Aunt Guo's dinner has always been on time within a quarter of an hour after school, because after dinner, the two teachers still have to prepare class and approve homework. But today it's a little late.

Xu Shuangchuan quickly knew the reason, and there was an extra plate of scrambled eggs and a plate of steamed bacon on the table.

Chen Chi brought a bag of oranges and a bag of walnuts to Aunt Guo before the meal, and said it very well: "I am not familiar with the road, I don't know how far it is, I don't dare to buy more, so my aunt and the principal take it and try it casually." ”

He is really stronger than Xu Shuangchuan in dealing with people, after a meal, and Miao Principal Guo Aunt and his wife talked very happily, Principal Miao kept praising Xu Shuangchuan in front of him, he looked at Xu Shuangchuan as modest: "Teacher Xu is just serious, teaching experience is much worse than Principal Miao, and life is also taken care of by Principal Miao and Aunt Guo, thank you, thank you." ”

Aunt Guo was polite again and again: "There are not many dishes, eat vegetables and eat vegetables." In the end, he said that he would not let Xu Shuangchuan help wash the dishes.

The meal was lively and lively, and when I went back to the room, the two of them were silent.

The kitchen door next door creaked shut, and the footsteps couldn't be heard for a while, Xu Shuangchuan saw Aunt Guo walking through the playground through the window glass, carrying two hot water bottles and walking towards the flat tile house opposite. As the cold twilight of winter gradually enveloped the playground, she lowered her head and continued to mark the quiz papers.

"Frosty, do you want to turn on the lights?"

Xu Shuangchuan scored on the paper, wrote a comment, silently opened the drawer, and put the test paper and the red pen in it.

Chen Chi stood in front of the side table where the toothbrush cup was placed, waited for two or three seconds and didn't see Xu Shuang respond, then bent down and took out a can of instant milk powder from the big backpack next to the table foot, but heard the sound of the chair retreating, and immediately raised his eyes to look at the window: "Shuangshuang, approved?"

The room was darker than the window, Xu Shuangchuan put one hand on the back of the chair, reflexively faced Chen Chi, and moved his eyes off his face for a while. Her old desk, mottled with mahogany paint, was piled up with a lot of food to eat.

"Come, what's the matter?"

"Frost, I'll ...... Look at you," Chen Chi gently put down the milk powder can, came to Xu Shuangchuan, and said sincerely, "I still want to explain to you what happened before." ”

"And then?"

"Then ......" Chen Chi stared at her eyebrows, pondering the words, but saw Xu Shuangchuan turn around and walk away. "Frost ......," he said urgently.

But he didn't want Xu Shuangchuan to go straight to the edge of the bed and sit down, raised his hand and pointed to the chair, and his tone was very peaceful: "You can sit, there is only one chair." I just asked you, after you finish speaking, if there is nothing else, you can see if you can walk the mountain road, and you can go back to the town after a few mountains behind, and I will give you a flashlight. ”

“…… OK. ”

Xu Shuangchuan raised her eyebrows, and saw Chen Chi coming over with a chair, she squirmed her lips and didn't say a word.

Chen Chi placed the chair opposite her, and when he sat down, he almost touched her knees. The twilight soaked the rough furniture in the room, and the cold air hit the feet from the ground, and Xu Shuang's lower limbs were especially cold. Cold air seeped in through the cracks in the wooden windows, as if the upper part of the old house was not enough for it to fill in the ridge. Chen Chi sat so close that he seemed to block some of the cold for her.

He and she looked at each other in the half-dark room.

Xu Shuangchuan resisted this distance and reminded in a cold voice: "Sit farther away." ”

Chen Chi didn't speak, holding the stool with both hands, and took a step back.

"Try to be as concise as possible, I usually go to bed early. ”

Chen Chi looked at her and suddenly chuckled: "How early?"

"The two of us are not much different from strangers in this situation, do you think it's appropriate to joke?"

The smile on the corner of Chen Chi's mouth slowly retracted, and his eyes looked at Xu Shuangzhuan, very soft, but he didn't speak.

"Before you say that, there is something I just remembered. Xu Shuang flattened the flat board and said, "The 300,000 yuan you allocated to me, I still transferred it to you later, did you receive it?"

"Got it, I crossed it for you again, and I got the savings card that you didn't have any functions on, didn't you see it?"

Xu Shuang was cautious and cautious, when he first worked, he was afraid that he would use it blindly, so he did an extra card in addition to the salary card, and he was not connected to the Internet from beginning to end, and he had a little balance in his salary every month at the beginning, so he was happy to save it, and said triumphantly to Chen Chi, the card that is not powerful is good, and the bad guys can't steal her. Later, she was troublesome, mainly because of the large expenses, and there was not much left, so she accumulated it every three months and went to the bank to save it, and then she thought about how she didn't use it too blindly, and what if the money was put in a more active salary card, so she relaxed a little, collected some surplus money every six months, and transferred it to the savings card. Before her divorce, she had looked at the balance in the card, and calculated that she would have no income for the year of teaching, and this money would be maintained until she rearranged her life after the end of teaching. After the divorce, she put the card in her boudoir drawer and never touched it.

At this moment, she immediately frowned: "I haven't checked that card, why don't you say anything about transferring money?"

"I'm afraid you won't. Chen Chi said softly, "Don't worry, I won't be wrong with your account, I've operated it before, and I've done it twice when I turned it." ”

"The card is not on me, tomorrow I will call my parents and ask them to take a look. Xu Shuangchuan thought about it and added, "If you want to retreat, you can only wait until I go back during the winter vacation." ”

"Will you go back during winter vacation?" Chen Chi said happily.

"Initially, there is a plan for this. Xu Shuangchuan said lightly, "Go home for the New Year, and by the way, there are some things to do." ”

Her mother has booked three blind dates for her.

Chen Chi didn't know, he was happy and eager, thinking that his mother had undergone surgery to recover, and he had to go back for the New Year, Xu Shuangchuan couldn't let go of it here, his mind was chaotic, and he said with concern: "Shuangshuang, have you booked that ticket? You schedule it, I'll order it for you. ”

Xu Shuangchuan was noncommittal, and reiterated: "I will strive to transfer 300,000 yuan back to you before the New Year." There is no such thing in the divorce agreement, everyone follows the agreement, which is more clear. ”

Their conversation has been around money, Chen Chi felt very uncomfortable, was silent for a moment, and said bitterly: "Shuangshuang, the day we went to divorce, I didn't expect to really get divorced." He clasped his hands together, lowered his head and stared, and his voice was low, "If I really want to divorce you, I won't think about these things in advance, and I won't let you leave like that." ”

Xu Shuang glanced at it, pulled her lips and said, "I have my own salary." It's good to spend your own money with peace of mind. ”

They were always talking, talking about money, talking about holiday arrangements and booking tickets, as if they were discussing family matters, Xu Shuangchuan's tone and expression were very calm and organized, but Chen Chi's heart was getting heavier and heavier, staring at her, as if she was sitting in the vast expanse and could not be touched.

"I'm done talking, you say, long story short, hurry early. Xu Shuang cooled down.

Twilight pressed against her face, causing Chen Chi's throat to tighten, and it took him a long time to make a sound.

"Shuangshuang, the matter of your classmate Lin Yu is that I was impatient, and I ...... at that time I'm very jealous, and I don't say a lot of things that I shouldn't say. Chen Chi paused, his expression became more serious, and he said earnestly word by word, "I really didn't have any innocent relationships with others...... Both physically and mentally. Can we talk about that again?"

Xu Shuang looked at Chen Chi steadily, the corners of her eyes suddenly sour, she remembered his initial appearance, in that winter dusk, in the cold wind, he asked her with a smile if she had a boyfriend.

At that time, it was only him and her, and their world was as pure as a crystal ball, and today it is mixed with others, and things are not people, and they are as far away as their previous lives.

She sat on the edge of the bed and bowed her head, like an old monk in her meditation.

"Frost. Chen Chi called lightly.

"Did you know? There's a substance in plants that stops plant hormones. "They control and influence germination, stem pulling, flowering, fruiting, and even the shedding of leaves and fruits. They are usually synthesized in plants on their own, and their content follows the growth cycle, the four solar terms and the laws of nature. Then, smart people imagine whether it is possible to import these hormones from the outside world to plants, so that plants can grow with people's minds. ”

"Yes. Xu Shuangchuan nodded, "If it is artificially added, you can call it an inducer." But it is necessary to try, because it is a forced intervention from the outside, and the effect is difficult to predict. ”

Xu Shuangchuan raised his head, looked at Chen Chi in front of him, and said slowly: "I once cultivated a seedling, it grew roots, the stems were very thin, I was afraid that it would not grow big, so I tried several inducers, and there were always failures and successes in the experiment, but I didn't succeed." ”

"There are a lot of things that can play a role in inducing us that we don't know yet. As long as it hasn't completely withered, theoretically I can keep experimenting, and maybe one day it will be crooked. ”

"But," Xu Shuang's eyes were distinct, and the ground was clear, like a deep mountain stream in the twilight, reflecting the figure of Chen Chi sitting and listening, "I can't try anymore." At the end of a phase, I have to admit defeat. ”

"This is what my mentor told me, if you don't get the desired results, then you have to have the courage to admit failure, never whitewash the data, never fake. ”

"Failure is also a result, and we must learn to accept it. ”

Chen Chi looked at Xu Shuangchuan, his heart was pierced by something, he never knew that she was so injured.

His blue-gray soft-shell crab finally hardened its shell.