The wall clock on the wall of the living room kept dialing the time, Xu Zhengchen stood in front of the landline phone, frowning and hesitating for a long time.

I picked up the microphone at hand and put it down, but I couldn't make a call.

Honk......

"Hey, this is a delicious restaurant, may I ask ......?"

Xu Zhengchen slowly opened his dry lips: "It's me." ”

"It's you, young man, what's wrong with calling so early?"

Zhang Yufeng was surprised not that he received a call from him at six o'clock in the morning, but that he decided to call himself during this time, and there must be something important to say.

“……”

"Say it, I'll listen." Zhang Yufeng saw that there was no sound on the other end of the microphone, so he poked at the local to clarify the statement.

"Uncle, I want to ...... Temporary resignation. ”

"Have you seriously thought about it?" Zhang Yufeng had expected him to resign, but he didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

"Hmm." After Xu Zhengchen answered, he turned to think about the excuse he had made in advance.

If Zhang Yufeng asks the reason for his resignation, he will say that there is no need for him to continue working, so he wants to resign and rest for a while to recover his spirits.

He knew that the best thing to do was not to face it, so he deliberately chose to escape. This is indeed an effective way to avoid secondary trauma, which is shameful but effective.

"Alright then, I see." Zhang Yufeng exhaled a long breath, "Then you want to come back after that, I welcome you at any time." ”

"Hmm." Xu Zhengchen could feel deep guilt just by listening to his voice.

"The money for the salary will be hit on your card later, and it will be hung up."

After hanging up the microphone, Xu Zhengchen opened the can of beer he had just bought from the convenience store, sat on the ground and raised his head to drink.

The wine that overflowed from the corners of his mouth dripped down his chin and down the collar of his shirt, drop after drop......

"Where did I get the qualifications to say that he is decadent......" Xu Zhengchen swallowed the last sip of beer and squeezed the empty can in his hand fiercely.

His lazy gaze suddenly noticed a stack of cleaned dishes on the kitchen countertop, which seemed to be the same pile that had not been cleaned in the sink for a long time.

The dirty floor has also been cleaned.

Sincere. Sincere.

There was a familiar knock at the door of the apartment, and the crisp delicacy evoked his memories of the ward.

"The door isn't closed." Xu Zhengchen, who was tired of the knock on the door, casually threw out a word, and his voice was so cold that there was no trace of ups and downs.

The morning sun shone through the crack in the door, Su Yuxi opened the doorknob of the apartment and walked into the entrance, carrying a basket of vegetables and fruits in his tender hands.

This is the same vegetable basket that his mother used before her death.

Suddenly, the discomfort of this scene pierced his eyes.

Xu Zhengchen, who couldn't stand the stimulation, suddenly got up and rushed straight to the entrance of the apartment, and the canvas shoes on his feet stepped on the floor of the living room.

"Get this basket out of the way!" Xu Zhengchen exerted all his strength and waved away the vegetable basket in her hand on the spot.

The fruits and vegetables in the basket fell to the solid ground, and many of them fell into a puddle of mud.

A bitter smile flashed across Su Yuxi's gentle face, and when Xu Zheng's morning breath was almost gone, she squatted down and began to pick up vegetables and fruits on the ground.

Her temper is still good.

Xu Zhengchen tilted his head to the side without expression, and handed over his hand to help without saying anything.

"Where did this come from?" Xu Zhengchen asked about the key in her palm, since she was able to go out with a vegetable basket, it meant that Su Yuxi must have brought the key to his house.

But Su Yuxi couldn't answer his question.

"Forget it, when I didn't say it." Xu Zhengchen thought about it, most of the keys were handed over to her by Zhang Yufeng in person, so he didn't ask anymore.

In fact, the key to Su Yuxi's entry was indeed given by Zhang Yufeng.

Zhang Yufeng heard from his relatives about what happened in the restaurant that day, and the words were summed up as that everyone had a conflict because Su Yuxi didn't want to go home with his sister, and then the matter was still over.

And as a person who is not an eyewitness, he naturally did not figure out the ins and outs of the matter.

But in the end, he still stood on Su Yuxi's side, for the simple reason that this girl's personality could make him believe unconditionally.

"I'll give you the key." Zhang Yufeng escorted Su Yuxi all the way to Xu Zhengchen's door, and handed her the key he took out.

If Su Yuxi has something to say about going home, then the safest place to live at present can only be Xu Zhengchen's apartment, compared to He Xiao and the restaurant.

……

"I'm back in my room, make your own breakfast when you're hungry." Xu Zhengchen walked back to the room alone after washing his hands, and the heavy closing of the door seemed to be a response to depression and dissatisfaction.

Su Yuxi stared at the door of his room, and his fluctuating mood became uncomfortable.

This time, there was a knock on the door in front of Xu Zhengchen's room.

"What are you doing?" Xu Zhengchen, who was lying on the bed and thinking nonsense, bit his lip and opened the door angrily.

He asked the girl in front of him in sign language, and the look in his eyes had already tacitly assumed that she was an annoying guy.

"Do you want breakfast?"

"I'm not hungry." Xu Zhengchen probably understood what she meant, and then shook his head and refused.

"But there's a cockroach in the kitchen......"

"What's there?" Xu Zhengchen snorted impatiently, "I'm not in the mood to help you now......"

Then Xu Zhengchen quickly walked into the kitchen, stepped on the cockroach crawling on the ground, and returned to the door of the room after collecting the body.

It happened that Su Yuxi opened the wardrobe in the room, and she looked at Xu Zhengchen who came back, as if she was even more surprised than when he swept away the basket in her hand.

The room's yellowed wardrobe, clinging to the side wall, was not a single garment in the closet, except for a pile of competition trophies and gold medals buried in the dust, as well as a few tattered award certificates.

"I'm sorry, I read this without your permission......" Su Yuxi put away his hands after doing sign language.

Although she has lived in someone else's house these days, she is still very unfamiliar, and the good thing is that the novelty has not all faded, but she has not done anything out of the ordinary, and this kind of thing of opening other people's things is also the first time she has done it.

"Have you finished reading it? Close it when you're done......"

Xu Zhengchen scratched his itchy hair, and felt that something was wrong just now, so he said apologetically:

"I'll pour you a glass of water, do you want to drink it cold or hot......"

Looking at Su Yuxi's stunned appearance, Xu Zhengchen pulled down his eyes unexpectedly, and his shell-like body walked to the living room again.

Su Yuxi silently followed him out of the room and came to the corner of the living room halfway.

"What are you doing...... Xu Zhengchen turned sideways and looked at her with a puzzled expression.

I saw Su Yuxi gently stroking the electric piano in the corner with his hand, and rubbing his fingers on the dusty key cover, although there were staves of paper and books of piano music books scattered on it.

"What's wrong?" Xu Zhengchen started sign language between his hands.

"Can you play a piano piece to me?"