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Chapter 8

I made an appointment for the time and place of the doctor, went to the bank to transfer money, and was about to go home when my mother called.

The two chatted about the recent situation, and the mother said: "Xiao Li, your wedding with Jingjing is coming soon. After all, they are father and son, if you want to invite him to attend."

He sat in the car, with the afternoon sun scorching the back of the chair, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Mom, do you have enough living expenses recently?"

"It's enough. Now I only make fifty bowls of wontons every day. When they are sold out, I will close the stall. I will complete the online course and dance in the square at night. I have a very good life. I didn't like children very much before. Recently, Mrs. Chen's child went to kindergarten. , was walked out every day, teased for a while, and found it quite interesting. If you and Jingjing have a baby in the future, you might as well leave it to me to take care of it. Look, it’s not making a fuss, so I’ll take it with you, if you don’t look good and cry all day, then don’t throw it to me.”

Zhong Shuli smiled: "Ms. Zhong Yu, please turn on the front camera now, and then seriously reflect on it. Based on your genes, how could you have an unattractive child?"

"Just these two sentences, do you want to coax your mother to give you a child willingly? You young couple don't want to give up the two-person world so early, right? Pick a good day in two days and go with our two families to get the certificate. "

"Mom, I broke up with Jingjing."

There was silence on the other side for a while, and a sense of suffocation weighed on his heart. He seemed to have returned to those sticky afternoons in the third year of high school. And thoughts slowly flow out of the body.

"Oh, then did you say goodbye to Jingjing?" The tone was quite peaceful.

"I hurt her. She has moved out, talked to her a few times, seems to have found a place to live."

"In the future, no one will take care of you, so you should pay more attention to yourself."

Zhong Shuli hung up the phone, started the engine, and when he was going forward to check the road conditions, he was suddenly hit by something in his chest.He took out the envelope from his chest pocket and put it behind the transmission table, but accidentally knocked over the open water glass next to him, knocking over the entire letter.

Zhong Shuli had no choice but to carefully take out the paper from the envelope and unfold it, and said to himself, "Okay, this time I don't want to read it."

He parked the car in the alley, and walked downstairs to the unit under the dim street light. The light at the stairway was already broken. He turned on the light of his mobile phone. silhouette.

Lu Shijun squatted in the corner, facing the dazzling beam of light with his half-closed eyelids wide open, only feeling dizzy, and was helped up by someone.

The flashlight made his face even paler, and a voice sounded in the space cut by the light: "Shijun, why are you here?"

He lowered his head, and every word seemed to be swallowed by the shadows rushing towards him: "You won't let me find you, and you won't come to me, so I have to come here and wait."

The other party's body froze for a moment, and then hugged him who was on the verge of falling: "What's wrong with you, is there something uncomfortable?"

He slumped down, leaned against the man, and mumbled, "Stomach hurts."

Zhong Shuli sighed lightly, lifted the other's arm, followed him upstairs and entered the room, placed him on the sofa, rummaged for a long time, found half a box of stomach medicine, and looked at it against the light. It took half a day for the production date before I went to the kitchen to get a glass of water and sent it to the living room.

After taking the medicine, Lu Shijun slowly moved and sat up on the sofa.Zhong Shuli sat down beside him, put the tissue in his hand, and stood up again: "My head is full of sweat, just wipe it off."

He tried his best to raise his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead, but the other party grabbed his hand and wiped away the tiny beads of sweat.

"Didn't eat tonight?"

"En." He half closed his eyes, and his voice seemed to be pulled by the nerves of his whole body.

"I didn't say I wouldn't let you come to me for dinner." Zhong Shuli felt his chest burning, he touched the shriveled cigarette case, and let it go again.

He showed a faint smile: "You said it."

"Okay." Zhong Shuli stood up, suppressing the anger that was about to curse, turned and went to the kitchen.

He cleaned the inner pot of the rice cooker, added water and rice according to the instructions above, and turned on the power.When I opened the refrigerator, I saw a yellowed vegetable in an empty compartment, so I had to close the door and unplug the power.

He walked out of the kitchen and wanted to go out to buy some cooked food, when he heard a rapid knock on the door.

When I opened the door, I saw a middle-aged woman in a flowery pajamas, holding an elementary school workbook, glanced at it and said: "The surname is Zhong, right? It's time to pay the rent."

He hurriedly smiled and said, "I'm sorry, I have a lot of things to do at the beginning of the month, so I forgot about it." He took out his wallet.

"Well, it was all handed over by Ms. Liang before." She looked him up and down, "Why, did the couple quarrel?"

"We broke up." The wallet opened its chapped mouth and spit out a pile of small change. Two fingers flicked inside, but there was not a single note over ten yuan.

The proprietress cast a glance into the wallet, and her tone became pointed: "Oh, the money was taken away by the girlfriend? Why didn't you even see Zhang Hong's?"

Zhong Shuli patiently counted a dozen or so banknotes, pulled them out and said, "Madam, I don't have enough cash on hand tonight. How about this, you take some first, and give me a day's grace, I will go to the bank to get it for you tomorrow. "

The lady proprietress took the money with a frown, curled her lips and said, "You're such a young man, how come you can't even pay the rent after leaving a girl? Could it be that he is relying on his face to eat soft food?"

"To tell you the truth, I don't like to eat soft food..."

"He won't rent this house anymore, and you don't have to worry about him asking for monthly rent, he will move out immediately." Zhong Shuli's words were suddenly interrupted, and he looked at Lu Shijun who was standing beside him.

The landlady was suddenly poked, and was about to refute, but was stopped by the other party: "It's getting late, please go back first, we will come to clear the rent after the house is tidied up."

The door was slammed shut in front of her, shutting her reply in her throat, and she muttered uncomfortably: "Young bastard is really willing to slap a swollen face to pretend to be fat."

Zhong Shuli said helplessly: "It's just a few dispensable ridicules, you don't have to. Where can I live if I quit my residence here?"

"You can share the rent with me, 20 minutes away from the school, excluding water and electricity, two thousand a month."

Zhong Shuli was a little dazed, but the other party continued: "Although the house price is more expensive than this, it should not be a loss if you save gas money for commuting to and from get off work. You pack up and drive to my house."

"But," Zhong Shuli glanced at the other party's determined expression, "the porridge is still cooking in the pot."

"Then finish the porridge and clean up."

The two bowls of white porridge were thick enough, but when they were placed on the empty dining table, they were too innocent.

"How do you know I live here?"

"Liang Jing. She is my subordinate. Once I ran into her by chance. She was at the intersection downstairs."

Zhong Shuli couldn't ask how he knew the relationship between him and Liang Jing, and how to distinguish the correct one from several similar apartment buildings.

The other party smiled slyly: "There are three apartment buildings in front of the intersection, and there are four buildings behind. The first three buildings from left to right are all laying water pipes, and the wheels on her suitcase are quite clean, so it must be this building."

Zhong Shuli shook his head helplessly, and suddenly remembered that in the ward back then, the other party had broken through him so neatly.

"How did you do it?" Lu Shijun flipped through the Chinese version of the design guide.

"Well, I accidentally fell down the corridor." He leaned on the pillow and looked at the yellowed ceiling.

"Then your fall was quite level, and you only broke your left leg—if you fall, the protection of your neck is necessary; if your feet are slippery, you can hurt the front of your calf. I think you have to wait a while before touching the ground." Intense struggle."

It was clearly a crimson night covered with a layer of gauze, but was suddenly torn open by the blood-colored light, and the two figures quickly pressed against the window, the nerves in the chaos were suddenly tense, and the car made a harsh friction when it turned left With a sound, the green belt poured in from the open car window, the world flickered suddenly, and the airbag filled Zhong Shuli's entire field of vision.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that the other party didn't respond for a long time, it was inevitable to feel a bit frustrated.

"It's okay." Climbing out of the car window with uncontrollable legs, I saw two vague black figures falling under the dim streetlights. I wanted to call for help, but was pierced by the remaining heat of the asphalt road. vision.The pain brought him back to his senses. Fang saw the glass on his calf and was bleeding out. He took off his shirt and wrapped it around his knees, and finally dialed the phone.

A man and a woman nearby were lying on the edge of the zebra crossing, like two discarded plump sponges, bleeding from their bodies.