Just lost.
"Yueyue, who's calling?"
"Chu Zhiyi, you asked me to go out for dinner, but I refused."
"Just go, kid. They will take good care of you." Mother Lan said to Qi Yue while she was busy in the kitchen.
"Mom, you don't know, Chu Zhiyi is very nagging, don't pay attention to him, it's okay."
"That's right, sister, you just go, I'll stay at home with my aunt." Qi Jia agreed ignorantly.
Qi Yue fought back, not wanting to be outdone: "Well, your messages never stop. Look, your phone is lighting up again."
"No, that's all work news. I'm a good kid who loves to work."
"Well, sister, this is the first time I've seen someone reply to a work message and I'm secretly happy about it. Your company's humanistic spirit is really great."
Qi Jia raised his little fist and hit Qi Yue: "I told you not to say anything about me, I told you not to say anything about me."
"If you two have something to do, both of you should go. I'm already a grown-up and can't take care of myself."
Qi Yue and Qi Jia looked at each other and smiled knowingly. They both walked into the kitchen, picked up the dishes and chopsticks, and began to set the table and prepare to eat.
Mother Lan smiled dotingly and walked into the kitchen again.
A day passed just like that, an ordinary and mundane day.
At night, the two sisters lay in bed under the twinkling stars, talking endlessly, as if they were back in their childhood, an age when language expression was still unclear, but they could always understand what the other wanted to say.
This is the "tacit understanding" from childhood to adulthood, which is nurtured by time.
"Sister, although the surrounding facilities of Jinshucheng Community are very complete and the transportation is very convenient, there is a new high-rise building across the street. In the past year, when there are strong winds, dust will be blown over here. Don't you mind the dust? You are a person with mild mysophobia."
"I'll be staying in Mujin this year, so I won't be living there yet. Also, I like the name of the small high-rise building across the street: 'Flowers Along the Way.'"
"It goes well with my name, so if you have to choose, I can wait."
"Anyway, this isn't the first time I'm waiting." Qi Yue thought about it but didn't say it out loud.
Yangbin Railway Station.
Chu Zhiyi fiddled with the suitcase: "These five days are too short, we have to go back again."
Looking at Qi Yue who was silent, Chu Zhiyi snapped his fingers in Qi Yue's ear.
"I heard it, I just wonder how long it will take for me to come back."
"It's only about 500 days. It's not far away."
"It's not that far, after all, there are still more than four hundred days and nights."
Dudu
Qi Yue opened her phone, and a photo of Li Li and her senior schoolmate having dinner filled the entire screen.
With the text, "See you again."
For some reason, my nose felt sore. I haven't seen my senior sister for a long time. Because she was very nice to Qiyue, Qiyue learned to be a good senior sister and followed her example to take care of her younger brothers and sisters.
This is also the reason why even though Qi Yue has worked in Mu Jin for two years, even though new people and young people have come, he has not assigned his work under the pretext of "training".
"You are young, you have a high salary, and you are capable." Qi Yue seems to have gotten used to the PUA of the past two years. She still doesn't like to hear it, but has learned to be "silent" and seems to have always treated it with "silence."
"It turns out that this is a cloudy day for me alone, and they are still here."
"If you are not in a hurry, wait for me, wait until the rain is over, wait until I hear the rain stop, wait until I see the wind stop."
It has been a month since I went on a business trip to Mujin. I can’t help but lament how fleeting time is.
"Leader, what have you been doing recently?"
Since he was busy last time, Lin Lei seemed to have returned to the rhythm of "good morning" and "good night".
"Look at my working posture. What do you think? Do you want to be a decorator? Can I be your assistant in the future?"
"I think you're not good enough, not professional enough."
"I try to stay as professional as possible. You see, the books I'm reading right now are all related to your interior design."
As he spoke, he sent a picture of a book.
I'm really learning again.
"So, what are you doing now? You're not in sales anymore, you're moving towards the construction industry." Qi Yue joked.
Sometimes, Lin Lei cannot be described as "smart" or "stupid", and it may be that he does it "intentionally".
"Leader, please don't be angry when I tell you what I'm doing."
"You're crazy. What's so good about that that I should be angry about?" Qi Yue thought to herself.
"The paint on her studio wall is peeling off. I'm here to renovate it."
Seeing that Qi Yue didn't reply, Lin Lei sent another message.
"Look at you, I wanted to not tell you, but I have to be honest with you."
"Boss, I didn't do anything. I just came to decorate it. Although the house is not big, I own a part of it after all. Can you help me?"
"Of course, if there is a problem with the house decoration, it is necessary to repair it in time. Don't wait for small problems to become big problems." Qi Yue answered from a professional perspective.
"Then leader, aren't you angry?"
"Why should I be angry? It's your family affair anyway."
"Look at you, you're just angry, and you say it's my family matter?"
"If it's not your family affair, then is it mine?" Qi Yue felt confused.
"Don't question the analysis of a professional. Really, it's just a paint job, very simple. When you're up there, be careful."
A few minutes later, Lin Lei sent a message. Qi Yue took a look at it but did not reply.
"You know, you're very sensible like this, so sensible that it makes people feel distressed."
"Good night. I'm so tired. I'm afraid I'll fall asleep so I'm reporting in advance."
This was the last time Qi Yue received a "good night." After this incident, reporting to the police seemed to have become a thing of the past. In the days that followed, Lin Lei simply sent messages normally, saying whatever he wanted to say.
Qiyue, just listen.
As the end of the year approaches, I feel more and more stressed. There is endless work to do and endless knowledge to learn. Every day is extremely fulfilling and busy.
Looking at the mock test paper in front of him, Qi Yue fell into deep thought again.
"After all this hard work, will you get the results you expect? What if it's all in vain?"
"I just want to find my former self and let her tell me how to continue in the future. I want an answer."
The two little monsters in my brain seem to be fighting again. They always have different opinions. One is rational and the other is emotional.
"It turns out that the bar exam and the master's degree in law are really two completely different things." After thinking about it, Qi Yue continued to struggle hard in the sea of questions.
At this time, Ayi called via video to check on Qiyue regularly to see if she was studying hard.
"I told you a long time ago, but you just wouldn't listen. Why are you so stubborn?"
"Isn't it true that I just passed the mental exam and then I can continue with my studies?"
"You're almost discouraged by the blow now."
"Oh my god, this is so hard."
"I told you that you didn't choose the easy option and insisted on choosing the difficult one."
Qi Yue suddenly sat up straight and said to A Yi in the video: "Don't worry, I can definitely do it."
After saying that, he hung up the video and continued with the strategy of solving a large number of questions.
After hanging up the video, Ayi shook his head helplessly: "I really don't know who gave you the confidence."
I don’t know how many days I have studied from 6 am to 10 pm, but the exam is just a few days away. I will win soon, right?
"Will persistence guarantee victory?"
While Qi Yue was working hard on her homework, she did not forget to reply to Lin Lei's messages one by one.
"It's not important news, why should I reply?" Even Qi Yue didn't realize that she seemed to care about these "unimportant" news now.
Sometimes, if I don’t see the “good night”, I will wake up from time to time in the middle of the night, and check through my sleepy eyes to see if there are any messages that I haven’t replied to in time.
"After all, I care about it."
~~~
On the day of the exam, Qi Yue walked into the examination room and took a look at her phone before handing it in. There were no unanswered messages.
"It's the end of the year, and everyone is busy."
Turn off your phone and put it in the designated area.
You, Lan Qiyue, are still so naive. You don't look at the obvious answer and still choose to believe it. If you don't lie to yourself, who would you lie to?
During the exam, in the whole classroom, no one knew me and I didn’t know you. All I could hear was the teacher’s voice and the rustling sound of writing. It seemed that everyone was determined to pass.
After the exam, when I got my phone, the first thing I did was to check if there were any unanswered messages. The phone interface was still clean.
Just as Qi Yue was walking alone in the county town where the exam was held, she received the news she had been waiting for.
"Leader, you must have done well in the exam. I will prepare a big surprise for you then."
"Another surprise! I haven't even seen the last one yet, and here comes another one! Lin Lei has so many surprises."
"I don't know the result yet." After Qi Yue replied, Lin Lei said a few more random words, but the feeling of the chat seemed to have changed.
Perfunctory and coping are the most intuitive feelings.
Qi Yue went to the local cinema by herself and watched the movie that Lin Lei had said he would accompany her to see.
"You probably won't watch it with me."
The day after the exam, Qi Yue returned to Yangbin. Lan's mother took her daughter to handle the transfer of ownership with the landlord and used almost all of their savings to buy this small house.
Qi Yue also asked her mother why she was in such a hurry to buy a house. There were only two people in the family, and she wanted to spend so much money on it.
Lan's mother only replied with two sentences, one of which was: "Because you are Lan Qiyue, the daughter of Lan Min and me, our sweetheart, the apple of our eye."
"It turns out that I have always been a child wrapped in love. Now I am just lost."
It's amazing that everything seems to be moving in a good direction. Qi Yue's life remains the same as usual, and she goes to work and study as usual.
Anxiety and pessimism seem to have gradually eased. It seems that coming to Mujin is really a good choice.
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