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Wooden pillow creek raised his head, forcing back the tears in his eyes.

Then, she found her unfamiliar movements in the world, holding the spatula in one hand and the mobile phone in the other, looking here and there, Muzhenxi took a breath and remembered a thought-provoking Question: Can Xiao Jin cook?

She stepped forward in three and two steps and opened the kitchen door.

Xiao Jin turned his head and hurriedly grabbed a rag and wiped it on the marble countertop. He pretended to be calm and said, "It's almost ready, just go out and wait."

Wooden Pillow Stream glanced at the broken leaves of the ingredients on the countertop, the water traces around the vegetable washing pool, including the underground water, and the potatoes that were cut into irregular pieces on the cooking counter before they could be poured into the pot.

Si Si sadness climbed up the brows of Wooden Pillow Creek.

There was already a dish on the plate, and the aroma came from the dish. Muzhenxi took a pair of chopsticks from the chopstick holder and asked, "Can I taste it?"

Xiao Jin looked apprehensive, but still nodded.

This may be her first time cooking.

Muzhenxi took a chopstick of dried bamboo shoots without any hope and put it into his mouth.

Xiao Jin was so nervous that he couldn't even care about the pot, and stared at her expression without blinking: "How is it?"

Wooden Pillow Stream cast an unbelievable look at her.

Xiao Jin: "Is it delicious?" She actually tasted it when it was out of the pot. It was delicious without Wooden Pillow Stream, but it was barely edible.

Muzhenxi swallowed the dried bamboo shoots and said sincerely, "Not bad."

Xiao Jin breathed a sigh of relief and continued to follow the recipe on his phone to deal with the ingredients in the pot.

Muzhenxi picked up another chopstick and tried the meat. The meat was cut a little thick. In addition, the entrance was smooth and elastic. Wooden Pillow Creek handed over the kitchen to Xiao Jin, and went out in a chaotic manner.

Xiao Jin actually knows how to cook?

Mu Zhenxi thought of something, and walked back again: "Has the rice been cooked?"

I remember when Xiao Jin cooked for the first time, he messed up the ingredients. Everything that should be braised was burnt, everything that should be boiled was dried up, and he even forgot to cook the rice. After being reminded, he asked her how the rice was. Amoy, in the end, the wooden pillow brook rescued her from the kitchen.

Now Xiao Jin glanced at her calmly and said, "It's cooked, it's in the rice cooker."

Wooden Pillow Stream: "!!"

She squinted her eyes and didn't feel relieved when she saw the lighted keep warm button. She opened the lid of the rice cooker and knocked it. The rice was crystal clear, full of grains, and there was not much water.

Muzhenxi was completely speechless, and went to the living room to wait for dinner, the whole person seemed to be in a dream.

"It's time to eat." Xiao Jin came out with the dishes, and Muzhenxi got up to help when he heard the voice. The four dishes were served to the table by the two of them. Stir-fried pork with dried bamboo shoots, garlic okra, fried tenderloin with double shallots, and the last one is seaweed egg drop soup.

"Why did you think of cooking?" Muzhenxi put the tableware and chopsticks in place and looked at Xiao Jin opposite.

"I feel like being idle at home is also idle, looking for something to do."

"You..." Wooden Pillow Creek paused and said, "Didn't you know how to cook before?"

Xiao Jin smiled: "I don't know either. Maybe I learned it later. It's a bit difficult to cut vegetables, but it's easier to cook. Besides, there are recipes, so it's not difficult."

Muzhenxi hummed and filled herself with a bowl of soup.

Xiao Jin's eyes stared at her drinking soup for a moment, and Mu Zhenxi made her feel uncomfortable.

Xiao Jin explained awkwardly: "I just want to get feedback."

Wooden Pillow Creek took a sip and said truthfully, "It's a little salty."

Xiao Jin: "Then I'll put less salt next time."

As soon as Muzhenxi heard this, he put down the spoon, made a slight bump with the edge of the bowl, and said, "You don't need to cook."

Xiao Jin looked hurt: "Do you think my cooking is bad?"

Wooden Pillow Creek: "...No."

Xiao Jin said: "Then let me do it, I just happen to exercise."

"No." Wooden pillowxi frowned and said, "You are Miss Qianjin. What's wrong with exercising? What do you do for rough work like exercising? What do you want to eat? Just ask a nanny to do it."

Xiao Jin was extremely displeased by what she said, ignoring the awkward kindness in her tone, and choked back: "What's wrong with Miss Qianjin? Miss Qianjin can't cook, just as you said, Miss Qianjin will stretch out her hand to eat and open her mouth. , why don't I hire someone to help me get dressed?"

Wooden Pillow Creek: "…"

She didn't mean it that way.

Forget it, I can't say anything about her. Besides, Xiao Jin needs to lose his temper, bow his head, and eat.

She didn't answer, Xiao Jin calmed down, secretly annoyed that she had gone too far, Muzhenxi wouldn't be angry, right? She secretly looked out of the corner of her eye, and Muzhenxi's brows and eyes were quiet, as if she was not angry.

Wooden pillow stream is not big, and the bowl size at home is not large. Usually, I add a flat bowl for rice, and occasionally a little less, and the meal speed is controlled within a fixed time.

Xiao Jin peeked at her watch and found that the set time had come, and there was still half a bowl of rice in the bowl of Wooden Pillow Creek. She observed quietly for a while and found that the rice in the other party's bowl was compacted. It seemed to be only a flat bowl. To be more than half.

Muzhenxi suddenly looked at her: "You seem to be laughing?"

Xiao Jin quickly pressed down the corner of his raised mouth and said, "No."

Muzhenxi took a chopstick of tenderloin and ate it with the rice. In fact, she was full, but she still wanted to eat more. The number of times Xiao Jin personally cooked was counting down.

After eating, Xiao Jin habitually went to clean up the dishes, but was stopped by Muzhenxi: "Usually when I cook, you wash the dishes. Today, I'll wash the dishes you cook."

Xiao Jin and her looked at each other for two seconds and let go.

Wooden Pillow Creek put the tableware and chopsticks into the kitchen and drained the water skillfully.

Xiao Jin stood at the door looking at her back, thought about it for a while, and smiled slowly.

Ordinary couples, even married couples, should be like this, right?

She was in a good mood all night, and couldn't help humming in front of Wooden Pillow Creek. That night in the hospital, Wooden Pillow Creek sang to her the theme song "True Love" of "Prince Becomes a Frog", humming softly to "Give more I put together some fragments, piecing together an unknown accident, losing my memory of the first love." He glanced at the wooden pillow stream that was mopping the floor, and the wooden pillow stream met her eyes, freezed for three seconds in the air, and moved away.

Xiao Jin did not miss the smile that flashed across her lips.

Xiao Jin didn't read for the first time, turned on the TV, searched for "The Prince Turns into a Frog", and started watching the first episode. The familiar theme song came into his ears, Muxinxi raised his head speechlessly, Xiao Jin sat on the sofa with pillows in both hands and looked at the TV screen expectantly.

What a kid.

Twenty minutes later, Muxinxi finished mopping the floor, washed the mop, took away the empty fruit plate on the table, washed a plate of cherries, put it on the coffee table, took two more packs of melon seeds, and handed a pack to Xiao Jin. .

Xiao Jin: "Hahaha."

Wooden Pillow Creek: "Shut up."

Xiao Jin was very kind, and even covered his mouth, but still showed a pair of crooked smiling eyes.

Wooden Pillow Creek can only pretend that he can't see her.

The two watched three episodes of the TV series together. Xiao Jin ate up a plate of cherries, and Wood Pillow Creek only ate two. After that, he tidied up two trash cans, put on new trash bags, and went out tomorrow to throw them away.

Xiao Jin wanted to continue watching the fourth episode, but was stopped by Wooden Pillow Stream: "Go take a bath and sleep."

Xiao Jin got good feedback from Wooden Pillow Stream today, and she swelled up a bit. She lay down on the sofa, rolled around on the ground, relying on her skinny, and said coquettishly, "I'll watch another episode, Shan Junhao just now. Amnesia is wonderful."

Muzhenxi refused ruthlessly: "No, you can wait for tomorrow to be exciting."

Xiao Jin looked at the distance from the sofa to the ground, and carefully rolled from the sofa to the ground.

"I'll watch one more episode, and I'll take a shower after that, I promise."

Wooden Pillow Creek: "…"

She thought absurdly: is she a rascal?

Xiao Jin rolled around twice, but Muzhenxi remained unmoved. She got up from the ground embarrassedly, patted her body, and then negotiated terms with Muzhenxi: "I'll see tomorrow, are you still with me? "

Wooden Pillow Creek said with a stern face: "I want to paint tomorrow night."

Xiao Jin drooped his ears and went back to his room to get his pajamas.

Muzhenxi waited until she could no longer see her back, and then laughed softly.

The next night, Mu Zhenxi, who claimed to want to paint, accompanied Xiao Jin to watch two more episodes of the TV series. The two discussed Ye Tianyu's deceitful behavior. Mu Zhenxi felt that she should not have cheated with her family for her own selfish desires from the beginning. The other party is a mainland smuggler, and deception itself is wrong. Xiao Jin felt that the other party was expedient and excusable, and the ending also proved that she finally got the desired result, and everyone was happy.

Muzhenxi said that this is a TV series. The two people are not from the same world. It's like a fairy tale only tells the princess and the prince to live happily together, but doesn't tell the story of the prince and the princess. The prince and the princess are like this. Now, let alone princes and ordinary people.

Xiao Jin argues that there is still Cinderella, how do you explain it? Wooden Pillow Stream smiled: Cinderella was originally a nobleman, and her two older sisters could go to the ball. She was not favored, not from a humble background.

Xiao Jin said that you digressed, it was clearly deceit, how could it be related to class. Mu Zhenxi said that I didn't digress. Not only did Ye Tianyu have a world of difference from the other party, but he also deceived the other party, which is impossible in the real world.

Xiao Jin frowned and said: You are too realistic.

Wooden pillow Brook said with a smile: Obviously you are too romantic, and you still believe in the things played in the TV series.

Xiao Jin looked a little angry, but Wooden Pillow Creek stopped talking, took a sip from the teacup, got up and said, "I'll go back to the study."

Xiao Jin slammed the pillow on the sofa.

It was unpleasant that night, and the next morning seemed to forget this little episode. Wooden pillow stream knocked on Xiao Jin's door according to the agreement and told her to go out for a run. In order to avoid running together, she went out first, Xiao Jin went out later, and Muzhenxi didn't run around in circles, so she basically didn't meet each other in the morning run. Go home on the front and back feet, take turns taking a shower, and then go out for breakfast.

It was the soup noodle shop she went to. Xiao Jin's education from childhood to adulthood made her unable to **** and slip as naturally as others, but occasionally she would make a little noise. Today, she realized with hindsight that the side dishes in her bowl are different from those in the wooden pillow creek bowl. There are sour beans, pickles, dried radishes, shredded ginger, etc. in the wooden pillow creek bowl. In addition to the kelp in her bowl Silk, peanuts and greens are basically nothing else.

Mu Zhenxi glanced at her lightly and said, "You are picky eaters, don't you think about it?"

Xiao Jin's lips pursed into a smile.

She knew it, but she just wanted to hear Muzhenxi say it herself, to show that Muzhenxi still remembered these details.

On the way home, Muzhenxi answered a phone call, she glanced at Xiao Jin, did not avoid her, and her expression became more serious.

Xiao Jin listened to what she said, as if it was work-related.

Sure enough, Muzhenxi hung up the phone and said to Xiao Jin, "A company told me to go for an interview."

"when?"

"It's all right, he said he was waiting for me at the company and called him before I went."

Listening to her words, Xiao Jin squinted his eyes, thought for a while, and said, "Aren't you very good? Do you still need your time to be interviewed by others?"

Wooden pillow Brook said: "No, it's generally powerful."

Xiao Jin blinked and said, "That's very powerful."

Wooden Pillow Creek smiled and did not deny it.

Xiao Jin asked, "Then when are you going?"

Wooden Pillow Creek: "This afternoon, I'm about to get moldy at home. It's better to work early."

Xiao Jin asked, "Do you like this company?" She still remembered the resignation of Muzhenxi. Since she resigned and then looked for the same job, the main reason for her resignation was that she didn't like the original company.

Wooden pillow creek frowned slightly, and he was not sure: "I don't know, I have to talk to that side in depth, I know more about it."

Xiao Jin thought for a while and said, "I will go to No. 1 Middle School in the afternoon?" It happened that she had wanted to go there for a long time, and she had an intuition that she could find something in No. 1 Middle School.

Muzhenxi glanced at her and said, "Okay, I'll take you there first, and then go to the company for an interview."

Xiao Jin nodded.

At noon, Muzhenxi made the meal. Although Xiao Jin's cooking skills were proven, but Muzhenxi did not agree with her frequent cooking, Xiao Jin had no choice but to occasionally look for opportunities.

After taking a nap for half an hour, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Muzhenxi first took Xiao Jin to Lincheng No. 1 Middle School, put Xiao Jin at the school gate, and drove away to the company for an interview.

Although it is a holiday now, but the senior year needs to make up classes, Xiao Jin came to take a gamble, the teacher who took her back then was still teaching the senior year. The management of Lincheng No. 1 Middle School is relatively strict, and registration is required to enter and leave the school. Xiao Jin stood at the window of the post booth and handed over his identity. The security guard asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Xiao Jin: "Mr. Xu Yuanxin Xu."

The security registered her and let her in.

An old school like Lincheng No. 1 Middle School has not changed much. The trees are shady and dense. It's just that the teaching building looks older than before, and the library has been refurbished and looks impressive from a distance. Entering the door is the statue of the thinker. After a short walk, it is the school's honor wall. On it are posted the college entrance examination results of the outstanding students and the schools they have accepted. Xiao Jin patiently looked at them one by one, showing a look of nostalgia. .

There are students in school uniforms walking around on campus, holding books in their hands, maybe going to the library, and casting curious eyes from time to time, but generally they don't stop there.

She followed her memory to find the previous office building. The soles of her shoes had an unreal feeling when she stepped on the stairs. On the first, second, third, fourth, and fourth floors, she went through the corridor. The original office sign was gone, and the door was open. empty.

Changed place?

Xiao Jin went downstairs, stopped a female student in school uniform and asked, "Hello classmate, where is the teacher's office building?"

The female student pointed her in the direction.

Xiao Jin thought for a while, then asked, "Do you know Xu Yuanxin Teacher Xu?"

The female student looked at her suspiciously: "I know, our head teacher, do you have anything to ask him?"

Xiao Jin didn't expect such an answer, so she couldn't hide her joy: "I was his former student, and I came to see him on purpose. Where is he now, is he in school?"

The female student blinked her eyes twice and smiled: "Yes, it should be in the office." This time the direction was clearer, and even said which floor and room the office was on.

"Thank you, Junior Sister." Xiao Jin's eyes were bright.

"No thanks." The female student looked at her mature and beautiful face, blushed for some reason, and replied in a low voice.

After Xiao Jin got the exact address, he went in that direction. During the holiday, the office building was also empty, and there was a lot of echoes when he stepped on the corridor. Xiao Jin counted one by one, and when he was about to arrive, a person suddenly walked out of an office in front.

He is about fifty years old, wears black-rimmed glasses, has a medium build, is thin, wears a very ordinary short-sleeved shirt, has sparse hair, and has a 37/30 haircut.

The man looked at Xiao Jin, and Xiao Jin also looked at him.

Xiao Jin walked over quickly: "Mr. Xu!"

Xu Yuanxin's hand holding the tea jar was frozen in the air, identifying the person in front of him, and hesitantly said, "You are..."

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

Xu Yuanxin's eyes first showed disbelief, then surprise: "It's Xiao Jin, why did you come to school?" He looked down and asked the same question as Wan Jing, "Are your legs okay?"

Xiao Jin's mouth twitched slightly: "...It's okay."

Xu Yuanxin laughed: "Come on, come into the office and sit down."

Xiao Jin was greeted by him and sat across from his desk. Xu Yuanxin made her a cup of tea in a disposable paper cup, and said warmly, "How are you doing abroad these years?"

Xiao Jin smiled and said, "It's good."

Xu Yuanxin: "That's good. You came to school this time..."

Xiao Jin said: "Look at you, please have a meal, and by the way, ask me about my going abroad."

Xu Yuanxin was at a loss: "What?"

Xiao Jin asked, "Teacher, do you remember when I went abroad?"

Xu Yuanxin: "In May, your father called me and said you went abroad."

Xiao Jin frowned: "My dad?"

Xu Yuanxin said, "Yes."

Xiao Jin asked, "Then did I speak to you in person?"

Xu Yuanxin shook his head: "No."

Xiao Jin confirmed to him: "Are you sure? And did I contact you later?"

Xu Yuanxin shook his head two times in a row, and then nodded again, explaining, "I'm sure you didn't talk to me at that time, but then you called me and asked me about the wooden pillow creek."

"Is it that summer vacation in 2008?"

"Yes."

"What did I ask you?"

"You ask me, is Wooden Pillow Creek okay?"

Xiao Jin's heart skipped a beat, and an unreasonable sense of panic grabbed her heart. Her voice trembled involuntarily, and she said with difficulty, "I...why do you ask that?"

Xu Yuanxin gave her a surprised look, and after a while, he let out a heavy breath.

"The child of Muzhenxi has a hard life. A few months before the college entrance examination, her grandmother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She couldn't be cured, and she died soon after. Later, she did not pass the college entrance examination, and there is no news."

"What..." Xiao Jin opened his mouth and found that he didn't make a sound, so he had to clear his throat before continuing to ask in a hoarse voice, "When did you die?"

"May is the month you go abroad." Xu Yuanxin said.