Chapter 41: A Friend's Secret
A month later, Shen Yin used all his free time to search for relevant information, draw drafts, and finally completed half of the script. She hadn't been home for a month, and two days later, Shen Yuewan came back from summer vacation, and Shen Yin planned to go home, clean up the house, and welcome her sister back.
After lunch, Qinghe called to urge the manuscript and asked her to adjust the content of the next manuscript accordingly.
Shen Yin put her greasy hair on top and began to revise the manuscript in her pajamas. During this period of time, she has been busy with the script, and she has no time to take care of the drawings that are being serialized, and she has no time to reply to the private messages of fans. At present, she has serialized three comics, all of which are from previous manuscripts, and most of the plots have almost forgotten her. By the time she finished revising the draft, two hours had passed, and she hurriedly took a shower, booked a ticket, and rushed to the high-speed rail station with her handbag.
It's late July, the sun is shining, the station is sparsely populated, the air is filled with exhaustion, and the continuous chirping of cicadas all around makes it even more irritating. Shen Yin carried her duffel bag and came to the waiting room, fine beads of sweat oozed from her forehead, and she took out a few and began to wipe the sweat on her neck.
She looked at the train information on the display board, checked the departure time on the ticket, and hurriedly came to the ticket gate with her luggage bag.
It was three o'clock in the afternoon when Shen Yin returned to the county seat, and Hu Xiangxiang suddenly called her and wanted to get together with her. She thought about it for a while, and felt that it was too early to go back, so she went to the appointment first.
Hu Xiangxiang was in a private room at KTV, with a lot of beer on the table, and there were already three empty cans on the side.
"What's wrong?" Shen Yin snatched the beer can from her hand and said.
Hu Xiangxiang opened another beer and said decadently: "Don't ask, come and drink with me." She handed the open beer can to Shen Yin.
Shen Yin took the wine bottle, sat beside her, and said softly, "Are you out of love?" But you can't spoil your body like this, what the hell happened, can you tell me? ”
Hu Xiangxiang suddenly cried, "Why do I like someone for eleven years, but he doesn't like me?" Why would he like someone who is not as good as me and reject me? Why ......" she took the bottle and drank it down, the beer mixed with tears unusually bitter.
Shen Yin gently patted her shoulder, "Xiangxiang, don't do this to yourself, you really don't deserve it for him." ”
"Shen Yin, you don't understand, only if you really like someone, you will understand this pain." Hu Xiangxiang's cheeks flushed, and she continued to drink.
Shen Yin remembered that she had been so depressed when she learned that Wang Mengliang was leaving her, and she whispered to Hu Xiangxiang: "I understand this pain, but what can you save by doing this, in the end, it is yourself who will be hurt." Since eleven years of youth can't save this relationship, why should you be so persistent, instead of breaking the thread, it is better to break it off, let yourself get rid of all this as soon as possible and start a new life. ”
Hu Xiangxiang put down the wine glass in her hand, hugged her and cried bitterly.
"Cry as much as you want, and vent all the suppressed emotions in your heart." Shen Yin gently stroked her back.
After half an hour, Hu Xiangxiang gradually calmed down, her eyes were red and swollen, and she said in a nasal voice: "Shen Yin, you are really a strange person, sometimes I admire your determination." ”
"Thanks to your false praise, I still admire your successful career, vigorous and resolute work, and not surprised by changes." Shen Yin saw Hu Xiangxiang return to her former posture and teased.
Hu Xiangxiang leaned back on the sofa, "Do you praise me or hurt me?" These words come out of your mouth, it sounds really weird. ”
"Haha...... I'm just telling the truth. Shen Yin poured her a glass of honey water.
"Thank you! I was so rude today. Hu Xiangxiang looked at her apologetically and said with a red face.
"Now that you've recovered, I'm relieved, so I can leave with peace of mind." Shen Yin was about to leave, "The rest of the honey water is going to be drunk." ”
Hu Xiangxiang took her hand and said, "Can you stay with me for a while?" ”
She leaned back on the couch, eating fruit and ordering light-hearted, cheerful songs.
Hu Xiangxiang looked at her again and again, and drank the remaining honey water. In fact, she had a lot of things in her heart that she wanted to say to Shen Yin, but she didn't know where to start.
When they were in their first year of high school, Hu Xiangxiang had a crush on Yan Pei, of course, Hu Xiangxiang never told anyone about it. At that time, Yan Pei was the best in the class in science, but his liberal arts grades were very poor, and he was the third in the class in every exam. The head teacher carefully arranged the seats in order to complement the grades of the classmates. Shen Yin's liberal arts grades are outstanding, but he has just passed mathematics and physics, so they became table mates, and Hu Xiangxiang happened to sit behind them.
Life in high school is monotonous, every day in addition to studying is studying, parents and teachers are urging in the ear, so that you have to speed up the pace of learning. Life at that time was also full of joy, and as long as I saw my grades move up a few places, I would be excited and couldn't sleep at night. Gradually, the relationship between Shen Yin and Hu Xiangxiang is getting better and better, and they often go to the school library to borrow romance novels during recess, of course, all this is done secretly.
Happy times are always short-lived, and soon in the second semester of the first year of high school, they are faced with an important choice - arts and sciences. Shen Yin's initial choice was science, but after the analysis and persuasion of the class teacher, she chose liberal arts. I thought that Hu Xiangxiang would also choose liberal arts, after all, her liberal arts scores were twice as high as those of science, but I didn't expect her to choose science.
Hu Xiangxiang didn't tell her the real reason, but just told Shen Yin that she wanted to try her luck. Shen Yin couldn't understand that she would block her future for the sake of such a nihilistic thing. Although Shen Yin couldn't understand what she was doing, she could only send her blessings, and by the way, she asked Yan Pei to help Hu Xiangxiang and tutor her schoolwork.
Since then, Shen Yin has left his original class and come to an unfamiliar liberal arts class. In the new class, Shen Yin met new classmates and gradually integrated into the group. She is separated from the original class by a square distance, occasionally during the recess, Hu Xiangxiang will come to play with her, but the time together is always very short, after a long time, they also feel troublesome and start to use mobile phones to contact.
In the third year of high school, the study load has increased a lot, there are mock exams almost every week, and there are endless homework every day. Even during such a stressful time, Shen Yin and Hu Xiangxiang still maintained the habit of reading novels, and they finished eating in the school cafeteria and used the hour-long break to hide in the corner of the library to read. By chance, Shen Yin bumped into her homeroom teacher when she came out, although the homeroom teacher did not accuse her of delaying her studies in person, and a few days later, the homeroom teacher raised the matter in front of all the students in the class at the college entrance examination mobilization meeting, but did not say Shen Yin's name. At that time, Shen Yin blushed, lowered his head, did not dare to look at the head teacher's gaze, and trembled for more than forty minutes. After that, she never went to the library again, and she studied for the college entrance examination with peace of mind.
Since the division of arts and sciences, Shen Yin has rarely seen Yan Pei, and the few occasional meetings were after mock exams, and Yan Pei became more handsome and sunny at that time, and he grew a lot taller. Yan Pei called out to her, they sat on the garden veranda, and talked about some things about ideals, Yan Pei said that he wanted to study finance and economics, and hoped to start his own business and open a company in the future.
Shen Yin smiled and blessed him, "You are so smart, your dream will definitely come true." ”
That was the last time she and Yan Pei met, and then she heard Hu Xiangxiang say that Yan Pei went back to his hometown to take the exam.
Shen Yin felt that someone was shaking his arm, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Hu Xiangxiang sitting beside him, "Get up quickly, you've been sleeping for an hour." ”
She rubbed her eyes and looked at her watch, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon.
"I asked you to accompany me, why did you fall asleep by yourself." Hu Xiangxiang said angrily, handed her the phone and said, "Your phone just rang, I hung up when I saw you sleeping, but I didn't expect it to ring all the time, so I turned it off." ”
Shen Yin turned on his mobile phone and saw that it was Wang Mengliang's phone, so he hurriedly dialed back, "I'm going to the bathroom." She walked out of the private room with her phone.
Wang Mengliang's mobile phone was placed on the desk in the office, and Xiao Yu just came in, so he picked up the mobile phone and pressed the answer button.
"What did you call just now?" Shen Yin's voice came out, and Xiao Yu was slightly stunned.
Shen Yin saw that the mobile phone was talking, but there was no sound, and said again: "I was just sleeping and didn't hear it." ”
Xiao Yu was stunned for a few seconds, hung up the call, turned around and saw Ren Feifei behind him, "Sister Xiao, I have something to find Mr. Wang." ”
Xiao Yu hurriedly put the phone on the table, pretended to be calm and said, "I also came to find Mr. Wang, but he is not here now." ”
Ren Feifei smiled slightly, walked to Xiao Yu's side and whispered: "Sister Xiao, I understand your thoughts, I hope you can be brave, come on!" ”
Xiao Yu was shy, pretending not to understand and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”
Wang Mengliang walked in and saw two beautiful women in the office talking and laughing, and teased: "What are you talking about? So happy! ”
Xiao Yu sorted out the documents in his hand and said, "Mr. Wang, your mobile phone rang just now, this is the information you need." ”
Wang Mengliang picked up his mobile phone and said casually: "It's already off work, you guys should go too." ”
Xiao Yu and Ren Feifei slowly walked out of the office, and Wang Mengliang dialed Shen Yin's mobile phone number.
Shen Yin couldn't help but feel a little angry when she saw that the call suddenly hung up, and she muttered softly: "What do you mean by not talking?" ”
She casually put her phone on the sink, washed her face, and put on makeup before returning to the box.
"It's getting late, can you stay at my house tonight?" Hu Xiangxiang said when she saw her duffel bag.
"It's okay, I'm alone at home now, just take a taxi back." She was about to leave with her duffel bag, Hu Xiangxiang took the duffel bag, took the lead and walked out and said, "The place where I live is very close to here, so don't be polite to me." ”
In the end, she chose to stay, Hu Xiangxiang bought a suite in a community in the county, three bedrooms and one living room, the room is on the third floor, the surrounding environment is quiet, and there is a kindergarten nearby. "You rest here, I'll clean up your room." Hu Xiangxiang dropped this sentence and disappeared.
Shen Yin sat on the sofa and saw that the layout of the room was simple and tidy, with a large sofa and a coffee table in the living room, a bouquet of lilies on the coffee table, a few pots of succulents on the windowsill, and photos of Hu Xiangxiang hanging on the wall, all of which were photos taken by her traveling to various places.
After ten minutes, Hu Xiangxiang came out of the room, pointed to the room that had just been tidied up, and said, "You live here, and the bathroom is on the right." ”
Shen Yin found that she was the only one living in the huge room, and couldn't help but feel curious, "You live here alone?" ”
Hu Xiangxiang pointed to a room opposite and said, "This room has been rented out before, and the student moved out a week ago, and it has been empty for the past few days." My mom came to stay in this room occasionally, but she still liked the country life more. ”
She yawned, "I forgot to eat dinner when I just came back, if you are hungry, there are ingredients in the refrigerator, you can solve dinner yourself, I will go to sleep first, don't disturb my sleep." She handed her phone to Shen Yin and said, "There is a takeaway phone on it." ”
Shen Yin opened the door, and there was only a bed inside, with an easel and a large cardboard box in the corner. The curtains are white gauze, and the whole room is full of art. She glanced at it, changed her clothes, and prepared to make dinner.
To her surprise, there were only two cucumbers, five eggs, and a tomato in the fridge. It seems that Hu Xiangxiang doesn't cook often, and she finds another bag of noodles in the cupboard. She took out her mobile phone and searched for a nearby supermarket and found that there happened to be a supermarket in the community.
After two hours, she made dinner, Hu Xiangxiang slept soundly, she thought to herself that Hu Xiangxiang had drunk a lot of beer, and she wanted her to have some supper. She walked into Hu Xiangxiang's room, and on her desk, she saw a high school graduation photo. There was a brown notebook on the desk, she opened it driven by curiosity, and when she looked at it, it was all written in Hu Xiangxiang's heart.
Hu Xiangxiang turned over, she hurriedly closed the notebook, walked gently to the bed, and woke her up.
Hu Xiangxiang still got up, she ate supper with relish, and said with praise: "I didn't expect your craftsmanship to be so good, I really want to eat it every day." ”
Shen Yin's mobile phone rang, it was a call from Shen Yuehuan, because it was just summer vacation, and the flow of students from various universities was large, and the tickets for going home recently had all been booked, and it was estimated that he would have to come back one day later.
She didn't say anything, only told Shen Yuehuan to pay attention to safety on the road.
Shen Yin knew from her notebook that she had always had a crush on Yan Pei, and guessed that she must have been drinking sadly because of this incident. Since Hu Xiangxiang didn't mention it to her, she didn't want to arouse her sadness again.
After dinner, after they cleaned up the tableware together, Shen Yin remembered to call Wang Mengliang and found that there were already two missed calls.