Lin Jiangnan said that he was going back to Xi'an for the New Year, and asked me when it would be convenient, so he could give me the cat. I put my phone aside and continued to worship the Buddha before replying, "I'm always free." ”

I made an appointment with Lin Jiangnan to meet directly at my house in the evening, and he would bring his pigs and pigs' soft rations with him. I calculated the time and felt that it didn't seem appropriate not to leave him for a meal, so I came out of the Wat Pho and went to the supermarket first, bought some mutton and fat beef and the like, and prepared to make a hot pot.

At five o'clock in the evening, there was a knock on the door as soon as it was dark, and I went to open the door with great interest, but the person who came was not Lin Jiangnan.

"Shao Jie?" I looked at the person standing outside the door and was stunned, "Why are you here?" ”

Shao Jie is still the same as before, his hair is neat and clean, his clothes fit well, and his gold-wire glasses are framed on the bridge of his nose, with an elegant and gentle scholarly temperament. But when I see him now, all I think about is Xu Yijing's description of him, the sloppy man with dirty and messy room and socks thrown all over the floor.

It feels a little strange to see a person whose character has collapsed.

"Long time no see." Shao Jie smiled at me, still humble and polite, "I'm here to find Xu Yijing." ”

"She hasn't come back yet."

"Then shall I go in and wait for him?"

So what can I say? After all, I am quite familiar with Shao Jie, and I don't know what the current situation of Xu Yijing and Shao Jie is, so it is naturally not good to turn him away.

I let him into the house and poured him a cup of hot tea, "Does Xu Yijing know you're coming?" ”

"I don't know. Recently, I contacted her and wanted to meet, but she always said that she was busy. ”

"She's really busy. Or I'll send her a message to see when she'll come back, don't look back, she's going to work overtime, aren't you just waiting in vain? I took out my mobile phone, but was stopped by Shao Jie, "It's okay, I'll wait for a while, if she doesn't come back after work, I'll leave."

"Oh." I said in my heart what kind of thing is this, but I still politely sat down on the sofa next to me, "Then you drink tea." ”

"Thank you." Shao Jie picked up the teacup and took a sip, "How are you doing?" ”

"It's still like that." I knew that he was just asking casually, so I just said it casually, Shao Jie nodded, "It's good." He paused, "What about Xiao Jing?" Pretty good too? ”

I don't know what he wants to ask, but it doesn't matter, after all, he is Xu Yijing's ex-boyfriend, and they are theoretically unrelated people, and his concern for Xu Yijing should also stop, so I shrugged, "Very good." ”

"That's good." He held the cup of hot tea in both hands, looked tangled and hesitant, and was silent for a while before asking me again: "What about ...... Did Jing tell you about the two of us? ”

"What's the matter?"

He was stunned, but instead smiled, "Su Mi, we are quite familiar, you don't have to be so vigilant." He put down the teacup and looked as if he had switched to another state, "Actually, I came here today to ask your opinion, you two have been friends for more than ten years, and you know her better than I may." ”

"My opinion?" I laughed dryly, "What am I looking at?" ”

"What do you think she thinks, or what should I do for her to forgive me?"

"What did she think......" I scratched my head, a little embarrassed, "are you trying to ask her why she broke up with you?" ”

"Sort of. I want to know the real reason. ”

"She didn't tell you?"

"She's got a few of them, but they're all trivial." Shao Jie's expression looked like he was really confused, "I can change it." In fact, I also understand, especially in the past two years that we have lived together, I have little help in housework, and I am not romantic enough, maybe she cares more about these things, I ignored them. But it's really not a big deal, and you won't give up after six years of relationship, right? Six years, it was not easy for either of us. ”

"Oh......" I listened to Shao Jie's words, and I couldn't help but think of what Xu Yijing told me that night, her grievances, her exhaustion, and her helplessness in the past few years. And all the affection and enthusiasm that consumed Xu Yijing, in Shao Jie's place, it was so light and breezy that I was a little surprised.

I didn't know how to tell him, so I suddenly intuitively substituted into Xu Yijing's mood and understood the powerlessness she said. Come to think of it, everything I say should be meaningless, all Xu Yijing's grievances, complaints and anger are a kind of vexatious trouble in Shao Jie.

"Sumi, can you tell me the truth." Seeing that I didn't answer, Shao Jie's expression became slightly anxious, "Xiao Jing...... Is there someone else out there? ”

I was stunned, and then I couldn't help but laugh.

The knock sounded again, and I left Shao Jie, who was sitting there waiting for my answer, and got up to open the door. Outside the door stood Lin Jiangnan, who was dressed in cold air, a pet backpack hanging on his chest, and the fat head of a pig was exposed in the transparent plastic window, looking at me with a little horror.

"Piggy is coming." I said hello to the cat, and then let Lin Jiangnan into the house. Lin Jiangnan was carrying a lot of things in his hands, and he looked very heavy, "It's all pigs' belongings." Cat food, canned cat food, cat litter, and potty. He put his things on the ground, turned his head, and saw Shao Jie in the house.

Shao Jie had already stood up from the sofa and bowed slightly to Lin Jiangnan. Lin Jiangnan nodded to him, and then looked at me, which means waiting for me to introduce him: Who is this person?

I scratched my head a little, "A friend, came to find Xu Yijing." ”

"Hello." Lin Jiangnan greeted Shao Jie with a smile. Shao Jie put down the teacup, turned around and picked up his bag from the sofa and walked out, "I don't know if you have something to do, I'm sorry, then I'll go first." ”

"Okay." I didn't mean to keep it at all, and I sent it off happily. Lin Jiangnan stood at the entrance of the door and got out of the way, Shao Jie walked over head-on, and I saw Lin Jiangnan smiling at him again. After Shao Jie closed the door, Lin Jiangnan asked me, "Who is he?" "Obviously, he saw that Shao Jie was not as simple as 'a friend'.

"Your sister Xu's ex-boyfriend." I'll tell you the truth.

Lin Jiangnan raised his eyebrows slightly, "That's the one who made Sister Xu get drunk in Nanluoguxiang?" ”

"Yes, that's him."

Lin Jiangnan nodded, didn't say anything more, took off the bag on his chest and carefully put it on the ground, "It's really heavy." With that, he unzipped up. The mouth of the bag was wide open, and I couldn't wait to poke my head into the bag, and Piggy was nervously curled up in the bag, like a huge plush ball, and his eyes were dripping upward, as if assessing whether I was in danger or not.

Lin Jiangnan reached in and took it out, and when he took it out, his body was still tight, his tail was sandwiched between his two legs, his claws tightly wrapped around Lin Jiangnan's arms, and his nails grabbed into his clothes.

"It's not a lot of courage to look at." I laughed at it, "Bai has grown this fat." ”

Lin Jiangnan put it on the ground, and it immediately ran away close to the ground, so fast that I didn't even see where it ran.

"Leave it alone, just let it find a place to adapt to it, and when it feels safer, it will come out." Lin Jiangnan counted the belongings he brought and told me how to feed them, how to clean the toilets, and so on. I opened my phone and wrote down the memos one by one.

"I'm sorry for your trouble." He said.

"No, I like cats. I've wanted to raise a small animal since I was a child, but my mother won't let me, and I haven't even raised a fish. I put all the things in the pig and asked him, "When are you leaving?" ”

"Train tickets for tomorrow afternoon."

"Let's eat here at night, I prepared a hot pot, and I should practice it for you." I picked up my phone and sent a message to Xu Yijing, asking her if she would come back for dinner in the evening, and she gave me a positive reply. So Lin Jiangnan and I began to wash and chop vegetables to prepare the bottom of the pot, and rolled up our sleeves and got busy.

I was a little absent-minded, because in fact, the conversation between me and Shao Jie just now did not end, and it came to an abrupt end. However, even if Lin Jiangnan didn't come and our conversation continued, what could I tell him? He didn't take the lice and fleas that gnawed at love in his eyes at all, and now, he actually thinks that it is Xu Yijing's empathy that causes all this.

Why is he so stupid? But he obviously looks smart and elite!

I remembered what my dad said, he said that men look at men as accurately as women look at women. So I glanced back at the man in the room, Lin Jiangnan, and asked him, "What do you think of Sister Xu's ex-boyfriend just now?" ”

"Just look at that and you can see something." Lin Jiangnan smiled.

"Intuition, what kind of person do you think he is?"

Lin Jiangnan cut the mushrooms and thought for a while before saying, "I feel like a cultured, knowledgeable and educated person." ”

I laughed, "You might as well just say that he's a newcomer." ”

"Isn't he good?"

"It should be considered quite good, with a master's degree, and now working in a state-owned enterprise, the income is not bad, and the development prospects are also good. I used to be on the school debate team, and I played basketball very well, so I was quite a person with opinions and insights. "I tried to evaluate Shao Jie objectively, and he can be regarded as a man with a beautiful resume.

"That's right." Lin Jiangnan sighed slightly, "Then why did Sister Xu break up with him?" ”

I thought about it for a while, "In addition to a good income, what kind of things like a master's degree, good eloquence, and being able to play basketball sound good, but if you think about it, what do these have to do with life?" ”

"That's right." Lin Jiangnan agreed, and then asked me: "What does it have to do with life?" ”

I thought about it seriously for a moment and shook my head, "I don't know, I haven't experienced it." ”

"Love." Lin Jiangnan said.

"Love?" I laughed, laughed at the romance of his answer, and laughed at the simplicity of his idea, "There is also love between Xu Yijing and Shao Jie." It begins with love and dies in life. ”

"It's hard to say what to die from, but it's always right to start with love, right? Otherwise, what else could it be? ”

I blinked, and I couldn't think of anything to refute at the moment. Yes, what else can it start with, can it start with the words of the matchmaker of the parents?

"Have you ever been in a relationship?" I asked Lin Jiangnan. He was silent for a moment, "I guess there isn't." ”

"Should it be?" I looked at him with half a cabbage and smiled, "So hazy? ”

"It's very hazy, I liked a girl in high school, and now I think it's ambiguous at best." He lowered his head and smiled, "I was characterized as a puppy love by the teacher, and then I felt that I was opposed by the whole world, so naturally it was over." ”

"The university doesn't have one?"

He still kept his head down, "No." My mom passed away as soon as I entered college, and I was very depressed in those years, no one would like me, and I didn't have the heart to like others. ”

The cabbage in my hand felt extremely heavy, and I froze there, thinking about what I was going to say next sentence to make it seem natural and appropriate. It's not something I'm good at.

Fortunately, Xu Yijing came back at this time. She opened the door, stood at the door and sniffed, then frowned, "Why does Shao Jie smell at home?" ”