After Xiao Yiqing was discharged from the hospital, Xia Zhi only talked to her on the phone and did not go to Xingda Garden to see her. It's not that he's too busy, he just doesn't want to see Cheng You.

After hanging up the phone, Xia Zhi gently kicked off the ground, pulled the office chair back a little, stretched his waist, and then clicked on WeChat to check the information, and found that he had received a new request to add friends.

poked the little red dot, and there were only two words in the gray box that popped up: Pan Rui.

Her finger was fixed on the words "Go to verify".

Actually, it doesn't matter, doesn't she care? She passed the verification and put her phone aside.

"Anyone wants afternoon tea? I please. She stood up and shouted in her office.

The office, which was originally immersed in the working atmosphere, suddenly came alive, and Xia Zhi wrote down the drinks everyone ordered with a piece of paper and went out.

She didn't bring her phone with her, and when she returned, she couldn't help but look at the dimmed screen while drinking warm Kabu. She finally picked up her phone again.

He sent her the location of a hotel near Nanshui Square.

Pan Rui: [Summer solstice, I'm in Nanzhou. 】

Maybe seeing that she didn't respond, the second message was sent two minutes later: [Come on business and participate in training. 】

She typed an "um" into the dialog box, deleted it before sending it, and sent only a smiling emoji.

Pan Rui: [Dinner together tonight? Let's talk about the past. 】

The word "reminiscence" is a strange one. What is there to talk about between them? She put down her phone, picked up the manuscript she had just thrown down, and didn't look at her phone again until she got off work.

When it was almost half past five, she went to the sink at the end of the corridor to wash the cups, Su Xiao came out of the bathroom and took the cup from her hand to help her wash: "I bought steak yesterday, I bought too much, do you want to come over to eat?" ”

Xia Zhi glanced at him and said, "If you are so free every day, why don't you make an appointment with others?" ”

Su Xiao can be regarded as the number one otaku in the world, in addition to going to work on weekdays, he is at home, getting up every morning to run, going to the gym once a week, and occasionally going to a donkey friend activity, so healthy that he doesn't get a drop of oil and water.

Sometimes Xia Zhi even thinks that even if he really has a girlfriend, he may not be able to stand his sullen lifestyle in two days.

"There's no one else to make an appointment." With a smile on his face, he handed her the washed cup, "Are you coming?" ”

"No, I'm making an appointment." As soon as this sentence came out, she herself felt surprised.

"That?" Su Xiao smiled even deeper.

Xia Zhi snatched the mug he held in front of her: "No." ”

Han Junxi sent her a message, chatting boringly, but didn't ask her out again. She thought it would be like that, just be a regular friend.

When I turned around and went back to the office, my phone was vibrating. She breathed a sigh of relief before answering the phone.

"Summer solstice? You just didn't reply to my message. His voice seemed to come from a distant memory.

"I'm busy, just got off work."

"Shall I pick you up?" Wanshulou

"No need. You're in Nanshui Square, aren't you? I passed. ”

Xia Zhi looked at his computer screen and found that there was a little smudge on it, and he didn't know when it was stained. She put down the phone and wiped it with a tissue several times before wiping it off.

She remembered that she didn't seem to have promised to eat with him, and she only gave him a look back. But when the call came, it was as if they had already said it. And she accepted it so stupidly.

Probably that's how they get along. He was used to her going with him, and she was used to going in the direction he had specified.

In many things, as long as he had such a thought, he felt that she had the same idea as him, and he could do what he wanted without asking her.

But this time, she felt that she could indeed go and see him.

To prove that she really let him go. Prove it to herself.

She was different from him, he could just vaguely blur things over, she couldn't, she was a person with a strong sense of ritual, she thought, she still had something she hadn't returned to him. After that, they can be considered truly clear.

When Xia Zhi went up to the ground from the escalator, Pan Rui was already waiting for her in the square.

From a distance, he was a little bloated, and when he got closer, he realized that he was wearing only a thin cotton jacket and shirt, which looked quite thin in the depths of winter, but his figure was a size stronger than when they were separated.

Xia Zhi couldn't help but smile crookedly: "You're fat." ”

Pan Rui pulled the placket of his clothes: "It's a little ugly, isn't it?" ”

"It's okay." This is not to comfort him, a 30-year-old man, this state is okay, after all, Xia Zhi has seen a man who is bald at the age of 30, and Pan Rui is already quite thin, but now he is still healthier.

"But you've lost weight." He was looking at her, too.

"Nonsense, my weight hasn't changed." She is not very obsessed with controlling her weight, but she does not have a fat physique no matter how much she eats.

"It looks prettier than before." He praised heartily.

This may be true, when the two were together, Xia Zhi counted firewood, rice, oil and salt all day long, and had no mind or extra money to dress up, unlike now, people rely on clothes, and women who are willing to spend money on themselves must look much brighter.

However, she didn't say anything, not even a polite "thank you", and she was a little embarrassed by this kind of compliment from her ex-boyfriend.

"That'...... Let's go. Pan Rui made a way and took a step forward tentatively,

Xia Solstice followed, and the two were separated by a position.

"Nanzhou has changed a lot. I have...... I haven't been back for almost five years. "After the summer solstice went to Taicheng, Pan Rui never came to Nanzhou again.

Xia Zhi nodded and said, "Big cities, they are all changing with each passing day. ”

"Well, if I don't come back for a walk, I feel like I'm going to be outdated, and I almost won't even be able to take the subway." Pan Rui smiled as he spoke, "When I came back this time, I suddenly understood why you like Nanzhou so much." ”

"Really? So why? ”

"Big cities, prosperity, prosperity everywhere you go, walking on the side of the road and doing nothing, it makes people feel happy, as if there is hope everywhere, hope that cannot be exhausted."

Pan Rui glanced all the way from the tall buildings on the opposite side of the square, it was an endless nothingness, and he continued: "It's not like the broken place of the big river, it's cold and unpopular. The real estate you went to see at the beginning has not yet been done, and there is only one big road outside, and there is a supermarket downstairs to buy copycat products. I suspect it will never be full. ”

"But it's also less stressful. How many people are struggling in Nanzhou, you don't know. Xia Zhi did not echo him, chose a small city in the fourth or fifth tier, enjoyed the benefits brought by the small town, and longed for the prosperity brought by the big city.