After eating the rice noodles to the bottom, Liu Piaopiao put down the chopsticks and watched Gong Yan's liveliness while gnawing on the phoenix claws.

Gong Yan didn't have the slightest effort to mind Liu Piaopiao's animal-like expression, he held chopsticks in one hand, and grabbed the napkin on the table with the other hand like grasping a life-saving straw, and the bowl was surrounded by sweat wipes that he stacked neatly.

Gong Yan's face was flushed, as if he was drunk, and his red and swollen lips couldn't help but remind Liu Piaopiao of the poisoned Ouyang Feng in "East Becomes West".

"Boss, I'm sorry, can you give me another box of napkins?" Gong Yan said as he couldn't stop wiping the sweat from his forehead and nose.

As soon as the proprietress who was settling accounts heard this rare customer call her, she hurriedly put down the account book in her hand and took out a box of new paper from the counter and walked over.

"Young man, you still have to practice! Our soup has been deliberately reduced in spiciness!"

Seeing Liu Piaopiao watching the excitement on the side, the proprietress couldn't help but smile and said: "The little girl is so blessed! My boyfriend can't eat spicy food with you!"

"He's not my boyfriend!He's my boss!" Liu Piaopiao quickly denied.

"The little girl is amazing! the boss has been abducted here by you!" The proprietress seemed to be joking, and there was a bit of truth in her words, and she didn't give Liu Piaopiao a chance to refute after speaking, so she turned around and left.

Liu Piaopiao, who was misunderstood, bit the remaining phoenix claws in his hand fiercely, and whispered angrily: "Where did I abduct it, obviously he relied on me." ”

"What are you muttering there all by yourself?"

Gong Yan finished the last bite of rice noodles and put down the bowl as if he had finished his execution.

"It's nothing, I said you surprised me. The clever Liu Piaopiao immediately changed the topic.

"What did I surprise you?" Gong Yan picked up a tissue, wiped it around the corner of his mouth, carefully folded it, and placed it properly on the dining table.

"How do you say that you are also a child of a rich family, you obviously don't like to eat this rice noodles, but you can endure eating them all, which I admire. "Liu Piaopiao has one thing to say.

"I can eat all this rice noodles, haven't you thought about any other reasons?" Gong Yan straightened his collar and stared at Liu Piaopiao with burning eyes.

Liu Piaopiao pondered for a long time, and suddenly said excitedly: "Do you also think that this rice noodle is getting better and better, so you eat it all?"

Gong Yan thought that this guy who often had a bad head should always grow a little, but who knew that he was still stubborn, and his son could not be taught!

"First of all, since I was a child, my family has a strict upbringing, and it is absolutely not okay to waste food, and secondly, I am conquered, I think it's not bad, and I am interested in learning more, understand?"

Gong Yan raised his finger and pointed at Liu Piaopiao, who looked ignorant, thinking that she should be able to understand her mind this time!

Next time I take you to eat his fat rice noodles, it's fragrant!"

Liu Piaopiao was happy that she had succeeded in giving others a delicacy, and unconsciously danced with her hands.

Gong Yan on the other side was pale, and he shook his head helplessly, complaining that his vision was unique.

----

"Thank you today! I'm very happy and I hope you are doing well! I'm leaving. ”

When the car arrived downstairs, Yao Zhixia got out of the car and said goodbye to Xue Rin.

"I'm leaving, I'm sending you to the door, why don't you make a cup of tea and entertain me?"

"Huh?"

Yao Zhixia turned around in surprise, but saw that Xue Rin had already gotten out of the car, and pushed her to the unit door without saying a word.

"Your car, this can't be parked......"

"Whatever he does!Admit the punishment!" Xue Rin still didn't let go, and as he spoke, he had already taken Yao Zhixia up the steps.

"Why is it so dark here? Is there no light?" Xue Rin touched the darkness, grabbed Yao Zhixia's hand and walked up cautiously.

Being held by Xue Rin's warm hand, Yao Zhixia's heart couldn't help but beat faster, he had long been used to going upstairs in the dark corridor on weekdays, but he was in a mess at this moment.

"The lights in this hallway are broken, be careful, I live on the top floor. ”

"Doesn't the property care, it's so irresponsible!"

Xue Rin groped for the walls, and the moonlight shone into the hallway through the broken glass window on the second floor, which gave him some vision.

"This building is decades old and there is no property to manage anymore. ”

When Yao Zhixia passed by the platform, he caught a glimpse of the blue-white moonlight, and suddenly felt that the moonlight tonight was particularly beautiful.

Usually when she came home from work, she only felt that the moonlight was cold and cruel, as if reminding her of her loneliness and loneliness, but tonight, bathed in the moonlight, she felt unprecedented perfection from the bottom of her heart.

"What's wrong?" Through the touch between his hands, Xue Rin clearly felt that the person behind him had slowed down.

A gentle urging came from his fingertips, Yao Zhixia shook his head and quickened his pace, "It's nothing, I'm thinking about what to ask you to drink for a while." ”

"There is tea to drink tea, there is no tea to drink water, I don't pick. ”

The two finally climbed to the top floor in the dark corridor, and Xue Rin breathed a sigh of relief, "It's done." ”

As soon as the words fell, the lights on the top floor suddenly turned on, Xue Rin was startled by the sudden brightness, and the hand holding Yao Zhixia also tightened.

He turned his head in dismay, only to see Yao Zhixia speak in embarrassment: "Only the lights on our floor are good." ”

Xue Rin nodded, inadvertently catching a glimpse of the hands of the two still holding each other, Yao Zhixia lowered his head in accordance with his gaze, and in the next second, the two bounced away like an electric shock.

Yao Zhixia glanced around in embarrassment, but Xue Rin seemed much calmer, he looked the door up and down, and said to himself: "It's true that I went up to the fifth floor in one breath, I'm a young man, and I have a hard time climbing." ”

Yao Zhixia didn't say anything, only quickly took out the key and opened the door, but at this moment, the door on the opposite side suddenly opened, and an old lady leaned out from inside.

Yao Zhixia turned around, bowed to the old lady, and greeted respectfully: "Hello Aunt Zhou!"

The eldest lady smiled kindly at Yao Zhixia, quickly looked at Xue Rin behind Yao Zhixia, and then carefully put a plastic bag containing only one corn cob in it at the door.

"I'm just out to take out the garbage, Weaving Xia, this is your friend?

"He's ......"

"Hello Aunt Zhou! My name is Xue Rin, and I am a good friend of Yao Zhixia, and I thank you for taking care of her on weekdays. Yao Zhixia was hesitating how to introduce, but was preempted by Xue Rin on the side.

Seeing that this young man was so cheerful and polite, Aunt Zhou immediately opened the door of her house, who knew that there was an old man standing behind her, who was hunched and stretched his neck, the old man did not expect that his wife would suddenly open the door, and quickly stood up in a panic, did not know where to put his hands, and gestured in front of him for a long time, and finally leaned against the wall unnaturally.

Aunt Zhou didn't notice this, she said with a spring breeze on her face: "Oh! The young man is really polite! Usually Zhixia often helps our old couple! I'll make something delicious another day, Zhixia, I will definitely bring your friend to eat!"

"Hey, thank you, Aunt Zhou!" Yao Zhixia smiled and nodded, and Xue Rin also nodded.

Yao Zhixia turned around and pushed the door open, but Xue Rin took the first step to walk in, Yao Zhixia pressed the switch on the wall, and when he turned around to close the door, he heard a muttering sound from the other side of the corridor.

"This young man, how handsome he looks!

"You old woman, don't you know when you open the door!"

Yao Zhixia looked back at the person who was standing in the living room and looking around, couldn't help pursing her lips, turned around and closed the door.

----

Xue Rin stood in the cramped living room with his waist crossed, looking around curiously, the leather sofa in the living room was old and dark, even the leather on the handle was broken to the ground, and there were several long scratches left on the sofa legs, which seemed to be a prank left by the owner's children.

In the corner of the sofa is a neatly folded blanket, a few textbooks and exercise books on translation are arranged in an orderly manner on the glass coffee table, and next to the bulging pencil case is a pair of headphones that have been twisted and put away, and the wire protection case on the top of the headphones has peeled off, revealing a crumbling copper wire.

"Don't you wear slippers?"

Yao Zhixia changed her slippers, and was wondering why the only pair of men's slippers left by the landlord in the house was still on the shoe rack, and when she looked up, she saw Xue Rin standing barefoot on the floor of the living room.

"It's okay, it's a little hot in this room, don't you turn on the air conditioner?" Xue Rin said and turned around in place, searching for the air conditioner.

"We ...... There is no air conditioner...... "Yao Zhixia was a little embarrassed.

"Oh, it's okay, it's not that hot......" Xue Rin wiped the sweat off his forehead and wiped it on his clothes casually.

"We've got fans, that's good!"

Yao Zhixia hurriedly bowed down and dragged out a yellowed electric fan from the utility cabinet next to the shoe rack.

"How is this going to be opened?"

Xue Rin lowered his head and studied for a long time, looking at the identical row of buttons on it, a little worried.

"The switch is here. Yao Zhixia reached behind the fan base and pressed a black button.

The blades of the fan began to rotate in an instant, and Xue Rin leaned his face over, but who would have thought that it was not only the cool breeze that greeted him, but also the thick dust that had been deposited for many years.

"Ahem......" The unprepared Xue Rin dodged backwards again and again, choking on the dust and coughing.

Seeing this, Yao Zhixia quickly unplugged the outlet of the fan, "Are you okay! I'm sorry! I forgot to clean it first!"

Xue Rin casually took out a wet tissue from the coffee table and wiped it on his face, and when he took it down, the wet tissue was already black.

Yao Zhixia silently dragged the electric fan behind him, stared at Xue Rin apologetically, and bit his lip unconsciously.

Xue Rin looked at the black but smiled, "It's so gray outside." ”

He then pulled out another wet tissue and leaned back on the couch casually while wiping his face, but as soon as he relaxed, he suddenly felt a tingling pain in his back.

"Something stabbed me!" Xue Rin jumped up suddenly, stroking his back in horror.

Yao Zhixia looked at the back of the sofa nervously, and suddenly remembered something, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I was negligent! I forgot to tell you, the sponge in that place on the sofa is gone, only ...... A wooden frame up. ”

Yao Zhixia hurriedly stepped forward and raised his hand to check Xue Rin's back.

"How are you? Are you hurt?"

Xue Rin hugged his arm and said straightly, "It's okay, it's okay." ”

But after thinking about it, he immediately wailed loudly, and hunched over his back to Yao Zhixia, "It's really painful! You can help me take a look! See if there are any scratches! I have to lift my clothes to see!"

Yao Zhixia looked at his back, a little unable to move for a while, and was hesitating, Xue Rin's wail sounded in his ears again: "You can help me take a look!

Yao Zhixia couldn't care so much when she heard this, and immediately lifted Xue Rin's clothes, only to see that there was an obvious redness and swelling on his smooth back, and she immediately turned around and walked to the toilet without saying a word.

"What's the matter, why did you go!" Xue Rin asked, pulling his clothes and turning around.

As soon as the words fell, Yao Zhixia had already walked out of the toilet, holding a towel in his hand, and hurriedly ran to the kitchen.

"It's going to be a little cold, bear with me!"

As soon as the words fell, Xue Rin cried out with an "ah", the place where he was hit didn't hurt much, it was he who acted to fool Yao Zhixia, but Yao Zhixia took it seriously, holding a towel wrapped in ice cubes and gently pressing it on his affected area, although her technique was very gentle, but Xue Rin, who was already hot and sweating, couldn't stand this sudden coldness.

"How's it going?, are there better?" asked Yao Zhixia eagerly after applying the cold compress for a while.

Xue Rin raised a hand, made an "OK" gesture, and nodded vigorously, not that he deliberately did not speak, but that he was grinning with ice, and his face was distorted.

He was glad that Yao Zhixia was standing behind him at this time, otherwise he would have to pretend to be nothing like a man while enduring the ice, which would test his acting skills too much.

Seeing that Xue Rin was fine, Yao Zhixia stopped what he was doing and sent the towel to the toilet to rinse.

"I see that you only have a bedroom here, you and Liu Piaopiao, how can you live?"

Xue Rin followed Yao Zhixia to the door of the toilet and leaned against the door frame.

"At first, Piao Piao and I both slept on the bed in the bedroom, but she loved to move when she slept, and often talked in her dreams, I felt light, and I would wake up at the slightest movement, and then I changed to sleeping on the sofa. Yao Zhixia said, hanging the towel neatly on the shelf.

"You said you slept on the couch in the living room!" Xue Rin's eyes widened, pointing incredulously to the couch behind him.

Yao Zhixia nodded, his face was calm, but Xue Rin at this time had mixed tastes, before he saw the bed in the bedroom, he felt that even if he slept alone, it was too narrow, let alone this incomplete old sofa?

Feeling that the mood of the person opposite was a little heavy, Yao Zhixia took the initiative to speak: "I'll make you a cup of tea, can I add ice?"

Xue Rin's heart was still very stuffy, but he knew that Yao Zhixia was no longer the Yao Zhixia she used to be, she was now by his side, whether it was as a friend or other roles he wanted to fight for, she was no longer helpless.

"Okay, two pieces of ice!" Xue Rin smiled brightly and stretched out his hand to make a "victory" gesture.

----

On a summer night, a cool rain fell between people's chatter and laughter, the streets became spotless, and the air was soaked with the fresh smell of earth, Xue Rin and Yao Zhixia each held a cup of herbal tea and stood side by side on the small balcony.

As soon as the wind blew, all the leaves on an ancient tree adjacent to the balcony swayed with the wind, and a drop of cold rain fell on Xue Rin's cheeks with the wind.

In the past, he would have wiped it away with disgust, but tonight, he hoped that the rain would never evaporate, as if it carried all the memories that belonged to this night.

"The two-story building across the street seems to have been abandoned for a long time, and no one has ever entered or exited, but every time I stand on the balcony and look at the opposite side, the yard is always so clean and tidy, even in autumn, the fallen leaves in the yard will be swept into a pile in time, maybe whose ancestral house is it!" Yao Zhixia finished speaking, and took a sip of herbal tea comfortably.

Xue Rin lowered his eyes, smiled knowingly, and took a sip of the herbal tea in the cup.

"More than 20 years ago, a couple started a business together after graduating from college, they had little money, so they had to rent and live in the old urban area, and then the family conditions were good, but the wife died, the husband in order to commemorate the time of hardship together, he bought the attic he rented that year together with the two-story building, and sent someone to clean and repair it regularly, presumably ...... It's fate!"

After Xue Rin finished speaking, he turned his head and saw Yao Zhixia with a surprised face, and couldn't help but smile.

Yao Zhixia looked fixedly at the two-story building across the street, and then slowly looked at Xue Rin, trying to find the answer in his eyes.

Xue Rin was both proud and energetic at the moment, looking at Yao Zhixia's anxious appearance, he temporarily decided to drop another bombshell on her.

Later, when their son returned to China after completing his studies, he decided to move out alone, so he lived here, presumably ...... It's fate, right?"

The bright moonlight quietly sprinkled on Yao Zhixia's side face, but even the cool breeze after the rain could not blow away the burning heat on her face.