"Grandma, I've been busy with work recently, so I haven't paid much attention to this..." Ji Manli began to practice Tai Chi, wondering when her parents would return to her hometown. Consider having a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve.

"Oh, how could it be?" At this time, the aunt interjected, still chewing on the small pancake brought back by Ji Manli: "I remember that Xiaoman's work seems to be quite leisurely, why doesn't she have time to make a boyfriend? "

Ji Manli wanted to escape from this room, but she had no way out.

"No, aunt, I've received a lot of orders recently, so I'm busy." Ji Manli smiled lightly.

In the end, Ji Manli returned to the room with the reason that she had to continue working with her computer.It's really tiring. Why do these people who have nothing to do with their own lives usually ask so many questions that seem to be closely related to them?As soon as he put the computer on the table, there was a knock on the wooden door of the room. Before Ji Manli could say please come in, someone walked in. It was the blue-haired girl.Ji Manli blinked, not knowing what to say for a while, so she asked, "Hello, what's the matter?"

"You are my cousin." The tone of the blue-haired girl cannot be questioned, even if what she said is indeed a fact.Maybe it's because she has stayed abroad for a long time. Although she speaks Chinese fluently, her accent sounds a bit awkward for the returning overseas Chinese.

Ji Manli didn't understand the girl's reason for coming, so she looked straight at her.

"What's your name?" the girl asked again.

Ji Manli controlled the corners of her mouth that almost twitched, thinking to herself, is this how her aunt educates her children?Is this girl so arrogant and arrogant in England? ?Looking at her age, she was probably a junior high school student, Ji Manli sighed, she was in the second period of middle school, maybe she shouldn't care about a child.However, naturally, he couldn't let the child be so arrogant.

"What about you, what's your name? Before asking someone else's name, you should say your own name first." Ji Manli asked in a gentle tone, with a friendly smile, trying to make herself an easy-going cousin.

"I asked you first, and you should answer my question first before asking." The girl crossed her arms in front of her chest, and the angle of her neck was slightly adjusted upwards by fifteen degrees, which made her look even more disdainful.

But after all, Ji Manli had experienced Bai Sheng in her first year of high school, so the girl can't beat her with such a move.Ji Manli smiled slightly, the curve of her mouth deepened, and said: "Then... I won't answer."

After speaking, he turned around, turned on the computer, and pressed the power button.I took a notebook and pencil case from my backpack, as well as a pack of handmade biscuits given by Bo Sheng.In addition, he took out the unfinished drink green tea from the mesh bag on the side of the backpack and put it on the table.Throw the girl aside, don't mind her being a background foil, and start doing your own work.

The girl seemed to be angry and felt that she was losing face, but Ji Manli's attitude made her unable to do anything.

That's right, Ji Manli wanted her to learn to bow her head and learn to compromise.Back then, she and Bo Sheng were peers, and she was tolerated with too much enthusiasm and sympathy when she was young, but today she is only facing a junior, and she doesn't have to bend herself to cater to her temper.

"...My name is Yu Yadan, you can call me Amber." The girl finally compromised and said a few words reluctantly.

At this moment, Ji Manli felt that she was a bit cute, and she was just a simple child playing with her temper. It seemed that she shouldn't be too serious, so she looked at her and said, "My name is Ji Manli, first time meeting, hello."

"Well," the girl replied in a nasal voice, and then said: "My mother asked me to come to you and ask you how to study."

"...What?" Ji Manli couldn't believe it, and paused with the hand holding the wireless mouse: "My grades are not very good, I suggest you wait for other cousins ​​to come back and ask them."

"You are very beautiful." Out of nowhere, the girl said, with seriousness in her big eyes, sweeping away her arrogance just now: "Do you have a boyfriend?"

This topic jumped a little bit, Ji Manli couldn't help it a little bit, took a deep breath, clicked on a picture, and said: "No."

It turned out that not only the elders would ask about boyfriends when they returned to their hometown, even such a junior high school student would ask.

"Then do you have a girlfriend?" the girl asked again.

Ji Manli felt that her smile was about to collapse. Of course, after a few years of social experience, she still calmly said to such a problem: "No."

She picked up the PET bottle of sugar-free green tea, turned off the round cap on the top, brought the mouth of the bottle to her mouth, and was about to take a sip when she heard the girl ask: "Then do you want to consider being my girlfriend?"

Ji Manli tried her best not to let the sugar-free green tea spray onto the laptop in front of her, but some overflowed around the corner of her mouth, so she took out a tissue from her pocket and wiped the corner of her mouth.

"Um... Amber, if you want to ask some academic questions, you should wait for other cousins ​​to come back and ask them. Then, I have to work now."

In fact, she has finished all her to-do lists, and saying that she is working is just an excuse, but after the Chinese New Year, there may be urgent mail, and Ji Manli is browsing her material library for emergencies.

"This has nothing to do with the girlfriend, right?" The girl who was obviously perfunctory showed a trace of anger in her tone: "You don't have a boyfriend or a girlfriend now, so you can think about me."

Ji Manli's migraine struck again. She rubbed her chest, turned around, looked at the girl seriously and asked: "Do you really know what a girlfriend means? You are old enough for you to be serious about your own Do you have a clear understanding of your emotions? Also, the most important point is that the two of us are related by blood."

"Why do you make it so serious?" The girl sneered: "In our high school, we slept with whoever liked it, let alone us, didn't you? Besides, it's not about having children, blood relationship is just Because of eugenics, but homosexuality is not regulated there.”

Ji Manli looked at the blue-haired girl in front of her with an unbelievable look.The obvious Asian silhouette and her blue hair look a bit nondescript. Her eyes are beautifully shaped, her nose is straight, and her skin is fair, but her arrogant temperament and nonchalant attitude make Ji Manli unable to develop a good impression.Even the kind of cuteness that I thought she was a girl just now disappeared with these questions.

"At least I won't," Ji Manli didn't want to talk to this person any more, and simply ordered the eviction: "I have to work, sorry."

Even my own cousin shouldn't have this kind of attitude.

"Do you actually have a girlfriend? Or you can't accept being gay because you're straight?" the girl asked persistently.

"..." An expression of three black lines appeared in Ji Manli's heart, and she restrained her temper, not letting herself yell at her about what it's about you.

Suddenly the phone rang, and finally gave Ji Manli an outlet for relief. Regardless of the girl's presence, she picked up the phone, stared at the girl directly, and said clearly, please give me a private space.Unfortunately, the girl was unmoved, and the corners of Ji Manli's mouth finally twitched uncontrollably.She turned around, holding the mobile phone in her left hand and sticking it to her ear, resting her cheek on her right hand, resting her elbows on the table, and buried herself in the table with her hands like a hamster protecting food, dividing the distance between herself and the girl. a small space.

"Ji Manli, Happy New Year." Bo Sheng's thin and gentle voice came from the other end of the microphone, making Ji Manli unconsciously let go of the tense nerves after returning to her hometown.

"Happy New Year," Ji Manli raised the corners of her mouth unconsciously, and her unfocused eyes became softer and softer: "What's the matter, are you still in the store?"

"Well, the shop is also open during the Chinese New Year. My mother is abroad, so it's not convenient to celebrate the New Year together." From Bai Sheng's place came the sound of the coffee machine grinding beans in the shop: "Are you going home for the New Year? Actually, I wanted to ask you if you want Come get some cake from me."

"Well, I'm back in P city, cake?" Ji Manli was a little dazed: "Why do you want to get cake all of a sudden?"

"I made a new cake, and I want someone to taste it." There was a hint of a smile in Bai Sheng's voice: "Otherwise, come to my shop again when you come back during the Chinese New Year."

"Okay," Ji Manli happily agreed, "Thank you!"

The blue-haired girl who was ignored by the side became more and more displeased, but she had no choice but to face the cousin who was soft but not tough, so she maintained her original posture and stared at Ji Manli.

"Then, that's it for now, goodbye." Bai Sheng sighed softly on the other side, but it was not obvious.

Ji Manli heard Bai Sheng saying goodbye, and suddenly felt melancholy in her heart.

There was a hint of hesitation in Bai Sheng's tone, why did he end the conversation directly?It felt like she was hiding something and she had no way of knowing.Bo Sheng is too good at hiding, she always puts all her thoughts under her light brown eyes, but she will give you an extremely firm and reassuring smile, so that you can't see through it, and you can't question what she said. Every word spoken, every decision made.

Obviously before, Bo Sheng would always talk to her about everything, even if she didn't talk much.

"Goodbye, take good care of yourself alone, don't just focus on the store." Ji Manli warned, and then she heard Bai Sheng answer softly, and then hung up the phone.

A little lost, even though the phone with the big screen is in her hand, filling her palms, she still feels the emptiness in her heart like ripples expanding circle after circle.

"Hey, no way, are you lying to me? In fact, that was your boyfriend or girlfriend just now?"

At this time, the girl spoke again.Ji Manli looked at the incoming call notification on the phone screen, not wanting to answer the girl's question.In fact, she also didn't understand whether she didn't want to answer this question, or whether she didn't want to deny it.

Bo Sheng is... let her use it as a shield?

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