why not

: "I have to answer an important call, and I may not be back until half an hour. If you go in first, you don't have to wait for me to start eating."

"Oh," Jiang Huiwen made an OK gesture, "Understood."

She waited for Xie Huaijin to leave, and said to Liu Xiping, "My senior sister has special abilities and special responsibilities, unlike me, I live in a small office, and basically don't answer the client's phone calls during non-working hours, just care about him. "

"We're not doctors anyway." Liu Xiping echoed her.

As soon as Xie Huaijin left, the expression on Yue Xiaolou's face disappeared.

He lowered his eyes and stared at the white floor tiles.

Neither Jiang Huiwen nor Liu Xiping knew her, and the three of them sat and waited for dinner, and the atmosphere was a bit awkward.

He glanced to the side, then stood up suddenly, pointed to the claw machine happily and said, "I'll go and exchange some coins, so I can pass the time for you?"

"Yeah."

Jiang Huiwen also stood up.

This store is located in an underground city similar to a shopping mall, and there are countless things to pass the time around, ranging from the common ones such as claw machines, photoshoots, mini KTV boxes, and uncommon ones such as whack-a-mole.

Jiang Huiwen followed Liu Xiping to exchange a small basket of one-yuan coins, and asked her kindly if she wanted to play: "There are a lot of claw machines there, do you want to try the one you like?"

"I'm not interested in these, you can play by yourself."

Yue Xiaolou politely declined.

Jiang Huiwen wrinkled her nose, smiled politely, and pulled Liu Xiping to the claw machine next to her.

Subtle hostility.

Yue Xiaolou pursed his lips slightly, his face full of displeasure.

After sitting for a while, I couldn't find anything interesting on my phone.Seeing the simple equipment in the game hall with several sets in the front right, I am going to go there to pass the time.

When Liu Xiping opened the bottle cap, he saw Yue Xiaolou throwing money into the boxing machine.

While drinking water, he raised his eyes and kept an eye on her.This machine seems to have been played by myself, hundreds of times?Three or four hundred.Wait and play again, see if you can get five hundred points.

The 30-second countdown just jumped out, and he lowered his head to drink water.

Only a slamming sound was heard.

Looking up again, I saw the glove bounced into the machine, and the data on the screen kept rising.

Finally stopped at six hundred and two.

Liu Xiping spat out a mouthful of water.Jiang Huiwen, who was grabbing the doll next to her, also turned her head.

He paused for a few seconds, raised his hand to touch the water on his chin, and said to Yue Xiaolou dumbfounded with genuine emotion: "You...do you still need someone to open the bottle cap?"

Chapter 18 018

Yue Xiaolou turned his head when he heard the words, lowered the corners of his eyes, and looked at him coolly.

Liu Xiping's neck retracted again.

Pretend that you haven't said anything, and smile flatteringly.

"No. 48, No. 48, those of No. 48 please."

At the door of the store, the little waitress with a microphone on her waist called out her number, and she could still recognize them when she glanced at them.Smiling and repeating, "Those from No. 48, please come inside."

Several people stood up and walked in.

The lights in the store are dim, and there is a magnificent corridor between the tables in the rather large space, and two small steps.They followed the waiter and came to the small sofa for multiple people to have dinner.

There are really Internet celebrities in Internet celebrity hot pot restaurants.

As soon as Yue Xiaolou sat down, he found that the two people who were dining next to him looked familiar.Their bright red lips, overly protruding silkworms, heavy and fake thick eyelashes, and pretty faces.

Written on the face: internet celebrity.

It took a few more glances before I remembered who they were.

Their internet celebrity circle is only that big, and Yue Xiaolou basically has a relationship with everyone, or at least knows him.

The round-faced woman on the left is called Xiong Xiong, whose real name is Chen He.

The one on the right has collaborated with her several times before, Beijiujiu. Fans call her Nine Nine Goddess and Uncle. Fans delete and buy more than 2 big internet celebrities.Real name Li Lijuan.

The contrast between her real name and the fairy air on the Internet is too great, and Yue Xiaolou can remember it all at once.

Yue Xiaolou's main job is to shoot the cover and inside pages of magazines. She is a semi-part-time model with a regular company. She is too lazy to manage her status as an Internet celebrity, so she only has a fraction of her fans on Weibo.

Li Lijuan, on the contrary, is the main online celebrity and occasionally shoots magazines part-time.

The two are friends on WeChat.

Yue Xiaolou turned his face sideways and sat in a position where they would not notice.What annoys me the most when I meet these internet celebrity little sisters outside, maybe I will come to talk to them, and they are close to each other.

The waiter brought two menus and poured boiled water beside them.

Jiang Huiwen took the menu, paper and pen, and asked, "What kind of pot bottom do you want?"

Yue Xiaolou said it was all right.

"Those four boxes, slightly spicy tomato beef and one box of clear soup, are you okay?" Jiang Huiwen asked, marking them with a pencil in her hand.

Of course Liu Xiping had no objection: "Okay."

The bottom of the pot is the first to place an order.

After discussing with Liu Xiping, Jiang Huiwen and Liu Xiping ordered other dishes first, then pushed the pen and paper to Yue Xiaolou and said, "Look at what is missing, and add more."

Yue Xiaolou glanced at it, and ordered everything that should be ordered, and the portion was enough for five people.

Pick up the list and give it to the waiter, "I have nothing to add."

Xie Huaijin finished the call, walked in from the door, and quickly found their seats.

Yue Xiaolou saw it, his eyes followed, and the mournful expression on his face disappeared.

When Xie Huaijin approached, the two internet celebrity girls at the next table suddenly raised their eyes.I don't know if it's a woman's subconscious or a professional subconscious, but she pays extra attention to beautiful women.

They looked around and saw the people around her, so they saw Yue Xiaolou as a matter of course.

The two approached each other and whispered something.

Yue Xiaolou looked at them from the corner of his eye and felt something was wrong, so they really came to talk to them.

"Ann?"

Li Lijuan turned around with a smile like she was shooting a magazine, looked at her and said, "You come here to eat too."

Yue Xiaolou: "..."

She nodded and thought to herself, why don't you still come to see the scenery?

"I heard from Sai Ling that you are going to quit. Are you going to another house?"

"No."

After all, Li Lijuan was half-human, and when she noticed that she was in a bad mood, she immediately stopped talking.But the little girl next to her was not so sensible, so she chased after her and asked, "Are you getting married soon?"

After speaking, she laughed out loud first.

To put it in a joke, curiosity is genuine curiosity.

"..."

No one laughed together, and everyone at the two tables looked at her silently.

Liu Xiping and Jiang Huiwen looked at each other.

The little girl finally noticed the embarrassment in the atmosphere, tried to save it, and asked a non-sensitive question: "After quitting, what are you going to do? Do you want to open a Taobao store?"

Usually it's fine, but now Xie Huaijin is sitting beside her.

At any rate, Yue Xiaolou was admitted to a prestigious foreign school majoring in finance, but when he returned to China, he had nothing to do, idling around as a half-baked model, surrounded by second-rate Internet celebrities and third-rate anchors.

It's a bit embarrassing.

When his father taught her, she was not ashamed but proud.

Xie Huaijin didn't need to say anything, and she couldn't say anything. She felt ashamed when she appeared in front of her.

Yue Xiaolou paused for a moment, picked up the chopsticks at hand and took them apart, laughing, "My mother asked me to go back to study."

"what?"

She laughed and said, "So you are still a student, I don't even know..."

Yue Xiaolou said: "After all, we don't know each other well."

"..."

Several people onlookers felt too embarrassed.

Seeing this, Li Lijuan gave her a hand, and the two of them turned away, and continued to eat their food silently.

Jiang Huiwen asked her, "Resigned?"

"The previous part-time job was boring," Yue Xiaolou said flatly, took a sip of water, and ended the topic.

The waiter pushed the small dining cart over, and quickly placed the meat and vegetables on both sides at intervals. Another male waiter fixed the bottom of the pot, turned it on, and also helped to arrange the vegetables.

Xie Huaijin looked away and didn't ask anything.

After a hot pot meal, Jiang Huiwen and Liu Xiping chatted with each other tacitly. They are both people who can talk, and the atmosphere did not become rigid.

Yue Xiaolou also joined in perfectly, and I'm afraid he didn't know what was going on in his heart.

Walking out of the store, Xie Huaijin suddenly said, "Sorry, I didn't hear about your case. I'm going on a business trip tomorrow, so I can make an appointment when I come back?"

"Ah."

Yue Xiaolou responded in a low voice, and for a moment, couldn't help but say, "Why don't you ask me what I'm doing?"

"Aren't you going to study?"

Yue Xiaolou lowered his eyelashes, moved his throat slightly, paused for a few seconds, and finally said without emotion, "You know that my mother died a long time ago."

"..."

Xie Huaijin stopped suddenly.

She always does.Show a little hurt, let others fall into the trap one after another.

They flock to them and don't teach lessons.

Xie Huaijin was silent for a while, put his hand into his coat pocket and took out something.Something flickered in the sunlight.

Put it in Yue Xiaolou's palm, "Here you are."

Yue Xiaolou held it and looked at it in disbelief.

It turned out to be a small bottle of handmade candy.

The small glass jars are filled with colored candies with smiling faces of cats, and each one is very small, so the cat pattern in the middle of each piece is extremely delicate and detailed.The body of the bottle has a fancy wording of CANDY.

Yue Xiaolou's eyes became hot, and he blinked quickly, not daring to raise his head, fearing that the tears would fall to the ground if he couldn't hold back his tears in the next second.

It was her favorite candy in high school.

At that time, this thing was quite rare, and no one had seen it before.After the commercial plaza near the school sold it, it quickly became popular among girls. Boys had to buy this candy if they wanted to confess their love.

Yue Xiaolou was sent away a lot.

She is addicted to sweets, and she can chew the amount that others can eat for half a month.Once when I was preparing for an exam in the dormitory, I ran out of sugar, so I muttered and complained.Can't remember words without sugar.

It's really just complaining casually, at most I want to act like a baby.

In the end, Xie Huaijin bought it back for her.

That was the first time she gave her something.Later, nothing could be shaken, and she brought back a bag every week without saying a word, to help her replenish the candy stock.

The dark clouds above the head unknowingly dispersed.I thought it would rain today, but it turned out to be sunny.

With red eyes, Yue Xiaolou lowered his head and pretended to look at the bottle seriously, "When did you buy it?"

"I just got back from the phone and saw it was for sale."

"You didn't buy it for me, did you?"

"..."

Xie Huaijin didn't answer, and after a while, Yue Xiaolou heard faint sighs.

"I don't buy candy for anyone but you."

Yue Xiaolou couldn't help raising his face, with tears still in his eyes, staring blankly at her expression.

Xie Huaijin had no expression on her face, as if she had said something ordinary.

She blinked, tears ran across her face and fell to the ground, and her vision became clear again.

Yue Xiaolou snorted from his nose.

She wanted to say something, but when she changed the subject, Xie Huaijin suddenly approached, reached out and wiped away the tears on her cheeks, and asked, "What's there to cry about?"

The fingertips are slightly cool, and the movements are extremely gentle.

The tip of the nose smelled a faint fragrance, indescribably cold and warm.

It loosened up quickly.

Chapter 19 019

Yue Xiaolou quietly blushed his ears, stepped back half a step, pretended to be calm and said softly: "The wind is too strong, I have dry eyes."

"..."

A row of camphor trees are planted at intervals on both sides of the sidewalk, and the light shines through the gaps between the branches and leaves.

She looked at Xie Huaijin's expression from under her eyelashes, and felt an atmosphere suddenly appeared between them half a foot away, the wind blowing up the fallen leaves on the roadside, and the camphor tree was very similar to the one in the dormitory in Building A back then.

At that time, Yue Xiaolou also said some inconspicuous words.While trying to curry favor with her, at the same time dodging and evading.

Under the glamorous appearance, the thick city wall was a bluff that could be broken with a poke, and Xie Huaijin stood not far away and watched.

Watching her show her teeth and claws, watching her lie and make mistakes.

But she reached out and always held her hand...

Yue Xiaolou's Adam's apple moved slightly, his eyes lowered, and he didn't dare to look at her.

quite a while.

"Then, are we reconciled?"

Xie Huaijin was silent and did not answer immediately.

As the wind blew, it lifted Yue Xiaolou's curly long hair, two strands of which covered his eyes.She stretched out her hands to smooth her hair down, her eyes moved up, and her long eyelashes also lifted up.

Know what kind of smile you have to move people the most.

She raised her lips, but the smile hadn't fully drawn out yet, and she caught a glimpse of Xie Huaijin's plain expression from the corner of her eye.

Slowly stop laughing.

Forgot, Xie Huaijin never followed her style.

Yue Xiaolou felt extremely wronged in his heart, it came suddenly and he was at a loss.

Anyway, what she knows is useless to Xie Huaijin, she looks down on her.Yue Xiaolou has no other skills at all, and he is still a coward who habitually shrinks into his shell when things happen, so it is inevitable that he will show his timidity.

"Xiaolou." After a long time, Xie Huaijin's face softened, and his tone was quite calm, even patient and gentle, "You still owe me an explanation. Did you let me see it on purpose that day?"

"what?"

"After receiving your call, I asked the teacher for leave and returned to China immediately." Xie Huaijin didn't give details.

Just this sentence, she felt enough.

Yue Xiaolou was shocked.

Her thoughts went back to that dark memory, she ran to the rooftop by herself, wanting to learn from others to listen to the voice of her beloved before dying, so she called Xie Huaijin.

There's nothing wrong with the tone.After chatting, I said goodbye to her and hung up the phone.

It's a pity that when I was about to jump down, I was seen by the teacher.

Under the suspicious and vigilant eyes of the teacher, Yue Xiaolou was taken back to the dormitory to receive criticism, education and enlightenment.

After a period of time did not find a suitable suicide opportunity.

Later, he was sent to a mental hospital by his father, given tranquilizers, and the doctor added psychotropic drugs for depression.

She gained [-] pounds in a month, barely finished high school in a half-suspended state, and was a little normal, so she was packed and thrown to the house of her aunt who immigrated to Japan to continue her studies and take college entrance examinations.

After the muddle-headed days were over, she found that she could no longer contact Xie Huaijin.

"you……"

Yue Xiaolou's voice became hoarse in an instant, he couldn't speak, and said with an ugly face, "I didn't know you were back."

Xie Huaijin said "Yes", and motioned her to continue with his eyes.

"During that time, I was sick," Yue Xiaolou stumbled, unable to speak fluently, "I was really sick in the brain, what I did, I have no memory at all, blank."

When she was a sophomore in high school, Xie Huaijin went abroad.

The grandfather who brought her to the university passed away alone in Australia.Yue Xiaolou received the news, asked for a long vacation, and flew to Australia to finish the funeral.His eyelids were red and swollen from crying, and when he came home, he found that his father had taken his daughter back home.

After staying for more than a year, her room became the dressing room of her half-sister.

The mother-in-law pointed at her nose and scolded: Going to the funeral of another family is bad luck.

Grandpa was eating oranges and watching the show with a cane.

At that time, Yue Xiaolou's mental state was not quite right, she almost smashed the piano on the head of nǎinǎi.

Afterwards, anything as big as sesame can make her hysterical or cry.Even talking on the phone with Xie Huaijin, I couldn't control my emotions.

But she needs face after all