26. Half a million
Teng Cheng didn't sleep all night, and for the first time he found that the soundproofing of his seaview villa was so good, and the royal blue striped curtains that Mai Ke had newly selected were so warm.
There was the smell of hospital disinfectant water that he hated the most, it was rough and unpleasant, I don't know what was stuffed into the thin quilt, it was pitted, the candles in the room were extinguished and there was a strange musty smell, and there was a strange sound of water dripping in the toilet......
The most important thing is that McCor is not there, and there is something missing.
In the middle of the night, Teng Cheng opened the door and found a chair to sit on the terrace and look at the bustling villa area across the coast in a daze. It was the middle of the night, and the luxurious building opposite was still brightly lit, and he also saw the fireworks burning on the opposite side, which lasted for a long time at three o'clock in the morning.
McKee likes to watch fireworks, he doesn't like to sleep too late, but he loves the starry sky by the sea, he loves every star in the sky.
Tuhao Teng is definitely not an emotional person, everything he does from childhood to adulthood is neat and organized, and extremely rational. Probably after knowing Mai Ke, it took only four years to experience love, loss, loss and regain, stay, and then to the current ...... Crack.
At this time, the local tyrant, like a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy, sat on the unfamiliar seaside, looked up and saw a strange sky, and began to feel melancholy, frustrated, and lost.
It all started when McKee came back from a business trip three days ago.
The design company opened by Mai Ke and his classmate Wang Liang received a big order a few months ago. The employer is a leading department store in the city next door, and the interior design scope is wide and demanding. Mai Ke worked two months in a row, and he was absent-minded and busy when he rarely went home. Mai Ke had undergone surgery for thyroid lesions a few years earlier, and the doctor told him not to work too hard, so although Teng Cheng was lazy and Zuo at home in the past two years, nothing had his lover worry about.
But he is such a precious person, in front of work, he will not protect himself at all.
On the third night of McKe's overtime, Teng Cheng drove to the design office to find someone. As expected, the huge office was brightly lit, and after not seeing him for three days, Teng Cheng could barely recognize the pillow man with a scruffy beard and a haggard face.
"Come back with me. Naturally, Tuhaoteng didn't take anyone other than Mai Ke to heart, and entered the conference room in the glass room with a big grin, wanting to take people away directly. In fact, the local tyrant doesn't think much, but he is alone at home, no one treats him gently, he just wants to be coquettish and sleep peacefully with familiar people. Settle yourself and let McKe rest.
At that time, Maike was doing the final finishing work and revision work with the boss of Party A, who had come to the party.
He was also anxious, the project was not trivial for their design office, and his body really couldn't withstand such a torment every day, not to mention that there was a local tyrant in the seaview villa, who hadn't seen him for a few days, he was thinking about it and worried.
Sure enough, Teng Cheng suddenly appeared, and almost told the whole office that the two of them had loved each other to death, and now they have to stage a Qiong Yao drama if they don't see each other for a few days.
The tired Mai Ke wanted to take Teng Cheng out immediately before he could say anything unreliable.
But it was Teng Cheng who finally saw Party A's boss clearly, and the unadulterated expression on his face suddenly flashed a strange gaze.
The atmosphere that night was awkward to the extreme.
When McKe brought Teng Cheng back to the seaview villa, Teng Cheng became weird.
Very late, Teng Cheng put his arm around Mai Ke and said under the vast and beautiful starry sky: "You pushed him off the project surnamed Zhou." β
Teng Cheng said that sentence casually, and only said it once.
Teng Cheng thought that Mai Ke was the person who knew him the most in the world, and they didn't need to say many things thoroughly over the years, and more often than not, Mai Ke spoiled him and let him go. For example, if he doesn't want to work in business, McCor will let him stay at home, and he will stay at home if he can't go to the design office. Another example is getting fat, Teng Cheng said "I'm too lazy to move" McKe would only rub his little belly and use it as a pillow under the beautiful starry sky.
McKe thought that Teng Cheng was a very rational and direct person. He said that he likes himself, that is, he really likes it, from every inadvertent raised corner of his mouth, every smile that can't be hidden, and every undisguised look that says I like you.
And that night, the stars were too bright, and McKe didn't see Teng Cheng's rare tangled eyes. He thought it was just a local tyrant complaining that he was working too hard.
coaxed people, and was pulled over to lie on Teng Cheng's soft chest and fell asleep.
After all, this project is too important for Wang Liang and the design institute, and the hard work of dozens of people up and down for several months cannot be burned for a sentence.
So three days later, the project was finally closed, and Mai Ke specially prepared Teng Cheng's favorite ingredients, wanting to go back to accompany his lover.
At noon, the person in charge of the original plan had a meal with Boss Zhou of Party A and celebrated politely.
No one expected Teng Cheng to come to the design office to find him again.
Mai Ke didn't expect that Boss Zhou would skillfully avoid Wang Liang and his party at the moment Teng Cheng arrived and show him love.
McCor wasn't prepared for anything.
I only knew that when I hurriedly refused, I saw a pair of uneasy eyes on Teng Cheng's slightly fat face behind Boss Zhou.
Wait for him to take a break from his endless entanglement and return to the Ocean View Villa.
Teng Cheng is no longer there.
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The local tyrant looked at the sky, thinking about Mai Ke's appearance, thought for a while, and suddenly laughed dumbly.
He deserves to be a lazy local tyrant who is lazy and has no pursuit. In addition to money, now he doesn't even have the figure and face that he used to be proud of.
Teng Cheng's own heart was in a mess, and after leaving the work for several years, it seemed that he had no domineering momentum.
The little boy who brought him toiletries at night looked at him and kept smirking stupidly.
"What are you laughing at?" Teng Cheng looked at the innocent child with what he thought was a cold look.
"Uncle, you are so happy. The little boy's eyes lit up when he smiled, and it definitely came from the heart.
"Joy?"
"Like an actor who talks about cross talk on TV. The little boy continued to wink: "The round kind of ......"
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Then Teng Cheng lost sleep.
When did it become a round cross talk?
That's what children say about themselves.
In McKe's eyes, is he already like this now?
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The night is as cool as water.
The local tyrant watched it for a while, and he was hungry.
When I'm hungry, I miss McKe even more.
In the end, I had no choice but to force myself to go back to sleep.
In the dream, he was the golden figure of himself a few years ago, and Maike looked as good as he does now.
He held McCor in his arms and watched the fireworks on the yacht.
McCor's eyes were bright and moving, and he was all alone.
βββ
Not far away, the lighthouse of the town of Red Sea glows long, gentle at night towards the ocean. It is to tell all the ships adrift on the sea, that at the end of the light source is your home, where it is dry, where it is warm, and here, love.
Situ climbed the high lighthouse for the first time, far, far away, the sky was not the color of pitch black, the mist dissolved the darkness there, and that was where the magic took place.
Chen Yan beside him looked at the Milky Way above his head, his breathing was gentle, and every beat of his heart could become clear in the quiet night.
"Your leg is not fully recovered, so you have to go back to the hospital for a recovery check-up. Chen Yan's voice was not loud, like a magic spell to break the darkness.
Situ's empty mind was caught.
I snorted.
The mobile phone in Chen Yan's pocket rang suddenly.
Four o'clock in the morning.
Situ caught a glimpse of Chen Yan's caller ID on his mobile phone screen with the name of "Big Egg Melon"
A very affectionate nickname.
On the other end of the line was a woman's screaming, hysterical howl.
Chen Yan stood under the starry sky and listened expressionlessly for a long time, so long that Situ was so annoyed by the ugly words on the phone that he frowned.
Here Chen Yan occasionally said a few words, and the content was repeated over and over again: "That money is not mine, and I have never been in contact with him." β
Ten minutes passed, and the woman was tired of scolding. Suddenly she began to cry again.
Situ clearly heard the woman's cry and the sentence: "My life has been ruined by you two disgusting homosexuals." β
Chen Yan seemed to be holding his breath: "He is timid, and he will not be in the future." Live your lives well. β
The woman cried and cursed a few more words, and finally hung up the phone.
Chen Yan turned off his mobile phone in a daze, his eyes lit up, as if water vapor had floated into his eyes.
"He is solely responsible for medical malpractice. The hospital negotiated with the family members privately. bankrupt, there is still a gap of 500,000. Chen Yan said lightly.
Situ snorted coldly. The man named Zhang Chuang has heard this name a lot these days.
"He was my senior at the university. Chen Yan looked into the distance, touching his mobile phone in his hand as if telling someone else's story: "He is three years older than me, and he was already a senior intern in the hospital when I was a freshman." In his sophomore year, he took a semester of anatomy classes in his freshman year. I liked him very much, so I got the first grade in the whole department that year, and I was always the first to arrive and the last to go in his practical classes. At the end of the semester, I confessed to him, thinking that I would definitely be rejected, or considered a pervert, or even more strict, and would be expelled from school. But nothing happened, and we were together. β
"When my father died in my junior year, my family suddenly had no financial resources. Medical school is expensive, and we both have a 7-year bachelor's and master's degree. I got the highest scholarship, but I still couldn't afford the tuition, and my mother was not in good health in her hometown and needed to pay for medical treatment. That year, he gave me all of his scholarship and internship salary. It wasn't until I was in my first year of graduate school that he worked, I could afford the tuition fees, I could afford to live, and he also went to a big hospital, and slowly his life improved and there was hope......"
"He's married. β
Speaking of the owner of the nickname on the phone, Situ saw an expression called "happiness" on Chen Yan's face for the first time.
The casual smile and the crooked corners of the eyes are inadvertently revealed.
There is a sense of truth that this person has been truly happy and enviable.
It's a pity that this expression finally brought a thick bitterness that couldn't be dissolved.
"You probably know what happened next. I still pestered him when he got married, and her wife knew about our relationship before she gave birth, and the child was gone. I haven't come out of the pain of losing my child, and I have encountered serious medical malpractice......"
"Xiaolan is a good woman. She really loves him, and her mother's family can take everything she can fill in. That's not a big number......"
"So, thank you. β
Chen Yan turned his head suddenly, and his bright eyes reflected Situ's outline.
Situ couldn't help but see a shallow smile.
There is no feeling of "happiness", just a movement pulling at the corners of the mouth.
"I'll pay you back the 500,000. Chen Yan said sincerely: "It's just that if you can, it will take longer." β
Situ was stunned by Chen Yan's expression of sudden thanks.
As far as he knew, Chen Yan sold all the houses in the city that had just paid a down payment and gave the money to Zhang Chuang.
Is......
"Idiot. β
Situ said from the bottom of his heart.
Chen Yan was still smiling. There was no temperature in the eyes.
The phone rang again.
It's still that nickname.
Situ felt that Zhang Chuang should have called this time.
Chen Yan looked at the phone in a daze.
"Pick it up. β
"Nope. Their lives are messed up enough. There was reluctance written in his eyes.
The phone is dark.
It lit up again.
"Heyβ" Situ suddenly shouted.
Because he saw Chen Yan throw his mobile phone directly from the lighthouse.
Then the man looked straight into the darkness, and although he endured it, he looked lonely, like a child who had been robbed of a lollipop.
Because the lighthouse is too high, because the sea is too vast.
The phone fell into the sea, silently, without a sound.
"If you lose your phone, he won't be able to find you. Situ felt that Chen Yan's story was like a TV series, so he also idol the drama: "Don't regret it?"
"He's not coming. Chen Yan said affirmatively: "I owe it to him." In this way, the two are clear. β
Situ took out a cigarette and searched for a long time before he found that he was accompanying Teng Cheng, who didn't like the smell of smoke, so he didn't bring a lighter.
Thinking that the day before he left, Chen Yan found his own appearance of borrowing from a loan shark. Looking back now, this person really loves that Zhang Chuang.
And what is love?
Situ didn't quite understand.
I just think that Chen Yan in this story is really stupid to have nothing and debts for a man.
But isn't it all played like this in movies? you have to look for death and life, and only those who die and live are love.
In Situ's eyes, these are the results of this group of people having nothing to do.
When you have time, you have to have fun.
Loving yourself is more important than anything else.
Situ struggled for a while.
In the end, it was decided to treat Chen Yan as an ordinary customer.
For the sake of being cheapened by myself before and taking care of my own hands, it is a big deal to ask for less interest and more grace for repayment.
Because Situ has always believed that there must be something hateful about poor people, and no one's story can move him.
In the end, it's all your own, so you don't have to pity anyone.
"You came to me and told me this?" Situ sorted it out, and his heart was smooth, and he always felt that he would never think of panicking awkwardly when he saw Chen Yan in the future.
It's somewhat refreshing.
Chen Yan: "...... May not be able to pay off immediately, can you ......"
Situ shook his hand, and his voice was relaxed: "They are all old acquaintances, you went back to tear up your share of the contract you signed before, and then you will pay it back when you have money, within five years...... If it's over in eight years, you will be counted as three cents, and you will calculate it yourself. The account is still the same one, and we will have financial settlement. β
Chen Yan didn't speak for a long time. When Situ went to see people, he saw a stunned face.
"Doesn't that work?"
"No...... It's already good. I'll pay it back. Chen Yan hurriedly said.
"Come on, you earn less than 3,000 yuan a month in this place. There was even some mockery in Situ's tone.
Chen Yan still had a stunned expression, looking at the sea in front of him, motionless, in fact, it was very good-looking.
Suddenly.
The great light of the lighthouse went out.
Situ was stunned: "It's broken?"
Chen Yan pointed to the distance: "It's dawn." β
And so the magic began.
Almost after the lights dimmed, slowly, the sky appeared white.
Red Sea Town has its back to the rising sun and can't see the sun rising.
But Situ still opened his mouth half-open, and saw the scene of the beach villa on the opposite bank being lit up little by little, the seagulls flying all over the sea, and the first rays of sunlight sprinkled on the opposite bank like a quilt.
"Damn, it's so beautiful. Situ was instantly conquered by the red rising sun.
Chen Yan also raised a tired smile. In the tone, it is the determination and hope that the tired people finally say goodbye to the past.
"yes, a new day has begun. β
Though.
I won't be able to wait for that person again.