Lin Jiangnan and I were both stunned, and sniffed in unison, but we didn't smell anything special.

"What does Shao Jie smell like?" I asked Xu Yijing.

Xu Yijing took off her coat, threw her bag aside, and thought for a while before saying, "Laundry detergent?" Shampoo? I don't know, it's just the smell anyway. She walked over and sniffed at Lin Jiangnan and shook her head, "Maybe he's been annoying me lately, and I'm hallucinating." ”

Lin Jiangnan and I looked at each other, feeling that this was a bit metaphysical.

"I'm going to let you guess who's here today."

After hearing this, Xu Yijing couldn't help frowning, "Don't tell me, it's really Shao Jie who came?" ”

"It's really Shao Jie who has been here." I smiled awkwardly.

The three of us put the pot on the shelf, and while serving the food to the table, I told Xu Yijing about Shao Jie concisely. Xu Yijing listened expressionlessly, and when I finished speaking, we all sat down, she raised her eyes and looked at Lin Jiangnan, "I'm smiling." But it doesn't matter, you're not uncommon with my jokes, not bad this time. ”

"I've never seen it once, so there's no joke." Lin Jiangnan said.

"Tsk, that's really a greasy." Xu Yijing gave Lin Jiangnan a thumbs up and said with a smile. She pulled a beer out of the fridge and asked us to take two sips with us. Lin Jiangnan still had to drive, so naturally he refused, and the task of accompanying the wine fell to me again.

The ingredients in the hot pot are boiling, the soup is gurgling, and the heat is dispersed into the room, which is warm and humid. We ate and chatted hotly, Xu Yijing complained about Shao Jie mercilessly, and I don't know if she doesn't treat Lin Jiangnan as an outsider anymore, or if she doesn't take Shao Jie seriously at all, and she doesn't leave any affection.

It wasn't like her past lover, but like an enemy from a previous life.

I guess it was Shao Jie's last question that really hurt her. He suspected her of empathy.

Shao Jie should have been suspicious from the day Xu Yijing broke up with him, but he didn't ask Xu Yijing. Maybe it was because of several failed sums, he couldn't understand Xu Yijing's determination, so he finally couldn't help but come to me today. Maybe he didn't come to Xu Yijing today, or he came to me.

Xu Yijing's cheeks were crimson, with a little drunkenness, and asked Lin Jiangnan why, "Although you are young, you are also a man, you have to analyze what this person thinks." ”

Lin Jiangnan put down his chopsticks under the gaze of the two of us and smiled cautiously, "I don't know." ”

"If you have anything to say, I won't eat you again." Xu Yijing glanced at him.

"Maybe it's because ......," Lin Jiangnan considered his wording, "He can't accept that he is so bad in your eyes." ”

"So he suspects me?!" Xu Yijing said annoyedly. I hurriedly patted her, "It's not important, it's not important, you guys have broken up anyway, and his thoughts really don't matter." ”

Xu Yijing brushed her hair back and snorted with extreme disdain.

"I guessed, I don't know him." Lin Jiangnan said, a little sorry. I smiled at him and signaled that it was okay.

But what Lin Jiangnan said may be right, Shao Jie is proud and confident, and probably can't accept that the girl who once admired and loved him will leave him because she is disappointed in him. He wanted to find a reason to be comfortable, and he would rather hurt others than deny himself.

Xu Yijing drank for a while, then flattened the fragile can in his hand and threw it on the table, "I used to look down on those who tear their faces after breaking up, why can't they be decent?" Now that I know I was wrong, I want to point at Shao Jie's nose and ask him to die for me. ”

"Then you just treat him as dead." I said, "Eat meat, eat meat, don't talk about him." ”

"It's easy to say, I'll tell you at that time, you will be Yao Feng dead, won't you be able to get by?" Xu Yijing threw out a sentence, but she was stunned after speaking. She quickly looked at Lin Jiangnan, Lin Jiangnan picked up a piece of fat cow and dipped it in the seasoning, as if she hadn't heard it, so she looked at me again.

I laughed, "Yes, there is no intersection, no news, and no one who will never appear again is indeed no different from death." ”

"That's it." Xu Yijing nodded hurriedly along with my words, "You still have to cherish the people in front of you." ”

I couldn't help but didn't turn my head to look at Lin Jiangnan, squinted my eyes and warned Xu Yijing to tell her to be cautious in her words and deeds, and not to use wine to cover her face and say that there are no such things. So Xu Yijing's words changed, "Su Mi, I only love you now." ”

I almost knocked out my chopsticks.

By the end of the meal, the table was full of messes, the pot was tumbling with boiled vegetables, and the soup was bubbling with blood and meat residues, and we had all eaten almost enough. Lin Jiangnan wanted to help us clean up the table and wash the dishes, but we resolutely refused, so he didn't insist anymore.

It was getting late, Lin Jiangnan put on his coat and bag, and called Piggy a few times, but Piggy didn't know which corner he was hiding in and didn't give him the slightest response.

"Don't worry, I'll take care of the pigs." I said to him, "Have a nice trip tomorrow." ”

"Well, you take care of yourself too." He stood outside the door and waved at me lightly, then turned to leave.

After Lin Jiangnan left, Xu Yijing and I didn't know if we had eaten too much or were sleepy, the two of us sat at the table and looked at the garbage on the table, no one moved, and there was no strength at all.

"Well, I was wrong." Xu Yijing suddenly spoke, a little frustrated, "I don't have anything to hide, why did I mention Yao Feng again." ”

"Just mention it."

"You don't care?"

"It's been so many years, and it's been desensitized for a long time."

Xu Yijing pursed her lips with a smile and muttered, "I think you're looking for medicine." ”

The pig never came out, and I forgot it existed until I was lying in bed at night watching a drama when I heard a soft click from the bedroom door.

I rolled over and got out of bed, opened the door a crack, and Piggy's chubby body squeezed in through the crack like a boneless. It cautiously walked inside, its nose twitching until it found an old towel in the corner. The towel was padded to the bottom of the backpack that had been carried on its back, and Lin Jiangnan said that he could keep it to wipe the things that had been soiled by the pigs.

There was probably a familiar smell on it, and Piggy sniffed at the towel, then tilted his head and rubbed the corner of the cabinet next to the towel, looking a little more relaxed.

"Piggy." I whispered to it, and it turned around and barked at me.

The smell is an amazing thing. Yes to cats, it seems to be the same to people. Just like Xu Yijing today, as soon as she entered the door, she magically smelled Shao Jie's taste.

I forgot where I had seen it, and said that people get the least amount of information from their senses of smell than they do with sight and hearing, but they can remember it for the longest and deepest time. I don't know if there's really a scientific basis for this claim, but I've tried to wake up something that has been forgotten somewhere suddenly by a smell, or someone who has been gone for a long time.

Piggy tentatively jumped on my bed, it looked at me, I looked at it, probably sensing my kindness, it began to walk towards me, I held out my hand, but it flinched a few more steps. I held out my hand until it finally relented and lay down beside me.

The pig was on my quilt, and I gently scratched the top of its head, and it squinted and snored in comfort. I grabbed my phone and took a photo of Piggy and sent it to Lin Jiangnan, telling him that Piggy came out and was happy with me. Lin Jiangnan said: "Envy." ”

"When you come back after the New Year, it's still yours, don't worry."

"I'm not envious of you." Lin Jiangnan replied to me.

He wasn't envious of me. It took me a moment to react before I came back to the bottom of my mind, and the scratching of the cat's fingers suddenly became unnatural. Piggy felt it, it raised its head and said to me, "Meow~"

Chinese New Year's Eve is closer, and the public articles from all walks of life, those chicken soup articles and micro-business screens that are common in the circle of friends are gone, replaced by the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, parents and relatives, and all kinds of meals with rough dishes but strong family affection.

I asked Xu Yijing when she was going back to Hunan, but Xu Yijing shrugged, "My parents said that they were going to travel during the Spring Festival, so my brother and I would spend the New Year in the north. ”

"Huh?" I was surprised. Xu Yijing grew up with her grandparents in Hunan, I always knew that the relationship with her parents was very weak, but I didn't expect it to fade like this, and I didn't expect the relationship between his parents and his brother to be so weak. "So what are you going to do? Are you going to find your brother? I asked her.

"I'm not going." Xu Yijing patted the mask on her face, "I told him and let him arrange it himself." ”

"Is he still in Tianjin?"

"Well, it's a senior."

"You let him come. The school is on vacation, where do you let him go when he's alone, it's pitiful. ”

Xu Yijing was still patting the mask, and she couldn't see her expression clearly, "I'll think about it again." ”

In the evening, Lin Jiangnan sent me a message, saying that he had arrived in Xi'an, and asked me how the pig was, I looked back at the pig who was lazy on the sofa when he had just eaten a full meal, and said: "I really envy the life of cats, and they have the freedom to eat and be lazy." ”

Lin Jiangnan, who returned to Xi'an, felt very active, sending me all kinds of Xi'an delicacies every day, and telling me the taste and texture of each food with great interest, full of pictures and texts, which made me want to block him. But at the same time, I noticed that it seemed like he was out every day and barely spent much time at home.

But isn't the meaning of going back during the Spring Festival a reunion? It's like he's on a trip.

I wasn't too embarrassed to ask.

It's finally Chinese New Year's Eve. Xu Yijing's younger brother didn't come to Beijing, and Xu Yijing didn't go to Tianjin, so I took her to my house for the New Year. I specially told my parents in advance not to ask more about other people's affairs, and it would be good to be happy during the New Year, but fortunately, my parents are still very reasonable in this kind of thing.

Our whole family plus Xu Yijing ate Chinese New Year's Eve dinner together, watched the Spring Festival Gala together, and celebrated the New Year together, and the atmosphere was joyful and harmonious. The glass was plastered with window grilles, and the hot air from the kitchen hung on the window, sliding down as it condensed into droplets, and the red lanterns hanging on the lamp poles outside the window could be seen in the shadows. On TV, the actors are working hard to perform the show, passionate and high-pitched, although noisy but also lively. My dad and my mom are making noodles and noodles, mixing stuffing and stuffing, and the two of them are talking and laughing, they are a model couple.

My mom and I had a lot of friction this year, and my mom and my dad were always arguing over the year, but we looked at each other so well this day.

When midnight was approaching, Xu Yijing held his mobile phone silently, not knowing whether he was waiting for news or wanting to send a message. When the host started the New Year's countdown, my dad stood up with two red envelopes, one for me and one for Xu Yijing. So Xu Yijing turned off her mobile phone, thanked her with a smile, and wished my parents good health and all the best, and her mouth was as sweet as honey.

At the same time, Lin Jiangnan called me and wished me all the best for the New Year. His voice has always been nice and stable as usual, but at this time it seems a little cold and silent, without a little excitement of the New Year, just like the background on the other side of the phone, quiet.

On TV, the host excitedly counted: three, two, one! It's New Year!

"Happy New Year." I said to Lin Jiangnan.