When he met Su Xiaoyan, Fan Chengze thought it was just an accident. This accident was insignificant to his life.

In 2011, it was three years ago in October. In the evening, it is slightly cool.

On the freshly poured concrete road, the sand was rolled up in bursts. The sound of the mixer gradually quieted down, and the tower crane stopped at some point. Construction workers in twos and threes, patting the dust on their bodies, hanging up their hard hats, and laughing and walking in groups. This is a new district in the provincial capital of City H, surrounded by buildings under construction. It is far away from the city center, but it is about to become another economic and life center.

Fan Chengze drove to work. Since graduating from university, he has not returned to his hometown of K City, but has worked in several construction sites in H City according to his father's orders, and few people have known his identity.

Today, to his surprise, he saw a woman in front of him, dressed like a worker, not like a worker working on the construction site, and not like a worker's wife. Lonely back, hair blown by the wind. White linen dress with fair calves. There were some construction workers walking by around her, and they looked at her with bad intentions.

He drove up to her, slowing down. The woman stopped him and asked, "Is it a taxi?" ”

"It's not."

"Oh. Can I get a taxi here? ”

"Very little."

……

Su Xiaoyan lowered his eyes and continued to walk forward.

"Where are you going, or I'll give you a ride."

looked at the other party stunned. Fan Chengze thought she was thinking about whether she should get into his stranger's car, so he laughed at himself.

Su Xiaoyan got into the back seat, "You see where you go, where is convenient to take a taxi, let me down." I'm sorry for you. Fan Chengze nodded, originally wanted to chat a few words, but seeing Su Xiaoyan looking out the window with a silent look, he stopped talking. After a tiring day on the construction site, he just wanted to drive home and take a shower.

The car drove out of the construction area, and the flow of people and vehicles gradually increased. Fan Chengze turned around and wanted to ask Su Xiaoyan where she was, but found that she didn't know when she had fallen asleep on her side on the back seat. The long eyelashes drooped wetly, probably after crying, and the body curled up there tiredly. Fan Chengze slowed down the car, do you want to wake her up? Forget it, let's let her sleep again, and let her take a taxi when she's home.

Fan Chengze lives in a small building in the old city, although the small building is old, it is quiet and easy to enter. It was the school district house that the Fan family bought at a high price in the early years for their youngest daughter Fan Chengxi to study in the provincial capital primary school. Fan Yixi went to study in the UK in high school, and the house has been idle. After Fan Chengze arrived in H City, his grandmother Li Chunyu took the key and took a group of decorators to pull him to the small building. Le Hehe said: "Our top students in civil engineering know how to decorate." Come, design your own design, and leave a room for grandma. ”

Grandma has always been very good to Fan Chengze. Even when he didn't drive a car at the construction site at the beginning, he lost his temper. "You don't even give him a car, you really think he's a migrant worker." His father Fan Weiming said: "It's for him to exercise, what kind of car is it?" His mother, Chen Jun, said coldly: "Boys are only spoiled, not bitter." His grandmother said, "I still know if you spoil this child or not." You can't blame anyone else for your own decisions. ”

Since he was a child, Fan Chengze felt that compared to his brother Fan Chengguang and sister Fan Chengxi, his mother was relatively cold to him. Grandma comforted him, saying that Chen Junzheng, who was studying economics at the time, had a chance to go abroad for further study, but found that he was suddenly pregnant, so he had been struggling with whether to have this child. When the child is born, the opportunity is lost, so it is inevitable to be angry with the child. Grandma said, "How can there be a mother who doesn't love her son?" In order to dispel Fan Chengze's doubts.

Because he has been following his grandmother, Fan Chengze is not unhappy. Later, he thought that the eldest brother is the first child of his parents, so it is inevitable to pay attention to it, and his sister is a girl, so it is inevitable to pamper him. The identity of the second child is not up or down, and it is no wonder that his parents will ignore it.

Su Xiaoyan still maintained his original position and fell asleep. When Fan Chengze saw that, he lost the courage to call her again. Later, Fan Chengze recalled that from the time she met, she let him go against common sense. Fan Chengze was also very tired, he was embarrassed to wake her up, and he didn't dare to leave her alone in the car, so he gently leaned back and lay down to rest.

Twilight hits, and the city is obscure.

The black sea water envelops the weak body in layers. She was in the ocean, always sinking, trying to move her feet, floating up from the bottom of the water, and the deep sense of powerlessness made her unable to move.

I'm so tired, how can I float? The end point that you can't run, the car you can't get on, the other shore that you can't swim to, and the self that can't float on the water. Su Xiaoyan had had these flustered dreams before, but he had never been so sleepy as he was today.

"Where am I?" Half-asleep and half-awake, her consciousness began to gradually recover, and she opened her eyes. The pitch-black, only green LCD shows "20:26", and it's half past eight? In the car. She fumbled with the roof lights in the car, and the sudden brightness made her close her eyes. When I opened it again, I saw a young face lying in the driver's seat.

"Hey, wake up."

"Well, who?"

What beautiful eyes, Su Xiaoyan thought honestly.

"Thank you. Sorry for the trouble. While speaking, Su Xiaoyan opened the door and got out of the car.

Fan Chengze also hurriedly got out of the car. "I saw you asleep, so I didn't call you. I actually fell asleep too. ”

"I'm the one who caused you trouble." Su Xiaoyan bowed slightly to express her gratitude. Then he turned around and was leaving.

"You see the intersection in front of you is the main road, there is a bus stop, and there are taxis."

"Okay, okay. Good bye. Su Xiaoyan smiled slightly and left.

The street lamp pulled her shadow longer and longer, the night sky was very heavy, there was no starlight, and the early autumn wind was already mixed with the cold, blowing on the face and not feeling it, but it was a burst of cold in the heart. Her back appears thinner. Fan Chengze was inexplicably worried, but he didn't dare to be too abrupt.

Su Xiaoyan walked about 10 meters, turned around and looked. Seeing that the man was still standing in place and watching her, he was so sincere, and he unconsciously felt a burst of warmth in his heart. When the spirit is extremely lacking, the outstretched hand of others, as long as it is warm, will hold it.

She walked back.

"Anything else you need help with?" Fan Chengze didn't think about it

When she suddenly turned back again, her face turned even paler under the streetlight.

"Can you stay with me for one night?"

The corridors are old and clean, the handrails are mottled, and the lights from the corners are faintly yellow. The room behind the security door is brand new. Minimalist style, a wall of books is extraordinarily stylish. Although there were some clothes piled up on the sofa and a few cups thrown in the sink, it added a few casualness and revealed the owner's singleness.

"You sit casually. I'll go take a shower first. Fan Chengze was sweaty and tired, and regardless of whether Su Xiaoyan minded or not, he didn't say much and went to take a bath.

When he came out refreshed, he saw Su Xiaoyan standing in front of the booth in a daze at the architectural model.

"You're an architect?"

"Construction workers. What do you eat, I'll go out and buy something to eat. Fan Chengze was so hungry that he hastily ended the topic.

"I can do it all."

Fan Chengze picked up his bag and wanted to go out.

"Hey, can you lend me a set of clothes? I want to take a bath. ”

Fan Chengze found a new black T-shirt and home pants for her, and went out.

After more than half an hour, when Fan Chengze opened the door, he thought, "That woman may be gone." "The lights were on, I didn't see her, I saw the dehydrated white dress on the balcony, and the T-shirt, pants he had changed, etc., swaying in the wind. The shallow loss turned into a small surprise. "She actually did her own laundry?"

Su Xiaoyan tied her hair in the bathroom, and when she saw Fan Chengze, they were stunned for a moment.

After freshening up, Su Xiaoyan seemed to be much more energetic. The black T-shirt was loosely worn on her body, and her trouser legs were rolled up a few times, showing a lazy and casual charm.

"Let's eat."

Fan Chengze found that they had known each other for more than 3 hours, but they didn't know what each other's names were, and they talked very little. After eating beef noodles together silently. Su Xiaoyan threw the disposable dishes and chopsticks into the trash can and wiped them on the table. Then I stayed for a while.

"It's a guest room, and my grandma comes and stays occasionally. You sleep here at night. ”

"Well, thank you."

"Look, there's an anti-chain, you can just hang it up."

"Oh? Yes? Well, thanks. ”

"Then you have a good rest."

Su Xiaoyan lowered his head and kept thanking him, and Fan Chengze's back quickly disappeared outside the door. She quietly looked around the room, the color palette of the room could be seen to be inhabited by older people. The room is neatly furnished, the mahogany bed looks simple but the texture is high, and on the wall cabinet, there is a photo of Fan Chengze and an elder. It should be the grandma he said, right? The old man is radiant and does not look old, dignified and magnanimous. Fan Chengze put his arm around her and smiled brightly.

Su Xiaoyan lay on the bed, looking at the ceiling with her eyes open. In just one day, she seemed to have traveled a long way. After coming out of the house, I got on a bus casually, got off at the end of the bus, and walked away from the crowd. At that moment on the concrete road of the construction site, her anger had actually calmed down, but she seemed a little dazed. Looking back, far away, the future is unknown. Now, after spending the night in a stranger's house, it is quieter, and the chest tightness is not so stuffy.

It was still early in the early autumn, and when Fan Chengze got up, he saw that the white skirt on the balcony was gone, and it was replaced by his black T and home pants. The quilt in the bedroom is neatly folded, and the dining table has steamed buns and fried eggs, as well as a sticky note. Juanxiu's words "Thank you for letting me stay overnight, the porridge is in the pot." ”

Fan Chengze drank white rice porridge, ate eggs, and looked at sticky notes. I think it's a bit unreal.