Grandma refused to come again, but Ning Zhi liked to come here once in a while.

After many times, and every time she sat in the same position, the proprietress recognized her and greeted her with a smile: "Or the old place?" ”

Ning Zhi glanced at Xi Lanyu and shook his head: "This time change to a quieter box." ”

The proprietress is two rounds older than Ning Zhi, and she has long regarded her as her own daughter.

"The latter one, who are you?"

Ning Zhi nodded: "Sort of." ”

"Looks like it's older than you?"

Ning Zhi replied softly: "Bigger." ”

The proprietress smiled with her eyebrows, looked at Xi Lanyu, and then looked at Ning Zhi: "It's a good match." It's good to be old, but it's painful to be old. ”

Ning Zhi didn't know what to reply, only laughed.

When she finally arrived at the box, she couldn't resist the questioning, and bluntly changed the topic: "Have you had any new dishes in the store recently?" ”

"Yes, yes, you can come with me to see in a while."

There is no menu in this restaurant, and all the ingredients are placed outside, so customers can go to the ordering area to take a turn around what they want to eat.

Ning Zhi ordered a few signature dishes, and a few more dishes she thought were pretty good.

Turning to look at Xi Lanyu behind him, he asked, "Is it okay?" Or do you have taboos? ”

He hadn't come to eat in such a place at first glance, and Ning Zhi was really afraid that he wouldn't move his chopsticks when he arrived.

Xi Lanyu glanced at her without emotion, "I'm not so particular." ”

He took out the silver cigarette case, grabbed it in his hand casually, and raised it towards Ning Zhi: "Go out and smoke a cigarette." ”

Xi Lanyu's addiction to smoking seems to be very heavy, and he has been smoking nine times out of ten.

But this is his business, Ning Zhi nodded indifferently.

Dusk cast a gentle halo on his face, Xi Lanyu bit the cigarette to his lips, and in the evening breeze, he put down his palm and lit it.

The scarlet light is extinguished, and there is a contradictory temperament on his face that balances boredom and meaninglessness.

Ning Zhi didn't know what kind of emotion he was in, and said, "You should have read my information. ”

Xi Lanyu tilted his head slightly, his lips and cheeks were slightly concave, and he spit out a puff of cigarette: "So? ”

Ning Zhi avoided answering, looking at the cigarette case he was holding in his mobile phone: "Can you give me one?" ”

In college, she learned to smoke under the influence of Zheng Yiman.

But Ning Zhi doesn't love the dizzying taste of nicotine, so he doesn't smoke much.

But there were moments, like now, when she needed a little solace.

Xi Lanyu handed her the cigarette case and lighter.

Ning Zhi took it and clicked on one.

The wind in the alley blew her hair away.

She caught the wind and took a deep breath.

The man's cigarette was so strong that he choked Ning Zhi and coughed.

The internal organs seemed to be alive again, and Ning Zhi continued Fang Cai's words: "My mother liked to come here very much when she was alive, I once asked her why, and she said that there are fireworks here, and it will not be cold. ”

"I didn't understand it before, but now I gradually understand that people probably live too hard, and they always need to find some sustenance from trivial daily life."

Xi Lanyu held the cigarette and took a puff, and the pale gray smoke shrouded the faces of the two.

Ning Zhi knew he was listening, "So, please bear with me." After my mother passed away, my grandmother was also having a hard time, and I wanted to plant some flowers in her sad place. ”

Ignoring Xi Lanyu's preferences and insisting on choosing here is just a small long-cherished wish of Ning Zhi.

She wanted to carve out the place from her grandmother's heart as her newlywed, not her mother's hometown.

Xi Lanyu glanced at her.

Ning Zhi couldn't tell what kind of eyes it was, maybe it was the compassion that belonged only to the superiors?

There was a kind of mournful solemnity in the dusk, which stretched Ning Zhi's voice as light as a puff of smoke, and when the wind blew, it dispersed.

She wore a long white dress, her black hair reached her waist, and her face was surprisingly white, like an epiphany in the middle of the night, quiet and fragile.

Ning Zhi's posture of holding a cigarette is actually not very skillful, but she doesn't care, she smokes quickly, and drinks to quench her thirst.

Xi Lanyu suddenly thought of the word "broken" said by the little boy passing by in the airport.

It's a bit of a fit.

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The old lady and Xi Lanyu had a very happy conversation, and the two didn't know what they were talking about behind Ning Zhi's back. After coming back, I didn't need her to urge, and took the initiative to ask for a physical examination.

Ning Zhi couldn't ask, so he had to give up.

After a busy morning, after finally finishing all the projects, Ning Zhi sent the old lady home first, and then went back to the hospital to work.

Mentor Ji Si didn't know about their family, and seeing her working so hard, he casually asked: "Your grandmother did a physical examination, why didn't your mother come to help?" ”

Ning Zhi's fingers clasped his palm: "My mother is gone." ”

Ji Sihe is a very typical straight man in the north, it is okay to scold people, but it is really impossible to comfort people, he was stunned on the spot, and he didn't hold back a word for a long time.

On the contrary, Ning Zhi couldn't help laughing: "Teacher, with your expression, those who don't know still think I'm bullying you." ”

Ji Sihe laughed dryly: "I'm sorry, Xiao Ning, the teacher doesn't know." ”

Ning Zhi smiled politely: "What a big deal." ”

……

The department has an unwritten reservation on Friday, a dinner.

If you have time, you can go, and if you don't want to go, no one will force you, and it is very Buddhist.

Ning Zhi hadn't participated before, and she wasn't good at getting along with too many people.

On Friday, the mentor Ji Sihe said that he would bring her with him.

Ning Zhi knew that it was because of the incident that he said the wrong thing last time, and the words he refused came to his lips, but Ning Zhi was worried that if she didn't go, Ji Sihe would keep it in mind, so he didn't push it.

Eat Japanese food at night, located in a nearby shopping mall, so that the hospital can go back at any time.

Those doctors who have been in the clinic for a few years and have been sitting independently do not dare to drink for fear of making mistakes.

Therefore, when the sake came up, they drank it separately from the little doctors who had just been admitted.

Mentor Ji Sihe didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, and frequently persuaded his senior brother Li Peng to have two more cups, Li Peng drank too much, complained about the tutor's partiality with a big tongue, and took care of Ning Zhi openly and secretly.

Ji Sihe slapped the back of his head with his hand: "Ren Xiaoning is smart and sensible, he will teach him, how can he be like you, I don't know how many times I have taught you, and I have to wipe my ass in the end." ”

Li Peng was already a little dizzy, and said something to the wall: "Teacher, junior sister is a god, and there is a wall between a god and ordinary people." You don't know how much pressure I have as a senior brother, I am compared to my junior sister all day long......"

Ning Zhi was complimented invisibly, couldn't cry or laugh, and stepped forward with a wine glass: "Senior brother, I salute you." But I advise you to say less, or you will regret it when you wake up tomorrow. ”

Ji Sihe took out his mobile phone and clicked on the recording function, "Let this kid say, I want to see how many complaints he still has." ”

The atmosphere in the department is very good, never engaging in intrigues, and everything is said in person.

Li Peng said these things drunk, Ji Sihe didn't know how many times he had heard them, but just kidding, no one was at ease. It's just that it's the first time he's complimented Ning Zhi today, and Ji Sihe probably thinks it's fresh.

really wanted to record him a moment of social death, Li Peng didn't say anything, his head tilted, and he fell asleep directly on the ground.

Everyone was ready to leave, Ning Zhi divided the little sake left with the other little doctor, she took out the car keys and got up and walked out.

The head that had drunk was a little sluggish, and the moment she pressed the car lights and sat in, Ning Zhi remembered that she couldn't drive.

It's only a five-minute walk back.

Ning Zhi decisively closed the car door and returned the same way.

Before she got out of the parking lot, her grandmother called, probably a little later than scheduled, and she was not at ease at home alone.

Ning Zhi connected: "Grandma, I drank some wine and am now preparing to go back." ”

Ning Xianglan didn't have any worry in her tone: "Don't worry, I've found someone to pick you up, and I'm waiting at the gate of your hospital." ”

"Who?"

"Don't you know when you get there?"

Ning Zhi quickened his pace, and saw a tall man under the street lamp from a distance, he seemed to be talking on the phone, and the mobile phone was casually resting in his ear.

There was a moon hanging in the sky, and the clouds were half covered, lonely and incomplete.

Ning Zhi hadn't hung up the phone yet, "How do you have his contact information?" ”

The old lady was very sophisticated: "His assistant gave it to him at dinner last time." You are married on a blind date, I guess you are thin-skinned, and you are embarrassed to trouble each other, what kind of business is this? Isn't this feeling just that I trouble you, you trouble me, trouble comes out? ”

Ning Zhi was speechless, not knowing what to say.

Grandma took another dose of heavy medicine: "It's so late today, let him live here, don't go." ”

……

Ning Zhi felt as if he was being flanked left and right, and it was difficult to ride a tiger.

On the one hand, she can't handle Xi Lanyu, and on the other hand, her even more perfunctory grandmother.

If Xi Lanyu hadn't seen her, she would have wanted to disappear in place.

Ning Zhi: "I'm sorry, I didn't know grandma would contact you. ”

It seems that in the past few days, she has been saying sorry to Xi Lanyu, Ning Zhi bit her lower lip, a little annoyed.

Xi Lanyu loosened his neckline, glanced at her, took out the car key from his pocket and pressed it.

In the darkness of the night, the silver-gray Bentley Continental suddenly opened its eyes like a dormant cheetah.

Ning Zhi's eyes narrowed at the light.

She took a few steps back, pulled the door and sat in the passenger seat. The moment the car started, Ning Zhi whispered, "Actually, you can say that you are busy." ”

Xi Lanyu sneered briefly: "Do you think your grandmother will believe it?" ”