Stay Safe - Chapter 44

After Xiao Jin finished talking about his specific building, he waited for three seconds.

The response from the wooden pillow stream came: “Oh.”

Muzhenxi knew where the 2 buildings were. I saw it when I walked around the community aimlessly before, so I turned right when I entered the door, and counted the second building, which was very close to the door.

Xiao Jin didn’t know where Building 17 was. She usually went directly from the building to the underground garage, and she always drove in and out. She was afraid of encountering Wooden Pillow Stream, so she tried her best to avoid walking in the community, but after today, she knew the location of Building 17. specific location.

After chatting a few words without embarrassment or embarrassment, he stopped.

One left and one right, when you enter the gate, you have to separate, nod each other, and go in both directions. Xiao Jin took a few steps and suddenly turned back and shouted, “Wooden pillow stream.”

Wooden Pillow Creek stopped, turned around, and looked at her, with a hint of doubt in her eyes, and a hint of expectation that she had not yet noticed.

Xiao Jin moved her lips, just as a fallen leaf swirled down from the top of her head, like Zhou Xuan’s golden butterfly, the corners of her lips rose, a smile was hidden in her eyes, and she said, “Goodbye.”

Wooden Pillow Creek’s fingers holding the plastic bag tightened unconsciously, the corners of his eyes were slightly curved, and he replied softly, “Goodbye.”

Xiao Jin walked back.

Wooden pillow Brook watched her back until she turned a corner and her vision was blocked.

Muzhenxi looked up and glanced at the 2 buildings behind the 1st building with half the body of the building exposed. Many thoughts emerged in his heart, and he walked home absentmindedly. When she came back to her senses, there was an unfamiliar floor in front of her: Building 25.

Wooden Pillow Stream: “???”

Wooden Pillow Creek: “…”

Her cheeks were slightly hot, she turned her head to look at the way, found the right way, and walked back.

Swipe the card, get into the elevator, go upstairs, and enter the door. In the past, listening to the sound of the open door opening in the past seems to be a little more indescribable feeling today. Wooden Pillow Creek stared at the door for a while, the corners of his lips upturned.

Report to Yin’s mother first: [Arrived home]

Yin Xiaoli replied to her: [How did you get home? 】

Wooden Pillow Creek: [I saw someone walking the dog in the community and chatted for a while]

Yin Xiaoli: [Okay, okay] She knows that Muzhenxi likes dogs, and she will stop and take a second look when she encounters it.

Muzhenxi didn’t plan to tell Yin Xiaoli about her encounter with Xiao Jin. She couldn’t understand her mood. Yin Xiaoli disturbed again and asked with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, and she was even more confused.

Go with the flow, don’t force it, but don’t avoid it, this is her current psychology.

But when cooking dumplings, looking at the steaming heat in the pot and the pork and corn dumplings in her hand, she still can’t help but think, what flavor did Xiao Jin buy? She hasn’t returned to China for so long, what brand does she know? Is the stuffing delicious?

Just forgot to look at the package of the quick-frozen dumplings in her bag, and Muzhenxi regretted it a little.

Speaking of Xiao Jin again.

She got a goodbye from Pillow Creek, basically sure she wouldn’t move out again. She didn’t dare to appear in the community before, because she was afraid that Muzhenxi would find it unbearable to even live in the same community in order to avoid her. Now it seems that Muzhenxi doesn’t mind her at all, and even…

Xiao Jin didn’t dare to imagine that possibility, but he still couldn’t help thinking: Maybe there is a possibility to accept himself again?

In any case, this is the biggest good news she has received recently.

Even looking at the bag of pork and corn dumplings bought because of her mother’s text message was pleasing. It was found that Wooden Sleeper Creek’s attitude had changed a lot.

The water in the pot is boiling.

Xiao Jin lifted the lid of the pot and counted eight dumplings in it. Her appetite was so large. While leaning on the marble table and continuing to wait, she deleted a few words from the text message from Mother Xiao on her mobile phone, but there was no response.

Xiao Jin: [Dumplings are already cooked]

Mother Xiao will always reply to her messages in seconds: [OK]

Then he tentatively came back and said: [How much did you cook? Is a man? 】

Xiao Jin’s heart was sore, and she spoke cautiously for her mother.

Her mother is actually a very good person, gentle and virtuous, never slack in her education, she teaches her by words and deeds. It’s just that there was a mistake in the choice of things that year, Xiao’s father and Xiao’s mother did not expect that the usually meek daughter would be so decisive, making a wrong step, thus personally drawing an insurmountable gap in their family love.

Xiao Jin couldn’t give up his love for Muxianxi, and he couldn’t let go of what they did to him back then. The two were linked together and became an inextricable knot.

Ten years, a lukewarm decade.

Xiao Jin bit his lower lip hard, raised his head to force back the tears that were about to come, and typed slowly: [Eight, one person]

Xiao Jin picked up the dumplings, poured them in the soup, sprinkled a handful of chopped green onions, and brought them to the table with both hands.

Mother Xiao: [eat well]

Xiao Jin: [Yeah]

Mother Xiao didn’t know what to say, and she burst into tears while looking at the phone.

As soon as Father Xiao saw her sitting on the sofa, he knew that he was chatting with Xiao Jin again, raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and urged coldly, “Don’t change your clothes soon, the driver is waiting downstairs.”

They are going to a business banquet tonight.

Mother Xiao pressed the corner of her eye with a tissue, looked at her husband without any emotion, and went to the cloakroom silently.

Her phone was still on the coffee table.

After Xiao’s father waited for her to enter the cloakroom, a crack slowly appeared in the cold expression. He wiped his face in pain and bent down in front of the coffee table. He has been married for many years and still knows the mobile phone password.

Father Xiao unlocked his wife’s mobile phone, and looked carefully and carefully, not a single word was missed.

I ended up taking a photo with my phone.

My wife can still chat with Xiao Jin a few words, but my father can’t say a word. First, fathers in Chinese families are mostly introverted and not good at expressing themselves under the patriarchal system. , his mistake was the biggest, he didn’t have the face to face Xiao Jin.

In the past, he always thought that Xiao Jin would follow the life path he planned. He had gone through detours and could provide her with the best life experience. Why did Xiao Jin refuse to listen? It’s fine if he refuses to engage in business, and he is shocking to engage in homosexuality. Father Xiao couldn’t understand how a good child could become like this, he had to “correct” her, and he couldn’t let her ruin her life like this.

But when Xiao Jin lay in the hospital bed because of her insistence on life and death, he realized that he was not only wrong, but also outrageously wrong. He didn’t want anything, and he didn’t force her to do anything. As long as she lived a safe, healthy and happy life, she asked for nothing, but it was too late.

Xiao Jin didn’t find the wooden pillow stream when he returned to China. It was like a different person. He didn’t eat or sleep, except for crying and drinking. With a bone-like shape and a face as white as paper, Xiao’s father and Xiao’s mother were frightened to death, especially Xiao’s mother, Xiao Jin cried and she cried too, washing her face with tears all day long. She and Father Xiao also began to quarrel frequently, and a good family of three fell apart.

After a period of time, Xiao Jin slowly regained her strength, recuperating at home, and successfully enrolled in the next year, studying a major she liked.

Xiao’s mother and Xiao’s mother sent her to report to school, and Xiao Jin showed a very shallow smile.

That was the first smile that her parents saw her after she went abroad.

Some things will pass slowly, time is the best medicine to heal everything. Xiao’s father and Xiao’s mother thought so, and held a positive and optimistic attitude towards the future. What they owed Xiao Jin would be compensated slowly in the future. No more interference with her interests, and no more interference with what **** partner she wants to have.

But that thing never happened.

The Xiao family’s company is in China, and Xiao’s father and Xiao’s mother are also developing in China, and occasionally go abroad to see their daughter. Xiao Jin is living a good life, her complexion is ruddy, she studies well, and gets along very well with her friends. No one dislikes her. She is always the most noticeable one in the crowd.

The only thing is that she has never had a girlfriend or boyfriend again.

Mother Xiao talked to her, Xiao Jin stopped the white porcelain spoon that was stirring the coffee, turned her face away, looked out the window, and said lightly, “I’m not interested.”

Mother Xiao didn’t think much about it, thinking that Xiao Jin is better than lacking. In Mother Xiao’s heart, there are not many people in this world who are worthy of her daughter.

Until a certain year, that was the sixth year of Xiao Jin’s going abroad, Xiao’s mother accidentally found a photo album in the drawer of her foreign residence. The photo album was full of photos of Wooden Pillow Creek, not only in the past, but also in the present. of.

She was shocked, her hands were shaking, and she was so full of disbelief that Xiao Jin didn’t notice when she came in from the outside. Immediately after, Xiao Jin saw the photo album in his mother’s hand, and he was furious and snatched it over: “What are you doing?!”

Apart from being angry and mad during the period of being under house arrest, Xiao Jin was very calm even after drinking and crying, forcibly locking herself in her own world. But that time was different. It seemed that her carefully disguised mask had been lifted overnight, and there was a completely unfamiliar soul hidden inside.

Cold, vigilant, defensive, furious, resentful.

It was only that day that Mother Xiao knew how deeply Xiao Jin hated them.

“If it wasn’t for you…” She was holding the album and burst into tears, sobbing.

Some things just don’t work out.

Mother Xiao raised her face, dabbed her fingers lightly on the wet corners of her eyes, raised her skirt in front of the mirror, turned back and forth to confirm, raised her slender neck like a swan neck, and came out of the cloakroom with delicate makeup.

Father Xiao had long since restored his wife’s mobile phone and put it in her open handbag, but the gentleman stretched out an arm for Mother Xiao to hold it, the servant opened the door, and the two walked out together.

The two sat on the back seat of the extended Bentley. Mother Xiao raised her fingers and twisted the hair beside her ears. Instead of looking directly at her husband, she looked ahead and said, “I contacted Xiao Jin today.”

Father Xiao already knew that, but he still asked gently, “What did she say?”

Mother Xiao smiled bitterly in her heart, and it was only when she mentioned Xiao Jin that her husband could reveal the tenderness buried deep in his heart.

Mother Xiao said, “Today on the winter solstice, I remind her to eat dumplings.”

Father Xiao asked, “Did she eat?”

Mother Xiao said, “I ate, and said I ate eight. It’s just…” Mother Xiao blinked her wet eyes twice, “She is still alone.”

Father Xiao sighed.

Mother Xiao turned around, with an uncertain joy in her expression, and said, “But she said a few more words to me today, does that mean that it’s over soon?”

Father Xiao stared at her for a few seconds, clearly disapproving, and said meaningfully: “You forgot five years ago… Did she call us once? At that time, you also said that it was almost over, The results of it?”

The curvature of Mother Xiao’s lips became bitter again. After a long time, she turned her face away and said, “…Forget it.”

Father Xiao looked at her hesitantly, raised his fingers, touched Mother Xiao’s chin, rubbed her twice with nostalgia, turned her face around, stared into her eyes, and called out tenderly, “Xiao Yun.”

Mother Xiao-Lu Xiaoyun was stunned for a moment. In her memory, her husband hadn’t called her in such a tone for a long time.

“It doesn’t matter if she can let go,” Father Xiao looked at her and said slowly, “Can we let each other go, ten years have passed, how long will you blame me? How long will you torture yourself?”

Xiao’s mother tongue ending: “I…”

Father Xiao raised his hand to embrace her, patted her on the back, and stopped the series of words she was about to say.

Father Xiao said, “I’ve thought about it, and Xiao Jin doesn’t want to see the two of us like this. It’s going to be New Year’s Day soon. You don’t want her to go home this time, and the family will still look cold.”

Mother Xiao said with tears: “But she’s like that now… I feel bad.” Like Xiao Jin, she couldn’t get over this hurdle.

“I feel bad for me too, but you feel bad for her, can you…” Father Xiao suddenly choked, “You also feel bad for me?”

Mother Xiao tilted her head and saw strands of white hair on her husband’s temples.

Neither of them were young anymore, and all three were tortured for one wrong thing.

“Okay.” After a long time, Mother Xiao responded with tears in her eyes.

***

After getting the dumplings under the wooden pillow creek, I took a picture of Yin’s mother. Yin’s mother replied “very good” and said that she was going out to play with her friends.

Wooden pillow creek carried dumplings to the bay window. It was a coincidence, and it was a coincidence. She and Xiao Jin were in the east and west of the community. Blocked, Muxianxi could see half of the two buildings, her eyes wandered, and she slowly swept across the lit windows one by one.

I wonder if Xiao Jin is one of these households? Still in the other half that was covered up.

Wooden Pillow Creek suddenly burst into laughter with a thought: Should she keep a telescope at home?

But using the binoculars always feels a bit wretched, like a voyeur, and if you see something you don’t want to see at home, it’s too late to cover your eyes. Muzhenxi thought about it and dismissed the idea.

But Xiao Jin has really seriously thought about the need to buy a telescope. She is looking at the direction of Building 17 from a distance. Her perspective is better than that of Muzhixi. Almost the whole building can be seen. To find Muzhenxi , you can tell by looking at the telescope.

Now, when she recalled the slapstick figures she saw a while ago, she always thought that it was Muzhenxi and Yin Xiaoli. When she saw the silhouette of a tall woman, she had to open her eyes very wide and stay for a long time, for fear of missing each other.

However, the plan for the telescope was put on hold for the time being. Xiao Jin’s thoughts on Muzhenxi are the same as Muxianxi’s thoughts on her. Let it go and don’t force it. She doesn’t want to cause any pressure and trouble to the other party. It’s hard for Muzhenxi to live a little easier. .

Humans are insatiable animals. Once they have one, they will want another, again and again, and they cannot control it. She cannot let her desires go.

She is a sleeper creek supremacist.

No one could see who was at the bay window, but the two still tasted the sweetness of love in such speculation.

Breeding from the apex of the heart, a drop is enough to make people aftertaste.

Wooden Pillow Creek gave up the board in the study, directly hugged the sketchbook, put it on his knees, with a smile on his lips, he looked at the window that he could see across from him and started writing. In a building, there are many brightly lit windows, like a chessboard, but only one is the brightest, which depicts a silhouette of a woman leaning against the bay window and reading a book.

Wooden Pillow Creek stretched and closed the book. It was a new book. She stared at the cover for a while, and after a while, the corner of her mouth curved up, and she drew a golden star in the upper right corner.

Xiao Jin had been staring at a window for a long time, and an inexplicable intuition made her unable to look away. Because the distance is too far, she can only see that it is a person, and she can’t even tell the difference between male and female. When the man stood up, with long hands and feet, rubbing his shoulders or the back of his neck as he walked, Xiao Jin’s eyes lit up and a bright smile appeared.

Probably sure where she lives.

Wooden pillow stream went back to the room, and Xiao Jin also went back to the room to sleep contentedly.

Before going to bed, she received a text message with a picture from her mother. It’s funny. Today, with such developed communication software, Xiao Jin not only did not store her parents’ mobile phone numbers, but also did not add each other’s friends on WeChat.

Xiao Jin opened the picture suspiciously. It was a group photo of his parents, with his back against the railing and the sea behind him, which was brightly illuminated by the lights. It seemed that he was on a cruise ship. Father Xiao was wearing a well-crafted three-piece dark gray suit with a jump-color tie. He was tall and straight. Although he was over his destiny, his gentle and elegant appearance still made him look handsome and compelling, not to mention Mother Xiao. Nestled in the arms of her handsome husband, the long black halter dress outlines an almost perfect body curve, and every fine line at the corner of her eyes reveals elegance and charm.

Xiao Jin was stunned: This is…

She clicked the picture again, returned to the message bar, and saw the text her mother sent her: [Today I went to a dinner party with your father, he insisted on taking me to take a picture, saying he was younger than me, Come and judge, tell us which of the two of us is younger? 】

After several revisions, Lu Xiaoyun put the phone in her husband’s hand, and said nervously, “I, can I say this?”

Father Xiao pretended to check it out calmly, but he betrayed him by saying, “Yes, yes.”

As soon as he was nervous, Lu Xiaoyun immediately lost his mind and confirmed to him again: “Is it really possible?”

Father Xiao gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, broke the jar and said, “Okay, send it.”

Lu Xiaoyun just sent it.

Two successful business people who are more than 100 years old together are anxiously waiting for the “trial” from their daughter in the corner of the cruise ship. The way you talk to him.

Father Xiao: “…”

He was more than half a head taller than his wife, and he couldn’t stop him at all.

“It’s back.” Lu Xiaojun shouted excitedly, almost jumping up.

Father Xiao quickly lowered his head and put his face close: “Show me quickly.”

Lu Xiaojun closed his eyes and said something roughly “God bless” before taking a deep breath and clicking on the text message.

Xiao Jin: [You are relatively young, and your father is handsome]

Lu Xiaoyun covered her mouth and almost cried, and then another message came: [Where are you attending the dinner party, is **** port in s city? Does the back view look good? It’s windy at night, add a shawl, otherwise it’s easy to catch cold]

Not only did he reply to the news, but he also took the initiative to ask about their current situation and cared about her.

Lu Xiaoyun really cried this time, and cried very violently.

Father Xiao pressed her face to his chest while replying to messages on her mobile phone.

After replying several times, Xiao Jin took the initiative to say: [I’m going to bed], which announced the end of this conversation.

Father Xiao returned the phone to his wife, who was sobbing, and sighed.

Hope this is a good start.

Xiao Jin long-pressed the photo, chose to save, and then opened the album, staring at it for a long time, sourness in his eyes.

How long has it been? She never saw her parents show genuine smiles to each other again. Sometimes in order to make her happy during the New Year, her parents sometimes deliberately act to show her, pretending to have no grudges, pretending to be a husband and wife, but Xiao Jin can see it at a glance, because they are expressionless when their backs are turned to themselves, She felt even more sad in her heart. The house was full of depression, which made her feel suffocated, and she couldn’t stay any longer.

She also wanted to act in order to maintain the harmony on the surface, but the corners of her mouth seemed to be hanging from lead, so heavy that she couldn’t even lift it.

In addition to her hatred for her parents, she also has some kind of evasion of being the “culprit” mixed in with hatred, which makes it impossible for her to face them objectively.

Now that they have finally forgiven each other, what about themselves?

Xiao Jin turned off the light, pulled the quilt up to the top of his head, and put the lock screen of his phone back on the bedside table.

The next morning, Xiao Jin had three or four classes. As usual, she would get up an hour late, but not today. She got up at 6:30, took a brief shower, and sat on the bay window staring at the records of last night. The window that came down.

The wooden pillow creek company is nearby, so I usually walk to work. According to the time when Qi Yin met her last time, I went out around 8:30, so breakfast should be made after 7:00, but I don’t know if she will wander around in the living room for a while. Circle, if you don’t pass by the living room, Xiao Jin won’t be able to look at her.

At 7:30 in the morning, Wooden Pillow Stream took breakfast, sat cross-legged on the bay window, and habitually looked to the other side.

Although the vision is better during the day, the interference of sunlight is also very strong, and it is not as clear as at night. Muzhenxi suddenly felt like a pervert. After taking a few bites, he couldn’t help but go back with his plate, laughing as he walked.

Xiao Jin smiled and said good morning to the back of Wooden Pillow Creek, and went back to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Life has turned a new page.

Mu Zhenxi laughed at everyone, and the project team members could not believe it from the horror at the beginning to become accustomed to it later, and the daring ones would even tease her: “Is there something wrong with Sister Mu?”

Wooden Pillow Creek smiled, rolled up a piece of paper, tapped his head one by one, and said lazily, “Nothing, there is a fart situation.”

The editor girl nicknamed Corgi saw through everything with her eyes and moved with the wind. During her lunch break, she held her face in her hands and asked expectantly, “Sister Mu, would you like a big meal?”

Wooden pillow stream smiled and replied to her two words: “canteen.”

Sister Corgi rubbed her hands, thinking she had another big meal, and followed the wooden pillow stream downstairs, but she was really brought to the company canteen by the wooden pillow stream.

Corgi girl: “…”

Muzhenxi generously took out the card: “Swipe mine.”

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Note: She is a Sleeper Creek Suprematist. ——Using a sentence from Zhu Shenghao’s love letter to Song Qingru “I am, Song Qingru Supremacist”