Chapter 17: Tossing and turning
There were no lights on in the house, and it was dark.
In the darkness, Mu Zhengyao sat on the sofa and lit another cigarette with a "snap". As he smoked, the fiery red between his fingers reflected his grim side face, both bright and dark.
When he came back from Su Wu, he had been sitting here smoking for two hours.
It was late at night, but he still didn't sleep.
It's been more than ten days since he moved here. He knew that Su Wu was very defensive of him, and even a little afraid of him. But who can blame it? Who made his own appearance in the wrong way, scared her.
Therefore, he moved here for so long, and he didn't find a suitable opportunity to let Su Wu know that her new neighbor was actually him.
He stood on the balcony every day and watched her ride an electric car past downstairs at 8 a.m. and come back at 9 p.m. on time.
But last night, he stood on the balcony until ten o'clock, and still did not see her shadow. He was worried that something had happened to her, so he took the key and tried to look for her.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I went out the door, I heard her voice coming from downstairs.
He was afraid that he would scare her again, so he wanted to turn around and turn back, but at this time he actually heard the long-lost children's rhyme:
Two tigers run fast and run fast.
It's strange that there are no eyes all the time, and one has no tail! It's weird!
The girl's soft, slightly nervous voice drifted into his ears, and he shook and froze in place, unable to take a step on his legs.
This is not because of how good she sings, on the contrary, for such a simple children's song, she has incomplete five notes, she sings not in tune at all, and even sings a few words wrong.
But his whole heart trembled gently with her voice, as if every note had fallen on his chest and into his heart.
He turned his head slowly and looked at the staircase, his eyes sour.
This voice, this tune, and even the words she sang incorrectly are exactly the same as his little five, exactly the same! Is this also a coincidence? Or is it ......
A faint light gradually lit up in the hallway, and he stood in the corner and saw her holding her phone, her head down, walking towards him step by step on the stairs. The dim light blurred her outline, and she still hummed quietly as she got closer and closer to him......
She didn't even notice him.
He saw her pull out the key to open the door, and she was less than two steps behind him. She was so close to him, so close...... Close enough that he could reach out and touch her soft hair.
He opened his mouth so impulsively and asked her: Why did you come back so late?
After saying that, he regretted it. Ask her so suddenly, she will definitely be frightened. But unexpectedly, after she answered his question very calmly, she realized that there was someone behind her.
She jerked around and took her phone to him.
He didn't move, and stood still for her to watch.
But when she saw him, she was still so frightened that she screamed as if she had seen a ghost and retreated, and even dropped her phone on the ground.
As a result, she stepped on the air and was about to fall down the stairs.
His heart clenched violently, and the man had rushed over.
He held her tightly in his arms, and at that moment, he seemed to smell Xiao Wu's breath from her.
He opened the door for her, and Wen Sheng said to her, go home. Then he saw the sparkle of water in her eyes. At that moment, he seemed to see his little five Chu Chuchu's pitiful grievances, and his heart ached.
She broke her foot and there was nothing at home.
He carried her back to the house without her consent, he felt that the feeling of holding her was no different from the feeling of holding Xiao Wu, and he seemed to smell the faint smell of jasmine that belonged to his Xiao Wu.
He helped her rub away the bruises, and even if he didn't look up, he knew she was secretly watching him. He pretended not to notice and let her look at it. At that moment, he thought in his heart: Will she look at it, and suddenly call him crisply: Zhengyao.
He was looking forward to it in his heart.
However, no.
She called him: Mr. Mu.
Scold...... How alienated and strange......
She asked him about his job, and he truthfully replied that he was a peer with her. When she asked about his boss, he was stunned. After listening to her explanation, I realized that the owner who bought the house without any intention was actually himself. He thought for a moment, and told her meaningfully: he was a good man, not the messy robber she had imagined.
However, she didn't seem to understand what he meant, and she asked him if he wanted to change jobs.
He really didn't think about it yet.
Although he is the founder of the company, the company is the common effort of all employees who follow him. Even if he has absolute executive power, he cannot act rashly and rashly.
Moreover, the company is of great importance to him.
Then, she was silent for a long time and did not speak again.
He looked up and saw her in a daze, wondering what strange things were going on in her head.
However, looking at her nervous and weird expression, it is definitely not a good thing!
However, everything about her gradually overlapped with the images in his memory, and it was so intertwined and integrated into one, what was going on?
Mu Zhengyao's chest throbbed uncontrollably again, he took a puff of cigarette, pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray at hand, stood up, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and strode to the balcony.
Outside the window, in the dead of night, the moonlight poured in through the window like water, shining on him, casting a vague and unhurried shadow of a man on the wall.
He raised his head slightly, looked at the crescent moon in the sky, and did not move for a long time......
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On the same night, Su Wu couldn't sleep.
It stands to reason that the couple who quarreled at the two ends for three days next door moved away and cleaned up a lot. Moreover, there was no blushing snapping sound from upstairs today.
The night was so quiet that even the moonlight was soft like a veil. In addition, the climate in early summer is neither hot nor cold, refreshing and pleasant, and it is so pleasant to sleep until you wake up naturally!
But Su Wu lay on the bed and tossed and turned, but he couldn't sleep.
She stared at the ceiling with straight eyes, and the number of sheep was estimated to cover half of the Inner Mongolia grassland, but the sleepy nerves in her brain were like chicken blood, and Leng was not sleepy at all.
In her mind, she was always fascinated by the scene when Mu Zhengyao stood at her door and said to her, "It's too late, let's go home".
The man was tall and straight, holding on to the doorknob, and stood in a soft yellow light, looking at her quietly. At that moment, she actually felt that he was so amiable like family, giving her an inexplicable sense of security, which almost made her cry.
In fact, Su Wu has no impression of his parents and relatives. Not at all.
She was an abandoned baby who was thrown into a flower pond on the side of the road one day in the cold winter and heavy snow.
Thankfully, a few green plants in the flower pond kept her out of the heavy snow falling from the sky. Fortunately, her parents who abandoned her wrapped her quite thickly. Thankfully, her cry happened to disturb a well-meaning passerby. She didn't freeze to death on the side of the road, but she became one of the many children in the orphanage.
I heard that when she was found at that time, she had no tokens, not a single word, or even a surname on her body except for a half-worn bedding that wrapped around her.
It seems that her parents who abandoned her had no intention of recognizing her at all. So, she took the surname of Su's mother, the director of the orphanage, and named Su Wu.
With nothing to do, the grass and trees protect her, I hope she can grow up safely and happily......