Exclusive Memory Chapter 10 Part 4

 Mu Chenghe didn't smile. His expression softened a lot, the redness around his ears gradually faded, and his skin was darker than before we went to the beach, but it didn't hide his handsomeness and aura at all.

He pulled me into his arms and said, "Don't leave. If you leave, I definitely don't have the courage to continue living here alone."

A very simple sentence, but it exudes fragrance like nectar, gradually spreading in the air, compromising my whole body and mind. I slowly responded to him.

In the afternoon of that day, Mu Chenghe watched me empty out those two bags like a child, and then put everything back in their original places one by one. A person with a high IQ does not necessarily have a high EQ. It seems that what the psychologists really said is the truth.

During the holidays, the unit provides pre-job training for new teachers. The so-called training is a meeting. The teachers of the school's personnel department each have a topic, and each topic will explain the school's rules and regulations for one to two days, and let us take notes.

Because it is the school's second-level college, it is neither in the West District of Normal University nor in the school headquarters, but in the former site of a college on the other side of the city. It's my fault that I was temporarily bewitched by Mu Chenghe and promised him to stay, which made me go out an hour early every day. Fortunately, there is a subway line nearby, otherwise I think I would die on the way in this scorching heat. And that single dormitory was used by me as a leisure place in the afternoon.

The roommate is also a new teacher this year, named Zhang Lili, she signed the contract before graduation, so she is more familiar with this place than I am.

She said: "These teachers are very caring for me, so they work very well."

"Have you gotten to know each other so early?"

"Didn't I tell you? I graduated from here. Although it's a second-level college, it's A University, right?"

"oh."

"Teacher Xue, where did you graduate from?"

"Big A."

"Headquarters?"

"Headquarters." I replied while copying notes.

Zhang Lili's complexion changed, and then she smiled and said, "So it's hard to find a job now. No matter what school you go to, how good it was when you were admitted to a prestigious university, everyone is the same after graduation."

I know, she hinted that I and she came back the same way.

At the meeting the next day, she sat next to me again. The content of the training that day was "how to correctly handle the teacher-student relationship". Teacher Wei, who was in charge of the lecture at the other end of the meeting room, asked, "How do the teachers think the teacher-student relationship should be handled?"

Zhang Lili whispered, "Xue Tong, this teacher Li is handsome."

"Well, he's okay."

"He used to teach us Educational Psychology and he loved me. The one next to him who was slightly younger than him was Teacher Wei, who was very good to me, when I used to study..." She began to crackle and show off again, and I couldn't help but think of the "Yamei Daddy" who was my "Yamei Daddy" in the girls' building when I was studying before.

Angry and gone, never come to our dormitory again.

She just wants me to envy her.

It's a pity that I really don't care about it. If it were two years ago, I would still tell her: Actually, nothing, the teacher who is amazing in the legend of A, Yushu is in the wind, everyone loves flowers and drives to see flat tires also loves me very much, loves me to the point that he forcibly kisses me twice, and begging me to stay with him." 

But a few days ago, Mu Chenghe educated me, asking me to get along well with my colleagues, and not to be as talkative all day long as when I was studying. So I would like to respect Master's teaching, smiled and said to Zhang Lili: "Really? Then you are really lucky."

At home at night, Mu Chenghe was in an extremely happy mood. He went racing during the day, and said that a certain top sports car organized some kind of global cultural tour. He also held a series of activities in City A and invited some people to test drive. A friend of Mu Chenghe knew that he liked cars, so he called over him.

While washing vegetables for me, he enthusiastically told me about his experiences during the day, like a child who returns from an amusement park to report his adventures to his parents.

" Do it yourself?" I asked.

"First there are professional drivers from Italy and Germany to demonstrate, and then you can drive it yourself." He said, "Xue Tong, do you know? It only takes three seconds to accelerate from 100 meters."

I couldn't help laughing at his excitement: "What kind of car did you just say? The name is too long to remember."

"Bugatti Veyron."

"A very good car? Better than a BMW?" Among famous cars, I only know BMW and Mercedes-Benz, as well as Bai Lin's sad Hummer.

"This one depends on one's preference."

"Then you wait, I will earn a dime to buy you one in the future."

"Okay." He also smiled.

The potato shreds were poured into the oil pan, making a "puff, puff, puff" sound.

The meal was served, and I sat down across from him and continued the topic just now, "Mr. Mu Chenghe, to sum up, what is it like for you to test drive?" ”

His eyes closed as if he was reminiscing, his smile flowed, and his thin lips fluttered softly: "It seems to be flying close to the ground."

"Flying? I've never been on a plane before,"

"Then we have the opportunity to book a flight, not to play anywhere, just stay at the airports on all continents, and circle the earth one after another, so that you can enjoy it all at once."

I giggled and said, "Then you and I are a satellite?"

After finally waiting for the weather to cool down, Mu Chenghe actually had to go on a business trip. He said: "I'm not here, and you don't want to live here, just stay in the dormitory with your colleague for a few days."

"Oh." I saw him off, packed up some things, and headed for the school.

Zhang Lili asked, "You had a fight with your boyfriend?" ”

"No, he's on a business trip." It is undeniable that when I hear the three words of my boyfriend, my heart is extremely comfortable.

"What did he do?"

"Teacher."

"You two go together."

"Hmm."

"Peering is good, but it's not good."

"Why?"

"Work and rest are synchronized, and there are common topics, but it's so boring to be teachers, and the income of two people is not high, and they are tied to a tree."

"Then what are you looking for?" I asked.

"I don't know, anyway, someone to earn more than me." Zhang Lili replied.

"oh."

"Don't tell me, you haven't thought about it. It's not like being in a relationship now. Whoever is enthusiastic, whoever is handsome, whoever studies well, likes whoever is good. If it doesn't suit you, you can try another one. Now you are working. You can only develop a relationship between male and female friends for the purpose of marriage."

According to Zhang Lili's standards, she will definitely not find another teacher, right?

Then why, Mu Chenghe likes me as a teacher so much? Although he didn't say anything, he was probably having fun in his heart.

"However." Zhang Lili added, "There is another kind of man, even though he has mediocre qualifications, he is not as good as us, but he has a pair of good parents. This kind of man is also a scarce resource."

In the afternoon, when Zhang Lili came back, she was holding the package she had retrieved from the school mailroom in her arms. I smell a strange smell in the air.

She answered the phone in the bathroom behind my back, and said irritably, "I told you not to send it. My colleagues saw that my family sent me all these country things. How embarrassing."

I turned back to read and heard her come out of the toilet and throw the whole package into the trash.

Later, many teachers from the same building went out to eat together, and they also called me. On a hot day, drink cold beer and eat hot pot. In the midst of the noise, suddenly a thought of Mu Chenghe had come to me, less than twelve hours after being separated from him.

Zhang Lili gets along with a group of male teachers. Although her goal is not among these people, it does not affect her enthusiasm for the opposite sex in the slightest. I don't like those girls who love to flirt with the opposite sex at every turn, and I don't like people who show off everywhere, and I don't like people who despise their parentage or even their parents' children.

So I don't like Zhang Lili, publicity, hypocrisy, and snobbery.

Back in the dormitory, after taking a shower, I found that the package in the garbage basket had been picked up and placed on the window sill outside. For the next few days, the smell wafted in the room.

I asked Bai Lin and Zhao Xiaotang to go shopping together on weekends, and I told them about this.

Bai Lin said: "When it comes to ostentatious snobbery and money worship, who can compare to our Zhao Xiaotang, why didn't I see you bothering her."

I said, "That's different."

Zhao Xiaotang asked herself: "Why is it different?"

Bai Lin answered, "It's your narrow-mindedness."

Passing by an aromatherapy shop, Bai Lin asked, "What happened to that bottle of perfume in your house? Is it there still?"

"Yes."

"What brand?"

"I don't know, I don't understand either, anyway, I haven't seen you guys use it before."

"How about, why don't you buy some to go home and smoke your teacher Mu?" Bai Lin laughed.

In the end, I bought a bunch of aromatherapy and essential oils there, and the boss gave me an aromatherapy lamp as a gift.

Back in the dormitory, I curiously lit the aromatherapy lamp with candles, filled some water, and dripped essential oils. After a while, the whole room smelled of lavender, and I went to fold my clothes in a good mood.

Zhang Lili pushed the door open and came in, holding half a lunch box of instant noodles from next door with boiling water in her hand.

When she smelled the fragrance, she was stunned for a moment, and her face collapsed. She put the lunch box on the table, walked a few steps, and dumped all the dried tofu, pickles, and rotten duck eggs in the box on the window sill into the trash basket, and then Scramble the trash bag and get ready to throw it out.

"Zhang Lili." I was anxious, "That's not what I meant."

"Then what do you mean?" She looked at me coldly and lifted the garbage bag.

I hurriedly bent down to stop her, and accidentally knocked over the aromatherapy lamp, and the aromatherapy oil inside splashed and burned me. I jumped up in shock, and with a flick of my hand, I knocked over the lunch box next to me. Boiling water splashed out, and half of it was sprinkled on my elbow. It took two seconds before I felt burning, and I grinned in pain and ran to the water pipe. I went to take a shower, and gradually saw several blisters on the skin. So, when Mu Chenghe came back the next day, I had scalding medicine on my left arm.

He frowned, "How did you do it?"

I complained to him with grievances.

He observed for a while, "This can't get wet, it's terrible to be infected in summer."

When taking a shower, Mu Chenghe wrapped it carefully for me, so that the whole arm would not get wet. Then in this state, I finished bathing and dressing with one arm.

"But, I still want to wash my hair." I scratched my oily scalp.

"Let's do it tomorrow," he said.

"No, it will kill people. What time is it, I'll go to the shampoo shop.”

He looked at his watch, thought for a while and said, "Let me wash it for you."

Mu Chenghe went to move the chair in front of the computer desk, lowered the backrest so that it was at the same height as the washstand, put a cushion on the seat, tested the water temperature, and motioned for me to lie down on it. I lay on my back as he said, with a towel on my neck, and my hair was right in the washbasin. He leaned over, bent over, and ran his fingers through my hair. Accompanied by the warm water flowing out, I immediately felt very comfortable.

"You will do this too?"

"When my dad was sick, I took care of him for a while and washed his hair the same way," he said.

The hot water flowed to my ears with his hand, it was so comfortable that I wanted to close my eyes and enjoy it slowly. However, I couldn't bear to while looking at him. A delicate and charming face is now hanging above me, with the brows slightly folded, and the shampoo is squeezed seriously. I stared at him, one second two seconds three seconds...

He glanced at me, then put a towel over my face to cover my view, and said, "That way you don't get in your eyes."

"You definitely don't want me to see you." I pouted.

He smiled, without arguing.

"My hair is too long to wash."

"Well, it's long enough."

"When I was young, my mother was afraid of trouble, so she always gave me short hair. You don't know how much I envy those girls. Sometimes they wear cute little braids, and sometimes they have long hair fluttering. I will think about it when I grow up , Be sure to grow your hair very, very long."

He gently rubbed my scalp.

"But later, Bai Lin said that I was short, and I looked shorter with long hair, so I tied it all up . Zhao Xiaotang also said that if I cut my hair short, I would be more playful."

Speaking of this, Mu Chenghe didn't continue to remain silent, and slowly said: "I think long hair is fine too. Big eyes, with neat bangs, and black and shiny hair, like a doll."

When I heard this, the corners of my mouth turned up, "Are you praising me for being beautiful and cute?"

"Yeah." He replied.

Because his face was covered with a towel, I couldn't see his expression. What he looked like when he said this "Yeah" has never been known.

The foam got on my forehead and he wiped it off for me.

"I'm going to think about it carefully, when did I start trimming my bangs."

"I didn't teach you yet, but when I saw you during the Spring Festival, you cut it, and you wore a red dress that day." He said.

"Red coat?"

"No, it's a short down jacket."

"I remember there was a hat on the back of the clothes, and the buttons were made of wood. When the new year's bell was ringing, you still wanted to hug me, but you resisted it alive." He couldn't help laughing.

"I, I can't remember." The good man does not mention the courage of the year.

"It was my birthday that day," he said.

"Just the 30th day of the Lunar New Year?"

"Well, those born on New Year's Eve are easy to remember, so they always have lunar birthdays."

"Really? It's so good." I was surprised. "It's a pity, you should have told me earlier. You gave me vodka as a New Year's gift, but I didn't prepare a birthday present for you."

He rinsed off the foam and washed me for the second time, and suddenly called my name softly.

"What?" I asked.

"Where were you at the Spring Festival of the second year?"

If he called that time the first year, then the second year should refer to this year. I thought for a while and replied: "I went to find my mother."

"You didn't call me, not even a text message." He said sadly.

Hearing his words, my heart suddenly tightened. Then, he slowly reached out and pulled away the towel that blocked his view, and saw his face again. I stared at him, he stared at me, neither of them said anything for a while.

He must have never realized how beautiful he was. The eyelashes are not long, but they are just curled up at the end of the corner of the eye, making the eyes look bright and crystal clear. No wonder in those photos of his childhood, when he was four or five years old, he couldn't tell whether the space was a boy or a girl.

It's just such a face, but at the moment it has a little disappointed expression. I could have said, it's not all my fault, you are also responsible, it's all your fault for avoiding me, so I did it on purpose.

However, I didn't want to say anything, I just supported the chair under me with my right hand, propped up my body, and with my head full of shampoo bubbles, I looked up and bit his chin like a prank.

After rinsing, he took a dry towel and dried my hair.

I suddenly felt that I should thank Zhang Lili, otherwise there would be no such treatment.

Mu Chenghe said: "Actually, that colleague of yours might have a little low self-esteem."

"I thought about it, too. Maybe she was afraid that others would look down on her."

"It's good that you understand."

He went to get the hair dryer and blow it for me. Because the hair dryer was too loud, we didn't continue talking during this period, until the hair was mostly dry, and I started to comb it myself.

He said, "Do you know that sometimes you make me feel inferior too?"

"Why?" I was surprised, "Isn't it obvious who is better when we compare each other?" After thinking about it couldn't find anything in me that made him feel inferior.

"Actually, I bought something and wanted to give it to you on New Year's Eve." He said.

"Ah? What is it?"

"Perfume."

"Perfume?" My heart jumped suddenly, and my eyes glanced at the wine cabinet. Could it be that the perfume was really given to me?

"In the end, you didn't contact me. Later, I felt that it was not appropriate." He said, and he really went to get the box.

I took it and opened it happily. Inside was a glass bottle like an ink bottle. The upper half was purple, and the lower half was transparent. I sprayed out a little, sniffed it, and said, "It smells so good."

"I don't think you usually use this thing."

"Why?"

"...."

After the fragrance dissipated, I sniffed it hard again, "It smells like flowers, what kind of perfume is it?"

"Stella."

"Why did you suddenly want to give me this?"

He avoided answering, but instead asked, "What do you think is the fragrance of flowers?"

"Rose?"

He grinned, "Well, it's a Bulgarian rose. It's very special. It's not a big red, but a pink one. The petals are very small. It's a Damascus rose that blooms in the Bulgarian valley. One year I went to Bulgaria for a meeting, and there were several days of rest in between. In the middle, just stay in the south of Sofia, there are some small villages, the whole valley is full of this kind of roses, the overwhelming pink, very beautiful."

"Isn't it the English rose? I always thought the rose was the most famous in England."

"Bulgaria has another name called the 'Kingdom of Roses'."

"Where is Bulgaria?" I admit that I am a geography idiot and have no idea where this country is in Europe.

"Next to Greece, they can understand a lot when they speak Russian."

I took the box and studied the English on it carefully.

He sat down next to me, his fingers playing with the ends of my hair hanging around his hand.

"Xue Tong." He called me.

"Huh?"

Didn't he give me this Russian name to punish me? I looked up from my hands and asked suspiciously, "Rose?"

Mu Chenghe's eyebrows stretched, "Bulgarian rose."

After turning on the computer, he showed me the photos he had taken in the local area, all of which were light pink roses with short petals layered and squeezed together. The other one is a freshly picked flower bone flower, waiting for dewdrops, just like fresh lips waiting to be kissed.

There is one more.

Maybe someone took it for him when he was unaware.

In the photo, Mu Chenghe was standing in the sun, his fingers seemed to be pricked by rose thorns, he frowned and looked down at his hands. He deliberately avoided the scorching sun that would make him sneeze continuously, and the Bulgarian girl next to him was about to hand him the cut flowers. Behind him were the bushes of the Valley of Roses, and the sky was clear and blue.

To be honest, they are not as charming as I expected. A small rose bush with forked branches, light color, and sharp thorns on the branches, in Mu Chenghe's cognition, he feels that it is very similar to me.

"Why?" I asked.

"I don't know, intuition."

"You are a talented student of science and engineering, don't you all talk about logic in everything?" I refused to let go.

"Yeah, why do you think this is?" He smiled and played Tai Chi with me, and at the same time took out his lighter and went to the balcony to smoke.

Later, I accidentally saw the flower meaning of pink roses in a magazine——

First love.

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