"Ran, Miss Lin asked me to send her home, aren't you going to join us?"

Xue Rin connected the mobile phone, and the voice of the old man was embarrassed on the other end of the phone.

"If I dare to send her, I guess I'll have to slap her. ”

Xue Rin strode through the mall, feeling very bad at the thought of what had just happened, and couldn't help but scratch his hair fiercely.

"Are you all right? She didn't treat you well during dinner, did she?"

Lao Yu is the old man of the Xue family in the end, and there is no so-called "master and servant" between him and Xue Rin, so he naturally cares more about whether his children have been wronged.

"She's a thousand gold, what can I do, you send her home first, I think I can only find a chance to apologize another day." ”

Xue Rin felt melancholy when he thought of his father's desire to be his father-in-law tomorrow.

"Okay, I'll come back to pick you up after sending her off. ”

"No, no, you can go home and rest, I'll just drive home by myself in a while, that's it, I'm hanging." ”

When Xue Rin heard that Lao Yu was actually going to come back to pick him up, he hurriedly hung up the phone and squeezed into the elevator, and pressed the button of "basement floor" without hesitation.

He stared up at the screen, and as the floor gradually descended, the anxiety in his heart became more and more nowhere to be placed.

The supermarket was almost closed, only three or three customers were left to check out at the cash register, Xue Rin changed from a quick step to a trot, after bypassing a few shelves, and then from a trot to a big run, and when he finally reached the out-of-control red wine area before he crossed several cargo areas, the figure he was looking for was gone.

He circled between the adjacent shelves, hoping to find her in some inconspicuous corner, she was the kind of being that would appear in nook and nook nooks, he knew.

"What are you looking for, sir? I'll help you. ”

The moment he heard the voice coming from behind him, the corners of Xue Rin's mouth couldn't help but raise a smirk, but when he turned around, his whole face froze.

"Sir?" this is a young girl, but the work clothes she wears are different from Yao Zhixia's, and it seems that they belong to the management department.

"Oh, I, I'm looking for someone......" Xue Rin raised her head, her eyes anxiously past the staff and searching for the distance behind her.

"If you get lost with your friends, I can take you to the help desk to broadcast. "The girl was wearing delicate makeup and kindly wanted to help.

"It's lost, but ...... Hey!May I ask where Yao Zhixia is!?" Xue Rin's patience was completely worn out, and he couldn't learn how to write the word "tsundere".

"Ahh

"Well, Yao Zhixia, aren't you colleagues who work in your supermarket?"

"O'...... Be...... She's our tally clerk here, and you're her ......."

The gentleman in front of him is well-dressed and has an extraordinary temperament, in the imagination of the girl, the person he is looking for should be the beautiful woman's hexagram, but the person he opened his mouth to find is actually the tally clerk in their supermarket, as a young woman, the fire of gossip instinctively ignited.

"Who is he looking for?"

An elderly aunt walked behind the girl, and when she saw the two talking, she asked loudly.

"He's looking for Yao Zhixia from your department. The girl looked back and replied familiarly.

"Hey, Zhixia got off work, just left, and I said hello just now. ”

The aunt was about to leave after speaking, but Xue Rin rushed up and grabbed her arm with an arrow step, and the aunt who didn't know what it meant was so frightened that she shrank back.

"Pretty auntie!Yao Zhixia, where does she live?"

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Yao Zhixia, who almost sat at the station due to distraction, jumped off the bus in embarrassment, and nodded to the driver in apologies embarrassedly.

It wasn't until the car she was too familiar with to pass away that she sighed, lifted the canvas bag on her shoulder, and headed home.

The area where she and Liu Piaopiao live is the old part of the city, with long and narrow streets crisscrossing and crisscrossing the first floor, and the shops on the first floor are densely packed, and they are lively from morning to night.

The shopkeeper is also mostly an old resident of this area, and every household has some acquaintances, and every day when he walks by, the enthusiastic vegetable seller aunt will always greet Yao Zhixia, and Yao Zhixia will basically come to her after work on weekdays.

"Zhixia, it's time to get off work!

The aunt who sells vegetables is surnamed Chen, and she is also from City B, because she is a fellow countryman with Yao Zhixia, she usually gives her more discounts, more coriander today, and a few more garlic tomorrow, which makes Yao Zhixia very embarrassed, so she often sends some small snacks or small toys to Aunt Chen's little grandson when she is a few years old when she buys vegetables.

"I just came back, I haven't eaten yet, I'll go to Niu Ji to eat a bowl of noodles in a while. ”

Yao Zhixia shook open a plastic bag and lowered his head to pick potatoes.

"It's not easy for girls, there's no one to pick up and drop off from work so late, and there's no one to cook, so don't you plan to find a boyfriend?"

Aunt Chen is a warm-hearted person, and after knowing that Yao Zhixia is from City B, she wanted to introduce her hometown to her several times, and she always felt that a girl without a father and mother was strange and pitiful to leave her hometown, but such kindness was politely rejected by Yao Zhixia on the grounds that her conditions were not good.

"I didn't think about it before, but now I ...... I don't dare to think about it, I'm used to it alone, I'm at ease, I don't have to worry about what people think of you, whether other people's families can accept you, it's not good. After picking the potatoes, she began to pick the eggplants again.

"Girls, after all, they have to get married, let's just say that our family Lanxiang, although she works here with her son-in-law, and her life is tight, but she has her own home and has her own children, this is rooted, our family Xianglan is two years younger than you, and the children are so old, Zhixia, Auntie really misses you as her own girl, Auntie hopes to have someone to protect you, Accompany you, let's take the bus back together if we don't have a car, cook a hot meal for you at home if you don't have money to go to the restaurant, and have a person who knows cold and hot, no better than anything. ”

Aunt Chen said, patting Yao Zhixia's hand holding the eggplant distressedly.

"Know the cold and know the ......"

Yao Zhixia stopped her movements and silently recited these four words in her heart, and a warm memory immediately came to her heart, she couldn't help but turn up the corners of her mouth, and shook her head with a smile.

"Aunt Chen, you're right, but this matter still depends on fate, sometimes, fate loves to play tricks on people. ”

"But ......"

"Okay, Aunt Chen, weigh me quickly, I'm hungry, I have to go eat!"

Yao Zhixia hugged Aunt Chen's arm and eagerly took her to the weigher, so that Aunt Chen wanted to continue to persuade but couldn't persuade her, so she had to give up.

Aunt Chen was weighing and breaking thoughts, Yao Zhixia was crying and laughing on the side, and when she left, she was stuffed with two green peppers, and fled the scene after thanking her repeatedly.

Aunt Chen, who was still unsatisfied, shouted anxiously behind her: "Zhixia!

Yao Zhixia didn't even dare to turn her head back, so she had to stretch out a hand and respond to her with an "OK" gesture.

A car parked on the side of the road suddenly started, Aunt Chen was startled, she glanced at the car body with disdain, and said dissatisfiedly: "Where is the car in the way here, I didn't see this narrow road, hurry up!"

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Xue Rin, who was hiding in the car and watching for a long time, saw Yao Zhixia walking out of the vegetable stall, and quickly lowered his head weakly, buried his face on the steering wheel, and tiptoed to turn the car keys, although the people outside couldn't see the situation inside the car at all.

Ever since he found this area according to the guidance given by the supermarket aunt, he has been patrolling the alley at turtle speed like a thief, his eyes constantly looking at both sides of the road, and counting the house numbers on the signboards according to the map.

One didn't pay attention, passing by an uneven road, the body bumped up and down, Xue Rin immediately nervously reached out to check whether the box of hawthorn cheese he put on the passenger seat was okay, fortunately, the box was protective, and the hawthorn cheese was preserved.

As soon as he exhaled a big sigh of relief, he caught a glimpse of Yao Zhixia's figure at the door of a fruit and vegetable store.

The hospitable proprietress pulled her and chatted for a while, and he had to quietly stop the car on the side of the street not far away, stretch his neck and wait for her to come out.

Finally waited for Yao Zhixia to come out of the store, Xue Rin followed her at a very slow speed, thinking that she would go home directly, but she didn't think about it, but she stopped in front of a small noodle stall.

"Hello boss! I want a bowl of beef noodles, wide. ”

Ordering from the boss who was cutting beef at the door of the store, Yao Zhixia picked a folding table at the door and sat down.

"I haven't seen you for so many days, I pretended to be dead when I saw me there today, and now I'm still in the mood to eat noodles, I'm still hungry!"

Xue Rin gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, wondering when he would start to make this kind of loss-making business.

I didn't enjoy the red wine and delicacies, abandoned the beautiful woman as a companion, lined up with those young people outside the window of the dessert shop in the summer, regardless of the sweat flowing from the corner of my forehead, I waited for the hawthorn cheese in the window, and traveled half the city, and came here from afar to follow and peep, such a cowardly thing Xue Rin hopes that he is the only one in the world who knows.

"Xiao Xia, your noodles are good!"

Niu Ji's boss is a simple and generous middle-aged uncle, his beef noodles are the most affordable in this area, and the amount of beef is never sloppy, Yao Zhixia often eats a bowl of hot noodles when she comes back from the night shift, even in the hot summer, she still enjoys the feeling of hot air reaching her chest.

"Boss, did you send it by mistake? I didn't ask for poached eggs. Yao Zhixia picked out the bottom strip with chopsticks and found a poached egg hidden underneath.

"That's right, you always come to my house to eat noodles, you've been eating for so long and you're still so thin, others can't say that my family is too little to eat, you're welcome, this poached egg, Uncle Niu gave it to you." ”

After the boss finished speaking, he turned around and pulled the towel off his shoulder, wiped the top of his bare head, and then sat down at the cash register and fanned it.

Yao Zhixia pursed her lips and laughed, her eyes crooked, like the moon in the sky, shining brightly.

"Hey! If you talk and laugh with Zhang San and Li Si, you ignore me! Yao Zhixia, you are really ......"

Xue Rin was angry, and a hand suddenly reached in through the driver's window and shoved a flyer in front of his eyes.

"Sir, do you know about fitness swimming?" asked a young man with a tanned face, bowing down and expectantly.

Xue Rin, who was frightened by this move, shrank aside, for fear that he would be discovered by Yao Zhixia, and hurriedly whispered, "I don't understand!

After saying that, he quickly rolled up the window of the driver's seat.

When he looked at Yao Zhixia again, he saw that Yao Zhixia was listlessly lowering his head, picking up noodles very slowly, and chewing very slowly, as if he was thinking about something.

Xue Rin glanced at the hawthorn cheese placed on the passenger seat, and couldn't help but open the box and fork a small piece with a fork and put it in his mouth.

The sour and sweet cotton melted in his mouth, Xue Rin stared at Yao Zhixia, who was only a few meters away from him outside the car window, and muttered to himself: "It's nothing special, it's just, sweet." ”

"Knock! knock!"

was immersed in this strange and heart-warming taste, but the car window beside Xue Rin was suddenly knocked again.

"Oh! How many times have I said it! No swim, no swim!" Xue Rin waved his hand without looking back, and refused impatiently.

"Comrade, please get out of the car. The voice outside the window was still unforgiving.

Being disturbed again and again, Xue Rin opened the car door dissatisfied, and before his left foot hit the ground, he lowered his voice and shouted: "How many times have you said that you don't apply for a card or swim, you ...... Hello traffic police uncle!"

The person who came was dressed in a neat traffic police uniform, holding a black instrument in his hand, and while looking at the situation in the car, he frowned and asked, "Comrade, do you know that this can't be parked?"

"I ...... Oh, yes? I don't know. ”

Xue Rin was afraid of exposing himself, so he bowed down and retracted into the car.

"I don't look like you're from here, so let's go. Seeing that he had a good attitude, the traffic police simply gave him a warning.

"Uncle traffic police, I won't stop for a long time, just for a while, and I'll leave for a while, okay?" Xue Rin was afraid that he would lose it, so he was willing to leave like this.

"This is not good, don't you see that the road is narrow, and I will be fined if I stop again!" said the traffic policeman and made a gesture to get the instrument.

Xue Rin saw that this matter was endless, and hurriedly got out of the car anxiously, "Uncle traffic police, you can be accommodating, will ......it be okay for another five minutes?"

"It's not going to work for five seconds, hurry up!" The traffic policeman who originally wanted to let Xue Rin go was also impatient, and the volume became louder.

"Uncle ...... traffic police"

"Xue Rin?"

Xue Rin's shoulders tightened instantly, and he was so shocked that he couldn't speak, his sudden surprise frightened the traffic police, and the two of them looked at each other strangely on the ground.

Secretly spitting fragrant in his heart, Xue Rin raised his hand irritably and scratched the long hair in front of his forehead, turned around with a sallow face, and looked at Yao Zhixia who was looking at him in embarrassment.

Xue Rin, you really deserve it!

After a brief self-examination, Xue Rin looked at the surprised Yao Zhixia, and suddenly had an inspiration, he turned his head, showed a sly smile, and said respectfully: "Uncle traffic police, I'll pick up someone." ”

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Yao Zhixia couldn't figure out why she was sitting in Xue Rin's car at this time, when she should have arrived home?

She didn't understand why, since she got into his car, shouldn't she have been sent downstairs according to normal logic? Why did he drive to a nearby paid parking lot? Why did the car turn off and not say a word?

Yao Zhixia held her breath, not even daring to breathe, for fear of disturbing this strange quiet.

She struggled for a long time, and when she saw that the person next to her still hadn't answered, she quietly raised her hand, secretly searched the car door, and finally put her hand on the doorknob.

"Why didn't you say hello when you left?" Xue Rin's voice was a little hoarse.

"Huh?" Yao Zhixia's hand on the doorknob couldn't help but tremble, "I, I thought you, and Miss Lin had left." ”

"I said I was discharged, and you didn't come to see me when you were discharged?" Xue Rin's tone was a little complaining.

"You were still in a coma at the time, so I ......" Yao Zhixia didn't expect him to be angry about this matter, and he didn't know how to explain it for a moment.

"Then this is even more excessive! I'm still in a coma! You're leaving!" Xue Rin raised his voice a few degrees, but he never glanced to the side.

Yao Zhixia was choked speechless, "I...... Yes......"

"Are you all recovered?"

"Huh?"

Yao Zhixia's thoughts were like riding a roller coaster, flickering, and she was always dizzy by the big turns and free fall brought by Xue Rin.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, what about you?"

Yao Zhixia lowered her head and secretly sniffed the fragrance emanating from Xue Rin's body, the aroma that made her feel comfortable swirled around her with the cold air blown by the air conditioner.

"I'm a big man, of course there's nothing left. ”

What happened when you passed out?

You must have been injured when you fell into the pit, but you're all right?

When I was in the hospital, I saw your father taking care of you, how is your relationship with him now?

Also, you and Miss Lin......

Yao Zhixia had a stomach full of questions that she wanted to ask Xue Rin, but she cowardly swallowed all the questions that came to her lips, and only one sentence remained at the end: "Hmm." ”

Xue Rin, who was still expecting Yao Zhixia to continue asking, heard Yao Zhixia's overly concise answer, and instantly determined what the word he hated in the world was, he couldn't help but sigh, thinking about what to say.

Yao Zhixia knew that she was suffering some kind of inexplicable torment at the moment, and she really couldn't sit beside him calmly anymore, so she turned her head to unbuckle her seat belt.

After catching a glimpse of the movements of the people around him, Xue Rin immediately realized that this woman who was not familiar with him was about to escape, so he reached out to stop her regardless of it.

Feeling the approaching breath, Yao Zhixia panicked and sped up his movements, but at the moment when he turned his head to pull out the safety buckle, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of a large transparent bag in the back seat.

It is printed with five big red letters: Yuanji hawthorn cheese.

Xue Rin, who was busy preventing Yao Zhixia from escaping, unexpectedly felt the stagnation of her movements, he raised his head blankly, stared at Yao Zhixia's eyes, and found that those eyes, which often shone with soft light and warmth, were staring at the back of the seat.

He was puzzled for a second, suddenly remembered something, and quickly let go of the hand that grabbed Yao Zhixia's wrist, pretending that nothing had happened, turning his head, and staring at a small tree outside the car window.

"That's ......" Yao Zhixia's eyes burned, as if he was expecting something.

"What?"

Xue Rin asked knowingly, he glanced behind him thoughtfully, and replied casually: "Oh, that's it, Internet celebrity store, buy it and try it." ”

"Oh. ”

Yao Zhixia slowly turned around, calmed the brief ripples in his heart, and raised his hand to push the car door.

As soon as she landed on one foot, Xue Rin's voice came from behind her, "I'm not good at this, you can take it!"

Xue Rin said and got out of the car, he opened the back seat door, and carried the big bag from the back of the car to Yao Zhixia's eyes.

Yao Zhixia knew that Xue Rin didn't like to eat sweet and sour things, so she didn't shirk anymore, she happily took the bag, opened it and looked inside, this sight startled her, the transparent box actually contained a piece of hawthorn cheese as big as toast bread.

"This, why did you buy so much?" Yao Zhixia couldn't help but ask.

"Is that a lot?

Xue Rin was a little weak-hearted, and he couldn't forget the puzzled looks of others when they looked at him carrying the giant hawthorn cheese in line.

"Oh, then, thank you for sending me back, and thank you for the hawthorn cheese. ”

Yao Zhixia didn't know what else to say, so she had to use polite words to end this unexpected meeting tonight.

"Well, it's okay, I'm also here to do something, I didn't expect to meet you by such a coincidence. Xue Rin rubbed his itchy nose with his index finger.

"Well, then, I'm leaving. Yao Zhixia pursed her lips and smiled, turned around and walked away.

The footsteps in the night were exceptionally crisp, Yao Zhixia couldn't help but listen intently, and there was a sound of the car starting behind him, and the lights were suddenly turned on.

She stared down at her elongated shadow from the headlights, wondering if the man's gaze would linger on her for a moment.

"Yao Zhixia!"

Yao Zhixia was stunned, and subconsciously turned around quickly, but was dazzled by the wide open headlights.

She raised her hand in front of her forehead, half-squinted, and saw the black outline of Xue Rin walking towards her in a fog.

"Leave a WeChat, in case the police have any investigation about the shipwreck to find you, I can contact you. ”

Xue Rin said this sentence with great confidence, this was the result of his hollowing out thoughts just now.

"Ah, oh, okay, then I'll sweep you?" Yao Zhixia took out his mobile phone from his pocket and held it up in front of Xue Rin.

"Okay. Xue Rin replied as she peeked to see if she had actually scanned his QR code.

As soon as Yao Zhixia finished sweeping, Xue Rin easily lowered his phone, "Okay, you can go." ”

"Oh. Yao Zhixia turned around.

"That!" Xue Rin suddenly shouted, startling Yao Zhixia and hurriedly turned around.

"Be careful when walking. Xue Rin looked calm, and habitually scratched the back of his head after speaking.

"Huh, too, drive carefully. Yao Zhixia was a little embarrassed by Xue Rin's surprise, but she had to turn around and walk away.

Xue Rin stood in place and watched Yao Zhixia, as soon as her thin figure disappeared around the corner of the exit of the parking lot, he immediately picked up his mobile phone and passed the verification of applying for friends.

He curiously clicked on Yao Zhixia's avatar to see, well, the quiet starry sky is quite low-key.

But after seeing that Yao Zhixia's WeChat name was "want a shrimp", Xue Rin couldn't help but smile, he thought about it again and again, and changed the remark to "Yao Ran Run".