After Lin Minjun saw off the last table of guests, she went to clean up the table, but when she was halfway through, Luo Lin snatched it away without saying a word.

Lin Minjun held the rag tightly and refused to give it to him. "I don't need your help. I really don't need your help."

"Aren't we friends? It's only right to help friends to the best of our ability." Luo Lin also had a tough attitude.

Lin Minjun had no choice but to let go. She didn't know what to say to Luo Lin for a moment, so she went into the kitchen to wash the dishes. Halfway through, Luo Lin came again and took the dirty dishes. This time he directly found an excuse for himself, "Girls' hands can't hold water, it will become rough, I'll do it."

Lin Minjun held the bowl, and said in a very angry tone, "Luo Lin, I have said this many times, we really..."

Before he finished speaking, Luo Lin lowered his head and said in a low voice, almost pleading, "Ajun, don't be so cruel to me. Don't reject me so quickly."

The words that were on the tip of Lin Minjun's tongue suddenly stopped coming out. If it was a stranger, or Lu Deping, she would have refused without hesitation and told him to stay away.

But this is Luo Lin. In her heart, Luo Lin is as important as friends like Zhao Ning. They once supported each other and walked out of the deep mountains of Yunnan. In the snowy and icy weather, she didn't have the strength to fetch water, and Luo Lin helped her fetch water. Apart from the awkward relationship of pursuer and being pursued, they are also good friends who can rely on each other in life and death.

Because they were friends, Lin Minjun didn't want to be perfunctory or keep him hanging. She took a deep breath and said, "But I won't accept you."

Luo Lin: "Why are you so sure? Do you find me annoying? So annoying that you don't even want to give me a chance to pursue you?"

He lowered his head. The clothes on his body were very valuable and the corners of his clothes fell into the dirty water. He took them out without saying a word and continued to wash the dishes for Lin Minjun.

He asked again, "Is there no hope at all?"

Lin Minjun didn't know how to answer this question. She couldn't give an answer. To say that she hated Luo Lin was impossible. She just regarded him as a friend, an old friend. When Luo Lin suddenly confessed his love to her that day, she was shocked. Later, after thinking about it carefully, she didn't reject Luo Lin.

But I can’t say I like it.

The reason she had been rejecting Luo Lin was because she didn't want to get married. She had already said this, but Luo Lin didn't believe it and took it as an excuse.

Just when Lin Minjun was hesitant, Luo Lin threw another question, "Actually, I didn't come here today to ask you for an answer, I just want to discuss something with you."

Lin Minjun nodded.

Luo Lin: "You know I'm preparing for the college entrance exam now. It will start in two months. The mock exam results are out now. My family is helping me choose a school. With my scores and the major I want to study, I can go to Harbin Institute of Technology or stay in North City. If I have any hope, I will stay in North City."

What this means is that if there is hope with Lin Minjun, then stay in the north city to study at university; if not, then go far to the northeast and go to Harbin Institute of Technology.

Lin Minjun's scalp tightened. "It's your own choice for this important life event. Go to whichever school is good."

"The two schools are similar, so I want to know what you think. Is there really no possibility between us?" Luo Lin asked immediately.

Lin Minjun didn't want to make choices for other people's lives. She wanted to refuse directly, "I don't have any ideas. I don't want to get married or date..."

"Why? Jun, why don't you get married?" Luo Lin suddenly said.

Lin Minjun was stunned for a moment.

Luo Lin was not discouraged, and smiled and said, "You always told me that you would not get married. Why?"

Lin Minjun thought for a while: "I'm afraid. You see, I'm alone in Beicheng now. I don't have a natal family. If I get married and I quarrel with my husband, I won't be able to find anyone to help me. Of course, I still have friends like you, but everyone will get married in the future. Have your own family, no Maybe you can help me for the rest of your life. Besides, I think getting married is meaningless. Living with my father-in-law and mother-in-law, I am just being ordered by others all the time. I feel aggrieved and can't even say a good word. If I don't get married, I will make my own money. Flowers, how comfortable they are.”

She was talking about her experiences in her previous life, which was her life after she married Lu Deping in her previous life. It was boring.

In addition to being unable to have children, she was also troubled by the trivialities between her husband's and her own families.

Luo Lin smiled and said, "You are right."

Lin Minjun thought he understood her, so she nodded and began to make up a lie without blinking, "Well, actually I've figured it out a long time ago, because I have a distant cousin who can't have children. After she got married, she was constantly nagged by her in-laws and forced to look for folk remedies for having children everywhere. She suffered a lot. That's fine, but people outside will also point fingers at me when they know about it. I think this kind of life is meaningless, so I won't get married and won't have children."

She raised her head and looked at Luo Lin with big eyes. "Now you know, so don't say things like hope or not in the future. I am really afraid of getting married."

She thought Rowling would give up and never mention it again.

But no, Luo Lin got to the bottom of it and finally saw Lin Minjun's fear. He lowered his head to wash the dishes again: "Let's go ice skating together tomorrow? If we have time after skating, we can also go to the movies."

"I told you, there's no chance for us." Lin Minjun was helpless and looked at Luo Lin in confusion. She didn't know what he was up to. Even after she said so much, why didn't he give up?

Luo Lin knew she was going to refuse, and he was not disappointed at all. "It's not a date, and it's not just the two of us. We're all going out together. I'm inviting everyone to come out and have fun, just to relax. We've only been together once in such a long time since returning to the capital, so this is a good time to take advantage of the break to relax."

He thought for a moment and then said, "Ah Jun, come as well. Just treat it as the last time. If you still don't want to accept me after tomorrow, I won't bother you anymore. We'll still be friends."

Having said that, Lin Minjun actually felt relieved. All she wanted now was to get through tomorrow so that she could formally reject Luo Lin.

She was not worried about what Luo Lin would do to her. Firstly, all the educated youth would go, so if she called out, someone would come to help. Secondly, she believed in Luo Lin. Luo Lin was not that kind of person. He had his own pride and self-esteem. If he said he would not get involved, then he would never get involved again. He was not the kind of person with no bottom line.

"Okay." Lin Minjun agreed.

Luo Lin had just finished washing the last bowl, so he got up to help clean up and got on his bike: "Then let's meet tomorrow? I'll bring someone to pick you and Zhao Ning up tomorrow. Remember to tell Zhao Ning tonight."

Lin Minjun stood at the door of the store, smiled and nodded: "See you tomorrow."

In the blink of an eye, not long after Luo Lin left, Zhao Ning came back. Lin Minjun closed the store with her and walked to the back of the shop.

Now there is a single bed in the back, and next to the bed is a small desk full of books, with the light bulb emitting a dim light.

Zhao Ning had to review as soon as he got back. He was exhausted. When Lin Minjun said that he could go ice skating tomorrow, he suddenly came to life, "Really?!"

"Really? Luo Lin said he would come to pick us up tomorrow morning." Lin Minjun nodded.

"Oh, Luo Lin invited us." Zhao Ning chuckled, stretched out his voice, and blinked his eyes in a somewhat ambiguous way, "Is he pursuing you? I heard it before."

But after laughing, Zhao Ning said sincerely: "That's great! I think this is a good thing. If you can be with Luo Lin, I'm really happy for you. We all know each other well and what kind of person each other is. Luo Lin is not like Deping, who has many tricks. He is not that cunning. To be able to train him to be like this, his family must be good, unlike Lu Deping's mother and sister. The most important thing is, if you can be together, Jun, you will have a family."

She touched Lin Minjun's head and said with a smile.

But Lin Minjun was not happy, and her expression was a little melancholy.

Zhao Ning paused, "What's wrong? Why do you look unhappy to me?"

Lin Minjun told the truth: "But I don't want to get married."

Not to mention this era, even in a few decades, if a woman says she doesn't want to get married, it will be considered as a heinous act in the eyes of others. There are also some people who will jump up and down and curse at a woman if she says she doesn't want to get married, as if she has violated the law of heaven.

Zhao Ning didn't have so many thoughts, but she was also brought up with such an education after all, so she was a little surprised: "Why not get married? Is it because of Lu Deping? Not everyone is like their family."

Lin Minjun didn't want to expose her wounds again, so she asked softly, "Under what circumstances would a woman who has been hurt change her mind and want to get married?"

Zhao Ning said without hesitation: "The person must be good enough and impress her enough, just like Luo Lin did to you."

"What if this person turns out to be not good in the future? Does that prove that her decision to get married was wrong?" Lin Minjun asked again.

Now it was Zhao Ning's turn to be confused. "What does this mean? How could Luo Lin be bad?"

Lin Minjun smiled and said, "You review it first. I will figure this out myself."

On the way home, Lin Minjun kept reflecting.

Luo Lin suddenly came to pursue her. To be honest, it would be a lie to say that she was not moved. She had been tempted and thought it would be great if she could just say yes. Luo Lin was a very nice, gentle and considerate person. It was a pity to miss him.

But after thinking about it carefully, Lin Minjun felt that something was wrong.

In her previous life, she married Lu Deping because he was good to her, but it was a wrong decision and she was not happy with Lu Deping.

If she changes her mind and enters into marriage again because someone is good and considerate enough to her, and if this person turns out to be a bad person in the future, it means that she has made another wrong decision.

So what's the point of being reborn? It's just repeating the same thing over and over again.

So when she came back, she thought to herself that she would never get married.

Now she can't help but hesitate. Is this choice right or wrong? Will she regret it in the future?

Lin Minjun didn't know either. She returned to the courtyard in such confusion, said hello to Erwa, and went into her own small room.

Lin Minjun kept thinking about this problem when she was sleeping.

She doesn't want to marry someone just because he is good enough to her.

But she didn't know whether she would regret choosing not to get married for the rest of her life, or whether she would feel sorry when she thought back to this moment in the future.

She kept thinking about this question over and over again.

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