be safe

Ever since Xiao Jin entered, Lu Xiaojun has been running around in the living room like a headless chicken. She believes that Xiao Jin can handle other things by herself, and can handle them well, but Lu Xiaojun dare not imagine any possibility when it involves Wooden Sleeper Creek. what happened.

After all, they had already seen it back then, Xiao Jin would do anything for Muzhenxi.

If they had understood this sooner, they wouldn't have...

Lu Xiaoyun walked lightly, fearing that Xiao Jin would find out, so she carefully placed her ears on the bedroom door.It's an old house, and although the sound insulation is not too bad, it's not that good either. Lu Xiaoyun stuck her ears to the door, and finally heard the heart-piercing cry coming from inside.

Lu Xiaoyun's eye sockets became wet all of a sudden.

She raised her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes, and stood silently at the door with her head bowed, without leaving.

I don't know how long it took, it might be half an hour, or it might be longer, Lu Xiaoyun's feet were numb, the crying inside gradually weakened, and then there was the sound of the chair touching the ground.

Lu Xiaoyun's heart skipped a beat.

Then there was no sound at all.

Lu Xiaoyun found a spare key, and opened the door directly. Xiao Jin lay unconscious on the ground, her face was covered with tears, her brows were twisted together in pain, and a shocking blush appeared on her forehead.

Lu Xiaoyun didn't call 120, as if it was commonplace, she helped Xiao Jin from the ground to the bed, moved a chair and sat beside her quietly watching, held Xiao Jin's hand, it was cold at first, and hurriedly used both hands together covered.

Only when Xiao Jin was sleeping soundly, could Lu Xiaojun get so "boldly" close to her daughter.

Her eyes fell on Xiao Jin's pale and haggard face, gradually moved up, and fixed on Xiao Jin's left forehead, where there was an old scar, it had been too long, if you don't look carefully, you can hardly see it.

Lu Xiaoyun knew how that scar came about, and it was also that time that Xiao Jin suffered from a persistent headache, and it was so painful that she couldn't live without it.

Lu Xiaoyun looked at it, and suddenly frowned slowly.She gently pushed aside the hair on Xiao Jin's forehead, checked it carefully, and showed a look of surprise: Why did a new wound appear on the old scar, and even the traces of the stitched wound were faintly visible. ?

Startled, Lu Xiaoyun sent a message to Father Xiao.

Father Xiao replied: [Ask her first, if she doesn't tell me, I'll ask someone to check]

Lu Xiaoyun: [OK]

Xiao Jin lay there for four hours, her fingers hanging on the quilt moved slightly, she suddenly opened her eyes, jumped up from the bed, her chest heaved sharply, and her back was drenched in cold sweat.

"Did you have a nightmare?" A gentle voice came from the front.

Xiao Jin shrank back a bit, saw that the person in front of her was Lu Xiaoyun, and nodded.Immediately afterwards, the memory before she fainted came back, her eyes suddenly opened wide, and she looked at the desk.

Lu Xiaoyun guessed what she was thinking, and said reassuringly, "It's still there."

Without saying a word, Xiao Jin threw off the quilt and got out of bed, folded the letters spread out on the table one by one in order, put them in a bag, and was about to leave with her arms in her arms.

Lu Xiaoyun called her to stop her going out: "Wait a moment."

Xiao Jin turned her head and asked with indifferent eyes: Is there anything else?

The appearance of these letters once again aroused Xiao Jin's hidden pain, and the relationship between them was probably about to drop to freezing point again.Lu Xiaoyun suppressed the overwhelming bitterness in her heart, tried her best to use a gentle tone, and asked calmly: "What's the matter with the scar on your forehead?"

Xiao Jin squinted at her, and said sharply, "It hit me."

Lu Xiaoyun said: "I'm not asking about ten years ago, I'm asking about the new one."

Xiao Jin still said, "It hit me."

Lu Xiaoyun was speechless.

Xiao Jin didn't want to stay here for a minute longer, she waited for three seconds, Lu Xiaoyun didn't speak any more, and strode towards the door with quick strides.

Lu Xiaoyun endured it, but couldn't hold back, and finally shouted at her back: "Do you really want to hate me and your father forever? What must you do to forgive us?"

Xiao Jin stopped.

After a long time, she sneered, curled the corner of her lower lip mockingly, and said, "Forgive me?"

It seems to be speaking to Lu Xiaoyun, but also to myself.

Xiao Jin's eyes filled with tears.

She doesn't even know how to forgive herself, let alone others?

The dull sound of closing the door sounded in the living room, and Lu Xiaoyun couldn't wait for any reply from Xiao Jin, she slumped down on the sofa, covering her face with her hands.

***

It was noon when Xiao Jin came, and it was already night when he returned. Although the spring was cold, but the moon was bright and the stars were few, it was a rare good weather.

She unbuttoned her coat and held the letters in her arms, as if she could touch the lonely and helpless Wooden Sleeper Creek after a long time.She was distracted when she entered the community, and by the time she realized it, she was already standing downstairs in Muzhenxi's house.

She looked up and counted up from floor to floor. The lights in Muzhenxi's house were on, and she probably got off work on time today.

Xiao Jin didn't leave, and slowly sat down on a bench not far from the gate downstairs, her eyes were blank, she didn't know what to do, she didn't even know what to think, she just sat like this, as if to let her A little warmth returned to the cold heart.

Just get closer to her.

The wind poured in from the neckline, and the limbs could still feel the cold. Xiao Jin curled herself up like a small animal.Neighbors passing by all cast surprised glances at her, but Xiao Jin turned a blind eye to them all.

If it wasn't for Mu Zhenxi who suddenly came out of the building and stood in front of her, she would probably sit here until dawn.

***

Mu Zhenxi propped his hands on the sink in the company's bathroom, looked at the tearful woman in the mirror with strange eyes, until he returned to normal, then lowered his head and scooped up cold water with both hands, letting it flow from his fingers After cleaning up, I briefly applied a cold compress to my eyes with wet palms.

She returned to the office peacefully, but Corgi's sister didn't dare to look at her directly, and secretly looked at her with her eyes, but she was shot back by Muzhenxi.

At the beginning of the work, he was a little absent-minded, and Mu Zhenxi kept his eyes on the computer, and slowly regained his working state.

I just worked overtime crazily for a while a year ago, and I haven't been so rushed these few days after the new year. It is rare for Muzhenxi to get home from work on time. On the way, I went to the supermarket to buy beef brisket, planning to cook a big dish to reward myself.

The task that Xiao Jin gave Yin Xiaoli was actually quite simple. Even if Xiao Jin didn't ask her, when Yin Xiaoli knew about her and Xiao Jin's progress, she would not be able to resist asking. Now it can only be said that it is ahead of schedule.

On the first day of the first day of the new year, Muzhenxi sent Xiao Jin home. In the next few days of vacation, Xiao Jin tentatively asked Muzhenxi for dinner, but was rejected by the other party because he wanted to sleep at home.

Yin Xiaoli couldn't reveal that she had a close relationship with Xiao Jin, so she had no choice but to hold on to Muzhenxi why she slept so late on the first day of junior high school, and finally got the answer from Muzhenxi that she went to the train station to pick up Xiao Jin as she wished. .

"What do you think?" Yin Xiaoli began to ask around.

"What do you think?" Mu Zhenxi pretended to be confused, her mind was in a mess, and she didn't want to answer any questions about Xiao Jin.

"Just Dr. Xiao, you obviously have a lot of feelings for her, have you been copying scriptures more and more crazily lately?" Yin Xiaoli teased her.

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

Yin Xiaoli: "I'm not talking about you. You have to draw and make plans during the day, and copy scriptures at night. Take it easy. If you are overworked, it won't work when you need to use it in the future. What should you do?" ?”

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

Mu Zhenxi turned on her mobile phone hands-free, and handled the ingredients bought in the supermarket by herself, and decided to treat Yin Xiaoli's babbling as the background sound just like before, and listen to it loudly, but not mind.

Yin Xiaoli babbled for a while, and Muzhenxi began to respond absent-mindedly with "um", "ah" and "yes", knowing that he was wasting half a day of saliva here.

But it's not all fruitless. In the past, Mu Zhenxi loved to listen to her, a veteran in love, talk about her experience in love. Now she behaves like this, which means that she is not calm in her heart. Yin Xiaoli, who reasoned backwards, thinks this is also considered good progress.

Yin Xiaoli took a sip of water: "Actually, it's not that I can't understand you. It's good to let the past go, but it depends on what it is, you..."

She stopped talking and left a blank: "In short, if you have any doubts in your mind, or if you can't figure out something, call me, two cobblers, be Zhuge Liang."

After finishing speaking, Mu Zhenxi breathed a sigh of relief, and just about to hang up, Yin Xiaoli hesitated, and took the initiative to explain: "Actually... I told Dr. Xiao one thing."

Muzhenxi was silent for a while, and said, "Is it something you believe in?"

Yin Xiaoli was surprised: "You know?"

Muzhenxi said: "I didn't know at first, but you hesitated just now and guessed it."

Yin Xiaoli said: "I just remembered it suddenly, and felt that she has a deep affection for you. If I received the letter back then, it would be impossible not to come to you. I wonder if there is some misunderstanding in it."

Muzhenxi hummed lightly: "She told me, but she didn't receive it."

"She told you—" Yin Xiaoli's voice suddenly rose an octave, and then suddenly suppressed, "She even told you this, what is the situation between you two now?"

Muzhenxi turned on the faucet, rinsed his hands under the water, and said calmly: "It's okay, I will send and send text messages occasionally."

Yin Xiaoli rubbed her hands: "The kind that say good morning and good night to each other every day?"

Muzhenxi frowned: "No, I only talk when I have something to do."

Yin Xiaoli curled her lips in disappointment.

Mu Zhenxi glanced at the bottles and cans on the cooking table, wiped off the water on the scarf, and said to Yin Xiaoli on the other end of the phone: "I'm going out to buy a bottle of light soy sauce, we'll talk next time."

Yin Xiaoli said insightfully: "I think you just think I'm nagging."

"No, how can I? A child doesn't think his mother is ugly, and a dog doesn't think his family is poor." Mu Zhenxi laughed and said, "I really want to go out to buy soy sauce. My beef brisket is waiting to be cooked."

Yin Xiaoli showed mercy: "Go, go."

Wooden Sleeper Xi untied the apron, hung it on the hook on the wall, put on a coat by the door, and went out.You don't need to go to a big supermarket to buy soy sauce, there is a 24-hour convenience store at the entrance of the community. A woman's figure flashed in her mind, and she pressed the elevator button.

Howling with hunger, Muzhenxi opened the door downstairs, walked out without looking sideways, and hurried past the figure with his head bowed on the bench.

It wasn't until she walked four or five meters away that she suddenly stopped and looked back in disbelief.

"Xiao Jin?" She walked up to the other party and softly called the other party's name.Slightly bent down to look at Xiao Jin's hair top, the white earlobes covered by the hair, and the soft facial lines.

Xiao Jin was startled, raised her head, and the moment she saw Muzhenxi, her pupils shrank suddenly, and then she curled her feet under the chair, as if she was afraid, but also seemed at a loss.

Her cheeks and lips were pale from the cold wind, her thin shoulders became thinner because of the trembling, and the helpless eyes made Muzhenxi's heart shrink slightly, and pain surged.

Muzhenxi softened his voice and asked, "Why are you here?"

Xiao Jin just woke up from a dream and just realized it. She stood up and was about to leave.

She got up too hastily, and Muzhenxi stood in front of her, leaving her with a narrower space. As soon as she stood up, she fell back uncontrollably. Muzhenxi stretched out his arms reflexively, wrapped her waist, and held her Brought into his arms.

Xiao Jin's whole body was frozen like a human-shaped ice cube. He originally wanted to let go of her wooden pillow creek, and with a jerk, his hands rested on her lower back, hugging her a little tighter.

Soon she felt the strangeness of this hug. Xiao Jin was bulging in front of her. Muzhenxi looked down through the street lamp, and saw a bag of letters, very ordinary yellow envelopes.

Mu Zhenxi made a good guess, raised his head and rested his chin on the top of Xiao Jin's soft hair, rubbed it gently, and sighed inwardly.

Xiao Jin was immersed in such warmth for only three seconds, and broke free from her embrace.

Muzhenxi stared at her lowered eyelids, and finally said, "You don't have to blame yourself so much." In a very soft tone.

Xiao Jin didn't speak.

"It's been many years. If you don't mention it, even I will almost forget about it." I changed my tone relaxed.

Xiao Jin remained silent.

After Mu Zhenxi finished these two sentences, he searched his stomach and held back a sentence that was neither painful nor itchy: "I'm going to buy soy sauce now, will you come with me?" Will this make Xiao Jin happier?She guessed anxiously.

Xiao Jin never raised her eyes.

Mu Zhenxi had no choice but to grab Xiao Jin's wrist forcibly and take her away from this place.Xiao Jin lowered her eyes and followed her obediently step by step, like a walking dead.

Muzhenxi was anxious and looked back at her from time to time, always feeling like something was going to happen.

Arriving at the door of the convenience store without any risk, Mu Zhenxi still didn't let go, like holding a child, pulled Xiao Jin to stand in front of the shelf, and asked softly, "What brand of soy sauce do you like? Haitian or Lee Kum Kee?"

Xiao Jin raised her eyelashes bluntly, and the light above her head fell into her eyes.

Mu Zhenxi's eyes lit up suddenly, and he raised his voice: "Haitian, Lee Kum Kee? Which one do you like?"

A customer next to him looked over with a mentally retarded look.

Xiao Jin held the plastic bag containing the envelope in one hand, and the other hand was in Muzhenxi's hand. She had no hand to point, so she said, "Haitian." Her voice was very hoarse, like a mosquito, and she had to get close to her to get it. Listen clearly.

Muzhenxi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard her voice, as long as he can speak.

Mu Zhenxi took a bottle of Haitian light soy sauce from the shelf, led Xiao Jin to the counter, glanced at it, reached out and took two packs of Skittles, and paid the bill together.

She sent Xiao Jin to the second building, stuffed Skittles into her coat pocket, and patted it lightly: "Go home and sleep, you'd better take a hot bath first, or you'll catch a cold easily." She touched again Touching Xiao Jin's face and ears, he couldn't help covering her with warm hands, and watched her enter the building.

Muzhenxi waved to her from outside the door and smiled at her.

Xiao Jin then raised the corner of her mouth, turned and walked towards the elevator entrance.

Muzhenxi waited until her figure disappeared, sighed softly, rubbed his brows and eyes with a heavy tired look, and walked in the direction of home.

Mu Zhenxi put the soy sauce in the kitchen, and looked at the windows of Xiao Jin's house from the bay window, it was dark.

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "???"

what happened?Didn't people go back?

She didn't care too much, took out her cell phone and called Xiao Jin, it rang until it hung up automatically, but no one answered.

Muzhenxi cursed a curse word in a low voice, and just entered the house, the coat that still had the owner's body temperature was put back on his body again, and Muzhenxi went out again, calling Xiao Jin's number non-stop.

She didn't answer any of them.

well.

Muzhenxi sneered in her heart, when she found her, she had to... pinch her face hard twice.

Muzhenxi rushed in the direction of Building 2, and met Xiao Jin on the way. The letters were gone in her arms, and a ginger scarf was wrapped around her neck. Judging from the direction she came, she should be heading towards her home.

Muzhenxi and her met halfway, Muzhenxi's thoughts of pinching her face disappeared, and Xiao Jin looked up at her.

Wooden Sleeper Creek didn't speak.

Xiao Jin didn't speak either.

After a while of silence, Muzhenxi asked her, "Where are you going?"

Xiao Jin said, "Go and sit downstairs at your house."

"You have to sit there in winter?" Muzhenxi said, "Are you sick?"

"Yeah." Xiao Jin admitted, "I'm sick." She also said, "Leave me alone." Her expression was very calm, no longer the sluggishness she had when Muzhenxi saw her just now, as if after careful consideration.

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

She didn't know how to answer her words.

Xiao Jin continued to walk forward, passing her by.

Muzhenxi turned back, followed her footsteps, and ordered: "You go back to me now, do you hear me?"

Xiao Jin ignored it.

Muzhenxi said earnestly: "With your body, you will catch a cold."

Xiao Jin didn't answer.

Muzhenxi pondered for a while, and said, "Are you a trick?"

Xiao Jin seemed to want to laugh a little, an upward arc reached the corner of her lips, and disappeared before it could take shape.

Muzhenxi stated in advance: "I will not soften my heart."

Xiao Jin really smiled this time, and the smile was shallow: "It's not a trick, and you must not be soft-hearted to me."

During the conversation, the two had already returned to the 17th building. Xiao Jin sat down on the bench and said, "Leave me alone for a while."

Muzhenxi stood still.

Xiao Jin raised her head helplessly, with a much more lively expression than before, and said, "I have something to think about, and you will disturb me here."

Muzhenxi asked: "What are you thinking about?" Do you have to think in this freezing place?

Xiao Jin looked directly into her eyes and said, "I miss you."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

Covered by the dim street lamps, the old Muzhenxi blushed and walked away immediately.

Looking at her back, Xiao Jin couldn't help but twitched the corners of her lower lips, then pulled the scarf up, covering half of her face, and lowered her eyes in thought.

Muzhenxi scratched his head upstairs, and opened the windows of each room to see if there was any window that could see the downstairs. Unfortunately, none of them could be seen, even if they could be seen, it was separated by 33 floors The people below are just as small as ants, useless.

Xiao Jin is such a big person, she can sit for a while, and there won't be any bad people in the community. Why are you so anxious to get angry?

Muzhenxi finished the psychological training for himself, and went to burn the beef brisket with peace of mind. Stewing the beef brisket was time-consuming. Muzhenxi estimated that the fire was almost medium, so he turned the fire to a low fire, and went downstairs to peek outside through the glass door.

An hour passed, and Xiao Jin still hadn't left, exactly the same as the sitting posture she had just gone upstairs.

She won't really sit all night, will she?

Mu Zhenxi frowned and went back upstairs. She began to suspect that those letters were actually written by Xiao Jin, not her. Why did the two seem to be separated?Shouldn't it be Xiao Jin who comforted her?Although she no longer needs comfort.

Muzhenxi leaned against the edge of the kitchen counter, looked at the light blue flame of the gas stove, and bent his lips.

Then again, after Xiao Jin's tossing, the heavy feeling that Mu Zhenxi had on his heart when he came back from the company today has been swept away, and all he can think about is how to get Xiao Jin back to normal.

Xiao Jin and her personality are completely opposite. She is cold outside and hot inside. As long as someone enters her heart, Muzhenxi will confide in her heart and never hide anything. She was like this to Xiao Jin in the past, especially after her grandmother was hospitalized, she took Xiao Jin to the hospital. Jin became the only one to rely on.

Xiao Jin is hot on the outside and cold on the inside, she treats people with kindness and kindness, and is very popular everywhere, but only she knows what is going on in her heart.Even if she fell in love with Muzhenxi later, she is also the absolute controller in this relationship, she can do whatever she says, and let Muzhenxi do what Muzhenxi does, and she won't say the reason behind it.

Mu Zhenxi would ask at the beginning, but there was no answer after asking, or the answers were just made up by Xiao Jin, and over time, both of them got used to this way of getting along.

Usually it's fine, but whenever an earth-shattering event occurs, the great disadvantages will be exposed.If the two of them could sit down and communicate calmly back then, it is very likely that they would not have a disastrous breakup in the end.

The beef brisket stewed in the pot was almost done. Mu Zhenxi lifted the lid of the pot to take a look, took a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick barrel, and tasted the potatoes and beef brisket respectively. The stew was so crispy and soft that it melted in the mouth.

Just a little hot, Muzhenxi fanned his mouth with his hands.

There were other processed ingredients on the marble table next to his hand. Muzhenxi looked at it and sighed.She turned off the heat, put it in a bowl from the rice cooker, measured two bowls of rice, poured it directly into the small pot of stewed beef brisket, covered the pot, put a clean rag on the bottom, and put it on the On the countertop of the porch, I washed two spoons and came out, wrapping them in paper towels.

She stared at the pot and spoon at the door in a daze for a while, and thought resignedly: Probably she owed Xiao Jin in her previous life.

Muzhenxi went downstairs with the pot in his hand, and sat on the seat next to Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin was taken aback: "Why do you..."

Mu Zhenxi didn't look at her, lowered his head to fiddle with the handle of the pot, and asked lightly, "Have you had dinner yet?"

"No." Xiao Jin naturally saw a pot on her lap, and through the transparent glass cover, she could see the rice soaked in golden yellow soup. Xiao Jin, who hadn't eaten for almost a whole day, cried out in her stomach. With a sound.

Wooden pillow Xixin said: I tell you to be brave.

Xiao Jin couldn't believe it and thought: Is this a dinner for me?

Muzhenxi tilted his head and gave her a sly smile: "Then you should be hungry."

Xiao Jin: "..."

Muzhenxi deliberately slowed down, and lifted the lid of the pot bit by bit. The crispy beef brisket was full of juice, and the bright yellow potatoes were stewed soft. breathe.

She swallowed without a trace.

Mu Zhenxi took out a stainless steel spoon from his coat pocket, and under Xiao Jin's eager gaze, mixed the rice and potato brisket together. The rice that was originally only stained with soup was completely blended with the others. Under the illumination of the street lamp, Gives off an alluring light.

It happened that a neighbor passed by, and when he smelled the overbearing and strong aroma, he immediately stared over, accusing the two madmen of poisoning in the middle of the night, and then quickly slipped away.

Muzhenxi shook the spoon in her hand, as if she was holding a cat teaser, she tilted her head, and looked at Xiao Jin leisurely: "Do you want to eat?"

Xiao Jin's throat slipped, and she said very spinelessly, "...Eat."