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Muzhenxi raised his head, forcing back the tears in his eyes.

Then, she noticed her unfamiliar movements, holding a spatula in one hand and a mobile phone in the other, looking here and there, and Muzhenxi took a light breath, remembering a thought-provoking moment Question: Can Xiao Jin know how to cook?

She stepped forward in three steps at a time, and opened the kitchen door.

Xiao Jin turned around, hurriedly grabbed a rag and wiped it on the marble countertop, and said calmly, "It's almost ready, just go out and wait."

Muzhenxi glanced at the broken leaves of the ingredients left on the countertop, as well as the water marks around the vegetable sink, including the underground water, plus the potatoes on the cooking counter that hadn't had time to be poured into the pot, and were cut into irregular pieces.

A trace of sadness climbed up the brow of Muzhenxi.

There was already a dish on the plate, and the aroma came from that dish. Mu Zhenxi took a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick holder and asked, "Can I have a taste?"

Xiao Jin showed apprehension, but still nodded.

This may be her first time cooking.

Without any hope, Muzhenxi picked up a chopstick of dried bamboo shoots and put them in his mouth.

Xiao Jin was so nervous that she couldn't even take care of the pot, and stared at her expression without blinking: "How is it?"

Wooden Sleeper Creek looked at her in disbelief.

Xiao Jin: "Is it delicious?" She actually tasted it when it came out of the pot. It was not as delicious as Muzhenxi, but it was barely edible.

Muzhenxi swallowed the dried bamboo shoots and said sincerely, "Not bad."

Xiao Jin breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to follow the mobile phone recipes to deal with the ingredients in the pot.

Muzhenxi picked another piece of meat with chopsticks to try, and the meat was cut a bit thick. Besides, the entrance was smooth and elastic.Muzhenxi handed over the kitchen to Xiao Jin, and went out in a mess in the wind.

Xiao Jin actually knows how to cook?

Muzhenxi thought of something, and walked back: "Is the rice cooked?"

I remember that when Xiao Jin was cooking for the first time, she made a mess of the ingredients, burnt everything that should be braised in brown sauce, burned everything that should be cooked in soup, and even forgot to cook the rice. When she was reminded, she asked her what happened to the rice Tao, in the end it was Muzhenxi who rushed her out of the kitchen.

Now Xiao Jin glanced at her calmly, and said, "It's cooked, it's in the rice cooker."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "!!!"

She squinted her eyes, and was not completely relieved when she saw the lighted heat preservation button. She opened the lid of the rice cooker and tapped it. The rice was crystal clear, full of grains, and there was not too much water.

Muzhenxi was completely speechless. When he went to the living room to wait for dinner, he felt as if he was in a dream.

"It's time to eat." Xiao Jin came out with the dishes, Mu Zhenxi got up to help when he heard the sound, and the two of them brought four dishes to the table together.Stir-fried pork with dried bamboo shoots, garlic okra, fried tenderloin with double spring onions, and the last one is seaweed egg drop soup.

"Why did you think of cooking?" Mu Zhenxi set the table and chopsticks, and looked at Xiao Jin who was opposite.

"I feel idle at home is also idle, find something to do."

"You..." Wooden Sleeper paused, and said, "Didn't you know how to cook before?"

Xiao Jin smiled: "I don't know either. Maybe I learned it later. It's a little difficult to cut vegetables, but it's easier to put them in the pot. Besides, there are recipes, so it's not very difficult."

Muzhenxi hummed and filled himself with a bowl of soup.

Xiao Jin's eyes fixed on her action of drinking soup, and Mu Zhenxi felt uncomfortable when she saw her.

Xiao Jin explained embarrassingly: "I just want to get feedback."

Muzhenxi took a sip and said truthfully, "It's a bit salty."

Xiao Jin: "Then I will put less salt next time."

Upon hearing this, Muzhenxi put down the spoon, made a slight knock against the edge of the bowl, and said, "You don't need to cook."

Xiao Jin looked injured: "Do you think my cooking is not delicious?"

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "...No."

Xiao Jin said: "Then let me do it, I just need to exercise."

"No." Muzhenxi frowned and said, "You are a thousand gold lady, what's wrong with exercising, why do you do such rough work, what do you want to eat, just hire a nanny to do it."

Xiao Jin was extremely displeased by what she said, ignored the awkward kindness in her tone, and choked back: "What's wrong with Miss Qianjin? Miss Qianjin can't cook, according to what you said, Miss Qianjin stretched out her clothes to eat and opened her mouth Why don't I hire someone to help me dress?"

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

She didn't mean it that way.

Forget it, I can't talk to her, besides, Xiao Jin is going to lose his temper even more, bow his head, let's eat.

She responded, Xiao Jin calmed down by herself, secretly annoyed that she had gone too far, Mu Zhenxi won't be angry, right?She secretly looked at it from the corner of her eye, and Muzhenxi's brows and eyes were quiet, as if she was not angry.

Muzhenxi doesn't have a lot of food, and the bowls at home are not big. Usually, I add a flat bowl, and occasionally a little less, and the meal speed is controlled within a fixed time.

Xiao Jin secretly looked at her watch, and found that the prescribed time was up, and there was still half a bowl of rice left in Muzhenxi's bowl. She observed quietly for a while, and found that the rice in the other's bowl was compacted. It seemed that there was only one flat bowl. more than half.

Muzhenxi looked at her suddenly: "You seem to be smiling?"

Xiao Jin quickly suppressed the raised corners of her mouth and said, "No."

Mu Zhenxi picked up a piece of tenderloin and ate it with the rice.In fact, she is already full, but she still wants to eat more. The number of times Xiao Jin cooks herself is counting down.

After eating, Xiao Jin habitually went to clean up the dishes, but was stopped by Mu Zhenxi: "Usually I cook and you wash the dishes, but today you cook, I will wash the dishes."

Xiao Jin and her looked at each other for two seconds, then let go.

Muzhenxi put the bowls and chopsticks into the kitchen and drained the water skillfully.

Xiao Jin stood at the door and looked at her back, thought for a while, and then slowly laughed.

Ordinary lovers, even couples, should be like this, right?

She was in a good mood all night, and couldn't help humming a song in front of Muzhenxi. That night in the hospital, Muzhenxi sang to her the theme song "True Love" of "The Prince Turns into a Frog", humming softly to "Give more Some of my fragments, pieced together unknown accidents, lost memory of the first love" glanced at Muzhenxi who was mopping the floor, Muzhenxi met her eyes, froze in the air for three seconds, and moved away.

Xiao Jin did not miss the smile that flickered across her lips.

For the first time, Xiao Jin didn't read a book, turned on the TV, searched "The Prince Turns into a Frog", and started watching from the first episode.The familiar theme song came to his ears, Muzhenxi looked up speechlessly, Xiao Jin sat on the sofa with a pillow in his hands and looked at the TV screen expectantly.

What a kid.

Twenty minutes later, Muzhenxi finished mopping the floor, washed the mop, took away the empty fruit plate on the table, washed a plate of cherries, put them on the coffee table, took two more bags of melon seeds, and handed Xiao Jin a bag .

Xiao Jin: "Hahaha."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "Shut up."

Xiao Jin was so kind, and even covered her mouth, but she still showed a pair of crooked smiling eyes.

Muzhenxi could only pretend that he couldn't see her.

The two watched three TV episodes together. Xiao Jin ate up a plate of cherries, and Muzhenxi only ate two. Afterwards, they cleaned up two trash cans, put new trash bags on them, and went out tomorrow to throw them away.

Xiao Jin wanted to continue watching the fourth episode, but was stopped by Mu Zhenxi: "Go take a shower and sleep."

Xiao Jin got good feedback from Muzhenxi again and again today, and she was a little swollen. She lay down on the sofa, rolled around on the ground relying on her thinness, and said coquettishly: "I'll watch another episode, Shan Junhaogang Amnesia is wonderful."

Muzhenxi ruthlessly refused: "No, you can wait for tomorrow to be wonderful."

Xiao Jin looked at the distance from the sofa to the ground, and carefully rolled from the sofa to the ground.

"I'll watch one more episode and take a shower after that, I promise."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

She thought absurdly: Is she a scoundrel?

Xiao Jin rolled twice, but Muzhenxi was unmoved, she got up from the ground embarrassingly, patted her body, and negotiated with Muzhenxi as best as possible: "I'll see tomorrow, will you still be with me? "

Muzhenxi said with a straight face, "I'm going to draw tomorrow night."

Xiao Jin drooped her ears, and went back to her room to get her pajamas in desperation.

Muzhenxi waited until she could no longer see her back, and then laughed softly.

The next night, Mu Zhenxi, who claimed to be painting, accompanied Xiao Jin to watch two more TV episodes. The two discussed Ye Tianyu's deceitful behavior. The other party is a stowaway from the mainland, and deception itself is wrong.Xiao Jin felt that the other party's solution was expedient, and it was justifiable, and the ending also proved that she finally got the result she wanted, and everyone was happy.

Mu Zhenxi said that this is a TV series. The two people are not in the same world. It is like a fairy tale that only writes about the princess and the prince living happily together, but does not write about the future story of the prince and the princess. The prince and the princess are like this Let alone princes and ordinary people.

Xiao Jin argued that there is still Cinderella, how do you explain it?Muzhenxi smiled: Cinderella was originally an aristocrat, and her two older sisters were able to go to the ball. She was not favored, not from a humble background.

Xiao Jin said that you digressed, and you were talking about deception, so why did you mention class.Mu Zhenxi said that I didn't digress, Ye Tianyu not only has a world of difference from the other party's family background, but also deceived the other party, which is impossible in the real world.

Xiao Jin frowned and said: You are too realistic.

Mu Zhenxi laughed and said: Obviously you are too romantic, you still believe in the things played in TV dramas.

Xiao Jin looked a little angry, Mu Zhenxi stopped talking, took a sip of water from the teacup, got up and said, "I'm going back to the study."

Xiao Jin smashed the pillow on the sofa.

There was an unpleasant scene that night, and the next morning he seemed to have forgotten about this little episode. According to the agreement, Mu Zhenxi knocked on Xiao Jin's door and asked her to go out for a run.In order to avoid running together, she went out first by herself, and Xiao Jin went out later. Muzhenxi didn't run around, so she basically didn't meet each other during the morning run.Go home on both feet, take turns taking a bath, and then go out for breakfast.

It was still the soup noodle shop I went to. Xiao Jin’s education from childhood prevented her from sucking and slipping as naturally as others, but occasionally she would make a little noise.Today, she belatedly realized that the side dishes in her bowl were different from those in the Muzhenxi bowl. There were sour beans, pickles, dried radish, shredded ginger, etc. in the Muzhenxi bowl. Silk, peanuts and vegetables are basically nothing else.

Muzhenxi glanced at her lightly, and said, "You're picky eaters, don't you know what to do?"

Xiao Jin pursed her lips into a smile.

She knew, but she just wanted to hear Muzhenxi say it herself, which meant that Muzhenxi still remembered these details.

On the way home, Muzhenxi answered a phone call, she glanced at Xiao Jin, and didn't avoid her, her expression became more serious.

Xiao Jin listened to what she said, as if it was related to work.

Sure enough, Mu Zhenxi hung up the phone and said to Xiao Jin, "A company informed me to go for an interview."

"When?"

"It's all right, he said to wait for me at the company and call him before letting me go."

Listening to her words, Xiao Jin narrowed her eyes, thought for a while, and said, "Aren't you very good? You still need to look at your time for interviews?"

Muzhenxi said: "No, generally powerful."

Xiao Jin blinked and said, "That's amazing."

Muzhenxi smiled and did not deny it.

Xiao Jin asked: "Then when do you plan to go?"

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "This afternoon, I'm getting moldy at home, it's better to go to work earlier."

Xiao Jin asked: "Then do you like this company?" She still remembered Mu Zhenxi's resignation. Since she resigned and then found the same job, the main reason for her resignation was that she didn't like the original company.

Muzhenxi frowned slightly, and he was not sure: "I don't know, I have to talk to the other side in depth, so I can learn more about it."

Xiao Jin thought for a while and said, "Then shall I go to No. [-] Middle School this afternoon?" It happened that she had wanted to go for a long time, and she had an intuition that she could find something in No. [-] Middle School.

Muzhenxi glanced at her and said, "Okay, I'll send you there first, and then go to the company for an interview."

Xiao Jin nodded.

At noon, Muzhenxi cooks the meal. Although Xiao Jin has proven her cooking skills, Muzhenxi does not agree with her cooking frequently. Xiao Jin has no choice but to look for opportunities occasionally.

After taking a nap for half an hour, Muzhenxi sent Xiao Jin to Lincheng No. [-] Middle School at two o'clock in the afternoon, left Xiao Jin at the school gate, and drove away to go to the company for an interview.

Although it's a holiday right now, the third year of high school needs to make up lessons, Xiao Jin came here to take a gamble, the teacher who took her back then was still teaching the third year of high school.The management of Lincheng No. [-] Middle School is relatively strict, and registration is required to enter and leave the school. Xiao Jin stood at the window of the post booth and handed over his identity. The security guard asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Xiao Jin: "Xu Yuanxin, Teacher Xu."

The security checked her in and let her in.

An old school like Lincheng No. [-] Middle School has not changed much. It is full of trees and densely covered.It's just that the teaching building looks older than before, and the library has been renovated, which looks very eye-catching from a distance.Entering the door, there is a statue of a thinker, and a short walk inside is the school's wall of honor, on which are posted the college entrance examination scores of outstanding students and the schools they were admitted to. Xiao Jin looked at them patiently, showing nostalgia .

There are students wearing school uniforms walking around the campus, holding books in their hands. They may go to the library and cast their curious eyes from time to time, but generally they don't stop for a long time.

She followed her memory to find the previous office building. The soles of her shoes felt unreal on the stairs. On the first, second, third, fourth, and fourth floors, she passed through the corridor. The original office sign was gone, and the door was open. empty.

Changed place?

Xiao Jin went downstairs, stopped a female student in school uniform and asked, "Hello classmate, where is the teacher's office building?"

The female student pointed her in the direction.

Xiao Jin thought for a while, then asked, "Do you know Mr. Xu Yuanxin?"

The female student looked at her suspiciously: "Yes, our head teacher, do you have anything to ask him?"

Xiao Jin didn't expect such an answer, and couldn't hide her joy: "I'm his former student, and I came to see him specially. Where is he now, is he in school?"

The female student blinked her eyes twice and smiled: "Yes, it should be in the office." This time, the direction she pointed was more clear, and she even said which floor the office was on.

"Thank you junior." Xiao Jin's eyes brightened.

"You're welcome." Looking at her mature and beautiful face, the female student blushed for some reason, and replied in a low voice.

Xiao Jin got the exact address and headed in that direction. During the holidays, the office building was also empty, and there was a lot of echo when stepping on the corridor.Xiao Jin counted one by one, and when he was about to arrive, a person suddenly walked out of an office in front of him.

He is about 50 years old, wears a pair of black-rimmed glasses, has a medium build, is thin, and wears a very ordinary short-sleeved shirt.

The man looked at Xiao Jin, and Xiao Jin also looked at him.

Xiao Jin walked over quickly: "Teacher Xu!"

Xu Yuanxin's hand holding the tea mug was fixed in the air, identifying the person in front of him, hesitantly said: "You are..."

Xiao Jin said, "I'm Xiao Jin."

Xu Yuanxin's eyes showed disbelief first, and then surprise: "It's Xiao Jin, why are you here at school?" He looked down and asked the same question as Wan Jing, "Is your leg okay?"

The corner of Xiao Jin's mouth twitched slightly: "...it's okay."

Xu Yuanxin laughed: "Come, come into the office and sit down."

Xiao Jin was welcomed in by him, sitting across from his desk, Xu Yuanxin made her a cup of tea in a disposable paper cup, and said enthusiastically, "How are you doing abroad all these years?"

Xiao Jin smiled and said, "It's pretty good."

Xu Yuanxin: "That's good. You came to school this time..."

Xiao Jin said: "Look at you, please have a meal, and by the way, ask me about my trip abroad."

Xu Yuanxin was at a loss: "What?"

Xiao Jin asked: "Teacher, do you still remember when I went abroad?"

Xu Yuanxin: "In May, your father called me and said that you have gone abroad."

Xiao Jin frowned: "My dad?"

Xu Yuanxin said, "Yes."

Xiao Jin asked: "Then did I speak to you in person?"

Xu Yuanxin shook his head: "No."

Xiao Jin confirmed to him: "Are you sure? And did I contact you later?"

Xu Yuanxin shook his head twice, then nodded after shaking, and explained: "I'm sure you didn't talk to me at that time, but then you called me and asked me about Muzhenxi."

"Is it the summer vacation in 2008?"

"Yes."

"What did I ask you?"

"Ask me, is Wooden Sleeper Creek okay?"

Xiao Jin's heart skipped a beat, and her heart was gripped by a sense of panic for no reason. Her voice trembled unconsciously, and she said with difficulty, "I...why would I ask such a question?"

Xu Yuanxin looked at her in surprise, and after a while, let out a heavy breath.

"Muzhenxi's life is quite difficult. A few months before the college entrance examination, her grandmother was diagnosed with advanced cancer, and she died not long after. She didn't pass the college entrance examination, and there was no news about her."

"What..." Xiao Jin opened his mouth and realized that he hadn't made a sound, so he had to clear his throat before continuing to ask hoarsely, "When did you die?"

"May is the month when you go abroad." Xu Yuanxin said.