Xu Shuangchuan turned around and opened the door.

The cold wind swept in, touching the tips of her mouth, nose and ears, and she couldn't help but shiver. The playground was pitch black, and except for a dark yellow window abruptly opposite, I couldn't see anything clearly for a while. Xu Shuang stopped before he could see the gray-black silhouette of the teaching building.

It was rainy the other day, and tonight there are no stars.

She stepped out of the threshold, turned around and commanded, "Grab the flashlight." Glancing at Chen Chi again, he frowned and reminded, "Don't forget to take your scarf, and order some other things, don't leave it here with me." ”

"The scarf was bought for you, I'm afraid you're cold here. However, I bought some more things on the way, and I couldn't fit them in my bag, so I took off my scarf and gathered it. Chen Chi said softly, "I only wore it for two days without getting dirty, and the color is lighter, I think you try not to be too eye-catching outside." ”

Xu Shuang immediately withdrew her feet and turned back into the house, catching a glimpse of the large gray cashmere scarf folded into four squares and placed on the table in front of her window.

"I don't want to. Xu Shuangchuan picked up the scarf mercilessly, "You take it." ”

Chen Chi was silent for a long time, then stretched out his hand to take it.

"Let's go. Xu Shuang didn't move, staring at Chen Chi urging.

Chen Chi looked at her, sighed silently, and took a step without objection. Xu Shuang lowered her eyes and hurried behind him, and when Chen Chi walked out of the threshold and descended the bluestone steps, she stumbled to close the door.

Outside the door, it was so dark that it seemed that he couldn't see his fingers, only a little dim light from the curtains, which shone a little faintly on the shone trunk of the old locust tree.

Xu Shuangchuan crossed Chen Chi with a cold face, and walked towards the school gate with a cold face. "How much are the things you left behind? Is five hundred yuan enough?" Chen Chi didn't answer, she calculated by herself, thinking that there was a bucket of milk powder, so she added more, "I'll give you seven hundred." I will pay you back when I transfer money to you during the winter vacation. ”

"You don't have any money on you?" Chen Chi immediately turned his head sideways, and after speaking, he felt that his words were easy to cause ambiguity, and said, "No, I mean...... You don't have any money on you?"

"There are cards. Xu Shuang said depressedly, she brought some cash on her, but every Saturday she went to the town to replenish daily necessities, and until now, the balance was less than seven hundred, according to her expenses, she was not in a hurry to withdraw cash at all, and now she showed her bottom in front of Chen Chi.

Chen Chi stood still, reached into his pocket, and secretly seemed to be taking out his wallet: "I'll leave some for you." ”

"I have it myself. ”

Chen Chi hurriedly followed, his voice was wrapped in footsteps, and he whirred beside Xu Shuangchuan: "I know, but you are alone outside, and you are not familiar with life, so try to minimize the number of times you withdraw money." When you have to withdraw money, don't withdraw money from the kind of machine on the street, go to the bank, and pay more attention to the people around you. ”

Xu Shuang has arrived in front of the iron gate. Through the gap, it was pitch black outside, and the night was like fairy grass jelly, and even the white cement floor of a few square meters outside the gate could not be distinguished, let alone the river that could be seen from standing at the school gate during the day.

Xu Shuangchuan bent down and touched the latch on the ground, frowned, and said, "Why don't you use the flashlight?" A hand reached out to her arm and held her up. "What are you doing?" she immediately exasperated.

"Frost," Chen Chi grabbed her wrist, put a ball of banknotes in her palm, wrapped his big palm, and closed her five fingers, "You take it, let's not fight outside." ”

"Who wants your ......"

"Shuangshuang, when I divorced, I thought I would not be able to leave, so I didn't prepare anything," Chen Chi said astringently, staring closely into Xu Shuang's eyes through the darkness, "Now, I treat every time we meet as if it were the last time, so be ready." ”

He took a deep breath and rubbed his hand vigorously, only to feel that the hand in his hand was slender and cold: "You take it, save a lot of money to get it, I know you will calculate it very clearly, and you want to pay it back later." ”

When they first met, he lent her money, and that's how he shoehorned it.

Xu Shuang looked at Chen Chi silently, except for him, his vision was all inky black.

Their hands were holding the roll of money layer by layer.

Xu Shuang squeezed the money tightly, pulled out her hand, and stuffed it into her clothes pocket. She bent down and touched the latch again, making sure that she hadn't pulled out the pin just now, and the tips of her ponytail hair were dangling and being pressed to her cheeks by the wind: "Chen Chi, is your cycle with that Daisy so short?"

"What, Frost, what did you say?" Chen Chi leaned down.

"The flashlight is on. ”

Chen Chi said as he said, and the blue and white light of the flashlight shot out, illuminating the concrete floor outside the door. In such a dark night, this small circle of light absorbs the attention of all photoreceptor cells, making the place outside the aperture even darker, and even the person with the flashlight can completely disappear in the darkness. Xu Shuangchuan pursed her lips and glanced out through the gap in the iron fence, she knew that there was a sheep intestine path on the right hand bend outside the school gate, which was said to be able to walk to the town.

She straightened up and withdrew her gaze. It's going to die. This road, even she herself did not walk the whole way, but took Xiao Hei to graze and walked a section, the farthest was to walk to Changping Village behind during a home visit, and to the town to climb over a few mountain bags. In this kind of cold night, it is irrational and immoral to drive anyone to an unfamiliar mountain road.

"You can stay one night. She heard herself say, "I'll leave early tomorrow morning, but I'll have to sit on a bench, and I don't have a bed to rest on." ”

After saying that, she turned around and went back, the grievance in her chest filled her with anger, and she didn't even open the school gate, she was frightened by the darkness like fairy grass jelly.

On the gravel floor, the footsteps of two people rustled together. "Frost, you just said...... What?" Chen Chi vaguely heard Xu Shuang's name mentioned when he lowered his body, but it was difficult to repeat it at this time.

Xu Shuangchuan pushed open the door and said in a flat voice: "Go in." I was just sarcastic about you, don't take a stubble. ”

Chen Chi stood at the foot of the bluestone steps, looked up and saw that the light covered her face like jade, faintly warm, and before she could reply, she saw her step out of the threshold again, and couldn't help asking, "Shuangshuang, where are you going?"

"I'll go to the kitchen and get you a bench. To drink water there is a thermos in the kitchen, the toilet is in the back of the school building, and there is no shower. ”

Her attitude was really bad, because taking in Chen Chi meant that she couldn't sleep comfortably tonight, and this matter was done knowing that she couldn't do it, which made her even more irritable.

Bringing a bench from the kitchen, Xu Shuangxia's eyes looked at the four walls of the room like a sharp blade, put it on the side table with a calm face, and said unceremoniously: "Put away your things first, and lie on the table when you are sleepy." ”

Immediately, she took out the roll of money and put it on the table: "Take it back, whether you have dropped it or not." ”

She paused, stood under the lamp and said bluntly: "Chen Chi, I am a humanitarian to take you in, in fact, you were silent before, and you already knew that I couldn't really let you go at this time." What I want to tell you is that the bitter meat trick doesn't work for me, and the little favor is useless. But thank you for the effort that came to me, and it somewhat satisfied my vanity, so I'm willing to make things simpler and clearer. Divorce is my scar, if you want to pull it, then pull it, I haven't completely come out yet, I'm still thinking about the past, but not thinking about you, we will never get back together. ”

Chen Chi was stunned for a moment, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned for a while, and he seemed to be smiling bitterly: "Shuangshuang, you let me go just now, I believed it." In fact, since Xu Shuang signed the divorce agreement, Chen Chi really believes that Xu Shuangchuan can do anything resolute, he said frankly, "I'm just going to go out, see if I have any luck to find someone to spend the night, it's okay for a man to walk at night, and then I plan to wait for you to be in a better mood during the day tomorrow and come to you again, see if I can talk to you again, I regret my impulsive divorce with you, I want to be happy with you again, it is impossible not to give up once." ”

"Happy?" Xu Shuangchuan repeated, she looked at Chen Chi, a person who had been grinding his ears and temples, there was no fluctuation in his eyes, and his voice did not fluctuate at all, and she narrated peacefully, "Chen Chi, you told me in person, you like Daisy. You've found the wrong person for happiness. ”

Chen Chi's eyebrows jumped, he opened his mouth, and said in amazement: "Frostshuang, when did I personally say that I like Daisy?"

"The original words are, do you have a good impression of her, is there a difference?" Xu Shuangchuan lost her patience, and the repetition of these old details made her immediately upset and uncomfortable, she pulled down her face, turned around and walked under the window, and dragged away the chair in front of the table, "I have the lights off at eight o'clock here, what do I want to do, do it before eight o'clock, don't make a sound." ”

"No, Shuangshuang," Chen Chi walked over and put his other hand on the back of the chair, and put his other hand on her shoulder, still anxious and dazed, "When did I say that I had a crush on her?"