Not Spare the Years

After the day at the amusement park, Mu Xueyi always felt that her feelings for Zhou Zhenyue had changed a little.

Before, she knew that she liked Zhou Zhenyue, but her relationship was more about guilt and make up for her previous life. Therefore, before Zhou Zhenyue said her forgiveness, no matter how much she likes her, she will respect her wishes and keep a distance from her.

But now it's different.

She began to covet everything about Zhou Zhenyue.

Covet her tenderness, covet her protection. Even looking at her fingers holding the cup, she remembered the way she stood up holding her elbows that day.

Just thinking about it makes me go crazy.

Every night, Zhou Zhenyue would still accompany her to build blocks. Although there are more than 7,000 building blocks, it doesn't take so many days to fight. Mu Xueyi is deliberately slowing down the progress, and sometimes he will secretly dismantle the assembled pieces while Zhou Zhenyue is not paying attention.

Because when building blocks, it is when they are closest.

Zhou Zhenyue was behind her, every breath and every sigh seemed to be in her ear.

It's a pity, no matter how much you drag, the castle is slowly assembled.

And the time... finally came to the eleventh day.

Mu Xueyi never contacted Mu Ruqing again, she knew that Mu Ruqing would not show mercy to her. As long as the quotation form is not received, on the eleventh day, Mu Ruqing will definitely let Zhou Fengnian know everything.

When they were eating in the morning, the old man didn't go downstairs.

Mu Xueyi had already guessed the reason why the old man did not go downstairs. She put down her chopsticks and looked at Zhou Zhenyue who was eating scrambled eggs with her head down, her eyes full of reluctance.

Mu Xueyi: "Ayue."

Zhou Zhenyue: "Huh?"

Mu Xueyi: "Building blocks... I finished it last night."

Zhou Zhenyue: "Well." Mu Xueyi: "Go back and put it in the compartment on the top shelf of the bookshelf. I've seen it, and only that place can fit it."

Zhou Zhenyue: "Okay."

Mu Xueyi: "I taught your cook how to scramble eggs, and he made them today, what do you think?"

Zhou Zhenyue: "...It's okay."

Mu Xueyi: "Be careful on the way to the company in a while, leave some time for a nap at noon, don't stay simmering all the time, pay attention to your body..."

"Understood." Zhou Zhenyue stood up, picked up the jacket on the back of the chair, and said while packing her things, "I don't usually see you being so long-winded."

Mu Xueyi held back her tears and squeezed out a smile: "You have been at home for so many days, and suddenly you have to go to work today, I just... a little reluctant..."

Zhou Zhenyue put on her coat, "Don't think too much, I'll bring you something when I come back tonight."

Mu Xueyi: "...what, what?"

Zhou Zhenyue: "You will know at night."

Mu Xueyi hesitated.

She didn't know how to tell Zhou Zhenyue that when she went home tonight, she might not be here anymore.

Seeing Zhou Zhenyue go out, the housekeeper who had been waiting at the corner of the stairs immediately came over and bowed his head respectfully to Mu Xueyi: "Miss Mu, the old man invites you to go to his room."

At this moment, Mu Xueyi was not as anxious as he had imagined, but felt calm in his heart.

She smiled lightly: "Okay."

The old man's room is on the top floor where the sun is most abundant, and the corridor leading to the room is also full of sunlight.

The door was not closed tightly, it was hidden. Mu Xueyi still knocked on the door, and she didn't enter until it said "Enter".

There are many bookshelves in the room, and the shelves are full of ancient books with seam. In addition to the elegant teapots and cups on the wooden coffee table, there is also a quaint incense burner, which is smoking green smoke.

Zhou Fengnian sat on the wooden chair, with his hands folded on top of the crutches, his face expressionless.

Mu Xueyi had never seen Zhou Fengnian's expressionless face. In his impression, he had always been a grandfather who loved to laugh.

Zhou Fengnian said in a deep voice, "Sit down."

Mu Xueyi sat down on the wooden chair next to Zhou Fengnian and did not dare to speak.

Zhou Fengnian was silent for a while before speaking: "I received an email this morning."

Mu Xueyi thought that she was no longer nervous, but when she heard Zhou Fengnian say these words, she couldn't help but tensed up.

Zhou Fengnian: "The email said that the leaked confidential document from Zhou's three years ago was your fault."

Mu Xueyi's hands began to tremble.

Zhou Fengnian raised his eyes, frowning slightly:

"...How could you be so careless?"

Mu Xueyi was stunned.

This question was so unexpected that she didn't understand the meaning of it for a while.

Zhou Fengnian sighed heavily: "I have already asked someone to check who sent the email. After I find out, I will find a way to solve the source. You should be more careful yourself, this time I can help you, next time , my hands may not be so long."

Mu Xueyi swallowed hard, her voice trembling uncontrollably: "You, you know..."

Zhou Fengnian rubbed the cane in his palm, the jade ring on his index finger and the wooden cane made a slight rustling sound.

His gray beard curled up, as if he was smiling: "I knew it for a long time. Three years ago, so many things happened, how could I not check it. If I want to find out one thing, what skills do you kids have? Can you cover it?" For a few seconds, Mu Xueyi was stunned.

After a long while, she said tremblingly: "Then...you know it, and you allow...allow me to come back..."

Zhou Fengnian stroked his beard and smiled: "To be honest, when I found out three years ago, I was really dissatisfied with you. But later, after investigating a little deeper, I realized that you, the second lady of the Mu family, are behind your back. What kind of life have you lived. You have such a father and sister, and you can't blame you for making such a choice."

"Not to mention..." Zhou Fengnian sighed again, "Crescent Moon...she has such deep feelings for you."

Mu Xueyi squeezed the corner of her shirt tightly.

The tea is brewed and bubbling. Zhou Fengnian turned over a teacup and put it in front of Mu Xueyi, poured her a cup of hot tea, "There's still a lot of time today, are you interested in hearing about what happened after you left?"

Mu Xueyi was about to rip the corners of her clothes.

Zhou Feng smiled young: "Dare to listen?"

Mu Xueyi took a deep breath.

In the past three years, no matter how she escaped, it was also the three years that Zhou Zhenyue really passed. If Zhou Zhenyue has the courage to survive, at least she should have the courage to understand.

She trembled: "You said."

Zhou Fengnian said slowly, "I told you about her car accident last time, so let's continue there."

"After the car accident three years ago, she was in the intensive care unit for a whole month. Her lungs were badly injured, her bronchial tubes were stretched, and at that time, breathing was the hardest thing in the world for her. Can't tell. For a complete sentence, it takes a long time to cough up half a sentence, and even hemoptysis in severe cases. But in those days, she still insisted on saying the same sentence. "

"She said: I want to see her."

"What can I do?" Zhou Fengnian recalled his eyes with a strong sense of helplessness, "I know you lied to her, but she just can't leave you. I have tried every means to contact you, but my contacts are no longer available. Guang, no matter how sophisticated the means, if you deliberately avoid it, I have nothing to do."

Mu Xueyi remembered that she was so immersed in her emotions at the time that she didn't dare to charge her phone for a long time.

Zhou Fengnian poured another cup of tea: "Later, she recovered well, and I thought this matter could pass like this. However, I thought too simply. Once, I accidentally found her taking paroxetine, paroxetine. It was an antidepressant, so I immediately called someone to check, only to find out that she had been seeing a psychiatrist."

"Then I found her psychiatrist and pulled up her file. The file contains detailed conversations for each treatment, but it's detailed, but there's no detail at all. Because she's just repeating from beginning to end. The same four words."

"'I miss her so much.'"

Mu Xueyi shook his hand and knocked over the teacup in front of him.

The hot tea splashed her shoes, but she didn't move.

Zhou Fengnian took a piece of paper and handed it to her, and smiled kindly: "Don't worry, since you came back, she has never seen a psychiatrist again."

Mu Xueyi took the paper and said nothing.

Zhou Fengnian stroked his beard and narrowed his eyes: "Speaking of which, I also loved Crescent Moon's grandmother when I was young. I thought that growing old together was the deepest love, but I didn't expect that my granddaughter would let me grow old. It opened my eyes once. For the first time, I know that one person will think of another person in such an unending manner."

After hearing the words "endless death", Mu Xueyi thought of the ending of Zhou Zhenyue in her previous life.

There was a suffocating pain in the heart.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Fengnian told her a lot of things that had happened in the past three years. For example, Zhou Zhenyue would go to McDonald's every day to order a children's set meal, but no one knows the reason.

For another example, she suffered from severe insomnia. She hasn't laughed once in three years.

From the morning to dinner, and from after dinner to the afternoon.

For the whole day, Mu Xueyi seemed to live in those memories.

In that memory, Zhou Zhenyue clearly lost her, but every bit and every drop was her.

In the evening, the last setting sun disappeared into the sky.

At the end of the conversation, the old man thought of something again, and said with great interest, "By the way, do you still remember the few red envelopes that I forced you into before?"

Mu Xueyi nodded.

Zhou Fengnian said: "Actually, Crescent Moon asked me to give it to you. You are stubborn and refuse to spend her money, but she was afraid that you would be wronged, so she asked me to find a way to stuff it for you. She said, if it is I will give it to you as an elder, and you may still be willing to spend." The old man patted Mu Xueyi's hand and said earnestly, "Girl, listen to me, don't make it so obvious with her, the more you want to be independent, she will The more insecure it is. Sometimes it is not a bad thing to owe each other, and there must always be some fetters between people.”

Mu Xueyi's eyes were red, and she snorted.

Zhou Fengnian: "Okay, let's stop talking, it's time for her to go home. Don't let her know what I said to you today, okay?"

Mu Xueyi: "Okay."

Zhou Fengnian softened his voice again: "Also, you must remember that I still love you as much as before. I agree with the two of you, don't think about it."

Mu Xueyi choked and said, "Thank you...Thank you..."

They were still talking when they heard Xiao Ai's shout from the yard:

"Second Miss—Second Miss—" Zhou Fengnian laughed: "As she was talking, she came back." He pointed at the balcony with his crutches, "She seems to be looking for you, go and see what's going on."

Mu Xueyi hurriedly wiped her tears with her cuff, ran to the balcony, and looked down.

In the yard full of fallen leaves, Xiao Ai had just parked the car in the garage and was pulling the garage door hard. Zhou Zhenyue stood beside her with a faint smile on her lips.

Seeing Mu Xueyi sticking out his head from the balcony, Zhou Zhenyue beckoned from a distance: "Come down."

Mu Xueyi's eyes turned slightly, and she saw the mysterious gift that Zhou Zhenyue said she would bring her in the morning.

A brand new pink bicycle was parked on the path full of dead leaves. The handlebars are fitted with two lovely rear view mirrors with a big bow tied with a red ribbon.

Zhou Zhenyue's hand hanging beside her raised two fingers, holding a children's helmet that was as pink as the car.