Yao Ruoyu likes to eat with others.

With two or four people, she can create a relaxed and harmonious atmosphere for chatting, without obviously dominating the conversation. When there are many people, she doesn't steal the show or dazzle, but she naturally becomes the center of everyone's attention. Yao Ruoyu enjoys the feeling that this skill brings.

But not today.

There was "No Longer Let You Be Lonely" in the restaurant, and if it weren't for this song she liked, Yao Ruoyu would give this lunch a zero score.

The two men opposite, one Xie Wu, is her current "boyfriend", and the other is Xu Bin, who is the boyfriend of her "boyfriend". In her plan, she would start work in another week and part ways with them. Everyone is just a mutually beneficial relationship, no loss and no debt, this time we get along well, and we may contact and meet in the future, multiple friends and multiple roads.

Xie Wu said: "Yao, my mother and your mother are already acquainted, do you know? Tonight they're going to square dance together. ”

Yao Ruoyu frowned: "I don't know, she didn't tell me." When was this? ”

Xie Wu: "It seems like it's been a few days. We've been talking for half a month, and I guess they think they can do it this time. My mom likes you too. ”

"You like me after only meeting once?" Yao Ruoyu smiled, "Your mother is a little anxious." If you want to say that a man is thirty-five, he is the fifth king of diamonds, you are not a diamond, at least a pearl, and she is still worried that you can't find a partner? ”

Xie Wu smiled, didn't care about her ridicule, and said: "Blame me for being too resistant when I was young, and I didn't want to talk about my girlfriend when I said anything. The blind date before was fruitless, but this time it can be negotiated, and she will bet all her hopes on you. ”

"I can't afford to have such hopes." Yao Ruoyu knocked on the table, "You still have a chance to explain it to her." ”

Xie Wu was silent for a moment and asked, "What did you think about what we said last time?" ”

"Didn't I refuse last time? I don't think about getting married now, I just need to deal with the family. That's what we said at the beginning, right? ”

Xu Bin, who had never spoken, interjected at this time: "Sister Yao, look at your age, you are at this ......"

"Hey! Don't call me 'Sister Yao', it's too ugly. ”

Xu Bin reacted and laughed twice: "I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention." ”

Xie Wu couldn't help laughing beside him, and his stomach was punched by Xu Bin.

Xu Bin said again: "Sister, isn't it just for the sake of the family's relief when we talk about friends now?" This is just a bit of a sign, and if you break up again, won't your family be more worried? Do you want to be like this for the rest of your life? ”

"What's wrong with that? I don't want to get married for my family. ”

Xu Bin said: "Didn't you get married once? ”

Yao Ruoyu said: "I don't want to have a second time. ”

Xu Bin persuaded: "You see, the last time we talked to you about this matter, your attitude was not particularly absolute, so we mentioned it to you again." In the final analysis, whether you are talking about friends or getting married, you want to give an explanation to your family and let your parents not worry so much. Now that your parents are in their 60s, and they are still busy with your marriage, you don't want them to work so hard, do you? ”

Seeing that Yao Ruoyu seemed to be touched, Xu Bin continued to persuade: "Xie Wu is not small, it is really not easy to meet such a suitable marriage partner, I have accompanied him to see many times in the past two years, that is, you, I like it very much at first glance, sister, I tell the truth, I am willing to be a relative with you." No one says marriage has to be because of love, right? After you get married, you will be relatives, you will have nothing to eat with the elderly at home, take the elderly out to play on holidays, and it is a lot easier for you to go out with a man by your side, right? You see, there is a reunion dinner during the New Year, isn't this what the old man is looking for? As for the child, if you want, let's get a test-tube baby, and then find a surrogate mother, if you don't want to, we won't get it. It doesn't matter if you don't have children, the old man thinks that the two of you are companions, and it is enough to have a guarantee for the rest of your life, and it will not force you too much. ”

After Xu Bin finished speaking, he paused for a while, and looked at her with Xie Wu and four eyes.

Yao Ruoyu felt that there was a mountain pressing on her heart. Xu Bin is right, and what Xu Bin says is what she thinks. She is very tired of dragging her home all the time, and whenever she looks at what her parents want to say and hesitate for fear of making her angry, she can't wait to have these eyes, but she still has to smile and change the topic, again and again.

It's so tiring. Compared to this tiredness, getting married is much easier. If the child is not childless, she is already thirty-nine years old, and the elderly mother is so dangerous, the family will not urge her to give birth. Xu Bin is right, doesn't the second elder of the family just hope that she will have a companion for the rest of her life? Who is not looking for? Anyway, she has already been married once, and what can she do if she gets married again?

Why not?

Why not be reconciled?

What a good way, what is she still greedy for?

Yao Ruoyu herself didn't know. "I'll think about it again," she said. ”

Xie Wu breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay, you think about it slowly, and we will try our best to agree to any conditions." ”

Yao Ruoyu said, "I want to sit for a while. ”

Xu Bin pulled Xie Wu to get up: "Then let's go first, see you back, sister." ”

"See you later." Yao Ruoyu smiled and beckoned.

Looking at their backs, Yao Ruoyu was distracted for a long time.

She pulled out her phone and slid her finger across the screen. Swipe up, swipe up again, turn the address book down, FGHJ...... Her address book is very long, and it took a long time to slip to the end. Then her fingers slid down slightly, and then slid down again, TSRQ......

Slide to the very top, and it won't slide anymore. Yuan Mu's name is preceded by an "ah", "ah Yuan Mu", Yuan Mu......

Yao Ruoyu clicked on the name and dialed the phone.

"Hello." Yuan Mu's voice came out of the earpiece, and Yao Ruoyu felt as if he hadn't heard it for a long time.

"You're good, kid. What are you doing? ”

"I'm reading."

"What books do you read? I just want to enrich my content recently, do you have any books to recommend to me? Yao Ruoyu asked with a smile, suddenly heard the sound of pouring water, and asked without thinking much, "Where are you?" ”

"At home at the right time."

"At your side?"

"Yes."

"Then I won't bother you, goodbye."

"...... again"

The phone was broken, Yuan Mu looked inexplicable, and put down the phone.

Sheng Feng put down the kettle and asked, "Yao Ruoyu?" ”

"Well, ask me what I'm doing and ask me to recommend books." Yuan Mu reached for the cup.

Sheng Fengshi grabbed her wrist and said, "Hot, let it dry for a while and then drink." ”

"Oh." Yuan Mu withdrew his hand, "She doesn't sound very good, she hangs up the phone quickly." ”

"It may be that eating with someone is unpleasant and affects the mood."

Yuan Mu nodded and said, "The last few times she has appeared, her state has been a little strange. The next time we see her, we'll talk to her more and see where we can help her. ”

Sheng Fengshi said: "Her problems are basically in herself. I've tried to build a yì for her, but there are many differences between me and her, and my yì sometimes doesn't work, so I can't help. ”

Yuan Mu: "Then we can only wait, when she is willing to talk." ”

"But she rarely takes the initiative to contact someone all the time, it can be said that she has hardly ever been, she usually gives hints to others, waiting for others to contact her."

"Because I can't read her hints, or I understand but don't contact her?"

Sheng Fengshi: "You're already with me, and she'll contact you alone." ”

Yuan Mu: "Because she wants to be friends with me?" ”

Eventual Times: "Possible ......"

Yuan Mu understood, but he didn't quite believe Sheng Fengshi's judgment: "More than friends? ”

Sheng Fengshi said: "It's just a feeling on my part, I rarely see her these days, and I can only understand the situation through your relay." ”

"I don't know when she'll come next time. Let's find a time to ask her out for dinner? ”

"Good. Just tomorrow, today she may need to adjust her mood. The water is drinkable. ”

Yuan Mu picked up the cup and took a sip, the temperature was a little high, and it was very comfortable in his body to drink it. "You cook a dish in the afternoon, and I'll watch from the side?" Yuan Mu asked.

"Okay."

"What do you want to eat in the afternoon?"

"It's a little early to talk about it." Sheng Fengshi smiled, "Anyway, the dishes have already been bought, so I'll see before cooking." ”

"Okay, so let's continue reading?"

"Where do you see it?"

Yuan Mu turned to the last page, looked at the next page, and said, "There are still more than seventy pages." ”

"We'll clean up after that."

"Okay." Yuan Mu finished reading the current page, closed the book and said, "I can't read it." ”

Sheng Fengshi took her book and put it on the coffee table: "Worried about Yao Ruoyu? ”

"How so? She's a nice person, and I can't bear to see her stuck in a difficult situation all the time. But I know very well that I'm like you, and I can't help. ”

Sheng Fengshi took Yuan Mu's shoulder, hugged him, and said, "As you get older, you will find that there are actually only so many things you can do, and when you want to do things beyond this range, you must be ready to change." ”

"In this case, we chose not to change, did we choose the easy road?"

Sheng Fengshi said: "No road is easy. ”

"Yes, the road is just the road." Yuan Mu said, "My mind is trapped. ”

"Then skip those, we'll do the housework, or you think about something else."

Yuan Mu asked, "Is the desk in your study comfortable?" ”

"Aren't all desks like that?"

"Of course not." When it comes to what he is doing, Yuan Mu is in high spirits, "Our carpentry workshop is not only old-fashioned furniture, apprentices can take on small jobs by themselves, I see them take over a few creative home furnishings and the like, there is a clear concept, we draw drawings here, discuss and modify them a few times, and start to do it." The resulting table is not as boxy as this, but it is more practical than this. I found a lot of picture references on the Internet and am still designing. I think I can make you one if you need it. ”

"Oh?" Sheng Fengshi seemed very interested, "You draw it and I'll see it?" ”

"Okay, I'll go get a pen and paper."

Yuan Mu ran to the study, found the white paper and pencil eraser, returned to the living room, skillfully drew the outline from memory, and then explained in detail the purpose of such a design.

Sheng Fengshi listened very carefully, while listening, he asked questions, after Yuan Mu explained, Sheng Fengshi expressed his thoughts again, the two discussed a result, and then Yuan Mu erased a corner and repainted.

The drawings were revised little by little in repeated discussions.

When the final version of the design was released, more than an hour had passed, and Yuan Mu said with a smile: "I was in a trance, I didn't look at the time." Tired? ”

"Not tired." Sheng Fengshi said, "I'm not in a hurry to change the table, you do it slowly, don't work too hard." ”

Yuan Mu suddenly leaned over and touched Sheng Fengshi's lips: "Okay." ”

Sheng Fengshi pursed his lower lip, and a shallow line appeared at the end of his eyes: "Clean up." ”

Yuan Mu packed up the pen and paper.

The mobile phone placed on the coffee table suddenly lit up, and the name displayed on the screen was "Yao Ruoyu".

Yuan Mu and Sheng Fengshi glanced at each other and picked up the phone: "What's the matter?" ”

On the other side of the phone, there was rapid breathing and faint sobbing.