The next day was Sunday, and I didn't get up until noon, and I didn't want to be lazy, but I didn't fall asleep until near the wee hours of the morning.

I went downstairs with my face like the bottom of a pot, sat down at the dining table, and felt that I was quite unspeakable, so I got up and went to the kitchen to help my great-aunt serve the food, and bumped into Qi Xiang head-on. We walked around as if we hadn't seen each other, and he brought a plate of sweet and sour fish to the table.

Next to the kitchen counter, Aunt Zeng was knocking off her sister's hand that was trying to steal food: "Take the little paw away." "

"Wow." I quipped, "It's hearty." "

"Xiao Qi is going to move out this afternoon and give him a meal."

I reacted, and at the same time relieved, there was a kind of unnaturalness of the parties: "Quite suddenly." "

In the end, my great-sister licked her fingers and shrugged at me, meaning that you deserve to provoke him so much.

During the banquet, Uncle Zeng raised his glass and said: "Xiao Qi, if you talk about business, then I won't keep it, six words, do it well, and come to play often." "

Sister Zeng applauded: "Good, good, my dad is really a folk poet, rhyme." "

Everyone laughed, and the two men drank the wine clean.

"? Follow your dad, refresh! Sit, sit! Okay, before the feast--" Uncle Zeng's chopsticks were made into a seven-up-eight shape, and he pointed: "Let me sell a pass, and let the three of you guess which dish is made by your brother Qi." "

We looked at each other, and Aunt Zeng spoke: "How can there be someone like you, you have to let people taste it before you speak, come, see if you can eat it or not." "

I decided that the sweet and sour fish like black charcoal was his masterpiece, and I tasted it with chopsticks, the taste was okay, a little salty, I took a bite to eat and raised my eyes to look at him.

I'm not a perceptual disorder, it's one thing to pretend to be confused, but think about it in connection with everything, this man is out of lust or whatever, judging from the performance, he probably doesn't hate me, if he can, he can fall in love or something, it's the best choice.

But listen, how sad, the best choice. No matter how good he is, he is not the one who has no choice. At that time, I was in a martyrly mood, and I felt bored with the other possibilities of feelings.

I only moved the sweet and sour fish with chopsticks, and I never looked at it again, and my two children and I liked a plate of desserts in the shape of a small spring roll. Here's how to make this thing: cut the banana vertically, dip the egg white and roll a layer of desiccated coconut, add shrimp, fresh shellfish and sea cucumber, wrap it in a layer, and fry it.

So it's slightly sweet, and it's fresh, and it's small, not much bigger than a finger cookie. The fillings were cut into thin cubes, and I didn't taste them at the time, so I ate several of them with confidence.

Aunt Zeng smiled and gave me the last clip: "This tastes good, doesn't it?" "

"Well, what is it? Small spring rolls? "

"Xiao Qi." She asked excitedly, "What is this called?" "

"Banana-scented seafood rolls."

"Seafood?" I thought, miserable.

"This is what Xiao Qi did, I didn't see him so delicate, right?"

"Ahem, ahem......"

"Sister, what's wrong, what's wrong?"

The next day I had a small red spot on my arm and mild diarrhea, I have a seafood allergy. I sat in the bathroom scratching and scratching, thinking hatefully, the eight characters don't match, the eight characters don't match.

Someone next to him flushed, the door opened and closed, and then a female voice said: "Are you here too?" "

"Are you there too?"

As soon as I heard the voice, I knew the two of the law firm. I want to laugh, greetings are really good, never picky, can be done on any occasion.

One of them coughed lightly and lowered his voice: "Hey~ I think, won't you?" "

"That's what you say?"

"Which one else?"

"Yes, yes, I also think that the surname Li can't take his own case, as for doing this to pry the corners of his colleagues."

"That's right, but if you look at what Lawyer Wang meant in the morning, it's obvious, it's almost named."

"She dares, there are more people with the surname Li."

"I can only scold the assistant to understand the anger, the little white assistant is really pitiful."

"I can't talk about it, I heard that she caused it if it didn't work out, and she didn't carelessly leak the information herself."

"To whom?"

The words below are close to whispering, and not a single sound can be heard clearly. I sat there and was excited and thought, wow, workplace drama, workplace drama, exciting.

As a result, as soon as I went out and sat down in my seat, I saw the girl who was brought by Lawyer Li and patted me:

"Zhuang Ning, don't take it too seriously, others don't understand, I believe in you."

She came out of nowhere, and I said, "Huh? "

She was confused by me, put her hand on my shoulder and continued not to take it away, that look, quite like picking up gold and waiting for praise, but the other party said What are you doing, this is not mine at all, that kind of conscious and amorous embarrassment.

I was nervous by her: "What did you say? "

"Oh, it's fine."

"If I don't take you like this, what else can I do? Say yes, say yes. "

This sister is obviously hesitant, whether she wants to be a key node in the information chain - most people are reluctant to directly spread bad news to the person concerned, and if she doesn't do it, she will be hated by the other party and the person with the news.

As a result of the trade-off, she sat down, rested her elbows on the edge of the table, and told me what she knew in a tone that sounded as small talk as possible, and then reassured: "Actually, it's nothing, they have no evidence." "

I'm almost gone, sister, you should be a civil lawsuit, who asserts who will provide evidence? Rumors have always been soft and slippery, what evidence does it need to be a muscle?

It started with a phone call last week.

Originally, it was the case that lawyer Wang was working on, but the client called and said that he had found a new lawyer, so he would not trouble her. The king is very displeased, which of your songs will question my ability?

The other party hesitated for a while, telling the truth, in fact, we were going to find that one, his reputation in the industry is recognized, the problem is that people are busy, and they can't look down on our small case, and now it is rare for him to find us and say that he is willing to help with this, you see, don't we also want to win the lawsuit?

Lawyer Wang hung up the phone, there is no need to mention this frustration in her heart, she was almost disheartened, she resigned from her original unit and went home to have a child, and it was only two years before and after, but her previous efforts and achievements have been forgotten by this industry.

Frustration is frustration, she can still adjust her mentality, it's not that she hasn't done psychological construction before she comes back, and she is somewhat prepared for this situation. But when she knew that it was lawyer Li from the same firm who took over the case, she couldn't figure it out anyway, so she went to the door to grab a job, and he didn't have a grudge with her. She couldn't wipe it off and asked in the face.

At this point, it has nothing to do with me. But lawyer Wang thought about it for a while, she has always grasped this client tightly, how could it be lost to others, she called Assistant Bai over, the latter thought for a long time, swallowed, last time I brought the information to eat with Zhuang Ning, and went to the bathroom halfway.

In the law firm, she robbed the source of the case with a colleague who lowered her head and didn't look up, where would anyone be willing to do such a desperate thing, so she relaxed her vigilance, which was not a mistake. Everyone who listened felt that the fault was wrong, and that I was sitting across from her with ill intentions.

I listened, dumbfounded, and almost wanted to laugh, what kind of famine year, the paranoia of being killed is so common.

"I'll go back to Lingcheng in two days, and I'm idle when it's like this, right?" When I spoke, I realized that I was still quite angry, for such a ridiculous right and wrong.

"I know, I know." The source hastened to take a stand: "It's really boring. "

What's boring, some people will guess like this, question and then draw conclusions, I can't carry out any guidance in this series of processes. I imagined myself holding everyone I saw to defend me, and I really didn't, really. Then let the other party be self-righteous but smile forgivingly, and the diaphragm should kill me.

Xianglin's sister-in-law did the same back then. As for it, I can buy a train ticket back to Lingcheng this afternoon, and I don't owe an explanation to anyone.

You can imagine how depressed I am for the rest of the day, you know that people make a mistake, when they assume that everyone around them has a bad impression of themselves, they tend to simply give up completely pleasing others, and that's how I did, turn on the computer, surf the Internet, and be like no one else.

Shen Sibo's QQ avatar lit up, but he didn't speak. It was normal for him to remain silent, having tried to talk to me a few times before, but had been completely ignored.

Later, a girl once told me this, she said that men are sometimes more amorous than women, especially the kind of responsibility and protection that is too much, whether you love you or not, you have to worry about you because of him. Her ex-boyfriend once pestered her on the Internet and asked if she was in love now, and when she admitted that he said quite casually, oh what, I'll do something next week, you can come too.

You see, I'm afraid that after I hear this, if I don't have any sustenance, I'll have to look for death and life.

I laughed, laughed and thought that Shen Sibo in the summer of 2002 was nothing more than this mentality, he had to make sure that he left me and I could still be as stupid as before, so that he could carry out his own feelings without guilt.

Until I once couldn't bear it anymore and almost replied with resentment, Shen Sibo, if you don't like me, don't care about me.

I'm not absolutely sincere, I hope that a miracle will appear and he said, Zhuang Ning, I actually regret it.

As a result, he didn't reply to a word.

And now I look at his head, and weakness grows from the old wound, and I really want to talk to him.

"I'm in a bad mood." I typed it out, read it silently, and deleted it word by word. I knew he would be caring, friendly, warm and unwilling.

I've wasted a summer vacation in vain, and I'm about to go back in disgrace, so what will I do when I see him?

Speaking of which, what the hell is going on, I go from city to city, is it always a deserter? is like a small life and a small life, but he can't be reincarnated as a human being with peace of mind.

How can there be such a reason.

Standing up, I patted the folds off my skirt. A few minutes later, I intercepted one of the parties at the door of the pantry:

"Lawyer Bai, I want to talk to you."

Assistant Bai was obviously prepared for the current scene, and said very sincerely, I really don't know what this is about, I don't mean anything about you.

She has caught a cold in the past two days, holding a fine porcelain cup with a cat's face, coughing slightly and trying to speak, looking very much like that: "I just explain the facts, and I can't help what others judge." "

I said, "Is it still a fact that you can lose weight by taking drugs, and don't you talk about a guide in everything?" "

She probably didn't expect me to say this, so she was stunned and said, "What orientation?" "

"Even when you're telling the truth, at least mention that you go to the bathroom, and it doesn't take ten minutes before and after, what can I do? What's more, Lawyer Li doesn't have no lawsuits, take a step back, even if he really wants to rob it, do you think there will be a normal person who instructs his assistant to do such a ridiculous thing, and he won't talk to someone directly? Stealing information, you can figure it out. "

Assistant Bai looked at me and blinked for a long time: "Zhuang Ning, you are really born to eat this line of food, you see that I don't know what to say, no one says you, steal." "

She repeatedly metaphysical like this, pretending that there was no connection between the two things, I was a little annoyed: "Assistant Bai, let's put it simply, this is the matter between Wang and Li, my point is that you really want to figure it out, don't get involved with me, just ask Li, don't you ask me to help you ask, can't you?" "

"Oh, you don't know, Lawyer Li went on a business trip?"

"There's always a cell phone."

"I can't tell you on my phone." She paused for a moment, and then said: "Zhuang Ning, why bother, you will go back as soon as the summer vacation is over, what does everything here have to do with you?" When they turned around, they tore their faces, everyone is not good-looking, how embarrassing Director Zeng should be. "

She leaned close to me: "Don't look at you lawyer Li is a gentleman, do you know what he said about the king in private?" Say she's not going to work, why? After being good, the children are all mothers, do you still sleep with others? "

"......"

"Then again, what about him." She came up and was indignant: "Some time ago, in the drug prohibition incident, the youngest victim was only six years old, and the township pharmaceutical factory stopped for a short time, but our lawyer Li has high means, and each victim got a few hundred yuan, hum, a few hundred yuan." "

She sneered, and the words I responded to in my head were all weak second-hand truths compared to the cold reality in front of me.

When I was about to get off work, Luo Ting called her mobile phone, and I was still thinking about Assistant Bai's words. The latter didn't want to be cannon fodder for gossip, she talked about it like that, just because she found another way out.

"Yes, I didn't want to do it originally, I really have no future as an assistant all the time, I don't want to take over, I only help some ignorant and ignorant low-level women to fight divorce lawsuits, I didn't learn to do this until now." She bypassed me at that moment and walked out: "Seriously, it's not easy for anyone. "

I'm not hypocritical, I'm not moralistic, but I really feel sad, I've been a realist since I was a child, and I fully agree with the rationality of profit-seeking, but Themes, the goddess of law in my heart, at least she shouldn't have a kitsch and greedy face.

I'm really frustrated.

"Honey, what are you doing?"

"Didn't do it."

"Okay, after work, we Changqing will invite you to dinner."

"I don't want to go, I'm not in the mood."

"Cut, you are a little broken child, learn what to play deeply, come over to me, that, Senior Brother Qi will also come."

"...... Not to mention not going. "

She called again twenty minutes later: "Damn, Zhuang Ning, as soon as we Chang Qingyi said that you were here, Senior Brother Qi refused without saying a word, but you told me about it, what kind of reputation are you doing?" "

That's Luo Ting's man who has a little bit of interest, I think about it, it's not appropriate to say it, and I'm in a hurry: "Guess." "

"I guess." She was not angry: "Isn't it that he has thoughts about you?" "

"......"

"You don't have to let me say it so directly, do you?"

"What are you doing?"

"I, I, I already saw it, you see that you got lost that time, I called him, he rushed out before he finished speaking, Senior Brother Qi, how could he be like that." She said, and she couldn't hear what the tone was: "I asked him later, and he admitted it very directly--Zhuang Xiaoning, you are an idiot, everyone knows it except you." "

How did you do it today, everyone came to give me the facts and reason.

"yes, I don't know, I'm particularly reluctant to think about this now, it's tiring." I said, "I'm still busy with my career." "

She said after a few seconds: "Zhuang Ning, tell me honestly, do you really dislike him, or ...... Just tell me about it, anyway, people have said that he is not interested in you, it doesn't matter what you say. "

I leaned on the table and thought about it.

The first time I saw him, his pale and tired countenance, and then again, his high-spirited appearance, again and again, unexpectedly, quarrels and occasional cooperation, each time we met each other did not seem very pleasant, but there was a strange freshness.

"Disgust certainly doesn't count." I said thoughtfully, "Not really." "

He kissed me, and I was really angry? I can't talk about it.

"But I've probably always hated him because I'm consciously resistant."

"I resisted, mainly because, well, I think, there are some things about him that are very similar to me, and there are things that I don't like about myself, and I can't say the specifics."

Yes, and besides, my feminine vanity. "He's really good, in fact, I have a pretty good impression of him, and sometimes I'm a little tempted."

For example, he brought me medicine, for example, he led me across the street, for example, he made banana-flavored seafood rolls.

"Well, it's tempting...... Forget it, I'm talking to you anyway, even if it's tempting, it's just ......"

It's just that no matter how good Qi Xiang is, there are better things in the world than him, and there is no end to such a thing.

But Shen Sibo has only one, and that kind of feeling will never be there again, so I don't want anyone for the time being.

I analyzed it here, only to find that there was no sound over there, and it seemed that Luo Ting dropped the phone and ran away.

"Hello? Feed? What about people? "

"Zhuang Ning, you spoke too well." Luo Ting's sly tone: "The person is driving, or I will turn off the speaker, and you can continue to talk to him." "

"Luo Luo Luo ......"

"Oh, there's no need, we're downstairs under you." She smiled gloatingly: "Let you not explain anything to me, Zhuang Xiaoning, you deserve it." "

I deserve it, I'm unladylike.

I jumped up and ran to the elevator, waving at everyone I saw along the way: "If anyone is looking for me, say I'm, uh, missing, and never seen before." "

The office is on the 28th floor, and there is only one docked double-storey here, which shows that the car goes down to the first floor and then slowly rises.

They might just be on this trip.

I took a step back and looked to the side.

Safe passage, safe passage.

After that, if someone listens to me and what happens next, most of them are one reaction, Zhuang Ning, you still, admit it.

Only one sister looked at me calmly for two seconds, and then what?

And then......

Do you know how frightening it was when I was lying on the railing of the nine-story staircase with my eyes closed and panting for breath with my eyes closed, and I was glad that I heard footsteps and opened my eyes to see the person?

"Zhuang Ning, are you going to come down, or are you going to run back the same way?" He walked up slowly, reaching out to loosen his tie, a light sweat on his forehead.

Since this can be hit head-on, what else can I run, grandma's, don't run. I glanced at him, sat down on the first step, and fanned myself.

He came over to me and stood quietly for a few seconds, then he sat down next to me.

None of us spoke. I still remember the way he looked that day, with a strong color difference between his side face and black hair, a pigeon-gray shirt slightly folded at the elbows, buttons of the same color on the cuffs, and long, knuckle-knuckled hands habitually touching his pockets for cigarettes.

I couldn't touch anything, and I guess I lost my coat somewhere.

He's actually quite nervous, although his expression can't be seen at all.

I couldn't help it: "What are you looking for, looking for?" "

He took it back in his hand: "It's nothing." "

"Luo Ting, what about them?"

"I don't know, let's go first."

"If someone Luo shows me again, I want to, I want to ......" I tried to come up with a powerful threat, reaching out and shaking my fist at the void.

Qi Xiang looked at me, pressed my hand, and clasped it on his lap.

I subconsciously wanted to break free, but he didn't relax, I struggled again, but he then trapped my forearm with the crook of my elbow, my arm against the muscles of his upper arm, and the whole person was forced to lean towards him.

I staggered and said, "Holy! "

"Zhuang Ning." There was a dangerous smile in his tone: "You don't want me to be here for the third time, kiss you, right?" Or did I guess wrong? "

I looked at him up close, with his fair-skinned but hard-lined face and smiling eyes. yes, how strange, this man has kissed me twice, we have known each other for two years, and three months ago we barely even called ourselves friends. The data confuses me.

......

When I said this, the sister interrupted me: "Then you didn't ask him, why did he intercept you from the safe passage?" "

"Asked." I didn't notice I was smiling when I answered: "He said, because it's more like your style." "

The other party: "That's it?" "

"That's all."

She looked at me expressionlessly for two seconds: "Zhuang Ning, you still have to admit it." "

I kept coming out of the office building that day, and Comrade Qi Xiang didn't let go of my hand. My mobile phone rang, and after answering it, Uncle Zeng asked Xiao Ning, are you okay, someone saw you running out in a panic. What's that, gossip, you just treat them as a dog, someone dares to embarrass you, and you have to pass my level, ah? "

As soon as he said this, I remembered that there was still such a public case.

"It's okay, Uncle Zeng, I can handle this matter by myself, don't worry."

"Let's talk about this again, where are you now, I don't have a social, go home directly, do you want to hitchhike?"

"I'm ......" As soon as the two words came out, Qi Xiang reached out and took the phone over, Malier's, quite accustomed to nature: "Hey, Uncle Zeng?" ...... It's me, yes, she's with me...... She doesn't go back to eat in the evening...... Yes, I'll send her...... Okay, goodbye Uncle Zeng. "

Then he shoved the phone back into me: "Save you from calling back." "

I was a little helpless: "Don't scare his old man." "

Qi Xiang laughed and stroked my hair: "Who is Uncle Zeng, you think too much." "

I tilted my head away and frowned.

He just said to me in the corridor, Zhuang Ning, I have a good impression of you, and you are okay with me, why don't you give it a try.

You see, what he said was, a good impression. This was the most direct word he could express at that stage. It's more casual, it's not so scary, and I thought it might be easier to regret it later.

I wanted to refute it, but suddenly I didn't bother to do it, yes why not try it, I said I really don't feel bad about him. And I can't keep my imaginary love with Shen Sibo for the rest of my life.

The thought made me feel a little discouraged, I said, but I couldn't guarantee anything.

He looked at me and answered, and so did I, but I'd love to try.

I asked him if he remembered Shen Sibo, the one who almost fought with him on the eve of the new century.

This is a nonsense, and he did not answer either, waiting for me to say.

From the ninth floor to the first floor, I let him hold my hand with his fingers crossed, and I told him about the previous emotional gains and losses, objectively, without exaggeration or evasion.

I took a breath before I went out the door: "That's about it, no." "

Qi Xiang was silent, and smiled at the moment:

"So soon, you started to explain to me? I haven't even asked. What a real girl. "

"You're less here." I said stupidly: "Nothing else, just to tell you clearly, whether I can forget him or not is still a question." "

"You want to know if I mind?"

"Hmm."

"It's impossible not to mind." He replied quite indifferently: "But so what, since people don't like you." "

"......"

"Unless you tell me, this person is empathetic and don't fall in love, and he will rush back to Lingcheng immediately, didn't he fight that night, make up for it."

I muttered, "Not really. "

"Then take your time, I'm not in a hurry."

I didn't answer. The reason why I didn't answer was because I was a little inexplicably frustrated, I want to say, damn, are you the second male lead in Korean dramas?

You must have seen it, I am suspected of stirring up trouble, mainly because of this meaning--Qi classmates, look, I will make everything clear, I will be like this, the most innocent and fiery feelings are probably over, a heart is old and mottled, love do you want to do it yourself, don't look back and feel fooled and trouble me.

It's not worth pumping, isn't it? Don't worry, what I do now, time will settle with me little by little.

According to what I later learned about Qi Qi's classmates, he must have thought at the time, damn it, should I be the second male lead in Korean dramas - of course, provided that he has watched Korean dramas.

But he is a good person, fortunately, there is one point, when he is not provoked, his joy and anger are not very colorful, and he can always maintain enough rationality, judge the situation clearly, and then make the best choice possible.

After answering the phone that day, there was nothing to do all the way, and I was bored, so I asked him:

"By the way, I said mine, what about your ex-girlfriend?"

"Which of my ex-girlfriends?" When he saw me glaring at him, he smiled and said, "You said Jiang Ling." "

"yes, don't you love her very much?"

"I used to love her very much." He said, "You know everything, you will follow the foolishness, little bastard." "

"Cut, when others mention you, you look melancholy, Qi Qingsheng."

Qi Xiang had a somewhat pleasant expression, and I quickly said:

"Don't get me wrong, you're sorry for you, I don't mean anything else."

"Have you seen it?"

"Who? She? Haven't seen it. "

"Don't say it, it looks a little like you."

"...... It's true? "I don't know if it's appropriate to be happy at this time, but people are flowers, and they are famous beauties.

"Really. Of course, you're not as pretty as her. "

"...... It's not yours anymore, what's the use. "

"So, is it appropriate for you to say that I am not melancholy?"

"Inappropriate - how did you meet?"

"High school classmates."

"Is it the first love?"

Qi Xiang said helplessly: "Please restrain your surprise." "

"I thought you had a lot of experience." I counted with my hands, and one hand was not enough: "Then you really have many years." "

"Yes, quite a few years." He replied nonchalantly, "What do you want for dinner?" "

I was still thinking about it, and he saw a Spanish restaurant, took me by the hand, pushed the door open, and went in.

Did I ever say that I'm a person who takes myself very seriously? If someone asks me to say where to eat, I will definitely consider it seriously and answer, and I will basically not come up with such a random word.

The restaurant was actually pretty good, but he didn't mean to listen to me when he asked me for my opinion, which made me feel a little awkward.

But because the meal was quite enjoyable, I quickly forgot about it, and if I calmed down and talked well, Qi Xiang was indeed a very interesting person. We can keep up with each other's train of thought, but we don't know exactly what the other party will pick up next.

The beginning of autumn has just passed a few weeks. Every season, the darkness of the night is different, it will gradually deepen with the autumn mood, but at this moment, it is still the kind that the summer has not ended, moist, and Uri is shining with water, like a child's eyes.

The lights are all on.

The music in the room is bright and cheerful, with the fragrance of the sun between the beginning and the end.

The two of us chatted and recalled their respective childhoods, and Qi Xiang said that not only Uncle Zeng had turned his home into a guest house, but his family had been like this before.

"Then your dad is a very enthusiastic person, how could he ......?"

He looked at me and motioned for me to continue.

I bowed my head and smiled secretly, do you want me to continue to ask, how could your father raise a son with such a character as you? I think he was like this, he was probably a cold little boy when he was a child, and he pushed open the bathroom in the early morning and bumped into a stranger, and the look on his face I imagined was really interesting.

"My dad." He didn't ask any more questions, and replied to himself: "Except for me, he is indeed quite enthusiastic about others." "

I want to say, so is our family. He then smiled: "But people don't necessarily buy it, once, his class reunion was still, the youngest daughter of a friend's family for more than ten months, his old man deigned to tease, but the little girl howled, that miserable, and finally I coaxed her over." "

"How old were you?"

"At the age of four or five, there is only a vague impression left." His tone was slightly self-deprecating: "Look at Zhuang Ning, at that time I still had the language ability to coax girls, but now it's the opposite." "

He looked at me, and his voice came down, quite flat and casual: "Comfort is basically a kiss." "

I was still snickering at him, and in a blink of an eye, my face turned red behind my ears: "You're comforting, or." "

It's still comfort.

I was embarrassed to say it, I was still more reserved at the time.

Qi Xiang probably wasn't used to talking like this all the time, so he coughed lightly and leaned back in his chair, as if retreating to a safe distance other than being too close: "What about you?" "

I said, I had a good childhood, no one cares, lawlessness.

Of course, my mother is not completely laissez-faire, but the way is relatively simple, people who are used to ideological work, know to start from the source, since romantic fantasy is the death hole of a little girl, and the tragedy is a hormone-caused bloody case, so simple, search my schoolbag from time to time, romance novels she saw and tore a copy, resulting in me basically never read romance or martial arts before I went to college, as for what day is the Nile daughter on the bank of the Red River, it is closer to a different dimensional reading for me, And once thought that the people who rented novels and comics were bad teenagers.

"But in fact, my mother didn't ban the idea, you know that there is a thick bound book in our bookcase, the eighties, the emancipation of the ideological trend, the monthly report of novels, the harvest, there are all that should be, and there are all that should not be."

"I've been a teenager and have nothing else to see, so I'm forced to watch these all day long, and the scars are particularly realistic, either a mid-life crisis, or a village cadre occupying the women of the whole village, or 'her bewitching body is like a flower in the last days', I'm easy, it's too miserable."

I drank my saliva and was in high spirits, I really never found out that my childhood was like this, because the contrast was strong and humorous, Shen Sibo has never liked to hear what I have seen.

Qi Xiang listened to me with great interest, and broke it illogically.

I describe myself, like most children, going through endless days of fighting with their parents and fighting for all kinds of entertainment, both legal and illegal. When I was in elementary school, I secretly watched the Fengshen list, in junior high school, I watched Yitian Slayer Dragon, in high school, I watched Slam Dunk, and I watched Xiangbei shoot a decisive three-point shot, the ball swirled around the edge of the basket, and the footsteps of my dad going upstairs were approaching little by little, and I was already in a posture of pulling out my legs to run, and my eyes were still staring at the screen and refused to move.

The damn ball, the moment his footsteps stopped outside the door, it entered the frame and came out of the ending song.

I turned off the TV, unplugged the power, covered the cloth, and rushed into the room on tiptoe, while my dad almost at the same moment, the key was twisted to the maximum size, and he pushed it forward - his daughter was standing at the door of the room, looking innocent and a little scared: "Dad is back?" "

To this day, I still have lingering thoughts about the sound of the keys turning.

Qi Xiang laughed, and I laughed, rubbing the glass in my hand.

"I did it in elementary school -- and guess what?" He said: "My mother went to work again, unplugged the TV cable at home and took it away, and brought it back in the evening. "

"You too?" I can't believe it.

"After junior high school, there is no more, and every child will suddenly have a time to understand." He said solemnly: "Let me tell you, before that, I tried to take over the wire and use the battery to receive the signal, but I did everything anyway." "

I lay on the table and laughed, so coke, he was such a person.

"Where did I say before? Oh yes, and my mom thinks that femininity is a thing that affects progress, and she dressed me up as a boy since I was a child, and once I was in elementary school, I finally got my hair a little longer, and she discussed with me, mom help you cut your hair, you see it's like Aunt Li.

Aunt Li's hairstyle was very popular back then, a little longer under the ears, yes, a bit of the current one, the taste of Sassoon's model, I was very happy to hear it, my mother said again, but she is not good enough, a little shorter than her, I guarantee that you are a beautiful little girl when you go out.

I said, just keep it short. She said yes, yes.

As a result, I was given beauty, and I looked forward to it for many days, and finally she was free that day, and she sat down to help me cut it, to be honest, my hair had been kept for a long time, and I was quite reluctant to cut it, but I thought about it beautifully, so I sat patiently for an hour.

Finally my mom patted me, okay. I looked in the mirror with joy.

Isn't this the boy-like athletic head I kept since I was a child? "

Qi Xiang looked at me sympathetically: "Poor child. "

"You don't know that I cried so much that day, the worst time I cried so much, it was very sad, my own mother, just lied to me like this." I shook my head regretfully: "Why do you say these adults are like this, I play with me at such a young age, what is that." "

The man on the other side stared at me without saying a word, and suddenly reached over and touched my short hair: "Then you haven't tried to keep it long again?" "

"Well, get used to it." I awkwardly tried to dodge: "Don't move. "

"You'll probably look good with long hair, try it." He withdrew his arm and said, "The first time I saw you, you were always like this with short hair. "

"See me for the first time." After a few seconds of silence, I picked up the topic again: "Do you remember the first time you saw me?" "

"Winter, Lingcheng Railway Station."

"Do you know when I first met you?"

"Not that day?"

"No, remember that mock trial you attended? Did I mention it to you? "

"Remember, that time?"

"Earlier than that." I thought back to the scene at that time, and suddenly asked, "Jiang Ling has long hair, right?" "

He frowned: "What are you doing with her if you have nothing to do?" "

It's nothing.

It's just that I just knew that he had only had that love once, and it must have been a very sad one. I don't have any other feelings, but I am curious about what other people's unforgettable lives are like.

Dating in the business district is such a benefit, as long as you want to, you will never find a place to go after dinner.

After coming out, we went to the cinema, there were a lot of people, and they all lined up to buy tickets, and I stood next to the snack place waiting for him, and a girl put her arm around her boyfriend and said to me very politely: "Let me go." "

I stepped out of the way, and she was behind me, pointing and talking to the boy, and the boy said something, and she put her head against his shoulder and smiled, and slapped him lightly with one hand.

That's what a couple looks like.

And my classmate Qi and I were almost strangers before the afternoon, and we got together in the evening, and we also learned to go on dates and watch movies, how strange and silly.

"Take it." Qi Xiang came over and handed me the ticket, while stuffing the change into his wallet: "It's half past seven, and there will be a while." "

"Fare 65, plus 2 ...... of meal"

Qi Xiang glanced at me, and I died halfway through the road with a word. He's not Shen Sibo, he's not that patient.

Well, there's a next time, there's a next time.

It turned out to be a good value for money, because if it weren't for the half-hour of wandering around waiting for it to start, there were things I might never have figured out for the rest of my life.

The journey of discovery began when I passed by a pharmacy and I remembered that I needed to buy eye drops, and Qi Xiang accompanied me inside.

Here I met the aforementioned one, an assistant with one of my lawyers, and this time the man.

I can't remember what this comrade's specific surname is, so I called him Xiaozhu, only to see Xiaozhu in a suit and leather shoes, carrying a briefcase, leaning over and asking the pharmacy service staff:

"Which medicine is better for colds?"

"Cold, or viral?"

"Cold, my girlfriend, she's still a little mentally weak, is there anything to calm her nerves?"

"Oh, so some white and black?

"Okay, two boxes."

"Sir, cash or card?"

"Wait, I'll buy something else." He didn't see me until he said this: "?!" "

I wonder if he forgot my name for a while: "Hello, too." "

Take medicine too? Did you eat today? Not so good.

"...... Hehe. "

"Who's cold?"

"A friend, it's fine."

"Oh." I didn't care, and said to the counter, "I want a bottle of eye drops." "

I looked at Kosuke as I paid the bill, and the look on his face was strange, a bit similar to the urgency of rushing to the bathroom. Qi Xiang was a stranger standing beside him, and he didn't even pay attention.

I took the medicine and said, "Then you're busy, I'll go first." "

He hurriedly replied: "Okay, I'll go over there too, see you later." With that, he went straight to the self-help area next to him, and his back was in a hurry.

Qi Xiang kept looking at him, and said to me at this moment: "Colleague? "

"Well, how do you know?"

He smiled, "It doesn't look like someone who can be your friend." "

I shrugged my shoulders and walked a few steps before I remembered that I should ask him about the entanglement between Li and Wang's lawyers. When he turned around, his figure was gone.

The moment I turned my head, in my mind, a match of inspiration brushed the fire phosphorus of logic, and with a brush, the cause and effect suddenly lit up for a moment.

I said to Qi Xiang, "Wait a minute. "

Then I ran to the self-help area.

Xiao Suke hadn't slipped away yet, he stood in front of a row of medicine racks and called in a low voice: "Honey, what is the name of the kind you want?" ...... Oh okay, you can't buy the wrong one...... By the way, you know who I just met? "

I bent over, my eyes fixed on the layers of medicine, but I listened to him carefully.

At this time, someone behind me patted me. I thought it was Qi Xiang and frowned: "Let you wait!" "

As a result, he turned his head and saw a smiling face: "Little girl." "

The clerk at the pharmacy, who was about the same age as my mother, looked at me kindly, "How old are you?" "

...... "Why should I tell you?"

"That's your boyfriend out there, isn't he?"

The gossip grew, and I glared at her in confusion.

"Don't be embarrassed, Auntie has seen a lot of this kind of thing." She sighed: "But he is too, and he should not let the little girl buy such things for fear of losing face." "

"...... Auntie, what are you talking about? "

"Hey." She sighed and stuffed a small box into my hand: "Take this, this effect is better than the others, and it is less harmful to the body." "

She straightened up: "Little girl, you have to learn to protect yourself in the future, you know?" "

I look at her, and then at what I have in my hand. Two words, the first one I don't know yet, what Ting.

Take a closer look.

Five little black squares put together in a pile, is such a word, the morning-after pill.

I'm, I'm.

That's when I realized, yes, that's right, there is a big family of them in front of me, with a complete range of varieties for you to choose. How long have I been standing motionless here?

"Auntie, it's not what you think."

As soon as I made such a move, I was discovered by the target.

Xiao Zhu still held the mobile phone in his ear with one hand, and forced a jerky smile on his face: "Didn't you leave?" "

That look, I looked uncomfortable for him. yes, why are you careless about a little girl, I really want to leave a space for him to smack for this negligence.

"I didn't tell you, I'll talk about it when I go back." He said to the phone, and then snapped it shut, and the whole person turned around and looked somewhat calm: "Then, I'll leave first if it's okay, see you." "

"Hey, wait." I said, "Just called my girlfriend?" "

"......"

"Your girlfriend, do I know each other too?"

He immediately denied: "There is no such thing. "

"Isn't it, is it possible that Assistant Bai is fooling me to play?"

The vivid consternation in Kosuke's expression made me shake a little for a while, but then he said in an overly calm tone:

"She's kidding, how could she be my girlfriend?"

"What I didn't say she told me was that she was your girlfriend." I continued, "Did I say that?" "

Qi Xiang later said, he answered a phone call at the door, turned his head and found that the situation had changed drastically, and all kinds of people in the store, led by the clerk, paid attention to me, Xiaozhu and him in two groups.

Think about it too.

I grabbed a box of morning-after pills and aggressively questioned another man's girlfriend, and the old and young couldn't help but look at us, exchange glances with each other, and see, what a chaotic relationship between men and women must be.

Normal people can't stand up to this situation, and Qixiang is no exception. No one made a movement when he walked over, and if I were an audience, I couldn't help but hold my breath and think, "Mom, this trip to the pharmacy is the right one, how will it end?"

I know he's coming this way, but I don't have time to think about an explanation, I'm staring at Kosuke, I'm willing to apologize if I make a mistake, but the more unnatural his expression is, the angrier I am. This kind of bad thing is not able to go around to the end, and his character and IQ are contemptible.

"Do you know how to unite your girlfriend to pry the corner of your colleague?" I said slowly, making it sound less like it was about to have a seizure.

"You have no proof."

"So what." I flipped my phone out of my bag: "I'll call Lawyer Li and Director Zeng right away, do you believe it, Uncle Zeng is still willing to give me this little face, it doesn't matter if I make a mistake, anyway, I'll go back to Lingcheng soon, right?" "

I pressed a button, and Kosuke came up and pressed my hand.

"Zhuang Ning." He was angry: "Even if you are powerful, are you not powerful?" "

He is also inexperienced.

I was not very old at the time, I was excited, I was prone to harsh words, and I was arrogant. It's almost the same as saying to the thugs that someone will cut you right away.

Who knows if Uncle Zeng will listen to his words so late, and then bring Barrister Li to mess around, I am very uncertain, if he perfunctory "Xiao Ning, tomorrow will be the next one", what should I do, if he is partial to trivial things, what will I do.

It's very likely, and tomorrow the situation will change again.

So when I took my phone out, it could be described in four words, but it was too late.

Qi Xiang always stood close to watch my performance, did not cooperate or interrupt, when he first came over, he was a little confused, gradually calmed down, took the time to look at the goods around him, turned around, his eyes flashed, his empty fist against his lips and coughed lightly, it was quite appropriate to be embarrassed and laugh.

Then he put his arm around my shoulder and faced Xiao Suke: "I personally suggest that you change places." "

The other party nodded: "There is a tea house next door." Then he said, "Zhuang Ning, I can explain." "

I just arched my shoulders in dismay, and Qi Xiang leaned close and whispered, "I didn't want to remind you - but the one in your hand, either put it back, or pay the bill now?" "

My ears were about to burn, so I quickly threw the little thing in my hand back to the shelf: "Someone else stuffed it for me." "

"Understood." He let go of me: "Hurry up." "

You must have had such an experience, watching a TV series, the villain just appeared and you wanted to get into the screen and bite a few bites to vent your anger, but gradually, you found that he also had a hard time, so you wished that he was a complete villain, and the bad hearty can be regarded as an alien, he has the same helplessness, weakness and retained humanity as you, how can someone hurt the killer and hand him over to morality and aesthetics to feast?

That's how my day is.

This pair of male and female assistants, together in a gang that ignores my feelings, sacrifices their future with my interests, and takes themselves too seriously, and I think coldly to my heart, you have provoked the wrong person, I would love to see what you can explain, but idiots will forgive.

Xiao Zhu ordered a pot of tea and poured it for us, and he asked Qi Xiang, "How many years have you graduated?" "

"One year."

"About the same as me." He smiled: "Have you ever thought about the future, you?" "

I sneered.

Qi Xiang didn't pick up his words: "What do you want to say, just say it, we still have something." "

"Zhuang Ning, I know it's hypocritical for me to say this, but Xiaobai and I, we really, we ourselves don't think this thing is authentic." He didn't wait for me to react before adding, "But we can't help it. "

He told me directly, yes, that client was asked by his girlfriend to fight for him, as for lawyer Li, it was just a name for him, he said that the source of the case was found by himself, Li probably felt that helping him with this little favor was regarded as a year of compensation for him to follow, but before and after the saddle, he did not have access to the formal case, and he did not necessarily have any losses.

In vain, if you win the case, the situation will open up. Otherwise, will we have to sort out case files and check materials for others for the rest of our lives?

She said again, I'm ready to change jobs anyway - don't look at me with such surprise, don't jump we keep sneaking around like this? We've been talking since our freshman year, and it's been going underground since we worked, how long has it been? I didn't cry, but I couldn't afford to drag it because I was a girl. As long as you mix well, I'll change my major and do something else, I didn't cry when I said it, in a word, if you don't change your concept, you can change people.

I couldn't help but interject: "Why? "

Kosuke looked at me, "You haven't looked for a job. We are a law major in a second-rate college - and it is a woman, and the employer asks, do you have a boyfriend? I'm sorry, but isn't that just getting married at work? Do you want to have children when you get married? The labor law stipulates that dismissal is not allowed, and this is at least two years. Guarantee? Guarantee is useless. If you're really pregnant, do you force you to beat it? "

He continued: "When I first came, I was really devastated, her family was in a small city in the south, and her parents helped her contact her with a good job, but she followed me to Shanghai, which is basically the concept of leaving her hometown, and some of her friends who went home for the Chinese New Year are not as educated as her, and they have worked early, and they have already achieved something, at least the children are running all over the ground, how can she have no ideas?" "

He took a sip of tea and didn't look at us: "You know a law firm like that...... It's easy to have such an opportunity...... We didn't want to target you, Zhuang Ning, but we discussed, you are an outsider here, and you are an acquaintance of Director Zeng-forget it, it is not interesting to argue more, we can't live with Lawyer Wang, and we can't live with you, this is a fact. "

After Kosuke left, I sat in place, my fingers brushed the lines of the table a little bit, thinking back and forth, very entangled, and finally couldn't help it: "You say, should I ......?" "

Qi Xiang's gaze moved from my fingers to my face: "Huh? "

"I'm annoyed, why is this person like this, obviously they have done something wrong, how can it be reversed, if I don't forgive, it will become stingy? Parochial? Mean streak? "

"Quite a rich vocabulary, go ahead."

"Be serious."

"Miss, apparently you've already made your decision." He spoke casually, in a tone like a customer service receiving a harassing call, as gentle and helpless: "Why should I waste this feeling?" "

I looked at him suspiciously: "Do you think I'm particularly easy to deceive, and I'll be fooled as soon as others say it?" "

"Maybe."

"yes, I'm going to just ignore it, it's really brainstorming." I took out my phone, called up my great-uncle's number, and rubbed my fingertips on the call buttons.

Qi Xiang looked at me patiently.

I take a deep breath and exhale.

"Otherwise." He said lightly: "I went to the movie first and then played?" "

"Hey, too." I looked at the time: "It's open, hurry up, hurry up, go quickly." "

He got up, picked up the bag from the chair next to him and handed it back to me, and I watched him to see if he was smiling.

"Don't laugh." I say.

"Am I smiling?"

"I was all beaten, but you stopped me."

"Yes, I stopped you." He continued: "You are obviously stingy, ruthless, and unsympathetic, and I am the one who stops you. "

When my phone rang, the video was playing to **, and the woman inside had just taken off her coat and had a charming look: "Come o."

，b......"

The sound and the picture jumped to the male protagonist with a vacuum-wrapped bath towel and a gun to confront the murderer, and the audience "yo--" shouted in groups to show dissatisfaction.

Lingyin barely penetrated my hearing in this group of angry movements, and I went out to answer the call and came back, and the brave male Xiaoqiang on the screen was about to knock down the boss.

After the show, Qi Xiang sent me back to Zeng's house, and I said in the taxi: "Qi Xiang, I will go back to Lingcheng the day after tomorrow." "

"Just for today?"

"There's a part." I honestly replied, "Because I really don't know what to do, but the main thing is that I feel homesick." "

The phone call just now was from Xie Duan, her voice was angry and occasionally alarmed, like a female witness being chased and killed in a movie.

"When are you going back to Lingcheng?"

"I don't know, it's coming."

"Zhuang Ning, I like a boy."

"Wow."

"But we can't."

"why？"

"Nothing." She retorted in a panic: "Zhuang Ning, you are my best friend, can you come back soon?" I miss you. "

My heart was soft: "I want you too." "

"I'm ......" she choked up over there, "I'm alone...... I can't ......."

"What the hell is going on?"

"It's okay, maybe it's raining, I'm feeling very uncomfortable."

"......" is really a sentimental child: "I'm also depressed today. "

"For the sake of ...... Sink? "

"...... Not really. "

She sighed for no reason: "Alas. "

I later learned that she had rejected Shen Sibo for the last time that day, but it was clear that she was on the verge.

Qi Xiang was silent for a few seconds, I thought he was going to raise an objection, but he just said:

"I may not be able to go back at eleven, but by the end of October, there may be a vacation."

"Oh, okay, whatever you want."

He looked at me for a moment, then turned his face out the window.

And when I think of parting with him, although I don't feel melancholy, I don't feel relaxed either.

For me, there is usually a precise phrase to sum it up.

It's not half-hearted, it's not going with the flow.

It's just that.

Not in state.

I'm going home, a soft-toned, rainy city with lots of lovely people and things, and at the same time I've lost the battle. Now I'm going back.