Forced into a romantic relationship

Chapter 256 Two years ago

The village is extremely quiet at night. Occasionally, you can hear the barking of dogs. The evening breeze is slightly cool, blowing the clothes hanging at the door.

Looking up, it is rare to see a sky full of stars. The sky is not completely black, but a dull blue. The stars are scattered, the calm sea surface is intertwined with light and dark, and the undulating waves are lapping at the coast, making a slight sound.

Xiao Xiaoxiao was sitting on the roof, looking at the sea in the distance.

There was movement on the stairs behind her, and she looked behind her nervously. When she saw Han Zhou holding a bowl, she turned her head back again.

"Aren't you going to give me some of your seats?"

Han Zhou walked to her side with a smile.

"Can't you just sit on the ground?"

Although he said that, Xiao Xiaoxiao reluctantly moved his buttocks and gave up half of the bench under him, "What are you doing up here?"

"Dinner will be ready soon, it's time to get ready to eat." Han Zhou sat next to her and handed the bowl in his hand, "Have a try. Is it much better than your cooking skills?"

"Don't taste it!"

"Are you sure you don't want to try it? It may be difficult to drink this kind of soup again."

Seeing the girl's gloomy look, Han Zhou smiled bitterly and said, "Be reasonable. It was clearly your own problem just now, so there is no need to anger me, right?"

According to the original arrangement, tonight's dinner was supposed to be prepared by Xiao Xiaoxiao, and the others were responsible for taking care of it. However, an accident happened as soon as he entered the kitchen. Xiao Xiaoxiao was splashed with oil stains. In order not to leave any stains, he could not wash them. She could only run to wash the clothes because of the stains, and left the cooking to Han Zhou and others.

Frankly speaking, this incident can't be blamed on anyone else. It was entirely caused by this guy's own mistake. Han Zhou just stood a little closer at that time.

Xiao Xiaoxiao was a little annoyed. This guy just couldn't help but bring up every pot. He had to mention such an embarrassing thing again: "I'm not trying to offend you. I just don't want to drink the soup. And your bowl of soup doesn't look good at first sight." drink."

"Would you like to drink?"

Han Zhou shrugged, put the bowl on the ground, looked up at the night sky, and sighed, "I guess you can only see so many stars in the countryside."

"It's rare but strange. When I was a child, I could see many more stars than now."

"I could still see stars when I was little."

"So what if you can see it? Can you name the stars?"

"You can name the more famous ones, but I don't know about the others." Seeing Xiao Xiaoxiao's proud face, Han Zhou made an expression of humbly asking for advice, "Why, you are very knowledgeable about stars?"

"Of course! I know most of the stars!"

"That's amazing."

Han Zhou shook his head and laughed, wondering whether it was because this guy couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, so he often came to this place to look at the stars, right?

"By the way, besides asking you to eat, I have something else to ask you."

"what's up?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao moved his nose, and the more he smelled it, the more fragrant the bowl of soup on the floor became. When Han Zhou was not paying attention, he secretly picked up the bowl and swallowed.

If you don't drink it, it will be cold. If it is cold, you can't drink it. If you can't drink it, it will be wasted. She doesn't want to drink it, she just doesn't want to waste it.

"You said before that you thought of me after seeing that wooden room, right?"

"Well, it came to mind out of nowhere, but other than that, I didn't feel anything else, and I didn't remember anything. How about you, do you feel the same way?"

Xiao Xiao secretly took a sip of soup.

Han Zhou thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I didn't think about you, but that room is very familiar to me. It's the place where I lived before."

I thought Xiao Xiaoxiao would scream in surprise, but unexpectedly, this guy didn't say a word. He turned around and saw that the other person was holding a soup bowl and secretly drinking soup. His eyes were as bright as searchlights on the island, full of excitement. The intoxicated look on his face.

Han Zhou smiled and did not disturb the other party. Lin Anyu went to the beach not long ago to catch a fish. It was quite big. He was so excited that he insisted on cooking to show off his cooking skills. He is still busy now. It will take about ten minutes. Only then can you eat.

Time passed slowly, and after about three minutes, Xiao Xiaoxiao resisted the urge to lick the bottom of the bowl, let out a contented sigh, and then reluctantly moved the bowl away from his lips.

Han Zhou smiled and said, "How does it taste?"

After all, Xiao Xiaoxiao was a little embarrassed because he had just performed a wave of real fragrance, but he still said shamelessly: "It's okay, it's not too bad. What kind of soup is this?"

"Shiquan Dabu Decoction."

"Shiquan Dabu Decoction? How come I haven't heard of it?"

Han Zhou said casually: "It's normal that you haven't heard of my homemade dishes."

In fact, it is just a very ordinary chicken soup, and it even uses stale frozen chicken from the supermarket. Logically speaking, the probability of making a high-quality gourmet meal is very low, but I didn't expect it to succeed. I can only say that luck is really elusive. through.

It was precisely because it was a rare and successful delicacy that he would bring a bowl of fresh soup to Xiao Xiaoxiao.

It doesn't matter what kind of soup it is, Xiao Xiaoxiao doesn't care, and continues to ask in a nonchalant tone, "Is this Shiquan Dabu Decoction still available?"

"Have."

"Is it much?"

"Well, I've done a lot, what's wrong?" Han Zhou looked at the petite girl beside him with a half-smile.

"It's nothing. The taste of this soup is just average. I won't be able to drink it all by then. I can reluctantly drink a little more to avoid wasting it." Xiao Xiaoxiao said shamelessly.

You are overthinking, not to mention the exquisite delicacies, no one would not want to drink two more bowls, just with the presence of Gu Zheng, it is impossible to finish these soups...

Han Zhou laughed in his heart, and felt a little emotional at the same time, thinking that this guy deserved to be self-reliant early on, and he was quite thick-skinned when he should be thick-skinned, yet he could say such shameless words in a serious manner.

When he first entered Xiao Xiaoxiao's home, he noticed that there were only traces of one person's life in this small home. Thinking of the other person's identity as an orphan, he guessed that this girl might have always lived alone.

This situation made him think of Senior Zhong Ling, but the latter still had an older sister to depend on, and if Xiao Xiaoxiao had been living alone for a long time, it would have been quite hard these years.

Han Zhou never asked why Xiao Xiaoxiao became an orphan. He didn't seem to want to talk about it, and he hated other people's sympathetic looks. Therefore, before he came to Xiao Xiaoxiao's home, he quietly reminded Gu Zheng and others. People, let them treat this girl with a normal heart.

After retracting his thoughts, he said: "A real chef can accurately judge how much food everyone has at a dinner, and there is no possibility of waste. And I am such a chef."

"Stop bragging." Xiao Xiaoxiao dismissed it, "Do you know how much food I can eat?"

"do not know."

But I know how much food Gu Zheng can eat... Han Zhou added silently in his mind.

"Then you still say you are a real chef?" Xiao Xiaoxiao glanced at him angrily, "What did you want to say to me just now?"

She was so absorbed in drinking the soup that she didn't hear what the other person said later.

When it came to business, Han Zhou looked slightly serious: "Let me tell you, the wooden room you took me to see today, both in terms of overall layout and furniture, exactly matches the room I lived in before."

Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned: "Then what I described..." "That's right." Han Zhou took over her words, "The room you described is the same as the room I saw. In other words, you're seeing What I arrived at was actually my room."

"how is this possible?"

Although this matter itself was full of weirdness, when he heard this, Xiao Xiaoxiao was still stunned for several seconds, "I have obviously never been to your house."

"I've never been here before, and we've never seen each other, right?"

"I always feel like you are lying to me..."

After being silent for a while, Xiao Xiaoxiao stared at Han Zhou suspiciously, "Isn't this some kind of trick of yours to trick girls into going home?"

Han Zhou was happy: "I didn't seem to say I wanted to take you back to my home, right?"

"I don't believe it's such a coincidence anyway."

"I don't want to believe it either, but if you think about it carefully, does that box-like thing really look like a room? Why is it that only our first impression is like this, and we can even see the sphere as a refrigerator?"

"I told you it was half burned..."

Han Zhou interrupted the other party seriously: "Then the question is, why do you feel like 'half of the room was burned'? I had the same feeling at first, but then I looked carefully and there was clearly no fire on the wooden room. Mark of."

Thanks to the skill of "photographic memory", he recalled many deviations in details during the time he returned to Xiao Xiaoxiao's home. The pictures that first appeared in his mind were not the real wooden room. What appears is more of an illusion.

This illusion may be related to lost memory.

Seeing Xiao Xiaoxiao was silent, he continued: "If you don't believe it, you can ask Gu Zheng and Lin Anyu. They have seen what my room looks like, but if possible, I hope it is best not to let them know about it for the time being. You know, it would be great if the two of us knew such an incredible thing."

Han Zhou didn't want to hide it from Gu Zheng and Lin Anyu, but he still didn't know the truth of the matter at all. The fact that he had lost his memory inexplicably was really strange, and he didn't know if it would be dangerous. Before he could figure out some clues, , he didn’t want the two of them to worry.

He also imagined another possibility, that is, this matter is related to the status bar.

After all, the status bar uncharacteristically released a memory-finding activity task on the first day they met Xiao Xiaoxiao. This does not conform to the status bar's goal selection rule of "only interested in problematic girls with eight or more charms." Perhaps this It means that Xiao Xiaoxiao has other characteristics that are enough to attract the status bar, and there may be some relationship between the two.

Xiao Xiaoxiao thought for a long time and suddenly looked at Han Zhou warily: "So you still want me to go to your house, right?"

"I do have this idea." Han Zhou nodded, "I remembered some fragmentary content. There may be something hidden in my home that can quickly recall my lost memories, but I really can't remember that thing. Where is it hidden, so I may need your help."

"Really?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was a little surprised. She couldn't remember anything except that she thought of this guy inexplicably.

Of course it's false. This information comes from the mysterious tips bag, otherwise Han Zhou would only be able to turn a blind eye.

"Really," he said.

"You promise you didn't lie to me"

"I promise I didn't lie to you."

Xiao Xiaoxiao wondered: "Even if what you said is true, if you can't even find what you are hiding, then how can I help you?"

Han Zhou showed a mysterious smile: "Who said that I must have hidden that thing?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned and quickly understood what he meant: "You mean it's possible that I've been to your house before and hid something?"

"This possibility cannot be ruled out. After all, you have never been to my home, but you have an impression of my home."

"Well, it is indeed possible..."

Xiao Xiaoxiao nodded thoughtfully. This guess was actually very reasonable.

Han Zhou was a little surprised at the other party's calmness. You must know that the reason why he could quickly accept the bizarre fact that he had inexplicably forgotten an important memory was mainly because of the psychological construction brought by the status bar in advance, while for most ordinary people, Generally speaking, it is often impossible to accept such a fact easily.

This is so ridiculous after all.

But this is just right, he can tell the other party about another discovery he made.

Taking out his mobile phone and opening the photo album, he motioned for Xiao Xiaoxiao to come closer, pointed at the phone screen and said, "What do you think the things here look like?"

What he showed the other party was a photo of the wooden room that he had taken in the afternoon, and his finger was pointing to a wooden bar near the corner of the room.

Xiao Xiaoxiao looked at it and said, "This is a cabinet. Doesn't it look right to you?"

"No." Han Zhou shook his head, "I also look like a cabinet, and it's a big cabinet."

"The one with three doors?"

"Well, one of the doorknobs is broken."

Fortunately, no one else was present. Otherwise, seeing the two of them pretending to use a piece of wood as a three-door cabinet, and even being able to tell such details as a broken door handle, would probably make them doubt their lives.

"Is there any problem with this?" Xiao Xiaoxiao asked.

"has a problem."

Han Zhou nodded, took a deep breath and said, "And it's still a very important question."

Xiao Xiaoxiao pricked up his ears.

"This cabinet has been in my house for many years. It is no longer useful. It has an unpleasant damp smell and takes up too much space, so I have thrown it outside a long time ago."

Xiao Xiaoxiao was stunned for two seconds: "What do you mean..."

"Yes, let's assume that this wooden room is man-made. Then he must refer to the situation in my room when he made this thing, and since the cabinet was still in my room when he made this thing..."

"Does that mean that was the time when I saw your room? It could also be the time when we lost our memory?"

Xiao Xiaoxiao accepted Han Zhou's words excitedly.

"Correct."

Han Zhou nodded, feeling a little excited. The information provided by the mysterious bag was quite limited. He could get an important clue based on his own observation and thinking, which was obviously one step closer to the truth.

"Then do you remember when you threw away this cabinet?" Xiao Xiaoxiao asked quickly.

"I don't remember the specific time. Anyway, it was during high school, probably two or three years ago. The probability of two years ago is relatively high."

Before this summer vacation, Han Zhou did not have the skill of photographic memory, so he did not remember such unimportant trivial matters very clearly. The reason why he further determined that it happened two years ago was because Chen Long had already abandoned him at that time. After leaving, he began to discard the things he no longer needed at home one after another.

But having said that, this time period also happens to be the time when the status bar appears...

Could this really have something to do with the status bar?

(End of this chapter)