Chapter 36: The Fragrance on the Picture

"You go," said Chief Bai, and when Yuan Yuxiao turned around and walked out, he said behind him: "Why are people looking for you and Jin Daotong as soon as they go to political study?" In the future, I will ask Jindaotong to put the processing time appropriately to other afternoons! ”

Yuan Yuxiao responded with a hmm, thinking to herself, this white chief really doesn't rub sand in his eyes.

Downstairs, he slowly and methodically billed Zhang Huhu to collect money, while talking to him about some gossip, this Zhang Huhu is always smiling, and a little talkative, so the two of them are talking happily.

After opening the ticket, let Zhang Huhu move the sofa by himself. Zhang Huhu called another person in, carried the sofa out of the door, and Yuan Yuxiao also followed to the communication room. He had to greet Uncle Wang and ask him to give the sofa a walk.

When Zhang Huhu walked away, Yuan Yuxiao looked at her watch, and matched the time with the wall clock in the communication room, it was only half an hour before she got off work, but Yu Xiaolu hadn't called yet, and she was afraid that it would be too late to inform her of the time and place of watching the movie. Just called it himself, he had to dial the phone number of Xiaolu's father's unit.

"Hello Uncle Yu, I'm Xiaoxiao!"

Yu Xiaolu's father's voice suddenly became louder, and he seemed to be happy, "Ah! It's Xiaoxiao, what's the good thing? ”

"Please tell Xiaolu to wait for me at the gate of Xinhua Cinema at seven o'clock in the evening."

"Good, good!" He said a series of "good" at once, and then muttered slightly, "Xiaolu is now working on Youyi Road, and there is a little distance from home after work, and I have to transfer to Xinhua Cinema by bus, but I am afraid that it will be too late to ......."

Without waiting for Yuan Yuxiao to answer, he said again: "Otherwise, you come over for dinner in the evening, and then take the two of you with a bicycle, I'm afraid that it will be faster...... Xiaolu has not been in a good mood recently, and she doesn't want to tell adults, Xiaoxiao, you enlighten her more! ”

Speaking of this, Yuan Yuxiao couldn't refuse at all, there were a lot of acquaintances at night, and she had to use the car to take Yu Xiaolu.

"I ...... Let's pick her up after dinner. ”

"It's still like this, okay, whatever you want."

Putting down the phone, Yuan Yuxiao thought about it, and was afraid that she would not be able to catch up when she went home for dinner, so she dialed her mother's unit again and told her that there was a class reunion in the evening and she would not go home for dinner.

When I went back to the office upstairs and saw that my colleagues were already sitting and some were standing, I knew that the meeting was going to be dismissedβ€”that is, it was time to leave, and political study was not necessarily on time, but always some time in advance.

Coming out of the sub-bureau, Yu Xiaolu's house and Yuan Yuxiao's house were in the opposite direction, and they went directly to Yu Xiaolu's house, saving nearly half of the distance.

However, it is not at Xiaolu's house to eat, so she can't go too early, and it is estimated that it is almost time for dinner at her house. On the way to her house, he happened to pass by the "Kokusuga noodle shop", so he went into the store and ordered a bowl of noodles for dinner to pass the time.

The boss happened to be on the counter, and when Yuan Yuxiao handed over the money, the boss smiled and asked, "Oh, an old friend from the tax bureau is here!" ”

Since the day of the internship, Yuan Yuxiao has never been here, and the boss said that the relationship between the two is so close, he is a little unaccustomed to it, only nodding and smiling, and does not speak.

"It's been a long time since you've been with your girlfriend!" The boss flatteringly joked.

"Girlfriend?" Yuan Yuxiao didn't react for a while.

"In the past few years, you two often came to eat noodles!"

"Oh, that's my classmate! Not a girlfriend! Yuan Yuxiao corrected seriously, thinking that this boss's memory is not ordinarily good.

"Just kidding, kidding!" The boss pondered Yuan Yuxiao's expression for a moment, and quickly explained, while pushing out the money that Yuan Yuxiao handed into the counter, "Today's reward, thank you to the old customers!" ”

Yuan Yuxiao smiled and pushed the money in, turned around and left.

"You have to give money! It's so out-of-the-box...... Okay, let's go, I'll come when it's okay......" The boss was still talking behind him.

Yuan Yuxiao came out of the powder shop in a hurry, and rode slowly as soon as she got on the bicycle. While thinking about how to make Yu Xiaolu happy, Xiaolu's father asked him to "persuade", whether it was sincere or polite, Yuan Yuxiao couldn't help but take it seriously.

When they arrived at Yu Xiaolu's house, their family was having dinner. "Xiaoxiao so early! You haven't eaten yet, have you? Xiaolu's mother asked.

"I've eaten it, I've eaten it."

Yu Xiaolu saw that Yuan Yuxiao was coming, and quickly cleaned the bowl, put the bowl and pulled him to the back room. Her house has two rooms.

"Have you eaten enough?" Yuan Yuxiao asked.

"She's about the same amount of food as a cat, and her mouth is tricky! It's been like this since she was a child, and there's no way to take her! Xiaolu's mother said with a smile and made tea on the side.

"Thank you, Auntie!" Yuan Yuxiao took the tea, Xiaolu's mother smiled, turned around and went out, and closed the door smoothly, as if it was natural.

Yuan Yuxiao hurriedly put down the tea, and went over to open the door again. He felt that there was always something sneaky about closing the door at this time.

"I brought the photo the other day!" Yu Xiaolu said that because the door was open, her voice was unconsciously low.

She took out a photo from a drawer, and although it was a junior high school graduation photo two years ago, it basically didn't change anything.

Yuan Yuxiao also took out her black and white photo from her jacket pocket and exchanged it with such a large photo with color, Yuan Yuxiao felt that she seemed to be a little cheap.

"I'm sorry, I made ......," he said.

"Nerd!" Yu Xiaolu snatched the photo, looked at it, looked at the people again, and smiled.

"What, it's not like that?"

"It's a lot older!" She grimaced, handing over her photograph.

Before Yuan Yuxiao took it, she smelled a faint fragrance, a very familiar fragrance......

The fragrance of osmanthus!

He was shocked!

"This picture...... Where did you put it? He took the photo, sniffed, and confirmed that the fragrance came from the photo.

Yu Xiaolu smiled, and her eyes turned red.

"What's wrong?" Yuan Yuxiao was a little surprised and asked softly.

She turned around and said to the window, "I have already given this picture to my best friend, and I was asking for it back to you from her the other day, and she scolded me, saying that I would rather ruin our friendship for many years for the sake of a stinky man!" ”

Yuan Yuxiao was dumbfounded, not knowing what to do.

"I told her that I would send her a more beautiful picture, and she said, send ten more, a hundred is useless! If you take back what you have given me and give it to another stinky man, we will have to break up our relationship! She didn't listen to me, so she ran out...... Didn't go home all night......"

Yu Xiaolu turned her back to Yuan Yuxiao, he couldn't see her face, but he could hear it from her voice, she was crying.

After a short period of confusion, Yuan Yuxiao finally clarified her thoughts and said softly: "This ...... Ahem, maybe, it's my fault, your good friends for so many years, I shouldn't have intervened......" Speaking of this, he felt nondescript again, "uh...... Actually, I'm fine, I'm really fine, and I'm not in a hurry to ask for your picture......"

"Although you didn't ask me for a photo, I already promised you......" Yu Xiaolu does have her stubbornness sometimes.

Yuan Yuxiao thought to herself, where did this really start, if she didn't take the initiative to send photos that day, he hadn't even thought about it!

But today, her intentions made Yuan Yuxiao feel indebted again.

"That's it," Yuan Yuxiao handed over the photo, "You still give this photo to your good friend, you have another one in the future, give it to me again, otherwise, I won't be at ease!" It's true! "He was really upset.

"This won't work, I've already given it to you...... Are you asking me to repeat the mistake again? ”

"Hmm......" Yuan Yuxiao groaned slightly, "Yes, you have already given it to me, and I have the right to control the photo, right?" ”

"Hmmm......"

"Then now I have decided to give this photo of mine to your good friend!"

Yu Xiaolu turned to look at him, and sure enough, her face was full of tears.

Yuan Yuxiao took out a handkerchief and gave it to her.

She took the handkerchief and wiped away her tears, looked at Yuan Yuxiao, for a long time, probably understood his eyes, and finally took the photo and put it back in the drawer.

"I accepted the photo, and you have to agree to a request from me." She actually began to negotiate conditions.

"You say!"

"Your handkerchief is mine...... I'll still send you a new photo! ”

Yuan Yuxiao couldn't help laughing, she was always so childish.

It's getting dark. "We can go." Yuan Yuxiao said.

At this time, Xiaolu's mother probed into the door and said, "Xiaoxiao, you sit, my uncle and I are going out to have something." ”

Without waiting for Yuan Yuxiao to answer, he turned around.

"We're going out to the movies too......," Ms. Yuan said.

"It's okay, it's okay, you keep talking." She could be heard talking in the living room, followed by the sound of the door closing, and there was silence outside.

Yu Xiaolu grabbed Yuan Yuxiao's arm from behind, and as soon as he turned around, she leaned on his chest.

He suddenly felt stiff, every nerve tensed.

However, when he saw her eyes, he felt that he had to take her waist even if it was polite.

He wrapped his arms around her waist.

She shook violently and began to sobble again.

He was cold, suddenly nervous, and stammered, "We...... The ...... Look at the ...... Shadow went to ......"

His teeth kept pounding, and he couldn't finish a sentence for a long time.

"I'm not going to watch a movie today......" she said as she kissed his neck, crying and shaking.

He pressed her against the chair and said, "No, no, look...... Movie that...... Then I'll ...... Back to ......"

He really couldn't finish a sentence, his teeth clicked until his brain was shaking, he suddenly ran to the living room, put his hand on his forehead, froze for a while, and then said to her room, "Don't watch a movie, then ...... Then I'll ...... So I went home......"

He heard her sobs low for a while, then suddenly erupt twice, and then slowly lowered again......

"That'...... Then I'm gone......" he said again.

By this time, there was silence in her room.

As if acquiesced, he frantically twisted the lock of the door, went out like the wind, and gently pulled the door open, listening intently to the movement of the room.

There was still silence in the room.

He wasn't sure if she would open the door and talk to him again, so he stood in the doorway with his head bowed and waited.

Wait until the stairwell is completely dark, so dark that you can't even see yourself.

At this point he was sure that she would not come out again, and he did not have the courage to knock on the door again.

He slowly turned around and walked downstairs one by one.

He felt like a shadow under a street lamp, hollow, ethereal, unconscious.

Everything was blank just now, including the scent of osmanthus in the photo......

He didn't know how to get to his home, but when he twisted the lock and entered, he was completely calm again.

He sat down in his room, turned on the lamp, and decided to write a letter to Xiaolu.

This letter should be considered a love letter. The first love letter of his own.

The first love letter written by Yuan Yuxiao in his life did not belong to him, he married someone else, and wrote it to Qin Qing on behalf of Ling Jiamin. Looking back now, although he was an outsider, Qin Qing's beauty also moved him, which was real, so the kind of admiration expressed for Ling Jiamin did not include his own true feelings.

Now he couldn't find such a feeling, maybe it was too familiar with Xiaolu, or maybe the two felt completely different and couldn't be compared, or maybe there were more obstacles in it...... In any case, the letter was written with great difficulty, and it was far from being as impressant as the first love letter.

For a while, he thought that it would be better to plagiarize himself, anyway, the words from half a year ago were written by himself, and the general idea will not be completely forgotten, as long as he starts, he can find them one by one.

Wrote a page, I felt that it was inappropriate, and I felt that I was suspected of deceiving Xiaolu, although this could not be debunked, but my heart knew that there were gods in my head.

In particular, the fundamental feeling is different.

It's better to be honest and simple and say what you want to say.

It took a long time to apologize for my abruptness today, and a lot of reminiscing about the good old days...... consciously writes ramblingly, if you talk about it by the standard of the article, it can be said that you will digress from the topic in a thousand words.

But there is not much to say, a thousand words, and there seems to be only one sentence in the final sentence, "When I have twenty years, everything has a foundation, and I can really give you happiness, I will definitely ...... it ceremoniously"

At this point, he pauses, how about "ceremoniously"? He bit the barrel of the pen and hesitated for a long time, he examined the letter from the beginning, and then to this sentence, and felt that the ink was gradually getting a little lighter, so he opened the inkwell, dipped the pen in pure blue ink, and finally continued this sentence - "Marry you home ceremoniously!" ”