Stay Safe

The appointed time was half past two. Lu Xiaoyun arrived at two o'clock, ordered tea, and stared at the door.

The afternoon in early summer is quiet and dull. There is only one table of customers in the store. The customers are obviously waiting for others, and they are not ordering.

Another waiter in the store's uniform cleaned up quickly and quietly, passing the customer's table, she glanced up and glanced inadvertently. She is a beautiful middle-aged woman in her forties, with curly hair, elegant makeup, and outstanding temperament. At first glance, she looks rich.

She wears an expensive ladies watch on one hand, and her eyes flicker from time to time to the surface dotted with broken diamonds. Underneath her seemingly calm appearance, there is a trace of imperceptible tension.

The waiter bowed his head and continued to clean up, but heard a small movement from the counter.

"Hello."

"I'm here to find a lady named Lu, is she there yet?"

The waiter saw that the guest next to her clenched his hand quickly, and then released it again, showing a calm look.

"Ms. Lu has been here for a long time, in the seat closest to the inside."

"thanks."

Wooden pillow stream followed the direction of the waiter step by step, passed two tables, and saw Lu Xiaoyun sitting at the table waiting for a long time.

Xiao Jin's beauty was inherited from her mother, and there was a somewhat similar delicacy between their eyebrows. Xiao Jin is twenty-eight years old this year, and her mother, Lu Xiaojun, is at least fifty years old, but she looks quite young, with only one or two fine lines at the end of her eyes. Instead of looking old, she looks more mature. Elegant glamour.

Mu Zhenxi had seen Lu Xiaoyun in the photos of Xiao Jin's room before, but she had never seen the real person. With Xiao Jin coming back ten years later and revealing what happened back then, she thought that Lu Xiaoyun would look bad on her and be full of hostility. Today As soon as I saw it, I found that the other party exudes a touch of gentleness, and that kind of gentleness seems to be born naturally from the inside out, which makes people feel close.

If Muzhenxi didn't know what Lu Xiaoyun had done, she might have been deceived by her friendliness.

While she was looking at Lu Xiaoyun, Lu Xiaoyun was also looking at her.

She is the same age as her daughter, tall and tall, with a first-class body and appearance, long curly hair, light makeup, a white shirt and black trousers, and the cuffs are rolled up casually. Very outgoing, with white skin and thin waist and long legs. I can't tell from the photos that the real person has a very peculiar temperament between laziness and seriousness, which is very attractive.

In any case, Lu Xiaoyun is very satisfied with the appearance of Wooden Pillow Creek. Xiao Jin has a good eye for picking people. She has seen those people that Lu Xiaoyun had shown Xiao Jin before when she was still hopeful - even if those people she did not tell Xiao. Jin - has all been compared, it can be said that she is more beautiful than Qunfang.

But from the time Wooden Pillow Stream came in to the present, the tight jawline and the cold light reflected in her eyes as deep as a pool all showed her vigilance, and there was a hint of hostility.

Lu Xiaojun sighed in his heart: It seems that her future son-in-law is really not friendly to him.

However, Lu Xiaojun didn't feel that Wooden Pillow Creek was offended. When it comes to everything in the past, it was their own fault. Mu Zhenxi doesn't care about Lu Xiaojun's attitude towards the two of them, as long as he is nice to Xiao Jin.

Lu Xiaoyun suddenly thought desperately: Even if she treats Xiao Jin badly, and Xiao Jin doesn't say anything and insists on hanging herself from this tree, the two of them have nothing to do.

Wooden Pillow Stream sat down, and there was a trace of doubt in his eyes.

Lu Xiaoyun's beautiful face has changed into several expressions, the last one is... despair?

Did you do it yourself? Is she so desperate?

Wooden Pillow Creek could not help frowning slowly.

Lu Xiaoyun must have some conspiracy, right?

The enemy didn't move and I didn't move. Wooden pillowxi made up her mind that she would not speak until Lu Xiaojun spoke. It was Lu Xiaoyun who was looking for her, not the person she was looking for. Lu Xiaoyun would say sooner or later.

"What do you want to drink? The signature milk tea with stockings here is good. Don't you young people like to drink this? Would you like a cup?" The sweetheart, a young child, actually showed two points of embarrassment.

Mu Zhenxi looked at her friendly and friendly face, pressed down the doubts in her heart, and nodded lightly.

"Waiter." Wooden pillow creek beckoned and said loudly. Lu Xiaojun is an elder, and she is a junior. It is very rude to ask an elder to do the work without tearing her face.

Lu Xiaojun's expression changed again when he looked at her.

If I read it right, Wooden Sleeper Creek thinks that is appreciation and satisfaction?

Wood Pillow Creek was confused.

She didn't know that Lu Xiaoyun's standards for her had dropped to an unprecedented low level in a situation where she couldn't interfere with Xiao Jin at all, and she had almost no standards. Once she found a bright spot, it would be infinitely magnified in her eyes.

In layman's terms, asking the mother-in-law to look at the son-in-law is more pleasing to the eye.

Muzhenxi couldn't stand this weird atmosphere first, so he sat up straight and said straight to the point: "I don't know what my aunt called me today, what did she want to say to me?"

Lu Xiaoyun's expression froze subtly.

The terms aunt and aunt are both polite terms, calling someone older than a father an uncle, corresponding to an aunt, and a younger person calling an uncle and aunt. Muzhenxi doesn't know who Xiao Jin's parents are older than her own, but Xiao Jin is older than her, so she can't go wrong with her uncle and aunt. But when these two words are heard in the ears of women, especially middle-aged women, the difference is not small.

Wooden Pillow Creek made no secret of her dissatisfaction with Lu Xiaoyun.

Lu Xiaoyun lowered his eyes, but he did not show any anger, and smiled slightly: "Gossip."

Wooden Pillow Creek is straightforward: "What are you talking about?"

Lu Xiaoyun said, "Xiao Jin."

Wooden pillow creek raised his brows slightly: "All ears are listening."

Lu Xiaoyun turned his head and asked, "I wonder what you think of our Xiao Jin?"

If you really want to promote the two of them to get back together, you must find out the attitude of Wooden Sleeper Creek.

Muzhenxi obviously didn't expect her to ask such a question, a surprise flashed in her eyes, she cleverly concealed it, and said indifferently, "She's fine." Although she hid her doubts, she did not deliberately restrain her from mentioning Xiao Jin affection of time.

There is a play.

Lu Xiaoyun was overjoyed.

Wooden Pillow Stream: "???"

Did she just see a surprise in Lu Xiaoyun's eyes? Or outraged?

Lu Xiaojun didn't know the thoughts of Muzhenxi and her. She restrained her lips and asked again and again, "Then what do you think of her?"

Wooden Pillow Creek frowned slightly.

idea? Is it an idea to grow old?

The recent idea is to get on her.

But it was not suitable to tell Lu Xiaoyun, so Muzhenxi said blankly, "No idea."

Lu Xiaoyun groaned in his heart.

This is not forgiving their family Xiao Jin.

Lu Xiaoyun clasped her hands under the table, released it, repeated several times, she made up her mind, bowed her head, and sincerely apologized to the young woman in front of her: "I'm sorry."

As long as Muzhenxi is willing to be with Xiao Jin again, they can do whatever they want.

In the early days, they were not without resentment. Xiao Jin did so many incredible things for a girl they had never seen before. Even parents could say whether they wanted it or not, and no one's parents would complain. Moreover, the Xiao family believed that they were benevolent and righteous to Muzhenxi, especially the money they sent someone to give. Xiao Jin had no idea how much Muxianxi had done, and she had no right not to forgive her. The deeper Xiao Jin fell, the more Xiao's father and Lu Xiaoyun hated this wooden pillow creek that appeared out of nowhere.

Resentment does not last long, but love lasts. As time goes by, the distress for her daughter overwhelms everything.

Muzhenxi was surprised: "Auntie, this is..."

Lu Xiaoyun said: "I and her father were confused in the past. We deceived her. We apologize to you. If you want any compensation, you can tell us."

Wooden pillow brook looks dazed for a moment, frowning, what is this development?

Seeing that she was silent, Lu Xiaoyun continued: "Xiao Jin is innocent, she has never let go of you all these years."

Muzhenxi suddenly had a bold idea, she remained calm, watched the changes, and said calmly, "So?"

Lu Xiaoyun said: "I came to you today for no other reason, just to ask..."

Muzhenxi stared at Lu Xiaoyun's mouth that opened and closed up and down, and a guess was about to come out.

"Is there any possibility of you and her getting back together?"

Boom.

The dangling heart fell to the ground.

Mu Zhenxi felt a little ironic in his heart, but also felt very sad, and he knew why he was in the first place today. Xiao Jin's ten years, his own ten years, who will compensate them? They should never have chosen such an extreme approach. Can a single "sorry" and "regret" make up for it?

If Xiao Jin didn't suffer those hardships, and if he wasn't so persistent, would they wake up and compromise?

All this is what Xiao Jin paid for what she knew and what she didn't know. Wooden pillow brook felt distressed for Xiao Jin.

It seems that Lu Xiaoyun still doesn't know that he and Xiao Jin are back together.

Mu Zhenxi didn't show it on his face, he swept over Lu Xiaoyun's anxious expression, and raised a smile that was not a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Then do you want me to get back with her?"

Lu Xiaoyun nodded: "She will be really happy only when she is with you."

Wooden pillow creek knuckles knocked on the table, decided not to sell off, shrugged: "As you wish."

Lu Xiaoyun suddenly opened his eyes.

Wooden pillowxi said coldly, "I'm already with her, but it has nothing to do with you."

Due to the family of origin, Muzhenxi is quite unfamiliar with the words "parents", especially what Xiao's father and Lu Xiaoyun did back then, and she didn't even have the slightest affection for Xiao Jin's parents.

But after saying this, she thought of Xiao Jin, Xiao Jin wanted to restore the relationship, so she eased her face, pursed her lips, showed a pear edgy on her left cheek, and smiled politely: "She is very happy now, Please rest assured, uncle and aunt."

How could Lu Xiaoyun not see that her smile did not reach the bottom of her eyes, but she was just playing on the scene.

Lu Xiaoyun said, "You don't have to act with me, I know you don't like us."

Wooden Pillow Creek smiled and did not refute.

Lu Xiaoyun: "But it's okay, we don't need your affection, we can rest assured knowing she's good." Thinking about it from another angle, they are the ones who have hurt Xiao Jin, and Muzhenxi's hostility towards them is partly due to Xiao Jin. Jin's love.

Lu Xiaoyun comforted herself.

Lu Xiaoyun: "I still have an unkind request."

Wooden pillow creek raised his eyebrows: "You said."

Lu Xiaoyun said: "You know that we are no longer hostile to you. I want you to give Xiao Jin a message for us."

Mu Zhenxi tilted her head, stared at her, and said, "Excuse me, Auntie, it's not that I refuse to take it for you, but that you secretly asked me to meet without her, and let me speak, what do you think will happen to Xiao Jin? miss?"

Lu Xiaoyun's face turned pale.

Xiao Jin would definitely feel that they were trying to do something to Muzhenxi. She didn't trust them at all. If there was trust, she would not tell them about their reunion.

No matter how they explained, Xiao Jin would not listen. She was bitten by snakes for ten years and was afraid of ropes.

She was negligent and didn't think about this level, thinking that Muzhenxi and Xiao Jin were close, and some words would be better for her.

Lu Xiaoyun looked at Muxianxi's face, looked around again calmly, and asked, "Why help us?"

"Help you?" Muzhenxi seemed to have heard something funny, taunted his lips, and said indifferently, "I just don't want Xiao Jin to be hurt."

Lu Xiaoyun was dumbfounded for a moment, then smiled: "Anyway, thank you."

Muzhenxi took a sip of the milk tea that he hadn't had since serving, and said, "Is there anything else?"

Lu Xiaoyun looked at her and said, "No more."

Wooden Pillow Creek stood up and bowed slightly: "Then I'll leave first."

Lu Xiaoyun watched her back as she walked away, not knowing what she was thinking.

With a flash of light in his sight, Lu Xiaojun looked at the bracelet left at the foot of the table, walked over to pick it up, and wanted to call Muxianxi, but she disappeared without a trace.

Lu Xiaojun took out his mobile phone and wanted to call Muxianxi, but hesitated for a second before dialing and returned to the main interface.

Wooden pillow creek hurried, and didn't want to stay in this tea restaurant for a minute. Although she was a little surprised by this meeting with Lu Xiaoyun, it didn't make much waves in her heart. Whether Xiao Jin's parents accepted or not, she knew that back then. After the truth, it doesn't matter to her anymore. Xiao Jin wants to get back together. This is a long reconciliation process. She can't help, but it can only be left to Time and Xiao Jin herself.

Wooden pillow Creek found that the bracelet was lost halfway through the drive. It was not particularly valuable, but it was given to her by Yin Xiaoli. Wooden Pillow Creek had to turn around at the intersection ahead and drive back.

The tea restaurant is upstairs, and Muxinxi just parked the car on the side of the road, and was about to push the door to go down, but saw two close-looking beautiful women walking side by side from the exit, hand in hand, about the same age, both in their forties come out.

One is Lu Xiaoyun, who just met her, and the other is - Zhou Xinyue!

Mu Zhenxi's eyes trembled slightly.

She held her hand holding the door handle, chasing after the two people, and the two got on the back seat of the same car talking and laughing.

A strange feeling appeared in Muzhenxi's heart.

Lu Xiaoyun and Zhou Xinyue... These two people who were incompetent in her mind, did they actually know each other? And seeing how they both looked familiar, Zhou Xinyue came to stay here again, didn't they know each other for a long time?

Was that money a coincidence? Or... why didn't Zhou Xinyue say it? Lu Xiaoyun didn't mention it in the conversation just now. If you want to win his favor, wouldn't it be better to say it?

Wooden Pillow Creek lowered his eyes, thoughtfully.

After Muzhenxi waited for the car to leave, he returned to the tea restaurant and asked if he had seen one of her bracelets. The waiter said no. Muzhenxi asked again, "After I left, did the one with me receive another friend?"

There were no other customers at this time, and the waiter remembered it clearly and said, "Yes."

"How does their relationship look like?"

"It's pretty close."

"Okay, thank you."

Wooden pillow stream came out of the tea restaurant and squinted at the street where people came and went. The sun was clearly in the sky, but Muzhenxi suddenly felt a chill in his heart.

***

When Wooden Pillow Creek was not around, Xiao Jin occupied Wooden Pillow Creek's study. The study of Muzhenxi has changed a lot. Xiao Jin often brings books from her. It turns out that the collection of paintings on the bookshelf and the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign miscellaneous books are mixed with tomes of theoretical books, as well as English works. At first glance, it looks very mixed.

Muzhenxi also put the drawings on his desk in the cardboard box, leaving half of the space for Xiao Jin to read and prepare lessons. If the two of them wanted to use the study at the same time, Xiao Jin would go to the living room next.

Muzhenxi is very attentive when drawing. She doesn't care about another person next to her, but Xiao Jin can't do it. As soon as Muzhenxi appears in her line of sight, she can't work with peace of mind, and she can't wait to stick to Muzhenxi's arms. Fortunately, Muzhenxi is basically very busy, most of the time this study is used by Xiao Jin, and there is a photo frame next to the computer, which is a photo of Muzhenxi and grandma.

Xiao Jin raised his head from the book, his eyes were fixed on the faces of the old and the young in the photo frame, and he thought about things quietly for a while.

The study door was not closed, so the sound of the door could be heard clearly in my ears.

Xiao Jin quickly returned to his senses, and ran out of the study without wearing slippers.

Mu Zhenxi was about to bend over to change his shoes, when he heard the sound of footsteps running, raised his head, and opened his arms naturally, Xiao Jin rushed into her arms and threw her back against the entrance.

"You just came back." Xiao Jin said dissatisfiedly, "it's getting dark."

"I met an acquaintance on the way, but I was dragged to chat, and it took a lot of time." Wooden pillow Brook said the excuse that he had thought of for a long time, and then showed her the cake on the porch table, "I bought it for you, There were a lot of people, and there were queues.”

Xiao Jin calmed down a little and said coquettishly, "What kind of acquaintance, the next time you meet such a person, you will say you want to go home with your girlfriend and let them hold you."

Wooden pillow stream obediently said: "Okay."

Xiao Jin suddenly raised his head and asked cautiously, "Male or female?"

Wooden Pillow Creek said, "Ladies."

Xiao Jin did not relax and said, "Is it interesting to you?"

Wooden Pillow Creek said amusingly, "He has a boyfriend."

Xiao Jin was relieved: "That's okay." She raised her hand and pinched the cheeks on both sides of Wooden Pillow Stream, "Don't go out and mess with flowers."

Mu Zhenxi was wronged to death, and smiled: "How can I mess with flowers? I went out today with the hickey you gave me. Famous flowers have owners, isn't it obvious enough?"

Xiao Jin pulled away her neckline and looked at it. It had changed from bright red to purple, with mottled marks, and it would not completely disappear in a week. She gritted her teeth, and Wooden Pillow Creek consciously moved closer, and Xiao Jin kept another one for her, this time on the side of her neck, and summer clothes couldn't cover it at all.

Wooden Pillow Stream: "!!"

Xiao Jin licked his lips: "That's obvious enough."

As soon as Mu Zhenxi's eyes turned, Xiao Jin immediately said, "No band-aids, no silk scarves."

The wooden pillow stream is completely broken, and the only way is to compromise.

She suddenly remembered a funny thing and said, "I read a news two years ago that it was a boy who died suddenly after being licked on the neck by his girlfriend."

Xiao Jin's mouth twitched.

First, it affected the city appearance, and then the hickey died suddenly. Wooden Pillow Creek is not a dog, so why can't it spit out ivory?

It wasn't until the smile on the corner of Muzhenxi's mouth that Xiao Jin realized that he was being tricked again, so he pounced on him and arched his mouth straight into Muzhenxi's neck. Does Muzhenxi still know what she wants to do? After planting strawberries all over her neck, she had absolutely no face to go to work, so one wanted to kiss, the other to block, the entrance rolled to the ground, and the floor rolled onto the sofa, fighting for 300 rounds.

Xiao Jin was out of strength and took the lead in admitting defeat, but Muzhenxi couldn't get a good deal. She was reluctant to hit Xiao Jin hard, but she succeeded twice. Now there are one, two or three strawberries.

Mu Zhenxi hugged Xiao Jin on the sofa, combed her long hair, and asked lazily, "What have you been doing at home this afternoon?"

"Read a book."

"anything else?"

"miss you."

"anything else?"

"I still miss you."

"No business." Wooden pillow creek tapped the back of Xiao Jin's head gently.

Xiao Jin said softly, "...It hurts."

Wooden Pillow Creek rubbed her and snorted again.

From the back of her head, her fingers touched the corner of her left forehead, and there was a small bump. It was a scar from the last car accident, which had healed. Except for close observation and personal touch, it is impossible to find it at all.

The moment Mu Zhenxi felt his fingers touch, Xiao Jin's body trembled uncontrollably.

"Does it still hurt?" Muzhenxi knew that it wouldn't hurt again after so long, but still carefully avoided it.

"It doesn't hurt." Xiao Jin closed his eyes and exhaled calmly.

She had the illusion of returning to the past in a trance. She woke up from a long coma. Someone was sitting in the warm white light, touching her wound so tenderly, and gently, cherishingly and distressedly asked her: "Does it hurt?"

Xiao Jin stared at the person whose face was unclear in the white light. Tears leaked from the corner of his eyes, and a layer of white mist covered the oxygen mask. He choked, "It doesn't hurt."

But when the white light dissipated, sitting in front of the hospital bed was not the wooden pillow stream, but Lu Xiaoyun with tears on his face.

Xiao Jin's vision was blurred in pain, and his lower lip was bitten and bleeding. In the snow-white ward, he hurriedly searched for Muzhenxi.

What about her?

"Don't get excited." Lu Xiaojun said, "what are you looking for? Mom will find it for you."

Xiao Jin was speechless, like a stranded fish, breathing became difficult, struggling, the needle indwelling in the vein was twisted, the liquid medicine seeped out, and the back of the slender and thin hand swelled out a shocking bulge.

In the last second before falling into the darkness, what she saw was Lu Xiaoyun's panicked face, and her father was hoarse, shouting with a crying voice: "Doctor save my daughter!"

The instruments in the room were beeping in a ball, and the picture monitoring the heartbeat suddenly turned into a straight line, and a long, harsh beep sounded: "Di-"