It's half past one in the night.

Chen Chi shook the beer can, drank the last few drops with his neck back, and pushed the empty can onto the coffee table. He stared straight at the ceiling and struggled to sit up from the couch for a while.

The lights behind the windows of the Xujia community went out one after another, and together with the windows that had not been lit, they were immersed in the night, and the stars were clearer above the windows of the osmanthus trees. Coming back from twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, Chen Chi was lying on the sofa, and this picture was flashing in front of his eyes.

's mind is always circling, why did Xu Shuangshuang's boudoir window not light up all night, why didn't she go home, why did Xu's mother only have a pair of women's slippers on the shoe rack at the door of Xu's house, why did she only have a mattress on her bed and no quilt, why did he only have two mouthwash cups in the bathroom he specially checked, and why did the mother-in-law buy only two large rows?

Maybe she's out on a tour, well, long-distance hiking. So she took away her slippers and mouthwash cups, so the mother-in-law took advantage of her absence to dismantle and wash her quilt, so the mother-in-law didn't count her share in the big row she bought.

The next week it's time for the frost to fall, her birthday. In order to celebrate her birthday, it is very reasonable for her to go out and play with others.

Every time Chen Chi thought of this, his train of thought was automatically broken.

There was another thought, like a spark in the ashes blown up by the wild wind in the dark night, a little light came out, and it was immediately extinguished.

Perhaps, she moved in with Lin Yu.

On the armrest at the other end of the sofa, in the center of a plain cushion, a piece was visibly stained. Chen Chi stared at that end unconsciously, there was nothing in his eyes, and it took a long time before he noticed the cushion blankly.

He twisted his ankle and looked at the soles of his feet, only to realize that the soles of his feet were dark. Probably because the floor was dirty, after returning to work on the National Day, he went to see the house whenever he had free time, and he didn't take care of the hygiene at home.

Before, it never happened. If the soles of his feet were really so dark, someone would have screamed.

Chen Chi put his feet down on the ground, lowered his head and grabbed his hair and sat quietly.

The opening music for the midnight news was pushed out on the TV, and he looked up, grabbed the remote control, and turned off the TV. Pushing open the bedroom door, it was pitch black inside.

"Smack", he pressed the switch.

The glass windows reflect the yellow wall lamps, closing everything in the room in the void, and all the coldness and silence are not leaked out.

Chen Chi stared at the big bed in the room silently, and suddenly remembered that one night, Xu Shuangchuan was somehow still mopping the floor when he came back from overtime.

"Frost, I'm back." He said to her.

She popped up from the edge of the bed.

Chen Chi waited for a long time, and the room was extremely quiet, and it was always very quiet. He walked in slowly and closed the curtains.

Frost.

The sky is full of stars.

At night, I ate a lot of mushy noodles in an enamel basin, and even the soup and water made Xu Shuang solid, and I woke up automatically in the middle of the night to get up at night.

Xu Shuangchuan didn't want to get up, and shrank in the quilt. I thought in a daze, my mother gave birth to her at this time, how cold she was when she was a child, and she didn't know how to speak, so she had to suffer in the candle bag, which was really pitiful.

Do you want to buy a bed quilt? Since the beginning of autumn, every night, she gets into bed, sticks to the cotton cover of the three-pound silk quilt, and is used to naturally bending her legs and hugging her chest and hissing and inhaling, and this idea will turn smoothly in her mind. She is like the cold bird, swearing to herself every night that she must buy another quilt, otherwise she will not be able to survive the winter. However, when the day came, this thought was illuminated by the warm sun, like the green mist steaming from the mountains, and the white steam rising from the big stove, which suddenly dissipated away.

She's a little lazy, but in the end, she's still poor, and digging deeper into the reason, she's actually picking.

If one day, she finally made up her mind to buy a quilt to carry back, please give her strength, because she coveted the ten-pound cotton quilt.

The feeling of a full bladder is really uncomfortable, and the point is that time is also dragged down to the point that it can't walk, and every second is infinitely longer. Xu Shuang closed his eyes, and the thoughts in his mind drifted around, just like the aquatic weeds pecked by the small fish and shrimp, he was always stirred up by inexplicable stimulation, but he couldn't hold it softly, one wisp was shaken, and the next wisp was shaken again. Alas, this thought is the same as the body's reaction. Now she finished thinking about the quilt, endured it for time, and recalled the dinner she had eaten.

I really can't eat like this next time, and I can't show off the muddy noodles at the bottom of the box, my cooking skills are praised, but her stomach can't stand being filled so openly, it's too happy or not, or temperance.

It's weird to probably blame her parents, just take the solar term as her name, and every year there are always one or two people who will notice her birthday, so she can't quietly live as a normal day.

It was also she who made the confused noodles of her birthday too real, she thought that this day was rare, mixed with two shredded potatoes, two eggs out of flowers, three pieces of bacon cut out of the foam, the lard soup boiled, so thick that it could not be stirred, it was enough to boil half a large iron pot, and the amount of money for herself was really not polite.

Today's meal is too rich, and tomorrow we have to reduce it slightly, otherwise the small food basket will last a little until Saturday.

Xu Shuangchuan carried his shoulders and tried to endure it, and hesitated a hundred times whether to turn over and change his position, but finally sat up at a certain moment.

The plank bed shook for a moment. Xu Shuang reflexively twisted his neck, turned his head and glanced behind him, and touched the pillow with his backhand.

The night was very, very dark. She couldn't see anything, not even the fine mesh of the white gauze tent that had held up to her present day in the summer, though she knew that the mosquito net cloth was behind her.

Xu Shuangchuan's fingers ran along the lace folds of the pillowcase, and even carefully stretched out into the shallow dimples of each cloth pleat to grope for a while, and there was no rustling feeling like fine crumbs, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Thanks to her white gauze tent, although it is a little cumbersome to dismantle and wash once a month, it is particularly powerful to keep mosquitoes warm in summer and winter, and can collect ash day and night. The ash wasn't the invisible dust in the air, it was the stone dust that had fallen off her walls.

Therefore, the bed is easy to shake, and if it falls off the wall, her bed will have to be beaten for a while.

Xu Shuangchuan lifted his hand and gently lifted the quilt, opened the mosquito net with his breath, and his feet fell to the ground, which happened to be the plastic sandals in front of the bed.

As soon as her barefoot girl put on her stiff slippers, the heat from the bed in the middle of the night was all transferred away, and the cold air scrambled into her toes, almost making her shiver.

Xu Shuang was about to get up, and suddenly remembered something, so he reached out again, reached under the pillow, and familiarly touched a small flashlight.

"Smack," the cold white beam shot to the ground, shook to the corner of the table, and shone just on the recessed piece, reflecting the dry and lead-gray wooden cracks, as if, once upon a time, a dog gnawed off a piece alive, and then slowly moistened by the air The staggered gap of the canine's teeth.

Her yellow enamel basin was next to the pit on the tabletop, covered with a piece of fine gauze and slightly raised at the edge, and it was a stainless steel spoon in the basin. The diameter of the bottom circle of the stainless steel thermos cup is not large enough, and it is unstable on the pit of the desktop, so it is far erected on the other side of the enamel basin.

Xu Shuang couldn't wait, although every time she turned on the flashlight, she liked to take pictures everywhere in the corner of the house as if she had obsessive-compulsive disorder, but now she was in a hurry to go to the toilet, so she could only shake it twice at will.

Open the latch and unscrew the lock, and a cool breeze blows directly on your face. There was night light outside, which was a little brighter than the inside of the house. She had never been out in such a late night, and she was terrified.

He was only wearing a set of thin cotton pajamas, Xu Shuangchuan hesitated slightly, stepped out of the threshold, covered the wooden door, didn't dare to look around, held the flashlight, walked under the eaves, and after passing the kitchen next to him, he trotted up.

The sound of rough breathing mingled in the wind, and the night was cut by the beam of her flashlight in front of her, and the path of white light kept shaking. Without squinting, she walked through the fence and the narrow corridor less than a meter wide between the two floors to the toilet in the backyard.

The women's toilet is on the right, the door is not closed all the year round, blocked by a cloister-shaped loess wall, there are three squatting positions inside, Xu Shuang descended to the door, but was more afraid, raised the flashlight from the rough cement floor to the mottled and falling ceiling, and then squatted one squatting position to the ground.

The urine and feces made her sick to her stomach, but these were secondary, and she took three photos up and down in a row to make sure that no one and no strange insects were hiding in the toilet, so she dared to pick a relatively clean squatting position to get her feet.

In fact, she was still panicking during the untie process, because the men's toilet next door had not been inspected with her own eyes.

The design of this toilet reveals a time-honored and simple style, whether it is the exterior wall or the partition wall between the men's and women's toilets, the top is tirelessly hollowed out with bricks.

Every time Xu Shuangchuan goes to the toilet, she has to raise her neck to look at the walls on both sides, the day is fine, once the light is dim, there is not even a light inside, she can't help but simulate a pair of monster eyes in her heart, behind the prismatic brick pattern, look at her faintly.

Now it's so dark, she doesn't have enough flashlights, one moment shining on the door, the next shining on the wall, and her heart is beating with fright. When I stood up, I always felt that there was a dark shadow quietly clubbing in the squatting position behind me, and the next moment I had to reach out and pat her on the shoulder. Xu Shuangchuan didn't care about anything, escaped from the ink-black toilet, and ran away. When she ran back to the door, she turned around and saw a sky full of stars.

The night sky was so vast that it froze her, and it was silent and swirled gently above her head, hugging the firmament, like an eternal dark blue fairy tale book.

Xu Shuang lowered his head and looked fixedly, suddenly came back to his senses, shone the flashlight into the dark doorway, shook it five or six times, and after making sure that there was nothing strange inside, he quickly closed the door, not daring to linger at all for the thrilling beauty of the starry sky. When she plugged in the latch with all her hands and feet, and got into the quilt in one go, she didn't care if the plank bed vibrate.

The bed is cold.

She curled up into a prawn shape, her breathing slowly steady. When her own body temperature rolled around in the silk quilt, and then obediently returned, wrapped her cold feet, and warmed her a little, she thought that she had done a lot of trouble, under such a quiet and beautiful starry sky, she actually sneakily nervously went to the toilet, and did not bring toilet paper or wash her hands.