Stay Safe - Chapter 40

“Go on.” Wooden pillow stream returned to the small conference room and put the phone aside.

The team members watched her answer the phone and came back with a serious expression.

“Miss Mu.”

“Miss Mu?”

Muzhenxi raised his head from the information in front of him: “Huh? What?”

The original painting girl looked at her face and asked carefully, “Do you think the suggestion I just made is feasible?”

Wooden Pillow Creek: “…”

She closed the folder: “come here first today, you can do the work at hand and end the meeting.”

The two computers with bright screens automatically dimmed and turned into standby desktops.

Mu Zhenxi took the mobile phone on the side, clicked into the text message box, the message from Xiao Jin lay quietly inside: [I remember everything, including the truth about why I went abroad, I just want to sit down with you and have a good talk Let’s talk]

Wooden pillow Brook asked herself, did she really want to know? Or are you afraid that once you know the truth, you will be shaken and entangled with Xiao Jin again? During the four years she waited for Xiao Jin, she almost always thought about why Xiao Jin left her. Is she not good enough, is she undeserving of love, grandma is an irresistible accident, why is Xiao Jin the same?

Even though the name was later forgotten by her, she would occasionally remember it uncontrollably, and then wake up from the nightmare, trying her best to keep her eyes wide open, holding back her tears.

This is her knot and her calamity.

Xiao Jin sat in the car for an hour with his eyes closed and his phone tightly clenched in his hand.

She finally waited for the reply from Wooden Pillow Creek.

[Okay, at twelve o’clock today, the location is yours]

Muzhenxi cleaned up his emotions and knocked on the door of the director’s office. The director looked up from behind the desk and smiled when he saw her: “Please come in.”

Wooden pillow Brook took the door, took a few steps inside, and said, “Mr. Zhang, I want to apply for a half-day vacation.”

The director looked disappointed: “It’s only been half a day?” She is not so kind, but Muzhenxi’s recent tendency to work overtime is too crazy. If she hadn’t ordered Muzhenxi to go back to rest two days ago, she might have to live in the company during the National Day holiday. .

Wooden Pillow Creek: “…”

The director generously approved: “I’ll give you a full day off and rest well.”

Wooden Pillow Creek went out. She was completely bored with her work. She turned off the computer and put her hands on her chin in a trance.

The phone dinged and the screen lit up.

Xiao Jin sent the address and box number.

Muzhenxi went to the bathroom, put on makeup in front of the mirror, left the company on low-heeled shoes, hired a taxi at the door, and went directly to the agreed place.

Juxian Building.

Wooden pillow creek looked up at the signboard, adjusted his breathing at the door, and walked in with a sullen face. The front desk smiled sweetly and asked: “Hello, do you have a reservation?”

Muzhenxi put one hand on the counter and glanced in: “Yes, a lady surnamed Xiao, is she here?”

The front desk smiled and said, “Ms. Xiao is here, a few minutes before you.”

Wooden Pillow Creek’s breathing took a beat uncontrollably.

“Please come with me.” A waiter came over and bowed slightly, led Muxianxi to the box, and when he arrived at the door, the waiter was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, when Muxianxi made a silent motion, the waiter knowingly retreated.

Mu Zhenxi stood in front of the door and looked stunned for a while. On the day of the reunion, she also stood outside the door like this, full of expectations, but she never expected to meet the person who affected her deeply.

Wooden Pillow Creek took a deep breath, raised his arm slightly, and before he touched the door panel, the door was pulled open from inside.

Xiao Jin turned against the light and stood quietly in front of her.

The two looked at each other.

In one look, several thoughts floated up and down.

Time seems to have stopped flowing at this moment, and it seems to be reversing rapidly.

In the early spring of that year, the wind of March awakened the bright earth, Xiao Jin was like Sa Huan’s bird, holding two strings of candied haws in her hand, and two schoolbags hanging in front of her and behind her, full of sweetness, she lowered her head and dipped the green Lovers feed hawthorn with sugar-coated mouths.

Muzhenxi almost couldn’t hold back the sourness that suddenly swelled up in his eyes, and slowly lowered his eyes to hide the moisture in the bottom of his eyes.

Before she could say anything, Xiao Jin stepped aside and said politely, “Please come in.”

Wooden Pillow Creek came in and took a seat.

Xiao Jin smiled politely, took out two cups from the tray, poured a cup of tea for Muzhenxi, and pushed it over: “I didn’t expect you to come so early, it’s only ten o’clock.”

Muzhenxi said, “No need to be polite. If you have anything to say, just say it directly. I’m very busy.”

Xiao Jin was full of love and called her softly, “Xiaoxi.”

Wooden Pillow Creek’s teeth clenched tightly, and he didn’t open his eyes cruelly.

Xiao Jin said: “Drink some tea, I’m thirsty all the way here, I don’t want to catch up with you.”

Wooden pillow stream turned to look at her, still did not touch the tea.

Xiao Jin didn’t continue to persuade, she took a sip of the warm tea in front of her, stared at her, and said bitterly, “If I said that I was tricked by my parents to go abroad, would you believe it?”

Mu Zhenxi’s eyes trembled, full of disbelief: “What did you say?”

Xiao Jin said: “I had a fight with you at that time, and I was in a bad mood. My parents knew about our relationship and said they would take me abroad to relax, and I agreed. But I didn’t expect that when I went abroad, they detained all my possessions. Documents, put me under house arrest for four months, and you are gone when you come back.”

How can an eighteen-year-old be on guard against the most trusted parent? Especially before, Xiao’s parents and Xiao’s mother deliberately made compromises to numb her. After Xiao Jin was placed under house arrest, she was furious and furious. She threw everything in the room and thought of various ways to resist, but when she was finally able to return to China, the world changed overnight.

Mu Zhenxi’s grandmother passed away, she failed the college entrance examination, no one was seen, and no one knew where she went.

“I thought about it before I went abroad. When I come back in a few days, I will apologize to you, and I will never say such nonsense again.” Xiao Jin said in a hoarse voice, “But I never waited for an opportunity to apologize. “

Wooden Pillow Creek was silent for a moment, then smiled sarcastically, full of self-deprecation.

It turned out that the nightmare that had plagued her for many years was a simple reason. Xiao Jin was taken away by her parents, so she left without saying goodbye.

She is also a victim.

Wooden pillow creek suddenly raised his head and snorted.

But after so many years, what’s the use of these things? Is it possible to distinguish between black and white, right and wrong, can it be regarded as nothing has happened?

Muzhenxi took a light breath, took back the slightly erratic expression on his face, and said calmly, “I already know, do you have anything else to do?”

Xiao Jin lowered his head and said, “I’m sorry for not being able to accompany you on your grandmother’s last ride.”

Mu Zhenxi’s eyes turned red, a breath stuck in his throat, his teeth clenched, and he was silent.

Xiao Jin pretended not to see her mood changes, and continued speaking with a tone full of nostalgia: “grandmother was so kind to me before her death, and when I went to see her in the hospital, she always told me that I was a very good child, and I was born abroad. The university I choose must be chosen by me, she treats me better than you, and often asks you to learn from me, do you remember?”

Wooden Pillow Creek suppressed the monstrous anger, not only the eye sockets, but also the blood in the eyes, staring at her gapingly.

Xiao Jin asked recklessly, “Did my grandma ask me after I left?”

Wooden Pillow Stream suddenly exploded and said, “Don’t mention grandma to me!” Hysterical, tearful, like a beast covered with scars and torn apart bloody, roaring at her.

Xiao Jin squeezed her fingertips with her fingertips, tilted her head, and asked her strangely: “Why can’t I ask? I also love her very much, and I want to know if she left me any words before her death, Don’t I have a right to know?”

Muzhenxi trembled with anger: “She stayed, she left a message, are you satisfied?!”

Xiao Jin asked, “What did she say?”

Muzhenxi’s eyes were red, full of tears, and panting quickly, she gritted her teeth and said, “Before she died, ask me, where are you.”

Xiao Jin tried his best to resist the urge to cry, and asked her calmly, “Anything else?”

Wooden Pillow Creek said, “Yes.”

The corners of Xiao Jin’s eyes were slightly red, and a pair of deep eyes stared at the wooden pillow stream, and said, “Tell me.”

Muzhenxi said word by word: “Say, you are a good child, tell me to cherish it. Say, if she is gone, you are the only one in the world who will still treat me well, let me let you go, don’t talk to me. You quarreled. She also said that with you there, she could leave the world with peace of mind. Finally, she said, I hope we are both well.”

At that time, it had been a month since Xiao Jin broke up Muzhenxi, and my grandmother didn’t know.

After my grandmother, people were often lethargic and had to rely on a ventilator and various instruments to maintain their lives. She rarely woke up. When she woke up and looked around, she found that only Muzhenxi was alone, and she would ask with a weak breath. She: “Where is Xiao Jin?”

Mu Zhenxi held her hand, holding back her tears and lying to her, saying, “Xiao Jin came while you were asleep.” She also showed grandma the fruit she bought, and lied to her that Xiao Jin bought it, grandma He smiled and fell asleep again.

When she was dying, she always wanted to see Xiao Jin and personally entrust her only concern in this world to Xiao Jin. Muzhenxi lied to her again that Xiao Jin had passed the application for a foreign university, and went to the United States to go through the formalities. Didn’t see her till death.

Muzhenxi raised her scarlet eyes and asked Xiao Jin, “Are you satisfied?”

Xiao Jin leaned back on the chair, raised his head, his eyes filled with tears, and said softly, “Satisfied.”

Wooden Pillow Creek stood up, walked over from the table with the handbag, looked down at her sarcastically, “Put away your tears, she can’t see it when you cry now.”

Xiao Jin also stood up, raised his hand to wipe away the tears on his face, bent down and said, “I’m sorry. This is because I shouldn’t have impulsive to break up, and the evil words hurt your heart.”

She straightened up and bent down again: “I’m sorry.” She took a slow breath before continuing to choke, “This is for my grandmother. I didn’t get to see her for the last time, and I lived up to her expectations.”

Muzhenxi said with a blank face: “I only accept the first sound, and I forgive you for leaving without saying goodbye. You go to her tomb and say to her in person, can I go?”

Xiao Jin stood in front of her and didn’t move.

Mu Zhenxi frowned, bypassed her, and at the moment of passing by, Xiao Jin stretched out his hand and clasped her wrist, Mu Zhenxi turned back, and said indifferently, “What else do you want to do?”

Xiao Jin suddenly took a step and hugged her tightly, his arms tightened, as if to melt her into his own blood.

“Let go!” Muzhenxi was out of her anger and struggled hard. She was usually much stronger than Xiao Jin. Xiao Jin had to do her best, and the blue veins on her forehead and back of her hands burst out before she could hold him in her arms. .

During the struggle, Xiao Jin’s waist hit the edge of the table, and the two scuffled silently in this area, one wanted to escape, the other refused to escape, and neither showed any mercy to each other.

I don’t know when it started, Mu Zhenxi let go of his strength, gave up resistance, and let the other party hold her into his arms.

It’s a hug that’s ten years late.

Too bad it’s too late.

Mu Zhenxi put his arms around Xiao Jin’s waist, buried his eyes on her shoulders, and murmured, “Why did you come back now?”

Xiao Jin was startled, his eyes instantly wet.

Muzhenxi said, “Do you know how I got here?”

Xiao Jin opened his mouth and found that he was speechless, nodded twice, and tears fell.

She knew that Wooden Sleeper Creek had suffered a lot.

Wooden Pillow Creek withdrew from her arms, lowered her eyes, shook her head and said softly, “You don’t know.”

Xiao Jin didn’t hug her anymore, his hand slipped from his arm and took her hand, but Muzhenxi didn’t refuse anymore.

Xiao Jin pulled her back to the chair, and the two faced each other. Xiao Jin raised his head and gently touched Muzhenxi’s hair, then leaned over and kissed her forehead: “Do you want to tell me?”

Wooden pillow Brook nodded, her eyelashes were still wet, very quiet and well-behaved. She had been wronged before, and she would tell Xiao Jin the same way, but this time was different from every previous time.

Xiao Jin smiled bitterly in his heart.

Wooden Pillow Creek let out a long breath and rolled his eyes blankly. Where did you start? It seems like a long time ago, so let’s start from the beginning.

Wooden Pillow Stream narrated calmly, with a voice so light that it seemed to be talking about other people’s affairs.

“After you left, my grandmother’s illness became more and more serious. She couldn’t survive the fourth chemotherapy. Her condition suddenly deteriorated and she died. Fortunately, my mother still had a little conscience and bought a cemetery for my grandmother. , I was in pain during my lifetime, but after my death I got a long sleep. Part of the reason I returned to Lincheng was because my grandmother’s cemetery was here.

“After my grandmother left, there was still half a month of the college entrance examination. I remembered what you told me to study hard, and I thought that maybe you would come back and continue to review my studies, but the senior year was delayed for too long, and I still didn’t pass the test. My grandmother’s rented house expired, and all the money I earned from working was used to treat my grandmother’s illness, and I didn’t have the money to pay the rent, so I was kicked out.”

Her mood gradually fluctuated, but the fluctuations were small.

“I was penniless at the time, looking for a job during the day, and finding a place to sleep at night. At first I lived in a park, but I soon found out that there were homeless people in that park, and they looked at me in the wrong way. I don’t dare to go. At that time, I would make a wish before going to bed, hoping to see you when I wake up. It’s just a nightmare, just sleep well, but every morning when I open my eyes, I still have only myself by my side.

“I saved a little money, bought a bus ticket and left Lincheng to go to a city further south. I heard that there are more people working there and there are more opportunities. I went to a factory and started to work there. The work is very mechanical, no need to use any brains, people feel numb after staying in it for a long time. But I have to stay, I have to earn money, and only with money can I have a future, although I don’t know what the future will be like.

“Later I met Yin Xiaoli, she said that I am good at drawing, and she asked me to study the professional knowledge in this area, so that I can rely on this craft to eat in the future. I go to work during the day and come back to paint at night~www.mtlnovel.com~ Gradually, I can really make money by painting, and then it is now.”

Wooden Pillow Creek pulled the corner of his lips and smiled.

Xiao Jin couldn’t smile.

Muzhenxi tilted her head and asked her, “Why don’t you laugh?”

Xiao Jin stared at her quietly, the despair and affection in his eyes almost drowned the wooden pillow stream.

Wooden Pillow Creek fell silent, and the curvature of the corners of his lips turned bitter.

Xiao Jin moved her thumb slightly and stroked the back of her hand, silently comforting her.

Wooden Pillow Creek slowly withdrew his hand and stood up, his expression instantly became cold and inhumane.

Xiao Jin smiled.

Wooden Pillow Creek mockingly said, “You always do this, you can see through me easily.”

Tears flashed in Xiao Jin’s eyes, and he said, “Because I love you, and you love me too.”

Therefore, the camouflage of Wooden Pillow Stream was ineffective in front of her. Wooden Pillow Stream wrapped herself up layer by layer. The scars that seemed to heal on the outside were actually wrapped in a mass of rotten flesh dripping with blood. Xiao Jin endured it today. Injuring the enemy 800, self-destructing 1000, but also to reopen her wound, scrape the bone to cure the poison.

Muzhenxi said lightly, “Then you should know how much I hate you.”

Xiao Jin said, “I know.”

But she didn’t show any hatred now, it was the biggest violation.

Mu Zhenxi raised his eyes and fixed his eyes on her: “Did you know that after the college entrance examination, I once fainted in a rental house, and no one noticed it all day and night, but I woke up again, woke up from hunger, and found myself in I had a high fever for three days, and I had no money to buy medicine, so I survived.

“Do you know that after you left, how many calls I made to you were always unanswered, then stopped, and finally became an empty number.”

Xiao Jin’s eyes turned red.

Muzhenxi said: “Did you know that when I was working in a factory, half of a worker’s arm was pulled into the machine, and he could see **** fingers at the exit of the machine, and he would move. , I was standing beside her at the time to work, watching the blood column spurt from her arm, and then the heart-piercing scream. I had nightmares for a long time, and I was frightened when I went to work every day, for fear of bad luck one day It fell on my head, and my hands were involved. I was scared, really scared, the more scared I was, the more I missed you, but what about you? Where are you?”

Xiao Jin burst into tears, opened his mouth, but did not speak.

Wooden Pillow Creek paused for a moment, suddenly smiled softly, lowered his eyes and said, “Do you know that I once committed suicide.”

Xiao Jin’s expression changed drastically, and he looked over suddenly.

Muzhenxi raised her face with tears streaming down her face, and said, “I’m not afraid of hard work for the first year of working, but I just can’t find a reason to live. I bought sleeping pills, swallowed a big bottle, and lay on the bed with a calm heart. I died. It’s a pity that one of my neighbor’s sister saw from the window that something was wrong with me lying down, and she couldn’t wake up. She asked her brother to smash the door open and sent me to the hospital to have my stomach washed. “

Wooden Pillow Creek shrugged and said, “It’s not dead.”

Xiao Jin covered his mouth in pain, tears welling up in his eyes.

Mu Zhenxi raised his hand to wipe away the tears, lowered his head, looked at her again, and smiled quietly: “But you said something wrong, I don’t hate you, and I have never hated you.”

She added, “Xiao Jin, I love you…”

Tears fell down again, but Muzhenxi didn’t wipe it anymore, and continued softly: “I can’t forget you, but…” Muzhenxi swallowed the sweetness that suddenly came to his throat, and poked his fingers with his fingers. Tears poured down my heart, “It hurts too much, I don’t want to try again.”

Xiao Jin cried out of breath.

Mu Zhenxi walked over, squatted down, kept her eyes level with her, gently wiped the tears from her face with her fingertips, and tried her best to suppress the choked sob in her throat: “Xiao Jin, we really can’t go back.”

Xiao Jin gradually stopped crying.

Mu Zhenxi pulled her up and planned to leave. Xiao Jin held her wrist and begged her with red eyes: “Can you accompany me to the door of the restaurant, then we will separate again.”

Wooden Pillow Creek was silent for a moment, and then replied in a low voice, “Okay.”

The two looked at each other’s faces, made final arrangements, and went out of the box together.

They both knew that it was the last road to accompany each other, and they walked very slowly. The floor tiles seemed to have just been dragged, and there was no carpet upstairs, and it was a little slippery. The wooden pillow crept around Xiao Jin’s shoulders, and Wen Yan reminded: “Be careful.”

Xiao Jin raised his eyes and gave her a deep look, before making a soft “um” sound.

The waiter came up the stairs with the hot soup just out of the pot in both hands. He walked quickly. When he passed by the two of them, his feet slipped, and the hot soup poured in the direction of the two of them.

At that moment, Muzhenxi didn’t have time to think, and her body instinct reacted faster than her brain. She hugged Xiao Jin sideways, blocking the opponent tightly, and a pot of hot soup was poured on her waist.

Xiao Jin only felt a flash in front of his eyes, but before he could react, he was inexplicably held by Wooden Pillow Creek in his arms, and a painful groan came from above his head.

Then there was the sound of Shenggu falling to the ground, and the waiter’s panicked apology: “I’m sorry, sorry, sorry.”

Wooden Pillow Creek let go of his arms, frowned and swept Xiao Jin: “Did you get burned anywhere?”

Xiao Jin shook his head, and with hindsight, he saw her clothes soaked in the hot soup, and the skin inside her white shirt turned red, shocking.

Xiao Jin’s thin lips were pursed into a straight line, his eyebrows were sharp, and he glared at the waiter who kept apologizing and tried to wipe the wooden pillow stream with his sleeve: “How did you—”

Muzhenxi stopped her: “Forget it, it’s useless to embarrass her, don’t waste time. I’ll go back and get some medicine and apply it, it will hurt for two days at most.”

Xiao Jin’s eyes were red: “I’ll take you to the hospital.”

Wooden pillow stream did not speak, silently reminding the agreement between the two.

Xiao Jin followed silently.

The two separated at the door of the restaurant, one left and one right, and did not say goodbye.

Muzhenxi showed pain on her face, raised her hand and pressed her heart, suppressing the vague and sharp pain from the beginning, walking step by step, until she turned a corner, and the sweetness appeared in her throat again, she endured it, did not Holding back, he lowered his head and spat out a mouthful of bright red blood.

Top-heavy, and then the world was spinning, Wooden Pillow Creek grabbed a handful in the air in vain, but caught nothing, and lost consciousness in front of a black.