When Mu Xueyi woke up, the car was already on the road.
Shaky a little.
The scenery on both sides of the car window receded at a constant speed.
She was still lying in the back row, Zhou Zhenyue was already sitting in the driver's seat and was driving.
She was covered with blankets and clothes tightly, and even a little sweat came out from her neck.
Mu Xueyi lazily closed her eyes and wanted to raise her hand to wipe the sweat from her neck.
Only after raising his right hand, the familiar white jade ring appeared unsuspectingly.
...It's on her little finger.
Wearing.
Mu Xueyi was stunned.
After a while, she reacted and immediately sat up and said to the driver's seat:
"Ayue, your ring..."
Zhou Zhenyue held the steering wheel and interrupted her: "What do you call me?"
Mu Xueyi was in a daze, and suddenly remembered the promise they had made.
These five days.
They want to go back to the beginning.
"...Yue...Sister Yue."
I don't know why, but I was able to call it out yesterday, but now I am a little bit ashamed to call it out.
But it was the white jade ring on her little finger that burned her even more than the hotness of these three words in her mouth.
"Why do I have your ring on my hand?"
Zhou Zhenyue smiled faintly: "Of course I wear it for you, otherwise it will run over on its own with long legs?"
Mu Xueyi's expression became complicated.
She whispered for a moment and said, "I understand what you mean, I...thank you...but this ring is so important to you. Didn't you say that your Zhou family members are only one in your life. Is it?"
Zhou Zhenyue: "...Hmm."
Mu Xueyi: "Then how can you give it to me? I have gloves, or if you don't like to see me wearing gloves, I will look for another ring. This white jade ring has never existed for more than 30 years. I left you, but now..."
Zhou Zhenyue took her words.
"As long as you don't leave me, the ring doesn't count as leaving me."
After speaking, she smiled slightly and looked at Mu Xueyi in the rearview mirror for a second.
"Wear it. It's nothing more than the things outside. The meanings you said were given to it by my ancestors. But for me, it is the most meaningful place to cover your scar."
Mu Xueyi opened her mouth.
Hesitate to speak and stop.
In the end, she did not refuse any more.
Sitting quietly back in the seat, staring at the jade ring on her little finger.
I heard Zhou Zhenyue said before that this ring was personally selected for her when her parents were still alive.
It is an ancient jade.
The chalcedony is clear and the jade is pure.
After being repaired by the master, the surface feels very warm to the touch. However, if you look carefully, there are some unremarkable incompleteness in the corners, which are the vicissitudes of the heavy history.
Even people who don't understand jade at all can see that it is extremely valuable.
This is an expensive gift.
Mu Xueyi never felt burdened with the cold and heavy pure gold handcuffs on his wrists.
But wearing this ring, her heart began to unconsciously become heavy.
But it's not the kind of heaviness that causes anxiety.
It's the kind, there is a piece of paper in my heart that is always swaying in the wind and about to fly away, which is stabilized by a round cute pebble...
Sense of security.
She covered her right hand with her left hand, gently but firmly holding the jade ring on her little finger.
The corners of the lips are pressed tightly, I want to laugh for a while, and then I want to hold it back, feeling that I should be a little more stable.
After a long time.
Still couldn't help it, his mouth was slightly bent.
A trace of unnoticeable satisfaction and happiness overflowed from the bottom of my heart.
In her battered heart, every rift caused by suffering was filled.
.
In the afternoon, when the sun sank into the white clouds, they arrived at Gaochuan.
The small yard where Mu Xueyi and Gwinon Lin Keni lived before, because she couldn't bear the swing, she bought the house when she left.
The small farmhouses in the countryside of towns and villages are not too expensive, but very cheap.
Mu Xueyi asked Zhou Zhenyue to drive directly to the entrance of the small courtyard.
She got out of the car, walked to the courtyard gate, and took out a bunch of keys.
After looking for it for a while, he took out the biggest one and opened the old lock hanging on the door.
Zhou Zhenyue walked behind her and waited quietly for her to open the door.
After Mu Xueyi opened the lock, he took out a small set of large and small keys from the large set, and handed it to Zhou Zhenyue:
"Here are all the spare keys in this house."
Zhou Zhenyue took it and shook it in her palm, making the rustling sound of a few metal keys rubbing.
"...Really give it to me?" she asked in a low voice.
Mu Xueyi: "Well, if you come here to play or travel on business in the future, you can come here anytime."
She thought about it again, and chuckled: "Ah, I forgot, you usually live in a hotel."
Zhou Zhenyue dropped her hand and put the set of keys in her pocket.
"Don't make any excuses to go back, give it to me, it's mine."
Mu Xueyi smiled: "I didn't want to come back, look at you, all day long..."
With that, she naturally stretched out a finger to poke Zhou Zhenyue's side face.
"Okay, as soon as the things are set, I will take you to eat the best pasta in this place. The chef is an authentic chef from abroad. He spent his retirement in this small place and opened a small restaurant by himself. You can't see it. There are also hidden masters in this small place. The white wine clam spaghetti he made has a very special craftsmanship..."
Zhou Zhenyue followed Mu Xueyi into the yard, listening to her while looking around.
Obviously, the yard has been unoccupied for a while, and some of it has fallen out of dust.
In the middle of the yard is a large and sturdy wooden swing frame, with roses planted on both sides, and rose vines cover the backbone of the swing frame. There are still a few unopened buds on the vine.
The house is very simple, with gray bricks and black tiles, and rough cement at the bottom.
Some bricks and cement have cracked, and the wooden door has been chewed up with mottled holes.
At first glance, it looks a bit tattered.
After staying for a long time, I feel comfortable and relaxing.
Don't worry, some expensive millions of carpets will be damaged here.
Don't worry, there will be a goblet worth a set of smashed here at every turn.
Old things always bring more intimacy than new and exquisite things.
"Look, I live in that house. You will sleep there with me these two days. The key is the silver one, the smallest..."
Mu Xueyi was asking something, but Zhou Zhenyue suddenly stretched out her hand and took her into her arms.
Mu Xueyi was hugged, blinked, and asked softly:
"What's wrong?"
"This house... don't sell it in the future," Zhou Zhenyue said quietly in Mu Xueyi's ear, "We are old, let's live here. Live the old life of ordinary people."
Mu Xueyi smiled: "I like it very much? Although living is comfortable, express delivery and takeaway can't be delivered to your doorstep."
Zhou Zhenyue: "..."
Mu Xueyi: "The cheapest takeaway delivery fee starts at 8 yuan, and it's not very delicious. The delivery fee for a delicious restaurant is more than 20 yuan. For express delivery, you have to walk two kilometers. By the way, go to the nearest town to pick it up, and you have to pay an extra 1 yuan for each item. This is no more than a provincial capital city, and the express delivery is one day later..."
Zhou Zhenyue: "You don't know how to cook or order some takeaway."
Mu Xueyi: "You have to buy groceries to cook by yourself. Shopping for groceries can go further. You have to get up very early to catch the morning market. When it's late, only rotten vegetable leaves are left. Don't think about it in the supermarket. There are only small supermarkets selling cigarettes and alcohol, and there are only quick-frozen foods in the freezer. You will not like to eat them."
Zhou Zhenyue rubbed the top of Mu Xueyi's hair and sighed, "I wanted to look forward to the future with you, but you told me these trivial things."
Mu Xueyi followed with a light sigh: "But ordinary people's lives are just trivial."
Zhou Zhenyue smiled and shook her head.
Mu Xueyi: "My sister that month knew about these trivialities, would she still be willing to stay here with me like I just said?"
Zhou Zhenyue squeezed Mu Xueyi's face, and only said, "Leave the shovel you brought here. I think we can start digging our graves in these two days."
Mu Xueyi was amused and laughed: "What do you want to dig?"
Zhou Zhenyue asked her back: "What do you think?"
Mu Xueyi thought carefully.
"Um... I want to say that ordinary specifications are not acceptable. We have to dig out an underground palace according to the specifications of the ancient emperor’s tombs. You see, although the area of the land is limited, we can increase the depth. Excavate it, dig down sixty or seventy meters, and put the coffins in layers. I think the number of 8 floors is auspicious, I want to live on the 8th floor. You live on the 6th floor, and the number 6 is not wrong. When it’s okay, your ghost can still come upstairs to come and visit me..."
Zhou Zhenyue laughed: "Why are you digging a grave? Did you dig a Big Wild Goose Pagoda?"
Mu Xueyi laughed with her for a while and said:
"Okay, don't be ridiculous, let's eat first."
They put their things away, locked the door, held hands and set off toward the restaurant intimately.
It doesn't rain in Gaochuan today, and the sun is good.
On the gravel roads, there are fine pieces of warm light passing through the leaves.
The two people seemed to have completely forgotten those debts and entanglements.
Just simple and passionate, talking about love as before.
Not long after I left, I came to the hidden restaurant that Mu Xueyi said.
I found a place to sit down by the window.
Sitting face to face, when you look up, you can see how the other party is sorting the tableware.
The waiter came over to order them, saw Mu Xueyi, smiled and asked:
"Hey, have you been here for a long time?"
Mu Xueyi smiled politely:
"Well, I went back to my hometown before, this time I will stay for a few days."
The waiter looked at this strange face next week, and looked a little curious.
When Mu Xueyi saw this, the corners of her lips were slightly bent, as if a smirk came out.
suddenly……
Want to do something.
She suddenly said: "Sister."
Zhou Zhenyue didn't realize that Mu Xueyi was calling her for the first time. After all, even if Xueyi called her, she was also called "Sister Yue".
Until Mu Xueyi called to her again: "Sister?"
Zhou Zhenyue let out a dull "Huh?"
Mu Xueyi sighed long, stretched out her hand, and held Zhou Zhenyue's hand.
"Sister, you said, if Mom and Dad knew about the two of us, would they be so angry that they would be hospitalized?"
Her tone sounded full of worry.
The waiter who was helping them pour water immediately pricked his ears.
Fuck, there are melons.
Zhou Zhenyue was stunned for a moment.
But as smart as her, she quickly understood what Mu Xueyi wanted to do.
She coughed dryly, then answered faintly:
"Perhaps. After all, we are sisters of the same father and mother."
Waiter:"……?"
Mu Xueyi originally wanted to act in an elopement drama, but Zhou Zhenyue directly turned it into an ethical drama.
She immediately caught the play, covering her mouth, and in a blink of an eye she brought a little bit of crying:
"You said, we have all sneaked here, will they find us? If, if they find it, they will definitely break your leg, sister..."
Zhou Zhenyue patted her hand and comforted:
"Don't worry, I have already contacted a professional orthopedic doctor."
"What about the gynecologist? Have you contacted? The hospital where we used to do IVF can no longer be returned. The child in my stomach must be taken over by a reliable doctor. This is also my sister, your child. , We can do it, we must protect her."
Waiter:"……??"
"By the way, sister, I'm afraid you have to find a better brain doctor. We are sisters, and we have children from close relatives. In case the child born is mentally retarded, I am worried... is it..."
She choked and said sadly: "You have to be ready for craniotomy..."
Waiter:"???"
Zhou Zhenyue raised the water glass and covered the corners of her lips, which she couldn't hold back her smile.