Before going to bed that night, Xin Rong sat on the edge of the bed and looked at the Winnie the Pooh on the nightstand for a moment. Then he pursed his lips, reached out and pressed the bear's head, and lowered Pooh's bear face down.
The bear boy was lying on the cabinet like a prostrate, how to look a little pitiful.
At noon the next day, Xin Rong still went to the staff canteen for lunch.
Similar to yesterday's situation, Shao Chengyun had already finished eating first. Because of the rainy day, he did not sit outside the canteen, but sat at a round table in the corner with a few co-workers, and two of them were still eating.
Xin Rong first stood at the side door of the canteen and looked at Shao Chengyun for a while.
This feeling is quite subtle, and it cannot be described for a while. Looking at the man from such a distance, he obviously did not belong to one of the group, not as dark as the others, the skin was not rough at all, and the whole temperament and eyes were more calm, not so superficial.
But he still blended into the crowd with a calm look, listening to a person next to him talking about the child's transfer school. The surrounding environment was noisy, Xin Rong was not far away from them, Shao Chengyun turned his head to see Xin Rong, Xin Rong did not avoid the line of sight, and nodded at him.
Xin Rong thought that Shao Chengyun would come and talk to himself, but Shao Chengyun did not.
They were separated by a few tables, and Shao Chengyun was so separated from Xin Rong, he just raised his jaw at him and smiled.
By the time Xin Rong had finished eating and returned to sit at a table with his colleagues, Shao Chengyun had already walked out of the canteen with a few co-workers. <
Within a few minutes, Xin Rong received a message on her mobile phone, which was sent by Shao Chengyun, just a short sentence.
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Xin Rong looked at the screen, hesitated, or gave him a reply: Are you okay?
Shao Chengyun replied with one word: OK.
Nothing else. Shao Chengyun also did not mention the small accident in which he was smashed on the shoulder in the morning, and he disdained selling this misery.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Shao Chengyun sent a message like yesterday to ask Xin Rong if he could let himself pick up sugar candy. Xin Rong couldn't find any reason to refuse, so he went by him.
Although for Xin Rong, this is a sparse and ordinary day. The work done, the people I meet, and the guest room complaints I handle are no different from the past, but there seems to be something different.
When he pulled out the key to open the door, he heard Sugar Sugar laughing happily in the house.
Shao Chengyun half squatted in front of the child, the two people did not know what they were playing, Shao Chengyun and Sugar Sugar said, "Just said very well, let's practice again."
Xin Rong stood by the door a little confusedly, saw sugar candy suddenly raise his face, his voice was also serious, raised his chin and said, "If you dare to push me again, I will push you back tenfold!"
Shao Chengyun smiled and encouraged her, "Don't just say no, push immediately, make it strong."
Xin Rong's eyes widened at the side, watching Sugar Sugar reach out and push Shao Chengyun's shoulder very hard.
She was a five-year-old child, and it was impossible to push Shao Chengyun with this palm. But Shao Chengyun acted like that, and his half-squatting feet were still shaking.
Xin Rong smiled on the spot and said, "Sugar Sugar, what are you doing?" As soon as Sugar Sugar heard his voice, she immediately turned around and ran to the door, hugged Xin Rong's leg, and said happily, "Uncle helped me teach Qin Tao a lesson today!" He also told him that if he dared to bully me, he would call the police!
This male classmate belongs to the bear child type and usually bullies girls in the class. Xin Rong had found a teacher for this matter before, and also looked for boys and their parents, but the effect was not very good.
Now looking at Sugar Sugar's happy look, it is estimated that Shao Chengyun came forward to work.
Not only that, but after returning home, Shao Chengyun also taught her to practice how to deal with boys. Sometimes a child may not be so bad, you are a little more aggressive than him, bravely fight back once or twice, and then you will be at peace.
Shao Chengyun also walked over, first praised the sugar candy, and then said to Xin Rong, "Bring you two takeaways and put them in the refrigerator."
In fact, this was something Shao Chengyun wanted to do yesterday, but he couldn't feel Xin Rong's acceptance, so he didn't take the risk. Picking up sugar candy on the way home today passed a Cantonese restaurant, Shao Chengyun remembered that Aunt Hui had told her that Xin Rong liked the taste of food, so she went in and brought two dishes.
Xin Rong looked at him and did not speak. <
Shao Chengyun paused for a few seconds, then said, "Then I'll go." After speaking this time, he did not immediately open the door as he did yesterday.
Xin Rong still looked at him.
It had been raining all day outside, and it hadn't stopped. Near seven o'clock, it was already dark.
Then Xin Rong slightly tickled the corner of his lower lip and said, "... Takeaways are brought, leave it to eat. After a pause, he said, "The person who picked up sugar candy paid him 25 yuan each time, and you picked him up twice and gave it to you with dinner."
That's a bit of an interesting thing to say. It sounded like he wanted to draw a line with Shao Chengyun, but after the two had known each other for so long, this was the first time Shao Chengyun had heard Xin Rong mention the concept of money to himself.
- Like some kind of leap that is not obvious but actually gratifying.
In Xin Rong's previous cognition, the amount of money to Shao Chengyun was just a bunch of numbers, and there was no significance of a specific amount.
Even if the things that Shao Chengyun bought for him boiled down to the category of "people have a lot of money", it would not be Xin Rong's beak. Therefore, Xin Rong had never said anything to Shao Chengyun about the value of money.
Even if Shao Chengyun's identity change was only temporary, his current status of greeting XinSuke in the canteen seemed to allow Xin Rong to talk to him in a normal manner. <
Shao Chengyun first explained for himself, "I bought the takeaway because I wanted you to save time cooking."
Xin Rong did not pierce him, but said, "Then eat or not?"
Shao Chengyun immediately nodded, "Eat."
Perhaps when Shao Chengyun made the decision to go to Haoli and Xin Rong for equal work, he himself would not have thought that such a homely meal could be eaten so memorably.
Xin Rong has had the experience of taking care of her mother, and the family is used to doing things. Shao Chengyun had already bought two meat dishes, chicken and fish, so he simply fried a seasonal vegetable and made a small pot of seaweed egg flower soup.
Within twenty minutes, two meats, one vegetarian and one soup were laid out on the table. Xin Rong also gave Shao Chengyun a large bowl of pumpkin steamed rice, which was twice the amount of rice he had eaten in the villa in the past.
When Shao Chengyun saw this posture, he also smiled and said, "If you don't work at night, you don't have to eat so much."
Xin Rong handed him the chopsticks and said lightly, "Eat, don't you have to work tomorrow?" In the past, Xin Rong was passive in getting along, and there was less time to express opinions, and most of them were Shao Chengyun's decisions. Now that he had to listen to Xin Rong's arrangement everywhere at Xin Rong's house, Shao Chengyun smiled and took the chopsticks, and did not say anything about whether he could eat or not. Appears pretentious.
Sugar Sugar made Xin Rong teach very well, implemented the ancient precept of eating without words, and ate quietly. Xin Rong removed the bones from the chicken and put the meat in her bowl piece by piece, and she chewed it herself and ate it slowly.
However, Shao Chengyun always couldn't help but want to talk to Xin Rong. Later, Xin Rong clipped a chicken leg to him and asked him, "Did you put on the plaster?"
Standing closer to Shao Chengyun a few times just now, Xin Rong smelled a faint smell of mint and musk on the other side, and guessed where he was hurting when he was doing things today.
Because Shao Chengyun went to the restaurant at the peak of takeaway, there was only half of the white chopped chicken left in the store. The calf that was connected to the chicken wings just now had already let Xin Rong give sugar candy, and now Xin Rong wanted to give him the only chicken leg, Shao Chengyun did not want it, raised the chopsticks to block it, and said, "You eat it yourself."
As a result, this chicken leg was finally placed in Shao Chengyun's bowl.
This small detail seems to be inadvertent, but there is a kind of stamina that slowly penetrates downwards.
For Shao Chengyun, for Xin Rong.
These are often the scenes in ordinary families, where parents give chicken legs to their children, and perhaps husband and wife let each other eat something good, but in the past year's marriage, between them, there has never been a single one.
At that time, Xin Rong did not dare to think about it, nor did he take the initiative to give Shao Chengyun a dish, and Shao Chengyun could not think of that aspect at all. Because the ingredients are plentiful enough, there is no shortage of anything, and there will be no need to push each other.
Shao Chengyun has always been a person who does not show half emotion on his face. This time, he was silent for a moment, and the smile at the corner of his lips was also reduced.
After a while, he continued what Xin Rong said about the plaster, "Shoulder twisted, it's okay."
Xin Rong looked at him a little helplessly at the opposite table, "Anyway, I advise you not to move, right?" YYou don't have to do this at all.
Shao Chengyun smiled again, and his tone was still a little immodest, "Chicken legs have been eaten, and the amount of food has doubled, how to do without work."
Xin Rong frowned, "Tired all day, can you eat it?"
"Let's see how it goes." Shao Chengyun took out a tissue and wiped his mouth, saying, "At least my heart is not tired."
"I don't have much strength in the office, but I think about things and people's hearts all the time." Shao Chengyun raised his hand and nodded his forehead on the side of himself, "Tired here."
"I'm going to give myself a holiday." Shao Chengyun said while using chopsticks to separate a piece of meat on the chicken leg, ate it, and swallowed it, before saying, "This kind of life may not be in the future, but now that I experience it immersively, I feel that it is not bad." I'm still waiting for Friday's paycheck. Shao Chengyun's
personality is not floaty, but when Xin Rong is still only by his side as a young lover, the relationship between Shao Chengyun and him determines that they will not have this way of communicating.
Now Shao Chengyun was sitting across from Xin Rong, wearing an affordable sweater and coat, without those endless phone calls to him, and without all kinds of socializing.
Even if he knew that this man didn't really belong here, Xin Rong was still a little confused when he listened to him.
Hopefully time freezes at this moment.
After the meal, Shao Chengyun took the initiative to say that he wanted to wash the dishes, but Xin Rong did not stop him. <
Shao Chengyun basically did not do any housework, but the results of the actual operation were not so bad.
By the time Xin Rong put the sugar candy to sleep and came out of the bedroom, Shao Chengyun had already cleaned up the kitchen, washed the dishes and put them in the bowl rack to drain the water, and the garbage was also sorted and put away by the door.
It was only eight o'clock in the evening, and it wasn't very late.
Shao Chengyun washed his hands, and when he turned back, he saw Xin Rong leaning against the kitchen door and looking at himself. He smiled, wiped his hands with a towel, and said, "Don't rush me, right?" This is called first strike is strong.
Shao Chengyun asked this, even if Xin Rong wanted to let him leave, he would have to wait at least half an hour.
Xin Rong did not speak, Shao Chengyun walked over to him, wrapped his shoulders very measuredly, and said, "Sit down, talk."
Xin Rong smelled the faint smell of herbs on his body again. It is estimated that the plaster has been applied for a while, and it is when the medicine is effective, and the herbal smell is more obvious than before.
"What are you talking about?" Xin Rong took his hand away, took two steps ahead of him, and went directly to the balcony.
It had been raining all day, and it had finally stopped.
The floors of the old residential area are not highly repaired, and the buildings are not far apart. Looking out of the balcony window, you can even see that the TV of the neighbor opposite is playing advertisements.
Shao Chengyun also went to the balcony, stood next to Xin Rong, first thought about it for a while, and then asked Xin Rong, "Talk about my childhood." How hard to die, how to fight the family, the result of primary school before graduation was sent out of the country, want to listen?
Talking to Xin Rong about this was actually not in Shao Chengyun's preparations. But it may also be that the atmosphere between the two people has arrived, and Shao Chengyun suddenly has an impulse to let Xin Rong know more about himself. Even if it was the experience he least wanted to talk about, he wanted to share it with the people around him.
Xin Rong didn't say he wanted to hear it, nor did he say he didn't want to hear it. Shao Chengyun was just like a friend chatting, casually starting his head.
He spoke very frankly, but did not deliberately amplify the negative emotions in it. At the age of twelve, I went out to study, went to boarding school, and only went home once every six months, and these processes were inevitably lonely.
There are also many reasons driven by the interests of the family behind this, and he has not hidden from Xin Rong.
It is not complicated, but it is enough for Xin Rong to understand some of the stories of his youth and youth.
After speaking, Xin Rong was silent for a while and said, "You can't be blamed for your brother's affairs."
Shao Chengyun nodded and accepted the comfort, "Yes, who can blame an eight-year-old hitchhiker?" For so many years, Shao Chengyun also carried an invisible shackle. Even if he becomes a strong person in his own ideals, he still has to sign a marriage contract at the age of 33 to achieve some kind of reconciliation with fate.
Until he told Xin Rong all these pasts that he had deliberately avoided, he found that he really didn't seem to care.
If the ultimate point of all this is to let him meet the person in front of him, it will be worth it.
When Shao Chengyun opened his mouth again, his voice slowed down, looked at the people around him, and said, "Xin Rong, I have always wanted to formally apologize to you." For what was done to you that night. The balcony was half dark, and both men were standing with their backs to the fence of the balcony. Between the gaps in the windows that were not closed, there was a rush of wind.
Xin Rong was stunned for a moment, and then he realized which night Shao Chengyun was referring to. Suddenly, unconsciously, he shrank to the side.