Take It Easy

Chapter 25 – Think About

Can I do it alone?

Zhou Yi hadn’t been hugged like this for many years, and she hadn’t been coaxed by anyone in such a soft and distressed tone for a long time. She felt strange, couldn’t turn her head around, and couldn’t move her body. The sudden hug restored the **** scene just now, and then woke up suddenly.

A momentary chill rushed up from his chest, and fear began to bark its teeth and claws wantonly in Zhou Yi’s body.

But only for a short moment.

She didn’t even hear its crazy roar, and didn’t feel its sharp fingertips, when Mu Qinglin’s palm suddenly covered her ears.

She gently rubbed her ears without saying a word, but all the intensity was settled in an instant.

In the following time, Zhou Yi heard Mu Qinglin talking all the time, using the most serious and precise words to state the facts she had seen.

The skin on her neck was hot, and her throat vibrated slightly as she spoke.

She was tired from running around for days, and she also had perfume, or the light fragrance left by some skin care products.

That taste is like the winter sun, clear, but a little distant…

Zhou Yi paused for a while, unconsciously leaning against her neck.

I don’t know how long it took, the noisy people around gradually faded away, Mu Qinglin handed the microphone to Xiao Liu, and said to him: “You go back to the stage first, I’ll be back in half an hour.”

Xiao Liu took a quick look at Zhou Yi, “Don’t worry, I’ll just pass the film to the editor, and you are busy with your work.”

“Subtract that shot just now.” Mu Qinglin reminded.

As soon as Zhou Yi appeared just now, Mu Qinglin saw it, but he was on camera at that time, so he couldn’t get distracted, so he just calmly said the last word before turning his head to look at her.

Her face was frighteningly pale, her eyes were flustered and flustered, and a random ray of red light from a police light would make her heart numb.

Mu Qinglin walked quickly towards Zhou Yi.

Xiao Liu thought she wanted the scene of the ambulance, and the camera immediately passed by, but what he didn’t want to capture was the moment when Zhou Yi turned around and was hugged by her.

Even if it was just a flash, Mu Qinglin still didn’t want Zhou Yi’s face to appear in this kind of news.

Xiao Liu understood Mu Qinglin’s intentions, nodded hurriedly and said, “Don’t worry, I know what to do.”

Mu Qinglin, “It’s been hard work…”

Xiao Liu smiled honestly and left quickly.

Mu Qinglin’s left hand had been protecting Zhou Yi’s ear since then, and the newly free right hand slid up along her arm, pressed her shoulder lightly, and called out, “Zhou Yi?”

Zhou Yi’s stiff body shook violently, and he immediately came back to his senses.

She forced herself to ignore the warmth pressing against her side face, bit her teeth on Mu Qinglin’s shoulder, and wanted to step back, but she only opened a little distance before being pressed back by Mu Qinglin’s hand behind her shoulder .

Mu Qinglin’s hands were full of vigor.

Zhou Yi was caught off guard and bumped back into her neck, his nose became sore in an instant, and the abnormality quickly spread to his throat, chest, and eyes.

Mu Qinglin felt tears rolling down his neck one after another, but Zhou Yi was so silent that he didn’t make any sound.

She should say something to comfort her, but when she saw that the bustle in Hongmen Lane had returned to its original level, she lowered her eyes and did not make a sound.

Two lives didn’t make any difference to life here.

The more this is the case, the easier it is for those who cannot ignore it to be trapped in the feeling of being isolated.

At this time, most of them don’t like oil and salt, and talking too much may backfire.

Mu Qinglin’s hand moved away from Zhou Yi’s ear, and instead supported her head, the other arm crossed her shoulder, holding her thin body tightly into her arms.

Apart from pale words, this is the most peaceful and reassuring company she can give Zhou Yi now.

Zhou Yi felt it.

There were people coming and going around her, and she couldn’t hear any unnecessary sounds. It was as if Mu Qinglin’s embrace kept all anxiety away from him.

—

After about ten minutes, Zhou Yi grabbed Mu Qinglin’s hands on his clothes and tugged at some point, and said to her in a nasal voice, “I’m going to be suffocated to death.”

Mu Qinglin was taken aback for a moment, and let go of her hand to watch her retreat.

“Did it affect your work just now?” Zhou Yi lowered his head and said in a calm voice.

Mu Qinglin frowned, “You…”

“I’m back in the shop.” Zhou Yi interrupted, “You have a meeting, you should be able to catch up now.”

After Zhou Yi finished speaking, he was about to leave, but Mu Qinglin quickly grabbed his wrist and dragged him to the spot.

Zhou Yi’s conditioned reflexive fist clenching movement stopped halfway, and his fingers spread out naturally. After a few seconds, he turned around and raised Mu Qinglin’s hand together, smiling foolishly, “What is this for? I shouldn’t have recruited you today. Bar?”

Mu Qinglin stared at Zhou Yi’s expression without moving.

There was no trace of abnormality on her face or eyes. If it wasn’t for the fact that her eyes and nose were still red, Mu Qinglin couldn’t believe that she just cried and cried for so long.

Are you tired of pretending like this?

It doesn’t look like Zhouyi if you don’t pretend.

“I didn’t recruit…” Mu Qinglin said, her hand slid down, took Zhou Yi’s hand, and squeezed tightly when she subconsciously shrank back, “This place is too far away from the Buddha and Demon, I will take you back.”

Zhou Yi’s smile froze for a moment, “Sister, the total length of Hongmen Lane is only 1.3 kilometers.”

Mu Qinglin, “Well, but you walk so slowly that you wish you could be on the ground for a long time. It takes a long time to walk alone.”

After saying this, Mu Qinglin passed Zhou Yi and led her to the east.

Mu Qinglin didn’t really use much strength in his hands. If Zhou Yi wanted to struggle, it was just a matter of turning his wrist, but she seemed to be possessed, and uncontrollably followed Mu Qinglin’s footsteps, her gaze was away from her. The calm side face went all the way down, and stopped on the hand held by her.

This hand was slender and dry, without that thick and strong sense of security at all. But being led by it, my heart seems to be less panicked.

—

When Mu Qinglin and Zhou Yi came back from Buddha Demon, Tang Yuanzhou had just arrived.

Not long ago, he received the restored photos from Mu Qinglin and drove directly to the east of the city.

Who knew that Lu Chang had an accident as soon as he got on the elevated highway.

He couldn’t make a U-turn on the elevated, so he had to call Ming Kai to keep Zhou Yi in check, and then got off the elevated and was blocked for more than 20 minutes, only to find out that Zhou Yi still ran out when he came back.

“Xiao Jiu, are you okay?” Tang Yuanzhou asked with an ugly face.

On the way back, Zhou Yi focused most of his attention on the hand held by Mu Qinglin, and was unresponsive. Hearing Tang Yuanzhou’s words, he was stunned for a few seconds before he took his hand out of Mu Qinglin’s place and stuffed it into his pocket, and said with a relaxed expression : “What can I do?”

“Road…” As soon as Tang Yuanzhou spoke, seeing Mu Qinglin shaking his head imperceptibly, he immediately changed his words and said: “The road is very windy, who do you think you are torturing when you run out now? In the future, when you have nothing to do, go out and do less! “

Zhou Yi’s expression collapsed, and he complained, “Why are you restricting your personal freedom?”

Tang Yuanzhou snorted, and ruthlessly demolished the situation, “Don’t catch a cold if you have the ability.”

Zhou Yi opened his mouth for a long time, and said decadently: “I’m not capable, should I just go upstairs now?”

Tang Yuanzhou waved his hand, “Hurry up…”

Zhou Yi went upstairs, chanting and cursing.

Usually it took three or four minutes to hear the door closing, but today it took less than a minute.

“Zhou Yi saw it.” Mu Qinglin said.

Tang Yuanzhou was mentally prepared for this, “I’m not afraid that she will see it, but I am afraid that she will take the responsibility on me.”

“What does this have to do with her?!” Mu Qinglin cried as he thought of Zhou Yi, and his speech suddenly became rapid.

Tang Yuanzhou looked at Mu Qinglin in surprise, and said truthfully: “Lu Chang and that man came to find Xiao Jiu beforehand, and wanted to stay here, but Xiao Jiu didn’t stay.”

“She has no obligation to stay!” Mu Qinglin said quickly, “I don’t have any friendship with Lu Chang, so don’t think my words are harsh. When he repeatedly brings people under Zhou Yi’s nose, what? Don’t want to think about what she will think when she sees those pictures? She is only so old, and she has a long way to go, if she sees something she can’t accept, what do you ask her to do?”

“I know, I’m just worried.” Tang Yuanzhou said in a heavy tone, “In addition to sending cakes if there is nothing to do, Lu Chang also helped Xiaojiu clean up a few gangsters who always troubled her, and they were beaten until their bones were broken.

Although Xiaojiu speaks aggressively, she remembers people well. Who can guarantee that she won’t be charged with ungratefulness after such a disturbance today? “

Mu Qing was at a loss for words, she turned her head to look in the direction of the stairs, and said in a deep voice, “I’ll go up and have a look.”

Tang Yuanzhou, “That’s fine. I have a bad temper, and if I can’t say a few words, I have to quarrel. Now you and she will give me a good face.”

Mu Qinglin didn’t say much, and when he went up, he also walked in a hurry, until he reached the door, he suddenly slowed down, and gently knocked on Zhou Yi’s door.

Zhou Yi’s voice was very low, “I’m going to sleep, I’ll talk about things tomorrow.”

Obviously a subterfuge.

Mu Qinglin didn’t leave, and after a moment’s hesitation, he grabbed the doorknob and pressed it.

The door swung open.

Zhou Yi raised her head in displeasure, and saw that it was Mu Qing who paused for a few seconds without saying anything.

Mu Qinglin walked to the table and leaned against it, without saying a word, just quietly watching Zhou Yi sitting on the edge of the bed, with his hands propped by his side, shoulders arched, head lowered, the silence seemed to stop time.

“Lu Chang brought that man to the store, and I told him to get out.” Zhou Yi suddenly said.

Sure enough, it still went to my heart.

“Even if you let him come up this time, what about next time? If he wants to make money by dirty means, he must be prepared to pay the price for it. This is cause and effect, and it has nothing to do with whether you keep him or not.” Mu Mu Qinglin said.

Zhou Yi, “Maybe, but Lu Chang is blaming me, he won’t die with peace.”

“Zhou Yi!” Mu Qing said in a deep voice, compared to the dull and dejected Zhou Yi in front of her, she still liked the one who was sloppy and dragging, “Don’t speculate on a dead person’s thoughts, it’s useless.”

Zhou Yi, “It’s not speculation. He told me clearly that if he got the money this time, he would get his sister in exchange, but I still let him go and drove him to nowhere.”

“Yes, you did that, but I want to ask, was Lu Chang angry when you did this?” Mu Qinglin asked.

She was betting that Lu Chang would not get angry with her well-intentioned refusal even because he once regarded Zhou Yi as his spiritual sustenance to his own sister. Besides, he was really kind to Zhou Yi later on.

Then, as long as he is not angry, Zhou Yi doesn’t have to blame himself for this cause and effect.

“Zhou Yi, think about it carefully, was he angry at that time?” Mu Qinglin spoke slowly, guiding Zhou Yi bit by bit.

Zhou Yi said: “No…” Not only was he not angry, but he also apologized, and, “Maybe he called me the last phone call before he died.”

Mu Qinglin breathed a sigh of relief, it’s okay.

“What did he say to you on the phone?” Mu Qinglin asked.

Zhou Yi, “Say he’s leaving, that Hongmen Lane can’t stay forever, so I have the opportunity to go back to school…” Mu Qinglin, “Do you want to?”

She didn’t want to, not at all.

Before she could say anything, Mu Qinglin’s cell phone rang.

Her mobile phone vibrated all the year round, but it still couldn’t stand the room. It was too quiet, and the rapid ringing seemed very abrupt here. She pressed the power button to switch to silent, and took it out to answer the call after a while.

“Hey…”

“Okay, I’ll go back right away.”

In less than ten seconds, the call ended, and Mu Qinglin put the phone back in his pocket.

Without the light, the room fell into silence again.

Mu Qinglin straightened his body and continued the topic just now, “Zhou Yi, although some words are unpleasant, they have their truths. For example, when a person is about to die, his words are good.”

When Mu Qinglin spoke, he carefully paid attention to Zhou Yi’s reaction, and after confirming that she was not angry, he continued with confidence, “Lu Chang is not as good as you, so he can see it more seriously than you. You have to think about what he said carefully. If you understand it, it’s okay.” Give me a call, I don’t know many people, but enough to help you find a good school.”

Zhou Yi looked up in the darkness, “What if you don’t understand?”

Mu Qinglin walked in front of Zhou Yi, looked down at her eyes illuminated by the faint moonlight, “Zhou Yi, if you are really stupid, why would you think of hiding the listening comprehension of the college entrance examination in the title of the song?”

Zhou Yi sat up in shock.

Thinking that even though Mu Qinglin found out, he didn’t expose it face-to-face, the annoyance that was broken in his heart was quickly extinguished.

Not just this time.

The stare at the back door of the physics class should have been discovered, as well as Yao Xiaoqi’s test paper.

…

Zhou Yi softened his body resignedly, lowered his head slightly, “How can you pretend so well?”

“I didn’t pretend once, and you just pointed at my nose to make me stop telling you about your affairs, how dare I say it?” Mu Qinglin asked back, and then said: “Even if you said that you learned painting in the Children’s Palace , I didn’t dare to say anything.”

“I’m a livelihood reporter, how can I know the admission requirements for the Children’s Palace? For a kindergarten graduate like you, you can’t even get an application form. Such an obvious bug, thanks to your lack of hesitation when you said it.” Mu Qing Pro said.

“That’s right, I haven’t found out until now.” Zhou Yi said, she didn’t hesitate at the time because she no longer regarded Mu Qinglin as an outsider.

I’m not an outsider, so I want to tell her the truth.

“When Lu Chang said these words, he didn’t know that I took the initiative to hide in Hongmen Lane…” Zhou Yi said calmly: “Since I hid in, how could I go out easily because of his few words? “

Mu Qing retracted her bent leg, the words “what are you hiding” were on her lips, but she didn’t dare to ask, fearing that it would break up like the last time at the door of Buddha and Demon.

After hesitating for a moment, Mu Qinglin decided not to force Zhou Yi, but she was never a completely soft-hearted person.

“Then if you don’t want Lu Chang, just think about whether Hongmen Lane is a good safe haven, think about your own future, think about the people around you who treat you well, think about what we want you to be like in the future. “Mu Qinglin’s tone was gentle and solemn, “Xiao Jiu, don’t you know how to remember people? If you remember, you must pay back. Otherwise, no matter how favored you are, you will still be a selfish and cowardly person who is not worthy of being loved. Understand.” ?”

Zhou Yi tightly clenched the hand pressed against the window sill.

Maybe understand.

But she didn’t know how to answer Mu Qinglin’s words.

It had been a long time since no one had reasoned with her so calmly. In the past two years in Buddha Demon, she only felt Tang Yuanzhou’s unilateral force suppression.

Mu Qinglin was going back to the stage, and she didn’t have time to wait for Zhou Yi to organize her words. She walked up to Zhou Yi worriedly, touched her head, and asked, “Can I do it alone?”

Zhou Yi was so rare that he didn’t slap Mu Qinglin away with his paw, but lowered his head, and replied vaguely, “Mmm…”