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There was a bang in Xiao Jin's head, and almost no sound could be heard.

Xu Yuanxin looked puzzled, and said: "At that time, I was still very surprised. You and her have such a good relationship, why did you choose to go abroad at this time, and the school did not start abroad. Besides, the child in Muzhenxi is very lonely. My classmates didn’t know about it, and they specifically asked me not to tell anyone…”

As Xu Yuanxin spoke, he raised his eyes, only to find that the young woman sitting across from her was full of tears at some point.

"What's the matter?" Xu Yuanxin stopped talking, took out two tissues and handed them over, and pushed them along with the paper box on the table. Why are you still crying?

Xiao Jin pressed the corners of her eyes with a tissue, but to no avail, more and more tears fell from her eyes.

Xu Yuanxin stood up worriedly.

Xiao Jin wiped her tears with one hand, raised the other hand to signal Xu Yuanxin to be relieved, choked up and said, "I'm fine, teacher, I'll go to the bathroom first."

Xu Yuanxin sat down and said softly: "Go, go, do you know where the bathroom is?"

Xiao Jin nodded.

Xu Yuanxin brought himself a mug of tea. He had no class for a while, so he sat in the office and waited for Xiao Jin.At the same time, many doubts arose in my mind. Nine years ago, Xiao Jin went abroad very suddenly, without any prior notice, including that she would not come to class and did not give her advance notice.He even called Xiao Jin because he was worried. At that time, either Xiao Jin's father or her mother answered the phone, and Xiao Jin never answered the phone.As the head teacher, he didn't think much about being able to connect with the parents.Why is it that Xiao Jin doesn't know about it now?

There is also Muzhenxi, which is even more mysterious. Two months after the college entrance examination, Xu Yuanxin received a call from Xiao Jin asking about Muzhenxi. have no idea?

What's even more strange is that now, I have already asked about it once, but now I'm asking again?

Xu Yuanxin opened the tea cover and took a sip of the hot tea. His brows slowly wrinkled thoughtfully.It's not wrong that the person in front of him is Xiao Jin, his appearance hasn't changed too much, and he can see what he looked like back then.

There was another knock on the door.

Xiao Jin walked in and sat down again. Xiao Jin, who had finished sorting out her emotions, did not show any abnormalities except for a little red eyes.

Xu Yuanxin narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Xiao Jin, can you show me your ID card?"

Xiao Jin: "..."

Xu Yuanxin has confirmed the name on the ID card, so don't worry, this person is not a fake.

Xu Yuanxin smiled warmly: "Is there anything else you want to ask me?"

Xiao Jin asked some details about that year, and knew that Muzhenxi asked for leave from time to time in the second semester of the third year of high school because of her grandmother's illness. At that time, the college entrance examination was approaching, and the students were still too busy to care for others, and Muzhenxi didn't like to make friends in the first place. People, her absence in class did not attract the attention of her classmates, and Xu Yuanxin helped her keep a secret, so no one in the class knew what happened to her.

Muzhenxi's grades are not bad. I was not weak when I was admitted to the No. [-] Middle School, but I was a little "degenerate" later. With Xiao Jin's one-on-one help, my grades improved very quickly. The problem is, who knows what happened to grandma later, she only passed the second line in the college entrance examination, and she was the only one in the class who only passed the second line.Her family's conditions are very difficult, her parents are both married, and they don't care about her at all. There is only one grandmother who supports her. When the grandmother was not diagnosed with cancer, she was quite old. Anyway, she couldn't afford a child to go to college. Grandma's death was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Xu Yuanxin said: "I saw that child once after the college entrance examination. She was dumbfounded and reacted very slowly, as if she had been drained of her soul. I told her that if she failed the exam this year, she could repeat it for another year. Or stop studying and go to college directly. Although the second book is not as good as the heavy one, it is worse than not studying. If she has no money, I can lend it to her for the time being and pay it back later when I work. There are also part-time jobs in college. It’s nothing more than working hard to help students, and learning can be done.”

Xiao Jin had already expected the result, took two deep breaths, suppressed the hoarseness in her throat, and said, "Did she say she didn't read anymore?"

Mu Zhenxi is a very self-respecting person. He lives in a rented house with his grandmother. At her age, she doesn't make much money. She has to pay rent, manage daily expenses, and support a child to go to school. It's not that easy.Especially after nine years of compulsory education, the cost of going to school in Muzhenxi increased linearly. In order to reduce the burden on her grandmother, she secretly went out to work after school, worked night shifts, couldn't survive the day, slept in class, and was often criticized by the teacher. She was also called to the office. She would rather be criticized than tell the truth to the teacher.If it wasn't such a critical period in the third year of high school, she would have to give the head teacher a legitimate reason for her frequent leave, and I'm afraid she wouldn't even say this.Grandma passed away, she failed the college entrance examination, and she left without saying goodbye. Muzhenxi must have been in despair at that time, so why would she still go to school? No wonder she left the sad place of Lincheng.

Xu Yuanxin sighed: "Yes, she said she didn't want to read it anymore. I persuaded her, but she refused to listen, and there was no news after that." Xu Yuanxin shook his head and sighed regretfully, "I don't know how it is now. Back then It has always been one of my regrets not to persuade her."

Xiao Jin said softly: "It's fine now, I found her."

Xu Yuanxin looked up at her with joy on his face: "Really, what is she doing?"

Xiao Jin said: "It's a serious job, the salary is very high, and we even attended a class reunion a while ago."

Xu Yuanxin smiled gratifiedly: "That's good, as long as she lives well."

Xiao Jin asked: "Teacher, are you free later? May I treat you to dinner?"

Xu Yuanxin looked at his watch and said, "I'm free, but I may have to wait a while. I have something to do here."

Xiao Jin said: "It's okay, you're busy, call me when you're done, and I'll come pick you up."

The two exchanged their current contact information.

Xu Yuanxin looked down at the lesson plan, Xiao Jin went out alone.

She wandered around the campus aimlessly, her mind reminiscing over and over again the time she and Muzhenxi used to have on campus.Muzhenxi has a strong self-esteem and a stubborn temper. Before being divided into arts and sciences, he would play with his classmates, laugh and make trouble, but his eyes were always loose, with a vague sense of distance.Xiao Jin was attracted by her sense of distance and mystery, like a beautiful poppy, luring her closer step by step.After peeling off the disguise of the hard shell, she was the only one who saw the extremely soft, kind and strong heart inside the layers of wrapping.

After Xiao Jin saw it, she was reluctant to let it go. She wanted to monopolize the beauty. She took every step she could, and successfully picked this rose with daunting soft thorns. It was the most extreme thing she ever got in her life. joy.

Xiao Jin looked up at the blue sky above her head, her vision gradually blurred, but she didn't know why she lost this rose for a whole ten years.

If she had never been near Sleeper Creek, perhaps she would not have suffered so much.

She can treat Muzhenxi twice as well, a hundred times and a thousand times, but how can she go back to the past and embrace Muzhenxi who is alone and helpless and crying?

Xiao Jin lowered her head, wiped her eyes hastily twice, and shook her head. The matter has come to this point, and it is meaningless to think about the past.

She regrouped and pulled herself together. Just as she was planning to plan the next thing in her mind, the mobile phone in her pocket rang.

Caller ID: Sleeper Creek.

She used to take advantage of Muzhenxi's connivance to note her girlfriend in the hospital, but she changed it back when she found out they broke up.

The voice of Muzhenxi from the receiver was mature and steady: "My interview is over, do you need me to pick you up?"

Xiao Jin almost burst into tears. Thinking of all these years and how much hardship she has endured to get to where she is today, she couldn't help clenching her teeth, and vaguely felt the smell of blood.

Muzhenxi didn't hear a response, looked at the call interface, and called out again: "Xiao Jin?"

Xiao Jin loosened her teeth, cleared her throat, and replied, "Yes."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "I said my interview is over, how is your place, do you need me to pick you up?"

Xiao Jin said: "I'm going to invite the teacher to dinner, I may have to go back later, do you want to come together?"

"No, then I'll go home first." As expected, Muzhenxi did not agree.

Xiao Jin thought that she probably didn't like this school very much, and didn't like her school days, including herself in it.

Wooden Sleeper Xi paused, and then said: "You can call me before dinner is over, and I will pick you up."

Xiao Jin responded in a low voice: "Okay."

Wooden Sleeper Creek said, "Goodbye."

Xiao Jin replied: "Goodbye."

The phone over there hung up, and there was a beeping busy tone.

Xiao Jin wandered around the school until six o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Yuanxin called her and said that it was time to go out for dinner.It was decided in a neat and clean home-cooked restaurant, Xu Yuanxin refused to let her hire something that was too high-end.

Xiao Jin's memory only lasted to the first semester of the second year of high school, and he got a lot of information from Xu Yuanxin intermittently.She is one of the best students that Xu Yuanxin has ever taught. Xu Yuanxin was very impressed. Even though it has been a long time, the things at that time are still clear and logical.

The host and guest enjoyed a meal.

It was almost nine o'clock, Xu Yuanxin got up and left first, Xiao Jin paid the bill and walked slowly on the road.She didn't call Muzhenxi, she didn't know how to face the other party, she just wanted to delay the time for a while.

At ten o'clock, Muzhenxi's call came.

"have you eaten?"

"just ended."

"Place."

"I'll take a taxi back."

There was a moment of silence over there, and said, "... that's fine."

Then the phone disconnected.

Without continuing to wander around, Xiao Jin stopped a taxi on the side of the road, reported the address of the house, entered the community 10 minutes later, and walked for a while, she stopped and looked up to see the light on Muzhenxi's house. lights.

What do you think our house will look like in the future?

Xiao Jin shook his head.

In the summer vacation of the second year of high school, it was rare for Muzhenxi not to go to work one day and stay with his girlfriend.Xiao Jin nestled on the sofa at home, with her two legs resting on Muzhenxi's leg, and one delicate hand stretched out. Muzhenxi held the nail clippers in her hand, holding her palm and fingers, and patiently and carefully cut her nails , Xiao Jin is a forceful person. Too long nails are uncomfortable, too short are bald, and they grow fast, so they must be cut to a suitable length.Muzhenxi rubbed it for her little by little, and then asked Princess Xiao if it was okay.

Xiao Jin looked at her focused profile, reached out to pinch her only fleshy chin, and said with a smile, "I'm asking you something, answer it quickly."

Wooden Sleeper Creek's voice was low: "Listen to you."

Xiao Jin said displeased: "Can you be a little more assertive? Listen to me for everything."

Mu Zhenxi looked up at her and smiled, thought seriously for a while, and said, "You don't need such a big house, you can't hear the conversation upstairs and downstairs."

Xiao Jin smiled and said, "Then two rooms? Three rooms?"

Mu Zhenxi said: "Two-bedrooms are more economical, but it's better to buy a three-bedroom."

Xiao Jin asked, "Why?"

Muzhenxi bit her lip and remained silent.

Xiao Jin withdrew his hand from her hand, approached her, took time to watch her fair face slowly turn red under his gaze, and teased, "What are you talking about, why are you blushing?"

Wooden Sleeper Creek's lips moved a few times.

Xiao Jin leaned close to her ear and asked, "What did you say?"

Mu Zhenxi looked at her white and tender earlobe which was close at hand, his eyes were slightly warm, and he kissed it.

Xiao Jin was tickled by her kiss, and just about to hide, she heard a soft voice next to her ear: "What if there is a baby in the future?"

Xiao Jin laughed so hard that tears almost came out, and she almost fell off the sofa.

"We are both girls, how can we have a baby?" Xiao Jin touched her hot face and teased, "Xixi baby, did you sleep in biology class before? You will be fined to do ten math papers."

"I didn't sleep!" Muzhenxi immediately declared, then stammered, "I, I didn't mean that."

Xiao Jin calmly asked, "Then what do you mean?"

Muzhenxi looked at her for a long time, hesitated to speak, and finally lowered his head in embarrassment: "Stop talking."

There is a threshold for Muzhenxi's shyness. Before the threshold, it's okay to be teased. Xiao Jin never tires of it, and takes testing her bottom line as a long-term goal.Once the critical value was exceeded, Xiao Jin had to reap the consequences and coax people back with a good voice.

……

A passing neighbor gave Xiao Jin a strange look, Xiao Jin let out a breath, moved her pace, and walked towards home.

Fingerprints, passwords, skillfully unlock the door, enter the door, and turn on the lights.

The living room was empty.

Xiao Jin shouted towards the closed study door: "I'm back."

Three seconds later, footsteps were heard from inside, the study door was opened, and a slender figure of a woman appeared in the light: "I'm back."

Mu Zhenxi felt that Xiao Jin's gaze was different from the past, as if he had never seen her before, he took a deep look at her.

Muzhenxi crossed his arms and leaned against the door frame without going back: "What did you talk to the teacher about?"

Xiao Jin hung the bag on the hanger at the door, turned her neck, pulled out a natural smile, and said, "Just talk about some interesting things from the student days, and he also said that the students are getting smarter and less intelligent now. It's easy to bring."

Muzhenxi: "Nowadays children are well nourished, and of course their brains are turning fast."

Xiao Jin blinked: "But the teacher said that he never met anyone smarter than me."

Muzhenxi couldn't help but bend the corner of his mouth and said, "Narcissism."

Xiao Jin laughed along.

The two chatted at a distance, and Xiao Jin found that this could reduce Muzhenxi's resistance, so he simply stayed in the living room, talking to Muzhenxi once in a while.

After chatting about some irrelevant things, Xiao Jin tentatively said: "The teacher still talked about you."

She held her breath.

Wooden Sleeper Creek replied quickly: "What are you talking about?"

Xiao Jin was slightly relieved, and said after consideration: "You say that you are not good at communicating with people. I am afraid that you will suffer in society. I wonder if you are better now?"

Muzhenxi smiled and said: "How long ago did this happen, I have many friends now, do you think I don't know how to communicate with people?"

Xiao Jin turned her back to her: "That's good, next time I meet the teacher, I can talk to him."

She also wanted to find another topic to make a side note, and Mu Zhenxi said: "I haven't finished the painting at hand, so I'll go back first, you should take a shower early and go to bed."

Xiao Jin didn't want her to leave so soon, so she hurriedly said, "Work."

"Oh." Muzhenxi pointed his forehead with his fingers and smiled, "I almost forgot to tell you that I am not very satisfied with this company today, so I plan to write back and refuse, and I will go to another company tomorrow to have a look."

"When?"

"It's afternoon too."

"it is good."

"I'll take you to the hospital for an MRI the day after tomorrow. Don't ask anyone out."

Xiao Jin laughed suddenly: "How can I have a date?"

"Let me know in advance." Mu Zhenxi said calmly, she thought to herself, why don't you just invite the teacher to dinner today, in case you invite another classmate or make new friends, it is not impossible, I am a necessary reminder.

"I promise." Xiao Jin made a swear gesture.

Muzhenxi looked at her and said, "You don't have to be so serious."

The door of the study was closed again, Xiao Jin nestled into the sofa, hugged the pillow, broke apart every word Muzhenxi said, and chewed until the sweetness at the root of the tongue melted into the heart give up.

While taking a bath, she thought again, Muzhenxi once told her the most crucial point, that they quarreled and broke up before going abroad, why did they quarrel?Is it related to her parents?

Xiao Jin didn't lie to Muzhenxi last time. The two numbers she remembered were either changed or empty, and there was really no way to get through.But if you have to contact her parents, there is no way.

Xiao Jin had her cousin Lu Ling's number in her hand, she couldn't find it, but Lu Ling could definitely find them both.

Xiao Jin came out of the bathroom wiping her hair, sat on the bed in the bedroom, and hesitated for the number in the address book: Do you really want to find her parents?Why is there such resistance in my heart, even to the point of disgust.

Now that the numbers have been deleted, have you broken with your parents?

Xiao Jin didn't make up her mind until she dried her hair. She lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling above her head in a daze.

dong dong.

The door rang, and the only one in the family who would knock on her door was Muzhenxi.

Xiao Jin unbuttoned four buttons on the neckline of her pajamas, and opened it almost to her waist. After adjusting carefully, she changed into a posture of sitting on the bed and reading a book, and said lazily, "Come in."

Muzhenxi glanced at her, and immediately looked away as if being burned, and said, "I'll get a new towel."

Xiao Jin suppressed a smile in her heart, and said calmly: "Take it, is it in the cabinet?"

"Yes." Muzhenxi walked to the cabinet without looking sideways, took out new bath towels and towels from the top shelf, and turned to leave.

Xiao Jin called her to stop: "Muzhenxi, do you dream at night?"

I don't know the reason why Xiao Jin asked this question, but Mu Zhenxi immediately remembered that erotic dream, and immediately became unwell, trying to maintain his composure: "Why do you ask this?"

Xiao Jin was just looking for something to say, and wanted to talk to her a few more words, but unexpectedly, this question seemed to be a pleasant surprise.She immediately became interested, and asked, "Do you know how to dream? What kind of dreams are they usually?"

Muzhenxi lied: "I dreamed of falling from a high place." According to folklore, dreaming of falling from a high place means that you are growing your body.

Xiao Jincao said: "How old are you, and how old are you?"

Mentioning this Xiao Jin made everyone angry, obviously when she met Muzhenxi, they were the same height, but later on, Muzhenxi grew taller and taller, fully half a head taller than her.

Muzhenxi obviously thought of this too, turned around and smiled, his teeth were extremely white and conspicuous, and said proudly: "28, scurrying around, what are you doing? Are you jealous?"

Xiao Jin raised the pillow in her hand, put it down, and said, "My height is just right, why should I be jealous of you?"

The corner of Muzhenxi's mouth curled down, and he whispered, "The dead duck has a hard mouth."

In the past, Muzhenxi was often pinched by Xiao Jin because of his sudden jump. Xiao Jin's pinching was really painful, and he pinched wherever the flesh was tender. Muzhenxi's skin was thin, white, and transparent, and every pinch left a mark.After pinching Xiao Jin, he regretted it and kissed wherever he pinched, which tortured Muzhenxi to the point of failure.

Xiao Jin asked sharply, "What did you say?"

Muzhenxi restrained her overly bright smile and said, "It's nothing, I'm going to take a bath."

Xiao Jin chased after her going out and added: "Don't grow any longer, do you hear me?" No matter how long it is, you have to stand on tiptoe for kissing, and even touch your head with difficulty.

"That's not something I can decide, I'll try my best." Muzhenxi smiled and closed the door.

Xiao Jin was in a good mood, and rolled a few times on the bed, covering her face with the pillow to cover her laughter.

On the other side, after Muzhenxi took a shower and looked in the mirror, he realized that he had been humming. It was "True Love" that Xiao Jin had been talking about for the past two days. up.

Singing and singing, the corners of the woman's grinning mouth reaching to the ears in the mirror slowly returned to normal curvature, Mu Zhenxi looked at the mirror for a long time, and slowly suppressed the turbulent mood.

Can't get stuck in it anymore.

She closed her eyes, exhaled lightly, carried the clothes that were placed in the bathroom to the balcony, washed them in a basin of cold water, and poured a basin of cold water on her brain to cool down.

Muzhenxi returned to the living room, turned off the lights, lay down on the ground, covered her with a quilt, and closed her eyes to sleep.

Xiao Jin woke up once in the middle of the night, got up to go to the bathroom, and drank too much when eating with the teacher at night.She was planning to go back to sleep, but she turned her eyes to the direction of the living room, but she couldn't move her footsteps.

Why don't you take a look at Wooden Sleeper Creek?

As soon as this idea came out, Xiao Jin had already walked over. With the weak light at night, Xiao Jin saw Muzhenxi lying on the ground and sleeping soundly, breathing gently.

Xiao Jin thought about just taking one look, and when she really saw it, she wanted to take a second look and get closer. When she regained her senses, she was already sitting next to Muzhenxi, and her index finger was about to touch her warm lips.

Xiao Jin withdrew her hand and stroked her face through the air, with a satisfied smile in her eyes.

She was sneaky, but Mu Zhenxi suddenly opened her eyes, and Xiao Jin was so frightened that her heart almost stopped and she didn't dare to move.

Muzhenxi sighed helplessly: "Why are you here again?"

Xiao Jin: "???"

The author has something to say: Xi Bao, who thought he had a dream again: What tricks do you have?

Jin Bao was then pushed down in a daze.