"I'm fine." Xi Mo lowered her head. She usually listens to Aunt Lan. When she is in front of Aunt Lan, she has a vague sense of cuteness that can't be seen elsewhere: "There are so many people in this world. With so many possible situations, Yesheng has a wide range of choices."
Aunt Lan glanced at her a few times: "You're a little weird today."
Xi Mo stopped talking.
Aunt Lan was in a good mood when she saw Ruan Yesheng, and continued to chat with Ruan Yesheng: "Anyway, no matter what boyfriend you want to have, you must take a good look at the other person's character, just being handsome is not enough, if you trust me , just tell me, and I’ll help you find out.”
"Thank you, Aunt Lan." In front of the elders, Ruan Yesheng's smile is always very warm, the most pleasing: "I must be trustworthy."
Xi Mo was listening, feeling a little bored.
Ruan Yesheng didn't deny it, and didn't say anything. He just wants to concentrate on his career in the near future, and has no plans to fall in love for the time being. Does Ruan Yesheng already have a candidate in mind? She remembered the scene of Ruan Yesheng picking petals for specimens in Heizhugou Town. Ruan Yesheng even looked a little shy at that time, tearing off the petals, saying "like me" and "don't like me" .
She asked Ruan Yesheng if she had someone she liked, and Ruan Yesheng actually said yes.
Xi Mo took a bite of the rice and chewed it hard.
"But I didn't expect that Xi Mo would bring you home to live in. You are the first friend she brought home. Others don't get this kind of treatment." Aunt Lan and Ruan Yesheng chatted a lot, and she couldn't help but sigh : "As for the fact that she didn't pay attention to your gifts and letters back then, Miss Ruan Ruan, don't blame her."
"...I didn't take it lightly." Xi Mo hurriedly explained: "I don't know."
"Not knowing is also a kind of not paying attention." Aunt Lan glanced at her: "Why don't you know? It's not that you don't care. You used to ignore Miss Ruan Ruan. You always served dim sum. Take a closer look. Can you tell me?" Do not you know?"
Xi Mo: "..."
This time she didn't explain anything.
Aunt Lan was right about this.
Aunt Lan slandered Xi Mo, but when facing Ruan Yesheng, she spoke for Xi Mo between the lines: "Miss Ruan Ruan, the past is in the past, Xi Mo didn't care at that time, it's also in the past Well, you are already such good friends now, this is fate, you should cherish this friendship. Of course, if Xi Mo bullies you again, just tell me, and I will help you teach her a lesson. "
When Ruan Yesheng heard the word "friendship", his heart ached slightly, and he smiled and said, "We will definitely cherish it."
She turned her head to look at Xi Mo: "Right, Xi Mo?"
Xi Mo was stunned by her sudden question, and after a while he replied vaguely: "... um."
"Miss Ruan Ruan, I'll cook tonight. If there's anything you want to eat, I'll prepare it." Aunt Lan warmly entertained her.
"Aunt Lan, I told Dad that I will go to the manor with Ye Sheng to have dinner tonight." Xi Mo said, "You haven't been to the manor for a while, so come with us too."
"Alright." Aunt Lan nodded, "It just so happens that I also meet my elder brother, it would be nice to have a meal."
She and Ding Ru are half brothers and sisters, called Brother Ding Ru, and Ding Ru and Xi Ji are old friends for many years, and they are siblings. Although Aunt Lan has no blood relationship with Xi Ji, she has always called Xi Ji her eldest brother. .
"I didn't find the box of Yesheng's gifts and letters that you helped me organize at the beginning." Xi Mo asked Aunt Lan again: "It may be the day my mother's belongings were dug up. The person moved it by mistake, and moved it to the room where my mother’s belongings were kept, I want to look for it, did you mark it on that box?”
"Is there such a thing?" Aunt Lan said in surprise, "Was it moved?"
Xi Mo told Aunt Lan the ins and outs of the unsuccessful search for gifts and letters.
Aunt Lan frowned: "I did mark it with a pen, and wrote Miss Ruan Ruan on the side of the box. I think you will know when you move out."
Joy suddenly appeared in Xi Mo's eyes. If so, it would be easier to find it. She quickly glanced at Ruan Yesheng, and Ruan Yesheng also looked at her with a smile.
Xi Mo wanted to find the gifts and letters that Ruan Yesheng gave her earlier, so the three of them set off early in the afternoon for Xi's Manor.
When he arrived, Xi Ji was videoing with someone in the study, with a serious expression on his face, he should be discussing something serious, Xi Mo didn't dare to go in and disturb him.
Aunt Zhou quietly told Xi Mo that Xi Ji was going to leave the manor for business in the afternoon, but knowing that Xi Mo would come over in the afternoon, he didn't go out. When Xi Mo heard it, there were not many obvious ups and downs on his face, but his heart seemed to be secretly uncovering the sugar jar, peeling off a candy with a rich milky fragrance and eating it.
After a while, Xi Ji came out from the study.
"Hello, Uncle Xi, I'm sorry to bother you again." Ruan Yesheng greeted Xi Ji very politely.
"Hi Xiao Ruan." Xi Ji nodded, "You are always welcome to be our guest."
"Brother." Aunt Lan also said with a smile.
Although Xi Ji is usually unsmiling, he treats Aunt Lan as his own sister. When talking to her, his tone is as casual as that of a family member: "Ask your brother if he is free at night. If he is free, come here for dinner."
"Okay brother, I'll ask him later."
"...Dad." Xi Mo was the last to speak.
"Hmm." Xi Ji looked at Xi Mo, as if he was sizing her up carefully: "Is the new movie about to start shooting?"
"Yes." When Xi Mo talked with Xi Ji now, he was far less nervous than before: "I have to go to Beijing soon. Director Gu's crew has strict time requirements, and I will spend most of my time in Beijing, so I can come back There are fewer opportunities.”
She wanted to see Xi Ji and have a meal with him before she left.
Xi Ji didn't say anything else, and his tone was very light: "You don't need to work too hard when filming."
This was probably the most gentle exhortation her father could utter. Apart from that, Xi Ji couldn't say anything else, but Xi Mo was already satisfied: "Thank you, Dad, I will take care of myself."
But Xi Ji looked at Ruan Yesheng: "Xi Mo doesn't know how to take care of herself."
Xi Mo didn't expect to be slapped in the face by her father as soon as she finished speaking: "..."
"Xiao Ruan, please help me when you and her are filming in Beijing." Xi Ji said.
"Don't worry, Uncle Xi." Ruan Yesheng said with a sweet mouth, "I will definitely take good care of her."
Xi Mo: "..."
Xi Ji is not the kind of person who can chat, so when he came out to see them, he had to go back to the study. Seeing that he was about to leave, Xi Mo hurriedly called him: "Dad, I want to find something in the room where my mother's belongings are kept."
Although she could go directly without any restrictions, she felt that she still had to tell Xi Ji.
Xi Ji's footsteps stopped suddenly.
After a while, Xi Ji turned around: "What are you looking for?"
Xi Mo flipped through the gifts and letters that Ruan Yesheng had sent, as well as Jian Xian’s relics that happened to be on the day of moving, and Aunt Lan packed those gifts and letters in a box, and finally moved the wrong one by accident. The series of events and Xi Ji briefly explained.
"I want to take those gifts and letters from Yesheng back." Xi Mo whispered.
"Go and find it." Xi Ji replied.
Xi Ji's complexion was a little gloomy, and he walked away after speaking. Xi Mo stood where he was, looking at his lonely figure, and understood that he was not in a good mood right now.
Every time Jian Xian was mentioned, Xi Ji became more silent.
Xi Mo didn't know the stories of Xi Ji and Jian Xian very well, most of them were heard from Ding Ru, but she knew that her father loved her mother deeply. From Ding Ru's words, we can know that Xi Ji and Jian Xian were in love and married back then, and the process was very bumpy. Xi Ji was still young at the time, and did not have such a big voice today. Because of family interests, he was arranged to marry another The eldest daughter of the family is married, but Xi Ji is not willing.
That eldest lady liked Xi Ji very much, almost fanatical back then.
But Xi Ji only has Jian Yuan in his heart.
Xi Ji and Jian Yuan overcome all difficulties and finally come together. However, that young lady did not live very well afterwards. Her family went bankrupt and she lost her trace.
"Ye Sheng." Xi Mo sighed inwardly, and called Ruan Yesheng.
Ruan Yesheng followed her to Jian Xian's relic room, and Aunt Lan was most familiar with the box, so she went with her. There are many relics left by Jian Xian back then, each of which has been properly kept, and there are several rooms where these relics are kept.
The three of them looked at each other.
Most of the relics are packed in boxes wrapped in film, which can prevent dust and water, and better preserve the relics, and those boxes are also padded with spacers for storage, and they are neatly stacked there.
The boxes were all about the same size, and they focused on which box had "Miss Ruan Ruan" written on the side.
Aunt Lan is most familiar with the box that contains gifts and letters. When she found the third room, she was the first to find it, and said in surprise, "It's right here, come quickly."
Xi Mo hurried over with Ruan Yesheng.
The two of them removed the transparent waterproof film on the top. Aunt Lan opened the box with a utility knife, and saw four gift boxes of different styles inside, and a pile of letters stacked beside it.
After going through many twists and turns, Xi Mo was finally able to see these gifts and letters, and stood by the box in a daze for a while.
Ruan Yesheng also stared blankly at the box.
After such a long time, Xi Mo finally received it.
Xi Mo looked at the gift first, and found that there was indeed Ruan Yesheng's mark on the gift box. This mark was designed by her and Ruan Yesheng when they were in college. She didn't want to design it, and found it annoying and a waste of time. It was Ruan Yesheng. Do not pester her.
Then he took out the thick stack of letters and looked at the envelopes. It was indeed as Ruan Yesheng said, with flowers corresponding to the twenty-four solar terms painted by Ruan Yesheng.
There are a total of twenty-four envelopes. Ruan Yesheng sent a total of seventeen letters back then, and the remaining few were given to Shen Qing. Shen Qing did not write letters to Xi Mo as a fan, and used up one An envelope with a painting of acacia cassia flower.
The envelope says solar terms, the handwriting is beautiful, and the strokes of the flowers are not mature. Ruan Yesheng first asked a friend from the art department to design it, and then compared the drawing by himself. The lines are even a little trembling. .
But Xi Mo held it in his hands this time, but he felt an incomparable abundance and weight.
Maybe it's the passing time.
Maybe it's the mood swings.
Or... something else.
"Finally found them all." Aunt Lan stared at Xi Mo: "This time I have to take it home and keep it safe, so I can't lose it again."
"...I know." Xi Mo said in a low voice, "I will keep it very well."
Ruan Yesheng laughed when she heard that she used "special".
"It took you so long to receive the gift, you have to open it." Aunt Lan urged Xi Mo: "Quickly check to see if it is damp."
"Shall we dismantle it now?" Xi Mo was a little embarrassed.
She glanced at Ruan Yesheng, who just stared at her intently.
"Of course." Aunt Lan said, "Aren't you in a hurry when you see these gifts and letters? You are heartless, why are you acting like this?"
Xi Mo: "..."
She was in a hurry and wanted to take it apart immediately.
But Aunt Lan is here, she doesn't know why, she always feels restrained, as if she is being watched by an elder.
"Aunt Lan, since you've found it, you've worked hard, go back and rest first." Xi Mo hurriedly said, "Ye Sheng and I are right here, tear it down immediately."
Aunt Lan was indeed a little tired. The presents and letters were finally found, and she felt relieved. As for opening presents and reading letters, she did not join in the fun. She had to leave some space for them young people, so she said : "Then I'll go out and have some tea."
As she said, she walked a few steps, turned her head when she reached the door, and asked: "Take it apart quickly, you understand?"
"I know, I know." Xi Mo said hastily.
Aunt Lan left, only Ruan Yesheng and Xi Mo were left in Jian Xian's relic room, and it was quiet.
"Which one do you want to dismantle first?" Ruan Yesheng held a utility knife in his hand and asked with a smile when he saw that Xi Mo still hadn't responded for a long time.
"According to the time." Xi Mo was inexplicably nervous, but with great anticipation, and said, "Start with the first gift you gave me."
"That's this." Ruan Yesheng pointed to one of the flat boxes.
Xi Mo took the utility knife from Ruan Yesheng's hand, and carefully cut the seal with the blade. Maybe it's been sealed for too long, these gift boxes all have the smell of the old days, Xi Mo has a cleanliness habit, she shouldn't like this kind of musty smell, but she didn't object at all, on the contrary I think this taste is very ironic.
Is there anything more satisfying than seeing you again
Back then, she passed these gift letters and didn't pay attention.
Now, they are back in their hands again.
Xi Mo opened the first gift box and found a vinyl CD inside. She took it out and looked at the cover of the vinyl CD. This vinyl contained some classical music that Xi Mo liked very much, mainly piano music.
"I bought this with Aunt Lan. I asked her what you like, and she said you like this out-of-print vinyl CD." Ruan Yesheng was a little dazed when he saw the gift he had prepared reappear. , as if the hardships on the day of buying gifts are vivid: "It's very hard to find, I found a lot of vinyl collection stores."
"Do you like it?" After so long, Ruan Yesheng finally asked her face to face.
Holding the vinyl CD in his hand, Xi Mo looked into Ruan Yesheng's eyes.
"... I like it." Xi Mo's voice was very soft.
"It's fine if you like it." Ruan Yesheng's eyes also seemed to have the light of going back in time, and there was a slight touch of greenness that only existed in college when he moved his hands, and even the buds that he liked in his heart seemed to have just sprouted. Tender, said: "... you can remove one."
Xi Mo carefully put the vinyl CD aside, and opened the second gift.
This gift is very strange. It looks like a bronze ware, carved into the shape of a lotus flower, and its size is also very small, about the size of an egg. However, the petals and textures of the lotus flower are very finely carved. Covered with some patina.
But Xi Mo was very impressed with this.
"This..." She was a little stunned: "You gave me this?"
"Yes." Ruan Yesheng smiled and said: "I saw that you were very interested in this at the time, so I asked my mother to ask for it. My mother gave this to me, and I wanted to give it to you."
Ruan Yesheng's mother is a scientific researcher and often travels away on business. When she comes back, she will always bring some very interesting things to Ruan Yesheng. Most of them are given to her by local people when she is away.
Once Ruan Yesheng's mother brought back a lot of gadgets, all of which Ruan Yesheng had never seen before. She was very happy and took a lot of photos, showed them to Xi Mo, and asked her which one she liked.
Xi Mo glanced at those photos and said, "It's boring."
But Ruan Yesheng noticed her gaze, she clearly stared at one of the photos for a long time, as if she had never seen such a thing before, and was a little curious.
That photo was taken of this bronze lotus.
"You were interested in this lotus at the time, right?" Ruan Yesheng asked her with a smile, "You're just being stubborn."
Xi Mo lowered his eyebrows and admitted: "... yes. My mother is in the antique business, and she has quite a few bronze wares like this. I saw quite a few of them when I was a child, and I really like them."
"You have a good eye, my mother said it might be an antique." Ruan Yesheng teased her.
"Isn't that very precious?" Xi Mo asked her.
"It's not expensive. Someone gave it to my mother. It doesn't cost money." Ruan Yesheng moved two chairs over, sat on them and talked with Xi Mo, and it was also convenient for unwrapping the gift: "I'm talking nonsense about antiques. Old gadgets, otherwise if they were really antiques, why would others give them to my mother."
Xi Mo nodded, relieved: "Then I will accept it."
"Even if it's really an antique." Ruan Yesheng stared at her: "I'll give it to you too."
Xi Mo was stunned, and continued to unwrap the third gift box without saying a word.
This time it is a dolphin cloth doll, because of the material, after so long, it has not been washed and dried, and it smells a faint musty smell.
"You should like this, right?" Ruan Yesheng asked her, "You even have a dolphin-shaped faucet."
"... I like it." Xi Mo said again: "I'll wash it."
"But you've already passed the age of receiving puppets." Ruan Yesheng chuckled: "At that time you were only a student, and it was normal to receive a puppets as gifts, but now it's been so long, who told you It was not dismantled sooner.”
"Who said the age." Xi Mo was not happy.
"Okay, I haven't passed." The honey in Ruan Yesheng's eyes was tinged with charm, and it slowly flowed.
Look at the fourth gift box.
The gift box was very light, as if there was nothing in it, Xi Mo felt a little strange, so he quickly opened it, his expression froze.
Inside was a ticket.
She picked it up and saw that it was a ticket to visit the aquarium, and the date on it was signed very far away, and the visiting time at that time had already passed. There are no creases on the tickets, but they are faintly old. Nothing can withstand the push and push of time.
"I... wanted to invite you to the aquarium, so I bought two tickets." Ruan Yesheng said, "I thought you would open it and see."
Xi Mo saw that there was only one ticket, and the other one must have been in Ruan Yesheng's hands at the time, she thought of something, her heart tightened suddenly, and she asked Ruan Yesheng, "Have you gone?"
"I've gone." Ruan Yesheng's smile was self-deprecating: "Actually, I don't know if you will come, but I still waited for you at the door, but in the end I didn't."
Xi Mo was silent, but his heart became more and more entangled.
She imagined the lonely scene of Ruan Yesheng waiting for her at the door, and a surge of regret surged out from the bottom of her heart.
"But I think the chances of you not coming will be higher." Ruan Yesheng said: "After all, a few days before I gave this gift, I said I wanted to invite you to the aquarium to see dolphins, and you were so angry that you said that the There is an animal show, so let me know. In fact, the aquarium I am going to has no animal show, so I bought a ticket and put it in a gift box for you. I will take you to see it when the time comes. Seeing is believing. "
Xi Mo remembered the day when Ruan Yesheng came to live in her house, Ruan Yesheng told her the nature of the aquarium. She had already regretted it at that time, knowing that she had wronged Ruan Yesheng back then.
But at this moment, her mood was far more than simple regret.
She didn't go at first.
"You... How long have you been waiting for me?" Xi Mo's voice almost trembled a little.
"I forgot." Ruan Yesheng blinked, not sure if what she said was true or not: "But it must have been a long time, a long time."
Xi Mo knew that it must be true for a long time.
Ruan Yesheng is such a stubborn person, otherwise he wouldn't always be waiting for her at the intersection when he was in college, knowing that he might not be able to wait for her often.
"I... I'm sorry." Xi Mo held the old aquarium ticket in his hand, feeling that the ticket was so heavy.
The atmosphere was a bit dignified, Ruan Yesheng couldn't bear Xi Mo's sadness, so he hurriedly changed the subject and urged her: "The gift is finished, read the letter, there are so many."
Xi Mo glanced at her and took the stack of letters over.
"Don't worry, it's definitely not as much as your talkative fan last time. I'll just say a few words." Ruan Yesheng didn't say that Shen Qingbie was that fan, but wanted to blame Shen Qingbie Come out to tease Xi Mo.
"If the solar term comes first, does time also come first?" Xi Mo asked her.
"Yes."
According to the order of the solar terms on the envelope, Xi Mo opened the "Li Chun" first. It seems that Li Chun corresponds to the winter jasmine.
Ruan Yesheng wasn't talking nonsense, her letters were really simple, and they were all unimportant bits and pieces. These bits and pieces hid in time and bloomed quietly, but it was a pity that Xi Mo missed her most youthful flowering period.
"Xi Mo, Mr. Wang told me today that I will play the second female role in a new drama. I am very happy. I will ask you, the female first, to teach me more. Now I have some free time every afternoon. Are you free? If so Kong, let's go to the drama club to rehearse privately, what do you think?"
It's a pity that Xi Mo didn't reply Ruan Yesheng's question back then.
She did not have a private rehearsal with Ruan Yesheng, but only participated in the whole class rehearsal when Teacher Wang was present.
Xi Mo read one by one, and she seemed to see the track that Ruan Yesheng walked back then. Ruan Yesheng's letters were really very few, just a few sentences.
"Xi Mo, I bought you a vinyl CD today, I hope you like it."
"Xi Mo, I like dolphins, will you like it?"
"Xi Mo, I saw you in the study room today. I sat next to you, but you didn't pay much attention to me. If I sat next to you to study, would you feel disturbed?"
"Xi Mo, I always tell you these boring things, do you think I'm annoying? I'll tell you personally, I'm afraid you will be more annoying, if it becomes text without sound, will it be better for you to read? ?”
"Xi Mo..."
"Xi Mo..."
Ruan Yesheng's handwriting is very beautiful, every "Xi Mo" she wrote, skipped in front of Xi Mo's eyes at this moment, and Xi Mo even seemed to be able to hear Ruan Yesheng's voice back then.
"Xi Mo, today I want to ask you to go to the aquarium, but you said that there are animal performances in the aquarium, and you are angry. Calm down, I am afraid that you will be angry again, so I should write a letter to say, there is really no animal performance in that aquarium , It’s public welfare. I’m a volunteer inside. I want to go there with you to see the dolphins. You will understand when you see it. I bought a ticket for you, and I will wait for you at the gate. Will you come? ?”
"I wish you could come."
The text set aside the time and rushed towards Xi Mo. Time seemed to go back, and she seemed to see the white dress Ruan Yesheng wore in college. At that time, Ruan Yesheng was far less charming than the smile she is now, more of a kind of youthful innocence, brimming with youth, and her smile was even sweeter.
Ruan Yesheng wanted her to come.
She didn't come.
Xi Mo's fingers almost trembled a little, feeling a layer of mist in front of his eyes, he hurriedly turned his face away, and blinked vigorously, for fear that Ruan Yesheng would see it.
"Xi Mo?" Ruan Yesheng felt that something was wrong with Xi Mo.
Xi Mo lowered his head, raised his face after a while, and said, "I've read all the letters. But... there are only sixteen. Didn't you say there were seventeen?"
Ruan Yesheng was taken aback, quickly took the letters and counted them, and found that there were indeed sixteen letters.
"Is there another one?" Xi Mo suppressed the regret in his heart and asked her in an extremely soft voice.
"I don't know either." Ruan Yesheng was also a little anxious: "I really wrote seventeen letters to you, all of which were handed over."
The two of them searched carefully in the box, even searched for the gaps, but there was nothing. Xi Mo suddenly felt a little depressed, and sat on the chair without saying a word for a long time.
"It's fine if you can't find it." Ruan Yesheng smiled and comforted her: "It's just this one, everything else is here, and all the presents are here too."
Xi Mo stood up: "Is it possible that when the box was brought in, it accidentally leaked out, somewhere in this room?"
"How is it possible?" Ruan Yesheng looked at her dazed look, and wanted to laugh even more: "This box has never been broken, how could it leak out."
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This chapter is really sour and sweet.
"I liked you when I was young. Even if you didn't respond, I still love you after so long, and you finally received the love I had when I was young."
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