be safe

Xiao Jin supported Wooden Sleeper Creek, limped to sit on the sofa, and carefully took off her socks.

The little finger was red, and taking advantage of the snow-white skin around it, it was even more shocking.

Xiao Jin gently blew on it, and said while feeling distressed: "I want you to not walk properly."

"I was wrong, wasn't that careless?" Muzhenxi gasped.

After drying the sofa for a while, Xiao Jin checked her again, poking around the finger back and forth, "Does it hurt here?"

It doesn't hurt.

Xiao Jin felt relieved.

She went to the study room to turn off the computer and forgot the bag, and Mu Zhenxi was relieved for the time being. She knew that the way to prevent Xiao Jin from being suspicious was to forget that there was a ring in the bag in front of her, so she couldn't see it at a glance. Do not look towards the door.

Xiao Jin urged her to take a bath. While taking a bath by the wooden pillow stream, she thought about where to hide the ring at home, on the top of the bookshelf?In the TV cabinet?It was still the bedside table, she calculated the risk of hiding everywhere, but she didn't expect that she didn't make any room until she went to bed at night.

Xiao Jin was in the bedroom, but she had to call her from time to time, and when she called Mu Zhenxi, her heart skipped a beat, fearing that she would appear behind her in the next second, and she retracted her strided legs.

The next morning, Muzhenxi went to work with the ring intact.

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "..."

Xiao Jin received an invitation from Lu Xiaojun again, asking her to have dinner at night.Xiao Jin said that Muzhenxi was not free, and Lu Xiaoyun said that it was only natural to invite her to have a meal with the family of three.

After dinner, the three of them took a walk around the river. Lu Xiaoyun said, "We will fly back to City B tomorrow night."

"Tomorrow night?" Xiao Jin was very surprised. They had nothing to do in Lincheng, so why did they take the evening flight.

"Yes." Lu Xiaoyun's eyes were shining brightly, and she almost said "Can you send us to the plane"?

"What time is it?"

"Nine o'clock."

"Then I'll take you to the airport." Xiao Jin nodded.

"Xiaomu, she..."

Xiao Jin raised her eyes, showing a slightly surprised expression, because it was her father who asked the question, not Lu Xiaoyun.

"She works overtime."

"Are you so busy? Will you have no time to accompany you?"

"will not."

"She's playing games now, isn't she?" Father Xiao didn't say much when we met last time, but he listened to everything he needed to hear.

"Yes."

Father Xiao pondered: "Why don't you let her change to an easier job, our family doesn't lack the money she needs to go to work."

Xiao Jin's face darkened.

Lu Xiaoyun tugged at her husband's arm, and hurriedly said to Xiao Jin, "Your father means—"

Xiao Jin interrupted her: "I know what he means."

Lu Xiaoyun said nonchalantly, "Don't get me wrong, you and her, you can do whatever you want, we will definitely not interfere."

Xiao Jin responded with a very calm expression: "Yes."

***

Xiao Jinwo was in the living room watching a martial arts movie, "Once Upon a Time", the TV was buzzing loudly, Mu Zhenxi hung up the bag with the ring hidden in it again, and sat beside her, Xiao Jin spontaneously lay down to sleep on her lap.

"Tomorrow night, I'll drop off the plane to my parents."

"Do you want me to ask for leave to accompany you?"

"No, I'll go by myself, I guess you'll be back before get off work."

Xiao Jin turned over and turned her face down.

Muzhenxi caressed her ears, and said softly: "Did you not have a good chat at night, so depressed?"

Xiao Jin tapped her forehead on her leg and repeated what his father said.

"I think he is still the same as before, but he changed the object from me to you."

"What does that matter? He said it anyway, we don't listen to it." Mu Zhenxi also felt that her father was a bit too much, but now the main focus is to comfort Xiao Jin, "Your family is so rich, I can't wait to hug you What about your thighs, you will eat at home every day and wait to die."

"I don't really want to meet them anymore." Xiao Jin said sullenly, not being amused by her.

"Then I won't see you." Muzhenxi leaned on her.

Xiao Jin lay on the ground for a while, thinking about it, and said lazily: "I haven't bathed yet, put some water in the bath for me."

When Mu Zhenxi heard this, his eyes lit up, Xiao Jin took a bath, wouldn't he have a chance to hide the ring?She had already figured out where to hide it.

Muzhenxi put water for Xiao Jin, tested the water temperature, waited for her to lie down, got up and walked out, with brisk steps.Xiao Jin suddenly stopped her: "Where are you going? Won't you accompany me?"

Muzhenxi calmly found an excuse: "I'm going to turn on the computer, the company's business has not been dealt with yet."

It wasn't the first time Muzhenxi brought work home, Xiao Jin did not doubt him: "Then you go."

"Call directly if you have something to do. The study door is open, so I can hear you."

"Okay." Xiao Jin scooped up a handful of water and poured it onto her arms.

Wooden Sleeper Creek gently closed the bathroom door.

Nervously, she hid the ring. In order to create the illusion that she was at work, she actually turned on the computer, logged into the mailbox, opened a recent email, and put it on the computer page.

After Xiao Jin finished washing, she came to find her. In front of Xiao Jin, she closed the window, shut down the computer, and went to take a shower. Everything was handled seamlessly.

The only question is when to propose?Why do you ask?Just thinking about it makes my hair fall out.

"Ask her out for a candlelight dinner. When you're leaving after eating, take advantage of her unpreparedness and kneel down on one knee haha." Yin Xiaoli gave her advice.

"Is this romantic?" Wooden Sleeper Creek sounds quite ordinary, and it's played like this on TV.

"The atmosphere is quite romantic." Yin Xiaoli said, "This is my personal experience. If he paid a wad of money at that time, I might be happier and I wouldn't break up."

"Vulgar, vulgar."

"Either the movie theater is reserved?"

Mu Zhenxi took out his mobile phone to check the latest movies released, and the good ones were either police or sci-fi, which were not suitable for the atmosphere of a marriage proposal.And I heard that there is surveillance in the movie theater, and the staff can see it. It's weird that she proposed under the surveillance of others.

Being rejected again, Yin Xiaoli was silent for a few seconds and said, "Hot air balloon?"

"Will it be unsafe?" Muzhenxi asked worriedly.

This doesn't work or that doesn't work, Yin Xiaoli broke the jar and said, "I think you might as well take her out for an outing. In the wilderness, there is no one. You can come here right after you propose." A wave, open air, so exciting."

Muzhenxi laughed and cursed: "Get lost."

But Yin Xiaoli's words suddenly gave her inspiration. She remembered that Xiao Jin mentioned to her last time that she wanted to travel, and proposing marriage during the trip sounded better than some western restaurants and movie theaters.

She initially planned to come down, and then began to plan when to take her annual leave.

Because Xiao Jin said it before, Xiao Jin didn't become suspicious when Mu Zhenxi asked, but just said: "I guess it won't happen soon, Qi Yin is coming."

Unison?

"When will she come?" Muzhenxi only heard her name, but never saw her.

"In another two weeks." Xiao Jin turned the pen in her hand, with the notebook spread out on her lap, "I was supposed to come over this week, but the case in hand was not finished, and it was delayed for a week."

"What does she like to eat?" Qi Yin said that he came to see the two of them, but in fact it was mainly to meet Mu Zhenxi.

"I like to eat Chinese food, and I prefer Sichuan food."

"I know there's an authentic Sichuan restaurant, I'll order it in advance." Mu Zhenxi immediately wrote it down in the memo.

"There's no need to be so nervous." Xiao Jin laughed looking at her solemn expression.

"I'm not nervous." While talking, Mu Zhenxi deleted the wrong words and re-entered.

"Anyway, no one else can affect me."

"It's your business that you like me, and it's my business for me to win your friend's liking." Wooden Sleeper Xi said seriously.

"Okay, okay." Xiao Jin smiled, not arguing with her.

Mu Zhenxi finished writing the memo, and double-safely set an event reminder, then curiously poked his head over to look at the notebook in front of Xiao Jin: "What are you writing?"

Xiao Jin tilted the notebook and showed it to her.

It is a simple plan with several locations written, all of which are relatively well-known tourist attractions in China.

Muzhenxi said happily: "Is this the place we are going to travel?" After a while, he frowned and asked worriedly, "Will there be too many people?" She doesn't like to go out to look at people's heads.

Xiao Jin corrected her: "It's not us, it's me and Qi Yin."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "???"

Xiao Jin said: "She came to China this time to see you. She has no business and she likes to play. There is nothing interesting in Lincheng, so I had to take her to other places."

Wooden Sleeper Creek was quiet for a few seconds: "What about me?"

Her grievance was almost written on her face.

Xiao Jin touched her ear and said sympathetically, "You go to the back row."

Sleeper Creek was downcast.

Xiao Jin felt sorry for her, so he compromised and said, "How about the three of us together?"

Muzhenxi sang quietly: "It's obviously a movie for three people, but I still can't have a name."

Xiao Jin burst into laughter.

Mu Zhenxi thinks about it, he can't be so stingy, at least it's Xiao Jin's best friend, or someone abroad that he hasn't seen for a long time, so he moves back temporarily to show his generosity.

She agreed.

"Where are you going? Maybe I can have an idea."

Xiao Jin was still laughing, overjoyed.

Mu Zhenxi ignored her, and said to herself: "She likes to have an affair, how about going to Yunnan?"

"I've been." Xiao Jin said with a smile.

"Has she been there or have you been?" Muzhenxi suddenly opened his mouth in a strange way.

"We all—" Xiao Jin stopped suddenly, and after two seconds, he smiled again, "We have been there. When I didn't hear from you a few years ago, I went back to the country twice, and I went back to her. Follow me to Lijiang."

Muzhenxi didn't catch the strange feeling in his heart for a moment, and paused like her, before asking: "Is it fun?"

"It's okay, I went to the bar, I don't have any other impressions."

"Back then...drinking?"

"...Well." Xiao Jin added in a low voice, "But I never got drunk in a bar."

"I know." Mu Zhenxi wrapped her arms around her waist with one hand, and pulled her into his arms, resting his chin on Xiao Jin's shoulder, as if he sighed softly, but he didn't.

The two cuddled together quietly, softly and beautifully.

***

The day Qi Yin came was the day with the highest temperature in the weather forecast in recent days.

The scorching sun scorched the earth with high temperature.

After getting out of the elevator, Xiao Jin almost retreated from the oncoming heat wave. If the plane wasn't in the sky now, she really wanted to call Qi Yin to stop coming.

Muzhenxi dragged her to the parking place. After entering, Muzhenxi quickly turned on the air conditioner, and the wind was hot.

Xiao Jin: "..."

Wooden Sleeper Creek: "The wind outside is hotter now, let's sit here for a while."

Xiao Jin just nodded, fanning the wind with her hands, her brows and eyes drooping, she didn't want to say anything.

After the wind blowing from the air conditioner became colder, Muzhenxi closed the car window and drove for a while, Xiao Jin came back to "live".

"Qi Yin is not very talkative, don't think she has a problem with you."

"Remember." This was the second time Xiao Jin said it.Mu Zhenxi knew that it was enough for Xiao Jin to say that she liked her, but she still hoped that she could make a good impression on her friends.

Standing at the exit of the flight arrival, Muzhenxi pursed his lips unconsciously, revealing a little nervousness.Xiao Jin is worried, because Qi Yin has always had a bad feeling about Muzhenxi, and I hope she can change her impression this time.

Xiao Jin was a little absent-minded, Mu Zhenxi pointed in one direction, and asked her in a low voice: "Is that it?"

Xiao Jin looked up and stepped over.

Muzhenxi knew it was true and followed.

Xiao Jin hugged the woman who was half a head taller than her, then pulled Muzhenxi to stand beside her, and introduced to Qi Yin: "Muzhenxi, my girlfriend."

Qi Yin took off the toad mirror that almost covered most of her face, and said noblely and coldly, "Qi Yin."

She spoke short Chinese very standard, and she could not tell that she was living abroad, and her tone was cold.

Muzhenxi was not frightened by her cold attitude, and there was a gentle smile on the corner of her mouth: "I have heard of your name for a long time."

The two shook hands.

Muzhenxi proposed that she be the host at noon and invited her to eat Sichuan cuisine.

Qi Yin thanked her with a polite face.

Muzhenxi led the way, while Xiao Jin and Qi Yin walked behind. She seemed to hear the two people talking behind her, but the voice was so small that she couldn't hear what they were talking about.

She took advantage of a turn and looked back, but the two of them kept a considerable distance, as if it was just her illusion.

When they arrived near the Sichuan restaurant, Muzhenxi went to park the car. Xiao Jin and Qi Yin finally had a chance to spend time alone.

Qi Yin crossed his arms: "I put on a cold face, and you feel bad?"

Xiao Jin said, "No." Even though the Muzhenxi car drove more than ten meters away, she still lowered her voice worriedly, "It's different from what we said before. Didn't you say that your attitude will be as gentle as possible?"

Qi Yin laughed, winked on purpose, and said, "Okay, I'll treat her as a friend who is about to open a house later, and I have the best attitude at this time."

"How dare you!" Xiao Jin stared at her with wide eyes.

Qi Yin looked surprised, and walked around her, looking at her like a giant panda: "You still have such an expression!"

Xiao Jin: "..." She rubbed her eyes.

I can't stare anymore, my eyes hurt.

The two of them were waiting at the door, and when Muzhenxi walked back, they saw two people talking and laughing from a distance, especially the Ms. Qi Yin just now, who smiled happily.As she got closer, Qi Yin's mouth closed more and more, and finally turned into a smile that could hardly be seen without looking carefully.

Xiao Jin went around behind with one hand and poked Qi Yin's back, Qi Yin raised the corner of his mouth.

Wooden Sleeper Creek has already determined that she doesn't like herself anymore.

In fact, it's easy to understand, different standpoints, Yin Xiaoli didn't like Xiao Jin at first, but she is an unprincipled Yangou, obviously Qi Yin is much more advanced than Yin Xiaoli.

Muzhenxi smiled at Xiao Jin, and gave her a reassuring look.

When entering the restaurant, Xiao Jin deliberately took two steps forward, put his arms around her arms, raised Mu Zhenxi's free hand, and wiped her cheek with the back of his hand, with the indescribable affection in his eyes .

Qi Yin followed silently, lowered his head, and smiled slowly.

After sitting down, Mu Zhenxi stood up and poured tea for the three of them respectively. Qi Yin's cold voice suddenly became warmer and said, "Thank you."

Muzhenxi was startled.

She noticed the change in Qi Yin's attitude.

Muzhenxi looked at Xiao Jin, Xiao Jin picked up the cup and sipped the tea: "Order, what do you want me to do? Give her the menu."

Qi Yin is very proficient, with excited eyes. He ordered Mapo Tofu for the first dish. When he announced the name of the dish, his throat slid down unconsciously, and he could see that he wanted to eat it very much.Seeing that she was in a dilemma, Mu Zhenxi recommended a few to her, and Qi Yin listened to her.

After ordering, Qi Yin picked up the teacup in a vague manner: "I will replace the wine with tea, and I propose a toast to you."

Muzhenxi felt that she suddenly said this sentence a bit inexplicably, respect her to help her order?Muzhenxi thought to himself, smiled and clinked glasses with her, and the two drank together.

Xiao Jincai explained to her: "She likes Chinese 'etiquette' and finds it very interesting, and sometimes she will show off with friends who don't know anything about it."

Qi Yin said indignantly: "Who showed off?"

Xiao Jin said: "Me." Don't play tricks with her, it's too hot to play tricks.

Just now she was walking in front at the airport, and when she got in the car, she could only look at her from the rearview mirror. She didn't take a closer look at the other person's appearance. Now Muzhenxi and Qi Yin were sitting face to face. While waiting for the food to be served, she looked at Qi Yin After a few seconds, the corners of the pretty lips raised slightly, and said, "I seem to have seen you somewhere before?"

It looks kind of nice.

Qi Yin's reaction was very strange.

She quickly glanced at Xiao Jin, as if reflexively.

Muzhenxi followed Qi Yin's gaze, and his gaze fell on Xiao Jin's face.

Xiao Jin didn't see anything strange in her expression, she raised her shoulders slightly, bumped lightly towards the wooden pillow creek, and said with a sneer, "What's your intention in saying such things to other women in front of me?"

After realizing it, Muzhenxi lost his word, and hurriedly said: "I didn't mean that, I really think she looks familiar."

Xiao Jin raised her eyelids and said flatly, "All mixed races look the same."

Qi Yin, who was forced to be the same, smiled generously, but was not angry.

is that so?Muzhenxi scratched the back of his neck, and said to Qiyin, "I made you laugh."

"I also think Miss Mu looks familiar." Qi Yin said suddenly.

Xiao Jin gave her a look from an angle that Muzhenxi couldn't see, his eyes were cold.

Qi Yin smiled and said, "We met at the gate of the community last time."

The chill in Xiao Jin's eyes disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared before.

She remembered this incident. In September last year, Qi Yin came back from the outside and bumped into Muzhenxi who was going to work, and told her when he came back.

Mu Zhenxi followed Qi Yin's reminder to recall, and also remembered, exclaiming fate, the two drank another cup with tea instead of wine.

Qi Yin doesn't know many Chinese people, and there are not many Chinese people of her age who can play with her. Seeing Mu Zhenxi cooperate with her so much, she immediately smiled and exchanged more "etiquette" with her.Qi Yin, like many foreigners, can’t tell the difference between the “three brothers” in East Asia, and some etiquette is mixed up. Mu Zhenxi explained to her, “This is Chinese, not Japanese” and “What you said is Korean "No, no, this is from Japan."

The two chatted enthusiastically, before the food was served, the pot of tea was finished first.

Xiao Jin: "..."

It seems that she is worrying too much.

After dinner, the two sent Qi Yin to the star hotel.Xiao Jin's original house was due shortly after she moved to Muzhenxi's house, and now the two of them have no vacant house for Qi Yin to live in.

After sending it to the door of the room, Xiao Jin saw that Qi Yin had something to say, and asked Mu Zhenxi to wait for her in the lobby downstairs first.

She closed the door, turned and stood still.

Qi Yin looked back from the closed door, and said, "She is not the same as before." Qi Yin stayed in Sicheng for a while, and saw Mu Zhenxi a few times. Back, of course, she saw it unilaterally, but Muzhenxi didn't see her.

should?Qi Yin thought so.

Just now Muzhenxi said that she was familiar with that question, which really surprised her.

In the past, Muzhenxi was a little indifferent, didn't smile very much, looked at people with indifferent eyes, and couldn't see emotions.Qi Yin thought back then, this is the person Xiao Jin likes?How could it be different from what she said.

Xiao Jin usually doesn't talk about Muzhenxi with her, and he only reveals a few words when he drinks too much wine. In Xiao Jin's mouth, Muzhenxi is a little girl who blushes at every turn and smiles very shyly.

Qi Yin thought she was a limp and cute girl, but she saw a big sister who was as tall as her, who could freeze a person into a piece of ice with a glance of her eyes, and she was still a little poor. Wearing washed white jeans and sneakers, he works in a garment factory.

In fact, at that time, Muzhenxi could almost make a living by painting, but she had no sense of security and liked to do both hands, so she found a relatively formal clothing factory. Commute.

It is such a cold person, except for one exception, that is, Xiao Jin later found out that it was the rich second-generation daughter who had misunderstood.

That person and Wooden Sleeper Creek went in and out together, almost inseparable.Wooden Sleeper Creek would smile at her, although not as recklessly as today, but once there was a contrast, it would be extraordinarily vivid.

She is gay, and there is a girl who is close to her, and she has a different attitude towards her, so it is logical to deduce that they are a couple.

Qi Yin thinks it's no wonder Xiao Jin misunderstood, but if it were her, the result might be completely different.

Even if she has never been in a relationship, according to her personality, if she sees her ex-girlfriend who she thinks she hasn't broken up with someone else, she will go up and slap the other person directly. If it is a misunderstanding, she will tell her to call back. It is true Just right, give it another slap, symmetrical left and right.

Xiao Jin is a very strange person in Qi Yin's eyes. She has never seen such a person. While feeling worthless for her, she also admires her for being able to love someone firmly for so many years and never change.

At the beginning, she approached Xiao Jin with the intention of flirting with Xiao Jin, and after being exposed by the other party, she became friends. There are so many flowers in the world, the longer they know each other, the more Qi Yin knows that she cannot pick this flower off by herself.There are a lot of people chasing Xiao Jin in school, handsome men and beautiful women, but they all hit a wall. Some people asked Xiao Jin's friends how to impress her heart. Friends asked Xiao Jin, Xiao Jin said, she has loved ones.

After the news spread, the number of people pursuing her...has not decreased, because Xiao Jin's life is very regular, and she has never been seen to be intimate with anyone, that is, she is single.

Qi Yin claimed to have two-point friendship with her, once drinking in the apartment, Xiao Jin was half drunk, and revealed a little bit to her.Qi Yin is a very good drinking buddy, Xiao Jin likes to drink with her, she only knew the reason for their friendship after listening to Xiao Jin.

What really made the two of them heart-to-heart friends was because Qi Yin was the only one who accompanied Xiao Jin back to China five years ago.

One day Xiao Jin called and told Qi Yin that she was going back to China, which might take a long time.Let her know.

Qi Yin could hear the excitement in her tone that she was trying to suppress, and asked a little more: "What happened to you so happy?"

Xiao Jin's breathing became heavy over there, her throat tightened and she swallowed, her voice was low, as if a little louder would scare away the person on the other side of the ocean: "I...I know where she is."

she?

Qi Yin was stunned for a moment, and then his heart surged inexplicably.

The only person who can make Xiao Jin so abnormal is the one she would mention when she was drunk.

"I'll go to China with you." Qi Yin really couldn't wait to see He Fang Sheng.

"Huh?" Xiao Jin was not very willing to take her there.

"I'm going on a trip, you find your people, I play mine, and we can take care of each other if we have something to do."

From the day she decided to return to China, to the time when she took the bullet train into Sicheng, Xiao Jin's changes became more and more obvious day by day. She stopped drinking and smoking. Smell, smoke, and other strange smells, Qi Yin smiled and answered "no" over and over again.

The affection between eyebrows and eyes from time to time made Qi Yin, a person who had given up his heart a long time ago, almost revived, and quickly strangled to death in the ashes, she knew that Xiao Jin was not for her.

She found out the specific address, chose clothes for the day, dressed up, and went downstairs to Muzhenxi's house to wait for her.

Before going out, Xiao Jin was very nervous, dawdling, and the paper towels used to wipe sweat were wet one after another.

Qi Yin made a fist at her: "Come on."

Xiao Jin pursed her lips tightly and went out.

Qi Yin went to the most famous local bar, Lieyan, and met a Chinese girl who talked a lot, and it felt right. Just as she was about to develop to the next step, her cell phone rang sharply and ominously.

Xiao Jin.

Qi Yin frowned, according to the normal situation, she shouldn't have called herself.

She pressed the connection: "what's the matter?"

Xiao Jin paused for a long time: "...It's okay, I'm home, I just arrived downstairs."

Qi Yin looked at the Chinese girl in her arms, said sorry, and left in a hurry.

The room was filled with blue-gray smoke, and Qi Yin almost choked when she opened the door. She quickly turned on the exhaust fan, walked two steps in, and saw Xiao Jin, who was leaning against the wall and smoking, with a hazy face.

The ashtray was full of spent cigarette butts.

Qi Yin: "You..."

Xiao Jin raised her eyelids and looked at her calmly.

That look, which I don't know how to describe, abruptly stopped Qi Yin's step forward.

She kept her distance and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Then she saw Xiao Jin's fingers trembling slightly holding the cigarette.

Qi Yin held her breath and didn't dare to say a word. She felt that what was standing in front of her was not a person, but a fragile and crumbling piece of porcelain, which would be smashed to pieces at any moment.