Pan Rui took on the task of buying groceries. Before getting off work on the summer solstice, he will also pick the vegetables, peel the ones that need to be peeled, cut them into pieces, and wash the rice in the pot. He can only do this, and other summer solstices don't worry about letting him do it, so as not to cause disaster again.

This also saved her a lot of work, she came back from work and went directly to the pot, and their meal time was almost half an hour earlier.

This extra half an hour has become a rare leisure time for them.

After the meal, they held hands and wandered around the village, watching all kinds of people walk by on the road, watching the lights of thousands of homes turn on, they are just a drop in the ocean, no one cares how they are depressed behind the bustling city, how they struggle to survive.

However, the summer solstice still stripped a trace of warmth from it. No matter how difficult it is to climb up, this move means hope. Moreover, they may have nothing at the moment, but they still have each other.

Thankfully, the summer solstice can now sleep an extra hour. She tiptoed out of the rental house every morning, according to the rules of weekend life, if there was no summer solstice to wake Pan Rui up, he would sleep until twelve o'clock at noon, and sleep until he woke up hungry.

She didn't know if Pan Rui had gone to look for a job after she went to work. She saw a recruitment newspaper in the room, as well as Pan Ruixin's newly printed resume.

But if he didn't take the initiative to tell her about finding a job, she wouldn't ask. She didn't want to touch his softest nerve.

Then they didn't talk about it at all, as if they were living well and the sky was clear.

Xia Zhi told herself over and over again that it didn't matter, no matter how difficult it was, she would carry it.

"Xia Zhi, have you lost weight?" Xiao Yiqing scraped her from head to toe with her eyes and said.

In the last week of August, Xiao Yiqing returned to Nanzhou, and on the weekend before the start of school, Xia Zhi went to see her in her dormitory.

After all, this is the first weekend that the two have not spent with Pan Rui on the summer solstice after they have lived together. For some reason, when she left the rental house and walked alone in the sun, she actually felt a sense of relaxation in her steps that she hadn't seen for a long time.

Xia Zhi denied Xiao Yiqing's words: "You want to be thin and crazy, my weight hasn't changed, right?" ”

"Really?" Xiao Yiqing looked at her sideways, "I think your chin is pointed, you have lost weight like this, do you still learn to lose weight?" ”

"You're in a nice dorm." Xia Zhi bypassed this topic and looked left and right in these two rooms and one living room.

This residential building, just one block away from No. 6 Middle School, is a dilapidated staircase house, which is at least twenty or thirty years old. But such a building, because it is in the key business district in the central part of Nanzhou, and is still in the key middle school district, the housing price has also reached 9,000 yuan.

The property rights of the house belong to the school, and Xiao Yiqing shares the space with another unmarried female teacher.

"It's okay, the point is that it's close to school, and I can sleep until 7 o'clock." Xiao Yiqing sat on the faded fabric sofa in the living room, watching the summer solstice wander around the fifty or sixty square space.

In the living room, there is only this sofa and a water dispenser left by the resident who I don't know which hand, and all the personal belongings are placed in their own rooms.

Xia Zhi also served Xiao Yiqing, and she moved the dozen or so half-stacked dolls in the university dormitory again, and it was difficult for Xiao's father to move her around like this.

Xia Zhi ran into her room, saw that the mattress was very comfortable, and spread her body up. Moderately hard and soft, elastic and strong, strangely comfortable, much better than the thin palm mat in her rental house.

In particular, the wooden bed at the bottom doesn't look very strong, and it is always tossed to ping pong, and I don't know which night it will be shaken down.

Thinking of this, her face was hot, and she hurriedly found something else to cover up: "Yiqing, your school has such a good mattress for you?" ”

"I think too much about you, I bought it myself." Xiao Yiqing leaned against the door to watch the summer solstice, "Have you been doing well in the past two months?" ”

Xia Zhi sat up and squeezed out a smile to look at her: "It's okay." I didn't tell you, I became a regular and got a salary increase. The company's publicity department was officially listed in September, and I still have my own office! ”

However, this office is used with Liang Jiayin, who is also nominally the manager of the propaganda department. Another empty desk in the office hinted at the summer solstice, and they would soon have a new colleague into the propaganda department.

happened to be on QQ, she and Xiao Yiqing, Liang Lu, and Cao Limei all exchanged recent situations, she reported good news but not bad news, and she didn't say a word about Pan Rui's situation.

If Xia Solstice doesn't mention it, it doesn't mean that Xiao Yiqing won't ask, but Xiao Yiqing's information is still stuck when Pan Rui found a job in July: "What about Pan Rui?" When will he turn positive? I've checked his company on the Internet, and it seems to be quite new. ”

"Well......" Xia Zhi said vaguely, "grow with the company, so that it is valued." ”

"No, because I heard you say that the five insurances and one housing fund are not all in place, I am worried that it will fall if I open it, and it is better to find a larger unit if I have a chance."

"yes, that's what we think too. He keeps an eye out for job postings when he has time...... Alright, it's time for me to go. Xia Zhi raised the back of her hand and looked at her watch, she was worried that she would not be able to help but spit out all the bitter water if she continued to talk about it.

Xiao Yiqing showed a fierce face: "Where are you going?" ”

"I'll go back to cooking! Pan Rui is still at home. Xia Zhi looked at her expression and felt funny.

"He won't eat if you don't go back? Is a big man still waiting for you to go back and feed him? Xiao Yiqing crossed her waist and said, "Don't go, my sister invites you to eat and drink spicy food at noon." Look at Pan Rui's stinky boy, how does he take care of you? It's all starving and thinning you. ”

Xiao Yiqing is the speaker is unintentional, and the summer solstice is the listener's intention. She clamped her eyes hard to keep the tears from falling. She jumped up and walked to the window, pretending to look at the scenery outside the window: "Your environment is okay, it's quite quiet." ”

In fact, there is no scenery outside the window, there are buildings one after another, because it is not close to the roadside, and the silence is real. Xia Zhi grabbed the iron bar on the window and exhaled several times to calm his heart.

"Okay, okay, let's go eat, don't worry about Pan Rui. Look at your virtue, I haven't seen you for two months, like an old mother. I found a good sushi store around here, so I'll take you to try it. Xiao Yiqing said while packing his satchel.

Xia Zhi really hadn't eaten a good meal for too long, she turned to look at Xiao Yiqing, and said with a grin: "Be careful, my stomach capacity has also become like an old mother, do you have enough money?" ”

"I'm out of the way, I'm full." Xiao Yiqing replied boldly.

The two of them talked and laughed and walked out of the door, walking towards the mall in the direction of the subway station.