he was proud, but also a little shy.

"That's right," Luo Jing smiled, pointing to the one I tried just now, and said, "Please pack two for me."

The boy bent his eyes and smiled, "No trouble."

Luo Jing leaned in front of the counter, watched him dexterously fasten the delicate packaging bag, and suddenly said: "Leave a contact information, I really like the candies you make, and if there are any new varieties in the future, I'd like to know in advance."

Seeing her sincerity, the boy seemed to really like eating the candies he made, so he hesitated for a moment, nodded, and exchanged contact information with her.

Luo Jing lowered her head and fiddled with the phone, and said naturally: "By the way, my name is Luo Jing, Luo from Luoshen Fu, quiet Jing, what's your name?"

The newly added contact sent a message: [My name is Yu Hang. 】

The exchange of names before formal acquaintance should be a sense of ritual common to all people in China and abroad, and the empty chat box is suddenly injected with a sense of reality.

It's the first day after the rain.

Luo Jing walked into the crowd with a candy box, paused, and looked back as if remembering something.

The name of the candy store is——

【meet】

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