Late at night, Rong Heng came out of his room and prepared to go downstairs to the convenience store to buy something.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he walked out of the room, he saw the door of the room opposite Mu Qian wide open.
In order to facilitate his care, Rong Heng's room was next to Mu Qian's. At this moment, he couldn't help but walk over and look into that room.
When he looked around, he saw Huo Jinxi sitting alone on a chair by the window. There was a bottle of wine and a glass on the small table in front of him. Most of the wine in the bottle was gone.
"Second brother?" Rong Heng was surprised.
When something like this happened today, Mu Qian's condition made everyone worried, and Rong Heng naturally did not dare to take it lightly.
But after Huo Jinxi arrived, he naturally breathed a sigh of relief - after all, Huo Jinxi was Mu Qian's closest person. If anything happened, the couple closed the door to comfort each other, and it didn't matter to him as an outsider.
He stayed in his room with peace of mind until this time. Unexpectedly, as soon as he went out, he found that Huo Jinxi had opened a room opposite Mu Qian?
Rong Heng looked at the closed door opposite, and then walked into Huo Jinxi's room, "Why aren't you over there?"
Huo Jinxi held the wine glass, still feeling the cold wind in the corners of her brows and eyes. Hearing this, she said lightly: "Didn't you say that she wants to be alone?"
"But you..." Rong Heng originally wanted to say that he thought he would be an exception, but after taking a look at Huo Jinxi's face, he swallowed those words back.
Judging from the current situation, if Huo Jinxi was the exception, the current situation would not be the same.
Rong Heng paused and then said: "I'm going to the convenience store. Is there anything you want me to buy for you?"
"Smoke." Huo Jinxi said.
Rong Heng was stunned, "Didn't you quit smoking?"
"Bought and prepared." Huo Jinxi replied.
Rong Heng hesitated for a moment, but finally said nothing and turned around and walked out.
When he returned to this room again, the door opposite was still closed, and the wine bottle in front of Huo Jinxi had reached its bottom.
Rong Heng took out the cigarettes from the bag and handed them to Huo Jinxi. Huo Jinxi took them and quickly opened them, taking out one and holding it between his fingers.
This set of movements was extremely skillful and natural, but it got stuck at the last step——
Huo Jinxi didn't have a lighter on him, so he couldn't light a cigarette.
Rong Heng watched silently, feeling for a moment that the lighter in his pocket was faintly hot.
But unexpectedly, Huo Jinxi did not ask him for a lighter, but rubbed the cigarette between his fingers and continued drinking.
"Second brother." Rong Heng then spoke again, "Do you want to ask the hotel to get another room card and go in to see her? After all, she has to be alone when such a big thing happens, just in case..."
"It's okay." Huo Jinxi said slowly, "She will figure it out."
As she said, she had lost so much in the past and people around her left one after another, but she had to bear them all.
What's more, Rong Qingzi's departure this time was not an accident, nor did it involve any pain. It could even be regarded as a kind of relief.
With Mu Qian's mind and temperament, she would not be unable to figure this out.
Hearing what he said, Rong Heng was a little stunned, "Then you..."
Since he is so sure that Mu Qian will figure it out, what does this situation mean now?
Huo Jinxi's eyes fell on the door, obviously not paying attention to what Rong Hengjiang said but didn't say. After a moment, he slowly spoke: "What do you think... Ye Jinfan?"
"Him?" Rong Heng didn't expect the topic to change so quickly. He thought for a while before speaking, "I've met him twice. He's a playboy. He's suave and eloquent. His sister Ye Xi is also..."
At this point, Rong Heng paused for a moment before adding, "Didn't he become the Lu family's prospective son-in-law? Why are you talking about him so suddenly?"
"Huo has fought with him several times recently." Huo Jinxi said slowly, "His behavior is quite interesting."
Rong Heng didn't know much about things in the mall, so he could only briefly chat with Huo Jinxi. At the end of the conversation, he suddenly remembered something.
"I saw that Lu Yuan and Mu Qian together today." Rong Heng said, "When did they become friends?"
Huo Jinxi listened but did not answer for a while.
Rong Heng added: "After all, she is from the Lu family. You told Mu Qian to stay away from her. What good can happen if she gets close to someone named Lu? Or she wants to use the previous method again.
Risking your own life to investigate the Lu family?"
Rong Heng analyzed the situation by himself, while Huo Jinxi didn't say anything more and just drank another glass of wine quietly.
…
At seven o'clock in the morning, Huo Jinxi had finished briefly washing up in the bathroom and was wiping his face when he suddenly heard a burst of light footsteps behind him.
Huo Jinxi took off the towel from his face and saw Mu Qian standing at the bathroom door in the mirror.
She must have cried, her eyes were slightly swollen, and her eye sockets were full of red bloodshot eyes, but her overall state was completely different from yesterday.
She was very calm yesterday, but that kind of calm, closed and reserved.
Today, she is peaceful, and this kind of peace has a vague air of extroversion, because the smile at the corner of her mouth does not seem to be forced.
Mu Qian looked at him and said softly: "Are you awake, or are you still awake?"
Huo Jinxi didn't answer her question. He just put down the towel in his hand and turned to look at her going out clothes. "Where are you going so early?"
"I want to go back to my old home and visit." Mu Qian replied, "Do you have time? Do you want to come together?"
…
More than ten years have passed by, and the Huai City today and the Huai City in Mu Qian's memory have undergone earth-shaking changes.
She followed her memory to find the place where she had lived before. After many twists and turns, she finally found the familiar alley on the road that had been renamed, and found the familiar courtyard house.
The city is developing rapidly, and many old buildings have been demolished and rebuilt. Fortunately, this street has been preserved as a cultural feature of the city.
As soon as he entered the door, Mu Qian saw a locust tree in the yard that was as thick as two people could hug each other, and immediately ran over quickly.
"This is it." Mu Qian turned around and said to Huo Jinxi, "My father made a swing for me on this tree..."
At this point, she suddenly paused, thought about it carefully, and then said: "No, that swing was actually given to my mother by my father. My mother always sat on the swing and read a book at that time. She could only sit on it when I came back from school.
Just touch the swing..."
After saying that, she ran to the two houses in the east wing and showed them to Huo Jinxi, "Look, we used to live here..."
Huo Jinxi walked forward slowly.
They were two rather dilapidated houses. It could be seen at a glance that they had not been repaired for many years. Even more than ten years ago, they were not necessarily a good place to live.
"I didn't expect your mother to be willing to live in such a place." Huo Jinxi said.
"I don't know how happy she is to live there." Mu Qian said, "Speaking of which, she also grew up in a big family, but she can endure any hardship for her father."