Chapter 207: Illumination (7)
It wasn't supposed to be a little girl's hand.
Malt also felt that her hands were much rougher than those of her peers, and she remembered that when school first started, Xinrou's white and slender hands were the envy of the entire dormitory.
What has happened in this time, she feels different from before......
Xinrou retracted her hand, the roughness visible to the naked eye made her mood unable to calm down for a long time, she was too different from everyone in the first place, and it seemed that it would be impossible to stand on the same running line in the future, and there was an infinite sense of loss in her heart.
"Xinrou, your hand..."Malt asked in a low voice, too much still worried.
During this time, I have been with Senior Mangni and rarely noticed Xinrou's changes, if it wasn't for the last time we discussed it together, maybe we would have missed a lot.
However, it is fortunate that it did not fall into the hands of the MLM organization, but what went wrong?
"It's nothing" Xinrou said immediately, she didn't want to give others too much attention to her own affairs, and it didn't seem to be beneficial to both parties if she knew too much.
Malt took the hand cream she had just bought a few days ago, and was a little hesitant, but handed it over anyway.
"It should be better if you apply hand cream," and this time Malt wasn't going to ask more.
"Forget it, I'm not suitable for painting these things" It's also white if it's painted, and it will get bad if it's good, so futile, Xinrou looked at her rough hands, and hid her hands behind her.
Malt put the hand cream next to the bed, "You can use it, don't be in a hurry to return it to me, I still have it"
During this time, she became less talkative and became a strange sense of distance, but what could not be solved by saying it? I don't even know why, Malt plans to find a time tonight to have a good chat.
Xinrou is not a very independent person, and she also wants to be able to share her thoughts with others, if this sharing is exchanged for incomprehension and ridicule, maybe it is not necessary, she does not want to take this risk, if she can, she will always choose this.
"Can you accompany me to the drying room to wash my clothes later?" Mai said she wanted to take the opportunity to talk.
She believes that there is no big deal in this world, but at least she has to let her friends know, could it be that she has never regarded herself as a friend in her heart?
Although he has been indulging in the sweetness of love during this time, he can't ignore his friends because of love anyway, and Malt is still very clear about this.
"Me?" Xinrou hesitated.
Malt nodded affirmatively, "Is that okay?" β
"Okay"
Malt took a few clothes to be washed and put them in the basin, took out a pink bottle of laundry detergent from the table, and was thinking about words.
How to open her mouth without hurting her, how to open her mouth to make her open her heart, this is like a misunderstanding, but it is an unclear misunderstanding, and even finding a way to solve it has become more and more difficult.
It turns out that not only love needs to be maintained, but friendship also needs to be managed with heart.
"Let's go, do you have any laundry to wash?" Malt asked.
Xinrou glanced at her wardrobe, there seemed to be nothing to wash, there were only a few pieces in total, and one of them was used as work clothes, it is estimated that it can't be washed now, so there is no need to take it out and be embarrassed.
"None"
Xinrou closed the closet, and the few clothes she had were hidden.
"Let's go"
The two came to the bathroom, and at this time it is estimated that everyone has already packed up and is ready to sleep, and no one here comes, but a quiet place has been prepared for the two of them.
Malt turned on the faucet, and the sound of rushing water came from above, and in an already quiet environment, only the sound of water flowing could be heard.
Catch the water in the basin, turn off the faucet, pour laundry detergent, and soak your clothes in it.
Malt glanced at Xinrou, the distance between the two at this moment was a little delicate, saying that it was not far, saying that it was not close, when did it start to cut a safe distance between them.
Finally, it was Malt who took the lead in speaking, "I've been busy with clubs and review lately, and it's really rare to have such an opportunity to chat with people, so it seems that I can only see you in the dormitory recently, and I thought I would see you in the library, didn't you come to the library?" Tentatively asked, let's shorten the scope of the matter first, otherwise it may make her uncomfortable.
"I didn't go to the library," Xinrou replied.
"Oh, no wonder I didn't see you, I remember a long time after I went to the library with you last time, I heard Wang Er and them say that you have come back late recently, are you busy with something?" Malt asked.
"Sort of"
Xinrou's answer was always so short, as if she was deliberately trying to hide something, which Malt could hear.
"Isn't there anything bothering you lately, maybe you can talk to me" Malt's tone also became so polite, I have to admit that the distance between the two has indeed changed a lot.
Troubles, there have always been things, the kind that can't be finished, and no one will really want to listen to it, Xinrou has always thought so.
"Do I look like someone who has something to worry about?"
"Actually, I'm just asking.... Your hands, are you alright? β
"It's okay, it used to be like this" Xinrou found a reason, but it seemed impossible to hold it at all.
Malt clearly remembered that her hands were not like this before, and she didn't tell the truth.
"Xinrou, I suddenly had the illusion that we were far apart... Far away is strange, do you feel this way? "Malt was just frustrated that she wasn't telling the truth about herself.
Envy of the friendship between Wang Er and Manli, if she has anything to say, even if she will quarrel because of this, it will not make the current relationship worse, but what are her concerns, do she think she is a very unreliable person.
I've never heard anyone say that she is unreliable, which is a rather derogatory term, but at this moment, she saw this in her eyes......
Xinrou didn't speak, her friends seemed to be far away for her, as long as she went deeper, it was estimated that even the superficial friends couldn't be maintained, she didn't want others to look at her like this, so she would rather not have it than lose more than she gained.
Malt put down the clothes in her hand and took a few steps towards her, wanting to know the answer to her question in her eyes.
"So if you don't answer, it means that you never thought of me as your friend in your heart, right?"
For the first time, Malt was so emotional in front of her that she even wanted to seek an answer, an answer to refuse to be friends.
Thinking about the past, if she hadn't considered herself a friend, she wouldn't have entered that boring club, and she wouldn't have helped clean up together, what did she think......
"It's okay if you think about it, maybe I don't need to explain anything" Xinrou looked out the window, it was really annoying to be asked what was wrong every day, but this sentence became the tone of their concern for people, yes, who doesn't think about it from their own point of view.
"Xinrou, I don't understand, what's wrong with you during this time, if there is really something difficult you can come to me, why don't you tell me anything, am I really a person who looks unreliable?"
Malt has always had a saying about his friends, and he is also a person who can't hide things at all, if there is a conflict at that time, it must be resolved at the time, friendship is not allowed to exist in the Cold War, not to mention that nothing has happened, if it really makes people answer the question, they should also show the question......
"I've always been like this, haven't you noticed? I'm an unlucky person, and everyone around me will follow me and become unlucky, and if it weren't for me, many things would have been more perfect, wouldn't they? β
Not lucky? Xinrou obviously looks like a lucky body.
"Why do you say that about yourself? In my opinion, you are the luckiest person."
Hearing this, Xinrou smiled bitterly.
"Me? I'm lucky for something, why haven't I seen what a lucky person looks like, maybe I haven't seen it.
"Of course, you are really a very lucky person, we are all very lucky, you see that we are very lucky to wake up and open our eyes to the world every day, we still have many tomorrows, and there are many lucky ...... not experienced"
Lucky to open your eyes to the world? Xinrou didn't necessarily think so, every morning when she woke up, she had to put on the burden of the night, and start a new day of torture, which was not a good thing.
"Forget it, I know that I don't have anything special, it's not as good as ordinary people" Xinrou sighed, there are some things she won't understand when she tells her, like playing the piano to a cow.
After all, some things seem to have been predestined from the beginning and cannot be changed by brute force.
"Why do you think so, the purpose of our life is to be happy, so we should do more happy things, shouldn't we?"
What does a happy thing consist of? Is there a kind that doesn't cost money? It seems to be pitiful, in this world, it is difficult to do things without money!
People just talk about money as dung, but who can actually do it, very few.
"Happy things are far away for me, and I never dare to ask for anything, I just hope that life can return to the ordinary" but such an idea seems to be a luxury.
Malt seems to be seeing her for the first time today, and the friend who has been with her for so long may have such negative thoughts, which shouldn't be a question that people of her age should think about.
"I don't understand, isn't there something that makes you happy?" There can't be people in this world who don't have enthusiasm for life, if there is, but at least they are still trying to live.
Because being alive is the embodiment of a person's value, and when he dies, there is nothing.
"I forgot, it seems like it's been too long" Xinrou is a person who likes to be alone, and it is better to stop by herself than to play with a group of people.
"Either way, I will treat you as my best friend, and I will definitely make you change this negative idea now" Malt must let her return from another world.
Xinrou smiled, she still overestimated her value too much, how can the change in thinking be changed if you can say it, a thing that has been engraved in the bones, unless you scrape the bones, there is no other way to do the rest.
"You don't have to spend time on me, it's useless, do the laundry, the lights will go out in a while," Xinrou said.
However, Malt was also the first to stand up and say that she wanted to change Xinrou, although the idea was naΓ―ve.
Malt continued to pick up the clothes and scrub them in her hands, but fortunately, Xinrou did not leave.