twenty-two

Qiao Mosheng dragged the pillow next to him and hugged it in his arms, looked up at the newly replaced wooden clock on the wall, half past nine, and it was too late to open the store today.

"Well, I'm sorry Uncle Bai, I have a little cold, so I woke up late."

Her voice was unexpectedly mixed with some timidity except for the heavy nasal sound caused by the cold, although her calm expression did not show anything, she didn't even know why she was sorry to this person, obviously her life had nothing to do with him.

"Yo, Sheng Sheng has a cold? Have you eaten? ”

"I just got up, I haven't yet, wait and eat."

Qiao Mosheng's brows trembled, her heart was full of boredom but could not be expressed in words, and the pillow in her arms was clenched into a little deformed because of her boredom.

"Then I'll send it to you, I'll buy you some seafood porridge, it's better to eat some porridge if you have a cold."

The man's voice on the phone was unrelenting, following closely, although he probably knew that Qiao Mosheng didn't want to talk to him for a long time,

"No, don't bother Uncle Bai, I'll go out to eat."

As soon as he heard that the man was coming, Qiao Mosheng was surprisingly a little flustered,

"What's the trouble, how uncomfortable it is to be sick at home and no one to take care of you, I'll send it to you."

The man called Uncle Bai seemed to have made up his mind, and Qiao Mosheng even felt that he would stand outside the door of his house with food in the next second.

"No, no, no, I really don't need to, I still have friends at home, it's not convenient, and she will take care of me."

Qiao Mosheng, who has always hated lying, got out of bed and walked two steps to the entrance, stretched out his hand and locked all the upper and lower locks of the door, the sound of "click" sounded a little cold and harsh, Qiao Mosheng's heart beat a little faster, the empty room exposed her lies, and at the same time showed her fear, she was afraid, although she knew that even if the person stood at the door, there would be no key to enter,

“… Shengsheng, are you afraid of me? You don't have to be afraid, I can't do anything, I'll leave after delivering you porridge. ”

The repeated refusal finally let the man know Qiao Mosheng's original intention, but even so he tried to continue his little insistence,

"Hehe... No, you think too much. ”

Two dry laughs, Qiao Mosheng's face was a little distorted, a qiē not from the heart of the expression looked so unnatural, the scene from many years ago was vivid, she could even imagine the filth of her mouth mixed with other people's saliva and fat tongue licking her neck again,

Qiao Mosheng's stomach churned, and he hurriedly rushed into the bathroom, his palms tightly clutched on the microphone, followed by a flurry of retching......

The man was still talking about something on the phone, but Qiao Mosheng couldn't hear it clearly, and she didn't want to listen to it, the sour spasm in her throat made her already heavy head roar even more, and the vision in front of her was also blurred by the water vapor caused by the conditioned reflex of her body.

"I'm sorry Uncle Bai, my friend has something to look for me, so I'll hang up first."

After almost emptying her stomach, Qiao Mosheng hung up the phone in a hurry, and then sat down on the edge of the toilet with no strength, the hand holding the phone couldn't stop shaking, Qiao Mosheng's anger was buried in the ups and downs of her chest, she was angry that she had to put down her shelf and calmly go along with a bastard, she was angry that she could only choose this way to face the past, and finally, she began to lament more than once, why such a bloody plot would befall her Qiao Mosheng......

Bai Weijin, a wealthy businessman who couldn't get along with Qiao Mosheng, but because of a blind date with Qiao Mosheng's mother, she entered her life when she was only in the second year of junior high school, and then three years later, little by little there was an estrangement between the mother and daughter who had been dependent on each other, until shortly after Qiao Mosheng graduated from high school, an incident that seemed to have been planned for a long time almost completely led her to break with her mother.

Maybe no matter how long it has been, Qiao Mosheng can't forget the heavy snow when he was sixteen years old, after his mother handed a pillow to the man who wanted to sleep next to him, he searched for the empty door and walked in a hurry in the white eyes, late at night, there were only Qiao Mosheng and a series of footprints left behind her on the street, the "creak" sound of falling snow under his feet and the occasional cat meow or two that seemed to be wailing, and the street lamp reflected the crystal dots that looked warm and bright on the snowflakes, which seemed incompatible with Qiao Mosheng's tears and red and swollen eyes.

Combined with the mother who usually let herself sit in the passenger seat so that the man held his hands in the name of warming his hands and her behavior on the night of the heavy snow, Qiao Mosheng didn't believe the incident after graduating from high school at first, and his mother didn't know about it, although many years later, his mother cried many times to confess her actions and thoughts back then, and clarified that she really didn't participate in it that night, but it was not so easy to get rid of it, it was undeniable that Qiao Mosheng loved her mother, But she can't forgive her mother who continues to keep in touch with Bai Weijin, it is because of their relationship that Qiao Mosheng will swallow her anger so much, and the shadow of her youth makes her tremble even if she refuses, but this does not prevent her from hating someone, wanting to hate someone with skin and bones.

The unpleasant smell of the bathroom finally made Qiao Mosheng get up, and dragged his tired body back to the bedroom in the sound of flushing, and after a while, Qiao Mosheng relieved the feeling of loss after vomiting, and walked into the bathroom again with two changes of clothes, the not too spacious space was filled with hot air, and the weak air made the person curled up in the half-full bathtub feel a little suffocated, and the unpleasantness of the early morning even made her a little irritable, and a few familiar faces flashed in her mind,

-- If her parents hadn't divorced when she was a child, maybe she would have married someone by now and lived a stable life, and she wouldn't have been hurt in vain, and maybe she wouldn't have met her.

The pain in her temples forced her to try to stop the cranky thoughts in her head, but how can people's thoughts be controlled at will, often the more deliberate the more fruitless, after a few attempts, Qiao Mosheng simply moved down and immersed the whole well-defined outline under the water.

The feeling of being wrapped in the warm water around him may be very similar to that of his mother's womb when she was pregnant in October, gradually, Qiao Mosheng relaxed her somewhat tense body in the water, and the expression on her face changed from the beginning of sadness to serenity, like a fetus, but from another angle, if it weren't for the occasional bubbles floating up between her mouth and nose, such Qiao Mosheng would be like a dead man without breathing,

- Just go to sleep like this, don't think about anything, don't worry about Shen Tongyu's wedding, and don't have to worry about Bai Weijin's harassment.

Qiao Mosheng's eyelids became heavier and heavier, and the faint vibration from the water made her roll her eyes reluctantly, and the mobile phone screen on the tub table kept flickering.

"Qiao Mosheng, this dead ghost, didn't come to open a store so late, and he couldn't do business!"

Yu Yu leaned against the closed door of the coffee shop, looked at the screen that was dark in his hand, and muttered dissatisfiedly,

"It shouldn't be that you have fallen asleep, little one, I don't believe I can't shake you......"

In the constant complaining, Yu Yu pressed the dial button over and over again,

"Are you urging your life?"

Finally, after Yu Yu didn't know how many times he was "harassed", Qiao Mosheng's dull voice came along with the sound of releasing water.

"Dwarf oil, dead ghost, you still know to answer the call of the concubine, the concubine thinks that you have sent people into the cold palace~Boom~~~"

Although he couldn't see it through the phone, Yu Yu still made a look of hiding his face and tears, and in order to estimate face, he didn't forget to turn his back to the crowd of people coming and going on the side of the road.

“…… Speak human words. ”

Even though Qiao Mosheng was wrapped in a bath towel and draped in a bathrobe, she was still aroused by Yu Yu's last series of goosebumps, although this is not the first time,

"Ahem......" Yu Yu was bored, and immediately changed his mouth and pouted: "It's boring, Tongyu will definitely cooperate with me!" Hmph, I said why did you Miss Qiao answer the phone, what time did it take to open the door, sister, I will freeze to death in front of your store, and you will wait to collect your sister's body later, the headline of tomorrow's morning news is - Lingyu Coffee Shop in front of the young girl froze to death, suspected of looking for the shopkeeper because of love, the shopkeeper ruthlessly closed the door and disappeared! ”

Although Yu Yu usually minds others calling her sister, she calls her loud and loud, and she doesn't even have a card in her shell.

“…… Don't talk nonsense, have you ever seen anyone in front of my store, a man about fifty years old. ”

Bai Weijin was able to call her at this time, and knew that she hadn't gotten up yet, probably because she had gone to the store to look for it, and called when she saw that the door was not open, Qiao Mosheng was not sure if he would wander outside the store, in order to avoid meeting, she still asked more,

"Men? What man? Qiao Mosheng, are you going to get married? Or an old man? Sugar daddy on trend? ”

"Don't make trouble...... Qiao Mosheng was silent for a moment, and then hesitated again before he said slowly: "It's him, he called me in the morning, I'm afraid he is wandering around the store......"

Yu Yu reacted for a few seconds, and her expression became stern, she knew Bai Weijin, and over the years of friendship with Qiao Mosheng, only she and Shen Tongyu knew about Qiao Mosheng's family affairs, but after all, there was no positive contact, and the two of them were really powerless except for their grievances and deep sympathy.

"What did he call you for? Why are you being harassed again? Does your mom know? Yu Yu, who kept asking questions, looked around the coffee shop vigilantly as he spoke,

"He asked me why I got up, and I said I had a cold, so he insisted on bringing me food, but I refused after a few perfunctory words," Qiao Mosheng put his mobile phone between his shoulders and neck, and dragged a dry towel to wipe his long hair that was still dripping, "You help me keep an eye on it, I won't open a store today when he's nearby." ”

"You have a cold? Is it strict? ”

Yu Yu realized it later, no wonder she felt that Qiao Mosheng's voice sounded strange today, and she once thought that it was the mobile phone earpiece except for the fault.

"It's okay, it's just a headache and I feel a little tired."

"Then don't come to open the door, stay at home honestly, we don't need that old man to deliver food, wait at home, sister will buy you something delicious!"

As soon as he finished speaking, without waiting for Qiao Mosheng to say nothing, Yu Yu hung up the phone, turned around and stretched out his long arms, and beckoned to stop a taxi.

"Shangpin Apartment, No. 36 Qingwu Road, oh no, go to Wanji Township on Jiuwu Road first!" ――