The Boyfriend Who I’ve Never Met

In the end, the timely arrival of water relieved Xie Tao's embarrassing situation of "dry cleaning".

She washed up in a hurry, and then fell asleep.

The next day was Saturday, and Xie Tao got up early and went to the dessert shop to help make the cakes ordered by the customers, and made a batch of shortbread candies for the day.

In the afternoon, I was busy handing out flyers again.

When she was most hungry, she bought a small bread, took off Matsumoto's headgear, and sat on a bench in the square to eat with a bottle of water.

In a person's life, she is always accustomed to doing things like this.

She must make more money so that she can make up for the tuition that Zheng Wenhong paid for her earlier.

If it weren't for Zhou Xinyue, Xie Tao would not go to a private school with expensive tuition like Tiancheng High School. After all, the tuition for one semester of Tiancheng would be enough for an ordinary public high school for three years.

If it weren't for her urgent need to find out the truth of the matter, she would not accept Zheng Wenhong's help.

Zheng Wenhong paid her tuition for one academic year, so she had to wait at least the next semester to transfer to another ordinary high school.

Repaying the money is a particularly urgent matter.

Especially those things that happened on her eighteenth birthday made her more convinced.

From the time she chose to leave the Zheng family, she had made plans to stay away from them from now on.

Between she and Su Linghua, there was no way to be a peaceful mother and daughter. This was the day in Qizhen. When she chased to the station and hid in the corner looking at Su Linghua’s back, she suddenly realized To the thing.

And Zheng Wenhong and Xie Tao maintained a weak and awkward relationship with only one Su Linghua. Without blood, they naturally became more decisive.

You can never force a person who has no blood relationship with you to treat you like a close relative.

Some people are eager in their faces, but cold in their hearts.

However, Zheng Wenhong has never disguised Xie Tao. He has always been calm and indifferent, but he has never rejected any request from Su Linghua.

However, he could only do it, and only agreed to Su Linghua's request.

Too much care, too much love, that he has never given Xie Tao.

And Xie Tao never forced it, and she never needed it.

She had to return all the money owed to Zheng Wenhong as soon as possible, and Xie Tao was useless with the bank card that had a sum of money paid in every month.

When she had enough money for Zheng Wenhong to pay for her tuition, Xie Tao planned to pay them back.

Xie Tao ate the bread and thought about things in her heart. She didn't know that, in the shade of the trees across the street, there was a neatly dressed young woman in a black dress looking through the sunglasses on the bridge of her nose. Look at her.

There were purple crystal earrings on her ears, which shone brightly in the sun.

And she was holding a cup of milk tea in her hand, and while reaching out and supporting her sunglasses, she fed the straw into her mouth, took a big sip, and chewed the added amount of pearls slowly.

"Do you say you are lucky or unfortunate?"

The woman looked at the girl who was sitting on the bench opposite her and gnawed bread, and then said softly after a long while, her tone seemed a bit meaningful.

Xie Tao didn't know anything about it. After she finished eating the bread, she put on Matsumoto bear's headgear, dragged her bulky body in the costume, and began to distribute flyers around.

There are many people rejecting the flyers in her hand, and there are always too few people taking them.

Later, I was really tired, and Xie Tao leaned against a tree, planning to take a break, but the passersby by her side grabbed the flyers in her hand at the right time.

One, two, three...

? ? ?

Xie Tao leaned against the tree, her cumbersome costumes made her turn her head a little harder.

Da Yue felt that she, a Kumamon bear, was leaning against the tree, and she was unlovable. The appearance of the flyers was a bit sad, and the people passing by became more interested. They even took the initiative to grab her. The flyers in the bear paw gloves, and touched her head, complimenting her for her cuteness.

? ? ?

Xie Tao suddenly felt as if she had discovered some incredible method of handing out flyers.

Send you the flyers well. You don’t care. Why do you get started by leaning on the tree for a while after I gave up struggling? ?

Humph, human.

Xie Tao suddenly akimbo.

What everyone saw was a Kumamoto bear standing by the tree, suddenly akimbo.

So the sound of the phone's camera sounded, and someone on-site P picture with the word: Bear akimbo.

Because she suddenly found a way to quickly distribute flyers, Xie Tao's work today ended earlier than before. She went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and planned to cook for herself in the evening.

But, on the way home, she was robbed again.

The familiar scene retreated again, gradually blurring into a dark shadow, all the familiar scenes were all hidden, and the flat sidewalk floor tiles under her feet turned into a bluestone road.

It was another familiar tavern, standing in front of her.

"..."

Xie Tao frowned.

The young boy appeared again at the entrance of the pub with flip flops, and smiled at her, "Welcome to sister Taotao."

"...I don't really want to come, thank you."

When Xie Tao saw his gaze rested on the plastic bag containing the purchased vegetables and meat in her hand, she took two steps back.

"Sister Taotao, eat together." Xie Lan blinked at her.

"..." Xie Tao was filled with rejection.

In the end, she was slipped into the lobby of the tavern by Xie Lan.

Only after entering, Xie Tao discovered that a strange man was sitting in the lobby.

"Who is he?" Xie Tao looked at Xie Lan beside him.

Xie Lan raised her eyebrows, looking a little arrogant, "Sister Taotao, you caught up with our tavern when it was open."

"Business?" Xie Tao reacted, and then her apricot eyes widened again. She looked at Xie Lan and asked, "Is he your guest?"

Xie Lan gave a hum, as if suddenly thinking of something, he reached out and patted Xie Tao on the shoulder, and pointed to the man sitting over there. His tone was quite meaningful, "Guess, he is a good person. Or a bad guy?"

Following the direction of his fingers, Xie Tao looked at the middle-aged man sitting at the table with his back to them again. At this moment, Xie Lan suddenly reached out and grabbed the plastic bag she was carrying.

Xie Tao instinctively retracted her hand, then glared at him, "What are you doing?"

"I'm not worried that sister, you are tired of carrying these things." Xie Lan smacked his lips innocently.

Xie Tao snorted, then put the things on a table of the Eight Immortals on the side.

"Quickly, do you recognize him, is he a good person or a bad person?" Xie Lan couldn't help but sighed as he watched her move, then lifted his chin.

Xie Tao tilted her head and glanced at the strange man over there who was sullen and drunk. She shook her head, "How can I see this."

Xie Lan smiled, and when he stretched out his hand, a booklet appeared out of nowhere in his palm, with a red and white cover.

Even when seeing something out of thin air in Xie Lan's hand for the second time, Xie Tao still felt incredible.

"Let me provide you with some important information."

Xie Lan rubbed his fingers, then opened the pamphlet, and he read, "This person has been out of tracks twice."

"Scumbag man." Xie Tao said.

Xie Lan read again: "He defrauded female netizens for 100,000 yuan."

"Still a scammer?" Xie Tao was shocked.

"But he was later used by female netizens, thinking that he had found true love, so he hit 200,000 to female netizens."

"……what?"

"The bag beside him contains the property he just stole."

"...?"

Xie Lan closed the booklet and asked her again, "Is he a bad person?"

Xie Tao didn't even think about it, "Yes."

Xie Lan laughed twice, but said, "But he also saved other people's lives, and even helped his deceased friend to support his old mother."

Xie Tao was stunned.

"Sister Taotao, do you think he is still a bad person?"

Xie Lan's voice was light and fluttering.

Xie Tao tilted her head and thought for a while, and then said, "Even if he has a good side, but he has done something wrong, he can't be erased because of this, right?"

"I understand, little sister." Xie Lan glanced at her, then sighed with a smile, and patted the booklet in his hand, "So I have to start work."

After he finished speaking, he rolled up his sleeves and tilted his head in front of Xie Tao, as if he was about to go to a fight.

But Xie Tao saw him take a jug of wine from behind the counter and put it on the man's table, and then smirked professionally, "This gentleman, this is a special gift from our shop."

"Thanks." The man seemed to be still immersed in his own sorrow of being deceived by the female netizen, and his words were a bit weak.

Xie Lan brought another plate of peanuts and put it on his table, laughing falsely, "As long as there is a peanut, you won't drink it like this, sir."

"Is it free?" The man just wanted to nod, but he asked cautiously as if he had suddenly remembered something.

Seeing Xie Lan nodding, he was relieved.

Just when the man picked up a peanut with chopsticks, the peanut instantly turned into the shape of a human hand, and it was still dripping blood.

The man felt that he might have been confused by drinking. He rubbed his eyes and found that the plate of peanuts had become one hand after another.

He started retching instantly.

Xie Tao saw Xie Lan standing by the table with a professional smirk on his face. He pointed to the plate on the table and said, "Eat it all."

The man was in shock, and even felt that he was in a dream. He shook his head violently when he heard Xie Lan's words. He just thought of getting up, but he seemed to be trapped on a stool by an invisible rope, unable to move.

Xie Tao watched as Xie Lan stuffed all the peanuts into the man's mouth, and the man was terrified, as if something terrifying was stuffed into his mouth. He wanted to vomit it. , But Xie Lan glued transparent sealing glue.

This kind of low-level theft package is specially prepared for this kind of casual first-time thief. The illusion of that plate of peanuts is aimed at that man, but in Xie Tao's eyes, it is just a plate of ordinary peanuts. .

"..." She didn't understand at all why the man was so painful to eat peanuts.

Then she saw Xie Lan take out a loudspeaker, pointed it at the man's ear, turned the volume to the maximum, and pressed the play button.

"Stealing is shameful and shameless."

When the mechanical female voice sounded inside, Xie Tao was stunned.

Such a loud sound was played repeatedly at least dozens of times or even a hundred times, and the man was obviously shocked.

Next, Xie Lan gave him the "A package for cheating scumbags" and "Advise you to be kind C package".

They are all "illusion devastation" that Xie Tao can't see at all.

Although she can't see what the packages are, she can clearly feel that the man...seems to be getting more and more demented?

Later, Xie Lan tore off the man’s sealing glue and poured all the jar of wine on the table into the man’s mouth. This is almost the same. He patted the non-existent dust on his body and walked in front of Xie Tao, right. She laughed, "Sister, your brother Lan is hungry."

"..."

Xie Tao looked at the man lying on the table over there, howling ghostly, she swallowed and asked, "What the **** did you...do?"

"Don't be nervous, I have to show him a short movie later, to help him wash his brain of all the jumbled things, take a look at it, and then throw him to the police station... Hey, he is actually like this Yes, I’m a little frightened here at most. If it’s a murderer or something, and the bad thing is more serious, I’ll have to beat a few times before giving a big set meal.” Xie Lan rubbed a hand. Her hair.

"...Are there any murderers here?" Xie Tao asked.

Xie Lan nodded, "That's for sure, everyone has come here."

"Sister, I'm hungry. Lao Xi is not here today. I have no food to eat. Can you cook me a meal?" Xie Lan tugged her sleeve.

It looked like a wolf with a drooping tail, and it looked a little pitiful.

In the end, Xie Tao did not escape the fate of cooking a second meal in a tavern and being robbed of braised pork by Xie Lan.

And this time, Xie Tao finally understood what the tavern was doing.

There is no absolute distinction between good people and bad people in this world. A person's life is bound to be complicated.

Everyone has their own good and bad sides.

It depends on how each individual should measure it.

If a person does a bad thing, crosses the moral red line and violates the bottom line of goodness, even if he does a hundred good things, it will not be able to erase such a bad thing.

And doing bad things always pays a price.

The book in Xie Lan's hands that Xie Tao saw today is a life book that every person is born with.

It will record all the good and bad of this person.

Red is a symbol of good deeds, and white is a symbol of bad debts.

The more evil a person does, the cover of his life book will gradually change from red to white.

And the red and white chronology of the strange man today, it means that the debt he has on his body has not reached the deepest point.

Destiny will silently reward everyone's good deeds, and similarly, it will punish everyone's evil deeds.

If you have fate, please in the tavern.

All good and evil will be here and get their due rewards.

On the way Xie Tao came home, Xie Lan was still with her, "Don't tell me sister, you made this braised pork, it's really delicious."

"……go away."

Xie Tao had no chance to eat a piece of meat this time, she stared at him furiously.

"It's not safe for you girl to go home at night. Brother Lan, I am thinking about you." Xie Lan sighed.

Xie Tao didn't want to talk to him at all, and just walked forward.

Xie Lan sent her to the gate of the community, then turned and left.

When Xie Tao raised her eyes to look at him, she saw that when he walked across from him with his back to him, she waved her hand and said, "Goodbye sister, next time I will ask you to drink sweet purple leaf water. "

Purple leaf water?

Xie Tao instinctively remembered the last cup of purple water.

When she returned to her senses, she saw that the figure of the boy had disappeared in a sudden mist, and the street surveillance flashed a few times at the same time, missing all the pictures just now.

She returned to the rented house, poured herself a large glass of water, took a few sips, and then sat down at the desk.

She took out her mobile phone, opened WeChat, and then in the chat interface with Wei Yun, she clicked on the voice call.

"Wei Yun, I'm back!"

She said cheerfully.

At that time, Wei Yun was upstairs in the astrological pavilion of the Great Zhou Forbidden Palace, facing the night breeze, looking at the deep night of the palace wall dotted with stars.

The night wind blew his wide sleeves, and the copper pendant in his hand was hot, the golden astrolabe began to float out, and when it turned, it made a faint sound, and then he heard Xie Tao's voice. .

Wei Yun immediately turned around and walked into the room while holding the copper pendant.

The double door closed with his applause, and he was the only one here.

"Why is it so late today?" He walked into the inner room and asked.

"...This is another sad thing."

Xie Tao's voice was muffled.

"Today I went to that tavern for some reason..."

She asked him, "Do you remember the tavern? I told you before."

"Yeah." He responded softly.

Xie Tao told him everything she saw and heard in the tavern today.

She didn't know that Wei Yunxiang didn't believe what she said. After all, if she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she wouldn't believe it. There are so-called gods, spells, and even mysterious places like taverns in this world.

She didn't even know that even Wei Yun, who was talking to her at the moment, was not a person in time and space at all.

After Wei Yun heard these words, his eyebrows were slightly closed.

He seemed to remember that she had told him before that what was **** on her body was not part of her fate, but was lifted by a middle-aged man called "Lao Xi" in that tavern.

And who is this old Xi in her mouth?

If it is really a place where fate is really important, then why should he take the initiative to find Xie Tao to untie her fate?

Still, he might...know something, but he didn't want to tell Xie Tao.

For a moment, Wei Yun felt that a fuzzy outline appeared in the mist in front of him, but that was a clue that he could not grasp anyway.

He is not in her time and space, and there is no way to find out the so-called mysterious tavern.

Could it be that he can only sit and wait for death?

Wei Yun lowered his eyes, his eyes dull.

Since the other party's purpose is him, it won't happen once, and it should come again.

He never believed it, he couldn't find the slightest flaw.

After all, things in this world have never been seamless.

"Wei Yun? Wei Yun, are you listening to me?"

Xie Tao's voice brought Wei Yun out of his thoughts. When he recovered, he replied, "What's the matter?"

"I said I have to do my homework..." The girl's voice was soft, as if she was eating something again.

As Xie Tao said, he took out a bunch of homework from the schoolbag beside him.

"Wei Yun, you said that these ancient people wrote poems when they wrote poems. Why did they write such a long string of fus, notes, and tables... Today the teacher said that he would memorize the whole piece."

She began to complain quietly, "I'm really too difficult..."

"Difficult?" He sat down at the table, and through a shallow veil, he glanced at the boundless night outside the carved window lattice, then held up the tea cup and took a sip.

"Clearly stupid, no need to make excuses." His tone was light, as if he was stating a fact that he had never thought of.

"..."

Xie Tao was choked.

She remembered that he knew where the content of a book as thick as "The Theory of Knowledge" was anywhere on the first page, and she couldn't think of a rebuttal in an instant.

"If you are willing to concentrate, you won't think this is a difficult task." Wei Yun almost hit the nail on the head.

In these days, he had already understood her temperament.

"Oh." Xie Tao said with her head down.

Or he heard that the mood in her voice was not high, Wei Yun paused, then said again, "Memorize it in silence, there is a reward."

"Is it delicious?" The girl's voice was obviously higher.

"see your performance."

Wei Yun's answer was ambiguous.

Xie Tao seemed to be motivated suddenly, "I see!"

"...But I have to finish other homework first." Her voice was a little discouraged.

After hanging up the voice call, Xie Tao began to write math papers, but just after writing a question, she seemed to be thinking of something again. She clicked on the phone album and found a photo.

That was a photo taken by passers-by of her sitting on a bench, wearing a heavy Kumamoto costume and taking off her headgear when the flyer was distributed this afternoon.

When opening WeChat, she clicked on the picture option and selected that photo. After hesitating for a while, she still clicked send.

With a smirk, her eyes curled up.

She has seen his portrait, but he doesn't seem to have seen what she looks like yet?

She didn't know that, in fact, he had seen her look a long time ago.

When Wei Yun saw the girl printed on the paper, he held the corner of the photo with his fingers for a long time.

The girl was born with a natural beauty, a pair of apricot eyes curled up, and water was shining in the sun. She smiled, showing a few neatly white teeth, looking a bit silly.

Wei Yun bent his eyes, as if there was a momentary mood swing, but it was only that moment.

His fingers squeezing the corner of the photo suddenly tightened.

Obviously, it was only to find out the secrets behind the copper pendant and all the mysterious light curtains, and it was obviously only to find out the person who had been in the dark all the time and tried to put him to death.

But why, at this moment, his heart is so unstable?

It was clearly not him who pulled her into this matter and treated her as a chess piece, but why? When he looked at the overly clear and her portrait at the moment, he suddenly felt that his own decision was made. , Is it wrong?

How long has he not touched such a compassionate heart?

This is not a good sign.

Wei Yun noticed it instinctively.

But why, he seems... not as resistant as he imagined?

Wei Yun sat at the table and lost his mind for a long time.