The next day was the weekend, Cen Yao put the hairy crab in the refrigerator for the time being, and waited until Friday night, when she was about to call her mother to tell her mother that she was going to bring the crab home tomorrow, and suddenly thought of what to do if she was asked about Pei Jiamu.

In front of her colleagues, she can generously admit that it is because it is not an important thing for them, and no one will scold her in front of her.

But her own mother, Ms. Ding Yue, is different.

After all, Ding Yue has always disapproved of her falling in love with Pei Jiamu, and feels that from her description, Pei Jiamu is too good at falling in love, knows how to chase people too well, and doesn't look like he can be trusted.

…… Otherwise, I won't go back.

But I really want to eat my mother's rice cake crab.

Forget it, it's good to be scolded, and the rice cake crab is the most important.

On Saturday, Cen Yao slept until half the morning, and then found a plastic bag and took away the hairy crabs in the refrigerator.

Across half the city, she stood in front of her house and rang the doorbell, waiting for her mother to open the door for her.

Ms. Ding Yue opened the door and looked at the wall clock on the wall: "Are you getting up late again, can't you get up early and exercise downstairs in your house or something." ”

She took the crab in Cen Yao's hand, took it to the kitchen and put it in the sink, untied the bag and checked it with her hands: "It's a little thin, you should send it over that night." ”

"I'm so tired from work, I'm too lazy to run." Cen Yao said while taking off his coat.

Father Cen helped on the side: "Yes, their young people are working hard now." ”

Ding Yue shook her head helplessly with her daughter, she took scissors, cut the hemp rope of the crab body, turned on the faucet to flush it clean, and took the cutting board for cutting raw food, and used a kitchen knife to cut each crab into four pieces evenly.

She still remembered that her daughter said on the phone that the crab was given by Zhu Xiangyi, and she cut the crab and said: "There is a butterfly cake sent by someone else in the living room, I am with your father Sangao, I can't eat this, you take it to Xiao Zhu." ”

Cen Yao stood on the side and helped her pour the starch for the crab pieces: "She can't eat it when she is exercising, but I can eat it for her." ”

Ding Yue: "......"

Ding Yue: "If people still know fitness, you know how to eat." ”

Concerned about Cen Yao's recent life and work, Ding Yue suddenly asked: "By the way, how are you and Pei Jiamu, why haven't you mentioned him again during this time." ”

What should have come is still coming.

Cen Yao hesitated for a long time and whispered, "Broke up." ”

Then he said quickly: "But I don't feel bad anymore." ”

To her surprise, her mother didn't act very unexpected.

"I'll just say it." Ding Yue held the crab pieces with chopsticks and dipped the starch in the bowl.

After dipping a piece, she asked casually, "It's Pei Jiamu who is sorry for you." ”

Cen Yao glanced at her uneasily, lowered his head and nodded.

Immediately after that, a very weak voice sounded: "Can you not scold me." ”

"It's not your fault what I scolded you for." Ding Yue said.

Looking at Cen Yao or Cheng Yao, she paused, and then dealt with a piece of crab before she said slowly: "When it comes to falling in love, it's simple to say, it's complicated to say it's complicated, if you suffer a loss, just take it as a lesson, it's nothing." ”

Cen Yao was stunned for a moment, raised a small face, and was about to open his arms to hug Ding Yue.

Ms. Ding Yue, who has been calm from hearing her daughter say that she broke up, showed a trace of panic and took a step back: "I still have crabs in my hand, stay away from me, otherwise it will fall to the ground." ”

While eating, Cen Yao bit the rice cake and told his father Cen Xiang the news.

Cen Xiang looked at her eating obediently, and was very distressed: "Oh, this stinky boy, I really want to beat him, how can I be sorry for my baby daughter." ”

"Snorted" again: "We are not all the way with him from afar, look at his virtue that tends to be inflammatory." ”

Before this, Cen Yao was worried for a while, but she didn't expect that in the end, everyone's attitude towards her breakup was milder than she imagined.

It's a good moment at home, with her mother's rice cakes and crabs, flowers planted on the balcony, the familiar sound of old refrigerators working, and someone telling her that falling in love can be complicated.

After eating, Cen Yao took a pomegranate from the kitchen and sat on the sofa to peel it, Ding Yue continued to weave a half-knitted red scarf, and the clear sunlight fell into the living room, casting a small irregular spot of light on the ground.

When Cen Yao was eating pomegranates, he heard Ding Yue ask himself: "Have you met a suitable one during this time?" ”

She paused, remembering Sammo's handsome face.

In the night, in her peripheral light, through the car window.

But the current relationship between the two is not enough to mention to their families.

She wasn't even sure if Sommer had a crush on her, accommodating her just because she gave him business.

“…… No. Cen Yao said humbly.

"That's right, a few days ago, our Aunt Zhao downstairs said that she wanted to introduce you to a boyfriend, and I pushed it back at the time, so I will go back and give her your contact information." Ding Yue said.

Cen Yao said hesitantly: "...... Don't do it. ”

Ding Yue asked why.

"Because ......" Cen Yao held back for a long time, and said without hesitation, "Because I have Xie Yixiu!" ”

Then she saw Ding Yue's speechless expression.

In order to divert her mother's attention from introducing her boyfriend, Cen Yao deliberately coquettishly said: "What's the matter, my face is not beautiful enough to be worthy of him." ”

Ding Yue discussed with her seriously: "Then you have to find a way to meet him first, so that he can see your beautiful face." ”

“…… That doesn't seem to be a good way, I don't even know where he is now. Cen Yao said.

"Then you will save money to travel around the world, maybe you will meet him one day," Ding Yue tied a needle with a needle, "Don't you still want to go to Rome when you are a child, when the time comes, you will start from Rome and look for him all over the world." ”

If it weren't for Ding Yue to say, Cen Yao would have forgotten this wish of his own.

She wanted to go to Rome, it seems that because she watched "Roman Holiday" on TV when she was in elementary school, although the movie was black and white, and although she didn't understand why Princess Ann said at the press conference that she liked Rome the most, that distant and foreign capital was too beautiful to be forgotten.

Later, she also fantasized that when she grew up, she would really have someone to ride her to church on a motorcycle to get married, accompany her to the mouth of truth, dance on a cruise ship, get drunk, and kiss in the cold night.

"Rome is so far away." Cen Yao said.

Xie Yixiu is further away than Rome.

Before going to bed this night, Cen Yao left a memo in Xie Yixiu's private message: "November 27, if you have time tomorrow, I want to watch "Roman Holiday" again." ”

After memorizing, she typed a line: "Xie Yixiu, have you seen this movie?" ”

Then, intermittently, he wrote a long paragraph to him.

Haruka Yama: "Today I went home and ate the rice cake crab made by my mother, and she mentioned that I wanted to go to Rome because I watched a movie when I was a child. I grew up with a lot of wishes, but most of them didn't come true, but when I thought about it, I still wish I could go to Rome once. It would be nice to have someone I like with me. ”

Xie Yixiu has not watched "Roman Holiday".

I don't know what kind of wishes Cen Yao once had, and why he didn't realize them.

That afternoon, he drank coffee when he read the information sent by the engineer in the team, and he still didn't feel much sleepy in the middle of the night, so he walked to the video room of his villa, turned off the light and turned on the projector, sat down on the carpet on the sofa, and found the movie Cen Yao said from the source library.

The films of the fifties of the last century, with black and white pictures, are the love themes that he rarely watches.

He has been to Rome, F1 has an Italian station almost every season, the race is held at the Monza circuit in Milan, not far from Rome, the highway is also convenient, you can drive half a day to get there, and you will pass Florence on the way, there are endless mountains outside the window, green in the summer and covered with snow in the winter.

He has visited many places where the movie was filmed, and he didn't have much special feeling when he watched it, but he often wandered to think about why Cen Yao yearned for Rome because of this film with an unsatisfactory ending.

After watching the two-hour movie, it was already the early hours of the morning.

The long end credits began to play on the screen, and Xie Yixiu got up from the ground and turned off the projection switch.

When he walked up the stairs back to his bedroom, he wondered if he would be the one who accompanied Cen Yao to Rome.

Xie Yixiu didn't know why he had such thoughts.

Nor can a conclusive answer be given.

Then he remembered the words of the actor in the movie, "Life isn\'t always what one likes, is it?" ”

"Life is always self-conscious, isn't it?"

On Monday evening, Xie Yixiu set off from Mask's headquarters to pick up Cen Yao.

He parked his car near the school gate and suddenly felt thirsty, and there was a convenience store opposite, so he got out of the car to buy water.

Taking the mineral water from the freezer, Xie Yixiu inadvertently glanced at the shelf next to him, there was the yogurt that Cen Yao wanted to give him last time.

She also said in his private message that she was going to find a coconut-flavored one, I don't know if she remembers.

He paused, picked out a box of flavors she liked, and took them to the checkout.

When he returned to the car, a shocked voice sounded beside him: "Xie Yixiu? ”

Then, a familiar face appeared in Xie Yixiu's field of vision.

Zhang Ci.

Zhang Ci, like Zhao Zheng, was also his classmate at the Driver Academy, but the other party's talent was mediocre and only stopped at F2. Later, Zhang Ci also came to beg him, hoping to be signed by him into Mask training, but he refused. Not long after, he heard that the other party retired and returned to Shanghai, and formed a supercar club with a group of rich second generations to play cars, he had never been to Zhang Ci's club, it seemed to be near Wanning Road, and it was not strange to meet him.

Originally, Zhang Ci was not sure if this was Xie Yixiu, but seeing that the other party did not refute, he realized that he had not admitted his mistake.

"It's you, what are you doing here?" Zhang Ci looked him up and down, feeling that Xie Yixiu had changed too much, and he was almost unrecognizable.

It's not that there is any difference in appearance, it's just that the spiritual temperament of the whole person is very different, he has never seen Xie Yixiu in such a depressed state, and his eyes seem to have a layer of ice that does not melt all year round.

Xie Yixiu was too lazy to say, and said simply: "Pick up people." ”

At this time, he saw Cen Yao coming out of the school gate, so he raised his chin at her and motioned for her to come over.

Zhang Ci also saw Cen Yao: "You returned to China to take care of your sister, what's the matter, you've had enough of playing with foreign girls, and you want to change your taste?" ”

looked at Cen Yao again: "It's very beautiful, have you ever tried it?" ”

Xie Yixiu retracted his gaze, looked at him coldly and said, "You say one more thing." ”

Zhang Ci was shocked, and subconsciously took a step back, and after a few seconds, he felt that his reaction was really embarrassing, and bluffed: "What, are you still afraid of others saying it?" You're really good, you're amazing, you killed Mussman, and you didn't go to the competition to get a good soak. ”

Hearing that name, like a bolt of lightning cutting through the sky, Xie Yixiu's hand holding the car key clenched involuntarily, and the green tendons bulged slightly.

The footage of the main race in Singapore two years ago came to his mind in fragments and scrambles.

Gray and rainy days, mist stirred up by tires, flashing red lights, and broken cars.

The fire that rose up in an instant and then quickly extinguished, and the incessant beeping of the ambulance.

He dreamed countless times, woke up countless times, and thought countless times if it was him who died.

Zhang Ci noticed Xie Yixiu's reaction, and couldn't help but be scared, he knew that the Xie family's influence in the Shanghai market was not something he could afford to provoke, he was just happy just now, and he forgot for a while, so he mentioned Mersman in front of Xie Yixiu.

With a cold snort to hide the fear in his heart, Zhang Ci threw off his steps and left.

Cen saw Sammo from afar, and also found that there was another person beside him.

When they spoke, they did not look pleasant to each other, as if a conflict was about to break out.

Worried, she quickened her pace and walked over, but the man next to Thornmer walked away.

Cen Yao called Sang Mo, and then asked him, "Are you okay, it looks like you are going to quarrel just now." ”

Sammer said it was okay, and when he looked at her, his face slowed slightly.

Sensing that his mood was lower than usual, Cen Yao couldn't help but say, "If you have something unhappy, you can actually talk to me." ”

Although there was no way to tell Cen Yao about that experience, the depression and anxiety in Xie Yixiu's heart were still soothed a lot by her serious eyes and tone.

He looked down at her and said in a calm voice: "Hand out." ”

Cen Yao didn't react a little, but he still obediently stretched out his hand, and his pink palm was spread out in front of Xie Yixiu.

So he gently put the box of yogurt in her hand.