"I forgot."

Lu Jinshi took off his glasses unhurriedly and rubbed his somewhat sour eyes.

When the discomfort subsided slightly, she felt in her pocket, and was about to take out her mobile phone to check the time, when she was startled by the sudden ringtone of the caller.

Lu Jinshi settled down, glanced at the name of the caller, and said to Xiao Qinian on the side: "I'll answer the phone." Then he got up and walked out of the library and picked up the phone at the door.

"Hey."

Her voice was still flat, the opposite of the gentle and polite one.

"Nishiki, are you free at night?"

"Yes."

She answered harshly, but it provoked a low laugh on the other end of the phone.

"Then go home for dinner, your sister-in-law is coming to the house tonight, the family will get together, and by the way, help me check the gates, besides...... It's been a long time since you've been home. ”

Family......

This word stirred up a circle of ripples in Lu Jinshi's heart, but what he felt was a burst of sourness that was almost numb.

She unconsciously lifted her unwarranted glasses and was stunned for a moment.

I don't know how long it took, and a suspicious call suddenly came from the other end of the phone: "Jinshi? Why don't you speak, is it a bad signal? ”

"Hmmm......"

Lu Jinshi responded perfunctorily, stared at his toes and said, "I'm going to class, hang up." ”

She opened her eyes and told nonsense.

The reason is that he just doesn't want to get that man's attention anymore, because his care is too deliberate, and he always revolves around the word 'home'.

In fact, they all knew in their hearts that from the moment their mother died, she would no longer have a home.

And the home in the man's mouth is just a temporary place to settle down made of white lies......

Lu Jinshi's eyes gradually dimmed, she glanced at the time that appeared on the phone screen again, and turned back to the library.

She talked to her cousin on the phone for nearly five minutes, most of which was in her trance, and she was so patient that she waited for her to come back to her senses.

Seeing Lu Jinshi coming back with his mobile phone, Xiao Qinian asked casually: "Family calling?" ”

As she spoke, she had already smoothly turned on the muted phone and threw it into her schoolbag, then paused and replied indifferently: "Sort of." ”

What do you mean?

Xiao Qinian looked at her packing up suspiciously, and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"Class."

Lu Jinshi replied without looking back.

When she walked out of the library, a teenager who had forgotten the time hurriedly took out his mobile phone and found that there were still twenty minutes before class!

……

When I got back to the classroom, there were still five minutes left before class.

As soon as Lu Jinshi sat down, Rong Mingshan came up with a gossipy face: "Tell me honestly, which handsome guy did you go to the library for self-study with at noon?" ”

She replied calmly: "A senior." ”

I thought that Rong Mingshan was just asking casually, but as soon as she finished answering, she said the follow-up with a smile: "It's next door, right?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Jinshi glanced at her in surprise, and then heard the other party explain: "The school grass next door, the students of the entire No. 1 Middle School recognize him, I also saw it from a distance, and I just guessed it casually." ”

The reason is reasonable, Yung Mingshan's language has improved again.

Lu Jinshi lifted his glasses and said: "I lost my homework book, and I happened to meet him when I went to check the monitoring, and he did me a favor, so I invited him to a meal." ”

As for the library, it's just in passing.

Rong Mingshan was so angry by her one-glance explanation that she couldn't help but complain: "It was originally a very romantic bloody plot, but when you say this, it is the same as the erhu played by my grandfather, old-fashioned, dull and boring!" ”

Lu Jinshi raised his eyebrows and said, "Don't ask." ”

If you have to hit the muzzle of the gun, who can you blame?

Rong Mingshan's face stiffened when she was choked, and then pointed at Lu Jin angrily, and complained to the young man at the front table: "Squad leader, look at her-"

Obviously, this is not the first time she has been choked, nor is it the first time she has asked Li Yancheng for support.

Li Yancheng smiled bitterly and said, "You can spare me......"

It is said that three women play a play, and the two of them are enough to make a fuss.

Seeing that there was no hope of asking for help, Rong Mingshan could only toss Lu Jinshi's brown hair angrily, and muttered in her mouth, anyway, it wasn't a good thing to praise her.

Lu Jinshi habitually held his head to block the noise in his ears, and he didn't hear Li Yancheng calling him, but Rong Mingshan next to her pushed her, and she raised her head in hindsight.

The sentence 'what's wrong' made the two of them helpless.

Fortunately, Li Yancheng was used to her wandering state, glanced at the wall clock on the wall, and said with a smile: "I just want to ask you, what is the situation between you and Senior Xiao?" ”

It's Xiao Qinian again.

Lu Jinshi raised his forehead and sighed: "Why have you become so gossipy?" ”

The contagion of Rong Mingshan's gossip is really not to be underestimated......

"Don't change the subject."

Li Yancheng smiled a little seriously, "It's not easy for you to be alone, if that Senior Xiao is still reliable, you can try to think about it." ”

Lu Jinshi: "......"

I haven't even skimmed the eight characters, what am I thinking?

Li Yancheng thought about it again, and said with some anxiety: "But don't delay your studies because of him, you are a lonely girl, you still have to be self-reliant, don't follow in your mother's footsteps." ”

The last sentence went to Lu Jinshi's heart.

The mother was a gentle and virtuous woman, who gave up everything because of love, but died of illness in her marriage room, and the man she loved married another woman in the blink of an eye.

The matrimonial house, which was so dear to her mother, was also sold shortly after her death.

It didn't take long for her to learn from her uncle that the man had used the money from the sale to buy a new wedding house and start a new life.

Mother...... But forever stuck in that dream-like past.

Sometimes I really want to ask her, is it worth her to give up everything for a hypocritical and ridiculous dream?

Lu Jinshi couldn't find an answer, but she agreed with Li Yancheng's point of view, because she didn't want to follow in her mother's footsteps and end up with a laughing stock that would be used as an after-dinner conversation by those people even after her death......

"I'm not going to follow in her footsteps." She replied word for word.

Li Yancheng looked at her deeply and suddenly smiled.

Who says roses hurt?

It's just a way of protecting itself, and perhaps it's also waiting for a fearless bloodied man to gently remove it.

……

Because he promised to go back early, Lu Jinshi left the school in a hurry as soon as he got out of school, and he didn't think about whether Xiao Qinian would come to her.

Probably not, right?

Lu Jinshi thought, casually pushed open the familiar and unfamiliar door in front of him, and the sound of talking and laughter suddenly broke into his ears, and he couldn't hide.

She took a deep breath, and as soon as she approached the hall, she heard her cousin Shen Muqing's voice: "It should be that Jinshi is back, I'll go take a look." ”

As soon as the words fell, the two couldn't help but take a look.