Chapter 12

◎Dear My You◎

The blows came one after another.

Zhu He created a space album that night and named it "The Happiest Twenty Years Old". It contained various group photos and candid moments of the day. There were many more people at night than at noon. They ate barbecue and took up all the small tables at the barbecue stall.

The photos taken by the flip phone were blurry, the colors were cold and distorted, and the quality was compressed to a worse level when uploaded to the Internet.

But everyone seemed to be smiling happily.

Most of the photos were group photos, each named after the person in the photo, such as "Silly Cannon", "Turtle Son", "Good King" and so on; a few photos of Wu You were specially placed, and the names were also different.

——Dear My You.

You means "you" in English and "you" in Chinese. No matter how bad Du Ningyang's English was, she was still a high school student and understood it immediately.

She saw herself in the album again - it was a group photo of three people, or to be more precise, three backs. The background was the aisle of the hot pot restaurant, which Zhu He secretly took when they walked into the private room at noon.

He named this photo "Three Little Pigs".

Du Ningyang, Zhu Yao and Xu Zhaolin were wearing thick cotton-padded jackets and school uniform jackets. From the back, they were indeed chubby and short. The description of "Three Little Pigs" was super appropriate.

Du Ningyang tied a big pink plaid bow on her ponytail that day, thinking it was very cool, but in the picture, she looked like a young child.

Perhaps, in Zhu He's eyes, she was like this... always like this, a very young child. He chatted with her, interacted with her, rode his bike to pick her up after school, and treated her to hot pot, purely because she was a good friend of his sister.

And he was so peaceful, so righteous, so welcoming to different people, and so popular with different people.

It was not because she was so different.

There were also many comments on this album. She had never seen so many of his friends pop up at the same time. Like her, they were surprised by Wu You's appearance, but they were also different from her. They were surprised by Wu You's appearance.

-What virtue do you have, kid?

-Zhu Jiabei: My wife is beautiful and kind!

-Happy birthday, blessings will last forever!

-Zhu Jiabei: I will.

-My daughter-in-law is so pretty.

-Zhu Jiabei: Your daughter-in-law is my sister, and my grandson calls me grandma!

This is how I should describe this feeling, like colorful bubbles being suddenly popped while flying towards the sun, a light package suddenly lost, and soapy water dripping on the body making it sticky.

Disappointed, embarrassed and embarrassed.

Du Ningyang blocked the QQ of Zhu Zhu, but after blocking, he found that he could still see his avatar and signature on the blacklist, and he could still click on his profile page to see "Dear My You". So he deleted him again, completely. There were also several groups, which he quit as well. Then there were the message boards in the space and the comments in the diary, all thrown into the trash.

It didn't seem to take her very long to clear everything. It turns out that it is so easy to completely delete the traces of a person's visit - no matter how enthusiastically they had chatted, no matter whether they had ever shown any signs of falling in love.

But she still secretly hoped that Zhu He would come back to her, ask her to be his good friend again, and ask her like before, "What did I do to upset you again?" No matter what the method was - maybe asking Zhu Yao to bring a message, maybe coming to the studio to find her, or maybe sending her an email.

But the actual situation was that Zhu He didn't even notice that Du Ningyang had deleted him. He accompanied Wu You to Shenzhen for fun and was gone for two weeks.

Zhu Yao mentioned: "He pissed my parents off to death. His counselor called them and said that if they asked for leave of more than three days, they had to be approved by the college. He ran away without waiting for the approval, and he would be punished if he came back."

"Punishment? Will it affect graduation or something?"

"Who knows? - Anyway, my mom said he would be beaten if he came back. It's just a waste of time!"

Du Ningyang felt bad listening to the conversation between Zhu Yao and Xu Zhaolin. He was looking forward to it like a fool every day, but they were having a lot of fun.

I will never forgive Zhu He again!

Only then did she realize that she had missed the smurf named "Encore". He lay quietly at the bottom of her friend list, and the chat record stopped at that sentence: [Congratulations, you set up a smurf again to deceive me, right?]

That night she logged in and said to Encore: [I really hate you!]

Encore's avatar was gray, indicating that he was not online, or maybe he had set "invisible to him when online" to her. He did not reply, probably indifferent to her anger.

She said again: [I will never like you again in the future!]

After several days, accompanied by the sound of "beep beep", Encore's avatar finally jumped.

It was a plain [hmm.]

Wen Xu smiled in front of the computer.

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When it is not windy and rainy in Huaicheng in winter, the sun is cold and poisonous, with a little chill but it seems to be able to dry people out. Du Ningyang and Wen Xu found a big tree and hid in the shade while waiting for Zhu Yao to go to see the store. They

were supposed to say goodbye in the morning, and he told her that he had been kicked out and had to follow her.

They were not particularly familiar with each other, and there was not much to talk about when they stood together. Du Ningyang lit a thin lady's cigarette skillfully and puffed away. She preferred sweet, and even chose cigarettes with a sweet taste.

"Give me a puff," Wen Xu stretched out his hand to grab it.

Du Ningyang looked him up and down with interest, and said provocatively: "Young Master Wen can smoke?"

"Learn now," he has always been restrained and of course he was not allowed to touch cigarettes, "Is smoking difficult?"

Du Ningyang pulled his hand back flexibly, turned his head and glanced at him, "It's not a good thing, it hurts your body and costs money, if you want to learn, learn something good." Wen

Xu leaned over, turned his hand to turn her face, leaned in and kissed her, "Try it."

In panic, she breathed a breath to him.

After a long time, the cigarette in his hand burned down to only a cigarette butt, and Wen Xu let go, "Well, it's really not a good thing, it's like eating a firecracker, it smells like fruit, but it doesn't taste like it."

It was obvious that he was taken advantage of.

"You..."

"You guys..."

Zhu Yao finally arrived late, and seeing the shameless scene in broad daylight, she stood not far away and screamed. Du Ningyang glanced at her and said speechlessly: "You are already a mother, you have done everything, you even scream when I kiss you."

"I would, I would... Don't you think you are running naked in front of me?" Zhu Yao was incoherent, "Oh yes, Wen Xu, hello, long time no see."

"We just met yesterday," Wen Xu was amused by Zhu Yao's appearance, "Sorry, I embarrassed you."

Zhu Yao asked again: "But, why are you together, is Wen Xu also with us to see the store?" After

a closer look, they were both still wearing yesterday's clothes, and Du Ningyang was rarely bare-faced.

She understood it instantly but couldn't ask again. If she asked again, she would inevitably scream again. But if she could hold back, she would not be Zhu Yao. She couldn't hold back and sighed: "You are progressing quite fast. Be careful."

Du Ningyang was suddenly startled by the words "be careful" and her face turned red. She glared at Zhu Yao.

Zhu Yao quickly stopped talking and changed the subject: "That storefront is really quite good. Let's go and negotiate the price with the landlord. If we can get it down to 7,500, it will be quite suitable."

"Yes," Wen Xu took over the conversation, "I will pay half. I also want to live here."

Du Ningyang raised his head suspiciously and asked in confusion: "Who allowed you to live here?"

Wen Xu said pitifully: "But I have nowhere to go."

Du Ningyang also really liked this location. She originally planned to find someone to share the rent with, so that she could at least share the rent. Now Wen Xu directly helped her pay half, which directly reduced the cost. This is indeed very attractive.

"It's none of my business that you have nowhere to go," Du Ningyang waved his hand at Wen Xu, his tone relaxed, "Let's go faster, let's go take a look first."

The two-story building is located at the exit of the pedestrian street, a must-go road for pedestrians. It has a square layout, high daylighting rate, a large and bright door, and even the windows are floor-to-ceiling. Du Ningyang stood at the door and gestured, and he had already thought about how to arrange it.

Put a shelf on the left to put tools, a large full-length mirror on the right, a tea cabinet to make coffee, a curtain in the middle, a tattoo bed at the back, and some aromatherapy and decorations, it's beautiful.

The second floor can be divided into two separate bedrooms and a small living room. Although there is no kitchen, she doesn't cook, which is just what she wants.

"Eight thousand five hundred a month is really not expensive," the landlord refused to give in, "Such a good location, there will be a lot of people renting it even if the price goes up to nine thousand a month."

Du Ningyang would feel uncomfortable if he didn't take advantage of it, so he used the skills he had learned in Shenzhen to bargain, "I just looked along the way, many people rent storefronts nearby to run restaurants, and the walls are all greasy and black with smoke. I'll open a tattoo shop that's clean and save you a lot of money."

It seemed to make sense, and the landlord rolled his eyes and was somewhat persuaded. Du Ningyang pointed at Wen Xu again, "Look at him, what a decent young man, super clean, he lives in one room upstairs and I live in one room, we don't usually cook, we eat out, we won't make a mess for you." Wen Xu

standing aside was indeed very convincing, and the landlord said, "The lowest is 8,200 yuan, one deposit and three payments."

"Oh, don't make it 8,200 yuan, round off the decimals," Zhu Yao said, "We are originally from Huaicheng, we won't run away halfway through the work, and don't make a deposit and three payments. Let's pay a year's rent at a time, how about it?"

Why are these two girls so slick? They love to take advantage too much... The landlord hesitated for a while and said, "I can't make the decision, I have to ask my wife."

"Tell her again that you want to get a 10% discount on the price for acquaintances," Du Ningyang took the opportunity to promote, "It's a good deal."

"We won't..." The landlord said, dialing his wife's phone and walked out of the store.

Zhu Yao quickly came up to Du Ningyang and said, "Oh, you asked too little. We should have negotiated it down to 7,500. I think 7,000 might be possible."

Wen Xu was very happy listening to this. There had never been any such thing as bargaining in his life. It was quite fun to watch them battle wits and courage with the landlord.

Zhu Yao's cell phone rang. She looked at the caller ID and hung up immediately

. Zhu He was not willing to give in and called again. Zhu Yao hung up again in a flash.

Du Ningyang glanced at him and said calmly, "Just answer it. Don't be pretentious."

Zhu Yao also walked out of the store and chatted for a long time before coming back.

"Zhu Cong transferred 240,000 yuan to you. See if you received it," Zhu Yao said, "He said you blocked all his WeChat accounts on his phone, so he asked me to ask you."

Du Ningyang was puzzled, "Why did he give me the money?"

"I stayed at my mother's house last night and provoked him," Zhu Yao was extremely embarrassed, "He said he wanted to make it up to you, and I said I would pay for your rent and utility bills for two years if I had the ability."

"Then where did he get the money?" She knew very well that he didn't have much money.

Zhu Yao said word by word, "He sold his Dream Traveling Universe account and said he wanted to start over."