be safe

With a distance of more than ten steps from the study to the gate, Xiao Jin's pace slowly stopped, and the expression on his face also recovered from a collapse to an almost cold calm.

She turned around and sat down on the sofa again.

She had a lot of questions, but she couldn't ask Muzhenxi so straightforwardly.Muzhenxi's attitude towards her in the past few days can be seen, it is clear that he has made up his mind to never communicate with her.

Xiao Jin buried her face deeply in her palms, lowered her head and remained motionless.

Suddenly, she put her hand down, clicked on the Weibo reminder message on her phone, and found her homepage with a half-comprehension: Is it a little closer to MZX today?

She flipped through all her Weibo, raised her hand to wipe away the tears on her chin with no expression on her face, got up silently, turned off the light in the living room, and slowly curled herself up on the dark sofa.

***

Muzhenxi raised her head and forced back the wetness in her eyes. Since her grandma passed away, she had dried up her tears. If grandma was alive, she would not want to see her cry.

"I'm already an adult, I won't cry anymore." Muzhenxi took a deep breath, looking at the old man with a kind smile in the photo frame, as if he was still by her side, and softly reported to her what happened these days, "Grandma, I met Xiao Jin a few days ago, she was the classmate who followed me back home, didn’t you ask her where she went, she went abroad to study, now she has a Ph. she……"

Muzhenxi's eyes were a little sour again. She paused, touched the edge of the photo frame lightly, and smiled pretendingly relieved: "She's fine, and I'm fine too. I hope we can all be fine in the future."

Finally, she stared at the old man's face and said softly, "You should be fine in heaven."

Muzhenxi took a deep look at the photo frame for the last time, stood up, pushed the chair in, and went to the bedroom to take the pajamas and take a bath.She took care of Xiao Jin these days, she didn't have a good night's sleep, and she didn't even take a good bath. It was rare for her to relax today, so she specially put a bathtub of water in, planning to take a slow bath, and then earnestly welcome the sun tomorrow.

Many companies have already offered her olive branches, including many well-known game companies in the industry. Muzhenxi needs to spend a few days to think carefully, and some of them are still in other places. If she wants to choose a company from another place, she cannot live in this house. .

Compared with the running around in the past few years, Lincheng is the city she has stayed in for the longest time, it has been four years.In her heart, she always thought that she was a person without nostalgia. The happiness this city brought her was so short, but the pain was so long, but both happiness and pain were deep enough.So when she was able to stabilize back then, facing several cities on the candidate list, she returned here without hesitation. Every flower and grass in the house, ranging from beds and desks to small coasters and chopstick rests, are all It was her that bought everything in the past four years.

Muzhenxi closed her eyes, let go of the hand holding the edge of the bathtub, slid down, and sank her face into the water, and the half-dried petals put in the bathtub slowly covered her head.

But Xiao Jin is here, Lin Cheng said he was not too small, he said he was not too big, so it is better not to see her again.

Muzhenxi wrapped her hair in a big towel casually, came out wrapped in a bath towel, and dried her hair on the bedside first. She read a book for a while without any distractions. She was recently interested in the strange beasts in "Shan Hai Jing". Seeing that inspiration suddenly came, he took out a pen and paper from the bedside table, and sketched randomly on the paper.

In just a few minutes, a monster with a ferocious face and wings growing from its flanks took shape.

Muzhenxi put the book aside temporarily, and carefully refined it.

She can forget to eat and sleep when she devotes herself to painting. When she was still doing the original painting, because a colleague had an accident and time was tight, she painted from the noon of the first day to the night of the second day, sitting at the workstation Her upper back was straight and she didn't move. The colleagues who worked overtime together thought she had an accident, but when they got closer, they realized that her hands were moving. They made a false alarm and covered their hearts and said, "You scared me to death."

Mu Zhenxi glanced at her colleague with a smile, and relaxed her back in the chair: "It's just in time, the painting is finished." She looked at the time again, and was frightened by herself, "Am I so fast? There are so many pictures in one afternoon. manuscript?"

The colleague looked at her with hellish eyes: "You have been drawing for more than a day."

Muzhenxi was more surprised than her, and said with a smile, "Really?"

The colleague sighed: "Yes, don't your hands hurt?"

Muzhenxi moved his wrist and fingers belatedly, and hissed: "It's okay if I don't say it, but I feel pain when I say it, it's sore and painful."

A colleague found her a sports bandage, wrapped it around a few times to temporarily relieve the pain, and thoughtfully ordered a takeaway for her. Before the takeaway arrived, Muzhenxi fell asleep lying on the table.

Mu Zhenxi looked at the completed painting on the white paper, massaged his wrists and fingers habitually, and lost his focus for a short while.

And these colleagues, I probably won't see them again in the future.

Muzhenxi put the paintbrush and paper back in the drawer, sighed softly, turned to look at the time on the bedside table, it was one past five in the morning.Muzhenxi covered her mouth and yawned, turned off the light, pulled the quilt up to her shoulders, closed her eyes and fell asleep.

She was woken up by the phone ringing.

Muzhenxi just fell asleep, with his hand on the center of his eyebrows, he grabbed the phone drowsily, and squinted his eyes to look at it.

The caller ID is a string of unfamiliar numbers, which seem to have been familiar.

Wooden Sleeper Creek answered: "Hello?"

The other party said: "Wooden Sleeper Creek?" The voice was empty, with a hint of helplessness and trembling.

Muzhenxi's heart skipped a beat suddenly, and he sat up, his eyes were no longer sleepy, and the words suddenly became difficult to say: "Xiao Jin?" In the slippers on the edge of the bed, he said anxiously, "Where are you?"

It's so late at night, can't she be outside?

Xiao Jin stammered: "I..."

"Tell the truth." Muzhenxi's voice was stern, and he turned on the hands-free phone, pulled out his clothes from the closet, and quickly changed into his pajamas.

Xiao Jin said, "I'm outside."

The summer clothes are simple, and Mu Zhenxi put on a T-shirt and shorts, and asked, "Which place is outside? Where is it?"

"I... I don't know where it is." The tone was terrified and dazed.

"Send me a location." Muzhenxi took a deep breath.

"How?"

"Didn't you add me as a friend on WeChat before? Send it from there, that's wrong." Mu Zhenxi shook her head. After she sent the other party away, she had already deleted WeChat, mobile phone numbers, and call records, even with Yin Xiaoli The business card that was pushed to her was also deleted. Xiao Jin doesn't have her friend now, and she can't add him.

"Wooden Sleeper Creek..."

It sounded like he was about to cry over there, Muzhenxi was in a state of confusion, he twisted the soft flesh on the inside of his arm with his fingers, forced himself to calm down, and paced back and forth anxiously in the room: "Is there any landmark building nearby? For example What building are you talking about, or you can ask passers-by where you are now."

"I asked, and they said it was in Songling District."

Songling District is the new administrative division of Lincheng. It didn’t exist ten years ago, and Songling District is very large. Muzhenxi’s heart beats fast. As she walked out quickly, she asked, “Do you have any money with you?” Muzhenxi remembers before she left Secretly slipped a sum of money to her.

"I didn't bring it, I only brought my mobile phone."

"Can you use Alipay?"

"No, but I can learn now, I'll ask someone." Xiao Jin seemed to have calmed down suddenly at this moment, and her trembling voice gradually calmed down, and asked cautiously with a trace of self-blame, "Am I bothering you?" Are you sleeping? It's getting late."

Muzhenxi pressed his temple, angry and worried: "You still ran out so late? Does Huang Jiao ignore you?"

She suddenly woke up, right, where is Huang Jiao?Why let Xiao Jin wander outside late at night?

Xiao Jin suddenly lost his voice.

Mu Zhenxi realized something and stood still: "Xiao Jin?"

Xiao Jin sniffed and said, "I'm fine, I'll hang up first."

Muzhenxi was in a hurry: "Xiao Jin?"

beep-

There was a busy tone on the phone.

Muzhenxi pinched his brows hard, not knowing how many times he told himself to calm down.She found Huang Jiao's number from the address book, not afraid of disturbing people's sleep in the middle of the night, and dialed it directly. When the call was connected, she asked angrily, "Sister Huang, where is Xiao Jin?"

Huang Jiao said, "It's so late, she should be sleeping."

Muzhenxi sneered: "Should? Why isn't she at your house?"

Huang Jiao sighed: "Why is she at my house? There is no place for her to live in my house, and it's very inconvenient. I arranged her to a nearby hotel." She seemed to realize something was wrong, and suddenly raised her voice, "She Not at the hotel?"

When Muzhenxi heard that Huang Jiao had arranged Xiao Jin in the hotel, he was filled with anger, but immediately lost the confidence to question him.

Huang Jiao got married and gave birth to a child. The child was less than one year old, and it was time for her mother to take care of her. Besides, Xiao Jin was such a beautiful young woman, and there was an adult man in her family. It was really inconvenient to bring her to live with her. Temporarily staying in a hotel is indeed the best choice under the current circumstances.

But Xiao Jin lost ten years of memory, woke up to face this strange world, and didn't even know anyone around her, she didn't want her, and even threw her to a friend whom she met for the first time in her memory .

What would Xiao Jin think?

Did she leave the hotel late at night because she was restless?

Putting herself in her shoes, Muzhenxi clenched her fists, took a few deep breaths, her eyes were reddish, why on earth did she hand over Xiao Jin to someone else this afternoon?Do you think others will take good care of each other like she does?

Songling District.

The place name came to Muzhenxi's mind, and he grabbed the car keys at the entrance and rushed out.

On the way down from the elevator, she called Yin Xiaoli. Yin Xiaoli had been working outside for a day, and had to catch up on manuscripts at night. She had just fallen asleep when she was woken up by her life-threatening serial calls, and almost had a big fight with her. .

"I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, please send me Xiao Jin's business card again."

"Who is Xiao Jin?"

"That's the doctor!" Wooden Sleeper Creek roared.

When Muzhenxi opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat, Yin Xiaoli's WeChat message popped up on his mobile phone. It was a business card. Muzhenxi hurriedly replied, "I'll treat you to dinner next time." Click on the friend request.

She drove towards Songling District, looking at her mobile phone frequently, her palms sweating while holding the steering wheel.

passed.

Muzhenxi stepped on the brakes to slow down, took the phone, pressed it and sent a voice message: "Wind me the location, the plus button in the lower right corner of the screen, do you see a location? Click to send the location."

Not long after, a piece of location information also came.

"Stand there and wait for me to pass."

Muzhenxi let go of the voice button, turned on the navigation, and the car body roared in the night, flashing a light and shadow.

Fifteen minutes later, she parked the car on the side of the road, opened the door, and took a staggering step even though she was wearing flat shoes.

Wooden Sleeper Creek ran quickly on the road following the navigation, slowed down at a distance of 50 meters, and looked carefully along the road.

Finally found Xiao Jin's back in a 24-hour convenience store, she didn't seem to notice that Muzhenxi had arrived.

The noisy and tense heart along the wooden pillow stream calmed down instantly, and walked lightly.

Just when she was about to walk behind the other party, Xiao Jinruo suddenly turned around with a feeling, her eyes met, a trace of sincere joy flashed in her eyes, but she didn't meet her, instead she took half a step back.

Xiao Jin glanced at her and lowered her eyelashes: "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Muzhenxi could hear the bitterness in her calm voice, and the distressed feeling instantly overwhelmed all emotions.There seemed to be a ball of cotton stuck in her throat, she had to clear her throat, Fang hoarsely said: "I should say I'm sorry."

Xiao Jin's back was stiff, she froze, and raised her head to meet Muzhenxi's eyes.

Mu Zhenxi took the initiative to take her cold hand hanging by her side, wrapping it in a warm palm: "Xiao Jin, come home with me."