Xu Yijing came back in the evening and couldn't wait to ask me how Lin Jiangnan and I were.

I glanced at her in the mirror as I smeared the medicine, "What do you want us to do?" ”

"What do I hope for? I hope I open the door to see you both disheveled and flustered. Xu Yijing stepped forward and took the medicine and cotton swab in my hand, and broke my face, "Don't talk to me." ”

I laughed at her.

"Lao Xu, you can die of this heart, can't we be single well? Do you have to deliver me? ”

"Don't pull me, I didn't say I wanted to be single." She twisted my chin and shook it from side to side, and I pulled her hand away, "Can you move a cotton swab when you give me the medicine?" You take my head and rub the cotton swab, who can stand this! ”

Xu Yijing laughed and threw the cotton swab into the trash, but the topic I wanted to change didn't go out, she asked me: "Did Lin Jiangnan take the opportunity to confess to you?" ”

"Nope."

"Did he confess to you before?"

"Nope."

Xu Yijing was a little depressed, and chased after my ass out of the bathroom, "It stands to reason that my feelings will not be wrong, he must like you." Why wouldn't this kid take the opportunity so much? ”

"What chance? Did you save me this chance? ”

"That's right. If you're honest with me, don't you like him a lot? But for all kinds of inexplicable reasons, I'm embarrassed to admit it, now it's okay, he saved you......"

"He saved me, and I was able to make a promise? I don't hate him, I have to be with him? I saw Xu Yijing open her mouth to speak, but she hurriedly stretched out her hand to block it back, and changed her words and said, "Okay, even if I like him, then I have to fall in love with him?" Do you feel that this is not only repaying the kindness, but also fulfilling yourself? ”

"You don't think so?"

"Of course I don't think so." I took out two oranges that Lin Jiangnan bought and threw one to Xu Yijing, "To be honest with you, I have made it clear to him before that I just want to be friends with him." But you know, it's usually hard to be friends like this. If it weren't for this incident, we might not have been able to get along with each other. ”

"He confessed to you before?!" Xu Yijing almost ate me with excitement.

"No, I'm just afraid that he will confess to me."

"What's wrong with you?"

"I just don't want to be in a relationship."

"Why?"

"No why." I threw the orange peel into the trash and said, "Do you have to be with someone if you like them?" I still like Guo Degang. ”

"Is that the same thing?"

"It's not the same thing, which proves that liking can be unilaterally pleasurable. You have an experience of how annoying two people can be together, so I don't need to say it. ”

Xu Yijing sighed, "Then what about you with Yao Feng?" ”

"You're to the point. We were fine together, but when we broke up, I wished that nothing had happened in the previous three years, and that all the good things had become nightmares. I spread my hands and shrugged, "Like you said, if you are with Shao Jie for six months and he dies, you will love him for the rest of your life." And if Yao Feng always stands in that position that I look up to and doesn't come to me, then he may be my male god to this day. This proves that the pleasure brought by one-sided liking is purer and longer-lasting. ”

"What kind of crooked reasoning are you?" Xu Yijing looked at me sideways, "At which point in time did you quietly go crazy at a time that I don't know?" ”

"You know what." I adjusted my sitting posture, "There is a kind of green tea in martial arts novels, and what she wants to encounter most is danger, so that her sweetheart can save her, because once she is saved, it is logical to make a personal promise." Then she was close to her benefactor in various ways, and made a gesture of enduring humiliation and burden, which is to repay her kindness, but in fact, isn't this just kidnapping her benefactor? On the other hand, if the person who saves people happens to like to be saved, then he seems to have obtained the exclusive agency, and once the other party does not marry, he will become like unilaterally tearing up the contract and becoming an ungrateful person. Isn't this also kidnapping? ”

Xu Yijing frowned, as if she was trying to understand what I said.

"So, don't say I don't want to fall in love, even if I want to fall in love, I think this love should also happen in love itself, and should not be mixed with kindness. To put it simply, Lin Jiangnan saved me, I owe him kindness rather than love, he asked me to go up the knife mountain and go down the oil pot, let me fall in love with him - no. I said too much, and my voice became hoarse again, so I stopped to drink water and stared at Xu Yijing like a stern teaching director, "Do you understand?" ”

Xu Yijing blinked, obviously digesting, and after a while, he sighed, "What...... Do you feel as if there is still a trace of truth? ”

"Because it makes sense in itself. Moreover, Lin Jiangnan probably thinks the same way, he is not like you, his head is full of blood. ”

"How do you know?"

"We're talking about it today. He said he wanted me not to do anything to force myself in order to repay the favor. I lowered my head and wiped my nails, and when I looked up, I saw Xu Yijing smiling meaningfully, treacherously and charmingly.

"What are you doing?" I asked her, "What do you want to say?" ”

"Nothing, nothing." She stood up and stretched, "You two are funny. I took a shower and went. ”

After a while, maybe it was me who asked Lin Jiangnan to bring it back, and Cao Hui quickly coaxed it. Lin Jiangnan also told me that regarding Cao Hui's treatment, Jiangmei Group had issued a notice and fired him. The police inspector notified me to go to mediation, I originally thought that it would be best to let Cao Hui be detained for a few days, but I was afraid that Cao Hui would jump over the wall and bite Lin Jiangnan and not give up, so I thought about it.

On December 30, I drove to the police station alone, and Xu Yijing was originally going to accompany me, because she wanted to scold Cao Hui's grandson in person. But on the night of December 29th, Xu Yijing received an urgent business trip to Qingdao to top a New Year's Eve event in charge of a director who broke his leg due to a car accident, so she went out with a black face early in the morning of the 30th, which was particularly uneasy.

When I arrived at the police station, the people who should have been there were already there, Lin Jiangnan was there, and Cao Hui was also there. And the legal counsel of their company, who said that he apologized to me on behalf of Orange and gave me a fruit basket, but I didn't ask for it.

I took a pair of sunglasses from Xu Yijing and wore them, these sunglasses were very black and very big, they blocked all my eyes, all my emotions, Cao Hui's disgusting apologies, and legal greetings. Except for the police's questioning, I didn't say a word the whole time, signed the agreement, took compensation, and finally let the matter end in 2015.

When I was leaving, Cao Hui caught up with me to talk to me, I told him to get away, and then the legal counsel of Orange Time came and dragged him away.

I will never forgive Cao Hui in my life, but what makes me even more angry is that what can I do if I don't forgive him? Xu Yijing said that the law upholds justice, yes, the law determines that he is wrong, but what can he do. I cursed him for not dying well, and that's it.

Although he had already known and accepted the current result, he still felt angry and uneasy when he saw Cao Hui. I got in the car, Lin Jiangnan chased me out and asked me if I needed to accompany me home, I refused, I was afraid that I would miss him and infect him with these bad emotions.

"Call me if you have something." Lin Jiangnan said.

I sat in the car and nodded to him, "Thank you." ”

As soon as I entered the house, my phone rang, it was Yan Hua, and she said that she couldn't find the courier I sent to Cao Hui on the administrative side. Although the matter with Cao Hui has been settled, I still can't leave any hidden dangers, lest that person have any trouble again. So I asked Yan Hua to bother more, if you can't find the courier order, go check the surveillance, it's good to have video files.

"You're all right, are you? I heard that you had a quarrel with Party A's company? Yan Hua asked me.

Got into a fight? I sneered in my heart, these words must have been revealed by Cheng Liren. "It's okay, I'll be fine, let's talk about it later. I'm in trouble with the courier. ”

"What's this, that's so polite. As easy as lifting a finger. ”

As soon as I hung up the phone with Yan Hua, my mother dialed a video call, and I hung up directly in a panic, and then sent her a message in WeChat saying that I was in a meeting and would call her later.

My mother doesn't know anything about what is happening these days, in fact, it's not that I don't want to be coquettish with her, I want some comfort and hugs, but she knows the anger, sadness, distress, and even self-blame that will occur after these things, which I can't bear, so I'd better hide it from her and save a lot of trouble.

The winter morning was full of sunshine, and I felt quite relaxed after changing my clothes, so I called my mom back. She asked me if I would go home for dinner on New Year's Day, and then I heard my dad's voice in the background, and he asked my mom to ask me what I wanted to eat, and he went to buy it.

I couldn't bear to disappoint them, but in the end I said, "I'm going on a business trip on New Year's Day, so I'm not going back." ”

"What's the matter? Also on a business trip on New Year's Day! Your company is really good. My mom was very upset, and my dad asked on the side, "Aren't you coming?" I'm braising beef tendons. ”

Oh, my favorite braised beef shank.

"I'll go back when I'm done." I say.

My dad leaned over to the phone and said loudly, "Tell me two days in advance when you come back, I'll marinate it for you, it's not delicious." ”

After hanging up the phone, I was in a bad mood again, so I turned on the TV to calm myself down.

Before Xu Yijing moved here, I had been living alone for many years and had never felt lonely. I tried many things in three days of fishing and two days of drying nets, and although the result was wasteful, the process was fulfilling. I think I'm good at passing the time, silly happy, poor happy. But I don't know what's going on today, the noise on the TV doesn't seem to fill the room, and I really want to have someone around.

Maybe it's because the New Year is approaching, and I can't go home, and I feel wronged.

I made a brief call to Xu Yijing at night, and went to bed at seven o'clock. I haven't had a good night's sleep in days. Xu Yijing didn't know, and thought that I was fine except for those bruises. And I never knew I could be so vulnerable that I had nightmares every night.

I think that after the matter with Cao Hui is over today, I think I should be able to sleep well.

But I failed again.

It was almost nine o'clock when I woke up from a nightmare, and even though I knew I was dreaming, I still cried uncontrollably. I turned on all the lights in the house, then got back under the covers, forcing myself to breathe slowly and evenly, to calm my frightened heart.

An unread message was displayed on my phone, sent by Lin Jiangnan, asking me if I had eaten, and the time was 7:52. Then after a while, he asked me if I was okay and asked me to message him back or call him back. It was as if I had grasped a life-saving straw, and without hesitation, I immediately dialed the phone.

"Have you eaten?" I asked him as easily as I could.

"Not yet, I don't know what to eat."

"Do you want to eat hot pot? Copper pot shabu-shabu? I ......" Before I finished speaking, I heard Lin Jiangnan say, "Wait, I'll pick you up." ”