The Mei family's courtyard was sold, Ruojun paid the tuition for Shu Zhi first, and Shu Zhi returned to school. In order to find a new place to live, Ruojun hugged Nian'an and came to the small attic that he had been absent for a long time.

When she returned to the Chen family's small building, it was not because she missed the small attic, but because the rent of the small attic was cheap, and she had to be more careful now.

Coming to the still dilapidated three-story wooden building, the memories of the waves immediately began to churn in her mind, but at the moment she was not in the mood to be nostalgic, she had to face the reality of life.

The door of the small building was closed, and the small grocery store was not opened, Ruojun restrained the agitation in his heart, stepped forward and knocked on the wooden door, and no one answered for a long time, Ruojun knocked again, and asked in his mouth: "Is there anyone?" Mrs. Chan? ”

Just thinking that there was no one in the house, he turned to leave, but there was a slow, dragging footsteps inside, and the man did not answer, but slowly opened the wooden door.

I haven't seen her for many years, and when I saw Mrs. Chen again, Ruojun was surprised for a while, only to see her, her face was haggard, her temples were loose, her eyes were red and swollen, her nasolabial folds were much deeper, the muscles on her face had sagging, and the most frightening thing was that she was wearing a white silk flower next to her bun, and she was also dressed in plain clothes.

"Mrs. Chen! Do you still know me? I'm Ruojun. Previously rented your little loft. Ruojun said.

Mrs. Chen slowly raised her eyelids, looked at Ruojun fixedly, and suddenly a trace of surprise lit up in her eyes, the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, nodded, turned sideways, and let Ruojun in.

The house was very dark, the window at the head of the wall was open on the edge of the alley, and the light was blocked by the house opposite, Mrs. Chen covered the door, turned on the light, and went up to the second floor, Ruojun followed behind with Nian'an, and when she reached the second floor, Mrs. Chen pushed open her bedroom door, and the first thing that entered the eyelid was a black and white portrait of Mr. Chen.

Ruojun was stunned, put Nian'an down, took Mrs. Chen's hand and asked nervously, "When did it happen, how could it be?" ”

Mrs. Chen looked at her husband's portrait sadly, and began to cry again: "Three months ago, I got sick ......."

Ruojun sighed, stepped forward to offer incense to Mr. Chen, comforted Mrs. Chen*, and also roughly described her encounter with Ruikang in Chongqing. hugged Nian An to the bed and kept nodding: "Like, really like." Ahem, it seems that God has treated you quite well, and has given you such a lovely child. ”

Ruojun held her hand and asked, "I sold the house, so I want to come and see if the small attic is still empty?" ”

"Empty, empty, when Mr. Zhou left, he left a large amount of money, which was deducted for several years, and then the world was also messy, and I was too troublesome, and besides, your things are still there, so I didn't rent them out anymore."

said, holding Nian'an's little face, looked at it and looked at it, the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, and said: "Maybe it's fate, I, somehow, rented this attic from the two of you, I always think that you will come back one day." You are the most loving and beautiful couple I have ever seen. ”

Ruojun lowered his head, and his eyebrows couldn't help frowning, love each other the most? The prettiest? She thought of Hu Xiaofen and her children...... I only felt irony, and there was a throbbing pain in my heart, in fact, she had deliberately not thought about it, she needed to face life, and she had no time or energy to remember the past. Now that Ruikang has married a new love, it means that he is living a good and happy life, and everything is enough.

Maybe it should be called Noji Tailai, when Ruojun and Mrs. Chen talked about the idea of opening a snack shop, Mrs. Chen's eyes immediately lit up, and she took out a sum of money she had saved on the spot, saying that she would partner with Ruojun to do it, and change the grocery store on the first floor into a small restaurant.

In order to let Shu Zhi study hard, Ruojun gave him the small attic to live alone, and he took Nian'an with him to live in the big room on the second floor with Mrs. Chen. Especially the single bed that made their relationship grow by leaps and bounds, she didn't even dare to look at it, let alone go to sleep.

After moving to Chen's house, she hardly went up to the small attic, but busily prepared the snack bar with Mrs. Chen.

With the company of Ruojun's family, Mrs. Chen gradually came out of the pain of losing her husband, and the two soon became sisters, and after more than three months of preparation, everything was finally ready, and it was named "Chen Mei Kee Snack Bar".

In September of that year, in a burst of lively firecrackers, "Chen Mei Ji Snack Bar" opened, Ruojun was responsible for cooking food in the kitchen, Mrs. Chen is a person who can do things, the relationship between the left and right neighbors has always been good, responsible for greeting guests, collecting money, Shu Zhi came back to help after class, cutting vegetables, washing dishes, running the hall, and introducing the classmates in the school to eat.

Xiao Nian'an has also become a live signboard in the store, "grandpa, grandma, brother, sister", coupled with a beautiful and cute little face, well-behaved and intelligent answers, so that the guests love him thoroughly, and many middle-aged women are coming to Xiao Nian'an.

The price is cheap, the service is considerate, and the business is naturally getting better and better, especially the "rose pickles" pickled by Ruojun, which are fragrant and refreshing, and the price is cheap, almost every household can buy it.

Yes, she has found a way to survive, found herself, found a new spiritual pillar, Ruikang has been deeply buried in her memory, love has been buried deep in her memory, the focus of her life is Nian'an, Shu Zhi, and snack bar, every day she has lived a very fulfilling life, seeing the satisfied smiles of the diners, she is very satisfied, it turns out that love is not the only sun, it turns out that you can have different sunshine in life.

Ruojun worked very hard and diligently, waking up early and going to bed late, not allowing herself to stop for a moment, because she was afraid that when she was idle, those painful memories would emerge from the depths of her memory like a ghost and devour her.

And in the late autumn of that year, a letter that was six years late drifted from the other side of the ocean to the Mei family's courtyard, but the new owner of the courtyard rented the courtyard to a few poor people, no one was literate, no one could understand what was written on the letter, so this letter full of Ruikang's love, lovesickness, and repentance was thrown into the trash.

Just as their once earth-shattering love seemed to have been thrown into the trash by the god of fate, she never received his letter, and he never found his plum blossoms.

……

That night, it was late at night, Mrs. Chen had already coaxed Nian An to sleep, and Shu Zhi was studying his homework in the attic. Although he was busy all day, Ruojun was still restless and cleaned up in the kitchen, yes, those deliberately buried memories crawled out of the grave without warning.

Her hair was a little greasy, beads of sweat were oozing on her forehead, she was holding a rag in her hand, and she was wiping the table by the stove vigorously, since she returned to the Chen family's small building, this small kitchen has become clean and bright, the rat hole in the corner of the wall has been blocked, the oil stains on the wall, the stains have also been wiped clean by her, and all the pots and pans have been wiped by her.

She cleaned desperately, scrubbed desperately, however, what she wanted to clean and scrub was not this small kitchen, but the uncontrolled memory, in this small kitchen, she taught him to cook, he naughtily kissed her behind her, in this small kitchen, as soon as he came back every day, he would run in and kiss her secretly, in this small kitchen, the passion of his two kisses, his face, his hands, his lips, his breath, his body temperature, ah~~~~! She threw down the rag, sat down on the small bench beside her, buried her face in the palm of her hand in pain, and cried softly, she cried so sadly, so sadly.

"Why, why do people have to remember, why can't people selectively forget some things?" She asked as she cried and muttered to herself.

"Sister......" Shu Zhi stood at the kitchen door, looking at her with frowns.

Ruojun hurriedly wiped his hand on his face, sniffed, turned his face sideways, and didn't look at him: "What's the matter?" ”

"You're thinking about him again."

She was silent, for her heart had not yet calmed down, and her tears were still pouring out.

Shu Zhi walked up to her, squatted beside her, and whispered, "Tomorrow and Sunday, you have a day off, and I will take you and Nian'an out for a walk in the park." ”

She looked at him with wide eyes: "Of course not, business is good on Sunday." But sister doesn't need your help, you can take Nian'an to the park. ”

"You look tired and need a break."

She shook her head: "I'm not tired, I don't need to rest...... After a pause, she sighed, frowned and said, "I'm tired and relieved." ”

"Ruojun!" He stopped her, and suddenly changed her name, she was stunned, and looked up at him, his eyebrows became tighter and tighter, and his dark eyes stared at her urgently.

"Do you know that I really want to beat you up. I don't understand, there are so many men in this world, why do you think about that person so stubbornly? He stood up angrily and said irritably, "Why are you torturing yourself? Why can't you let him go, I really don't know why you gave up Brother Ding back then? ”

"Don't say it, I don't want to talk about the past, I just want to bring Nian'an up now, watching you get married and start a family, I don't want anything else." She stood up and wanted to end the conversation, knowing that she would have to say all the things that should and shouldn't be said again.

Saying that, she walked out of the kitchen, Meng Shuzhi walked up and closed the kitchen door first, Ruojun took two steps back in horror and looked at him fixedly.

Meng Shuzhi said angrily: "You don't want to? Why don't you want to sit here crying? Why don't you want to do coolies here in the middle of the night? If you look at this kitchen, it's all cleaner than the bedroom. You are always making a fool of yourself...... You're still so young, don't you really need love? ”

"Yes, I don't need love, I don't need a man, I don't need marriage." She said coldly, "Shu Zhi, it's time for you to go to sleep." She pretended to be calm and said that she was afraid that he would say or do something in his agitation that would make it impossible for either of them to turn back.

She walked to the door and tried to unlock it, but he suddenly grabbed her hand, his face flushed, and he mustered up the courage to ask, "Do you really not like me at all?" ”

"Of course I like you, you're my brother......" she looked at him with wide eyes and fear, a premonition of what was going to happen tonight.

"You know I'm talking about the love between men and women."

Her heart sank again and again, how similar he was to Ruikang many years ago, he was so eager to persecute her.

She felt very tired, as if all the stories had to be re-enacted, she felt tired and prostration, and shook her head helplessly: "I'm sorry Shu Zhi, I don't ......"

Before the words were finished, suddenly, Meng Shuzhi had already detained her in his arms, his movements were too fast and violent, so that she didn't have time to react at all, he had already fixed her head with one hand, pressed her waist tightly against her body with the other hand, and kissed her lips with both lips, she was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, breaking free with all her might, she was frightened, and instinctively waved her hand to hit him in the face, but he seemed to have been ready to be beaten for a long time, and he didn't care about her resistance and anger at all, and pulled her into his arms and kissed her again, This time it was even harder than just now, and her strong arms tightly clamped her in her arms, Ruojun's arms were tightly clamped by him, and he couldn't even resist, so he had to do whatever he wanted.

He kissed her, from rough to gentle, his breath was very charming, gently sent into her nose, so that she gradually relaxed, her mind just came back to her over and over again: "It's over, it's over......", because she was afraid to find that she liked his kiss, he kissed very jerky, but very affectionate, no one had kissed her for a long time, no one had hugged her so much for a long time, she unconsciously closed her eyes, some greedy for more, took the initiative to respond to him, she liked his soft, warm, elastic lips, She likes to be hugged passionately, kissed, and even physically communicated with him like this, which is a luxury that she has not had for a long time.

She doesn't know if she likes Shu Zhi or not, but she likes the feeling of being hugged and kissed. The tip of his tongue gently stirred hers, and she was dizzy from the ripples in his heart.

But just for a moment, she suddenly woke up, oh my God, what are you doing? What is Shu Zhi doing? She opened her eyes, broke free again, covered her mouth, and ran away in a panic, she had nothing to say, just propped on the stove and kept shaking her head.

He stepped forward and hugged her gently, and whispered in her ear: "Ruojun, I don't want to be your brother, I love you, I love you very much, I love you very much." Don't mind my age, my love has nothing to do with my age. From now on, I'm no longer your brother, hear? I will finish my studies well, find a job, and I will take care of your mother and son. Let me take care of you, promise me. ”

Ruojun listened to his confession, his head was just confused, was he crazy? Are you crazy? Or is the world inherently crazy?

She shook her head and whispered, "Don't push me, I need time to think." ”

"Okay." He kissed her on the neck, rubbing his hands gently around her waist, making her all body hot.

She pulled his hand away and said, "Shu Zhi, don't do this. I promise you'll think about it, but don't force me, we can't have such intimate behavior anymore, and I don't want anything we regret happening. I'm scared. ”

He straightened her and looked at himself and said, "I know, I'm not qualified to ask you to marry me right now, but I'll always be by your side." ”

Ruojun was very annoyed, but just shook his head: "You don't understand, you don't know what happened between me and Xiaohui, I don't want you to become the second Ding Xiaohui, don't!" ”

"I won't become Brother Ding, he left you because he couldn't get your heart, I won't, I will always guard you, even if one day in the future, that person really comes back, if you want to go with him, I won't leave."

The corners of his mouth raised a light smile, which was completely opposite to Ruojun's melancholy, confused and fearful, at this time, Meng Shuzhi's heart was full of sweet and happy hopes, and he finally mustered up the courage to kiss her, which meant that the sister-brother relationship between him and her had been terminated, and no matter how they developed in the future, they were just two men and women who were not related by blood, and in the process of kissing just now, Ruojun's reaction encouraged him.