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Friend: "Yes, it was two months after the college entrance examination, when the summer vacation was about to end. After that, there was no news of you. I almost don't recognize you now."

Xiao Jin's eyes trembled slightly, obviously this piece of information involved something she didn't know.

She took a few steps out, farther from Wooden Pillow Creek, lowered her voice, and asked her high school friend Wan Jing: "Do you remember the specific situation at that time?"

"What specific situation?"

"When did I leave the country? And when did I find you?"

Wan Jing recalled for a while and said, "It seems to be April or May, or maybe March? I really can't remember it clearly now, and you didn't tell us when you went abroad, and suddenly you didn't come to class. But you were preparing to go abroad at that time, you were very busy, this exam and that activity, you often asked for leave in the third year of high school, it was normal to be away from school, and then you didn't come. We asked the teacher, and the teacher said that you have already gone abroad.

"We thought you were very uninteresting, but we thought that you might be trying to keep our minds from being unbalanced, so we hid it for the first time, plus everyone is busy with the college entrance examination, burying their heads in doing paperwork, and they have no time to think about other things. But you didn't contact any of us until the end of the college entrance examination, which is really hurting, it's like disappearing from the world."

Wan Jing said with dissatisfaction on her face, and pinched Xiao Jin's arm neither lightly nor severely, but Xiao Jin's eyes were cold, her attention was focused on what she said, and Wan Jing couldn't help being a little embarrassed. Years have passed, during which the two have little contact, and no matter how good friends are, they have faded away.

"When did I find you? What did I do to you? What did I say?" When Xiao Jin asked her seriously, she even felt a little bit of fear, a bit like when she saw her last time.

Wan Jing couldn't help letting go of her hand, restrained her step back, and replied, "I can't remember the exact date. Anyway, it was after the college entrance examination, before the university started, that day..."

At that time, Wan Jing received an admission letter from the university. It was a top-ranked university in China. She was crazy during the summer vacation. She spent every day with her friends outside. One evening when she came back from the badminton hall, when she entered the house, she was swinging with a badminton racket in her hand, but she saw a person sitting on her sofa.

She was optimistic for a long time without recognizing him, thinking it was someone her parents knew. The man was so thin that he almost took off his face, with a plaster cast on one leg, his face was pale, and he described haggard, until the other party called out her name, and his voice was hoarse: "Wan Jing."

Wan Jing suddenly came back to her senses and said in surprise, "Xiao Jin?"

Xiao Jin nodded.

Wan Jing hurried over: "Why did you become like this? My God, did something happen?"

Xiao Jin's words were vague: "I'm sick, and I'm getting better soon." Then he looked at her and asked, "Where is Wooden Pillow Stream, do you know?"

Wan Jing said, "I don't know."

Xiao Jin asked again, "Is there anyone who might know?"

Wan Jing looked at her several times and felt a little scared. Although Xiao Jin was still wearing neat and bright clothes, and her tone of speech was as calm as before, there was a strong sense of despair in her body that made her feel depressed, as if there was nothing left in her heart. Hanging for a small breath, I don't know when that breath will be gone.

Wan Jing said: "I don't know, let me ask for you."

Wan Jing's mother poured Xiao Jin a glass of warm water, Xiao Jin nodded at her, and said warmly, "Thank you."

Wan Jing made calls one by one, Xiao Jin's eyes kept following her, which made her feel a lot of pressure. As soon as he glanced at it, Xiao Jin lowered his eyes, but the hand holding the cup was clenched tightly.

Wan Jing put away her phone, walked back, couldn't bear to face Xiao Jin's disappointed eyes, and said in a small voice, "They don't know."

Muzhenxi is very alone in the class. Although it is not that he does not talk to other people at all, it always gives people a sense of distance. Except for Xiao Jin, these classmates don't even know about her family situation. They only know that there is a parent-teacher meeting. When her grandmother came over, her parents might be busy with work.

"If there is news about her, or where you happen to have seen her, it doesn't matter if you don't see it clearly, please contact me at this number as soon as possible, anytime." Xiao Jin struggled to get his phone out of his pocket. , and exchanged contact information with Wan Jing.

Wan Jing asked, "Where's your original number?"

Wan Jing saw the blue veins protruding on the back of her scrawny hand, and then she was silent for a second, then returned to calm, lowered her eyes and said softly, "Sign out."

Wan Jing didn't dare to ask more.

Xiao Jin left. She took her downstairs and saw her get into a car and disappeared from her field of vision.

In the following ten years, Xiao Jin occasionally sent messages in the past few years to ask her if she had seen Wooden Pillow Stream. Later, she didn't ask again, and the two gradually stopped contacting her. Wan Jing thought that she had given up. Even if she was a good best friend, it was too exaggerated to find her for a few years. She almost wondered if Xiao Jin had another kind of feeling for Muzhenxi.

Unexpectedly, today, I saw the two of them together again.

Now the society is more open than before, especially young people have a lot of access to the Internet, and some sexual minorities have also entered a wide field of vision. Wan Jing looked at the two people who came together, and couldn't help but have an idea.

Aren't they in that kind of relationship?

Wan Jing leaned close to Xiao Jin's ear and asked meaningfully, "Are you and Muzhenxi a couple?"

Xiao Jin turned his head away and stared at her quietly.

Wan Jing smiled embarrassedly, and just wanted to smooth out that she was just joking.

However, Xiao Jin's lips opened and closed, and he clearly spit out a word: "Yes."

Wan Jing was stunned.

Xiao Jin said, "We have been together for ten years."

Wan Jing: "Huh?"

But you were still looking for someone before, so she didn't say it.

Xiao Jin understood her thoughts and said lightly, "We just had a small fight and made up again."

Wan Jing: "Well."

Okay, what you say is what.

Not far away, she saw the wooden pillow stream standing alone, with one hand in her pocket, and whispered, "I wish you happiness."

Xiao Jin showed a sincere smile, with a hint of childish simplicity: "Thank you."

Muzhenxi has no desire to chat with her classmates. There are fifteen people here, and she can't recognize fourteen of them. The only one she can recognize is Wan Jing, Xiao Jin's friend.

Wan Jing whispered into Xiao Jin's ear, and Xiao Jin seemed very happy.

Xiao Jin is different from her. She is good-looking, good grades, and even popular. She is not the kind of crazy playful slapstick, but she is naturally likable. Her classmates like to get close to her. One of his very close classmates is Wan Jing. She and Wan Jing have eaten each other's vinegar, but Wan Jing doesn't know their real relationship.

Still talking, talking and laughing.

Mu Zhenxi took out the hand from his trouser pocket, walked to the big round table in the box, and found an empty seat to sit with his back to Xiao Jin.

"My girlfriend is jealous, I have to go with her." Xiao Jin smiled and whispered to Wan Jing. She has come out to Wan Jing, and since Muzhenxi can't hear it anyway, she can call her whatever she wants.

Wan Jing raised her hands slightly, shaking her skin like goose bumps.

Xiao Jin's smile deepened.

"I'm going."

"Go, go." Wan Jing waved her hand, and she walked towards another classmate first.

There are many people walking around in this box, leather shoes, boots, high heels, etc., and the sounds of walking are also different. But the wooden pillow creek still keenly captured the sound of footsteps from behind him, a little slower than everyone present.

Wooden Pillow Creek let out a light breath and turned his ears to listen.

Is that Xiao Jin? Is she finished talking?

A hand was placed on his shoulder, and it was lightly pressed. A figure was seated beside him. Wooden pillow stream's mind was racing. He didn't know what kind of expression he would use to face each other. The smile that wouldn't be too cold even if you were close, but it was abruptly hidden when she saw the other's face.

It wasn't Xiao Jin who was sitting beside her!

Wooden Pillow Creek turned to look back.

Xiao Jin, who was standing a few steps behind her: "..."

She was about to walk over, when suddenly a classmate came and slammed into the bar. Not to mention her position, he even touched Muxianxi's shoulder!

Wooden Pillow Stream looked at each other coldly.

I don't know if it's because of the opponent's overstepping the line, or because the expectations in my heart have failed.

The other party was frightened by her eyes, and almost thought that he had offended the place, and said embarrassingly: "I'm sorry."

In all fairness, it is not too much to take a shoulder, especially this is a female classmate. Mu Zhenxi suppressed the depression in his heart, put away his cold face, and squeezed out a gentle smile: "It's okay, I was too suddenly so scared."

The classmate said: "I'm sorry, I'm a little excited."

Wooden Pillow Creek: "Huh?" Excited?

The classmate said: "I also do game art. I have heard your name before, but I am not sure if it is the wooden pillow stream I know. Now that I see you, it is finally confirmed!"

Wooden Pillow Stream: "???"

Has she never shown her face on Weibo?

The classmate saw her question, looked down at her hand, and said excitedly, "You posted a drawing video on Weibo before, there is a small mole on the tiger's mouth on the right hand."

Wooden Pillow Creek: "…"

She grabbed Muxianxi's hand excitedly and pointed out the mole to her: "You see this is—"

Before the words were finished, a hand had already descended from the sky, tearing her hand away from Muzhenxi's fingers. Xiao Jin was covered in low air pressure, and his face was black as ink. The classmate looked at the two of them. Oil slipped.

Xiao Jin sat in the same position as her classmate, patted Muzhenxi's shoulder, then patted her hand, and said, "Why didn't I know you were so good at talking now?"

The export is sour, and the vinegar smell can travel ten miles. She paused, and made up for her abnormal return: "It was originally because of me for the class reunion. If you are disturbed by others and unhappy, I feel ashamed."

Mu Zhenxi hummed, not knowing whether to believe her or not.

Xiao Jin watched her calm eyes, and said, "Is that your fan just now?" She remembered that classmate's name, but didn't want to call her by name. It's better that Muzhenxi forgets it immediately.

Muzhenxi replied, "It doesn't count, I don't know either."

Xiao Jin endured it, but couldn't hold back, and said, "You are very attractive."

Wooden Pillow Creek: "…"

She looked at Xiao Jin with a very inexplicable look, which even revealed a hint of humor.

Who is likable?

Xiao Jin cleared his throat and asked, "Do you want to drink water? I'll pour it for you."

"I'll do it myself." Muzhenxi turned the teapot to his side, poured a cup for each of himself and Xiao Jin, and the tea leaves that had been brewed stretched into the bottom of the cup, floated a few times, and immersed in it.

Muzhenxi pouted towards the periphery, and said to Xiao Jin, "Why don't you catch up with them?"

Xiao Jin smiled and answered her humorously: "It's not like you don't know my current situation. If they asked me what I've been doing all these years, how would I answer?"

Muzhenxi picked up the teacup with one hand, shook it gently, and said in a high tone, "Just say you are studying."

Xiao Jin felt that Muzhenxi should be in a good mood now, and said with a smile, "I've been studying?"

Mu Zhenxi counted for her, and said with a smile: "Undergraduate, master's, doctorate, I heard that it takes a long time to graduate from a foreign liberal arts doctorate, especially your pure liberal arts. Do the math, you really have been studying."

Xiao Jin said, "You social animals are called social animals, do you look down on the words I just learned, who have been going to school all the time?" .

She immediately tense her nerves.

Muzhenxi didn't seem to mind, and raised his eyebrows: "How can it be, it's too late to envy, what's so good about being a social animal."

Xiao Jin said, "I can make money sooner."

Muzhenxi: "You can also make money now, and you have social status. It's great." She paused for a second and said, "University teachers are also very popular in the blind date market, especially since you are so good-looking."

Xiao Jin's expression changed when he heard the second half of the sentence.

Muzhenxi lowered his head and took a sip of tea. The tea was not good, and the entrance was bitter.

Xiao Jin pinched his fingertips hard at an angle he couldn't see from the wooden pillow stream, looked around, and said calmly, "I saw an acquaintance, so I went over to say hello."

Wooden Pillow Creek lowered his eyes and didn't look at her, and said, "Go."

Xiao Jin just made an excuse to leave. As soon as he got up, an acquaintance came. Yang Sitian came. As soon as Yang Sitian entered the door, he went straight to her and shouted excitedly, "Students are great."

I came over and hugged Xiao Jin.

Xiao Jin hugged her with a backhand, let go, and then reluctantly corrected her: "Can you name her properly?"

Yang Sitian: "Okay, Xiao Jin is great."

Xiao Jin: "…"

Yang Sitian's eyes twitched and he saw the wooden pillow stream sitting on the edge of the table. Just as his feet moved, his mouth hadn't opened. Xiao Jin pulled him back and warned in a low voice, "Don't disturb her."

Yang Sitian: "Huh?"

Xiao Jin: "She was in a bad mood, so I forced her here."

Yang Sitian: "Okay, okay."

The two of them went to find other classmates to catch up with each other, and the people on the list came one after another, and there were also people who brought their families with them. It was inevitable to have a chat, and then they took their seats, with Xiao Jin sitting on the left side of Wooden Pillow Creek. On the right is sitting Yang Sitian.

There are special people who will liven up the atmosphere in the game.

Muzhenxi wanted to drive, but she didn't drink, and she sat quietly all the time, and no one dared to persuade her to drink, so there was no right. There were very few daring ones, and Wooden Sleeper Creek blocked her back on the grounds of driving, sipping her orange juice freely.

Xiao Jin wanted to drink. She used to say that she was also a character in the class, and they all came to respect her giggling. Mu Zhenxi remembered the injury on her head for her and stopped him twice. Xiao Jin said yes, but he didn't hesitate when he poured it down cup by cup.

Muzhenxi temporarily checked the Internet on her mobile phone, and said that she could drink alcohol after 7 days, and it had been more than a week since her stitches were removed, so she did not stop her any more. She probably knew that Xiao Jin was trying to use alcohol to relieve her sorrows. Since she could not relieve her sorrows, let the wine do the trick.

While eating and eating, Wan Jing suddenly raised a glass in this direction and said sincerely, "Xiao Jin, Muzhenxi, I toast you two."

Wooden Pillow Stream: "???"

But Xiao Jin had already picked up the wine glass beside his hand, and Wooden Pillow Creek followed in confusion, and the two had a drink with Wan Jing.

Xiao Jin put down the wine glass, blinked twice, tears streaming down her long eyelashes, and hurriedly lowered her head to eat a few mouthfuls of food.

After three rounds of drinking, the group said loudly that they were going to sing.

Some people wanted to go home first, but the one who took the lead refused to do so, and a few people joined together to persuade him to go home. Yang Sitian turned his head and asked, "Is Xiao Jin going?"

Wooden Pillow Creek said, "I won't go."

Xiao Jin said, "Go."

Yang Sitian rolled his eyes and smiled: "One will go and the other will not?"

Mu Zhenxi looked at Xiao Jin's slightly drunk eyes and whispered, "It's time for you to go home and rest."

Xiao Jin said firmly, "I'm going."

Wooden pillow creek looked up helplessly: "Let's go."

Yang Sitian's eyes rolled between the two of them, and he smiled and didn't speak.

The ktv is nearby, saving the effort of driving, and a group of people walked out staggeringly. Muzhenxi and Xiao Jin walked at the back, Xiao Jin stood up and stepped out, the person swayed and shook, and Muzhenxi reached out and helped her.

Xiao Jin shook her off and said, "I'll go by myself."

Wooden Pillow Creek loosened and followed her.

It was an ordinary summer night, with no wind and moon, and they had held hands behind the crowd countless times. Xiao Jin suddenly stopped, and a fragmented picture flashed in his mind.

Wooden Pillow Creek, who had been watching her from the corner of his eye, looked sideways.

Xiao Jin took another step: "It's nothing, let's go."

Sitting in the corner of the sofa in the ktv box, Muzhenxi, clenched his teeth, looked at Xiao Jin not far away, she was the one who came to sing, and she was the one who didn't sing. What do you want to do?

Xiao Jin moved suddenly, took the corkscrew, and silently opened the beer on the table.

Wooden Pillow Creek: "…"

The others sang in full swing, Xiao Jin was in charge of handing them wine, and a bunch of people drank in a mess at the end. But for a moment, three empty wine bottles were placed in front of Xiao Jin, and Mu Zhenxi frowned.

Xiao Jin suddenly turned his gaze to Muxianxi, who immediately turned his head away.

"Wooden Pillow Stream." Her voice came from the loud music, with a casual laziness.

Wooden Pillow Creek turned his face and asked calmly, "What?"

Xiao Jin looked at her and laughed, her eyes were not clear, she shook her head, and said with a dazed look, "You go and have some more wine, you will be alone."

Wooden Pillow Creek took a breath.

Xiao Jin urged: "Go quickly."

Wooden Pillow Creek didn't move, grinding his back molars.

"If you don't go, I'll go by yourself." Xiao Jin muttered, resting his hands on the sofa, stood up crookedly, and came out from behind the coffee table, saying, "Let me go, let me go."

All her classmates gave way to her.

Xiao Jin walked to the door, turned his head and asked, "Is there anyone else who wants to drink something else?"

Several hands were raised one after another.

"beer!"

"Lemon Juice!"

"yogurt!"

"coffee!"

Xiao Jin wrote it down, opened the door and went out. Wooden pillow Brook followed her out, followed her to the counter, put one hand on the counter, and then opened her fingers: "I want..." Then she got stuck and tilted her head to think. .

The waiter at the counter: "…"

Wooden Pillow Stream stepped forward: "Beer, lemon juice, yogurt, coffee, box number xxx, thank you."

Xiao Jin turned his face to look at her, and Muzhenxi looked at her steadily and said, "You are drunk."

Xiao Jin said to the waiter, "One more cocktail."

The waiter was about to place an order on the computer.

Wooden Pillow Creek said, "No cocktails."

Xiao Jin said with a big tongue: "Yes."

Wooden Pillow Creek: "No."

The waiter hissed: "...Do you want it? Or don't you want it?"

The two were deadlocked.

Xiao Jin suddenly put his forehead heavily on Muxianxi's shoulder and conceded defeat.

Wooden Pillow Creek said, "No."

No objection this time.

Wooden Pillow Creek helped her back, and before entering the door, she looked left and right, hoping that a rope would emerge from somewhere, it would be better to tie her up, it was a worry-free mess.

"Let's go first." In order to prevent Xiao Jin from being unable to walk after seeing the wine after entering, she stood at the door and said goodbye to everyone.

Yang Sitian immediately dropped the microphone: "Why did you leave so early? We haven't played for a long time."

Wooden Pillow Stream: "Xiao Jin she..."

Just as she was talking, Xiao Jin broke free from her hand and stepped in, "I'll play for a while."

The blue veins jumped on the forehead of Wooden Pillow Creek.

play with your head.

Wooden pillow brook said with a stern face, "then I'll go."

Xiao Jin waved his back to her: "You go."

Wooden Pillow Creek rubbed the toe of his shoe and followed silently.

I don't know if this scene is particularly funny or what is going on. Yang Sitian took the lead in laughing. She was still holding the microphone in her hand.

The others were not amused by Muzhenxi and Xiao Jin, but by her hahaha.

Including Xiao Jin, the source at the beginning, she leaned on the sofa herself, hahaha.

Wooden Pillow Creek couldn't laugh, she was probably sure that this little ancestor was really drunk.

Xiao Jin is drunk, that's going to be crazy.

Muzhenxi suddenly shuddered, and sweat broke out on her back first. She suddenly stood up, grabbed Xiao Jin's arm, and said in a strong tone, "Quick, come home with me."

Xiao Jin refused. The drunken person was not as heavy as usual. Muzhenxi looked at the circle where he was sitting, and turned his eyes to Wan Jing for help: "Come and help."

Wan Jing came over immediately, and the two of them worked together to get her off the sofa. Wooden Pillow Creek put one hand around Xiao Jin's waist, and the other hand held her hand before it happened.

Wooden Pillow Creek said eagerly, "We really have to go, she's drunk."

Everyone looked at Xiao Jin, it was really not like the one at the beginning, let them go.

Muzhenxi raced against time to take her to the parking place, and at the same time prayed in her heart that she would not have a seizure on the street. Xiao Jin was struggling more and more with the hand she was holding, and Muzhenxi's heart was beating wildly, and she walked faster and faster. He got to the car without a hitch and took out the key to unlock it.

Xiao Jin's hand was empty, and he pressed her against the car door, his hand immediately wrapped around her waist, grabbed the hem of her clothes and lifted it up.