The joy of the New Year has not yet dissipated, and the capital is full of banners and colorful stripes.

Only a few people returned to the courtyard of Guozijian one after another, and as night fell, the candles of the stars flickered in pairs, decorating the dark courtyard.

Ming'er is scheduled to work, and I'm going to take a shift.

When it was ugly, I had already put out the candle and fell asleep as usual.

But tonight, I can't sleep.

I regret a little, how can I be so impulsive to confess to my father and aunt the idea of buying a house in the capital.

It's just a matter of blocking Daddy's and Auntie's heart.

With a sigh, he rolled over and wrapped his futon tightly.

The wax moon in the capital was very cold, and the hot breath exhaled seemed to condense into a white mist as soon as it left the corners of his mouth.

Covering his face, it was as if the temperature around him had dropped a little.

I didn't feel sleepy, but in this quiet cold night, there was a faint cry.

Who makes a lot of noise in the courtyard at night?

Putting on my coat, I couldn't hold back the curiosity in my heart, and I really couldn't sleep, so I planned to go and see.

"Dr. Lin, forgive me for taking the liberty of it," a woman with loose hair and a somewhat uncontrollable expression, her small bony hands grabbed the middle-aged woman in front of her with an impatient look, begging: "Is it important to reunite only the doctor's family?" I've been on duty for five days in a row, and we haven't had the opportunity to go home to see our families except for Chinese New Year's Eve. ”

"Anyway, you should let me go back and have a look, right?"

Although the surrounding courtyard is not lit, the sound of rustling still sounds, and the window is crowded with people who want to see the excitement.

I looked at the two from a distance, and the middle-aged one I had a relationship with was Dr. Lin Xiangji from Guangwen Hall, and she was also a very senior female doctor in the hospital.

When I first joined the company, the first class I had to attend was her, but unfortunately she missed class.

Later, only when I was preparing for the class collectively, Fu Zhiliang once pointed out to me from afar.

It's just that the young woman with loose hair in front of Dr. Lin, I really don't know.

"It's dark at night, what a fuss!" Dr. Lin grimaced his face and said sternly, "If there is anything, I will talk about it tomorrow during the day." ”

"No..."The woman seemed to be more stimulated, threw herself at Dr. Lin's feet, looked up with a plain white little face, and cried: "Qi'er is very sick, I haven't been back home for two years, I'm afraid it's serious to deliver the news from home, and Dr. Lin will leave Beijing again tomorrow, if I wasn't forced to be helpless, I wouldn't have made this decision!" ”

There were whispers around him, and Dr. Lin felt that he couldn't hold his face, so he had to slow down his tone.

"Yazi, I am very sympathetic to the situation at your home, so I will apply to the hospital tomorrow to see if I can transfer someone else to take turns for you, so that you can go home to visit, okay?"

I heard Dr. Lin shout "Yazi", and subconsciously thought she was calling me, so I barely thought about it and shouted, "Here!" ”

The sound was also so pronounced in the silence of the night that Lin Xiangji barely had to search to find me standing by the wall eavesdropping.

"You're... Fu Yazi from the Faculty of Mathematics, right? Dr. Lin squinted at me for a moment, as if he had found a savior, shoved the still crying woman into my hand, and hurriedly ordered: "She will take care of you, you are the same age, you should have more common language." ”

Then he fled and left the gate of the house.

The young woman, known as "Yazi", sat on the ground with her hair disheveled, and her white brocade skirt was stained with brown dirt.

The almost inaudible sound of the door opening sounded behind him, and he didn't need to think about it to know that Dr. Lin was gone, and he wanted to come to spy on the whole picture of the person concerned.

"I'll help you go to my house first." Forcefully picked her up and went back to the house, cutting off the inquiring eyes from the outside.

"Warm up with a sip of hot water." He poured her a cup of hot tea, and the lit candlelight flickered, illuminating a beautiful face.

The face is crystal clear, the skin is as bright as snow, and there is a small mole on the goose egg face, which grows on the cheekbone of the right cheek, which is very unique.

"Is your name Yazi too?"

"Hmm..." she seemed to calm down, nodded slightly, and said in a dumb voice: "Ji Yazi, assistant teacher of Guangwen Pavilion." ”

"That's fate, my name is Fu Yazi, and I have the same name as you."

"I know you," Ji Yazi tugged at the corners of her mouth: "The number one female jinshi, all courses are excellent, you are a legend." ”

When she said this, I blushed, and I didn't know how to answer for a while, so I had to hide my embarrassment and take another cup of hot tea.

"Why aren't you curious about what I'm arguing with Dr. Lin?"

“... I will listen to what you want to say, and if you don't want to, I won't ask. ”

Ji Yazi smiled and said, "You are interesting, you eavesdropped on the corner of the wall in the middle of the night, but you are not curious." ”

There was an attacking sarcasm in her words, and for a moment I couldn't tell what I meant, so I had to smile in return.

"Forget it, I'm not malicious." Ji Yazi opened the painting box first and asked, "Are you also staying in Beijing?" ”

"Well, Ming'er has a shift and wants to go."

"Heh," Ji Yazi sneered: "Sure enough, I have just joined the department for more than a year, and I am on duty every Chinese New Year's Eve, and there is really no exception in the department's seniority." ”

She said this, but the hot tea in my hand was a little hot and I couldn't hand it out.

"But there are not many people in your department, so it's easier to come on duty, no, why haven't I seen you in the past few days?"

“... It's Dr. Fu on duty these days, and I... I've just returned to Beijing. ”

The look on Ji Yazi's face froze as a matter of course, she opened her mouth in disbelief, and asked, "You mean, Fu Zhiliang, a doctor from the Department of Mathematics, has been on duty, and you, just returned from your hometown?" ”

Nodding blankly, seeing Ji Yazi's face conflicting and changing, I didn't dare to speak.

"Impossible!"

"It's a rule for the assistant teachers of the department to be on duty, and the doctor's master book has returned home early, how can you come to the department to be on duty, I'm afraid it's not me."

Ji Yazi seemed to comfort herself and talked to herself, her face was just normal, but she saw that the luggage I carried back from home was stacked next to the bed, and the luggage had not had time to be unpacked.

There was still dust on the table that hadn't been wiped off for days.

Ji Yazi cried.

I haven't been comforting since I was a child, except for sneering at Fu Shuye, who was beaten, and I really want to hand in a blank slate in this regard.

He handed the handkerchief up, and saw Ji Yazi twisting the handkerchief and sucking up tears and snot, and after a while, it was covered with slimy liquid.

"Why is the way the world is like this? Why do rule-abiding people deserve to suffer? Why has obedience also become a source of bullying? Ji Yazi looked at me disappointedly: "I envy you so much, you can go home, but I haven't seen my child for a long time." ”

"You... Married? ”

"Married, divorced." Ji Yazi wiped her tears: "There is a daughter who is sick in her mother's womb, and her husband's family dislikes her, so I took it back to my parents' house." ”

"Then you—" I hesitated, afraid to hurt her by asking.

Ji Yazi saw that I wanted to speak again, and smiled sadly: "I want to ask why I don't take care of the children at home, and I want to run to the capital, right?" ”

"In order to make money..."Ji Yazi sighed: "I still have a brother, who has already married a wife, and returned to his parents' house with his children for nothing, and has been taking medicine all year round, so much expense, no family affection that is thicker than water can withstand such consumption." ”

I didn't agree, I beg to differ.

I thought about it carefully, not to mention Daddy and Auntie, if Fu Shuye's child is sick in the future, and I want to give everything I have, I am also willing.

"You have a brother too, right?"

Ji Yazi was tired of crying, and lay on the bed chatting with me.

"Well, there's a brother."

"Ha, I knew it." Ji Yazi closed his eyes clearly: "The name Yazi says it all." ”

I wondered, Ji Yazi turned around, the sun outside the window had begun to show his forehead, and the sky was white like a fish's belly, revealing some light.

"Yazi, it's not as good as a son." Ji Yazi's sad appearance fell in my eyes, but somehow, it was engraved in my heart and I firmly remembered this picture.

"It's... Is it...? I chewed this sentence in my mouth, but my heart was like a pebble thrown into the water, and the ripples spread out in circles, dull for a long time.

I slept for a long time, until the dazzling golden light hit my face, and I opened my eyes.

Ji Yazi beside him had long since disappeared, and he reached out and touched the futon, which was already cold.

Get up, wash up, change clothes.

When I stepped out of the gate of the house, there was a lot of talk around me.

Many of my colleagues pointed fingers at me, thinking that they were all people who had heard about the corner last night.

I don't know when two pairs were posted in front of the door of the arithmetic department, but there was some New Year's joy.

I thought I was the only one today, but when I opened the door, I saw Fu Zhiliang's thin back being sprinkled and swept.

"You didn't sleep last night, did you?" Fu Zhiliang only glanced up at me and came to a conclusion.

I rubbed my sleepy eyes and nodded, wanting to say something happy for the New Year, but somehow, I thought of Ji Yazi last night.

Fu Zhiliang didn't pay attention to my small movements, lowered his head and took out a red envelope from his arms.

"Red envelopes for starting work," Fu Zhiliang said lightly: "I'm happy." ”

I happily took it, and pinched it in my hand and felt very weighty, this old man, is he willing to bleed heavily?

I couldn't wait to open it, and it was a thick pile of arithmetic problems.

Fu Zhiliang touched his beard and looked at me with a smile, and his expression quickly collapsed.

"It's not a question for a few days, I'm afraid you're unfamiliar, these are all good questions that I've painstakingly collected in the past few days, I'll see the answer tomorrow."

Fu Zhiliang threw down this sentence and walked away with his hands behind his back, humming a small tune all the way, leaving me to sit on the table and chair dejectedly to solve the problem.

More than a dozen pieces of rice paper were consumed in a blink of an eye, and he touched the small cabinet in Fu Zhiliang's inventory, and there was no more.

The bookkeepers are still on vacation, and it seems that they can only buy some cushions for themselves first, and then report the accounts later.

Thinking like this, he didn't care about the twilight of the day, and walked out of the door.

didn't realize it, followed by a figure who followed suit.