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"Did I meet you somewhere?"

This sentence is usually seen in various strike-up occasions, and it is so old-fashioned.As early as hundreds of years ago, Jia Baoyu said "I have seen this sister before", so Mu Zhenxi's first reaction when he heard Yin Xiaoli say this was to take two steps forward, push her shoulders, and put She pressed her seat back and said in a volume that only the two of them could hear: "Can you stop flirting?"

Can she, a straight girl, be a little self-aware?

Yin Xiaoli raised her hand in surrender: "I didn't flirt, I really saw her familiar."

Muzhenxi gritted his teeth and said, "Any pretty ones you see are familiar to you."

Yin Xiaoli rubbed her nose in embarrassment, and admitted: "You're right." After a pause, she looked serious again, and said, "No, I'm not talking nonsense this time, it does look familiar."

Muzhenxi didn't believe it at all, and warned in a low voice: "Be honest with me."

Yin Xiaoli has known Muzhenxi for so many years, except for the first two years, she seldom sees her solemn expression, she is always calm and indifferent.

Yin Xiaoli laughed, it seems that the unfinished love is quite deep?

No matter where her familiarity came from, but Yin Xiaoli really couldn't remember when she saw each other, so she nodded and said kindly: "Okay." Then she looked behind her, "The eyes of your first girlfriend You are going to kill me, why don't you stay away from me?"

Muzhenxi was expressionless: "Also, don't call her my first girlfriend, she has a name."

Yin Xiaoli agreed and gave her an "ok" gesture.

Wooden Sleeper Creek took two steps back and sat down.

Yin Xiaoli looked at Xiao Jin with a smile: "Dr. Xiao."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

Xiao Jin followed suit, and responded politely: "Reporter Yin."

Reporter Yin choked.

There was a slight smile in Muzhenxi's eyes.

Then Yin Xiaoli laughed and said, "Xiao Jin, isn't it?" She looked at Muzhenxi again, and said, "It was me and Huang Jiao who set up the blind date for you two earlier."

Xiao Jin really didn't know about this, but with her current relationship with Muzhenxi, it felt weird to say thank you, so she just smiled politely.

Yin Xiaoli said to herself: "It's a coincidence, you said there are so many people in the world, why did you two meet?"

When she said this, she kept staring at the other person's expression. As a reporter, she must have the ability to read words and emotions, but she didn't see any fluctuations in Xiao Jin's eyes.

Amnesia?

Yin Xiaoli thought about it in her heart, and added: "This is called meeting thousands of miles away by fate?"

The corners of Xiao Jin's lips raised indistinctly, but she still didn't answer.

Yin Xiaoli squinted her eyes, and looked at Mu Zhenxi, who was watching her heart. She didn't know if this person was playing tricks, but she should still like her, at least in the stage of liking her.

How can she talk alone? Yin Xiaoli pushed the menu over and said, "Let's order something to eat. If you come out for afternoon tea, it's so boring to chat."

Xiao Jin gave Mu Zhenxi the menu, and Mu Zhenxi signaled her to order with his eyes, Xiao Jin let it go and looked at the menu with lowered eyebrows.

Yin Xiaoli took the opportunity to take a closer look at Xiao Jin. She was wearing a white embroidered shirt today, with two buttons loosely unbuttoned at the neckline. The collarbone line under the shirt was clear and delicate, and her drooping eyebrows were extremely gentle. Yin Xiaoli turned her side slightly Turning around, the other party's concentration made the line of the bridge of the nose more attractive.

Look at the figure again...

She gasped slightly.

What is Wood Sleeper Creek thinking?Yin Xiaoli held her chin and thought, how could such a beautiful woman dangle in front of her every day, how could she bear it?To be happy in life is to have fun, if she hadn't known Muzhenxi for many years, she would really suspect that her sexual orientation is straight now.

Not to mention Muzhenxi, even if I meet such a beauty and get along day and night, I might be tempted.She doesn't care about men and women, she just likes good-looking ones, and she only sleeps with men for the time being. If she has a chance to meet a big beauty in the future, it's not impossible for her to bend over.

Yin Xiaoli, who was freeing herself in her mind, pulled her thoughts back, Muzhenxi is not such a carefree person like herself.From a rational point of view, she had to help Wood Sleeper Creek get rid of her.

"Is the pearl glutinous rice chicken okay?" Muzhenxi counted the stripes on the tablecloth boredly, and suddenly a voice came into his ears.

Muzhenxi tilted his head to look at the menu in Xiao Jin's hand, and said casually, "Anything is fine."

Xiao Jin noticed her absent-mindedness, and asked considerately, "You don't like this?"

Mu Zhenxi shook her head and said in a low voice: "No, I don't care much about food, don't you know?" She spoke too fast, and only after she finished speaking did she feel that her words surpassed the relationship between the two of them now.

The children of poor families have been in charge of the family early, and Muzhenxi has been dealing with firewood, rice, oil and salt since he was a child, and he is satisfied when he can eat enough, so he doesn't care about what is delicious and what is not.Appetite is a problem that people with more than enough food and clothing will consider.Even now, she can go to Michelin restaurants without blinking an eyelid to consume, but to her, it is no different from a bowl of noodle soup eaten in a street restaurant.

Xiao Jin's gaze stayed on her face for a second before she lowered her head again and said, "Then I'll order casually."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "Yes."

She continued to count the stripes on the tablecloth, but this time she couldn't calm down, and secretly looked at Xiao Jin from the corner of her eye, seeing that she was holding the pencil for ordering, and turning flowers between her fingers from time to time.

The phone on the table vibrated.

Mu Zhenxi lowered his head to pick up his phone and unlocked it. The news came from Yin Xiaoli who was sitting opposite:

[Can you still do it?My eyeballs are almost sticking to my body [sigh]]

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

Is she that obvious?

Muzhenxi clicked a small game from his mobile phone, and was bored to pass the time.

"Pearl glutinous rice chicken, steamed ribs with black bean noodles, fresh shrimp siu mai, Guilin water chestnut cake, that's all." Xiao Jin returned the menu to Yin Xiaoli, "Miss Yin, is there anything else you want to add?"

Yin Xiaoli added three cups of milk tea and a plate of rice rolls, and the waiter took the menu and went down.

The meal was served quite quickly, and after eating, Yin Xiaoli started talking again.

"Xiao... Jin." She twirled her tongue before pronouncing Xiao Jin's name.

Xiao Jin stopped her chopsticks and raised her eyes to look at her. It is basic etiquette to stare into the other person's eyes when they are talking.

Yin Xiaoli quickly waved her hands: "Don't be so serious, you eat yours."

Xiao Jin didn't move: "Say it."

Yin Xiaoli hadn't made it out of her teacher yet, so she embarrassed herself first, and eased her laugh a little, and said, "I heard from Zhenxi that you lost your memory?"

Pillow Creek?

Xiao Jin tasted the title in her heart, as if she had never called it before.

She smiled slightly and said, "Yes."

Yin Xiaoli then asked: "Then what are your plans?"

Xiao Jin glanced at Muzhenxi, bit the tip of her tongue slightly, and said, "Muzhenxi said that he would let me stay until I regained my memory."

"Oh." Yin Xiaoli smiled, "Then what if you never recover your memory? For example, for three to five years, don't tell me you two have been living together?"

Xiao Jin said in her heart, it would be fine if this is the case.

Xiao Jin said: "Let's see when the time comes, it shouldn't take that long."

Yin Xiaoli took a sip of the hot milk tea, and smiled: "I also reminded Muzhenxi in advance, you said that if she talks about a new girlfriend, there is another one in this family, so it is easy for a girlfriend Misunderstand."

The smile on Xiao Jin's face couldn't be maintained anymore.

Muzhenxi also frowned, and cast a questioning look at Yin Xiaoli, who gave her a reassuring look.

Yin Xiaoli had a smile on her face, but she pressed her every step of the way: "Student Xiao Jin, do you think so?"

Xiao Jin clenched her hands under the table, smiled and said, "...Yes."

Yin Xiaoli leaned back in the chair, and said in a serious tone: "So you'd better make plans early, Zhenxi people are good, there are some things that she can't say, and as her friend, I I will speak for her."

Muzhenxi kept winking at Yin Xiaoli.

Yin Xiaoli ignored her, if she wanted to cut it off, she would cut it cleanly, what's the matter if the root is broken?

Yin Xiaoli: "You should know, the two of you are in the past tense, everyone has their own lives, you—"

Xiao Jin's complexion became ugly.

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Muzhenxi, and she said calmly: "I haven't eaten yet, it's getting cold."

Yin Xiaoli sighed in her heart.

Just said a few words that were not too serious, and my heart ached. As for Muzhenxi, there was no need for Xiao Jin to set her up. She tied herself up and sent her to others.

Yin Xiaoli used the serving chopsticks to pick up a piece of pork ribs for Xiao Jin, and said with a smile, "I'm sorry, but their ribs are quite delicious, try it."

Xiao Jin whispered, "Thank you."

Muzhenxi lowered his eyes and said nothing.

Yin Xiaoli took two bites, picked up her phone and sent her a message: [I don't know if she is a trick, but she definitely still likes you, and she likes you very deeply]

Mu Zhenxi saw that the phone was on, but didn't pick it up to look at it, Xiao Jin was sitting next to her, and Yin Xiaoli just said that again, she was a little worried that Xiao Jin thought it was her order to say it.

Reason told her that Yin Xiaoli's decisiveness was correct, but she couldn't do it.She has tried her best not to be attracted again, no matter how serious she is, she can't say it.

Seeing her like this, Yin Xiaoli basically understood that there was no other way but to wait and see what happened, and be her trash can when Muzhenxi needed it.Love is a matter between two people, no matter whether the relationship is successful or not, no one else can interfere.

but……

After paying the bill, Yin Xiaoli took Muzhenxi's arm and said to Xiao Jin: "I have a few words to talk to Muzhenxi, you wait for her at the door first."

Xiao Jin went to the door with her back to them.

Muzhenxi asked, "What's the matter?"

Yin Xiaoli waved her hand in front of her eyes, and said helplessly, "Can you take your eyes off your first girlfriend for a while?"

Muzhenxi turned his face back and asked again: "What's the matter?"

Yin Xiaoli looked at her for a long time, and seriously asked a question: "If I fell into the water with your first girlfriend, who would you save?"

Wooden Sleeper Creek turned and left.

Yin Xiaoli grabbed her and said haha: "Just kidding, I'm telling you the truth now."

Muzhenxi endured his temper, stood still and waited.

Yin Xiaoli said in a deep voice: "I'll give you a word, there are flowers that can be broken straight, don't wait for no flowers to break the branches."

Muzhenxi narrowed his eyes and said, "...Are you kidding again?"

Yin Xiaoli stared at her and said: "No, I'm serious. There are only so many years in a human life, and every day we live, we are approaching death step by step. Since you can't let go, you might as well pick it up again, don't torture Own."

Muzhenxi looked back into her eyes, and there was a slight sparkle in her eyes.After a long while, he slightly hooked his lower lip, as if mocking himself, but also as if it was funny, and then patted her on the shoulder.

"Thank you for your kindness, I'm going back."

Muzhenxi nodded to her, and walked towards the door step by step.

Looking at her lonely back, Yin Xiaoli felt for the first time that she didn't know anything about Muzhenxi.

No, it should be said that she has never really understood her for so many years.

Yin Xiaoli met Muzhenxi when she was still in college, not in Lincheng, but in another city.At that time, Muzhenxi was a loner, taciturn, received money in a supermarket, worked in a factory, and delivered a courier. It was a fate. Yin Xiaoli met her several times. She played Xiaoyankong. Look at this The young lady was good-looking, so she went to approach Muzhenxi, and gradually the two became acquainted.

Speaking of Muzhenxi's later career in game art, it was Yan Xiaoli who showed her the way. Once Muzhenxi finished a day's work and called it a day. She didn't work the night shift and had some free time. Yin Xiaoli took her to the library of her school. Muzhenxi took out a sketchbook from his backpack and drew with a pencil.Yin Xiaoli didn't pay attention to it at first, but she took a second look when she saw how focused she was painting, and was stunned, what kind of fairy painting is this.

"You can go to a major, right? It's better than our school who specializes in fine arts."

Muzhenxi wrinkled his nose, raised his hand to cover the book, and said displeasedly, "Don't make fun of me."

Yin Xiaoli hurriedly said: "I'm not making fun of you, really, if you don't believe me, go ask someone else."

Of course, Mu Zhenxi would not ask others. Yin Xiaoli took advantage of her unpreparedness and directly copied her sketchbook. She didn't mind disturbing others, and asked other students who were studying by themselves one by one, and received unanimous praise.

Yin Xiaoli returned the notebook as if asking for credit, and said with a smile: "Look, let me say that you draw very well."

Muzhenxi stared at her for three seconds without showing emotion, stuffed the notebook into his bag, and left directly.

Yin Xiaoli was dumbfounded looking at her back, and hurriedly chased after her.

"Hey."

"what happened to you?"

"What are you angry about?"

"It's really well drawn."

"I'm doing it for your own good. If you have the ability, you can do something else. I see you stepping on the sewing machine in the factory and cutting the thread, and you feel that your hands are wasted!"

"You shouldn't live like this!"

Yin Xiaoli roared behind her.

Wooden Sleeper Creek stands still under the street lamp.

Panting, Yin Xiaoli walked around in front of her. The wooden pillow creek bangs grew very long, covering her eyes, and the light from the street lamp was too dim, so Yin Xiaoli couldn't see her expression clearly.

All I know is that after a long time, maybe not long after, she heard Muzhenxi's dazed and trembling voice in the night: "Then how do you think I'm going to live?"

Yin Xiaoli wanted to see her eyes.

But Muzhenxi looked away, clenched his hands into fists, and said rather self-deprecatingly: "Anyway, no one cares about me."

Yin Xiaoli blurted out: "I, I care."

Wooden Sleeper Creek said, "Thank you."

Yin Xiaoli was overjoyed, heard her take another breath, and said, "But I don't need it."

Yin Xiaoli was then stabbed. To be honest, she almost had a fit, but she felt that Mu Zhenxi's mood was not right, so she suppressed her temper and said, "You don't need friends?"

Muzhenxi made another knife, firmly saying: "No need."

Yin Xiaoli was happy instead: "You agreed to come to the library with me even if you don't need it?"

Muzhenxi's ears were reddened by the black hair.

Yin Xiaoli took the opportunity to take her hand and walked forward, chatting while walking: "Oh, you are so bitter and hateful at such a young age, we young people should be energetic."

Mu Zhenxi said, "How do you know that I'm not really bitter and bitter?"

Yin Xiaoli made up a series of TV plots in her mind, and said in surprise: "Do you have a sworn feud with others?"

Muzhenxi was speechless: "That's not true."

Yin Xiaoli smiled and said: "That's it, there is no hurdle in this world that you can't get over."

Muzhenxi snorted lightly: "It won't hurt your back when you stand and talk."

Yin Xiaoli was overjoyed at her chirp, let go of her hand, and bowed twice gratefully to God.

Muzhenxi frowned: "What are you doing?"

Yin Xiaoli said: "It's rare to hear a sarcasm from your mouth."

Wooden Sleeper Creek fell silent.

Yin Xiaoli didn't force her, took her to a lake behind the school library, sat down in a remote place with no people, and talked with her for a long time.

"What I just said is serious. You are so good at painting, you can become a painter."

Mu Zhenxi snorted again, and said: "There are so many people who can paint, how many painters are there, and you must be self-aware."

"You can't underestimate yourself, did you learn it by yourself or someone taught you?"

"Draw it yourself."

"That means you're talented, wow, you're amazing!" Yin Xiaoli gave her a thumbs up while holding the ground.

Mu Zhenxi blushed from her praise, looked serious, and said: "You are too exaggerated, I really can't rely on this to make a living."

Yin Xiaoli asked back: "How will you know if you don't try?"

Wooden Sleeper Creek still shook his head.

Yin Xiaoli shook her arm: "Try, try, try."

Wooden Sleeper Creek stood up: "I'm going home."

Yin Xiaoli curled her lips.

Muzhenxi raised his chin slightly: "I'll take you back to the dormitory first, why don't you leave?"

The next day, Yin Xiaoli gave her a digital tablet.

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

Yin Xiaoli said: "I asked my classmates, and they said that they generally use this. What is pressure sensitivity? It has relatively complete functions. I don't know how complete it is. Anyway, you will know after you try it."

Muzhenxi looked at her for a while, and said helplessly, "Do you know that this is for use with a computer?"

Yin Xiaoli scratched her head, knowing that she had made a joke, and said haha: "How about I give you another computer, but I have no money now, wait until I save for another year?"

Computers at that time were still a bit expensive for students. Yin Xiaoli’s family was not very rich, and she was a bit extravagant when she spent the money herself. Mu Zhenxi guessed that she might ask her family for it, and immediately refused: "I don’t want it." , you return it."

Yin Xiaoli resolutely refused, and Mu Zhenxi couldn't compare to her when it came to slapstick and cheating. After asking clearly that it was the money she had saved, she had no choice but to accept it.

Yin Xiaoli was quite embarrassed: "The one I bought is a very ordinary one. When you become prosperous in the future, you can change it to a better one."

Muzhenxi solemnly said: "Thank you."

Yin Xiaoli thought about not having a computer, and said embarrassingly, "I hope it won't break after a year..."

Muzhenxi gritted his teeth, and suddenly made up his mind: "I will buy the computer myself."

Although her salary is low, she doesn't spend much at all. She saved some savings in the past two years, and took them out cruelly to buy a desktop computer with high configuration, and put it in the house she rented.

On the first day of pretending, Yin Xiaoli rubbed her hands and stood behind her, urging her excitedly: "Quick, try it."

After reading the manual, Muzhenxi stumbled to use her new tools. She was not used to it at first, but gradually found a different feeling from the paper. Pencils, pens, airbrush, watercolor brushes... It was an eye-opener.

By the time she finished drawing a picture, Yin Xiaoli had already fallen asleep on the bed.

She goes to work as usual during the day, and she doesn’t go to the night shift at night. She just stays at home, reading calligraphy and painting, and reading professional books. After a while, I don’t feel sleepy when I go to work again, and I feel refreshed.

She started to look for part-time jobs online, and took some small jobs. She didn't earn much, but she earned it with the paintbrush in her hand. She was very happy.That's when she realized what she really wanted to do.

She seemed to have a goal suddenly, and she was rescued from a desperate situation, and there were a cluster of sparks in her cold life.

Yin Xiaoli would sometimes visit her home and see a letter on her desk with no address or addressee, so she asked strangely: "Are you going to send this letter? If you don't have anything, how can you send it?" ah?"

Muzhenxi looked up from the computer: "I haven't written it yet, I will write it when I send it."

"Oh." Yin Xiaoli asked, "Who are you sending it to?"

Mu Zhenxi pursed her lips and stared at the computer, picked up the pen and checked the offline a few times, and after a long time, said: "A person who...may not care about me anymore."

Yin Xiaoli was puzzled: "Ah?"

Muzhenxi hummed softly, and exhaled softly: "But I haven't given up yet, I want to...wait for her."

Yin Xiaoli tapped on the envelope with her fingers, she figured it out a bit, so she didn't make a sound.

I forgot from which day, Muzhenxi stopped writing letters, and Yin Xiaoli never asked again, and later, she knew that the other party had completely given up.

Muzhenxi has also changed into a different person, almost the same as now, lazy but confident, full of the charm of a mature woman, it is almost impossible to see that she still has such a gloomy and self-defeating period.

Yin Xiaoli only experienced her changing from gloomy to cheerful, but she didn't know how she became like that.Muzhenxi never told her about her past, even when she was drunk and cried with tears all over her face, saying that she missed her very much, it was just repeating those few words.

She is like a mountain that has been frozen into ice for a long time, Yin Xiaoli tried her best but only saw the tip of the iceberg exposed above, the struggle and pain underneath all belonged to the past, and belonged to her unknown secret.

Someday these secrets may be revealed again, but that person will not be her.

Looking at the backs of the two walking away hand in hand, Yin Xiaoli clicked her tongue, even if she had no feelings for Muzhenxi other than friendship, she was still a bit sour, women are like brothers and sisters are like clothes.

The siblings are gone, and so is her dress.

Stepping out the door, a thought flashed through Yin Xiaoli's mind like lightning: Those letters from Muzhenxi were addressed to Xiao Jin, right?Since Xiao Jin hasn't let her go, why didn't he come to her?