My green plums are very sour

Man is a strange creature.

When I didn't know that Ning Ran had returned to the provincial capital, I actually didn't think of her very much, but since I talked with A Rui, this calm state has become turbulent. The frequency of my thinking of her has suddenly increased, and I always worry about when Came across it by accident on the road.

I'm not ready to meet her yet.

In fact, it's a bit pretentious to say this, after all, she never mentioned to me that she would come back.It's not that we don't have contact information. If she really wants to find me, how difficult is it to send a message?How much effort can it take her?Up to now there is no movement at all, but you just don't want to tell me.

When I think about it, I can't look forward to it.

Before get off work, Tao Songnian said that he wanted to eat hot pot at night, and asked me if he wanted to come together.Since the weather got colder, hot pot has become our first choice for eating. We go there at least three times a week, and the shop owner almost remembers us.

When I first started living alone, I was quite diligent. I cooked by myself every day when I got home from get off work. Tao Songnian occasionally came over for a meal.As the days went by, I became more and more lazy. As soon as the door was closed, I collapsed on the bed and lay my body, and the number of times I cooked was only a handful.Even though I'm not particularly busy at work, I just feel tired and lack energy.

Tao Songnian got off work half an hour earlier than me. When I arrived at the store, she had already ordered and was adjusting the dishes.

Although she has been out of society for a long time, she still looks the same as when we first met, thin and tall with a head of naturally curly black hair, her smile is as gentle as ever, and she still has a lot of rotten peach blossoms.

"It's just in time, I'll change the bowl with you. I said I don't want coriander or celery, so put this much for me!" She stretched out her long arms and adjusted the size of the two bowls.

I pulled out the chair, hung my coat on the back of the chair, and asked the waiter to help me put a bag on it, so as not to get the strong aroma of hot pot into the fabric.

"What's the purpose of this meal today?" Seeing her like this, she seems to have something to say.

Tao Songnian was adding soup to the dishes with a spoon in his hand. He didn't raise his eyes when he heard the words, and his tone was as calm as usual, "Congratulations on my return to being single."

"... Oh, congratulations." She is not a worry-free person. Over the years, she has harmed many girls. I can't even remember who is who. I can only barely distinguish them by numbering them.At first I didn't quite get used to it, but gradually I got used to it.

Her only change may be here.When we first met, the way she struck up a conversation was a bit clumsy, and she didn't even know how to find a topic. Now she is very easy to hook up with girls, and she is very slippery.Sometimes I feel a little sad when I think about it.

"Thank you." She didn't care much, and added a spoonful of original soup to my bowl, and poured a plate of mille-feuille tripe on the table into the pot by the way.

"Tell me, what's going on?"

Tao Songnian touched his nose with an innocent face, "I really didn't do it."

"She said that the family told her to get married. Of course I agreed, and then we broke up."

"Otherwise, what can I say? Am I going to pester others with a faceless face?"

"..." I was stalked for a moment, and I didn't know whether I should comfort her or not.Her expression didn't look too sad, and I wondered if she really liked him.

"What are you doing?" Tao Songnian noticed that I was looking at her, so he stopped his chopsticks and glanced at me, "Don't you like to eat Melaleuca tripe? You will get old if you cook it again." After speaking, he took a colander and swiped around in the pot, I picked up half a spoonful of cooked vegetables and lifted them to my bowl.

"All right, I'll do it myself." I took the colander and picked the vegetables into the bowl, and couldn't help asking her after a while, "Seriously, have you ever liked them?"

Tao Songnian was taken aback for a moment, then asked with staring eyes, "Who?"

"It's those exes of yours. So what, could it be... You changed a little too often? And you broke up a little too easily."

She pursed her lips and thought for a while, then suddenly chuckled again, her tone sounded normal, "I can only say that I always have a crush on them when I'm with them."

"It's just that things like good feelings will fade slowly. Since you don't feel any more, breaking up is a relief. Why are you sad?"

"Isn't it good for everyone to give each other freedom? Anyway, I have a clear conscience." Tao Songnian shrugged his shoulders, saying one thing after another.

The longer we've known each other, the more differences I've seen between us.Think about it, fortunately we are just friends, otherwise we might quarrel someday.

"What's your situation? Can't even arouse your interest in hot pot?"

I was absent-mindedly picking up the shrimp slips, when she asked me about it, and the shrimp slipped away from under the chopsticks with a trembling hand.

Tao Songnian stared at me with a playful expression on his face while holding up his chopsticks, he almost wrote the word "gossip" on his face.

I glanced at her, picked up another shrimp slip, took a bite after cooling it down, and returned to her vaguely, "Ning Ran is back."

Tao Songnian's expression was much calmer than I expected, and he didn't show a particularly surprised look, but raised his eyebrows suddenly, and gave a meaningful oh.

"So? You're not calm anymore?" Her tone sounded really awkward.

"What are you talking about?" I furrowed my eyebrows, displeased.Although this is the truth, let's say it in a subtle way. I don't want to lose face if I'm so direct.

"Tch, come on, look at how promising you are." Tao Songnian sneered and teased me, "She came to look for you? Huh?"

I shook my head, pursed my mouth and felt a little depressed, "No. She never contacted me at all. I met A Rui when I went home last week and heard her talk about it."

"Pfft..." I was muttering to myself when Tao Songnian suddenly covered his mouth and laughed.

"What are you laughing at?"

She coughed twice, blinked her eyes, and her eyebrows were still bent, "No, no wonder you look very resentful. It's just like that if we haven't met. If you two really met, I don't know..."

I rolled my eyes, I really didn't want to talk to her.

Seeing that I was not in high spirits, Tao Songnian didn't continue joking. He stopped smiling for two seconds and continued eating.

On the contrary, I was aroused, and my attention was completely out of the hot pot.Even though the aroma of the hot pot is pleasing to the nostrils, there is no appetite at all.

I was in a daze for a while, and when I came back to my senses, I found that Tao Songnian was eating very happily on the opposite side, and he had no intention of saving food for me. I was furious for a while, and frowned at her.

"Hey!"

Tao Songnian raised his head in response, and did not relax his mouth, holding a square bamboo shoot in his mouth, "Huh?"

"You should save some for me." I looked at her and couldn't say anything angry, so I had to soften my tone and glanced at the pot.

Fortunately, Tao Songnian has a good temper, and he can bear my mindless little emotions, and he worked hard to get me a bowl of food.

"Hey, give it to you, I really can't afford to provoke you."

In fact, I didn't really want to eat it. After stuffing two mouthfuls, I stopped, rested my hand on my chin and asked her with drooping eyebrows, "Tell me, what exactly does she want to do?"

"Ah? I've been away for several years, and I don't know how to make a sound. Even now that I'm back in the provincial capital, I know it from others. If you don't see it, you won't see it. What's the point of procrastinating? At worst, it's just like this, maybe. One day I will forget about her completely, who has the time to spend on her!"

I was unhappy, and I rushed to speak.But after I said it, I was in a panic, a copper bell was buzzing in my chest, and my mind went blank.

After Tao Songnian heard this, he was not in a hurry to speak. He just waited quietly for me to relieve my breath, and poured me a cup of tartary buckwheat tea.

"What she wants I don't know. But I feel compelled to correct you."

"What?" I looked up at her blankly.

Tao Songnian put on that meaningful expression again, holding up his cup to cover the lower part of his face, "According to my experience, there are many people like you who are actually impossible to forget each other directly in the world."

"It's normal to be disconnected."

"I'm not saying that someone must be waiting for someone, but have you heard that sentence? What you can't get is always in turmoil."

Whenever this happens, I regret getting to know her, because I always hear some answers that I resist.

I smiled self-deprecatingly with the corners of my lips curled up, "Is it necessary to get happiness from it to sustain this state? But I seem to be hurt all the time? Could it be that I have a tendency to be masochistic?"

Tao Songnian raised his eyebrows and smiled softly, "Young man, if you want to open up a bit, what did we say in "Amber" we watched last time? 'We are alive, we love each other, we can't be afraid of being hurt'."

"You have to believe that if you are not happy, she will not be happy either."

"Cut..." I pursed my lips and shook my head, but I didn't really pay attention to it.

The phone I threw beside the teacup suddenly vibrated, and a new message popped up in the background.Just at this time, I also needed to clear my mind, so I picked up the phone and clicked on it. It was a voice from my mother, which lasted for more than forty seconds.

However, after I clicked on and listened to it, I gritted my teeth and covered my cheeks, and my temples ached.

"What happened again?"

"My mother asked me to go back on the weekend."

"Isn't that good? You don't have to do it yourself when you go back to eat and drink." Tao Songnian squinted at me while drinking tea.

"You listen first." My forehead felt a little cold, as if there were fine beads of sweat seeping out, "My mother said that in order to celebrate Ning Ran's return to work in the provincial capital, let's go back on the weekend, and the three families will have dinner together Meal."

"I have to go back with Ning Ran after get off work on Friday."

I became nervous inexplicably and subconsciously licked my lips.

Tao Songnian didn't understand my feelings at all, he reached out to touch mine with a cup, and smiled winkingly, "Didn't you get what you wanted?"

"congratulations."