On the evening of December 23, on the way back to the dormitory with Yu Meng, I finally received a call from Xiao Se. As soon as I heard his voice, my eyes were hot and my throat choked.

"Tong Xin, I'm sorry to contact you so late." Xiao Se's voice looked very tired, "There is a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Haitian Commercial Plaza at 10 o'clock tomorrow night, we will meet at Haitian Commercial Plaza at about that time, and I will send you a text message when the specific time and place arrives." Remember, don't tell anyone when and where we meet. ”

"Why?" I asked, feeling very disappointed. I thought he would arrange a nice Christmas Eve, at least a candlelit dinner or something, and although I couldn't eat anything, it would be nice to feel the atmosphere. Unexpectedly, he set the meeting time so late, and it was so mysterious.

"Let's talk about it when we meet. Remember to keep an eye on my text messages, don't call me, my phone is off. And he confessed.

"Why are all my phones turned off?" I asked, puzzled.

"It's hard to say, I'll tell you later." He hurriedly finished speaking and hung up the phone.

I held the phone, full of unspeakable bitterness, he was leaving, he didn't have any nostalgia for me, he asked me, just to meet my last request.

"Tong Xin, what's wrong" Yu Meng saw me stunned and asked, "Is it Xiao Se's call, you don't seem to be in a good mood." ”

"He's going to see me very late tomorrow night." I was frustrated.

"Then ignore him and have dinner with us." Zhu Zunyi came out of nowhere, interjected and said, "I actually let our little Xin Xin's pigeon go, but I praised him last time." ”

Li Sumiao and Zhu Zunyi were together, and he patted Zhu Zunyi on the shoulder. "You seem to be possessed by a cobra."

Yu Meng smiled. "Jingshu's sense of presence is too strong, everyone has been with her for a long time, and they will be affected by her."

I couldn't laugh at all.

"You're going to have dinner with us first, and then you're going to meet him." Yu Meng comforted me, "He must have something important that he can't get out of, so you can be considerate of him." ”

I thought it would be strange to be depressed to wait alone, so I agreed to meet Xiao Se after dinner.

In order to show off her skills on Christmas Eve, Yin Jingshu specially took a half-day public holiday that afternoon.

After the evening rehearsal, the few of us went to Yin Jingshu's apartment.

"Where did Yi Chen go, why did he disappear in a blink of an eye." Zhu Zunyi wanted to call Zhuo Yichen to go together, but he couldn't find him.

Li Sumiao glanced at me before saying, "I saw that he was pulled away by Lan Jingyu." ”

"Damn, shouldn't he also be a heavy friend, so he wants to leave us on a date." Zhu Zun muttered.

When we went down the stairs from the room, we happened to see Zhuo Yichen and Lan Jingyu pulling and pulling at the turntable below, and the two seemed to have an argument, and their faces were very ugly.

"What are you two doing" I was still thinking about whether to go around and avoid it, but Zhu Zunyi had already shouted, "Yi Chen, do you want to join us at night?"

Zhuo Yichen and Lan Jingyu turned their heads at the same time, and Lan Jingyu's gaze shot straight at me, which was a cold light of two Daosen. And Zhuo Yichen was covered with heavy depression on his face.

"Let's go first." Li Sumiao smelled the smell of gunpowder in the air.

"Of course I want to be with you" Zhuo Yichen suddenly shouted loudly and rushed out, shouting so loudly that he himself was startled, "You go first, I'll talk to her and I'll go to you." ”

Zhu Zunyi didn't dare to say anything, patted Zhuo Yichen's shoulder comfortingly, and left first, and I, Li Sumiao, and Yu Meng also walked down the stairs. Li Sumiao deliberately let me go inside, blocking me with his body to prevent me from clashing with Lan Jingyu when I passed the turntable. I am grateful for his intentions, and at the same time I am worried about Zhuo Yichen, he and Lan Jingyu seem to be very unhappy together.

When she arrived at Yin Jingshu's apartment, she opened the door and complained to me: "Xiao Xinxin, you are too uninteresting, you will want to come to me until you are released pigeons." ”

"You just don't have to say a word." Yu Meng hurriedly interrupted.

Yin Jingshu immediately put on a smiling face, touched my head, and patted her chest again. "I'm kidding you, I'm always ready to welcome you with open arms."

The people went into the house and sat down on the couch. Yin Jingshu went back to the kitchen to continue to be busy, and Yu Meng and I were about to help when we heard the doorbell ring. I went to open the door and saw Zhuo Yichen standing sullenly outside the door.

I tried to defuse the embarrassment with a smile, and he frowned and smiled.

I was shaken by his cramped and helpless smile, and finally couldn't help asking: "What happened to you and Lan Jingyu?"

"She asked me to spend Christmas Eve with her, but I wouldn't." I was amazed at how frank he confessed.

"Why not?" I asked.

He looked at me with a complicated expression. "She's not my girlfriend, why should I accompany her"

I couldn't say anything, because I had heard their fierce hand-to-hand fights, and then I paid special attention to their relationship, and since I had that relationship, I should accompany them.

"Yi Chen, what are you whispering, don't come in quickly." Zhu Zun shouted.

"Why are you such a chicken woman, what is in the way of you when people talk." Li Sumiao next to him criticized him.

Zhu Zun scratched his head, a little confused.

Zhuo Yichen walked to the sofa first, and I followed him.

"Xiao Xinxin, come here and help." Yin Jingshu summoned me from the kitchen.

I put my bag on the couch and hurried into the kitchen.

Yin Jingshu prepared very rich ingredients, worthy of being the chef's daughter, busy but not chaotic, and carried out in an orderly manner. When I entered the kitchen, Yu Meng was putting a large bag of live shrimp into the rice wine. Yin Jingshu said that two days ago, she saw Yu Meng crying because she was homesick, and in order to alleviate her homesickness, she specially learned to cook several Jiangnan dishes. Drunken shrimp is one of them, and it is said that live shrimp are first put into wine, and after a while, the shrimp will get drunk. Then put the ice cubes in a glassware, then add the live shrimp, and finally pour the rice wine into the completely soaked shrimp and cover with a lid. Eaters can taste the aroma of shrimp and the aroma of sake.

I looked at Yu Meng's pale and haggard face, and I felt a sense of kinship. When people are vulnerable and helpless, they are most likely to evoke homesickness, just as I have recently missed my parents in my hometown very strongly.

"It's a shame to be homesick and cry." Yu Meng smiled embarrassedly, "When I was in my hometown before, my favorite food was drunk shrimp, but unfortunately I didn't know how to do it, and I can finally satisfy my cravings tonight." Tong Xin, you go to the refrigerator to help get some ice cubes. ”

I went out to get the ice, just when I heard the SMS prompt in the bag ringing, I took out the phone and saw that it was a text message from Xiao Se: At 9:50 tonight, I am waiting for you at the door of Starbucks in Haitian Commercial Plaza.

I put my phone back in my bag. Zhuo Yichen, Zhu Zunyi and Li Sumiao were all sitting on the sofa chatting, Zhuo Yichen's expression had eased a little, and he was not as melancholy and dull as just now. My handbag was placed next to Zhu Zunyi's seat, and he leaned over and asked with a smile: "Look at your happy appearance, it's a date text message."

"I'm so happy." I don't like Zhu Zunyi's banter and ridicule, and since it is impossible for Xiao Se and I to continue to develop, why bother to be used as a talking point like this. I decided to set the record straight, "I'm not going on a date, I'm just going to see him before he goes abroad, a farewell between friends." ”

"He's going abroad," Zhu Zunyi asked in surprise. Li Sumiao and Zhuo Yichen also looked at me.

"Yes, I'm going to leave in a few days." I suppressed the pain in my heart and said indifferently.

"Hey, I thought that Zhu Zunyi made a disappointed look, "I still want to slaughter him, wouldn't it be no fun." ”

Li Sumiao's expression was indifferent, but she put her hand on Zhuo Yichen's shoulder. Zhuo Yichen's gaze stopped on my face, and a little brilliance suddenly burst out in his dark eyes.

I turned around to leave with a blank face, and heard Li Sumiao ask, "You are very reluctant to him, right?"

My eyes were wet in an instant, and my voice trembled and choked: "I can't help it." "I wiped my eyes with the back of my hand and went off with the ice.

The sumptuous dinner was soon served, and Zhu Zun shouted that he had to have good wine to enjoy himself.

"Good wine has been prepared for a long time, we won't drink red wine or white wine tonight, but drink cocktails instead, and use this to mix." Yin Jingshu took out a large bottle of whiskey from the cabinet.

"Wow, when did you hide such a bottle of high-end wine? The foreign wine has a lot of stamina, do you want to knock us all down" Zhu Zun said this in his mouth, but he snatched the bottle of whiskey with his hand and was eager to try it.

"It's a cocktail, it won't be so strong, I just learned how to make a cocktail, and I'll show you a hand later." Yin Jingshu looked very proud, "Everyone wants to drink, try my craftsmanship, if you are drunk, you will sleep here tonight, although the place is small, it is not a problem to squeeze it, as long as you don't drink and mess with sex." ”

"Cobra, don't worry, if you drink and have sex, you must be safe." Zhu Zunyi reached out and pinched Yin Jingshu's face.

"Dead pig's head, the old lady kicked you to death." Yin Jingshu stretched out her legs and was about to kick, but Zhu Zunyi jumped away in time. The crowd burst into laughter.

"Can you stop making trouble, I'm dying of hunger, I'm going to eat." Li Sumiao spoke.

Yin Jingshu snorted. "You know how to eat, eat you to death."

Everyone was laughing, Li Sumiao strained her face, serious but not serious, with a funny face, so everyone laughed even more.

After laughing, he was driven by Li Sumiao to dine.

The table is full of delicacies, drunk shrimp, braised pork with garlic, braised carp, fried pork liver with coconut white, called chicken, pickled duck soup with color and fragrance, so greedy that my throat and eyes are full of water, in view of the recent weight control, I decided to make a slight exception, taste a little bit of each dish, and go back and wear a weight loss suit.

Like Yu Meng, I like to eat shrimp very much, and the drunken shrimp is very delicious, and I have eaten a lot.

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