"Can you stop calling me?" Shen Yuan's voice trembled a little, and the hand holding the phone was also shaking. Anxious and angry, she answered the phone and walked around the house. Guagua didn't know her current situation, but still thought it was funny for her to walk around, and kept running back and forth at her feet.

"I said it, I don't need it, thank you really." Shen Yuan took a deep breath, "Also, I have a job now, although it is only a part-time job that doesn't make much money, it is enough for my daily life, and I will find a way to apply for a bursary in the future about the tuition fee." Rest assured that your daughter won't suddenly starve herself to death and make you feel guilty. ”

After saying this, Shen Yuanyuan decisively pressed and hung up.

Her heart was still beating violently, and she stopped in the middle of the living room. Guagua also stood with her, as if wondering why she didn't move.

After a few more seconds, she slowly crouched down, buried her face in her arms and cried.

It was 3 p.m. when He Wenli called, and it was Monday, and it would soon be time to go to work. If you continue to cry, your eyes will be swollen, and if the children find out, they will have to ask questions again, and discipline will be difficult to manage. Thinking of this, Shen Yuan wiped his tears and stood up.

When she opened her phone again, she saw a friend application, clicked in, and she recognized that this was Zhou Minggao's account.

They are all in the group chat of Yuanhang Education, and parents usually post their children's homework in the group, and they check what homework the children leave every day in this way. Zhou Minggao's way of adding it was really through this group chat. Shen Yuanyuan thought that he might have added it for the convenience of connecting things at work in the future, so he passed the verification of his friends. The two men greeted each other and said nothing else.

Today is no different from Yuanhang Education in normal times, although the phone call from He Wenli made Shen Yuan a little tired, but she did not bring her emotions to work.

Today, a few fifth-grade children have a lot of homework, and Shen Yuanxuan saw through the glass window that the students in the small class were leaving one after another, but she still had four students left here who were struggling to write. Maybe it's also because of the lot of homework, they were very quiet today, and they didn't ask her to answer questions and discipline at the same time. After a while, she saw that Zhou Minggao also went out, but he didn't leave, he sat down in the chair facing the Taipan.

She saw Zhou Minggao knocking on the screen, and the moment she finished the last knock, her WeChat prompt sounded. At the same time, he looked up and made eye contact with her.

She smiled politely at him, then turned on her phone to read the message.

Zhou Minggao asked her: Do you need help?

She replied: No, they are very obedient today.

Zhou Minggao didn't reply again, and Shen Yuanyuan didn't get distracted anymore, and continued to concentrate on checking the homework and explaining the wrong questions to the children. After another half hour, when all the four children's homework was completed, she finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked out while yawning. Zhou Minggao was still sitting there.

Several children packed their schoolbags one after another and said to her, "Goodbye, teacher." She set the table and picked up scraps of paper from the floor and threw them in the trash. Zhou Minggao pushed the door and came in, he didn't speak, and silently helped her clean up together. After cleaning up, he raised his hand to turn off the lights and walked out of the classroom with her. The two said goodbye to the female teacher at the front desk, and then went out of the door of Yuanhang Education.

"Are you waiting for me today?" She thought that he stayed because the principal had something to do with him, but now it seemed that he was waiting for her.

Zhou Minggao nodded.

"What's the matter?"

"I'm waiting for you to have dinner together." Zhou Minggao's tone of voice has always been flat, and when he said this, he did not show the unnaturalness that he should have when he made an invitation to a girl he didn't know well. It's as if they go to dinner together as a common occurrence and happen many times.

Shen Yuanxuan was a little unresponsive for a moment, "Eat with me?" ”

"Well, I don't think you're happy today."

By this time the two had come to a street lined with trees on both sides, and this was the last leg of their way. A little further ahead is the bus stop, and in the direction of Shen Yuanyuan's house, turn right at the station. Today the wind is strong, and the leaves are blowing with a rattling sound.

"I don't think you're happy." The last time Shen Yuanyuan heard this sentence, it should have been from high school. At that time, when something bad happened, I always had friends by my side, and when I got a mobile phone on the weekend, I could talk to my best friend Xiao Ranran. But after graduating from high school, everyone got busier and busier. Especially in the past few months when she has been out of school, it feels as if everyone has been wound up, and she is the only one who has been pressed the pause button.

This is not something that has anything to do with the intimacy of the relationship, busy is just busy, not that you don't care. And the way that the person who is not busy expresses his concern is not to disturb others and play a good role of "no one". Now even when she has time to chat with friends, Shen Yuanyuan will only share some happy daily life, except for occasionally talking seriously with Xiao Ranran, she hardly says sad things.

Perhaps this is the way of life for adults. Everyone was distressed, but everyone tacitly didn't ask or say.

Everyone is afraid of being debunked, and they expect to be debunked.

So when Zhou Minggao said that, Shen Yuanyuan didn't deny it, "I'm really unhappy today, but how can you see it, the group of little ghosts in my class didn't notice it." ”

"You didn't say hello to me when you first came to work today."

"That's it?" Shen Yuan was a little puzzled, "I...... Always enthusiastic? ”

"Hmm."

Before she could think of what to say, Zhou Minggao said again, "Let's go, let's go to dinner." ”

He took Shen Yuanyuan to a restaurant, because Shen Yuanyuan had never been here, and it was a little difficult to choose the menu, and then the dishes were all ordered by Zhou Minggao. He also asked for a few bottles of wine - Shen Yuanyuan hadn't drunk wine before, but when Zhou Minggao ordered wine today and asked her if she wanted to bring her one, she nodded her head in a ghostly way. When the meal was full, the two chatted casually while eating and drinking.

"I think it's so surprising that you would come to me for dinner because I'm in a bad mood......," Shen Yuanyuan said, "On the day we first met, I just asked you how your name was written, and you got up and left, which scared me." I thought you were a very cold person. ”

"No, it's just sullen and slow heat, not cold."

Shen Yuan smiled and took a bite of the dish to eat.

"The crane sings in Jiugao, and the sound is heard in the sky. My name comes from this. ”

Most of the dishes Zhou Minggao ordered were meat dishes, but he didn't eat a few bites himself. Shen asked him why he didn't eat it, and he replied that he didn't like meat.

"I don't like meat, why do I order meat."

"Here you go."

"You know I like meat? I don't think I said that. And Shen Yuanyuan also found that Zhou Minggao ate spicy, but all his dishes were not spicy, and then he silently dipped the chili noodles himself. She is indeed a person who is not spicy at all, but it stands to reason that Zhou Minggao will not know this.

Shen Yuanyu barely remembered what happened after that—she was drunk, and when she woke up, it was already two o'clock in the morning, in her own house. I never expected that my alcohol consumption would be so bad, and Shen Yuan's heart collapsed when he sat up with his forehead.

She vowed never to drink again, at least not outside, because it was too dangerous for her to drink outside with this amount of alcohol.

But it's really touching that she still remembers where her home is after drinking too much.

Because she hadn't drunk much, she was fully awake by this time, and she could see through the crack in the door that the living room light was still on. She walked to the living room, wanted to turn off the light, and poured herself a glass of water to drink, but as soon as she arrived in the living room, she found a person lying on the sofa - it was Zhou Minggao. Guagua, a heartless cat, didn't react when he saw the living person, and lay down next to him and slept soundly. Probably hearing the movement, Zhou Minggao woke up, got up in a daze and explained, "I see that you are too drunk, and I don't worry that you are at home by yourself." ”

"How do you know I'm living on my own?"

"You forgot? You drank too much and told me. ”

“......”

"It's okay if you're okay, I'll leave right away."

After all, Zhou Minggao was kind enough to send her back, and Shen Minggao knew that he should say something polite at this time. For example, "Thank you for sending me back, it's too late or you'll be in the living room." Or, "Thank you for sending me back, I'll call you a car." But at this time, she couldn't say anything, and her mind was scrolling like a barrage: It's so embarrassing, what did I do when I lost consciousness, what is this.

Later, Zhou Minggao went out, and Shen Yuanyuan was still standing in place thinking about life. It wasn't until he slammed the door shut that she came to her senses.

Zhou Minggao said something through the door after he went out, maybe it was because it was not good to make a loud noise in the middle of the night, his voice was very small, and Shen Yuanyu didn't hear it clearly. I only heard the elevator door open and close, and he was gone.

After returning to the bedroom, Shen Yuanyuan saw the message he sent, "It was very windy just now, so the door closed a little loudly, I'm sorry." You've drunk too much, so rest early. ”