Rigor made up his mind to Ji Xiaoou that he must get her into bed as soon as possible, even if it was to himself, he was not a person who liked to break his word, so he took action immediately.

At present, the biggest obstacle is Ji Xiaoou's misunderstanding of him. Recalling the entanglement with KK in the elevator a month ago, Rigor has to admit that it is quite easy to misunderstand, no wonder Ji Xiaoou. But if he wants to explain, he has to ask Ji Xiaoou out, in an environment with a good atmosphere and mood, and prove with practical actions that he is a real man who is interested in women, so that Ji Xiaoou can completely eliminate his doubts. But how do you ask her out? That's the biggest challenge.

Those who have a lot of contacts on weekdays are mostly new models in their early twenties. They play together in that circle, and it is especially popular to find a model to be a girlfriend, because it has face to take it out, a tall girl on her arm, a natural clothes rack, and a particularly long face. So an older mature woman like Ji Xiaoou, who graduated from college for a few years and is twenty-seven or eighteen years old, has no clue what she likes.

In the end, he very reluctantly dialed Officer Xu Zhiqun's phone.

Officer Xu was having breakfast in the office, and he whispered on the phone, "What's so hard about this? Haven't you heard a word? If she is not deeply involved in the world, take her to see the prosperity of the world, and if her heart has been vicissitudes, take her to ride the merry-go-round. This is a treasure trove of chasing women. ”

"Nonsense!" Rigor said, "This Lao Tzu still needs you to teach?" Now the question is, what if she is in the middle of these two states and is somewhat educated? ”

Xu Zhiqun was chewing pancakes while one eye was still looking at the computer screen, and happened to see a piece of news, "The white-collar workers in Beijing are popular, and the most classic, greatest, and most successful musical "Cats" is making a comeback." ”

So he said: "Invite her to watch a musical, this is a big killer for buddies to pick up girls, and it is generally not easy to pass it on." ”

It was difficult to scratch the hair rigorously: "But I don't understand!" ”

"It doesn't matter, the eight adults under the stage can't understand, you don't speak, as long as you slap hard with tears in your eyes at the end, who dares to say that you don't understand, that's easy to do, smoke him!"

Rigorously and arrogantly slapped the table: "Okay, just do it!" ”

That afternoon, Ji Xiaoou received a phone call. The other party speaks pure Mandarin, the words are correct and round, and the standard is like Zhang Hongmin in "News Network".

"Miss Ji, hello! We are Shin Kong Place's customer service department, congratulations on winning the first prize in our shopping mall. ”

Ji Xiaoou pouted. Well, now there are more and more tricks of liars, and even Shin Kong World has come out. She was silent and waited for the other party to perform.

"We will send you the prize by courier according to the mailing address you provided."

At this point, the other party paused for a moment, as if waiting for something, but did not wait for the cheers of surprise that he expected.

"Miss Ji?"

Ji Xiaoou finally spoke: "I haven't bought anything in Xinguang. ”

"Oh?" The other party seemed taken aback, and then fell silent for a while. Obviously, Ji Xiaoou's reaction was outside his plan. You must know that Shin Kong Landmark is a gathering place for fashionable girls in Beijing, and to say that any girl does not know Shin Kong Place, it is as incredible as the old Beijingers who do not know the flyover and the front door.

Ji Xiaoou heard a sound of chirping and biting his ears on the phone, and then the other party asked, "Miss Ji, are you mistaken?" Our mall obviously has your information. You haven't bought a single dress or a pair of shoes at the mall? ”

"No, I never buy clothes at the mall."

Ji Xiaoou didn't tell a lie. She is tall and long-legged, with three-dimensional facial features, and she looks stylish than ordinary people with a bed sheet. So she pinched the phone and gloated, waiting to see how the other party ended.

There was another burst of rustling and chattering, and the other party's confidence was not so strong when he spoke again, and he actually leaked a little Beijing flavor and Beijing rhyme: "What, Miss Ji, you must have remembered it wrong." In this way, the prize will be delivered to you, please sign for it when you arrive, goodbye! ”

Ji Xiaoou hurriedly said: "Hey, don't, you haven't finished your lines yet, let's say, let me provide my bank card number or ID number...... next"

"Smack", the phone hung up in a panic.

Ji Xiaoou put down the phone and continued the customer's facial massage while telling her this as a joke.

That guest is Fontia, the most loyal customer since the opening of the "Year of the Water". The family lives in a nearby high-end villa area, a full-time wife, and has nothing to do on weekdays, so she often uses Ji Xiaoou's beauty shop as a place to kill time.

It is said that Fang Niya's type is not Ji Xiaoou's target customer. The customers that Ji Xiaoou wants to win are ordinary white-collar workers who work and live nearby. But Fang Niya is generous, has plenty of time, and is relatively naïve and credulous, especially able to withstand fooling, so she has become the most popular customer in Ji Xiaoou's store. She has followed Ji Xiaoou since the early days of the opening of "The Year of Flowing Water" and has never left.

Fang Niya smiled at the moment: "Give me that guy's phone, and let's get him a small advertisement and post it on the telephone pole, and say that it is an old military doctor who cures all diseases." ”

"Yes," Ji Xiaoou said, "You can also post on the Internet, just say that there are two bedrooms in the fourth ring road, fine decoration, full of household appliances, and a monthly rent of 800 to make a hurry, so keep the phone." ”

The two scheming fellows looked at each other for a moment, imagining the predicament that the hapless liar was about to face, and they both burst out laughing.

Ji Xiaoou took this as a joke, laughed and forgot about it. I didn't expect to actually receive a courier the next day. Inside is a jubilant red envelope, and the handwriting of the handwriting is really written in the handwriting of the dragon flying and phoenix dancing Shin Kong Tiandi Customer Service Department, which is a ticket to the musical "Cats" when opened, or the most expensive VIP of 361.

Ji Xiaoou immediately became excited, she thought that maybe she remembered it wrong, maybe she had occasionally bought something in Shin Kong Tiandi and applied for a card, but she forgot. She loved the song "Memories" but never had the opportunity to watch this famous classic musical in its entirety. Although there has been a Chinese tour of the "Cat" drama in recent years, the high ticket price has discouraged her. If a pie fell out of thin air today, or it was oversized, how could she not be excited?

Ji Xiaoou, who was excited, forgot to make a call to Shin Kong Tiandi Mall to confirm the authenticity, she only regretted it, regretting that she treated people as liars during the call yesterday, and her attitude was too bad.

The first time he watched a musical, Ji Xiaoou wasn't sure how to dress. She asked Fontia, and Fontia said, "You have to go buy a nine-o'clock dress." ”

Ji Xiaoou said: "Huh? ”

"You see, there's a rule about the grandeur of the costume. Afternoon tea at three or four o'clock in the afternoon can be worn casually, starting with a cocktail party at five o'clock, the later the time, the higher the requirements for clothing. The 9 o'clock dinner is the highest standard. Honey, what you need is a nine-o'clock gown, understand? On that occasion, especially in the VIP area in the front row, the female guests are dressed up murderously, and they can't wait to wear the whole family's jewelry on their bodies, and you will be killed if your aura is slightly weaker. ”

Ji Xiaoou understood, she asked, "How much does a dress cost?" ”

Fang Niya thought for a moment: "If you can wear it out of the house, the minimum is probably more than 10,000." ”

"Pull it down." Ji Xiaoou said, "I will serve you for two hours to earn you fifty yuan." Spend 10,000 dollars on a dress for a two-hour show, unless I'm crazy! ”

In the end, Ji Xiaoou changed into a plain shirt, long skirt and flat boots, and only added a golden shawl and a peaked cap than usual. Compared with the same sex around him, he is indeed monotonous, but because of his height and long legs, he has a different kind of chic. Walking all the way through the aisle of the theater also attracted countless attention. Until he sat down, Ji Xiaoou's mood was extremely happy because of his little vanity. But when she saw her neighbor, she was stunned.

The guy who had been staring at her with a smile on his face, dressed in a black suit, with a snow-white collar on his shirt, his short hair was made of wax and stood on top of his head, his eyebrows were so thick that he seemed to cover his face with two thick shades, and his beautiful bronzed skin was as shiny as gold rubbed into the sun, like a person who had been on vacation all his life. Isn't this rigorous and who is it?

Ji Xiaoou was a little surprised, because from the background of the National Center for the Performing Arts, his description was almost decent and *, and he was completely handsome, and she had never paid serious attention to what rigor looked like before. At this moment, she had to admit that the round inch is really the only criterion for testing handsome guys, if anyone can be as rigorous, cut their hair to a length of three millimeters close to the scalp, and can maintain the image of a handsome guy, that is the real handsome guy.

The only pity is that what this handsome guy really likes is men.

In fact, as soon as Ji Xiaoou entered the door, he locked her with his 2.0 eyesight. Seeing her gradually approaching in a graceful manner, the rigor was quite a little amazing, and her eyes were like high-voltage electricity hitting barbed wire, almost sparks from the thorns.

Facing the surprised Ji Xiaoou, he stood up and pretended to owe himself: "Beautiful lady, this is really a pleasant coincidence!" ”

The rigorous expression was in place, as if the unexpected encounter with Ji Xiaoou brought him a great surprise. It's a pity that the smile in his voice betrayed him.

Ji Xiaoou understood that he was still being calculated.

Her instincts were very correct, the standard male voice with a beautiful voice on the phone was really a liar and a nursery, and sure enough, beautiful things were unreliable and untrustworthy. But once she came, she picked up her shawl and sat down calmly. Although rigor is not popular at all, but in the public, he can't do anything out of the ordinary. What's more, he likes the same sex, which especially reassures her.

Squinting at the rigor of the rigor, Ji Xiaoou replied lazily in the same style: "Dear sir, coincidences are often the way God appears anonymously. ”

Rigorous stuck, I just feel that this sentence is quite mysterious, but I don't know how to deal with it. He didn't know that the original author of this sentence was the greatest scientist and atheist of the nineteenth century, Albert Einstein. Ji Xiaoou wanted to remind him with the rigor of a science student that there are no coincidences in the world, and all beginnings have already foreshadowed the direction of the future. Unfortunately, Rigor couldn't understand her tactfulness at all.

Although he doesn't understand it, he has his own rigorous way of coping: he is thicker than the average person. He said, "Shall we talk about people?" Let's not talk about birds? ”

Ji Xiaoou raised his head and made a "oh my God" expression, saying that it was really a desperate thing to play the piano to the cow. Then she turned her face away to look at the stage in front of her, her expression and gesture asking him to go away.

This gesture is actually quite hurtful, but no matter how hurtful Ji Xiaoou's expression is, it can't hit rigorous self-confidence, because his goal is direct and firm. He said to himself that such a punctual girl is rare, no matter what, he must take her under his command as soon as possible.

Ji Xiaoou felt that Rigor was looking at her. Many say she has an impeccable profile that runs smoothly from her forehead to the arch of her eyebrows to the bridge of her nose, and even her lips are much softer than her front. She turned her face, and his gaze shifted elsewhere; She turned back, and his eyes returned.

Ji Xiaoou's back was cold with a thin layer of sweat, and finally he couldn't bear it anymore, turned his face sideways and asked, "What are you looking at?" ”

Rigorous in the study of her skin.

As a beauty shop owner, Ji Xiaoou is well aware of the damage of cosmetics to the skin, so he usually doesn't wear much makeup, and the only cosmetics he needs to use before going out is a mascara. Ji Xiaoou's eyes are very dark, so she likes to brush her eyelashes long and upturned, so as to draw attention to her dark soul window, and ignore her big mouth comparable to Shu Qi, Yao Chen, and Julia Roberts.

Rigorous looked at her white face and lost his mind. He couldn't remember how long it had been since he had seen a naturally naked woman's face, and he was pondering that such clean skin and the feel to the touch must be different from the feeling of piling up several layers of foundation.

Hearing Ji Xiaoou ask him, Cheng Cheng hurriedly coughed and sat upright, and told the truth: "Look at you." Before Ji Xiaoou raised his eyebrows, he began to praise on a large scale in time: "Do you know, every time I see you, I will feel a sense of sadness, because a beautiful girl like you, if I don't have the opportunity to see you again, then what can I do?" ”

Ji Xiaoou frowned on the upper half of his face to show appropriate reserve, but the lower half of his face was detached from the command of his brain and decided to smile on his own. Women are always happy when they hear praise, even if they know that the other party is insincere, Ji Xiaoou is naturally not exempt from vulgarity.

The opening bell finally rang, the hall lights dimmed and faded out, the cold moonlight poured down from above, and a dilapidated and mottled garbage dump appeared on the stage, and the actors appeared one after another. Ji Xiaoou watched intently, and he didn't even notice that the shawl gradually slipped from his knees to the ground. Rigor felt that it was time, so he calmly put his hand on her shoulder.

Ji Xiaoou was disturbed, glared at him very impatiently, pulled it down, and took it again with rigor and perseverance. He was sure that Ji Xiaoou cared about face and would not embarrass him in this place.

Sure enough, Ji Xiaoou glared at him angrily, and just as he was about to protest, he put his index finger up and booed loudly.

Facing the pressure of the neighbor's sideways gaze, Ji Xiaoou really gave in, turned to the stage expressionlessly, and no longer cared about the shameless right hand. Rigorous and proud, he thinks he has a plan, he doesn't know what thoughts are turning in Ji Xiaoou's mind.

Ji Xiaoou was thinking: Should I slap him again? It's easy to beat him, but what if it's over? Stand up and scold a "stinky rascal", or walk away arrogantly without saying a word? But if I leave, won't these 3,61 VIPs be wasted? Know that nothing is a sin, and waste is the greatest original sin.

Ji Xiaoou, who is like a small artillery battle, doesn't know what to do for the first time. Eventually, she deceived herself into deciding to treat Rigor as if it were the arm of a chair, ignoring him completely.

The performance was very exciting from beginning to end, especially when the little female cat Grizebe* reminisced about her young and beautiful happy time in the familiar melody, and Ji Xiaoou felt numb for a while when she heard Ji Xiaoou's body as if she was overpowered, and finally her nose was really in tears. Just as she was in a daze, she suddenly caught an unusual sound from the melody of the music: whir-plu-plu-plu, interspersed with staccato whistles, one long and one short.

Ji Xiaoou was not alone in hearing this voice, the front seat had already turned his head and quickly and accurately found the source of the sound.

It's rigorous. He leaned back in his chair with his face up, and he was sleeping soundly.

The disgusted gaze of the front seat went back and forth between Rigor and Ji Xiaoou twice, and then stayed at Rigor Rigor's right arm on the back of Ji Xiaoou's chair for a moment, and finally froze on Ji Xiaoou's face, the bridge of his nose wrinkled and his upper lip curled, and silently made a "really low quality" expression.

Ji Xiaoou was hit by the expression in the front seat, she wanted to say that I didn't know this person at all, but the other party didn't give her a chance to wash her white at all, and quickly turned her face back, leaving only the back of her head full of disdain.

Ji Xiaoou was so angry, but he had no place to attack, he pushed Rigor hard, Rigor retracted his right arm, rubbed his nose, didn't wake up, changed his position and continued to sleep.

In the end, rigor was awakened by the thunderous applause at the end of the performance. He opened his eyes and looked around, and suddenly remembered Xu Zhiqun's advice, jumped up, and applauded desperately with the audience.

Taking advantage of the applause, Ji Xiaoou asked him slowly, "Did you wake up?" Did you sleep well? ”

No matter how thick the skin is, this moment is a little red from the inside out.

Out of the theater, he chased after Ji Xiaoou and asked her to dinner. He thought that he needed to stir his lips and tongue to bewitch her, but to his surprise, Ji Xiaoou actually nodded.

Rigor immediately suggested: "Let's go to Wanda Plaza to eat French food, shall we?" ”

Ji Xiaoou shook his head vigorously, resolutely disagreeing to eat French food, and only willing to go to the Pizza Hut next to him.

Rigorous wondered: "Why?" Do you want to save money for me? Ouch sister, you really touched me! ”

Ji Xiaoou replied: "It's your right to dream if you are willing to dream, and I won't interfere." Of course I like French food, but it depends on who you eat with. ”

Rigor immediately humbly asked: "Is there a difference with whom you eat?" ”

"Absolutely. If you count, there are nine dishes from appetizers to coffee, and the average interval between each dish is twenty minutes, which is at least three hours! Three hours in front of a person who doesn't speculate, big brother, do you think it's enjoyment? No, it's a sin! ”

"Oh," said Rigor with a look of sudden realization, "you mean, French dinner can only be eaten with those you like?" ”

"Yes, it looks like your IQ is still above normal."

"Can you please stop being so honest?"

"I'm sorry for you, honesty has always been my strength."

"I really don't understand," Rigor pretended to be puzzled, "if the two like each other, why do they have to waste time flirting in the restaurant?" Is it bad to go straight home and go to bed? ”

Ji Xiaoou blushed, glared at him and said: "I warn you, no matter what you do, we are both men and women, don't think that you are only interested in men and have a gold medal for avoiding death, it is too much, I will slap you with big ears." ”

Rigor looked sad that his true feelings had been misinterpreted, and spread his hands aggrievedly: "You see, the truth is always unwelcome." Go to bed, as long as men and women have a normal purpose of dating, they always have to come to this point, what's wrong? ”

Ji Xiaoou felt that the passion that he wanted to slap him just now came back to life in the palm of his hand, sizzling like a lit *. She endured and endured, and finally held back her anger and turned to walk back.

Rigor chased after her, looking at her with a smile, as if holding back a piece of fun, "Where are you going?" ”

"Pizza Hut!"

"Hey, haven't figured it out yet?"

Ji Xiaoou couldn't bear it anymore, and stood in the middle of the road and shouted: "I-want-starvation-death-!" Do you fucking understand? ”

Pizza Hut is Pizza Hut, rigorous and not picky, he can eat anything, as long as he can stay with the beauty for a while, he does not have too much luxury. Ji Xiaoou didn't have time to eat at noon, so as soon as the pizza was served, she began to eat hard. Rigor wanted to find an opportunity to explain the misunderstanding at the hotel that day, but he couldn't find a suitable gap. It wasn't until Ji Xiaoou eliminated a six-inch pizza by himself and wiped his mouth with satisfaction that he could cough and confess himself first: "I'm not married." ”

Ji Xiaoou was absent-minded: "Hmm." ”

"Sometimes I'm not very gentle, but I'm reasonable and don't lose my temper. I'm a bad person, but I'm honest as bad, and I'm 100% honest with girls, so that people can be wary of me. ”

Ji Xiaoou raised his head and looked at him in surprise: "Are we participating in "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb"?" ”

"Seriously, I'm talking to you about business."

"OK, so I'm in a meeting with the UN Secretary-General?"

Rigor was angry: "Can you talk well?" ”

"Why can't I talk well? I've been talking well! ”

Rigor decided not to entangle with her anymore and went straight to the point: "Can you listen to me first?" Didn't you see me with a guy last time in the hotel? ”

"Huh? Be. Ji Xiaoou's eyes widened, did this start the bitter confession of "Art Life"? Seeing the solemn expression, she threw down the napkin and sat up straight, and the gossip universe in her body started the start of the program.

"I'm telling you, that's not true, we're not real, you know?"

"Oh, understood, understood." Ji Xiaoou nodded like a chicken pecking rice, looking very understanding, "You are just lonely and lonely for a long night, so you want to find someone to find some comfort, you belong to the morning and say that you broke up, and you didn't move the truth and didn't come to the truth, right?" ”

"What kind of mess is this?" Rigor almost choked to death with a bite of pizza.

"You don't have to explain it to me. Really, this kind of thing only cares about the feelings of the parties, you just think it's good, just be worthy of yourself, as for what others think, you care about them. I know, you guys find the right ...... It's not easy to have the right friend. ”

Strictly put down the knife and fork and stopped eating. He thought that Ji Xiaoou was ridiculing him, but seeing Ji Xiaoou's sincere face, he looked very heart-to-heart, and it was not very similar. After thinking about it, he asked Ji Xiaoou: "If I'm really that kind of person, aren't you afraid to associate with me?" ”

"Why are you afraid? If you're not that kind of person, I'm supposed to be scared, right? You like men, I'm a woman, positive and negative yin and yang don't match, I'm afraid of you? You're afraid of me, right? Ji Xiaoou's long eyelashes fluttered extremely exaggeratedly.

pinched her chin rigorously and stared at Ji Xiaoou for a long time, but she really couldn't figure out whether what she said was sincere or acting. Finally he smiled incomprehensibly and hooked his finger at her: "Come, I'll tell you something." ”

Ji Xiaoou hesitated and leaned over, inadvertently getting closer, so close that her strict lips could almost touch the fluffy hair on her sideburns. The deep blue of the hair roots makes the skin behind the ears more and more white and greasy.

Swallow your saliva rigorously and hard, and also swallow your own heart. He lowered his voice and said, "Actually, I realized that I was different from others very early. ”

"At that time, you felt very painful and confused, didn't you?"

"Yes, it's very painful, so painful that I die and come back to life."

Both of them seem to be acting seriously, and their faces are even tighter, for fear that they will accidentally laugh out loud.

"It's all over, don't think about it." Seeing a man of more than one meter and eight meters revealing his past pain in front of his eyes, Ji Xiaoou's motherhood and compassion were stimulated to the point of flooding, and it was much more pleasing to the eye when he looked at the rigor, not as annoying as Fang Cai, and even the Bible education she received since childhood was subconsciously forgotten, so her words seemed particularly sincere.

"It's different now than it used to be, and people are getting more relaxed about it. If you look on the streets of Beijing, the two men are not a couple or two pairs holding hands on the street, so you don't have to force yourself to do things you don't like, such as ......" She paused and looked at Cheng Cheng hesitantly.

Rigorous grinned, and made an expression of encouragement for her to continue.

"You don't have to force yourself to look like women in order to cater to others. You see, isn't Canada already allowing same-sex marriage? China may have a day when you have to be optimistic and patient, right? ”

"Yes, yes, yes, yes!" Rigorous nodded desperately with a serious face, feeling that it was not bad to continue dating by mistake like this, at least Ji Xiaoou no longer rejected him and no longer avoided him.

That night, he sent Ji Xiaoou to the door of his house. Looking at her back, he felt very happy, because this time he successfully soaked in Ji Xiaoou's mobile phone number, and the process of soaking was like this:

Rigorously handed over his mobile phone: "Can you teach me how to adjust the ringtone to vibrate for incoming calls?" I've always been unable to figure it out. ”

Ji Xiaoou pouted: "It's really stupid!" Then he took it, neatly found the sound pattern, and taught rigorously while operating: "See, this is ...... Such...... Remember? ”

Rigor said, "It's pretty simple." Holding his phone and asking, "Give me a call?" My number is 13901××××××. ”

Ji Xiaoou dialed it with his mobile phone without defense. Rigorous's phone immediately began to buzz and tremble, pinched the call, flipped to her number, typed in her name, save, okay, Qi Huo'er.

In addition to the harvest of the mobile phone number, he also obtained Ji Xiaoou's sympathy and understanding, not to mention where this sympathy and understanding came from. At least the next date is fully possible, and maybe from now on he will open up an alternative pickle secret. That is: if you want to pick up a girl, pretend to be gay first.

Therefore, when Xu Zhiqun asked about the battle situation that night, he said: "Playing Gay is the ultimate killer of pickled girls." She completely treats you as a confidant, and she talks to you heart-to-heart, and you promise that there is no problem with her. Even rushing to pay for meals with you, so that he looks more manly than you. I guess I ended up getting laid, and she had to be proud that she had done something socially responsible, and she actually straightened a crooked man. ”

Later, for more than a month, with an average frequency of one phone call every two days, he persevered in inviting Ji Xiaoou to continue to meet, on the grounds that Ji Xiaoou settled the account last time Pizza Hut settled the account, and he ate a meal from her, so he had to invite him back.

is so rigorous and enthusiastic, Ji Xiaoou feels that it is very hypocritical to find a reason to shirk. And "hypocrisy" is one of the most hated temperaments of Beijing girls, and there is simply no two. Ji Xiaoou couldn't bear his entanglement, maybe it was the sixth call, or the seventh call, and finally agreed to go out to lunch with him. She only agreed to lunch, because she thought that lunch was short, so she didn't have to waste too much time with rigour. What she lacks most now is time.

Lunch is lunch, rigorous and willing to accept reality, anyway, there is one meal and the next one. He hasn't had much serious business lately, and the extra time is just spent soaking in Ji Xiaoou. She had a lunch with him nearby, and then at 12 o'clock at noon every day, as long as there was no important meal, Rigor parked the car on time at the door of the "Flowing Year". Within a week, almost all customers knew that Ji Xiaoou had a boyfriend who drove a Land Rover, not only rich, but also infatuated, and most importantly, very manly, absolutely killing Sun Honglei and Hu Jun in seconds.

Fang Niya smiled and asked her to verify the authenticity, Ji Xiaoou was not angry: "Do you think the dead skin and face are manly?" If it counts, no one dares to claim the first if he claims the second. ”

Fang Niya couldn't bear the gossip thoughts, so she specially found a noon to sit in the store and wait for the rabbit, and after seeing the rigorous appearance, she was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth: "Isn't that the person we met in the elevator last time, and the front door didn't zipper?" ”

"That's him."

"Isn't he, he, he supposed to like men? What are you pestering for? ”

Ji Xiaoou pursed his lips: "How do I know what he is going to do?" ”

"Ouch, is he the legendary double stick of both men and women? If you look at Handong in "Lan Yu", isn't it okay to be a man or a woman? Fang Niya showed a well-informed composure, hiding behind the curtain and commenting on the rigorous character, "Actually, if you look closely, he looks quite good, a bit like Hu Jun, but his eyes are much bigger than Hu Jun." Ji Xiaoou, if you think about it, just accept him. In the future, even if you are jealous, Xiao San'er is also a man, at least there is no threat to your marriage. ”

Before she finished speaking, Ji Xiaoou came over and brushed the curtains: "Are you annoyed?" It's okay to go home, don't let your old Chen call me every day to ask for someone. ”

Fang Nia laughed: "Really, ten men and nine Gay, he has at least come out of the closet, it is better than pretending to be a straight man to cheat on marriage." If you think about it, you don't suffer in this matter. ”

Ji Xiaoou's answer was to slap a cotton paper mask on her face.

Rigor insisted on two weeks outside the door of "Like Water", rain or shine, Ji Xiaoou couldn't bear his patience and cheekiness, and finally went out to dinner with him again. After going back and forth, she found out that she had really become friends with a Gay before she could figure out what was going on. This made her unconsciously feel a sense of sincerity and fear when she occasionally prayed, feeling that she had been tempted by the devil and had betrayed God.

talked to Fang Nia about it again, but Fang Nia told her how good it is, the most popular thing now is to find a gay to be a male girlfriend or a confidant.

Ji Xiaoou didn't understand what was good about this. Fontia said: "You think, this kind of person, his feelings are as rich as his strength, he can not only help you carry the box upstairs when the elevator is black, but also comfort you with enough delicacy and consideration when you are frustrated; You can feel free to share your emotions and secrets with him, without worrying that he will spread your privacy to everyone; You can also feel comfortable putting your head on his shoulder to find security, but you don't have to sacrifice your body and soul in exchange. ”

Ji Xiaoou suddenly realized: "I understand, it is to let him fulfill his boyfriend's responsibilities and obligations, but not to give his boyfriend's rights and powers." ”

"Yes, yes," said Fontia, "what a good thing that is! ”

Ji Xiaoou pondered Fang Niya's words for a long time, and always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say that there was anything wrong. The main thing is that she doesn't feel that she can take advantage of getting along with rigor - he doesn't have the generosity and tolerance of men, and he doesn't have the thoughtfulness and carefulness of women!

In addition to interacting with rigorous, going to see the woman with femoral osteonecrosis once every two weeks has also become a new habit for Ji Xiaoou. In addition to bringing enough meat, vegetables and fruits for two weeks, she will also bring an hourly worker every three or five days. Once the dirt and dirt accumulated over the years were removed, the small room gradually became bright and clean.

Ji Xiaoou has a question in her heart, every time she relooks the photo of the teenager, the doubt in her heart will deepen. But she never opened her mouth to ask the woman. Because she thought about it and thought about it, she always felt that it was unlikely, the difference between the two was too great, like coming from two worlds, everything in the world was always similar, she preferred to believe that it was just her own illusion.

Until noon one day, the woman leaned on the side of the bed, and Ji Xiaoou peeled apples for her to eat. The woman had a slice of apple in her mouth, and suddenly sat up, moving so fast that she startled Ji Xiaoou: "My son is back." ”

Before Ji Xiaoou could speak, she saw her trembling and went to get the crutches at the head of the bed: "It's broken, it's broken, why didn't this kid say it in advance, I didn't prepare anything to eat at home, I'll have to take a look at the kitchen......"

Ji Xiaoou hurriedly stopped her: "Lie down, I'll call to order a takeout and don't delay him to eat." ”

Speaking of this, I heard the door lock clicking and turning outside, and the woman didn't have time to put on her crutches, and she was about to answer the door by holding on to the wall, so Ji Xiaoou had to carry her out of the bedroom.

As soon as the door opened, a boy staggered in with the cold outside, and when he finished changing his shoes, he got up lazily and called "Mom", the two looked at each other coldly, Ji Xiaoou said "hey", and was stunned on the spot.

This tired boy was actually the little junior brother she met on the subway, Zhan Yu.

Zhan Yu's expression became extremely strange when he saw Ji Xiaoou, and after being stunned for a while, he actually turned around and opened the door and walked away, regardless of the fact that he was still wearing a pair of slippers worn indoors.

His mother chased after him and shouted: "Xiao Yu ......" because the action was too urgent, he immediately squatted down and coughed and gasped.

Ji Xiaoou never dreamed that she would meet Zhan Yu here, let alone that he would react like this, she thought that she would never see this boy again in her life - a beautiful boy who was once recognized by her as a junior brother and once again regarded as a liar by her.

Because of Zhan Yu, Ji Xiaoou seriously reviewed whether he was too gullible and too kind to others. She had information about Zhan Yu's school, and she said that she could find someone with a phone call, but she didn't do it, and kept waiting, waiting for Zhan Yu to come to her and explain the reason for saying goodbye. But as time went by, Ji Xiaoou only felt disappointment. She had to admit that maybe she really wanted to retake the course of recognizing people with eyes, and as for the loss of more than 2,000 yuan, she only paid the tuition. But the reunion scene in this case, as well as Zhan Yu's sudden reaction, was something Ji Xiaoou never expected. She placed Zhan Yu's mother on the broken sofa in the hall, grabbed her coat and chased her out.

Zhan Yu ran fast in front, even if Ji Xiaoou's best sports in middle school was a 1,500-meter run, he couldn't catch up.

Fortunately, Zhan Yu didn't know what to think of, and suddenly stopped on the side of the road with a sudden brake, turned his back to Ji Xiaoou, and slowly inserted his hands into his coat pockets.

Because of inertia, Ji Xiaoou didn't stop until he rushed to him, holding his knees and panting for a long time, he finally adjusted his breathing, glaring at Zhan Yu angrily, her face turned red: "What are you running?" You run away and act like you don't know me? ”

Zhan Yu was about the same height as Ji Xiaoou, and in the face of Ji Xiaoou's angry gaze, he replied calmly: "I'm afraid that you will treat me as a liar." ”

Ji Xiaoou was angry and funny, "I won't treat you as a liar if you leave like this?" What logic? ”

"I didn't have that much money at the time." He looked at Ji Xiaoou and said very calmly, his eyes were black and white, "I can't afford it." ”

"Ah, you ran away from the hospital without money? Why don't you tell me the truth? ”

"I don't want people to give them away."

Ji Xiaoou shook his head, indicating that he couldn't understand his way of thinking, "Then you're willing to let people treat you as a liar?" ”

Zhan Yu lowered his gaze and stared at his toes. The bottom edge of the jeans and the patched cotton slippers were stained with a fine layer of loess in the run just now.

"I wasn't going to lie to you." He lowered his head and said, "The nurse has your phone number, I work in a company in Zhongguancun after school, and I can pay you back when I get my salary."

Ji Xiaoou stopped talking. She turned her face sideways to look at his eyebrows, eyes, and lips exposed under his jet-black forehead, the bright and beautiful outlines, and the white complexion reflected the noon sun, faintly showing a layer of shiny fine fluffy hair.

Still a kid! Her heart became surprisingly soft at this moment, removing the precaution and anger that had not existed, and becoming as clear as the blue sky overhead.

Someone once said at his baptism in the church that whether he looked left and right or forward and backward, the world around him made him desperate, and he could only look up, so he saw God. At this moment, Ji Xiaoou thought: In fact, this world is still very good, there are still many kind people among ordinary people, even if they are forced to Liangshan, it is temporary, who doesn't want to go to the better?

She glanced at Zhan Yu again, and still felt a little incredible: he, his sick mother, and that home with nothing were almost like coming from two different spaces, what kind of chance could it take to grow such a snow-white and dazzling lotus flower in the mud?

"Senior sister," Zhan Yu's voice interrupted her thoughts, "what did you tell my mother about the two of us?" ”

"Huh?" Ji Xiaoou didn't react for a while.

"How did you find my house? What address did the school give you? It was only then that a little nervousness and fear appeared on his face.

Ji Xiaoou finally understood what he wanted to say, he was afraid that she would stab the disappearance of the money he owed to the school. At this point, Ji Xiaoou couldn't wait to poke a finger on his head: "Oh, where did you think of going?" It's a coincidence, how did I know I was going to run into you? ”

"I thought ......"

Ji Xiaoou glanced at him: "You kid, your heart is too heavy, for so much money, should I do it?" ”

Zhan Yu turned his head and smiled, as if relieved. But that kind of smile makes people feel tired just looking at it, and the corners of the two mouths are stiffly pulled upwards by the muscles on the cheeks, while pushing out a short arc line.

At the age of early twenties, there really shouldn't be such a tired wry smile. Ji Xiaoou exhaled a long breath with great effort, and found that he was also surrounded by an inexplicable bitterness.

Spring in Beijing is very different from the spring rain of apricot blossoms in the south of the Yangtze River, although the spring breeze in March has lost the coldness of winter, but it still carries a compelling cold, rolling up the sand and dust on the side of the road and rushing to people's faces.

Ji Xiaoou pulled the zipper of his coat all the way to the bottom of his chin, and the cashmere scarf around his neck thoughtfully conveyed the warmth of warmth. Zhan Yu flinched in the wind. Ji Xiaoou pinched the sleeve of his coat, it was just an ordinary acrylic cotton coat, which looked especially thin on the streets of Beijing in the cold spring. Without thinking, she took off her scarf and wrapped it around Zhan Yu's neck: "Put it on, my sister will give it to you." ”

Zhan Yu raised his hand to pull the scarf, Ji Xiaoou had already held his hand: "If you wear it, you can wear it, I hate it when others pull and pull with me." ”

Zhan Yu's dark eyes lingered on her face for a moment, and finally pursed her lips and smiled, gently withdrew her hand, and tied the scarf in a knot around her neck.

Ji Xiaoou patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction: "Good boy! Have you eaten? ”

Zhan Yu shook his head.

There was a steamed bun shop on the side of the road, and seeing that the store was quite clean, Ji Xiaoou dragged him in, and ordered two drawers of xiaolongbao buns on his own initiative, and another cage of three fresh ones, and explained that they were packed separately.

The steamed buns were served steaming, and the steaming water vapor and delicious aroma dissolved the last trace of strangeness and embarrassment in the air.

"Zhan Yu," she asked cautiously, scooping a little chili into the vinegar dish in front of him, "how long has your mother's illness been delayed?" ”

The bun that Zhan Yu brought to his mouth stopped, thought about it, and replied: "It started in three years, and it's almost ten years now, right?" ”

"What caused it?"

"Excess hormones."

Excessive continuous use of corticosteroids is indeed the main cause of osteonecrosis. Ji Xiaoou frowned slightly, "However, doesn't the doctor explain the consequences to the patient and family members before taking the medicine?" Got no other options? ”

Zhan Yu shook his head: "No one has told us about the risks of using hormones in large quantities, and there are no precautions, my mother's eyes, you saw it, right?" The tear glands are drying up and your vision is getting worse and worse, all due to an excess of hormones. But no one ever told us about that. ”

"Which hospital is so irresponsible? Why don't you change hospitals, or sue them! Ji Xiaoou couldn't help but slap the table.

"Senior sister, calm down!" Zhan Yu put down his chopsticks, looked at Ji Xiaoou and smiled, but his smile was full of irony, "What you said is a logic with Emperor Jin Hui, why don't you eat minced meat, you know?" ”

"What do you mean?"

"It's time to tell you early. When have you ever seen your arms twisted over your thighs? ”

Ji Xiaoou became suspicious: "What is the disease?" ”

Zhan Yu replied: "When I was three years old, my mother worked as a nurse in a hospital. ”

Ji Xiaoou looked at the hot air wafting from the soup bowl in front of him, and his eyelashes gradually became stained with a layer of mist, like butterfly wings soaked in water, becoming heavy. 〇 Three years, a lot of hormones, hospitals, lung fibrosis, these words gradually connected into a line in her mind.

The chewing in her mouth slowly stopped, and she spat out two words that she couldn't even believe, "Non...... Canon? ”

Zhan Yu nodded: "Senior sister, you are so smart, really!" ”

"Is it really the aftermath of SARS?" Ji Xiaoou felt incredulous.

She still remembers the panic in Beijing at that time, and the joy and gratitude of those patients who received free treatment and were discharged from the hospital in front of the media camera. The angels in white were the most sacrificial group of people at that time.

But how can this be the case? Maybe Zhan Yu's mother is just a case? Ji Xiaoou decided to go home at night and ask his parents.

When they broke up, Ji Xiaoou handed a lunch box of buns to Zhan Yu, and told him to take them home and warm them up for his mother as lunch, and said that it was not easy for his mother, and the patient needed more company from his relatives, so don't patronize his studies and ignore his only mother, and regret it in the future.

Zhan Yu held the lunch box and didn't make a sound, patiently listening to her instigation. When Ji Xiaoou walked more than ten meters, he suddenly shouted behind him: "Sister-"

Ji Xiaoou looked back in surprise.

Zhan Yu said, "That money...... I'll definitely pay you back! ”

Ji Xiaoou walked back and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry about that little money, go back to school and study hard." ”

"I'll pay you back." Zhan Yu's tone was firm.

Ji Xiaoou thought for a while: "Otherwise, when will you have time to work in my store, I will count you as an hour...... Well...... Eighty dollars, when you have saved enough hours, the two of us will be cleared. ”

Hourly workers in Beijing are about 20 yuan an hour. The hourly salary given by Ji Xiaoou is about to catch up with the white-collar workers in the office building. But Zhan Yu was obviously not very familiar with the price system of labor, and he accepted Ji Xiaoou's proposal gladly, and nodded with a smile, revealing a little white tooth tip.

Regarding Zhan Yu's mother's condition, Ji Xiaoou received an answer from her parents, but she could not be satisfied.

Ji Zhaolin said: "This matter is more complicated. In the event of a sudden public incident, and no one really understands the cause of the disease, it is difficult to hold accountable afterwards. Moreover, the quality of the patients is uneven, not everyone can be reasonable, in that case, it is natural to save lives, and not to say too much is not to add to the chaos? Doctors have doctors' difficulties, and the government has the government's difficulties, you don't understand. ”

Ji Xiaoou was puzzled: "Even if it is to save lives, patients always have the right to know, right?" Between escaping death and life being worse than death, they always have the right to choose, right? This is a glaring information asymmetry. Well, maybe you're right, but governments and society always have an obligation and responsibility to help them get through this difficult time, right? ”

Zhao Yamin's eyes narrowed: "What do you know all day long besides being blind?" What the hell have you been up to lately? How did you think to ask this? How many times have I told you, don't fool around with the old ladies in the church......"

Yes, here we go again. Ji Xiaoou knew that he was not his mother's opponent, so he sighed and ran away, so he had to find a way to find the answer by himself.

However, the information and photos searched on the Internet shocked Ji Xiaoou.

The four letters that made people talk about it back then, S-A-R-S, have been forgotten, almost completely forgotten. However, there is such a group of people who still live in the shadow of SARS.

After high-dose hormone therapy, femoral head necrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, mental depression, complete loss of ability to work, endless treatment and mental stress, they have become an isolated "post-SARS" coterie that cannot be fully intervened by the media, and social assistance forces cannot be approached.

What surprised Ji Xiaoou the most was the two comparative photos of a patient before and after his illness. The woman in the old millennium photo, with the White Tower in Beihai Park in the background, is wearing a lake-blue sleeveless dress, with fair complexion, plump cheeks, thick eyebrows and long eyelashes, and deep eye sockets, quite like an actress named Zhang Liwei in the 80s. And in the photo after the illness, although the key places in it have been blurred, Ji Xiaoou still recognizes it at a glance, and the messy indoor environment in the photo is Zhan Yu's home; The thin and withered woman in the photo is Zhan Yu's mother. Her name is Li Meiqin.

Ji Xiaoou didn't expect that Zhan Yu's mother would be so good-looking before her illness, and she didn't expect that illness could destroy a person's appearance and self-esteem so easily. However, this also explains where the genes for Zhan Yu's beauty come from.

"At that time, I thought SARS was a nightmare, but I was wrong, but in fact, it was after SARS that it was the most uncomfortable." Facing Ji Xiaoou's question, Li Meiqin's numb face finally showed a sad expression, "I still remember that on the day I got the femoral osteonecrosis diagnosis, the doctor said, there is no help, this is a problem that has not been solved by medicine, and this is the result even if you go to the United States." If your family's economic strength is good, and you don't care about spending hundreds of thousands, you can change to imported joints, take some imported medicine, and it can be extended for a few years. At the entrance of the hospital, Xiao Yu was just a freshman in high school at that time, so a freshman child, he stood on the road and cried, he said that we have no money to take medicine and no money to do surgery, Mom, what should I do if you are not there? I couldn't cry, I thought right, what can I do in the future? I'm going to die, what will I do if I leave this child alone? No one in this world really cares about him anymore, who do you entrust him to? No one has a mother's intimacy, when I think of this, I can't close my eyes when I die! ”

Her voice suddenly became high-pitched and sharp, beating her legs desperately: "But I'm just waiting for death now!" There's no way to do it, I'm just waiting for death! Wait for death......" She was suddenly silenced, her thin fingers like bird's claws scratching her chest desperately, and her mouth was struggling to puff out, and she saw that her black eyeballs had rolled up.

Ji Xiaoou was frightened, and hurriedly helped her to lean on herself, rubbing her chest for her, and shouted in a trembling voice: "Auntie, auntie, don't do this!" Please, don't do that! ”

Li Meiqin finally breathed a sigh of relief, leaned limply on the head of the bed, and tears flowed down from the corners of her closed eyes.

Ji Xiaoou went to the bathroom to find a towel. There were two towels hanging on the tiles, and Ji Xiaoou touched them, slippery and sticky. She stood stunned for a while, and finally tore off the silk scarf from her neck, soaked it with water and handed it to Li Meiqin: "Auntie, you wipe your face." ”

Li Meiqin shook her head, pushed Ji Xiaoou's hand away, and stretched out her palm to wipe away her tears.

Ji Xiaoou didn't dare to make another attempt, so he sat on the edge of the bed and asked carefully: "I heard that the government doesn't reimburse all the treatment costs?" ”

"That refers to those who are infected on duty, such as doctors and nurses in hospitals, I am a nurse, and I have not signed a labor contract, so it doesn't count."

"Can you get the Red Cross subsidy?"

Ji Xiaoou refers to the subsidy issued by the Red Cross Society to patients with sequelae entrusted by the Beijing government, and those who have a work unit can receive a "living allowance" of 4,000 yuan per year; If you don't have a job, it's 8,000 yuan for "living assistance".

"Yes, four thousand a year."

Ji Xiaoou wondered: "You don't have a job, shouldn't it be the kind of eight thousand?" ”

Li Meiqin smiled bitterly: "Although I was laid off, I can be regarded as a person with a work unit." ”

Yes, reality is always so misplaced, that's why it's desperate, Ji Xiaoou bit his lower lip and didn't make a sound.

"Three hundred yuan a month, three hundred yuan, what do you say you can do in Beijing, Xiao Ji?"

Ji Xiaoou couldn't answer. Three hundred yuan is probably the price of Ji Xiaoou's family's groceries for a week, or the price of one of her shirts.

"Plus the subsistence allowance, more than 700 yuan a month, what can you do Xiao Ji?" Li Meiqin turned her face, looked at her, and stubbornly repeated again, "Every moonlight takes medicine, and I don't dare to take expensive medicine, it costs six or seven hundred, this seeing that I can't move more and more, I am really paralyzed, and I can't afford to hire a nanny, so I can only lie on the bed and wait for death." The doctor asked me to do the surgery, but where can I have the money to do the surgery? ”

Ji Xiaoou still didn't know how to answer, so he had to divert the topic, "Can you give me a list of the medicines you want to take every month?" ”

It seems that Li Meiqin didn't intend for her to answer, and asked herself by herself: "I've been like this in my life, and I don't want my children to be like me." I put all my hopes in him. Fortunately, Xiao Yu was admitted to the university, but his tuition and living expenses cost more than 20,000 yuan a year, and I don't know where to come from. I thought about selling the house, but the child wouldn't let me, saying that he had a student loan and that he could earn it himself. I never dared to ask him how he earned it, I was afraid to ask him ......"

Ji Xiaoou pressed his palm on the back of Li Meiqin's hand. This was the first time she really touched Li Meiqin's skin. Ji Xiaoou is also an ordinary person, before that, she also had an instinctive fear of the word "SARS", and every time she realized that she was facing a former SARS patient, she subconsciously wanted to take a step back and avoid it. It is only today that she truly understands that what this group of people are facing is not only physical pain, but also mental anxiety condensed by the discrimination of others and fear of the future. This kind of mental pain is the greatest pressure to destroy a person.

"Zhan Yu is a good boy, he won't let you down, definitely not." Ji Xiaoou's tone was firm, and he didn't know whether to comfort himself or Li Meiqin.

When the dust settles a year later, Ji Xiaoou recalls this day, and she will find that it is this day that she feels pity for the boy named Zhan Yu.

And once a woman has affection for another person of the opposite sex, whether their relationship is a lover, a husband and wife or a friend, as a woman, she will fall into this relationship and can no longer be objective and neutral.

In the eyes of the world, he is good or bad.