We walked down the deserted street to an arched bridge, and the water under the bridge was muddy and green. An old man sits on a low stool, smoking a filterless cigarette, fishing by the river.

I asked the old man if this could catch a fish?

The old man puffed out his cheeks, pouted, and asked me, what do you think?

I replied, it's hard to say, maybe the fish has mutated.

The fish did not mutate, but the people did mutate first, and the old man spat out a cigarette.

Since you can't catch fish, what else are you fishing, isn't it a waste of time? I asked the old man.

The old man glanced at me and Tao Yao and said, since we can't be long-term, why are we still together.

I thought that the old man's mouth was really unforgiving, but I was frightened by that sentence in my heart, and in a panic I pulled Tao Yao towards the other side of the bridge.

As soon as we reached the opposite bank, a military jeep sped past us. It almost brought me and Taoyao to this ditch like green tea.

Don't you have long eyes when you drive?, I said aloud.

The jeep stopped after driving more than ten meters, and a girl with bangs walked out of the car.

Xiao Xi! Tao Yao recognized her first.

Tao Yao should not go near the girl, I said, but Tao Yao didn't seem to hear it.

I wondered why Tao Yao knew her, and I was shocked.

They held hands, like a pair of sisters, and the Tianshan snow jade bracelet on Xiao Xi's hand was dazzling white. What are you doing here?" I asked her.

"This is your house, only you are allowed to come, but no one else can come?" Xiao Xi asked me rhetorically.

"No, what are you doing? She's my friend. "Tao Yao blames me.

"Don't be with her, she's not a good person. "I pulled Tao Yao.

"Do good people and bad people write on their faces?" Xiao Xi pointed to her face, "I think you look like a bad person"

Tao Yao shook off my hand and went to lead Xiaoxi, with a smile on her face.

"I'm bored, so you can go shopping with me. Tao Yao said.

"You're bored with your boyfriend"

"Hey, he's like a wooden man, not romantic at all. Let's go, let's play. ”

"You take my car, I'll take you around the city center. Xiao Xi looked at me with a smile, as if she was provocative.

"Don't go," I said.

"Are you going?" asked me.

I wonder if I don't go, will Tao Yao not go either? But after a moment of hesitation, Tao Yao closed the door and said to Xiaoxi, "He won't forget it." ”

"Wait a minute, I'll go too" I came back to my senses and realized that the car had already driven away. Fortunately, the suburban road is not good, the car drives very slowly, and the car stops after chasing dozens of meters. Xiao Xi and Tao Yao sat in the back seat, and I climbed into the passenger seat, the driver was a middle-aged man with a beard and wearing a security uniform. I didn't meet the bald and withered old man, which was what worried me the most.

"Guess if I don't stop the driver, you won't be able to catch up?" Xiao Xi asked me by sticking her head in front of me.

"Don't try to do anything bad to Taoyao. ”

Xiao Xi leaned forward more and more, and asked me: "You threw Tao Yao alone on the cold halfway up the mountainside, and didn't come to see her for more than ten days, dozens of days, I think the invisible bad is even more terrible." ”

"I've got my thing"

"Really?" she almost defiantly, "you men like to make all sorts of excuses, but this is the first time I've heard such an irresponsible excuse. You should be thankful to me for taking care of Tao Yao all this time. ”

"Otherwise, Tao Yao and I are going to the city to visit the mall now, and you will pay for our purchases. So I don't want you to repay my kindness to you. She wasn't polite at all.

I didn't bother to answer, she was dreaming. Xiao Xi crawled into my ear, "Don't think I don't know what bad things you have done, if I tell Tao Yao about your marriage to that daughter." Don't regret it, it's too late. ”

"I'm just helping a friend. I explained.

"You're crossing the line to help a friend. If Tao Yao knew that you were doing this, what do you think she would think in her heart? Hey, anyway, you can do it yourself" She became more and more cunning, a profiteer who escaped from it.

I sighed, put my hands on the door frame, and the backs of the pedestrians on the road stepped back towards the car one after another, as if I had also returned to the past, how it all began, and became a dead knot now.